A clinically depressed newscaster with Disco Elysium music

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2023
  • SHIVERS [Legendary: Success] -
    Original video: • Whole 'nother Story - ...
    Music used - "Instrument of Surrender" by Sea Power: • Instrument of Surrender
    UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRES DE TOI

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  • @eggsburst789
    @eggsburst789 16 дней назад +14909

    "Something great happened here, but it's over with."
    Poetry.

    • @darthtom100
      @darthtom100 14 дней назад +148

      Leyndell

    • @BlindBison
      @BlindBison 14 дней назад +9

      Yes, indeed

    • @hmk6980
      @hmk6980 14 дней назад +13

      @@darthtom100 literally what I thought

    • @viciousKev
      @viciousKev 14 дней назад +90

      "The expedition is getting desperate."

    • @qnybucks
      @qnybucks 13 дней назад +31

      that's true of the Midwest in general lol

  • @the-letter_s
    @the-letter_s 13 дней назад +4610

    loving the implication that birds are somehow financially burdened by their yearly migrations.

    • @kosmosyche
      @kosmosyche 10 дней назад +61

      And don't get them started about taxes. You'll never hear the end of it. 😁

    • @FarmerDrew
      @FarmerDrew 6 дней назад +19

      Finances as calories, and it makes sense that they have a caloric deficit

    • @Alonoda
      @Alonoda 6 дней назад +1

      That was the single most depressing piece I've heard in a long time

    • @flingonber
      @flingonber 4 дня назад +7

      I assumed he was referring to "snowbirds", which is a term for someone who has a second home in the southern part of the country and goes to live there in the winter lol. But maybe he was talking about actual birds, who knows?

    • @the-letter_s
      @the-letter_s 4 дня назад +3

      @@flingonber huh, never heard that term before. certainly makes a bit more sense, though i find my idea more amusing, so i'll stick with it.

  • @ApocalypseMoose
    @ApocalypseMoose 17 дней назад +11915

    Happiest St. Louis resident

    • @madhav77777
      @madhav77777 14 дней назад +79

      your pfp, when you realize you got laced halfway through the blunt

    • @Tetracera.
      @Tetracera. 14 дней назад +116

      well st louis is in missouri/misery.

    • @gero3015
      @gero3015 14 дней назад +14

      BODY AND BLOOD

    • @treehugger8858
      @treehugger8858 13 дней назад +24

      I hate and love living in this city so much

    • @lowang7255
      @lowang7255 13 дней назад +19

      Really funny I live in stl and I was like yep that's us

  • @BadgerOfTheSea
    @BadgerOfTheSea 13 дней назад +1912

    "Even the land is tired"
    "There is an awful truth in the trees"
    This man is a true bard

  • @ashiok
    @ashiok 14 дней назад +3101

    This man was cut out to be a poet, what a tragic fate to end up as a newscaster.

    • @SaSPonchICo
      @SaSPonchICo 13 дней назад +233

      He is a writer! Comedy writer, actually.

    • @allthe1
      @allthe1 12 дней назад +103

      Wider audience, better pay, predictable work hours

    • @KD--sj8eo
      @KD--sj8eo 9 дней назад +3

      ⁠@@allthe1did you read the above comment?

    • @allthe1
      @allthe1 9 дней назад +33

      @@KD--sj8eo nah, I just comment random stuff on threads I don't read

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 9 дней назад +16

      @@allthe1 Hey, at least you're honest about it. That's better than almost everyone else on this channel. Respect.

  • @mossy3565
    @mossy3565 16 дней назад +4636

    "This looks like a place where people being punished are sent"
    Man, he's right on many levels

    • @THExRISER
      @THExRISER 15 дней назад +2

      Oh hey Mossy!

    • @mushudamaschin2608
      @mushudamaschin2608 13 дней назад +25

      It's silent hill

    • @juliagoetia
      @juliagoetia 13 дней назад +35

      @@mushudamaschin2608 It's Saint Louis, so yeah. You had it right xD

    • @Jukestar
      @Jukestar 13 дней назад +13

      It looks like City 17.

    • @qoph1988
      @qoph1988 12 дней назад +17

      That city is absolutely 100% purgatory

  • @Rissfleisch
    @Rissfleisch 5 месяцев назад +9587

    The fucking tragedy of his "Something great happened here" opposed to the game's "Something beautiful is going to happen" fucking sent me

    • @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650
      @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 14 дней назад +52

      Disney should be banned

    • @adora_was_taken
      @adora_was_taken 14 дней назад +211

      @@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 what

    • @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650
      @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 13 дней назад +9

      @@adora_was_taken hint: don’t reply to someone if you’re completely illiterate

    • @adora_was_taken
      @adora_was_taken 13 дней назад +233

      @@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 what does disney have to do with the parent comment? or disco elysium? or the video?

    • @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650
      @uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 13 дней назад

      that should help. Too many fucking illiterates posting on this Godforsaken monopoly

  • @archkull
    @archkull 9 месяцев назад +5877

    "most of the birds who can afford it have gone to florida"

    • @FlymanMS
      @FlymanMS 14 дней назад +123

      Imagine that there are poor birds to has to spend winter there.

    • @JackPorter
      @JackPorter 14 дней назад +53

      the birds can't afford the toll booth

    • @JaMaMaa1
      @JaMaMaa1 13 дней назад +11

      @@JackPorter they dont got juice let alone tolls

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 11 дней назад +4

      Time for the birds to pack it in.

    • @JahmenPL
      @JahmenPL 11 дней назад

      fucking ultraliberals.

  • @stevensmith1031
    @stevensmith1031 Год назад +6933

    Very brave of him to film this close to the pale

    • @Coffeepanda294
      @Coffeepanda294 2 месяца назад +55

      I'm dead 😅

    • @jeremytitus9519
      @jeremytitus9519 16 дней назад +98

      après février, août
      après août, février encore!

    • @Martin-rh6bn
      @Martin-rh6bn 13 дней назад +11

      The what?

    • @Karl_Marksman
      @Karl_Marksman 12 дней назад +5

      @@jeremytitus9519 where are you, scandinavia?!

    • @kagura7107
      @kagura7107 12 дней назад +28

      @@juliuscaesar8163 hardcore to the mega, or is it really?

  • @BlueBeetle1939
    @BlueBeetle1939 13 дней назад +961

    The failure to toss the umbrella back into the trash is the cherry on top

  • @MrRaui
    @MrRaui 10 месяцев назад +4884

    Newscaster Coat:
    +1 Shivers: February brings new secrets.
    +1 Inland Empire: What are they whispering?

    • @jameslamberton7671
      @jameslamberton7671 Месяц назад +190

      Red Necktie:
      +2 savoir flair: every office worker wears this.
      -1 electrochemistry: ugly pattern.

    • @Kryptnyt
      @Kryptnyt 17 дней назад +62

      February made me shiver, with every paper I delivered

    • @Marksman_12
      @Marksman_12 15 дней назад +87

      KMOX microphone:
      +1 Inland Empire: Hey, maybe there is a colony of ants living in this thing?
      +1 PERCEPTION (Speech): Crystal clear voice
      -1 INTERFACING: Almost numb fingers

    • @dr.uselessYIIK
      @dr.uselessYIIK 14 дней назад +103

      Candid Horned Rims:
      +1 Visual Calculus: Can't see the leaves anymore
      +1 Half Light: Can't see the birds anymore
      -1 Pain Threshold: Can still see February

    • @Marksman_12
      @Marksman_12 14 дней назад +18

      @@dr.uselessYIIK I loved the description you put up for Half Light. The fact the Half Light just hates everything and is pure agression with no ulterior motives other than hurting anything annoying.

  • @ZedAmadeus
    @ZedAmadeus 16 дней назад +5552

    "My father used to have a saying, that 'if you can live through February, you'll live another year." Something about that whole line just aches. Radiates hurt and sadness.

    • @flagrarus
      @flagrarus 16 дней назад +272

      Because it sounds like living another year is a punishment, not a reward.

    • @invictojenkins6708
      @invictojenkins6708 15 дней назад +17

      what about people who die in may

    • @ZedAmadeus
      @ZedAmadeus 15 дней назад +175

      @@flagrarus I see that, but I guess I just more meant how personal it was, it says a lot about about himself/his dad in just a couple lines.
      on a side note, in writing, my instinct is to go for "used to say" but "used to have a saying" is so much more vivid and specific without even changing that much... just saying, love the writing throughout this video

    • @TheRightist
      @TheRightist 15 дней назад +144

      Says his father died, that they had a somewhat close relationship, that his father was given to melancholy to the point that he had sayings about death, that he anticipated death perhaps with a jocular nonchalance, that February mattered enough to the father that he had a saying about it, that every February would remind the reporter of his father now as well, that he probably couldn't live through February specifically as he couldn't live another year.

    • @ZedAmadeus
      @ZedAmadeus 15 дней назад +17

      @@TheRightist yeah! thank you! it's a lot, right? crazy economical.

  • @Norpal
    @Norpal 9 месяцев назад +3228

    That guy's tie is way too tasteful.

    • @Coffeepanda294
      @Coffeepanda294 8 месяцев назад +193

      BORING NECKTIE
      -2 Electrochemistry.

    • @kentknightofcaelin4537
      @kentknightofcaelin4537 14 дней назад +19

      I wonder if it talks?

    • @d3vitron779
      @d3vitron779 13 дней назад +40

      @@kentknightofcaelin4537Inland empire: success.
      Necktie: “God I fucking hate this guy. Who does he think he is wearing me and being so depressed? It’s like I’m not even here to him, being so gloomy in my presence is a slight against me.”

  • @Coffeepanda294
    @Coffeepanda294 8 месяцев назад +2931

    "...and the trees that once cheered us, they're hard to look at this month. It's as if there is some awful truth out there in the trees. It's hiding in the branches. Look at them. Something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. What is it?""
    I can picture playing Disco Elysium, reading this, and unlocking a new thought.

    • @hollowman9410
      @hollowman9410 16 дней назад +249

      THOUGHT GAINED: Whispers of February.

    • @randomcommenter4405
      @randomcommenter4405 14 дней назад +59

      it sounds like a inland empire thought related to cryptids

    • @TheYeetedMeat
      @TheYeetedMeat 14 дней назад +66

      @@hollowman9410THOUGHT GAINED: The Canopic Conspiracy

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer 11 дней назад +6

      @@randomcommenter4405 I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.

    • @thecaptain6520
      @thecaptain6520 9 дней назад +4

      The contrysides were nice and the plants were singing and the birds and the sun was almost down from the top of the sky.

  • @someguyinahole5952
    @someguyinahole5952 Год назад +5957

    "A desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore" Bro put all his points in [Insert whatever skill you think suits the quote best since you guys keep arguing], and I love it.

    • @zonagilreath2107
      @zonagilreath2107 4 месяца назад +86

      I can't get this out of my head

    • @macrons593
      @macrons593 16 дней назад +68

      I think that would be Inland Empire ackchyually

    • @cactus2304
      @cactus2304 16 дней назад +77

      @@macrons593 nah inland empire would talk to it

    • @frankmanismyname1147
      @frankmanismyname1147 15 дней назад +48

      That is the most disco phrase i have ever heard

    • @johnacetable7201
      @johnacetable7201 14 дней назад

      Not me. Not anymore.

  • @HalcaeonArt
    @HalcaeonArt Год назад +2617

    PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Trivial: Success]
    The umbrella functions with a spring mechanism, and has floral patterns all over its wilted canopy. The broken shaft folds and falls as you pick up the sorry thing.
    EMPATHY [Medium: Success]
    Someone has abandoned it. Tossed in the bin, and left alone and unwanted.
    INLAND EMPIRE [Godly: Success]
    The shattered umbrella drips with what looks like the cold rain, but deep inside you know that it weeps from the loneliness. This is the first time the warmth of a human hand has caressed it in so long.
    1. [RED CHECK: Physical Instrument - Formidable 13] Dunk the umbrella back into the bin with force.
    2. Put the umbrella back.
    3. "Hey Kim- Think we could both fit under this umbrella?"

    • @Coffeepanda294
      @Coffeepanda294 6 месяцев назад +183

      I love it. ZA/UM totally could've put in a scene with Harry and Kim standing under a colourful flower umbrella in the rain.

    • @moonshapedabsolution
      @moonshapedabsolution 20 дней назад +326

      "No, Detective."

    • @polkjmsb
      @polkjmsb 19 дней назад +212

      And then he fails the check and takes 1 morale damage from watching it fall pathetically onto the sidewalk

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 16 дней назад +45

      @@polkjmsb “it just like me fr”

    • @underarmbowlingincidentof1981
      @underarmbowlingincidentof1981 16 дней назад +103

      @@moonshapedabsolution you forgot the looking around pretending not to hear, the sigh, and then the following apprehended agreement once Harry assures him it would greatly benefit the case.
      Kim is tsundere.

  • @joya8292
    @joya8292 15 дней назад +1057

    Happiest Revacholian

  • @kamalindsey
    @kamalindsey 16 дней назад +1808

    I am so happy that Shivers was able to land a news gig after ZA/UM was destroyed.

    • @TheYeetedMeat
      @TheYeetedMeat 14 дней назад +49

      Shivers??? At best this is Pain Threshold. Personally, I think this guy would be Conceptualization.

    • @TurbopropPuppy
      @TurbopropPuppy 13 дней назад +34

      ​@@TheYeetedMeat Conceptualization's biggest fan here in the comments

    • @DigitalWolverine
      @DigitalWolverine 12 дней назад +43

      Shivers invites you to see and feel the city. That’s the vibe this guy gives off, not conceptualization.

    • @TheYeetedMeat
      @TheYeetedMeat 12 дней назад +6

      @@TurbopropPuppy What can I say, I'm just VERY high concept.

    • @NoConsequenc3
      @NoConsequenc3 12 дней назад +2

      @@DigitalWolverine This guy is conceptualization of the city, and Shivers joins in. It's a combo tag-team

  • @mongee3614
    @mongee3614 15 дней назад +411

    You live long enough with depression, you start laughing instead of crying at misery

  • @MrMeatballYT
    @MrMeatballYT 15 дней назад +741

    "Something that's bothering you for a long time is out there. What is it? You can almost see the shape of it, when all the color is gone, and life is stripped down to the starkness of February"
    That sounds like a real line from Volition

  • @evanholt1752
    @evanholt1752 15 дней назад +356

    "Item: A laughable umbrella. Look at it, what does it think it's doing here? Lying there, broken and skeletal. Stupid umbrella!"

    • @Watchers_Puppet
      @Watchers_Puppet 13 дней назад +32

      I feel like a certain man with a connection to tape recorders would say this...

  • @safe-keeper1042
    @safe-keeper1042 7 месяцев назад +795

    KMOX also sounds like a company straight out of Disco Elysium.

    • @ed_tk421tg4
      @ed_tk421tg4 15 дней назад +54

      Welcome to Saint Louis

    • @Marksman_12
      @Marksman_12 15 дней назад +22

      Oh, how right you are.
      Look at it this way, sure there aren't TVs in the world of Disco Elysium but there is print media. Maybe Guillaume Bevy works at the press.

    • @manjittoor9208
      @manjittoor9208 13 дней назад

      @@Marksman_12DE has radio technology. KMOX could very much be one of many local news stations on the isola.

    • @zetto156
      @zetto156 12 дней назад +29

      KMOX is named as such because radio stations west of the Mississipi river start with K, MO = Missouri, and they went with X because they started broadcasting on Christmas Eve 1925 (X-Mas). KMOX

    • @kagura7107
      @kagura7107 12 дней назад +3

      @@zetto156 Good to know

  • @zulioner7880
    @zulioner7880 10 месяцев назад +918

    youd think martinaise is depressing but holy shit this takes the cake

  • @HerculeDevantrien
    @HerculeDevantrien 10 дней назад +79

    That's so accurate to the game it hurts. The crappy weather. The raggedy clothing. Waxing poetic about how things used to be better, but now it's over. Finding kitschy abandoned items in trash cans. Attacking inanimate objects out of weird spite. Having paranatural visions about the "awful truth" hidden in everyday environments. It's perfect.

  • @NickC_222
    @NickC_222 11 дней назад +108

    His assessment of that broken springtime umbrella in the February trash can "like a desperate flinging-off of something that's not true anymore" was like watching someone break down modern art in a way you can understand in your bones for the first time.

    • @voxifera2300
      @voxifera2300 3 дня назад +6

      That’s how poetry makes you feel

  • @Coffeepanda294
    @Coffeepanda294 8 месяцев назад +712

    Wow, both of them could've been writers for ZA/UM. The newscaster especially. He pretty much nailed the atmosphere. Even the random jokes thrown in. Beautiful.
    The only thing missing was a deadpan Kim Kitsuragi character.

    • @inezketchup
      @inezketchup 16 дней назад +46

      Sorry what do you mean by both of them? There's one person in the video right?

    • @nacicomi
      @nacicomi 16 дней назад +55

      ​@@inezketchup I think that they belive the narrator is a seperate individual

    • @Ved000000
      @Ved000000 14 дней назад +52

      @@nacicomi Bro has no object permanence. His mom calls him from the other room and he thinks a stranger is in the house.

    • @hollylucianta6711
      @hollylucianta6711 13 дней назад +18

      @@Ved000000 Bro has long discussions with his best friend in the mirror

    • @aRandomFox00
      @aRandomFox00 13 дней назад +17

      Kim was obviously the cameraman.

  • @breeeegs
    @breeeegs 14 дней назад +165

    For keeping your shit together, day by day, minute by minute. Reporter. Arriving. On the scene.

    • @rinomavrovic6673
      @rinomavrovic6673 13 дней назад +30

      Playing as a reporter/journalist for a (hypothetical) sequel sounds like a great idea

    • @AyCe
      @AyCe 13 дней назад +30

      @@rinomavrovic6673 Wow, yeah, it does. Get the scoop. Take notes. Piece the story together. Make it fit, somehow. Would explain why the character needs to talk to so many people, needs to visit so many locations. Damn, now I want to play that. :(

    • @SneedFeedAndSeed
      @SneedFeedAndSeed 12 дней назад +22

      @@AyCe [Suggestion - Legendary: Failed] Borrow money from the Estonian Mafia.

  • @OceansideSpiderHouse
    @OceansideSpiderHouse 12 дней назад +175

    “Most of the birds who can afford it” is a great line.

  • @EditUnivers75
    @EditUnivers75 15 дней назад +187

    If you can live through February, you’ll live another year.

  • @Erblorg
    @Erblorg 13 дней назад +63

    This man has a vast oceanic soul

  • @Hankrecords
    @Hankrecords 4 месяца назад +509

    I'm not even kidding this is one of the greatest things I've seen on RUclips lately. I went in expecting a couple laughs, but the original report was already hauntingly beautiful, and the music and clear parallels with Disco Elysium just made it awe inspiring.
    This is incredible

    • @Hankrecords
      @Hankrecords 4 месяца назад +64

      Like, whoever wrote the lines - I don't know if it was the spokesperson or not - could do much more than write newscasts

    • @aidangillard2041
      @aidangillard2041 11 дней назад +5

      Totally agree, I'm actually tearing up after watching it. To be fair, the song already gets me 90% of the way there, but the guy's delivery and the raw poetry push it over the top

    • @TheZigzagman
      @TheZigzagman 9 дней назад +8

      ​@@Hankrecords
      That's Kevin Killeen. He definitely wrote this. He also writes radio plays and award winning books like _Never Hug a Nun_

    • @woo1818
      @woo1818 7 дней назад +1

      @@Hankrecords like what? It’s not gay so they won’t publish it, and it’s not formulaic so they won’t make a movie about it.
      Edit; everyone wants to ad hominem, but no one can actually address what I’m saying. That should make you wonder, if you aren’t locked into a dogma.

    • @Hankrecords
      @Hankrecords 7 дней назад +5

      @@woo1818 what the fuck are you talking about

  • @lukandrate9866
    @lukandrate9866 9 месяцев назад +232

    When you got your rethoric and conceptualisation on max

  • @bzipoli
    @bzipoli 14 дней назад +103

    i thought the original video was satire, but....
    it's so good to know there are real old fashioned poets in journalism out there. damn, i miss them

  • @aburipley9045
    @aburipley9045 16 дней назад +165

    Disco isn’t dead, it lives on in our hearts, and the lense through which we view the rest of this world.

    • @pravkdey
      @pravkdey 14 дней назад +21

      A cracked lens, the distorted figures you see through it feel more accurate than with your own eyes.
      I should get it fixed, you think every time you see it. But lenses can't be repaired, only replaced. You are more alike than you care to think, perhaps that's why you keep it broken?

  • @blakes8901
    @blakes8901 15 дней назад +83

    There is something very comforting in the feeling of melancholy. it is an attractive, addictive feeling. If you aren't careful you can find yourself unable to live without it.

    • @havenschade8174
      @havenschade8174 11 дней назад +7

      I like deep melancholic videos that make me pause and reflect. The sadness and hope that resides in that sadness

    • @dollarstorevodka
      @dollarstorevodka 10 дней назад +8

      Once you see the beauty in darkness, it changes something in you. You can never go back

  • @llud4th
    @llud4th 15 дней назад +219

    here in novosibirsk, russia, november has this vibe, where everyday is cloudy, where snow has not settled yet and is hard to walk on, and every street is half hidden behind a thick snow myst. no month here beats november in the sun deprivation metric. february here is similiar but theres way less snow and ure constantly reminded by this subtle scent of spring that there is summer to follow and not that many months until summer vacations and trips. peace and love to citizens of saint louis all the way from western siberia.

    • @crunchbuttsteak8741
      @crunchbuttsteak8741 12 дней назад

      That sucks dude, here in New York September to December is the best time weather wise, you get that beautiful deep green trees that yield to Autumn's golden decay and finally ends in the bespoke minimalim of winters grip, but festooned with lights to bring int he Holiday Cheer. Then January starts and you have months of hell till spring

    • @cyberpunk-2O77
      @cyberpunk-2O77 12 дней назад +5

      Здравствуйте товарищ от Новосибирска, и в час добрый

    • @boxedh
      @boxedh 12 дней назад +2

      If I remember right, your city has a pretty good sounding theme/song, anthem or something like that.

    • @llud4th
      @llud4th 12 дней назад

      @@cyberpunk-2O77 здравствуйте

    • @sentienttaco9134
      @sentienttaco9134 9 дней назад +23

      Only St. Louis in February could earn empathy from somebody who literally lives in Siberia.

  • @ryanlam7882
    @ryanlam7882 16 дней назад +157

    downtown st louis is just like martinaise. Thanks whoever was running this city 100 years ago

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 12 дней назад +23

      Downtown Syracuse NY has a lot of that going on too. That sentence "Something great happened here, but it's over with" captures the atmosphere of so many formerly gleaming American cities that, while not completely slipping into Gary, Indiana style infamy, just sort of slumped into a grey irrelevance and mediocrity. Not really places people flock to or run from, just places people wind up because life doesn't always go how you hoped and well, you have to live somewhere.

    • @firesushu
      @firesushu 10 дней назад +3

      ​@@tjenadonn6158 Beautifully said.

    • @TrikYodz
      @TrikYodz 7 дней назад

      Yep, the Great Divorce of 1844 poisoned St. Louis from then onward. An ill-concieved idea, forced through illegally, with deceit.

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 5 дней назад +1

      ​@@tjenadonn6158Outsourcing industries murdered a lot of urban jobs. Now, it's just offices and businesses that keep the cities going.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 5 дней назад

      @@thebighurt2495 Yep. Once the Carrier plant shut down a lot of the money went with it (everyone still calls it the Carrier Dome BTW.) Lockheed Martin is looking pretty dead these days whenever I drive past it. Mayhaps the only major remnant of this area's large scale manufacturing heritage is the Anheuser-Busch plant out in Baldwinsville. Nothing comes from here anymore but people.

  • @Corzappy
    @Corzappy 15 дней назад +101

    This is definitely some genre of core for sure.
    A blend between pessimism and realism, a blurred line between succinct news reporting and a sort of dejected rant about the symbolism of nature and the mundane routines of everyday life.
    Clinically depressed newscaster core is my favorite.

  • @CasieMod
    @CasieMod Год назад +523

    I can absolutely hear this in DE narrator voice.

    • @Coffeepanda294
      @Coffeepanda294 8 месяцев назад +24

      Now that you say so, I want to try to use that new Collage feature to make this a DE scene.

  • @CreativityNuggets
    @CreativityNuggets 13 дней назад +39

    This is the kind of programming that would convince me to watch the news

  • @catgirl_warcrimes
    @catgirl_warcrimes 11 дней назад +15

    VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - "If you can live through February, you'll live another year."

  • @Wimbleknob
    @Wimbleknob 11 дней назад +25

    "To hide the bleakness of February, man invented Valentine's Day. And also Mardi Gras."

  • @ULTRAOutdoorsman
    @ULTRAOutdoorsman 15 дней назад +202

    To be honest, in the middle of another west coast heat wave it's starting to seem like the summer is the time when we're reminded we're going to die

    • @imranmeco3393
      @imranmeco3393 15 дней назад +38

      Summer is dying, but telling existence "up yours, bitch, I found a way to live!" while february is just...
      Entropy. Cold, dead, unmoving, entropy.

    • @evosteff
      @evosteff 12 дней назад +4

      Eh. Heat by its own definition is almost an indicator of creation.

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique 11 дней назад

      @@evosteff True, as the universe will not be engulfed in hellfire, but rather subdivide itself into nothingness.. well, after everything freezes.

    • @joeschmo4646
      @joeschmo4646 10 дней назад +1

      I live in Phoenix and you have no clue how true this is.

    • @calliph
      @calliph 9 дней назад +1

      @@evosteff Man you've never lived in a desert have you? This is unquestionably not true there. The heat is oppressive to the point you wonder how anything lives there at all.

  • @KittyKatty999
    @KittyKatty999 15 дней назад +133

    Disco Elysium *changes you,* like all good art should do. You will never see reality the same way again after playing and completing it.

    • @phylippezimmermannpaquin2062
      @phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 11 дней назад +4

      The best kind of brainrot

    • @heartache5742
      @heartache5742 11 дней назад +5

      I will call it al-gul forever

    • @myflatlineconstruct
      @myflatlineconstruct 4 дня назад

      @@KittyKatty999 Disco , is so much. It's difficult to pick the most profound scar left on me. @kittykatty999 specifically, was this revelation or confirmation? For me I felt another beating heart similar to mine. The creators were not the enlightenment, but co-conspiritors .

    • @doctordice2doctordice210
      @doctordice2doctordice210 День назад

      You say that as if 80% of the player base didn't misunderstand the meaning of the game and viewed it as further validation to their flawed beliefs

    • @phylippezimmermannpaquin2062
      @phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 День назад

      @@doctordice2doctordice210 no?

  • @localsnek
    @localsnek 10 месяцев назад +188

    As someone who was born in February, the great weariness of the world, I love the colour grey as it is the unanimous shade of stone-cold humanity. We're all still here. We won't be, one day. But that doesn't matter as long as we get past the next February, and the next, and the next. Grey is as bad as it gets, but we'll never see black. The whole rest of the rainbow is there to live through. Stay strong, detectives.

  • @pjbutton3396
    @pjbutton3396 15 дней назад +44

    I've never played Disco Elysium, but I have lived in St. Louis for many years in the past. I'm laughing through the pain

    • @akamal92
      @akamal92 14 дней назад

      You should consider playing it. Or perhaps wait for the Amazon TV show but still, the game would be superior.

    • @juliagoetia
      @juliagoetia 13 дней назад +12

      Born and raised in STL and same lmao. I do recommend playing Disco sometime though, it's fantastic.

  • @AlbertSirup
    @AlbertSirup 16 дней назад +73

    when your shivers is too high

  • @InternaIRevenueService
    @InternaIRevenueService 14 дней назад +89

    [Drama] Perhaps he is overdoing it sire?
    [Volition] No, he speaks truth
    [Esprit de Corps] He speaks for us!
    [Conceptualization] No, surely he speaks for the world
    [Electrochemistry] Did he just say Mardi Gras?!

  • @TroubledTrooper
    @TroubledTrooper 15 дней назад +82

    LYRICS: February is the worst month of the year, but it's an honest month. It's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is. I mean, look around here. These buildings, they look like they don't even have any lights in them during a work day. And something great happened here, but it's over with. And that's the way February is. You can see it in the way people walk and how they look. Let's go just check out February.
    This says it all. This has a spring-like or floral pattern on it, but somebody on this February day has abandoned it with its broken shaft, like a desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore. The expedition is getting desperate. People are throwing things aside. Look around downtown on a February work day. This looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent. If you notice the way people cross the street in February, it's different than in the summer.
    Nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a Rogers and Hammerstein song. It's their lunch hour and they're just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili. Carbohydrates are big this time of year.
    Also, lotions because everybody is itchy and tired and irritable. Even the land is tired in February. Most of the birds who can afford it have gone to Florida. And the trees that once cheered us, they're hard to look at this month. It's as if there is some awful truth out there in the trees. It's hiding in the branches. Look at them. Something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there.
    What is it? You can almost see the shape of it when all the color is gone, but life is stripped down to the starkness of February. To try to hide the bleakness of February, man invented Valentine's Day and also Mardi Gras. But then February answered back with another holiday, Ash Wednesday. What other month could host a holiday that's designed to remind us that we're all going to die? That's February for you. It is bleak, it is honest, and it just tells you the way it really is. My father used to have a saying that if you can live through February, you'll live another year. With a Whole 'nother story, I'm Kevin Killeen.

  • @franciasii2435
    @franciasii2435 14 дней назад +54

    [Endurance - Legendary: Failed] *Turn on your heater*

  • @elcatrinc1996
    @elcatrinc1996 2 месяца назад +71

    Well, i have lived a grand total of 24 februaries, one more can't hurt, right?

    • @Wampa842
      @Wampa842 Месяц назад +41

      VOLITION [Formidable: Failure]
      It hurts. Every time, it hurts. You would've expected to become numb, but the ache of years past, and the dread of years to come, are as sharp as they've always been. Sometimes you can forget. But not this time.

    • @elcatrinc1996
      @elcatrinc1996 Месяц назад +11

      @@Wampa842 Volition: do not pay mind to those voices, you will make it, im on your side

    • @dmitriyrasskazov8858
      @dmitriyrasskazov8858 16 дней назад +4

      Ok, lets see how long this life needs to try, before overcoming us ...

    • @elcatrinc1996
      @elcatrinc1996 16 дней назад

      @@dmitriyrasskazov8858 it can keep trying for all i care, i'd win in the end

    • @proving9606
      @proving9606 16 дней назад +8

      @@dmitriyrasskazov8858
      Volition [Medium Success] - What righteous persistence
      Electrochemistry [Medium Success] - What a f**king joke!

  • @PAJAMALAND
    @PAJAMALAND 4 месяца назад +44

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Your mesolimbic reward pathway does not mince words. It wants smokes.

  • @Arcanineisthebest
    @Arcanineisthebest 14 дней назад +32

    That ending is brutal, and somehow, comforting.

  • @berika6
    @berika6 7 дней назад +8

    I clicked this video expecting a funny parody but found pure art.

  • @Zeep_goblin
    @Zeep_goblin 14 дней назад +35

    I genuinely really hope he's doing okay

  • @scryon596
    @scryon596 Год назад +67

    God, red rock riviera is such a good ambiance for bleakness.

  • @MCSorry
    @MCSorry 9 дней назад +9

    This man is a poet.
    "It's as is there's some awful truth out there in the trees. It's hiding in the branches."
    "Something that has been bothering you for a long time is out there. What is it? You can almost see the shape of it, when all the color is gone and life is stripped down to the starkness of febuary."

  • @betin731
    @betin731 14 дней назад +10

    Look at this guy's vast and oceanic soul

  • @olecoltrane1138
    @olecoltrane1138 15 дней назад +23

    honestly i've come to like this kind of weather, i think winter is eery and mysterious.
    its just how you look at it

  • @MajGenAtlas
    @MajGenAtlas Год назад +62

    Pure catharsis

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 16 дней назад +89

    "Instrument of Surrender" by Sea Power is one of the best atmospheric pieces ever written. Nothing else puts across the idea of a weary, broken-down society where people had big ideas and dreams once, but they died forty years ago, quite like that song. It just says "Yep, it's another day, and the spring is coming and the frost is receding, but nothing will ever happen again. You are at the end of history, and there is nothing to do but wait out the days."

    • @randomserb761
      @randomserb761 16 дней назад +16

      To me, and I've listened to it a lot since finishing the game, it has a silver lining. It acquired this meaning because of the way my Harry did his best to return to form. While highlighting the drab, dreary and almost futile character of our endeavours, to me it also marks the hope and joy, the real, subjective, creative energy that still remains despite all the entropy. The possibility of a brighter individual tomorrow and a better world overall is not lost and I believe we must hold on to this notion not just to survive, but to live. To eventually make something out of this mess that is worthy of our great human spirit.

    • @jeremytitus9519
      @jeremytitus9519 16 дней назад +6

      I could not help but read that in the narrator’s voice

    • @blakes8901
      @blakes8901 15 дней назад +9

      Heat death of the universe vibes. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage against the dying of the light.

    • @hotelmario510
      @hotelmario510 13 дней назад +5

      @@randomserb761 I like your reading as well, speaking as someone who played as a communist on my first run. I want to believe better things are possible, even when the world keeps trying to prove to me that they aren't.

    • @randomserb761
      @randomserb761 13 дней назад +2

      @@hotelmario510
      Our circumstances force such defeatism on our minds periodically, but the world *has yet to actually prove* that better things are not possible. On the global scale, the question is objectively open and I think the working people of the world will formulate a response together, eventually 🤗🚩

  • @MrFoxInc
    @MrFoxInc 15 дней назад +21

    0:47 and onward could have easily been narrated by Lenval Brown and it would have fit so perfectly. Incredible.

  • @vinny464
    @vinny464 16 дней назад +26

    2:12 this hits different when your birthday is in February...

  • @feltfrog
    @feltfrog 13 дней назад +11

    This has no right being as poetic as it is

  • @plastiktuten3866
    @plastiktuten3866 14 дней назад +16

    strangely moving in its sadness

  • @nicolasproctor2037
    @nicolasproctor2037 Год назад +56

    10/10 comrade

  • @Ezekiel_Allium
    @Ezekiel_Allium 10 дней назад +9

    Maybe it's just a personal derangement of mine but god is that foggy winter city actually just beautiful. The way some structures fade away into the haze, seeming to extend infinitely upwards, the hunched shamblers, this dude's fatalistic poetic monologues... I think this is probably one of my favorite videos now. Never played Disco Elysium (warning to those who may read this; telling me to play it will make me want to play it less) but god does this music and the tone of the setting really fit here as well. This is, to me, a modern expression of the exact same vibe as Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise, or Maybe his Houses of Parliament, Sunrise

  • @Voc_spooksauce
    @Voc_spooksauce 10 дней назад +8

    New York citizens are like this all year and people ask what's wrong with the place

  • @_nbcake
    @_nbcake 15 дней назад +19

    In dark times, should the stars also go out?

  • @mikaelhollinshed595
    @mikaelhollinshed595 13 дней назад +6

    I grew up listening to this reporter but man this has to be my absolute favorite story from him

    • @iwouldprefernotto4381
      @iwouldprefernotto4381 9 дней назад +1

      Is it done in character? Or he’s actually that poetic and bleak? 😂

  • @Domn879
    @Domn879 6 дней назад +3

    ‘If you can live through February, you’ll live another year.’
    My mother died at the beginning of March this year. My brothers and I returned to our grey seaside hometown to spend that last month with her, February. It’s damp biting cold outside was a tonic compared to the stench of dying in the hospital punctuated with regular weeping of grieving relatives. Then that weeping was our own.
    Had I turned on the news to see this, I actually would have found it comforting. The saccharine BS of normal daytime TV seems like an insult when you have lost someone great.
    My Dad had known her for 57 years. Children when they met. Now we just need to get him through a few rough Februarys.

  • @lordmanatee439
    @lordmanatee439 15 дней назад +28

    "This looks like a place that people who are being punished are sent"

  • @adrianomaly1760
    @adrianomaly1760 2 дня назад +4

    Born to be a bard, cursed to be a newscaster.

  • @RianeBane
    @RianeBane 14 дней назад +5

    The fact that this was news RADIO is fitting - of all the months, February truly has a face for radio.

  • @hollowman9410
    @hollowman9410 16 дней назад +14

    I hate winter. The cold reminds me of my mortality.

    • @lemone12
      @lemone12 16 дней назад +14

      I love winter. The cold reminds me of my mortality.

    • @harmoney-tk5wd
      @harmoney-tk5wd 15 дней назад +4

      I respect winter. The cold reminds me of other people's mortality.

    • @killswitch6361
      @killswitch6361 12 дней назад +3

      I unironically love winter cause of how depressing it looks.

  • @shaneanigans440
    @shaneanigans440 5 дней назад +3

    "What other month could host a holiday that is designed to remind us that we're all gonna die..." This guy is amazing with his deliveries.

  • @thatchervandenhemel8899
    @thatchervandenhemel8899 13 дней назад +7

    I have seldom experienced something filled with such strange beauty

  • @jackenotion
    @jackenotion 16 дней назад +13

    That's actually beautiful, to be honest.

  • @Karl_Marksman
    @Karl_Marksman 9 дней назад +3

    "they should have sent a poet" someone said, and for once they did.

  • @evala13
    @evala13 14 дней назад +4

    Nothing like a good old jug of concentrated depresso. Thanks for this vid

  • @Sturmdude
    @Sturmdude 15 дней назад +6

    For me it was always March when I was a kid. In the south east of KY during the 00's, February would be very snowy, intense with winter. March would be raining, a shivering cold rain. It's just begun to warm back up, but at a glacially slow pace. I remember March being the damp, cold, dreary, painful time of year that challenged any desire to see another year, let alone a decade.

  • @elevenade
    @elevenade 13 дней назад +7

    thanks youtube algorithm…you‘re alright.

  • @starpixel3998
    @starpixel3998 7 дней назад +4

    bro, what the hell did February do to this man? 💀

  • @NotSoMuchFrankly
    @NotSoMuchFrankly День назад +3

    His dad was close. I'd put it: If you can live through February, you'll see March. Unless you're in a coma.

  • @twistednerve0
    @twistednerve0 15 дней назад +7

    Looks like cold season in the Eastern Europe is the same as your February.
    Yup, probably that's why we look so depressed in any setting.

  • @maboilaurence8227
    @maboilaurence8227 14 дней назад +3

    I never cry for any media or soundtrack, but Disco Elysium's soundtrack is something else man.

  • @DRUZYDAY
    @DRUZYDAY 5 дней назад +3

    “This looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent”, my God, somebody grab Kim to cheer to this man up.

  • @Tony-qe3fl
    @Tony-qe3fl 10 дней назад +3

    Born to be a poet, forced to be a newscaster

  • @kiki10020
    @kiki10020 17 дней назад +12

    Hunter S Thompson hours

  • @rhomaioi
    @rhomaioi 3 дня назад +3

    "It's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees, it's hiding in the branches. Look at them. Something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. What is it? You can almost see the shape of it, when all the colour is gone."
    Pure poetry.

    • @ee-wx3hy
      @ee-wx3hy 3 дня назад +2

      There is though. It's a secret, or a joke.

  • @3nthamornin
    @3nthamornin День назад +2

    actually love everything he says. he clearly appreciates life and is passionate

  •  13 дней назад +4

    joe pera has found his absolute nemesis.

  • @grimtygranule5125
    @grimtygranule5125 12 дней назад +6

    I accidentally clicked on this video, but i needed to see it.

  • @kimball_stone
    @kimball_stone 7 дней назад +2

    This might be my favorite thing on the internet.

  • @user-ld7lp5oy1i
    @user-ld7lp5oy1i 11 дней назад +3

    "For the Whole 'Nother Story, I'm Kevin Killeen"
    *walks straight into traffic*

  • @DrZaius3141
    @DrZaius3141 8 дней назад +4

    I watch this in summer when temperatures don't even go below 70° in the night. Nobody can sleep, everyone is always on edge and fed up. Car accidents shoot up because people are more aggressive and less able to concentrate.
    Compare that to that cozy foggy blanket over the world in February. It's like the weather giving you a hug. If you're cold you can simply put on more clothes and there is always the option to get inside and warm up and cuddle together with loved ones.

  • @SirPrizeMF
    @SirPrizeMF 4 дня назад +4

    "You know February is shit because we made it shorter and it still seems fucking long" - Joe Black

  • @nathansteiner8595
    @nathansteiner8595 День назад +2

    SHIVERS [impossible: success] - "Something great happened here, but it's over with."

  • @loopholesloopy
    @loopholesloopy 3 дня назад +2

    "Something great happened here but it's over with" describes my home town so well to be honest.

  • @gryynnn
    @gryynnn 15 дней назад +5

    That coat of his must have a crazy high Shivers buff