I feel that about a lot of his videos. I click on it because its about something I’m interested in. He goes on a tangent about something completely different and I forget what the video is about, and the subject of the title of the video pops up half way through the video and I suddenly remember
I have to actively practice thinking skills and dot connecting when I watch Cobblers' videos. It's not a bad thing, tbh. I actually feel rewarded and cool when I'm able to follow along once in a while. But damn does he make me work for that KnOwLeDge.
Gotta love how both Lovecraft and Giger operate in the genre of cosmic horror, yet one derives dread from the ultimate insignificance of human condition, and the other from the certainty of ones place as a cog in a greater whole. Truly a Gamer.
Yeah, one questions your place in a world that was shown to be so, sooo, soooooo much grander in scale and scope then any of us could even understand. And force us to face our new reality in that landscape. While the other simply dosent care about you, to it your not even a living thing in the machines eyes, its isnt that your forced to face the idea of being dust in the wake of something bigger. Its that your be8ng tortured, teased, abused and throw around like an object, calious to your pain or begging. Simply because it see your as the worthless tool that your truely are.
Giger is not cosmic horror. Body horror MAYBE, but that's an oversimplification of his biomechanical-sexual style. The scary bits are the same as the pleasure bits with Giger. Meaning that while some will find his work arousing - others will be alienated by the implication of human pleasure as literally purely mechanical. Seeing it simply as horror is missing the forest for the trees.
If this plushie doesn't make existential allegories that are incredibly confusing up until the point where I realize that they are completely correct and incredibly well though-out, only to end the conversation by calling me a soyboy liberal, I will be very disappointed.
Jesus Christ I think Cobbler is actually the best fucking video essayist on this god-forsaken website. He's like a mad scientist but instead of creating a deadly society-ending pathogen he just makes me sad.
Another pie man video, another trip to my shrink's office to get rid of the existential dread that this man wears like a teenage boys first bottle of axe body spray. I love it.
Somewhere there is a greed, that powers the hate in the machine. A little bit cheaper, A little bit of a pay cut. Tiny little knives chipping away at life until the resources can be used elsewhere. Abandoning the machine. Greed swallows all, and then moves on. Leaving the scorn in it's path.
You somehow perfectly described what I like about this channel lol, it takes common internet culture and just goes "yeah, yeah, yeah... NO FUCK YOU HERE'S REALITY, HOPE YOU HATE (but understand) IT)
You know, I feel like we’re all already aware that we’re born to a machine far larger than us, designed to consume us, that isn’t CRUEL but simply has no real concern for human life. Have a good day at work, everyone. I hope you enjoy making a number on a company’s graph go up as much as I do!
Remember. The difference between your pay, and the value you provide to the company, is the price you pay to rent The Means Of Production from them. Seizing the means of production just means to go into business for you and your fellows, without someone at the top pretending they add value through the process of ownership.
Between this and your video on Annihilation (excellent watch btw), I think you have some of the most well spoken takes on cosmic horror I have heard on youtube, even among more literature focused channels. Very interesting.
Cobbler uses a controversial, disturbing and deeply uncomfortable topic (since most of us have eaten meat at some point.) that could easily scare off viewers, not because he wanted to promote veganism.... But so that his audience can understand a video game..... I love this man.
very good video 👍 I dunno if explaining things adds to the horror or detracts from it, but the unnatural, fucked up little ball you kill at the start of the game is kept in a "battery cage-like complex" as described in the artbook. "battery cage" is the technical term for the coops chickens are kept in for industrial use. fuck.
I work on a chicken farm n now all I can think when I go into the sheds is “I’m a cog in the machine” We don’t use battery cages anymore the rats use to eat their feet while they slept, now we cram 20000 birds into a huge shed n they use nesting boxes to lay their eggs. Now the chooks eat the rats if they get into the sheds lol
BIG SPOILER IF YOU STILL DID NOT PLAY THIS GAME: At the ending sequence of Scorn your character is turned into a creature even more obviously paying homage to I Have No Mouth and I must scream.
Knocked it out of the park with this one. Went in thinking Scorn was a 5 hour torture porn simulator with no value or meaning. I still don't know what the fuck Scorn is about but after this video I'm convinced that it's definitely about something.
People were talking about how it's about birth or some shit. I get it, but I like the children of men gone hr Geiger theory much more. Also, is it just me or is this vague birth/death/alien narrative everywhere right now?
@@Skittles694 I think that's what people are saying to try and be "woke". They see viscera and blood and think, this must be an analogy for feminine biology. But I've yet to see someone actually explain the theory, aside from the fact there is blood and visceral imagery, I cannot find another correlation.
I will never get tired of the way cobbler tells a story, there’s really nobody else that does it the same, 60% analogy 30% application 10% doom eternal.
This is what makes me appreciate cosmic horror so much. We have a habit as a species of seeing ourselves at the center of the universe. The thought that we may in fact be cattle in a machine is a terrifying prospect. History shows us it's also very bad when a human starts seeing other human beings this way.
i can attest to the male dairy calf part, i work around dairies a lot and could not count how many piles of male calf bodies ive seen waiting to be picked up. pretty insane
@@DJPeachCobbler farm near me in Scotland, until recently, kept cows with brain tumors and diseases alive in pain separated from the group because the government would pay £200 per head as aid to farmers
I work at a butchers, I’ve never seen one of the animals get killed, but I’ve seen store rooms full of the evidence, I’m getting very sick of working there. I feel repulsed.
@@gaybogagins5392 This might not make sense to you, but I know your pain. I work at the largest ammunition factory in the country. I found out that the first large order for 5.56 I worked on was contracted to Saudi fucking Arabia. I manufactured the ammunition used to kill Yemeni women and children _and_ enforce the worst contemporary humanitarian crisis in the world. I wanted to kill myself.
Yeah that's the great thing about existential terror. It's always there but it's pretty easy to forget about it so it's quite shocking when you're suddenly reminded that the universe doesn't care about you or anything related to you and that you or the things you care about might be subjected to horrors you literally can't imagine or comprehend for no other reason than because something can do it to you and you happen to be a convenient source of whatever raw material it needs to accomplish it's unknown goals
@@siluda9255 Vaccinated huh? Im not even sure if thats possible with existential/cosmic horror. Dont you need to be able to at least comprehend something for that to be an option? After all isnt that what makes it so terrifying?
The way you manage to connect completely two different topics like scorn and cows and it actually makes sense is so impressive and genius . You dont post videos often but damn your videos are high quality.
The worst thing is that they aren't different at all, unfortunately. He basically figured the whole thing out. The game's artbook provides a lot of lore of the world, and the part he was describing is basically exactly that- a food production facility. I dont wanna talk ab anything else in case u read the book or watch a video on yt, unless ud like to hear more from me yourself
Ya know I used to ask "how is this guy depressed he's so funny smart and charismatic" but then I watched you stream on Twitch once and got to the part in this video about cows and I get it now
Easy to be charismatic and funny when reading from a script, intelligence and depression are correlated. Happiest people tend to do what they're told or lack empathy I find.
I like to say that intelligence often comes with a cost. That cost tends to be awareness. And being aware, promotes being depressed, because the world we live in is a rotten place where we constantly strive for the better... if you believe in a better, that is. People suck, they are born, live, and die. Some early, some later. Some the second they left the womb, some the second the entered. We all die.. just.. it matters what you do before it. How you affect those around you.. And intelligence, in my opinion, often curses you with being aware and empathetic to those around you. You feel their suffering, you understand their suffering.. And the worst is when you want to help, but truly understand there is nothing you can do, except try.. and to some, to many, that isnt even enough. Or it's too much. Idk i'm rambling now. I hope this made some sort of sense.@@grapenut6094
2 things 1: I used the blade in that first puzzle to get the poor bastard to follow me only to leave him holding a door open for me until in pretty sure he'd die of exhaustion. 2: I fucking love this video and were I to believe my friends could handle it, I'd show them too since it's actually one of the best videos I've watched in a long while
My boy, getting that sweet and spicy bacon burger. As both a former employee and semi regular patron of whataburger I applaud and respect you as a man of culture. I see where you cut the feed to say combo because I know the script, you must specify sandwich or combo, and as all whataburger restaurants are corporate owned with no franchises, it is interesting to see how the drive thru script has changed. When I worked there circa 2011, we had to start every interaction with "thank you for choosing whataburger, would you like to hear our specials?" which includes the aforementioned burger as well as the patty melt, honey BBQ chicken strip sandwich, and whatever else they have a big picture of at the time. That being said this is an incredibly interesting video and this along with your hardspace shipbreaker video got me extremely invested in your unique style of content. If I could afford it, I would support you on patreon, but my current meager salary only let's me get my name in the credits of 2 creators at a monthly cost of 15 dollars. This video did, however, get me to take a second look at this game that I tried for about 20 minutes when I first got my current pc, and I have stuck with it a lot longer now understanding the symbolism you have displayed here. You do a good job tying real world concepts to otherwise unrelated media. Keep doing what you do, friend.
And is that not the beauty of life? To partake on a long journey merely seeking an answer, but instead you only find more questions than those that are resolved? Is that not merely reality as it is?
Scorn happens when 13 year old reads i have no mouth and must scream, cut outs all context and get to the torture creatures for being creatures....for 8 hours.
It cost me $50 lol, had to buy a tripod with suction cups and attach it to the windshield. I'm glad you appreciated it, I felt it would tie that segment together
I've watched this video multiple times in 24 hours. It's been consuming my free thoughts more than I'd care to admit. You do phenomenal work man. I know it's not the intent of the video, but this pushed me to reinstate the veganism I've fallen in and out of for the last few years.
cobbler's videos are so good, i feel like currently on youtube we have these video essayists that pump out hour long videos every week that feel all the same, but with cobbler he keeps with quality and everytime i see a new video i know its gonna be good
This points you made about scorn kind of reminds of that one scene in fire in the sky where the aliens are experimenting on the human, not out of maliciousness but out of total lack of consideration, very much parallels the point you made.
Yup, the machine doesn't care about you, not out of malice, but because it's more efficient not to care and to complete the task, your suffering is of no consequence because it was never designed to care.
“That scene” imprinted on me hard as a kid. I spent more than two decades wondering what film it was or if it had even been real - occasionally asking people if they’d seen it and never learning anything - until I finally came across it again as an adult, maybe two years back.
I hope someday this kind of horror shows just the way you explain it. Scorn was a tedious experience of puzzles while this video make it sound like the most interesting thing i had ever seen. Cosmic and Body horror is pretty well represented, but as always the execution in horror media gets kind of wierd. Like, i know its not meant to be a satisfying experience, but at the end i feel like it offered way to little compared to the concepts the game its trying to get to. It didn't amaze me and i know most of the people won't get a thought on it. But i know that there's some point that can be reached between not being fully self explanatory and making this kind of horror work, and then be experienced as it should be
every single video you make like this, turns out a masterpiece. you may be the first RU-vid I cared about enough to buy your merch because what you make is art. never stop. PS: thanks for the existential crisis.
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles (The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black emperor)
I found it quite sickening actually. Like, he's able to see and comprehend and articulate to others the nature of the horror, and yet he still rewards it and participates with it. Acting as though his own actions don't matter in the face of the incomprehensibly large systemic nature of the oppression. But they do. They matter a lot. You don't get to just shrug your shoulders and say "hey man, it's a systemic problem" as an excuse for not having to change or take responsibility. It's so morally lazy and ethically bankrupt. You're basically saying that you only care about the suffering of others insofar as it's not your responsibility to do something about it. As soon as the gaze turns around on YOU, then comes the excuses and the deflections. We are all cogs in the great machine. And when every single cog thoroughly convinces themselves that their individual contributions don't mean anything, and that there's nothing they can do: they ensure that the machine shall be immortal. They become a compliant part of the undignified pain and suffering, sacrificing their collective power to the status quo. But the ability to destroy the machine was always in their hands. Your hands. My hands. The machine is reliant upon it's cogs to function. The machine requires our obedience and our compliance. But you don't have to give in to it. You can say no, do something different. And when others see you turning away from the machine, maybe they will as well. And if enough cogs come to your way of seeing things, the machine shall be no more.
@@juliagoetia the industry is terrible, but not terrible enough for anybody to be bothered enough to actually take action against it. It is only cattle after all. And pigs. And chickens. We feel empathetic to them but we are separated enough that we can put just how awful it is out of our minds, because as long as the blames not on us then its not trally our fault. Right?
@@juliagoetia This is a cute idea but no, this industry is so thoroughly embedded in society now that only large scale systemic change will do anything to curb the unnecessary suffering. There are millions of "cogs" who don't participate in the meat or dairy industry either through necessity or principle, and yet the machine keeps churning out that sweet, well-marbled red flesh. Is it any more humane to the individual livestock animal if their neck is slit and they are exsanguinated before preparation by hand (halal style) as opposed to industrially processed? No, not really. Then again, all living things consume other living things to continue existing. Who weeps for brassica oleracea as we cut its life short and process its various cultivars into the brussel sprouts you hate and the cabbage you love? Oh, just because you can't hear plants scream you don't think they have *some kind* of response to being reaped? Seems a bit lacking in empathy to me. I was going to eat meat whether it was processed industrially or locally. Me not buying a hamburger at MuhDonal isn't going to stop the industry at all. Especially because it is heavily subsidized in countries, with special note in the US. They dumped billions of gallons of perfectly usable milk, churned up from this exact industry, during the height of pandemic because they couldn't get it out to stores to be put on shelves and sold. And the government had already paid them a hefty sum in the form of subsidies to produce that milk. Literally tankers full of milk just spraying that shit in a ditch or something. There are incentives and forces at play in this larger system that go well and truly beyond the consumer's want for some cheap meat or milk or eggs. I'm sure near every person in the US who enjoys meat and dairy would personally prefer if it were locally produced on a farm where the cattle free roam in a large pen and the chickens aren't kept 10-30k to a chicken house, stacked so tightly they often trample each other and you have to go through and clean up dead poultry that can't even be used. Alas, forces beyond mere consumption have all but buried that kind of industry. Individual actions against this system can only produce instances of moral self-righteousness. Vegans have been shouting for decades now and so far all they've gotten for it are inflated egos and senses of self-worth.
The whole video was amazingly done, specially the car segment, where you are treated to the whole calf explanation while Dj Peach Cobbler sits in silence, to when he starts talking inside the car to the camara after getting that Bacon Burger, a really creative and engaging way of doing an explanation.
I really like how creepy this game is... Im a few hours in, because I'm stupid and I have to keep running in circles to solve the puzzles, but it's been genuinely gross and entertaining!
The moment you brought jp the cow, I thought about baby chicks and the broken eggs. All on their way to iron teeth without tiring end. A tongue of rubber, and shit of mince.
Man you truly are on of a kind youtuber. Like you create entertainment that makes me think about so many things days after i watch your videos.... Hope you will continue with your work and show us how actually deep the rabbit hole goes
Wow. I'm glad I watched this one sober. It was heavy. Man, you're such an insightful, clever, and powerful storyteller. Thanks again for all your great content.
Yo that intro was fucking awesome i knew all about the stuff you were talking about but your "and thats just how things are" attitude about it really actually made me think.
Well done. I’ve been trying to understand the trauma I put myself through playing that shit and this was the one explanation video that made the most sense. The beginning felt like a diversion but you brought it together well in the end for a conclusion that I can get behind. You’ve earned a sub today👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Long time viewer, just checking in on my several times viewing of this video to say this is one of the best video game essays ever made. This shit broke me.
All the stuff about the Cobbler plushie is actually true cause after i bought the plushie me and my non exisiting friends went out on a fun night and my mom that hated me still hates me! I love cobbler plushie I hope this one i buy will be the one that brings back my dog who was my only friend and died 3 weeks ago! Thanks Cobbler Plushie!
gOD DAMN, THEY JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER. i'M NOT NORMALLY ONE TO IDOLIZE SIMPLE CONTENT CREATORS. BUT I GENUIENLY FUCKING LOVE YOU, I DIDNT MEAN TO HAVE CAPS ON BUT WERE FUCKING ROLLING WITH IT
I am glad to see the video while it is up. RU-vid dosn't seem to like videos that show the cruel but "accepted" reality...... that scorn is a incredibly good and intriguing game. Good job as always!
Damn this video was amazing. You and Jacob Geller are probably the best two game reviews on RU-vid, possibly even best video essayists (also I know the term video essayist sounds pretentious but whatever)
What a video, I mean what a fucking video.. been watching your stuff a lot lately and love it, I love the back and forth between little skits and the topic at hand, the crazy yet accurate examples you put forth, if not between 2 different games or companies you somehow make it work and to top it of, Freaking hilarious, your humor and jokes are top shelf and breathe fresh air into deep dives of video games. Great work cobbler, keep it up!
As I watch this deep into the night and as sober as I’ve been in a while I love that I have had such similar thoughts about scorn just based on its art and slow crawl gameplay. What truly bothered me to my core is that you chose the grub hub ad to display the frivolity that we approach this nightmare machine of our making. I have so many memories of that ad clawing into my brain and forcing me to wonder what intentions the mass communication toolbox translated into a man with a beer gut in socks and sandals dancing for a burger he didn’t have to drive to get. I know this is a crazy thing to write but Jesus Christ it’s literally more haunting to me than any horror has ever been. I may had Asperger’s or maybe I’m just an adult now.
I hemmed and hawed about including that. The parasite seems to serve a greater purpose. It holds all your extra ammo and health and stuff, and also opens your midsection for the strange mechanical surgeon. It seems, to me, to have a place within whatever it is you're doing. However, its interruption at the end seemed to thwart whatever it was you were being used for? Or, was that intended by "the powers that be"? The fact that it served a utility fascinates me, but was that utility purely out of self-interest? I couldn't reach any sort of conclusion.
@@DJPeachCobbler A paradox of a symbiotic relationship that eventually becomes parasitic and toxic. Some might describe it as practically codependent. There are theories that you actually play 2 different individuals where the first is actually mutated into this parasite, and thus likely shares some goals with the second. The fact that these desires would ultimately be undermined by this very necessary relationship seems to be a further statement on the futility and cruelty of the entire experience.
@@DJPeachCobbler I see it as a sort of “Crab in the bucket” thing. The game implies that parasite is the title screen character who becomes that after blowing up the cum drone room and then a new character is born. It’s almost like the machine’s programmed around potential escape, that at the end of the day misery loves company or the delusion you’re special and different and that’s all you need to keep the cattle from trying to break free.
Actual good video essay on youtube, interesting perspective, brilliant setup, a runtime that doesn't take 79 minutes to explain it's thesis and interesting subversive jokes. I am now contractually obligated to buy your plush.
After RU-vid recomended this one video for me 7 days ago i watched almous everything on your channel. I am a 30 years old gamer and i tend to agree with your views on modern gaming. This Industry evolved so much and this tipe of content really puts it in a perspective of Art > croporate greed.
The concept and theme of this video and the game itself reminded me of a stop motion animated film that released this year, Mad God Another piece of art that showcases how we can't control some stuff because we can never wrap our head around it, do give it a watch if you get time
idk after watching mad god I felt like I had a solid handle on how everything we were shown linked together, you follow the production of the black obelisks basically the whole movie just a bit out of order
Mad God fucking sucked. It was boring as hell, disgusting for the sake of being disgusting, and it maybe would've been a little more bearable, if the creator tried to disguise his obvious scat fetish.
I love dj peach cobbler. I click on a video about scorn, and then forget that the video was about scorn because I got so invested in his loosely related tangent about the cattle industry. Revolutionary
Every Cobbler video has the same cycle. I laugh, I contemplate, I laugh again after a dark joke sucker punches me out of my thinking, then I contemplate again. Then I start getting the urge to cry. I subscribed to this guy cause of a stalker video but I stayed for the Cobbler Nightmare Loop that I can’t get off of.
Like the way I digest the average DJ Peachcobbler video is by watching it multiple times at around 1am with my dad's boyfriend, but I'm so thankful for the fact that all this just even fucking exists. Like I used to love watching Back at the Barnyard as a kid, and for him to just bring that up like it's nothing and then connect it to the prolific torture of domesticated animals to then attach it to scorn, I find so cool. It genuinely changes the way one looks at everything because this one of the very few channels that manage to leave me with something that I have never heard of, nor seen before, and I love that quality so much.
Once again Mr. Cobbler reveals yet another horrific truth of reality to me that my timid mind was as of yet blissfully ignorant too, dooming me to the curse of knowledge yet again. Thank you funny pie face man!
I recently learned you don't have to kill the egg creature, you'll end up doing that because it looks like the obvious thing to do and looks like it may not be fatal until you do it, but if you take it to the room with the saw machine in it instead of the one with the scoop, it will live, the machine will turn it around and cut the shell from it, then you can basically walk it to the door and use it's arm as a key, using console commands you can even bring the camera back through the door and after a while it will free itself from the manicle it was locked in when being used as a key.
Eh, this essay isn't autistic enough to even diagnose asparagus. The game also refrences another artist - Zdzislaw Beksinski. One of the artistic refrences is the red corruption that in Beksinski's works symbolises decay and corruption - basicly biomechanical rust and infection. It it the thing that kills the lower levels of Scorns world. Scorns artbook also refrences things from the background that were cut from the game, like other Moldmen and the Hemonculi war.
This is one of my favorite videos from one of my favorite content creators. While it isn't the point, this is honestly a great argument for veganism/vegetarianism. No 1 hour documentary showing animals being tossed into meat grinders has managed to make my stomach turn like this one. While the point of the video was to use the horrors of the cattle industry to contextualize scorn, in the process you've also used scorn to contextualize the horrors of the cattle industry. And for some reason, putting the experience of cattle in a familiar lens of Giger style cosmic horror is day ruining. Intentional or not, it's an incredible yet seemingly obvious connection to make, and the nonchalant attitude you have during the more comedic parts of the video only add it it. This is an amazing video peach, and I hope you see that. That said, I was gonna eat beef tacos tonight you fucker 0/10
