For the truemusic mod anyone can make their own vinyls/CD's, so yeah, would be cool to listen to some longer lectures that are relevant to the game, while playing the game, I agree
I'm and 80-year-old Vietnam combat veteran. I want to make one serious remark for you young people who watch this video. Alan Watts isn't wrong. What he says is true. If you want to live, really live your life, you have to find a way to enjoy yourself and have fun, IN SPITE OF WHAT HE SAYS. It can be done, brothers and sisters.
Hi there, its been 7 months since you make this comment. As someone who already experienced through life, what are your thoughts and advices for someone who will turn 25 in a few days? Im from brazil, and the point the mark it is: as someone not from the US, but world, if time-travel was a thing, what would be your 1st and 2nd goals when in your twenties again? Sorry if the text was bad Wish you health and joy, thanks
@@BayeuxRU I'm not a big success at anything. I'm a lazy fool, and I've never known how to live but I am happy and comfortable in my old age thanks to the USA which takes care of its war veterans. I think I've helped make my own good luck by following these rules: Keep working at whatever makes money for you. Live minimally; you don't need expensive transportation and housing. At age 40 and 50 you will still be young and attractive to women, and you will have more money and fun. I promise you that. Avoid any enterprise you dislike, you will never profit from something you hate doing, even if other guys seem to get money from it. No matter what, read books and watch good stuff online, get entertained and educated for free. Always have a side gig: art, a hobby, a skill. Keep joking and laughing intelligently. This is how you make good luck for yourself. It also makes women interested in you. My know-how and wide knowledge made me ready when my life fell apart at age 50 and I almost became homeless. But I was ready to jump at any opportunity, and I was saved. I know life is hard in Brazil. All men are brothers and we all suffer the same. I send you my hope good wishes brother.
Brother im trying i really am, but economy today dictates either work or be homeless. Somtimes i just wanna throw it all away. Whats the point im barely able to survive alone, what more if i have a wife and children. I dont work i dont have anything, or i work and be a job slave for the rest of my life, barely having time for myself.
nice video but i’m more intrigued by the speech in the background, it’s so good. ‘The shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have magic’ is so real.
@@bakstein1 when I was 17, after 3 years of testing, I got diagnosed with some shit that basically ends me in my 40s, a decade from now lol. That weekend I decided to get absolutely faded and my boy put me on to Allen watts, later that night I think a Saturday, I listened to "life is a dance". It was in that moment that the whole "marriage, kids, house, family man life" was something that I no longer wanted. You're telling me I have 20 years to see and experience as much if this existence as possible?! Bet. So I started traveling. I threw out any form of materialism, consumerism, everything. Made everything I own very precious to me and most everything else is shit I can get again. I learned trades I can take everywhere, especially dog training, since I'm a lone wolf but still need my buddy on these adventures. Luckily, with specific character traits, I got to do all of this very easily. The traveling, the meeting of people, the bonds I've made with complete strangers. My roladex is pretty phat, ngl. The women, the food, the laughs! All of that because I listened to some hippie in Seattle(I lived in Seattle for a couple years as I explored Mexico and Canada and the west coast. Ive been to Allen's grave plenty of times.) I didn't wanna live to die. I'm gonna die and a lot sooner than most people ever think about, so I decided as a teen what future I was going to have, on my terms. Now 33, happy to say, I won. I only regret very few things. Will I not have certain things, sure, but I'm pretty content with how my life turned out. Regardless of how short it is on paper, I never waste a moment and man, I have met people twice my age that have lived less of a life than my own service doggo. Met a man in Seattle who was 44 at the time and he said he had never been to California. "Bro!? You've never gotten drunk and just fallen into california!? When I was 17 I was taking the Asian bus to NYC one weekend a month to do stand up at comedy clubs!" Wild. Love the video, had to come back and I felt the comment could use more context. Allen Watts and some doctors, changed my life. Also, my pops, "always having something to talk about will keep a woman around" how can you have shit to talk about if you havnt done shit I guess lol
@@anthonyzullo As a guy who is about to turn 24 this year, this seems like what I am planning for the rest of my life. My childhood was wasted with a drunk dad, a mother who was not mentally stable due to the shit she has to go through, so many genetical diseases that could not even be diagnosed and poverty. Currently, I am at the university. Our financial situation is quite well, my father and mother are kind of okay but my health situation is only going downwards and when Im at my 40s, things are not gonna be nice for me. However, since I have grown up in poverty, I have no connections with material gains. This will make it so much easier when I start working. I will try to live a minimalistic life where I own nobody a thing and move around as much as possible. I wish I was just another "every man" but it looks like we are to live the life in the hardcore mode. So we have got what we have got in the little time we have. Lets try to dance and have fun to this shitty music in this trash can called the dance floor.
Alan Watts, hero of lefty losers everywhere. Get really high and pretend it made you smart, awesome. Nothing he says is even remotely insightful or deep, he just knew how to manipulate idiots, like all lefty performers do.
The beauty and horror of project zomboid for me has always been in the endgame, that moment where you realize you've become self-sustaining and suffer a crisis of meaning and purpose that leads to perfectly strong and capable characters being abandoned out of simple boredom. Since its first steam release, PZ has always been the game I play when overwhelmed by questions of what it means to exist and to be fulfilled, whether or not there is beauty in surrender and rot. It evokes the same feeling as the post-apocalyptic school scene in Threads, where the kids are watching TV to learn about all the animals, consumer goods, etc. which no longer exist. But in PZ there is no hope, no outcome but the player's demise. When we're gone, who will be left to understand the semiotics of our lives, to keep all the symbols and objects we've imbued with meaning from being reduced to unimaginable nothingness? If you're playing single player, each world you inhabit dies with you.
Yep. The biggest killer for me isn’t the zombies; it’s boredom and a lack of motive at endgame. NPCs would be a gamechanger if it meant that the end game would be actually putting in work fending off raiders wanting every scrap of my loot.
Really good video man, hit deep, its been like 800 hrs since i had a death on PZ and honestly i miss it. The actual feeling of attachment and loss with each character was deep
not trying to be rude but make your settings harder if you want to die. choose however feels more fun to you. some people prefer combat so they take sprinters. i like the slow survival grind so i nerf loot and foraging/farming/trapping. there are mods that can make the medical system more challenging, where if you don't disinfect your infected wounds, you'll get a fever. try playing with a new set of traits or with challenge traits (missing a limb, deaf, schizophrenic). if you miss feeling attachment/loss it might be because of your settings.
@@ololusernamenot be an asshat, followed but presumptuous asshattery. I love that you just assume im playing on easy xD its more ive put an ungodly amount of hours into this game now
As an Existentialist, who is constantly afraid of death, this, this touched my heart... and for a long time... did not make me feel fear or panic... but a tremendous joy, and emotion to live, so much that i cried, i cried because of how true this words were, and i accepted them and understood them... Finally something that is not as nihilistic/depressive/pessismistic/careless/etc like most talks about death, this is truly a masterpiece that everyone should listen to, at least once in their life, and REMEMBER it....
0:06 - 0:23 This clip speaks to me in a lot of ways, how this lad dies on his own terms. We can only assume so many reasons why this man is speeding along at over triple digits until his demise. We only know he did so willingly, without hesitation. I like to imagine that he always wanted to be a race car driver before the apocalypse. And when his time came, he went out doing what he loved doing without holding back. He is probably still racing along just as swift in the afterlife as he was before death; like the Speed Demon he always wanted to be.
Well, once one man said: "Do you know the definition of insanity? It's doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over again, expecting different results"
Holy... Fuck... That was a golden video... I don't think the world realises what it is missing out on if they don't watch this video... A god damn masterpiece. Whether you play project zomboid or not.
This video more than being just something about a game, is a momento mori trigger, it is beautiful that’s what it is, an invitation to live, because wether we want it or not we will die.
The constant dread of knowing that your fate is to end up like them and your existence will be nothing more than you, a husk walking the earth desperately looking for something you have lost and consume it but by doing that you destroy what was once precious. A dark and depressing end then you start again and finding your past self and putting them to rest and for you to try your best to defy that fate even though you know... This is how you died...
this changed the way i think about life, before, i used to be afraid of death who wouldn't? i didn't want to die, but after i listened to this speech, i can say i'm less scared of death then i was before. thanks for posting this.
If that's something you struggle with I can recommend looking into research of near death experiences/NDE's. It's not for everyone probably, but it helped me worry less about dying
Today I died in project zomboid, but I didn't get angry or sad because I remembered this video, immediately create a new character when I usually delete the world
The reason why we are alive is because we have the capability to die. The reason why we as a general species are able to thrive is because we are being carried on the shoulders of those who came before us, just as our descendants will be carried by our own shoulders even after we’re gone. Now, am I saying that it is good for all people to die and that people should actively seek death? No, no I do not think this. Death is not a “controlled constant” that can be applied the same way for all situations, for death is neither good nor evil, it simply just is as does all other things in the universe. Being (most likely) the only sentient living species in our corner of the galaxy, we have the responsibility of treating death with the proper respect it deserves. This is one reason why I believe that suicide is the single worst decision you can make for yourself, no matter what kind of hell a person is going through to compel themselves to end their own life. Live. Keep living. Keep fighting. If you have to fight to survive, then survive. If the fight for survival isn’t an issue, than do your best to thrive. To boil our arguments down into a simple and crude version, this is basically what Alan Watts is saying with is fantastically well-spoken speech. While he frames the perspective of the speech to partially focus on the future generation, you have to remember that you yourself, the present generation, are the future generation to the people that came before you. Everything Alan Watts says in his speech here applies to you as well. Your death is just as important as the life that came before it. So live your life, so that you can have tranquility and peace, knowing that family, friends, and even strangers will in some way be supported by the path you have already stamped down. We are humanity. We live and fight together.
Wow, imagine this hitting harder if project zomboid added recruitable survivor where if you'd died, you could play as them instead and continue the world as it is as the survivor you recruited. Literally passing on the torch onto that survivor instead. I hope that project zomboid does include a feature like that
"Death is a part of my journey.... But i wont die as a mere prey. not like this. Not without a Fight. This place is hell on earth.... So let me make life easier for the next unfortunate person who comes this way by taking as many Zeds as I can with me." Even bitten, even hurt. Even bleeding to death. Even when in extreme panic. Fight until the end. So that people do not remember who you were, but what you did.
i wish this speech was made into The Walking Dead speech for the final season. it would have made it a hype for anyone to watch the Last episodes and the last season for it.
Today I tried playing Pz on my new computer (had it for a month but haven’t played), just to realize that the save that I transferred was a backup so I lost dozens of hours of gameplay (made a huge wall around the farm north of Riverside, cleared a bunch of houses, brought and fixed a lot of cars and even cleared nearby towns that had extra gun stores). I didn’t want to play again on that save. The title of the video didn’t lie, now I want to play again, but have a strong character that constantly travels and struggle to survive instead of wasting time building a base and hoarding. Thanks to religion, I already had reflexions about death, it’s necessity and why immortality is bad. It doesn’t scare me, but I don’t want my time to come until I have done a lot of good. Anyway, didn’t realize you could see this from the game’s perspective. I will definitely seek out action and look at all the beauty of the game instead of chasing the unachievable goal of surviving because after all this is how you died.
@@bakstein1 Yes, I started playing again the next day I posted this and I’ve been having a blast. I had to make a new world preset and the loot spawn was too high, so I don’t loot food since there’s an unlimited amount of canned stuff. I’ll definitely lower loot next time so scavenging can feel like a challenge (mainly for food and melee weapons, I’ll keep guns more common since it’s Kentucky and they don’t spawn in every house either). Once again, thank you for making this great video, I’ll watch it each time J get bored of PZ.
To live life with yourself as the ends rather than the means is to live in death. Unless you plant seeds that will outlive you, all your life will amount to is consumption, then nothing. To greedily take, then nothing, Your life will be as death. To beget life. To nurture. To unite what came before with that which will follow. Then your death will be as life.
Great video overall; I loved it! However *_neck hyper extends_* that character build at 3:20 is unoptimised. To explain I'll need to start with something seemingly off topic: Zombies have a percentile chance to spot survivors with sight per server tick- and there's 100 ticks per second. If you get to level 10 sneak and have the inconspicuous🧢 trait, zombies will take an average of 1 second to spot you, range of spotting isn't affected-- so under perfect optimization visual stealth does little. By contrast, with conspicuous🎩, zombies will spot you instantly, which would be 0.2 second difference for the average player build. In summary, conspicuous🎩 is free points! With that context, the only reliable form of stealth in zomboid is sound based. Thus, getting clumsy🦶 will cripple your ability to sneak optimally. But, I hear you say, what if you are a fighter who doesn't stealth, isn't it good then? *No.* Clumsy🦶 has the hidden downside of making you 10% more likely to trip on a running fence vault. Any zomboider worth their salt knows fence fighting is an essential strategy for slaying hordes. Having an extra chance to trip, scratch your leg, and get eaten by a horde as you try and limp away is a bad idea. It isn't worth 4 points. (Tl;dr) clumsy = bad trait; conspicuous = free points. Extra tip: your survivor actually makes less noise while moving around without any shoes. If you need to sneak successfully and can't afford failure, take off yer boots (just don't start running until you put them back on, you'll cut your foot).
Thank you very much for your comment, it's good advice for new players. The build at 3:20 was just a joke clumsy fisherman build for the video though, kind of as a contrast to first showing the hyper optimized character with a packed base and everything it needs, to then a simple throwaway fisherman in the woods build for fun. (I would never play without the smoker trait)
@@bakstein1I believe I understand what you mean by that. It's an eloquent point. The worst thing that's happened to me in zomboid is that I've gotten too good at the game; it broke before I did when it used to be the opposite.
@@stillhere4165 Yeah that's recognizable, but thankfully there's a lot of settings and mods to make it harder. Though my heart prefers the calmer normal settings
I wonder if evolution was like this. We were once an organism, capable of living eons or for eternity. Then we got lonely, decided to proliferate, our immortality gone or maybe a new way to live, as an immortal "Life". This is why life is inherently evolving and resilient. We remember we had immortality once in our instinct or perhaps a gene, we sought longevity but never actually pursuing it from an evolutionary perspective, rather we pass on our life, to our children and we are comforted with the fact that we have reached the point of death, yet our legacy and generations will live on.
thanks, it worked. time to spam my friends to get on so we can end up making an entire movie in a game by just getting too immersed in the world and our characters.
I really liked what the guy from the 50s had to say however the saying that everyone would choose mortality over immortality is just wrong, wrong for me and wrong for most people if I could live forever I would and I would conquer the world quite literally have 10 times as many kids as genghis khan and repopulate the world with your own dna can you imagine? The power one would hold being able to live forever.
Stopped playing for awhile. Been burnt out on PZ, felt like a chore to play. Watching your videos alongside other PZ youtubers are making me want to try and survive all over again.
Man I feel this, after getting Bitten and infected, I had to make a choice, life then turn, or end it and not turn It was my longest living character so I had to turn the gun on myself It was painful but after watching this I want to play PZ again
My guy Anthony Anderson is in a horde,literally he is still alive i try to find any way for him to survive,but now i found this vid and i accepted that he will die
There's still a fair point to be made from the "will to survive" side. Things cease to have magic, sure, but that's because our lives are meagre, work-focused. I do not wish to go for holidays on my country's seaside anymore. I wish to see other seas and rivers. I wish to explore more languages, in depth, than just english. I wish to love, be young, and feel the breath in my lungs for as long as they have their youthful capacity. Our life is survival now. And it could be so much more. We could have that conclusion if we could live, not just survive. That's the point. There's beauty in this world. I may not have the willpower to see it all. But not everybody has opportunities and health to come to a conclusion as beautiful as things. Many die thinking "This can't be it. I wish I could have done more." And even having being 20 years old, I already think so. Even though I have done much. I'd rather have a few more years to love, learn, and discover, than have to come to terms with what is inevitable and comes anyway. As an existentialist, death is the greatest threat because it is always forced. And I'd rather choose. I'd rather choose and experience, because if that were a choice to make, I would only make it when I'd be spent and satisfied with life, happy to have prepared the best for the future generations that are to come. Instead of scared, confsued, deathly sick or wounded, and worst of all, regretful. I can't have it all anyway. But a little more wouldn't be so bad.
Yes I agree, I think it's more of an attitude to keep in the back of your head to maybe make it a little easier when the time does come (and when it comes for people around you), rather than something to accept and just give up on life
Holy shit this would be such a good trailer for the game its unbeliavble
Thanks!
@@bakstein1let’s kiss
@@JoeSmith-qy6qowait what
@@capitalm9304 do you want to join?
@@JoeSmith-qy6qo join what exactly
I'll definitely come back and play more once Build 42 is real
That's fair, I think a lot of people are waiting for the same to come back
I really want human NPCs.
Animal NPCs are cool, but if they added human NPCs first the replay ability would go through the roof.
@@Wanderer21766 you can always try playing with the superb survivors mod, it's got performance and ai issues but it's the closest you can get nowadays
I have been thinking about getting project zomboid but don't have a pc. Would the steam deck be alright to play on?
@@user-ik7vm1kt6q they are adding npcs I think but idk if it comes out in build 42
Screw him, I'm holding out for the singularity. I'm going to live forever.
You do you man
“Good news we are not dying. We are going to live forever!”
-Solder
Sure you are buddy
@@sans8938this is a bucket
also solder?
@@2LitersOfMilk dear god
Wouldn't it be awesome to have a mod that has VHS tapes or CD's with sound recordings like these ones?
For the truemusic mod anyone can make their own vinyls/CD's, so yeah, would be cool to listen to some longer lectures that are relevant to the game, while playing the game, I agree
Amazing
@@bakstein1 or listen to other players who uploaded it, it would be funny/scary/sad
@@sogeking3532 Yeah it's always better when you don't know what you're gonna hear
@@bakstein1 I see you absolutely love PZ
Never thought Alan and Zomboid would work so well
I heard Alan Watts loved Project Zomboid
hypothetically
@@bakstein1 Historically he was known to play fortnite among other games
@@soupisgoodfood923 I sure hope not
I'm and 80-year-old Vietnam combat veteran. I want to make one serious remark for you young people who watch this video. Alan Watts isn't wrong. What he says is true. If you want to live, really live your life, you have to find a way to enjoy yourself and have fun, IN SPITE OF WHAT HE SAYS. It can be done, brothers and sisters.
Hi there, its been 7 months since you make this comment.
As someone who already experienced through life, what are your thoughts and advices for someone who will turn 25 in a few days? Im from brazil, and the point the mark it is: as someone not from the US, but world, if time-travel was a thing, what would be your 1st and 2nd goals when in your twenties again?
Sorry if the text was bad
Wish you health and joy, thanks
@@BayeuxRU I'm not a big success at anything. I'm a lazy fool, and I've never known how to live but I am happy and comfortable in my old age thanks to the USA which takes care of its war veterans. I think I've helped make my own good luck by following these rules: Keep working at whatever makes money for you. Live minimally; you don't need expensive transportation and housing. At age 40 and 50 you will still be young and attractive to women, and you will have more money and fun. I promise you that. Avoid any enterprise you dislike, you will never profit from something you hate doing, even if other guys seem to get money from it. No matter what, read books and watch good stuff online, get entertained and educated for free. Always have a side gig: art, a hobby, a skill. Keep joking and laughing intelligently. This is how you make good luck for yourself. It also makes women interested in you. My know-how and wide knowledge made me ready when my life fell apart at age 50 and I almost became homeless. But I was ready to jump at any opportunity, and I was saved. I know life is hard in Brazil. All men are brothers and we all suffer the same. I send you my hope good wishes brother.
Brother im trying i really am, but economy today dictates either work or be homeless. Somtimes i just wanna throw it all away. Whats the point im barely able to survive alone, what more if i have a wife and children. I dont work i dont have anything, or i work and be a job slave for the rest of my life, barely having time for myself.
« The gods envy us… they envy us, because we’re mortal… everything’s more beautiful, because any moment might be our last… because we’re doomed »
So what I'm hearing is that new characters are my children
Quite right mister Trix, let's hope child support is still a thing in the apocalypse
This gave me goosebumps, man.
Good! Thanks
"There are those who had a shot at life but were too scared to fire"
"Life is a script of ever revising lines"
nice video but i’m more intrigued by the speech in the background, it’s so good. ‘The shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have magic’ is so real.
Currently navigating the loss of my best friend, this is something I needed to hear. Thank you.
I'm sorry to hear that, I'm glad this helped a bit
Allan made me live different before I even started.
Alan knows you better than you know yourself
@@bakstein1 when I was 17, after 3 years of testing, I got diagnosed with some shit that basically ends me in my 40s, a decade from now lol.
That weekend I decided to get absolutely faded and my boy put me on to Allen watts, later that night I think a Saturday, I listened to "life is a dance". It was in that moment that the whole "marriage, kids, house, family man life" was something that I no longer wanted. You're telling me I have 20 years to see and experience as much if this existence as possible?! Bet. So I started traveling. I threw out any form of materialism, consumerism, everything. Made everything I own very precious to me and most everything else is shit I can get again. I learned trades I can take everywhere, especially dog training, since I'm a lone wolf but still need my buddy on these adventures.
Luckily, with specific character traits, I got to do all of this very easily. The traveling, the meeting of people, the bonds I've made with complete strangers. My roladex is pretty phat, ngl. The women, the food, the laughs!
All of that because I listened to some hippie in Seattle(I lived in Seattle for a couple years as I explored Mexico and Canada and the west coast. Ive been to Allen's grave plenty of times.)
I didn't wanna live to die. I'm gonna die and a lot sooner than most people ever think about, so I decided as a teen what future I was going to have, on my terms.
Now 33, happy to say, I won. I only regret very few things. Will I not have certain things, sure, but I'm pretty content with how my life turned out. Regardless of how short it is on paper, I never waste a moment and man, I have met people twice my age that have lived less of a life than my own service doggo. Met a man in Seattle who was 44 at the time and he said he had never been to California. "Bro!? You've never gotten drunk and just fallen into california!? When I was 17 I was taking the Asian bus to NYC one weekend a month to do stand up at comedy clubs!"
Wild.
Love the video, had to come back and I felt the comment could use more context. Allen Watts and some doctors, changed my life. Also, my pops, "always having something to talk about will keep a woman around" how can you have shit to talk about if you havnt done shit I guess lol
@@anthonyzullo As a guy who is about to turn 24 this year, this seems like what I am planning for the rest of my life. My childhood was wasted with a drunk dad, a mother who was not mentally stable due to the shit she has to go through, so many genetical diseases that could not even be diagnosed and poverty.
Currently, I am at the university. Our financial situation is quite well, my father and mother are kind of okay but my health situation is only going downwards and when Im at my 40s, things are not gonna be nice for me.
However, since I have grown up in poverty, I have no connections with material gains. This will make it so much easier when I start working. I will try to live a minimalistic life where I own nobody a thing and move around as much as possible. I wish I was just another "every man" but it looks like we are to live the life in the hardcore mode. So we have got what we have got in the little time we have. Lets try to dance and have fun to this shitty music in this trash can called the dance floor.
@@anthonyzullo damn i'm glad you've lived your life so well. can I ask what you were diagnosed with??
Alan Watts, hero of lefty losers everywhere. Get really high and pretend it made you smart, awesome. Nothing he says is even remotely insightful or deep, he just knew how to manipulate idiots, like all lefty performers do.
The beauty and horror of project zomboid for me has always been in the endgame, that moment where you realize you've become self-sustaining and suffer a crisis of meaning and purpose that leads to perfectly strong and capable characters being abandoned out of simple boredom. Since its first steam release, PZ has always been the game I play when overwhelmed by questions of what it means to exist and to be fulfilled, whether or not there is beauty in surrender and rot. It evokes the same feeling as the post-apocalyptic school scene in Threads, where the kids are watching TV to learn about all the animals, consumer goods, etc. which no longer exist. But in PZ there is no hope, no outcome but the player's demise. When we're gone, who will be left to understand the semiotics of our lives, to keep all the symbols and objects we've imbued with meaning from being reduced to unimaginable nothingness? If you're playing single player, each world you inhabit dies with you.
Yeah, end-game is where I usually prefer to be on multiplayer to avoid it becoming too depressing, lol
Yep. The biggest killer for me isn’t the zombies; it’s boredom and a lack of motive at endgame. NPCs would be a gamechanger if it meant that the end game would be actually putting in work fending off raiders wanting every scrap of my loot.
Another BANGER from our favorite brick. We love to see it.
Don't let me catch you watching any other bricks
Really good video man, hit deep, its been like 800 hrs since i had a death on PZ and honestly i miss it. The actual feeling of attachment and loss with each character was deep
No death in 800 hours that is impressive brother
not trying to be rude but make your settings harder if you want to die. choose however feels more fun to you. some people prefer combat so they take sprinters. i like the slow survival grind so i nerf loot and foraging/farming/trapping. there are mods that can make the medical system more challenging, where if you don't disinfect your infected wounds, you'll get a fever. try playing with a new set of traits or with challenge traits (missing a limb, deaf, schizophrenic). if you miss feeling attachment/loss it might be because of your settings.
@@ololusernamenot be an asshat, followed but presumptuous asshattery. I love that you just assume im playing on easy xD its more ive put an ungodly amount of hours into this game now
As an Existentialist, who is constantly afraid of death, this, this touched my heart... and for a long time... did not make me feel fear or panic... but a tremendous joy, and emotion to live, so much that i cried, i cried because of how true this words were, and i accepted them and understood them...
Finally something that is not as nihilistic/depressive/pessismistic/careless/etc like most talks about death, this is truly a masterpiece that everyone should listen to, at least once in their life, and REMEMBER it....
I really recommend looking up some more Alan Watts talks/lectures if you liked it that much!
Bro find Christ
@@KFC_Manager 🤓
@@KyoGamingMe ☺️☺️
I think this deserves to be a trailer
If only, thanks
"Dying is not contagious behavior."
-Lindybeige.
0:06 - 0:23
This clip speaks to me in a lot of ways, how this lad dies on his own terms.
We can only assume so many reasons why this man is speeding along at over triple digits until his demise. We only know he did so willingly, without hesitation. I like to imagine that he always wanted to be a race car driver before the apocalypse. And when his time came, he went out doing what he loved doing without holding back.
He is probably still racing along just as swift in the afterlife as he was before death; like the Speed Demon he always wanted to be.
Well, once one man said: "Do you know the definition of insanity? It's doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over again, expecting different results"
daheck Bak, that was absolutely gorgeous. great speech and great way to tie it with the game. thanks for another great vid!
I'm glad you liked it boi!
Holy... Fuck... That was a golden video... I don't think the world realises what it is missing out on if they don't watch this video... A god damn masterpiece. Whether you play project zomboid or not.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you think it's that good
0:26 best part
This video more than being just something about a game, is a momento mori trigger, it is beautiful that’s what it is, an invitation to live, because wether we want it or not we will die.
Damn, this is so inspirational!! Makes me want to play the game once I get off work. Amazing video, keep up the great work!
Good, it worked 😎
DAMN! SO GOOD, keep up the great work Bakstein!!!
"The lenght of life is directly proportional to its cost"-Philosophy of death in games
california mj + the audio made me cry and think about life o_o
My apologies
This is how you lived.
Yep subscribed. Great work buddy very impressive. This is better quality content than big zomboid RUclipsrs have put out in years.
The constant dread of knowing that your fate is to end up like them and your existence will be nothing more than you, a husk walking the earth desperately looking for something you have lost and consume it but by doing that you destroy what was once precious. A dark and depressing end then you start again and finding your past self and putting them to rest and for you to try your best to defy that fate even though you know...
This is how you died...
this changed the way i think about life, before, i used to be afraid of death who wouldn't? i didn't want to die, but after i listened to this speech, i can say i'm less scared of death then i was before. thanks for posting this.
If that's something you struggle with I can recommend looking into research of near death experiences/NDE's. It's not for everyone probably, but it helped me worry less about dying
and if it's not, then just thank you, lol
Such amazing words of wisdom.
Today I died in project zomboid, but I didn't get angry or sad because I remembered this video, immediately create a new character when I usually delete the world
Good, yeah I prefer starting new worlds too but we should see what it adds to things to keep going with the same one!
This is how you died….but more importantly, this is how you lived.
Love my man Alan Watts RIP
Very well made, gets the zomboid juices flowing again :)
Hmmmmm delicious fermented zombie juices
Absolutely beautiful. I hope TIS sees this and wants to pay you to use this for one of their trailers.
I'm down to get paid by anyone for (almost) anything
The reason why we are alive is because we have the capability to die. The reason why we as a general species are able to thrive is because we are being carried on the shoulders of those who came before us, just as our descendants will be carried by our own shoulders even after we’re gone. Now, am I saying that it is good for all people to die and that people should actively seek death? No, no I do not think this. Death is not a “controlled constant” that can be applied the same way for all situations, for death is neither good nor evil, it simply just is as does all other things in the universe. Being (most likely) the only sentient living species in our corner of the galaxy, we have the responsibility of treating death with the proper respect it deserves. This is one reason why I believe that suicide is the single worst decision you can make for yourself, no matter what kind of hell a person is going through to compel themselves to end their own life.
Live. Keep living. Keep fighting. If you have to fight to survive, then survive. If the fight for survival isn’t an issue, than do your best to thrive. To boil our arguments down into a simple and crude version, this is basically what Alan Watts is saying with is fantastically well-spoken speech. While he frames the perspective of the speech to partially focus on the future generation, you have to remember that you yourself, the present generation, are the future generation to the people that came before you. Everything Alan Watts says in his speech here applies to you as well. Your death is just as important as the life that came before it. So live your life, so that you can have tranquility and peace, knowing that family, friends, and even strangers will in some way be supported by the path you have already stamped down. We are humanity. We live and fight together.
Very good, much approve. My approval brick shall arrive in 3-37 business days.
Please deliver through one of our single glazed windows.
this is probably one of my favorite zomboid vids, great work
wow.. i'm actually touched by this video, i may start playing project zomboid tomorrow but, shit, this video hit hard
Good
"one candle fade"
"another is ignited" -a wise man probally
I discovered this channel 8 months ago, forgot it and re-found it.
Happy to say that ur content is still amazing, subscribed!
Welcome back and thank you!
*MASTERPIECE.*
Wow, imagine this hitting harder if project zomboid added recruitable survivor where if you'd died, you could play as them instead and continue the world as it is as the survivor you recruited. Literally passing on the torch onto that survivor instead. I hope that project zomboid does include a feature like that
The thumbnail is beautiful! 😍
Thank you, all it took was 600 winter berries
@@bakstein1 lmaooo, the result was well worth it 😆✨
This is awesome. Love it!
Thank you sir!
"Death is a part of my journey.... But i wont die as a mere prey. not like this. Not without a Fight. This place is hell on earth.... So let me make life easier for the next unfortunate person who comes this way by taking as many Zeds as I can with me."
Even bitten, even hurt. Even bleeding to death. Even when in extreme panic. Fight until the end. So that people do not remember who you were, but what you did.
"This is how you died"
No... This is how you lived
Ah such a historic physiologist. A great mind the world cannot replace. Although maybe he will be seen again.
Can't wait for zombie Alan
He's garbage
Wonderful creative perspective! Good job!
Thanks!
i wish this speech was made into The Walking Dead speech for the final season. it would have made it a hype for anyone to watch the Last episodes and the last season for it.
Love Alan watts. amazing video as always.
Thank you, me too!
In a time like that, death would be nothing but a sweet release
God this is beautiful, thank you
Thank you and you're welcome!
Today I tried playing Pz on my new computer (had it for a month but haven’t played), just to realize that the save that I transferred was a backup so I lost dozens of hours of gameplay (made a huge wall around the farm north of Riverside, cleared a bunch of houses, brought and fixed a lot of cars and even cleared nearby towns that had extra gun stores). I didn’t want to play again on that save.
The title of the video didn’t lie, now I want to play again, but have a strong character that constantly travels and struggle to survive instead of wasting time building a base and hoarding.
Thanks to religion, I already had reflexions about death, it’s necessity and why immortality is bad. It doesn’t scare me, but I don’t want my time to come until I have done a lot of good. Anyway, didn’t realize you could see this from the game’s perspective. I will definitely seek out action and look at all the beauty of the game instead of chasing the unachievable goal of surviving because after all this is how you died.
I'm glad the video worked for you!
@@bakstein1 Yes, I started playing again the next day I posted this and I’ve been having a blast. I had to make a new world preset and the loot spawn was too high, so I don’t loot food since there’s an unlimited amount of canned stuff.
I’ll definitely lower loot next time so scavenging can feel like a challenge (mainly for food and melee weapons, I’ll keep guns more common since it’s Kentucky and they don’t spawn in every house either).
Once again, thank you for making this great video, I’ll watch it each time J get bored of PZ.
To live life with yourself as the ends rather than the means is to live in death. Unless you plant seeds that will outlive you, all your life will amount to is consumption, then nothing. To greedily take, then nothing, Your life will be as death.
To beget life. To nurture. To unite what came before with that which will follow. Then your death will be as life.
Sounds like we got Watts junior in the comments
3:01 "this is American dream" 😂
can't let your guns get lonely
@@bakstein1 true 😅
Nice, very nice. Love the edits and choice of narrator!
Thank you! Alan is the man
Whatever man, immortality is still my goal. You wanna cope about death, go ahead, not me man.
Powermove
Great video overall; I loved it!
However *_neck hyper extends_* that character build at 3:20 is unoptimised.
To explain I'll need to start with something seemingly off topic: Zombies have a percentile chance to spot survivors with sight per server tick- and there's 100 ticks per second. If you get to level 10 sneak and have the inconspicuous🧢 trait, zombies will take an average of 1 second to spot you, range of spotting isn't affected-- so under perfect optimization visual stealth does little. By contrast, with conspicuous🎩, zombies will spot you instantly, which would be 0.2 second difference for the average player build. In summary, conspicuous🎩 is free points!
With that context, the only reliable form of stealth in zomboid is sound based. Thus, getting clumsy🦶 will cripple your ability to sneak optimally. But, I hear you say, what if you are a fighter who doesn't stealth, isn't it good then? *No.* Clumsy🦶 has the hidden downside of making you 10% more likely to trip on a running fence vault. Any zomboider worth their salt knows fence fighting is an essential strategy for slaying hordes. Having an extra chance to trip, scratch your leg, and get eaten by a horde as you try and limp away is a bad idea. It isn't worth 4 points.
(Tl;dr) clumsy = bad trait; conspicuous = free points.
Extra tip: your survivor actually makes less noise while moving around without any shoes. If you need to sneak successfully and can't afford failure, take off yer boots (just don't start running until you put them back on, you'll cut your foot).
Thank you very much for your comment, it's good advice for new players. The build at 3:20 was just a joke clumsy fisherman build for the video though, kind of as a contrast to first showing the hyper optimized character with a packed base and everything it needs, to then a simple throwaway fisherman in the woods build for fun. (I would never play without the smoker trait)
@@bakstein1 I couldn't resist the call of my autism
@@bakstein1I believe I understand what you mean by that. It's an eloquent point. The worst thing that's happened to me in zomboid is that I've gotten too good at the game; it broke before I did when it used to be the opposite.
@@stillhere4165 Yeah that's recognizable, but thankfully there's a lot of settings and mods to make it harder. Though my heart prefers the calmer normal settings
@@bakstein1 I've tried sprinters, but it still wasn't enough. Any recommendations?
0:00 this was the moment where I felt hyped to play Zomboid again
That was easy
I just lost a long lived character and i was sooo sad :( but this was what I need it thanks ❤
You're welcome!
I wonder if evolution was like this. We were once an organism, capable of living eons or for eternity. Then we got lonely, decided to proliferate, our immortality gone or maybe a new way to live, as an immortal "Life". This is why life is inherently evolving and resilient. We remember we had immortality once in our instinct or perhaps a gene, we sought longevity but never actually pursuing it from an evolutionary perspective, rather we pass on our life, to our children and we are comforted with the fact that we have reached the point of death, yet our legacy and generations will live on.
OK, I was expecting explosions and a lot of shooting, but this was Way better.
There is a time for sitting, listening, and thinking, and a time to go hehe when something blows up.
Alan watts narrating a zomboid gameplay compilation is not something I had on my 2023 bingo card
Oh weird on mine it was right next to Ariana Grande succeeding Putin as president of the Russian Federation
Alan Watts, my boy. Hope you good and keep it up.
I'm doing better than he is at least (physically)
watch it in 1.5 speed to get higher bois
thanks, it worked. time to spam my friends to get on so we can end up making an entire movie in a game by just getting too immersed in the world and our characters.
Nice! That sounds good
The combo i knew deep inside would work, and you fucking did it.
The strongest minds think alike sir
I really liked what the guy from the 50s had to say however the saying that everyone would choose mortality over immortality is just wrong, wrong for me and wrong for most people if I could live forever I would and I would conquer the world quite literally have 10 times as many kids as genghis khan and repopulate the world with your own dna can you imagine? The power one would hold being able to live forever.
"And remember losing is fun"
Stopped playing for awhile. Been burnt out on PZ, felt like a chore to play. Watching your videos alongside other PZ youtubers are making me want to try and survive all over again.
Yeah that's very recognizable, I only recently started to enjoy actually ''normally'' playing the game again as well
The way we want to be when we begin is nowhere near who we become and then we want nothing but to be, we just want to be.
This should be the new Project Zomboid Trailer
What an incredible video. Subbed!!
Thank you sir and welcome to me channel
Man I feel this, after getting Bitten and infected, I had to make a choice, life then turn, or end it and not turn
It was my longest living character so I had to turn the gun on myself
It was painful but after watching this I want to play PZ again
By far the best video of project zomboid I will ever watch!
That is a very big compliment, thank you very much!
ahh yes the performance car at max speed during a foggy rainstorm... classic.
The driver must have been listening to Alan Watts too much
this game is addictive I can't wait the build 42...
Same boi
I swear no matter where I end up on this site, just feels like life rubbing in the fact that my family's dropping fast
Damn I am sorry you feel that way, maybe a break from RUclips is in order
Going to watch this on my death
I'll come back when human NPCs are included
So somewhere between the next one to twenty years
@@bakstein1 I can wait 👴
Alan watt is one of the brightest mind to ever see this planet
Yes, agreed
I like this as a trailer for the next update or story mode
If only
180+ hrs into this game and I have yet to find a functioning Corvette to drive. They are all wrecked or burned.
Yeah I've never legitimately got one running myself lol
hard earned loot is nothing compared to hard earned skills
Far more painful to lose at least
Skill recover journal baby
My guy Anthony Anderson is in a horde,literally he is still alive i try to find any way for him to survive,but now i found this vid and i accepted that he will die
Yeah. he's a nutter.. I can think of no notion more horrifying than that of simply not existing anymore.
Understandable.
Someone needs to mod the Wisdom of Insecurity into the game so I can read it as the zombies bang down my door.
Make it into a truemusic casette pack so I don't have to
Narrator speaking facts, awesome vid downloading 200+ mods as we speak
Good luck with that
Humans should not live forever, but they should be given the option to live however long they so choose.
I don't know man, I get your point but in my opinion it would be bad to keep us alive for far longer than our minds were made to deal with
Bro this feels like we got a trailer for PZ
Thanks, still waiting for that call from The Indie Stone
Incredible as always
Thank you Big Duck
This should become the new PZ trailer!
I wish!
This is great, the walking edit at 1:20 was well done Edit:spelling
Thanks! Glad you liked that bit
This is hauntinly beautiful.
Glad you liked it!
There's still a fair point to be made from the "will to survive" side. Things cease to have magic, sure, but that's because our lives are meagre, work-focused. I do not wish to go for holidays on my country's seaside anymore. I wish to see other seas and rivers. I wish to explore more languages, in depth, than just english. I wish to love, be young, and feel the breath in my lungs for as long as they have their youthful capacity.
Our life is survival now. And it could be so much more. We could have that conclusion if we could live, not just survive.
That's the point. There's beauty in this world. I may not have the willpower to see it all. But not everybody has opportunities and health to come to a conclusion as beautiful as things. Many die thinking "This can't be it. I wish I could have done more."
And even having being 20 years old, I already think so. Even though I have done much. I'd rather have a few more years to love, learn, and discover, than have to come to terms with what is inevitable and comes anyway. As an existentialist, death is the greatest threat because it is always forced. And I'd rather choose. I'd rather choose and experience, because if that were a choice to make, I would only make it when I'd be spent and satisfied with life, happy to have prepared the best for the future generations that are to come. Instead of scared, confsued, deathly sick or wounded, and worst of all, regretful. I can't have it all anyway. But a little more wouldn't be so bad.
Yes I agree, I think it's more of an attitude to keep in the back of your head to maybe make it a little easier when the time does come (and when it comes for people around you), rather than something to accept and just give up on life