i watched "four byte burger" and was like "damn this is cool" so i am checking out ahoy's other videos and i am unfortunately currently in "nuclear fruit: how the cold war shaped video" which is exceedingly wrong and dull. the few solid observations -- early games focused intensely and intently on a sci-fi / space fighting obsession resultant from cold-war space-age stuff, flight-sims, milsims, grand strategy, and post-apocalypse games all come from the shadow of the cold war -- and then he just referred to tetris' export to "the west" while showing NES Tetris (??), cast 1P vs 2P game dynamics as being an us-vs-them mentality derivable from the US vs the USSR (???), or overall just muddies a 101 course of world history from an English perspective with unfalsifiable claims, rollicking platitudes, and empty appeals to "human nature." this is what video essay brain does to a person! just make a video about a thing -- a review, a process video -- and let whatever else is there -- your trauma, your politics, your gay-ass gender or whatever -- bloom from and ONLY from working with the materials of a thing. this is just nothing. sucks, man.
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in reply to @lys's post:
a) awww ty!
b) the whole thing reminds me of this quote from Robertson Davies' Leaven of Malice:
"It was on May 2nd 1816 that Charles Heavysege first saw the light of day in Liverpool. When I write my introduction to his Collected Works, I shall embellish that fact by pointing out that the shadow of the Corsican Ogre had but lately faded from the chancelleries of Europe, that the industrial revolution was in full flower in England, that Byron had been accused of incest by his wife, that Russia's millions still groaned under the knout, and in Portland, Main, the nine-year old Longfellow had not, so far, written a line. I'll make it appear that Heavysege hopped right into the middle of an interesting time, which is a lie, but absolutely vital to any scholarly biography."