Who is Jim? The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Mysteries, Secrets, And Lore
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- Who is Jim, really? Am I Jim? Are you Jim? Maybe Jim is all of us. Maybe Jim is no one at all. Today, we dive in to answer this critical question.
In this video I go over some questions, secrets, and new findings from The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. We discuss Jim, The Timekeeper, Gambhorra'ta, as well as visual and audio secrets.
[If you do not enjoy the narrative structure of this video, let me know in the comments! It seemed like a good way to pull everything together, but if not, I'll adjust future videos.]
All footage was gathered by me.
All music used (The Stanley Parable OST):
Introducing Stanley
Exploring Stanley
Contemplating Stanley
Pondering Stanley
Leaving Stanley
Watch me live at twitch.tv/somesonickid - Hry
As a method actor, once I became Jim, I could not go back. I've only lived my life as Jim ever since.
I’m sorry to hear you’re going through all that, Jim
why is your profile Samuel
@@YangHajime Jim is already taken
Just dont be too much jim cowboy!
Did you get college bro jim or cult leader jim?
I know who Jim really is. He is a news reporter, a camera guy, a weather man, and the head of Jim News.
JIIIM! DEMONS JIM! DEMONS!!!!
JIM!
Not Mark, but JIM!!
Jim is infinite! There are so many Jims. They flood the multiverse now.
@@GDNashit WHAT CAUSE DID YOU HAVE TO DESTROY THE MULTIVERSE
i feel like i'm at one of the deepest levels of the stanley parable iceburg
I called out the thing with the skip time a bit early and at first I commented it before finishing watching, only for him to then bring up that point
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Iceburg
First time?
I must correct you
Stanley couldn't ever die of old age as the narrator in the serious ending sentenced stanley to one hundred, billion, trillion years standing in the serious room. And he perhaps was going to talk Stanley about the severity of his actions later
which makes it even more terrifying, if stanley cannot die of age then its possible he tore himself apart...
i dont think he can die of hunger or thirst either.
@@delta_gon5277 considering how meta the game is, it's pretty clear Stanley isn't human. He's just Stanley. He can only really be killed when the Narrator lets him. He's only hurt by fall damage in an ending the Narrator himself makes. It's easiest, for me at least, go analyse the Stanley Parable once I let go of the idea of Stanley being an actual person rather than essentially a tool for the Narrator and the player to mess with
That's just my interpretation but there's no way Stanley is human, in the sense he cannot die of old age or have needs like we do
"Infinity years on the serious room"
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"The end is never the end"
In real life, my name was actually Stanley. But then I played this game, and the immersion was so deep that I decidedto get my name legally changed to Jim. I've been living my best life eversince.
your name makes it seem that neither of those are true
@@ctons Sometimes on the internet I like to roleplay as Charlie. Specifically, a guy called Charlie.
@@charli8815 lore to name?
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I could answer that. I am a theory nut, so I decided to write down whatever interested me from both the conference room, the Figurine Hunters room, and the Mind Control Facility. Pretty sure that something was mentioned about Employee 430 building the plank bridge that brings you to the Figley in the warehouse, and something was mentioned about getting some guy’s body away from the warehouse’s floor. There were names too, guess I’ll post here what I found later.
In the debug menu, there is an option named “is_stanley” that will make all Jim buttons say “stanley”, which is turned off by default.
We aren’t stanley, we are Jim.
oh, so if we are all Jim, then Hello Jim!
There is one button in the game that can actually say "Stanley"
If you add the employee numbers in the whiteboard (417+405+491+416+431) and divide the result by the number of numbers (5), you get.... 432. The 6th employee in the whiteboard is Jim...
It's probably just a coincidence, or maybe Jim is indeed employee 432.
17:52 Maybe the company only hires men named Stanley. And Jim.
That is important information.
Or him is old Stanley and why he was the main buttons and Stanley was made later
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@@Ihaveagasmaskgood theory
...dude... ...what the...
Seeing as there is a pencil sharpener and nothing else besides the computer on the desk in the epilogue, that is a parallel between 432's desk and this desk. Also, reading a paper on a chair next to the 432 peer reviews it is mentioned that 432 says: I must keep the wheel turning. What is the only other character says this? That's right, settings person. And also the game's writer's word, of course.
But yeah. Jim is a mystery that I have also tried to solve. There was some more dialogue about Jim that I hadn't encountered yet in the comments here, which is awesome. Throws my current theory in the dust, but whatever. One can always make new theories about gags and coincidences in video games.
Yeah there’s like no reason for them to have put that on there but they chose to Plus he couldn’t have grabbed the box since he transcend time and space
In DougDougs stream of the Stanley Parable, it's confirmed that 432 is the Settings Person
@@uselessshroob you ever just lose you mind so hard you disappear off the plane and integrate yourself into the fabric of reality
@@endernightblade1958
All the time... I'm trapped in this CZcams channel right now.
While I do wonder about Jim, the person I'm more curious about is Chris. The person mentioned on the whiteboard in the meeting room, first in a note saying, "Get Chris out of Broom Closet," later in a note saying, "retrieve Chris's remains from warehouse floor."
What the hell happened to Chris!? Was he murdered? Did he take his own life? Was it an accident? Was he the guy on the tape?
No wonder the Narrator thought we died in that Closet. Also, this reminds me that there was a warning in the warehouse saying that we should not jump from the platform. It's probably there because of Chris. So many people have died or gone mad in that office, it's disturbing.
@@tinnasell4161 It makes me wonder if every ending Stanley gets hints at the fates of other employees. Some straight up left, some had a complete mental breakdown, some were "done away with", and some took their own life.
Chris is the one who layed the wood boards out in the warehouse and had an accident
@@Holllow007 I could believe it
Theory: The dude in the tape is "possessing" the bucket
Take a look at the out of bounds ending with the bucket, according to the narration, the bucket reveals he "was turned into a bucket" after he stole/attempted to steal Gamborratha's forbidden treasure
What's this "treasure"? The magical bucket, of course, the tape recorder ending demonstrates the dude planning to exploit a magical reassuring bucket before Gamborratha finds him, i think the pieces of the puzzle fit
As for the dude following you around in the office when you have the bucket, I like to believe that's Gamborratha watching over the bucket; his creation
The museum ending gives us more insight on the history of the bucket, the caveman chorus that plays on the discovery of the bucket are just cavemen saying his name over and over, who isn't to say Gamborratha didn't invent it?
czcams.com/video/rEARO4TwGyo/video.html for that ending
Also not sure, but you could hypothetically say that maybe gamorratha is in the bucket and lied to drop your guard a little before starting to escape the bucket and the tape guy failed to kill him, but the narrator (probably not narrator though since even he got manipulated by the bucket in one of the endings), Jim, and/or settings person recontained him
human fangs don't glisten. when he transforms into his original form, before he's cut off, it says "the bucket transformed into a mighty beast of untold power, its fangs glistening like"
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What about the stanley heaven ending? I feel like the audio could be some sort of diagram or something
Also he looks like he is saying lamboreis
It is incredibly creepy having a place meant to be lively, turned devoid of life, and realizing despite that someone else is still there
Also can we mention one of the rare dialogues the narrator has with Stanley upon restarting
“Someone was following Stanley. He was sure of it. If he checked over his shoulder now, he would surely catch them. It was only a matter of time”
Maybe someone else that isn’t simply watching Stanley when he has the bucket or someone aside from 425
Perhaps this lingering feeling of paranoia Stanley has is Jim or perhaps it’s simply that
A lingering feeling of paranoia in an empty office
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How can you get that dialogue?
@@user-qb3gm4pu2m it’s random chance, restart the game and head out into the hallway of the dialogue plays then congrats you got lucky
If not restart and head out into the hall over and over until you get it
Or just play through the game passively and hope you get it while going through all endings
@@cheesydanishgaming3333 Thank u for answering me!
now this is the content i desire, stanley parable lore exploration is something ive craved since forever
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@@ThingyBobbThanks Jim
Jim is the name of our awesome cult leader, of course.
Our dear leader
With that whole thing of Stanley's Wife calling a phone belonging to a different employee, one could argue that it's a remnant of a previous story iteration that the Narrator did where he changed which employee number Stanley was.
That's a definite possibility
Stanley might not have a wife, i forgot which ending but i remember the narrator saying 'you thought you had someone loving you?' or something
@@hivijiviThat’s what happens if you don’t pull the plug to the phone
I love that a dougdoug stream gives instrumental lore to Stanley Parable
its genuinely so funny that dougdoug's brother made Stanley Parable. that is something that doug would say just to troll us, but its true and that is hilarious
No joke when i finally pressed the stanley button, chills.
Jim is love, Jim is life.
1. the desk with the computer in the epilogue doesn’t have to be 432’s/settings person’s, the computer is just the only vessel through which they can communicate with us. it can just be a random computer
2. 432 cannot collect their pencil sharpeners in ultra deluxe bc ultra deluxe is when they became shattered through time and space and became the settings person
you kinda just proved 432 = settings person in this video lol
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He became Appart of the fabric of reality
He’s not gaster, chill
I just realized something!
The only single thing 432 has on his desk is an electric pencil sharpener
Which is something that definitely would be constantly used in an office setting. How do you use an electric sharpener? You put a pencil into a hole, and a wheel inside the machine will sharpen it
I must keep the wheel turning
also there's a paper in the confusion ending that shows employee 432 saying "i must keep the wheel turning" so thats definitive proof
Now what I'm about to say is probably a big stretch/unlikely, since 1.) It's probably just a gag, 2.) I'm not entirely convinced The Narrator is aware of Jim's existence, and 3.) most importantly it would imply that Jim is dead/on the verge of death, but I still find it interesting because of the potential implications.
After the player first presses the Jim button and the Narrator is describing them roleplaying as Jim, if the player presses the button again, cutting off the Narrator mid-sentence, he describes Jim in a completely different way: "Imagine yourself driving to work as Jim, playing frisbee on the weekends as Jim, staying up all night for a popcorn and horror movie sleepover as Jim, developing a crippling substance addiction as Jim, rediscovering yourself through fringe religious groups as Jim, and finally, dying a slow death at an old age surrounded by members of your cult as Jim."
Now, for the reasons I said above, this might not be describing the Jim we see in the game. However, I find this new depiction of Jim very weird because, when compared to the first time The Narrator describes the player roleplaying as Jim, it is significantly more detailed and specific. Of course, this raises the question of how The Narrator would be aware of Jim's personal life or existence at all, since he doesn't seem aware of Employee 432/The Timekeeper being around (at least until they unlock the test achievement).
But regardless, if we assume that this is an accurate description of the Jim character in the game, and that the mysterious guy who follows the player around the office and is seemingly obsessed with the bucket is Jim, then maybe the cult that Jim started could be centered around the bucket? It explains the mysterious guy's seeming obsession with the bucket and the reason he's following Stanley around, and it also explains the tape recording (assuming that the person in the recording is actually Jim). Maybe the soothing, comforting presence of the bucket helped Jim overcome his substance addiction, and, seeing the immense psychological power that the bucket holds, started a cult surrounding it? Maybe, although the big problem with this whole theory is Jim dying a slow death basically completely invalidates what I just described (since, y'know, he'd be dead/incapable of doing much since he's dying). Also, although this is somewhat difficult to tell because we never see the mysterious guy up close and in good lighting, the general appearance of the guy following the player around the office just doesn't seem to match up with The Narrator's depiction of an old, frail, and dying Jim. I'm not entirely sure how to reconcile these things; just thought they were interesting ideas that raise more questions than they answer.
EDIT #1: There are a few other slightly bizarre things that I want to discuss also.
1.) With regards to the discrepancy between the description of dying Jim and the Jim we see in game (again, assuming they're the same person, which they may very well not be), I'm perhaps wondering if the loss of the bucket was what caused Jim to fall ill and start dying a slow death; that perhaps the bucket has additional healing or rejuvenation powers, and that separation from the bucket has seriously adverse effects. Obviously, the biggest problem with this idea is that we don't see any of these other powers in-game, besides the soothing aura the bucket emits (and even then, we the player are seemingly immune from this power the bucket supposedly holds, and we just have to take The Narrator's word that the bucket has some kind of psychological effect on people).
2.) This one might actually be perfectly explainable, but I'm still not 100% sure. On the subject of Gambhorra'ta, assuming that Jim is the same person as the voice in the tape recording, how is he aware of who/what Gambhorra'ta is? We know for a fact that the person in the recording has prior knowledge of Gambhorra'ta's existence, since he addresses Gambhorra'ta by name. I'm pretty sure that in the "Out-Of-Bounds w/bucket" ending, Gambhorra'ta is implied to be some sort of extremely powerful ancient wizard/evil presence, and Jim is, ostensibly, a dude living in modern or SPUD time.
3.) Assuming that Jim was once originally in possession of the bucket (which if the Jim-cult theory is correct, he must have had the bucket at some point in the past), how did he lose it and how did The Narrator come into possession of the bucket, assuming he wasn't the person who created it in the first place?
4.) If The Narrator did create the bucket, then perhaps the theory in the video about Jim being one of The Narrator's previous experiments is true. Whether Jim was a successful or failed experiment is hard to say, as is the exact nature of the experiment itself (although obviously it would be something to do with the bucket). Now I quite like this theory for a few reasons:
a.) Since Jim is an employee of the office, it makes sense The Narrator would use him for his own personal use just like he did with Stanley.
b.) It gives The Narrator a basis for the Jim button since Jim would have been a name The Narrator was very familiar with. And to build off of this idea here...
Quick disclaimer: this is probably the most crackpot insane theory I've had so far, but bear with me here.
c.) Assuming that Stanley is participating in a similar experiment that Jim was, I think the button that says "Stanley" in The Epilogue is just a button The Narrator came up with as a continuation of this unseen experiment; just like with the Jim button, it was a name The Narrator was familiar with. Now you're probably thinking: "the button says 'Stanley' because it shows that enough time had elapsed for The Narrator to finish his 'button that says the name of the person playing the game' thing from the Expo." I thought the same thing at first, too. Except here's the thing: Stanley ISN'T the person playing the game. In the "Not Stanley" ending, The Narrator very clearly distinguishes the player from Stanley as a "real person." Stanley is merely a vessel for the player to occupy, a fact which is demonstrated perfectly at the conclusion of the "Not Stanley" ending, where the player becomes detached from Stanley, and he just stands there unmoving in front of the two doors as The Narrator tries to convince him to make a choice to no avail. So, if The Narrator had truly finished his button idea from the Expo, it would have legitimately said the name of the person playing the game: whatever your real name is. As such, this calls the nature of the Stanley button, and by extension the Jim button, into question. Again, this could very, very easily be me reading waaaaay too much into a simple gag in the game, but I still found it slightly interesting.
So, my personal interpretation of The Narrator's experiment is that he is examining the effects of prolonged exposure to the bucket on individuals (Stanley) and then withholding the bucket and seeing how they react (Jim). The way I see it, Jim might be suffering from some kind of withdrawal symptoms after the bucket was taken from him. It certainly seems possible, given the crazy psychological impact the bucket can have on a person as described by The Narrator and demonstrated by the tape recorder voice. Ironically, Jim's withdrawal from being with the bucket would also mirror his crippling substance addiction described by The Narrator. Speaking of, this theory also explains why The Narrator might have been aware of Jim's personal life/existence, but not Employee 432/The Timekeeper: because Jim was a personal experiment of The Narrator like Stanley. However, this also causes a problem because this theory completely disregards the whole Jim-cult thing, thus contradicting The Narrator's description of Jim, so idk. I personally find the Jim-cult theory a bit more convincing.
EDIT #2: I guess it's easily possible that Jim just naturally became aware of Gambhorra'ta's existence once he got a hold of the bucket, and then Gambhorra'ta has been pursuing Jim to take the bucket from him ever since. So yeah #2 above is actually pretty simple I guess. Also, I firmly believe that Gambhorra'ta might have had something to do with Jim losing the bucket.
This was exactly what I thought when i played the game and heard about Jim's extended background from the narrator and the evidence tape ending!
the narrator does describe jim as joining a cult/religious group, which could very likely be worshipping Gambhorra'ta or the bucket, which would explain why he knows its name.
An elderly man named Jim has a religious cult?... Maybe Jim’s last name is Pickens...
i read all of it, send help
@@zan821 My sincerest apologies
For once I’m actually quite thankful for the CZcams algorithm for it has blessed me with this honestly unironically fantastic video. Good job! :D
Thank you so much!
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Jim was here
The phone ringing on 434's desk. Easy enough to explain. In the 1980's, phone calls could be transferred to other locations by a switchboard to the location that is assigned to it.
What you need to ask, is who is the person at the switchboard that directed the call to 434 instead of 427?. It very well could be Jim. Make sense now?
Edit: To clarify, since Jim is ultimately observing the Narrator and Stanley, WHO would know that Stanley is at the office alone and directs the call to a phone that is nearby Stanley because he leaves his office and can not go back inside it once he leaves it?
If you believe the Narrator did it, that is like saying the Butler did it. Obviously.
Another perspective. The call comes in for Stanley at 427. Operator directs the call to 427. No answer. Operator redirects the call to 434 to get anybody in the office to get the message to Stanley. I hope this makes sense to those that understand.
Into the rabbit hole we go...
Personal headcanon-The Timekeeper is actually the Narrator that gave Stanley the Skip Button and eventually found a way to get out of the purgatory by bending time.
What about the narrator from the museum ending
@@rudeskalamander she doesn’t have the same voice as the Narrator, and we have no reason to think that she is The Timekeeper. She even said not to let time chose for you, which could have a direct correlation with The Timekeeper, who would probably want to see you dead.
It's Jim Pickens, obviously.
Dear leader Jim Pickens in SPUD, a truly wild thought...
@@Glisten456 I mean, there's an in-game dialogue that mentions Jim discovering himself through fringe religious groups and dying of old age while being surrounded by his cult members, so there's a possibility.
I know this is a few months old but I do wanna mention how in the out of bounds ending with the bucket, it says how it used to be human but Gambhorra'ta turned it into a bucket. Of course this ending is kinda meant to be funny and I don't know if we should take it seriously when talking about lore but it's the only other place where Gambhorra'ta is mentioned so I thought I'd bring it up
I love how ridiculous but funny as hell the lore of these games is
We are all Jim.
no, we are buckets
@@ubidragonrocksmith9719 , what is a bucket? Is bucket war? Is bucket peace? Is everything a bucket? I am I a bucket? The potato I ate for dinner... Was it also a bucket? We will never know. And now we have to take the mystery to our graves, which are also buckets.
@@ubidragonrocksmith9719dear god....
@@ubidragonrocksmith9719Everything in the map is a bucket. Everything except Stanley and the Narrator.
Im pretty sure Jim is a reference to Jim Sterling who the Narrator loves a lot for his positive review and beforehand has been referenced and praised endlessly as a gag, so I just assumed this is who Jim is referring too and why the name button says "Jim"
I don't think the creator would include only "Jim" in a reference to Jim Stephanie Sterling.
@@RobertJW they would it is literally a committed bit
@@kiToro945 It's incorrect naming. Which wasn't done elsewhere in the game.
it is not hard to spell "jim" i dont know what you are talking about @@RobertJW
@@kiToro945 The game refers to Sterling as "Jim Stephanie", when recalling the review written for the original Stanley Parable. This is the correct name to refer to Sterling. I don't believe the game's creator would omit the "Stephanie".
It's also worth noting that, unless the Narrator is playing another joke on Stanley, through the Bucket Window ending, our bucket IS the person on the tape, and has been turned into the thing he desired most. Not sure how this fits in but it's interesting to see this continuity between two endings
Maybe the real Jim was the friends we made along the way.
Specifically the baby when the narrator tries to tear us away from our precious bucket.
It's shown he is an adult in 2's previews, and maybe growing up changed him, considering you can't get to the updated baby game, despite every other major touted feature in the Stanley Parable 2 Showroom being seen in some form in the main game.
It's an oddly specific thing to leave out, when every other major event from the first game AND the major events from outside the game relating to it were all put in directly and referenced, things that far less people knew of or remembered.
I think Jim is who the narrator says he is, you, Jim is the player who controls Stanley, a person unbound from the confines of the office.
Also I like to think that Stanley is the settings person and employee 432 since in the epilogue Stanley sits down in front of a keyboard and in the monitor the settings person talks to us through text, or simply Stanley typing to communicate with us or "Jim".
And the guy that walks looks identical to Stanley so I think he is the one from the epilogue who sat down at 432’s desk, now having to be him.
The schedule for the mind control facility is fantastic it adds information for the escape pod ending lore
Like we now know that when we enter mind control facility, escape pod opens for the guy living in the building
We know gamborra’ta is ancient based off of the chanting of “gamborra’ta” by cave paintings in the bucket exhibit, and also that they are enemies with the bucket.
The idea of "employee experiments" lends weight to the idea someone had that The Stanley Parable takes place somewhere in the Aperture complex and the Narrator is a core.
My favourite part of the Stanley parable is when Jim put Employee 432’s pencil sharpener in jello
A mystery I often wondered, when you take the bucket through the exhibit and go to get the reassurance bucket, the narrator is miffed and confused as to why there are two buckets. Could it be that having two in theory could keep Stanley sane and by having two, it reassures him that he isn’t going mad or could the extra be Jim’s and he’s trying to give you his but the narrator destroys them both because he wants Stanley to feel helpless but by having two it would make Stanley question everything. Loved your video
I believe it referred that have two buckets is too much for a single person to handle due to their power, as for the narrator, he is confused because in his eyes its the first time stanley goes to find the buckets (since he doesn't always acknowledge that time is repeating ) and destroyed both buckets to protect stanley because he went to take the second one, at least that's what I believe
wait hold on didnt the developer announced that 432 is the timekeeper in 17:28 what do you mean by 432 is not the timekeeper.
Just a fun hypothetical! (I just don't like 432 and the Timekeeper being the same character, but I also didn't discuss alternative theories)
@@TGITommy oh ok
in some rare cases, one of the computers mentions that there are 2 employees in the building, [427] and [ ]
the television that has a blank number shows 432's desk
the narrator says the line "Someone is following stanley, if he just turns around, he will eventually catch them." and the fact that you can acctually see someone standig next to a truck, andin the bucket quiz room-
Bro even the lore is an elaborate parody jokey thing its about buckets and jim i love this game
The difference relating to pencil sharpeners between Original and SPUD might be a bug.
Ok, a silly theory for your last question.
We've always been Jim.
434 was Stanley.
The narrator tried to play the same game he's playing now with 434-Stanley, but they were mentally weaker, and couldn't survive the resets after a while.
So the narrator needed another toy. And picked Jim up.
... but the narrator isn't fully sane either, so since he was playing with Stanley, kept calling the new one Stanley.
Which makes the button saying "Jim" right, they do say your name. The "Stanley" one? The narrator trying to force them to call you Stanley, and only managed it on that one after all that time (?)
I have a theory, Jim is the employee 432. You know the guy who walks down the hall.
Pretty sure that guy is stanley walking to the confusion ending
Hmm, what if you read the bullet points on the whitebord not as just a list of 6 employees, but 3 pairs. i.e. 417-405; 491-416; 431-Jim. Maybe, if there can be be found some pattern, like in desk placement or in the monitor room, somehow each pair has some related and Jim relates to 431 the same way like 405 to 417 and 416 ro 491?
Maybe, they are paired like the Narrator and their partner. I mean... the Narrator could be another employee, and 431 could be the Narrator for Jim.
Still better researched than any recent mattpat video
Well, the less serious ones like sans is ness at least. A surprising amount of reasearch and nuance is there in food theory at least, though there was some big issues with using some stereotypes in a game theory video (forgot which one but i think it had vikings, japanese, and midieval sides and multiple people did call him out on the mistakes for each side, including shadiversity)
czcams.com/video/BBE3Jau3UVY/video.html
low bar
ironically my name is james so him saying he could guess my name really scared this shit out of me, since the nickname for james is jim
Gamboratta (I believe that’s the spelling idk) is also mentioned during the glitch out of bounds ending when you have the bucket
Jim is the narrator, it was the first name the button said. The narrator got way too excited when the button said Jim.. He is Jim...
Fun fact: the button actually can say you're name. The chances of it happening are about the chances of a person named "jim" playing the game.
I am Jim
I beg to differ...
@@JamesSmith-cz1pj you are jim
Shhhh, not so loud. Stanley might hear...
I love being jim.
jim could also be the cleaner/custodian
not being a numbered employee but being with the company long enough for everyone to know the person based on the name
there's broom closet but no cleaner?
This is the best theory on this I have seen as well as the one of the most fun ways of things being edited and explained in a theory.
I'm really happy to have found this because I always found this game interesting and researched it on my own but even then what was brought up and was found surprised me.
Overall, very nice video. I can't wait to see what else you make on this channel.
With 434 phone as far as I am aware Stanleys office doesn't have a phone and since his wife was a hallucinations the narrator or JIM might have put that there
If 432 became the timekeeper in SPUD, then it could be that he simply stopped collecting the pencil sharpeners.
Plot twist: Jim is actually Stanley's long-lost twin brother who has been secretly living in the office building all this time
"the spectrogram has two lines...this means something for sure!!!"
5:50
The fact that the bucket has not became rusted or covered in sand, it's definitely not the same bucket
have you considered that it may just be a startlingly high quality bucket?
In the monitor room, if you look closely, you can notice that employee 234’s monitor is glitched out. It has also been figured out that the monitor says “###” if you look close enough, that could mean Jim is employee 234
The Confusion Ending should involve a bookstore
9:05
The fact that the escape corridor opens gives us some concerning info.
Whatever a class 1 event is, it _has_ occurred.
Another Gamborahta reference is when you fall out of the window with the bucjet in the starting area
I'm suprised this is not getting any traction!
Edit: Seriously this is a really well made and interesting video! You have definetly earned a sub!
When I streamed Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe I had a breakdown when the narrator took the button away.
Deadass.
He is the guy that got sent to the Shadow Realm.
My name is Kind of Jim. I loved the fact that they picked that.
just the video I was looking for
What if Jim is the narrator?
I mean imagine you wanna design a button to when it pushed, it calls the person who pressed it, as a first prototype, what name you would design it for? For yourself !
That would make a lot of sense, I wonder why no one considers it
You missed something regarding Gamboratta. In the "out of the map ending" (the one where you hop through a window), if you take the bucket, then whoever was turned into the bucket tells you his story, making you kill it. I don't have SPUD nearby me right now, so I cannot say what the bucket said.
bro i didnt even think twice about gamboratta wtf this lore goes too deep for me
Love your voice, love the video style, love the bucket 🪣
Absolutely fascinating, i love the game and i loved this video
for the last question i think there's just a lot of people named stanley in the office
I want more of this. Also for some reason I can't but replay the tape guy saying "Gambhorra'ta" over and over again. There's something about it/Gambhorra'ta that needs more explaining.
Stanley Parable gameplay: 😄
Stanley Parable lore: 💀
Ok, I've played the game and I can say the odds and unnerving of STUD (hehe stud) just gone off the roof. The creepy man watching you from afar, the bucket endings, and the Epilogue are already giving me chills to the bone (in a creepy vibe) but Gamborata and 2 Doors in the spectrogram? shits just become weirder and creepier.
@@Mama-Luigi you're hired as the director for the new sequel
*Ghamborra'ta.
also, the spectrogram kinda looks like gibberish to me, but idfk.
i'm not too good with arg stuff like that
FINNALY! A video about Jim!
I can answer the last one!
If it’s a call station they are working at then his work phone number would be any of the employees phones,and maybe his wife isn’t very bright
i think the reason people say the end desk is 432's is because they both have chips and missing paint on them
okay but the Spectogram secret is awesome
I mean gamboratah was the one that turned the bucket into a bucket, you can hear all about it by grabbing the bucket and jumping out the window in the previous room.
This video is pretty good. I watched it all.
Since 434 gets multiple voicemails in the game, a boring but logical possibility is that they simply hold a secretarial role and aren't around to transfer the calls to their intended recipients. Or they were instructed to record them to only be delivered to their targets at the end of each workday. Given how zombified everyone is meant to be while at the workplace, it may be a required procedure to keep outsiders from communicating with them directly while on the clock.
This video was silly and ridiculous and parts of it made me lol. You raise a lot of interesting points but i don't think there's much conclusions to be drawn. I liked the intro, the editing and your cool calm voice.
I think Jim is not necessarily anyone that's represented in the game. You showed a lot of cool connections like the figure you see when holding the bucket with the voice talking about the bucket, but i don't think there's much reason to think he's Jim. He might not even be someone from the building.
As for the questions at the end, here's what I think, just bc I need to share: the epilogue is definitely calling back to the confusion ending. It's just thematically appropriate. The timekeeper is employee 432. It explains their inability to collect their pencil sharpener delivery in SPUD, and devs said so directly. The desk at the end may not have been their desk originally, but they do have a pencil sharpener on it, so perhaps they sat there at some point.
Employee 434 and Employee 425 (or whoever) are Stanley clones. Perhaps all the employees were/are Stanley and the game/company is a huge cloning/experiment/crazy-reality bending facility. Or it's a video game. I dunno.
Or Stanley's wife left him for another dude from the company. I fail to recall... did she say Stanley's name on the phone?
How cool would be if gambarato were gman, and the Stanley's parable somehow tied in to an eventual hl3 it would be even cooler.
Imagine a person named Jim playing this though
so the thing is, there is actually some voice lines of the narrator that suggests that stanley may be watched. first, when we go out of 427 room, the narrator says "someone was following stanley, he was sure of it. if he checked over his shoulder now, he would surely catch them. it was only a matter of time." (link: czcams.com/video/vH5PQZSKCfM/video.html ). also, when we get the broken achivment, narrator freaks out, asking are they being watched. ( czcams.com/video/ZiD4B7ZpzSY/video.html )so, well, thats something to concider.
Thank you, nobody looks into the 'lore' and secrets of this game because one of its points is that there are no answers.
I say thank you for being the one to do it anyway.
I like the idea that after stanley goes into the future he branches off of the timeline, and becomes jim.
He branches because he was supposed to die at some point, or at least reset, but he doesnt, and he does. If stanely truly went to the future we wouldnt be able to reset it and go back to the past, then jump back to where he is in the epilogue, as never in the stanely parable have we saved a run before, thats why its jim we are taking over. This also means the narrator did fix the buttons, all besides one which says stanley, a fragment of jim still inside him from the branching.
If you bring the bucket into the out of map ending gamborrata is mentioned
Please do more videos like this or make a part 2 if you can add anything more onto this
Excellent video keep it up
I noticed 425 in my first playthrough and posted about it when i uploaded the screenshot to steam, also the man watching
Maybe jim is buckets full form and thats why we always see him with bucket my theory is that jim espaced narrators control and he is hidden in complex trying to help stanley to escape even if it means to die
"A character you've been neglecting"
**Scoff chuckling in the fact i always think of how my TSP ocs would interact with Jim and making one of my TSP ocs kin Jim** I've never neglected Jim
Maybe His name is Jim Stanley
Really interesting. I have never seen this man in the elevator. Will look better next time.
I loved this video.
I couldn't find the man behind me when I played it 🤷🏾♀. But great video!
why cant the bucket leave the building? if jim has any affection towards the bucket, would that make it him who wants to keep it, that would make jim a person in power of the building, either the timekeeper, boss, narrator, or someone else in power, like an assistant.