I'm On Observation Duty 5 

I love how some are “cup moved” or “item vanished” and some are *“naked hobo t-posing and shaking violently while getting closer to the camera”*

Moral of the story: when Mark says that he's done with the game and he'll never play it again, it means he'll definitely play it again.

40:23 the human mind is so insane,litearlly 2 books changed yet his instincts reacted in such a precise way that his brain couldn't follow and didn't even realize the difference

i love when mark's spidey senses start tingling and he just starts screaming frantically

Observation Duty with an "eye tracking" system would be fun to watch how Mark's eyes are flying all over the rooms

Mark really used 100% of his brain in this one. I think he unlocked new neurons that he never even knew he had. He has ascended

Could you imagine trying to invade someone's home and then you hear them screaming "IT'S NOT IN THE KITCHEN, IT'S OUTSIDE!"

At 34:39, you can see the stairs transform in the middle of the screen, which Mark doesn't notice until he moves to the room where it's entirely obvious. It's subtle, but you can just barely make it out. It's interesting how one room's anomalies appearing can be seen from another room.

I love watching Mark play games where he's a security guard handling supernatural forces beyond his control while maneuvering surveillance cameras until 6 AM.

This episode specifically will be remembered down in history as Mark opened his third eye and ascended far beyond the 7 senses.

31:28 Moments like these are an almost picture-perfect example of how a "gut reaction" is basically just the subconscious noticing something that the conscious mind wasn't aware of. Whenever you get a "bad feeling", it's not magic, but your brain being a lot more amazing than we give it credit for; and I think that's awesome.

This is definitely one of the biggest accomplishments Markiplier has ever achieved on RU-vid. Dude discovered he had a sixth sense and mastered it in under 50 minutes

Ok, but Mark noticing the books is definitely amazing. I could not even tell when Lixian first put the 2 side by side, it was so subtle.

Mark having a bigger reaction to a water bottle moving than a person appearing is the best

7:18 I don't think I've ever jumped so hard and screamed alongside Mark before 🤣 I was so focused! I hope Mark plays more maps, it's very entertaining to play along with these.

I actually love that he’s doing this game. It’s just fun to watch and pretty captivating honestly

Lixian is hella smart for hiding jumpcuts between camera flashes

I love how when there's the smallest possible anomaly, Mark always goes "WHOA, WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWHOOOAAAA"

I love Marks hourly “outside” affirmations.

It's as if Mark did not disappeared for months to shoot Iron Lungs, but was secretly practicing this game day and night.

12:00 "Outside exists", "Outside is it's own concept", "Outside is a concept and it exists" Every gamers worst fear.

I love that Mark's strategy is just 'vibe check'

As a life guard for many years Mark sort of gets the idea. You take eye scanning patterns but you also need to mix it up often as to not miss any section of the pool.

"That wasn't an annomaly, it was just someone who wants some coffee and i can respect that" is probably my new favourite quote of all time xD

mark: im not a masochist also mark: plays a game he absolutely hates over and over again

Mark is a god at this game because the fact that he noticed there were just 4 books missing on a bookshelf hidden in the shadows (which I didnt even notice the bookshelf itself was there) just proves it.

These videos are actually helping me as a lifeguard, the fast moving scenes help me with my 10/20 scan, ten seconds to recognize the guest in distress and 20 seconds to get to them. I've been going slow on my 10, so trying to scan the room in the amount of time mark does it speeds me up a bit while still recognizing abnormalities, or in my field, GID's. (Guest In Distress)

(copied and pasted it for myself) Spooky moments: 1:19 mild - screen distorts momentarily. 2:09 mild - face painting on the left is different. 2:57 mild - gong sounds for the first hour of the night. And there's a head on the cupboard at the back of the room. 3:44 mild - painting on bedroom wall is different. And kinda creepy AI generated face. 6:31 mild - there's a head to the left in the bathroom. Camera zooms in as Markiplier says "head!" 7:17 MAJOR - cuts to hallway and there's a large man in a suit jigglng right in front of the camera. The jiggling sound is loud and Markiplier yelps. Still made me jump despite how silly it is. 😂 8:42 mild - 3 gong sounds. 11:38 mild - 4am gongs 12:05 MAJOR - cuts to leisure room and a freaky bright guy is hunched in the middle of the floor looking straight at the camera. 13:16 mild - door at entrance is replaced with a void. 15:17 moderate - markipliers webcam shifts to the right, because on the left side it reveals that theres a man outside the kitchen door trying to get in. Zooms in after a few seconds. 16:08 moderate - cuts to parlour where you hear piano keys being pressed. In the distance you see a man playing the piano in the distance. He slowly turns to the camera. At 16:16 Markiplier repeats "don't do it" and the camera zooms right in on his creepy, slackjawed face. Anomaly is fixed before anything happens. 16:57 moderate - very loud sudden sizzling sound when he cuts to living room. It's footage on the tv. 18:52 moderate - after completing the mission then clicking to go again, the screen turns red and there's a creepy floating guy in a suit with more UI text prompts. Clicking through two more times makes the freaky man they weirder and distorted until he ends up back at the main menu. 19:26 mild - paintings on the left are very creepy doll like faces. 19:34 mild - another creepy abstracted painting with holes for eyes. Actually over the next few shots there are creepy, distorted paintings. 21:16 mild - noise, coffee machine is humming as it's switched on. 21:37 mild - zooms in on the abstracted painting with holes for eyes. 25:02 moderate - loud beep as game over screen cuts in. 26:29 moderate - creepy doll painting from earlier is replaced with an even creepier eyeless doll face 29:00 mild - gong 29:36 mild - Markiplier screaming as he realized something was missing startled me lol. 31:09 moderate - painting in the office has been swapped for an off-putting dual-faced mashup with no eyes. Quick zoom in. 32:17 mild - 2am gong, followed by coffee machine humming again. 32:43 moderate - painting in the vault replaced with horrifying abstract SCP face art. 33:33 mild - Markipliers loud reaction to seeing something is different. 34:14 mild - same again 35:21 mild - gong. 36:27 mild - Markiplier misses it, but the man's head painting in the basement has been mirrored down the middle. Sees it in a few seconds and zooms in on it. 37:17 mild - same treatment on the painting in the directors office. Which he catches and zooms in on. The next shot also has a changed painting way off in the distance to an unsettling face. 38:29 moderate/major - first person in this level, sitting in the chair in the basement. After he clicks to report the anomaly, the guy dies in the chair with a gong sound. Nothing happens and the anomaly is reported successfully. 41:44 mild - there are more lights in the directors office and they're floating upside down from the floor. 44:13 moderate - zooms in on middle painting in directors office, where the man's eyes have been replaced by... Animated eyeballs? 46:22 moderate - in the hallway, there's a guy hanging upside down on the ceiling. Markiplier notices after a few seconds and he exclaims. The camera zoom's in on the creature when he does. 46:51 mild - trypophobia trigger. The screensaver on the PC in the basement has lots of organic holes on it.

Time for Mark to go insane, for the fifth time.

I appreciate how Lixian edits in such a way that makes it so you can see what Mark is seeing. Makes it a lot easier to spot the anomalies he's finding

Markiplier slowly becoming "The King of I'm On Observation Duty"

I love how mark turned it into a tutorial at the end there lol

Mark: "That is it! I'm done with this game and I'm never playing it again!" Also Mark: "Alright! Let's get right back into it!"

Whenever mark gets excited and WWWooOoqoOaoaaaaHH I’m frantically looking around the room like : WHAT WHAT IS IT

I don't know why, but Mark calling out random nouns with determination is the most hilarious thing to me.

Wont be able to watch Mark play indie horror anymore without thinking, "he should make a movie"

This has become my new favourite Markiplier series. It's fun to see Mark playing this even though it's a bit tedious to watch

This is somewhere between a rage game and a major anxiety-inducer.

7:17 I just wanna replay Mark's shock face because it's funny 😂

Gotta say im really proud of Mark for finishing the House level , he did better than me 😂 i didn't see half of the things he noticed either that or im just really bad at this😂

Mark has memorized that house so much he could live in it and know when any possible part of it is chipping or breaking down, he’d know in the blink of an eye Edit: jfc I never expected a comment I made to ever get this much attention and likes, thank you all for that! It’s made my day!

Marks brain slowly melting trying to memorize the places is really entertaining.

I’m actually so amazed that Mark can do this, I was trying with him and I could barely catch anything

Mark in observation duty 4: I'm done. Never doing that again. Ever. Also Mark: I'm gonna move to the bank on this episode of observation duty guys.

mark reliving the glory days of finally making it to 6am

(*Pfff* here we go again...) All the anomalies Mark missed during his video: 14:00 ---> Bed changed in the Bedroom (he got it later) 20:37 ---> The plant disappeared in the Hallway 23:36 ---> Stairs appeared on the upper-right side in the Hall 24:45 ---> The far shutters are closed in the Office 27:56 ---> The far shutters are closed in the Office (he got it later) 28:45 ---> Gold ingots rearranged in the Vault (he got it later) 31:00 ---> All the barriers changed position in the Hall (he got it later) 36:27 ---> The dude in the painting is different (he got it later) 42:12 ---> It was the trash bin at the bottom of the Office , he got so lucky XD Wow, he did so well in this video ! He got lucky to not get the PEN disappearing in the Conference Room which is impossible to notice LUL Good job, Mark !

Interestingly enough, at 34:40 in the Hall you can see the texture of the stairway between the two chandeliers change while Mark is still looking at the room- this seems like the stairway change in Counter is visible from there, as it switched back after Mark fixed that room.

I REALLY wonder what reactions an interior designer/decorator would have and whether or not they'd be better at this kind of thing.

man whenever I spot something that mark doesn't I feel so good and so FRUSTRATED at the same time

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such terror in Mark’s face before at 7:17, it scared me so bad too 💀

18:29 me when I finish my shift at work

15:38 Did anybody notice that the items switched spots, but the shadows stayed where they were supposed to be? Just kind of a funny lil detail.

7:19 Mark : I'm totally missing something. Game: Everything is OK. Mark : NO. I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING I DON'T SEE. Game: FINE... HERE YOU GO !

I love mark saying “I’m done with this game” every week

0:59 the SHADOW 💀🤚

34:11 i have never seen a man so exited over a waterbottle moving XD

Mark noticing the books on the shelve missing while he couldn't even see what changed after the anomaly was fixed... just so impressive man! Holy shit!

This game is brilliant. it forces you to increasingly focus on the minute details in each camera, freaking you out when it does nothing for a long time. Then it jump-scares you with something in your face, yet in a way that doesn't feel cheap. it is a truly unique form of horror

41:44 this is what pit bosses do and what casinos hire people to do. They’re not the only ones but apparently it is a very necessary thing since computers are not quite there yet and it pays well. Why does it pay well? It saves casinos money from cheaters in card games who mark the cards ever so subtly. Also, people who are banned from the casino who have cheated or counted cards or banned for some other reason the skill is very necessary for the safety and cost efficient way for the casino to stay in business.

I love how he just get more and more freaked out over the smallest things

Finally, after over a year, Mark's Observation Duty video title is accurate.

The lifeguard thing is kinda true, we usually look for signs of life while scanning from corner to corner and occasionally doing a full bottom sweep to check for children or babies that are right below our feet. What I did was also keep in mind how often people came back up for air to make sure that nothin was off.

29:35 PLAAAAAAAAAANT

41:36 Talking about what lifeguards do. Yeah, we have to do this a lot with seeing what swimsuit color someone is wearing, noticing their swimming patterns. It is a lot like this but with more moving pieces since people don't stay still when they swim. Like for example, we need to be able to remember who was playing what game with their friends but also what else was happening around them. There is a lot of memory and sound to go off when guarding properly. And as someone else as mentioned you for sure need to change it up depending on how long you are up you can get bored fast, miss things. So changing it up, counting things, giving people stories. Surprisingly, having the pool speaker play music would help me the most to stay focused.

34:40 anyone see the stairs get added live on camera in the middle in the background as soon ass markiplier looks to the far right? this was the later anomaly that mark saw as stairs

Hey everyone, back for more of Mark's missed anomalies! Mark doesn't leave me much to do here, but here we go: - Mark is doing great! He actually has no unchecked anomalies through the entire House level. The only "exception" is at 13:59, but he catches it at 14:38. - Not a missed anomaly but a fun fact - at 18:52, Mark encounters "the secret" (which will give you a Steam achievement). This man is Timothy, whom we encounter multiple times throughout the Observation Duty games. We love Timmy. - 20:36 - the plant is missing in the Hallway. Mark's "baseline" had that pot as a trash can, so he never even suspected something was wrong until he sees the plant at 25:27 during his next run. - 23:35 - some stairs have appeared on the right side upper floor - 24:46 - the blinds in the back are drawn. Interestingly, this is the anomaly that created the warning, but many anomalies will not occur when you're watching that particular camera. - The blinds that Mark pegged at 28:16 first appeared at 27:56. - Mark's realization of the gold bars at 29:56 was an anomaly that happened at 28:45 - At 31:30, Mark catches the anomaly that happened at 31:00 when he had an instinctive feeling about the Hall. Trust your instincts, friends.

im not normally this invested in something that mark plays but i have to admit its really fun to play along and see if i can find something before him

observation duty vids are some of my favorite videos of yours and they have been for a while - even though I understand you can't post them often and have to space them out with new content, I really appreciate that you still film these! :) also when you eventually end the series (please dont lol), the last episode should use an eye tracker so we can see where you're looking. I know you mentioned eye trackers before but you havent used them yet and im not sure how they work but it would make a super cool video

It definitely is big brain time when Markiplier plays I'm on Observation Duty

I still can't get over the fact that there's just a TARDIS sitting on the table and Mark refuses to acknowledge it

45:33 that's like rec center locker room flooring, not fancy bank flooring lol

I was praying he’d get the ceiling intruder at the bank so hard, scared the shit out of me the first time I got it 😂

This game series has to be one of my favorites I've seen Mark play so far

Spooky moments: 1:19 mild - screen distorts momentarily. 2:09 mild - face painting on the left is different. 2:57 mild - gong sounds for the first hour of the night. And there's a head on the cupboard at the back of the room. 3:44 mild - painting on bedroom wall is different. And kinda creepy AI generated face. 6:31 mild - there's a head to the left in the bathroom. Camera zooms in as Markiplier says "head!" 7:17 MAJOR - cuts to hallway and there's a large man in a suit jigglng right in front of the camera. The jiggling sound is loud and Markiplier yelps. Still made me jump despite how silly it is. 😂 8:42 mild - 3 gong sounds. 11:38 mild - 4am gongs 12:05 MAJOR - cuts to leisure room and a freaky bright guy is hunched in the middle of the floor looking straight at the camera. 13:16 mild - door at entrance is replaced with a void. 15:17 moderate - markipliers webcam shifts to the right, because on the left side it reveals that theres a man outside the kitchen door trying to get in. Zooms in after a few seconds. 16:08 moderate - cuts to parlour where you hear piano keys being pressed. In the distance you see a man playing the piano in the distance. He slowly turns to the camera. At 16:16 Markiplier repeats "don't do it" and the camera zooms right in on his creepy, slackjawed face. Anomaly is fixed before anything happens. 16:57 moderate - very loud sudden sizzling sound when he cuts to living room. It's footage on the tv. 18:52 moderate - after completing the mission then clicking to go again, the screen turns red and there's a creepy floating guy in a suit with more UI text prompts. Clicking through two more times makes the freaky man they weirder and distorted until he ends up back at the main menu. 19:26 mild - paintings on the left are very creepy doll like faces. 19:34 mild - another creepy abstracted painting with holes for eyes. Actually over the next few shots there are creepy, distorted paintings. 21:16 mild - noise, coffee machine is humming as it's switched on. 21:37 mild - zooms in on the abstracted painting with holes for eyes. 25:02 moderate - loud beep as game over screen cuts in. 26:29 moderate - creepy doll painting from earlier is replaced with an even creepier eyeless doll face 29:00 mild - gong 29:36 mild - Markiplier screaming as he realized something was missing startled me lol. 31:09 moderate - painting in the office has been swapped for an off-putting dual-faced mashup with no eyes. Quick zoom in. 32:17 mild - 2am gong, followed by coffee machine humming again. 32:43 moderate - painting in the vault replaced with horrifying abstract SCP face art. 33:33 mild - Markipliers loud reaction to seeing something is different. 34:14 mild - same again 35:21 mild - gong. 36:27 mild - Markiplier misses it, but the man's head painting in the basement has been mirrored down the middle. Sees it in a few seconds and zooms in on it. 37:17 mild - same treatment on the painting in the directors office. Which he catches and zooms in on. The next shot also has a changed painting way off in the distance to an unsettling face. 38:29 moderate/major - first person in this level, sitting in the chair in the basement. After he clicks to report the anomaly, the guy dies in the chair with a gong sound. Nothing happens and the anomaly is reported successfully. 41:44 mild - there are more lights in the directors office and they're floating upside down from the floor. 44:13 moderate - zooms in on middle painting in directors office, where the man's eyes have been replaced by... Animated eyeballs? 46:22 moderate - in the hallway, there's a guy hanging upside down on the ceiling. Markiplier notices after a few seconds and he exclaims. The camera zoom's in on the creature when he does. 46:51 mild - trypophobia trigger. The screensaver on the PC in the basement has lots of organic holes on it. And that's it!

7:17 I have never seen such genuine panic like that from Mark 😂

I wonder how the "Team" that handles the anomalies proceed by fixing it. - Fixing Anomaly Meanwhile, 3 hazmat guys in charge of fixing anomalies entering the scene to beat the hell out of a head in a sink or a wobbling suited man until they disappear, or punch the pictures back into reality. - Anomaly fixed! They just beat the crap out of it, lmao. I cannot see another way of fixing an anomaly.

Watching him go from optimism to chaos and panic is a fun ride...

I would love it if lixian made an edit where mark was freaking out about missing things and the things he was missing were circled

Love how mark isn't scared of something being different, he's more scared of everything staying the same way it was before

-So no head? -6:25 - :c

7:26 im just imagining the "fixing anomaly" are just some dude came in and throw haymaker at that fat guy anomaly

What these games need is a "What changed" mode after the game ends, where you can watch each room separately and see how things changed in your previous playthrough and how you responded. It'd help a lot in playing.

Mark: Spots that a bench is missing. Also Mark: This is big brain time.

I love how at 12:05 is kept on saying oh my god

Mark: I know everything! Literally ten seconds later: I’ve forgotten everything

13:01 "That was a different color towel there." the game's grayscale

Yesssssss moar! Moar moar moar! Play them all! All the rooms, all the games, this series deserves it!

31:49 *Markiplier is evolving* *Markiplier has evolved into Markimoo*

I remember when he said in the last one how he won't play anymore after that. And the person pointing out how "Yeah, okay Mark, can't wait to see you in the next one" was one of the top comments and they called it! I am so happy to see this series back, it's one of those hidden gems!

Mark on observation duty continues to be my favorite.

22:22 when the song is missing something

After watching Gab and her playthroughs of this game, this experience with Mark is on a whole other level! (It's almost ascending in nature...) I am loving this series - please consider playing more of them, it's been a hoot to watch.

I love Markaplier screaming about looking quickly and seeing what's different and missing the gold bars moved into a different pattern XD 28:45 for anyone curious lmao

Its kind of amazing how Mark can go from making a movie, to making regular content. We appreciate you Mark!

Marks strat here is solid, your brain takes in a *lot* of information every second you perceive things. If you manually try to "retrieve" the memories your brain will be focused on that, too focused to notice the differences in patterns. Our brain is a chronic short-cutter, it will do anything to take short cuts, path of least resistance, and as such it forms patterns. Whenever a pattern is broken our brain *noticed*. By fully trusting that pattern recognition we get a better sense of when things aren't adding up.

It's amazing to see Mark being analytical and improving so much in this game.

He really excelled this time. Petition for him to play more despite what he says!

He keeps saying he’s done, and I keep finding joy in my day when a new one comes out

Mark is right about lifeguards sweeping our eyes over the pool! I was trained through the ARC (American red cross) and they tell us to not stare and always keep our eyes moving. One of the ways we do it (in my experience) is to count the heads of the people in and around the water (the same way Mark would count the chairs, paper, water bottles, etc). Sometimes to keep myself engaged I'll count how many people wear blue or something to keep the especially long shits from wearing me down. I think Mark would make a great lifeguard actually. His physical strength would certainly be a benefit, and his observation skills would be a great asset on any team.

what I love about watching youtubers is when they mentioned like "this must be what it feels to be a lifeguard" and then you see someone in the comments confirm if it's true or not and explain what they do. i like that because i don't need to google it if im curious lol