Hey we might even get better at this... what? it could happen!

that video editing was perfect and the narrating astonishing. MOAR! we ain't worthy, we ain't worthy.

Thank you so much for the feedback! Should anyone now or later notice, the video makes the fatal mistake of referring to Wipeout 2097 as Wipeout 2079! And though I might blame it on sleep deprivation, I want to assure everyone the editors have been executed and I sincerely apologize!

Very well done, and kudos for the Dead Leaves reference :)

And I don't even get an honorary mention :) haha

I accept your apology, but don't let it happen again!
And maybe you should think about getting some sleep?

First, I think that the video was brilliant. Very poetic writing, and a convincing voiceover. The quality of the editing really showed.

In response to the subject matter of the video itself, I enjoyed your analysis of Wipeout... it definitely fits the framework you build in the movie. However, one part just does not sit well with me, and it's the way that you paint modernism vs. a new kind of anti-corporate dialogue. Those are not mutually exclusive things in my view: anti-establishmentism came as a response to modernism, but it's both firmly rooted in post-modern beliefs (that no one person or corporation has a right to telling the world's story themselves) AND modernism itself (that some day we will get over our barbarism to a better society). Anti-establishmentism itself seeks out to paint a single view of the world: that corporations are evil, that people are oppressed, etc. The "futurism" (as you say) that we saw in the 80's and 90's also existed in the early 1900's as an art movement, but of a different philosophical kind: futurism was an art form that rebelled against the institutions (both artistic and political) of the past. Futurism *was* a form of modernism, even though the people who practiced it didn't know that yet.

And that's where I'm left with your video. I firmly believe that if we re-assume that old futurist philosophy (that 'bad', 'old' ideas need to be rebelled against), we'll be stuck in the same old modernism again. That is why I'm so hesitant to give the boot to mainstream, big-budget, games - they are a physical manifestation of the kind of culture we are (or were), and destroying a social practice alienates us from our very own culture. We are modernists, whether we like it or not, I think.

Anyway, that's too much babble - definitely keep up the videos, I'm enjoying them.