Jacob Geller

What Remains of Edith Finch is a game about death. That’s not unusual. So why does it feel so different?


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Joseph Anderson’s “The Villain of Edith Finch:” https://youtu.be/6bMn4CoyUkM

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Games Shown: What Remains of Edith Finch, Grand Theft Auto V, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, The Last of Us Part II, Resident Evil V,

Music Sources: What Remains of Edith Finch, Florence

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Thanks to Power Pak for additional footage of Proximate: https://www.youtube.com/@PowerPakGames

Tom Scott — How the US Postal Service Reads Terrible Handwriting: https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c?si=3d62bMcwaks4Hik1
John Mulaney on SNL, 2018: https://youtu.be/en5_JrcSTcU?si=TGGoCtoKo1vWb9i4

Media Shown: Dead Letter Dept., Proximate, Without a Dawn, Nightmare on Elm Street, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary’s Baby, 28 Days Later, Halloween, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Videodrome, Parasite

Music (Chronologically): Sunset Drone (Greener Grass Awaits), Unease (Greener Grass Awaits), Human Resources (Perfect Vermin), You Don’t Have to Die (Dead Letter Dept.), Tears of… (Silent Hill), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), A Somber View (Andres Cantu), Past Due (Dead Letter Dept.), So Begins a New Night (Dead Letter Dept.), Flow State (Dead Letter Dept.), A Temporary Solution (Dead Letter Dept.), Past Due (Dead Letter Dept.), Still Air (Greener Grass Awaits), Jealousy (Eliza), Wind Chime (Silent Hill 3), Heads No. 2 (Silent Hill 3), The Tunnel Beckons (Silent Hill 2), Flow State (Dead Letter Dept.), Past Due (Dead Letter Dept.), A Letter Home (Dead Letter Dept.), To Sebastian (Wendy Marcini), Both Sides (Umurangi Generation)

Additional Music by Epidemic Sound
Additional Footage by Getty Images and Storyblocks

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Description credit: “The Ghost Light” by Robin Morgan

Gorogoa's twisting narrative hides a surprisingly human message about life and perseverance.

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Games Shown: Gorogoa

Music Sources: Gorogoa, Oxenfree, World of Goo

About the only thing I thought I knew was that nothing I’d ever know would do any good. | See tons of bonus videos and support more work like this by joining my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JacobGeller

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Special Thanks to Jasper for technical consultation: https://www.youtube.com/@UC5bN6XKHDCFt_wYAJmsP_Mg

Additional footage courtesy of:
Pannenkoek2012: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A?si=9OoxnDeAJqjbExhN
Displaced Gamers: https://youtu.be/iH3MYbhtrQA?si=nkfOfaXwVUJS1lTe
Armaggedun_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71Jk0Hh0xM
Snark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BziHXEhLnjk
Retro Rabbit Ears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6RxENG9HAU

Mario 64 x No Surprises by on4word: https://youtu.be/LDqWxlFdikU?si=_cEkXs_ZaILmeGCk

Media Shown: Star Wars Episode III: The Game, Super Mario 64, Breakout, Super Breakout, Furi, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Fantastic Voyage (1966), Magic Schoolbus (1994), Missile Command, Heli Attack 2, Interactive Buddy

Music (Chronologically): Main Theme (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2), Mos Eisley Cantina (Lego Star Wars II DS), Moondown (Rain World), The Facsimile (Citizen Sleeper), TRANCE (Humanity), Scenes from Childhood Op. 15 (Robert Schumann), STREAM (Humanity), Make this Right (Furi), BOUND (Humanity), No Suprises — Mario 64 Remix (on4word), Asphalt Maelstrom (Death Stranding 2), Inertia (Thomas Was Alone), Quarter Past Eleven (Victor Lundberg), Make This Right (Furi)

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: “Human Knowledge” by Robert Wrigley

The Man. The Legend. The Architecture.

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The text of this video (for the most part) can be found at: https://caneandrinse.com/worlds-of-fumito-ueda/

Much of this video’s information came from this Eurogamer article by Gareth Damian Martin: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-12-investigating-the-origins-of-the-last-guardians-architecture

WishingTikal’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WishingTikal

NiZZULiVΞ’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NiZZULiVE
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Video and Music from: Castle in the Sky, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Dark Souls 3

No, never judgment. Just the abyss into which all acts are thrown down, and the terrible white silence in which judgment either endures or burns. | See tons of bonus videos and support more work like this by joining my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JacobGeller

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*Sources*
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial (Joseph Persico, 1995)
After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Robert Hutchinson, 2022)
American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes (Rebecca Gordon, 2016)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt, 1963)
Letters from Nuremberg (Janet Flanner, 1945-1946, The New Yorker)
Hitler’s Elite: Biographical Sketches Of Nazis Who Shaped The Third Reich (Louis Snyder, 1989)
Speer: Hitler’s Architect (Martin Kitchen, 2015)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
Nuremberg as the "City of Nazi Party Rallies" (Museen der Stadt Nürnberg, https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/nazi-party-rallies/nuremberg-city-of-nazi-party-rallies)
Robert Jackson’s Nuremberg Opening Statement (https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/opening-statement-before-the-international-military-tribunal/)
The Origins Of Crimes Against Humanity: From Nuremberg To Rome (Sümeyra TEKİN, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/426221)
Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6 (https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/nuremberg-tribunal-charter-1945/article-6b)
Testimony of Hans Frank (https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191932/http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/franktest.html)
Final Statement of Hans Frank (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-31-46.asp)
“A Profound, Abiding Hatred”: An Analysis of Hermann Goering’s Alleged Morphine Addiction (Turner et. al., 2023 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10144812)
Tribunal Verdict on Hermann Göring (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/10-01-46.asp)
The Soldier, His Sweetheart And The Suicide Of Hermann Goering (David Usborne, 2005 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-soldier-his-sweetheart-and-the-suicide-of-hermann-goering-5386315.html)
The U.S. War Crimes Tribunals at the Former Dachau Concentration Camp (Durwood Riedel, 2006 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Dacahu_trials_Riedel.pdf)
Criticism of Clemency in the Trials (The Guardian, 1951 https://theguardian.newspapers.com/image/259404223/?match=1&terms=%22treason%20against%20the%20common%20good%22)
The Eichmann Trial (Yad Vashem https://wwv.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/eichmann/operation-eichmann.asp#)
If the Nuremberg Laws were Applied… (Noam Chomsky, 1990 https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/)
Germany's far-right AfD co-leader Alice Weidel vows to 'close borders completely' (AFP, 2025 https://youtu.be/PC9uZTjQ1Rk?si=QjmNXv4ByhqsXvwN)
Germany joins US in rejecting Amnesty’s ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel (Times of Israel, 2024 (https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-joins-us-in-rejecting-amnestys-genocide-accusation-against-israel/)
How Germany bends international law to continue selling arms to Israel (Engelcke and Pfeifer, 2024 https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-israel-bends-international-law-continue-selling-arms)
Punched, Choked, Kicked: German Police Crack Down On Student Protests (Ruari Casey, 2024 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/25/punched-choked-kicked-german-police-crack-down-on-student-protests)

Music Used (chronologically): A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), A Somber View (Andres Cantu), Revelation (Anna Dager), Tvivel (Hanna Ekstrom), Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), Abandoning Sendai (John Barzetti), Barren (Martin Klem), Tokyo Screams (Farrell Wooten), Indigo (Christophe Gorman), Remorse of a Murderer (Anna Dager), Bitter Swirl (Line Neesgard), A Cold Win

This universe ain't big enough for the two of us, partner


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Media Shown: Kurzgesagt (https://youtu.be/ZL4yYHdDSWs), Space Engine, Universal Paperclips, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, No Man’s Sky, Cookie Clicker, Mass Effect, EVE Online, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005 film), The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (1981 BBC)

Music Sources: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005 Film), Crystal Castles/HEALTH, Blade Runner 2049, No More Heroes, Colin Stetson
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I'm going to stand here, growing colder, until every inch of my skin is numb. I can't cross over.
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Media shown: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Music Used (Chronologically, all from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33): Lumiere, Lumiere – The Departure, Spring Meadows – Cello Motifs, Loin D’Elle, Verso, The Reacher – Orphelin, L’amour d’une S’ouer, World Map – Forlorn, Lettre a Maelle, Verso (Music Box), Lost Voice, L’amour d’une Mere, Pres de Lui, Alicia (Music Box), Lumiere s’eteint

Giant Squid footage: Edie Widder and Nathan Robinson via OceanExplorerGov: https://youtu.be/Lqim34DvCrs?si=IZa9EymSMcN5X3sr

Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Storyblocks and Getty Images

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: “Grief” by Barbara Crooker

I have burned the tobacco that was in your fields
and which you were probably saving for harvest
Forgive me, it burned so brightly, so angry and so cold

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Fun facts about Rockstar at: https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-25-the-human-cost-of-red-dead-redemption-2

Visual Media used: Red Dead Redemption 2, Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta, Resident Evil 5, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Undertale, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Music used: Theme of Angelo Bronte (Red Dead Redemption 2), Fly Me To The Moon (Bayonetta), Run (Hotline Miami 2), Camp Approach (Firewatch), Torture (Max Payne 3)

Big shouts to Lambh00t for the crucial resi 5 footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/LambHoot
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"Every kid in the world wants to dig a great big hole," said X-Ray. "To China, right?" | See tons of bonus videos and support more work like this by joining my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JacobGeller

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Sources:
Amateur treasure hunter plunges 130 feet: https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/news/amateur-treasure-hunter-plunges-130ft-to-his-death-in-hole-he-dug-inside-his-home/
After 40 years' burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews
The deepest hole we have ever dug: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug
The Kola superdeep borehole in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mzEGeMNAI&t=1200s
Kola Superdeep Borehole: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole?mc_cid=69025636df
At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone: https://phys.org/news/2008-10-km-of-a-kind-microorganism.html


Media shown: A Game About Digging A Hole, Motherload, Minecraft, Holes, The Shawshank Redemption, The Core, Fantastic Mr. Fox, God of War II, Dragon’s Dogma II, 1000xRESIST, Neva, Echo Point Nova, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Cookie Clicker, PegIdle, Uzumaki

Music Used (Chronologically): Main Theme (SteamWorld Dig), New Heights in El Machino (SteamWorld Dig 2), Heavy Industry HQ (Motherload), Mergo’s Lullaby (Bloodborne), Ending (SteamWorld Dig), Human Resources (Perfect Vermin), Old World (SteamWorld Dig), The Rattlesnake (Holes), Dig It (Holes), Lorena 2 (Red Dead Redemption 2), Outlaws From the West (Red Dead Redemption 2), The Magnificent Four (Sunset Riders), The Sticks-for-Hands Rag (West of Loathing), Stage Clear (Sunset Riders), Ear to the Ground (Hanna Lindgren), Thorofare Hike (Firewatch),

Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Storyblocks and Getty Images

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: “Holes” by Louis Sachar