Jacob Geller

And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Hyrule—mighty Ganon has struck out.


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Infinity Dorf by GLEED: https://youtu.be/WI70WqO9Tyk

Greatest Ganondorf Plays by YEET Smash: https://youtu.be/0aiPteloCg0

Animating a Smash Bros Character by New Frame Plus: https://youtu.be/3kTYazhO3fs

Visual Media used: Legend of Zelda(s): Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros Melee + Ultimate, Mortal Kombat X, Parks and Recreation

Music used: The Man with Evil Eyes (Hero of Time, Eric Bucholz), Break the Targets!, Hyrule Temple (SSBM), Kass’s Theme (SSBU)
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I shake the gates, I howl, I twist and break them open at last. Their fear has fed me, and I am warm despite the lack of sun | 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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Thanks to BlueSR for additional footage: https://www.youtube.com/@BlueSR
Thanks to Sebastien Skaf for the piano cover of Cogwork Dancers: https://youtu.be/AHitfoiaI_g?si=RfP9zMlbSaVLmwbO

Sources:
Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey, 2024
A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch, 2006
Post by u/RafflesiaArnoldii: https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1ndt8nx/analysis_the_haunting_vs_the_infection/
After the Tradition, by Robert Alter, 1969
On the Nature of Consciousness (Part 2) by Alan Watts, 1969

Media Shown: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hollow Knight, Tunic, Slitterhead, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Dune Part 2, The Master, QAnon 101: The Search for Q (Vice), Arrival, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Before Sunrise, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, World of Tomorrow: Episode 3 — The Absent Destinations of David Prime,

Music (Chronologically, all from Silksong unless otherwise noted): Last Dive, Cylinder 1 Singing, Bone Bottom, Greymoor, The Mist, The Slab, Underworks, Awakening, Dark Descent, Bilewater, Symphony No. 7 in A Minor – 2nd Movement – Allegretto, Etude No 3 for String Quartet (Peter Sandberg), A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), Lost Verdania, Nyleth, In Your Belief – Piano Solo (Asura’s Wrath), Cogwork Dancers (cover by Sebastien Skaf), Cylinder 1 Singing

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

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://bsky.app/profile/hotcyder.bsky.social
Description credit: “Revelations” By Suzi F. Garcia

Samuel Beckett once said, “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”...on the other hand, he SAID it.
-Art Spiegelman, 1992

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CW: Descriptions of both historical and contemporary Nazism and White Supremacy, depictions of extreme violence, some discussion and depiction of child abuse (in context of Wolfenstein), brief discussion of animal abuse (in context of Wolfenstein), significant discussion of anti-semitism and the holocaust.

Voice of Henry Ford and Madison Grant provided by Zac Frazier: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA

Visual Media used: Wolfenstein 3D, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, live footage from SkyNews, News and Observer, VICE

Music used: Various tracks from Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
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The passions that we fought with and subdued never quite die. | See tons of bonus videos and support more work like this by joining my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JacobGeller

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JacobGeller
Buy my first book, “How a Game Lives:” https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-a-game-lives-jacob-geller?variant=44008639135778
Buy my second book, “You’re Not Overthinking It:” https://www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
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Thanks to Jeremy Brauns Music for his cover of “Niamos:” https://youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?si=5aSopuyP0WcAYy_S
Thanks to WillRock for his OCRemix, “Apollo Duck:” https://youtu.be/KfmiPl4oPiQ?si=loVp-W4ojJvJzHv9

Additional Footage of Death Stranding 2 provided by DefendtheHouse and EuroThug4000
https://youtu.be/dAk1hkY37pE?si=j3XRwM-F2yA4Wrvl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUW7_pM81GU&t=662s

Source on Game Industry Layoffs: https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2025

Music (Chronologically): Mindless Regress (Sektori), Promenade dans Lumière (Clair Obscur), Niamos — Club Mix (Jeremy Brauns Music), Eternal Longing (Hades II), Flow State (Dead Letter Dept.), Mayoi Uta (Silent Hill F), Fading Glint (Citizen Sleeper 2), Lisrim — Golden (Lies of P: Overture), Story of Rainy (Death Stranding 2), Credits (Despelote), Glamorous (Consume Me), Gustave (Clair Obscur), Red Memory (Hollow Knight: Silksong), Tifa’s Theme (Final Fantasy VII Remake), Apollo Duck (OCRemix of “The Moon” from Duck Tales by WillRock)

Game Ten: 00:00
Intro: 01:26
Game Nine: 04:20
Game Eight: 06:08
Game Seven: 07:38
Game Six: 10:03
Game Five and a Half: 11:51
Game Five: 13:18
Game Four: 15:56
Game Three: 17:41
Game Two: 19:18
Game One and Conclusion: 21:56

Additional Footage by Getty Images and Storyblocks

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Description Credit: “The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued” by Trumbull Stickney

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?


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Pharoah Sanders: You've Gotta Have Freedom: https://youtu.be/-mD-Sg9mZGU

Pepe Silvia w/drums: https://youtu.be/InbaU387Wl8

Visual Media used: APE OUT
Music used: APE OUT, You Gotta Have Freedom (Pharoah Sanders)
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But the wind blew through me like I was a hologram. If you say I am a mystic, then fine: I’m a mystic. The trees are not trees, anyway.| 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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Thanks to Nickolai Boulton for VFX work: https://bsky.app/profile/nickolaiboulton.com
Thanks to Mantron for additional footage of Death Stranding 2: https://www.youtube.com/@yesmantron
Thanks to Jsco Music for providing covers of Bo Burnham’s “All Eyes on Me” and “Goodbye”: https://www.youtube.com/@JscoMusic

“All Eyes On Me - Orchestral” by Jsco Music: https://youtu.be/s02zfnW_vaI?si=fJwLc3wTXaY8BeNM
“Goodbye - Orchestral” by Jsco Music: https://youtu.be/Rc9h1s4CCRo?si=_d9ieKlqhC6DYuwy

Media Shown: Death Stranding, Death Stranding 2, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Aliens (deleted scenes), Prometheus, Sunshine, Inside, What., Make Happy, The Ray Bradbury Theater - The Veldt (1989), BFA Educational Media - The Veldt (1973)

Music (Chronologically): Abandoning Sendai (John Barzetti), Principal (1000xRESIST), Alone We Have No Future (Death Stranding), The Man on the Other End (Death Stranding 2), Should We Have Connected (Death Stranding 2), Execution (1000xRESIST), Piano Practice (1000xRESIST), The Occupants (1000xRESIST), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Are You There (Death Stranding 2), Year Unknown (1000xRESIST), All Eyes on Me - Orchestral (Bo Burnham cover by Jsco Music), Piano Practice (1000xRESIST), They Dream by Day (Mellifera), All Eyes on Me - Orchestral (Bo Burnham cover by Jsco Music), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Goodbye - Orchestral (Bo Burnham cover by Jsco Music)

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

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Description credit: “Midnight Office” By Cynthia Cruz

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token...how often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

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Big thanks to the voices of Zac Frazier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA), GamesD (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_r8gFeezEBZVnazvbv75pQ), and ChariotRider (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpDbrcXS-giiD0PkZLC5Kw)

99% Invisible: The Many Deaths of a Painting: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-many-deaths-of-a-painting/

The Barbarism of Representation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0031322X.1994.9970135

The Museum of Modern Art’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoMAvideos

Visual Media used: 2:22AM, Depression Quest, Speech by Goebbels (British Pathe), The Power of Art- Mark Rothko (BBC), The Truth about Modern Art, Modern art is still Sh*t (Paul Joseph Watson), Andres Serrano documentary (1989), various ABC news reports, The Return of Red, Yellow, and Blue (Stedelijk Museum), Ron Mueck- Making of (Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain), Degenerate Art Exhibition (sveinbjornt), Mark Rothko Exhibit (Jeromet Ryan)

Music used: Just Like You (Gone Girl), All You Are Going to Want to do is Get Back There (The Caretaker), Dies Irae (Giuseppi Verdi), Old piano adventure; the saloon sound (Rick22228), Max Docks, Torture (Max Payne 3), Frolic (Luciano Michelini)
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“And that,” he said, pointing to the last building on the island, “that’s the other synagogue. I wouldn’t go there if you paid me.” | 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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Thanks to Meredith Gran for additional voices: https://bsky.app/profile/meredithgran.com

Additional footage of the IDF and Gaza from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/16/israeli-soldiers-filmed-themselves-destroying-gaza-see-the-video-evidence

The Gospel According to Jesus by Stephen Mitchell, 1993
“Bible Adventures” by Gabe Durham, 2015
BioShock‘s Jewish Roots Run Deep by Cody Mello-Klein: https://kotaku.com/bioshocks-jewish-roots-run-deep-1827482206

Media Shown: I Am Jesus Christ, Bible Adventures, The Shivah, Perfect Tides, Perfect Tides: Station to Station, Bioshock, From the Earth, Hineni, Who Shall Wander, Onthecht, Borderlands 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Xbox), Metal Gear Solid, The Last of Us Part II, Bible Buffet, Spiritual Warfare, Super 3D Noah’s Ark, Captain Comic: The Adventure, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Seinfeld, Broad City, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rugrats, The Game Awards 2024

Music (Chronologically): The Angels Descent (Bayonetta), Fugue 7777 (Katamari Damacy), Wedding Hall (Super Mario Odyssey), Paradise for One (Mike Franklyn), Encounter (Metal Gear Solid), Etcetera Etcetera (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle), Norwood’s Last Disciple (The Norwood Suite), Klezmer Feeling (Alexandra Woodward), Coasting (Transistor), Land of a Thousand Lakes (Trabant 33), A Familiar Divide (World of Goo 2), Last Dance in Helsinki (Trabant 33), Stone Office (The Shivah), Main Theme (The Shivah), Inside Bar (The Shivah), Main Theme (Perfect Tides), Ceremony (Perfect Tides), It Falls Apart (Perfect Tides: Station to Station), Reflection (Perfect Tides: Station to Station), Learning to Tell the Truth (Perfect Tides: Station to Station), Main Title (Bioshock), Dancers on a String (Bioshock), Cohen’s Masterpiece (Bioshock), Empty Houses (Bioshock), How She Sees the World (Bioshock 2), A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), Poets (Ciaran Delany), Someone to Watch Over Me (Perfect Tides: Station to Station)

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

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Undone, I’d like my last thoughts to rhyme: I did not lend you my love. The end. | 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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0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Echo Point Nova (general discussion)
6:16 - Ending of Echo Point Nova
9:54 - Despelote (general discussion)
13:53 - Ending of Despelote
18:17 - Rhythm Doctor (general discussion)
24:00 - Ending of Rhythm Doctor

Media Shown: Echo Point Nova, Despelote, Rhythm Doctor, Pistol Whip, Thumper, Star Wars (1977), Shadow of the Colossus, Saints Row the Third, Turbo Overkill, Ultrakill, The Last Guardian, Subnautica: Below Zero, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Galaga, Pac-Man, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War, Dark Souls III, Armored Core VI, Astro Bot, Battlefield 6, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Spider-Man 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Overwatch, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Music (Chronologically): Fahkeet (Hotline Miami 2), Amethyst (Echo Point Nova), Anselmo (Echo Point Nova), Astra (Echo Point Nova), Aspens Coming Down (Echo Point Nova), Blue Bird (Echo Point Nova), Eagle (Echo Point Nova), Icarus (Echo Point Nova), Mirando el Parque (Despelote), Bolero Lunar (Despelote), San Juanito (Despelote), Baja los Edificios (Despelote), Charcos (Despelote), Various Songs from Rhythm Doctor, Helping Hands (Rhythm Doctor), Hop Notch (Major Tweaks), Dreams Don’t Stop (Rhythm Doctor)

Additional Music by Epidemic Sound

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Description credit: “New Born” By Stanley Moss

Where are you?
I don’t know. How can I? Which way is up? I’m falling. Good God, I’m falling.

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Readings provided by Leon Cox (https://twitter.com/ratsoalbion)

Additional footage provided by Rex (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5lg2p2KuCYAUW6_J16sboQ)
Kaleidoscope, Ray Bradbury 1942

Visual Media used: Outer Wilds

Music used: Première Prise (Vincent Leibovitz), Mental Caverns without Sunshine (The Caretaker), Various tracks from Outer Wilds OST (Andrew Prahlow)