If you come into Heathrow with a mummy shaped bag, I don't think they even check your passport. They just shrug and let you pass, you are obviously British
Yes to number 5! Honestly, in games and movies and shows, the single trope I CANNOT stand is when the hero murders their way through dozens if not hundreds of henchmen just to let the big bad live at the end for some sudden moral realization. Like. What the heck. Stop it. That dude you just gutted not 5 minutes ago also couldn't bring your family back. Get it together protagonist.
See also Vampyr. "I haven't drunk anyone's blood since I murdered my sister." in the good ending. ... except literally thousands of vampire hunters and vampire enemies. But nothing counts unless it's a civilian you hypnotised and fed on.
@@anna-flora999I mean, we do that to serial killers by putting them on death row and executing them. At the very least Ezio could imprison Rodrigo and not let him go about being all evil. All he accomplished was letting a bad guy escape and giving him a grudge that gets his villa and surrounding town absolutely destroyed in the sequel
@@anna-flora999 Naw. Can't even slightly agree. The big bad is the guy in charge. He's the reason for all the bad stuff. They don't get to surrender after they've drafted dozens of people to their death.
One more life lesson: if someone else is wearing an outfit, that outfit will fit you perfectly and make you unrecognizable. Good enough for Agent 47, good enough for me.
far fetch. but the game Arcanum from magic and steam engine have diffrent starting races two of them are gnoms and Ogers. resulting that the first armors you find could not fit you becaus they are for normal humans and not Oger height. or tinny gnoms... also Elderscroll 1-3. if you play as argonia or kaijit. your foot are diffrent from humans and you can't wear any Version of shoe or boots.
There's actually truth to that as long as you look and behave like you know what you're doing. Obviously, it's only to a point, but people are willing to overlook a lot with enough confidence.
Kingdom Come Deliverance solved the "makes you unrecognizable" part pretty well in that wearing equipment of the people who belong to that restricted area only avoids suspicion from people you pass at some distance, but not if you directly bump into them or talk to them - unless the disguise comes with a helmet that has a full face concealing visor. It still has the "clothing made for other people will always fit you perfectly" flaw, though. With the notable exception of clothes made for a different gender, which are physically impossible to wear.
The lesson i learned from Skyrim's many guild quests is "spread yourself thin putting yourself in charge of a lot of organizations... and everything will work out great!"
That's actually a good lesson: people in charge are not as useful as we are taught they are. (I'd say look at Belgium but they miraculously currently have a government... but when they don't, they do just fine)
Interestingly to prevent this confusion, you will now see things labeled as nonpyrogenic. (This will not start a fire on its own). This also helps with the legal technicalities like the fact that anything will burn at the correct temperature and oxidation state.
"Perfectionism is less the desire for perfection and more the fear of being judged." Ma'am i don't need these self-realizations right now. I'm trying to relax 😂
@@wavion2 it's just nice that Ancient Egyptians buried pharaohs along with their Uzis, cluster grenades, and a few medi packs for Lara to eat (she doesn't apply they, they're consumables and the healing sounds like she's full so yup, miss Croft chomps on those medpacks).
The funny thing is, Joseph Seed was wrong. He just got really really lucky. In the DLC for Far Cry 6, which takes place in a noteable not destroyed world it is revealed that it was only a single nuke going off at the perfect place to make it look like he was right. Well, that and nobody bought the spinoff game so they probably scrapped the idea.
@@tacomitchell373 My point exactly. But yes, it is called Far Cry New Dawn, It takes place in post-nuke Hope County and everything is all glowy and vaguely Mad Max-y.
When you're at the computer, scolding Ezio like a misbehaving pet because he seems to have forgotten how even if you beat up the Pope instead of killing them, they are still the Pope and have lots of power and influence and will still be inclined to do as much damage as possible to the organization that you, many of your friends, and family are all part of. Ezio, I appreciate your personal revelation, but now that you've had that, do it anyway because it's your job and it's a bad idea to let your very influential enemy do whatever he wants. That's literally how the witch hunts started.
@@aurora6442 it makes absolutely no moral sense for Assassin's Creed guy murdering a dozen of guards doing a day job of guarding a church only to spare the mafia boss. They did it because they didn't want to be Sinead O'Connored.
3:15 The snowboys in the first Animal Crossing on Gamecube were SO MUCH WORSE. They weren't passive aggressive and snarky if you didn't get them perfect - they wailed against having ever been given life in the first place, and spent the rest of the winter despairing aloud about how cold and bleak and short their existence was. OG Animal Crossing was weirdly mean in places sometimes.
Blame the localization for the meaner dialogue. Like, apparently a lot of the dialogue in Japanese is more akin to what we currently have. But... then again, the Snowmen are absolute douchebags in the modern games.... If I recall, though, can't you give them their wish in the older games? I feel like I've knocked them down in one of the games after they bitched about being like, 0.1 inch too big headed. By running into them, they shake, then boom, no more smowman.
I think that the worse lesson that Animal Crossing teaches is that if you borrow say, $10,000, then you can expect to pay back just $10,000, with exactly no interest whatsoever. Seriously, if it actually worked like that, then student loans wouldn't be such a huge problem here in America
And yet people claim Tom Nook is capitalism incarnate... Dude's just trying to help you get the house you want and hoping you'll pay him back. Because there's no penalty for saying "this is a big enough house, I'm good" and never paying him back except that you can't further embiggen your house.
@@devilsadvocate2643 They wouldn't need it stashed away. Even with school costs being what they are, the borrower in this interest free scenario would pay back exactly and only what was borrowed, no matter the period of the loan. Which would make the loan markedly easier to pay back.
@devilsadvocate2643 no, if loans worked like in the game. I'm saying that the interest is too much. Of course college is expensive, but there are people who have paid more in interest than their original loan was worth. You seemed to have missed the part where I said "if it worked like that". If people only had to pay what they borrowed, then it wouldn't be such a problem
That Tomb Raider really threw me for a loop when we found out she was the cause of a cataclysm. As opposed to the classic plot where she has to stop someone else from doing it.
The thought behind it they mentioned at one point in some commentary is that this is the end of her origin story - where she's gone from a student just learning about the fact that there are powers beyond normal, to a cautious caretaker. The lesson they wanted her to learn in that specific game was not to get reckless and to consider her actions.
Only a few months until the Last Revelation remaster comes out, where Lara starts the game by unleashing 10 plagues on Egypt and resurrecting Set, a god of dry winds and destruction.... in the opening levels. She then the entire game trying to fix that cataclysm she created herself because she REALLY wanted to steal that amulet from a cursed sarcophagus that scared Aziz shitless. But hey, at least she finds the armor of Horus and brings it back to stop Seth from destroying the Shield!* SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING BELOW: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It doesn't work, armor explodes, Set lives and she dies trying to bury him under rubble.
I have learned from RPGs that it's okay to break into people's houses and rummage through their furniture and take what I want. Zelda taught me I can also break pots.
I'm currently playing Metaphor ReFantazio where [SPOILER] all of the candidates are told to steal relics from "pagans" to prove their piety which means church = bad. Yet.... I am still ransacking chests in their sacred temple despite claiming this is bad [/SPOILER].
Lady Boyle makes perfect sense. The reason those events _feel_ dissonant is that we're judging an individual outcome, but Dishonored uses "chaos level" for a reason: it's all about the impact on society. The quiet disappearance of someone in her position is certainly going to make waves, but much-less-destructive ones than if she turned up dead at her own party. The same logic obtains with every other low-chaos option in any of those games: it's entirely possible that given the choice, the target might prefer death over what you'll inflict on them, but the non-lethal option is less destabilising to society as a whole.
RUclips doesn't like my previous post. Hmm. Corvo has magic powers to summon rats thet devour victims. The body doesn't get found. Lady Boyle disappears without a trace either way. The difference between methods affect her and no one else.
Not to mention that the non-lethal options is Dishnored are ususally fates much much worse than death ... Lady Boyle has actually one of the "more pleasant" fates this way.
I also do not understand why oxbox is always so focused on Lady Boyle nonlethal ending specifically when other nonlethal include "being marked with a red iron to the face and thrown as a pariah to the street in a plague ridden district of town" (the head inquisitor) and "being beaten by thugs until you're unrecognizable, having your head shaven to complete the "unrecognizable" part, having your tongue cut out to stop you from speaking and being sold as a slave in your own freaking coal mines to die from overwork"
@@someguy1ification ehhh. Leaning into the Rat Plague seems like something that could empower the supernatural chaos fuelling it almost as much as the death being witnessed or the corpse discovered, IMO
The way Jane says “well done” at the start is creasing me, she sounds like she genuinely didn’t expect for anyone to be able to put out that fire she definitely didn’t cause
Been playing through Horizon Forbidden West, one major subplot throughout the game is stopping a rogue warrior who has been manipulated into attempting to take over a tribe and whose followers have attempted to kill the protagonist multiple times AND had already been shown leniency before but only became resentful over the shame of being a looser. So you defeat her in an epic showdown, after killing 100's of her followers, and the game has the audacity to attempt to frame it like forgiveness would be the correct choice. I was mashing the kill choice so hard, they didn't even have the chance to finish philosophizing on the moral implications.
I have never seen sparing her as forgiving or even showing mercy. It's more a "you can still be of some use to me" thing. If you take her with you to the final mission, she will die buying you time to escape form a specter ambush. Problem with the story telling at this point is, if you don't have her with you, then the whole ambush just doesn't happen at all...
I wish that Joseph Seed's backstory was more that he was like a high ranking government employee and that he did learn of a plan for nuclear war but when he tried to stop it or warn people the government disavowed, tortured, and basically tried to make him disappear and that drove him to cult like insanity. Would have made the ending more believable.
I dunno about believable. At a certain point; the game's writers clearly didn't care to explain how Cheeseburger the Bear knows you're friend and not food, but honestly? I doubt they thought about whether Mr. Seed came off as "Human-Adjacent" in the least, and just wanted to make Vaas again while failing to understand why Vaas worked and this goofy cult-leading bastard wasn't quite as impressive or intriguing.
Except Magic exists in the Far Cry Universe, as can be seen in the other two games, a guy being able to tell the future isn't that far off from other games.
@@themaskedmysadaean8885 well regarding the bear and I mean I know this is a stretch but maybe it's like an extension of the relationships zoo keepers have with predator animals in zoos and I have seen videos of that lion embracing the guy who saved him a long time ago.
@@tylerb5764 so I never played 4 but I did play 3. I'm pretty sure and again it's a stretch and acknowledging all video games have magic in some way (like yes let me throw a band aid on my arm to fully heal from the shotgun blast I just took) that all the supernatural stuff was just Jason's ever growing psychosis and hallucinations from drug trips he was going on.
The chaos system in jn Dishonored does make a bit of sense, though, as the more corpses are around, the easier the rat plague spreads. Doesn't erase how messed up the non-lethal target finishers are, but still.
To be fair, people only die in that game if you use the sword/machete, or they are a boss on your first playthrough. Everyone else certainly gets beaten and broken, but if Batman can claim plausible deniability, than so can Sifu
@DParkerNunya Batman doesn't throw people off of buildings, or bash their heads with metal pipe until blood comes out. Like, yeah, I can see how they are can survive it, but it would be a miracle if majority did
@stepanotrisal1512 Okay but like, he does? He gets the same results as the pipe with just his fists, will still pick up a pipe and use it, and in Arkham Knight he will just straight up run you over.
Ezio learns his lesson about sparing sociopaths right away. In Brotherhood (the best AC) he's immediately made to regret his choice, goes to Rome, raises an army of assassins, & drops soldiers like he was avenging Christ. Then when Ezio finds the old man's living egotistical shitstain, he doesn't kill him, he doesn't spare him. He Lets gravity end the bastard like a normal ass scrub.
For the Dishonored one to be fair, I don't think it is a case of the alternative being better than death, more along the lines of causing less chaos than death. Not that getting rid of the individuals won't cause chaos, but blaming a disapperance of an individual on a creepy stalker for instance would cause less chaos than knowing that an assassin is running around killing important political figures.
Amanitas Muscaria is slightly toxic, but it’s also a potent hallucinogen. There are methods of decarboxylating the toxic stuff and minimizing the unpleasant effects. Still do not recommend doing it unless you damn well know what you’re doing and are an experienced psychonaut, definitely don’t just eat A. Muscaria raw. But it can be used ceremonially, medicinally, or recreationally. Fun fact: reindeer in Finland are known to enjoy A Muscaria, they intentionally seek them out to eat and apparently get quite high and act very silly afterwards. Some anthropologists and folklorists speculate that this may be the origin of Santa’s flying reindeer and potentially an influence on Santa’s bright red/white color palette. He’s dressed like a hallucinogenic mushroom.
Apparently one of the common hallucinations is a distorted sense of scale - it makes you feel like you're larger, or everything else is smaller. So Mario's experience is somehow accurate, though more literal, compared to the real thing.
Ah, yes, the ending of Assassin's Creed 2. I love the final part when Borgia, after completing the superpowerful staff is tricked by Ezzio into a fisticuff fight. Ezzio will not use his now useless blades, and the Pope will not use its all-powerful staff. It's only a young man against another aged and overweight man. I remember that I knocked him down and stomped on him endlessly, feeling dirty afterwards. That was the real lesson.
I mean, pretty much all of Dishonored's 'merciful' ways of eliminating targets are worse than killing them, on a moral level. Order isn't good, and chaos isn't evil.
Yeah I think when you look at it, the only reason the order ending is "good" is because it turns out better for Corvo and Emily specifically. It's not necessarily "better" for everyone, but it IS more STABLE. The key factors of the chaos ending are, after all, more about the relative collapse of the empire (which could be a good thing depending on your POV).
@@jameji_phd I dunno, everyone dying from rats and the plague comes across as less good for destroying a corrupt empire and instead only good if you just hate humans. there's far more optimism in the good ending not just for Corvo and Emily but for the people of the empire too.
Not only that, but it would be entirely justified in some situations to kill not only the target, but also some of the subordinates. In some cases, ethically. If any of the enemies were even remotely close to the main character's skill level, or the game was even remotely grounded, the situation would come up where he actually had to kill somebody at some point. You can keep playing through the game over and over again until you are incredibly skilled at it. For me, it became less of a skill issue and more about patients and frustration with the story. I ended up doing all of my playthroughs trying to figure out exactly how many guys I could get away with before it would start giving me bad endings.
Yeah, I think the non-lethal for Jindosh might be the worst one. Greatest mind of the times, fry his brain into oblivion leaving him just there enough to know he's not there anymore. Fuuuuuuck
The Internet tells me that flammable= can burn inflammable= combusts spontaneously, so it may not be exactly the same, but inflammable is definitely not what I thought it was when I first heard it
@@gwishart when it comes do a dictionary definition they are the same, yes, but it seems like many people make that distinction nowadays. Since words change meaning over time that's is probably what's happening. Like it was with "octopuses" which people regularly call "octopi" now, or with awful which used to mean "worthy of awe"
Funny, when _I_ ask the Internet, it's filled with reputable sources saying they _are_ the same, and one sketchy article about halfway down the first page of results saying they're not, for...reasons. If you don't mind, I think I'll stick with all the linguists, lexicographers, and grammarians who _all_ say they're the same, and ignore the uninformed theorizing of J. Random Blogger. ☺
@@DH-xw6jp This implies the Pope-Mobile is just the cockpit of a building-sized mechanized war machine. I accept this premise, but only if every time it activates it has a screen that says 'Cast in the name of God, Ye not Guilty'.
The Evil Within games taught me that if it's in a syringe or jar, injecting it into your arm or even brain will only do you good. It doesn't matter if you don't know what that liquid is or where it came from
It's even worse than that, you inject green goo into your brain which you scooped up from the ground and you definitely know that it was left behind by those creepy half-rotten monsteres you just defeated.
As much as I love Uncharted 2, it suffers from the same issue as Assassin's Creed 2. Kill an entire army's worth of hired mercenaries, but not their leader who plans to use the Tree of Life to become all powerful and is generally a very sadistic man
@@KeybladeMasterAndy Yeah leaving him to do even worse in the next game.. sure it was a big mistake, but who thought it would be interesting to brawl with the pope.
I will give a brief explanation here, when an animal is poisonous, that means it is not safe to eat it. When an animal is venomous, that means its bite is the bigger danger.
You done messed up with Moira, she gets crushed either way, the problem is that the virus she's infected with, the T-Phobos reacts to high fear levels, if she never overcomes her own trauma, she'll die (by turning into one of the infected), if she does overcome her fear, she won't turn and eventually save Natalia and Barry. The whole thing about her being crushed is just capcom being capcom, it was unnecessary (somehow, she survived it) since they kept teasing she would die in every chapter, it's not like she got crushed for not overcoming her fear lol.
If she can't use weapons she won't be able to survive the island long enough to save them. There was a whole dlc where she was fighting her life the year or so she was there. An unarmed scared girl won't get far in hell.
To be fair, the nonlethal options in Dishonored are designed to be cruel. They are meant as ways to deliver ironic punishments and I've always interpreted their low choas as a way of representing what they turn Corvo into: a cunning and skilled political operative. Thus this version of Corvo acquires skills that are useful for governing as Empress Emily's right hand. By contrasts a murderous Corvo violence as a solution to every problem and advises her according. Basically, nonlethal Corvo is adapt at realpolitik while murder Corvo is a strongman, dictator type.
Didn't they say in some material that Far Cry 5's ending was actually caused by the crazy bad guy having a cultist smuggle a briefcase nuke into the nearest big city? The world is fine, he was only "right" because he was the one blowing up a city.
You know the “briefcase nuke” isn’t an actual nuke, right? All it is is a special device that verifies the presidents ID to then let him make nuclear attacks 😂
Was it only a city? Wasn't the sequel an entire post-apocalyptic game? I don't know if that was just in a city, but if that was just it, it would seem very far-fetched to have a region of wastelanders while everyone else around them is living their normal lives lmao
@@TheDrsalvation Yeah, it was. The PC for New Dawn was part of a group that went around trying to support different settlements many years later. You have missions you go on that involve flying to other locations around the country that are all some variation of post-disaster. The radio news in 5 makes it clear that things are on adge globally, so even if that was Seed' s doing, it then caused others to attack.
In the case of Far Cry 5, The alternate ending suggests that you should pick your battles and maybe come back later with more guys in a better plan. The unintentional message with the canonical ending is simply to be prepared.
In Far Cry it's not a prediction, it's a self fulfilled phrophecy because people from the sect have actually infiltrated the missile launching bases and are directly responsible for the launch of the missiles.
To be fair, if we aren't suppose to take it then it's usually part of the scenery. Not a lot of games have actual useless garbage to steal and sell unless that is specifically what the game is about.
“Perfectionism is the enemy of progress and it is about getting something done rather than getting something perfect”- wildly profound quote from Jane of Outside Xbox, 2024
Thank you for bringing back the list of games that'll be spoiled. I was disappointed when you removed it as I enjoy seeing it and knowing what part of the video to skip if I want to not get spoilers for a particular game.
We need a retraction, Oxbox! The cult leader in Far Cry 5 doesn't get points for predicting an apocalypse he caused. He issued the orders that saw the nuke detonated. I can predict that I'll eat cereal for breakfast tomorrow, but I don't get points for that because I bought the cereal and milk this week and I fully intend to have cereal tomorrow.
"And, like the British Museum in a tank top and ponytail, Lara Croft has a long, proud tradition of stealing ancient artefacts from all over the world" 😂😂😂
Inflammable comes from Enflame. Flammable and inflammable do not mean the same thing. If something is flammable it means it can be set fire to, such as a piece of paper, but is unlikely to simply start burning. However, inflammable means that a substance is capable of bursting into flames dues to a low ignition point, like petrol for example. This is me, falling for engagement bait.
One of my first thoughts was "oh hey I remember this channel and this trio, wonder how long ago they started" and there it was at 3:30 . Wow, over a decade! And like a game with a logical morality system, the team have aged very well. Congrats on keeping yourselves in shape and with keeping making great content about games! Living the dream.
the first one is amusing since isnt it cannon that he set the nuke off? his cult was in control of them wasn't it...its not like the whole world was destroyed
so havent confirmed it since i can't be bothered to play anymore FC games but from what i have heard not only were the cultists in control of the nukes but cause of the spin off game failing terribly they retconned it so only one nuke went off and the rest of the world just went about their day
You are both wrong, There was worldwide tension with North Korean according to the radio in game, Moscow was already nuked according to it@@davidwilder8579
2. Oh, that snow was alive all along, according to other dialogue. And conscious. You just granted it the ability to speak. And it's being passive-aggressive at you. Great.
I remember reading somewhere the Red and White Super Mushrooms were based on a different Red and White Mushroom that caused you to hallucinate your body parts were all out of proportion, especially growing.
As a general rule, if it's all bright and pretty and colorful, that's nature's way of screaming, "I will kill you if you eat me!" It's a good rule to live by.
I think the worst part about Ezio's story is in Brotherhood, where Ezio, the master Assassin who fights for free will for all... uses the Apple of Eden to mind control soldiers to fight for him, and even kill each other.
Dishonored definitely is a good example of knowing when you've gone too far... by getting the super-bad ending. And yet in the Zelda series you can kill as much as you want because the various monsters you face don't impact your morality at all. Weird.
bioshock 1... you kill every splicer in the game. that were mostly derail drug junkys by the context of the game. Murder the big dadys. that are brainwash druged supersoldiers. And then you have the little sisters. they are high on there own supply. brainwash. particial mindcontroll. The game say you kill and harvest them or use the plamsid and free them from the symbiote and the brainwash. so you free the 12-20 little sister in the game and get the good ending.... ignoring the 20 big daddys you murder. then hungreds of splicers...
On Resident Evil: Revelationa; The fear of guns can absolutely get you killed. There have been plenty of times where a regular civilian was able to defend themselves of the firearm. And there have been countless more situations where somebody might have been able to save themselves and others if they only had a firearm and were willing to use it. Rather than blaming the object or even a child, the parent is responsible. He left children easy access to a firearm without proper training or knowledge about how they should act whenever they are around one before they are old enough to train. Overcoming her fear makes the game downright wholesome.
@B1GB3RN that's delusional, elitist, and ableist. 🤣 People have been harming themselves and others since rocks and sticks were used as tools. A lack of firearms hasn't stopped people from hacking each other with blades all the way up to the genocide on Ramada back in the 90's. If not for firearms, people would find other weapons and have. It's just an object with no will or agency of its own. If the characters in the game didn't have firearms, the zombies would have taken over the world. In real life, everyone has the right to self defense. By your logic, a weaker person is just supposed to be at the mercy of anyone stronger or any group of people who would harm them. If people can't defend themselves, might makes right. You can't rely on a draconian government that is just as likely to victimize you. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone. As for children, you simply teach them to not touch them until they're ready to be trained the same way you wouldn't give a toddler a knife or let an 8 year old drive a car unsupervised. Adults should be able to make their own choices.
Ay, my first Ox vid I've checked out before it hit 2K views. Noice~ Also missed a fun inside joke when you went from Mario to Assassin's Creed II, would have been fun to jump right into the "it's a me, Mario!" clip from Ezio's uncle Mario =P
With the Holidays coming up, I have a challenge y’all could maybe use. “The Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Quiet as a Mouse Challenge”: Kill/knockout every guard in the central temple without being noticed. You have 3 attempts. You could also make it “Two competitors see how many guards within the central temple they can kill/knockout without being caught.”
In dishonoreds defense. It never claims that low chaos is the better ending. It simply means that your actions dont ripple as far. Lady Boyle disappears without a trace (later murdering the guy who abducted her). The high overseerer gets exposed instead of being made into a marytr. Its actually not about morality so much as how you affect the world around you. You turn yourself into the monster Burrows wants you to be. At least publicly.
That Animal Crossing lesson is also in other parts of the game too - good ol KK Slider has sold out and now requires places he goes to to be just to his exacting specifications. Anything less and he's not setting foot on your sub-optimal island
Seeing the Snowboy segment has made me really nervous. I'm doing a yearlong project in Minecraft (seasonal bases) and I'm about to attempt building a "snow man" in my Winter base. With cubes. Of identical size.
If I may quote the late Sir Terry Pratchett, "All mushrooms are edible. Some are just edible only once."
Just to be clear, Sir Terry's death had nothing to do with his views on the edibility of mushrooms or other foodstuffs.
Huh, I saw this before I saw the game list so I assumed Crow Country would be on here.
@@Sayrdenhe might have preferred going that way though, as opposed to having his brain slowly fail on him
and for the dark humour of it, perhaps
Ironically, a mushroom board banned them quoting Pratchett for this reason!
I’ve always loved a good Terry Pratchett quote. 😂
Q: "How do you get a mummy shaped bag through customs at Heathrow?"
A: "Say you're with the British Museum."
This answer checks out
If you come into Heathrow with a mummy shaped bag, I don't think they even check your passport. They just shrug and let you pass, you are obviously British
James Acaster had a whole shtick about the British Museum. Utterly riotous, for just how true it is…
Yes to number 5! Honestly, in games and movies and shows, the single trope I CANNOT stand is when the hero murders their way through dozens if not hundreds of henchmen just to let the big bad live at the end for some sudden moral realization. Like. What the heck. Stop it. That dude you just gutted not 5 minutes ago also couldn't bring your family back. Get it together protagonist.
@@anna-flora999 It's a big difference to kill a nameless henchman working his day job, and a cartoonishly evil mastermind.
See also Vampyr.
"I haven't drunk anyone's blood since I murdered my sister." in the good ending.
... except literally thousands of vampire hunters and vampire enemies. But nothing counts unless it's a civilian you hypnotised and fed on.
@@anna-flora999I mean, we do that to serial killers by putting them on death row and executing them. At the very least Ezio could imprison Rodrigo and not let him go about being all evil. All he accomplished was letting a bad guy escape and giving him a grudge that gets his villa and surrounding town absolutely destroyed in the sequel
@@anna-flora999 Naw. Can't even slightly agree. The big bad is the guy in charge. He's the reason for all the bad stuff. They don't get to surrender after they've drafted dozens of people to their death.
It was uncharted that always made me think "I'm just killing guys on the job here"
One more life lesson: if someone else is wearing an outfit, that outfit will fit you perfectly and make you unrecognizable. Good enough for Agent 47, good enough for me.
far fetch. but the game Arcanum from magic and steam engine have diffrent starting races two of them are gnoms and Ogers. resulting that the first armors you find could not fit you becaus they are for normal humans and not Oger height. or tinny gnoms...
also Elderscroll 1-3. if you play as argonia or kaijit. your foot are diffrent from humans and you can't wear any Version of shoe or boots.
There's actually truth to that as long as you look and behave like you know what you're doing. Obviously, it's only to a point, but people are willing to overlook a lot with enough confidence.
Kingdom Come Deliverance solved the "makes you unrecognizable" part pretty well in that wearing equipment of the people who belong to that restricted area only avoids suspicion from people you pass at some distance, but not if you directly bump into them or talk to them - unless the disguise comes with a helmet that has a full face concealing visor. It still has the "clothing made for other people will always fit you perfectly" flaw, though. With the notable exception of clothes made for a different gender, which are physically impossible to wear.
The lesson i learned from Skyrim's many guild quests is "spread yourself thin putting yourself in charge of a lot of organizations... and everything will work out great!"
Just delegate to competent underlings if you can find any. It should be fine.
That's actually a good lesson: people in charge are not as useful as we are taught they are. (I'd say look at Belgium but they miraculously currently have a government... but when they don't, they do just fine)
Me: "Ooh, a new Oxbox video! Fun and joyous times await!"
Nine minutes later
Mike: "...many children were hospitalised."
Me: "That's the stuff."
It's orphans, boss.
Jane in her Mordin Solus phase: "flammable... Or inflammable... Don't remember, doesn't matter" *launches Incinerate on some poor vorcha*
"Enjoy." as he freezes a krogan in its tracks before turning it into frozen cat food
This is why it is important that kids watch Simpsons.
"Hi everybody. Hi Doctor Jane!"
I believed 'invaluable' had the same meaning as 'worthless'. I thought nobody gave a care about that Rembrandt.
Interestingly to prevent this confusion, you will now see things labeled as nonpyrogenic. (This will not start a fire on its own). This also helps with the legal technicalities like the fact that anything will burn at the correct temperature and oxidation state.
"How does he taste fried in garlic butter?"
Like practically everything prepared so, I would imagine he'd be delicious.
*You have lost Karma*
"Perfectionism is less the desire for perfection and more the fear of being judged." Ma'am i don't need these self-realizations right now. I'm trying to relax 😂
Life lesson 8: If you knock over a barrel and discover an apple or even a roast chicken, go ahead and eat it. It will improve your health.
Especially if it's in an ancient ruin that nobody has entered for hundreds or thousands of years! I mean, the torches are lit, so it must be fine!
Or rice rolls, random herbs from a trash can, or syringes filled with unknown liquids
Wall chicken! The breakfast of champions... and vampire-hunters.
@@wavion2 it's just nice that Ancient Egyptians buried pharaohs along with their Uzis, cluster grenades, and a few medi packs for Lara to eat (she doesn't apply they, they're consumables and the healing sounds like she's full so yup, miss Croft chomps on those medpacks).
@@demonprincess9680 Just don't expect a decent sweet roll.
The funny thing is, Joseph Seed was wrong. He just got really really lucky. In the DLC for Far Cry 6, which takes place in a noteable not destroyed world it is revealed that it was only a single nuke going off at the perfect place to make it look like he was right. Well, that and nobody bought the spinoff game so they probably scrapped the idea.
TBF just listening to him tells you he's wrong
There was a spin-off?!?!?
@@tacomitchell373 My point exactly. But yes, it is called Far Cry New Dawn, It takes place in post-nuke Hope County and everything is all glowy and vaguely Mad Max-y.
@@johnoneil9188 that's the one with the twin girls as the antagonist right? Ive heard of it, but never played it yet
I always figured the bomb and apparent devastation were just supposed to be another drug-induced hallucination from the start.
When you're at the computer, scolding Ezio like a misbehaving pet because he seems to have forgotten how even if you beat up the Pope instead of killing them, they are still the Pope and have lots of power and influence and will still be inclined to do as much damage as possible to the organization that you, many of your friends, and family are all part of.
Ezio, I appreciate your personal revelation, but now that you've had that, do it anyway because it's your job and it's a bad idea to let your very influential enemy do whatever he wants. That's literally how the witch hunts started.
_looks over at the sequel_ I think he knows.
In all fairness Rodrigo did leave everyone alone. His son was just being...well himself, which would've happened regardless of what Ezio did.
@@aurora6442 Yeah, that's the funny thing right. Rodrigo straight up did not want to fuck with the assassins anymore, but Cesare had to be a dick.
@@aurora6442 it makes absolutely no moral sense for Assassin's Creed guy murdering a dozen of guards doing a day job of guarding a church only to spare the mafia boss. They did it because they didn't want to be Sinead O'Connored.
@@KasumiRINAEzio: "Eh. Changed my mind. I'm done with this shit."
3:15 The snowboys in the first Animal Crossing on Gamecube were SO MUCH WORSE.
They weren't passive aggressive and snarky if you didn't get them perfect - they wailed against having ever been given life in the first place, and spent the rest of the winter despairing aloud about how cold and bleak and short their existence was.
OG Animal Crossing was weirdly mean in places sometimes.
But hey, you got to play NES games in them. So there's that at least.
Wonder how the old Frosty Christmas special would go with that snowman.
"Why did you created me!? Just to live a cold miserable life?"
Blame the localization for the meaner dialogue.
Like, apparently a lot of the dialogue in Japanese is more akin to what we currently have.
But... then again, the Snowmen are absolute douchebags in the modern games....
If I recall, though, can't you give them their wish in the older games? I feel like I've knocked them down in one of the games after they bitched about being like, 0.1 inch too big headed. By running into them, they shake, then boom, no more smowman.
I know how to solve this. With a powerful hair dryer.
"how do you get a mummy shaped bag through Heathrow?"
I assume British customs has exactly the form you need for that.
Almost probably
I can't imagine that you'd even need a form.
Just say you're with the British Museum & it's fine
I think that the worse lesson that Animal Crossing teaches is that if you borrow say, $10,000, then you can expect to pay back just $10,000, with exactly no interest whatsoever. Seriously, if it actually worked like that, then student loans wouldn't be such a huge problem here in America
And yet people claim Tom Nook is capitalism incarnate... Dude's just trying to help you get the house you want and hoping you'll pay him back. Because there's no penalty for saying "this is a big enough house, I'm good" and never paying him back except that you can't further embiggen your house.
@Ziergon thank you! I hate when people call Tom Nook a "loan shark". Loan sharks are certainly not a forgiving nor understanding bunch
"student loan wouldn't be such a huge problem in America", like every family has at least 50 000$ PER CHILD stashed away 😂
@@devilsadvocate2643 They wouldn't need it stashed away. Even with school costs being what they are, the borrower in this interest free scenario would pay back exactly and only what was borrowed, no matter the period of the loan. Which would make the loan markedly easier to pay back.
@devilsadvocate2643 no, if loans worked like in the game. I'm saying that the interest is too much. Of course college is expensive, but there are people who have paid more in interest than their original loan was worth. You seemed to have missed the part where I said "if it worked like that". If people only had to pay what they borrowed, then it wouldn't be such a problem
That Tomb Raider really threw me for a loop when we found out she was the cause of a cataclysm. As opposed to the classic plot where she has to stop someone else from doing it.
The thought behind it they mentioned at one point in some commentary is that this is the end of her origin story - where she's gone from a student just learning about the fact that there are powers beyond normal, to a cautious caretaker. The lesson they wanted her to learn in that specific game was not to get reckless and to consider her actions.
@@HostileTakeover2 Which is worse, starting a cataclysm, or locking your butler in the freezer?
@@billcook4768 Locking the butler, obviously.
Only a few months until the Last Revelation remaster comes out, where Lara starts the game by unleashing 10 plagues on Egypt and resurrecting Set, a god of dry winds and destruction.... in the opening levels. She then the entire game trying to fix that cataclysm she created herself because she REALLY wanted to steal that amulet from a cursed sarcophagus that scared Aziz shitless.
But hey, at least she finds the armor of Horus and brings it back to stop Seth from destroying the Shield!*
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It doesn't work, armor explodes, Set lives and she dies trying to bury him under rubble.
She *almost* dies.
"Like the British museum in a tank top and pony tail" is just so chef's kiss.
Never not going to think of Lara Croft without that descriptor ever again.
I have learned from RPGs that it's okay to break into people's houses and rummage through their furniture and take what I want. Zelda taught me I can also break pots.
Yep. Breaking into people’s homes and smashing their storage jars is a secure and renewable source of income.
It's also okay to look in people's pockets. As long as you don't take anything
@@gamingtheologian8515 Every time I do it I say “It’s okay. I’m the protagonist. All your stuff belongs to me now unless you locked it.”
I'm currently playing Metaphor ReFantazio where [SPOILER] all of the candidates are told to steal relics from "pagans" to prove their piety which means church = bad. Yet.... I am still ransacking chests in their sacred temple despite claiming this is bad [/SPOILER].
The biggest crime in Zelda is repeatedly stabbing a chicken.
Lady Boyle makes perfect sense. The reason those events _feel_ dissonant is that we're judging an individual outcome, but Dishonored uses "chaos level" for a reason: it's all about the impact on society. The quiet disappearance of someone in her position is certainly going to make waves, but much-less-destructive ones than if she turned up dead at her own party. The same logic obtains with every other low-chaos option in any of those games: it's entirely possible that given the choice, the target might prefer death over what you'll inflict on them, but the non-lethal option is less destabilising to society as a whole.
RUclips doesn't like my previous post. Hmm.
Corvo has magic powers to summon rats thet devour victims. The body doesn't get found. Lady Boyle disappears without a trace either way. The difference between methods affect her and no one else.
Yeah, it wasn't about it being a "better" or "more moral" choice.
It was simply the one that caused the least amount of chaos and fear.
Not to mention that the non-lethal options is Dishnored are ususally fates much much worse than death ... Lady Boyle has actually one of the "more pleasant" fates this way.
I also do not understand why oxbox is always so focused on Lady Boyle nonlethal ending specifically when other nonlethal include "being marked with a red iron to the face and thrown as a pariah to the street in a plague ridden district of town" (the head inquisitor) and "being beaten by thugs until you're unrecognizable, having your head shaven to complete the "unrecognizable" part, having your tongue cut out to stop you from speaking and being sold as a slave in your own freaking coal mines to die from overwork"
@@someguy1ification ehhh. Leaning into the Rat Plague seems like something that could empower the supernatural chaos fuelling it almost as much as the death being witnessed or the corpse discovered, IMO
The way Jane says “well done” at the start is creasing me, she sounds like she genuinely didn’t expect for anyone to be able to put out that fire she definitely didn’t cause
Been playing through Horizon Forbidden West, one major subplot throughout the game is stopping a rogue warrior who has been manipulated into attempting to take over a tribe and whose followers have attempted to kill the protagonist multiple times AND had already been shown leniency before but only became resentful over the shame of being a looser. So you defeat her in an epic showdown, after killing 100's of her followers, and the game has the audacity to attempt to frame it like forgiveness would be the correct choice. I was mashing the kill choice so hard, they didn't even have the chance to finish philosophizing on the moral implications.
I have never seen sparing her as forgiving or even showing mercy.
It's more a "you can still be of some use to me" thing.
If you take her with you to the final mission, she will die buying you time to escape form a specter ambush.
Problem with the story telling at this point is, if you don't have her with you, then the whole ambush just doesn't happen at all...
I wish that Joseph Seed's backstory was more that he was like a high ranking government employee and that he did learn of a plan for nuclear war but when he tried to stop it or warn people the government disavowed, tortured, and basically tried to make him disappear and that drove him to cult like insanity. Would have made the ending more believable.
I dunno about believable. At a certain point; the game's writers clearly didn't care to explain how Cheeseburger the Bear knows you're friend and not food, but honestly?
I doubt they thought about whether Mr. Seed came off as "Human-Adjacent" in the least, and just wanted to make Vaas again while failing to understand why Vaas worked and this goofy cult-leading bastard wasn't quite as impressive or intriguing.
Except Magic exists in the Far Cry Universe, as can be seen in the other two games, a guy being able to tell the future isn't that far off from other games.
@@tylerb5764 Huh!
@@themaskedmysadaean8885 well regarding the bear and I mean I know this is a stretch but maybe it's like an extension of the relationships zoo keepers have with predator animals in zoos and I have seen videos of that lion embracing the guy who saved him a long time ago.
@@tylerb5764 so I never played 4 but I did play 3. I'm pretty sure and again it's a stretch and acknowledging all video games have magic in some way (like yes let me throw a band aid on my arm to fully heal from the shotgun blast I just took) that all the supernatural stuff was just Jason's ever growing psychosis and hallucinations from drug trips he was going on.
I did not expect to hear the line "Go jump on a dilldo, boss!" today. Or any day, for that matter.
Ther3s only one "L" in dildo, its a marital aide not a cooking herb
Tell us you haven't worked in the adult film industry without...
Sometimes, you have to be the change you want to see in the world.
He's not even *her* boss! It's weird for her to call him that
At least she didn't say something like "shitsucking"
See, I thought the bad lesson from Animal Crossing was "leaving live scorpions in an overnight drop box is a great way to make money"
All mushrooms are edible, some are only edible once- Terry Pratchett.
GNU PTerry
Oh, the infamous Jane Douglas, may you always stay two steps ahead of the law.
I think the REAL bad lesson to learn from Assassin's Creed 2 is that the Pope could hold his own in a fistfight.
Pope Alexander, maybe. I don't think I'd want to fistfight, say...Pope Julius.
The chaos system in jn Dishonored does make a bit of sense, though, as the more corpses are around, the easier the rat plague spreads. Doesn't erase how messed up the non-lethal target finishers are, but still.
The funniest part is, she actually ends up well off. She has the guy murdered a few years later and lives a supposedly lavish life on his island.
Doesn't quite explain why killing a civilian is the equivalent of killing 10 guards.
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do.
Don't give me that.... I've seen British roads. I'd end up in the Outer Hebrides.
and two Wrights make an airplane
@@GeneCash I live in Melbourne and, yeah, that assumption has gotten me in trouble multiple times as well.
@@Hitoshura844 Underrated comment.
Funny thing about number 7 is Lady Boyle's sister actually sends you a message THANKING you for "making sure at least one of them survives."
You have no idea how much I needed to hear Jane's comments on perfectionism. Damn that's so helpful.
In the OG Pokémon games, you, a ten year old kid, get to gamble at a casino. What a life lesson.
You also leave home with no adult supervision, repeatedly force animals to fight other animals, and break into people's homes.
3:34 I think we just watched Jane's mind shatter in real time. But she's a consummate professional so she still finished the video.
Sifu:
You should not kill but forgive those who wronged you. You can kill anyone who stands in your way, though
To be fair, people only die in that game if you use the sword/machete, or they are a boss on your first playthrough. Everyone else certainly gets beaten and broken, but if Batman can claim plausible deniability, than so can Sifu
@DParkerNunya Batman doesn't throw people off of buildings, or bash their heads with metal pipe until blood comes out. Like, yeah, I can see how they are can survive it, but it would be a miracle if majority did
@stepanotrisal1512 Okay but like, he does? He gets the same results as the pipe with just his fists, will still pick up a pipe and use it, and in Arkham Knight he will just straight up run you over.
Ezio learns his lesson about sparing sociopaths right away. In Brotherhood (the best AC) he's immediately made to regret his choice, goes to Rome, raises an army of assassins, & drops soldiers like he was avenging Christ. Then when Ezio finds the old man's living egotistical shitstain, he doesn't kill him, he doesn't spare him. He Lets gravity end the bastard like a normal ass scrub.
For the Dishonored one to be fair, I don't think it is a case of the alternative being better than death, more along the lines of causing less chaos than death. Not that getting rid of the individuals won't cause chaos, but blaming a disapperance of an individual on a creepy stalker for instance would cause less chaos than knowing that an assassin is running around killing important political figures.
3:30 Jane laughing through the pain.
Amanitas Muscaria is slightly toxic, but it’s also a potent hallucinogen. There are methods of decarboxylating the toxic stuff and minimizing the unpleasant effects.
Still do not recommend doing it unless you damn well know what you’re doing and are an experienced psychonaut, definitely don’t just eat A. Muscaria raw. But it can be used ceremonially, medicinally, or recreationally. Fun fact: reindeer in Finland are known to enjoy A Muscaria, they intentionally seek them out to eat and apparently get quite high and act very silly afterwards. Some anthropologists and folklorists speculate that this may be the origin of Santa’s flying reindeer and potentially an influence on Santa’s bright red/white color palette. He’s dressed like a hallucinogenic mushroom.
Apparently one of the common hallucinations is a distorted sense of scale - it makes you feel like you're larger, or everything else is smaller. So Mario's experience is somehow accurate, though more literal, compared to the real thing.
Ah, yes, the ending of Assassin's Creed 2. I love the final part when Borgia, after completing the superpowerful staff is tricked by Ezzio into a fisticuff fight. Ezzio will not use his now useless blades, and the Pope will not use its all-powerful staff. It's only a young man against another aged and overweight man. I remember that I knocked him down and stomped on him endlessly, feeling dirty afterwards. That was the real lesson.
I mean, pretty much all of Dishonored's 'merciful' ways of eliminating targets are worse than killing them, on a moral level. Order isn't good, and chaos isn't evil.
Yeah I think when you look at it, the only reason the order ending is "good" is because it turns out better for Corvo and Emily specifically. It's not necessarily "better" for everyone, but it IS more STABLE. The key factors of the chaos ending are, after all, more about the relative collapse of the empire (which could be a good thing depending on your POV).
@@jameji_phd I dunno, everyone dying from rats and the plague comes across as less good for destroying a corrupt empire and instead only good if you just hate humans. there's far more optimism in the good ending not just for Corvo and Emily but for the people of the empire too.
Not only that, but it would be entirely justified in some situations to kill not only the target, but also some of the subordinates. In some cases, ethically. If any of the enemies were even remotely close to the main character's skill level, or the game was even remotely grounded, the situation would come up where he actually had to kill somebody at some point.
You can keep playing through the game over and over again until you are incredibly skilled at it. For me, it became less of a skill issue and more about patients and frustration with the story. I ended up doing all of my playthroughs trying to figure out exactly how many guys I could get away with before it would start giving me bad endings.
That why lawful and chaotic exist
Yeah, I think the non-lethal for Jindosh might be the worst one. Greatest mind of the times, fry his brain into oblivion leaving him just there enough to know he's not there anymore. Fuuuuuuck
Don't think it count as a legitamate prophecy if you deliberatley enact the armageddon yourself
The Internet tells me that flammable= can burn inflammable= combusts spontaneously, so it may not be exactly the same, but inflammable is definitely not what I thought it was when I first heard it
You're right, they are certainly different
The Internet also tells me that drinking undiluted household bleach is a way to cure stomach cancer. Lesson: the Internet is often wrong.
@@gwishart when it comes do a dictionary definition they are the same, yes, but it seems like many people make that distinction nowadays. Since words change meaning over time that's is probably what's happening. Like it was with "octopuses" which people regularly call "octopi" now, or with awful which used to mean "worthy of awe"
"able to flame" = can hold a flame
"able to inflame" = can start a flame, or become inflamed by itself
Funny, when _I_ ask the Internet, it's filled with reputable sources saying they _are_ the same, and one sketchy article about halfway down the first page of results saying they're not, for...reasons. If you don't mind, I think I'll stick with all the linguists, lexicographers, and grammarians who _all_ say they're the same, and ignore the uninformed theorizing of J. Random Blogger. ☺
Hmm maybe it’s just me, but I always thought the lesson of AC II was “you have to fist fight the pope” 🤷♂️
@@jongofett I’ll keep that in mind if I ever meet him.
I always default to Armored Core when I see AC and now I want to see a Raven fistfighting a Vatican Pope-Mech.
Tried fighting the pope once, he blasphemy in the face with a mean right cross.
Why do you think he always rides in an armored -car- mechsuit?
He learned his lessons in a past life.
@@DH-xw6jp This implies the Pope-Mobile is just the cockpit of a building-sized mechanized war machine. I accept this premise, but only if every time it activates it has a screen that says 'Cast in the name of God, Ye not Guilty'.
The Evil Within games taught me that if it's in a syringe or jar, injecting it into your arm or even brain will only do you good. It doesn't matter if you don't know what that liquid is or where it came from
It's even worse than that, you inject green goo into your brain which you scooped up from the ground and you definitely know that it was left behind by those creepy half-rotten monsteres you just defeated.
As much as I love Uncharted 2, it suffers from the same issue as Assassin's Creed 2. Kill an entire army's worth of hired mercenaries, but not their leader who plans to use the Tree of Life to become all powerful and is generally a very sadistic man
That's the last of us part 2
Kill everyone and not kill Abby because why the fuck not
I think Drake gets a pass for that one because he knew the Shambala zombie guys were gonna take care of the big bad for him
It's even worse than AC2. Borgia wasn't exactly powered up in his boss fight.
@@KeybladeMasterAndy Yeah leaving him to do even worse in the next game.. sure it was a big mistake, but who thought it would be interesting to brawl with the pope.
TLOU2 also does that and I hate it.
Toad isn't poisonous but he IS venomous. No, I will not elaborate
Without further elaboration I am simply going to have to assume that you speak from experience.
@dallydaydream let's just say Nintendo's NDAs are tungsten clad and leave it at that
I will give a brief explanation here, when an animal is poisonous, that means it is not safe to eat it. When an animal is venomous, that means its bite is the bigger danger.
@@briancorvello3620 Or they have some other means of injection such as a platypus' spur or a wasp's stinger.
You'd be, too, if you were the talking mushroom equivalent of Richard Simmons without the charm.
Video games taught be that red fire is bad. Do not stand in it.
They also taught me that green puddles are good and will make me healthy.
Video games taught *me* that green puddles are radioactive poison, and that I should not stand in them.
@@DavidCowie2022 Unless you’re either a clown, a crocodile or have been to law school
@@andrewsutherland7913 Also red barrels explode when you shoot them.
William Shakespeare's Lara Croft:
"Tomb Raid, or not Tomb Raid, that is the question."
You done messed up with Moira, she gets crushed either way, the problem is that the virus she's infected with, the T-Phobos reacts to high fear levels, if she never overcomes her own trauma, she'll die (by turning into one of the infected), if she does overcome her fear, she won't turn and eventually save Natalia and Barry.
The whole thing about her being crushed is just capcom being capcom, it was unnecessary (somehow, she survived it) since they kept teasing she would die in every chapter, it's not like she got crushed for not overcoming her fear lol.
If she can't use weapons she won't be able to survive the island long enough to save them. There was a whole dlc where she was fighting her life the year or so she was there. An unarmed scared girl won't get far in hell.
I’ve watched enough of their videos to know that they do not understand Revelations 2 lol
I must say Mike entering the frame with an extinguisher and "well, i put it out" uplifts the joke to a new hight
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
Who else got the Simpsons reference?
This is why I love Oxbox.😃
3:29 That little genuine laugh was so funny 😂 Someone needs a holiday!
To be fair, the nonlethal options in Dishonored are designed to be cruel. They are meant as ways to deliver ironic punishments and I've always interpreted their low choas as a way of representing what they turn Corvo into: a cunning and skilled political operative. Thus this version of Corvo acquires skills that are useful for governing as Empress Emily's right hand. By contrasts a murderous Corvo violence as a solution to every problem and advises her according. Basically, nonlethal Corvo is adapt at realpolitik while murder Corvo is a strongman, dictator type.
Didn't they say in some material that Far Cry 5's ending was actually caused by the crazy bad guy having a cultist smuggle a briefcase nuke into the nearest big city? The world is fine, he was only "right" because he was the one blowing up a city.
You know the “briefcase nuke” isn’t an actual nuke, right? All it is is a special device that verifies the presidents ID to then let him make nuclear attacks 😂
@@Timbo360This is fictionland, where nukes that small exist.
@@Myomer104might be true, but plenty of people actually think the “football” as it is called is an actual nuke 😂
Was it only a city? Wasn't the sequel an entire post-apocalyptic game? I don't know if that was just in a city, but if that was just it, it would seem very far-fetched to have a region of wastelanders while everyone else around them is living their normal lives lmao
@@TheDrsalvation Yeah, it was. The PC for New Dawn was part of a group that went around trying to support different settlements many years later. You have missions you go on that involve flying to other locations around the country that are all some variation of post-disaster.
The radio news in 5 makes it clear that things are on adge globally, so even if that was Seed' s doing, it then caused others to attack.
I thought the whole thing was that Seed was willing to bring on the nuclear end to justify his saviour mentality
In the case of Far Cry 5, The alternate ending suggests that you should pick your battles and maybe come back later with more guys in a better plan. The unintentional message with the canonical ending is simply to be prepared.
In Far Cry it's not a prediction, it's a self fulfilled phrophecy because people from the sect have actually infiltrated the missile launching bases and are directly responsible for the launch of the missiles.
Old school RPGs taught that trespassing and stealing everything not nailed down was the way to go, Elder Scrolls still encourages it.
Bioware do call you out on that multiple times, in later games mostly.
To be fair, if we aren't suppose to take it then it's usually part of the scenery. Not a lot of games have actual useless garbage to steal and sell unless that is specifically what the game is about.
“Perfectionism is the enemy of progress and it is about getting something done rather than getting something perfect”- wildly profound quote from Jane of Outside Xbox, 2024
May I offer a list idea? “7 little-known games we took a chance on and were pleasantly surprised by.”
Thank you for bringing back the list of games that'll be spoiled. I was disappointed when you removed it as I enjoy seeing it and knowing what part of the video to skip if I want to not get spoilers for a particular game.
Yup, I FINALLY got to 100%ing Rise of the Tomb Raider and have Shadow downloaded awaiting a playthrough. SKIP
We need a retraction, Oxbox!
The cult leader in Far Cry 5 doesn't get points for predicting an apocalypse he caused. He issued the orders that saw the nuke detonated.
I can predict that I'll eat cereal for breakfast tomorrow, but I don't get points for that because I bought the cereal and milk this week and I fully intend to have cereal tomorrow.
The Far Cry games have some weird morals, don't they? I think FC's 4 & 6 said revolutions to overthrow an obviously insane bastard aren't worth it.
"And, like the British Museum in a tank top and ponytail, Lara Croft has a long, proud tradition of stealing ancient artefacts from all over the world"
😂😂😂
Inflammable comes from Enflame. Flammable and inflammable do not mean the same thing. If something is flammable it means it can be set fire to, such as a piece of paper, but is unlikely to simply start burning. However, inflammable means that a substance is capable of bursting into flames dues to a low ignition point, like petrol for example. This is me, falling for engagement bait.
How apropo! A video on bad lessons that came across while playing Return to Monkey Island…luckily that game has no bad lessons.
One of my first thoughts was "oh hey I remember this channel and this trio, wonder how long ago they started" and there it was at 3:30 . Wow, over a decade!
And like a game with a logical morality system, the team have aged very well. Congrats on keeping yourselves in shape and with keeping making great content about games! Living the dream.
Pretty much the ENTIRE Legend of Zelda continuity qualifies here: send a CHILD to rescue the Kingdom of Hyrule from dark evil forces
"The cause of and solution to all of Lara's problems." Great Simpsons reference.
And here I thought twin H&K's were the cause of/solution to all of her problems
the first one is amusing since isnt it cannon that he set the nuke off? his cult was in control of them wasn't it...its not like the whole world was destroyed
You beat me to it I’m 99% sure he was in control of them
so havent confirmed it since i can't be bothered to play anymore FC games but from what i have heard not only were the cultists in control of the nukes but cause of the spin off game failing terribly they retconned it so only one nuke went off and the rest of the world just went about their day
You are both wrong, There was worldwide tension with North Korean according to the radio in game, Moscow was already nuked according to it@@davidwilder8579
2. Oh, that snow was alive all along, according to other dialogue. And conscious. You just granted it the ability to speak. And it's being passive-aggressive at you. Great.
I remember reading somewhere the Red and White Super Mushrooms were based on a different Red and White Mushroom that caused you to hallucinate your body parts were all out of proportion, especially growing.
Jane is a absolute treasure 😂
As a general rule, if it's all bright and pretty and colorful, that's nature's way of screaming, "I will kill you if you eat me!" It's a good rule to live by.
There are mimics though. Tasty, tasty mimics… 😋
Jane just randomly starting fires in the studio is great OXlore
I think the worst part about Ezio's story is in Brotherhood, where Ezio, the master Assassin who fights for free will for all... uses the Apple of Eden to mind control soldiers to fight for him, and even kill each other.
Dishonored definitely is a good example of knowing when you've gone too far... by getting the super-bad ending. And yet in the Zelda series you can kill as much as you want because the various monsters you face don't impact your morality at all. Weird.
bioshock 1... you kill every splicer in the game. that were mostly derail drug junkys by the context of the game.
Murder the big dadys. that are brainwash druged supersoldiers. And then you have the little sisters.
they are high on there own supply. brainwash. particial mindcontroll. The game say you kill and harvest them or use the plamsid and free them from the symbiote and the brainwash.
so you free the 12-20 little sister in the game and get the good ending.... ignoring the 20 big daddys you murder. then hungreds of splicers...
Tbf "a lot of people were just doing their jobs" isn't a good excuse, historically speaking. 😅
Dying of a fever while you turn purple and your skin peels off
The downside of eating toad fried in garlic butter
On Resident Evil: Revelationa; The fear of guns can absolutely get you killed. There have been plenty of times where a regular civilian was able to defend themselves of the firearm. And there have been countless more situations where somebody might have been able to save themselves and others if they only had a firearm and were willing to use it.
Rather than blaming the object or even a child, the parent is responsible. He left children easy access to a firearm without proper training or knowledge about how they should act whenever they are around one before they are old enough to train. Overcoming her fear makes the game downright wholesome.
Yet if neither had the firearm...
It's such a hilariously bad lesson.
Guns are bad. People shouldn't have access to them.
@B1GB3RN that's delusional, elitist, and ableist. 🤣 People have been harming themselves and others since rocks and sticks were used as tools. A lack of firearms hasn't stopped people from hacking each other with blades all the way up to the genocide on Ramada back in the 90's. If not for firearms, people would find other weapons and have. It's just an object with no will or agency of its own. If the characters in the game didn't have firearms, the zombies would have taken over the world. In real life, everyone has the right to self defense. By your logic, a weaker person is just supposed to be at the mercy of anyone stronger or any group of people who would harm them. If people can't defend themselves, might makes right. You can't rely on a draconian government that is just as likely to victimize you. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
As for children, you simply teach them to not touch them until they're ready to be trained the same way you wouldn't give a toddler a knife or let an 8 year old drive a car unsupervised. Adults should be able to make their own choices.
I let my kids at a way too young age watch the opening of Farcry 5. It was not a good idea, it's laid out so perfectly and it's absolutely unsettling.
As Ezio, speaking to the man who ended my bloodline I’d pull out that hidden gun so fast 😂😂😂 tf he tryna have a conversation with him
I believe Ezio is a healthy man, so it's in his own, um, hands if his bloodline continues.
@ true but you know what I mean he literally gave the nod to end his family making him have to carry it on is a lot for one young adult to take on
@@sagemodejay5376Because after that same man suffers a mental breakdown and begs him to kill him....
Nah, too easy.
@@sagemodejay5376After the man suffered a breakdown and begged Ezio to just end him......
Nah, too easy it will be mercy.
Ay, my first Ox vid I've checked out before it hit 2K views. Noice~
Also missed a fun inside joke when you went from Mario to Assassin's Creed II, would have been fun to jump right into the "it's a me, Mario!" clip from Ezio's uncle Mario =P
Jane is not just famous, she's IN-famous
"In-famous is when you're MORE than famous. This woman Douglas, she's not just famous, she's IN-famous."
You win the comment section😂
Pretty sure the cause and solutions to all of Lara's problems is, in fact, Lara.
With the Holidays coming up, I have a challenge y’all could maybe use.
“The Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Quiet as a Mouse Challenge”:
Kill/knockout every guard in the central temple without being noticed. You have 3 attempts.
You could also make it “Two competitors see how many guards within the central temple they can kill/knockout without being caught.”
9:56 the last bit sent me. "How does he taste fried in garlic butter? The need for further research is clearly indicated"
The snowboys bearing even the most mild contempt for their creators is proof that we are not so different.
In dishonoreds defense. It never claims that low chaos is the better ending. It simply means that your actions dont ripple as far. Lady Boyle disappears without a trace (later murdering the guy who abducted her). The high overseerer gets exposed instead of being made into a marytr. Its actually not about morality so much as how you affect the world around you. You turn yourself into the monster Burrows wants you to be. At least publicly.
The trick to creating Snow Boys is having some time tiles on the ground to gauge how far you need to push the snowballs around.
14:30 OMG I was SO not prepared for that line!!! 😭
Yeah, that was a lot!😂😂
Assassin's Creed is not historically accurate?? LIES!! I refuse to believe it.
It is, don't believe them.
supposedly the Dishonored novel says that she turns the tables on him and comes out alright in the end, so take that as you will.
But that's no thanks to the protagonist.
3:22 - 3:36 Oh Jane, you and the gang are already perfect!
17:47 You being 'infamous' is really in the best ways.
"The Infamous Jane Douglas." Ah yes, I say that every time.
Sure, shiitake are wonderful - but chanterelles are the absolute best. No need to fight me, I'm right.
Loved the line of “the cause of, and solution, to all of Kara’s problems”.
I'm with the snowboys. My creator did a sub-optimal job, and I will sass them no end.
Absolutely perfect. The moment the man bun from farcry said about doom and destruction... an advert break happened instead of the nukes.
😮😂
That Animal Crossing lesson is also in other parts of the game too - good ol KK Slider has sold out and now requires places he goes to to be just to his exacting specifications. Anything less and he's not setting foot on your sub-optimal island
Seeing the Snowboy segment has made me really nervous. I'm doing a yearlong project in Minecraft (seasonal bases) and I'm about to attempt building a "snow man" in my Winter base. With cubes. Of identical size.