8 Signs You're Living in an Evil Dystopia
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- You're a busy person. It's easy to lose track of current affairs until one day you look the window and see surveillance drones, stormtroopers and propaganda screens. If you suspect the place in which you live is an evil dystopia, don't worry. Stay vigiliant and subscribe: www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox
One of the quickest ways to check if you're living in a bleak, totalitarian dystopia is to stand in the street and look up. Brutalist skyscrapers are a dead giveaway, especially when mounted on the back of a giant robotic spider (see: Timeshift's Alpha District).
Gross zombifying epidemics are another warning sign, such as the rat plague in Dishonored's city of Dunwall. You should be equally concerned, however, if your home city is eerily clean, as with the City of Glass in Mirror's Edge, where all the litter has been swept up and incinerated by a corrupt government, along with all the homeless people, stray dogs and political protesters.
Nazi-style uniforms on government officials are another red flag (see: Killzone), as are actual red flags if they have swastikas on them (see: Wolfenstein: The New Order). Though if you screwed up your alternate timeline this badly and didn't notice you're living in a dystopian nightmare, you should really be paying closer attention. Read a newspaper sometime?
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"Have you looked at our caps? ... They've got skulls on them... Are we the baddies?"
Degrelecence yessss
I like the reference comrade
One of the greatest skits ever
"Can you not go anywhere without being under the watchful eye of a surveillance camera?"
You mean like London?
What concerns me is I actually see many of these signs in several real life countries …
Well, art imitates life after all.
It's just communism
@@ryanalving3785 never heard anything more true
Tbh I do too
It's intended to. In order to give the video more 'texture' otherwise its just another hollow countdown. Oh wait....
"You're a busy person with an active social life."
Aheh. You're funny.
What's a social life
Yeah hehe.....Actually I don't get the joke, what's a social life?
I am reasonably sure it's something you can eat.
+TheThomasTea Really? Then why is it "active"? I don't think food can move unless it's some sort or weird stuff. I am so confused right now.
Like my Ma always said: "Stop playing with your food and eat it, while it's still alive!"
Thank you for all of your help outsidexbox
Because of your advice, I realized that I was living in a dystopian city all along.
I am currently in the underground rebellion plotting to get rid of my evil rulers.
Wish me luck :)
TheFourthReaper Remember to not give away your location to the government and try to avoid any form of communication that could be traced.
Charles Dewitt a bit late then!
Charles Dewitt I should've thought of that before going on the internet. Whoops.
TheFourthReaper Actually the Internet is famous for how easy it is to mask ones digital "scent" so to speak. It isn't like radio, or some such because it can not be tracked to any particular source oftentimes. However, I would recommend setting shop in someplace that the government would have difficulty finding you. Say a abandoned city district, one so full of crime that law enforcement doesn't dare show their faces, or perhaps outside he city itself in the hills. However I would have to discourage you from doing things like, for example. Setting up a special resistance facebook page or tweeting about raids in progress. Try to stay away from social media in general.
***** That must be obscenely impractical, Unless your skyscrapers are in danger of being knocked over by the moon every time it comes past. Then no city could possibly have the population or budget for such a tight defense network. Even if you don't pay the guards (very possible in a dystopian society) The amount of money required to pay for gear, weapons, armor, and food, For such a massive force would bankrupt the city. With economic policies such as these I'm surprised the government hasn't toppled of it's own accord. As for what I am, well. I don't think I'll answer that just yet.
Watching this video in April 2020, and item 2 on the list hits REALLY differently for some reason...
Yep, it was the dystopian dictatorship all along!
Considering it originated from a country that’s been under Communist rule for decades, I’m not surprised.
This is all starting to feel remarkably familiar...
Guys, we haven't missed the signs here, have we?
2: there's a plague
too soon
"You're a busy person with an active social life." *dislikes video, turns off computer, goes back to bed*
Hmm
I personally welcome our outsidexbox overlords
I can be of assistance to them, by rounding up human slaves to toil in their underground sugar mines
Sean Freeman hail mike andy and jane praise there names our superior overlords that bring forth white gold from the depth of our mother earth the sweetest of treats hail oxbox (raisees hands in an o x form)
Mike should be the face of the operation, Jane and Andy should be the brains behind it. Just because Mike seems the most harmless so people would be more accepting. I wouldn't mind if Mike was king of where I lived.
Dang! How did this happen? I voted for Kodos!
Hell, I'd VOTE for them :D
"there's a plague"... This hits close to home 😂😂
The current world society and civilization is already turning into an evil dystopia.
We should accept the Oxbox crew as our new overlords Mike would force the population of Europe to make endless driving games, Jane would be crowned the best halo player to ever live and Andy would change all the worlds languages to pun related jokes.
That sounds OXcellent.
Captainwilts +outsidexbox Show of the week, please!
Captainwilts yes let us praise our new overlords, possibly by clicking the like button
we shall all praise and love our new government.
ALL HAIL OUTSIDE XBOX
Also historical inaccuracies and being batman is a crime.
One watch dog info I got was "Believes Jesus was an Alien"
Wait.....wasn't he? He was beamed up by the mothership after his resurrection!
+nbkwolverine well, if you're generic definition of a space alien is "not from this planet," then yeah, most versions and interpretations of Jesus could match this, except the versions where he's just a normal man and all the legend is just that, legend :P
Shoot, even a strict interpretation of the Bible places God as a being of pure energy that originates from a different universe. You don't get much more alien than that :P
You just opened a can of worms, buddy.
Quick close the thread before this turns into a flamewar. No flamewars on the O/X comments section, we're all decent folk here.
Ominous Spudd Agreed.
"There is a plauge"
2020: Hmmmmm
There is a plague and a social uprising as well as election on the same year.
It's a whoozy
A plague, much like in the game, propagated by the "elected" officials.
Helgen won't last long once the Dragons arrive!
glad im not the only one who thought skyrim
+tepigaipomlover62900 same
If Dovahkiin is there, then nothing should be the matter.
yup.
Aye
I might be the only one but I still think mirrors edge's graphics still look ok.
***** so I'm too nice then...
Oh I see... I see now XD.
***** no need to get hostile XDD
gavynn brown I agree, it's still great
True it still looks next gen for a 2000's game
April 2021 : this video has aged well.
Watching this in 2021 and realizing all of these things are now reality :(
Honestly it is heavily implied by the Killzone games that the ISA have become the actual bad guys by Killzone 3. The Helghast just happened to live on a planet with few agricultural resources but many weaponisable resources. Their first attack against the ISA was misguided, but the ISA never pursued peace after they beat them back and proceeded to decimate the Helghast forces and eventually rendered their planet uninhabitable. The Helghast became a militarized empire because it was all they could do.
Seriously, you have no idea how much it means to me to put that spoiler warning at the beginning. Seriously, ALL channels should do this, show what games your spoilers are for! Otherwise, I can't watch any videos with generic spoiler warnings because it MIGHT spoil a game I want to play.
PenguinHQ Like watchmojo: SPOILER ALERT for all the games on this list!
Real helpful guys!
They don't do it probably because they don't want to reveal the games on the list so you would know. But I think they should at least put the game list in the description but idk.
Wouldn't know
I like it this way, how can you have a problem with them talking about games that are so old now anyway.
Perhaps you should play some of the games in advance?
Keep it up guys, love this channel
PenguinHQ yeah this is a really solid channel. you can tell they care about the viewers, theyre great commentators, and their top 10 style videos have no particular order so no one argues over which dystopia is the worst in the comments
"How about under the sea?"
Yeah, well, Rapture isn't much better, so.
I'm living in a dystopia.
Me too as well. 🤡
2020: you didn't have a plague yet
This really helped me figure out that I *was* living in an evil dystopia. Thanks Outside Xbox!
3:49
London, anyone?
backslash153 We need a Cyberpunk movie/game/book/whatever set in a futuristic London. It's not like it wouldn't make sense.
+432neptune
I think they already did that. It's called 'V-For Vendetta'
Beerbottles123 No, that's not Cyberpunk.
Daniel Jones That's pretty cool, but it's not what I mean. Think more along the lines of Blade Runner or Neuromancer and all that.
dident helgen get destroyed by a dragon
Best comment ever....
Yes, it did...
what the skyrim helgen? yeah.
Maybe this is a mod to rebuilt helgen with a dystopian alien empire. Pretty sure I saw something like that on the nexus
V.A.K can you give the link
This stuff is coming to reality
This gets darker every year.
Jane is a bit inspiring. She's intelligent and funny. She's got her stuff together. Her outfits are on point. She always looks sophisticated. To top it all off, she's beautiful. Go Jane!
You know who does that? A synth. A very, very beautiful synth.
Yeah. Also, I've been watching for years (not subscribed but CZcams's always recommendating their videos to me) but for some unexplainable reason, I can never remember Andy and Mike's name but I have no problem remembering Jane's name. I guess her traits makes her more memorable. I also don't have trouble remembering Luke and Ellen either.
"You're a busy person with a social life." Trust me, I am NOT a busy person with a social life.
Great way to get people thinking about the truth of the worlds society without directly saying it,and using relevant interest to grab peoples attention.You got my sub
weird how many of these apply to the USA, huh?
As someone living in Missouri... I wouldn't be surprised if my town held a raffle like the one in Infinite... and I wouldn't be surprised if nobody threw at the announcer....
+The Xand no can confirm the south can be very racist
+The Xand yeah but at least I know where I live we are very progressive in ending racism so
We'll at least I still have my right to bear arms... some arms... but some of the time... well, for the time being I do.
Hm, I prefer arming bears over bearing arms...
"You're a busy person with an active social life." He wrote the quote into the CZcams comment section, thus completing the irony.
This video described North Korea almost perfectly XD
Wow...lol
Bryan Cox Wait. Kim Jong-un is an alien. Huh. guess that explains his hair and fashion sense (or lack thereof)
and soon the US and Europe, will follow
Plot twist: North Korea is a free and wonderful land but you are told different by the government-controlled media because your country is the dystopia but you're too brainwashed to realise!! Dun dun duuuuhhhhh
+nbkwolverine Lol
"Hey, i'm stuck in an evil dystopia, what do i do?"
"You like and subscribe"
Okay so my hometown does have cameras everywhere as well as Nazis but they're the prison kind. Is that close enough? Should I try to find the resistance?
Wait...prison cameras or prison Nazis?
@@roguishpaladin I think they mean the Nazis are in prison. The cameras are probably just your normal surveillance cameras you find around town. Well, except I never remember seeing cameras ever in my town but I essentially grew up in Smalltown, USA* and currently live in a small town so there probably is no cameras.
*Although I've pretty much lived my whole life in small towns, my family did briefly lived with my now late grandpa for a few months in Topeka, Kansas - at the time, there was almost 123,000 people, now it's around 127,000 people so it's a big city - as our new house at the time wasn't fully built yet.
sign 1 ur leaders name is kim
VOODOO CHILD The Kardashian dynasty shall rise.
vizzam1 i meant the kim jongs
I was being sarcastic my friend. I think North Korea would be a much more fabulous place with her in charge.
VOODOO CHILD well kardashians would make way better evil overlords, appeasing to the people they are oppressing with there big butts :D
If Kim Kardashian was in charge of anything i would leave earth and live on the sun instead. I don't want the churches and museums to be turned into selfie gallery's.
8:36 NICE SHOT! :D
Timeshift, that's a proper shout out. Well done OXBOX, just well done. Have a cake, I recommend lemon madeira
Apparently, the first telltale sign is that you're actually in a first-person game. The vast majority of examples are from these kinds of games...
Doesn't the USA have 7/8 of these?
no
minus the alien overlords and add cops who shoot people for little to no reason
switch Nazi stuff to muslim stuff and the UK would be closer.
Life, Universe & everything Yes, because we totally have a plague of rats and a floating city full of racists
Life, Universe & everything No, the U.S. only has the surveillance one. It's not constant, but there is still the fear that the NSA could be listening to your phone calls or reading your emails at any time (which they could, and you'd never know). Besides, most security cameras are actually business owned. for example: if you go to a Walmart and see cameras around the place, those cameras belong to Walmart and are being used by Walmart security.
I have to learn parkour and join the underground resistance.
Thank you Overseer Andy for in your infinite wisdom granting us these meager freedoms with which we may praise thee. All hail!
00:23 Thank you, I wish more videos that cover multiple games with potential spoilers would do this. :)
I love the bank shot at the end.
8 people were forced to dislike by their totalitarian rulers...
I'd like to see y'all feature Thief more often. It would fit many themes; plague, dystopia, totalitarian, stealth, lethal vs nonlethal, etc
Gdammit...this one made me subscribe! Good job...
I'll say it. I'd love to live in Columbia. Beautiful place, excellent music and honesty boxes with cake!
Yeah it was racist. But this as 1912. Pretty much the entire world was. In fact, Columbia was a hell of a lot better than most places at the time, like the deep south.
Jon Baxter Also you can just eat food out of the trash can, and not get sick or have people judge you
jokerhalo1 To be fair, considering the insane stuff going on, I don't think anyone's going to notice or care about you eating out of the trash. Also, you have a guns and are hopped up on superpowers. Who'll even question you?
432neptune The guards tried...once.
***** And in America at the time there was the KKK, race riots, they couldn't get jobs and random killings. Hell it didn't get better for black people until the 60s and even today there are racial divides.
In 1912 imperialism was rampant before the First World War as everyone was trying to expand their empires and blacks, latinos, asians etc. were all seen as inferior.
Columbia was paradise.
Adolphin Heightlar And people saw what you did to them and now no one questions you.
8:24 was totally worth the achievement.
"You're a busy person with an active social life..."
Bold claim, Mr. Farrant...kinda hard when your plans end up precluded by work calling you in so others can get days off.
Thank you so much for the spoiler alert at the start :)
I often troll on people who lives in the U.S.A. by congratulating them on achieving living in an actual futuristic dystopia; however, I stopped because most people from that country have a tendency of not wanting to let you elaborate what you are meaning to say, and of course, it gets tiresome to hear people saying stuff like "you hate us for our freedom"... Which is B.S... Anyway! When I do have a chance to explain what I mean, I get to point out three things that are signs of living in a futuristic dystopia, which are: A)You live under a government which is under the control of massive and evil corporations; B)You live surrounded by amazing technologies, such as robots which could kill you, and/or systems which can be use, and are in fact used, to violate your civil rights, as well as your human rights, on a daily basics; and C)Police forces are ridiculously militarized, which should be the most evident of the three, for anyone with at least basic capabilities to perceive reality. So it's strike one, strike two, strike three for the people of the U.S.A.; at least in my opinion :D
Europe is so much more of a Dystopia. And a "militarized" police force (which we don't really have) isn't necessarily a sign of a dystopia. In fact, most types of dystopias don't involve police or large governments, but anarchy and collapse of moral virtues.
Europe is much more of a dystopia the fuckers in Britain get recorded by security cameras on the street.
@@howardman3926 Europe is corrupt asf as well but it’s doing far better than America.
3:47
4 years later: *looks at every major city in the world * Hmm... Hellooo dystopia!
No, seriously, we have this BS right now for "our security"
Oops, and here comes that worldwide plague
This channel is so awesome. It's like an oasis in the middle of a dry, desolate desert called CZcams.
1:31 Looks like Muffet just launched her first attack on that city.
Not being allowed to go outside after dark and people randomly disappearing means your not in an evil dystopia... Right
“One of the ways you can tell if you’re in a dystopia is to go outside.”
That’s it. That’s the joke. It’s a depressing joke. But that’s the joke.
I just started a resistance, thanks for helping me find out!
YES. Someone finally talks about TimeShift! :3
Watching this in 2020, slowly ticking off boxes while laughing more and more nervously
He forgot to add a teenage girl that realises that we're brainwashed
@@johnwilkesbooth8127 dude. literally what?
@@LordMogatron what? Not familiar with the trope?
Ok... You said "spoilers for the following games" and then showed the logo for Mirror's Edge Catalyst... But then you show footage and cutscenes from Mirror's Edge... the original one.
There was also cut scenes from Catalyst
+Joseph Krist OK, there's like two different shots.... Kinda surprised I missed the second one though.
but even though there's the second shot in there too, it states "spoilers for the following games" *lists mirror's edge catalyst* *shows the opening cutscene of the game right before you get to take control* *later on, shows a really quick clip of faith and icarus Running* Wow, total spoilers... So faith got taken out of the running business for a little bit and then got back into it after an extended period of time, and... we'll be doing parkour. Huh... Um... last time I checked that was the same premise as the first game.
+Twylite Fang It could be because the game isn't out yet, so everything is a spoiler, or they just said spoilers for each game they talked about
Plague, check. Yes we're living in an evil dystopia.
That scene when Freeman threw at the guard and it bounced into the trash can was awesome. Should have thought of that!
Have you taken your Joy today?
Nope... I've taken my Soma
Have you taken your anti-depressants?
C-TOS?! Its actually pronounced as "CT-OS".
IKR, How did he not pronounce it right, has he played it?
CT as it sounds like City. City operation System
If you watch OXBox videos often, you should know that they mispronounce abbreviations very often on purpose
The Voltz Gamer *central
they do it on purpose
I appreciate your help.
I'd LOVE to see Freedom Wars show up on one of these lists. Highly overlooked game I think.
I really liked Janes yellow nails. that is all.
I just imagined Obama giving a speech from on top of a giant robot spider.
Hu3rista 3rd World first of all that's a cringey profile picture. Second you are basically saying he can do not wrong Obama is evil end of story
***** You cant even fucking capitalize the I's
***** Its not reality though its fake
Hack Me people's
Jackson
HOLY FUCK CAN YOU JUST ENJOY THE JOKE
Also, htf does Obama on a mechanical spider mean he thinks Obama can do no wrong?
I loved time shift, this is the first video I've seen that actually acknowledges it's existence.
Perhaps you can do a video for top underrated games of all times next? We all know and heard of games like God of War, or Halo but not many people know about games like Puppeteer or Child of Eden. Acknowledgement of underrated games are in order!
This is why I couldn't believe that Mr. House from Fallout: New Vegas isn't evil. I couldn't believe it when I lost karma for killing him. It's such bullshit. He's obviously evil.
I think the reason you lost karma is because he couldn't fight back. He was strapped down and too old and feeble.
+Rebecca Johnson No Faction is really 'good' in New Vegas each one wants to use Vegas for its resources. The Legion is just the most extreme of all of them.
+Rebecca Johnson That's because there's no set good or evil in New Vegas, so the meter doesn't measure how you or most view the world, rather what your actions are objectively. You committed murder, thus it fell.
+Thomas Henry Not true - I gained karma from killing "evil" characters, like certain raiders or Caesar. And I reloaded it and kept Mr. House alive, just disconnecting him from the network that allows him to control New Vegas, and I still lost karma.
In the karma system of New Vegas, Mr. House is considered better than NCR, the actual democracy. Go figure.
+EddBlackheart He had killer robots with lazers!
Cough cough*
Australia
I really think its awsome how you guys show the titles of the games to be spoiled before you do it (I understand that sarcasm is hard to detect on the internet,but im NOT being sarcastic).S2 u OX
I love how the Killzone comment about voice actor Malcom McDowel works for Killzone as it does for Fallout 3's Enclave
Guys the plague is here
sad to say Canada is on its way to mirrors edge ishness...
These guys are WAAYYY too funny .
I love it.
I loved Time Shift back when it came out. I actually really miss it now.
I'm far from an authoritarian but I think that nazi uniforms looks cool
._.
Hugo Fucking Boss designed their uniforms of course they look cool.
That one reminded me about Shadow of Mordor not that they are nazi like just evil.
Division_ Evil but damn it was snappy
It's really the ONLY positive thing you can say about nazis, really.
Sounds like 2020
Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime!
You know, after looking into the Killzone backstory, I gotta admit I like the Helghast, they are quite aware of how they look and how cruel some of their actions are, but when your choices are to either die quietly or get REALLY mad, well, I would go for the totalitarian warrior-state as well.
C.Tos? ITS FUCKING CTOS(as in City Operating System) WTF?
WiderGamer its a shitty game. who cares?
Stephen Knowlton it wasn't shitty, it just wasn't the game that we expected
I was just going to comment on that, thank you!
shouldn't that be C.O.S. then?
Neverod8doreveN not, its C.T. pronounce each letter separately and you'll get (City) Pronunciation
Melbourne Australia 2021
5:41 Still, I think we can all agree than the bad guys generally have the coolest uniforms.
You Guys made this on my birthday :D
Does living in London count? lol.
Is Time Shift any good, or should we pretend that the f in the title isn't there?
RMGB TV I thought it was an alright game, good for one play through.
+RMGB TV It's a "play once, enjoy and then forget" kind of game. It's not brilliant, not cringeworthy. Just an OK shooter with interesting time manipulation mechanic.
Waldemar B. the time manipulation was sort of fun, then you had those few assholes who you had to stop time to kill cause they wouldnt stay still for more then 3 seconds.
Rezuvious To be honest, I was more annoyed with how doing ANYTHING in reverse time mode automatically failed the mission for you.
Sounds interesting - I might pick it up next time I see a cheap copy!
Okay. Now I just realized that in AC Blackflag one of the documents you get from hacking into Abstergo computers mentions cTOS (or however it is) which is the intrusive security system in Watch_Dogs.
Fun stuff Ubisoft!
BEST CHANNEL EVER!!!
Errr you're country is called China?
1:42 r/agedlikemilk
I like how the guy bounced the trash can off of the "storm troopers" and into the trash can at the end
THANK YOU for the spoiler tag!
Funny how this is a channel for Xbox, but it uses Playstation exclusive games for their videos... further proof that even Xbox fans aren't really Xbox fans...
"outside"xbox
>outside xbox
>outside
>out
Well shit, I guess Australians find this handy
OutsideXbox, you guys are the best British people I know
Unfortunately my alien overlords say I'm not allowed to like your video and I'm already subscribed. However they say your videos contain a satisfactory level of entertainment and therefore they will not vaporise you this year