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So there you are, playing Halo 5: Guardians when all of a sudden BOOM you’re now playing as agent Locke, you didn’t ask for this, but yet there you are with fire team Osiris
let me fix that for you so there you are, playing your video game, when all of a sudden, your a black person, you didn't ask for this, you didn't chose this, but there it is
“When you buy Halo 5 to know what happens after Halo 4, and then you play as a cardboard cut out, with four other parasites (except for Buck) latching on to you” You didn’t want this, *YOU DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS*
There are you, playing Monopoly. And all of a sudden... You roll a 4. You didn't choose this you didn't ask for this... Yet there you are, paying $200 for income tax.
Ooof! I hate income tax, usually because I land on it after passing go. And somehow I'm told I'm just bad at the game despite getting no money for three consecutive loops. XD
There you are, fighting for the Republic to preserve peace in the galaxy when all of a sudden.. *BAM!* Your entire Jedi Order has been massacred, a Sith Lord is ruling the Galaxy, and you've been declared an enemy of the state. You didn’t _ask_ for this, you didn’t _choose_ for this, yet there you are fighting your old apprentice to the death on a floating platform over a river of lava.
I've heard "Terrorist's win." playing counter-strike probably a million times since 1999. Never once have I internalized the normalization of terrorism.
Dark Souls normalizes death. This is bad on so many levels since there are billions of people who have died. Imagine how offended they'd be if you died in Dark Souls >:(
@@simondigruber2111 Exactly. Some people die in horrific ways and you have the nerve to get killed by hollows in undead asylum because you forgot how to parry? Disgusting. Your great grandfather who fought in the war would be ashamed.
So there you are, being an Iron Cross, a medal for bravery and courage. And boom. You’re as bad as the Swatstika. You didn’t want this, you didn’t ask for this, but here it is. Edit: the Swatstika is an inverted version of a popular Japanese symbol meaning good luck. They aren’t the same symbol. At all.
So there you are, being a swastika, a symbole with no "real" meaning. And Boom. You're the portrayal of pure hatred. You didn't want this, you didn't ask for this, but here it is.
The reason they used an Iron Cross is due to a change they made a few years ago so they could be seen in Germany. They forgot that for this video. I was shocked.
@@JackEverfree what are you talking about? the black cross or iron cross has been a symbol of german armed forces for centuries. It's to this day the official symbol of the german military! It's not forbidden by any means. Don't get that shit mixed up with the swastika.
There you are, looking at hermoine photos then suddenly, Jk rowling decides you're black. You weren't born like this, you didn't ask for this yet you're now black.
Saying the iron cross is the same as a swastika is way more of an insult than everything they claimed to be problematic in WWII games. It is still used as the symbol for the german military and badge of honor. As a german I take offense in that.
As a Mexican, I am still shocked over this COLOSSAL BLUNDER! But hey, it really sounds like the world treat any national symbol of yours as Nazi. Even if predating such ideology for centuries ago... ugh...
Fuck I’m fairly certain it originated in Prussia anyway the nazis didn’t taint the iron cross they just continued to use it while having a shit ideology That’s like saying the axis are bread therefore anyone who eats bread is a nazi
@@goosebuffz They do. Extra Credits had a previous controversy where they made a video defending lootboxes. That channel has gone to shit. Real shame, they used to be pretty good.
I have hundreds of hours in battlefield 1 that must mean that i have ptsd and a veteran discount and know how to use a smle mark 3 rifle and a mp 18 submachinegun right
There you are, playing Skyrim and all of a sudden.. You walked into an imperial ambush . You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are stuck in a cart with the true high king of skyrim!
I had genuinely always thought that the “you didn’t ask for this” cartoon was just a meme. I had only seen it appear as a clip for a few seconds in other YT videos as a joke, and never knew where it originally came from. I had assumed the original creators (whoever they were) were just memeing as well. But to learn after all these years that it was the actual take of the the original creators, and not just a joke or parody, is bizarre and hilarious.
Oh no, I along with 100s of thousands of people unsubscribed from extra creddits after they unironically asserted that gamers cant tell apart reality and fiction.
There you are being an adventurer, and then all of a sudden you took an arrow to the knee. You didn’t choose this, you didn’t ask for this, yet there u are with an arrow in your knee
@@shua_the_great its all a viewpoint thing ! Even if we shouldn't normalize Nazis we also shouldn't demonize them, thats just as undemocratic as you guys don't want to be, since you are still shunning different opinions.
Reminds me of that George Carlin-skit where he says daycare supervisors will keep freaking out until there are no more games and there is no more running. You're only allowed to stand. Until one child falls over and hurts itself and then it's sitting only!
It was also created back in the early 1800's in Prussia a CENTURY before World War I or II. It was a thing before Hitler founded the NSDAP and took power in Germany.
Theres a reason the game is rated M for mature... because people playing it should be mature enough and old enough to already have a moral compass engraved in to their brain.
There you *were,* playing TF2, red is winning, you're on red, you're so proud. And then suddenly the team scramble happens, and you're on the blu side.
Chris Lopez words belong to no one man, but to all of humanity. Dont try to stop him cuz i want to live in a future where i can say cunt once a say without being imprisoned😁
"There you are playing Baulders Gate 3 then suddenly you a Zoophile, you didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this, but there you are."-some guy who screwed a bear.
It triggers me so much that the Iron Cross gets dragged into mud. If that guy knew that every single tank, plane or any other machinery of the german armed forces has an Iron Cross painted on it he would loose his shit :D
"By the thousandth time you've respawned as a terrorist. You're either celebrating them, or making fun of them." Is making fun of terrorists a bad thing?
There you are, playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and all of a sudden... You're a Sith Lord. You didn't ask for this... you didn't choose this... yet there you are, unquestioningly serving Darth Vader and wiping out the last remnants of the Jedi Order.
Too bad you can't just spend the rest of the game force choking Shaak Ti over and over, *HAWT!* srsly wat a waste, should've had an option to kidnap her or something!
So there you are, playing Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4, as the German Empire and all of the sudden, you are a Kaiser! You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are.
"This shit's real fucked up!" To paraphrase Sweet, you got Dave Grossman buried over there. Jack Thompson over there. And Anita over there. Are we really scrambling to be the new faces of this culture war?
Me: *Joins the German side in pvp.* *My scalp begins itching, upper arm begin stinging.* No... *I grab my hair, it falls out in clumps.* No, no! *I stare at my arm as a red patch forms* Nononono!! *I am now completely bald, and finally a swastika appears on the red patch on my arm.* NNNNNNEEEEEEEIIIIINNNN!!!
Mark Mulumba I mean I am German and on let’s say cod ww2 I would rather Play on the German team not because of my ideology or beliefs because who I am and the team is more interesting
There you are, on the Jedi council. And suddenly... you’re not granted the rank of master. You didn’t choose this.. You didn’t ask for this.. Yet there you are, on the Jedi council and not granted the rank of master
There you are, playing Doom Eternal in your bedroom, ripping and tearing demons into a gory, rotten bolognaise and then all of a sudden… You’ve become a priest! You didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this… but there you are preaching the word of the lord and hoarding off the demonic threat. Stay pure children, and remember to rip and tear the demonic threat in the name of the lord.
There you are, playing Skyrim, and boom, you're patrolling Whiterun because you stopped adventuring when you took an arrow to the knee. You didn't ask for this.
He pointed out that he's not saying that "you become a Nazi by playing as a Nazi," yet he then goes on to explain how that's exactly how that works. They essentially just want people to stop putting Nazis (and terrorists) in video games. Let's take Soviets/commies out too, and demons out of DOOM, and not make the villain of horror games some serial killer/rapists, because we "didn't ask for this."
I'm pretty sure they thought they had a greater point or premise that could actually resonate with people but they absolutely butchered their deliver and presentation
There are you, making a response video. And all of a sudden, you gain a new subscriber. You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are.
Makes me want a Command and Conquer: Red Alert FPS. The story in that, is that Einstein used time travel to kill hitler, and WWII is fought against the Soviets instead.
A brief history of the Iron Cross: The Iron cross is a symbol that came to Germany long long before Hitler was even born. In the 19th Century the Iron cross was an award for valor among Prussian soldiers. And even before that it was a popular symbol among Prussians in the 18th Century. In WW1 it was used by the Kaiser as a somewhat hard to acquire reward given to German soldiers who had committed great feats. Such as taking prisoners from the allied lines. Or leading a successful trench raid. It was a symbol of bravery and courage. The Nazis actually disliked the Iron crosses original message and meaning so they tried hard to change it. And from what I see they did.
A Common Soldier this knowledge needs to be expressed more and accepted as evidence that the symbol isnt always 100% evil but rather have histories themselves
how did the Nazis change it? It stayed exactly the same it was a reward for exceptional military feats. Well, they were commited for the Nazis now and it had the swastika on it but the symbol itself didn't change
There you are, eating your bowl of Lucky Charms cereal when suddenly, you’re a marshmallow. A delicious sugary marshmallow. You didn’t ask this, you didn’t choose this, yet there it is.
There you are, eating your bowl of Lucky Charms cereal when suddenly, ExtraCredits comes in and shits in your bowl. You didn’t ask this, you didn’t choose this, yet there it is.
The Act Man: "We should just call them good guys and bad guys!" Extra Credits: "There you are, playing your generic shooter, and all of a sudden...You're a bad guy! You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this, but there it is!"
Extra Credits is the type of guy to say "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally!" and then proceed to only make fun of minorities or alternatively, Extra Credits is the type of guy to say "Let's hear all sides out!" and then completely shut down the opposition with baseless insults and censorship
That’s like listening to leftists. I’m not racist but all white people are evil and racist but it’s ok because you can’t be racist against white people And the left won’t even say “let’s hear all sides out” they completely shut down and bully everyone that disagrees with them
Oh no. Extra Credits is the type of guy to be explicitly "ANTI RACIST". You know, the ones who believe that future racism will solve past racism. X got discriminated against 50 years ago? Quick, lets sling slurs at and assault Y on the street for justice.
on the other side of the coin... there you are, playing all of duty modern warfare three, when all of the sudden... you're a non-fur, you didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this... yet there it is.... lol.
Then why not just play a shooter where both teams are dressed up in western clothing and there is no plot, set up, or recognizable setting whatsoever? Also that is a terrible example as cowboys were just.......cattle ranchers..........the whole cowboy concept in pop culture is BS. What I mean is, your comparing something based on actual events to something based on old movies and shows.
Equating the Iron Cross to the Swastika is super ignorant and honestly disrespectful to the German people and their rich martial culture. The Iron Cross was in use way before WWII and is still being used today.
Same as the swastika. In fact, the swastika is thousands of years older than even the centuries old Iron Cross. But that symbol is so widely attributed to the Nazis here that I doubt we'll ever see it in its actual historical meaning anymore. We shouldn't let Nazis ruin even more symbols that belong to us, not them. The swastika was bad enough already, it's an ancient indo-European symbol completely ruined. They also want to ruin ancient nordic runes that were used by nazis and German symbols like the iron cross. It has to be stopped because that is not what these symbols stand for, including even the infamous swastika
@@Timbo5000 I wonder how many Americans even know that a Native American basketball team used the Swastika as their symbol long before the Nazis used it? I'm sure that would surprise some people.
Things that normalize nazis: Calling everyone you don't like Nazi. Saying anything that is remotely bad is fascism. Things that DON'T normalize nazis: Playing as a Nazi in a videogame. A game with accurate Nazi symbolism depending on it's lore.
Personally, I feel like showing Nazis a normal people is more important than showing them as generic cartoonish villains. Things like the Nuremberg trials and other WWII documents/photos should serve as a grim reminder of the darkness that even the most regular people are capable of. The fact that nazis were normal people doesn't normalize them; it's what makes them so horrifying. The fact that normal people could be convinced to commit genocide is a lot scarier than evil people doing evil things because they're evil.
That's why video games should have a single player campaign, to show how terrible war really is. EC killed me when they said nazis were forced into service. Truth is, most of them were like us, doing the job they were given in the military.
@@nathanglasovatz8335 or they were legitimately motivated by what they saw as patriotism and service for the greater good of their countrymen. Dehumanizing the enemy like EC is encouraging (and has been the trend of media for decades) is thinking like a propagandist. Showing both sides in a human light is history. Dehumanizing the enemy is exactly what led to the holocaust and ww2 in the first place.
100% this, dehumanizing groups as just being pure evil is one of the worst things you can do. Several studies have shown the awful things that a normal person is capable of doing when put into bad situations. The best thing to do is to be cognizant of this and stay vigilant.
games shouldn't have to shy away from that stuff either. Guarentee you, these same people would be going bonkers if a video game, tv show or anything tried to humanize Nazis during WWII. Yet by trying to silence this type of thing, we are potentially missing out on new perspectives and empathy. (not for the nazi ideology of course.)
@@warbossgegguz679 I would say that patriotism played a large role as well. My family fought in the war on the axis side and from what I can see, they weren't evil, but rather doing there part and supporting the country they lived in. We do the same in the US, we just see it from a different side
There you are, playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, when all of a sudden? Boom, you are Big Boss. You didn't ask for this. You didn't want this. But now you are launching recreational nukes at rival PMCs and fighting Skullface in Afghanistan.
There you are, playin some CSS, and you are forced to be a Counter Terrorist, you didn't want to be one of them, you didn't ask for it, and yet there you are using an M4A1 instead of an CV47
@@tarrker I'd say they've done their research, but they always make a Lies episode after where they cover myths and errors from the series. The History part seems solid. Not sure about the Gaming part.
There you are, sleeping in the womb, and all of a sudden... You've been born. You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet here you are to suffer in this cruel cruel world.
i wish i was born in germany and barged into there office speaking full german..in a prussian uniform..with a iron cross..there gonna call me a nazi..than i gun down the stopid ones..and spare the old and good ones
There you are, posting a comment on an Act Man video and all of a sudden.... he replies. You didn't ask for this. You didn't CHOOSE this. Yet there he is.
The part that pissed me off most about this video is equating German iron cross with Nazism when German Iron Cross has existed 200 years before Nazis and exists even to this day as the symbol of the German military. FAQNCUNTS.
The Iron Cross goes back even further than that, the Iron Cross is based on the same black cross the Teutonic Knights used back in the 13th century! The same thing happened to the Swastika sadly, the Swastika has been a religious and spiritual symbol dating back thousands of years and is still a common symbol in Buddhism.
EXCEPT: In video games, especially those sold in Europe, the Iron Cross has to be used as a symbol for the Nazi side instead of a swastika, because in Germany, it is literally ILLEGAL to sell or distribute any depiction of a swastika that isn't part of actual historical footage. I had a friend in HS who was both a history buff and an exchange student from Germany. He told me about the great lengths Germany went to in an attempt to keep the horrors of the Third Reich from happening again. So, yeah, they're mentioning the Iron Cross because, IN VIDEO GAMES, it is often used to represent Nazis in countries that can't display the swastika, and because the Iron Cross continued to be used for German military medals during WWII (which means that many actual Nazis did, in fact, wear the Iron Cross). Not because the Iron Cross is, itself, a fascist symbol.
I used to watch that channel. They were actually really good before they got their new host. It was video game introspection from video game designers and they were pretty entertaining. After they got their new host, everything kinda changed, I tried to stick around for awhile but it never got back to that old quality.
There you are, playing Battlefront 2, and all of a sudden... They've sent in the Supers. You didn’t choose this, you didn’t ask for this, yet there you watching those wrist rockets.
There you are playing SW Battlefront 2 (Playstation 2), and all of a sudden... you've lost a command post. You didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this. Yet there you are, Fight for it! and Take it back!
There you are playing your Space theme wargame set in the 40k millennium, and all of a sudden, you're a XENOS you didn't ask for this you didn't choose this yet there it is, and it's treated no differently than playing an imperial soldier. This is Heresy on so many levels.
“So there you are, playing Red Dead Redemption II, when suddenly, you have tuberculosis. You didn’t ask for this, you didn’t CHOOSE this, yet there it is. And it’s treated no differently than Uncles lumbago.
@@haydenb4235 "Response unit Bravo, suspected terrorist is neutralized, over." "*Copy Bravo, good that terrorism is in our home country now gone, over.*"
"You'd better make those battles historical" I bet this guy would prefer to play Battlefield 1 if you were stuck in the trenches for 6 months and only gained about a mile of land before you're shot in the face as soon as you run into No Man's Land, and then then game shuts off because you're dead.
It's like we're becoming scared to accept tragedy unless it's romanticised or fictionalised. People died for no reason in WW2. It was horrific. And we should never forget how easily a few weak leaders can pave the way for a monster.
If Extra Credits had their way (they did in Vanguard) then it would be two nameless factions with blank slates for soldiers with no setting and no insentive. It would be the most boring thing ever.
Over 4 years later people still quote the unintentionally funny line - "You play WW2 and, all of a sudden you play as ww2 germans you didn't ask for this, you didn't CHOOSE this and yet here you are" - ironically the original video has been privated. And yea we all chose to play the WW2 game. We also have no difficulty telling apart reality and fiction. In Hearts of Iron I will gladly roleyplay as Germany, USSR or Japan invade countries and use the brutal opression occupation policy. If I actually become ruler of one of the countries as an all seeing eye I would do what I can to make the world a better place, which involced developing the economy and not declaring war on anyone who isnt threatning the rules based international order. If I bacame the ruler as a man, I would also have to focus on keeping my power and life, and would try to moderate the beliefs of the party whos leader Ive magically become, do all I can to prevet my country starting a war, if was is forced on me by my subordinates try to get my armies to be humane to prisoners and subjects, ect.
"Rules-based™ international order" is just a term for a two-tiered international order, where the Civilized™ -Master- Leader of the Free World® and its vassals is allowed to do anything it wants and everyone else must obey its every whim. It is simply a mask for neocolonialism.
You can play as demons from hell in doom... you can play as flesh eating zombies in left 4 dead... you can play as a murderous mutant species that rose from the planet’s underground in gears of war... Anyone who can’t distinguish reality from a piece of entertainment is crazy. Entertainment doesn’t normalize or desensitize real world issues, at least it shouldn’t if you’re thinking with half your brain
You can also play as someone from our reality/history like Ancient Roman or American outlaw in the 19th century or English knight in medieval times or pirate in The Caribbean or as a víkingur (viking). Heck you can play video games called Napoleon: Total War and Attila: Total War. Didn't some of these people commit terrible atrocities at one time or another? Will we ever get Hitler: Total War?
As a Jewish guy with everyone in my family killed but one, I agree with you so much. I dont care which side I play as. I never played as a Nazi and hated my family, and I never feel attacked playing as one. I just want to have fun, but nah, we can't. Thanks Man of Acting, because nobody cares what team they are on.
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I take full responsibility for that intro. Judge me all you want. I regret nothing...
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Lol we love you act man but not that way 😂😂
Oooh boi I've already seen roast for extra credits video but I want the perfect one from the almighty master act man
Dont get *gassed* up about it
You should have done the full video that way... downvote due to that missed opportunity XD
You shouldn’t regret anything it was fucking awesome
So there you are, playing Halo 5: Guardians when all of a sudden BOOM you’re now playing as agent Locke, you didn’t ask for this, but yet there you are with fire team Osiris
You mean scrap metal with a voice and a brain the size of a pinpoint
ItzPepe X nazis was one thing but that’s is just too far
ItzPepe X That’s easily the best comment for this video
let me fix that for you
so there you are, playing your video game, when all of a sudden, your a black person, you didn't ask for this, you didn't chose this, but there it is
“When you buy Halo 5 to know what happens after Halo 4, and then you play as a cardboard cut out, with four other parasites (except for Buck) latching on to you” You didn’t want this, *YOU DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS*
There are you, playing Monopoly. And all of a sudden... You roll a 4. You didn't choose this you didn't ask for this... Yet there you are, paying $200 for income tax.
Ooof! I hate income tax, usually because I land on it after passing go. And somehow I'm told I'm just bad at the game despite getting no money for three consecutive loops. XD
LMAO.
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Boom you’re going to jail
best comment
I used to watch Extra Credits, until Daniel Floyd left, the co-host. Back then, they were the bastion of player's first.
There you are, fighting for the Republic to preserve peace in the galaxy when all of a sudden.. *BAM!* Your entire Jedi Order has been massacred, a Sith Lord is ruling the Galaxy, and you've been declared an enemy of the state. You didn’t _ask_ for this, you didn’t _choose_ for this, yet there you are fighting your old apprentice to the death on a floating platform over a river of lava.
I have the high ground
My allegiance is to the republic, TO DEMOCRACY!
Technically, didn't Jedi become terrorists in the eyes of the Empire? Hmmmm....
General kenobi
On the ridge!
Is that how that line went, or ever existed?
I've heard "Terrorist's win." playing counter-strike probably a million times since 1999. Never once have I internalized the normalization of terrorism.
Lies, I'm sure you're constructing a pipe bomb right now!- Extra Headaches, probably
I have but I’ve never played counterstrike
I got to it through political radicalisation and just looking at our climate
Should note eco terrorism not religious ones
@@jmurray1110 you will be receiving a visit from the fbi
@@cyathea237 can’t do anthhfing I’ve not actually committed any
There you are, playing Dark Souls. And all of a sudden, you're dead. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this.
Underrated af lmao
Now im praising the sun. I DEFINITELY chose that.
And there you are... dead again...
You STILL didn’t ask for it and your strategy sucked ass...
Dark Souls normalizes death. This is bad on so many levels since there are billions of people who have died. Imagine how offended they'd be if you died in Dark Souls >:(
@@simondigruber2111 Exactly. Some people die in horrific ways and you have the nerve to get killed by hollows in undead asylum because you forgot how to parry? Disgusting. Your great grandfather who fought in the war would be ashamed.
So there you are, being an Iron Cross, a medal for bravery and courage. And boom. You’re as bad as the Swatstika. You didn’t want this, you didn’t ask for this, but here it is.
Edit: the Swatstika is an inverted version of a popular Japanese symbol meaning good luck. They aren’t the same symbol. At all.
Lol
So there you are, being a swastika, a symbole with no "real" meaning. And Boom. You're the portrayal of pure hatred. You didn't want this, you didn't ask for this, but here it is.
So there you are, being a German soldier that suffered an injury in Afghanistan and BOOM. You're a nazi!
The reason they used an Iron Cross is due to a change they made a few years ago so they could be seen in Germany. They forgot that for this video. I was shocked.
@@JackEverfree what are you talking about? the black cross or iron cross has been a symbol of german armed forces for centuries. It's to this day the official symbol of the german military! It's not forbidden by any means. Don't get that shit mixed up with the swastika.
So there you watching/reading Harry Potter then suddenly J K Rowling decides you're gay
There you are, looking at hermoine photos then suddenly, Jk rowling decides you're black. You weren't born like this, you didn't ask for this yet you're now black.
That's how I knew I was gay
why does the furry still hasn't got a new twitter account?
You didn't ask for it but.. there it is.
And her sister James Charles
Saying the iron cross is the same as a swastika is way more of an insult than everything they claimed to be problematic in WWII games. It is still used as the symbol for the german military and badge of honor. As a german I take offense in that.
It's worse that there a history channel and didn't see that
As a Mexican, I am still shocked over this COLOSSAL BLUNDER!
But hey, it really sounds like the world treat any national symbol of yours as Nazi. Even if predating such ideology for centuries ago... ugh...
Fuck I’m fairly certain it originated in Prussia anyway the nazis didn’t taint the iron cross they just continued to use it while having a shit ideology
That’s like saying the axis are bread therefore anyone who eats bread is a nazi
Fair enough./s
As a German, exactly this
So there you are, playing FIFA. Then boom!
You’re opening surprise mechanics
Tony The Tiger best comment
You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t choose this, yet there they are
@@sunlizard9593 and now you in dept
I bet extra credits likes them
@@goosebuffz They do. Extra Credits had a previous controversy where they made a video defending lootboxes.
That channel has gone to shit. Real shame, they used to be pretty good.
Act Man is gay?
Well that’s just a theory....
😂😂😂
A game theory!
A gay theory!
@@christmas_doggo5537 more like a gay theory
A gaming gay theory
I've spent hundreds of hours playing as the Germans in Hearts of Iron IV so I must basically be Adolf Hitler by now.
I have hundreds of hours in battlefield 1 that must mean that i have ptsd and a veteran discount and know how to use a smle mark 3 rifle and a mp 18 submachinegun right
I like the music and so op that's why they are so cool
And here's me playing as fascist, war economist, totalitarian, world dominant United States of America. Hoi4 is amazing.
Tommy Kay:"im in danger"
@@elliejensen4035 and also you had produced a taste for treanch rats
There you are, playing the PvP in your WW1 shooter, then suddenly, *you’re French.*
You didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this, but there it is
Oh no not the french :D
Good lord, gives me chills every time I think about it…
Even worse than the nazi’s
arguably worse than being a nazi
then suddenly, you're austro-hungarian, you might have asked for this, you're not sure, you just received your orders in 5 different languages.
There you are, playing Oregon Trail, when all of a sudden... You have dysentary
Not again
No not again
You play Sonic and become a Furry.
God that takes me back to grade school in 93. My family always died.
One of my guys got dysentery and I just left him to die. So I can hunt more bison and treat my other wagon people
"You didn't choose this", yeah I did...I wanted to use the STG.
OG Xbox profile pic? Nice
Of course I wanted the finger gun kill in BF5. Sure, it made me a real like nazi but I’m fine
*PANZERSCHREK NOISEN*
I love your Xbox pic
Excellent choice, mein freund
There you are, playing Skyrim and all of a sudden.. You walked into an imperial ambush . You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are stuck in a cart with the true high king of skyrim!
I would not mind that
Skyrim belongs to the Nords
I see you are a man of the true owners of Skyrim
And that horse thief over there
I propose anarchy for the lands.
I had genuinely always thought that the “you didn’t ask for this” cartoon was just a meme. I had only seen it appear as a clip for a few seconds in other YT videos as a joke, and never knew where it originally came from. I had assumed the original creators (whoever they were) were just memeing as well. But to learn after all these years that it was the actual take of the the original creators, and not just a joke or parody, is bizarre and hilarious.
Oh no, I along with 100s of thousands of people unsubscribed from extra creddits after they unironically asserted that gamers cant tell apart reality and fiction.
fr i thought it was some sarcastic thing
So there you are, playing Minecraft. Then, BOOM!
You're made out of cubes
Can I turn things into blocks of themselves by punching it?
@@MoonNaito yes
I didnt ask for this :O
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
TBH being a Minecraft person sounds awesome.
"You're a Nazi, Harry"
"I'm a What?"
"A Nazi"
Harry Potter and the secret gas chambers.
@@Bigballa-po3fm
Im going to hell arnt i
@@theconductoresplin8092 possibly
@@Bigballa-po3fm
*looks at Kathleen Kennedy severed head*
I think i might be good on this one
@@theconductoresplin8092 oh no
There you are playing Cuphead and bam you are a cup you didn't ask for this you didn't want this
when you are playing madden/fifa/nhl/2k bam you are a professional athlete
Oh fuck. Thanks for opening my eyes.
And then you are playing Roblox and bam, you are a blockman shooting "OOF"!
Your playing Tetris and all of a sudden bam your moving a bunch of squares you didn't ask for this you didn't choose this
@@emutv4100
Oooh if becoming an athlete were that easy, I'd have played FIFA ages ago. LOL. xD
There you are, playing Elden Ring. And all of a sudden... you are maidenless. You didnt choose this, you didnt ask for this
There you are being an adventurer, and then all of a sudden you took an arrow to the knee. You didn’t choose this, you didn’t ask for this, yet there u are with an arrow in your knee
@BOSSLY there you are, on guard duty while you’re cousin is out fighting dragons. You didn’t ask for this but you’re on guard duty
There you are, wondering if you're the dragonborn, but you just don't know it yet, you didn't ask for this, but you just might be the dragonborn
nice
Fun fact, taking an arrow to the knee back in the day meant getting married
Zaros I think i heard that before, that makes so much more sense lol
"We'll just call it good guys versus bad guys"
*Imagine spawning as a bad guy. You didn't ask for this....*
Clearly the act man has no sense, since it appears he doesn't understand that bad guys are bad.
Flat square vs. Cubes
@@shua_the_great its all a viewpoint thing ! Even if we shouldn't normalize Nazis we also shouldn't demonize them, thats just as undemocratic as you guys don't want to be, since you are still shunning different opinions.
Reminds me of that George Carlin-skit where he says daycare supervisors will keep freaking out until there are no more games and there is no more running. You're only allowed to stand. Until one child falls over and hurts itself and then it's sitting only!
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 r/wooosh
When they realize that the iron cross is still used as a honorary medal in Germany and other counties
It is also used on airplanes, land vehicles, and ships.
It was also created back in the early 1800's in Prussia a CENTURY before World War I or II. It was a thing before Hitler founded the NSDAP and took power in Germany.
THIS IS FAKE NEWS AND RACIST
@@thecalmclone2813 seriously fuck off, do not taint history to fit your narrative
@Guy Mcface I hope he is because I really wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't
"Don't make them morally equivalent"
Extra credit finds holding hostages and bombing site B morally equivalent to stopping it I guess. 🤷
Underappreciated comment, take my like.
Theres a reason the game is rated M for mature... because people playing it should be mature enough and old enough to already have a moral compass engraved in to their brain.
I played black ops when I was 4 and I am pretty frickin normal.
i played bf when i was 7 and my dad is fine about it XD, its just a game after all...
My parents are strict about it but i played when i was 10
@@josephray6264 i seen mortal kombat fatalities and mk 11 fatalities as 12 year old
@@josephray6264 its just a game its fun
There you are, playing for red. And suddenly BAM team scramble, you're fighting for Blu. You didn't choose this.
FINALLY a post that is relatable to a freakish grountastic loser like me,
Effin tf2
There you *were,* playing TF2, red is winning, you're on red, you're so proud. And then suddenly the team scramble happens, and you're on the blu side.
Tf2 Gamers can relate
All my homies hate Autobalance rn, it doesn't work and isn't balanced like it used to be
"Traitors will not be tolerated!" - The Administrator
Censorship is just refusing to give a man a steak because a baby can't handle it
-Mark Twain
Preach, Nigga! Preach
Damn, thats deep
Oof. That's really good.
Lyric Galaxy ur white shut up
Chris Lopez words belong to no one man, but to all of humanity. Dont try to stop him cuz i want to live in a future where i can say cunt once a say without being imprisoned😁
"There you are playing Baulders Gate 3 then suddenly you a Zoophile, you didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this, but there you are."-some guy who screwed a bear.
The Iron cross has nothing to do with nazis at all, the German airforce still uses it
Not only the Airforce, our whole army! Because the Symbol ist over 200 years old, fuck extra credits
It's a symbol of german military might, not the nazis it's also a symbol of prussia
It’s the entire military. It’s the German equivalent of the Victorian or Medal of Honor
Well its being used in germany as a censored version of the swastika in media.
Ye, isn't it basically the German Medal of Honour/Victoria Cross?
I like how they added "being offended" to the Iron cross even though Germany has been using the Iron Cross before Germany was a thing
Germany has been using the iron cross before Germany started using the iron cross, Wai-
They still use it today too!
@@pinetree8088 He probably intended to say Prussia, not Germany, because that's where the Iron Cross comes from
AeneasGemini the Holy Roman Empire
@@zenpai5998 WrOng
And there you are, watching Revenge of the Sith, and all of a sudden...
You have the high ground
This is beautiful
I thought you were going to say you hate sand.
oh my god
this is gold!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The humor is strong with this comment. Well played. 😎
Then all of the sudden... I am the senate
It triggers me so much that the Iron Cross gets dragged into mud.
If that guy knew that every single tank, plane or any other machinery of the german armed forces has an Iron Cross painted on it he would loose his shit :D
So there you are playing Pokémon, and all of the sudden, you're an animal abuser.
You didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this, yet there it is.
Peta is literally saying this xD
*Laughs in Magnemite*
Elitzgremlin TheRat *laughs in Greninja*
Elitzgremlin TheRat *laughs in Charizard*
Hahahaha this is already a meme
You’re watching Toy Story, and all the sudden.....
*Y o u ‘ r e a t o y*
I see that reference
Nice
Can I be one of Andy's moms toys
You didn't *ASK* for this
BUT I DIDN'T CHOOSE THIS!
*And yet, there it is*
"Ill go in open minded"
*2 minutes in*
*Act Man literally speechless*
"By the thousandth time you've respawned as a terrorist. You're either celebrating them, or making fun of them." Is making fun of terrorists a bad thing?
There you are playing Deus Ex and suddenly you're a cyborg. You never asked for this...
Was about to make the same reference haha
Joren Hofstra to be fair it is an easy joke
There you are, playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and all of a sudden...
You're a Sith Lord.
You didn't ask for this... you didn't choose this... yet there you are, unquestioningly serving Darth Vader and wiping out the last remnants of the Jedi Order.
Shit, that's worth it; get a badass outfit, kick-ass lightsaber, force choke! 😂
AND IT"S FUCKING AWESOME (insert cybernetic evil laughter)! >:)
A Sith LAWD?
Too bad you can't just spend the rest of the game force choking Shaak Ti over and over, *HAWT!*
srsly wat a waste, should've had an option to kidnap her or something!
So there I was, reading "Hamlet", when all of a sudden, I want to kill my uncle. I didn't choose this, your Honor.
Ciborium read this as well
So there you are, playing GTA... then boom!
Ah shit... here we go again.
So there you are, watching a Whang! video about tales from the internet...then BOOM!
Youre a time traveler!
So there you are, playing Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4, as the German Empire and all of the sudden, you are a Kaiser!
You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are.
@@SvendleBerries Then BOOM! you're blowing your load on my little ponies in a jar.
I'm the 420 like holy shit
"This shit's real fucked up!" To paraphrase Sweet, you got Dave Grossman buried over there. Jack Thompson over there. And Anita over there. Are we really scrambling to be the new faces of this culture war?
Me: *Joins the German side in pvp.*
*My scalp begins itching, upper arm begin stinging.*
No...
*I grab my hair, it falls out in clumps.*
No, no!
*I stare at my arm as a red patch forms*
Nononono!!
*I am now completely bald, and finally a swastika appears on the red patch on my arm.*
NNNNNNEEEEEEEIIIIINNNN!!!
Ha gut stuff gut stuff Mann
Mark Mulumba I mean I am German and on let’s say cod ww2 I would rather Play on the German team not because of my ideology or beliefs because who I am and the team is more interesting
You’re now a skinhead, you didn’t choose this, you didn’t ask for this, yet here you are
Your comment just piercified me. I'm high and your comment blew my mind. I'm so shut on that stuff. Damn! Good comment though. Have a nice day
Ryu san the same to you good Sir
There you are, on the Jedi council.
And suddenly... you’re not granted the rank of master.
You didn’t choose this..
You didn’t ask for this..
Yet there you are, on the Jedi council and not granted the rank of master
Cameron Griffiths pore guy ;(
But, This Is Unfair!
I didn't choose this
I didn't ask for this
yet I am still surrounded by prequel meme and I'm loving it
@@thephilifluffy1838 A surprise to sure, but a welcome one
@@commanderzavala9328 doot
There you are, playing Doom Eternal in your bedroom, ripping and tearing demons into a gory, rotten bolognaise and then all of a sudden… You’ve become a priest! You didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this… but there you are preaching the word of the lord and hoarding off the demonic threat. Stay pure children, and remember to rip and tear the demonic threat in the name of the lord.
Children staying pure and priests don’t really go well together
💀
Suddenly you're a member of the ncr patrolling the mojave and it makes you wish for a nuclear winter, you didn't choose this.
There you are, playing Skyrim, and boom, you're patrolling Whiterun because you stopped adventuring when you took an arrow to the knee. You didn't ask for this.
Pathfinder2183
“Hey! Finally woke up”
we won't go quietly. the Legion can count on that
*Best Comment This Far!*
Beautiful man beautiful
He pointed out that he's not saying that "you become a Nazi by playing as a Nazi," yet he then goes on to explain how that's exactly how that works. They essentially just want people to stop putting Nazis (and terrorists) in video games. Let's take Soviets/commies out too, and demons out of DOOM, and not make the villain of horror games some serial killer/rapists, because we "didn't ask for this."
I'm pretty sure they thought they had a greater point or premise that could actually resonate with people but they absolutely butchered their deliver and presentation
The Allies kiled thousands of innocent people but no one bats an eye,so if you play them you're a nazi too sooo yeah 😎😎
@@firstnamelastname7079 So did commies, the japanese empire, the british commandos, the african armies, the italians, you get the idea...
You know, i am a fanatic of history and thats why i saw extra credits but with this video i lost all hope
@@TheActMan He even said that people doing a public service by queueing as the badguys were fascists who needed to be punished with wait times.
There are you, making a response video. And all of a sudden, you gain a new subscriber. You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet there you are.
Thanks man! I didn't choose your subscription but I do appreciate it :D
The Act Man there you are then boom comments reign supreme in this comment section
Smooth af
There you are in Chernobyl and all of a sudden, you have cancer. You do ask for this, you didn't choose this, yet there it is.
Well, if there’s no nazis in multiplayer and everyone was allies, then who would you be killing? Other allies? That’s almost worse
Makes me want a Command and Conquer: Red Alert FPS. The story in that, is that Einstein used time travel to kill hitler, and WWII is fought against the Soviets instead.
US v GB WWII edition
WeLl We JuSt ShOuLdN't HaVe ShOoTeRs WiTh MP
YESSS
@@R3GARnator I’m sorry what?
There you are, playing Deus Ex Human Revolution, until suddenly: you're a cyborg.
You never asked for this.
But having cyborg limbs that you can add chainsaw blades to is pretty awesome, so you're pretty okay with that.
Max Muetzel wait can I ask for that one?
Wait. I definitely ask for this, especially if the limbs are modular and you can swap it with pretty much anything.
there you are, playing E.Y.E., until suddenly: you gain Brousouf
also, are your lower limbs paralysed/amputated? too bad, your legs are OK
What a shame. You were a good man. ... What a rotten way to change.
A brief history of the Iron Cross:
The Iron cross is a symbol that came to Germany long long before Hitler was even born. In the 19th Century the Iron cross was an award for valor among Prussian soldiers. And even before that it was a popular symbol among Prussians in the 18th Century. In WW1 it was used by the Kaiser as a somewhat hard to acquire reward given to German soldiers who had committed great feats. Such as taking prisoners from the allied lines. Or leading a successful trench raid. It was a symbol of bravery and courage. The Nazis actually disliked the Iron crosses original message and meaning so they tried hard to change it. And from what I see they did.
A Common Soldier this knowledge needs to be expressed more and accepted as evidence that the symbol isnt always 100% evil but rather have histories themselves
Hitler himself was awarded an Iron Cross during WW1. Before Hitler's rule the Iron Cross was pretty much the German equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
how did the Nazis change it? It stayed exactly the same it was a reward for exceptional military feats. Well, they were commited for the Nazis now and it had the swastika on it but the symbol itself didn't change
@@jasonvoorhees4713 he was so proud of it that he'd never leave the house without wearing it
Just to add a little detail to you explanation, the Iron Cross is, to this day, the symbol of the German Armed Forces.
The video he’s commentating is the definition of “quit having fun”
There you are, eating your bowl of Lucky Charms cereal when suddenly, you’re a marshmallow. A delicious sugary marshmallow. You didn’t ask this, you didn’t choose this, yet there it is.
Heeeey, CN! How you doing, buddy?
Will tgis become a meme?
Eye Patch Guy bruhhhhhhh 🤣🤣😂👍👌
There you are, eating your bowl of Lucky Charms cereal when suddenly, ExtraCredits comes in and shits in your bowl. You didn’t ask this, you didn’t choose this, yet there it is.
The Act Man: "We should just call them good guys and bad guys!"
Extra Credits: "There you are, playing your generic shooter, and all of a sudden...You're a bad guy! You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this, but there it is!"
Loool
And it's treated no differently when playing a good guy
WARCRIMES AHOY.
“Guy?!?!??!?!??!??!? Are you saying you should only be able to play as men???!?!?!!???!??!??!?” - Average twitter user
Little did we know act man would predict Vanguard
I gonna need to see a makeup tutorial from you Act-Ma’am.
It's Maaaaaan!!!
It is Man!
'scuse me it's Man!
Is he wearing make up in this? I didn’t notice?
@@Tommy-dz3do the first 30 sec of the video.
Extra Credits is the type of guy to say "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally!" and then proceed to only make fun of minorities
or alternatively, Extra Credits is the type of guy to say "Let's hear all sides out!" and then completely shut down the opposition with baseless insults and censorship
That’s like listening to leftists.
I’m not racist but all white people are evil and racist but it’s ok because you can’t be racist against white people
And the left won’t even say “let’s hear all sides out” they completely shut down and bully everyone that disagrees with them
Oh no. Extra Credits is the type of guy to be explicitly "ANTI RACIST". You know, the ones who believe that future racism will solve past racism.
X got discriminated against 50 years ago? Quick, lets sling slurs at and assault Y on the street for justice.
There you are, playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, when all of the sudden... You’re a furry, you didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this
[Insert Isabelle copypasta here]
Ok this one is actually pretty funny.
on the other side of the coin...
there you are, playing all of duty modern warfare three, when all of the sudden... you're a non-fur, you didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this... yet there it is....
lol.
@@terriblefurry damn. This is even better.
I know Extra Credits said it first, but the phrase is actually "all of _a_ sudden".
There you are, playing Age of Empires II, when, all of a sudden, you're an Asian scout cavalry. You didn't ask for this. You didn't want this.
I prefer to be a missionary, WOLOLOLO
I don't know why, but out of all of the "you didn't ask for this" comments, this one hit me the hardest. You're right, I _didn't_ want this.
there you are playing age of empires 2 when all of a sudden you're a ssshshhshshshshshshshshh. you didnt ask for this
@The Red Wall Ah I see you're a man of culture by playing Age of Empires
If I can make my horse moonwalk like in the game, I'll *gladly ask for this.*
I’m reminded of a quote I heard a while ago:
“In a game of cowboys and Indians, someone has to be the Indians.”
It’s as simple as that.
Ben Baxter That is true - I do indeed have a hat 🎩
I'll be an Indian any day ;)
Indians aren't the villains tho.
Then why not just play a shooter where both teams are dressed up in western clothing and there is no plot, set up, or recognizable setting whatsoever? Also that is a terrible example as cowboys were just.......cattle ranchers..........the whole cowboy concept in pop culture is BS. What I mean is, your comparing something based on actual events to something based on old movies and shows.
So true so true
There you are, playing Fallout. When all of a sudden, your suffering from radiation poisoning.
You didn't ask for this, but there it is.
Equating the Iron Cross to the Swastika is super ignorant and honestly disrespectful to the German people and their rich martial culture. The Iron Cross was in use way before WWII and is still being used today.
Same as the swastika. In fact, the swastika is thousands of years older than even the centuries old Iron Cross. But that symbol is so widely attributed to the Nazis here that I doubt we'll ever see it in its actual historical meaning anymore. We shouldn't let Nazis ruin even more symbols that belong to us, not them. The swastika was bad enough already, it's an ancient indo-European symbol completely ruined. They also want to ruin ancient nordic runes that were used by nazis and German symbols like the iron cross. It has to be stopped because that is not what these symbols stand for, including even the infamous swastika
@@Timbo5000 I wonder how many Americans even know that a Native American basketball team used the Swastika as their symbol long before the Nazis used it?
I'm sure that would surprise some people.
The iron cross is still an award to people in europian countries
Even the Swastika is a symbol of peace when not being used in the context of the Nazis.
People tend to forget that.
* looks intensely at my profile pic, realizing I'm a small bit German * I gUeSs iM a nAzI
Makarov: "Remember, no Russian".
Me: "But I didn't choose this"!
Isn't there a bit where you choose it at the start of the game tho 😂😂😂
Nah fam you did
But you can opt out of being a terrorist just before in the mission starts, so if they terrorize, they chose
Jokes my dudes.
Jokes.
What pisses me off about that Missions is one of the NPC terrorist on your team says "Davai" like 15 seconds after Makarov says "No Russian"...
😳
“By the time you played 100 hours of being a nazi, their voice stabs becomes memes and in jokes between your friends.”
*ThEy ArE bUiLdInG a BrIdGe!!!*
underrated comment
A bOmBs BeEn PlAnTeD oN oUr AmMo SuPpLy
Inendekung Sanitater! Scheisse grenenata!
ZE TELEFONE MAST!
Always found the axis announcer's voice weird
Things that normalize nazis: Calling everyone you don't like Nazi. Saying anything that is remotely bad is fascism.
Things that DON'T normalize nazis: Playing as a Nazi in a videogame. A game with accurate Nazi symbolism depending on it's lore.
Personally, I feel like showing Nazis a normal people is more important than showing them as generic cartoonish villains. Things like the Nuremberg trials and other WWII documents/photos should serve as a grim reminder of the darkness that even the most regular people are capable of.
The fact that nazis were normal people doesn't normalize them; it's what makes them so horrifying. The fact that normal people could be convinced to commit genocide is a lot scarier than evil people doing evil things because they're evil.
That's why video games should have a single player campaign, to show how terrible war really is. EC killed me when they said nazis were forced into service. Truth is, most of them were like us, doing the job they were given in the military.
@@nathanglasovatz8335 or they were legitimately motivated by what they saw as patriotism and service for the greater good of their countrymen.
Dehumanizing the enemy like EC is encouraging (and has been the trend of media for decades) is thinking like a propagandist. Showing both sides in a human light is history. Dehumanizing the enemy is exactly what led to the holocaust and ww2 in the first place.
100% this, dehumanizing groups as just being pure evil is one of the worst things you can do. Several studies have shown the awful things that a normal person is capable of doing when put into bad situations. The best thing to do is to be cognizant of this and stay vigilant.
games shouldn't have to shy away from that stuff either. Guarentee you, these same people would be going bonkers if a video game, tv show or anything tried to humanize Nazis during WWII. Yet by trying to silence this type of thing, we are potentially missing out on new perspectives and empathy. (not for the nazi ideology of course.)
@@warbossgegguz679 I would say that patriotism played a large role as well. My family fought in the war on the axis side and from what I can see, they weren't evil, but rather doing there part and supporting the country they lived in. We do the same in the US, we just see it from a different side
There you are, playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, when all of a sudden?
Boom, you are Big Boss.
You didn't ask for this. You didn't want this. But now you are launching recreational nukes at rival PMCs and fighting Skullface in Afghanistan.
We are all big boss
*_KOJIMA PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDLLLEEE!_*
But you aren't big boss...
@@warbossgegguz679 well Kojima said so
And all of a sudden, you killed a child....
AMAZING JOB! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
CS:GO: allows you to choose terrorists or anti-terrorists
Extra credit:
*Y O U D I D N T C H O O S E T H I S*
There you are, playin some CSS, and you are forced to be a Counter Terrorist, you didn't want to be one of them, you didn't ask for it, and yet there you are using an M4A1 instead of an CV47
I prefer Extra History on the channel, I never focus on the main project.
@@rebelgaming1.5.14 same here but, this seriously puts the accuracy of their historical content into question.
@@minty1198 Neither did I sir, good day
@@tarrker I'd say they've done their research, but they always make a Lies episode after where they cover myths and errors from the series. The History part seems solid. Not sure about the Gaming part.
I'm watching this during the peak of the QuantumTV controversy and I love that Act man has become the hero we both need and deserve!
There you are playing Deus Ex. Then suddenly you're a cyborg.
I never asked for this. What a Shame.
You were a good man.
@@notreally5920 *L I P S M A C K*
Would it really be that bad?
I'd love that
this comment wins
So there you are, an adventurer. And all of sudden...
You take an arrow to the knee.
This joke hasn’t been used in 8 years, but here you are.
Yet there it is..
That actually happened to me while walking in the woods
Or In shreks case you take an arrow in the anous
Boy that’s a nostalgic memay right there
There you are, sleeping in the womb, and all of a sudden... You've been born. You didn't choose this, you didn't ask for this, yet here you are to suffer in this cruel cruel world.
YES IM GONNA SUE MY PARENTS
Sounds like something exurb1a would write
i wish i was born in germany and barged into there office speaking full german..in a prussian uniform..with a iron cross..there gonna call me a nazi..than i gun down the stopid ones..and spare the old and good ones
@WTF S4NS im a war criminal ok?
@@Geshiko-GuP no you are a kriegsman for the emporer
Lets say you’re playing Skyrim. And suddenly BAM. You don’t get to the cloud district very often. You didn’t choose this.
Soo you are playing a shooter game..
And BOOM!
*YOU'RE HOLDING A GUN*
*I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS*
Oddly ironic with your name and pfp.
Sweet free gun!
I may have not asked for this but I sure will take it
@@DaDARKPass indeed
@@DaDARKPass he needs a weapon
*YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE IT*
I am 100% positive that The Act Man is indeed the most underrated TH-camr on TH-cam.
That opening confirmed it.😂
There you are, posting a comment on an Act Man video and all of a sudden.... he replies. You didn't ask for this. You didn't CHOOSE this. Yet there he is.
There you are, being amazed that the act man replied and your reading this after you read that reply. You didn't choose this, but it happened.
I met more underrated than him but the act man is the most coolest underated youtuber I've ever seen
Same here brother
The part that pissed me off most about this video is equating German iron cross with Nazism when German Iron Cross has existed 200 years before Nazis and exists even to this day as the symbol of the German military.
FAQNCUNTS.
Don't forget the helmets. Irish troops before the war had almost the exact same type of helmet but they were part of the allies.
Didn’t the germans replace it with some gold cross?
The Iron Cross goes back even further than that, the Iron Cross is based on the same black cross the Teutonic Knights used back in the 13th century! The same thing happened to the Swastika sadly, the Swastika has been a religious and spiritual symbol dating back thousands of years and is still a common symbol in Buddhism.
EXCEPT: In video games, especially those sold in Europe, the Iron Cross has to be used as a symbol for the Nazi side instead of a swastika, because in Germany, it is literally ILLEGAL to sell or distribute any depiction of a swastika that isn't part of actual historical footage. I had a friend in HS who was both a history buff and an exchange student from Germany. He told me about the great lengths Germany went to in an attempt to keep the horrors of the Third Reich from happening again.
So, yeah, they're mentioning the Iron Cross because, IN VIDEO GAMES, it is often used to represent Nazis in countries that can't display the swastika, and because the Iron Cross continued to be used for German military medals during WWII (which means that many actual Nazis did, in fact, wear the Iron Cross). Not because the Iron Cross is, itself, a fascist symbol.
The swastika is an Asian symbol of peace. Look where we're at now.
I used to watch that channel. They were actually really good before they got their new host. It was video game introspection from video game designers and they were pretty entertaining. After they got their new host, everything kinda changed, I tried to stick around for awhile but it never got back to that old quality.
There you are, playing Battlefront 2, and all of a sudden... They've sent in the Supers. You didn’t choose this, you didn’t ask for this, yet there you watching those wrist rockets.
There you are playing Battlefront 2 when all of a sudden republic meatbags control the flag, you didnt ask for this and yet there goes your flag.
There you are playing SW Battlefront 2 (Playstation 2), and all of a sudden... you've lost a command post. You didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this. Yet there you are, Fight for it! and Take it back!
Just like the simulations!
Soon as I saw the words I read it in the one Clone voice from OG BF2 😞
@@salmontube1691 it's a command post not a flag. Never confuse the 2 when it comes to battlefront.
So you’re sitting there watching Star Wars, then BOOM!
You’re a Sith.
That would be AWESOME !!!
I didn't ask for this, I didn't choose this, But my god am I loving it
All hail Emperor Palpatine!!!
I'll take that as long as I can run independently of the empire. Use my lightning fingers for personal gain like the lawful evil shitbag I am.
I'm keeping this at 66
so there you are, playing DOOM. Then BOOM!
you're a demon slaying badass
Except that's exactly what I asked for
I DID ASK FOR THIS, WHY...? CAUSE I'M THAMOTHAFUCKIN DOOMSLAYAAAA....!!!!! WOO, THAT SWEET RELEASE...!!!
Rip and tear...until it is DONE!
@@commanderzavala9328 I don't expect any less, slice and dice brother!
Thats... why I'm here.
There you are playing your Space theme wargame set in the 40k millennium, and all of a sudden, you're a XENOS you didn't ask for this you didn't choose this yet there it is, and it's treated no differently than playing an imperial soldier. This is Heresy on so many levels.
People: *Are Politicizing Video Games*
Gamers: “Ah shit, here we go again”
gamers arent people
"All we had to do was play the damn games, people."
That's why we're the most oppressed class of then all...
Original
Epic gamers mm
Also the Iron Cross (the symbol they use on the German uniforms) is not a symbol of Nazi Germany
Aren’t they supposed to be a history channel
Yeah the Iron Cross is much more connected to earlier German military coalitions such as the German Empire during WW1.
@@binderstonkeyes7172 Even before during the days of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.
Justin White Yes
@@justinwhite4995 During Napoleonic Wars, Prussia was a thing.
*Meanwhile in 2021 CoD Vanguard Beta*
“Your team” vs “Enemy team”
🤦♂️
Activision must have watched Extra Credit then lmao
Yeah.
“My team VS Enemy team”
🤦♂️
Like... W.T.F!
Wait so Activision listens to game journalists but not their fans?! what a joke
This video is why we have "enemy team"
“So there you are, playing Red Dead Redemption II, when suddenly, you have tuberculosis. You didn’t ask for this, you didn’t CHOOSE this, yet there it is. And it’s treated no differently than Uncles lumbago.
*Terrorist team*
"No-no wait!!"
**SWAT Team busts through door**
Counter Terrorists Win
@@haydenb4235
"Response unit Bravo, suspected terrorist is neutralized, over."
"*Copy Bravo, good that terrorism is in our home country now gone, over.*"
Too funny dude
FBI OPEN UP
"The flags may be different but the methods are the same."
-Viktor Reznov
HE DIED DURING THE ESCAPE
“They will use you as they used me.”
Damn. What a quote. The Act Man should have done a video on the recent video where EC compared black people to fantasy Orcs.
@@Dude_bruh nah he was in bo2
@@charlie1234500 What? If you don’t mind, can you send me the video where they did that
As Captain Price says, “History is written by the victors, History is full of liars.”
Because all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood
And demonetize this video.
God this pisses me off.
@@ducktape-3470 screw off lil hater
@midgetydeath yes, and that is a fabricated lie that Christians like to get out in order to attract forgiveness for their dying religion. Nice try
@Komrade Egg lmao, in the video, the guy says "not everyone is X", and somehow, you take the opposite logic as a truth
"You'd better make those battles historical"
I bet this guy would prefer to play Battlefield 1 if you were stuck in the trenches for 6 months and only gained about a mile of land before you're shot in the face as soon as you run into No Man's Land, and then then game shuts off because you're dead.
And then you have to pay another 60 bucks just to start playing again
Or are we going with the wait 18 years and 9 months angle?
@@Hewhowantstoknow More like you'd have to buy the entire game again (that's what you probably mean anyway) and then wait that long for it to install.
These all sound like the video games they talk about in Horrible Histories
@@thetrippedup9322 I used to love reading these books as a kid. 💛
Dat realism doh
The Iron cross is still used in the German military and the Iron cross was a reward for bravery
yes, my grandfather had one.
@@gergoretvari6373 what did he do
@@autistic_m4a3_76w_hvss he was a gendarme in Hungary.
@@gergoretvari6373 cool I didnt even know what a gendarme was until now
It IS the simble of the German millitary
there you are doing karate, when, all of a sudden, you break your arm.
haha lol
Oh that was good.
You didn’t ask for this? You didn’t choose this?
Good one
Too soon
It's like we're becoming scared to accept tragedy unless it's romanticised or fictionalised.
People died for no reason in WW2. It was horrific. And we should never forget how easily a few weak leaders can pave the way for a monster.
There you are, bored as hell. The BAM, The Act Man uploads. You asked for it, you wanted it, now its here
There*
“When your scrolling downward on the home page and you see an act man video” You asked for this, *You CHOSE This*
@@nurp9486 yes
I think I will join the BLU team
I think I will join the BLU team
Me : watches Harry Potter
Extra credits: breaks down door
Extra credits: you're a Wizard
I didn't choose this
YOU'RE A WIZARD HARRY!
You didn't ask for it . You didn't choose this . YET YOU'RE A WIZARD HARRY DEAL WITH IT
LISTEN HERE HAGRID YOU FAT OAF! I’M NOT A FUCKING WIZARD!!
I'm a wot?
If Extra Credits had their way (they did in Vanguard) then it would be two nameless factions with blank slates for soldiers with no setting and no insentive. It would be the most boring thing ever.
Bro at the very start Act Man got J.K. Rowling-ed.
Breaking news: J.K Rowling reveals Actman is gay
@@TrueNorthProductions I was just about to say that.
Or he became a Jojo protagonist
@@DOOM4Rus He became Tequilla Joseph
There you are, playing Rock Paper Scissors. And all of a sudden, your a rock.
You didn’t ask for this.
This is the best comment I have seen yet
You actually choosed the rock.
You are a despicable human being
It doesn't matter what you ask for🤨
This is how Dwayne Johnson came to be.
Yes you did, you choose what you are, but you ARE forced to be one of 3 choices, which is racist or something.
Act Man: *says Richtofen is funny*
*Shows him dying*
LAYERS OF COMEDY
Nice
Yea it's funneee.
I sort of stole this comment without seeing this one first, I worded it different though
F
Over 4 years later people still quote the unintentionally funny line - "You play WW2 and, all of a sudden you play as ww2 germans you didn't ask for this, you didn't CHOOSE this and yet here you are" - ironically the original video has been privated.
And yea we all chose to play the WW2 game. We also have no difficulty telling apart reality and fiction. In Hearts of Iron I will gladly roleyplay as Germany, USSR or Japan invade countries and use the brutal opression occupation policy. If I actually become ruler of one of the countries as an all seeing eye I would do what I can to make the world a better place, which involced developing the economy and not declaring war on anyone who isnt threatning the rules based international order. If I bacame the ruler as a man, I would also have to focus on keeping my power and life, and would try to moderate the beliefs of the party whos leader Ive magically become, do all I can to prevet my country starting a war, if was is forced on me by my subordinates try to get my armies to be humane to prisoners and subjects, ect.
"Rules-based™ international order" is just a term for a two-tiered international order, where the Civilized™ -Master- Leader of the Free World® and its vassals is allowed to do anything it wants and everyone else must obey its every whim. It is simply a mask for neocolonialism.
You can play as demons from hell in doom... you can play as flesh eating zombies in left 4 dead... you can play as a murderous mutant species that rose from the planet’s underground in gears of war...
Anyone who can’t distinguish reality from a piece of entertainment is crazy. Entertainment doesn’t normalize or desensitize real world issues, at least it shouldn’t if you’re thinking with half your brain
You can also play as someone from our reality/history like Ancient Roman or American outlaw in the 19th century or English knight in medieval times or pirate in The Caribbean or as a víkingur (viking). Heck you can play video games called Napoleon: Total War and Attila: Total War. Didn't some of these people commit terrible atrocities at one time or another? Will we ever get Hitler: Total War?
Henry Smith can we please get Hitler: Total War. Also there’s a bunch of Genghis Kahn video games, shouldn’t those be evil too?
So there I was...playing Doom. Suddenly: I'm the Hell Walker. The Doom Slayer. I didn't ask for this, but I will rip and tear until it is done.
Grahamiest haha I was just playing Gears of War today and that’s the first thing I thought of when watching this video was the Locusts
AMEN
As a Jewish guy with everyone in my family killed but one, I agree with you so much. I dont care which side I play as. I never played as a Nazi and hated my family, and I never feel attacked playing as one. I just want to have fun, but nah, we can't. Thanks Man of Acting, because nobody cares what team they are on.
Facts it’s about fun there’s nothing wrong playing as a nazi in a ww2 game an sorry to hear about your family
Nicolbolas2 Hi
Nicolbolas2 I love you buddy
@Nicolbolas2 please don't start with that Holocaust denying shit
@@stackertheeod7566 Wooden doors and swimming pools?