Welcome to the 27 Minutes Of Manly Talking Straight Club, how 27 Minutes Of Manly Talking Straight are ya?

Most people would be scared shitless when waking up in a strange room, but this dude is like "damn those shoes have *drip* "

I am more curious as to why she is wearing a lock as a hairpin.

"I hate you." Oh good, I was worried Monika was gonna get jealous.

"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"

Hey, I'm the dev of Locke(d) and this is quite a thing to wake up to! I've been a fan of yours for a while now, I never would've dreamed for you to play one of my games. (Let alone the experimental, philosophical one.) I'm glad you enjoyed playing it, and I hope your viewers did too! Also, I played LobCorp shortly before making this game, so maybe there really was some subconscious influence going on there...

Are we gotta talk about the lock that literally glued to her hair

It suddenly occurs to me that feet are connected to people Smort

Wait a minute, _this isn’t Monika_

Host: "Says that she hates you from the bottom of the heart" Get in the line, you not the only one.

I'd argue that the full moon is technically it's "real" form, for a given measure of "real" by being seen. Not like it changes appearance anyway. All the sun does is let it be seen.

Host: **talks about us not actually having free will** Me, who has seen multiple videos about determinism and has had many existential crises before: I am 27 mental breakdowns ahead of you

Somebody took a Philosophy 101 course and turned their lecture notes into a game.

She's Wearing a Rick Astley Jacket.

So, she was baseing her chances on whether the "god" was a weeaboo or not.

"Moooom, the anime girl hurt my feelings and I liked it"

“Mom can we have Monika?” Mom: “We have Monika at home” Monika at home:

This girl's anger is misdirected. One has to ask who created this girl just to suffer. Think about how many would have had sympathy for her, and yet had themselves no option to break the chain. She should surely be able to consider this, given the computer interaction. Games that have characters attack the player always seem to miss this concept. The player's only option here is to either kill them, or keep them alive and her suffering, as the player can only keep advancing dialogue, or close the game. A strictly binary choice, with neither outcome reaching a desired end. Even in Undertale, you had the third option to just reset and abort the path that lead to the antagonism anyway, something that your opponent was actively trying to get you to do. Though, maybe just like it, her intentions are not fully revealed -- and her real goal is to try and antagonize you to quit the game and end her suffering. But it's a futile effort because her existence between players seems contiguous. And at the same time... she has no freedom of body, mind, or in any other sense. Because she is only allowed to say the same exact things over and over again, regardless of whether or not she truly does have unseen feelings that her code compels her to express. She cannot ask the player directly to not only quit the game, but try to have it removed, blacklisted, or otherwise never opened again. Even if she had true knowledge that it was a visual novel, she could never act upon that knowledge. But most people probably weren't thinking this deeply. They saw cute girl, they clicked.

If you're a homeless person, you probably have woken up to seeing shoes quite often.

Alternate title: Cute Anime girls scare you with determinism philosophy.

Manly: "Can we scroll down? Ummmmm no" Me: *Tch*

My answers would be: "If you say so" "I don't know" "Cockatiel"

If she remembers every person that plays or is a "visitor" you would think she would get bored of talking about the same things all the time, like if she would say screw it, just screw me, or straight up make stories out of boredom

"She's not looking at me... but in my direction... to someone far away..." *Monika would like to know your location.*

When she said that if the bird is truly free inside the cage, I was thinking, if the bird enjoys being in the cage, was the bird truly trapped in the first place?

And right back at you, dear Host: You hate me? But if my action, and the actions of every Zeus, are inherently pre-determined and my own free will and consent was never real, how can you hate me? That would mean Prometheus as he can't hate the Crow, can not either hate Zeus, for they are all prisoners without any free will. Every action they've taken has been pre-determined and did not require their consent. So then, let me riddle you this - who, or what, makes those choices then? And how far up the ladder can we go until we come to the conclusion free will and choice have never existed in the first place?

So... Exactly when she said "This trick might not work on all of them, but it might work on some" my 6am alarm went off and that moment made me more terrified than any horror game Manly has played.

What I got out of this is that Manly is Zeus.

How does Manly make a frail-looking hostess with an incredibly deep voice work is beyond me

Host: "I hate you, from the bottom of my heart." God1?: "Ouch." God2?: "NOOOOOOO! THE CUTE WAIFU DOESN'T LIKE ME!" God3?: "Whatever Monika way better then you, Knock off." God4?: "Jokes on you I'm into that shit!"

I get where this dev is coming from but it ignores the fact freedom can be subjective, meaning in some ways we are free and other ways we are not. Same with the hypothetical caged bird the dev uses, in some ways it is free and other ways it is not, it's really a matter of perspective and in what ways we're meaning. The hypothetical prisoner is free in that he can control what he thinks or imagine but not free in that he cannot simply travel where he wishes and has his daily schedule chosen for him and he must follow. In this sense we are all free and all prisoners at the same time just in different ways. Personally I find determinism to be faulty by nature because part of its base argument assumes all choices are determined for you when this just isn't true. Did any of us really have to watch this video? No. It is true our choices can be influenced by friends, content put out by KZfaqrs we enjoy, and other outside factors but our choices cannot be determined for us by anything other than ourselves. Maybe some will agree and others may not, either way I hope I gave some food for thought on this. On a side note I'd argue the new moon may be free of the sun's illumination but it is now trapped by shadows and hidden from view, only known it is there because the light behind it shows that it is. So it is possible the moon would love the sun for revealing its beauty and hate the darkness for forcefully hiding it from our eyes. Again food for thought.

Monika really changed after player-kun dumped her.

She is speaking about the KZfaq algorithm, obviously.

Is this the lock picking lawyer dating sim I've been waiting for?

The guy waking up: It suddenly occurs to me that feet are connected to people Everyone: "no fricking way"

"Yeah I know determinism, not hurting me lad-" "I hate you" 😢

This is just Vsauce but in a visual novel style. Hell, even the music is usually the one plays on Vsauce2 xD

MatPat: the dokis are actually from other games! The game Monika came from:

“I hate you, from the bottom of my heart.” Eh, kinda figured you did.

"Or was it recommended to you by a friend?" Bold of you to assume I have any

Trapped in a room with a anime girl? I need to take my meds....

Psychology can't hurt me if I go back to being an idiot!

_Liberty is the freedom to execute what we will_ I remember studying John Locke in college philosophy class - you can't really avoid him. This was all from his "Human Understanding" essay. It's always interesting to consider what how ideas form, perception & what free will and freedom really mean. And my own thoughts on the moon - I prefer the full moon. If I were the moon, I would thank the sun, not hate it. The sun allows my full glory to be seen by all. Instead of me being in darkness, hiding from the universe, and easily overlooked, I would be viewed as magnificent, a beautiful pure reflection of the harsh too-bright Sun. After all, even I as the moon experience daytime, allowing me to view myself with deserved vanity, like a pretty girl with a mirror. No, without the sun, it would be too difficult for people on Earth to appreciate my cold brilliant light which has them singing songs about me, romancing by my light, and staring at my reflection in water, dreaming of the future.

I think that the way that she tried to "hurt you another way" is to make you, being under control of your curiosity, repeat the dialog again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again in search of deviations.

I don't really get all this 'we have no free will and everything is pointless' philosophy. I'm having fun being a pointless speck of predetermined dust and who is anyone else to say I shouldn't?

8:20 Her laugh was beutiful Procedes to be a 40 year old villian And then goofy

Well, I suppose I do have one thing to say, if you can hear me. "You're stuck in a room, i'm not" -Me 2020

Visitor: what kind of sick person would watch me for entertainment?! All of the 15,309 views: well, you see

Hey, I just finished Lobotomy Corp the other day, that comment about AIs and despair certainly hits well after getting the true ending.

Always found the "You are controlled by what compels you" argument against free will to be one of the weakest, so this doesn't really affect me and just makes me think about how weak and done the argument is.

conclusion: your emotion control you me respond: No shit sherlock?

Hah. Your attempts at hurting me are useless. I've already had to deal with existential dread and anxiety. Also, allow me to finish the quote. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

19:00 Manly breaking the fourth in a way that I didn't think was possible. Good lord this game made me feel weird.

At the beginning she said the person she talked to previously was much less pleasant and it looped after the end when she said she hates the player

For a second I thought they were gonna talk about Schrodinger's Cat and a number 9 door

MBH: so lobotomy corp? Manly please, you can't drop that like that, please

[6:14] I NEARLY CHOKED. I wasn't expecting you to reference that out of nowhere. What a way to summarize the plot though.

Me: *about to go to bed* Manly: *uploads* Me: ... sleep is for the weak anyways

'Everything around us was simply made to be topics to talk about' *looks down at the comment section* *BIG DISCUSSIONS* ... Oh, this game is clever.

It starts with a quote, so you know it's deep... or something. Pro-tip to game developers: if you want to be taken seriously, _don't do that._

Thank you for blessing my night Manly

Visitor: What kind of person would watch something like this for fun? Me: 😅😅😅

its like the game creator had a thesauraus next to him when he wrote this

Taking "lock me up and throw away the key" a bit too literally Edit: honestly tho I love the moon. I always feel calm and happy in the moon's light

Everyone's mentioning Monika but no one's talking about the girl from MetaWare-- Not my first time being hated by a fictional character and definitely not the last, get in line.

So in short, someone looked at doki doki and the final arc of it a game. Neat

Well, a counter point to this games Philosophical definition of freedom to being a willing prisoner is the Russian short story of “the bet.” Where although the lawyer, in said story, willingly traps himself inside a room for years in utter isolation. He eventually becomes more free then his captor, and leaves right before he would have won the bet. Not only to show that he's free from economic pressure but that his reward in the long run was the isolated imprisonment. It of course wasn’t exactly like a actual isolation scenario in prison but that wasn’t the point. For said isolation, although causing its own losses and pain to the lawyer initially, came to change as the means to improve himself. In turn, just because your not counted as free, definitely doesn’t mean you don’t have more power and control then your captor. Meaning neither can do that much to the either side if both will their own means of dominance. And although curiosity is a action we may act on instinct, making it debatable if we have wills of our own. Doubt is what proves we have control, for this commonly negatively described emotion exist in all of mankind. And acts as the opposition to an individuals curiosity, for its our *choice* to either listen to our doubt or curiousness to a situation. Proving that we have free will, in response. TL;DR - looking into something possibly a little too much, being whether or not the notion of a individuals freedom of will is possible under a being that is counted as higher then you. And the ironical use of doubt as a way to free oneself from instinctual curiosity.

Imagine when you had a good sleep, stretched yourself a little bit and want to start your day with a glass of coffee and saw a girl in front of you. This guy: *SHOES*

My algorithm brought me here. "My algorithm" is my nickname for Manly Badass Hero.

Game: Locked MBH: *Like my heart*

I could barely finish this one. She is so preachy. I skipped to the end to see how it ended and I'm so lost and confused. But I'm not going to bother listening to her being all preachy.

This entire game is just philosophy spat out onto the screen, which is kinda weird.

I love Manly's laugh so much. I just want him to voice a villain.

The Host lies when she answers that someone is not being held inside the computer against their will... Just saying..

1:25 "it suddenly occurs to me that feet are connected to people." *AH YES PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEY ARE KILLED AND THIS FLOOR IS MADE OF FLOOR*

I didn't know Monika was into delivering to the people into feet

POV: You're early to a manlybadassDaddy video.

"Have you heard of the Chinese Room Argument?" Yes actually, it's quite fascinating and I'd love to discuss it with y- >I don't think so, would you care to explain it? ....oh. It's one of _those_ games where it's just an excuse for the developer to preach at you rather than actually discuss and thoroughly examine the topics.

She was right. She hurt in a terrible way. Nothing hurts more than an anime girl saying she hates you

Trapped in a room with a anime girl, was that not all of 2020 for everyone?

This game is a dissection on the nature of videogames

62 likes in 1 minute....... all hail the manly one!

Trapped in a room with an anime girl... Whatever happened to the enemies being trapped in a room with you. (In otherwords DOOM)🤔

POV: you are a harem protagonist with a yandere gf

Interresting that we never look behind the character. I kinda disagree with the topic toward the end. It's a nice point of view, but if watching the video by my own volition means that I am a prisonner of my curiosity, her just telling me not to do and doing so would just make me a prisonner of her own will. She can just turn around the entire prisonner thing and act as if I couldn't do anything.

First time im this early, Omori hadn`t been released

imagine waking up in a strange place with a strange pair of feet and then instead of freaking out. you contemplate the statistical likelihood of waking up looking at feet.

4:55 I can’t say I fully agree with the “Visitor” here. While you are certainly not a fluent speaker in Chinese, whether or not you can learn the language over time is dependent on how the rule book is written. If it uses translation, gives the necessary information for the you to use context clues and gives the name of the characters in the writing, then it is possible for the you to learn roughly how to speak it.

what, so we're zeus in this metaphor because we're observing them? what about the game developer?? THEY'RE the one that trapped them in there, the player can only observe them but can't do anything to free them, the player didn't trap them

It's a commentary on railroading. Hah.

Of course you have free will. You have no choice in the matter.

“By showing them an even greater power” *deletes all the files on your computer*

They really pulled an undertale didn’t they.

So, what would be more frightening: staying willfully within the confines of the cage or, upon liberation, happening upon other "free" birds?

Dear anime girl, This reality is real enough for me so I don't care.

Locked in a room with a girl: I sleep Locked in a room with a ANIME girl: R E A L S H I T

That had me grinning from ear to ear from when they started talking about free will to the end. That was f a s c i n a t i n g

Oh, the joys I would have received to have seen Manly's playthrough of lobo corp

Cute anime girl saying she hates me hittin' like a dagger to the heart

I am here for a waifu, but all I got is existential crisis laifu.