Playing Fallout: Nevada rn

"i cannot leave the zone until the clear is sky" john stalker

The online stalker community see's your attempt at slaying a pseudogiant. We are pleased.

"We are living in the Tom Clancy Boomer Timeline" best line

Modern Russians having an American memory of the USSR is both hilarious and depressing.

Rest in peace Volodymyr Yezhov, the game you helped develop will live on

"It's over for AKcels" made me laugh so loud

As an Ukrainian (of course I know russian) I confirm that the translations of rus comments are correct and literally accurate 😅

30:35 Fun fact - in the Ukrainian version of the game the Duty is the only faction to be voiced in Russian. No idea why, but I've heard theories that it's because of the association with rigid Soviet army culture (since Freedom is indeed often said to embody the "classically Ukrainian" anarchist sentiment).

UPD: Looked it up - Military, Duty and Mercs are all voiced in Russian "intentionally", as stated by the developer. Before 2014 Ukrainians didn't really have a high regard for the army, and thought of it as a Soviet remnant - hence this approach to localization.

Dec 28, 2022. Volodymyr Yezhov was killed defending the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on December 22 2022. He was one of the developers behind the successful video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, which was released in 2008. One of the game's characters, Loki, was based on Yezhov's face.

Fun fact - in Anomaly because they used the same map almost exactly, you can go into the tunnel Strelok destroys in the Red Forest and see how it works.
There's just a ton of grenades on the ground with a bunch of red barrels - the scripted sequence sets off the explosives to create the effect and that's kind of it.  Not super interesting but still funny that they just kinda used ingame items to do it rather than spawning the explosion effect on its own.

Great seeing you play the "weird child" of the series

I love how your videos are both the story of the game you're playing, but there's usually a second story running alongside it, usually about politics, culture, or history. It really makes these videos feel less like video game reviews and more like a video essay using the real to explain fiction and fiction to explain the real. Amazing work as always.

Man I remember the instances where I had all of my shit taken away, I actually fought my way through the first garbage border because of how much I didn't want to lose my money, and during the section where you lose all of your items I actually quick saved beforehand and dropped my items preemptively so they couldn't take it all away.

It's funny you said we'd never see Scar again since a recent trailer for Stalker 2 features him lol

GOD I've been waiting for this SO LONG! Clear Sky is my favourite STALKER - probably because it was my first game. My mom gave it to me as a surprised when I was fighting deppression. Dunno why she considered a post-soviet survival shooter a good choice, but the game actually was one of the things that helped me get out of it:) Love U mom :) And love you, Warlockracy. Best wishes from Poland, dear friend!

Shout-out to Stalker Anomaly, the free standalone mod I've been having a blast with. The best free game I've ever played.

In Stalker 2, the Ukrainian Military was replaced with a multinational armed force called the IPSF. I think this makes a lot of sense. The zone is a place where magic is literally real and nightmarish monsters walk the Earth. The great powers of the world probably would like to keep random people from wandering into it, and the Ukrainian government would probably appreciate handing off the responsibility of massacring the mobs of homeless people inside it. Also, big multinational forces are often ineffective and corrupt. It works on so many levels.

Steve Blum putting on a bad Russian accent is something that brings great joy to my life.

We are living in Tom Clancy's real-time Earth Simulation. The watchmaker is dead but the mechanism continues to unwind.