it has been months and we are yet to receive the news on whether or not you defeated the bird.

“Only i didn’t find a black slab and depression i found some god damn emus” -Rimmy 2020

Friedrich Nietzsche: "To live is to suffer, to survive is to give meaning to the suffering"

"I only hope that, when my time comes, i will be able to say "living sure was the best, wasn't it?" Whether that's with tears in my eyes, my fist curled in defiance, or a smile on my lips, or all off them at the same time." That is a quote that I will never forget.

Slowly Rimmy became Japanese, Slowly Moving from the land Downunder. To the Land, Unshowered.

how did one video give me an existential crises and solve it in the span of 10 minutes?

Don't worry, Yuuri and i are both alive in the world of" Shimeji Simulation."

After a bloody, depressing and gruel war, the last 2 humans on Earth left feeling content, happy and in peace. It's been years and I still think that this anime is one of the best.

Well shit, I've never even heard of this and I got a little choked up. Well done Rimmy, hell of a year to turn 21.

There used to be a stupid joke here, but after watching the video I feel empty. It resonates with me on a very deep level. The feeling of apathy, the feeling that all you're doing is just repeating the same thing, and that no matter what you try it's all ultimately meaningless is one well known to me. Especially after entering university in October last year, I always doubted the validity of a choice I made, a choice that will define my life from now on. After pondering for a long time I reached the conclusion, that it ultimately doesn't matter. My hesitation, my apathy, my feeling of hopelessness, they all don't matter. As long as you can laugh genuinely, all will be fine. You got something out of your existence. No matter how miniscule it is, every moment of joy counts. It's worth it to go on for those small moments. And to @Rimmy - Downunder Gaming, you shouldn't feel bad about what you're doing. Every video of yours brings something to all of your viewers. A mark on the world that no-one can erase. Everything will be fine, so if the world makes you feel bad, just tell it to bugger off instead of bothering you, you have already done something amazing.

Me: "Oh look a new Rimmy video time to laugh!" Me, 13 minutes later: *a crying mess* A genuinely wonderful video that moved me and made me want to do more than just be a couch potato all day. Thank you.

Watching girls last tour introduced me to one of my favorite emotions, that being the feeling of an empty hopelessness. Imagine how it felt to see ruins of a long dead civilization and just having everything, including the girls, ignore what happened there or who lived there. Humanity may think that just because we do something automatically makes it important to the universe, but in reality we are just a bunch of monkeys just running about on a ball of dirt. The feeling of hopelessness this can bring can be crushing, but seeing their(the girls) reaction being that of joy for the moment they are living in makes that same hopelessness feel hollow. After various rewatches I realized something, in our reality we may be just a speck of dust in a vast uncaring void but that doesn’t mean that I can’t care about life. My life is my time to prove my existence to myself and not to the universe at large. When I am at the end of my life I hope to laugh and smile at the empty hopelessness that allowed me to enjoy every second of it.

“A life with no changes can’t be called living. You can only call it a experience.”- Code Geass

I love when youtubers just sit down and get real, kinda wish rimmy made video essays. Been feeling like that after the arma tutorial

Rimmy is that weird intersection between SovietWomble, Lindsay Ellis and Hiding in Public and I’m loving it ^^ Edit: Seriously though, it is kind of... I don’t know... inspiring to see various KZfaqrs branch out into different kinds of content? Exploring different ways to express themselves through media? There’s a certain curse, I think, when it comes to KZfaqdom that locks a lot of people into neverending feedback loops of always creating the same kind of content, lest they risk angering the algorithm. Soundsmith mentions how much he regrets always making TF2 videos, since once he got in, he found it basically impossible to work on passion projects unrelated to TF2. People like Rimmy and Soundsmith take really big risks when they try to branch into different fields; and I think in Rimmy’s case, it’s especially impressive, because a candid, emotional, short video essay about an anime is about the last thing I would have expected from the guy who had a Zeus mount a banner onto an aircraft tow truck and loudly proclaimed “YEE,” and, I cannot stress this enough, “HAAAW” as he and his command team barreled into an active war zone. I dunno, it’s... beautiful, seeing different sides to content creators every now and then.

Damn you Rimmy for making me, a grown man, cry because i can't show you the joy I find in living. I leave this comment, my first comment on any social media platform in over 26 years, in the faint hope that it somehow, against all reason, brings at least a small amount joy into your life.

I just want to say thank you Rimmy. As of late, I've been fearful. I'm only 18 yet this year has reminded me of my mortality so much and I never was able to process the idea of me dying as a kid. For many night I've been fearful, afraid of the day when my lights go out, fearful of the morning that I just won't be here anymore. It's kept me up much more than I'd like to admit. But this video helped me. It's given me this newfound feeling, that isn't hope, but is acceptance of what will come. I know I'll die, but I want to die now, having been able to say, just like you and them, "living was the best". And you helped me realize this. I know this will probably get swallowed in the comment's section, much like any memory of me will get swallowed up after I die, but I just want you to know you've helped me feel better about the world. Thank you.

We need more rimmy essays

I rewatch this show every year, it makes me feel happy thru sadness. I wish they turned the entire manga into anime. It has such a great ending.

Didn't expect this from a dude who commits war crimes for a living

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?” ― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

And now, for something completely different.

The fear of death and its inevitability, combined with two likable characters, drives this story. We root for Chiito and Yuri, we want them to succeed while in our hearts, we know that death is the only option which awaits them in the wasteland. Ultimately it is a story about the acceptance of our fate, and what we make of it.

I'm sorry for making this joke rimmy but I had to Chinese philisophical writer soviet womble

Came for a VB, stayed for watered-down Gigguk

Rimmy proves once again he is the best anime of all time

I cannot describe what a range of emotions this series put me through. Incredible, truly incredible.

sometimes i come back to this video and cry. i love this manga, and i love this video essay too. i hope youre doing better man

I'm recently turned 36, living with depression and anxiety since I was 24 or earlier. Sometimes I feel my life is amounting to nothing because I haven't made progress by the definitions of society: a house, a wife, children. Worse yet I want these things for my own reasons and feel I am failing myself. Then I change perspective. I am fortunate to have at least some control over my life and most days I can do something that I enjoy. Everyday I am able I should try and make some progress to the major goals I have set for myself, but if circumstances outside my control prevent that then I should try to be happy in the moment. It is a delicate dance between long term contentment and near term happiness, but the ability to switch between these goals allows a sort of mental adaptability necessary to overall mental health and reacting to forces outside our control.

Just today I made myself the question "Am I afraid of death?" and the answer was "Yeah, I'm fucking scared", but not because the path ends, what scares me is reaching that point, looking back just to realize that I wasted my life... and yeah, this year can go to hell, social distancing which on some people is very depressing, lockdown after lockdown, and all that shit. Don't worry men, you're for fucking sure not alone, I'm finishing uni (software engineering) and I'll be doing my last year from home, and thats devastating... probably my 22 birthday will be under lockdown again, but to hell with it. I'm not trying to say you should feel better because theres people in worst situation, only that you're not alone, you have all your friends there, but not physically with you. This are very very hard times, but... I can't express what I feel about it... just... we were, are, and will be with you. We are with you until the end of the line. Carlos, Spain :D PS: I was quite okish today, but now, man, now I'm so fucking sad, I fucking bursted into tears at the end of the fucking video.... And at the same time this has helped me quite a lot. Stop wasting my time, start doing all that things I want to do. PS2: I bursted into tears writing this down realizing all of this sad but beautiful things.

Existence Is Not Enough Living and being alive are not the same thing. While more years being alive can bring, to truly live is not to delay the ending. When you look back do you remember the sadness? Or do you recall the morning's brightness, or perhaps a person's closeness. Why do things that make you unhappy. Stop adding needless filler to your story, instead make every episode a happy memory. Being alive means to outlast and be tough. But that means nothing if you can't love or laugh, because to live, Existence Is Not Enough.

"I'm well aware it's for the best, but that doesn't make it suck any less." Have you tried poetry? It seems you might be good at it.

Hey, just jumping in to say: The Bar at the End of Time (written by Rimmy) is an amazing short story. And, while I'm at it, I'd like to recommend one more: Another End of the Empire by Tim Pratt. Last recommendation, if someone is looking for something long and fantasy, check out A Practical Guide to Evil by erraticerrata.

i never thought i'd live to the day when Rimmy - a guy i watch for is military-oriented humor, will talk about anime (much less, one that i absolutely loved) in a legitimate way xD

I sat down and watched Girls Last Tour for the first time a few weeks ago, and what an emotional experience it was. In part, I consider myself envious of Chiito and Yuuri, just going forward and seeing what there is to see while they still can. 2020 has been such a downer year, and I'm not sure if watching the show made me feel better or worse. Nihilism and depression can be cripplingly terrible, but if you spend all your time doing nothing, you'll have nothing fondly to look back on. Never watched this Rimmy guy before, but this was a good video that I needed at this time, I think. Thank you.

Hey Rimmy, I only recently found your videos through Civ of all things, and you've quickly become one of my absolute favorite KZfaqrs. I turned 18 a few days ago, as well as graduated High School a bit over a month ago, and I feel a lot of your pain, I'm supposed to be living it up right now, but instead I'm stuck at home. Depression is something that I've always struggled with, mostly due to a shitty roll of the genetic dice, but also some outside factors. I found theatre as an outlet this year, and realized my passion for acting and being on stage. Eventually I worked my way up to being a lead in a musical, and I can't tell you how proud and excited I was. It took all of about a week for my musical to get cancelled due to COVID. Slowly but surely, my senior year fell like dominoes, no final choir concert to close out 6 years of dedication, no prom, no graduation ceremony, no partying with friends, just existing. Gaining weight and slowly losing connection with the outside world except through the one-way glass of my computer monitor showing me youtubers who didn't know I existed and shitty cash-grab Netflix shows. I know this must all come off as somewhat privileged, so trust me when I say that I am eternally grateful that my situation is not worse, but I believe that the two are not mutually exclusive. I'm not gonna sit here and say that your videos saved me, because I didn't need saving, but I can say that the two days where I binged every one of your Arma videos were two days where life felt like a bit more than existing. I guess you sort of get into a ritual of absorbing content that youtube throws at you through the recommended page, and your content was, and is, a refreshing break from whatever the algorithm decided I like. I dunno, this message may have been more for me than you, as theres a good chance this gets buried under the other 1 and a half thousand comments, but I wanted to tell you that this video made me cry. An anime I've never seen, a manga I've never read, a man I've never met talking about them, but I really, really loved it. Thank you for making this, and all of your videos. I hope you find what it is that makes you happy, much love from the other side of the world.

This was beautiful Rimmy and honestly that epilogue made me tear up, I too am 21, recently took up a shitty retail job during the pandemic just to "get by" and it's killing me, I gave up on art and all other creative ambitions just to "survive" and as the title says, that's not enough, I've always seen myself as the driven, the one screaming and kicking into the void to fight that ever looming darkness and it's brought nothing but misery, I've got a lot to think about, some people I should speak too and maybe some tears to shed, thanks buddy.

Oh man this video made me cry, I feel slightly better now.

Rimmy the expert who can make people laugh, and make people cry. Damn

It's amazing to see such an emotional and well-thought video that exposes my very same opinion on GLT ending. The finale broke so many people that most of the fandom doesn't even /want/ an anime adaptation because it would shatter their souls even more.

Rimmy just so you know we all love u even tho you have had a bad year you have made everyone else’s year better

“Existence is not enough” well said rimmy, I have aspergers so existence for me consists of making it enough, I’m only 15 and only found out about the aspergers after moving 2 years ago because of my brothers sucide but despite that I’m determined to make my existence enough because I already have the disadvantages of having aspergers and so I must work to turn them into advantages,As of now I may have lost my friends because of the aspergers but that is all the more reason to fix the problems with it,I want my existence at the very least to be contributing something to society such as working a simple job and at the very most leading US marines into battle, but for now I’m stuck on repeat as I wait for my next therapist appointment to discuss the loss of said friends, I don’t exactly know why I’m writing this right now maybe because I want to share my experience and maybe someone can learn something from it, but anyways thank you for the video rimmy it gave me a chance to reflect on my current situation which I probably wouldn’t have done otherwise.

I stopped the video as soon as you started describing the hollow feeling, I DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THAT FEELING RIMMMMYYYYY, I WONT THINK ABOUT IT AND YOU CAN'T MAKE

"If you can't avoid it, enjoy it".

Thank you funny Australian swear man, I didn’t know I needed a good cry today

Hey Rimmy, I can fully feel what you mean. I'm also 21 and I feel so broken inside, that I am once again spiralling down towards a feeling of suicidal tendencies. But you are right, I too should start just a bit again and begin something new and maybe there is something that waits around the corner. Even if not I should simply make that something. Thanks for this video, you made me open up a bit inside towards the beauty of the world. Cheers from Germany, I will keep on watching, whatever the future brings for this channel. Be safe and be happy.

I went into their story completely blind. While the title already hinted at it, along with the fact that everyone and everything they met was left behind, but I was very much in denial that they wouldn’t make it out to.. somewhere. The moment that made me realize the ending wasn’t gonna be a purely happy one was when they found the art museum. The very last panel really hit me, showing what Yuu called the last drawing of humanity placed right next to one of the very first. Even still, in the absence of hope, I have genuinly never read anything more beautiful than Girls’ Last Tour. Also yeah I know this video is years old, but for whatever reason the algorythm brought it to me so here I am

Honeslty Rimmy This video has took me to tears like i didnt even cry when i finished the show and the manga and bloody hell mate thank you the show helped me get though a very many tough times and turns out after isolations things got worse but a bit better. Also rimmy Your content is just the best and always brings a smile to my face. yea the speillings bad whatever

Being 17 years old, this year has been... different for me, I've always been a bit of a shut-in: I didn't like to go out and my parents goes on facebook way more than I do, but most importantly, I wasn't like every normal kid because while I still enjoyed the present, I would always think of my future and the future of the world in general since I was 12, question like "What will I become ?" "Where will I be ?" and "What kind of future can we expect ? The utopian one ? The post-apocalytic one ? A somewhere in the middle ?" those were the question that would fill my mind whenever I was lying on my bed trying to go to sleep. But ever since the virus began those question faded away , replaced by a constant worry for both me and the people close to me, I really was a big ball of worry by March because I thought "This is it , the Apocalypse start here" and MAN, am I glad that I was wrong ! Fast foward to today and I was finally able to smile, I was no longer a pessimist/nihilistic almost emo (can black guys be emo ?) teen because I spent way more time with my family and I reinvested into old interest that I abandonned just like Rimmy ; like reading (mostly fanfiction), playing new games I'd never thought I play (like text-based games or MMO) and I've even joined the r/worldbuilding because I also want to write a story of my own. Overall, we can all agree that this has been a shitty year however I learned that... sometimes bad thing will happen and there's nothing we can do safe for making the best of it and with Lockdown I've been given a lot of time for self-introspection and just doing what I feel like doing and I hope it will be the same for you. Sorry if I'm a little offtrack with the video I just wanted to get this of my chest .

I remember being really happy when I saw the ending because I knew that it was the best way for them to go

This goes into the "Favorite" playlist, so I can go back to this video again many times

Great show. One of the best I seen in some time. Bitter sweet gut punch that made me feel.

Usually it's just Kurzgesagt that makes me feel existential dread on here.... Bloody fantastic video, Rimmy. Thank you.

Me: Rimmy uploaded a new video, great I want to see some destruction and action or humour! Rimmy: Nietzsche 2.0. Weebness Boogaloo Me: I came here for gold but I found blue platinum.

Took me long enough to see this one, the last volume dropped 2 days ago in France. And I really wanted to thank you for this video.

Perfect rimmy, you’ve summed up what I thought about the series in a perfect video.

"All Good Things Must Come to An End " Geoffrey Chaucer

I feel like this quote might be appropriate "I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy"-Camus

I gotta say, this is one of the best videos i've seen in years. Great work.

Frickin' love ya dude. You're giving me feels.

I'm starting to think that haachama and Rimmy are neighbors, two SCPs plotting their escape from the prison island, one day they will escape, and when that happens... May God have mercy on our souls...

This was genuinely beautiful mate, for a long time I've struggled with apathy and depression and have this spent a lot of time contemplating life and came to the conclusion. Life is only pointless if u never enjoyed it.

Funk yeah, I love this format! I remember the feels from when I first saw Girls Last Tour a year or so ago, and it's a story that has stuck with me since.

Damn it rimmy, I was trying to forget this masterpiece ever since bawling my eyes out finishing it and now you publish this.

Thank you, Rimmy. Thank you for a message that I didn't know I needed.

Damn this is something i just needed for some reason. Everyone just is going insane at the moment because of this stupid virus. And so many things are going wrong in the world at this moment. I trully hope that there will be something that will help you thought these tough times Rimmy, lots of love from the Netherlands.

Should read "to you immortal", it's about how existing is too much.

That was the most heartfelt and beautiful thing ive ever watched on youtube. I hope your doing better. And keep up the amazing content

Rimmy, I gotta tell you... This is probably the best video you've ever made, holy shit.

Having read Girls Last Tour myself and then hearing Rimmy's thoughts on it, and in that vocal tone. It did bring a few tears to my eye, that maybe not all things are bad at a glance, but that it takes a closer look to find the beauty in such things. Good video Rimmy, I won't hope you'll find your silver lining, you'll come across it one day without realizing it.

One of the best video essay i've ever seen. Thank you so much for making me love this manga even more

"2 potatoes expired" finally i got a conclusion on how they died in the manga

I don't know why, but when you told us what you had been doing to alleviate the mundane-ness of the lockdown life; hearing you say you got back into writing which was a passion of yours; branching out to different types of content; just fucking climbing a hill you saw and seeing an emu... and contrasting it with the only peaks of the year being negative... It gave me a little bit of hope. You really do have a knack for writing.

Simmilar: If you deeply look into the Lore of Planetside, there is War going on for Hundereds of years now, but you never going to die or to win, if you think to much about it it is very depressing. The greatest Wish of an Immortal is it to die.

*A thousand years of tedium, cannot hold a candle, to one of exitement.* I, have-

Just want to say thank you for introducing me to filk with the Bomber at the beginning of one of the wh40k arms vids. Been listening to filk music daily since!

Genuinely enjoy you talking about tv and movies and mangas, pls do more

Rimmy , your videos always bring happiness or that chest swelling feeling , life sucks right now sure , but you help make it suck that little bit less , i found your channel though those very same filk songs.

Can I also say that I want more of these kinds of videos. they are great and they helped inspire me and a few of my friends.

You are the reason I watched Girls Last Tour. Even if it was just a passing line in a video, I thoroughly enjoy the series and this video. Cheers dood :)

Glory to a life well lived. Glory to the fist we hurl at the darkness of death and the questions of our existence. Glory to the ones who found their way to accept the end and find some way to enjoy life until the end. I just turned 21 this year as well and all honesty its been hard to find enjoyment when im surrounded by a plague, leaders who dont lead my country, family issues when im stuck at home, and the lack of finding employment and the lack of motivation to do my classes. Im finding a few things to do to keep my mind off whats going on around me and I feel as if the world is ending before my eyes. I drink, play video games, and play D&D with my friends online but its been hard. This video has helped me a bit to just keep pushing forward enjoy what little I have here for like the title says existence is not enough. My granddad had a saying "Surviving isnt living" and I think Ive been doing too much surviving than living. May your year improve Rimmy. Love from America.

21 years too! Love your work Rimmy! I love to see how you developed over the years and how much passion and fun you bring to us all. Have a good one my friend If we find each other in the afterlife - i hope i can buy you a drink!

I’ve been in a bad place for the last week or so Rim, and this... helped, oddly enough. Thank you.

Doesn't matter what your vids are about your vids ways make me feel good and happy and smile....i suffer from anexty alot and I get depressed real quick sometimes but honestly your vids make my days/weeks...hearing how happy you are in your vids with your friends like Digby or scarmu or pac just makes me feel good cause I remember that there are good people in this world and that despite you insulting each other, I can tell the bond you guys have is amazing!! Just hope I can do something like what you do myself some day and just do it so I can make people feel good like you make people feel good

hope that anyone that is reading this has a good day i am talking to you who is reading this XD

Yes.. they are right, existence is not enough.. Time to kick the bucket, I had my shot at life

Ahh Rimmy, this video is the one that got me into GLT. Would recommend anyone to watch the anime and read the manga heck even the spinoff Girls Last Class if your craving for more. This is such a gem. I'd wish I got into this earlier. Thanks again Rimmy.

genuinely one of the most beautiful videos I've had the pleasure of watching

2020 has paved way for a new genre of public speaking: Existential Dread Speakers

Wow... That was goddamn beautiful. Really brought up all the feelings I had when I first finished the manga which left me utterly destroyed. twice. Truly underated. Saying it was a bittersweet ending doesn't do it justice and I think your video managed to convey that. I think I'll re-read it again after this. Thanks rimmy :) Oh also I think you'll like "a place further than the universe" if you want something uhh...emotionally touching? hard to explain feelings... type of series. Cheers mate

I watched the show so I could watch this video, and now I’m crying Thanks Rimmy

I’m sad, before, during and after watching that videos, but it’s allways a pleasure to ear your voice XD

Rimmy I have to say thank you, this was one of the most moving things I've ever seen. I don't read manga or watch anime but this video essay has both made me rethink on life and feel that this situation that we are in is not an excuse to just exist and do no more but to do everything I can to enjoy this fleeting life. Rimmy you are amazing and keep being that way. Cheers from the USA

Oh God he's turning into more and more of a weeb

I still remember being devastated after reading this manga. I was like a little lost child, crying my eyes out, unable to find comfort and for a few days it left me traumatized. But after all that, it suddenly made me better. They had a best life, they had the company of each other and they were successful (I mean success in life is subjective and for them, being successful means to reach the top of city) in their life. They can't ask for more in their world. Also, after reading the manga and surviving the trauma, out of the blue I had a disturbing thought, what if either yuu or chito wake up again, only to see that their sibling is frozen to death and she is being the true last human on earth? That's beyond traumatizing 💀

God damn, now I need to add this to my watch list, Thanks Rimmy

When did this become an anime channel? Are you discount Gigguk now?

Hey Rimmy, hearing you talk about the hopeless of the situation in the show and how these two girls decided what felt right at the time when trying to survive... this line kept buzzing around my head: “We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint.” (Captain Scott - final entry) For me, this is a source of inspiration. That even then he had no regrets and that despite his venture’s failure it was worth the try, to push the envelope as far as it would go. That looking for things to help with existence isn’t meaningless... even if it is futile. Stay safe everyone 👍

This year has been hollow its passed by with no real fun or notable things. I found you start of this year and probably the best thing to come out of it.

The mushroom people are essentially a cleanup crew. They're making the world a safer place for whatever comes after us, Nuko is just a child version of them.