Armstrong literally wanted to reduce the place to might makes right, everyone for themselves anarchism; not at all like the corporate stooge and maybe sometimes bible-pandering republicans or corporate stooge maybe sometimes left-pandering democrats.
"You have to play the game one handed, which I'm used to because I play dead or alive" This is one of the funniest things said in this video and the lack of any kind of reaction to it makes me think that it wasn't a joke
I played this game around its release and remember it being great. I was absolutely baffled when I heard about it becoming just as played in 2019 as it was in 2013. It's funny how curiosity gets people to look into things they were happy to ignore before.
Honestly it’s one of the few games that I think would actually be improved my a remaster. The console limitations at the time made the dreams of the creators unfinished. I would love to see more detail in slicing and better pieces.
Not watched the whole video, but I want to say that you are the sole reason that got me into that game. Your playthroughs and passion in earlier fact fiend vids got me curious.
IIRC, his thing is that he can open a beer with any object he can get his hands on. I seem to recall this being a joke at one time and him opening beers with a billiard ball and stuff like that. Just in case you were interested in enticing him into opening them in any other unique ways lol.
Oh this wonderful game, takes me back. If i remember the time correctly, The game was originally struggling to find itself while being developed internally by Kojima Productions, so they handed it off to Platinum Games who honed it to action perfection, but it lost those older freeform "cut everything" ideas in the process. Kinda torn if we lost something great or gained something greater under Platinum, but ultimately they did a bang up job. Blessed Platinum
I was wondering why it took my father so long to get through Half-Life 2. He spent hours just messing around. Like when piled a bunch of debris in front of a tunnel just to watch the train plow through it, then climbed the hill to see how far he could get.
I know way more about memetics than I probably should so if you're interested, here's a breakdown: Memes are nothing more than ideas or concepts. The fact they are labelled as memes is inherently redundant. There is no reason to specify them as 'memes'. They are simply thoughts or ideas. Memes are not the same as facts, although some memes are factual others are not. You could better describe them as rhetoric. They are the very means by which persuasion happens both for and against anything you can imagine. Memes are just things you communicate to another person. You tell something to someone else and they either accept it, reject it or consider it. The point is that memes are just transmission of information. A joke, a recipe, a way of behaving... Something that I found very interesting is the idea that memes actually have more influence and agency than people. Basically, some people assert that human beings are simply vessels that memes occupy. Ideas and concepts infect people and control their actions moving forward. Anybody who 'believes' something is being guided by the memes that occupy their mind. In this sense, memes are just using your human vessel to act physically. In a sense, they work through you, using you to their own end. If you believe something, the meme is using you in order to spread. Political views, morality, religion... You will act in accordance to the memes that have infected you and you will express your beliefs which others will either accept, deny or consider. You are just a transmitter of the memes you have accepted. Human beings die. Memes don't. Even the forgotten ones are always rediscovered. Even if everyone on the planet agrees that an idea is wrong, the idea still exists. It never goes away. The bottom line is that ideas are powerful. People die for them, people kill for them. Memes aren't just pictures with text on them, or catchphrases, or gifs or jokes. They control all of human behaviour.
My man finally has a real reason to focus, entirely, on Metal Gear Rising (on the main channel) Editor's note: This is in reference to Karl Smallwood dedicating a small portion of his life to the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
I think I ended up grabbing MGR because you kept talking about it, I kept hearing it was good pretty much everywhere else, and some guy I follow on Twitter decided to play it and it looked decent from a few screenshots. I surprisingly saw no memes about it until after I'd played it. It was like £3-£4, figured if I didn't like it, it wasn't much money so it wouldn't really matter. Several playthroughs later, I'm still not bored of it. Ended up playing DMC for the same reasons, figured I'd start with the earlier games as I really wanted to play 5, but I refused to play it until I'd played the previous games. Kinda glad I did that as I'm not sure I'd like the older games as much as if I started with 5. Recently went back to 1 and found it more fun than my original playthrough, I still prefer 3 and 5, but 1's still good.
Memes was also the theme of MGS2. Could you make another Solid Snake by making someone do everything that Solid Snake did without them knowing that they're doing everything that Solid Snake did? The entirety of Big Shell was a cleverly-disguised Shadow Moses replica to make Raiden (who at that point is very familiar with VR simulations of the Shadow Moses incident; fan theory is that Twin Snakes is actually Raiden in the VR simulation he mentions in 2) effectively repeat everything he learned in the simulation in a carefully controlled live-fire exercise without him realizing that he's being led along. Even Snake and Otacon didn't fully realize what was up until the virus was uploaded to GW and the mask came off.
MGS2 wasn't about making another Snake or a Solid Snake Simulation. It was about the game manipulating the player, how emotions and thoughts can be created and manipulated.
@@Tower-kn1dr The real S3 was the Selection for Societal Sanity. It was the AI learning how to process and manipulate data in order to control the progression of the human race. The player was the first test subject.
If you have a sufficiently strong container you can freeze water to ice-2 or one of the other exotic variants of ice. Mankind has invested a lot of research over a very long time to be able to freeze water without expanding. Apparently it is like a billion times more complicated than people thought and requires very extreme pressure containers.
About the glass thing, it's mostly when you put cold stuff in a hot glass that you have it shatter. You can just put a few ice cubes in a glass straight out of the wash and it'll explode if you're unlucky enough.
1:20 I own a dungeons and dragons themed craft brewery in the State and about 3/4 of our staff love your channel. Bad beer in a cold glass make it so you can’t taste how bad it is, but don’t put your good stuff in it. Cheers! 🍻
Really happy to hear the channel is doing well! You guys have been my fav channel for the past 5 years and I was heart broken when your announcement video about potentially ending the channel due to this style of videos becoming less popular. I really hope the channel blows up again and you can continue for at least another 5 years!!!
Another fun science experiments to do at home. Take a glass fill it with water, to the top. After it's full put some ice cubes into it and notice how they float Above the Rim now if you let those ice cubes melt the level of the water in the glass will not spill over because as water becomes liquid from solid it decreases in overall area
hopefully it gets a Dead space type remake in the future, I played it recently based on your recommendation and now I want nothing more for this game to get the AAA treatment it deserves.
I only played revengeance because of how much you talk about it. Its probably the only linear game outside of Force Unleashed that i immediately knew i would replay it multiple times.
50 seconds in I realized he froze his glass which is odd as I've never seen anyone do it apart from myself. Props to Karl for partaking in the freezing of lager glasses.
If you ever want a truly magical root beer experience, soak a glass mug (in water) and put it in the freezer for a day. When you add the root beer to the mug it freezes , coating the inside
The first time I played it I never got very far because I wanted to play on harder difficulties like my friend who got me into Metal Gear did. I eventually revisited it like fuck it, I don't have to prove anything, and played it on easy. Loved it. The story, the gameplay, *the music* , everything. MGS4 too. Great game that I would recommend for anyone interested.
put the lip of the bottle on the lip of the glass and minimize the angle.... you worked in a bar, you know this!! also, pacifico is better than corona. fite me.
Discussing the trailer, that very much is Kojima's method... if the core idea is 'cut everything', then Kojima will cut all the content. If the core idea is the phantom pain of a missing limb, amputate the second chapter.
I've been getting Metal Gear video recs all week and bit the bullet and bought MGRR after seeing all the ridiculous bullshit about it and (after downloading several mods to make the game run in 4k60fps and a camera mod cuz PC controller play is weird) I must say this is the most Adderall I've taken since highschool.
No lie it’s my favorite too but I only play every now and again loved when it was on psn+ you are literally only person I know that enjoys playing it as much as I do
I dunno if karl would see this but I hope to god he would try to check out batman ninja the amount of ridiculous bullshit awesome things on that is ungodly funny
It's so dumb that we haven't gotten a sequel to Revengeance. With Kojima no-longer with Konami, it's the perfect game to continue as it doesn't require his writing style at all and doesn't affect anything in the main MGS story. Please, it's just plain great.
Armstrong is not republican, he actively wants to destroy all political parties/
So he’s a republican. Got it.
and one piece is political yup
So he’s a fascist aka. Republican
Armstrong literally wanted to reduce the place to might makes right, everyone for themselves anarchism; not at all like the corporate stooge and maybe sometimes bible-pandering republicans or corporate stooge maybe sometimes left-pandering democrats.
@@FactFiendwhy would a member of a party want to destroy their own party?
"You have to play the game one handed, which I'm used to because I play dead or alive" This is one of the funniest things said in this video and the lack of any kind of reaction to it makes me think that it wasn't a joke
Cultured as always Karl.
The glance and blink to the camera when it went over brads head makes it so much better
Fuckin fantastic 🤣
Brad has probably seen some shit over the years….
I didn't even catch it till a full second after hearing it. Then proceeded to slap my forehead with my full Palm.
My two favorite things about mgr is that it is technically a musical, and that Revengeance is just not a word.
Memes giving media a second wind is a fascinating concept.
The swordplay looks like if a Star Wars game allowed lore-accurate lightsabers. I would love to play this game, hoping they port it to PS4/5.
It's cheap on steam and has trivial system requirements now
Isn't that game backwards compatible?
As the other have said it's easy to play nowadays, but I agree it does need a re re-release as games that don't get ports are harder to get later
@@AgentTasmaniai want a remaster tho
I played this game around its release and remember it being great. I was absolutely baffled when I heard about it becoming just as played in 2019 as it was in 2013. It's funny how curiosity gets people to look into things they were happy to ignore before.
Any day where Karl gets to rant about about his favorite game is a good day.
Starscream
Honestly it’s one of the few games that I think would actually be improved my a remaster. The console limitations at the time made the dreams of the creators unfinished. I would love to see more detail in slicing and better pieces.
Yeah, and things like real time weapon switching.
Cold Beer + Cold Glass = No crack
Room temp beer + cold glass = At your own risk
Not watched the whole video, but I want to say that you are the sole reason that got me into that game. Your playthroughs and passion in earlier fact fiend vids got me curious.
Memes are the reason I finally played the game. I didn't get into metal gear much until then
I very rarely saw any coverage on this game until maxOr made that 2 part masterpiece a few year ago.
War crime this, can't eat the drywall that. Microwaving mice is wrong they said!
That was my introduction pretty much, that whole two part summary.
Max0r is comedy gold
Yooo man's is rocking the tall boy corana and popped it like a Latino. Mad respect.
IIRC, his thing is that he can open a beer with any object he can get his hands on. I seem to recall this being a joke at one time and him opening beers with a billiard ball and stuff like that. Just in case you were interested in enticing him into opening them in any other unique ways lol.
Oh this wonderful game, takes me back.
If i remember the time correctly, The game was originally struggling to find itself while being developed internally by Kojima Productions, so they handed it off to Platinum Games who honed it to action perfection, but it lost those older freeform "cut everything" ideas in the process.
Kinda torn if we lost something great or gained something greater under Platinum, but ultimately they did a bang up job. Blessed Platinum
“I don’t want to min max the fuck out of it, I want to have fun” this, this is a mood.
I always forget that Richard Dawkins is still alive until he reminds me by saying some dumb shit.
I don’t even know much about the man so I was not ready for that screen shot of what he said.
I was wondering why it took my father so long to get through Half-Life 2. He spent hours just messing around. Like when piled a bunch of debris in front of a tunnel just to watch the train plow through it, then climbed the hill to see how far he could get.
I know way more about memetics than I probably should so if you're interested, here's a breakdown:
Memes are nothing more than ideas or concepts. The fact they are labelled as memes is inherently redundant. There is no reason to specify them as 'memes'. They are simply thoughts or ideas.
Memes are not the same as facts, although some memes are factual others are not. You could better describe them as rhetoric. They are the very means by which persuasion happens both for and against anything you can imagine.
Memes are just things you communicate to another person. You tell something to someone else and they either accept it, reject it or consider it. The point is that memes are just transmission of information. A joke, a recipe, a way of behaving...
Something that I found very interesting is the idea that memes actually have more influence and agency than people.
Basically, some people assert that human beings are simply vessels that memes occupy. Ideas and concepts infect people and control their actions moving forward.
Anybody who 'believes' something is being guided by the memes that occupy their mind. In this sense, memes are just using your human vessel to act physically. In a sense, they work through you, using you to their own end.
If you believe something, the meme is using you in order to spread. Political views, morality, religion... You will act in accordance to the memes that have infected you and you will express your beliefs which others will either accept, deny or consider. You are just a transmitter of the memes you have accepted.
Human beings die. Memes don't. Even the forgotten ones are always rediscovered. Even if everyone on the planet agrees that an idea is wrong, the idea still exists. It never goes away.
The bottom line is that ideas are powerful. People die for them, people kill for them. Memes aren't just pictures with text on them, or catchphrases, or gifs or jokes. They control all of human behaviour.
Ideas are bulletproof
Thanks!
I'm sorry I asked. Clearly just the 'in' word as todays youth have no inclination towards ideas.
@@huudielbo728👴
That Dead or Alive joke is S tier
The first wave was in 2017-2018 and the people that got into it then boosted the memes gradually peaking with the Max0r “I made it the fuck up”
My man finally has a real reason to focus, entirely, on Metal Gear Rising (on the main channel)
Editor's note: This is in reference to Karl Smallwood dedicating a small portion of his life to the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
I think I ended up grabbing MGR because you kept talking about it, I kept hearing it was good pretty much everywhere else, and some guy I follow on Twitter decided to play it and it looked decent from a few screenshots.
I surprisingly saw no memes about it until after I'd played it.
It was like £3-£4, figured if I didn't like it, it wasn't much money so it wouldn't really matter.
Several playthroughs later, I'm still not bored of it.
Ended up playing DMC for the same reasons, figured I'd start with the earlier games as I really wanted to play 5, but I refused to play it until I'd played the previous games.
Kinda glad I did that as I'm not sure I'd like the older games as much as if I started with 5.
Recently went back to 1 and found it more fun than my original playthrough, I still prefer 3 and 5, but 1's still good.
I.. think MGR had memes for it pretty much as soon as it came out. stuff like 'nanomachines, son'
I somehow avoided them I guess.
I've seen plenty since playing it.
Have you played Transformers: Devastation? You'd probably love it if you loved those other games
I probably will, but I won't be getting a Steam key for it. (£170+)
I'll probably emulate it.
Memes was also the theme of MGS2. Could you make another Solid Snake by making someone do everything that Solid Snake did without them knowing that they're doing everything that Solid Snake did? The entirety of Big Shell was a cleverly-disguised Shadow Moses replica to make Raiden (who at that point is very familiar with VR simulations of the Shadow Moses incident; fan theory is that Twin Snakes is actually Raiden in the VR simulation he mentions in 2) effectively repeat everything he learned in the simulation in a carefully controlled live-fire exercise without him realizing that he's being led along. Even Snake and Otacon didn't fully realize what was up until the virus was uploaded to GW and the mask came off.
MGS2 wasn't about making another Snake or a Solid Snake Simulation. It was about the game manipulating the player, how emotions and thoughts can be created and manipulated.
@@FutureDeepdude that was literaly point of the plot. Like 3s stands for whatever it standed because i dont remember
@@Tower-kn1dr The real S3 was the Selection for Societal Sanity. It was the AI learning how to process and manipulate data in order to control the progression of the human race. The player was the first test subject.
If you have a sufficiently strong container you can freeze water to ice-2 or one of the other exotic variants of ice. Mankind has invested a lot of research over a very long time to be able to freeze water without expanding. Apparently it is like a billion times more complicated than people thought and requires very extreme pressure containers.
"Meme are the DNA of the soul"
t- Monsoon.
Cj the X said it best on Richard Dawkins:
"This is what no p*ssy does to a mf" *gestures wildly to The Selfish Gene*
Love those Friday streams. I don't regret redeeming the Ban reward. You have to admit it was worth the chortle.😂
That dead or alive line got me.
About the glass thing, it's mostly when you put cold stuff in a hot glass that you have it shatter. You can just put a few ice cubes in a glass straight out of the wash and it'll explode if you're unlucky enough.
Thermal shock. Expanding or contracting faster than it can handle. Grab a hot light bulb with a cold wet hand for a first hand experience.
@@davidmcgill1000 biggest of oofs on that one
Just to let you know theres a UA-cam Stream that plays Metal gear almost every day, His name is George Salmonkihn
1:20 I own a dungeons and dragons themed craft brewery in the State and about 3/4 of our staff love your channel. Bad beer in a cold glass make it so you can’t taste how bad it is, but don’t put your good stuff in it. Cheers! 🍻
i love how brad just glossed over the doA joke
I think I recall mgs4 talked a bit about memes back before memes took off. I assumed they were just using the same vocab in revengeance.
Really happy to hear the channel is doing well! You guys have been my fav channel for the past 5 years and I was heart broken when your announcement video about potentially ending the channel due to this style of videos becoming less popular. I really hope the channel blows up again and you can continue for at least another 5 years!!!
Another fun science experiments to do at home. Take a glass fill it with water, to the top. After it's full put some ice cubes into it and notice how they float Above the Rim now if you let those ice cubes melt the level of the water in the glass will not spill over because as water becomes liquid from solid it decreases in overall area
hopefully it gets a Dead space type remake in the future, I played it recently based on your recommendation and now I want nothing more for this game to get the AAA treatment it deserves.
Or a sequel of some kind
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nv would kill for one
Armstrong isn't republican though? The whole point of him having a yellow tie was to show he represented both sides
Maaaan I work Fridays. MGR is easily one of my most favourite games, so I feel bad that I can't play along.
I only played revengeance because of how much you talk about it. Its probably the only linear game outside of Force Unleashed that i immediately knew i would replay it multiple times.
Interesting that this game has a lot of ‘Cut Content’ (pun intended)🗡️
Jetstream sam is so based
Jetsmeme sam
I would absolutely love just sitting down and having you just talking metalgear rising and just showing off.
Next time your beer starts to foam up too much, stick your finger in it. The impurities will break the surface tension of the bubbles faster
I know this is about MGR: Revengeance but I feel like the title could apply to Yakuza 0 just the same 🤣🤣🤣
It's already a fun game on It's own but the memes definitely skyrocketed It's popularity
Being one of the most fun games ever helped it stay popular too beyond the memes.
Memes have been a theme since Raiden's first appearance, MGS2
Wow, I actually caught this very MGS Rising stream on twitch a couple weeks ago.
You won't be the only one keeping it alive. I have 2 copies just in case one goes out. Play it at all at least once a year.
I have to say, i love everyone calling Armstrong "right-wing". The dude is an anarchist.
20:29 I wish to volunteer as sacrifice to Metal Gear Rising week, I dont even want payment for it, I'd do it........ for the memes
That dead or alive joke absolutely flew over everyones heads
18:24 god damn that was cheeky as fuck.
Describing 2013 memes using a 2007 meme
50 seconds in I realized he froze his glass which is odd as I've never seen anyone do it apart from myself. Props to Karl for partaking in the freezing of lager glasses.
Ive definitely been wanting to play this again
Wiki Weekends and Metal Gear Weekdays
I'd have thought you were talking about Dame Da Ne Simulator Kiwami
I still need to play the dlc, it was very hard since I forgot how to parry
if you only pour pure alcohol in the flask then cleaning it with water would only make it dirtier xD.
If you ever want a truly magical root beer experience, soak a glass mug (in water) and put it in the freezer for a day. When you add the root beer to the mug it freezes , coating the inside
*_Snap into a slim Jim_*
This channel introduced me to this game by describing the fighting with "sliding on his ass"
0:52 Corona crisis averted!
The first time I played it I never got very far because I wanted to play on harder difficulties like my friend who got me into Metal Gear did. I eventually revisited it like fuck it, I don't have to prove anything, and played it on easy. Loved it. The story, the gameplay, *the music* , everything. MGS4 too. Great game that I would recommend for anyone interested.
Meme Gear Rising
I see sam, and my unga bunga part of my brain smashes the like button.
I really want to do my own stream of MGR but I don't wanna step on toes here and my days off are limited
For anyone watching within a few hours of release, I'll be playing Metal Gear Rising on Twitch tonight from 8pm GMT - www.twitch.tv/karlswood
- Karl
Aldi's sells liquor? I hate living in a state with weird alcohol laws
Brad saying that anything is the same as Jack Daniel's, is heresy
i do like how they gave Ezio a Raiden outfit in brotherhood
God this game is so amazing I absolutely loved it. I love watching it and playing it.
I did not know what the classical definition of memes was till now.
I played MGR Revengence when it came out. Played it on the hardest difficulty first playthrough finished it within the first night
Hands down one of the greatest soundtracks ever made hands down
Nice argument, why don't you try backing it up with a SOURCE!
His source is he made it the fuck up!
Dead or alive the definition of jiggle physics.
“Your memes are cringe, Jack, and your setup is weak” -Markiplier
Damn, now I need to replay Metal Gear Rising.
I played for the memes, stayed for the gameplay, it's genuinely a good game
I remember this game was the one that YLOD my launch PS3.
Yeah, you're basically the "Spiders Georg" of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance players XD
Oh good. I did NOT know those "fun facts" about Richard Dawkins. Truly cursed. Thanks for providing the facts you fiends.
“You’re never gonna be based with memes like these”
It’s also a meta parody of the mgs series
put the lip of the bottle on the lip of the glass and minimize the angle.... you worked in a bar, you know this!!
also, pacifico is better than corona. fite me.
Discussing the trailer, that very much is Kojima's method... if the core idea is 'cut everything', then Kojima will cut all the content. If the core idea is the phantom pain of a missing limb, amputate the second chapter.
Mitsurugi!! They took a character from Soul Caliber and made him look cool like no other
I've been getting Metal Gear video recs all week and bit the bullet and bought MGRR after seeing all the ridiculous bullshit about it and (after downloading several mods to make the game run in 4k60fps and a camera mod cuz PC controller play is weird) I must say this is the most Adderall I've taken since highschool.
No lie it’s my favorite too but I only play every now and again loved when it was on psn+ you are literally only person I know that enjoys playing it as much as I do
Now that's a pretty meme! Exquisite!
You pour beer very badly my friend.
When are you guys going to do a video about the Metal Gear storyline?
I dunno if karl would see this but I hope to god he would try to check out batman ninja the amount of ridiculous bullshit awesome things on that is ungodly funny
by the way if the bar you go to freezes their glasses it's not a great bar because they do it to hide the taste of cheap alcohol
It's so dumb that we haven't gotten a sequel to Revengeance.
With Kojima no-longer with Konami, it's the perfect game to continue as it doesn't require his writing style at all and doesn't affect anything in the main MGS story.
Please, it's just plain great.
STANDING HERE
Fact fiend fuck yeah
best fiver ive ever spent