To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. | Watch my exclusive videos on Peggle and many other topics by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on Peggle and Peglin: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-peggle-might-be-too-pure-for-2024 Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-games-that-hide-their-own-sequels Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Renata Price on Dragon’s Dogma 2: https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/2024/05/24/learning-the-script-dragons-dogma-2 Additional editing by Isaac Holland Thanks to Grittyhamy for capturing footage of Dragon’s Dogma 2: https://x.com/GrittyHamy Media shown: Earth Defense Force 6, Earth Defense Force 5, Earth Defense Force 4.1 - The Shadow of New Despair, Earth Defense Force 2017, Monster Attack, Global Defense Force, World of Goo, World of Goo 2, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Dragon’s Dogma, Dragon’s Dogma 2, 500 Caliber Contractz, Hades 2, Children of the Sun, Echo Point Nova, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Yakuza 0, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Nine Sols, Inscryption, I Am Your Beast, Persona 3 Reload, A Highland Song, God of War (2005), God of War (2018), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Raising Arizona, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Music Used (Chronologically): Human Resources (Perfect Vermin), Jeopardy! (Game Gear), Main Theme (Streets of Rage 4), The Heatseeker (Pistol Whip), The Long Juicy Road (World of Goo 2), Tumbler (World of Goo 2), Exhibition (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), Destroyer Destroyed (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), Atomic Express (World of Goo 2), The Memory Zone (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), HELL (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), Epilogue (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), Havre (Dragon’s Dogma 2), True Ending (Dragon’s Dogma 2), Farewell Rook (Dragon’s Dogma 2), Epilogue (The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), A Dark Knight at El Sol (World of Goo 2), EDF Songs (EDF 4.1 - Shadow of New Despair) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Affirmation” by Donald Hall

I have come to realize the body is its own pyre, that degree rises from within | Watch my exclusive video on Six Days in Fallujah by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on Six Days in Fallujah: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-does-six-days-in-fallujah-deserve-the-infamy Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-what-we-dont-talk-about-in-spec-ops-the-line Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to my podcast about Spec Ops: The Line: https://open.spotify.com/episode/07Hyz8mrZ8CgIuY4yQgUc7?si=3209fad3005340d5 Watch Errant Signal’s video on Spec Ops: The Line: https://youtu.be/wlBrenhzMZI?si=2ho1l5RqlXOW-XXu Read “Killing is Harmless by Brendan Keogh: https://brkeogh.itch.io/killing-is-harmless Sources: “Race, Gender, and Genre in Spec Ops: The Line” by Soraya Murray: https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abstract/70/2/38/29239/Race-Gender-and-Genre-in-Spec-Ops-The-Line “War Bytes: The Critique of Militainment in Spec Ops: The Line” by Matthew Thomas Payne: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295036.2014.881518 “The Use of White Phosphorus Munitions by U.S. Military Forces in Iraq” by David Fidler: https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/9/issue/37/use-white-phosphorus-munitions-us-military-forces-iraq U.S. Department of State on the use of White Phosphorus in Fallujah: https://web.archive.org/web/20060104041818/http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive_Index/Illegal_Weapons_in_Fallujah.html “The Fight for Fallujah” in Field Artillery Magazine by Cobb, LaCour, and Hight: https://web.archive.org/web/20060104053204/http://www.tradoc.army.mil/pao/ProfWriting/2-2AARlow.pdf “Pentagon Reverses Position and Admits U.S. Troops Used White Phosphorus Against Iraqis in Fallujah” by Democracy Now (featuring quotes by Lt. Col. Venable and George Monbiot): https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/17/pentagon_reverses_position_and_admits_u “U.S. used white phosphorus in Iraq,” BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm Rain of Fire by Human Rights Watch (Documentary): https://youtu.be/wRuzEs9Y5KE?si=621QSY40-Zbzz6tp Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza by Human Rights Watch (Report): https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza The Human Cost of Incendiary Weapons and the Limits of International Law by Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/11/09/they-burn-through-everything/human-cost-incendiary-weapons-and-limits# Media shown: Spec Ops: The Line, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Apocalypse Now, stock footage from Getty Images and Reuters Archive Music Used (Chronologically): The Looters, The Lost Battalion, The Pit, Burning Courtyard (all from Spec Ops: The Line), Multiplayer Menu (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), Afterlife (Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare), Do I Look Okay To You, GP04, Human Cost (all from Spec Ops: The Line), Embassy (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019), The Lab (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019), Burning Courtyard (Spec Ops: The Line), Max: NJ (Max Payne 3), Dead (Max Payne 3), Mellifera (They Dream By Day), The Caves of Mercury (Kilian Flowers) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images and Reuters Archive Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Napalm” by Quan Barry

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. | Watch my exclusive video on Arkham Knight by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on Arkham Knight: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-how-does-arkham-knight-still-look-so-good Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-best-looking-game-ever Script Consulting by John Linneman: https://x.com/dark1x Much of the footage of this video comes from Digital Foundry’s archive: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 “Defender of the Crown” by Jimmy Maher at The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2015/04/defender-of-the-crown/ Media shown: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Dragon’s Lair, Defender of the Crown, Daytona USA, Crysis, Battlefield 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom 3, The Order: 1886, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, The Bouncer, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Kingdom Hearts 3, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, Virtual Racer, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter 3, Tron, Uncharted 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Soul Calibur, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Outrun, God of War 3, Grand Theft Auto VI, Silent Hill 3, Half-Life 2, Get Even, Immortality, Horizon Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil Remake, The Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Tales from Off-Peak City, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Okami, Max Payne 3, Battlezone, Space Harrier, The Last of Us: Part 2, Donkey Kong Country, Batman: Arkham Knight, Hydro Thunder, Mirror’s Edge, Resident Evil 2 Remake, I, Robot Music Used (Chronologically): Remorse (Hotline Miami 2), Draugar Arena (Hellblade 2), Toad Highlands (Mario Golf), Hela (Hellblade), Prisonic Fairytale (Silent Hill 2), VHS Bombstrap (Umurangi Generation), Title Theme (Defender of the Crown), Sky (Mr. Nutz), Attract Mode (Dragon’s Lair SNES), Staff Roll (Dragon’s Lair SNES), Vs. Tina (Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend), Let’s Go Away (Daytona USA), The King of Speed (Daytona USA), Silhouette (Katana Zero), THE MILLENIUM BUG (Umurangi Generation), At Doom’s Gate (DOOM), The Angel’s Descend (Bayonetta), Intro (Doom 3), Save Heaven (Resident Evil Remake), First Light (Crysis), Memories (Crysis 3), Shard (Mirror’s Edge), Ethan Mars’ Theme (Heavy Rain), The Knight’s Theme (The Order 1886), Shoegaze Protagonist (Umurangi Generation), One Legged Waltzing (Franz Gordon) Additional Video Sources: Final Fantasy 7 NPCs by Bes: https://youtu.be/hLWu07ee6Lc?si=xlfgnwjNKUU7BzV6 Defender of the Crown playthrough by AL82 Retrogaming Longplays: https://youtu.be/Y1qqoczc0m8?si=REBrzcVJpJvL-NC1 Hydro Thunder by Pelessaria B’Jade: https://youtu.be/MDvOM1nB3xo?si=2SNrG6_c3ZGLqQb9 Battlefield 3 Jet Mission by DrLagGaming: https://youtu.be/cu-dohdtozg?si=YuaEQgCQos3cWSnc Dragon’s Lair Playthrough by Seth Peterson: https://youtu.be/mkDqAHCV5Yg?si=8is59cGuKWIcH9U9 Star Wars: Trilogy Arcade by nitaZera: https://youtu.be/fLMzT54Hqt8?si=EaQnUIDCz-vwLrBT Final Fantasy X by kaluzaklein: https://youtu.be/GYbc0hYxyGM?si=NVGoFvAUbz-C8vVs The Bouncer by Metal Arcade: https://youtu.be/FoBBW9J4-kM?si=U0d1i3J4bBPhPQhb PONG by andys-arcade: https://youtu.be/fiShX2pTz9A?si=aD8GV3YXPZaMdRhn Virtua Fighter 3 by Drup: https://youtu.be/Y2O1GCnUPUw?si=N5Zqc2Tx7_-pjf6c Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “On Beauty” by Kahlil Gibran

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that | Sign up for Nebula and get access to all my exclusive videos: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on DEVS: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-jacob-and-leo-untangle-the-brilliance-of-devs BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives *SPOILERS:* 0:00 - Atmospheric Memory (Museum Exhibit) 2:50 - Charles Babbage 9:34 - DEVS 14:25 - Story of Your Life/Arrival 19:18 - Slaughterhouse-Five 24:04 - 1000xResist 30:57 - Real-life physics 32:49 - Geographies of Solitude (Documentary) 34:16 - Conclusion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Animation by mothcub: https://www.youtube.com/@mothcub Script Consultation by Bobby Broccoli: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli *Sources:* Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969 Stories of Your Life and Others,Ted Chiang, 2002 DEVS, Alex Garland, 2020 1000xResist, Sunset Visitor, 2024 Atmospheric Memory, museum exhibit designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Charles Babbage, 1837 When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut, 2020 Geographies of Solitude, Jacquelyn Mills, 2023 Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016 Babbage’s Difference Engines- Computer History Museum: https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/ False Dawn: The Babbage Engine- Computer History Museum: https://youtu.be/XSkGY6LchJs?si=8yaC8zPb5enIueqX Pauline Oliveros Performance from Roulette TV: https://youtu.be/3VX1ooQ1aHs?si=1l1mJ9fIZRAFUHaH *Music Used (chronologically):* Lear (Pauline Oliveros), Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven via John Michel, Wikicommons), The Occupants (1000xResist), A Teardrop ~Zip (1000xResist), Water Run (1000xResist), Bells of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077), That Was Only For You To See (1000xResist), Tear Gas (1000xResist), Hiding (1000xResist), The Nomai (Outer Wilds), Watcher Haunted (1000xResist), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Possible Futures (Citizen Sleeper) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images, Storyblocks, and Reuters Archive Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”

Pain destroys one’s world, and, in that silence, torturers impose the myth of the state’s legitimacy. | Sign up for Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller / Buy a Nebula Gift Card: http://gift.nebula.tv/jacobgeller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch my Nebula-exclusive baking video: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-making-a-blackberry-peach-pie-and-trying-not-to-think-about-torture-with-jacob-and-annie Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-analyzing-every-torture-scene-in-call-of-duty-all-46-of-them Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 SPECIAL THANKS: Cameron Kunzelman for additional voices: https://x.com/ckunzelman Alex Adams for additional background information Hat Man and Nebula Studios for graphs and motion graphics AFGuidesHD for allowing me to use their gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/@AFGuidesHD Iavor Todorov for additional background information SOURCES: Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario by Alex Adams Anatomy of Torture by Ron Hassner Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel Serial Season 4 – Guantánamo: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/podcasts/serial-season-four-guantanamo.html U.N. Convention against Torture: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-against-torture-and-other-cruel-inhuman-or-degrading Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia? by Casey Delehanty and Erin Kearns: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/wait-theres-torture-in-zootopia-examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies/4C630F7B231053B66DC436EF598F2E32 Guantánamo by the Numbers– ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guantanamo-numbers Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees Through Analysis of Department of Defense Data by Mark Denbeaux, Joshua Benbeaux, and John Gregorek: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885659 Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship by Hannah Arendt: https://themontrealreview.com/Articles/Personal_Responsibility_Under_Dictatorship.php History of Guantanamo Bay– CBC News– The National: https://youtu.be/Y-_1-UcjB98?si=zVUFv8H18dFnI7Ni Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty– MrSp3ctre: https://youtu.be/b7bAaI9hRyw?si=r65RjdTWhKzlaHEP Policing in Japan: A Study on Making Crime by Setsuo Miyazawa Media shown: Call of Duty: 2, 3, 4: Modern Warfare, World at War, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops II, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Black Ops III, Infinite Warfare, WWII, Black Ops 4, Modern Warfare (2019), Cold War, Vanguard, Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 Music Used (Chronologically): Multiplayer Menu Theme (Infinite Warfare), Multiplayer Menu Theme (Black Ops), Downtown Sniper Soviet Tension (Call of Duty 2), Third District (Katana Zero), Captain Toad Goes Forth (Super Mario 3D World), Polina’s Vengeance (Vanguard), Multiplayer Menu Theme (Modern Warfare 2), Multiplayer Menu Theme (Ghosts), Pripyat (Call of Duty 4), Furnace (Control), Olympus Mons (Infinite Warfare), Embassy (Modern Warfare), Afterlife (Infinite Warfare), Collateral (Modern Warfare), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Torture and Democracy” by Darius Rejali

Darkness had no need of aid from them—She was the Universe. | Watch my exclusive video on The Exit 8 by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives *Spoiler Descriptions:* Greener Grass Awaits: Some surprising gameplay hooks are discussed. The game’s story and ending are not discussed. Bonbon: The entire story is discussed in detail Bramble: The Mountain King: Some late game events are shown and discussed. The game’s overarching story and ending are not discussed. White Shadows: Various snippets from the game are shown. The game’s ending is discussed in detail. Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on The Exit 8: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-a-horror-game-about-normality Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-games-that-wont-leave-the-dark Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Media shown: Greener Grass Awaits, Bonbon, Bramble: The Mountain King, White Shadows, My Name is Mayo, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Neon White, Come and See, Buckshot Roulette, El Paso, Elsewhere, Laika: Aged Through Blood, Mediterranea Inferno, Bioshock, Mirror’s Edge, What. (Bo Burnham), A Highland Song, Death of a Wish, Heart of Darkness, Limbo, INSIDE, Humanity, Guilty Gear -Strive-, Persona 3 Reload, Signalis, Little Nightmares, Anatomy, Fight Club, The Cabin in the Woods, ICO, Dark Souls, The Exit 8 Music Used (Chronologically): Over the Water (Greener Grass Awaits), Polygon Eden (Umurangi Generation), Sunset Drone (Greener Grass Awaits), Ponderous (Greener Grass Awaits), Amid Bones (Iron Lung), The Facsimile (Citizen Sleeper), VHS Bombstrap (Umurangi Generation), Dance with the Night Wind (Silent Hill 3), Ghostlight (Iron Lung), Näcken's Polska (Bramble: the Mountain King), Midnight Secrets (Bramble: the Mountain King), The Troll Forest (Bramble: the Mountain King), The Beautiful Blue Danube, Are You Coming Home, Love MOM (World of Goo), Ending Triumph (Half-Life: Alyx), Inertia (Thomas Was Alone), Ennui (Cody High), Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Darkness” by Lord Byron 00:00-01:30 - Intro 01:30-09:30 - Greener Grass Awaits 09:30-14:38 - Bonbon 14:38-20:34 - Bramble: The Mountain King 20:34-28:44 - White Shadows 28:44-33:59 - Conclusion

Where there’s a desert, that changes everything, as if earth hadn’t wanted to fill only her own need. | GET THE JACOB GELLER BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-art-for-no-one Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Cover of “Va” by Emily Hopkins: https://youtu.be/qxYF8oDn6_M?si=bCFgEFtmQ672egKw *Sources* City: Triple Aught Foundation: http://www.tripleaughtfoundation.org/ “Nevada’s proposed national monument…” Brean, 2015: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevadas-proposed-national-monument-full-of-artwork-undisturbed-land/ “A Monument to Outlast Humanity” Goodyear, 2016: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city “Polyneuropathy,” Rubin 2024: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/brain,-spinal-cord,-and-nerve-disorders/peripheral-nerve-and-related-disorders/polyneuropathy “Onward and Upward with the Arts,” Calvin Tomkins, 1972: https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1972-02-05/flipbook/042/ “In Nevada, a monument to violence built on stolen land,” Ahtone, 2022: https://grist.org/culture/land-art-megasculpture-built-stolen-indigenous-land-nevada-city-heizer/ “Michael Heizer,” Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/artists/michael-heizer/ “It Was a Mystery in the Desert for 50 Years,” Kimmelman, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/19/arts/design/michael-heizer-city.html Nazca: “Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa,” Unesco: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/700/ “Nazca Lines,” Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Nazca-Lines “No Place Compares to the Unrelenting Lifelessness..,” Bland, 2013: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/no-place-compares-to-the-unrelenting-lifelessness-of-perus-sechura-desert-810663/ “Flooding and tourism threaten Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines,” Meghji 2004: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flooding-and-tourism-threaten-peru-s-mysterious-nazca-lines-553471.html Helfrecht: “Alone Together,” Aristotle Roufanis: https://aristotle.photography/ “Plexus,” Helfrecht, 2023: https://void.photo/plexus Goya: “Goya,” Hughes 2003 “Los Goya: de la Quinta a Burdeos y vuelta,” Junquera 2003: https://xn--archivoespaoldearte-53b.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aea/article/view/263 “The Most Disturbing Painting,” Nerdwriter, 2018: https://youtu.be/g15-lvmIrcg?si=RPkS17ojYQyC-T3K “The Most Disturbing Painting - A Different Take on Saturn Devouring His Son,” The Canvas, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCngjk3nQw&t Prince: “Prince To Sue YouTube, eBay Over Unauthorized Content,” Collett-White, 2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL13643284/ “‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Says Prince Turned Down at Least 4 Parody Ideas,” Craddock, 2016: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/prince-weird-al-yankovic-michael-jackson-7460907/ This American Life Episode 750, The Ferryman: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/750/transcript “60 Minutes Peeked into Prince's Vault and Discovered a Beautiful Mess,” Covington, 2021: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a36084663/60-minutes-prince-vault-paisley-park-welcome-2-america/ “Prince’s Sister on Honoring Her Brother’s Vault of Unreleased Music,” Holt, 2021: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/prince-vault-sister-tyka-nelson-1153227/ “I would hide 4 U: what’s in Prince’s secret vault?,” Azhar, 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/19/i-would-hide-4-u-whats-in-princes-secret-vault “The Beginner’s Guide,” 2015: https://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/The_Beginners_Guide/ “Kunst für Keinen (Art for No One): 1933-1945,” published by Hirmer, 2022 Music Used (Chronologically): Let Me Explain (Michael Vignola), A Somber View (Andres Cantu), Ear to the Ground (Hanna Lindgren), A Cold Wind (Savvun), Monster Machine (Ethan Sloan), Lemniscate (Ethan Sloan), A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), Vertibrae (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), Departure (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), D.S. AI Coda (Ryan Roth, The Beginner’s Guide), Va (Cover by Emily Hopkins, Original by Ryan Roth- The Beginner’s Guide) Additional music and sound effects from Getty Images, Epidemic Sound and Storyblocks Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Desert” by Patricia Hooper

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the fist of longing Punches my heart, until it is too dark to see. | Watch my exclusive video on even more great fight scenes by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on more fight scenes: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-i-want-to-tell-you-about-even-more-of-my-favorite-fight-scenes Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-i-want-to-tell-you-about-my-favorite-fight-scene Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Footage of Metal Gear Solid 4 provided by George Salonikh: https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeSalonikh Sifu's Brawler Is A Soulless Caricature by Khee Hoon Chan: https://www.thegamer.com/sifus-brawler-soulless-caricature-racism/ Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy by Every Frame a Painting: https://youtu.be/Z1PCtIaM_GQ?si=11lOeitu6wLBTYWg Real GTA by Corridor Digital: https://youtu.be/0ZZquVylLEo?si=LgDtLxs2yjJ5Yqs5 Media shown: Ip Man, The Raid, The Raid 2, Merantau, The Matrix, John Wick, John Wick 3, John Wick 4, Police Story, Police Story 2, Who Am I?, Sifu, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, The Last of Us Part 2, Asteroid City, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Villainess, Hardcore Henry, Project A 2, Fist of Fury, Die Hard, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat One, Punch-Out, Street Fighter 2, Dead Space 2, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Amnesia: The Bunker, Dark Souls 3, Absolver, Bioshock, The Hong Kong Massacre, Hotline Miami, God Hand, Tekken 8, Grand Theft Auto V, Returnal, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Music Used (Chronologically): The Wuguan, Martial Mastery (Sifu), Untitled (Dag Unenge, Hotline Miami 2), The Human Factor (Edward Karl Hanson), Canonical Aside (Dead Space 2), Crash the Dancefloor (Sifu), Aerial Fight 1 (The Path of Neo), Blood is on Fire (Sifu), Hydrogen (M.O.O.N., Hotline Miami), Daisuke (El Huervo, Hotline Miami 2), Sins of the Father (Metal Gear Solid V), Metal Gear Saga (Metal Gear Solid 4), Encounter (Metal Gear Solid), Tanker Incident (Metal Gear Solid 2), Snake Eater (Metal Gear Solid 3), Old Snake (Metal Gear Solid 4), Ride!! (Mad World) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: The Ikons by James K. Baxter

For one hundred years, a legend spread across the planet without ever experiencing periods of oblivion | Watch my exclusive video on “Pinocchio: A True Story” by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on yet another Pinocchio movie: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-attempting-to-understand-pinocchio-a-true-story Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-pinocchio-is-a-story-about-art-and-god Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792 Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Translation by Katherine Incandenza Sources: The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1883 Additional Pinocchio Art from PINOCCHIO: Atlante delle edizioni italiane dal 1883 al 2022 Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover, 1991 I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler, 1995 The Will to be Human by Silvano Arieti, 1972 Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino, 1981 Pinocchio and Pinocchiology by Jennifer Stone: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26304056 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Sculpted to Life by Matt Zoller Seitz: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8337-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-sculpted-to-life From Puppet to Cyborg: Posthuman and Postmodern Retellings of the Pinocchio Myth by Georgia Panteli: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1528658/13/Panteli_Georgia_PhD%20Thesis.pdf Fellini's Language of Dreams by Jonathan Cott: https://www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/rolling-stone/fellinis-language-of-dreams-637526308774480767/R#:~:text=It%27s%20a%20language%20made%20of,and%20it%20reduces%20its%20proportions. From Kubrick to Spielberg: The Story of ‘A.I.’ by Tim Greiving: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/6/29/22553929/ai-artificial-intelligence-steven-spielberg-stanley-kubrick Coppola loses $20m compensation for lost Pinocchio by Duncan Campbell: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/22/filmnews.film The Real Life Adventures of Pinocchio by Rebecca West: https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0212/features/puppet.html Blank Check with Griffin and David (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2017): https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ABydvRDL3hmF64lPMBB1D Media shown: Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio, Disney’s 2022 Pinocchio, Pinocchio: A True Story, Gullermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Lies of P, Handcarved Cinema: The Making of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, Welcome to Marwen, Dark Souls III, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Bloodborne, Music Used (Chronologically): Cohen’s Masterpiece– Accordion (Bioshock Infinite), Lost in Thessaloniki (Trabant 33), Peaceful Sleep– Music Box (Nier Automata), I’ll See You in My Dreams (Isham Jones), March of the Ducks (Mike Franklyn), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach), Last Move (White Bones), A New Power (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), The Midnight Woods (Hyper Light Drifter), Hallway Omega (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), Estella Opera House (Lies of P), Far East Princess (Lies of P), Saintess of Mercy Statue (Lies of P), Etude No. 3 for String Quartet (Peter Sandberg), Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), The Angels Descend A (Bayonetta), Marche Militaire Version 2 (Epidemic Sound), Ave Maria (Epidemic Sound), Only Human (Philip Ayers), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Feel (Lies of P) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Razbuten Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino

How is it done? You can write about these things and still not be any the wiser. | Watch my exclusive end-of-year favorites video and get tons of other perks by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive end-of-year video: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-jacob-gellers-other-favorite-things-from-2023 Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-best-ten-games-of-2023 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Media shown: Alan Wake 2, Armored Core 6, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Like a Dragon: Ishin, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, Hi-Fi Rush, Humanity, Jusant, Lies of P, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Tchia, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy XVI, El Paso Elsewhere, Call of Duty: World at War, The Darkness, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Killer7, Silent Hill 3, No More Heroes, Manhunt, Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: The Definitive Edition, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Viewfinder, Goodbye Volcano High, Iron Lung, Tetris Effect, REZ, Scavenger’s Reign, How To with John Wilson, Across the Spider-Verse Music Used (Chronologically): Go For the Fastest (LaD: Gaiden), Blackburn (Killer7), Herald of Darkness (Alan Wake 2), Shooting Range (Resident Evil 4), Surfacing (Hi-Fi Rush), Jusant (Jusant), Origins (Marvel’s Midnight Suns), Sailing (Tchia), Thrive (Humanity), Contact With You (Armored Core VI), Memory of Beach- Golden (Lies of P), Mattison’s Independence (Tears of the Kingdom), Welcome to Bright Falls (Alan Wake), The Clicker (Alan Wake), Yötön Yö (Alan Wake 2) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images and Writing on Games Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: When I Met the Pope by Patricia Lockwood

Maybe we’ve always suspected; always tried to ignore the whine of zero in our ears…but isn’t it worse, now, knowing? | Watch my exclusive Alan Wake II video and get tons of other perks by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive Alan Wake II video: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-spoiling-alan-wake-ii-2023s-best-horror-game Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-three-specific-kinds-of-terror Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Media shown: Amnesia: The Bunker, Who’s Lila, The Utility Room, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, SOMA, Outlast, Devotion, Prey, Dead Space, Signalis, Resident Evil 4 (Remake), Silent Hill 2, Half Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Myst, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Destiny 2, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario 64, Alan Wake II Music Used (Chronologically): Lacrimosa (Dead Space 2), Turned Around (Signalis), Rose (Resident Evil 8), The Blank Canvas (Inscryption), Safe Room (Amnesia: The Bunker), Officer Hub (Amnesia: The Bunker), End Credits (Amnesia: The Bunker), LilaChase (Who’s Lila?), Quiet Floors (Who’s Lila?), Misremembered (Signalis), Strupnev (Who’s Lila?), Submarine (INSIDE), Amid Bones (Iron Lung), A Mysterious Device (Returnal), Tendrils (Manifold Garden), Pilgrimage (Gorogoa), Nemesis (Returnal), Left Alone (Detention), Safe Room (Resident Evil), End Credits (Amnesia: The Bunker) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: Zero: Terror by Albert Goldbarth

"Why" I cannot ask, though I would like to know, the answer has to be simply "because." Get a Henson razor and a free pack of 100 blades with code JACOB at: https://bit.ly/3G3sa59 Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-how-can-we-bear-to-throw-anything-away Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Special thanks to Kelsey Lewin: https://twitter.com/kelslewin All The Knowledge in the World (Simon Garfield, 2022) MAUS (Art Spiegelman, 1980-1991) Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Matt Wolf, 2019) The Disappearance of Classic Video Games (Video Game History Foundation (https://gamehistory.org/87percent/) On Exactitude in Science (short film by Mothcub): https://youtu.be/Odggf2SoGK4?si=SKB7v0yAWJ03p2N_ The Information Catastrophe (Melvin Vopson, 2020): https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/10/8/085014/990263/The-information-catastrophe Landlords of the Internet (Daniel Greene, 2022): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03063127221124943#con Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 (Brewster Kahle, 2021): https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/21/reflections-as-the-internet-archive-turns-25/ In-Development Video Game Footage: Hi-Fi Rush: https://youtu.be/vn4XwYzU49g?si=SUGyBpaobNfWYC5y Marvel’s Spider-Man: https://youtu.be/Stqsi_Ur3k8?si=sLerQ2Ju8eYVj6r- Dead Space: https://youtu.be/_VChNaQC_mw?si=BO-McI562FE6zH2k God of War: https://youtu.be/lreYsdHT54w?si=tyewA634T4xBzee4 Media shown: Stars Die, Pineapple on Pizza, Beton Brutal, Halo 3, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 4, Super Mario Galaxy, Mirror’s Edge, Super Metroid, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Turbo: Super Stunt Squad, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, Katamari Damacy Music Used, chronologically: Overpriced Shop (TLoZ: Twilight Princess), Noire Clarinet, New Beginning Part 2 (L.A. Noire), In the Jailhouse Now (Jimmie Rodgers), New Eden- Puzzle (Mirror’s Edge), Blackburn (Killer7), GPigstick (Stealth Inc 2), Demo Loop (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream), Castle in the Mist (ICO), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Russell’s Clean Radio (Half-Life: Alyx), Bells of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077), One Life to Live (UnearthU), The Salesman (Silver Maple), The Longest Night (Bladverk Band), They Dream by Day (Mellifera), Did Your Prince Ever Show Up (Magnus Ludvigsson), Infinite Love (Vendla), Útil Paisagem (Clara Mendes) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks by Janet McCann

And physicists rocketed copies of the decree to paradise in case God had anything to say, the silence that followed being taken for consent | Sign up for Nebula, get all sorts of exclusive content, and support my ability to make more of this stuff: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-art-in-the-preapocalypse Listen to my podcast, Something Rotten: https://nebula.tv/somethingrotten *Charities:* Extinction Rebellion: https://rebellion.global/about-us/ Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller *SPOILERS:* Final Fantasy XVI- Only the Bahamut fight and surrounding cutscenes are shown, very little discussion of other plot elements. On the Beach- The entirety of the plot is discussed. SEASON: A Letter to the Future- Many elements of the game’s plot, including its conclusion, are discussed. Umurangi Generation- The entirety of the plot is discussed. First Reformed- The plot is not discussed in detail but the climax of the movie is implied. How to Blow Up a Pipeline- The plot is not discussed in detail but the climax of the movie is implied. 0:00- Intro 0:20- Final Fantasy XVI 3:50- On the Beach 9:19- SEASON: A Letter to the Future 15:48- Umurangi Generation 22:05- Missile Command 23:06- First Reformed & How to Blow Up a Pipeline 26:50- Conclusion *Media shown:* Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy VII, Umurangi Generation, SEASON: A Letter to the Future, On the Beach (1959), First Reformed, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Men in Black, The Day After Tomorrow, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Die Another Day, Bayonetta, Missile Command, Marvel: Midnight Suns, Outer Wilds, Armageddon, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Last of Us *Music Used:* Away, Ascension (FFXVI), Theme of Love (FFIV), One Legged Waltzing (Franz Gordon), Bells of Sorrow (Jon Algar), Title Screen (SEASON: A Letter to the Future), Pictures of the Past (Rain World), Moondown (Rain World), De belles choses vues à travers une vitre sale (SEASON, Radio), Out on the Street (Umurangi Generation), VHS Bombstrap (Umurangi Generation), Midnight Stabbings with the Lads (Umurangi Generation), Lurking 88 (Umurangi Generation), Shoegaze Protagonist (Umurangi Generation), Burning Man (World of Goo), Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy (Disco Elysium), In Your Hands (Gris), Empathy (Gavin Luke), Highway Flash (Umurangi Generation) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: Disappointments of the Apocalypse by Mary Karr

The darkness is cold because the stars do not believe in each other. | Watch me bake impressionist food and see tons of other exclusive videos by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive baking video: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-making-impressionist-galettes-with-jacob-and-annie Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-staring-into-the-sun Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Many of this video’s citations come from essays in the book “The Sun: Source of Light in Art” (2023). Specific authors and essays are cited at relevant times in the video. 'Three Days or more ...': Turner's Varnishing Day practice and the physical evidence (Rebecca Hellen, British Art Journal 2014): Additional Footage from: Zac Frazier: https://www.youtube.com/@ZacFrazier DayDream Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/@DayDreamGamingTV Media shown: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, The Last Guardian, Cyberpunk 2077, Minecraft, Fortnite, Dead Space (2023), Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Sunshine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Teletubbies, Music Used (Chronologically): Mattison’s Independence (Tears of the Kingdom), Bells of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077), Ambiguous (Rina Rinoa), Ruin Seeker (Tunic), The Weight of Rain (Tunic), Forest (The Last Guardian), The Tower (The Last Guardian), Hanging Gardens (The Last Guardian), Flashback (The Last Guardian), First Gate (Manifold Garden), The Arboretum (Manifold Garden), A Slow Realization (Papo & Yo), Light Dragon (Tears of the Kingdom), End Titles (The Last Guardian) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: Sunset after Rain by W. S. Merwin

Now you're looking for the secret…but you won't find it. | Watch my live library talk, as well as many other exclusive videos, by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Watch my Nebula-exclusive talk at the Durham County Library: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-jacob-geller-live-at-the-durham-public-library Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-games-that-dont-fake-the-space Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Silent Hill 2 out of bounds footage captured by Brossentia: https://www.twitch.tv/brossentia Dark Souls out of bounds footage captured by Illusory Wall: https://www.youtube.com/@illusorywall The Basement’s Basement by Gareth Damian Martin: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/basements-basement/ Heterotopias 002: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/002-2/ Additional Footage from: Razbuten: https://www.youtube.com/@razbuten Shesez: https://www.youtube.com/@BoundaryBreak HowBigIsTheMap: https://www.youtube.com/@HowBigistheMap SourceSpy91: https://www.youtube.com/@SourceSpy91 SlippySlides: https://www.youtube.com/@SlippySlides MetaBallStudios: https://www.youtube.com/@MetaBallStudios Jasper and the NoClip Website: https://noclip.website/ Vox: https://www.youtube.com/@Vox Media shown: FUEL, The Crew 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Silent Hill 2, Babbdi, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Super Mario 64, NaissanceE, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Manifold Garden, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Minecraft, Birthplace of Ossian, God of War 2, Elden Ring, Portal 2, Scanner Sombre, Lego The Lord of the Rings, Marginalia, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), SOMA, Fugue in Void, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, GTA V, Ben-Hur (1959), Der Golem (1920), The Three Ages, Mad Max: Fury Road, John Wick 4, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, No Man’s Sky, Elite: Dangerous Music Used (Chronologically): End of the World Sun (No Man’s Sky), Americana (The Crew 2), Urban Style (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), A Story You Won’t Believe (The Witcher 3), Main Theme (The Last Clockwinder), Dire on the Rocks (Super Mario 64 OCRemix), Endless Stairs (Super Mario 64), Dance with the Night Wind (Silent Hill 3), The Tunnel Beckons (Silent Hill 2), Tears of… (Silent Hill), Hunter’s Dream (Bloodborne), Formal Properties (Manifold Garden), Falling 2 (Babbdi), Human Resources (Perfect Vermin), Wrenhaven River (Dishonored), Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Dark Souls), Main Theme (The Last Clockwinder) Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder

What do we find in linking the sapient dream? | Get the intended version of this essay and many more of my exclusive videos (at a discount!) by joining Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Nebula Exclusive– The World Has Forgotten Quad-Wielding, But I Won’t: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-world-has-forgotten-quadwielding-but-i-wont Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-games-that-arent-games Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Translation help by Sarah Podzorski: https://twitter.com/sarahpodz Radiohead covers by on4word: https://www.youtube.com/@on4word Increpare Games: https://www.increpare.com/ Monuments to Guilt by Louis: https://louisthings.itch.io/monuments-to-guilt ‘LSD: Dream Emulator’, an Avant-Garde Game Released on PlayStation by Sébastien Raineri: https://pen-online.com/arts/lsd-dream-emulator-an-avant-garde-game-released-on-playstation/ Interview with Osamu Sato by Nick Dwyer: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/osamu-sato-interview Creating KID A MNESIA: an exclusive look at Radiohead's new virtual exhibit: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/creating-kid-a-mnesia-an-exclusive-look-at-radiohead-s-new-virtual-exhibit Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on Kid A Mnesia: https://blog.playstation.com/2021/11/18/radiohead-explain-the-story-behind-the-creation-of-its-kid-a-mnesia-exhibition-out-today-on-ps5/ Cameron Kunzelman on Mountain: https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/mountain/mountain-review-pcmacios Ian Bogost on Mountain: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/you-are-mountain/374543/ Carolina Miranda on Mountain: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-playing-her-animator-david-oreilly-mountain-video-game-20140705-column.html Michael McMaster on Mountain: https://medium.com/@michaeljmcmaster/on-formalism-a1b4e95bb435 Ben Kuchera on Mountain: https://www.polygon.com/2014/7/3/5868087/mountain-indie-game-joke-satire-self-loathing Ausin C. Howe on Mountain: http://hapticfeedbackgames.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-text-vs-form.html Media: LSD Dream Emulator, Slave of God, Mountain, Monuments to Guilt, Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, Haunted PS1 Demodisc, Daytona USA, Her, DONE (music video), Minecraft, Guggenheim and Louvre virtual tours, Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolfe, Everything, Stephen’s Sausage Roll, Oh Shit the Cameraman Ist Arrived, Battlegrounds, Running Memories, Music Used (Chronologically): Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky), Start Menu (Gallop Racer 3), Acid Groove, LSD Choir (LSD Dream Emulator), Season Mode (Gallop Racer 2), Temple Dojo - Ambient (LSD Dream Emulator), Slave of God OST, Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky), One Life to Live-Maya Remembers (UnearthU), The House Part 1 (Gone Home), Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead), Floating Kite (Tellsonic), The National Anthem, Idioteque (Radiohead), Weird Fishes (on4word- Mario x Radiohead), Reminiscence Captured on Tape (Ave Air), End of the Ocean (Tellsonic), Jenny’s Theme (The Darkness), No Surprises (on4word- Mario x Radiohead) Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder

Most scary stories are, of course, meant to be told. They are more scary that way. But _how_ you tell them is important. | Support me on Nebula and watch all of my exclusive videos: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Nebula Exclusive– The World’s Biggest Fans of Resident Evil 4 Break Down the Remake: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-worlds-biggest-fans-of-resident-evil-4-break-down-the-remake Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-were-not-remaking-horror-games-were-chasing-nightmares Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Blake Hester's review of Resident Evil 4 Remake on Game Informer: https://www.gameinformer.com/review/resident-evil-4-remake/refinement-not-reinvention Media: The Last of Us (game and show), Resident Evil 4 (original and remake), Dead Space (original and remake), Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 8, Dead Space 2, DOOM (film and game), Max Payne 3, Gears of War, Fortnite, Breaking Bad Music Used (Chronologically): Serenade for Strings in C Major Op. 48 (The Evil Within 2), Secure Place (Resident Evil 2), Shooting Range (Resident Evil 4 Remake), Theme of Ada (Resident Evil 4), Rules of Nature (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), Tierras de Azafrán (Blasphemous), Serenity (Resident Evil 4), Ending Credits (Resident Evil 4), The Last of Us- You and Me (The Last of Us), Fleeting- Affection (The Last of Us), The Choice (The Last of Us), The Last of Us- Goodnight (The Last of Us), White Palace (Hollow Knight), Lacrimosa (Dead Space 2), Nicole’s Theme (Dead Space Remake), Canonical Aside (Dead Space 2), Wesker’s Theme (Resident Evil 4) Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” by Alvin Chase

Since you have been condemned to die at dawn, you must yourself attempt to stop the sun. | Support me on Nebula and watch all of my exclusive videos: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Nebula Exclusive- Revisiting My College Paper on Lethal Injections: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-revisiting-my-college-paper-on-lethal-injections Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-false-evolution-of-execution-methods Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Cover of “Générique” from Lift to the Gallows performed by Henry Walsh Sources: Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Austin Sarat, 2014) Lethal Injections and the False Promise of Humane Executions (Austin Sarat, 2022) A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays (Marc Bookman, 2021) Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault, 1975) Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases (Gerry, Southwick, Hale 1888) The Lynching Era and Contemporary Lethal Police Shootings in the South. (Lyons, C. J., Painter-Davis, N., & Medaris, D. C., 2022): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/21533687221120951 Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts. (K. B. Turner, David Giacopassi & Margaret Vandiver, 2006): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511250500335627 Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz (You’re Wrong About, 2022): https://podcasts.apple.com/lb/podcast/medieval-torture-with-dana-schwartz/id1380008439?i=1000558625870 Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Equal Justice Initiative, 2017): https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair (Robert Klara, 2023): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-new-york-tabloid-captured-the-first-photograph-of-an-execution-by-the-electric-chair-180981432/ So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States (Human Rights Watch, 2006): https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/04/23/so-long-they-die/lethal-injections-united-states Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty (Ngozi Ndulue, 2020): https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/reports/Enduring-Injustice-Race-and-the-Death-Penalty-2020.pdf Autopsy Photos from Botched Florida Execution Released (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014): https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/autopsy-photos-from-botched-florida-execution-released Botched Executions Database (Death Penalty Information Center, 2022): https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/botched-executions Death Penalty Support Holding at Five-Decade Low (Jeffrey M. Jones, 2021): https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/2021-gallup-poll-public-support-for-capital-punishment-remains-at-half-century-low The Cruel and Unusual Execution of Clayton Lockett (Jeffrey Stern, 2015): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/execution-clayton-lockett/392069/ Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing (Sean Murphy, 2021): https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-prisons-executions-oklahoma-oklahoma-attorney-generals-office-6e5eedd1956a38f83db96187651f145c Police Shootings Database (Washington Post, 2023): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ Above the Law: The Data Are In on Police, Killing, and Race (Lyman Stone, 2020): https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65309/ The Return of the Firing Squad (Maurice Chammah, 2022): https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/04/08/the-return-of-the-firing-squad 300 Protest Execution at Prison Gate as Killer Dies (LA Times, 1967): https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/382240317/?terms=300%20protest%20execution%20at%20prison%20gate&match=1 Innocence (Death Penalty Information Center, 2023): https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence Biomechanics of Judicial Hanging: A Case Report (L. Nokes, A. Roberts, D. James, 1999): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002580249903900110 Music Used (Chronologically): Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), Stepping on Glass (Eneide), Biological Evidence (Alan Carlson-Green), Trivalve (Ethan Sloan), Indigo (Christophe Gorman), Behind the Curtains (Skrya), Dark Times (Etienne Roussel), Ambivalent Thoughts (Magnus Ringblom), Nocturne in G Minor (Chopin), Dead (HEALTH- Max Payne 3), Implode (Peter Sandberg), Translucency (Rikard From), Générique (Henry Walsh) Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: “Death Sentence” by Polly Chase Additional music by Epidemic Sound Additional Footage by Getty Images

And here is a red balloon. I think of you and let it go. | Join Nebula and watch my exclusive videos at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller Making Wanted: Dead's Questionable Lasagna Recipe: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-making-wanted-deads-questionable-lasagna-recipe Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-wanted-dead-is-one-of-the-strangest-games-ive-ever-played Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Media Used: Wanted: Dead, WET, Bullet Witch, NeverDead, Yakuza 0, Sleeping Dogs, Disco Elysium, Death Stranding, No More Heroes, Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid 5, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Blade Runner, The Room, Joker, Flashdance Music Used (Chronologically): Dire Dire Docks (Super Mario 64), Crystals (M.O.O.N.), 99 Luftballons (Wanted: Dead cover), Cohen’s Masterpiece– Accordion (Bioshock Infinite), Killer Dish, Venomous Grace (Wanted: Dead), Main Theme (Streets of Rage 4), Menu Theme (Wanted: Dead), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (Trombone Champ), Regurgitation Pumping Station (World of Goo), Sins of the Father (MGSV), It Has to Be This Way (MGR: R), Gunsmith’s Theme (Wanted: Dead), Run (iamthekidyouknowwhatimean), Ending Triumph (Half Life: Alyx), Promise (Okami), The Heatseeker (Pistol Whip), Land of a Thousand Lakes (Trabant33), Maniac (Bella and the Switchblades) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: 99 Luftballons (English Translation) Additional music by Epidemic Sound Additional Footage by Getty Images

Their father could tell the future but he never prophesied that. | Get a Henson razor and a free pack of 100 blades with code JACOB at: https://bit.ly/3G3sa59 Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-a-tale-of-two-god-of-war-2s Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller God of War Ragnarök: great dad game, hellish mom game by Maddy Myers– https://www.polygon.com/23519077/god-of-war-ragnarok-female-characters-freya-faye-angrboda-portrayal-analysis Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Additional Footage from Razbuten Media Used: God of War, God of War 2, God of War 3, God of War: Ascension, God of War (2018), God of War Ragnarök, The Last of Us Part 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Resistance: Fall of Man, NBA 2K7, Tabletop Simulator, Mission Impossible 2, Hercules Music Used (Chronologically): Main Titles (GoW 2), Enthroned on Mount Olympus (GoW), Svartalfheim (GoW R), Waking the Sleeping Giant (GoW 2), The Summit (GoW 2018), Giantess of Ironwood (GoW R), The Isle of Creation (GoW 2), A Son’s Path (GoW R), Phoenix Rising (GoW 2), Remembering Faye (GoW R), The Bathhouse (GoW 2), Giantess of Ironwood (GoW R), Palace of the Fates (GoW 2), To Forgive or to Kill (GoW R), The Isle of Creation (GoW 2) Ragnarok (GoW R), Dark Tavern (Walt Adams), God-Like (George TraGiC, GoW 2) Thumbnail Credit: Annie Maynard Description Credit: Memorial by Alice Oswald Additional music by Epidemic Sound

God, from the machine. | Watch this video’s exclusive companion and get a year of Nebula + CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch “The Failed Space Weapons of the US Military” on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-failed-space-weapons-of-the-us-military Watch THIS video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-conceptual-failure-of-orbital-lasers Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Sources: Way Out There in the Blue (Frances Fitzgerald, 2000) The Faulty and Dangerous Logic of Missile Defense (Laura Grego, 2018) Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Command & Conquer Renegade X Ion Cannon: https://youtu.be/YOFKyqLdEmY Yakuza: Like a Dragon Orbital Laser: https://youtu.be/Y2Qx-b1VZr4 Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Additional Research by Phosphene Additional Production by Icarus Media Used: AKIRA, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Andor, Rogue One, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Command & Conquer Renegade X, GoldenEye, Diamonds are Forever, Die Another Day, Redline, Tekken 7, Vanquish, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gears of War, Gears of War 4, Gears 5, Gears: Tactics, Arrested Development, Bedtime for Bonzo, A Wing and a Prayer, God of War 3, Katamari Damacy, Halo Wars 2 Music Used (Chronologically): Swan Lake Act 1 (Tchaikovsky), Mos Eisley Cantina (Leg Star Wars 2 DS), Main Menu (007: Agent Under Fire), N.M.H (No More Heroes), Alien Manifestation (Nier Automata), Der Monde (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach, BWV 775), Frustration in Disguise (Taylor Crane), Dies Irae (Giuseppe Verdi), Mad World- Dom’s Version (Gears of War 3), Outpost (Gears of War), Kait’s Theme (Gears 5), Panama (Max Payne 3), Pleasure of Tension (Snatcher), Memory (RUINER), Paradise for One (Mike Franklyn), Clair de Lune (The Evil Within)

Some part of you decays while something else feeds from that decay. And you join the chorus. And together you sing the song of growing things. | Pay $12 for a YEAR of Nebula + CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch the Nebula companion to this video, with favorite movies, books, and more: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-everything-that-didnt-fit-into-jacobs-top-ten-of-2022 Merch!! https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller MinnMax Podcast (Specifically, my appearances): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX4DApdGFnsnjKoCIoXYPckwL31kJ_5tx Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Games shown in opening montage (chronologically) : Metal Hellsinger, Scorn, Disc Room, Tunic, Not for Broadcast, Silt, Unbeatable [White Label], Midnight Fight Express, Bayonetta 3, Rollerdrome, Tinykin Other non-listed games shown: Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Horizon Forbidden West, Snatcher, Fortnite Music used (chronologically): Dies Irae, Infinite Love (Vendla), Good Job, You Made it to the Bottom of the Mind Control Facility (The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe), Delirious Eyes (Norco), Die Toteninsel Emptiness (Signalis), Main Theme (The Last Clockwinder), Glass Ocean (Neon White), The End is Never the End Again, Memory Zone- French (The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe), Star Ball Rolling (Super Mario Galaxy 2), Red and Blue (Vampire Survivors), Art (Immortality), Raeb’s Lament (God of War Ragnarok), Possible Futures (Citizen Sleeper), Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon (Elden Ring), Main Theme (The Last Clockwinder), Dream Chaser (F-Zero X), Good Job, You Made it to the Bottom of the Mind Control Facility (The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Citizen Sleeper

There is no band! Il n'est pas de orquestra! This is all a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet we hear a band. | Watch the intended cut of this video and get a year of Nebula + CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch the intended, uncensored cut of this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-best-moment-in-a-game-this-year Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Immortality Explained by Sam Gowing: https://youtu.be/OSHTf6ddpVE Visual Media used: Immortality, Mulholland Drive, Her Story, Telling Lies, Beautiful Darling- The Life of Candy Darling, Women in Revolt, Berlin: Live at Ann’s Warehouse, various concert recordings of Anohni and Lou Reed. Additional footage provided by Getty Images. Music Used (Chronologically): Allegretto (Beethoven Symphony no. 7), Opening, Life- Supernatural (Immortality), Etude no. 3 for String Quartet (Peter Sandberg), Quiet When Dark (The Tap Room), Art, Religion- Subverted, Religion- Supernatural (Immortality), Ave Maria, Poets (Ciaran Delany), Two of Everything (Immortality). Additional music provided by Epidemic Sound. Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Mulholland Drive

From one thing, know ten thousand things. | Get a 30 day free trial of Audible by visiting https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Watch this video on NEBULA: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-sekiros-parry-and-other-pursuits-of-perfection Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig, 1974) Games Shown: Sekiro, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Witness, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, QWOP, Nioh 2, Hades, Cuphead, Disc Room, Boomerang X, SOMA, Dead Space 2 Music Used (Chronologically): Sekiro the One-Armed Wolf (Sekiro), Wisdom of Rage (Furi), Break the Targets! (Super Smash Bros. Melee), Dogsong (Undertale), Main Theme (Streets of Rage 4), Trois Gymnopedies (Gary Numan), Of Foreign Lands and Peoples (Robert Schumann), Overdose (Katana Zero), Avarice (Death’s Door), Various piano pieces including "On The Nature of Daylight" (Jacob Geller) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-fear-of-big-things-underwater Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller The Kraken by Katie Dey: https://katiedey.bandcamp.com/album/the-kraken Additional Voices by Mark Brown: https://twitter.com/gamemakerstk Chapters: Introduction: 0:00 1- The Kraken: 1:44 2- The Imagined Depths: 12:28 3- The Drowned Giants: 19:13 4- Just Before the End: 28:30 5- The Great Unknown: 34:51 Epilogue: 41:54 Media Used: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Drowned Giant (2021), Subnautica, Iron Lung, In Other Waters Music Used (chronologically): Dismantle (Peter Sandberg), Deciphering Tool (Jon Bjork), Ennui (Cody High), Oceanic Adventure (Bonnie Grace), Trapped Underwater (Kikoru), Scared of Water (Kikoru), Arc Lights, Bone Fields (Subnautica), Underwater Findings (Deskant), Is (Sandra Marteleur), Humdrum Days (Franz Gordon), Thrilling India 2 (August Wilgelmsson), Heavy Respite (Martin Klem), The Deepest Cave (Farrell Wooten), Ghostlight (Iron Lung), The Carousel (The Evil Within), Amid Bones (Iron Lung), At the End of Nothing (Silver Maple), Of Sober Mind (Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen), The Kraken (Katie Dey) Sources: Kraken (Wendy Williams, 2010) Kraken (China Mieville, 2010) Monsters of the Sea (Richard Ellis, 1994) The Kraken: When Myth Encounters Science (Salvador & Tomotani, 2013) The Natural History of Norway (Erik Pontoppidan, 1755) Underland (Robert Macfarlane, 2019) The Drowned Giant (J.G. Ballard, 1964) The Metamorphosis of Unknown Animals into Fabulous Beasts and of Fabulous Beasts into Known Animals (Bernard Heuvelmans, 1990) Chasing Ice (Orlowski, 2012) Giant Squid (Clyde Roper, Smithsonian 2018): https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/giant-squid The Squid Hunter (David Grann, 2004): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/the-squid-hunter Why Do Deep Sea Creatures Evolve Into Giants? (Real Science, 2022): https://youtu.be/uYR4ZMlLUwI Tsunami reveals ancient temple sites (Paddy Maguire, 2005): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4312024.stm Mahabalipuram: The Temple that Rose from the Sea (Aditi Shah, 2018): https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/monuments/mahabalipuram Mahabalipuram: Sea, Surfing and Shore Temple (Uttara Gangopadhyay, 2018): https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/69050/a-guide-to-mahabalipuram-sea-surfing-and-shore-temple Tsunami Footage: https://youtu.be/ks5p-slN4Mc As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ (Christopher Flavelle, 2022): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html Owens Valley Salty As Los Angeles Water Battle Flows Into Court (Kirk Siegler, 2013): https://www.npr.org/2013/03/11/173463688/owens-valley-salty-as-los-angeles-water-battle-flows-into-court 3rd set of human remains discovered at Lake Mead (Adriana Navarro, 2022): https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/3rd-set-of-human-remains-discovered-at-lake-mead/1222679 Adventuring With Beebe (Beebe, The Viking Press, New York, 1955, p.81-82): https://sites.google.com/site/cwilliambeebe/Home/bathysphere Discovery Channel: Monster Squid - It Lives (2011): https://youtu.be/k7oyNFFTi10 Edie Widder and Nathan Robinson via OceanExplorerGov: https://youtu.be/Lqim34DvCrs Gennaro, J.F. Jr. 1971. The Creature Revealed. Natural History, March 1971 Pierce, S., G. Smith, T. Maugel & E. Clark 1995. On the Giant Octopus (Octopus giganteus) and the Bermuda Blob: Homage to A. E. Verrill. Biological Bulletin 188: 219-230 Pierce, S., S. Massey, N. Curtis, G. Smith, C. Olavarría & T. Maugel 2004. Microscopic, Biochemical, and Molecular Characteristics of the Chilean Blob and a Comparison With the Remains of Other Sea Monsters: Nothing but Whales. Biological Bulletin 206: 125–133. Additional photos from: Swarna1311 Y23 at English Wikipedia Borgx Additional Footage from Getty Images Additional Music and Sound from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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People laugh about this, self-soothing engines sputtering through a nosedive. Not me. | Get Nebula and CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch the Nebula Companion Video: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-the-people-behind-therapy-apps Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-fixing-my-brain-with-automated-therapy/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller TWITTER: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 MERCH: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Sources: The Distance Cure (Hannah Zeavin, 2021) The Therapy App Fantasy: https://www.thecut.com/article/mental-health-therapy-apps.html “What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?” https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/cognitive-behavioral Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Alan Turing, 1950) Visual Media Used: Eliza, UnearthU, Reflectly, Bloom, Youper, MoodMission, “Hour of Power” Music Used (Chronologically): Mii Plaza (Wii), The Star-Spangled Banner, Instrument of Surrender (Disco Elysium), Consideration (Eliza), Daily Rituals, UnearthU (UnearthU), Determination, Unease, Jealousy (Eliza), Graydo (Stealth Inc. 2), Sentient (Gavin Luke), No Biscuits for a Bad Dog (Jerry Lacey), The Triumphant Return to Earth (Kilian Flowers) Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: "The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Additional footage provided by Getty Additional music and sound effects provided by Epidemic Sound

Long Live the New Flesh | Get a 30 day free trial of Audible by visiting https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-gross-games-about-flesh-and-stuff Perfect Vermin: https://itsthemaceo.itch.io/perfect-vermin How Fish is Made: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1854430/How_Fish_Is_Made/ Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) Cao Hui, “I Want to Play God:” http://www.linlingallery.com/eng/artists-d.php?id=33 Indiepocalypse Radio interview with Maceo: https://youtu.be/ZgzM9THwpiY Laura Dern on David Lynch: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/laura-dern-too-dern-hot-200745/ Games shown: Perfect Vermin, How Fish is Made Music used (chronologically): The Massacre Downtown (Perfect Vermin), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Sleep Paralysis (Ruiner), Path of the Addict (Superhot: Mind Control Delete), Nocturne op.9 No.2 (Chopin), Dies Irae (Giuseppe Verdi), Nocturne in G Minor (Chopin), Tears of… (Silent Hill), You Can Always Come Home (Mike Franklyn) Additional Music from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Videodrome

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. | Get a Henson razor and a free pack of 100 blades with code JACOB at: https://bit.ly/3G3sa59 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-every-zelda-is-the-darkest-zelda Letter from K.A. Applegate: http://www.hiracdelest.com/database/articles/kaa_response-full.htm Majora’s Mask: Terrible Fate (short film by Ember Lab): https://youtu.be/vbMQfaG6lo8 K.A. Applegate Reading by Jessie Gender: https://www.youtube.com/c/lostrekkie Additional Footage from: Scrustle: https://www.youtube.com/user/scrustle Zelda Central: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1csybsXHrbGs96WgKPU34g Gamescapes: https://www.youtube.com/c/Gamescapes Visual Media Used: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Simpsons, Scooby-Doo, Ratatouille, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Finding Nemo, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds, Link’s Awakening, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Breath of the Wild Music Used, chronologically: Title, Snowpeak, Light and Shadow, Meeting with Princess Zelda (Twilight Princess), Cave, Final Hours, Giant’s Theme, Clock Tower (Majora’s Mask), Fi’s Theme (Skyward Sword), Preload, Link’s Memories- “Despair” (Breath of the Wild), Forest Temple (Ocarina of Time), Farewell King Hyrule (Wind Waker), Chamber of the Sages (Ocarina of Time), Ballad of the Windfish (Link’s Awakening), Confrontation with the Demon King (Skyward Sword), Death Mountain (The Legend of Zelda), Time of the Falling Rain (A Link to the Past), Hilda and Ganon (A Link Between Worlds), Riverside (Tri Force Heroes), Courage (Twilight Princess), Eternal Gratitude- Fi’s Theme (Skyward Sword) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: The Uses of Sorrow, Mary Oliver Additional music from Epidemic Sound Additional video from Getty Images

I think it is the music of a new life, pouring over the hills with the subtlety of dawn⁠— a cold dawn, a cruel true dawn. | Get Nebula and CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch the Nebula Companion Video: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-the-biggest-mod-in-resident-evil-history-is-finally-complete/ Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-i-cant-stop-talking-about-resident-evil-4-vr/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller TWITTER: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 MERCH: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Visual Media Used: Resident Evil 4 (standard and VR), Doom, Metroid: Other M, Moss, Half Life: Alyx, Edge of Nowhere, Shadow of the Colossus, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Uncharted 4 Music Used (Chronologically): Cohen’s Masterpiece– Accordion (Bioshock Infinite), Main Theme (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), Main Theme (Robocop- GBA), Theme of Ada, Theme of Wesker (Resident Evil 4), Beacon Beach (Oxenfree), The Heatseeker (Pistol Whip), Third District (Katana Zero), The Blank Canvas (Inscryption), Voice of No Return (Nier Automata), Sorrow [Ending Credits] (Resident Evil 4) Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: "Regeneration" by Art Smith

I am happy every time to see real personhood resist our tricks. I am happy to see bodies insist they are not shut up in this book, they are elsewhere. | Get a 30 day free trial of Audible by visiting https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Diagnoses from the Dead (Richard A. Prayson, 2009) Stiff (Mary Roach, 2003) Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card, 1986) Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis by Jordan Kisner: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/magazine/piled-bodies-overflowing-morgues-inside-americas-autopsy-crisis.html Final Cut by Atul Gawande: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/19/final-cut Hospital autopsy: Endangered or extinct? (Turnbull et al., 2015): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4518760/#:~:text=Hospital%20autopsy%20is%20extinct%20in,health%20and%20teaching%20is%20required Autopsy 2018 (Lee Goldman): https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.033236#:~:text=Since%20that%20time%2C%20autopsy%20rates,28%20000%20hospital%20autopsies%20annually Diagnostic errors in the new millennium: a follow-up autopsy study (Schwana-Burger et al., 2012): https://www.nature.com/articles/modpathol2011199 Visual Media Used: Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, Disco Elysium, Community Music Used (Chronologically): Monstrosity, A Quiet Respite II, Rose (Resident Evil Village), Twenty One (Dear Esther), Ennui (Cody High), You Can Always Come Home (Mike Franklyn), Instrument of Surrender, Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy, Live With Me, The Field Autopsy (Disco Elysium), Exploration- Ruins (Sable), Thorofare Hike (Firewatch), Midnight Textures (Silver Maple) Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

And besides, this isn’t my sword. | Get Nebula and CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Nebula Companion Video: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-revengeance-never-ends-a-conversation-with-a-metal-gear-scholar/ Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller COMBO MAD - Time of Devil Hunters by Donguri990: https://youtu.be/FTRbMX-31bs The history of the most popular memes (2004-2019) by Abacaba: https://youtu.be/k6vHHxWWT0Y The Truth Behind RISING (Revengeance Documentary): https://youtu.be/gV1BMUg4NsA Visual Media Used: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Dead Space 2, Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101, Breath of the Wild, Call of Duty 4, Elden Ring, Devil May Cry 4, Doom Eternal, INSIDE, Kena Bridge of Spirits, Hades, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, OlliOlli 2, Sants Row: Gat Out of Hell, SteamWorld Heist, Resident Evil 4 Music Used (Chronologically): A Great Spirit Lies in Wait (Okami), It Has to Be This Way (MGR), Susano’s Training (Okami), Collective Consciousness (MGR), Rising Up (Streets of Rage 4), Pleasure of Tension (Snatcher), Rising Up (Streets of Rage 4), The Gates of Hell (Bayonetta), N.M.H. (No More Heroes), Rules of Nature (MGR), Oklahoma (Oklahoma! karaoke), Theme of Love (Super Smash Brothers Brawl), Collective Consciousness (MGR), Beautiful Mirage, The Vision Fades (Metal Gear Solid 5), Metal Gear Saga (Metal Gear Solid 4), Rules of Nature (MGR), It Has to Be This Way (MGR) Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

What then gives us so great a propension to ascribe an identity to these successive perceptions? | Get Nebula and CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Nebula Companion Video: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-how-a-head-transplant-video-comes-together/ Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Monkey art by Gabi Harris: https://instagram.com/gabiharris.art Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher (2021, Brandy Schillace) Eclipsed podcast: https://www.campsidemedia.com/shows/eclipsed Opening: 0:00-8:20 CW for Animal Medical Testing: 8:20-13:30 Wolfenstein Spoilers: 13:30-18:07 Middle of Essay: 18:07-26:15 SOMA Spoilers and CW for Mentions of Suicide: 26:15- 34:25 End of Essay: 34:25-39:49 Visual Media Used: Frankenstein (1931), Young Frankenstein (1974), SOMA, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Music Used (Chronologically): Deathshead (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Rivers Run Red, Never Forgotten (Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen), Rain of Brass Petals (Silent Hill 3), Prelude in C Major (BWV 846), Má Vlast- The Moldau (Smetana), The Kreisau Circle (Wolfenstein: The New Order & The New Colossus), Sunset for Humanity (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), Old Time Circus, House of Mirrors (Luella Gren), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (BWV 775), Bitter Swirl (Line Neesgaard), Main Theme (Soma), Der Mond (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Alone (Soma) Description Credit: Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Additional Music provided by Epidemic Sound

Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny little rocks. | Get Nebula and CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Pirates of the Caribbean Companion Video: https://nebula.app/videos/jacob-geller-pirates-3-forever-deserves-to-be-the-most-expensive-movie-ever-made/ Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Spider-Man 3: Birth of Sandman full scene: https://youtu.be/to29LvuColU The Matrix Revolutions: Above the Clouds full scene: https://youtu.be/e1GmgE7Men0 The Matrix Sequels Are Good, Actually | Sophie From Mars (ft. Sarah Zedig): https://youtu.be/M0VnYcMHuDc Credits Music by Henry Walsh: https://youtu.be/JGtT1BEjXBU Additional Editing by Ben Chinapen: https://twitter.com/BenChinapen Script Consultation by Patrick Willems: https://twitter.com/patrickhwillems Visual Media Used: Spider-Man 3 (and bonus features), The Matrix Revolutions (and bonus features), Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Life of Pi (and bonus features), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, The Thing, Annihilation, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Music Used (Chronologically): Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World, Minuet in G Minor, Symphony 7 op. 92 Allegretto, Op. 15-i. Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, Russell’s Radio (Half-Life: Alyx), Mii Plaza (Wii), Navras (The Matrix Revolutions), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Full Confession (Katana Zero), In Your Hands (Gris), Tetris Effect Jazz by Henry Walsh Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

And in those days, the Moon shuddered for every spasm of someone that dripped from the eyes of Selene | Get a Henson razor and a free pack of 100 blades with code JACOB at: https://bit.ly/3G3sa59 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967) - Harlan Ellison Additional Footage from Positron: https://youtu.be/_V8kFBq6dKE Visual Media Used: Returnal, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Fugue in Void, Dark Souls, Terminator 2, Groundhog Day Music Used, chronologically: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult), Beacon Beach (Oxenfree), Hallway Omega (Superhot: MCD), A Mysterious Device (Returnal), Cold Comfort (Oxenfree), Nemesis, Murals (Returnal), Demo Loop (IHNMAIMS), Read Access Memory (Superhot: MCD), Murals (Returnal), The Midnight Wood (Hyper Light Drifter), Helios (Returnal), Hallway Delta (Superhot: MCD), Helios (Returnal), Sandcastle (Magnus Ludvigsson) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Returnal Additional music from Epidemic Sound

You are reduced to a crawling thing on the margin of a disintegrating world. Nothing will so quickly isolate a man. My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller My Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Seth Boyer: https://sethboyer.bandcamp.com/track/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee Based on the poem by Robert W. Service Audio mastering by Mitch Cramer: https://twitter.com/heavyxeyed SOURCES: Books: To Build a Fire (Jack London, 1908) Alone (Richard Byrd, 1938) The Stranger in the Woods (Michael Finkel, 2017) On the Banks of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1937) Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 2014) The Long Winter (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1940) Mountains of the Mind (Robert Macfarlane, 2003) The Shining (Stephen King, 1977) Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell, 1938) Longform Articles: The Big Thaw: Russia’s Permafrost is Melting: https://news.sky.com/story/russias-permafrost-is-thawing-and-it-could-make-melting-polar-ice-caps-look-like-a-sideshow-12359940 The Bizarre Bank Robbery That Shook an Arctic Town: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/norway-longyearbyen-bank-robbery/ Even At Its End, The Universe Will Never Reach Absolute Zero: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/12/even-at-its-end-the-universe-will-never-reach-absolute-zero/ The History of the Robbins Children: http://www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/9101 Frozen Alive: https://www.outsideonline.com/2152131/freezing-death/ The Coldest Place in the Universe: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-coldest-place-in-the-universe-8121922/ How the New Science of Freezing Can Save Your Life: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-new-science-freezing-can-save-your-life/ The Ice Inferno: https://aeon.co/essays/antarctica-a-place-of-wide-horizons-and-fragile-selves What the Arctic Reveals about Coronavirus: https://www.arctictoday.com/what-the-arctic-reveals-about-coronavirus/ The Island Where No One Is Allowed to Die, or Give Birth: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/adventure-holidays/103873808/svalbard-norway-the-island-where-no-one-is-allowed-to-die-or-give-birth This was Ötzi the Iceman’s Last Meal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-otzi-iceman-food-DNA-diet-meat-fat Movies and TV: To Build A Fire (David Cobham, 1969) The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1977), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013), The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004), Little House on the Prairie (Episode 22, 1975) Games: The Long Dark (2014), Frostpunk (2018), Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Music (chronologically): Theme for The Long Dark (The Long Dark), Un Dia En Granada (Vendla), Watery Grave (Carrion), Helix Bell (Christophe Gorman), One Must Go (Alec Slayne), Doubt (The Long Dark), Freezing Cold (Breath of the Wild), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Martian Law (Jon Bjork), Ennui (Cody High), Cold New Dawn & The Darkest of Days (Frostpunk), There’s Something I Have to Say (The Long Dark), Canonical Aside (Dead Space 2), A Cold Wind (Savvun), The Cremation of Sam McGee (Seth Boyer) Additional footage from Getty Images Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description from “Alone” by Richard Byrd

Learn to rely on a future you made in which it gets better | Get Audible’s holiday special—60% off your first 3 months—by going to https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Visual Media Used: Mundaun, It Takes Two, Before Your Eyes, Metroid Dread, Resident Evil 4 VR, Returnal, UnearthU, Inscryption, Pistol Whip, Sable, Slay the Spire, Bowser’s Fury, Dark Souls 3, Ghost of Tsushima, Nex Machina, Fortnite, Genesis Noir, Halo Infinite Music Used (Chronologically): Plessie (Bowser’s Fury), The Price is Right theme, Radio (Mundaun), The Drive, Theme of Ada (Resident Evil 4), The Ewer- Day, Exploration- Ruins (Sable), Lake Lapcat (Bowser’s Fury), Leshy’s Theme (Inscryption), Heatseeker (Pistol Whip), Clockworks (It Takes Two), Lonely Petals (Super Metroid OCRemix), Main Theme (UnearthU), Hyperion Theme (Returnal), Mesh- Instrumental, Finale (Before Your Eyes), Better the Mask (Sable) Thumbnail Credit: The incomparable https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: “Better the Mask” by Japanese Breakfast Additional music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

All you feel is infinite, knowing all the falls and leaps and sweet and death. | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller “Through the Flash” can be found in the book “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Speedrun of Bloodborne by HeyZeusHeresToast at GDQ: https://youtu.be/v6kJak0Hltk Visual Media Used: Deathloop, 12 Minutes, Dishonored, Hitman 3, Bloodborne, Devil May Cry 5, Doom Eternal, Edge of Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, Music Used (Chronologically): Fristad Rock (Deathloop), Sneaky Driver (Katana Zero), Blackreef, Karl’s Bay (Deathloop), Forecast (Transistor), Blue Moose Man (The Norwood Suite), Breath of a Serpent (Katana Zero), XII (Twelve Minutes), Regurgitation Pumping Station (World of Goo), I (Twelve Minutes), Main Theme (LA Noire), Mesquite, Texas (Wolfenstein: The New Colossus), Sunset for Humanity (Wolfenstein: The New Order), In Your Belief- Piano (Asura’s Wrath) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: “Through the Flash,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Additional footage provided by Getty Images

Gotta get a grip! | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller “Hotline Miami 2 is a Misunderstood Masterpiece” by Ovandal: https://youtu.be/W8PXA2lZf3E Interview about game’s difficulty: https://youtu.be/T9KGt7PMJBI The Hotline Miami Story (documentary): https://youtu.be/ilKzuY9tjyg Visual Media Used: Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2, Boomerang X, Slay the Spire, Drive, Thirty Flights of Loving Music Used (Chronologically- all songs from Hotline Miami 1 & 2 unless otherwise noted): She Swallowed Burning Coals (El Tigr3), Remorse (Scattle), Hydrogen (M.O.O.N.), Horse Steppin’ (Sun Araw), El Huervo feat. Shelby Cinca (Daisuke), Sneaky Driver (Katana Zero), Crystals (M.O.O.N.), Unfathomable (INSIDE), Bloodline (Scattle), Run (iamthekidyouknowwhatimean), Fahkeet (Light Club), Keep Calm (Endless), Coming Down, Silhouette (Katana Zero), You Are The Blood (Castanets) Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder

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They made themselves shine through the plunder | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Forgotten City review by Renata Price: https://kotaku.com/despite-hype-former-skyrim-mod-the-forgotten-city-is-k-1847644698 Sources: A Geoarchaeological Reading of the City-Overlap-City Phenomenon in the Lower Yellow River Floodplain: A Case Study of Kaifeng City, China: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/4/1029/htm Geoarchaeological evidence of the AD 1642 Yellow River flood that destroyed Kaifeng, a former capital of dynastic China: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60169-1 Born from the ashes: Seattle, a city built atop itself: https://www.history101.com/born-from-the-ashes-seattle-a-city-built-atop-itself/ When Water Rises: A Journey Through Turkey’s Drowning Landscape: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/when-water-rises-journey-through-turkeys-drowning-landscape/ Inside The Forgotten Chinese Cities Destroyed By The Three Gorges Dam: https://www.fastcompany.com/3029421/inside-the-forgotten-chinese-cities-destroyed-by-the-three-gorges-dam Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America: http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-towns-submerged-america The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/07/08/will-mass-robbery-native-american-graves-ever-end/?utm_source=reddit.com Hoover Dam Construction: Boulder Dam (Part I) (1931): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD_ryWxfMg&t=1811s Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn (2021) War, Politics, and Society in Early Modern China 900-1795 by Peter Lorge (2005) Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time (2013, Chris Holt) Visual Media used: The Forgotten City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Remember Me, Google Earth Studio, Blade Runner, PBS News Hour Music used (chronologically): The Girl (Max Payne 3), Run (Hotline Miami 2), Let Us Live, Since We Must Die, Extreme Justice is Extreme Injustice, The Result Justifies The Deed (The Forgotten City), Dogsong (Undertale), We Are But Dust and Shadow (The Forgotten City), Remembrance of Stars (The Forgotten City- MOD), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Titan (Hyper Light Drifter), Rise to the Light (Remember Me), Max- Panama (Max Payne 3), Life is Long, Life is Short (The Forgotten City), Stickerbrush Symphony (Donkey Kong Country 2) Description Credit: “Resist” by Brandy Nālani McDougall Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Additional footage provided by Getty Additional sound effects by Epidemic Sound

With every passing day, the winds might blow stronger | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Connected (Yours Forever) Piano Cover by Henry Walsh: https://youtu.be/JGtT1BEjXBU Digital Foundry Retro: Tetris!: https://youtu.be/cUeaanfiXmo Errant Signal- Blips Episode 8: https://youtu.be/P0NAWIG8Cvg Additional footage from World of Longplays: https://youtu.be/XzlA1JTPMto Old Classic Retro Gaming: https://youtu.be/Bf7z8kjza2c Squakenet: https://youtu.be/VJvdZWhNLiM Jorbs: https://youtu.be/S3cSivqV104 Visual Media used: Marble Madness (Arcade), Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Elite, Karate Champ, Hitman 3, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Elite Dangerous, Ballance, Marble it Up!, Marble Blast Gold, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Mortal Kombat 9, Myst, NaissanceE, Street Fighter V, Tetris Effect, Tetris CD-I, 400 other versions of tetris (see Digital Foundry video for full details) Music used (chronologically): Connected (Tetris Effect), Level 1 (Marble Madness), Lunar Discourse (Tetris Effect), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Level 2 (Marble Madness), Level 8 (Tetris CD-I), Ballance OST, Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Joy, Connected, Bright Shadow (Tetris Effect), Metamorphosis II (Carrion), End (Venineth), Connected Jazz Improvisations by Henry Walsh, Dire Dire on the Rocks (OC Remix by Geoffrey Taucer/FFmusic Dj), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I) Additional Music Provided by Epidemic Sound Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Connected (Tetris Effect)

Take away the narrative, as you might lift the roof off a church, in order to remember what you’re worshipping. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Thanks to Mitch Cramer for audio mastering, Caroline Amico for lighting, and Lambhoot for pronunciation assistance. Death of a Salesman Sources: Making Willy Loman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/25/making-willy-loman Interview with Mike Nichols: https://deadline.com/2012/05/mike-fleming-interviews-director-mike-nichols-will-death-of-a-salesman-revival-bring-him-eighth-tony-award-279398/ Arthur Miller vs. Columbia Pictures: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00136.x Mike Nichols, Following in Kazan’s Footsteps: http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/01/theater/201203-death-of-a-salesman-interactive.html?mcubz=3 L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat Sources: Lumiere’s Arrival of the Train: Cinema’s Founding Myth: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171125 Did A Silent Film About A Train Really Cause Audiences To Stampede? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-about-a-train-really-cause-audiences-to-stampede War of the Worlds Sources: Radiolab: War of the Worlds: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/war-worlds The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html America under attack I: a reassessment of Orson Welles' 1938 war of the worlds broadcast: https://www.proquest.com/openview/2c129259dc4d373b566d4c1c98281b36/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47035 AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast: https://youtu.be/R29BTsoIHpQ Iliad/Enargeia Sources: Memorial by Alice Oswald, 2011 From Enargeia to Immersion: The Ancient Roots of a Modern Concept: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.51.1.0034 Music and Effects Provided by Epidemic Sound Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Alice Oswald, Memorial

Cross my heart and hope to die | Sign up to Morning Brew for free today: http://bit.ly/mbjacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jacobgeller Polygon Dead Space 2 Interview: https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2020/10/4/21498961/dead-space-2-director-eye-poke-needle-scene-horror-wright-bagwell-interview Visual Media used: Dead Space, Dead Space 2, God of War, Alien, Aliens, Prometheus, The Evil Dead, The Last of Us, Devotion, Resident Evil 4, Uncharted 2, Star Trek: Into Darkness Music used (chronologically): Sonic Smooth, Surf Santa Destroy (No More Heroes 2), Lonely Petals (Super Metroid OCRemix by DrumUltima), Wesker’s Theme (Resident Evil 4), Bustin’ Chops (Uncharted 2), Main Theme (Streets of Rage 4), Future (Max Payne 3), Serenade for Strings in C Major Op. 48 (Tchaikovsky via The Evil Within 2), Canonical Aside, Lacrimosa (Dead Space 2), The Carousel (The Evil Within) Additional Music Provided by Epidemic Sound Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country. The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free MONTH trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/jacobgeller06211 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Occasional Twitch Streams: https://www.twitch.tv/jacobgeller “Why Time Flies” by Maximilian Kiener: https://www.maximiliankiener.com/digitalprojects/time/ Visual Media Used: Before Your Eyes, Metal Gear Solid 4, Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of War 2, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Boyhood, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Up documentary series Music used (chronologically): Main Menu (Before Your Eyes), Old Snake (Metal Gear Solid 4), Eight Years in the Making (Marvel’s Spider-Man), The Gates of Hell (Bayonetta), Painting Mom (Before Your Eyes), Prologue (Firewatch), Precinct 41 Major Crimes Unit (Disco Elysium), What Would I Do (The Monotones), In Your Hands (Gris), Deference for Darkness (Halo 3: ODST), 14.3 Billion Years (Outer Wilds), Finale (Before Your Eyes), Mesh (Ollie Lewin, Before Your Eyes) Additional Music from Epidemic Sound Description Credit: “Dogfish,” Mary Oliver Thumbnail Credit: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

Howling at a concrete moon. Get a 30 day free trial of Audible by visiting https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller FULL Simpsons intro by Don Hertzfeldt: https://youtu.be/m78gYyTrG7Y (Link for outside the US: https://youtu.be/6i2l-LQ-dXI) Additional voices by Boundo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrJGqmFdfO4e07ByaQMZ0w 1 Second of Every Simpsons Couch Gags (Season 1-31) by Lorcan the Hedgehog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRA0ZNVnI8 Don Hertzfeldt interview with the AV Club: https://film.avclub.com/filmmaker-don-hertzfeldt-on-his-simpsons-couch-gag-and-1798278817 Visual Media used: The Simpsons, World of Tomorrow Episodes 1-3, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Rejected Music used (chronologically): Má vlast (Smetana), The Midnight Wood (Hyper Light Drifter), Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 (Chopin), Old Sir Symon the King (Concerto Caledonia), Kinderszenen Op. 15 No. 1 (Schumann), Petrichor (Hyper Light Drifter), Rain of Brass Petals (Silent Hill 3), The Nutcracker Suite- Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky), Read Access Memory (Superhot: Mind Control Delete), Kinderszenen Op. 15 No. 10 (Schumann) Description Credit: Moe Szyslak and Lisa Simpson Classical Music from WikiCommons and the European Archive

The tiger. He destroyed his cage. Yes. YES. | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller 0:00 Intro 3:33 Thumper 9:53 Pistol Whip 14:37 Superhot: Mind Control Delete 18:52 The Wonderful 101 and Wrap-Up Games Shown: Thumper, Pistol Whip, Superhot: Mind Control Delete, The Wonderful 101, God of War 2, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 4, Dead Space 2, Half-Life 2, Half-Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, Frog Fractions, Doki Doki Literature Club, Guitar Hero 3, Silent Hills, Max Payne 3, Asura’s Wrath, Mario Kart 8, Bloodborne, Mafia 3, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Resident Evil 4, Bayonetta, The Evil Within 2 Other Media: Baby Driver, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Enthiran, Lightning Bolt- Live at Le Guess Who? Music Used (Chronologically): Crystals (M.O.O.N, Hotline Miami), Horizon & other tracks (Thumper), Lilith, The Fall, Sword of Truth (Pistol Whip), Scouring the System, Reaching the End, Your Own Crypt (SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete), Title Screen, Battle in the Blossom City Burbs, The Won-Stoppable Wonderful 100 (The Wonderful 101), Rumfoord and Kazak (Kilian Flowers) Description Credit: Nael, “They’re Singing a Song In Their Rocket” Thumbnail Design by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

He could have left us his Golem; he should have. What did he fear? | The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/jacobgeller03211 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Many thanks to Alexander Shonert for allowing me to use his beautiful violin pieces: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMEd3wAGehVcJS7xBwTkLwRhzBBjdRRe Wall art by Carin Walsh: https://www.instagram.com/carinwalshart/?hl=en Sources: Golem- David Wisniewski, 1996 The Golem- Elie Wiesel, 1983 The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction- Elizabeth Baer, 2012 Stories of Your Life and Others- Ted Chiang, 2002 El Golem- Jorge Luis Borges, 1964 (Translated by Frank Thomas Smith) Der Golem: Wie er in die Welt kam- Paul Wegener, 1920 The X-Files, Season 4 Episode 15: Kaddish, 1997 Hans Poelzig: The Design of Mystical Film Architecture- Despina Maria Ilinca Iorga, 2014 Architectuul: Hans Poelzig- http://architectuul.com/architect/hans-poelzig The Role of the Golem in the Making of Frankenstein- Stephen Bertman, 2015 The Golem Legend: Byron Sherwin, 1985 Other Media Used: The Iron Giant, Inglorious Basterds, Minecraft, Dark Souls, The Complete Pokerap (Brian David Gilbert, Polygon), Frankenstein (1931), Final Fantasy X-2, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Shadow of the Colossus, Susano’s Training Theme (Okami), Premonition of Revival (Shadow of the Colossus) Violin Pieces by Alexander Shonert include: Rosinkalech Mit Mandlen Klezmerka Al Taster Ravel’s Kaddish Other Music Provided by Epidemic Sound- Artists used include Silver Maple, Mike Franklyn, Alexandra Woodward, Trabant 33, Ciaran Delany, Rupert Sachs, and Jon Algar Thumbnail by: David Wisniewski and https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description from Elie Wiesel’s The Golem

The distant light of no new star marked me home. | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020 film by Charlie Kaufman, 2016 book by Iain Reid) Dark Souls Lo-Fi Remixes by Jesse Miller: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGBd0NpfmfLNavF9irC_aQ Games Shown: Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, Dark Souls III, INSIDE, The Last Guardian, DOOM, Titanfall 2, Music Used (Chronologically): Sister Friede and Father Ariandel (Dark Souls III), Dark Souls Lo-Fi Hip Hop Mix 2 (Jesse Miller), Main Theme (Dark Souls III), King Vendrick (Dark Souls II), Flock (Hyper Light Drifter), Tower Knight (Demon’s Souls), Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Dark Souls), Lullaby for Mergo (Bloodborne), Secret Betrayal (Dark Souls III), Nameless Song (Dark Souls), Dark Souls Lo-Fi Hip Hop Mix 2 (Jesse Miller), Great Grey Wolf Sif (Dark Souls), Lonely Room (Oklahoma!), Hunter’s Dream (Bloodborne), Slave Knight Gael (Transitory Lands Version, Dark Souls III) Description Credit: Coming Home From The Post Office, Philip Levine

Returning sunlight enters the dark woods; again shining on the green moss, above. Visit https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller English Poetry Readings by VaatiVidya: https://twitter.com/VaatiVidya Tang Chinese Dialect Reconstruction and Reading by A.Z. Foreman: https://twitter.com/azforeman On Ghost of Tsushima’s Haikus: I Asked An Expert To Read My Ghost Of Tsushima Haiku. He Wasn’t Impressed: https://kotaku.com/i-asked-an-expert-to-read-my-ghost-of-tsushima-haiku-h-1844458633 Austin Walker on Ghost of Tsushima Haikus: https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1284018299496534018?s=20 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, Eliot Weinberger 1987 Miyamoto on Breath of the Wild's Innovations and Zelda's Future: https://youtu.be/6zjd4A5GDOo Shigeru Miyamoto’s 1999 GDC Keynote: https://youtu.be/a9DlhDRZ0yA Heterotopias 004, Featuring Rosa Carbo-Mascarell on Proteus: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/004-2/ Games shown: Ghost of Tsushima, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Firewatch, Proteus, Marginalia, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us Part II, Red Dead Redemption 2, Contra, Adventure, Microsoft Flight Simulator Music used (chronologically): Idle Away From Mountains (Genshin Impact), The Prettiest Weed (Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery), Lost Woods, Riding at Night (Breath of the Wild), Coasting (Transistor), Winding River (Genshin Impact), Epilogue (Shadow of the Colossus), Forest (The Last Guardian), It Can’t Last (The Last of Us Part II), Marginalia Ambiance (Marginalia), Thorofare Hike (Firewatch), Outlaws From The West (The Last of Us Part II), Tsushima Suite V- Seiiki (Ghost of Tsushima), Rito Suite (Breath of the Wild), Ol’ Shoshone (Firewatch) Thumbnail Design by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Additional Game Footage provided by: Bound, Draz, Razbuten, GameFootageArchive Sound Effects by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Timestamps: 00:00-15:40 No Spoilers 15:41-18:43 Spoilers 18:44-23:55 No Spoilers Additional Voices by Laura Crone: https://twitter.com/down_w_lcc Ilario Parascandolo: https://www.instagram.com/ilario.spara/ Toggle HUD mod by Cem Aslan: https://www.nexusmods.com/discoelysium/mods/11/ Skill Portrait Screen by Tiemaster_n: https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/fduux5/skills_wallpaper/ Character Portrait Wallpaper by Underfloored: https://imgur.com/gallery/PpvPm7T Games Shown: Disco Elysium, Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Music Used (Chronologically): Instrument of Surrender, Ecstatic Vibrations Totally Transcendent, Martinaise Terminal B, Miss Oranje Disco Dancer, Tiger King, Polyhedrons, Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit, The Cryptozoologists, Krennell Downwell Somatosensor (Disco Elysium), Second Confluence (Journey), The Insulindean Miracle (Disco Elysium), Atonement (Journey), Another Voyage (Chrono Cross), The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns (Disco Elysium) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino Video Supplied by Getty Images

And anyway it’s the same old story – a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. MERCH!!!!: https://standard.tv/collections/jacob-geller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Laura Hudson’s review of Kentucky Route Zero: https://www.wired.com/story/kentucky-route-zero-5/ Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ video on Kentucky Route Zero: https://youtu.be/pW3qZfF6JfI Check out Kilian Flowers’ EP: https://kilianflowers.bandcamp.com/releases Games Shown: Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Kentucky Route Zero, Death Stranding, Carrion, Mýrdalssandur, Iceland, Half-Life: Alyx, Hades, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Beat Saber, Pyre, Bastion Music Used (Chronologically): Bombing Mission, Hollow Skies (FF7R), In Wonderment of Winter (Ori and the Will of the Wisps), Too Late to Love You (Kentucky Route Zero), Mii Plaza (Wii), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Watery Grave (Carrion), The Stars Drop Away (Kentucky Route Zero), Vault Sideways Piano, Russel’s Radio (Half-Life: Alyx), On The Coast (Hades), Star of Seventh Heaven (FF7R), We Are Here to Love and Be Loved (Kilian Flowers), You’ve Got To Walk (Kentucky Route Zero) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Dogfish, Mary Oliver

The soft uncertainties are gathering round the smell of blood | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Play Haunted Cities 4: https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/haunted-cities-v4 Support Kitty Horrorshow: https://www.patreon.com/kittyhorrorshow/posts Additional voices by Maggie Mae Fish: https://twitter.com/MaggieMaeFish Thanks to Veegie for tech and modding support: https://twitter.com/Veegie_ Games Shown: Grandmother, Anatomy, Exclusion Zone, Lethargy Hill, Grandmother’s Garden, Tenement Music Used (Chronologically): Fathomless (Carrion), Dance with the Night Wind (Silent Hill 3), OST (Exclusion Zone), The Lab (Carrion), Prisonic Fairytale (Silent Hill 2), OST (Tenement), OST (Lethargy Hill), Echo River Central Exchange (Kentucky Route Zero), A Maze of Vines (Carrion), Not Tomorrow (Silent Hill), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Toad Highlands (Mario Golf) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Leeches, Philip Hodgins

I, too, hope to die into structure but must I spend my whole life doing it? | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Voice Actors: Yourcenar: https://www.fiverr.com/byfelisgeme Opalka: https://www.fiverr.com/strangevoice Sources: Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, 2020) The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays (Marguerite Yourcenar, 1962) Oriental Tales (Marguerite Yourcenar, 1938) Marguerite Yourcenar: Piranesi at Petite Plaisance (Little) The Piranesi Effect (Stone, Long, et al., 2015) Time in the Art of Roman Opalka, Tatsuo Miyajima, and Rene Rietmeyer (De Jongh, 2010) Obituary of Roman Opalka: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2011/08/20/roman-opalka Artnet- Roman Opalka: http://www.artnet.com/artists/roman-opalka/ Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations/Les_Mages Making a GOOGOL:1 Reduction with Lego Gears: https://youtu.be/QwXK4e4uqXY Roman Opalka - Exhibition 'Writing Beyond' at Axel Vervoordt Gallery: https://youtu.be/DOCeFVqCTBk Opalka - Fondu au blanc: https://youtu.be/p5I0rDF_xpQ Roman Opalka visualization of time: https://youtu.be/baOlGH71fng Profile of a Writer: Jorge Luis Borges: https://youtu.be/fAM2NJnv3Dk Level Design Stream - Willy Chyr's RELATIVITY - Piranesi: https://youtu.be/o1pH_6F_GMg From Paper to Copper: The Engraver's Process: https://youtu.be/fQvghHs15hA Games Shown: Manifold Garden, Gorogoa, The Library of Babel, (additional footage provided by Baby Boundo) Music Used (Chronologically): Trust Fall (Manifold Garden), Pilgrimage (Gorogoa), Castle in the Mist (ICO), Astraea, Tendrils, Ancestral, Bloom, House of Leaves (Manifold Garden), Mii Plaza (Wii), Oculi (Manifold Garden), Intro Radio (Half Life: Alyx), Chiasm, Environments (Gris), Strange Worlds (Manifold Garden), Piranha Plant Lullaby- Piano (Super Mario 64), Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Piranesi at the Molo, Amy Bagan

Surprising love can happen at any part of one’s life, like the pixels deciding when to flicker into bursts. | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 The Resident Evil 4 HD Project: https://www.re4hd.com/ Huge thanks to Albert Marin for information and additional footage Baumgartner Painting Restoration: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ The Cleaning Process or Time Travel in 100 swabs: https://youtu.be/aX1RP537o6Q A New Dawn: The Restoration of L'Aurora Part 2: https://youtu.be/A8zXSNAscmg Blue Skies Smilin' At Me; Conserving A Henry Ranger Seascape: https://youtu.be/uFGLpt_r90E The Restoration of Guy Wiggins' Frame in ASMR: https://youtu.be/m0zW3FEQddE The Making of Day of the Tentacle: Remastered: https://youtu.be/LjF4eMrYfG0 Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry: https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry Additional Resident Evil 2 footage provided by: https://www.youtube.com/user/BlackFox2240 Games shown: Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 2: Remake, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, PS3, PS4), Day of the Tentacle Music used (chronologically): Pachelbel’s Canon, Wesker’s Theme, Ada’s Theme (Resident Evil 4), Credits Roll (Streets of Rage 4), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Tierras de Azafrán (Blasphemous), Ending theme (Half Life: Alyx), Save theme (Resident Evil 7), Falling Into a Dream (Far Cry 3) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder German Subtitles by: https://twitter.com/Bollogg42 Description credit: Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love by Carmen Giménez Smith

The pass is short and to the right. It is sucked into the exhaust of the rocket and completely incinerated. | Visit http://audible.com/jacobgeller or text “jacobgeller” to 500-500 for a free 30 day trial and audiobook. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Aerial Photography by Chris Chapman: https://twitter.com/retrohistories/ Consultation by Donoteat01: https://www.youtube.com/user/donoteat01 Additional Voices by: Bobby Broccoli: https://twitter.com/BobbyBroccole SuperEyePatchWolf: https://twitter.com/EyePatchWolf Jon Bois’ Football 17776: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football The Storm Cloud of Death Stranding: https://uppercutcrit.com/the-storm-cloud-of-death-stranding/ The Blood-Red Sky of the Scream: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200405/backpage.cfm The Horse Manure Crisis: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/ Himalayas Visible from India: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/himalayas-visible-lockdown-india-scli-intl/index.html Drone Footage of San Francisco: https://youtu.be/v6geL5rkt1s and https://youtu.be/xBolnN8aiX8 Parking and Cars: The Mobility Space Report: https://www.move-lab.com/project/whatthestreet/chicago Paved, but Still Alive: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/arts/design/taking-parking-lots-seriously-as-public-spaces.html Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities: https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians20 See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces: https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-citys-land-is-used-for-parking-spaces Visual Media Used: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, The Matrix Music Used (Chronologically): Cloudy Court Galaxy, Star Ball Rolling (Super Mario Galaxy 2), Reporting from the Weather Balloon (Little Inferno), Mii Plaza (Wii), Heightmap (Transistor), The Moon (Duck Tales), Menu Theme (LA Noire), The Museum (Outer Wilds), White Palace (Hollow Knight), Dancers on a String (Bioshock), Left Alone (Detention), End Time (Outer Wilds), Issun’s Theme (Okami), Cosmic Cove Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy 2) Description Credit: The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles by Jon Bois Thumbnail by HotCyder: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

you feel compelled to keep moving into a darkness so complete that your reflection becomes visible on the screen, and it is as if the figures in the image were journeying inside you, delving into your flesh Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Voices by: Suriel Vasquez: https://twitter.com/SurielVazquez Noah Caldwell-Gervais: https://twitter.com/MrGervaisWrites Toussaint Egan: https://twitter.com/TheSaintOfTous Ana Diaz: https://twitter.com/Pokachee Heather Alexandra: https://twitter.com/transgamerthink Yussef Cole: https://twitter.com/youmeyou Leonardo Da Sidci: https://twitter.com/leonardodasidci Script Consultation and Re-Dubbing Himself by Razbuten: https://twitter.com/theRazbuten ICO Plot/Story Guide by PeterEliot: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/367472-ico/faqs/29015 MVC2 Crowd Pleaser’s Guide by Joseph Christopher: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/561477-marvel-vs-capcom-2/faqs/8306 How We Talk About Games by HeavyEyed: https://youtu.be/JVN9h-5UHMk The Last of Us Part II review by Julie Muncy: https://www.wired.com/story/last-of-us-part-ii-review/ Infinity Blade review by J. Nicolas Geist: https://geekabouttown.com/oddities/infinity-blade/ Games Criticism is a Kindness by Heather Alexandra: https://kotaku.com/games-criticism-is-a-kindness-1843320046 Broken People, Broken Worlds by Carolyn Petit: https://medium.com/@carolynpetit/broken-people-broken-worlds-thoughts-on-the-last-of-us-part-ii-a012de5d2acf White Supremacy, Black Liberation, and the Power Dynamics of Gun Violence by Yussef Cole: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzxevx/white-supremacy-black-liberation-and-the-power-dynamics-of-gun-violence Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain DED LED: https://dedled.itch.io/dedled Heterotopias: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/ Unwinnable: https://unwinnable.com/ Critical Distance: https://critical-distance.com/ Visual Media Used: ICO, Infinity Blade, Metal Gear Solid V, Shadow of the Colossus, Mafia 3, Battlefield Hardline, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, The Last of Us Part II, The Stanley Parable, Mothergunship, Bayonetta, Resident Evil 4, Doom Eternal, The Beginner’s Guide, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Control, Anatomy, Citizen Kane Music Used (Chronologically): The Gate (ICO), The Gates of Hell (Bayonetta), Castle in the Mist (ICO), Inertia (Thomas Was Alone), Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit (Disco Elysium), Regurgitation Pumping Station (World of Goo), Everything is Going to be Okay (Prey), Deference for Darkness (Halo ODST), Pirates Style (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), Chiasm (Gris), Allowed to Be Happy (The Last of Us Part II), Old Snake (Metal Gear Solid 4), Shadow (ICO), Father and Son (Metal Gear Solid 4), Vs. Tina (Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend) Description Credit: Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai Thumbnails, real and fake, by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

The swear jar isn’t empty. Full of flowers instead of coins Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Additional Voices by Professor Flowers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGZrqXTq3GW2wNRz9M44Baw Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life by Margit Rowell (1997) Additional Footage of Half Life: Alyx provided by Harry101UK: https://youtu.be/n0WysuGVzmw Cézanne’s Still Lifes at His Studio: https://youtu.be/B2m1FKbbkjY Van Gogh Museum Tour: https://youtu.be/dd2byOFsXpo Visual Media Used: Half Life: Alyx, Florence, The Lab, Adventure, Gone Home, Job Simulator, The Last of Us, Resident Evil 1, The Stanley Parable, Final Fantasy VII Remake Music Used (Chronologically): Anti-Citizen, Intro Radio (Half Life: Alyx), Staff Roll (Streets of Rage 4), Ending Triumph, Strider Battle, Tower Puzzle, Vault Sideways Piano, Russel’s Radio (Clean) (Half Life: Alyx), First Dates (Florence), The House Pt. 1, Hanging Out With Girls (Gone Home), Florence, Adult Life, Inspiration (Florence), Splash of Color (Flower), Moving Out, Music (Florence) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Giornata: On Faith

Extract ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger. The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Podcast- Something Rotten: -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0fI2yUm3vCr4GlzcWBeH0TC3HmLIpMTC -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=JPcIbndZS--OwbEyUk-12Q Script Consultation and Additional Voices by Laura Crone: https://www.youtube.com/c/lauracrone Script Consultation by Blake Hester: https://twitter.com/metallicaisrad Cinematography by Caroline Amico Yes, A Games Writer Was Fired Over Review Scores: https://kotaku.com/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-review-scores-5893785 Jeff Gerstmann’s Kane and Lynch Review: https://youtu.be/5FuJ81sDR2o Rockstar Spouse’s Letter: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/20100107/86315/Wives_of_Rockstar_San_Diego_employees_have_collected_themselves.php Experience at Rockstar Vancouver: https://www.engadget.com/2010-01-14-source-max-payne-3-development-allegedly-also-suffering-from-mi.html Theater of Cruelty: -The Theater and Its Double, 1958, Antonin Artaud -Theater History Podcast #9: https://howlround.com/theatre-history-podcast-9 -The Spurt of Blood: http://spurtofblood.com/ -Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty: Crash Course Theater #43: https://youtu.be/DK_vZuLYHcw Visual Media Used: Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption 2 Music Used (Chronologically): DLC Arena War Track One (GTAO), Captain Toad Goes Forth (Super Mario 3D World), FUTURE, One Card Left to Play (Max Payne 3), The Doomed Commercial Area (Disco Elysium), Max Payne 3 Theme (Max Payne 3), Sweatshop (Kane and Lynch 2), 12PM Whirling-in-Rags, Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy (Disco Elysium), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Escape (Kane and Lynch 2), Main Menu Variation 3 (Max Payne 3) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

Both birds are yellow but the louder one is yellower Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://www.curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Additional voice by Leon Cox: https://twitter.com/ratsoalbion Julijonas Urbonas, “Designing Death:” http://julijonasurbonas.lt/designing-death/ RollerCoaster Tycoon: the best-optimised game of all time?: https://www.pcgamesn.com/rollercoaster-tycoon/code-chris-sawyer Custom Parks included: Adventure Park by AndreasS80: https://rctgo.com/downloads/view/adventure-park-final.16295 Extreme Heights by Matsku84: https://www.reddit.com/r/rct/comments/cff2w8/does_anybody_have_the_file_for_matsku84s_extreme/ Mr. Bones Wild Ride: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rhs54/one_does_not_simply_get_off_of_mr_bones_wild_ride/c45zwjb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x Valravn- Official POV: https://youtu.be/6EjSl_FKDBY Kings Island Vortex Commercial: https://youtu.be/B9eUbMKrDhg Dollywood Commercial: https://youtu.be/fUfIcZlsEtE Kraken at SeaWorld Orlando: https://youtu.be/N1-9oVd6DdY Unity Footage: https://youtu.be/nduyBAUq7vQ Thunderhead On-Ride POV: https://youtu.be/2vM0PatLv6U John Found- Programming in Assembly: https://youtu.be/yeSN2mFiAz8 The Euthanasia Coaster: https://youtu.be/eKmKLZOAT38 Planet Coaster- Euthanasia Coaster (Chris Harrison): https://youtu.be/w_11Ut6unBQ H Positive (film): https://youtu.be/kzR9C0ZepvA Game Footage Used: Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Planet Coaster, Metal Gear Solid 5, Saints Row IV, Space Engine, SimCity, DOOM, Lego Island 2, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Music Used (chronologically): Graydo (Stealth Inc. 2), Carousel (The Evil Within), Jurassic Style, Medieval Style (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), Main Theme (Fallout 4), Ragtime Style, Pirates Style (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), Hexagon (Super Hexagon), Strange World/Marching Through the Fields (Dragon Quest VIII), Main Theme (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Maurice Manning, “The Louder Finch”

in an unlit room, the attempt to focus upon the machined eyes of my lover Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Credits Song: “Stormy Skies” by Henry Walsh, Nora Miller, & Julian Denton: https://theparasitoidwasps.bandcamp.com/releases Additional Consultation on Port Arthur by Andrew Geller Sources: The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh’s Legendary Underground City (Joseph Henderson, 1999) Real Mary King's Close in Edinburgh, Scotland (Viator Travel): https://youtu.be/xj9iD3IU9Nk Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows: https://www.texasobserver.org/benzene-oil-refineries-texas-coast/ Bad Air Days: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/bad-air-days-2/ 10 US oil refineries exceeding limits for cancer-causing benzene, report finds: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/06/us-oil-refineries-exceeding-limits-for-cancer-causing-benzene-report-finds Texas Resident Wins Award for Challenging Oil Refineries: https://youtu.be/z5Iy-ha8BbE Visual Media Used: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Final Fantasy 7, Mirror’s Edge, Parasite (2019), Blade Runner (1983), High and Low (1963), Google Earth Studio Music Used (chronologically): Opening (FF7), Scorpion Sentinel, Opening, Bombing Mission (FF7R), Still Alive (Mirror’s Edge), Star of Seventh Heaven (FF7R), Concrete for Miles (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Memory (Ruiner), A Story You Won’t Believe, Assassins of Kings 01 (The Witcher 3), Tifa’s Theme- Seventh Heaven (FF7R), DEAD (Max Payne 3), Stormy Skies Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: Cody Todd, “Query of a Die”

but i have seen death’s clever enormous voice which hides in a fragility Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Voice Cast: Polyphonic as himself: https://www.youtube.com/c/polyphonic Visual Media Used: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, The Evil Within, The Evil Within 2, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, The Making of Silent Hill 2 (documentary), Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil 2 (Remake), Outlast, Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Music Used: What Darkness Awaits You (Scanner Sombre), New Year’s Eve, Recital, Clockwork Soul, The Factory Gates, Mandus, The New Century (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs), Serenity, Mercenaries- Wesker’s Theme, The Drive (Resident Evil 4), Secure Place (Resident Evil 2), Safe Room (Resident Evil 2 Remake), Save Room (Resident Evil 1), Saferoom (Resident Evil 7), Heaven’s Night, Promise, Theme of Laura (Silent Hill 2), Not Tomorrow (Silent Hill 1), Rain of Brass Petals (Silent Hill 3), Clair De Lune, Carousel Theme (The Evil Within 1), Serenade for Strings in C Major Op. 48, Making Your Way Home (The Evil Within 2) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description Credit: E. E. Cummings, [the bigness of cannon]

We are going to tell you what lies underground, why you should not disturb this place, and what may happen if you do. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Voice Cast: Zac Frazier as James Tabor: https://twitter.com/ZC_FRZR Suriel Vasquez- Spanish voice/translation: https://twitter.com/SurielVazquez Bohdan Hrynevych- Russian voice/translation: https://twitter.com/BohdanNovem Tanika- Chinese voice/translation: https://www.instagram.com/captanika/?hl=en Marcus M.- Arabic voice/translation: https://twitter.com/LoLMarcus__ Peter Vexillographer- Navajo voice/translation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vexillographer Research Sources: Underland (2019, Robert Macfarlane) Blind Descent (2011, James Tabor) The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation- Lucas Reilly (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544782/1925-cave-rescue-that-captivated-the-united-states-floyd-collins) Annihilation (2014, Jeff VanderMeer) Dave Gallagher on Moulins: http://www.cognitvexplorer.co.uk/journal/leviathan-the-abyss-moulin-bleu Deep-Sea Fish: https://qz.com/1387690/a-new-fish-found-26000-feet-deep-melts-at-the-surface-of-the-sea/ INSIDE map from Heterotopias 001: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/001-2/ Video Sources: Derek Bristol: https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbristol1 Юрий Касьян: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPDhZtj_OLxMMMrCD_FXWA Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Overview: https://youtu.be/kZYQIXd1lkk Kentucky Route Zero footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/esupin Moulin footage from Jason Box: https://youtu.be/xWdOfZdg_x0 Containment (Documentary Trailer): https://youtu.be/acoXY5CGN4g A Fight for Life (Floyd Collins Footage): https://youtu.be/_8dYEgxLR2s Game Footage: Scanner Sombre, NaissanceE, Dear Esther, INSIDE, Kentucky Route Zero, Hollow Knight Music (in order): This World is not my Home (Ben Babbit, Kentucky Route Zero), What Darkness Awaits You (Scanner Sombre), Head (Thumper), Know Our Truth (Scanner Sombre), Prométhée Part 1a (Thierry Zaboitzeff, NaissanceE), Titan (Hyper Light Drifter), Submarine (INSIDE), Procession Inversif (Vincent Nielaender, NaissanceE), On the Motorway, Always (Dear Esther), NJ (Max Payne 3), The Stars Drop Away, This World is not my Home (Ben Babbit, Kentucky Route Zero) Description Credit: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, via Robert Macfarlane

Go to https://BuyRaycon.com/jacobgeller for 15% off your order! Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 A conversation about this video (among other things) with RE:BIND: https://the-re-bind-io-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/the-re-bind-podcast-episode-9-jacob-geller-6KJZ_kyP?recast=653d86c4-317e-5958-81ec-dede16ae49a7 Much118x: https://twitter.com/Much118x SunhiLegend: https://twitter.com/SunhiLegend Razbuten: https://www.youtube.com/user/razbuten MinnMax: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUhKqsBH-Is2VeC2sykEfg Globalization, neoliberalism and international homogeneity in architecture and urban Development, Kathy Pain & Paul Knox: https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/Publications/IzR/2010/Download/DL_KnoxPain.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 Digital Foundry- Star Citizen's Next-Gen Tech: Micro-Level Detail - From Battle Damage To Particle Effects + More: https://youtu.be/TUFcerTa6Ho Aloy’s Uvula: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/938czk/in_horizon_zero_dawn_aloy_has_an_actual_3d_uvula/ Visual Media Used: Detroit: Become Human, Cyberpunk 2077, Omicron: The Nomad Soul, Dujanah, Death Stranding, Tuca & Bertie, FAITH, Far Cry 5, God of War, Halo Wars 2, Harold Halibut, Heavy Rain, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hylics, Infini, Kingdom Hearts III, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Mundaun, Sea of Thieves, OK/Normal, Sable, Scanner Sombre, Shadow of the Colossus (2005 & 2018), Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Shark Tale, Star Citizen, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, The Last of Us, The Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Red Dead Redemption 2, Ode to a Moon, Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite, Tales from Off-Peak City, Mirror’s Edge (Games in Indie Montage: Off-Peak, Harold Halibut, Dujanah, Ode to a Moon, Infini, OK Normal, Hylics, Mundaun, Sable, Faith and Scanner Sombre) Music Used: Okami (Enter Susano, Sunsano’s Training), Doki Doki Literature Club (Main Theme), No More Heroes 2 (Sling Shot), Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend (vs. Tina), Wii (Mii Plaza), Mirror’s Edge (New Eden, Introduction), Spec Ops: The Line (The Lost Battalion), The Norwood Suite (Blue Moose Man, Norwood’s Last Disciple), Tales from Off-Peak City (introduction), World of Goo (Red Carpet Extend-O-Matic), Robocop GBA (theme) Description Credit: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Video credits: Boss Fight Database: https://www.youtube.com/user/DavidTheBarbarian1 Generic Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/user/genericHenle OctaneBlue: https://www.youtube.com/user/octaneblue Video Games Source: https://www.youtube.com/user/xVideoGamesSourcex Fumito Ueda Interview: https://youtu.be/m1Cx_0heSOw Thumbnail Credit: HotCyder- https://www.youtube.com/c/hotcyder Footage Used: The Last Guardian, Shadow of the Colossus (2005 & 2018), ICO, Uncharted 4, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Control, PS3 and PS4 trailers Music Used: The Last Guardian (Overture Lore, Victorious, Epilogue, End Titles- The Last Guardian Suite), Shadow of the Colossus (Silence - Battle with the Colossus), Okami (Issun’s Theme, Promise), Life is Strange (ambient background music) Description Credit: The Little Prince

Clear and sweet and savory emotion did not run in a rippling stream in my personal world- more pity to it! But in stories and poems I found passion unfettered, and healthy. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Additional Voices- Simone de Rochefort: https://twitter.com/doomquasar Zac Frazier: https://twitter.com/ZC_FRZR 99% Invisible- Weeding is Fundamental: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/weeding-is-fundamental/ Library of Congress Info: https://www.loc.gov/about/general-information/#year-at-a-glance The Macabre of Bookbinding: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: https://bookbindersmuseum.org/the-macabre-of-bookbinding-anthropodermic-bibliopegy/ The Torching of the Digital Library of Alexandria: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ The Library of Babel 3D by Keiwan- https://keiwan.itch.io/library-of-babel-3d The Library: An Illustrated History- Stuart Murray (2009) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts- Joshua Hammer (2017) The Library of Babel- Jorge Luis Borges (1941) The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders- Stuart Kells (2017) Video credits: IBJA- Abdel Kader Haidara: https://youtu.be/7nh8n3Rk5a4 CAD5150- Big Hat Logan: https://youtu.be/hJY0WnmwL1A FightinCowboy- Dark Souls Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/dfJJWz66-5U Werner de Klerk- Bamako Niger River: https://youtu.be/Kq1rSMk_Yl8 The ancient manuscripts at the "Ahmed Baba Institute:" https://youtu.be/AyQ0Ybu8Mw4 Lost Libraries of Timbuktu- BBC: https://youtu.be/nO9Mkfujhpc All geographical footage from Google Earth Thumbnail Credit: HotCyder- https://www.youtube.com/c/hotcyder Additional Footage: Jesse Guarascia Footage Used: Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Library of Babel 3D, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Assassin's Creed: Origins Music Used: Bayonetta (The Angels Descend, God’s Hymns,), Bioshock (Cohen’s Masterpiece), Bloodborne (Micolash, Nightmare Host), Chrono Cross (Another Voyage), Dark Souls (Daughters of Chaos), Disco Elysium (Evrart), Firewatch (Camp Approach), Gris (Karasu, In Your Hands), Nier Automata (Pascal (Instrumental), Voice of No Return), Octopath Traveler (On a Knife’s Edge), To the Moon (For River- Johnny’s Version) Description Credit: Mary Oliver- Staying Alive

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial. Choose 1 audiobook and 2 Audible Originals absolutely free. Visit http://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text jacobgeller to 500 500. pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Additional Voices- Laura Crone: https://www.youtube.com/c/lauracrone Video credits: LiquidSnakez28- The Nurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmDyrXqXgo Shesez- Off Camera Secrets | Silent Hill 2 - Boundary Break: https://youtu.be/-K_oM9waKIM Fungo- Silent Hill 2 All Cutscenes and Endings: https://youtu.be/VOcx-fJA6MU Thumbnail Credit: HotCyder- https://www.youtube.com/c/hotcyder Interview with Silent Hill CGI Director Takayoshi Sato- https://www.gameanim.com/2017/10/20/interview-with-silent-hill-cgi-director-takayoshi-sato/ Footage Used: Devotion, Silent Hill 2, Centipede, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Toy Story, God of War 2, Making of Silent Hill 2 (documentary), Mega Man 2, Luxo Jr., The Polar Express, The Tonight Show, Google Duplex A.I showcase, Uncharted 4 Music Used: Devotion (Lady of the Pier, Wander into the Woods), Detention (Left Alone), Demon’s Souls (Maiden in Black), Silent Hill 2 (Prisonic Fairytale, Heaven’s Night, Silent Heaven), Silent Hill 3 (Rain of Brass Petals), Bioshock (Dancers on a String), World of Goo (Welcome to the Information Superhighway) Description Credit: pity this busy monster, manunkind- E. E. Cummings

Some time after the looting, the locked gates, the US tank stood idle in a gallery Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Sources: 129 Rapid-Fire Questions About Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: https://youtu.be/UtTd3_2WjEg Is Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare A Political Game? Here's Infinity Ward's Answer: https://youtu.be/87Jb5Qj5JPM Modern Warfare 2 designer explains the thinking behind No Russian mission: https://www.pcgamer.com/modern-warfare-2-designer-explains-the-thinking-behind-no-russian-mission/ Military court upholds Michael Behenna's conviction, sentence: https://oklahoman.com/article/3589314/military-court-upholds-michael-behennas-conviction-sentence Army reopens probe into detainee's death after Special Force soldier's Fox News interview: https://www.stripes.com/news/us/army-reopens-probe-into-detainee-s-death-after-special-force-soldier-s-fox-news-interview-1.443502 Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-war.html What motivated fellow SEALs to dime out Eddie Gallagher?: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/22/what-motivated-fellow-seals-to-dime-out-eddie-gallagher/ Why Modern Warfare will use a fictional country for its very realistic conflict: https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2019/9/25/20883319/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-middle-eastern-country-farah-karim Call Of Duty Dev Addresses Highway Of Death, Waterboarding, And The Intent Of Its Story: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-dev-addresses-highway-of-death-waterb/1100-6471037/ Interview: Modern Warfare 3’s creative director discusses blowing up the world, carefully: https://venturebeat.com/2011/11/06/interview-modern-warfare-3s-creative-director-discusses-blowing-up-the-world-carefully/ Twenty-five Years Ago: The 1991 Iraq Gulf War, America Bombs the “Highway of Death”: https://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-five-years-ago-the-1991-iraq-gulf-war-america-bombs-the-highway-of-death/5518407 ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Rewrites The Highway of Death As A Russian Attack, Rathern Than American: https://www.newsweek.com/call-duty-modern-warfare-highway-death-russia-gulf-war-1468207 Description Credit: “Untidiness” by Amanda Dalton Thumbnail design: https://www.youtube.com/user/HotCyderable Script consultation and Redbox funding by Blake Hester: https://twitter.com/metallicaisrad Gameplay footage courtesy of Jesse Guarascia Games shown: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Music used: Tierras de Azafrán (Blasphemous), Great Grey Wolf Sif (Dark Souls), Max Docks, Shells, (Max Payne 3), Main Menu (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), N.M.H. (No More Heroes), Quarrel (Ruiner), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Mii Plaza (Wii), Der Monde, Ransacked (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Nazi Punks GTFO (Wolfenstein: The New Colossus), Wait Wait....Don’t Tell Me! Theme (BJ Lederman)

I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 --------------------- Aristotle Roufanis photography- Alone Together: https://aristotle.photography/ Games shown: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Super Mario Bros., The Witcher 3 Music used: Main Menu (Modern Warfare 2), Golden Ratio, On the Motorway (Dear Esther), It All Makes Sense Now, Blessed are the Peacemakers, By 1889 The Age of Outlaws and Gunslingers Was at an End (Red Dead Redemption 2), Born Unto Trouble (Red Dead Redemption 1), Prologue, Camp Approach (Firewatch) Description Source: Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver

and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation Support me and receive a full-length video commentary on this essay: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Get a free trial of Audible AND a free audiobook by visiting http://audibletrial.com/jacobgeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 --------------------------------- Thanks to Laura Crone for script revisions: https://www.youtube.com/c/lauracrone The Feather Thief (Kirk Wallace Johnson, 2018) Western Reactions to Benin Bronzes: https://youtu.be/rp8flCwvoAU Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief : https://www.wired.com/2010/03/ff-masterthief-blanchard/ The Feather Heist (This American Life): https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief: https://www.gq.com/story/secrets-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-thief Nairaland Forum: https://www.nairaland.com/984559/walls-benin-mankinds-largest-ever Will The British Museum Ever Return These Stolen Artifacts?: https://www.history.com/news/british-museum-stolen-artifacts-nigeria Long in Exile, the Looted Benin Bronzes Tell the Story of a Mighty African Kingdom: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-long-exile-looted-benin-bronzes-story-mighty-african-kingdom Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993) Music Used: Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II Allegretto, Invisible Inc: Mission Select, Nier Automata: Forest Kingdom and Peaceful Sleep (Music Box), Roller Coaster Tycoon 2: Main Theme, Max Payne 3: FUTURE, World of Goo: Burning Man, Are You Coming Home Soon Love MOM

They walk out under the branches of hopelessness They think of this world welcoming the bodies of their sons. Support me and receive a full-length video commentary on this essay: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Additional voices provided by Zac Frazier (youtube.com/c/ZacFrazier) and Laura Crone (youtube.com/c/lauracrone) Additional footage provided by Jesse Guarascia Robert Cockrell, Battlefield 4 Footage: https://youtu.be/T0Y3G-kLBYs Arronmunroe, Time Crisis Arcade: https://youtu.be/DjOnbYXhrBo LopMusic1, Red Dead Redemption 2 Sunrise: https://youtu.be/XiPXXPVnlB4 The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools: https://slate.com/business/2019/08/school-shootings-design-architecture-sandy-hook-columbine.html?src=longreads How UT architecture restricts activism: http://courses.jilliansayre.net/files/Politics%20of%20UT%20architecture.pdf Metal Detectors and Feeling Safe at School: https://journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/0013124510380717 Were Brutalist Buildings on College Campuses Really Designed to Thwart Student Riots?: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/campus-brutalism-were-the-buildings-designed-to-thwart-student-riots.html 13 On Your Side- Fruitport High School: https://youtu.be/mXeMGMtOB2Y NBC News- Inside the Safest School in America: https://youtu.be/kcpsnrxHdCc CBS News- New Sandy Hook School Opens: https://youtu.be/Ayi69eQd6A8 UNC Protests, September 8 2018: https://youtu.be/iRKuNTY6yKM University of Texas Austin Tour: https://youtu.be/QklCIStFv5I On the Humanist Ethic Behind Brutalism: https://www.spiked-online.com/2016/02/25/brutalism-and-the-word-was-made-concrete/ Games shown: Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption II, Max Payne 3, Vanquish, Minecraft, Uncharted 4, The Evil Within, Battlefield 4, Spec Ops: The Line, Time Crisis, Control Music used: Red Dead Redemption II (Fleeting Joy, Outlaws from the West, Icarus and Friend, The Wheel), Max Payne 3 (DEAD, Painkiller), Sunset (Dancing in the Sand), Uncharted 2 (Bustin’ Chops)

A world of made is not a world of born Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 What’s Spoiled? Control: No character arcs are spoiled. One mid-game sidequest is briefly mentioned. Footage shows late-game areas and abilities without context. Anatomy: Some footage and voiceover clips taken from late-game. The Haunting of Hill House (book): One character’s fate is implied. House of Leaves: Third-act actions of one character are discussed. Anatomy: https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/anatomy Mokumokuren: http://yokai.com/mokumokuren/ When buildings kill: https://placesjournal.org/article/when-buildings-kill/?cn-reloaded=1 Thanks to Ewan Wilson for research consultation: https://twitter.com/ewanwilson4 Thanks to Jay Taylor for Nioh footage: https://twitter.com/JaySevenZero Footage used: Control, Anatomy, The Haunting (1963), NaissanceE, Haunted Castle Dark Ride at Santa Cruz Boardwalk (SoCal360), Mickey Mouse: The Haunted House (1929), Nioh, Scooby Doo: When Ghosts Go Boo, Yom Kippur Torah Reading (Moshe Weisblum) Music used: Various tracks from Control, various tracks from Silent Hill 2, Humphrey Seale Suite (The Haunting, 1963), Max Docks (Max Payne 3), Serenity (Resident Evil 4), Sea of Stars (Bayonetta), Mental Caverns without Sunshine (The Caretaker), Save Theme (Resident Evil 2)

a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before– and shining this our now must come to then Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Readings provided by: MML: https://www.youtube.com/user/MML129 EuroThug4000: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxddeIv7GdHNcVPZI9JvGXQ Tayls: https://twitter.com/TalesOfTayls GamesD: https://www.youtube.com/user/HotCyderable (also thanks for the exceptional opening montage and thumbnail bby) Additional Footage Provided by Nomad Colossus: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nomad0168 Script Consultation: Writing on Games (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPlWv88ZRMxCcK3BGjrX7ew) 2013 Eurogamer article on "The Last Big Secret" by Craig Owens: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-02-the-quest-for-shadow-of-the-colossuss-last-big-secret The Thread: https://community.playstation.com/content/pdc/us/en_US/pdc-communities/playstation-general.topic.topic.0.25.html/quest_for_the_lastb-chNB Opening track: For Her Soul, Alex Roe: https://youtu.be/fo7MaxhyeXA Visual Media used: Shadow of the Colossus (2005 & 2018), ICO, Adventure, Mortal Kombat Music used: For Her Soul (Alex Roe), Castle in the Mist (ICO), The Gates of Hell (Bayonetta), One Who Craves Souls (Demon's Souls), Various tracks from Octopath Traveler, Main Theme of Castle in the Sky

Upon it, their imagination shaped new ideals. They returned to their homes, each one of them carrying in their soul the shadow of the white cloud, each of them permeated by the most subtle and slow-acting of poisons. Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Readings provided by Zac Frazier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA) Visual Media used: Mirror’s Edge, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Far Cry 2, GTA IV, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Battlefield Bad Company, Shenme, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Wind Waker, Uncharted, The Witcher 3, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Music used: Still Alive (Lisa Mikovsky), Robocop GBA theme, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 theme, Dream Chaser (Super Smash Bros, F-Zero), Trois Hymnopededies (Gary Numan), various tracks from Mirror’s Edge, Living in Infrastructure (SimCity 2013)

Where are you? I don’t know. How can I? Which way is up? I’m falling. Good God, I’m falling. Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Readings provided by Leon Cox (https://twitter.com/ratsoalbion) Additional footage provided by Rex (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5lg2p2KuCYAUW6_J16sboQ) Kaleidoscope, Ray Bradbury 1942 Visual Media used: Outer Wilds Music used: Première Prise (Vincent Leibovitz), Mental Caverns without Sunshine (The Caretaker), Various tracks from Outer Wilds OST (Andrew Prahlow)

“You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat." “Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal!" Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Big thanks to the voices of Eurothug4000 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxddeIv7GdHNcVPZI9JvGXQ) and Jackson (https://twitter.com/jsschlesinger) Mechropolitics, Amanda Phillips: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1555412015612611 Shots to the Mind, Sean Quinlan: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263684367_Shots_to_the_mind_Violence_the_brain_and_biomedicine_in_popular_novels_and_film_in_post-1960s_America Visual Media used: Max Payne 3, Spec Ops: The Line, JFK Reloaded, Receiver, Resident Evil 4, This War of Mine, Metal Gear Solid 5, Surgeon Simulator, Team Fortress, GoldenEye, Halo 3, Big Buck Hunter Arcade, Red Dead Redemption, Superhot, Battlefield: Hardline, Rainbow 6: Siege, JFK (1991), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Godfather (1972), The Grinch (1966), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Prefrontal Lobotomy in Chronic Schizophrenia (1944), JFK Election Night (NBC, 1960), Scanners (1981), The Wild Bunch (1969), Pure Pwnage (Ep. 5), John Wick (2014), The Ducktators (1942), About Face (Nate Powell, 2019), Barry (2019), Footage of Ferguson (2014, NYT), Inside Out (2015), The Punisher (2017), Music used: Ain’t That a Kick in the Head (Dean Martin, Instrumental), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division, Instrumental), Unfathomable (INSIDE), Max Docks (Max Payne 3), Be in This Place (The Beginner’s Guide), Ada’s Theme and Wesker’s Theme (Resident Evil 4), Epidemic Control (Guy Skornik), Forensic Scientists (Eric Volpatti), GoldenEye theme (Grant Kirkhope), Theme of Angelo Bronte (Red Dead Redemption 2), Good Riddance (Green Day),

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token...how often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent. Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Big thanks to the voices of Zac Frazier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA), GamesD (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_r8gFeezEBZVnazvbv75pQ), and ChariotRider (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpDbrcXS-giiD0PkZLC5Kw) 99% Invisible: The Many Deaths of a Painting: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-many-deaths-of-a-painting/ The Barbarism of Representation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0031322X.1994.9970135 The Museum of Modern Art’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoMAvideos Visual Media used: 2:22AM, Depression Quest, Speech by Goebbels (British Pathe), The Power of Art- Mark Rothko (BBC), The Truth about Modern Art, Modern art is still Sh*t (Paul Joseph Watson), Andres Serrano documentary (1989), various ABC news reports, The Return of Red, Yellow, and Blue (Stedelijk Museum), Ron Mueck- Making of (Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain), Degenerate Art Exhibition (sveinbjornt), Mark Rothko Exhibit (Jeromet Ryan) Music used: Just Like You (Gone Girl), All You Are Going to Want to do is Get Back There (The Caretaker), Dies Irae (Giuseppi Verdi), Old piano adventure; the saloon sound (Rick22228), Max Docks, Torture (Max Payne 3), Frolic (Luciano Michelini) ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Follow me: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Pharoah Sanders: You've Gotta Have Freedom: https://youtu.be/-mD-Sg9mZGU Pepe Silvia w/drums: https://youtu.be/InbaU387Wl8 Visual Media used: APE OUT Music used: APE OUT, You Gotta Have Freedom (Pharoah Sanders) ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request For written articles, podcasts, and more, visit http://caneandrinse.com/

Samuel Beckett once said, “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”...on the other hand, he SAID it. -Art Spiegelman, 1992 Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller CW: Descriptions of both historical and contemporary Nazism and White Supremacy, depictions of extreme violence, some discussion and depiction of child abuse (in context of Wolfenstein), brief discussion of animal abuse (in context of Wolfenstein), significant discussion of anti-semitism and the holocaust. Voice of Henry Ford and Madison Grant provided by Zac Frazier: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA Visual Media used: Wolfenstein 3D, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, live footage from SkyNews, News & Observer, VICE Music used: Various tracks from Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request For written articles, podcasts, and more, visit http://caneandrinse.com/

And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Hyrule—mighty Ganon has struck out. Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Infinity Dorf by GLEED: https://youtu.be/WI70WqO9Tyk Greatest Ganondorf Plays by YEET Smash: https://youtu.be/0aiPteloCg0 Animating a Smash Bros Character by New Frame Plus: https://youtu.be/3kTYazhO3fs Visual Media used: Legend of Zelda(s): Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros Melee + Ultimate, Mortal Kombat X, Parks and Recreation Music used: The Man with Evil Eyes (Hero of Time, Eric Bucholz), Break the Targets!, Hyrule Temple (SSBM), Kass’s Theme (SSBU) ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request For written articles, podcasts, and more, visit http://caneandrinse.com/

“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake. Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Super Mario Galaxy - Relaxing Medley by AJ DiSpirito: https://youtu.be/cL0AHxwMt2I Isle of Skye Footage by Stefan Zimmerman: https://youtu.be/sb6WlQiaJeM Visual Media used: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Odyssey, The Little Prince (2015) Music used: Various tracks from Super Mario Galaxy, Excerpts from AJ DiSpirito’s Mario Galaxy Medley ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request For written articles, podcasts, and more, visit http://caneandrinse.com/

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white hollows go To the place where Lordran ends. ---------------------------------------------- Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Daughters of Ash: https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1524 Amazing Lo-Fi Dark Souls remixes from Jesse Miller: https://youtu.be/r6kdkkcOxtU Gwyn, lord of Kazoos: https://youtu.be/XZEg9xXMmho Dark Souls Dance Party: https://youtu.be/mp28JPs25ek Visual Media used: Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, Dark Souls 3, Beat Saber Music used: Gourmet Race (Kirby Super Star), Kirby Retro Medley (SSBU), Spooky Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold), Vs. Tina (Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend), Be Like You (Sim Gretina), Lo-Fi tracks from Jesse Miller ---------------------------------------------- Script available for accessibility upon request Check out Cane & Rinse for podcasts, written articles, and more http://caneandrinse.com/

with the power of their lives while from the dim-lit halls of other places forms that could never be writhe for the impatience of the few who have never seen or been seen. Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Heterotopias: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/ Visual Media used: NaissanceE, Super Mario Odyssey, Blade Runner, Dead Space 2, Detention, Clustertruck, Proteus, Blame!, Why You Get Howls On Your Radio (1932, British Pathé), Power Pylons on Wappinger Creek (Milo Tsukroff) Music: Interloper (Off-Peak, Cosmo D), Les Louves (Patricia Dallio), Lear (Pauline Oliveros), Prométhée (Thierry Zaboitzeff), Flight to LAPD (Blade Runner 2049, Hans Zimmer) ---------------------------------------------- This piece originally appeared as a written essay here: https://caneandrinse.com/alienation-architecture-and-naissancee/ Check out Cane & Rinse for podcasts, written articles, and more http://caneandrinse.com/

Shall I compare thee to a plastic guitar Thou art more lovely, and more kinetic Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller To start modding Beat Saber, check out: https://bsaber.com/ Visual Media used: Beat Saber, God of War 3, Thumper, Furi, Budget Cuts, SUPERHOT VR, Rez Infinite, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Mask, Shadow of the Colossus, The Beginner’s Guide, Tetris Effect, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Music: Credited within video YouTube content from: Great Yazer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVi7raCx7YIseHU7domDCA BennyDaBeast: https://www.youtube.com/user/benofthewhite hu hu hu hu hu hu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=div0zQA5viY Ragesaq: https://www.youtube.com/user/fermentumergosum AdumPlaze: https://www.youtube.com/user/AdumPlaze Theme Park Review: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-LpxQVr4JlrC_mYwJGJ3Q ---------------------------------------------- Script available upon request for accessibility Check out Cane & Rinse for podcasts, written articles, and more http://caneandrinse.com/

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Lower Pthumeru Chalice in the dead of night. Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Big thanks to these fine folks for additional footage: JollyMoonMan: https://youtu.be/xqPW0Ehh-Sk Unachemaxwell: https://youtu.be/mlm-FBB1PtM Moros Nyx: https://youtu.be/j0vRq6U0F8c Visual Media used: Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Bioshock, The Enigma of Amigara Fault Music used: Love (Under the Skin), The Alien (Annihilation), Secret Betrayal (Dark Souls 3) ---------------------------------------------- Script available upon request for accessibility Check out Cane & Rinse for podcasts, written articles, and more http://caneandrinse.com/

I have burned the tobacco that was in your fields and which you were probably saving for harvest Forgive me, it burned so brightly, so angry and so cold Follow me at https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Fun facts about Rockstar at: https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466 https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-25-the-human-cost-of-red-dead-redemption-2 Visual Media used: Red Dead Redemption 2, Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta, Resident Evil 5, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Undertale, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Music used: Theme of Angelo Bronte (Red Dead Redemption 2), Fly Me To The Moon (Bayonetta), Run (Hotline Miami 2), Camp Approach (Firewatch), Torture (Max Payne 3) Big shouts to Lambh00t for the crucial resi 5 footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/LambHoot ---------------------------------------------- Script available upon request for accessibility Check out Cane & Rinse for podcasts, written articles, and more http://caneandrinse.com/

This universe ain't big enough for the two of us, partner Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Media Shown: Kurzgesagt (https://youtu.be/ZL4yYHdDSWs), Space Engine, Universal Paperclips, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, No Man’s Sky, Cookie Clicker, Mass Effect, EVE Online, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005 film), The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (1981 BBC) Music Sources: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005 Film), Crystal Castles/HEALTH, Blade Runner 2049, No More Heroes, Colin Stetson ______________________________________ Script available (for accessibility) upon request

The Man. The Legend. The Architecture. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller The text of this video (for the most part) can be found at: https://caneandrinse.com/worlds-of-fumito-ueda/ Much of this video’s information came from this Eurogamer article by Gareth Damian Martin: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-12-investigating-the-origins-of-the-last-guardians-architecture WishingTikal’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WishingTikal NiZZULiVΞ’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NiZZULiVE ______________________________________ Video and Music from: Castle in the Sky, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Dark Souls 3

Gorogoa's twisting narrative hides a surprisingly human message about life and perseverance. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Get great podcasts, essays, and more at http://caneandrinse.com/ Games Shown: Gorogoa Music Sources: Gorogoa, Oxenfree, World of Goo

What Remains of Edith Finch is a game about death. That’s not unusual. So why does it feel so different? Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Joseph Anderson’s “The Villain of Edith Finch:” https://youtu.be/6bMn4CoyUkM Get great podcasts, essays, and more at http://caneandrinse.com/ Games Shown: What Remains of Edith Finch, Grand Theft Auto V, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, The Last of Us Part II, Resident Evil V, Music Sources: What Remains of Edith Finch, Florence

Return the power to the workers and separate your boss from their teeth. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Footage from: Night in the Woods, Tacoma, Shenmue, Red Dead Redemption 2, Telltale's The Wolf Among Us and Guardians of the Galaxy. Music from: Night in the Woods, Gone Home This video was originally published as an essay for the website Cane and Rinse. Find us, more essays, and many podcasts, at http://caneandrinse.com/

An epic tale of those fighting against the litterers, protecting the earth