Damn man you got it all right

@dmytroblohin6482

Жыл бұрын

Які люди

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

All I have is my curiosity and the desire to do the truth justice; Giving a false narrative is my biggest fear, so thanks for commenting, it helps keeping me honest. I take it you're much better informed than I am ;)

@knivesjugglingkid1178

Жыл бұрын

Слідан, таке відео можна і трішки попіарити. Треба віддячити за це відео!) Адже пояснювати такі речі за кордоном дуже важливо!

@felix4049

Жыл бұрын

​@@knivesjugglingkid1178 вже зробив )

@Sos0mbo

Жыл бұрын

@@felix4049 найкраще його творіння

"suck my monolith" Monolith soldier: * unpins grenade* 💀

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah? **unpins grenade of my own**

As a Ukrainian, a fan of a stalker and a resident of the occupied territory, who has lived in conflict all his life and is immersed in the history and politics of his country, I can say that this is excellent material. I express my sincere gratitude and respect for such a detailed and deep analysis of the game from a position that even my compatriots do not touch. Good job man ✌

@deadset15-hrvavik17

Жыл бұрын

Slavic brothers must stop killing each other, as a Croatian this conflict is similar to our own war for independence and that makes me sad as we only destroy our potential and our grudged make us nothing but puppets to either side.

@ashfields9273

Жыл бұрын

​@@deadset15-hrvavik17 Tell Russia to GTFO then. This was entirely their doing. "Brothers" don't dictate what economies they can align with for their own prosperity, "brothers" don't invade and annex territory, "brothers" don't launch cruise missiles at energy infrastructure to make them freeze in the winter without electricity, "brothers" don't grind cities to dust like Mariupol, Bakhmut, etc, "brothers" don't create mass graves, "brothers" don't do massacres like they did in Bucha, so on, so forth. There is no "puppet" here. It is absolute buffoonery to "both sides/either sides" this conflict. Russia is the aggressor, plain and simple. Any other spin on this is Russian apologia. Don't even put Russian people and Ukrainian people in the same sentence. In Ukraine, Yanukovych sent freaking IFVs to crush the protestors. You know what the protestors did? They burned those vehicles with Molotov cocktails before they could crush the barricade. At the end, Yanukovych fled to Moscow. Ukrainians have a fighting spirit, Russians do not. They are NOT the same people and NEVER WILL BE. One is a society that is young, and trying to find its place in the world. The other is a centuries old death cult empire that is rotten to the core. The absolute rot that is Russian society has allowed Putin to remain in power unchecked for more than a decade. Ask any of them, they will answer "oh I'm not interested in politics", or "I support Putin". This is the MAJORITY. This is their entity. They are not interested in politics, but in the end, politics took an interest in them in the form of fertilizers for Ukrainian soil. They deserve it. Like Zelenskyy famously said, "Without X, or without you? WITHOUT YOU!" Brothers... what a joke

@deadset15-hrvavik17

Жыл бұрын

@@ashfields9273 just because a government is against a nation doesn't make the people not brothers, thus is family infighting for stupid reasons Also edit: Ukraine has the right to defend its land. И если ты в Украине, удачи друг Славянский

@mxvlad2

Жыл бұрын

@@deadset15-hrvavik17 you're wrong, it's not putin war or something like that. It's russians war against ukrainians.

@akali1788

Жыл бұрын

​@@deadset15-hrvavik17 russians are not brothers for us Ukrainians. After thousands of years of: exiles, etc. you are not brothers.

We, Ukrainians, need more western influencers like you to spread the truth like this Thank you

Very impressive how you managed to release these detailed and well-researched videos in such a short amount of time. Good job, keep it up :)

For someone who only has 5 videos, your content is already really enjoyable and interesting, keep up the good work man

@GEEK021

Жыл бұрын

yea this dude rocks, i subbed instantly after all of them xd, he also reminds me somewhat of dj peach cobbler in a way

As a Russian myself I never tought that someone can think that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a Russian game or game about Russia. You got it all perfectly right and, as a title of a video says - it's obvious. Cossacks is a Ukrainian game too because GSC Game World is a Ukrainian company. Also Metro 2033 series is Ukrainian game too because 4A Games is a Ukrainian company, created by GSC ex-employees. Ukrainian game developers are just have crazy people that create masterpieces. It's strange that someone can say these games give you "russian" experience (Okay, maybe Metro does the scene is Russia after all, but we are not talking about Metro 2033) but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gives you Ukrainian or, if I can say so "post-soviet" expirience. Phew. Quite a lot of words, with my bad knowledge of English language. I'm sorry if i did a lots of mistakes. But I think a gave you my point of view. Oh and also. So many Ukrainian guys in coments. If you see this - please. Know that there is still a small (well a little bit more than small. we just can't do anything) amount of Russians that wasn't brainwashed by propoganda. Good luck guys and may the sky above your head be peaceful. Hope this nightmare ends soon.

@cdru515

6 ай бұрын

Well, welcome to western perceptions. The languages and cultures are too similar for many average people to differentiate without familiarity (even today, there were infamous cases of ukrainians being harassed because they were confused with russians), and everything soviet was labeled as russian

@flowerthencrranger3854

6 ай бұрын

@@cdru515 What I find weird is people thinking that EVERYONE in a country is aligned politically. If my country (Brazil) ever went to war, you bet that would millions of people against it and millions in favor of it, and millions who would probably not care.

@TheDudeMaaaan

3 ай бұрын

my man you are brainwashed by propaganda you just dont realize it...

As a Ukrainian myself and yet a fellow gamer and stalker for life fan, very grateful for your work. I am really touched. I wish there were more critical thinking ppl such as you. My respect goes to you.

@deadset15-hrvavik17

Жыл бұрын

I don't know what side to believe, but no one deserves to die over conflicts between the USA and Russia. We Slavs need to sit down and unite some things but keep some things seperate. Pozdrav iz Hrvatske (Хорватии)

@knivesjugglingkid1178

Жыл бұрын

@@deadset15-hrvavik17 nah bro, USA got nothing to do with that. Study history, we hsd wars with russia for long time, even before USA was a thing. It's a cultural difference between us. Also technically russians aren't slavs at all. Their blood is more mongoloid, than slavik.

@deadset15-hrvavik17

Жыл бұрын

@@knivesjugglingkid1178 Kazan and those regions in Siberia, not the Western Russian area which accounts for most of the population. Also until now there wasn't ever really a true conflict with you unless you count Cossacks as the Ukranian state, in fact Ukraine has had more problems with the PL commonwealth in that regard. The only time i can remember a Ukranian state being attacked before this was during the Russian Revolution but let's be honest that Ukraine was made as a German puppet to abuse food resources. Your nation has the toughest of histories and due to oppression you have less of a made national identity, but you are making one right now and there is nothing wrong with that, same as we did in Croatia. We had similar enemies and oppressors, and every Ukrainian man and woman I have met here are good people, even if heavily nationalistic it is understandable why, i love all Slavic brothers and wish only for the end of these stupid conflicts over clearly defined things set by the international community that they refuse to ever fix because they are scared of great powers. Good luck to you, moj Ukrajinski brate

@RuslanLomaka

Жыл бұрын

​@@knivesjugglingkid1178 Well said. I join you

@RuslanLomaka

Жыл бұрын

​@@deadset15-hrvavik17 seems like you didn't understand a word from the video

As a Ukrainian dude, I want to say thank you for telling the truth, it's nice to know that a person who is so far from our region knows and understands so much about us

someone who is not ukranian just did a video which i wanted to see for a long time nice work man

I'm from Ukraine. And I really enjoyed your video! Thank you!

I have read all of roadside picnic, the original version. I fail to see where the Soviet propaganda is. If anything, I would call it anti-soviet. It details authoritarianism pretty explicitly and many lines can be drawn straight back to Russia and it's regulation of borders knowledge etc... In the newer versions there is even a list of the things that the Soviet publishers tried to take out because it would make them look bad.

I'm Mexican but I have to thank you for this video, as quality content is getting scarce in this platform. It's well structured and nuanced, it's easy to understand and I love that you're putting things in their place. I really hate it when people think Russia and Ukraine are the same and, thus, are interchangeable, which is effed up. On another note: I hope Ukraine wins the war 🙌❤️

The Stalker himself as a mythological symbol is our modern equivalent of the old Ukrainian Cossack.

I belive peapole call it russian fallout becuse someone from east says "russian" they mean everything that was part of soviet union Btw metro 2033 seems closer to fallout than stalker so they are dumb both ways

@simulify8726

Жыл бұрын

yeah I won't doubt the people, even the languages sound similar so it was easy to mistake it for Russian fallout

З усіх згадок про українську культуру та контекст Сталкера це найбільш влучне що я бачив (поза українським простором). Дуже хороша робота! Дякую. Сподіваюсь що це відео побачить більше людей, яким було б корисно освіжити своє бачення контексту гри та моєї країни. Героям слава!

@ny_kapec

Жыл бұрын

які люди

@Mohita26

13 күн бұрын

Здоров був брате :) хелло від підписоти

Not only was Chernobyl not fully evacuated, the other three undamaged units of the ChNPP continued to provide clean, reliable and voluminous power to the entirety of Ukraine until the early 2000's when political pressure from Germany made Ukraine shut down perfectly good reactors.

@matejkazbunda4769

9 күн бұрын

As a Czech guy I say: Yeah seems like sth the Krauts would do lol

Your channel deserves way more subs! You videos are so well made and I can't wait for more Stalker content. Keep it up 🔥

I know that this video is one-year old. But Jesus Christ, it is one of the best things I've seen on KZread. Superb analysis. If I could put ten thumbs up, I would!

Firstly, sowwy for my Engrish. Oh mate, what a video! It was surprising to find here such a DEEEP insight into my country's philosophy, history, politics, and circumstances. You've done a very great deed for the Stalker series and Ukrainians in general with this clarification of cultural confusion. Often I see Russians trying to monopolize the achievements of people from other nations. Still, because of people like you, it is possible to preserve the roots of all the different cultural "products". Appreciate your work!

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to have hopefully done justice to the truth. All I have is my curiosity and access to information, my biggest fear is being wrong and misguiding the truth so thank deeply you for watching and commenting!

@benitocamelo1488

Жыл бұрын

Russians love cultural appropriation, their whole identity is based on that, unfortunately

Glad to see more content for a series I'm just getting into. Good work all around

Btw, about monolith guys, i don't think that in 2007 there was a question about russians and their fanaticism and all this context was a subject for discussion for everyday life of an ordinary citizen. Times were just different. And yes, it's a fact that there always was people that wanted distance themselves from russia, like people that cared about the national identity but again, not a discussion on daily basis in minds of ordinary people and definitely in other context - more like cultural. So, i guess it's just a lucky coincidence. But now it's different times and if this same game would see the light today, people in russia would say how russophobic it is, and how it's an allegory on Z-zombies and supporters of war.

Best stalker video I’ve seen on KZread (maybe second to SsethTzeentach’s video). The video draws was great connections to the reality that inspired the games motifs. I learned more about Ukraine post-Soviet growing pains and the history behind the current conflict than I did Stalker. Great video

Amazing video here before your channel blows up in popularity

i’m very excited for the adventure that awaits. proud of you and happy to be here

great vid! (though, minor correction, roadside picnic was technically a piece anti-soviet writing disguised within something the government at the time of its publication (circa 1970, I believe it was 1971 to be exact) considered "acceptable". It's a very long story and there's more to it than that of course, {and I do not currently have access to my copy of the book) but the updated translation (made by olena bormashenko) makes it a bit clearer and the foreword by ursula leguin explains it quite well, it's a very good read) I'd try my best to explain why but I haven't read it in a few years so the details escape me.

I saw your vidos when you had literally 2 subscribers...and you already have 400+ of them, I want to congratulate you on this, I wish you good development this year and more subscribers. with love from Ukraine

The brain scorcher today just so happens to emit on the same frequency as Russia Today.

@PUARockstar

Ай бұрын

Indeed

@pelmen1906

Ай бұрын

"лыыы расея плахая там диктатура там прапаганда!!!!"

I watched this whole video then saw the subscriber and view count. Your videos have a very, VERY polished sheen about them. Really nice

This video is incredibly moving. I am glad that a foreigner is sharing such important information for an English-speaking audience

Thanks for making the video, dude!

In STALKER clear sky wee have destroyed bridge and "Tuzla" station This is a reference to ruzzian agression on Tuzla island in 2004

I definitely gonna reshare this with friends. Thanks for your work!

As Ukrainian i am not into free market stuff and i have few objections. Volya (freedom) faction are anarchists, not liberals. Democratic axe party is irrelevant in Ukraine and is conservative, not liberal, they hate gay people and migrants, etc, think of them as republicans. Both Russia and EU exploited and plundered Ukraine. Monolith then is more about EU, because they lure with "prosperity", but actual reforms they told us to do only worked to exploit ukrainians. Abolishing labour rights, privatization, land privatization, etc. But when we had proposed tax on capital which leaves Ukraine then EU and IMF screamed "NO" and was about to put sanctions on us (like refusing loans). And the same thing is doing russia, in 1991 both of them bought off many of our factories during privatization and just sold it for parts because it was quick money and it eliminates possible competition. I dont like the framing of EU as exactly "good guys", they initially was planning to leave Ukraine to die. Merkel and such was doing business with putin for all those years and many politicians in EU support putin even during this invasion. Many people in Ukraine are frustrated with how hypocritical and cynical EU is. We gave up nukes for this? Really? And now they say they cant sustain this much support for us. I am not diminishing their help, i am frustrated with all the politics involved in all of this.

What a wonderful video, pretty interesting thoughts. Thank you for explaining the situation in Ukraine from your point of view. As a Ukrainian, I am very grateful to you.

joder bro, cuando vi la calidad de tus videos pense que el canal era viejo y tendrías cientos de videos... veo que el canal es relativamente nuevo. Imagino que tendrás otro. En fin, nuevo suscriptor y a por mas!

Fantastic video, keep making more

Everything just makes so much more sense thank you so much for this amazing video

I didn't think about this thing with factions and politis before,but it really makes sense,ty for the interesting video

Bro... I have never think about this that way... I love your videos :D

Thanks for making this video man

I am really amazed with your researches. Now i w8 for more of your videos

That’s insane! Thank you. I’m sorry for spotting your channel so late, but thanks to slidan (the guy who commented your video bout a month ago, and also mentioned your channel in his recent video), I can follow you and say Thank you! Much love from Kyiv bro, never stop doing what you’re doing! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇺🇦

Saw this video and absolutely fell in love with your content man. How are you only at 400 subs?

I rarely comment on KZread, but I just wanted to say I appreciate seeing someone else bring attention to these parallels to Ukraine's history in the Stalker franchise. I've never seen anyone else draw these sorts of connections (besides the military, which is often simplified as just being Ukrainian views towards the army itself at the time) until now.

How does this man make better videos with less than 1k subs than people with over one million. Just goes to show subs don't mean anything.

Man, I'm happy to be one of your first 500 subs. Blowing me away with the quality, especially for such a new channel. I see no reason at all why you couldn't be one of the top video essay creators in gaming. TO THE MOON WITH YOU!

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for spending your time watching these vids :D means the world to me.

You are the one who helps others to understand us. Thanks a lot.

Man i knew i did a good decision subscribing to you. Keep it up.

hey man like the videos keep up the good work!

Thank you for understanding

I remember when you had 2 subs,now you have almost 400,congrats Man!

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

I remember you, King! You were actually the very first person to subscribe to the channel! Thanks a lot!

Wow, you leave me speechless! I was too young and hadn't had a computer when this game was released. And I haven't played it after. But I was starting to be interested in our history, and how our state became what it is now. So this topic is fascinating. And you get the point on 100%. Now we can feel proud to be ourselves. And I want to thank you for this video. Excellent job!

Tremendo video man. Es relativamente sutil como gsc toma inspiración de la situacion sociopolítica de su país para incluirlo en su juego pero lo explicaste de una manera excepcional. Muy buen video man.

@cantgameright

Жыл бұрын

Gracias a ti por mirar los vids :D espero poder seguir creando contenido que puedas disfrutar.

I apologize for the necroposting, but when I watched this video, I must admit that your understanding of the political and historical situation in Ukraine is exceptional. Almost everything in the video makes perfect sense. However, there are some points worth paying attention to. This whole story with Duty went completely in the wrong direction. The fact is, according to stalker lore, Duty is a militarized organization that is partially funded and has direct ties to *Russia*. They carry modern Russian weapons (not even Soviet but Russian), have a cult of discipline and order, and use the military code that is an important part of Russian beliefs in the paramilitary organizations. They also deliberately speak Russian, even in the Ukrainian dubbing. The red and black flag has a radically opposite meaning in Ukrainian culture, in this case, the color scheme is just a coincidence. In the picture of the stalker's world, Duty is more likely Russian separatists and insurgents who want to annex and control the zone, imposing their own rules and regulations. Azov is a good example of a militarized structure in Ukraine NOW, but it appeared in response to Russian aggression, opposing military power and discipline to Russian one. As of 2007, there were no full-fledged military organizations in Ukraine, but there were more than enough of them in Russia. Ukrainian nationalists, held patriotic educational camps on the topic of guerrilla warfare, as was the case for the last hundred years. They despised the army, both Russian and Ukrainian, as it was seen as a successor of the Soviet, occupational army. Your view of Freedom as liberals and leftists makes perfect sense, but the red and black flag suits them better since the OUN and the UPA literally fought for freedom while using guerrilla tactics, not a full-fledged military machine. NATO guns, as a symbol of the chosen worldview, sniper rifles as the best weapon of the partisans - this is what Freedom really is. Fighters for the freedom of the territory from the tyrannical (Russian) regime, which is represented by the Duty faction. In other words, the war between Freedom and Duty is not a war of Ukrainian liberals against Ukrainian nationalists, but a war of Ukrainian liberals/nationalists against Russian mercenaries and insurgents.

You are doing a great service to stalker artists and stalker enjoyers as well as Ukrainians and us outsiders. Keep up the good work.

Great video, commenting for YT algorithms so that more people see it. Cheers from Ukraine, thanks for making this

Played STALKER games like 5 time, never thought about that in this perspective, and im living here lmao. Thanks for the video!

Interesting. I did always wonder why the military are bad guys in SoC but seem alright in CoP.

This is a great vide, and it helped me understand the situation of my neighbors a little better. With love, from Romania.

dude you are amazing, great video, great voice and material feed. Just subscribed, greetings to you from the city of Uzhhorod in Ukraine. Thanks again for your work, looking forward to more videos!!

@isdfrssdjr

5 ай бұрын

Узххород? Таке місто існує?

@takar2883

5 ай бұрын

@@isdfrssdjr ні, є тільки Вужмісто

This is a very well thought out and explained video. As an artist and writer that does everything from tattoos, books, game quest and environment dialog/design - there are many times that I step back and start to see patterns and meaning in the things I've made that were so obviously linked to aspects of my life and past/present experiences. I never really noticed it before I had started seeing a therapist who was also an artist and had learned about the psychology of art. When tackling deeper issues she would sometimes have me draw certain objects, or have me bring in work I'd been doing. Some of the ways I subconsciously inserted into things was kinda wild. There were also a lot of details and deep seeded things that seemed to come to light through my work. I only describe this because there are so many times that I hear someone say, "Just because those things line up doesn't mean they're true. I highly doubt the writer was thinking about all these things when they wrote the story". There usually isn't any arguing with this opinion either, because they simply choose not to believe how active the subconscious mind is in our moment to moment decisions and actions. But honestly, there is so much that we still have to learn about these parts of human consciousness. I'm blabbering now though. ADHD lol

I hope ALL westerns would watch your video ESPECIALLY BEGINNING!!!!

Heroyam slava! Thank you, my man, as Ukrainian, I highly praise this video and you have my gratitude for it. You got the main message about everything right.

15:00 You are Dominican? Love your videos man, and this Reflection you made on STALKER is really good, i showed it to my Ukranian friend and he loved it Hugs from Euskadi, Spain!! (Im Dominican too i just lived in Spain since i was barely 1)

The gameplay you should hear looks like it's the original games but modded. If so what mods do you use for each of the three Originals? Cuz me I like the games but they're so outdated visually and mechanically I would just like to play and update version of them kind of remastered. I just noticed all the new NPC models that look nice.

If i am not mistaken, the pool was used up until late 90s by local workers.

Wow! Monolith are Russians blinded by the Wish Granter.... As a person from that region this really fits. I wonder if it's just reflective of reality naturally or intentionally put in by the devs. I know the Metro series has these parallels intentional and you can see them clearly, but I never thought of Stalker in this way at all. Monolith and Malorus only sound similar to foreigners tho. Here you're seeing things.

What an AWESOME video. I'd like to see more like this

Thank you for the video

Wow! That's what every gamer that consider himself a Stalker fan should know! Thank you for such deep research, really new info on Stalker series for me

at 3:16 is that a some sort of a modpack from the 3 main games or is that for Anomaly ? and nice vid btw :)

I love your channel. What mods are you using?

Wow , just how you got all of it so right ? Like, how do you know all of this ? you know even heraldry ! literally my face 😮😯😲😳🥺 through the entire video

15:00 you are damn right about people being shy about carrying ukrainian culture. People were shy to even speak ukrainian, because there was a russian empire and then soviet stereotype that only stupid villagers speak ukrainain unlike people in cities. villages speak almost exlusively ukrainain (those that I visited at least). I was ukrainain speaker as a kid till about 3rd grade when we moved to a larger city where I become russian speaker. Now I dont speak russian again (except when talking to russians I am still in contact with) Alo, what is that cool mod that you have played on the background (seemingly shadow of chornobyl campaign?)

2:07 it's soooo true, i laughed so hard. Living in Spain, i heard so many times "ey ruso" even after i told them that "soy Ucraniano". "Dile algo en ruso" or "como se dice en ruso" - this was the usual words to start a conversation with me. And honestly it didn't offend me at that time like probably it would now. The russian authorities, propaganda and their muppets, did everything so that normal people distanced themselves from them and did not want any associations with them. Honestly, thank you for your caring. I'm surprised how much you know about my country, it's not usual for western people. Even some Ukrainians know less. I'm gonna try and learn more about Dominican Republic in it's sixties.

I'm a Ukrainian stalker player. I hadn't even thought about it from that angle. Thank you for the video!

Considering that in the Ukrainian localization, the Duty faction speaks Russian, it's really funny (in a good way) that you compared them to Ukrainian nationalists. And "Freedom" is literally a decipherment of the Ukrainian trident. However, your perspective on the Stalker trilogy is very fresh and makes me think. Thank you very much for your work, I turned on this video expecting to see another cheeki breeki meme video, but I found a really cool analysis 👍

@cantgameright

Ай бұрын

@@jacksmiling07 I did think about it a lot, but if you consider that the main Ukrainian militant nationalist groups emerged in the East of the country and were originally russian-speaking as well as heavily outfitted by zenitco, it's almost duty's self fulfilling prophecy. I have Ukrainian friends from the east that painted a picture that the russian language was never really considered a pledge of allegiance to russia but rather a higher tier language, the same language that the elites and oligarchs spoke back then. It's also why Duty speaks it, elitism.

@jacksmiling07

Ай бұрын

@@cantgameright You know, it really makes sense. Returning to USSR where higher education was exclusively in Russian. Russian language, as evidence of elitism in the post-soviet space, paradoxically suits Duty.

I really like your videos :]

The developers kinda messed it up by using rubles as ingame currency. Anyways thanks for doing it, I was always upset about people thinking stalker and metro games are russian. The analogies in this video are pure gold, I appreciate your deeper understanding of the situation. Because in the west it's mostly "Ukraine good, russia bad" and there are few tin foil hat weirdos who think opposite of that. While the analogies are spot on I doubt those are all conscious choices made by the developers. Update: So after finishing watching the video, I am just blown away, you are spot on about everything what's going on.

@psychopathmedia

Жыл бұрын

It's made more confusing by some games being developed in Ukraine, but published by a Russian publisher, eg. You Are Empty. It's also hard to find info for some games, or finding English results is a pain and translations aren't necessarily reliable Some online video games I play have a lot of ultranationalist Russian people who repeat "Crimea is Russia". They are brainwashed

@arsla5308

Жыл бұрын

​@@psychopathmediaви сплутали нацiоналiзм i нацизм. Пiдтримання окупацii Криму=Пiдтримання переслідування та винищування корiнного населення(геноцид нацiй=нацизм). Нацiоналiзм-любов до свого етносу/громадянства

Thank You for this video.

I feel seen, thank you ❤

По-перше дякую за відео та те, що проаналізував з такого боку. Це цікаво, як житель України кажу дякую, та хочу сказати, що в деяких моментах ти досить таки правий, особливо про фракції борг, чисте небо та одиночки, але стосовно моноліту та свободи не досить влучно, адже багато описуваних тобою моментів виникли після виходу гри (якщо знати що шукати, то завжди знайдеш, так уж ми всі влаштовані). Свобода порівнюється з анархістами та батьком Махном, тут я погоджуюсь, але аналогом в сучасній Україні не має та не може бути, бо анархістів завжди використовували під час революцій, а потім як приймається нова влада, вони стають загрозою для держави, бо ніколи не зможуть стати частиною системи (демократична сокира є проектом старих політичних партій). Моноліт я вважаю, треба розглядати в значно широкому розумінні, їх можна було б вважати за малоросів, якщо Осознание, було б представниками Російської Федерації. Дозволю собі поділитися своїм баченням моноліту. Зона уособлює в собі взаємодію науки та Бога, навіть не побоюючись назву зону таким собі інформаційним Богом із машини. Моноліт в світі гри уособлює в собі міф про Бога, котрий виконує твоє бажання, що насправді є сонцем для Авеля, котре спалює крила коли той до нього наблизиться. Як на мене монолітовці є проявом бажання людства наблизитись до невідомого, котре зазирнув у очі безодні, більше не може мати свою ідентичність. Він буквально стирає всі кольори, не важливо ким ти був до моноліту, ти всеодно станеш білим. Ціль моноліта є захист Зони, навіть якщо вона і нав'язана та їм промили мізки (хіба можна сказати, що члени інших фракцій самостійні у виборі мети та їм теж не промили мізки агітація, мова, віра чи інше?). Уся спроба сталкерів вирушати у центр зони до моноліту схожа на спробу зміни ядра суспільства та усієї зони, та нав'язування своєї парадигми світобачення та як наслідок зміни світу. Та навіть якщо вони зможуть обманути смерть та дійти до своєї мети, вони всеодно залишаться людьми і не зможуть протистояти зоні ( Богу, природі, вставте свою назву). Як на мене боротьба монолітовців та сталкерів схожа на боротьбу Бога та науки, віри, релігії , будь-чого. Чи іншими словами це боротьба істинного і того як ми бачимо істину. Сам по собі моноліт це як ідол істинності, котрий навіть коли був зруйнований всеодно має вплив, тінь від нього буде присутня у кожного з нас. Саме тому порівняння моноліту з малоросами чи як наслідок смерть української ідентичності не є доцільним, оскільки малороси будуть мати свою ідентичність, навіть якщо не будуть служити Росії. Якщо так порівнювати то можна сказати, що моноліт це привид радянського союзу, котрий хоче захопити ліберальний демократичний світ, та встановити бінарний, а краще одинарний світ де будуть тільки товарищи. Якраз Осознание буде партійна верхівка, що як Ленін лежить в склянках і віддає накази своїм рабам - зомбі комуністам. Це все притягнуто за вуха, але непогано звучить теж. Я завжди бачив гру не як боротьбу фракцій чи їх ідей, а боротьбу людини і невідомого. Бажання людей збиратися в ватаги, їх взаємодія буде на другому плані, бо на першому це ти і світ, де світ це дещо більше ніж ти можеш усвідомити. Можу цілком свідомо заявити, що порівнювати фракції та політичні партії хоч і можна через аналогії, але не є доцільним, бо політичне життя моєї батьківщини, складає з себе боротьбу двох полюсів заходу та сходу, але це відбувалося під час гучних заяв обидвох таборів та тихого розкрадання державного (народного) майна/ родовищ корисних копалин. Демократія досить добре служить цієї меті. Дякую за увагу, Героям Слава. Дякую автору за розкриття теми України, як на іноземця деякі деталі дуже влучні.

@cantgameright

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Thank you Andrey for your insight. It is deeply appreciated. I do concern myself with getting things wrong because I'm afraid of misleading people for it, so your comment is very welcomely keeping me honest. I find your understanding of the monolith is very rich because you look to see it from the inside out, as my perspective is obviously from the outside in, with all the factions. It'd be interesting to find any point where our ideas intersect. In regards to Freedom, I did run into Nestor Makhn in my research but settled with representing the quasi-anarchical beliefs of libertarianism and classical liberalism (in western terms) that the Democratic Axe represents. My goal was to find parallels in today's Ukraine and the STALKER games that people like me who are outsiders of Ukraine can look to as a way of understanding where those ideas have ended up in present-day Ukrainian society, even if their manifestations in the present are found in organizations younger than the games. In other words, I'm confident that people who sympathize with Freedom would be very interested in someone like Yuri Hudymenko. I hope you don't find that slight deviation hurtful for when it comes to helping outsiders of Ukraine like me see Freedom as a part of Ukraine, as of course, I don't intend to lecture Ukrainians about their own society and beliefs. Thank you very much for you comment. It has certainly been a very fruitful read for me.

@knivesjugglingkid1178

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@@cantgameright 💜

@andreyborysov4645

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@@cantgameright Дякую за вашу працю. Ваші відео задають питання, на котрі досить цікаво шукати відповідь. І ця відповідь, дає змогу проаналізувати своє бачення на світ.

Interesting thing about the Strugatski brothers who wrote Roadside Picnic: When they were younger, they were pro-Communism and their work does have Soviet propaganda. Later in their lives however, they began to see through its cracks and heavily criticize it (i.e. The Doomed City). To reduce Roadside Picnic to Soviet propaganda is doing it heavy injustice since the main themes are more philosophical and humanist than political (Also because the protagonist is a rebellious criminal with no love for authority). It deals with our inner desires, our morality and empathy, and most of all: existentialism. How significant are we in this cosmos? There is some Communist symbolism in the book, but it is far from the main theme imho and the critical reader should be able to recognize it. I'd recommend the book, its a pity to shun something just because of political prejudice. Even the developers of the game must have loved the book, to make a game based on it.

Enjoyable video and intelligent analysis! Looking forward to more. What other games/topics are you interested in?

@cantgameright

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Thanks for that! I appreciate you watching and the kind words, of course. As far as my interests go, I think I'm just taking the Channel where my curiosity takes me. Five days ago it only had two subscribers so I really have no idea how to manage the flood of traffic that has come the last few days, I suppose I'll just continue to follow my curiosity.

@PeterPlayerOne

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@@cantgameright I managed a channel for about a year, and I didn't see that kind of explosive growth but did have moments of "how do I handle this". Every creator does it differently but you can find a rhythm that works for you. My suggestion is exactly as you mentioned: follow your curiosity! Do things that make you feel good about what you're doing.

Thanks for you videos

very interesting video, thank you

Whou, it's rly good video and interesting view on stalker. I've never thought about it like that before. I can't think of how you knew about the democratic axe in the first place. How?)

Shout out from NCD. This is what I call "earned a sub" kinda video. I feel you're mostly a stalker channel about mods and everything but personally I would love to see this kind of video about other games, not quite review but rather a nice retrospective that gives me yet another look into an oldie goldie. I really enjoy other interesting looks into a work I enjoyed to see what other ways people have looked at it and some of them almost improve the experience retrospectively. Anyway hope to see more of you.

fantastic video

Дякую за відео! Дуже приємно, що люди з далеких куточків світу починають розуміти, що українці - це не росіяни, і що Сталкер - українська гра! Дякую за освітлення цієї теми в англомовному сегменті KZread .

The Stalker game series was never about politics and there are no political symbols in it. It was only about common roots. If you really want to put emphasis on the fact that it was made by Ukrainian developers, you should also known that GSC had a lot of Russians in it. Even today they have a lot of Russians in it. Because they are one people, and game in itself was made from one people. They are all coming from USSR and they are all Russians at a core. Because that's how we called Soviets even back in the days - Russians. The correct way to say it, is that it's a post soviet eastern game. Just like Metro series. It was mostly called as Russian game not because it was made in Russia, but because it was made with the very same cultural code we can associate Russia with. Saying that game was Russian wasn't supposed to be insult for anybody, because it was made by Russian people at it's core with their cultural code. Before the events of 2022, there was little to none who would ever consider to call this game Ukrainian, because it doesn't have Ukrainian identity code in it. What is Ukrainian identity code even look like? Hell, even the money in the game were - rubles. It's a Slavic, eastern cultural code very familiar to everyone including even most remote post Soviet countries. That was the setting of this game. Today this has political pressure. Only now when they are developing Stalker 2 they are making it very clear that game will be more Ukraine focused and there is a strong emphasis on the fact that it's Ukrainian game (even considering it is developed in Czech Republic which is funny). This whole thing is very silly. Game is still using Soviet infrastructure as it's locations, and if Ukraine doesn't like Soviet regime so much.. why are devs still using it? That doesn't make sense, right? Because it sells. That's just how it is. Stalker 2 is made by company from Czech Republic now, which have office in Moscow, and have a lot of working devs on outsource from Russia and other post soviet countries. So basically it's still using the post soviet Russian cultural code at it's core. There is just political need to have more strong emphasis on Ukraine, and that's why even rubles were removed. The last leaked build was purely on Russian which says a lot. So i think Stalker is an eastern post soviet game with cultural code of post soviet countries like Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and many many others. All people from these countries are familiar with this cultural code and they can tell you, that this isn't Ukraine alone, it's all of them combined as cultural code. And even Ukrainians are more familiar with Russian voice lines in game, because they felt natural to them. Even Ukrainians will miss them in Stalker 2. Hell, we all will miss them, these were iconic voice lines. Game should stay outside of politics but as every art, they are mirrors from their time. Unfortunately.

@habibikebabtheiii2037

3 ай бұрын

I agree with the Russian stuff. Not to be one of those guys that says everything is political. Not all games have politics but I've never played a military fps without having a giant load of politics. Even games like doom criticize corporations.

@Marciles

3 ай бұрын

no more cheeki breeki :(

@ArchOfficial

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If you think that all slavs are Russians, a minor tribe that was created about a thousand years ago and lost their identity shortly after and was subjected to genocide and racial mixing, resulting in almost no Russians existing in 2024, then boy do I have some news for you.

Ok man, then I would like to see more content from you :3.

omg, this is so good material, it's incredible. i finished the trilogy last year for the first time, but i couldn't help but feel that it all was very relevant, these familiar narratives, bloodthirsty goals and soulful companies. but you have captured all the associations so deeply and transcripted verbally so accurately that provided me insites about some of the factions like clear sky and freedom. the historical part is so accurate too, I'm amazed. thank you for your passion, for your work and support of our people! Героям Слава!

yay, a new video! have been enjoying the ones you have made so far!

Great video! Ran across your channel earlier today and I've watched all of your stalker content, really enjoyed it. Subscribed!

Hey, small correction, not related to your suggested framework of comparison to real life, just some lore: monolith soldiers are not victims of the bloodthirsty Monolith, they are dudes that willingly accepted the fate of [---protecting the wish granter from evil humans for the sake of all humanity---], they never were under control of the Monolith but followed orders of the C-consciousness that later were shot by Strelok, that's why they are confused of not hearing "his voice" in call of pripyat - c-con had been commanding the whole operation basically. upd. c-con sends them, not the monolith. not sure if willingly but in one book series they've been recruited by similar group to c-con to protect the real wish granter that has always been out there and got activated by accident, so scientists created the zone to protect the monolith

@cantgameright

8 ай бұрын

ooohh this is good information! thank you!

Absolute gold, I summon the powers of the KZread algorythm so this video reaches more people.

@cantgameright

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So it was you who did it? Thanks a lot. It has been a blessed experience so see so many people come and enjoy the content in the channel so far :D

Спасибо за видео из России. У нас есть адекватные, но некоторые упоротые все одно будут стоять на своëм

Congrats on the 100 subs, btw that is a interesting thing, I never really thought deep into the parallels with the in game factions and the real life groups, either way, love your content :)