I know right, there are car birds, does this imply there are other car animals? Are there car cock roaches, car parasites that live in other bigger cars? Why are there taxis and busses? How come they eat oil but also have wasabi and ice cream? Why is there a pope car?!? Was there a car jesus, car god? How does car sex work? Are the gadgets the spy cars use just cybernetic upgrades or more like if I grafted an extra organ into myself to, I don't know, spit acid? Wouldn't that be super creepy for other cars, and they did it to someone without his consent or knowledge
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 but hey, that’s just a theory... A GAME THEORY. What happens to the cars when they die? Are cars born from factories or do they drive on top of each other until a small one pops out?
@@scottoleson1997 in the first movie they restricted lightnings fuel supply to keep him from running away, is that like starving a prisoner? What the fuck was up with that one car that had her eyes on her retractable headlights?
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 The cars have genders: did they _choose_ their genders and give themselves dimorphic traits to match? Or were they created with genders, which raises a host of new questions about car creation? Similarly, do the specialized cars choose their characteristics or are they made with them, and regardless of the answer what if they no longer want to do the job they're specialized for? Are there car surgeries to change someone from a race car to a jeep?
i think at least partially they enjoy the position of power, holding your diploma for ransom and jerking you around. i dont know... its just the vibe i got from a lot of professors when i went to school
@@littleloner1159 i think that partially its a liability thing. they dont want to say the wrong thing because then you can sue them, so the art of politics comes into effect for some cases... that is dodging the questions until the answer is no longer relevant.
These two ex-video game devs check their email often enough to see and attempt to answer a question about stuff they barely remember doing at a company that doesn't exist anymore, while I got too anxious to check my email in sophomore year of high school so now I, a relatively capable (if still extremely debilitatingly anxious) 22-year-old, usually give Important People(tm) my mom's email instead of mine so she'll just text me when something comes in that's for me. (I do tell them I'm doing this though, and I usually say something like "trust me, you don't actually want my email, I won't check it")
As a student journalist, I’ve just learned that if you can’t find a reason for something you can just make your story about how not everything needs a reason. This is very helpful, thank you Polygon.
LOL Good choice of majors bro. I got my degree in journalism in 2013. Have fun realizing that journalism is dead and if you want to make any money or be happy you will change career paths. Journalism is a hobby, not really a job.
@@111ohno Journalism isn't that much of a viable field anymore because quite frankly, we don't need as many news sources these days thanks to how the internet allows us to access information from all corners of the globe. Back before the internet, the only way to keep in the know of current events would be through the TV and the local newspaper, which meant that there was a huge need for journalists and reporters. The field is oversaturated now, and as a result, companies don't need to pay as much to hire a qualified professional. Unless we lived in a command economy, where reporters would be making nothing (and usually don't exist since those kinds of gov'ts don't like public oversight) or publish propaganda, this would always remain true.
"Fridge horror is one of the pokemon fandoms favorite pastimes." I mean you're not wrong but still hearing it so explicitly said hit me in the face. You did not have to call me out like this.
"Hey Bill, we should put some kind of cliche video game thing in there for fun, like one of those spike traps" "Oh, you mean a pungee pit?" "Is that what those are called" "Yeah" "Neat"
Best not to gloss over how genuinely nasty these things really were. You had shafts of thick bamboo cut at a bias to give it a surprisingly sharp edge, but if you really got stuck on one, they're also quite hollow, meaning they don't plug their own wound, allowing you to bleed freely into the middle of the stick. Worse, thanks to the heat and humidity, and the tendency to dip the ends in human or animal waste when setting up the traps, the ends were bacterial nightmares, pretty much guaranteeing a nasty infection if you so much as got scratched by one. Surprisingly unpleasant for what amounts to diagonally cut grass.
Turns out you shouldn't be invading sovereign countries to imperialize them. Thankfully, many American soldiers also realized this at the time and that's why "fragging" experienced an all-time high. I thank them for their service o7.
Don't worry guys, by researching physical torture traps Brian is allowing himself to release the mental torment that we have thrust upon him via our viewership.
@@JohnSignsOn it's really mostly about the tactics used by the loser. Notice how nuking civilians and gassing folks wasn't prosecuted as a war crime when the allies do it.
plot twist: it was Tommy Tallarico's idea. He created the sound of someone getting impaled on a poo covered stick and the rest of the Original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater team came up with gameplay for it. He worked hand in hand with Tony Hawk for five years to make the game from scratch.
It probably went something like this "Hey, what should we call the spike pit?" "Actually I believe the proper term is 'pungee' pit" "Oh that's cool, call it that I guess." The end.
"What should we call this pit trap, already a dangerous concealed weapon that's pretty much banned everywhere anyway?" Well I sure hope something normalizing and inncuous, wouldn't want to expose ourselves to culture we gained access to through war. Spike pit, yeah, they're spikes of fun.
I had the same fridge horror thought about the Pungee pit from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 years ago and it also prompted me to do some research. One of the thing I found most interesting was that the real life versions of these spike pits weren't giant holes with precise and lethal killing weapons in them. They were usually smaller than one might think and they usually just gave gruesome injuries, not super deadly. However, those that made these pits often tried to make the spikes worse by covering them in rotting meat/flesh, blood, dirt, and feces, in hopes that the wounds they would cause would be more likely to become infected. Now that's even more gnarly than a backside 180 hardflip!
Ich vermute dass die Punji Grube nach faulen Eiern riechen würde wenn die Spitzen mit Kot und Gammelfleisch verziert ist, aber zum Glück gibt es keine Geruchsspiele oder Geruchsfernsehen,
Not to mention it would take extra soldiers to carry back soldiers who were too injured to walk making it extra hard to fight back if ambushed. Leave your friend behind to the enemy or risk one or two more to get them back to a field hospital.
Can we just dwell on the fact that this whole episode was precipitated by Brian's desire to fortify his apartment, and that he actually suggested pungee pits to that effect?
Hey man, war crime or not, for someone who is a civilian defending themselves, I think that's fair game. They never agreed to be in a conflict to begin with, and if their home is being invaded, I would expect them to take whatever actions are necessary to defend themselves. And pretty much any booby trap they came up with would fit the criteria for being banned by the UN.
@@RamadaArtist I'm well aware. I said crime or not at the beginning of my of my comment, outlining my belief that I don't care if it's illegal, if I heard someone booby trapped their home prior to a home invasion they knew was coming, I personally wouldn't think less of them.
"Should you feel yourself attacked by a sudden chill, it is evidence of an approaching Gengar. There is no escaping it. Give up." The actual Pokédex entry for Gengar from Pokémon Sun. Oh no.
I was not delighted. I was disappointed Conspiracies are more fun than anything. You're missing out. Plus there's truth in every theory. People don't understand that part, theory. And that goes doubly for hard-core theorists. I definitely believe there's a secret shadow organization that runs the world. I have believed in UFOs for about 25 years. Now at 33 the same people that called me crazy and stupid are now seeing that it is real. I believe 2016 election was rigged just as much a the 2020 and just as much as almost every presidential election in the last 150 years. I just don't care if people believe it. Because deep down they already know and if they don't. I feel bad for them. False flags have existed since the dawn of man. I just don't let it bother me. I work in Iraq as a contractor and I know we didn't come here to liberate the people. But there's money to be made and I will make my life better as I can.
@@HansDester just because it’s a theory does not mean it is exempt from criticism, and people do not seriously believe in conspiracy theories because “it’s fun”. There is not truth in every theory. There is no truth in “Vaccines cause autism”, or “The Earth is flat”. You are not some genius because you believe wild claims, and people aren’t “seeing years later that the conspiracy theories are real”. People who don’t believe in conspiracy theories don’t “know deep down that they are true”, and claiming that they do just makes you seem egotistical and even more stupid. Get off your high horse and realize that you aren’t “smarter” or “more free” because you believe in conspiracies.
2 hours later: New email from Mick West Hey Brian, Forgot to tell you that the pungee pit sound effect wasn't made in a studio, we just used sound footage of the Vietnam War. Hope I've brightned your day, Mick
Spawn on a ramp that faces down to another ramp that launches you into a sea of punjj pits as large as the entire park editor will allow.... I spent so much time in the park editor trying to figure out how to break the game
I makes sense, you gotta think that the Vietnam war wasn't too, too far off for some of these Devs. Probably sons of vets. The Pungee Pit (they call it a Pungee Stick actually) is referenced in the 1969 Movie "The Green Berets" about half an hour in
When I watched this, midway through I said “wait a minute, this isn’t an unraveled” in the same way the kazoo kid said it and my roommate is dying laughing
One of the developers involved in the remaster definitely had that "hey wait a minute" moment when seeing punjee pit and giving it a quick google "banned by the UN.... uh oh"
@@JonasWilms The problem that the UN saw was that stick traps, mines, and other such weapons are made to maim and injure. There's this idea that dying outright is preferable to being horribly disfigured or made to suffer a massive wound that kills you later rather than instantly.
@@garrettbyrd7426 or leaves you in horrible, chronic pain and infection. like a bullet that misses, cant really be blamed on anyone, because it was a miss, and intended to be a quick and painless kill. but a trap ot explosive made to put someone in agonizing existence is just fucked up.
@@JonasWilms I'm glad someone else caught that. It bothered me the whole video. Like war is an awful thing...how do you ban tactics? What's the incentive to listen? And specifically if you have a country fighting back with banned tactics, why does the UN get to decide they can't? It's like if war must exist, why can't self defense?
I remember me and my friends built our first punji pit (among other traps) when we were 7-8, to defend our den in the bushes from the posh kids in the opposite street. It was a brutal class war among children, luckily our many traps never injured anyone. No idea where we got the idea from, probably crash bandicoot?
Now now, kids forming clans and having "wars" for "territory" is part and parcel of a balanced 90s childhood in any country where _The Paul Street Boys_ is compulsory reading in primary school. I don't know how popular that book is outside of Europe, but I took its inclusion in the curriculum as a sign that adults actually wanted us to wage bloody tribal warfare in the streets.
I love how instead of being accusatory of people putting in a somewhat tasteless reference to the real world the message is: “Hey sometimes people just put stuff in the thing they make, it’s cool; anyways here’s Fall_Pungee11.wav 30x.”
I counted. It was exactly 30 times. That was satisfying and as much as I feel like that should have been a waste of time it still makes me feel good so I'm going to walk away from this feeling like that time was well spent.
I got in trouble in class in 7th grade for laughing at the diagram of the soldier stepping on the punji tiltboard/ punji stick because it looked like the classic "stepping on a rake" cartoon trope. My teacher did not see the humor.
Many of my childhood memories were spent crossing the pungee pit at the local skate park with my fellow cool kids. Some... weren't cool enough, never forget.
I just think someone asked themselves “I wonder if a spike pit has a technical name.” They found “pungee pit” and decided it was fun, so they put it in the game
Here's a tip for English class. Do what BDG is doing here. Like, even if an author didn't have some reason to do a thing, their choice to do it reflects something about the author and work. In Tony Hawk, it reflects development conditions where individual designers could throw in something for the hell of it. It reflects that it was created in an environment distant enough from the Vietnam War that punji sticks had passed from a weapon of war to a cool trap seen in movies, but that retained enough sense of danger for it to be hella cool to jump over it. Likewise, when you're reading Shakespeare, if you feel like the answer to "why is Shakespeare doin this" is "heck dude maybe he just wanted to" , consider trying to answer related questions like "what does including this and not some other possible inclusion say about the time, the audience, the medium, or the work as a whole" Like who can say why Shakespeare included so many dick jokes or the designers of Tony Hawk included a punji pit, but the fact that they did absolutely colors the work and the things surrounding it? Sorry for the long post. I just feel like if all the high school students watching BDG realized his essays are lowkey exactly what English teachers want, the world would be a better place
English teachers: "The blue curtains represent the protagonist's deep-seated insecurity and sadness." The author: "The curtains were blue because it's my favorite color."
Kaia this is exactly why comments like this actually bug me. people think that just because theres no direct meaning to a specific thing that they dont have to think about anything that led up to it or the implications of the fact that they chose to do it that way Brian is making exactly the kinds of things english teachers want to see because even if something doesnt have some surface level meaning he digs into it and still uncovers interesting things
The Punjee Pit I think is just indicative of Neversoft's ethos and creative choices all round. Their image and rebellious spirit was evident in all of the games they created even down to their playful, riske slogan 'Always hard, Never soft!!'
I gotta say, I'm curious to see how this quarantine affects your style when you're able to work in-office again. You seemed (at least from a viewer standpoint) to struggle briefly with the constraints of making videos at home and now you're rolling with the punches super well! It feels much less like you're content creators working for a news site and more just content creators that enjoy talking about video games. Also you're scripting is still top-notch, really loved the comedic timing of the Vietnam War joke at the start!
Seconding all of this. The videos are fantastic and entertaining even though there was some apparent adjustment. I will suggest, though, that having physical props like when the Unraveled videos were shot in a studio helps a lot. The gamer space video and the stamina video were probably the best recent Unraveled videos because god dang BDG you really know how to make comedy with props. Heck, just watch the brief fridge bit in this video, probably the most humorous part. Keep on rocking Brian, your videos are some of the best content on this site. Educational AND funny, is there any better pairing?
I had to google and find out that this was actually correct cuz it makes no sense. banning "booby traps and anti-personnel mines" in warfare is a few steps short of banning projectiles. the UN and countries pretending to be civilized can get frickin silly lookin sometimes
@@ThinkBeyondTheBox Also they are feckin horrifying, even if they are used by less powerful countries they do just cause horrific and unnecessary injury to both soldiers and civilians. Weapons, if they have to exist, should at least be quick and not torturous.
It's so cool that Tommy Tallarico invented the pungee pit just for this game, in addition to making every single sound effect, his mother must be very proud
these emails are gold, with scrapped UI messages to dying in the pungee pit "you got shafted", "who built that?", "serve, set, spike!", "Shish kabob?" (my favorite) and "don't build this at home!". as well as scott pease opening his email with "uh oh! that's a deeeeeeeep cut." absolute gold. still 20 years later and they're still in tune with the game's humor. brian forgot to mention but the point of pungee sticks wasn't just to keep soldiers out of commision. no. the "real" reason is a lot more funny. the two main ones being: A) consume reasources, same reason why land mines are designed to blow off a leg instead of just killing you, the pungee sticks are dirty (sometimes deliberatly covered in grime or fecal matter), wounded soldiers are worth more than dead ones as they get sent back, tie up medical resources, doctos and infirmery beds, helping spread disease and being much more impactful than if the soldier had just died. they were outnumbered and out gunned, no amount of kills could even the playing field, as such 1 injured soldier is worth 10 dead ones. B) to induce psychological damage, paranoia, fear and PTSD. when danger could be anywhere it feels like it's everywhere. the stress of travelling through the woods while feeling as though every bush is filled with enemy soldiers and every footstep draws them closer to a trap, being constantly alert and feeling as your life is in danger, even when nothing is actually there. similar to the first reason this is a means of creating suffering and pain, not to kill. creating hesitation and dampening confidence, making the enemy dread taking objectives far away from the safety of their defenses. the viet cong knew they couldn't win the war by defeating the enemy in the battlefield, killing their troops and taking their encampments thereby forcing them to route. no way. instead they correctly identified that the war would be won by attrition. the US was far from home, stranded in foreign territory and unfamiliar terrain, their morale is low and campaigning expensive as troops are thousands of miles from their families, trapped in an hostile enviroment. so the booby traps are there to induce war exhaustion. the way to win the war was to make sure to ensure the enemy felt despair, lose motivation and want to go home. to give up. as such you need to make their campaign seem endless and hopeless. guerilla fighters had a homefield advantage and could rebuild their improvised housing and relocate any time the US destroyed their quarters, this was their home and they could spend an eternity in the jungle and be okay, the US troops could not. the war would be won by out-enduring the conditions of war, as such US war conditions had to be made as awful as possible. when framed this way (as a means of creating fear and suffering) putting pungee pits in an upbeat and playful scateboarding game for kids is even more funny.
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To use a red cross when not a real medical facility/professional is illegal. There are lots of games that have had to put in patches change to look of medical facilities or health items when the Red Cross sent them a cease and desist. Even My Little Pony got in trouble for using a red cross.
Wouldn't making the cross green be the way to _not_ violate the Geneva Convention? That's why Stardew Valley changed the color of the cross on Harvey's door - it used to be red, but it's a violation to misuse the red cross symbol, so now it's blue and the game doesn't contain a war crime.
@@AmericanIdiot7659 +laughs in watching UA-cam on Switch+ Edit: I literally logged in on my phone just to comment on the obscure timing of it. Last Edit: Also, Polygon and Brian David Gilbert deserve all the adrevenue they can get.
I honestly forgot they called it that in the game, I always just called it the spike pit. The kabob-related messages you got when you landed in them left more of an impression though
Brian, I can't believe you spoke to Neversoft staff and didn't ask the most important question: were the spikes in THPS2's "pungee pit" smeared with human faeces in order to induce bacterial infections in the injuries they inflicted?
I think by that time spike pits were a standard trope in the video game industry. They were self explanatory danger zones, and they were in a lot of games.
I'd like to mention that the largest arteries in the human body are right about above the kneecap, that's also where the trap hit on 3:45 could've vary well bled him out, not just stopped him up
Honestly if I got hit I might be screaming a good longer while before I actually make any discernable words Imagine taking a strip of an iron maiden to the legs.
It never occurred to me to question the pungee pit. I always assumed it was some weird play off the word “plunge”. Anyway, thanks for the serotonin hit of the day.
Uh-HUH! This my pit! All the girls gonna fall in it! Few tours I did in 'Nam, there was no smell nicer than napalm 'Cause I am the punji stick girl! I am the punji stick girl!
I remember that punji pit. That was where I first heard of them, and then I got really interested in various ways punji pits are actually used (although I admit my pre-teen brain was a bit disappointed to learn that real punji traps aren't 20 foot wide holes with sharpened tree trunks in them)
This kind of random video stuff is the reason I subscribed to Polygon and Brian, serotonin pierces right into my vein like a pungee pit pierces poor skator's flesh. Thank you.
That's what I was thinking. Italy invades Ethiopia and you want to tell the Ethiopians they can't use their ingenuity, knowledge of the environment and guerilla tactics to drive them out? It reeks of a pro-imperialist agenda by the UN.
@@zyaicob I think the UN is supposed to stop situations like that from happening in the first place, so the ban on guerrilla warfare is based on the assumption of equal levels of military technology. With that assumption, banning weapons that are designed to be as painful as possible seems like a reasonable rule. The main problem is the UN can't/won't follow up with both sides of these assumptions, leading to problems.
Slings, actually, not slingshots. One's handheld and uses rubber to launch things, the other's a long string that basically lets you swing your arm in a much wider circle
Important thing to note here is its not just the low tech pungi pit that's banned, its all sorts of booby traps and mines. This includes things like the "Toe Popper" mines that the us dropped by the thousands throughout vietnam, and which continue to cause horrible, debilitating injuries in civilians to this day. Its not to stop people from waging guerilla warfare, its to stop people from using weapons that are unable to distinguish between enemy soldiers and innocent children, and which can linger for years or even decades after the original conflict has ended. TLDR: Low and high tech traps are banned because of the danger they pose to civilians after the conflict has ended.
I thought fridge logic was named for the old series of lateral thinking questions starting with "how do you store an elephant in the refrigerator": "open the door, put the elephant in, and close the door." the next question is how to store a giraffe in the refrigerator: "open the door, *take the elephant out*, put the giraffe in, and close the door". The questions and answers go on like this without ever considering the relative sizes of elephants, giraffes and refrigerators
My theory- The reason why the tool of the pungee pit exists in Pro Skater 2 is because they needed a reason for you to quickly reset after a fail. I would assume the reason they came to the conclusion to use a pungee pit trap specifically and not some other trap is probably because it was the most obvious pit trap style to use at the time without using something more graphically demanding to implement like a lava pit or fire.
Makes me think of how veterans with PTSD feel encountering stuff like this. Really shows how the line between the extremely goofy violence and real life-ruining stuff can get thin. There's a moment in a Judith Thompson play (never see her stuff, unless you're ready for unflinching truth about pain) where a refugee father is reading his daughter Green Eggs and Ham and responds to an unheard question with "No, you will not be forced to eat green eggs and ham." this reminds me of that. At the same time, realizing terminology learned playing video games comes from history might actually wake some otherwise disconnected person up in a history class or two, so there's that.
History class won't tell u this fact but the Vietnam war was ended because Tony hawk did a perfect kickflip over all the pungee pits
Lmao😂
And what a combo it was
trufax, I was there
I knew we won
I'll teach that in my history classes
"anyway, here's the sound of falling into the punji pit 30 times in a row"
thank you for the gift
I literally counted them
you definitely win some
Let's just keep it going why not?
I'm not the only one who had to count to be sure that number is correct! XD
somebody needs to make a 10 hour version of this
"I've seen those hell pits every time I've closed my eyes for the past 20 years"
"Serving in Nam?"
"Skateboarding."
Just remember Paul Hardcastle's "Nineteen" and realise that you might be closer to them than you think.
Naming it a spike pit would have been soft. And they are NEVER soft.
Seriously underrated comment!😂
alternative title: neverhard
This is the GOAT comment!!
*Spear shoots through eyeball*
Relatable.
"Conspiracy theory..." *Holds breath* "Debunker" *Releases breath*
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
My exactly reaction!
Same! Phew!
Same reaction here.
I feel like the relief here might be the most 2020 thing ever.
"Fridge horror" is the perfect explanation for my morbid fascination with Cars: the movie
I know right, there are car birds, does this imply there are other car animals? Are there car cock roaches, car parasites that live in other bigger cars? Why are there taxis and busses? How come they eat oil but also have wasabi and ice cream? Why is there a pope car?!? Was there a car jesus, car god? How does car sex work? Are the gadgets the spy cars use just cybernetic upgrades or more like if I grafted an extra organ into myself to, I don't know, spit acid? Wouldn't that be super creepy for other cars, and they did it to someone without his consent or knowledge
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 but hey, that’s just a theory... A GAME THEORY. What happens to the cars when they die? Are cars born from factories or do they drive on top of each other until a small one pops out?
@@scottoleson1997 in the first movie they restricted lightnings fuel supply to keep him from running away, is that like starving a prisoner? What the fuck was up with that one car that had her eyes on her retractable headlights?
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 The cars have genders: did they _choose_ their genders and give themselves dimorphic traits to match? Or were they created with genders, which raises a host of new questions about car creation? Similarly, do the specialized cars choose their characteristics or are they made with them, and regardless of the answer what if they no longer want to do the job they're specialized for? Are there car surgeries to change someone from a race car to a jeep?
Can we talk about "Kachigga" ?
This man can get an email from people that used to work at a studio that doesn't exist anymore while I can't get my Thesis advisor to answer mine.
Same with my doctor. And one day I'll die n get stuck as a ghost, forever waiting for his goddmn email.
i think at least partially they enjoy the position of power, holding your diploma for ransom and jerking you around. i dont know... its just the vibe i got from a lot of professors when i went to school
@@littleloner1159 i think that partially its a liability thing. they dont want to say the wrong thing because then you can sue them, so the art of politics comes into effect for some cases... that is dodging the questions until the answer is no longer relevant.
My psychology class disappeared off of canvas, so I emailed my teacher and he didn’t respond until a month and a half later.
These two ex-video game devs check their email often enough to see and attempt to answer a question about stuff they barely remember doing at a company that doesn't exist anymore, while I got too anxious to check my email in sophomore year of high school so now I, a relatively capable (if still extremely debilitatingly anxious) 22-year-old, usually give Important People(tm) my mom's email instead of mine so she'll just text me when something comes in that's for me. (I do tell them I'm doing this though, and I usually say something like "trust me, you don't actually want my email, I won't check it")
"Elderly Sex Clown doing a board slide in platform boots"
*Career path unlocked*
Band name is K.....Elderly Sex Clown Posse
@@dugtiki8713 single greatest SCP concept I've ever read.
Follow your dreams!
I read this the moment he said it
😂
As a student journalist, I’ve just learned that if you can’t find a reason for something you can just make your story about how not everything needs a reason. This is very helpful, thank you Polygon.
That is much preferable to reaching and assigning malice without adequate justification.
Better than making up a reason yourself.
LOL Good choice of majors bro. I got my degree in journalism in 2013. Have fun realizing that journalism is dead and if you want to make any money or be happy you will change career paths. Journalism is a hobby, not really a job.
@@AndrewDangerously student journalist can mean writing for a school paper or something right?
@@111ohno Journalism isn't that much of a viable field anymore because quite frankly, we don't need as many news sources these days thanks to how the internet allows us to access information from all corners of the globe. Back before the internet, the only way to keep in the know of current events would be through the TV and the local newspaper, which meant that there was a huge need for journalists and reporters. The field is oversaturated now, and as a result, companies don't need to pay as much to hire a qualified professional. Unless we lived in a command economy, where reporters would be making nothing (and usually don't exist since those kinds of gov'ts don't like public oversight) or publish propaganda, this would always remain true.
Fridge Horror is when, hours later, BDG realizes he was laughing at the sound of a human falling into a pit of sharp spikes 30 times in a row
And then said "let's keep it goin!"
Haha! ...What?
(He knew!)
I counted 37 with one cutting off
@@ChiralCentre3366 sent me laughing for a solid 30 seconds
"Fridge horror is one of the pokemon fandoms favorite pastimes." I mean you're not wrong but still hearing it so explicitly said hit me in the face. You did not have to call me out like this.
You know who you are.
The adventure time Fandom has also had fun with thay
Look, that Dorkly content won't write itself.
This is basically most of game theory
that guy who keeps asking for an Unraveled episode on pokemon as food probably feels fuckor levels of being called out right now
"Hey Bill, we should put some kind of cliche video game thing in there for fun, like one of those spike traps"
"Oh, you mean a pungee pit?"
"Is that what those are called"
"Yeah"
"Neat"
420th like :)
481st like :)
@@peterjohnson11655 1st like :)
620th like
I didn't like it
"Brian-
Uh oh!"
Only brian would get an email like this for a video
oh WOW this has a lot of likes uhh i make music on youtube sometimes also stream silo by the altogether
Thats true. If you would get an email like that, it would start like:
"Rainbow--
Uh oh!"
Not only that, but it goes:
"Brian-
Uh oh! That's a deeeeeeep cut!"
uh oh! deep cut! funny deep cut! deep cut funny
@@copiouskittens3323yeah he understood the assignment.
That's a deeeeeeeeeeeep cut
the savior of polygon blesses us again with skating and war crimes
Skating and War Crimes?! What? Hell Yeah!
Eric Chan just another day in the life brother
My favorite passtimes
remember kids it's not a war crime if you do it to the US military
Hot take skating is a war crime.
Best not to gloss over how genuinely nasty these things really were. You had shafts of thick bamboo cut at a bias to give it a surprisingly sharp edge, but if you really got stuck on one, they're also quite hollow, meaning they don't plug their own wound, allowing you to bleed freely into the middle of the stick. Worse, thanks to the heat and humidity, and the tendency to dip the ends in human or animal waste when setting up the traps, the ends were bacterial nightmares, pretty much guaranteeing a nasty infection if you so much as got scratched by one. Surprisingly unpleasant for what amounts to diagonally cut grass.
Turns out you shouldn't be invading sovereign countries to imperialize them. Thankfully, many American soldiers also realized this at the time and that's why "fragging" experienced an all-time high. I thank them for their service o7.
keep off the grass ☠
@@mortimerwake2974 not very goated with the sauce of you, unbased even.
@@arandomcommenter412 why don't you walk into a malayan gate, you officer-lover?
So? It's War.
Don't worry guys, by researching physical torture traps Brian is allowing himself to release the mental torment that we have thrust upon him via our viewership.
Stephanafro holy shit it’s stephanafro holy shit
🙏
why the fuck are you here stephanafro go back to making music videos!!!!
ah yes the old putting holes in things method of dealing with head demons
omniscient xt hmm I wonder how they got all that footage of someone playing the game then 🤔 what a mystery
the amount of times that war crimes have been mentioned in BDG videos is honestly frightening
he hidin somethin
You should watch a Spiffing Brit video lol 😆
Better to study the mistakes of yesterday, so you can invent the war crimes of tomorrow
@@JohnSignsOn it's really mostly about the tactics used by the loser. Notice how nuking civilians and gassing folks wasn't prosecuted as a war crime when the allies do it.
He is ready
plot twist: it was Tommy Tallarico's idea. He created the sound of someone getting impaled on a poo covered stick and the rest of the Original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater team came up with gameplay for it. He worked hand in hand with Tony Hawk for five years to make the game from scratch.
I heard His mother is very proud
It probably went something like this
"Hey, what should we call the spike pit?"
"Actually I believe the proper term is 'pungee' pit"
"Oh that's cool, call it that I guess."
The end.
^begone
B O T
true
"What should we call this pit trap, already a dangerous concealed weapon that's pretty much banned everywhere anyway?"
Well I sure hope something normalizing and inncuous, wouldn't want to expose ourselves to culture we gained access to through war. Spike pit, yeah, they're spikes of fun.
@@thatoneguy9582 B O T *REPORTED*
@@thatoneguy9582 thanks
brian saying 'neversoft' a lot of times finally made me realise how wild that is as a company name & branding choice
My innocence!!!!
That's such a great example of an icebox scene!
Oh wow it took me until this comment
@@PiousMoltar wonder what Microsoft really means....
I mean. It's certainly better than "alwayshard"
I like to imagine "Brian- uh oh" is how all emails to him start
I had the same fridge horror thought about the Pungee pit from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 years ago and it also prompted me to do some research. One of the thing I found most interesting was that the real life versions of these spike pits weren't giant holes with precise and lethal killing weapons in them. They were usually smaller than one might think and they usually just gave gruesome injuries, not super deadly. However, those that made these pits often tried to make the spikes worse by covering them in rotting meat/flesh, blood, dirt, and feces, in hopes that the wounds they would cause would be more likely to become infected. Now that's even more gnarly than a backside 180 hardflip!
you forgot manure, though that might cpunt as dirt
@@satibel doesnt count as dirt, but it sure cpunts as feces!
Ich vermute dass die Punji Grube nach faulen Eiern riechen würde wenn die Spitzen mit Kot und Gammelfleisch verziert ist, aber zum Glück gibt es keine Geruchsspiele oder Geruchsfernsehen,
Not to mention it would take extra soldiers to carry back soldiers who were too injured to walk making it extra hard to fight back if ambushed. Leave your friend behind to the enemy or risk one or two more to get them back to a field hospital.
2020 feels like the beginning of Scott Pease’s email. “Brian - uh oh!”
Can we just dwell on the fact that this whole episode was precipitated by Brian's desire to fortify his apartment, and that he actually suggested pungee pits to that effect?
Hey man, war crime or not, for someone who is a civilian defending themselves, I think that's fair game. They never agreed to be in a conflict to begin with, and if their home is being invaded, I would expect them to take whatever actions are necessary to defend themselves. And pretty much any booby trap they came up with would fit the criteria for being banned by the UN.
@@MistaOppritunity In the United States, booby trapping your property is hella illegal, on top of whatever the UN has to say about it.
@@RamadaArtist I'm well aware. I said crime or not at the beginning of my of my comment, outlining my belief that I don't care if it's illegal, if I heard someone booby trapped their home prior to a home invasion they knew was coming, I personally wouldn't think less of them.
Brian talking about the Vietnam War with a scrolling image of a skatepark in the background is hilarious with no context
I mean, is it really that different from the countless videos of people reading horrifying Reddit stories over footage of Minecraft?
Did not even register it was scrolling until I read this
"Gengar just hits different"
Words of wisdom.
yeah you do have to hit him different physical attacks don't work.
Yeah especially with a Modest nature, 252 IVs in SpAtk and a Poison Barb while while Mega Evolved using Gunk Shot on an unsuspecting Whimsicott
Pmd rescue team be like:
"Should you feel yourself attacked by a sudden chill, it is evidence of an approaching Gengar. There is no escaping it. Give up."
The actual Pokédex entry for Gengar from Pokémon Sun.
Oh no.
"here's the sound of falling into a pungee pit 30 times in a row"
That's what good pungee sounds like.
"He's now a professional writers, and *conspiracy*-" eyebrows go up in worry.
"- Debunker."
Delighted, surprised: oh!
had exactly the same reaction
I was not delighted. I was disappointed Conspiracies are more fun than anything. You're missing out. Plus there's truth in every theory. People don't understand that part, theory. And that goes doubly for hard-core theorists. I definitely believe there's a secret shadow organization that runs the world. I have believed in UFOs for about 25 years. Now at 33 the same people that called me crazy and stupid are now seeing that it is real. I believe 2016 election was rigged just as much a the 2020 and just as much as almost every presidential election in the last 150 years. I just don't care if people believe it. Because deep down they already know and if they don't. I feel bad for them. False flags have existed since the dawn of man.
I just don't let it bother me. I work in Iraq as a contractor and I know we didn't come here to liberate the people. But there's money to be made and I will make my life better as I can.
@@HansDester just because it’s a theory does not mean it is exempt from criticism, and people do not seriously believe in conspiracy theories because “it’s fun”. There is not truth in every theory. There is no truth in “Vaccines cause autism”, or “The Earth is flat”. You are not some genius because you believe wild claims, and people aren’t “seeing years later that the conspiracy theories are real”. People who don’t believe in conspiracy theories don’t “know deep down that they are true”, and claiming that they do just makes you seem egotistical and even more stupid. Get off your high horse and realize that you aren’t “smarter” or “more free” because you believe in conspiracies.
RIGHT?! I thought FOR SURE that was going to go bad, and not AWESOME
Tbh I'd be just as delighted if he was conspiracy enthusiast
Don’t forget that you can put excrement on the Punji sticks to give soldiers horrible infections...war is fun!
i was waiting for him to mention that!
Shocked he didn't mention it!
Bad journalism to be frank
what the fuck!!! :)
Tamijo he’s Brian who’s frank
Boy that sound effect is the perfect combination of Wet AND Crunchy
Nobody:
BDG: Hey did you know a Tony Hawk game contains illegal death traps that were used in the Vietnam war?
Hey do you know what else was illegal ?
@@booketoiles1600 butter
2 hours later:
New email from Mick West
Hey Brian,
Forgot to tell you that the pungee pit sound effect wasn't made in a studio, we just used sound footage of the Vietnam War. Hope I've brightned your day,
Mick
This made me laugh way more than it should have...
"We had to edit out the blood curdling scream."
That sound effect sounds like something you'd hear in an NSFW flash animation from the early 2000s.
Oh. Wait.....
it totally is
"anyway, here's the sound of falling into the punji pit 30 times in a row"
*Flashbacks to accidentally making insta-kill levels intensify*
Spawn on a ramp that faces down to another ramp that launches you into a sea of punjj pits as large as the entire park editor will allow....
I spent so much time in the park editor trying to figure out how to break the game
Yes....accidentally. That's right...
Just making a park nothing but pungee pits where the most you could do is coyote jump every time you respawn
“Pungee Pit” is an alliterative phrase that captures that late 90s/ early 2000s edge. I think that’s all there is to it
Yeah. There were a few different hazards. Lava pit. Water pit. And pungee pit. I guess spike pit would have worked but hey
jamba juice
I makes sense, you gotta think that the Vietnam war wasn't too, too far off for some of these Devs. Probably sons of vets. The Pungee Pit (they call it a Pungee Stick actually) is referenced in the 1969 Movie "The Green Berets" about half an hour in
this isnt even an unravelled episode brian was just that cocnerned about this
nice pfp
When I watched this, midway through I said “wait a minute, this isn’t an unraveled” in the same way the kazoo kid said it and my roommate is dying laughing
Congrats
hwAAAAAAit a minute...!
One of the developers involved in the remaster definitely had that "hey wait a minute" moment when seeing punjee pit and giving it a quick google "banned by the UN.... uh oh"
Brian -
Uh oh!
Also bombing and shooting people is fine, but sharpened mostly non-deadly wooden sticks are banned?
@@JonasWilms The problem that the UN saw was that stick traps, mines, and other such weapons are made to maim and injure. There's this idea that dying outright is preferable to being horribly disfigured or made to suffer a massive wound that kills you later rather than instantly.
@@garrettbyrd7426 or leaves you in horrible, chronic pain and infection. like a bullet that misses, cant really be blamed on anyone, because it was a miss, and intended to be a quick and painless kill. but a trap ot explosive made to put someone in agonizing existence is just fucked up.
@@JonasWilms I'm glad someone else caught that. It bothered me the whole video. Like war is an awful thing...how do you ban tactics? What's the incentive to listen? And specifically if you have a country fighting back with banned tactics, why does the UN get to decide they can't? It's like if war must exist, why can't self defense?
this video is everything i've ever tried to do on my channel but also funny. 10/10.
See you here makes a strange amount of sense, the universe is in harmony
I remember me and my friends built our first punji pit (among other traps) when we were 7-8, to defend our den in the bushes from the posh kids in the opposite street. It was a brutal class war among children, luckily our many traps never injured anyone. No idea where we got the idea from, probably crash bandicoot?
Sounds like lord of the flies, but without the island.
i, too, was raised in Cape Town
"My dad works at Ninte-ARGH! W-w-what is this? What d-d-did you do, Chris?"
"My dad works at the People's Army"
@@cwovictor3281 *the People's Liberation Army!
Now now, kids forming clans and having "wars" for "territory" is part and parcel of a balanced 90s childhood in any country where _The Paul Street Boys_ is compulsory reading in primary school. I don't know how popular that book is outside of Europe, but I took its inclusion in the curriculum as a sign that adults actually wanted us to wage bloody tribal warfare in the streets.
I miss Pat laughing in the back. Damn covid why did you have to steal every single ounce of happiness from my life
I have never been more relieved than hearing "-y debunker" follow "conspiracy theor-"
"and he said the viETNAM WAR??"
I love how instead of being accusatory of people putting in a somewhat tasteless reference to the real world the message is:
“Hey sometimes people just put stuff in the thing they make, it’s cool; anyways here’s Fall_Pungee11.wav 30x.”
I counted. It was exactly 30 times. That was satisfying and as much as I feel like that should have been a waste of time it still makes me feel good so I'm going to walk away from this feeling like that time was well spent.
He played the sound 39 - 40 times before the video ended if you count the 2 times before the last 37 - 38
@@marwinkeithnarvasa3579 I'm callin' it 39 1/2
God there is truly nothing better than getting an email that just starts with "Uh oh!"
I got in trouble in class in 7th grade for laughing at the diagram of the soldier stepping on the punji tiltboard/ punji stick because it looked like the classic "stepping on a rake" cartoon trope. My teacher did not see the humor.
I could see that getting a laugh. Especially if its drawn in a more humorous way.
I don't either, this was a war crime and not a meme
@@tonimartinez320 I mean it objectively wasn't a war crime when it was used
Toni Martinez War crimes ARE memes, you fool
@@tonimartinez320 Who would have thought that Tom and Jerry committed war crimes
Many of my childhood memories were spent crossing the pungee pit at the local skate park with my fellow cool kids. Some... weren't cool enough, never forget.
It was mostly scooter kids that fell in at my local park
Frood And the ripstick guys...the poor ripstick guys
F
I just think someone asked themselves “I wonder if a spike pit has a technical name.” They found “pungee pit” and decided it was fun, so they put it in the game
the viet cong never stood a chance against Tony Hawk's brutal rail grinding tactics
“Sometimes, creators just do a thing because they can”
English teachers: IMPOSSIBLE
Here's a tip for English class. Do what BDG is doing here. Like, even if an author didn't have some reason to do a thing, their choice to do it reflects something about the author and work.
In Tony Hawk, it reflects development conditions where individual designers could throw in something for the hell of it. It reflects that it was created in an environment distant enough from the Vietnam War that punji sticks had passed from a weapon of war to a cool trap seen in movies, but that retained enough sense of danger for it to be hella cool to jump over it.
Likewise, when you're reading Shakespeare, if you feel like the answer to "why is Shakespeare doin this" is "heck dude maybe he just wanted to" , consider trying to answer related questions like "what does including this and not some other possible inclusion say about the time, the audience, the medium, or the work as a whole"
Like who can say why Shakespeare included so many dick jokes or the designers of Tony Hawk included a punji pit, but the fact that they did absolutely colors the work and the things surrounding it?
Sorry for the long post. I just feel like if all the high school students watching BDG realized his essays are lowkey exactly what English teachers want, the world would be a better place
English teachers: "The blue curtains represent the protagonist's deep-seated insecurity and sadness."
The author: "The curtains were blue because it's my favorite color."
AlyssaSwift that’s how english class is for me every day with descriptions more complicated than they ever needed to be
Why was Johnathan Livingston Seagull written? The author needed the money
Kaia this is exactly why comments like this actually bug me. people think that just because theres no direct meaning to a specific thing that they dont have to think about anything that led up to it or the implications of the fact that they chose to do it that way
Brian is making exactly the kinds of things english teachers want to see because even if something doesnt have some surface level meaning he digs into it and still uncovers interesting things
The Punjee Pit I think is just indicative of Neversoft's ethos and creative choices all round. Their image and rebellious spirit was evident in all of the games they created even down to their playful, riske slogan 'Always hard, Never soft!!'
I gotta say, I'm curious to see how this quarantine affects your style when you're able to work in-office again. You seemed (at least from a viewer standpoint) to struggle briefly with the constraints of making videos at home and now you're rolling with the punches super well! It feels much less like you're content creators working for a news site and more just content creators that enjoy talking about video games.
Also you're scripting is still top-notch, really loved the comedic timing of the Vietnam War joke at the start!
Rolling with the pungees.
I'll see myself out.
@@dominateeye no...stay...please
Seconding all of this. The videos are fantastic and entertaining even though there was some apparent adjustment. I will suggest, though, that having physical props like when the Unraveled videos were shot in a studio helps a lot. The gamer space video and the stamina video were probably the best recent Unraveled videos because god dang BDG you really know how to make comedy with props. Heck, just watch the brief fridge bit in this video, probably the most humorous part. Keep on rocking Brian, your videos are some of the best content on this site. Educational AND funny, is there any better pairing?
Is that some type of flag in your pfp or is it just a multi-colored background?
Frood it’s the pansexual flag
UN: bans booby traps and mines
every millitary in the world: "that sign can't stop me because I can't read!"
I had to google and find out that this was actually correct cuz it makes no sense. banning "booby traps and anti-personnel mines" in warfare is a few steps short of banning projectiles. the UN and countries pretending to be civilized can get frickin silly lookin sometimes
@@ThinkBeyondTheBox spot on! Wouldnt want the Empire to lose now would we?
@@solfennell8981 That is a good point. I can see how that played a major role in making this decision as well.
@@ThinkBeyondTheBox Also they are feckin horrifying, even if they are used by less powerful countries they do just cause horrific and unnecessary injury to both soldiers and civilians. Weapons, if they have to exist, should at least be quick and not torturous.
Turns out evil dictatorships who want to destroy freedom don't care about the UN's play nice rules. Who would have guest?
It's so cool that Tommy Tallarico invented the pungee pit just for this game, in addition to making every single sound effect, his mother must be very proud
Imagine being a troop in Vietnam and you see Tony Hawk grinding on the tanks and doing a 720 over a pungee pit
The pungee pit sounds like a watermelon getting smashed but really low quality
that's because it is! :D
So it sounds like a watermelon getting... compressed?
@@TheOatmealDeluxe At this rate there's no telling if it was ever a watermelon in the first place!
@@TheOatmealDeluxe Quality comment lol you deserve big internet points
It probably was! Or some other type of melon. I know movie sound effect guys often use melons for human body impact noises.
these emails are gold, with scrapped UI messages to dying in the pungee pit "you got shafted", "who built that?", "serve, set, spike!", "Shish kabob?" (my favorite) and "don't build this at home!". as well as scott pease opening his email with "uh oh! that's a deeeeeeeep cut." absolute gold. still 20 years later and they're still in tune with the game's humor.
brian forgot to mention but the point of pungee sticks wasn't just to keep soldiers out of commision. no. the "real" reason is a lot more funny. the two main ones being:
A) consume reasources, same reason why land mines are designed to blow off a leg instead of just killing you, the pungee sticks are dirty (sometimes deliberatly covered in grime or fecal matter), wounded soldiers are worth more than dead ones as they get sent back, tie up medical resources, doctos and infirmery beds, helping spread disease and being much more impactful than if the soldier had just died. they were outnumbered and out gunned, no amount of kills could even the playing field, as such 1 injured soldier is worth 10 dead ones.
B) to induce psychological damage, paranoia, fear and PTSD. when danger could be anywhere it feels like it's everywhere. the stress of travelling through the woods while feeling as though every bush is filled with enemy soldiers and every footstep draws them closer to a trap, being constantly alert and feeling as your life is in danger, even when nothing is actually there. similar to the first reason this is a means of creating suffering and pain, not to kill. creating hesitation and dampening confidence, making the enemy dread taking objectives far away from the safety of their defenses.
the viet cong knew they couldn't win the war by defeating the enemy in the battlefield, killing their troops and taking their encampments thereby forcing them to route. no way. instead they correctly identified that the war would be won by attrition. the US was far from home, stranded in foreign territory and unfamiliar terrain, their morale is low and campaigning expensive as troops are thousands of miles from their families, trapped in an hostile enviroment. so the booby traps are there to induce war exhaustion. the way to win the war was to make sure to ensure the enemy felt despair, lose motivation and want to go home. to give up. as such you need to make their campaign seem endless and hopeless. guerilla fighters had a homefield advantage and could rebuild their improvised housing and relocate any time the US destroyed their quarters, this was their home and they could spend an eternity in the jungle and be okay, the US troops could not. the war would be won by out-enduring the conditions of war, as such US war conditions had to be made as awful as possible.
when framed this way (as a means of creating fear and suffering) putting pungee pits in an upbeat and playful scateboarding game for kids is even more funny.
based
I love how polygon has become such a like fever dream that it takes most of the video to set up the punchline. That's how specific their crazy is.
“Explains fridge horror then mentions Gengar.”
“Ooooh so that’s what that feeling was ten years ago.”
Did you die and become a Gengar?
It's like shower logic.
gengar is my favorite pokemon lol
hacking the day that’s a pretty normie pick my guy
@@azikenamorous8920 well yes indeed but can you judge the guy who has a set for every generation
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I truly agree with you on that,
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This reminds me of the fact that Neopets technically broke the Geneva Convention by making a red medical cross for an imaginary medical facility
To use a red cross when not a real medical facility/professional is illegal. There are lots of games that have had to put in patches change to look of medical facilities or health items when the Red Cross sent them a cease and desist.
Even My Little Pony got in trouble for using a red cross.
@@OriginalPiMan ok yeah you're right, I think it was the other way around
Wouldn't making the cross green be the way to _not_ violate the Geneva Convention? That's why Stardew Valley changed the color of the cross on Harvey's door - it used to be red, but it's a violation to misuse the red cross symbol, so now it's blue and the game doesn't contain a war crime.
@@milesmendez-haines5869 yeah I mixed it up and edited the comment accordingly
SO THAT'S WHY THE CROSS ON MED KITS IN SUBNAUTICA IS GREEN NOW WHEN IT USED TO BE RED
Worst timing for an ad ever:
"I will get to the bottom of this 20 year old mister..." Ad plays "...reee"
adblocker go brrrrrrt
@@AmericanIdiot7659 +laughs in watching UA-cam on Switch+
Edit: I literally logged in on my phone just to comment on the obscure timing of it.
Last Edit: Also, Polygon and Brian David Gilbert deserve all the adrevenue they can get.
BDG just proved what King Solomon said so many years ago "He who increases knowledge increases sorrow."
I honestly forgot they called it that in the game, I always just called it the spike pit. The kabob-related messages you got when you landed in them left more of an impression though
I totally forgot there was even a spike pit until he said the words "park creator" and then i went "OH SHIT THATS RIGHT THERE WAS A SPIKE TRAP!!!"
Funny you say that, because as a kid I called them shish kebabs, and I thought that was what spike pits were called.
i feel like 'Uh oh!' sums up this discovery very well
Me as 8yr old : Gengar looks so cool!
Me : learns that Gengar consumes children
Also me : ...yeah still cool
"Gengar just hits different" -brian david gilbert
Yeah physical attacks won't work on Gengar you do have to hit it different!
I love it when bdg hosts a non-Unraveled Polygon video. It feels like a mini-Unraveled with *_very slightly_* less chaotic energy.
Me, opening a pint of ice cream and realizing BDG's face was in the ice cream at 5:05:
HEY, WAIT A SECOND!
I guess RAtM’s “Guerilla Radio” being the main theme song makes a lot more sense to me now.
Lmao good one
Honestly, it sounds like the hyper specific turn of phrase you pick up when you have a war dad
haha yeah
Tommy Tellerico actually coded in the pit himself!!
His mother is very proud.
brian saying “hits different” is my religion
We could make a religion out of that
Brian, I can't believe you spoke to Neversoft staff and didn't ask the most important question: were the spikes in THPS2's "pungee pit" smeared with human faeces in order to induce bacterial infections in the injuries they inflicted?
I think by that time spike pits were a standard trope in the video game industry. They were self explanatory danger zones, and they were in a lot of games.
I think you meant at the end that it still had RAMPifications. C’mon Brian, it was right there, tone be damned!
see i was gonna go for “rambofications” myself
@@manfredking He missed TWO puns this is unacceptable
I did enjoy this Unraveled Lite, thank you Brian
Threadpull? Unpick? Fray?
I think about the quotes from this video a lot, I love the way Brian says things. Especially "THE VIETNAM WAR???" and "Brian - Uh-oh!"
I'd like to mention that the largest arteries in the human body are right about above the kneecap, that's also where the trap hit on 3:45 could've vary well bled him out, not just stopped him up
Honestly if I got hit I might be screaming a good longer while before I actually make any discernable words
Imagine taking a strip of an iron maiden to the legs.
Not to mention if it was made of bamboo, it'd be hollow on the inside, which would siphon the person's blood.
It never occurred to me to question the pungee pit. I always assumed it was some weird play off the word “plunge”. Anyway, thanks for the serotonin hit of the day.
The sound effect is actually a recording of tommy tallarico being stabbed with a pointy stick by joey kuras.
For anyone wondering, they played the sound effects 37 complete times; on the 38th time, the video ended.
technically it was played 40 in total (including the two earlier ones when brian gets it and the cut off one)
Did anyone else expect "hollaback girl" to start playing at the end there?
Uh-HUH! This my pit!
All the girls gonna fall in it!
Few tours I did in 'Nam, there was no smell nicer than napalm
'Cause I am the punji stick girl! I am the punji stick girl!
@@IstasPumaNevada Instant classic.
I remember that punji pit. That was where I first heard of them, and then I got really interested in various ways punji pits are actually used (although I admit my pre-teen brain was a bit disappointed to learn that real punji traps aren't 20 foot wide holes with sharpened tree trunks in them)
i, for one, am glad that tony hawk decided to honor the history of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle
god speed
BDG: im going to talk to you about something no one cares about
Me: im listening ✨
Ah yes, the iron maiden in the movie Matilda
"Gengar just hits different"
Well, yeah. I was normal.
This kind of random video stuff is the reason I subscribed to Polygon and Brian, serotonin pierces right into my vein like a pungee pit pierces poor skator's flesh. Thank you.
The sound at the end. Over and over again. That sound made me so happy. So glad you did that.
"But now, you are burdened with the knowledge of death."
Why are guerrilla warfare tactics banned by the UN? That’s like banning slingshots whenever David shows up to a 1v1 tournament.
That's what I was thinking. Italy invades Ethiopia and you want to tell the Ethiopians they can't use their ingenuity, knowledge of the environment and guerilla tactics to drive them out? It reeks of a pro-imperialist agenda by the UN.
@@zyaicob I think the UN is supposed to stop situations like that from happening in the first place, so the ban on guerrilla warfare is based on the assumption of equal levels of military technology. With that assumption, banning weapons that are designed to be as painful as possible seems like a reasonable rule. The main problem is the UN can't/won't follow up with both sides of these assumptions, leading to problems.
Slings, actually, not slingshots. One's handheld and uses rubber to launch things, the other's a long string that basically lets you swing your arm in a much wider circle
Important thing to note here is its not just the low tech pungi pit that's banned, its all sorts of booby traps and mines. This includes things like the "Toe Popper" mines that the us dropped by the thousands throughout vietnam, and which continue to cause horrible, debilitating injuries in civilians to this day. Its not to stop people from waging guerilla warfare, its to stop people from using weapons that are unable to distinguish between enemy soldiers and innocent children, and which can linger for years or even decades after the original conflict has ended.
TLDR: Low and high tech traps are banned because of the danger they pose to civilians after the conflict has ended.
@@razordrive3238 not sure why or how you stumbled upon this comment 2 years later, but i appreciate it
I thought fridge logic was named for the old series of lateral thinking questions starting with "how do you store an elephant in the refrigerator": "open the door, put the elephant in, and close the door."
the next question is how to store a giraffe in the refrigerator: "open the door, *take the elephant out*, put the giraffe in, and close the door".
The questions and answers go on like this without ever considering the relative sizes of elephants, giraffes and refrigerators
BDG: *finds a war crime.
Me: Aw shit, here we go again.
This part of Tony Hawk’s Existential Nightmare isn’t one I ever expected
BDG always looks so proud of himself over the dumbest little things and I love it so much (:
Oop, BDG, time for serotonin
the soothing absurdity
My theory- The reason why the tool of the pungee pit exists in Pro Skater 2 is because they needed a reason for you to quickly reset after a fail. I would assume the reason they came to the conclusion to use a pungee pit trap specifically and not some other trap is probably because it was the most obvious pit trap style to use at the time without using something more graphically demanding to implement like a lava pit or fire.
Makes me think of how veterans with PTSD feel encountering stuff like this. Really shows how the line between the extremely goofy violence and real life-ruining stuff can get thin. There's a moment in a Judith Thompson play (never see her stuff, unless you're ready for unflinching truth about pain) where a refugee father is reading his daughter Green Eggs and Ham and responds to an unheard question with "No, you will not be forced to eat green eggs and ham." this reminds me of that. At the same time, realizing terminology learned playing video games comes from history might actually wake some otherwise disconnected person up in a history class or two, so there's that.
"I have gotten more retainable Vietnam War information from this video than from weeks of history class."