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Boiling Point The John Oil 2007 Retrospective
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empty5013

2y↑99

i love this video and I guess i'm just reiterating the final point but the reason there are basically no politically charged games is because the effort required to make a good game is monumental, we're talking months minimum for a small solo dev game. since the labor must be divided, your teammates will either be partners or employees, in the former case they have a stake in the piece, diluting the message with their own goals and potentially their desire to profit off their labor (reasonable), in the latter case there is an employer who also wants to make a profit off investing money in the wages of their employees.

what this comes down to is the goal of nearly all video game products is not to create an art piece, but to create a product, and now you've generated a horrible thing called.
an incentive...

the incentive is to sell as many copies of the game as possible to recoup the labor and financial costs of producing the game, since people are idiots and some of them think things like 'climate change' or any other topic that challenges them even slightly when they play a video game or consume a piece of media is absolutely fucking horrifying, you're gonna piss off a large portion of your audience. that's not a big deal when you're trying to send a message, but when you're trying to make money? oh boy that gets the tiny femboy panties of the bean counting parasites in a big ol' twist.

so you get inoffensive shitty garbage art that says nothing and has no direction, for fear of making anyone actually feel an emotion or have a novel thought, since that kills sales. it happens across all media, but I think games are particularly susceptible because of a few things:

-gamers
-the effort required to make a game is much higher than a book, or a tv show, or a movie (think low budget)
-games are a modern trend so every man and his dog is trying to get in on the hype
-gamers

anyway the answer is simple, abolish all money and enforce communism, i will not elaborate further

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DJ Peach Cobbler

2y↑532

Please check out the Discord server: https://discord.gg/4Tkma3Mh

Also, donate to me on patreon if you're bad with money, I'll do better stuff with it. Buy some lottery tickets.

Blueish Lava

Oligarchy got a new format in the play store

Ramen Dude

Link no work.

Sarthak Chandra

Try "We become what we behold".

Jon Kerr

Me: "Man this Oiligarchy game is as haunting as Burger Tycoon..."
DJPC: "This guy hosted another game widely known as Burger Tycoon..."
Me: "FFFFFFFFFFFFFF..."

Joshua Yow

Oil is made from hydrogen and carbon in high pressure environments.

Plate tectonics refresh carbon material as plates sink under each other while releasing trapped hydrogen from radioactive or chemical processes pressing the carbon and hydrogen together making that black, yummy goodness.

When we use oil the planet reabsorbs it through the carbon cycle were eventually it will become oil again. Talk about up cycling. 😉

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StepMamad 69

2y↑2.3K

I really love the direction this channel is going towards, absolute gem

Remo

2y↑5

100% agree

Zay See U

2y↑5

Fr I genuinely laughed at his jokes

Krystian Roman

2y↑2K

Holy fuck. This video is genius. Not only is it a reflection of flash games… but the geopolitical climate that surrounded the times in which they were popular.

Bruno Marić

I specifically remember a game on Newgrounds where you're an AI on a spaceship with 3 crewmembers.

You're far away from Earth,aliens have trapped you with a laser,oxygen is running out & there's ways to accidently kill the crew.

1 way I remember is if a chubby guy is out repairing the thrusters,you can start them at the request of a 2nd guy & leave the chubby engineer stranded.

Does anyone know the name of this game? I never completed it cause my save glitched out.

Rilee Hawkins

Yea this guy gets it lol

Ryan Jones

Yeah this guy gets it lol

Mohammad Bilal Mokashi

Yeah this guy gets it lol

goldjaws

2y↑4

lol ti steg yug siht haeY

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Galimeer5

2y↑995

That final punchline hit way harder than I think it was meant to

Factory Reset

1y↑1

@Alex Sav nah, it's that video games have always had politic in them and cry babies throwing tantrum because The last of us 2 had diverse representations and saying ''why did they have to make it political'' are stupid considering that it isn't even a political statement and acting as if political statement in games are new is also ignorant.

Jack Crackems

@Alex Sav Actually same dude lol

d4s0n yo

@Alex Sav not really, just dont look at triple AAA games lol

Ramen Dude

@Matthew I would also reccomend Hades, if you like rogue-likes, and it is also the only rogue-like that I have seen that actually incorporates death mechanics into the story well.

Marco

2y↑1

@Alex Sav basically how the last of us dlc impacted the narrative of many big budget games released since it came out.

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Karol Gajko

2y↑298

Incorrect, there are FOUR endings. The three of which you described are correct, but there's one more, I'd argue the hardest one to get. To get it, you have to reach production peak, and supply markets with not enough oil to satisfy demand. If you manage to always be in negative supply, keep high oil addiction and be careful for the price of a barrel to never be higher than 300$, GDP growth will slow down, and even turn negative. You will get 'Farewell west' ending, representing total collapse of western civilization

Smol neko

@Rare oh that's interesting to hear, was it from a discord server or somewhere related? cus i absolutely agree, someone able to get... well, clearly something that difficult is genuinely an amazing gamer.

Rare

2y↑12

"That's interesting that you got that, in the post-mortem the developer said they don't think it's possible for players to get it, and that's why I didn't mention it. I couldn't get it, so I figured the creator was right.

You are the alpha gamer" - DJ Peach Cobbler

JamaicanMario

2y↑9

Best ending

felipe daiber

2y↑26

Ah yes, the extrapolation of the 70s ending

Mr. Hat

2y↑569

5 mins in, and when you finally said the title of what you're talking about, oh man the excitement I felt

Caleb - Only a Prince

2y↑4

Thank you for not being a spoiler monster

ChronicAndIronic

2y↑3

Literally almost brought me to tears because it was my favorite game ever

Daundre Demars

2y↑7

Same here, I love this game

RedShocktrooper

2y↑87

I remember a fourth ending to Oligarchy: Farewell West. Where you keep oil addiction and price high, but cut off the oil production deliberately.

DJ Peach Cobbler

2y↑68

That's interesting that you got that, in the post-mortem the developer said they don't think it's possible for players to get it, and that's why I didn't mention it. I couldn't get it, so I figured the creator was right.

You are the alpha gamer

Gabriel Ciambelli

2y↑599

Fun fact, oligarchy, a game I too played religiously.
Was made by Italians. Molleindustria is an Italian game developer.
This makes me wonder how integrated Europe is to the cultural megaplex of the U.S that in the 2000s Italian socialists (at the least) were making a game that is quite americo centric.
The same way they have made games that are entirely centered around the U.S and its policies, while they are ITALIANn.
And by the way DJ, molleindustria still makes his games. not as good as oiligarch.

Kowalski

2y↑1

@CharlesFreck It's the most meddling country with the most nukes, otherwise it's kinda drowning in debt.

Mario Toller

@muck Huh, didn't know about that. Do you know the name of these hunter gather tribes and are they still around to this day?

muck

@Plebis Maximus living standards offered by industrial society are not necessary for individualistic cultures, nor are said cultures necessarily unsustainable depending on what you include as "individualist". there are extant hunter-gatherer tribes that are so individualistic and asocial that they only interact when they need to and are otherwise solitary. ruthless oneupmanship doesn't appear to be a necessary feature of "individualism".

muck

@Mario Toller life was not universally communitarian pre-industry. societies across pre/history vary in how "individualist" or "collectivist" they are depending on what you mean. there are extant hunter-gatherer tribes whose members are so asocial and individualistic that it calls into question the idea that humanity is innately social.

real ah

They made other games of a similar Nature they are activists

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R.J. Tammaro

2y↑175

I know a whole lot of flash games will be preserved, but man I’m gonna miss the amateur projects that were kinda shit but deeply individual and personal. I’ll miss the days going through shitty Google websites with repeating pictures of Batman while trying not to get caught by my history teacher. The Flash era enabled so many people to dip their hands into programming and game development and really did feel like a time where your voice could be heard.

SkinnerClimbs

@PrebleStreetRecords I caught the last half of that period and the Internet definitely had a certain... Je ne sais quois about it; you can check when I created this account to corroborate this.

Emp

2y↑2

@PrebleStreetRecords wow well put. You really capture the feeling of the internet now as such a widespread thing so well. Something I've been struggling to express for a while. Great metaphor.

PrebleStreetRecords

2y↑13

It really depresses me that so much of Geocities/Angelfire/Tripod/Proboards is gone forever. Going on the web now compared to 98-2005 feels like going to the library and they have nothing but mass market paperbacks.

SpicyTriangle

2y↑463

OH LORD HOW LONG I HAVE WAITED. Thank you Cobbler, you are a gentleman and a scholar

Samuel Ward

2y↑5

We've all been waiting right there with you.

Arkaye Ch.

2y↑286

Had no idea that some of these flash games had actual thesis and post mortems. I kind of assumed stuff like Burger Tycoon and Oiligarchy were made by bored, snarky programmers rather than having a point to make.

Man Ray

2y↑195

I was curious about this video, just to see which flash game you thought was important, but I didn't really care that much. As soon as you said oil however and that good tune started playing I can not express to you the sheer nostalgia that is coming out of my fingertips and into my keyboard. So many hours spent both as one innocent of the world and even more as one who has recognized the twisted themes of that beautiful game.

shaww

2y↑119

The Cobbler timeline has expanded. He truly went down a darker path.

The Adjective Purple

2y↑137

I was confused by why Cobblers class was in Alaska but once the mention of oil resource wars came up it all came together.

savagegentlemen

2y↑4

First time he made a video based on my home Alaska.

The Duke

2y↑38

Games of the early 20s are a reflection of the worst fears of early 20s society. The fear of declining relevance. Companies are so desperate to remain current and relevant that they are willing to promise the moon, and deliver a potato regardless of the backlash because the pre-orders already paid for the whole cycle and netted a heafty profit, on top of all the day one sales, who cares if they return them, that's the retailers bottom line not the producer. People are much the same. People and companies will gladly trade long term success for short term recognition because that's what we believe it takes to get the respect and success we crave. Modern games are a reflection of how our own fears have grown so intense that the fears themselves are becoming harmful, even more so than what we're afraid of.

the guy

2y↑258

My mother wouldn't let me download flash cause she thought it'd put viruses on our pc like everything else I downloaded
Edit: 2 minutes later cobbler mentions the same thing lmao.

Ciaran Loughran

2y↑144

I'm here sitting in my room half drunk at 2 pm in Ireland listening to a musical cobbler on the internet talking about flash games I think I hit a all time high now

Esteban ATACHAO ARGUEDAS

A bit hungry at 11 pm in Peru and came here to rewatch pie DJ funny retrospectives meanwhile reading some comments I missed the first time.

leavesontheriver

2y↑1

@Laika Deviasso nashe

Laika Deviasso

2y↑3

Smoked at 5 AM in Argentina listening to the pie boy while on discord playing Elden Ring here. Life is good.

LordBerossus

we are cousin

leavesontheriver

2y↑4

Half drunk at 3 am in Chile listenting to the talking pie

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Gabriel Kerne

2y↑103

This is a masterfully made video. Just thought I'd let you know I appreciate games being looked at as the art form they really are.

vinc paq

2y↑97

I just have a massive flashback when I saw the login menu of adventure quest worlds.
I miss those simpler times

Teratoma 彡 Prod.

2y↑1

@RayVG we're now at the point where young adults havent even heard abour flash

Mad Morgo

@RayVG yep yeppers... Time flies my dude 😅😂😎 it's crazy to look back on. Hope you're well out there brudda!

RayVG

2y↑3

@Mad Morgo easily over 15 years ago for me .. good lord were getting old..

Mad Morgo

2y↑5

Adventure Quest *Worlds*... heh... I used to play AQ and Dragonfable and all that, easily over 10 years ago now 😅

Jackson Bowns

2y↑35

There will never be another generation of children who play Flash games on the internet, and this saddens me. Granted, this also means there won't be any more children bricking their family computer with malware from going to suspicious flash based websites either, but hey.

MyLifeIsSaidInLyrics

2y↑59

Man. You impress me with every video, homie. Your subtle sarcasm isn’t just there to be annoying, it’s a subtle hammer just nailing in the point of your well thought out analysis of whatever it is you’re making a video about. I used to love history and video games but life gets in the way man and sooner or later you have to grow up and just be a slave to your job and responsibilities and whatever. But man. Videos like yours on my 30 minute lunch break really just teach me things while making me laugh at the same time and I’m just grateful I found your channel. I forgot how much I liked to learn. I know you might think your videos are kinda just pointless or whatever. But i hope you know that after my 5th hour, with 7 more hours to go, I have a blissful 30 minutes, where I just kinda listen to you rant and teach me something in a funny and enjoyable way. Love ya Mr. Cobbler. Doom Forever.

Moose Cannibal

2y↑23

I never played this specific flash game, but I can guarantee you that you're 100% correct that games like it are the reason I learned so early on about a large amount of the world's problems. Without them I would have been a lot more sheltered.

促至

2y↑38

I remember the first time I play oilgarchy, I was about 9 and I dont understand any english. So I just randomly click everything, and I always thought the "man oil plant" is actually nuclear power plant or something simlliar , and for years my best ending is build that "man oil plant" everywhere (inculding Alaska, Iraq, you know)to get retirement. Good time indeed.

Luis-Raul Diaz-Rios

2y↑1

Lukecis

2y↑36

The death of the flash game and its consequences has been a disaster for the gamer race.

lauri oho

2y↑23

damn this was interesting and informative with just right amount of comedy woven in there. Absolutely beautiful, cant wait for more

G to the E

2y↑24

I’m so glad DJPC exists. I don’t know anyone in real life who can relate to his content like I can. He gets me.

Lonewolf360

2y↑55

R.i.p flash so many memories based off of that one little program it's genuinely depressing

TamE talks

2y↑20

Your satire is on another level, It always gets a good laugh out of me. Love the content can't wait for the next vid

Sam Reddig

2y↑58

So how much of fallout 4 did you have to search for the perfect classroom for your purposes?

empty5013

2y↑99

CharlesFreck

@Justin Chalifoux based Japanese developers

CharlesFreck

@empty5013 ah yes, my strong female characters. We shall make them go stand on a cliff overlooking a generic environment with a bow.

My problem isn't representation dude, but feel free to keep projecting.

empty5013

2y↑5

@CharlesFreck i'm really sorry to hear you were oppressed and mentally abused by aaa game companies putting w*men and characters who werent white in their games, it must be hard waking up every day knowing that the next battlefield could have a black man, or a person with boobs in it, I know those things are deeply worrying for you and I hope that DICE puts a trigger warning in to protect your fragile little incel brain from the barest minimums of representation.

empty5013

2y↑1

@Itobin a notable and wonderful exception to the rule

Justin Chalifoux

@CharlesFreck Dark Souls and the such weren’t really though and I’m so glad. My God, FS are GOATS

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SonofaGlitch

2y↑20

I know it's trite to bring up Dark Souls as being imbued with all this great meaning, but the whole point of the Dark Souls trilogy was posing a single question to the player: society and civilization is crumbling and will no matter your efforts dissolve into dust due to the endless force of entropy, do you still try to preserve it? Seems like an apt analogy for modernity if you ask me.

Lordanonimmo

@SonofaGlitch It's not kaathe,it is item descriptions,i am not really projecting modern views,lol,this is what Miyazaki was going for,the literal layout of dark souks 1 world is images that show the rich class in a luxury apartment close to houses in poor condition,this was intentional,the gods are said to be giants while the humans are pygmys descendants,the power of humanity or the dark soul in these games is mainly for multiplayer to share it and that is where the dark supports get wrong.

The furtive pygmy shared his dark soul as much as he could despite being the smallest and weakest one,and that is the humanity we have in the game (Miyazaki confirms this)the dark supporters in these games always want all the power of the dark soul in the hands of few,wich is the same thing Gwyn and his clan does it,so they aren't really that different.

SonofaGlitch

2y↑2

@Lordanonimmo I think you're projecting a more modern view on things than what FromSoft was going for. You're also supposing what the supporters of the Dark in the games is the 100% truth here, when it seems obvious to me that none of the characters or factions in the games are reliable narrators of the events in the series.

Kaathe says the abyss is gentle and calm, but when we actually get to Oolicile, it's a ravaged wreck of madness and violence. Believing in what he says (or what Yuria says in DS3) because they tell you more truth than what the "other side" says is just as much of a trick as anything else.

Lordanonimmo

2y↑1

@SonofaGlitch That's not the true nature of humanity,like the game says the abyss was once gentle and calm,but something awoke its rage and that is the abyss as we meet in the game but it's true nature is pacific.

The abyss is a manifestation on the dark trying to leave it's boundaries set by the gods but never able to do and then it gets violent,it accummulates.

Hell Dark Souls could be said to be about eating the rich,the gods soul are individually more powerful but the dark soul can multiplicate itself and is too much power for only one being.

SonofaGlitch

2y↑1

@Lordanonimmo I think that's an element, but that it goes deeper into more fundamental roots. Like sure, Gwynn and the gods were enslaving humanity, but the true nature of humanity is also a bunch of savage hollow madmen without that divine enslavement. So the question of "is civilization, ultimately a kind of social prison, worth preserving?" ends up being one that's purposefully difficult to decide upon.

Lordanonimmo

2y↑3

As a Dark Souls fan i think class struggle is the biggest point in Dark Souls,and what this conflict destroys the world and society beyond repair because the class at the top doesn't want to lose their poisition.

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Airnspace

2y↑7

the ending has got me asking if you ever considered playing or have played Disco Elysium because it's like the one game made in this time period that does that.

DarkSteelMenace

2y↑44

I would argue that Cyberpunk 2077 - for all its flaws - is such a game too (even tho the ideas are represented in many entries of the genre). It's about the fear of what big corporations can/will become and of the dangers advanced technologies might bring with them. Also kind of a hot take on the individualism of 2010+

MindRiot

You don't need to argue that one as nearly all Cyberpunk media is about this topic, Its the main genre definition.

ObviouslyKaleb

2y↑1

the metanarrative of its' post launch, that being what happens when corporations' ethics clash and the results and consequences of the ensuing legal and cultural struggles of the playerbase and company, work well to dispose of the notion that selfish greed alone will be the downfall of society, or even be of major note in the long run.

that's to say, "things often arent as bad as you think they are." relax, work towards the future you want, and trust that most other people are doing the same. bad people exist, but are nowhere prolific enough to go undetected and uncared for.

i cant exactly say the inverse true: people don't proactively proclaim "everything is fine" when disaster is off of everyone's minds and everything is actually fine, because there would be no need to. it would be like yelling "the sun is in the sky and it is daytime."

Victor

2y↑5

Eh, i dont know if that counts though. Cyberpunk 2077 (the videogame) didnt bring anything new to the table in terms of storytelling or its own world besides what actually happened in its main story. Like @Lordanonimmo says, i think far more interesting is how the corporate meddling irl mirrors what corporations are like in the game, very ironic.

pls kiII yourseIf tranny

2y↑3

it's a hypocritical game technically

Lordanonimmo

2y↑25

The funnt thing is that the game was ruined in real life by what the narrative of the game fears.

Fashow Allday

2y↑19

CIV 6, Riftbteaker, Subnautica...there are more. Those are the semi-recent to recent games I know that address climate change. IDK, I know mainstream AAA games are letting us all down, but don't let that get you down. There are plenty of games hitting the hard topics.

CakeeyPlayz - Gaming & more

2y↑5

You forgot DOOM(2016), but I'll forgive you.

Jesse

2y↑4

Hmm, your discussion of Flash is incomplete without mentioning the absolute shitfuck of security concerns that came with it. You explain its decline due to the iphone and needing to download it, but really even Adobe, the owners of Flash, saw how horrible it was from a security standpoint, and lost faith in their own creation. I don't think any conversation about the decline of Flash is complete without at least mentioning this point, since this is actually one of the biggest reasons for its death.

Peasant King

2y↑5

Mr. Cobbler I really like this video series called "part 1". It's such subversive title.

Athy87

2y↑1

ive been on a journey for good youtube essay content after becoming completely done with the same old routine ive been going through for years watching hour long videos dissecting games ive never played, will never play, or have already played and already understand fully. ive finally found truly engaging, thought out content in your channel. the amount of genius put into how your points are arranged and how they fit together is staggering. and the way in which you present them isnt absolutely fucking boring. you dont waste my time either opting to make a 17 minute video still be dense with shit to think about, rather than an hour long video that ill forget in about 2 minutes. ive finally found it. quality content. i can now die happy.

Iroh

2y↑1

His videos feels like a Simpsons' episode, it begins with seemingly not related stories but everything ties together at the end.
Plus you get to learn a shit ton of interesting stuff so... that's a win in my book!

Seef Kröy

2y↑1

I also played Oiligarchy as a young pastry, and all I could really recall from it was that eventually you'd liquify people into oil in order to balance supply and demand, and how uncomfortable that made me. I'm not sure if I ever got a proper ending, or understood that I was manipulating world governments in service to an economic theory that turned out to be wrong anyway. By the way, if you want to read a book about fracking that takes it from a geopolitical, historical and economic perspective, instead of straight petroleum engineering, try The Absent Superpower by Peter Zeihan. It's a sequel so to speak to a more general book on geopolitics, The Accidental Superpower. Can be a bit reductive but it's thought provoking stuff that I really enjoyed.

Ron Ronn

2y↑1

this channel made me never want to make a youtube channel with real content because it is the content that i was missing that i felt needed to exist. it is the niche. it is the truth. this speaks to a part of me that no other channel is doing right now. its your favorite arc in your favorite anime. its that sip of water at 2am. its that nostalgia you feel when you sift through belongings in your closet. this is history right here boys.

A throw away person

2y↑1

It's nice that Supernova makes us able to still play a lot of these old games.

Great video.

Q

2y↑6

Stuck RPG 2 is my all time favourite flash game because of how fun it was and the stuff you could do plus all the references to old movies and games.

Vilcus

God damn, I've watched a few of your videos, and some of your most recent ones. But after this one I've got to watch all of your videos, so much good stuff here; great writing, witty jokes, objective reasoning, and critical analysis. 12/10 absolutely phenomenal content

Lucky

This is a genuinely really great video. They keep improving and I can’t wait to see what else you do

Freddy Rojas

2y↑1

I love seeing how much this guy has grown. Been following when he only had a handful of videos and I could tell from the start that this guy was going places.

Sean T

I remember from messing around with homebrew on my PSP I learned about .swf files. So when I plugged my LG Versa (best phone ever) into the computer and saw the apps like Global Clock were .swf files I quickly swapped that shit out with the OG Bloons game. It's crazy how much time I spent playing flash games.

Mr. Meatball

2y↑1

I remember playing Oiligarchy very fondly, it's that and other games by La Molleindustria that helped showcase to me how messed up the world is. I used to play this game every day in Elementary School and I'd challenge myself to last as long as possible without the world going M.A.D. or retiring or getting fired. The first game that got me into la molleindustria games was actually "Every Day the Same Dream", which was a striking, artistic game about the refusal of labor.

ChronicAndIronic

2y↑2

I was thinking about this game when me and my dad were talking about how Exxon Mobil is basically it’s own country. Then the memory of Venezuelan villiagers protesting my oil popped in my mind

Cris R

Hey dude, love your channel been a long time viewer. I remember playing the McDonalds game and maybe starting Oiligarchy once or twice. This video reminded me of another game I played on ArcadeTown - 3rd World Farmer. Full of hard decisions and painful management scenarios.

bunk-o

2y↑4

I didn't realize that getting magically yelled at for updating flash was a universal experience lol

Emp

Wow, I have played a lot of flash games, but I've never heard of this one.
Classic DJ Peach Cobbler doesn't even get to the game until minute 6 - but the first 6 minutes are actually relevant.
And you're pulling on our gamer heartstrings with our flash childhood. Good times. Better times. Take back my neuralink

Jana

I love that I know this channel could do anything yet I'm still surprised by the topics. Keep that great work up!

Snapping Shrimp

2y↑4

This video is amazing, I'm speechless. And the joke at the end really left me thinking.

jager

2y↑8

Well i got to say that is one hell of a future, I'll make sure to vote DJ peach cobbler 2024 so it can be real

Ayrton Chitwood

2y↑3

I was scared we weren't getting Rome part 2, then you addressed it in the video, thank the maker. Great work regardless!

DSend

2y↑1

cobbler I need you to know I love how your videos are directed. The slight schizo aspect with properly researched topics is something you don't just find anywhere

John Ellis III

2y↑6

Man that ending hit hard…
The creative medium that is games is just so bland and repetitive. Nothing risky or bold. Heck not even a mild take on anything.

Bioshock is a great example that comes to mind but it’s been years.

Apathetic Eye

@Luminomancer gotcha

Luminomancer

@Apathetic Eye different games.

Apathetic Eye

@The Adjective Purple worlds?

The Adjective Purple

Outer Wilds

Tru

I just uncovered your channel, yesterday, before going to bed.. and now.. I just can't stop watching your videos.. I feel as though it is my duty now to watch them all, I will not rest until the deed is done... it's all just so "thought provoking"?
and the notion of a talking peach cobbler that shares my music tastes is just so comforting to me for some reason...

But idk maybe I'm just dumb :D

CptnHammer1

As a gamedesigner, i was never so attacked while sitting in a bath thinking about how to get nft's in my games. Great vid!

Redem10

It warmed my heart that you brought up this game, I played tons of it too!

Fenris Hellhound

2y↑2

I never knew I could learn so much from a professor that's a peach cobbler with a human body.

ACEYGAMES

I.... never even knew about the third ending. I thought it always ended in MAD or retirement, that the message of the game was people would push for things that ruined them no matter what.

Mad Morgo

2y↑13

Another certified DJPC classic 🍰

Mad Morgo

"i really do love the escapism in games... 🚬" 😳😓😂🤣🤣

Bej

This flash game was literally the thing that got me into history! I'm so glad its being discussed. :)

Mykel Mellen

2y↑2

"Driving is Patriotic Act"

Goddamn, they were on it.

MrSteamie

I had entirely forgotten about that game! You know... This scenario you created, this is what may actually happen as academia expands to include that study. It's a shame that the potential of games as an artform were so soundly wasted.

Kobi O'Reilly

I love the direction you've taken your creation, man. I enjoyed the content in the past, I enjoy the content now, and I'm psyched to see what you do in the future

IvoBGM

This video is art. I haven't seen anything this great in a long time. Keep up the good work!

Calum MacGregor

I got a course in Hydrology with a focus on Geology and another in Fluid Dynamics. One of the sections focused on fracking specifically. It seems that the process in of itself is safe for the most part when it comes to being down there and everything being done right. The major concerns are that 1) Things won't be done right/contractors will cut corners and 2) The products you get after the process are typically very dangerous and toxic, and need to undergo an expensive treatment process to become clean again.

I saw fracking being mentioned, and since I will use this knowledge nowhere else I decided to insert myself into the conversation on this one specific point.

Abhinav Dangwal

This might be the best video game video I have watched on YouTube, setting new standards for my expectations from game reviewers.

Matthew Gooding

2y↑1

There's a fourth ending. You stabilize oil production by liquidating people, then aliens invade.

Kevin Shea

the best part of this video is that it was confusing at the beginning and middle section, but the conclusion made everything fit together. you gave us the pieces before you told us what they made

The Lord Of Foreheads

2y↑5

I still feel like Cyberpunk is definitely politically charged. It really reflects the current anxieties in the US.

Sharky McSnarkface

Like the game? Because I feel that Cyberpunk 2077 is the most ironic game of its nature.

Its so surface-level cyberpunk. It shows that many of the things cyberpunk regularly talks about exist, but it hardly says much about it. The game itself was a rushed corporate mess banking on brand loyalty and unfulfilled promises and hype. They brought along some celebrity in the public mindset because that’s what’s marketable.

It’s politically charged like that Joker movie. It acknowledges the problems exist but it doesn’t really say anything meaningful about it. And people praise it merely for mentioning the stuff, despite it being as shallow as a kitchen sink puddle.

IK4MS

2y↑3

I mean art genres being politically charged is not exactly a surprise, doubly so sci-fi derivatives.

Dat Guy

14:20 it's ironic how after deep diving into a game about this very subject that you don't understand that "climate change" (formerly global warming), is also about peak oil, and avoiding it. It's "misinformation" on the opposite end looking for a non-catastrophic ending.

Adrian M.

Funny how I always saw the retired ending as the "You lose" ending (and the fired ending as simply, a fail).

psuedobyte

2y↑1

Knowing how good this channel is getting, i'd say it gets taken down in about 3 months give or take? As we all know, well-made quality content is a direct threat towards youtube themselves!

HalasterBlackmantle

You goddamn genius. You did it again. A applaud you sir, this was masterful. I mean, the ending alone, where you school the entire games industry, that they don't have the political impact that a goddam Flash game had.

Der Richtige Arzt

As a non English speaking kid I thought blue is my guy and red in enemy so blue won every time. Also after I unlocked everything I stopped giving money because I thought it was meaningless as it doesn't unlock anything anymore. So I almost always transitioned into post carbon. Fun times.

Michael Edmunds🇺🇦

Holy shit, that was my favorite flash game. Thanks for making me feel old, Cobbler.

Jose Hernandez

Sonny and Sonny 2 will always have a special place in my heart. The music for both is top notch and instantly takes me back

أحمد مصطفى شلبي

you just unlocked a faded memory of me playing that game one night, and stopping midway when I realized it simulates The US "doing stuff" in Iraq.
I felt wrong playing and little me thought it was a mockery...I'M a Mideastern.
Turns out it was not...except of the US, that is

ponderingecho

Spectacular content, dude.
No matter the theme - be it about gaming or something else - the delivery and writing are always fuccen great.
Keep up the good work!

Noah Jester

2y↑1

Flash games were such a massive part of my childhood. For every 5 shitty or simple game, there were complex games that delivered experiences that rival modern games now. And this was all FREE, which was fantastic.

Luis-Raul Diaz-Rios

Got DOZENS in my hard drive

But my PC DIED...

JamaicanMario

Know what games have a story that deserves more love? Doom 2016 & Eternal.
I know what you're thinking: "the story is pretty bare bones, and you kill demons until the world is saved"... you're right, to a point. The stories in those games are pretty bare bones, but what is there is worth paying attention too.

Doom 2016: You wake up in time to see the after-math of the worst HR disaster in human history, a testament to what can/has/will happen if corporations are left to their own devices... given Elon Musk's intense desire to put people on the red planet it seems rather fitting, even assuming the people sent are not put into debt slavery... all it takes is some money "saved" on insert critical component to the colony and next thing there's hundreds if not thousands dead in the immediate aftermath as the artificial oxygen-rich atmosphere is left to drift in the Martian wind.

Eternal: You kill two archangels (essentially) and in the DLC kill God and Satan, all in an attempt to stop traditions that have ravaged countless worlds over millenia... even if you ignore the religious imagery, there's still some intense anti-traditionalist messages in the game.

Curious Merlin

2y↑3

man nobody is really talking about how someone remade this game in a "copied the homework but changed it a little bit" kind of way and that new game was making a huge wave for a while when people like "DF" and "Markiplier" played them. I was pretty floored at how similar the gameplay loop is. right down to paying lots of money to win town elections etc.

safe for work

The only thing I can think of is turmoil which only sorta kinda plays a little similar...so what game are ya talking about?

real ah

Not really the game has no political bearing compared to oiligarcy

Hermenides Micic

2y↑1

Amazing work. Love the way you tricked us into learning professor. You have reached this keeed

Bodhi B Ballin

Cobbler is going places, it may take days, weeks, months, years, maybe even decades. But once he gets there, it'll be glorious

AlternateMusicAddict

I constantly find myself coming back to your videos watching them time after time and I still enjoy them

Alexander Hart

DAAAAAMN it has been years since I played oiligarchy. It was a complete classic that touched on the nightmare of the modern world.

T. S. Adu

You have such a poetic way of speaking, very eloquent. Keep doing this explanatory videos you're incredibly interesting to listen to

A.O. Skurtt

I would love more videos on history from you. Then again I'd also love if my dog was still alive. Can't have everything, now can we? 😬

Slim Chelmi

this is effectively a full blown history channel at this point and I'm here for it

orinblank

Man that Adventure Quest Worlds clip really hit the nostalgia. I used to play that a bunch way back. I still occasionally pop on, but mainly to get the cool new armors that they give me for being an old account, 11 years now. I occasionally pop on to mess around, but I stopped playing back when the level cap was like the 45 or 50, and nowadays my lvl 34 character is weak compared to the cap at lvl 100

Humphrey Bumpkins

truly great content. thank you for bringing back the animated pie!!!!!

Will of Europa

Your ability to structure an entire video to make a quick point at the end that says way more than what you actually said in the video is astonishing. Clever writing. Well done.

You do you I do me

Sparing the sap, people who describe themselves as 'trolls' are usually just uncaring people, who gain some smidgen of joy out of confusing or emotionally harming others.

Dj peach cobbler, represents a welcome, unironic deviation from that standard, and clearly has passion and drive outside of any malice. It's nice to see.

Go away I have comments to make

I think I remember that there were apps you could install that included Flash, which allowed you to get it on yr phone in a roundabout way.

Kekkan Seihin

Whenever your video comes out, it really makes my day man. Thanks for that.

Kameron Donaldson

apple was the first i am aware of that treated software development as one of those proprietary oligarchies you mentioned later in the video in the context of fossil fuels or some random shit. basically you were never able to do anything on any apple device without jailbreaking it and risking the device itself being bricked.

then theres the matter of memory storage capacity. consoles and especially phones have a lot less storage capacity than a pc. how am i supposed to indulge my fantasy of omnisciently owning all the software in the universe on a single hard drive if that hard drive is tiny..