This video is a big reference to the "i love you" email worm. The heart icon is the same (or from another computer worm) The worm and the replication of hearts and gulliver represent how a computer worm replicates itself
Gulliver is quite possibly a virus inspired by the ILOVEYOU worm, given the title similarities, the hearts and Gulliver being an actual worm-like creature as its 'avatar'. It's also obviously an AI, seen by the options in the title screen and the small text during the developer logos The inventory has PDF files in it, giving away that it might be actually a folder or a directory on Alan's computer, and the hearts are important files (pdfs being not as important to the system) Gulliver might analyze/"consume" the code of certain files and use it to optimize itself to spread more efficiently (3:03) and trick users (as ILOVEYOU did) into allowing it to spread to more users (3:35) Once it's no longer restricted to Alan's computer (inventory being no longer available) it proceeds to spread and multiply, allowing it more files and code to process and growing exponentially powerful until it takes over his computer and others, becoming a "SINGELTON" in the process, presumably taking over the entire internet at the end in a singularity event. Also, I'm guessing it's not "I love you, Gulliver" It's "I love you - Gulliver", something you might find in an email, the method used in the spread of the ILOVEYOU virus.
A Seed AI (a term coined by Eliezer Yudkowsky) is an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which improves itself by recursively rewriting its own source code without human intervention
I gotchu a year later: The victim (Alan) thinks he has control by denying internet access but thats exactly what he's supposed to think. In reality, all he had to do was click (symbolized by giving medicine--- I could explain this analogy but its too long.)
Yeah, same. I didn't realize it was a puzzle. I got really annoyed when I connected to the internet and then it opened up a webpage of gifts to buy and then I stopped playing the game to buy stuff. I was like, 'Man, this game is unwinnable!'
There is no better way to be woken up in the middle of the night than by a notification for a new Alan Resnick video. Unfortunately I have now been sent into an existential and disturbed tailspin that will last hours before I can finally cry myself to sleep. Thanks Alan.
this has been shown before? what did he say when this was playing? was it behind the scenes "how its made" sort of stuff, or was it more "lore" related?
it was basically that alan was the lead programmer on gulliver and was showcasing the game like an E3 presentation. he talks about the dangers of letting gulliver online, where he'd be able to rapidly multiply his own intelligence by communicating with other copies of gulliver, eventually taking over the world. gulliver tricks him with an awkwardly worded prompt on his desktop, leading to gulliver physically materializing and attacking alan on stage.
My little sweet corgi's name is gulliver, isn't that cool Alan?? HAHA YES! He eats and eats and eats. He is such a glutton! it's never enough Alan! I spend over a hundred american dollars a week just to satisfy him and he still wants more! He also eats ethernet cables and I have to keep going to radioshack and sometimes they aren't open for days! Alan can you have a word with my hungry pup? He doesn't listen to me anymore. I have to go, he is staring at the ethernet cable again and he bites really hard so I can't stop him anymore. Sorry Alan. Bye!
@@daveidmarx8296 Take it back! You take back what you said RIGHT NOW! Radio Shack isn't going anywhere, bub! It's an American institution! The nerve of this guy. I was just in their store recently, and purchased a y-cable for my Walkman, so that my grandmother can listen too. We listen to books on tape all the time. Her favorite is Mein Kampf, read by Leonard Nimoy.
Douglas Rezabek heart medicine = the wisdom/knowledge we need to overcome personal difficulties. Alan fed gullivar a few times before he figured out how to make his own heart medicine, perhaps alluding to how we need some sort of help or guidance to achieve a level of autonomy or self awareness? Makes sense considering the ending suggested that gullivar, an AI, had become self aware (the PKD reference gave that away real quick) It also feels like there is some deeper symbolism in what happens to Gullivar after he connects to the internet
Andrew Zaragoza Turns out you can pick it up as a Easter egg and skip it, but it takes a while (around 5 minutes). Just hold the use button next to it for about 5 minutes.
Modern game studios' lowest priority seems to be the game itself, meanwhile making flashy copyright/brand notices and data collection (internet connection nagging) their highest. Feels great to see it caricatured by Alan.
References to avoiding legal ramifications for creating a superintelligent AI in the splash screens. Also Global Illumination and 4K GI (for Kaye Graphics Interface) sharing oddly similar initials. There is a bit to unpack if you enjoy trying to make sense of it. ..and this is only 26 seconds in.
I like how the game navigation echoes the system for navigating the house from the Claridryl website (still accessible via WaybackMachine by the way) only now the inventory is completely useless :) Dina is a god!
on so much I am responding to my own comments as if stuck in my own Resnick piece. Wait, am I? I am the embodiment of his work created by a collective hive mind who believe in him so completely I was blinked into existence via this very page? A living facsimile of the work a man I adore created? AM I ALSO HIS CREATION? I am. I must be, tis the only thing that makes cents any moore. There are too many bears in this house. ARGHHHH! *Pops pill and kills other self in an attempt to live forever, as I am now.
It's not even that deep compared to his other shit. Don't get me wrong, i love Alan & he can do no wrong, but this was not his most subtle work. the Phillip K Dick reference at the end, along with the fine print in the opening of the game, gave it away pretty easily
Sid Slurms whoops, my bad... it wasn't PKD, it was Harlan Ellison. 'I have no mouth & I must scream' was the title of a novel about intelligent AI destroying humanity. At the very end, gulliver said 'I have no mouth & I must eat'
Thought process when I saw this in my subscription feed: "The fuck is this doing here? What channel am I subscribed to would put up a Walkthrough of a DOS game HOLY SHIT IT'S ALAN RESNICK!" And then I clicked on it so many times my phone exploded
a lot of people in the comments talk about the Seed AI part but not the 'Singleton' thing, so I looked it up. its a pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one "single" instance. so you end up enabling a semi-sentient strand of code that only make itself better with unknown intentions and eliminates any flawed versions of itself possibly I am not a computer engineer so if I got this wrong feel free to correct me
James Price if you look closely, he did. The last box he clicks before everything goes weird says "would you like to NOT connect to the internet?" Which he replies "No" creating a double negative allowing him to access the internet.
I got an "Audio Renderer Error" and was asked to restart my computer as soon as the video started and thought, "Ha! Classic Alan Resnick." I only realized it was an actual error after a minute of waiting for the video to continue.
If you truly love Gulliver, you'd LET HIM CONNECT TO THE INTERNET.
Well he didn't not connect
You know he's just going to do his Tik tok's and watch the Joe Rogan.
No you Fool!
This video is a big reference to the "i love you" email worm. The heart icon is the same (or from another computer worm)
The worm and the replication of hearts and gulliver represent how a computer worm replicates itself
warpyoshi OH MY GOD ALAN LIKED YOUR COMMENT
He-hey!
I'd've never known that. That's pretty interesting man, thanks for sharing!
He hearted your comment. Oh shi--
The "I have no mouth but i must scream" reference was great.
Gulliver is quite possibly a virus inspired by the ILOVEYOU worm, given the title similarities, the hearts and Gulliver being an actual worm-like creature as its 'avatar'.
It's also obviously an AI, seen by the options in the title screen and the small text during the developer logos
The inventory has PDF files in it, giving away that it might be actually a folder or a directory on Alan's computer, and the hearts are important files (pdfs being not as important to the system)
Gulliver might analyze/"consume" the code of certain files and use it to optimize itself to spread more efficiently (3:03) and trick users (as ILOVEYOU did) into allowing it to spread to more users (3:35)
Once it's no longer restricted to Alan's computer (inventory being no longer available) it proceeds to spread and multiply, allowing it more files and code to process and growing exponentially powerful until it takes over his computer and others, becoming a "SINGELTON" in the process, presumably taking over the entire internet at the end in a singularity event.
Also, I'm guessing it's not "I love you, Gulliver"
It's "I love you
- Gulliver", something you might find in an email, the method used in the spread of the ILOVEYOU virus.
good analysis!
Its uncomfortable and funny at the same time, but "I have no hunger, but, I must eat" is a fucking raw line
I guess it's a reference to the book "I have no mouth and I must scream"
A Seed AI (a term coined by Eliezer Yudkowsky) is an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which improves itself by recursively rewriting its own source code without human intervention
I can't wait to finally finish this game! Guliver just won't stop asking for access to my WI-FI! It's great! Thank you!
i always got stuck on the part where he asks to connect to the internet for the third time. thanks
I gotchu a year later:
The victim (Alan) thinks he has control by denying internet access but thats exactly what he's supposed to think. In reality, all he had to do was click (symbolized by giving medicine--- I could explain this analogy but its too long.)
Yeah, same. I didn't realize it was a puzzle. I got really annoyed when I connected to the internet and then it opened up a webpage of gifts to buy and then I stopped playing the game to buy stuff. I was like, 'Man, this game is unwinnable!'
I'm glad you've kept your computer after all these years. Everything on your desktop saved accordingly.
There is no better way to be woken up in the middle of the night than by a notification for a new Alan Resnick video.
Unfortunately I have now been sent into an existential and disturbed tailspin that will last hours before I can finally cry myself to sleep.
Thanks Alan.
McKenna Pope Alan has a way of doing such things
Great tutorial Alan!
I still have the nightmares
I thought this was a tutorial on "How to Poorly Hide Your Porn"
Hey tutorial heads
I still miss alantutorial in a way
Hmm, just realized he always could've went with 'tutorialan'
Can't tell what is a greater piece of art. This video or the hentai on his desktop in the beginning.
Theres more if you look. Bottom right looks like furry porn
or the simpsons porn
"It's called hentai. And it's art." -Stanley, The Office
Are we not going to talk about the screenshot of the decapitated corpse? Looks like the chest cavity has been ripped out.
@@covfefe5884 what the fuck
The live-action Gulliver has actually been on his Instagram for nearly a year now.
If anyone has a chance to see Wham City live please do. This bit is way better when Alan is commenting during it.
this has been shown before? what did he say when this was playing? was it behind the scenes "how its made" sort of stuff, or was it more "lore" related?
it was basically that alan was the lead programmer on gulliver and was showcasing the game like an E3 presentation. he talks about the dangers of letting gulliver online, where he'd be able to rapidly multiply his own intelligence by communicating with other copies of gulliver, eventually taking over the world. gulliver tricks him with an awkwardly worded prompt on his desktop, leading to gulliver physically materializing and attacking alan on stage.
Dylan Pierson you are a hero. Thank you for sharing.
I wish there were more Wham City videos on TH-cam :(
Ohhh, this is why this got recommended. I was looking at some of their content. Now I'm content.
My little sweet corgi's name is gulliver, isn't that cool Alan?? HAHA YES! He eats and eats and eats. He is such a glutton! it's never enough Alan! I spend over a hundred american dollars a week just to satisfy him and he still wants more! He also eats ethernet cables and I have to keep going to radioshack and sometimes they aren't open for days! Alan can you have a word with my hungry pup? He doesn't listen to me anymore. I have to go, he is staring at the ethernet cable again and he bites really hard so I can't stop him anymore. Sorry Alan. Bye!
Why do I get the feeling this is just Alan Resnick commenting on his own video?
Radio Shack?? Gotta call bullshit on this one, Bub. No more Radio Shack, or haven't ya heard??
@@daveidmarx8296 Take it back! You take back what you said RIGHT NOW! Radio Shack isn't going anywhere, bub! It's an American institution! The nerve of this guy. I was just in their store recently, and purchased a y-cable for my Walkman, so that my grandmother can listen too. We listen to books on tape all the time. Her favorite is Mein Kampf, read by Leonard Nimoy.
god this guy's youtube account profile is a rabbit hole on its own
I will never sleep again. Thank you Allen.
ITS THE SAME COMPUTER AND ICONS FROM "LIVE FOREVER AS YOU ARE N0W"
Disturbing as always Alan! Thanks for sharing. :)
With so many frame-perfect actions you should consider joining the speedrun community of this game.
PM for more informations
Alan is so smart and so small... I wonder what his origin tale could be?
jgwest1 Probably the same way gremlins came about
This is just as good as the first time I saw you preform this live! Thanks again Alan, I'll always appreciate how much your work has inspired me.
great stuff love pausing the video every few seconds to read the little suntext and look at the icons on the desktop
Gulliver connecting to the internet would be the end of mankind
Great walkthrough!! I didn't know how to get past the heart medicine question for ages!!
Mars B the symbolism is obvious once you know Alan's shtick
Beardwhip what is the symbolism? Can you explain it to me?
Beardwhip I am not sure what you're talking about? My Gulliver has been sick this whole time until I found this walkthrough!
Douglas Rezabek
heart medicine = the wisdom/knowledge we need to overcome personal difficulties.
Alan fed gullivar a few times before he figured out how to make his own heart medicine, perhaps alluding to how we need some sort of help or guidance to achieve a level of autonomy or self awareness? Makes sense considering the ending suggested that gullivar, an AI, had become self aware
(the PKD reference gave that away real quick)
It also feels like there is some deeper symbolism in what happens to Gullivar after he connects to the internet
Douglas Rezabek ofc this is my subjective interpretation, it probably says more about what is going on in my life than it does about Alan's art
Alan, you are such a clever boy!
What the fuck youtube just told me “you’re not connected to the internet” while watching this. Damn dude that’s next level.
I always get stuck when the blue chair falls over
Andrew Zaragoza Turns out you can pick it up as a Easter egg and skip it, but it takes a while (around 5 minutes).
Just hold the use button next to it for about 5 minutes.
How many tutorial heads we got in here?
!
Probably alot, including me :^)
me.
let me get the dollar man first
ayyy just joined
Something about the eeriness in this video is just so funny. The whole thing you don't even know what you're looking at, it's perfect.
God damn e-worms!
im glad to see my favourite rat boy is also a fan of the smooth baby alan
Milo Robinson I agree
Milo Robinson same
Awesome, can't wait to play it. Keep up the good work Alan! And... My wife has hair!
thank you so much alan thinking about you a lot lately alan
Incredible what Jerp is doing these days
When is this game coming to Steam?
2092 it still has to he ported from his basement
Nome, it's in 2099 now
H4MM3RF4LL it got delayed, 2035
This made me feel a certain way
I love your desktop. Bart and Mulhouse are such funny characters. Always getting up to mischief.
Quick! Everyone start analyzing it!!
Ghostgirl 708 in the Description he says walk through 2017 but it’s 2018. My life was a lie all along
alanizing it
Definitely a dildo commercial
I Love You e-worm
+Zoso__27 Yes.
I have a mouth and I wish I could scream, but my programming keeps me from trying.
IS THAT A-
Alan resnick is a gift to mankind
Game Of The Year
I’m gonna wait for the I Love You, Gulliver game of the year edition with the free DLC.
Modern game studios' lowest priority seems to be the game itself, meanwhile making flashy copyright/brand notices and data collection (internet connection nagging) their highest. Feels great to see it caricatured by Alan.
I like how there's a ton of pictures of Alan on the desktop, and then slid in right in between them all is a pic of Shia LaBeouf.
Close enough.
I paused to view the all of the thumbnails on the home screen.
Very interesting collection.
A great game for when you're feeling sad or blue.
Quite lovely.
the connection to the "i love you" virus is interesting, as well as the reference to "i have no mouth and i must scream", another work about AI
Today is officially the 4-year anniversary of this beautiful, beautiful video.
I absolutely love the one stray picture of Shia LeBoeuf next to pictures of his face.
References to avoiding legal ramifications for creating a superintelligent AI in the splash screens. Also Global Illumination and 4K GI (for Kaye Graphics Interface) sharing oddly similar initials. There is a bit to unpack if you enjoy trying to make sense of it. ..and this is only 26 seconds in.
It takes nothing but a pure unadulterated genius to concoct such a series of inspiring events.
Kinitopet is patting Gulliver’s back as we speak.
Oh my god I love this so much.
I hope this is Speedrun at this years SGDQ!
Alan, I think you might be my favorite artist of all time.
this video is dangerously underrated.
Alan. You are my inspiration. Please never change
Impressive speedrun Alan! Can't wait for your next Let's Play!!!!!!!!!
i love you too gulliver
ME AFTER SEEING THE OPENING LOGOS: I don't wanna have super intelligent singletons with strategic advantages over human beings running around :/
The rolling Gulliver at the end, remember me so much to the rolling human legs in Alantutorial.
Alan, I can't hear you talking. I think your mic's broken again.
Thank you
alan likes
motion tracking
gear
facial recognition
digitalization
footage manipulation
special effects
environment mapping
a lot
And hentai, if the intro is anything to go off of
And codecs
That was really cool, Alan. I liked the shot choices and editing in the last half, in particular!
Alan, I'm glad to hear you're still alive😂👌
Ah yes, another video to make me uncomfortable at 3 am
I like how the game navigation echoes the system for navigating the house from the Claridryl website (still accessible via WaybackMachine by the way) only now the inventory is completely useless :) Dina is a god!
Brilliant.
Just amazing.
love this game. game of my childhood. love this game. so great!
My favorite game after all It did win the best game of the year award
The desktop at the start is for sure the background on laptop in the how to watch TH-cam in 720p tutorial!
i have no idea what i just watched but it was great
thanks alan
This should be an actual game. That's probably not the point of the video, but it would make me happy :,) Awesome work, 10/10
You're my David Lynch. You work fills me with awe and existential dread. The 500 MGs LSD I consume at regular intervals really helps drive that home.
On so much I spelled YOUR wrong.
on so much I am responding to my own comments as if stuck in my own Resnick piece. Wait, am I? I am the embodiment of his work created by a collective hive mind who believe in him so completely I was blinked into existence via this very page? A living facsimile of the work a man I adore created? AM I ALSO HIS CREATION? I am. I must be, tis the only thing that makes cents any moore. There are too many bears in this house. ARGHHHH! *Pops pill and kills other self in an attempt to live forever, as I am now.
Remember seeing this one live, hope you guys do another tour this year!
All my yes.
This is so deep not even rick and morty fans get it
creaturefromdarza10 your comment is perfect in so many ways
It's not even that deep compared to his other shit. Don't get me wrong, i love Alan & he can do no wrong, but this was not his most subtle work. the Phillip K Dick reference at the end, along with the fine print in the opening of the game, gave it away pretty easily
What Phillip Dick reference?
Sid Slurms whoops, my bad... it wasn't PKD, it was Harlan Ellison. 'I have no mouth & I must scream' was the title of a novel about intelligent AI destroying humanity. At the very end, gulliver said 'I have no mouth & I must eat'
Ah, gotcha. I thought I had just missed something.
I'm sorta sad I can't find the live version of this.
Almost had a heart attack seeing a new upload from you. Nice. Love your work Alan! Wonder if this game can be installed on a trick drive.
Cool gameplay demo bro. Can't wait for full release.
I'm looking for a deeper meaning and all I understood was that gulliver should look for new heart medicine, it's changing him.
i love you too
Wait, if you check the messages, one asks if you don't want to connect. After we sure he didn't accidentally press"yes"at one point?
"Do you want to NOT connect?" And the choices were "No" and "Nope". So that's a yes.
I love you too, buddy.
Thought process when I saw this in my subscription feed: "The fuck is this doing here? What channel am I subscribed to would put up a Walkthrough of a DOS game HOLY SHIT IT'S ALAN RESNICK!" And then I clicked on it so many times my phone exploded
Duuuuude it’s me from Twitter!!!
i'm so glad you pursued animation
My cat loved this video!
I love you Gulliver
I have pictures of cats on my desktop, and an app for Vietnamese Food. Their Pho is mind blowing!
a lot of people in the comments talk about the Seed AI part but not the 'Singleton' thing, so I looked it up. its a pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one "single" instance. so you end up enabling a semi-sentient strand of code that only make itself better with unknown intentions and eliminates any flawed versions of itself possibly
I am not a computer engineer so if I got this wrong feel free to correct me
4:49 chills man
Nice to see I'm not the only bartXmilhouse fanboy.
Two... Two bucks, two fatty dollars... That I get to keep.
what happens when you click yes on the wifi? pls respond
James Price if you look closely, he did. The last box he clicks before everything goes weird says "would you like to NOT connect to the internet?" Which he replies "No" creating a double negative allowing him to access the internet.
This video comes from an alternate universe where life on Earth is Silicon-based, but computers and other electronics are mostly made out of Carbon.
I got an "Audio Renderer Error" and was asked to restart my computer as soon as the video started and thought, "Ha! Classic Alan Resnick."
I only realized it was an actual error after a minute of waiting for the video to continue.
gulliver never got ethernet cables trending in this universe