Curt Jaimungal Plays "Everything"

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      "text": " It's going to give me anxiety already, I can tell. I'm not even kidding. I've wanted to find a video game that encapsulates the themes of Theories of Everything and there's this game called Everything where you get to play as everything. We'll try playing it."
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      "text": " this game belongs to so this game belongs to toe oh boy it's gonna give me anxiety already i can tell not even kidding"
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      "text": " This is capturing the basis of the existential crisis slash psychological torment that I've been going through. Geez. I think this game is perfectly encapsulating Toll. Okay, so you start as a deer, alright. Yep, that's how it feels. Okay. Okay, let's just get"
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      "text": " Get a hang of the controls? Okay, let's see. Oh, look at that over there. Okay. I don't know what... Okay, if there was no thought to open... Hold A."
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      "text": " Paito, you found me finally. We've been waiting for you for such a long time. Notice my thought had this sort of icon. Look out for others with this. We'll show you what to do. We'll help you navigate everything. Good luck. Is that as quick as I can move? Was there a speed up? Yeah, I can speed up. Everything sings. Singing is how"
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      "text": " All things communicate. Geez. Singing helps things find or avoid one another. It deepens bonds between some things and separates others. Geez, man. This is a deep game. It's how things announce their existence. So, sing. Sing all day long. I want to hear what you sound like. So does everything else. If others want to hear you, they may sing back. Oh, okay."
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      "text": " How far back do you think pronghorns go? You might not feel it, but you took trillions of generations of pronghorns getting mixed up all the way back to forever. It's incredible you made it through and finally arrived here. Oh yeah. The other pronghorns around here are reflections of you from back then. Geez. Each with their own dreams to live their own life. Oh my gosh. As you meet other pronghorns, you will sometimes feel inseparable from them."
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      "text": " and find where you really start and end is up to you. Okay? So, other pronghorns are nearby, join them. Okay, join them by pressing and holding X. One close. Okay, pressing and holding, at least not a pronghorn. Yeah, you're a ghost. I'm gonna find some pronghorns. Come on. Are you a pronghorn? Yeah, you're a pronghorn, press and hold X. Oh, did I just switch? Oh, okay, now I'm in my collection."
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      "text": " Okay. So the camera zooms out to get all three. Yeah, okay, so now I'm three, Fronghorn. Just giving me anxiety. You're only being part of a group? It's just the game, Kurt. Just the game, like that. I tend to think too deeply about almost anything. It sounds like, like I used to think thinking deeply was a positive trait. Okay, now let's sing together."
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      "text": " There you are. Over time, you might find there's no right or wrong path to take here. This is Eastern. As you explore, you might feel that parts of you need to go their own direction because you can't control everything. This is definitely Eastern. At least not yet. Ooh, that's a Western. Try letting go or she'll think it's Eastern."
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      "text": " Broadly speaking, the East is about letting go and quote-unquote realizing there's no control, even though I have some objections to that, and the West is about know you control and make sure you act correctly. This might seem a bit aimless, even pointless, but that's exactly what this is. There's no point to anything here. That's Eastern. I've been hanging around in this exact spot for 30 odd years and never found one, so good luck to you. At least you seem to be able to get around a bit quicker than me, so I'm gonna"
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      "text": " I gotta get ready for this game. This is getting real. Fish is about to get real. It's only three. And this guy has his own thoughts. Explain your life to me in camel terms. Geez. Explain your life to me in camel terms. If you were able to speak to another animal. Otherwise I can't help you. Wow. Yeah, can you explain your life to another animal? Okay, I wanna move to the next point of this game."
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      "text": " Wait a minute, this is a point. Yeah, there's gotta be some... How am I supposed to get up there? That's goals. This will all make sense. Keep looking, you'll find it. Jeez. If this doesn't encapsulate in video game form what Toe is or how it feels like to watch Toe, to go through researching Toe, I don't know what"
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      "text": " I don't know what kind of game would. Okay, what do you make of the small things around here, all the plants and the little creatures? Are they here for you or are you here for them? It's hard to imagine that everything could be here for each other because you can only see things from the pronghorn's perspective. Geez. But if you want to, you can always see things from a little thing's point of view. Try it. Okay, oh, hold L2 to descend."
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      "text": " oh okay this this game is oh oh hey it's me in the morning so well okay i am a san pidro cactus okay so i can descend to a level below okay that's western you know how to have hierarchies in these really no i'm just"
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      "text": " Yeah, you gotta pull there for a second. I was like, wait, really? Hello, can you go? Hello? Okay, can I ascend? Okay, let's see. There's nothing smaller than me near enough. How about this guy? Is this guy small? Yeah, go right ahead. It's a little clown. Oh, that's my favorite game."
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      "text": " Okay, what can I descend to? Let me go to that thought."
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      "text": " Okay, let's go, it's SoulSoulMan, hurry up. Oh! Brother, it's cute. Oh, it's super cute, I'm the black hand. Yeah, that's my sound. Okay. So, the purpose of the game is no purpose? I am."
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      "text": " I hope not. It looks like you can now see things from a little things point of view. Now you might wonder what it's like seeing things from the other way around, that is from a bigger point of view. Out of all the points of view you find, which one is the right one? I guarantee you they're going to have the answer is going to be this none. OK, so let's see. OK, I want to be larger. I want to be this place."
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      "text": " That's not politically correct to say there's a right point of view. Okay, let's talk to this guy. There's nothing to do. Life is just one big waste of time, and everything I do to enjoy it just makes it all go by faster and brings me closer to death. Oh, jeez. Select. I select that. Oh, there we go. Okay, you know what? I'm gonna become a collection of rocks."
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      "text": " Recall, yeah, wow, wow, all around, wow! They love it when they join together. Now, can I ascend to this guy? There's so many options here. They are in the same class as me. Where? No, these things. Oh, that's it. Okay, so let me ascend to this guy. Okay, come on, I'm gonna collect all y'all. Come on. You are a bail bob."
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      "text": " Okay. Okay, ascend, ascend, ascend. Oh boy. Check it out. Check it out. I want to move quicker. That's actually kind of cool. Is there a whale? Okay, hold on, hold on."
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      "text": " I can't see it. Okay, so I can become these guys. Okay, so I'm a different form of land. I'm a rock continent. Now I want to become... What is that? What is that? Am I the ocean itself? Wait. Oh, I am Kelky. Wait a second, are you? Is that a shark? It's an orca!"
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      "text": " I want to become a cloud. Can I become a cloud? Okay, I can become an ice continent. Can I? What can I send? What is that? What's that? Oh, that's my singing, isn't it? No."
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      "text": " It's an ice breaker. Okay, so that means that I can, a lot of other ice breakers, we can move along, wonder if we'll actually break ice. I don't think, I think that's too complex for them to program me up. Imagine if they put more programming into each of these. That'd be daunting. Playing everything and then the permutations. How does this interact with this? Rockstar could do it."
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      "text": " You'd rather wish for goodness to arrive tomorrow than be it today, huh? That's interesting. Why? Come along with me and tell me why. Okay, I'm curious. For people who want to comment, would you rather wish for happiness to be tomorrow rather than today? If so, why? If not, why not? That little boat seemed to think tomorrow's better. Hmm. Something romantic about that."
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      "end_time": 968.319,
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      "text": " The boat said, I'd rather wish for happiness tomorrow. Okay, I'm going to go to these guys because these, oh, there we go."
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    {
      "end_time": 1000.333,
      "index": 36,
      "start_time": 970.981,
      "text": " No, I don't have time for you. Come on, come on. How come I can't... Come on, that's not... It shouldn't show me this if I can't interact with it. That's not fair. Okay, come on, come on. I'll go this. Oh yeah, I'll be in an oil rig. I'm a bit closer to that. Come on, come on, don't go away. You did a little spin."
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      "text": " you as a human being you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree"
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      "text": " So let's say a tree which grows apples is a tree which apples. I recognize you, you kind of look like me and I've seen myself in a mirror and you look like you might be people. So maybe you're intelligent, maybe you can love too. And perhaps you're all right, some of you are anyway. You've got the right color of skin or you have the right religion or whatever it is, you're okay, but there are all those people over in Asia. Africa,"
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      "text": " And they may not really be people. When you want to destroy someone, you always define them as unpeople. I hear people say that frequently that we quote unquote other is something that we want to destroy. I don't think that's true. Firstly, there's self-destructive tendencies. So you can destroy something that you think of as yourself."
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      "text": " Well at the same time, if you don't see the immediate consequences of your actions, let's say for example a smoker, they are self-destructive, they just don't see themselves in the future as a person. The phrase to hell with it is the phrase of recognizing effects of the destructiveness to yourself and then going through with it anyway. And that's saying to hell with it meaning let hell be brought about."
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      "text": " I'm going to ascend to it. This just makes my stomach squeezy. So I am the galaxy. No, I am a green planet. It's not even saying Earth. Okay. I want to ascend to this. I am the sun. I am the sun. Is that better than a deer? Yeah, it's better."
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      "text": " This is like... This is a bit... Imagine playing this on LSD. Change your whole life. I am a planetary system. Geez Louise. How much farther can you..."
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      "text": " As dark as your days may get, remember that all is well in the universe. It couldn't not be, and that ultimately all is well with you too."
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      "text": " I am fantastic when it comes to video game blackouts where you don't watch any of the trailers, any information about a game. So I still haven't seen a trailer for Elden Ring because I am waiting. I love Dark Souls. I am waiting. Do not talk to me about Elden Ring. I don't even want to know if you play as a character. I don't want to know anything. I don't want to know what colors are in the game. I want to play the game fresh, but when they come out with DLC, like a single player DLC."
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      "text": " Yeah, please. Even telling me that you played it is a spoiler. All the heavens and all the worlds are within us. They're magnified dreams. I'm everything, you're everything. And everything's everything. Geez, that sounds like the Leo Guru episode in like two sentences. The only reason space exists between us is because you don't see yourself as me. Geez. Oh, okay. That's actually pretty cool."
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      "text": " Okay, I'm descending. I don't like ascension. It's too much for me. I'll play for two more minutes. Because being everything is quite daunting. Didn't think it would be. What's going on outside the universe? Great question. Great question. That's a great question. Can you write that down? What's going on outside the universe for me to ask ChatGPT?"
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      "text": " It's an interesting game. Super interesting. I'm not sure what to think about it. Because on one hand, it's interesting. Same way the philosophy is. Yeah. But on the other hand, I also feel like... I guess now I'm questioning the merits of whether or not the game deserves to exist. Oh, that's deep. Yeah. Which now, to say it out loud, that seems a bit ridiculous. Yeah."
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      "text": " Alright, I think it's like an art piece of a game, like philosophy slash art. I'm not even kidding, I think this is... If Toe, the channel, was to be put into video game form, this is a great way of doing it. Okay, you know what? I'm done with everything. So..."
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      "text": " Well, this was fun. Thank you. Thank you for enjoying that. If you want to see me play some other game, then let me know. And hopefully it's less psychologically distressing. Yeah, just less psychologically distressing. Okay. All right. Thank you."
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