Hi

Vinny took the streamer bait

Also Vinny supports NFTs by playing this

* in AI Tiktok voice * : Sometimes, to go up, you must go down

“fuck you elephant” -vinny 2023

@@shubhamnew There’s no feeling more intense than starting over. If you deleted your homework the day before it was due, as I have, or if you left your wallet at home and you have to go back after spending an hour in the commute. If you won some money at the casino, and then put all your winnings on red, but it came up black. If you got your best shirt dry-cleaned before a wedding, but then immediately dropped food on it. If you won an argument with a friend and then later discovered that they just returned to their original view, starting over is harder than starting up. If you’re not ready for that, like you’ve already had a bad day, then what you’re about to go through might be too much. Feel free to go away and come back. I’ll be here. Alright, thanks for coming with me on this trip. I’ll understand if you have to take a break at any point. Just find a safe place to stop, and quit the game. Don’t worry, I’ll save your progress- always. Even your mistakes. This game is an homage to a game that came out in 2002 titled “Sexy Hiking”. The author of that game was Jazzuo, a mysterious Czech designer who was known at the time as the father of b-games… and b-games are rough assemblages of found objects. Designers slap them together very quickly and freely, and they’re often too rough and unfriendly to gain much of a following. They’re built more for the joy of building them than as polished products. In a certain way Sexy Hiking is the perfect embodiment of a b-game. It’s built almost entirely out of found and recycled parts, and it’s one of the most unusual and unfriendly games of its time. In it, your task is to simply drag yourself up a mountain with a hammer. That act of climbing, in the digital world or in real life has certain essential properties that give the game its flavor. No amount of forward progress is guaranteed: some cliffs are too sheer or too slippery, and the player is constantly, unremittingly in danger of falling and losing everything. Anyway when you start Sexy Hiking, you’re standing next to this dead tree that blocks the way to the entire rest of the game. It might take you an hour to get over that tree, and a lot of people never got past it. You prod and you poke at it, exploring the limits of your reach and your strength, trying to find a way up and over, and there’s a sense of truth in that lack of compromise. Most obstacles in video game worlds are fake: you can be completely confident in your ability to get through them once you have the correct method, or the correct equipment, or just by spending enough time. In that sense, every pixellated obstacle in Sexy Hiking is real. The obstacles in Sexy Hiking are unyielding, and that makes the game uniquely frustrating, but I’m not sure Jazzuo intended to make a frustrating game. The frustration is just essential to the act of climbing, and it’s authentic to the process of building a game about climbing. A funny thing happened to me as I was building this mountain. I’d have an idea for a new obstacle, and I’d build it- test it- and it would usually turn out to be unreasonably hard… but I couldn’t bring myself to make it easier. It already felt like my inability to get past a new obstacle was my fault as a player, rather than as a builder. Imaginary mountains build themselves from our efforts to climb them, and it’s our repeated attempts to reach the summit that turns those mountains into something real. When you’re building a video game world, you’re building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they’re immutable like rock, and at that point you can’t change the world- not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas. For years now, people have been predicting that games would soon be made out of pre-fabricated objects; bought in a store and assembled into a world, and for the most part that hasn’t happened, because the objects in the stores are trash. I don’t mean that they look bad, or that they’re badly made- although a lot of them are- I mean they’re trash in the way that food becomes trash as soon as you put it in the sink. Things are made to be consumed and used in a certain context, and once the moment is gone they transform into garbage. In the context of technology, those moments pass by in seconds. Over time, we’ve poured more and more refuse into this vast digital landfill that we call the internet. It now vastly outnumbers and outweighs the things that are fresh, and untainted, and unused. When everything around us is cultural trash, trash becomes the new medium- the lingua franca of the digital age- and you can build culture out of trash, but only trash culture: b-games, b-movies, b-music, b-philosophy. Maybe this is what digital culture is. A monstrous mountain of trash, the ash-heap of creativity’s fountain. A landfill with everything we ever thought of in it. Grand, infinite, and unsorted. There’s 3D models of breakfast. Gen Xer’s fanfic novels. Scanned magazines, green-screen Shia Laboeuf, banned snuff scenes on Liveleak. Facebook’s got lifelike bots with unbranded adverts and candid shots of Kanye and Taylor Swift mashups- car crash epic fail .gifs, Russian dashcam vids, discussions of McRibs! Discarded, forgotten, unrecycled. Muddled, rotten, untitled. Everything’s fresh for about six seconds- until some newer thing beckons- and we hit refresh, and there’s years of perservering disappearing into the pile; out of style, out of sight. In this context, it’s tempting to make friendly content that’s gentle- that lets you churn through it but not earn it. Why make something demanding if it just gets piled up in the landfill, filed in with the bland things? When games were new, they wanted a lot from you; daunting you, taunting you, resetting and delaying you. Players played stoically. Now everyone’s turned off by that. They wanna burn through it quickly; a quick fix for the fickle, some tricks for the clicks of the feckless… but that’s not you, you’re an acrobat. You could swallow a baseball bat. Now I know, most likely you’re watching this on KZfaq or Twitch while some dude with 10 million views does it for you, like a baby bird being chewed-up food. That’s culture too. But on the off-chance that you’re playing this, what I’m saying is: trash is disposable, but maybe it doesn’t have to be approachable. What’s the feeling like? Are you stressed? I guess you don’t hate it if you got this far, feeling frustrated- it’s underrated. An orange is sweet juicy fruit locked inside a bitter peel. That’s not how I feel about a challenge. I only want the bitterness. It’s coffee, it’s grapefruit, it’s licorice. It feels like we’re closer now, composer and climber, designer and user. You could have refused, but you didn’t. There was something in you that was hidden that chose to continue. It means a lot to me that you’ve come this far, endured this much, every wisecrack, every insensitivity. Every setback you’ve forgiven me is a kingly gift that you’ve given me. We have the same taste, you and I. It’s not ambition, it’s ambition’s opposite. An obdurate mission to taste defeat. You’ll feel bad if you win, so I put this snake in for you. Have you thought about who you are in this? Are you the man in the pot, Diogenes? Are you his hand? Are you the top of his hammer? I think not. Where your hand moves, the hammer may not follow… nor the man, nor the man’s hand. In this you’re his will. His intent. The embodied resolve in his uphill ascent. Now, you’ve conquered the ice cliff. The platforms, the church, and the rectory. The living room and the factory. The playground and the construction site. The granite rocks and the lakeside. You’ve learned to hike. There’s no way left to go but up, and in a moment I’ll shut up, but let me say: I’m glad you came. I dedicate this game to you, the one who came this far. I give it to you with all my love.

The timing with the music was quite hilarious as well 😂

51:48

Funniest shit I've seen

balloon barry status revoked

Beginning of the stream was right tho it's just worth it for the 1 bed moment

It better be, because if not, the devs really didn't even try

worse, it's made by cryptobros

@@guy_th18 that explains the talk about their father beating them, then.

This feels more like some player made map in some game than a game itself

Getting Over It gradually introduced new challenges increasing your mastery in a practical way as you went. There's so much bloat and slow-pacing in this game it's unreal. I couldn't blame anyone for quitting after their first fall because I probably would too.

How the hell does Getting Over It have good controls? What are you smoking? It has some of the most clunky and annoying controls I've ever used. The fact that people can master using it with extreme amounts of practice doesn't mean it's well-made.

@@mr.kittysavestheworld695 its at least unique lmao, multiple people here have pointed out that the move animations and everything are literally just free unreal engine assets its so low effort

@mr.kittysavestheworld695 oh I didn't say the controls in Getting Over It were "good" (in a naive sense). But they are designed carefully, with intent, to be on the one hand frustrating as all hell, and on the other hand to work very precisely with the environment of the game.

MY ACCOLADES

bennett foddy moment

​@@kakyoindonut3213There weren't any invisible walls in Getting Over It to my knowledge. Everything in that game was fair, just very difficult.

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 there's only one path on getting over it(ignoring speedrun strat) , of course there's gotta be no invisible wall otherwise it'll be impossible to play

Why the hell did you bring it up in that context then?

the game is bad lol even vinny opens the thing saying welcome to streamer bait also has nfts slapped all over it plus its nothing but a unity asset flip you saved your money

No No- He would make the very sane theory that this game is actually a about a school shooting type situation that happened in the USA in the 80s and the victims have been haunting this game ever since that tragic day😨😨

He better makes an episode on MyHouse This game (only up) have literally no artistic value at all

@@Starving_indev myhouse isn't that impressive, it's a generic "haunted game" story doom wad using zdoom features every seasoned doom modder has seen a million times, it's about as dumb as everyone crediting the creator of brutal doom for base zdoom features like mouse look and jumping

@goldsteed8832 it's not too impressive from a technical standpoint, of course, the trics are obvious - lowering the ceiling + line portals, most of the time. The impressive part is the attention to the details - the change in animation, the change in music, every location having the same layout - the devil in the details, mate And I wouldn't call the story "generic", of course "it's making itself" part is a bit of a cliché at that point, but again - details + parallels and direct inspiration from the house of leaves -> and you cannot with 100% confidence explain the intended story, it's not that clear and obvious and some speculation can be made.

@@Starving_indev again, other mods have done those exact same things some better (though some lost to time thanks to doom wad archive being defuncted now), I'm not saying myhouse is a bad mod, but jesus christ people are acting like it's the most innovative mod/game to ever fucking exist and crediting the Modder like they programmed in the line portals and acs scripting functions, meanwhile these same people were losing their shit over people who hadn't played classic since the late 90s until they tried brutal doom like markipler and total biscuit (rest in peace) were giving sgt mark credit for full mouse look, jumping and crouching as if mark was claiming he added those features himself

It's also just a big advertisement for an NFT collection. The creators just cobbled this extended Minecraft Parkour course of a game together with store-bought assets to be the perfect streamer rage bait in hopes that some schlubs would see all the NFT decals they pasted onto everything and "buy more land in the metaverse", so to speak.

@@That_One_Xatu I wish the crypto luigi asset was in the background somewhere

I was about to say, this just completely reeks of someone buying a ton of themed asset packs and making a giant trash heap out of it while using the basic stock functions of UE

@@That_One_Xatu I watched some streamers play that game and not once thought about NFT, people complaining about it being "NFT scam" are the only people that make me aware of that

@@That_One_Xatu its quite funny how absolutely nobody knew about it , until people raging about it actually made it popular.

actually 10$

vinny should've just built a hover bike smh

Do you even know what that word means

@@largelump3613welcome to goblintown bich

@@largelump3613 I know a little rounded headed buffoon with a head like an orange. He's a bit Gormless.

@@largelump3613 "lacking sense or initiative; foolish." the word is used correctly

The bed is a speedrun skip, if you do it right you can get "scooped" up by the windmill blade as it passes and throws you way up beyond a bunch of the climbables to another layer.

@@argnator you don't have to use windmill with that bed, you can ignore it and would just skip less

It seems like a crude, shitty version of getting over it. Even had the "deep" voiceover, only it's completely vapid.

"but at least there was enough of a skill ceiling in Getting Over It that it could be finished in like five minutes if you got really really good at it" AKA Speedrunnning? yeah that exists in this game too

I hate playing this kind of games, but watching it is just too good.

@@hughjaenus2235 I think you missed the point, Getting Over it speedruns don't require you to wait while this game does do that.

Yeah, but this is a much bigger game than Getting Over It. I've seen streamers take 6 hours, but speedrunners can get it down to like 24 minutes. Definitely takes skill.

Ah hell yes duuuude

What's goin... down.

WORLD OF GOO PROFILE PIC???

this game was sloppily thrown together as fast as possible in order to shill goblintown NFTs to people who watch twitch streamers

I think both are stupid. Just because the game controls like shit deliberately doesn't mean it's suddenly good.

huge angee

@@feIon If that was the goal, it failed spectacularly given I've seen 3 people play this POS and didn't even know the goblintown graffiti was a reference to anything.

XD

I just saw that video too.

Fuck yeah legend of kyrandia 2

Underrated post.

Nah you're wrong there is definitely shitpost energy in it, fuck, they even quote starwars in the ending

I agree with all except with whatever the 2nd bullet-point is, that entire bullet is schizo rambling, much like this game

@@10000fullmetal Oh believe me, that's actually in the game; you have to travel across giant credit cards and everything. This is a game whose layout defies sane-sounding descriptions.

Is it really an NFT game? Because i checked every nook and crany, and dev is not shilling nfts in game's descriptions nor does the page have a link to some nfts.

Nft or not, this game is literally a UE store asset heap with default platforming controls. All they did, mostly, was arrange the assets in a manner you can jump in sequence as well as have a toddler write a script and copy and paste quotes to a text to speech.

@@CoalEater_Elli Apparently people who did some digging found that Goblintown is an NFT firm and that the art featured in-game is NFTs. Putting the game in that context, a lot of stuff about it, from the premise ("to the moon" and all that) to the setpieces to the lore, isn't too hard to read as an attempt to persuade people to buy NFTs.

Wait the windmill is only 15% of the way there? Wtf.

Its not even that entertaining looking :/ I mean, human go up, haha? It seems like its banking on the bennett foddy formula without actually putting in any effort.

I suppose because youtuber/streamer bait quality? It was funny to watch Jerma and Vinny get screwed by that windmill jump, but games like this always seemed like more stressful than fun for me. But I suppose you could say that about any genre of game. Like I love RPGs and know a lot of people see that genre as boring.

Wait is is really AI art? If so that's depressing.

AI technology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

The joy in my heart when I heard somebody made a 3D Getting Over It is now replaced by disappointment

Tbf the game has more going on for it than meet the eye. There's a lot of easter eggs and jokes.

​@@emeraldworldlp8828it's not AI generated lmao

I doubt this game even has a single original asset

@@dampking Neither did Getting Over It; there was a whole spiel about it in the game.

yeah nah. This was just luck I think. You definitely don't have to love Bennett's games but he at least has consistent quality in his games (songs don't break, collisions make sense even if they are horribly annoying). This seemed a lot more like luck. But right away I could tell that he didn't make it.

@@GwyndolinOwO "Bennett wouldnt do this🤧🤧"

SHUT UP!… SHUT UP NOW! 😫 I don’t even use TikTok and yet I still hear that banshee!

MA3 has you covered there and it only cost $20 (yes really).

y spaghet emn

knees weak?

Arms heavy

Vomit on sweater

Vomit on my sweater already

what was jerma even talking about there? I missed that part of his stream

The whole time I've seen people play this POS all I could think was that it's a dogshit assetflip version of Grow Home/Grow Up. Member when Ubisoft, Activision, and EA were trying to convince everyone they cared about "games as art" by greenlighting a bunch of weird indie-ish stuff... and then never did it again?

Was that the game with the little robot climbing a giant vine a la jack and the bean stock?

@@sanachanto yes

Jesus, loopkat. Cool it with the antisemitism.

@@tahunuva4254 I'll be real honest, even under the assumption that this is just a sarcastic joke, I have no idea what it's supposed to be. I'm just here to warn people about the Non Funny Tingle that this game is quietly promoting under the guise of an actual game

@@tahunuva4254 do you have an English degree? Because you read into things way too much.

@@JacobKinsley Bachelors in applied socio-economic theory, from Harvard. Now if you'll excuse me, Ihave to return some video tapes.

​@@tahunuva4254Hey numb-nuts, you forgot a space.

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@@spiderplant Vincente, if thou willest, for i require of thy individual to keepeth mineself thoroughly entertained.

raege bob marly 420

He should do an April Fools stream of someone else playing a Persona game.

@@_Cetarial the best april fools would be playing any other SMT game and saying he's playing Persona. Like he puts on Jack Bros and just talks about it like it's the jocher game everyone's been hyping I mean I do think he would actually like SMT if he gave it a chance, but anime + Persona's cringe fanbase makes it sadly unlikely.

@Cetarial he'll be getting an actual persona fans experience with 'playing' persona

no one ever needs to play persona but I'd like if smt was given a chance on its own

I could feel my blood pressure rise just watching this, Jesus Christ.

@@Technature7567 Hear ya there.

The music in Persona 5 isn't simply remixes of the same 7 or so songs however ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@@LaurentIpsum I fucking entirely forgot about the Lenny face meme, holy shit... It had a HUGE resurgence in like 2016. Apparently it dates all the way back to 2012. Caught me off guard, I haven't seen that thing since maybe 2017.

@@LaurentIpsum amazing bait, but the melody of a song being similar for thematic reasons isnt the same thing as being the same song. its a video game sound track not an album. also all of those "remixes" are also bangers.

@@TakeNoShift h*ck yeah

@@logandarnell8946 I actually agree completely. Toby Fox is a master at making thematic through lines with his music. Hell, even certain phrases can invoke concepts! Like in BIG SHOT! he puts in a tiny phrase from the mad dummy theme in Undertale, which acts as a through line with the ghosts (Addisons are ghosts? " *tinfoil hat tightens*) , and also uses a phrase from the Mettaton EX fight to draw the connection between Spamton's Neo body and Mettaton's! I think it's brilliant! Yes, we do a little trolling, as a treat