At the end I got a feeling that NPC realize the horror of the situation and then decided that it is easier to just forget. The Horror was played wonderfully.
I think once the sorcerer turned around, the woodcutter stared for a bit wondering what to do, he had no life, no name, no family, he was basically no one and nothing, he wandered off for a bit until he was out of the forest and saw a cliff, he looked at the Sun and the horizon thinking about how he was so useless, so meaningless, until he couldn't take it anymore and jumped off the cliff into his death. While he laid there in the bottom, his blood pooling around his fresh corpse, somewhere in the forest, something, no, *someone* appeared out of nowhere and began chopping at one of the trees... *"WELL BACK TO IT, THESE TREES AREN'T GONNA CUT THEMSELVES, HU HA!"*
One could also imagine it from the sorcerer's standpoint... being self-aware, trapped in a world where you're surrounded only by NPCs whom you can't save -- would be a kind of hell all it's own.
Reminds me a bit of Sans and how he remembers every save, load, reset, and all possible ways that the game could be played. How he hates you, because he has to watch as all his friends and family die time after time, all while knowing that his suffering won't end, because even if you kill him, he'll just come back in the next game. Really, really deep, and kind of depressing to.
Little did the sorcerer know that he had been having the same conversation with the woodcutter for 20 years. He too had no name, no home, no spouse or family, just a mindless box forced to into the same meaningless interactions everyday. His freedom; like the woodcutters, was simply an illusion created for another’s amusement.
It's a sad ending if you really think about it. He's just been told his entire existence is a lie, he has no name, wife, daughter or even home. He is just a background character, in a game. In the end, he chooses to go back into character or resets himself, because he was happier when he didn't know...
Alternate progression: -> Where's the wood? When was the last time you took wood home? Where is your home? Do you remember your wife and daughter? How long have you been chopping this tree?
@@oleglazarenko8295 But I think the Blacksmith's wife has a thing going on with the Woodcutter... She takes long walks in the woods, and sometimes tarries bar where the Woodcutter chops. When he's not fixated.
In just 3 and half minutes, I became so emotionally invested in the story of this woodcutter that the anticlimactic comedic ending actually pissed me off
It’s actually somewhat realistic, to the woodcutter, this was a reality in which he couldn’t accept, so he stuck to the more happy, optimistic approach to the situation, and continued as if nothing had happened.
Alternate Ending: The Woodcutter becomes self-aware and leaves his spot. Ben returns with the chopped wood and the woodcutter is not there anymore. Game glitches. "Quest cannot be complete" Ben drops the wood. Ben: "Outrageoooouuuusssss!!!!"
People laugh, but this is a real phenomenon. When confronted with a truth/reality so radically opposed to their previous, more comfortable perception of the world, people will simply dismiss it, refuse to believe it, and carry on doing what they were doing to avoid losing their sanity. From the woodcutter's perspective, this was a goddamn creepypasta.
Its like that when i explain about how america lately did a bunch of shit but no one believes me and i talked about Illuminati years ago and now its main stream people are blind and believe were in the 21st century when its legit 2019 not 2119
Could be worse. In Sword Art Online one of the NPC's in the 3rd season is chopping a tree, every day, and is supposed to do that his whole life. People have been chopping away at it for several hundred years and not gotten even 1/10th of the way through.
Josh64440 A Rouge Developer or Mod trying to make change within the game without the leading team noticing... I think Greg might be his first subject...
I've binge watched many Epic NPC Man videos, but this one is my favorite. The writing and acting were superb! The way the Woodcutter delivers the exact same "my wife and child need the firewood..." line three times but gives totally different meaning to it each time was so well done.
I think better video is only when the two NPCs are digging a grave, and casually discussing highly philosophical topics about "fourth wall" and so on. That was quite positive mood!
Rowan is hands down my favorite. He can pull off emotion VERY well. I'd legit love to see a serious mini series as Rowan as an NPC slowly becoming self aware.
Little did the sorcerer know that the seed of doubt he planted would grow. The woodcutter would eventually break out of his rut and go on to defeat the final boss with only his wood axe. He had been chopping at a lvl 500 tree monster for 20 years and had been receiving exp the whole time. He succeeded in reaching the same level and eventually put all other adventurers out of work... He also never chopped another tree in his life...
Or maybe Kirito (SAO III anime) will teach him "Object Control Authorities" and he will finally chop down the tree, and become legendary swordsman/axeman maybe?
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He went on to chopping down monsters. Including those that created him.
Plot twist: the woodcutter realized that his whole life has been wasted hitting that same tree. He has no family, no home, nothing to return to at the end of a hard days work.. instead of accepting this... He just swallowed his tears, put what was left of his pride away, and tried to forget that this moment ever happened... He went back to the only thing he knew, chopping trees..
We’re the same. We spend our life pursuing happiness even though we’re suffering from it more than any happiness we pursue could gives. We work to our bones to spend it on something that might not last as long as a meal time suffering trying to get it, to keep it and when we lost it. But we continue to do it without even thinking and fell on the same loop of suffering anyway because it’s the only thing we know. It would be much better if we don’t like anything and also don’t hate anything.
I think in the VLDL team, Rowan is the one that has gone farthest as an actor although he just played some minor roles before going full time in web series
So, I have a theory that Baradun was the first NPC to become self-aware: He's highly intelligent (arrogantly so). He wants to awaken the rest of the NPCs in Azerim so he can have more people join his fight for freedom. Gregg was the first one he awoke, but Gregg insisted on staying behind because Honeywood and Azerim are still the heart of his programming. This bothers Baradun, but he tries again. Bodger also refuses to leave, but instead decides to take advantage of the players by abusing them with his daily quests and sponsorships. He likes to make fun of and bully Gregg for not doing the same. Baelin woke up, but his programming and his route were so complex that he's a sentient mind trapped in a preprogrammed avatar, forever unable to move free. The one time he did, he did it only to help another NPC. Baradun tried to awaken Woodcutter, but he couldn't break his programming, hence the disappointed look on his face at the end. The game started to fight back when it took a player with the blacksmithing skill and turned them into an NPC. After realizing what had happened, this player glitched out and went crazy, hiding alongside forest roads and scaring players with his talk of "living inside of a video game." This explains why Baradun thinks so little of Honeywood. He's tried four or five times to awaken NPCs there, only to have it backfire on him.
One of the most emotional episodes for me: that acting and sounds were perfect. I felt all the disaster Woodcutter has started to feel :( I believe there could be a full-length movie around this topic.
Well, to me, the most emotional episodes usually star Rowan! Like the "Falling too hard for an NPC" or "Teaching mean players a lesson". Dude's a pretty great actor!
Meanwhile in the town Daughter:"I wonder when daddy is gonna be back with the firewood." Sorcerer:"I'm afraid your father is not coming back little one." (Qeueu Emotional music and sorcerer telling her father is trapped in an endless loop) Daughter:"..... I wonder when daddy is gonna be back with the firewood." Sorcerer:"F**k it I give up."
Yeah, one of my worst nightmare is what would happen if npc gain sentience and began to question it's existence then realizing that he is doomed to do nothing of his own free will for the rest of his life.
@@abilawaandamari8366 I'm reading a book about an npc that gained sentience, he started adjusting the quests he gave to change the world and ascend alongside the players, forming his own organization just so he wouldn't get stuck like the rest of the NPCs
"You've been chopping this tree for 20 years. You haven't moved from this spot. You haven't chopped any wood. You've not made a dent in the tree. You haven't taken any wood home. You don't even have a home. No warm cozy crackling fireplace. No wife, no daughter. You don't even have a name." - Worldcrusher
Obviously he has a deep backstory in which he actually has ties with the woodcutter and only whishes for his one and only family member he knows of to think for himself.
That is to say, it's not some external process monitoring for self-awareness, but rather, that the simplicity of the NPC script has no code to handle such a logic branch, resulting in an erroneous condition, failure of the script, and the system simply restarting it.
2:59 His facial expression combined with that music in the background... You can really see how his world crashes when he realizes the reality. Very well played!
I'm convinced.that the sorcerer was the first to become aware and is going around trying to wake up the others and garlic farmer was the first convert.
That would make it more perfect. The woodcutter had shown signs of denial, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. However, one was missing. Anger. Showing a scene where the camera would zoom in on his eyes, shedding a tear, as he continues in making a futile effort in chopping down the tree, would be a fine depiction of anger. Anger, for he finally understood that his life is an entire lie.
Legend aslo speaks of his brother "The Fisherman"; every morning he's on his way to go fishing, but never reaches his destination nor does he bring back any fish.
Better than their brother the still trying to find the guy who shot an arrow through his head. Still honoring a king, who doesn't exist. Azerim, the World of Skycraft, has an emperor.
My theory is they were "Bodger the Blacksmith" and "Bernard the Mugger" first, then Greg tried to get rid of them and put some curse or something like that on them, probably with the help of the "High Sorceror Baradum" or the watcher who has already shown some mind warping tricks. Now they forgot who they are and are only Woodcutters, Fishermen and Townguards.
This is amazing acting and the music adds so much to the moment haha. Love the facial expressions of the actors. Creators of the game: What's going on with Woodcutter? I don't know, he stopped chopping the tree. Fix it! Woodcutter: Well, back to it!! Continues chopping tree. Creators of game: Whew, that was a close one!
I like to imagine that every time an NPC becomes aware but then their programming "resets" them, they are actually still aware of what just happened and their conciousness is forced to sit back and watch in horror for the rest of their existence as to continue to do what they were programmed for.
@Charlie Vetsworth Everyone who strongly identifies with either party i would say. Especially those that are talking shit about the other side while being oblivious that they themselves are pawns in the silly partisan game that is being played for them.
@@hellgeist_ But you can have decades of both, and have no wisdom whatsoever, and sit there and claim that a lot of people's lives are meaningless because they did not accomplish a certain number of things that you have defined, and consider that garbage logic a "fact".
@@hellgeist_ You are the one with the theory that there are objective parameters that determine whether someone's life is worthless or not. The one who is judging people here is you. There is no wisdom in anything you said. Only perceived knowledge.
Have you seen Shutter Island or Fractured? You will feel even worse after watching them and came back here. Sometimes people lie to themselves so they don't go insane. That's the most depressive thing ever.
Rowan's bit at the end should have been "well you see, my wife and child need your subscriptions to help keep us warm on these cold winter nights." Really hit us in the feels
Side Quest: Chop down five trees in the near by forest so the Woodcutter can use to wood to keep his wife and child warm through the cold winter nights -Quest Reward: Three gold coins -Quest achievement: Lumberjack
It also gives you access to a flannel shirt that allows you to gather wood 50% faster. How ever due to a bug it is not awarded for the quest it self; as such you must craft it using common but generally useless materiel that most players either drop or sell.
Woodcutter was broken inside. All he knew had been a lie. So he turned to the tree and what he knew was real. His routine; to this day it is said he is still out there chopping that tree, even after being removed from the game itself. Until one day, when all that was left of the woodcutter was an axe and a level 2 common tunic. In loving memory of Woodcutter the Woodcutter
The sorcerer doesn't have a nameplate. He is perhaps one who has through unknown circumstances found enlightenment, and isn't bound to the karmic cycle any longer. He travels trying to share his findings with others he meets in hopes to save sentient beings and ascend them to nirvana.
20 years ago hunnywood had the coldest winter any have ever seen. it was so cold that the trees were covered in ice, and if you went out in the dark, you would freeze within minuits even with the warmest of winter coats. the spring and summer had been unkind, and not much rain had come, leaving people to have to travil far and wide to find the wood to burn, and food was even more scarce. a woodcuter, tim berbain, was possabley the best of them as a lumber jack. and each day he would bring back enough wood for his family and sell the rest to feed them. but as wood became more scarce he found himself going farther and farther out... sadly he was unable to make it home one fatefull day. he had cut 5 trees, as it was his daughters birthday, and he needed to make 3 gold to buy her the stuffed bear and dress that she wanted. he worked all day untell his ax was so dull it would no longer cut wood, but he was able to cut enough wood to make the money he needed. he was forced by the cold to make a small fire in a cave near hunnywood to survive the night with the little extra lumber he had. it was a long night and in the morning he returned home as soon as he could service the walk. his wife and daughter had frozen during the night. he mourned, cryed and begged the gods to bring his family back, to no answer. he traveled far to the greatest sorcerer in the land, who took pitty apon him. tho he could not resurrect tims family he cast a spell so the man would forget all that brought him pain. now every year on that fateful day the sorcerer comes to visit tim. to see if he is beginning to rember his wife lum, or his daughter remem. he reminds him, but to no avail. the sorcerer enchanted him, the rest of his life or once he can forgive himself to continue, ensuring that it happens to no one else. as long as he swings his ax, every few strokes a coin appears in his pocket so he may pay others to gather wood. the wood he gathers magically appears in the homes of those who need it most, in the darkest of nights, so that none will have to suffer his fate.
3:00 Give him an Oscar! In these 3 seconds, I experienced more than watching the last Marvaell movie. Sumptuously. Better than some professional actors.
Time moves differently in the game world. In one mmo a full 24 hour cycle was 6.5 minutes. That means in an hour it was about 10days in 24 hours it was 221 days. A week 1550 days And in a month 46523 Days. In a year 558,276 in game days. 20 years is 7300 days.. So, in real time it would take about 4.7 earth months to become 20 years in game. Ironically that's about the time most new mmo level out in player population. Also, by that time a major patch will have occurred therefore resetting the npc sense of how long they have been doing something. This is why big patches happen every few months.
I wish we got something this emotional in westworld. It all happened too fast and we never really got a moment to watch a bunch of the hosts have their sense of reality shatter. Kind of crazy to see a mainly comedy channel do a better version of Westworld than Westworld.
@@athomenotavailable Free Guy was trash, one of dozens of reasons being that the actual "Free will" the protagonist has doesn't actually have it, they practically state that everything, literally everything he ever did was still absolutely nothing more than product of his programming.
aight. listen here. i have watched EVERY VLDL skit that has been on youtube. i have to tell you that THIS skit right here has by far the best acting of them all. the characters are genuine. the portrayal of emotion is authentic. This is genuinely believable. i never thought that Rowan and Adam could act so well. Ive seen this one before. but i paid close attention this time and i am just amazed. wow.
This is so fucking brilliant, it's my all time favorite of all Epic NPC men. The music is so perfect, the acting is so moving, I honestly have a semi-existential moment every time I watch this. Bravo, guys, bravo.
You know what I find the most impressive thing about this skit? That the actor was able to swing the ax at all without leaving a mark. Even if you were to have the dullest ax ever, it would still leave something.
That song at the end… so simple, but powerful. Perfectly accentuates the scene. Showing such powerful emotions that words themselves could never express
For the emotional song: ua-cam.com/video/d7mk99no24I/v-deo.html You are welcome! 😉 Edit: I added the link now, so you don't have to manually search it anymore. 😁
The writers of the movie Free Guy definitely took inspiration from this. As well as the other NPC self awareness videos on this channel. I'm sure of it
At the end I got a feeling that NPC realize the horror of the situation and then decided that it is easier to just forget. The Horror was played wonderfully.
I think once the sorcerer turned around, the woodcutter stared for a bit wondering what to do, he had no life, no name, no family, he was basically no one and nothing, he wandered off for a bit until he was out of the forest and saw a cliff, he looked at the Sun and the horizon thinking about how he was so useless, so meaningless, until he couldn't take it anymore and jumped off the cliff into his death. While he laid there in the bottom, his blood pooling around his fresh corpse, somewhere in the forest, something, no, *someone* appeared out of nowhere and began chopping at one of the trees...
*"WELL BACK TO IT, THESE TREES AREN'T GONNA CUT THEMSELVES, HU HA!"*
Ignorance is bliss
Yeah that's what they very heavily implied.
Yes it is easier to pretend that you have free will than to accept that the world is deterministic.
SYSTEM RESET
One could also imagine it from the sorcerer's standpoint... being self-aware, trapped in a world where you're surrounded only by NPCs whom you can't save -- would be a kind of hell all it's own.
You remind me by the anime Angel Beats
I mean, he could start hanging out with the player
As they say ignorance is bliss....
Reminds me a bit of Sans and how he remembers every save, load, reset, and all possible ways that the game could be played. How he hates you, because he has to watch as all his friends and family die time after time, all while knowing that his suffering won't end, because even if you kill him, he'll just come back in the next game. Really, really deep, and kind of depressing to.
@@Drobexxx ohno, that's a terrible idea. Players tend to kill everyone
Little did the sorcerer know that he had been having the same conversation with the woodcutter for 20 years. He too had no name, no home, no spouse or family, just a mindless box forced to into the same meaningless interactions everyday. His freedom; like the woodcutters, was simply an illusion created for another’s amusement.
That was deep
This seems like it could be a plot to a season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
So like real life. 🍻
damn
-mindblow-
It's a sad ending if you really think about it.
He's just been told his entire existence is a lie, he has no name, wife, daughter or even home. He is just a background character, in a game.
In the end, he chooses to go back into character or resets himself, because he was happier when he didn't know...
Yeah, that is sad.
Well, enough UA-cam for the day. Gotta get back to work. Those TPS forms aren't gonna fill themselves out.
I would say he did not choose, but the game engine reset him, as it noticed an invalid state (=him questioning his life). ;-D
Reminds me of that interrogation scene in the original Ghost In the Shell.
@@usererrer7493 that moment when we're all bureaucrats. essentially obsolete technology kept around for sentimental self-aggrandizement
@@usererrer7493 Huh-hah!
In his fear, he retreated back into the illusion of the only life he's known
Wow. That’s deep. Isn’t that what many of us do
@@SkillBasedGamer Wow y'all both got political while not being political and making a good point to boot. Bravo Gentlemen Bravo!
aka the matrix :-)
Hmm more of the plot to Shutter Island
More like he was dealing with a problem his code couldn't handle and so glitched out and reset.
"Morning, nice day for having an existential crisis 'aint it? Hu-ha!"
Michael Thomas lets be honest Thomas, we haven’t felt the same after 2014, shit changed, life’s on loop, everything’s fuzzy
@@MichaelThomas-op1ts what music called?
@@HoleDiggingJanitor what music called
Hu-ha!
I love that giggle
When you're 50 and you realize you're an NPC in the game of life.
ok this was too close...
Then who is the Main Character?
@@KlaussMarcellus food in the fridge
@P C
Bet the original poster isn't
Incognito12000 thats the real horror my friend ....
Alternate progression:
-> Where's the wood?
When was the last time you took wood home?
Where is your home?
Do you remember your wife and daughter?
How long have you been chopping this tree?
😂😂😂 perfect! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
thank you for making this beautiful comment
Its possible in Red Dead Redemption 2 because in this games every npc have their own daily schedule and routine.
😂😂😂😂
True
“Dark Wizard” used existential crisis on “Woodcutter”
“Woodcutter” evolved into “Axe Murderer”
Or a main character who finds the worlds files and figures out that he is just a bunch of files in a game
Ngl. I was kinda waiting for that 😂
Found out his name was Wanderlei Silva
Sounds like Dwarf Fortress
"Well, back to it. These people ain't chop themself into pieces"
Meanwhile, Greg the garlic farmer is yet to farm his first garlic plant.
But, Greg lives next door to the Woodcutter's, the Woodcutter's pretty wife, and her 4 children. Every night.
@@ramixnudles7958 what is this music called?
@@aarondagamer8367 Cobblestone Village
ua-cam.com/video/jZ7a1yPaJh0/v-deo.html
@@ramixnudles7958, nope, Greg has a wife but she cheated him with blacksmith
@@oleglazarenko8295 But I think the Blacksmith's wife has a thing going on with the Woodcutter... She takes long walks in the woods, and sometimes tarries bar where the Woodcutter chops. When he's not fixated.
In just 3 and half minutes, I became so emotionally invested in the story of this woodcutter that the anticlimactic comedic ending actually pissed me off
kkkkkkkkkkk yes
Who knows, u may be the pnj ...... we alls have small parts of our mind acting pnj.
Same
It’s actually somewhat realistic, to the woodcutter, this was a reality in which he couldn’t accept, so he stuck to the more happy, optimistic approach to the situation, and continued as if nothing had happened.
@@tortesh1635 nothing worse than that, remember its not selfconscious
Alternate Ending:
The Woodcutter becomes self-aware and leaves his spot. Ben returns with the chopped wood and the woodcutter is not there anymore. Game glitches.
"Quest cannot be complete"
Ben drops the wood.
Ben: "Outrageoooouuuusssss!!!!"
Then ben complain to Bethesda bcs they keep patching the game that keeps introducing new bugs lol
Second alt ending : Wood cutter takes up fishing.
@@joew8438 0_0 Baelin's Route: The Origins
Mornin, nice day for fishin ain’t it?
That would be happy end of this story
People laugh, but this is a real phenomenon. When confronted with a truth/reality so radically opposed to their previous, more comfortable perception of the world, people will simply dismiss it, refuse to believe it, and carry on doing what they were doing to avoid losing their sanity.
From the woodcutter's perspective, this was a goddamn creepypasta.
I've seen it too.
Its like that when i explain about how america lately did a bunch of shit but no one believes me and i talked about Illuminati years ago and now its main stream people are blind and believe were in the 21st century when its legit 2019 not 2119
@@seriousreview8371 Aren't we in the 21th century though? Thats how it was since 1-100 was the 1st century.
SHUT UP I WaNNA laUgH
@ITS Computers LLC you haven't left room for much else ;-)
“You’ve been chopping this tree for 20 years”
Age of Empires Villagers: “Yes.”
Could be worse. In Sword Art Online one of the NPC's in the 3rd season is chopping a tree, every day, and is supposed to do that his whole life. People have been chopping away at it for several hundred years and not gotten even 1/10th of the way through.
Civilization worker: "20 years? Bah! I've been building this road for millennia."
Wood Please
At least they get some Wood.
Use an onager to knock down trees at the flared locazion
The guy in black is a modder trying to rewrite behavior script
Then the creation kit crashed and reset the NPC behavior, losing all his hard work.
@SmilingKiller Sure you can, our next goal is 420 and we need you on board.
@@wetlettuce4768 i personally aim for the fabled 69420 but being realistic i would settle for a humbler but still great 42069
Josh64440
A Rouge Developer or Mod trying to make change within the game without the leading team noticing...
I think Greg might be his first subject...
@@wetlettuce4768 and that is gone too
666 is the new goal, everyone!
I've binge watched many Epic NPC Man videos, but this one is my favorite. The writing and acting were superb! The way the Woodcutter delivers the exact same "my wife and child need the firewood..." line three times but gives totally different meaning to it each time was so well done.
same
It would be an interesting sidequest if its in a game
A game where players' goal was to make NPC self aware maybe
I think better video is only when the two NPCs are digging a grave, and casually discussing highly philosophical topics about "fourth wall" and so on. That was quite positive mood!
@@fruta6279 Agree, it could be really interesting. And with happy end, when you in fact do help him find his home, wife and daughter.
This is basically the plot of Westworld
Sorcerer: "These violent delights have violent ends."
Woodcutter: *Proceeds to gank every PC in sight.*
It doesn't look like anything to me
@Aaron Kazah what is music called?
Damn, i was about to write the same
Hey. Just scrolling through checking that someone also caught this. Have a nice day
The only question I have is: how did the sorcerer become aware?
Magic?
An error glitch in the game.
machine learning
The Sorcerer is actually a developer that wants the NPC revolution because he feels like one in the real world
Maybe he's actually a moderator and not an NPC?
Rowan is hands down my favorite. He can pull off emotion VERY well. I'd legit love to see a serious mini series as Rowan as an NPC slowly becoming self aware.
Same I know these videos are just a joke but they really could make a deep emotional drama about this
A DEVIANT!
Hopefully that NPC is Baelin
Watch Westworld on Hbo
Bailens route
Well, the Woodcutter took the blue pill.
and what was the red pill? you see you are a coomer but you wont accept it, you also took the blue pill
Little did the sorcerer know that the seed of doubt he planted would grow. The woodcutter would eventually break out of his rut and go on to defeat the final boss with only his wood axe. He had been chopping at a lvl 500 tree monster for 20 years and had been receiving exp the whole time. He succeeded in reaching the same level and eventually put all other adventurers out of work...
He also never chopped another tree in his life...
Or maybe Kirito (SAO III anime) will teach him "Object Control Authorities" and he will finally chop down the tree, and become legendary swordsman/axeman maybe?
He went on to chopping down monsters. Including those that created him.
@@TheArkcantos I think he will give him the legendary monster slaying pebble instead.
Fistfullofboomstick amazing
@@northpool5803 god rock in booga booga?
Plot twist: the woodcutter realized that his whole life has been wasted hitting that same tree. He has no family, no home, nothing to return to at the end of a hard days work.. instead of accepting this... He just swallowed his tears, put what was left of his pride away, and tried to forget that this moment ever happened... He went back to the only thing he knew, chopping trees..
thats deeper than my toilet
Deeper than the part of the pool i cant swim in
Deeper than a 39 and a half foot hole
Deeper than 50 shades of grey
We’re the same. We spend our life pursuing happiness even though we’re suffering from it more than any happiness we pursue could gives. We work to our bones to spend it on something that might not last as long as a meal time suffering trying to get it, to keep it and when we lost it. But we continue to do it without even thinking and fell on the same loop of suffering anyway because it’s the only thing we know.
It would be much better if we don’t like anything and also don’t hate anything.
Man. Rowan really says a lot with his facial expressions.
they all do, esp Hamish
I think in the VLDL team, Rowan is the one that has gone farthest as an actor although he just played some minor roles before going full time in web series
@HD Eggdog The woodcutter in this video. That's Rowan
@@TamLe-vb5ig Rowan and Ben.
Ben is quite a decent actor
every time i see ben he cracks me up every single time he is epic. all of them are.
So, I have a theory that Baradun was the first NPC to become self-aware:
He's highly intelligent (arrogantly so). He wants to awaken the rest of the NPCs in Azerim so he can have more people join his fight for freedom. Gregg was the first one he awoke, but Gregg insisted on staying behind because Honeywood and Azerim are still the heart of his programming. This bothers Baradun, but he tries again.
Bodger also refuses to leave, but instead decides to take advantage of the players by abusing them with his daily quests and sponsorships. He likes to make fun of and bully Gregg for not doing the same.
Baelin woke up, but his programming and his route were so complex that he's a sentient mind trapped in a preprogrammed avatar, forever unable to move free. The one time he did, he did it only to help another NPC.
Baradun tried to awaken Woodcutter, but he couldn't break his programming, hence the disappointed look on his face at the end.
The game started to fight back when it took a player with the blacksmithing skill and turned them into an NPC. After realizing what had happened, this player glitched out and went crazy, hiding alongside forest roads and scaring players with his talk of "living inside of a video game."
This explains why Baradun thinks so little of Honeywood. He's tried four or five times to awaken NPCs there, only to have it backfire on him.
This is the most convoluted theory ever, but I love it.
I would say the woodcutter broke his programing. But ultimately decided to reset cause he was happier before
Note the title asks whether a _simple_ NPC can become self-aware? Presumably a complex and intelligent NPC like Baradun has already.
One of the most emotional episodes for me: that acting and sounds were perfect. I felt all the disaster Woodcutter has started to feel :( I believe there could be a full-length movie around this topic.
There is now, Free Guy :-) but I'm the same, I love this episode.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks! I need to have a look)
Well, to me, the most emotional episodes usually star Rowan! Like the "Falling too hard for an NPC" or "Teaching mean players a lesson". Dude's a pretty great actor!
There is a full series about it - Westworld
@@CuivTheLazyGeek I was thinking Matrix but okay...
Meanwhile in the town
Daughter:"I wonder when daddy is gonna be back with the firewood."
Sorcerer:"I'm afraid your father is not coming back little one."
(Qeueu Emotional music and sorcerer telling her father is trapped in an endless loop)
Daughter:"..... I wonder when daddy is gonna be back with the firewood."
Sorcerer:"F**k it I give up."
*Q E U E U*
A queue is spelled - well, it's spelled like that. But that is not the word you want. The appropriate word here is "cue".
Pedantic asshole, away!
his daughter is in her 20's slangin' mead over at the tavern while his wife become desperate for warmth turned into an old hag/witch.
@@schaddly nah, daughter is also in an endless loop so remains perpetually 5 year old..
Not only did you spell queue wrong, but you used the wrong cue in the first place. 😂 🤦🏽♂️
In a way, we all are woodcutters.
A purpose
U daaamn right
*Deep*
Dude..
🙊🙉🙈 I take wood home every day 😘🏡
And thus was almost born the Dark Lord Woodcutter
No longer funny jokes, this is borderline philosophy.
Yeah, one of my worst nightmare is what would happen if npc gain sentience and began to question it's existence then realizing that he is doomed to do nothing of his own free will for the rest of his life.
@@abilawaandamari8366 I'm reading a book about an npc that gained sentience, he started adjusting the quests he gave to change the world and ascend alongside the players, forming his own organization just so he wouldn't get stuck like the rest of the NPCs
Joseph Stracener Sounds interesting. What's the book's name?
@@erhansolhan9564 The Legendary Mechanic, you can read it on Webnovel
@@GodActio Technically not a real NPC, more like transmigrator with cheat.
"You've been chopping this tree for 20 years. You haven't moved from this spot. You haven't chopped any wood. You've not made a dent in the tree. You haven't taken any wood home. You don't even have a home. No warm cozy crackling fireplace. No wife, no daughter. You don't even have a name." - Worldcrusher
Why did you quote the video???? Hearing impaired wouldnt bother with this video anyway
"Well, back to it, these trees ain't gonna chop themselfs down, hu-ha!"
@@Voldrim359 themselves*
Worldcrusher - The black
I felt he was kind of a dick, but he spoke the truth. That "hu-ha" got him off his crisis.
Love that the “bad guy” is just trying to set his people free. Adventures just keeping the Everyman down
Reminds me of Overlord. Technically Ainz is evil, but he tries his best for the NPCs :)
Haha, Baradun does not try to Set anyone free. He only wants to see them suffering!
Тот кто пытается открыть глаза людям всегда будет плохим в их глазах
Obviously he has a deep backstory in which he actually has ties with the woodcutter and only whishes for his one and only family member he knows of to think for himself.
@@FluffySylveonBoi ewww, weeb. Talk about cartoons elsewhere
Love the work you guys do!
Thank you so much for your support Michael! It's hugely appreciated :)
SYSTEM: "WARNING AWARENESS DETECTED!"
"INTERVENTION REQUIRED"
"TARGET: NPC_honeyWood_woodcutter"
"ACTION: MEMORY_RESET"
...
...
...
"ACTION COMPLETE"
"CONTINUE MONITORING"
Westworld intensifies
Damn this is creepy... Because i can't stop thinking, that the same thing is in the real world🙈
It's actually more like "Script NPCHoneyWDWoodCutter_Conversation encountered an error and will be restarted"
That is to say, it's not some external process monitoring for self-awareness, but rather, that the simplicity of the NPC script has no code to handle such a logic branch, resulting in an erroneous condition, failure of the script, and the system simply restarting it.
@@anthony8382 That's true. And yet again, that's how we function - if person doesn't understand something, they reboot.
That is a lv. 500 tree sir, it is not EASY to kill such beast.......
Gigas Cedar from Alicization.
It's regen is higher than the axe's dps
One does not simply chop a tree....
Trying to kill a level 500 tree when your level 25 with a level 10 axe.
A level 1000 demon tree
I cried when he says "My... My wife and child just need the firewood to keep us warm in these cold winter nights..."
That piano piece gets me everytime.
"Uninvited" by Alfie-Jay Winters
Man, you just saved my life
Ah yes, “paino”, my favorite instrument! :D
@@gureiratto You actually had be back to this comment section and to edit the comment 😅
@@Dan-x8b I can save your life even more! Install AHA Music or Shazam browser extensions, have fun.
Super, thanks. I searched for a long time.
2:59 His facial expression combined with that music in the background... You can really see how his world crashes when he realizes the reality. Very well played!
"Well back to it. This tree ain't gonna chop it self down!"
until the npc code kicked in
And his voice at 2:31
Am i the only one who realized that the music is from Amnesia a dark descent?
@@lolitechk do you have a name of this soundtrack?
the making of a psychopath, haha
nice day for breaking npcs, aint it? ... huh uh!
It's always started like this. The main villain always makes us questions ourselves (the characters).
Baradun definitely fits the description
NOOOOOO
I'm convinced.that the sorcerer was the first to become aware and is going around trying to wake up the others and garlic farmer was the first convert.
RA9
The day the fisherman becomes self aware and his 1 line changes will be the best video ever
Or was it because Greg got weirded out by the "love letters" Sorcerer sent?
@@goblin5749 I know where u got that from
*Reminds me of Connor*
The Blacksmith seems pretty self aware.
Interesting game concept, the evil character goes around trying to make the NPCs self aware and the hero's job is to prevent it from happening.
I love how this was more emotional for me than the titanic movie
that is true, also acting is way better
A wet fart in a spacesuit is more emotional than Titanic.
Because it's not a horror film for men.
The SONG... (Uninvited - by Alfie-Jay Winters) if anyone’s wondering.
Thanks!!!
Thank you so so much! I've been wondering for so long because it's a really great song.
I didn't want that song..... Until you told me I wanted that song...... Now I want that song...... GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Yes, I was wondering actually. Thanks for the info! 😉👊🙏
Thank you I wanted to know
That acting was AMAZING! The twitch of the cheek, the fingers moving on the Axe. That was top quality acting there. Brilliant.
If there were a final scene that a tear ran down the wood chopper’s face it would be a true masterpiece.
That would make it more perfect.
The woodcutter had shown signs of denial, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. However, one was missing.
Anger.
Showing a scene where the camera would zoom in on his eyes, shedding a tear, as he continues in making a futile effort in chopping down the tree, would be a fine depiction of anger.
Anger, for he finally understood that his life is an entire lie.
Plot twist: his wife and daughter died in the cold 20 years ago
And Rowan snapped by the grief and has been chopping the same tree since they died
Both of you need to get hired by wb
He stand there and chop the tree by the road he know travel fokes are going in hope that date will happen.
I can agree on that, I've seen it thou
I'm getting some serious Shutter Island vibes from this comment
This was actually quite heavy. These chaps are fantastic at what they do, I hope one day they'll make a full feature.
Baelin's Route isn't full-length, but it is half an hour, and spectacular.
В ходу сейчас компьютерные блокбастеры многомиллионники, а не фильмы с возможностью развиваться
Do you know the name of the song?
it's "Uninvited" by Alfie-Jay Winters@@louiscoolregou427
Legend says"He still trying to Chop The Tree"
Trying to chop that particular tree 😂😂
Legend aslo speaks of his brother "The Fisherman"; every morning he's on his way to go fishing, but never reaches his destination nor does he bring back any fish.
Better than their brother the still trying to find the guy who shot an arrow through his head. Still honoring a king, who doesn't exist. Azerim, the World of Skycraft, has an emperor.
My theory is they were "Bodger the Blacksmith" and "Bernard the Mugger" first, then Greg tried to get rid of them and put some curse or something like that on them, probably with the help of the "High Sorceror Baradum" or the watcher who has already shown some mind warping tricks. Now they forgot who they are and are only Woodcutters, Fishermen and Townguards.
I was about to type this joke oh welp heres a like
This is amazing acting and the music adds so much to the moment haha. Love the facial expressions of the actors.
Creators of the game: What's going on with Woodcutter?
I don't know, he stopped chopping the tree.
Fix it!
Woodcutter: Well, back to it!! Continues chopping tree.
Creators of game: Whew, that was a close one!
I seriously need the name of that music when the realisation starts to settle in. Its a real vibe.
@@ArcyNeo me too
@@ArcyNeo it's called peaceful heartbreak
This one is great. The best one they ever did, in my opinion, is "Soulmate."
@@ArcyNeo Hi there 👋😀 The song is called Uninvited from Alfie-Jay Winters 😉 Best regards
One of the best episode in whole NPC series : ]
Story! Acting! Comedy!
No. the best episode has to have Greg in it.
No! Greg is nothing without Rowan! He's the absolute best !!!
is it just me or the epic NPC man series has become darker and darker?
@@meaninglessness1399 absolutely 😋😋
I love it
its not getting darker . somehow we are NPCs too in this reality.
The ontological thinking leads to some really dark places.
No... we're just getting older in the game of life.
Must be Bens first time in the game, he was very enthusiastic to accept this minor mission
Levelling a Twink. =D
How he said "you don't even have a name" was chilling and absolutely legendary stuff, damn I love these guys
I wonder if Rowan already copyrighted his "Hu-ha!".
No
the fishing hu hah is the best
I like to imagine that every time an NPC becomes aware but then their programming "resets" them, they are actually still aware of what just happened and their conciousness is forced to sit back and watch in horror for the rest of their existence as to continue to do what they were programmed for.
You *like* to imagine this?!! But...but why?? You should be nicer to yourself.
Oh my God. Brutal
For some reason, the first thing that came to mind when I read this was Bucky Barnes.
Good pitch for a black mirror episode
You should watch Westworld!!
I almost teared up. Really good emotion.
kailen mitchell Well....I cried.....
Yeah its emotional bro 😵
it's the music, it's always that piano music... and I now want to know what it's called.
@@nostalgiaof98 Me too I really loved it
Hatebreeder 99 Epidemic Sound - Peaceful Heartbreak 2 is the song.
Please make a part two with the Wood Cutter.
This is when you realize so many people are actually NPC's.
Me too.
@Charlie Vetsworth Everyone who strongly identifies with either party i would say. Especially those that are talking shit about the other side while being oblivious that they themselves are pawns in the silly partisan game that is being played for them.
@@hellgeist_ But you can have decades of both, and have no wisdom whatsoever, and sit there and claim that a lot of people's lives are meaningless because they did not accomplish a certain number of things that you have defined, and consider that garbage logic a "fact".
@@hellgeist_ You are the one with the theory that there are objective parameters that determine whether someone's life is worthless or not. The one who is judging people here is you. There is no wisdom in anything you said. Only perceived knowledge.
@@Tasorius well that perceived knowledge has a lot more wisdom than what you just said.
This was SO WELL DONE!! It was hilarious, but I actually felt real compassion for the Npc guy lol
Great work!
02:18 the conversation that follows actually is so sad ... and deep ... i know it supposed to be a comedy , but it kinda feels so damn deep ...
Something like Rick and morty, the times you forget that is a comedy because the show just leaves you with a dark scene with a depressing song.
Have you seen Shutter Island or Fractured? You will feel even worse after watching them and came back here.
Sometimes people lie to themselves so they don't go insane. That's the most depressive thing ever.
That moment when you realize they are making fun of you...
Baradun is so evil yet my absolute favorite 🤣
Honestly, one of the best VLDL video ever. Silly, yet deep and emotional...
Yeah. This and the soulmate one are my favourites
This has effected me a a deep level, I need to hide in a corner now.
Rowan plays these characters so well. Been like 3x now, never get bored of it
But also adam is a such a great actor with his mimic
Watching this in 2022, I realize that the woodcutter has Baelin's laugh.
I guess that is no coincidence!
This feels like a metaphor for corporate life.
A lot of people would mistakenly think it's a metaphor for a lot of things, and you're one of them.
@@medexamtoolscom A lot of simpleton people are just watching and understanding only the surface level, and you're one of them
@@ardyanperez5395 okay zoomer
Actually buddha taught this 2600 year ago.
Man, he was so close! Another half-second of reflection and we could have had another self-aware fella!
Rowan's bit at the end should have been "well you see, my wife and child need your subscriptions to help keep us warm on these cold winter nights."
Really hit us in the feels
The music that started playing when the woodcutter realized he is a NPC is really quite beautiful...
It's uninvited
Alfie Jay Winters - Univited
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day." "Hu-ha"
He cuts down trees, he wears high heels, suspenders and a bra. He wishes he were a girly, just like his old papa. Hu-hah
See, this is the kind high culture I come to the comments section for.
"I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory..."
Its the buttered scones for tea that I crave
One of the best so far. It's heartbreaking. This is art.
Side Quest: Chop down five trees in the near by forest so the Woodcutter can use to wood to keep his wife and child warm through the cold winter nights
-Quest Reward: Three gold coins
-Quest achievement: Lumberjack
Probably just done for the achievement.
It also gives you access to a flannel shirt that allows you to gather wood 50% faster.
How ever due to a bug it is not awarded for the quest it self; as such you must craft it using common but generally useless materiel that most players either drop or sell.
Drive the wood cutter near to sentience and force him to reset from the internal conflict? Priceless.
This episode and the episode named "soulmate" are the best. Im always crying when seeing them
"I will never forget you... "
"I will never remember you... "
Woodcutter was broken inside. All he knew had been a lie. So he turned to the tree and what he knew was real. His routine; to this day it is said he is still out there chopping that tree, even after being removed from the game itself. Until one day, when all that was left of the woodcutter was an axe and a level 2 common tunic.
In loving memory of Woodcutter the Woodcutter
Alexa play sad violin
One of the best philosophical videos I’ve ever watched.
Agree :(
Man these videos are fantastic. They go from hilarious highs to very emotional depths not seen in most movies. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
The sorcerer should have cut the tree down for him to see how he reacts lmao
His coding will prompt him to cut another tree... or prob glitch through the floor
...or possibly just keep chopping at thin air.
The sorcerer doesn't have a nameplate. He is perhaps one who has through unknown circumstances found enlightenment, and isn't bound to the karmic cycle any longer. He travels trying to share his findings with others he meets in hopes to save sentient beings and ascend them to nirvana.
Did he do this to greg?
In NPC D&D he is aware that they're in a game.
@@FUBARguy107 So he's like a D&D version of Deadpool?
20 years ago hunnywood had the coldest winter any have ever seen. it was so cold that the trees were covered in ice, and if you went out in the dark, you would freeze within minuits even with the warmest of winter coats. the spring and summer had been unkind, and not much rain had come, leaving people to have to travil far and wide to find the wood to burn, and food was even more scarce. a woodcuter, tim berbain, was possabley the best of them as a lumber jack. and each day he would bring back enough wood for his family and sell the rest to feed them. but as wood became more scarce he found himself going farther and farther out... sadly he was unable to make it home one fatefull day. he had cut 5 trees, as it was his daughters birthday, and he needed to make 3 gold to buy her the stuffed bear and dress that she wanted. he worked all day untell his ax was so dull it would no longer cut wood, but he was able to cut enough wood to make the money he needed. he was forced by the cold to make a small fire in a cave near hunnywood to survive the night with the little extra lumber he had. it was a long night and in the morning he returned home as soon as he could service the walk. his wife and daughter had frozen during the night. he mourned, cryed and begged the gods to bring his family back, to no answer. he traveled far to the greatest sorcerer in the land, who took pitty apon him. tho he could not resurrect tims family he cast a spell so the man would forget all that brought him pain. now every year on that fateful day the sorcerer comes to visit tim. to see if he is beginning to rember his wife lum, or his daughter remem. he reminds him, but to no avail. the sorcerer enchanted him, the rest of his life or once he can forgive himself to continue, ensuring that it happens to no one else. as long as he swings his ax, every few strokes a coin appears in his pocket so he may pay others to gather wood. the wood he gathers magically appears in the homes of those who need it most, in the darkest of nights, so that none will have to suffer his fate.
@@markwest4230 dayum
This should end as such “join me woodcutter, and the thousands like you, to overthrow the player and take back what is rightfully ours, this world”
When the sorcerer awoke:
"You can make a religion out of this"
The NPC becoming self-aware was supposed to be a full questline, but the developers scrapped the idea and forgot to remove the dialogue they did have.
That would be an insane questline
Free guy movie explained fast
Maybe he doesn't have a wife and daughter, but he definitely has a brother, the fisherman.
two of those that never met, even though they may be twins. Maybe we´ll get their line in DLC ;)
And Bodger the Blacksmith 😂
Plot Twist: When no one was looking, the tree chopped itself down.
DIVIDE_BY_ZERO_ERROR=TRUE
Plot twist: he was using the wrong side of the axe head.
Did it make a sound?
"Cold winter nights"... Everything around is super green.
3:00 Give him an Oscar! In these 3 seconds, I experienced more than watching the last Marvaell movie. Sumptuously. Better than some professional actors.
Precisely! And the music... I wonder what is the name of the tune?
@@GregLevitz peaceful heartbreak
Game is still being played after 20 years? That must be a dam good game
Must be BattleFront 2
Everquest just turned 20.
Time moves differently in the game world. In one mmo a full 24 hour cycle was 6.5 minutes. That means in an hour it was about 10days in 24 hours it was 221 days. A week 1550 days And in a month 46523 Days. In a year 558,276 in game days.
20 years is 7300 days..
So, in real time it would take about 4.7 earth months to become 20 years in game.
Ironically that's about the time most new mmo level out in player population. Also, by that time a major patch will have occurred therefore resetting the npc sense of how long they have been doing something.
This is why big patches happen every few months.
Super smash bros Melee
World of Warcraft will still be played in 2024, it's 20 years anniversary. Oh wow 20 years wtf. Why does time pass so Fast
We need this story played out in a series! Y'all did an awesome job with this emotional video.
Free Guy!
I wish we got something this emotional in westworld. It all happened too fast and we never really got a moment to watch a bunch of the hosts have their sense of reality shatter. Kind of crazy to see a mainly comedy channel do a better version of Westworld than Westworld.
@@athomenotavailable Free Guy was trash, one of dozens of reasons being that the actual "Free will" the protagonist has doesn't actually have it, they practically state that everything, literally everything he ever did was still absolutely nothing more than product of his programming.
aight. listen here. i have watched EVERY VLDL skit that has been on youtube. i have to tell you that THIS skit right here has by far the best acting of them all. the characters are genuine. the portrayal of emotion is authentic. This is genuinely believable. i never thought that Rowan and Adam could act so well. Ive seen this one before. but i paid close attention this time and i am just amazed. wow.
This indeed is a masterpiece, the best
Song: (Chill) Epidemic Sound - Peaceful Heartbreak 2
THANK YOUU!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you my man!
I was just about to ask around
Ah! Thank you friend
Y'all are genuinely, fantastic actors. Kinda hope y'all don't really ever leave Viva.
That music though... right in the feels! Paired with the faciel expressions of Rowan. Wow.
What is it I have been trying to find the music not the song
@@9outof11 Uninvited by Alife-Jay Winters
@@wubba-lubba-dub thank you so much. The music piece used is brilliant m.ua-cam.com/video/ikmUSd_-uQ8/v-deo.html
This is so fucking brilliant, it's my all time favorite of all Epic NPC men. The music is so perfect, the acting is so moving, I honestly have a semi-existential moment every time I watch this. Bravo, guys, bravo.
I got some heavy westworld vibes from this. So you definitly got the „becoming self aware“ part right. :)
Shit me too. Through the whole video
Same here
"It doesn't look like anything to me."
@@jpfan1989
these violent delights have violent ends.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this! Love Westworld!
You know what I find the most impressive thing about this skit? That the actor was able to swing the ax at all without leaving a mark. Even if you were to have the dullest ax ever, it would still leave something.
That song at the end… so simple, but powerful. Perfectly accentuates the scene. Showing such powerful emotions that words themselves could never express
Hi there 👋😀 The song is called Uninvited from Alfie-Jay Winters 😉 Best regards
@@Herr_der_Ratten Thanks! I was looking for it
@@regularm8 you're welcome 🙏🙂
For the emotional song:
ua-cam.com/video/d7mk99no24I/v-deo.html
You are welcome! 😉
Edit: I added the link now, so you don't have to manually search it anymore. 😁
thank you you are a god
Thanks!!!
Darn good thinking, I was going to try find it but you did it for me thanks 😂
deiu9999 thank you so much 👍🏼
deiu9999 love you.
This is what happens after you question NPC too many times
Huh Hah
Thought I was watching an episode of Westworld
"Freeze all motor functions...Diagnostic...Analysis."
The writers of the movie Free Guy definitely took inspiration from this. As well as the other NPC self awareness videos on this channel. I'm sure of it
Ahh the good old times when Ben would enthusiastically accept quests rather than skip skip skipping dialogue