How can you make progress into a fruitless endeavour (The Game of Sisyphus) 

we’re Sisyphus guys, of course we’re gonna push a boulder up an ice slope for the 54th time

i've seen the vod, i've seen the librarian upload, i've seen the b&b for this day, yet here i am quadrupling up my pogs

the damn ball's made of rubber

One must imagine Northernlion happy.

ice slope bros we're so back

im waiting for an NL meme of this game on ice slope with that one song in the sisyphus meme but the catch is that it cuts to him on the girders at like 4x speed instead of sisyphus pushing up the rock

Coming up from Portland to Seattle, the train was stopped just south of Tacoma for over an hour waiting for a freight train and two commuter trains to pass

@44:10 he's right, a metaphor literally is a false equivalence. It's part of the reason that poetry had a bad reputation among the scholastics in the middle ages: what's the value of speaking in metaphor if what you're saying is literally false? That's why they teach you the difference between simile and metaphor; a simile is at the very least a (potentially) true statement, while a metaphor is strictly speaking always false

So here for the MTG talk

we're Sisyphus guys of course we're happy

Omg hes beyond the ice slope!

When NL was talking about the highschool stuff I remembered that I was held back a year and still finished with a CCCDD in my exams. Went to college for a subject I actually wanted to pursue, top marks in my exams. Now on track to get a first class honors at uni(as well as working in the field). To be fair I did get an adhd diagnosis after highschool which helped a lot with realising that it's not that I was just a broken human being but that my brain worked differently and I had to approach tasks a different way. What I'm trying to say is never give up guys and gals, we are all gonna make it.

On the school discussion, I loved primary school, lower secondary was also pretty damn chill, but upper secondary was more work than I did at university, in subjects I enjoyed less and with less friends and still lacking independence. University was phenomenal but I have a feeling people complaining about school aren't talking about uni. In general I guess school was pretty good, but from my year of working so far I'd much rather continue that than experience high school again, even if you ignored the money. Specifically focusing on teacher quality, we had one computer science teacher stay with me since it was introduced as a subject to the school, but the other comp sci teacher would change every single year like damn harry potter - one of them straight up taught us incorrect things and doubled down when we said we had been taught differently. One was clearly used to being in a generally better school and did the whole "none of my students have ever gotten below an A" spiel then ditched after the first few months of half the class failing homework. For a while they had the IT teacher who hadn't formally learned CS teaching us and he was mid even as an IT teacher but knew less about CS than some kids, admittedly not by fault of his own. Those were objectively bad teachers to have and I'm fairly certain I pursued computer science despite them, not because of them. (The one that stayed was great though, he for sure had a positive influence)

wow, the rant about Magic the Gathering at the beginning is so true! and i am one of those that plays since 15 years ago lol

I love his transformation into a parent, it's so funny.

Something about the way he says "thats sysiphus" is so haunting

I can not explain it. I can not understand it. But I'm fully invested in this adventure and it takes up an entire screen and hemisphere of my brain while at work. Much like you and that boulder, I have lost control of my life. By the way, school isn't easy for everyone. I was a C- student because wow was school boring and tedious. But then did just well enough to go to university, and despite keeping me out of the engineering programs, am a very well-paid roboticist who hasn't really worked a day in his life. I'm relieved my parents didn't make me miserable over grades.

My 6th grade science teacher tried to fail me out by never getting my homework. I made people witness me turning it in so I could call them to my defense later.

over an 80 for an A is easy mode.

did he forget he can walk the rock up the slopey

OMG he is still pushing the rock, pog!

As a judge for Magic I hae loved watching NL's rambling over magic

52:30 what I would've given for a chatter to have said "less-than-lethal beanbag shotgun" or something and tripped him up in this bit

I like seeing RU-vidrs in general fail at this game. But Northernlion being stuck on Ice for way to long actually made me want him to move forward 💀

I’m all here for the MTG Yapping. Just need to find a friend group that all understands that people want their deck to go off lol

We're back on the ice?!

I absolutely love commander, but i appreciate standard too.

I wonder if twitch chat was yelling STOP SPRINTING every time he was at the ramp.

This game is the most I’ve ever felt the need to watch a video at 2x

I remember Magic Mike's Mushrooms by the Main Street Skytrain

As someone going for an accounting degree I felt target for a second there XD

only 55 comments, I would love to be 56 ( i liked the part where he was pushing the rock )

Northernlion brother, I've enjoyed your content for some time and generally you're pretty good at gaming, but you seem to have missed the concept of this game. You're supposed to roll the ball UP the hill, not go to the bottom. Hope this helps.

Did you get cursed by a witch to play magic the gathering XD

nl talking about magic 😊

bad school related takes. learning is great but school is a deeply dehumanising place

Watching this guy lose progress on this game making me furious my GOD. 😤🤭

I don’t get why he’s so chill about shitty teachers. USA’s school system is completely fucked and shrugging it off is just prolonging the problem. I know he’s Canadian but I think spreading this aloofness is unhealthy

Every time NL shows off by talking about Korean food I wanna downvote on the video. But I can't.

idk I've been playing magic for 9 years and I slap most of my LGS around, you just gotta git gud

Wow, No Views after 52 seconds. I used to love this guy before he got washed

In this video; NL simultaneously makes fun of people who dont want children in private spaces and simultaneously says throwing erasers at children is okay Pick a side, dawg. Are children based or cringe

5 views in 1 minutes? my goat is washed 😢

This guy might end up being a terrible parent judging from his line of thought at 38ish minutes. Plus why tf would you play a game like this and who would watch. I’m just skipping to the end and major falls 😂

It's funny how bad your trains are. In the states, I'd honestly rather take a train. Sure it's slow, but it costs a lot less, I don't have to go through security, I can take luggage with me if I so chose. It's just plain better. Airlines are too god damn expensive.