Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be
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Chapters:
0:00 Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be
1:35 Commodity Fetishism
3:45 Night In The Woods Part 1
9:08 Desire for 'The Real Thing' That Doesn't Exist!
13:16 The Eternal Enjoyment of The Drive
21:42 The Uncanny Return Home
24:09 Drive or Desire: The Formula for Nostalgia
25:51 How Nostalgia Has Changed Under Capitalism
31:54 Now There Is Nothing BUT Nostalgia
35:55 Night in the Woods Part 2
41:57 Melancholy: The Loss Of The Future Felt in the Present
46:07 The Personal is The Political Is The Supernatural
47:02 The Political...
50:31 Is the Supernatural (Disco Elysium Part One)
54:41 Fate is History Predetermined
1:00:41 The Political Is the Personal is the Political
1:05:52 Mae's Anxiety: The Nothingness of The Real Revealed
1:12:08 The Impossible Factor Making Everything Else Possible
1:20:33 MAJOR DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS
1:29:50 Crossing Back Over Into the Drive
Sources:
Marx Capital Volume One
Consumed Nostalgia
Night in the Woods
Zizek The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
Zizek The Sublime Object of Ideology
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Zizek Less Than Nothing
Zizek The Plague of Fantasy
Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Disco Elysium
Derrida Spectres of Marx
Shakespeare Hamlet
Marx The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Fisher Ghosts of my Life
Benjamin Theses of History
Benjamin Critique of Violence
Lacan Seminar X: Anxiety
Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Heidgger What is Metaphysics?
Heidegger Being and Time
Fisher - Capitalist Realism
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/h...
(Added on Dec 7th, 2023) PLEASE NOTE: many lines of dialogue in this video are very closely phrased to quotes from the above sources or are in fact direct quotes from these sources but uncredited. Zizek basically wrote this video lol. I tried to make that clear but that isn’t enough. So you can view the script here to see everything properly cited, which is a less than respectable solution but the only one I have for you now: [to be added ASAP]
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This video really is no longer what it used to be. (imsorry)
Nostalgia really brought back the good times in the past, but it's also an aching realization that you can't go back. No matter how intense our old memories have become, the world just keep moving forward.
Glad that _Night in the Woods_ finally got more love it deserves. Greg rules OK.
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I feel like media made it worse. Reboots and remakes were rare. It was something to be excited for. But now, I feel like it's just reminding you of the past. Preventing you from moving forward by pulling you backwards. Reminding you that things will never be the same.
Even more to add to that: No shows or movies are really special anymore. We have so many choices at our fingertips now and yet it takes hours to figure out which movie or show you’ll pick tonight sitting on the couch. Its because there’s too many options and its become so easy to get whatever we want that nothing is allowed to be special. I did something last month where i stopped all watching youtube tv and movies for 30 days (havent had social media in years) and it definitely brought the liveliness back into my life. Things seems special again if you dont take part in the modern way of doing things
If there were remakes, they would be a generation apart, as has been done with "A Star is Born". Now there are live action versions of things just to cash in on nostalgia that fail because they aren't close to the original.
the 24/7 news cycle reallllly did a number on us all
At least there's Arcane season 2 to look forward to @@toddjohnsoneveningnews8870
@@toddjohnsoneveningnews8870 This. I actually feel like life is more enjoyable when I limit my time on media consumption. It becomes much more enjoyable once I do. It does feel like it may be connected with how our brain manages dopamine. In nature, it should be "a reward hormone", produced after a successful hunt, social interaction or breeding attempt (Of course food, good company and sex aren't the only enjoyable things, but you get the point). It shouldn't be produced all the time, otherwise it just stops working.
im nostalgic for the old nostalgia 😔
Im nostalgic for being nostalgic about the old nostalgia
@@beangobernador I'm nostalgic for being nostalgic about being nostalgic for the old nostalgia.
_And_ now I forgot how it feels to experience Nostalgia.
@@MrGermandeutsch abscence makes the heart grow fonder, yet that's not what we feel anymore
Underrated comment honestly
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and can distract from the world's real issues. Excellent video as always.
what is the worlds real problem, oh wise man
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@@captainkidney8577 war, inflation, debt, etc
@@captainkidney8577 pollution, slavery, exploitation, child abuse, political unrest
@@captainkidney8577 our Wendy’s got rid of the vanilla frosty
*“We don’t miss the past, we miss the way we felt before.”*
hey internet stranger, just wanted to say this comment almost made me teary eyed due to how real it is. is t a quote from something? (i haven’t watched the full video yet)
NIGHT IN THE WOODS, YEAH BABY!
I think its more "We miss how we think we felt before."
I miss both.
@@yunantheobserver6841no one wants to admit that you're right.
This video hit me really hard. I'm 32 and everything already feels different. I miss the late 90s early 00s computer version of Zoo Tycoon. I miss spending hours figuring out how to place the damn orca and dolphin exhibits lol I miss being 17 and sitting out on the roof with my sister smoking Prime Times and sharing a can a beer every great once in a while. Smoking and drinking aren't things I even do anymore, and if I did, they don't have the same appeal. I miss weekends being free, and being excited when my phone rings. I miss staying up all night to watch the sun rise and somehow not being tired the next day.
But now I'm living days that future me will be nostalgic for. My 9 year old daughter has brought her math grade up from an F to an A- since I've been tutoring her and instilling math confidence in her. My 11 year old dog is still alive and healthy. My pet mice turned 1 this month. I look forward to The Last of Us each week. I'm a trauma nurse, and I get to see more beds empty than get filled now. I was bedridden with chronic illness this time 2 years ago, and woke up crying every day because I was so tired of being alive in constant pain. I'm not in any pain anymore. Both of my parents are alive and thriving. My sister has a stable job. My daughter is independent, thoughtful, kind, and fiercely intelligent, but for some reason she thinks I'm the best mom in the world. I'll be nostalgic one day for the random times she snuggles on my lap and tells me she loves me for no reason.
She and I recently played Diablo 1 for ps1 because it's a nostalgic memory from my childhood. She got us killed while fighting The Butcher because she panicked and couldn't get through a door lolololol I KNOW I'll be nostalgic for that moment alone.
Overall, I think nostalgia is great in it's own right because it's proof that we were here, and we were happy. I also think it's important to be present enough to appreciate what you will miss in the future, and to look forward to all the moments that haven't even happened yet that you will someday be nostalgic about :)
You sound like a great mother and person.
Huge congrats to you and your daughter for the math grades! That's amazing!
I was listening to a podcast and one of the guests was a guy who became disabled after an accident as a young adult. He had absolutely no regrets and says that some of the coolest stuff he's experienced has happened after the accident. As someone who has quite a lot of trauma and tends to get very nostalgic, this made me rethink my perspective. Your comment reminded me of that. There's good stuff to look forward to in the future and it's important to remember that.
it's so refreshing to see stories of people living happy, fulfilling lives. this video and your comment have inspired to actually try for once
This is my life, except I didn’t have kids. I still have time but I work w kids so that is fun:)
God bless you I hope you all live the best possible life
This is one of the reasons I really like to watch video essays. It's about the experience of diving so deep inside a subject that you start questioning yourself if you even absorbed anything from it. Something I personally like to call "imemorable otomania", a term that I defined myself a few months back. It came to me while watching a video essay and I define this concept by the sentence "I might not remember much of what you said, but I could listen to you saying it over and over again and never get bored". This feeling excites me. And it's why I keep watching video essays. And I have to say, dude. This one deserves a repeat.
I relate to this so much
That's just the result of fast talking and fancy tricks in editing. He's stringing you along emotionally.
u need to watch monumentality by solar sands if u haven’t yet but if ur that into video essays i’m guessing it’s likely u have
@@heinoustentacles5719 lol that’s just the definition of making content put in a weird negative way imo
@@br0wning I've been seeing it in my to watch list for a while now but wasn't really able to fit it in my free time, thanks for the recommendation tho, I'm definitely watching it before the end of the month
I feel the need to point out that Possum Springs isn't in the Midwest. It's specifically based on the dying mining and steel towns of Pennsylvania, where Scott Benson grew up.
Western and central PA are infinitely more midwestern than east coast
Where do I find that game
@@bobbiboyer7065 steam i belive
I'm pretty sure it's a meme at this point to call anything that isnt on the coasts the midwest
@@sookendestroy1 we're on the coast of lake michigan, still midwest
Anybody else audio go out at 22:55?
Yeah, mine did.
Odd, it's obviously not intentional, so why?
@@kazuyakenzaki1320 someone probably lodged a copyright takedown thing for some audio used would be my guess
“Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means, ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” -Don Draper
FYI there is a weird part where the audio just completely cuts out from about 22:58-24:59
One word: copyright
I’m here to learn how this man does it. Writing an hour and a half worth of information worth listening to from a simple idea. English class must love him
He is what English teachers expect all students to right their essay be like
I had a really really great English teacher in Highschool! I still use her outlines
@@ClarkElieson Nice!
@@ClarkElieson Would you be able to share some of these outlines? It sounds really interesting, and I want to learn more about it helped you becoming so amazing at your insights and expressions. Thank you again for this amazing video!
Wow this video is so beautiful. Amazingly heartbreaking and interesting. As a 1st year college student who lost the last couple years of High School to covid, nostalgia plagued my fall semester of school, and made it very hard to do schoolwork.
I have the same thing right now but with college.. covid messed up my last few years of learning and relationships, now im graduated and working for a tech company, which is good, but it feels like i was supposed to have more important memories towards the end of that part of my life. Feels like things just moved on but im kinda stuck in that part of my mind, that prt of my life. I feel exactly like that character in the game
same.
@@RoBoTrOnIc1001001 it was similar for me with 9/11 happening my senior year combined with my mom nearly passing due to breast cancer. I failed my senior year and ended up graduating 6 months later from an adult high school. I then floundered in community college for a few years which I still haven’t finished. All I can say is there’s more experiences to have and memories to make. I sunk all my energy into music and made a good living at it for nearly a decade. Been married since 2010, have 2 kids and a career as a Salesforce consultant since 2013. I do find myself getting sucked into nostalgia quite often though. Collecting old video games and things I had or wanted as a kid. My parents also divorced in 1990 when I was 8 but none of the stuff I buy fixes anything. It’s fun for a few minutes but then I just go hunting for something else. A cycle I hope to break at some point.
i have a long road trip in 3 days, im downloading this and watching it on the road. thank you for providing us with great content clark.
Good luck! Been on the road for 25 thousand miles. And will travel another 400 tomorrow.
stay safe
I often find myself feeling nostalgic, I searched for video essays about nostalgia and this video perfectly encapsulated what I've always wanted find whenever I searched
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I felt the same way but didn’t actually get to searching any up but happened to get recommended this video after playing night in the woods and was glad something was able to break down nostalgia and why it always filled me with anger I could t explain
same, I am in the nostalgia rut :") i keep searching 'old' songs that I used to listen to back in 00's and 2010's. it feels surreal that I'm in my late 20's, those songs were released more than 10 years ago, and some are more than 20 years! it's crazy how I could feel the same as it was the first time I listened to it in my teen soul. idk what I want or looking for but somehow, like OP said, it's the sense of homecoming and longing...
Nostalgia will sometimes nearly bring me to tears, but it’s the knowledge that the days I’m living now, with my twin toddlers and amazing wife, will be the days I’m truly nostalgic for in the future.
Sometimes, when I’m outside and my boys are discovering the flowers in our yard for the first time, or studying the rocks in the driveway, I take a mental picture. I slow down, and I live a year in those seconds. Nostalgia for the 90s makes me feel like I didn’t appreciate it when I had it, and I don’t ever want to feel that with my family.
for me as i grew up nostalgia turned from a bittersweet happiness for what was to a sorrow for what is now gone
Nostalgia seems like a symptom of the bad habit that "things will remain the same" i had as a child
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
To me, nostalgia is a personal memory, something unique to me, so when I feel sentimental for nostalgia it's a memory of what felt like a magical time. This is what is missed by most people, we are told to be nostalgic for something, it takes the form of merchandise from the past, a popular or forgotten TV show, toys and video games, film and cartoons, all under the thumb of big business, that sold these items to us through our parents, now they are trying to make money off of our nostalgia as adults. I do not wish to be nostalgic all the time, there were negative memories too, and no amount of materialism will soothe the hard times I endured, instead I look to the future, hoping to make new memories to be nostalgic for, afterall, if you live in the past, you live alone because everyone else has moved on, this is what I advise to people on nostalgia trips, think of nostalgia as a memory, not as objects bought at the store, nor as content watched on the screen, doing something special to look fondly past.
Objects, places, merchandise, etc are all just the physical remains of part of those memories. But they are not what they were, any more than ruins are the building they came from. Even if you still have the very same gameboy and game cartridge you used for hours on end as a kid, now with all the scuffs you gave it over the years but still in working condition...it doesn't matter. You're not a kid anymore, you've changed just like everything around you. It's okay to remember things fondly and appreciate them for what they were. But you also need to appreciate what is now. Because if you don't, you're only dragging yourself down. Same goes for the future, whatever your plans and aspirations are, don't get so caught up in it that you aren't living in the present. The future you imagine does not and will not exist. The unexpected will happen, for better or worse.
I think this helped me process a lot of the internal issues I've been having lately. Video came out at the right time. Thanks, man
same..
Same, it was recommended to me when I unknowingly wanted it the most.
I feel this especially after the superbowl commercials that were basically relying on nostalgia to sell. It felt so empty and sad.
The fact that whenever the Super Bowl rolls around there's a wave of "What was your favorite commercial?" and "That one was so funny!" makes me want to throw up. It's disheartening when a commercial or advertisement itself is supposed to constitute comedy or a meme. Looking at you, Fast Food Monarch...
I am glad someone else has felt that stagnation in capitalism. I have been feeling crazy thinking everything seemed like nothing has moved forward in decades.
The mourning of your pizza and youtube having removed the audio coinciding made it look like a prolonged moment of silence for the pizza. lol
Good video, sorry for your childhood pizza loss.
This entire video made me think of Professor Layton, and how it’s a series coming back after so long. You talking about lost futures reminded me of Lost/Unwound Future, and I feel that your points about nostalgia can perfectly describe Layton in a way I’ve been feeling about other franchises and other things that are gone but not forgotten, and how we can’t help but live in the past and hope for something better to come, wishing for the same thing, despite us going nowhere if we don’t move forward.
All and in all, this was really great video. Thank you.
i didnt even realize this video was nearly 2 hours long,,i was just listening to it while i drew and damn yet another banger. thanks for the hard work yet again
Nostalgia is best described as an Addiction. We look to the past to give ourselves enjoyment, which leads to our own collapse.
But when we look to our future we need to create what's new and not repeat our past.
Imagine painting a Tree, We see the drawing we made in a drawer in the past. it's crumpled old & discoloured. But we pin it to the wall anyways. We don't make any new trees, just attempt to copy the same tree, Repeating the past, A loop.
A friend then drops by with his drawing...
it's an Animal Could be a bird, it could be a Mammal could be anything. We pin that to the wall & which improves it.
After which one of two things occurs; the animal is removed it doesn't fit into the Nostalgia of one's self. OR New things are added while old things are removed.
One leads eventually to the wall being cleared & the art being forgotten.
& the Same with the other, But the forest will inspire.
Thank you for making such a precise explanation of what I feel yet cannot even explain to myself.
It's like observing my mind as a stranger with objective view
I can't imagine how dedicated you are with this series from liminal spaces to nostalgia
It’s really cool how all the videos he makes feel intrinsically connected. Liminal spaces and nostalgia for instance are nearly inseparable
Anyone else's audio cut out for a few minutes.
i have spent most of my life suppressed by a constant feeling of nostalgia, i am finally starting to get out of it, the past may have rotted and the future may be filled with horrors beyond imagination but the present is still filled with weird wonderful silly things that make existance worthwhile
I am genuinely obsessed with your videos - they're so in depth and the way you round everything together in the end is fascinating ,, I'm definitely going to have to rewatch this one, but there are no complaints there :)
I went into this video to hear an detailed idea, essay, or opinion on the concept of Nostalgia, but what I left with was a tear jerking realization of what it means to exist in this reality. What it means to truly "be" in this world we live in. It reminded me of my mortality in a way that liberated my mind from the confines in which I had imprisoned it. The cloud that had stifled and skewed my view of reality were cleared and because of that, I see what is now in front of me. "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" makes a lot more sense now. Live in today. Live in this moment, not to recapture the good moments of the past, but rather to be in the good moments of right now. For the now is all we have.
Best video on TH-cam I've seen in 14 years. This'll need a few rewatches, but thank you Clark, as always.
This was just as incredible as I thought it would be. Thank you for all the effort pit into this, I hope you find that it paid off. Really enjoyed the long format and clear script; I think your script writing has only gotten better since the start 👍. Keep doing what you love.
This is the best video essay I've seen in a while, and I consume video essays like candy. Thank you. The deep feeling of doom that comes with when I think about the future of our society and the lives of those generations ahead of us has been vilified
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If you believe the future's bad then you're certainly not gonna like the past......
videos like this and Jacob Gellar's vids are the only ones that can make me face my existential dread while also comforting me
This video is amazing!!! Thank you for making the videos that you make. I feel that your channel is very special when it comes to these types of videos.
I’m actually using this video for an analysis essay and I really love how everything is worded and simple yet deep enough to give an analysis on.
Man the Omori soundtrack, along with the other tracks leads to such a unexplainable feeling. I thank you for making such amazing video-essays and I hope you can continue making amazing content!❤
This was both beautiful and mind breaking. Thanks for making this
Okay, uh…I’m in the middle of like some sort of mental and life crisis, I’ve been in my head too much….this video really got to me. I felt like you were describing my own feelings to me, which I can’t make sense of totally lol. Thanks, I am a new sub!
I'm nostalgic for a time and place I never got to experience and never will.
But also mildly for 2011. Not for the free time, the lack of responsibility, or things like that.
But because that was the last year that I was blissfully unaware of the reality I was about to exist in.
this video is awesome, all the effort you made is incredible
Woah this is indeed a massive video, excited to see what you've done!
Edit: that was intense. I've gotta play Night in the Woods now...
Already played Disco Elysium but you've also convinced me to play Night in the Woods. Also, this video made me lose my mind. Excellent work! Keep it up!
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Kinda sums up the "sick" I've been feeling since my camping trip a month ago.
I didn't have cellphone service out there and just being out away from it all was nice. the moment I got signal and was suddenly bombarded with advertisements, it was like the pit opening up again.
it all just feels hollow, like attempts at our souls as they vie for our attention and energy.
This is beautiful, I've been watching for 5 hours now
Didn't expect such a profound analysis of a feeling.
I recently lost a friend that used to be close to me, and this is the video I needed. I've been so wrapped up in the past recently that I forgot about the now, and the need to change as I always have
Amazing how you make these complex topics easy to understand
Holy fuck. i feel lucky to have had this video find me. Been feeling this way for a while. Been looking for some way to put it into words.
Im gonna have to watch it a few more times over the next few days to fully wrap my head around it. You are helping make the world better
Really good content always looking forward for more. The way you write these video essay are fascinating. ty for your hard work
These videos are very high-end. Keep it up, I love your work!
I really liked how whenever an idea was talked about in the video, you made sure to mention aspects of real life, it grounded all the talk of philosophy which when mentioned on its own seems to carries no weight.
After the first 10 minutes of the video I checked how long it was & actually liked that the video would be so long
i recently experienced real nostalgia that did not involve anything material. A few months ago i visited the town i grew up in after being away for close to 20 years and found it much in the stater much like Possum Springs.Seeing the store laying empty did not phase me was the park that a park that was across the street from my childhood home was gone. The retaliation that the place i spent so much time with friends Playing ball and such was gone. The experience pushed how just how old I am geting
Really sucks the algorithm didn't pick this video up
if only the world could see this in full. I know this impacted me every moment but I still feel this saddness knowing it'll pass me by on my drive. all I can say is thank you and hope these messages sink into my conciousness
Ive been waiting soooo long fot thisss
Night In The Woods... Thinking about this game makes me sad, doubly so. I wonder what other masterpieces Alec would have made, if he was still with us.
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i feel the most amount of nostalgia for the time when me and both my parents and me could have a group hug and we would all love each other. Now they are divorced and that feeling can never ever be recreated and it gives me a lump in my throat every time i think about it. I just want one more day with them both together with us all loving each other.
Edit: i feel especially bad for my little brother who never got to experience both his biological parents together (he was 1 when they split so he cant remember).
your sporadic use of eva ost from the jazzy chill sweet tunes to borderline case sends shivers down my spine every time. very good and apt.
thank you for the stimulating essay! I feel like i need to watch it a couple more times to unravel some of the concepts laid out but i'm looking forward to it. its clear a lot of effort and time went into its creation and i want to honor that with understanding as best I can
I don't think Nostalgia stems from anything relating to the things you did, but rather how you felt when you did these things. Careless, free from worry
Slightly unrelated but I somewhat recently read stephen king's IT, and I quite like the way nostalgia seems to be presented in the book, especially It's quite a common theme seeing as the book is based on memories. I like how their memories are usually for the little things, the specific details to their on unique lives which made their home, like walking along the train tracks on their way home so they can look at the big abandoned Victorian houses, or sitting in the shade of the trees looking at the sweet dam they just built. It's all about places or experiences, and although there are some objects that come into the nostalgia, such as bill's bike, it's the experiences around those objects that make them memorable and nostalgic.
The book also does a good job of showing how nostalgia can become constant. All of the losers, despite forgetting, are fixated on the past, trying to achieve what they had in hopes things will be okay again. We see this when mike desperately searches the past, obsessed with the history of derry, trying to escape the thought that the monster might be coming back- however, by doing this, instead of growing, this plunges him into the same pit as before. He settles into his life, isolates himself and gives up. They lose their innocence, they're hope and naivety as they grow up and fight constantly to get it back or to fix things, to get back to that contentness they found after they first defeated the monster. The trouble is, they can't. With all their memories flooding back, it seems almost dreamlike, and they're consumed by that. They long for a simpler time when the world wasn't so grey and when their insecurities were problems that could be so easily resolved as by pretending they're not there and playing cowboys with the boys, and in a way they've prevented themselves from growing beyond that. No change can happen if you're focusing on the past. That forbids it.
Sorry for the dump but I just think that this is really cool and I quite like Stephen king's IT. I just think the characters are neat. Plus i've been quite interested in nostalgia and liminal spaces etc and I just think that those sorts of things create interesting existential horror.
This deserves infinitely more attention, brilliant stuff mate
Currently watching for the second time. This is a banger 🙌🏼
this video gives big "squidward tentacles: the perfect antagonist" vibes
You have successfully put into words things I have been trying to explain for years.
Man you’re videos are so good they fill up my brain
Thanks for the birthday Present Clark!
This video is awesome as always! But ads every 5 mins are killing me 😭😭
Lots of thought-provoking ideas here! I found that this video got a bit confusing/unfocused at times with the interweaving of the topics in nostalgia, ideology, and capitalism into one essay, but your summaries of the stories for both games were riveting to watch. I’ve never heard of Disco Elysium before and now I want to check it out!
I’ve watched all of your videos and this is my favorite one, I’ve come back 3 times to watch it since the day it came out
Thrilled I found your channel from the "Fear of forgetting" video, binge watched your videos and found great entertainment and information. Can't wait to see what you do next
Did anyone else’s audio cut out in the first half for a few minutes
Lol yeah
The thing that confuses me about nostalgia is how can I have such deep feelings for something that wasn't even mine? The feeling I get from seeing advertisements, furniture, styles, and hearing music from the 40s-50s makes me feel a similar feeling to nostalgia... But I was born in 2005.. so how can I feel so strongly about something I never had?
One of my favorite videos on the internet. thank you so much
As a kid when we moved into a new country that we thought was prosperous and would bring us a better life I was at a huge playground with a cushion castle, ball rooms, airhockey tables, foam ball guns and friends this sounds so amazing and it felt amazing but the reality is I was living an unfulfilled unhappy life in the same environment as before and the only moments of some joy and distraction were these little trips or things that made such a big imprint on my mind that it is a fond memory that stands on top of the misery surrounding it and was not swallowed in my head among all the other things where my illusion of something good was torn apart by the realisation that it was just good in contrast to what was around it and not as a whole. I don't even know where I'm going with this but I think the fact that we experience a wish for something we once thought we had should underline the fact that things are missing from our lives that we need rather than obscure it.
You've already put countless hours into the work behind this video, and I am incredibly impressed with your dedication to the craft.
My only criticism and I'm trying to be as constructive as possible here, I'm just genuinely surprised that there are no chapters on the video.
As soon as I was 13 minutes (in; I had paused the vid) to see how much time had passed, then realized that this might as well have been the third topic shift while still being on topic with the title of the video.
Chapters would help.
Then again this is probably just my OCD speaking. I'm obsessed with compartmentalization as a substitute for control or the lack thereof. It also helps me keep the intrusive thoughts from ocd at bay.
thanks for your advice! I went ahead and added chapters
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It’s rare that a video has me lost and upset. I just… everything so far is just weighing down on me, all of a sudden. I’m only halfway through and I almost wanna cry. Will update once I’m finished.
UPDATE: Haven't cried yet. Really want to, but I've stayed strong. I feel hollow and empty upon realization of what my life has been for the past few years or so, constantly chasing the same old and looking to nostalgia for solace, but... I guess I'll have to change. Thank you Clark for the video, watching this brought me a lot of pain, but I feel much more informed. Or, at least, more knowledgeable about things.
Perhaps I do need therapy.
This video is incredible. I discovered you about a week ago on a night that I needed someone to explain my own nostalgia and melancholy to me. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Your video quality is heartbreakingly underrated.
immediate fan of your channel!
I am eating this mind blowing content up!
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I can't watch this video yet because I've yet to play the games, don't want any spoilers. Hope the rest of you enjoy
Thank you for this video! It was mind blowing.
great video, i look forward to the next one
At 22:50 the audio cuts out and I've tried multiple things already to fix it. Audio returns at 24:57.
This is my fault. Gonna need to reupload
My laptop had been doing this randomly for weeks and I JUST got it fixed and I was worried it had broken again
1.3K views in 2 hours is absurdly low for this amount of work and quality
This is very thought provoking
Great job
I'm only half way through the video and I can already tell this is going to change my life. Thank you for your hard work and wisdom.
“Ah, nostalgia. It’s not what it used to be!”
-Edward Richtofen
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22:51 Why did the audio just.. cut out here? Am I missing something?
The moment at 23:00 where the audio cuts out entirely, while briefly showing a diagram of the Uncanny Valley then slowly zooming in on a breakfast pizza I had been told moments ago now felt "not the same" or "they changed something about it" was honestly a kind of fascinating little experience? even though it wasn't intentional
Not even exaggerating when I say this is the best video I’ve ever watched. Something about it made me feel so seen. ❤❤❤ Thank you!!!
amazing video my small 16 year old brain won’t understand some of this for some time can’t wait too re discover and feel the same wave of knowledge then!!thanks man always great work ;)
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good one
You bringing up night in the woods made me nostalgic man, about to cry
thank you for ending on hope, i needed that. We need that!