I'm glad you enjoyed the track! Thanks for checking it out! You caught a lot that other reactors missed! (Though an 'atoll' is a sand formation, an oceanic geological term, and not a type of fish. :P ) To answer your questions, the big brass bowl was also from Neath!, it's the ink dish Mr Page's was looking into (the newspaper and tankard were also from Neath!). The plane was from my Untitled Goose Game song. The rest of the props you got right! Yes, the boat was built by repurposing the train, though I did make a totally new control console for it, we just kept a couple of the large levers! I link to Dan's at the end as though we didn't collaborate on our Dredge songs we did both share the boat set and use it in our videos. His song is far less comedic than mine but is some of his best work and I thoroughly recommend checking it out, it might make for a great Patreon reaction to fill the gap left by this one! And finally 'yen' is both a noun and a verb, meaning to long for. One can 'yen for' something or 'be yenning', both mean to desperately hope for something. The 'yen of siren's call' would be the siren's longing for you to heed their call. :)
Thanks for the clarifications on the things I missed, and for checking out my reaction (and your support, of course)! As for your suggestion...that's an excellent idea! 😁 Thanks again.
Was worried I'd get ninja'ed when it came to pointing out the airplane (you know we get Internet points when we are the first to say something) but I didn't expect to have my point stolen by Stupendium themselves. Grr, you win this round Stupes, this round....
The review clarifies - this song holds water! A see-worthy viewing and reviewing, indeed. And thank you for adding clarifications, I also wanted to know the definition of 'yen' as I hadn't heard it before.
This is what I love about you. When you aren't working on your next banger, you're perusing reactions and leaving comments to further engagement. It must be fun for you and it also encourages more people to do reactions and spread your content further out. Absolutely amazing stuff.
Something someone else pointed out in the song's comments: The giant angler is only encountered in the shallows near town. The fisherman was *very close* to safety. He almost made it.
I’m not sure which is more terrifying, dying moments before completing the journey or the idea that said journey may have been doomed from the very start!
Port is left, starboard is right, stern is back. I don't know how intentional it is but there might be a bit of extra nuance here - the last orders Murdoch gave to the Titanic were rudder hard to starboard (thus turning the *ship* hard to port) and hard astern - putting the engines in full reverse. The fish with the glowy forehead dealybob is an angler fish, and you've made me realize what a flip that was even as just visuals, like the usual Stupendium wordplay has transcended to a wordless medium. Angler being another word for a fisherman. Who fishes the fish? The fisherman. What fishes the fisherman? The fisherman fish. The ocean claiming her due indeed...
As someone who has played Dredge before, throwing those engines into reverse is essentially what you do most of the game when realizing that there's either a creature coming towards you or you've gotten yourself stuck in a rock corner. The backup button becomes a beloved friend cause there's no way in hell you're ever going to be able to turn that lil boat around fast enough
You didn't call it, but "We are all dead ahead" is another play on words. Dead ahead = straight ahead (actual meaning of the phrase) Dead ahead = dying over there (the play on words) As for HP Lovecraft, I'll always wonder what he would have been like if give just a bit more time. For context on that statement, his letters to friends take an interesting turn as he gets older. He initially expresses support for Hitler (no surprise there, eh?) only to rescind support in disgust after his neighbor went to Germany and came back with a story about seeing some Jews beaten in the streets. More interestingly, he goes full FDR supporter, starts talking about the pros and cons of Karl Marx's theories (Lovecraft thought reform a better option than revolution, in the form of buyouts over time, to reach a socialist society), is horrified by at least one example of his old work and won't let it be reprinted, and says of himself, "It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 - but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all."
i searched it up, "not" is just the short version of "nought", but have evolved to have different meanings. naught and nought being different spellings, and not being its own abstract word like if. nought i think leans more towards a tangible version of the two words (eg. it does not matter vs it matters naught) hold slight differences which i cant seem to find the words to describe)
I believe Lovecraft was allergic to seafood, which would explain a lot... "Waves and senses break" is a zeugma, btw-- a metaphor that applies to two things in different senses. VERY cool.
I know someone commented this under the original but I can't find the comment for the life of me but someone pointed out Dredging up gold bar right at the start was more the eldritch trying to lure him deeper into the sea for more riches Aka eldritch beings trying their hand at fishing by using human greed as their lure
For the curious: Flotsam and jetsam are, indeed, debris found floating and/or washed up on shore, but technically, flotsam is from a ship's wreckage, and jetsam is material purposefully thrown overboard from a ship.
Hey Ian around 7:09 Stupes says the lines "A little fishy on a dishy when the boat comes in." It's a reference to a folk song from the North East of England. The song goes: Who should put a little fishy on a little dishy? Who should catch the Mackerel when the boat comes in? Dance to your daddy, sing to your mummy. Dance to your daddy till your mummy sings! I think that there's more verses but they're the two most commonly used- especially in Bird's-eye adverts.
The obsidian in the sky lines also referances “what is above, so too below, yet what lurks below… so to above”, a line about eldritch horrors who lurk beyond the stars, and those below the reflections of the churning sea
The line "I fear for what the ocean claims in place of what we take" actually comes pretty close to a line/theme from the game itself. Also I just remembered where we know the airplane prop from: it's from Stupes' "Untitled Goose Game" song, the plane the goose steals from the kid with glasses and puts back on the shopkeep's shelf so he has to buy it back.
The English name for Anglerfish: Descriptive, functional, tells you how it hunts, tells you that it is a fish, but it _really_ doesn't prepare you in the least bit for the living nightmare fuel you'll be looking at once you actually lay your eyes on one. The Swedish name? Marulk. Pronounced: Maahr-ûlk. Quite possibly the most evocative name of a deep-sea horror ever. It doesn't tell you _squat_ about what it is, but you hear the word and go "You can just call it a 'nope' if you want to, you know."
Not so fun fact: most deep sea creatures can tolerate the pressure change of being near the surface for a little bit, so when its night time a fair few of them move closer to the surface to hunt. Its called "vertical migration."
24:55 in the shadows over innsmouth there are descriptions of fish people with greenish skin and fish like heads with unblinking eyes I wonder if that has any correlation or if it’s a coincidence I find it interesting
I just realized Neptune's Bounty is synonymous with a boat mentioned jn the game. "Ocean's Riches" Also I find it neat that the Fishermen in the video initially questions what he sees. Cause it reminds me of my (and also other players likely) reaction to the Night Angler when I played the game. I initially thought it was hallucination (cause it disguises itself as another ship, and I thought "why haven't I seen these boats in the day?") and decided to skip the night and thus didn't realize it was a lure until the next time I played the game and it honked at me and I ALMOST honked back and thought better of it cause the description was sus in how it specifies that it gives away your location. Seems like this fisherman wasn't as smart as me though, F "I fear what the ocean claims in place of what we take" as you talked about that line I realized its relevance in the game and bro... Major Dredge spoilers: The wife of the protag died the day he dredged a powerful book from the depths. And in the bad ending, the world ends when he revives her. Theres that theme of giving and trading. A life is a heavy price to pay. And fisherman take a lot of lives. So its unfathomable (lol) to pay it
The "pirate" accent is an exaggerated version of the dialect spoken by English people from the West Country, which includes the cities of Bath, Gloucester, Exeter, Bristol, and several others. The West Country is the heart of the British maritime tradition, not only pirates but fishermen, traders, and navy men. It's a kind of traditional shorthand for "this character is a working-class sailor" as officers would generally get the Posh British accent.
Fun fact, every fish in the music video is actually from ingame! The spine seen before the storm is The Leviathan, which follows you throughout the entire game. The tentacles are just tentacles (they’re called tentacles ingame). The fish in the net during the storm is (probably) a Blood Snapper, and the one on the line (and that he beheads near the end) is a Many-Eyed Mackerel. The singing fish, left to right, are: the Gnashing Perch, the Scouring Bass, Three-Headed Cod, Enthralled Stonefish, and another Blood Snapper. And lastly, the fish that ate him is a Night Angler. Edit: I thought in the music video, him standing directly in front of a Night Angler was weird, but they’re actually disguised as boats. You can only tell what they are through light.
Really late but someone else mentioned this in the comments of the actual video - the song has two hooks, one for the fisherman (“Neath tides o’ bleak ‘n’ briny”) and one for the anglerfish (“What’s to find, harrowed craft?”), because the anglerfish is fishing the fisherman and luring him to his death. I’d also add that the fisherman’s hook is a sea shanty, which is unsurprisingly typically sung at sea, perhaps while fishing, whereas the angler’s hook carries a tone that threatens the fisherman instead. The fisherman’s hook is an anthem of fish hunting, while the angler’s hook is a promise of doom to a human. The ocean does indeed claim much in place of what we take. Also, a little info about Dredge - the significance of night is that the later it gets, the more the fog starts to roll in and your panic gradually starts to increase in the shrouded darkness. The fisherman should return before then to protect his mind, but staying out in spite of this symbolises that he’s caught on the hook of searching for fish and riches and is risking his sanity for it, which culminates at the dead of night in him losing his mind and allowing the anglerfish to take him.
The general vibe shift is that at the “I’m still grappling with the feeling” line the vibe shift is from a sea shanty with some partial ominous tones (Ominous Shrine) suddenly descends into a mad man’s ravings also a “Yen of siren’s call” is a Longing or Yearning of a siren’s call meaning that it gives you a want for a siren’s call
@@Insaneian The space above the video where the pictures are would be a good spot for temporary pop ups if you decide to go for such editing in future, thinking on it.
Awesome! I've been wishing that you would react to this and here it is :D You caught way more things than I did. One thing I thought of was that there was 3 different hooks. One literal one he uses on the fish, one he uses on us (the listeners) and one that the fishes uses on him. I don't know a lot of music terms so I hope I used that correctly.
stups coming in with another banger fr, thanks for explaining everything too, i always miss a lot of the jokes in their songs :( so it’s great to have a reaction channel that actually takes their time to go through what they’re reacting :3
Wow, the beginning of the video was quite fast and smooth. Also thank you and Stupendium for these video's, I love The Stupendium songs of their creativty and comical lyrics in the video which is also amazingly made. I always love to watch you for explanation since I don't really focus on the comical rhymes since most things I don't get at that moment but you're explanation is well said and detailed. About Stupendium message on the top, I would love if you also do some songs of DanBull raps, they're awesome to listen to
@@johnclifford369 that is an amazing compliment, and amazingly worded, thank you! (Braunger's most recent special, "Doug", is free here on TH-cam. "Shovel Fighter" and "Big Dumb Animal" clips also are easy to find on here as well. Enjoy!)
Just want to say thanks for being one of the people who add joy to my week. My love for the Stupendium paired with your commentary never fail to make me smile.
22:20 Also in game the reason for things going Very Bad is because someone has fished up some ancient tome, and the previous mayor went insane telling everyone to "throw everything back to the sea". The book they take from the ocean claims their minds.
port is left, stern is back so i’m pretty sure the line “hard to port, hard astern matters nought where you turn, compass spins, stars have fled, we are all dead ahead” is saying wether you make a hard left or go back from whence you came, nowhere is safe from doom especially since you won’t be able to even find your way out if you tried
I think everywhere reuses props doesn't it but it is fun to see the references to the older songs. I watched a nature documentary and I can't remember what they were called but there were worms that came out fast from the sand and had a circle of spikes on that was more terrifying than fish with a lot of eyes.
I don't know if you've ever read Lovecraft, but that last verse, from the lighting strike onwards, is very much worded like a Lovecraft story Lovecraft used very flowery language, which really serves to draw you in and command your attention.
lol that line "searching for a sole" could be taken another way as well when it comes to most games that have fishing...shoes I know in World of Warcraft I've fished up Old Boots and something called a Chewed-Up Old Sole that looked like a torn up shoe lol
I haven't seen a comment on this so far 25:35 naught means nothing, the speed for nautical travel is Knots, named so because you would measure speed by casting a knotted line over the stern and measuring how many knots passed through your hands in thirty seconds
Port is left, Starboard is right - so hard to port would be throwing the rudder left to turn, Starboard would work too if the line had needed a 2 syllable word, though a slightly different rhyme would likely have been needed. The stern is the rear of the ship, hard astern would be throwing it in reverse. "Hard to port, hard astern" is thus describing the absolute most suddenly a ship can *stop going forward.* The line is effectively "turn away, stop/go back", it's telling the fisherman not to delve any further.
talking of worth waiting for I've seen some teasing that another unlikely cypher is in the works which I'm utterly hyped for no idea what the theme would be but I'm sure it will be great
If that is the newspaper form Neath! in the tackle box, the headline has to be "Missing Baby Found in Spider's Web!". It's not one of the headlines we visually see, I don't think, but it's the one our good friend the narrator keeps shouting.
Port is left, starboard is right, stern is the back. Nautical (Knots, etc) is spelled differently than Nought, although it could very well be a reference.
Also Knot was used as a unit of measurement by seamen to judge how deep the waters they were in are, each knot in the line being a specific interval, and you slowly lowered them until it hit bottom, watching, waiting, hoping that the water had a bottom, and that the bottom was not already at your boat… or that it was only the bottom, if something just made the boat shake
Ha, I got the props right! They were the first thing (ok, I had to make a fishing pun first) I commented on the OG video. Kinda feeling smug now 😁. One easily missed text pun in 24:41 on the screen. Btw, Neptune’s Bounty is another Bioshock reference, isn’t it?
I did a small amount research and by small I mean an initial google search for yen and there was two definitions according to google using oxford dictionary as a source yen either means the japanese currency which is unlikely or means a longing or yearning so the line "chimes the yen of siren's call" means chimes the yearning(or longing) of siren's call
I thought it was part of the train, too, but no other reaction channel or comment (that I've seen, at least) has mentioned it so I thought I was wrong.
I do believe the little plane he pulled out of the brine was a nod to the monoplane Amelia Earhart flew when she disappeared over the sea. That's just my own interpretation though.
Clarification on the "Hard to Port, Hard Astern, Matters nought, Where you turn-" line, 'nought' is also a British way of saying 'nothing', like "it was all for nought" and is also used more commonly in phrases like "Noughts and Crosses" as an alternate name for Tic-Tac-Toe. In this case, it also rather handily describes the situation as pointless in a couple of ways, both saying that your direction doesn't matter, and also that your direction is literally towards nowhere, as you kinda fall out of the world near the end of the game...
I dont see anything here in the comments, but while the things pulled up in the nets are from other videos, they also slowly decrease in value, starting with an extremely valuable gold bar, and slowly becoming more common or random. as if they were bait leading the fisherman out into the sea. I can't say this is an original observation of mine, it was said in stupe's comment section, but it is really interesting.
So I kind of have an odd theory that the fisherman is ok. He cut up a corrupted fish, which the only reason to do that on the sea is to eat it. At that point everything could have just been a bad trip in his mind. It is a stretch, but I'm going to say it is possible.
Im not sure if it might be a bit too crass for your channel. But i would love to see your reactions to "Window frame cypher" parts one and two. Or just anything by The Northern Boys!
Naught: American spelling. Means “nothing” Nought: British spelling. Means “nothing” Nautical. From Greek nautikos, meaning “seafaring.” From nautēs, meaning “sailor.” From naus, meaning “ship.”
Your probably thinking angler fish, but just about everything at that depth has some form of bioluminescence. Theres one that has red lights. Because red shows up as black, as a form of camouflage, a lot of creatures are red. So the red light off of this thing makes them glow and reveals its position. And since most of those creatures cant even see red, it doesnt give otself away either.
Chinese Yen would be strung on string and used aboard boats in rituals in order to scare away evil spirits and demons away from their crafts, or to bless a darkened shore so that ships may find it safely
i really like your reaction especially from "TheStupendium" since i love their songs, and i can´t wait for you to see "Dan Bull´s" version too aaaand you were right they themselfes told you about the props XD i really like how you "catch" so many of the "lines" ...sry
Thank you! I reacted to Dan's song on my Patreon tho, as it's not a comedy song, so it didn't really fit my show's theme. But at least I saw it and "caught" plenty of "lines" there too! 😅
so at 07:04 , you said that atoll was a fish pun. it's not. it's a pun on island. from wikipedia : An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets. An atoll surrounds a body of water called a lagoon. Sometimes, atolls and lagoons protect a central island. Channels between islets connect a lagoon to the open ocean or sea. Atolls develop with underwater volcanoes, called seamounts.
@@Insaneian so they did, which i only read after posting my comment :) hey learning opportunities should be taken when possible, and you weren't wrong that there were plenty of fish and fish adjacent puns ( edit: corrected for preferred pronouns)
@@bubbleentity no worries, some folks scroll right past the pinned post, it happens. I still appreciate the info! (Also, just FYI, Stupes goes by they/them pronouns, not he/him)
Nought is simply a less common spelling of naught. Meaning nothing, or, as in this case, can imply that an action is meaningless. While I see your line of reasoning, I don't think that was intended to be the double meaning if there is in fact one for that line.
"Matters naught" Actually, not a pun there per se, could've been though, "Matters not" is actually just a modern version of "Matters naught" "Naught" being "nothing or very little" it's a unit of nothingness basically, the joke you were going for would be "Matters naut" as in nautical, nautilus, etc.
@@Insaneian you mentioned the gold bar , but it was the tower that you mentioned was from fiend like me. I honestly didn’t even realize they were from his other vids till you pointed it out with the top
@@Insaneian ah my bad I liked your analysis though one of the things I like about this song is that it slowly goes from silly to grim and ominous near the end
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I'm glad you enjoyed the track! Thanks for checking it out! You caught a lot that other reactors missed! (Though an 'atoll' is a sand formation, an oceanic geological term, and not a type of fish. :P )
To answer your questions, the big brass bowl was also from Neath!, it's the ink dish Mr Page's was looking into (the newspaper and tankard were also from Neath!). The plane was from my Untitled Goose Game song. The rest of the props you got right!
Yes, the boat was built by repurposing the train, though I did make a totally new control console for it, we just kept a couple of the large levers! I link to Dan's at the end as though we didn't collaborate on our Dredge songs we did both share the boat set and use it in our videos. His song is far less comedic than mine but is some of his best work and I thoroughly recommend checking it out, it might make for a great Patreon reaction to fill the gap left by this one!
And finally 'yen' is both a noun and a verb, meaning to long for. One can 'yen for' something or 'be yenning', both mean to desperately hope for something. The 'yen of siren's call' would be the siren's longing for you to heed their call. :)
Thanks for the clarifications on the things I missed, and for checking out my reaction (and your support, of course)! As for your suggestion...that's an excellent idea! 😁 Thanks again.
Was worried I'd get ninja'ed when it came to pointing out the airplane (you know we get Internet points when we are the first to say something) but I didn't expect to have my point stolen by Stupendium themselves. Grr, you win this round Stupes, this round....
The review clarifies - this song holds water! A see-worthy viewing and reviewing, indeed. And thank you for adding clarifications, I also wanted to know the definition of 'yen' as I hadn't heard it before.
This is what I love about you. When you aren't working on your next banger, you're perusing reactions and leaving comments to further engagement. It must be fun for you and it also encourages more people to do reactions and spread your content further out. Absolutely amazing stuff.
this might be a bit of a stretch, but the line "A blob of HP" kind of sounds like blob fish is being said
Something someone else pointed out in the song's comments: The giant angler is only encountered in the shallows near town. The fisherman was *very close* to safety. He almost made it.
he allmost got out lol
i guess he couldnt fathom what the fathoms blackened chasms had to hide deep in the brine
Alternatively, he never got out too far and he scratched the tip of the iceberg
I’m not sure which is more terrifying,
dying moments before completing the journey or the idea that said journey may have been doomed from the very start!
Damn...
Port is left, starboard is right, stern is back. I don't know how intentional it is but there might be a bit of extra nuance here - the last orders Murdoch gave to the Titanic were rudder hard to starboard (thus turning the *ship* hard to port) and hard astern - putting the engines in full reverse.
The fish with the glowy forehead dealybob is an angler fish, and you've made me realize what a flip that was even as just visuals, like the usual Stupendium wordplay has transcended to a wordless medium. Angler being another word for a fisherman. Who fishes the fish? The fisherman. What fishes the fisherman? The fisherman fish. The ocean claiming her due indeed...
As someone who has played Dredge before, throwing those engines into reverse is essentially what you do most of the game when realizing that there's either a creature coming towards you or you've gotten yourself stuck in a rock corner. The backup button becomes a beloved friend cause there's no way in hell you're ever going to be able to turn that lil boat around fast enough
You didn't call it, but "We are all dead ahead" is another play on words.
Dead ahead = straight ahead (actual meaning of the phrase)
Dead ahead = dying over there (the play on words)
As for HP Lovecraft, I'll always wonder what he would have been like if give just a bit more time.
For context on that statement, his letters to friends take an interesting turn as he gets older. He initially expresses support for Hitler (no surprise there, eh?) only to rescind support in disgust after his neighbor went to Germany and came back with a story about seeing some Jews beaten in the streets. More interestingly, he goes full FDR supporter, starts talking about the pros and cons of Karl Marx's theories (Lovecraft thought reform a better option than revolution, in the form of buyouts over time, to reach a socialist society), is horrified by at least one example of his old work and won't let it be reprinted, and says of himself, "It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 - but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all."
Lovecraft if he continued writting: Maybe the horrors beyond our comprehension was the capitalism all along.
Okay, I am going to *have to* steal the phrase, "You ever forget to pay your mouth bill?" after stumbling over my words. Thank you for that.
Ha, feel free, I *"stole"* it myself from comedian Matt Braunger! 😅
@@Insaneian There's a line of flavour text from Guild Wars 2 I tend to fall back on for times like that - "Words are hard, because words mean things".
24:58 - Hard to port, hard astern - hard left, full reverse
It matters nought (British spelling of naught) - It matters not at all
Naut as in Nautical and Nautilus, Knot as in boat speed: 50 knots
i searched it up, "not" is just the short version of "nought", but have evolved to have different meanings. naught and nought being different spellings, and not being its own abstract word like if. nought i think leans more towards a tangible version of the two words (eg. it does not matter vs it matters naught) hold slight differences which i cant seem to find the words to describe)
I always thought that because stupes likes double meaning he meant hard to port as in hard to a harbor
@@DisKorruptd Naut also could mean Nautical Miles.
I believe Lovecraft was allergic to seafood, which would explain a lot... "Waves and senses break" is a zeugma, btw-- a metaphor that applies to two things in different senses. VERY cool.
zeugma balls
I know someone commented this under the original but I can't find the comment for the life of me but someone pointed out
Dredging up gold bar right at the start was more the eldritch trying to lure him deeper into the sea for more riches
Aka eldritch beings trying their hand at fishing by using human greed as their lure
For the curious: Flotsam and jetsam are, indeed, debris found floating and/or washed up on shore, but technically, flotsam is from a ship's wreckage, and jetsam is material purposefully thrown overboard from a ship.
Also the names of Ursula's two pet eels in the original Little Mermaid movie 😊
flotsam floats, jetsam was jettisoned o_o
Hey Ian around 7:09 Stupes says the lines "A little fishy on a dishy when the boat comes in." It's a reference to a folk song from the North East of England.
The song goes:
Who should put a little fishy on a little dishy? Who should catch the Mackerel when the boat comes in?
Dance to your daddy, sing to your mummy. Dance to your daddy till your mummy sings!
I think that there's more verses but they're the two most commonly used- especially in Bird's-eye adverts.
Ooh! Good to know, thanks! I would have never caught that reference!
The obsidian in the sky lines also referances “what is above, so too below, yet what lurks below… so to above”, a line about eldritch horrors who lurk beyond the stars, and those below the reflections of the churning sea
The headline from the Fallen London song said "Missing Baby Found In Spider's Web", so that's probably what that newspaper in the box was
The line "I fear for what the ocean claims in place of what we take" actually comes pretty close to a line/theme from the game itself.
Also I just remembered where we know the airplane prop from: it's from Stupes' "Untitled Goose Game" song, the plane the goose steals from the kid with glasses and puts back on the shopkeep's shelf so he has to buy it back.
Didn't I say that's where I thought the plane came from too? 😅
The English name for Anglerfish: Descriptive, functional, tells you how it hunts, tells you that it is a fish, but it _really_ doesn't prepare you in the least bit for the living nightmare fuel you'll be looking at once you actually lay your eyes on one.
The Swedish name? Marulk. Pronounced: Maahr-ûlk. Quite possibly the most evocative name of a deep-sea horror ever. It doesn't tell you _squat_ about what it is, but you hear the word and go "You can just call it a 'nope' if you want to, you know."
Not so fun fact: most deep sea creatures can tolerate the pressure change of being near the surface for a little bit, so when its night time a fair few of them move closer to the surface to hunt. Its called "vertical migration."
24:55 in the shadows over innsmouth there are descriptions of fish people with greenish skin and fish like heads with unblinking eyes I wonder if that has any correlation or if it’s a coincidence I find it interesting
When the fisherman is singing, you can hear a second voice echoing him.
I noticed that! I should have mentioned it, I guess 😅
Wonder if that's a reference to the angler boats mimicking your foghorn
And of course, 'great with catchy hooks' is a callback to one of Stupes' first songs -- Amateur Wordsmith.
Oooh! Good one!
First time I saw someone point this out, and it's literally the first thing I though of when I heard that line lol
Don't forget "every line leaves you reeled in on a catchy hook" from Stupes' part of the sonic cypher. He's a fisherman in that too lol.
I just realized Neptune's Bounty is synonymous with a boat mentioned jn the game. "Ocean's Riches"
Also I find it neat that the Fishermen in the video initially questions what he sees. Cause it reminds me of my (and also other players likely) reaction to the Night Angler when I played the game. I initially thought it was hallucination (cause it disguises itself as another ship, and I thought "why haven't I seen these boats in the day?") and decided to skip the night and thus didn't realize it was a lure until the next time I played the game and it honked at me and I ALMOST honked back and thought better of it cause the description was sus in how it specifies that it gives away your location. Seems like this fisherman wasn't as smart as me though, F
"I fear what the ocean claims in place of what we take" as you talked about that line I realized its relevance in the game and bro...
Major Dredge spoilers: The wife of the protag died the day he dredged a powerful book from the depths. And in the bad ending, the world ends when he revives her. Theres that theme of giving and trading. A life is a heavy price to pay. And fisherman take a lot of lives. So its unfathomable (lol) to pay it
The "pirate" accent is an exaggerated version of the dialect spoken by English people from the West Country, which includes the cities of Bath, Gloucester, Exeter, Bristol, and several others. The West Country is the heart of the British maritime tradition, not only pirates but fishermen, traders, and navy men. It's a kind of traditional shorthand for "this character is a working-class sailor" as officers would generally get the Posh British accent.
Fun fact, every fish in the music video is actually from ingame! The spine seen before the storm is The Leviathan, which follows you throughout the entire game. The tentacles are just tentacles (they’re called tentacles ingame). The fish in the net during the storm is (probably) a Blood Snapper, and the one on the line (and that he beheads near the end) is a Many-Eyed Mackerel. The singing fish, left to right, are: the Gnashing Perch, the Scouring Bass, Three-Headed Cod, Enthralled Stonefish, and another Blood Snapper. And lastly, the fish that ate him is a Night Angler.
Edit: I thought in the music video, him standing directly in front of a Night Angler was weird, but they’re actually disguised as boats. You can only tell what they are through light.
26:09 it kinda looks like the light gets shifting back and fouth into a youtube button and fire light huh
Blessed with another video!!
Really late but someone else mentioned this in the comments of the actual video - the song has two hooks, one for the fisherman (“Neath tides o’ bleak ‘n’ briny”) and one for the anglerfish (“What’s to find, harrowed craft?”), because the anglerfish is fishing the fisherman and luring him to his death.
I’d also add that the fisherman’s hook is a sea shanty, which is unsurprisingly typically sung at sea, perhaps while fishing, whereas the angler’s hook carries a tone that threatens the fisherman instead. The fisherman’s hook is an anthem of fish hunting, while the angler’s hook is a promise of doom to a human. The ocean does indeed claim much in place of what we take.
Also, a little info about Dredge - the significance of night is that the later it gets, the more the fog starts to roll in and your panic gradually starts to increase in the shrouded darkness. The fisherman should return before then to protect his mind, but staying out in spite of this symbolises that he’s caught on the hook of searching for fish and riches and is risking his sanity for it, which culminates at the dead of night in him losing his mind and allowing the anglerfish to take him.
The general vibe shift is that at the “I’m still grappling with the feeling” line the vibe shift is from a sea shanty with some partial ominous tones (Ominous Shrine) suddenly descends into a mad man’s ravings also a “Yen of siren’s call” is a Longing or Yearning of a siren’s call meaning that it gives you a want for a siren’s call
Every time the subscription thing came up, I was expecting it to be a screenshot of the thing you're asking about if it's a prop from an older video
That timing was completely unintentional 😅
@@Insaneian The space above the video where the pictures are would be a good spot for temporary pop ups if you decide to go for such editing in future, thinking on it.
6:41 Sole is also the bottom of a shoe or boot and its a common joke or skit for a fisherman to hook and reel in an old boot instead of a fish.
This is your most competent intro yet, glad to see you become more confident in your ability to entice new viewers!
I've definitely fallen into a groove with the intro over the past few months, thanks. 😅
Awesome! I've been wishing that you would react to this and here it is :D You caught way more things than I did. One thing I thought of was that there was 3 different hooks. One literal one he uses on the fish, one he uses on us (the listeners) and one that the fishes uses on him. I don't know a lot of music terms so I hope I used that correctly.
25:09 Nought means Nothing, probably meaning something like "Anywhere you turn is nothing, it's pointless"
I hope that helps.
"You ever forget to pay your mouth-bill?"
🤣 What a glorious phrase for stumbling over words, this is going into my vocabulary now.
I -swiped- borrowed it from one of my favorite stand up comics, Matt Braugner. 😅
stups coming in with another banger fr, thanks for explaining everything too, i always miss a lot of the jokes in their songs :(
so it’s great to have a reaction channel that actually takes their time to go through what they’re reacting :3
Wow, the beginning of the video was quite fast and smooth. Also thank you and Stupendium for these video's, I love The Stupendium songs of their creativty and comical lyrics in the video which is also amazingly made. I always love to watch you for explanation since I don't really focus on the comical rhymes since most things I don't get at that moment but you're explanation is well said and detailed. About Stupendium message on the top, I would love if you also do some songs of DanBull raps, they're awesome to listen to
Thanks Ian, from now on "forgot to pay my mouth bill" is how I'm describing any time I trip over my words.
I "borrowed" that line from Matt Braunger, an amazing comedian I highly recommend.
@@Insaneian I have found you to be a copper-bottomed coinnoisseur of contemporary comedians so I shall do just that.
@@johnclifford369 that is an amazing compliment, and amazingly worded, thank you!
(Braunger's most recent special, "Doug", is free here on TH-cam. "Shovel Fighter" and "Big Dumb Animal" clips also are easy to find on here as well. Enjoy!)
@@Insaneian I have aspirations of joining the nerdcore scene at some point myself, so I never pass up a chance for some crafty wordplay. :)
Just want to say thanks for being one of the people who add joy to my week. My love for the Stupendium paired with your commentary never fail to make me smile.
22:20
Also in game the reason for things going Very Bad is because someone has fished up some ancient tome, and the previous mayor went insane telling everyone to "throw everything back to the sea".
The book they take from the ocean claims their minds.
It's kind of understandable and a bit of poetic irony that the song about a game involving Lovecraftian horrors would make Ian feel a bit manic
port is left, stern is back so i’m pretty sure the line “hard to port, hard astern matters nought where you turn, compass spins, stars have fled, we are all dead ahead” is saying wether you make a hard left or go back from whence you came, nowhere is safe from doom especially since you won’t be able to even find your way out if you tried
YOOOOO LET'S GO I WAS WAITING FOR SO LONG FOR THIS REACTION
I think everywhere reuses props doesn't it but it is fun to see the references to the older songs. I watched a nature documentary and I can't remember what they were called but there were worms that came out fast from the sand and had a circle of spikes on that was more terrifying than fish with a lot of eyes.
Good day to you, Insane Ian! Lovely reaction, as always!
I don't know if you've ever read Lovecraft, but that last verse, from the lighting strike onwards, is very much worded like a Lovecraft story
Lovecraft used very flowery language, which really serves to draw you in and command your attention.
fun fact hard to port hard astern. was supposedly the final order to the Titanic's helmsman
I'd like to point out the fish with the light is called an ANGLER fish. So the fish that itself is an angler catching seamen from the surface.
lol that line "searching for a sole" could be taken another way as well when it comes to most games that have fishing...shoes
I know in World of Warcraft I've fished up Old Boots and something called a Chewed-Up Old Sole that looked like a torn up shoe lol
hi! As a non-native english speaker, THANK YOU for explaining the puns
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I haven't seen a comment on this so far 25:35 naught means nothing, the speed for nautical travel is Knots, named so because you would measure speed by casting a knotted line over the stern and measuring how many knots passed through your hands in thirty seconds
Also never realized this but its poetic that the fish that gets fisherman stupendium at the end is an Angler fish.
When he say "rudder carved sn open vein " he means a vein of minerals. Like a place to get resources
Port is left, Starboard is right - so hard to port would be throwing the rudder left to turn, Starboard would work too if the line had needed a 2 syllable word, though a slightly different rhyme would likely have been needed.
The stern is the rear of the ship, hard astern would be throwing it in reverse.
"Hard to port, hard astern" is thus describing the absolute most suddenly a ship can *stop going forward.*
The line is effectively "turn away, stop/go back", it's telling the fisherman not to delve any further.
talking of worth waiting for I've seen some teasing that another unlikely cypher is in the works which I'm utterly hyped for no idea what the theme would be but I'm sure it will be great
Where was it teased?
@@hannahatkins636They’ve said it on multiple comments on their own channel but I’m not sure how far is it yet.
Port is left, right is starboard.
If that is the newspaper form Neath! in the tackle box, the headline has to be "Missing Baby Found in Spider's Web!". It's not one of the headlines we visually see, I don't think, but it's the one our good friend the narrator keeps shouting.
Port is left, starboard is right, stern is the back. Nautical (Knots, etc) is spelled differently than Nought, although it could very well be a reference.
9:03 yea, “Missing baby found in spider’s web”
Also Knot was used as a unit of measurement by seamen to judge how deep the waters they were in are, each knot in the line being a specific interval, and you slowly lowered them until it hit bottom, watching, waiting, hoping that the water had a bottom, and that the bottom was not already at your boat… or that it was only the bottom, if something just made the boat shake
Fun fact: cthulu isnt an official name, because the book never gives him one. Unless theres a second book that does, but i dont know about it.
Well, the book is called "the call of cthulu"
Did you do Stup's The Ribbon and I missed it? I've been looking forward to that one ( :
Yes I did, but because that one is very much NOT a comedy song, that reaction is exclusively on my Patreon.
'The yen of Siren's call', 'yen' in this case is an archaic word used to refer to a yearning or pulling sensation
Ha, I got the props right! They were the first thing (ok, I had to make a fishing pun first) I commented on the OG video. Kinda feeling smug now 😁. One easily missed text pun in 24:41 on the screen. Btw, Neptune’s Bounty is another Bioshock reference, isn’t it?
Honestly the "sole" pun I thought they were referring to the joke of fishing up a boot, yknow, shoe sole
I did a small amount research and by small I mean an initial google search for yen and there was two definitions according to google using oxford dictionary as a source yen either means the japanese currency which is unlikely or means a longing or yearning so the line "chimes the yen of siren's call" means chimes the yearning(or longing) of siren's call
I thought it was part of the train, too, but no other reaction channel or comment (that I've seen, at least) has mentioned it so I thought I was wrong.
I do believe the little plane he pulled out of the brine was a nod to the monoplane Amelia Earhart flew when she disappeared over the sea. That's just my own interpretation though.
16:40 Or Six from little nightmares
fish.
Clarification on the "Hard to Port, Hard Astern, Matters nought, Where you turn-" line, 'nought' is also a British way of saying 'nothing', like "it was all for nought" and is also used more commonly in phrases like "Noughts and Crosses" as an alternate name for Tic-Tac-Toe. In this case, it also rather handily describes the situation as pointless in a couple of ways, both saying that your direction doesn't matter, and also that your direction is literally towards nowhere, as you kinda fall out of the world near the end of the game...
I dont see anything here in the comments, but while the things pulled up in the nets are from other videos, they also slowly decrease in value, starting with an extremely valuable gold bar, and slowly becoming more common or random. as if they were bait leading the fisherman out into the sea. I can't say this is an original observation of mine, it was said in stupe's comment section, but it is really interesting.
So I kind of have an odd theory that the fisherman is ok. He cut up a corrupted fish, which the only reason to do that on the sea is to eat it. At that point everything could have just been a bad trip in his mind. It is a stretch, but I'm going to say it is possible.
Maybe, but with the old one's presence, madness certainly seems to have an effect on reality
You also have to let yourself go mad and wait till night to hit a shrine, and things can… happem
Im not sure if it might be a bit too crass for your channel. But i would love to see your reactions to "Window frame cypher" parts one and two. Or just anything by The Northern Boys!
6:07 He said puns away which i noticed thats also a joke Because Some People Say Bombs Away And Its Like a Big Pirate Thing So PUNS AWAY
And I Think In Our Wake Also Has A Double Meaning I Think It Also Means Like Wake Like Sleep And Wake Up (19:12)
"I'm not a person who can breathe in water- The Fisherman, of course"
does this imply that _you_ can breathe in water Ian?
😏😅
You can use comma dn fullstop buttons to go forward and back a single frame at a time on youtube
No, actually I can't. Several folks have told me this in other videos but I have never gotten it to work.
Naught: American spelling. Means “nothing”
Nought: British spelling. Means “nothing”
Nautical. From Greek nautikos, meaning “seafaring.” From nautēs, meaning “sailor.” From naus, meaning “ship.”
31:30 A skate is a type of fish similar to rays (and slightly less similar to sharks).
Your probably thinking angler fish, but just about everything at that depth has some form of bioluminescence. Theres one that has red lights. Because red shows up as black, as a form of camouflage, a lot of creatures are red. So the red light off of this thing makes them glow and reveals its position. And since most of those creatures cant even see red, it doesnt give otself away either.
Chinese Yen would be strung on string and used aboard boats in rituals in order to scare away evil spirits and demons away from their crafts, or to bless a darkened shore so that ships may find it safely
man imagine the Insane one not remembering the word for eldritch horrors. xp
atoll is a ring shaped island
I think a classic comedy song from the earlier days of the internet is Lemon Demon's - Ultimate Showdown.
Oh definitely...and that song was a monster when it came out, too. Probably the only Lemon Demon song I like, tho. 😅
good reaction
It's the same set from Dan Bull's song for Dredge.
i really like your reaction especially from "TheStupendium" since i love their songs, and i can´t wait for you to see "Dan Bull´s" version too aaaand you were right they themselfes told you about the props XD i really like how you "catch" so many of the "lines" ...sry
Thank you! I reacted to Dan's song on my Patreon tho, as it's not a comedy song, so it didn't really fit my show's theme. But at least I saw it and "caught" plenty of "lines" there too! 😅
so at 07:04 , you said that atoll was a fish pun. it's not. it's a pun on island. from wikipedia : An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets. An atoll surrounds a body of water called a lagoon. Sometimes, atolls and lagoons protect a central island. Channels between islets connect a lagoon to the open ocean or sea. Atolls develop with underwater volcanoes, called seamounts.
Yup, Stupes already mentioned that in their comment, which is pinned here. But thanks! You went into way more detail 😅
@@Insaneian so they did, which i only read after posting my comment :) hey learning opportunities should be taken when possible, and you weren't wrong that there were plenty of fish and fish adjacent puns ( edit: corrected for preferred pronouns)
@@bubbleentity no worries, some folks scroll right past the pinned post, it happens. I still appreciate the info!
(Also, just FYI, Stupes goes by they/them pronouns, not he/him)
@@Insaneian , oh, that I did not know. Corrected in light of this then
naut - ancient greek word for sailor
Definitely watch Dan’s song, its on the same ship, also has great comedy, a bit… darker
6 min almost 7. Fish that is name sole . But also bottom of your shoe is name sole 🤔 if your soul is strong you can put a sole on a sole and wear it
im must be new how long has my mans had a weird al introduceing him for his intro
I've have the intro since 2011, had it on my reactions for about a year or so now.
@Insaneian thats cool ngl mans a legend
Are you also doing Dan Bull's one? "I'm heading out (of my mind)"
Probably as the Patreon exclusive reaction this month, yes, since it's not a comedy song.
Nought is simply a less common spelling of naught. Meaning nothing, or, as in this case, can imply that an action is meaningless. While I see your line of reasoning, I don't think that was intended to be the double meaning if there is in fact one for that line.
"Matters naught" Actually, not a pun there per se, could've been though, "Matters not" is actually just a modern version of "Matters naught" "Naught" being "nothing or very little" it's a unit of nothingness basically, the joke you were going for would be "Matters naut" as in nautical, nautilus, etc.
The gold was from a fiend like me
Didn't I say that?
@@Insaneian you mentioned the gold bar , but it was the tower that you mentioned was from fiend like me. I honestly didn’t even realize they were from his other vids till you pointed it out with the top
@@geoshark12 I think later in the video I say the bar is from Fiend Like Me as well...😅 regardless thanks for the heads up!
@@Insaneian i might have missed it then either way good video
@@geoshark12 thanks!
Most time fish food is fish food, or food fish, food for fish that is fish
atoll is not a fish but rather a dee pit in the water
@@clintonbehrends4659 yup, that's what Stupes said in the pinned post!
@@Insaneian ah my bad
I liked your analysis though
one of the things I like about this song is that it slowly goes from silly to grim and ominous near the end
Erm... guys.. I think Ian might be a LITTLE insane..
Hp is in canada
I'm sure it's there as well, but many UK items are.
angler fish
Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffish!
Thalasophobia is a thing