This was a video made for the essay library's 48 hour video jam, where participants had 48 hours to make something centred around the theme of 'journey'. I've long wanted to do a little piece on the Isle of Sheppey, so here it is.
wow, fantastic work. sheerness is a real life revachol. as a brit who's staycationed in the same places i grew up in near the sea, it's a strange process receiving that comforting nostalgia of places you once knew, but then uncovering places people things activities that you weren't privvy to as a kid, and feeling disconcerted. sheerness seems like an exaggeration of my experience with the latter especially.
This was a cozy and nostalgic video snake. I remember when my family went on holidays to the seaside and have many fond memories of them even today. I’ve never been to Sheerness but I’ve been to many other similar places and I’m always hit by a combination of nostalgia for the simpler times of holidays gone by and a sort of quiet anger that these places have been left to rot.
@ jokes aside, its always so strange to me to see the crumbling monotony of the british seaside. Unlike London it seems weirdly homogenous. In America even the worst urban decay is usually colonized by new arrivals that transform it. Seeing a place you used to celebrate the 4th of July become some place other people celebrate Cinco de Mayo doesn't feel like an ending but rather a new beginning. Sheerness just seems like its fading away with no plans for its replacement. Its like that in the endlessness of the American midwest, but at least places that get destroyed utterly by a trucking company changing its routes had the decency to have never meant anything to anyone anyway.
@@demonicspire1345 The sad part is I really cannot imagine many of these places having the resources or even a plan that would allow them to revitalize. People aren't even moving there that could bring a fresh perspective or a new avenue for it to develop, it is totally stagnant. I don't think it can plan for its replacement, cause there is nothing to really be done with it. Hopefully that's me lacking imagination.
@@Tehsnakerer its been done (rarely) in the US where an immigration deal is struck with a specific destination in mind with a flagging population, but as there's no real way inside the law to actually restrict someone to a geographic area these deals aren't seen as enforceable. I don't know how the coastline is regulated in the UK, but I'm surprised some wealthy person hasn't bought it up to make private beaches or something. It may be that this is impossible under UK law, or simply that the state of the erosion would make such a project prohibitively expensive. Heck maybe the explosives in the water make it impossible to get proper insurance. I do have faith that however things turn out, the land will find its way into the hands of people who already have a great deal of it.
@@Tehsnakerer I think that most seaside towns are going to get worse before anything gets better, unfortunately. Especially ones in the south east. The only one I can really think of that still has something truly going for it is Whitby, with its Steampunk fair and Dracula stuff
Having grown up in Sheerness and moved away, this was a great blast to the past for me. I definitely agree that Sheerness has seen far better days, but it still holds a certain charm for myself as well. Someday I'll have to head back and see whats truly changed since I've been gone. Glad to see the tiny isle is getting some attention!
Sincerely might be one of your finest works so far, love your long-form gaming videos but would also love more stuff similar to this, genuinely very touching and just fascinating
Seem like a fun town to live in but at the same time I wouldn't doubt every young adult that live there hate the place with the idea of there being nothing to do. Retirement town is a term I often heard, a place good to live and die in once old but not when still young.
I think it's paradise for a 60-70 year old guy who just loves reading a paper and going to a pub. It's the ideal waiting to die town. But god yeah there is nothing for a teenager to do, and it's only worse in the off seasons
This was a pleasant watch. Thank you for making it and offering the world a little corner of history most people may never have known they didn't know of.
I live on the Isle Of Sheppey and specifically spent a lot of my childhood directly in Sheerness, so waking up at 6AM and getting this flashbanged onto my sub feed made me think the Yakuza video essayist was doxxing me. Really enjoyed this; Sheppey is such a weirdly unexplored part of the country in terms of general outsider awareness, so a little extra spotlight on it is always really appreciated and nice to see!
There's something... I dunno what so I'll just say "artistically beautiful yet dark" about a rinky dink rustic town that sits in range of a sunken ship containing a concentration of ammunition great enough that it could wipe the town and all residing in off creation that has been sitting there for 80 years. And there are people like you who are still compelled to visit regularly.
This is a great short essay. Pretty much describes how I feel about holidays in places like this (as someone who never lived by the coast). There is a quaintness that is simultaneously encroached by a strange nostalgia that I and many of my generation have as our only view of this type of holiday or place. A sense of wonder of how it used to be or the heyday of yesteryear, contrasting with the dead-end, decayed and sleepy nature of such places. I think that many inland towns can and do display some of these traits, but its seems emphasised in seaside towns by the finality of the sea, of being at "world's end".
Jesus, this is basically the exact feeling I've had about my old hometown. Every now and again I go back there and have thoughts very similar to this... but it was a place I lived instead of vacationed at.
As someone who grew up reading and watching british media, it's really fascinating to hear perspective on what was constantly portrayed as an essential part of british culture (Going on miserable coastal holidays you hate but keep doing?) It actually helped me understand the trope and the personal connection with the sheer grit and unpolished nature of a place is something I really relate to. Highly established tourism sites feel almost hollow to me, and it's hard to enjoy a place which was specifically crafted to cater to as many people as possible, losing it's personality in the process.
God man, you reminded me of how me and my family used to take my grandma to the same aquapark near her city each summer. My grandma died 2 years ago and i likely will never go there again. Not that i enjoyed that place much the last 2 times we went, since ive grown up i stopped likeing swimming that much... but i do miss being there, as a kid, with my grandma Every summer.
A video so beautifully human, celebrating a place that is so meaningless but holds so much nostalgia even someone who has never been draws tears for what was.
There is beauty and history everywhere. Thank you for sharing this video, I know it isnt your standard content but it is still full of effort and heart.
This reminds me of tiny seaside villages me and my parents vacationed at when I was a kid. They're places with much less history, and yet there is a similar air about them, like they're frozen in time. I should visit them again if I get the chance.
Wow, simply incredible. I remember seeing your video on El Paso, and in the pinned comment you said something about using it as an opportunity to write a tighter video. And I wondered just how tight you could go. Well, it doesn't get much tighter than 4 minutes and 30 seconds, in which, I felt moved by a town I'd never heard of, which is the location for a bygone cultural fad I'd never heard of. All of this thanks to your thoughtful, essentially airtight writing, and your honest appreciation for the jank that seems to extend well beyond video games. You knocked it out of the park with this one.
hey your one of my favorite if not possibly my absolute favorite youtuber and i got hit with some really awful news today and just, thanks. I know its a simple and rather bittersweet video but your voice and your words really brought a sense of comfort and feeling to a day that was a very break down and cry day. Keep on keeping on and I hope as you walk the streets of sheerness you also have a smile on your face.
God... that mural. It speaks volumes. This reminds me of the time I visited a friend of mine on Scotland and her step-father showed us this video of a place called (and I went on such a fucking google ride to find this place's name) Blackpool. And how "now it's all shite", and "it's all gone to ruin", and "look at that! it's mental!" and stuff, with more scottish vocabulary thrown in, like "ken". I think this is a better way to remember and think about this places XD
Blackpool is probably the quintessential like, image of the classic English Seaside holiday gone to rot. My family never holidayed out there though lol.
I never expected to feel so oddly akin to you; I've never left our humble rock, and my family's holidays always focused on the seaside or countryside. I remember quite distinctly visiting Rhyl as a kid, the long beaches, the sounds of the Arcades and the caravan parks. Now, it's caught in the worst limbo of being gentrified and built up while also being so rundown as to lose its charm in both directions. A jarring memory will always be how one of the arcades had an Uncle Fester game out front, and the Adams Family theme would blast along the front for quite a distance, and one day we stopped to take a seat and I realized I couldn't hear it anymore. Even as a young teenager, I was disappointed by the passage of time.
It's funny having a feeling of being the same but in the opposite direction. My family couldn't afford holidays abroad either, but we lived in a coastal town up North. For us, our holidays were venturing more inland to places like Center Parcs.
Strangely, I agree with you. For me, at least, I think it's because it means it won't be flocked by masses of people, like all of the really nice places usually are.
Last year I go to a German town called Gramado that in the other side of the frontier in Brazil, is a ten hour journey, and eleven to come back, and Gramado is a town that is built in a high hill, near the clouds, with an unpredictable weather, with German architecture, but not identity, because all their population speak Portuguese, and have a weird fascination with Christmas and team parks, even that the Team Parks were close because the cyclone that destroyed most of the infrastructure in the beginning of last year, but was enjoyable, very good food, and very good hotels, but I had a feeling that I was out of place, every building was near identical in architecture, from wood to concrete, if you didn't known that you were in Brazil you would think that you were in Germany in the beginning of the XX century.
OMG! I'm actually on vacation on the Isle of Sheerness right now! Good grief, what are the odds?? Love the quick peek into the backstory of- ***KABOOOOOOOOM***
I've spent a good chunk of my life living near a very similar sort of town off the coast of Lake Michigan. During the busy summers when I worked a job up there I felt like I was catering to other people's vacations, the economy wasn't really going anywhere worthwhile in the town and every year things got uglier and uglier. There's an entire block that's full of empty buildings and a giant pit in the center of town because nobody could decide what to fill it with. I feel like I really started getting my shit together with life after I moved far away from that town, but I still have friends up there. Part of me says that I will go back there someday, but probably not until I'm indistinguishable from the old tourists I made sandwiches for in the summer.
As someone who lives in a former carnival town that became just town when the city people lived in became vacated to a northern city to vacating that because American motor city capitalism died its death well to do, this is touching in a way
Funny that I had a kind of similar (keyword kind of) experience when I visited the north east of the United States. I visited Rochester NY and one thing that stuck out to me and that were the inscriptions on the Libraries. First one I saw was the University Library which has a pair flanking the main entrance the left read “Here is to history of human ignorance error folly war and waste recorded by human intelligence for the admonition of wiser days still to come.” and the right “Here is the history of man’s hunger for truth goodness and beauty leading him slowly from Flesh to sprit from bondage to freedom and from war to peace.” this hit me like a brick. I feel this weight on my shoulders a duty not just to those around me, those after and to those before me. If not for them I would not have the opportunity to be a 1/10 as righteous as I am. I feel alone in these feelings an appreciation for the struggle and suffering it took to get us to where we’re morally and all I have to comfort me are the moments of an bygone era.
I remember when people complained about fallout 3 and how people willingly live near a giant bomb and now I realized Todd was merely replicating British culture the genius bastard
Since i came in england this is how i feel each time i visit any town really, everything feels so empty but not in a bad way, I wish in future this will lead to cheaper British seaside but probably due economy reasons it will never be as cheap like going to a rural place of a country with a nicer weather. England is boring, you either love it or hate it.
There's something very funny about the idea that Megaton from Fallout 3 (the city built around an undetonated nuke, commonly cited as one of the franchise's most stupid and nonsensical ideas) actually exists in real life.
Snaaaake why you in my house making video essays that reveal the shit mermaid mural on the back of tescos to the world? Seriously though seeing Sheerness in the thumbnail flashbanged me so hard.
As somebody who live on Sheppey, it really truly is. I desperately want to move away to somewhere with *anything*. And for how small it is as an island it's profoundly unnavigable without a car, there's an entire half of the island that I've never been to because I don't drive so I fully don't recognize many shots in this video about my home.
Uhh more tehsnakerer lore. Also why did no one make a game with that setting in mind? It could serve as good advertisement for these place and maybe help to revitalize them somewhat (assuming the game is good or interesting enough)
i dont live in the britlands but everything ive heard about their culture makes me go "mhm yep that sounds like them" to the only thing they would have ever done about a giant payload of explosives is to just leave it be and hope it works out fine
Been there a few times i have always described it as a charming shit hole. Has a strange alure dispite litterly nothing going on there. ( u uploaded about 30 after i checked to see if you posted anything, so today is a lucky day)
Born and raised in North Kent here, near but very thankfully not on the Isle of Sheppey. Sorry to be frank, but the perception of Sheerness around here cannot be understated as a place that kinda reeks of scum and depression. I wouldn't be surprised if the perception is brighter for folks who traveled from further to there, given that'll be coloured by the outsider sensation of holiday experiences, but to us men and maidens of Kent, the place almost feels like a distant relative whose always in and out of trouble with the law, a shame inherently connected to you that you'd rather not discuss.
Easily the best video essay on Halo: Combat Evolved I've seen in some time.
The Chief was on the Montgomery, the Covenant sank it trying to get to him
Gotta give the commonwealth back their bomb.
This was a video made for the essay library's 48 hour video jam, where participants had 48 hours to make something centred around the theme of 'journey'. I've long wanted to do a little piece on the Isle of Sheppey, so here it is.
This is sick. Good luck, dude!
Interesting slice of British culture, well spoken!
I can't be the only one who thought the video was going to be 48 hours long when they saw it in their notifications.
Lol
totally. I was really excited about it, too!
England nice weather jumpscares at: 1:07, 1:19, 1:30, 2:08, 2:13, 2:52 and 4:15.
Might not have gotten them all so watch at your own risk.
That was AI, actually. English nice weather is a contradiction in terms lol
This absolutely rules. One of the best writers on TH-cam
That's high praise from you man, thanks a ton.
wow, fantastic work. sheerness is a real life revachol. as a brit who's staycationed in the same places i grew up in near the sea, it's a strange process receiving that comforting nostalgia of places you once knew, but then uncovering places people things activities that you weren't privvy to as a kid, and feeling disconcerted. sheerness seems like an exaggeration of my experience with the latter especially.
Dammit you're gonna have me playing Sea Power songs in the back of my head when I go into town now, hope you're happy.
This was a cozy and nostalgic video snake. I remember when my family went on holidays to the seaside and have many fond memories of them even today.
I’ve never been to Sheerness but I’ve been to many other similar places and I’m always hit by a combination of nostalgia for the simpler times of holidays gone by and a sort of quiet anger that these places have been left to rot.
Its always fascinating to see a documentary on Australian culture, its so similar to an English speaking country, but has these little unique quirks
you 'aving a laugh?
@ jokes aside, its always so strange to me to see the crumbling monotony of the british seaside. Unlike London it seems weirdly homogenous. In America even the worst urban decay is usually colonized by new arrivals that transform it. Seeing a place you used to celebrate the 4th of July become some place other people celebrate Cinco de Mayo doesn't feel like an ending but rather a new beginning.
Sheerness just seems like its fading away with no plans for its replacement. Its like that in the endlessness of the American midwest, but at least places that get destroyed utterly by a trucking company changing its routes had the decency to have never meant anything to anyone anyway.
@@demonicspire1345 The sad part is I really cannot imagine many of these places having the resources or even a plan that would allow them to revitalize. People aren't even moving there that could bring a fresh perspective or a new avenue for it to develop, it is totally stagnant.
I don't think it can plan for its replacement, cause there is nothing to really be done with it. Hopefully that's me lacking imagination.
@@Tehsnakerer its been done (rarely) in the US where an immigration deal is struck with a specific destination in mind with a flagging population, but as there's no real way inside the law to actually restrict someone to a geographic area these deals aren't seen as enforceable.
I don't know how the coastline is regulated in the UK, but I'm surprised some wealthy person hasn't bought it up to make private beaches or something. It may be that this is impossible under UK law, or simply that the state of the erosion would make such a project prohibitively expensive. Heck maybe the explosives in the water make it impossible to get proper insurance.
I do have faith that however things turn out, the land will find its way into the hands of people who already have a great deal of it.
@@Tehsnakerer I think that most seaside towns are going to get worse before anything gets better, unfortunately. Especially ones in the south east.
The only one I can really think of that still has something truly going for it is Whitby, with its Steampunk fair and Dracula stuff
Awesome work, I like how so many essays lent themselves to go on their own reflective journey in this collab.
Having grown up in Sheerness and moved away, this was a great blast to the past for me. I definitely agree that Sheerness has seen far better days, but it still holds a certain charm for myself as well. Someday I'll have to head back and see whats truly changed since I've been gone. Glad to see the tiny isle is getting some attention!
Sincerely might be one of your finest works so far, love your long-form gaming videos but would also love more stuff similar to this, genuinely very touching and just fascinating
Montgomery Mermaid, sitting just off the docks, better known as, the docks.
Seem like a fun town to live in but at the same time I wouldn't doubt every young adult that live there hate the place with the idea of there being nothing to do. Retirement town is a term I often heard, a place good to live and die in once old but not when still young.
I think it's paradise for a 60-70 year old guy who just loves reading a paper and going to a pub. It's the ideal waiting to die town. But god yeah there is nothing for a teenager to do, and it's only worse in the off seasons
At this point I shouldn't be surprised theres such a thing as Video Essay Jam.
Stellar work as always!
RIP Richard Montgommery.
This was a pleasant watch. Thank you for making it and offering the world a little corner of history most people may never have known they didn't know of.
I live on the Isle Of Sheppey and specifically spent a lot of my childhood directly in Sheerness, so waking up at 6AM and getting this flashbanged onto my sub feed made me think the Yakuza video essayist was doxxing me.
Really enjoyed this; Sheppey is such a weirdly unexplored part of the country in terms of general outsider awareness, so a little extra spotlight on it is always really appreciated and nice to see!
There's something... I dunno what so I'll just say "artistically beautiful yet dark" about a rinky dink rustic town that sits in range of a sunken ship containing a concentration of ammunition great enough that it could wipe the town and all residing in off creation that has been sitting there for 80 years. And there are people like you who are still compelled to visit regularly.
Never heard of Sheerness, but loved this short essay. Great work!
This is a great short essay. Pretty much describes how I feel about holidays in places like this (as someone who never lived by the coast). There is a quaintness that is simultaneously encroached by a strange nostalgia that I and many of my generation have as our only view of this type of holiday or place. A sense of wonder of how it used to be or the heyday of yesteryear, contrasting with the dead-end, decayed and sleepy nature of such places. I think that many inland towns can and do display some of these traits, but its seems emphasised in seaside towns by the finality of the sea, of being at "world's end".
Jesus, this is basically the exact feeling I've had about my old hometown. Every now and again I go back there and have thoughts very similar to this... but it was a place I lived instead of vacationed at.
As someone who grew up reading and watching british media, it's really fascinating to hear perspective on what was constantly portrayed as an essential part of british culture (Going on miserable coastal holidays you hate but keep doing?)
It actually helped me understand the trope and the personal connection with the sheer grit and unpolished nature of a place is something I really relate to. Highly established tourism sites feel almost hollow to me, and it's hard to enjoy a place which was specifically crafted to cater to as many people as possible, losing it's personality in the process.
God man, you reminded me of how me and my family used to take my grandma to the same aquapark near her city each summer.
My grandma died 2 years ago and i likely will never go there again. Not that i enjoyed that place much the last 2 times we went, since ive grown up i stopped likeing swimming that much... but i do miss being there, as a kid, with my grandma
Every summer.
A video so beautifully human, celebrating a place that is so meaningless but holds so much nostalgia even someone who has never been draws tears for what was.
Looks surprisingly similar to sights I've seen on the Oregon coast. It's nostalgic even to me.
Growing up in Toledo Ohio, your decaying holiday city gives me warm fuzzy feelings.
This is genuinely fantastic. It's neat to see your writing chops applied to something so personal.
Starting to think you could write about literally anything and I'd still be entertained by it. Genuinely a fascinating little essay.
There is beauty and history everywhere. Thank you for sharing this video, I know it isnt your standard content but it is still full of effort and heart.
even in a much shorter format than usual, your prose is always fantastic
Enthralling from beginning to end, and I ain't even too fond of mermaids
Never heard of this game but it sure looks like a blast.
That's the most british video I've seen this week, and it's only a Monday. Good one, sir!
This reminds me of tiny seaside villages me and my parents vacationed at when I was a kid. They're places with much less history, and yet there is a similar air about them, like they're frozen in time. I should visit them again if I get the chance.
What a fun glimpse into another part of the world!
This is a really good essay, even if it is on the shorter side. If you want to, definitely keep making stuff like this
This video was really sweet. Even this Yank enjoyed it :)
Wow, simply incredible. I remember seeing your video on El Paso, and in the pinned comment you said something about using it as an opportunity to write a tighter video. And I wondered just how tight you could go. Well, it doesn't get much tighter than 4 minutes and 30 seconds, in which, I felt moved by a town I'd never heard of, which is the location for a bygone cultural fad I'd never heard of. All of this thanks to your thoughtful, essentially airtight writing, and your honest appreciation for the jank that seems to extend well beyond video games. You knocked it out of the park with this one.
Thanks a ton!
hey your one of my favorite if not possibly my absolute favorite youtuber and i got hit with some really awful news today and just, thanks. I know its a simple and rather bittersweet video but your voice and your words really brought a sense of comfort and feeling to a day that was a very break down and cry day. Keep on keeping on and I hope as you walk the streets of sheerness you also have a smile on your face.
Sorry to hear, I hope things improve.
This is literally a highschool essay you needed to do for the first day after a semester break (compliment)
God... that mural. It speaks volumes.
This reminds me of the time I visited a friend of mine on Scotland and her step-father showed us this video of a place called (and I went on such a fucking google ride to find this place's name) Blackpool. And how "now it's all shite", and "it's all gone to ruin", and "look at that! it's mental!" and stuff, with more scottish vocabulary thrown in, like "ken".
I think this is a better way to remember and think about this places XD
Blackpool is probably the quintessential like, image of the classic English Seaside holiday gone to rot. My family never holidayed out there though lol.
I never expected to feel so oddly akin to you; I've never left our humble rock, and my family's holidays always focused on the seaside or countryside. I remember quite distinctly visiting Rhyl as a kid, the long beaches, the sounds of the Arcades and the caravan parks. Now, it's caught in the worst limbo of being gentrified and built up while also being so rundown as to lose its charm in both directions.
A jarring memory will always be how one of the arcades had an Uncle Fester game out front, and the Adams Family theme would blast along the front for quite a distance, and one day we stopped to take a seat and I realized I couldn't hear it anymore. Even as a young teenager, I was disappointed by the passage of time.
It's funny having a feeling of being the same but in the opposite direction. My family couldn't afford holidays abroad either, but we lived in a coastal town up North. For us, our holidays were venturing more inland to places like Center Parcs.
I did not know I lived literally 50 minutes from here. I should probably to visit, thanks for the recommendation I guess
Imagine how odd it is to have that feeling and live in the place that generates it
honestly saying something is a bit shit makes it sound more appealing as a tourist destination
Strangely, I agree with you. For me, at least, I think it's because it means it won't be flocked by masses of people, like all of the really nice places usually are.
What a great video! Genuinely artful awesome job 👍
Last year I go to a German town called Gramado that in the other side of the frontier in Brazil, is a ten hour journey, and eleven to come back, and Gramado is a town that is built in a high hill, near the clouds, with an unpredictable weather, with German architecture, but not identity, because all their population speak Portuguese, and have a weird fascination with Christmas and team parks, even that the Team Parks were close because the cyclone that destroyed most of the infrastructure in the beginning of last year, but was enjoyable, very good food, and very good hotels, but I had a feeling that I was out of place, every building was near identical in architecture, from wood to concrete, if you didn't known that you were in Brazil you would think that you were in Germany in the beginning of the XX century.
Thanks for the Substory Snakerer
As someone who used to holiday in Blackpool as a kid, I feel you
Well, this was fun.
Tehsnakerer: professional British seaside holidayerer
This a cozy little video. Though knowing you vacationed here most of your life does weirdly check out.
Was expecting a little more than 5 minutes for the long awaited Pure Pwnage video, but beggers can't be choosers
I promise, it will happen one day!
OMG! I'm actually on vacation on the Isle of Sheerness right now! Good grief, what are the odds?? Love the quick peek into the backstory of-
***KABOOOOOOOOM***
rip
Ok I was watching and re-watching your "playing" videos yesterday, im not gonna pretend this is a coincidence
Wait, I thought this was supposed to be a 48 hours long video essay... I had the popcorn ready and everything, dammit!
I've spent a good chunk of my life living near a very similar sort of town off the coast of Lake Michigan. During the busy summers when I worked a job up there I felt like I was catering to other people's vacations, the economy wasn't really going anywhere worthwhile in the town and every year things got uglier and uglier. There's an entire block that's full of empty buildings and a giant pit in the center of town because nobody could decide what to fill it with. I feel like I really started getting my shit together with life after I moved far away from that town, but I still have friends up there. Part of me says that I will go back there someday, but probably not until I'm indistinguishable from the old tourists I made sandwiches for in the summer.
When I received the notification, I though the entire video would last 48 hours
Pure soul.
As someone who lives in a former carnival town that became just town when the city people lived in became vacated to a northern city to vacating that because American motor city capitalism died its death well to do, this is touching in a way
At the very least, the ship exploding would liven up the town a bit
Funny that I had a kind of similar (keyword kind of) experience when I visited the north east of the United States. I visited Rochester NY and one thing that stuck out to me and that were the inscriptions on the Libraries. First one I saw was the University Library which has a pair flanking the main entrance the left read “Here is to history of human ignorance error folly war and waste recorded by human intelligence for the admonition of wiser days still to come.” and the right “Here is the history of man’s hunger for truth goodness and beauty leading him slowly from Flesh to sprit from bondage to freedom and from war to peace.” this hit me like a brick. I feel this weight on my shoulders a duty not just to those around me, those after and to those before me. If not for them I would not have the opportunity to be a 1/10 as righteous as I am. I feel alone in these feelings an appreciation for the struggle and suffering it took to get us to where we’re morally and all I have to comfort me are the moments of an bygone era.
This is only 4 minutes not 48 hours
I love mermaids though
I remember when people complained about fallout 3 and how people willingly live near a giant bomb and now I realized Todd was merely replicating British culture the genius bastard
Goddamn, he was onto us all along
i've always thought it must be so weird to live in these seaside tourist towns year round
Since i came in england this is how i feel each time i visit any town really, everything feels so empty but not in a bad way, I wish in future this will lead to cheaper British seaside but probably due economy reasons it will never be as cheap like going to a rural place of a country with a nicer weather.
England is boring, you either love it or hate it.
There's something very funny about the idea that Megaton from Fallout 3 (the city built around an undetonated nuke, commonly cited as one of the franchise's most stupid and nonsensical ideas) actually exists in real life.
Hey wait, this video isn't 48 hours! I've been had!
Bamboozled!
All this sounds the the unexploded Nuke from Fallout 3.
a history which is of little significance to anyone outside of its blast radius*
True
Snaaaake why you in my house making video essays that reveal the shit mermaid mural on the back of tescos to the world? Seriously though seeing Sheerness in the thumbnail flashbanged me so hard.
this video just gave me a vibe that life in rural brittain is as lame as here in hungary. We really are not that different after all.
As somebody who live on Sheppey, it really truly is. I desperately want to move away to somewhere with *anything*. And for how small it is as an island it's profoundly unnavigable without a car, there's an entire half of the island that I've never been to because I don't drive so I fully don't recognize many shots in this video about my home.
Uhh more tehsnakerer lore.
Also why did no one make a game with that setting in mind? It could serve as good advertisement for these place and maybe help to revitalize them somewhat (assuming the game is good or interesting enough)
i dont live in the britlands but everything ive heard about their culture makes me go "mhm yep that sounds like them" to the only thing they would have ever done about a giant payload of explosives is to just leave it be and hope it works out fine
Where I am from everyone calls people from isle of sheppey inbred, surprised to see it recommended to me on TH-cam
I feel given a choice a lot of Kent would destroy the bridges and push Sheppey out to sea, and I'd laugh and feel sad.
Reminds me of those Soviet, state sponsored vacations to Crimea, Ukraine and Moldova.
Okay, but does Sheerness feature The Docks, also known as The Docks?
It does in fact feature the docks, also known as, the docks.
Been there a few times i have always described it as a charming shit hole. Has a strange alure dispite litterly nothing going on there. ( u uploaded about 30 after i checked to see if you posted anything, so today is a lucky day)
I thought you were that Skate 3 glitches guy
Helixsnakerer?
Caravan holiday :D
I saw DMX there
Whoa
Dissapointed it wasn't a 48 hour Video tbh
Born and raised in North Kent here, near but very thankfully not on the Isle of Sheppey. Sorry to be frank, but the perception of Sheerness around here cannot be understated as a place that kinda reeks of scum and depression. I wouldn't be surprised if the perception is brighter for folks who traveled from further to there, given that'll be coloured by the outsider sensation of holiday experiences, but to us men and maidens of Kent, the place almost feels like a distant relative whose always in and out of trouble with the law, a shame inherently connected to you that you'd rather not discuss.
Next time, take another 6 hours and remove the incredibly distracting wind sounds.
I'd add more