Squisherz are really cool Squisherz are so much fun They're slimy gooey animals Giraffes and wolves and so much more Buy, squish 'em, you've gotta collect 'em all Squisherz (Squisherz!)
lol poor John, misspelling things has made this game so much harder for himself. For anyone curious, SPOILERS FOR THIS VIDEO: . . . . . So, there are a handful of people you can actually save, including Zane who is canonically still alive. You just have to flag them every time you get the option, and they'll be banned before the Mindcrash. John was so aggro against Tim when Tim even said the Mindcrash wasn't real lol.
Regarding Y2K, an awful lot of work and money - many, many billions - went into "Y2K proofing" by updating or replacing existing systems to ensure a smooth transition, and those measures were successful to the extent that no serious errors occurred. It was not a myth, a joke, a false scare, or otherwise never a real problem, although public perception was highly overblown and sometimes weirdly ignorant. My father was the senior programmer at a mid-sized IT consultancy at the time.
As my partner likes to say, a lot of people worked really hard to ensure that nothing happened (their father was also one of the programmers that worked on preventing issues).
Every time I see the system connected to your brain crashing I cringe a little. Just the thought of having something like this happening to me makes my feel anxious.
The Beefbrain stuff is freaking me out too. It sounds like the kind of medical thing that could be real while being dismissed as a conspiracy theory until enough people suffer from it.
Y2K was not nothing! It got overblown for sure, but there were real concerns about how computers would handle it. The reason it was "nothing" in the end was that a lot of programmers worked hard to fix most of those issues before it happened, so then people just kind of forgot about it.
This game is so unique and amazing to me. I'm an older IT guy, who lived through this time and wow.. I got to play this. I bet there is so many hidden things here.
It makes sense they'd incentivize browsing Counselor Ronnie's page since he's a Hypnosoft employee the kids are supposed to trust if they have issues on the site.
I know Justine is John's most iconic video game voice in his channel history, but I feel like I'd put the Counselor Ronnie voice in a comfortable second place. It's just too good! 😂
I wish we could get some cool forums or the ability to customize your home page these days equivalent to Hypnospace. All the social media just feels so bland compare to before how you could customize your home page. (Remember when you could customize your channel theme on TH-cam?) Just watching you play this game makes me nostalgic in being part of such forum. (And I had to deal with Miiverse closure and removal of customizations like on TH-cam so it might be hitting close to home.😅)
I was told that Y2K was all about how when the computers switched to 2000, they wouldn’t understand it was 2000 and instead go back to 1900, and that computers knew they didn’t exist in 1900 and would shut down forever. Source: god only fucking knows I was 12. Edit: my first thought when John played the weird Outlaw car game was that it was remarkably similar to Dylan’s game that also crashed the headset… I’m totally hooked on this story lol
I think the reason as to why the Outlaw car game looks so similar to Dylan's is because it is the same game and was updated in the 2000's update. We just didn't see it before the mindcrash happened.
@@abbzygail6372I meant more like “wait how does Tim have such a similar game, wasn’t this Dylan’s thing?” But the game soon makes it clear that Dylan was actually behind the Mindcrash, so the similarity was actually a bit of foreshadowing.
noticed when you loaded into the hacked teentopia space in safe mode your enforcer options became open to you, I think that is how you would have been able to report it
Unironically one of my fav playthroughs from you! Can't wait for the next on and will very likely rewatch this series down the line. Also a great change of pace, just finished your bramble AND brothers series, lol
Silly, but it made me super happy to hear you reference Neopets. I remade my account last year and the nostalgia hits have been real. Anyway, I remember that at the end of last year, they did an AMA and said they had revised their account-recovery protocols. People who had tried previously seemed to have more success trying to reclaim old accounts after that, but Idk when the last time was that you tried. In any case, happy NP grinding!
There are so many earwormy songs in this game, I love it. I'm happy to see you've been enjoying the game so far and I'm looking forward to hearing your final thoughts!
Yes! John became the Squisherz hero! Loved the rap. So much good music and everything made me nostalgic. Both the good and bad kind lol. I really like the last bit of the game, since you could just browse freely. They made so many pages. Like a mini internet bubble.
I love all the stories in this game! Cory's updates from "I have a girlfriend" to "tell me your ideal partner, like is Zane your type?" to "no gf/sorry I lied about having a girlfriend." I know he pestered Tiffany, but given that Zane was hacked with messages about dating Cory, I wonder if Cory was processing some Repressed Feelings™ and then got outed or something. And that's only one person's little timeline! I think Tim was framed tbh. Dylan was shady from the start, and it was _his_ update and "game" that actually crashed everything. (I've not finished the video yet)
You can't log into your old neopets account because they deleted all inactive accounts a few years ago or something. I only know this because I tried to get into my old account too.
Mine still seems to be up, but I used a Yahoo account way back when and Yahoo deleted all inactive email accounts so I had to make a new Neopets account. I didn't rly have any rare ones anyways.
@@StraytheSkies I just looked into it again and apparently they have "purges" of inactive accounts every two years or so. If an account is inactive for 18+ months, it is eligible for "the purge". I hadn't touched mine since 2005 or so, so its luck ran out.
30:58 It didn't fix the page but it unblocked your moderation tools. I wonder if you'd banned the people who died if they wouldn't have died due to not being able to access Hypnospace? Basically being an overzealous moderation jerk might have saved their lives. Because I know most of them had enough points to be permabanned.
This is what I wondered, and if it changes Tim's fate/attitude at all. I'm so invested in this now... I put it on my Steam wishlist for when it goes on sale
I don't think you can change anything about Tim's fate, but if you flag and get Zane banned before solving the Mindcrash case then he isn't one of the victims. I believe Zane surviving is also 'canon', since the spinoff FPS game Slayers X is 'made' by Zane. I don't think any of the other victims can be banned there though, since I don't think flagging Tiff then would do much.
this really is a game you can get lost in for hours lmao also how on-brand for this developer to casually throw in something really sad in an otherwise cute wholesome funny game 🥲 in dropsy i bawled my eyes out when you find and bury the little birdie's mom, and when the antagonist turns the cute animal entourage into scary mutants (even though they recognized dropsy and still loved him 😭💕) and here they really have u go from cringing and laughing at silly teenager myspace antics to having them die in their sleep from compromised headband tech 🥲 i still love this game so much but wtf 😭 poor tiff she never deserved this ;(
I KNOWWW!! I was already shocked seeing that six people died but reading the names really almost brought the tears out. the fact that they were just teens on the internet added to the pain. This game is soo fucking good, amazing twists and turns that you really cannot predict
This game is so thoughtfully made, i'm so impressed. the glitchy lag that happens freaks me out 'cause i keep thinking my actual computer is crashing TuT;; Also, watching you try to catch abbywrites is very remniscent of you trying to catch Legendary Fish LOL
On the earliest version of the kevv j page you were looking at, it references at the bottom that that's not his main page. I think that's where you went a bit wrong maybe?
Hi John, I have a question, I just dont know where to ask you. Would you consider playing the newest game in the cube escape/rusty lake playthrough? its called underground blossom. I love watching and rewatching your other playthroughs from this series. Either way wishing you and the fam the best 🌞
I love this series so far John! My tip is to check out the freelands more whenever you play next :-) I might be remembering wrong myself but afaik that's a zone where a lot of stuff can be found!!
Listening to John read like he's Ronnie in the teentopia section reminds me of Lil Nicky from that old Adam Sandler movie. Definitely made me laugh lol
I bought the game on my switch and it was on sale! I know it would be more fun on the computer like more immersive but my moneys too tight rn to buy a new laptop lol. Thank you so much for showing this game to us! I’m so sad about the deaths esp the teens like they had so much left to experience. I can’t wait for the next part!
I'm really bad with names, so I want to make sure I have this right: Zane and Jessica are the same person, I get that. But didn't Corey also have a story about dating Jessica and then breaking up with her? So is Corey also Zane? Zane made up a person to make fun of on his page? Or did Cory say his girlfriend was a different name that I'm getting confused with Jessica? Finishing the Squisherz quest was completely worth it XD
So there were four pages total. Zane, his girlfriend, Corey, and his girlfriend. If you look at the headband I.D.'s you'll see that Zane and his GFs are the same, and Corey and his GF's were the same. Their pages were hacked by Tim on NYE, so anything they said that day was from Tim getting revenge on them for harassing her.
@@FluffyThieves I see. It was confusing that they both had fake girlfriends with fake pages that they both broke up with at the same time. Then both started hitting on Tiff at the same time. I thought there was something else going on there, but I guess it was just coincidence.
You skipped a whole load of detective work when you looked up a walkthrough, that's why the solution seemed so complicated and obtuse. I can see why you wouldn't want to spend too much time on that sort of gameplay in an unedited video, especially since you felt stuck and thought you were only inches away from the solution.
When John wondered about the main game being named after that driving mini game, I remembered that the first iteration of it crashed Hypnospace. The only reason I can think of for the main game to be named after that mini game is if the mini game is related to the deaths somehow. Abigail Writes is one of the cars you chase, maybe if you can get further into it, there are six different cars named after all the people that die? EDIT: And the computer did download that mini game right before the big crash.
@anacsadder yea, I also noticed Abigail writes name as well, I wonder why the creator would do such a thing? Is it a mistake or on purpose? I'm dying to find out!!
@@Ghostkidparadise She had a bunch of infractions for that Gumshoe Gooper thing, I wonder if that's what the word "outlaw" is referring to. Like, Tiff never did anything wrong, but the harassment infractions were accidentally stuck on her account through a technicality. I think everyone that died had enough infractions to be banned. Could that have something to do with it?
Squisherz are really cool
Squisherz are so much fun
They're slimy gooey animals
Giraffes and wolves and so much more
Buy, squish 'em, you've gotta collect 'em all
Squisherz (Squisherz!)
i don't want to admit how long i've had this stuck in my head
If I start with "Squisherz! Are really cool!" My wife replies with the other line of the lyrics XD
Counselor Ronnie reporting for duty 😎
DUTY D-D-DUTY!
Lmao I love this game
Y'all are great. Lmao.
lol poor John, misspelling things has made this game so much harder for himself.
For anyone curious, SPOILERS FOR THIS VIDEO:
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So, there are a handful of people you can actually save, including Zane who is canonically still alive. You just have to flag them every time you get the option, and they'll be banned before the Mindcrash.
John was so aggro against Tim when Tim even said the Mindcrash wasn't real lol.
Regarding Y2K, an awful lot of work and money - many, many billions - went into "Y2K proofing" by updating or replacing existing systems to ensure a smooth transition, and those measures were successful to the extent that no serious errors occurred. It was not a myth, a joke, a false scare, or otherwise never a real problem, although public perception was highly overblown and sometimes weirdly ignorant. My father was the senior programmer at a mid-sized IT consultancy at the time.
The best thing to come out of the dreaded Y2K phenomenon was _Strange Days._ Such a good movie!
I was coming here for this comment. Often the background heroes get overlooked when "nothing bad happens"...
As my partner likes to say, a lot of people worked really hard to ensure that nothing happened (their father was also one of the programmers that worked on preventing issues).
Every time I see the system connected to your brain crashing I cringe a little. Just the thought of having something like this happening to me makes my feel anxious.
The Beefbrain stuff is freaking me out too. It sounds like the kind of medical thing that could be real while being dismissed as a conspiracy theory until enough people suffer from it.
Y2K was not nothing! It got overblown for sure, but there were real concerns about how computers would handle it. The reason it was "nothing" in the end was that a lot of programmers worked hard to fix most of those issues before it happened, so then people just kind of forgot about it.
Just found out that they’re developing a sequel that’s going to be set in the 2000s!
This game is so unique and amazing to me. I'm an older IT guy, who lived through this time and wow.. I got to play this. I bet there is so many hidden things here.
It makes sense they'd incentivize browsing Counselor Ronnie's page since he's a Hypnosoft employee the kids are supposed to trust if they have issues on the site.
About that...
That counselor ronnie voice im dying 😭😭
That was his job before he landed Good Burger.
In my 40s and this may be my favorite playthrough. It's nostalgic af and I can feel it in my soul.
If anyone is curious, there is an OST a ailae for this. You can listen to counsellor Ronnie all day everyday
I still pop on Millenium Anthem here and there, it's got a weird nostalgia feeling for me lol
Hey John, at the risk of backseating, here’s a tiny hint: Try viewing some of the harder-to-find pages in safe mode (⚠️).
I know Justine is John's most iconic video game voice in his channel history, but I feel like I'd put the Counselor Ronnie voice in a comfortable second place. It's just too good! 😂
the jojofied squisherZ fanart took me out LMAO counselor ronnie we love you
Hypnospace looks so different from when it first got released! I’m happy that John gets to enjoy this game. Thanks, Sinow! 🖤
That councelor ronnie song will never leave my head
I guess we both searched up the same picture while choosing a thumbnail for our Hypnospace outlaw videos 😂
im praying john sees what's becoming of the gooper violation pages!
I wish we could get some cool forums or the ability to customize your home page these days equivalent to Hypnospace. All the social media just feels so bland compare to before how you could customize your home page. (Remember when you could customize your channel theme on TH-cam?) Just watching you play this game makes me nostalgic in being part of such forum. (And I had to deal with Miiverse closure and removal of customizations like on TH-cam so it might be hitting close to home.😅)
Look up Neocities!
I was told that Y2K was all about how when the computers switched to 2000, they wouldn’t understand it was 2000 and instead go back to 1900, and that computers knew they didn’t exist in 1900 and would shut down forever. Source: god only fucking knows I was 12.
Edit: my first thought when John played the weird Outlaw car game was that it was remarkably similar to Dylan’s game that also crashed the headset… I’m totally hooked on this story lol
I think the reason as to why the Outlaw car game looks so similar to Dylan's is because it is the same game and was updated in the 2000's update. We just didn't see it before the mindcrash happened.
@@abbzygail6372I meant more like “wait how does Tim have such a similar game, wasn’t this Dylan’s thing?” But the game soon makes it clear that Dylan was actually behind the Mindcrash, so the similarity was actually a bit of foreshadowing.
John that stupid swishy song from those toys has been in my head all day lol!!
John in the kitchen washing bottles: 🎶 Counselor Ronnie reporting for duty... d...d... duty 🎵
I knew Dylan was a slimeball!!
noticed when you loaded into the hacked teentopia space in safe mode your enforcer options became open to you, I think that is how you would have been able to report it
It doesn't work, unfortunately, Samantha even says it can't be reported.
I love that you start breakin it down when the SquisherZ song comes on, it's awesome. Great video as always!!
Loving this series. The game is so cool. Suprised that people died. Wasn't expecting that at all! Rip Zane 😢
ngl I legit almost teared up seeing that people died. like that was SO unexpected and revealed just how much I grew attached to these dweebs 😭
Unironically one of my fav playthroughs from you! Can't wait for the next on and will very likely rewatch this series down the line. Also a great change of pace, just finished your bramble AND brothers series, lol
Silly, but it made me super happy to hear you reference Neopets. I remade my account last year and the nostalgia hits have been real. Anyway, I remember that at the end of last year, they did an AMA and said they had revised their account-recovery protocols. People who had tried previously seemed to have more success trying to reclaim old accounts after that, but Idk when the last time was that you tried. In any case, happy NP grinding!
This is easily one of my favourite playthroughs on any of your channels, John.
I usually save your uploads for when I wake up so I start my day with a banger, but today I just can’t help it, this let’s play is so good !!
There are so many earwormy songs in this game, I love it. I'm happy to see you've been enjoying the game so far and I'm looking forward to hearing your final thoughts!
Yes! John became the Squisherz hero! Loved the rap. So much good music and everything made me nostalgic. Both the good and bad kind lol. I really like the last bit of the game, since you could just browse freely. They made so many pages. Like a mini internet bubble.
COUNSELOR RONNIE REPORTING FOR DUTY
John could've stopped the hacker before, had hypocrite Dylan not ban him
I love all the stories in this game! Cory's updates from "I have a girlfriend" to "tell me your ideal partner, like is Zane your type?" to "no gf/sorry I lied about having a girlfriend." I know he pestered Tiffany, but given that Zane was hacked with messages about dating Cory, I wonder if Cory was processing some Repressed Feelings™ and then got outed or something. And that's only one person's little timeline!
I think Tim was framed tbh. Dylan was shady from the start, and it was _his_ update and "game" that actually crashed everything. (I've not finished the video yet)
My mind is gonna crash when this playthrough is over, amiright guys?
You can't log into your old neopets account because they deleted all inactive accounts a few years ago or something. I only know this because I tried to get into my old account too.
Mine still seems to be up, but I used a Yahoo account way back when and Yahoo deleted all inactive email accounts so I had to make a new Neopets account. I didn't rly have any rare ones anyways.
@@StraytheSkies I just looked into it again and apparently they have "purges" of inactive accounts every two years or so. If an account is inactive for 18+ months, it is eligible for "the purge". I hadn't touched mine since 2005 or so, so its luck ran out.
Well when I asked them, the account still existed. I found it by searching it up, could look at the profile and everything. Ah well it’s gone now lol
30:58 It didn't fix the page but it unblocked your moderation tools.
I wonder if you'd banned the people who died if they wouldn't have died due to not being able to access Hypnospace? Basically being an overzealous moderation jerk might have saved their lives. Because I know most of them had enough points to be permabanned.
This is what I wondered, and if it changes Tim's fate/attitude at all. I'm so invested in this now... I put it on my Steam wishlist for when it goes on sale
I don't think you can change anything about Tim's fate, but if you flag and get Zane banned before solving the Mindcrash case then he isn't one of the victims. I believe Zane surviving is also 'canon', since the spinoff FPS game Slayers X is 'made' by Zane. I don't think any of the other victims can be banned there though, since I don't think flagging Tiff then would do much.
this really is a game you can get lost in for hours lmao
also how on-brand for this developer to casually throw in something really sad in an otherwise cute wholesome funny game 🥲
in dropsy i bawled my eyes out when you find and bury the little birdie's mom, and when the antagonist turns the cute animal entourage into scary mutants (even though they recognized dropsy and still loved him 😭💕)
and here they really have u go from cringing and laughing at silly teenager myspace antics to having them die in their sleep from compromised headband tech 🥲
i still love this game so much but wtf 😭 poor tiff she never deserved this ;(
I KNOWWW!! I was already shocked seeing that six people died but reading the names really almost brought the tears out. the fact that they were just teens on the internet added to the pain. This game is soo fucking good, amazing twists and turns that you really cannot predict
Having so much fun watching you play this game and singing all the songs, they are so catchy.😂
I'm so happy watching this. Such a great game!
This game is so thoughtfully made, i'm so impressed. the glitchy lag that happens freaks me out 'cause i keep thinking my actual computer is crashing TuT;; Also, watching you try to catch abbywrites is very remniscent of you trying to catch Legendary Fish LOL
On the earliest version of the kevv j page you were looking at, it references at the bottom that that's not his main page. I think that's where you went a bit wrong maybe?
damn, tiff got religious and immediately invented King’s Quest
Smashing playthrough so far. One of my favourite games ever!
Hi John, I have a question, I just dont know where to ask you. Would you consider playing the newest game in the cube escape/rusty lake playthrough? its called underground blossom. I love watching and rewatching your other playthroughs from this series.
Either way wishing you and the fam the best 🌞
I love this series so far John! My tip is to check out the freelands more whenever you play next :-) I might be remembering wrong myself but afaik that's a zone where a lot of stuff can be found!!
Listening to John read like he's Ronnie in the teentopia section reminds me of Lil Nicky from that old Adam Sandler movie. Definitely made me laugh lol
john my guy cant thank you enough for this playthru, rn best way to go for studying or procrastrinating studying 👍
I bought the game on my switch and it was on sale! I know it would be more fun on the computer like more immersive but my moneys too tight rn to buy a new laptop lol. Thank you so much for showing this game to us! I’m so sad about the deaths esp the teens like they had so much left to experience. I can’t wait for the next part!
When I was growing up with y2k, we all thought we would get trapped in grocery stores when all the automatic doors stopped working.
I'm glad you're all in on squisherz John
I'm really bad with names, so I want to make sure I have this right: Zane and Jessica are the same person, I get that. But didn't Corey also have a story about dating Jessica and then breaking up with her? So is Corey also Zane? Zane made up a person to make fun of on his page? Or did Cory say his girlfriend was a different name that I'm getting confused with Jessica?
Finishing the Squisherz quest was completely worth it XD
So there were four pages total. Zane, his girlfriend, Corey, and his girlfriend. If you look at the headband I.D.'s you'll see that Zane and his GFs are the same, and Corey and his GF's were the same.
Their pages were hacked by Tim on NYE, so anything they said that day was from Tim getting revenge on them for harassing her.
@@FluffyThieves I see. It was confusing that they both had fake girlfriends with fake pages that they both broke up with at the same time. Then both started hitting on Tiff at the same time. I thought there was something else going on there, but I guess it was just coincidence.
who knew John could do a decent Stevo voice!
Time for me to get distracted from work!
You skipped a whole load of detective work when you looked up a walkthrough, that's why the solution seemed so complicated and obtuse. I can see why you wouldn't want to spend too much time on that sort of gameplay in an unedited video, especially since you felt stuck and thought you were only inches away from the solution.
Uhh I love that song at the beginning, sounds like some Alternative Stoner Metal song
Johnathan Canis Lupuse
I really like this series!
I enjoy this series thanks john
I knew tim was innocent!
When John wondered about the main game being named after that driving mini game, I remembered that the first iteration of it crashed Hypnospace. The only reason I can think of for the main game to be named after that mini game is if the mini game is related to the deaths somehow. Abigail Writes is one of the cars you chase, maybe if you can get further into it, there are six different cars named after all the people that die?
EDIT: And the computer did download that mini game right before the big crash.
@anacsadder yea, I also noticed Abigail writes name as well, I wonder why the creator would do such a thing? Is it a mistake or on purpose? I'm dying to find out!!
@@Ghostkidparadise She had a bunch of infractions for that Gumshoe Gooper thing, I wonder if that's what the word "outlaw" is referring to. Like, Tiff never did anything wrong, but the harassment infractions were accidentally stuck on her account through a technicality. I think everyone that died had enough infractions to be banned. Could that have something to do with it?
@anacsadder I'm beginning to realize that these "random deaths" weren't random after all
Lovin this playthru! 😊
Love the neopets shoutout! I hope you can get your account back! You should try reaching out to the new ceo Dom if you never hear back
Hey John it's guys
Safe mode report
I have a hard time understanding lyrics as well. You’re the first person I’ve heard admit to that.
I miss my neopets so much 😢
turthole
You need to download more RAM John
YES
23:34 SAAAAME!!!
John, please play fobia st dinfna hotel
I wasn't even born in 2000
This story is def taking an interesting turn