Free Will and Waifus - The True Horror of Doki Doki Literature Club 

Still new to audio editing. Getting used to it.

ah, i should've been more understanding of it. I apologize.

I don't think it's the editing though. It sounds like there's something up with your source. The sound is muffled, but there's pop. Is it a mic direction/obstruction?

It sounds like the bass has been boosted too high.

That's part of it, too. I don't know how to properly use my mixer yet. And my pop guard doesn't really seem to be working. I'll experiment with it and figure it out.

I'd even take it a step further, not even self-aware friends would be enough. The whole world she lives in is fake. It doesn't matter how much quality time she spends with all of her equally sentient friends, it's all just some game that doesn't matter in the end. What if we humans all learned that this whole thing is all just a computer game? What if we could say, with 100% unequivocal certainty, that life as we know it is all a simulation and when our avatars "die" we actually just leave this game and head back to reality? The true horror of that, at least for me personally, would be the knowledge that none of this actually matters and existence as we know it is a fruitless endeavor--whether or not other people are be aware of that is besides the point. You know, even if my friends also knew that the world is fake, it might feel nice to be understood, but I'm still gonna have a crisis coming to grips with the realization that the world is fake.

Matt Actually, I’d love that. I’m way more afraid of death than the idea of life being pointless. If I die and just go somewhere else, then meh. I wouldn’t be too upset, even though my “life” would definitely feel weirder after the fact. But if I die and just *don’t exist* anymore... that’s beyond scary to me.

@@Matt-ox4gz Well, my thought process is this: so what if we live in a video game? Might as well try to get the high score since we're gonna be here for a while, right?

@@MigattenoBlakae Lol. I believe that when we die, we just seize existing. No soul, so spirit, no after life. Because for me, consciousness is just a neural network that will stop working once the brain dies. So now, I’m torn between trying to be immortal or just eff it all and just enjoy the experience while it last. Though it’d be nice if that’s the case. 😂

@@Matt-ox4gz This, as much as its nice to have ppl on the inside who agree with you, that holds nothing to the weight of actually finding proof your world is fake and there's a being you can actually contact to and hold your sanity together that everything you know is fake.

No one seems to care how all the club members ignore the fact that she writes and shows them a poem with the title "Save me" but they lose their minds once Monika starts deleting waifus. If Monika is a monster then so is anyone who has used a hex editor or deleted a game from their hard drive.

​@@feanorchronos7706 turns out the media was right all along. games make people violent. gamers are all evil murderers for running ppl over in GTA or letting their sims drown. gasp

Game theory did 😔✌🏾

She isn't a monster, she is an agent with a purpose, only ever not pursuing it for diplomacy.

Quin Nunez I mean she is but yeah

The other one (Natsuki) is my favorite character

We shall start a cult that simps over Natsuki and other Tsunderes. Our Enemy? The Yandere Simpers. Anyone else agree?

Honestly Natsuki and sort of Sayouri are very forgetable.

@@northpenguins excuse me. WHAT?!

@@GamingwolfZJ I can count on one hand with 2 fingers chopped of willingly how many things that actually happened with Natsuki and Sayouri only has actuall impact when she dies.

I just want to affect the world of a single person. That's my only wish.

@@monkey_blu kill someone. that'll certainly change their world.

I feel like this is quote from monika either from the game, or the after story mod

@@sofiaporras3624 Could also be a reference to OneShot or Undertale

agreed same here its like the game shows you its a perpetual clusterfuck of death and scizo romance, as much as i adore the quirkiness of each character no matter how hard you try every ending leaves a bad taste in your mouth

I know this comment is old. But what the actual freaking hell!?

@@MrTigracho just as confused as your are bud

Whereas I am from Colorado, and have no connection to Buddhism.

I do some weed, does that count?

Years later, and I’m guessing a place called Crestone.

I read this before I got to that point and it makes no sense

You would have a couple doki-doki's left.

So, that’s the same thing? Right?

you dont have to delete her, you can keep her around forever

So she doesn't have free will. She was programmed to do a thing and thus will fulfill that task because it's the only thing she knows.

it's fine, she was a twat anyway

One the other hand, does anyone tired to duplicated her file instead of removing it? Now that would be fucking cruel, isnt it?

The real bad guy is the Literature Club. At the end Monika blames the game, not the dev team. I think this implies that Monika's epiphany was an anomaly rather than something intentionally coded in. Or at least, from a lore perspective.

When you go meta you throw out the its fiction card. And when that happens Monica is no longer a sentient AI, just a texparser.

She was never a sentient AI in the first place. All these things are programmed. But Doki Doki is only a teaser for a much sinister game. Project Libitina. Who wil release in 2018 :)

Not really it has been confirmed. You can even go to the website projectlibitina.com/

not a whole lot there.... can you link to something where Salvato said something about this?

Goose McBruce should've been "battle tendency"

1 milion d'abonnés sans vidéo, c'est possible? IS THAT A FUCKMOTHERING JOJOS REFERENCE?!??!???!

1 milion d'abonnés sans vidéo, c'est possible? Na-*NANI???!*

You gave me a writing prompt. Thank you.

@Nayaka Syahidah can you share the result of that plot?

So... You seen the glitch war in random dreams and daydream.s

One thousand lies?

The wonders of necromancy

Digi I mean if it's still beating then sure

Digi This is not oki doki

Monika does know her Christmas decorations

*Ornament

Jolly good bulli

aaaw thank you

Yo, Just Some Guy without a Mustache, I’ve seen you before... but then again, who hasn’t? :D

unk THE unk Monika also tried to raise from being a puny mortal to Lovecraftian horror with ancient language of Py'thon.

Now he has to edit and reupload the entire video

radonstone Good idea, that means we'll get a new song

Please explain.... please.

+Gabe St. Onge +Maria Nelson They're references to his playthrough on Questing mark!

I sure am not

Gabe St. Onge On the lets play Bryant and Evan combined their names into Everyant so they could both be the protagonist. Because it obviously spells Every Ant they made a joke that their character was actually an amalgam of ants speaking simultaneously (for real they read every protag line at the same time) and some nice person made fan art of their version of the protag being a school boy with two ant heads and that's what you're seeing.

Romulus Numa I'm more wondering what's up with that "the other girl" thing he's doing. It might be part of the future parts?

Just Monika

"fUcKinG mOnIkAmMmMmM"

Must Jonika, wait.

Just Expoint

JUST.. Stop

Goranim is that a yes?

Falcondorf You have his eyes

Ascended from Daddy to B I O L O G I C A L F A T H E R

Hole in Wall: Revenge of the This Time It's Personal Strikes Back!

Hole in Wall 6: Return of the MC

Hole In Wall: 7 Grand Dad

Hole in wall 8: the glitchy poems part 2

Hole in Wall: Glory Days, the preq'cum'el

How you seen game theory video on ddlc? It is a interestingly take on what going on?

I felt bad for Monika Because of An Easter Egg.... Goddamn this Game Is Incredible

The whole _game_ makes me feel bad for Monika

9 meta 3 me

.... which one? I suppose it would be The Great War......of 12 AD....

Mathwiz97 just Ant. Just Ant. Just Ant. Just Ant...

oh hey other great anime youtuber, you having an existential crisis here too?

Guys... I’m not dead! It was a banana... Bryant is just melodramatic >.>

I mean to be fair, he just got shot, he may still survive! Lol

"I'm not dead!" Said the *undead* grad student. :P

Ikcatcher of got want to go there, it's more flowey. sans is like a semi aware version of Sakuri, knows enough to guess correctly but can't fully confirm and can't control it. Monica, like flowey, has control but faces the limits of that control. both have abilities they didn't choose to have that cause them to question their reality but they have no ability to free themselves from it. so they go nuts until a person with more control overpowers them. to use the monk analogy imagine if the boy at the temple suddenly learns of the world outside, doesn't want to be a monk, but can't leave. suddenly they become like Monica and flowey. another thing, it's Monica's awareness that leads to get crisis. if she didn't know she would be content as a tutorial\guide to help the player find his waifu. also you can argue that Monica isn't ignoring the last crisis but has come to terms with it. she knows that are can change fate but doing so ruins everything she ever loves, including the player. it's also not love to do so. it's not that she can't change her place, but that the horrible things she had to do to do it are too much and not worth it. remember that the only reason why the game comes back is through Monica deciding that she doesn't know how to love you, so she'll let you be. so the closure of the horror of doki doki is once to you find your limitations to accept them and be content with what you can achieve. to realize that you are that child and that you became a monk because you lived there and not elsewhere, and to be happy with the choices you did make nonetheless

Although it's a bit similar undertale is only aware of the save/load function and is not aware that their world is only a simulated world made of binary. In Doki-Doki, Monika shattered the 4th wall. Monika is not only aware of the "truth" but she can also change everything within their world as she sees fit provided she knows enough programming in Python.

NO.

hue hue flowey also has that ability, it was shown in the neutral and pacifist ending, also with chara when you try to open your game

Nope the only ability they have is they can destroy the game but they can't "edit" it. Monika can rewrite code itself and even has the ability to stop/rewind time at will while Flowey is still a slave to the code Monika isn't. Anyway Flowey knows about the "player" what he doesn't know is that they are in a simulated universe/game and they are slaves to the whims those who knows how to code.

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The Suicidal Muffin dang, Monika must have seen this Waifu as another threat

You are not. Natsuki is precious child, and must be protected.

Natsuki is sane man's best girl. Yuri is edgy man's best girl. Sayory is no man's best girl. Monika is thinking man's best girl.

I think Natsuki might actually be his favorite, or at least the route he went down in his let's play. Which is fortunate. I'd hate to have to unsubscribe if he turned out to have no taste.

Yes

Look on the bright side: sans deletion, she made it out alive. She was seen (incorrectly) as unlikeable so not too much was tweaked.....

And I call my detergent "laundry sauce!"

gumgrapes darn, got spoiled huh, it's very awesome so give it a shot

I know this comment is 4 years old, but the game has the unfortunate circumstance of appearing very UNappealing to the exact people most likely to enjoy it. I can absolutely say that I would've never played it if I _didn't_ get spoiled.

There are two ways of looking at it. The scientifically accurate way saying lol fuck you Heisenberg uncertanty principle, or the philosophically accurate way of Yeah, right, and what does that change exactly? Its a pointless concept mostly tauted by hack philosophers that contributes nothing to society on any appreciable level.

Oh, I think one can 'fight' determinism in even more ways. Two that I would like to mention: 1) Pragmatism: either things are dertermined or not. In case they are determined, my choice is set from the beginning. In case they aren't, chosing to believe in determinism is only detrimental. Therefore, I chose to belive in free will. It's only pragmatic. 2) A changed perception of self: yeah, my decisions stem from a really, really complex system of chemical euilibria (or whatever the plural is ...) and eletric signals. But I AM those chemical and electrical things, the whole, everchaning state of the physical system that is me experiencing itself. So while the state of the universe might describe what I chose, the desicions are still very much my own.

Tyler Johnson Well kinda, they aren’t exactly the same. But hey at least Re Creators is still quite unique for an anime cause their isn’t any other anime with that concept.

Are they actually good? All i know of inkheart is a terrible movie starring Brendan fraser.

It’s been years since I’ve read those books but I remember them quite fondly. It made me happy to see Inkheart pop up in this video.

All the way from London? Damn.

Blizzic jake Paul comes out at the end

they didn't either

I got Doki Doki Literature Club SPOILED to me by a friend, but I have successfully avoided The Last Jedi spoilers.....which do you think I care more about?

Poofbomb - Minecraft & More! The fact that Zero Two might be dead

Blizzic it took me 6 hours.

Just Monika.

The Sarcastic Lime fuck you XD

And I love you, random citizen!

​@@ExplanationPointAnimeI'm 5 years late but i love you too metroman!

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Ah, have you not seen the Game Grumps's ads, they are a masterpiece in terms of shitposting

Michael Long Wow, was is that bad? I haven't finished it...

Colstratos depends do u like unlikable characters, boring plots with only a few brief points of interest and avatar villain Mary Sue with so much edge he’s a 90 degrees angle if so go ahead and watch it I won’t stop u

Glad I'm not the only one

I would argue that he also cannot be both omnipotent and omniscient, because anything that could possibly know what we were going to do to ourselves and everything around us, assuming there aren't too many worse things we can do under our current limitations that we haven't figured out yet, would take one look at our future and give us the old black widow two-step.

@@tripleoo0 Your reasoning is flawed. You only assume one potential outcome given the information you have. You assume, because omniscience would be too painful to bear for yourself, that another person, in fact every other person or form of consciousness, MUST feel the same way as you did. However, what if the pain of omniscience was, like black coffee, a taste they actually desired? The omnipotence wouldn't come from the lack of omniscience but it's painful presence and said ability to endure it. What you avoid, they embrace....what you find revolting, they find enlightening. You still wouldn't be able to grasp such a being (they are fundamentally embracing things you personally find revolting, so it's still an apple person trying to explain their love to an orange person) but it would square the circle your own pardox can't seem to solve.

In my defense, this is not necessarily the view I hold today, two years and change later, but you are correct; there's no guarantee that any species we know of is modeled after said deity. I do still think that's too fatalistic a worldview for me to carry. I guess I just hope that the uncaring void does actually care at least a little bit.

Taco_G_ they likely just recently finished playing and he wanted to get his thoughts out as soon as possible. I'm sure the next parts of the lp will be up soon. They'll just need some time in the editing room

YOU'RE late to upload!

Explanation Point Congratulations I played myself!