Life's miserable and i hate it. Can't wait to get rid of all these memories i have made in this hellhole and just not worry about anything. How wonderful it would be!
@@Warlord_Megatronlife's miserable *now*. That's the key. You can't predict the future. No one can. As Doc Brown famously said: "Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it to make it a good one." Life will throw shit your way, but not all the time. My life has been very turbulent and it's getting worse. However, I don't want to give up. I don't want my legacy these past 41 years to be mostly pain, trauma, illness, and depression. I want more good memories. I want to help people. I wanna pet so many animals. I want to go on adventures with my fiance. I want to spend time with my mom before she passes on. I don't know how old you are, but understand that this isn't the end of the road. There's way too much ahead of you. It'll be filled with pain, but also happiness. It'll make you cry, but also laugh. That's just life. Don't let the bad times blind you from the good times. You deserve some peace of mind.
"The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly." Wikipedia
@@nightskylerj It is not really true. Frogs, like all animals, are supposed to survive, being in water too hot is a very basic threat for animals that live in water a lot of the time, sometimes in really hot places.
@@AvalonSucks it is not really true :/ I looked it up. It makes sense tho, they live a lot of time in the water, it is logical they know how to sense risky temperatures
This is reminding me of the time I talked to someone suicidal over the internet. I couldn't physically stop them or anything so, to me, it was really similar to how Froggy asked the player to come to them but the player physically couldn't.
温水煮青蛙 | "cooking the frog with warm/ slowly heated water" is a Chinese idiom, describing how when some aversive stimulus/ damage takes effect slowly and the ones affected don't even register it, let alone rejecting/ acting on it, until they're toast... well, thoroughly boiled.
@@-ZH yes, it's only an idiom, scientific studies (that were not conducted in, like, 19th century) say this literal thing does not happen. Also rip frogs. Idioms are not always facts though... the phrase is a very expressive and easily understood shorthand for its metaphorical meaning imo.
Nah, in any games he usually goes for the worse endings first. Heck I remembered a walkthrough of the Letter a couple of years back he did. You get like 7-8 characters in the story and they could die and change events right? He literally went with the kill everyone first route. At one point there's this big chunk of the game where this one guy was supposed to go through several events with his 3 friends and all of them died. Sh*ts funny as hell cause the guy you play as ended up just talking to himself all the time. I remembered he had to switch to a everyone alive route to make it interesting haha
‘A pebble on the beach doesn’t have to have any reason to be on the beach. It just is, it’s just existing. And that doesn’t make the pebble anything else than what it is.’ Me, who’s been chronically depressed for 8 years now, slowly tearing up: F U C K
Manly's titles are growing more and more descriptive and I'm starting to think it will become its own scp soon and tell me secrets about my life and the universe at 3 in the morning.
I'm actually in very much the same headspaces as Froggy right now. Even though it's been almost three years now since my mom passed, that and an unexpected physical problem have kept me stuck in limbo. It's OK to just exist when things go wrong. It's OK to take the time to heal so you can find your way back to happiness. I wish you all well in the coming new year. I hope you're not feeling stuck, but it's OK to be if you are.
Thank you. Same kind of thing with me. It really does take a lot to accept that sometimes you just have to wait and see how life turns out and sometimes you aren't _able_ to do anything, but that's okay. I'm working on that myself. Happy new year and all - and I hope you and I can both stay strong :)
I wonder if the voice that is giving you the objectives is Sap, since it seems so desperate to get Froggy out of the pot. "Please help convince Froggy to get out of the pot soon... I'm counting on you" seems so much more personal than just a random "Do this" objective. Not to mention the "Please" and "*I'm* counting on *you*" It's as if Sap's using the main character as a way to get through to Froggy since she no longer can. I might be reading too much into this, though '^^
Actually that's accurate and it could be true. Sap is an Angel, a Spirit. But she doesn't want her friend Froggy stuck in the past; stuck in the situation; doesn't want her to not do anything and only say she'll do anything. Basically: Sap wants her to live no matter what and remember she's not alone and that no matter what happens there's always going to be good things to help with the bad. That there's no need to be automatically sure about what you want to do. Just to be here, and learn and develop a goal overtime; to know it's ok if you don't feel good; you just gotta keep going then you'll find someone and something. She also wants her to find out what she likes and make it her Goal Job? As in its something in a job she'd like to do.
@@jaysea5939 don't feel too bad, it seems like true folk songs like that change depending on the region they come from. Like where I'm from I was always taught it was "Froggy went a courtin and he did RIGHT"
I'm glad we didn't get a horrible deathly ending with this game, it was a mix of a wholesome and sad atmosphere and honestly, I can get with that. Seriously though I was mentally preparing myself for a "Cuisses de Grenouille" ending lmao-
A weird thing I noticed is that, once you get into the later parts of the conversation, the steam effect stops. This could have been a glitch or an oversight, but it does make me wonder whether the pot was even on to begin with.
Crying because it's like the monologue was written for me. About the friends asking about my job, my parents asking about my achievements, even my old hamster killing it at the wheel...
I tried out the game myself after seeing this and was disappointed that froggy doesn't have separate dialogue if you name yourself Sap. Ah well. Still a cute game
@@inihilisme1511 Yeah all options are bad. a) she thinks it's in her head and believes she is going insane b) she thinks we are messing with her and hates us c) she actually buys it, and breaks down when she sees we're not her.
@@noshyaar5240 I just did that and oh my gosh it's so sweet. Part of me hoped that we could maybe have been her spirit helping Froggy but what it was was also really sweet
Wow. As someone whose wife died of a brain tumor in my 20’s, and life has been so difficult since, around the 9 minute-mark really started hitting hard. Life can be cruel, and sometimes depression is a heavy blanket from everything where you seek one comfort and latch in. And leaving it is tough. The amount of fights I had with other people and need to physically have someone when all condolences were just texts. Just that need to not be alone anymore but unable to do anything about it. Watching everyone else move on while still burdened by her medical debt and my student loans has been hard. I feel that same, “everyone else is moving and I am stuck.” But it’s a pot I don’t know how to get out of. But I suppose I should keep on trying. And so should you. Nothing is guaranteed, but at least if it gets worse we can always come back to this stuck, I suppose.
I lost a child two weeks before Christmas last year... I spend all of my energy trying to hold my surviving children out of the pot even as I drown in it
@@IrelandFyre that’s horrible. I wish the best for you and your family, and I hope you don’t feel alone. There are many others who feel your pain and I hope you find a way to not carry it alone.
Damn, that must be unbearable. Like I said in my other reply, I hope you too find someone to share your pain with, the fact that you keep pushing shows that you can get through this
11:05 hit hard for me. I…am a frog in a pot. Aren’t I? My apartment is my water and depression the seasoning, life passing me by is the heat. Y’know, I’ve tried recently to climb out. My parents came to visit. I didn’t realize how high the walls of the pot had gotten. Even though I tried to climb out my shame was still apparent. I realize the temperature of the water. I don’t want to go back. I don’t want to boil! Thank you manly for playing this. I’ve kinda avoided it for a few months cause I didn’t think I’d enjoy it, but I woke up thinking of the frog pot concept today and at midnight this autoplayed on RU-vid. It came back to me when I needed it. Thank you.
I think for the general public its normal to feel more relatable to a depressed frog than some man with super hero abilities on a murderous rampage after his family was brutally murdered.
"Did you know frogs won't jump out of a pot of boiling water if it's heated up gradually enough?" "That's not true; the frog had its brain removed!" "Fine, then I'll show you..."
A cute lil detail that probably wasn't intended is that they have an animation method where they draw the same frame twice, and it's called the "boiling" effect
Manlybadasshero's hobbies include trying to find his soul, taking long walks on the beach while being chased by paranormal demigods, and causing as much misery to other beings as possible.
The mirror thing was a brilliant plot-twist that actually surprised me, but the game wasn't brave enough to go through with it and instead backed out immediately. I think it would've been much more interesting and unique trying to figure out what she needs to tell herself to get out.
This was… actually really validating for me? As someone with long term/severe/major/recurring/clinical/whatever the fuck depression, I used to have long term aspirations but don’t really anymore. I just want to *be* and be okay with it. It’s nice to hear someone else say they live that way too. Sometimes I feel adrift in a sea of people headed in one direction or another. The pebble on the beach analogy was really beautiful, and I’m going to take it to heart and take it with me moving forward. I also like that they didn’t fall into the “it gets better” trap. That’s such a platitude. Things will get better, and things will get worse. It’s all relative.
I’m a avid watcher of Manly and I expected this video to put me in a happy mood like usual but this really hit home for me. This was too relatable though I don’t have a ‘sap’ I hope that one day I too can gather the strength to get out of this pot. I don’t know how to explain this but this really means something to me.Thank you Manly for playing this game and saving froggy
We can, similiar boat wasting away doing small oddjobs instead of seeing much of the world or getting a decent job. No friends irl. Gluck you can do it ^^ those of us in the pot gotta chear eachother on push eachother forward rather than be lobsters or lonely frogs boiling
Same. The game hit far too close to home for me, and I relate to Froggy far too much than I honestly should, except for the whole Sap bit. My favorite person/persons are still alive and Im happy about that :) don't know if I'll leave the pot tho, boiling is nice :))
bro My advice I would give you even if you don't need one and didn't ask for it is to try new things, get out of the comfort zone, life is about change, stimulations, experiences, sadly or maybe a good thing is that humans developed that feeling/behaviour of staying in the comfort zone, so it's natural if you don't want to go out, it's normal, it's human. but man, even if this world doesn't have a meaning, no one can deny the fact that THIS WORLD IS ABOUT CHANGES, everything changes, everything has the property of being able to change, well that's the only true thing, and even if you don't like it, you got the opportunity to live, of all chances, you are here, conscient, like everyone else, so..... experience the world you are in right now, to the fullest.... even if it is bad or good, that's how this is, it's beatiful in some sense if you think about it, you have just one opportunity.
I don't have anything meaningful to say... but *Hugs!* Oh, and if you haven't today, remember to drink plenty of water, eat, and shower. They won't make the depression poof away, but it definately won't make it worse. May you be blessed.
This game hits too close to home, I really relate to the person doing the talking, I've been the person outside the pot trying to talk friends and family out of it. So it really hit close to home for me-
This game really taught me one beautiful lesson: "It's okay to just simply exist." I will keep this lesson in my mind and hopefully this lesson and God can help me when I am at my most desperate, ambitious, and unhappy moments-- that I don't need to be who I am looking to be but simply be just me-- as I have believed that everything in life has its own reason and purpose. I was moved that it's alright to be stuck at some point and explore a level in a building without anything to discover-- that I don't have to jump into a boiling, cold, wavy, stormy, shaky, winding, swirling, murky, or biotic body of water to experience the fullness of life-- but just SIMPLY living through life is enough of a purpose.
Whatever your circumstances good luck, I'm trying to fight my way out of my own pot so to speak, we gotta give eachother a good push up out of the pot sometimes, rather than let the bad pull us down like lobsters
Depression is a thing this game shows and it shows that this is how a lot of people dealings with it hope you feel better made me look at my self at how relatable this is.
Hey it's ok. If it's any consolation Froggy works up the courage to leave the pot and face life. I felt really connected too, and i know knowing he left the pot despite it all helped me. Life is always worth living, even without meaning and with loss and hardship- there is always something worth not missing out on.
@@moss725 Exactly, no matter what as long as we keep plodding along there’ll always be something along the winding path of life worth picking up and saving for when you come home
I'm gonna be honest, I've tried watching this vid a few times since it dropped, but never got too far in cuz it hit close to home and I wasn't sure if the emotional state I was in could handle what it had to say. But I've recently managed to get a leg up on my mental illnesses, and I'm glad I took the opportunity to finish this. It really had that nice feeling of a victory lap around things, looking back at how I was and how different things are now, in a positive way. Thank you for playing it, Manly, otherwise I never would have known about it, and huge thanks and hugs to the dev for making the game in the first place!
this game made me cry. as someone with clinical/severe depression, ptsd and social anxiety, life is kinda... just not it for me. i used to have big dreams and aspirations, wishes and hopes - i used to be happy. things only got worse for me as time went one, whether majorly or not. i lost those hopes and dreams, and i often blamed myself for letting myself spiral. i compared myself to others. i hated myself for having depression, ptsd and social anxiety. i hated myself. and i would get blamed for it. people around me, especially my family would blame me for it. it got worse when i reached my 20s. this really comforted me, and validated my feelings. that bit, about the pebble, made me cry, because indeed, just being on the beach doesn't make it any less of a pebble. no matter what happens or where it is, it's still a pebble. just like how a person is still a person, regardless if they have hopes and dreams, or if they just simply... live.
If I had a nickle every time MBH played a game where you're being boiled alive but can leave at any time, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but it's still weird it's happened twice.
I don't really like leaving comments, especially some like this one, but I've been stuck for months, I'm barely able to go to work and haven't been able to go to school at all. So this hit really close to home, thanks for playing this.
@@Moetron_V2 It's quite obvious, if you think about it. Animals such as frogs thermo-regulate, basically they seek cooler spots, when they get too hot and warmer spots, if they get too cold. It doesn't have have to get to the point of boiling them alive to do that, they seek optimal internal temperature for themselves by looking for a certain outside temperature all the time. The whole premise of this metaphor makes no sense.
Best answer ever: "In 1995, Douglas Melton, a biologist at Harvard University, said, 'If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot-they don't sit still for you.'"
It's a sad game, but it's a happy game. Many if not everyone can relate to Froggy's pain here, and finding the strength to move on can come from countless sources. This was nice to see, felt like a pick-me-up by the end.
I just want to say thank you. Had it not been for this video I probably never would have seen this. For a while I've been going through a similar slump in life and this video just kinda made something click in my brain so thank you. I know you didn't make the game or anything but it was because I watch your videos that I saw it so thank you. Please continue to make these amazing videos. ❤️
This game really hit me hard. This is the kind of situation I'm in right now. I lost my special person and am alone now. I'm trying to talk myself out of my anxieties and depression but I'm scared to get out of the pot. I feel like there isn't much of a world left for me to go back to. I'm trying to move forward and keep going but I don't know what to do and I don't want to be alone anymore.
don't give up, I can't say anything too cheesy but. They wouldn't want you to throw in the towel. I'm bad at this, but gotta fill the void ^^ find a hobby amd take a chance its hard but even an aquaintance and something to keep the hands busy can help one over such dark points. Gluck.
Think about it like this , maybe its better that they left now rather than having them stay longer but you two end up growing apart and start hating each other. Maybe they wouldve ended up getting themselves or you and your family badly hurt, and this is for the best. Besides, as long as they knew that you deeply cared about them, theres nothing more you had to or could do , as such there's nothing more to expect of you. You took as good a care for them as you could while they were still with you, asking for anything more would be unreasonable; youve done all you could, its out of your hands now. Everyone has to be alone at some point , when that happens you'll just have to get used to it and then, after a bit, you'll be alright, you probably wont be good or amazing, but youll be fine.
I wish I wasn’t a weird internet person so I could comfort you properly, but oh well. The only reason one of my friends is alive is because they have people they care about. Find someone to be in a relationship with. It could anything from a new pet to an old friend (from personal experience, if any of my past friends sincerely reached out to me again I would probably accept). Besides all that, if you’re fortunate enough to do so… therapy? I went to therapy because I thought I had anxiety. I did not, but it helped me see the world in a better light anyway. So hey! Even if you’re doubting you have something serious enough for therapy, it could improve your life anyway. TL;DR Strong relationships! Therapy if you can! Take care, will you?
My solution to feeling alone has been to force myself to actually talk to people. It was awful at first, but between practicing expressions in the mirror(NOT with a Tulpa looming in my head/ref), making sure I smile at strangers when I pass them by, and complimenting someone when there's something I like about them(even if it's just a passing "Hey, I really like your shirt!"), I feel a little bit more at home in the world. And it's surprising, but even if don't necessarily form a friendship with someone, they still notice when I'm not around. They'll say something like, "Hey, I haven't seen you around here in a while! I'm glad you're back! :)" It's gone a long way to help my anxiety and depression, and the time and effort it took was absolutely worth it. I believe in you, and anyone else going through depression and anxiety. It's about playing the long game.
I used to be like this a couple years ago. I quit my first job and stayed a shut in for over a year due to depression, and I just wanted to waste my years away alone. It affected my relationship and I pushed a great partner away, and threw away many great friendships. But the guilt of worrying my parents and them taking care of me without giving anything in return but disappointment tore me up inside. It took a long time but I managed to find myself another job and help my parents, so that definitely helped me make my first step back into to world
I really love the character of Sap, even if we never encounter them, you can feel warmth and understanding from what they used to say: "Do I need a reason to care about someone else?" ; "A pebble that lies on the shore of the beach, doesn't need a reason to be there" ; you are your own person, you are a living creature, you are like me, I don't need any reason to care about you, like you, love you... I just do because I want, because I understand you, because I felt what it means to be alone with no support. You can understand why Froggy missed them so much, not only because it was very dear to them, but because they had a point of view of life that was just pure, understanding, comforting, consoling, you aren't special because of some trait you have, you are special because you exist, and that's the purest form of love that can exist in my opinion. You are your own person, and you have your own worth that's nobody else's. Live because you are special.
I'm pretty sure the code at the end is not a code at all. It doesnt look like morse code, seeing that it has differently sized dots. In any case, seeing that it repeats, it would just be the same letters over and over again. I'm pretty sure its just a creative line break
When froggy was talking about sap it reminded my of my dad. Once his mother passed away, he fell in to a deep Depression and left behind everyone he loved. He was stuck in his own "pot". I'm glad my dad stepped out, because If he didn't I wouldn't have known how great of a person he is!
Ok...as someone with a beloved therapy guinea who’s not doing well..getting old and hasn’t been eating his beloved food..and am a week away from going to rehab..and finally kicking a 16 year crippling addiction...the little manly pet video followed by this one hit way too close to home. I couldn’t watch the credits I was bawling by the time the vet visit came on..and this, this just puts things way too clearly. I don’t leave my room..I don’t want to face the world without my crutch..my boiling pot. Every day and every memory so overwhelming that I just want forget..to sleep it away.. to stay In “The pot”..That will in fact inevitably kill me if I don’t get out. Thanks clairvoyant MBH. I think..😰
I like how the game is actually a metaphor of staying at home/comfort zone/not accepting reality for a long time can be dangerous, while Manly choose to go full "Let's kill it"
hmmm the ''story'' of this game, seems to be something more depressive than it looks like, someone special for the froggy, passed away, so because of it, he just...stopped life, so to say, like when you stay in your bed for days not knowing if you should get up or just stay there without doing anything, or in this case, is like he's just waiting for his life to end, cause he KNOWS the pot is bowling. and he knows is gonna be very hot soon and is gonna kill him, but he doesn't care so when the protagonist is convincing him, is like he's trying to talk with a suicidal mind you know, tries to make a point, but the suicidal just counter his points with some ''ignorance'' like ''what's the point? I'm gonna fail anyway'' or ''what if i give my best out there but nothing changes?'' but once you get to actually get the person ''out of the pot''' that person will always remember you, as the help they needed maybe I'm just taking this plot wayy too far, but still, is a very good game in the way of showing how some depressive feelings, of losing a loved one, or thinking ''why bother with life?''
I support the guy who says Manly is an SCP, cause I think that he forgot he is an SCP and each video he regains a bit of his memory. So yea he gon' teach us that sweet eldritch dream shit
Bro it was really scary to see the pot start boiling- LIKE- *FROGGY NOO GET OUT OF THE POT PLEEEEAAASEEE* Edit: also please why is froggy somewhat relatable tho ;___;
You've proven to me that you're Manly. Very manly. Inarguably so. And proven that you're quite Badass. This is unquestionable at this point. But this, with this you have proven yourself a Hero. Our Hero.
This is me. I don't really do much, i have no hobbies though. I play video games and watch anime. I do my chores. That's all I do. I stopped trying a while ago. To much effort. Trying to read, draw or write is awesome, but requires time, and motivation. I don't have that anymore. So i just live. I don't have a passion for anything, i don't trust myself to do anything cool, or complete a task that requires me to get out of my comfort zone. I really am slowly boiling in a pot...
This fucked me up, shit. I wasn't going to watch the whole thing initially but it's so easily relatable to probably most people. I reckon almost everyone has had thoughts like that at one point or another specifically not knowing what you are working towards in life.
When you tell Froggy your name, there are three options. You can enter "Froggy", a random name, or "Sapphie". "Sapphie" doesn't give a new ending, but it gives some different dialogue.
Didn't expect to shed tears or get a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach from watching a game about a boiling person in a frog hoodie, but here we are. That all hit home really hard. I'm glad i watched it. I might just come back to it when i need reminders.
Did you know? That the idea that frogs won't come out of a pot if you boil it slowly is untrue because of the fact that the people who originally did this basically disabled the frogs so the frogs couldn't have come out of the pot even if they wanted to
Yep. The first experiment went like: "Look! If I take out this frogs brain, it won't move, even if boiled!" Some other people of his time: "Clearly, it's because you heated that pot slowly. Let me demonstrate!" Meanwhile, modern scientist: "You do realize frogs normally thermo-regulate, right? Right?"
