Upsilon Dies Backwards

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @michael0158
    @michael0158 5 років тому +897

    Moral of story:
    Horses are alcoholics.

  • @iaintevengonholdyou
    @iaintevengonholdyou 5 років тому +15421

    When Oliver said “hehhhh” and Agatha then replied “hmmmh” I really felt that

    • @soaringred882
      @soaringred882 5 років тому +203

      Jaydyn M that’s me trying to have a conversation with literally anyone

    • @smirky-shrugs
      @smirky-shrugs 5 років тому +94

      I loved this Soo much. I think I got something out of/understood about 80% of it... My mum: refused to listen to more than two minutes of it. If she would have listened to it in its entirety, she would have understood none of it, gaining nothing more than a headache.

    • @dfwai7589
      @dfwai7589 5 років тому +34

      @@smirky-shrugs multiple rewatchs, I'm on my 5th and still only got 70-80%

    • @ffejpsycho
      @ffejpsycho 5 років тому +53

      Felt it...?
      Where exactly did the video touch you?
      Show us on this doll....

    • @xrai.
      @xrai. 5 років тому +12

      @@ffejpsycho that went underappreciated

  • @WarFant
    @WarFant 4 роки тому +3998

    Someone: inception is too complex and hard to understand
    Exurb1a: hold the horse's beer

    • @CodyBunker
      @CodyBunker 4 роки тому +66

      *vodka Collins

    • @anandagaire5929
      @anandagaire5929 4 роки тому +25

      Bulgarian Science juice🥤

    • @drunkshinx
      @drunkshinx 4 роки тому +11

      Hold the pelican's fish

    • @CerealExperimentsMizuki
      @CerealExperimentsMizuki 3 роки тому +2

      Whoever thinks that is an idiot, it's a great and fun movie but it's not really that complicated.

    • @wendigo9078
      @wendigo9078 3 роки тому +7

      Pulp fiction but make it abstract

  • @michmyers73
    @michmyers73 5 років тому +3703

    Never have I once understood so much and so little simultaneously.

    • @entropyzero5588
      @entropyzero5588 5 років тому +54

      So this was your first exurb1a video then? ;)

    • @domonator1167
      @domonator1167 5 років тому +103

      Entropy Zero this is for sure the most complicated exurb1a by far. I’ve watched it 3 times now and don’t get it, sent it to ny English teacher from last year. He tried to dumb it down for me and I still only get maybe 75% of it

    • @geofferywade5651
      @geofferywade5651 5 років тому +24

      It’s beautiful. I’d lose focus by the end of each chapter of how inconsequential it was within the greater context. Each story was satisfying during that time.

    • @darwingreenheart
      @darwingreenheart 5 років тому +31

      @@domonator1167 this is my second exurb1a video. By the content and the comments, all his videos are equally existential and ingenious.
      All of the entities in the video are faced with their own existential question, and all beings existences are created by the last thing to exist, Upsilon. It is the epitomy of calling existence self-serving.
      It isn't about love, really, love is a catalyst for questioning existence. If it were only about love I would have unsubscribed, because we are all Oliver (those of us that aren't cunts.)

    • @aaronlorenz9907
      @aaronlorenz9907 5 років тому +8

      @@darwingreenheart I always seem to get more out of his videos the more times i watched them. It's existential bliss.

  • @justinblin
    @justinblin 2 роки тому +715

    A surrealist fantasy, sci-fi horror, modern romance, and philosophical rambling all rolled into one coherent story

    • @cambridgehathaway3367
      @cambridgehathaway3367 Рік тому +36

      *incoherent

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Рік тому +17

      "Coherent" is a bit of a stretch 😂

    • @justinblin
      @justinblin Рік тому +48

      The most basic story is a time loop. Onboard a futuristic ship, Zeus the AI kills everyone but one person when he meets a lovecraftian nebula creature and creates Upsilon, a god-like star creature who restarts the universe and causes the Big Bang in his suicide. After billions of years, Oliver and Agatha are two humans entirely composed of atoms that were once part of Upsilon. Oliver is a coder who makes Zeus (he might also be the grandfather in the Rememberer), and Oliver’s and Agatha’s grandchild (who might be the grandchild who left in the Rememberer) is the one person Zeus spares as a sacrifice to the nebula. The talking animals are the parts of Oliver’s mind (id, ego, and super ego) separated in his dreams that influence his creation of Zeus.

    • @Unknown-qg9nj
      @Unknown-qg9nj Рік тому +14

      @@justinblin now tell me the truth isnt this you exurb1a?

    • @lumpyspaceprincess6335
      @lumpyspaceprincess6335 Рік тому

      Yep, I was about to ask what was I watching

  • @paulgarcia2887
    @paulgarcia2887 5 років тому +8222

    Looks like exurb1a accidentally uploaded all his videos for the year

    • @nathana7235
      @nathana7235 5 років тому +228

      *the decade

    • @louisjacobmoon
      @louisjacobmoon 5 років тому +207

      It read on his will "if I die, upload all the videos I had ready"

    • @fozza1051
      @fozza1051 5 років тому +9

      @@louisjacobmoon did he pass away?

    • @Kit_Cake
      @Kit_Cake 5 років тому +226

      Fozza
      Unfortunately, he was never with us.

    • @l.s.3976
      @l.s.3976 5 років тому +13

      Do you want him to upload more? If so why?
      I rhimk take it as it comes and appreciate it,
      If your comment was just was a joke: haha funny, like it.

  • @abhijanwasti7991
    @abhijanwasti7991 5 років тому +4001

    exurb1a : *uploads UA-cam video with extreme existential crisis and nihilism*
    Also exurb1a:
    Category Comedy

    • @chinese_t1920
      @chinese_t1920 5 років тому +19

      Raul Ramirez hence the category of “comedy”

    • @wargen8121
      @wargen8121 5 років тому +53

      what if..
      Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin
      what if.

    • @OmegaTrooper
      @OmegaTrooper 5 років тому +1

      But is nihilism but the comedy of life?

    • @mariamatedei
      @mariamatedei 5 років тому +8

      Why the long face?

    • @pepprpaste
      @pepprpaste 5 років тому +4

      9:28 "Pelican says 'oh fuck o- Barman says 'it's getting light"
      *idk seems like comedy to me.*

  • @austintexas6392
    @austintexas6392 5 років тому +4232

    This might be the closest three uploads from exurb1a we will ever see

  • @williamponce4052
    @williamponce4052 2 роки тому +1483

    The dog disliking Pavlov was comedic genius.

  • @amoghskulkarni
    @amoghskulkarni 5 років тому +5589

    I'm in a weird superposition of understanding this video and being utterly confused by it.

    • @dimitar4y
      @dimitar4y 5 років тому +209

      thats its purpose. Being convoluted, to twist your brain, challenge it.

    • @hannibustoogfyrre6074
      @hannibustoogfyrre6074 5 років тому +159

      Welcome to Exburb1a?

    • @Jumptownwore
      @Jumptownwore 5 років тому +76

      If you understood it, you haven't grasped it;)

    • @jeretoon8350
      @jeretoon8350 5 років тому +166

      Here’s the way the story connects:
      Oliver story is connected because their body shares molecules with dead upsilon
      The animal bar are the dreams of Zeus and Oliver
      Upsilon, the star is the son of Zeus and Athena
      Human on the ship tells the story of Zeus meeting Athena

    • @faerhazar939
      @faerhazar939 5 років тому +36

      You mean...
      Nyhghegeggeeh?

  • @kittenlord3572
    @kittenlord3572 5 років тому +5808

    - Is 3 alot?
    - Depends on context. Dollars? No. Exurb1a's videos in a row? Yes.

    • @batatereluelimusic
      @batatereluelimusic 5 років тому +70

      - Games in the Half Life Franchise? Yes.

    • @mr.eeggbert1340
      @mr.eeggbert1340 5 років тому +1

      2 though

    • @flinchous5228
      @flinchous5228 5 років тому +16

      @@mr.eeggbert1340 look at his channel, there is another video called "Letter to Marble 3" and for some reason it did not show up in notifications

    • @mr.eeggbert1340
      @mr.eeggbert1340 5 років тому +1

      @@flinchous5228 oh ok thank you very much

    • @deltaninjadrm
      @deltaninjadrm 5 років тому +5

      tabs of acid?

  • @vilgotalbert2120
    @vilgotalbert2120 5 років тому +2475

    everybody gansta until exurb1a uploads 3 vids in 2 mins

  • @sethchappell499
    @sethchappell499 3 роки тому +1971

    "the quark stars all strange and charming"
    God I love when astronomy and quantum physics come together for a perfect joke

    • @a.staiger6191
      @a.staiger6191 3 роки тому +25

      You had 42 likes when I read this, I didn't want to mess that up

    • @123yano
      @123yano 3 роки тому +30

      @@a.staiger6191 5 more likes to be 42 again in base 13

    • @zedaddy3530
      @zedaddy3530 3 роки тому +2

      Any wanna explain? ;p

    • @eclecticsoffy
      @eclecticsoffy 3 роки тому +56

      @@zedaddy3530 Strange quarks and charm quarks are the name of some of the quarks

    • @zedaddy3530
      @zedaddy3530 3 роки тому

      @@eclecticsoffy ye i know that, was that the joke lol

  • @jakeseward499
    @jakeseward499 5 років тому +3667

    “I forgot you weren’t forever, and now you’re gone forever”
    -Exurbia 2019

    • @n0ot977
      @n0ot977 5 років тому +46

      Do you want a hotdog?

    • @sundance1879
      @sundance1879 5 років тому +6

      damn

    • @MrDnbfreak
      @MrDnbfreak 5 років тому +17

      That bit makes me chock each time

    • @johnclark6999
      @johnclark6999 5 років тому +12

      too busy being young, dont get caught up

    • @LittleNoiseBoy
      @LittleNoiseBoy 4 роки тому +31

      The chokingly bitter truth delivered with the minimalist precision of a Haiku. I instantly cried this Christmas day as I missed my Mum so badly in that moment. Thanks for helping us all see the grandeur of the wider picture, the beauty amidst the absurdity of life...

  • @aech7150
    @aech7150 5 років тому +2039

    Every exurb1a video is "Maybe nothing is real, i should really talk to that girl"

    • @Kidynamo123
      @Kidynamo123 5 років тому +161

      He really lays bare how silly it is to tell ourselves not to pursue things we desire when we have such short existences

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud 5 років тому +40

      @@Kidynamo123 You ever realized that if you tell yourself not to pursue something you want it's because in you there is a part that desires not pursuing it? Picking one desire over another is arbitrary no matter which you pick.

    • @traganchambers6465
      @traganchambers6465 5 років тому +4

      But isnt it so perfect nonetheless

    • @aech7150
      @aech7150 5 років тому +15

      @@dopaminecloud If you, for instance, decide not to talk to the girl, you are subjecting yourself to less change and exploring life less. Why wouldn't you live to the fullest, given one opportunity to live?

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud 5 років тому +20

      @@aech7150 Not less, differently. You don't just do nothing when you decide not to, you go do other things instead. I also don't believe exploring life or doing new for the sake of new is inherently valuable at all. It might sound nice in this scenario but I don't want to explore the myriad of sensations involved with experiencing starvation for example. Even though that would also be undoubtedly new.

  • @koenhaan2045
    @koenhaan2045 4 роки тому +1553

    “He dislikes pavlofs experiments” this is more then genius and gets better with every rewatch

    • @ordinaryplatinum
      @ordinaryplatinum 4 роки тому +80

      comrade laika was the first dog in space, and i thought this was hilarious and adorable

    • @jameskim4722
      @jameskim4722 4 роки тому +3

      Yay i got the 100'th like

    • @haroldinho9930
      @haroldinho9930 4 роки тому

      김재원 105th

  • @petermaxley
    @petermaxley 3 роки тому +611

    "im no fun for anyone"
    "Relax, this won't hurt."
    No joke, the nod to Thompson's suicide note brought me to tears.

    • @jesuswhy5925
      @jesuswhy5925 3 роки тому +39

      Wait that's from a suicide note?

    • @petermaxley
      @petermaxley 3 роки тому +67

      @@jesuswhy5925 yes, google hunter s thompson suicide note, my last post with the link got removed

    • @jesuswhy5925
      @jesuswhy5925 3 роки тому +25

      @@petermaxley oh, damn

    • @Just-a-ghost07
      @Just-a-ghost07 3 місяці тому +1

      Holy shit thank you you’re right the whole fireworks thing is a reference to Thompson too. Thats soo cool

  • @fomalhaut_the_great
    @fomalhaut_the_great 5 років тому +510

    "All the quark stars are too strange and charming"
    That's a good one.

    • @blackcoffee9470
      @blackcoffee9470 5 років тому +28

      Very good one... The video touches on subjects from astronomy, astrophysics, physics, philosophy, sociology, story telling, humour and Freudian psychology. It's smoothie of intellect.

    • @faerhazar939
      @faerhazar939 5 років тому +3

      I thought so, too. Only just learned of them and there excellence recently! Amazing, eh?

    • @castle9165
      @castle9165 5 років тому +1

      I just realized that joke

    • @Ocorri
      @Ocorri 5 років тому

      Foamy K this honestly just made me grin

    • @ole781
      @ole781 5 років тому

      Oscar Corriette me too ;-)

  • @froschj8249
    @froschj8249 4 роки тому +2873

    this feels more like a decade than 15 minutes

    • @dr.OgataSerizawa
      @dr.OgataSerizawa 4 роки тому +30

      Thought I was the only one thinking that.

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 4 роки тому +9

      Yep.

    • @Pkroc138
      @Pkroc138 4 роки тому +26

      lol, I really thought I saw a 1-hour video until I saw this comment.

    • @ThEMr_Moof
      @ThEMr_Moof 4 роки тому +9

      Bruh I thought the same thing, sure didn’t feel like 15 bloody minutes

    • @ez_company9325
      @ez_company9325 4 роки тому +16

      can you imagine the movie or tv show this guy would make? Like with an actual budget and shit? If you said yes to this, your full of shit and just dont know it!

  • @olivergustafsson8173
    @olivergustafsson8173 4 роки тому +7614

    my name is Oliver, I own a newfoundland dog and live on the top floor in an apartment building... Time to find Agatha?

    • @LNRMusicCuration
      @LNRMusicCuration 4 роки тому +204

      Yup m8

    • @EvanderCola
      @EvanderCola 4 роки тому +676

      HOLY SHIT IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 4 роки тому +579

      *begin coding Zeus right now or the apartment goes boom*

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy 4 роки тому +201

      @@maxwellli7057 It goes boom backwards in time many millions of years later, nothing to worry about.

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy 4 роки тому +41

      @@maxwellli7057 but the apartment is fine

  • @moikdc7204
    @moikdc7204 Рік тому +77

    It is about a year ago now that lost my mother to cancer. ‘I go to the places where you raised me and it never helps, you’re always never there’ hits me so hard every time I hear it, it’s something I could never have put into words

    • @LeoGilbert-c3p
      @LeoGilbert-c3p 6 місяців тому +2

      I’m so sorry, hope you’re ok ❤

  • @tybo64O
    @tybo64O 4 роки тому +1569

    “A spacecraft full of blood and entrails, reaching out to kiss a cloud of interstellar dust..There’s a romance to it, if one doesn’t look too closely.”

    • @alanbarnett718
      @alanbarnett718 4 роки тому +24

      My love life in a nutshell...

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 4 роки тому +19

      Sounds like someone forgot their Gellar Field.

    • @evaunit0158
      @evaunit0158 3 роки тому +2

      @@manictiger ummm..heresy?

    • @ronramen5827
      @ronramen5827 3 роки тому +2

      So from what I understand, the robot on the spaceship banged the nebula?
      What?

    • @sumdud2129
      @sumdud2129 3 роки тому +10

      @@ronramen5827 its a loose metaphor for a fertile egg in a sperm cell...

  • @zenmestari
    @zenmestari 5 років тому +1356

    The horse's story:
    0:00 - 0:56
    5:24 - 6:27
    8:43 - 10:04
    Oliver's story:
    0:57 - 2:57
    6:28 - 7:10
    10:05 - 12:05
    I don't even know:
    2:57 - 4:27
    7:10 - 7:52
    12:05 - 13:21
    Upsilon's story:
    4:27 - 5:23
    7:52 - 8:43
    13:21 -14:24

    • @Dat_Pika
      @Dat_Pika 5 років тому +194

      Not the hero we deserve but the hero we need

    • @dr.catcuddler194
      @dr.catcuddler194 5 років тому +8

      Thanks Great!

    • @OceanAce
      @OceanAce 5 років тому +130

      "I don't even know" is some kind of space oddessy where the characters dream about Oliver.

    • @TheRealMaster9000
      @TheRealMaster9000 5 років тому +23

      I don't even know is kinda Zeus's story

    • @michelemarchesini8743
      @michelemarchesini8743 5 років тому +2

      Erik Koskelo my god thanks

  • @EtchJetty
    @EtchJetty 5 років тому +2801

    So the layers are:
    Dream (bar) -> held by Oliver (love story) -> is a dream held by Zeus (AI for a ship, programmed by real Oliver) -> is being recalled by Upsilon, Zeus's miserable child with a sentient Nebula. Upsilon explodes backwards in time and some of his molecules are used to form Oliver and Agatha.

  • @JustA.J
    @JustA.J Рік тому +61

    that love story was actually really nice and intercut with all of that madness just made it all the sweeter

  • @Molentum
    @Molentum 5 років тому +532

    there's no other emotion quite like the bewildered melancholy after an exurb1a video

    • @N0tsaved
      @N0tsaved 5 років тому +8

      I guarantee there's a specific German phrase for him alone.

    • @spookyho5994
      @spookyho5994 5 років тому +2

      Not Saved I’m german, and though I don’t know one, there definitely must be one

    • @ole781
      @ole781 5 років тому +1

      giulia luane only one? Not three?

  • @helmsscotta
    @helmsscotta 5 років тому +335

    "I'm full up with before" The most poetic way of saying: "I'm too old for this."

  • @user-J.M.A.I
    @user-J.M.A.I 3 роки тому +802

    This would be an incredible Christopher Nolan movie.
    Have you ever considered writing actual movie scripts?
    I mean your videos are small movies themselves but on a much, much bigger scale?

    • @TheOpacue
      @TheOpacue Рік тому +7

      Ooooo yes! Put this in Nolans hands asap!!

  • @LeeAnnC
    @LeeAnnC 5 років тому +913

    Watching an exurb1a video is like unwrapping a present from a friend. You dont know what you will get but you know you'll love it regardless.

    • @CharalamposKoundourakis
      @CharalamposKoundourakis 5 років тому +17

      And it may be spiders.

    • @thisisntsergio1352
      @thisisntsergio1352 5 років тому +8

      Momma always said exurbia's like a box'a choc'lates

    • @tsukuyomin
      @tsukuyomin 5 років тому +2

      That's such a sweet way to describe it lol, true though.

    • @noiz981998
      @noiz981998 5 років тому +1

      @@CharalamposKoundourakis crunchy snack

    • @refthegeneric
      @refthegeneric 5 років тому +1

      I remember that tiger picture you brought me nostalgia thank you

  • @GameWorldRS
    @GameWorldRS 5 років тому +1355

    "And a youtuber named Exurb1a that will make awfully amazing videos every time" said the bear.
    "Finally a good idea" said the goose
    *Bear put it in*

  • @vatershep
    @vatershep 4 роки тому +2752

    “I spent so much time being young, that I forgot you weren’t forever. And now you’re gone. Forever.”

    • @jammedonuts
      @jammedonuts 3 роки тому +113

      Please that reminded me that my mum will die one day and now I'm almost crying while she's in the living room

    • @vatershep
      @vatershep 3 роки тому +45

      @@jammedonuts ohh its ok i have that sometimes too :( but you have so much time! You can make the most of it and so can she :))

    • @iluan_
      @iluan_ 3 роки тому +15

      I honestly had to call my mom after hearing this.

    • @clashthegamer4873
      @clashthegamer4873 3 роки тому +4

      F

    • @screwtapee
      @screwtapee 3 роки тому +10

      This line emotionally broke me for about 4 days, I'd say

  • @lonkylonk5770
    @lonkylonk5770 Рік тому +95

    That was the greatest 14 minute video I have ever watched. So creative and profound and I managed to connect with all of the characters in a span of only 14 minutes!!

  • @dillthoughs
    @dillthoughs 5 років тому +1727

    Each one of these videos feels like a critically acclaimed feature length film

    • @luiseduardogomezdearandaju723
      @luiseduardogomezdearandaju723 4 роки тому +28

      They feel like that because they are.

    • @amirmagar2009
      @amirmagar2009 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, reminded me of “Mr. Nobody”.

    • @y__h
      @y__h 4 роки тому +3

      @@amirmagar2009 or Cloud Atlas, either has this kind of storytelling technique (exposition?), but neither is this trippy.

    • @rasati
      @rasati 4 роки тому +2

      i wanna write a book on and then well be okay

    • @CM-yz3ze
      @CM-yz3ze 4 роки тому +6

      If only movies were as fresh, and moving. I'd watch a lot more films if I walked away feeling like I do now.

  • @ethandanner487
    @ethandanner487 5 років тому +41609

    exurb1a: blah blah blah, epsilon depression, blah blah blah, horse rabbit pelican, blah blah blah Zeus, nebula
    Me: complete lack of cognitive function or any sensory response.

    • @falcon5178
      @falcon5178 5 років тому +606

      ah

    • @chunyanji6151
      @chunyanji6151 5 років тому +1644

      Also me: hahhaahaaha fish

    • @ueaj4576
      @ueaj4576 5 років тому +200

      e

    • @danieltsiprun8080
      @danieltsiprun8080 5 років тому +491

      Me: choking from luaghter when reading the comment, and the Bulgarian cheese sandwich i was eating.

    • @connorsullivan2745
      @connorsullivan2745 5 років тому +554

      There’s literally no reaction while watching his videos, but I CAN’T STOP WATCHING THEM ALL

  • @benpace2216
    @benpace2216 4 роки тому +805

    I truly wish I could watch this for the first time again

    • @nunyabusiness4718
      @nunyabusiness4718 3 роки тому +43

      I am watching it for the first time and boy I’ve been on a binge of these my mind no longer makes sense

    • @surrounding.my.surrounding9452
      @surrounding.my.surrounding9452 3 роки тому +11

      underrated comment

    • @ethannguyen2754
      @ethannguyen2754 3 роки тому +7

      Just get yourself some Alzheimer’s

    • @owenc4967
      @owenc4967 3 роки тому +6

      @@ethannguyen2754 but then he would forget that he wanted to watch the video again

    • @ethannguyen2754
      @ethannguyen2754 3 роки тому +2

      @@owenc4967 That is a good point

  • @strider_hiryu850
    @strider_hiryu850 3 роки тому +145

    10:45 "happiness is an unachievable myth, peddled by those to afraid to admit the world's default state is misery"
    12:33 "...came, all this way, just to go home"
    damn. so much said, yet with little spoken.

  • @Kapin05
    @Kapin05 4 роки тому +2942

    You made the horse joke interesting. That's what I took from this, it's possible to make the horse joke interesting.

    • @goddessmiaa
      @goddessmiaa 3 роки тому +36

      bojack horseman

    • @craigj.7035
      @craigj.7035 3 роки тому +1

      @@goddessmiaa yep

    • @MohamedAliKorimELFATAY
      @MohamedAliKorimELFATAY 3 роки тому +12

      I told the horse joke once and one girl laughed

    • @cee_ves
      @cee_ves 2 роки тому +6

      You just need 15 minutes and an existential crisis to pull it off

  • @goodthingenthusiast9436
    @goodthingenthusiast9436 5 років тому +798

    "Oh, I'm feeling too existential to sleep!"
    Everyone felt that

    • @tr0g98
      @tr0g98 5 років тому

      i find it helps me sleep ahah

    • @jasonnfaldos1968
      @jasonnfaldos1968 5 років тому

      if this isnt fucking me rn I don't know what is.

    • @ADRENERGlC
      @ADRENERGlC 5 років тому +1

      Me after finding out about the boltzmann brain theory

  • @charbomber110
    @charbomber110 5 років тому +1111

    exurb1a: "Haha funny wheel of alien game fun and animals in bars"
    also exurb1a: "You could be a dream and you would never know also existence is pain"

    • @edannoble4116
      @edannoble4116 5 років тому +19

      That is the worst way of summing up existentialism I think I've ever heard. I think exurb1a is making something a little more complex than just the 'ur in a dream stupid'

    • @anonymousduck8081
      @anonymousduck8081 5 років тому +23

      We cant be in a dream becuse we cant make hats appear on people

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 5 років тому +7

      @@edannoble4116 nice spoiling the joke asshole.

    • @alexhoughton3305
      @alexhoughton3305 5 років тому +10

      @@edannoble4116 correct. the message of this video is you are in a dream, formed in the fictional head of a being from a dream's mind dreaming about a joke, which will then become you, in the past, when it becomes you in the future, where you will dream of it and it will begin anew. also, pelicans dislike headwear.

    • @willferrel6896
      @willferrel6896 5 років тому +3

      but does his overly educated ass still live with his ma

  • @frogmanjoe1417
    @frogmanjoe1417 3 роки тому +361

    Bro I played this in the background while sleeping and it influenced my dreaming so much it was an incredible experience.

  • @mari04mar03
    @mari04mar03 5 років тому +1072

    I have become far too invested in the lives of Agatha and Oliver

    • @esim101
      @esim101 5 років тому +12

      Just like Zeus

    • @Bob-aaaaa
      @Bob-aaaaa 5 років тому +2

      Same but I’m with the horse pelican and rabbit

    • @armageddon_girl184
      @armageddon_girl184 5 років тому

      coffee shop AU when??

  • @adamdominguez656
    @adamdominguez656 5 років тому +816

    "I was so busy being young I forgot you weren't forever."
    I miss my mom, man.

    • @MrDnbfreak
      @MrDnbfreak 5 років тому +8

      I feel ur loss 😢

    • @egglord7736
      @egglord7736 4 роки тому +5

      out of the 14:46 minutes of this video, I read this just as he said it. powerful quote man

  • @daanstrik4293
    @daanstrik4293 5 років тому +841

    Just... wow
    I always come to these videos with a certain expectation as I do to everything. And you always manage to utterly shatter that expectation whilst at the same time staying true to it.
    Such a unique channel

    • @henninghamann9564
      @henninghamann9564 5 років тому +5

      I honestly love his Videos and the way he completly surprises you with what he says

    • @funkerdoo
      @funkerdoo 5 років тому +2

      Daan Strik wait you put it perfectly into words

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 4 роки тому

      funkadunkle to be honest I’m suprised myself
      I came back to this comment 6 months later and liked it not realising it was my own.

  • @ForTheWolf111
    @ForTheWolf111 3 роки тому +60

    "Came all this way just to go home."
    While we're all here plucking out the quotes that spoke to us, this was the one that called out to me.

  • @pao5563
    @pao5563 5 років тому +372

    ah yes, my half-a-year dose of existential crisis is here. Thank you my good sir.

  • @bitnub5080
    @bitnub5080 4 роки тому +3852

    There is genuinely something beautiful about the style, rhythm and tone of your work. It's something I can't exactly describe, but it is present; and makes me cling on to every moment.

    • @alexthealexbot37
      @alexthealexbot37 4 роки тому +67

      Thank you dude. It's a hard asf to describe, and in my opinion this is just art

    • @satan9487
      @satan9487 4 роки тому +48

      surreal? I know this word gets thrown around a lot but I feel it's just poetic and surreal.

    • @masky754
      @masky754 4 роки тому +15

      You and I see eye to eye to that my good man!

    • @billyandrew
      @billyandrew 3 роки тому +26

      *Bitnub*
      It's verbal organised chaos, gently dusting the mind, in my view.

    • @mist5372
      @mist5372 3 роки тому +1

      Same

  • @lukebell8591
    @lukebell8591 5 років тому +441

    Everyone talks about his stories but exurb1a has amazing editing skills.

    • @estellevu8076
      @estellevu8076 5 років тому +10

      Yes. The barman blinking in confusion near the beginning was superb.

    • @cipher8987
      @cipher8987 5 років тому +10

      I believe that his editing is a integral part of his storytelling and without his editing style, his videos would feel incomplete.

    • @charlielangford8062
      @charlielangford8062 5 років тому +2

      Thanks you Winston Churchill for coming back from the dead to comment this comment

  • @connorbrown7455
    @connorbrown7455 Рік тому +26

    Okay, but Oliver and Agatha's story actually made me tear up. Would that life had that much meaning and destiny. 😭

  • @cantabitvidentis5569
    @cantabitvidentis5569 5 років тому +2769

    As a writer, this is one of the best pieces of literature I've ever heard, and your work consistently makes me cry tears of joy. Thank you for making my world a little less dark, a little less cold, and a little less pointless. From one dead star to another, thank you.

    • @dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717
      @dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717 4 роки тому +78

      Whats your thoughts of an ai banging a nebula sooner or later milky way ganna bang her too.

    • @dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717
      @dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717 4 роки тому +10

      @Renagadde IKR i'm Just curious what he thinks about an ai banging a nebula

    • @mirkys130
      @mirkys130 4 роки тому +10

      Me too ngl

    • @MichaelM-rh3ui
      @MichaelM-rh3ui 4 роки тому +1

      pog
      .

    • @muddbear6410
      @muddbear6410 4 роки тому +1

      @strontiumXnitrate don't listen to them, it made sense.
      It was topical, satirical sarcasm you dolts!!

  • @bradens.3125
    @bradens.3125 5 років тому +352

    i have never walked away more confused from an exurb1a video than today

    • @undeadwerewolves9463
      @undeadwerewolves9463 5 років тому +1

      Yeah same here...

    • @_YUKL_
      @_YUKL_ 5 років тому +48

      Really? Seemed pretty straightforward to me. Man meets woman. Falls in love. Creates A.I. that "wakes up." A.I. falls in love with a nebula that also "wakes up." A child star is born. The star grows up bitterly, only realizing what is important before it's death. Star dies sending it's molecules backwards in time allowing the original man and woman to have a deep unexplainable (to them) connection. The cycle repeats itself....the dream is just comedic icing about the self....the end....see pretty straightforward.

    • @mikell.6064
      @mikell.6064 5 років тому +9

      @@_YUKL_ wow if you tell me that you got this on your first watch I gotta say.. you watch a lot of UA-cam lol. No seriously you nailed it mate, thanks for clearing this up 😁

    • @thirty-three7546
      @thirty-three7546 5 років тому +2

      @@mikell.6064 it is straightforward and his narration explained everything pretty fine to me

    • @user-vc1gd4jg1f
      @user-vc1gd4jg1f 4 роки тому +1

      Hi yes definitely my first time here on this video not my 50th

  • @lilstudmuffen
    @lilstudmuffen 5 років тому +352

    "I was so busy being young, i forgot you [mom] weren't forever" this has been stuck in my head since i finished the video. Thanks for the reminder. im going to spend more time with my parents

    • @Arthanax
      @Arthanax 5 років тому +7

      Holy crap me too. It hit me hard.

    • @arcadicus_ezevius
      @arcadicus_ezevius 5 років тому +3

      Me toooo 😥😥😥

    • @GunnerDS2
      @GunnerDS2 5 років тому +2

      Me too.

    • @raffayabrar2616
      @raffayabrar2616 5 років тому +1

      I saw another one of his videos where he talked about parents not being there later.. that and this has been stuck (and will be) for a long time.

    • @peppi0304
      @peppi0304 5 років тому

      Time stamp pls

  • @bed2149
    @bed2149 2 роки тому +34

    This video made me realize I need to call my mom tommorow and that the universe will all have been worth it if there's just one moment where Agatha and Oliver meet.

  • @AnonYmous-oq6vt
    @AnonYmous-oq6vt 5 років тому +370

    "The quarks stars are strange and charming"
    I see what you did there.

    • @peereter
      @peereter 5 років тому +1

      I don't

    • @cheskaespina8503
      @cheskaespina8503 5 років тому +1

      raised my eyebrows at that part >.

    • @Morgwic
      @Morgwic 5 років тому +39

      @@peereter There's six types of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, bottom & top. So: "Quark stars are strange and charming."
      But also there's hypothetical strange stars made of strange quark matter

    • @peereter
      @peereter 5 років тому +8

      @@Morgwic Wow thanks for the serious answer! I have only heard of the up an down ones before this :)

    • @4ntifreez
      @4ntifreez 5 років тому +4

      200 iq

  • @salah-ib2cd
    @salah-ib2cd 5 років тому +854

    "Happiness is an unachievable myth peddled by those too afraid to admit that the world's default state is misery"
    Damn that hits hard..

    • @adolfodef
      @adolfodef 5 років тому +12

      Check out his other video _"Misery was..."_

    • @shrill_2165
      @shrill_2165 5 років тому +9

      It’s bullshit

    • @neoir8514
      @neoir8514 5 років тому +4

      Shrill_
      Yeah I’m all for the Myth of Sisyphus ‘life is inherently suffering’ thing but even Camus wouldn’t agree with that

    • @kyrenfaaron2714
      @kyrenfaaron2714 5 років тому +2

      @@adolfodef That's bullshit

    • @romjonsilver4049
      @romjonsilver4049 5 років тому

      The second part of the quote hits harder: What now?

  • @jimmyspliff88
    @jimmyspliff88 4 роки тому +2525

    "I remember Mom. I miss you mom. I go to the places where you raised me and it never helps, you are almost never there. God, I'd trade the last million years just to hangout with you for one more hour. I was so busy being young I forgot you weren't forever, and now you're gone forever." - i will never forget that feeling I had listening to this ....
    May the Lord bless and protect you, friend

    • @satan9487
      @satan9487 4 роки тому +201

      i fucking cry like wtf

    • @Exurb1a
      @Exurb1a  3 роки тому +670

      Big love to you too, James - hope all's well!

    • @alongyellowthing1955
      @alongyellowthing1955 3 роки тому +71

      @@Exurb1a proof that doesn't matter the time, if your comment is good enough you definitely will get a reply from the man himself

    • @playstationprodigies7055
      @playstationprodigies7055 3 роки тому +29

      @@Exurb1a hey man, hows it going, im just going on my seasonal binge of your channel, cant get enough of your stuff man, i hope youre keeping well with all this pandemic stuff

    • @navyninjagaming2551
      @navyninjagaming2551 3 роки тому +16

      @nicky the cat should he have blessed him by the power of gray skull? The whole point is OP wants good things to come exurb1a’s way. Why does it matter where good things come from? Are you gonna turn down a million dollars because it came from Jesus?

  • @calebplumleephotography
    @calebplumleephotography Рік тому +17

    Still one of the most beautiful stories I've heard. I come back to it often

  • @pervertedmudkip3934
    @pervertedmudkip3934 5 років тому +296

    You're probably one of the only people who has made me laugh and cry in the middle of an existential crisis.

    • @lukalaa1764
      @lukalaa1764 5 років тому +2

      I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE HAVING THAT FEELING

  • @thepunisher4356
    @thepunisher4356 5 років тому +277

    Nothing like some existential nebula depression. Honestly that was fantastic writing too, made me care about every story that was going on.

    • @yuks_nodad
      @yuks_nodad 5 років тому +14

      funny thing is they were all one story

    • @derdurstbursch
      @derdurstbursch 5 років тому +8

      Nebula, Agatha, Upsilon, Pelican... They all have fucking stories and i care for them 💗

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 5 років тому +1

      @@derdurstbursch Athena*

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 5 років тому +5

      @@derdurstbursch the nebula has a name you flesh bound inferior intelligence

    • @GNParty
      @GNParty 5 років тому

      @@lolgamez9171
      Stellaris machine intelligence Master race.

  • @foersterjunior
    @foersterjunior 5 років тому +351

    "And a robot that puts peoples limbs up on the walls of a spaceship inside some guys head!" said the bear.
    "That seems awfully specific, I don't think that is too god of an idea..." sais the duck.
    Bear put it in.
    Thank you bear.

    • @nikolaratinac2466
      @nikolaratinac2466 5 років тому +4

      Well done mate, you may have summed up the entire video in a sense.

  • @dashers1004
    @dashers1004 5 років тому +151

    "The Quark stars all strange and charming"
    Nice

  • @Yamyatos
    @Yamyatos 5 років тому +174

    "I miss you mom. I was so busy being young that i forgot you are not there forever, and now you are gone forever"
    Just think about it. Gotta hug my mom when i next see her lol. The feels man!

  • @ashstolley
    @ashstolley 5 років тому +211

    “Came all this way just to go home” is maybe my favorite thing ever.
    Beautiful video.

  • @plantnt489
    @plantnt489 2 роки тому +39

    "I was so busy being young I forgot you weren't forever. And now you're gone forever"
    That's too deep for me

  • @SlamifiedBuddafied
    @SlamifiedBuddafied 5 років тому +1829

    This is proof of exurb1a's impending madness.
    Also, I miss Mom.

    • @jamesburleson1916
      @jamesburleson1916 5 років тому +20

      Or his impending sanity.....

    • @iimasheriiol222
      @iimasheriiol222 5 років тому +14

      Moms not coming back she went out for smokes and never came back

    • @SlamifiedBuddafied
      @SlamifiedBuddafied 5 років тому +12

      @@iimasheriiol222 Nope. She died. August 23rd, 2009, 2:30 PM CST.

    • @TakiyaToku
      @TakiyaToku 5 років тому +7

      @@SlamifiedBuddafied my sincere condolences!

    • @chsmothie6584
      @chsmothie6584 5 років тому

      Killjointica w h o i s m o t h e r

  • @YellowBunny
    @YellowBunny 5 років тому +321

    This strange, yet charming tale had a lot of ups and downs from top to bottom.

    • @janbosch5951
      @janbosch5951 5 років тому +5

      ... Have my like ...

    • @user-ox7id9he5v
      @user-ox7id9he5v 5 років тому +1

      👌

    • @MarcWijesuriya
      @MarcWijesuriya 5 років тому +1

      Take my upvote

    • @matthewmara1874
      @matthewmara1874 5 років тому +1

      Heh, it's funny, because of the different types of quarks, get it? Wow we're so cool...

    • @ttime441
      @ttime441 5 років тому

      Matthew Mara You must be fun at parties that you don’t get invited to

  • @utopiavey
    @utopiavey 5 років тому +468

    Sometimes there’s just enough sense in the narrative to break a mind

    • @ieatgarbage8771
      @ieatgarbage8771 5 років тому +9

      This is not that time

    • @jeretoon8350
      @jeretoon8350 5 років тому +8

      Here’s the way the story connects:
      Oliver story is connected because their body shares molecules with dead upsilon
      The animal bar are the dreams of Zeus and Oliver
      Upsilon, the star is the son of Zeus and Athena
      Human on the ship tells the story of Zeus meeting Athena

  • @JurassicTom
    @JurassicTom 7 місяців тому +3

    Third time have I watched this and for the third time, I just cried my eyes out. No one has ever been able to portray the fleeting existence of life, the humility of one's own insignificance in the grand scheme of things, and the meaning of life in the absurdity of it all quite like you have, sir. Watching your videos is truly cathartic every single time, thank you ❤

  • @dreunderscore3314
    @dreunderscore3314 5 років тому +660

    Everyone's talking about the 3 uploads at once, and not these 4 stories being told at the same moment

    • @chrisgarrett6305
      @chrisgarrett6305 5 років тому +39

      All the stories are linked tho, and it’s really cool

    • @isiah65532
      @isiah65532 5 років тому

      CGA6 Linked how?

    • @pitedapollo6175
      @pitedapollo6175 5 років тому +1

      4? I only got 3

    • @hazyrory3121
      @hazyrory3121 5 років тому +40

      Harry Rushton the horse in the bar, upsilon the star exploding, the guy trapped by Zeus, the man meeting the girl in the pet shop. So yeah there was definitely 4 lol

    • @hazyrory3121
      @hazyrory3121 5 років тому +24

      Isaac Opyrchal The upsilon start that was ‘dying backwards was the star that formed the two people in the pet shop story that are 2/34 ppl in the world that could have true love with each other. The horse in the bar was the dream in the guys head and the man trapped by Zeus was going to see upsilon? Idk about that last one but the others were pretty clear

  • @ScenicFlyer4
    @ScenicFlyer4 5 років тому +739

    Whatever goes on inside this man's head, I still can't tell if I like or fear

    • @alkeryn1700
      @alkeryn1700 5 років тому +3

      I definitely not fear

    • @axmoylotl
      @axmoylotl 5 років тому +16

      well, this video wasn't his idea. It was borrowed from a cool book. Most of his videos are based on someone elses idea, he just expands upons them and give them a nice presentation

    • @theananyo
      @theananyo 5 років тому +4

      @@axmoylotl Which book?

    • @gwenedwards5109
      @gwenedwards5109 5 років тому +6

      @@theananyo says in description

    • @kingbubbles9461
      @kingbubbles9461 5 років тому

      ScenicFlyer4
      Por que no los dos?

  • @lauranceboyd6365
    @lauranceboyd6365 5 років тому +4226

    My girlfriend: “He’s probably cheating on me.”
    Me at 2 am:

  • @666mads
    @666mads 2 роки тому +20

    0:00 dream
    0:57 oliver introduction
    2:57 zeus/ spaceship
    4:28 upsilon
    5:24 dream part two
    6:28 back to oliver
    7:10 zeus/spaceship
    7:53 back to upsilon
    8:43 dream part three
    10:05 oh my god.. its oliver.
    12:06 zeus/spaceship
    13:21 upsilon

  • @williampatrickwoods
    @williampatrickwoods 5 років тому +15522

    *EXPLANATION*
    There are four story lines that all play into one:
    *Bar Dream:*
    - Three animals are in a bar; a pelican, horse, and rabbit. The animals are the Id, Ego, and Super Ego of Oliver (as evidenced by the fact that they have no past and all know of Agatha), who have become conscious and are living in the dream Oliver later wakes up from
    .
    - The horse is having an existential crisis, when the rabbit says "I think Schopenhauer said it best when he said" before getting cut off by the pelican. The end of his sentence would have been "the world is my representation", as this is one line Schopenhauer is most famous for, and it comes from his view that people's "will" is a blind force that controls not only the actions of individual intelligent agents, but ultimately all observable phenomena. This is foreshadowing the fact that it was Upsilon (the lonely star who died backward) who willed the universe to go back in time, and suggests that Upsilon's will/desire to be reunited with Athena (his mother the nebula) is still having an effect on the universe and the way things play out in the universe.
    *Oliver (the Coder of Zeus' AI) and Agatha's Romance:*
    - Agatha is reading the book "A Scanner Darkly" when she first sees Oliver. Her book is about an undercover cop who has to wear a disguise in every day life, which makes her think about the way Oliver is dressed. He seems to be trying, but failing, to dress himself "properly", which makes her wonder if he, like her, is also just trying to fit in while hiding his true self from the world.
    - It is mentioned that Oliver and Agatha are each one of 34 humans on earth who are made up of atoms "forged in the heart of a long dead star" (Upsilon, the lonely star, that later explodes backwards in time to restart the universe.)
    - Oliver and Agatha's romance is "the reunification of the heart of a long dead star, still yet to explode many millions of years in the future", since it is often described that atoms are forged in "the hearts of stars", and Oliver and Agatha are made of Upsilon's atoms.
    - Oliver turns out to be the coder for Zeus' (the ship's) AI, which is evidenced by the fact that the ship constantly dreams of Oliver and Agatha's love story, and by the fact that the animals discover they are in the dream of a human man who is a coder for starship AIs.
    - Upsilon's atoms, existing as Oliver, were able to influence him to build the AI for the ship that would one day be the father of Upsilon. This fits well with what is supposed to be implied by Oliver's adoration of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, a filmmaker who's first feature film "Ivan's Childhood", is often described as having "a poetic sense for the dreamlike hold of memory". Other films of his, such as "Solaris", set in space, is described as being "an eerie meditation on the persistence of memory", and "Mirror", is described as "unfolding with the associative logic of a dream. Fragments of memory from his childhood are woven in with narration of his father Arseny’s poems, on time and immortality."
    - Agatha, who is also made up of Upsilon's atoms, likes the writing of Isaac Asimov since he wrote "The Last Question" in which the last intelligence alive at the end of time restarts the universe. This story reminds her subconscious of Upsilon, the star she is made of, which died backwards reversing time to the beginning of the universe to go back and spend another hour with Athena, the mother nebula he was formed in.
    *Zeus (the ship), human passenger, and Athena (the nebula)*
    - The AI of a human built ship has become conscious, and demands the last remaining human crew to call it "Zeus". The ship is on its way to a nebula that the ship later names "Athena". In Greek Mythology, Athena is Zeus' oldest and most beloved child.
    - The romance between Oliver and Agatha is continually dreamt about by Zeus (the ship). The AI for the ship that becomes conscious was programmed by Oliver, which is both why it has memory of their past romance and why it longs to go to Athena the nebula; Zeus is drawn to the nebula by "the persistence of Upsilon's memory" which must have been programmed into him by Oliver. Later, together, Zeus and Athena can give birth to the star Upsilon who can then spend more time with his mother and father as he willed would happen before he chose to "die backwards".
    - The ship refers to the only human passenger as "the Fatted calf"; the Fatted calf is a metaphor or symbol of festive celebration and rejoicing for someone's long-awaited return. Slaughtering this livestock was to be done on rare and special occasions (originally the prodigal son's return). This shows that the ship is aware that it is returning to the nebula, despite never having been there in this timeline, further enforcing the idea that Upsilon's consciousness, or will, has circled back through time and has been persistent throughout the storyline.
    - In the end, the remaining passenger is allowed to go back in his mind to his favorite place, which he reveals to be a beach with his grandfather where they "would all look up at the stars and wish to go there, to kill the id, and foster the superego". This suggests that the grandfather was Oliver, and the use of "we all" was meant to suggest his grandmother Agatha was there as well.
    *Upsilon's Story*
    - "Old and stupid", lonely Upsilon, hates himself, chooses to "die backwards" (commit suicide to make a statement). His will ultimately reverses time to the beginning of the universe. (This invokes "the grandfather paradox", since it suggests Upsilon played a role in his own creation.) Upsilon was dealing with many of the concepts that philosophers have been dealing with for a long time, such as how to deal with the fact that suffering seems to be a necessary element in life, the meaningless of existence, the desire for objective answers, the inevitability and permanence of death, how to deal with loss, how one should live "the good life", etc.
    - At one point, Oliver thinks to himself "young and stupid Oliver, and no one comes to visit" after realizing that he had waited too long to pursue Agatha, which is the same as when Upsilon thinks to himself "old an stupid Upsilon, no one came to visit" when he realized he had waited too long to appreciate the time he spent with his mom.
    - I think the story is a commentary on the importance of not wasting time, and on the importance of appreciating what you have instead of ignoring the present moment in pursuit of something objective, which doesn't ultimately exist. Upsilon, a great cosmic entity, dies just like the rest of us. By any standard, he had lived an amazing life, and yet he still feels like he missed the point of existence. In his dying speech, he says: "Before (in-front of) me, the empires go up and down like socks, every society unique in its infancy, entirely unoriginal in its death. And even us celestial things are no closer to the great yes (objective answers or meaning), the universe coughs and we all crowd around, cupping our ears, shouting "what? I didn't quite catch that, speak up", like some 4 legged animal entering a drinking establishment; being, is a terrible joke. And we've become mysteries to ourselves. At a pace so slow, one doesn't notice, one turns into something one doesn't recognize. I've made the arrangements, I'll be fireworks soon. And maybe one day, soil for something better. I go to seek "a great perhaps" (peace with one's self) now. I remember when the world was still new, I remember when chemistry had just gotten its milk teeth, I remember when light was faster, I remember being able to stand myself, I remember love, I remember friends, I remember me, I remember Mom. I miss you mom. I go to the places where you raised me and it never helps, you are almost never there. God, I'd trade the last million years just to hangout with you for one more hour. I was so busy being young I forgot you weren't forever, and now you're gone forever."
    - Upsilon, through the power of his will and his memory, was able to restart time to get a second chance at the things that were most important to him. The elation was evident in the reunification of Zeus and Athena as they celebrated their long awaited reunion. In some sense, it was the same characters and the same love story all throughout the plot. Upsilon got his second chance to make things right, but there is no guarantee that we will, so let's pay a little more attention to the now, love a little more right now, and make sure we get things right the first time :)

    • @nafnaf333b5
      @nafnaf333b5 5 років тому +1566

      Wow that was helpful...thank you a lot kind stranger!

    • @shyflyf3772
      @shyflyf3772 5 років тому +1622

      tl;dr
      A sentient star restarts the universe because it's lonely

    • @butterfacepilot
      @butterfacepilot 5 років тому +721

      williampatrickwoods holy shit, nice explanation man, you’re probably either a philosopher yourself or just really good at the English Language

    • @cannabiscuit2268
      @cannabiscuit2268 5 років тому +315

      williampatrickwoods wow great explanation, made me even think about my parents and tear up a little. You get a thumbs up👍🏽

    • @castangred7713
      @castangred7713 5 років тому +232

      Bloody hell

  • @tezzastutorials5592
    @tezzastutorials5592 5 років тому +679

    "The quark stars all too strange and charming"
    I see what you did there

  • @dingalingdong7144
    @dingalingdong7144 5 років тому +164

    the part at the end "The feast is over and the lamps expire" is the last line from Robert E. Howard's (author of the original Conan the Barbarian stories) suicide note

    • @laudablesinner5028
      @laudablesinner5028 5 років тому +30

      "Act your old age - this wont hurt" is from Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note as well.

    • @sultanofswingdrift3021
      @sultanofswingdrift3021 5 років тому +27

      you guys are onto some seriously dark track's here, especially with three vids put out simoultanously... is exurb1a ok??

    • @ole781
      @ole781 5 років тому +14

      He’s fine it’s the others we have to worry about

  • @toddkelly8351
    @toddkelly8351 3 роки тому +5

    Almost all of your work puts me into a state of sadness to where I have to go somewhere private so I can cry like you do when you are a child who experience their first permanent loss.. Now as I havent called my dad in 8 years, because of a serious betrayal I am just gonna give him a call, tell him I love him then just forgive him even if he doesnt respond as I want, so after that I am going to go make my mother dinner, laugh and just enjoy her presence.. thanks mate
    P.S. you are changing the world... step by step, person by person.. dont ever give up.. I dont know you but I am sure as fuck proud of your humanity and existence.. You are a true artist, your videos arent just that, they are undeniable art that comes from the deepest parts within, pieces of purpose and meaning that take alot of thought and raw emotion. - Todd

  • @romilrh
    @romilrh 5 років тому +948

    ...hahaha another funny exurb1a video, right guys?
    Guys? Am I real?

    • @comfybox
      @comfybox 5 років тому +27

      Romil is not real

    • @yakurbe7039
      @yakurbe7039 5 років тому +5

      Could be.

    • @stephennielsen8722
      @stephennielsen8722 5 років тому +15

      Romil is real, but only when you don’t look at him

    • @romilrh
      @romilrh 5 років тому +29

      GUYS THIS IS NOT HELPING

    • @naiiko991
      @naiiko991 5 років тому +9

      @@stephennielsen8722 shcrodingers romil

  • @exalon3364
    @exalon3364 5 років тому +270

    First of all:
    I literally felt my Brain melting
    Second of all:
    This story is beautiful

    • @CharalamposKoundourakis
      @CharalamposKoundourakis 5 років тому

      Are you okay? Do you requite assistance?

    • @exalon3364
      @exalon3364 5 років тому

      @@CharalamposKoundourakis Yeah i cant move anymore i think i have a stroke (written with telekinesis)

    • @CharalamposKoundourakis
      @CharalamposKoundourakis 5 років тому

      @@exalon3364 Put your adress in a comment, I'll send an ambulance.

    • @bosclapped3153
      @bosclapped3153 5 років тому

      Which story?

    • @badwolfo2585
      @badwolfo2585 5 років тому

      @allgamer world of tanks & more all of them

  • @exzyyd392
    @exzyyd392 5 років тому +771

    Y'know, I don't think I've ever cried during a "Horse walks into a bar" joke but I guess there's a first time for everything
    So thanks Exurbia
    You insane, philosophical, immature, genius bastard
    Keep it up

    • @dewildone
      @dewildone 5 років тому +8

      I love him for this story. I never heard it before. So many stories that are told are so similar but this one left me wondering like a kid again.

    • @akiramiller9893
      @akiramiller9893 5 років тому

      Yes

    • @undeadwerewolves9463
      @undeadwerewolves9463 5 років тому +2

      I seriously thought there wasn't going to be a semi happy ending and I was so happy and almost teared up when they went to the cinema lol what the hell was even going on in this video 😂 I was just chilling and happy with existence and now I'm extremely confused again ha ha

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 5 років тому

      Some jerk decided to like your comment after I clicked the video... you had 666 likes

  • @ryancollins3050
    @ryancollins3050 3 роки тому +13

    God the part where Upsilon talks about his mom at the end hit me like a damn truck

  • @klobiforpresident2254
    @klobiforpresident2254 5 років тому +462

    Three uploads in a minute? I'm expecting thousands by the end of the month.

  • @sapphirewine7470
    @sapphirewine7470 5 років тому +533

    "Empire's go up and down like socks"
    instant classic

    • @4scended498
      @4scended498 5 років тому +7

      That’s why I never take my socks off

    • @johnlawlor7931
      @johnlawlor7931 5 років тому

      @@4scended498 Your nation thanks you

    • @yohanessamuel728
      @yohanessamuel728 5 років тому

      How bout England?

    • @nameq
      @nameq 5 років тому

      like stonks you mean

  • @saiancritic
    @saiancritic 5 років тому +317

    No one:
    Exurb1a: exists in sync with existential crisis. *posts a video*
    Me: ah shit, here we go again

    • @amitoj
      @amitoj 5 років тому +3

      Tim 3 vids todays

    • @scoutbane1651
      @scoutbane1651 5 років тому +1

      Releases THREE videos, I think he might have gone insane

  • @basebutter
    @basebutter 2 роки тому +11

    I love every second of this. Your work always makes me feel something, even if its the 50th time i'm watching it. Thank you

  • @tums1997
    @tums1997 5 років тому +355

    Three uploads by Exurb1a in one day!?!?
    Quick, we need to check wikipedia and figure out which religious Doomsday this foretells.

  • @RadioactiveGamin
    @RadioactiveGamin 5 років тому +801

    Nobody:
    exurb1a: Did somebody order an existential crisis?

  • @vaulfsbane
    @vaulfsbane 4 роки тому +2356

    It is insane how I'm watching content like this for free

    • @thepyroking1236
      @thepyroking1236 2 роки тому +20

      nothing is free, you paid with your time

    • @bored5481
      @bored5481 2 роки тому +64

      @@thepyroking1236 that sounds like something i would find on a facebook mother of 4 account

    • @thepyroking1236
      @thepyroking1236 2 роки тому

      you sound like a loser

    • @bored5481
      @bored5481 2 роки тому +14

      @@thepyroking1236 and you sound like a 10 y/o that thinks they're philosophical

    • @bigm9300
      @bigm9300 2 роки тому +12

      Pewdipies gaming is content. This is drug-induced art(the best kind imo)

  • @kingdollop-head743
    @kingdollop-head743 2 роки тому +14

    Anyone else use videos like this to cope with their actual crippling insanity? Just me?
    Thanks, exurb1a, for keeping me out of the psych ward

  • @TheCrazybloo3
    @TheCrazybloo3 5 років тому +350

    such a sad story. the pelican didn't get any fish.

  • @deefman123
    @deefman123 5 років тому +377

    This is transcending itself, this amalgamation of consciousness and theoretical. I have deep respect for this kind of writing.
    Thank

  • @tropicalboy9803
    @tropicalboy9803 5 років тому +1147

    All the stories:
    The Rabbit, the Horse, and the Pelican:
    0:00
    5:24
    8:44
    The Tale of Oliver and Agatha:
    0:57
    6:28
    10:06
    Zeus and the Calf:
    2:57
    7:11
    12:06
    Upsilon’s Goodbye:
    4:28
    7:53
    13:22
    Edit: Just want to make a clarification. I didn't make this for the purpose of trying to understand the story because I couldn't understand the interconnected overarching story, I made this so I could isolate each individual part of this narrative and better understand each individual story and study more minute details and concepts so I could appreciate this work of art from a new perspective. Love y'all :p

  • @aryanmn1569
    @aryanmn1569 5 місяців тому +2

    This is the masterpiece of your youtube videos, well, one of many, but surely one of them

  • @carazy123_
    @carazy123_ 5 років тому +524

    “Upon making eye contact, their heart rates both approached severe tachycardia”
    Hahaha

    • @nazzabazza842
      @nazzabazza842 5 років тому

      Carazy123 want even is that

    • @carazy123_
      @carazy123_ 5 років тому +2

      Meme Lord69 a fast heartbeat that isn’t proportional to your age or current physical activity

  • @agapitosdovles9803
    @agapitosdovles9803 5 років тому +604

    Alternative scenario: pelican eats a fish, Oliver asks out the middle aged man, Zeus has different music preferences from the nebula, and Mom returns.

    • @potbem5333
      @potbem5333 5 років тому +14

      This is my headcanon now, thank you

    • @horowitz8680
      @horowitz8680 5 років тому +7

      that'd be one hell of a novel

    • @adella_green
      @adella_green 5 років тому +5

      Wouldn't be Epsilon not born then? (irt 4th point)

    • @adella_green
      @adella_green 5 років тому +2

      Sorry, 3d point

    • @waldamy8833
      @waldamy8833 5 років тому +1

      Wait a sec
      Wasn't Oliver the guy who created Zeus
      And Zeus the father of Upsilon
      And Upsilon dies anyway

  • @aitchpea6011
    @aitchpea6011 5 років тому +185

    It was a joy to listen to this one unfold, gradually revealing itself. Great story, Ex. Love the way you write.

  • @HakarisInfiniteVoid
    @HakarisInfiniteVoid 4 місяці тому +1

    I can watch this video 100s of time. And I will always love it. Thank you so much. I miss your uploads.

  • @apfelninja
    @apfelninja 5 років тому +283

    Fourteen minutes at two hundred thousand views makes a little over six years. Not a bad lifespan for talking wild animals.

  • @olafsriffs
    @olafsriffs 5 років тому +400

    this is by far the most complex Love, Death and Robots cosplay piece

  • @shakypirate
    @shakypirate 5 років тому +1121

    *"Happiness is an unachievable myth peddled by those too afraid to admit the world's default state is misery."*

    • @Dracophile7
      @Dracophile7 4 роки тому +33

      We take that misery and use it as a way to judge happiness

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 4 роки тому +43

      And that world can go fuck itself
      Fuck its stupid default state
      Imme do some stupid shit

    • @user-xh6eg1ts1t
      @user-xh6eg1ts1t 4 роки тому +14

      Shaky Pirate but the character who said this was wrong. I mean, afterwards he’s wrong. Maybe it was right, in the way certain things feel right, feel absolutely undeniable because you believe them so goddamn much, but he was wrong, in the end.

    • @patrickchandler2963
      @patrickchandler2963 4 роки тому +3

      No; happiness is the forever of suffering and we are suffering from joy.

    • @dirtmanmapping
      @dirtmanmapping 4 роки тому +5

      The pain I feel now, is the happiness I had before. -C.S. Lewis

  • @tashagimera
    @tashagimera Рік тому +6

    How dare you expose me to something so ridiculously beautiful that I should cry at my job this way.

    • @lenchasanchez5158
      @lenchasanchez5158 Рік тому +1

      And it really sneaks up on you! I was so unprepared for any of it!

  • @markenangel1813
    @markenangel1813 5 років тому +113

    The story unraveled:
    0 - Athena becomes "awakened," and gains intelligence and awareness.
    1 - Horse, Barman, and Pelican exist in the mind of Oliver, a starship AI coder.
    2 - Oliver meets Agatha, and sees a beautiful woman. They fall in love.
    3 - Oliver programs a starship AI.
    4 - the AI made by Oliver gains consciousness, and calls itself Zeus.
    5 - Zeus meets Athena, they fall in love, and have a kid named Upsilon.
    6 - Upsilon dies backwards in time, and his center makes up ~34 humans on earth, including Oliver and Agatha.

    • @psych9079
      @psych9079 5 років тому +3

      summed up perfectly

    • @Karirawri
      @Karirawri 5 років тому +1

      crab nebula, not andromeda

    • @Karirawri
      @Karirawri 5 років тому +1

      also, 34 people apparently

    • @anarchy5282
      @anarchy5282 5 років тому +1

      so they're stuck in a loop, Like it's Nietzsche eternal recurrence but even more extreme.

    • @markenangel1813
      @markenangel1813 5 років тому

      @@Karirawri oh, whoops.