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  1. one of the best channels on youtube by far
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  2. Very timely that this is coming out days after Unitys latest and greatest bout of pants-shitting. The future is starting to come into focus; with no frontiers left to conquer, commercialization curdles, turns inward. We perfect our modes of autoconsumption, cannabilizing the past. Individiulization (personalization) approaches its zenith; people at the top languish in mirrored chambers of stimulus response, short-circuiting dopamine loops. Those at the bottom of the machine are absorbed into it, converted into human meat. No one remains human for long.
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  3. Beautiful video. I had many criticisms with downpour, but couldn’t understand why no one else seemed to share them. I’m not an active member of the rain world community, so I didn’t realize exactly how much the expansion was geared toward the fandom’s enjoyment. I realize now that the expansion really wasn’t made for me, and while that’s not going to make my time with it more enjoyable, it does at least give me a bit of closure. Once again, amazing video. Ever since Joseph Anderson was lost to the Witcher hell, I’ve been relying on smaller creators for my long-winded video game analysis, and I have to say you’re my favorite. Slightly rude, intrusive question, but do you know if the next video is going to be the next in the pay to win series, or something different?
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  4. Will my sleep be destroyed tonight? Maybe. Thanks for the upload Jimbo, can't wait to watch.
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  5. The ending was extremely well said, this is definitely the best video on rain world
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  6. God this rules in a horrifying kind of way, I am so excited for the rest of the series
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  7. I already agreed on how terrible AI is and while working in a business context I let this opinion be known because its a useless invention but to avoid paying people wages which needs to be fought in both legal and debate. I also like to draw and create art in my pass time and the idea of me making something and it being devalued by it being stolen by an algorithm infuriates me. AI also lacking a human soul and creative intent is important because humans can feel when something is lifeless or soulesss instinctively. Fighting AI is fighting for meaningful media. I am glad you made this video as it is important to share the dangers of this new "innovation".
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  8. Diablo is one of the games i never really got into. I played the demo of 1, and then i got full version of 2, and had a good time with them. The demo was nicely paced, good snacky, self-contained experience. 2 was more of everything, loved the increases variety in every regard, making the moment to moment gameplay more interesting. But once i completed grasslands and went on to desert in Mario fashion, i though "oh, this is gonna be more of the same until the end, isn't it." And that was it for me. Played through the first area with every class, and had a good time. And quitting after that was over. I never appreciated this kind of mind numbing gameplay loop for extended periods of time. Good for an afternoon but then i gotta go do something else. So thanks for your thoughts on it. I'd never play a game for this many hours if i didn't have fun. Makes me miss out on a lot, i think. But that's okay
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  9. I really like how, after you get through the armor, the core itself seems to have very low health. It spends the entire game desperately throwing things in your way - hordes of undead, armed guards, killer robots, valuable scientists near the end, even the rest of its boss fight - but ultimately as soon as your shots are finally landing where they should have been this entire time, the AI is ended in one quick burst of laser fire. Suppose that says a bit more about Estonia's history with oppressors.
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  10. I have sunk more hours into games older than 10 years than I have modern games. You can see the hand reaching directly for your wallet, reflected in the mechanics you are participating in nowadays. When something comes out that bucks that trend, it's like a breath of fresh air it's so darn rare. Still, there are a lot of smaller games or less mainstream games that manage to avoid the toxic trends. As people get squeezed for money, gaming is going to get smaller, it's gonna start cannibalizing itself and its own audience, and it's probably going to crash again. Hopefully when it comes back, it'll be better than ever.
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  11. I'm mostly through the video and it has a lot of interesting insights, especially for me as someone who never really enjoyed the moment to moment gameplay of the Souls games. I do, however, have a counterpoint in regards to what you said about player expression: Difficulty and imbalance between playstyles can, beyond a certain degree, very directly influence and restrict player expression. It's hard to imprint what you like onto your playthrough when the game simply determines you as not good enough to play that way due to its mechanics, when in other games the equivalent of this personal taste it may even be the easiest way to play. This can lead to a player finding joy in something different, or quite often simply detaches one from identifying with their player characters as they intially hoped, severing the connection between player and medium that player expression exists to create through difficulty one may not be able to overcome.
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  12. bump edit: "every ai project has a tumor in it's heart" hell yeah man, something to always keep in mind when thinking about these systems in every single aspect, especially when it comes to anything dealing with or handling the public at large. they should only be a tool and we'll need to train ourselves to resist the easy way of clapping our hands at the first instance of something seeming finished.
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  13. saying that disliking the difficulty was a sin against humanity is kind of aggresive but this was a cool game
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  14. I have a very complicated relationship with Rain World. One unique to me I hope as I discovered it when it was new. It became a hyperfixation but at the time I didn't own a computer, so I adored a game I couldn't play. I was younger back then. I drew the slug cat and the lizards and ended up even founding the Rain World amino (which I have since only caused problems in and can't in good conscience show my face again on the site) It consumed a lot of my brain power during middle school (I am now graduated. I am young yes I know) and I still hadn't even played it despite what it meant to me. It's been years since I last really thought of this game. And having stumbled upon this video it brings back a lot of sweet memories and good times. I hope I'll think about it more. And appreciate it better now as a work of art. And I also hope I will, for once, actually play it.
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  15. After hearing a bit about this game (very late after its release), I was looking for exactly this kind of video and I'm so happy to have found it. I don't have the time to delve into any games right now. While I know that it is impossible to experience the feeling of a game without playing it, I wanted to experience what I could without watching a full multi-hour speed run or lets play. The short 10-30 minute reviews I found just didn't seem to capture the atmosphere of the game. Thank you for making this video. Your guided tour through this world was a treat.
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  16. 34:04 I really like the point made here about the systems of the game not matching its themes, as someone who's loved and defended this game since its release most people articulate the problem as the game just being harder worse designed than the first, which to an extent I've always conceded, but the way you propose the idea of a different or nonexistent scoring system to match certain character's gameplay really fits in line with how I've viewed the game. The way the pacifist stages punish you for going berserk definitely could've been extrapolated to more of the levels.
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  17. I used to play devil's advocate for A.I., thinking it could enable small creators (who'd otherwise lack the skill or budget) to take on bigger projects, but I've come around. I still think the tech is cool, and if we lived in a communist utopia, it could be a nice productivity tool - but we don't, and it's mostly being used by big corpos to cut corners, avoid paying workers and churn out soulless sludge. Plus, all the ethical violations in sourcing + labelling datasets. No matter how cool I find it, the human cost is too great.
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  18. As a reformed Nintendo fan and lover of one of nintendos forgotten franchises “FZERO” I try to stay positive that gaming will get better and we will rebuke the fucking endless monetisation reboots and sequels capitalism and mindless bullshit……. But every year a bit more of my hope slips away and yet another thing gets gobbled up by some super corp to never see the light of day again and is cannibalized to feed the ever eternal yearly releases of whatever loot box stuffed sports or cod Skinner box they come up with next
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  19. I was waiting for this since the rain world guided tour
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  20. This was fantastic. I have been battling youtube to not see casino ads for weeks & they finally stopped coming lol I hope this doesn't re-trigger the algorithm to serve them to me. + I will be reading that Addiction By Design book, that looked intriguing. Thank you looking forward to more videos.
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  21. Absolute banger of a video mate, super high quality and hooked from start to end - cant wait to see your future work!
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  22. Marvellous! I feel that this game was sorely overlooked!
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  23. The occasional prop surfing in this video cracked me up. Good job!
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  24. AI? The 'JimmyMcGee' youtube channel is the only desire machine I need! Another amazing video. No matter what I already know about a subject going in, you always find a way to show me it's so much worse in a compelling and entertaining way.
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  25. always love your videos, it's nice to see other people feeling the same way about the impending ai revolution and its promise of a bland, samey future
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  26. I'm not going to watch this video because I'd like to play it for myself but I wanted to comment and say since your Rain World video two years ago you've put out great stuff time and time again!
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  27. I really don't have too much to add as a comment, but I've been following your videos ever since the first rain world guided tour and your videos have always been a delight to see on my subscription tab You definitely deserve infinitely more subscribers for how insanely well polished your content is, and I'm hoping you get the recognition you deserve soon enough!!
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  28. Honestly suprised you haven't finished zeroranger. That game and void stranger's later portions are the most insane things I have ever seen done in games. Both games inflicted me with a religious fervour no other games have. I hope you do manage to finish zeroranger, even if the thoughts you had and explained were also ones that have been floating in my head lol. Great video as always
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  29. I finished the video for the first time after watching your video on the first game and this one over the course of a week, and I have to say they're fantastic! I don't agree with everything said about Wrong Number, but you explained your points extremely well and I can totally see why you feel the way you do about this game. I'm still very conflicted on wrong number myself, because while the first game was a more homogeneous fantastic experience, to me the highs of WN surpass the first game, but it also has a few very low moments (looking at you Dead Ahead and Stronghold), so I still have no idea whether I prefer the first game or not almost a year after playing them back to back for the first time. Hotline Miami 1 and 2 are going to be endlessly discussed for ages because there's so much to talk about. while I've made a video on HLM 1 myself, I didn't want to tackle Wrong Number right after because it's such a massive game, so it's very intimidating to talk about. but anyway, your videos were very interesting to watch, and I can't wait to see more from you. you gained a new subscriber. palpatine voice "We will watch your career with great interest."
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  30. If it means anything, I think this video definitely earned that use of Claire de Lune. Fantastic work as always, hope this channel gets more eyes on it.
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  31. 7:40 Oblivion was clearly ahead of its time
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  32. On my first playthrough I ate Moon. We had very different experiences.
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  33. man the parts in subterranean with the light shining through look like you were playing minecraft then a shader suddenly enabled itself while you were playing
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  34. i got this game purely cause of the first few seconds of the video curious archive did on the game. i've seen one of the bloodworm mosquito things get eaten by a lizard, and that same lizard get killed by the mother. this happened after the same happened to me btw.
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  35. hey jimmy, your videos are always one of the highlights of month, thank you for making them.
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  36. Yours is a criminally underated channel
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  37. Fantastic video. You truly are one of the best creators on this platform, the comments you made about the algorithm and the removal of any chance of discovery on here are so painfully true and is the reason youtube is slowly becoming less and less enjoyable. I'm tired of "video "essays"" where the entire video is about as useful as reading the wikipedia article with no extra opinion or statements added, and it feels like more and more youtubers materialise out of nowhere and repeat the same format of tried-and-true slop that the algorithm loves to spread around. On the more positive side, I always love to see a new upload from you :) looking forward to whatever is next in the works! (P.s. love the inclusion of some internet club, fits the vibe of the video to a T)
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  38. a sacrifice to the algorithmic machine in a form of a youtube comment keep on going jimmy, this shit is good. love your music btw, sick tunes
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  39. The quality of your vids are absolutely insane. I fully expect you to blow up in the next few months and become another FULL TIME CONTENT CREATOR shilling NEBULA to me.
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  40. You uploaded the AoE 2 video around this time last year and it's one of my favorites to go back to when I need to put on something cozy. Thanks for the new upload Jimmy!
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  41. shout out to train levels fr, gotta be one of my favorite genders
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  42. Ive played this game since it came out because it was in one of the original Humble Bundles, I’m so glad you covered it.
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  43. I've been following your content since the Cruelty Squad video and honestly you have a great way of breaking down more complex topics. Despite some disagreements I may have regarding the video, you make a very compelling argument for the direction of how the game industry has changed overall. Things really aren't like they used to and this video truly encompasses people who may feel that way but don't know how to word it. Excellent work. I can't wait to see you tackle digital media. I can see a lot of interesting talking points to make.
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  44. I think what I love about this video the most is that I really get a sense of your personal experience with the game, and although I can't relate to a lot of the spiritual elements in the same way you clearly do it's always great to hear a different perspective. I actually enjoyed Gourmand the most of any of the slugcats, maybe because it's so similar to me. I very much focus on the material and physical aspects of life. I'm an engineer, and my favorite parts of Rain World have always been the moment-to-moment problem solving - coming across a situation and taking the time to stop and plan my way through it - which Gourmand is the most oriented towards, with its crafting and deliberate movement/combat. Also of all the endings going and building a family/community in the world resonated with me the most, and going back to replay different slugcats my first choice is now always outer expanse as opposed to ascension if possible. Maybe that's my favorite part of Downpour, that through both the old and new slugcats players get presented with both options in various forms, and in many cases can choose which they want as their ending.
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  45. Another fantastic video, Jimmy. I genuinely really appreciate how well-paced your videos are. Your passion bleeds throughout. Thank you.
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  46. 1:05 fuck this room
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  47. The codex rework highlights a broader issue with D4. As you said, skills alone don't carry a build. You need a bunch of synergistic Aspects to make a build work, and there's no chance generic affixes will be powerful enough to make you swap a synergistic piece out for a "0.2% more damage on fridays" type of thing. Addiction over fun means they need you to complete your build relatively early, otherwise the progression grinds down into frustration, and once you have most Aspects the only thing you're looking for is higher % (they removed D3 item sets just in name, you're effectively collecting sets of Aspects). Since there's no system to improve Aspects, it's all RNG, when you drop a perfect Aspect now you're likely going to be frustrated: use it and you'll inevitably drop an item with better affixes, wait for the perfect item and feel you're running a lame build. The new system will steer players towards collecting different sets of perfect Aspects and trying different builds once the current one gets boring, pushing the grind to peripheral stuff like slowly improving affixes % and leveling glyphs, which on their own have a small enough impact you won't feel the build is gimped. To me it's not enough to overcome the feeling of the D4 game being a Rupe Golberg-esque decoration around the PURCHASE button. It took me years to realise addiction isn't the same as fun, and the feeling of having been exploited isn't pleasant and doesn't go away.
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  48. Loved this cruelty squad 2 review
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  49. While I understand and even agree with most of the points in the video, I feel like the comparison between Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey is unfair. You point to the sound of moons filling into the Odyssey as being similar to the sound of a cash register, yet the sound of coins accumulating after you get a star and jump out of the painting in Mario 64 does the same thing. The reason why Odyssey feels like Disney is because the developers had the resources to populate the worlds in a way they couldn't in 64, both projects were going for a similar vibe. You describe Odyssey's story as obligatory when the exact same goes dor 64. You say 64 gives stars for complicated challenges while showing footage of the star you get for swimming around an empty enemy-less box looking for red coins. Be honest, is a field being fought over by warring tribes of bob-bomb so much better than a blitz out town of sentient hats? These petty complaints cloud the well thought out insight on Odyssey's core issues, and perhaps even damages your point that this is the direction thinfs have been going for a while.
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  50. I disagree on Hotline Miami being a perfect game. It has one huge issue in my opinion: WHY IS THERE NO TOILET IN JACKET'S BATHROOM!?
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