eXistenZ - Atop the Fourth Wall 

Look at the bright side: no hallways, just a barren wasteland 50 times Skyrim (with twice as many pointless caves). Wait, did I said bright? Oh dear I'm sorry, I meant God-forsaken awful. No I'm not bitter about anything, why do you ask?

Not like Gamestops will still exist by then anyway.

They do in sports games.

At this rate. I'm worried that a second gaming industry crash will happen by then.

@@Rabbitlord108 I'm not so sure it will just be video games. There's unsustainable practices in several aspects of the global entertainment industry. And then there's all the problems like climate change, unaffordable housing, underregulated corporations...

A live action version of Yugioh directed by David Croneburg? That would be something worth watching!

Did not expect a Ben Garrison joke here of all places.

@@Hawkatana I don't really know who Ben Garrison is. I was going for the more commonly used Futurama/Professor Farnsworth reference.

aaaaaaaaaaand clinched butt

Tesla is the exact embodiment of that!

So many years and no game is as cool as ExistenZ yet

That needs to be a shirt.

Anyone else here seen Ryan George's videos about the time traveling reporter?

No the real eXisteZ was Dark City!

Something something digital circus.

The Dot Hack we all Sword Art Online.

@@angrybrony "I have no exit and I must scream" - Pomni, probably.

The Matrix started out as a Dark City, which became filled with Serenity, and eXistenZ was nothing but a Brain Scan for the Inception of Ready Player One.

I was thinking the same thing!

A little trivia, in Videodrome, the organic gun used by Max Rem at the climax was supposed to shoot teeth.

Now if they had a deadly bee weapon, they'd be unstoppable.

​@@muigokublack6487That sounds like a job for Dr. Beeeeeees!

"A weapon with some bite to it" (Q looks at James Bond with annoyance)

Or the comic book adaptation of this movie

@@TheBrotherGrim Wait there was a comic book adaption of this movie?

@@derrickhaggardYuuuup! and it's just as weird as you'd think. The art is like this weird photorealistic painting style. Not knowing anything about the movie and going in completely blind was definitely a trip

Gods Red dwarfs is such a fun show!

I'd much rather watch the 'Back to Reality' episode than this movie! XD

Except with even more pay walls 😅

After half a decade of viral internet conspiracies like flat earthers, QAnon and "reptiloids" going mainstream, a movie about playing a telepathic video game with that uncle who's two clicks away from becoming the next pizzagate shooter *should* make more sense than ever, but it really doesn't.

So that's were the Teeth SCP was inspired by! Next Golden Light will inspire a COD developer.

my city had a Chinese buffet called "China Buffet" for years

Don't forget to wash it down with a can of BEER beer.

Because poor literacy is KEWL

Full disclosure - with it being a Cronenberg movie, I fully expected to use the "sure it's phallic, why wouldn't it be?" line, but yeah, they're yonic or resemble vaginas so it doesn't work. XD

I learned a new word today! I didn't necessarily WANT to learn a new word today, but here we are regardless.

Bold of you to assume I intended to release this on Star Wars day. Also, I didn't - it's still May 3rd in Minnesota. XD

​@@AT4WThat's Prequel Day!

"Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!"

*looks it up* The fuck?!

In what world does A Paul Haggis movie deserve best picture

"DVD Commentary points out that one particular scene early on where Allegra and Pikul are at the County Gas Station makes absolutely no sense on its own. The scene in question is when we see Allegra outside the gas station while Pikul and Gas are inside, kicking at the dust and looking at the general area with something close to wonder and then reacting to a strange two-headed lizard. According to the commentary, Allegra is in fact admiring the detail of the transCendenZ game-world and the scene was included for the sole purpose of foreshadowing the reveal that the characters are inside a game the entire time."

Congratulations! You invested more thought into that scene, than the writer who wrote it!

What an absolutely crappy movie.

Its technically still may 3rd...

@@DirectorOfChaos9292in your timezone only

​@@DirectorOfChaos9292That would be Prequel Day...

There's some real strong body horror in legends material. Technovirus zombies made from Sith technosorceryalchemy. Then there's the people turned into faceless hulking monsters by a Sith amulet.

Well, technically, she DIDN'T make the game, as it's revealed she was only playing the part of a game programmer and it was actually another player that did. ...But they also reveal that the game was designed through some of the player's desires to destroy virtual reality and those who create it, who she was one of, so I guess, in some convoluted way, she DID make the game. ...Except she didn't actually.

​@@ZC-Infinityoh no, I've gone cross-eyed.

The answer is yes and no. The reveal at the end shows that everything prior to that was a procedural generated Game that takes its starting seed from thoughts extracted from people participating in it, 2 of the Players were part of a radical Anti-VR terrorist group and as such did the generated story ended up fucked up as there anti-VR games thoughts influenced the story generation. So in part did she create the story of the game (tho not the game it self) and the game with in a game was created by the character she was playing. The obvious final final twist is opening the question if "is it just another layer of VR obfuscation?" And this properly also justified the existence of an Radical Anti-VR terrorist group as perfect VR makes it near impossible to tell reality from virtual reality.

@@rynobehnke8289 Hence, the inability to tell the difference from simulation or reality is what is also known as Hyper-reality.

Oh yeah. I remember that episode god I miss that show

"Fight AIDS!"

Hello fellow pride flag person :)

Do you think he’s a Terran? That’s been my theory for a while, that he was either one of the last Terrans to make it to the main universe before the distance became to great, or he’s a descendant of Terrans that crossed over. Granted, he could just be a very off putting smart guy, but he FEELS like a Terran to me.

EVERYONE loves Cronenberg's character!

@@nonspiderwebwe know that some Terran revolutionaries crossed over aboard the ISS Enterprise now, so I suppose it’s possible, but I think he’s just a studier. It’s more likely to me that he’s a Temporal Wars veteran and the main guy behind what amounts to the post-Accords version of Temporal Investigations

@@Cdr2002 I hope they snap the canon back to pre Fall of Romulus, but that's just me being selfish.

@@XanthinZarda that’s where Lower Decks is set, though it’s sadly ending with its next season. Maybe another show will fill in that space. But who knows

I’d heard it before in other stuff and finally googled it. Clearly it’s been awhile cause as a kid the Ocean Dub was my first exposure to DBZ but it has been a long time. The two things I remember most clearly about it are Brian Drummond’s Vegeta and Terry Klassen’s Krillin

@@mitchellcowan2500 it's a funny excuse for censorship in the show. I really enjoyed those voice actors from the oceans dub. Some of them carried over into other dubs done by other companies like big green.

Too bad it’s Sunday!

@@MudchopX there would have been a lot more people in those buildings lol 🤣 Growing up as a young child that line made sense to me because I was a Mormon and spent a very long time in church every Sunday. Now that I'm older I'm not sure if that really mattered at all looking back on the line.

This kind of thing makes me feel that so called "high art" is overrated.

Which Christopher priest? The guy who wrote the prestige, or the guy who wrote black panther?

@@mttylerdurden9 According to Amazon it's the author of The Prestige.

@@mttylerdurden9 The Prestige one.

Yes.

That’s an unfair comparison. This movie makes 1000x more sense than whatever the fuck SAO is.

Tbf it has better VR elements than SAO

Honestly, I'd rather watch SAO before this movie and I'm not just say that because SAO is one of my favorite anime. Cause SAO is A LOT more interesting and easier to understand than this movie.

@@TheMiraculousVillain Not really. SAO, while a bad game design, at least delivers a fantasy that you know is a fantasy. It gives you direction to know what you're working towards. The UI is junk, and the lack of diversity in playstyle is terrible for an MMO, but it has better understanding and doesn't fall on procedurally generated content that fails to generate a narrative or substantial entertainment.

Riiiiggghhhttt until the second act drops all those elements

DIS still has problems overall but much like VOY and ENT I felt that it’s at least getting better with each season. While Season 3 and 4 are pretty varied, Season 5 has been pretty consistent as not bad so far.

Still would show up on X-ray, and if it doesn't have the "stopping power" for successful target elimination, then you have made a disgusting mess which likely cost a small fortune to bioengineer a worse pistol instead of spending that development money on a few decent hit men with sniper rifles.

nope i was first by a few second haha

They seem to show up semi-regularly when he's in rant mode.

@@bthsr7113 They do, but this time it felt especially like it fit with the rant.

I have also been watchin Delicious in Dungeon.