The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in it's growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically. - Battaille, The Accursed Share
that is cruelty squad in a nutshell. a reality where i think the player *us* is a counterbalance sent or made by something or someone to destory the amount of technology beacause hey. life where death is nowhere is just worthless.
That quote sums up and explains the entire game. Everything on it is ugly because of the negative value that life acquired due to every human with enough money being able to resurrect or have backup bodies created for them should they say the word. When the organism was fully developed, like the quote said, instead of the excess wealth being unmade, people decided to keep it and enlarge it, thus totally erasing death and making life miserable and worthless. All humans in Cruelty Squad are, in the end, sad masses that seek nothing but transactional power for reasons they do not comprehend or question. This game is so fucking beautiful and misunderstood it shocks me.
Not so esoteric. I think it's obvious that there is more evil than good, in the universe. Life is just the exception to death, as love is just the exception to cruelty. If anything, it's a creative way of saying that "God is dead". At the same time, in the world of Cruelty Squad, the sun DOES literally smile at the "Earth" with eternal malice. It sounds like the protagonist is just staring directly at the sun.
@@lordtomlluckrahthegreat9014It also works to showcase that the universe of Cruelty Squad is built on so much suffering that even the Sun itself displays visible malice towards the player. The realization that beating the Archon did nothing to change things is why the Hope Eradicated difficultly is unlocked after beating the game for the first time.
@@Soulraven2735 From a geocentric point of view this is true but, lore-wise, the Sun existed before the rest of the universe did. The only form of consciousness in an otherwise perfectly desolate environment. It's not that the Sun is cruel because it fits the theme but, rather, that the universe surrounding the Sun is bleak because the Sun wills it so. Also, technically, since it was the Trigons who shaped the world you exist in (in the game), and the first Triagon stole power from the Sun and brought progress and potential to the world, it could be argued that the world of Cruelty Squad (or at least the part that matters, the *LIFE* part) is built on the basis of the infectious and reproductive properties of living creatures. The other two Triagons only influenced the shapeless creation of the first; they didn't produce anything by themselves. It does beg the question: where do the Triagons come from? Are they a sort of primal DEATHform? The first Triagon, at least, is described as having "vascular arms", implying it's organic. Is the Sun so uncaring towards the existence of LIFE that it allowed the Triagons to form naturally, through complete chance and the passage of trillions of years, in the otherwise innocuous medium?
when the sun enters its red giant phase in approximately five billion years, Venus and Mercury will be completely engulfed, the Earth might as well, or it might share the fate of Mars and just get blasted into oblivion the way Mercury is now
@@canufen7350 The central idea is what if we could bring dead people back to life and what would that look like in a capitalist society. And the conclusion is that the immense meaninglessness of life would cause people to spend resources on the most pointless of things, chunkopops, biomods, stocks and assets that make no sense, etc. All the while the worth of people, life, and labor plummet so low their value becomes negative because there's such an overabundance of it. This mixture of pointless expenditure of resources and overabundance of life creates the strange and demented world of cruelty squad.
I've been getting really into "hell". Both as a mindset and as something to strive for, in an organizational sense. There's something intensely beautiful about it.
So sad cruelty squad popularity rised up and got down so quickly in July, still your video its amazing and i know you have the talent to do good things, you just have to look forward for a good trend video and keep doing stuff like this, you will get tons of views :)
@Joan Marie Arroyo Alcon Sometimes you need to understand why something has gone popular, and also you need to understand that popularity its at the moment, and usually there's always something on TOP at the time, but if we dont search enough it always will be too late for us, content creators to get that popularity peak, if you reach trends in time you will get tons of views.
Magnificent! Absolutely mind pumping, neurotransmitter overloading, and life giving! Also, just noticed that I got my art featured at 0:17 and 0:18, what an honour :D Absolutely love this!
The numogram in this video sent me on a 3 month rabbit hole. I've read All writings by the CCRU, Accursed share, and now I'm reading through all of Mark Fishers work as well as reading through the Neuromancer series. How has this video game and its associated content got me reading more than ever I'm so fucking confused but I love everything I'm reading. Freaking out rn.
@@pyroagr4474i know this was 1 year ago, but it's absolutely repetitive that the songs in edits sound 1m times better than the original song and i can't fucking figure out why
Beautiful, Best edit I found by far. The only thing I fear, is that people of other shitty fandoms, discover this game But I think its so weird and deep-lore that they will ignore it.
Fandoms aren't actually bad like people make em out to be. It's almost always the small loud minority that cause the problems you might here about, and then everyone just focuses on that instead of the cool/normal people of the fandom.
I personally fear that Cruelty squads fan base could attract the types that go "oh, you need to have a high IQ to understand the lore and story and what this game is, no normies aloud" like in the Rick and Morty Fanbase. They are still a small minority, but they are the most annoying one in my opinion cause nobody likes to be gatekept from a series.
I know it's a stereotype that every leftist has read capitalist realism, but damn, it only popped up for a half a frame and my brain still somehow picked up on it.
@@Mister_Clean It's Kaczynski's literal worst work. Read Ellul instead since Kaczynski parroted what he said in a much shittier way and Ellul is way more refined than him. Or better yet, read Land, Haraway or Deleuze & Guattari for max schizoanalysis.
It's hilarious that in a world of games that'll melt your GPU just booting them up the most cutting edge and interesting game I've played in years looks like it's made entirely out of vomit and cardboard and could probably run on a toaster
After watching this, with rather good intentions, it's occured to me that of what the true meaning and purpose of this video, disregarding the rather grotesque comprehensive capabilities, now with it's meaning in mind. It's artistic intent. Has never been more clear to me.
