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Welcome to the video. This video makes me want to do more giant census videos, only even more in-depth, and even more biggerer. Shoutout to Zoë for recording the static shots in this one @MissDirectionTv on xitter.

Hope you are all having a good Monday. If you're not, hop in the Discord and complain to me. I will listen. I won't. I might. See ya later.

The bureau sadly missed the overwhelming majority of Noki in Noki Bay. They live underwater below the waterfall and are only present in the red coin mission and there are dozens of them there.

“They’re standing around gossiping, unemployed behavior”

Oh no, he’s never actually met sailors.

Imagine having a 3/1 job, walking in the park in your only weekend in days, and then Mario comes around and asks you many stupid questions, saying you are unemployed

Person: Relaxing after a hard work day

AnyAustin: UNEMPLOYED!

I watched the report in the seccond part of the video on speaker, and now my father thinks I'm learning about the economical status of a country on earth.

I feel like I've learned more about how labor statistics and reports work via this colorful, miniaturized version, similar to how children learn somewhat how a kitchen is used by pretending with the plastic toy versions.

Me: (suspiciously standing outside a bank)
AnyAustin: Hello!
Me: uhhhh, i own this bank
AnyAustin: This man is employed and owns this bank

7:37 I ASSURE you that standing around gossiping is very employed behavior

the problem with all these employment stats is that delfino island is a resort... Some people may be employees of the island or the hotel and so on but most people are here on vacation. This isn't their home, this is where they are visiting. They could easily live and work somewhere else

As someone who lives in a tourism town, about 20% of our working population is only in work for 7 or 8 months of the year. Isle Delfino is clearly a tourism island in off season, so their economy is probably just fine. It looks like a nice place to loaf about for a third of the year (when a certain family is stopped, anyway)

It's a real oversight that the developers didn't add a dialogue option to ask them if they are unemployed or not. Poor planning if you ask me, they should have had the foresight that a couple of decades after release, on a website that didn't yet exist, that someone's job would depend on knowing the employment status of the residents of Mario Sunshine. It's discrimination.

the melancholic vibes of "I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my time" have absolutely captured my soul. Please keep doing this stuff.

Really glad to have had the opportunity to record footage for you here! Was a joy to see every part of the game with a photographer's eyes for once.

I shout out “direct survey” every time, like I’m watching blues clues again.

2:23 Akron, OH is crazy work lmfao

Anarcho-delfinoism was a successful system until the CIA toppled it 20:36

Couple interesting factors for Isle Delfino.
1) In the same way that it hard to tell if any of these individuals are employed or not, its ALSO hard to tell just how many actually live there. Isle Delfino is essentially a holy sight and homeland for the Piantas, so even if some don't immediately stand out as tourist, there could be annual influx of Piantas and Noki who make a kind of pilgrimage back to the island, thus they are familiar with the island but aren't currently working. Despite its tropical vibes, in several ways the culture of Isle Delfino references italian culture as well, particularly with Don Pianta from TTYD, or the fact that the name is literally just italian for plant.
2) In Mario Kart Double Dash, it is revealed that one of the tracks takes place on an island called Peach Beach. It contains Piantas and Noki as well as prominently featuring their architecture. Being a Princess, there's no question that Peach has the ability to own and invest in an island. So a potential answer to WHY Peach would chose this place, depending on the chronology of events, is that Peach is invested in the entire island, OR that the key reason she and Mario came there in the first place was for business and diplomatic reasons.
That video at the beginning of the game wasn't a travel ad, it was a sales pitch.

For less speculative notes, Noki Bay actually contains the residential area of the noki, and some of their homes are actually the little floating platforms out in the bay, but Noki can also breath underwater, so most live in the underground caves below the bay. Thats why we see very few of them on the surface, and thats why its such a big issue that the eel was creating all that pollution. It was like a smog wave that left them trapped in their houses. Similarly, Piantas village doesn't seem to have a ton of houses, but thats because its a more traditional area, the piantas used to live in trees, which is fitting considering they're all shaped like pears. And honestly compared to any other game we've done a survey on, there are so few interior buildings we can explore in Sunshine. For all we know they have a bustling tech sector.

We can also further speculate if Peach is actually coming to the island for negotiations, that the island is actually just before its peak tourism period, which would explain why some areas are lacking for work or don't seem set up yet. And all that makes so much sense why they need to deal with the graffiti problem. Regardless if they think mario did it or not, Shadow Mario is going to hurt their business if it isn't cleaned up for when the ACTUAL influx of tourist arrive.

Your videos make me feel like a child watching early morning cartoons again. I get to gittery to yell out "a direct survey," EVERY time you ask. You are the educational Dora/Blues Clues of my 20's. Thank you sir.

Yo, Pianta Village is difficult because this is a residential area. Like, if Austin came into my house, saw me playing Vampire Survivors, and told me I was unemployed, I'd be upset too. I'm just enjoying my time off. I mean, if he asked me if I had a job, I'd say yes, but what if that wasn't a dialogue option?