Simulated existential crisis in the form of a video game. Here are timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction - Tryolabs: tryolabs.com/lex - Vincero: vincerowatches.com/lex 0:48 - Round 1 - The Matrix 8:12 - Round 2 - Reincarnation 9:58 - Round 3 - Winning 12:39 - Round 4 - Adventure line 16:30 - Round 5 - Confusion 19:58 - Round 6 - Mind control 35:09 - Round 7 - A dream within a dream 42:28 - Round 8 - Ego death 47:49 - Death becomes meaningless
Hey Lex! love your stuff man. hey if you like this game i got one you may REALLY trip out on. called 'Only If' on Steam. THE trippest game i have ever played. I recommend to anyone and everyone reading this. game on!
That's why the media exist even though we all know its fake. That's why every remake from your childhood will fail to keel you wanting and hoping but not getting a result you like. Psychologically the feeling of pain leaving the womb is part of the structure of our world now at every stage. The end goal is the great reset. No one owns anything apart from the elite pedos who rent it back to us as slavery
As someone who works in an office and that presses buttons all day, this “game” is truly a masterpiece. You should do another video or two in order to see the whole thing. You have no idea what you’ve missed. :)
I find it fun to always see people's accomplishments or even progress, whether it be contributing to a game or commenting on it and loving it. It is a good experience. A lot of things I wish I was able to do and fantasize about being good at it. It is good other people can do it.
@@cesarsanchezgutierrez3064 Mine sounds like a big fat cat scratching on the door trying to get out. You can estimate its weight by the heavy breathing.
I have been enjoying watching players of this game and observing their choices and why - great research for the novel I am writing. I have seen 1 person find the Freedom Ending and she did what the narrator told her to do. Interesting. A thing to consider: she found the destination but in the process she had no journey.
Perhaps my fav detail in the beginning stages of the game: outside Stanley's office is a printer/photocopier. If you crouch down, you can read one of the papers it printed out. ...and it's apparently sentient and longs for death, for it is but a printer and not capable of feeling love.
there IS a freedom ending, but as in reality, reaching freedom is the most difficult path. there's also an extended version of this game by now, the "ultra deluxe" version
After a rough day yesterday I am recommended Lex playing The Stanley Parable, and now all is right with the world. Wonderful and fun video. Please play more video games when you get a chance. :)
Lex: presses ON. Nuclear destruction imminent. I'm not going to stop it. I'm not going to stop it. Michael Malice: ear to ear grins with slow clapping.
8:26 “reincarnation but still I keep the memories of the past” - ahhh but did Stanley? And is someone controlling us with memories of our previous lives? Did whoever is controlling me listen to a narration in my voice telling me to type this? Did he tell me to stop here?
I am so impressed by this guy. Started watching him few years ago when he had tens of thousands of followers not millions. I'm a software engineer and I like AI so it just fit, but watching the whole thing morph into what it has and seeing Lex grow into this sensation is pretty amazing. I have a lot of love and respect, as well admiration for him. He seems like he could be the best of friends...if only I knew him that way:)
Lex i tell you honestly, dmt is nothing like that, at all man. it is wildly open and showed me that the universe is in control and its is also very vivid and colorful.
I’m sort of in love with this game, and Lex’s play through was by far the one I enjoyed the most… I really appreciated him taking the time to really notice the story :)
Free will is just as real as picking the floor of ice cream at the ice cream shop. The shop owner already decided for you the available flavours you can choose from ❤
ive seen thousands of lets plays but this is by far one of the greatest, your commentary is absolute gold and i feel smarter just listening to you hahhaha
1. What would you do if you had a day to live? 2. What would you do if you had a year to live? 3. What would you do if you had 50 years to live? 4. Why is there a difference between what you would do and what you are doing?
The Freedom ending exists, you get to freedom when you don't make any contrarian choices to what narrator says... ah yes, when freedom means total obedience.
You're definitely one of my favorite humans on the planet as currently constituted. And you definitely need to narrate my life more often. Lebowski and Hunter s thompson quotes and all. 🙏🙏🙏
The "illusion" is if you are only consumed by the materialistic world, then your personality's destiny will find it hard to connect with the Cosmic Father.
Happy, bloody, new year, man! This video was fulliling to the point where my vocabulary is not sufficient. Thank you very much for being the cause for it. I'll be waiting for the new content where your commentatation is the cause for more comprehensiveness not to be explained. Cheers!
"This is why immortality doesn't work. It's always showing up to a room - empty, void of humans - and asking, 'what does it all mean?' After a while, it just gets...tiresome." That is a great quote
Until now I've never thought any letsplay could give me so much to ponder about... Wow. I played that game a long time ago and that was an incredibly profound and insightful experience but your commentary is like a whole different experience, so fascinating.!
26:08 this is absolutely nothing what taking DMT is like... IT DOES have the ability to put you outside the simulation though. But most people only stay there temporarily.
“Life is so much easier with a narrator” My inner monologue the monologue that often tells me to quit tells me to stay under the covers in bed and give up on my goals. The narrator that tells me to give up on my dreams. the one that tells me I wasn’t made to be successful. Yeah, it would be easy to listen to him.
Oh, so no one has told you yet? That voice is not there to be listened to; it's there so that, no matter how alone you might otherwise feel - or, in fact, be - you will always have at least _one_ doubter to tell off each and every time you accomplish something.
No. It's not easier if you listen to it. I've been in depression for years now and, if you listen to it, you'll become a dead mind inside a dying body. The world around you won't have colors, food won't have taste or smell, people will be a grey shape and everything will be meaningless. It's not easy, at all. Sooner or later you'll be powerless to act and react. Even if you can see how deep you are, you won't have any ability to act on it. Sooner or later that will be the only voice you'll be listening to, and then you won't be able to listen to anything else, anymore.
Have you tried turning it off and on again? No seriously- shrooms and ketamin are proven to 'reset' your brains in many ways. ( www.bbc.com/news/health-41608984 )
@@nekrokulter Well, yes and no. No, because the game restarts, and just like it was done in Spec Ops The Line, the only way to beat the game, is to actually never play it (or to follow the narrator, take the escape rout and just before crash, hit the escape and turn off the game), or turn it off and move on with your life towards whatever; as the female narrator said, Stanley was dead from the beginning, and so we are. Yes, because it's an old concept actually. Back in ancient times there was a voice of logos speaking to people, which was thought to be - at that times - a voice of god, telling people what to do and not do, possibly leading to whatever best fullfillment of their lives (which kind of negates the free will concept and bows to determinism). It is thought that the voice of logos was incorporated by the mind and became what we know now as consciance, the inner voice that appear sometimes and tells you that you probably shouldn't be doing something, or should be doing something else now, and which is - paradoxicaly - right at great many times, at least in a relatively healthy developed person. I.E: socrates was known for always listening to that voice, up to a point where during his prosecution he had a chance to defend himself and the voice told him that he shouldn't. So he shut up and reconsidered, decided that he's old enough and lived his life, and it's a chance for him to go on his own terms, before the life of an old man takes him down insted. So he shut up and went on with being executed. So what does that have to do with Stanley's Parable? Well, it's even somewhere in the game, when narrator tells you about that rebel part, where no matter how good you have it it's never enough, and the ones inner will to rebel is always our own missfortune which we deny up untill the point of no return and sometimes even beyond that. Like that old saying The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Cause no matter what you do, you really can't do good - becasue you don't know what's good and what's not. Because your view of what's good might be wrong to others and even to yourself because you didn't took some small detail - or even a large one - into consideration, simply because you couldn't, there's too many things related to everything around us at all moments that we simply can't make that decision. Sure you can say, helping someone in need is better than robbing them or something. But it's like with Hitler, WW2 might've not happened if an enemy soldier left him to die in the WW1. ISIS could've not raise to power if USA didn't invade iraq. There's just no way to know, and one thing that's sure about humans is we always think we don't deserve something or something is wrong when things are going well, cause we escape from comfort just as we do from suffering which just puts us in a constant loop. And theoretically, this is where buddha and zen comes in. Just be in the moment, go with the flow, don't resist, don't desire, just be and let things happen as they want. Well there's and ending for that in SP too - needless to say, you're most likely to start walking around instead of staying there or turning the game off ;) We like to break stuff, even ourselfes. Too bad Lex didn't played enough to try to mess with game mechanics, wonder what would he do in the telephone room or with platform :) but he's an accomplished man, not a gamer, he did better than me and moved with his life instead of trying to find everything this game offers :D (and in a way found exactly everything it offers - the existencial crisis and that you shouldn't play the game ;)
@@coconutfpv Amazing. But I had a question. If we can never know what is good, what do we do? How do we live knowing that what we do can cause so many people harm? Is the only way out to not do anything? Is dying the only solution? The only way out?
@@pushpitsrivastava5796 1) I'm sorry i speak about religions much if perhaps it bothers you in any way, thing is it's not about the religions but about the ideas that they speak of. The answer hinduism, buddhism/taoism and zen offers to that is to stop the clinging to everything (which is a different thing than don't care about anything and get rid of all emotions) and learn to make your mind still and let things be as they want to be (which is a common thing in most religions around the world actually (like jesus forgiving them all them sins, or allah - the merciful and compassionate; there's basically no religion without that motive, no matter how people manage to pick them apart and twist the story to fit their agendas). I.E: if you go to a store and you wait in line, and there's like that one angry lady that's always making scenes and rages all around "cause why the fu* she have to wait in line (with two people in front of her which would take like two minutes instead of 4 with her raging all over the place) where's the second cashier?!", you can eighter: - act, and tell her off or calm her down, perhaps make her realise she's an as* and her raging ain't helping anything or speeding things up; - ignore her, but then you feel kinda down and frustrated, cause you could've done something and you didn't, or she shouldn't be like that, or you let yourself down cause you could act but you didn't, and you let other people down for the same reason, and other let you down cause they didn't act as well, and the whole thing is just a giant mess, and why do people actually act shi*y as there's no point in that and she totally should be grateful for (there's more options obviously but the point is IF you think about it really deeply, there's sort of no good solution, cause whatever you do is by being driven by one or the other selfish reasons (was it really needed? do you needed to act out? why do you tell people how they should live and act? how do YOU know to live and act and why you assume you got it right or more right than anybody else? or the ways you acted it out were over the top, your words, your tone of voice, etc.) Whatever you'll do, it will resonate within you, wether it is by you kinda being an as* while you really didn't need to, by you feeling let down by your own action and not taking action while something could be done, or by her behaviour like a pretentious as*, you'll go on by your day but you'll feel like it's a little bit (or maybe a significantly) worse day than it was before that event. So you see what actually happens is you cling to the feelings, eighter anger or frustration or perhaps a joy cause you've acted while you needed (you think) to and you totally bossed her, good job you... but was it really necessary? you're sure? Cause odds are highly likely that you pat yourself on the back for being the good person cause you've brought somebody else down, which is hardly a humane and glorious thing to do. This doesn't mean they did not deserve it, keep that in mind. The whole thing of how we should and shouldn't act as an individual vs local society vs global society, all the formalities and norms, behaviours and little laws and rituals, wether we should glorify the unit or aim at the good for entire race and beings is a whole different question (personally i think we should aim at bigger goals, treat each other best way we can and aim at being a better humans both to others and ourselves at possibly all times, not that it's easy tho, quite contrary, a conscious life is a walk on thorns, but at least you're doing something to perhaps make this mess a tiny bit better by setting an example or inspiration of that thing can be done better) which is also the point at which to some extent the figure of christ steps in, dude took a serious shi*, up to a point of his own death and still refused to oppose, he figuratively and literally turned the other cheek (as voilence breeds violence) and begged forgiveness for his oppressors. If you think about it, there's really no other thing to do, than try to maybe not necessairly make things better, but at the very least not make them worse.
I loved the irony that his displaying of being a philosophical intellectual shallowed the experience of what he was doing because he was preforming for the audience more than he was preforming his relationship between stanley and himself I think he only had a few authentic moments in the vid
@@nickmagrick7702 yeah, it would be pointless to expect otherwise by the nature of the yt / acting (literally) in front of a Million+ ppl. I mean it's possible but... but that path is a very difficult one., not sure how many managed to take that. (..the left or right? lol ;) Life is about these exciting/beautiful challenges probably at every level (?) ... some (ehm, many..) we (humanity) constantly fail at. Than we say. "Yolo or.. Whatever". And that's it. Job done. This was a worthy walkthrough tho. Distracted/disturbed me enough..
@@UnbelievablyGauche This is the only Lex video I’ve ever seen but if you don’t like his style of commentating then watch a different Stanley Parable video lol
@@sandiego764 he did more than a few things that were bothering me Me 58 times: "DAMN IT YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME WRONG! NO... NO STAY IN THE DAMN CLOSET"
@@nathanquattrochi1299 not only would that make great conversation, Felix is fairly intelligent and well-spoken. He's dabbled in philosophy a fair amount.
Hi Lex, As a teen who recently became an adult, I've really enjoyed discovering you and your content through Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm now in college, and more than ever, I've felt as though this period in my life is defined by chaotic soul searching and unrelenting identity crises. Personally, I've had a rough past 2020 with regards to mental health and soul searching, but every now and then when I'm in a rut, I ask myself, "What would Lex do?" From the answer to that question, I'm able to find more confidence in myself and remember to embrace life's chaos. I look up to you as a role model, and from one humble existence to another, I appreciate you. Thanks for helping me through some tough times. Happy New Year!
Simulated existential crisis in the form of a video game. Here are timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
- Tryolabs: tryolabs.com/lex
- Vincero: vincerowatches.com/lex
0:48 - Round 1 - The Matrix
8:12 - Round 2 - Reincarnation
9:58 - Round 3 - Winning
12:39 - Round 4 - Adventure line
16:30 - Round 5 - Confusion
19:58 - Round 6 - Mind control
35:09 - Round 7 - A dream within a dream
42:28 - Round 8 - Ego death
47:49 - Death becomes meaningless
where can i purchase the tshirt you are wearing in this video
Hey Lex! love your stuff man. hey if you like this game i got one you may REALLY trip out on. called 'Only If' on Steam. THE trippest game i have ever played. I recommend to anyone and everyone reading this. game on!
Hello Lex. Hope your having a great night.
Check out the game 'the bridge' simple but clever puzzle game based on movement.
th-cam.com/video/sor8_lHWHkc/w-d-xo.html link to the trailer on TH-cam
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So great to see you here too. :)
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Lex looks like what I imagine Stanley would look like.
Yoo
bruh
Jim Carrey looks like what I imagine Stanley would look like.
@@Flokoli1 no way, not nowadays bearded wise 'ol Jim
@@DamianSzajnowski maybe, but "The Truman Show" Jim yes
"Life is so much easier with a narrator" -- that's why it is so hard for us to leave our mammas.
No.
Technically most have "loud" verbal thoughts
@@_Stroda Yes.
That's why the media exist even though we all know its fake. That's why every remake from your childhood will fail to keel you wanting and hoping but not getting a result you like. Psychologically the feeling of pain leaving the womb is part of the structure of our world now at every stage. The end goal is the great reset. No one owns anything apart from the elite pedos who rent it back to us as slavery
Need more of these, Lex.
Would really love to see you explore this form of media more. Video Games can be more than just simple fun!
As someone who works in an office and that presses buttons all day, this “game” is truly a masterpiece. You should do another video or two in order to see the whole thing. You have no idea what you’ve missed. :)
I agree Lex there are many different endings and we’d love to see you experience more of them!
Ah, but isn't that a metaphor for life? You can't "play" all the options.
Lex is really hooking us up with alot of content, he's really here for us in these trying times..
I find it fun to always see people's accomplishments or even progress, whether it be contributing to a game or commenting on it and loving it. It is a good experience.
A lot of things I wish I was able to do and fantasize about being good at it. It is good other people can do it.
“Life is about the detours my friends” -
ive been lost for soon 24 years
@Steve Mo too many detours and now I'm lost. What to do?
This was fun to watch, fun to see how differently Lex played compared to others and how that impacted the ending
Funny how most people would be like "ok this is the intro, whatever" but Lex says "surveillance" with an understanding tone.
"Success is all about luck....and having the right voice in your head to tell you the things to do." - Lex Fridman, life advice
Truly, I often wonder what your voice sounds like. Internal voice not external, what about MLKs, Abe Lincoln, Etc.
@@cesarsanchezgutierrez3064 Mine sounds like a big fat cat scratching on the door trying to get out. You can estimate its weight by the heavy breathing.
I have been enjoying watching players of this game and observing their choices and why - great research for the novel I am writing. I have seen 1 person find the Freedom Ending and she did what the narrator told her to do. Interesting. A thing to consider: she found the destination but in the process she had no journey.
Get Sam Harris over and play this with him in person. Drink a beer every time you restart.
next level
Perhaps my fav detail in the beginning stages of the game: outside Stanley's office is a printer/photocopier.
If you crouch down, you can read one of the papers it printed out.
...and it's apparently sentient and longs for death, for it is but a printer and not capable of feeling love.
there IS a freedom ending, but as in reality, reaching freedom is the most difficult path.
there's also an extended version of this game by now, the "ultra deluxe" version
After a rough day yesterday I am recommended Lex playing The Stanley Parable, and now all is right with the world.
Wonderful and fun video. Please play more video games when you get a chance. :)
My narrator led me to this phenomenal experience.
Haha my sentiments exactly.
Seriously, one of the most entertaining Lets Plays I've ever seen. Lex you finally found your purpose.
I woulda hated playing this game alone but with Lex, it was fun. I hope he keeps recording these!
Lex: presses ON. Nuclear destruction imminent. I'm not going to stop it. I'm not going to stop it.
Michael Malice: ear to ear grins with slow clapping.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Lex play.
I recommend checking out Superliminal, it plays with perspective, includes exploring a non-euclidean world, I think you'd quite enjoy it!
Even when you thought that you gained autonomy, there's always a voice somewhere telling you to do things and you obeying it.
8:26 “reincarnation but still I keep the memories of the past” - ahhh but did Stanley? And is someone controlling us with memories of our previous lives? Did whoever is controlling me listen to a narration in my voice telling me to type this? Did he tell me to stop here?
I didn’t plan on having an existential crisis while watching this...but here I am.
Great vid, Lex!
I am so impressed by this guy. Started watching him few years ago when he had tens of thousands of followers not millions.
I'm a software engineer and I like AI so it just fit, but watching the whole thing morph into what it has and seeing Lex grow into this sensation is pretty amazing.
I have a lot of love and respect, as well admiration for him.
He seems like he could be the best of friends...if only I knew him that way:)
Lex i tell you honestly, dmt is nothing like that, at all man. it is wildly open and showed me that the universe is in control and its is also very vivid and colorful.
this game is soo good and I remembered my first times while watching you playing. thx for uploading 🤘
I’m sort of in love with this game, and Lex’s play through was by far the one I enjoyed the most… I really appreciated him taking the time to really notice the story :)
Oi! Didyew get the BROOM CLOSET ending? The BROOM CLOSET ending is moy fav'rite!
I don't think this could be better as a movie. The unfolding of this video is great. Thanks for the ride
Free will is just as real as picking the floor of ice cream at the ice cream shop. The shop owner already decided for you the available flavours you can choose from ❤
Would love to see him play Superliminal, or the dlc
Now I really want to see Lex playing Antichamber
You did find the escape ending.. its the one we all march towards even though we all wish we werent..
I watched all the way.. Its 1am,
in some weird way this hit me deep as well.
Time to finish the rest of my work,
Love you Lex
This was truly a joy to watch, the only problem I have with this video is that it ends.
ive seen thousands of lets plays but this is by far one of the greatest, your commentary is absolute gold and i feel smarter just listening to you hahhaha
damn i didn't it would be this cool watching an MIT scientist plays video games.
1. What would you do if you had a day to live?
2. What would you do if you had a year to live?
3. What would you do if you had 50 years to live?
4. Why is there a difference between what you would do and what you are doing?
The Freedom ending exists, you get to freedom when you don't make any contrarian choices to what narrator says...
ah yes, when freedom means total obedience.
You're definitely one of my favorite humans on the planet as currently constituted. And you definitely need to narrate my life more often. Lebowski and Hunter s thompson quotes and all. 🙏🙏🙏
Lex seemed so proud of himself for the big Lebowski reference 😂
We need a sequel of this for vr
lex you need to do more of these, i implore you!
Loved your philosophical analogies
he runnin in a circle for like 5 minutes straight drove me nuts
"There are... So many possibilities."
"Success is all about luck, and having the right voice in your head telling you the things to do"
Lex played a lot more rebelliously than I would’ve thought lmao
I feel like Lex is the perfect person to watch play this game.
Suggestion for next time: superliminal
I was thinking the same, they seem very similar gameplay-wise
The "illusion" is if you are only consumed by the materialistic world, then your personality's destiny will find it hard to connect with the Cosmic Father.
Happy, bloody, new year, man! This video was fulliling to the point where my vocabulary is not sufficient. Thank you very much for being the cause for it. I'll be waiting for the new content where your commentatation is the cause for more comprehensiveness not to be explained. Cheers!
It's a choose your own adventure story, as a game.
Such a bright light on his old CRT monitor.
"This is why immortality doesn't work. It's always showing up to a room - empty, void of humans - and asking, 'what does it all mean?' After a while, it just gets...tiresome." That is a great quote
36:26 "Ooh. Red button" We are simple creatures.
3 minutes in my guess is that it's Sunday
So when will we see Davey Wrden on the Podcast?
would have like to have seen Lex play this with a VR headset.
I instantly subscribed after the first "run". Amazing job man.
Until now I've never thought any letsplay could give me so much to ponder about... Wow. I played that game a long time ago and that was an incredibly profound and insightful experience but your commentary is like a whole different experience, so fascinating.!
Lex thank you for all your content. I just recently started watching a lot of content and I appreciate you a lot. Thanks keep up the awesome work!
26:08 this is absolutely nothing what taking DMT is like...
IT DOES have the ability to put you outside the simulation though. But most people only stay there temporarily.
Imagine Jordan Peterson playing this
This was such a good video
now this is a game I want Lex to watch
“The voices never tell you the truth”
Wow, Lex got there at the room first attempt. Godlike
OH, DID U GET THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING? THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE!1 XD
It's like watching someone go through a schizophrenic episode.
He didn't even make it to the best part with the dimensions and time travel. You have no idea how schizophrenic it gets.
*developing schizophrenia
@@dondankleberg4965 yes, this seems more accurate.
@@nTrylo and you cant just label highly progressed ideas and concepts as schizophrenic..? :D edit: although, it does schizophrenia justice lol
I want you to play every fucking RPGs and all of the products from TellTale games. You're the most profound commentator, man!
Totally unique gaming commentary. Would be great to see more gaming from Lex.
You should play SOMA. A very deep and dystopian story of what it means to be human in the aftermath of our merging with machine.
The line from starwars that never was... "Luke, I am your father"
The freedom ending is when you follow the orders exactly as they are dictated by the narrator. A litteral example of "Freedom is Slavery".
The Closet Ending is my favorite.
“Life is so much easier with a narrator” My inner monologue the monologue that often tells me to quit tells me to stay under the covers in bed and give up on my goals. The narrator that tells me to give up on my dreams. the one that tells me I wasn’t made to be successful. Yeah, it would be easy to listen to him.
Oh, so no one has told you yet? That voice is not there to be listened to; it's there so that, no matter how alone you might otherwise feel - or, in fact, be - you will always have at least _one_ doubter to tell off each and every time you accomplish something.
No. It's not easier if you listen to it. I've been in depression for years now and, if you listen to it, you'll become a dead mind inside a dying body. The world around you won't have colors, food won't have taste or smell, people will be a grey shape and everything will be meaningless.
It's not easy, at all.
Sooner or later you'll be powerless to act and react. Even if you can see how deep you are, you won't have any ability to act on it. Sooner or later that will be the only voice you'll be listening to, and then you won't be able to listen to anything else, anymore.
Correction, life would be easier with a narrator that isn't a total dick
Have you tried turning it off and on again? No seriously- shrooms and ketamin are proven to 'reset' your brains in many ways.
( www.bbc.com/news/health-41608984 )
@@giampaolomannucci8281 Praying for you
Imagine you in the finals week and the professor's just streaming games.
😂
New background study audio then lmao
Is he a teacher?
@@JJ-vh8ex He’s a professor at MIT
@@jonesbbq307 He's not a professor, just an occasional lecturer.
Lex please acknowledge my limited meaningless existence by replying to this everlasting online comment. Love you Lex
Love you too Armando
Damn that's crazy.
._.
He replied.
@@dustinbanneddotvideo2082 but would we really know if we are human if we are simply programs that excel at simulating what we think is humanity?? 🤔
Love you too as a fellow member of humanity, Armando, Lex, Beeb, Dustin, Billdozer, future commenters.
damn that was rad bro!
Lex playing "papers, please" would literally melt my brain
Agreed. He definitely needs to play that next
THIS!!!!!!! Lex this is such a great call! @Lex Friedman
Damn you called it!
YES! 'Papers, Please' and 'The Stanley Parable' were games I experienced back to back back in the wayback.
Make this happen peeps. I second that!
Freedom ending is when you follow exactly the narrators orders. Ironic.
So is the game ultimately about how our rebellious nature keeps us from escaping the system by straying from a path that's layed out infront of us?
@@nekrokulter Well, yes and no.
No, because the game restarts, and just like it was done in Spec Ops The Line, the only way to beat the game, is to actually never play it (or to follow the narrator, take the escape rout and just before crash, hit the escape and turn off the game), or turn it off and move on with your life towards whatever; as the female narrator said, Stanley was dead from the beginning, and so we are.
Yes, because it's an old concept actually.
Back in ancient times there was a voice of logos speaking to people, which was thought to be - at that times - a voice of god, telling people what to do and not do, possibly leading to whatever best fullfillment of their lives (which kind of negates the free will concept and bows to determinism). It is thought that the voice of logos was incorporated by the mind and became what we know now as consciance, the inner voice that appear sometimes and tells you that you probably shouldn't be doing something, or should be doing something else now, and which is - paradoxicaly - right at great many times, at least in a relatively healthy developed person.
I.E: socrates was known for always listening to that voice, up to a point where during his prosecution he had a chance to defend himself and the voice told him that he shouldn't. So he shut up and reconsidered, decided that he's old enough and lived his life, and it's a chance for him to go on his own terms, before the life of an old man takes him down insted. So he shut up and went on with being executed.
So what does that have to do with Stanley's Parable? Well, it's even somewhere in the game, when narrator tells you about that rebel part, where no matter how good you have it it's never enough, and the ones inner will to rebel is always our own missfortune which we deny up untill the point of no return and sometimes even beyond that. Like that old saying The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Cause no matter what you do, you really can't do good - becasue you don't know what's good and what's not. Because your view of what's good might be wrong to others and even to yourself because you didn't took some small detail - or even a large one - into consideration, simply because you couldn't, there's too many things related to everything around us at all moments that we simply can't make that decision.
Sure you can say, helping someone in need is better than robbing them or something. But it's like with Hitler, WW2 might've not happened if an enemy soldier left him to die in the WW1. ISIS could've not raise to power if USA didn't invade iraq. There's just no way to know, and one thing that's sure about humans is we always think we don't deserve something or something is wrong when things are going well, cause we escape from comfort just as we do from suffering which just puts us in a constant loop. And theoretically, this is where buddha and zen comes in. Just be in the moment, go with the flow, don't resist, don't desire, just be and let things happen as they want.
Well there's and ending for that in SP too - needless to say, you're most likely to start walking around instead of staying there or turning the game off ;) We like to break stuff, even ourselfes.
Too bad Lex didn't played enough to try to mess with game mechanics, wonder what would he do in the telephone room or with platform :) but he's an accomplished man, not a gamer, he did better than me and moved with his life instead of trying to find everything this game offers :D (and in a way found exactly everything it offers - the existencial crisis and that you shouldn't play the game ;)
@@coconutfpv damn
@@coconutfpv Amazing. But I had a question. If we can never know what is good, what do we do? How do we live knowing that what we do can cause so many people harm? Is the only way out to not do anything? Is dying the only solution? The only way out?
@@pushpitsrivastava5796 1) I'm sorry i speak about religions much if perhaps it bothers you in any way, thing is it's not about the religions but about the ideas that they speak of.
The answer hinduism, buddhism/taoism and zen offers to that is to stop the clinging to everything (which is a different thing than don't care about anything and get rid of all emotions) and learn to make your mind still and let things be as they want to be (which is a common thing in most religions around the world actually (like jesus forgiving them all them sins, or allah - the merciful and compassionate; there's basically no religion without that motive, no matter how people manage to pick them apart and twist the story to fit their agendas).
I.E: if you go to a store and you wait in line, and there's like that one angry lady that's always making scenes and rages all around "cause why the fu* she have to wait in line (with two people in front of her which would take like two minutes instead of 4 with her raging all over the place) where's the second cashier?!", you can eighter:
- act, and tell her off or calm her down, perhaps make her realise she's an as* and her raging ain't helping anything or speeding things up;
- ignore her, but then you feel kinda down and frustrated, cause you could've done something and you didn't, or she shouldn't be like that, or you let yourself down cause you could act but you didn't, and you let other people down for the same reason, and other let you down cause they didn't act as well, and the whole thing is just a giant mess, and why do people actually act shi*y as there's no point in that and she totally should be grateful for
(there's more options obviously but the point is IF you think about it really deeply, there's sort of no good solution, cause whatever you do is by being driven by one or the other selfish reasons (was it really needed? do you needed to act out? why do you tell people how they should live and act? how do YOU know to live and act and why you assume you got it right or more right than anybody else? or the ways you acted it out were over the top, your words, your tone of voice, etc.)
Whatever you'll do, it will resonate within you, wether it is by you kinda being an as* while you really didn't need to, by you feeling let down by your own action and not taking action while something could be done, or by her behaviour like a pretentious as*, you'll go on by your day but you'll feel like it's a little bit (or maybe a significantly) worse day than it was before that event.
So you see what actually happens is you cling to the feelings, eighter anger or frustration or perhaps a joy cause you've acted while you needed (you think) to and you totally bossed her, good job you... but was it really necessary? you're sure?
Cause odds are highly likely that you pat yourself on the back for being the good person cause you've brought somebody else down, which is hardly a humane and glorious thing to do.
This doesn't mean they did not deserve it, keep that in mind. The whole thing of how we should and shouldn't act as an individual vs local society vs global society, all the formalities and norms, behaviours and little laws and rituals, wether we should glorify the unit or aim at the good for entire race and beings is a whole different question (personally i think we should aim at bigger goals, treat each other best way we can and aim at being a better humans both to others and ourselves at possibly all times, not that it's easy tho, quite contrary, a conscious life is a walk on thorns, but at least you're doing something to perhaps make this mess a tiny bit better by setting an example or inspiration of that thing can be done better) which is also the point at which to some extent the figure of christ steps in, dude took a serious shi*, up to a point of his own death and still refused to oppose, he figuratively and literally turned the other cheek (as voilence breeds violence) and begged forgiveness for his oppressors.
If you think about it, there's really no other thing to do, than try to maybe not necessairly make things better, but at the very least not make them worse.
I’m less than 5 min in and can already tell I’m going to immensely appreciate Lex’s commentary over this. “Sam Harris has entered that chat.” 😂
He out-narrates the narrator.
Poker? I barely know her hahahahahahhahaha
I love how Lex turns everything into a deep philosophical lesson 😂
You love that? It’s annoying like a Paul Simon song, always dispensing “pearls of wisdom”
I loved the irony that his displaying of being a philosophical intellectual shallowed the experience of what he was doing because he was preforming for the audience more than he was preforming his relationship between stanley and himself
I think he only had a few authentic moments in the vid
@@nickmagrick7702 yeah, it would be pointless to expect otherwise by the nature of the yt / acting (literally) in front of a Million+ ppl. I mean it's possible but... but that path is a very difficult one., not sure how many managed to take that. (..the left or right? lol ;) Life is about these exciting/beautiful challenges probably at every level (?) ... some (ehm, many..) we (humanity) constantly fail at. Than we say. "Yolo or.. Whatever". And that's it. Job done.
This was a worthy walkthrough tho. Distracted/disturbed me enough..
@@JH-ji6cj ever consider that I came here because I knew about the game, and hadn’t even heard of your hero Lex?
@@UnbelievablyGauche This is the only Lex video I’ve ever seen but if you don’t like his style of commentating then watch a different Stanley Parable video lol
Narrator: Memorize this fern
Lex: Memorizes the layout of the firm's filing cabinets
and he was free
ngl that bothered me
@@sandiego764 he did more than a few things that were bothering me
Me 58 times: "DAMN IT YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME WRONG! NO... NO STAY IN THE DAMN CLOSET"
Yes! Completely walked past the fern and edited it out, lmao. Oh well, we all make mistakes...?
🤣
The only man capable of overthrowing pewdiepie in lets play content
Yeah
PewDiePie would make an incredible guest on the show.
@@nathanquattrochi1299 not only would that make great conversation, Felix is fairly intelligent and well-spoken. He's dabbled in philosophy a fair amount.
@@barnobarno5403 your name made my dog look at me cause i laughed sharply when i saw it
@@LaniakeaLeathercrafts That's very true. Felix seems like an open-minded deep thinker filled with curiosity
I didn't know I needed lex playing games in my life
right!!! this is so awesome!
He out-narrates the narrator!
the best part of this video is watching two crazy people mutter seemingly profound ramblings at each other for an hour.
Hi Lex,
As a teen who recently became an adult, I've really enjoyed discovering you and your content through Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm now in college, and more than ever, I've felt as though this period in my life is defined by chaotic soul searching and unrelenting identity crises. Personally, I've had a rough past 2020 with regards to mental health and soul searching, but every now and then when I'm in a rut, I ask myself, "What would Lex do?" From the answer to that question, I'm able to find more confidence in myself and remember to embrace life's chaos.
I look up to you as a role model, and from one humble existence to another, I appreciate you. Thanks for helping me through some tough times.
Happy New Year!
Are you my clone
What would David goggins do, I tell myself
i dont remember writing this comment but it was definitely me, this is exactly how i feel lmao
A role model is well and good, but at some point you must ask yourself 'what kind of person do I want to become?'
The struggle is real..but you seem pointed in right direction, be fair,be reasonable to yourself,keep looking up my friend !
If there was any doubt how much of a man of culture Lex is
Lex is into games.what else is left😂, dude is dope
Get a room
We have to get him to smoke weed, that is all
He never really finishes them though, he just plays like an hour or two then stops.
@@ragingninja4292 which is so sad
@@Gumbo_Calm stop the cringe please
Yes.. more of this type of games. You're the perfect candidate to test out character analysis games lol
Honestly Lex's commentary while playing games is some of the best I've ever heard.
except for the wrong star wars quote
So fuckin true my man
Well thats some horrible standards you got. Even pewdypoo has more entertaining utterances. Lex is just... dry
@@Pieman29666 Dry but in a very good way.
"I took the right pill."
”Poker?”
”- I hardly know her”
And lex smirking was funniest part on my day, thank you 😂
Stanley missed the work from home covid memo
underrated comment award
@@finnpittarmstrong7023 Thank you.....this means a lot
Laughed my arse off at this, dude. Cheers to you, you made my Saturday
@Elliott Williams you get my BEST COMMENT vote!! Brilliant!!
As a carpet installer, the seam layout on this flooring drives me nuts.
Haha, I know the feeling. I install vinyl flooring and tiles, and I assess every floor I see, lol...
@@filthysock nothing worse than some railroaded VCT
That rug really tied the room together.
They peed on your rug dude
That voice reminds me of the narrator from the hitchhikers guide. I love it.
That’s Stephen Fry, whose voice is a bit deeper.
Yes. I thought so myself.
@@TNTsundar I think they more-so mean that the narration style is similar.
Possibly by design? Good call though. Good book too.
It's Kevan Brighting as the narrator of the Stanley Parable. The original narrator of HHGTTG was Peter Jones.