i think at least partially they enjoy the position of power, holding your diploma for ransom and jerking you around. i dont know... its just the vibe i got from a lot of professors when i went to school
@@littleloner1159 i think that partially its a liability thing. they dont want to say the wrong thing because then you can sue them, so the art of politics comes into effect for some cases... that is dodging the questions until the answer is no longer relevant.
These two ex-video game devs check their email often enough to see and attempt to answer a question about stuff they barely remember doing at a company that doesn't exist anymore, while I got too anxious to check my email in sophomore year of high school so now I, a relatively capable (if still extremely debilitatingly anxious) 22-year-old, usually give Important People(tm) my mom's email instead of mine so she'll just text me when something comes in that's for me. (I do tell them I'm doing this though, and I usually say something like "trust me, you don't actually want my email, I won't check it")
I know right, there are car birds, does this imply there are other car animals? Are there car cock roaches, car parasites that live in other bigger cars? Why are there taxis and busses? How come they eat oil but also have wasabi and ice cream? Why is there a pope car?!? Was there a car jesus, car god? How does car sex work? Are the gadgets the spy cars use just cybernetic upgrades or more like if I grafted an extra organ into myself to, I don't know, spit acid? Wouldn't that be super creepy for other cars, and they did it to someone without his consent or knowledge
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 but hey, that’s just a theory... A GAME THEORY. What happens to the cars when they die? Are cars born from factories or do they drive on top of each other until a small one pops out?
@@scottoleson1997 in the first movie they restricted lightnings fuel supply to keep him from running away, is that like starving a prisoner? What the fuck was up with that one car that had her eyes on her retractable headlights?
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 The cars have genders: did they _choose_ their genders and give themselves dimorphic traits to match? Or were they created with genders, which raises a host of new questions about car creation? Similarly, do the specialized cars choose their characteristics or are they made with them, and regardless of the answer what if they no longer want to do the job they're specialized for? Are there car surgeries to change someone from a race car to a jeep?
As a student journalist, I’ve just learned that if you can’t find a reason for something you can just make your story about how not everything needs a reason. This is very helpful, thank you Polygon.
LOL Good choice of majors bro. I got my degree in journalism in 2013. Have fun realizing that journalism is dead and if you want to make any money or be happy you will change career paths. Journalism is a hobby, not really a job.
@@111ohno Journalism isn't that much of a viable field anymore because quite frankly, we don't need as many news sources these days thanks to how the internet allows us to access information from all corners of the globe. Back before the internet, the only way to keep in the know of current events would be through the TV and the local newspaper, which meant that there was a huge need for journalists and reporters. The field is oversaturated now, and as a result, companies don't need to pay as much to hire a qualified professional. Unless we lived in a command economy, where reporters would be making nothing (and usually don't exist since those kinds of gov'ts don't like public oversight) or publish propaganda, this would always remain true.
"Fridge horror is one of the pokemon fandoms favorite pastimes." I mean you're not wrong but still hearing it so explicitly said hit me in the face. You did not have to call me out like this.
"Hey Bill, we should put some kind of cliche video game thing in there for fun, like one of those spike traps" "Oh, you mean a pungee pit?" "Is that what those are called" "Yeah" "Neat"
It probably went something like this "Hey, what should we call the spike pit?" "Actually I believe the proper term is 'pungee' pit" "Oh that's cool, call it that I guess." The end.
"What should we call this pit trap, already a dangerous concealed weapon that's pretty much banned everywhere anyway?" Well I sure hope something normalizing and inncuous, wouldn't want to expose ourselves to culture we gained access to through war. Spike pit, yeah, they're spikes of fun.
Best not to gloss over how genuinely nasty these things really were. You had shafts of thick bamboo cut at a bias to give it a surprisingly sharp edge, but if you really got stuck on one, they're also quite hollow, meaning they don't plug their own wound, allowing you to bleed freely into the middle of the stick. Worse, thanks to the heat and humidity, and the tendency to dip the ends in human or animal waste when setting up the traps, the ends were bacterial nightmares, pretty much guaranteeing a nasty infection if you so much as got scratched by one. Surprisingly unpleasant for what amounts to diagonally cut grass.
Turns out you shouldn't be invading sovereign countries to imperialize them. Thankfully, many American soldiers also realized this at the time and that's why "fragging" experienced an all-time high. I thank them for their service o7.
Don't worry guys, by researching physical torture traps Brian is allowing himself to release the mental torment that we have thrust upon him via our viewership.
@@JohnSignsOn it's really mostly about the tactics used by the loser. Notice how nuking civilians and gassing folks wasn't prosecuted as a war crime when the allies do it.
I was not delighted. I was disappointed Conspiracies are more fun than anything. You're missing out. Plus there's truth in every theory. People don't understand that part, theory. And that goes doubly for hard-core theorists. I definitely believe there's a secret shadow organization that runs the world. I have believed in UFOs for about 25 years. Now at 33 the same people that called me crazy and stupid are now seeing that it is real. I believe 2016 election was rigged just as much a the 2020 and just as much as almost every presidential election in the last 150 years. I just don't care if people believe it. Because deep down they already know and if they don't. I feel bad for them. False flags have existed since the dawn of man. I just don't let it bother me. I work in Iraq as a contractor and I know we didn't come here to liberate the people. But there's money to be made and I will make my life better as I can.
@@HansDester just because it’s a theory does not mean it is exempt from criticism, and people do not seriously believe in conspiracy theories because “it’s fun”. There is not truth in every theory. There is no truth in “Vaccines cause autism”, or “The Earth is flat”. You are not some genius because you believe wild claims, and people aren’t “seeing years later that the conspiracy theories are real”. People who don’t believe in conspiracy theories don’t “know deep down that they are true”, and claiming that they do just makes you seem egotistical and even more stupid. Get off your high horse and realize that you aren’t “smarter” or “more free” because you believe in conspiracies.
Can we just dwell on the fact that this whole episode was precipitated by Brian's desire to fortify his apartment, and that he actually suggested pungee pits to that effect?
I'd like to mention that the largest arteries in the human body are right about above the kneecap, that's also where the trap hit on 3:45 could've vary well bled him out, not just stopped him up
Honestly if I got hit I might be screaming a good longer while before I actually make any discernable words Imagine taking a strip of an iron maiden to the legs.
I had the same fridge horror thought about the Pungee pit from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 years ago and it also prompted me to do some research. One of the thing I found most interesting was that the real life versions of these spike pits weren't giant holes with precise and lethal killing weapons in them. They were usually smaller than one might think and they usually just gave gruesome injuries, not super deadly. However, those that made these pits often tried to make the spikes worse by covering them in rotting meat/flesh, blood, dirt, and feces, in hopes that the wounds they would cause would be more likely to become infected. Now that's even more gnarly than a backside 180 hardflip!
Ich vermute dass die Punji Grube nach faulen Eiern riechen würde wenn die Spitzen mit Kot und Gammelfleisch verziert ist, aber zum Glück gibt es keine Geruchsspiele oder Geruchsfernsehen,
Not to mention it would take extra soldiers to carry back soldiers who were too injured to walk making it extra hard to fight back if ambushed. Leave your friend behind to the enemy or risk one or two more to get them back to a field hospital.
I remember me and my friends built our first punji pit (among other traps) when we were 7-8, to defend our den in the bushes from the posh kids in the opposite street. It was a brutal class war among children, luckily our many traps never injured anyone. No idea where we got the idea from, probably crash bandicoot?
Oh yeah the neighborhood bullies would destroy huts I'd build in the woods, so my sister and I always set traps. We'd build multiple bridges over Leech Creek (I'm sure you can guess why we named it that) but only one was strong enough to hold weight. I, being immune to poison ivy, would rub the oil on decoy structures and use the vines as decoration on the bridge. My sister made fishing line tripwires that made you trip into briar. They still insisted on tearing down our stuff but it was funny seeing them get on the bus with big ol poison ivy rashes and briar cuts. Sometimes I wonder if they just thought that stretch of the woods was just extra prone to poison ivy and briar that was always after a spot they commonly fell. They never did fall for the fake bridges, but they were quite visibly unsafe to walk on looking back on it
plot twist: it was Tommy Tallarico's idea. He created the sound of someone getting impaled on a poo covered stick and the rest of the Original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater team came up with gameplay for it. He worked hand in hand with Tony Hawk for five years to make the game from scratch.
2 hours later: New email from Mick West Hey Brian, Forgot to tell you that the pungee pit sound effect wasn't made in a studio, we just used sound footage of the Vietnam War. Hope I've brightned your day, Mick
"Should you feel yourself attacked by a sudden chill, it is evidence of an approaching Gengar. There is no escaping it. Give up." The actual Pokédex entry for Gengar from Pokémon Sun. Oh no.
I had to google and find out that this was actually correct cuz it makes no sense. banning "booby traps and anti-personnel mines" in warfare is a few steps short of banning projectiles. the UN and countries pretending to be civilized can get frickin silly lookin sometimes
@@ThinkBeyondTheBox The UN banned them because after whatever war happened quite a lot of the time they aren't removed and so they are a danger to civilians. E.g. after the argentine invasion of the Falklands they laid 30,000 land mine witch after the British retook the island it was incredibly hard to remove the mines so they still pose a threat to civilians on the islands today.
@@ThinkBeyondTheBox Also they are feckin horrifying, even if they are used by less powerful countries they do just cause horrific and unnecessary injury to both soldiers and civilians. Weapons, if they have to exist, should at least be quick and not torturous.
I gotta say, I'm curious to see how this quarantine affects your style when you're able to work in-office again. You seemed (at least from a viewer standpoint) to struggle briefly with the constraints of making videos at home and now you're rolling with the punches super well! It feels much less like you're content creators working for a news site and more just content creators that enjoy talking about video games. Also you're scripting is still top-notch, really loved the comedic timing of the Vietnam War joke at the start!
Seconding all of this. The videos are fantastic and entertaining even though there was some apparent adjustment. I will suggest, though, that having physical props like when the Unraveled videos were shot in a studio helps a lot. The gamer space video and the stamina video were probably the best recent Unraveled videos because god dang BDG you really know how to make comedy with props. Heck, just watch the brief fridge bit in this video, probably the most humorous part. Keep on rocking Brian, your videos are some of the best content on this site. Educational AND funny, is there any better pairing?
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One of the developers involved in the remaster definitely had that "hey wait a minute" moment when seeing punjee pit and giving it a quick google "banned by the UN.... uh oh"
@@JonasWilms The problem that the UN saw was that stick traps, mines, and other such weapons are made to maim and injure. There's this idea that dying outright is preferable to being horribly disfigured or made to suffer a massive wound that kills you later rather than instantly.
@@garrettbyrd7426 or leaves you in horrible, chronic pain and infection. like a bullet that misses, cant really be blamed on anyone, because it was a miss, and intended to be a quick and painless kill. but a trap ot explosive made to put someone in agonizing existence is just fucked up.
@@JonasWilms I'm glad someone else caught that. It bothered me the whole video. Like war is an awful thing...how do you ban tactics? What's the incentive to listen? And specifically if you have a country fighting back with banned tactics, why does the UN get to decide they can't? It's like if war must exist, why can't self defense?
Spawn on a ramp that faces down to another ramp that launches you into a sea of punjj pits as large as the entire park editor will allow.... I spent so much time in the park editor trying to figure out how to break the game
When I watched this, midway through I said “wait a minute, this isn’t an unraveled” in the same way the kazoo kid said it and my roommate is dying laughing
Many of my childhood memories were spent crossing the pungee pit at the local skate park with my fellow cool kids. Some... weren't cool enough, never forget.
I love how instead of being accusatory of people putting in a somewhat tasteless reference to the real world the message is: “Hey sometimes people just put stuff in the thing they make, it’s cool; anyways here’s Fall_Pungee11.wav 30x.”
I counted. It was exactly 30 times. That was satisfying and as much as I feel like that should have been a waste of time it still makes me feel good so I'm going to walk away from this feeling like that time was well spent.
To use a red cross when not a real medical facility/professional is illegal. There are lots of games that have had to put in patches change to look of medical facilities or health items when the Red Cross sent them a cease and desist. Even My Little Pony got in trouble for using a red cross.
Wouldn't making the cross green be the way to _not_ violate the Geneva Convention? That's why Stardew Valley changed the color of the cross on Harvey's door - it used to be red, but it's a violation to misuse the red cross symbol, so now it's blue and the game doesn't contain a war crime.
I got in trouble in class in 7th grade for laughing at the diagram of the soldier stepping on the punji tiltboard/ punji stick because it looked like the classic "stepping on a rake" cartoon trope. My teacher did not see the humor.
Here's a tip for English class. Do what BDG is doing here. Like, even if an author didn't have some reason to do a thing, their choice to do it reflects something about the author and work. In Tony Hawk, it reflects development conditions where individual designers could throw in something for the hell of it. It reflects that it was created in an environment distant enough from the Vietnam War that punji sticks had passed from a weapon of war to a cool trap seen in movies, but that retained enough sense of danger for it to be hella cool to jump over it. Likewise, when you're reading Shakespeare, if you feel like the answer to "why is Shakespeare doin this" is "heck dude maybe he just wanted to" , consider trying to answer related questions like "what does including this and not some other possible inclusion say about the time, the audience, the medium, or the work as a whole" Like who can say why Shakespeare included so many dick jokes or the designers of Tony Hawk included a punji pit, but the fact that they did absolutely colors the work and the things surrounding it? Sorry for the long post. I just feel like if all the high school students watching BDG realized his essays are lowkey exactly what English teachers want, the world would be a better place
English teachers: "The blue curtains represent the protagonist's deep-seated insecurity and sadness." The author: "The curtains were blue because it's my favorite color."
Kaia this is exactly why comments like this actually bug me. people think that just because theres no direct meaning to a specific thing that they dont have to think about anything that led up to it or the implications of the fact that they chose to do it that way Brian is making exactly the kinds of things english teachers want to see because even if something doesnt have some surface level meaning he digs into it and still uncovers interesting things
@@AmericanIdiot7659 +laughs in watching RU-vid on Switch+ Edit: I literally logged in on my phone just to comment on the obscure timing of it. Last Edit: Also, Polygon and Brian David Gilbert deserve all the adrevenue they can get.
I just think someone asked themselves “I wonder if a spike pit has a technical name.” They found “pungee pit” and decided it was fun, so they put it in the game
The Punjee Pit I think is just indicative of Neversoft's ethos and creative choices all round. Their image and rebellious spirit was evident in all of the games they created even down to their playful, riske slogan 'Always hard, Never soft!!'
Honestly I discovered Brian David Gilbert about a month ago with the halo series and I have enjoyed all the content he has put out, today I was reading a reddit post about different floor traps in Vietnam and some guy says that they used to exist in tony hawks games for some reason, and that for anyone curious some dude on youtube had tried to work it out - so in my wondering who this strange person of specific information was and my desire to know said information I clicked on on it and hey presto what do you ya know?! I'm back on Brain David Gilberts page. Brilliant!
To be fair, the war wasn't mostly over. Without the nukes, it would've likely taken an Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands, which could've stretched the war on for months and was estimated to result in over a million American deaths, not even counting the impending Soviet invasion or other allied parties, and definitely not taking into account Japanese military losses and the civilian death toll. At the time, the nuke was seen as the faster and easier way, and the hope was that it would ultimately save lives. Of course, without the nukes, it's possible the Empire of Japan could've crumbled within a month of the invasion, but the expectation from the Allies was that a surrender without total occupation would've been impossible.
@Cartoon Madhouse Little aggressive and biased, man. I was just providing a frame of reference and context for the bombings. Don't nuke the messenger. Heh.
Between this and Mister Bone's Wild Ride in Rollercoatser Tycoon, I think we are very close to getting a video game based entirely around force-marching people into minefields.
heeey polygon hi! thank you for having subtitles!! may i make the humble request that more thought is put into where you place text on the screen? just because like. a LOT of times in this video i had to pause and turn the subtitles off to be able to read a lot of it, because the subtitles and the video text are both at the bottom of the screen. it’s an easy enough workaround, i just figured. maybe worth throwing this message into the universe thank u bye
Is it possible though? I never saw a way to edit subtitles placement. If subtitles mess with my ability to read something, I just make them more transparent
this isn't the first time i've watched this video, but i'm just seeing the "haunted by punji pits" in the scoring when you go over one in 3:57. somehow that makes it worse
Brian, I can't believe you spoke to Neversoft staff and didn't ask the most important question: were the spikes in THPS2's "pungee pit" smeared with human faeces in order to induce bacterial infections in the injuries they inflicted?
I remember that punji pit. That was where I first heard of them, and then I got really interested in various ways punji pits are actually used (although I admit my pre-teen brain was a bit disappointed to learn that real punji traps aren't 20 foot wide holes with sharpened tree trunks in them)
I honestly forgot they called it that in the game, I always just called it the spike pit. The kabob-related messages you got when you landed in them left more of an impression though
That's what I was thinking. Italy invades Ethiopia and you want to tell the Ethiopians they can't use their ingenuity, knowledge of the environment and guerilla tactics to drive them out? It reeks of a pro-imperialist agenda by the UN.
@@zyaicob I think the UN is supposed to stop situations like that from happening in the first place, so the ban on guerrilla warfare is based on the assumption of equal levels of military technology. With that assumption, banning weapons that are designed to be as painful as possible seems like a reasonable rule. The main problem is the UN can't/won't follow up with both sides of these assumptions, leading to problems.
Slings, actually, not slingshots. One's handheld and uses rubber to launch things, the other's a long string that basically lets you swing your arm in a much wider circle
Important thing to note here is its not just the low tech pungi pit that's banned, its all sorts of booby traps and mines. This includes things like the "Toe Popper" mines that the us dropped by the thousands throughout vietnam, and which continue to cause horrible, debilitating injuries in civilians to this day. Its not to stop people from waging guerilla warfare, its to stop people from using weapons that are unable to distinguish between enemy soldiers and innocent children, and which can linger for years or even decades after the original conflict has ended. TLDR: Low and high tech traps are banned because of the danger they pose to civilians after the conflict has ended.
It never occurred to me to question the pungee pit. I always assumed it was some weird play off the word “plunge”. Anyway, thanks for the serotonin hit of the day.
I think by that time spike pits were a standard trope in the video game industry. They were self explanatory danger zones, and they were in a lot of games.
You know how you can sometimes see the title of the video in the notification bar and guess who’s in it? I saw this one and my mind immediately went “that sounds like a BDG video.” I was right.
