Only Mark would look at buttons labeled “On” and “Off” and think “Of course! I have to turn it on so I can turn it off!”

What's interesting for those who dont know: Mark mentioned that listening to the Narrator the first time might do something special. While not true, if you repeatedly listen to the Narrator again and again, you turn the machine off again and again, the Narrator will begin to speed through his own story starting in the Boss's Office. He'll go "blah blah blah, secret passageway" and the secret opening opens near immediately. He grows bored telling the same adventure, which fits in with whenever he mentions he enjoys going on other paths with Stanley.

Oh, did you get the broom closet ending? The broom closet ending was my favorite!!

"'9 out of 10.' Don't you get it, Stanley? The game was perfect" is one of the most underrated jokes in this game.

37:57 fun fact: on the Nintendo switch version, they rename steam in these posters to “pressurised gas”

My internet died right around 10:42, when Mark said: “I’m a patient man, I can wait!”
I sat there for about 5min confidently believing Mark was just sitting there waiting, when in reality the video didn’t even continue and I just sat there staring at a paused video. The only reason I noticed was because suddenly my internet came back and the video continued

Narrator: "was this the only reason he was happy with his boring job? that his emotions had been manipulated to accept it blindly?"
Mark: "I like this box"

Just like in his original playthrough, Mark still laughs at the “Broom Closet Ending”

Something I think makes the skip button ending sadder is the fact that it takes place in the memory zone. What goes on in the environment is somewhat reflective of the narrator's mind and memories, so when the narrator fixates on the negative reviews and the skip button, the door leading out of the room disappears; he mentally and physically traps himself in the room. At the end through all the silence and suffering his mind goes almost completely blank, the memory zone is barren, the only thing left being a broken memory of the skip button.

I love how Narrator was singing along in the elevator AND the way he said "staan-ley" and "all together now" was so adorable

Fun fact: the serious room is specifically made for people who use cheats in the game it teleports them to the “serious room” we’re the narrator then roast you in a room with no door and just a table in the middle, depending on what cheat you used or how many times you used it he gets more and more stern with you

years later....  i have made it and i am not lying.

He said he’s not patient enough to turn on a setting but he’s willing to spend thirty minutes in a broom closet

Mark usually: finds any useless inanimate object, befriends it, and carries it around even if it causes insane inconvenience.
Mark when given a useless object to befriend and carry around: "I could throw this across a room and couldn't care less."

I thought I was the only one who gets so emotional over that stupid little "Stanley" button among all the Jim buttons. It's funny because the whole joke was about feeling "personally validated," but then you actually get hit with this sense of personal validation as Stanley. It also kind've highlights the kind of relationship that Stanley and the Narrator have which I think was a cute touch💕

Nothing like the Stanley Parable to make you think about existential horrors.

I realize now why the Stanley button is so emotional. The narrator tells you to roleplay as Jim so that hearing the name makes you feel personally validated. But all this time, you've already been roleplaying as a man named Stanley. That's what the narrator called you. And now that he's gone, the Stanley button hits way harder. Because your name IS Stanley, and you didn't realize it until now. Sorry if this is phrased badly, I'm sleep deprived

The fact that the first "ending" Mark got was the "broom closet ending", makes me happy.

Mark in 2013: I'm not gonna listen narrator.
Mark in 2022: totally understand narrator.

I have made it and im not lying