Fun Fact: As you asked Ian, I did actually ask Stupendium on his community post personally on this and got a reply, unfortunately he did not write any of his lyrics for the Chalkeaters's song "Count to Three" which is why his lyrics writing style is non present :) Not that the Chalkeater wrote bad lyrics whatsoever, but still he did a amazing job performing as always tho :) PS: Peabody and "Atlas" were the names of the co-op protagonist for Portal 2 :)
@@dacomputernerd4096 fun fact though, when looking at the time when you are not watching the video, the time shown is either calculated or rounded differently, making it say it is 3:00 despite it only really being 2:59 (also, I counted 3 times they said "three", one at 1:11 one at 2:22 and one at 2:42 in the original song, or for a link for each time: ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html though, if you only include ones in the subtitles it is only 2 as Kippy commented, though also captions show the third three... still cool either way though)
They should make the Stupendium into a villain for their game as a part of a DLC or in a patch, honestly. With a sub-title card "Vibrant Tyrant"; likes - "Mind control, Rube Goldberg contraptions"; dislikes - "Disobedience, World Leaders"; focus - "Style". Doomsday Device - "Globe Cutter".
Count to three is 2:59 long. I refuse to believe that was an accident. But Fiend like me has been basically I listen to in the past week it's so catchy.
I love how all of the characters in the video are hesitant to say "three", but the crowd of the fans doesn't have a build up and just says it immediately
@@Insaneian idk if you have reviewed it since this is my first vid I have seen from u, but there is one of his songs that litterally had over 100 puns all in one song
I only just noticed when he says "forget the summer sale" he throws the pyro's mask and we briefly get to see the pryo's vision for a sec, until the rhyme was broke with alyx
@@Insaneian Does it really count as subversion, if the entire point is that there is no 3 and you know that Alyx was one of the latest Half-Life titles? I, at least, was expecting that very line.
Ah on the subverting rhymes, there was an undertale lyric song that went "Rage twitch- rage itch- time to die you little- Dummy!" Which is probably my favorite.
12:31 the quote "life gave you lemons take them out, take them out the freezer" is a reference to Cave Johnson's famous lemon quote “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
I love that the first Glados section is in the sentence structure of Want You Gone, the credits song for portal 2. Also the lines: “He said it’s worth the wait” “His weight keeps pressing harder”
35:15 to be fair, I would be far more terrified of Laser Dolphins than Laser Sharks Dolphins are terrifying, man. Little chirping sociopaths... *shudders*
imagine if valve secretly does have half life 3 done and theyre waiting for part 2 of count to three to announce it. thatd be a cool way to announce it!
You missed the fact that GladOS' portion of Count To 3 was basically a faster tempo version of Portal's Credits Theme, even starting with the same line of lyrics (which she also sang)
You have very quickly became my favorite reactor. Your experience in the scene and your tendency to catch flips is so fun to listen to, and you legit have so much fun with it it's intoxicating. Looking forward to every video of yours man. Keep it up, dude!
(Unfortunately some Spoilers for Half-Life Alyx) Oke, here are my favorite lines as a Fan of Valve: 8:39 The first time Three is called and what is shown right after is probably the Key to an actual Half-Life 3 being made 8:49 "Well here we are again / It's always such a pleasure" are the first 2 lines of the Endcredit-Song of Portal 2 (Want you Gone) 9:01 "But Alyx gave us hope we'll rise and shine" Again shows that Half-Life Alyx has made it more possible that new games will come out, but this time it is based on Portal and not Half-Life. The Reason is that before Alyx shipped Valve was in no fit state to ship any game as their Engine was not finished and they simply couldn't concentrate on one project for long enough (which is because of their Work-Culture where everybody can pretty much work on whatever he/she wants) 10:50 "For soulless Card-Games and Hardware Releases" is obviously a wink at probably Valves worst game, Artifact, being released during their big void of games and a lot of Hardware that didn't quite catch on being released during it. 12:32 "Life gave you Lemons take them out the freezer" is based on Portal 2 where Cave Johnson uses Lemons as an Metaphor for "Opportunities in Live" and they are obviously using this here as well saying: Take your opportunities out the freezer where they have been stuck in for the last years Valve 12:45 "When everyone's anticipating another Masterpiece of Art" is I think the most direct callout at how hard it is to be working at Valve and making any new game in any of their franchises (especially one with a 3 at the end) as you can almost not live up to expectations (except I think Half-Life Alyx would have done for me, even if it was called Half-Life 3, which it could have easily been called SO Great Job to all the Devs on that Project) 12:50 "If this machine keeps playing dead we may end up on the other side" with the other big publishers being the other side I think clearly shows that if Valve never did any other games but only collect money with Steam everybody would see Valve as just another of these Money-Hungry publishers BUT connected with the other part before about how hard it would be to live up to expectations you can really see the problem Valve has. If they release nothing they will be seen just like all other publishers making no games because it is the cheapest way to make the most money but if they make a new game and it doesn't land well, it will basically result to the same as they are now not seen as a good developer anymore but one that has left it's good days behind. 13:16 "The Valve been stuck corroded by the Money" At the one hand the way many people in the industry see Valve today but in a weird way also the way Valve actually is, because Valve has basically infinite Money and infinite Time for whatever Project they want to work on which results in them simply not finishing a single project. Sometimes not having time or other restrictions is the best motor for creativity. 13:24 "We can't believe the Engine started running" is in one way a continuation of the "Valve" of this engine being stuck and now finally working again but can also be taken literally because (as I said before) Valve had a hard time over the last years (I think basically since Portal 2) because they didn't have a finished engine and many projects they started didn't make it because the Engine was not ready BUT with Half-Life Alyx they finally (mostly) finished of Source 2 and it is now actually working. This is my favorite part of this song ;) 13:28 "This time he's bound to count to three" Basically the hope of the community that with the Tech now finally being up to scratch again (mostly) that Valve will finally make a 3-Game (Half-Life or Portal mostly) and I think even Valve thinks the same as Developers have said they really want to make more Games in the Half-Life Universe and connected with Half-Life Alyx's Ending this has only elevated the Communities expectations. Then again, Expectations where one of the problems all along 13:54 "We've got some work to do" with Alyx handing Gabe the Crowbar is basically a rehash of the Confirmation from Valve that they really want to make a Half-Life 3. It is taken from the After-Credit Scene of Half-Life Alyx where BIG SPOILERS!!!! Eli gives Gordon the Crowbar and says: "We've got work to do" 14:05 I think the To Be Continued... is more of a joke on Valve who always have cliffhangers as endings for Half-Life Games and therefore pretty much always say "To Be Continued..." after every Half-Life Game. This tradition alone pretty much means that there will never be an End in the Half-Life Series.
The way that Stupes says 'tic-tac-toe' is just....I don't know what it is but it's so satisfying to listen to. I guess it's the hard consonants in the words.
Both of these song have the same color scheme as vector from despicable me. Also I highly recommend "It just works" by the Chalkeaters, it's like a Disney villain song about Todd Howard.
You also missed how the elevator at 8:19 till 8:40, when its descinding and ascending, its counting the floors as dislikes and likes, in half-life numbers ( -1, -2, -2.1, -2.2, -3). Two other funny things: - every floor has something already in it, except for floor -3, because there is no third half-life content to fill the stage. Instead there are caution and warning signs everywhere, because you have no idea what's there and Gabe wants you to stay away from that "place" - when the elevator its ascending, it does so after the mention of hope from Half-life: Alyx, imitating that people start to regain hope and give likes and attention to Valve. Even so, at the end of the day (when the elevator reaches top floor), total like-dislike ratio for Valve after all the previous crap... Is still a glorious zero :))
the line "you said its been worth the wait" is referring to one of the most memorable quotes in the tf2 community by none other than Gabe himself when tf2 was originally released in 2007 and is usually used in the context of some major game bug/exploit or simply bad game design/mechanics in a form of irony. The follow-up line in really hits home when she says "his wait keeps passing harder" since tf2 haven't had a major update beyond Christmas and summer cosmetics in 3 years, especially with casual servers being overrun by aimbots and yet valve does little to nothing in helping it, even though tf2 is more popular now than ever! thank you for attending my TED talk
Count to three can be a reference to big thing that Valve is preparing. "He said it's worth to wait, his weight keeps pressing harder", "we can't believe the engine starte running", "So hold on to all your hats, let’s Show ‘em a triple-A done right!". I believe it's true.
If you want to see a ridiculous amount of references in one song 'lock me up' by the chalkeaters is absolutely packed with them, and is a damn good song
I enjoyed so much this video, loving how you had so much fun as the lines got more and more elaborated. Thank you for remembering the people that one month ago got it by that phrase, Stupes loves to tease and send us in a Gamusino search and we fans might oblige... or else. Great video as usual!
Actually in Evil Genius 1, one of the Acts of Infamy is Srinking and Stilling the Iffel Tower. I love the subtle referencies to 1's Doomsday Devices the Earthquake Beam, The Gravity Disrupter, and the ID Eliminator. I love the Stupendium branded Evil Organization Banners. And damn my Maniacal Laugh is only 3/4 as good as his
I know someone commented on the actual video, but I love the fact they count in binary. 001 is 1, 010 is 2 with 100 being 4, going to tell Gabe to make half life 011.
In terms of biology, a species is analogous to just you, a genus is you and immediate family (siblings and parents), and a family includes grandparents, your parents' siblings and your cousins.
7:06 Something to say was that his rule wasn't about skipping a rhyme, it was specifically breaking a song because a character can't think of a rhyme. The only exceptions he put in was for if it fit the character (like in Bikini Bottom Day) or if it's supposed to be a character who is writing the song, so he fumbles as he tries to improvise. It wasn't about breaking a rhyme, just stopping the song to have a line about not having a rhyme
35:15 - Doctor Evil references aside, it's been well-documented that real-life dolphins simply have _really_ good PR and are actually WAY more "playfully violent" than sharks (and _certainly_ easier to train to go after certain targets), which means laser dolphins are pretty much the _ideal_ marine pet for a villain! :D
I am always glad to see you break these down, they're are so cleverly written, that most reactors don't see all the clever lyrics, and I am always looking forward to see point it all out! Also both these songs are so amazing, and I've listened to both now more than I am willing to admit already!
I think you'd find the Chalkeaters' other songs really good and humorous, especially a certain Bethesda-themed ditty of theirs. Though if you do watch their Animal Crossing/Doom one at any point, do keep in mind that the animated version cuts out like half the song
Well I guess I have to sign in to like the video. The way you react is the kind of reactions I have been looking for, these days there are so many empty reactors which have no idea about the franchise and missing a lot of things in these kind of videos, and in these videos it is all about the catching details in the lyrics and in the animation. Thanks for the raction
Got to be honest i've listened to you react to these 3 times now and I was so distracted every time that only now I am actually paying attention to the song (or the video in general)
6:40 I know this one song in French, 'La jeune fille du métro' I think, that ends every stanza with a paise in the melody, and each time you expect it to be a sex-related rhyme but it's not. It's hilarious to sing to people casually while pretending there's nothing wrong lmao
Version alert! Version Alert! For The Chalkeaters' Doom Crossing: Eternal Horizons, there are two versions. Complete Song ua-cam.com/video/QydzTeVCeAA/v-deo.html Abridged song, but has video: ua-cam.com/video/U4lz8MN6MQA/v-deo.html I prefer the complete song myself.
Irony: I was watching a rerun of Destination Truth on Discovery last night and the after show had Seth Green..who played Scott Evil and they talked about him playing Doctor Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers trilogy..and Scott's Evil Laugh he finally used in the third movie. "It's creepen' a bit" is one of my favorite lines from Dr. Evil ever..from how he describes Scott's laugh and how he needs to "take it down a notch"..I watched THAT movie way too many times back in the day.
By the way, the quote "so evil you have to say it's Evil, like the frUIts of the dEvil" is from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" starring Mike Myers. It's one of my favourite movies ever, plus I'm glad to hear it's not just me who says it all the time too :)
If your taking suggestions i just saw the mystery of the worlds Squarest country by the channel Map Men and would love to watch a reaction to it by you.
When I heard this song I pictured a train or factory. The start of the song is the factory being shut down and as the song continues the factory starts to become operational and start producing again.
Also, hope I am not being too pushy but I think you would really like juggling iz cool by tom cardy and two minutes notice, both were made for helluva boss, react to them if you want
Although this may be late, but yes this stick puppet style is a staple of Chalkeaters, and they have done a few songs already like on EA, the irony of Doom and Animal Crossing being released at about the same time, hence the Doom Crossing song and other topical songs.
I dropped something litteraly the exact second your light went out to the point that I spent a minute trying to fix it before going on with the video and realising it was on your end.
If you didn't know, the playbutton in "FIEND LIKE ME" was actually the OG Gold playbutton that UA-cam gave out to people who hit one million in 2012, which was discontinued due to lack of funds and that the gold youtube logo inside the plaque was made entirely of pure 24 karat gold. The playbutton is very valuable due to it's material and its rarity. JackSucksAtLife (he specializes in obtaining youtube awards) bought the playbutton for more then a thousand dollars.
Now I think that the Stupendium likes the roll of been evil...well...he likes to dress in a different way in all his videos...you now ... he has a lot of ideas, a lot of aswome lirics, and more evil mind that a real EVIL MIND
"By the way if this is your first video of mine that you are watching" He said sending chills down my spine cause it is my first time watching his channel
Some facts about "Count to three". Of course, I've seen someone say they say "3" only 2 times and the song is 1 second behind 3 mins. But this song was also originally going to be more "punishing" than motivational is how Chalkeaters put it BUT the reason they didn't make it meaner was because Gabe Newel turned out to be so nice. Gabe even tried to sing a couple of lines but, as he said, “that was.... bad”. Lol. This song is so great. Gabe and Ellen both actually being involved with this song makes it so cool!
![A Comedy Musician Reacts | IT JUST WORKS and CRUSHING THIRTIES by The Chalkeaters [REACTION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Btw8Ub85BXY/mqdefault.jpg)
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Fun Fact: As you asked Ian, I did actually ask Stupendium on his community post personally on this and got a reply, unfortunately he did not write any of his lyrics for the Chalkeaters's song "Count to Three" which is why his lyrics writing style is non present :) Not that the Chalkeater wrote bad lyrics whatsoever, but still he did a amazing job performing as always tho :)
PS: Peabody and "Atlas" were the names of the co-op protagonist for Portal 2 :)
P-body and ATLAS you mean
@@dirtyshinobii Yes :)
Fun fact, the word “3” is said in the song 2 times.
In its 2.59 minute runtime.
Fun fact: one streaming service actually lists the runtime as 2:60, which is so poetic I can believe it wasn't planned.
Hate to ruin it, but there were three 3's. 1: The elevator 2: The audience and 3: The ending
If you want to go by the subtitles, it’s only two. The last one isn’t subtitled
YO PATRICK
@@dacomputernerd4096 fun fact though, when looking at the time when you are not watching the video, the time shown is either calculated or rounded differently, making it say it is 3:00 despite it only really being 2:59
(also, I counted 3 times they said "three", one at 1:11 one at 2:22 and one at 2:42 in the original song, or for a link for each time: ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/jpw2ebhTSKs/v-deo.html
though, if you only include ones in the subtitles it is only 2 as Kippy commented, though also captions show the third three...
still cool either way though)
I would love to see some more chalkeaters, their library is not that big yet they kind of exploded in popularity quite recently.
I noticed! I'm definitely going to check out more by them.
@@Insaneian 'It Just Works and 'Eternal Horizons' are amazing btw
He's gonna love It Just Works
Thanks for the heart Ian! Great work and I almost laughed as hard as you did on some of the bars lol
@@Vector-jm1qk they're both excellent songs, for sure! 😁
They should make the Stupendium into a villain for their game as a part of a DLC or in a patch, honestly. With a sub-title card "Vibrant Tyrant"; likes - "Mind control, Rube Goldberg contraptions"; dislikes - "Disobedience, World Leaders"; focus - "Style". Doomsday Device - "Globe Cutter".
indeed
One of his super powers should be killing Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.
Part of the (M)alevolent Music and Sinister Songs DLC Pack
I had to censor malevolent because UA-cam doesn't like that word for some reason
But... you didn’t censors malevolent the second time?
@@MiniGunTurtle36 huh weird
Count to three is 2:59 long. I refuse to believe that was an accident. But Fiend like me has been basically I listen to in the past week it's so catchy.
Apparently the Chalkeaters submitted it to Spotify, and it came back as 2:60! Like...that's 3 minutes but...not! 😅
It won't let them count to 3
they said 3 two times!
@@audriusskebas3099 3 actually
Ian: pauses video to talk about how much he pauses:
Me: bit ironic innit?
I was hoping someone would catch that 😅
I did
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@@toxic_shr00m
"PILLS HERE"
"ADRENILIN HERE"
"BRITISH HERE"
Stupendium gets everything perfect his evil laughs, jokes, puns, and music
missing a period there
Someone please find the period it responds to the name of jeremy
@@SafeBurrito5465 nah, everything was so good he died halfway through the sentence. No time for the period.
@@ConnorLinley i see.
6:19 was funny tbf
Just realized it's a bit ironic that the game about dominating the world with a doctatorial regime is made by rebellion, uh.
It's always who you least expect!
The Sniper Elite People!?
I love how all of the characters in the video are hesitant to say "three", but the crowd of the fans doesn't have a build up and just says it immediately
Kinda sad you missed the flip of
"Can't see no schemes" and
"Casino screen",
that's my favorite flip in the entire song.
That is a good one. So many went by so fast I couldn't catch them all!
@@Insaneian Bonus: He gets that while also getting 'Casino,' 'green' and 'baize' in a single line.
@@Insaneian idk if you have reviewed it since this is my first vid I have seen from u, but there is one of his songs that litterally had over 100 puns all in one song
@@d4s0n282 yeah, Milk Milk Lemonade...I technically did that one twice!
@@Insaneian lmao, ima go watch it now
I only just noticed when he says "forget the summer sale" he throws the pyro's mask and we briefly get to see the pryo's vision for a sec, until the rhyme was broke with alyx
an amazing yet hard to notice reference that doubles as foreshadowing.
The part with dan bull's play button got me, I didn't notice it the first time I watched it.
Dan is the minion that he melts in the song too.
With the whole expected rhyme thing, we had a chant at school for the games: ra ra ree, kick 'em in the knee, ra ra rass, kick 'em in the other knee.
Hahaha, I remember that from when I was a kid! Pretty sure I saw it in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon!
Also, subverting an expected rhyme is great, but subverting it when you think the rhyme is going to be a "swear" is even better. 😁
@@Insaneian Does it really count as subversion, if the entire point is that there is no 3 and you know that Alyx was one of the latest Half-Life titles?
I, at least, was expecting that very line.
@@DJSchreffler expectation didn't made it worse.
@@Insaneian *Shrek noises*
Ah on the subverting rhymes, there was an undertale lyric song that went
"Rage twitch- rage itch- time to die you little- Dummy!"
Which is probably my favorite.
If I remember it was the Dummy! song from Man On The Internet.
Eh. Man of internet is great but he does songs about less popular games now
12:31 the quote "life gave you lemons take them out, take them out the freezer" is a reference to Cave Johnson's famous lemon quote “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
I love that the first Glados section is in the sentence structure of Want You Gone, the credits song for portal 2.
Also the lines:
“He said it’s worth the wait”
“His weight keeps pressing harder”
35:15 to be fair, I would be far more terrified of Laser Dolphins than Laser Sharks
Dolphins are terrifying, man. Little chirping sociopaths... *shudders*
I know of two different comedy musicians (one being Bonecage) who've done songs about dolphins and their...predilections.
imagine if valve secretly does have half life 3 done and theyre waiting for part 2 of count to three to announce it. thatd be a cool way to announce it!
Stupendium really knows how to sell a game. Bought Evil Genius 2 yesterday just because of him.
Is it good?
@Deborah Ajao He breaks Time, nothing holds him.
@Deborah Ajao As my profile pic indicates, clearly I am a timelord.
@Deborah Ajao fr though, I'm a patreon supporter, I give a few dollars and get to see the videos a bit early. You can see my name in the credits.
He convinced me to put $40.00 on my Steam Account before sadly realizing it’s Windows-only. That was fun.
how to turn a 3 minute song into an almost 40 minute video.
enjoyed every second.
Heh, then you're REALLY gonna love the video this week!
(Or not. I'm so so sorry.)
you mean a 2 minute and 59 second song
You missed the fact that GladOS' portion of Count To 3 was basically a faster tempo version of Portal's Credits Theme, even starting with the same line of lyrics (which she also sang)
You have very quickly became my favorite reactor. Your experience in the scene and your tendency to catch flips is so fun to listen to, and you legit have so much fun with it it's intoxicating. Looking forward to every video of yours man. Keep it up, dude!
Thank you! I truly appreciate that!
Also the comment sections are amazing here! So positive!
@@patrickholzer6415 it makes my week every time I post a new video and see these positive comments. Truly.
The bots are Atlas and Peabody, you were super close.
Atlas and P-body
sorry, portal stickler
@@X-SPONGED Fair enough, I honestly didn't look at the spelling before I posted.
I CACKLED WHEN HE SAID AXEL
(Unfortunately some Spoilers for Half-Life Alyx)
Oke, here are my favorite lines as a Fan of Valve:
8:39 The first time Three is called and what is shown right after is probably the Key to an actual Half-Life 3 being made
8:49 "Well here we are again / It's always such a pleasure" are the first 2 lines of the Endcredit-Song of Portal 2 (Want you Gone)
9:01 "But Alyx gave us hope we'll rise and shine" Again shows that Half-Life Alyx has made it more possible that new games will come out, but this time it is based on Portal and not Half-Life. The Reason is that before Alyx shipped Valve was in no fit state to ship any game as their Engine was not finished and they simply couldn't concentrate on one project for long enough (which is because of their Work-Culture where everybody can pretty much work on whatever he/she wants)
10:50 "For soulless Card-Games and Hardware Releases" is obviously a wink at probably Valves worst game, Artifact, being released during their big void of games and a lot of Hardware that didn't quite catch on being released during it.
12:32 "Life gave you Lemons take them out the freezer" is based on Portal 2 where Cave Johnson uses Lemons as an Metaphor for "Opportunities in Live" and they are obviously using this here as well saying: Take your opportunities out the freezer where they have been stuck in for the last years Valve
12:45 "When everyone's anticipating another Masterpiece of Art" is I think the most direct callout at how hard it is to be working at Valve and making any new game in any of their franchises (especially one with a 3 at the end) as you can almost not live up to expectations (except I think Half-Life Alyx would have done for me, even if it was called Half-Life 3, which it could have easily been called SO Great Job to all the Devs on that Project)
12:50 "If this machine keeps playing dead we may end up on the other side" with the other big publishers being the other side I think clearly shows that if Valve never did any other games but only collect money with Steam everybody would see Valve as just another of these Money-Hungry publishers BUT connected with the other part before about how hard it would be to live up to expectations you can really see the problem Valve has. If they release nothing they will be seen just like all other publishers making no games because it is the cheapest way to make the most money but if they make a new game and it doesn't land well, it will basically result to the same as they are now not seen as a good developer anymore but one that has left it's good days behind.
13:16 "The Valve been stuck corroded by the Money" At the one hand the way many people in the industry see Valve today but in a weird way also the way Valve actually is, because Valve has basically infinite Money and infinite Time for whatever Project they want to work on which results in them simply not finishing a single project. Sometimes not having time or other restrictions is the best motor for creativity.
13:24 "We can't believe the Engine started running" is in one way a continuation of the "Valve" of this engine being stuck and now finally working again but can also be taken literally because (as I said before) Valve had a hard time over the last years (I think basically since Portal 2) because they didn't have a finished engine and many projects they started didn't make it because the Engine was not ready BUT with Half-Life Alyx they finally (mostly) finished of Source 2 and it is now actually working. This is my favorite part of this song ;)
13:28 "This time he's bound to count to three" Basically the hope of the community that with the Tech now finally being up to scratch again (mostly) that Valve will finally make a 3-Game (Half-Life or Portal mostly) and I think even Valve thinks the same as Developers have said they really want to make more Games in the Half-Life Universe and connected with Half-Life Alyx's Ending this has only elevated the Communities expectations. Then again, Expectations where one of the problems all along
13:54 "We've got some work to do" with Alyx handing Gabe the Crowbar is basically a rehash of the Confirmation from Valve that they really want to make a Half-Life 3. It is taken from the After-Credit Scene of Half-Life Alyx where BIG SPOILERS!!!!
Eli gives Gordon the Crowbar and says: "We've got work to do"
14:05 I think the To Be Continued... is more of a joke on Valve who always have cliffhangers as endings for Half-Life Games and therefore pretty much always say "To Be Continued..." after every Half-Life Game. This tradition alone pretty much means that there will never be an End in the Half-Life Series.
The way that Stupes says 'tic-tac-toe' is just....I don't know what it is but it's so satisfying to listen to. I guess it's the hard consonants in the words.
Which is funnier considering he wouldn't even say "tic-tac-toe" normally, since over there they call it "noughts and crosses".
@@Lokear We use both names, but noughts and crosses is more common ^-^ I remember a playground game in primary school that used 'tic-tac-toe'.
@@weltato Oh, okay.
I love how this guy KNOWS how reaction should be. Pausing a lot and speaking about things in the songs.
I was in the 0.5% longest listeners to The Chalkeaters on Spotify last year... I'm glad you're reacting to them!
Damn, that's an achievement considering that I have listened to 'it just works' about 58263 times already.
If we dont get Stupendium as an DLC in Evil Genius 2 i will riot
Both of these song have the same color scheme as vector from despicable me.
Also I highly recommend "It just works" by the Chalkeaters, it's like a Disney villain song about Todd Howard.
You also missed how the elevator at 8:19 till 8:40, when its descinding and ascending, its counting the floors as dislikes and likes, in half-life numbers ( -1, -2, -2.1, -2.2, -3).
Two other funny things:
- every floor has something already in it, except for floor -3, because there is no third half-life content to fill the stage. Instead there are caution and warning signs everywhere, because you have no idea what's there and Gabe wants you to stay away from that "place"
- when the elevator its ascending, it does so after the mention of hope from Half-life: Alyx, imitating that people start to regain hope and give likes and attention to Valve. Even so, at the end of the day (when the elevator reaches top floor), total like-dislike ratio for Valve after all the previous crap... Is still a glorious zero :))
Around 6:17 on the conveyor belt, you can see an ORANGE BOX moving down the belt.
HOW IS THIS GUYS LAUGH NOT A MEME YET IM DYING
Him putting his name on play button is what got me too lmao, especially his reaction as he does it
The second he said “batteries are dying left and right.” I got a 10% warning on my iPad. Great coincidence.
Im sad you didn't notice how he wrote "e pluribus cumin" on the spice rack he made out of the US Senate building
😶
I'm sad I didn't notice that too, now!
the line "you said its been worth the wait" is referring to one of the most memorable quotes in the tf2 community by none other than Gabe himself when tf2 was originally released in 2007 and is usually used in the context of some major game bug/exploit or simply bad game design/mechanics in a form of irony. The follow-up line in really hits home when she says "his wait keeps passing harder" since tf2 haven't had a major update beyond Christmas and summer cosmetics in 3 years, especially with casual servers being overrun by aimbots and yet valve does little to nothing in helping it, even though tf2 is more popular now than ever!
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Count to three can be a reference to big thing that Valve is preparing. "He said it's worth to wait, his weight keeps pressing harder", "we can't believe the engine starte running", "So hold on to all your hats, let’s
Show ‘em a triple-A done right!". I believe it's true.
If you want to see a ridiculous amount of references in one song 'lock me up' by the chalkeaters is absolutely packed with them, and is a damn good song
I enjoyed so much this video, loving how you had so much fun as the lines got more and more elaborated. Thank you for remembering the people that one month ago got it by that phrase, Stupes loves to tease and send us in a Gamusino search and we fans might oblige... or else.
Great video as usual!
Actually in Evil Genius 1, one of the Acts of Infamy is Srinking and Stilling the Iffel Tower.
I love the subtle referencies to 1's Doomsday Devices the Earthquake Beam, The Gravity Disrupter, and the ID Eliminator.
I love the Stupendium branded Evil Organization Banners.
And damn my Maniacal Laugh is only 3/4 as good as his
in the GLaDOS scene she also made fun of gabes weight. (Because she made fun of chells weight in portal 1)
I know someone commented on the actual video, but I love the fact they count in binary. 001 is 1, 010 is 2 with 100 being 4, going to tell Gabe to make half life 011.
8:49 that's actually a reference to Portal 2 End Credits song: Want You Gone.
Imagine convincing Gabe to be in the intro of a song thats abt him not making a 3rd game of any series💀💀💀💀
Just got out of class bored and then I saw this video! Woo! Thanks for relieving me of my boredom I can already tell this is gonna be a great video.
Ian’s struggles with battery power still amazes me
Me too, honestly. Just when I think everything is charged, one more thing reminds me I didn't charge it 😅
"At least, that's the impression that I get. And that's a different song reference."
*ska-punk intensifies*
The only Chalkeaters song I've ever listened to before is "It Just works". The Bethesda song.
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7:06 Something to say was that his rule wasn't about skipping a rhyme, it was specifically breaking a song because a character can't think of a rhyme. The only exceptions he put in was for if it fit the character (like in Bikini Bottom Day) or if it's supposed to be a character who is writing the song, so he fumbles as he tries to improvise. It wasn't about breaking a rhyme, just stopping the song to have a line about not having a rhyme
Good point, yeah, I forgot about the specifics there. Thanks!
I don't know why, but as soon as the video started, my mind went "his head is too short, he's got a flat head".
Evil Genius 2
One of the best games I ever played
I LOVE IT
It's been 17 years since the first game came out and the second one is as good as that one
35:15 - Doctor Evil references aside, it's been well-documented that real-life dolphins simply have _really_ good PR and are actually WAY more "playfully violent" than sharks (and _certainly_ easier to train to go after certain targets), which means laser dolphins are pretty much the _ideal_ marine pet for a villain! :D
Had to be dolphins, only animals both depraved and smart enough to go along with a villains plans.
31:45 makes me want a comedy news channel with Anne Chor, Corey Spondent, Rhianne Porter, Wes Erman and Diane Rector
...nice
It's Atlas and P-Body. So, close enough. Also if you noticed for Count to Three, the video ends at 2:59, so it doesn't even get to 3 minutes.
I am always glad to see you break these down, they're are so cleverly written, that most reactors don't see all the clever lyrics, and I am always looking forward to see point it all out!
Also both these songs are so amazing, and I've listened to both now more than I am willing to admit already!
I think you'd find the Chalkeaters' other songs really good and humorous, especially a certain Bethesda-themed ditty of theirs. Though if you do watch their Animal Crossing/Doom one at any point, do keep in mind that the animated version cuts out like half the song
Well I guess I have to sign in to like the video.
The way you react is the kind of reactions I have been looking for, these days there are so many empty reactors which have no idea about the franchise and missing a lot of things in these kind of videos, and in these videos it is all about the catching details in the lyrics and in the animation. Thanks for the raction
Yessss. I was hoping you would cover both of these songs And you did it in one video I am so happy
Got to be honest i've listened to you react to these 3 times now and I was so distracted every time that only now I am actually paying attention to the song (or the video in general)
Why aren't more people paying the stupendium to make song's about their games ?!
So the advertising is free
Thank you you’re better than most reactors you see unlike some others you react
6:40 I know this one song in French, 'La jeune fille du métro' I think, that ends every stanza with a paise in the melody, and each time you expect it to be a sex-related rhyme but it's not. It's hilarious to sing to people casually while pretending there's nothing wrong lmao
Pretty sure the Ellen McLain verse was intended to reprise the melody from the Jonathan Coulton songs written for the Portal games, right?
The fact the Chalkeaters got the guy involved with Half Life to say a line in the song is just great.
Version alert! Version Alert!
For The Chalkeaters' Doom Crossing: Eternal Horizons, there are two versions.
Complete Song ua-cam.com/video/QydzTeVCeAA/v-deo.html
Abridged song, but has video: ua-cam.com/video/U4lz8MN6MQA/v-deo.html
I prefer the complete song myself.
Good to know, thanks for the heads up!
1:31 talking is indeed fun
Why do I feel like I want to play this Evil Stups in the game😂
Irony: I was watching a rerun of Destination Truth on Discovery last night and the after show had Seth Green..who played Scott Evil and they talked about him playing Doctor Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers trilogy..and Scott's Evil Laugh he finally used in the third movie. "It's creepen' a bit" is one of my favorite lines from Dr. Evil ever..from how he describes Scott's laugh and how he needs to "take it down a notch"..I watched THAT movie way too many times back in the day.
I once had a solo project called Evil Petting Zoo based on a gag from the first movie.
By the way, the quote "so evil you have to say it's Evil, like the frUIts of the dEvil" is from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" starring Mike Myers. It's one of my favourite movies ever, plus I'm glad to hear it's not just me who says it all the time too :)
His bars were so powerful and his visuals so engaging that the lights couldn't handle it
I had to look it up, Ian, and it turns out that quote ("like the fru-its of the dev-eel") is from "So I Married An Axe Murderer."
I was waiting for it. Amazing reaction.
I'm surprised you didn't get the 'Rise and shine, Mr Freeman' reference at 9:02
"Let's get... and try not to sound too much like what an idiot is.... and I'm sure that helped" lol
Just wanted to point out at 8:28 look at the elevator floors, it skips 3 till u get to the VERY bottom
28:50
Greg: Hey, Dan, can I have you UA-cam button?
Dan: Why?
Greg: Don't ask, trust me
If your taking suggestions i just saw the mystery of the worlds Squarest country by the channel Map Men and would love to watch a reaction to it by you.
When I heard this song I pictured a train or factory. The start of the song is the factory being shut down and as the song continues the factory starts to become operational and start producing again.
13:55 wait if Alyx is there then who’s controlling the camera now because you see her vr hand through the video so who’s at the camera?
Stupendium would have been the perfect casting for Alastor in hazbin hotel
Also, hope I am not being too pushy but I think you would really like juggling iz cool by tom cardy and two minutes notice, both were made for helluva boss, react to them if you want
Yesss I love count to three I was waiting for your reaction :D
Although this may be late, but yes this stick puppet style is a staple of Chalkeaters, and they have done a few songs already like on EA, the irony of Doom and Animal Crossing being released at about the same time, hence the Doom Crossing song and other topical songs.
I dropped something litteraly the exact second your light went out to the point that I spent a minute trying to fix it before going on with the video and realising it was on your end.
If you didn't know, the playbutton in "FIEND LIKE ME" was actually the OG Gold playbutton that UA-cam gave out to people who hit one million in 2012, which was discontinued due to lack of funds and that the gold youtube logo inside the plaque was made entirely of pure 24 karat gold. The playbutton is very valuable due to it's material and its rarity. JackSucksAtLife (he specializes in obtaining youtube awards) bought the playbutton for more then a thousand dollars.
Now I think that the Stupendium likes the roll of been evil...well...he likes to dress in a different way in all his videos...you now ... he has a lot of ideas, a lot of aswome lirics, and more evil mind that a real EVIL MIND
And his hats
"By the way if this is your first video of mine that you are watching"
He said sending chills down my spine cause it is my first time watching his channel
This is a surprise but a welcome one chalkeaters deserve all the love
Another level of the last couple lines, sharks are already 'bad' and dophins are cute so it's extra evil to turn them into murder machines.
I should’ve recommended ‘It just Works’ the first time I saw this lol
That song made me decide to play the game and its super fun
You gotta remember most of us did not play Half life Alyx
Some facts about "Count to three". Of course, I've seen someone say they say "3" only 2 times and the song is 1 second behind 3 mins. But this song was also originally going to be more "punishing" than motivational is how Chalkeaters put it BUT the reason they didn't make it meaner was because Gabe Newel turned out to be so nice. Gabe even tried to sing a couple of lines but, as he said, “that was.... bad”. Lol. This song is so great. Gabe and Ellen both actually being involved with this song makes it so cool!
The chalkeaters logo have 3 dots but in this song there are only 2
Stupendium fits the smart villain so well, god damn
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Oh if you liked this, and want to see other songs Stupendium is on, the Android Hell Blues, a portal song, is really good.
Surprised nobody really notices that the beginning after Gabe says 4 it starts with the valve intro
9:05 its chell a nd the labrat guy from the comic