The Satire of Red Dead Redemption - Wisecrack Edition 

Dammit I'm really mad they never ported it to PC. I'm not giving some guy on Craiglist $150 for an old 360 and a copy of the game.

Civilization may be dull... but the alternative is still dull i say. really what do you do when your not about to get eaten or raped out there? being eaten is equivalent of some one breaking into your home. they both rend the potential for your death.

I got goosebumps

Jamthis you can play it on playstation now on pc

We live in society

That Easter egg isn't canon. Gta and Red Dead are not in the same 'universe'

@@colinboxall9782 calm down nerd, his point still stands

Fantastic observation

@@colinboxall9782 your mother isn’t canon

I remember the most dangerous game lol

With Fay Wray before she became immortalised in King Kong the following year.

cool.

There's an old anti-colonial propaganda poster that shares a similar sentiment. I think it was about the European response to the Boxer Rebellion. On the left side, it is titled "Barbarie", the image depicts what looks like a man in typical Manchu/Qing garb, on top of what looks like a man in typical European colonial/military garb, about to slash him with a sabre. On the right side, it is titled "Civilisation", the image depicts what looks like a man in typical European colonial/military garb, on top of what looks like a man in typical Manchu/Qing garb, about to slash him with a sabre. The caption that went with it stated: "It's all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of ‘Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it's a necessary blow for civilization." It goes along with a lot of anti-imperialist/colonial posters at the time, when western expeditions to "civilize" Asian countries often meant slaughtering a lot of the inhabitants of the lands they were "civilizing"

An excellent example, kind of like bombing countries to bring them Democracy.

Good point. That ending is so satisfying yet bittersweet. As John didn't want that Outlaw life for Jack, but Jack would feel compelled to avenge him. Fucking love RDR

John Marston was betrayed by edgar ross on governor nate johns’s orders

@@FlamRackett One bright side there is that Jack's life as an outlaw, if we're to give it more than when we turn the game off, is only as much as the player provides. During the epilogue, the old west is pretty much entirely tamed with no space or opportunity for gunslingers and outlaws. I always got the impression that all Jack ever trained for was to one day set out to kill Ross. He's educated, smart, and young; I pretty much stopped playing after the credits rolled, as though Jack put on his gunslinger gear for a couple days to avenge his father when he knew he was ready, and then switched back to whatever his day to day life was after that.

It happens in A Bronx Tale

That's Rockstar In a goddamn nutshell. my cousin works for the and told me the writers have a field day trying to figure out how they want to kill their protagonists

The ending is happy , john deserves the die

Anything involving the Wilst West and cowboys usually don't have happy endings.

the last of us. do you even know the story and did you even play the game. john more then earned his freedom and he died because the government screwed him over

ace142014, They definitely screwed him over. That being said from the perspective the government John was just a hired-gun who was criminal, whether that was in the past or not didn't matter to them. He was still strictly speaking, an already condemned criminal. Even the act of trying to gain his freedom can be construed as more criminal activity since it was pretty clear the feds were just using/conning him. Perhaps emblematic of an uncaring industrialized system the feds represent, they didn't look into who John Marston was as a human being. Unlike the players who followed John on his journey and found him to be a very down-to-earth and caring person.

That man alone would carry an entire episode.

I wanted to put him in but that’s a whole video in and of itself. Bonnie too.

To be fair there's so many elements to the game you could have a whole series of videos.

Please do an episode about him!!! Or them!!!

Same here

Really? When i threw my lasso at her she died as if i put my shotgun right against her head

Youre adorable 😹

I did the same but you lose Honour when you do that. And she just limps off.

queelude9 I always tied Jenny up and brought her back to my place against her will... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The diagnosis of existing right there, bud

That is what seems what the game is telling us. But it is forgetting that nowadays less people, less children die of hunger and disease, less women die in child birth. A much larger percentage of Americans do not live in poverty than it used to be. Almost all Americans have an education, an education thats 100 times better than it used to be. etc etc

I'm a little surprised Jared didn't mention it, but this take actually does glorify the West. By implying that civilization is no better, it whitewashes the fact that by nearly any metric the Frontier was a way, way worse place to try and live your life.

vicky. that says we die less, and become smarter so we can die slower and make more objects to have fun with. what about our ''sprite''?

K'hari Jordan I don't understand, to me it sounds like you're saying ''We live longer and enjoy it more'' But I don't know what sprite is and what it has to do with this?

How is it?

Its a button

I second all these, especially Venture Bros, Avatar, and JoJos.

Thirding Aqua Teen and George.

Yes to avatar the last air bender

I second this comment

I only care about Jojo, no Idea about the rest

On a personal note: 1) "Grand Theft Horse" is grossly inaccurate. You can steal horses, but you can't call in another one or blow them up willy-nilly. They're an important asset 2) They're not really Cowboys, they're outlaws #OutlawsforLife 3) Yeah, now that I look at it, all these characters are assholes and smartasses. Maybe that's why I grew up to be such a hard-ass

hahahaha.

Get a life

4 hours and 5 minutes for me

Lucky you. I have to wait two more months before being able to buy it.

Yeh we do just no one looks for it

Sure we do, its awful but why bring it up now? Whats done is done and now its civilized. Address the past, be wary of its existence but dont try to change it. Its a shameful part of modern civilization but arnt most revolutionary advances in mankind accelerated due to war and bloodshed? I think people find it hard to accept that mankind will only work if there is discourse.

why bring it up now? Because all of it carried over to the present. The same types that fooled people back then are still doing it now. Ones who turn folks against minorities. Those that sell us on bullshit and false claims are everywhere. It's the foundation. the irony in the notion that the advancement of mankind civilization u speak of was all worth it is the fact that it's what's going to eventually destroy the planet.

Because it doesnt really matter. The USA made the right choices, they were hard. But right

@@jaxrammus9165 lol like the right choices is the country on the brink of tearing itself apart current. Right choices meaning industrialization speeding up the destruction of the planet. Chickens are coming home to roost.

@@dude7266 lol realism eh? Civ IV

nick skizekers It is, Cities don’t bombard you unless they have a defending unit, You can trade technologies and Vassal states are possible

Ravi Tolani , same. I don’t watch movies but watch all of wisecracks videos

@@throwmeaname yes.

Me either.

Ravi Tolani Which isn’t really much gaming related videos so...

Me neither, but love how WiseCracks breaks down the #NewNormal , the #PostModern World of Today defined by decades of #SocialEngineering

Not as violent as the US

Regis I noticed you subscribe to the RT channel. Russia has had a far more violent history, with Joseph Stalin having infamously imposed a mass famine on the Ukraine. You may think the US treatment of the Natives was violent, but it wasn't much different from how the Australians treated the Aboriginals. I'm not saying the US is free of violence or bad people, but to say that the US is the more violent than every other nation is simply untrue.

​@@KayO199X I subscribe to a variety of news channels so that I don't have tunnel vision. It has nothing to do with how (non-)violent I think Russia is. And I was referring to how the US came to existence, not the things it has done since its existence. The grand majority of countries have societies that have lived there for tens of thousands of years. Perhaps fighting other tribes/countries, perhaps fighting internally, but not invading land halfway across the world, massacring the natives and replacing them as the main inhabitants of their land. That is the uniquely disgusting past of the US. And no, Australia wasn't the same. In the US, westward expansion was forbidden by the British and while the East was settled with the usual violence, the British left the natives in the west alone and merely traded with them. While many aboriginals died of disease and war in the east of Australia, there was no westward expansion and today, _one third_ of Australian soil is owned by Aboriginals, which is a huge patch of land. And luckily their populationis back to the level it was before Europeans came (primarily the diseases were hard on them). After the American revolution (and westward expansion was partly the motivation for the revolution, among other things), the westward expansion and manifest destiny saw Americans butcher the natives en masse and eventually replace them as the main inhabitant of the US. You even had sterilisation campaigns for native women well into the _1970s_ . Genocide on this scale is rare and particularly nasty, possibly even the worst kind of genocide that ever took place. Can't think of a comparison, not even the holocaust

Regis I look over your list of subscription. They are all very liberal with no conservative channels. Only listening to left wing opinions will most definitely give you tunnel vision. I may have only subscribed to conservative channels, but I do still listen to liberal viewpoints, like Wisecrack. Do you do the same?

@@KayO199X And saying that they all died from exposure and wasn't the fault of the government who destroyed people's way of life, cut their hair and beat the language out of them, smashed babies heads in with rifle butts, integrated a literal system where if we went off the reservation we were arrested or shot as wards of the state, forced to walk nearly 1,000 miles at gunpoint where you had to leave your sick elders in a ditch because they "died of disease not by gunshot," is "absurd and deeply disrespectful to those who suffered through it." I don't want to be a dick, but when they shoved tribes onto plots of land and gave them rotten food and insufficient rations that led to a famine my tribe calls "Starvation Winter" and you try to just brush that away saying "it's not as bad as what these people went through so so quite complaining" I get a little mad. Pain is pain, no matter who feels it. Just saying 'They all died of disease,' is just crazy to me. Colonists brought diseases on accident I know, but a disease can infect someone a lot easier when they're freezing and starving on a reservation. Sorry for sounding hostile, I do understand that this might not be what you meant, but saying "most natives died of disease not from acts of violence." forgets who brought that disease, who didn't give them medicine, and disregards anything that wasn't done with a gun. There are 30 year old's out there who lived through residential schools, the last one closed in 1996. Millennials went through that. Does the wider America remember that? No, not truly. People might hear about it in debates or passing mention, but no one other than us really remembers anymore. And that's what hurts, because when you look at black people you see ghosts of the chains, when you look at us what do most people see? A caricature of something long dead, and a culture that's currently on the brink. Sorry if I seem tinfoil hatty but this gets me worked up I suppose lol. Thanks if you do actually read my message, sorry it's so long. (and if you do look at my channel, check out dat playlist, is quality *content* )

Exaggerated on Jacks part.

Even more so in our time. You may or may not have made a remark 15 years ago, now vaguely recalled as incredibly offensive to some minority group or other and whoosh, there goes your reputation and future.

Squim hear hear! Thank you!

naaaaaaaaaaaaah. really?

That's really sad, considering the mistakes they made

hahaha. nice

RDR2: "hold my beer"

@@FelonyArson *RDR2* IS ALSO GREAT

They really should!

Neorealism vs neoliberalism. Civ explores both of these theories on geopolitics, and Wisecrack has in the past. They could make a really good video about that game

It helps all of if wisecrack starts to explores of Civilization and total war series.

Yeah, poor guy was forgotten

The Infernal Contraption I think that’s just RDR2 retconning Dutch’s character if anything. Dutch, although insane, still was still a selfless man towards the end in a warped way. Sure he killed hundreds of innocent people, but he believed that violence was the only way to achieve his goal after his nobility and kindness didn’t work. In the early days of the gang John even said that Dutch would give money to the poor and steal from the rich. His whole goal behind taking men into his gang was to teach them morals in hopes of turning them from bad men to doers of good. The only reason he becomes an unhinged psychopath in the first game was due to his loss of faith in the world and the idea of changing people and the world around him. In RDR2 however, he’s just a scumbag who couldn’t care less about any cause and only uses people as his pawns.

Ikr too bad I sold all my video games for alcohol and drug money

Eleven years

@@Gadanfer I wrote that comment 3 years ago

Exactly. Can't wait to see him at his best in Red Dead Redemption 2.

​@@IsThisRain Did you see him?

hahahahahaha