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Hey, even if it's hokum, you can still buy it to wear at a rave. Ah hell, okay first you need to borrow your sister's time machine, then you have to go to the 1990s, when raves were relevant, and THEN you could wear that. You'd be the most memorable person at the Oakenfold show.
The absolutely irony of a skeptic show advertising completely nonsense scam products. How braindead are these Foreo people to think they are going to sell their magic alien light masks to this audience?
My siblings and I weren't allowed to watch the Simpsons and we realised as adults it was because it was on at the same time as a show my mum liked. But we were allowed to play Wolfenstein and watch South Park because these didn't disrupt her schedule.
To the editor who marked the missing children found, as a mom you brought me to tears. I remember those arcade games, those faces, and would pray that they would be found or answers given, as I was a child myself at the time and couldn't do much more than that. Thank you Kevin and Decoding the Unknown for giving me some answers.
I’m a parent as well, and it just felt, appropriate, to have that sequence. I’m touched that you felt something from it, and thank you for taking the time to drop a nice comment!
My husband played Eternal Darkness when he was home sick one day. He said there were two other mind tricks he remembers the game playing: 1. A fly on the screen that was actually coded into the game and 2. A message that said “thank you for trying the demo; buy the game when it’s released” so he *almost* took the disc out to check it and would have lost an hour’s worth of progress.
I remember playing the game as a kid one stormy night. The mood was already tense, so when the tv screen suddenly appeared to turned off I had a brief moment of intense panic thinking the power had gone out and I had lost hours worth of gameplay. Before I could even reason that the lights in the room were still on so it couldn't have been the power, the screen flashed back to the game and my character cried out "This isn't really happening!" To this day it remains one of the most memorable scares a game has ever pulled on me.
I remember when it would pretend to delete your save games. It also had a tendency, when you went through a door into a new area, to put you in the room with several enemies spawned, and put up a fake message about your controller not responding while the monsters tore your helpless avatar to bits.
It would also lower the volume down, both audibly and visually. Back in those days a lot of TVs had a distinctive look to their volume indicator on screen and the game would mimic that as the volume dropped. I was alone, playing the game on a TV without a remote control, and suddenly the volume dropped. Felt like my heart stopped.
well, maybe so but corpse01.mdl will throw your brain a curveball - or at least it did my brain. As in I know what I'm looking at when I see the real deal but I do not understand how it ended up looking that way, and I'm not sure I want to know either. It looks like the thing in the game does. I might get the foreo thing just to use as a scary mask though, it looks kinda cool in some undead digital demon sort of way. Like it doesn't belong in the real world.
2:10 - Mid roll ads 3:50 - Back to the video 6:10 - Chapter 1 - Sente's missing children 17:35 - Chapter 2 - Corpse01.mdl 24:15 - Chapter 3 - Station.exe 33:15 - Chapter 4 - Sad satan
Simon talks about the Body Farm as though it's an unpleasant and non-preferable place to have your science-donated body end up, but my understanding is that there's like, a waitlist to get in there. Like, they have way more people wanting to become subjects of forensic analysis then they have places to put them.
(Timestamps for each story below) Quick correction regarding Sad Satan: the Will Smith image was from one of the cleaned up versions of the game. The original image I believe was a screenshot from the show Hannibal. Damnit, Simon, glockenspiel is one word. It's like a small xylophone (hence fitting with the username "instrument") It didn't occur to me that they might not have the "word" blech in the UK, but r/eyeblech and r/eyebleach are very different. Eyebleach is cute kitten photos and stuff, used to bleach your eyes after seeing horrible things. 6:07 Sente's Missing Children 17:32 corpse01.md1 24:13 Station.exe 33:12 Sad Satan
About the whole "Unethical to do that to a corpse" convo: At the University of Tennessee - Knoxville they have what is locally known as the "body farm." I believe it was the first one to be made and there are similar things all over the world now. It takes bodies donated to science and puts them in areas to let them be weathered by the elements and in different stages of decay, as well as other stuff. This study has led to improved forensic science and have helped solve murders and identify victims that may otherwise not be.
There's a really decent body farm at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Its named the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility (STAFS), and was established in 2008. Really cool for the forensic, anthropology, and entomology students, and even has a large part in the first multi-disciplinary Forensic Science PhD in the country!
In "Dragon Age 2," if you play alone, without anyone in your party, and you go out at night (I think you also need to be on "nightmare" difficulty) and walk around Kirkwall alone at night - your character starts talking to themselves, as if they were having hallucinations. Instead of regular dialogue, you get a whole series of dark lines that Hawke says to themselves.
@@SugarandSarcasm Haha :-) Some dialogs can be found on UA-cam. There is no mention about the difficulty here but is about personality :-) ua-cam.com/video/18PEQHZ4o5M/v-deo.htmlsi=AS6Kw08XlpIqI7ia
@SugarandSarcasm you might wanna check the details. I did some digging (course I didn't remember myself) and found some videos on YT saying that it depends also on the Hawke personality. I found one video called "Hawke's hidden monolog" or something like that, and there is an example of what I remembered. But there is no mention about the difficulty. I'm pretty sure it also matters. I just can't find more info now :-) Later I can ask on some forums :-)
Yeah. Which is science so... If I remember right, it was just all sorts of code violations over storage and handling that got them in trouble. The family was upset about how it was used but she wanted her body donated. I'm not even sure you have an option to specify what you wish to be done with your remains. They just get divided up. That was a long time ago so I don't remember for sure.
A friend's mom donated her body to science, hoping it would be used to research the disease that took her. Fast forward some time (she was put on ice for the meantime) and my friend's father sent an email, opening with, "We have an opportunity!" As if it was a real estate deal. Turns out this research institute wanted to use her body as a "high velocity impact subject," i.e. crash test dummy. Regardless, my friend and her sister nixed that idea. Morbid, I know, but I still laugh whenever I think about that email.
One of the main issues with that particular instance was that she signed off with a specific university for medical research, but they then coordinated with a body broker to sell her off to the highest bidder which happened to focus on artillery firing testing. Which is why I always say if you want to donate your body to science, or you want to donate your family member’s body as a means to affordably process their remains (since unfortunately a large number of “donations” are due to the affordability of agreements that the facility will cover the cremation costs), read the fine print and do research on the facility you’re donating it to. I personally intend to donate my body to the body farm in Tennessee, but I have done extensive research on how they handle their donations and I am perfectly comfortable with that. If my eventually discarded flesh suit can be studied in a way that may help solve a crime just a little bit faster and bring solace and justice to a family, I’ll happily do so.
I remember those missing kids on the arcade game. Me and a couple of my friends spent a lot of time in the arcade and this one-time buddy brought along his 5 or 6-year-old cousin and we convinced him that the machines were trapping kids inside of the game. We dared him to play and when those missing kids popped up he screamed an ran out of the arcade crying. lol I felt so bad.
I found out that apparently many bodies donated to "science" are just chopped up for parts that are then sold to other companies for procedures like repairing tendons or cornea transplants - for profit of course. Even worse, companies and the military buy these bodies for things like crash tests and testing ordinance, guns, explosives. Here in the US its illegal to buy or sell human remains so the only way these body parts can get onto the market is by donation and so there are fine print and stipulations in donation forms that sneak your consent to giving away your body for non-scientific (mostly profit-based) research and applications. Look into it, its worse than you can imagine.
The only thing I could think is why wouldn't they just use photos of burn victims they have archived cause it happens often enough that they would have photos to use and it would seem unethical to burn a face off to get a photo of something you already have a sample group to select from
@@harrisong3386 Different sources of fire naturally will burn you differently. Being soaked in gasoline and getting your face torched by a welder are two very different things, the injuries, treatment and time to act will vary significantly. Consider invisible fires for a moment, too. Fire is complicated stuff.
@@mbcodgie yea but still there have been plenty of people who have died that way naturally which they would have crime scene photos of plus wouldn't a body that's dead and doesn't have blood ECT not burn different than a living person. Invisible fire is scary shit tho
People are weird about human cadavers these days. I watch a lot of historical vids and saw a comment suggesting they should track down the descendants of a mummified body so they could get 'closure'... For a 2000+yr old body. Like someone actually thought thousands of people would find some sort of 'closure' to know a mummy they are slightly related to was found. Some people really have experienced far too little in life.
By the time you get to 2000 years ago, millions could be descended from that one person. Whole villages become interconnected. Who do you contact? There's a saying that "everyone in England is related to William the Conqueror." Go back far enough, nearly every person of European descent is related to some noble family. My family traces back to French nobility, but I don't need "closure" for those who were beheaded in the Revolution.
Yeah. There’s no closure there but it would be a neat thing to learn about. Like “oh cool! I have ancestors in x country!” And occasionally one person will look further into it. Most would just be either confused why they’re being told this or extremely distressed they could be traced by total strangers.
@jaxjaxattaxx2000 years ago? As others have said, half the planet could be related to that person. No one is wanting closure on their 2000 year old ancestors. People don't even know what ancestors that old were doing to worry about or have any kind of trauma associated with them. Yes, your great x 66 ancestor grandmother is still a story passed down through 66 generations.
@jaxjaxattaxxyou say that like you collect your ancestors bones every other weekend or something, people are so addicted to playing the victim and calling others privileged today, it's such a nice and convenient way of feeling like you are a good person without having to actually do anything, love it!
@@ThatWriterKevin hey I just read an article (I know it’s yahoo news) about a guy who was openly killing black men in South Africa during apartheid. He was basically given the green light by local business owners as well as the police. Maybe the next cascrim or into the shadows ?
The host here looks like the leader of a secret organization descended directly from the Templar Order, and his British accent makes him sound smarter than me. Instant subscribe.
Hey, Simon! I know you said that you weren’t very knowledgeable on skincare and you care about who you take sponsorships with, so I just thought I’d give you a head’s up - the product here is very likely a scam, though I’m no dermatologist so I won’t say definitively that it is, but many people are under that impression. Not sure if you’ll see this comment, but hopefully you or one of your basement lurkers will! Take care and thank you for the video!
@@JeeVeeHaych There are easter eggs in every video I touch. Every. Video. You've found one, and I thank you for putting the time to do so. Glad you enjoyed it, my dude.
Between Into the Shadows, Decoding the Unknown, Casual Criminalist, and Warographics it's fun to have a distraction that is (mostly) fiction like a video game.
4:30 he forgot the _far_ scarier (in)sanity effect of the game telling you your controller is not plugged in while several enemies are beating the crap out of your character. Though, he's incorrect about the nonexistent enemies being able to kill you. I played Eternal Darkness a lot back in the day and there are 2 types of sanity effects (that's what they were called despite being caused by insanity, it is the internet after all and e.g. "noclip" is glitching trough walls despite clipping is when textures glitch into each other even though this looks wrong because e.g. hair and accessories have no collision so one character's hat is halfway in the face of another one or the hair is swallowed by the clothes so noclip should be not when this happens with walls but when it does not happen), minor and major sanity effects: minor sanity effects were stuff like blood running down the walls, distant screams or baby cries, eyes on portraits moving, etc. and none of this had any effect on the gameplay whatsoever (except iirc in this one place these made it really hard or even impossible to find the hidden way to proceed) major sanity effects only ever triggered when entering a new room and were stuff like bsod, disconnected controller, walking on the ceiling, shrinking with every step, reversed controls, random instant death, etc.. However, these were only ever cutscenes and had also zero impact on the gameplay. After the the cutscene ended and you had your shock the game returned to normal, though these were only triggered with really low sanity so usually minor effects would continue until you refilled your sanity meter. It's such a shame there never was a sequel as it would have been amazing, but sadly the dev studio Silicon Knights ended doing something really stupid and got into a massive lawsuit because of their own fault that ended up breaking up the company and the IP was simply forgotten. 100% sure an Eternal Darkness 2 kickstarter would get millions withing 24 hours.
My GameCube broke halfway through the game and I never finished it. I check the e-shop once in a while to see if it’s been added, but I think this game will forever remain incomplete for me
@@NathanXxplosionit wasn't broken the game tricked you 😂 (JK I don't actually think that, but it feels like something the game would tell you with low sanity)
Amazing game. I didn’t play it because I’m a scaredy cat, but I watched a neighbor play Eternal Darkness and also the original Fatal Frame on PS. They were both spectacular stories.
As someone who had to fill out LOTS of forms so my body can be donated when I die, most programs don't give you any choice and you are made extremely aware of that at every step of the way, then your family is informed of that again after you pass just to make sure no one is going to try and sue them. I specifically wanted my body being used for medical research because of some rare health issues I have. I had to go searching to find a place that didn't focus on medical cadavers and instead focused on research. Even then, you can state your preference for the type of research but have to also agree that this might not happen. The forms for donating a body for science also include specifics of some of the things that could happen to the body, including it being cut up, burned, beheaded, etc. If it was in a textbook, there's a very high chance that it was a body burned in a specific way to allow for different stages of burning and such to be shown in one image or something like that. If that was the case, it's 100% ethical as long as the deceased agreed to this or stated these wishes in their will and the family agreed.
Really appreciate the quick info window that popped up when Simon didn't know the correct word/ term! I've been hoping for those in the past, please continue using them!!
Not necessarily scary but incredibly stressful game: Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. It immerses you into the mind of a schizophrenic and good Lord I've never been so stressed playing a game before. Constant voices in your head and seeing things. It's crazy good.
@@JK-gm6kk Depends on what your used to I would guess. As the GTX980 Ti which has 6GB of vram not 4 and is quite a jump in power (~15% faster) can manage high 50 FPS in Cyberpunk at 1080p on the medium settings. No Ray tracing obvs and will stutter a bit in that 3 and half year old game (Dec 2020). Newer games like jedi Survivor (April 2023) is stil over a year old and runs about the same as Cyberpunk does on the 980ti but I hear is unplayable on the non ti because it has issues with 4Gb of vram even at 1080p. Given gaming (on pc at least) is typically at 1440p or 4k and at least 60fps if not higher and both those games are old now I would say you are stretching the term viable a bit there. Like saying a horse is a valid method of travel for the work commute which it 100% is as long as you ignore that everyone else is in cars or trains or aircraft or that the playstation 4 is still viable, which again it is but times have moved on and viable is an extremely low bar. AMDs 7600 which is the lowest end card they currently offer is more than twice as fast and given how much a GTX980 cost in 2014 I'd expect most owners of them to be able to afford at least that or the 4060. Technically your 100% correct but a gtx 980 (or the Ti) is a very bad gaming experience in 2024 if you want to play current games. While I am a huge PC nerd (you can probably tell) everyone on GTX era cards should just buy a playstation 5 if they aren't willing to upgrade the pc they are cheaper than the GTX980 was 10 years ago by itself not including the rest of a PC
I've never understood why people find the Sente Mini Golf kids creepy. I mean, it's creepy that the kids were missing, yeah, but I don't understand why putting missing children information on a videogame is creepy. No more creepy than on milk cartons. Maybe it's because I'm older and was a kid at the time? Maybe it's just younger people looking at our old tech and being all liminal spaces about it.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say the "original" part was referring to the playstation and not stating that PSX was the original version of the game 🤭 It also speaks to the effects that music has on tone. People who played it on PSX think of Doom as a horror game, where as those who played the original think of it as an action game.
@@HelFrostKara When I was a kid I only played the pc ver and I didn't know Doom 1 on PSX have that creepy soundtrack, it's so cool!!!! (watched some vids)
The South Park episode on the PGA game has an explanation. Basically, it was common practice at the time the game came out for developers to add a bunch of junk data to fill out the extra space on a disc (I forget exactly why), and it’s confirmed that whoever was tasked with adding the junk data to the game just added a rip of an episode that they had downloaded on their work station to fulfill that purpose.
Fun fact about Eternal Darkness, the sanity system is locked under copyright. That's why Eternal Darkness is unique, its the same thing that happened with Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system.
I absolutely hate when game developers do that, and I wish there was a shorter expiration date put on it. I have seen other games do similar systems, though (such as fear instead of sanity, but not to the same level of messing with the player).
“Honestly, these scripts are written like months ahead when I finally get to them.” It’s ok Simon. This video was released months ahead when I finally got to it.
Arcade cabinets in the 70s and 80s were full of ROM chips 'Read Only Memory' with only enough 'RAM' for the changing hall of fame high score list. The game files were written at the factory and could only be updated by opening up the machines and replacing the chips. Today new cabinets basically have a computer like a Raspberry pi with an SD card for the game files.
How to talk like Simon: 1) Read a part of a story about someone doing something dumb 2) React to and repeat the dumb thing they've done 3) WHAT ARE YOU DOING 4) try to explain why it's dumb down to small detail, while again repeating whats done 5) MY GUY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Jonny Gosch and Eugene Martin were the first. Although Etan Patz did go missing before them. But the first dairy to put missing kids on milk cartons was Anderson Erickson in Des Moines, Iowa. A family friend of Eugene Martin worked there and convinced the owners it'd be a good idea.
They were all warned about Eugene Martin. Someone told Noreen Gosch and she told cops and local paper. They didn't listen and he was taken. Such a bizarre story
My favorite sanity effect in Eternal Darkness was going to the save menu, hitting save, and watching in horror as it said "Deleting Saved Game" instead of "Saving Game", and the progress bar reversing back to zero, before the flash that brings you back to normal. Legit thought it was deleting my Game.
It's really eerie looking at the picture of Malinda Marie Smith. She was born only 5 years after me and in a town 2 1/2 hours away. And I noticed that both she and April Rose Yates went missing from Denver in 4/1984. Did they go missing at the same time?
My ex made it hilarious the first time we played it. "Take the gladius, Pius Augustus. Go kill the monster, Pius Augustus. Who doesn't mind going into horrible places to kill zombies? Pius Augustus doesn't mind!"
Amnesia pretends to do the same thing. The sanity meter does nothing, but it does taunt you. Amnesia's setting is neat though. Dark Tower-esque multiverse bullshit layered over a Dracula story (and in the sequel, a Queenly fairytale set in Stargate Atlantis).
It was funny to hear you bring up 3-D renderings of a kitchen, considering I’m sitting at work listening to your podcast and I design kitchen for a living
@9:43 From my little understanding of Arcades, they would a lot of the time just reuse their Cabinets and convert them to new games via swapping out their innards and boards. That practice is actually a reason why so many classic arcade games and some slightly obscure gems have been nearly been lost to time, especially in their original cabinet glory.
I was also negative 2 in 1985... Bone 1987 and grew up with all the old age video games.. I showed my 11 year old a cassette tape other day shw asked me were do the headphones go so I can listen to it.. 😮 I feel old... The missing kids golf one is just freaking me out as I was known as milk carton kid era... .
As a kid, I drank the brand of milk that the first missing kids' pictures were on and I remember when they went missing, they were both paperboys in a city about 2 hours away from where I grew up.
I love this kind of stuff, creepy video game dives. And I've totally played Eternal Darkness! It is sort of laughable but they did such a good job of making it unsettling, startling and make you question what's real in the game. Such a classic.
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Worse than raid shadow legends
This needs to stop.
Hey, even if it's hokum, you can still buy it to wear at a rave. Ah hell, okay first you need to borrow your sister's time machine, then you have to go to the 1990s, when raves were relevant, and THEN you could wear that. You'd be the most memorable person at the Oakenfold show.
The absolutely irony of a skeptic show advertising completely nonsense scam products. How braindead are these Foreo people to think they are going to sell their magic alien light masks to this audience?
@@curiouslyhighHalloween, maybe? Christmas? Maybe it could be the new ugly sweater.
Every time there’s a video game episode. Simon has to mention that his parents didn’t let him watch power rangers but he could play Doom. 😂
If he was playing Doom on a TI-83 calculator, that would explain why.
My parents were similar. Couldn't watch The Simpsons but Duke Nukem and Doom was just fine😂
Same though 😂 Captain Planet was off limits but Mortal Combat was fine.
Power Rangers teaches kids to do morphine. DOOM teaches kids to fight demons and evil spirits.
My siblings and I weren't allowed to watch the Simpsons and we realised as adults it was because it was on at the same time as a show my mum liked. But we were allowed to play Wolfenstein and watch South Park because these didn't disrupt her schedule.
To the editor who marked the missing children found, as a mom you brought me to tears. I remember those arcade games, those faces, and would pray that they would be found or answers given, as I was a child myself at the time and couldn't do much more than that. Thank you Kevin and Decoding the Unknown for giving me some answers.
I’m a parent as well, and it just felt, appropriate, to have that sequence. I’m touched that you felt something from it, and thank you for taking the time to drop a nice comment!
Aw as I read your comment those kids came on the screen with the found it did hit me hard.
"I haven't seen that blue screen of death in so long"
*World collapses from it ten days later*
aged like milk
Oh yeah, that did happen didn’t it?
My husband played Eternal Darkness when he was home sick one day. He said there were two other mind tricks he remembers the game playing: 1. A fly on the screen that was actually coded into the game and 2. A message that said “thank you for trying the demo; buy the game when it’s released” so he *almost* took the disc out to check it and would have lost an hour’s worth of progress.
That is eeeeeeevil
I remember playing the game as a kid one stormy night. The mood was already tense, so when the tv screen suddenly appeared to turned off I had a brief moment of intense panic thinking the power had gone out and I had lost hours worth of gameplay. Before I could even reason that the lights in the room were still on so it couldn't have been the power, the screen flashed back to the game and my character cried out "This isn't really happening!" To this day it remains one of the most memorable scares a game has ever pulled on me.
I remember when it would pretend to delete your save games. It also had a tendency, when you went through a door into a new area, to put you in the room with several enemies spawned, and put up a fake message about your controller not responding while the monsters tore your helpless avatar to bits.
It would also lower the volume down, both audibly and visually. Back in those days a lot of TVs had a distinctive look to their volume indicator on screen and the game would mimic that as the volume dropped.
I was alone, playing the game on a TV without a remote control, and suddenly the volume dropped. Felt like my heart stopped.
also the Volume going up and down but it didn't work because my tv was different from their tv.
To be fair, pressing the restart button and hoping not to bluescreen again is also how us technical folk deal with a PC crash.
This is so true
Last weekend the official advice from Microsoft was "reboot up to 15 times" to attempt to fix the CrowdStrike mess.
One kinda got used to how much windows 7 and windows 8 would just.. randomly blue screen.
@@bubbadoo10 *UFL ((Unidentified flying laptop)) noises*
To clarify r/eye bleach is cute wholesome things to "bleach" disturbing things out of your eyes, r/eyeblech is the opposite
I came here to say this. Eyebleach is wholesome things to wipe horrible images from your mind.
Thanks for saying what I came down to say. I love r/eyebleach as well as r/cute and r/awww. I depend on them after work
I had considered putting this clarification in the script, but I didn't think Simon would assume I made the same typo like 8 times
Whew. For a second I thought maybe the sub got taken over and done a complete 180 (has happened before.)
the bad one has also (finally!) been shut down
Please more creepy pasta stuff. I know I can get this stuff elsewhere, but I love Simon debunking it.
Thanks Simon and Kevin!
This episode feels like a Cracked article from back when Cracked was still good. Keep it up Simon, I'd love more videos like this!
That foreo mask is scarier than anything in the list.
Looks a bit like Magneto’s mask… 😂
lol I just posted the same thing!
well, maybe so but corpse01.mdl will throw your brain a curveball - or at least it did my brain. As in I know what I'm looking at when I see the real deal but I do not understand how it ended up looking that way, and I'm not sure I want to know either. It looks like the thing in the game does.
I might get the foreo thing just to use as a scary mask though, it looks kinda cool in some undead digital demon sort of way. Like it doesn't belong in the real world.
Hooooooly baaaaaawls, the mask thing is €850!!!!! It costs no more than €20 to make for sure, jeebles Foreo are a greedy bunch of bastardos!!!
I'm getting James bond die another day vibes.
2:10 - Mid roll ads
3:50 - Back to the video
6:10 - Chapter 1 - Sente's missing children
17:35 - Chapter 2 - Corpse01.mdl
24:15 - Chapter 3 - Station.exe
33:15 - Chapter 4 - Sad satan
I don't understand why nobody has said thank you
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Simon talks about the Body Farm as though it's an unpleasant and non-preferable place to have your science-donated body end up, but my understanding is that there's like, a waitlist to get in there. Like, they have way more people wanting to become subjects of forensic analysis then they have places to put them.
It’s so popular people are just *dying* to get in
@@NathanXxplosion Haaaaaa!
... you.
@@NathanXxplosion Bada bum bum TISH
Which is why I will have my remains spread across the country, I don’t wish to be cremated though. 🤷♂️
Much more "pleasant" than weapon testing.
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Quick correction regarding Sad Satan: the Will Smith image was from one of the cleaned up versions of the game. The original image I believe was a screenshot from the show Hannibal.
Damnit, Simon, glockenspiel is one word. It's like a small xylophone (hence fitting with the username "instrument")
It didn't occur to me that they might not have the "word" blech in the UK, but r/eyeblech and r/eyebleach are very different. Eyebleach is cute kitten photos and stuff, used to bleach your eyes after seeing horrible things.
6:07 Sente's Missing Children
17:32 corpse01.md1
24:13 Station.exe
33:12 Sad Satan
The waiting has begun.
Who let you out of the basement and onto the internet?
Always going above and beyond for the viewers lol
@@Unfortunately_Mickey I do what I can!
A xylophone has wooden bars, the bars on a glockenspiel are aluminium or steel
It is so adorable how much factboy doesn't want to disappoint us with short episodes ❤
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Hey now, this was my idea! 😝
@@ThatWriterKevintotally fair! It's adorable how much you don't want to disappoint us with short episodes either 😂
It's for his bank accounts, not us.
About the whole "Unethical to do that to a corpse" convo: At the University of Tennessee - Knoxville they have what is locally known as the "body farm." I believe it was the first one to be made and there are similar things all over the world now. It takes bodies donated to science and puts them in areas to let them be weathered by the elements and in different stages of decay, as well as other stuff. This study has led to improved forensic science and have helped solve murders and identify victims that may otherwise not be.
There's a really decent body farm at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Its named the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility (STAFS), and was established in 2008. Really cool for the forensic, anthropology, and entomology students, and even has a large part in the first multi-disciplinary Forensic Science PhD in the country!
I think Simon Whistler is the presenter of about 29% of all youtube channels, tendency growing!
In "Dragon Age 2," if you play alone, without anyone in your party, and you go out at night (I think you also need to be on "nightmare" difficulty) and walk around Kirkwall alone at night - your character starts talking to themselves, as if they were having hallucinations. Instead of regular dialogue, you get a whole series of dark lines that Hawke says to themselves.
Omg my favorite game and i didn't know that
Dammit now I gotta try that
@@SugarandSarcasm Haha :-) Some dialogs can be found on UA-cam. There is no mention about the difficulty here but is about personality :-) ua-cam.com/video/18PEQHZ4o5M/v-deo.htmlsi=AS6Kw08XlpIqI7ia
@SugarandSarcasm you might wanna check the details. I did some digging (course I didn't remember myself) and found some videos on YT saying that it depends also on the Hawke personality. I found one video called "Hawke's hidden monolog" or something like that, and there is an example of what I remembered. But there is no mention about the difficulty. I'm pretty sure it also matters. I just can't find more info now :-) Later I can ask on some forums :-)
@@martanowicka3340 That’s okay, thank you for the extra info.
If I have to create a load of characters, then so be it 😅
fun fact about donating body to science, there was an instance where woman donated body was used for artillery firing testing
Yeah. Which is science so... If I remember right, it was just all sorts of code violations over storage and handling that got them in trouble. The family was upset about how it was used but she wanted her body donated. I'm not even sure you have an option to specify what you wish to be done with your remains. They just get divided up. That was a long time ago so I don't remember for sure.
Cadavers were (are?) used for munitions testing pretty frequently
@@mschaefer4656 B-B-B-BASED
A friend's mom donated her body to science, hoping it would be used to research the disease that took her. Fast forward some time (she was put on ice for the meantime) and my friend's father sent an email, opening with, "We have an opportunity!" As if it was a real estate deal. Turns out this research institute wanted to use her body as a "high velocity impact subject," i.e. crash test dummy. Regardless, my friend and her sister nixed that idea.
Morbid, I know, but I still laugh whenever I think about that email.
One of the main issues with that particular instance was that she signed off with a specific university for medical research, but they then coordinated with a body broker to sell her off to the highest bidder which happened to focus on artillery firing testing.
Which is why I always say if you want to donate your body to science, or you want to donate your family member’s body as a means to affordably process their remains (since unfortunately a large number of “donations” are due to the affordability of agreements that the facility will cover the cremation costs), read the fine print and do research on the facility you’re donating it to. I personally intend to donate my body to the body farm in Tennessee, but I have done extensive research on how they handle their donations and I am perfectly comfortable with that. If my eventually discarded flesh suit can be studied in a way that may help solve a crime just a little bit faster and bring solace and justice to a family, I’ll happily do so.
"I like my shell" is now my new go-to-phrase for when I have a good body-image day. Thank you Simon
Just noticed the blue screen of death percentage, during the Eternal Darkness section, is at 69%.
Nice.
👉😉👉
Nice.
That game is great for multiple reasons everyone should have played it
It was by far the best horror game i have ever played@@Tsum1923
Nice
I remember those missing kids on the arcade game. Me and a couple of my friends spent a lot of time in the arcade and this one-time buddy brought along his 5 or 6-year-old cousin and we convinced him that the machines were trapping kids inside of the game. We dared him to play and when those missing kids popped up he screamed an ran out of the arcade crying. lol I felt so bad.
Deliciously evil 😂
Savage
That is fantastically evil. You definitely unlocked a core memory for that kid 😂😂
Chaotic evil. I love it.
I can't agree with Simon more about it not being weird when science is done to your body you donated to science.
I found out that apparently many bodies donated to "science" are just chopped up for parts that are then sold to other companies for procedures like repairing tendons or cornea transplants - for profit of course. Even worse, companies and the military buy these bodies for things like crash tests and testing ordinance, guns, explosives. Here in the US its illegal to buy or sell human remains so the only way these body parts can get onto the market is by donation and so there are fine print and stipulations in donation forms that sneak your consent to giving away your body for non-scientific (mostly profit-based) research and applications. Look into it, its worse than you can imagine.
The only thing I could think is why wouldn't they just use photos of burn victims they have archived cause it happens often enough that they would have photos to use and it would seem unethical to burn a face off to get a photo of something you already have a sample group to select from
It would be pointless to do that to a cadaver anyway...
@@harrisong3386
Different sources of fire naturally will burn you differently. Being soaked in gasoline and getting your face torched by a welder are two very different things, the injuries, treatment and time to act will vary significantly. Consider invisible fires for a moment, too.
Fire is complicated stuff.
@@mbcodgie yea but still there have been plenty of people who have died that way naturally which they would have crime scene photos of plus wouldn't a body that's dead and doesn't have blood ECT not burn different than a living person. Invisible fire is scary shit tho
People are weird about human cadavers these days. I watch a lot of historical vids and saw a comment suggesting they should track down the descendants of a mummified body so they could get 'closure'... For a 2000+yr old body. Like someone actually thought thousands of people would find some sort of 'closure' to know a mummy they are slightly related to was found. Some people really have experienced far too little in life.
By the time you get to 2000 years ago, millions could be descended from that one person. Whole villages become interconnected. Who do you contact? There's a saying that "everyone in England is related to William the Conqueror." Go back far enough, nearly every person of European descent is related to some noble family. My family traces back to French nobility, but I don't need "closure" for those who were beheaded in the Revolution.
it's an ethical thing to think
Yeah. There’s no closure there but it would be a neat thing to learn about. Like “oh cool! I have ancestors in x country!” And occasionally one person will look further into it. Most would just be either confused why they’re being told this or extremely distressed they could be traced by total strangers.
@jaxjaxattaxx2000 years ago? As others have said, half the planet could be related to that person. No one is wanting closure on their 2000 year old ancestors. People don't even know what ancestors that old were doing to worry about or have any kind of trauma associated with them. Yes, your great x 66 ancestor grandmother is still a story passed down through 66 generations.
@jaxjaxattaxxyou say that like you collect your ancestors bones every other weekend or something, people are so addicted to playing the victim and calling others privileged today, it's such a nice and convenient way of feeling like you are a good person without having to actually do anything, love it!
Man, if you think that Half Life 2 one was grim, wait till you hear about the therapy people require after doing art assets for Mortal Kombat.
I liked this episode a lot. I haven’t thought about those missing kids in decades. Or that fbi warning on video games. Good times!
Glad you enjoyed!
I'm among the few 80's kids left, after the many purges...keep giving us that gold Kevin!
@@ThatWriterKevin hey I just read an article (I know it’s yahoo news) about a guy who was openly killing black men in South Africa during apartheid. He was basically given the green light by local business owners as well as the police. Maybe the next cascrim or into the shadows ?
Fair play to the editor, taking it a step up with the Simon corrections. Greatly appreciated
Love that Simon procrastinates as much as I do
This guy runs like 10 UA-cam channels, I guarantee you he doesn’t
He must have some Virgo in him.
Another day, another Simon-hosted channel that I didn't know about previously.
In 1985 Walkie Talkies were the coolest tech you could own as a kid.
@@Likwidfox Same in 75 as well.
@@danidavis7912 And a CB when you could get your hands on one.
Hey, Julian, what you did at the end of the missing kids segment... Beautiful... Thanks, man
18:09 “God, Half Life 2 was a banger of a game” got an audible “Hell yeah Simon!” from me. Didn’t know bro was chill like that
The host here looks like the leader of a secret organization descended directly from the Templar Order, and his British accent makes him sound smarter than me. Instant subscribe.
Hey, Simon! I know you said that you weren’t very knowledgeable on skincare and you care about who you take sponsorships with, so I just thought I’d give you a head’s up - the product here is very likely a scam, though I’m no dermatologist so I won’t say definitively that it is, but many people are under that impression. Not sure if you’ll see this comment, but hopefully you or one of your basement lurkers will! Take care and thank you for the video!
17:00 Not sure who edited this one. But that was a nice touch. Expecially the toggle to 'found' for the last two.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
@@VulianJu I very much liked the 'cursed guy on youtube' bit at the beginning of Station.exe, nice touch👌
@@JeeVeeHaych There are easter eggs in every video I touch. Every. Video. You've found one, and I thank you for putting the time to do so. Glad you enjoyed it, my dude.
Simon with the restless leg syndrome, bobbing his little head the whole video😂😂😂
I thought he looked a bit wiggly...
I was wondering what was going on there
Yeah, his head is bouncy
Thank goodness you all commented , was worried my eyes were done for...
Hope he's ok
Between Into the Shadows, Decoding the Unknown, Casual Criminalist, and Warographics it's fun to have a distraction that is (mostly) fiction like a video game.
Super fun
4:30 he forgot the _far_ scarier (in)sanity effect of the game telling you your controller is not plugged in while several enemies are beating the crap out of your character.
Though, he's incorrect about the nonexistent enemies being able to kill you.
I played Eternal Darkness a lot back in the day and there are 2 types of sanity effects (that's what they were called despite being caused by insanity, it is the internet after all and e.g. "noclip" is glitching trough walls despite clipping is when textures glitch into each other even though this looks wrong because e.g. hair and accessories have no collision so one character's hat is halfway in the face of another one or the hair is swallowed by the clothes so noclip should be not when this happens with walls but when it does not happen), minor and major sanity effects:
minor sanity effects were stuff like blood running down the walls, distant screams or baby cries, eyes on portraits moving, etc. and none of this had any effect on the gameplay whatsoever (except iirc in this one place these made it really hard or even impossible to find the hidden way to proceed)
major sanity effects only ever triggered when entering a new room and were stuff like bsod, disconnected controller, walking on the ceiling, shrinking with every step, reversed controls, random instant death, etc..
However, these were only ever cutscenes and had also zero impact on the gameplay. After the the cutscene ended and you had your shock the game returned to normal, though these were only triggered with really low sanity so usually minor effects would continue until you refilled your sanity meter.
It's such a shame there never was a sequel as it would have been amazing, but sadly the dev studio Silicon Knights ended doing something really stupid and got into a massive lawsuit because of their own fault that ended up breaking up the company and the IP was simply forgotten.
100% sure an Eternal Darkness 2 kickstarter would get millions withing 24 hours.
There’s an even SCARIER one on the save screen that shows it “deleting” your save data instead.
I loved this game they need to remaster it
@@moltenamber85 I think it even gave you a "yes" or "yes".
My GameCube broke halfway through the game and I never finished it. I check the e-shop once in a while to see if it’s been added, but I think this game will forever remain incomplete for me
@@NathanXxplosionit wasn't broken the game tricked you 😂 (JK I don't actually think that, but it feels like something the game would tell you with low sanity)
It looks like Simon is rrinking out of one kf his kids cups. 😂 Love these style episodes, keep em coming!
The haunted hotel level in Vampire Bloodlines still gives me the creeps.
Absolutely the scariest level I’ve ever played. Doubly so because I played it at 2 in the morning in a dark house.
Donating your body to science means "these idiots can do whatever they want for what ever reason they want."
I mean generally the reason is science…
@richardtherichard26 The difference between science, and screwing around is writing it down, so...
The tangents timer finally defeated me which is why I’m here only 16 minutes after upload
Seeing a random Linus in a DTU video got a genuine laugh from me😂
I've just accepted that every 5th YT channel has Simon now.
Simon, I think you mean eye BLECH. 😂 eye BLEACH is a subreddit for cute puppies
The fact that Linus (6:42) randomly shows up in a Simon Whistler video gets me one step closer to UA-camr/Podcaster Bingo
Eternal Darkness, HELL YEAH!!! Was one of my first games on the cube.
Such an amazing game
Amazing game. I didn’t play it because I’m a scaredy cat, but I watched a neighbor play Eternal Darkness and also the original Fatal Frame on PS. They were both spectacular stories.
"We don't know what happened to his face"
"Pop tarts...?"
"IT'S NOT POP TARTS!!!"
If you donate your body to science, there is no ethical issue burning the tissue.
As someone who had to fill out LOTS of forms so my body can be donated when I die, most programs don't give you any choice and you are made extremely aware of that at every step of the way, then your family is informed of that again after you pass just to make sure no one is going to try and sue them. I specifically wanted my body being used for medical research because of some rare health issues I have. I had to go searching to find a place that didn't focus on medical cadavers and instead focused on research. Even then, you can state your preference for the type of research but have to also agree that this might not happen. The forms for donating a body for science also include specifics of some of the things that could happen to the body, including it being cut up, burned, beheaded, etc. If it was in a textbook, there's a very high chance that it was a body burned in a specific way to allow for different stages of burning and such to be shown in one image or something like that. If that was the case, it's 100% ethical as long as the deceased agreed to this or stated these wishes in their will and the family agreed.
Really appreciate the quick info window that popped up when Simon didn't know the correct word/ term! I've been hoping for those in the past, please continue using them!!
Not necessarily scary but incredibly stressful game: Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. It immerses you into the mind of a schizophrenic and good Lord I've never been so stressed playing a game before. Constant voices in your head and seeing things. It's crazy good.
The real horror is simon buying a graphics card and GTA wont be released for PC initially D:
He will need a new one by the time he gets to play.
@@insaincaldo GTX 980 and better are still very much viable, but I'm sure you're just referring to the breakneck pace that tech is released
@@JK-gm6kk that to
@@JK-gm6kk Depends on what your used to I would guess. As the GTX980 Ti which has 6GB of vram not 4 and is quite a jump in power (~15% faster) can manage high 50 FPS in Cyberpunk at 1080p on the medium settings. No Ray tracing obvs and will stutter a bit in that 3 and half year old game (Dec 2020). Newer games like jedi Survivor (April 2023) is stil over a year old and runs about the same as Cyberpunk does on the 980ti but I hear is unplayable on the non ti because it has issues with 4Gb of vram even at 1080p.
Given gaming (on pc at least) is typically at 1440p or 4k and at least 60fps if not higher and both those games are old now I would say you are stretching the term viable a bit there. Like saying a horse is a valid method of travel for the work commute which it 100% is as long as you ignore that everyone else is in cars or trains or aircraft or that the playstation 4 is still viable, which again it is but times have moved on and viable is an extremely low bar.
AMDs 7600 which is the lowest end card they currently offer is more than twice as fast and given how much a GTX980 cost in 2014 I'd expect most owners of them to be able to afford at least that or the 4060. Technically your 100% correct but a gtx 980 (or the Ti) is a very bad gaming experience in 2024 if you want to play current games. While I am a huge PC nerd (you can probably tell) everyone on GTX era cards should just buy a playstation 5 if they aren't willing to upgrade the pc they are cheaper than the GTX980 was 10 years ago by itself not including the rest of a PC
32:08 A glockenspiel is actually a musical instrument akin to a xylophone or a marimba.
Gamer for 40 years and you had some surprises here I haven’t heard of, nice work!
Long Decoding the Unknowns are great. Can re listen a day or two latter just in case anything was missed or you have a long drive.
ngl the audio at the end of the first chapter combined with the visual of changing the mode on the game gave me chills.
I'm quite the connoisseur of strange and obscure video game lore, but I'd never heard of those Missing Kids arcade displays. Interesting stuff.
I've never understood why people find the Sente Mini Golf kids creepy. I mean, it's creepy that the kids were missing, yeah, but I don't understand why putting missing children information on a videogame is creepy. No more creepy than on milk cartons. Maybe it's because I'm older and was a kid at the time? Maybe it's just younger people looking at our old tech and being all liminal spaces about it.
24:22
The editors outdid themselves 😂
Chef's kiss for the text
Scouring the comments, I really thought I was the only one who'd noticed. Good job, Julian!😂
"Doom. The original Playstation 1 version" Fact boy be not facting too well right there...
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say the "original" part was referring to the playstation and not stating that PSX was the original version of the game 🤭
It also speaks to the effects that music has on tone. People who played it on PSX think of Doom as a horror game, where as those who played the original think of it as an action game.
@@HelFrostKara
That's awesome ngl
@@HelFrostKara When I was a kid I only played the pc ver and I didn't know Doom 1 on PSX have that creepy soundtrack, it's so cool!!!! (watched some vids)
@@HelFrostKaraI've got the original game on dreamcast
The South Park episode on the PGA game has an explanation. Basically, it was common practice at the time the game came out for developers to add a bunch of junk data to fill out the extra space on a disc (I forget exactly why), and it’s confirmed that whoever was tasked with adding the junk data to the game just added a rip of an episode that they had downloaded on their work station to fulfill that purpose.
Fun fact about Eternal Darkness, the sanity system is locked under copyright. That's why Eternal Darkness is unique, its the same thing that happened with Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system.
I absolutely hate when game developers do that, and I wish there was a shorter expiration date put on it.
I have seen other games do similar systems, though (such as fear instead of sanity, but not to the same level of messing with the player).
Nice touch adding Simon’s “cursed.jpg” image in Station.exe! 😂 Hilarious 👍
The rabbit from zootopia had me dead 😂
Wait, how does becoming a Power Ranger make your skin smooth again? Hope the mask makes "HIYAAAA" noises too.
Go go foreo rangers..
Oh, I loved Eternal Darkness! That was a good, thinky game.
It still is a good game!
“Honestly, these scripts are written like months ahead when I finally get to them.”
It’s ok Simon. This video was released months ahead when I finally got to it.
Arcade cabinets in the 70s and 80s were full of ROM chips 'Read Only Memory' with only enough 'RAM' for the changing hall of fame high score list. The game files were written at the factory and could only be updated by opening up the machines and replacing the chips. Today new cabinets basically have a computer like a Raspberry pi with an SD card for the game files.
Liked the video format...LOVED the sippy cup, Simon!
Ngl this is the kind of content I live for 😂
Glad you hear it!
How to talk like Simon:
1) Read a part of a story about someone doing something dumb
2) React to and repeat the dumb thing they've done
3) WHAT ARE YOU DOING
4) try to explain why it's dumb down to small detail, while again repeating whats done
5) MY GUY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Casual criminalist episode on Etan Patz.
The original milk carton child.
Jonny Gosch and Eugene Martin were the first. Although Etan Patz did go missing before them. But the first dairy to put missing kids on milk cartons was Anderson Erickson in Des Moines, Iowa. A family friend of Eugene Martin worked there and convinced the owners it'd be a good idea.
They were all warned about Eugene Martin. Someone told Noreen Gosch and she told cops and local paper. They didn't listen and he was taken. Such a bizarre story
I really didnt expect the first 17 minutes of this video to be such an emotional rollercoaster.
Oddheader wants a word with you for the video title. :D
thought it was an oddheader video at first
@@elizabethveldonstuff same!
@@elizabethveldonstufftriple same
The super generic video title?
Yeah, because the only way to come up with such a clever title is to steal it.🙄
loved it, Julian NAILED the memes, and Simon's input perfectly accents Kevin's scripts
YES, Eternal Darkness! Messed with me BIG-TIME when I first played it.
Love it. Your writer definitely has more too.
What you've never heard of the SoCal Lady Killer?
Was so good.
5:14 Gotta love the error collection progress displayed on the BSOD. Nice :)
Lol the Half Life 3 joke😂😂
My favorite sanity effect in Eternal Darkness was going to the save menu, hitting save, and watching in horror as it said "Deleting Saved Game" instead of "Saving Game", and the progress bar reversing back to zero, before the flash that brings you back to normal.
Legit thought it was deleting my Game.
Very distracted by simons head bobbing like he's got the jitters
yes.. noticed this too. hope all is well.
They've somehow either computer generated or otherwise tampered with the visuals on this one. It's really annoying.
I'm not sure if he's twitching his leg or the camera is bouncing but my god is it distracting
Let’s GO frickin Kevin Jennings!! The best writer. Glad Simon sees this as well
Very entertaining..... For the algorithm!!!!
It's really eerie looking at the picture of Malinda Marie Smith. She was born only 5 years after me and in a town 2 1/2 hours away. And I noticed that both she and April Rose Yates went missing from Denver in 4/1984. Did they go missing at the same time?
1:55 Eternal Darkness is still my husband's favorite video game
My ex made it hilarious the first time we played it. "Take the gladius, Pius Augustus. Go kill the monster, Pius Augustus. Who doesn't mind going into horrible places to kill zombies? Pius Augustus doesn't mind!"
@@Metalkatt my husband played the whole thing for me and had me watch. The commentary of a deranged man playing video games is often a comedy routine
Amnesia pretends to do the same thing.
The sanity meter does nothing, but it does taunt you.
Amnesia's setting is neat though. Dark Tower-esque multiverse bullshit layered over a Dracula story (and in the sequel, a Queenly fairytale set in Stargate Atlantis).
It was funny to hear you bring up 3-D renderings of a kitchen, considering I’m sitting at work listening to your podcast and I design kitchen for a living
He lit a cigarette with an oxygen tube in his nose. I'm not going to go into why I think that's the case, but I do.
seems reasonable
@9:43 From my little understanding of Arcades, they would a lot of the time just reuse their Cabinets and convert them to new games via swapping out their innards and boards. That practice is actually a reason why so many classic arcade games and some slightly obscure gems have been nearly been lost to time, especially in their original cabinet glory.
Is it just me or is Simon _trembling_ in this one?
You okay, man?
24:30 It's -chinatown- 4Chan. You can assume the original poster built this thing.
After last weeks marathon of an episode (which was very enjoyable) I quite enjoyed these little collection of stories as well.
Christ, the visual noise in the background is back with a vengeance.
Is that why his head/torso looks like it's bouncing up and down like 10x a second. The audio glitches a bit as well
@@iggywow He bounces his leg while reading.
Yeah he's shaking for a good portion of the video lol
This was a fun episode! Definitely different from the norm.
That Foreo mask looks like absolute snake oil if I've ever seen it 😒
it %100 is snake oil
Nice to know that after 5 years I still find channels of Simon's I didn't know existed
I was also negative 2 in 1985... Bone 1987 and grew up with all the old age video games.. I showed my 11 year old a cassette tape other day shw asked me were do the headphones go so I can listen to it.. 😮 I feel old... The missing kids golf one is just freaking me out as I was known as milk carton kid era...
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As a kid, I drank the brand of milk that the first missing kids' pictures were on and I remember when they went missing, they were both paperboys in a city about 2 hours away from where I grew up.
I love this kind of stuff, creepy video game dives. And I've totally played Eternal Darkness! It is sort of laughable but they did such a good job of making it unsettling, startling and make you question what's real in the game. Such a classic.
Half Life Alyx VR totally slays all previous versions.
Watching this video on July 20th and the blue screen of death thing made me belt out laughing. “Don’t see those very often nowadays” WELP FUNNY THING
What a stupid sponsorship
Honestly, rn putting sounds amazing. Keep putting simon.