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Back when things were good
In the 20th century there was a powerful expanding civilisation who idolised the Ancient Romans. They had big regal red flags held up by golden eagles, an autocratic political system, huge oratorical rallies - they even saluted just like the Romans did. Do I need to keep pretending I’m not talking about the Nazis? Okay.
The Nazis were sure proud of their “heritage” and they modelled a lot of their ideas on scraps from all over history. Hitler’s plan for expansion across Europe was base...
2018-10-09 17:45:30 +0000 UTC View PostCurio Mini Essay: Gritty Realism or, STOP IT WITH THE GRITTY REALISM
Names for the credits
I'm editing my Fargo essay now, and this is going to be the first video to have credits with patrons in! How exciting! On that topic, I'd like to know for sure what names you want to appear in the comments. It can be whatever you want (if it's not offensive I guess), so please comment here and let me know what you want, otherwise I'll go with you patreon usernames. ToNi, I think you already said you go by ToNi, so I'm going with that unless told otherwise?
2018-10-03 11:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostA Little Love Letter to ROMs
Pokemon Liquid Crystal is a ROM that has been in development since 2007. It has been being developed by a 4 person team, known online as: Linkandzelda, Zeikku, Jambo51 and Magnius. In this video I’d like to talk about why Pokemon Liquid Crystal is completely amazing. First though, ROMs:
A ROM is the colloquial term for a port of a console game, usually gameboy specifically. The name ROM comes from the Read-Only Memory chip in a game cartridge that the data needs to be copied from to create a...
2018-10-02 20:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostDiscussion videos
Hey guys! We're going to try out a new, slightly podcasty format. They'll be titled something like "Curio discussion episode:" and then a description of the video. So for example I'm about to upload "Curio discussion episode: Prey and DOOM (but mostly Prey)" I'd really like your thoughts on this video and this format generally. I need to know if we should make more of this, change it in some way, or abandon it completely. I'll upload it here probably a day early to give you guys time to give fee...
2018-10-01 10:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostGritty Realism or, STOP IT WITH THE GRITTY REALISM
The DC Cinematic universe looks pretty much dead in the water, and while this is pretty satisfying to me, because honestly, DC has an insidious conservative bias that taints all of their work… while that is extremely satisfying, it isn’t the reason all their films tank. It isn’t. I mean it could be. I mean I could make a video about why it might be. I mean -- okay I will be making a video about why Conservatism has tanked the DC Cinematic universe, but right now, I want to...
2018-09-25 21:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is a Fargo?
Spoilers for: anything called Fargo.
Section 1: Introduction
I've been thinking recently about Fargo and what it is. There's been a movie called Fargo, and now three seasons of pretty high quality television, also called Fargo. The thing is though, the movie doesn't contain any of the same characters or locations as the first season of the show, and the second season is set 30 years before the first with only about three characters appearing in both. The TV sh...
2018-09-25 16:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostBloodborne and the lovecraftian curse of class consciousness
This video will be dedicated to the commenters who told me that calling Nazis “sad nerds” was the reason I would never be taken seriously. No. This is the reason I will never be taken seriously. Since this video is my october essay, I wanted to make it really spooky. So let’s discuss the spooookiest topic possible - the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalist class.
Section 1: Introduction
I need to talk about a really serious issue here,...
2018-09-21 21:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostCurio Essay 6: On Getting Stung by Annoying Insects like Sargon of Akkad
On Getting Stung By Annoying Insects, Like Sargon Of Akkad
Section 1: Introduction - A puppy that nobody loves
There’s this YouTuber called Coyote Peterson, and I’d like to talk about him for a bit - so I will. I mean, it’s my video. So who is Coyote Peterson and what does he do? Well, he’s a nature filmmaker who travels from place to place making videos about creatures that he finds interesting, and occasionally, as part of ongoing series, he gets stung, bitten, or pinched by bugs, fish, crustaceans and other creatures people...
2018-09-09 10:48:03 +0000 UTC View PostCurio Mini Essay: Night in the Woods and the Horror of the Familiar
Night In The Woods and the Horror of the Familiar
When I was a little kid I distinctly remember once, finding a toy I had had when I was an even littler kid. I don’t remember what age I was but I can infer that information because of my reaction - because I burst into tears. I clocked, in a real sense, looking at that thing from my past, that I had a past, and that meant I was getting older, and that meant I wasn’t ever going to experience this thing in the same way again. I’m talking about my like, 4 year old self, so this isn’t a tran...
2018-08-21 23:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Mastodon or, Designing Sociology
I joined Twitter nearly 10 years ago now, which was fairly early on in terms of Twitter’s popular growth. I was there back when it was akin to shouting into the void, I was there when it was a place to get into beefs with your friends other than just facebook, I was there when it morphed into a vacuous self-promotion platform, and I’ve been there recently, as it has become infested with accounts like “deathtojews1488”, while people I know get suspended for telling a transphobe to fuck of...
2018-08-21 23:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Wolfenstein Essay part 2: The prevalence of gut-punch storytelling in games
Section 1: Gut-punch storytelling
(This video is going to require me to spoil a lot of big twists, because when it comes to it what I’m talking about is big twists, and different examples of them, so like… pay attention to spoiler warnings.)
Warnings: Discussion of Nazis, of fascism, of genocide, spoilers for The Hateful 8, Uncharted 4, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Bioshock, Fallout 4, Rime, and Metroid… kind of? Sa...
2018-08-08 17:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostHow Wolfenstein (I&II) subverts the monomyth - confronting the fear of living
I’m just going to rattle off some facts here and you can stop watching if you want to, as soon you disagree with any of them: immigration is a good thing; being a racist is worse and more offensive than being accused of being a racist; 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust; oh, and lastly, nazis are bad. Now if any of my upcoming opinions deeply offend or upset you, I’d like to give you some ammunition so that in the comments you can tell me all my opinions are invalid. Here w...
2018-08-07 14:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostCurio Essay 3: Sexuality in Fallout New Vegas, An NPC Love Story
Sexuality in Fallout: New Vegas - an NPC love story
Section 1: Introduction
Fallout New Vegas starts with your character - the POV character - being literally shot in the head, and then dying, and then being resurrected by the futuristic medical technology of the wasteland. As far as game openers go, I give Fallout New Vegas a 10/10. Its Adam Driver Creator (also known as the character designer to the laypeople) is a little disappointing compared to Fallout 4, but it’s storytelling is just… [Chef's kiss] mweeih!
As wi...
2018-06-13 15:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostCurio Essay 2: Bioshock Infinite and the Political Philosophy of Reincarnation
Bioshock Infinite and the political philosophy of reincarnation
So here’s my hot take:
Bioshock Infinite wants us to murder America to death
Section 1: Introduction
In 2007, 2K games, later Irrational Games, released Bioshock.
Metacritic gave Bioshock 96/100 on Xbox 360 and PC,and 94/100 on PS3 and it won Best Game and Game of the Year from a whole host of different places. It is universally accepted as one of the most influential and thoughtful games of its time, and I personally know several people wh...
2018-05-04 10:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Shadow of the Colossus and the powerlessness of violence
Section 1: Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus tells the story of a young man called Wander, who wants to resurrect his love, Mono. Wander travels to the temple and prison of a god called Dormin, who can save Mono, but only once his power is restored. To restore Dormin’s power, Wander must defeat 16 enormous creatures - the titular colossi.
The gameplay consists of travelling through a large, detailed open world, navigating puzzles, and fighting the col...
2018-03-13 18:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post