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  • @voldrik1364
    @voldrik1364 Před rokem +925

    Just to add to the crazy real world aspects of Deus Ex, in the first game (released in June 2000) they didn't render the twin towers into the New York skyline and the in-game explanation is that they were destroyed in a terrorist attack.

    • @stephenmclellan9503
      @stephenmclellan9503 Před rokem +138

      I came here to say this. The New York skyline was mirrored in the game to save on memory, but this made it so the Twin Towers weren't a part of it. Deus Ex seemed to predict a SCARY amount of things.

    • @coolboyyo654
      @coolboyyo654 Před rokem +93

      to be fair the WTC had been attacked in the past

    • @angrynerd2103
      @angrynerd2103 Před rokem +27

      Honestly one of the best games doing the cyberpunk, augmentation, and multiple pathways thing right! And a top tier speedrunning community!

    • @void.reality
      @void.reality Před rokem +20

      Um actually, it was also set in Hong Kong and Paris, as well as the US.

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr Před rokem +29

      @@coolboyyo654 Yeah, it's not so surprising when you know that the WTC was bombed just a few years before, in 1993.

  • @ashleyzinyk4297
    @ashleyzinyk4297 Před rokem +138

    3:18 Um, actually they did cover that in the first book. As soon as Katniss gets a good look at the mockingjay pin Madge gave her, she tells the story of the jabberjay.

    • @MsAliciaRL
      @MsAliciaRL Před 3 měsíci +1

      The wolf mutts were even the final threat in the very first games! She did NOT pay attention to the book.

    • @Hempus420
      @Hempus420 Před měsícem +1

      She either straight up lied and didn’t read it, or she just forgot

  • @steventhefan
    @steventhefan Před rokem +44

    Um, Actually, the first Hunger Games book DID talk about how Mockingjay’s came about. Rue and Katniss talked about them.

  • @Shockalapagus
    @Shockalapagus Před rokem +20

    That may have been the most painful “you didn’t say um, actually” I’ve seen yet lmao

  • @NewLegacy93
    @NewLegacy93 Před rokem +128

    Um actually, not all government officials are granted immunity, only “ranking 10” (although there isn’t a clear explanation of what that means)*. Additionally the use of prohibited weapons such as high powered explosives, chemical weapons, etc (class 4 and 5 weapons) are prohibited.
    Edit: *as someone else noted, the elected officials exemption isn’t in place during all purges (Purge: Election Year)

    • @nixchelle
      @nixchelle Před rokem +4

      I always figured the ranking 10 meant federal officials, because tNFF had to keep their people

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven Před rokem +1

      You’re not allowed to launch nukes at the government, got it

    • @NewLegacy93
      @NewLegacy93 Před rokem +4

      @@nixchelle a lot of people theorize it means elected officials of a certain rank but also non-elected positions that are specialized to a certain degree; you don’t want a specialist relating to the power grid getting purged as he’ll be very needed the day after the purge

  • @Closer2Zero
    @Closer2Zero Před rokem +62

    For a second i honestly thought the answer to that Deus Ex question was “Um, Actually your not describing the setting of Deus Ex, youre describing the real world”

  • @pavarottiaardvark3431
    @pavarottiaardvark3431 Před rokem +28

    UM ACTUALLY in Deus Ex the cure for Grey Death isn't actually in critically short supply. Rather, supplies of it are plentiful but it is being intentionally withheld from the masses by those in control.

    • @richardkirke
      @richardkirke Před rokem +2

      Spot on!

    • @mathewmc
      @mathewmc Před rokem +4

      I expected this to be the answer, because Page using Ambrosia to control the global elite was a massive plot point in the game.

  • @tuberqueue8973
    @tuberqueue8973 Před rokem +53

    It's funny that Mike riffed "Pigoon," because that already exists as a human-pig hybrid in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast Před 11 měsíci +1

      Really he didn't even need to riff - Ligers and Tions (and Owlbears?), oh my!

    • @alexremoll2771
      @alexremoll2771 Před 2 měsíci

      I’m pretty sure he knew that. I believe they’ve been mentioned in another episode.

  • @jerodast
    @jerodast Před 11 měsíci +6

    I'm gonna have trouble getting _"oh mai god, one of the brave guys likes me but I'm a farmerr"_ out of my head the next time I watch any teen show/movie haha.

  • @nikkorocksalot5254
    @nikkorocksalot5254 Před rokem +71

    I don't think anyone but Trapp could pull off hosting this show. His demeanor is absolutely perfect

  • @theholymountain4414
    @theholymountain4414 Před rokem +29

    Around 30:00 when Mike says "everyone here looks like they're going to be gentlemen and not take your point." Would have been the perfect moment for one of them to go. "Um, actually."

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast Před 11 měsíci +1

      I wish Mike would, as a policy, NOT confirm whether the answer was correct until he calls "time" on the question. He seemed on the verge of that here, but then, eh, confirm it anyway. I know it doesn't matter here but come on dude make the scoopers have to work at it at least a LITTLE.

  • @trustindean5164
    @trustindean5164 Před rokem +306

    So two things about Clockwork Orange: for one its important to note that it was less Alex realized his faults and more accurately he got bored and decided to try things out Petes way. Once he got out of jail he learned his friend who continued his life of crime died not long after the fact while the one who gave up that life and tried to live like a good person is actually happy, meanwhile Alex is now an adult man still running with teenagers.
    The other thing was actually the purpose of that last chapter, being that it is meant to hammer home the message that someone can't be forced t be a good person but has to choose it on their own. Being tortured into being good reverted after a while, but choosing to actually be good of his own accord sticks.
    That also has to do with a message about maturity since the reason Alex liked being cruel so much was he was 15 years old and was too inexperienced to know better, meanwhile his friends who were older all decided that ultraviolence was pointless years ago

    • @davidstorrs
      @davidstorrs Před rokem +24

      > Once he got out of jail he learned his friend who continued his life of crime died not long after the fact while the one who gave up that life and tried to live like a good person is actually happy,
      This made me remember something that happened to me a few years ago. I broke up with my then-girlfriend and a coworker said "Oh, here, you need to read this!" and gave me a copy of "The Game", that Pick Up Artist book. I gave him the side-eye but went ahead and read it it. Came back in the next day and said "Do you realize that there are two kinds of people in this book: the ones who are pick up artists and the ones who are happy?" The question bounced off his brain.

    • @Hephera
      @Hephera Před rokem +1

      the chapter rings a little hollow with its "he was just a kid and needed to mature" message when you remember that alex was a serial killer and serial rapist. not usual "boys will be boys" shit

    • @tunasci
      @tunasci Před rokem +4

      When I read it, it felt almost like "nature" calling him into a confy family life and to fulfill different role in society. Kinda disapointing that it was presented in a way that seems like a natural, instinctive development, but it's a core message of the book and it'd apalling to learn U.S editors simply cut it out. A whole country could not understand the book cause of some bullshit corporate decision.

    • @trustindean5164
      @trustindean5164 Před rokem +5

      @@tunasci yeah, like the thing coulda been handled better but I'd think the solution would be to request more instead of cutting from the book

    • @mupetmower7807
      @mupetmower7807 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@tunascicould you please elaborate a bit more on this and the part you're referencing? Just curious and didn't follow a bit of it.

  • @aqacefan
    @aqacefan Před rokem +209

    Um, Actually, Box was in charge of preserving "fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea", but started freezing people when "the other food stopped coming". He doesn't offer Logan and Jessica anything besides immortalizing them in an ice sculpture (from a deleted scene).
    Also, on the way to the ice cave, Logan and Jessica do pass by several tanks that once contained the aquatic foodstuffs that Box can't shut up about 😉

    • @Fafhrd42
      @Fafhrd42 Před rokem +35

      "Logan's Run" is probably the best example of 'and everybody died shortly after the end credits rolled.' Box says there's no more "fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea," and The Old Man tells them that there aren't any fish in the river any more. The global ecological systems have clearly been collapsing for decades, and they've just blown up the dome and brought everybody who was in there outside, where there isn't going to be enough food to feed them for very long.

    • @MrDj232
      @MrDj232 Před rokem +5

      @@Fafhrd42 I thought the whole point of the ending was that the food sources for the dome were gone, but the rest of the world had recovered enough to start supporting life.

    • @Fafhrd42
      @Fafhrd42 Před rokem +16

      @@MrDj232 That was probably the intent when it was written, but through the lens of today where we know a lot more about the interconnectedness of the Earth's systems, if all sea and waterborne life is dead, then the world is absolutely, irreparably, fucked.

    • @Lurklen
      @Lurklen Před rokem +9

      @@Fafhrd42 I mean to be fair though, the systems of the dome seemed to be in a bad way, food production was down to one robot freezing Runners, and the whole thing broke down when the central computer ran into a logic problem. It could just be that the local area around the dome was depleted, or the harvesting methods were no longer functioning, and the particular river the old man fished wasn't as bountiful for whatever reason (dude had a bunch of cats, so there must be some food around). It doesn't necessarily mean a total environmental collapse. A more likely reason for everyone to die is the fact that no one knows how to do anything, and they're going to need to start getting to work pretty damn quick.

    • @FlatOnHisFace
      @FlatOnHisFace Před rokem

      Meh. Necessity breeds invention.

  • @rogerstewart5525
    @rogerstewart5525 Před rokem +129

    Um actually, alex in a clockwork orange doesn't see the error of his ways. He just kind of grows out of ultraviolence. It's not that he realises it was morally wrong, he just doesn't find it fun any more

    • @Obiniu
      @Obiniu Před rokem +5

      and that is a much darker ending than the American one

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast Před 11 měsíci

      So really, Alex is all of us...

    • @mewmew8932
      @mewmew8932 Před 6 měsíci

      did you not like violence at some point@@Obiniu

  • @BenTheBeanYT
    @BenTheBeanYT Před rokem +115

    I’ve been waiting for the day that Erik Voss comes on Um Actually!

  • @Drraagh
    @Drraagh Před rokem +29

    Part of me wants to see an Um Actually with all real life skills and one Geek trivia at the end.

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian Před rokem +93

    11:30 That's because there isn't really anything dangerous outside of the city walls. They're dystopian, not because of poor societal response to pressure (directly) but because the results of a failed eugenics experiment have been exiled to Chicago. Which could have been something really interesting had the series actually done something with it instead of saving it for an 11th hour plot twist in the last book. The Amity live outside the walls because they're chill enough to maintain a community without the structure of the city. The Dauntless need to be contained to the city where they can just do dumb shit.

    • @isobelg4115
      @isobelg4115 Před rokem

      I swear I remember that there were drugs in the bread in amity to encourage them to be happy and docile? Am I making this up?

    • @marinemanaphy101
      @marinemanaphy101 Před rokem +16

      I don’t think there was a single YA post-apocalyptic book series that was as much of a letdown as Divergent was by the end, and I think in hindsight people will eventually say that Divergent (or at least the third book) did to YA post-apocalyptic fiction what Hello Dolly did to big budget Hollywood musicals.

    • @margaridabaptista3712
      @margaridabaptista3712 Před 9 měsíci +1

      This, but also, don't the Dauntless patrol the walls to watch out if there are threats? So they do kind of take care of that, they just don't live outside, they live in some kind of underground/abandoned structure for the aesthetic

    • @margaridabaptista3712
      @margaridabaptista3712 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@marinemanaphy101Agreed, but also Maze Runner

    • @darthbob88
      @darthbob88 Před 6 měsíci +4

      ​@@marinemanaphy101 I saw an argument on Tumblr that Divergent was the last of that style of YA dystopia, because it lays bare the formula of the whole thing. The protagonist has no traits apart from strong-willed that might get in the way of people projecting onto her. She is dainty and beautiful, despite her insisting otherwise, but can still fight bigger opponents. She is a perfect mask for the tweens you're marketing to wear.
      The book needs something perversely appealing, the way the Hunger Games were the draw for those books, so the government puts everyone in Harry Potter houses based on their one(1) personality trait or career aspiration. And of course the protagonist, and most readers, will be drawn to the cool and brave faction, the Dauntless, who play Capture the Flag and don't have to actually work. One of the Dauntless is a tall, attractive man to have tension with the protagonist. He is handsome and brooding, and that's all he needs to be.
      The villains are your classic dystopian government; polished, sleek, with a stupid plan that our heroes have to fight, led by the protagonist who's the only one ~brave~ special enough to fight them.
      The rest of the book is held together with duct tape and fanservice, and its success reveals how base and formulaic the YA dystopia genre is.

  • @Moxypony
    @Moxypony Před rokem +252

    "They did not cover (mocking jays) in the first book."
    I only read the first book, but I remember that, so they definitely did cover it in the first book.
    Also, with hybrid animals in the real world the standard naming convention is to take the first letter of the father's species and replace the first letter of the mother's species with it. Example: ♂️Lion+♀️Tiger=Liger

    • @UchihaKat
      @UchihaKat Před rokem +16

      Edit: You're correct, and even for Um, Actually I feel like my original comment had too much lecture energy about all the times Mockingjays were explained and how did they not remember that as vividly as I do? So I just deleted it. XD

    • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
      @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot Před rokem +9

      Forgot to say Um Actually though.

    • @dangehret1349
      @dangehret1349 Před rokem +7

      Um actually, that's not specifically how the naming convention works considering the reverse gendered parents produce a tigon.

    • @Moxypony
      @Moxypony Před rokem +3

      @@dangehret1349 Fair point, but I do think its still the standard, even if there are exceptions.

    • @butzmn7190
      @butzmn7190 Před rokem +3

      Highly recommend the other books and the prequel as well. They are very well written

  • @Ginea25
    @Ginea25 Před rokem +79

    Um, actually... It's not so much that Logan "attempts a run", he's sent by the AI that runs the Sandmen and the age monitoring to investigate a route that runners have been escaping through. I mean, technically, he's "attempting a run", but the way you put it it sounds like he's just a runner, that he lost faith in the system, when in fact, he serves as something of a double agent for a good chunk of the story.

    • @meoff7602
      @meoff7602 Před rokem +8

      Your 100% correct. He's on a mission. Not a run. He just changes his mind by the end.

    • @anufoalan
      @anufoalan Před rokem

      I think it’s being conflagration with the book where he does want to run but only so he can catch Ballard (who’s lived a double life at age 42) and that by turning him in he’ll either be remembered a hero, or he will get his own life extended as a reward

  • @SergioLeRoux
    @SergioLeRoux Před rokem +5

    Um Actually, the factions are the Emotionals, the Foodies, the Hasidics, and Gryffindor.

  • @gcampoverde
    @gcampoverde Před rokem +53

    I just want to say that having Erik Voss is the thing that "Um, Actually" needed and I didn't know it needed. Seeing him winning is awesome... but missing the Octan logo... unforgivable.

  • @incertis_itineribus
    @incertis_itineribus Před rokem +11

    9:53 um actually, they're not divided into factions based on personalities: everyone can freely choose their faction at 16, they just make you do an attitudinal test the week before or something, which can help you make a decision

  • @pandaclysm205
    @pandaclysm205 Před rokem +11

    👏👏👏
    What sportsmanship. No one stole her point and the one rule was upheld. This is the best gameshow.

  • @Bduboff
    @Bduboff Před rokem +72

    Erik Voss is actually perfect for this show. I need him to face off with Brennan and Ify. Or any of the other experts.

  • @panopticpunk
    @panopticpunk Před rokem +7

    Crazy to think theres 2 years of episodes stored up somewhere since it's 2022 rn.

  • @IAmBlindProphet
    @IAmBlindProphet Před rokem +28

    Would be so cool to see a horror episode this year with Dead Meat James

  • @joshuaweikle219
    @joshuaweikle219 Před rokem +29

    Um, actually: While it is true that the members of the same faction in Divergent have similar personalities, the wording of the question makes it sound like that is how they become that faction. In actuality, all people choose which faction they go into.

    • @aw7145
      @aw7145 Před rokem +7

      To be fair, they choose the factions after they take that VR personality test... thing and get told the faction that fits their personality and it's kind of a big deal if you don't go along with your results iirc?

    • @Alepzeron
      @Alepzeron Před rokem +4

      @@aw7145 yes you are correct. That is essentially the main story device is that she chooses to become dauntless. But the question is still worded wrong because just like in HP you get to choose.

    • @FlatOnHisFace
      @FlatOnHisFace Před rokem

      Hewlett Packard lets you choo-choo-choose?

    • @Honey511Bee
      @Honey511Bee Před 9 měsíci +2

      ​@@Alepzeronisn't it heavily implied in Allegiant that the reason she can choose because she's divergent? And that people's faulty genes heavily sways them even if its a "free choice"

  • @lucbrisson2
    @lucbrisson2 Před rokem +32

    Um Actually, Matrix is thought to be happening in 2199 by Morpheus and the citizens of Zion, but this estimation is made before they learn they are not the first rebels and Neo is not the first chosen one, so the story is likely taking place even further into the future.

    • @powerfulghost
      @powerfulghost Před rokem +7

      Um actually, the question wasn't when the movie took place, but when the in-universe apocalypse happened, which was 2199.

    • @Vsmit00
      @Vsmit00 Před rokem +2

      @@powerfulghost Um, actually, Luc is correct, Morpheus explicitly says the current year is "closer to 2199," but cannot be specific because nobody knows for sure.

    • @siriusblack13
      @siriusblack13 Před rokem +6

      @@Vsmit00 Um, actually the apocalypse happened probably already in the year 2000 according to Morpheus, this was when the AI was invented and started a war against humanity (or the other way around, that remains unclear) so the answer in the show was wrong, it should come before Demolition Man.

    • @curvilinearcube8716
      @curvilinearcube8716 Před rokem +1

      ​@@siriusblack13 um actually its unclear when the apocalypse happened however because it wasn't a singular event however the machine war started somewhere between 2090 and 2139 operation dark sky the closes thing to a true apocalypse and what lead to the creation of the matrix happened at some point after 2139, morpheus is simply incorrect about the information because he doesn't have all of the information.

    • @siriusblack13
      @siriusblack13 Před rokem

      @@curvilinearcube8716 May I ask then, where you gain this Information from if not the great Morpheus himself ?

  • @mcmoozack
    @mcmoozack Před rokem +5

    Um Actually, Octan is not specifically from The LEGO Movie, it predates it by quite a bit appearing in a number of LEGO sets and in the LEGO Island series.

  • @bengraven
    @bengraven Před rokem +13

    Your banter makes me miss the work lunch room - this is exactly how we’d talk when we were chilling between shifts!

  • @nikki607
    @nikki607 Před rokem +18

    Um, Actually, while in the present day of the books the choice IS mostly up to the single person and thus influenced by their personalities, the groups were originally based on which genetic modification the people had undergone to enhance on a certain aspect such as intelligence, selflessness or courage, and there is still strong pressure to chose the faction that aligns with the genetic modification you inherited, which is made apparent by a series of hallucinogenic tests. Useles middle school obsessions are useful for one thing and that is infodumping xd

    • @AbsolXGuardian
      @AbsolXGuardian Před rokem +6

      Yeah. The failed eugenics plot twist is the most interesting part of the book and I wish it was revealed at like the end of the first book so the series could actually reckon with it. I'd imagine 9 times out of 10 people end up in the clan of the genetic modification that is being expressed most strongly in them.

  • @jacobthompson1682
    @jacobthompson1682 Před rokem +20

    Yes more Um Actually.

  • @majormoron605
    @majormoron605 Před rokem +2

    Cant believe there wasnt a single Fallout question in this theme episode...

  • @TastyTempura
    @TastyTempura Před rokem +8

    Was expecting there to be a Wall-E or Adventure Time question but a great episode I loved nonetheless!

    • @hayuseen6683
      @hayuseen6683 Před rokem +3

      Those are post-apoc but not dystopian. Surprised there was no Soilent Green

    • @kamronspencer4910
      @kamronspencer4910 Před rokem +1

      @@hayuseen6683 adventure time is a dystopia. It can also be really fun but theirs crazy monsters trying to kill you all the time and absolute ruling classes control the world with iron fists. (Or in bubblegums case candy fists)

    • @hayuseen6683
      @hayuseen6683 Před rokem

      @@kamronspencer4910
      Where's the injustice in society? I don't see how the princesses are ruling with an iron fist - what was totalitarian about them? I hesitate to say candy kingdom is a society, the inhabitants are golems more than people. Bubblegum has made them as close to people as she can and given them culture but that's not a totalitarian ruler that's playing god with idiot robots.

  • @Swishy_Blue
    @Swishy_Blue Před rokem +14

    Did you know the 3 sea shells is very similar to the ancient Mediterranean hygiene tool called a Pessoi.
    If Jon Spartan had been a history buff, he may have not been entirely embarrassed.

    • @baphometsvomitcomet2350
      @baphometsvomitcomet2350 Před rokem +2

      I require more details

    • @gamongames
      @gamongames Před rokem +3

      @@baphometsvomitcomet2350 basically they just scoop it off

    • @Ginea25
      @Ginea25 Před rokem +1

      Um, actually, considering Cocteau's fascination with Japanese culture, the were probably based on Japanese Chügi.
      (I'm just being a bitch, because I knew about chügi and with people walking around in kimonos always figured it was just a non-disposable, more stylized version of chügi, but the pessoi look a lot closer to the three sea shells, so I guess we'll never know)

    • @Swishy_Blue
      @Swishy_Blue Před rokem

      @Ginea25 ooh, Chügi, good eye! I totally forgot that one! Better the shells than vinegarspongeonstick lol

  • @joeyteter9383
    @joeyteter9383 Před rokem +5

    My two favorite shows collide! Cool to see Erik show up

  • @SpellboundTutor
    @SpellboundTutor Před rokem +8

    The sport of geeks and nerds alike.
    Look forward to every episode.

  • @omgBenton
    @omgBenton Před rokem +7

    Happy Friday, fans of Um, Actually! Can't wait for the home game!
    And happy Friday Mantaur!

    • @Mantaur104
      @Mantaur104 Před rokem

      Happy Friday, Benton^^ Welcome back!

  • @candicebizzle3911
    @candicebizzle3911 Před rokem +6

    Go Voss!! :) Great episode! I’m a fairly new watcher and I absolutely love Um, Actually!

  • @Sophiemarcell
    @Sophiemarcell Před rokem +6

    So glad Eric is on. Def bring him back!!

  • @stephenevjen3786
    @stephenevjen3786 Před rokem +20

    Umm, actually - the events taking place in the matrix (with Neo and Morpheus) are OCCURRING in 2199 or so they believe as they've lost what day exactly it is so they're just guessing roughly.
    The actual war happened several years earlier and the end of civilization could be considered when the humans lost the biggest conflicts and were put into the Matrix. Also, considering Zion is destroyed multiple times and rebuilt from scratch you could also assume that their 2199 date is incorrect as well as it's probably much later.
    The Animatrix lists the date as 21st century when humans created AI.
    I don't know why I'm going on about this...

    • @cbpd89
      @cbpd89 Před rokem +4

      Because you're right and that is what the show is all about!

    • @KobraEditing
      @KobraEditing Před rokem

      Definitely much, much later than 2199. Most likely, many hundreds of years later. It would take a long time for Zion to build back up to the state it's in. I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of years had actually passed since the 21st century

    • @mr.perfectcell1887
      @mr.perfectcell1887 Před rokem +2

      You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

    • @AbsolXGuardian
      @AbsolXGuardian Před rokem +3

      Watching the first movie, I assumed that the first AI was invented in 2000, because the Matrix is kept in an infinite 1999, and that only makes sense to be chosen as a year if that's the last year that is 100% AI free. Even if the AI in 2000 is the non-sapitent predessor technology.

  • @Fafhrd42
    @Fafhrd42 Před rokem +20

    Um, Actually, in the first shiny question: Minority Report is not post-apocalyptic. It takes place in 2054, but there is no 'end of the world' event prior to or during the events of the film. Also the year(s) of the first Machine War in The Matrix are never actually established. Morpheus says that they believe that the _current_ date is 'closer to 2199,' and that the machines were created in the 'early 21st century'. The plaque in the Nebuchadnezzar says that it was manufactured in 2069, but whether it was originally constructed for the war or retrofitted later is debatable.

    • @AubreyLavigne
      @AubreyLavigne Před rokem

      Um actually, we know the Machine War happened sometime after 2090, when B1-66ER kills his master in self-defense. This leads to the creation of the city 01, and eventually to war between the humans and machines. We still don't know when the war itself started, but it's likely within the following decades.

    • @RealBradMiller
      @RealBradMiller Před rokem +1

      Dystopias is the show theme, so an apocalypse doesn't need to occur, I'm guessing.

    • @jonjudge41
      @jonjudge41 Před rokem +1

      Also, surely it depends on whether you're taking Matrix as a stand alone film or as part of a series, in the second one Neo learns from the Architect that he's the sixth (I think?) iteration of the one which would put the date way further into the future.

    • @devinspencer1678
      @devinspencer1678 Před rokem +2

      @@RealBradMiller The question does specifically mention apocalypses though, so they are right.

    • @RealBradMiller
      @RealBradMiller Před rokem

      @@devinspencer1678 Makes sense because they seemed like they knew what they were talking about. Lol

  • @SatoruGojoChessMaster

    I was re-watching older episodes and finally this came on my feed

  • @FaeFemboi
    @FaeFemboi Před rokem +1

    Yeeeees! Please keep up the themed episodes! Love it!

  • @ArgonTheAware
    @ArgonTheAware Před rokem +10

    The thing is that dystopias like 1984, Cyberpunk and The Handmaid's Tale are supposed warnings but some people took them as instruction manuals in order to gain power

    • @ArgonTheAware
      @ArgonTheAware Před rokem +1

      @Forrest Taylor But they are using multiple instructions at the same time so it doesn't matter the difference because people have plenty of reason to panic at the implementation of fascism through many methods that were warned about

  • @gracelynwalker4169
    @gracelynwalker4169 Před rokem +4

    Um actually, were the wolf muts at the end of the first books made to resemble the previously killed tributes? Because I may have been over complicating it but I always thought they were made from the previously killed tributes because katniss describes the hair and eyes in detail that made it seem like they actually were the dead tributes hair and eyes ( that scene scared me so bad)

  • @ajtucker4031
    @ajtucker4031 Před rokem +1

    Um actually, people’s factions are based on their choosing with the blood seal but they are suggested which faction would suit them best based on the government’s invasive testing

  • @ATerriblepurpose
    @ATerriblepurpose Před rokem

    I just looked it up, love it. I’ve had Logan’s Run on my IMDB watchlist for a long time.

  • @hamder
    @hamder Před rokem +19

    Whenever DC is on the show, I always end up remembering some random derrickcomedy video, and giggle enough that I have to go back a few minutes to hear the statement or the answers.
    Edit: Pennyweather Lemonade this time if anyone is wondering.

    • @jfbrasch
      @jfbrasch Před rokem +1

      I always think Apple guy from Winter Soldier.

    • @zenmasterproductions5520
      @zenmasterproductions5520 Před rokem +2

      its always keyboard kid for me

    • @bryns5978
      @bryns5978 Před rokem

      Omg thats why he looked so familiar! Thankyou!

    • @Kelarys
      @Kelarys Před rokem

      @@zenmasterproductions5520 for me it's Ad Campaign. BLACK!

    • @jonh1899
      @jonh1899 Před rokem +1

      For me it's always the painting of a bowl of fruit.

  • @charlottebernhard
    @charlottebernhard Před rokem +1

    has there ever been a sharknado question or am i going to have to write a full episode myself

  • @MagetaTheLionHeart
    @MagetaTheLionHeart Před rokem +2

    Speaking of eyes I've had a rust ring, which is when a piece of metal gets stuck in your eye long enough to rusts. It's actually pretty easy to take care of, but feels like a migraine in the back of your eye.

  • @tycol322
    @tycol322 Před rokem +1

    I'm picturing Judge Dredd Divorce Court now.
    He'll I can just see the couple talking.
    "So it looks like we'll have to go before.... oh... Dredd..."
    "Eh... maybe the differences aren't so irreconcilable after all."

  • @chesscat7373
    @chesscat7373 Před rokem

    What a great crossover! (Episode Idea!? heh)
    Great to see Voss outside New Rockstars!

  • @matthewmartin8655
    @matthewmartin8655 Před rokem +18

    Um actually, in a clockwork orange Kubrick may have decided to change the ending by omitting the final chapter, but changed his story after people didn't like the change. Or because he thought the American audience would like the "tougher" ending? Or at the request of the author Burgess? Who has also changed his story multiple times on whether or not he wanted the ending changed. So it's actually very unclear what the actual reason was, and who is responsible for suggesting/accepting the proposed change.

    • @SergioLeRoux
      @SergioLeRoux Před rokem +4

      What I remember reading was that the ending was more a statement that "ultraviolence" was just boys being boys and that they would naturally grow out of it (just a phase!), the publishers or the movie producers disagreed with that message (it was kinda messed up) and even the author in hindsight ended up agreeing that it was a bad and nonsensical take.

    • @mewmew8932
      @mewmew8932 Před 6 měsíci

      In the introduction to the new version, A Clockwork Orange Resucked, Burgess states that his publisher made him change it for America, and Kubrick just copied the American version.

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette9246 Před rokem +1

    Oh, man...I totally thought that Needs More Pixels was an image of Robocop holding out his pistol, shown from just below the shoulders, up.

  • @itscleoxcxbaby
    @itscleoxcxbaby Před rokem +1

    5:00 um actually, in the movie "The First Purge" it was only for Staten Island, the new founding fathers of america just used SI to test out the purge idea.

  • @reaper240sx14
    @reaper240sx14 Před rokem

    Finally I've been waiting for Eric Voss episode

  • @kerlyenai
    @kerlyenai Před rokem +3

    Ah, dystopia, I might know some stuff. Man, what does that say about me...?

  • @DDuffy143
    @DDuffy143 Před rokem

    Wow that woman is gorgeous! And I knew it was just a matter of time until I got to see my favorite research nerd on this show, Erik Voss!!!

  • @GarrettPDGA
    @GarrettPDGA Před rokem +1

    In the dystopia novel Oryx and Crake there are Pigoons. Exactly as he described them

  • @wellstiscool
    @wellstiscool Před rokem

    "the Judge Judy version of Judge Dredd"
    Trapp's pitching Robot Chicken sketches again

  • @Supervandal
    @Supervandal Před rokem +3

    It’s awesome seeing DC Pierson in this.
    My prediction is the game doesn’t actually start because Voss goes on a mindless rant about Mephisto for 36 minutes.

  • @danwhitcombe7211
    @danwhitcombe7211 Před rokem

    Yes Erik is finally here!

  • @thekrillsterex628
    @thekrillsterex628 Před rokem

    Yes Eric voss is in an episode!!! Yay!!!

  • @colosine
    @colosine Před rokem +4

    How did the giver not make it into this?

  • @softpaw6234
    @softpaw6234 Před rokem +1

    Um actually Octan did not originate in The Lego movie, but it is a regional to the lego brand. It first appeared in a 1992 gas station set, and has continued pop up in many places where Lego wanted the generic brand, especially of gas stations

  • @AlinaProbably
    @AlinaProbably Před rokem +6

    that moment when you know the correction to the purge question not because you've seen the film but because you've seen the ch purge mini series...

    • @faridmokraoui
      @faridmokraoui Před rokem

      I was hoping someone would correct it by calling it the purg.

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast Před 11 měsíci

      Haha, thank you for sending me to that. Not only have I not seen a CH sketch in several years, I actually know who about half those cast members are now because of Um, Actually!
      Also Trapp clearly just replayed the same joke about whether Guam does the purg too from that sketch :P

  • @ja9_9
    @ja9_9 Před rokem +2

    I would be afraid and at the same time amused to compete with Erik, he is an alive nerd wikipedia

  • @QualityGamingStudios
    @QualityGamingStudios Před rokem +1

    Um, actually, there's another rule you neglected to mention another exception for the purge: I forget the exact classification of weapons, but certain classes of weaponry are also forbidden

  • @ThatsNotCorrect
    @ThatsNotCorrect Před rokem

    AHHHH ERIK VOSS AND UM ACTUALLY???? TWO WORLDS COLLIDE

  • @pandablossom_2659
    @pandablossom_2659 Před rokem +1

    You don’t understand how fast i answered the hunger games question. The second he said mockingjay i knew. That’s like the whole reason it’s a symbol of the rebellion

  • @multidex33
    @multidex33 Před rokem +1

    Eric Voss absolutely slaying... yes sirrrr!

  • @YoSoyDavidGalleta
    @YoSoyDavidGalleta Před 2 měsíci

    I only knew the answer to the Purge question because of the College Humor sketch. hahaha

  • @leeferguson4917
    @leeferguson4917 Před rokem +1

    there should be an All Shiny Question episode that sounds super fun

  • @neonicon8500
    @neonicon8500 Před rokem +17

    How nice of Eric and the other guy for not taking the woman's point for the Snowpiercer question. Most other contestants would jump at the chance. I love this show. I hope it keeps going for a long, long time!

    • @unvoicedapollo3318
      @unvoicedapollo3318 Před rokem +1

      Damn simps(jkjk)

    • @krablord
      @krablord Před rokem +12

      you know most people would use her name instead of saying 'the woman'.

    • @archibaldfencepost7696
      @archibaldfencepost7696 Před rokem

      @@krablord haha

    • @risottopose9970
      @risottopose9970 Před rokem +1

      @@krablord Her name isn’t “The Women”? Damn, next your gonna tell me The Host guy isn’t Diet Ben Shapiro

    • @neonicon8500
      @neonicon8500 Před rokem

      @@krablord if I knew her name I would have used it. I like how you point that out and not the fact I said "the other guy" as well. Get outta here fake ass sjw

  • @loganwilliams8489
    @loganwilliams8489 Před rokem +2

    Um actually, the line is: You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!

  • @NWHanlon
    @NWHanlon Před rokem +2

    Erik being a gentlemen, not stealing the point from Kelly...but then later Kelly snitches on Erik!!! Et tu!

  • @krenbenz6991
    @krenbenz6991 Před rokem +2

    They recorded this episode in 2020 never expecting anyone to be alive in 2022 to see it 😂😂😂

  • @kaloking2992
    @kaloking2992 Před rokem +1

    5:27 um, actually the 2040 purge actually included government officials in the purge: election year. It’s actually really important to the plot of the movie

  • @LinkWulluf
    @LinkWulluf Před 3 měsíci +1

    Um actually in demolition Man the dystopia takes place in the late 90s the "Utopia" is 2032.

  • @MGC-XIII
    @MGC-XIII Před rokem

    That Valley girl voice, on point!

  • @michaelclarkj
    @michaelclarkj Před rokem

    I was so convinced by the first level of pixelation that it was the close-up shot of Sharon Stone smoking in Basic Instinct! Nice fooler.

  • @fether666
    @fether666 Před rokem

    It is about fricken time we got Erik on!!

  • @jb888888888
    @jb888888888 Před rokem

    I knew the correction to the Purge question because I saw the video "College Humor does The Purge" in which it comes up.

  • @yusseppelabani963
    @yusseppelabani963 Před rokem

    You guys could pit together a trivia board game.

  • @tamaralevi6076
    @tamaralevi6076 Před rokem

    DC Piercen looks like the pianist from Glee they ignored into oblivion

  • @maxmeek8923
    @maxmeek8923 Před rokem

    Just seeing the thumbnail makes me so happy 😊

  • @TheCleb69
    @TheCleb69 Před rokem +1

    Seeing Eric outside of the blue dungeon is crazy

  • @mikebilbee1393
    @mikebilbee1393 Před rokem +1

    Um, Actually... I don't know if he knew, but Trap was actually pretty close to correct about Toy Story being the rise of the Toys against Humans, at least if you subscribe to the Pixar (Connected Universe) Theory

  • @R0adK1lled
    @R0adK1lled Před 7 měsíci

    Really surprised you didn’t add any Blade Runner, cyberpunk2020/2077 or cowboy bebop in the Dystopia episode. Y’all should do another since there is SO MUCH lore in all of those franchises.

  • @zeam-h3133
    @zeam-h3133 Před rokem

    Every hitchhiker needs his blanket!!!

  • @GmanB3398
    @GmanB3398 Před rokem +1

    I only knew the answer to the purge question because of the Collegehumor purg videos

  • @MrBangBat
    @MrBangBat Před rokem

    I'm low key grateful Mike dates the video at the end because fuck me but those dystopia feels don't let up.

  • @harryh.8451
    @harryh.8451 Před rokem

    No one will ever believe me (except my wife, since we were watching together), but as soon as "Needs More Pixels" came up for the last shiny question, I said out loud "It's going to be Brazil"

  • @jennifermay6990
    @jennifermay6990 Před rokem +1

    As an addition to the portmanteaus animals, we actually do have coywolves (coyote wolf hybrids) and pizzlies (polar grizzly hybrids) so it seems we would come up with that.

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast Před 11 měsíci

      And ligers and possibly tions.

  • @MartinSharlow
    @MartinSharlow Před měsícem

    Um... Actually the Dauntless faction does go outside of the walls, or at least as far out as Amity does. Specifically the low rank/reject members of Dauntless who get poor positions are stationed on the Amity farms for security.

  • @JH-yj5hw
    @JH-yj5hw Před rokem +1

    Um actually the purge correction is correct except in one movie where the exception for government officials is overturned (purge election year) in order for one candidate to have the other assasinated.

  • @stocktonjoans
    @stocktonjoans Před rokem +2

    intresting to see you move from pop culture to current affairs

  • @jrsa827
    @jrsa827 Před rokem

    Oh yeah yeah yeah my boy Eric Voss that’s what’s up!

  • @dalluc
    @dalluc Před rokem

    I would really love an Um, Actually on pop/rock music, I think it's the one I would really excel in lol.