Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why

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  • čas přidán 20. 11. 2019
  • Two hours? That sounds like a nightmare. Luckily, so is the game. And what an amazing nightmare it is.
    Mandalore's (great and much more concise) Review of Classic HD:
    • Pathologic Classic HD ...
    / hbomb
    / hbomberguy
    / hbomberguy
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    #Pathologic #PathologicReview
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  • @TheHazmat347
    @TheHazmat347 Před 3 lety +4422

    "honey, it's 4pm, time to watch Pathologic Is Genius and Here's Why again"
    "yes dear"

    • @assadissa2
      @assadissa2 Před 3 lety +126

      You mean 4 am

    • @Gothstana
      @Gothstana Před 3 lety +100

      @@assadissa2 Time is an illusion, Pathologic is Genius is eternal.

    • @kainreaverz
      @kainreaverz Před 3 lety +11

      Iba a escribir un comentario diciendo algo así, pero en español.

    • @jlee7811
      @jlee7811 Před 3 lety +8

      I’m on day 4 of trying to finish this video

    • @agalwithnoname
      @agalwithnoname Před 3 lety +5

      @@kainreaverz JAJAJAJAJA yo también

  • @_UnknownStory
    @_UnknownStory Před 3 lety +5660

    CZcams Algorithm: Do you want to watch the 2 hour long "Pathologic is Genius, and Here's Why" video for the fifth time?
    Me: yeah

    • @zaya9993
      @zaya9993 Před 3 lety +107

      i cant even count how many times ive been here, oops...

    • @Omnicide101
      @Omnicide101 Před 3 lety +129

      @@zaya9993 it is my 3am CZcams binge and I get to pick the comfort video

    • @panickedshrieking5454
      @panickedshrieking5454 Před 3 lety +71

      I've watched this about 50 times. That being said this video is one of the few things I can fall asleep to.

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Před 3 lety +31

      It's my insomnia video
      My algorithm recomend it every night after 10

    • @CP_Maverick
      @CP_Maverick Před 3 lety +10

      I think I'm at that exact number now. I just bought the game yesterday and I have yet to play it because this video keeps my attention lol

  • @Freezer94
    @Freezer94 Před 5 měsíci +3356

    Wow, I can't believe Daniil Dankovsky plagerised that quote.

    • @lindseyclair921
      @lindseyclair921 Před 5 měsíci +8

      Dankovsky you prickly prick, you’ve plagiarized us all!

    • @lrose5522
      @lrose5522 Před 5 měsíci +259

      It finally all comes full circle

    • @theleaningaxehd
      @theleaningaxehd Před 5 měsíci +237

      I waited years for this punchline

    • @HugoRBMarques
      @HugoRBMarques Před 5 měsíci +81

      Cite your sources!

    • @alexdyer5369
      @alexdyer5369 Před 5 měsíci +53

      @@theleaningaxehd I feel like I've had a 5 day glow, knowing this came to fruition.

  • @forgot7en
    @forgot7en Před 4 měsíci +1590

    In this video, you can see the clear rate of the Day 1 achievement is 13.2%.
    4 years later, I checked the achievements, and the Day 1 clear rate is 16.5%. In 4 years, there has only been a 3.3% increase of players who actually went this far.
    And yet, somehow, it has 88% positive reviews from 2942 users. One of the top POSITIVE reviews literally states "made my mental illness worse."
    EDIT: Apparently it's an increase of about 25%. Thanks random math nerd

    • @waytogo8014
      @waytogo8014 Před 2 měsíci +38

      Whats not to like with pessimism and mental illness?

    • @EdeN_2006
      @EdeN_2006 Před 2 měsíci

      So true ​@@waytogo8014

    • @SixArmedSweater
      @SixArmedSweater Před měsícem +11

      To be fair my favorite game, We Know The Devil, made MY mental illness much worse, but in a beneficial way.

    • @rane1442
      @rane1442 Před měsícem +3

      @@SixArmedSweater this game looks cool as hell! Thanks for mentioning it I just bought a copy

    • @michaeluwuowo
      @michaeluwuowo Před měsícem +1

      ​@@rane1442how's it going now?

  • @MrGermandeutsch
    @MrGermandeutsch Před 3 lety +2338

    *_Pathologic, a Game where the Player becomes the NPC, but the Protagonist never appears._*

    • @jojonas5463
      @jojonas5463 Před 3 lety +33

      Bruh

    • @MrGermandeutsch
      @MrGermandeutsch Před 3 lety +20

      @@jojonas5463 indeed

    • @matthewlunsford2904
      @matthewlunsford2904 Před 3 lety +6

      @@MrGermandeutsch bruhhhhhh

    • @kinagrill
      @kinagrill Před 3 lety +57

      Well it's a game that feels like there IS no protagonist, just someone that really shouldn't have any control, is given control of a potentially viable NPC that COULD do something... potentially, maybe.
      It's like playing NPCs in Dungeons and Dragons.... and the hero party never pops up.

    • @MrGermandeutsch
      @MrGermandeutsch Před 3 lety +20

      @@kinagrill
      I mean, this is exactly what I intented to imply in my initial comment, isn't it?

  • @ShiraCheshire
    @ShiraCheshire Před 4 lety +16712

    I unironically love that we live in a world where a guy can talk about a video game for 2 straight hours, praising it constantly, only to tell you not to play it.

    • @k_a_y_l_e_e
      @k_a_y_l_e_e Před 4 lety +488

      and, bonus, he got paid to do it.
      (talk about the game, i mean, not play it, because youtube.)

    • @akillen77
      @akillen77 Před 4 lety +157

      It's a very unfun game

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato Před 4 lety +62

      noah often makes 4 hours long videos
      like a vid on EVERY COD GAME from storytelling standpoint

    • @TheGreenskullgaming
      @TheGreenskullgaming Před 4 lety +125

      but you should play Pathalogic 2, just as dread inducing but more user friendly and feels a lot better to play (god does it still hurt though)

    • @Rissa_1322
      @Rissa_1322 Před 4 lety +30

      those are the best ones. I almost never want anyone to play anything i play because they can never have MY experience and if they don't love it like i love it it will CRUSH ME

  • @wail4084
    @wail4084 Před 5 měsíci +2802

    4 years, you waited 4 years for that joke.. respect, honestly.

    • @grilledcheese2084
      @grilledcheese2084 Před 5 měsíci +26

      What joke?

    • @drendraleigh4722
      @drendraleigh4722 Před 5 měsíci +636

      ​@@grilledcheese2084"I'm gonna use this in a future video and pretend a philosopher wrote it"
      But it turns out(As things kept turning out) that a philosopher DID wrote it!!

    • @FirstLast-wk3kc
      @FirstLast-wk3kc Před 5 měsíci +44

      Oh gosh i didn't notice he used said phrase!

    • @ShayLaLaLooHoo
      @ShayLaLaLooHoo Před 5 měsíci +378

      Cite your sources, _Bachelor!!_

    • @FirstLast-wk3kc
      @FirstLast-wk3kc Před 5 měsíci +16

      @@ShayLaLaLooHoo ye!

  • @mizushimo
    @mizushimo Před 4 měsíci +1801

    It just hit me that this came out 2 months before we were all dodging the actual plague in real life
    "So a plague is starting, but no one with the power to take proper action will help because everyone has their own agenda."

    • @Hendlton
      @Hendlton Před 4 měsíci +130

      And now food costs more and more each day...

    • @QuilloManar
      @QuilloManar Před 4 měsíci

      And you have to spend a considerable time convincing the main people in power that there even is a plague for them to do anything about it.

    • @2ndeaster
      @2ndeaster Před 3 měsíci +96

      Death Stranding also released around the same time and it's about an essential worker doing an important delivery in a world where people disconnected from each others.
      Kojima and Harry got an explanation to do...

    • @dylanm8365
      @dylanm8365 Před 3 měsíci +47

      i literally double checked the release date of this vid when he said that line 😭😭😭 fuck

    • @Jalae
      @Jalae Před 3 měsíci

      So, hbomberguy caused the plague by putting a part of his soul into a video about surviving a plague. This is a normal thing.
      perhaps we could make a better world by putting our souls into things talking about idealistic happy fantasy worlds.

  • @BlondTimeWaster
    @BlondTimeWaster Před 4 lety +4682

    So now I'm a girl in a small Russian town in the middle of the plague. It's time to start speaking like I have a PhD in philosophy.

    • @i.147
      @i.147 Před 4 lety +569

      dont forget to stock up on needles and painkillers in case a doctor willing to trade walnuts passes by!

    • @psychic-paranoia8020
      @psychic-paranoia8020 Před 4 lety +307

      Accidentally kill a child while trying to heal them.

    • @kingcrimsonwashere8736
      @kingcrimsonwashere8736 Před 4 lety +118

      And remember to keep a Derringer in your back pocket!

    • @animechnik8740
      @animechnik8740 Před 4 lety +11

      С какого ты города, зай?

    • @whereisawesomeness
      @whereisawesomeness Před 4 lety +66

      Quote Nietzsche without bothering to understand his ideas

  • @majorghoul9017
    @majorghoul9017 Před rokem +9345

    Giving you a 6 shot revolver and then pitting you against exactly 7 guys is hilarious

    • @clsisman
      @clsisman Před rokem +534

      It’s extra funny when you’re Clara and it takes you 12 hits to floor the last one and four for them to floor you 🫠

    • @wahbl997
      @wahbl997 Před rokem +328

      The game is actually unrealistic here. In real Soviet Russia there is always a way to unsheathe your balalaika or make your pet bear or your babushka fight the 7th one.
      You are never lost in real Soviet Russia.

    • @maggiem6209
      @maggiem6209 Před rokem +162

      That has to be the most meanly obvious joke at a player's expense I've ever seen in gaming. 😂

    • @090giver090
      @090giver090 Před rokem +99

      @@wahbl997 The game is obviously set before the Revolution. So, this is what we had to get along in those dark tsarist times. 😆

    • @PhobosTK
      @PhobosTK Před rokem +52

      Which is funny, considering that it looks like Russian/Soviet Nagant revolver that had a 7-round cylinder

  • @sarahtonin6367
    @sarahtonin6367 Před 6 měsíci +2775

    "Don't catch the plague, shithead" has to be some of the best life advice I've ever heard.

    • @Crusader1089
      @Crusader1089 Před 4 měsíci +62

      It was basically government policy here in the UK

    • @Paledomain
      @Paledomain Před 4 měsíci +29

      aged like fine wine lol

    • @pentax2551
      @pentax2551 Před měsícem +9

      That part really cracked me up

  • @lunaraydue1340
    @lunaraydue1340 Před 4 měsíci +1250

    It's fair to criticize the fact that none of the NPCs are doing anything or talking to each other when you enter a room, but if you think about it... Doesn't that illustrate the themes of the game and the secret ending? The fact that they're dolls who only act when their god decides to play with them?

    • @coynelaundry
      @coynelaundry Před 2 měsíci +46

      shes spittin

    • @zarawhelan4132
      @zarawhelan4132 Před měsícem +24

      K why was this actually an amazing take?

    • @moosekilzer8690
      @moosekilzer8690 Před měsícem +24

      Especially with the addition of this being a stage play, since extras often freeze in the background

  • @casscain5196
    @casscain5196 Před 4 lety +6046

    january 2020: daniil dankovsky's fun steppe vacation
    may 2020: artemy burak'sh tormentous nightmare

    • @davidfasthands474
      @davidfasthands474 Před 3 lety +93

      Underrated

    • @ArtoriaZz2137
      @ArtoriaZz2137 Před 3 lety +15

      does any1 know what music plays under it?

    • @joaomartins2541
      @joaomartins2541 Před 3 lety +11

      Plague.

    • @Vellzi
      @Vellzi Před 3 lety +61

      @@ArtoriaZz2137 El Tigr3 - She Swallowed Burning Coals

    • @caitmonroe9349
      @caitmonroe9349 Před 3 lety +143

      July 2020: The Changling's narrative is starting to feel kind of repetitive and it's clear we're being messed with.

  • @ArcturusAcerbic
    @ArcturusAcerbic Před 4 lety +9963

    This is a 2h long documentary depicting a man developing Stockholm syndrome towards a game. 10/10 fun.

    • @bigmouthprick5852
      @bigmouthprick5852 Před 3 lety +24

      @@oneiric1213 I am looking for it on the wiki page. Where does it say that?

    • @lordbuss
      @lordbuss Před 3 lety +62

      @@bigmouthprick5852 "Stockholm syndrome is a "contested illness" due to doubt about the legitimacy of the condition", at the begining.

    • @thatannoyingguyinthecommen5970
      @thatannoyingguyinthecommen5970 Před 3 lety +75

      @@sambeckettcat everything you have written here is a Complete fabrication of the truth with absolutely zero evidence to back up such a claim, if this was even remotely true then there would be alot of source material in Google or any other search engine in the UK (I'm not in a censored country) that would offer to agree with this ludicrous statement, iys a very entertaining and enjoyable little anecdote that belongs firmly in the fictional corner right in between Where's wally and stig of the dump...

    • @dantegaland9337
      @dantegaland9337 Před 3 lety +94

      @@thatannoyingguyinthecommen5970
      pulled from literally the first heading on the wiki page:
      "...In her 2020 treatise on domestic violence See What You Made Me Do, Australian journalist Jess Hill described the syndrome as a "dubious pathology with no diagnostic criteria", and stated that it is "riddled with misogyny and founded on a lie"; she also noted that a 2008 literature review revealed that "most diagnoses [of Stockholm syndrome] are made by the media, not by psychologists or psychiatrists."
      "... as well, she observed that not only was Bejerot's diagnosis of Enmark made without ever having spoken to her, it was in direct response to her public criticism of his actions during the siege.[6]"

    • @thatannoyingguyinthecommen5970
      @thatannoyingguyinthecommen5970 Před 3 lety +8

      @@dantegaland9337 did you really just quote a wiki page and try and make out it's facts?? Bro I could literally start a wiki page right now and say what ever I wanted and it would never be fact checked and I could post it and say its 100% Gospel 🤣🤣🤣 gtfoh with this haha

  • @Ace-kk9rx
    @Ace-kk9rx Před 7 měsíci +662

    BABE WAKE UP its time for the bimonthly rewatch of the hbomberguy pathologic video essay

    • @lrose5522
      @lrose5522 Před 5 měsíci +21

      Babe wake up, have you rewatched the pathologic vid? It's about time again for the bimonthly rewatch

    • @Ace-kk9rx
      @Ace-kk9rx Před 5 měsíci +18

      @@lrose5522 THANK YOU BABE I will make time today to rewatch it

    • @ferretbutler1326
      @ferretbutler1326 Před 5 měsíci +8

      Hey, its that time again.

    • @sj_bardplays6416
      @sj_bardplays6416 Před 4 měsíci +7

      So twice a month or every 2 months?

    • @ferretbutler1326
      @ferretbutler1326 Před 4 měsíci +12

      @@sj_bardplays6416 6 times a month

  • @leilas5419
    @leilas5419 Před 6 měsíci +2957

    i watched this when it first came out and all these years later "DANIIL DANKOVSKIYS FUN STEPPE VACATION was just the tutorial for ARTEMY BURAKHS TORMENTOUS NIGHTMARE" still lives rent free in my head

    • @leilas5419
      @leilas5419 Před 6 měsíci +129

      as a native russian speaker i feel like i should play this in the original russian script at some point

    • @riirah1010
      @riirah1010 Před 5 měsíci +39

      IT'S MY FAVORITE PART

    • @ashikjaman1940
      @ashikjaman1940 Před 5 měsíci +51

      She Swallowed Burning Coals was the perfect song choice

    • @riirah1010
      @riirah1010 Před 5 měsíci +30

      @@ashikjaman1940 THANK YOU I have been looking for this music for months!! IT'S SUCH A BOP

    • @0meAcat1
      @0meAcat1 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Hahaha every time

  • @frankieghost9902
    @frankieghost9902 Před 3 lety +3488

    its *my* stress induced meltdown and *i* choose the comfort media

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 Před 3 lety +66

      Hello from the day after the election

    • @augusthuffle3043
      @augusthuffle3043 Před 3 lety +132

      Here I am going back to rewatch this. I glance at the comment section. I am immediately called out.

    • @notablink182fanaccount2
      @notablink182fanaccount2 Před 3 lety +28

      @@augusthuffle3043 Couldnt have said it better myself

    • @B0redZer0
      @B0redZer0 Před 3 lety +9

      Yup.

    • @dirtbra1n
      @dirtbra1n Před 3 lety +44

      going in for my 17th rewatch in the span of like 2 months . I’m gonna have to ask you to warn me before you call me out like this

  • @Snpaulie
    @Snpaulie Před 3 lety +4480

    The 3 million views are just the same 30k people watching the video again

    • @botanicallyaberry6406
      @botanicallyaberry6406 Před 3 lety +296

      I saw this comment while currently rewatching this video for the nth time this year lmao

    • @WetRatGaming
      @WetRatGaming Před 3 lety +89

      On my hundredth rewatch, I feel called out XD

    • @vladimirstok149
      @vladimirstok149 Před 3 lety +65

      what the fuck is wrong with us :((

    • @WolfHreda
      @WolfHreda Před 3 lety +67

      @@vladimirstok149 Nothing is wrong with us. Snpaul is obviously the Shabnak trying to single us out and pick us off. Damnable steppe demon...

    • @veelogation3890
      @veelogation3890 Před 3 lety +11

      its so good tho

  • @oliverp3545
    @oliverp3545 Před 7 měsíci +1250

    A pretty meta thing that Hbomb didn't mention is that with as the bachelor as your first playthrough the town, exploring a place that doesn’t make sense to you is really fitting.
    But the moment you play as the other two, you're playing with the knowledge you have of the town, which makes sense as they’re both residents of the town.
    This means that as separate playthroughs the knowledge you had to fight to gainmin the first, comes as a given for others.

    • @shuraito
      @shuraito Před 7 měsíci +73

      wow great catch. now that you mention it, maybe they should have made the first playable character danil and unlock burkah after the first playthrough. it would have fit the narrative a lot.

    • @raz802
      @raz802 Před 4 měsíci +58

      Actually at 6:45 and again at 38:40, it is mentioned. Perhaps not as deeply as you elaborate on here, but still in a meaningful way I think.

    • @cybercrasherstv
      @cybercrasherstv Před 4 měsíci +27

      ​@@shuraito I think burkah being playable at first makes a lot of sense with this in mind tho. Burkah hasn't been there in a while, so it would explain not fully knowing where everything was, combined with being chased around and not having the time to relearn where everything is now. Especially since there's a giant towering staircase that has a baby inside

    • @jaccobbailey8247
      @jaccobbailey8247 Před 3 měsíci +11

      I’d say that’s also why Artemy was allowed as a first playthrough as well. Artemy has been completely disconnected from his home and culture for years at this point, so he only has the general customs still memorized. By the time that he’s returned home, almost everything around him has changed, for better or worse. So it makes perfect sense that you can play his campaign first as well; hell, from the perspective of a first playthrough it almost makes more thematic sense that all the localized words you can use as the haruspex make no sense to you until quite some time into the game - they probably mean much less to Artemy than they did when he lived here years ago. His culture has been morphed and altered without his presence and he’s disconnected from both his people and the steppe. Things are strange, and it’s not until he returns to the kin that they start making more sense. Honestly, I’d say it’s almost as good of a first playthrough as the bachelor

    • @donkylefernandez4680
      @donkylefernandez4680 Před 2 měsíci +5

      It makes the Changling's omniscience even funnier

  • @eMoney542
    @eMoney542 Před 6 měsíci +872

    Based on my experience and reading this comments section, I feel like the 8M views are just 1M people who have watched this video an average of 8 times lol

    • @knightofloosebowels8636
      @knightofloosebowels8636 Před 6 měsíci +58

      I just came back to rewatch for probably the 10th time

    • @under-dog5390
      @under-dog5390 Před 6 měsíci +35

      Guilty as charged and am not done yet. I cant help but keep coming back to this video as I find it that fascinating.

    • @EGH9701
      @EGH9701 Před 5 měsíci +29

      True, I'm probably on about 20+ times now as I listen to it as I sleep every night because it's the best.

    • @sdebord8707
      @sdebord8707 Před 5 měsíci +8

      Don’t call me out like that

    • @impracticalKim
      @impracticalKim Před 5 měsíci +5

      Yeah sounds about right

  • @vashtilives2469
    @vashtilives2469 Před 3 lety +2668

    “So a plague is starting but no one with the power to help will take proper action because everyone has their own agenda...” *stares into the camera in American*

  • @shneancy220
    @shneancy220 Před 4 lety +8647

    A 2 hour long film
    me: eh, a tad too long innit
    A 2h YT video
    me: ayyy, how about a 3rd rewatch

    • @sofo02
      @sofo02 Před 4 lety +258

      Hahaha fourth time still going strong

    • @jdthejugoo
      @jdthejugoo Před 4 lety +187

      The story of this game is so engaging I like hearing about it

    • @matthewkopeck8540
      @matthewkopeck8540 Před 4 lety +7

      Wait you seriously wouldnt watch a movie because it's 2 hours long

    • @shneancy220
      @shneancy220 Před 4 lety +278

      @@matthewkopeck8540 yes, everything I write on the internet I write being extremely serious, all my words expressing my deepest thoughts and feelings.

    • @matthewkopeck8540
      @matthewkopeck8540 Před 4 lety +5

      @@shneancy220 then I dont see how the original is even relevant if you were being sarcastic in the first place? Jeez, you 13 year olds are dumb.

  • @grapes4832
    @grapes4832 Před 5 měsíci +554

    Dankovsky is the purest embodiment of that “His autistic personality and transgender looks have captivated me” tweet I’ve ever seen

    • @HiBuddyyyyyy
      @HiBuddyyyyyy Před 5 měsíci +74

      He’s just one of those characters that trans mascs and/or autistic people latch onto. I’m keeping a list of those types of characters.

    • @iridiumSerpent
      @iridiumSerpent Před 5 měsíci +9

      ​@@HiBuddyyyyyywho have you got on the list so far?

    • @Cosplaybuddygiraffes
      @Cosplaybuddygiraffes Před 5 měsíci +100

      Funny enough, Dankovsky was the actual subject character of the “Dear Lord they’re doing ungodly things to his cervix on Twitter” post

    • @HiBuddyyyyyy
      @HiBuddyyyyyy Před 5 měsíci +49

      @@iridiumSerpent Dankovsky, Herbert West (reanimator),
      Will Graham (Hannibal),
      Adam (Saw),
      Jesse pinkman (breaking bad),
      I will probably come back to this comment and add more when I find them.
      (Also disclaimer I guess, I’m not really in the breaking bad fandom, that’s just what I’ve seen from the odd post and comment I’ve seen around online.)

    • @grapes4832
      @grapes4832 Před 5 měsíci +5

      @@HiBuddyyyyyy I’d like to submit one Galo Thymos for your consideration
      Lio also, actually

  • @zhilemon923
    @zhilemon923 Před 9 měsíci +795

    had a nightmare about pathologic last night, but it was one of those self aware ones so I was just like "WHAT AM I DOING SLEEPING I NEED TO BUY A DELICIOUS EGG"

    • @magicrainbowkitties1023
      @magicrainbowkitties1023 Před 3 měsíci +28

      Well shit pack it in guys, this dude's brain summed it up in a paragraph where it took this other schmuck 2.16 hours XD

    • @donkylefernandez4680
      @donkylefernandez4680 Před 2 měsíci +10

      You woke up, instantly forgot it was a dream, and locked tf in. You'd survive.

    • @remingtonn_
      @remingtonn_ Před 2 měsíci +3

      i also had a nightmare about pathologic, but i'd argue mine was worse because it was pathologic PLUS terrifying monsters. and a significantly more realistic plague (half my dreams include very realistic medicine. it's very odd. like this one parasite dream i had where the parasite caused the accurate symptoms of liver failure...)
      i tried to save a child from being mauled in the dream, and it just made everything worse. it actively would have been better if i did nothing and let a kid go missing.

    • @notreallyginger5831
      @notreallyginger5831 Před měsícem +6

      I had a dream where the characters played connect 4 and daniil rage quit against clara

    • @ND-nr6mx
      @ND-nr6mx Před měsícem +1

      ​@@remingtonn_But you forgot about the delicious egg :/ idk, I think other guy got it worse

  • @latrodectahespara2728
    @latrodectahespara2728 Před 3 lety +2247

    "I put a lot of effort into my visuals, but, y'know... that's fine."
    I'M SORRY HARRIS I HAVE ADHD

    • @obliviousotterI
      @obliviousotterI Před 3 lety +67

      MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODUH

    • @DoomedDruid
      @DoomedDruid Před 3 lety +50

      I listen to these at work

    • @caatko1388
      @caatko1388 Před 3 lety +55

      Same thoughhhh
      Not sure who this guy is but he has a nice voice... And I'm a sook that hates jumpscares 😭

    • @therandomdickhead5744
      @therandomdickhead5744 Před 3 lety +67

      Same, had to rewind the video several times because I was too busy staring at something in-game to understand what he was saying.
      Like, not even important shit, aka wtf is that rat animation lol

    • @bagds0
      @bagds0 Před 3 lety +5

      Same. I suspect quite a few of us do.

  • @evanahearne1479
    @evanahearne1479 Před 3 lety +15345

    There's a positive review on steam that describes Pathologic as like "reading Dostoyevsky but the book is beating the shit out of you" and i really feel like that sums up the vibe

    • @jazwhoaskedforthis
      @jazwhoaskedforthis Před 3 lety +459

      That is perfect I hope hbomb sees this

    • @lovaszaron3138
      @lovaszaron3138 Před 3 lety +116

      Accurate.

    • @jadeharley7190
      @jadeharley7190 Před 3 lety +99

      PLZ I just had to read it for a class this semester

    • @nicholaseliotsmith1430
      @nicholaseliotsmith1430 Před 3 lety +142

      come to think of it reading the underground man had a similar vibe to trying to read some of pathalogic's (particularly the og translation) dialogue and understand it

    • @Stutts1895
      @Stutts1895 Před 2 lety +6

      @@jazwhoaskedforthis 89

  • @enenome9810
    @enenome9810 Před 4 měsíci +154

    Sometimes I wonder why the phrase "delicious egg" haunts me.
    Then, I return.

  • @Crowbars2
    @Crowbars2 Před 7 měsíci +199

    21:40 - Artemy: "People only fear bloodshed when it's _their_ blood and _their_ shed."

    • @MaxLennon
      @MaxLennon Před 5 měsíci +13

      I don't think that's Artemy, is it? To me it seemed like a detached narrator from the theater itself.

    • @Crowbars2
      @Crowbars2 Před 5 měsíci +27

      ​@@MaxLennon Yeah, you're right. I checked the Pathologic wiki and it says that it's the narrator.
      It's confusing since Hbomb says it's Artemy in the subtitles, but whilst showing the Bachelor's face...

    • @Tesrob
      @Tesrob Před 5 měsíci +8

      Thank you! This quote runs in my head all the time and sometimes I want to hear it

    • @zbsfm
      @zbsfm Před 4 měsíci +11

      yeah that’s right, get out of my shed!

    • @idrilisil
      @idrilisil Před měsícem +6

      I love that quote, because it makes me think whoever said it was like "hey, the words coming out of my mouth sound deep and meaningful! I'm gonna keep talking, because clearly it's all gold!" And then they added "... And their shed" and clown music started playing

  • @katyadade1041
    @katyadade1041 Před 3 lety +3835

    I am from Russia, many of us played it as kids with no internet, it felt normal-paced because we usually didn't have too many games to play. So we never questioned if it was weird.

    • @pestilenssi8979
      @pestilenssi8979 Před 3 lety +241

      That's amazing lol

    • @pedrosaraiva
      @pedrosaraiva Před 3 lety +547

      Imagine the reaction a child who’ve only played this game would have towards, say, mario 64.

    • @fyfrrez
      @fyfrrez Před 2 lety +456

      This game actualy like living in Russia. So we felt at home.

    • @zab416
      @zab416 Před 2 lety +159

      @@pedrosaraiva That would be kind of a mind fuck. Probably at first "TOO BRIGHT" and then they'd get into it but keep wondering where the deception parts were. Would not be freaked out by the haunted house level but maybe still by the eel? That is my guess on this hypothetical kid.

    • @pedrosaraiva
      @pedrosaraiva Před 2 lety +182

      @@zab416 ahah yeah I thought the same thing “wait, how am I supposed to know how hungry mario is? Do i have to guess based on in game time? Also there’s no food anywhere”

  • @traxor2135
    @traxor2135 Před 3 lety +4499

    "Come back in 6 months" Yeah I've played Pathologic 2. IN REAL LIFE, BABY.

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 Před 3 lety +153

      Plaqueridden Costcos with Novaxx Carrens trying to strip you from your mask, an insane political figure trying to use the infection to keep himself in a position of power while eliminating his enemies, money is less worth then toilet paper after a few days...

    • @MS-il3ht
      @MS-il3ht Před 3 lety +47

      ​@@PancakemonsterFO4 "a crossover of Fallout and Stalker" - GameStar writes

    • @cldomed550
      @cldomed550 Před 3 lety +10

      I’m on day 1

    • @andrewcapra7153
      @andrewcapra7153 Před 3 lety +197

      "A plague is starting but no one with the power to stop it is willing to do anything because they all have their own agenda"
      *awkward laughter*

    • @minumeyli
      @minumeyli Před 3 lety +18

      Andrew Capra I swear this is exactly what it’s like in the US 💀💀💀

  • @alecchristiaen4856
    @alecchristiaen4856 Před 9 měsíci +1023

    What I find fascinating is your brief stint talking about immortality through art.
    Achilles was foretold he would either die young in the Trojan war or live long enough to see his name forgotten. He chose the former, and to this day we speak of the achilles heel.
    Gilgamesh was forced to give up on his quest for immortality, but the tale of this quest lives on today and is considered the world's oldest poem, being older than the entirety of the Imperial house of Japan.
    Pathologic joins a chorus of art proclaiming that art begets immortality, and actually does so with a question mark, asking us if this immortality is even good. It's a weirdly...nihilistic bend to the idea.
    These heroes of yore have become immortal in the written word, but the likes of Socrates detested the written word, as it can't defend itself, it can't change, it can't learn, it can't redeem itself. They've become immortal, and in that immortality have they been petrified. Achilles is remembered for his wrath and bloodshed, and his pettiness causing the death of many (including those he loved); Gilgamesh was such an asshole, the gods literally created Enkidu to bring him down a peg.
    In pathologic, you'll likely do AWFUL things. Maybe, ironically, the ones that do what they must to survive are the ones least excited over the chance to see their deeds immortalized. Maybe their mortality in spirit can be a solace; a universe that can forgive as it forgets.
    Thanks, I listend to you for so long, I started musing on the nature of nature like a total cockwomble.

    • @normalperson4sure
      @normalperson4sure Před 9 měsíci +57

      this is such a great encapsulation of an idea that i've been trying to articulate for so long, but even better. immortality through art isn't real (you're still fucking dead) and when it works it's very rarely for the GOOD things you've done. brilliant work, i hope other people see this comment because it's criminally undervalued right now!

    • @ava_marie_v
      @ava_marie_v Před 7 měsíci +19

      Wow, I cannot believe I ran into such an incredible comment under a Pathologic review.

    • @kingalphawerewolf
      @kingalphawerewolf Před 7 měsíci +24

      I take some umbrage with this statement. Hero's in the Greco sense are remembered for both good and terrible deeds. In that sense, Stalin, as much as the wright brothers are Heros. But Stalin and other terrible doers are more commonly immortalized because our brains latch onto negative things much more easily then good ones. Because evolution has built the lesson that failure is the greatest teacher into our literal biochemistry. You'll remember fucking up and falling out of a tree far more easily then the many times you did it perfectly fine.
      Which is why art should work hard to immortalize good things, even small good things. This obsession with morally grey and villians and things is a self-feed back loop. Finding superman being a pure do gooding man 'cringy' or boring, isn't a good thing. And finally immortality through memory can be called untrue for a dry inhuman scientific way. But we define ourselves by those around us, and that important aspect can live on far after we've gone.@@normalperson4sure

    • @258hunterkill
      @258hunterkill Před 5 měsíci +6

      I love this idea, and I think this is an excellent expansion of what Harris was saying in that section of the video. To take it a step further, I would say these characters immortalized in stories are not actually unchanging, not caught in status. For example, as a society, we don't remember Cinderella from the Grimm fairy tale we (mostly) remember it from the Disney version and 1000 new version have been created in the last 80 years drawing a lot from that version. In the same way, a response to the nihilistic viewpoint is that I don't remember the story of Pathelogic from the game. I remember it from a thought-provoking entertaining, even hopefully 2 hour video about Pathologic. It's an immortality of change, but not choice and also of the goodness to always be what you are needed to be until you are forgotten.

    • @Crusader1089
      @Crusader1089 Před 4 měsíci +1

      The Odyssey of Odysseus is also considered to be a Greek meditation on the different forms of immortality, including literal immortality, with Odysseus eventually deciding that family was the true immortality.
      It's also worth noting that the Achilles heel did not present itself in the original and oldest legends of the Trojan war, and was likely a Roman addition.

  • @i.7525
    @i.7525 Před 7 měsíci +91

    By this point we all know Daniil is an onion, but you should all also know that in Polish, "burak" just means beetroot. So Artemy is just..... Mr. Beet

    • @sturmdragomir8716
      @sturmdragomir8716 Před 6 měsíci +5

      Burak in slovic countries is a pastry in a triangle shape made of filodough stuffed with white cheese and parsley. Not sure if this is relevant

    • @sturmdragomir8716
      @sturmdragomir8716 Před 6 měsíci +3

      There are layers to the filodough crispy crust laso

    • @sturmdragomir8716
      @sturmdragomir8716 Před 6 měsíci +2

      *also

    • @llucija
      @llucija Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@@sturmdragomir8716pretty sure thats a burek, not burak

    • @GrayFortune
      @GrayFortune Před 3 měsíci

      Mr breast give me money

  • @bentonic4998
    @bentonic4998 Před 4 lety +2589

    Next time someone tries to argue with me, i'll hit them with the ol "YOU ARE BROKEN. I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM USED TO WINNING"

  • @Mistheart101
    @Mistheart101 Před 4 lety +4759

    I just wanna note something someone said in the premiere chat: Most kids are all "I wanna have magic powers!" and these kids are like "I want this bachelor of medicine to realize his quest to conquer death is ultimately futile."

    • @worldwar2freak12
      @worldwar2freak12 Před 4 lety +658

      Russians.

    • @tomhill3248
      @tomhill3248 Před 4 lety +105

      I don't. Immortality sounds sweet.

    • @shizotypical
      @shizotypical Před 4 lety +287

      I mean, Klara did have magic powers, was it that great of an experience for her? These kids know.

    • @melissahourihan2344
      @melissahourihan2344 Před 4 lety +229

      my times playing dolls as a kid would get dark sometimes too I get it.

    • @AmonDevilman
      @AmonDevilman Před 4 lety +105

      I once put my toys trough a literal Ragnarok.

  • @clonedelta22
    @clonedelta22 Před 10 měsíci +280

    Each time I rewatch this video and, "Now." gets farther and farther away, the harder that segment hits.

    • @garbagesalt
      @garbagesalt Před měsícem +4

      now is now, and now is then, now is 10:27 pm on sunday the 24th of march 2024, and now is like 3 am on month and day in 2019 or whenever it was he said that he originally said it

    • @boserboser6870
      @boserboser6870 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@garbagesaltand this now that was posted 2 weeks ago (from my perspective) is quickly following it

  • @riirah1010
    @riirah1010 Před 10 měsíci +678

    1:45 translated by a mystical rat
    2:29 it's an amazing game!
    3:20 and by ambiguous I mean,, imaginary
    5:29 your gentle hands
    17:21 a very powerful ability to strongly incentivize that you don't do whatever you want.
    24:48 unless you submit yourself to their whims.
    45:15 You're supposed to be asking this guy for help, Daniel!
    45:59 the prickly prick that'll bury us all
    51:30 GO, ONION! I NEED TO COLLECT THE TOOLS-
    52:04 that is not how you pronounce chimmyray
    54:45 apologizing if they don't make much sense
    1:03:21 get good at walking
    1:05:09 TORMENTOUS NIGHTMARE
    1:09:37 give me the hherbs, Worm
    1:14:52 he even says random latin phrases at you. I love this prickly little prick
    1:19:21 I'm gonna cure the town!
    1:20:23 DANKOVSKY YOU PRICKLY PRICK YOU'VE BURIED US ALL
    1:21:23 there was nothing to hope for from the start
    1:36:02 rude to you but in a cute way
    1:46:00 forgive me if my speech is unclear or absurd
    1:52:23 more brilliant when unfinished
    1:54:06 but don't play it, it sucks

    • @catslino5037
      @catslino5037 Před 9 měsíci +29

      Such good quotes! Underrated comment

    • @riirah1010
      @riirah1010 Před 9 měsíci +11

      @@catslino5037 thank you! :D

    • @caraskelton1525
      @caraskelton1525 Před 5 měsíci +11

      Many thanks, enjoy this comment as as small sliver of my abstraction of my soul as a token of my thanks

    • @riirah1010
      @riirah1010 Před 5 měsíci +6

      @@caraskelton1525 I gladly accept this token of soul and offer you a piece of my appreciation in return

    • @idrilisil
      @idrilisil Před 4 měsíci

      I'd humbly like to add:
      19:14 DON'T CATCH THE PLAGUE, SHITHEAD

  • @ctoconnor1732
    @ctoconnor1732 Před 3 lety +3394

    Harris says that Pathologic is the most alone you can get with your thoughts in a game. he says this because clearly, hes never depersonalized while playing solitaire for multiple straight hours

    • @jamesduffy7549
      @jamesduffy7549 Před 3 lety +239

      Both of you are casuals. True dissatisfaction comes from 72 hours of bloxorz on coolmath games

    • @finnorourke4861
      @finnorourke4861 Před 3 lety +85

      Nothing hurts more than grinding for 30 humanity in the depths, and missing 1 sunlight maggot...

    • @zlodrim9284
      @zlodrim9284 Před 3 lety +22

      System Shock 2 is probably the game that made me feel the loneliest.

    • @AnimeDreamer141
      @AnimeDreamer141 Před 3 lety +93

      @@zlodrim9284 i see you've never played chess against yourself

    • @maxmad7641
      @maxmad7641 Před 3 lety +10

      B l i g h t o w n y o u f o o l s the place of 0 fps and home of gross swamp, things? Reminds me a lot of pathologic 2 on console

  • @basicwhitegirl3558
    @basicwhitegirl3558 Před 4 lety +6229

    Have I played this? No.
    Do I even know what it is? Also no.
    Will I still watch the entire video? You bet.

    • @emmettchan5545
      @emmettchan5545 Před 4 lety +104

      It's a video meant for people who've never played it btw

    • @gregorycomey
      @gregorycomey Před 4 lety +63

      I don't think you want to play Pathologic 1 if you're sane.

    • @emmastefaniadraghici4178
      @emmastefaniadraghici4178 Před 4 lety +69

      @@gregorycomey Can confirm, have played pathologic 1, sure as shit am not sane anymore.

    • @liamboyd6882
      @liamboyd6882 Před 4 lety +3

      Me lol

    • @disabledanarchy
      @disabledanarchy Před 4 lety +2

      @basic white girl; I think you've just echoed the voice of the people, lol.

  • @gammarailgun5406
    @gammarailgun5406 Před 5 měsíci +144

    40:57
    CITE YOUR SOURCES, BACHELOR

  • @sugarkane1571
    @sugarkane1571 Před 7 měsíci +215

    I’d argue that the revelation that you’re a toy is much better than a movie’s revelation that it was all just a dream. When you wake up from a dream, you’re absolved of all responsibilities and consequences you had in the dream since, well, it wasn’t real to you. So you have protagonists ultimately didn’t do anything wrong or right or anything at all, since it wasn’t real to them. It throws away any kind of importance to actions since you know it will be meaningless to the main character. An ant that is a dreaming person will wake up without any changes to their life.
    But for a character to discover that they’re a toy for a bunch of kids, what’s so different from this to meeting the big and cynical man upstairs? Their life may not have much meaning to the kids, but this doesn’t change the reality they live in. Even if dictated by some kids, their actions still have consequences for the town and themselves. They still have to eat, sleep, avoid the plague, etc. They can’t leave the reality they live in, they just got a chance to see what’s above their reality. An ant seeing their ant farm tank for the first time doesn’t change how they’ve worked to feed the colony.

    • @joaoassumpcao3347
      @joaoassumpcao3347 Před 4 měsíci +40

      Also, the game uses the twist not as a "haha gotcha" moment (which is usually how the dream/hallucination plot twist goes), but more so as an extra twist of the knife for the characters. "Yeah, it's all miserable, Bachelor. Wanna know something else? You're a toy." Hell, the conversation right after that, in the theatre, addresses you as the player and asks you not to abandon your character. I really like it because it raises the point that if you felt your actions were important when playing a game, does it really make a difference if it's actually a game inside a game? Either way, it isn't real to you (the player).

  • @laurenbastin8849
    @laurenbastin8849 Před 3 lety +4039

    Haha, imagine officials denying an obvious plague is going to kill everyone, that could never happen now...

  • @midgematic8659
    @midgematic8659 Před 4 lety +2416

    The Bachelor: *says something pretentious*
    The Player: Im not with him. Ive never met this man before in my life

  • @cassie.m.0723
    @cassie.m.0723 Před 6 měsíci +657

    Maybe it's futile but I still dream of a day when we'll get the hbomberguy video for Pathologic 2

    • @wimbusbert1249
      @wimbusbert1249 Před 5 měsíci +18

      I hate his streak of saying he's going to make a video on an interesting topic and then not doing it. Sequel-bating and not following through is pretty shitty. The first agreement is "be impeccable with your word"

    • @caramel9154
      @caramel9154 Před 5 měsíci +110

      @@wimbusbert1249 i think it's more complex than that

    • @joyflameball
      @joyflameball Před 5 měsíci +67

      ​@@wimbusbert1249 I take it you don't have ADHD

    • @wimbusbert1249
      @wimbusbert1249 Před 5 měsíci +12

      @@caramel9154 definitely. But I can only speak as a fan, because that's what I am. And in fairness, he did just say he was going to release supplemental content in his last video and then actually did it, so, cheers there.

    • @mikejohn8528
      @mikejohn8528 Před 5 měsíci +46

      @@wimbusbert1249We’re lucky to get 8 more videos for the rest of the decade

  • @drebbmebben5322
    @drebbmebben5322 Před 3 měsíci +38

    "THAT'S what the game looks like???"
    -My loving partner who has heard me listen this video hundreds of times, but apparently never looked at the screen

  • @garrottingonabudget5626
    @garrottingonabudget5626 Před rokem +10003

    Still can't believe that Tommy Tallarico made the soundtrack for this masterpiece.

  • @ArkayeCh
    @ArkayeCh Před 2 lety +8750

    Playing Bachelor: "I hate this entire town."
    Playing Haruspex: "This entire town hates me."
    Playing Changeling: "Just like the simulations."

    • @h4jlk790
      @h4jlk790 Před 2 lety +391

      Bachelor: “the town hates me”
      Haruspex: “the town hates me and thinks I’m a killer”
      Changeling: “just like the simulations.”

    • @user-mc2qh4nv5g
      @user-mc2qh4nv5g Před 2 lety +295

      Bachelor: EFF U
      Haruspex: EFF ME
      Changeling: Just like the simulations

    • @expectationofplenty
      @expectationofplenty Před 2 lety +4

      @@h4jlk790 hugs 🫂

    • @vulpesignis2201
      @vulpesignis2201 Před 2 lety +243

      Average barchelor fan: i uant to have fwan
      Average haruspex enjoyer: damn this story is better than harry potter
      Changeling: *Changeling*

    • @nickmontalbano9573
      @nickmontalbano9573 Před 2 lety +56

      Watch those wrist rockets.

  • @benburke3015
    @benburke3015 Před 5 měsíci +154

    40:55 the distance Harry went to complete this joke 4 years later could circle the entire circumference of the earth 50 times over lmao.

    • @KommissarAzuraCh
      @KommissarAzuraCh Před 5 měsíci +5

      In the other video, which time stamp did he used the quote?

    • @darkchaosruler
      @darkchaosruler Před 5 měsíci +16

      @@KommissarAzuraCh Its the Plagiarism video, 3:37:18 to be exact

    • @KommissarAzuraCh
      @KommissarAzuraCh Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@darkchaosruler thank you! I knew it was in the plagiarism video, but i couldn't remember where he said it. Thanks!

    • @Uffda.
      @Uffda. Před 3 měsíci

      @@darkchaosrulerthank you!

  • @Tweekitus
    @Tweekitus Před 10 měsíci +207

    Since there's practically no chance it will get fixed, you should really try to mention this to anyone who might play Pathologic Classic HD. There's a bug with the Bachelor's day 1 quest which may force it to permanently be "incomplete," causing a failure no matter what and ending the game prematurely. Normally, it ends after meeting Rubin and Vlad the younger, then telling Georgiy the results of your investigation. On my first time trying it, Georgiy would repeat his dialogue about Simon's body, and it would mark down the final paragraph of the main quest every time. I ended up with it showing up like 5 or 6 times. Turns out that the flag that marks the quest "done" wasn't setting correctly, which means that the first day counted as failed, ending the game automatically. I don't believe this bug will ever be fixed, so please pass the word on to anyone playing this game that they should save before speaking to Rubin on day 1, just in case. I reloaded an older save and did it over again, then found out that Georgiy would correctly say "I am counting on you, doctor," on repeated conversations.

    • @Tweekitus
      @Tweekitus Před 10 měsíci +11

      Oh yeah, and it's currently on sale for

    • @arcainchaos
      @arcainchaos Před 9 měsíci +27

      Oh my goodness. I finally know why I couldn’t complete the first day, even after following a tutorial. I thought I just somehow kept messing something up! You are a hero
      Well, I guess it’s time to try playing it again, a year after my first attempt!

    • @vivivalley
      @vivivalley Před 3 měsíci

      boost!

  • @DabbleDo
    @DabbleDo Před rokem +5482

    I love playing Pathologic. It’s easier than people think. You just press play, and this nice British man explains it to you!

    • @imakerbadcontentrbad8664
      @imakerbadcontentrbad8664 Před 9 měsíci +190

      Ah, so it's just like LittleBigPlanet! Lemme get the kids, gonna boot up Pathologic for family game night!

    • @langerjunge
      @langerjunge Před 6 měsíci +86

      Is that the one where he tells you to walk through the door to the left, not the one to the right?

    • @Tp_hedgelinghog
      @Tp_hedgelinghog Před 6 měsíci +39

      ​@langerjunge I love The Stanley Parable. It is so good.

    • @childecamehome7149
      @childecamehome7149 Před 6 měsíci +17

      ​@@langerjungeoh my god the stanley parable, so good

    • @boogiebong420
      @boogiebong420 Před 4 měsíci +5

      ​@@langerjungethis has got to be the best reply ever written

  • @thejudge1728
    @thejudge1728 Před 2 lety +4923

    This reminds me of a tweet I've read a while back.
    "A Russian book is only truly good if either the writer, the reader, or the characters suffer" and the reply "And only if all three suffer, can it truly be considered a masterpiece".

    • @orgax
      @orgax Před 2 lety +306

      Perhaps It makes sense if we remember that we Russians have never had good times, there has never been freedom, wealth and security for ordinary citizens.

    • @user-io5rq1yy8c
      @user-io5rq1yy8c Před 2 lety +53

      @@orgax ооо, либераху порвало

    • @orgax
      @orgax Před 2 lety +60

      @@user-io5rq1yy8c Причем тут либерахи, ты собственную историю забыл?

    • @PierreDalique
      @PierreDalique Před 2 lety +151

      Suffering is just an essential part of Russian culture. Doomer Kingdom. And I like it

    • @Altropos
      @Altropos Před 2 lety +84

      Me: looking at my 1600 page copy of War and Peace
      * Nods sufferingly

  • @citruslllad
    @citruslllad Před 5 měsíci +128

    1:31:10 the girl in the street is the same as the girl in the garden, right? unless it's just an instance of the same character design being used, i wouldn't be surprised if this was the girl's way of inserting herself into the story. she decides her toys need a bit of help, so she imagines herself there helping them. incredible

  • @premingergang1099
    @premingergang1099 Před 8 měsíci +161

    As I was rewatching this today I was struggling to hand-sew a patch with a very tough backing onto denim, it was a difficult and unpleasant experience during which I pricked my fingers numerous times and considered giving up to try again a different day. Hbomberguy's resilience against this game inspired me to keep sewing until I was finished, and similarly to him I felt satisfied and rewarded for my efforts by the end of it. Thanks for giving me the drive to continue :)

    • @saokz7
      @saokz7 Před 6 měsíci +7

      congrats!

    • @spawnofheck504
      @spawnofheck504 Před 4 měsíci +5

      oh hey I was ALSO sewing while watching this! I just started a new cross stitch pattern. Small world!

    • @bee_doug
      @bee_doug Před 2 měsíci

      That’s wild, I was sewing while watching this for the first time!

  • @cosmoknott4451
    @cosmoknott4451 Před 3 lety +3817

    On my 6th rewatch and only just now realizing that there are worm people in this world probably because there are worms in the kids' sandbox.

    • @olivialanc9035
      @olivialanc9035 Před 3 lety +405

      HOW DID I NEVER GET THIS OMG-

    • @Omnicide101
      @Omnicide101 Před 3 lety +515

      Cosmo Knott Is Genius And Here's Why

    • @dewayner5388
      @dewayner5388 Před 3 lety +310

      You think that’s bad, I’m only just realizing the text description at character selection is yet more purple prose to tell you how the character sees their own history and role

    • @stagpie6449
      @stagpie6449 Před 3 lety +296

      The sickness is also called the Sand Plague iirc!

    • @ONE-vt1fz
      @ONE-vt1fz Před 3 lety +183

      @@stagpie6449 in pathologic 2 it was changed to sand pest! as in theres something infecting the sandbox!

  • @themandownstairs4765
    @themandownstairs4765 Před 3 lety +2496

    broke: "i digress"
    woke: "forgive me if my speech is unclear or absurd"

  • @theworldmushroom2581
    @theworldmushroom2581 Před 3 měsíci +28

    The fact that the advice about Nina is the most replayed part if the video implying people went back to remember it while playing the game makes me really happy

  • @Redingold
    @Redingold Před 6 měsíci +74

    Hbomberguy: "So a plague is starting, but nobody with the power to do anything about will take proper action, because everyone has their own agenda"
    Me: *sees video was released in November 2019*
    Apollo_dodgeball.jpg

  • @LKPrime
    @LKPrime Před 4 lety +2050

    "Pathologic" is the kind of game David Cage pretends he makes.

  • @AreweAble
    @AreweAble Před 3 lety +1923

    hbomberguy said " *egg* " and my brain said "time to rewatch 'Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why' for the sixth time"

    • @TheKing-qz6mb
      @TheKing-qz6mb Před 3 lety +93

      Those are rookie numbers you gotta bump up those numbers

    • @scumbagslacker
      @scumbagslacker Před 3 lety +57

      I do one pushup every time I watch pathologic is genius

    • @brandonbohan7281
      @brandonbohan7281 Před 3 lety +49

      @@scumbagslacker how’s the 8 pack?

    • @JosephPage
      @JosephPage Před 3 lety +34

      Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why except it plays in full again each time hbomberguy says "egg"

    • @brentc3580
      @brentc3580 Před 3 lety +16

      You might call that
      Pavlov-logic
      *weak rimshot*

  • @takacsnic
    @takacsnic Před 4 měsíci +47

    at 9:04 when he says, "you might be wondering why I'm reading the words out when they're on the screen, and that's because some people like to listen to these videos," it felt like a nice moment as right then I was in an art class and listening to this while doing an assignment, idk it just made me smile. He puts so much work into these videos for anyone to enjoy it however they can.

  • @HelpIveBeenShot
    @HelpIveBeenShot Před 5 měsíci +82

    Coming back here four years later when Harris finally actually reincorporated that bit about quoting Danil. Perfection..

    • @SpaceFrog999
      @SpaceFrog999 Před 5 měsíci +7

      MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I GOT TO THAT PART

  • @vincenzoorasi2498
    @vincenzoorasi2498 Před 2 lety +3465

    "you are broken Lara. I, on the other hand, am used to winning" is something you'd expect Shadow the hedgehog to say, swiftly followed by "you're a beta male, Sonic!"

    • @deviouscrackers9464
      @deviouscrackers9464 Před 2 lety +35

      I read it in his voice lol

    • @PermianExtinction
      @PermianExtinction Před 2 lety +119

      I'm literally always going to comment every time I see someone mentioning this line-it is mistranslated. Yes even in the updated TL. Daniil isn't being nearly as goofily rude as it comes off, he's telling her not to worry about HIM (because that's what she was worried about, that he was going to be executed by the Inquisition), literally just saying that she's a doomer. The line is more like, "Your spirit is crushed, Lara."

    • @deviouscrackers9464
      @deviouscrackers9464 Před 2 lety +90

      @@PermianExtinction it's still really funny to make fun of the line though

    • @tgreaux5027
      @tgreaux5027 Před 2 lety +18

      *EGGS*

    • @Ahrone1586
      @Ahrone1586 Před rokem

      @@PermianExtinction i dony understand

  • @Duskets
    @Duskets Před 3 lety +881

    The Virgin Bachelor
    THE CHAD HARUSPEX

  • @GentleIceZ
    @GentleIceZ Před 5 měsíci +136

    40:55 You did it. I've been waiting so long, but you finally did it. I feel complete now

    • @DrSilvestri
      @DrSilvestri Před 5 měsíci +11

      Exactly- seeing that in the plagiarism video was so very gratifying

    • @Cosplaybuddygiraffes
      @Cosplaybuddygiraffes Před 5 měsíci +12

      It’s kind of crazy because I watched the Plagiarism video *first* and just a few hours ago while itching for an hbomb video I hadn’t seen yet to dig into this one.
      So seeing that bit *floored me*

    • @MadDunhill
      @MadDunhill Před 5 měsíci +7

      @@Cosplaybuddygiraffes same thing here!

    • @GentleIceZ
      @GentleIceZ Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Cosplaybuddygiraffes lol. I'm technically on the opposite end of things, because I started watching Hbomb when this was his most recent video. So I've been waiting the full amount of time XD

    • @alexandreparot5846
      @alexandreparot5846 Před 2 měsíci

      I was so incredibly happy when he did it

  • @Hiya8partyz
    @Hiya8partyz Před 5 měsíci +243

    4 years later and we finally get payoff for a joke. Good job hbomb

    • @isakmagnusson8647
      @isakmagnusson8647 Před 5 měsíci +2

      What joke was that?

    • @mementobox
      @mementobox Před 5 měsíci +43

      @@isakmagnusson8647 He uses the Bachelor's quote as if the Bachelor was a philosopher in his latest video "Plagiarism and You(tube)". Turns out that the Bachelor plagiarized that quote as his own from an actual philosopher.

    • @isakmagnusson8647
      @isakmagnusson8647 Před 5 měsíci +8

      @@mementobox Okay that is genius

    • @prometheus9732
      @prometheus9732 Před 4 měsíci +13

      ⁠Back from the plagiarism video, the foreshadowing here is insane.

    • @solsoups
      @solsoups Před 4 měsíci

      Foreshadowing is a literary device in which- ​@@prometheus9732

  • @Dante-ob5mh
    @Dante-ob5mh Před 4 lety +1423

    Me at the start: "2 hours!!?"
    Me at the end: "I wish there was more"

    • @cashnelson2306
      @cashnelson2306 Před 4 lety +17

      Same!! I wish he talked about the developers

    • @DarkRelm22
      @DarkRelm22 Před 4 lety +2

      God, same haha

    • @Desimere
      @Desimere Před 4 lety +5

      haha, yeah, and i don't even play games.

    • @Ildskalli
      @Ildskalli Před 4 lety +8

      You're absolutely right! At about the 1:50:00 mark I started to panic, knowing that I was running out of video. It was fucking amazing!

  • @CatEarley
    @CatEarley Před 3 lety +1385

    "your main objective is getting these factions to admit that the plague exists"

    • @zab416
      @zab416 Před 2 lety +51

      *sigh*
      Big mood

    • @thedeathray8620
      @thedeathray8620 Před 2 lety +164

      "So a plague is starting, but no one with the power to take proper action will help, because everyone has their own agenda."
      That also describes it well.

    • @burningsinner1132
      @burningsinner1132 Před 2 lety +45

      @@thedeathray8620 And then we empowered them with emergency powers they abused to hell and back, pushing the interests of those in power to invest in the chaos to reap the profit. We've seen whole corporations rise on it (Hello, zoom!) and a lot of agrocomplexes exploited the hell out of small guys grief, forcing them to sell their stuff for cheap. And the best part is that they did it on the money they got from emergency funds under justification of keeping the economy afloat!
      Surprise, we all were the clowns burying us all all along!

    • @nanahuatli2144
      @nanahuatli2144 Před 2 lety +32

      I think it's aged like a fine wine. Only now do we know how right they were.

    • @burningsinner1132
      @burningsinner1132 Před 2 lety +19

      @@nanahuatli2144 Back in the days I thought that no gov is too stupid for that kind of stuff.
      And then all the governments started to ruin my positive expectations like it was Tokyo Olympics.

  • @thecheshirespy5002
    @thecheshirespy5002 Před měsícem +25

    I fell asleep listening to this, and thought I imagined most of it up. The hunger, the price change, especially shmowder. I'm astounded that my brain made none of this up except for putting into a Stardew valley art style.

  • @taurominos
    @taurominos Před 6 měsíci +84

    i was told by my drama teacher to watch this so i have it on in the background while im restoring a danse macabre woodcut

  • @teodoraristic822
    @teodoraristic822 Před 2 lety +20000

    This is *MY* sleepover and *I* get to choose the movie!

    • @nicolesong6199
      @nicolesong6199 Před 2 lety +279

      mood

    • @yerthebestaround9654
      @yerthebestaround9654 Před 2 lety +310

      7 hours of Pokemon Omega Ruby?

    • @jimmykeffer7401
      @jimmykeffer7401 Před 2 lety +873

      But we always watch Pathologic is Genius and Here’s Why

    • @Taz31415
      @Taz31415 Před 2 lety +59

      @@yerthebestaround9654 Pierce Brosnan at Mrs. Fitzsimmons sea bass.

    • @MrInurbutt
      @MrInurbutt Před 2 lety

      @@nicolesong6199 theway too loud 00 cc in

  • @nussymussy
    @nussymussy Před 4 lety +2227

    debunking flat earth: 45 minutes
    discussing this game: 2 hours and 10 minutes

    • @SorchaSublime
      @SorchaSublime Před 4 lety +204

      one was a labour of hate
      the other was a labour of love

    • @enahassenkam3171
      @enahassenkam3171 Před 4 lety +206

      To be fair, flat earth doesn’t really take much to debunk.

    • @transatlanticdylan8229
      @transatlanticdylan8229 Před 4 lety +140

      Pathologic is far more layered than flat earth theory

    • @aug1014
      @aug1014 Před 4 lety +55

      Flat earth took less time to debunk actually. He ranted about a bad spy plane and a poorly designed t-shirt during the video

    • @soulmechanics7946
      @soulmechanics7946 Před 4 lety +9

      This game is pretty amazing, to be fair. I love this. This is the sort of game I have always wished existed.

  • @Neptunequeen42
    @Neptunequeen42 Před 6 měsíci +59

    IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS. WHAT IS THE SECOND STILL OBJECT

    • @leave669
      @leave669 Před 6 měsíci +10

      I went looking through the latest comments for the answer. Please I need to know

    • @tinkerer3399
      @tinkerer3399 Před 5 měsíci +6

      The first one that springs to my mind is the mannequins in BioShock Infinite which were kinda memetic shortly before the time of initial release. But the issue with that is that those actually did move when you werent watching them. Although they are always still when you were watching them and... come to think of it I have no idea how they moved in universe.

    • @shiny-dust
      @shiny-dust Před 5 měsíci +26

      i think it’s the dinosaur statue in the museum hallway in vampire the masquerade bloodlines

    • @mothgoth0
      @mothgoth0 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@shiny-dust OH MY GOD UR SO RIGHT

    • @steveharrison76
      @steveharrison76 Před měsícem +1

      @@shiny-dustTHANK YOU! I reckon you’re right!

  • @andrewherrmann5243
    @andrewherrmann5243 Před 2 měsíci +21

    I might be disgustingly late to this idea, but I thought I'd bring it up: the sound of a child crying that plays whenever your reputation goes down... Is one of the kids from the garden making that noise, weeping because their story has taken yet another turn for the tragic?
    Again, this has only occurred to me as a possibility after listening to this video about a dozen times. (btw sorry mr. bomberguy, my job won't let me have my phone out :(

  • @0ptimuscrime
    @0ptimuscrime Před 4 lety +3205

    “Your main quest is getting these warring factions to admit that the obvious problem exists.”
    Hmmm, wonder what that’s like

    • @thevoidwantssanrioplushies9882
      @thevoidwantssanrioplushies9882 Před 4 lety +350

      I yelled "Global warming" and scared my cat T_T

    • @jacksonelh
      @jacksonelh Před 4 lety +9

      TooLateToTheParty not really to be honest, pillars is the only example I can think of.

    • @Grisolder
      @Grisolder Před 4 lety +64

      @@jacksonelh Well, it is also definitely a Bioware thing : think about Dragon Age Origins, or Dragon Age Inquisition, as well as the whole plot of the "Mass Effect" trilogy.

    • @jacksonelh
      @jacksonelh Před 4 lety

      Grisolder I haven't played any of those haha. pretty much the only rpgs I haven't played yet

    • @gulfgiggleanimations4472
      @gulfgiggleanimations4472 Před 4 lety +109

      What’s that? I couldn’t hear your joke over the sound of people drowning in the boiling ocean.

  • @gloriousbastard3319
    @gloriousbastard3319 Před rokem +9656

    As a native russian speaker I feel like I need to point out that the remastered english translation is EASIER and LESS CRYPTIC to understand than the original russian text, that's how weirdly it is written. Every conversation you'll ever have in this game will feel like you're trying to communicate with a half-dazed semi-senile theatre prima who someone forgot to notify about the fact that the show has been over for several decades now and who is clearly on meth. But they are my half-dazed semi-senile meth addicts and I love them.

    • @yelirmae
      @yelirmae Před rokem +482

      i love this comment, thank u for putting these words in this combination. 😅

    • @gloriousbastard3319
      @gloriousbastard3319 Před rokem +354

      @@yelirmae thank you, it took me about 15 minutes to string them together

    • @Spike-Prime
      @Spike-Prime Před rokem +120

      This comment should be pinned so all can see as long as the video is up.

    • @Angela1111122222
      @Angela1111122222 Před rokem +62

      Never expected Heizou to explain to me the Russian version of pathologic

    • @gloriousbastard3319
      @gloriousbastard3319 Před rokem +88

      @@Angela1111122222 the dialogue in this game is so DrEaMy TrAvElLer~

  • @spookysomeone
    @spookysomeone Před 7 měsíci +63

    rip hbomberguy you would've loved fear and hunger 🙏🙏🙏

    • @WangleLine
      @WangleLine Před 7 měsíci +19

      I'm so sad he lived his entire life only frollicking in endless flower fields

    • @spookysomeone
      @spookysomeone Před 7 měsíci +16

      @@WangleLine fear and hunger is a game but this interpretation of my comment is beautiful thank you

    • @WangleLine
      @WangleLine Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@spookysomeone oops! lol

  • @thegoodgolly1465
    @thegoodgolly1465 Před 5 měsíci +218

    Me, having this on while I do chores around the house: wow I'm so glad hbomberguy videos don't need me to watch them the whole time
    Hbomberguy: y'know I put a lot of effort into these visuals...

    • @matthewpinn4
      @matthewpinn4 Před 4 měsíci +17

      Jokes on you Hbomberguy! I've seen the video 4 times now the visuals are in my mind!!

  • @Methus3lah
    @Methus3lah Před 2 lety +6491

    27:03 “A plague is starting, but no one with the power to take proper action will help because everyone has their own agenda.”
    This aged well.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 Před 2 lety +28

      „To read makes our speaking English good." -Cody,
      from Some More News.
      „Dictionarys are Part of the Reptilian-Movement’s Plan to
      Make us Understand Words!’
      -Hbomberguy, the Hbomberguy-Guy.
      I cant be the only one who sees the resemblance. Both are epic and do social Commentary on YT. So if youre Fan of one but not the other: Duh!

    • @D00000T
      @D00000T Před 2 lety +244

      Pathologic 1&2 are my favorite Covid simulators

    • @SamHaeger
      @SamHaeger Před 2 lety +152

      I keep watching this through the pandemic, it's a weird catharsis.

    • @ChariMahariel
      @ChariMahariel Před 2 lety +82

      @@D00000T I ironically got COVID soon after trying this game

    • @jangoneko3875
      @jangoneko3875 Před 2 lety +71

      aged like fine fuckin cheese, holy shit

  • @itsmybridgenow6329
    @itsmybridgenow6329 Před 2 lety +4894

    Hbomberguy videos really manage to capitalise on the youngest sibling mindset of genuinely enjoying watching someone else play a video game

    • @WinningSidekick
      @WinningSidekick Před rokem +168

      oh shit is THAT why this is so comforting to me???

    • @YamiNoDaisuke
      @YamiNoDaisuke Před rokem +55

      I feel somewhat attacked

    • @Findecommie
      @Findecommie Před rokem +92

      Can also be an oldest sibling thing! I didn't touch a video game outside of, like, boardwalk atari racers, until I was 10 and I never really learned the form well enough to enjoy playing anything with 3D movement, but my it's fun to watch my baby sister have fun :)

    • @RozWBrazel
      @RozWBrazel Před rokem +57

      @@Findecommie why not both? It’s the joy of vicariously experiencing a game with someone who likes it

    • @lissie3669
      @lissie3669 Před rokem +8

      noooo you're right

  • @melonwar3927
    @melonwar3927 Před 6 měsíci +33

    The Bachelors quote "Truth does not do as much good in the world... as its counterfeits do evil" is incredible, his character constantly assumes his perception is the truth where it isn't and that perception, the "counterfeit truth" does terrible damage to everyone.
    He's arrogant enough to preach this quote profoundly but only because he assumes, to the point of 'knowing', his perception is the truth and as such can't follow his own quote, he's a walking contradiction.

  • @Letangier
    @Letangier Před měsícem +19

    In case anyone was curious, like i was, a haruspex is like.. an ancient roman priest that divines the future through sacrificial organs. A more modern translation might be “necromancer” but honestly i think haruspex is completely on the nose 😳

    • @Bella-pb6uk
      @Bella-pb6uk Před 15 dny +1

      i don’t think a necromancer is quite the correct translation. i’d probably say augur, considering necromancers don’t really do any divining of the future!

    • @Letangier
      @Letangier Před 3 dny

      @@Bella-pb6ukmaybe not YOUR necromancers 😉

  • @adrianndrules
    @adrianndrules Před 3 lety +1060

    hbomberguy: don't play this game
    steam sale: $1.29

    • @adrianndrules
      @adrianndrules Před 3 lety +42

      i bought it 😔 (on gog tho)

    • @jamiel6005
      @jamiel6005 Před 3 lety +44

      @@adrianndrules good luck comrade 😔

    • @MolnarSPeter
      @MolnarSPeter Před 3 lety +27

      Bought it, really enjoyed it so far, even the walking was entertaining in a weird way, I might be one of a kind tho

    • @schmorgus4592
      @schmorgus4592 Před 3 lety +2

      @@adrianndrules have you beat it yet?

    • @tonycampbell1424
      @tonycampbell1424 Před 3 lety +18

      Same. Finished Daniil's fun steppe vacation.

  • @Tylerururu
    @Tylerururu Před rokem +3099

    This video infected my brain because I watched it shortly after getting a job in food service and every time I went to grab onions out of the cooler I said to myself "go, onion, i need to collect the tools"

    • @joelovedaymusic8385
      @joelovedaymusic8385 Před rokem +165

      Hahahaha I love that! I guarantee I'll go the other way and start referring to "oynons" while I'm cooking

    • @SOLO.DANDELION
      @SOLO.DANDELION Před rokem +34

      I laughed way to long and... thx

    • @cassiopeiawarrener9654
      @cassiopeiawarrener9654 Před 11 měsíci +97

      Meanwhile, every time I handle eggs the spirit of Harris Hbomberguy Brewis rises in my head speaking directly into my soul 'delicious ... e g g.'

    • @versebuchanan512
      @versebuchanan512 Před 9 měsíci +3

      The walk-in, or your station mise? You're in the business, don't call it a cooler unless you're at somebody's uncles bbq, linedog.

    • @NeoNovastar
      @NeoNovastar Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@versebuchanan512i highly doubt bro is paid enough to give that much of a fuck lol

  • @OfficialChisco
    @OfficialChisco Před 4 měsíci +30

    Oh Pathological video essay. The time for you to assist me has come again. The hour grows late yet I find myself not tired. Sing me to rest as you have done many times before. Only you, a video I’ve watched like 6 times all the way through can do this task for me

  • @NeoNovastar
    @NeoNovastar Před 9 měsíci +118

    Sometimes you just gotta watch pathologic vids just to feel something

    • @HiBuddyyyyyy
      @HiBuddyyyyyy Před 5 měsíci +2

      I’m watching it right now because I feel sick from anxiety!!

    • @Helena_Finch
      @Helena_Finch Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@HiBuddyyyyyyI also watch this video when my anxiety flares up - hope you fell better!!

    • @HiBuddyyyyyy
      @HiBuddyyyyyy Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@Helena_Finch I do now, thank you for saying that :)

    • @Helena_Finch
      @Helena_Finch Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@HiBuddyyyyyy glad to hear it! :-))

  • @TheWeeabooCrewGamers
    @TheWeeabooCrewGamers Před 4 lety +4478

    I wish there were more games in the “Playable Russian Literature” genre

    • @jaredbumblecrum
      @jaredbumblecrum Před 4 lety +162

      Metamorphosis as a text based adventure could work, now that i think abt it

    • @TheWeeabooCrewGamers
      @TheWeeabooCrewGamers Před 4 lety +68

      jared bumblecrum Given that I’m a Kafka I think I should make it. I’ll credit you for the idea and release it for free if I ever get around to making it.

    • @myopicmanatee6432
      @myopicmanatee6432 Před 4 lety +130

      A Crime and Punishment game would be awesome. It could just be a parser asking if you feel guilty yet.

    • @aquanecromancer5776
      @aquanecromancer5776 Před 4 lety +72

      The Void is by the same devs and even more compelling imo.

    • @myopicmanatee6432
      @myopicmanatee6432 Před 4 lety +66

      @@aquanecromancer5776 The Void is an amazing experience and works on a purely abstract level. It is also a very stressful game where time and resource management are vital. It is also reallllyyy hard.

  • @nixnox1962
    @nixnox1962 Před 3 lety +2848

    Ukranian Russian here, I might be able to explain the "Dragon/Leviathan" bit. So its not them using weird words just cause. The phrase Immortal Dragon has cultural connotation because our folklore and children's tales often feature a superhuman tank of a knight called a bagatir fighting various enemies, like baba yaga, koschei the "death-less" , and a dragon named zmei gorynych. They essentially created a smorgasborg of Slavic folklore as a backdrop for the story and this phrase is a small example, they combined the famous titles of two villains central in our cultural folktales, and this led to: "the dragon without death". Or a little more concisely: "the immortal dragon" as seen in the "out of place" translation. Leviathan may make more sense to English players in context but it loses depth when the cultural/nostalgia feeling is replaced by a simple overused metaphor. It isn't a fully faithful translation, but I got no problems cause this may actually be impossible without a player having intimate cultural and lingual knowledge of the origin. But yea 95% of quirky translation here is just direct or adapted translation of a creative mash of slavic slang, references, idioms, etc. used in this story to draw in Slavic players by drawing on their memories and cultural identity with clever and subtle slips to create a feeling of even further depth in the setting and and increases the game's inherent draw to that subsect of players.

    • @patrickoeary1425
      @patrickoeary1425 Před 3 lety +170

      This was really interesting to learn. Thx for clearing that up.

    • @WaaveLvl0
      @WaaveLvl0 Před 3 lety +138

      That's extremely interesting. I love the discussion around translations vs transliterations, it's just so incredibly complex when you have to weigh out what's better for the story; keeping the intention faithful to the original language or creating a clearer narrative to the non-native audience. In a situation like this I think going with the literal translation would've been the smarter option, the strangeness of the phrase in English really works for the tone and things like this also may lead to some of the audience learning details important to the game like your explanation of Slavic culture being directly tied to to it or just really cool facts in general.

    • @moongoose8768
      @moongoose8768 Před 3 lety +57

      Think a lot of ppl don't wanna spam yr replies, but we all thank you for explaining.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA Před 3 lety +68

      Translating culture specific terms from Slavspeak into WASPspeak:
      "Bagatyr" is just a knight errant, comes from Mongolian title "Baghatur"
      "Zmei" or "zmiy" means literally "snake", and Gorynych is the name of a multi-headed hydra
      "Baba" is a dismissive term for a woman. "Baba yaga" is just a forest hag
      So russian folklore is not that confusing... really a mish-mash of Greek, central Asian and local Tatar/Bulgar/Slavic/Baltic legends, you got common Indo-European themes like phoenixes, being called just... "hot bird", princesses turned into frogs, and the most unique things are Yaga's hut having giant chicken legs (yes, her house moves), and Koschei being a skinny old man whose immortality is hidden in a nesting doll of needle-in-an-egg that's in-a-duck which is in-a-hare. Other themes are very similar to stuff from Greek myths renamed.

    • @GreebleClown
      @GreebleClown Před 3 lety +38

      So it’s like the difference between calling someone a dragon and comparing someone to Smaug? There’s a bit of a nuance to it if you know exactly *which* dragon is being referenced... cool! I’ll have to look up the folklore, it sounds interesting!

  • @joelw9811
    @joelw9811 Před 5 měsíci +33

    I’m on day 5 of the bachelor’s storyline and this game absolutely rules. “You weren’t playing a game where you have to eat food to survive. You were playing a game about starving.”

  • @m_worm
    @m_worm Před 2 měsíci +15

    there is an emotion evoked by the knowledge this video was published in november 2019 that i cannot name but it is absolutely looming for two straight hours. very well done

  • @sebastianquintana5412
    @sebastianquintana5412 Před rokem +4996

    As a med student i can confirm that clinics and surgeons often end up trying to hunt each other down

    • @zab416
      @zab416 Před rokem +200

      Shit I've shown a few med students a screenshot of this game. I didn't mean to help fuel the ongoing blood feud. Or the bureaucratic cat and mouse. I'm not sure which is more deadly.

    • @tylerbeaumont
      @tylerbeaumont Před rokem +164

      Pathologic is just an analogy for trying to find the right number to call for an uncommon treatment while working in first appointments prove me wrong

    • @zab416
      @zab416 Před rokem +44

      @@tylerbeaumont Scenario in your comment gives me a similar sense of looming horrible doom as Pathologic, this is a solid game theory.

    • @ThatOneIrishFurry
      @ThatOneIrishFurry Před rokem +70

      Do you also wake up everyday looking at your original goals for life then continue your quest helping deal with the unexpected plauge?

    • @Chloe-kd6zq
      @Chloe-kd6zq Před rokem +3

      🔝🔝✨🔝🔝🔝🔝

  • @thesavageking7082
    @thesavageking7082 Před 2 lety +5082

    Time for my monthly viewing of "Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why" I hope it'll be just as good as the other 15 times I've watched it

    • @gloomsi
      @gloomsi Před 2 lety +133

      *handshake*

    • @NicoTb4
      @NicoTb4 Před 2 lety +8

      @@homelessalcoholic2716 also check out barny 64's wow adventures or "metal gear solid 2 is a masterpiece" by paper starships

    • @unknowncreature-0069
      @unknowncreature-0069 Před 2 lety +35

      Hey I do the same exact thing...

    • @TPNsBiggestFan
      @TPNsBiggestFan Před 2 lety +23

      same but with his rwby video

    • @psychopompous489
      @psychopompous489 Před 2 lety +8

      Was it?

  • @ohnothepineappleohno1524
    @ohnothepineappleohno1524 Před 4 měsíci +17

    Shopkeeper is seriously looking you dead in the eye and telling you a egg is worth 1650$

    • @KiraTesla
      @KiraTesla Před 11 dny

      Assuming it's rubles, and using today's exchange rate, that egg is about $18. Completely ridiculous

  • @miracat12
    @miracat12 Před 10 měsíci +381

    this game is starting to feel a little too real after living through both an on-going pandemic and a cost-of-living crisis

    • @miracat12
      @miracat12 Před 7 měsíci +40

      @Krivvet girl 6.9 million people died

    • @Jiub_SN
      @Jiub_SN Před 6 měsíci

      ⁠@@miracat12you understand how minor that is right? Not to say it isn't bad but for 8.1 billion people that's significantly better then any other major plague. Like, the Black Death killed upwards of 54% of the worlds population and the Spanish flu killed significantly more at upwards of 100 million. Like when talking about pandemics Covid had less impact then most diseases that are commonplace. There's also the fact that most of the people who died died because of weak immune systems/ongoing health issues and poor diagnoses early in the pandemic. The fact is that less then 1% of those infected died and less then .01% of the world was infected. People tend to do this a lot more today, but gun crime, police brutality, basically anything that you think is bad now is significantly better then it was 10-20 years ago, the only difference is that the internet lets you know when something happens anywhere in the world instantly. Basically, the number of people that died is a good thing all things considered. We can do better, but acting like that's a crazy number is being ignorant

    • @lrose5522
      @lrose5522 Před 5 měsíci +18

      ​@NotAClanker Yeah but it's getting compared to the in-game plague, which only killed a single town at the worst, so being like "6.9 million ppl died" is a valid retort to the other guy

    • @liesalllies
      @liesalllies Před 5 měsíci

      People only care about bloodshed when it's their blood. And their shed.

    • @a.s.1484
      @a.s.1484 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Jiub_SN "oooh only the weak died, so it's not that bad actually!" Please take this opinion to the garbage can, where it belongs.
      Covid might not be THE deadliest disease _ever_ but it's got *very serious, disabling longterm consequences* , even when the initial infection was mild. Death toll isn't the only measure to decide the gravitas of a disease.

  • @nessie6899
    @nessie6899 Před rokem +5828

    It is vital that everyone know that in pathologic 2 the bachelor is so short that in one of the parts where you meet him outside of isidor’s house the devs had to make him float a few inches off the ground in order to make him easily noticeable so you don’t step on him. This fact is important to me

    • @eldritch_midnight6007
      @eldritch_midnight6007 Před rokem +287

      I thought he was short in classic HD but I wasn’t sure if that was true for every character or just the bachelor

    • @dani.2479
      @dani.2479 Před rokem +318

      I'm making an AI dungeon scenario where it's just this but the bachelor is just a fucking dwarf with a scalpel

    • @nessie6899
      @nessie6899 Před rokem +290

      @@dani.2479 that’s just the bachelor in-game. Little gnome man who loves causing problems

    • @dani.2479
      @dani.2479 Před rokem

      @@nessie6899 nah im straight up making him a fucking dwarf

    • @nessie6899
      @nessie6899 Před rokem +40

      @@dani.2479 honestly good. thank you for your service

  • @Sins...
    @Sins... Před rokem +3204

    Of course Dankovsky has so much walking to do, he's gotta meet his daily Steppe goals.

  • @pixelleaf5037
    @pixelleaf5037 Před 2 měsíci +8

    "So, what kind of game is Pathologic?"
    "It's a walking simulator"

  • @maybe0rdinary
    @maybe0rdinary Před 7 měsíci +38

    Ok. Ok so I ADORED this video first of all. I love Pathologic's strange and convoluted story but I'm SO impressed with how you managed to dismiss the Changeling's story for THAT LONG just to reveal the secret ending twist and carry on to explain the last playthrough. Like that was EXTREMELY well delivered, I'm super pleased by this outcomr

  • @InkaPuroshiVT
    @InkaPuroshiVT Před 3 lety +1690

    "Thousands and thousands of rubles! Almost 50$ worth!"
    I laughed so hard, but then I remembered that I live in Russia and cried

    • @annakovach7334
      @annakovach7334 Před 3 lety +63

      Жиза.

    • @sagapulastation1711
      @sagapulastation1711 Před 3 lety +27

      Im not russian but i know the feeling :,))))

    • @vookatos
      @vookatos Před 3 lety +13

      Noticed the same on my rewatch. Haha, that’s pretty funn-oh yeah

    • @lolicanadian
      @lolicanadian Před 3 lety +46

      I keep a 1000-ruble banknote in my wallet with all my other (Canadian) $20 bills both as a souvenir from Sankt-Peterburg and as a reminder that it's worth about twenty dollars here.

    • @InkaPuroshiVT
      @InkaPuroshiVT Před 3 lety +13

      @@lolicanadian yeah, pretty much. Love me some G O O D economy

  • @Suthek
    @Suthek Před 2 lety +6002

    Imagine if the horrible translation was something unique to the Bachelor. He's not from there, he may not speak their dialect (or even language) all that well. Imagine getting turned off by the near unintelligible conversations and then you decide to play the Haruspex and suddenly everything is written perfectly crisp and clear.

    • @thegreensunsetgroup2501
      @thegreensunsetgroup2501 Před 2 lety +1032

      I think that's the next logical step to make this game worse (worse in this context means better because it's pathologic)

    • @epicgamer-ny4fj
      @epicgamer-ny4fj Před 2 lety +524

      Don't give them ideas! Your lucky they even let you understand what the language they are speaking in the FIRST place!

    • @Gloss613
      @Gloss613 Před 2 lety +267

      this is the opposite of playing as a malkavian in vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, no one understands you, and you can't understand anyone

    • @bookbook9495
      @bookbook9495 Před 2 lety +16

      @@epicgamer-ny4fj cough cough butchers

    • @D00000T
      @D00000T Před 2 lety +165

      Second terrible idea to make the game worse (and better for pathologic) : force the player to only play the bachelor up to a certain point on their first time and have almost all the text be in untranslated Russian. Once the player gets fed up and goes back to the main menu, give them the ability to play the haruspex with perfect translation

  • @avdotya333
    @avdotya333 Před 7 měsíci +38

    all the bachelor slander was so funny 😭😭

  • @chessmiller5661
    @chessmiller5661 Před 3 měsíci +14

    I have watched this video enough that it just. Starts playing after other, completely unrelated videos.
    I think my algorithm just doesn't know what to do with me sometimes and goes "please, please, this will keep you busy for two hours, we know it will it's been like 5% of your CZcams consumption for two years straight"