Honestly, when has any protest sign changed someone's mind? I mean... seriously? Unless you have never thought about your position whatsoever to the point where, what, at most a paragraph will shift your entire view, it's pointless. Then again, most of politics is pointless imo. Just abusing allistic group think for all it's worth.
@@brandonbrown6922 women suffrage signs were the last to work, it was a different time but we still use em, hard to get rid of. Humans love thinking they're noticed.
A world-ending disaster, in this part of the rainforest, in this year in the timeline, in this part of the world, caused entirely by a source of energy that doesn't actually affect the climate!? ....yes. ...may I stop it? ...no.
Don't underestimate the power of salad dressing. You actually can't build a P-51 Mustang without it. When they were trying to build replicas with 1940's tech they were unable to remove one part from it's mold. They tried quite a bit of different strategies and finally asked someone who worked on them during WW2 and found out that it required a very specific ratio of oil to thousand island dressing.
@@LuxrayIsEpic That's real, and its more common than you could think in the industries. And yes, we still regularly use them for wooden crafting finishing too.
Maybe by having enough solar energy based technology they can harness the solar flare instead of getting destroyed by it? That’s the best I can come up with
Its not surprising that the game paints nuclear power in as part of the global warming problem. I know many people that are concerned about global warming but hate nuclear power. Even though nuclear power is a potential solution to global warming that carries its own, different, risks.
outsider344 Ikr, 20 nuclear plants are less wasteful than 1 coal plant. It's rediculous. But no no no, people hear the word "nuclear" and "radiation" and everyone shits themselves and runs to their bunker because they have no knowledge on nuclear energy and no one bothers to teach the public about it.
There is plenty of fuel if processed correctly. We can make more fissile material while generating energy. While that won't break the laws of thermodynamics, it sure squeezes every last drop of energy we can get out of the atom until its all daughter products. In fact, breeder reactors produce less nuclear waste, since it uses the most radioactive parts again. Its not a renewable resource by any means, but there is a hell of a lot of power in the atom. A paperclip converted 100% into energy as calculated by E=mc^2 is the same as the hiroshima bomb. yeah, I didn't fuck any numbers up. Atomic bombs are immensely more destructive than any chemical based bomb, and only around 1% of the material actually reacts before being blasted away.
Some Dude What do you define as "long enough"? At present we are burning all these complex hydrocarbons that are incredibly useful for making things and we're warming the planet in the process. Its not like we have to use nuclear power forever. Just as a stop gap until renewable and storage, or heck even fusion, become more developed.
The people making the game, despite it's message and overall great environmental art, still couldn't resist giving Fay the curved spine and jutting ass of a 90's comic book girl. XD Not to mention a skin tight jumpsuit and weird crop-top jacket thing... Kinda undermines them a bit when they sexualize their character so much. It is imperative that some creators rub one out before they get to work. Too often does their state of mind bleed into their creations.
@@planescaped if you think Fay is sexualized, the letter S must seem downright shameful to you. The characters in this game are a lot of things, but attractive is not one of them.
Her posture is crazy. I met someone with a posture like that once in boot camp. He was an athlete but he said he stretched his stomach muscles daily because he was convinced it was some kind of wonder thing, and he was like a banana when viewed from the side (not scoliosis or anything like that). Never stretched his back, only the stomach. I wonder what happened to him. He's probably gone full 360° by now.
Well Salvador isn’t going to get what he wants out of his plot. Because while those disasters did cause changes, they were mostly to the safety systems that had failed which caused the disaster. Except Deep Water Horizon, that one the failure was the result of cutting corners on construction and was already in violation of the various safety regulations. Also Western nuclear reactors never had a chance of exploding the way the game thinks it does. There would be a disaster during a meltdown, but it’d be from having clean up contaminated cooling water or at most radioactive debris from a steam explosion. Soviet reactors on the other hand, could undergo rapid uncontrolled fission like one would associated with an atomic weapon _but_ the yield would be rather low and nowhere near rainforest destroying. It’d be a few kilotons, yes but even with the fallout it’d only destroy/poison a very small area and even in the 1980s we had the ability to clean up something like that. As for why this game is so anti-nuclear? It’s from Germany. They retired all of their reactors years ago and switched over to alternative energy sources. The irony is that nuclear reactors are one of the best solutions we have that can be implemented now to help curb carbon emissions in the short turn as a supplement to renewables. If anything the villain should have been an oil or coal concern. Hell, make it a farming consortium since the bulk of rainforest destruction is to create cheap farmland for raising cattle in bulk.
Possibly, but that would really only apply to Germany's use of solar and not their use of wind. Even then there's still net benefit from the solar cells. Now if they were trying to use hydro, that's another story given the massive amount of CO2 that comes from concrete production and curing plus the long term environmental damage from restricting the flow of water and thus the flow of nutrients down stream. Of course what really kills it is that Germany uses fossil fuel auxiliary generators to supplement the energy grid when demand gets too high because they don't have an effective way to store excess power production during very windy or sunny days for more than just night time use.
years ago. We've seven running until 2022. And you can't really translate politics back to people, back to devs.. That would mean every message to certains topic would be the same if the game come from the USA. Reality is they are very diverse.
It's an attempted phase out. The plants are not entirely gone, but are intended to be. Don't you think it's kind of a jump to conclusions in assuming a political choice would affect social opinion so drastically? I've never met any Germans with strong distaste to nuclear power.
*@CitrusZero* _"Don't you think it's kind of a jump to conclusions in assuming a political choice would affect social opinion so drastically?"_ You got it the wrong way around. The government had plans to phase out nuclear energy much slower but then Fukushima happened and the public outcry forced them to hurry up the shutdown of older reactors and planned new power plants were cancelled.
Here I'm thinking this is going to be another soft-footed environmentalist piece of media where other than implied danger nobody really gets hurt. And then a dude gets broadsided by a board that embeds itself in his skull like it's DOOM 3 and I busted out laughing.
These times travelers really picked a bad time to try a fix earths energy problems. They should've gone back to the 19th century and introduced extremely advanced renewable energy sources as well as highly efficient electrical appliances do show off their utility, maybe even electric cars. The reason you should go so far back is so that the electrical infrastructure would be built around it rather than adapting or competing with the existing system and it's profits. They'd also have to share their advanced understanding of engineering so that this can be maintained long term and even expanded up. The start up cost of building a new wind or solar farm isn't worth it for plenty of power companies if their current installation is sufficient. Another issue they could solve is that without seriously stepping up the voltage it's really costly to send power long distances. They could introduce more efficient transformers for exactly they purpose. If the time travelers did it this way that wouldn't be an issue.
But the fossil fuels versus solar debate started in the 1870s and the devs wouldn't be able to preach at the audience if it was French versus British people.
@@SecuR0M Additionally, anyone with a basic understanding of arithmetic would always choose Fossil Fuels over Solar Panels. Because all of that energy Solar Panels have is lost whenever they're 1) fixed in place, 2) are left in an area that's known for being overcast and 3) in the mechanism that enables them to track the sun in the first place. And even then, technology in the 1870s was rather crude and dirty, to begin with, as well as sluggish. Didn't help that there were a few wars in Mainland Europe over the unification of Germany.
They could also have stopped slavery, prevented the genocide of native Americans, really just fixed every problem ever. It's a problem that happens in most time travel media; why are you using time travel to fix ths thing directly instead of just going back further to fix the root cause, and also fix other horrible things in history? Why aren't you stopping WW2?
@@Shenaldrac ww2 was inevitable, the only upside is maybe preventing the holocaust, but ww2 itself would've happened, and slavery bit is easier said than done since it was such a wide practice all over the world in which ion parts of the world today it is still in practice. i guess theoretically you could end slavery peacefully in the US and surrounding countries but issues such as civil rights would be a long time coming heck maybe it would cause worse issues down the line.
@@Rammkommando the us would've been complete shite without slavery. i really doubt they would have lasted 75 years. they needed slavery about 50 years in because the indentured servants they were using to build the country started getting mad they didn't get what they were promised, land and money in exchange for 10 or so years or work (minimum).
Ahh... yes. German adventure games. Either they are really good (comedy) or they constantly trip themselves (most dramas). But they always look pretty.
This dialogue, man. Also, nucelar reactors don't explode like that. All the material in a reactor does when it's fissioned is get hot. If it gets too hot, the shit melts things and might cause the reactor to belch radiation everywhere if radioactive steam or water or something get free of the containment vessel.
Yes. So many people don't understand the difference between weapons grade uranium and reactor grade uranium. It's also why nuclear weapons tend to go BANG but don't leave around huge amounts of radiation like in the movies. Most of it fisses very quickly because the energy is needed quickly for the explosion.
@@Shenaldrac The worst part is, green energy isn't quite ready for prime time, and green groups don't want us using nuclear in the meantime, which plays directly into the hands of the fossil fuel industry and keeps us dependent on coal for the foreseeable future
@@pt8306 Yyyyyup. Funny how the very people who tell us not to trust big oil and other fossil fuels.... trust the anti-nuclear propaganda put out by the fossil fuel industry. Talk about only hearing what you want to hear.
They can explode, but it's a steam explosion. This game, like a lot of people, never seem to point out the real problem. Deforestation, caused namely by FARMERS. They want to plant fields or let their cattle roam around. Farmers are a protected class and to criticize them is blasphemous. I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of sh*t for even saying this stuff.
Y'know, this entire game's logic is effed up. By the naive logic of the future folk, rather than going through such a convoluted solution...well. people obviously survived in the future using an alternate energy source, why not bring that back ? I mean, they want to change the past anyway. You could spin a far more interesting intrigue out of that, since most of the villains in this game would be highly motivated to stop you from showing or marketing that tech (not to mention that there are SO many conspiracy theories out there already regarding such "alternate" sources). The amount of things you could do with this idea as the hook would end up being so much more entertaining and far less preachy compared to what we got.
Yeah, this game contradicted itself SO. MANY. TIMES. Sadly it's kind of standard for Daedalic. They make great looking games with characters you genuinely start to care about, but then they kill them off or fuck them up so as to be unrecognisable, or contradict their own "plot" so many times that it doesn't make ANY sense any more. If you want to experience being punched in the face by a video game series, play Deponia 1 and 2, then prepare yourself and play Deponia 3.
@@Sewblon Because whenever you see her from the back it looks like her ass is eating her pants. And she's not exactly rocking a mighty set of cheeks herself, so either those are some weirdly designed pants or she's perpetually clenching her ass.
I like to think that Fey was making a splint to help him, but she intentionally did it in the most painful way possible just to spite him for his betrayal earlier.
He has said it's his most requested and he'll get around to them sometime. Also the people saying he only covers lesser-known games he has done all the deus ex games and Wolfenstein, so that's not strictly true.
"No Ross, he was talking to Delvin on it, that one's from the future!" That was way funnier than it had any right to be. I woke up both of my roommates.
Sigh. The anti-nuclear message immediately kills it. I work with nuclear power and there is so much misinformation regarding radiation and the relative safety of it.
Oh. So yeah they fuck literally everything by contributing to the combination of issues that ultimately lead to us NOT making a big switch to nuclear over fossil fuel power. You know, swaying public opinion against nuclear even though since some of the big issues happened there have been a lot of changes to make nuclear power one of the safest energy technologies per unit of energy produced, even safer than the green solar OR wind energies. Fuck that story.
Wild misinformation aside, what DOES happen to the waste produced by a nuclear reactor? Not trying to be snarky or sarcastic at all. Eventually, the material used will run out of energy and it will have be placed somewhere else, while still being radioactive for hundreds of years. What do you do with all the spent fuel rods to minimize potential damage to the area around it?
To be perfectly honest, I'm actually not 100% sure. I work on naval nuclear reactors. Our reactors use such highly enriched material that most of it is utilized. There is not as much leftover waste as with civilian reactors. Besides that I know there's a job within the navy for my rate as a nuclear qualified electronics technician where I would be on the train that transports our reactors around. I don't know much about the locations for all that. However I am aware that there are studies and developments of a different type of reactor that would utilize almost all of the radioactive material put into it, such that what waste remains when the reactor is done wouldn't have nearly as long of a time period during which it would be hazardous. The other thing about radiation is we know how to shield against it, and our bodies can actually handle a fair amount of it at one time, the biggest issue being cancer when exposed to higher levels of radiation over longer periods of time. The thing about radiation is that in essence, the bigger short-term risk it has to you, the less long-term risk it has - because that energy is being used up very quickly. The bigger long-term risk it has to you, the less short-term, because that energy is being released over a longer period of time. In a nuclear reactor certain long-term elements are being induced (induced fission) to release their energy over a shorter period of time, generating heat which we use to generate power. I am convinced that a different type of reactor design would be able to utilize all of that energy, to include energy from stuff that is already marked as "radioactive waste," if we put in the effort to engineer such a design. Other than that... we got our radioactive elements from the earth itself, that all can be returned to the earth. Burying the waste sufficiently deep would actually be pretty effective. I don't get the idea of storing it in a mountain but that could work, too. Things that got too close, they might get an increased risk of cancer. Things that find the source of the waste, if not properly shielded, might get some amount of radiation sickness or die if spending too much time there. Life in the local area might be more diverse due to more random genetic mutations in DNA than is normally introduced by reproduction, since radiation can have an effect on DNA. The thing about that is that normal background radiation already does that to life on earth anyway. Again, the radioactive stuff we use comes from earth itself. Our buildings have trace amounts of radioactive isotopes that contribute to the radiation most everyone receives. Sunburns are an effect of too much exposure to direct sunlight, which is more or less the same sort of gamma radiation (just at different energy levels) you'd be concerned about with nuclear waste. I'm sorry I can't directly answer your question but the point I'm trying to make is that the waste is less hazardous than people make it out to be. It's unfortunate that for the US there was an idea to store it all it one place which is more hazardous than keeping it all spread out over a large area, where the radiation levels wouldn't significantly contribute to the natural background radiation that is already affecting your body right now. That's why people who never spend a day working with nuclear reactors can still get cancer. Finding a cure to cancer would more or less be equivalent to finding a cure against radiation, to some extent. TL;DR (since I guess this part actually does answer the question): But anyway, yeah, if you think of radiation as a wifi signal, if you bury it deep underground, you increase your distance from that signal, giving it less of a chance to reach you. By burying it, you also put a wall between you and that signal, further lessening its ability to reach you. As such yes you're still going to be affected by that signal, but at such a minimal amount that you're not going to be able to detect it over the background signals you're also receiving. If put a lot of the radiation in one place, you create a stronger signal that needs to be buried deeper or have more tightly packed dirt or be put into a more strongly shielded container.
Hey, thanks for the reply back! I wasn't expecting this much, actually! And to be honest, there is still much I do not completely understand regarding this topic, especially the disposal process. I did recently read a biography-esque manga where the author recounted his time working at the recent Fukushima disaster. This was about two years after the explosion, and there was quite a lot of information in this book, despite certain omissions the author intentionally left out due to security concerns. He does talk about how working at such a "dangerous" site is almost pedestrian, due to how methodical the work is, how information regarding radiation is in-depth and thorough, and the safety measures put into place to keep exposure at a minimum for all workers. You might be interested, seeing as how it's related to your work. It's called "Ichi-F". Speaking of reading material, anything you might recommend for civilians to look at?
Sierra026 haha no problem, I'm glad to be a source of what information I can be considering there is some amount of information to my work I need to keep secret, too. Mostly regarding our particular reactors. Mentioning that they're pressurized water reactors and talking about pwr's in generic terms is plenty, though. I actually don't have anything particular you should read. I think there is actually a declassified version of all the information I learned in power school but I'm not sure what it's called or how accessible it is to civilians. Might just be for the civilians that do go through the program to assist at one of the "prototype" locations. Anyway that would be a pretty dense and tech heavy read. It would have some great stuff though such as information about nuclear physics to include the neutron life cycle, the effect of rod movement or changes in steam demand on a PWR, how to calculate a lot of that stuff too. Information I don't directly use anymore but laid down a solid foundation for my knowledge. However I can recommend a book called "About a Mountain." I think the name of the author is Joe d'Agata, but I feel I might be mixing names around. I read it for college some time before joining the navy. Anyway it's a pretty detailed study on the logistical issues regarding the plan to store radioactive waste in Yukka mountain. My personal big takeaway from that book was the hazards of transporting everything to a single site would be much more hazardous than having them stay in what was supposed to be temporary storage at the original facilities. But there was a lot of interesting things in the book along with the Yukka mountain stuff. Personal stories from the Vegas area that impacted the author's life. I'll absolutely have to look for the book you mentioned. Sounds up my alley assuming I get time to read it haha. Been working through animorphs off and on for the past two and a half years or so haha. I should get a newer kindle I think.
One of the two parts of Canadian culture that is actually held in respect somewhere else in the world. The other being Don Cherry playing himself in that one episode of Goosebumps.
Honestly, almost all of Daedalic games are this way. Beautiful art, interesting storybuilding, saturday morning cartoon dialogue and nonsense plot. They're also big fans of ambiguous, non-happy endings. Their Deponia series is a great example of how much they hate giving the player a happy ending. They literally made a 4th installment of the series just to tell everyone that the ending wouldn't change and that is just how it is.
The anti-nuclear power part of this game is extremely frustrating. It perpetuates many lies about fission energy and grossly conflates radiation from nuclear waste with chemical waste. Ionizing radiation is a big concern for long lived species such as humans, but plants really don't care. Look at some photos of Pripyat and how the forest is reclaiming the town even after an event as bad as Chernobyl. We really need power that doesn't produce large amounts of carbon dioxide and is reliable. Nuke fits the bill but is so badly maligned that it makes me doubt we can even try to change. Look at Germany, shuts down their nuclear power and is now burning more coal than ever to make up the difference even after spending over 200 billion euros on wind.
Yea and most nuclear disaster were caused by incompetence not radiation fault also there is a plant in Chernobyl that started to absorb radiation as energy they really dont care
Evening lighting is literally called "the magic hour" by photographers for a reason. It's diffused enough to make everything have a soft quality to it, as opposed to the harsh shadows of mid day
really bothers me how the game feels like wasted potential, it feels like the developers mindset was wrong from the start but still had a lot of work put in it, but then again the only glaring issue was the writing wonder if the devs just really wanted to make a sequel or if they just are suckers for depressing endings, personally i don't mind if it's kinda sad ending, but endings that give the feeling of "all you did meant nothing in the end" just take away from the fun for me
10:00 - RE: San Fran in 2050: Well of course it doesn't make sense, Ross, you forgot the exposition you were just given! It's not, 2050, it's 2500! (don't blame you honestly, this dialogue and VO sounds hard to sit through) EDIT: Oh, wait, it looks like the game forgot it too. I could've sworn she said she was from 500 years in the future, but there it goes syaing 2050... DOUBLEDIT: Son of a... This plot is a twisting maze of BS
It was 2500, but Fay CLAIMED it was 2050 because of the game's premise that "people will only change in the face of immediate threats". In an early part of the game, Svennson says "There's no way that's 2050 based on current global warming trends alone." So Fay makes the excuse that "we measure time differently than you" then immediately backtracks and says, "No, it's 2050, we confirmed it." Later on Salvador also confirms it. That said, the plot is still busted as hell. The Svennson algae supposedly powers the time machines yet Salvador claims near the end they never use them because they live in underground bunkers. And the whole plot around the Svennson blue-green algae is ridiculously and needlessly convoluted if the goal was to cause a catastrophe and posit the sevennson algae as the answer.
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@@jcasetnl I have just replayed the game. The 2050 part is false, it's just Fay's story to get Svensson's help, they were indeed in 2500 (the lie is confirmed by Oggy and Salvador after they are saved from the assassin Kellerman, and Fay also admits that she lied). The time machines are also powered by nuclear power, the whole Svennson generator thing was a lie.
For Earth Day, I am using a computer to watch people review games and waste my valuable time in which i should be working on a project. I think this is the appropriate thing to do for it
This is the first Game Dungeon episode to leave me slightly disgruntled, kind of confused, and somehow creeped out. Th story just bothers me, it's like a demented mess with an incoherent enviromental agenda.
this is kinda why i gave up on the game, its so heavy handed, it feels more like something PETA would do! seriously, that scene with the smoke killed more than the bird.
I bought it because it was 99 cents on sale. One of the most heavy-handed and confusing games I've ever played. Like it goes out of its way to portray climate protestors as complete idiots and sheep, but simultaneously has a very strong environmental message. Maybe the point was that protesting is pointless? It has a very cynical, nihilistic sort of soul to it.
A German game heavily focusing on climate change that also views nuclear reactors as roughly as or more dangerous as the various nuclear bombs? I do wonder if the devs were either funded by or devoted members of the German Green Party, which considering what that green party has done (particularly in the criminal sense) is not a flattering association.
There's literally no excuse for anyone asking for less fossil fuel usage to also be anti-nuclear unless you're in some natural disaster zone. It's safe, very powerful, has little waste and waste that is very easily containable, and will last us a long-ass time. Pound per pound, using solar or wind power is practically *encouraging* global warming compared to nuclear power.
Solar power is a worthwhile cause simply because the technology is still rapidly evolving and it allows decentralized energy production (local self-sufficiency over reliance on large-scale infrastructure). It's not enough for industry though. Wind power is a meme for most places on earth. There's only so much the technology can advance because it's limited by mechanical factors. You can't capture more energy than the kinetic energy in the wind and the blades and motors used are pretty efficient already. It's also incredibly complicated and expensive to build. In many places the energy used to build one wind turbine (and those things are assembled in China using fossil fuel) is as much as the turbine produces over its entire lifetime. Modern solar panel technology is rapidly developing and getting more efficient at capturing a larger % of the sun's energy (of which there is a LOT more than wind and requiring no moving parts that wear out). More importantly they're getting significantly cheaper (money and energy-wise) to build. Putting a solar panel on the roof of a building is a lot less disruptive than 50 meter tall turbines. They even have transparent solar panels now that act like tinted windows. A city in the future could simply be covered in solar panels without you even realizing it. Of course nuclear power is a good backup to have to prevent reliance on weather but there's no reason not to use solar power wherever possible, especially in places that don't already have nuclear power infrastructure in place (developing world).
Fun fact: There was a very promising project that could've helped with the nuclear waste. Basicaly, the reason the used up fuel is still dangerous is because it's letting out large amount of radiation, but not large enough for those big reactors. So, the plan was to build small reactors by the cities. These small reactors wouldn't produce electricity as much as heat, giving the cities around them cheap source of heat, especially in the winter. This would take care of the fuel, since it would use up much more of the energy it still had, becoming much safer, and be still useful for much longer.
TomQuoVadis I only played the German version and I really liked the voice actors in that. Especially for Svenson. I feel the English once sadly sound very bland in comparison.
Daedalic Entertainment is a German company that primarily focuses on the German market, to the point where the International versions of their games suffer (Even the Deponia games, which had a lot of effort put into the English versions, had vastly superior German versions). They are an extreme example though.
You'd think they'd come up with a name for the algae instead of just saying what color it is all the time. Nah, blue-green is fine. Also, I didn't think anybody outside of Canada knew about the Red Green Show.
The thing with the 80's being the time period and the nuclear meltdown being the trigger makes sense if you actually work it out: They're saying that in our timeline there was nothing to shock us into taking the environment more seriously. Salvador has essentially gone rogue, he's decided to do a lot of damage that otherwise wouldn't happen (like in our timeline) so that people will take environmental matters seriously. The fact that nuclear power could be a solution is immaterial because he already knows that such a solution won't be implemented on its own. By damaging the rain forest a little at an earlier point he provides the world with the raw data necessary to prove global warming in the 80's rather than in the early 2000's, which will move the needle up a couple of decades which might be enough to prevent his future (ironically killing him via timeline collapse), but his mission will be complete, he knows that this technology will work so he'll cause a huge disaster that will spur investigation of alternative energy sources and make sure that the optimal solution will be available. Though the truth is that these people are idiots because there's literally zero chance you could use algae for energy except via modifying them to produce hydrocarbons to burn, the actual solution is to pour cash into fusion research, we've been keeping it on life support for 70 years, when we could fund a Manhattan Project style effort and probably crack it in ten.
You don't need to create more raw data in the 80s to prove climate change. Exxon Mobile's scientists proved that fossil fuels cause global warming in the 50s. Exxon just covered it up to avoid hurting their oil and gas business. We don't need nuclear fusion because we could run the entire electrical grid on renewables if we really wanted to. Anything else is just gravy.
the reasoning i hate time travel is the fact that whenever its used its always used in a genre sappy way or in some way that future humans forgot about recording history plus time travel can lead to a fuck you ending, an ending where you didn't change anything but instead created some other problem
Loss of history isn't that unrealistic a concept though. There's a reason it was called "The Dark Ages" in the past. They weren't building time machines either though, except for that Jean Reno movie.
plus time travel is a case that you could end up with an ending that saids "oh hey no problem is fixed but a similar problem arised so the end problem is unavoided" like here where the end shows hey a time pod plus also if lets say "hey you fixed one problem, now another has arised" or a case of "I have so many questions" or a case of talk to anyone in the past that is it everything has been changed
4:3 still has its uses, for instance Nuclear Throne is intentionally 4:3 in order to keep the amount of possible enemies visible from each angle the same. If it was 16:9 the vertical threat assessment would be consistently lower than the horizontal threat assessment. There's a cool video on that on the VideoBrains Event youtube channel.
Speaking of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I'm fairly sure I heard two voice actors from the English version of Call of Pripyat in this game. They're still not good, but doing a much better job than whatever they were doing there.
Ending is very German. It's...I can't describe it. It's German as fuck. Not to say they have any problems with fiction (they've pumped out some of the greatest fiction over the past ~300 years), it's just... German. There's always a stab in the back.
...Interesting analysis. I, for one, found the story as a whole very German. I could totally see such a 'Save the planet' plot feature in Benjamin Blümchen or the Geolino cartoons. Hell, it probably already did. Minus the graphic violence, of course.
I get the feeling Ross would LOVE Dishonored. At least how the difficulty escalation system works, adding more plague-rats, pseudo-zombies, and things that can kill you in general the more bodies you leave in your wake. As a man who ALSO enjoys seeing how much chaos I can cause in games, usually by sneaking around and murdering people and actually LEAVING the bodies for their buddies to find, I highly recommend it. Also, you can stuff bodies in dumpsters with ragdoll physics. That's a win in my book
I would love to see a Corvo's Mind series I know he talks in the sequel, but I could totally see him being a rather fun psycho with the right commentary
Ugh... Fay's posture is giving me simpathetic back pain... EDIT - Hey, I spotted another comment addressing this. Glad I wasn't the only one to notice.
I am from the future, the dark year of 2020. The year of the coronus terribilis, and the Dems are burning down California harder than usual. So this year might be your year, lol.
Ross you should check out Deponia, another German point and click from Daedalic, complete with stilted voice acting from being localized, a weird future setting, and a really unsatisfying ending. In fact, the ending was SO unsatisfying they made a third game where you time travel to get a better ending, just to make the point that the player wanting a good ending is stupid.
aside from just being a fun show, you have an amazingly natural way of bringing genuinely important political perspectives, and nuance around them, into funny discussion of random games. This episode got into that a bit, and the Deus Ex episode was a real delight that way. Thanks for all your content!
Ah, I actually didn't know this was made by Daedalic until the ending credits. The humor of Fay, the mention a German studio and the way the one character casually disposed of people leaving the gritty details to the player very much reminded me Daedalic from the Edna and Harvey series. Fay's humor reminded me of Edna while the casual "killings" reminded my of Lilli.
Hmm, didn't Kodak sort of terminally cripple themselves when they screwed up the Hubble telescope mirror and ended up taking a massive blow to their funds in the fallout, leaving them to go bankrupt later? With this whole "delaying the digital camera" thing, perhaps that was almost karmic if it's true.
Kodak had nothing to do with the HST mirror; that was made by a scientific instruments company called Perkin-Elmer (which also made the optics for Cold War spy satellites). P-E survived the Hubble fiasco (IIRC, they cut a deal with the government in which they essentially agreed not to get paid if they didn't get sued) and still exists today, without the hyphen, mostly doing medtech stuff.
Excuse my maybe stupid question and believe me, I tried googleing it without getting any wiser, so...: What the actual fuck is a "soul patch" in this context?
Thank you so much! For real! You just made me realize that *I ACTUALLY HAVE A SOUL PATCH IN REAL LIFE!* Never knew it's called that as English is not my native language.
I've enjoyed about every Daedalic adventure game I've played. The plots are varied quality, but always at least fairly solid. Art quality is gorgeous across the board. Big fan of the Deponia games for the most part, just a very fun apocalypse.
I think I would have called the mid-life crisis award the Captain Planet Puberty award. This game wants to be grown up, and can pull it off at times, but it can't do it consistently. Also, the voice of the evil lawyer actually reminds me of the annoying wizard's henchman from the Revenant review. They both deliver the same sorts of cheesy lines as well.
So...we should celebrate with violence and bloodshed to appease the vengeful and bloodthirsty ways of the natural order. Thankfully, our mammalian behavior patterns have us covered in that regard.
I'm sure we could do with a decent slaughter. How does three billion sound? No racial stuff about it, just a radioactive isotope random number generator, and we start with the people about 80, for various reasons, then move down in age until we reach out goal. Sure, it'd be a horrible, senseless act of violence, but what could possibly go wrong? Not like we're Hitler or anything... (Now lets just be clear that this IS a joke.)
Come now. We can come to a more civilized way of doing this. Let's just gather a bunch of people who hate each other and put them in an enclosed space with one another. Only one group walks out.
Earth is overpopulated anyways. We're upsetting the ecosystem and overdue for culling due to our annoying ability to live 70-100 years and advanced medical technology.
I watched this for 3 minutes, looked it up on Steam, saw it was on sale at 90% and bought it. I'll check back on this Game Dungeon when I'm done playing it. :3
Now that you've popped the lid on the Daedalic Entertainment adventure games you should check out some of their other games. Edna & Harvey: The Breakout is amazing, you, an inmate of an insane asylum, escape together with your hallucinatory bunny buddy, and the designer of the game made it a point to make every combination of every item and every interaction with everything everywhere a unique dialogue. Where sometimes combining a random item with a random object in the room will lead to a 3 minute banter between Edna and Harvey. The Deponia series, a series of adventure games featuring the cynic dimwitted protagonist Rufus who wants nothing but the escape from his garbagepunk ass home planet where everything is literally garbage but most of the quirky cast roll with it in the most insane ways. This game is the epitome of causing ruthless chaos and havoc in an adventure game. Its insane. The aestethic is incredible, the tone is fittingly cartoonish, the mood is superb, and the humor is such a joy.
Okay I am really happy about that Red Green reference I loved that show as a kid and as an adult as well. You never cease to amaze me with the wealth of good stuff you are into Ross
I love the intensity of the latter part of this video. Really seems like you go the emotion across the right way. Also, that impression was hilarious. Just all around great energy in this episode.
"...he's assuming that if theres a giant disaster and impending danger, humanity will natually react to save itself ..." after 2020, can confirm this isn't true...
I love the "Stop it!" and "No" protest signs. That'll really change some minds.
Honestly, when has any protest sign changed someone's mind? I mean... seriously? Unless you have never thought about your position whatsoever to the point where, what, at most a paragraph will shift your entire view, it's pointless.
Then again, most of politics is pointless imo. Just abusing allistic group think for all it's worth.
Careful now!
@@brandonbrown6922 when you find an exploit in a game you gotta abuse the fuck out it before the devs patch it.
@@fds7476 Down with this sort of thing.
@@brandonbrown6922 women suffrage signs were the last to work, it was a different time but we still use em, hard to get rid of. Humans love thinking they're noticed.
Oh, that isn't smoke, it's steam! Steam from the steamed Salvador we're having. Mmm, steamed Salvador!
No, my fay is ruined!
But what if, I were to purchase algae and disguise it as my own fuel source? Hohoho, delightfully devilish, lawyer-man!
A world-ending disaster, in this part of the rainforest, in this year in the timeline, in this part of the world, caused entirely by a source of energy that doesn't actually affect the climate!?
....yes.
...may I stop it?
...no.
ITT: simply epic
Ho ho ho no, patented Skinner algae. Old family business strategy.
Are future people all taught to speak English by the female Microsoft Sam voice?
Yes, confirmed
Don't underestimate the power of salad dressing. You actually can't build a P-51 Mustang without it. When they were trying to build replicas with 1940's tech they were unable to remove one part from it's mold. They tried quite a bit of different strategies and finally asked someone who worked on them during WW2 and found out that it required a very specific ratio of oil to thousand island dressing.
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@@LuxrayIsEpic That's real, and its more common than you could think in the industries. And yes, we still regularly use them for wooden crafting finishing too.
40:22 steam from the steamed clams we're having
Den Witz haben schon andere gemacht, Timm.
Convince them to take more care of the planet? Okay but how is that going to stop the solar flare?
Heart... maybe?
Maybe by having enough solar energy based technology they can harness the solar flare instead of getting destroyed by it?
That’s the best I can come up with
@@Abdega it gave us enough time to invent a flare gun so we can shoot the solar flare back
@@adenowirus "The earth was struck by a heart flare this morning..."
We could put the earth in a Faraday cage? I guess?
Its not surprising that the game paints nuclear power in as part of the global warming problem. I know many people that are concerned about global warming but hate nuclear power. Even though nuclear power is a potential solution to global warming that carries its own, different, risks.
The risks, like with any risky proposition, are vastly reduced when the proper precautions are taken.
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Ikr, 20 nuclear plants are less wasteful than 1 coal plant. It's rediculous. But no no no, people hear the word "nuclear" and "radiation" and everyone shits themselves and runs to their bunker because they have no knowledge on nuclear energy and no one bothers to teach the public about it.
There is plenty of fuel if processed correctly. We can make more fissile material while generating energy. While that won't break the laws of thermodynamics, it sure squeezes every last drop of energy we can get out of the atom until its all daughter products. In fact, breeder reactors produce less nuclear waste, since it uses the most radioactive parts again.
Its not a renewable resource by any means, but there is a hell of a lot of power in the atom. A paperclip converted 100% into energy as calculated by E=mc^2 is the same as the hiroshima bomb. yeah, I didn't fuck any numbers up. Atomic bombs are immensely more destructive than any chemical based bomb, and only around 1% of the material actually reacts before being blasted away.
Some Dude What do you define as "long enough"? At present we are burning all these complex hydrocarbons that are incredibly useful for making things and we're warming the planet in the process. Its not like we have to use nuclear power forever. Just as a stop gap until renewable and storage, or heck even fusion, become more developed.
Some Dude I'v got to ask. Where are you getting these numbers of less than 200 years of uranium but more than 500 for oil?
I'm fairly certain that you could use Fay's spine as a bow. It seems to be mostly fixed into an ideal shape for archery.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say time travel does bad things to back vertebrae...
Anterior pelvic tilt ended up having been a matter of natural selection by 2500.
The people making the game, despite it's message and overall great environmental art, still couldn't resist giving Fay the curved spine and jutting ass of a 90's comic book girl. XD
Not to mention a skin tight jumpsuit and weird crop-top jacket thing... Kinda undermines them a bit when they sexualize their character so much. It is imperative that some creators rub one out before they get to work. Too often does their state of mind bleed into their creations.
@@planescaped if you think Fay is sexualized, the letter S must seem downright shameful to you.
The characters in this game are a lot of things, but attractive is not one of them.
@@mwbgaming28 liberalism destroyed, gender equality revoked, sure showed them libtards
Her posture is crazy. I met someone with a posture like that once in boot camp. He was an athlete but he said he stretched his stomach muscles daily because he was convinced it was some kind of wonder thing, and he was like a banana when viewed from the side (not scoliosis or anything like that). Never stretched his back, only the stomach.
I wonder what happened to him. He's probably gone full 360° by now.
The art style combined with the really wooden voice acting makes the game charming in it's own weird way.
Two Game Dungeons! Within two weeks! Must've brought out the ole time travel machine to get that done.
last time he pushed this much out, he got a bit burnt out.
I think he's trying to catch up from when he got bronchitis. The man's a model employee.
The last game was pretty disapointing tbh. It was hard to tell what was even happening in it.
@@rogerlost5851 You thought Quadralien was disappointing? What's wrong with you?
Well Salvador isn’t going to get what he wants out of his plot. Because while those disasters did cause changes, they were mostly to the safety systems that had failed which caused the disaster.
Except Deep Water Horizon, that one the failure was the result of cutting corners on construction and was already in violation of the various safety regulations.
Also Western nuclear reactors never had a chance of exploding the way the game thinks it does. There would be a disaster during a meltdown, but it’d be from having clean up contaminated cooling water or at most radioactive debris from a steam explosion.
Soviet reactors on the other hand, could undergo rapid uncontrolled fission like one would associated with an atomic weapon _but_ the yield would be rather low and nowhere near rainforest destroying. It’d be a few kilotons, yes but even with the fallout it’d only destroy/poison a very small area and even in the 1980s we had the ability to clean up something like that.
As for why this game is so anti-nuclear? It’s from Germany. They retired all of their reactors years ago and switched over to alternative energy sources.
The irony is that nuclear reactors are one of the best solutions we have that can be implemented now to help curb carbon emissions in the short turn as a supplement to renewables. If anything the villain should have been an oil or coal concern. Hell, make it a farming consortium since the bulk of rainforest destruction is to create cheap farmland for raising cattle in bulk.
Possibly, but that would really only apply to Germany's use of solar and not their use of wind. Even then there's still net benefit from the solar cells.
Now if they were trying to use hydro, that's another story given the massive amount of CO2 that comes from concrete production and curing plus the long term environmental damage from restricting the flow of water and thus the flow of nutrients down stream.
Of course what really kills it is that Germany uses fossil fuel auxiliary generators to supplement the energy grid when demand gets too high because they don't have an effective way to store excess power production during very windy or sunny days for more than just night time use.
years ago. We've seven running until 2022. And you can't really translate politics back to people, back to devs.. That would mean every message to certains topic would be the same if the game come from the USA. Reality is they are very diverse.
I think part of your comment got cut off.
It's an attempted phase out. The plants are not entirely gone, but are intended to be.
Don't you think it's kind of a jump to conclusions in assuming a political choice would affect social opinion so drastically? I've never met any Germans with strong distaste to nuclear power.
*@CitrusZero*
_"Don't you think it's kind of a jump to conclusions in assuming a political choice would affect social opinion so drastically?"_
You got it the wrong way around. The government had plans to phase out nuclear energy much slower but then Fukushima happened and the public outcry forced them to hurry up the shutdown of older reactors and planned new power plants were cancelled.
Here I'm thinking this is going to be another soft-footed environmentalist piece of media where other than implied danger nobody really gets hurt. And then a dude gets broadsided by a board that embeds itself in his skull like it's DOOM 3 and I busted out laughing.
"Svenson? Where are you going? Svenson?"
He's had enough of this game's nonsense too Ross xD
These times travelers really picked a bad time to try a fix earths energy problems. They should've gone back to the 19th century and introduced extremely advanced renewable energy sources as well as highly efficient electrical appliances do show off their utility, maybe even electric cars. The reason you should go so far back is so that the electrical infrastructure would be built around it rather than adapting or competing with the existing system and it's profits. They'd also have to share their advanced understanding of engineering so that this can be maintained long term and even expanded up. The start up cost of building a new wind or solar farm isn't worth it for plenty of power companies if their current installation is sufficient. Another issue they could solve is that without seriously stepping up the voltage it's really costly to send power long distances. They could introduce more efficient transformers for exactly they purpose. If the time travelers did it this way that wouldn't be an issue.
But the fossil fuels versus solar debate started in the 1870s and the devs wouldn't be able to preach at the audience if it was French versus British people.
@@SecuR0M Additionally, anyone with a basic understanding of arithmetic would always choose Fossil Fuels over Solar Panels. Because all of that energy Solar Panels have is lost whenever they're 1) fixed in place, 2) are left in an area that's known for being overcast and 3) in the mechanism that enables them to track the sun in the first place. And even then, technology in the 1870s was rather crude and dirty, to begin with, as well as sluggish. Didn't help that there were a few wars in Mainland Europe over the unification of Germany.
They could also have stopped slavery, prevented the genocide of native Americans, really just fixed every problem ever. It's a problem that happens in most time travel media; why are you using time travel to fix ths thing directly instead of just going back further to fix the root cause, and also fix other horrible things in history? Why aren't you stopping WW2?
@@Shenaldrac ww2 was inevitable, the only upside is maybe preventing the holocaust, but ww2 itself would've happened, and slavery bit is easier said than done since it was such a wide practice all over the world in which ion parts of the world today it is still in practice. i guess theoretically you could end slavery peacefully in the US and surrounding countries but issues such as civil rights would be a long time coming heck maybe it would cause worse issues down the line.
@@Rammkommando the us would've been complete shite without slavery. i really doubt they would have lasted 75 years. they needed slavery about 50 years in because the indentured servants they were using to build the country started getting mad they didn't get what they were promised, land and money in exchange for 10 or so years or work (minimum).
REFIRGERATOR
METAL BOXES
SPECE MAH-REENZ!! FOR DA EMPRAH!!
Darn future
Just Another Videoless Channel 59 minutes!!!!!!
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Ahh... yes. German adventure games.
Either they are really good (comedy) or they constantly trip themselves (most dramas).
But they always look pretty.
German? Comedy? Ha ha.
German humor is no laughing matter
Dustin Pieper Deponia still is one of the best modern point and click adventure game
I'd argue Gemini Rue, Lost Horizon, and maybe Primordia are right up there with the best titles of the genre.
Scrap
You would be amazed at how much germany is into satire and parody.
This dialogue, man.
Also, nucelar reactors don't explode like that. All the material in a reactor does when it's fissioned is get hot. If it gets too hot, the shit melts things and might cause the reactor to belch radiation everywhere if radioactive steam or water or something get free of the containment vessel.
Yes. So many people don't understand the difference between weapons grade uranium and reactor grade uranium.
It's also why nuclear weapons tend to go BANG but don't leave around huge amounts of radiation like in the movies. Most of it fisses very quickly because the energy is needed quickly for the explosion.
Yeah but NUCULAR BAAAAAD!!!!
@@Shenaldrac The worst part is, green energy isn't quite ready for prime time, and green groups don't want us using nuclear in the meantime, which plays directly into the hands of the fossil fuel industry and keeps us dependent on coal for the foreseeable future
@@pt8306 Yyyyyup. Funny how the very people who tell us not to trust big oil and other fossil fuels.... trust the anti-nuclear propaganda put out by the fossil fuel industry. Talk about only hearing what you want to hear.
They can explode, but it's a steam explosion. This game, like a lot of people, never seem to point out the real problem. Deforestation, caused namely by FARMERS. They want to plant fields or let their cattle roam around. Farmers are a protected class and to criticize them is blasphemous. I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of sh*t for even saying this stuff.
Y'know, this entire game's logic is effed up.
By the naive logic of the future folk, rather than going through such a convoluted solution...well. people obviously survived in the future using an alternate energy source, why not bring that back ?
I mean, they want to change the past anyway.
You could spin a far more interesting intrigue out of that, since most of the villains in this game would be highly motivated to stop you from showing or marketing that tech (not to mention that there are SO many conspiracy theories out there already regarding such "alternate" sources). The amount of things you could do with this idea as the hook would end up being so much more entertaining and far less preachy compared to what we got.
They didn't come up with a new power source, plot twist
Yeah, this game contradicted itself SO. MANY. TIMES. Sadly it's kind of standard for Daedalic. They make great looking games with characters you genuinely start to care about, but then they kill them off or fuck them up so as to be unrecognisable, or contradict their own "plot" so many times that it doesn't make ANY sense any more. If you want to experience being punched in the face by a video game series, play Deponia 1 and 2, then prepare yourself and play Deponia 3.
"And future girl, always keep your butt cheeks clenched while leaning uncomfortably far back, as if you were always losing your balance."
How the hell can you tell that her butt cheeks are clenched?
@@Sewblon UwU
@@Sewblon Because whenever you see her from the back it looks like her ass is eating her pants. And she's not exactly rocking a mighty set of cheeks herself, so either those are some weirdly designed pants or she's perpetually clenching her ass.
"Are you hurt?"
"I think I broke my leg!"
"Does that hurt?"
"YES! YES, GODDAMIT!"
I laughed for way longer than I should have.
it's like "no s**t, Sherlock."
I like to think that Fey was making a splint to help him, but she intentionally did it in the most painful way possible just to spite him for his betrayal earlier.
As a man who gets attacked by wolves regularly I still support wildlife. Mostly because I'm wildlife.
Awooooooooo
You are indeed wild as heck, and cool.
yooooo
I'd like to see the original 1990s fallout games sometime.
They are too popular for the Dungeon I think. Though it would be great regardless
ross game dungeon is more about obscure games
He has said it's his most requested and he'll get around to them sometime. Also the people saying he only covers lesser-known games he has done all the deus ex games and Wolfenstein, so that's not strictly true.
Deus Ex isn't obscure yet he made a Game Dungeon video on it. I always thought GD was for older games.
i think ross stated in the past he doesnt prefer the turnbased combat of the first two fallouts
"No Ross, he was talking to Delvin on it, that one's from the future!"
That was way funnier than it had any right to be. I woke up both of my roommates.
crackhead laughing
NO ROSS THAT ONES FROM THE FUTURE REEEEEEEEEEEE
Nice
Fancy seeing the cursed dude here
i love the irony that the screen you click on to change it from fullscreen to windowed, is infact a widescreen monitor.
Sigh. The anti-nuclear message immediately kills it. I work with nuclear power and there is so much misinformation regarding radiation and the relative safety of it.
Oh. So yeah they fuck literally everything by contributing to the combination of issues that ultimately lead to us NOT making a big switch to nuclear over fossil fuel power. You know, swaying public opinion against nuclear even though since some of the big issues happened there have been a lot of changes to make nuclear power one of the safest energy technologies per unit of energy produced, even safer than the green solar OR wind energies. Fuck that story.
Wild misinformation aside, what DOES happen to the waste produced by a nuclear reactor? Not trying to be snarky or sarcastic at all. Eventually, the material used will run out of energy and it will have be placed somewhere else, while still being radioactive for hundreds of years. What do you do with all the spent fuel rods to minimize potential damage to the area around it?
To be perfectly honest, I'm actually not 100% sure. I work on naval nuclear reactors. Our reactors use such highly enriched material that most of it is utilized. There is not as much leftover waste as with civilian reactors. Besides that I know there's a job within the navy for my rate as a nuclear qualified electronics technician where I would be on the train that transports our reactors around. I don't know much about the locations for all that. However I am aware that there are studies and developments of a different type of reactor that would utilize almost all of the radioactive material put into it, such that what waste remains when the reactor is done wouldn't have nearly as long of a time period during which it would be hazardous. The other thing about radiation is we know how to shield against it, and our bodies can actually handle a fair amount of it at one time, the biggest issue being cancer when exposed to higher levels of radiation over longer periods of time.
The thing about radiation is that in essence, the bigger short-term risk it has to you, the less long-term risk it has - because that energy is being used up very quickly. The bigger long-term risk it has to you, the less short-term, because that energy is being released over a longer period of time. In a nuclear reactor certain long-term elements are being induced (induced fission) to release their energy over a shorter period of time, generating heat which we use to generate power. I am convinced that a different type of reactor design would be able to utilize all of that energy, to include energy from stuff that is already marked as "radioactive waste," if we put in the effort to engineer such a design.
Other than that... we got our radioactive elements from the earth itself, that all can be returned to the earth. Burying the waste sufficiently deep would actually be pretty effective. I don't get the idea of storing it in a mountain but that could work, too. Things that got too close, they might get an increased risk of cancer. Things that find the source of the waste, if not properly shielded, might get some amount of radiation sickness or die if spending too much time there. Life in the local area might be more diverse due to more random genetic mutations in DNA than is normally introduced by reproduction, since radiation can have an effect on DNA. The thing about that is that normal background radiation already does that to life on earth anyway. Again, the radioactive stuff we use comes from earth itself. Our buildings have trace amounts of radioactive isotopes that contribute to the radiation most everyone receives. Sunburns are an effect of too much exposure to direct sunlight, which is more or less the same sort of gamma radiation (just at different energy levels) you'd be concerned about with nuclear waste.
I'm sorry I can't directly answer your question but the point I'm trying to make is that the waste is less hazardous than people make it out to be. It's unfortunate that for the US there was an idea to store it all it one place which is more hazardous than keeping it all spread out over a large area, where the radiation levels wouldn't significantly contribute to the natural background radiation that is already affecting your body right now. That's why people who never spend a day working with nuclear reactors can still get cancer. Finding a cure to cancer would more or less be equivalent to finding a cure against radiation, to some extent.
TL;DR (since I guess this part actually does answer the question): But anyway, yeah, if you think of radiation as a wifi signal, if you bury it deep underground, you increase your distance from that signal, giving it less of a chance to reach you. By burying it, you also put a wall between you and that signal, further lessening its ability to reach you. As such yes you're still going to be affected by that signal, but at such a minimal amount that you're not going to be able to detect it over the background signals you're also receiving. If put a lot of the radiation in one place, you create a stronger signal that needs to be buried deeper or have more tightly packed dirt or be put into a more strongly shielded container.
Hey, thanks for the reply back! I wasn't expecting this much, actually! And to be honest, there is still much I do not completely understand regarding this topic, especially the disposal process. I did recently read a biography-esque manga where the author recounted his time working at the recent Fukushima disaster. This was about two years after the explosion, and there was quite a lot of information in this book, despite certain omissions the author intentionally left out due to security concerns. He does talk about how working at such a "dangerous" site is almost pedestrian, due to how methodical the work is, how information regarding radiation is in-depth and thorough, and the safety measures put into place to keep exposure at a minimum for all workers. You might be interested, seeing as how it's related to your work. It's called "Ichi-F".
Speaking of reading material, anything you might recommend for civilians to look at?
Sierra026 haha no problem, I'm glad to be a source of what information I can be considering there is some amount of information to my work I need to keep secret, too. Mostly regarding our particular reactors. Mentioning that they're pressurized water reactors and talking about pwr's in generic terms is plenty, though.
I actually don't have anything particular you should read. I think there is actually a declassified version of all the information I learned in power school but I'm not sure what it's called or how accessible it is to civilians. Might just be for the civilians that do go through the program to assist at one of the "prototype" locations. Anyway that would be a pretty dense and tech heavy read. It would have some great stuff though such as information about nuclear physics to include the neutron life cycle, the effect of rod movement or changes in steam demand on a PWR, how to calculate a lot of that stuff too. Information I don't directly use anymore but laid down a solid foundation for my knowledge.
However I can recommend a book called "About a Mountain." I think the name of the author is Joe d'Agata, but I feel I might be mixing names around. I read it for college some time before joining the navy. Anyway it's a pretty detailed study on the logistical issues regarding the plan to store radioactive waste in Yukka mountain. My personal big takeaway from that book was the hazards of transporting everything to a single site would be much more hazardous than having them stay in what was supposed to be temporary storage at the original facilities. But there was a lot of interesting things in the book along with the Yukka mountain stuff. Personal stories from the Vegas area that impacted the author's life. I'll absolutely have to look for the book you mentioned. Sounds up my alley assuming I get time to read it haha. Been working through animorphs off and on for the past two and a half years or so haha. I should get a newer kindle I think.
As a Canadian, I'm glad Red Green is gettiing some airplay from his genius .
One of the two parts of Canadian culture that is actually held in respect somewhere else in the world.
The other being Don Cherry playing himself in that one episode of Goosebumps.
40:21
"Ah! Dr. Svensson! I was just doing some... time-travel earth-saving. Care to join me?"
"Why is smoke coming out of your nuclear reactor, Fey?"
Honestly, almost all of Daedalic games are this way. Beautiful art, interesting storybuilding, saturday morning cartoon dialogue and nonsense plot. They're also big fans of ambiguous, non-happy endings. Their Deponia series is a great example of how much they hate giving the player a happy ending. They literally made a 4th installment of the series just to tell everyone that the ending wouldn't change and that is just how it is.
Ah, Deponia. It's like they accidentally wrote a happy ending, then had to scramble for an excuse to avoid it.
I mean they're German right? If they are it makes sense most German fairy tales don't have happy endings either.
Fuck deponia
@@sorrenblitz805 germans just enjoy being miserable.... kinda like the brits
After the release of Gollum… are they? I mean… it sucked so bad that Daedalic shut down their development wing.
The anti-nuclear power part of this game is extremely frustrating. It perpetuates many lies about fission energy and grossly conflates radiation from nuclear waste with chemical waste. Ionizing radiation is a big concern for long lived species such as humans, but plants really don't care. Look at some photos of Pripyat and how the forest is reclaiming the town even after an event as bad as Chernobyl. We really need power that doesn't produce large amounts of carbon dioxide and is reliable. Nuke fits the bill but is so badly maligned that it makes me doubt we can even try to change. Look at Germany, shuts down their nuclear power and is now burning more coal than ever to make up the difference even after spending over 200 billion euros on wind.
Yea and most nuclear disaster were caused by incompetence not radiation fault also there is a plant in Chernobyl that started to absorb radiation as energy they really dont care
Radiation is the gift that keeps on giving.
Adam Stanger Ross quotes being used several years later to support other Ross quotes. I love it.
40:22 That isn't smoke! It's steam for the bad ending! Mmm, bad ending!
For an ending that Poki was involved in, it's a great, happy one.
@@thebagelman17 Yes, these Daedalic games mostly have some type of bitter ending. Something like Max Payne, who also never gets a happy ending. ;)
11:58 "Most stories don't end with: And then I died!"
That had me laughing for a good while, great moment.
Evening lighting is literally called "the magic hour" by photographers for a reason. It's diffused enough to make everything have a soft quality to it, as opposed to the harsh shadows of mid day
"Steam, not smoke" cracked me up.
Did somebody say steamed hams?
The art style makes me think of magic school bus if it were drawn and animated by the artists/animators of Archer.
really bothers me how the game feels like wasted potential, it feels like the developers mindset was wrong from the start but still had a lot of work put in it, but then again the only glaring issue was the writing
wonder if the devs just really wanted to make a sequel or if they just are suckers for depressing endings, personally i don't mind if it's kinda sad ending, but endings that give the feeling of "all you did meant nothing in the end" just take away from the fun for me
If it's German made like I think it is... after the 80's their media and government has always had a warped mindset
@@SoulTransientThe east must have brought their depressed nihilism along when the wall fell.
"Jeez, that's a lot of crabs for a doctor's office" -Ross, 2018
10:00 - RE: San Fran in 2050: Well of course it doesn't make sense, Ross, you forgot the exposition you were just given! It's not, 2050, it's 2500! (don't blame you honestly, this dialogue and VO sounds hard to sit through)
EDIT: Oh, wait, it looks like the game forgot it too. I could've sworn she said she was from 500 years in the future, but there it goes syaing 2050...
DOUBLEDIT: Son of a... This plot is a twisting maze of BS
It does say 500, 8:10
@Templar Knight That's one kind of internal consistency
It was 2500, but Fay CLAIMED it was 2050 because of the game's premise that "people will only change in the face of immediate threats". In an early part of the game, Svennson says "There's no way that's 2050 based on current global warming trends alone." So Fay makes the excuse that "we measure time differently than you" then immediately backtracks and says, "No, it's 2050, we confirmed it." Later on Salvador also confirms it.
That said, the plot is still busted as hell. The Svennson algae supposedly powers the time machines yet Salvador claims near the end they never use them because they live in underground bunkers. And the whole plot around the Svennson blue-green algae is ridiculously and needlessly convoluted if the goal was to cause a catastrophe and posit the sevennson algae as the answer.
@@jcasetnl I have just replayed the game. The 2050 part is false, it's just Fay's story to get Svensson's help, they were indeed in 2500 (the lie is confirmed by Oggy and Salvador after they are saved from the assassin Kellerman, and Fay also admits that she lied). The time machines are also powered by nuclear power, the whole Svennson generator thing was a lie.
For Earth Day, I am using a computer to watch people review games and waste my valuable time in which i should be working on a project.
I think this is the appropriate thing to do for it
I know that feeling
Play Lemmings
I FEEL SO ATTACKED RIGHT NOW
While I eat snacks from a plastic bag.
*WHAT? A NEW DUNGEON ALREADY? SIGN ME UP!*
It's compensation.
I like how loyal Ross's fans are
*OH BOI*
And now I remember why my life is worth living.
Is it tho
Fine, lemme get the rope.
Strangle oppresors
Lucky you
This is the first Game Dungeon episode to leave me slightly disgruntled, kind of confused, and somehow creeped out.
Th story just bothers me, it's like a demented mess with an incoherent enviromental agenda.
yeah? Stuff like that has been around for decades.
@@jekblom123 And it's still disgruntling, kind of confusing, and somewhat creepy.
this is kinda why i gave up on the game, its so heavy handed, it feels more like something PETA would do! seriously, that scene with the smoke killed more than the bird.
I bought it because it was 99 cents on sale. One of the most heavy-handed and confusing games I've ever played. Like it goes out of its way to portray climate protestors as complete idiots and sheep, but simultaneously has a very strong environmental message. Maybe the point was that protesting is pointless? It has a very cynical, nihilistic sort of soul to it.
Anno 2070 which is also from the early 2010s and is also German seems to do it better.
Oh?
Thats not smoke, Salvador! Its STEAM!
Steam from the steamed nuclear reactors we'll have!
Mmm... Steamed Nukes!
A German game heavily focusing on climate change that also views nuclear reactors as roughly as or more dangerous as the various nuclear bombs? I do wonder if the devs were either funded by or devoted members of the German Green Party, which considering what that green party has done (particularly in the criminal sense) is not a flattering association.
And the brown coal plants are horrible
the stinger where Svensson walks off into the nether always gets me
March 27, 1982!
"What the fuc-"
Dude, the way you said that was so funny. Thumbs all the way up. Really gotta kick out of this episode! :D
There's literally no excuse for anyone asking for less fossil fuel usage to also be anti-nuclear unless you're in some natural disaster zone. It's safe, very powerful, has little waste and waste that is very easily containable, and will last us a long-ass time. Pound per pound, using solar or wind power is practically *encouraging* global warming compared to nuclear power.
Solar power is a worthwhile cause simply because the technology is still rapidly evolving and it allows decentralized energy production (local self-sufficiency over reliance on large-scale infrastructure). It's not enough for industry though. Wind power is a meme for most places on earth. There's only so much the technology can advance because it's limited by mechanical factors. You can't capture more energy than the kinetic energy in the wind and the blades and motors used are pretty efficient already. It's also incredibly complicated and expensive to build. In many places the energy used to build one wind turbine (and those things are assembled in China using fossil fuel) is as much as the turbine produces over its entire lifetime.
Modern solar panel technology is rapidly developing and getting more efficient at capturing a larger % of the sun's energy (of which there is a LOT more than wind and requiring no moving parts that wear out). More importantly they're getting significantly cheaper (money and energy-wise) to build. Putting a solar panel on the roof of a building is a lot less disruptive than 50 meter tall turbines. They even have transparent solar panels now that act like tinted windows. A city in the future could simply be covered in solar panels without you even realizing it. Of course nuclear power is a good backup to have to prevent reliance on weather but there's no reason not to use solar power wherever possible, especially in places that don't already have nuclear power infrastructure in place (developing world).
@Alces What are you, a fucking druid? Who cares?
@Alces You realize that every potential power source requires "uprooting the earth," right?
@Alces So what's your point?
@@TheJesterInYellow Point is, cut the power lines! Return to Monke!
Fun fact: There was a very promising project that could've helped with the nuclear waste. Basicaly, the reason the used up fuel is still dangerous is because it's letting out large amount of radiation, but not large enough for those big reactors. So, the plan was to build small reactors by the cities. These small reactors wouldn't produce electricity as much as heat, giving the cities around them cheap source of heat, especially in the winter. This would take care of the fuel, since it would use up much more of the energy it still had, becoming much safer, and be still useful for much longer.
I will forever love the somebody cared Award!
Game dungeon? Obscure German games? Fuck yeah
It's kind of a shame the best voice actors in this are the people doing over-the-top cartoonish villain characters.
TomQuoVadis I only played the German version and I really liked the voice actors in that. Especially for Svenson. I feel the English once sadly sound very bland in comparison.
Daedalic Entertainment is a German company that primarily focuses on the German market, to the point where the International versions of their games suffer (Even the Deponia games, which had a lot of effort put into the English versions, had vastly superior German versions). They are an extreme example though.
You'd think they'd come up with a name for the algae instead of just saying what color it is all the time. Nah, blue-green is fine.
Also, I didn't think anybody outside of Canada knew about the Red Green Show.
I recall seeing it in the US, probably PBS or some public channel like that.
I can thank my parents for exposing me to it. As for where they saw it, probably on PBS.
The thing with the 80's being the time period and the nuclear meltdown being the trigger makes sense if you actually work it out: They're saying that in our timeline there was nothing to shock us into taking the environment more seriously. Salvador has essentially gone rogue, he's decided to do a lot of damage that otherwise wouldn't happen (like in our timeline) so that people will take environmental matters seriously. The fact that nuclear power could be a solution is immaterial because he already knows that such a solution won't be implemented on its own. By damaging the rain forest a little at an earlier point he provides the world with the raw data necessary to prove global warming in the 80's rather than in the early 2000's, which will move the needle up a couple of decades which might be enough to prevent his future (ironically killing him via timeline collapse), but his mission will be complete, he knows that this technology will work so he'll cause a huge disaster that will spur investigation of alternative energy sources and make sure that the optimal solution will be available.
Though the truth is that these people are idiots because there's literally zero chance you could use algae for energy except via modifying them to produce hydrocarbons to burn, the actual solution is to pour cash into fusion research, we've been keeping it on life support for 70 years, when we could fund a Manhattan Project style effort and probably crack it in ten.
You don't need to create more raw data in the 80s to prove climate change. Exxon Mobile's scientists proved that fossil fuels cause global warming in the 50s. Exxon just covered it up to avoid hurting their oil and gas business. We don't need nuclear fusion because we could run the entire electrical grid on renewables if we really wanted to. Anything else is just gravy.
That's a pretty small Refirgerator.
the reasoning i hate time travel is the fact that whenever its used its always used in a genre sappy way or in some way that future humans forgot about recording history plus time travel can lead to a fuck you ending, an ending where you didn't change anything but instead created some other problem
Loss of history isn't that unrealistic a concept though. There's a reason it was called "The Dark Ages" in the past. They weren't building time machines either though, except for that Jean Reno movie.
plus time travel is a case that you could end up with an ending that saids "oh hey no problem is fixed but a similar problem arised so the end problem is unavoided" like here where the end shows hey a time pod
plus also if lets say "hey you fixed one problem, now another has arised" or a case of "I have so many questions" or a case of talk to anyone in the past that is it everything has been changed
"Does it hurt?"
"Then it is broken."
4:3 still has its uses, for instance Nuclear Throne is intentionally 4:3 in order to keep the amount of possible enemies visible from each angle the same. If it was 16:9 the vertical threat assessment would be consistently lower than the horizontal threat assessment. There's a cool video on that on the VideoBrains Event youtube channel.
Man, this gives me Christian game/ movie vibes, even if the protagonist is a depressed drunk.
You should review the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Marathon Trilogy.
If only he did reviews.
John Bromin
But aren't his Game Dungeon Videos technically Reviews?
No, I'd call them experiences. Nevertheless Ross has referenced the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games before so you never know what game he fancies to "review".
Speaking of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I'm fairly sure I heard two voice actors from the English version of Call of Pripyat in this game. They're still not good, but doing a much better job than whatever they were doing there.
Marathon is an interesting set of games.
This might be the most likable protagonist to ever appear in a Daedalic game.
Edna?
Lillie?
If you can't sum up your point, you have no bussiness telling anyone about it.
I'll take a sentient mustache over the dulcet tones of Sadwick, thanks.
droggelbecher?
A 45 minute Game Dungeon? Looks like that chicken I sacrificed worked.
I would not be surprised if it's that the rubber chicken in the episode that came back to haunt you.
Aquillius Ranger It is a curse I am willing to bare.
That explains the smell...
Ending is very German. It's...I can't describe it. It's German as fuck. Not to say they have any problems with fiction (they've pumped out some of the greatest fiction over the past ~300 years), it's just... German. There's always a stab in the back.
okay? I don't think so, but okay
...Interesting analysis.
I, for one, found the story as a whole very German.
I could totally see such a 'Save the planet' plot feature in Benjamin Blümchen or the Geolino cartoons.
Hell, it probably already did. Minus the graphic violence, of course.
I am so happy that you know the Red Green show. Stop making me so proud!
I get the feeling Ross would LOVE Dishonored. At least how the difficulty escalation system works, adding more plague-rats, pseudo-zombies, and things that can kill you in general the more bodies you leave in your wake. As a man who ALSO enjoys seeing how much chaos I can cause in games, usually by sneaking around and murdering people and actually LEAVING the bodies for their buddies to find, I highly recommend it. Also, you can stuff bodies in dumpsters with ragdoll physics. That's a win in my book
I don't see Ross paying that much for a game that still has a ton of DLC.
@@AbandonedVoid the first one on sale at this point probably meets his cheapness quota.
@@AbandonedVoid I got Dishonored with all its DLC for 10 bucks back in 2014, it doesn't cost that much at all.
I would love to see a Corvo's Mind series
I know he talks in the sequel, but I could totally see him being a rather fun psycho with the right commentary
"Steam, not smoke"
...Must not make Steamed Hams joke, must not make Steamed Hams joke...
Ugh... Fay's posture is giving me simpathetic back pain...
EDIT - Hey, I spotted another comment addressing this. Glad I wasn't the only one to notice.
Global warming is bad for your back... I guess.
Anatomy is fucked in the future
A 44 minute game dungeon.
Not today, noose. Not today.
if you're still holding off, that made me chuckle
I am from the future, the dark year of 2020.
The year of the coronus terribilis, and the Dems are burning down California harder than usual.
So this year might be your year, lol.
Oh yeah, I’m sure it’s the Dems when the Reptarded don’t even believe in global warming, good job potato face.
Watch videos compilations of Rich Evans laugh.
@@BentDoorFrame rich evans is life
*Ross not wanting Lovecraft monsters to live*
>:C
Earth Day? You mean - these days when power plants spend more energy to start power plants than they save on shutdowns?
Ross you should check out Deponia, another German point and click from Daedalic, complete with stilted voice acting from being localized, a weird future setting, and a really unsatisfying ending. In fact, the ending was SO unsatisfying they made a third game where you time travel to get a better ending, just to make the point that the player wanting a good ending is stupid.
aside from just being a fun show, you have an amazingly natural way of bringing genuinely important political perspectives, and nuance around them, into funny discussion of random games. This episode got into that a bit, and the Deus Ex episode was a real delight that way. Thanks for all your content!
Ah, I actually didn't know this was made by Daedalic until the ending credits. The humor of Fay, the mention a German studio and the way the one character casually disposed of people leaving the gritty details to the player very much reminded me Daedalic from the Edna and Harvey series. Fay's humor reminded me of Edna while the casual "killings" reminded my of Lilli.
I am absolutely LOVING the diversity in your range when it comes to your comedy delivery in these recent videos.
Hmm, didn't Kodak sort of terminally cripple themselves when they screwed up the Hubble telescope mirror and ended up taking a massive blow to their funds in the fallout, leaving them to go bankrupt later?
With this whole "delaying the digital camera" thing, perhaps that was almost karmic if it's true.
Kodak mostly ignoring their digital photography technology is one of the reasons why they went out of business. I think that's the ultimate irony.
Kodak had nothing to do with the HST mirror; that was made by a scientific instruments company called Perkin-Elmer (which also made the optics for Cold War spy satellites). P-E survived the Hubble fiasco (IIRC, they cut a deal with the government in which they essentially agreed not to get paid if they didn't get sued) and still exists today, without the hyphen, mostly doing medtech stuff.
Sounds like they sent 2023 AI voice generation back in time to read the lines in this game.
Dammit Ross I have school I need to be doing right now.
MentatJunkie watch the video some other time?
never lol
Rexels Tom You CANT say no to a game dungeon episode
That takes far more self control than I am capable of
Just turn in a paper on how to save the world. You can't deny Ross is at least teaching us useful stuff, here.
Fay is hot
That soul patch isn't even a deal breaker for me.
Excuse my maybe stupid question and believe me, I tried googleing it without getting any wiser, so...: What the actual fuck is a "soul patch" in this context?
a soul patch is hair right below the bottom lip, try googling soul patch facial hair, he was saying the line under her bottom lip looked like that
Thank you so much! For real! You just made me realize that *I ACTUALLY HAVE A SOUL PATCH IN REAL LIFE!* Never knew it's called that as English is not my native language.
Andre Jaeckle that's hilarious, glad to help
Ross knows about the Red Green show. This fills me with joy.
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
44mins?!
Ross, I love you
Damn Ross. That bit at 36:58 is a spot on impression of me.
Ill like your comment for your Jim Gaffigan icon
I've enjoyed about every Daedalic adventure game I've played. The plots are varied quality, but always at least fairly solid. Art quality is gorgeous across the board. Big fan of the Deponia games for the most part, just a very fun apocalypse.
The backgrounds are gorgeous in this. I might have to play it purely for the aesthetic.
I think I would have called the mid-life crisis award the Captain Planet Puberty award. This game wants to be grown up, and can pull it off at times, but it can't do it consistently. Also, the voice of the evil lawyer actually reminds me of the annoying wizard's henchman from the Revenant review. They both deliver the same sorts of cheesy lines as well.
After listening to some of the voice actors I just realized that I've heard nearly all of them as the advisors from Tropico 4....wow.
erf day is the mother nature's berf day
So...we should celebrate with violence and bloodshed to appease the vengeful and bloodthirsty ways of the natural order. Thankfully, our mammalian behavior patterns have us covered in that regard.
The blood provides sustenance and nutrients to the soil beneath our enemies bodies. Basically, yes.
I'm sure we could do with a decent slaughter. How does three billion sound?
No racial stuff about it, just a radioactive isotope random number generator, and we start with the people about 80, for various reasons, then move down in age until we reach out goal.
Sure, it'd be a horrible, senseless act of violence, but what could possibly go wrong? Not like we're Hitler or anything...
(Now lets just be clear that this IS a joke.)
Come now. We can come to a more civilized way of doing this. Let's just gather a bunch of people who hate each other and put them in an enclosed space with one another. Only one group walks out.
Earth is overpopulated anyways. We're upsetting the ecosystem and overdue for culling due to our annoying ability to live 70-100 years and advanced medical technology.
I watched this for 3 minutes, looked it up on Steam, saw it was on sale at 90% and bought it. I'll check back on this Game Dungeon when I'm done playing it. :3
oofda... I wish you luck.
Smart thinking to look it up before watching.
Has some flaws, but was very enjoyable for me. So hope you have fun :)
It was on sale BECAUSE of Game Dungeon :D
Well, it worked cause I bought it, I wouldn't have paid £8 for it.
"There was no accident. *I am the accident.* "
You know it's going to be a long, good day when Ross uploads a 44 minute video of Game Dungeon, Great Job Buddy!
If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find ya handy.
The "somebody cared" award always cracks me up, we need more of those.
Now that you've popped the lid on the Daedalic Entertainment adventure games you should check out some of their other games.
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout is amazing, you, an inmate of an insane asylum, escape together with your hallucinatory bunny buddy, and the designer of the game made it a point to make every combination of every item and every interaction with everything everywhere a unique dialogue. Where sometimes combining a random item with a random object in the room will lead to a 3 minute banter between Edna and Harvey.
The Deponia series, a series of adventure games featuring the cynic dimwitted protagonist Rufus who wants nothing but the escape from his garbagepunk ass home planet where everything is literally garbage but most of the quirky cast roll with it in the most insane ways. This game is the epitome of causing ruthless chaos and havoc in an adventure game. Its insane. The aestethic is incredible, the tone is fittingly cartoonish, the mood is superb, and the humor is such a joy.
Okay I am really happy about that Red Green reference I loved that show as a kid and as an adult as well. You never cease to amaze me with the wealth of good stuff you are into Ross
This game looks like so much fun on this gameplay. Ross just skips hours of tedious puzzles
I love the intensity of the latter part of this video. Really seems like you go the emotion across the right way. Also, that impression was hilarious. Just all around great energy in this episode.
Self destructive characters are great
Svennson: My planet needs me.
Svennson died on the way back to his ending credits.
Used to work for Daedalic and somewhat happy to see you cover one of their older games :D
"...he's assuming that if theres a giant disaster and impending danger, humanity will natually react to save itself ..." after 2020, can confirm this isn't true...