Jacob Geller why do you always sound like you’re about to cry?

@@Halfspace99 Because of that audio book he recommends at the end, I presume.

Your videos fill me with a sense of existential dread that I weirdly enjoy, I keep coming back to this channel wanting more. I can’t wait for your next vid.

I get so much out of this video, even though I never play computer games. Weird.

Are you a huge fan of the Demons Souls/Dark Souls series? I love that in a part of this video you use the Nexus music from Demons Souls.

Fallout Motion Video

@@JacobGeller when the cutscenes are rendered in-game without pausing it and the NPC you're talking to gets killed by a crashing vertibird

@@JacobGeller Full Metal Valchemist

@@JacobGeller Full Motion Vegas?

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I'm sorry, can you explain it again to me ? I'm having difficulty understanding this

@@ahmedboukhalfa288 Shot/reverse shot is explained here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_reverse_shot Basically you film two characters having a conversation seperately, but make sure they are facing each other in these single shots. This makes the scene more understandable, visually we know the characters are facing each other and talking, even if they are filmed in isolation. It is part of the language of cinema, it looks natural to us because we see conversations filmed this way all of the time. When this convention is subverted however it makes scenes more uncanny because we dont face away from each other whilst talking. Its a subtle trick that informs the viewer that what is happening on screen isn't entirely moored in reality even if they can't put their finger on why it feels wrong

@@ahmedboukhalfa288 The shot/reverse-shot format is something you see a lot in movies and tv when two characters are having a conversation. It usually consists of a shot of the first speaker's face followed by a shot of the second character's face when they are speaking, then it goes back to the first shot again for the response. This is repeated instead of using other camera angles. The technique is cheaper and less time-consuming then alternatives which makes it a popular choice for projects with lower budgets.

@@ahmedboukhalfa288 Sure. So imagine sitting in a chair facing a person sitting in a chair. if you wanted to film this, you're in a tricky situation. The two subjects are in a mirror position. Because of the limitations of the camera and human perception, you can't show their full faces during the conversation at the same time (well, you could with a 360° camera, but it would look weird on screen). So what you typically do is film one person speaking while facing left. That's the shot. Then you film the countershot. The countershot is the other person facing _right_ and speaking, instead of left. This gives us the idea that these are two distinct entities, facing each other in conversation. If the subject of both the shot and the countershot are facing left, it's... Jarring to look at. It breaks the idea that these are two distinct entities talking to each other and to me, made me question if Maria is actually real or just a figment of the POV character's imagination. "But she touched him, a couple of times." Anyone who's ever kissed someone in a dream or had a night terror can tell you about haptic hallucinations and how wonderfully or terrifyingly real they feel. But maybe that's not it either... Maybe it's just the universe of the story, maybe it's just the nature of that universe to make you uncomfortable, to punish you. In a world where demon zombie fetish nurses are running around without faces attempting to hack you to shreds, just a little bit of clarity, a teensy bit of certainty, goes a long way.

I think that's why horror as a genre is often tied together with a cheaper production, it can be hard to tell what's an intentional detail and what's a mistake or poor production or something that doesn't work. Is the lack of a shot-reverse-shot an intentional detail or was the team not as familiar with general cinematic trends/techniques,? Maybe it was a rushed cinematic, or due to in-game/engine constraints, or was it just overlooked? It's that sort of ambiguity that really sells it, I think.

My favorite game from the PS2

Good games never die out !!

That and he even referenced final fantasy 7, x which is more impressive.

FFX has even better FMV's to be honest, mind blowing for that time

@@wendigochild I wish that were true. Too many good games were lost to time *Absolute MASTERPIECES never die out.

why?

Maybe because in and out-of-game, she is uncanny, as Jacob says. James sees there is something wrong about her; we see there is something wrong about her.

For a second she did look real for me

It reminds me of the film Perfect Blue 👀

Atleast those few of us who played it were affected and can spread its word, hope red candle puts it up for sale again alongside the great Detention.

It’s on the “usual” sites if you’re interested in playing it

Literally "In data and memory" so in some form of reality. 🤪

@@idontcare6736 👍 thank you. You really "don't care". 😅

Devotion? Which one was that? Watching the video for the first time.

girly i keep seeing you here and you just keep me safe while i watch these horrific mind bending videos

@@mothballsva The ribbon doggo keeps us all safe

reading this comment at 8:14 am two years later

Free Uyghur

Protocetus taiwan isn’t the prc

Free Tibet. Freedom for HK

@@protocetus499 that isn't Taiwan.

@@balazsnagy5781 it’s another group being systematically oppressed by the Chinese government. In the end this systematic oppression is all the same thing it’s a massive government attempting and seeming to succeed at either oppressing or preforming cultural genocide on a group That the ruling party does not like and because of money and greed other nations businesses refuse to sanction China for their atrocities but instead bend over backwards to appease these abuses by either relying on them to manufacture cheap goods or appease China to be allowed to sell their product or show their movie in China. Part of the reason there is very little significant lbgt+ representation in many Hollywood movies is so that it’s easy to remove the gay stuff in a cut to release in China. American cut look see this characters gay; we’re woke! Buy our stuff we’re on your side! Cut out three seconds and theres no openly gay character at all and chinas happy. Even worse is when you get the Milan remake where Disney likely directly had work done by Uyghur slave labor and disney parroted chinas political lies and agreed that the re-education is nothing bad it’s not concentration camps people aren’t having their cultural histories ripped from them to remake people into a regular normal Chinese person with the same homogenous culture. But nope no bad camps Disney said so. Then in video games you have the professional gamers banned from their games for drawing to speak up about China and supporting the Hong Kong protests but good old blizzard has to make sure China isn’t threatened by the words of this bad video game player cause they want to sell copies over there. So better punish a person for believing in human rights. It’s all the same thing corporations want that China money or want cheap Chinese goods and will censor whitewash and sanction whoever it takes to make sure that Winnie the Pooh rat bastard stays happy with them. The Chinese people are a wonderful nation many members of that nation especially those of minority groups within that nation are being oppressed by a dictatorship and to keep being allowed to make money by using China or by selling in China companies bend over backwards to keep a dictator Happy at the expense of the people that dictator oppresses It is clear that our businesses remain not on the side of the Chinese people but on the side of their dictator. And we as customers must draw the line if we want to live in a world where the people of China matter. We have to stand up and say to hell with dictator the Pooh and to hell with any company that supports him and his regime.

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Well said!

Wuzzems can you explain this better? I don’t get what you are referring to.

@@francescopassero8369 In the movie "The End of Evangelion", after human instrumentality has started, there's a bit where everything transitions to live action footage. Showing footage of Tokyo but with the skyscrapers from the show added in, together with the actual voice actors as well as cosplayers of Asuka and Rei. The experience of Human Instrumentality is pretty much like a dream, the things that happen in it aren't real, or at the very least that's the conclusion that Shinji comes to. It's not real thus he wants to go back to reality, in his own words "I knew my feelings back then were real". There are two reasons for live action being used. One being the one I mentioned in the first comment, that instrumentality is like a dream and hiding in a dream is just running away from reality/your problems, thus the live action is used to show us how real that reality is to Shinji, that his experiences with Rei, Misato, Asuka and everyone else is just as real as our own experiences in real life. The second reason is meta commentary on us the viewer. The theater that is shown fully packed and then later shown completely empty tells us that after the movie is done, we also have to return back to reality, to go back to our jobs, family, lives etc.

Dude I quote the lines with ANYWAY any chance i get

How is it uncanny? I get that you were making a joke, I just don't see what's supposed to be humorous about it.

@@DeadAndAliveCat sorry didnt mean to bump into ur huge brain :^)

@@DeadAndAliveCat it was uncanny in the way that it was unsettling and creepy

For a second I thought you said, Jacob's sense of autism. Lmao I was like yeah that makes since

@@bombomos What?

I think that’s actually Tintin...which, being fair, is still about a decade old

@@tremisanthrope He showed both but when stating the example quote a clip from Polar express was playing.

also, both of those movies were stylized to look that way on purpose, people just don't like them because they're not stylized enough. Same with Beowulf, actually...

I'M NOT YOUR MARY, JAMES

she is... you take her home in one ending, and she has a harsh cough James last line "better watch that cough" Sinister.

Dope pfp

hahaha if only I was fast enough to rip off an article published on the same day

nice to see ya getting some more cred under your belt though! We already both know that Control is amazing but I’m glad you talked about the fmv in that game over at poly-g too

didnt know he wrote for Polygon, nice

I know His videos have this Exurb1a feeling

smug dancing Hat Kid exactly

If there's any justice in the world, he'll get double that many.

@@DodderingOldMan If there's any justice in the world, I'd have 100k by 2020 end, provided I make the content I hope I can. But true, Jacob has one of the most well done content out there.

Well, I know it was just increased by one.

that would probably be true if he did toy unboxings or some stupid challenges and pranks. Content like this is far above the average youtube viewer

Ya Jesus my dude. Because live does have meaning.

This is a rick and morty fan

Learn from the other side too: www.reddit.com/r/Sino/search?q=Devotion&restrict_sr=1

still glad to see he uses Devotion as reference tho

I stared at the screen for a while trying to figure out if that was Japanese or Chinese xD

@@tiagox3275 could be both. Japanese kanji is essentially Chinese characters (hanzi). There are slight differences, but most of them mean the same things, as far as I can tell.

@@PyroNexus22 yeah but you usually wont see that many kanji back to back to back in japanese, as particles used to string kanji together are written in hiragana

@@jojo-yi5pi yeah, I suppose. Frankly, I didn't pay attention to what he was talking about, so I just went off of the 2 words that the OP mentioned.

do you know where to find it?

@@denji5426 No, it got yeeted of the face of the Earth

@GiRayne I totally agree that they are amazing content creators out there, I was talking more from a personal standpoint since pretty much all my friends who play videogames only look at them from a pure entertainment standpoint (which is totally fine btw) and I sometimes feel a bit isolated when it comes to seeing videogames as art. So seeing videos like that just gives me something I wouldn't get otherwise haha

@@TheJmix 5 months late but I feel like how monotone mainstream video games have become is related to that "not seeing video games as art" reaction.

@@LuigiGamesful I agree. Not every game needs to push for those things but I just got really sad and frustrated when I saw the feedback to Death Stranding. That game really tried to do something new and fresh and was well aware of the current mainstream trends, but people called it bad/boring and didn't even give it a chance.

@@TheJmix Yep. People say Death Stranding's gameplay is boring, but honestly, IMO Silent Hill's gameplay is well, not that exciting either. But it's shadowed by the fact that the atmosphere, the story, the visuals, are so top-notch. People are expecting a much more action packed Death Stranding I guess, something that leans more towards the "fun and exciting" part of video games.

And that the WORLD and society are art. Expression is everywhere and it is all we have to relate to each other.

I guess you meant this as a joking marriage proposal but my first thought was the thing that happens when an essential NPC in Skyrim loses all their health.

Oh shit hey Dennis... wasn't expecting to see you here...

SH2 worst creepypasta when?

why are we still here ....

just to suffer

www.spieltimes.com/news/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-moron-found-in-devotion-game-is-being-review-bombed-by-chinese-players/ "The antagonist cult leader [in Devotion] is called Lu Gongmin. Lu 陆 means mainland. Gongmin is homonyms with the words for “ citizen” or “populace”. Under his leadership, the cult sacrifice is committed on October 1. One of the main characters also with the last name synonymous with “mainland” was killed on his 49th birthday. Chinese Independence Day is on 1949, October 1. In addition, there was another piece of writing in the scene with the paper that translates to something like you dumb shit. Finally, in the mainland, multiple social media influencers were paid especially to promote the game as a “made in China” game with traditional Chinese cultural elements to sell it. " www.reddit.com/r/Sino/search?q=Devotion&restrict_sr=1

Fuck the communist party.