The Single Best Gaming Moment of 2022

There are 50+ changes between this version on YouTube and my intended cut on Nebula. Everything from simple imagery (Immortality is a game with a lot of nudity) to full passages that had to be excised from the script. Most meaningfully to me, the video is about music and in the YouTube cut I can't... play the music. Watch the version that I wanted to make right here: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-best-moment-in-a…

Watched this on Nebula but came back here to let everyone know that Jacob knocked it out of the park...again. The nebula version was well worth it and as with most of his work, it will most likely change me as a person for the foreseeable future and against my will. "A kinder, collective immortality", well done.

Oh boy, new Jacob Geller essay! Cant wait to be existentially horrified by some concept I've never given a second of thought to before!

Jacob’s the only YouTuber that I purposefully don’t watch right away because I seriously have to consider playing the games he’s talking about first. EDIT: I played it, Sam Barlow’s FMV detective games are 3/3. I’m ready to watch this now.

I think one part you missed touching on story wise, is that at least part of the reason The One is falling apart at the end is because she attempted to take two forms simultaneously, of both Marissa and the director, in an attempt to fully remove the human element that had caused her previous attempts at art to fail. I see that as why, or at least partially why, the final movie is subjectibely less... artistically significant than the first two. It is fully The One trying to do what they can't, be human, ironically while "being" 2. It's also physically too much to bear, causing The Other to worry, and ultimately for the forms to fall apart

I also interpreted the game as the actors becoming immortal through their art. Especially since when you end the game the clips collapse to reveal the one saying "I'm part of you now" cause now that we have seen it all she is always immortal in our memory

God this is phenomenal. It reminds me strongly of Bo butnham’s “can’t handle this” which I know sounds stupid but in that song he is preforming. He is doing what he is paid to do and he is breaking down. He has said himself that he was having severe panic attacks behind the stage and it almost happens to him live. It’s horrible but in a way it’s beautiful. “Watch as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself”

Kinda reminds me a bit of the conclusion to Annihilation (the movie, not the book): The alien entity starts imitating Lena's form, then movements, behavior and then, finally, to completely replicate her, it imitates her thirst for self-destruction. You can't really experience humanity without experiencing finality.

Jacob… you made me cry again. The Golem wasn’t enough for you?!? You had to go and create another melancholic yet beautiful gut punch. Well done!

This means so much to me. Thank you!

I especially love how the three movies reflect how our understanding of The One develops. Ambrosio is about a young, beautiful girl who is secretly an evil entity. Minsky is about how art can be used as a tool to mask evil and corruption. Finally Two of Everything is about the living someone elses life and unique pain and loneliness it caused. Also I think The One loves art do much because it reflects how she experiences life - she momentarily immerses herself in another persons life, feels their emotions and traumas, but still she is distanced from them and then it ends and another life becomes the focus. Just like watching one movie after another.

It's a shame Charlotta Mohlin never got a nomination for this year's Game Awards. She stole every scene she's in!

Jacob releasing a video is like him walking into my mind house and going "do you mind if I rearrange some things" and after not waiting for an answer, turning the entire room upside down and leaving. And I'm here for it.

I cannot stress enough how important watching the Nebula version is. If you are financially able, I highly recommend watching it there. If not, I hope that at some point there is a supportive way to still do so.

When I heard Candy Says, I knew I need to play this. "Candy Says, "I'm come to hate my body and all that it requires in this world,' words I feel in my bones. RIP Candy Darling.

Jacob, you have such a way of reminding me I'm alive and that I won't always be, and how much more beautiful this time is because of that. Thank you.

I'm so envious of your ability to talk at length of these obscure and specific feelings that you extract from particular scenes. You manage to capture them in their totality, so succinctly, runtime notwithstanding, but even so the time passes so easily. Your videos are an absolute delight.

The fact that this is a YouTube video based on a video game based on a song cover of a song,based on an Andy Warhol character, based on a person. It is just a reminder of why I love humans so much. Absolutely amazing work gave me chills and hope and….just incredible.

"I can't remember all the faces". Jesus, what a line.

Good lord, the final monologue hits so much harder when you can hear Anohni singing over it. Also, Jacob was right: that Jesus revelation was nuts. I've never seen another work of fiction that had Jesus as a vampire. I have, however, seen an anime where he had a vampire sister.