Landlord's Super - Dystopian House-Building Simulator 1983
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- Landlord's Super is a game about surviving in an abandoned community in 1980s Britain, building a house out of stolen trash, and occasionally ruining everything through utter incompetence...
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I feel like Jon's the type of landlord to say that a flat is perfectly fine while the bed's infested and the boiler's broken. Because he just can't see the problem.
He can't help it, everyone knows his perception is at least -1 ha
Still enjoy your videos Jon 😁
Mao Zedong is coming
@@razahrtelvanni2018 inappropriate, and it's spelled with a U and two Ms. No O.
There needs to be a second episode of this
So all landlords
Local English man is sent to hospital after playing a video game that triggered repressed memories from the 1980s.
Don't worry he got pushed.
@@randomstuff9005 in bristol?
The game automatically wins points for providing Jon an excuse to give a history lesson.
Jon: Starts game
Jon 8:28 minutes in: considering robbing a church.
In the past few years stealing lead from church roofs was still popular, so not a new or dead issue
Well you know what they say god proves
If God doesn't want him to, He'll let Jon know
@@librarianseth5572 I see, so stand by for lighting bolts.
Hey now, churches steal from the gullible every sunday, turn about is fair play.
I'm pretty sure that the reason you're hygiene goes down while carrying items is meant to represent you sweating from working hard (hence the water dribbling on screen) and not meaning that the item is filthy.
I mean, it's probably a bit of both.
everyone's talking about the socio-economic situation of 1980's Britain, but disregarding the direst thing of all: that 1:1:1 concrete mix Jon made
The "I don't know what I'm doing, so I'll just do everything!" approach to problems
What would be better? I know nothing of that stuff.
@@brennenderopa too much cement. With standard Portland you generally should not go above 1:3 ratio by volume (cement:solid stuff) as you will get no extra strength (or you make it even weaker) and you are just wasting money ( or time if you are just stealing it) on cement.
1:2:3 cement,sand,gravel 0.5 water
The standard ratio is 11 percent Portland cement, 41 percent coarse aggregates (such as gravel or crushed stone) and 26 percent fine aggregates, such as sand. The remaining 22 percent is a combination of air and water (6 percent air and 16 percent water)
Some wankers throw uncompressed dirtcrete where you can't see it, usually under an inch of real concrete or as a blob inside of something they moulded, to save money. Grift is fine but there's so excuse for bad craftsmanship.
"I promise, I'll get a proper job tomorrow"
How you know Jon's from the Midlands
UK and 1980 are 2 things you never want to hear within 3 words of eachother.
Unless it's to do with music
Such a cheerful thing like this is just the thing to take your mind off of current horrible events...economically devastated communities, ya say? Well shit
At least we don't have Thatcher to deal with. Though Boris...
@@slimek20 Has anyone else noticed there's a certain similarity? I've never seen the two in the same place either 🤔
Next time Jon plays a sheep farming sim on the Falklands, and a Flower shop tycoon sit in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
"History with Jon" and "Tour a Dystopia with Jon" are some of my favorite programs
I understand his love of Fallout on a deeper level after watching this.
Grandson of a miner here and oh boy this reminds me of him going off on one about the mines.
Same dude.
Really puts things into perspective
@@mr.fantastic7756 tbh I got some stories from him that sharing would make a lot of people shudder
I'd love to watch Jon build a house while talking about his life growing up back during this time period.
Except wasn't Jon born around 1989?
Thermal Ions in small towns it was still like this in the 90s
@@idkwhattoputhere4695 In small towns it is still like this today.
Jon was actually born in the early 1800s, he’s sustained by a deal with satan.
@@samuelcox9656 Ah, so his supposed study of 'History' was actual a course in 'Current World Events'.
The newspaper that Jimmy was reading was a genuine front page, but from 1980 not 1983. Pretty significant as it was the introduction of Diana Spencer to the world.
Margret thatcher: appears
This village: why do i hear boss music
I feel like on a bad day for her if she’d went into one of the towns it would be like that RPG where you can kill the final boss in 5 minutes by getting the nearby village to gank them
@@Jakewake52 should have ganked Scargil to be honest. His actions were what caused it. he was a narcisisst megalomaniac who was utterly intent on crippling the government to put a communist hellhole in place. Thatcher was honestly the closest we have EVER had to a working class leader.
Blair - private school education, high end university education, sweetheart job in politics post uni.
Corbyn - private school education, university, series of sweetheart jobs in politics, grew up in a COUNTRY HOUSE LISTED BUILDING. his wife divorced him for refusing to allow his kids to have the same advantages he did.
Both of them are actively UPPER CLASS now compare that to Thatcher, daughter of a greengrocer, state school, grammar school, university paid for with the grant and working through it. Solidly upper working class.
She was far less right wing than New labour and honestly did a lot of things that needed to happen. The unions in the 70's were able to bring the UK to it's knees. Blackouts, three day work weeks, utter chaos and destruction of the economy, the destruction of major employers like the Car industry and steel industry via strikes, rising costs and a refusal to adapt and modernise to be able to compete with rising foreign imports/markets. With Scargil who as I said was a megalomaniac who used threats and violence to enforce his will oh and actively breaking the rules voted in by the unions, treating his position as leader of the unions as his own little fiefdom, actively illegally acting as a dictator and using thugs, threats and violence to get pits to vote his way. Nottingham broke ranks PRECISELY because he sent thugs to threaten people into voting the 'right way' on the vote day after being told to send only 2 men with information to lobby he sent a bus load of thugs with weapons to intimidate.
@@jediknight1294 A lot of words were used, statistically some of them should have been good, but no.
@@mrsjamescottage That not an argument Rose, try again.
You'd hear "Ding Dong the witch is dead".
As a construction worker I thought your terminology was hilarious, just for future reference, cement is the powder that binds everything together and makes it solid, concrete is something you can make with cement, basic concrete mix is 1,2,3. 1 part cement, 2 parts sand and 3 parts aggregate, so a stronger mix would have more cement and a basic mortar mix would be 1,4 so 1 part cement to 4 parts sand, great game so far.
Good knowledge, I wonder if the game explicitly mentions those ratios somewhere or whether actual real world knowledge will be required. Be interesting if it left you to trial and error. Also worried Jon's repaired floor might start to crumble very quickly. AND WHERE IS THE DAMP PROOF COURSE, THIS IS BRITAIN!
And where is the insulation? Does UK have that?
@@geemcspankinson We do, theres a lot of little things missed out, the perp joints on the sides on the bricks, the dpc, insulation like you said, although that might be a mechanic for when your putting the plasterboard up. I think the game would probably annoy a lot of people if they included everything like that.
@@karljordan9115
Yeah
Needs more load-bearing drywall.
Jon: *plays a game set in a mining town in the 80s with rows of terraced housing and brutalist shops and public buildings*
My unemployed self, sitting in Accrington, a derelict former textile mill town in Lancashire with high unemployment, low average income, and high rates of alcohol-related hospital admissions: It's like the lockdown never happened!
I live in the north west, can confirm there's still a bunch of small towns that look like this.
Like Threads with more vape shops.
Foxium-90 threads with more vape shop does pretty much describe outer country currently doesn’t it sadly!!
Same over the other side in the North East
@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 prolly just the north in general then, eh?
@@PoisonInc mhm. Thatcher gutted the working class & murdered the North
No conversation about the north of England is complete until someone has mentioned Threads.
*Thatcher fires dozens of shots into the chest of North UK towns and cities*
"Why would the poor and Irish do this?"
Exquisite
Very few times this can be used literally
I mean the Irish were actually bombing cities across the UK including in the north, and not metaphorically either. What entitled these northern cities to government money for pumping out coal no one wanted to buy? We were literally subsidising our own environmental destruction at a massive loss.
@@the500mphtortoise Maybe just telling the miners to fuck off and die wasn't a good solution to that problem? Also if the UK free'd north Ireland then they wouldn't have a bombing issue.
@@sp0ckz0mbi3 republican minority in northern Ireland bombing the UK, even though the majority of people in Northern Ireland want to be in the UK. It doesn't make sense to 'free' northern island if that's NOT what the majority want. I agree with the miners point tho.
I was born in Newcastle in '95, just just after, but my parents have stories of growing up in this, and my grandparents have stories of living through our. They all hate Thatcher unsurprisingly.
The Oasis is 100% based on the arcade that is in my North West home town, same logo and everything (9:00)
its literally a copy and paste of the same building - here's the address: Oasis Entertainments Ltd, 257 Marine Rd Central, Morecambe
It's British "My Summer Car," so I guess it's "Me Summer Car"
Everyone knows Britain doesn't have Summer... So it should be _"Me Not-Winter Car'_
Me Summer Car, innit? ftfy
Could e set somewhere in Yorkshire, since "Sheffingham" could easily be split in to "Sheffield" and "Rotherham" which are so close together they're practically holding hands. Or well... I guess Sheffield + Birmingham could make more sense to be combined for that name, I guess. :P Let's just say... "Generic Northern/Midlands-esque" area.
Think it's supposed to be Sheffield/ Nottingham
Rotherham? Isn't that the place where all the little girls get betrayed by cops and used at mosques?
It's most likely Sheffield, which tying back to my comment up there, is also where Threads is set!
@@JasonGodwin69 On god
@@JasonGodwin69 One of them yes. Just look for large towns with labour councils
History Lessions with Jon. Nice.
Next week spelling legions
In a future episode Jon will introduce the Open Concept Bathroom in the 80s.
As someone with a background in construction, it's a pain to watch Jon mix "concrete".
And I love it.
Watching Jon occasionally use more Midlands/Northern terms naturally during this video is great
8:13 Jon's inner midlander showed 'Nip up here, ooo ello'.
Also noteworthy that I occasionally elide 't's - that's pure Midlands.
The genius that is Black Adder premiered in this year
"I think I... I think I'm climbing the ladder I'm currently carrying..."
I mean, that sounds like a pretty accurate summary of the Thatcher government plan for how people could get out of poverty to me...
Apparently it worked since personal wealth rose by 80% during her time in office
@@TomorrowWeLive okay fash
See, over here in the US, St. Ronnie Ray-Gunz handed out bootstraps for us to pull up ourselves with.
@@rachelholton4324 lol imagine thinking 'ok x' is a valid response to anything
@@TomorrowWeLive Ye, because now 1% own 99% while before Thatcher it was a bit more evenly contributed.
Just because SOME cunts got rich of it doesn't mean it was good politics... idiot.
The game was actually published by the yogscast, which I only just found out.
A lot of them are from up north ain't they?
@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 they have their office in Bristol also some of them are American dutch etc.
@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 No wonder it is bashing our best female PM and second best of all time then. At least be original if you are going to make a game political, jesus.
@@METALFREAK03 yes, because putting large parts of the country into an economic depression from which they still haven't recovered is obviously a sign of a brilliant PM, ain't it? Also, it's a game set in the North, in the '80s, it's inherently political
@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 the economic strife was as much the miners fault as it was the governments. Because they demanded such a high price for coal (by demanding their wages not go down), they priced themselves out of a competitive international market. The government made it worse by pandering to them and paying their extortionately high price for coal. It'd have been better for everyone if when British coal stopped being competitive the government just started shipping the people out to non mining towns where there were other economic opportunities. Neither the miners or the government were economists it seems.
Please please PLEASE make a series, reminds me so much of rural Ireland! This game hit the nostalgia that I didn’t know existed!
Grew up in Middlesbrough in the wake of Thatcher and from what little I've seen of the game so far seems spot on
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Aye, Berwick hills was grim in the 80s
My grandad was a coal miner.. He's talked about it a few times. He had to drop out of school early to go through it. He's always really supportive about me in uni and finishing my course, even if he doesn't fully understand it
This makes realize I want to hear Jon give lectures about socioeconomics
I'm a handyman and just...watching Jon figure this stuff out is so pure. Brings me lots of joy lol.
Once the game gets a bit further along in development, I wouldn't hate to see more of this one. Seems like a fun livestream candidate.
>the UK
>1980s
>mining town
>Thatcher is not a gender-neutral bathroom yet
Oh no, this is gonna get dark real quick, isn’t it?
nCast what about my country norway. >oil
This is realy dark Isn’t IT?
Most companies that want a dark British theme for their IP go with the Victorian Period. This period is used a lot less.
If I recall the hatred towards Thatcher and the government of the time was so high that when Thatcher died there were literally parties in the streets.
[Thatcher intensifies]
@@jamescharlton-harrison5377 when she died ding dong the witch is dead was number one in uk charts
That intro took me right back to my primary school history lessons. I live in the Welsh Valleys AKA the heart of the British mining industries 90% of our local history involves mines in some way.
This is the weirdest Animal Crossing game. At least the core gameplay is still there, setting up a house with furniture you found lying around outside, selling anything not nailed down, doing chores for neighbors.
Yeah its only missing the anthropomorphic loan shark who isn't actually a shark because that would be too on the nose about it.
In which Jon becomes even more British than normal, and those of us across the pond just smile, nod, and giggle at the various bits of slang.
Despite us having no idea what any of it means
Early enough it ain't listed yet! I'm happy with that.
History lesson about the UK straight away? MUCH ACCEPTED!!
Actually cried with laughter when Jon couldn't close his door 😂
OMG, i was in my early 30s in the 80s, and I became an architect. Thanks Billions for this Video, Keep the good work. Love it.
Couple of neat Easter eggs: The newspaper ‘The Moon’ is a reference to UK paper The Sun, ironic as the Scouser holds it and that paper is REVILED in Liverpool for their coverage of the Hillsboroough disaster. Landlord’s Super is a reference to the strong cheap beer Tennants Super.
I figure 'The Moon' would be the opposite of The Sun in stance and subject, thus would have the opposite reputation in this game's setting and be the most read and lauded paper in Liverpool.
I think the game is set in 1983, HIllsborough was in 1989 so it's definitely a bit tongue in cheek
Thanks Jon! I lived in former mining towns my whole life right up until I moved to Texas. Nobody outside the UK seems to know we ever had miners. Nobody outside the South East knows there was any mining going on outside the Midlands and the North, but Kent is basically wall to wall former-mining-village ghost towns that nobody ever talks about. I used to volunteer at Dover Museum and one of the things we did there was help salvage records of disappearing mining communities. They have their own cultures, they never moved on and they don't like outsiders, so now they're withering away as the miners get older and older, shrinking to nothing in the villages they used to own. They were getting invited across the iron curtain to learn about communism, their unions ran whole towns, and they fought medieval-style battles against the police, but it seems like everybody's just going to forget all of it before they're even dead.
I remember coming from Wiltshire my dad lost his job in the 80's. It was an awful time. Cheers Maggie.
@ThatCrazy Drunk Idiot.
@ThatCrazy Drunk the issue is with the lack of support for the minors that lost there jobs get a heart dickhead
@ThatCrazy Drunk Yes.
@ThatCrazy Drunk you're right sudden mass unemployment is great for everyone, great for the people and great for the economy. 10/10
@ThatCrazy Drunk I mean maybe look at offering free retraining programs and monetary support equal to past wages for a year or so or until they found a job
Your statement about mining towns dying is pretty much universal. It happens in rural America all the time. I live in a town that was, at one point, promised two factories based on the surrounding resources. Neither factory is open today, but the town survived because it grew to have a working economy without them, though the only thing the town actually does now is support the population living here. Most of the jobs here just focus on the local community. Unions have never affected us too much in my state because we have right-to-work laws.
I come from a mining town in County Durham. Thank you for bringing some education in this video, it's genuinely wonderful and very informative to those who wouldn't know what happened.
Edit: £4.00 an hour in 1983? That's £13.80 an hour today which is WELL above the standard living wage.
Why is this the most educational video I have ever watched?
40 minutes in and you’ve sold me on this game, it seems actually quite fun to play
That equal part concrete mix is probably the most egregious thing he did all episode
That is a FANTASTIC history lesson that perfectly summarises the era.
Although it says something about the British psyche. If it was any other country, the closure of the major employer in a town would mean the town gets abandoned and the people move elsewhere. There are hundreds of ghost towns dotted all over the world where the local economy collapses and people abandon it to find work somewhere else.
I wonder why that doesn't happen in Britain? It could be a combination of strong community spirit, British stubbornness, loyalty to your roots and the last remnants of the class system. It could also be that each town is so close to other towns that commuting to another town entirely is relatively easy.
I think it's because most British people wouldn't dream of moving away from where they grew up. But there are always exceptions to every generalisation. My family have always moved around for work. My maternal grandfather was an oil engineer, he spent a lot of time in Georgia, USA at one point, my mother grew up while they were all living in Kenya before they all moved back to the UK. My father grew up in Manchester, moved to London for work and then my family moved to Cardiff when the work moved there too.
I guess that's why I always wondered why the people in those towns didn't just move to find work. I have a better understanding these days.
The unemployment was nationwide. The idea of migrating to Europe to work was alien to these people. It did happen in the building trade. Manufacturers moved to find cheap labour.
Organised labour was a big thing, and protected workers. That was crushed in this period. The miners' strikes were the battle that capital staged and won against the power of labour in the UK. Britain lost out because we could have invested in technology. The native investors mostly went for cheap and easy opportunities overseas. That is what comes from having a such a dominant liberalised financial sector. Nobody invests in the home team.
The Full Mounty-esque soundtrack is very on point too! I wonder if Sheffingham was disguised Sheffield...Maybe that's a bit too big.
Continuity fail, that's not what a phone-box looked like in 1983, they were still all red then weren't they. Didn't change to the style depicted in the game until some-time in the 90's iirc.
So so accurate even the pub floor is spot on 😆
Jon: some of these communities still haven’t recovered DECADES later
Me (an American): *cries in red-lining*
That intro has me thinking... I'd LOVE a "history lesson" podcast from you XD
That cement mixing animation 😂 36:38
The moment you said “set in a 1980’s mining town” I winced.
Can we just stop to talk about how Jon managed to lift an entire sofa on his shoulder and carry it out of town?
This is exactly how i imagine John would try to build a house , start off strong and then it goes horribly wrong at lightspeed , i love it , more John , more
i spend like 20 minutes trying to figure out where that weird beeping is coming from.... it'S the watch in game o.O
Transition from resource extraction economies. An issue facing West Virginia, Alberta, and other communities currently.
20:35 So in Britain the phrase is "pull yourself up by a ladder"?
46:00 Bricklaying is hard.
All the stuff you, 'lifted', is actually for jobs you get from the job centre. The pub wall for instance uses the bricks you put into your house. The ladders you took from the church are for a job to repair the roof. Plus, all the stuff you find like sofas, TVs and cabinets can be taken to the, 'rag and bone', man, (who's situated just the other side of the bridge), and sold so you can buy the supplies you need.
" need to toss all this off real quick" - Jon 2020
There is a highway around London called the M-25... ledgend has it that everywhere outside it is a barren wasteland stuck in the 1970s
I think the only place stuck in the 1970s is Cornwall.
Actually, most of the richest and modern counties are outside of the M25.
You missed one Nail in the door. It glimmers. :)
Came here to say this 😂
Is jon secretly Northern? i assume they beat the accent out of him at oxbridge but there are hints...
Leicestershire
Was it because he said he was from the midlands in the 3rd minute?
Didn’t Jon go to Loughborough?
Nope, he's black country, didn't you listen?
He literally said he's from the Midlands. Depending on who you ask, midlanders are northerners (from a southern point of view), just a midlander (a midlander) or a northerner with notions (a northern point of view)
As a Grandchild of people who grew up around the mines and spent many childhood trips out walking around the nature reserves and disused railways that criss cross the old pits, this feels oddly nostalgic... got some family who still live in what was a mining town...And outside of the modern housing estates, theres just...nothing changed since the pits evidently shut their doors, the train station is gone... it was once a 4 track station. Now only 1 track remains that gets a single freight train everyday. In exciting developments though theres a fun chemical factory that sends its fumes down upon the town if the winds blowing the right way.
I would like to see more of the adventures of this rogue kleptomaniacle handyman capable of running at ~20kph
Just watched Northernlion's video on this game and in the comments someone mentioned your video. Nice to see it because you know the dialect and are able to explain what the heck people are saying.
Please keep playing this. I am enjoying it.
I would love to see this game again! Gotta love the slightly janky my summer car type games, and this setting is fertile ground for games!
Oh my god, he's not even started the game yet, but he's perfectly described the town I grew up in. It used to be there were 2 industries, coal and glass, the coal is gone and the glass is going.
I can not wait to see more of this game one day. I am not British, but something about this game is charming in an eerie way.
I heard of a guy who did pretty well in the eighties. He would turn up early to the job centre, and if there was a job he fancied he would take the job card. When he turned up for an interview the employers would be surprised they had so few applicants.
"The safest bet for any concrete mix is four-two-one: four parts crushed rock (aggregate); two parts sand; and one part cement" ( i think you can put washing up liquid into the mix also but cant remember what its for) - another guide i see says this: "as a general guide a standard concrete mix would be 1 part cement to 2 parts sand to 4 parts aggregates. For foundations, a mix of 1 part cement to 3 parts sand to 6 parts aggregates can be used."
FLIPPING HECK MY BACK’S GONE?!?!
Jon! I had no idea that this was actually a manner of speaking specifically related to your home in Britain! And the history lesson before hand... I mean, I’ve seen Billy Elliot, but I’m definitely an Kansan. I had no idea how ubiquitous that experience was for people. I think this is my favorite let’s play you’ve done, and I’ve watched you for YEARS! Thank you so much for sharing this bit of yourself. More than entertaining, it was enlightening and enriching. Thank you, sir.
I loved that little history lesson! My mother grew up around Manchester in the 70s and 80s, and she's told me some of it, but she dipped out of the UK in the late 80s and came to America. Still, whenever she goes home to visit, just like you said, there are a lot of rural villages and what not that are still shells of what they were in the sixties.
When he was giving that speech in the beginning all I could think of was "Hey, isn't that what happened Detroit?"
What a coincidence. In my area of the USA there's old mining towns as well. Events that happened were different but resulted similarly in there being majority poverty in these towns. Also something to mention. These houses were usually not very solidly built and often are hazardous in a fire and will likely engulf pretty quick. I do appreciate how we kind of share that in common.
I'd absolutely love to see more of this game from you.
While this was a great video, I think my favorite part was that it actually taught me about hey the Thatcher era was so bad.
Bad from a certain perspective, yes. But there's another side to the story.
Anyone else notice how the game's made to look like a camcorder recording from the 80s? You got chromatic abberation at the edges from the cheap lens, there are aliasing artifacts from the scanlines, and then of course the low res textures. Very interesting stylistic choice, definitely fits the game.
I spotted that when he first went to do the potwashing, reminded me of the timestamps and characters you'd get on old VHS/ceefax
Funnily enough, quite possibly the most internationally recognized thing related to the miner's strikes of 1980s Britain can be found in the form of, of all things, a film about a young boy from a small mining town in the throes of a strike who wants to become a ballet dancer. It's called Billy Elliot and it first hit theatres in 2000, where it was nominated for three Academy Awards and was overall so successful, that they adapted it into a musical (with music composed by none other than Elton John) on the West End five years later and took it to Broadway another two after that. In the end, I guess you never know just how important events in history will be remembered.
I'd love to see a series, such a fun little game even for early access
'Hammer: A Brummie Screwdriver'.
Please do more, this is marvellous
Oh damn, as soon as Jon walked into the unfinished house, I got flashbacks to the Windows maze screensaver.
Wonderful game and charming introduction to it. Cheers Jon.
I grew up and still live in swadlincote, a lovely area South of Derby in Derbyshire. From my understanding as I was born after the Thatcher years, is that it had a rich mining industry, but also pottery as clay and the likes were a secondary export. I live on the outskirts so people pretty much only travel through to get to places like Burton, a much bigger town/mini city straddling the Trent, but also to get to bigger cities like derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and Birmingham. Burton has a rich history of being a market town, and as such many railways pass through there. There are also a lot of active quarries as well as inactive ones, with the closest being Albert village and Albert village lake, which was a man-made lake converted from an old quarry. Similarly, there are a lot of lakes and nature reserves, as I sit right in the heart of the national forest. If you look at pictures from the 70s of the national forest, dusty old abandoned mines and barren hillsides have been turned into green, luscious fields and forests. There are even Victorian era monuments and things left behind, like strips of dissused rails and old iron, rusty lamp posts. Even old pottery houses and brick buildings from the 1700s. In a way, you could call the shutting down of the mines a good thing, given the beauty it has now transformed into. Towns have had to adapt to this change also, focusing on commercial industries and services primarily, while also relying on trade and private businesses. If you take a walk down the lower and middle class areas in election season, you will always find lots of labour and UKIP posters. Some green party too. On the upper side along the main roads with fancy private gated estates and communities, there are obviously more conservative voters. Considering that our current MP is a conservative member of parliament, I'd imagine that the area has amassed a considerable amount of wealth since the 80s, something that you would possibly laugh at at the time. Within three to four decades, people are now more well off than they ever were. Obviously before the technology that exists now, mining and manual labour was the dominant career path. my mum worked in a bank and had to learn to use a typewriter, which was about as high as you could climb back then. you couldn't exactly make it big as a nationally respected photographer or artist either unless you lived in a big city like london, let alone being recognised outside the county. But as new job prospects opened up, it becomes clear that the mining industry and poverty was what was holding the area back all along. It also used to be quite rough, and I can't even imagine counting the amount of pubs. My dad could tell you many stories of how leaving school at 14 and a job at 15 was the norm, or the local ruffian families, or even the countless amounts of fist fights night after night. He even told me once that back in his day, "people fought with their fists". But whenever you see a stabbing on the news, he comments on how cowardly people are these days, as if fist fights were honest and a manly way of settling an argument. That says a lot about the background he comes from. But, you'd be there all day.
Sorry it's long but thank you for reading, just thought I'd put my two pence in on the subject of the video :)
Beautiful live stream oppitunity and very satisfying to watch
From South Wales Valleys... I felt that into
Please make this a series!! When it becomes fully available, of course...
Man this game is giving me a craving for some special brew.
Well, at least Jon is better at building houses than at building cars :D
I hope this comes back to the channel, I'd love to see more of this, as well as more "socioeconomic history with Jon".
As someone who grew up in rural eastern Kentucky (incidentally, quite near where Fallout 76 is set; visited the IRL Camden Park many times!) I can relate to the history lesson at the start, Jon. Coal mining was the foundation of the local economy there for decades. Entire towns were built, thrived, and died based on the profitability of the mines there. Now that industry in general has and continues to move away from coal, the mining industry here is like a slowly dying patient on life support. Having seen firsthand the terrible things mining has done to the land and people there (including my coal miner grandfather, who died from black lung), I say we can't pull the plug fast enough.
This game is awesome! Would love to see more of it!
jon described this as terrifyingly real but the canal with the tow path and the row houses were very charming and cute to me.
Why? It was all in the pursuit of profit. Canals were to move stuff up & down the country as fast as possible before trains became widespread in areas where there wasn't big rivers (hence them being common around the Midlands) & the terrace houses was to for as many people in as little space as possible
This takes me back to being a kid growing up in Ireland and breaking into abandoned houses and flats and gutting them for copper wire , legal ? No , Fun? Yes . Dangerous , abso fucing lutely