Smile For the Camera (Ready or Not Lore)
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- First, it was Mindjot, then it was Amos Voll, and now it’s George Brixly. Today we do a deep dive into the lore behind Ready or Not’s map, The Agency.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:16 The Spider
8:37 Theory
Background Music:
Boardwalk (Spec Ops: The Line OST)
213 Park Homes Combat Theme (Ready or Not OST)
Fast Food (Ready or Not OST)
Bells Of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077 OST)
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The Venus Project is an IRL thing, it's a society imagined by Jacques Fresco. You can find one of his book in the police precinct. It's about using technology and most recent knowledge to create cities that would be fully sustainable in term of food, water and energy. They have a website where they explain all that. I was very surprised when I saw references to this guy in the game. In some way it's logical with the RoN lore. Los Sueños is crumbling under many problems and it kinda feels like it's the end of the old world there as capitalism is showing its contradictions, so it wouldn't be surprising that people would start to find interest into something like the Venus Project.
Corpratocracy is the end stage of capitalism. Conglomerates of conglomerates, lobbying for government contracts and Stalinist economic policies solely intended to prevent the natural formation of competition from the bottom, eventually graduating to political activity, pushing for mass indoctrination and weaponization of exploitable elements, and mass surveillance, censorship, social isolation, and incarceration of non-exploitable elements.
Apply the Military-Industrial Complex to everything, and you get what we have today. It's not even a conspiracy, and that's what's scary...
A smart person finnaly:)
Ah yes, the Venus Project. Well-run, sustainable...and inhuman. Inherently murderous. Filled to the brim with hubris and a thinly-veiled hatred for humanity. No wonder that would pop up in Los Suenos. Life is cheap enough there already to consider a devil's deal to make an end of it.
Capitalism? What are you talking about? 99% issues are to government central banks and central planning.
@@icancounto9994 Central banks and governments are agents of capitalism. As much as I prolly agree with you that governments are traitors to the populations they are supposed to serve, it is simply the capitalist process. Money or as people call it: Value, is the root of all problems even though it permitted mankind to achieve incredible things ; but nothing comes for free.
the world of Ready or Not is like Gotham City without Batman.
And the swat weren't one hit killed and were REALLY good at there job
They've got Judge. (who also might be riddled with PTSD, as it's still unclear if any of this is even happening. It's hinted the MLO might not even be real, so who knows what else is a figment of Judge's mind?)
"omg guys this is just like superhero thing" bruh
So Chicago.
LA in a nutshell
reguarding the owner of Bolton security, i was playing The Spider, and after arresting one of the hired guns, he says "Call my boss Voll, he'll clear all this up" which makes me think that Amos Voll also is the CEO of Bolton Security, or atleast has a high position in the company
Rest in piss won’t be missed smoking on that voll six pack😂💯🚬 L bozo
+1
Either that, or they went rogue from the company due to lack of funds/pay and is now under Voll's direct command and paycheck
I don't think it'd be a stretch for Voll to have just hired them for security, which would make him their boss. As pretty much mercenaries, they're contractually obligated to do what he says.
My friend was from a very poor family with multiple family members being alcoholics.
She was (and still is) very beautiful and thin as a kid so she tried for modelling agency.
Her mom took her to audition and she nailed it, but then recruiting person gave them contract that basically said that she will be under that model agency control and her parents cant interfere whatsoever.
(And yes contract like that is illegal in my country)
Without giving it a second thought, my friend’s mom took her and left immediately.
Scary shit. Some shady model agency looking for kids, fooling parents with fake ass contracts…
oh damn wtf that’s crazy
@@m_e6289 yeah.
At least your friend's mom had the sense to know she was about to be duped with a fake ass contract. The real scary part is all the other parents who probably didn't realize it until it was too late.
@@silentwalker434 I was thinking about it too…
The crazy thing is that a majority of people deny this evil exists and that it’s all a conspiracy theory burying their heads in the sand. I’m glad the parent took their kid away from that situation.
In an earlier version of the game at the swat station on the desk infront of the "ready" spot, was a map of Saigon from 1970's.
To be honest if Ready or Not explored other time periods like the 70s or 90s it would be sick as shit, imagine playing as cops in New York in the 70s or MPs raiding some Vietcong cell in Saigon
That's quite interesting..
@@xxxxxx5868 I fully agree that would be awesome! We could even see Far Left terrorists, something similar to the Symbionese Liberation Army and eco terrorists like the Animal Liberation Front
@@xxxxxx5868 raiding a "black panther" cell in a residential apartment on the slums as part of suspicion to relation to the war on drugs, to then find out it's actually the fbi peddling crack to the low income community as part of a campaign to increase policing and surveillance of counter government protestors and figures.
that would be siiick
@@xxxxxx5868 Speaking of MPs
They could make a scenario about MPs in the Tet Offensive or Hue
Something I think should be of note. In ridgeline there's a bunch of papers referencing "USIA LSD based experiments conducted in the 70s" and judging by the fact that this safe injection clinic seems to be despised (Given the amount of graffiti depicting the main proprietor as hitler) And the fact that the old desk has "Chief saigon operations" I would think this may possibly have been an old site for those tests.
I would also like to add my theory on said experiments. My theory so far is I think that the term "MLO" was initially a code name for one of these LSD based experiments. Similar to the codename MK Ultra. And I think that the "Mariposa Lily Organization" is either a group of some of these ex-MLO experiment test subjects looking to get revenge on the USIA or that they're a group of sleeper agents reactivated by some rogue corrupt project lead.
Whichever is the case I think that they take on the initials of MLO as some sort of act of "poetic irony" for whatever agenda they have.
Interesting...
Or the safe injection site is spiking their doses with LSD.
So are you suggesting they are continuing the experiment in the modern day using a safe injection site as cover and a way to get test subjects?
@@wilmerreinholdsson1181 Well sort of, I think in the 70s the USIA conducted these experiments using safe injection clinics or other facilities such as this one. Once the results of the experiment proved ineffective or info about the sites got exposed. They shut them down and tried to cover it up and do damage control.
"MLO" on the other hand seems to conduct some sort of LSD based experiments of their own in present day however, so whether the MLO are conducting said experiments on their own volition or are a splinter group created by the USIA to do these experiments on their behalf without explicitly being directly tied to the USIA is yet to be seen.
I remember when I first got ready or not. We played the valley of dolls mission. It was my first time. And they didn't tell me what to do.
At the start of the game we had gone through basic combat training. Learning peaking. Squad tactics. Weapons and utilities. I felt ready to take on whatever the next man could bring.
But what we saw upon approaching the basement. Was nothing like the simulations
Man made horrors beyond comprehension
I am a Fairfax residency veteran. But they one upped it
Wonder if they can do it with "the other basement" from swat 4.
"im dumping a whole mag on this amos b1tch" -Us
@@emergconyou mean The Children of Tarrone, that mission was sick as fuck
peeking*
I remember the first time I did this map with my friends, and after we put together what was going on we were sick to our stomachs. We had completed the mission, just looking for evidence, so we just looked at all the sick shit in there.
Then my friend passed by a civilian we had arrested, and she said something that made him put a bullet through her head without hesitation.
"I'm sorry, I did it for the money."
In his words, "Never have I felt real, genuine, uncontrollable emotional rage from a video game before. That was real to me."
Yeah me and my mates never get a good rank on these kinds of raids for similar reasons...
Your friend's actions hit me in the guts like that, I felt that man, it's scary to feel genuine emotional rage from a video game
I love how based on reality Ready Or Not is. Criminals exploit the poor and are desperate to make the worst decisions, manipulating them. And then abusing, killing their children and destroying whole families. This gives the missions an impact, on your own morality. You stick by the rule and protect justice or you may slip your finger and shoot the suspect.
I am just happy that we are getting darky and grittier games based on reality.
I swear, my sa58 will almost always go off when im looking at voll, its odd
Did you see Schindler's List? Remember the scene as the SS-soldier wanted to shoot the Jewish factory worker but his pistol for some reason just did not want to fire? That's exactly the case with your SA58, but shoots when it needs to. ;) @@baconflakes3345
@@Blind_Hawk both are w guns lol
@@baconflakes3345 of course of course
@@baconflakes3345It’s really weird isn’t it? The same thing happens with my weapons. Such a strange glitch,
The usage of Spec Ops: The Line music was a good choice. It fits the vibe of this game perfectly, the depressing and overbearing atmosphere of Spec Ops and Ready or Not have similar feels.
Regarding the whole point about Saigon starting at 9:58. While Saigon was renamed to Ho Chi Minh City, I personally know a few people, either from South Vietnam or descendants of, who still call it "Saigon" despite the name change. You do make an interesting point with pointing that out though.
My theory is that "Saigon" refers to a "Little Saigon" somewhere else in the city.
@Bar Rag could be. The largest group of overseas Vietnamese live in the greater LA metro (orange county really) under the little Saigon district. Not sure if that ethnic group will play a role since their gang activities declined since the 2000s. I'm thinking more likely that the disillusionment of VN vets evolved into the heaps and heaps of private security and extremists we fight in other maps. Our sergeant here is a footnote that older vets tried to get their younger counterparts into seedy jobs to keep everyone's mouths fed.
In the northern region of vietnam we still sometimes call hcm city as saigon, what if the game suggest that cia is doing something covert in hcm city?
Wake up babe new RoN lore vid just dropped
interesting thing about the saigon operation name tag, it's not the only connection to the vietnam war. still could be unrelated but it is odd. The former gas station owner Mudasir is a Vietnam vet, He has an award in his office from the government for his service during vietnam.
The old lobby had a map of Saigon on the table by the ready mat
It's weird because they all seem too young to have been in vietnam.
Not sure if you or anyone else will see this, but on "saigon operations" I'd say Occam's Razor; "Saigon" is a place, just not the actually Saigon. It may be a hint at a yet unseen location referred to as Saigon- my guess would be a "Little Saigon," a borough or portion of the city with a dense population of Vietnamese (just like how some places with many people of chinese decent or cultural background are called "little china" or "china town"). The reason it'd be called "Saigon" is down to the fact that a lot of immigration to the US from Vietnam happened at the end of the Vietnam War, as many people from the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) fled to the US. Many of these people still fly the Republic of Vietnam flag and call Saigon by it's old name still.
So little thing of note, in Brixleys office on his desk he has dolls arranged in a "lewd manner". I took this two ways, A: Hes teaching kids which is fucked up or B: The Moms were also abused. In the insentive of, "oh i wont take your child into this unless you do this for me, then I pay you. The parents can obviously be seen having a hunch of knowing whats happening but they do it because they need money. Really messed up world building that makes you wonder.
This reminds of the movie "End of Watch" where two officers find two children held captive in their own parents closet to fuel their drug problem
The worldbuilding of this game is phenomenal. I'd honestly love a game like this about the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, the Military Police in Vietnam or the British Soldiers in N. Ireland.
It really would
Japanese police would be interesting too. From taking down Yakuza or Triad dens to dealing with Aum Shinrikyo type groups.
Ready or not lore made me discover your channel, literally the type of content I like to see while doing college work. Keep up the good work!
You know whats funny? Why can I perfectly remember these lore dumps (as well be more.focuse viewing/listening them) but not the shit I need for college
5:07 it is ! :D
The statue in the hall is whispering to you if you get close enough
I know you theorized that it’s darker if the parents take pay for their kids, but I think it’s absolutely darker/worse/more realistic when the police ignore helping bring down a pedo for the parents addicted to drugsz
Actually, if you know about a real major pedophile ring operation that was exposed, it's far more realistic that the parents sold their children and then the higher ups or authorities (if the ring is tied to their organization) covered it up. The Finders were a rogue element of the CIA that were using children they acquired through illicit means to blackmail Soviet politicians, however, to keep their funding up they also provided/distributed organs and pornographic material. The entire case was on blast for a single week in the news until the CIA implemented the narrative that Christians and Catholics are just overreacting to thing like "heavy metal" and claiming everything is Satanism. So, the Satanic Panic took over the news instead of a major child trafficking ring ran in part by and authorized by the CIA, who in collaboration with the FBI collected and destroyed/lost all of the evidence in a freak "mailing error" to the Tallahassee Police. The Metro Police in Washington D.C. were also trying to resolve this case, it was not until they called the FBI for help that things immediately went sour as the CIA and FBI did all they could to impede, stop and sabotage the investigation. Any and all police officers or detectives who continued to pursue answers all happened to have committed suicide because "what they saw was too much for them to handle".
At this point, I don't think it's that the PD ignores is- it's that they simply can't answer. The city is practically a warzone and they can barely afford to maintain their own headquarters. I don't many patrol officers are even around anymore, they don't have enough personnel to respond to individual calls. The only thing they can afford to do at this point is respond to the worst of the worst with what few highly trained and highly experienced SWAT Officers they've managed to keep around- that's you, responding to the most terrible of the calls, performing the most difficult of raids, meanwhile everything else has to be left behind. In a way, that's even more dark/sad, the city has fallen so far, and the PD has lost so much power that they barely have the capability to aid people anymore. That's probably why the PD is hated, so many people need help but the PD literally cannot afford to help them all. After all, in real life, in a city with a relatively healthy PD, a call for a missing child would almost never go unanswered- especially if there's more than one and it's a consistent issue. Yet in Los Suenos, most calls go unanswered.
Okay bro, you don’t have to write a whole defense for video game cops. We get it, you probably have a punisher decal on your car and you hate BLM. Do you feel the same way about real police too?
@@neurotic3015The real life police get billions in funding every year and still don't substantially effect these crimes or the rates they happen at, american police only make 11% of arrests for serious crimes like this and only 2% of those arrests lead to convictions. Police aren't stopped from solving crime because they're underfunded, or hated, or fighting a war, they're just incompotent and their systems are inherently flawed, or in many cases beholden to corruption and corporate interests.
@@muttipi Why you bring real life into this if we are talking about the game
Good touch with the Spec Ops the Line ost, it fits Ready or Not’s world so well.
In 1.0 version, you can see that Brixley is the one putting the hand prints on the walls, not any of the children. He has paint all over his hands.
It's interesting to come back to this and see how things have changed in 1.0. Now that we know more about Brixley's past, particularly his military history, as well as the fact that the Bolton goons are just there to collect "something" and aren't technically defending Brixley. Hell, dialogue from them even suggests that they (and possibly even Voll himself) despise Brixley and just tolerate him as the supplier, so to speak.
Oh, and Laguna is still there, last I checked. Very odd.
These are awesome lore videos. Can't wait for the next one.
I know this game has some crazy lore that no one has discover or made a video yet so I’m glad you did. Keep up the awesome videos
7:36 Small thing. The Mindjot raid's briefing reads "A data-storage facility run by @Mindjot. Scrubbed IPs from content found in the residence of a now convicted pedofile led to the distribution source of explicit child pornography." Many believe this to imply it's the content secured from Amos Voll's raid, which then causes even further confusion, as that would mean that the Mindjot raid takes place prior to The Spider, but after Valley of the Dolls, yet Valley of the Dolls implies that it's post The Spider.
Personally I like your take on it, but a BUNCH of people seem to be on board with the fact that Mindjot is a result of VotD.
I recently got into Ready or Not and wanted to if there are any videos that cover the lore of Ready or Not, then I came across your videos. I really enjoy your videos, so please keep up the great work!
Very well made video. The ost from spec ops the line is a great great choice, and it adds to the atmosphere well
Venus Project is also mentioned in Port Hoken, you can see it mentioned in the office of the first building pinned to a board. "(V) The Venus Project. Beyond Politics, Poverty and War."
If the base of operations is a safe injection clinic that's still got some equipment lying around, Who's to say Brixly isn't just offering money for them, possibly offering drugs, maybe clean equipment like needles for the children too, the place looks stocked.
On a similar note, a little disturbing if say, the kids are drugged or sedated when their pictures are taken and what if other pictures other than headshots are taken during that time.
Yaaaaaaaass!!!!! Mooooooooore!!! Love the RON lore vids, I hope you cover em all!
HELL YEAH! honestly appreciate you taking a look at this game's plot.
The Ready Or Not's universe is probably divergent since in-universe there has been an American invasion of Mexico recently
Been waiting for this one, time to grab some popcorn
Amazing as always
tis playlist is a great binge watch. subscribed
I'm enjoying this lore deep dive.
Bro keep up the great work, you deserve at least 100k subs
Excellent lore series!
Absolutely love this series
Thank you
I was left disturbed and very intrigued after finishing this mission.
“What the hell was going on here?”
But I still had a lot of questions. This was the perfect closure.
Love the Spec Ops The Line music in the background
Keep up with these videos man, I love them. I'm sure that in the future this will blow up further.
Also can we get a lore video of the gas station mission?
I don't play ready or not so idk the name.
I would be interested to see the amount of lore there.
5:10 Maybe this is reference to that room where a suspect hides in the mirror.
Basically ready or not is a game about killing child predators as a swat officer bet I like it
I love your videos
So excited for another lore for RoN
love these
Master piece of video
I don't really understand why this place is as run-down and deliberately creepy as it is. I get that it's a really rough location, but if people were actually using the building consistently for something, you think they would try to clean up a little bit. It would be a lot easier to convince parents to uh, sign their kids up if the place didn't look like a dump.
A little thing that I noticed is that, at the gas station mission, Mudasir’s office contains a certificate about him being in Saigon as well. It’s on the wall next to his MBA certificate
On george brixleys desk there is a contract wirh terms and conditions
...i needed a break after this one when I played it
The work you do with your investigations is greatly appreciated, please, make the video of the MLO faction, I have tried to find out who these guys are and it has been very difficult for me to investigate who they really are.
Seriously, I appreciate your effort to make these investigations very deep and with a more interesting lore than we thought.
Perhaps this raid is based off of a real operation from an earlier time and Francisco Laguna is a Vietnam War veteran who keeps his old placard around.
I really like the RoN lore vids
Valley of the Dolls and The Spider are prime examples of a savior's P.o.V in Operation Underground Railroad
If I were a film company I would hire this man
Watching this series makes me want to rave against all that is evil
Jokes aside, a time traveling marsupial sounds sick for a kids show.
This was the first map I played when I first played RoN. I knew nothing about it, and when I realized what it was I captured George and put him down like a dog.
The music that plays in the ‘you are a star’ room with that big poster of a child on the wall is creepy as shit
I’m pretty sure the Venus project is an actual project that was practically believed that we can create a new world where no one has to pay for food and drinks or houses, p much everything is free and you take what you need and we live in peace and harmony, my mother researched it a bit. I could be wrong though.
God, that Spec Ops The Line music
I think some of the missions in Zero Hour (especially the Cafe one) would make some good Lore content. It's a similar game, but takes place in Bangladesh instead of California
The clinic is probably run by, and frequented by, a lot of veterans who have fallen on hard times.
The Anti-Vet Bill caused the place to shut down, leading to it's decline and eventual takeover.
About the calenders: I don't know how accurate they are because at the car dealership for example the calenders show the year 1971 (maybe a connection to the Vietnam war because it was from 55-75?) It might be possible that the calenders are just placeholder assets. Bolton is connected to everything in the city
Meanwhile in the police station the calendar shows the year 1997
@@OperatorMax1993 yeah and the calender on valley of the dolls shows 2022
@@thebatmine yeah
wish i had friends to play this man
Bro I actually did not know “skid row” exists in ready or not as just “the row”. If you don’t know what skid row is just look at ready or not’s description of it. It matches perfectly lol.
Wonder if the bags in the vase are concrete or caustic? Might tell you more about those barrels
I remember thinking this map was a daycare and raiding it with my friends
When we learned the truth we loaded up on tear gas and well, the “daycare” is pretty empty now
When I played this mission I paused for a long time seeing the photographs of children on the wall with the quote “smile on camera!” And none of the children are smiling is what made me realize what kind of business was running here, its sick
10:32 might be backed up with what we see at 3:05
Really got spec ops the line for some reason in the intro. Is that the theme in the background?
Gave up on that mission after i couldnt find the last civi
The row is giving Man Man vibes (the first part of man man)
whats the song name called where the lore starts please tell me i wanna listen to it
I just realized that if the CEO of Bolton Security has a stake in the illicit activities, there is a possibility of a raid to the headquarters of a security company in the future which would be insane.
0:02 bold of you to assume I have the money for actors
This is the first time I’ve learned that enemies can sewer slide in this game
What’s the name of the song played at the intro?
YOOOOO THE SPEC OPS THE LINE MUSIC??????
the February calendar lines up with 2026
imagine how quickly Los Sueños would change if the government just increased its funds
Actually the us declared war on vietnam in 1964 or 5 so that name plate would be from the mid 60s
2:35 You don't know what the VENUS PROJECT is?
Look it up it's from the Inventor Jacques Fresco.
One of my Heroes if you ask me.
If its called the row, void missed an opportunity to make a saints row easter egg
1:01 what's the music you use here?
I was playing with my friends when I first heard one of the civilians say “There is a consent form, I signed it.” That shit made me so livid that my friends forced me to take a break as we used the watch together thing in discord to watch some shitposts.
Isn't there also an enemy that claims he is a PI if you capture him?
I find it really really hard to finish this raid without killing the suspects
8:07 didn’t know February had 31 days💀
Slay bestie
Watching from this video from Saigon, i mean uhh Ho Chi Minh City
Why does the calendar show 31 days in February? 7:37
Is that a pearl reference in the thumbnail 🤔
E - Epic
Is it just me or the February calendar here has 31 days instead of 28?
Does that mean that the "smile room" we've seen in photos many years ago was a rl crime scene?
7:59 IS NOONE GONNA TALK ABOUT FEBRUARY HAVING 31 DAYS???