This was a really tricky one, but we've learned a lot about how we may be able to enumerate complicated populations in the future. I'd also like to add that unlike past unemployment surveys, there was a lot of surveying that wasn't included in the video because of time and structure considerations or whatever. support me on patreon- www.patreon.com/any_austin
One might say the twenty-something people at the pier that were undetermined were employed. Shortly after leaving the pier, there was a gigantic, hostile creature, and since the people on the pier had set up bombs and some had weapons, it would be safe to assume the designated jobs of these upstanding citizens was to defend the town from the hostile aquatic monster, which did appear to have legs it could have used to heave itself onto land to attack this hard-working settlement. While some may not have had weapons on them, they very well could have been construction workers, with the armed individuals being lookout to spot the monster and defend the construction crew. However, as the enumerator, I believe the method you had chosen for cataloging the individuals on the pier to have been wisely chosen. For the torch-bearers you had met outside the church, it is possible they may have been town vandals, much like the resident dynamite-throwers and boulder-pushers. Everyone else in the village had been working hard during the day or had been shot or killed, and these individuals seemed to have plenty of energy at nighttime to band together with the intent of burning down a church before being thwarted by your brave actions in defense of -yourself- the church. Individuals who had worked during the day would have expended their energy and rested during the nighttime, but since these people still had energy and seemed criminal in their intents and behaviorisms, it can be assumed they had not worked during the day and were therefore unemployed. Congratulations on a job well done, enumerator Austin. May you get some rest before beginning your next assignment.
Could the men with sticks of dynamite in the area with the condemned buildings actually been part of demolition crews with those building slated to be demolished?
Resident Evil has a long history of transforming humans into enormous nonhumanoid abominations. Bearing this in mind, I think there is a VERY strong argument for the lake monster being just as eligible for work as all the people in Valdelobos who are still (mostly) biologically human.
This should be a legit horror/comedy game, being a bureaucrat in service of the government and going in to a horrific hostile place just to count how many people are employed there, with great determination.
Your boss is a jaded lifetime bureaucrat who is completely immune to your requests for an exemption. There are sixteen possible exemptions listed on form 896(A)-1999 and "hostility due to brain parasite" is not one of them. If you refuse to perform your duties as stated in your work description, you will be terminated from employment and lose the medical insurance you need to get your disabled child the durable medical equipment she needs.
You could add a detective twist, so you kill everyone then have to figure out who was doing what jobs, or maybe you have an alternate stealth option and you have to sneak around and observe
If someone is deceased, they should be removed from the statistic. Dead people are not eligible for employment. The accurate enumeration of a deceased person is "deceased".
Actually it's NaN%, NaN meaning "Not A Number", since the unemployment rate is unemployed people divided by total population, and the total population is zero. You CANNOT divide by zero. Not even if you're dividing zero. So. "The bureau has surveyed Valdelobos and determined that it has a NaN% unemployment rate after completion of the survey, since none of its inhabitants survived the survey. As a result, Valdelobos no longer has an economy, its economic situation is best phrased as 'deceased'. We recommend that the town be redeveloped, or failing that, removed from future statistics."
Or a 100% since everyone who had a job can't do it anymore and anyone who didn't didn't get the chance to get one. We don't *technically* know that every person infected by the Plagas is fully dead by the end of the game. But we do know they aren't in the condition to do said work anymore.
I like how the objective shifts from trying to see whether they have a job or not to “the bureau of labor statistics is not gonna count you as employed if you behave like that” like it’s a punishment for being too hostile
I was worried that this series was going to get stale, but then the Bureau of Labor Statistics authorized their enumerators to use lethal force, and I am all in!
The Chainsaw Man isn't just a hard worker at cutting lumber, he's also a Doctor! Dr. Salvador is a man of many talents. You could even say he's doubly employed.
I bet Dr. Salvador is a doctor who helped Saddler inject the parasites into the villagers seen in the end credits. The name meaning Doctor Savior makes sense considering Saddler convinced everybody the parasite would actually save them, and he's kind of a mini boss, so him having more to do with Saddler and what was going on makes sense. Maybe he was the first one, and has a special parasite infection causing him to live through alot, causing him to keep coming back, nemesis style. But that's just a theory, A GAME THEORY. I'll see myself out
I hope the Valdelobos tourism board really takes this information to heart to focus on where they can improve and bring in fresh blood and money. When my family vacationed there a couple years ago, we got remarkably little sleep due to the burning corpses and had an awful time as the tour guides insisted on showing off their chainsaws. And they kept hiding plants and dynamite in our luggage, which was odd.
I agree. went there myself three years ago and my AirBnB bedroom door locked behind me and wouldn't reopen until I solved a colour-based light puzzle. I was quite unsatisfied with this as I only discovered it upon waking up in the middle of the night thirsty for a glass of water
I was on the neighboring castle theme park for study tour for my uni and the lecturer complained about the bugs in the sewers, who melted one of my friends alive (he's ok btw). We get to learn about the animatronic armours used to guard around the palace, we got lost in the maze and had one of us being munched alive by the dogs (she's ok btw), and we got to take photos with the Xenomorph and Wolverines. In the end, i bought a rocket launcher souvenir from the merchant, doing some range practice, take a rollercoaster ride off the mineshaft that ends in a big jump, then get to pilot a giant robotic recreation of the castle owner. I highly recommend. The factory island tour is lame though, i don't recommend going there.
I appreciate that the enumerator's primary concern re: population stability is age composition. Not uncertainty surrounding the tentacles-for-heads thing, or the enumerator's own surprising impact on overall numbers -- just your standard problem of too few babies and too many roof guys.
Having worked a season as a census enumerator this series feels so spot on to my experience with sometimes having to make increasingly esoteric calls on how to report. Especially for hostile or uncooperative people or locations. I’d love to see more of these. Given how the unemployment in Ul’dah in FFXIV is a major plot point in the story I’d get a huge kick out of knowing the real number.
Finally! The first thing I asked myself when I played Resident Evil 4 was "I wonder what their unemployment levels are?" I then proceeded to ask what in the world is going on and how can I make it out alive. I'm glad I was able to get answers to at least one of them.
For reference, 8.2% is roughly equal to France pre-COVID. When you consider that Valdelobos has no French people, I would say that it is the preferable place to live.
3 things: 1) I love the energy on display here: running through hordes of people trying to kill you and blandly counting them all 2) wow, I forgot how brown this game was 3) however, Leon? still hot, what can I say? There was a reason I always liked watching my brothers play this game when I was younger despite having no interest in playing it and it was because I had a crush on Leon.
FYI, concerning the merchant, his eyes light up red at night, indicating he is a Ganado, indicating he lives in the village. He also owns lakeside property in the village. Pretty clear he lives there.
My only potential point of contention is that the two guys hanging out in the derelict building with sticks of dynamite may have been there to demolish those buildings as part of their employment. Excellent work as always though, really getting to the bottom of the big questions we’ve all been wondering.
@@any_austin to be fair, dynamite is sometimes used in extrajudicial demolition projects. in fact, that is actually how i renovated my local police department
I seriously need a game where you're not only trying to survive, but you're actively figuring out the unemployment rate of the area you're trying to survive in. You get the best ending if you could successfully determine the unemployment rate. The thing is: the final rate is randomized, so you can't cheat. Good luck.
I would love to see one of these on the city of Vivec in morrowind. Partially because it's huge and horrible to navigate and partially because the employment status is just horrible.
Yesssss please do some in Morrowind! Even if you've not played it before it's easy to get to the main cities as a new character and survey their population, plus interesting questions about whether the various Telvani wizards are self-employed or unemployed. But do make sure you get a mod that delays the Dark Brotherhood attacks, or they'll just inflate your numbers.
Worth noting, Depending on the church, a lot of maintenance is done by volunteers, meaning they aren't employed there. Remember to be extra discerning for future churches to make sure that the only ones being counted as employed are the hired professionals, and not just some charitable volunteer :^)
I agree with most of your decisions, but I actually think the guys at the run down houses could have actually been demolition workers preparing to demolish the houses. I can't wait to see more. These vids are always great.
I'm glad you counted the merchant twice because there are at LEAST two of him. In the area at the top of the cable car you can walk between two merchants who have no load screen between them, and no possible path a single merchant could take to arrive at the other shop before Leon gets to it.
Could they be twins? So it would be a family business then. That could be employing villagers for advertising, ie the rooftop people could be criers to spread the word of the goods that the Merchants twins have.
I feel some of the villagers that you deemed unemployed were in fact employed. It's safe to assume some of them work night shifts (door openers) and were merely enjoying their off time earlier (man standing on rooftop).
I'd argue that the village has a 100% employment rate by the same argument as the castle. They are all slaves of the Las Plagas parasite, which is more than a full-time position.
I might be completely making this up and lying to you, but I’m pretty sure the whole mining village is pretty legit and the reason they have those head critters is because they dug up fossilized Las Plagas.
@@any_austin When you're in the castle you come across another group of villagers mining up fossilized Las Plagas towards the end of the area. It may be safe to assume they belong to the same mining company and are being contracted to dig up evil head parasites
No, you're legit, that's where they came from. It's a separate mine where they found the fossilized ones, but it would make sense they'd be dredging up the whole region looking for more.
Thing I love most about this is your dry humor committing to the bit sprinkled with your genuine(?) gasps in between. Underrated comedy right here. I hope you keep doing these!
I absolutely love this series. Please keep making more videos like this one. The concept behind these videos, as well as skybox appreciation is genius. You are genuinely one of my favorite creators. Thanks for being so great
Off topic but I really recommend gta3 for your odd places series. Been replaying it recently and since it’s the first “true” open world game it’s got some really weird liminal areas.
I think it implies that he's well educated, not employed You can be a doctor and not have a job, but anybody who's title is "doctor" implies they have a doctorate
Dr. Salvador is the huge guy with the double chainsaw in Mercenaries mode I think? The regular chainsaw guy is just Chainsaw Man. At least some of the wikis seem to think so.
The part where you put up the markers for the people in “heaven” was freakin hilarious. Laughed for a good 2 minutes. Pretty sure those people are in hell though.
extremely good video love the various gags, like putting the employed text on the ground next to an item that a dead guy dropped, or the half-second shot of a guy pulling a crank in a cutscene having the employed text, or the 3 guys pushing a boulder instantly being marked unemployed
Hey Austin, the people on the 'fishing pier' as you put it were clearly dealing with a snake infestation. You may not agree with their method of using dynamite to exterminate these poor reptiles but unfortunately that still means they are employed.
@@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Snakes are very sensitive to changes in air pressure so the dynamite is less for extermination and more for leading them out of the water and hopefully out of the area.
I'm pretty sure the gentleman at 2:30 is the town roof inspector, but due to OSHA regulations, he can't chase you because that would require unsafely climbing down a ladder.
I have a theory that the merchant just puts on an Australian accent to sound exotic, like 'come I have RARE imports from down under!' but its just stuff he got from the next town over
The idea of Leon or whatever his name is as an exasperated bureaucrat just trying to survey employment numbers of a bunch of murderous zombies is absolutely comical 😂
I absolutely love these unemployment videos! I've been showing them to everyone I know, and I think you've really hit on a uniquely funny concept. If I might offer some other suggestions, here are a few video game settings that you might find entertaining to look at: -Red Dead Redemption 1 or 2 - many towns and cities with lots of funny people walking around. -Deus Ex (2000), or even the newer ones (Human Revolution and Mankind Divided) - they all have hub cities with lots of colorful characters. The Hell's Kitchen setting for original Deus Ex, Detroit for Human Revolution, or of course Prague for Mankind Divided. Looking at Detroit might be fun too if you have any current data on Detroit's unemployment now, for a potentially fun point of comparison to see how future Detroit fared in the game :-). -The Monkey Island Games! Lots of colorful characters with interesting jobs to explore across a bunch of fake Caribbean island. -The Dishonored games, either Dunwall or Karnaca. -Assassin's Creed games - they all have huge cities with lots of people walking around. Might be too daunting, but it might also be hilarious in considering all the old historical jobs that used to exist that we don't have now. Looking forward to the next video in your unemployment series!
This was stellar. This does make me want to have a videogame where you do have to be a professional enumerator in a fantasy/horror world. But you gotta figure out their jobs. You can try to be nice and talk to everyone and interview. But sime locals may be more resistant. You had to fight some vampire? In that pile of ashes from them, gou find a nametag. You know who has a nametag on? Employed people. About to shoot someone? Hey, they have a hard hat and tool belt on. EMPLOYED! Like a different take on viscera cleanup duty, you are just doing your job. That would actually be a hilarious, and if done well, really fun game, you get bonuses after each job of how well and accurate you enumerated.
Oh fuck, I have to watch this ASAP. This is a placeholder comment Real comment: I've appreciated since the Majora's Mask episode how you do depth perception and perspective with the Employed/Unemployed pop-ups. Laughed out loud at 12:51 when the pop-up was in reverse at the camera cut, and 16:01 when it's angled. Five days of research well spent
Phenominal. On a side note, man this brings memories back. It was such a terrifying game for me on my first playthrough, it took me over 16 hours to make it through my first time.
I think your plan to count those at the dock as just as employed as the other villagers makes sense. It didn't appear to be a place of work, however it also didn't seem like a place where 20 people, all of which are unemployed would be gathered all together. They were likely citizens who may or may not have a job, enjoying a pond in their town.
I watched the entire episode on the TV with my business suit and vest on! Merry Christmas, friends, and thank you Austin for corresponding with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, may the bureaucracy be with you. P.S. And happy memories of the United States Geological Survey these holidays.
I would have never known zombies could be gainfully employed and working towards a goal of advancing their society. I would like to know these statistics for Breath of the Wild villages like Hateno Village, Kakariko Village, Lurelin, Gerudo Town, Rito Village. Not the moblin and bokoblin camps. And, Austin, I'd like to know where you buy your pants. 😆😅🤣😂
i appreciate your use of legitimate sociological phenomenon in this series, namely the "two axe axiom." hundreds of studies have definitively proven that, for each person carrying two axes, one is a killin' axe and the other is a workin' axe. very cool of you to pull from real world knowledge to make this video!
Easily my favorite video. Unfortunately or fortunately the difficulty of acquiring data and the snap decision (alongside the justification) are the best parts of these. Thank you for making it!
i rewatch the whole series of videos on unemployment regularly but this one has to be my favorite, "unfortunately the citizens of this town really hate the bureau of labor statistics" and the calm discussion of someone's employment interrupted by the enumerator going "aah!" when he's attacked is so funny
you should definitely consider streaming your research, id love it if you streamed yourself counting/acting as an investigator into various video games. Like a construction/arechiteactural consultant in dead space, or an agricultural investigator in star wars knights of the old republic
Diamond City in Fallout 4 might be a good option for further videos since it's a popular game and the people there are easy to count. It would be up to your interpretation if Synths count as citizens of the city if they are working for someone else like the Institute.
To note, he's including them as part of the populace without them affecting the employment percentage. So that might matter in the context of how long/sustainable the economy is (that is, whether or not 100 people or 10 people are employed is different, regardless of if both have 10% unemployment.)
26:34 Yeah, its a joke that she is unemployed, but the fact that she is in college actually would have bearing on real-world labor statistics. Since she is pursuing college education and is not seeking work, she wouldn't be counted as either unemployed or employed even if she was a resident of the evil village just like how a retired person or a child wouldn't be unemployed.
This was a really tricky one, but we've learned a lot about how we may be able to enumerate complicated populations in the future. I'd also like to add that unlike past unemployment surveys, there was a lot of surveying that wasn't included in the video because of time and structure considerations or whatever.
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One might say the twenty-something people at the pier that were undetermined were employed. Shortly after leaving the pier, there was a gigantic, hostile creature, and since the people on the pier had set up bombs and some had weapons, it would be safe to assume the designated jobs of these upstanding citizens was to defend the town from the hostile aquatic monster, which did appear to have legs it could have used to heave itself onto land to attack this hard-working settlement. While some may not have had weapons on them, they very well could have been construction workers, with the armed individuals being lookout to spot the monster and defend the construction crew. However, as the enumerator, I believe the method you had chosen for cataloging the individuals on the pier to have been wisely chosen.
For the torch-bearers you had met outside the church, it is possible they may have been town vandals, much like the resident dynamite-throwers and boulder-pushers. Everyone else in the village had been working hard during the day or had been shot or killed, and these individuals seemed to have plenty of energy at nighttime to band together with the intent of burning down a church before being thwarted by your brave actions in defense of -yourself- the church. Individuals who had worked during the day would have expended their energy and rested during the nighttime, but since these people still had energy and seemed criminal in their intents and behaviorisms, it can be assumed they had not worked during the day and were therefore unemployed.
Congratulations on a job well done, enumerator Austin. May you get some rest before beginning your next assignment.
“complicated populations”, what a phrase
Could the men with sticks of dynamite in the area with the condemned buildings actually been part of demolition crews with those building slated to be demolished?
Resident Evil has a long history of transforming humans into enormous nonhumanoid abominations. Bearing this in mind, I think there is a VERY strong argument for the lake monster being just as eligible for work as all the people in Valdelobos who are still (mostly) biologically human.
@@anthonygenco5051 the Men in the swamp are definitely the nomad community of the village at their chillout spot. 😄
This should be a legit horror/comedy game, being a bureaucrat in service of the government and going in to a horrific hostile place just to count how many people are employed there, with great determination.
Your boss is a jaded lifetime bureaucrat who is completely immune to your requests for an exemption. There are sixteen possible exemptions listed on form 896(A)-1999 and "hostility due to brain parasite" is not one of them. If you refuse to perform your duties as stated in your work description, you will be terminated from employment and lose the medical insurance you need to get your disabled child the durable medical equipment she needs.
A friend of mine was actually a census worker... In Detroit...
Honestly Leon has it easier
True horror isn't the monsters. True horror is WRITING THE REPORTS WITH THREE DISTRIBUTED COPIES.
@@current9300 *use triplicate form*
"Your strength Stat is too low to press through both carbon sheets"
You could add a detective twist, so you kill everyone then have to figure out who was doing what jobs, or maybe you have an alternate stealth option and you have to sneak around and observe
"They said as long as I've accurately enumerated somebody they don't have to be alive anymore" is a good line for cyberpunk.
I literally read this comment the second he said it in the video 😂
If someone is deceased, they should be removed from the statistic. Dead people are not eligible for employment. The accurate enumeration of a deceased person is "deceased".
They work as fertilizer
@@ndflatt spooky, I did as well!
“The bureau has authorised lethal force.”
“The bureau is pleased to announce that unemployment is now 0%, since everyone is now deceased.”
Actually it's NaN%, NaN meaning "Not A Number", since the unemployment rate is unemployed people divided by total population, and the total population is zero. You CANNOT divide by zero. Not even if you're dividing zero.
So.
"The bureau has surveyed Valdelobos and determined that it has a NaN% unemployment rate after completion of the survey, since none of its inhabitants survived the survey. As a result, Valdelobos no longer has an economy, its economic situation is best phrased as 'deceased'. We recommend that the town be redeveloped, or failing that, removed from future statistics."
Or a 100% since everyone who had a job can't do it anymore and anyone who didn't didn't get the chance to get one.
We don't *technically* know that every person infected by the Plagas is fully dead by the end of the game. But we do know they aren't in the condition to do said work anymore.
I like how the objective shifts from trying to see whether they have a job or not to “the bureau of labor statistics is not gonna count you as employed if you behave like that” like it’s a punishment for being too hostile
It's so realistic!
These videos really do come from a certain perspective
I was worried that this series was going to get stale, but then the Bureau of Labor Statistics authorized their enumerators to use lethal force, and I am all in!
I dont think I could ever get bored of this series. it's incredibly unique and the deadpan humor is wonderful.
Purely for authorized uses of self-defense.
@@coffin7904 agreed!
It's a great series for me to fall asleep to, he definitely need to make more non-violent episodes. This episode isn't doing it for me.
This series won't get stale any time soon.
For context, the national unemployment rate for Spain is 12.7%
Valdelobos is thriving
So, the Umbrella Corporation is a job creator?
@@courtlandfargo5251 yes
@@courtlandfargo5251 No, because Umbrella had nothing to do with the events of 4.
@@courtlandfargo5251 Umbrella didn't cause Re4 so no
The part where you were really offended that those 3 unemployed goons pushed a boulder at you was my favourite
‘That is unemployed behavior! >:(‘
No one likes getting rocks thrown at them by hoodlums
The Chainsaw Man isn't just a hard worker at cutting lumber, he's also a Doctor! Dr. Salvador is a man of many talents. You could even say he's doubly employed.
This explains the surgical precision and haste with which he removes the human head.
@@fatamorgana1587 Ironic then that his name literally translates to "Savior". But then, definitions may vary.
@@fatamorgana1587 Not to mention he has a sack over his head, he wears his PPE too!
I bet Dr. Salvador is a doctor who helped Saddler inject the parasites into the villagers seen in the end credits. The name meaning Doctor Savior makes sense considering Saddler convinced everybody the parasite would actually save them, and he's kind of a mini boss, so him having more to do with Saddler and what was going on makes sense. Maybe he was the first one, and has a special parasite infection causing him to live through alot, causing him to keep coming back, nemesis style. But that's just a theory, A GAME THEORY.
I'll see myself out
@@bradwibbels935that is actually a really good theory.
The philosophical questions about if the enemies are people, but only specifically to determine if they can hold a human job, is my favorite part.
This unemployed series is so much better than it has any right to be. I love it
I hope the Valdelobos tourism board really takes this information to heart to focus on where they can improve and bring in fresh blood and money. When my family vacationed there a couple years ago, we got remarkably little sleep due to the burning corpses and had an awful time as the tour guides insisted on showing off their chainsaws.
And they kept hiding plants and dynamite in our luggage, which was odd.
They especially need new blood... For reasons
I agree. went there myself three years ago and my AirBnB bedroom door locked behind me and wouldn't reopen until I solved a colour-based light puzzle. I was quite unsatisfied with this as I only discovered it upon waking up in the middle of the night thirsty for a glass of water
I was on the neighboring castle theme park for study tour for my uni and the lecturer complained about the bugs in the sewers, who melted one of my friends alive (he's ok btw). We get to learn about the animatronic armours used to guard around the palace, we got lost in the maze and had one of us being munched alive by the dogs (she's ok btw), and we got to take photos with the Xenomorph and Wolverines. In the end, i bought a rocket launcher souvenir from the merchant, doing some range practice, take a rollercoaster ride off the mineshaft that ends in a big jump, then get to pilot a giant robotic recreation of the castle owner. I highly recommend.
The factory island tour is lame though, i don't recommend going there.
The plants and dynamite are like the room service mint on your pillow; they're complimentary
@@lxjoe96 color*
The editing and roleplaying aspect of this series truly make it unique and entertaining.
I appreciate that the enumerator's primary concern re: population stability is age composition. Not uncertainty surrounding the tentacles-for-heads thing, or the enumerator's own surprising impact on overall numbers -- just your standard problem of too few babies and too many roof guys.
Pretty accurate to the character of a government worker… Shinzo Abe vibes
Having worked a season as a census enumerator this series feels so spot on to my experience with sometimes having to make increasingly esoteric calls on how to report. Especially for hostile or uncooperative people or locations.
I’d love to see more of these. Given how the unemployment in Ul’dah in FFXIV is a major plot point in the story I’d get a huge kick out of knowing the real number.
i was just thinking that, the city-states of ffxiv would be so fun to see (specifically uldah and ishgard)
I was thinking Limsa
Love the way Austin just kinda talks to himself through out the video, so god damn funny
“Popes are coy…no they’re not”
Finally! The first thing I asked myself when I played Resident Evil 4 was "I wonder what their unemployment levels are?"
I then proceeded to ask what in the world is going on and how can I make it out alive.
I'm glad I was able to get answers to at least one of them.
For reference, 8.2% is roughly equal to France pre-COVID. When you consider that Valdelobos has no French people, I would say that it is the preferable place to live.
Spain saved us from the horrors of aztec society
@@a15godzilla This is has nothing to do with anything, wtf?
@@a15godzilla who?
the "looking up at the sky" gag might be the hardest I've laughed at any of these videos. great job
3 things:
1) I love the energy on display here: running through hordes of people trying to kill you and blandly counting them all
2) wow, I forgot how brown this game was
3) however, Leon? still hot, what can I say? There was a reason I always liked watching my brothers play this game when I was younger despite having no interest in playing it and it was because I had a crush on Leon.
the editing on this one especially cracked me up multiple times. all the guys rushing through the door with their employment graphics was top notch
FYI, concerning the merchant, his eyes light up red at night, indicating he is a Ganado, indicating he lives in the village. He also owns lakeside property in the village. Pretty clear he lives there.
4:07 - "But like this guy... he's got nothin'! He's walkin' around just, like, pretendin' to be somebody" - So... he's employed as a manager?
My only potential point of contention is that the two guys hanging out in the derelict building with sticks of dynamite may have been there to demolish those buildings as part of their employment. Excellent work as always though, really getting to the bottom of the big questions we’ve all been wondering.
Absolutely insane that people keep commenting thinking dynamite is how we demolish residential buildings
@@any_austin to be fair, dynamite is sometimes used in extrajudicial demolition projects. in fact, that is actually how i renovated my local police department
@Any Austin Maybe not... but it would be a lot cooler if we did use dynamite, just sayin
@@any_austin it is, rural Spain is built different 🧨
@@any_austin they're also in a mining town where dynamite may be necessary for mining
I seriously need a game where you're not only trying to survive, but you're actively figuring out the unemployment rate of the area you're trying to survive in. You get the best ending if you could successfully determine the unemployment rate. The thing is: the final rate is randomized, so you can't cheat. Good luck.
There's no unemployment if everyone's dead.
@@Eidenhoek there’s also no employment :)
Papers Please is the closest I can think of but that’s more immigration than employment
@@healgoth Except there isn’t really a twist.
That sounds like a cosmic horror plot.
The conclusion that all those people are employed and work in a bear-trap factory was amazing.
I would love to see one of these on the city of Vivec in morrowind. Partially because it's huge and horrible to navigate and partially because the employment status is just horrible.
Absolutely agree
Iirc Morrowind has a higher npc count than obliv or skyrim, so he should just do the whole game, I’m curious now
Yesssss please do some in Morrowind! Even if you've not played it before it's easy to get to the main cities as a new character and survey their population, plus interesting questions about whether the various Telvani wizards are self-employed or unemployed. But do make sure you get a mod that delays the Dark Brotherhood attacks, or they'll just inflate your numbers.
In morrowind profession is tied to the NPCs class and the only one that seems to be unemployed is the Pauper class.
Worth noting,
Depending on the church, a lot of maintenance is done by volunteers, meaning they aren't employed there.
Remember to be extra discerning for future churches to make sure that the only ones being counted as employed are the hired professionals, and not just some charitable volunteer :^)
This joke comes up every playthrough and I'm glad someone actually got the numbers. Thank you for your service.
I'm shocked it's actually really good! Both compared to games and real life
I agree with most of your decisions, but I actually think the guys at the run down houses could have actually been demolition workers preparing to demolish the houses. I can't wait to see more. These vids are always great.
Same with the people pushing the boulder too tbh. Physically keeping unwanted guests off private property sounds like security guards to me
Every time the employment checkmark comes up and plays the jingle It releases a small amount of dopamine in my brain.
I'm glad you counted the merchant twice because there are at LEAST two of him. In the area at the top of the cable car you can walk between two merchants who have no load screen between them, and no possible path a single merchant could take to arrive at the other shop before Leon gets to it.
Could they be twins? So it would be a family business then. That could be employing villagers for advertising, ie the rooftop people could be criers to spread the word of the goods that the Merchants twins have.
"it's tough to tell if they're employed...or if they're doing this as a hobby"
"If one of thems a killin axe, then the other one has to be a workin axe"
I feel some of the villagers that you deemed unemployed were in fact employed. It's safe to assume some of them work night shifts (door openers) and were merely enjoying their off time earlier (man standing on rooftop).
Third guy was running late and had to leave for his shift, that’s why he disappeared
The guy on the roof was probably fixing a leak before Leon showed up.
I'd argue that the village has a 100% employment rate by the same argument as the castle. They are all slaves of the Las Plagas parasite, which is more than a full-time position.
I'm guessing that he was repairing the roof. Simple reshingling work.
@@willyeeton4390 but slavery isn’t employment
I might be completely making this up and lying to you, but I’m pretty sure the whole mining village is pretty legit and the reason they have those head critters is because they dug up fossilized Las Plagas.
Huh
@@any_austin When you're in the castle you come across another group of villagers mining up fossilized Las Plagas towards the end of the area. It may be safe to assume they belong to the same mining company and are being contracted to dig up evil head parasites
No, you're legit, that's where they came from. It's a separate mine where they found the fossilized ones, but it would make sense they'd be dredging up the whole region looking for more.
@@any_austin huh
Elon Musk's fathers mining business was also 'legit' btw
Thing I love most about this is your dry humor committing to the bit sprinkled with your genuine(?) gasps in between. Underrated comedy right here. I hope you keep doing these!
I absolutely love this series. Please keep making more videos like this one.
The concept behind these videos, as well as skybox appreciation is genius. You are genuinely one of my favorite creators.
Thanks for being so great
Absolutely loving the *Dry Beurocrat Encounters Hostiles But Is Wholly Dedicated To His Work* thing going on here, very fun to watch.
Off topic but I really recommend gta3 for your odd places series. Been replaying it recently and since it’s the first “true” open world game it’s got some really weird liminal areas.
As someone who has worked for the Census Bureau I can tell you this is an accurate depiction of the enumerator's experience.
I mean the chainsaw guy's official name is Dr. Salvador, so that does imply he's employed, not as a woodworker necessarily but employed nonetheless.
whoa he’s a doctor
It's not a chainsaw, it's clearly an important medical tool.
@@SaraSG1 he's actually a doctor in etymology
I think it implies that he's well educated, not employed
You can be a doctor and not have a job, but anybody who's title is "doctor" implies they have a doctorate
Dr. Salvador is the huge guy with the double chainsaw in Mercenaries mode I think? The regular chainsaw guy is just Chainsaw Man. At least some of the wikis seem to think so.
The part where you put up the markers for the people in “heaven” was freakin hilarious. Laughed for a good 2 minutes. Pretty sure those people are in hell though.
Considering the whole village got brain worm'd, I wouldn't say their behavior towards our enumerator is a useful indicator of afterlife status.
extremely good video
love the various gags, like putting the employed text on the ground next to an item that a dead guy dropped, or the half-second shot of a guy pulling a crank in a cutscene having the employed text, or the 3 guys pushing a boulder instantly being marked unemployed
I love the sound of paper flipping. A truly dedicated worker.
Hey Austin, the people on the 'fishing pier' as you put it were clearly dealing with a snake infestation. You may not agree with their method of using dynamite to exterminate these poor reptiles but unfortunately that still means they are employed.
So they'd light the dynamite... then throw it in the water?
That sounds more like a freelance/volunteer position to me
@@neoselket562 I live in the UK and we consider freelance/self employed employed. I'm sure Spain does as well.
@@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Snakes are very sensitive to changes in air pressure so the dynamite is less for extermination and more for leading them out of the water and hopefully out of the area.
I'm pretty sure the gentleman at 2:30 is the town roof inspector, but due to OSHA regulations, he can't chase you because that would require unsafely climbing down a ladder.
I have a theory that the merchant just puts on an Australian accent to sound exotic, like 'come I have RARE imports from down under!' but its just stuff he got from the next town over
Standing on decrepit neighborhoods with dynamite sticks is a very popular tradition in Spain just so you know
The idea of Leon or whatever his name is as an exasperated bureaucrat just trying to survey employment numbers of a bunch of murderous zombies is absolutely comical 😂
This is still the most entertaining episode of this series to me, the bureau should really endanger their enumerators more often.
I don’t know how I discovered your channel, but I now love watching your skybox and unemployment videos.
7:11 it could be a local tourist attraction- “Come to Valdelobos, and get crushed by a big boulder! You’ll have a smashing good time!”
best series on youtube. you play this character so well, it's an absolute delight to watch.
I absolutely love these unemployment videos! I've been showing them to everyone I know, and I think you've really hit on a uniquely funny concept. If I might offer some other suggestions, here are a few video game settings that you might find entertaining to look at:
-Red Dead Redemption 1 or 2 - many towns and cities with lots of funny people walking around.
-Deus Ex (2000), or even the newer ones (Human Revolution and Mankind Divided) - they all have hub cities with lots of colorful characters. The Hell's Kitchen setting for original Deus Ex, Detroit for Human Revolution, or of course Prague for Mankind Divided. Looking at Detroit might be fun too if you have any current data on Detroit's unemployment now, for a potentially fun point of comparison to see how future Detroit fared in the game :-).
-The Monkey Island Games! Lots of colorful characters with interesting jobs to explore across a bunch of fake Caribbean island.
-The Dishonored games, either Dunwall or Karnaca.
-Assassin's Creed games - they all have huge cities with lots of people walking around. Might be too daunting, but it might also be hilarious in considering all the old historical jobs that used to exist that we don't have now.
Looking forward to the next video in your unemployment series!
The looking up to heaven 30 people employed bit was genius. Well done.
“wooo my goodness, this does not look… like the type of place employed-people hang out”
This was stellar. This does make me want to have a videogame where you do have to be a professional enumerator in a fantasy/horror world. But you gotta figure out their jobs. You can try to be nice and talk to everyone and interview. But sime locals may be more resistant. You had to fight some vampire? In that pile of ashes from them, gou find a nametag. You know who has a nametag on? Employed people. About to shoot someone? Hey, they have a hard hat and tool belt on. EMPLOYED!
Like a different take on viscera cleanup duty, you are just doing your job.
That would actually be a hilarious, and if done well, really fun game, you get bonuses after each job of how well and accurate you enumerated.
This really wasn't the next installment I expected, but it was the next installment I needed without knowing. I eagerly await the next one.
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I've appreciated since the Majora's Mask episode how you do depth perception and perspective with the Employed/Unemployed pop-ups. Laughed out loud at 12:51 when the pop-up was in reverse at the camera cut, and 16:01 when it's angled.
Five days of research well spent
Phenominal.
On a side note, man this brings memories back. It was such a terrifying game for me on my first playthrough, it took me over 16 hours to make it through my first time.
God bless this channel. I found u recently and it’s freaking hilarious. I laughed throughout pretty much the whole thing.
I can't explain why but this has become my comfort video. Keep up the good work, enumerator man
thanks
This is really unique content. You're killing it with something I can't find anywhere else on UA-cam. Good job.
This is the best one yet. I'm thoroughly enjoying this census.
I think your plan to count those at the dock as just as employed as the other villagers makes sense. It didn't appear to be a place of work, however it also didn't seem like a place where 20 people, all of which are unemployed would be gathered all together. They were likely citizens who may or may not have a job, enjoying a pond in their town.
I watched the entire episode on the TV with my business suit and vest on! Merry Christmas, friends, and thank you Austin for corresponding with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, may the bureaucracy be with you. P.S. And happy memories of the United States Geological Survey these holidays.
please more of this, it scratches the itch in my brain so good
I would have never known zombies could be gainfully employed and working towards a goal of advancing their society. I would like to know these statistics for Breath of the Wild villages like Hateno Village, Kakariko Village, Lurelin, Gerudo Town, Rito Village. Not the moblin and bokoblin camps. And, Austin, I'd like to know where you buy your pants. 😆😅🤣😂
i appreciate your use of legitimate sociological phenomenon in this series, namely the "two axe axiom." hundreds of studies have definitively proven that, for each person carrying two axes, one is a killin' axe and the other is a workin' axe. very cool of you to pull from real world knowledge to make this video!
I love these videos. Calculating unemployment in video games is one of the most original and absurd ideas I’ve heard, and it’s executed so well 😂
this is a truly ingenious way to get me to watch yet another RE4 playthrough with a fun spin. Kudos
That backup enumerator really didn’t seem to be pulling her weight
This is such a clever idea for a series, I genuinely love watching this. You should do Yharnam from Bloodborne next!
Easily my favorite video. Unfortunately or fortunately the difficulty of acquiring data and the snap decision (alongside the justification) are the best parts of these. Thank you for making it!
Your videos give me an inexplicable feeling of distress, keep up the great work!
Damn, this is a rough nieghborhood. You should ask for a raise...from the dead at least
"Tell you what if I'm wearing the wrong pants I'll 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 walking" Austin noooo lmao
the ✅EMPLOYED checkmarks in the heavens was a glorious punchline
i rewatch the whole series of videos on unemployment regularly but this one has to be my favorite, "unfortunately the citizens of this town really hate the bureau of labor statistics" and the calm discussion of someone's employment interrupted by the enumerator going "aah!" when he's attacked is so funny
You gotta keep your killin axe and your workin axe separate. I cannot stress this enough
2:50 - Not only does that guy work in construction; he's also a doctor.
I adore this series. Really love using the game to do the survey. Could look at a wiki page with a table, but nah, this is way funnier.
I like how non-judgemental you were about the guy with a chainsaw.
Great work. There may be some issues regarding previous census data of the area. Ill be looking forward to those tps reports.
"These are probably *BANG* the butlers for the mansion up here." cracked me up for some reason 😂
you should definitely consider streaming your research, id love it if you streamed yourself counting/acting as an investigator into various video games. Like a construction/arechiteactural consultant in dead space, or an agricultural investigator in star wars knights of the old republic
No way! I just played this game and thought about how weird the environments felt compared to newer games. Glad you are playing it for us!
The environments are illogical, but that didn't stop this game from being a masterpiece
Please keep doing these videos. Skyboxes too. Recently discovered your channel and really hope you rise in popularity.
I absolutely adore these unemployment rate videos! Would love to see you do Mafia Town or one of the other levels from A Hat in Time next! :)
Diamond City in Fallout 4 might be a good option for further videos since it's a popular game and the people there are easy to count. It would be up to your interpretation if Synths count as citizens of the city if they are working for someone else like the Institute.
New vegas is a must. Are the kings an employer?
Loved this video, the attention to detail in these is incredible, super excited to see you tackle this in more games!
Thank you for putting yourself in harm's way to collect these highly valuable statistics.
This is the most challenging bureau assignment yet
Thank you Any Austin, the world is now a far better place with this video in it.
This is my favorite series on youtube. Keep it up.
I think your method of counting undecided individuals is effectively a more complicated way of not counting them
To note, he's including them as part of the populace without them affecting the employment percentage. So that might matter in the context of how long/sustainable the economy is (that is, whether or not 100 people or 10 people are employed is different, regardless of if both have 10% unemployment.)
Hahaha
Chainsaw Man's name in the original English PS2 localization is "Dr. Salvador" so I think it's safe to say he's employed in that version
26:34 Yeah, its a joke that she is unemployed, but the fact that she is in college actually would have bearing on real-world labor statistics. Since she is pursuing college education and is not seeking work, she wouldn't be counted as either unemployed or employed even if she was a resident of the evil village just like how a retired person or a child wouldn't be unemployed.
Another fantastic installment to my favorite series of yours!