Inspector Anderson Loves Communism | Papers, Please
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- From 6½ hours down to 1¾, watch as a newly-appointed border inspector quickly learns the ins and outs of paperwork, corruption, and glory. Also featuring stories of love, vengeance, and expensive stationery.
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Papers, Please by Lucas Pope. papersplea.se
Special thanks to Nodja for the VODs and Chat backup.
Original stream date: 2018/02/06
Chatless: • GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA, IN...
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Act I // The Lottery Winner
10:02 - Authorized to Detain
24:22 - Paid to Detain
39:18 - Consequences of Bribery
46:03 - Meet the Andersons
48:03 - Act II // Serious Business
54:25 - Give Me a Reason
1:01:23 - Glory to Arstotzka?
1:12:09 - Act III // Citation Circus
1:20:36 - Vaccine Certificates & Eliza
1:23:16 - Access Permits
1:27:19 - Passport Problems
1:37:05 - The End
1:40:22 - Outro
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I recommend watching the original VOD for the full soul-wrenching experience. You are missing out on an extra 4 or so hours of paperwork checking. I would recommend even more, trying to edit this yourself and forever embedding the Arstotzka theme into your brain.
the strangest thing about this game is that they have a system that automatically detects incorrect documentation, and it's used exclusively to punish the guy working the booth rather than just having that do the admissions
could be that they document all of the people who come through, and check them later and punish you based on that, or maybe just a gaming abstraction
based techno-totalitarian regime.
Reminds me of our tax system
@@godlyvex5543inventing a technology to make a job easier but using it to punish people tracks 100%
@@God_gundam36Only under capitalism, though. Communists wouldn't waste someone's labour.
I love how in Joe's canon, his inspector just had a long con to kill the mother-in-law
Joe successfully betraying both EZIC and Arstotzka at the end is kind of based.
i’m conflicted ngl
Yeah, both parties were wrong in their own way.
Joe helped EZIC right up until they went mask-off to make their big play, betrayed them at their most vulnerable point, and fled the country with his family.
Unfathomably based ending.
@@VashdaCrash eh, EZIC is still better in my opinion even if their "The ends justify the means" ideology is kind of wacky. Still better than Arstotzka at the end of a day.
@@mofka26 We're not really given much information about ezic. You're projecting revolutionary ideals onto them and doing whatever they say hoping it works out. They ask for simple rule breaking first and they keep escalating on you until you sacrifice yourself "for the cause" on command, and it doesn't even work or make the situation better.
Can't blame a guy for choosing to protect his family instead.
this guy proceeds to help ezic through some of the most important tasks but on the eve of the revolution, sabotages them at their most critical point, only to bail on the country entirely and flee across the border, simultaneously dooming everyone who lives there to a life of even worse tyranny as ezic has gone mask off, and failed, while not having to suffer a single moment under it.
Bravo.
I've never seen someone devolve into ultranationalism so fast i love this
From "Oh I like spot the difference :)" to MW2 Makarov "No, this is a message." *DENY STAMP SOUNDS* "Impor will see what has happened here today."
In the span of a single in-game day. Almost impressive.
At first I thought the chat was onscreen from the stream, but then I noticed the way its positioning changes on the fly and fades away when going to gameplay as well means you have to have added that in editing. It looks pretty great!
Joe: "My country is THE BEST!"
*can't even afford rent, food or heat*
"What the fuck?!?"
The American Dream
He is happy to just have won the October Labour Lottery.
Ah yes, just like the motherland
For anyone who plays this and finds themselves struggling, 2 very strong tips:
You don't need to buy food and heat every day. Alternate days is fine.
You don't need to formally identify issues until you get the REASON stamp or if you want to detain them. If I remember correctly, there are even people who would be ok if you prompted them that something looked wrong, but you still don't get a citation for rejecting them. Eg, name is wrong, if you asked they could provide fingerprints that prove they're the person, but rejecting without identifying the issue is also accepted.
Another tip if you wanna get real good at it: really *look* at the map. Arstotzka borders Kolechia, and Arstotzka is *east,* so Kolechia has West Grestin, and Arstotzka has East Grestin.
Impor is like Japan, so the names sound Japanese.
United Fed. has almost “American-y” names.
You get the point. The only issue is with Antegria and Republia, as I can’t really find anything for them.
Another one would be to actually notice when you repeatedly make the same mistake. Unlike Joe lol
Another very good tip is that the first person every day is meant to teach you about the new rules. The first person after the seals get stolen will have forged seals, the first person after the wanted bulletin is wanted, etc. Check for the new rules first to save time.
Another tip is that people only have one issue, VERY rarely they have two separate issues, but once you solve the first issue you can either deny or approve them without much worry.
Also, workers seem to have issues less often than other people, especially the engineers after the scouting guy comes through they will always be good to go through.
And lastly, serial numbers will always have their issue immediately, you don't even have to read past the first 2 characters, which can help save time.
P.S. learning to sight read is also an excellent skill for this game
for a guy living with no heating or food, bureaucrat Anderson has loads of sass
14:27
i love that this is actually the plot of the papers please short movie
I've to give Joe credit, he seems to be okay with "got the bed ending" or "got not perfect ending" while stuff like this would ate me away and made me to replay a game.
I feel the same way except for Witcher 3 I got the worst ending possible but I’m not playing 100 hours again
Completionist moment
@@alextanner115 not me playing 60 hours of persona 4 golden again because i choose a single wrong answer lmao
@@skong-o3x almost the same problem, I immediatly started new persona 4 playthrough because I didn't get the true ending
1:26:53 Rare incident of a twitch chatter realizing their mistakes.
1:31:21 "SOB STORY? TO GULAG!!!" I love Joe's chat
had to double check when this was streamed, since the chat didn't literally explode after one lady said the word "imposter" it MUST have been before amogus was released 25:20
sus
that feeling when you find an awesome channel on youtube, with great and well thought video essays about game design, you cherish the long hours of awesome content... Then you find a channel with his stream shorts and all of this goes to hell, because you're from Impor....
i mean its kinda your fault from being from impor
i love the chat going "this is communism to me" when Joe's talking about sudden, unfair rent increases.
Pretty sure we have those in capitalism, comrades
Bang on
Communism in these people's minds is just state capitalism
Genuine question, is Arzachksa or whatever actually supposed to be a communist country? Like every other "underdeveloped" country operates just like this, underappreciated labor and horrible wages, etc. and 99% are capitalist no? Even the U.S. and co are barely any different, the numbers just look prettier.
@@hiddenleafdrip3869 Its meant to have the Iron curtain feel in aesthetics, but the game doesn't really go into detail about modes of production or the consequences. Weirdos just use video games to reinforce their world views for some reason. Just look at hoi4 players for an example.
Honestly, the only thing "communist" about Arstotska is that you're paid by the amount of people you process rather than on an hourly wage
You're absolutely killing it with these edits. I love all the little touches and gags you add to it.
I know I'd never have gone through some of these old streams without you!
Thank you very much for this comrade!
Да, большое спасибо.
Man is the representation of skill issues
didn't think somebody could be bad at bureaucratic paperwork, thanks for proving me wrong Joe
if I'm not mistaken he is dyslexic so him being bad at paperwork and bureaucracy is normal
@@Algorithm_God_Cult He does have dyslexia but tbf it was not just him messing up spellings here
@@SpanishPaulDank-lg3km like not looking at expiration dates.
43 mins in
he did send everyone he could to gulag for money
but he didn't took any bribe because he was loyal to country who didn't payed him enough to keep his family alive
and when he takes the bribe he detains the guy who would fix the investigation on him
he didn't checked genders and expiration dates back to back sometimes
I'm so glad I have an opportunity to watch Joe's old videos thanks to these highlights, much appreciated!
Im realizing he's the exact opposite of me, who let every beggar through on their first run and just let as many people through as quickly as possible until i beat the game LOL
"25 for a crayon set?! Whaddya think, I'm made of statues?!" -Joseph Anderson
Your higlights are always excellent! Thank you for all your great work.
i was literally JUST thinking about how i wish someone would make highlights for this stream, i owe you my actual life thank you so much
Hippo says...
Long Live Republia!
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love this video. came into it thinking i'd just put it on the background but ended up watching all of it. love the joke edits and the ending was just perfect. great job!
wake up babe new joseph anderson supercut just dropped
10:12 top tier edit
Отличное видео, товарищ!
Замечательный комментарий!
Already love the opening. Great work.
I was just watching the full vod when I saw you had uploaded, thanks a lot! Great editing as always
Gets arrested: "Did we get 5 credits for detaining ourselves though?" **HERE COMES THE MONEEEEH!**
Fine work, comrade.
As always, thank you for bringing these old vods into highlights, doing god's work!
Its so funny when backseaters in the chat are wrong.
Poor Jorji, he’s the only one who wasn’t allowed to smuggle drugs into arstotska
Thank you for all your work, these are fantastic
becomes racist towards fake country within 01 days
you can just tell this is from 2018, joe is less of a weeb and chat is cringy and edgy
genuinely forgot how the whole gender spectrum was taken back then lmao, i know its just a sign of the times but holy hell 90% of that shit would be ban worthy now
@@bsaucemanWhat was ban worthy? I don't read chat.
This explains a lot lmao, half the stuff in chat nowadays is about convincing Joe to like hentai. Every time I glanced at the chat in this vid it was just generic streamer chat (aka everybody's just weird in a lame way).
ohh that explains it, chat's reaction on a few things was putting me off, i'm glad to know it was like this 5 years ago and not now
@@jamesmccomb9525 an example that sticks out in my head is the spamming of the ANELE emote whenever there’d be a terrorist attack in the game.
5:17 so apparently Umineko was teased so long ago and we just didnt see it
Ha, you can feel it's pre-quarantine because nobody reacts to polio.
You fled to another country with your family and no savings... good ending?
If the country is decent, they could simply get a job and prosper.
The one guy in chat at 1:39:27
I did a double take at 43:31
Pog the drugs guy
the true passport was all the money money money that came along the way
every time i watch Joe play a game I am amazed at how dumb he is and then smart.
It’s very interesting how he can go from pretty dense at some points, then do a complete heel turn and have the most sound and just reasoning you’ve ever heard.
within the first 5 mins he already turned Racist LOL
1:08:09 Not again!
Damn, this playthrough was an any % speedrun to get as many endings blind huh? XD
Glory to Avarisi
2:46 He's a keeper clearly lol
imporism levels off the charts
I liked when you made a chatless version of your until dawn cut :)
Any plans to do so again in the future?
Added. Check the description or my main comment. Cheers.
the chat reacting to everything with "communism" made Uncle Sam riding a bald eagle, both of them holding a 1911, appear out of my monitor, ong
46:05 DEFAULT RINGTONE WHAAAAAT
Jorji is the hero we deserve.
OBRISTAN ABOVE ALL!
I like how Joe tries to argue logic in a communist dictatorship as though that would get him out of prison
I don’t understand how the the game is supposed to be set in a communist setting (I could be just blind tho)
But yeah, not much you can do when there’s a dictatorship
@@tartipouss technically stalin did have a dictatorship, still almost every other mainstream ideology also had a similar dictatorship
My assumption is because the game looks Russian-isk and "Russia=communism" maybe
@@twinkiesmaster69 Summary:
Russia wasn't even communist (communism was never achieved long term in any country)
The game is set in a VERY capitalist and authoritarian environement.
If the game was communist there wouldn't even be any money or state to begin with (communism = stateless, classless, moneyless society. So yeah)
So I quickly googled it, and Arstotzka is a fictional country supposed to be a small part of the Russia, and the game is set during 1982, so that doesn't help a lot as we can't use history to know the politics used by this country other than in the game (which none of them are communist).
But the game does seem to be using so called "communist propaganda" image which were used during the USSR (Stalin) in the form of the small pro-Arstotzka imagery we can see during the few cutscene.
Tho... other than these few imagery, and associating "Russian" country with communism because of real life propaganda (The Red Scare during the Cold War). There really is literally not a single element pointing toward even the tiniest bit of communism.
I mean... it's pretty obvious when you think about it, the setting is fully capitalist (there's not even healthcare lmao and you just die if you don't make enough money to buy rent/food/medicine).
So I guess they said it was communist because of... ignorance, probably.
@@tartipoussthat's just "communism has never been attempted" cope though. Communism never works out because there is no incentive or regulatory body to guarantee it working. The failed state you see IS the communist state.
@@tartipouss read a history book
59:55 this part is so funny to me 😂 🖍️
wow some of the chat moments were YIKES. i see now that this is an older stream so i assume the community has matured a lot
What does yikes mean
@@nanashi7779 "Yikes" refers to something someone said or did which was bigoted or otherwise mean. For example, you can see in the chat that whenever a terrorist attack happens in-game, an emote of someone who looks Arabic is posted by chatters, reinforcing the stereotype that Arabic people are violent. Someone else might respond to these chatters' posts by saying "Yikes", so as to indicate that what this person said is bigoted or otherwise mean. Usually it refers to some kind of bigotry but can also be used to refer to stuff which is generally mean.
Yeah, I'm happy that the community seems much more queer friendly now.
As someone that’s from Impore I am offended
43:31 Is that an edited In Danganronpa reference 😭
43:28 lol
1:14:45
Obristan Above All!
7:19 I uhh hmm...
Broo why you did my boy Jorji like that? Not cool bro. He actually had good papers. 😢
The things he lets happen are messed up, lost some real ones
Ваши тостеры грязные и в беспорядке.
😉
25:25 AMOGUS
It's kind of cute how Joe misses the gender ones XD
Glory to Arstotzka!
did he play return of the obra dinn too?
Not only did he play it, he made a video on it! ua-cam.com/video/zwp23SG9w3Q/v-deo.html
amazing
46:50
How the f**k did Joe break this game? I didn’t know it’s possible.
People really being transphobic in chat
thankful there's a chatless version in the description
1:37:00 0 iq play here
15:36 Think, "trafficked by a Tate brother."
he's so bad at this it hurts
Real obedient dog
wow i hope this wasnt recent because that chat is absolute dogshit (the content of what they were saying the editing was great)
Literally 3 years ago I think
Maybe longer
@@thomascarroll9373 then fair enough
tbh its refreshing seeing a less filtered more offensive chat
@@armageddongirl612no, its just annoying and old, being edgy and offensive to be offensive and edgy hasnt been funny since 2015,
@@completelynormalperson7077 i didnt say its funny. i said its refreshing. dont have to look at endlessly offended people like you all the time.
Orbistan above all
Communism would be great. But best we mere mortals can prob do is socialism. Market Socialism is my goal. More democracy in the workplace, more democracy in our government, more even wealth equality. This we can do. Minority rule is cringe (conservatives and religious people want minority rule).
Communism would not be great. The issue with government is corruption and too much power. Giving them more power is very very bad.
@@Winasaurus Governments become corrupt when wealth and power are allowed to concentrate, so the ideal of a democratic government is to prevent that from happening.
The ideal of a private entity is just to amass wealth and power in the first place; corporations are openly corrupt by default. Additionally, most of the governmental corruption we have now is a result of private groups being allowed to influence politicians with money and favors.
There are a lot of different versions of Communism and many even contradict each other, but a central ideal among most involves decentralizing power structures. The person you responded to actually mentioned as much: "minority rule is cringe". It's also literally in the name; where "Capital" -ism is a system organized around the power of capital, i.e. ownership of societal assets like resources and infrastructure, "Commune" -ism is a system organized around the power of communities. The goal is genuinely to achieve self-government down to the smallest levels of social organization.
sergiu.. :(
Buy my statue it's only a 20k definitely not a rip-off
new vid! :o
how is he SO BAD
He is awful at this
But gender is social construct!
It is
bigot regard
Too bad sex isn't.
@@snowdevil002 Troon underman
@@oboroth51 sex is a coomsumer product
you can really tell this was from 2018 because of all the racist regards in chat