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Ah classic pyro dangling petscop like keys for a baby

Wow Pyro, I am truly impressed. This video went an entire minute without a Breaking Bad reference, instead it took a staggering 67 seconds. You have outdone yourself yet again, amazing.

id make a horror game that makes it look like you downloaded a game with malware, but it turns out you really did just download malware

80 minutes of 'guys I promise it's not all in le head' followed by 20 minutes of 'ok it is all in le head here's why', masterpiece

The entire My House story being about Steve’s personal life and all the theories being wrong is the biggest revelation I’ve seen in a Pyro video, ever.

Jessie screaming “not in my house” has to be the equivalent of loud=funny. Gets me every time

24:24 shreck didn't scare you. A lack of shreck scared you. I think that's something everyone can understand.

what if demons in the bathroom is just a poop joke, like when you take a gnarly shit and someone hearing you describes it like "that man fighting demons in there"

Me wantee petscop me wantee petscop

7 minutes in and I'm already amazed. The animations, CDawg's incredible VA, the trapper's theme and the petscop 2 bait literally make this video perfect.

It's gotta be such a cool feeling to put all of this time into a project only to have people actually spend the time to learn the entire lore. There was such a huge possibility that no one noticed the project. So hopefully the creator is enjoying seeing all the vids

1:11:38 actually the bfg is not as random as one might assume. It fires one big ball, and then it fires 40 invisible tracers in the direction of where the ball was fired, provided you are looking in the same direction still

Finally, after so much time we finally got Petscop 2. This analysis ABSOLUTELY was worth the wait. And the Petscop 3 teaser at the end... I simply cannot wait another 10 years for it! Thank you Pyro!

Classic Pyro giving his own theories significantly higher scores than other community theories, he's so humble.

The similarities with House of Leaves were uncanny from the start, but seeing the Navidson realty sign confirmed it for me - it's not just an inspiration, it's an echo.

Nothing could have prepared me for the theory that the MyHouse pk3 map was Steve's personal trauma loop, or at least that's what I thought before I realised *nothing* could have prepared me for the conclusion of the video. "Happiness has to be fought for" is such a profound message in itself. The idea that a house is only a home with people in it, the fact that life is a series of blank slates filled with memories and the fact that choosing how to deal with your issues is the most important part of moving on, is something so relatable. The idea that, at the end of the day, it's either fight for your happiness or keep reliving your trauma. It's not just trauma from a single event either, life isn't that simple, every problem in your life compounds and builds until sometimes it feels like it's too much. There are so many opportunities where you could pull yourself away from the path of true happiness, even after living a full life - like with the ending where the house is sold and the one where it's sold after collecting all of the items - but if Steven let his problems conquer him - retreating, in an attempt to wipe the slate clean (like with the sold house endings) - he might as well have died when his friend "did", as shown on the tombstone with the QR code. Personally, I think this is the most important messages you could get out of this ARG. Even if his friend wouldn't actually have died, and it was some other big traumatic even (or series of small ones), choosing to wipe the slate clean would be an incomplete way of dealing with it. There is no "final chapter" in your life, like with the "fake beach" ending, which I believe symbolises the desire for all your troubles to end / to feed into the trauma by running away from everything instead of dealing with it. If he had chosen to "wipe the slate clean" or made an attempt to conclude that phase of his life as something separate / that he can just get rid of by running away instead of fighting for his happiness *despite* all the things that went wrong in his life - his stillborn baby being the worst, assuming that was his (as part of the arg hopefully and not a real mishap), then he might as well have died when it all became too much. For example, if the final straw that made him completely broke down was Thomas' death, like was implied in game by the his own Obituary on the Gravestone in one of the Sold House endings. You can take comfort in others, like he may have done with Amy, but even the good moments can end totally separately to the other bad things in your life. His separation (despite being on good terms) is probably one of the things he's struggling with as he's shown by a few of the artifacts' messages and locations. Like with the wedding ring being incredibly hard to reach and the baby bottle saying "it wasn't meant to be", you could even tie an Airport miscarriage theory into this (which would be a pretty messed up reason to have that part of the map... I still wonder what that shirt could have been). All of these problems piling up on each other may make you want to break down or spiral infinitely out of control. Something that once made you feel safe or secure could one day be the same thing that makes you cry down the road. It may make you want to deny that these things have happened, like your life is a movie with chapters that can just be concluded. But you won't find happiness if you just try to mimic what you want happiness to look like. You'll just live the rest of your life with an emptiness inside, eating away at you until all that's left is the wish that things could have been different (like they are in your dreams). Which is why the fake beach ending is in the mirror world, it's imaginary happiness. The winking Steve in the mirror and the winking Steve standing at the beach feeling fulfilled felt like a completely unattainable reality, which is why he dreamt of these dream/mirror Steve's and himself as different people. But, there's nothing separating you and the you you see in your dreams besides the actions that you take and the ones the you in your dreams had taken to reach that point (you don't see these, you just see the results)... The "you" you could be, who could be living your best life and the you who you are right now are only separated by the fact that you could either wish for / imagine that happiness or you could be doing everything you can to try attain it. Maybe what Steve needed at first was to work on the MyHouse pk3, getting all his thoughts out there, but eventually it became something unrecognisable to just being his friends' house and something that was once therapeutic began to eat away at him. The map grew along side his changing dreams, then he started implementing these dreams, then it got to the point where they were a world apart from what he originally planned. He wanted to make a tribute to his friend but ended up making a tribute to his mistakes, tainting his memories until finally realising that the ending all this horror needed was to let the map end with one last *big fight*, finally concluding on the same beach that he saw himself standing on. Letting the player, who is actually Steve, fight for their happiness and finally escape that place (with his doggie). I don't know Steve personally but he made a very good ARG with a very good message.

I genuinely forgot CDawgVA is actually a professional voice actor and this was an incredibly good way to be reminded.

To make up for the 6 years he made us wait for Petscop, he made a video about a topic that everyone and their dead grandmother know about, truly extraordinary content

Ex wife says split was totally on good terms, while admitting it still caused his life to fall apart lol

I’m genuinely impressed at how much I can enjoy this video despite having watched the genuinely excellent Power Pak video. The attention to details that were missed in that video makes this work almost as a perfect sequel. Something that works amazingly on its own, and in the context of someone who has already learned most of the secrets of the mod.

I’ve FINALLY been released from the slop. Thank you pyro

Pyro hardly ever releases anything on the main channel, but when he does, oh boy, he never misses.

The voice acting and animation inbetween as well as general editing and storytelling were amazing, you’ve genuinely outdone yourself once again

This started killing me towards the end, I’m going through a divorce, not even sure when the next time I’ll see my son is, and still stuck in the same house with all of their stuff around me constantly reminding me of them, it’s seriously killing me, I can genuinely relate to the map maker

You forgot a little detail about the house right from the start: it has elevated floors right under and above. This normally isn't possible in the engine, meaning he used his map making wizardry to give the illusion of a second floor.

As you mentioned I was a little worried that this was going to be too much of a retread of Power Pak's video, but only 4 minutes in, your humor and those slick animatics add a totally new spin to this story.

Dear Pyrocinical, the world's sexiest lesbian. The gap between Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 releases was 6 years and 3 days. The original Petscop review was posted 6 years and a month ago. You have exceeded the time you had to make a sequel, the internet will not forget this...

29:00 You don't get to do that. You don't get to use Petscop music. Not until you do what you've promised.

Best part of Pyro videos is that they're so damn rewatchable it's insane

Connor's voice acting here is so good. I didn't even notice it was him at first

I'm glad there's a real true end with explanations in real life, but I also love how convoluted and neat the whole game is. House of Leaves is amazing and this mod captures a lot of what makes that book so good. Bravo, and bravo on finding Amy. It really was just a lot simpler than anyone allowed themselves to think.

Keep it at Pyro. Absolutely love these long documentary style thriller type videos, super interesting every time

Steve's wife is a real one for being as open as she was with the whole thing.

56:54 plane doors are actually designed specifically so that a large pressure difference will hold them shut. If the door is able to be opened, the pressure difference would have to be insignificant and wouldn't suck you out.

Really good video, but just wanna shout out I absolutely adore how you included a clip of Darkwood at 31:30 when you said ''its dread over fear, which is a great subversion'' considering Darkwood is simultaneously one of the most terrifying horror games I've ever played, along with not having a single jumpscare.

Not to pry into this amazing story/mod creator's life but are we sure he really divorced on good terms with his ex-wife, at least at first? To make such a heartfelt game as this, I can't shake the feeling that he really did struggle with the divorce and it forced him to mull over his entire life in a bout of depression for quite some time. There must be some reason for the "date of death". Only for him to fight his way out of the depression and regain his happiness again, by seeing that he could enjoy the small things within his control. Just something to consider.

i didn’t even realize CDawgVA was voice acting this, incredible voice acting and even better editing, masterpiece of a video

I like the idea that there is some sort of entity influencing his desire to keep developing the map, because that means in the story there is a point where an unknown error occurs and both he and the entity are sitting there frustrated for hours on end just trying to understand what possibly is breaking the file.

The marriage being real absolutely blew my mind, amazing work Pyro as always 🤯, makes me think is the friend actually real and he’s swapped names/fictionalised him to help get over it, seeing him as a character in a story would help I guess

Incredible video, great story, fantastic editing. The only reason I put this on was to have another haha funny video essay on to listen to while I worked on something else. But I got sucked into this so fast I couldn’t focus on what I was doing before. This is a great video. Especially love how you included Like the Wind at the end. It’s great that even after seeing so many amazing stories and projects and art, thinking I’ve finally seen the best thing ever, I can still be amazed and blown away by something new

They say the actual fear in the horror genre comes from the anticipation of something dreadful happening instead of the actual scare, and boy did the wall Shrek and the staircase accomplish that perfectly.

I find this deeply disturbing, not because of the horror nature of the game, but because it's just so intimate and a full display of trauma. Im glad to have witnessed it, but I still feel like an intruder on this story.

1:17:56 - The bit with the Archvile and the Berzerk song always gets me.

This video truly changed the way I look at things, this mod is one of the best ones I have ever seen. The theories kinda caught me off guard besides the “Steve is Thomas and Thomas is Steve” that one truly made me feel an eerie feeling. This is the best video I have ever watched, and I will continue to watch this forever🎉

34:15 is actually a reference to the bathroom in the airport house. The seventh image in the second screenshots folder is a hint to the same thing. If you keep the entrance to that bathroom clean while covering the rest in blood, you get the BFG in the picture, hence the "big fucking reward" mentioned in the cheat message.

Can I just acknowledge how amazing of a job Connor did with the Voice Acting? The whole video is goated overall tbh

I love how this map was disguised as a simple remake of someones house, if no one dug into this map properly it could've gone completely under the radar.

holy crap i loved this. i love all your dark video game story tellings but this blew my mind. when you mentioned the tiktok amy i was freaking out like NO WAY! so happy to honestly get a more thorough ending than any of the letsplay tubers bothered to get. i loved your utopia vid but the secrets you solved here are awesome

"Happiness has to be fought for" Cuts to pyro getting paid and laughing

Pyro is destroying TikTok brain rot with these hour long videos, doing gods work good job

Genuinely one of my favorite modifications to any game ever. It's just so clear how much love went into it, both for Doom 2 and for the art of videogames as a storytelling medium. Plus, it's just fun.

Pyro this was epic I must admit, I mean there were very little breaking ban references, you got an actual voice actor, and you had animation that actually moved, very cool. 9/10 guardians from petscop! Speaking of petscop…

we can always rely on pyro to pronounce literally every name and word wrong ❤

The animated segments were amazing, one of the best ARGs made for sure

Thank you Pyro, for not only using the Petscop character in the thumbnail, but also using some of Petscop's music in the background of the video. You will surely pay for this. (28:55)

It's 2 am now and to say that this video was a trip is an understatement lol. Feels like I was trying to understand a fever dream while constantly being flashbanged by more information.

The ending of the video is actually so sad just knowing that the creator has done it over a divorce and just filled it with so many memories of his previous life he used to enjoy. But if he were to enter it again it would be DOOM

Honestly, I absolutely love these longform videos you make. As far as I'm concerned, these videos are what make your channel something special.

Pyro I started watching you during the Leafy days when you were making garbage commentary content over Garfieldcart, its amazing that you went from that to this great well thought out and interesting content. Hope you keep on the interesting projects.

Pyro just never misses with main channel videos. Also CDawg's voice acting is amazing as always

I must say, seeing Pyro evolve over the years is a very interesting and entertaining thing. The quality keep increasing. Good job.

This is like the MyHouse Cinema release where PowerPak's version is like the Netflix documentary, this felt more like a movie where PowerPak's felt like a complete experience that builds intrigue to play the game

I wish Pyro could make main channel videos more often, they're so good

Connor did a seriously great job voicing a broken character/person like Veddge. Like holy shit, kudos

Dude the animations were off the charts, some of the best I've seen in a VERY long time, HUGE respect to the people who did those.

Hearing Connor do his job is such a lovely thing. Thanks Pyro.

I did see the Power Pak video first... but I saw your petscop video long, long ago, so I'm know I'll enjoy this one, too. As you know, you're pretty good at this.

"Happiness has to be fought for" is a quote i'm gonna remember for my whole life. i absolutely love it.

So glad Pyro finally remembered the password for his 2nd channel.

I don't know what's worse, pyro baiting us with Petscop, or the fact that I fell for it

These vids are great man, highly enjoy them, keep em coming. Fantastic work!

Fuck yes! Finally, a new real non-slop pyro video

Seriously in love with how this video was edited, the animation, the voice acting and the overall structure of the video felt so great. I look forward to more videos like these.

The ending of the video is fucking phenomenal - the animation, the voice narration, the background song, holy shit.

can we all give a freaking applaud for a the fantastic artists with the beautiful animation and visuals, and freaking cdawg va?! brother I didn't recognize him until I looked at the credits how tf did he do that?! his voice sounds so different and so in character!

its always a good decade when pyrocinycal posts

My mom always told me not to play with PDF files. Glad Pyro seems to agree!

>clicks video because theres petscop thumbnail >no petscop >HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

The idea of someone taking a friend’s map and adding to it makes me think of Beginner’s Guide. But I like how the use of that framing device is so different here.

Fun Fact: the shape of the base layout of "myhouse" is uncannily similar to the Doom 1/2 Keycard Sprite

cdawgva is an excellent voice actor and am happy that pyro recognized him as a good voice actor by featuring him in the cruelty squad and this video too

Absolutely stellar vid from the animations alone. loved every second!!!!

The produxtion quality is so impressive, im definately checking out the animator here after finishing to write this comment, those segments were REALLY good. the narrative woven here is really great, very comparable to Power Paks video the theory part i was super suprised by, i seriously did not expect anyone to find anything like that! wow! really freaking good video, that finale with the music and the compilation of various parts of the journal... chefs kiss.

Pyro, keep making these types of videos. You're on a roll with these. They are so rewatchable.

Damn... Connor's Voice acting is so good! You can't easily tell until you check the credits.

Pyro: *Puts Petscop in thumbnail* Me: "HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT-"

Really liked the added animations, really liked how well they flow with the topic because, while not trying to take away from the hard work put into them, your previous animated segments felt a bit out of place in regard to the game you would cover in the video.

Finally finding out what actually happened to bring this map into reality is so incredibly fulfilling. The theories were great, but knowing what kind of emotional triggers it takes for a work of such genius to come to fruition is so much better.

wow, the animation and storytelling in this video is such a step up from your previous videos, good job to you and all the people you worked with on this video!

shrek scaring you is nowhere near the worst thing you admitted in front of millions of people

1:02:20 I'm an older gamer, and it warms my heart to hear save-scumming placed next to restarting like it's nothing. Used to get so much shit for that.

This mod is incredible in it’s story telling. Even keeping “in canon” so to speak and “in story”, ignoring the direct parallels to the creator’s real life, the story is still deeply powerful and moving. A man consumed by grief and sadness for the loss of his friend, becoming trapped in the memories and emotions of it. He tries to deny it ever happened and forget it by crossing out dreams of the fire (which presumably killed his childhood friend) and literally having an un-killable fire demon block him from his happiness, directly linking to his friend’s death, but in many endings before you discover the true ending, the house just vanishes or burns down. He can’t avoid the memories or change the past, it’s a harsh snap to reality. He needs to accept the past and move forward to find true peace and happiness after the grief. It’s only by reliving the painful memories through objects from their past and processing everything that he can fight for and ultimately find happiness from the grief from losing his friend. Replace childhood friend with ex-wife/love and it still fits hauntingly well.

Y'know, it almost gives the same feeling that The Beginner's Guide gives, especially with the relationship between Steve and Tom mirroring that of Davey and Coda. While not a perfect parallel, the sense of someone trying to "fix" their friend's unfinished work while unintentionally letting their own feelings seep into the work is reminiscent in a way I can only struggle to explain.

dmc4 music for the ending was wild 😭 you ain’t slick

"the dog was attacking me" is the funniest thing ever

Clicked on this out of curiosity and ended up watching the entire video to completion. Very well made and the voice over work for the notes is a nice touch. I like the raw opinions and emotions, as well as the present speech used to avoid making it feel like a review, this felt like walking through the story with you. I also liked the twitch clips shared to show the honest reaction and emotions. Would also say I loved when the mention of nothing came up, as if to say the dullness or quiet is so loud that it itself creates dread. Very good video. Surprised a dude I used to watch play subnautica while talking about keemstar evolved to make this cool content.

Tracks i recognized if anyone is searching for them 4:59 Basshunter - Polish Dota (Po twojej pysznej zupie!) 5:21 Kelly Bailey - Self Esteem Fund 6:25 Inscryption - The Trapper 7:33 one of the renditions of Final Fantasy main theme 10:32 Inscryption - Leshy's Theme 18:58 Akira Yamaoka - Silent Circus 20:14 COD Zombies Round Begin 20:19 Casey Edwards feat. Ali Edwards - Devil Trigger 20:22 Toby Fox - His theme 20:31 Akira Yamaoka - Dance With Night Wind 38:33 Mike Morasky - Witch Theme 40:05 Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 1 theme 43:07 EarthBound - Otherworldly Foe 44:35 Wolfenstein 3D - P.O.W. 46:31 Inscryption - Long Forgotten Monuments 50:33 PARTYNEXTDOOR - Recognize (feat. Drake) 52:34 The Binding of Isaac Rebirth - Market theme 57:18 The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy 1:01:01 Akira Yamaoka - Blank Fairy 1:02:40 Badfinger - Baby Blue 1:15:52 Deus Ex - UNATCO theme 1:17:17 Dark Souls - Souls of Fire 1:17:58 Susumu Hirasawa - Gats 1:18:30 Inscryption - Deathcard Cabin 1:18:37 Mick Gordon - BFG Division 2020 1:19:08 Chopin - E Minor Prelude 1:19:26 Joji - Tick Tock 1:21:43 Mick Gordon - Mastermind 1:22:06 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Abyss 1:29:45 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - It Has To Be This Way 1:30:47 Scatman John - Scatmans World 1:31:14 Akira Yamaoka - White Noiz 1:31:44 Akira Yamaoka - Noone Love You 1:34:40 Mick Gordon - The Only Thing They Fear is You 1:35:35 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Fukutsu ~Mushin no Sakebi~ 1:38:16 Nelly - Dilemma 1:42:05 Persona 4 - Aria of Soul 1:44:22 Happy Wheels Theme

This video only fueled my long running theory about Pyro being terrified by PNG image format

I am IN LOVE with the animations by the journal enteries, amazing