I used to make the mistake of skipping the sponsor segments at the end. Now I have to go back and re-watch the old episodes again to hear the jokes I missed. Yahtzee has firmly joined Conan O'Brien on my ad read exception list.
The Incogni plug was the right way to do an ad. Make it funny like the rest of the video instead of Jack just reading a script at the start. Glad you guys don't have to plug Raid. I'll bet that tormented Yahtzee.
I thank turn of the millennium era reality television for teaching me as a young lad that there were way better ways to spend my time than watching TV (like video games!).
My partner likes reality tv and i catch myself thinking why would anyone watch this mindless slop and then I consider what I do with my time (watch videos about Yu-Gi-Oh cards on TH-cam) and remember that it's basically just as brainless lol
Yup. It's like [c]rap music; it's unilaterally god awful, insanely annoying in any public situation, and there's no apparent indicator of why any sane person would like it. ...and those Motorists that blare the stuff while driving, should be on some kind of register and banned from driving for life 😂 . (there's no way in the known universe to drive safely while self-deafened, rather the burk in question is a liability to everyone around them)
This is going way way back, but that reminds me of Yahtzee's review of and my feelings about No More Heroes. It has all these stupid boring busywork activities you have to do between the fun combat bits, and the game is like "But we're doing it ironically, for style reasons!" And Yahtzee and I were both saying "Boring busywork for (supposed) irony and style reasons is still boring busywork." I threw up my hands and stopped playing when I hit a point where I did all the busywork and the game told me "fuck you, you don't get to do the fun combat this time".
@@arcanum3000 Much like Duke Nukem Forever with a bit where he comes up to a valve puzzle and says, "I hate valve puzzle." Instead of the game understanding why it is boring and just allowing us to mow through it with great violence it instead forces you to actually do it. If one knows something is either tedious or boring then why include it at all? And yes I know picking out faults in DNF is like finding grass in Central Park but still. It is one of the first things that comes to my mind with this "ironic busywork".
@@arcanum3000 I remember his commentary on Claptrap from Borderlands. “I think this character is SUPPOSED to be annoying [but] intentionally annoying is STILL ANNOYING!” I love this style of reasoning. I use it when people try to defend a movie or game I think is bad by explaining what the designer was “going for.” Intentions end where execution begins. If something is insufferable, I don’t really care what the maker’s intentions were before they started doing the insufferable thing.
@@SkepticKnight Yeah... My ex got me into Borderlands when I was still a Halo and MoH player. She absolutely LOVED Claptrap, thought he was the funniest and cutest thing going. That's when I realised our relationship might not survive...
The way Yahtzee talked about the gameplay rewarding you for pointing the camera at banal stuff instead of the character drama, reminded me of _Night Trap,_ where there is a "plot" happening, but you're not allowed to look at it, because if you spend any less than 100% of your time catching Augers in _Home Alone_ traps, you game over. Great game design.
Reminds me of a game called The Final Station, which I actually thought handled the concept in a vaguely interesting way. The premise is you're a train conductor moving packages and survivors around during the apocalypse. Survivors will talk amongst themselves while you're busy working, so you only catch snippets of their conversations about what's really going on, because keeping the train moving is your real main priority. It could be frustrating, but I also kind of liked the ambiguous storytelling of feeling like you're just trying to keep your head above water while the world crumbles and you don't have the luxury to stop and ask too many questions.
Yeah but in Night Trap the whole point is that the sleepover stuff is essentially a distraction for the player from doing your actual job. Rewarding the player for staring at inanimate objects seems like such a misstep for a game like this
@@squmulonimbus Having played through the game the inanimate objects aren't that less interesting than the 5-6 interactions the characters like to repeat daily anyway
Yahztee has now used the "is sexually attracted to dolphins" joke enough times to move it from strangely random absurdist joke to concerningly actual fetish of the writer.
The carabiner for girls is a lesbian joke. Lesbian butches often wear carabiners in every day outfits as a code for other lesbians to know. That way they can flirt in public more easily, especially if the other person also has a gay signifier. Some of these codes have died out with the rise of queer-inclusion in dating apps, but they're still important cultural signifiers and memes.
Thanks for the information. Bit of a weird thing to have in there as a joke, but I suppose that's because it's a joke for those that would know just like it was a signal for lesbians that would know.
Seems like one of those dumb ideas that gets into people's heads, like how it used to be that a man wearing an earing on one side of the ear meant one thing and wearing on the other side meant he was gay. It's just idiotic, because it's basically trying to send a hidden signal without outing yourself, but either the signal is too obvious and everybody knows (like the earing) or its too subtle and doesn't signal anything at all (like the carabiner). Though it makes perfect sense to me that men would err on being too obvious while women would err on being too subtle.
@@Kio_Kurashi Yeah for sure, I laughed my head off when I saw it and my friend who was watching my play didn't get it. I had to explain it to him. Then the symbol came up for gay men and we're like "That has to mean something". So we looked it up and were pleasantly educated and got a good laugh at it.
@@darkfool2000 Such is the problem when the people who are needing those signals are in such a minorty that they aren't really able to spread such information widly enough to make it understood without making it very obvious to everyone else. (Not to mention just fully taking over something that might have been a completely normal thing before. Ex: The earring thing.)
Just to explain it in case nobody else has, the Carabiner is often used as a symbol for lesbians. There is like, a history to it and why but the short is that carabiner = lesbian.
Reminds me of a former colleague (male) of mine who had a carabiner on his keychain, because he and his wife were avid climbers. They're just convenient and well made
Yep. Originally adopted due to its functionality over form aesthetics, which appealed to a certain type of lesbian who wanted to reject the functionally useless but allegedly pretty feminine aesthetic, it's since been adopted as a symbol of lesbianism within itself. And you can put your keys on it. Smart move by the rug-munchers. I applaud them.
Yep! A ring of keys on a carabiner is an old school lesbian thing. Someone on the dev team knows what’s up. makes me want to get the game, honestly lol
The Carabiner is sort of a internal Lesbian Signifier, i believe specifically for the Butch subculture. I could not tell you the etymology of it, but all that i know is that lesbians dig carabiners and use them to sort of signal to other lesbians
@@concinnus They're also a good fit for the "stereotypical working man but a woman" aesthetic that certain strains of butchness are going for, along with the buzzcuts and the denim jackets and whatnot.
As a Dutch person, I'll claim this win. But it's actually supposed to be "Deutsch angle" aka German angle, because early German expressionist cinema was wacky like that.
@@Lilliathi This is an amazing fact! I have a degree in cinema studies (lol) and never learned about the etymology of Dutch Angle. Thanks for sharing!
Someone standing with their back to a statue of Mary Whitehouse being the reason you can't film their arse was a funny reference I reckon not too many people will get.
@@Khaim.m Well the "short" version is if there was a British equivalent to the Satanic Panic, she was the main figurehead of it, an old woman who decided she was the morality police and ran an organisation that campaigned against anything violent, at all sexual, blasphemous, or even just slightly bad language, particularly in films, on tv and radio. So someone coincidentally "censoring" themself from having their arse put on TV by leaning against a statue if her that exists for some reason is the basis for the joke. Not quite as punchy after having to read all that I'm sure.
I glanced off the reference at first but I remember now from a Two Ronnies sketch (tv symbols, including a white house to indicate mary was phoning in)
Given what the main developer of _Tekken 8_ apparently asked over Twitter a few months ago, the latter one might finally be realized. Maybe _Tekken 9_ will cover Costco if so.
Yeah, that is sort of just what Persona does to people. Just to be clear though, I mean that in a very positive way, and you could replace 'Persona' in that sentence with 'a really good game'.
Yahtzee should write all commercials/ads for the channel. I found his incogni ad just as hilarious as the game review and have watched it several times now.
The Aesthetics are the thing that stop me dead, the entire thing looks like it's phase 2 of making us accept Corporate Memphis as a real style so they can use it to replace everything... A Corporate Memphis world where everything is shaped like a thing in the least offensive way possible...
I assume that's intentional, but I don't want to spoil exactly why (it's to do with the "true ending" mentioned), so I'd say just play it and you won't mind after the game becomes clearer as to why.
No, it's just a sign of the state of current terrestrial TV. I've not watched regular TV for about 8 years and have no intentions of going back. Which is why Taskmaster took a while to drop on my radar, but yes it's amazing.
I never thought I would see a game so aptly capture and relay the true experience of “Reality” TV, Which MC Lars famously said was “like Cholestorol, It builds up in the cable starting out small, then no other television can get through, because you’re watching it and they’re watching you”
Yahtzee famously views all women through the lens of terror, confusion and dread. I suspect that's why he's married, now. He was too scared and bewildered to say no.
I mean... could you explain it for the rest of the audience who also doesn't have a lot of approximately a 1% demoographic within their friend circle? -And I say approximate because all the studies I found were polls and also quite old at this point-
@@peterclarke7240at what age does he begin considering females ‘women’? Because I find the idea of him running in horror from his two toddler daughters very funny. An appropriate response to toddlers, frankly
@@emilybarclay8831 I believe Yahtzee is on record as holding similar views about young children as he does about women, so he's basically going to spend the rest of his life in a state of terrified confusion. That's why he has an Emotional Support Chihuahua.
Yessss he’s completing the IceCreamSandwich evolution of surreal ad reads that are almost more entertaining than the video for their creative morbidity
Sounds about as gripping and logical as most actual Reality TV. I say this as someone who watches The Amazing Race, but that's more for the Mario Party-style aspects than the drama parts.
When I saw the trailer for this game, I was intrigued, scared, and fascinated by it as much as I am with Yahtzee's "is sexually attracted to dolphins" joke
I remember thinking the scenario in Danganronpa to be very contrived and thinking "Couldn't they have set it in a documentary soap a la Big Brother?". Figures someone else would have a similar idea.
The format did intrigue me when the first trailer landed at SGF and I did presume the underlying tone would be corporate and almost fourth wall about what actually creates ratings compared to what's actually interesting. Whether that ultimately translates into a fun game of course is another matter, and maybe needed a setting where the drama and interesting elements of the relationships still helped boost ratings instead of the potted plant. As for carabiners, I get the lesbian connotation, but as a more mainstream (potentially demeaning) symbol perhaps scissors would have worked.
4:19 Haven't laughed that hard since the 5th of August 4:52 By the way, one of my bst friends took classes with the producer for the first 6 seasons of Big Brother (Argentinian Version) and infodumped me about it for like 2 straight hours. He showed me all his notes. It's incredible the shit they do and _don't do_ to keep the demographics in. One in particular was a villain planning all his stuff with no producer involvement and then giving them a note just before he did it, or how they brought back an overproduced woman that was extremely prone to public intimacy because her physical appeareance dominated the "less than 11 years old female" category. It's quite crazy. I wish I had taken that class myself XD. I still have a recording of like 2/3rds of said infodump and a slightly blurry picture of the notes somewhere.
@@wintermute5974 Pretty sure it's against the rules to distribute university and institute files, and since his notes contained real time data (like C5N's audience numbers at the time of the class), it would narrow him down to like 8 people. Maybe he'll make a burner and redact the numbers down the line. He's as much or more of a privacy nut as me.
I normally just like and move on with my day... but this video had multiple mental flashbangs that my butt didn't see coming. Product of the 80s, been online since before y2k, and still, completely unprepared for some of these mental images. KUDOS to you, sir.
You really should have Yahtzee doing all of your sponsored segments. He's no Commentiquette, but he at least makes them funny enough for me to want to watch them.
I might play this game. TO me, a game where you play as a cameraman who has to make a video is something that I will find fun even if chunks of my brain fell off all the time
2:14 it's apparently an in-joke in the lgbtq community that lesbians are all into rock climbing. No I do not know where this joke came from, nor how true it actually is.
From what other comments have said, it's not about rock climbing, though that might have been a joke created to explain it to people who aren't lesbian but ask about it. It's instead something that they would accessorize with instead of a more girly piece and then it changed into being a symbol that could be used to identify themselves or others with so that it is easier to flirt in public. The veracity of these claims are unknown to me.
How the hell did I just learn that Yahtzee is the mind behind the Chzo Mythos, a series I was obsessed with for 6 months when when I was 13 and I will always remember as how I know the difference between a fedora and a Trilby Also I now know many other games but none stuck with my like Chzo
I can't possibly forget the first time I saw Yahtzee's description of turn-of-the-milennium reality TV. It was right before I saw the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness defeat the Daleks for the first or second time, depending on whether or not you count defeating the one in "Dalek" as "defeating the Daleks".I do my best to convince myself there was no such thing in the real world for that to have been a parody if anything in reality and just another wacky sci-fi idea straight from Russell T. Davies' mad imagination.
Spoilers Below The entire cast and staff is clones of the original people who were hired, and at the end of every season they’re all killed and replaced with new ones. Two of the original cast members live under the house and are trying to stop this, one by letting everyone escape on a boat and the other by filming the clones get crushed at the end of their season. It’s implied neither option works.
Fully Ramblomatic progressive nu-punk protest song of the week: *Put Your Fist Through The Screen* by *Praise Time Over* (from their album *Learning To Manipulate The System* )
2:18 I don't know if the game is cleverly referencing it or just being kinda random, but carabiners are associated with lesbians. Idk why, we just like being able to clip things to things. Hope that helps!
Returning to reality TV shows of the early 00's and looking at the type of behavior and people we enjoyed and rewarded, it makes you think that maybe we deserve everything that's happening to us now.
Uh. Another game from Devolver Digital where the lenses seem to be a fake television production that exploits voyeurism as rewards. Interesting. And yes I am talking about Hotline Miami. Or maybe Fall guys. Who knows? :)
I guess I'm stupid. I'm a rock climber, so carabiners always ment rock climbing to me, as I use them a lot. So the one I keep on my bag ment something else entirely different than I thought.
it's not a weird sex thing like yahtzee said it's just that a lot of (particularly butch) lesbians will own carabiners whether or not they're climbers. that's probably what it's referring to
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 there's a subculture of rejecting traditional femininity. And the carabeaner being a very function over form product is a nice bit of iconography.
The joke has been so consistent that I really am starting to wonder if Yahtzee has ever stared longingly at a delphinidae and/or been banned from a Sea World for related reasons.
(I'm sure someone's said this already) Carabiners are considered lesbian accessories. We put our keys on it so they jangle and alert interested potential mates that we wanna go down on them for four hours in the back of a Subaru. I know a lot of older lesbians and its been a thing for DECades but recent generations of young gay/bisexual women embraced it as an inside joke whether they are or aren't butch enough to pull it off in their style choices.
Great video, but can we please credit the actual developers next time? Saying the game is "from Devolver Digital" is like saying that Fully Ramblomatic is "from" Second Wind: *kind of* true only in a purely technical sense. (The developer is Nerial, by the way.)
This sounds like the game could use some ways to manipulate the behaviors of the participants while also being more restrictive on your ability to satisfy the viewers.
Use code secondwind at incogni.com/secondwind to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.
I am incredibly sad "I fuck dolphins" is not included in the "What popular content creators have to say" section of the Incogni website.
I used to make the mistake of skipping the sponsor segments at the end. Now I have to go back and re-watch the old episodes again to hear the jokes I missed. Yahtzee has firmly joined Conan O'Brien on my ad read exception list.
Twelve Minutes is a good game.
The Incogni plug was the right way to do an ad. Make it funny like the rest of the video instead of Jack just reading a script at the start. Glad you guys don't have to plug Raid. I'll bet that tormented Yahtzee.
@@wilford_brimley Might be fun to watch if they still write it themselves!
I thank turn of the millennium era reality television for teaching me as a young lad that there were way better ways to spend my time than watching TV (like video games!).
My partner likes reality tv and i catch myself thinking why would anyone watch this mindless slop and then I consider what I do with my time (watch videos about Yu-Gi-Oh cards on TH-cam) and remember that it's basically just as brainless lol
Yup. It's like [c]rap music; it's unilaterally god awful, insanely annoying in any public situation, and there's no apparent indicator of why any sane person would like it.
...and those Motorists that blare the stuff while driving, should be on some kind of register and banned from driving for life 😂 .
(there's no way in the known universe to drive safely while self-deafened, rather the burk in question is a liability to everyone around them)
"Being boring for stylistic reasons doesn't make you less boring"
Dammit. My whole life is a lie.
This is going way way back, but that reminds me of Yahtzee's review of and my feelings about No More Heroes. It has all these stupid boring busywork activities you have to do between the fun combat bits, and the game is like "But we're doing it ironically, for style reasons!" And Yahtzee and I were both saying "Boring busywork for (supposed) irony and style reasons is still boring busywork." I threw up my hands and stopped playing when I hit a point where I did all the busywork and the game told me "fuck you, you don't get to do the fun combat this time".
@@arcanum3000 Much like Duke Nukem Forever with a bit where he comes up to a valve puzzle and says, "I hate valve puzzle." Instead of the game understanding why it is boring and just allowing us to mow through it with great violence it instead forces you to actually do it. If one knows something is either tedious or boring then why include it at all?
And yes I know picking out faults in DNF is like finding grass in Central Park but still. It is one of the first things that comes to my mind with this "ironic busywork".
@@arcanum3000 I remember his commentary on Claptrap from Borderlands. “I think this character is SUPPOSED to be annoying [but] intentionally annoying is STILL ANNOYING!”
I love this style of reasoning. I use it when people try to defend a movie or game I think is bad by explaining what the designer was “going for.”
Intentions end where execution begins. If something is insufferable, I don’t really care what the maker’s intentions were before they started doing the insufferable thing.
@@SkepticKnight Yeah... My ex got me into Borderlands when I was still a Halo and MoH player. She absolutely LOVED Claptrap, thought he was the funniest and cutest thing going.
That's when I realised our relationship might not survive...
The way Yahtzee talked about the gameplay rewarding you for pointing the camera at banal stuff instead of the character drama, reminded me of _Night Trap,_ where there is a "plot" happening, but you're not allowed to look at it, because if you spend any less than 100% of your time catching Augers in _Home Alone_ traps, you game over. Great game design.
Reminds me of a game called The Final Station, which I actually thought handled the concept in a vaguely interesting way. The premise is you're a train conductor moving packages and survivors around during the apocalypse. Survivors will talk amongst themselves while you're busy working, so you only catch snippets of their conversations about what's really going on, because keeping the train moving is your real main priority. It could be frustrating, but I also kind of liked the ambiguous storytelling of feeling like you're just trying to keep your head above water while the world crumbles and you don't have the luxury to stop and ask too many questions.
Yeah but in Night Trap the whole point is that the sleepover stuff is essentially a distraction for the player from doing your actual job. Rewarding the player for staring at inanimate objects seems like such a misstep for a game like this
@@squmulonimbus Having played through the game the inanimate objects aren't that less interesting than the 5-6 interactions the characters like to repeat daily anyway
Yahztee has now used the "is sexually attracted to dolphins" joke enough times to move it from strangely random absurdist joke to concerningly actual fetish of the writer.
Yep. That credit scene had me in stitches several times 🤣
He crossed that line a LOOOOOOONG time again, man.
Jotaro and Yahtzee fanfic coming up in T-minus.....
I do hear quite a few dolphins are anthropophiles and sexually attracted to us.
You should see how often he's talked about having sex with or jacking off a horse
The carabiner for girls is a lesbian joke. Lesbian butches often wear carabiners in every day outfits as a code for other lesbians to know. That way they can flirt in public more easily, especially if the other person also has a gay signifier.
Some of these codes have died out with the rise of queer-inclusion in dating apps, but they're still important cultural signifiers and memes.
Thanks for the information. Bit of a weird thing to have in there as a joke, but I suppose that's because it's a joke for those that would know just like it was a signal for lesbians that would know.
Seems like one of those dumb ideas that gets into people's heads, like how it used to be that a man wearing an earing on one side of the ear meant one thing and wearing on the other side meant he was gay. It's just idiotic, because it's basically trying to send a hidden signal without outing yourself, but either the signal is too obvious and everybody knows (like the earing) or its too subtle and doesn't signal anything at all (like the carabiner). Though it makes perfect sense to me that men would err on being too obvious while women would err on being too subtle.
@@Kio_Kurashi Yeah for sure, I laughed my head off when I saw it and my friend who was watching my play didn't get it. I had to explain it to him. Then the symbol came up for gay men and we're like "That has to mean something". So we looked it up and were pleasantly educated and got a good laugh at it.
@@darkfool2000 Such is the problem when the people who are needing those signals are in such a minorty that they aren't really able to spread such information widly enough to make it understood without making it very obvious to everyone else. (Not to mention just fully taking over something that might have been a completely normal thing before. Ex: The earring thing.)
@@darkfool2000Plausible deniability.
Hey, I though you said Yahtzee was dead!
No, what I said was “he sleeps with the fishes”
*adjusts glasses*
Ackchyually, dolphins aren't fish they are mammals
theaH202, please, no! I just ate a whole plate of dingamagoo
Very good pull.
Just to explain it in case nobody else has, the Carabiner is often used as a symbol for lesbians. There is like, a history to it and why but the short is that carabiner = lesbian.
*blinks* Well that's a term I've never heard before....
Reminds me of a former colleague (male) of mine who had a carabiner on his keychain, because he and his wife were avid climbers. They're just convenient and well made
@@FubukiTheIcyKing To be fair, unless you're a lesbian, you don't really *need* to know this :)
Yep. Originally adopted due to its functionality over form aesthetics, which appealed to a certain type of lesbian who wanted to reject the functionally useless but allegedly pretty feminine aesthetic, it's since been adopted as a symbol of lesbianism within itself.
And you can put your keys on it. Smart move by the rug-munchers. I applaud them.
Yep! A ring of keys on a carabiner is an old school lesbian thing. Someone on the dev team knows what’s up. makes me want to get the game, honestly lol
Had to look it up to learn the word is not "apophasia," but "apophasis: An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned."
The Carabiner is sort of a internal Lesbian Signifier, i believe specifically for the Butch subculture. I could not tell you the etymology of it, but all that i know is that lesbians dig carabiners and use them to sort of signal to other lesbians
This is the upside to comment sections: genuinely learning something new.
Having the carabiner on one side of your belt lets others know you're a top, the other side means you're a bottom. Don't remember which is which.
They make fairly practical keychains to those whose pants have bad pockets and who find purses unacceptable.
@@concinnus They're also a good fit for the "stereotypical working man but a woman" aesthetic that certain strains of butchness are going for, along with the buzzcuts and the denim jackets and whatnot.
@@matthewwhiteside4619 so it's like lesbian handkerchiefs?
"Dutch Angle" is my favorite toilet seat position.
As a Dutch person, I'll claim this win. But it's actually supposed to be "Deutsch angle" aka German angle, because early German expressionist cinema was wacky like that.
I, too, have tried to pee with a boner.
@@Lilliathi This is an amazing fact! I have a degree in cinema studies (lol) and never learned about the etymology of Dutch Angle. Thanks for sharing!
Your housekeeper hates you.
"you lost ese" this is my favourite thing I've heard a spider say
Someone standing with their back to a statue of Mary Whitehouse being the reason you can't film their arse was a funny reference I reckon not too many people will get.
You're probably right. I certainly don't get it.
@@Pyroniusburn it made me laugh so much because of how niche it is
@@Khaim.m Well the "short" version is if there was a British equivalent to the Satanic Panic, she was the main figurehead of it, an old woman who decided she was the morality police and ran an organisation that campaigned against anything violent, at all sexual, blasphemous, or even just slightly bad language, particularly in films, on tv and radio.
So someone coincidentally "censoring" themself from having their arse put on TV by leaning against a statue if her that exists for some reason is the basis for the joke. Not quite as punchy after having to read all that I'm sure.
@@Pyroniusburn right, so UK humor us Yanks wouldn't get. Got it
I glanced off the reference at first but I remember now from a Two Ronnies sketch (tv symbols, including a white house to indicate mary was phoning in)
0:16 Video games have yet to depict the brawls at Costco over rotisserie chicken or whatever the deal with Waffle House is.
Given what the main developer of _Tekken 8_ apparently asked over Twitter a few months ago, the latter one might finally be realized. Maybe _Tekken 9_ will cover Costco if so.
It’s always a shame when a genuinely unique idea doesn’t have enough of a gameplay leg to stand on
Yahtzee really mentions Persona every chance he gets
He's in the waiting phase for a new persona game and the signs of him struggling with that are showing.
That just happens to any Persona fan waiting for Atlus to stop milking the current game and make a sequel. It'll pass...eventually.
Yeah, that is sort of just what Persona does to people. Just to be clear though, I mean that in a very positive way, and you could replace 'Persona' in that sentence with 'a really good game'.
Well, looks like Metaphor is the closest thing we're getting to Persona 6 for the foreseeable future
@@eclipsicalbluestocking1182 Yeah, that's why I'm definitely going to check it out this October. 😅
2:41 as an Iranian I appreciate the usage of dictator pics
Good luck. Make Persia great again.
Yahtzee should write all commercials/ads for the channel. I found his incogni ad just as hilarious as the game review and have watched it several times now.
There’s something almost poetic about breaking a reality show game by going full Andy Warhol.
Ah yes the long awaited sequel to Michigan: Report From Hell
hey thank you for your LaD guides🔥
Wait. It did exist, I didnt candle cove it
Yahtzee?! Yahtzee?! Yahtzee! AWWHHHHH MAHHH GAAAAAWD!
Didnt expect to see you here Aniki
It's THE John Yakuza! That's rad!
The Aesthetics are the thing that stop me dead, the entire thing looks like it's phase 2 of making us accept Corporate Memphis as a real style so they can use it to replace everything... A Corporate Memphis world where everything is shaped like a thing in the least offensive way possible...
I assume that's intentional, but I don't want to spoil exactly why (it's to do with the "true ending" mentioned), so I'd say just play it and you won't mind after the game becomes clearer as to why.
The End quip about taskmaster feels like I'm being called out
What was the quip?
@@NoXion1006:53
Ditto. I recommend Game Changer, it has a similar vibe.
No, it's just a sign of the state of current terrestrial TV. I've not watched regular TV for about 8 years and have no intentions of going back.
Which is why Taskmaster took a while to drop on my radar, but yes it's amazing.
I'm just happy he also likes taskmaster
"guinea pig disappearing under a lawnmower" made me actually laugh out loud in a mix of shock and realization that I could actually envision that
The Taskmaster quip at the end is so real oh my god it's such a good show
I... I think the carabiner is a lesbian thing?
Yes, it definitely is.
Yep
its definitely a lesbian thing
Correct.
it is 200% a lesbian thing
Yahtzee is a fan of Taskmaster? Another reason to love the man.
You seem easily impressed
I never thought I would see a game so aptly capture and relay the true experience of “Reality” TV, Which MC Lars famously said was “like Cholestorol, It builds up in the cable starting out small, then no other television can get through, because you’re watching it and they’re watching you”
"... and people who are inordinately intrigued by sofa cushions."
JD, is that you?
2:15 Yahtzee apparently doesn't have enough lesbian friends.
Yahtzee famously views all women through the lens of terror, confusion and dread.
I suspect that's why he's married, now. He was too scared and bewildered to say no.
I mean... could you explain it for the rest of the audience who also doesn't have a lot of approximately a 1% demoographic within their friend circle? -And I say approximate because all the studies I found were polls and also quite old at this point-
@@peterclarke7240at what age does he begin considering females ‘women’? Because I find the idea of him running in horror from his two toddler daughters very funny. An appropriate response to toddlers, frankly
@@emilybarclay8831 I believe Yahtzee is on record as holding similar views about young children as he does about women, so he's basically going to spend the rest of his life in a state of terrified confusion.
That's why he has an Emotional Support Chihuahua.
@@peterclarke7240 Y'all are weirdos
Yessss he’s completing the IceCreamSandwich evolution of surreal ad reads that are almost more entertaining than the video for their creative morbidity
Sounds about as gripping and logical as most actual Reality TV. I say this as someone who watches The Amazing Race, but that's more for the Mario Party-style aspects than the drama parts.
When I saw the trailer for this game, I was intrigued, scared, and fascinated by it as much as I am with Yahtzee's "is sexually attracted to dolphins" joke
"OK Yahtz, for this episode we're really trying to reach the dolphin-molestation-joke demographic."
That ad had a definite Troy McClure vibe to it.
Still channeling that old Zero Punctuation energy 🎉
@@TheGiggleMasterP In a very similar and yet legally distinct fashion no less!
If anything he was channeling that old fully ramblomatic energy when it was ZP and now he is fully back to form!
@@Jurrseph I guess that makes Fully Ramblomatic the "Bloodstain: Ritual of the Night" of youtube shows.
I remember thinking the scenario in Danganronpa to be very contrived and thinking "Couldn't they have set it in a documentary soap a la Big Brother?". Figures someone else would have a similar idea.
The format did intrigue me when the first trailer landed at SGF and I did presume the underlying tone would be corporate and almost fourth wall about what actually creates ratings compared to what's actually interesting. Whether that ultimately translates into a fun game of course is another matter, and maybe needed a setting where the drama and interesting elements of the relationships still helped boost ratings instead of the potted plant.
As for carabiners, I get the lesbian connotation, but as a more mainstream (potentially demeaning) symbol perhaps scissors would have worked.
Scissors would have me in stitches.
As soon as I saw the cover art, I knew it was by Devolver Digital.
Is it because they're devolving digitally?
Looks like the art they use in every single commercial.
The way yatz describes the gameplay loop kinda reminds me of BRTV, the game he made as part of his 12 games in 12 months over on the escapists
2:08 JD Vance (allegedly but probably not but maybe)
(But definitely)
That incogni ad at the end lol
"Filming the same stuff over and over again" Yep, that's reality TV in a nutshell
This might possibly be the best ad break Yahtzee has ever done
Oh wow, didn't know zero punctuation still exists. Happy to stumble across this channel.
The ‘candy heart contact lenses’ generated a lol loud enough to wake the entire house this morning :)
Taskmaster is oddly satisfying to watch, and I have seen them all now.
Don't call me paranoid, but between all the subtle references he's made, i think it's possible Yahtzee may have a dolphin fetish
Hell yeah finally yatzee does an ad read
I love it!
4:19 Haven't laughed that hard since the 5th of August
4:52 By the way, one of my bst friends took classes with the producer for the first 6 seasons of Big Brother (Argentinian Version) and infodumped me about it for like 2 straight hours. He showed me all his notes. It's incredible the shit they do and _don't do_ to keep the demographics in. One in particular was a villain planning all his stuff with no producer involvement and then giving them a note just before he did it, or how they brought back an overproduced woman that was extremely prone to public intimacy because her physical appeareance dominated the "less than 11 years old female" category. It's quite crazy. I wish I had taken that class myself XD. I still have a recording of like 2/3rds of said infodump and a slightly blurry picture of the notes somewhere.
You should ask your friend if you can put it online somewhere. Sounds like an interesting piece of history.
@@wintermute5974 Pretty sure it's against the rules to distribute university and institute files, and since his notes contained real time data (like C5N's audience numbers at the time of the class), it would narrow him down to like 8 people. Maybe he'll make a burner and redact the numbers down the line. He's as much or more of a privacy nut as me.
I normally just like and move on with my day... but this video had multiple mental flashbangs that my butt didn't see coming. Product of the 80s, been online since before y2k, and still, completely unprepared for some of these mental images. KUDOS to you, sir.
The carabiner symbol is a reference to lesbians. A way for women to symbolize that they like other women stealthily was wearing a carabiner.
Thanks for explaining. I'd assumed it was a BDSM reference.
Hilariously, I am a lesbian who wears a carabiner for my keys and I had No Idea that was a thing. Convenient, I guess?
I guess it’s Destiny
“screeching like a guinea pig disappearing beneath a running lawnmower” 😂
I love that one Muppet. Always reminds me of that Family Guy scene, heh heh.
Nice to know Yahtzee is also currently bingeing Taskmaster clips
3:01 Is it just me, or does this look like "Corporate Memphis: The Game"?
It does, but that's also probably part of the joke. The game is a little too ironic for its own good.
You really should have Yahtzee doing all of your sponsored segments. He's no Commentiquette, but he at least makes them funny enough for me to want to watch them.
6:05 yeah that high-pitched guitar solo sure does sound like a dolphin's orgasm!
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure!"
2:24 What issue of Penthouse is that
Wow, Incogni would really help as I google what issue of Penthouse that is.
I might play this game. TO me, a game where you play as a cameraman who has to make a video is something that I will find fun even if chunks of my brain fell off all the time
2:14 it's apparently an in-joke in the lgbtq community that lesbians are all into rock climbing. No I do not know where this joke came from, nor how true it actually is.
From what other comments have said, it's not about rock climbing, though that might have been a joke created to explain it to people who aren't lesbian but ask about it. It's instead something that they would accessorize with instead of a more girly piece and then it changed into being a symbol that could be used to identify themselves or others with so that it is easier to flirt in public.
The veracity of these claims are unknown to me.
How the hell did I just learn that Yahtzee is the mind behind the Chzo Mythos, a series I was obsessed with for 6 months when when I was 13 and I will always remember as how I know the difference between a fedora and a Trilby
Also I now know many other games but none stuck with my like Chzo
I'll give em this much: I've never played a "Thirst Person Shooter" before, so it has got that going for it.
Glad to see the return of the dolphin thing 😂
I need to see the other levels and find out more about the missing member, also figure out why our original self seems so unhappy with us!!!
That last comment about Taskmaster, that's me 100%, only thing I watch, and only because it's here on YT.
2:07 Like J D Vance?
I can't possibly forget the first time I saw Yahtzee's description of turn-of-the-milennium reality TV. It was right before I saw the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness defeat the Daleks for the first or second time, depending on whether or not you count defeating the one in "Dalek" as "defeating the Daleks".I do my best to convince myself there was no such thing in the real world for that to have been a parody if anything in reality and just another wacky sci-fi idea straight from Russell T. Davies' mad imagination.
Me upon reading the ending message: Fair enough mate. Taskmaster is basically the best one right now.
Ah yes this one's gonna be fun!
Ag, I wanted spoilers about what the plot was really leading to
Spoilers Below
The entire cast and staff is clones of the original people who were hired, and at the end of every season they’re all killed and replaced with new ones. Two of the original cast members live under the house and are trying to stop this, one by letting everyone escape on a boat and the other by filming the clones get crushed at the end of their season. It’s implied neither option works.
Fully Ramblomatic progressive nu-punk protest song of the week:
*Put Your Fist Through The Screen* by *Praise Time Over* (from their album *Learning To Manipulate The System* )
So how do we just get a reality show manager game without all the silliness that exists within this game?
oooh an intense, still shot of an empty frame? where do I tune in?
2:18 I don't know if the game is cleverly referencing it or just being kinda random, but carabiners are associated with lesbians. Idk why, we just like being able to clip things to things. Hope that helps!
Nice to see Yahtzee is a fellow Taskmaster enjoyer.
Returning to reality TV shows of the early 00's and looking at the type of behavior and people we enjoyed and rewarded, it makes you think that maybe we deserve everything that's happening to us now.
I hated it then, and I hate it now. Sadly I think you're on to something.
We gotta get Yahtzee a Dropout subscription so he can binge Game Changer
Some novelty goes a long, long, long way.
Uh. Another game from Devolver Digital where the lenses seem to be a fake television production that exploits voyeurism as rewards. Interesting.
And yes I am talking about Hotline Miami. Or maybe Fall guys. Who knows? :)
I guess I'm stupid. I'm a rock climber, so carabiners always ment rock climbing to me, as I use them a lot. So the one I keep on my bag ment something else entirely different than I thought.
it's not a weird sex thing like yahtzee said it's just that a lot of (particularly butch) lesbians will own carabiners whether or not they're climbers. that's probably what it's referring to
@@hipsnowsis7374alright now I'm curious. Why?
@hipsnowsis7374 All of the other comments saying that was what I was referring too
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 there's a subculture of rejecting traditional femininity. And the carabeaner being a very function over form product is a nice bit of iconography.
@@siegfread9683 logical I suppose
Hey Yahtzee are you giving Wukong a look? I think it’s pretty good so far?
Wasn't one of Yahtzee's Dev Diary entries about this exact concept? 🤔
If this was themed after Drawn Together, I’d probably be all over this game.
Those poor dolphins.
From Devolver Digital? That's a bit outside of their comfort zone
I've always thought the Devolver philosophy was to be the discomfort zone.
I wasn't aware Devolver HAD a comfort zone. They just sort of do whatever they feel like.
More power to them.
Isnt Devolver’s whole thing supposed to be thinking outside the box and being far away from their comfort zones?
@@Ragetiger1 Technically they're a publisher for other studios now, as someone else noted, and the game was ACTUALLY made by Nerial.
note the Sofa loving dude is off running for public office right now
I had the same problems with the game mechanics when I played the demo. Unfortunately the devs didn't change them before release.
I am glad yhatzee threw out subtlety at the end of the ad read, I would never have known otherwise.
The joke has been so consistent that I really am starting to wonder if Yahtzee has ever stared longingly at a delphinidae and/or been banned from a Sea World for related reasons.
I'd call the aesthetic repellent. It did exactly that to me
(I'm sure someone's said this already) Carabiners are considered lesbian accessories. We put our keys on it so they jangle and alert interested potential mates that we wanna go down on them for four hours in the back of a Subaru. I know a lot of older lesbians and its been a thing for DECades but recent generations of young gay/bisexual women embraced it as an inside joke whether they are or aren't butch enough to pull it off in their style choices.
Great video, but can we please credit the actual developers next time? Saying the game is "from Devolver Digital" is like saying that Fully Ramblomatic is "from" Second Wind: *kind of* true only in a purely technical sense.
(The developer is Nerial, by the way.)
@@sinisterdesign Thank you
Damn, i think Taskmaster is next in my queue too
Good on Devolver for making oddball games, even if some of them do not interest me.
The carabiner thing is a lesbian slang term!
At least as horrifying as its clear spiritual predecessor Michigan Report from Hell. That's quality.
This sounds like the game could use some ways to manipulate the behaviors of the participants while also being more restrictive on your ability to satisfy the viewers.
Damn can't believe the reality TV show is secretly being run by Ruhollah Khomeini.
He sleeps with the fishes, but without any porpoise.