Who put all these banjos in my sci-fi game?
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Date: 2023-12-10
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Comments and reviews: 29
-bigooft9521
Ok so around 4: 00 I find it kinda odd 'archaeologist' and 'alien' are put into the same category? As somebody who is an archaeologist, I wanna say that it very much is a kind of job that's underpaid, physically demanding, and tends to wreck people's bodies. Where I am it goes hand in hand with construction industries. I haven't actually played this game so take with a grain of salt, but setting it in a more blue collar kind of context feels more authentic to what the actual experience is than like. most sci-fi (especially space opera style sci-fi.
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Ok so around 4: 00 I find it kinda odd 'archaeologist' and 'alien' are put into the same category? As somebody who is an archaeologist, I wanna say that it very much is a kind of job that's underpaid, physically demanding, and tends to wreck people's bodies. Where I am it goes hand in hand with construction industries. I haven't actually played this game so take with a grain of salt, but setting it in a more blue collar kind of context feels more authentic to what the actual experience is than like. most sci-fi (especially space opera style sci-fi.
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polygon
preface: this is one of my very favorite videos of all time, and everyone who worked on it did an amazing job. BUT ALSO, Polygon fired a beloved member of the video team, Jenna, in - what I and others have felt was - an example, a retaliation of, support and celebration of striking and unionization. this was in the midst of a major strike that much of, if not all, the video staff vocally supported. the people who work on these videos are incredible, and they are also still WORKERS. and Polygon, owned by Vox, is still a corporation.
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preface: this is one of my very favorite videos of all time, and everyone who worked on it did an amazing job. BUT ALSO, Polygon fired a beloved member of the video team, Jenna, in - what I and others have felt was - an example, a retaliation of, support and celebration of striking and unionization. this was in the midst of a major strike that much of, if not all, the video staff vocally supported. the people who work on these videos are incredible, and they are also still WORKERS. and Polygon, owned by Vox, is still a corporation.
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-evanlucas8914
The banjo has become the soul of the working class. It jumped from african, to folk, to irish folk through these labor connections. People trying to get by, struggling for their freedom from wage slavery used the banjo to express their plight. So the banjo has become this instrument of the downtrodden that yearn for a better life. Its simple in its rather flat sound but the guitar like construction gives it depth of expression.
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The banjo has become the soul of the working class. It jumped from african, to folk, to irish folk through these labor connections. People trying to get by, struggling for their freedom from wage slavery used the banjo to express their plight. So the banjo has become this instrument of the downtrodden that yearn for a better life. Its simple in its rather flat sound but the guitar like construction gives it depth of expression.
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-Ringinthetrue17
As a musicologist, this is such a fun video. Love that you got interviews with such great experts. Their passion and enthusiasm for their craft and education comes through so well. Thanks for helping to point out the bridges composers and game developers are building by building a bridge of your own through this video. I-ll be sharing this video with my students!
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As a musicologist, this is such a fun video. Love that you got interviews with such great experts. Their passion and enthusiasm for their craft and education comes through so well. Thanks for helping to point out the bridges composers and game developers are building by building a bridge of your own through this video. I-ll be sharing this video with my students!
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-communlizm
This is a cool video but we really can-t talk about frontiers & westerns without understanding colonialism, and sci fi has a lot to reckon with how it tries to manipulate manifest destiny into visions of the future. Selling an idea that we should continue the impulses of our past to extract and dominate every new land is one we should challenge.
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This is a cool video but we really can-t talk about frontiers & westerns without understanding colonialism, and sci fi has a lot to reckon with how it tries to manipulate manifest destiny into visions of the future. Selling an idea that we should continue the impulses of our past to extract and dominate every new land is one we should challenge.
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-wellspokenrambler
Brian's started playing Outer Wilds and brought up this video after we were chatting about bluegrass in space. It's nice to come back to it (though truthfully I rewatched it the other day by myself.
I hope people do find it again, cos it truly remains an excellent study on the phenomenon.
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Brian's started playing Outer Wilds and brought up this video after we were chatting about bluegrass in space. It's nice to come back to it (though truthfully I rewatched it the other day by myself.
I hope people do find it again, cos it truly remains an excellent study on the phenomenon.
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-captainjaximus65
Wow. This was R A D. I had NO clue banjo ran so deep. This was really well done. - Great game promotion, too! I wanna get ALL of these, even just to check out the industrial rev. influences and music. Dude. - Thank you!
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Wow. This was R A D. I had NO clue banjo ran so deep. This was really well done. - Great game promotion, too! I wanna get ALL of these, even just to check out the industrial rev. influences and music. Dude. - Thank you!
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polygon
Have you all ever heard of the song -Journey of the Sorcerer? - Check it out, i firmly believe that song proved without any doubt. Banjo is more of an ethereal instrument than people give it credit, due to one BBC TV show
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Have you all ever heard of the song -Journey of the Sorcerer? - Check it out, i firmly believe that song proved without any doubt. Banjo is more of an ethereal instrument than people give it credit, due to one BBC TV show
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-randydonovan7844
This really is way more in depth, interesting and well written than any other game Chanel could even pretend to be. I would not find this anywhere else. Thank you guys for making grown up shit lol
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This really is way more in depth, interesting and well written than any other game Chanel could even pretend to be. I would not find this anywhere else. Thank you guys for making grown up shit lol
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-MeltySea
I was thinking recently that the use of -Journey of the Sorcerer-, which heavily features the banjo, as the theme for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC series has had some influence on this motif.
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I was thinking recently that the use of -Journey of the Sorcerer-, which heavily features the banjo, as the theme for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC series has had some influence on this motif.
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-LeoFieTv
Friendly reminder that the first robots in fiction (Rossum's Universal Robots) were literally workers that overthrew their bosses. Robots aren't our enemies, they are our comrades.
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Friendly reminder that the first robots in fiction (Rossum's Universal Robots) were literally workers that overthrew their bosses. Robots aren't our enemies, they are our comrades.
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-aquamoomin7687
I keep coming back to this video. It was made with so much heart. Such obvious love for the subject, backed by solid research and strong analysis- that's why I love Polygon. -
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I keep coming back to this video. It was made with so much heart. Such obvious love for the subject, backed by solid research and strong analysis- that's why I love Polygon. -
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-flooferderp2918
I think what's fun about, with Outer Wilds, is that space is treated as camping! Campfires, folk music, heck everyone packed marshmallows as a major part of their rations.
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I think what's fun about, with Outer Wilds, is that space is treated as camping! Campfires, folk music, heck everyone packed marshmallows as a major part of their rations.
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-brandon10301991
Ever since this video I notice so much more of htis sort of thing in games I play. Borderlands 3, Journey to savage planet, Horizon zero dawn, it's literally everywhere!
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Ever since this video I notice so much more of htis sort of thing in games I play. Borderlands 3, Journey to savage planet, Horizon zero dawn, it's literally everywhere!
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-janbonne
Thank you for not whitewashing or glossing over the very real connections and origins that the banjo had to Africa, slavery and U. S. capitalist appropriation of culture
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Thank you for not whitewashing or glossing over the very real connections and origins that the banjo had to Africa, slavery and U. S. capitalist appropriation of culture
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-panampace
StarCraft is the earliest example I can think of space westerns in a video game. The Terran mostly have southern/country accents, and the vibe is very blue collar.
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StarCraft is the earliest example I can think of space westerns in a video game. The Terran mostly have southern/country accents, and the vibe is very blue collar.
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-rancidtown
I always thought that the reason that banjo was in so many scifi games was because of how Louisiana man and other folksy/country songs were sent out on Voyager 1
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I always thought that the reason that banjo was in so many scifi games was because of how Louisiana man and other folksy/country songs were sent out on Voyager 1
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-gracekim9142
Class conscious messages in games always makes my heart ache for the sheer level of exploitation that has been normalized in the industry
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Class conscious messages in games always makes my heart ache for the sheer level of exploitation that has been normalized in the industry
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polygon
Brian Eno was way ahead of the curve on the -space country- thing with his soundtrack for the documentary -For All Mankind- back in the 80s.
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Brian Eno was way ahead of the curve on the -space country- thing with his soundtrack for the documentary -For All Mankind- back in the 80s.
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-tsunamininja
I'd never heard of it before but that first clip of hardspace shipbreaker REALLY reminded me of the opening scene in Titan AE (2000)
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I'd never heard of it before but that first clip of hardspace shipbreaker REALLY reminded me of the opening scene in Titan AE (2000)
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-luna_jo
The writing impressed and touched me so much here. I usually re-watch videos often but I should've done so sooner with this one, thanks
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The writing impressed and touched me so much here. I usually re-watch videos often but I should've done so sooner with this one, thanks
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-JemaKnight
As a fan of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy since I was a child, banjos have always felt like a natural fit for sci-fi to me.
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As a fan of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy since I was a child, banjos have always felt like a natural fit for sci-fi to me.
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-ExFragMaster
I am sorry, but Outer Wilds is the best game of this decade and not even FF7 can beat that. The Banjo wins always.
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I am sorry, but Outer Wilds is the best game of this decade and not even FF7 can beat that. The Banjo wins always.
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-larsini0
this video just goes out of its way to conflate -rural- and -southern-. more shameful coastal ivory tower naivite
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this video just goes out of its way to conflate -rural- and -southern-. more shameful coastal ivory tower naivite
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-guttsu
Damn I loved Outer Wilds so much. It just sucks I'll never get to experience the ending for the first time again.
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Damn I loved Outer Wilds so much. It just sucks I'll never get to experience the ending for the first time again.
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-rhiflux
I expected a breadpill from polygon, but I did not expect to see my favourite banjo player in a polygon video
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I expected a breadpill from polygon, but I did not expect to see my favourite banjo player in a polygon video
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-angusmglfraser
As a Carolina Chocolate Drops fan, I was really not expecting to see Dom Flemons showing up in this.
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As a Carolina Chocolate Drops fan, I was really not expecting to see Dom Flemons showing up in this.
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-Shythalia
lol Outer Wilds is the only game in this video that doesn't have any capitalist undertones or symbolism.
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lol Outer Wilds is the only game in this video that doesn't have any capitalist undertones or symbolism.
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-sammygreen066
Man. if I were to kms and then be brought back to life by my employer as a clone. just sit and cry.
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Man. if I were to kms and then be brought back to life by my employer as a clone. just sit and cry.
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