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Flak3z
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2015
My name is Flak3z. I’m a couple years old. My house is in the next town over, where all the best internets are, and I am not married. I work as a content creator for TH-cam, specifically the Flak3z channel, where I make videos that nobody asked for but everyone needs. I get home every day by... well, I’m always home. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally meme. I’m in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get 8 hours of sleep-unless I decide otherwise, in which case, sleep is optional.
Minecraft’s Secret: The "Truth" About Your Favorite Game
"Minecraft" isn’t just about blocks and Creepers - it’s a cleverly disguised lesson in capitalism and the endless grind of the working class. Join me as I dig deep (pun intended) into how Minecraft secretly trains us to be obedient workers, normalizes exploitation, and even hints at the illusion of promised freedom…
Stick around for the HARD TRUTH about why punching trees is just the start of your journey as a loyal cog in the machine.
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At Rest - Romance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Stick around for the HARD TRUTH about why punching trees is just the start of your journey as a loyal cog in the machine.
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How My Fire Emblem "Awakening" Absolutely Broke Me: Death, Eugenics & Waifus
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"Fire Emblem Awakening" is more than just a tactical RPG - it's a wild journey of death, eugenics, and waifus that transformed me from a casual gamer into a paranoid tactician obsessed with breeding the perfect anime super soldiers. Join me as I share my first experience with permadeath, the tragic story of Donnel, my descent into eugenics, and how the game’s romance mechanics turned me into a ...
Pikmin is a game for sociopaths
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If you thought Pikmin was just a cute game about plant creatures, think again. Prepare for psychological torture disguised as a Nintendo game. Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
Your Love Letter to Chibi Robo
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Today I look back at one of my favorite games from the GameCube, Chibi-Robo! We discuss the aspects of the game that make it so good, and why the story was so impactful for those who played it. Thanks to everyone who pushed me to make this video. And a special thanks to the b*tt plug enthusiast that gave me the idea for the intro sequence!
Pokemon BDSP but with ONLY SHINY POKEMON (kinda)
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Welp... I tried. That's what counts. Right?
Far Cry 5 Co-Op - figure out how coop
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Like what you see here? Come check out my stream at twitch.tv/flakesaz
The BEST CSGO highlight video you'll NEVER see
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Music: 1. Town Hall and Tom Nook's Store - Animal Crossing 2. Main Theme - Yoshi's New Island - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 3. Vamoose the Lava Sluice - Yoshi's Woolly World 4. Cat's theme - Cat Attraction - Neko Atsume
"Is your muffin buttered?" - Games With Friends
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Games With Friends - "Studious shit"
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Music: 1. Terrible Fate - Theophany 2. Ending Theme - Super Mario World
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Games with Friends - CSGO - "We're Gonna Do This"
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This is a beyond a stretch. In a capitalistic society, you are rewarded for your consumption, usually in social recognition. That does not happen in Minecraft. Your dirt hut from night one can remain your home forever, and there is no consequence to that. Needing to work to survive does not equate to capitalism. Even in a hypothetical communist society (since we have yet to see one that wasn’t corrupted), people work to survive. The difference is that, in a capitalistic society, the capitalists own the benefits of those labors. In a communistic society, the workers do. In Minecraft, you own all the results of your labor. It’s hard to call it communistic as you are alone, but it still is closer to that than capitalism. I’m fully on board with the damage of late-stage capitalism, but it’s silly to equate working with capitalism. And, even if you do make that highly suspect connection, you will survive just fine sitting by the shore fishing in Minecraft.
wait... so minecraft is communism?
@ It’s difficult to apply an economic philosophy to a single-player game as economics requires trade. However, I think to the extent that an economic policy can apply, it is generally much more communistic. Even in SMPs with strong internal economies, the workers own 100% of the output of their work, whether that work comes from mining or from a farm that magically produces something. It gets weird when those economies cross into reality with things like loot boxes, but that’s not the core game, so I think we can ignore that.
okaaaay. but hear me out! Servers are command economies??
@ that’s an interesting idea. It’s rare that server economies are fully driven by market forces. Production is controlled in many ways by Mojang, both in what they allow to be produced and the mechanics of its production. Rarely is production tired purely to market demand. Cost of goods is also rarely tied to the cost of production. Instead, it is most often tied to the time it takes to produce. Then you have services, that fall outside the normal Minecraft material-based economy. Those aren’t directly dictated by a command economy, but the overall economy certainly dictates the value of the time involved. And that’s just vanilla SMPs. Get into pay-to-win, and the economy is just screwed up by central intervention. (And, yes, I realize this whole conversation is a somewhat ridiculous over-analysis of a game, but it’s fun.)
Goddamn, son! Nailed it! I got thrown off a celebrity TH-camr pateron server (the you're gifted me full access) because I, as a disabled, vision impaired, low income elder who plays very slowly, I decided to build my spawn home primarily from dirt, lit by torches! The privileged brats instantly formed an HOA, whining constantly about every aspect of my game play, because I'm not like them. Unfortunately, the celebrity left the decision in the hands of their server admins, all of whom were under the delusions of achieving TH-cam stardom, and hated avoiding recording my build as they passed through spawn Right now, ten years later, I'm playing a single player, mostly on peaceful, turning my cats loose at night, so they'll bring me strings for fishing rods. All my livestock and villagers are free range, except I sit the ones whole will kill themselves following me into lava and fall damage. And, during my ten year sabbatical, the devs have introduced multiple versions of dirt that celebrity TH-camr and their cohorts use liberally now on their very famous SMP builds! In between world travel, luxury purchases and selling merch and server memberships, and exploiting the volunteer labor of children who are fans! I know the devs are beige, European, primarily cis het males living in ignorant privilege. One need look no farther than Notch. And never forget to whom he sold us out! I'll be sharing this video with my meager social media contacts. Because, not only are you right, you're a great editor and funny as hell!
Great content bro
😭 thank you
Yeaah let me uninstall minecraft from my kids' iPad real quick. We'll be right back.
no no let the kid play! its harmless!
This is genuine stupidity
thank goodness. at least one person got the joke! I was worried
@@theflak3zit’s not really presented as a joke, I think too many people actually think this way for it to be commonly taken that way.
Thought i was watching someone w 50k subs, genuinely shocked when i saw 200. Awesome content :)
Thank you so much for saying that! I’m glad you enjoyed
"I'm in this picture and I don't like it"
embrace it
I be tethered 2 the grind
RIP @Maple_beeeef
banger as always
🥰
The clip of you falling into the lava genuinely made my heart race
🫡 apologies
I too wish I lived in creative mode
just barely out of reach
This one farm kid dying became your canon event
My entire life has been defined by the farm kid
Borrowed Chibi Robo from a friend as a kid and loved it, but could never find it being sold anywhere used or otherwise which was a bummer, but last time I saw a copy for it at a shop around 6ish years ago it was 200$ then the next time less than a year later it was like $500 and it was then that I knew I would never own the game sadly. That said I did end up learning there was a sequel, like an actual sequel involving Jenni as a single mother, that was released only in Japan on the DS which after having got a copy and played it I found part of the reason it might have stayed in Japan was that it had a full-blown casino in it run by a toy mafia of sorts. That all said I was very sad to learn that the studio that made the series was closed after the failing of Ziplash, but some of the devs from the studio have successfully funded a kickstarter for a spiritual successor to the original game so that's kinda cool.
I am really looking forward to their new game! I know that they want to really capture the essence of the first title so I am excited.
@@theflak3z Same here.
In Donnel we trust
God Bless Donnel
Lon'zu with cordelia because hot couple was literally my train of thougth 😂
yet another person of exquisite taste and culture!! 😊
Tiki in the thumbnail but she shows up twice in the video For shame
she is but one of many waifus I am afraid
Thankfully, Awakening isn't too brutal about permadeath being on since you get flavia and Basilo(?) in the late game and chrom gets powerful tools and is good anyway. As is robin. And the child units. And so on.
true I had plenty to work with!
Why did we made almost the same pairs in our first awakening playthrough? Were they really that obvious?
ur just a person of exquisite taste!
When I got Fire Emblem on my game boy sp I would treat the battles like a puzzle and start the map over if anyone died until I figured it out.
this is the way
Commenting for Donnel
ur a real one
I don't trust what internet tells me to do so for the first game that I've finished (Engage) I chose Normal and Casual. Tried Awakening too later on (due to me onwing an used copy way before it was hella rare) but I dropped it, too boring compared to Toku Emblem.
it moves pretty slowly tbh
What happened to my comment?
what was ur comment?! I don’t think I saw it
I never bothered with Permadeath mode in Fire Emblem. I can take losing a fight, but I refuse to lose a unit just because of a screwup on my part or because of an ambush I didn't predict. I also prefer pairing Donnel with either Tharja or Sully & Gaius with Nowi. Marrying Donnel & Gaius with either Nowi, Sully, or Tharja is the ONLY way to give the Pegasus Knight classes to Nah, Kjelle, or Noire! I know the Avatar can do that too of course, but I like experimenting with all the different pairings so that's not always possible for me. I also made sure that Virion & Henry get married off so they get unambiguously happy endings.
yeah I feel like the internet is like YOU HAVE TO PLAY PERMADEATH... but maybe we should offer the alternative too??? some people like it when their units survive
@@theflak3z I've only taken certain kinds of advice from the internet. I use guides to an extent so I know where to find the good stuff on certain maps. I've also used guides to help me decide on certain pairings. Anything else I disregard. I'll decide how I want to play & which game mechanics I'll engage with. If the devs wanted us to ONLY use Permadeath, then they wouldn't have bothered giving us the option to turn it off. I'm also willing to bet that some people probably aren't being honest when they say they play with permadeath either.
@@theflak3zYou know what they say, you're not playing Fire Emblem unless you angrily restart the chapter because the unit you were going to bench anyways dies to a 3% crit
Played Awakening last year, thought I could go through the entire game without bonding with anyone... Then Tharja came along.
a person of culture I see
pimkjn
true
Basically the only thing i remember about Awakening is that Donnel has literally the most busted stat growth in the game, (if not series) enabling him to basically become a god among men. He didnt even need to change classes, he would just obliterate everything with his E-tier copper spear
wish I had been able to experience this 😭 found out much later how busted he was
It's fun to hear about how chaotic it was to start of Classic. I was only perhaps 8 or 9 and just shared the cartridge from my older brother, and chose the easy mode because I didn't want to think. I then proceeded not to think much, best seen with pairing up Lissa with Robin because she "couldn't fight at all!" and such. But when Owain with MY Pink hair rolled up, it ticked something in my brain. I may had not played well, but I certainly played Shipping Simulator like a pro LOL. Some were ultimately a bit odd, but I loved doing it. But for some reason, my next thought was to do Lunatic next. And I became excessively optimized there. When Chapter 2 hit me like a truck, it's the strongest of strategies from there ONLY. And if anything goes wrong... L+R+Start. While I wrote out Shipping Charts for the optimized kids and cute pairings, plugged in info to stat calculators to find good class routes, and ultimately was super careful, I reset a TON trying to keep everybody alive while still using every unit I could. What a foolish mistake that was... I sadly resorted to buying the EXP DLC map in the end. Oh and to add to the Waifu wars, that Lunatic playthrough I S-ranked Anna. I wanted a Robinsexual character so I could try and use every unit, but I didn't want to wait until Tiki for Morgan. But Anna turned out to be an amazing unit! I always thought Anna was very pretty, so... she was my first true "Waifu". "Best Girl" as they say.
glad you found your waifu :)
I had a similar scenario, but there was not a happy ending. I was playing FE Engage for the first time, no game knowledge, classic mode, long story short everyone died except for Alear because Alear can't die unless you want a game over screen, that playthrough made me a cautious player
oh nooooooo this is terrible!
yay is me
monch monch
Nowi is the best wife.
speak to that!
Bro, this video is peak and completely sums up my awakening experience... I will never, never forget when a 2% crit crited and destroyed Cordelia. I was in that map for about 40 minutes, at the end, so, sorry Cordelia, but you will not be forgotten... That changed something inside of me...
NOOOOOO RIP Cordelia
Great video, when it comes to pairings, I too go with whoever I like the most be paired. But there’s always that ONE unit that gets to be forever alone. Sometimes it’s Henry or Ricken, so one of them is all like “what the hell?!” As everyone else is getting married. Classic. I only really have three go to ships for my playthroughs. Chrom and Sumia, just for conveniences, Cordelia and Gregor, because that shit just works. And finally me with… SAY’RI (wow)!!!
Say'ri is WOW
7:04 the implication that Nah is Tiki’s daughter and that kellam was the lucky bastard who landed her… better than what we get in canon. *shudders at Nowi* why, FE? Just stop with this trope! Also that ending when we saw your couples, yeah I can Chromia as canon but we all knew who you paired Robin with from a mile away… THARJA (wow)!
HOW DID YOU GUESS? also yeah the nowi trope is yikes
@@theflak3zwhy the hell did I put in the wrong time stamp? 6:33
Nice video! Currently, the method I''m pairing units by is the quality of their ending paragraph
good methodology!!
You will be hearing from my lawyers
are you making a reservation at my Italian restaurant?🙂
Awakening was my first FE game and i was not prepared for how much 3Houses would completely explode me :) have you ever played that game? I played Awakening like over 4 times and im on a 5th or 6th run rn just for fun haha but im pretty much building my units' stats and levels haha. Interesting pair list you have! I was super shocked you paired Henry with Miriel. Have you seen his supports with Olivia?! But in the end I cant decide on pairing him with her or *THARJA* so... i gave himself to me :) gave Olivia Stahl and Tharja to Lon'qu!
Tharja Lonqu is TOO MUCH TO HANDLE and yes 3 Houses absolutely ruined me too! (I’ll have to go back and check out Henry/Olivia thanks for the info)
@@theflak3z if you could, it'd be beyond wonderful if you could do a video covering 3Houses! even subbed for Donnel! :)
Instant sub
😍
Im playing Fates for the first time, and ive literally given up on skills and decided to only use master seals to promote haha
definitely easier than using a spreadsheet HAHAHA
Don't give up, man. It'll be really funny when you get a samurai ninja Maid with maxed out skill who one shots enemies. I assure you, the real point of Fates is to make the most absurdist build humanly possible and then win with it.
This is really good, I hope you keep making videos like this. The narrative is engaging, and has good flow. The memes and running-gags add to the humour without becoming over-used or cringe. And the story you've told is similar to my own experience of playing Awakening; very relatable.
i’m glad you enjoyed it! and thanks for the feedback I really appreciate it
Lmao Virion got no maidens
the man was a little desperate HAHAHA
Sorry for the weird ass audio btw... tbh I have no idea why it got so screwed up but NEXT video will be CLEAN AF
Chrom caught me off guard in the beginning lolzzzz
no you
THARJA!!!!!!!
TEAM THARJA
Bro thinks he’s louie tooie
you are what you eat...
We know it’s you Louie…
How could you do that to my kind 😱😭😭
don't knock it til you've tried it
This entire video reaks off dandori issue. Also olimar talks about specific events like pikmin disappearing at night, them dying to bomb rocks, and total pikmin wipeout
unfortunately I never learned how to read... so there was literally no way for me to know any information that would have helped :(
I feel like the body and flower would be the poisonous parts, not their limbs
trust me I am Louie
Mmmm _watery_
That red pikmin, unlike the fiery bulblax, is coming out that oven as crispy as it came in I'm afraid