no *immediate* downsides

Im reminded of "as seen on tv" products. Supposedly useful but ultimately less than after a point. Yes, this will cook a potato in a microwave really fast, but it only cooks two at a time, dries it out, and makes it taste funny. Functional, but you'd be better off with a pot and boiling water. Or, yknow, actual armor.

no *apparent* downsides... the downsides arent apparent because you cant see shit with this implant on hahahah

no upsides too, armor doesnt work at all

@@jobelplayedminecraft3700 patched

same, i was looking to make something like this, but this video does it better than i ever could

Omori profile picture so I know this will be good

edit: was very good. best analysis yet.

YOU BETTER HAVE WATCHED CIVVIES REVIEW-

@@kalibruhmoment3032 civvies review was nowhere near as in depth or well thought out as this one

Mall madness? I could have sworn those necromechs are there normally.

@@jdirksen no, Paradise. mall madness is level 5

You can also have one of the darkworld enemies wielding the BN-99 appear on Pharmokinetics, which can be a pretty nasty surprise.

@@Samarai-hf9si those golems can show up in that level too

I think that randomized enemy is in a preset location, I’ve encountered a random enemy type outside your apartment more than twice.

Wake up early / 10 years plan / CEO mindset

There's an interesting real world rabbit hole to dive down regarding the psychology of how this happens in real life. Starting with the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments and continuing on from there. Going from the "just following orders" to being able to find justifications, to corruption that comes with power and influence. Once I started out down that road of research for a final psych project, I didn't sleep well for a month. Although, part of that was my being predisposed to anxiety (via a GAD/Panic Disorder diagnosis) and a habit of catastrophizing.

@@KirstenMarie_MS3 But isn't there a fundamental flaw in the Stanford experiment? That it was way too small, and in interviews the "guard" stated he was being a dick on purpose. Wasn't exactly nice to begin with. I agree otherwise. Milgram is miles ahead in proof of concept.

@@GarrettX001 Oh yeah. That's why I used the qualifiers "starting with" and "on from there." Even the Milgram Experiment has been repeated and greatly improved upon over the years. And then there's the tangent of how people can end up desensitized via repeated exposure to real world violence. Not necessarily to the point of killing someone, themselves, but to the point of excusing escalating levels of harm. But the caveat is "real," as far as I'm aware. Media where people know it's all fiction doesn't translate over, unless you're dealing with existing predisposing factors. Granted, I only have undergraduate coursework in psych. There could be other research I haven't encountered that delves even further and changes conclusions. I am nowhere near an authority in this regard. My postgraduate work is all focused on human (especially cellular) Biology. So anyone with more experience is welcome to correct me. 🙂

Buddy, you been a soulless monster.

ive been in that room a million times and when he did that i suddenly realized i had never even tried

@@-..-_-..- good. Attempting snirbycide is wrong.

@@-..-_-..- all hail snirby

Cruelty squad is more like biopunk than cyberpunk infact only like two augmentations in the entire game can be described as cybernetics meanwhile everything else is either organic augmentations , biomechanical organs or outright esoteric artifacts even half of the armors in-game are just that

​@@XD-sc4ixbiopunk is just cyberpunk with an emphasis on body horror.

Based PKD poster

Luckily the creator (Ville Kallio) is a competent game designer

@@drillbit8280 "durr don't make things hard omg unrealistic is good because it makes my ADHD feel nice"

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 what?

@@john.d.rockefeller2538 drillbit is posting cringe

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 No. I think you are

Better start getting into that CEO mindset.

@@lochjago13 I'm already heavy into potato farming logistics

@@Terminally_Radical I think I read somewhere that 38 degrees is the required angle for an avalanche effect, which makes me think that with just a few minor tweaks our world could be swept up in an unstoppable wave of change that would result in a nightmarish world like the on depicted in this game. Pretty freaky stuff lol

@@TheVudubob baller ass reply. You make sense when you talk

lol

i thought only the rich could afford not dying though. there are lots of npc's in the game that don't come back if you kill them after reloading a level, like the named ones in cruelty squad hq and the guy that gives you the fishing rod for example

I mean, ever since the invention of fast food, we kind of already see how human can absurdly put millions of chickens on high efficient meat grinders. Putting humans on it instead is merely a logical conclusion.

@@williampan29 vegan spotted

@@SurrogateActivities And? Maybe, but it is a cool comparison to Cruelty Squad's world. Every human turned into a meaty machine, only to gain meaningless profit out of it, that is one important part of the game's world.

@@YeprilesteR "and?" and its cringe

You’re missing the real message of the game. It’s a fishing game masquerading as an immersive sim. The real ending is you giving your money away buying a house with all the money you’d never live long enough to spend. You have to divest yourself of your financial holdings in order to beat trauma loop.

When did he say that in the video?

@@callumbreton8930 He starts saying that at 47:03

SOME

Shrek is life

Hey now!@@dannylamb456

This brought me immense joy, sorry for your suffering.

Which song was it?

The first time I watched this video, I was petsitting my friends dog and we were cuddled up on the couch as I was watching this, and that exact segment you're talking about upset her so much with the sound, she got off me and lay on the floor This is my second time watching this video and I can't stop thinking about that. I felt so bad at the time, like nooo come back im sorry 🥺 I skipped through the section so she'd come up and lie on me again, which she did

@@argonhammer9352 I'm guessing the one at 37:24

@@alexbenavidez4500 that song is a bop

Wake up early/10 year plan/CEO mindset/peel onion

I feel like I lost something by resetting my progress over and over till I could complete pharmakokinetics with divine light so I could have a rocket launcher for mall madness

Honestly wish I could play again with no ability to look things up.

worse still, when an enemy you were expecting is suddenly missing (usually two feet to the left readying a shot!!)

well a point thats often emphasized in the game is that none of that is at all significant in this world. these are things that everyone must use to make money in the gig economy hitman profession. people can use money to regenerate their bodies so nobody ever dies thus their own deaths no longer seem like a shocking end instead an inconvenience in an eternity of them. the only time anything significant happens is the final ending when all of reality ends. nothing about the final level is any different from what could be expected on an infinite time scale except the final ending

Also the house you can buy is just like the apartment a normal if a bit bare building to the bare ass buildings you can enter in said level

i mean, we start out with the divine link, meaning our char never died before hand apperantly

Glad to hear it’s exactly how I personally enjoyed thinking of it: totally real, horrifically banal.

I always took this as the world is dark and dystopian, but the reality shown to the player is massively distorted Can be pretty easy to dismiss the possibility that the character we are playing as has this massively reduced function to understand the world around themselves, especially under the duress of constant chemical use and conditioning. Kinda like all of us

:^y

Holy shit amazing reference

absolutely correct, really cutting to the heart of the game

it keeps hapening

"Bro im gonna get so many STOOKS"

The subtext is part of the story, and can be interpreted in thousands of different ways. Like I don't think this is a criticism of libertarians, more parody.

@@rancid7182 I wouldn't say that it's parody, it's satire, because it seems to be pretty clearly making fun of libertarians/ancaps, the game is straight up saying "if you're a libertarian, this is the horrible future you're fighting for".

@@w0t_m818 Now thinking deeper on my playthrough, you're definitely right. I was stuck on the larger theme, which is an exaggeration/parody of modern life, and the liberal economics is definitely part of that. I just find the libertarian/ancap part weird, they are contradictory ideologies.

@@rancid7182 they're contradictory if you're talking about left-wing libertarianism (which I understand is what the term exclusively referred to originally) but they're not contradictory if you're talking about the libertarianism of the Tea Party, which is the kind of libertarianism the game is critiquing/satirizing. In this sense there are some minor differences between the two (right libertarians and ancaps), but functionally, and in terms of what the world they would build would look like, they're similar enough to critique as a whole.

@@w0t_m818 Ok all good then, I was talking of the original term, enjoyed the discussion. (The constant assassination attempts and street violence would hurt economic prosperity, but fun gameplay is top priority IG)

It's honestly disappointing more people who like this review haven't watched their other videos. They're all just as good.

Those operator psychos are always doing twisted shit.

His art def takes inspiration from those pictures of navy seals smiling in front of a corpse. And all those videos he has on his yt channel that ooze with the horrors of the military industrial complex.

They outlive Lizzy so it getting so...

That's an interesting point. I'm not super familiar with Bataille and I don't necessarily agree with what I read in the Accursed Share (i.e. I don't know how to discuss your comment within the game's framework), but I took the 'Golden Age' as the protagonist clearing the field of everything, himself included, and reinjecting the world with the possibility of "true humanism," (a just world, communism, whatever) by starting again from scratch, if that makes sense. The gods of CS are like the demiurge--they are pseudo-gods that would be wiped out as well, at least in my interpretation. The religion of the house level feels to me like it is based on a delusion, the homeowners (metaphor for bourgeoisie I assume) are not a part of value production, which is the material basis of a capitalist system, so they can only interpret market forces as spiritual forces. Bataille's philosophy kind of dovetails with the triagon myth, but general economy is more a mystical way of saying that we all must exist in relation to one another and our environment. Sorry to put words in your mouth, but I think your distaste with the ending stems from the fact that the blank slate seems like a cop-out. It could be true, as you say, that the same forces develop and subjugate us all over again, even if the demiurges were destroyed. I think that's absolutely valid criticism. Cruelty Squad's world is meant to be a likely possible future, and the the lesson insofar as there is one is that if we get past the point of no return only an actual God could save us. That's what I took from it anyway. The final ending is hard to read because the mass of text might make it seem preachy whereas I think it is meant to be impressionistic, Bataille quote and all.

Focus on fishing.

No you don't "grant death" in the third ending, you can completely destroy the world entirely because of how rotten to the core it is.

5:05 sadly the rest of the flesh automatons on this planet don't want to use their higher brain power

and now pyrocynical is probably going to copy this entire guy's thesis

@@ancientcrypt lmao how wrong you were

@@DemonDog17pyro didn’t copy it cause if he did he would have to actually say something meaningful

In real life many guns actually do the opposite like getting higher pitch, without the weight and mass of the ammo in the magazine the firing noise resonates through the magazine differently...kinda like that trick where you blow across the top of a bottle and the amount of liquid in it determines the pitch of the sound it produces

Have you heard the Death Grips mashups?