Hearted Youtube comments on Jimmy McGee (@JimmyMcG33) channel.

  1. I feel like most reviews of this game totally miss the "Peter Thiel Libertarian nightmare future" subtext of Cruelty Squad, or barely mention it at all even though it's such a core part of the design, amazing review!
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  2. When the whole Bullet Hell section was happening, I was thinking to myself "If given the knowledge of the current market and how Gamers™ consume media, I wonder how the genre would've turned out" wondering of how the mechanics of those games like hitboxes and continues were influenced by arcades and then home media, and how it could've turned out And then the Gacha game appeared and all of that was thrown out the window because... They would've chosen whatever makes the more money, always and forever
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  3. >3:40 'In character email from Hoyo-verse' That's hilarious on so many levels... It's also incredibly sad
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  4. Wait, is this the prequel to "Cruelty squad"?
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  5. Monetization in games has genuinely ruined the sense of progression and excitement. No longer do i unlock things as i play, i just have to be remjnded that "actually this better item is in the PREMIUM PASS" and that in itself kills any motivation for spending time in a game. Apex legends od example and its reward system is abhorent, so i only play the game to wnjoy the skill expression it presents. Anything like cosmetics is moot and useless. Which is. Abummer. Gone are the days of unlocking cool free skins and colours off of natural progression or challenges. No visual expression is allowed unless you fork a shit ton of money. I do hope we all wake up to how predatory these systems are and express them in a way that inspired change. Awesome video, it made me.think qiite a bit about the state of everything we consume.
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  6. I will say that there's one big mistake for the story here. It wasn't the same nuke that you see kill Glasses, it was the first. After the war in Hawaii Russia nuked San Francisco in a retaliatory strike. It's why he's dead in Jacket's later hallucinations, and likely why he joined 50 Blessings. The second one was in response to the slaughter of the Russian leaders, and it wasn't just one. It's likely they wiped out the US. It likely wont change your views on the game, but it's different at least.
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  7. 16:03 An artist I respect a lot said something recently that I thought did a great job articulating how I've always felt about this subject: "i think with indie stuff in particular ppl treat spending money as a gesture of encouragement/goodwill/wanting to see a work continue etc rather than a transaction of product to consumer." A lot of arguments about the supposed immorality of piracy I think come from a pretty flimsy position of consumers attempting to justify their own inability to discern the difference between spending money on independently published art vs art that is owned and distributed by massive, anti-consumer (and anti-artist) publishing corporations. In my mind there's no reason to ever waste $70 on buying a new AAA game knowing that none of the people who actually made the game will see any of my money, but I'll gladly pay above the asking price for an indie game I love knowing that it directly supports the people who created it. Hopefully as corporate greed becomes more and more blatant it will open more people's eyes to the difference, and they can stop feeding their money into a soulless machine and direct it towards their fellow humans instead. Also great video, the visuals were a lot of fun! Despite the pretty depressing subject matter. The Touhou doujin game looked fun.
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  8. YES. ITS HERE. Even if these videos are hard to make, I want you to know I will sit here and watch each and every one of them! I also want to ask if you've seen the downpour DLC for rain world. its gotten me super excited!
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  9. Ammusing thing about TechBros is that they want a machine secretary but with how they shill and want the "human labor" to be integrated into this results in them being a secretary for the machine- the "ammusing" reverse of what they want the future to be And besides- the answer thet are trying to avoid is an answer to a question "What this new invention is freeing you to do with your life?" and "How much of your life you want something else to live for you?" This is a pontless thing that doesn't augment life in any way- these idiots want it to live life for you, and society without life is a dead one
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  10. You're a really great youtuber man I don't even follow you that closely but its obvious that you have a genuine passion for making straightforwardly good youtube videos
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  11. Immediately clicked as soon as I got the notification because this has become my new favorite channel for video essays. The quality of the narration, research and editing is always top notch and the scripts you come up with consistently illuminate your subject matter from new and insightful angles. I also find myself agreeing with your aesthetic sensibilities a lot, which is nice too. So all around great job with the stuff on this channel, looking forward to finishing this new video!
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  12. Babe wake up it's jimny
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  13. You knocked it out of the park with this one The b-roll (or a-roll in this case) is simply ingenious too It's funny how talking while showing off your desktop was viewed as lower effort even back in 2008, but seeing Windows XP (at least I think it's XP) being used in your neat presentation way is really quite impactful Thanks and see you in the next one!
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  14. I never thought I'd see the moment where the Cruelty Squad soundtrack not only went well with something, but even fit perfectly with the subject matter being discussed . Hit me hard in the dread center when I made the connection. Side note, there's an interesting GDC talk called "10,000 slot machines walk into a bar: adventures in randomness". It's mostly about the devs collecting data on how profitable it is to make shovelware (using some really advanced shovel technology), but they actually got a surprising amount of players out of the ordeal. The machine zone taketh, and the machine zone taketh.
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  15. As a massive ARPG addict, for the past 2 decades I've had my eyes peeled for any Diablo adjacent games. There's been far more disappointments than diamonds found, but even when being let down is to be expected, what stands out in D4 is its absolute lack of innovation and originality. Most games had SOMETHING new to offer, even if the idea didn't quite hold up. At least there was a visible effort. D4 (and D3 aside from its RMAH) feels so void of this spark gameplay wise. It's almost as if most creative resources went into monetization schemes and nothing more to spare.
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  16. This is a really timely video for me. My state has recently seen video slot machines start popping up in bars and convenience stores. It makes me sick seeing so many people fall for them wherever I look. As always, well done, and I can't wait to see the rest of the series.
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  17. I try to share your essays whenever you release a new one. Keep up the amazing work, you are one of the best on the platform!
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  18. Great video, my only criticism is the lack of focus of scratch tickets, they are fucking everywhere and make life hell for addicts, cause its just 5-10 dollars for a fun 'game' that takes minutes to do. my mom has spent god knows how much money on gambling and shes almost never stepped foot in a casino. its the disgusting pervasiveness that gets to me most of all, theres no where she can go that doesnt tempt her. but its just cause of that connection that i even wanted it covered, you did a great job anyways.
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  19. but what if mario was an nft?
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  20. lets... jump........ right....... into it..........
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  21. The "lucky slugcat" slot is delightfully perverse. This is your best work yet. Keep it up!
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  22. "People asked for it, so here's the music from my videos" AWW YEAH!!!
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  23. Mandalore, redlettermedia and now Jimmy. Today, my cup runneth over.
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  24. It's become one of my favorite games too over the past couple months. Exploring Pebbles and seeing the ending for the first time were especially mind blowing, even if I had no idea what was happening at the time. I think the game captures the spirit of what made super metroid so great: mysterious, connected environments that sometimes don't even have any enemies around to deal with. It lets you just explore and take in the world at your own pace (until you realize the rain is coming, at least). Also agreed on the death pits: the light gray at the bottom of screen can be really hard to notice. But even without that, the placement of some of the pits makes no sense when there's solid ground on the screen right below you.
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  25. Don’t think i’ve ever commented on a video before but i just feel so strongly about this one, i genuinely think it’s the most important video I’ve seen on one of the most important topics of our future. In a time when it feels like most vocal opinions on this topic are either ignorant or completely insane, thanks for this extremely enlightening video.
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  26. they should remaster Ulysses but every time you don't understand a reference you can pay $0.99 to get a footnote
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  27. JIMMY!!!! RELEASE THE PAY TO WIN 3 VIDEO AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!! Fr tho super excited to watch this, every time you post a new video it's like Christmas. I hope you're having a great day!
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  28. You have outdone yourself! This is up there with Folding Ideas' videos about tech grifts in terms of research and quality! I'm glad I've been subscribed to you and to be able to see your eventual growth as a great essayist!
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  29. your videos are amazing, the editing on these are superb
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  30. BASED
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  31. I think the way we see the Saint's experience of his curse is lacking the context of the time between his cycles-- when you first mentioned the developer commentary my initial thought was that the Saint experiences some endless loop of birth, awakening and rebirth, but I think the fact that you see him as an echo, that the karmic cycle repeats as soon as he ascends the void worm, and the fact you can't play him until you play through the game again all implies that the Saint is the end point of everything that happens in all of time in the Rain World universe, his death and rebirth only occurs after everything that could happen has happened. It's hard to put into words, but I guess I mean to say that the developer's comment is just a matter-of-fact definition of the Saint's experience and not something that collapses the meaning I get from the ending, which seems pretty comprehensible to me.
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  32. And now I’m thinking about how so many social media sites integrate slot machine design- scrolling through content sounds a lot like the machine zone. Your presentation and scripts are unparalleled, can’t wait for more.
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  33. Anyone concerned about watching due to the heavy the GoT spoilers, please be. One of his points goes into mid season FIVE without ANY warnings. Shame on you, Jimmy Mc-WOKE!!😠😠
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  34. i absolutely LOVE gourmand cuz 1. hekkin chonker 2. most spear damage 3. he knows hes fat 4. you can fall on lizor to possibly 1 shot 5. he craft 6. he has good slugtree ending 7. he has almost any item in his stomach 8. he slide so fast 9. infinite rolling time 10. cute
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  35. Cannot believe it took a bajillion years for youtube to show this channel to me since it's very much hitting all my buttons, but nevertheless glad it finally did,
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  36. I attended a horse race and was immediately taken in by the excitement, even without placing a bet. Social gambling is something else
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  37. Although the endings for the Shadow Realm NPCs are all anti-climatic, I think the final brawl between Leda and the player is a novel idea, and I personally felt pretty moved by it, but maybe that was mostly from the superb music and voice acting, that encounter has some of the best line delivery in the DLC, along with Igon
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  38. 1:16:27 "Whereas Ikaruga expands the shoot em up, Dodonpachi asserts the primacy of bullets." As a big STG nerd I absolutely loved this line (and this entire section of the video (and the entire video)). The purity of the STG genre is I think the thing that always keeps me coming back to it. The inherent reward of practicing and seeing yourself improve at a difficult, tightly designed 20-30 minute game about being a dot avoiding other dots is imo infinitely more worthwhile than a 300 hour long open world skinner box.
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  39. Damn jimmy, heartwarming ending you chucked in there, I have given to many hours of my life to bad media criticism YouTube videos for art ive I’ll never bother to engage with first hand
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  40. 'Stakeholder value is when you pay out to shareholders and pretend to benefit the environment' gave me a real good laugh!
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  41. So much video game analysis content on YouTube consists of generic jumbles of tired review jargon and references to gamer in-jokes. I really appreciate the lens through which you view games and your willingness to interpret them. Really refreshing stuff.
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  42. your voice is so relaxing, and coupled with the music I had trouble staying awake- in a good way
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  43. The video hooked me all the way to the end as i was curious on how gambling can be so addicting after some of my relatives fell to it, i guess it makes sense now but realizing the maliciousness of gambling slot and pachinko machines and how they're intentionally designed to turn you into an addict is terrifying. Thanks for this, can't wait for part 2
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  44. I was a fan of your rain world video - I thought your editing and writing style fit the subject matter very well. Excited to see how this video covers a very different kind of game.
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  45. Truly astonishing how underviewed you are. Some of the most thought-provoking, well-researched, well-crafted video essays I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Kudos and godspeed
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  46. christ, beyond the great script, such a incredible presentation
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  47. I feel like a lot of the gameplay criticism of Hotline 2 comes down to how quickly you adapted to the emphasis on gunplay. On my first playthrough, I picked it up pretty fast and only struggled significantly with one level (Dead Ahead). There are some very annoying and downright bad things about Hotline 2 but I never felt like the gunplay emphasis was much of an issue. Some parts you noted as being bad I can't remember ever having problems with (Tony's first level, for example). I'm sure it's just a person to person thing but I was fine for most of the game
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  48. i've always had trouble reconciling two beliefs i have, which is that i don't think intellectual property should exist but i do think artists should be paid for their work. it's clear that the current structure of IP law exists to benefit rent seeking dipshits above all else, but it's hard to know what a viable solution could look like. anyway, great vid, keep up the good work
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  49. In an effort to not vomit up everything in my skull, I waited 5 minutes and had a cup of coffee before typing this out. Discovering your channel this year has kept me on the right side of sane. Having a digital recording of another human being who seems to see what I see is important, apparently. I think the worst thing that has happened with respect to games is that the groundwater has been poisoned. Im 23, which is 'young' still somehow, but when i was a kid, you could find an old consoles and handhelds for bargains, and now "vintage" anything is infested with resellers and scalpers. Only nintendo still offers limited access to the creations that gave them the money to be what they are today. The pathway to something else but triple a schlock gets thinner, and the toll gets more expensive every year. But i only even have an idea of "something else" because im not a kid today. My boyfriend has 2 children, and watching them grow up in this environment has been uncomfortable. They dont know anything but battlepasses, skin sales, IP katamari ball nonsense. My partner understands that implicitly, he's older than I am, even if he's not as distressed about AI as I am. Im also left feeling like I'm looking at something like the end of all things, even though I'm sure there still might be people in 100 years. I also don't have any answers. Ive had no family for maybe 3 years now, and it's not gotten any easier to be a sole human. I think the thing which causes me the most discomfort isnt the idea of getting hit by a bus tomorrow, its the idea that i will have lived 50 more years from this point, and I will find that the other side is worse. That's what scares me the most. Be well.
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  50. AI is just the neon lit sign for all the issue with our current society. And because of that, its made people realize what our lives mean in the eyes those with all the capital in out lives. And thats driven more and more people to strike, even those in industries not immediately threatened by the rise of AI.
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