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I'm really proud of this video y'all. There's some weird stuff in here but I think it turned out well. Hope ya think so too. 

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Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Extract ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger. The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Podcast- Something Rotten: -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0fI2yUm3vCr4GlzcWBeH0TC3HmLIpMTC -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=JPcIbndZS--OwbEyUk-12Q Script Consultation and Additional Voices by Laura Crone: https://www.youtube.com/c/lauracrone Script Consultation by Blake Hester: https://twitter.com/metallicaisrad Cinematography by Caroline Amico Yes, A Games Writer Was Fired Over Review Scores: https://kotaku.com/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-review-scores-5893785 Jeff Gerstmann’s Kane and Lynch Review: https://youtu.be/5FuJ81sDR2o Rockstar Spouse’s Letter: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/20100107/86315/Wives_of_Rockstar_San_Diego_employees_have_collected_themselves.php Experience at Rockstar Vancouver: https://www.engadget.com/2010-01-14-source-max-payne-3-development-allegedly-also-suffering-from-mi.html Theater of Cruelty: -The Theater and Its Double, 1958, Antonin Artaud -Theater History Podcast #9: https://howlround.com/theatre-history-podcast-9 -The Spurt of Blood: http://spurtofblood.com/ -Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty: Crash Course Theater #43: https://youtu.be/DK_vZuLYHcw Visual Media Used: Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption 2 Music Used (Chronologically): DLC Arena War Track One (GTAO), Captain Toad Goes Forth (Super Mario 3D World), FUTURE, One Card Left to Play (Max Payne 3), The Doomed Commercial Area (Disco Elysium), Max Payne 3 Theme (Max Payne 3), Sweatshop (Kane and Lynch 2), 12PM Whirling-in-Rags, Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy (Disco Elysium), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Escape (Kane and Lynch 2), Main Menu Variation 3 (Max Payne 3) Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder

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Anonymous

Good stuff as always. The meta-layers of filmed while being filmed was a nice touch. Theater of Cruelty makes me think about Martin McDonagh plays (he's done movies as well but I'm not as familiar with those) -- things like 'A Behanding in Spokane' and 'The Pillowman' which are barrages of rapidfire language, accusations and brutality on a surreal sense. (The plot of a Behanding is that a pair of people try to sell a hand to a guy who's missing a hand, more or less). I also couldn't stop thinking about the ugliness of shooter games vs the ugliness of horror games and where they cross over and where they don't. You always leave me thinking too much, lol :b

Anonymous

Very nice. I don't know if it's too late to adress, but you have one frame of misplaced text ("What is most important, it seems to me...") at 20:52.

Anonymous

Newish here but this is a really wonderful video that as always manages to take a bunch of JUST out of reach concepts and string them together in an accessible and relatable way. A smaller part i like that's touched on although not the point is the part about Brazil (where im from particularly) being used as set dressing more than anything because I have heard so much about the gameplay but never once that it took place there. Might be a smarter way to say this but it made me think of how "exotic" chaotic places are used to supplement or contrast the characters own inner chaos or peace especially in rough and tumble shooters but are never anything more than that. it's something that did not particularly click with me until I was watching and at the risk of having rambled enough I appreciate it

Rory Sparshott

Your videos make me want a cigarette and a gallon of scotch after watching them, and I don't even smoke