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Portrait of George Washington (1796) by Gilbert Stuart
This really seems like a Victorian-era Existentiall novel, where you work all your life to achieve the goal of financial freedom, and once you reach it you are old and near death. The final staircase might as well have continued onto the staircase to heaven. True happiness comes from the holes dug along the way friends.
True happiness comes from the friends along the way holes.
This is deep, not pit deep. but deep.
Stanley Yelnats intensifies
it's a youtube video settle down
@@Squirty___ joke /jōk/ noun a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
I am convinced this man writes poetry then figures out how to fit it into gameplay. And you know what, it works
Yeah I get that. If you like that sorta thing, look up GTA Pacifist by Goldvision. Poetic as fresh hell
@@Penultimeat thank you, it's brilliant!
@@Penultimeat I came back just to thank you. I doubted your recommendation would be good, but I was wrong. This playthrough is legitimately one of the best I've ever seen.
@@Penultimeat I just watched the entire playlist. That was amazing, thanks for the recommendation.
he is lazy enough to produce this masterpiece
“Conventional wisdom states that when one hits rock bottom, the only way to go is up. This is foolish. Humans can’t fly, but they can dig.” -Brad Pit, _A Guide to Living in a Hole_
I would pay so much money for that book.
that's... beautiful..
*Gurren Lagann intensifies “My drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens” - Simon the Digger But how, you ask “Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb. That’s how Team Gurren rolls!” - Kamina
Actually sounds like a real book in The Sims lmao
No wonder his novels were bestsellers
When you remember Sims 4, now an 8 year old game, doesn't have spiral stair cases but Sims 2, an 18 year old game, does
And it’s will probably get worse from there
You can customize the length and angles of staircases in Sims 4. Sims 2 didn’t have spiral staircases in the base game either. Every version of Sims sucks when it first comes out. 4 years ago, I was a total hater of TS4. I thought everyone who was excited for it and jumping on the bandwagon was a chump. “Why can’t they just keep updating Sims 3? This is a total ripoff!” But now, especially since Cottage Living, I actually think TS4 is pretty good. I’m still not a fan of the art style, but in terms of gameplay, there will always be pros and cons to each version, but in some ways I think 4 is better than 2 or 3. NOW, everybody is complaining about it. Now that it’s been fixed and even I, pitchfork holder that I am, have come around. Everybody is just wrong all the time!
And Sims 2 came out only 4 years after The Sims, yet they still made all these insane improvements. Meanwhile we're slogging through year 8 of Sims 4 with no Sims 5 in sight.
@@heathercalun4919 How about the My Wedding Stories pack fiasco? 😬
@@emilyb.8219 Elaborate?
"How does AA weave such horrifying existentialism into these seemingly simple video games?" I hear you asking. He does not. The horrifying existentialism is already there, in everything. You just have to look for it, or in this case, you just have to be shown.
It is not AA who is horrifyingly existential. It is the world.
You could say it's... Just below the surface.
with everything in the world being such existential, we have no choice but to overcompensate by embracing excessive nihilism, thinking about nothing but the survival of the self, for prolonging existence is the only way to keep the idea of its counterpart afloat. and the circle continues, for exintence could breed nihilism, but the opposite may never occur aside from life suddenly just happening in the universe of chaos. such irony.
Alternate title ~ _Notes from Underground: The Rise of Brad Pit._ Also to folks wondering about Zomboid/Rimworld/Kenshi/name title here, yes, there will be more - just having my nostalgic bout with games of my youth lately. There will be more :)
Need for Sims: Underground 2
I would die for another long Zomboid series
I am assuming your referencing the book Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. It presents a loosely organized set of perturbed ramblings by an unnamed narrator. Rather fitting for this narrative. I doubt it was on accident, given your vocabulary it makes sense that you are well read. Thanks for the thought provoking content.
I have an idea! What if you did a Sims 3 challenge where you have to live exclusively in the future and work out a way to send money back to your ancestors. Like some kind of reverse inheritance, I think that could be interesting!
This series has been a lot of fun. I have different nostalgia games so I didn't expect much of it, but even never having played these, your storytelling is enthralling.
The Sims 2 is absolutely the best in the series. This was existentially horrific. Thank you.
Agreed. Sims 2 is the only real successor of the original Sims. It has captured the charm and quirkiness that the Sims 1 had, and made improvements upon it. Sims 3 and Sims 4 are just simply games who share the same franchise title. Their design has gone in a different direction. Not that different is necessarily bad, though... just that it doesn't feel the same as the original Sims anymore.
Sims 3 is obviously better because of customization, open world and quests, also the wishes are harder to accomplish and less repetitive like in Sims 2 and the needs make more sense, like for example if your sim is in total darkness it will have a bad effect on their mood, same as staying home for too long, it's not just bars to fill in
I like your words.
And the easiest to mod.
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The moral of the story is that if you spend your youth alone and underground your youth will have been spent alone and underground. No backsies.
Why didn't anybody tell me this before I got old?!?
Ahh shit. This is gonna bite me one day for sure.
@@Rawi888 well yeah, with that attitude
This man clearly went insane to aquire the eldritch knowledge needed to install Sims 2 on modern hardware.
It's apparently actually not that difficult. My sister manages to play it on Windows 10 🤷♀
I get running the PC version but I mean if you really wanted to play it you can just get an Xbox/PS2 emulator and download the ROM and play it with controller very easily
@@savues That is an incredibly different game
You just need to download one fixing mod. Maybe the higher resolution mod, if you don't feel like doing windowed. 🤷♀
@@Explodingbunny93 interesting, didn’t know that
"I subversively removed my shovel from my pants" has to be one of the most unpleasantly pleasant sentences I've heard in my life.
I snorted.
@@rhythmandblues_alibi cocaine
So glad I read this just as is was said
I can't believe burglars are not a thing in the newer Sims.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!
To be fair, 90% of the game that Sims used to be in 2 and 3, isn't a thing in 4, they really stripped the game out.
@@Andricknight wasn't the sims 4 supposed to be some live service online game originally which is why so much is stripped?
It seems the Sims 4 doesn't have anything worth stealing :)
@@TheMrSeagull that was a good one
Brad Pit's desperate desire for wealth taints all of his works of art, truly a man crushed by the weight of his circumstances
A fallen hero
so he dug hundreds of metres below ground and found nothing, but thinks that by digging an extra metre down he’ll find treasure? Brad is truly special.
Well, it *worked*, so...
Finally, amphibian has admitted to his goblin ways
@Animation Shorts 🅥 no one cares
Finally “goblin mode unlocked”
We should've seen this coming. They're both GREEN
up in sovngarde, we shall see his goblin self, stealing everything
Dwarf and goblin way
From Kenshi to The Sims while keeping the same good quality. That's one of a kind.
Thanks - I'm grateful you like the nostalgia as much as me - with regard to some requests, I'm getting the bug to head back over and do some modern indie games again soon - I appreciate the sentiment :)
Consider.checking out shadows of the forbidden gods if you haven't already, it's kinda like crusader kings but you play as an evil eldritch god
Wilburgur did it first :)
Missed opportunity for Johnny Depth.
Omg you need to try the Sims 2 Asylum Challenge...designing your very own Panopticon Prison and you can only select and control a single Sim....who will fall in love? Who will fight? Who will die? The narrative unpredictability is exciting when you unleash the primitive AI of such feeble, digital creatures.
plenty are commenting on the conclusion of this epic but I'm finding the opening action the most Victorian gothic of the whole thing if you stitch it together a little: businessman, going bankrupt, begins to capitalize on his one remaining resource the only way he can, digs for treasure until his physical and metaphorical pit is so deep that he can no longer escape it
It’s nice to hear more people appreciating The Sims 2 as the best of the series. I recently saw a statistic that it was the lowest-selling game of the entire franchise and it boggles my mind. It was so much better than Sims 1, and Sims 3 only improved by taking out loading screens (while everything else, including how it ran, was worse). I couldn’t believe it! It’s definitely the best game and probably my favourite game ever - I still play it over the others to this day.
When it came out, it ran poorly on my computer, had long load times into the neighbourhood which were apparently never fixed, and the addition of ageing put off many kids who just wanted to enjoy the game without existential dread. While you could turn that off, it seemed like it wasn't the intended mode of play. But it definitely added way more to do than the first game, which was pretty much all grinding for money in the end.
I think Sims 3 was pretty hyped-up. Many of my peers were sharing one copy of Sims 2 because parents and stuff, but with Sims 3 coming out, they were also old enough to purchase Sims 3 with their pocket money. Not like it is the main reason or a reason at all, but it's interesting to think about I think. I also think that a lot of the people who are die-hard Sims 2 fans now were born too late to buy Sims 2, which is even more interesting. Also according to wikipedia, not sure where you saw your statistics, the sales numbers differ only by 1 million, which... isn't a lot? And the Sims 4 numbers are probably inflated because a lot of people tried it when it had a free period, which imho shouldn't count (although that would still make Sims 2 the lowest one). Also, a bit of my own opinion, Sims 2 is amazing when you have a lot or all of the DLCs. But having just the base game is kinda meh. Sims 3 is more engaging base game-only.
Lowest selling game of the entire franchise? Really? It's a game that came out in 2004, an era where gaming wasn't as widespread then compared to now where everyone could afford one computer at home at the very least. Looking at the Sims 2's sales figures, it was a smashing success for a game that came out when gaming was seen as a childish hobby that older people looked down on. By that metric, The Sims 2 was a massive success for the era it came in. Still has loyal fans who grew up with the entry up to this day even so very few games could say the same. The Sims 4 is lucky to have come out in 2014 where more people have access to computers. That alone might've saved it from being a massive failure like SimCity 2013 did. However it's also by far the most controversial installment to the franchise. The only ardent defenders of Sims 4 are what? Teenage girls and children. Granted I was a teenager myself when it came out being 16 in 2014, but I was already old enough to see past EA's slimy money grubbing tactics with the constant streams of DLC after DLC coming out in my late teens. It couldn't hold my attention then as its intended age demographic, it still fails to uphold my attention now approaching my mid 20s. I prefer to pirate it in its entirety since I'm not spending a single dime on the travesty known as the Sims 4. It doesn't deserve my money.
Just add open world to the sims 2, let all other npcs age with your characters and it’s going to be the best game ever
@@Azzzz73 there are mods for that. But personally, I don't want story progression in my game.
this is your kafka-esque dissertation. It is the epitome of this niche you've created and immersed yourself in. well done. im now pondering my own existence. you make art, more than any other vidja game youtuber out there
The one about vigor of youth coursing through your veins before succumbing to being old and frail was insanely poetic and made me think for real
I would really like to see Will Wrights reaction to these sim videos, given the fact he designed it so we can tell our own stories, no matter how ambigously silly it is.
Personally 3 has always been my favorite. The open world was great and I felt like you had a lot more to do (at least once you got most of the expansions. Hey, it's the sims. It's part of the deal kind of like Paradox games). Now if only someone could optimize the open world to not chug like a drunk uncle.
Plus being able to modify materials of the objects was amazing if you're into building
It took me a long time but you can optimize it with intensive performance modding, replacing vanilla maps with cleaned up versions from the community, and background scripts to clear junk, minimizing the amount of times you save over an old save file, etc. And you have to occasionally reset everything in your town with modded cheats. Alot of maintenance :/
Also limiting the frame rate! TS3 has no fps limit and can go as high as 100, which causes a ton of lag
@@satuisaburda8969 if I remember correctly the main cause of the performance issues are invisible cars, apparently the dlcs do some funky stuff with invisible traffic lmao
Agreed. If 4 had been 3 with a cleaned up game engine, instead of a more limited version of 2, I'd have been very happy.
I remember rushing home from school with my sister to hop on my dads laptop and play The Sims 2. Thank you for bringing back up the good memories.
“Life is a Kafka-esque nightmare with a general upward trajectory” is how I will describe my life in my memoir.
I played The Sims 2 a lot in my childhood and never had a burglar meanwhile this man had it come to the literal pit. But hey, it was Brad Pit's luxurious mansion after all
I love the motif of the animals in these fables being rewarded with cash
Wearing a suit, digging for treasure, writing a novel, a fan of eastern culture; seems like you accidentally recreated Hunter S. Thompson.
While thinking up synonyms for "Brad Pit" I realized his name is literally a double entendre. A brad is a kind of fastner. Like a Nail. A pit is a kind of hole. So, 'Ol mister Hole Nailer snuck one by us....
The DS version of this game is fucking insane by the way. My sister had it when i was a kid, shit's weird. Some of the stuff mentioned at then start is a huge part in that game. Aliens, Mole people, you dress up like a rat and fight crime, all from a third person perspective with rpg mechanics.
You know, you're the first person I found, youtuber even, who actually loves the sims for what it actually is - a freak circus. You actually undertsand what makes the games fun :D
5:36-5:41 "Nothing screams ‘psychological implosion’ like having a _rave party_ *_by yourself!"_*
I loved this game, it might be older than I am, but I absolutely adored it.
@Animation Shorts 🅥 please stop rickrolling people
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Sims 2 is among the best games I have ever played. Your videos are clever and you have good taste. I believe that qualifies you as a scholar and a gentleman.
10/10 Masterpiece. Would recommend to family and friends, Pre-order book(s) from any old questionable Kickstarter. "Feels like a story Brad Pitt would be in the movie based loosely around the plot of." -Brian "(sic)Life changing." - Torsolo "...Motivational." -Onepunchman
"Any minute now, I would get old. I could feel it." Beat ya to it. I played this game upon release. As an adult.
Oddly enough, this story fits very nicely into the narrative of the real Notes From Underground
I remember being 10 and being glued to Sims 1. My parents bought me all of the expansion packs and it blew my mind as to how immersive it was . I was so eager to play Sims 2, only for my windows 2000 to have an absolute meltdown when trying to run it 😂
Ah AA proving again that he is truly one of the content creators of all time
Yes, truly one of them.
one of the content creators i have ever seen
Your videos help me cope with chronic depression. I feel seen and entertained by the existentialist humor. I feel held by the nostalgia of the medium you use to tell these stories. (The medium being The Sims games.)
Man I miss the absolute absurdity of the old sims games they used to be so fun
He somehow lived a more rich and fulfilling life than I'll ever get.
He lived for 4 days, you will live for 40,000 days or more.
@@leeknivek You ever hear quality over quantity, bud?
@@dominicmanester8125 idk it's your life
I keep saying "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" because of you. You always have such interesting ideas for things to do in games and it's always appreciated to see 🖤
Have you read the original poem?
first sims game i played, went to a friends house in high school and we played it coop, he made a regular dude and i was literally an alien that lived in a shack on his property, this brought back memories :')
I swear, you have the most original ideas I've ever seen. Also I love the Sims 2 too so what better combination than this! Immediately after watching this video, I went and started up Sims 2 (I'd missed it so much so this was a good enough reason to get me play it again!). I took me 4 real life hours to complete the challenge and after that, Brad Pit got married to Angelina Jolie and as of now they have 4 children (2 of their own, 2 adopted) and the only reason is that Angelina wishes to marry off 6 of her kids lol
Angelina Holie
@@Draikedraike I wish I came to that idea sooner!
@@mitraj7763 it probably would have came to you if you had let it sink in for longer
I could literally listen to this man talk for days. Can’t get enough of the fabulous frog.
Every video you post is an artwork, I always notice how much work you put into creating them and I really appreciate it! And I am sure I am not alone!
Ok so I know I’m supposed to be feeling sims 2 nostalgia right now, but SSX 3 was and is my FAVORITE game on the original Xbox! You slapped me right back to 2004
Fun fact: in the US alone, there are almost three times as many vacant houses than homeless people.
Well those homeless people should start buying houses and stop being homeless then.
@@diggernick901 just don't be poor lol
@@kevinmclarkey621 some people want to be homeless
That's not a fun fact at all!
...ok? There exists a thing called money. You BUY houses, not get them for free. Housing MARKET.
The first house really looking like one of my buildings in rimworld.
I love clicking on one of your videos and diving right into whatever scenario you've created this time with the lul of your iconic narration. Thank you.
I am loving the revisiting of these old games, its so fucking wonderful to watch you talk about one of my favorite franchises
Watching amphibian’s videos makes me feel cultured and well refined. Thanks ambiguous amphibian.
I thought I've seen everything in this game. If this means there will be more Sims 2 in the future, I absolutely cannot wait.
Recently got the sims 2 working on my pc and had to watch this classic again. I’m not sure how I managed to forget but man this game was so involved. Like, there’s so much actual gameplay that goes into everything. In sims 3 and 4 if you write a novel you just choose a genre and it randomly assigns it a quality level based on your skill. In sims 2 you actually choose the whole plot. It took me about an hour to parse the satisfaction vs aspiration vs influence meters in the UI. It’s overwhelming at times actually!
Man, something about your voice, your tone, the way you speak....Its PERFECT as a voice-over for game footage, you are VERY funny.
I'm glad Sims 2 is your favorite; it's my favorite, too. What a Hellish task. RIP Brad. Or Hieronymus. Whichever is correct.
So glad I found your channel, I can almost feel like I’m learning AND watch beautiful content. Thank you kind sir
"Delivery for Brad Pitt?" "Just throw it down."
Huzzah for making it! That reminds me of the logic>meditate>Teleport chain, but that would just make for a dull experience. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I can’t explain why, but that trombone scale at 6:37 got me
the fact that I heard brad *pit* and had a second of silence before letting a single laugh out makes me feel like I’m slowly going insane.
I just now realised that I've been watching yours and Let's Game It Out's videos as youtube was throwing them at me, only now realising that it was the case. Been watching you both for months now, one at a time and it's genuinely fascinating how similar, entertaining and rewatchable your guys' stuff is. All meant in a good way, of course. Love the vids.
Second Sims...Years ago my moms friend gave us it and all of the dlcs on discs in one huge bag...still have all of the boxes,best game in the series by far
Ah, The Sims 2... The pinnacle of the series.
Really
Sisyphean refers to Albert Camus' the myth of Sisyphus. The reference means to describe the absurd nature of the situation of trying to claw your way out of the pit, always failing and having to start from square one
this was my first video from you and I keep coming back to it because its absolutely captivating. I'm sure I'll periodically come back to it, I'll try to track my future rewatches for posterity.
I am absolutely loving these Sims videos. Sims 1 is an all time classic, but I think Sims 2 is where I spent most of my time in the series. Many good memories of my vampire gardener watching his family generations live and die in their family mansion.
Andy Dwyer went from living in the pit to becoming Johnny Karate in the same amount of time
As usual, we're just transported through the story, supported by your extraordinary story telling Thanks for being such a nice entertainer and bringing us on those journeys with you ♥
I love this nostalgia trip! We gotta be the same generation cause we share a lot of the era and taste in gaming lol. Love your vids
This is also my own favorite installment of the series. It's so hard to get it working now. lol Thank you for all the amazing content, Mr. Amphibian.
"Notes From Underground" by Dostoyevsky. I see what you did there.
This dude got me through Covid last December with his videos. Torsolo!
@@peanutm9346 hush child go back to bed
This made me quite nostalgic. can't believe its been almost 20years from when this game was released. I did like sims 1 too but sims 2 was quite the leap forward.
Love your Sims content. I've rewatched this just to absorb everything properly.
Who is this man. This was my first video I've watched and it had me crying laughing. Seriously talented.
"A man tragically died in a pit he couldn't get out of!" *Notes from natural causes due to old age left out.*
I took a break from this beautiful channel after the Torsolo channel update. I am very happy to see your views have absolutely spiked since then. You helped me many a night falling asleep to Kenshi experience. Thank you for your dedication and I hope it pays off for you more and more.
The sims 2 on PS2 was a banger.
It really was
'Ahh, the great indoors' - love that reference!
Underground just like my wife in my basement. She's been in there for about 1 month irl time and she's not coming out anytime soon. I painted the door to her room aswell and sold it for 500 bucks
Please make more of these, I can't explain how much I love them.
While one can tell that you greatly enjoy your challenge runs of Rimworld, Kenshi, and other games, I find that the most enjoyment is derived from videos like this. Videos where your love for a game simply oozes through the screen, and sparks that ephemeral flame of nostalgia within all our hearts.
This is amazing and I want to see more of the sims videos.
The fish trying to achieve world peace actually sounds like a good book if written correctly. Wow.
"I did what any single man in his late thirties with no friends on the verge of a violent fugue would do..." Hold on, hold on, let me get my notebook...
Truly best selling novels. That ladybug went on quite the adventure, lol. Although I did not remember you could dig down that far in the sims, so it also appears I learned something new as well.
why is everyone playing sims 2
Because it’s so good.
'cause it's wayyyyy easier than Sims 1
I enjoy your videos a lot. I’m here because the Sims was my entire childhood. I stay (and subscribe) because you have the most blessed gift for delivering existential horror in the most benign and entertaining way. And what else is there to do but laugh. Thank you
This was an amazing journey, thank you for letting me be a part of it!
5:27 Just woke up to this part in the middle of the night, and I feel so called out.
I am at that level where I have seen most of the clips and now I put the reruns on a play list and fall asleep to it.this is my favourite channel to watch right before bed,kinda like in the good old days of conan o brian on tv,im fucken old
man, good on you for getting this running, an absolute masterpiece, looking forward to every minute of content
Yaaasss sims 2 is the best of the series! The chaos is unreal. I would be very excited to see more of what you can get up to in this game :D
Many years ago when you were much smaller I found your channel and loved the few videos you had I recently started playing project zomboid and after years of trying to remember your name I accidentally ran into your channel I missed you frog man and I can’t wait to hear your philosophical opinion of this
Man, it's crazy to me that I originally saw your content when you were first playing Zomboid and Rimworld and it's really cool to see how great you're doing now. Love the content.
THE SIMS 2 BUILD MUSIC WAS SO NOSTALGIC AT THE BEGINNING. 😭😍
Sims 2 DS is so nostalgic for me. I love those portraits in the intro.
I went online to find the sims 2 soundtrack for buying furniture while I looked at real life lamps for my dimmly lit appartment. Instead what I found was a terrifying message of the hole that I, and everyone I know, live in. And how we may not be so alone in our struggle and how we can work to get out of the pit together. Thank you mr.Amphibian for teaching me this lovely lesson. I need to find a lamp now.