It's the kind of junkyard where you can find Clint from LGR rummaging around in old stock hardware and consult him about vintage computer design sensibilities to own your commenters.
The DX:HR police station thing was actually addressed in the director's cut by the dev commentary. So, they originally intended a much more open game with a chaos system. Even your workplace wasn't supposed to be safe (in the final game, you cannot draw your weapons in that area). They wanted a game where the player could go full bersek and play out the consequences. This was eventually scrapped but the police station is a remnant of the original idea. You were supposed to be punished for slaughtering the cops by the chaos system but it got removed. What's left of it is that in the ending cutscene Jensen says a different line depending on your chaos rating.
@@SSFhighcommandJOHN Not that I know of. No one has ever done a detailed breakdown on how to specifically get the high chaos ending. You tend to get it, if you always go in guns blazing. HOWEVER, it's possible to completely clear out multiple levels and still don't get it. So, it might be tied to a combination of quest outcomes rather than a bodycount. Like, whether you sacrificed Josie Thorpe to kill Zeke, killed Sandoval or talked him down etc. The specific trigger is unknown, though, I think.
Aka the game was supposed to have inherited some RPG elements like choices and consequences, and WE NEVER GOT IT?!? NOT EVEN IN MANKIND DIVIDED??😢 I mean MD at least returned some immersive Sim elements from classic, like how in MD Adam Jensen can finally throw potted plans at NPC's but man HR and MD could've been even better 😭
47:47 It's a shame because MD is an upgrade compared to HR, in terms of gameplay at least, the story and lore is still just... It's not DX1, for all it's faults at least Invisible War did feel a bit like DX game but the prequels are just, idk man 😢
@@YDwelve I use Ross's videos to fall asleep some nights, and I've woken up to that video more than once and it's always both refreshing and horrible at the same time
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire at present he's not wrong but I don't even think he believes he's entirely right he's got a point as he said it's all in the fog who's to say how shit goes things need fixing that we can agree
It's funny that you got stuck at that part of Mankind Divided. I did too. It's because the game isn't actually telling you what it's forcing you to do. Basically your system is unstable, and it's making you disable augs to demonstrate that feature. It doesn't tell you but you're supposed to go to the deactivation mode, select an aug, and then it lets you disable it. It's a horrendous oversight.
22:53 It's funny you should mention studio-owned theaters and the law that caused that to all end, since....uh...literally JUST yesterday a federal judge granted the U.S. Government's request to end the Paramount Decrees. ie THOSE EXACT ANTITRUST RULES. So yeah. Good timing on that analogy
She overturned it because she basically felt the decrees were far too specific to studios that don't even exist anymore and with no consideration to future technologies or changing consumer demands, such as streaming. The hope is that these sorts of things can move into regular antitrust channels rather than being dependant on this specific decree. Which is a good idea in theory to standardize the regulation, but in practice I think companies are going to try and take full advantage of it and antitrust is going to conveniently ignore them. Repealing the decree without putting together a proper updated replacement is just going to end in disaster for the consumer. However a federal judge doesn't have that sort of power so the choice became either leaving this very outdated decree, which has honestly been mostly useless anyways in recent time, or repeal it and hope new cases that relate to it get sent through more proper channels to be newly ruled on. It basically opens the door to new rulings over these sorts of modern problematic practices if people can manage to put together a solid case. Whether they will or not is another story and dependant on how competent the related administrations are, which I have little faith in right now. I think the judge made the right choice purely as a judge but at the same time a bad one in terms of consumer law.
@@KaiserTom At least there's a sunset for some of the more extreme situations like studios buying stakes in theaters, so it's not total doom and gloom. But my main concern with relying on broader antitrust laws for the entertainment industry is that there's no good way to measure things like market allocation or what counts as price fixing. Or for example, the Fox-Disney acquisition didn't trigger certain merger rules because post-merger they remained "under 50% market share", but what is even the definition of market share in an industry where a $100 million project can lose money and a $100,000 project can make millions, and it's not even clear how those successes and failures reflect on the studios? These companies are poised to run circles around regulators.
@32:00 - Actually, this reminds me of a story from reddit where the owner of a car dealership died and it turned out that he owned his rival dealership. The management of both dealerships didn't have a clue until he passed away and since the two companies had been such bitter rivals, they never bothered to look at the upper management of their opponent's company. They had spent over a decade bad mouthing each other, smear campaigns, derogatory radio adverts, etc. The owner had apparently been doing all of it because it amused him. The moral of the story: never underestimate bored rich people, or humanity in general.
How did they know he did it "because it amused him" if they didn't even know he did it? Rivalry is an excellent way to motivate people thus improving business which leads to increased profit. The drama surrounding the rivalry likely also caused gossip, because people love drama, so it's a great ad campaign too.
Aww man, I had just heard about it's existence! Wikipedia, _United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc:_ On November 18, 2019, the DOJ announced it would seek to terminate the Paramount Decrees, which would include a two-year sunset period as to the practices of block booking and circuit dealing to allow theater chains to adjust. The Department stated it was "unlikely that the remaining defendants can reinstate their cartel" as reasoning for terminating the decrees. [...] The move was opposed by independent movie theater owners, including the Independent Cinema Alliance, and independent filmmakers. The court granted the DOJ's motion to lift the decrees on August 7, 2020, starting a two-year sunset termination period of the decrees.
@@nibblrrr7124 Society really is never going back to normal... The sooner we all embrace the new normal and realize the dystopian future is on the horizon the better.
@@nibblrrr7124 "Let's give the death ray back to the supervillan's grandson, he's unlikely to figure out how to use it" "Let's make it legal for civilians to own rocket launchers, they are unlikely to use them for crime" "Let's decriminalize slavery, the compassionate CEOS, and benevolent corporations are unlikely to enslave people"
@@planescaped fuck that, the best option is to reject modernity entirely and embrace more traditional aspects of life. We break technology's - not just media, all technology's - grip on us, we break the system.
Ooooh I winced when you mentioned that surely business owners would know who owned them... well did you know that Fox News once sued The Simpsons for spoofing them and it wasn't until they already spent a whole bunch of legal fees did somebody point out that the Simpsons were owned by Fox Entertainment? As British comedian and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop put it, it was like Murdoch suing Murdoch and all that was accomplished was he lost a huge stack of money. NEVER underestimate corporate incompetence
Or when a review by Total Biscuit (RIP) on _DuckTales: Remastered_ got content claimed by Disney, while TB was working for a Disney owned multi-channel network.
Our ancestors from the caves would’ve said the same, and they didn’t have anybody to tell them what to do when they’re outside! Those people who do probably gotten eaten by the bats in the cave by now and are the reason we still have this global pandemic, cursed humans...
Dogs are color-blind in the legal, "human" sense of color-blind; which is to say, they do not have access to the 3 primary colors that humans have access to. They only have access to 2 primary colors, and it's a pale imitation, but they do see _some_ color.
@@MrGeorgeFlorcus Colour blind technically means that you don't see the same colours as everyone else (there are many different types of colour blindness)
A New Beginning: The green running man exit signs in the game, while created by Yukio Ota in 1979, were not put into wide usage until 1987-ish at the earliest outside of Japan.
@@fireflocs and capitalist "democracy" has given corporations so much power that they can lobby the national legislature to change policy at a whim. pretty hellish
56:07 Of course! When the Combine invaded the Earth, they managed to reduce the sea levels by more than 20 feet. I'm voting for Wallace Breen in this upcoming election.
One more thing about the effect of Global Warming on the ocean, water ability to dissolve gases is tied to its temperature, the warmer it is the less gas it can dissolve, which means hotter waters have less oxygen in it, this also ties up to the feedback loops
@@SPTX. The chemistry of bubbles appearing in a glass of water that reaches room temperature? That's the same effect. As water gets warmer it releases gasses trapped inside of it. That's a fact.
@@infinitesquarez I noticed I had misunderstood the meaning of "disolving" (apparently it doesn't mean exactly the same thing in english than in my language), anyway we're still far away from the apocalypse you're all predicting. www.ramp-alberta.org/river/water+sediment+quality/chemical/temperature+and+dissolved+oxygen.aspx Water has to reach boiling temperature to release all of its oxygen, we aren't getting boiling oceans anythime unless the sun find its way over here. Even if global warming was a thing, only the surface of oceans could ever be warmed, this isn't nearly enough to kill anything. It's also perfectly natural for water to release some oxygen, it's part of the life cycle you know. Ever heard of clouds? Don't you want rain? www.scienceshorts.com/how-are-clouds-made/
Considering he is willing to dedicate entire episodes to addressing incorrect assumptions, wrong information, or newly discovered information, I think Ross's Game Dungeon might be one of the most honorable news shows on the internet.
I wouldn't call Ross's Game Dungeon a news show. The game dungeon videos themselves are video essays on individual games, and topics/circumstances that surround them. I am tempted to call them 'reviews', because I feel that's closer to accurate, but the purpose isn't overarchingly to state the quality of the experience, but to educate viewers on entries in the gaming world that would most likely never be discussed (in the way he does) in any other significant gaming media.
- Dad, why is my sister named Rose? - Because your mother likes roses. - Thanks, dad. - You're welcome, Ross' Game Dungeon Follow Up Part 3. I still like this meme.
Ross, if the oceans acidify and our planet becomes a big desert, I'll follow your post apocalyptic band no matter what happens, just make sure to leave contact info so we can start up Ross's Game Bunker.
To echo your point around 55:00 mark, yes the ocean acidification and the climate change should have a different name and is a much more immediate and serious problem than most people realize right now. Worst of all, recent studies also connected all of this to previous extinction events, including the one that dinosaurs perished from, suggesting that ocean acidification was responsible for most ocean life disappearing AND we seem to have released same amount of CO2 during the industrial age as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. That'll sure go well for us....
You're forgetting the 2 to 3 million years of near continuous volcanic eruption from a volcanic chain across Asia that predated the asteroid that brought the death blow to the dinosaurs, and it's going to take us about 10 million years to pump the same amount of stuff into the atmosphere as those volcanoes did. Also the whole acidification killing off all live in the oceans is utter insanity; not only is there life still in the ocean, so clearly not all life died out, but there is large predator life in the ocean that existed virtually unchanged back then; so they're prey must also have survived in large enough numbers for them to keep eating them. The whole doomsday scenario coming in no time at all, is just bullshit, essentially ways to get clicks and clout, and to virtue signal. All the green folks have basically already admitted they're not in it to save the planet, to them it's about destroying capitalism and instituting socialism. Just look at their so-called solution to the climate and energy crisis: biomass. Also known as cutting down entire forests and burning them. In fact, desertification is more likely coming locally from cutting down forests and burning them, and then not replanting the trees because sand lizards migrating into the new desert landscape counts as 'more biodiversity' for that species didn't live there before and thus the companies get millions in subsidies for 'increasing biodiversity'. Neat, huh?
@name name > The sun has way more of an effect on the planet The effect of the sun on the planet is influenced by the level of greenhouse gases, hence why they're called greenhouse gasses. > the CO2 is offset by freshwater injection from melting icecaps Not only is that not even remotely true, "melting icecaps" is something you really, really don't want as a solution. > the cooling effect also cools the planet This becomes less and less true as the planet warms up, causing the cooling effect to become less and less useful. And the planet is warming up. > higher rate of gas exchange pushing the CO2 back into the atmosphere Why would CO2 being pushed back into the atmosphere be a good thing? It's a greenhouse gas. > higher rate of evaporation and the rain/CO2 is processed by trees when trees absorb CO2, the C is kept by the tree. Trees, however, don't last forever. When they break down naturally they that C as CH4 + CO2, which are both greenhouse gasses. When they break down unnaturally (because of us), they release that C as CH4 + CO2. When trees burn, they release that C as CO2. When bacteria eats into trees, they release CH4. When people and animals eat plants, we release their content as CH4 + CO2. This is also true of all plants. A lot of forests are actually emitting so much CH4/CO2 that we have to consider *removing* them because the trees are releasing so much methane that they're competing with cows. Some of these trees emit so much methane that you can actually stick a pipe into them, and it will create a flamethrower.* Trees aren't a solution to greenhouse gases, they're more like batteries. You can only have so many batteries, and the flammability of those batteries also rises as climate change worsens, increasing the likelihood they'll just release all the carbon stored in them right back into the environment. > Get f-en rekt loser. Are you 12? * Don't do this, this is how you get forest fires.
Don't know if anyone already made timestamps but here they are anyway 1:23 Battleforge 11:29 Darkspore & Lakeview Cabin 25:53 Bitejacker 26:45 Deus Ex 31:01 Deus Ex: Invisible War 32:34 Deus Ex: Human Revolution 48:45 A New Beginning 1:00:08 Rama
10:05 I started super-imposing music citations off to the side on the screen in my videos whenever a new track plays to get people to stop asking that. Edit: The day after I posted this, I got a comment from someone asking for the music at a timecode in one of my videos. I clicked the timecode that they gave me to see which part they were asking about. It took me straight to the part where I had already displayed the name of the music in question. I imagine I would still receive comments from people asking for the music even if I uploaded clips from the movie "Dog Day Afternoon"
And I thank you for that, it’s hard enough to make content without people asking you in the comments about what music you’re using without people asking about the songs because they were too lazy to read the description.
I appreciate your dedication to preserving games, missing a holiday is no joke and I look forward to hearing more about your future plans for preserving games. I hadn't even thought about Microsoft adding new DirectX support to new versions of Windows. I feel like cloud gaming will eventually replace consoles, but there will always be a market for pc games. The rise of Linux with general support for games provides a possible stable platform for conservation of older games. Taking about medium term apocalypse scenarios is a nightmare, we lack the sustainability as a society to continue even into the next couple of decades. Great episode!
Man, I love that you'll talk about literally anything that interests you in your videos and you always find a way to make it incredibly interesting. It doesn't matter if I didn't come to a Deus Ex video thinking I'd hear your predictions on future disaster, because you present it in such an interesting way that you've made me interested!
Ross is a youtube OG and honestly one of my favourite show hosts both on and off the platform. You come for the videogames, but you stay for the RossRant™.
32:03 The manager at the grocery store I worked at didn't know we were owned by the same company who our union was connected with, Miner's Inc. He thought Miner's was using the union to bring down the store. People are stupid. And even if the coffeeshop manager isn't stupid, in the Deus Ex dystopia, if the company didn't want it to be known that they owned both stores, letting them publically sue each other in a confusing and pointless case to keep up that look, they could probably hide the truth from their franchise employees.
No, two local franchise managers unaware that each business is owned by the same parent company and going to outrageous lengths to one up one another sounds perfectly believable to me. I can imagine some small business owners I've met doing this even if they did know that they were owned by the same company just to add a bit more black to their store's accounting.
God, Ross had so close to a good point there, then he started saying a monopoly is the endgame of capitalism. that's one of the wrongest things you can say, and it's downright sickening. That's up there with the human extinction movement.
A bunch of football players can come play football on a baseball field as much as they want, it's still a baseball field. Instead of going "man I hate Baseball, it always ends with people throwing a football around" you can try to evict the fucks in the shoulder pads. Of course you'll fail, they're bigger than you. but you'll be right.
@@KairuHakubi you right. Fascism is endgame of capitalism, not some puny monopoly. Right of property is just construct that working only while the rest of society recognizes your right to own something. And as the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer, the capitalist will have to become more and more inventive in how to "persuade" the rest of society. Up to a direct military dictatorship.
Good news, it's been three years and everything "the science" said about climate change is still a lie, all those "scientists" predictions were wrong, nothing happened, and all they did was falsify their fake models a bit more to push the date out again, which they've literally been doing for 40 years. But sure, keep falling for it, you midwit.
47:00 I'm certainly no aero engineer, but my understanding as an aviation dork is that tilting jet-powered aircraft would be horribly inefficient and risky, with very little practical advantage. Planes with vertical lift devices, from the turbojets in the Yak-38 'Forger' from the 1970s to the lift fan in the F-35B from 2015, have struggled with exhaust or airflow "bouncing" off the ground and back into the engine backwards, which basically stalls fan blades and makes it stop working. Rotor thrust like achieved by the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor turboprop and helicopters create lift/thrust from an open air stream rather than through a more linear engine, and are generally more efficient at low speeds and altitudes than many jet engines anyway.
plus im no areo or engineering expert but it wuld be rather hard to TILT A JET ENGINE PERCISELY on such a small little bar would be ridiculous. the sheer WEIGHT would make it impractical and impossible probably and other than looking nice its an even worse to have JET ENGINES because think about the ground where they LAND. its either gonna get blasted OR if its a rocket thruster itll ROAST THE GROUND and make it require MORE fuel meaning MORE weight and another hose through that tiny bar. really just vauge ideas and correct me if im wrong
@@Ribbons0121R121 Technically the V-22 already uses a jet (turbine) engine, it's a turboprop meaning it uses a turbine engine to turn the propeller, which is better and more efficient than reciprocating (piston) engines like were used in WWII. Turbine engines are fairly lightweight for their size and certainly for their power, which is one reason they're so useful in aircraft and even some tanks. "Jet" technically refers to the means of propulsion rather than engine design, and even then, turbofan engines (which are most jets since the 1980s) get most of their low-speed (generally subsonic) thrust from the fan and not through the turbine engine itself. Exhaust temperatures are a problem encountered with many jet VTOL aircraft though. Most recently some of the Marines' carriers had to be resurfaced to handle the increased exhaust temperatures of the more powerful F-35Bs compared to the older AV-8B Harriers.
@@More_Row Without a doubt. While the V-22's exhaust does provide a small amount of jet thrust, the propeller is obviously the primary means of propulsion. Just wanted to point out that while purely jet tilt-engine VTOLs are cool for a cyberpunk video game, they will probably never exist in real life.
they really hsouldn't have said coming soon about battleforge. I remember the attempts to get City of Heroes back online, and it took nearly a decade. The people doing it made absolutely no promises it would ever work, let alone a timeline for it. Fortunately, City of Heroes got a bit of a boost. Once they had the game more or less running but without any content, one of the developers somehow, totally accidentally, and in no way on purpose, managed to leak a huge amount of the server code directly to the people heading up City of Heroes' private server creation. So yeah, even with all that it still took a huge amount of time. Edit: Oh yeah, I hsould specifically point out that city of heroes is an MMO. So it will always rely on servers to play, unlike battleforge which really should never hvae them in the first place.
Regarding Human Evolution: 1) The game *tried* to make make a point about corrupt companies and organisations that you usually would trust, and how it all apparently related to some secret organisations that control society. But it all felt bland and as you said "Hollywoodised". 2) I... I actually didn't know you could just kill everybody, and now that I know that I would it to be an actual way to play a game and the story would develop around that.
@@SPTX. Its a great game in its own right, with great story telling as well. The problem is as Ross pointed out, its not its own game. It is set within the Deus Ex universe, and because of that is rail-roaded by past games due to the issues already explored and touched upon. If all Human Revolution did was rehash Deus Ex it'd get flak for that. It is also for that reason it never reached the 3rd level (34:56), since we more or less already know everything that is going to happen because this is a prequel of all things. The writing has to strike that balance between originality and staying honest and true to the original work without butchering the continuity between games.
@@SPTX. Deus Ex is actually a really shitty game by modern standards. No autosave, esoteric default settings and stiff/clunky gameplay. Anybody accustomed to modern design will be immediately turned off and likely never get passed the first level. Human Revolution, on the other hand, holds your hand through the tutorial, saves frequently for you and has automated many gameplay mechanics into single press actions. Simply put, old games were a pain in the ass to play and nobody misses it.
I almost love the follow-up episodes more than the regular Game Dungeon content, but only because it proves that Ross is not a deranged superbeing hooked up to a decaying Pentium 90, transmitting his reactions to old games to us through the majesty of the internet.
I mean, I'd almost say they make a stronger point about him being deranged superbeing hooked up to a decaying Pentium 90. But bless him for doing his best.
Ross, I'm up to the "A New Beginning" section and your version of optimism is terrifying. I might be wrong because I don't remember Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that much but it looked like you had to deactivate a power you already have, not pick a new one.
"Hey, did Anna Navarre explode in the hallway again?" "Sir... yes, I'm afraid so, sir..." "goddamn it.. Get a bucket and scoop her up and bring her in my office - we're going to have words!'
I’m completely certain that the “Sonic” game he’s going to review will be a trick and it’ll be some obscure game from when before Sonic the Hedgehog even existed.
Ross, has anyone ever told you that your voice is really captivating? I get the sense that you tell stories often, and usually transfix an entire room of people while you're at it.
46:48 In the 1960s there was the EWR VJ 101: 2 rotatable engine nacceles with 2 engines each + 2 additional lift engines in the fuselage. It worked, but it just wasn't feasible and here is one simple reason why: if one of the outer engine fails below a certain airspeed, that's it. Imbalanced thrust will turn the plane over, the engines don't react fast enough to rebalance the thrust (assuming you have god-like reflexes) and there is barely enough time to even eject. The V-22 Osprey doesn't have that problem, because both rotors are connected via a shaft. If one engine fails, both rotors keep running with decreased power. This simply doesn't work with jet engines. So, technically it has been proven to work almost 60 years ago. In practice it's still incredibly unsafe and tilt rotor aircraft are the better alternative.
The Bell Model 65, a mutant conglomeration of a Schweizer 1-23 glider, Cessna 170, and Bell 47 along with two Fairchild J44 turbojets, first flew in late 1954 and relied only on its two tilting jet engines for flight. Bell came to the conclusion that there's no need to tilt the whole engine when you can just change the vector of thrust, something the British also concluded around the same time with their "Flying Bedstead" prototype. This concurrent focus on vectoring thrust led to development of the Bell X-14 in 1957, Hawker Siddeley P.1127 Kestrel in 1960, the Harrier GR.1 in 1967 and the abortive (though cool looking) Rockwell XFV-12A in 1977.
I originally wanted to make it even lighter, but the episode was just getting too long, so that will have to wait until Followup 4. This was sort of a "get all the serious stuff out of the way so I don't have to bring it up again" episode for me. The next Game Dungeons I have planned will be way more fun.
@@Accursed_Farms the microsoft stuff was fascinating but when you got to Deus Ex and New Beginning, it was like not only do you have to swallow one big pill but the next big pill is a suppository. love your vids though.
One could also say that Deus Ex showed that common thugs and criminals could use a crisis to justify their actions with revolutionary fervor (JoJo Fine and the NSF); something I've heard a lot coming from the Status Quo right lately regarding the current protests...
@Smattless My grandfather got loaded into a meat truck along with thousands of my fellow new yorkers but yeah, sure, it's a scam. keep telling yourself that
@@hockseng5245 Judging by the fact that he was your grandfather, I conjecture he was of advanced age. This is something that about 99% of the virus victims have in common.
You know, after watching your Deus Ex video, I ended up asking my uncle who's a raw materials trader about peak oil. From what I remember, he said it was more complicated than "oil runs out and we all die", and by most measures we had already passed peaked oil a while ago. He also sent me a mail with a long report on oil in geopolitics, that has been sitting at the bottom of my inbox for years. I'm thinking of reading it now and posting the tldr on the forum.
Interesting! AFAIU, yeah, "resource exhaustion" is not as straightforward as it's usually portrayed. Is the report public? If so, I'd love to look through it myself. (Not that I wouldn't be also interested in your TL;DR.
There also tends to be fudging of what "available" means. I heard that all the doom saying about how "we're running out of oil" really meant "We're running out of EASILY ACCESSABLE oil". Like there's still oil, but will be a lot harder to obtain. It's sort of like diamonds have an inflated value due to marketing and secret hording. Mean while there's a planet literally made out of diamond. Granted we'll most likely never reach there.
Well I posted the latest oil news on the Accursed Farms forum. The tldr is, production infrastructure is severely underfunded, demand keeps rising, and we're in for a major oil shock before 2022.
1:22 - Battleforge 11:27 - Darkspore 11:35 - Lakeview Cabin (includes talk on Microsoft messing with PC gaming) 25:53 - Bitejacker 26:45 - Deus Ex 31:02 - Deus Ex: Invisible War 32:34 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution (aka Punch-Out!!) 48:45 - A New Beginning 1:00:09 - Rama 1:06:10 - Outro (Buzzer!)
Ross could add these to the description (along with a 0:00 time stamp), such that UA-cam recognizes that and adds video chapters (see: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en ).
Does anyone remember the Lakeview Cabin episode, though? I don't, and it's not in the Game Dungeon playlist, nor does it pop up if you search it on the channel. Is it even real? Is he messing with us? Is it an episode he recorded but never released?
"I think some people are so used to skipping over the credits, that they've forgotten what their original purpose is" I'd 100% believe it... Also I remember back in highschool saying to my friends how the launch of the X-box was going to do exactly what you said it did to PC gaming. They didn't believe me... Except I didn't even know the half of how bad it would actually be. >__> That whole spiel was a real trip down memory lane for 12th grade me... Also there is no way the writers of Human Revolution intended to depict augmentations as a metaphor for college degrees.
For all we know it was purposely dumbed-down. I don't see too many "smart" entertainment anymore, although they are probably out there and I'm not seeing them. When I first played Human Revolution I instantly thought the characters and story were "Hollywood smart", that is, giving off an aura of trying to be intelligent writing but being hokey in the end. I can't explain what it is exactly but characters and scripts like that send off a notification in my mind that it's irritating and trying to be something it isn't. It just isn't smart!
I would absolutely believe people being trained to skip the credits. Hell I know people that search up the plot for a movie they've never seen whilst they're watching it. I have no idea why.
@@pentelegomenon1175 no they changed the plot retroactively the writting isn't good in either case given augs being oppressed is really dumb given pacemakers exist
@Accursed Farms: There's this small game that explores that theme of how media influences the public's perception of the world. It was made by the creator of "Papers, Please." Lucas Pope, It was called "Republia Times"
I remember a few moments from DXHR which to me prove the writers definitely didn't even try to go for the quality of writing of the original Deus Ex. The first one is when you get to the secret basement in the Picus TV headquarters, which is used as an Illuminati media center to control the flow of information to the media. The place is fully decorated, with illuminati symbols on the walls, and the whole MJ12 hand and globe structure standing proudly in the entrance lobby. Kind of like the MJ12 labs under VersaLife, but even more flamboyant. Now, where it gets really silly is when you look through the employees' emails. There's an email chain that can be summed up to "Hey, I'm going to sound crazy, but things are kind of weird around here, do you think maybe we're working for some shadowy people ? Haha just kidding, forget it man", stretched over about ten emails. Of course, the guy who supposedly writes this walks by the MJ12 sculpture and the illuminati wall decorations every morning, but he's probably not too bright. Another one, is when you find a message written by Bob Page addressed to the CEO of Tai Yong Medical. The message is written in l33t 5p34k, maybe in an attempt to "encrypt" it ? Bob Page is supposed to have written this. This is so out of character for him, that the moment I saw that I was convinced the writers didn't know what they were doing.
The F-35B has a rotating jet engine, although it technically "only" rotates the nozzle. Not to mention the Harrier and all the prototypes that have been around since the 70s.
You know when you call in Clint from LGR you're annoyed enough to bring the freakin' hammer down. IDK what people are defending with that point and click adventure game, even if you wanted to say "LCDs existed then" which, they were rare, very rare and expensive... Given that you're trying to SELL THE LOOK of a game that takes place in that time period, why wouldn't they go with an aesthetic that will SHOW that? Resident Evil 2 takes place in 1998, most of the stuff in the Police Dept looks like it's from the era. Some things are exaggerated but, it works. The underground facility? Yeah, sci-fi land, but that was always the goal for that game. They weren't trying to sell you the era when the OG launched or the remake, at that point they're trying to show how advanced the company is. But as far as the station is concerned? They really went out of their way to show "This is the 90s" and it wouldn't have been hard for them to do that here either. Likely the game hired an artist that didn't know, or it wasn't the goal to care by the creators which Ross is right to call them out on.
I study game art, and I'm the kind of guy who wants every design choice to make sense and be authentic, you wouldn't believe how many people just say "It doesn't matter, the player doesn't care." Or get upset at you for "nitpicking." This is where I wish I had the power of someone like Steve Jobs and could just force people to bend to my will.
Not only that but that oceanic research station was failing miserably fanancially and probably wouldn't have had thousands of "80's" dollars to spend on a personal computer...
I agree with what you're saying, but tbf Resident Evil 2 came out the year in which it's based right? It's a _lot_ easier to get things right when you just make them modern. Or even if everything isn't modern, it still makes sense because it's stuff that could still exist. This game didn't have the current time to use as a reference, though I think they could have easily done a little bit more research. It's not like it came out before the internet or something.
@@KedViper I'm referring to Resident Evil 2 REMAKE, they even managed to keep things within the time period. The lab is a whatever thing since that's supposed to be a hyper advanced facility. I thought one thing was off, a USB key but apparently USB was around in 1998.
@@evieisleavie Oh yeah, totally. Computers then were wildly expensive. I think upwards of 3,500 for a 'normal home desktop'. Tie in inflation and other things you might need like, you know a HDD which would be WILDLY expensive then. But, we can also assume they had those before hand.
24:31 come on Ross, you know better than anyone "the King" always been here, he's just a little fragmented. So yeah, a lot of companies is above the law and some people too.
37:05 I guess just like someone destroying the entirety of Chicago is still an "invisible war", the future is just kinda forgiving I guess. Either that or Sarif Industries is more powerful than Microfoft, iunno Ross.
43:00 - The stock market is being entirely supported by the Fed. We are in the final stages of a major financial bubble. Do not invest in the stock market at this time.
The entirety of the US and by proxy the world economy, has been blowing a gigantic bubble since WW1 based on loans to the Entante, and then later the allies, and the Marshall aid. The world economy has been built on unbacked loans for the last 100 years.
@@Archangelm127 It workes well enough with an economy growing faster than precious metal reserves, becaise it avoids deflation which would make inwestments very risky propositions, and strangulqte economic growth, the problem is, it takes responsible handlingby those that print the fiat moneynot to significantly outstrip the pace of economic expansion with the amount of currsncy in circulation.Unfortunately the FED proved to not be responsible people, and printed about four times more dollars than the growth of US GDP and inflation can adjust for. This clearly indicates that there os shit in the soup because it should have triggered higher inflation, but collectively everyone has too much to lose by a devalued dollar (most national hard currency reservs being in USD, and all that), so the world had collectively agreed to keep pretending like the economy is doing better than it is. Thankfully, there is such absurd overproduction, that it didnt exactly cause a crippling supply shortage, bzt it may yet result in a hyperinflation, as either the collective lie breaks down, or the growth of the world economy falters, which even without a virus is bound to happen without significant industrialisation of space. I suppose the eventual development of Africa into a first world region will inevitably serve as a final lease on life n the current perpetual growth based economic model, but if we arnt mining asteroids and settling the moon by that point, that will be the hard limitto how long we can keep kixking this problem down the road.
@@dinglepringle1380 I mean yea but , he's right. I mean lost track of time during quarantine and WFH. This might as well be a tuesday, heck it could be December for all I care. Have a nice Tuesday in December bro. And stay safe out...there.
Ah Ross... Starts with a rant about exclusivity deals, ends with staring into the void of existential horror that is cyberpunk style corporate immunity. This sort of thing is why I love your videos. Well that and your weird asides and your bizzare life. I mean what other content creator has contracts on people's souls?
That keyboard slideshow from Cliff was surprisingly nostalgic... didn't think I'd of had so many of them growing up, hahah. The old Gateway2000 and Compaq ones in particular bring back memories.
The thing with the federal reserve is that when it buys bonds during financial crises, they aren't spending taxpayer dollars, they are performing something called "open market operations" which essentially involves crediting money into member banks accounts for assets. Essentially they are printing money to cushion the downturn with, then when the economy stabilizes and they want to decrease the money supply, they will do the opposite, sell bonds for reserve currency then essentially "burn" the money they receive reducing the supply. We were kinda just in the middle of raising interest rates and getting rid of the surplus created from the great recession when this hit, forcing the fed to basically reverse course and start expanding the money supply and trying to float the economy again. It's not exactly sustainable, but it helps cushion the fall from these kind of sudden crashes, then ideally you do the Keynesian thing and do the opposite during expansions to slow the growth and resupply. Our government is kinda bad at the whole expansion step though.
@@valletas Since the advent of fiat currencies, modern economies require some amount of money creation to expand. Having fixed currencies (or, more realistically, currencies pegged to resource extraction) doesn't seem to be very helpful. The risk is always there for hyperinflation (which is why the Fed was created as a separate body which is a public-private partnership with terms offset from presidential administrations, to try to remove monetary policy from politics). And the Fed has been a mixed success, they have had some big crashes under them, but fewer than before the reserve system. And it's certainly more stable than the old state bank system. Though possibly less stable than other central banks. Basically monetary policy is complicated and dangerous, but necessary to reduce the sharp crashes the business cycle and the feedback loop of crisis creates.
@@lonewolfM16 yeah i am still hopefull for the future but man is it going to be though back in the day brazil used to be the biggest producer of coffee in the world and there was a time that demand started to go down but there was too much coffee on the market so prices also started to go down the government didnt like it so they bought a BUNCH and i do mean a BUNCH of coffee to burn it but that backfired because they wasted too much money to buy and burn it and demand just keep going down and the industry never returned to what it was it wasn't that big of a deal but every time i see someone printing money i remember this the chance of not backfiring are way smaller then the chances of it doing
How does that not generate massive inflation from the huge increase in money? Or I suppose for a further, more specific question, how does selling reserve currency then "burn" the money -- isn't it still causing inflation in the global economy (just reducing USD supply), not to mention couldn't it be hard to guarantee anyone wants to buy such bonds if they have hesitancy of US bonds?
@@boneiy Total money supply is only one factor in determining inflation rates, a large part of inflation has to do with expectations for the future and the velocity of money. It's why, when the economy is doing well, we can see increases in inflation without seeing an increase in the money supply. During a financial crash, inflation is generally low, and the point of the fed is basically to pump money into the economy to arrest the death spiral of financial collapse. It is possible to see both inflation and high unemployment (Stagflation being the event that really drove this home) but they are generally opposed. The Fed has two numbers it is really concerned with, the unemployment rate and the inflation rate, and their monetary policy is about influencing interest rates to achieve results with these numbers. Also, when they sell bonds they take money from member banks, in reserve currency (not necessarily physical bills, but money issued by the fed, because most of what we use in the economy is actually created by bank's lending money rather than by the government itself), instead of adding the money to the fed's account, they just delete it. If it were physical, they would burn it, that is destroy it rather than keeping it. Thus a lot of their task is buying assets in bad times by creating new money, then selling them in good times to destroy the money they created so it doesn't create inflation.
While I feel bad for the common man. I can't help but want to see the guys with infinite money just have all that currency become worthless as the whole system crashes around them and they just end up having nothing. I mean sure, then everyone is basically stabbing each other over food and water on a daily basis in mass. But hey, at least that guy who could own half the country has to deal with it too. All he has that you don't is a lot more kindling for fire.
They'd need an underground city to produce endless food. Which they could probably build, mind you. They have more money than some people could even imagine being possible.
@@VB-92 I either watched a video or read an article from like a doomsday expert that got called on by a bunch of super rich people to help them plan how to stay rich and survive AFTER the end of the world. And he was real confused. They kept trying to figure out how they could guarantee loyalty of the private soldiers they would need to protect all their food and wealth... and were like "what about bomb collars?" I wish I remembered where I saw that...
Here’s a fun little wake-up test for ya! Can you survive not eating, drinking, sleeping, peeing, pooping without having a home and video games to play? Yeah, you FAILED!
@@aquilliusranger2137 Doesn't the planet also lose 50% of it's oxygen production if all ocean life dies off? Suppose you can add "Not having oxygen" to that list.
53:44 Not only is the solar flare a current and growing concern, there are very serious implications to a massive flare or micro-nova other than just electronics. We have weather driven off the global electric circuit, crustal displacement, volcanoes (#1 contributor to global cooling) and even cardiac hazards.
@@Morec0 I think you have a point. If we get a solar flare or CME like we did in 1989, I think it would do enough damage to wake people up to the danger. I would just hate for it to hit my area and kill my PC but I guess that would be the least of my concern lol
Wouldn't a properly timed shutting down of the power grid prevent any damage to most devices to a point where it's more or less a trivial concern compared to other things going on?
@@CrashTheRed I think the theory is that all the radiation (full spectrum of energy) would saturate anything conductive and disintegrate all the small electronics/wires. At least, that's how I understand it. I would imagine that shutting everything down preemptively would be better than nothing. It also varies quite a bit on the magnitude of the event. Flares have different classes and so do CMEs. Then there is the recent theory that our Sun is actually a star with a recurring micronova (when a star sheds its corona)
Hey Ross, long time viewer here. I have a recommendation for you. Brain Dead 13, a game that was originally released on MS-DOS, then Windows and other systems. It's similar to Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace as in an interactive animated movie. I think it's charming as hell and a good goofy horror title that would be perfect for October. Much love dude, and stay safe
I know you explained it but I'm still in awe at how you don't fall into depression at all over all this extreme negativity and doom bringing. Teach me your ways!
I didn't comment on the first human revolution episode but I have an interesting lens to view it through. In game, augmentations aren't really that great, but they are a touchy subject because the media made it their crux, you have people defending why augmentations are so great in game and in real life that it becomes impossible to brush aside, even if their arguments have no real weight. The pen is mightier than the sword indeed. This happens while far more important stuff is going on that Picus doesn't cover. Did the writers intend that, no probably not. But that's the only lens that makes sense in my book.
i swear, i have the UNCANNY ability to summon you. every single time i think "hm, ross hasn't uploaded in a while" you upload the next day. it's incredible. i am a soothsayer, but in a pointlessly specific field
It took me a week, but after discovering the channel I'm one video off marathon watching every game dungeon video, now just devouring scraps from the captain's table in the form of these retrospectives. Makes me look forward to future game dungeon episodes and related videos
Honestly, giving absolute power to dogs sounds like a better system than what we have now. At least the dogs will be satisfied by treats, toys, walkies, and scritches. Their greed and capacity for cruelty isn't bottomless. This is why dogs are better than people.
Hey Ross. I’m a journalism student/major and I had I had something that I wanted to add about what you had said about Mass Media in your Deus Ex follow up. In the two semesters that I’ve been studying the subject, there are somethings that you got right and somethings that were close but no cigar. Not saying that what you said was wrong. You actually got most of it right but there’s still some things I’d like to add because of how fascinating the subject is. Editors being the ones who choose what story to run and what story to throw out is right on the money, except for the fact that this only applies to newspapers which, I don’t think I need to say, has been a dying industry since the invention of radio and television. Even more so with the invention of the internet. It’s like this one quote from a Ted Talk I once saw. Who cares about some guy at a newspaper, the real story here is corporate consolidation. If you think that editors at newspapers have power, then holy shit. News stations with parent corporate companies are the real power in the news industry. An actual example in my textbook was that in 2011, the New York Times exposed company General Electric for not paying any taxes but somehow receiving (I think) around $3 Billion on tax returns. The day the story broke, literally every single news outlet across the country were screaming about this from the rooftops, all except for NBC. You see, at the time, NBC was owned by General Electric. So, while everyone was calling out General Electric, NBC didn’t say shit. In fact, Lester Holt instead reported about how “muffin top” and “yolo” was added to the Oxford Dictionary. Newspapers may choose what stories to run, but corporate owned news stations can outright censor stories that have a negative impact on either their company or investors.
"You, your dog, and your friends are dead. GAME OVER" is that an AVGN reference (Friday the 13th review, where the gameover screen said "You and your friends are dead. GAME OVER")
Not sure it's an AVGN reference, but definitely a reference to that game. It was the most recent, and the only one of two, games about Friday the 13th for almost 30 years and game is inspired by the movie.
Ross, I'm really glad you did this episode, I had no idea that Microsoft gutted the IRS (which aside from the current administration, explains some of the IRS's behavior afterwards) it felt really nice to hear you talk about how our economic way of life is unsustainable, that well, empire building is bad, and we need to reconcile that climate is going to fall apart, but there is a way to do so happily. This isn't about the environment, but it is about time travel, specifically, a time-edit war, and one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read that taught me way more about 19th century Chicago than I ever knew, it's called A Future Of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz. I will warn you that it's a rather heavy read in terms of subject matter, but it's a very very good one. I don't think that the worst future it presents is in the cards for us necessarily, only if we allow reactionary forces to hold on to power indefinitely
Hello, I'm a recruiter for the "charismatic cannibal party", we're still searching for -victims- members for when the old world dies, are you still looking for a friendly community to join?
Ross's Game Dungeon: Where you can be captivated by weird trivia *AND* realize that humanity is on the verge of killing themselves off, all for the price of one!
Ah, a new follow up episode. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.
Go and spend some time with your family.
More later? I can’t wait!
the Man, the Legend, the Cab Dri- oh wait, that's Drake Edgewater.
There he is
Ah, a comment from The Admiral. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.
I don't care how garbage you say this is, Ross, an hour of game dungeon is an hour of game dungeon.
Me too I love Ross and everyone of his videos
When the buzzer went off at the end I was like "Wait, already?"
About time he spit something out !.
@@taxmaniaa Exactly. Now I can't wait for the Sonic episode, lol
It's the kind of junkyard where you can find Clint from LGR rummaging around in old stock hardware and consult him about vintage computer design sensibilities to own your commenters.
The DX:HR police station thing was actually addressed in the director's cut by the dev commentary. So, they originally intended a much more open game with a chaos system. Even your workplace wasn't supposed to be safe (in the final game, you cannot draw your weapons in that area). They wanted a game where the player could go full bersek and play out the consequences. This was eventually scrapped but the police station is a remnant of the original idea. You were supposed to be punished for slaughtering the cops by the chaos system but it got removed. What's left of it is that in the ending cutscene Jensen says a different line depending on your chaos rating.
well thats depressing
Is there a way to gauge your chaos rating as the game goes by?
@@SSFhighcommandJOHN
Not that I know of. No one has ever done a detailed breakdown on how to specifically get the high chaos ending. You tend to get it, if you always go in guns blazing. HOWEVER, it's possible to completely clear out multiple levels and still don't get it. So, it might be tied to a combination of quest outcomes rather than a bodycount. Like, whether you sacrificed Josie Thorpe to kill Zeke, killed Sandoval or talked him down etc. The specific trigger is unknown, though, I think.
Aka the game was supposed to have inherited some RPG elements like choices and consequences, and WE NEVER GOT IT?!? NOT EVEN IN MANKIND DIVIDED??😢
I mean MD at least returned some immersive Sim elements from classic, like how in MD Adam Jensen can finally throw potted plans at NPC's but man HR and MD could've been even better 😭
47:47 It's a shame because MD is an upgrade compared to HR, in terms of gameplay at least, the story and lore is still just... It's not DX1, for all it's faults at least Invisible War did feel a bit like DX game but the prequels are just, idk man 😢
I knew this day would come. Ever since I started watching this series I knew there was no avoiding THIS episode.
I've seen that episode at least 10 times by now. God I love that game
My God I waited for this so much
@@YDwelve I use Ross's videos to fall asleep some nights, and I've woken up to that video more than once and it's always both refreshing and horrible at the same time
@@troubleinbound What video?
@@troubleinbound I always sleep to Ross. He has a wonderful voice
This episode should be called “Ross talks about apocalypse predictions vaguely related to video games”.
So, just "Ross's Game Dungeon." I mean, yeah, this is more tangible than the demon invasion of "Bozo's Night Out," but still.
You lost the point
heh yeah he's rather into those predictions
@@marley7868 The scary part is that his predictions aren't even that wild, nor has he been that wrong with them.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire at present he's not wrong but I don't even think he believes he's entirely right he's got a point as he said it's all in the fog who's to say how shit goes things need fixing that we can agree
It's funny that you got stuck at that part of Mankind Divided. I did too. It's because the game isn't actually telling you what it's forcing you to do. Basically your system is unstable, and it's making you disable augs to demonstrate that feature. It doesn't tell you but you're supposed to go to the deactivation mode, select an aug, and then it lets you disable it.
It's a horrendous oversight.
Yup I remember having to google aroyto figure that out. Definitely an unfriendly piece of UI.
22:53 It's funny you should mention studio-owned theaters and the law that caused that to all end, since....uh...literally JUST yesterday a federal judge granted the U.S. Government's request to end the Paramount Decrees. ie THOSE EXACT ANTITRUST RULES.
So yeah. Good timing on that analogy
Either the judge is a moron or is taking huge gains from it
@@nicholassternon5857 take a guess.
Nicholas Sternon Umm... both?
She overturned it because she basically felt the decrees were far too specific to studios that don't even exist anymore and with no consideration to future technologies or changing consumer demands, such as streaming. The hope is that these sorts of things can move into regular antitrust channels rather than being dependant on this specific decree. Which is a good idea in theory to standardize the regulation, but in practice I think companies are going to try and take full advantage of it and antitrust is going to conveniently ignore them. Repealing the decree without putting together a proper updated replacement is just going to end in disaster for the consumer. However a federal judge doesn't have that sort of power so the choice became either leaving this very outdated decree, which has honestly been mostly useless anyways in recent time, or repeal it and hope new cases that relate to it get sent through more proper channels to be newly ruled on.
It basically opens the door to new rulings over these sorts of modern problematic practices if people can manage to put together a solid case. Whether they will or not is another story and dependant on how competent the related administrations are, which I have little faith in right now. I think the judge made the right choice purely as a judge but at the same time a bad one in terms of consumer law.
@@KaiserTom At least there's a sunset for some of the more extreme situations like studios buying stakes in theaters, so it's not total doom and gloom. But my main concern with relying on broader antitrust laws for the entertainment industry is that there's no good way to measure things like market allocation or what counts as price fixing. Or for example, the Fox-Disney acquisition didn't trigger certain merger rules because post-merger they remained "under 50% market share", but what is even the definition of market share in an industry where a $100 million project can lose money and a $100,000 project can make millions, and it's not even clear how those successes and failures reflect on the studios? These companies are poised to run circles around regulators.
Alright, where's the "Now this is beginning to make sense" guy.
He's on break, he'll be here soon.
More later
The Admiral has gone to be with his family.
He'll turn up soon to tell you how this is beginning to make sense and how there'll be more later I'm sure
HE’S HERE ! Just doesn’t have many likes yet
@@dickzabreesky7435 That makes sense. Ross DID say everything's about to explode, maybe the Admiral went into panic mode. XD
@32:00 - Actually, this reminds me of a story from reddit where the owner of a car dealership died and it turned out that he owned his rival dealership. The management of both dealerships didn't have a clue until he passed away and since the two companies had been such bitter rivals, they never bothered to look at the upper management of their opponent's company. They had spent over a decade bad mouthing each other, smear campaigns, derogatory radio adverts, etc. The owner had apparently been doing all of it because it amused him.
The moral of the story: never underestimate bored rich people, or humanity in general.
Someday we'll figure it out. For now, Bezos, Putin, Xi, Musk and whoever else can claim that power will play with the world and its people like toys.
@@atombell991 what makes reddit different from anywhere else?
@@haydentravis3348 You forgot the UN and the WHO. Also, Gates and Clintons.
How did they know he did it "because it amused him" if they didn't even know he did it?
Rivalry is an excellent way to motivate people thus improving business which leads to increased profit. The drama surrounding the rivalry likely also caused gossip, because people love drama, so it's a great ad campaign too.
A story from reddit? Sounds fake
Hey, you know that Supreme Court decision that prevented movie studios from owning their own theaters? That got overturned today.
Aww man, I had just heard about it's existence!
Wikipedia, _United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc:_ On November 18, 2019, the DOJ announced it would seek to terminate the Paramount Decrees, which would include a two-year sunset period as to the practices of block booking and circuit dealing to allow theater chains to adjust. The Department stated it was "unlikely that the remaining defendants can reinstate their cartel" as reasoning for terminating the decrees. [...]
The move was opposed by independent movie theater owners, including the Independent Cinema Alliance, and independent filmmakers.
The court granted the DOJ's motion to lift the decrees on August 7, 2020, starting a two-year sunset termination period of the decrees.
What in the world.
@@nibblrrr7124 Society really is never going back to normal...
The sooner we all embrace the new normal and realize the dystopian future is on the horizon the better.
@@nibblrrr7124 "Let's give the death ray back to the supervillan's grandson, he's unlikely to figure out how to use it"
"Let's make it legal for civilians to own rocket launchers, they are unlikely to use them for crime"
"Let's decriminalize slavery, the compassionate CEOS, and benevolent corporations are unlikely to enslave people"
@@planescaped fuck that, the best option is to reject modernity entirely and embrace more traditional aspects of life. We break technology's - not just media, all technology's - grip on us, we break the system.
Ooooh I winced when you mentioned that surely business owners would know who owned them... well did you know that Fox News once sued The Simpsons for spoofing them and it wasn't until they already spent a whole bunch of legal fees did somebody point out that the Simpsons were owned by Fox Entertainment? As British comedian and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop put it, it was like Murdoch suing Murdoch and all that was accomplished was he lost a huge stack of money. NEVER underestimate corporate incompetence
Or when WB once DMCA'd their own website. Yep, that's a real thing.
Only in Amurica, where ones can sue themselves, lol
Loool
Or when a review by Total Biscuit (RIP) on _DuckTales: Remastered_ got content claimed by Disney, while TB was working for a Disney owned multi-channel network.
I bet the person who pointed it out wasn't any of their lawyers
Has Ross made a "If I die it's not suicide" statement yet?
As far as I can tell, it can pretty much go without saying.
He lives in Poland and is world-renowned on how little he spends on anything. I'm pretty sure it's implied.
He probably has a legal document.
Not like it'll matter.
Down the memory hole it will go.
"Here lies Ross, who took his own life."
He said if he disappears and Warlock sightings increase then they got him.
"I don't always know what I'm doing, but I keep doing things."
Amen, brother.
It's a way of life man
Our ancestors from the caves would’ve said the same, and they didn’t have anybody to tell them what to do when they’re outside! Those people who do probably gotten eaten by the bats in the cave by now and are the reason we still have this global pandemic, cursed humans...
"Dogs are color-blind, they're still good people"
Ross is truly a philosopher for the ages
That hit me real hard as a colorblind, non-canine, individual.
Dogs are color-blind in the legal, "human" sense of color-blind; which is to say, they do not have access to the 3 primary colors that humans have access to. They only have access to 2 primary colors, and it's a pale imitation, but they do see _some_ color.
@@MrGeorgeFlorcus Colour blind technically means that you don't see the same colours as everyone else (there are many different types of colour blindness)
That's not Ross, didn't you see the ending here?
Dogs are featherless, but they're still not bipeds.
A New Beginning: The green running man exit signs in the game, while created by Yukio Ota in 1979, were not put into wide usage until 1987-ish at the earliest outside of Japan.
23:00 - Turns out 1948's United States v. Paramount was overturned just yesterday. Talk about timing!
Ross read this
i wish mr robot was real
He lentions this in his QandA
@@deadfIag I dig your profile pic, the Boards are the cream of the crop
This video could also be called "Ross Realizes We Now Live in a Corporate Dystopia, But We Don't Get Cool Cyberpunk Stuff."
So Deus Ex?
@Enclave Officer Z841 deus ex is always right.
@Enclave Officer Z841 "Nations too afraid of power now have no power." - philosophical bar guy in china
@@fireflocs and capitalist "democracy" has given corporations so much power that they can lobby the national legislature to change policy at a whim. pretty hellish
I hate nihilists...
56:07 Of course! When the Combine invaded the Earth, they managed to reduce the sea levels by more than 20 feet. I'm voting for Wallace Breen in this upcoming election.
same.
One more thing about the effect of Global Warming on the ocean, water ability to dissolve gases is tied to its temperature, the warmer it is the less gas it can dissolve, which means hotter waters have less oxygen in it, this also ties up to the feedback loops
Ah great.
Another ecological reason to want to put bullet in my head if i wasn't too afraid.
This is over simplified.
@Smattless If anything the chemistry of it doesn't add up.
@@SPTX. The chemistry of bubbles appearing in a glass of water that reaches room temperature? That's the same effect. As water gets warmer it releases gasses trapped inside of it. That's a fact.
@@infinitesquarez I noticed I had misunderstood the meaning of "disolving" (apparently it doesn't mean exactly the same thing in english than in my language), anyway we're still far away from the apocalypse you're all predicting.
www.ramp-alberta.org/river/water+sediment+quality/chemical/temperature+and+dissolved+oxygen.aspx
Water has to reach boiling temperature to release all of its oxygen, we aren't getting boiling oceans anythime unless the sun find its way over here. Even if global warming was a thing, only the surface of oceans could ever be warmed, this isn't nearly enough to kill anything. It's also perfectly natural for water to release some oxygen, it's part of the life cycle you know. Ever heard of clouds? Don't you want rain?
www.scienceshorts.com/how-are-clouds-made/
Considering he is willing to dedicate entire episodes to addressing incorrect assumptions, wrong information, or newly discovered information, I think Ross's Game Dungeon might be one of the most honorable news shows on the internet.
very true. This deserves more attention
Well, minus the whole thing about Microsoft owning the entirety of the PC ecosystem and I might agree with you.
I wouldn't call Ross's Game Dungeon a news show. The game dungeon videos themselves are video essays on individual games, and topics/circumstances that surround them. I am tempted to call them 'reviews', because I feel that's closer to accurate, but the purpose isn't overarchingly to state the quality of the experience, but to educate viewers on entries in the gaming world that would most likely never be discussed (in the way he does) in any other significant gaming media.
Most honorable new shows. I don't think the caveat of on the internet is necessary if you've tuned in to anybodies news recently
"Sorry I dont always know what I'm doing. But I keep doing things" is one of my favorite things anyone has ever said.
I named my daughter "follow up part 3" in anticipation for this moment.
Follow up part 3: Revelations
- Dad, why is my sister named Rose?
- Because your mother likes roses.
- Thanks, dad.
- You're welcome, Ross' Game Dungeon Follow Up Part 3.
I still like this meme.
Ross, if the oceans acidify and our planet becomes a big desert, I'll follow your post apocalyptic band no matter what happens, just make sure to leave contact info so we can start up Ross's Game Bunker.
Ross is intelligent enough to stay informed, but knows enough to listen to the experts. That makes a good leader in my book.
I'd join Ross's -cult- band.
Lead us oh great leader!
Ross: Uhh... farm some carrots I guess? Carrots are good...
planescaped
“The Great One has spoken!”
“Carrots!”
“Carrots!”
“Carrots!”
God yes
Ross becomes the King of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado ftw
To echo your point around 55:00 mark, yes the ocean acidification and the climate change should have a different name and is a much more immediate and serious problem than most people realize right now. Worst of all, recent studies also connected all of this to previous extinction events, including the one that dinosaurs perished from, suggesting that ocean acidification was responsible for most ocean life disappearing AND we seem to have released same amount of CO2 during the industrial age as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. That'll sure go well for us....
hello wonderfull anton
Sources?
You're forgetting the 2 to 3 million years of near continuous volcanic eruption from a volcanic chain across Asia that predated the asteroid that brought the death blow to the dinosaurs, and it's going to take us about 10 million years to pump the same amount of stuff into the atmosphere as those volcanoes did.
Also the whole acidification killing off all live in the oceans is utter insanity; not only is there life still in the ocean, so clearly not all life died out, but there is large predator life in the ocean that existed virtually unchanged back then; so they're prey must also have survived in large enough numbers for them to keep eating them.
The whole doomsday scenario coming in no time at all, is just bullshit, essentially ways to get clicks and clout, and to virtue signal. All the green folks have basically already admitted they're not in it to save the planet, to them it's about destroying capitalism and instituting socialism. Just look at their so-called solution to the climate and energy crisis: biomass. Also known as cutting down entire forests and burning them. In fact, desertification is more likely coming locally from cutting down forests and burning them, and then not replanting the trees because sand lizards migrating into the new desert landscape counts as 'more biodiversity' for that species didn't live there before and thus the companies get millions in subsidies for 'increasing biodiversity'.
Neat, huh?
@name name > The sun has way more of an effect on the planet
The effect of the sun on the planet is influenced by the level of greenhouse gases, hence why they're called greenhouse gasses.
> the CO2 is offset by freshwater injection from melting icecaps
Not only is that not even remotely true, "melting icecaps" is something you really, really don't want as a solution.
> the cooling effect also cools the planet
This becomes less and less true as the planet warms up, causing the cooling effect to become less and less useful. And the planet is warming up.
> higher rate of gas exchange pushing the CO2 back into the atmosphere
Why would CO2 being pushed back into the atmosphere be a good thing? It's a greenhouse gas.
> higher rate of evaporation and the rain/CO2 is processed by trees
when trees absorb CO2, the C is kept by the tree. Trees, however, don't last forever. When they break down naturally they that C as CH4 + CO2, which are both greenhouse gasses. When they break down unnaturally (because of us), they release that C as CH4 + CO2. When trees burn, they release that C as CO2. When bacteria eats into trees, they release CH4. When people and animals eat plants, we release their content as CH4 + CO2.
This is also true of all plants. A lot of forests are actually emitting so much CH4/CO2 that we have to consider *removing* them because the trees are releasing so much methane that they're competing with cows. Some of these trees emit so much methane that you can actually stick a pipe into them, and it will create a flamethrower.*
Trees aren't a solution to greenhouse gases, they're more like batteries. You can only have so many batteries, and the flammability of those batteries also rises as climate change worsens, increasing the likelihood they'll just release all the carbon stored in them right back into the environment.
> Get f-en rekt loser.
Are you 12?
* Don't do this, this is how you get forest fires.
the only apocalypse that is comming is nuclear, ww3 is more near than you can immagine.
2020 sucks just a little less now that this is here
It's the Masquerade of the Cybernetic Opera,
an exposition of mind control and industrial murder.
wait until you get towards the end during the Deus Ex portion. it will make 2020 look like a cakewalk.
yes I agree, and I finished the video!
@@returnofbeaux That would be a great band name. Or an RPG name, now that I think about it.
@@AwfulWaffle8474 I honestly found down downright pleasant sounding compared to what came during the "A New Beginning" portion.
"-but it's been over an hour!"
What does he mean _holy shit it has been an hour_
But it was a very good hour!
Don't know if anyone already made timestamps but here they are anyway
1:23 Battleforge
11:29 Darkspore & Lakeview Cabin
25:53 Bitejacker
26:45 Deus Ex
31:01 Deus Ex: Invisible War
32:34 Deus Ex: Human Revolution
48:45 A New Beginning
1:00:08 Rama
10:05 I started super-imposing music citations off to the side on the screen in my videos whenever a new track plays to get people to stop asking that.
Edit: The day after I posted this, I got a comment from someone asking for the music at a timecode in one of my videos. I clicked the timecode that they gave me to see which part they were asking about. It took me straight to the part where I had already displayed the name of the music in question.
I imagine I would still receive comments from people asking for the music even if I uploaded clips from the movie "Dog Day Afternoon"
And I thank you for that, it’s hard enough to make content without people asking you in the comments about what music you’re using without people asking about the songs because they were too lazy to read the description.
Name and shame.
Can you really blame people for expecting for that not to be there because most of the time it isn't ?
Okroshka yes.
You got trolled XD
I appreciate your dedication to preserving games, missing a holiday is no joke and I look forward to hearing more about your future plans for preserving games. I hadn't even thought about Microsoft adding new DirectX support to new versions of Windows. I feel like cloud gaming will eventually replace consoles, but there will always be a market for pc games. The rise of Linux with general support for games provides a possible stable platform for conservation of older games. Taking about medium term apocalypse scenarios is a nightmare, we lack the sustainability as a society to continue even into the next couple of decades. Great episode!
Cf fpp
Man, I love that you'll talk about literally anything that interests you in your videos and you always find a way to make it incredibly interesting. It doesn't matter if I didn't come to a Deus Ex video thinking I'd hear your predictions on future disaster, because you present it in such an interesting way that you've made me interested!
Can't wait to hear his take on fossils. ;)
Ross is a youtube OG and honestly one of my favourite show hosts both on and off the platform. You come for the videogames, but you stay for the RossRant™.
"The Fog of Badness" sounds like the title of an H. P. Lovecraft parody.
apex kek
Or a Karl Pilkinkton quote
Or the Netflix adaptation of a Lovecraft story
Probably a teen romance one too.
He'd probably call it "The Queerness in the Fog" or something else very 1930s sounding.
This episode is just an excuse to rewatch all the mentioned episodes
Hour of game dungeon I would take that
An excuse is a bad reason. I don't see a bad reason.
You needed an excuse?
Im gonna binge watch all the episodes now
When LGR answered a single sentence with paragraphs of elaborations i realized he was a historian.
32:03
The manager at the grocery store I worked at didn't know we were owned by the same company who our union was connected with, Miner's Inc. He thought Miner's was using the union to bring down the store. People are stupid.
And even if the coffeeshop manager isn't stupid, in the Deus Ex dystopia, if the company didn't want it to be known that they owned both stores, letting them publically sue each other in a confusing and pointless case to keep up that look, they could probably hide the truth from their franchise employees.
No, two local franchise managers unaware that each business is owned by the same parent company and going to outrageous lengths to one up one another sounds perfectly believable to me. I can imagine some small business owners I've met doing this even if they did know that they were owned by the same company just to add a bit more black to their store's accounting.
God, Ross had so close to a good point there, then he started saying a monopoly is the endgame of capitalism. that's one of the wrongest things you can say, and it's downright sickening. That's up there with the human extinction movement.
@@KairuHakubi It might not be the intended endgame, but reality begs to differ.
A bunch of football players can come play football on a baseball field as much as they want, it's still a baseball field. Instead of going "man I hate Baseball, it always ends with people throwing a football around" you can try to evict the fucks in the shoulder pads. Of course you'll fail, they're bigger than you. but you'll be right.
@@KairuHakubi you right. Fascism is endgame of capitalism, not some puny monopoly.
Right of property is just construct that working only while the rest of society recognizes your right to own something. And as the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer, the capitalist will have to become more and more inventive in how to "persuade" the rest of society. Up to a direct military dictatorship.
"Yup, it's still dead"
Ross Scott - 2020
yup
After spending 10 minutes talking about how Battle Forge was dead.
did my poor boi darkspore dirty. I miss that game :(
@@talonmarshal agreed but I'd imagine he would've said the same thing he said about battleforge
This reminded me so much of Stormtroopers of Death song about Jimi Hendrix
It wouldn't be a Ross' Follow-Up episode if I didn't feel terrified of our future.
Honestly, a major economic collapse gives me hope. Wishing it a speedy arrival.
@@Morec0 pretty sure we had one in 2020
@@marcellofunhouse1234 Just the start.
Good news, it's been three years and everything "the science" said about climate change is still a lie, all those "scientists" predictions were wrong, nothing happened, and all they did was falsify their fake models a bit more to push the date out again, which they've literally been doing for 40 years.
But sure, keep falling for it, you midwit.
47:00 I'm certainly no aero engineer, but my understanding as an aviation dork is that tilting jet-powered aircraft would be horribly inefficient and risky, with very little practical advantage. Planes with vertical lift devices, from the turbojets in the Yak-38 'Forger' from the 1970s to the lift fan in the F-35B from 2015, have struggled with exhaust or airflow "bouncing" off the ground and back into the engine backwards, which basically stalls fan blades and makes it stop working. Rotor thrust like achieved by the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor turboprop and helicopters create lift/thrust from an open air stream rather than through a more linear engine, and are generally more efficient at low speeds and altitudes than many jet engines anyway.
So Ross was pretty correct then.
plus im no areo or engineering expert but it wuld be rather hard to TILT A JET ENGINE PERCISELY on such a small little bar would be ridiculous. the sheer WEIGHT would make it impractical and impossible probably and other than looking nice its an even worse to have JET ENGINES because think about the ground where they LAND. its either gonna get blasted OR if its a rocket thruster itll ROAST THE GROUND and make it require MORE fuel meaning MORE weight and another hose through that tiny bar. really just vauge ideas and correct me if im wrong
@@Ribbons0121R121 Technically the V-22 already uses a jet (turbine) engine, it's a turboprop meaning it uses a turbine engine to turn the propeller, which is better and more efficient than reciprocating (piston) engines like were used in WWII. Turbine engines are fairly lightweight for their size and certainly for their power, which is one reason they're so useful in aircraft and even some tanks. "Jet" technically refers to the means of propulsion rather than engine design, and even then, turbofan engines (which are most jets since the 1980s) get most of their low-speed (generally subsonic) thrust from the fan and not through the turbine engine itself.
Exhaust temperatures are a problem encountered with many jet VTOL aircraft though. Most recently some of the Marines' carriers had to be resurfaced to handle the increased exhaust temperatures of the more powerful F-35Bs compared to the older AV-8B Harriers.
@@More_Row Without a doubt. While the V-22's exhaust does provide a small amount of jet thrust, the propeller is obviously the primary means of propulsion.
Just wanted to point out that while purely jet tilt-engine VTOLs are cool for a cyberpunk video game, they will probably never exist in real life.
@@smittywjmj like i said im no aero expert or know much about it, but the more you know
they really hsouldn't have said coming soon about battleforge. I remember the attempts to get City of Heroes back online, and it took nearly a decade. The people doing it made absolutely no promises it would ever work, let alone a timeline for it. Fortunately, City of Heroes got a bit of a boost. Once they had the game more or less running but without any content, one of the developers somehow, totally accidentally, and in no way on purpose, managed to leak a huge amount of the server code directly to the people heading up City of Heroes' private server creation. So yeah, even with all that it still took a huge amount of time.
Edit: Oh yeah, I hsould specifically point out that city of heroes is an MMO. So it will always rely on servers to play, unlike battleforge which really should never hvae them in the first place.
True.
"Coming soon" belongs at the end of a movie trailer.
The videogaming world already has the distinctive "When it's done" trope.
:)
"I don't always know what I'm doing, but I keep on doing things."
Is a pretty good philosophy to live by, words of advice for all of us.
Regarding Human Evolution:
1) The game *tried* to make make a point about corrupt companies and organisations that you usually would trust, and how it all apparently related to some secret organisations that control society. But it all felt bland and as you said "Hollywoodised".
2) I... I actually didn't know you could just kill everybody, and now that I know that I would it to be an actual way to play a game and the story would develop around that.
The game tried to be a good game and failed.
@@Demiglitch It's pretty good though, just not "deus ex good".
@@SPTX. Its a great game in its own right, with great story telling as well.
The problem is as Ross pointed out, its not its own game. It is set within the Deus Ex universe, and because of that is rail-roaded by past games due to the issues already explored and touched upon. If all Human Revolution did was rehash Deus Ex it'd get flak for that.
It is also for that reason it never reached the 3rd level (34:56), since we more or less already know everything that is going to happen because this is a prequel of all things. The writing has to strike that balance between originality and staying honest and true to the original work without butchering the continuity between games.
@@SPTX. Deus Ex is actually a really shitty game by modern standards. No autosave, esoteric default settings and stiff/clunky gameplay. Anybody accustomed to modern design will be immediately turned off and likely never get passed the first level. Human Revolution, on the other hand, holds your hand through the tutorial, saves frequently for you and has automated many gameplay mechanics into single press actions.
Simply put, old games were a pain in the ass to play and nobody misses it.
I almost love the follow-up episodes more than the regular Game Dungeon content, but only because it proves that Ross is not a deranged superbeing hooked up to a decaying Pentium 90, transmitting his reactions to old games to us through the majesty of the internet.
I mean, I'd almost say they make a stronger point about him being deranged superbeing hooked up to a decaying Pentium 90. But bless him for doing his best.
Almost 3 years and still waiting for the Follow Up 4…
still waiting for global warming
@@skidooshlayman12the climate crisis has been here for years goober
@@skidooshlayman12Every summer is the hottest summer of all time. Increase in hurricanes and flooding.
Hmmm. Must be God
Man I'm curious about this 'secret weapon'
nice seeing you here.
you make great videos
Get outa here you leadhead go make some more artsy ass thumbnails
:) First found ya through your HL1 video , watched the rest, super good channel , keep it up!
It's a gun!
@@Warmaka i mean maybe , they will be very cheap seccond hand after quarantine ends :))
Ross, I'm up to the "A New Beginning" section and your version of optimism is terrifying.
I might be wrong because I don't remember Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that much but it looked like you had to deactivate a power you already have, not pick a new one.
I'm pretty sure you're correct about that part in Mankind Divided.
I liked how Mankind Divided used Ross's idea of black market mods that are more unstable though
"Hey, did Anna Navarre explode in the hallway again?" "Sir... yes, I'm afraid so, sir..." "goddamn it.. Get a bucket and scoop her up and bring her in my office - we're going to have words!'
Joe Larson is my favorite Game Dungeon character.
He’s my absolute favorite arena fighter!
I’m completely certain that the “Sonic” game he’s going to review will be a trick and it’ll be some obscure game from when before Sonic the Hedgehog even existed.
But it will have Sonic in the name, and will possibly be a series so when he says "a Sonic game" he isn't lying.
@@pentelegomenon1175 My money's on it being a game that somehow features sound or music as a central mechanic so he can pass it off as "a sonic game".
how about Sonic Labyrinth
It'll be the most obscure Sonic game he can find and he'll mostly use it as an excuse to talk about Sega's business practices or something
@@TheSmegPod Perhaps to contrast them with Nintendo's business practices.
Ross, has anyone ever told you that your voice is really captivating? I get the sense that you tell stories often, and usually transfix an entire room of people while you're at it.
It's MY TURN to choose the movie for friday movie night!
there should be a movie called friday night
The Movie™
46:48 In the 1960s there was the EWR VJ 101: 2 rotatable engine nacceles with 2 engines each + 2 additional lift engines in the fuselage. It worked, but it just wasn't feasible and here is one simple reason why: if one of the outer engine fails below a certain airspeed, that's it. Imbalanced thrust will turn the plane over, the engines don't react fast enough to rebalance the thrust (assuming you have god-like reflexes) and there is barely enough time to even eject.
The V-22 Osprey doesn't have that problem, because both rotors are connected via a shaft. If one engine fails, both rotors keep running with decreased power. This simply doesn't work with jet engines.
So, technically it has been proven to work almost 60 years ago. In practice it's still incredibly unsafe and tilt rotor aircraft are the better alternative.
The Bell Model 65, a mutant conglomeration of a Schweizer 1-23 glider, Cessna 170, and Bell 47 along with two Fairchild J44 turbojets, first flew in late 1954 and relied only on its two tilting jet engines for flight. Bell came to the conclusion that there's no need to tilt the whole engine when you can just change the vector of thrust, something the British also concluded around the same time with their "Flying Bedstead" prototype. This concurrent focus on vectoring thrust led to development of the Bell X-14 in 1957, Hawker Siddeley P.1127 Kestrel in 1960, the Harrier GR.1 in 1967 and the abortive (though cool looking) Rockwell XFV-12A in 1977.
i never realized the "colored lighting" vs "tinting" thing until now
thanks ross you literally just saved my project
Towards the end you will get progressively more depressed and then the Rama section starts.
I originally wanted to make it even lighter, but the episode was just getting too long, so that will have to wait until Followup 4. This was sort of a "get all the serious stuff out of the way so I don't have to bring it up again" episode for me. The next Game Dungeons I have planned will be way more fun.
@@Accursed_Farms Well, final seconds had me laughing out loud.
@@Accursed_Farms the microsoft stuff was fascinating but when you got to Deus Ex and New Beginning, it was like not only do you have to swallow one big pill but the next big pill is a suppository. love your vids though.
I guess Quarantine didn't get many fan art submissions after all
@@Accursed_Farms can you give us a clue for the next episode
"and it showed how you can use a crisis to usher in almost any change you want to society"
2020 is really showing that
My first thought too hearing that.
Never let a good crisis go to waste
One could also say that Deus Ex showed that common thugs and criminals could use a crisis to justify their actions with revolutionary fervor (JoJo Fine and the NSF); something I've heard a lot coming from the Status Quo right lately regarding the current protests...
@Smattless My grandfather got loaded into a meat truck along with thousands of my fellow new yorkers but yeah, sure, it's a scam. keep telling yourself that
@@hockseng5245 Judging by the fact that he was your grandfather, I conjecture he was of advanced age. This is something that about 99% of the virus victims have in common.
contrary to other people, i actually like it when ross talks about apocalypse scenario.
Here here.
You know, after watching your Deus Ex video, I ended up asking my uncle who's a raw materials trader about peak oil. From what I remember, he said it was more complicated than "oil runs out and we all die", and by most measures we had already passed peaked oil a while ago.
He also sent me a mail with a long report on oil in geopolitics, that has been sitting at the bottom of my inbox for years. I'm thinking of reading it now and posting the tldr on the forum.
Interesting! AFAIU, yeah, "resource exhaustion" is not as straightforward as it's usually portrayed.
Is the report public? If so, I'd love to look through it myself. (Not that I wouldn't be also interested in your TL;DR.
There also tends to be fudging of what "available" means. I heard that all the doom saying about how "we're running out of oil" really meant "We're running out of EASILY ACCESSABLE oil". Like there's still oil, but will be a lot harder to obtain. It's sort of like diamonds have an inflated value due to marketing and secret hording. Mean while there's a planet literally made out of diamond. Granted we'll most likely never reach there.
I wonder if he mentions the petrodollar, that's the part of oil geopolitics that made my jaw drop.
I would love to read that
Well I posted the latest oil news on the Accursed Farms forum. The tldr is, production infrastructure is severely underfunded, demand keeps rising, and we're in for a major oil shock before 2022.
You talking about how mass media is the most powerful force in modern times is really reminiscent of Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.
"Dogs are colorblind, they're still good people" bless, bless, bless your soul Ross
1:22 - Battleforge
11:27 - Darkspore
11:35 - Lakeview Cabin (includes talk on Microsoft messing with PC gaming)
25:53 - Bitejacker
26:45 - Deus Ex
31:02 - Deus Ex: Invisible War
32:34 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution (aka Punch-Out!!)
48:45 - A New Beginning
1:00:09 - Rama
1:06:10 - Outro (Buzzer!)
Ross could add these to the description (along with a 0:00 time stamp), such that UA-cam recognizes that and adds video chapters (see: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en ).
Does anyone remember the Lakeview Cabin episode, though? I don't, and it's not in the Game Dungeon playlist, nor does it pop up if you search it on the channel. Is it even real? Is he messing with us? Is it an episode he recorded but never released?
@@gallivandalid Lakeview Cabin was in the Halloween Sampler episode.
Awesome, I've skipped the Deus Ex episodes because I wanna play them some day, now I know when to fast forward.
+
"I think some people are so used to skipping over the credits, that they've forgotten what their original purpose is"
I'd 100% believe it...
Also I remember back in highschool saying to my friends how the launch of the X-box was going to do exactly what you said it did to PC gaming. They didn't believe me... Except I didn't even know the half of how bad it would actually be. >__> That whole spiel was a real trip down memory lane for 12th grade me...
Also there is no way the writers of Human Revolution intended to depict augmentations as a metaphor for college degrees.
For all we know it was purposely dumbed-down. I don't see too many "smart" entertainment anymore, although they are probably out there and I'm not seeing them. When I first played Human Revolution I instantly thought the characters and story were "Hollywood smart", that is, giving off an aura of trying to be intelligent writing but being hokey in the end. I can't explain what it is exactly but characters and scripts like that send off a notification in my mind that it's irritating and trying to be something it isn't. It just isn't smart!
Didn't they pretty much tip their hand in Mankind Divided, that it's intended as a race metaphor?
I would absolutely believe people being trained to skip the credits. Hell I know people that search up the plot for a movie they've never seen whilst they're watching it. I have no idea why.
@@pentelegomenon1175 no they changed the plot retroactively the writting isn't good in either case given augs being oppressed is really dumb given pacemakers exist
Always watch Ross's videos all the way through, he has some great stingers after the credits, hehe.
@Accursed Farms: There's this small game that explores that theme of how media influences the public's perception of the world. It was made by the creator of "Papers, Please." Lucas Pope, It was called "Republia Times"
I remember a few moments from DXHR which to me prove the writers definitely didn't even try to go for the quality of writing of the original Deus Ex.
The first one is when you get to the secret basement in the Picus TV headquarters, which is used as an Illuminati media center to control the flow of information to the media.
The place is fully decorated, with illuminati symbols on the walls, and the whole MJ12 hand and globe structure standing proudly in the entrance lobby. Kind of like the MJ12 labs under VersaLife, but even more flamboyant. Now, where it gets really silly is when you look through the employees' emails. There's an email chain that can be summed up to "Hey, I'm going to sound crazy, but things are kind of weird around here, do you think maybe we're working for some shadowy people ? Haha just kidding, forget it man", stretched over about ten emails. Of course, the guy who supposedly writes this walks by the MJ12 sculpture and the illuminati wall decorations every morning, but he's probably not too bright.
Another one, is when you find a message written by Bob Page addressed to the CEO of Tai Yong Medical. The message is written in l33t 5p34k, maybe in an attempt to "encrypt" it ? Bob Page is supposed to have written this. This is so out of character for him, that the moment I saw that I was convinced the writers didn't know what they were doing.
That sounds like somebody wrote a story, but then somebody else had to put it together without any context.
To be fair, Bob Page is the same guy that wanted to create grey alien looking things just for laughs
No corporation would ever allow something like the original Deux Ex to be made. Hence why the next game was a slacktivist trend horseshit.
The F-35B has a rotating jet engine, although it technically "only" rotates the nozzle. Not to mention the Harrier and all the prototypes that have been around since the 70s.
You know when you call in Clint from LGR you're annoyed enough to bring the freakin' hammer down.
IDK what people are defending with that point and click adventure game, even if you wanted to say "LCDs existed then" which, they were rare, very rare and expensive... Given that you're trying to SELL THE LOOK of a game that takes place in that time period, why wouldn't they go with an aesthetic that will SHOW that?
Resident Evil 2 takes place in 1998, most of the stuff in the Police Dept looks like it's from the era. Some things are exaggerated but, it works. The underground facility? Yeah, sci-fi land, but that was always the goal for that game. They weren't trying to sell you the era when the OG launched or the remake, at that point they're trying to show how advanced the company is. But as far as the station is concerned? They really went out of their way to show "This is the 90s" and it wouldn't have been hard for them to do that here either.
Likely the game hired an artist that didn't know, or it wasn't the goal to care by the creators which Ross is right to call them out on.
I study game art, and I'm the kind of guy who wants every design choice to make sense and be authentic, you wouldn't believe how many people just say "It doesn't matter, the player doesn't care." Or get upset at you for "nitpicking." This is where I wish I had the power of someone like Steve Jobs and could just force people to bend to my will.
Not only that but that oceanic research station was failing miserably fanancially and probably wouldn't have had thousands of "80's" dollars to spend on a personal computer...
I agree with what you're saying, but tbf Resident Evil 2 came out the year in which it's based right? It's a _lot_ easier to get things right when you just make them modern. Or even if everything isn't modern, it still makes sense because it's stuff that could still exist. This game didn't have the current time to use as a reference, though I think they could have easily done a little bit more research. It's not like it came out before the internet or something.
@@KedViper I'm referring to Resident Evil 2 REMAKE, they even managed to keep things within the time period. The lab is a whatever thing since that's supposed to be a hyper advanced facility.
I thought one thing was off, a USB key but apparently USB was around in 1998.
@@evieisleavie Oh yeah, totally.
Computers then were wildly expensive. I think upwards of 3,500 for a 'normal home desktop'.
Tie in inflation and other things you might need like, you know a HDD which would be WILDLY expensive then.
But, we can also assume they had those before hand.
24:31 come on Ross, you know better than anyone "the King" always been here, he's just a little fragmented. So yeah, a lot of companies is above the law and some people too.
As Deus Ex has pointed out, it has been defragmenting steadily.
37:05
I guess just like someone destroying the entirety of Chicago is still an "invisible war", the future is just kinda forgiving I guess.
Either that or Sarif Industries is more powerful than Microfoft, iunno Ross.
Clint and Ross, truly the greatest crossover in our time.
I honest to God gasped out loud when it turned out that the CarnEvil 3d Printer guy was in Bitejacker, what a phenominal coincidence
I believe someone mentioned it in the comments of that video.
31:05
Fun fact! Thief: Deadly Shadows was coded in the same way. Developed by the same studio, and released a couple months later.
"I've changed my mind about what's coming next"
So... not The Movie?
Soon™
People:"How do you not get depressed thinking about the inevitable downfall of mankind?"
Ross:"The trick is you aren't terrified enough yet."
You definitely haven't heard the last of Joe.
you got so good at 3d printing that you 3d printed ross' voice and made a follow up. well done, sir, well done.
That ending..Amazing
“That’s me going the extra mile for you ;)”
43:00 - The stock market is being entirely supported by the Fed. We are in the final stages of a major financial bubble. Do not invest in the stock market at this time.
The entirety of the US and by proxy the world economy, has been blowing a gigantic bubble since WW1 based on loans to the Entante, and then later the allies, and the Marshall aid.
The world economy has been built on unbacked loans for the last 100 years.
@Archangelm127 @I need no channel youtube! That's what happens when you adopt Keynesian economic theory and get rid of the gold standard.
@@ManiacalForeigner I'm not sure about Keynes, but the switch to fiat currency was a big fat mistake.
@@Archangelm127 He's not the only one to blame, for sure, but his economic ideas had (and continue to have) a lot of influence on world governments.
@@Archangelm127 It workes well enough with an economy growing faster than precious metal reserves, becaise it avoids deflation which would make inwestments very risky propositions, and strangulqte economic growth, the problem is, it takes responsible handlingby those that print the fiat moneynot to significantly outstrip the pace of economic expansion with the amount of currsncy in circulation.Unfortunately the FED proved to not be responsible people, and printed about four times more dollars than the growth of US GDP and inflation can adjust for.
This clearly indicates that there os shit in the soup because it should have triggered higher inflation, but collectively everyone has too much to lose by a devalued dollar (most national hard currency reservs being in USD, and all that), so the world had collectively agreed to keep pretending like the economy is doing better than it is.
Thankfully, there is such absurd overproduction, that it didnt exactly cause a crippling supply shortage, bzt it may yet result in a hyperinflation, as either the collective lie breaks down, or the growth of the world economy falters, which even without a virus is bound to happen without significant industrialisation of space.
I suppose the eventual development of Africa into a first world region will inevitably serve as a final lease on life n the current perpetual growth based economic model, but if we arnt mining asteroids and settling the moon by that point, that will be the hard limitto how long we can keep kixking this problem down the road.
Companies above the law?
Shit, Ross, you may as well have said “today is Tuesday”
True true
But he released this on a weekend...
@@dinglepringle1380 I mean yea but , he's right.
I mean lost track of time during quarantine and WFH.
This might as well be a tuesday, heck it could be December for all I care.
Have a nice Tuesday in December bro.
And stay safe out...there.
@@jimvickigin3746 I dont think its Tuesday
@@stylepoints5036 you're right, it's Thursday.
Ah Ross... Starts with a rant about exclusivity deals, ends with staring into the void of existential horror that is cyberpunk style corporate immunity. This sort of thing is why I love your videos.
Well that and your weird asides and your bizzare life. I mean what other content creator has contracts on people's souls?
At this point Cthulhu taking over would be an upside for society.
That keyboard slideshow from Cliff was surprisingly nostalgic... didn't think I'd of had so many of them growing up, hahah. The old Gateway2000 and Compaq ones in particular bring back memories.
The thing with the federal reserve is that when it buys bonds during financial crises, they aren't spending taxpayer dollars, they are performing something called "open market operations" which essentially involves crediting money into member banks accounts for assets. Essentially they are printing money to cushion the downturn with, then when the economy stabilizes and they want to decrease the money supply, they will do the opposite, sell bonds for reserve currency then essentially "burn" the money they receive reducing the supply. We were kinda just in the middle of raising interest rates and getting rid of the surplus created from the great recession when this hit, forcing the fed to basically reverse course and start expanding the money supply and trying to float the economy again. It's not exactly sustainable, but it helps cushion the fall from these kind of sudden crashes, then ideally you do the Keynesian thing and do the opposite during expansions to slow the growth and resupply. Our government is kinda bad at the whole expansion step though.
oh no printing money is a HUGE red flag and to this day i haven't see one time were printing money helped a society long term
@@valletas Since the advent of fiat currencies, modern economies require some amount of money creation to expand. Having fixed currencies (or, more realistically, currencies pegged to resource extraction) doesn't seem to be very helpful. The risk is always there for hyperinflation (which is why the Fed was created as a separate body which is a public-private partnership with terms offset from presidential administrations, to try to remove monetary policy from politics). And the Fed has been a mixed success, they have had some big crashes under them, but fewer than before the reserve system. And it's certainly more stable than the old state bank system. Though possibly less stable than other central banks. Basically monetary policy is complicated and dangerous, but necessary to reduce the sharp crashes the business cycle and the feedback loop of crisis creates.
@@lonewolfM16 yeah i am still hopefull for the future but man is it going to be though
back in the day brazil used to be the biggest producer of coffee in the world and there was a time that demand started to go down but there was too much coffee on the market so prices also started to go down the government didnt like it so they bought a BUNCH and i do mean a BUNCH of coffee to burn it but that backfired because they wasted too much money to buy and burn it and demand just keep going down and the industry never returned to what it was
it wasn't that big of a deal but every time i see someone printing money i remember this the chance of not backfiring are way smaller then the chances of it doing
How does that not generate massive inflation from the huge increase in money? Or I suppose for a further, more specific question, how does selling reserve currency then "burn" the money -- isn't it still causing inflation in the global economy (just reducing USD supply), not to mention couldn't it be hard to guarantee anyone wants to buy such bonds if they have hesitancy of US bonds?
@@boneiy Total money supply is only one factor in determining inflation rates, a large part of inflation has to do with expectations for the future and the velocity of money. It's why, when the economy is doing well, we can see increases in inflation without seeing an increase in the money supply. During a financial crash, inflation is generally low, and the point of the fed is basically to pump money into the economy to arrest the death spiral of financial collapse. It is possible to see both inflation and high unemployment (Stagflation being the event that really drove this home) but they are generally opposed. The Fed has two numbers it is really concerned with, the unemployment rate and the inflation rate, and their monetary policy is about influencing interest rates to achieve results with these numbers.
Also, when they sell bonds they take money from member banks, in reserve currency (not necessarily physical bills, but money issued by the fed, because most of what we use in the economy is actually created by bank's lending money rather than by the government itself), instead of adding the money to the fed's account, they just delete it. If it were physical, they would burn it, that is destroy it rather than keeping it. Thus a lot of their task is buying assets in bad times by creating new money, then selling them in good times to destroy the money they created so it doesn't create inflation.
Ross: " So... what you just do that forever? That doesn't seem like a very stable thing. "
US Gov't: *"Haha money printer go brrrrrrr"*
UNLIMITED DEBT
While I feel bad for the common man. I can't help but want to see the guys with infinite money just have all that currency become worthless as the whole system crashes around them and they just end up having nothing. I mean sure, then everyone is basically stabbing each other over food and water on a daily basis in mass. But hey, at least that guy who could own half the country has to deal with it too. All he has that you don't is a lot more kindling for fire.
@@VB-92 And a bunker
They'd need an underground city to produce endless food. Which they could probably build, mind you. They have more money than some people could even imagine being possible.
@@VB-92 I either watched a video or read an article from like a doomsday expert that got called on by a bunch of super rich people to help them plan how to stay rich and survive AFTER the end of the world. And he was real confused. They kept trying to figure out how they could guarantee loyalty of the private soldiers they would need to protect all their food and wealth... and were like "what about bomb collars?" I wish I remembered where I saw that...
Ross really knows how to make you worried about the future of the world. Damn.
Well.. I was doing a great job at pretending reality didn't exist.
ha ha. IN YO FACE!
So is the government.
Here’s a fun little wake-up test for ya!
Can you survive not eating, drinking, sleeping, peeing, pooping without having a home and video games to play? Yeah, you FAILED!
@@aquilliusranger2137 Doesn't the planet also lose 50% of it's oxygen production if all ocean life dies off? Suppose you can add "Not having oxygen" to that list.
53:44 Not only is the solar flare a current and growing concern, there are very serious implications to a massive flare or micro-nova other than just electronics. We have weather driven off the global electric circuit, crustal displacement, volcanoes (#1 contributor to global cooling) and even cardiac hazards.
A solar flare would save us.
"Didn't Desmond already stop that 8 years ago, though?"
@@Morec0 I think you have a point. If we get a solar flare or CME like we did in 1989, I think it would do enough damage to wake people up to the danger. I would just hate for it to hit my area and kill my PC but I guess that would be the least of my concern lol
Wouldn't a properly timed shutting down of the power grid prevent any damage to most devices to a point where it's more or less a trivial concern compared to other things going on?
@@CrashTheRed I think the theory is that all the radiation (full spectrum of energy) would saturate anything conductive and disintegrate all the small electronics/wires. At least, that's how I understand it. I would imagine that shutting everything down preemptively would be better than nothing. It also varies quite a bit on the magnitude of the event. Flares have different classes and so do CMEs. Then there is the recent theory that our Sun is actually a star with a recurring micronova (when a star sheds its corona)
Amazing story about the time machine with Battleforge. I was really curious about it when I watched that episode, so thanks for clearing the air!
Going to have to rewatch some of the older episodes for this one!
Hey Ross, long time viewer here. I have a recommendation for you. Brain Dead 13, a game that was originally released on MS-DOS, then Windows and other systems. It's similar to Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace as in an interactive animated movie. I think it's charming as hell and a good goofy horror title that would be perfect for October. Much love dude, and stay safe
I know you explained it but I'm still in awe at how you don't fall into depression at all over all this extreme negativity and doom bringing. Teach me your ways!
I didn't comment on the first human revolution episode but I have an interesting lens to view it through. In game, augmentations aren't really that great, but they are a touchy subject because the media made it their crux, you have people defending why augmentations are so great in game and in real life that it becomes impossible to brush aside, even if their arguments have no real weight. The pen is mightier than the sword indeed. This happens while far more important stuff is going on that Picus doesn't cover.
Did the writers intend that, no probably not. But that's the only lens that makes sense in my book.
i swear, i have the UNCANNY ability to summon you. every single time i think "hm, ross hasn't uploaded in a while" you upload the next day. it's incredible. i am a soothsayer, but in a pointlessly specific field
It took me a week, but after discovering the channel I'm one video off marathon watching every game dungeon video, now just devouring scraps from the captain's table in the form of these retrospectives. Makes me look forward to future game dungeon episodes and related videos
All hail the dog monarchy
Honestly, giving absolute power to dogs sounds like a better system than what we have now. At least the dogs will be satisfied by treats, toys, walkies, and scritches. Their greed and capacity for cruelty isn't bottomless.
This is why dogs are better than people.
MASTER DUCHESS! MASTER DUCHESS! HE'S ALREADY ONE THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THE BIP BOP III ARENA!
I bet a dog monarchy would handle corna varus better. Plus dogs are colourblind, so they can't be racist.
“DAMN THOSE MEDDLING HUMANS, THIS COULD RUIN EVERYTHING!”
“Try to do a little damage control and keep me posted.”
Also, dogs are not necessarily vulnerable to corona UNLESS they caught the plague via again, human contact.
I've never been so happy to be dragged back kicking and screaming into a dirty, dank dungeon in my entire life.
OwO
Cross-reference with another dungeon...
"Hey, kids! Civvie-11 here!"
:)
@@demizson576 Nah he's got it worse than a dungeon.
Hey Ross. I’m a journalism student/major and I had I had something that I wanted to add about what you had said about Mass Media in your Deus Ex follow up. In the two semesters that I’ve been studying the subject, there are somethings that you got right and somethings that were close but no cigar. Not saying that what you said was wrong. You actually got most of it right but there’s still some things I’d like to add because of how fascinating the subject is. Editors being the ones who choose what story to run and what story to throw out is right on the money, except for the fact that this only applies to newspapers which, I don’t think I need to say, has been a dying industry since the invention of radio and television. Even more so with the invention of the internet. It’s like this one quote from a Ted Talk I once saw. Who cares about some guy at a newspaper, the real story here is corporate consolidation. If you think that editors at newspapers have power, then holy shit. News stations with parent corporate companies are the real power in the news industry. An actual example in my textbook was that in 2011, the New York Times exposed company General Electric for not paying any taxes but somehow receiving (I think) around $3 Billion on tax returns. The day the story broke, literally every single news outlet across the country were screaming about this from the rooftops, all except for NBC. You see, at the time, NBC was owned by General Electric. So, while everyone was calling out General Electric, NBC didn’t say shit. In fact, Lester Holt instead reported about how “muffin top” and “yolo” was added to the Oxford Dictionary. Newspapers may choose what stories to run, but corporate owned news stations can outright censor stories that have a negative impact on either their company or investors.
"OH MY GOD! OK! IT'S HAPPENING"
welcome back Ross, keep on keeping on!
"You, your dog, and your friends are dead. GAME OVER" is that an AVGN reference (Friday the 13th review, where the gameover screen said "You and your friends are dead. GAME OVER")
Given how the game seems pretty inspired by Friday the 13th, I'd say yes.
Not sure it's an AVGN reference, but definitely a reference to that game.
It was the most recent, and the only one of two, games about Friday the 13th for almost 30 years and game is inspired by the movie.
Ross, I'm really glad you did this episode, I had no idea that Microsoft gutted the IRS (which aside from the current administration, explains some of the IRS's behavior afterwards) it felt really nice to hear you talk about how our economic way of life is unsustainable, that well, empire building is bad, and we need to reconcile that climate is going to fall apart, but there is a way to do so happily. This isn't about the environment, but it is about time travel, specifically, a time-edit war, and one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read that taught me way more about 19th century Chicago than I ever knew, it's called A Future Of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz. I will warn you that it's a rather heavy read in terms of subject matter, but it's a very very good one. I don't think that the worst future it presents is in the cards for us necessarily, only if we allow reactionary forces to hold on to power indefinitely
Empire building is only bad when it's NOT YOUR empire. Don't fool yourself to think anything else. That's the nature of civilization.
"Dogs are color blind, they still good people."
I miss the days when the most controversial / serious parts of the video were whether or not you knew how to steer in a 5 FPS driving game
Me too, man...
same
I should probably join a cult or something when the apocalypse hits.
Keep an eye out for the Children of Restoration, then.
Hello, I'm a recruiter for the "charismatic cannibal party", we're still searching for -victims- members for when the old world dies, are you still looking for a friendly community to join?
this is clearer, more informative coverage of business monopolies vs the IRS than any news outlet dude. I learn something every episode.
These only come once every few years, but are worth the wait
Ross's Game Dungeon: Where you can be captivated by weird trivia *AND* realize that humanity is on the verge of killing themselves off, all for the price of one!
I remember when I watched Ross to be happy, now it just makes me see the grim reality I'm trying to ignore
I'm unable to ignore that stuff, so it was much more fun for me.