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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 6 I'm your host Harry, returning from a bit of a break.
	666?
	Sorry, 660.
	Sorry, I immediately got the heavy metal number in my head.
	I didn't even realise you'd got it wrong.
	I was just thinking, oh my god.
	Is this a number we should have skipped?
	No, it's the one we need Connor on.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Yeah, he has to do it.
	As you can tell, I'm here with Carl, and today we're going to be talking about the BBC creating a Ministry of Truth, or being a Ministry of Truth.
	Oh no, they've actually created a separate Ministry of Truth!
	Wonderful!
	I'm going to be talking about The Legend of Zelda's new game causing all of the fanbase to desperately want the main character to be a twink, or tranny, or variation of such.
	Can't Link just be a guy looking for a girl?
	No, he is a based Christian adventurer saving his princess.
	And that's canon.
	Well, actually, people have been complaining about Doomguy as well.
	And then we're going to talk about celebrities struggling with modernity.
	And we've got, is that going out live later on today?
	What, this?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	After the podcast, I'll be doing a book club.
	Live with Stelios on Julius Evola's Revolting Against the Modern World.
	It'll be part one of two, because the book is split into two parts, and because it's a really thick book.
	And not just the thickness of the book, you know, I could summarise that in one sitting, it's just the density of concepts and the...
	Absurdness of the concepts?
	He's so far removed from what modern metaphysics are that I think it's going to take at least two parts.
	He's a proper traditionalist, isn't he?
	Yeah, and in the first half he's laying out the genuine metaphysics of the traditional world and it's so far removed from what we are post-Enlightenment Honestly, there's a lot to get through and a lot to just try and unpack, and so I'm going to break it into two sections.
	The second section is about, essentially, the fall of civilisations and why our civilisation sucks.
	And of course, he thinks it's like, well, we'll stop being traditional.
	And it'll be really, really good.
	I'm sure there's sense to be made from that.
	I've read this like three times now because you have to read it multiple times.
	You have been reading it for ages.
	I was wondering if you were just taking a long time with it.
	I was, because it's a difficult thing to grapple with for a modern to understand, and I wanted to get the most out of it.
	So it's going to be worth it.
	So we'll see you there.
	Yeah, check that out later.
	And with that, let's get into the news.
	So the BBC decided, you know what, we're bored.
	We're overfunded.
	And the public are saying things that we don't like.
	And of course, whenever a dystopian regime decides the public is saying things they don't like, what you need is a Ministry of Truth.
	And so the BBC went out and decided, we're going to create a Ministry of Truth.
	You are probably missing one factor there, which is that they are also full of insufferable progressive students.
	They indeed are a bunch of socialists, yes.
	Yes, there are people working there who I probably went to university with, who I would not like to spend an evening with.
	I'll just put it like that.
	And if you don't know what a Ministry of Truth is, go to our book club and watch George Orwell's 1984, our analysis of it.
	This classic, absolute classic, is where the term Ministry of Truth comes from and it really sets the stage because of what the Ministry of Truth is.
	The Ministry of Truth was of course the regime, Ingsoc's propaganda institution that maintained the narrative that Ingsoc wanted.
	And of course that changed on a dime as we're seeing narratives change on a dime.
	This is BBC Verify.
	is going to do.
	So this is, we'll get to the next one.
	This is BBC Verify.
	As you can see, BBC News has unveiled BBC Verify to address the growing threat of disinformation.
	Coming from the BBC.
	This has been going on for at least 10 years now, this fight against disinformation.
	Disinformation.
	So just to begin, disinformation is one of those words that they use in order to specifically invalidate counter theories to their own narrative.
	It's there to put a bad smell on it.
	Exactly.
	You seed in the public mind the idea that disinformation is something bad and evil and only something bad and evil people would do, then you label anything you don't like with that.
	And conversely, we're the ones dealing with the bad and evil stuff, therefore we must be pretty good.
	It's a deliberate frame game that they're playing here.
	So the BBC has a disinformation correspondent called Marianna Spring.
	I mean, imagine your job being like, yeah, I correspond about disinformation.
	Funny thing is, they always say, this is our disinformation expert, and I've never heard of this person, never heard of any accolades this person's had, never heard of any news this person's had.
	Why should I trust this girl?
	Why should I care what she has to say?
	No particular reason, in my opinion.
	What doesn't mean she's got the BBC seal of approval?
	Especially as her job title is literally someone who disinforms.
	I don't!
	Anyway, so let's watch this video.
	Let's see what they're offering us, shall we?
	Welcome to BBC Verify.
	Like you said, we are a team of investigative journalists here at the BBC.
	We are also a new brand and we are a physical location above the newsroom in London.
	And the point of the team, as you said, is to verify video, to fact-check, to counter disinformation and to analyse really complex stories so we can get to the truth of what's going on.
	I certainly trust them.
	Have the BBC ever misled us before?
	My first thought is, I cannot wait for these people to start tweeting, and then to see the Twitter community notes.
	Oh, that's great, actually.
	There's going to be a BBC Verify Twitter account, and it's going to get community noted constantly.
	Every single time.
	That's a great point.
	I didn't even think of that.
	God bless Elon Musk.
	Anyway, so that's who's doing it.
	The BBC.
	In the BBC building.
	In the newsroom.
	In London.
	It's like, right.
	All the most trustworthy of people.
	We're going to be staffed by journalists.
	Well, you've lost me already.
	But how are they going to be doing this?
	What are they going to be doing?
	What are the expert tools and techniques that they have to verify this information with?
	Well, let's see.
	I'm going to give you a bit of a flavour of the kind of work that the team are doing.
	So we're able to look at maps to geolocate specific situations, stuff that's going on.
	This is just a map of central London, where we are now.
	And this is New Broadcasting House, where I'm speaking to you from.
	And it's not so important, perhaps, for the centre of London, but it is when we're analysing war zones or what's happening in hard-to-reach places.
	And there's a story on the BBC website today.
	It's looking at Russian fortifications on the front lines in Ukraine.
	Right.
	So they're going to be using Google Maps and reading online articles.
	I've seen Callum doing all of these things sat right next to me.
	Yeah.
	Well, you see, we're a specialist team of people who are doing things that the public themselves certainly can't do.
	Look at Google Maps and read articles.
	4chan has been doing this for years.
	And they're so much more proficient.
	But this is the thing.
	They're offering literally nothing.
	Like, this is literally nothing.
	Nothing that any person with a smartphone can do.
	Okay, I bet these people are being paid god-only-knows-how-much-money, right?
	But that's not all!
	Wait, there's more!
	There are other ways that we also are able to interrogate what's going on, including on social media.
	I have some undercover accounts that I've set up for the BBC's AmeriCast podcast, and we use these kinds of undercover accounts, and these are the characters that the accounts belong to, to be able to really understand polarisation online and how what's happening on our social media feeds and what we're being recommended and pushed to us can affect all of us.
	And they don't offer us a totally exhaustive insight into what's going on but they can help us understand just how social media works.
	I hope all of the profile pictures of the ones you see out in the wild have similar disinformation bars across the profiles.
	There is an interesting point, though, which is something that everybody needs to be aware of, which is there are plenty of just false accounts out there who will probably try to interact with your posts.
	If you're somebody who's a bit of a dissident, if you say naughty things on Twitter or elsewhere, the likelihood is you will probably be getting a decent amount of interaction from people who do not have your best interests in mind.
	Sure, but look at what she's saying there.
	What has she got?
	Anonymous sock puppet accounts?
	Ooh.
	Bring back my Pharaoh, Elon.
	That's all I'm saying.
	But that's nothing.
	That's absolutely nothing that anyone else can do.
	And does do, doubtless.
	Anonymous sock puppet?
	Wow.
	Oh look, I'm pretending to be a progressive in a progressive space.
	I'm pretending to be a right-wing in a right-wing space.
	Brilliant.
	Anyone can do that.
	This is not, like, specialist journalism.
	There are thousands of people all over the internet doing this right now.
	They're just copying the FBI.
	They are just copying the FBI, right?
	And so what's the purpose of all of this?
	Well, the purpose is as she'll tell us.
	And then there's also investigating other mistruths and the real world harm they can cause.
	At the moment, I'm investigating the UK's conspiracy theory movement.
	I'm trying to understand more about how it's evolved and intensified since the pandemic here in the UK.
	I'm looking at the alternative media that finds itself at the heart of this movement and a conspiracy theory newspaper that's a part of that as well.
	I'm looking at the way that alternative media is funded.
	I'm looking at its impact on local communities.
	I'm looking at its connections with far-right figures.
	And also it's Foreign Links.
	That's for a podcast series that will be coming out in June.
	Can we pause it there a second?
	It's called Mariana.
	Just so we've got this on screen.
	I would just like to first off say, um, hello Mariana, thank you for tuning in today.
	Yeah, we are both the alternative medium far-right figures.
	I don't know what conspiracy theory newspaper is.
	Daily Mail.
	Well, it must be, right?
	It will just be the Daily Mail.
	Or maybe the Express or something.
	But they're not that.
	I mean, you know, they're not that crazy.
	Daily Mail reports on the same things that every other newspaper does, they just actually do it in probably a much more thorough manner.
	Yeah, but what you can see here, right, this is exactly the problem with the BBC.
	This is everything people hate about the BBC.
	Because what they're trying to do here is, of course, create a series of people that they want to cancel, right?
	They want conspiracy theory, newspaper cancelled, alternative media cancelled, UK conspiracy movement cancelled, far-right figures cancelled, and foreign links.
	And the way they're gonna do it is say, oh, you're all funded by Russia.
	Okay.
	I mean, I don't think anyone's funded by Russia.
	I think Russia doesn't have money to spare, right?
	But, like, I don't know.
	But the point is, they're going to create a profile of people and they just want to cancel those because they disagree with it.
	Why?
	Because they're our competition?
	Alternate media?
	They're doing much better work than we are.
	Exactly.
	Alternative media, conspiracy theory, newspaper.
	I'm going to start spreading conspiracies that the BBC is spying on its competition.
	Well, I mean, it seems to be what they're doing, actually.
	But the point is, they're going after their competition, right?
	They do not like that there are people who are saying things they don't like, and they're going to want these people cancelled, right?
	But the fundamental disinformation lies that the BBC puts out.
	I mean, we'll get to others in a second, right?
	But this shows you precisely the problem, right?
	Far-right figures.
	Well, if you speak to any of those people, will they call themselves far-right figures?
	No.
	They'll say, well, I'm a conservative, or I'm homeless, or politically homeless, or... Not homeless or far-right.
	Although I haven't asked them, actually.
	Maybe we should ask them.
	Maybe.
	But, like, you know, I'm politically homeless, or something like that.
	They're not going to be like, yes, I'm far-right, yes, hello, fellow Nazis!
	They're not going to do that, right?
	And if they are, you're probably speaking to a sock puppet account.
	Exactly.
	The UK conspiracy movement.
	Well, that's a very negative way of framing anything.
	I mean, these people would call themselves the truth movement, right?
	The freedom movement, the movement that marches through the streets saying we don't like lockdowns, things like this, and have various other opinions that we're not allowed to say on YouTube, right?
	You can call them a conspiracy movement, or you could call them from within, you know, something they themselves would acknowledge, right?
	They wouldn't acknowledge the way you're labelling them, and therefore, I mean, alternative media?
	Fine, maybe.
	But conspiracy theory newspaper?
	Again, you're literally demeaning the people that you say you're going to be investigating in the very description of what it is that you do.
	And that's the point.
	Exactly.
	That's the point.
	And the thing is, they probably don't even realise they do it.
	They probably do it so unthinkingly.
	Well, I suppose so.
	These people are probably the NPCs who've just absorbed the programming for the people who want them to think this way in the first place.
	And all of this, once again, is just to make it so that you just shut up.
	Shut up and ignore what's going around you.
	I saw somebody on Twitter, I forget exactly who it was, tweet a screenshot of this with the caption, this is the image that will flash through your mind as a Mizzie stabs you to death in the centre of London.
	Let's hope not.
	If only I'd listened to those far-right conspiracy newspapers.
	Again, no one would describe themselves this way, and I think the main litmus test for what I would call neutral or I don't want to say unbiased or objective, but journalism that isn't done with an ill intent is to at least frame the things you're talking about in a way that isn't intrinsically derogatory to the people that you are investigating.
	When I call them progressives, that's a frame they will use themselves.
	I don't call them communist rapists, which is a frame they wouldn't accept.
	No matter how accurate it would be.
	No matter how accurate it is.
	It's a frame they wouldn't accept.
	I call them either the progressives or left-wingers or whatever.
	I will use something that is something they would accept because that's the fair thing to do.
	They don't do that.
	Well, realistically, what these people, they may realise it, they may not, they're not playing journalism, they're playing politics.
	They're separating the friend from the enemy and then treating the enemy as the existential threat that they need to discredit at all costs.
	Truth be damned, but, once again, it's much more effective if you think you're on the side of truth.
	Yeah.
	And so they put out an article about this as well.
	This is just a quick quote from that article.
	We've brought together forensic journalists and expert talent from across the BBC.
	Oh my God.
	Like, do they think this is going to be, in some way, politically neutral?
	Imagine, across the BBC, like, the BBC is something like 90% Remain voting.
	It's unbelievable how biased the BBC is.
	Well, when you're in that biased bubble, you do think that ridiculous left-wing positions are neutral.
	You would think, if you want to have something, that it... Oh, I mean, to be fair, in their defence, they don't claim to be an objective, non-partisan organisation that's going to a fact-check.
	They don't claim that.
	At no point in this are they like, oh, we're going to be objective, right?
	They will use that excuse when they start to target particular figures.
	They will, right?
	But there's going to be a massive political bias in this.
	And the political bias won't necessarily be in the things that they say.
	It will be in the things that they don't say, and the things that they target, and the things they don't target.
	They're not stupid.
	Tucker Carlson spoke about this in the video that he put out.
	He's completely right, right?
	So this is going to comprise 60 journalists. 60.
	I mean, if they're all on like 50k a year, there's millions they're spending on this, right?
	But they'll form a highly specialised operation with a range of forensic skills of reading Google Maps, reading BBC articles.
	See, we sourced ourselves and we looked at the map and I mean, look at the maps on the BBC article, it must be true.
	You know, again, circular referencing there, right?
	And this is what they're going to be doing.
	So, okay, great.
	So they put this out on Twitter and, oh, thank God, they just got utterly ratioed.
	Just a brutal, like, ban the BBC.
	If I'm not already following, I should start.
	Yes.
	BBC Breakfast tweet launching the BBC Ministry of Truth brand, BBC Verify hits 10k replies ratio.
	As you can see, if you click on the quote tweet there, please, just see the ratio itself.
	Scroll down a bit, right?
	13.5 million views, 1,700 likes.
	Over 2,000 quote tweets?
	Yep.
	And that's just the quote tweets?
	Yep.
	And at the time when he tweeted, it was 10,000 comments.
	Like, come on.
	More than that now?
	It's bound to be more than that.
	Way more than that.
	But I just thought I'd go through some of the quote tweets because they're hilarious and correct, most of it.
	First thing, a bit on the nose to describe their own journalists as disinformation correspondents, isn't it?
	Yep, great point.
	They are.
	I wouldn't have accepted that title if I were Mariana there.
	It's the most honest thing to come from this.
	Yeah, at least they're being upfront about this, right?
	Another good point.
	The state monitoring dissidents isn't really very democratic.
	Says Roman.
	The BBC launched a team of disinformation journalists.
	They'll assume fake web identities and expose connections between alternative media, foreign actors and the far right.
	See video.
	Not only did the MSM spread misinformation three years, Stalinism has now arrived in the UK.
	And that is what this looks like.
	This genuinely looks like, again, I wasn't over-egging it by saying this is actually a Ministry of Truth.
	Because this is a state-funded, state-controlled media operation that is now going to start attacking free media outlets, non-state-controlled media outlets.
	That's terrible.
	That's absolutely terrible.
	It's a young woman who's just like, yeah, so we're just here to help, blah blah.
	I mean, you don't understand what you're doing, maybe.
	Maybe you are actually such a phenomenal midway.
	You don't understand that this is actually what state oppression looks like.
	These kinds of women, like Marianne, who is in charge of these, these are the ones that you can trust to generally be true believers.
	Yeah, oh yeah, totally.
	These will be the ones we've bought entirely into it, and she will be doing this not because she wants to crush the enemy because it's the enemy, but because she legitimately does think she's telling the truth.
	Yeah, she'll think she's on a holy mission, you know, and she can just trust what the BBC has written in the article that she referenced earlier, and she can just trust what all of the experts are saying because an expert would never lie, I have met many like her.
	She doesn't need to think any more about it.
	I have met many like her.
	Yeah, same.
	The Corbynistas.
	Like, this is not just, like, you know, the conservative fringe that is upset about this.
	The Corbynistas are not happy about this at all because, you know, I don't like Jeremy Corbyn at all.
	But I also don't like the BBC lying about Jeremy Corbyn, right?
	This great point from Jim here.
	When the BBC was forced to acknowledge that they edited an interview to make it look like Corbyn was answering a totally different question to the one he was actually asked, they hid the admission in the entertainment and arts bit of their website.
	I was not aware of this.
	No, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Because they hid it.
	Right.
	Because they hid it.
	Let's go to that article.
	Right.
	If you go to the next one, John, this is the article itself, where they had to publish an actual retraction, being like, yeah, the BBC Trust, which is an organisation that monitors the lies that the BBC tells us, because they need that apparently, yeah, there was forced retract, right?
	They'd asked Corbyn a particular question about a Paris-style attack, and Corbyn's like, I'm not happy with the shoot-to-kill policy in general, and they had juxtaposed that with a different question, that answer, And so it's like, okay, look, Corbyn's answer's terrible, right?
	Obviously, if there's a terrorist attack, there should be a shoot-to-kill policy.
	Duh, right?
	Communist.
	He might be shooting his friends.
	But the point is, Corbyn's answer was so bad, why did you need to lie about it?
	Why do you need to lie?
	What's the reason?
	Well, this is why if you're going to do an interview with this kind of thing, it's the same thing that happened with that guy, that Republican who got interviewed by Jon Stewart earlier this year.
	If you're going to do an interview like this where they are going to edit it and cut it up and make you look worse or bad in the first place, you should make sure that you have an agreement that you get your own unedited copy or bring your own guy in to film it and record it so that you can release the real footage.
	I don't, excuse me, I don't actually know what happened, because this was like six years ago, so I didn't look into it further than this article.
	But it's entirely possible that they did that.
	But the point, again, is just like, it's just natural to them to lie.
	They thought they were going to get away with this, and they did it.
	Laura Kuszenberg, she was the BBC's political editor for years, and she's like, oh, Laura Kuszenberg, she's a liar.
	She literally edited this to lie.
	Anyway, so the next one is, again, the far right.
	This is a woman who said a few thousand people are on the Freedom Marches.
	You see the footage of the Freedom Marches?
	Probably.
	I don't remember though.
	A couple of years ago, when it was literally wall-to-wall, as far as the eye could see, walking through London, a few thousand.
	No, he's right.
	Tens of thousands.
	Sorry, she's right.
	Tens of thousands of people were marching.
	Of course, the BBC were like, well, small gathering in London today.
	It's like, you can't go to London.
	Because it's jam-packed from people saying we shouldn't be locked down.
	But again, this is just the BBC.
	This is why everyone hates the BBC.
	For a reason, right?
	And some of the best ones, though.
	Matt Letizia.
	Really going for the throat on them.
	And who will investigate the misinformation that this organisation spreads?
	You couldn't make this S up.
	The paedophile protectors just get more ridiculous with time.
	Let it never be forgotten.
	Yeah, tell us about Jimmy Savile.
	BBC verify that, okay?
	Do me a favour.
	Again, some just great ones.
	We found the culprit from Reclaim the Net.
	Again, these are all just great outlets, really.
	Who's behind all the disinformation?
	It was me all along.
	And Jordan Peterson had a great take on this as well.
	BBC verify, because the ordinary BBC cannot be trusted.
	He's right.
	He's absolutely right.
	That's why they've got the BBC Trust to monitor them anyway, because they can't be trusted.
	Neither of them can be trusted.
	What?
	BBC or BBC Trust?
	Or BBC Verify?
	Any of them.
	Anything with a prefix that begins with BBC should not be trusted.
	But the point is, the fact that they have to have the Trust Board and then this Verify thing, it just makes themselves look guilty of being like, yeah, we do spread a lot of misinformation.
	But also you, we hate all these- I hate it.
	But the point is, it's a Ministry of Truth.
	It's genuinely what a Ministry of Truth is going to look like.
	And now we have it.
	And we're paying for it.
	Because we have to.
	Got my license.
	Actually, I don't know if we have a license.
	We don't have a TV.
	Anyway.
	There you go.
	Easy peasy.
	Moving on then, so it's time to talk about The Legend of Zelda.
	As we have found out over the years, gamers can be a persistent bunch.
	They are the sorts of people who do not take slights lightly.
	Can I just preface this by saying I've never played The Legend of Zelda.
	I think I played Twilight Princess on the Nintendo Wii at my friend's house about 15 years ago, when it first came out.
	And it was fun!
	And I always hear really good things about the games, and despite not wanting to look like a cook-old, I do kind of want a Switch, just so that I can play some of these more recent Mario and Zelda games that have come out.
	Because they look like good fun!
	I've heard nothing but glowing things about Zelda.
	Do you know what they look like?
	They look like actually fun games, which is something that doesn't come out as much anymore.
	Yeah, it's hard to believe.
	They also look like they don't have much DLC.
	No!
	And they also don't look like they're trying to shove progressive messaging down my throat.
	Yeah, yeah, it's pretty traditional Japanese storytelling.
	But even within that paradigm, the West still can't help but try and just shove it down where it isn't welcome anyway.
	And on those sorts of narratives, you did a recent premium podcast that Conor was hosting where you're talking about, is Jesus Christ a socialist?
	Because the left... Well, it's not just the left.
	Conor was schooling me.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because I'd made this comment in a conversation with Crowder like years ago, back when I was on the left.
	And Connor was like, no, he's not.
	And he goes into really autistic depth.
	You could see his ears getting redder and redder.
	It was very visible with Connor.
	But he did a really good job on it.
	Yeah, I'm sure he did, because Connor knows a lot about all of this stuff, he's a big Christian himself.
	He's got the receipts.
	I'm sure he does.
	So if you want more examples of how the left, whenever they try and co-opt something like this, are just lying, let's be perfectly honest here, they are just lying about these things.
	Check that out because the work that we do on the website we put a lot of effort into it we put a lot of work into it and if you appreciate everything that we do you should support us because we don't just do it for us we do it for you so that we can dispel all sorts of myths and give you the information that's actually worth it so it only costs five pounds to sign up for a bronze player membership on the website and that gives you access to everything so please think about contributing and helping us We do have a massive library of stuff.
	We've got a ridiculous library of stuff.
	It's very... It's chunky.
	It's great, isn't it?
	It's thick and chunky.
	And to start off with this, I thought I'd just point to a tweet that you put out, which I found quite amusing, because it just goes to show the influence that Gamergate has had, which is that even 10 years almost later, they still know... It's just not worth it.
	Yeah, it's just not worth it.
	It turns out, riling up a group of people who are by definition a bunch of internet-bound autists who don't go outside very often and have a lot of spare time to do anything will get you in trouble.
	Will get your social media manager a bigger headache than is worth it.
	Yeah, it's just not worth it.
	We could put the rainbow flag on the icon or we could just leave it and it costs us nothing to leave it and there's absolutely no headache there whatsoever.
	Can I just also point out the shout-out to the Mr. Roland Ratt in the comment there.
	Famous Who Would You Do host, children's entertainer, sheepskin rug merchant.
	Occasional butter beater.
	Putting here, the long arm of Gamersgate extends infinitely forward.
	He can't even get it right.
	He can't even get the name of it right.
	But that's fine.
	That's incredible.
	So what I'm talking about, the most recent Zelda game came out and it's received quite a lot of accolades since it's come out, like about two weeks ago, where it says Tears of the Kingdom is now the UK's sixth best-selling Zelda game of all time, and there's like 30 of these things.
	It's one of those Nintendo series where there's dozens of games that you can go through, each one experiments with something different and is interesting in its own right.
	If you scroll down so we can look at this picture as well, here's something else I like about these games.
	Which will be expanded on in a moment, which is that Callum and I, a few months ago it was at this point, when we were talking about Hogwarts Legacy, Callum was complaining about the lack of actual clarity in video game graphics because you always get the fidelity argument where you want it to be as HD as possible, you want everything, you want to be able to see the pores in the character's skin when you zoom in on their face.
	No, that doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	What matters is me being able to tell what the hell I'm doing if I'm playing the game.
	It's supposed to be nice on the eye.
	And if you look at this, I can tell that the big green orb is the thing that I'm supposed to be thinking is important.
	I can see the characters, the designs are pretty distinct, and everything is nice and clear that I can look at there.
	So I think this hopefully would pass the Callum test.
	Just a quick thing, like, I've never owned a Nintendo, right?
	My parents bought me a Sega when I was like 14 or something.
	I had a Game Boy Advance and DS back in the day.
	And it's not like that I didn't like Nintendo.
	I haven't played Nintendo games on my friends.
	But one of the things that I find that's interesting about Nintendo is that they've just always committed to being as high quality as they can.
	Like, the games are fun.
	There's never been any sort of avant-garde nonsense.
	It's like, here's another Mario game, you're gonna jump on blocks.
	It's like, yeah, but that's what I wanted out of Mario.
	There you go.
	I mean, they'll experiment within that framework, but the actual gameplay, like with Zelda, is always about exploring a big world and having fun adventures.
	You know that it's going to be reliably of a certain quality.
	As far as I'm aware, you never hear any big controversial stories about Nintendo games coming out and being complete buggy messes.
	No!
	Never!
	Which is something that we'll get onto.
	And further in this article they say, it was released May 12th, sold 10 million copies worldwide in its first three days.
	Very impressive as far as I can tell.
	Fastest selling game in the history of the series and fastest selling Nintendo game for any system in the West, in Europe and America.
	And Western developers, they just go, how do you do that?
	Ow!
	Tell us your black magic!
	Tell us your secrets!
	We need to understand!
	It begins by respecting the audience.
	No.
	Can't do that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, we're out.
	Well, if that's what it takes, I guess we're gonna have to keep accepting that sweet, sweet Black Rock money instead of the audience's money.
	But that is literally the secret of Nintendo, though.
	It is literally... Look, we have a franchise that we take care of, because we know you like the franchise.
	And our taking care of the franchise is respecting your interest in this.
	That's all it's based on.
	Yeah, I think Metroid is one of their big franchises, and they released two or three games in a row that people didn't like very much from that series, so they just stopped for a while.
	They might be bringing it back soon, but they're not like, we're gonna keep shoveling this crap down your throat.
	Like, again, respect for the others.
	Okay, we messed up on that, so we'll just stop doing that, and we'll do something that we know you do like.
	It's just such a, again, like 20 years ago, every company was like this.
	You didn't get the Bud Light, you didn't get the Miller Light, all that sort of stuff.
	John's saying old school graphics, good games, no microtransactions, no nonsense.
	Oh yeah, 40k bolt gun.
	I've actually got a copy, I'll probably stream it.
	Oh, Retro Pixel Shooter!
	That sounds pretty cool actually.
	Yeah, it looks great.
	But anyway, the point is, it's just about respecting the audience.
	And that's the same with films, it's the same with music, it's the same with anything.
	It's just not hating the people that you want to cater to.
	It's such a small step.
	Once again, the Western developers, they just can't understand that.
	In particular, there's one Western developer who is particularly bad for this recently.
	Which is one that I used to love.
	They did Crash Bandicoot, Jack and Daxter, some of the early Uncharted games, some of my favourite games of all time, Naughty Dog.
	Their narrative director, according to this article, a guy called Josh Scher, was on Twitter praising the game, asked Nintendo just how it managed to pull off such a massive accomplishment.
	And he was saying, oh, you know, it's such a miracle, the way that players are allowed to use various abilities to solve puzzles, any way they choose, one of the most impressive aspects of the experience.
	That just used to be called gaming.
	That used to be called gameplay.
	We decided that instead of having a corridor that had one thing that you can do, we have a big open room where there's four or five different things that you can do.
	Did you ever play any of the Dungeon Master games?
	No, I didn't.
	Ancient, right?
	You know, it's the sort of first-person dungeon crawler, right?
	Yes, I'm aware of it.
	Imagine... Imagine just how non-linear that game is.
	Literally, you used to have to sit there with square... what's it called?
	The chart paper, whatever it's called.
	You know, the paper with... Graph paper?
	Graph paper, that's it.
	And you used to have to block it out to figure out where the path was, and so you had to map out the dungeon itself, yourself.
	Because otherwise you're just going to be lost in there forever.
	See, that's quite cool.
	I find that stuff even more immersive if I'm having to take it into the real world to figure out what I'm doing as well.
	It was genuinely great.
	I mean, obviously, now with the internet, you just go and get what someone else has done.
	But this was before the internet, that I was playing this.
	And so, like, you know, there was no hand-holding.
	It was just like, good luck, and you're on your own.
	And these guys are like, yeah, but I mean, it's not just a linear corridor.
	But how are we going to preach?
	If they have multiple rooms to go into, then we can't put the big progressive posters in every room.
	Yeah, we might miss it.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And this article as well that came out just saying that, yes, it's a masterpiece, but it's an ugly masterpiece, which I just think is... Is it?
	I don't think it looks particularly ugly to me.
	It's a bit cel-shaded, a bit dated, you could argue, but it looks damn good.
	But like John was saying with 40k Boltgun, that's obviously meant to look like Doom, like the original Doom, and it plays a lot like, in fact, it plays faster than the original Doom, but like, there's nothing wrong with that as a kind of aesthetic.
	No, there's nothing wrong with it.
	If it's a deliberate artistic choice, if it works, it looks nice, there you go.
	It's like pixel art now.
	There's nothing wrong with pixel art.
	And to be fair, the rest of this article is just praising it for deciding not to prioritise graphics over gameplay, which is good.
	And one of the other things that they did, which is amazing, that maybe Todd Howard from Bethesda might want to think about doing in the next article, please, John, was that it turns out that they actually completed the game a year ago.
	Really?
	And then decided to take the entire year just to make sure that it won't It won't defecate on itself the second it gets released into the public.
	I can't help but want to salute that kind of work ethic.
	I appreciate it.
	Can you even imagine?
	This is why I'm kind of annoyed that I don't play Nintendo games.
	They obviously care, and they care about the audience experience.
	Can you imagine if Fallout 76 had done this?
	We wouldn't have all of those glitch compilations.
	Rome!
	Total War Creative Assembly.
	Really, are they bad for it as well?
	Oh, terrible!
	Oh my god, you should've... Like, I remember... I've not played Total War.
	Like, 2013, I think it was, when Rome 2 came out.
	I was a massive fan of Rome 1.
	Loved Medieval 2.
	Rome 2 came out, and it was just junk.
	It was unplayable junk.
	Like, you'd normally, in the previous games, you'd have, like, regiments of men, right?
	So there'd be, like, eight men deep, like, and ten men across.
	So you've got these blocks of, you know, actual units of soldiers moving around.
	You'd move them, and they'd fight, and it'd be proper tactics.
	In Rome 2, when it first came out, they abandoned that, and they just had amorphous blobs.
	Everything would just become two amorphous blobs that were blobbing at each other.
	It's like, what?
	Why have you done this?
	Like, five years later, it all got fixed, but, like, why did it take that?
	Why didn't you just... Okay, if it took that extra five years to be a game worth playing, why didn't you just... Don't release it.
	Yeah, don't release it.
	There you go.
	And I've got other examples here.
	Mass Effect Andromeda.
	That was another glitchy mess.
	That was the... What was it?
	There are loads.
	There are just so many.
	It was the classic, oh, my face hurts right now, which is why my facial animations are completely terrible.
	Don't ask questions.
	Assassin's Creed Unity.
	Do you remember the awful spaghetti faces glitches?
	Yeah, and the thing is, I wouldn't begrudge them if they were brand new studios who were like, look, we've got essentially like the alpha of the game ready.
	We're going to release it so you can help us develop it by keeping us funded, that's fine.
	But that's not what these studios are.
	Bethesda, you know, all of these studios are massive studios.
	Ubisoft, they've been around for 20 plus years.
	They've got no excuse.
	Absolutely no excuse.
	And Nintendo are genuinely just showing everyone up by being professional.
	And Nintendo's been around for about 40 years, and they just, with that 40 years of experience, they behave like a company that has 40 plus years of experience.
	Yeah, John's pointing out, remember the Nintendo Wii was a massive success because it had good games.
	The hardware was inferior to the competition at the time.
	That's a great point.
	And everyone dunked on it for having inferior hardware, but it was massively popular.
	Especially with normies.
	And on some of the cultural differences between how the West treats its audience versus how the East does, here's just the depiction of women.
	On the left we see women who look like women, and on the right we see shaven gorillas.
	Ladies.
	Which company do you feel is respecting you as a woman?
	You see that one on the top right as well?
	Yeah.
	That's a particularly bad example, because that's the sequel to, I think, Horizon Zero Dawn.
	And in the first one, she wasn't, like, the most... She wasn't, like, a supermodel-attractive protagonist, but she sure as hell looked a lot better than that.
	They actively made her more ugly.
	Some people suggest that they are doing this to make sure they do not upset the Ligabeteur community, who will play their games.
	And then there was Abby, in the bottom right corner.
	protagonist antagonist of Last of Us 2.
	The LGBTs are definitely angry about all of this.
	But this is the point, like, you know, none of this respects what women are as women, right?
	At least the Nintendo ones are.
	I mean, the top one is not like a supermodel, right?
	But it's feminine.
	It's not just feminine.
	It's like advancing a female aesthetic that women might want to aspire to.
	Right, they might like that.
	They might cosplay as that person.
	Oh, I bet they are.
	Exactly.
	No one's cosplaying as the one on the right.
	No one's cosplaying as Abby.
	Let me just hit the gym for six months.
	She looks like the bully from Back to the Future.
	She looks like Biff.
	Yeah, she looks like Biff, exactly.
	No one's cosplaying as that, because that's not aspirational.
	That's not in any way virtuous.
	That's gross.
	I find it totally disrespectful to women, and I say that as a misogynist.
	Well, we misogynists have a certain respect for women.
	Obviously I'm joking, but it's just gross.
	It's just No, interestingly enough, the one on the bottom right, Abby, from Last of Us 2, the developers are Naughty Dog, whose level designer was like, how do you do this game?
	Well, it turns out, once again, if you don't decide to try and make all of your characters hideous and androgynous and insult the fans for enjoying the protagonist of your first game so much, Joel was supposed to be the bad guy, don't you remember?
	No, he was a base dad protecting his adopted daughter.
	That's what the whole story was about.
	Neil Druckmann, who wrote it, thought, well, I obviously didn't make him racist and evil enough.
	Well, that's why everyone liked it.
	I never played The Last of Us, but I saw lots of people talking about it, why they liked it.
	You're probably aware of what happens in the story as well.
	Yeah, exactly, because of cultural diffusion, because it had a cultural impact, because people found the characters relatable.
	And then the first thing he does is get this androgynous menace in the bottom right to beat him to death.
	I watched, I think it was Mauler playing this one, and it's just like, this character is designed to be evil and you're forced to join their side, basically.
	You're not just forced to join their side, you're forced to sympathise with her.
	That's what the narrative is trying to do.
	But that's not a sympathetic character at all.
	You're forced to play as her in a boss fight against the main protagonist of the first game, or at least Ellie from the first game.
	Yeah, as if you're trying to hurt the audience.
	The amount of compilations I saw of people just letting themselves die.
	in that boss fight because they were like, "No, this is the good ending." - Yeah. - Abby dies, Ellie gets revenge, they all go home. - I'm invested in the hero of the previous game, and you're making me play the villain in this game to kill that, but no, I'm not doing it.
	And I totally get it, I totally get it. - Are you surprised when Neil Druckmann, and I got this from a different- - He's an insanely woke- - Oh, massively so, because I found this- This is from a different article, John, so don't worry about bringing it up.
	I found it from an article where it said, uh, Druckmann, 2013, gave a keynote speech, uh, citing feminist frequency tropes as an inspiration.
	Big fan of Anita Sarkeesian.
	He also spoke fondly about Sarkeesian during the build-up to the release of Uncharted 4, so we're not particularly surprised that he decided to go this way.
	But what does, what does, Western publications go on about.
	What do the big ones talk about?
	Polygon, they're your favorites, right?
	Everybody's favorite, Polygon.
	Love Polygon.
	Link is a gay icon, and Zelda fans know it.
	Um... But Link was not gay.
	Link was a... Link is in fact saving the princess.
	Yeah.
	That's literally... Because everyone's like, oh, well, Zelda must be the main character.
	No, Zelda's the princess that Link is... Again, I've never played it.
	I just know this from cultural diffusion.
	Link is the hero trying to save the princess.
	Once again, there are missions... If you go to the next link, this is the article.
	There are missions where basically there's a mission in Breath of the Wild, I think, where you have to sneak into a city that's full of women.
	Only women are allowed in.
	So you have to dress up as a woman to do it.
	Oh, he's trans now.
	So he's trans now.
	There you go.
	Link twink confirmed.
	Yeah, there we go.
	It's really funny, this article, actually, because it says down here, so Quest, he has to dress in drag in order to get into the city.
	To get the right clothes, he has to track down a man who snuck into the town.
	The person he meets is wearing traditional Gerudo dress, but after he confirms her identity and then literally squints at her face and body, the dialogue prompt either allows you to compliment her beauty or declare that she's a man.
	Oof.
	Essentially, the quest forces Link to clock a trans woman.
	The quest fails trans Zelda fans in so many major ways.
	You've always got the option of complimenting.
	Obviously, if I were to play that, I would immediately go with the, hold up!
	There's something going on here!
	Well, that's just amazing, isn't it?
	And I love the logic further up the article as well.
	It just says, oh yeah, we love TransLink and we know that TransLink is a real thing because fanfic perverts Have lots of Rule 34 artwork online depicting him as such.
	I was just going to say, just because there's Rule 34 artwork on it does make it feminine.
	Thank God.
	This is porn-addled brains who cannot see anything that is the slightest bit androgynous and not go, this is about butt sex.
	But this is the thing, Link is sneaking into an all-women city or whatever as part of a mission.
	That's not a declaration of identity.
	Final Fantasy VII.
	Cloud does the same thing.
	He has to sneak into a brothel at one point, and he dresses as a woman to do so.
	And it's made a joke of, because some of the guys are like, ooh, hello there, young lady.
	It's not the point to go, see, he was gay all along.
	No, it's a joke.
	No, he's not.
	It's a joke, because the Japanese actually have a sense of humor about these things, shockingly enough.
	And then there's this cope in the next article as well, talking about, oh, it may have the series' first ever gay character, this new game.
	All right.
	And this is going to sound... tell me if this sounds like familiar reasoning to you.
	So there's a character you meet who is the associate understudy of some great man who's really good in whatever field.
	I think he's an archaeologist or something.
	This is an aspiring archaeologist.
	He gets to work with his hero.
	And you find his journal where he says, you know, I really wanted to compliment him, say how amazing he was.
	Of course, I didn't actually say it.
	I was very flustered whenever I was around him.
	He complimented me at one point, and I was very flustered and couldn't say anything in return.
	And this article just goes, gay, gay, gay.
	This is like in Lord of the Rings, when they see Sam and Frodo, two men, sharing a bond over shared experiences, and they go, this has to be gay somehow.
	But this is not in any way gay, this is hero worship.
	This is about having a huge amount of respect for the person that has just given you a compliment on your work, I assume.
	I assume it didn't compliment his figure or something.
	Right?
	And it's just like, yeah, you've done good work.
	Oh my God, you know, my hero just said I did good work.
	This is validation.
	Once again, this is porn brain.
	This is porn brain.
	You need to stop watching porn or stop watching such perverted porn.
	Go back to missionary if you must.
	But seriously, just stop it.
	This is not normal.
	You shouldn't be looking at normal platonic relationships between people and going, this is how can I make this sexual in some way?
	Sometimes relationships just exist without sex.
	Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	They genuinely can't conceive of a person liking or loving another person that doesn't involve their own genitalia.
	It's quite disturbing.
	It is quite.
	It's very disturbing, especially given that, uh, canonically Link's a Christian.
	You just can't, you can't deny this.
	Here is Link praying to Jesus.
	Yep.
	And, uh, people were freaking out about this saying, no, no, he can't be a Christian.
	Christians can be twinks too.
	Well, he's not.
	Sorry to- Why can't he be a Christian?
	Look.
	Sorry to break it to you, and here's more proof.
	Here's him with a cross shield in the next one.
	He's a warrior of Jesus, and even worse for the shippers who desperately want him to be a based, tranny, queer icon in the next one.
	It turns out that, turns out, all those times he tried to save the princess is because he was in love with the princess.
	And she was in love with him.
	I know, what a big shock.
	Heroic Christian man goes to save a beautiful woman that he loves and loves him back.
	And then they get married and live happily ever after.
	Leftist most affected because he's not gay.
	Yes.
	So please, Western developers, if there's a lesson you're going to learn from this, it's make good games.
	I don't care to see the sweat droplets individually rolling down this person's porous cheeks on every single game, and I don't care about the 30-minute cutscene of a bad rejected Hollywood script, you have to tell me.
	I just want to play a good game.
	So much to ask, isn't it?
	Anyway, celebrities.
	My favorite people on the planet.
	And they're doing great.
	They're doing great.
	Financially, probably.
	Intellectually, morally, they seem to be completely falling apart and totally losing the plot.
	Good!
	Now, you're going to be like, well, they've been doing that for some time.
	It's like, no, no, no, this is something new and different.
	Are they starting to break the programming?
	Some are.
	Some aren't.
	The problem though is that the narratives of modernity are very different to what the narratives used to be like 20 years ago, before the internet.
	Because it used to be that you had a very limited band of television channels and entertainment and media, right?
	And so you would have all of the celebrities were famous because of this narrow band.
	to a very wide audience and so they really weren't exposed to insane conspiracy theories or radical ideologies and so they were all quite normie in their own right and so there was this like big normie sphere that they lived in but now things are totally different and things are springing off in all directions and of course if like you're a normal boomer celebrity radical leftism looks like communism to you because it is And so, you don't like it.
	At least that's the one thing the boomers get consistently right.
	Yeah, that is.
	And thanks to the Cold War, at least they're against communism, right?
	Mostly.
	But the problem is, the internet has given them a way to research any topic, any time, and in their sort of ivory towers, they come to some very interesting conclusions.
	So I just think it's fascinating to watch, like, how they sort of are just splitting apart on all different issues.
	Because, like I said, there used to be a kind of united culture that wasn't necessarily anti-Western, but it had those undertones to it, obviously.
	But now, it's just crazed people going in all different directions.
	So I thought we'd just look at some of the funny ones.
	But before we do, I think that you should go and watch this hangout, what Mizzie reveals about London.
	Because, again...
	There are lots of things that are happening that are just very revealing about the unwinding of our civilization.
	The celebrities at the top are one thing, but the people like Mizzy at the bottom are another, and it's interesting how they're sort of coming together in the middle through social media.
	But what I'm saying is, I think you can see the bonds that used to keep our civilization together totally unwinding.
	Mizzy at the bottom, People like Morrissey at the top.
	Now, Morrissey... Morrissey's never been one to... No.
	...stay tight-lipped about certain things, or one to stay with particular narratives.
	I mean, look at the Los Angeles Times here.
	I mean, that's a spicy headline.
	That is a pretty spicy headline.
	What is the White Nationalist Political Party?
	Is he supporting reform?
	Is that what's going on?
	No, it was Anne-Marie Waters for Britain.
	Which is a civic nationalist party.
	Sorry, was that for Britain?
	For Britain.
	Obviously it's a civic nationalist party.
	So British people who are interested in... It's disbanded now.
	But British people who care about the interests of Britain could join her for Britain party and advance the interests of Britain as a conglomerate multi-ethnic nation.
	Not a white nationalist party.
	But I mean, Los Angeles Times, they don't care.
	It's not a lie.
	Right?
	John says it's hilarious because they had loads of ethnic candidates.
	Yeah, because it was a civic nationalist party.
	Nothing wrong with it at all.
	Nothing wrong with it.
	But they say in this, right?
	He's a vegan and fervid supporter of animal rights, right?
	And so he hated China because of that.
	In 2010, he was like, did you see the thing on the news?
	China's treatment of animals and animal welfare.
	Absolutely horrific.
	You can't help but feel the Chinese are a subspecies.
	Bloody hell, Morrissey!
	Tell us what you really think.
	Just to say, I disavow Morrissey's opinion on the Chinese subspecies.
	In response to Harvey Weinstein's downfall, Morrissey told German magazine Der Spiegel, Disavow.
	rape i hate attacks i hate sexual situations imposed on someone but in many cases one looks at the circumstances and think the person referred to the victim is merely disappointed disavow i mean just disavow right uh close to morrissey declared london is debased on his website in 2018 before demeaning sadiq khan's accent writing he can't talk properly Well, that's true.
	Sadiq Khan has got a constant, like there are flub compilations of Sadiq Khan just messing up a simple sentence.
	What are we getting Morrissey on?
	I would be very interested to talk to Morrissey.
	I don't know, but like Morrissey is, and he's been doing this for years as well.
	I've known for ages, I used to go on music websites to see what music news was going on and then every other week there would be a news story about Morrissey saying something inappropriate.
	He went on Jimmy Fallon with the For Britain lapel pin.
	Oh, did he?
	Yeah, yeah, and everyone was like, ugh.
	And he posted a video on his website ranting about, quote, social justice morons and white discontent contrasted the ways in which the press covered Stormzy's criticisms of right-leaning politicians and Morrissey's conservative opinions on UK immigration.
	I mean, I think he's totally entitled to his opinions, and he is right about social justice morons and the fact that the right do not get fair coverage like the left do.
	Well, most celebrities, they want to put the blinkers on and pretend they don't notice these things, whereas Morrissey just lets himself notice patterns.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's not one of those guys.
	But this same far-right blogger has railed against rapes and terror attacks which have resulted from mass immigration.
	We're just going to state that without disproving it because we cannot.
	Let's assume that he did.
	Well, no, that's what I mean.
	We're going to state, oh, isn't it so terrible he's pointing this out while you're going to disprove that it happened?
	Because you can't.
	The far-right blogger reigning against rape and terror.
	Okay.
	Is that bad?
	LA Times comes out as pro-rape and terror.
	Sorry, am I not meant to be on that guy's side?
	That's right.
	We're progressives.
	We're on the side of the people doing it.
	Anyway, Noel Gallagher is a less controversial figure in this regard.
	But he, in 2021, was like, oh, Prince Harry's a f***ing woke snowflake.
	I like how in the same breath he's coming out, oh, Prince William, I'm so sorry, bro.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly it.
	He sympathises with Prince William for having a sibling who he's shooting his f***ing mouth off.
	Just great.
	Prince William, I feel that effing lad's pain.
	He told the Sun he's got an effing younger brother who's shooting his effing mouth off with S that is just so unnecessary.
	I'd like to think I was always the William.
	I was going to say, he's going to relate this back to Liam somehow.
	Yeah, it is exactly.
	It's exactly related to Liam, right?
	But to be fair, I kind of understand where he's coming from.
	I don't think he's wrong.
	Um, but he called the prince to shut up.
	Prince Harry is coming across like a typical effing woke snowflake effing arsehole.
	Just don't be effing dissing your family because there's no need for it.
	Taking him and Meghan Markle directly, he said, quote, this is what happens when you get involved with Americans.
	Simple as that.
	Totally based!
	Basically simple as at the end there.
	He literally, as simple as that, yeah.
	I mean, he is a proper mank, so this is North FC rhetoric.
	He is!
	He absolutely is, but he's absolutely right.
	This is what happens when you get involved with Americans.
	So, oh, it's black, it's black.
	No, American.
	American.
	Sorry, our American friends, but you don't belong in the royal family.
	Simple as.
	Then we have, of course, Kanye West, more recently.
	Alex Jones being the reasonable voice in the room.
	I still look back at this and go, did this happen?
	Apparently it did.
	Did someone slip peyote into one of my drinks?
	I love Jews, but I also love Hitler.
	Kanye West, 2022.
	Because I am Jew.
	Yeah, because I am a Jew, yeah.
	It's just like...
	What is going on?
	Did he meet with Louis Farrakhan?
	I have no idea!
	He must have met with Louis Farrakhan at some point.
	No idea.
	It seems that every five years or so, some famous black musician has this period where all of a sudden you start to see headlines.
	Michael Jackson praises Hitler.
	Kanye West praises Hitler.
	Michael Jackson sees Louis Farrakhan.
	Kanye West sees Louis Farrakhan.
	They all do it.
	Every five years or so.
	I don't know, but what I loved about this is Alex Jones, on this segment, he was like, you're not Hitler, you're not a Nazi, you don't deserve to be demonised.
	And Kanye was like, well, I do like Hitler.
	And it's just like... I mean...
	Like, poor old Alex Jones, who, you know, in good faith is like, no, no, there are lots of people, and he is right, that are demonised as Nazis, and most of them don't go, well... Most of them go, that's right, I'm not a Nazi and I don't deserve to be demonised.
	Kanye puts his jackboots up on the desk.
	But Alex Jones, being like a staunch libertarian, obviously doesn't like Hitler, obviously doesn't like Nazis.
	He views Nazis and communists in basically the same camp as being authoritarian, totalitarian.
	They would be state worshippers.
	Exactly, state worshippers.
	And so, you can see him totally like, ugh.
	Fantastic.
	But like, Kanye's obviously had some crazy things going on.
	And just as a quick aside, he got cancelled, obviously.
	And I think he was going through a bipolar meltdown at the time as well.
	Entirely possible.
	I don't know what people around him were telling him, but surely it wasn't good.
	But this wasn't actually good for Adidas.
	Adidas had to admit this was hurting their business in North America in particular.
	Because, of course, Kanye, one of the most popular black rappers around, All of the black community, like, actually, we still want the shoes.
	Yeah, we love the shoes.
	He's a genius.
	Are they going to come with little swastikas on them now?
	I know.
	Nike probably is a general company.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	But then you've got, like, other celebrities like Robbie Williams, who just came out this recently.
	He was on a podcast.
	And we'll just play this clip because it's just like, wow, he sounds a lot like us, actually.
	We're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media.
	You can't believe big pharma.
	You can't believe politicians.
	You can't believe what you're eating.
	You can't believe yourself.
	It's, you know, if at any time in human, since we've existed, there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now.
	And yeah, of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything.
	And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family.
	And yeah, I believe in them.
	Great message.
	From Bobby Williams.
	I will say though that before that he does sound like someone who is confused and like he's had his entire worldview shattered in front of his very eyes.
	It probably has happened to him, yeah.
	That's probably exactly what happened.
	Most of these celebrities, like you say, they are just struggling with modernity because they believed one thing, and then all of a sudden, 2020 happens, and a lot of people start to question things after that, and then the second you start to question things, everything else comes crashing down as well.
	Off the rails, and you'll notice a lot of these are boomers as well.
	people are old gen x's who are just like but my whole life i had like the pre-internet narrative and i was secure in that right at the boomer truth regime and now i mean we're anywhere right like we're just off off in the wilds we could be we could arrive at any particular point i don't know that they're not flat earthers you know i mean like well that's the thing because when these people when they do go off the reservation they really go off the reservation although
	All of a sudden, after this one thing happens, they kind of don't stay in reality anymore, because they've lived longer than we have, under this post-war consensus.
	But also in a remote and strange life anyway, the life of a celebrity.
	So they end up, you know, going like, oh my god, everything I knew was a lie, so the Earth is flat then.
	But yeah, yeah.
	So there are Egyptian aliens hiding under the Himalayas, or something like that.
	Quite possibly.
	And you notice that Robbie Williams there was like, look, so he'd obviously just thought about this and was like, right, what do I believe in?
	Well, I believe in my wife and my kids, and that's an anchor to reality that I'm going to hold on to, right?
	Because everything else is not true, but this is definitely true.
	I've got direct sensory input.
	It's right in front of me.
	I've got strong bonds with my family, obviously, and so he's like, right, I'm just going to invest in that.
	That is an anchor of reality that I can genuinely believe is true and good and righteous, right?
	And that's, you see a lot of celebrities going down this sort of route where it's, they're actually, like Jim Carrey is doing, finding God.
	I mean, because Jim Carrey has been on a wild intellectual journey.
	I will say, if you are a celebrity, and you have this happen to you, the best thing to do is probably to keep to yourself and stick to your family, because... Yeah, Robbie Williams probably hasn't.
	I'm sorry, if you're a celebrity, the chances are you're not the brightest bulb in the box.
	Well, it's not even that.
	I'm going to be very harsh and critical of that.
	A lot of them are quite smart people.
	But the problem is they are in a detached reality anyway, right?
	They live in LA, in a mansion, surrounded by other people who are detached from reality, living in mansions, right?
	And so a lot of these people are just, like, so far away from the real world as we understand it, as regular normal people, that they are just untethered, floating around.
	And so they're looking for something solid to grab onto.
	And for Jim Carrey, do you remember a few years ago, he was essentially some sort of new age Froot Loops.
	Yeah, Jim Carrey has an interesting backstory.
	I'm pretty sure, if I just check this very, very quickly, I'm pretty sure one of his ex-girlfriends or ex-wife or something killed herself because of certain issues in their relationship.
	Yep, yep.
	And he's doubtless got a guilty conscience over things.
	But he also came out with all this New Age nonsense, and now he's just arrived back at Christianity and he's preaching religion.
	This is him in a bakery giving a speech.
	I don't know what the context is, but let's have a listen.
	They talk about omnipresence in church and nobody really thinks about what that means.
	What it means is every cell of your body is God.
	Everything is God.
	Everything is divine.
	So, when you do good things, when you decide to transcend the negativity and attempt to do something positive for you, for your family, you are the heart of God.
	You are the eyes of God.
	When you speak from that place, you are God's voice.
	And when you make a loaf of bread in this place, in this kitchen, that is a Eucharist.
	You're blessing people with your work.
	You're serving the world with your work, with your effort.
	That is a Eucharist.
	That is the body of Christ.
	And I thank you for everything you're doing.
	You're amazing.
	you're champions that's ace ventura i i don't know i still you know he's christian that's good for him now i still don't trust him to not be an insane leftist of course he's not going to but of course he's going to be insane and left wing but the point is though that this guy got famous playing a prat and his entire career in yeah his entire career has been playing prats right and And I actually really like a lot of Jim Carrey's films, because he's funny, right?
	But this is like serious theological conversations, where he's actually, and to be honest with you, he is actually making a good point.
	Because one of the major problems I think we have in the modern world is the disenchantment of the world.
	It's like, oh, everything's just material.
	And Jim Carrey's like, no, no, actually, it's all divine, it's all sacred.
	And we should treat it that way.
	That's actually a really good way to start.
	Like, re-enchanting the world.
	And, I mean, he seems to be really sincere when he's coming across like this.
	Preaching the good word.
	Saying that the bread you make is the Eucharist.
	You know, you're divine.
	I mean, that's just wild to me.
	That's a fat boy.
	20 years ago.
	20 years ago, when Jim Carrey's on talk shows and stuff.
	You'd never have heard anything like this.
	Oh, of course not.
	He has been through a massive journey to get to this point.
	Just like Eric Clapton has been through a few massive journeys.
	No, I think Eric Clapton, as far as I can tell, has been pretty consistent the whole way through.
	Fair, fair.
	The Washington Post, this is from a couple of years ago, but still.
	They find people around him.
	And they say, in an increasingly polarised world, Clapton stayed out of politics.
	He was never one to pop up at rallies and marches.
	So it's been more of a departure to hear him questioning scientists on certain websites.
	I've talked to other musicians, old friends of mine, these great players who, you know, will remain nameless in our conversation, who say, what the F is he doing?
	Said producer Ross Teitelman.
	He's credited with producing his albums.
	And then another one, his label manager through the 1970s says, quote, he's the anti Bono.
	Oh, good.
	Based.
	Very good.
	Everyone hates Bono.
	Yeah, I know, I hate Bono.
	You don't want to be Bono.
	He's the epitome of someone who's there for the music, and he's never rubbed shoulders with world leaders and didn't want to.
	People saying that it's unusual, they thought, oh, I can't believe he's questioning scientists on anti-vax websites.
	No, I mean, I think I covered this last year.
	When the vax came out, He took the Vax and had some adverse effects from it that were personal to him.
	I think he got some nerve damage in one of his hands and was worried that he would never play again.
	Tell you what, we are clipping this bit when we put it on YouTube.
	Apologies.
	No, it's fine!
	Apologies.
	But he ended up having nerve damage in his hand and he was worried he was never going to be able to play again.
	Totally.
	And then he came out afterwards and said, hold up, maybe we should be more careful about this thing.
	Well, perfectly reasonable.
	Turns out he's just a lunatic.
	And so Glenn Greenwald was like, look, this is how they treat you when you start questioning the narrative.
	And someone replied, yeah, but he did also endorse Enoch Powell and do a Nazi salute at a concert while ranting about immigrants and shouting racial epithets, Glenn.
	I know about this as well.
	I don't know about this, but that seems a little bit too far.
	Well, the thing with the Nazi salute is probably not true, because what actually happened was in the 1970s, he got up on stage to play, and got very drunk, and started ranting about immigrants, and started ranting about how Enoch Powell was right, I like Enoch Powell, all this stuff, and since then, stories have spread wild and fast about it, about how, oh, he was praising Hitler, he was throwing Nazi salutes, I doubt any of that was true, but one thing is consistent.
	He was praising Enoch Powell, ranting about how there were too many immigrants coming into the country.
	As a result, I think there were members of the... Not the specials.
	No, yeah, members of the specials were in the audience, and they decided to form the festival Rock Against Racism as a result of it.
	So him saying, too many immigrants, they all decided, no, this is too much for me.
	Right.
	Okay, well moving on, James Woods is arriving at the Scott Adams position.
	He's noticing.
	Yeah, every day, every blue city, never ending.
	I mean, Scott Adams is a good example.
	James Woods comes out with, we were never asked.
	Basically.
	But again, just social media is doing this.
	James Woods, I believe, has been a Republican for quite a long time.
	Oh yeah, he's been very vocal as well.
	So it's not a terrible surprise, but it's just interesting again, you know, the celebrities are kind of finding their niches, right?
	You know, you got like the sort of Kevin Sorbo's, James Woods's, they just lean into hardcore Republican, don't care, right?
	And then you get celebrities, quote unquote, going the other way, such as the voice actress from Moana.
	Who, they're like, hey, we've got very few worthy properties left to defile.
	We're going to make a live action film out of this very recent 2016 Disney film that was very popular, right?
	And it's like, okay, fair enough.
	Moana, right.
	Well, I mean, since it was only like, you know, just under a decade ago, then the cast are still alive and we could cast them.
	And so they went to- Dwayne Johnson was in it and he, you know, The Rock, he's in lots of things.
	And he would be a good Maui.
	Yeah, of course he would.
	Obviously, right?
	And so this Aloui Cravalho... Is there a picture of her, John?
	If you scroll through this, you'll probably find a picture of her.
	Yeah, there we go.
	That's what she looks like, right?
	She looks like a perfectly good Moana to me.
	Certainly, yeah.
	She voiced Moana.
	She's a native Hawaiian, but she's also of Chinese, Irish, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican descent.
	And she refused the role because she's too light-skinned.
	But you are Hawaiian.
	Yes, she is Hawaiian, but she also is of mixed race descent.
	And because she isn't a pureblood Hawaiian... No mutts like me!
	One drop rule in full force, apparently in Hollywood.
	Very progressive, you know, but she's not literally racially pure Polynesian, and therefore her skin is lighter than Moana's is depicted in the film.
	She's like, I can't play Moana because of the lightness of my skin.
	Mental.
	Nobody will care.
	Well, there will be a bunch of racist left-wingers.
	But who cares?
	Who cares about what they have to say?
	Take the money, do the role, do a good job.
	A bunch of anti-miscegenation left-wingers will be screeching.
	But like, most normal people will be like, hey, that's the woman who played Noanna.
	I recognize the voice.
	You know?
	But the point is, celebrities are not okay.
	They're not dealing with modernity well.
	And they're fracturing in all different ways.
	And honestly, I mean, I'm quite enjoying watching it.
	What celebrity is gonna come out and be like, uh, I'm against race mixing or I love Hitler tomorrow?
	But you just don't know!
	Alright, with that let's get into the video comments.
	So I just wanted to recommend this old novella to Carl called The High Crusade.
	It's about a bunch of Crusaders that are going to the Holy Land, and they get accosted by an alien spaceship, and they overrun it using the superior numbers, and then they fly it back to that empire, topple it using nothing but grug medieval logic.
	And then they convert them all to Catholicism.
	It was a very slapstick movie in the 90s but the book is actually very down-to-earth and actually really based.
	It actually addresses a lot of the issues you were talking about with Charlie Downs a few days ago and I'll have to do a part two for this video just to kind of point them out.
	Yeah okay I look forward to the part two because I mean that is hilarious.
	I like the way you describe it as being down-to-earth.
	As the premise goes it doesn't seem very down-to-earth.
	Close enough.
	That's for a podcast series that will be coming out in June.
	It's called Mariana in Conspiracyland.
	Having just reread Alice in Wonderland, I can assure you Mariana's analogy is more apt than she can understand.
	Uncomprehending, Mariana blunders through a world she cannot grasp and laughs at and belittles the characters she meets, not realising they are logical satires on the world she represents.
	However, rather than being like Alice pointing out the absurdity of the Trial of the Knave of Hearts, Mariana is transformed every inch into the Queen of Hearts and passes summary judgement on everyone she doesn't like.
	That's a great analysis.
	That is a great analogy you've got going there.
	I didn't even think about that.
	That image that they've got for the... That's terrible.
	I love the BBC, the way they pre-package all of these things with these promo images and stills and such.
	It's fantastic.
	I just... I wonder what their response to all of this is in the newsroom, as it were.
	Because they're looking and going like, okay... I mean, literally tens of... Millions of people are seeing this.
	And we've got 1,000 people on our side.
	1,700 likes.
	So that's the people on our side.
	Tens of thousands of people have replied to this saying, we hate you.
	We hate everything about you.
	If I wasn't forced to fund you at gunpoint from the government, I wouldn't.
	I'm trying to think, once again- Organisations!
	Ban the BBC!
	A lot of the sorts of people who work there are the sorts of people that I would have associated with at university.
	If they're anything like the people that I associated with at university, these people are probably, you know, first thing in the morning they're running to the bathroom so they can cry and all of the girls can get together and they can weep together and try and reconcile with one another what they're doing.
	You know, I can't believe they hate us so much!
	There's so much misogyny in the world!
	To which I say, you asked for this, you brought this on yourselves.
	Don't be a starling in this ministry of truth.
	So I've had the misfortune of meeting a centrist and a leftist.
	Now, the centrist asks what was my problem with left-wing rumours.
	And I explained, and eventually he agreed with me.
	And then I overheard the conversation he was having with the leftist.
	Don't listen to Harry, he's an evil right-wing bigot man.
	Now the reason for this is because the centrist wants to be friends with everyone and asks why can't we all just be friends.
	I mean, of course, why can't the chicken, the farmer and the fox all be friends with each other, right?
	Doesn't work like that.
	That's a fair point, actually.
	That is a fair point.
	Ties into something that I say, which is that the quality of a movement is not necessarily the quality of its theory or philosophy or anything, it's the quality of the actual people who make it up.
	So if everybody in your movement is some jelly-spined, lily-livered coward... A Vaush subscriber.
	A Vaush subscriber, then you're going to have a bad movement.
	I just can't help but notice we have generally quite a high quality of premium subscriber, anyway.
	Hey Lotus Eaters, I'd like to say that I'm barbarian-pilled where I look at Western civilization and liberalism through the eyes of a barbarian.
	It's quite revealing.
	One of the concepts you guys have called negative rights just doesn't exist.
	It's a complete fallacy.
	It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
	Some police officer has to die or put themselves at risk or at least put in some work to protect your right to free speech so that some leftist with a bike lock and a sock doesn't hit you and beat you to death.
	All these rights that we say that we have are all positive rights.
	Someone has to fight for them.
	This fallacy has allowed the leftists to just put their foot in the door because everyone knows it's bullshit and the conservatives don't want to correct it.
	Whatever.
	Very Evolian.
	I was about to say that probably ties into the discussion you're going to have with Stelios later on today.
	That's interesting as well because over the past week that I had off I took the time to listen back to a certain Iranian scholar, academic agent, his series critiquing libertarianism and in the
	In the first or second episode, I forget which one, of that, he takes on the Isaiah Berlin positive versus negative rights argument in a very interesting way, because he found some paper that critiqued it all the way back from the 1960s or something, and it just came across as completely true to me, which is the idea of the negative right is going to be somebody else's idea of the positive right.
	So if you're arguing with socialists and left-wingers, your right to be left alone is going to infringe on their right to not have people throw slurs at them.
	For instance, your right to free speech is going to infringe on their right to not be questioned.
	I mean, Alex makes a good point.
	If you want to have, like, a legally enshrined right, then you need someone to uphold that, and therefore there's a positive action there.
	It isn't merely inaction that upholds a negative right.
	He's got a good point.
	I think also labelling them as natural rights is completely inaccurate, because the only right you have in nature is generally to be eaten by the thing next up on the food chain.
	Very few, very few actual rights exist in nature.
	You have the right to a few things in nature, to be eaten, to freeze to death, or to starve to death.
	Everything else you need to band together and work it out.
	America's in Hospice Care says, before the BBC and CNN and MSNBC, even that new garbage anti-conservative Fox News, I don't know why they're going woke.
	Like, how are they reading the room and being like, yeah, we need to go more left?
	They're taking the Tory line of thinking there.
	What's going on with Fox News now?
	themselves as arbiters of truth and transparency.
	They ought to be required by laws, but their political affiliation lists their names on every piece of news they craft and every time they are broadcast on television and podcasts.
	They also ought to be mandated by laws to cite every source of material they used and release to the public for scrutiny, but they weren't as they're all left-wing propagandists.
	Yeah, basically.
	What's going on with Fox News now?
	I've been hearing that they've gone anti-conservative.
	They have, um, I mean they had, uh, the mask mandates and vaccine mandates and all that sort of stuff during the lockdowns, but But apparently recently they have allowed any gender people to use the bathroom that they identify as.
	So transgender people can go into the trans bathroom.
	So Tucker was the one, he was the last line of defence.
	He was the one blocking people from going into the wrong toilets.
	Basically, yes.
	Jumping in front of them.
	No, don't do that!
	As far as I can tell, that seems to be the case.
	Good God.
	George Harp says, Port Orwell, while working for the government he saw everything coming and tried to warn us, but the proles never listened.
	Diogenes Nutz says...
	Imagine thinking any alternative media source is intent on spreading foreign-funded propaganda.
	Nice projection there, BBC.
	Why would I want to do that?
	Why would anyone care about that?
	As Desert Rat said, hopefully the BBC Ministry of Truth meets the same fate as the one Biden tried to establish.
	Well, this one's backed by literally the government in an established state infrastructure.
	So, I mean, Biden trying to make one up unconstitutionally is one thing, but this is just a growth on the side of something already existing.
	The only way to do it really might be to meme the people organising it into feeling too much shame to carry on, but they won't.
	These people feel no shame.
	They're probably being paid like 50, 60k a year each.
	Yeah, that's enough money to look yourself in the mirror each morning, isn't it?
	SH Silver says, hmm yes, government and business joining together to propagandise the public in accordance with their ethical agenda.
	Very liberal, not fascist at all.
	Well actually I don't know if this is business joining together to do it.
	I think it's just entirely the BBC using mandatory state funds in order to go after the free competition.
	Yeah, I don't see where the business comes into this personally.
	Sketchy Wombats here, so let me understand this.
	The BBC Verify has fake accounts in order to verify things.
	Do these people ever think their actions through at all?
	Omar says, with the BBC's track record against conspiracy notices, I like that, the Ministry of Retractions might be more appropriate.
	Chances are the weasel went their way out of admitting being wrong with something along the lines of, it was reported as we knew at the time.
	This despite internet randos finding information to the contrary easily, freely available and faster.
	Yeah, Elon Musk's Twitter is doing such a better job with the community notes.
	Do you want to go to the next bit?
	Yes, so on Zelda.
	So Tina Morland says, when I was a teenager several of my friends and I were testers for Nintendo and I loved them for working for their customers like a good company does.
	That's really cool actually.
	That was one of my initial dream jobs when I was still about 14 years old.
	I was like, I could play video games for a living.
	Wonderful.
	In fact actually there was something interesting about Naughty Dog as well.
	They were talking about, in one of the articles that I found, What was it?
	They had games testers for Uncharted 4, and Neil Druckmann, he said, oh, you know, we were coming up with a story, and at first I was going to have it be the main character has a son, and then one of our art producers or something was like, oh, why can't it be a girl?
	And I thought, you know what, you're absolutely right, this can't be, this should be a girl, because it makes no real difference, so I'll just do it that way.
	And then we had a load of really sexist video game testers when we were doing the checks for all bugs and everything, who were really annoyed about it, saying, oh, not you too.
	And it's like, yeah, that's the best way to treat people who are going to be, because it's focus test groups.
	That's the best way to treat people who are going to be making up the majority of your audience is to just go, oh, don't like it, sexist.
	But it's not necessarily wrong for them to have a father-daughter story.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	No, but I think the whole point was that the idea was in the future games, she was going to take on his position from him.
	And a lot of people, of course, would probably say, well, it's more of a father-son thing to take on the mantle from the father, etc, etc.
	Fair enough.
	And also, you just know that they're doing it for progressive reasons.
	Yeah, if he wasn't like a massive SJW, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
	That's the thing, if it was being done for sincere reasons, you could excuse it, but if you're already a massive progressive, you know it's motivated politically.
	Anyway, carrying on with Tina, they listen to the audience and follow their suggestions.
	I've played every Zelda game.
	And I'm currently playing Tears of the Kingdom.
	It's one of the few games I allow my boys to play because it's still wholesome with a good message, right against wrong.
	Do your best, keep trying, and it will pay off.
	Help others, and the latest ones even have Link cooking for himself instead of just drinking potions.
	I do not see any kind of transy BS in any of them.
	In the last one, yes, Link had to dress up in the Gerudo ladies' clothes to sneak into the female-only town, where men are forbidden, in order to continue his quest.
	But then he was able to buy the male Gerudo clothing and continue on to save the princess.
	Leave Link alone.
	I mean, it's obviously just a joke.
	Yeah.
	It's obviously just a joke.
	The Japanese games are very famous for it.
	They're doing a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, which I don't trust many of these remakes, but if it's being done by in-house at Konami, maybe they'll do it.
	But in the original game, there is a point where you can... Everybody hated Metal Gear Solid 2 when it first came out.
	People have re-evaluated it since, but one of the things they hated about it was instead of playing as hyper-masculine, super-cool... Solid Snake.
	Solid Snake was based on Snake Plissken from Escape from New York.
	Instead you're playing as uber effeminate Raiden, who looks like a girl and is a lot whinier and has a girlfriend who completely whips him through the entire game.
	In the third game, to apologize for that, there is a character who is supposedly Raiden's descendant that you can run into, who is so androgynous that when he meets the main bad guy of the game, or one of the main bad guys, he's so confused that he's like, Thinking that he's a woman and even actually no to be fair even in Metal Gear Solid 2 when you meet the president in that game the president the first thing he does is grabs Raiden's crotch to check if he's a man or a woman.
	Jesus.
	He's like, oh, thank god.
	You're a man.
	I didn't want a woman saving me.
	Could have gone really wrong though, couldn't it?
	Someone online says, Link's whole quest is to save the woman he loves, he sets everything between himself and her on fire, and stabs it.
	He's not gay, and gaming journos are threatened by him.
	That's right, they just can't stand Link's overwhelming masculine energy.
	Well, I mean, he's pretty chad.
	He is pretty chad, he gets the princess at the end.
	Yeah, kills everything, gets the princess, what more do you want?
	He literally kills the embodiment of evil that exists in Hyrule.
	Literally the heroic western masculine narrative.
	And in one of the games he can turn into a werewolf as well.
	So, there you go.
	ShakerSilver, it's amazing that if you just make a polished and good game, not focused on pushing a partisan message or sucking consumers' dry of money, then it will do well.
	Imagine my shock.
	Again, it's just such basic bitch things, but it's so true.
	Western developers, like, show me the marketing secrets.
	Unearth them.
	Yeah, but how does this help promote kids shoving things up their butts?
	It is always the Stone Cuffs meme, isn't it?
	Yeah, it just doesn't.
	I'm sorry.
	How does this help us sell games?
	Sell games?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Alexander Dake, disrespectful towards women, perhaps I treated Sony too harshly.
	In seriousness, Sony went downhill with having their HQ in California, most of their exclusives are just playable movies anyway, with very shallow gameplay.
	The only good things they have are from FromSoft's games, Bloodborne and Demon's Souls, there's really nothing else PlayStation has of quality.
	And even then, I love Bloodborne, but Bloodborne has terrible framerate issues because of the hardware it was on.
	It was far too ambitious, and Sony don't let their games be released on PC.
	Or at least they've not let Bloodborne be released on PC.
	And everyone would love Bloodborne if you could just get it at 60 frames per second instead of dropping down to 10 frames per second in certain areas.
	Very annoying.
	Part of the charm of early video games was the level of achievement versus the capability of the hardware.
	Silent Hill uses fogs due to the limitation of the PlayStation 1, for example.
	This is a classic one, you work within the limitation.
	Modern games have advanced leaps and bounds, but the level of achievement isn't matching the rise in hardware capability in my opinion.
	So many games are visually stunning, but completely lacking in any meaningful player engagement.
	I agree with everything and I also noticed the Silent Hill reference there.
	I have started playing that PlayStation 2 now that you sent, Hyping, and I will get on Silent Hill 2 as soon as possible so that I can do some content on that.
	He's making a great point there.
	It's art from adversity, right?
	It's being innovative.
	Within limits forces you to be creative, you know, to operate within a limit.
	Like having, oh, we've got this amazing hardware that can do anything now.
	It's like, they're not going to do anything good.
	You know, they're not, limitations are genuinely important to the artistic process.
	This is why when we were talking before the stream about like fat, rich boomer bands producing trash music, it's because they're not limited by anything.
	I swear the limitations is a part of it.
	Yeah, and to be fair, some of the bands that I brought up, who have come out with more good recent material as well, tend to have come off of a period where people have been very critical of their material, so they probably feel like they've got something to prove again for the first time.
	Yeah, they probably stung.
	Yeah.
	Sophie says, there is actually a gay character in this game, but not the one in The Link.
	His name is Bolson, and he was also in the previous game, so not even a first, but yeah, you can look him up.
	He comes complete with pink pants and earring in the right ear.
	And of course since it's Japan, he just played as a funny joke character because that's what they do.
	Yeah, look up Zelda Bolson.
	I'll look that up.
	That is always the funny thing as well.
	Whenever gay characters do show up in Japanese games, they are the most hilarious stereotypes you've ever imagined.
	Back to Diogenes Nutz, says, between Nintendo and From Software, I'm convinced the Japanese development studios are the blueprint going forward in the woke economy.
	They are willing to make less money from a smaller pool of customers in order to make a product that works, is fun, and respects their customers.
	And they don't apologize for it.
	Well, even with this new Zelda game, you don't have to make less money.
	They are setting entirely new records with it for their own company and for their own brands, like Zelda itself.
	Oh, yep.
	Click on that one.
	No, no, the art.
	There we go.
	Yep, that's a pretty typical depiction of Japanese gay characters.
	They have to be as flamboyant and androgynous and gay as possible, really.
	It's annoying when they link to the wikis and the image you're looking for is even tinier.
	There we go!
	I mean, looks pretty gay to me.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Yep, there you go.
	Sophie again says, I am very relaxed while playing.
	That sounds lovely.
	Once again, I might need to get it.
	with very good artistic choices in design.
	This game has so many different environments.
	Desert, snow, wasteland, underground, darkland, high up islands where you fly around.
	Super bright and pretty.
	I am very relaxed while playing.
	That sounds lovely.
	Once again, I might need to get it.
	I might need to.
	California Refugee.
	Japanese translators are an infiltrated business.
	I've seen some subtle and not-so-subtle changes made by woke reactionaries.
	It makes me untrusting enough to try picking up learning Japanese again.
	I just trust so little by these translators.
	Or should I say translators, Kek?
	Very clever.
	Ignacio Yunkira says, Yes, correct.
	Link is a hero through and through, questing around the land to save its people, unravel the mysteries that afflict it, and saving his princess.
	Nothing can change that, and we need to understand that despite what localizers want, the game was made by Japanese people, and the fact that Link has to cross-dress in the prior game is a joke, because their humour is like that.
	Yes, correct.
	Our humour used to be like that.
	Yes, we used to have a sense of humour.
	That's what Widow Twanky is.
	I've never heard of that.
	It's from a theatre production.
	Is it some humour thing?
	Don't worry.
	You can Google it, you can Zoom it.
	I will Zoom this up if you're not careful.
	There's an academic agent, I can just see his tweet being like, cross-dressing is a form of humour that they do in the theatre.
	Theatre is something that you do.
	Humour is when you attempt to amuse your friends.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Brian says... I do love those tweets, though, because it's exactly how condescending I feel towards humour.
	Brian says... Yes, there is.
	there is a polar opposite between the views of younger current performers that need to kiss ass for attention and older stars who have made their money and can say what they want.
	Uh, yes, there is.
	And, but there, there's also the, just the going off the rails, man.
	When they leave the sort of authorised band, some of them just go totally mental.
	Well, like you say, they live outside of reality as it is.
	Post-war consensus boomer truth is like the one tether, keeping them down.
	The second that's cut, off into the atmosphere.
	London is debased, says Morrissey.
	Morrissey is based, says Ross Diggle.
	What he appears to be.
	Derek says, I like Noel more and more as time goes on.
	Likewise, it's Liam who is always the annoying twat.
	Yes.
	Which is why you can totally understand, I mean, for anyone who's not British, you might not know the very public drama between Liam and Noel Gallagher.
	Oh, it's been going on since before I was born.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's literally older than Harry.
	And Liam always seemed to be the annoying twat.
	I think he is the younger brother as well, so that makes sense.
	Exactly, so it is a kind of William and Harry thing and so I can totally see why Noel's like, yeah, I totally get how William feels about this.
	To be fair, do you know the story of how Noel joined the band?
	No.
	He was never in the band to begin with, and they always wrote terrible songs.
	So Liam knew his brother's a good songwriter, says, can you join the band?
	Noel says, yes, as long as none of you write the songs.
	And then for the first few albums, they did that.
	And then on the albums where everything started going downhill is when he opened it up and let them write songs as well.
	Yeah, because I mean, Noel Gallagher was so obviously the talent behind Oasis.
	So obviously the talent, you know, it's just crystal clear that Liam Gallagher was just I don't even know why he's allowed to be the singer.
	Noel Gallagher's got a better singing voice.
	Yeah, it's less whiny.
	Yeah, Liam Gallagher's singing voice is atrocious.
	Their mum was probably like, oh, come on, boys.
	You've got to let him sing, Noel.
	Yeah, come on, Noel.
	Alright, mum.
	Kevin says... Jesus.
	I'm meant to be a vegan!
	you can't believe what you're eating came through in a report that came out saying that, uh, vegan hot dogs, not only contain meat, but also human DNA.
	Jesus.
	I'm meant to be a vegan and I'm a cannibal, but that, but he's like in general, that that's a great statement.
	Like, I've been radicalising seed oils because of the people I follow on Twitter.
	And I look at some of the stuff, it's just like mayonnaise, it's got seed oil in it.
	I'm like, how?
	Does it have to be vinegar and emulsified bloody eggs?
	How is this the case?
	And just everything you eat has seed oils in it.
	It's like, my God.
	These seed oils I'm convinced are killing me are everywhere.
	I don't know anything about seed oils.
	You're reading too much raw egg nationalist.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	He's totally radicalised me on seed oils, man.
	It's not just him, there's a whole group of them.
	Oh, I follow a lot of them as well.
	And they're just like, just use butter, and I'm like, I do prefer butter.
	Everything tastes nicer with butter.
	This is confirming all of my biases.
	And so yeah, olive oil and butter is what I cook in now.
	Charlie says, regarding celebs in the real world, in my opinion, I view celebs the same as the Byzantines and Greeks did.
	Duplicitous whores for attention and flesh that would sell their mother for another five minutes fame.
	In the world of Wreckage Vase, if Isis had a production company, they'd be onto their agent, a shut-up-and-dance monkey.
	Yeah, that is true.
	But I think there is also a way of approaching this, which is, I mean, that is true, don't get me wrong.
	And in my less charitable moments, that's definitely how I feel about it, right?
	But there's also a part of me that thinks, well, they didn't make themselves, right?
	Because all of these celebrities are the product of an industry that is designed to create celebrities, right?
	And we're getting to the end point now where actually they don't need that industry anymore.
	Now they can just have organic reach.
	And so we're seeing organic celebrities pop up.
	Right?
	Like, you know, public figures that just have things that the public want, that don't require- Like Mizzy.
	Like Mizzy.
	Well, hey, Mizzy went viral, man.
	No, I know.
	But there are lots of them.
	And, like, one of them came up on my YouTube feed the other day.
	This guy's got, like, 6 million subscribers, and he plays music.
	And I was watching it, and it's, like, a tortured Londoner, basically.
	You know, being like, oh, London's hell, I hate it.
	And I'm like, yeah, I totally understand.
	It wasn't for me, but I could see why lots of people liked it.
	I totally understand that it resonated with a lot of people.
	He didn't need, you know, it appears that he just grew this audience.
	And so these celebrities are kind of, they're also people trapped in a particular paradigm.
	That once that paradigm is something they are able to step out of, then it's a brave new world, man.
	They're all on their own and, you know, Diogenes Nut says Ace Ventura is a little confused but he's got the right spirit.
	What's the thing?
	It's just like... I didn't have Jim Carrey being a Christian preacher in 2023.
	Certainly when I first started watching his films, I certainly didn't see it coming.
	No.
	When he's squeezing out the arse of the rhino, I wasn't thinking Christian preacher right then and there.
	He probably wasn't either.
	When he's kissing the tranny, I'm like, Christian preacher.
	SH Silver says, funny you bring up Jim Carrey.
	The Truman Show is a good analogue for disillusionment in the world.
	Yeah, it is, yeah.
	It's a good film.
	Yeah, it is.
	Derek says... I'm a big fan of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well, if you've ever watched that.
	I have, but I can't really remember it offhand.
	I'd say give it a re-watch.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's worth it.
	I did watch it, but I think I was playing a video game or something at the same time.
	And I realised it was actually one of those films you have to pay attention to, to get what's going on.
	Yes.
	I thought of Jim Carrey film and Serge Magdal.
	Derek says, Jim Carrey, you're not really God.
	Christianity is not pantheist, but we are made to be in communion with God and we should do that.
	Keep it up.
	What he's saying is if God is something that permeates the entire universe, then God is in every cell, right?
	Theologically, you kind of have to come to that conclusion, but I know I'm going to start a massive, massive conversation about that.
	I'm just not prepared for it.
	But I can see where he's going with the sort of logical implications.
	And what it does is creates a magical universe, which is, I think, a good thing.
	I think we should have a magical universe.
	So anyway, Omar says, one of the pitfalls of centralizing all truth in government is that when they are inevitably wrong in any single institution, all the other institutions are called into question.
	Like a reverse gelman amnesia effect.
	You suddenly find the foundation for all your current assumptions are gone.
	Yes.
	And they'll never admit it either.
	That's the problem when they're all, they're all locked into, into the same narrative.
	And I mean, the COVID vaccines is the best example.
	There's no way I'm getting that effing cloth shot.
	No.
	And I don't know how anyone can trust it, but they're all committed to the Matt Hancock.
	No, it's perfect.
	Just shut up.
	Shut up.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, with that, that's all we've got time for.
	Remember that later on at about half past three today, we've got the book club that you're doing on Julius Evola, part one with Stelios, which will be very interesting.
	So if you've got a premium membership, please tune into that later.
	And until then, we'll see you tomorrow.

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