Hades: How can Hell possibly be so fun?
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The compulsively-playable game Hades is set in the underworld, and involves completing repetitive tasks in hopes of achieving an unattainable goal. And yet, it’s one heck of a good time. We’ll explain why in this Wisecrack Edition: How to Have a Blast in Hell.
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You do the dishes enough times, you begin to accept it. Do the dishes even more times and you begin to enjoy it.
Wait, did Supergiant imagine Sisyphus happy?
It felt good to see Wisecrack kind of go back and do entertainment essays through philosophy. It's the reason I followed this channel in the 1st place
There's also the fact that Achilles muses in the codex that Zagreus is the god of Blood and Life, completing the metaphor
Love this idea
Enlightening!
All good, but what happened to Thug Notes?
we are one a grain of dust in the universe.
Do people here understand that the Underworld is not Hell? Because most of the comments are calling this place Hell.
Any cod fans recognize the song at 11:20?
Why does he look like an elongated gary coleman?
The only part of this video that I object to is Zeus being included on the "friends and family" slide like he isn't Completely Terrible. Zeus does not deserve to share the same frame with Best Boy Cerberus, okay.
At first I was think "ugh another Myth of Sisyphus video" but this was really interesting and added in the relationship element rather than just the same basic boulder up a hill idea. Great video!!!
10:46 Hades is not hell. Tartaros is.
Hades or how I learned to stop worrying and just run though the underworld
Can you do a philosophy on Mel brooks?
Animal Crossing is the true absurdist video game
Life only means something in a moment, but in relation to how time can feel to other people, we have much more meaning. It's hard to be a source of contentment for ourselves, but it's pretty easy to find out how to make other people feel content. I'm general, but also specifically for another individual.
Never played it but the game's message seems pretty clear lol still, good video
Didn't even mention that he had a character named Zagreus in Camus first novel, A Happy Death. smh
So, the friends one finds along the way of actually getting somewhere are not true friends.
I look forward to experiencing this game … when its time comes. Supergiant keeps getting better and better it seems.
Zagreus IS the friends (and lovers) we've made along the way!
I don't think Wisecrack realises this but they're perverting the myth of Sisyphus. If you replace the boulder with daily work and toil-you get a modern day lie; struggle and things will get better. There's something deeply wrong with how we apply this philosophy of struggle to our capitalistic, industrial modern lives.
Add the fact that Sisyphus's boulder (work) may be contributing to climate change/environmental destruction; and you basically have him eroding away the foundation upon which he's rolling his boulder.
What happens when the boulder falls off the eroded foundation into the abyss? i.e when we end up destroying our world through our toil. My guess is that Sisyphus will jump into the abyss of non being after his boulder; because its all he ever knew.
I was playing Hades while watching this. Beat it on heat 13 with a dodge chance of 106%
Oh my, what would Jared say if he saw what this channel has come to… Shoehorning philosophy ideas into random products is wearing a little thin here…
>Watch video
>Add Hades to Steam wishlist
Hades came out in 2018 not 2020…
That’s like saying 1995’s Donkey Kong Country 2 came out in 2020 just because it finally arrived on the Switch that year. 🙄
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I'm sooooooooo happy about this video we need more videos on this game
I loved this! Thank you!
i miss this guy
i hate his shirt.
Incredible game, great video!