@@MarcusTSMarcus I took a look at that mod. The amount dick developer moves and the general mod itself.... I couldn't stand to watch more than ten minutes of that dumpster fire.
If you're not riding a bike having to dodge breakdancing teens, guys walking across the road with a pane of glass, killer dogs, angry nuns and Death himself, then its not a Mail Delivery sim.
okay, interesting fact about the whole "300 implies there are 300 more houses" thing i learnt while in America the other year: in American towns like this, and the more rural areas, the houses are often numbered by how many yards down the road they are, because it's pretty much a given that more houses will be built and having to renumber houses every time a new house is built would be a hassle.
... wait, Jon and I are the same age? But Jon keeps saying he's old. Does that... does that mean... I'M OLD!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo..... *inhale* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
3:08 - In the US at least, addresses are even on one side of the road and odd on the other. If the road is empty on one side, those numbers are skipped. They also generaly line up 100's with the perpendicular roads, so that station could be the only address active on that street but is 300 because its just after where the road does/would intercept with like 3rd street or something.
@@spacefork7296 in rural areas, house numbers are based on the number of feet down the road they are. This is done so 911 services can easily identify houses and private drives based on their distance. For instance, 2751 County Road 1 is 2751 feet down County Road 1 It’s the reason why the US has adopted the metric system for nearly everything except for addresses and civilian uses, it’d require an entire revamp to the address and 911 system
@@RagingBadger68 not when its random numbers in no discernable order. Hell i have been to places with no street name or number and you navigate by landmarks.
I grew up on a semi-rural road in Pennsylvania that had: 90. 90B. 90C. 90D. 90R. 90S. 90T. 90TT. And they were not in alphabetical order. In the late 1700s the entire road was just a handful of large farm tracts, that were later divided up bit by bit, and rather than renumber, they would just assign different letters. I was 90R. People often assumed it was like an apartment number, I'd say "90 R blahblah road" and they'd write down "90 blahblah road, Apt R" and I was like "NO, that will get delivered to #90, the wrong house, half a mile down the road." Somewhere between 2000 and 2005, they did in fact renumber the entire road, precisely to standardize to a more sensible system that would enable emergency services to locate the addresses easier.
I just love Jon grappling with the US address system. He sees 300 and thinks "oh shit, that's a lot of addresses" and meanwhile being American I was thinking "huh that's kind of a low number for an address. Should be like 6300 or 13300 or something"
I really like these simple and nice games that don’t feel overly saturated, or way to dramatic, even if a little cartoony. In a world full of copy pasted looter shooters and scuffed early release games that don’t know what their doing, it’s nice seeing a grounded game now and then
It's not like they had a joke where they say things like "The best flick is "The Bean"!" I mean, they're on a lake and not once was there any innuendo about finding the little man in the boat! ... in a way, I feel let down.
You have no idea how stressed it was too watch Jon drive in the left side in America. And he kept doing it after figuring it out. Nice calm game though
Plot Twist: Kay was previously Meredith's unknown lover, but now she fancies the Flick Shop girl, one of them is gonna get murdered in the lake, hence the Title
"This is nice. This is just lovely... I wonder what happens if I ram someone at full speed?" Ah Jon, please never change! (Unless you want to, of course, and if Claire say's it's okay) PS: This one might be a candidate for a new end-card?
I'm seeing a trend of Jon playing an awful lot of chillout games recently, calming his nerves because he's worried about the fallout 4 YOLO run perhaps? 🤣
The mail carrier stopped in our office at work to deliver mail, and upon taking it, I looked at the letters and threw them in the trash as they were junk mail. I think I crushed that man's spirit that day, and I now wait for the mail carrier to leave before tossing it in the trash.
I once worked for a summer in a factory that printed junk mail. Every time the machines mangled things that had already been printed with addresses, we’d throw out the papers feeling like heroes who had saved people from getting junk mail.
you drive around delivering mail in the countryside socializing with people while delivering and helping people out, sooo, this is literally US version of postman pat, just as a game? Got it!. It even have the "cat is sick" episode. also, yay for having a female main and i also kinda low key love her outfit^^
I'm so glad you're playing this. It immediately grabbed my attention at E3. Something about the setting made me really want to explore the world of Lake.
The level of detail of the fake movies in the Flick Shack is amazing. Back to the Present, Ghostblasters, The Maze, Grimlins, The Bee, Thirteen Candles!
So I live in the middle of nowhere and I can attest that a video renting store in the 80s' was compleatly doable. Hell my Home Town had a cinema during its hayday.
"What do you mean 103 I was at 300 a second ago". Oh Jon, welcome to the life as a postman. No route makes sense and you just have to learn it by heart or take 2 hours extra.
I love the names of moviesin the Flick shack. Back to the present, The Maze, The Ghost blasters, The Grimlins, Kung fu kid and so much more. :D Someone had fun :D
The way the American address system usually works is that the hundreds and/or thousands place denote the block number. As we see in the cutscene before you stop at the service station, frank had just turned onto the road, meaning the station was the start of the 300 block. It’s rare that a block will use up all 100 block numbers associated with it. On American streets, odd numbers tend to be on one side with evens on the other
TBF, the odd/even thing’s pretty common in the UK too - but we always just use the smallest numbers we can. So if I saw a 100, I’d make the same assumption as Jon - long-ass street. So cheers for clarifying that part
Jon is the only gamer here on UA-cam that can think of a car pun name in 1.0068 seconds but can't figure out how roads and cars work in other countries for 40 minutes . If that is not the most Jon thing ever i don't know what is.
So wait in this nightmarish game, the mailman doesn't actually get time off. He has to ask his daughter to cover him using her holiday, where she's still actually working on stuff.
old towns 'round here were sometimes built Before the advent of house numbers and official addresses, and sometimes houses can be out of order, and addresses might skip numbers entirely. (delivered papers as a kid, back when print newspapers were a thing)
Because Jon *apparently* doesnt know how addresses work, the exact number is actually determined by the blocks, which are in multiples of 100. So all the houses with 300 in their address are on the 300 block of that street, it has nothing at all to do with the number of buildings/houses in a particular area
Oh, that bait shop owner looked so darn creepy! Those eyes!! But all in all, a nice relaxing game. I would imagine it will get pretty hectic regarding deliveries towards the end. And I'll bet the main character will decide to stay in the picturesque little town instead of returning to the nerd factory! And the premise of her filling in for her dad would never fly with the Post Office Union!
hey jon i would be happy to answer all your mailperson related questions. i got about 8 years experience and what i saw in the video put a big smile on my face :)
Relaxing, mundane games are the games that I live for now-a-days As fun as action packed strategy games are They don't bring me as much joy anymore now games like Slime Rancher and A Short Hike are what make be feel the best.
Apparently Jon’s never encountered electronic door chimes before? Is that not a thing in England or has he just never noticed because of the famously low perception?
I have a major issue with this game. The mailman, Frank Coleman, as he is driving Jon's character to lake town, completely passes by a stop sign with out stopping to observe any incoming traffic. That warrants a traffic violation ticket that can cost you up to $125 in the state of Florida
"What I wanted was a chilled-out super-relaxed do-a-job thing where you wander around, met people, did some low-stakes personal drama" Well, INFRA is sort of that, minus the 'met people' and the 'personal drama' bits ...soo, maybe give INFRA a go?
Day 416 of requesting Zoo Tycoon. Postman Jon and his adventures! I'm trying to write an article about international competitions other than the olympics, and I could use some ideas from the wider world - anything other than Eurovision?
@@katbairwell I've got the World Cup for FIFA, forgot about rugby; I was looking for contests that don't have an equivalent in American TV as it is. Started writing about SCA Combat because televised LARP where people clock each other with sticks sounds like the USA's speed.
These New Vegas mods are getting pretty esoteric
No guns, YOLO, all packages delivered courier run.
At least there isn’t any paedophilia or zoophelia in this one.
@@MarcusTSMarcus don't even reference that monstrosity of a mod
@@MarcusTSMarcus I took a look at that mod. The amount dick developer moves and the general mod itself.... I couldn't stand to watch more than ten minutes of that dumpster fire.
A whole mod around Lake Mead? Amazing....
If you're not riding a bike having to dodge breakdancing teens, guys walking across the road with a pane of glass, killer dogs, angry nuns and Death himself, then its not a Mail Delivery sim.
A lot of chilled out games on the channel recently.
I like the vibe. We've all had mad years, and the stress of YOLO takes its toll.
Good stuff.
I’m not surprised he immediately Austin Powers’d the mail truck
okay, interesting fact about the whole "300 implies there are 300 more houses" thing i learnt while in America the other year: in American towns like this, and the more rural areas, the houses are often numbered by how many yards down the road they are, because it's pretty much a given that more houses will be built and having to renumber houses every time a new house is built would be a hassle.
Oh, Jon was born just 5 months after Chernobyl... that explains so much!
Little-known side effect of the Chernobyl disaster was changing a small percentage of newborns into Egg Cartons…
Today I've learnt Jon is the same age as me.. and why eggs stack so well on me
Guys... I meant Fallout... Do you get it?
Jon when you visit Vegas please let Claire drive.
I don't think Claire drives.
@@trogdor8764 I am betting it would still be safer
Hearing about her "Belgium story" I think they'd be safer just taking public transport
"and worse: her hat was ruined" that seems like a VERY Jon book
... wait, Jon and I are the same age?
But Jon keeps saying he's old.
Does that... does that mean... I'M OLD!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo..... *inhale* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
3:08 - In the US at least, addresses are even on one side of the road and odd on the other. If the road is empty on one side, those numbers are skipped. They also generaly line up 100's with the perpendicular roads, so that station could be the only address active on that street but is 300 because its just after where the road does/would intercept with like 3rd street or something.
Unless you live in rural pennsylvania and the numbers are assigned by lunatics or not at all
@@spacefork7296 in rural areas, house numbers are based on the number of feet down the road they are. This is done so 911 services can easily identify houses and private drives based on their distance.
For instance, 2751 County Road 1 is 2751 feet down County Road 1
It’s the reason why the US has adopted the metric system for nearly everything except for addresses and civilian uses, it’d require an entire revamp to the address and 911 system
Australia does the first part as well, odd on one side, even on the other
@@RagingBadger68 not when its random numbers in no discernable order. Hell i have been to places with no street name or number and you navigate by landmarks.
I grew up on a semi-rural road in Pennsylvania that had: 90. 90B. 90C. 90D. 90R. 90S. 90T. 90TT. And they were not in alphabetical order. In the late 1700s the entire road was just a handful of large farm tracts, that were later divided up bit by bit, and rather than renumber, they would just assign different letters. I was 90R. People often assumed it was like an apartment number, I'd say "90 R blahblah road" and they'd write down "90 blahblah road, Apt R" and I was like "NO, that will get delivered to #90, the wrong house, half a mile down the road." Somewhere between 2000 and 2005, they did in fact renumber the entire road, precisely to standardize to a more sensible system that would enable emergency services to locate the addresses easier.
On Labor Day, 1 September 1986, the SF Giants lost to the NY Mets in Shea Stadium, by a score of 2 runs to 5.
I just love Jon grappling with the US address system. He sees 300 and thinks "oh shit, that's a lot of addresses" and meanwhile being American I was thinking "huh that's kind of a low number for an address. Should be like 6300 or 13300 or something"
The Flick Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Flick shack baby!
F*CK SHACK! BABY, F*CK SHACK!
I really like these simple and nice games that don’t feel overly saturated, or way to dramatic, even if a little cartoony. In a world full of copy pasted looter shooters and scuffed early release games that don’t know what their doing, it’s nice seeing a grounded game now and then
When you realize 'Flick Shack' is still dirty.
I'm pretty sure "F*ck Shack" is universally dirty.
It's not like they had a joke where they say things like "The best flick is "The Bean"!" I mean, they're on a lake and not once was there any innuendo about finding the little man in the boat!
... in a way, I feel let down.
@@pdughi It's just the demo! I'm sure something like that will be the comic relief just before the climax.
Movies were called flicks, on account of how they used to flicker, 24 frames per second.
Let me tell you about a thing called Netflix...
"Apparently we're in Oregon, from the signs."
And, you know, the caption after the tutorial telling us where we were.
You have no idea how stressed it was too watch Jon drive in the left side in America. And he kept doing it after figuring it out. Nice calm game though
Seems Americans struggle to drive on the left in the UK too
@@rule6090 I personally haven't really seen it when I'm over there, but I can imagine. It does get some getting used to.
I don't even come from the US, but he had me on the edge of my seat - Australia, in case you want to know ...
I'm english and seeing him driving on the left in America gave me anxiety
"Can we have Life Is Strange?"
"We have Life Is Strange at home."
Life Is Strange at home:
I used to live up the road from a video store called "Pick a flick" that had exactly the same font problem on their sign ...
Watched the first 15 minutes and then decided to play it myself. So I will see you back in September, once I finish the game!
Plot Twist: Kay was previously Meredith's unknown lover, but now she fancies the Flick Shop girl, one of them is gonna get murdered in the lake, hence the Title
I'd better start writing the fic
"This is nice. This is just lovely... I wonder what happens if I ram someone at full speed?" Ah Jon, please never change! (Unless you want to, of course, and if Claire say's it's okay) PS: This one might be a candidate for a new end-card?
"Good Dodge!....But can you do it AGAIN,coppa?"
@@benjamingrant5970 Oh yes! I'd forgotten that, thanks for the laugh
Female character talks in a somewhat polite way to Jon's female character, "Are we going to be lesbians?!" Oh Jon, never change!
i mean, to be fair, it was a pretty gay interaction,
I mean he ended up being right, with her calling the player character babe. seems he has a decent gaydar.
These narrative style games are the perfect material to watch on UA-cam especially when people such as Jon Matn play them 👍 please play more Jon
Agreed! Jon's level of engagement with the game and the way he commentates reminds me of college literature classes, in the best way possible.
2:34 My man Frank just plowed straight through that stop sign
I think that whether you drive on the left or on the right, you’re not supposed to just pull out into the middle of the road and park there.
Should have titled it "as you lake it "
I'm seeing a trend of Jon playing an awful lot of chillout games recently, calming his nerves because he's worried about the fallout 4 YOLO run perhaps? 🤣
Maybe the aftermath of moving to a different house
@@azyrael96 nah I think he got that out his system with the powerwash stream. 😊
Jon is playing this like its equal parts Life is Strange and My Summer Car
5:56 National Post Services operating on the institution of Serfdom would indeed explain the appalling quality world wide.
we will absolutely need a full MATN playthrough of this!!!
The mail carrier stopped in our office at work to deliver mail, and upon taking it, I looked at the letters and threw them in the trash as they were junk mail. I think I crushed that man's spirit that day, and I now wait for the mail carrier to leave before tossing it in the trash.
Postman: "B-but I worked hard to bring them here..."
Me: "Fiiine, I'll look at the junk mail. Just for you."
Postman: 😄
I once worked for a summer in a factory that printed junk mail. Every time the machines mangled things that had already been printed with addresses, we’d throw out the papers feeling like heroes who had saved people from getting junk mail.
@@timbus2 Throwing it away at the factory is just cutting out the middle men.
you drive around delivering mail in the countryside socializing with people while delivering and helping people out,
sooo, this is literally US version of postman pat, just as a game? Got it!. It even have the "cat is sick" episode.
also, yay for having a female main and i also kinda low key love her outfit^^
I'm so glad you're playing this. It immediately grabbed my attention at E3. Something about the setting made me really want to explore the world of Lake.
"A nice calm and relaxing game.......I wonder what would happen if i rammed that car at full speed" Not what id called relaxing but you do you, Jon.
Francis York Morgan would love this town. Mail delivery drives almost as badly as he does xD
I enjoyed this demo way too much for a game with almost no gameplay XD I was so drawn in
This game does seem super lovely. Can't wait to see where it goes in the full release!
Looking forward to Jon’s speed run of this game when it is released.
The level of detail of the fake movies in the Flick Shack is amazing. Back to the Present, Ghostblasters, The Maze, Grimlins, The Bee, Thirteen Candles!
Having lived through the 80's, I'm pretty sure that it would have been called "The Flix Shack".
Nobody but Jon can make 80s mail delivery interesting :-)
The voice acting in this is surprisingly fantastic. Adding it to my Steam wishlist now.
So I live in the middle of nowhere and I can attest that a video renting store in the 80s' was compleatly doable. Hell my Home Town had a cinema during its hayday.
11:45 The lake: Kill Everything when???
"What do you mean 103 I was at 300 a second ago". Oh Jon, welcome to the life as a postman. No route makes sense and you just have to learn it by heart or take 2 hours extra.
I swear I could watch Jon play this whole thing
I love the names of moviesin the Flick shack. Back to the present, The Maze, The Ghost blasters, The Grimlins, Kung fu kid and so much more. :D
Someone had fun :D
@Jon @29:35: "The Pine Street Parcel" sounds like a horror flick, if I've ever heard one. 😄
Nice and chill.
The way the American address system usually works is that the hundreds and/or thousands place denote the block number. As we see in the cutscene before you stop at the service station, frank had just turned onto the road, meaning the station was the start of the 300 block. It’s rare that a block will use up all 100 block numbers associated with it. On American streets, odd numbers tend to be on one side with evens on the other
TBF, the odd/even thing’s pretty common in the UK too - but we always just use the smallest numbers we can. So if I saw a 100, I’d make the same assumption as Jon - long-ass street. So cheers for clarifying that part
Honestly have been waiting for your video on this since i first saw clips of it on tiktok!
this is nice, this just seems lovely
*cut*
I wonder what happens if I ram at someone at full speed
A potential lesbian at a store named "flick shack" bit on the nose don't you think :P
Jon gets the only right-hand drive vehicle in the county and proceeds to drive on the left
When you realise you are technically old enough to be Jon's father. lol
Anyone else catch the sponge and starfish on Mr. Mackey’s dock? Spongebob references!
I was expecting him to have a tie and a giant head.
Jon is the only gamer here on UA-cam that can think of a car pun name in 1.0068 seconds but can't figure out how roads and cars work in other countries for 40 minutes . If that is not the most Jon thing ever i don't know what is.
Lol oh Jon, you could over analyze brushing your teeth.
It’s *always* the right time for puns, Jon!
a game in which jon learns towns have more than a single road and that roads go both ways resulting in numbers increasing and decreasing!
So she's from an Institute in Boston 🤔
1986 I was 5. So the 80's is something I remember.
Nice and chill game. Very nice. Would love to see how the story develops.
“Cathouse” has, ah, multiple meanings.
So wait in this nightmarish game, the mailman doesn't actually get time off. He has to ask his daughter to cover him using her holiday, where she's still actually working on stuff.
old towns 'round here were sometimes built Before the advent of house numbers and official addresses, and sometimes houses can be out of order, and addresses might skip numbers entirely. (delivered papers as a kid, back when print newspapers were a thing)
Because Jon *apparently* doesnt know how addresses work, the exact number is actually determined by the blocks, which are in multiples of 100. So all the houses with 300 in their address are on the 300 block of that street, it has nothing at all to do with the number of buildings/houses in a particular area
Well John isn’t American is he? So he probably doesn’t know how American addressing works
@@WhoDidYouSay he lived in Seattle for a while about 10 years ago, also how is this unique to the US?
Working for the USPS is actually quite stressful.
I've had someone recognize me after 35 years.
"I'm having a lovely time.......WATCH ME RAM THIS SHIT!!!!"
I desperately need us to see this love affair all the way through. oh my lorddddd my heart
September 1986 Jon was a baby. Meanwhile I was just starting sixth form after getting my O level results earlier that year. I feel so old.
Sixth form? Are you a JRPG end boss?
J/K of course I know what you mean.
I was just starting school around then.
Oh, that bait shop owner looked so darn creepy! Those eyes!! But all in all, a nice relaxing game. I would imagine it will get pretty hectic regarding deliveries towards the end. And I'll bet the main character will decide to stay in the picturesque little town instead of returning to the nerd factory! And the premise of her filling in for her dad would never fly with the Post Office Union!
hey jon i would be happy to answer all your mailperson related questions. i got about 8 years experience and what i saw in the video put a big smile on my face :)
Do they not have motion sensor door chimes in the UK?
The hotel guy moves like a character in The Sims :P
This gives me Firewatch vibes..
Relaxing, mundane games are the games that I live for now-a-days
As fun as action packed strategy games are
They don't bring me as much joy anymore
now games like Slime Rancher and A Short Hike are what make be feel the best.
Is it a bad sign that i found this video after typing in British Columbia wildfires?
Not particularly, but since you're here, pull up a chair and have some fun. Welcome to the channel. :)
@@cartermariano yeaaa, but kinda ominous. Especially after typing in British Columbia wildfires yk....probably hinting at something lol
@@pvtread5207 Well, he seems to enjoy setting characters on fire on occasion. :D
@@cartermariano oh and I've been watching jon since julianous vitinious lol
@@cartermariano oh fallout 4 hahahahaha. Yeaaaa kinda scary lol
Hi! Love your videos!
jon's worse at delivering mail intact than postnord
It looks like the developers modeled the game map after Crater Lake!
Oh no, Jon calls himself an old man all the time, but he's only a year older than me?... oh no...
@Bob Sacamano ...oh no lol
When this game comes out, by the end of it, Jon will make "The Flick Shack" change its name to what he read first
Yes this is exactly how the world worked in 1986.
You said Oregon correctly! Brownie points to you Jon :)
Apparently Jon’s never encountered electronic door chimes before? Is that not a thing in England or has he just never noticed because of the famously low perception?
Actually I've never encountered them in the US either. Must be a West Coast thing...
Were they a thing in 1986?
TIL: 1) Jon does not know how house numbering works 2) Jon believes people get mail every single day.
Jon, you make the most pointless drama fun to watch
Only jon would get an easy going mail simulator and drive like its gta
13:55 - is it just me, or is Meredith the one talking (looks like her mouth is moving in the blurred background), not Ash?
Maz was born in '86 too! Right before Halley's Comet.
(Also, holy crap, that protagonist looks like me!! Weird.)
Is this going to be a Hallmark movie? Glam fast paced life in the city, money and success, but the real life can only ever be in the small home town?
2:35 the driver blew a stop sign
Jon, is there a possibility that RimWorld and Griftlands will come back to the channel? :)
I have a major issue with this game. The mailman, Frank Coleman, as he is driving Jon's character to lake town, completely passes by a stop sign with out stopping to observe any incoming traffic. That warrants a traffic violation ticket that can cost you up to $125 in the state of Florida
You most certainly work at the Nerd Factory Jon.
Lake is a gloriously relaxing game about being a postal worker in 1986, in a small town....
called Pripyat...
That would be fun.
"What I wanted was a chilled-out super-relaxed do-a-job thing where you wander around, met people, did some low-stakes personal drama"
Well, INFRA is sort of that, minus the 'met people' and the 'personal drama' bits
...soo, maybe give INFRA a go?
@@steviesteveo1 I wonder if he'll discover 'the bucket of poo' and that it can be used to cause vehicle accidents
Day 416 of requesting Zoo Tycoon. Postman Jon and his adventures! I'm trying to write an article about international competitions other than the olympics, and I could use some ideas from the wider world - anything other than Eurovision?
I assume all the various World Cups (e.g. football, rugby) and others like Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Tour de France etc. don't count?
@@katbairwell I've got the World Cup for FIFA, forgot about rugby; I was looking for contests that don't have an equivalent in American TV as it is. Started writing about SCA Combat because televised LARP where people clock each other with sticks sounds like the USA's speed.