It's probably a really rare old book, too. Damn you, Halligan and the other druids! Your droodic machinations destroyed a valuable piece of linguistic literature!
If you thought that halligan would have returned it, you dont know halligan If it wasnt drone striked into oblivion he probably would have either thrown it away or used it as kindling
Watching this a second time I've actually started to notice that Lowry's voice actor actually performs a lot of the side characters in this (including the old man at the computer). Though considering I'm noticing this only on my second watch-through but he's honestly pretty good with voices.
On the subject of Halligan being intended to be overweight and in shambles instead of the way he appears in game, I feel it makes it more hilarious. Halligan is completely lacking in self-awareness, and dresses and speaks as if he’s not an incompetent lunatic, even though he so clearly is.
The insane thing is that he is incredibly competent. He was able to solve a case that had a serious detective like Lowry stumped. While the entirety of Scotland Yard had huge budget cuts and was tied in red tape, he completed his job while spending no money, solving every problem by improvising from whatever was on hand. He was able to find, in a day, the amulet the droods were searching for decades. Then on the same day, he uncovered the grandmaster of the droods, when everyone else was baffled. Looking at it from Lord Sinclair's perspective, he is terrifying, especially considering the other droods probably setup all the obstacles to disable Scotland Yard while they executed their plan.
@@KaiserAfini consider me (from a year ago) told off. thank you, gamer. i still don't know if halligan could truly be called "competent" though. he's effective sure, but that's more due to the fact that he's just an active danger to the people around him, droods included.
@@joshuadarrow Yep, he is a hazard to everyone in his vicinity and definitely insane. Scotland Yard knew this and kept him on a short leash. Melany didn't, which lead to her being stabbed by scissors because Halligan thought he could use drood healing to save her. He was right, but its still quite a leap of logic that an untrained drood like him could figure out how to do it on the fly.
They probably knew that if he needed the computer to solve a puzzle he would just carry it around with him then bash a door down with it later or something and wanted to avoid that
I kind of feel like the library visit is to slightly justify halligans craziness. If trying to get a library book is such a hassle, well imagine how fucked going to the bank’ll be. Admittedly their attempt didn’t really work, but hey.
Ah, yes, one of the most potent of all drood abilities: being able to make any book into a pocket book. Halligan is a true prodigy, he managed to do this a bit after learning the salt to dynamite spell.
I love how they pronounce Pizza almost as if it was German, even though they are clearly British AND that he is a copy of a John Sinclair novel on his shelf, even though that will mean nothing to anyone in England, as it is a German series of pulp novels and magazines.
5:20 Regarding that librarian, in workplace, the only people who can do shit like her are either close with the boss, or they're such a senior employee that they can get away with shit like this, or maybe the management just ignores problems when it comes to small complaints about her.
Someone christened the third part of this series Saltdust Crusaders, so I decided to name all the other videos after JoJo parts: 1. Phantom Bone 2. Exposition Tendency (or Druid Tendency) 3. Saltdust Crusaders (not that this was mine) 4. Salt Is Unshakable/Mandalore Is Breakable/Halligan Is Deconstructable/JoAndlion 5. Golden Sickle 6. Stone Omen 7. Steal Book Run/Temporal Fall One And since I already used JoJolion, I guess I'm out of JoJo parts. (Though I might lock in JoAndlion for part 4 and riff on Diamond Is Unbreakable for part 8...and maybe I can riff on a JoJo spinoff for part 9? Let me hit TV Tropes.)
1. Phantom Bones 2. Fishing Tendency 3. Saltdust Druids 4. Human is Edible/Melanion 5. Golden Sickle 6. Stone Bridges 7. Druid Staff Run Spinoff(s): Thus Spoke Arthur Blake
1:15: He probably just displays those books to impress women. The women who aren't distracted by the rest of the office, anyhow. 5:25: It's a kind of strange that serves a purpose, though. By emphasizing the security around Oxford Library, the game is hinting at the solution to a puzzle. It's not a _great_ hint, and it's a ridiculous solution, but they're _trying_ to foreshadow stuff dammit! (And arguably it worked-19:00 is mere minutes after they grabbed the book, and they figured out the solution in seconds...aside from assuming they needed to pick the lock.) 10:40: So, this old man eats in the library (how is that not against the rules?), and not at his office or home. Is Halligan harassing a hobo-professor desperate to prove his worth to academia before he dies? 15:35: Because his boss has an ounce of common sense. Guns are for officers who _don't_ get members of the royal family arrested, Halligan! 23:23: "ISBN not applied"?!? Practically _every_ physical book has an ISBN! Even most self-published books do! What the heck? Was making up a fake ISBN or looking up a real book on Celtic writing too difficult? (Maybe if they had done that they'd know the Celts used Ogham script and not runes...) 26:00: So Halligan, despite being the absolute worst, gets off with a light scolding, but the poor hobo-professor has to be formally cited? Is this preferential treatment for law enforcement or discriminatory treatment for the homeless? 31:55: "It's not like I'm doing this for you, dummy." 33:55: ...holy crap, it _is_ exactly like Rogue One. I mean, except that MotD's protagonist had a stronger emotional reaction to the old guy's death and it's more clear why he didn't leave with them. 35:30: So, Melanie accepts that the druids/droods are going to use their droud magic to take over the world, and (obviously) that Dr. Blake's house was set ablaze by a vaguely magical source, but time travel is where she draws the line? I mean, if you're gonna draw a line that's not a bad place to do it, but what gives her the impression she should do that?
the hobo-professor has trained his body to never leave that computer, in the library that apparently never closes and also doesn't need a library card to check out a book
Every time I see this puzzle I think about how lucky that old man is that Halligan chose to *only* fuck with his car alarm and frame him for theft instead of stuffing his jacket full of child pornography when he ran out to check on his car.
I like the idea that in this world there is a scanner that detects if you take an unregistered library book, but putting a different book's sleeve on and checking out that book somehow deactivates it and allows you to steal priceless one-of-a-kind books.
I'm late, but that actually is how some security measures work. If they were using the bar stickers, you just wave those over the scanner to deactivate them, you don't need to open the book itself.
Notice how Halligan shit-talks larry for having books in his office saying he probably doesn't read them and only has them to appear smart to women? But he has a book in his office about Crops and he cannot even pronounce title right?
Is the playlist for these videos also broken for anyone else? I open it and it’s just a blank page of nothing, their other playlist opens up just fine. I’ve updated the RUclips app and I’m still having the same problem.
There is no fucking way the devs didn't know how funny this was, this is just, too many hijinx to be an accident, this is ridiculous it's almost mocking adventure game logic, but is it tho'? that's the genius of it, we don't fuckin' know.
I think they really just thought in reverse. Like they designed the puzzles first and thought about how to justify it in a modern world, and the answer wound up being "make the protagonist a huge piece of shit" every time. Cause there's no winks or any hint that the game is self-aware, and based on Moment of Silence, I don't think House of Tales is the kind of company to do parody.
i just realized that the library's book gets destroyed in the bombing of blake's house. it's a reference copy and they'll never get it back ever
It's probably a really rare old book, too. Damn you, Halligan and the other druids! Your droodic machinations destroyed a valuable piece of linguistic literature!
If you thought that halligan would have returned it, you dont know halligan
If it wasnt drone striked into oblivion he probably would have either thrown it away or used it as kindling
Damn I never thought about that before lmao another notch in Halligan's belt
@@jmjedi923 hed probably use the pages to mop up pizza grease and then use the cover to put out his cigarettes
they traveled back in time and could get a copy from the past :O
Melanie: "...you've become almost...like a friend."
Mandy:
Audience:
Shammy: "...Use the bone on her."
I spewed so much of my coffee when I heard that xD
Time to book the only computer at the library and watch the highlights.
Make sure you check yourself for any books before you leave.
Man, druid drone technology sure is scary these days. Be sure to leave disabled old men behind when you run to safety.
@@pazz1239I'll take the gep gun
Watching this a second time I've actually started to notice that Lowry's voice actor actually performs a lot of the side characters in this (including the old man at the computer). Though considering I'm noticing this only on my second watch-through but he's honestly pretty good with voices.
The voice acting in Droods is surprisingly competent.
On the subject of Halligan being intended to be overweight and in shambles instead of the way he appears in game, I feel it makes it more hilarious. Halligan is completely lacking in self-awareness, and dresses and speaks as if he’s not an incompetent lunatic, even though he so clearly is.
The insane thing is that he is incredibly competent. He was able to solve a case that had a serious detective like Lowry stumped. While the entirety of Scotland Yard had huge budget cuts and was tied in red tape, he completed his job while spending no money, solving every problem by improvising from whatever was on hand. He was able to find, in a day, the amulet the droods were searching for decades. Then on the same day, he uncovered the grandmaster of the droods, when everyone else was baffled. Looking at it from Lord Sinclair's perspective, he is terrifying, especially considering the other droods probably setup all the obstacles to disable Scotland Yard while they executed their plan.
@@KaiserAfini consider me (from a year ago) told off. thank you, gamer.
i still don't know if halligan could truly be called "competent" though. he's effective sure, but that's more due to the fact that he's just an active danger to the people around him, droods included.
@@joshuadarrow Yep, he is a hazard to everyone in his vicinity and definitely insane. Scotland Yard knew this and kept him on a short leash. Melany didn't, which lead to her being stabbed by scissors because Halligan thought he could use drood healing to save her. He was right, but its still quite a leap of logic that an untrained drood like him could figure out how to do it on the fly.
@@KaiserAfini Jesus Christ it really is Disco Elysium
How is he just 160 pounds is beyond me. His metabolism is just as inefficiently efficient as he is
i like how the old man wouldn't let halligen use the computer for a, at most, 5 minute search
They probably knew that if he needed the computer to solve a puzzle he would just carry it around with him then bash a door down with it later or something and wanted to avoid that
@@notusingmyname2634 Containent Breach.
Don’t joke about Drood drone strikes, it’s a very serious issue. Druids keep game ending my family members when they go outside.
33:33 “Leave me! Get out of the danger zone!”
What a line lol
31:23 My only regret about this scene is that Stand Melanie disappeared when Real Melanie walked in.
Droon strike made me fall off my chair laughing
Love how this game goes from "let's find a book in the library" to fckn druid drone strikes 😂
#DroonStrikes
Don’t fuck with the droods 😤
In the past they need to do hadouken fireballs, but today they do magical drone strikes. The droods have to keep up with the times.
This aged appropriately.
I kind of feel like the library visit is to slightly justify halligans craziness. If trying to get a library book is such a hassle, well imagine how fucked going to the bank’ll be.
Admittedly their attempt didn’t really work, but hey.
The library is like Mecca for people like him.
Literally everyone there is a total prick 😂
the Drood drone strike followed with the insasne laughter from Mandy and Shammy is pure gold
47:10
Bewildered Mandalore is my favorite Mandalore.
Ah, yes, one of the most potent of all drood abilities: being able to make any book into a pocket book. Halligan is a true prodigy, he managed to do this a bit after learning the salt to dynamite spell.
Halligan is the greatest character in any video game
the most loveable character with the biggest rap sheet
I like that the book Halligen is supposed to get has 4 different names depending on who saying its name/where its written
Five, if you count "The Roman Monetary System and Fiscal Policies".
It also doesnt have an ISBN
I like to think he just can't remember the title and gets lucky that the book he finds is actually useful.
I love how they pronounce Pizza almost as if it was German, even though they are clearly British AND that he is a copy of a John Sinclair novel on his shelf, even though that will mean nothing to anyone in England, as it is a German series of pulp novels and magazines.
This is like years after, but is the "John Sinclair, ghost hunter" actually the very same Lord Sinclair of the druids?
It's almost another year later, but no, I don't think so. "Geisterjäger (ghost hunter) John Sinclair" is an actual series of German pulp novels.
I'm so surprised at how in tune shammy is with the game
He achieved the perfect balance of insanity and drunkenness to place him in the developer's mindset.
@@KaiserAfini I shall call this state, “Halligan syndrome”
It’s so funny how different the characters look in the animations. They don’t look even remotely close to how they look normally.
5:20 Regarding that librarian, in workplace, the only people who can do shit like her are either close with the boss, or they're such a senior employee that they can get away with shit like this, or maybe the management just ignores problems when it comes to small complaints about her.
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according to google this translates to
"I'm not sure what to do. The"
I love it when Mandy starts quoting Total Recall.
Random Serj screaming *TABLE!* got me :D
"This is just like Rogue One" LOL. Underappreciated remark
Oh my gosh, I just got it the awesome mariachi music is a reference to what Shammy was listening to!~
Just watching this now, and I already don't know what I was doing with my life before. This is a gem
"They're committed now"
They should be...
Well played
This is very well made. Want moarr
Someone christened the third part of this series Saltdust Crusaders, so I decided to name all the other videos after JoJo parts:
1. Phantom Bone
2. Exposition Tendency (or Druid Tendency)
3. Saltdust Crusaders (not that this was mine)
4. Salt Is Unshakable/Mandalore Is Breakable/Halligan Is Deconstructable/JoAndlion
5. Golden Sickle
6. Stone Omen
7. Steal Book Run/Temporal Fall One
And since I already used JoJolion, I guess I'm out of JoJo parts. (Though I might lock in JoAndlion for part 4 and riff on Diamond Is Unbreakable for part 8...and maybe I can riff on a JoJo spinoff for part 9? Let me hit TV Tropes.)
You know what, sure.
8. Diamond Is Unslaepable/BretHallion
9. Druid Monk’s Questions
10. Under Execution, Under Daybreak? Druid Family Moon Viewing?
Steal book run killed me
1. Phantom Bones
2. Fishing Tendency
3. Saltdust Druids
4. Human is Edible/Melanion
5. Golden Sickle
6. Stone Bridges
7. Druid Staff Run
Spinoff(s):
Thus Spoke Arthur Blake
15:37 Is this really a question after all we seen Halligan do?
The review, a year in the making.
1:15: He probably just displays those books to impress women. The women who aren't distracted by the rest of the office, anyhow.
5:25: It's a kind of strange that serves a purpose, though. By emphasizing the security around Oxford Library, the game is hinting at the solution to a puzzle. It's not a _great_ hint, and it's a ridiculous solution, but they're _trying_ to foreshadow stuff dammit! (And arguably it worked-19:00 is mere minutes after they grabbed the book, and they figured out the solution in seconds...aside from assuming they needed to pick the lock.)
10:40: So, this old man eats in the library (how is that not against the rules?), and not at his office or home. Is Halligan harassing a hobo-professor desperate to prove his worth to academia before he dies?
15:35: Because his boss has an ounce of common sense. Guns are for officers who _don't_ get members of the royal family arrested, Halligan!
23:23: "ISBN not applied"?!? Practically _every_ physical book has an ISBN! Even most self-published books do! What the heck? Was making up a fake ISBN or looking up a real book on Celtic writing too difficult? (Maybe if they had done that they'd know the Celts used Ogham script and not runes...)
26:00: So Halligan, despite being the absolute worst, gets off with a light scolding, but the poor hobo-professor has to be formally cited? Is this preferential treatment for law enforcement or discriminatory treatment for the homeless?
31:55: "It's not like I'm doing this for you, dummy."
33:55: ...holy crap, it _is_ exactly like Rogue One. I mean, except that MotD's protagonist had a stronger emotional reaction to the old guy's death and it's more clear why he didn't leave with them.
35:30: So, Melanie accepts that the druids/droods are going to use their droud magic to take over the world, and (obviously) that Dr. Blake's house was set ablaze by a vaguely magical source, but time travel is where she draws the line? I mean, if you're gonna draw a line that's not a bad place to do it, but what gives her the impression she should do that?
the hobo-professor has trained his body to never leave that computer, in the library that apparently never closes and also doesn't need a library card to check out a book
Every time I see this puzzle I think about how lucky that old man is that Halligan chose to *only* fuck with his car alarm and frame him for theft instead of stuffing his jacket full of child pornography when he ran out to check on his car.
The game keeps topping itself every episode. This is incredible.
Wait why does Halligan say "Vacation" and not "Holiday" ? 2:48
I like the idea that in this world there is a scanner that detects if you take an unregistered library book, but putting a different book's sleeve on and checking out that book somehow deactivates it and allows you to steal priceless one-of-a-kind books.
Sounds like something a drood would say
I'm late, but that actually is how some security measures work. If they were using the bar stickers, you just wave those over the scanner to deactivate them, you don't need to open the book itself.
@@lich109 that does make sense thinking about it
"unfaithful with the girls at the golf club" my dude was into older women and cheating
I've never been this giggly before
These have been amazing, thank you
Get a load of these zoomers who don't know how to use a card catalog.
shammy always knows the solution... hmmmm
Drinks same alcohol as the game director
12:23 Is that guy on the top left just sitting on the edge?
Notice how Halligan shit-talks larry for having books in his office saying he probably doesn't read them and only has them to appear smart to women?
But he has a book in his office about Crops and he cannot even pronounce title right?
Fucking hell, what´s that dude in blue pants doing sitting on the railing on the second story of the library lobby at 22:53
He's a drood
Oh my god It's a fucking String Theory elitist, he IS Halligan from the future
"Hey, we just survived a droon strike, let's talk about your divorce!" ...WTF is this game?..
Is the playlist for these videos also broken for anyone else? I open it and it’s just a blank page of nothing, their other playlist opens up just fine.
I’ve updated the RUclips app and I’m still having the same problem.
Whoa, Brent got Almost-Friendzoned!
I kinda wish Mandalore would play Shadows of Destiny, actually.
Will part 8 be out soon?
Been busy with college graduation and rebuilding a decent routine that doesn't involve me sitting on my ass lol It will be on its way.
that brad leone cameo
People are bringing up clips and edits I don't remember doing 2020 made me stupid lol
The computer uses the best date system of year month day
And ruin NEARLY as impressive as that Gates place would have modern scaffolding for tourists to get close on.
China... China doesn't have an emperor
The chinese emperor? Bitch they've not used that title for years.
There is no fucking way the devs didn't know how funny this was, this is just, too many hijinx to be an accident, this is ridiculous it's almost mocking adventure game logic, but is it tho'? that's the genius of it, we don't fuckin' know.
I think they really just thought in reverse. Like they designed the puzzles first and thought about how to justify it in a modern world, and the answer wound up being "make the protagonist a huge piece of shit" every time. Cause there's no winks or any hint that the game is self-aware, and based on Moment of Silence, I don't think House of Tales is the kind of company to do parody.
Drune strike
Druids
great vod bad edits :(
Okay, dont watch
Are u have stupid?