For old time's sake, I decided to play Rimworld as a torso and see if I could get one of the most limited characters back up to strength with four bionic limbs within 100 days.
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I wanted to do something extremely unoriginal this time in memory of one of my favorite runs. Hope you enjoy! More content, especially Project Zomboid stuff on the way soon I've just had a nice time travelling at home with family and friends. Hope you've all had a great holiday, whatever you celebrate! :)
you and Nurse all about torsos
It was only a matter of time until this came back
Glad your holidays have been enjoyable! Thanks for the content and by some weird virtual proxy, your company. It's been delightful. XD Travel safe and be well! 🙏
Are the live streams coming back soon, good sir amphibian ?
Love you Ambiguous. Remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder :)
I just find it cool that Torsolo's doctor that installs his new limbs is also his lover.
Sounds like a series/movie trope.
The Florence Nightingale Effect.
You'll notice the "Got some lovin'" bonuses increase the more cyberlimbs Torsolo has. Hmmmmm.... _I Married a Toaster Fetishist: The Torsolo Rimworld Story_
Then he killed her at the end
@@tmo_117 this was very RimWorld. And yes, there's a hint to it where AA drops the line that Torsolo gets detached from his human side.
ah yes, another phenomenal entry into the Torso Cinematic Universe
Available at all AMCs
@yo mama i know it is a bot but i read it with the "welcome to the c@mzone" voice and laughed so hard Also as a spanish speaker myself: what ever that was went from to many google translations that it is not even chilean
@@zaikolebolsh5724 I'm still stuck on deciphering "Hotter, sweeter, cooler, butter"
@@voxvolhynia5400 lmao
@@voxvolhynia5400 sounds like daft punk
So... A woman falls from the sky, sees a guy with a singular peg leg and a singular arm ending in a wooden hand and said... "Yes. This is attractive."
I think Torsolo's charm was more in his intellect and character. 😬
I think she feel in love with a limb
Supply and demand.
"I can fix him. Literally."
The story is much sadder than that. She fell from the sky like an angel, helped him fix his broken body. Then helped him become more machine than man, only for him to lose his humanity and kill her. All over the course of about 2 months.
I shed a tear for Maverick after this; her initial human compassion having unfortunately set her mate on the alluring path AWAY from his humanity, and ergo, away from herself. It is reminiscent of those old horror movies where the spouse either grows to gargantuan proportions or shrinks to the molecular level, embarking on his solitary journey of discovery and eventual extinction, while those who loved him are only left to mourn....and to wonder.
i would love to see that made into a movie
@@FoxSenpie cyberpunk edgrunners
I was gonna say, this had the energy of a classic Victorian-era novel, especially the end of him "becoming more than human", turning on the one he loved, and wandering off into the wastes and all that. That whole genre and really horror in its modern form emerged because of society's freakout at the realization science gave us that we were just... Animals. Objects. Material. Matter. Meat.
Torsolo had no arm, just a wooden hand. I find the idea that he had a wooden hand sticking out of his shoulder funny
@yo mama what in the god damn?????
@@drifterax7731 "a wooden hand sticking out of his shoulder funny" ... clearly. sexy. muhahahha
It's been ten days and several reports, why is the sex spam still up?! Is YT taking bribes?
“When the body stops moving, the mind starts thinking.” -Ambiguous Amphibian…. Now that’s deep
Literally some shit I heard in the army
@@NaderinZim you weren’t in the army
@@enricovangelderen6464 Can verify @Naderin Games turned me into a torso
@@jacethomas5562 there’s no way a guy whose name is Naderin Games was in the army
@@jacethomas5562 i did, with my bare hands, I'm as dangerous as the last 5 gazelles that killed my colony lol
Okay but Maverick was actually the MVP bc without her torsolo would still be a torso
The ending is like John Wick, except instead of his dog it was all because he ate without a table.
That is why you should just get the mod “Eating without a table just kills you”
"If I have to eat without a table one more time, I swear to God I'm going to flip a table" *Realizes there are no tables to flip* *Cocks gun* *"Cowabunga it is"*
Moral of the story: Always eat with a table
Yep😂😂😂
For the want of a table the Kingdom was lost!
Ironically, eating without a table should've been an achievement for torsolo.
Lmaooo
Liked the music and feel of this one. The pacing was good. It's not easy to wax poetical about a stump man for 15 minutes but I would have listened for 25.
you should really check out the torsolo kenshi run if you havent
@@vincentfalcone8802 I think his best series is the project zomboid worst start one. That was more philosophy than game XD.
@@vincentfalcone8802 That made me want to do that and it was honestly really fun.
"sweaty, nudist, pessimist." Sounds like my dream girl
Nice.
mine too lmao
Sounds like me :) but guys hands of I am not a girl :)
@@lokegrnbech1878 jokes on you im gay
@@gxxz666 Hehehehe nahhh I got you right where i want you ;)
Slogan of this survival is: “It’s just can’t be worse so everything we do is good”
@yo mama this is not good
facts
@yo mama Report bot
@@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 The bot be spittin bars tho
@@he3004 spittin pebbles
torsolo in Italian is the part that you left when you eat an apple. this makes it 10x more funny
The core?
@@R3GARnator yep thanks.
And it can also mean "dumb person". "Se proprio un torsolo!"🤣🤣🤣
That's almost poetic; The outer extremities of the noble torsolo were consumed by the world, flesh of apple and man alike in their fleeting life, eaten away to reveal a tougher core.
That is because the word torso is derived from the italian word.
13:01 Torsolo's resolve is tested... 13:04 *Murderous* 13:21 Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
has AA played Darkest Dungeon?
@@icarostrogonoff I dunno but he probably should
I understood that reference
Poor Maverick She found a lonely Torso in the woods and decided to help him. By chance, she happened to have the medical knowledge to grant him limbs so that he could again move and manipulate. Through hours of surgery they bonded. Torso found her sophisticated culture and philosophy interesting and attractive, and Maverick was moved by Torso's desire to once again be able to accomplish what others find so easy. Torso and Maverick fell deep into love for one another. But it was too good to be true. Torso became distant, locking himself away for hours to study. He yearned ever more to bypass the physical limitations of his form. Torso's slight aloofness and awkward personality descended first into neuroticism and then psychosis and extreme paranoia. He became obsessed with perfecting his body, replacing his organic parts with experimental technology, he removed anything he deemed imperfect. The night of Torso's final surgery Maverick awoke to the wails of megasloth and fauna alike. Torso had been stirred into some kind of trance, mowing down everything in sight while ranting about slight errors in NBC sitcom Community. Maverick spent hours nursing a catatonic Torso as he mumbled incessantly "Why does Shirley make the signum crucis if she is a Baptist?" and "Why are there palm trees in Colorado" and "Shouldn't Jeff have been automatically disbarred for a minimum of eight years as per Colorado Bar Association's rules?". After days of diligence and patient coaxing Maverick finally made a breakthrough when she absentmindedly complimented the evident talent in the writing staff of NBC sitcom Friends. The lucidity granted by this disturbance allowed Torso a greater vision of the real world, in which he found himself sat in bed and eating. With vague memory he recalled, to his absolute loathing and discomfort, the many meals his beloved Maverick had fed him without the aid of a table. This appalling affront to basic etiquette and standard practice drove Torso through a death spiral catharsis, after which he feigned recovery and set his plan in motion to enact revenge. He seduced Maverick, she had become reluctant in the past weeks, and professed his love for her repeatedly throughout their lovemaking and, at the climax of their union, whispered "So, did Troy break his shoulders? or his knee?". Maverick reeled in horror as Torso produced a rifle and began filling her with lead like she had fed him non-table served food. Maverick's body slumped like Pierce in the trampoline episode, Torso moved on, walking into the sunset a savage of ration and logic, no longer human.
Jesus Christ, awesome text and reading experience 10/10
reading this with "sadness and sorrow from naruto" makes it even more beautiful
I ain readin all dat
@@sharpismaj your loss
10/10 made me immersive
"Thanks to all of my patrons, for each one of them is like another limb!" I thought you were the ambiguousamphibian, not the monstrousmillipede o.o
I mean, we haven't seen him right? Who knows how many limbs he has honestly 🤔
ambiguousamphibian is on his way to learn how to reshape this unuverse with his 1000 arms
This was one of those sentences that gave me instant invasive, involuntary mental imagery that I did not need
@@tommeakin1732 so glad I wasn't the only one
You should do a play through with the mod “eating without a table just kills you” That would be so much fun to watch.
Sounds like that luciferium run he did awhile ago, after all. You can't force them to eat at a table right?
@@SoggyCoffeeAddict not quite, it’s literally as it seems if the colonist doesn’t eat at a table they straight up drop dead
@@SoggyCoffeeAddict with mods you can do almost anything
@@daltonmontgomery2507 yeah, but it's not really something you can control. Just like the luciferium, at least he doesn't have to travel. But still, you could fill a colony up with tables and chairs. You'd still have colonists eat without a table because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@SoggyCoffeeAddict There's a mod I have, I forget what it's called but it basically increases the range at which they'll find a table but...idk 200 cells comes to mind. It's super handy but doesn't completely remove the epic challenge of having a table available at all times. I have two dining rooms in my current base and only ever suffer the cursed "Ate without a table" when people are caravanning.
All I can think when I see the torso is... Landmine Has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell!
A landmine took my wife
@@iIllupo Bosnia moment
One! Oh, one! The only way is --- wait a freakin' sec, that's the wrong One...
torsolo is the dude from One confirmed. in 1988 James Hetfeild time traveled to 2022 and watched this video only to go back and write One.
Tuku tu tun tuku tu tun...
YES, JUST GOT FINISHED WATCHING THE KENSHI TORSOLO LETS GO
@yo mama big chungus
That ending though... so terrifyingly poetic.
I wanna see a movie it, and I want 10.
"After all, Rimworld is a colony manager for people who enjoy automation games more than colony managers. But there was still one major source of great dissatisfaction." Assuming this was intentional, I see what you did there.
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me” - Torsolo
1:01 Missed a chance to say "I was severely handicapped due to the fact I was severely handicapped."
Wow, truly a beautiful journey. What a great start to 2022, especially. Great work! You're the KZheadr that actually got me into Rimworld very recently. I bought it during the sale this Christmas, never would've tried it if I hadn't seen your ice sheet series.
you have a dead zone pfp, nice
@Official Rz Welcome to 2022, and may the Lord bless you in these trying times.
Ah, so you felt the urge to be a *friend* too I see?
wait, rimworld with a sale?
@@umdadvocate Thank-you, my friend! :D
YESSSS, TORSOLO RETURNS! kind of….
That ending was wonderful
I love how being named “Good” is less confusing than being named “Thomas” as a woman lmao
I'll have you know that a woman could be named Thomas not only in our day and age of fluid gender norms, but also there were a few ladies in both history and modernity with this name.
@@FarhadHakimov Bring that up with AA then, not me
@@FarhadHakimov Alright then Lord Farquaad.
I think the nursery confusing female name is Andrea for obvious reasons.
If you're not running your colony in such a way where the cannibal raiders are probably the good guys, what are you doing?
An edgerunner who fell over the edge and turned into a cyberpsycho all too common in night city
I can't believe how much Torsolo abandoned his humanity by the end, it's poetic. He really had gone so far from where he started, he thought eating without a table would be nothing to someone like him. His story of progress and overcoming challenges became a story of how he died.
AA could read to me an extensive essay on paint drying, and I still know on my heart of hearts that it would still be absolutely fire! Happy new year brother
Oh my god, Torsolo was so strong he defeated the third dimension
The joke was on us fellas, every pawn in Rimworld is just a torso, just look at em!
4:59 When life gives you lemons you make them combustible and burn life's house down. -Cave Johnson
I literally binged your other RimWorld videos and was literally thinking about if you did a Torsolo RimWorld series just this morning! Am I a god? Can I will things into existence? Maybe I can will friends into existence! Nope, even as a god I can't...
Hello there friends, my name is
Will into existence me winning the lottery. I'll be your friend afterward.
Literally
@@auluadenbartolli6755
@@roadblock0210 Me too. Then we can all go scuba
Torso got Chromed up and went Cyberpsycho
Not gonna lie, I miss your rim world play throughs. It actually really made me relaxed and helped me through lockdowns. I’d love to see more
Yes, more rimworld please!!!
Surgery really is something of a wildcard. One time, my colony doctor fell ill from an infection in his left leg, and with no hope of building up immunity in time. So, I put my second-best to the task of saving this poor soul's life. He somehow managed to fail to sever the infected limb initially, but on the second try, the runner-up doctor found purchase - in the unconscious doctor's heart and right kidney. It is beyond me how he went from amputating a limb to destroying a heart, which leads me to believe this was an intentional flub. The 'manslaughterer' is still the colony doctor to this day.
Torsolo struggled so much with building that wall the first day not because he only had one wooden limb, but because he was holding the nails with his wooden hand and pounding them in with a rock glued to his forehead. He often forgot he didn't complete a section before moving on to the next because of his self-induced concussions.
Once he regains his limbs he must have a torso army
fun fact, a torsolo in Italian means the part of an apple you dont eat, therefore, useless junk.
...I absolutely loved this narration and quest. Your references were on point, bro. Even if the gyre widened, Torsolo, the center, could eventually hold... with the appropriate prosthetics. Edit: ...until he lost his grip...
After watching every single Rimworld related video on your channel I decided to get the game and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. My colony's dog got killed so I decided to store it in the freezer in case I got resurrector mech serum but my colonists decided to butcher and eat it instead. 10/10 Would freeze my dead dog again
Fyi you can forbid items (corpses) and your colonists won't touch them! Welcome to Rimworld, we know you will enjoy your time here. PS the Geneva Suggestion is exactly that
alternate title: rimworld - the kenshi experience
This will be the third or fourth time I will watch this. This man’s voice and cadence is so relaxing.
I have fallen asleep by accident while listening to Say's smooth voice more times than I care to count, no regrets.
I need more Amphibian rimworld in my life
I watch AAs video simply to expand my own vernacular. His vocabulary is outstanding.
“I hopped on my peg leg to extinguish the fire with my wooden hand.” Absolutely brilliant
I really like how cinematic this episode felt.
So, good news, anomaly lets your pawns crawl to safety. With that framework, im certain soneone can make a mod to alliw this challenge in full.
the last minute was the most surprising top 10 anime betrayal of 2022 so far.
Rimworld is what brought me to your amazing channel and I’m glad to see you’re still having fun with it!
I love your scripts…so well written and witty
Torsolo lives on, not just on the desolate world of Kenshi, but now on the Rim, perhaps one day to amass an army of fellow Torsos to challenge the Empire for what he has a right to take. The eating without a table joke is still not dead, thank you
The guy becomes superhuman, kills everything, but his breaking point is eating without a table
I recently found your channel and I have thoroughly enjoyed every video then just like the others this one is an absolute amazing art piece thank you for existing
Torsolo always manages to put a smile on my face
idk why but torsolo being bald really sold it
The Torsolo experience was a fantastic playthrough and I'm happy to see another run for it, short as it may be. I'm sure he's off terrorizing some other colony somewhere, possibly having replaced his bits with archotech parts, trascending even bionic cyborgs.
Why stop at one bionic colonist, when you can go bionic everything! Full cyborg colony!?
Nice! I was needing SOMETHING... and what I needed? AA's calming voice and the Rimworld Torsolo experience.
Torsolo and Gerald Williams are some of my biggest inspirations If they can survive and thrive as the worst possible humans alive Then I too can become exodia
After years of development, eating without a table is still the most dangerous thing you can endeavor
I love your storytelling.
You should try out the Vanilla expanded Ancients mod next. You can get neat super powers
That was the best one ever. A perfect subject for the patented Ambiguous Amphibian droll philosophizing. Seems like it distilled a lot of the goodness from the Kenshi series into a Rimworld gem.
Torso?! Here we go again :D
This reminds me of something that happened recently. A prisoner named Worm tried to escape and was severely injured. As punishment I decided to 'purify' him. By the end of my endeavour Worm had no eyes, ears, legs, arms, one kidney, one lung. He was perfect and it became so clear to me - The Worm Loves You. The Worm is Perfect. We must worship the worm. So for some time the colony existed solely to care for this lump of flesh called The Worm until he was finally allowed to rest.
what was, shall be. what shall be, was
I have to know if that ending was staged or not XD Regardless, a cinematic masterpiece as always, Mr. Amphibian!
The idea of an underdog cripple single-handedly building a colony to reoutfitting himself with cybernetic upgrades, only to burn down the colony and leave after accomplishing his goal is great.
Seamus from Family Guy: *Pathetic. I do this every day.*
Ah, the humble Torsolo graced our screens with his wisdom and perseverance once again. Also, glad you had a nice holiday, AA!
Hey, I really enjoy your rimworld videos, but it always frustrates me that you never managed to build your own rocket and leave. I would personally love watching an extended series like the ORGANization again.
oh no another torso experience xD its hilarious. Torsolo is so powerfull he even managed to switch dimensions from Kenshi to Rimworld. Nothing can stop this torso
Torsolo: "One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But *I* am already saved."
The great torsolo, more machine than man. He just about all his humanity, no longer needing to sleep, overcoming every obstacle from raider to hunting. He started with nothing and became a cold, heartless metallic core... only to face the true ultimate test of brain and brawn that only Randy could throw at him. He mustered up all of his confidence and strength to eat without a table, but the memories of when he had a table were just far too powerful for him to overcome. Torsolo, you will be missed.
Glad to see more rimworld, not been subscribed long but so glad I found your channel, I've been systematically going through and watching all your content and you even convinced me to purchase rimworld for myself keep up the splendid work.
Welcome to Rimworld!
I like how a cute love story was developing in the background. “Oh what’s that honey? You want to destroy all organic life forms in the area? Here let me adjust your prosthetics and make your bed first
That was strangely beautiful and poetic. Thank you for delivering your story with such prose.
Reminded me that, in my current playthrough, my speaker-type colonist who was responsible for bartering and converting, had a roof decided to collapse on her and do nothing other than shatter her jaw. She could not speak, she was depressed, she was only good for research and maybe plants. I had two prisoners, one of which I wanted to convert, but I had to settle for the guy with lesser skill because he could talk (and he took forever to convert her). Then, with the half-completion of my med bay, I remembered that prostheses are a thing. It took several attempts to get my colonist’s dentures in because she was also the medical expert, but now she is useful once more. Of course, I have nobody to convert, but at least she’s not depressed and is elated at being able to speak after months of dumbness. Everything is going so well in that playthrough that I don’t want to touch it anymore.
You are insane and brilliant, every time I see your Rimworld videos I just have to watch them. I am captivated by your wit and your incredible storytelling - not to mention your awesome grasp of the game! Thank you for this... great Monday evening viewing! 🐝
Your narration is beautifully poetic!
I found your channel like two days ago and I love you cadence, your jokes, and sudo intellectual philosophizing on video game events... It is very entertaining.
i've been following you for a year right now, and I LOVE your voice, even if I cannot understand everything you're doing ...I love your Rim World playlists! , been watching them 2 times over again...
In Kenshi, Torsolo achieves enlightenment and transcends even death itself. In Rimworld, Torsolo succumbs to Cyber Psychosis, attempts to murder his nudist doctor girlfriend, and abandons reason for madness. All because of a lack of a table.
AA your narrated plays are the best entertainment this side of lockdown
IT IS FINALLY HERE. I THANK YOU FOR THIS BLESSING, PUZZLING POLLIWOG.
Wonderful video! It's been fun to see the evolution of these videos recently
This would make an AMAZING movie
Oh no. Such a beautifully tragic tale. Tears of grown men were shed for this lost soul - known eternally as "Torsolo".
Always enjoy your Rimworld videos. You have a great voice for story-telling, and Rimworld is a story generator.
Yes the almighty lord has blessed us with a rimworld video 🙏
"For the machine is immortal." And also, really good at making more machine.
I missed the rimworld playthroughs!! I'm glad more rimworld content came :)
that ending was excellent.
you never fail to impress with new build challenges! thanks for giving us a philosophic view into the life of torso :D
Man I loved the Torsolo Saga back in Kenshi so much. Glad you brought it back. Just started with Rimworld myself. Feels like Kenshi back in the day.
the horror of eating without a table never changes.
I finally beat rimworld! The ending was nice. I couldn't figure out for so long how to make the damn ship. I opened all my animal pens, and blasted off! I started wondering what it would be like to play with all the pawns on 1-priority, all of them, every task lol. Or lowest priority.