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Jacob Geller

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Producing content on YouTube until I am finally free. he/him. Pre-order my book!

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Joined November 2009

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Jacob Geller

2 months

I’M MAKING A BOOK!!! “How a Game Lives” is an annotated anthology of my favorite essays I’ve written– Fear of Cold, Who’s Afraid of Modern Art, and many more. Accompanying them will be NEW writing and NEW art, all wrapped in a truly gorgeous package. Link and more info below:

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Saw this picture the other day, and have been reflecting on how I know less than nothing about lighting

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3 months

Love to get an ad for, as far as I can tell, the concept of a hamburger.

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1 year

I used to think this kinda thing was too on-the-nose, and then this went up at a local high school

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Chris Bischoff - Stasis : Bone Totem

1 year

Game designers and art directors... whats your stance on narrative graffiti?

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8 months

Doing this for literally 25 years is one of the best bits in the industry

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8 months

Studio Ghibli VP Junichi Nishioka says ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ will no longer be Hayao Miyazaki’s final movie. The director has already come back to the office with new ideas for another movie. (Source: @glasneronfilm )

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There could not be a more thematically perfect confluence of dates

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2 years

A cool thing that happened today is I received a notice from my health insurance that a free Covid test I took on April 3, 2021 has now revised its cost and I actually owe $170. Literally a year and a half after I took it.

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1 year

There's a whole category of media that's like, "parent-teen conflict!" where the teen is pretty much normal and the parent is like, almost unwatchably awful, and then it's like "both sides need to learn to understand the other!"

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2 years

This morning I found out there's a SIX HOUR documentary on the making of Princess Mononoke and I'm watching it now and my heart is pounding like I'm watching an action movie

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1 year

Had this interaction in my comments section a while ago and I can't stop thinking about it

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2 years

I'm sorry I can't find the source for this but w o w

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Jacob Geller

11 months

"We are living through the end of the useful internet"

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The Last Page Of The Internet

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3 months

can't wait to watch this weird freak pull his head off and then presumably beat me with it

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2 years

Unbelievable moment in the new Call of Duty campaign, where, stalking through a trailer park, the game tells you to de-escalate a situation, and "de-escalating" means pointing your gun directly at civilians

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1 year

I know this is an oversimplification but I would give up raytracing in the blink of an eye for more stuff like this. How much have we sacrificed for marginally shinier surfaces

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1 year

NOPE FUCK THAT THIS PHYSICS ENGINE IS BLACK MAGIC. #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch

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1 year

This is so goddamn funny

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Reddit user ibreakphotos discovers that Samsung's 'Space Zoom' simply replaces user's moon photos with higher-res images of the moon through a clever testing process. This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.

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3 months

this is the end result of a "the curtains were fucking blue" approach to writing. Why even do it at all if you're this uninterested in your own art?

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3 months

as an architecture critic, this, from the Verge AI writing piece, makes me so sad :(

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Jacob Geller

1 year

Start of a SummoningSalt video: he played quickly, killed all the enemies and finished the game in 2 hours 12 minutes. Me: Seems about as fast as anyone could do it. End of video: he missed coconut skip and only managed to complete the game in 45 seconds. Me: what a buffoon

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1 year

Just nearly crashed my car because I turned on NPR and they were playing Aquatic Ambiance from Donkey Kong Country as just some random segment music

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11 months

Thought I would never get to witness a crowd of women go absolutely feral the way they do in Elvis when he first shakes his hips. Then last night I went to a Boygenius show

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Elden Ring boldly introduces a new brand of boss fight, "oh god why are you pulling a sword out of there"

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Jacob Geller

9 months

Was cleaning out my childhood bedroom and found this... sketch? blueprint? of when I built the Shadow of the Colossus bridge in Minecraft

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1 year

Got another one of these on the way

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4 years

I like watching Jacob Geller videos but sometimes he says something along the lines of “this is the most important game of the decade” and it looks something like this.

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Got a lot of problems with gun ownership in America, but I do think it should be legal to fire an assault weapon at a swarm of drones advertising candy crush

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Jacob Geller

3 years

We're in a weird mode right now where every remaster boasts lighting improvements that look worse than the original game

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2 years

*sitting backwards on chair*

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2 months

Saw the Furiosa trailer last night at Dune and my partner said "what if they bring Fury Road back to theaters" and I literally gasped

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4 months

It is my absolute pleasure to report that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the funniest games ever made. I love it so much.

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2 months

A few weeks ago I picked up Annie from a small surgical procedure and got recognized in the post-op room. Today, I got the funniest possible email.

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This is why I still read youtube comments

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1 month

also mad respect to From for thinking of basically the single most fucked up image they could put in a basement and then doing it

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1 month

Returning to Elden Ring for basically the first time since release and it turns out the Siofra River is still one of the best places ever put in a game

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Jacob Geller

2 years

The Head Transplant video was just age restricted by YouTube which basically means algorithm death. To put it bluntly, this fucking blows. It's obviously a video that discusses upsetting things, but I took pains to avoid any graphic images or gratuitous detail.

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Jacob Geller

2 years

My most recent video, Fear of Big Things Underwater, has been age-gated and deemed inappropriate for advertisers. I don't even know what to say about this one. There is no violence, uncensored language, suggestive content...it's a video about giant squids. Why did this happen?

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Jacob Geller

3 years

Wearing "business casual" for the first time in 14 months

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30 days

Feel like I should start a running list of every game with a Bruegel-esque Tower of Babel design

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1 month

Easter egg hunts are limited to children only because of a lack of imagination

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Jacob Geller

9 months

The year is 2053, my kids sadly exchange a look as I tell them there was a game where Tom and Jerry could fight LeBron James

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9 months

It's still wild that WB's platform fighter MultiVersus is just GONE. It just doesn't exist anymore.

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5 months

God is real and he directed two Happy Feet movies

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5 months

The first trailer for George Miller’s ‘FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA’ has been released. In theaters on May 24.

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3 months

AHHHHHHHHH

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Jacob Geller

10 months

Every creative decision in this video makes every other YouTuber, food-related and otherwise, look like an absolute coward

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This is the most unreal review of a Popeye's chicken sandwich I have ever seen. How does this not have 1 million views

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Virtually every Platinum game is just "fighting with this character feels better than anything you've ever controlled, now here's some dumb bullshit you'll do instead of fighting"

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Jacob Geller

4 years

Thinking, as I often do, about Lee Pace in The Fall

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1 year

Some would say, what's even the fucking point???? What are we doing here??

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GameSpot

1 year

Joel and Ellie's 'Killing Time' scene in #TheLastOfUsHBO is a perfect example of how every detail was meticulously matched from cutscene to screen.

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5 months

Can't overstate the damage being done to actual measures of antisemitism by the lunacy of categorizing anything pro-Palestine as automatically antisemitic. Basically poisoning the well of data for years to come.

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No stronger evidence of antisemitism at Harvard than...many Jews joining pro-Palestine demonstrations? Stay tuned for more in-depth reporting from The New York Times' Ivy League anti-Zionism = antisemitism bureau.

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Jacob Geller

10 months

Hard to quantify but man, every day just feels like games marketing and PR has triumphed while any meaningful space for criticism is stomped out. The level of antagonism normal-ass gamers have towards thoughtful critique is off the fucking charts.

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1 year

I will never forgive Nintendo for where they've now made my brain think the back button is

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6 months

Games that Don't Fake the Teeth

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apparently one of cities skylines 2's many performance issues is that it uses high poly models for each of the thousands of people walking around your city. including their individual teeth

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2 months

The interesting thing about sports betting is all the people who have done ads for them actually go straight to hell when they die

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2 years

I played Elden Ring on my mid-tier PC and it looked great, but I'm watching Vaati's new vid and I feel like we're playing almost different games holy cow does that game look good

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1 year

I'm going to think about this edit for weeks

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1 year

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2022 a video countdown

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1 year

The absolutely radical notion of basing your claims on historical evidence

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2 years

we're making art, baby

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11 months

Very happy to announce that numbers don't matter anymore in the best possible way

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1 month

huge month for video essays filmed partially in nature and partially in cities featuring echoes of the creators past work, made by 29-year-old white boys named Jacob who love max payne 3

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Returning to Red Dead Redemption 2

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3 years

delivery of the year

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8 months

Can't wait for y'all to understand the relevance of this location in 4-5 months

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I have chickens and sometimes if they've laid a lot of eggs I use an apron with a bunch of pockets to carry them and it makes me feel like a survival horror character with a wildly mismanaged inventory

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1 year

When I keep messing with the cat after he's already worked up and then he decides he's had enough of me

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6 years

Sakurai: Smash bros is a series about having fun with your favorite characters Sakurai: Here's a cutscene where the splatoon children can't outrun death

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Jacob Geller

2 years

No tweet has worked its way into my brain more than this one. I think about the devil's nap almost every day

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i love to take ‘the devil’s nap’ (5pm-8pm)

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2 years

Sorry I really want to be excited for Gotham Knights but every time they show it they say some shit like "gear with mod slots is better because mod chips power up gameplay properties"

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Jacob Geller

11 months

Henry Ford on Twitter: Thoughtful Germans hold that it is impossible for a Jew to be a patriot. But the Germans will doubtless prove themselves equal to the situation by devising methods of control at once unobjectionable and effective. Elon in replies: !! Very interesting

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Returning to Elden Ring for basically the first time since release and it turns out the Siofra River is still one of the best places ever put in a game

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2 years

Men in video games love to slide down a hill and say shit like "no no no no no!"

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1 year

The new twitter thing where it shows you a promoted tweet right at the top of the feed is really aiding my mission to block Every Single Brand on this site

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Jacob Geller

11 months

FFXVI’s item economy is so funny. I kill a monster the size of Ohio, it drops a gem that forges a sword exactly 10 damage more than the one I currently hold. I have 100,000 gold, which I can either spend on a potion (cost: 200) or an album for the jukebox (cost: 40k)

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2 years

RRR, the best movie of 2022, is now on Netflix and I'm showing you this 17 seconds with the promise that the remaining 3 hours and 5 minutes are just as good

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Jacob Geller

2 months

Went to look at Hiroyuki Sanada's IMDb and got immediately flashbanged by how insanely hot his headshot is

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2 years

Looking at health insurance plans this morning! I have to say, Simply Dying Instead is really making a strong case for itself.

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1 year

Spending christmas eve the way jesus himself intended- full of chinese food and playing yakuza: like a dragon

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Jacob Geller

11 months

I will always be upset that The Last Guardian, one of the most staggeringly beautiful games ever made, is accompanied by the worst UI pop-ups I've ever seen.

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1 year

Every day we invent a new robot that could potentially do the labor a human used to do, and every day this results in crueler institutions and more desperate workers. Everyone knows this, it's an obvious observation. But I just cannot fathom a system more fucked than this.

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1 year

Check out this picture of Saturn I took with space zoom

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11 months

Thank you to everyone who came out to my talk at the Durham Public Library! I am so grateful and overwhelmed

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I thought that last point was strange but this is what they said: Nintendo allowed them to put their hands in an opaque box so they could understand its dimensions and design without compromising the secrecy of the system. Should still be taken as a rumor of course. Can't…

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1 year

Resident Evil 4: just like riding a bikAAUGHUSDFAWSDFAAA

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@PhillyInquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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A rare 14-karat gold Bionicle Golden Kanohi Hau Mask Lego piece was found at a Pennsylvania Goodwill warehouse. The piece is up for auction.

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Jacob Geller

1 year

I have been playing TotK without fast traveling and it has been very fun except I wandered the depths for literally like 4 hours and I have absolutely no idea how to return to the tutorial sky island lmao

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Jacob Geller

5 months

I really don't want to engage in any kind of ongoing Discourse about this, but the channel "The Great Review" has a YouTube video on the quest for the last secret in Shadow of the Colossus that cites neither my video nor Craig Owens' Eurogamer article about it.

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1 year

This is not just a "why unions are good" zine, it's step by step instructions on how to talk to coworkers, how to negotiate with bosses, why you would want any of it, AND it looks good as hell.

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The Rise of the Video Game Union is our 54-page explainer on video game unionization. We answer literally every question you have. Plus, it’s free to print and share as a zine!

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2 months

There's a pithy definition of neoliberalism that goes "I hate the problems but love the causes"

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PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸

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A picture showing aid drops and Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian areas in northern Gaza at the same time.

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2 years

[SMALL MATRIX SPOILERS] Here's the scene. This is the one I keep thinking about. This is the reason the movie was worth making.

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10 months

Accidentally rolled my Katamari into the water and got the single scariest video game scene I've ever witnessed

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7 months

keep in mind

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9 months

So as somewhat of an "influencer," I have some additional insight on this phenomenon! If you accept a sponsorship from an oil company you do actually go directly to hell when you die.

@DeSmog

DeSmog

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“More than 100 influencers have used their platforms to promote fossil fuel companies since 2017, reaching billions of people around the globe, according to new research by DeSmog”. 📝 Via @washingtonpost

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3 months

Predicting that in the near future, internet video creators are going to start performing bizarre superstitious "captchas" within their videos in an attempt to prove they're not AI. Same as saying "unalive"- trying to adapt to the rules of an incomprehensible system.

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1 year

Spider-Verse once again making me retroactively mad at almost every other animated movie I've ever seen

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1 year

I am currently watching Mitchells vs the Machines which seems to exclusively function on this plot point. It's also the reason I stopped watching Stranger Things, when I realized the show *didn't* actually want us to fucking despise Hopper.

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2 months

Rewatching Killers of the Flower Moon and the seconds-long inclusion of the Tulsa Massacre is so poignant. Different victims, same demon, same motivation. Remarkably incisive movie.

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Jacob Geller

1 year

Pour one out for EA delisting the best-looking game they've ever made

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Jacob Geller

5 years

More than a decade later, Mirror’s Edge still looks about as good as any modern title. But the game’s gleaming skylines are reminiscent of another white city, built and incinerated a century ago. So let's dig into how effective this aesthetic really is:

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Jacob Geller

2 months

Not sure exactly when it happened, but Fear of Cold surpassed my Colossus video to become the most viewed on my channel! I love both, but when the Colossus one took off I assumed I would never make anything that was viewed as many times- nice to be proven wrong.

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1 year

Absolutely wild (and cool!) to see "Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk" used as an example in a Sakurai Explains video

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Jacob Geller

1 year

Lots of people have pointed out the Tears of the Kingdom/Princess Mononoke connection, but the entire game feels like one giant tribute to Castle in the Sky

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1 year

Can't believe they were able to narrow it down to just 6 of Gollum's most iconic gestures and sayings

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1 year

Predorder The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™️ to receive the Emotes Pack DLC, which includes 6 of his most iconic gestures and sayings

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Showed my dad RRR last night and he’s now completely, rightfully obsessed with Naatu Naatu

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Jacob Geller

2 years

Really impressive that @YouTubeCreators was able to review a 40 minute video less than five minutes after an appeal was submitted. Very cool!!

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Jacob Geller

3 years

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"

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