Honestly, dystopian games with a Soviet-like aesthetic always makes me feel nostalgic despite me not being a soviet, amazing video like always keep up the good work
"Под пивко пойдет" or "с пивом потянет" is more like "it'll do with beer", not well or great, just "ok". A way to cope, to accept even if by lowering the bar (comment for the algorithm)
I didnt expect to watch through the whole video but i did. loved it. Talking to people until you get +1 loneliness really hit home to me. The more I try to reach out to people, the more I realize we live in different realities. I've learned to communicate my feelings better to others, but it left even less space to feel understood.
I have to say, you did such a good job introducing the game that I won't watch the full vid now, but after I find and play the game. I'll check out your channel though, now I feel I owe it to you.
I live in a country whose culture is centered around being happy, to the point that there was a video circling around of people singing while the street they were on was literally flooded to their waists. I think you can imagine how that kind of culture messes you up when you're suffering from chronic depression. So there is something freeing about just letting yourself feel melancholic. It's just like you said, it's not a typically pleasant feeling, but it's deep and it's real. It's a reminder that you're still alive, if nothing else. I've never even heard of the Soviet aesthetic until coming across this video, but I can understand why its become popular especially for people like me who don't really get the chance to simply *let* themselves be sad
the reason I like this ''aesthetic'' is because I feel like I would fit right into such a society. I live in a country whose people are known for being happy, cheerful and extroverted but I'm the exact opposite. the climate is considered one of the best in world but I hate it cause I don't like hot weather (it's hot most of the year). imagine being depressed asf and opening the blinds of your room window just to see the sun blazing its ass off every day + being outside most of the day is torture because it's so hot. you'd just feel worse, trust me
well, if it is meta then its okay, but game is not became more depressing by going from "people withering on the street" to "st.ptb hipsters are whining in hipster bar"
I played a bit of this game! I think I got distracted then because I just bought Infra, but your video definitely makes me want to return, and try playing it again.
Honestly it just feels like big city 20-th something sadness about own directionless-ness all while playing full ignorance of what their country is doing that has led to them having less choices in life, a wholesale self-absorbed piece of whiny nihilism. It's long overdue for this "Russian Soul" phenomena to get deconstructed as what it really is, wallowing in own sadness and obsessing over it as means of coping with both own and previous generations learned helplessness. It's not deep. It's not emotional. It's just a self-sabotaging resignation.
Honestly, dystopian games with a Soviet-like aesthetic always makes me feel nostalgic despite me not being a soviet, amazing video like always keep up the good work
"Под пивко пойдет" or "с пивом потянет" is more like "it'll do with beer", not well or great, just "ok". A way to cope, to accept even if by lowering the bar
(comment for the algorithm)
I didnt expect to watch through the whole video but i did. loved it. Talking to people until you get +1 loneliness really hit home to me. The more I try to reach out to people, the more I realize we live in different realities. I've learned to communicate my feelings better to others, but it left even less space to feel understood.
As for that question at the beginning: Yes. I play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
I have to say, you did such a good job introducing the game that I won't watch the full vid now, but after I find and play the game. I'll check out your channel though, now I feel I owe it to you.
I live in a country whose culture is centered around being happy, to the point that there was a video circling around of people singing while the street they were on was literally flooded to their waists. I think you can imagine how that kind of culture messes you up when you're suffering from chronic depression. So there is something freeing about just letting yourself feel melancholic. It's just like you said, it's not a typically pleasant feeling, but it's deep and it's real. It's a reminder that you're still alive, if nothing else. I've never even heard of the Soviet aesthetic until coming across this video, but I can understand why its become popular especially for people like me who don't really get the chance to simply *let* themselves be sad
the reason I like this ''aesthetic'' is because I feel like I would fit right into such a society. I live in a country whose people are known for being happy, cheerful and extroverted but I'm the exact opposite. the climate is considered one of the best in world but I hate it cause I don't like hot weather (it's hot most of the year). imagine being depressed asf and opening the blinds of your room window just to see the sun blazing its ass off every day + being outside most of the day is torture because it's so hot. you'd just feel worse, trust me
@26:19 because exUSSR is one hell of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Tima looking for the light (Тима ищет свет) is a russian musician. Great video btw. Keep it up ❤
This is irrelevant to the video, but damn it does the voice and accent do things to my brain...
well, if it is meta then its okay, but game is not became more depressing by going from "people withering on the street" to "st.ptb hipsters are whining in hipster bar"
brother, you are the first person I hear who names Comedy properly without renaissance fluff
I played a bit of this game! I think I got distracted then because I just bought Infra, but your video definitely makes me want to return, and try playing it again.
Such a cool game and such a nice essay about it. Glad that this was ended up in my recommended, how has this only 280 views?
Luv u!
Honestly it just feels like big city 20-th something sadness about own directionless-ness all while playing full ignorance of what their country is doing that has led to them having less choices in life, a wholesale self-absorbed piece of whiny nihilism.
It's long overdue for this "Russian Soul" phenomena to get deconstructed as what it really is, wallowing in own sadness and obsessing over it as means of coping with both own and previous generations learned helplessness. It's not deep. It's not emotional. It's just a self-sabotaging resignation.
another banger brother!
Awesome video
SUBURB?!
What a phenomenal video
there is no post soviet, either you live in western country OR in soviet regime, there is NO middle