Meanwhile I saw the walk home scenario as sketchy not because it is ambiguous, but because the person was deliberately concealing their identity(who wears a gas mask out in public) and had something in their pocket.
Small triangle was clearly distracting big triangle with a fight so small circle could steal something from BT's house, maybe BT is some kind of monster living in an small and fragile house while SB and ST are other two monsters trying to steal something.
@Juan Rodriguez. The shapes are learning and partially working together. Triangle needed to help circle get in the house and learn to get itself inside the house with it.
@Juan Rodriguez. The triangle got pissed off and destroyed the house because learning is hard for his digital 2D brain. Why do i think and assume the triangle is a male?
@Juan Rodriguez. If our universe had a fourth spatial dimension i think the AI and all other technology would be much smarter. But what does that have to do with any of this?
I felt really bad for the other triangle for some reason. I also found the dot to look way too scared for a vague non-human non-emotive shape. Why is it so easy to empathize with something that even superficially expresses humaine characteristics?
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone else saying the clip at the beginning was a prison break, or an escape from some sort of confinement, at least. The other triangle and the dot, the two beings who had imprisoned the main triangle in the first place, arrived to recapture him after hearing or seeing him breaking out of the box. He fights his former captors, and the smaller, weaker circle tries to hide in the prison itself. The main triangle’s two enemies end up retreating, and, having been unable to achieve his revenge, the triangle angrily destroys the prison that had confined him.
I thought that 5he big triangle was an abusive parent of the small triangle, after they fought the big triangle lashed out at the dot... I got so stressed when he was trapped in the house then escaped
I'm actually interested in that _one_ person who didn't attribute that clip to humans. What did that person think the clip is about? What is their train of thought usually?
I skimmed through the article linked in the description, and it seems to only show the two entries shown in the video, I dunno if the other interpretations were made public
I thought they were cells trying to communicate, but they got frustrated with each other because of there inability to speak. This doesn’t explain the ending though
@@Celatra viewing it with human characteristics seems to be what a lot of people think. It would seem some people view this more litterally as two shapes moving. And some are more empathetic (?), Or have a more personal view on it.
Just started the video and what I see is a casual situation of domestic violence/abuse. Big triangle is dad, small one is mom, and the little circle is the kid, who hides behind the door while the parents fight. Then, his dad enters on the room and the kid escapes with his mom, hiding from the man.
@Skraft I think they made the big triangle big to be more aggressive looking to begin with. No way they didn’t have in mind they’d make one look more aggressive and the triangle shapes angular to seem more harmful than the smooth un harmful circle. That being said, we most definitely gender these due to common conceptions of who in a family is the source of abuse and who gets abused. I don’t think anyone would believe the big triangle is a daughter who is arguing with her parents and the circle is the father who just wants the daughter to stop abusing her mom.
Triangle was alone, others tried to socialize, issues occurred with the attempted "play", and Big Triangle viewed the act as an attack. Things spiraled from there.
My interpretation was wife(circle) was caught cheating and the husband(Big Triangle) got enraged, beats up the lover(small triangle) and tries to beat up the wife too. They manage to lock him in the end and the husband destroys his surrounding out of anger.
The start of the video definitely felt like family abuse and that the big triangle was abusive and at the end also wasn't happy with himself as the other shapes left.
My interpretation: This was a short film about big triangle, small triangle and circle playing a game of 1v2 tag. The structure can be built & broken on a whim, and functions as a hiding spot.
Definitely the right answer. The way the small triangle always tag backed the big triangle was really a lame play and I think they shou,d add more rules about this in future productions.
5:11 I also have noticed from your dead cells video and others how many human choices are tied to loss aversion and I think this is also a situation like that, the prize: Going on a bus ride home on your usual stop and saving a couple minutes from walking to the OTHER bus stop is WAY lower than the uncertain ( but realistic ) outcome of the hooded figure ( who is using sunglasses in the middle of the night mind you ) robbing, kidnapping or harming you in any kind of way. And you barely get anything by taking that risk, just keep walking since ( and this common saying also ties to loss aversion ) ‘Better Safe than sorry ‘
This video felt like it was made for me I live games, series and movies with little explanation and making me theories the meaning of it and we always can have more videos defending Evangelion's ending :P
Amazing how 60 seconds can make me feel sad to see a triangle repeatedly aggressing another triangle that has itxs back against the wall. Also, I was sure he was going to say something like "this is a scene from X horror movie".
I think my favorite example of something like this is the very end of Blade Runner: The Directors Cut. With that little paper animal, it makes you consider so many things, and the more you look into it the crazier it gets. but all that crazy comes from your own interpretation of the movie's events, and various "hints" make up a tiny proportion of the movie
It looked like a Family Quarrel wherein the Bigger Triangle (possibly the father) being abusive OR.... Its a Historia Civilis video wherein Soldiers were fighting amongst themselves 😅
It totally looked like domestic violence to me. The parent came out and started abusing the little triangle as the circle hid in the room. The parent then came into the room and chased the circle and the little triangle tried to help. They named to escape and the big triangle trashed the room in a fit of rage.
My parents don't approve of games, so my first game was one I played at my mentor's house. *Journey*. I absolutely loved that game and I met a couple of people in the desert wasteland. My mind was always filled with, "What does this mean?" and "What story does this tell?" but that's what I love about it. The fact that you can imagine your own story or the specifics of a story is beautiful.
The start of the video feels like a toxic relationship, discussion, guilt, and the person outside that running away trying to hide. Both triangles feel guilt and like to be with Ball, but also both trisngles are a angry with eachother The ball feels safe with one triangle and scared of the other, that "other" one was inside the box hiding or protecting the outside world from him, aswell as maybe protecting their own feelings
It's a story of a abusive family The big triangle is the abusive parental figure. Beating their s/o The child, the circle, goes to hide in their room The abusive parental figure comes in while the child is scared. Not quite sure what happens there When the small triangle and the child leave The abusive parental figure snaps, breaking everything That's my take anyways
Man that first 2 minutes 20 seconds is an absolute masterclass in how to hook an audience. God you're good. Love the videos man, always looking forward to your next one!!
I personally have noticed how much people love to make theories of things without too much explanation just because the setting was interesting, and that is something that I would like to apply to my games, adding some kind of haunted house where the ghost can vary depending on the day, playthrough, and other things, acting different, showing some kind of ambiguous relationship with the main story, details in the house telling some kind of story, just for let people having fun thinking what is happening.
Triangle is afraid of the outside world, leaves his house for once and finds two shapes. I think triangle felt frustrated because it was lonely, so it got into a fight with the second triangle, who had someone in their life. Circle gets in the house out of curiosity, triangle traps it in, triangle and circle manage to escape. The big triangle is then left just as, if not more, lonely as before. It pushed away the one chance it had to interact with other people and is so mad at itself.
I was thinking it was a fight for therytory when the small triangle and circle team up against big triangle but then circle betrays small triangle and tries to take the territory fir himself
This was a really interesting vid! Got me thinking about why I do find myself watching "ending explanation" videos for movies/games that I never really had a problem with the ending for. I believe our desire for an explicit explanation/ending to stories, is about connection. We want to feel like we experienced the same thing as other people. If I watch Interstellar and believe its ending means X, and you believe it means Y, it's not that important, but with real life, it's imperative. We can't really proceed "on the same timeline" if we believe different things happened. For example, if two people get in a fight and someone dies, the story of what happened will determine the fate of the survivor in society. If that story has an ambiguous ending we can't really trust that survivor without choosing to believe a version of what happened - we'd rather that everyone agreed on the same version of the story as we're all then moving forward with the same "facts" (or "proceeding on the same timeline" as I sci-fied it earlier)
That’s a great point! May also explain why we feel the need to reach out to others as soon as we finish a show or a movie. Like you said, you want to validate/challenge what you saw.
bigger triangle bullies the other triangle the dot catches him bullying, bully triangle sees him and goes after him, the victim triangle helps the dot out and they run away
A triangle willingly entered in a box, and while it was in there, a smaller traingle and its circle friend came to visit. The big triangle stepped out of the box and beat the shit out of small triangle. Circle, very scared, entered the box to hide. Big triangle approached, but circle made a quick escape and trapped it in there with the help of small triangle. Big managed to open the door tho, so circle and small triangle ran around, luring big, and then escaped together. After seeing it was left alone, Big was angry and destroyed the box.
Hyper Light Drifter might be my all-time favourite game with a vague narrative. It's amazing how you start filling in the blanks after finding all of the secrets.
The big Triangle is attacking the small triangle and circle after he leaves his house. The small triangle takes the abuse almost without protest while the circle tries to escape into the house. After the big triangle finishes attacking the small triangle he goes inside to deal with the circle, the circle evades and escapes with the small triangle. Some extra notes: The small triangles almost complacent reaction to being struck leads me to think the small triangle is in an abusive relationship with the big triangle and is used to such actions. The movements of the big triangle striking the small triangle are very direct and straightforward, signifying a punch or maybe a slap or kick. The movements of the big triangle attacking the circle however are very broad and “slashing” (as indicated by how the circle evades the triangle) and this might signify that the big triangle picked up a knife of some kind in the house. Edit: The small triangle and circles relationship is unclear, but the circle is likely either a friend or lover of the small triangle that the big triangle didn’t know about.
The way the question was phrased made me so focused to track where the shapes were going and what the lines were doing that I couldn't think about anything else. I was so occupied with trying to remember what was going on with what shape and where that they had no meaning.
It's weird that so many people came up with this idea. My theory is that the big triangle was protecting it's house, which doesn't seem that popular in this comment section.
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As others have said, I see domestic violence. The big triangle is the abusive father, the small triangle is the mother, and the circle is the child. The father attacks the mother and then attempts to attack the child, but both victims manage to escape. The father ends up destroying the house in rage.
In the main plot, a large triangle chooses to stay enclosed by itself. Seeing a fellow triangle roam free moves it to break out and choose freedom, but it either learns the wrong lesson from this and decides to throw around his newfound freedom and existing power to intimidate the smaller triangle, or suddenly starts playing a playground game akin to tag, initiated by some subtle inter-shape communication that we as humans can't understand. In the sub-plot, a small circle toys with the concept of enclosure vs. freedom. As the game/intimidation drifts back to the enclosure, the large triangle seeks to use the enclosure that once held it, to now enclose the circle, and the plots converge. Whatever was going on before, the circle doesn't understand it, and playfully tries to engage in a way the large triangle does not entertain, and any semblance of civility falls apart. The small triangle, ever the champion of freedom, frees the circle and escapes the large triangle, who apparently only values its own freedom, not the well-being or understanding of others. As the large triangle is left alone, it is left open-ended whether it is repentant or not, but its anger is nevertheless taken out on the enclosure, as if the enclosure itself were the problem in its eyes. It wasn't the enclosure that was ever the problem, though. It was how they shapes used it to exert their will on others. This was my first impression, but I got a glimpse at some other comments before I finished typing. It was VERY hard to keep my mind on my own initial impression when others presented such succinct and plausible interpretations that were probably spot-on. Okay, back to the video....
I thought of severals ways to convey what was happening on the screen. One of which was to "humanize" the shapes. But there were also other interpretations, one of which was the.. literal happenings. It was interesting.
I thought it was about someone hiding in a box and someone else giving a gift to help them come out of the box, but they got upset and didn’t like it so in the end the guy trying to help took back the gift and left
I'm a big fan of Tarot. Not in the "predict the future" kind of way - but as a meditation tool. Because Tarot is inherently interpretive and associative. What you see when you draw a card, and what position you place it in - will tell you a story. The story is based on a question posed before you begin drawing. If you are doing a reading for someone, the questions you ask, the associations the one you are reading, and the interpretations made are all a way to collect your thoughts. Even the act of doing a reading two times will inevitably change the "story" - because now you go into a question with pre-knowledge. And, the pictures on your card can change the reading. Which is why I dislike novelty decks, because they very rarely capture the essence of the original cards - too often just using some art that fits the name of the card. Tarot became popular alongside alchemy - and other types of symbolism. Which means there's very little left up to chance in the cards. Change the direction the Emperor looks? Well now the meaning changes. Needless to say, I love interpretive storytelling. Because to me, a truly story should have some metaphorical over- or undertone. I think this is why so many people love Dark Souls and Elden Ring - games with extremely obscure lore, making whole youtube careers off talking about it. Meanwhile others can make a 2 hour youtube video screaming about why Elden Ring is a bad game because it tells the story so poorly. PS: Since I know Daryl played a lot of Fire Emblem Three Houses - There's been many an online war about the characters in that game. Who is right, who is wrong. And it often dawned on me that people never stopped to realize: Depending on how you play the game, the characters changes. In fact I think that's very much the theme of the game. (Which is why I think it's a shame you have to pick a house so early in the game. I think it would have been better if you got to see the path everyone was on before making your choice on who to side with - because then I think a lot of people would get a much more nuanced view)
Your videos structures remind me a lot of video-essayists like Philosophy Tube, Contrapoints and hbomberguy and I like it a lot. The use of sound and the choice of words is very onpoint, I love it!
My idea of what it meant was that it was a partially-abstract stop-motion animation about two parents (triangles) and their fighting. One of them took the kid (circle, it is smaller compared to the other shapes). Initially, it was just two triangles and a circle, but I subconsciously personality to the actions each object took. Before you said that a psychologist made this I thought it could have been made by a film and art student.
The first triangle seemed to rebelled and left the "comfort zone" in the form of the rectangle. The circle was like the overpowered object that the first triangle overpowered and forced them into their used to zone. The second triangle seemed to be overpowered for a while but later outsmarted the first triangle into falling back to its comfort zone. Well now that I typed it this is starting to feel weird.
Big triangle is one abusive parent, small one is a victim (also a parent) and the circle is the child.. who knows maybe mom triangle cheated on dad triangle 😳
i wrote a comment about this in a fb argument where someone was saying that it's wrong and offensive to assume anything about anyone before getting to know the specific person. and i used a very similar example to counterargue: as a femme person, if i'm in a store and i notice someone with a hoodie and sunglasses at every aisle i go to, every time i turn around, nearby but not saying anything...and when i leave the store, they also leave at the same time....i could do one of two things: 1. assume in good faith that it's a coincidence, or maybe they just want to say hi, or something else positive. 2. assume they're dangerous to me, specifically. it's not just pattern matching due to simple ambiguity in that case. it's pattern matching from all the experiences i've had before, or heard about from other femme people/women, where the same situation turned out very, very badly. it's a safeguard for my demographic specifically that's been useful in keeping us alive. i suppose that fits into your point - that pattern matching reflects the state and situation of the person interpreting. but i think this aspect is important.
Holy fuck I loved journey so much. I bought it on a whim along with some other game as a pack I think, and Ended up playing the entire thing all the way through in one sitting till 1:00 am
Shapes moved around a piece of paper giving the illusion of a story. I gave each of the shapes a presumed personality and identity as I saw their movements play out and tried to interpret what the movements meant.
This is an absolutely wonderful video. I'm currently making a video on the execution of INSIDE and wanted to do some research on abstract storytelling and how it works. Got all I needed in 13 minutes here. I also now know I should probably play Gris.
Jesus Christ my brain legit saw a whole story about abuse and a family falling apart- the small dot was the kid, the triangles being parents- damn wtf brain
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone else saying the clip at the beginning was a prison break, or an escape from some sort of confinement, at least. The other triangle and the dot, the two beings who had imprisoned the main triangle in the first place, arrived to recapture him after hearing or seeing him breaking out of the box. He fights his former captors, and the smaller, weaker circle tries to hide in the prison itself. The main triangle’s two enemies end up retreating, and, having been unable to achieve his revenge, the triangle angrily destroys the prison that had confined him.
Okay, time for my interpretation of that short film in beginning. The bigger triangle in the box, and the smaller triangle and circle outside. To me the bigger triangle looked like an abusive parental figure. Its locked inside, and when it comes out, the smaller triangle approaches it rather quick and tries to make contact, and the bigger triangle abuses it and takes out its frustration on it. The circle seems a bit smarter, avoiding it mostly and in the end takes the smaller triangle away with it. The abuser has no on to vent on in the end and starts breaking the box and destroying everything in frustration. Showing how powerless the abuser is when there is no one to bully. Also how good company can help us escape our abusers. NOWWWWW I'm gonna watch the rest of the video haha.
Yeah my brain immediately jumped to “two kids domestic violence situation” but, I’d just like to say I love when this guy takes you on a mini journey through the scenarios he cooks up. It’s a really nice way to explain his points! also i was taught _mash_ the A button to catch pokemon, holding it down seems weirdly incorrect
This video in particular makes me want a collab with Game Theory for the absolute meta aspect of a game theory about finding patterns where they don't exist, lol
I've seen the little shapes video before, and I know what it is seems to represent, so I decided to try and see it as just shapes moving, intentionally avoiding the tendency to anthropomorphize the little shapes. I succeeded...for about 5 seconds. It's so instinctual to see them as intelligent little creatures, giving them feelings and motives and fears, that I struggled to NOT do so.
Interpretation: The large triangle wants to live the closed off box, but it notices the circle and small triangle. From here I assumed one of three things: 1) Big Triangle becomes super territorial and starts attacking the small triangle. 2) Big Triangle is disgusted with the Small Triangle for associating with Circle and attacks. 3) Big Triangle wants to steal away Circle, hence attacking Small Triangle.
Big Triangle is stuck in the box and Small Triangle and Circle come to rescue it. Big Triangle then starts attacking Small Triangle which results in Circle cowering in the box. BT goes to look for Circle, who manages to escape and become friends with ST. BT can't find either of them and breaks the box trying to look for them.
I'm just going to recommend Just shapes and beats here. Basically the intro movie fleshed out into a bullethell game with a pretty nice story which really surprised me.
I chose this video to show to my class as most people believe that dialogue is what mainly pushes a story and it’s message forward, this is not the case as I feel that the images and movement convey more for a story than dialogue ever could, as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. A story based on just straightforward dialogue is no better or worse than one that has no dialogue, but rather a highly interpretable set of images. A simple art piece can be just as good or better than a complex one, it’s all a matter of opinion/interpretation. I also think it’s a misconception that there is a right and wrong way to view a story or work of art, sure the authors view plays a role but the piece isn’t limited to the authors initial idea. Art can grow beyond the view of the artist (which is why some artwork is timeless and may gain a different interpretation as the world changes), the viewers interpretation shouldn’t be less valid than the artists. Its human nature to add meaning to things and fill in the blanks, in a novel most of the blanks are filled in yet the reader may still visualize in some way the author may not have intended. And the fact that people tend to do this a big reason why abstract art and storytelling in particular can’t ever have a fixed meaning, just a concept or interpretation that varies from person to person. Psychology and interpretation will always a big part of art, and I think that’s a beautiful thing.
Me at the start: "The shapes move around a little bit."
Me after 83 seconds: "This is a domestic abuse scenario."
same
Yep, exactly my thought
I'm not sure how you guys see it. The small shapes pulled up and bitched out when big triangle fucked up small triangle
Lmaaaoooo
Same
IKEA instructions become sentient and reenact the 5 stages of grief while trying to assemble a DOMBÅS
Best one here, made me actually laugh out loud.
Meanwhile I saw the walk home scenario as sketchy not because it is ambiguous, but because the person was deliberately concealing their identity(who wears a gas mask out in public) and had something in their pocket.
Got me 😂
This gave me a great laugh 😂
What did I just read
Everyone's interpretation: "It's domestic violence"
My interpretation: "Get off my lawn"
Same!!!!
Small triangle was clearly distracting big triangle with a fight so small circle could steal something from BT's house, maybe BT is some kind of monster living in an small and fragile house while SB and ST are other two monsters trying to steal something.
@Juan Rodriguez. The shapes are learning and partially working together. Triangle needed to help circle get in the house and learn to get itself inside the house with it.
@Juan Rodriguez. The triangle got pissed off and destroyed the house because learning is hard for his digital 2D brain. Why do i think and assume the triangle is a male?
@Juan Rodriguez. If our universe had a fourth spatial dimension i think the AI and all other technology would be much smarter. But what does that have to do with any of this?
that animation is highly unsettling, i was so concerned for the little dot
Yeah me too. It kind of felt like it was a son of a triangle couple? Very uncomfortable
Same it felt like the dot was being cornered throughout the whole video
I felt really bad for the other triangle for some reason. I also found the dot to look way too scared for a vague non-human non-emotive shape.
Why is it so easy to empathize with something that even superficially expresses humaine characteristics?
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone else saying the clip at the beginning was a prison break, or an escape from some sort of confinement, at least. The other triangle and the dot, the two beings who had imprisoned the main triangle in the first place, arrived to recapture him after hearing or seeing him breaking out of the box. He fights his former captors, and the smaller, weaker circle tries to hide in the prison itself. The main triangle’s two enemies end up retreating, and, having been unable to achieve his revenge, the triangle angrily destroys the prison that had confined him.
I thought that 5he big triangle was an abusive parent of the small triangle, after they fought the big triangle lashed out at the dot... I got so stressed when he was trapped in the house then escaped
The comment within the video “It’s the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park” made me pause the video because I was laughing so hard.
It broke me too lol, I had to make sure it got in the video
Also the "Angry drunk dad doesn't approve of his daughter's boyfriend.
@@sumitrana2420 I thought that EXACT THING!!!!!
@@pinkajou656 yeah that was great
Daryl: I have a question, can you answer it?
Gris Creators: No
Lmao basically
I'm actually interested in that _one_ person who didn't attribute that clip to humans. What did that person think the clip is about? What is their train of thought usually?
I skimmed through the article linked in the description, and it seems to only show the two entries shown in the video, I dunno if the other interpretations were made public
I thought it was just some triangles poking each other. Reading other peoples interpretations is making me feel like im weird.
@@Spozof there's no shame in it man, maybe it just means your brain takes things more literally, there has to be some upsides to it
I just thought what, the triangles have no physics and why the circle is just have so many frames wit no movement
I thought they were cells trying to communicate, but they got frustrated with each other because of there inability to speak. This doesn’t explain the ending though
The shapes do have human qualities. Because a human animated them. They put a lot of human character into that animation, it's quite impressive.
Triangle was stuck in box then the other shapes helped him out of the box then started fighting and ended up breaking the box
I couldn't say it better
Hmm, not my first thought.
I saw it as 2 triangles fighting for their position in the box and trying to keep the ball away
Who the hell applies human characteristics on a shape?
thought the same thing lol
@@Celatra viewing it with human characteristics seems to be what a lot of people think. It would seem some people view this more litterally as two shapes moving. And some are more empathetic (?), Or have a more personal view on it.
Just started the video and what I see is a casual situation of domestic violence/abuse. Big triangle is dad, small one is mom, and the little circle is the kid, who hides behind the door while the parents fight. Then, his dad enters on the room and the kid escapes with his mom, hiding from the man.
That’s what I saw the first time I watched it too actually
Exactly what I though, minus some details in the middle.
The same thing i thought first time.
Never know. Maybe big triangle is the obese mother :/
@Skraft I think they made the big triangle big to be more aggressive looking to begin with. No way they didn’t have in mind they’d make one look more aggressive and the triangle shapes angular to seem more harmful than the smooth un harmful circle. That being said, we most definitely gender these due to common conceptions of who in a family is the source of abuse and who gets abused. I don’t think anyone would believe the big triangle is a daughter who is arguing with her parents and the circle is the father who just wants the daughter to stop abusing her mom.
Triangle was alone, others tried to socialize, issues occurred with the attempted "play", and Big Triangle viewed the act as an attack. Things spiraled from there.
My interpretation was wife(circle) was caught cheating and the husband(Big Triangle) got enraged, beats up the lover(small triangle) and tries to beat up the wife too. They manage to lock him in the end and the husband destroys his surrounding out of anger.
Yeah! I didnt see them as human, but kept it as circles/triangles with feeeeeelings
Exactly my train of though, I think the little dot was hiding because it didn’t want to get involved in the fight
The start of the video definitely felt like family abuse and that the big triangle was abusive and at the end also wasn't happy with himself as the other shapes left.
Same
Same
Agree. Seemed like some sort of domestic abuse
Same here
oh thank god i thought i was the only one that thought of abuse TT
My interpretation: This was a short film about big triangle, small triangle and circle playing a game of 1v2 tag. The structure can be built & broken on a whim, and functions as a hiding spot.
Definitely the right answer. The way the small triangle always tag backed the big triangle was really a lame play and I think they shou,d add more rules about this in future productions.
What was the video about?
Everyone else: "domestic violence"
Me: *_SCP Containment Breach_*
5:11
I also have noticed from your dead cells video and others how many human choices are tied to loss aversion and I think this is also a situation like that, the prize: Going on a bus ride home on your usual stop and saving a couple minutes from walking to the OTHER bus stop is WAY lower than the uncertain ( but realistic ) outcome of the hooded figure ( who is using sunglasses in the middle of the night mind you ) robbing, kidnapping or harming you in any kind of way.
And you barely get anything by taking that risk, just keep walking since ( and this common saying also ties to loss aversion )
‘Better Safe than sorry ‘
This video felt like it was made for me I live games, series and movies with little explanation and making me theories the meaning of it and we always can have more videos defending Evangelion's ending :P
Tbh I’ve always adored them as well. Like genuinely half the fun of any story is fan theories to me haha
Amazing how 60 seconds can make me feel sad to see a triangle repeatedly aggressing another triangle that has itxs back against the wall.
Also, I was sure he was going to say something like "this is a scene from X horror movie".
Mama Dorito shows Papa Dorito that he has another child from another Chips
(Ferb with Phineas' Mom and Dad arguing)
Lol this is interesting, yet ruined my childhood
Damn that the dad Dorito is messed up
Big triangle is a predator, blind but with the ability to hear his prey’s movements.
I think my favorite example of something like this is the very end of Blade Runner: The Directors Cut. With that little paper animal, it makes you consider so many things, and the more you look into it the crazier it gets. but all that crazy comes from your own interpretation of the movie's events, and various "hints" make up a tiny proportion of the movie
I actually learnt something.
I learnt that the “I don’t need sleep, I need answers” is from The Big Bang Theory
It looked like a Family Quarrel wherein the Bigger Triangle (possibly the father) being abusive OR....
Its a Historia Civilis video wherein Soldiers were fighting amongst themselves 😅
It totally looked like domestic violence to me. The parent came out and started abusing the little triangle as the circle hid in the room. The parent then came into the room and chased the circle and the little triangle tried to help. They named to escape and the big triangle trashed the room in a fit of rage.
My parents don't approve of games, so my first game was one I played at my mentor's house. *Journey*. I absolutely loved that game and I met a couple of people in the desert wasteland. My mind was always filled with, "What does this mean?" and "What story does this tell?" but that's what I love about it.
The fact that you can imagine your own story or the specifics of a story is beautiful.
Was looking for something to watch and kept refreshing like an idiot, AND THEN IT PAID OFF
That can only mean one thing: The more you refresh, the better the content you get!
"Tuesday evening"
*Carole and Tuesday clip*
i see you
8:18 BENCH? LET'S GOOOO
Yeah I started logging it in my mind as just shapes moving but as more actions piled up I starting "writing" a story for it in my head
The start of the video feels like a toxic relationship, discussion, guilt, and the person outside that running away trying to hide.
Both triangles feel guilt and like to be with Ball, but also both trisngles are a angry with eachother
The ball feels safe with one triangle and scared of the other, that "other" one was inside the box hiding or protecting the outside world from him, aswell as maybe protecting their own feelings
It looked like magnets were opening and closing doors and repelling each other at several points in the clip, then broke the square at the end.
Yey I'm not alone.
4:19 "a hooded figure wearing a facemask and sunglasses" yeah no sounds completely normal now.
Have fun on your break! I’ll be waiting for the next video
It's a story of a abusive family
The big triangle is the abusive parental figure. Beating their s/o
The child, the circle, goes to hide in their room
The abusive parental figure comes in while the child is scared. Not quite sure what happens there
When the small triangle and the child leave
The abusive parental figure snaps, breaking everything
That's my take anyways
Man that first 2 minutes 20 seconds is an absolute masterclass in how to hook an audience. God you're good. Love the videos man, always looking forward to your next one!!
"You're probably going to get more than just shapes" - Why do I suddenly want to replay Thomas Was Alone?
I personally have noticed how much people love to make theories of things without too much explanation just because the setting was interesting, and that is something that I would like to apply to my games, adding some kind of haunted house where the ghost can vary depending on the day, playthrough, and other things, acting different, showing some kind of ambiguous relationship with the main story, details in the house telling some kind of story, just for let people having fun thinking what is happening.
"you would keep walking"
Me: HA, no
Your loss
The beginners guide is a really good example of this topic and makes quite frankly an awesome story about over analysis for personal satisfaction
Triangle is afraid of the outside world, leaves his house for once and finds two shapes. I think triangle felt frustrated because it was lonely, so it got into a fight with the second triangle, who had someone in their life. Circle gets in the house out of curiosity, triangle traps it in, triangle and circle manage to escape. The big triangle is then left just as, if not more, lonely as before. It pushed away the one chance it had to interact with other people and is so mad at itself.
I was thinking it was a fight for therytory when the small triangle and circle team up against big triangle but then circle betrays small triangle and tries to take the territory fir himself
Exactly!
This was a really interesting vid! Got me thinking about why I do find myself watching "ending explanation" videos for movies/games that I never really had a problem with the ending for.
I believe our desire for an explicit explanation/ending to stories, is about connection. We want to feel like we experienced the same thing as other people.
If I watch Interstellar and believe its ending means X, and you believe it means Y, it's not that important, but with real life, it's imperative. We can't really proceed "on the same timeline" if we believe different things happened.
For example, if two people get in a fight and someone dies, the story of what happened will determine the fate of the survivor in society. If that story has an ambiguous ending we can't really trust that survivor without choosing to believe a version of what happened - we'd rather that everyone agreed on the same version of the story as we're all then moving forward with the same "facts" (or "proceeding on the same timeline" as I sci-fied it earlier)
That’s a great point! May also explain why we feel the need to reach out to others as soon as we finish a show or a movie. Like you said, you want to validate/challenge what you saw.
Thank you for listing all of the sources you got clips and research from! I know it takes more work but it's really helpful for the watchers/
Glad someone actually goes and looks at them!
Honestly Psych of Play is probably the best content on UA-cam and I am so hyped whenever a new vid comes out, keep up the good work!
bigger triangle bullies the other triangle the dot catches him bullying, bully triangle sees him and goes after him, the victim triangle helps the dot out and they run away
A triangle willingly entered in a box, and while it was in there, a smaller traingle and its circle friend came to visit. The big triangle stepped out of the box and beat the shit out of small triangle. Circle, very scared, entered the box to hide. Big triangle approached, but circle made a quick escape and trapped it in there with the help of small triangle. Big managed to open the door tho, so circle and small triangle ran around, luring big, and then escaped together. After seeing it was left alone, Big was angry and destroyed the box.
I think your interpretation is probably the one that was the most similar to my own, interestingly enough.
Hyper Light Drifter might be my all-time favourite game with a vague narrative. It's amazing how you start filling in the blanks after finding all of the secrets.
The big Triangle is attacking the small triangle and circle after he leaves his house. The small triangle takes the abuse almost without protest while the circle tries to escape into the house. After the big triangle finishes attacking the small triangle he goes inside to deal with the circle, the circle evades and escapes with the small triangle.
Some extra notes:
The small triangles almost complacent reaction to being struck leads me to think the small triangle is in an abusive relationship with the big triangle and is used to such actions.
The movements of the big triangle striking the small triangle are very direct and straightforward, signifying a punch or maybe a slap or kick. The movements of the big triangle attacking the circle however are very broad and “slashing” (as indicated by how the circle evades the triangle) and this might signify that the big triangle picked up a knife of some kind in the house.
Edit: The small triangle and circles relationship is unclear, but the circle is likely either a friend or lover of the small triangle that the big triangle didn’t know about.
_Or was it?_
Man, that music cue was on point. Your humour is amazing.
Hey Vsauce, Michael here.
....parents fighting and the circle, the "child" trying to hide away and being scared
It looked like the big triangle was being unnecessarily aggressive to the smaller triangle and circle.
a depiction of me being annihilated by another team in a battle royale video game
Your videos combine the best of everything: good presentation, great script, amazing subjects, informative. I will never regret finding your channel
Thank you so much ❤️
Triangles fighting over adopted circle child's custody
The way the question was phrased made me so focused to track where the shapes were going and what the lines were doing that I couldn't think about anything else. I was so occupied with trying to remember what was going on with what shape and where that they had no meaning.
Agreed with most on domestic violence. That was so unsettling.
It's weird that so many people came up with this idea. My theory is that the big triangle was protecting it's house, which doesn't seem that popular in this comment section.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 yah
What happened is what usually happens in my fever dreams. It's strange. I can't understand it. And I will probably forget about it later.
Everyone: "It's domestic violence"
Me: "Some shapes had an argument" xD
Just want to say thanks for putting game or movie titles in the corner when shown on screen, that's really nice
I was thinking a parents and child domestic violence scenario.
Yeah me too. A dad,(big triangle) his kid(small triangle) and a friend (dot) is what I thought
Like almost everyone else, apparently.
Wow I never thought id be disturbed by a movie about triangles
(Also just found your channel, already subbing)
Seemed like domestic abuse to me, and a kid who saw it happening
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As others have said, I see domestic violence. The big triangle is the abusive father, the small triangle is the mother, and the circle is the child. The father attacks the mother and then attempts to attack the child, but both victims manage to escape. The father ends up destroying the house in rage.
In the main plot, a large triangle chooses to stay enclosed by itself. Seeing a fellow triangle roam free moves it to break out and choose freedom, but it either learns the wrong lesson from this and decides to throw around his newfound freedom and existing power to intimidate the smaller triangle, or suddenly starts playing a playground game akin to tag, initiated by some subtle inter-shape communication that we as humans can't understand. In the sub-plot, a small circle toys with the concept of enclosure vs. freedom. As the game/intimidation drifts back to the enclosure, the large triangle seeks to use the enclosure that once held it, to now enclose the circle, and the plots converge. Whatever was going on before, the circle doesn't understand it, and playfully tries to engage in a way the large triangle does not entertain, and any semblance of civility falls apart. The small triangle, ever the champion of freedom, frees the circle and escapes the large triangle, who apparently only values its own freedom, not the well-being or understanding of others. As the large triangle is left alone, it is left open-ended whether it is repentant or not, but its anger is nevertheless taken out on the enclosure, as if the enclosure itself were the problem in its eyes. It wasn't the enclosure that was ever the problem, though. It was how they shapes used it to exert their will on others.
This was my first impression, but I got a glimpse at some other comments before I finished typing. It was VERY hard to keep my mind on my own initial impression when others presented such succinct and plausible interpretations that were probably spot-on. Okay, back to the video....
i am the only one that thinks this is a child playing with triangles, n a circle like if they were toy?... no?... anyone?... okey i am out ,..
yeah I thought that as well
after watching 3 different videos im so very hooked. Thank you for another perspective on things I like and enjoy.
I never thought I would be hit this hard emotionally by 2 triangles and a circle
Everyone's talking about their different interpretations but I just wanna say that 4:52 has me grinning
VSAUCE
I thought of severals ways to convey what was happening on the screen. One of which was to "humanize" the shapes. But there were also other interpretations, one of which was the.. literal happenings. It was interesting.
3:00 Switch joy cons doing the cha cha slide. That killed me.🤣
I thought it was about someone hiding in a box and someone else giving a gift to help them come out of the box, but they got upset and didn’t like it so in the end the guy trying to help took back the gift and left
One of my favorite moments in my playing Journey was when my partner used the snow to draw a heart when we finished the mountain climb
I'm a big fan of Tarot. Not in the "predict the future" kind of way - but as a meditation tool. Because Tarot is inherently interpretive and associative. What you see when you draw a card, and what position you place it in - will tell you a story. The story is based on a question posed before you begin drawing. If you are doing a reading for someone, the questions you ask, the associations the one you are reading, and the interpretations made are all a way to collect your thoughts.
Even the act of doing a reading two times will inevitably change the "story" - because now you go into a question with pre-knowledge.
And, the pictures on your card can change the reading. Which is why I dislike novelty decks, because they very rarely capture the essence of the original cards - too often just using some art that fits the name of the card. Tarot became popular alongside alchemy - and other types of symbolism. Which means there's very little left up to chance in the cards. Change the direction the Emperor looks? Well now the meaning changes.
Needless to say, I love interpretive storytelling. Because to me, a truly story should have some metaphorical over- or undertone. I think this is why so many people love Dark Souls and Elden Ring - games with extremely obscure lore, making whole youtube careers off talking about it. Meanwhile others can make a 2 hour youtube video screaming about why Elden Ring is a bad game because it tells the story so poorly.
PS: Since I know Daryl played a lot of Fire Emblem Three Houses - There's been many an online war about the characters in that game. Who is right, who is wrong. And it often dawned on me that people never stopped to realize: Depending on how you play the game, the characters changes. In fact I think that's very much the theme of the game. (Which is why I think it's a shame you have to pick a house so early in the game. I think it would have been better if you got to see the path everyone was on before making your choice on who to side with - because then I think a lot of people would get a much more nuanced view)
Dude, my school showed this during our "don't bully people" assemblys
Your videos structures remind me a lot of video-essayists like Philosophy Tube, Contrapoints and hbomberguy and I like it a lot. The use of sound and the choice of words is very onpoint, I love it!
My idea of what it meant was that it was a partially-abstract stop-motion animation about two parents (triangles) and their fighting. One of them took the kid (circle, it is smaller compared to the other shapes).
Initially, it was just two triangles and a circle, but I subconsciously personality to the actions each object took.
Before you said that a psychologist made this I thought it could have been made by a film and art student.
The first triangle seemed to rebelled and left the "comfort zone" in the form of the rectangle. The circle was like the overpowered object that the first triangle overpowered and forced them into their used to zone. The second triangle seemed to be overpowered for a while but later outsmarted the first triangle into falling back to its comfort zone.
Well now that I typed it this is starting to feel weird.
Big triangle gets aggressive with small triangle and circle, when ST and SC are just trying to vibe. They got away and big triangle stays pressed.
Big triangle is one abusive parent, small one is a victim (also a parent) and the circle is the child.. who knows maybe mom triangle cheated on dad triangle 😳
Your videos never fail to surprise me
Saw the clip and immediately was shot back to my psychology lessons
I am now awaiting Nomada Studios response in the comment section.
i wrote a comment about this in a fb argument where someone was saying that it's wrong and offensive to assume anything about anyone before getting to know the specific person. and i used a very similar example to counterargue: as a femme person, if i'm in a store and i notice someone with a hoodie and sunglasses at every aisle i go to, every time i turn around, nearby but not saying anything...and when i leave the store, they also leave at the same time....i could do one of two things: 1. assume in good faith that it's a coincidence, or maybe they just want to say hi, or something else positive. 2. assume they're dangerous to me, specifically.
it's not just pattern matching due to simple ambiguity in that case. it's pattern matching from all the experiences i've had before, or heard about from other femme people/women, where the same situation turned out very, very badly. it's a safeguard for my demographic specifically that's been useful in keeping us alive. i suppose that fits into your point - that pattern matching reflects the state and situation of the person interpreting. but i think this aspect is important.
Holy fuck I loved journey so much. I bought it on a whim along with some other game as a pack I think, and Ended up playing the entire thing all the way through in one sitting till 1:00 am
"like your joycons love to do the cha cha slide when you are not paying attention" XD very good quote to save
I think this is the reason why I fell in love with utaite music videos and other animated shorts, well of course aside from the music, I guess.
Shapes moved around a piece of paper giving the illusion of a story. I gave each of the shapes a presumed personality and identity as I saw their movements play out and tried to interpret what the movements meant.
First i was like it’s just a bunch of triangle moving on and out of the box then I started thinking about complicated human stuff 😂😂
This is an absolutely wonderful video. I'm currently making a video on the execution of INSIDE and wanted to do some research on abstract storytelling and how it works. Got all I needed in 13 minutes here. I also now know I should probably play Gris.
@@-Scrapper- No sadly, but I still have half the script and decent footage. I did end up playing Gris though.
Dude I absolutely love your videos! I wish I could donate so you could make them more often lol
www.patreon.com/daryltalksgames you can! $1/month and you can do that and even get a little bonus content and early access 😁
Jesus Christ my brain legit saw a whole story about abuse and a family falling apart- the small dot was the kid, the triangles being parents- damn wtf brain
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone else saying the clip at the beginning was a prison break, or an escape from some sort of confinement, at least. The other triangle and the dot, the two beings who had imprisoned the main triangle in the first place, arrived to recapture him after hearing or seeing him breaking out of the box. He fights his former captors, and the smaller, weaker circle tries to hide in the prison itself. The main triangle’s two enemies end up retreating, and, having been unable to achieve his revenge, the triangle angrily destroys the prison that had confined him.
Okay, time for my interpretation of that short film in beginning. The bigger triangle in the box, and the smaller triangle and circle outside. To me the bigger triangle looked like an abusive parental figure. Its locked inside, and when it comes out, the smaller triangle approaches it rather quick and tries to make contact, and the bigger triangle abuses it and takes out its frustration on it. The circle seems a bit smarter, avoiding it mostly and in the end takes the smaller triangle away with it. The abuser has no on to vent on in the end and starts breaking the box and destroying everything in frustration. Showing how powerless the abuser is when there is no one to bully. Also how good company can help us escape our abusers. NOWWWWW I'm gonna watch the rest of the video haha.
Yeah my brain immediately jumped to “two kids domestic violence situation” but, I’d just like to say I love when this guy takes you on a mini journey through the scenarios he cooks up. It’s a really nice way to explain his points!
also i was taught _mash_ the A button to catch pokemon, holding it down seems weirdly incorrect
you hold down b not a
This video in particular makes me want a collab with Game Theory for the absolute meta aspect of a game theory about finding patterns where they don't exist, lol
I've seen the little shapes video before, and I know what it is seems to represent, so I decided to try and see it as just shapes moving, intentionally avoiding the tendency to anthropomorphize the little shapes. I succeeded...for about 5 seconds. It's so instinctual to see them as intelligent little creatures, giving them feelings and motives and fears, that I struggled to NOT do so.
Interpretation: The large triangle wants to live the closed off box, but it notices the circle and small triangle. From here I assumed one of three things: 1) Big Triangle becomes super territorial and starts attacking the small triangle. 2) Big Triangle is disgusted with the Small Triangle for associating with Circle and attacks. 3) Big Triangle wants to steal away Circle, hence attacking Small Triangle.
Big Triangle is stuck in the box and Small Triangle and Circle come to rescue it. Big Triangle then starts attacking Small Triangle which results in Circle cowering in the box. BT goes to look for Circle, who manages to escape and become friends with ST. BT can't find either of them and breaks the box trying to look for them.
I'm just going to recommend Just shapes and beats here. Basically the intro movie fleshed out into a bullethell game with a pretty nice story which really surprised me.
I chose this video to show to my class as most people believe that dialogue is what mainly pushes a story and it’s message forward, this is not the case as I feel that the images and movement convey more for a story than dialogue ever could, as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. A story based on just straightforward dialogue is no better or worse than one that has no dialogue, but rather a highly interpretable set of images. A simple art piece can be just as good or better than a complex one, it’s all a matter of opinion/interpretation.
I also think it’s a misconception that there is a right and wrong way to view a story or work of art, sure the authors view plays a role but the piece isn’t limited to the authors initial idea. Art can grow beyond the view of the artist (which is why some artwork is timeless and may gain a different interpretation as the world changes), the viewers interpretation shouldn’t be less valid than the artists.
Its human nature to add meaning to things and fill in the blanks, in a novel most of the blanks are filled in yet the reader may still visualize in some way the author may not have intended. And the fact that people tend to do this a big reason why abstract art and storytelling in particular can’t ever have a fixed meaning, just a concept or interpretation that varies from person to person. Psychology and interpretation will always a big part of art, and I think that’s a beautiful thing.