Me : expected a simple game of Civ Potato: IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO LOOK INWARD AND START ASKING YOURSELF THE BIG QUESTIONS: WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?
@Aaron Sirkman Whether I agree or disagree with Potato's opinions is irrelevant to me. I started watching his videos because he understands Civ 6 well and is able to explain complex issues relating to the game clearly. While he is blathering on about something completely unrelated to Civ 6 I am not learning anything that will help me play the game better, so I now have a 5 minute blathering-tolerance limit. If Potato doesn't get back to talking about the game within this time limit, I stop watching the series and wait for the next one to start.
@@davidsinclair1288 it's gameplay not tutorial, he never promised to tech you, heck he has many "overexplained" which are guides/tips... this is gameplay my dude wrong place
bro just explained the entire fabric of the world in 5 minutes. civ 6 god and occasional therapist with that ted talk feel. thank you for everything you do
Discussing things like these are so important. And also to come in to said discussion with empathy and an open mind. Anger, insults and not being willing to hear where the person you disagree with is coming from will lead nowhere. People that are hurt and lost will always seek help and answers somewhere, and some just end up in hateful cest-pools of ”alpha males” that gives easy answers to hard problems. Thank you and great content as always ✨
Love and hate have become ever increasingly intertwined in today's society. People with closed minded ideas think that their way is right, and people would be better off following suit. (Love/hate) People who insist that their mind is open usually want to make the close minded person open up to their ideas for the betterment of society. (Love/Hate) Each is trying to help the other, each is despised by the other. We are also absolutely drunk on certainty. We constantly search for truth and try to be in the rat race of certainty. When in reality, nothing is certain. The consequences of learning too much is coming to the realization that you know nothing.
'got real there for a bit, aaaaaanyways so I'm gonna take free inquiry' - making it normal to talk about like that helps a lot too, for almost any age person
Potato has two modes strategy games and spiting world facts that you didn't know you needed you hear. I am so glad to have stuck around for things like this. I've long since stopped playing a lot of the games he frequents but I just enjoy listening to the way he thinks about things. Thanks for everything man.
As a great engineer fanatic, I felt like there was a lost opportunity of buying Imhotep for 2000g - it could have built the mausoleum, the petra and the colossus, tons of era score and free your cities from hard building wonders. Great video though, thanks for all that you do
@@jman2050 nope, 3 wonders' production is 350*3 = 1050 at least, with the potential 15% increase from policy card. Tell me how units and builders give you 1050 production.
I find it absolutely commendable that when you realize that a sizable portion of your viewers might be falling prey to scammers, that you call that out. It might hurt you viewershipwise, but you still do it in order to maybe have some people think twice about the snake oil salesmen they spend their money on.
Potato-- Thanks for saying what so many are thinking. Most-to-all of us don't have a platform to speak about this on, and it's so encouraging to hear someone of your stature call it out. Be whatever man or woman you want to be, but be kind, empathetic, and understanding. Love everything you're doing, keep up the astounding work, and know that we love you and appreciate you.
Potato speaking true facts. True mentors help you do things for yourself to make you better. False mentors help you be more dependant on them to get more out of you. True leaders will lead by example from the front. Poor leaders point their fingers and raise their voices.
Loved the "TED Talk", Potato! My rant: I'm 34, went through a phase of thinking the PUA community was worth listening to, saw exactly what you said about the nugget of truth buried in their bullshit. Spent 4 years in the US Marine Corps too, was drawn to that branch specifically because of the macho culture bs. Yeah, the easy answers are attractive, and most of us get drawn to them at least for a little while, but I feel that, at least in the US (don't have experience with the rest of the world) we're basically trained for that growing up. Our whole school system is based on us being given answers or finding the answers that have already been established. Sure you can get some more critical thought in high school (grades 9-12 in the US) but that's mostly 11-12th and patterns have already been set. We're basically taught to think within a set framework and expect answers to be readily available, even if we have to work a bit for them, and then we get out into adulthood and find that everything is a complicated mess. It's no wonder so many people retreat to easy answers and a bunker mentality - it's the safety of what we were raised with. Add in that there are many families that do not encourage their children to think for themselves and the problem gets worse. I think it's part of why Gen Z is so engaged in ways prior generations were not at their age. They've had social media to show them the chaos and get exposure to the reality that many questions have no easy answers. They've been going into things prepared for the challenge in a way those of us before them didn't get. I just wish it didn't involve so much devastation for them to deal with, and I hope we can make things less painful for the generations to follow without losing that benefit.
People want there to be some kind of checklist or score that if you get a certain number of ticks or points on you are affirmed as a man or woman or adult or whatever it is desirable to be. Life would be easy if we all had experience levels and hitting that max lvl meant you won the game. Thankfully, such a thing does exist, a little thing called building a 6 desert hills Petra. Fellas, it is what the ladies like, that big fat Petra, and ladies, men will notice your big Petra energy too. Truly we are blessed to live in such times where anybody can, with the right attitude, get themselves a huge Petra.
don't be deceived by videos - they're super misleading and unrealistic! ladies do indeed prefer a modestly sized Petra if you understand how to use it to maximise its effects to get you the victory
Very true, people who seek to influence others for profit rarely have anybody's interest in mind but their own. I've grown the most as an individual by building relationships with real-life role models and peers who truly care about me. Compassion is the key.
My favourite part of this entire episode is 14:08 and the next ten seconds. "Anyway we got a little bit real there, I'm gonna go ahead and take Free Inquiry." Let me tell you this gave me emotional whiplash. Was very absorbed in the philosophical rant, forgot I was watching Civ.
Not a lot of creators are going to stop playing to talk to their audience about things that usually get stuck outside the venn diagram overlap of people they're willing to listen to and people who are going to tell them the truth. If I ran a government I'd give you a grant for the public service value of your channel.
@@elisewilliams1575 I was talking about the point on the era turnover where you could see the mouse swerving around hesitantly until he accepted that he wasn't going to be able to focus on the game until he tied it off neatly.
Really appreciate all of your honesty Potato! I really believe that the macho masculinity model being peddled to young men, at least in the states, is encouraging boys to toward an emotionally unhealthy mindset that sees vulnerability exclusively as weakness, rather than the opportunity to deepen important relationships. I think it leads to much more lonely men, and a world that doesn't know how to help them.
@@Jealkim hilarious since me ex was a stripper, no problem getting p...y, usually from someone's gf....just pointing out how easy men get hurt by the 304s...
@brentbovee6411 and i’m the queen of england, interested in a trade agreement? it’s good you want to better YOURSELF, self growth is a positive thing and should be encouraged, but the whole “abandoned by wimin!1!!1!1” thing reeks of incel bitterness, just being honest
Thanks Potato for that TED talk! I highly recommend the couple of most recent videos @Shaun has put out - he goes deeper into the topic and has some useful advice for young people who are asking questions about these issues.
It's the same thing with online supplements! Anyone selling a supplement or medicine online, that is unavailable anywhere else, and is sold for an outrageous price is 1000% a scam.
They usually have a "Dr" upsell them, but if it was a real medicine that worked it would have gone through the proper testing procedures to become available as a prescription!
Didn't expect sound advice on a civ video, I had my awakening in being a decent person through leafyishere and realizing that making fun of people for their self expression is not at all funny or cool. Instead, I'd say I believe being yourself is the coolest and most interesting thing a person can be.
I clipped your “realness” to share with people who I know would appreciate and need to hear it - thanks as always for teaching me some CIV and sharing your thoughts on the world ❤
you think you could make that available somewhere? It would be nice to have something simple to point people to when I'm being lazy. Or maybe that's something potato&crew would have to do due to copyright.
just wanted to drop the good old apprecation-comment for todays video. Always great to see when the content AND the topic of the general talk in the video is on point
In the words of Frank Sinatra: 'For what is a man? What has he got? If not for himself? Then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels'
I'm so glad that you, with your massive platform and audience, were able to address the problem of people praying on otheres' insecurities and confusion for profit. most victims of that stuff live in an echo chamber filled only with people validating them to get more money, which is sometimes quite sad to see. thanks potato!
I have just started watching your videos recently. I am such a big fan. You not only keep me engaged for 45 minutes straight, but also help me articulate my ideas better. Keep it up man!
I've got to say I initially came to the channel as I loved how fast you talk, and I really enjoy how you not only play Civ but you also teach it to the people that watch you. And you manage to do it in a way that doesn't feel demeaning to people that already have a grasp of the game. But I have to say hands down that the introspective talks that you go on are such a healthy thing for me and I assume many others to be listening to. Even though I am not actually speaking with you it feels as though you are talking with me, instead of talking to me if that makes any sense. Sincerely, thank you Potato.
Haven't a faintest clue what you did all game, but goddamn I have found a new profound love for you as a person, as a content creator and how you just adressed my feelings like I did not expect it be touched by another man. =/ To be clear: Thanks for touching my feelings, however unexpected. I guess I needed that.
As a guy who is writing an ethnographic study into cultural suicide in South Korea, i am from Denmark. I think I have a bit of a leg to stand on when it comes to the funny discussion about masculinity. Masculinity and femininity are derived from culture. As the old Creeks used to say about the Arabs "they are so feminine, because they wear pants". 2000 years ago it was a feminine trait to wear pants. These ideas are not harmless. The rate of men who committ suicide because they feel like they are not lifting the burden of being man, as in "being a provider" is horrifying. This can be said about women in China, they have a high rate of young women who committ suicide because they feel like they have failed as women, because they were still single. I agree with you potato, if those pick up artists wants money then it is a god daumn scam. I was lucky and I found my wife on the internet on an international chat site. I went to study in Beijing, she came to meet me, traveled the 1000km to do so, and when I had issues with the hospitals, she called in sick to help me. Then I knew that her heart is just as big as my heart. Then I went back to China as an exchange student and we tried living together, and most things went well. My philosophy is, love is not enough for a relationship. You might be compatible at 99% of the things but that 1% can mess it up. If that 1% is, I don't want childrens ever, then those 99% might not matter at all.
Such a cool message you share !! Didn't expect that from a Civ video, props for getting there and expressing these important views about being oneself, lots of love
As a newer content creator, I strive to be like you. You are so genuine and real. And you share a wealth of information, whether it be in game or for life while still being relatable. As a person in their mid 20s you are absolutely the type of person I want to surround myself with and the energy I want to put into the world ❤
I'm a trans woman and not a man but it's great to see male creators who are comfortable talking about emotions and feelings and pushing back against the manosphere bullshit. Anyway I really enjoy your content and I think I understand the game a lot better after watching a lot of it. I mostly play casually at around emperor difficulty and am in no rush to try out deity but that increased understanding of game mechanics definitely helped with my enjoyment of the game.
Funny thing Potato. My conclusion about being a man is that I'm not. That's how I knew I'm trans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I knew this very early but I got bullied to be more manly by my classmates. Since age 21 Im more open about myself and now transitioning :) Love the series, God save the Queen !
The problem with the manosphere is that it sells easy solutions and explanations to inherently difficult and complicated problems and takes away individual responsibility by shifting blame to the other party. It makes you feel better short term because it's comforting to think it's not an issue with your mindset, but it's absolutely hurting in the long term.
damn is so good having a influencial gamer saying things like being a man and being silly, wear makeup, the gaming fanbase is usually very nasty with those red pill shenanigans and free hate against woman that you are basically the only content creator of videogames that I stick with, I wish more people could be like that, you don't tell your point of view on every video, but only when it seems needed, not as a form of imposition, only a reasonable and very good advise of being yourself, and aware that if you pay someone, it cares more with your money than in you, so it will work your dependence on its product. I digress, but thanks for being an awesome videogame youtube guy, my irish part and also my non irish parts salute you
Finally, a youtuber with the courage to stand up and agree with the same trite platitudes all the big, evil corporations and hedge funds spout. Please discuss how men are evil in the comments below and ignore the next scam war or plague.
@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS dude are you fine? Maybe there is a gas leaking around, or maybe you just are on ur recreational stuff and made the silly decision of commenting online while is high
They told me to watch this potato guy on CZcams if I wanted to learn how to play Civ6. They didn’t tell me I’d also learn how to be a better person. I mean, I just wanted to know how yields and stuff worked. Seems silly now.
Thank you so much for your great content Potato! Have been watching your vids for a few years but not because I'm the biggest civ player. Instead it's your mix of awesome civ gameplay and tips combined with sometimes hilariously funny (Mein Haaandy 😂😂) and sometimes dead serious discussions about life (like in this video) that got me totally hooked on your content. Keep up the awesome work!
Ya interesting take and mostly agree. The breakdown of those traditional male/female is definitely happening! And in some ways its good, in other ways bad.. it seems to cause kids/young adults more confusion/anxiety as they're trying to figure out who they are. There science backing up that the more options we have the more anxiety we'll have. Like if you go to a restaurant and could have literally any drink possible how do even begin to decide what to have. It can be mentally/emotionally easier to have less options. So when you have a society that says do whatever you want, it can be limiting to some/many people in really figuring out who they are and where & how they fit society. . So i do think theres benefits to maintaining some general gender roles, but its not like we need to care if someone doesnt align with it
Eons of evolution (substitute creation or intelligent design if you prefer) mostly dictate what it means to be a man or a woman. People like to think they are masters of their own destinies, but genetics doesn't care about your feelings. Societies over the centuries have modified roles back and forth and there's always exceptions, but male and female biologies are different for a reason and accepting one's role tends to be the most fulfilling for most people.
@@jarink1 there's a lot to unpack here, but perhaps the foremost is how you go out of your way to anthromorphize evolution and genetics to glorify a strict binary ... when humans display significantly _less_ sexual dimorphism in comparison to not only our evolutionary relatives, but many animals w/ distinct sexes as a whole. and the dimorphism we _do_ display is largely non-genetic! you don't even have to get into external hormone therapy to see this; moobs are such a common phenomenon that we _have a word like moobs in our vulgate,_ and the genetic pool in places like the mediterranean and india say it's not at all out of the ordinary for women to grow mustaches like. yeah. genetics doesn't care about your feelings. so it could not give less of a shit whether or not you comply to the social phenomenon we've created with our own hands. it doesn't give much of a shit about anything, really. it's the sorta thing that randomly decides it'd be funny to make a goat with two heads, then fucks off to go back to bed while all its mad science experiments go about doing whatever they want
(Wall of text warning.) I'm not a man and I've never been expected to be one or to become one, so I'm not sure what it means to be a man. However, I can speak to struggling to search and understand one's feelings. One helpful thing I learned when I was young was my feelings come from my thoughts. Occasionally those thoughts are big-brained and rational, but they're usually a half-formed, jump-to-conclusions kind of thought. I feel fear easily because it's easy for me to assume something will lead to harm somehow. "If this happens, something will go wrong." Uh, like what? "...Something!" Those thoughts reveal a general fear of the unknown, but I can talk it down easily with a "if you can't think of anything concrete, then there's nothing to worry about, actually." "If this happens, then x," x being a truly dreadful outcome. If I am able, I tend to share this with someone I trust: my parents, my boyfriend, a close friend. Typically, x is actually an unlikely outcome that my creative mind came up with, but sometimes I need another perspective to realize that. Wait, actually, I am going to speak to "what even is manhood?" by speaking to "what even is womanhood?" I have always loved stories with multiple female characters who are distinct from each other. I think that's why, for example, my high school friends successfully got me into My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. A woman or girl can be caring and motherly, or blunt and awkward with feelings. A woman/girl can love to dress pretty, love to dress cool, or not care how she dresses at all. A woman/girl can love to learn and read, be really into science, love fairy tales, struggle to learn, find fairy tales boring, be good at writing, or any combination thereof. They're all still women. It's fine to be different and it's also fine to be like other girls, because other girls aren't as shallow as scam artists want us to think. A woman can be anything she wants to. Likewise, a man can be anything he wants to. It's fine, actually.
I love that you spent some of this video speaking to your audience on the toxic red pill community. I would venture to guess your demographics are exactly the type that needs to hear this.
There are plenty of scammers and bad ideas out there, but the idea that a person MUST be a scammer because they are being paid for ("selling") teaching... is fundamentally false, not true. Sure, most (including virtually every hired teacher and professor, such as in schools and colleges) are scammers, but the idea that "if a person is being paid for their profession then they MUST be a scammer," is obviously false. Potato, as awesome as he is, only can "give away his time/teaching for free" if his financial needs are somehow met another way, and not all people have that luxury. I teach for free, including about beliefs, because I am financially independent from my own business. However, before I was so wealthy, I sometimes had to charge. I still teach the same things. My ideas cannot be both true and false at the same time. If Potato added paid coaching for Civ 6 by the hour, his information would probably (definitely, basically) still be very helpful and not a scam. Same would go for if he made a paid course for excelling in Civ 6. A hypothetical paid course by Potato could easily include various beliefs, such as that you can learn to win on Deity if you have the right attitude and practice, and those beliefs would, once again, not be necessarily false or a scam.
He didn't say they MUST be scammers. He said the incentives are not aligned in your favor when you're paying someone to tell you how to better yourself, and so you need to be extremely careful.
Listen, I have to blame you... After I saw that one live stream where you brought up looking similar to Pedro Pascal....NOW ALL I SEE IS PEDRO PASCAL!!! Everywhere, Pedro, Pedro, Pedro!!! Gah!! Hahaha. Have a good one my friend!! Keep punching these awesome vids out :)
There's a song from the 90s called "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen" it's one of the best songs for advice on earth. One of the sections goes "Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts And recycling it for more than it's worth" As far as the "how to be gender here" we really should have easy positive templates for people as not everyone is capable of determining those roles for themselves. Realistically, best is everyone figures out what their sexuality and identity is for themselves, how it relates to them, some people lack the maturity, introspection, confidence, and experience to determine it for themselves. For them there needs to be easy positive templates.
Damn Potato casually crushing it in Civ whilst giving incredibly good life advice and showing an open mind aswell as an actual interest for people to be themselfs. Really awesome man keep it up!
14:10 "Anyway, we got a little bit real there, so I'm gonna go ahead and take free inquiry..." Lmaoooo! Your wise words were appreciated kind potato whiskey man
The largest increase in life quality I've ever had was when I stopped worrying about what society thought I "as a man" should be and do. I started focusing on myself and how to get more out of life, lo and behold I discovered the same thing as our tato overlord talks about. If they want your money they dont want you to prosper on your own.
Lol love the side rant and couldn't agree more. People spend far too much time worrying what others think of them without understanding that the people who's opinions matter wont judge you for your personal choices. But may hopefully hold you to account for harmful choices. The best friends are the ones that love you for the person you are but tell you when you're being truly stupid.
I was really hoping for a canal to the east of Manchester and an Industrial Zone NE of that canal. Potato never builds canals and this would have been a decent opportunity especially since he didn't get the canal city he mentioned last episode.
Questions: 1) Are Civ6 done with updates and new "content"? 2) Are the game "fixed" now, after last free update? 3) Are the assets limitation still a issue, when using mods? I have all the DLC's/passes etc, and over 5K hours in this game, but hasn't played it since early last year, because it crashed all the time.
"traditional" roles are still only culturally based; and a lack of awareness for what is possible (cultivated ignorance) creates an incentive to stick to the dogma you know.
The reason gay men are often deeply valued friends has nothing to do with them being gay, it's because YOU know that they are gay. Think about what's important to you, what your emotions are and where they come from and stop caring about superficial opinions of others.
Me : expected a simple game of Civ
Potato: IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO LOOK INWARD AND START ASKING YOURSELF THE BIG QUESTIONS: WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Uncle Potato McIroh ?
Mako was a great man and said some of the best lines in childhood entertainment
From Conan the Barbarian to Iroh and who could forget The Samurai.
Bout when I tune out really, I watch vidya stuff to try and avoid this stuff.
@@RaiXun he's coming with sage advice though, well worth the listen :)
Kept talking about it a bit too much, almost clicked off
The transition from serious self-actualization talk to selecting golden age dedications was beautiful
i love potato bc i can watch civ and listen to a philosophical discussion at the same time
I'd prefer just the civ stuff but I like his accent so sometimes I gotta skip forward to when he gets back into the gameplay.
The political bits are irritating I have to skip them. This is for chill not for some dude to espouse his opinions.
@@Iwanttocomment1 Oh, so you disagree with his opinions on con artists and swindlers, then? What a shame.
@Aaron Sirkman Whether I agree or disagree with Potato's opinions is irrelevant to me. I started watching his videos because he understands Civ 6 well and is able to explain complex issues relating to the game clearly. While he is blathering on about something completely unrelated to Civ 6 I am not learning anything that will help me play the game better, so I now have a 5 minute blathering-tolerance limit. If Potato doesn't get back to talking about the game within this time limit, I stop watching the series and wait for the next one to start.
@@davidsinclair1288 it's gameplay not tutorial, he never promised to tech you, heck he has many "overexplained" which are guides/tips... this is gameplay my dude wrong place
bro just explained the entire fabric of the world in 5 minutes.
civ 6 god and occasional therapist with that ted talk feel.
thank you for everything you do
I thought the same!! XD
i was out of breath in the end
Discussing things like these are so important. And also to come in to said discussion with empathy and an open mind. Anger, insults and not being willing to hear where the person you disagree with is coming from will lead nowhere. People that are hurt and lost will always seek help and answers somewhere, and some just end up in hateful cest-pools of ”alpha males” that gives easy answers to hard problems. Thank you and great content as always ✨
Love and hate have become ever increasingly intertwined in today's society.
People with closed minded ideas think that their way is right, and people would be better off following suit. (Love/hate)
People who insist that their mind is open usually want to make the close minded person open up to their ideas for the betterment of society. (Love/Hate)
Each is trying to help the other, each is despised by the other.
We are also absolutely drunk on certainty.
We constantly search for truth and try to be in the rat race of certainty. When in reality, nothing is certain. The consequences of learning too much is coming to the realization that you know nothing.
@@CanRotaryLife m8 I'm watching a civ video plz don't make me have an existential crisis
'got real there for a bit, aaaaaanyways so I'm gonna take free inquiry' - making it normal to talk about like that helps a lot too, for almost any age person
@@EvenMoreCheese 2 for 1 is a great deal though
Just to be crystal clear: extremist academics also have an financial interest in propagating their lies.
Potato has two modes strategy games and spiting world facts that you didn't know you needed you hear. I am so glad to have stuck around for things like this. I've long since stopped playing a lot of the games he frequents but I just enjoy listening to the way he thinks about things. Thanks for everything man.
Five minutes of world philosophy then...
"...and anyway let's get Free Inquiry"
Also 31 and went down the rabbit hole in my early 20s. Thank you magical spud for sharing you’re experience with us. We love you.
91 unite
As a great engineer fanatic, I felt like there was a lost opportunity of buying Imhotep for 2000g - it could have built the mausoleum, the petra and the colossus, tons of era score and free your cities from hard building wonders.
Great video though, thanks for all that you do
Same. I was screaming internally for this.
Potato was too focused on his rant to catch stuff like that.
imo that 2000 gold was better spent on those units and builders anyway.
@@jman2050 nope, 3 wonders' production is 350*3 = 1050 at least, with the potential 15% increase from policy card. Tell me how units and builders give you 1050 production.
I find it absolutely commendable that when you realize that a sizable portion of your viewers might be falling prey to scammers, that you call that out. It might hurt you viewershipwise, but you still do it in order to maybe have some people think twice about the snake oil salesmen they spend their money on.
Potato-- Thanks for saying what so many are thinking. Most-to-all of us don't have a platform to speak about this on, and it's so encouraging to hear someone of your stature call it out. Be whatever man or woman you want to be, but be kind, empathetic, and understanding.
Love everything you're doing, keep up the astounding work, and know that we love you and appreciate you.
There's nothing more commonplace than regurgitating such platitudes. Waste of time, and just interruption to an interesting game.
Just don't get sad when society says you aren't one though.... It's a double-edged sword..
Potato speaking true facts.
True mentors help you do things for yourself to make you better.
False mentors help you be more dependant on them to get more out of you.
True leaders will lead by example from the front.
Poor leaders point their fingers and raise their voices.
Loved the "TED Talk", Potato!
My rant: I'm 34, went through a phase of thinking the PUA community was worth listening to, saw exactly what you said about the nugget of truth buried in their bullshit. Spent 4 years in the US Marine Corps too, was drawn to that branch specifically because of the macho culture bs. Yeah, the easy answers are attractive, and most of us get drawn to them at least for a little while, but I feel that, at least in the US (don't have experience with the rest of the world) we're basically trained for that growing up. Our whole school system is based on us being given answers or finding the answers that have already been established. Sure you can get some more critical thought in high school (grades 9-12 in the US) but that's mostly 11-12th and patterns have already been set. We're basically taught to think within a set framework and expect answers to be readily available, even if we have to work a bit for them, and then we get out into adulthood and find that everything is a complicated mess. It's no wonder so many people retreat to easy answers and a bunker mentality - it's the safety of what we were raised with. Add in that there are many families that do not encourage their children to think for themselves and the problem gets worse.
I think it's part of why Gen Z is so engaged in ways prior generations were not at their age. They've had social media to show them the chaos and get exposure to the reality that many questions have no easy answers. They've been going into things prepared for the challenge in a way those of us before them didn't get. I just wish it didn't involve so much devastation for them to deal with, and I hope we can make things less painful for the generations to follow without losing that benefit.
Gen Z you mean the brain-rotted tiktok addicts? Yeah they're getting exposed to something all right.
People want there to be some kind of checklist or score that if you get a certain number of ticks or points on you are affirmed as a man or woman or adult or whatever it is desirable to be. Life would be easy if we all had experience levels and hitting that max lvl meant you won the game. Thankfully, such a thing does exist, a little thing called building a 6 desert hills Petra. Fellas, it is what the ladies like, that big fat Petra, and ladies, men will notice your big Petra energy too. Truly we are blessed to live in such times where anybody can, with the right attitude, get themselves a huge Petra.
I've heard many women actually prefer a modestly sized Petra. Maybe just 3 hills or so.
don't be deceived by videos - they're super misleading and unrealistic! ladies do indeed prefer a modestly sized Petra if you understand how to use it to maximise its effects to get you the victory
Very true, people who seek to influence others for profit rarely have anybody's interest in mind but their own. I've grown the most as an individual by building relationships with real-life role models and peers who truly care about me. Compassion is the key.
My favourite part of this entire episode is 14:08 and the next ten seconds. "Anyway we got a little bit real there, I'm gonna go ahead and take Free Inquiry." Let me tell you this gave me emotional whiplash. Was very absorbed in the philosophical rant, forgot I was watching Civ.
Great points in this video and important for young men to hear it during their development. 👍
Not a lot of creators are going to stop playing to talk to their audience about things that usually get stuck outside the venn diagram overlap of people they're willing to listen to and people who are going to tell them the truth. If I ran a government I'd give you a grant for the public service value of your channel.
He didn’t even stop playing 😂 Strong ADHD vibes ngl
@@elisewilliams1575 I was talking about the point on the era turnover where you could see the mouse swerving around hesitantly until he accepted that he wasn't going to be able to focus on the game until he tied it off neatly.
Really appreciate all of your honesty Potato! I really believe that the macho masculinity model being peddled to young men, at least in the states, is encouraging boys to toward an emotionally unhealthy mindset that sees vulnerability exclusively as weakness, rather than the opportunity to deepen important relationships. I think it leads to much more lonely men, and a world that doesn't know how to help them.
Lots of lonely men, because they were abandoned by women, looking for better, over and over.....you want better, then make YOURSELF better....
@@brentbovee6411 Bye Bye Incel
@@Jealkim hilarious since me ex was a stripper, no problem getting p...y, usually from someone's gf....just pointing out how easy men get hurt by the 304s...
@brentbovee6411
and i’m the queen of england, interested in a trade agreement?
it’s good you want to better YOURSELF, self growth is a positive thing and should be encouraged, but the whole “abandoned by wimin!1!!1!1” thing reeks of incel bitterness, just being honest
Thanks Potato for that TED talk! I highly recommend the couple of most recent videos @Shaun has put out - he goes deeper into the topic and has some useful advice for young people who are asking questions about these issues.
It's the same thing with online supplements! Anyone selling a supplement or medicine online, that is unavailable anywhere else, and is sold for an outrageous price is 1000% a scam.
They usually have a "Dr" upsell them, but if it was a real medicine that worked it would have gone through the proper testing procedures to become available as a prescription!
I fucking love wearing makeup and being silly 💅. Thanks for the validation spuddy.
He plays Civ & talks about healthy masculinity?!? Potato is a gem for the community
Didn't expect sound advice on a civ video, I had my awakening in being a decent person through leafyishere and realizing that making fun of people for their self expression is not at all funny or cool. Instead, I'd say I believe being yourself is the coolest and most interesting thing a person can be.
Potato is unbelievably based.
Based on what? 😂
I clipped your “realness” to share with people who I know would appreciate and need to hear it - thanks as always for teaching me some CIV and sharing your thoughts on the world ❤
you think you could make that available somewhere? It would be nice to have something simple to point people to when I'm being lazy. Or maybe that's something potato&crew would have to do due to copyright.
just wanted to drop the good old apprecation-comment for todays video. Always great to see when the content AND the topic of the general talk in the video is on point
In the words of Frank Sinatra: 'For what is a man? What has he got? If not for himself? Then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels'
13:32 leaving this timestamp for myself. Thank you Potato. You're awesome ❤
I'm so glad that you, with your massive platform and audience, were able to address the problem of people praying on otheres' insecurities and confusion for profit. most victims of that stuff live in an echo chamber filled only with people validating them to get more money, which is sometimes quite sad to see. thanks potato!
I have just started watching your videos recently. I am such a big fan. You not only keep me engaged for 45 minutes straight, but also help me articulate my ideas better. Keep it up man!
I've got to say I initially came to the channel as I loved how fast you talk, and I really enjoy how you not only play Civ but you also teach it to the people that watch you. And you manage to do it in a way that doesn't feel demeaning to people that already have a grasp of the game. But I have to say hands down that the introspective talks that you go on are such a healthy thing for me and I assume many others to be listening to. Even though I am not actually speaking with you it feels as though you are talking with me, instead of talking to me if that makes any sense. Sincerely, thank you Potato.
Haven't a faintest clue what you did all game, but goddamn I have found a new profound love for you as a person, as a content creator and how you just adressed my feelings like I did not expect it be touched by another man. =/ To be clear: Thanks for touching my feelings, however unexpected. I guess I needed that.
As a guy who is writing an ethnographic study into cultural suicide in South Korea, i am from Denmark. I think I have a bit of a leg to stand on when it comes to the funny discussion about masculinity.
Masculinity and femininity are derived from culture. As the old Creeks used to say about the Arabs "they are so feminine, because they wear pants". 2000 years ago it was a feminine trait to wear pants.
These ideas are not harmless. The rate of men who committ suicide because they feel like they are not lifting the burden of being man, as in "being a provider" is horrifying. This can be said about women in China, they have a high rate of young women who committ suicide because they feel like they have failed as women, because they were still single.
I agree with you potato, if those pick up artists wants money then it is a god daumn scam. I was lucky and I found my wife on the internet on an international chat site. I went to study in Beijing, she came to meet me, traveled the 1000km to do so, and when I had issues with the hospitals, she called in sick to help me. Then I knew that her heart is just as big as my heart. Then I went back to China as an exchange student and we tried living together, and most things went well. My philosophy is, love is not enough for a relationship. You might be compatible at 99% of the things but that 1% can mess it up. If that 1% is, I don't want childrens ever, then those 99% might not matter at all.
10/10 4x tangent: Explore your feelings, Expand your worldview, Exploit your discoveries, Exterminate your insecurity. Become who you are.
Such a cool message you share !! Didn't expect that from a Civ video, props for getting there and expressing these important views about being oneself, lots of love
I really like serious (not civ related ) monologues.
As a newer content creator, I strive to be like you. You are so genuine and real. And you share a wealth of information, whether it be in game or for life while still being relatable. As a person in their mid 20s you are absolutely the type of person I want to surround myself with and the energy I want to put into the world ❤
I really enjoy these videos where you go on a tangent about whatever is on your mind. I believe that you are helping influence people for the best.
From "how to manage a city state quest" to "post-modern condition of a manhood" lmao
I was zoning out and came back to McWhiskey talking about important topics what the hell
Dude. This whole run has been amazing. Thanks for talking about all this stuff. It is so important for people to hear this.
I'm a trans woman and not a man but it's great to see male creators who are comfortable talking about emotions and feelings and pushing back against the manosphere bullshit. Anyway I really enjoy your content and I think I understand the game a lot better after watching a lot of it. I mostly play casually at around emperor difficulty and am in no rush to try out deity but that increased understanding of game mechanics definitely helped with my enjoyment of the game.
you are not a woman lol
wtf
❤
Get to immortal you can do it!
Very true words being spoken, also LOVE the tonal whiplash and snap back to Civ talk.
Never change
thank you for not being passive regarding the manosphere :3
That motivation speech kind o surprised me, but it was good!
dude, you ranted through an epic heroic age! bruh!
Loved that soap box. Very well said. Eat your potatoes kids, they make brain bigger.
Funny thing Potato. My conclusion about being a man is that I'm not. That's how I knew I'm trans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I knew this very early but I got bullied to be more manly by my classmates. Since age 21 Im more open about myself and now transitioning :)
Love the series, God save the Queen !
you were always going to get the "rar rah alpha male rah rah" types commenting, if you talk about men and emotion. :( it's sad to see.
At least there's less of those people than there used to be.
Cry me a river
Damn, potato gets super based out of nowhere in this video
The "Civ6" playin' philosopher is back in town! I really enjoyed the game AND Your idea of self-awareness! Keep on churnin' 😂
I definitely wasn't expecting a random self identity talk in the middle of a civ game but I'm all for it
he colonized ireland w that petra city
Is Canada Scotland then ?
@@vaultguy8011 It’s cold enough I suppose
@@user-eh1gc7xo7q Scanadatland
The problem with the manosphere is that it sells easy solutions and explanations to inherently difficult and complicated problems and takes away individual responsibility by shifting blame to the other party. It makes you feel better short term because it's comforting to think it's not an issue with your mindset, but it's absolutely hurting in the long term.
Applies in politics, societal issues, and systems theory: "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and *wrong."*
damn is so good having a influencial gamer saying things like being a man and being silly, wear makeup, the gaming fanbase is usually very nasty with those red pill shenanigans and free hate against woman that you are basically the only content creator of videogames that I stick with, I wish more people could be like that, you don't tell your point of view on every video, but only when it seems needed, not as a form of imposition, only a reasonable and very good advise of being yourself, and aware that if you pay someone, it cares more with your money than in you, so it will work your dependence on its product. I digress, but thanks for being an awesome videogame youtube guy, my irish part and also my non irish parts salute you
Finally, a youtuber with the courage to stand up and agree with the same trite platitudes all the big, evil corporations and hedge funds spout. Please discuss how men are evil in the comments below and ignore the next scam war or plague.
@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS dude are you fine? Maybe there is a gas leaking around, or maybe you just are on ur recreational stuff and made the silly decision of commenting online while is high
@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS potato did not told none of these, you dishonest
So true, wish everyone could see it. If someone is selling it, it's because they want to make money, not to make you better 😂
BASED Potato again. nice
I love it when you drop on point relational wisdom in with the game play! Thank you! 🙂
Potato spitting civ knowledge, life truths and Jakey lyrics all in one video. Great video as always.
Timestamp for Jakey lyrics please.
Fantastic content and a brilliant talk too. I hope people really heard this.
They told me to watch this potato guy on CZcams if I wanted to learn how to play Civ6.
They didn’t tell me I’d also learn how to be a better person.
I mean, I just wanted to know how yields and stuff worked. Seems silly now.
Thank you so much for your great content Potato! Have been watching your vids for a few years but not because I'm the biggest civ player. Instead it's your mix of awesome civ gameplay and tips combined with sometimes hilariously funny (Mein Haaandy 😂😂) and sometimes dead serious discussions about life (like in this video) that got me totally hooked on your content. Keep up the awesome work!
i love when these get deep and real like a good podcast❤️
Ya interesting take and mostly agree. The breakdown of those traditional male/female is definitely happening! And in some ways its good, in other ways bad.. it seems to cause kids/young adults more confusion/anxiety as they're trying to figure out who they are. There science backing up that the more options we have the more anxiety we'll have. Like if you go to a restaurant and could have literally any drink possible how do even begin to decide what to have. It can be mentally/emotionally easier to have less options. So when you have a society that says do whatever you want, it can be limiting to some/many people in really figuring out who they are and where & how they fit society. . So i do think theres benefits to maintaining some general gender roles, but its not like we need to care if someone doesnt align with it
And regarding being a man stuff: I'd say its a lot more about taking on responsibilities, beyond just yourself. As a opposed to the 'macho' approach
Eons of evolution (substitute creation or intelligent design if you prefer) mostly dictate what it means to be a man or a woman. People like to think they are masters of their own destinies, but genetics doesn't care about your feelings. Societies over the centuries have modified roles back and forth and there's always exceptions, but male and female biologies are different for a reason and accepting one's role tends to be the most fulfilling for most people.
@@jarink1 there's a lot to unpack here, but perhaps the foremost is how you go out of your way to anthromorphize evolution and genetics to glorify a strict binary ... when humans display significantly _less_ sexual dimorphism in comparison to not only our evolutionary relatives, but many animals w/ distinct sexes as a whole. and the dimorphism we _do_ display is largely non-genetic! you don't even have to get into external hormone therapy to see this; moobs are such a common phenomenon that we _have a word like moobs in our vulgate,_ and the genetic pool in places like the mediterranean and india say it's not at all out of the ordinary for women to grow mustaches
like. yeah. genetics doesn't care about your feelings. so it could not give less of a shit whether or not you comply to the social phenomenon we've created with our own hands. it doesn't give much of a shit about anything, really. it's the sorta thing that randomly decides it'd be funny to make a goat with two heads, then fucks off to go back to bed while all its mad science experiments go about doing whatever they want
Potato, you have a pin on a coastal Industrial Zone and no Venetian Arsenal next to it?
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I'm not a man and I've never been expected to be one or to become one, so I'm not sure what it means to be a man. However, I can speak to struggling to search and understand one's feelings. One helpful thing I learned when I was young was my feelings come from my thoughts. Occasionally those thoughts are big-brained and rational, but they're usually a half-formed, jump-to-conclusions kind of thought. I feel fear easily because it's easy for me to assume something will lead to harm somehow.
"If this happens, something will go wrong." Uh, like what? "...Something!" Those thoughts reveal a general fear of the unknown, but I can talk it down easily with a "if you can't think of anything concrete, then there's nothing to worry about, actually."
"If this happens, then x," x being a truly dreadful outcome. If I am able, I tend to share this with someone I trust: my parents, my boyfriend, a close friend. Typically, x is actually an unlikely outcome that my creative mind came up with, but sometimes I need another perspective to realize that.
Wait, actually, I am going to speak to "what even is manhood?" by speaking to "what even is womanhood?" I have always loved stories with multiple female characters who are distinct from each other. I think that's why, for example, my high school friends successfully got me into My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. A woman or girl can be caring and motherly, or blunt and awkward with feelings. A woman/girl can love to dress pretty, love to dress cool, or not care how she dresses at all. A woman/girl can love to learn and read, be really into science, love fairy tales, struggle to learn, find fairy tales boring, be good at writing, or any combination thereof. They're all still women. It's fine to be different and it's also fine to be like other girls, because other girls aren't as shallow as scam artists want us to think. A woman can be anything she wants to. Likewise, a man can be anything he wants to. It's fine, actually.
I love that you spent some of this video speaking to your audience on the toxic red pill community. I would venture to guess your demographics are exactly the type that needs to hear this.
extremely well reflected. love to hear that from you :)
There are plenty of scammers and bad ideas out there, but the idea that a person MUST be a scammer because they are being paid for ("selling") teaching... is fundamentally false, not true. Sure, most (including virtually every hired teacher and professor, such as in schools and colleges) are scammers, but the idea that "if a person is being paid for their profession then they MUST be a scammer," is obviously false.
Potato, as awesome as he is, only can "give away his time/teaching for free" if his financial needs are somehow met another way, and not all people have that luxury. I teach for free, including about beliefs, because I am financially independent from my own business. However, before I was so wealthy, I sometimes had to charge. I still teach the same things. My ideas cannot be both true and false at the same time.
If Potato added paid coaching for Civ 6 by the hour, his information would probably (definitely, basically) still be very helpful and not a scam. Same would go for if he made a paid course for excelling in Civ 6. A hypothetical paid course by Potato could easily include various beliefs, such as that you can learn to win on Deity if you have the right attitude and practice, and those beliefs would, once again, not be necessarily false or a scam.
He didn't say they MUST be scammers. He said the incentives are not aligned in your favor when you're paying someone to tell you how to better yourself, and so you need to be extremely careful.
Listen, I have to blame you... After I saw that one live stream where you brought up looking similar to Pedro Pascal....NOW ALL I SEE IS PEDRO PASCAL!!! Everywhere, Pedro, Pedro, Pedro!!! Gah!! Hahaha. Have a good one my friend!! Keep punching these awesome vids out :)
There's a song from the 90s called "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen" it's one of the best songs for advice on earth. One of the sections goes
"Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth"
As far as the "how to be gender here" we really should have easy positive templates for people as not everyone is capable of determining those roles for themselves. Realistically, best is everyone figures out what their sexuality and identity is for themselves, how it relates to them, some people lack the maturity, introspection, confidence, and experience to determine it for themselves. For them there needs to be easy positive templates.
Your takes are incredible. My god!! you're the best channel in CZcams
Wow😦 this game got deep fast but he’s not wrong “you shape your destiny, the world is a shell made for your growth” POTATO thank you wry much 😊
The segue from philosophical life things and free inquiry was a potato on point segue.
Damn Potato casually crushing it in Civ whilst giving incredibly good life advice and showing an open mind aswell as an actual interest for people to be themselfs.
Really awesome man keep it up!
I loved the rant. You seem like a great guy to have a beer and great conversation with. Tyvm for your content.
14:10 "Anyway, we got a little bit real there, so I'm gonna go ahead and take free inquiry..."
Lmaoooo! Your wise words were appreciated kind potato whiskey man
The largest increase in life quality I've ever had was when I stopped worrying about what society thought I "as a man" should be and do.
I started focusing on myself and how to get more out of life, lo and behold I discovered the same thing as our tato overlord talks about.
If they want your money they dont want you to prosper on your own.
Those rolls were important for thousands of years, for a reason.
Love the content.
I love you dude! trying to deradicalize the civ community. The contrapoints of Civ.
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” Eleanor Roosevelt 14:09
Lol love the side rant and couldn't agree more. People spend far too much time worrying what others think of them without understanding that the people who's opinions matter wont judge you for your personal choices. But may hopefully hold you to account for harmful choices. The best friends are the ones that love you for the person you are but tell you when you're being truly stupid.
Really appreciated the “rant” you shared, always good to hear people open up about their truth
Watching your content is like watching a good show with a best mate. You do far more than just entertain my friend, and it's really appreciated ❤
At this point I don't even tune in for the gameplay but for the numerous life lessons Potato seems to pull out of his sleeve every video.
(Be careful of people who have financial incentives) or when the content doesn’t feel like yourself.
Potato I love your videos and I really like the community you’ve created here! And I just want to tell you that you are heard and you are not alone!
I was really hoping for a canal to the east of Manchester and an Industrial Zone NE of that canal. Potato never builds canals and this would have been a decent opportunity especially since he didn't get the canal city he mentioned last episode.
Great comments about manosphere stuff. Thank you for sharing this with a big, primarily male and young audience.
Industrial Zone on the coast of an island map and he does not even bother to talk about the Venetian Arsenal :(
"Anway we got bit real there so im gonna go ahead and take free inquiry" 😂😂😂
That transition
Questions:
1) Are Civ6 done with updates and new "content"?
2) Are the game "fixed" now, after last free update?
3) Are the assets limitation still a issue, when using mods?
I have all the DLC's/passes etc, and over 5K hours in this game, but hasn't played it since early last year, because it crashed all the time.
"traditional" roles are still only culturally based; and a lack of awareness for what is possible (cultivated ignorance) creates an incentive to stick to the dogma you know.
I'm loving the content and the community you're creating lately, whiskey. Thanks for all you do!
The Daliban sends their regards brother
DggL
Thanks for the rant man, it was very refreshing :)
True authentic self...as long as you are okay with interacting with people that don't support that. Because those people will always exist.
Come for the Civ, stay for the Potato
I zoned out briefly and suddenly Potato is telling me what a man is. I’m not complaining, I was just very very confused
The reason gay men are often deeply valued friends has nothing to do with them being gay, it's because YOU know that they are gay.
Think about what's important to you, what your emotions are and where they come from and stop caring about superficial opinions of others.