At least for those who aren't genuine psychopaths, but hey! Mental Health Awareness has never been higher, and hopefully won't be forgotten anytime soon.
@@Aflay1 I'd imagine a real life violent assailant would simply have their "play state" thing extended to real people, or people who aren't their loved ones, or people who aren't them, depending on how bad their Mental Health is
The idea it had to be 'proven false' is ridiculous. Humans have been awful, violent things since the dawn of time. There were decades of violent books movies, TV shows and plays preceding games. They had nothing to do with it either. People did worse than Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that was thousands of years prior to there even being electricity, movies, or a theater to show them in.
@@phant0mdummy Ever heard of Titus Andronicus? One of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays on account of it being a pointless gore fest. And that’s not even that far back!
As a stage actor, I can confirm that glitches happen a lot. Such as the table you’re supposed to be jumping onto tipping over and sending you flying. Or doors falling on you. Or doors cutting you. Or doors tripping you. I have really bad luck with doors on stage.
One time the actress who was meant to be choking my character forgot to (to be fair this was in high school) so I had to grab their hands and put them around my neck and then pretend to die. So. At least the audience found it funny!
I once was involved in a production of Treasure Island, and on stage we had two fake rocks, one made of paper mache that looked quite good, and one a painted cardboard cutout taped to a chair. During one scene the lead character was meant to stand on a rock to look further to the horizon, and the intent was for them to stand on the chair rock, since you know, there was a chair to stand on, but the first time the rocks were actually on stage was dress rehearsal and the actor, not entirely aware of which rock she was supposed to stand on, stepped on the wrong rock and fell right through, after which she muttered "they just don't make rocks like they used to" and went over to the correct fake rock and continued the scene. I've also witnessed instances of zippers not opening, telephones falling to pieces, and plenty of missed cues by actors entering and techies cuing sounds... Not that I do a lot of stage acting these days, and I've usually had minor roles when I did, but I've been fortunate to avoid being personally victimized by many stage glitches.
Props crashing loudly backstage. The Play That Goes Wrong is the perfect example of a stage play that contains nothing but glitches and uses mistakes to enhance the story.
Man, this took some unexpected turns, didn't realize how many funny and horrifying screwups are riddled throughout wrestling. Though, I guess it is quite fitting given the topic, lol
As Daryl said, there's some REALLY nasty ones, and some even end in death. If you're not squeamish and can handle it, look up what happened to the man known as Owen Hart. It was heartbreaking.
When I was younger, I used to think what a game with "random accidents" would be like. People never trip or fall or whatever in games or movies if it isn't for comedic effect or otherwise necessary. Enough said, such a game would be a pain to play.
I will never forget that Arkham Asylum moment. I bought the game used so when the game started glitch I immediately pulled out the disc and started freaking out before the cutscene played, checking for scratches and dirt. I reloaded my save, saw the glitch happen and felt that pit in my stomach that I bought a broken disc. Then I saw Joker behind the wheel and I was completely blown away.
Similar story! I first played it on a very weak laptop and i often experienced lags and stutters and crashes, though eventually it started running consistently but only at like 15-20 fps (I legit beat the game multiple times at that fps I have no idea how younger me was so patient). The laptop was even tended to bluescreen from time to time Then when this "crash" happened I freaked the fuck out. I knew for sure the laptop was dead and over and over I just pressed the power button as soon as that happened and let it cool off and tried again. The game even crashed a few times and gave an error message on that part. Then eventually I decided to stick it out one time and my mind was absolutely blown away at the fact that this was intended. I had no idea games could do that.
I found this information pretty comforting ngl. Knowing that the reason people laugh when someone falls is technically because it's unexpected and out of the ordinary really makes me feel like I don't need to be as self concious whenever I embarrass myself in front of others
Absolutely! Reminded me of a friend who has a completely involuntary compulsion to laugh in tense or uncomfortable situations, human brains have all these weird little quirks that we don't always recognise.
interestingly, I've never laughed when someone falls over, perhaps because it's not unexpected; I have always been terrified of falling down due to a few bad experiences in the past, so the _idea_ of falling down is always on my mind and thus never unexpected. usually, I'll just wince or groan as I'm brought back to one of the half-dozen or so memories where I'd experienced something similar.
To be honest, when you started talking about immersion breaking, I was almost expecting this video to go much darker and talk about the idea of dissociation - specifically derealization. It's something I deal with on a fairly frequent basis, and can be quite frustrating to handle. Otherwise, perhaps I missed it or simply forgot, but I would love to see a video about how games provoke intense choices or otherwise make you stop and just... have to take a minute to think. Alternatively, perceptions and reactions to the idea of finality such as in games like OneShot or Outer Wilds (spoilers for the second one, if you haven't played it please do with no spoils, it's worth the time - both the base game and DLC).
@@kzzazzip6272 It's all good! It's frustrating sometimes but also ultimately has been extremely helpful through difficult times which I'm working my way out of. I appreciate the sympathy
No worries, I had a similar reaction, but then I remembered Daryl wanted to go back to normal, silly Psych of Plays for a bit to take a break from the more dark and serious videos. Kind of ironic that we exercise incongruence by talking about it.
ohhh I'd love to see a video on fake endings. I guess it's still within the overarching topic of immersion which we have quite a few videos about already, but come on, the topic is massive.
I find it immensely ironic that a super mutant photo bombing your story experience simultaneously ruins your immersion and reminds you that the wasteland is treacherous, and being exploded at any moment is absolutely realistic.
I've laughed at that cow walking into the fire every time it showed up, both when I didn't know what's gonna happen and when I did. Though I'm not much of a wrestling guy, the whole video was very interesting. Thank you, Daryl. P.S. First time I see myself being properly included in the group of people not celebrating anything, props!
Re: your PS. There was a kid's show called The Weekenders, and there are four main characters. For their holiday episode, they drive an RV up this mountain and they all exchange stories from their "worst holiday ever". So they do Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and... The winter solstice! I've just always thought that was pretty clever.
I never was someone laughing at Slapstick humor (people falling down, getting scared etc) but i love unexpected scenes like Piper getting blown up xD that scene really got me.
Everything said about pro wrestling also applies to live theatre! A personal story I have that is very “video game glitch” is when, due to some last minute cue changes, several people (including myself) stayed on stage pretending to be corpses for an entire scene longer than was intended.
Wow I had no idea they did that in wrestling haha. That's amazing! I'm curious about studies in accordance with the "Play Frame". Would be cool to see more details about it. The concept of "play" seems to be a pretty common attribute in mammals, but I think in humans and perhaps a few select animals we include Stories in there which may give us a unique perspective with the "Play frame" specifically. It makes me wonder how much we should allow the play frame to take up our mental space, whether holding to too often causes issues, and whether or not that applies to standard online interactions outside of obvious "play" in positive or negative ways (in some ways it may have to do with what we see as effects in anonymity). Fun video as always!
@@venci16 there's no irony or subversion in the train joke. only exaggerated proportions. the punchline of train joke is not surprising, unexpected, or incompatible (the traits listed in the paper at 16:12) with the setup of the joke
Honestly at first I thought it was just a joke about having to deal with a lot of stupid people. .....Also I guess Kingdom Hearts is a no-go for anyone with triskaidekaphobia. Don't mind me, resident KH fan who has to tie everything to KH somehow, someway.
Intentional glitches are my favorite kind of comedy, that's why I love the classic Looney tunes because you expect one thing to happen and somehow they bend the rules of universe to do something absolutely out of place, like moving Daffy's peak arong his head, moving the front of a rifle so it shoots in a different direction, taking off infinite signs from a tree to decide who is going to be murdered, wearing tons of different costumes so you can confuse someone, shape shifting and transforming into God (big chungus origin), etc. Because none of those things not only don't make sense, but somehow manage to give it sense, it isn't simply "I'm gonna hunt this duck" and finish in an Italian restaurant solving a crime as a detective, it's not funny unless you manga to give it a direction for why it ended like that.
I like the playstate idea, because it also explains the dramatically different perception of glitches in competitive games. Those games can have real world money involved, or have people fighting for titles, and it's immensely frustrating when an outcome is affected by something unintended or glitchy.
Hey, haven't finished the video yet but thank you for such high quality subtitles. I have trouble processing noise sometimes, and my mother is deaf, so this stuff always means a lot. Makes life a lot more accessible for a lot of people. Thank you a bunch!!!
10:42 I remember in high school watching a super high production value Shakespeare play. It was Much Ado About Nothing, and in the wedding scene when the bride and groom start fighting, the white roses fell off the archway. It was the most perfectly times prop fail I've ever seen.
Ooh, I'm really sensitive to the play state thing. As soon as real harm comes anywhere near something I can't enjoy it at all. FML was really popular when I was in middle school. It was a site where people shared unfortunate anecdotes from their lives for others to laugh at, but I couldn't get over the real misfortune, even though those people chose to share their stories. It's also why I can't enjoy wrestling at all, or most sports for that matter.
I feel this deeply. If real people are suffering I just. Cringe. My empathy stat is over tuned at times. Also happens if I see/hear babies crying in movies where something bad is happening or if old people are being threatened or animals. I just. DO NOT LIKE.
It probably has to do with your mirror neurons. It can become so intense it's a type of synesthesia that causes the individual to literally feel the pain or any number of sensations as people they see. I'm not a neurologist but if it bothers you there are methods of managing mirror neurons activity. Hopefully, though, either way your empathy allows you to feel more joy than suffering 💙
CrossCode, as a game that takes place within another, fictional, game, can really play with glitches while _adding_ to the immersion rather than breaking it... to an extent. One quest added after release is entirely focused on breaking the inner game and requires that you phase through a solid wall while doing it. Partway through, the partner guiding you skips a large puzzle room that you just did using a technique that was originally unintentional called a Jump-Attack-Dash Cancel (JADC), which effectively acts as a long jump. The technique was unintended by the developers, but this quest basically acts as a tutorial for one of the first glitches used in the speedrun. There are also several points in the main story where the game yanks your immersion out of the inner game while still maintaining immersion in the outer game.
I've just been reading about the Atari Adventure Easter Egg, the pixel/dot into the wall and room with credits. Part of what makes is such a great Easter Egg is that it seems totally outside regular play. Even the dot is inconguent with the blocks that make up everything else in the game.
Favourite video game glitch in recent memory. I was playing OMORI, indie, turn-based rpg, I was fighting a sprout mole and commanded Aubrey to use headbutt, which, is a move with a...dramatic animation to say the least, Aubrey using almost her full body for one single headbutt. However, in this case, there was an error, the sprout mole's dying animation played, followed by Aubrey's dramatic headbutt.
I was thinking I don't laugh when people fall but then that mascot fell & I chuckled. 4:45 Her speech set that up perfectly but the "My leg!" made it perfect.
When I thought of glitches in the real world I thought of DNA mutations. They're honestly kind of scary. Anything could go randomly wrong, and it's more scary because it's the foundation of you, and there's a mistake in your very code.
I'm now in awe after realizing how important incongruity is in humor. It must be why one of my favourite vines was the two guys singing the fragment from 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. Don't know why I'm sharing this fact. Maybe someone likes this vine too and is going to rewatch it and have a laugh. Awesome video, Daryl!
You really found a way to tie in speedrunning, wrestling, glitches, and reddit all together. As always a great video and I look forward to whatever other journeys you take us on.
I’m amazed at how you delved into seemingly disparate topics for 26 minutes and made it the most cohesive and entertaining video about a topic that may have been discussed to death.
i think its worth mentioning that some rare glitches can actually INCREASE your immersion. especially the kind of immersion that comes from control (the best kind of immersion if you ask me) like for example, the mockball glitch in super metroid. its clearly a glitch, but it plays perfectly into both A: the game's main gameplay loops of exploration and technical mastery, and B: the fantasy that the game is trying to convey of being alone on an indifferent planet with nothing but your skill and resourcefulness to keep you alive. you ARE abusing the game's mechanics, but in the same way sharpening a stick into a weapon is abusing real life's mechanics. plus, the mockball just makes physical sense. if you throw a bowling ball harder it rolls faster. its congruent with the rest of the game. (at least to me, maybe the mockball totally RUINS somebody else's immersion idk)
I think it's machball, like going mach speed, though I can see it being a "mock"ball if the behind the scenes involve tricking a dash into thinking it's a morph ball
Yooo, that fuckin' drop of the Wild ARMS theme at the end there! Also thanks for the shout-out and congrats on 4 years of UA-cam! Always looking forward to seeing what you put out next time.
I’ve always loved scripted glitches and fourth-wall breaks in games. If they’re done right, they can be really terrifying because they can seem like something that could possibly affect the player and not just the video game character. I played Arkham Asylum at launch and I’ve never forgotten that part. The setup on that is absolutely genius. The PA coming on with the familiar jingle you’ve heard all game, followed by an incredibly unexpected line: “Did anyone catch the game last night?” It sounds like something you might have heard in a dream and is completely out of place in the setting, helping to further sell the concept of Scarecrow’s fear toxin inducing genuine nightmares.
See, it's interesting, the glitch at 4:40 actually feels like it actually ENHANCES what's happening, because Piper is trying to warn people about real danger in the city, only to be directly assaulted with that kind of danger. That kind of serendipity in glitches is hard to come by, but so cool when it happens! The video talk about when that's PURPOSEFULLY done at 19:20
I was curious about something... So, I've been playing a lot of late-night lobbies in PvP games and I'm noticing that certain classes seem to be played more at night than others. I wonder if your chosen class is a vague reflection of you, much like how your favorite games can also reflect you. Are certain classes more appealing to Night Owls? Others to Early Risers? The same goes for certain games.
Personality absolutely influences class choice. Play enough D&D or MMOs and you'll start to see a lot of correlations--the most obvious is in healer / support roles.
Depending on the game and your time zone, it might also be that you're playing with an entire different group of people. If you're in New York and you stay up until midnight, you might still be getting LA kids before bedtime if your game doesn't match by proximity. Part of it is definitely a correlation between night owls and classes, but some of it might also be dipping into different place's preferred playstyles.
@@plantinapot9169 since support is generally considered a less skillful class than more aggressive classes like slayer or something (yes this is a broad generalization), people who are less confident in their own skills will probably chose support more then people who are confident they can do the killing and end up with slayer
That twist with the wrestler with the knee injury getting up like a souls enemy and just hitting that guy, it blew my mind, made me go Pog. Holy moly. I never knew i needed to watch wrestling botches and betrayals before
With all due respect to the channel and all wrestling fans... what the *fuck* was that barbed-wire-electricity-and-explosives match? Am I the only one who was... actually seriously concerned about the well-being of these wrestlers? Like, what the fuck, that looks like it was HORRENDOUSLY painful, or potentially deadly. This was all a performance, right? No risk of a real injury, right? These people are all right, right? Please someone assure me this was all under control and these people are okay. I understand suspense, acting, and high stakes, and I understand that wrestling is a performance rather than a real thing... but maybe I'm too weak for this type of things with real people involved. This just looked really stupidly and unnecessarily violent and risky to me. Like, accidents happen, even in performances, and I *really* want to believe that this wasn't real. Please someone explain to me if/how they made it safe for the wrestlers Edit: Fckin played myself... He literally explained it in the video a few minutes later... looks like my "play frame" is, in fact, incredibly small.
I know that rubber/plastic replicas of barbed wire exist to avoid injury, with blood able to be simulated with dyed fluid stored somewhere in the props or on the clothes. While I'm neither a pyro technician or electrician, the explosions are likely caused by an overloaded electric fence that is spaced a few inches away from the real fence. Of course some injury and discomfort is inevitable, but at least it's not deadly.
Honestly, same case for me, even after having watched the entire video. Wrestling is one thing, but getting barbed wires, electricity and explosives involved is another! I was more concerned than impressed all the way through O_O
I am sure the American pro wrestling did it artificially, but seeing the Japanese stuff there was kinda damn scary to me, I don't know if it was real or fake since he said it was "controversial".
the "explosions" just look like smoke and sparks to me, so that was not my primary concern, but i completely agree with the barbed wire. Even if it was fake, maintaining that "play space" requires that the audience knows that it is fake barbed wire, and as a show, revealing the trickery to pull off the stunts only breaks suspension of disbelief. Catch 22. If they reveal the barbed wire is fake, the stakes disappear. If they dont, then the injuries real barbed wire can cause rapidly pull the unprepared observer out of the illusion due to the large concern it raises. Barbed wire isnt the type of thing that has a tame enough reputation to joke about.
about you dealing with glitches breaking immersion: during a very emotional cutscene with miles near the end of miles morales ps4, a random wall started glitching into his character model. like. out of nowhere. the wall just freaking out and colliding with him was both incredibly funny and incredibly immersion-breaking.
I've recently been watching Star Trek TNG, and the episode "The outrageous Okana" has had my head spinning, trying to find a way to formulate a succinct everyman explanation for humor. The incongruity was easy to define. The play-state was not, and this video gave me an answer to a question that was already bothering me. Absolutely wonderful.
I have a 9yo daughter who is very feminine and sweet and polite, every teacher she has tells me that she is a once-in-a-career student and they wish they could keep her forever. I actually don't talk about my daughter that often to people who don't know her, because she is so mature and wise and spot on sometimes that I know people are going to, "r/thathappened" me. She is also one of the funniest people I know. I generally chalk this up to her being the result of two theatre people breeding, and I'm sure that hasn't hurt. But in truth, outside of the part which is simply innate to her (which let's be real, is the VAST majority of it) I think it's because since she was old enough to understand, I've actually discussed with her what makes things funny. I have a parenting philosophy that I'm not raising a child, I'm raising an adult--which basically just helps me remember that ultimately my goal is to help her be the most functional human she can out in the world. I have found consistently that kids are generally a lot smarter and more with-it than most people give them credit for, and engaging with them more deeply--WHEN AND HOW ITS APPROPRIATE--can make for a way better relationship. Since she was at least as young as 5, if you asked her what is the most important feature of a joke, she would tell you that the punchline has to be unexpected. I still think it's immensely cool that she can internalize that kind of feedback--she was editing an animatic last night and asked my opinion on the progress she had made, and I praised nearly all of it and made one suggestion for a change. She responded and told me that she loved that I'm honest with her like that, because she thinks it helps her get better; most people just say everything is wonderful no matter what, but she would rather people be honest. I'm careful to not be overtly critical, she is a relatively confident kid and I think she feels pretty sure of the adoration I hold for her which is dripping through this entire comment. Hey. So I wanted to geek out on my kid for a few minutes. Worse things in the world.
To add to some of your points - my favorite part about glitches is wondering about the "why". Video games have extremely strict logic, and when something breaks out of one logic loop, it can have a cascade effect into other loops. I love thinking about what particular system is "misbehaving" when I see something strange, and will often try to replicate the problem or just poke and prod at the strange result in front of me to see if some consistency emerges, or what bizarre qualifier caused it in the first place. I'll often wonder if a bug or glitch exists in a released game because of its difficulty to fix, or it was just deemed less important than other changes that needed to happen. Something about it all just triggers a fascination response unless the glitch results in a harsh setback.
4:04 it was at this moment my earbuds stopped working, and so the video kept playing without sound for a minute before it actually registered as disconnected. The entire time I thought Daryl was doing a bit😂
As someone with ADHD who frequently gets glitched when trying to do too many tasks simultaneously I can tell you they definitely can be incredibly disruptive, but honestly I always laugh afterwards. Imagine trying to grab your keys to leave for work, but midway through reaching for your keys you remember you left your coffee thermos on the counter so you whirl around to go get it, but then you remember the trash is full and you need to double check when trash day is so you whirl back around to the door where your calendar is with the trash days marked, but then you realize you never grabbed your keys and you keep twisting and turning and reaching for 15-20 seconds straight before finally shouting at yourself and stopping yourself so you can break the glitch.
as a brazilian who lives in Minas Gerais, swapping "train" for the equivalent to "stuff", or "thing" is a common thing for me, altho I never expected that being said in english, some funny train, I'd say
“And if you see someone slip and fall down, you will fight back the urge to laugh.” Um. No. I feel an urge to physically cringe and run up and make sure they’re okay because I’m too empathetic for this cruel world.
I can relate so much to "writing this [...] has made me feel like an alien trying to understand human laughter" when I wrote a term paper on the humor in Undertale. :,D Great video! I really enjoyed watching it! (And I bet Kris Statlander would understand your definition.)
I'm surprised the new game Inscryption isn't even mentioned in this video, because it plays with this concept very well. One of my fav games I've played this year. Keep up the good quality!
When I was younger I would take glitches rather seriously, not in a "oh no, my game is breaking" but more like "ooh, are the walls of reality breaking down? Have I accessed some distorted dimension within the game's world?" (and I imagine the distortion world in Pokemon Platinum was playing on this idea) I suppose glitches look more comical in modern games because as the graphics get more "realistic" it's more obvious when something isn't supposed to be there
I've never been into wrestling, but you consistently do a great job of explaining your points and how they relate to gaming in a way that keeps me engaged. Fantastic work, man.
I loved basically every moment of Ghost of Tsushima but the moment that stuck with me the most is one I used my Share button for the first time ever to record because I was laughing so goddam hard. I went into a Mongol camp late game enough to have the surprise decapitation attack for Mongol leaders. I snuck into the leader's tent, chopped his head off and started hoovering up nearby loot, but heard the sound of someone moving around. I turned around to find the headless Mongol lord crawling toward me in pain using the near death animation of normal soldiers. I had inadvertently found the zombie Mongol and laughed until it hurt. 10/10 glitch.
One glitch I like which is in a movie and adds to the story is in How To Train Your Dragon. When Hiccup puts his hand in front of Toothless for the first time, Toothless hesitates. He wasn't supposed to, but the animation had a glitch and the animators figured it added to the sense that Hiccup really did earn his trust.
Gotta say, I absolutely appreciate your videos for helping keep me awake driving late at night on long drives. They never fail to keep me thinking and focused. Keep up the awesome work. You definitely got a subscribe here.
Learning all the glitches is one of my absolute favorite way to enjoy the post-game of a lot of games. Especially Zelda games like Ocarina and Breath of the Wild that have absolutely wild and hilarious glitches.
One of my favorite writers, Mark Lawrence, once purposefully edited a glitch into his narrative: The protagonist got caught in a magic spell by his arch enemy, unable to react, move or anything really, and he would have died right then and there if not the caster got kicked by a nearby spooked horse. For some this might feel like a Deus Ex Machina, but to me it just added so much more realism because glitches happen.
32:21 I couldn't help but think about the scene in Inception where he's intentionally making the dreamer aware that they're in a dream, risking the whole endeavor in order to eventually increase trust.
Good video! I wanna touch on the amazing use of the thumbnail and title with "Why glitches are beautiful" and "...And how the exist in the real world" being the second half of the sentence as people usually look at the thumbnail first. Brilliant!
5:09 I laughed so loud. I cried. 14:21 I saw it coming and still couldn't hold back. This is exactly my type of stupid humor. Especially since the cow doesn't react at all.
22:40 Alright, I've been hesitant. But imma recommend you one dose of watching through Wilbur Soot's dream SMP series. Especially since they are full of both glitches and botches at the same time. Another great vid man!
You continue to live at the perfect intersection of several of my big loves - wrestling, psychology, and video games. Thank you for the constant quality ❤️ edit: 7:41 🥺 muh hangmun
I would love to see a video on the specifics in your brain behind being totally immersed in a video game or some other kind of media and how you can either attempt to make yourself more immersed in the media or vice versa. Sorry if you already commented on this in another video Great vid btw, merry Christmas
Just found the channel and I'm really digging it. The parallels between video game glitches and wrestling botches is an appropriate albeit amusing one.
I heard about a performance of La Traviata, an opera, where the heroine had to jump off the edge of the stage and was supposed to land on a trampoline that had been loosened. The trampoline sent her flying back up instead.
I'm one of those people when I see someone fall I always feel concerned as if the fall happened to me, that's why I don't feel it funny I just feel.. Bad
I would say the main in-game reason you become worried is mostly that you get softlocked and have to replay a big part of the game or even worse got softlocked right before an autosave with the last one 2h or the worst, it broke the only save or currupted the games player profile.
Another interesting perspective on glitches/wonkyness can be found in the amazing part to to codex entry "pathologic for those who will never play it". That game is intentionally janky and hard to play, not to immerse the player deeper, but to make the player realize that they are in fact playing a game, and make them more actively engage with the themes and ideas behind it, similar to berthold brecht plays. It's really long but really great!
3:40 and 6:44 There are... some other exceptions, mainly recreational arts. Opera, theater, streaming, music, dance... and errors are generally frowned upon, except maybe in streaming. Idk if I am ready for music with... oh wait, jazz It's ok, I'll calm the jazz gods down by singing the lick twice, in different keys a tritone appart; wish me luck.
I once did tech for a show where there was a scene where one of the characters who had lost her voice was supposed to hand a card with a message on it to the other character. At one of the performances, the actress forgot she had the card, which led to a solid five minutes of awkward silence onstage. It was basically a real world example of “Did the game freeze?” 😂
Thank you for the wonderful content these past few years! It's very rare for me to sit down and watch UA-cam videos without putting it on the background while doing something else. Cheers to more years to come!
I'd guess I'm a bit of an outlier that I've never found real people slipping and falling to be funny in any capacity. I'm always immediately concerned about potential serious consequences. Similarly I'd guess this kind of mindset makes me not enjoy actual wrestling This video is actually a good way for me to understand why people may find such situations funny - because to me, glitches in video games are fun. So in a sense, I can now kind of sort of get the idea, rather than immediately going: "Why the hell would you laugh at something like this?"... Although, I'll probably still do that to be fair Thank you for the overview :)
The triskaidekaphobic bit was very specific and hilarious. Edit: It was a setup, and I did look it up to be sure it meant what I thought it did. Well done.
I think the play state thing is probably also the main reason why the old "video games cause VIOLENCE!" has repeatedly proven to be false.
At least for those who aren't genuine psychopaths, but hey! Mental Health Awareness has never been higher, and hopefully won't be forgotten anytime soon.
@@Aflay1 I'd imagine a real life violent assailant would simply have their "play state" thing extended to real people, or people who aren't their loved ones, or people who aren't them, depending on how bad their Mental Health is
The idea it had to be 'proven false' is ridiculous.
Humans have been awful, violent things since the dawn of time. There were decades of violent books movies, TV shows and plays preceding games.
They had nothing to do with it either. People did worse than Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that was thousands of years prior to there even being electricity, movies, or a theater to show them in.
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@@phant0mdummy Ever heard of Titus Andronicus? One of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays on account of it being a pointless gore fest. And that’s not even that far back!
As a stage actor, I can confirm that glitches happen a lot. Such as the table you’re supposed to be jumping onto tipping over and sending you flying. Or doors falling on you. Or doors cutting you. Or doors tripping you. I have really bad luck with doors on stage.
One time the actress who was meant to be choking my character forgot to (to be fair this was in high school) so I had to grab their hands and put them around my neck and then pretend to die. So. At least the audience found it funny!
I once was involved in a production of Treasure Island, and on stage we had two fake rocks, one made of paper mache that looked quite good, and one a painted cardboard cutout taped to a chair. During one scene the lead character was meant to stand on a rock to look further to the horizon, and the intent was for them to stand on the chair rock, since you know, there was a chair to stand on, but the first time the rocks were actually on stage was dress rehearsal and the actor, not entirely aware of which rock she was supposed to stand on, stepped on the wrong rock and fell right through, after which she muttered "they just don't make rocks like they used to" and went over to the correct fake rock and continued the scene. I've also witnessed instances of zippers not opening, telephones falling to pieces, and plenty of missed cues by actors entering and techies cuing sounds... Not that I do a lot of stage acting these days, and I've usually had minor roles when I did, but I've been fortunate to avoid being personally victimized by many stage glitches.
Door-kun about to isekai you
Props crashing loudly backstage.
The Play That Goes Wrong is the perfect example of a stage play that contains nothing but glitches and uses mistakes to enhance the story.
I totally agree! Doors are bloody evil on stage
Man, this took some unexpected turns, didn't realize how many funny and horrifying screwups are riddled throughout wrestling. Though, I guess it is quite fitting given the topic, lol
Oh dude there are some way worse ones that didn’t make the vid for graphic level purposes lol. Broken necks, torn quads, it all happens.
As Daryl said, there's some REALLY nasty ones, and some even end in death. If you're not squeamish and can handle it, look up what happened to the man known as Owen Hart. It was heartbreaking.
@@Dimumouto my brain read that as hartbreaking I’m so sorry
@@DarylTalksGames broken necks? You meand deaths?
@@alexterieur8813 yeah, there have been a few deaths over the years. Just like deaths on film sets or on stage, they’re uncommon but happen.
When I was younger, I used to think what a game with "random accidents" would be like. People never trip or fall or whatever in games or movies if it isn't for comedic effect or otherwise necessary. Enough said, such a game would be a pain to play.
Looks like Super Smash Bros Brawl was beyond it's time! It has a "random accidents" mechanic exactly like you described lmao
Sounds kinda like Death Stranding lol
That's cyberpunk mate.
@@arkaua and the game was critically acclaimed for the rest of time for it... ;) lol
Just take the clumsy perk on project zomboid. You just randomly fall all the time and it's brutal
I will never forget that Arkham Asylum moment. I bought the game used so when the game started glitch I immediately pulled out the disc and started freaking out before the cutscene played, checking for scratches and dirt. I reloaded my save, saw the glitch happen and felt that pit in my stomach that I bought a broken disc. Then I saw Joker behind the wheel and I was completely blown away.
Similar story! I first played it on a very weak laptop and i often experienced lags and stutters and crashes, though eventually it started running consistently but only at like 15-20 fps (I legit beat the game multiple times at that fps I have no idea how younger me was so patient). The laptop was even tended to bluescreen from time to time
Then when this "crash" happened I freaked the fuck out. I knew for sure the laptop was dead and over and over I just pressed the power button as soon as that happened and let it cool off and tried again. The game even crashed a few times and gave an error message on that part.
Then eventually I decided to stick it out one time and my mind was absolutely blown away at the fact that this was intended. I had no idea games could do that.
I found this information pretty comforting ngl. Knowing that the reason people laugh when someone falls is technically because it's unexpected and out of the ordinary really makes me feel like I don't need to be as self concious whenever I embarrass myself in front of others
Absolutely! Reminded me of a friend who has a completely involuntary compulsion to laugh in tense or uncomfortable situations, human brains have all these weird little quirks that we don't always recognise.
interestingly, I've never laughed when someone falls over, perhaps because it's not unexpected; I have always been terrified of falling down due to a few bad experiences in the past, so the _idea_ of falling down is always on my mind and thus never unexpected.
usually, I'll just wince or groan as I'm brought back to one of the half-dozen or so memories where I'd experienced something similar.
Darryl: The narrative is hittin, the dialogue is grippin, you're on the edge of your seat, frankly just smittin.
Me: Damn Daryl be spittin.
he got everyone sittin
talking such things that government considers forbidden
@@creeper_awwman and he just keeps pitchin
our vibes whippin
thats some good stuff that he's written
To be honest, when you started talking about immersion breaking, I was almost expecting this video to go much darker and talk about the idea of dissociation - specifically derealization. It's something I deal with on a fairly frequent basis, and can be quite frustrating to handle.
Otherwise, perhaps I missed it or simply forgot, but I would love to see a video about how games provoke intense choices or otherwise make you stop and just... have to take a minute to think. Alternatively, perceptions and reactions to the idea of finality such as in games like OneShot or Outer Wilds (spoilers for the second one, if you haven't played it please do with no spoils, it's worth the time - both the base game and DLC).
i’m sorry to hear that
@@kzzazzip6272 It's all good! It's frustrating sometimes but also ultimately has been extremely helpful through difficult times which I'm working my way out of. I appreciate the sympathy
No worries, I had a similar reaction, but then I remembered Daryl wanted to go back to normal, silly Psych of Plays for a bit to take a break from the more dark and serious videos.
Kind of ironic that we exercise incongruence by talking about it.
ohhh I'd love to see a video on fake endings. I guess it's still within the overarching topic of immersion which we have quite a few videos about already, but come on, the topic is massive.
sometimes I delete the epic biology dlc of real life and it makes my character forget how 2 poop lol and it runs down his leg
I find it immensely ironic that a super mutant photo bombing your story experience simultaneously ruins your immersion and reminds you that the wasteland is treacherous, and being exploded at any moment is absolutely realistic.
That sort of humor makes sense - you’re in a zombie wasteland! No zombie will wait for a cutscene to end to not kill you.
quite literally photobombing with that explosive
every time that happened in the video, it just mad me laugh harder than the previous time, and i love it.
> "Why don't you write anything nice?"
> Immediately blown up
> "My leg!"
That's why.
Why doesn't she ever write anything nice? That might be why.
"i could be doing something else rn"
What I never think when watching Psych of Play
ua-cam.com/video/s_affVTGCzc/v-deo.html.
Oh hey, your icon looks kinda like a drawing I made as a kid!
I've laughed at that cow walking into the fire every time it showed up, both when I didn't know what's gonna happen and when I did.
Though I'm not much of a wrestling guy, the whole video was very interesting. Thank you, Daryl.
P.S. First time I see myself being properly included in the group of people not celebrating anything, props!
Re: your PS. There was a kid's show called The Weekenders, and there are four main characters. For their holiday episode, they drive an RV up this mountain and they all exchange stories from their "worst holiday ever". So they do Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and... The winter solstice! I've just always thought that was pretty clever.
I never was someone laughing at Slapstick humor (people falling down, getting scared etc) but i love unexpected scenes like Piper getting blown up xD that scene really got me.
Everything said about pro wrestling also applies to live theatre! A personal story I have that is very “video game glitch” is when, due to some last minute cue changes, several people (including myself) stayed on stage pretending to be corpses for an entire scene longer than was intended.
Wow I had no idea they did that in wrestling haha. That's amazing!
I'm curious about studies in accordance with the "Play Frame". Would be cool to see more details about it. The concept of "play" seems to be a pretty common attribute in mammals, but I think in humans and perhaps a few select animals we include Stories in there which may give us a unique perspective with the "Play frame" specifically. It makes me wonder how much we should allow the play frame to take up our mental space, whether holding to too often causes issues, and whether or not that applies to standard online interactions outside of obvious "play" in positive or negative ways (in some ways it may have to do with what we see as effects in anonymity).
Fun video as always!
It’s really interesting right? There’s definitely more to talk about there in a different context. Might be whole other video down the line haha
ua-cam.com/video/s_affVTGCzc/v-deo.html.
Oddly enough the waiter joke was more amusing to me than the train one was
i said “a train” in sync after that joke LOL
I think it was funnier ya. Feel like there is a reason why it's funnier can't give a reason
@@venci16 there's no irony or subversion in the train joke. only exaggerated proportions. the punchline of train joke is not surprising, unexpected, or incompatible (the traits listed in the paper at 16:12) with the setup of the joke
The waiter joke is funnier, but has a higher barrier of entry
Honestly at first I thought it was just a joke about having to deal with a lot of stupid people.
.....Also I guess Kingdom Hearts is a no-go for anyone with triskaidekaphobia. Don't mind me, resident KH fan who has to tie everything to KH somehow, someway.
Intentional glitches are my favorite kind of comedy, that's why I love the classic Looney tunes because you expect one thing to happen and somehow they bend the rules of universe to do something absolutely out of place, like moving Daffy's peak arong his head, moving the front of a rifle so it shoots in a different direction, taking off infinite signs from a tree to decide who is going to be murdered, wearing tons of different costumes so you can confuse someone, shape shifting and transforming into God (big chungus origin), etc. Because none of those things not only don't make sense, but somehow manage to give it sense, it isn't simply "I'm gonna hunt this duck" and finish in an Italian restaurant solving a crime as a detective, it's not funny unless you manga to give it a direction for why it ended like that.
I like the playstate idea, because it also explains the dramatically different perception of glitches in competitive games. Those games can have real world money involved, or have people fighting for titles, and it's immensely frustrating when an outcome is affected by something unintended or glitchy.
Hey, haven't finished the video yet but thank you for such high quality subtitles. I have trouble processing noise sometimes, and my mother is deaf, so this stuff always means a lot. Makes life a lot more accessible for a lot of people. Thank you a bunch!!!
10:42 I remember in high school watching a super high production value Shakespeare play.
It was Much Ado About Nothing, and in the wedding scene when the bride and groom start fighting, the white roses fell off the archway. It was the most perfectly times prop fail I've ever seen.
This video was incredibly funny and entertaining
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Ooh, I'm really sensitive to the play state thing. As soon as real harm comes anywhere near something I can't enjoy it at all. FML was really popular when I was in middle school. It was a site where people shared unfortunate anecdotes from their lives for others to laugh at, but I couldn't get over the real misfortune, even though those people chose to share their stories. It's also why I can't enjoy wrestling at all, or most sports for that matter.
I feel this deeply. If real people are suffering I just. Cringe. My empathy stat is over tuned at times.
Also happens if I see/hear babies crying in movies where something bad is happening or if old people are being threatened or animals. I just. DO NOT LIKE.
It probably has to do with your mirror neurons. It can become so intense it's a type of synesthesia that causes the individual to literally feel the pain or any number of sensations as people they see. I'm not a neurologist but if it bothers you there are methods of managing mirror neurons activity. Hopefully, though, either way your empathy allows you to feel more joy than suffering 💙
@@ferretappreciatori tear up in pride seeing a bear catch a fish 🥺😢🥰❤️
CrossCode, as a game that takes place within another, fictional, game, can really play with glitches while _adding_ to the immersion rather than breaking it... to an extent. One quest added after release is entirely focused on breaking the inner game and requires that you phase through a solid wall while doing it. Partway through, the partner guiding you skips a large puzzle room that you just did using a technique that was originally unintentional called a Jump-Attack-Dash Cancel (JADC), which effectively acts as a long jump. The technique was unintended by the developers, but this quest basically acts as a tutorial for one of the first glitches used in the speedrun. There are also several points in the main story where the game yanks your immersion out of the inner game while still maintaining immersion in the outer game.
I've just been reading about the Atari Adventure Easter Egg, the pixel/dot into the wall and room with credits. Part of what makes is such a great Easter Egg is that it seems totally outside regular play. Even the dot is inconguent with the blocks that make up everything else in the game.
That sounds awesome, like the Matrix in a Matrix
4:44 what really makes this shine is the "My leg!" at the end. 😂
Favourite video game glitch in recent memory.
I was playing OMORI, indie, turn-based rpg, I was fighting a sprout mole and commanded Aubrey to use headbutt, which, is a move with a...dramatic animation to say the least, Aubrey using almost her full body for one single headbutt.
However, in this case, there was an error, the sprout mole's dying animation played, followed by Aubrey's dramatic headbutt.
I was thinking I don't laugh when people fall but then that mascot fell & I chuckled.
4:45 Her speech set that up perfectly but the "My leg!" made it perfect.
When I thought of glitches in the real world I thought of DNA mutations. They're honestly kind of scary. Anything could go randomly wrong, and it's more scary because it's the foundation of you, and there's a mistake in your very code.
another way to look at it is that brokenness is what we are; you are self-aware _because_ life found a way 🧘🏻♀️
@@jesscmcmxc hmmm didn't think about it that way :0
I'm now in awe after realizing how important incongruity is in humor. It must be why one of my favourite vines was the two guys singing the fragment from 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. Don't know why I'm sharing this fact. Maybe someone likes this vine too and is going to rewatch it and have a laugh.
Awesome video, Daryl!
YOU BETTER WATHC OUT
@@coraliacries YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
@@NotCreativeEnough3 YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT!!
You really found a way to tie in speedrunning, wrestling, glitches, and reddit all together. As always a great video and I look forward to whatever other journeys you take us on.
I’m amazed at how you delved into seemingly disparate topics for 26 minutes and made it the most cohesive and entertaining video about a topic that may have been discussed to death.
i think its worth mentioning that some rare glitches can actually INCREASE your immersion. especially the kind of immersion that comes from control (the best kind of immersion if you ask me)
like for example, the mockball glitch in super metroid. its clearly a glitch, but it plays perfectly into both A: the game's main gameplay loops of exploration and technical mastery, and B: the fantasy that the game is trying to convey of being alone on an indifferent planet with nothing but your skill and resourcefulness to keep you alive. you ARE abusing the game's mechanics, but in the same way sharpening a stick into a weapon is abusing real life's mechanics.
plus, the mockball just makes physical sense. if you throw a bowling ball harder it rolls faster.
its congruent with the rest of the game.
(at least to me, maybe the mockball totally RUINS somebody else's immersion idk)
I felt that in We Happy Few. Felt like the glitches was the protagonist's head getting fucked up because of the aftermath of Joy consumption.
I think it's machball, like going mach speed, though I can see it being a "mock"ball if the behind the scenes involve tricking a dash into thinking it's a morph ball
This man definitely knows his gaming OST history.
Yooo, that fuckin' drop of the Wild ARMS theme at the end there!
Also thanks for the shout-out and congrats on 4 years of UA-cam! Always looking forward to seeing what you put out next time.
Recently discovered the soundtrack and it has me wanting to try the series haha, thanks as always!
A video on wrestling botches and video game glitches is maybe the best combo I could expect in a post from you. Great channel.
I’ve always loved scripted glitches and fourth-wall breaks in games. If they’re done right, they can be really terrifying because they can seem like something that could possibly affect the player and not just the video game character.
I played Arkham Asylum at launch and I’ve never forgotten that part. The setup on that is absolutely genius. The PA coming on with the familiar jingle you’ve heard all game, followed by an incredibly unexpected line: “Did anyone catch the game last night?” It sounds like something you might have heard in a dream and is completely out of place in the setting, helping to further sell the concept of Scarecrow’s fear toxin inducing genuine nightmares.
See, it's interesting, the glitch at 4:40 actually feels like it actually ENHANCES what's happening, because Piper is trying to warn people about real danger in the city, only to be directly assaulted with that kind of danger. That kind of serendipity in glitches is hard to come by, but so cool when it happens!
The video talk about when that's PURPOSEFULLY done at 19:20
"Glitches exist in real life too Mista White" "Jesse what the FUCK are you talking about?"
I was curious about something...
So, I've been playing a lot of late-night lobbies in PvP games and I'm noticing that certain classes seem to be played more at night than others. I wonder if your chosen class is a vague reflection of you, much like how your favorite games can also reflect you.
Are certain classes more appealing to Night Owls? Others to Early Risers? The same goes for certain games.
Personality absolutely influences class choice. Play enough D&D or MMOs and you'll start to see a lot of correlations--the most obvious is in healer / support roles.
Depending on the game and your time zone, it might also be that you're playing with an entire different group of people. If you're in New York and you stay up until midnight, you might still be getting LA kids before bedtime if your game doesn't match by proximity. Part of it is definitely a correlation between night owls and classes, but some of it might also be dipping into different place's preferred playstyles.
@@lunasophia9002 What kind of ppl play support? Don’t LV me hangin like that lol
@@lunasophia9002 I want to know as well.
@@plantinapot9169 since support is generally considered a less skillful class than more aggressive classes like slayer or something (yes this is a broad generalization), people who are less confident in their own skills will probably chose support more then people who are confident they can do the killing and end up with slayer
That twist with the wrestler with the knee injury getting up like a souls enemy and just hitting that guy, it blew my mind, made me go Pog. Holy moly. I never knew i needed to watch wrestling botches and betrayals before
With all due respect to the channel and all wrestling fans... what the *fuck* was that barbed-wire-electricity-and-explosives match? Am I the only one who was... actually seriously concerned about the well-being of these wrestlers? Like, what the fuck, that looks like it was HORRENDOUSLY painful, or potentially deadly. This was all a performance, right? No risk of a real injury, right? These people are all right, right? Please someone assure me this was all under control and these people are okay. I understand suspense, acting, and high stakes, and I understand that wrestling is a performance rather than a real thing... but maybe I'm too weak for this type of things with real people involved. This just looked really stupidly and unnecessarily violent and risky to me. Like, accidents happen, even in performances, and I *really* want to believe that this wasn't real. Please someone explain to me if/how they made it safe for the wrestlers
Edit: Fckin played myself... He literally explained it in the video a few minutes later... looks like my "play frame" is, in fact, incredibly small.
I know that rubber/plastic replicas of barbed wire exist to avoid injury, with blood able to be simulated with dyed fluid stored somewhere in the props or on the clothes.
While I'm neither a pyro technician or electrician, the explosions are likely caused by an overloaded electric fence that is spaced a few inches away from the real fence.
Of course some injury and discomfort is inevitable, but at least it's not deadly.
Honestly, same case for me, even after having watched the entire video. Wrestling is one thing, but getting barbed wires, electricity and explosives involved is another! I was more concerned than impressed all the way through O_O
@@GeorgeCowsert thank you, kind stranger, I suspected something similar but I'm relieved to have at least one person affirm it
I am sure the American pro wrestling did it artificially, but seeing the Japanese stuff there was kinda damn scary to me, I don't know if it was real or fake since he said it was "controversial".
the "explosions" just look like smoke and sparks to me, so that was not my primary concern, but i completely agree with the barbed wire. Even if it was fake, maintaining that "play space" requires that the audience knows that it is fake barbed wire, and as a show, revealing the trickery to pull off the stunts only breaks suspension of disbelief. Catch 22. If they reveal the barbed wire is fake, the stakes disappear. If they dont, then the injuries real barbed wire can cause rapidly pull the unprepared observer out of the illusion due to the large concern it raises. Barbed wire isnt the type of thing that has a tame enough reputation to joke about.
about you dealing with glitches breaking immersion: during a very emotional cutscene with miles near the end of miles morales ps4, a random wall started glitching into his character model. like. out of nowhere. the wall just freaking out and colliding with him was both incredibly funny and incredibly immersion-breaking.
I've recently been watching Star Trek TNG, and the episode "The outrageous Okana" has had my head spinning, trying to find a way to formulate a succinct everyman explanation for humor. The incongruity was easy to define. The play-state was not, and this video gave me an answer to a question that was already bothering me. Absolutely wonderful.
I have a 9yo daughter who is very feminine and sweet and polite, every teacher she has tells me that she is a once-in-a-career student and they wish they could keep her forever. I actually don't talk about my daughter that often to people who don't know her, because she is so mature and wise and spot on sometimes that I know people are going to, "r/thathappened" me.
She is also one of the funniest people I know. I generally chalk this up to her being the result of two theatre people breeding, and I'm sure that hasn't hurt. But in truth, outside of the part which is simply innate to her (which let's be real, is the VAST majority of it) I think it's because since she was old enough to understand, I've actually discussed with her what makes things funny. I have a parenting philosophy that I'm not raising a child, I'm raising an adult--which basically just helps me remember that ultimately my goal is to help her be the most functional human she can out in the world. I have found consistently that kids are generally a lot smarter and more with-it than most people give them credit for, and engaging with them more deeply--WHEN AND HOW ITS APPROPRIATE--can make for a way better relationship.
Since she was at least as young as 5, if you asked her what is the most important feature of a joke, she would tell you that the punchline has to be unexpected. I still think it's immensely cool that she can internalize that kind of feedback--she was editing an animatic last night and asked my opinion on the progress she had made, and I praised nearly all of it and made one suggestion for a change. She responded and told me that she loved that I'm honest with her like that, because she thinks it helps her get better; most people just say everything is wonderful no matter what, but she would rather people be honest. I'm careful to not be overtly critical, she is a relatively confident kid and I think she feels pretty sure of the adoration I hold for her which is dripping through this entire comment.
Hey. So I wanted to geek out on my kid for a few minutes. Worse things in the world.
o.o
To add to some of your points - my favorite part about glitches is wondering about the "why". Video games have extremely strict logic, and when something breaks out of one logic loop, it can have a cascade effect into other loops. I love thinking about what particular system is "misbehaving" when I see something strange, and will often try to replicate the problem or just poke and prod at the strange result in front of me to see if some consistency emerges, or what bizarre qualifier caused it in the first place. I'll often wonder if a bug or glitch exists in a released game because of its difficulty to fix, or it was just deemed less important than other changes that needed to happen. Something about it all just triggers a fascination response unless the glitch results in a harsh setback.
I like the title being in the thumbnail and the actual title is a subtitle. Neat idea.
4:04 it was at this moment my earbuds stopped working, and so the video kept playing without sound for a minute before it actually registered as disconnected. The entire time I thought Daryl was doing a bit😂
As someone with ADHD who frequently gets glitched when trying to do too many tasks simultaneously I can tell you they definitely can be incredibly disruptive, but honestly I always laugh afterwards. Imagine trying to grab your keys to leave for work, but midway through reaching for your keys you remember you left your coffee thermos on the counter so you whirl around to go get it, but then you remember the trash is full and you need to double check when trash day is so you whirl back around to the door where your calendar is with the trash days marked, but then you realize you never grabbed your keys and you keep twisting and turning and reaching for 15-20 seconds straight before finally shouting at yourself and stopping yourself so you can break the glitch.
as a brazilian who lives in Minas Gerais, swapping "train" for the equivalent to "stuff", or "thing" is a common thing for me, altho I never expected that being said in english, some funny train, I'd say
“And if you see someone slip and fall down, you will fight back the urge to laugh.”
Um. No. I feel an urge to physically cringe and run up and make sure they’re okay because I’m too empathetic for this cruel world.
Darwinism will hit you, you are too pure for this world and after you are gone all that will left will be the rest of the cruel inhumanity
I can relate so much to "writing this [...] has made me feel like an alien trying to understand human laughter" when I wrote a term paper on the humor in Undertale. :,D
Great video! I really enjoyed watching it! (And I bet Kris Statlander would understand your definition.)
I'm surprised the new game Inscryption isn't even mentioned in this video, because it plays with this concept very well. One of my fav games I've played this year.
Keep up the good quality!
this video felt incredibly cared for, like its not made specifically for an audience but more for yourself. loved the video :)
Before it even starts I want to state that I love this. This is a damn fine idea and I know you will do it justice. Proceed!
When I was younger I would take glitches rather seriously, not in a "oh no, my game is breaking" but more like "ooh, are the walls of reality breaking down? Have I accessed some distorted dimension within the game's world?" (and I imagine the distortion world in Pokemon Platinum was playing on this idea) I suppose glitches look more comical in modern games because as the graphics get more "realistic" it's more obvious when something isn't supposed to be there
I mean there's also just the fact that you were a kid
I've never been into wrestling, but you consistently do a great job of explaining your points and how they relate to gaming in a way that keeps me engaged. Fantastic work, man.
I loved basically every moment of Ghost of Tsushima but the moment that stuck with me the most is one I used my Share button for the first time ever to record because I was laughing so goddam hard. I went into a Mongol camp late game enough to have the surprise decapitation attack for Mongol leaders. I snuck into the leader's tent, chopped his head off and started hoovering up nearby loot, but heard the sound of someone moving around. I turned around to find the headless Mongol lord crawling toward me in pain using the near death animation of normal soldiers. I had inadvertently found the zombie Mongol and laughed until it hurt. 10/10 glitch.
One glitch I like which is in a movie and adds to the story is in How To Train Your Dragon.
When Hiccup puts his hand in front of Toothless for the first time, Toothless hesitates. He wasn't supposed to, but the animation had a glitch and the animators figured it added to the sense that Hiccup really did earn his trust.
This was just as random as it was funny, and it kinda works perfectly
Gotta say, I absolutely appreciate your videos for helping keep me awake driving late at night on long drives. They never fail to keep me thinking and focused. Keep up the awesome work. You definitely got a subscribe here.
Pretend hurt can be hilarious but no sane person gets enjoyment from witnessing someone accidently really injure themselves.
Learning all the glitches is one of my absolute favorite way to enjoy the post-game of a lot of games. Especially Zelda games like Ocarina and Breath of the Wild that have absolutely wild and hilarious glitches.
I actually lost it at the "jam mashed potatoes into the air conditioning vent" i had to pause the video before I collected myself enough to keep going
One of my favorite writers, Mark Lawrence, once purposefully edited a glitch into his narrative: The protagonist got caught in a magic spell by his arch enemy, unable to react, move or anything really, and he would have died right then and there if not the caster got kicked by a nearby spooked horse.
For some this might feel like a Deus Ex Machina, but to me it just added so much more realism because glitches happen.
I haven’t really watched wrestling, but I’ve been fascinated by every video you’ve made that connects it with video games and psychology
That barbed wire wrestling thing wasn't something I knew about. Damn.
Thanks for talking about it and using it in the vidya
A warning about the bloodiness of the wrestling matches wouldve been nice :’( it was a very informative video otherwise!
32:21 I couldn't help but think about the scene in Inception where he's intentionally making the dreamer aware that they're in a dream, risking the whole endeavor in order to eventually increase trust.
This video was so insightful to me. I love your psychological theory explanations but it’s connected to games and experiences I am familiar with!
Daryl clearly just wanted to talk about wrestling for 20 minutes and honestly I'm here for it lmao
Sometimes I wonder how long Daryl spends finding clips of cats crawling out of train tunnels.
Good video! I wanna touch on the amazing use of the thumbnail and title with "Why glitches are beautiful" and "...And how the exist in the real world" being the second half of the sentence as people usually look at the thumbnail first. Brilliant!
5:09 I laughed so loud. I cried.
14:21 I saw it coming and still couldn't hold back. This is exactly my type of stupid humor. Especially since the cow doesn't react at all.
Thanks for letting me be in your extremely intelligent video my friend! I feel very honored!
2:39 as soon as I saw vivy
I can tell you really are a man of culture
22:40 Alright, I've been hesitant. But imma recommend you one dose of watching through Wilbur Soot's dream SMP series. Especially since they are full of both glitches and botches at the same time. Another great vid man!
You continue to live at the perfect intersection of several of my big loves - wrestling, psychology, and video games. Thank you for the constant quality ❤️
edit: 7:41 🥺 muh hangmun
I would love to see a video on the specifics in your brain behind being totally immersed in a video game or some other kind of media and how you can either attempt to make yourself more immersed in the media or vice versa. Sorry if you already commented on this in another video
Great vid btw, merry Christmas
Just found the channel and I'm really digging it.
The parallels between video game glitches and wrestling botches is an appropriate albeit amusing one.
I heard about a performance of La Traviata, an opera, where the heroine had to jump off the edge of the stage and was supposed to land on a trampoline that had been loosened. The trampoline sent her flying back up instead.
Hey Daryl, what's that anime you clipped at 2:40?
Fantastic video btw, this was a really fun one so good job
I'm one of those people when I see someone fall I always feel concerned as if the fall happened to me, that's why I don't feel it funny I just feel.. Bad
I would say the main in-game reason you become worried is mostly that you get softlocked and have to replay a big part of the game or even worse got softlocked right before an autosave with the last one 2h or the worst, it broke the only save or currupted the games player profile.
There's also the very rare possibility that a malfunctioning game might damage the machine you're playing it on
11:37 this GOT me. Like this guy, on live tv just saying “fuck it” and throwing the thing away and then just moving on
Another interesting perspective on glitches/wonkyness can be found in the amazing part to to codex entry "pathologic for those who will never play it". That game is intentionally janky and hard to play, not to immerse the player deeper, but to make the player realize that they are in fact playing a game, and make them more actively engage with the themes and ideas behind it, similar to berthold brecht plays. It's really long but really great!
I love going back to this video every now and then.
23:01 I absolutely did not see that coming.
Best part of the video.
15:33 You son of a gun I looked up triskaidekaphobia right after you made that joke and it was a setup the whole time!
dude with the SIT theory, when you mentioned "5 second superbowl ad" i knew exactly which ad it was lol
Meanwhile I accidentally created the worst snowman in Animal Crossing. Large body and a head I just began to roll up.
3:40 and 6:44
There are... some other exceptions, mainly recreational arts.
Opera, theater, streaming, music, dance... and errors are generally frowned upon, except maybe in streaming. Idk if I am ready for music with... oh wait, jazz
It's ok, I'll calm the jazz gods down by singing the lick twice, in different keys a tritone appart; wish me luck.
I once did tech for a show where there was a scene where one of the characters who had lost her voice was supposed to hand a card with a message on it to the other character. At one of the performances, the actress forgot she had the card, which led to a solid five minutes of awkward silence onstage. It was basically a real world example of “Did the game freeze?” 😂
3:24 "There are a lot of wonky horses"
Automatic flashbacks to water-walking horses in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
My birthday present video is here! Thanks DTG!
Thoroughly enjoyable my dude, love the Wild Arms intro track at the end there
Thank you for the wonderful content these past few years! It's very rare for me to sit down and watch UA-cam videos without putting it on the background while doing something else. Cheers to more years to come!
3:36 "Digitally remove it, digitally add it, digitally... SHAVE IT"
i love this so much
Man two of my favourite youtubers have now passionately talked about wrestling in their videos, I guess that I have to check it out now
I'd guess I'm a bit of an outlier that I've never found real people slipping and falling to be funny in any capacity. I'm always immediately concerned about potential serious consequences. Similarly I'd guess this kind of mindset makes me not enjoy actual wrestling
This video is actually a good way for me to understand why people may find such situations funny - because to me, glitches in video games are fun. So in a sense, I can now kind of sort of get the idea, rather than immediately going: "Why the hell would you laugh at something like this?"... Although, I'll probably still do that to be fair
Thank you for the overview :)
my favorite part of this video is that cow just walking casually into the fire and get burned without giving a frick
Shoutout to your very detailed descriptions!
Otherwise I would have wrecked my brain the whole day over where I know the outtro music from xD
The triskaidekaphobic bit was very specific and hilarious.
Edit: It was a setup, and I did look it up to be sure it meant what I thought it did. Well done.