Laughed for a solid minute at trying to figure out the real world equivalent of "guy you pay a dollar and he throws you through a neighboring wall". Love it.
That one conflicted me. You exchanged money for a service. Granted it's not necessarily a service one would WANT but I'm sure if you went back he'd be happy to keep doing it.
When I played this game as a kid and talked to the dude on the island I cried. It was the saddest tragedy known to man. This man was shipwrecked alone on this island for THREE YEARS? All alone! With the beach just feet away? And nobody came to help him? It legit f*cked me up and ruined my day. I was so sad for him
I like how you can hear the click of the guy's pen in the background, it gives you the feeling that this is a legitimate government employee performing a survey for the Census Bureau.
Having worked a season as a census enumerator this series feels so spot on to my experience with sometimes having to make increasingly esoteric calls on how to report. Especially for hostile or uncooperative people or locations. I’d love to see more of these. Given how the unemployment in Ul’dah in FFXIV is a major plot point in the story I’d get a huge kick out of knowing the real number.
You'd like his resident evil 4 vid lol, just curious, do you need a degree for that? And what was that experience like?(a mail man personally, but just curious 🧐)
oh my god I second that, an employment report in Ul'dah would be a lot of work but i think it'd be HILARIOUS. maybe even try to flag down horny RPers in the quicksand to get them to try and answer coherently to employment-related inquires (but they might count as tourists?)
@@thejonbrownshow8470 oh believe me, I’ve seen it at this point. This series is hilarious. Being a census enumerator was usually pretty basic but covid and the politics at the time unfortunately made things a lot more interesting. You actually don’t need much just to work as an enumerator, they take most any adult that signs up for basic enumerating (though there are some management or specialists for difficult cases that probably have deeper requirements). You just need to apply at the right time because its a temporary position. Most of the job is pretty routine you get assigned a list of addresses that need to be checked and ask any residents if they have taken the census survey yet and then fill it out with them if they haven’t. In an uncooperative house you just try and get the number of people living there if you can. Assuring people who want privacy that you don’t even technically need their names is usually enough to get most people to cooperate for a few minutes. I worked in a college town at the time so I had the extra fun challenge of dealing with a bunch of properties that had residents that didn’t count for the survey or else that had people that would count but had moved on an so I’d need to interrogate roommates and neighbors as to how many people and very roughly who they were.
@@punchtigeredits its kind of hard to say. Working as an adventurer would 100% be a transient sort of job, but you can also get housing attached to Ul’dah and set up player businesses. Plus there’s retainers and the market board. That run out of it in part. So even if you don’t work in Ul’dah you might employ characters that do.
Meanwhile, the raccoons hoarded shines and selling them at grossly inflated prices are deemed employed. It seems like the main criteria for whether your shady business counts as employment is how rich you are.
The man at the cannon is a cannon mechanic and there are other cannons on the island, so it's pretty safe to assume that he has had schooling and is employed to do this cannon repair job. As for the guy that was happy that the boat is moving, he is actually the owner/manager of the boats and even has a ferrying service to go to the airport. Which appears to be the only way there. Anyways, that was fun. Sunshine is my favorite game ever, do more. :D
The man on the roof offering to throw you for a loop if you throw him a coin is clearly self-employed and using genius slogans and marketing tactics to grow his business model.
The unemployment series is easily one of my favorite RUclips series going on right now. Just such a fun and simple concept that starts making you look at game worlds differently
@@qwopiretyu so I did a little google and apparently the IRS only counts you as employed if you make $400 or more as a RUclipsr. You are considered self-employed and a sole proprietor of your channel unless you partner with RUclips where you could also be considered an LLC
This is the exact type of content that falls under “how did I live this long without this” but also “why am I watching this” Thank you for this creation
Love how you call the first guy unemployed for randomly smelling around, and then immediately use the phrase "smells like un/employment" upon seeing the other citizens
maybe he's an arborist checking on the health of the foliage around the plaza, and he's so good at his job that he can smell when a plant has diseases or such.
This reminds me of when missionaries came to Hawaii and thought everyone was unemployed because they never did any work, when in reality they just woke up early and got all the days chores done before 11 am and could relax the rest of the day.
Average RUclipsr: * puts clickbait in their title like "you WON'T beliEVE how HIGH the unemplOYMENT rate in THIS beloved mARIO GAME is!!!!!!" Austin: * puts answer in the title, makes video that lasts over 18 minutes, refuses to elaborate, leaves * Godspeed my man, glad you're still around after all these years
11:18 I mean, you pay him, and then he moves you in the direction of your choosing, faster than walking could ever take you... that just sounds like public transport to me - I have some safety concerns, but considering Mario ends up being fine, and chucksters are a common thing among Piantas, I'd say it's probably an established profession
I always thought of him as more like a Chuckster who lacks the professionalism. Like, yeah he put in all the time and effort to learn how to be a Chuckster, but he never bothered to go through the proper channels to get the certification.
On a platform well oversaturated with video game analyses, psychological evaluations of characters, and deep dives into lore of various games, a refresh on the formula looking at something as simple as the unemployment rate of fictional cities is just what the palate needed. Well done, sir. I will be watching more.
Bingo. I can't tell you how tired I am of pretentious "deep dive" video essays by people pretending that Darkwing Duck for the NES was a turning point in our collective cultural consciousness.
@@sweetdangerzack I do agree. Also, as someone who is not into scary or disturbing stuff, these simple and lighthearted videos are really refreshing. There are just so many videos that try to reveal " deep hidden meanings " within childhood games or shows that are usually based on scary / creepy theories.
5:30 fucking killed me. Found a poor guy whos been stranded on an island for 3 years straight, then didnt even bother to hear what else he had to say. Just called him lazy then left him alone
Meaning this is a remote village man come to sell his crops in the city for the day. He doesn't have a more established stand like the fruit sellers that likely live above thier shops (and seem to source thier product through contractors instead of harvesting it themselves)
Although I do think another survey is due for when the island is not in a state of crisis (the fleeting of the Shine Sprites) which likely has affected the economy, this still provided very useful information. Well done as always Austin.
Excellent video! I feel there might be a discrepancy though -- at 10:32 to 10:34, the Pianta woman on the island says she wants you to bring her fruit because she's hungry, not because she plans to sell it. If her dialogue is the same for all the other Piantas asking Mario to gather fruit, then they're not business owners, they're random people asking passersby to be their Grubhub deliverymen.
@@username5155so they're basically like paying you for uber eats, if they have that disposable income rather than just getting fruit from around the island i'd argue it can be inferred they're employed or at least ineligible for the survey
I came exactly to comment on that, also the woman that asks you to bring durians seems like a lazy housewife to me, paying for her chores with hers husbands money gave her away
as someone who's attended a LOT of boring scientific conference-type research presentations, this (the live action segment at the end) is exactly what its like. nailed everything - the way it looks, sounds, smells... kinda comforting, actually.
My absolute favorite moment in the video is "there's not like a grocery store that sells peppers..." with the peppers stand literally visible in the background XD Love this style of videos so much, there are exactly the types of issues that need to be talked about more on this platform, keep up the good work ^_^
I love everything about this. I totally see you going around with a pen and clipboard and lowering your glasses, hyper-analyzing average pedestrians. "This just isn't employed behavior, sorry". Obsessed.
You forgot about the judge and the advocate in the custscene when mario is arrested. I'm pretty sure the trial happens at delfino plaza, which probably means they also count in employment statistics.
True but y’all are taking it a lil too seriously lmao. It’s never gonna be 100% accurate especially considering the village changes over the course of the game.
I don’t think you understand the point of arguing about this if your goal is still full accuracy. It’s just a funny conversation to have. It’s entertaining. Amusement. Do we want to be close? Sure. Do we know it doesn’t matter? Yes. So why bring up these more obscure characters? To have more to giggle about. It’s all very silly.
Delphino Plaza being a vacation spot really gives it an advantage since it's not unreasonable to give anyone the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are on vacation and not just unemployed.
Mushroom do actually exist on Isle Delfino, just only at Pianta Village (possible the upper homeland of Piantas?). Either way, the mushroom man is seemingly importing/selling goods not accessible on the lower parts of the Isle.
I've always been bizarrely fascinated with the idea of bureaucratic systems in fantasy worlds like the guild from Venture Bros, so these video game town unemployment survey videos are very entertaining.
@@limpkola That too! I enjoy the immediacy of him writing things down - the pen click is a good audio indicator that he's marking things down as he goes. See it? Mark it. It keeps me engaged
honestly it was kind of luck for me. Saw a posting on a job board I’m a part of on facebook & got a referral. All I can say, if you can handle walking around all day, look out for data collection agencies & reach out to them to see if they’re hiring. it was a really low-key situation, like i don’t think i even submitted a resume. it felt like we always needed more people & we had some people on the team who were flakier than others. no experience required though, my employer had us using a mobile app so it was very entry level, & it did help me get a job after that since it’s somewhat tech oriented. :)
8:22 While I don't think that logic holds (she is hiring you for a specific task rather than hiring you on as an employee, someone unemployed could hire a plumber) I do think the fact that she is clearly the model from the banner suggests she is employed.
@@alexskocy9948 I thought she was employed by selling the fruits until she said "I'm craving some...coconuts!" which makes me think she just wants to eat them - therefore, she's not making money from them. Could go either way for me.
The fact that there’s so many people saying the exact same thing makes me think she (and the other Fruit Ladies) is in some kind of Multi Level Marketing scheme, pulling in other people to help her with her business. I think that counts as employment? She’s her own boss?
I think the fruit gathering scheme is what supplies the fruit stands. It’s a viscous cycle, they make tourists gather fruit for a slight reward and make them pay for the very fruits they gathered themselves.
@@any_austin He actually mentions it in an earlier state of Delfino Plaza, if you have less story/shine progression. (Back when the boats aren’t moving) It’s interesting how the dialogues or some characters change over time in response to events!
It may be worthwhile to consider the different states each citizen is in as Mario collects more and more Shine Sprites. The plaza changes bit by bit as Mario unlocks more access to stages, and the dialogue and sometimes positions of NPCs change accordingly.
More accurate absolutely but entirely necessary probably not. You can just tell how tedious some of these unemployment videos are for him wouldn’t ever wanna make it worse
Laughed out loud at the shipwrecked guy bit... and the 'Wet come'. Fantastic. Just like the prior two surveys... incredibly entertaining. I might have included the judge that sentences you, though I guess you don't know if the courthouse is in the Plaza... I think it'd be neat to do a Pokemon game survey, like Goldenrod City!
The actually reasonably well put together and thought out analysis of the econmic situation in delfino plaza is staggering, well done! I will say some of the tweaks in the dialogue from game states would imply maybe one or two more that I can think of off hand, and there's a handful of implied bodies that could use mentioning (the news ticker team, for example, or the judge from the court case) but yeah, very nicely put together!
Excellent content, this made my day! You forgot about the Pianta who gives you a ride to the Airstrip but I don't think he appears until the end of the game
the "guy who you give a coin and they throw you' bit was really funny imagine meeting some guy on a roof and they say that to you and you decide to give them some money to see what they mean and they just launch you across the street through someones window
Me: gets recommended this channel on a whim, doesn't know anything about it Literally 2 minutes into the video: "Oh boy look at this! This smells like employment." **Instant subscribe**
I love these videos (and your uninteresting and odd places videos) so much because it makes me think about the worlds of the games differently. The unemployment videos show which developers care about making more immersive worlds and which ones create the characters only because they're needed for the purpose of the game. The uninteresting places videos show that the amount of effort put into making maps and level design is super important to overall vibes of a game. Love these vids, keep it up!
Curious as to why you didn't include the judge and lawyer/bailiffs etc from the intro. They may not be present in the playable area but the court system is undoubtedly located in the main urban area of Delfino Plaza, perhaps adjoined to the police station
It will be interesting to see a full breakdown of the island employment. Ricco harbor is definitely a major location of industry. Hotel delfino and pinna park are also tourism locales. While bianco hills and pianta village are residential
I hope you get the funding to survey the rest of Isle Delfino! I feel like there is more to the story here in the districts that locals actually spend time, as well as the other tourism hot spots. We really need more data to see the big picture.
hello good sir i wanted to tell you that your unemployment skyrim video is what brought me to your channel, and that every unemployment video you make i will watch without fail. please keep making them, different games same games doesnt matter to me. also the way you rp as a census interviewer and even feign ignorance about game mechanics and locations, like you were just sent there and showed up just blindly trying to do your job, is incredible talent. very funny and fun to watch. your meticulous investigative efforts are not unnoticed. keep up the good work!
I think there's an argument to be made that the Throwing Man is analogous to a self employed taxi driver. He's getting you to a location with an unusual method of transportation.
I think the fact that he's on a rooftop, and that he throws you through a closed window, indicates that his services are geared for burglars. So he's more like a getaway driver or criminal transport. So he could be employed and is just running this illegal side hustle to make extra cash off of other criminals.
I'll be honest when I got these videos recommended I thought they'd be dry wiki-reading but seeing how the premise is executed, these are fantastic, I look forward to more.
hi austin sean here. got recommended this video like a month ago and i have watched it almost every time i am drunk and drifting off to sleep since. it's primarily because your voice and delivery here remind me of this professor i had in college a few years back who i was obsessed with. very intelligent very well spoken great deadpan delivery. love. also because i just moved to ireland without knowing anybody here and in some ways you are the first person i met here although i know in actuality you are in new orleans louisiana right now-home of the free land of the brave etc. i don't like video games but for the above reasons this one sticks with me. hope you are doing well. cheers sean
A month later - the unexpected fits of laughter still haven't ceased. I've now come to believe that I'm under the Wet Cum Curse, also known in Japan as "Nureta Seishi no Noroi" (濡れた精子の呪い). Haaaahahaaaa....! Pray for me.
I used to work as an enumerator a few years back for the good ole US Census Bureau. It was definitely an experience. My car got stuck in a mud ditch one time and also (and my memory maybe a little fuzzy here) I believe I saw house on fire that may have been a crack house. So fire trucks came and it was an ordeal. It was kind of neat traveling and seeing where so many people lived. I saw so many no trespassing signs or beware of dog signs it was nuts. Overall, it was a neat job at time’s learning the ropes of how to enumerate. Definitely not even close to my worst job. Not even with those little incidents I mentioned prior.
11:57 how sad our government statistics are, that guy is clearly offering a service that people are paying for. He's a hard working citizen working for his money! Is work is backbreaking, but because he is self employed you discriminate against him! This is so unfair and an injustice to all the citizens! There will be public outcry! Hahahaha, in all seriousness, this is a hilarious concept and I love it; glad it got recommended to me.
Oh, man, Rogueport. That would be an interesting place to survey the unemployment of. Lots of street hustlers, but are they employed if it's organized crime?
Why is nobody mentioning the fact that he missed one?? The orange one with the blue shirt at 13:30. He's employed too, cause he gives you a boat ride to the air strip after you beat the game.
@@WilfredCthulu ok maybe not brainscratch then. one way or the other i remember you from being a regular commenter on some channel i watch, that’s my point
This is amazing. I love "Let's apply real world laws and science to video games" content and this is the perfect blend of accurate professional bureaucratic institution and nonsense.
I love how you can hear the pen clicking after you asks each person their job status, as if Mario is actually walking around with a clipboard interviewing people.
Indeed, a great series! I always enjoy when a new one pops up. I disagree a tad on some of your enumerations based on what my perceptions were as a kid. But that's really the fun of this series to me, getting to revisit games in the same level of detail I used to play/explore them as a kid. Nowadays of I play them for nostaligia, it's much more goal oriented and story based rather than exploration. So, again, I love the series!
Great series. Would love to see unemployment analysis of the imperial city at the start of the oblivion crisis. Also please consider megaton in FO3. Thanks!
Love these! If you are taking requests for any more of these, I think Toad Town from Paper Mario or Rogueport from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door would make good unemployment surveys. Also mostly the biggest towns in Zelda games can work
I'd personally like to see the unemployment rates of the Pokémon Regions (since most cities and towns aren't large enough to do this sort of thing on their own), or maybe the unemployment rates of all of the different versions of Kakariko Village.
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I also choose this guy's Patreon
you can tell which piantas are millenials
Sailor uniform could also mean they're in a Japanese highschool
Unemployed people are 'actively looking for work'
I demand a recount
Perhaps I am blind (which is very possible), but I cannot find the link to the full report in either the comment section or description.
"I've been shipwrecked for three years!" *aggressive pen click*
*licks nib of pen*
"Lazy."
Best moment.
5:25
Laughed for a solid minute at trying to figure out the real world equivalent of "guy you pay a dollar and he throws you through a neighboring wall". Love it.
Maybe Taxi Driver?
@@jacksonbernard855 that was kind of what I thought, but more on a side gig level like a ride share level.
I want to like this but it's at 69 likes.
That one conflicted me. You exchanged money for a service. Granted it's not necessarily a service one would WANT but I'm sure if you went back he'd be happy to keep doing it.
you’re paying him!!! which means he’s self employed!!! we need a friggin re-audit
When I played this game as a kid and talked to the dude on the island I cried. It was the saddest tragedy known to man. This man was shipwrecked alone on this island for THREE YEARS? All alone! With the beach just feet away? And nobody came to help him? It legit f*cked me up and ruined my day. I was so sad for him
this made me cry too i never thought of it like that 😭
LOL same! i couldnt believe how that was possible.
I always wondered why he couldn't just swim over
no one would save him so he could contribute to the economy :(
And then after the flood, he says he just wants to go back to the island.
I like how you can hear the click of the guy's pen in the background, it gives you the feeling that this is a legitimate government employee performing a survey for the Census Bureau.
Having worked a season as a census enumerator this series feels so spot on to my experience with sometimes having to make increasingly esoteric calls on how to report. Especially for hostile or uncooperative people or locations.
I’d love to see more of these. Given how the unemployment in Ul’dah in FFXIV is a major plot point in the story I’d get a huge kick out of knowing the real number.
You'd like his resident evil 4 vid lol, just curious, do you need a degree for that? And what was that experience like?(a mail man personally, but just curious 🧐)
oh my god I second that, an employment report in Ul'dah would be a lot of work but i think it'd be HILARIOUS. maybe even try to flag down horny RPers in the quicksand to get them to try and answer coherently to employment-related inquires (but they might count as tourists?)
@@thejonbrownshow8470 oh believe me, I’ve seen it at this point. This series is hilarious.
Being a census enumerator was usually pretty basic but covid and the politics at the time unfortunately made things a lot more interesting.
You actually don’t need much just to work as an enumerator, they take most any adult that signs up for basic enumerating (though there are some management or specialists for difficult cases that probably have deeper requirements). You just need to apply at the right time because its a temporary position.
Most of the job is pretty routine you get assigned a list of addresses that need to be checked and ask any residents if they have taken the census survey yet and then fill it out with them if they haven’t.
In an uncooperative house you just try and get the number of people living there if you can. Assuring people who want privacy that you don’t even technically need their names is usually enough to get most people to cooperate for a few minutes.
I worked in a college town at the time so I had the extra fun challenge of dealing with a bunch of properties that had residents that didn’t count for the survey or else that had people that would count but had moved on an so I’d need to interrogate roommates and neighbors as to how many people and very roughly who they were.
@@punchtigeredits its kind of hard to say. Working as an adventurer would 100% be a transient sort of job, but you can also get housing attached to Ul’dah and set up player businesses. Plus there’s retainers and the market board. That run out of it in part. So even if you don’t work in Ul’dah you might employ characters that do.
@@sternguard77 I'm currently a overworked delivery driver basically, but that sounds interesting 😂
I like how the chuckster guy is the only person you can pay for a service, but he’s deemed unemployed.
Welcome to bureaucracy
Meanwhile, the raccoons hoarded shines and selling them at grossly inflated prices are deemed employed.
It seems like the main criteria for whether your shady business counts as employment is how rich you are.
@@gregoryhayes7569 that's pretty accurate to the real world actually.
It's because the guy on the roof is not filing with the IRS. He's doing it under the table.
That is correct
The man at the cannon is a cannon mechanic and there are other cannons on the island, so it's pretty safe to assume that he has had schooling and is employed to do this cannon repair job. As for the guy that was happy that the boat is moving, he is actually the owner/manager of the boats and even has a ferrying service to go to the airport. Which appears to be the only way there. Anyways, that was fun. Sunshine is my favorite game ever, do more. :D
Thank you for your supplemental well-versed _Super Mario Sunshine_ employment lore!!! 👋👋👋
The man on the roof offering to throw you for a loop if you throw him a coin is clearly self-employed and using genius slogans and marketing tactics to grow his business model.
@@seanlaffey3633 he's the boss of all the chucking piantas in the pianta village secret
@@crunko8873 Ah yes, the chucksters. Does that make him the chuckmaster? Head honcho of the chucketeers? Either way, definitely employed
this is groundbreaking information that means the unemployment rate is even lower which is fantastic!!!
The unemployment series is easily one of my favorite RUclips series going on right now. Just such a fun and simple concept that starts making you look at game worlds differently
Technically speaking, all RUclips series are made by the unemployed
@@qwopiretyu so I did a little google and apparently the IRS only counts you as employed if you make $400 or more as a RUclipsr. You are considered self-employed and a sole proprietor of your channel unless you partner with RUclips where you could also be considered an LLC
@@JUNCUSFUNCUS huh and that's yearly?
@@qwopiretyu its as if putting hundreds of hours into a video project and making money from the finished product counts as a job... oh wait
@@BaalFridge it's as if I was making a joke
The "wet come" at 7:10 sent me into orbit lmaoooo love your videos, Austin. I find them really relaxing, funny, and entertaining
😂 we know what he thinks about
This is the exact type of content that falls under “how did I live this long without this” but also “why am I watching this”
Thank you for this creation
really love all your vids and been really enjoying learning about employment job opportunities near me
big appreciate you saying this thank you. I hope you find your dream job.
@@any_austin One should not have to dream of labor
NakeyJakey, it's a good day when he uploads
Welcome back again hot boi yoga ball guy dog bless
I've been watching Austin for years, and it's nice to see some hotboy city slickers give him some attention
Love how you call the first guy unemployed for randomly smelling around, and then immediately use the phrase "smells like un/employment" upon seeing the other citizens
You made it into his shorts lol
in hindsight it makes me wonder if that one might work as tour guide, but there are simply no tourists
maybe he's an arborist checking on the health of the foliage around the plaza, and he's so good at his job that he can smell when a plant has diseases or such.
This reminds me of when missionaries came to Hawaii and thought everyone was unemployed because they never did any work, when in reality they just woke up early and got all the days chores done before 11 am and could relax the rest of the day.
That sounds like a perfect day to me
Average RUclipsr: * puts clickbait in their title like "you WON'T beliEVE how HIGH the unemplOYMENT rate in THIS beloved mARIO GAME is!!!!!!"
Austin: * puts answer in the title, makes video that lasts over 18 minutes, refuses to elaborate, leaves *
Godspeed my man, glad you're still around after all these years
The utter lack of clickbait and honestly just thoroughness is just so satisfying to watch
11:18 I mean, you pay him, and then he moves you in the direction of your choosing, faster than walking could ever take you... that just sounds like public transport to me - I have some safety concerns, but considering Mario ends up being fine, and chucksters are a common thing among Piantas, I'd say it's probably an established profession
The guy who throws you for a loop is 100% employed. He’s the equivalent of the guy that operates the slingshot rides at tourist spots.
I always thought of him as more like a Chuckster who lacks the professionalism. Like, yeah he put in all the time and effort to learn how to be a Chuckster, but he never bothered to go through the proper channels to get the certification.
Totally agree, I got the same "carnie" feel from his dialogue
Ah, just 2 days of unpaid training and they're good to go
Self employed is still employed
exchanging money for (goods and) services is employment! self-employment, but employment nonetheless imo
On a platform well oversaturated with video game analyses, psychological evaluations of characters, and deep dives into lore of various games, a refresh on the formula looking at something as simple as the unemployment rate of fictional cities is just what the palate needed. Well done, sir. I will be watching more.
Bingo. I can't tell you how tired I am of pretentious "deep dive" video essays by people pretending that Darkwing Duck for the NES was a turning point in our collective cultural consciousness.
@@sweetdangerzack if it was, Konami would sue for copyright infringement on MGR
Couldn’t of said it better myself 😂- So glad this came up in my recommended, the title alone gave me a laugh
@@sweetdangerzack I do agree. Also, as someone who is not into scary or disturbing stuff, these simple and lighthearted videos are really refreshing. There are just so many videos that try to reveal " deep hidden meanings " within childhood games or shows that are usually based on scary / creepy theories.
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Hey now! You paid the man, and he threw you for a loop. That's self-employment! He's an entrepreneur!
But is he paying taxes? 🤔 That makes the big difference
Why is this so funny? 🤣 The pen clicking, the casual judgement of residents, it's gold - please make more!
5:30 fucking killed me. Found a poor guy whos been stranded on an island for 3 years straight, then didnt even bother to hear what else he had to say. Just called him lazy then left him alone
Small correction, there are mushrooms on the island. They're under Pianta Village, though those are all giant.
oops
Good point! They're still technically imports to Delfino Plaza itself, but it seems like they aren't necessarily international.
I think there also also other NPCs with mushrooms on their back there too. So that’s probably where they source the mushroom
Meaning this is a remote village man come to sell his crops in the city for the day. He doesn't have a more established stand like the fruit sellers that likely live above thier shops (and seem to source thier product through contractors instead of harvesting it themselves)
Although I do think another survey is due for when the island is not in a state of crisis (the fleeting of the Shine Sprites) which likely has affected the economy, this still provided very useful information. Well done as always Austin.
how is the info useful
seems more just for fun
@@skeleton819 like in a in world usefulness, something like a test to see how a disaster on this level will effect the Delfino economy.
@@Nitosa ok
it seems most of the economy is vacationing/tourism and fruit stands, which means an event like no sunlight would be… pretty detrimental
Excellent video! I feel there might be a discrepancy though -- at 10:32 to 10:34, the Pianta woman on the island says she wants you to bring her fruit because she's hungry, not because she plans to sell it. If her dialogue is the same for all the other Piantas asking Mario to gather fruit, then they're not business owners, they're random people asking passersby to be their Grubhub deliverymen.
Basically unemployed, homeless people who can't afford food
@@Liggliluffwell, they still pay you for it.
@@username5155so they're basically like paying you for uber eats, if they have that disposable income rather than just getting fruit from around the island i'd argue it can be inferred they're employed or at least ineligible for the survey
I came exactly to comment on that, also the woman that asks you to bring durians seems like a lazy housewife to me, paying for her chores with hers husbands money gave her away
as someone who's attended a LOT of boring scientific conference-type research presentations, this (the live action segment at the end) is exactly what its like. nailed everything - the way it looks, sounds, smells... kinda comforting, actually.
My absolute favorite moment in the video is "there's not like a grocery store that sells peppers..." with the peppers stand literally visible in the background XD Love this style of videos so much, there are exactly the types of issues that need to be talked about more on this platform, keep up the good work ^_^
I love everything about this. I totally see you going around with a pen and clipboard and lowering your glasses, hyper-analyzing average pedestrians. "This just isn't employed behavior, sorry". Obsessed.
You forgot about the judge and the advocate in the custscene when mario is arrested. I'm pretty sure the trial happens at delfino plaza, which probably means they also count in employment statistics.
I was gonna say this! Also I'm not sure the boat dancing guy is unemployed tbh.
True but y’all are taking it a lil too seriously lmao. It’s never gonna be 100% accurate especially considering the village changes over the course of the game.
I don’t think you understand the point of arguing about this if your goal is still full accuracy. It’s just a funny conversation to have. It’s entertaining. Amusement.
Do we want to be close? Sure. Do we know it doesn’t matter? Yes. So why bring up these more obscure characters? To have more to giggle about. It’s all very silly.
Yeah and what about that damn Tanooki scalping his island's own power source?!?!
ooh, good point! and what about the delfino airstrip? it's part of the plaza for 100-coin-shine purposes....
Delphino Plaza being a vacation spot really gives it an advantage since it's not unreasonable to give anyone the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are on vacation and not just unemployed.
Mushroom do actually exist on Isle Delfino, just only at Pianta Village (possible the upper homeland of Piantas?). Either way, the mushroom man is seemingly importing/selling goods not accessible on the lower parts of the Isle.
I've always been bizarrely fascinated with the idea of bureaucratic systems in fantasy worlds like the guild from Venture Bros, so these video game town unemployment survey videos are very entertaining.
Unironically, I love the pen click and marker noises. It makes it feel immediate
Don’t you mean intimate?
@@limpkola That too! I enjoy the immediacy of him writing things down - the pen click is a good audio indicator that he's marking things down as he goes. See it? Mark it. It keeps me engaged
"I've been shipwrecked for three years"
• puts controller down, clicks pen •
✖️ UNEMPLOYED ✖️
@@Liggliluff *SAVAGE*
Love watching these, reminds me of my data collection job where I’d walk around and count parked cars for 10 hours a few days a week
How do I get on that train
Sounds like a great job if youre into Pokemon Go
How do I get that job, walking around and counting things sounds like heaven.
honestly it was kind of luck for me. Saw a posting on a job board I’m a part of on facebook & got a referral. All I can say, if you can handle walking around all day, look out for data collection agencies & reach out to them to see if they’re hiring. it was a really low-key situation, like i don’t think i even submitted a resume. it felt like we always needed more people & we had some people on the team who were flakier than others. no experience required though, my employer had us using a mobile app so it was very entry level, & it did help me get a job after that since it’s somewhat tech oriented. :)
How in the hell has it taken me 21 years to find out this is an actual job. I'd kill to have that job!
8:22 While I don't think that logic holds (she is hiring you for a specific task rather than hiring you on as an employee, someone unemployed could hire a plumber) I do think the fact that she is clearly the model from the banner suggests she is employed.
You could argue that since she is hiring you for a task that implies that she has money to pay with, and by extension, she is therefore employed.
@@alexskocy9948 that or living off a trust fund. If we accept the 3rd world tourist labor economy premise, it's employment.
@@twistedtachyon5877 I imagine if employed it's something like she pays you to get fruits then sells fruits to the stands
@@alexskocy9948 I thought she was employed by selling the fruits until she said "I'm craving some...coconuts!" which makes me think she just wants to eat them - therefore, she's not making money from them. Could go either way for me.
The fact that there’s so many people saying the exact same thing makes me think she (and the other Fruit Ladies) is in some kind of Multi Level Marketing scheme, pulling in other people to help her with her business. I think that counts as employment? She’s her own boss?
I think the fruit gathering scheme is what supplies the fruit stands. It’s a viscous cycle, they make tourists gather fruit for a slight reward and make them pay for the very fruits they gathered themselves.
This is so funny I love your deadpan delivery. as someone who studied finance hearing you mention the BLS got a laugh out of me
The boat enthusiast man is actually the boat operator, he's dancing because the boats are moving. Employed
Prove it
@@any_austin He actually mentions it in an earlier state of Delfino Plaza, if you have less story/shine progression. (Back when the boats aren’t moving)
It’s interesting how the dialogues or some characters change over time in response to events!
It may be worthwhile to consider the different states each citizen is in as Mario collects more and more Shine Sprites. The plaza changes bit by bit as Mario unlocks more access to stages, and the dialogue and sometimes positions of NPCs change accordingly.
More accurate absolutely but entirely necessary probably not. You can just tell how tedious some of these unemployment videos are for him wouldn’t ever wanna make it worse
Laughed out loud at the shipwrecked guy bit... and the 'Wet come'. Fantastic. Just like the prior two surveys... incredibly entertaining.
I might have included the judge that sentences you, though I guess you don't know if the courthouse is in the Plaza...
I think it'd be neat to do a Pokemon game survey, like Goldenrod City!
Well, if you're counting the judge, might as well count the prosecutor, as well!
He also forgot the Piantas at the landing strip for the airplane. Which is I believe, still technically part of Delfino Plaza.
@@bugjams and the smoothie shop owners on the beach/the hotel owner at the other beach
Austin's comedic improv chops are sooo good. Really love these.
The actually reasonably well put together and thought out analysis of the econmic situation in delfino plaza is staggering, well done! I will say some of the tweaks in the dialogue from game states would imply maybe one or two more that I can think of off hand, and there's a handful of implied bodies that could use mentioning (the news ticker team, for example, or the judge from the court case) but yeah, very nicely put together!
I don't know why but the click of that pen as Austin works down his list puts a smile on my face
Excellent content, this made my day! You forgot about the Pianta who gives you a ride to the Airstrip but I don't think he appears until the end of the game
Our enumerator simply hasnt the time to save the island AND survey the island
@@any_austin i do think a reevaluation is required after someone does something about the island to see how the economy has improved
I believe that the dancing boat pianta next to the noki bay light pillar owns and runs the boat as a business.
the "guy who you give a coin and they throw you' bit was really funny
imagine meeting some guy on a roof and they say that to you and you decide to give them some money to see what they mean and they just launch you across the street through someones window
Me: gets recommended this channel on a whim, doesn't know anything about it
Literally 2 minutes into the video: "Oh boy look at this! This smells like employment."
**Instant subscribe**
I love these videos (and your uninteresting and odd places videos) so much because it makes me think about the worlds of the games differently. The unemployment videos show which developers care about making more immersive worlds and which ones create the characters only because they're needed for the purpose of the game. The uninteresting places videos show that the amount of effort put into making maps and level design is super important to overall vibes of a game. Love these vids, keep it up!
Curious as to why you didn't include the judge and lawyer/bailiffs etc from the intro. They may not be present in the playable area but the court system is undoubtedly located in the main urban area of Delfino Plaza, perhaps adjoined to the police station
Maybe Mario didn’t get his data collection job until after he was arrested
+1 For whoever is running the Delfino Emergency Broadcast Station.
This is actually really fun, just stopping and focusing on the little things
I love these unemployment videos, my favorite part is your genuine solid report at the end, I love how serious it is
I really enjoy these videos. They're just so calming. Great background while I do housework. Definitely want to see more of this kind of content.
I absolutely love that he does an "employment situation" summary like the Bureau of Labor Statistics 😂
This is possibly one of my favourite series on RUclips, always a treat seeing this pop up in my feed.
I also felt that the guy that gives you the sunglasses was retired. Good choice lol
Honestly doing a breakdown of the entire game area by area sounds like an amazing idea or series
It will be interesting to see a full breakdown of the island employment. Ricco harbor is definitely a major location of industry. Hotel delfino and pinna park are also tourism locales. While bianco hills and pianta village are residential
13:30 I do believe you missed the Painta on the right half the of the screen! I sorta walks back and fourth along that peir.
I hope you get the funding to survey the rest of Isle Delfino! I feel like there is more to the story here in the districts that locals actually spend time, as well as the other tourism hot spots. We really need more data to see the big picture.
I heartily concur.
hello good sir i wanted to tell you that your unemployment skyrim video is what brought me to your channel, and that every unemployment video you make i will watch without fail. please keep making them, different games same games doesnt matter to me. also the way you rp as a census interviewer and even feign ignorance about game mechanics and locations, like you were just sent there and showed up just blindly trying to do your job, is incredible talent. very funny and fun to watch. your meticulous investigative efforts are not unnoticed. keep up the good work!
I think there's an argument to be made that the Throwing Man is analogous to a self employed taxi driver. He's getting you to a location with an unusual method of transportation.
I think the fact that he's on a rooftop, and that he throws you through a closed window, indicates that his services are geared for burglars. So he's more like a getaway driver or criminal transport. So he could be employed and is just running this illegal side hustle to make extra cash off of other criminals.
@@Nebyulosity Hm you make a good point. I suppose if this is a side hustle we are back to not knowing if he's employed.
I'll be honest when I got these videos recommended I thought they'd be dry wiki-reading but seeing how the premise is executed, these are fantastic, I look forward to more.
2:42 If you ever make merch, you should definitely see about making a “This smells like employment” shirt or something along those lines.
This is my favorite series
I absolutely agree
Dude please keep making videos like this it’s so good. I love the super formal report delivery at the end! 😭
This is such a unique series, I love watching it, you and your channel is great
hi austin sean here. got recommended this video like a month ago and i have watched it almost every time i am drunk and drifting off to sleep since. it's primarily because your voice and delivery here remind me of this professor i had in college a few years back who i was obsessed with. very intelligent very well spoken great deadpan delivery. love. also because i just moved to ireland without knowing anybody here and in some ways you are the first person i met here although i know in actuality you are in new orleans louisiana right now-home of the free land of the brave etc. i don't like video games but for the above reasons this one sticks with me. hope you are doing well. cheers sean
Sean like Sean Sean?
this is absolutely phenomenal stuff thank you for your service
I feel like A Hat in Time's Mafia Town (and other locations) would be interesting to examine through an economic and unemployment lens.
7:10
"Wet come?!" - I'm still coughing because of all the unexpected laughing that made me do.
Thanks for that one.
AAAaaaah... "Wet come"...
A month later - the unexpected fits of laughter still haven't ceased.
I've now come to believe that I'm under the Wet Cum Curse, also known in Japan as "Nureta Seishi no Noroi" (濡れた精子の呪い).
Haaaahahaaaa....!
Pray for me.
This has easily become one of my favourite series on youtube, excited to see the rest of Isle Delfino!
I used to work as an enumerator a few years back for the good ole US Census Bureau. It was definitely an experience.
My car got stuck in a mud ditch one time and also (and my memory maybe a little fuzzy here) I believe I saw house on fire that may have been a crack house. So fire trucks came and it was an ordeal.
It was kind of neat traveling and seeing where so many people lived. I saw so many no trespassing signs or beware of dog signs it was nuts.
Overall, it was a neat job at time’s learning the ropes of how to enumerate. Definitely not even close to my worst job. Not even with those little incidents I mentioned prior.
this is the most random video of this game i’ve ever seen or of any video game i’ve seen in awhile… i need more
Absolutely love these videos. Such a great concept. I love the dry humor. Keep it up, and thank you!
This series is great, please continue
13:02 so Hucksters are employed but not the guy that’s hucks you through a window?
11:57 how sad our government statistics are, that guy is clearly offering a service that people are paying for. He's a hard working citizen working for his money! Is work is backbreaking, but because he is self employed you discriminate against him! This is so unfair and an injustice to all the citizens! There will be public outcry!
Hahahaha, in all seriousness, this is a hilarious concept and I love it; glad it got recommended to me.
Love how "official" you make these seem, love the little insignia on the records. And that hair 😆 keep up the amazing work!!!
6:44 I love this theory! Not only does it explain the outfits, but also why Mario's trial was unfair.
Oh, man, Rogueport. That would be an interesting place to survey the unemployment of. Lots of street hustlers, but are they employed if it's organized crime?
Why is nobody mentioning the fact that he missed one?? The orange one with the blue shirt at 13:30. He's employed too, cause he gives you a boat ride to the air strip after you beat the game.
The pen clicking when you said "I'm gonna mark this guy down as retired..." at 4:32! Brilliant lmao
Keep in mind the plaza changes as you progress through the game so might give more insight on everybody.
something somehow less dumb and more dumb than my videos
hey i recognize you from commenting on brainscratch’s uploads. how fun
@@yourehereforthatarentyou Who?
@@WilfredCthulu ok maybe not brainscratch then. one way or the other i remember you from being a regular commenter on some channel i watch, that’s my point
@@yourehereforthatarentyou Vinesauce or something probably
11:41
Hear me out, if you’re paying him, then it’s his job. He’s like a freelancer but his schtick is throwing you for a loop.
I love this series, please continue making episodes they are so good.
The throw you a loop guy is the most employed person in Delfino! He’s the only one you actually exchanged goods and or services with
youre forgetting the cutscene delfinos, the lawyer and judge. thats 2 more employed delfinos on the island(s)
These employment surveys are great! Please make more videos in this series!
This is amazing. I love "Let's apply real world laws and science to video games" content and this is the perfect blend of accurate professional bureaucratic institution and nonsense.
This was hilarious. Justice for the roof throwing guy though, i feel like that was a job lol.
I love these pen clicks after each one so much for absolutely no reason.
I love how you can hear the pen clicking after you asks each person their job status, as if Mario is actually walking around with a clipboard interviewing people.
Another excellent analysis of the economic standing of locales amid this financial crisis.
Indeed, a great series! I always enjoy when a new one pops up. I disagree a tad on some of your enumerations based on what my perceptions were as a kid. But that's really the fun of this series to me, getting to revisit games in the same level of detail I used to play/explore them as a kid. Nowadays of I play them for nostaligia, it's much more goal oriented and story based rather than exploration. So, again, I love the series!
Great series. Would love to see unemployment analysis of the imperial city at the start of the oblivion crisis. Also please consider megaton in FO3. Thanks!
I turned off my cell phone for the presentation but then the video just stopped playing
very much fun and informative, i am sick today and this was the perfect distraction, thank you for your service
i like this series sm please make more
Love these! If you are taking requests for any more of these, I think Toad Town from Paper Mario or Rogueport from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door would make good unemployment surveys. Also mostly the biggest towns in Zelda games can work
I'd personally like to see the unemployment rates of the Pokémon Regions (since most cities and towns aren't large enough to do this sort of thing on their own), or maybe the unemployment rates of all of the different versions of Kakariko Village.
ah yes nirvana's less popular follow up single, "smells like employment"
The guy who throws you works in transportation, he's basically a teamster.
First time visiting the channel and still cant be believe I watched this whole video. Who knew a full report on Isle Delfino would be THAT fun! 😂