Based Camp - November 05, 2026


Zoomers Yearn for the Empire： Why？

‘How To Trans Without Mom Knowing’ Letter Sent to 4.2M Kids I Was Wrong： P＊rn Can Destroy Your Life

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00:00:00.000 Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today because for the past week around the world, people and especially young Zoomer men have been posting Anakin memes. 0.86
00:00:11.740 It has made it to the very top with Elon Musk posting on X. This is what they took from us with an image of Anakin on a stone throne next to his, in this case, wife, Amidala and his two kids, Leia and Luke. 0.59
00:00:30.000 This is what we wanted.
00:00:31.500 This is basically the way we style ourselves to the world,
00:00:34.120 like in our Christmas cards and stuff.
00:00:35.680 Yeah, we wanted the empire.
00:00:37.360 And look, a lot of people wanted the empire.
00:00:40.720 And it makes sense because basically the people who are posting this,
00:00:45.700 like Anakin, find themselves shackled by an ossified bureaucracy
00:00:48.920 that stifles them and fails to defend the people that they care about.
00:00:54.560 But aside from the more deep and heavy elements of this,
00:00:57.980 the jokes are hilarious.
00:00:59.540 a lot of them revolve around like specific parts of the the prequel series like this this sort of
00:01:06.580 although big comparisons are like my politics in 2020 showing young anakin all cheerful and blonde
00:01:11.920 and then like my politics now showing anakin about to get singed into vader i love that is
00:01:18.040 that is me by the way that is what happened yeah and then i mean there's still lots of like from
00:01:24.180 the end scene of the prequel movies um just like this one scene with anakin standing in the
00:01:28.900 foreground and obi-wan standing behind him with people posting things like colonel otaku gatekeeper
00:01:35.060 here saying the sand people gave us curry and kebabs anakin another version of this but we won
00:01:41.340 world war ii anakin it doesn't look like we won oh people are so funny and also jar jar banks is
00:01:50.060 just as intelligent as you anakin he just needs proper education they they also bring um padme
00:01:58.580 into this um you know the women the women are commenting had padme used her female intuition 0.99
00:02:03.700 and been a supportive wife she would have told anakin to get rid of both the jedi 0.99
00:02:08.180 and that manipulative backstabbing creep palpatine so they could rule the galaxy together 0.92
00:02:13.660 this the revisionism is beautiful and it is this is by the way the christmas card example for us
00:02:21.320 yes let me keep going you don't know this is not do you see Anakin here I know I I get it I get it
00:02:29.080 I get it okay but oh my god okay also Padme didn't die from broken from a broken neck from Anakin 0.84
00:02:35.680 she died from a broken heart because Anakin turned out to not support gay race communism 0.81
00:02:41.300 she epitomizes the liberal woman who chooses ideology over her own marriage and family
00:02:46.480 man people are feeling things around you gotta check out by the way if you guys haven't watched
00:02:51.200 it you gotta watch it after this one uh the empire did nothing wrong episode that we did where we go
00:02:55.140 over like even within the lore the empire did nothing wrong oh we we yeah we were on this
00:02:59.340 before it was on okay but jokes aside this is deeper than what many would assume on the surface
00:03:04.100 it's part of a much longer term shift in youth sentiment that hints at what i argue the long-term
00:03:10.240 future of human civilization may look like so let's get into it first just sort of some explanation
00:03:15.860 from posts on x as to why zoomers relate to this so much modern vitalist posted from the zoomer
00:03:22.000 perspective the jedi our evil anakin was born of a virgin conceived by the force the jedi council
00:03:28.560 knew he was the chosen one yet still they rejected him why because he was more powerful than them
00:03:34.240 imagine they had loved him trusted him and recognized his divine destiny instead they
00:03:39.280 forbid him to reproduce allowed his mother to be sold into slavery and viciously murdered by 0.82
00:03:45.300 sand people watch the democratic process of the republic evolve into a powerless stalemate 0.91
00:03:51.800 traded ancient prophecy in favor of a modern interpretation thereby mocking the very
00:03:56.800 tradition they claimed to protect they got what they deserve long live the empire hail lord vader
00:04:02.740 rich wrote sand people that is it the problem is he trusted and worked with bureaucrats i know
00:04:11.140 take out they're absolutely right that that's the alternate pathway because
00:04:16.260 at the end of the day palpatine was still a globalist
00:04:20.680 no it's true it's true cal dooku was still a globalist anakin was a war hero exactly exactly
00:04:27.520 he didn't want all this globalist nonsense so rich on x wrote extremely talented and competent
00:04:32.660 white man being lectured by a diverse cast of dei hires who are objectively inferior to his skill
00:04:38.080 in power at this point in his life. Yet he's locked out of pursuing a greater destiny by a 0.97
00:04:44.340 geriatric bureaucracy with rules even it doesn't seem to understand why it enforces anymore. Windu
00:04:50.360 aggressively telling Anakin to take a seat as if he could force the superior Skywalker to do
00:04:56.420 anything he didn't want to do. The council talks down to him because some arbitrary organizational
00:05:01.080 title they give each other, again, all while being inferior to him. The council, standing for peace
00:05:06.380 and progress stood in the way of both. It's no wonder Anakin could turn his back on this
00:05:10.580 organization and why it's so relatable to young men in this society. I love that now it's being
00:05:17.660 seen as like a Anakin's the good guy all along. Anakin did nothing wrong. Adeptus Liberatus wrote
00:05:26.100 in his first meeting with the Jedi Council, Anakin is asked if his thoughts dwell with his mother.
00:05:31.160 To this, Anakin responds, I miss her. Keep in mind, Anakin is a child who has just been
00:05:36.080 separated from his mother for presumably the first time and is now on an entirely different
00:05:40.300 planet he expresses one of the most basic and human emotions a boy could express at that moment
00:05:44.840 within 30 seconds yoda is telling him he is full of fear and on the path to the dark side fast
00:05:49.980 forward to episode two anakin wants to save his mother from slavery after promising her in episode
00:05:54.440 one as a little boy he would come back and free her it would be so easy to do he's served and
00:06:00.660 lured under the jedi for 10 years and despite his hot-headedness his youthful mistakes he remains 0.87
00:06:05.800 loyal what do the jedi do they let his mother die at the hands of alien savages he has to witness 0.59
00:06:11.400 her dying moments yeah but not just alien savages sand people and people and i want to point out 0.75
00:06:18.760 the sand people in the jawas are two different groups yes there are many groups that are in
00:06:23.540 opposition to us that live in the sands um great uh yeah but sure anakin is weak oh yeah and how
00:06:31.300 did Luke wreck Vader, by the way? Vader threatened to turn Leia to the dark side, which enrages Luke.
00:06:36.900 Luke defeats Vader in a fit of pure, unadulterated, white-hot rage. There's no stoic virtue in Luke
00:06:42.200 during the final seconds of his duel with Vader. It's the most belligerent and furious we've ever
00:06:46.740 seen Luke across all three movies. Finally, you cannot call Anakin weak and claim to understand
00:06:51.840 the story. Anakin is true identity. It is the boy who loves his mother, the young man who fell in
00:06:57.620 with padme the student who trained under obi-wan the prodigy pod racer the chosen one that identity
00:07:03.060 was destroyed by the very order he fought for and was loyal to until it broke him for their corrupt
00:07:08.740 purposes the boomer jedi view of the world will die and we are going to win so that's people point
00:07:16.480 out there's some some comics about how yes anakin was effective in the clone wars but he also
00:07:21.560 regularly did war crimes uh he was very big into war crimes he did he told you yeah how did you
00:07:29.280 get him to do that with you looking at me like that master i don't think i should say
00:07:33.340 i roughed him up a little roughed him up pushed punched kicked oh and choked that's the one that 0.58
00:07:43.240 really worked anakin that's torture that's a war crime torture works like a charm master
00:07:50.100 Imagine what else we could get out of him if we keep this up.
00:07:52.640 I don't like this, Anakin. It's wrong.
00:07:54.740 Well, if it works.
00:07:58.100 Now let's see if we can't get some separatist transponder codes out of him.
00:08:01.420 The first thing that the leftist mob that hates anyone posting these is saying is like,
00:08:06.740 he killed the younglings.
00:08:08.640 The Jedi, most of the war crimes he did were at the Order or while working with the Jedi. 0.87
00:08:14.560 This is true, yes. 0.59
00:08:15.380 And they approved of them.
00:08:16.580 Like in one part, he takes a ship.
00:08:19.600 a medical ship and he like or you know a warship and he pretends to be like a peace
00:08:24.760 brigade or something and then just shoots them all and they're like in the in the comedy sketch
00:08:29.900 they're like so what's going to happen the next time we try to surrender or try to get through
00:08:34.440 with a medical ship right don't care yeah well that's so the the the leftists are pointing to
00:08:40.140 the younglings dalton pruitt wrote i can explain the anakin thing right wingers are really effing 1.00
00:08:45.200 stupid as foster wrote anakin was the epitome of weak men creating creating hard times and 0.99
00:08:51.100 project liberal wrote anakin was gaslit and manipulated by people smarter than him so this 1.00
00:08:56.200 makes perfect sense actually there were multiple people who chimed in to say that because they're
00:08:59.980 not very creative but i i really like this because people are getting really myopic they're like oh
00:09:05.160 this is just some like weird trend that's flaming in no no no no sweet sweet children this has been
00:09:11.680 a boomer versus younger generations trend for probably as long as well as long as anakin has
00:09:18.480 existed well i don't want to point out here that again you see progressives not getting it and just 0.55
00:09:24.300 wanting to shut it down right like like they did with malfoy they're like this is the gay thing if 0.52
00:09:29.280 you're doing this or like they did with anakin they're like oh this is a uh you manipulated and 0.93
00:09:34.720 and meanwhile everyone else is like get awesome like it's it's awesome it's wonderful long live
00:09:40.400 the empire uh i love it but this is again it's not new so and the base camp's history if you're
00:09:46.860 doing like faces okay the anakin enraged face was like me beginning of this year like at this point
00:09:56.080 of this year it's good the scene where anakin lights up his lightsaber in front of the young
00:10:00.920 ones that's where i am politically now you can't what i'm trying to say is over 20 years ago um
00:10:09.360 Cause I w I was thinking about this, this whole meme. Um,
00:10:12.560 and I was like, wait a second.
00:10:13.820 I feel like I watched something on MTV where like,
00:10:17.300 it was exactly this and nothing is new. And indeed there's this 2005.
00:10:22.300 So over 20 years ago, episode of MTV, true life, where there's,
00:10:26.540 it's like this show that I think the series or the episode is about like,
00:10:30.200 I'm embarrassed about my parents.
00:10:31.660 Like there's a version where like this young man's parents or kids,
00:10:35.460 parents are nudists. And he's like, Oh, you know,
00:10:38.080 it's just like boomers are terrible the the show on mtv basically but this particular segment 0.67
00:10:42.980 was about a young man whose father is super in to star wars and not only is this boomer man
00:10:51.100 into star wars he is all in on the rebel alliance um here here's a little uh a clip to sort of show
00:11:00.040 you dad's caught up in this whole jedi night thing where he almost feels that he's part of
00:11:07.760 the battle between good and evil his dad is so boomer coded and also like exactly what everyone's
00:11:16.160 talking about here and it's so perfect right so i don't understand how you connect that was
00:11:22.300 no no so in the episode is about like the the children are supposed to reconcile with their
00:11:27.460 boomer parents and like get on board be like okay i understand the boomers like we're gonna get
00:11:32.220 along now it's going to be fine so mtv convinces this this young man to go to a star wars convention
00:11:38.660 with his father and he's really grinning and bearing it here there there are people walking
00:11:43.420 around with puppets uh from you know moss eisley there are people you know and he's just like
00:11:48.000 really really grinning and bearing it and then they they stumble upon the the contingent of the
00:11:55.440 convention that is more focused on the empire and he he sees um this big uh group of people
00:12:03.320 cosplaying in empire uniforms and there's a wedding proposal um and then he he sees a storm
00:12:09.640 trooper with an american flag themed bit of armor and he's like why aren't there more of those like
00:12:15.040 you gotta see the clip it's so good this is when it begins he's watching the the empire oh they're
00:12:22.580 forming families they're wholesome they're they're functional they love he's like okay
00:12:28.680 this is the first smile that you see on him at this convention he says that's great
00:12:33.820 great stormtrooper why don't they have more of those he says and then the segment ends in the
00:12:44.900 most perfect way possible where they get he agrees to cosplay but only as a stormtrooper
00:12:51.780 and his father is super not okay with it um because he he was like okay my son's going to
00:12:59.080 a star wars convention like he's finally going to be able to like indulge in my hobby with me
00:13:02.960 you know we're unifying as a father and son but then his son joins the dark side the rebel alliance
00:13:09.040 is so cucked it is i know it's it's so great and so he's he's getting into it you know dad wanted
00:13:13.800 me to be on the good side of course because dad's on the good side uh me in my opinion i want to be
00:13:19.820 on the bad side we will convert charlie or to the white side of the force you watch you see
00:13:24.140 i can't be too upset i mean you're on the wrong side but i'm just did he say the left side of the
00:13:35.200 force the wrong side i can't really hug you so uh okay i mean i it's cool though it's kind of
00:13:44.320 awesome that a father and son his father is visibly crying there is a tear running down his cheek
00:13:51.660 and love each other like that that's very so this is for lore on us when i met simone all of her
00:14:00.760 pictures on okcupid like my not all of them for the love most of them were of you in film
00:14:06.880 great stormtrooper armor you were and they're very expensive set you know my default my default
00:14:12.760 picture like my cover picture on okay cupid was me in my star wars armor reclining on a
00:14:18.280 reclining on a chaise saying like paint me like you're french girls um so i already knew this was
00:14:23.320 an empire coded girl you know you know you know what side i had chosen but my point is that as 0.59
00:14:30.280 long as there have been boomers as long as there have been star wars there has been a generation 0.53
00:14:34.200 that's not having any of it that is that's watching these movies and they're like wait hold on like
00:14:39.640 why are we cheering on the rebels what is going on here so i've also been looking for the christmas
00:14:47.240 card version of our rebel versus uh and is that your is that your one style was one of the ones
00:14:54.100 i really like it's a pretty good one but it's not gonna choose the christmas card for i'll send you
00:14:59.100 the very best i think but this one what i'm saying is i've been working today really hard on trying
00:15:04.100 to figure out how to build one of these outfits for us and our kids so that we can all just dress
00:15:09.440 like this going forward it's not hard that's really easy no it is actually very hard we're
00:15:14.560 going to need to get them custom made so the thing that you can't get Simone that you need for this
00:15:19.540 outfit to work is threefold all of which need to be custom made okay one is the jackets with the
00:15:26.080 white cuffs there are cuff inserts and color inserts you just buy cuff and color inserts
00:15:31.240 right that would be a nightmare to wear every day and put on our kids every day that's not realistic
00:15:35.080 You need a jacket with a white cuff.
00:15:38.000 Well, I don't know, probably not for our kids
00:15:39.200 because those are going to instantly get covered in everything.
00:15:42.280 This is what we have to do.
00:15:44.040 And then the other thing that's very hard
00:15:46.400 is unless you're doing it with an insert,
00:15:48.160 which again is very uncomfortable
00:15:49.500 and doesn't hold its shape a lot,
00:15:51.380 you need a white button down with long things like this.
00:15:55.200 And then you need a pendant made for the center.
00:15:59.660 Here, I'll see if I can find-
00:16:00.600 All of these things can be done.
00:16:01.960 All of these things.
00:16:02.780 Well, hold on.
00:16:03.560 Well, while you do that and show off whatever it is that you're finding, I will talk about
00:16:07.800 the analysis of this in the larger meeting.
00:16:09.680 So from an outsider, there's there's just, I think, a lot of misunderstanding, even from
00:16:14.340 people who I I mean, I think their takes are very insightful.
00:16:17.000 And I don't think that this take is wrong.
00:16:18.700 But Internet historian Catherine D wrote on this.
00:16:22.320 Why now?
00:16:23.160 Why these images?
00:16:24.320 What happened to the, well, memeier, more 4chan feeling stuff?
00:16:28.680 Her two theories are, one, the online right has been mined by a lot of different interest
00:16:33.880 groups, broadcasters, hipsters, people like myself looking to grow their TikTok followings,
00:16:38.680 Elon Musk, the government itself, boomers who run think tanks at all. 0.73
00:16:42.280 This caused a lot of eternal September of the e-right that has opened the floodgates 0.50
00:16:47.900 for new people.
00:16:49.260 Fandom of this type is the lingua franca of the everyman.
00:16:52.820 In other words, demographic shift.
00:16:54.260 And then number two, she thinks it's some kind of pre mid turns up because we did just have
00:16:58.640 midterm elections. She says that the powers that be fully believe in meme magic post Trump,
00:17:03.580 see Ron DeSantis, the shameful way our administration tweets. The problem is that
00:17:08.060 the secret is out. It's not going to work anymore. I have a whole convoluted theory about how the
00:17:12.620 magic of the internet has been drained. Magic phenomena doesn't seem, doesn't like to be seen
00:17:17.720 or controlled or explained in the way that people are trying to. And why? I think she just doesn't
00:17:23.440 understand it yeah she's missing is that that is it isn't that the people are supporting the
00:17:28.360 establishment right or some vague form of the right it's people who want to fully rebuild a
00:17:34.080 new world order and so i think that the better analysis of this came from tom foe's coverage
00:17:38.960 in this youtube video called anakin was right about democracy which is a little more extreme
00:17:43.320 in which he agrees that one anakin serves as a symbol of frustrated young masculinity complete
00:17:49.060 with awkwardness like he points to how like all the awkward writing in the prequel series like
00:17:55.840 young anakin saying i don't like sand to padme is is like no that to him felt very realistic for
00:18:04.260 the lived experience of a zoomer man like this is something that a zoomer would say i do not like
00:18:09.880 sand i do not like sand everything was like the full line was something like i don't like sand
00:18:16.360 you know this world was scratchy you know harsh your world is soft it just it's horrible
00:18:21.020 but also that is yeah kind of zoomer dialogue it's it's very awkward he also argues that star
00:18:27.080 wars prequels are a complete indictment of the democratic establishment i'm inclined to agree
00:18:31.260 and that security the republic literally has seats in it for the heads of corporations yeah um like
00:18:39.900 the techno union has a seat the trade federation has a seat the banking guild has a seat look at
00:18:45.500 least that's more transparent than our current quote unquote representative democracy so good
00:18:49.820 point continue he also argues that security and personal loyalty should take precedence over
00:18:54.680 democratic principles he also defends anakin's massacre of the tuscan raiders as vengeance for
00:19:00.040 his mother and draws an analogy of course to relatives of victims of uk sexual abuse gangs
00:19:05.560 implying that institutions lose legitimacy when their ideas don't translate into actual safety
00:19:11.760 He also views MAGA as part of the establishment and just another ineffective institution. He doesn't argue for reform. He argues for a completely different system saying, quote, we want fascism. We want space fascism. We want the empire.
00:19:25.560 And why I think this is a really interesting meme and trend is that this is the next generation of world builders saying the quiet part out loud.
00:19:35.840 The important thing that we talk about constantly on this podcast is that legacy institutions are reaching points of unsustainability from many different angles.
00:19:46.800 So there's demographic collapse.
00:19:48.420 There's dependency ratio cascade.
00:19:50.260 This is going to make it literally impossible to bankroll these institutions.
00:19:53.640 I think what you catch here, and what the true reason that this has exploded is, is Leaflet's idea of stellar humanism is, and obviously it's baked into the heart of technopuritanism, it's baked into the heart of a lot of what we talk about.
00:20:15.980 If you go to ArchCast, it's baked into the heart of an optimistic view of the humans in Warhammer 40K.
00:20:24.360 It's baked into all of these sorts of institutions and right wing content is we want to be able to admire a strong and orderly and clean and futuristic vision for where humanity could go.
00:20:40.880 And when you look into the Star Wars universe and you are looking for a government that feels aspirational, what are your options here?
00:20:53.620 You've got the Planetary Union or whatever it's called, like the Republic, which is just corrupt and horrible in every conceivable way.
00:21:05.240 um and you've got the rebels who are dirty and incompetent often and um really not very
00:21:15.300 aspirational either aesthetically or in terms of morality in like a frozen cave and then you've got
00:21:23.660 the new order and the empire which looks nice and clean and it's one of the things that people
00:21:31.800 will yell at it and say the empire is a racist and then it's like yeah well then why is their
00:21:37.080 top general like thrawn right like you you can't you it's it's very much where like people are like
00:21:43.220 the right is racist against you know it's like well why are all of these people in positions
00:21:47.640 we just don't care what you have to say anymore like we're realists about race now we're like
00:21:51.400 okay there's differences between groups based on culture and potentially even genetically and
00:21:57.340 that's not the end of the world that's something we should take into account in terms of how we
00:22:00.500 rural planets how we operate right and so when i outside of this phenomenon i'm naturally doing
00:22:10.040 art of my kids i'm naturally putting together a world for broodfall which you can now wish list
00:22:14.980 on steam that's so cool yeah i just thought got approved just got approved today so i can get that
00:22:19.840 finally set up tomorrow put a link congratulations the broodfall universe is going to be very lore
00:22:26.660 deep very fun empire i think that people will either hate or love um it's uh it's very unique
00:22:35.600 for a uh star a a like sci-fi universe empire because it is fascististic from the perspective
00:22:48.120 of most populations today yet internally completely morally coherent and all of the
00:22:56.900 decisions that were made to set it up from the perspective of somebody living in the empire
00:23:02.660 feel like the obvious and moral decision um and so uh i'm very excited to to get people into that
00:23:11.200 and to see if it works as an aspect of gameplay, right?
00:23:16.160 It's going to be very fun.
00:23:17.680 And then if it does work and people like the universe,
00:23:19.840 I'll make more games in the Broodfall universe
00:23:22.080 and just expand it out into a full,
00:23:25.580 you know, who knows?
00:23:26.480 Maybe I'll start, you know,
00:23:27.380 like I used to do a book a year for a while,
00:23:29.140 start making a video game a year in the Broodfall universe,
00:23:32.020 exploring different parts of it
00:23:34.360 that people can find very fun.
00:23:39.620 but it's a universe where the techno puritans have taken over um and everything is they're not
00:23:44.580 the only powerful group of humans but they are one of the only powerful groups of humans
00:23:50.680 and actually though i was arguing something a little bit different with this which is that
00:23:54.620 one the institutions that run our world now are going to fall apart the writing is on the wall i
00:24:00.500 mean you broadly agree that's the case right how are they going to be funded you know when the tax
00:24:03.940 bases just aren't there anymore um and when you know the groups that that take resources outnumber
00:24:09.060 the groups that contribute. These institutions are going to crumble. Who's going to build the
00:24:14.620 new ones? It's not going to be the bureaucrats. It's not going to be the gerontocracy. They're
00:24:19.460 going to be dead. Who's it going to be? It's going to be these young, disaffected men. I mean, 0.93
00:24:24.560 as much as women are great, but I don't see women as being the sorts of risk takers and 0.99
00:24:30.060 with notable exceptions, right? Leaflet is a furious AI vibe coder, but most women are not 1.00
00:24:38.560 the kinds of builders that you and leaflet are so the future is going to be built by men and 0.99
00:24:43.180 these men are going to build a more well and even and even within the right and the living parts of
00:24:50.840 the right like they're the opposing part of the right to us is the gripers and the gripers don't
00:24:56.020 build they're not building yeah so that's you have to so my point here is everyone's like oh 0.97
00:25:00.680 whatever mean posting like these guys are dumb anakin whatever no you are looking at the memes 0.97
00:25:06.680 being posted by the class of humans that is going to build the future yeah they want the empire 0.99
00:25:13.740 that's what you're gonna get because you ain't building anything the piece from the the game
00:25:20.520 lore um they're very fun this is our daughter aged up to to our daughter titan stabbing a cat
00:25:27.840 girl through the chest with a sword that has a pink bow attached to it as she loves girly things
00:25:33.620 but is also the most aggressive person i've ever met i'm gonna get this printed for my normal mouse
00:25:39.140 pad i think it's a great one great oh fantastic good for ideas do you know what it's like for me
00:25:44.740 every morning getting them dressed i mean i go down there and i practically need armor i feel
00:25:49.040 like i'm gonna have to just start like suiting up before i go down because the the immediate
00:25:55.780 between torsten's head butts and titan doing whatever it is she decides to do and then of
00:26:01.000 course everyone else just has to copy like i'm screwed but yeah i think when you look at the
00:26:05.880 sorts of memes that people share and ideas that are meaningful there there obviously are some very
00:26:12.300 loud ones and very influential ones but the only influential memes and ideas and concepts that
00:26:17.360 matter are those that are being traded among the building class and the building class is primarily
00:26:23.040 agentic young men the same agentic young men who identify with anakin because he too among all of
00:26:29.100 these characters in the prequel series was someone capable of building and doing new things someone
00:26:34.500 with talent and someone with initiative and a lot of people identify with that for the same reason
00:26:40.620 why they're gonna go ahead and just build a future so this is more than just being funny and cute
00:26:46.140 this is um this is what to come and expect but I do think people should understand that this is
00:26:51.780 also not a fleeting thing that's going to pass this has been present for a very long time
00:26:56.340 you think so i think it's been years since 2000 no that i think i think that this is the same
00:27:04.340 thing that we like in warhammer 40k the problem is warhammer 40k is it's a bit too um and orthodoxy
00:27:11.840 and the uh empire comes off as more protestant-y um in terms of the difference between the two
00:27:18.040 groups i don't actually know if you are aware of this simone but this was actually explicitly
00:27:22.100 thought about in terms of the design of the empire okay um when they were designing the empire's
00:27:28.880 ships if you notice they look very like when you think of the death star it has very little in
00:27:36.060 terms of frills it has no aesthetics additions it has no whereas if you go back to amidala's
00:27:42.820 spacecraft in the prequels it's like that silver nice looking ship that looks like a sports car
00:27:47.780 it's all shiny yeah or if you think of the tie fighter versus the rebel fighter the tie fighter
00:27:53.840 is supposed to be completely utilitarian like like a built by a civilization obsessed with
00:27:58.980 stripping out iconography from everything you don't see art you don't see like you would expect
00:28:04.500 like big imposing art in the empire but there's none of that a note here the reason why i'm so
00:28:09.620 aware of this is when i was a kid i had a star wars design book uh that specifically talked about
00:28:14.680 the design of the various ships and made it very clear that this was an intentional aspect of how
00:28:20.340 things were designed to show the empire is very utilitarian and stripped down while things like
00:28:28.100 Naboo were very gaudy and so I think that that's one reason why people are sort of like fresh drink
00:28:34.020 of water with Star Wars is because I like 40k I do like 40k but I also really like the if you look 1.00
00:28:41.260 at like the first order or something like that it's got a very protestant-y vibe to it right
00:28:45.400 like very clean outfits very you know even even the way the uniforms are done and everything like
00:28:51.140 that um so i i can see why the right has been seeped in right-wing futurism for a while now
00:29:00.640 i mean 40k being a darling of the right the god emperor calling trump the god emperor has been
00:29:06.520 going on for at least half a decade at this point and i only see continuing and i think also the
00:29:12.820 right is losing control of a 40k because you know leftists are infiltrating the brand and
00:29:19.120 are you serious you didn't tell me that make it awful yeah i mean they still do some good stuff
00:29:23.180 like space marines was really good um but um and there's a new one coming out soon so i'm excited
00:29:28.140 to try that and uh the um rogue trader was really good um but uh for the next game
00:29:36.200 sorry not the next game uh but uh the the cool thing about star wars is it's something that we
00:29:43.820 can actively colonize right because i think leftists felt they had ownership of it and when
00:29:48.380 it comes to something like saying no we own the empire the leftists can't push back on that right
00:29:56.780 like they can't no they don't want the empire no the empire is all about equality no the empire
00:30:01.760 isn't about oh okay i see so that yeah there's just no risk of them appropriating it because
00:30:06.260 anakin killed younglings or what what just because they're like overtly evil because it's the lore
00:30:11.000 the lore is that the empire is all of these and it's also us saying i don't care what you say
00:30:16.680 if you take anakin and you remove the bureaucracy of of palpatine and you say oh he's got a family
00:30:22.400 now he's got kids now he's got you're like yeah that's awesome and that's basically simone and i
00:30:27.220 simone and i look like aged up you know uh anakin and and amidala with the with all the kids and
00:30:34.060 everything and i think that that's something that people are excited about you know no it's it's uh
00:30:40.380 it's a that's i mean that's why so so one i guess subset of all some more are of our kids in the
00:30:45.940 futuristic our daughter titan murdering a some kind of hybrid dinosaur and our our sons octavian
00:30:52.720 and tex providing ground cover they wouldn't be stabbing the dinosaur they're too squeamish
00:30:59.200 titan's not but yeah i i a big subgenre of the of the meme posting was definitely just
00:31:04.600 empire thirsting basically which i can totally relate to a lot of people also did a lot of like
00:31:13.320 well why are they choosing this ip like they don't like that for whatever reason right now
00:31:18.460 it's star wars um they're like well but paul atreides is just anakin but smart like why
00:31:23.300 can't we do him yeah paul atreides would be great if you didn't have an hbo show butchering it right
00:31:28.780 i know dune the dude like yeah because the thing is people aren't reading dune because one look i 0.74
00:31:35.000 tried to read dune but it is so freaking whiny and i don't want to read forever about space muslims 0.99
00:31:41.920 I don't because that is like what so much of it is. 1.00
00:31:44.100 It's whiny, whiny, whiny and space, space, space, space, space Muslims. 1.00
00:31:48.180 And I'm really tired of it and I couldn't keep going. 1.00
00:31:51.100 And also, yeah, because we live in a post-literate society,
00:31:55.480 they have to go off the TV and movie-based lore and it's so bad.
00:32:00.320 Oh my God.
00:32:01.220 It is just whatever the name is, eye-rolling the whole time.
00:32:04.660 Zendaya is just like, oh.
00:32:06.160 Dune is my favorite universe when I was growing up.
00:32:09.960 It was like my.
00:32:10.700 You read it.
00:32:11.180 you haven't seen these movies but i i i watched it i watched all oh i guess they're all the old
00:32:15.760 movies but no one watches the old movies are great the old movies are great not the first one i don't
00:32:19.940 like the first one i like the sci-fi miniseries the most yeah with the hats well i guess they
00:32:23.660 all have that with the hats you know yeah but um the the new one i haven't even seen the latest
00:32:27.860 one because i just well you watched yeah the first one which is kind of okay the second one
00:32:30.940 was just zendaya i found the first one which you thought was kind of okay so unpalatable i just
00:32:34.660 couldn't get any oh and i actually i did watch the benny jezerite one too oh now malcolm's
00:32:39.040 throwing an image of Octavian and Tex defending our one sweet daughter, Industry. Yeah. Industry
00:32:46.720 Americus is the sweetest soul. We all call her IndieCat because she pretends she's a cat. 0.96
00:32:51.900 She goes, meow. She's going to make a guy very happy. Both of them are going to make a guy very 1.00
00:32:56.100 happy. It's just a guy with very different predilections. Very different predilections.
00:32:59.640 Look, there's someone for everyone. They will find their person and we will help them,
00:33:03.940 along with the other parents who've joined the index, our inter-family dating network of arranged
00:33:08.260 marriages which is not yet active but building up it's uh the pool for our benny jeseret
00:33:14.640 machinations because we do that too we really are what is what is wrong with us why are we
00:33:22.280 so dark coated why are we like um arranged marriages dating pool empire forever your
00:33:29.760 weird helmets behind you that was just me buying you gifts um i should have put my stormtrooper
00:33:36.600 helmet behind me but the kids have mostly destroyed it by this point which is okay
00:33:40.740 because that you know a stormtrooper helmet is meant to be to be used and worn yeah well you're
00:33:47.180 not going to wear it again you know you're no no you're you're no world this is true i'm hag 0.64
00:33:53.420 maxing i don't get to dress like anything but a hag you like this this family image yeah now 0.91
00:33:58.020 malcolm's put up an image of our five children aged up fighting their uh i guess classmates with 0.97
00:34:05.280 their swords oh no indy just has a stick oh because indy's too gentle to have a sword she 0.96
00:34:11.100 would never hurt anyone so she's like the the samurai who only fight with sticks death matches
00:34:15.820 are very common part of of life i'll do a video on the lore but uh yeah our family lore or no in
00:34:21.880 the in the broodfall universe in the in the techno puritan empire um fighting with sticks with the
00:34:27.360 fighting to the death among people in school is a part of how the school system is supposed to work
00:34:35.280 I'm not, I'm not into broodfall. There's, there's not enough love. I, you lost me at the preview
00:34:40.860 when there are baby insects. I'm coming for you. You don't know. I have to make it fascistic.
00:34:49.620 I've got to freak out the progressive. You don't, fascism doesn't require, what is this with Anakin
00:34:54.600 and younglings and you and the baby bugs and no fascism does not require. Everybody wants a school
00:35:02.120 system where everybody is murdering each other come on that's the like so cool and inspirational
00:35:07.180 am i annoying you to death no it's true one of my favorite uh high school show movies was
00:35:14.180 battle royale i just i felt it was just so perfect it was like for me the perfect high
00:35:20.140 movie battle royale so good so good but regardless this is our future the empire
00:35:30.060 because no one else is going to build anything.
00:35:33.260 And I kind of like that.
00:35:34.300 That's for the same reason why I think.
00:35:36.660 Oh!
00:35:37.340 What?
00:35:38.000 I have to share the video I made.
00:35:41.560 What?
00:35:43.420 Where there used to be a sun, there is now a home.
00:35:47.040 Dyson Sphere 7, the hearth of 400 billion souls.
00:35:51.900 Not a shell, children, a swarm.
00:35:55.040 Every piece in its own orbit.
00:35:57.220 Every piece catching its share of the light.
00:36:00.060 Is this supposed to be a Dyson Sphere?
00:36:03.200 Yeah.
00:36:03.840 This is how they'd actually have to be constructed.
00:36:06.160 You can't make them look a solid.
00:36:07.260 Every home in the sphere is exactly as large as it needs to be.
00:36:11.440 And only when it needs to be.
00:36:15.160 And every house may dress its home as its faith requires.
00:36:18.320 Here's our son Octavian with his favorite chicken.
00:36:20.260 Prefers the simple life.
00:36:22.240 A traditional breakfast with the Collins family on Dyson Sphere 7.
00:36:26.380 Oh my goodness.
00:36:28.040 People have about 10 kids a year in this universe.
00:36:30.060 This particular batch of infants has been optimized for rolls on ships and lives in zero-gravity environments.
00:36:39.140 But there is still room for personal hypotheses about what will perform best.
00:36:43.420 Comfort ended the old world, not war or plague.
00:36:47.640 It was a living hell.
00:36:49.540 People chose their life partners by how arousing they found them
00:36:53.240 and spent their days either performing menial labor in cubicles the simplest AI could handle
00:36:59.380 or staring at videos on a screen that had trapped them in an addictive dopamine loop.
00:37:05.980 More shocking still, it was a world without real competition.
00:37:10.080 Almost everyone lived to reproductive age, and even still, few exercised the right.
00:37:16.280 You're Torsten holding his rock.
00:37:18.460 In school, children compete as a test of honestly signaled fitness 1.00
00:37:22.560 and to prevent the dysgenic catastrophe of the 21st century. 1.00
00:37:27.160 Sorry about that. 0.73
00:37:28.840 Your left side was totally open.
00:37:31.740 Oh, no need to apologize.
00:37:34.020 Dying only hurts for a bit.
00:37:35.560 And it's better than my legacy being a substandard contribution to the gene pool.
00:37:39.680 Oh, my God.
00:37:41.060 Welcome.
00:37:43.840 You have problems.
00:37:47.400 This is what I did over Sabbath.
00:37:48.800 400 billion souls.
00:37:50.840 Classic Sabbath behavior.
00:37:52.680 So you got to go wish list this.
00:37:54.740 Oh, my goodness.
00:37:55.560 this is this is pure we gotta we gotta put a new sci-fi universe in the running and i think this is
00:38:01.440 just as dystopian fascististic as the other one it's it's ender's game except just people die
00:38:06.700 every round yeah ender's game but people die but that's only one small facet of the background
00:38:14.120 lore the game is different uh the game doesn't have anything to do with that part i actually
00:38:18.440 thought for the next game in the series um are you a student going through the that would be a
00:38:24.320 game i think uh playing as a a student as a like a dating sim almost oh my god um a dating sim but
00:38:32.000 in this like extreme murder sections yeah where you fight against other students to take ideas
00:38:37.220 what i'd want to do is i'd want to take ideas from three houses and a fire emblem um and work
00:38:43.480 them in to a school environment throughout the entire thing and like you permakill people who
00:38:51.300 you permakill who are classmates who could otherwise be your friends and on your team
00:38:56.120 so it's yeah it's a will they won't they dating scenario except when it's won't they it's because
00:39:00.660 you killed them because they were too weak yes and the will they it's because i guess you both
00:39:06.400 somewhat bested each other but not to the death great um great yeah uh i just want everyone to
00:39:14.460 be okay and happy which is why you wouldn't survive very long in this future oh my goodness
00:39:21.460 gracious welcome you'd be called a eugenicist in the in the terms of this world right because you
00:39:30.360 the general belief is you have to resolve dysgenics in some way and the alternative to this is a
00:39:37.100 council deciding what genes should be allowed and what genes shouldn't be allowed which is seen as
00:39:41.980 very very bad why isn't it just like laser tag or laser swords and you get sterilized instead of
00:39:49.100 killed because then you would still be a drain on the state and they don't treat death as a very
00:39:54.480 big deal because you're digitized and then live in an artificial environment that just doesn't
00:39:59.820 drain on reality um so they don't because like in the scene where you see him talking to the person
00:40:04.840 he just killed that person is living now in a digitized environment so like death isn't that
00:40:10.660 big a deal to them um and it does and when they die generally they get more like in your life
00:40:16.360 you're supposed to be very austere very goal directed um in any hedonism you wish to pursue
00:40:22.680 is something that you do after you die so life just gets like strictly easier and better when
00:40:28.080 you die um if what you want is hedonism or pleasure and so you're trying to spend your
00:40:33.380 life on whatever serves humanity's long-term potential the most and so you don't see dying
00:40:39.580 is necessarily a bad thing it's just a proof as the other character said that if you had survived
00:40:44.500 you would have burdened humanity with both your own incompetence and a substandard genetic
00:40:51.200 contribution oh my god how am i gonna deal with all this on x i'm not just let people say what
00:41:00.260 they want to say i do love you though i love you too you're very sweet i like that you found this
00:41:04.920 i thought some of these memes were amazing you just need a new one where it's me with the young
00:41:09.300 because that's basically where i've gone with this i know but it's it's so funny everyone else's
00:41:15.460 response to that was like oh that's just like clearly unbelievable why would they have that
00:41:19.300 plot point and you're like yes and this should be done at scale not enough let's build an
00:41:25.780 institution around this oh my goodness malcolm yeah they they uh i mean this is all just meme
00:41:34.640 posting and they don't realize in harry potter you know like they have the spell battles everybody
00:41:40.060 wants more people to die right like a number of students die in harry potter right and they also
00:41:45.880 get recruited as child soldiers in an actual war like that's what people want from your uh from
00:41:52.840 your sci-fi magical universes um yeah i guess the hunger games too there's a lot of the at least
00:41:58.900 like this was a maybe 10 years ago but that whole series of teen dystopia was basically
00:42:05.980 young people straight to the slaughterhouse and people ate it up but now they're all having
00:42:12.760 intimate relationships with monsters because that's what people are into now okay no that's 0.98
00:42:20.020 the thing well i've got to get more monsters i got neko girls in in the in the world as you can see 0.99
00:42:26.500 as one variant of humanity um they're the only variant that still breeds through uh organic 0.98
00:42:32.440 reproduction deco girl yeah the cat girls that you've seen in some of the scenes why them
00:42:38.680 uh because they breed true and so they can only have female children and that's considered a form
00:42:46.920 of gene drive which has been strictly banned in the empire due to the gene drive war where people
00:42:52.520 were essentially fighting genetically at the level of gene like the genes themselves which led to
00:42:59.960 in terms of the macro human like genetically dysgenic effects so they just banned genes that
00:43:05.340 could do that but nekos technically fall into that category because they breed true as a female only 0.61
00:43:11.000 variant of humanity only women are women cat girls are born how do they how do they reproduce 0.82
00:43:15.840 they have sex with other variants of humanity oh so cat girl plus human equals cat girl plus human 0.99
00:43:24.440 makes cat girl always in this um and so the the reason the cat girls breed organically and like 1.00
00:43:32.080 carry their own children and have sexual relations is because the banning of the gene drive 1.00
00:43:38.240 reproduction is only at the level of birthing tanks uh which are the artificial wounds and so 1.00
00:43:44.760 cat girls can't use artificial worms so they have to breed organically um which is put a lot of
00:43:49.960 no it's a very deep lore it's a stupidly deep lore um with all the wars and backstory and
00:43:56.820 why things are structured this way and um i remember when i first met you like before i
00:44:04.060 guess we had really good data access on our phones at all times you would walk around and
00:44:09.240 build stories in your mind and you told me about these like insanely deep stories and that just was
00:44:16.180 all in your head it was nowhere else it was just in your head and now you you're able to make video
00:44:20.780 games and movies around them and lore yeah and i'm very excited for them i think they're quite
00:44:26.020 exciting um i think this this universe is very fun i mean i i want i just want children to be loved
00:44:34.620 and like happy but yeah okay have a good one simone love you guys try out rfab.ai i made
00:44:44.280 that video that you just saw with the rfab.ai backslash api and it takes place in the brood
00:44:48.780 fall game world which has nothing to do with the school system what actually happens in the game
00:44:52.620 that's just a background detail that could be pulled on later um you're you're uh exterminating
00:44:59.720 a planet in the game it's your your goal with tower defense roguelike mechanics inspired by
00:45:04.900 inscription and a story and plot inspired by red alert um and a uh you're also the the mechanic
00:45:15.320 where a lot of the deeper lore comes in for the story uh playing a bit of a dating game where
00:45:20.420 you're trying to find your reproductive partner um and there's a few candidates and you uh can
00:45:26.980 attempt to woo them to reproduce um don't worry it's all heterosexual
00:45:33.780 nothing's gonna change oh actually it's not exactly all heterosexual uh in the lore um
00:45:43.040 there is one character who you can interact with who is already dead when you interact with them
00:45:48.000 but they felt same-sex attraction and took their own life um seeing it as the honorable thing to
00:45:55.260 do oh my god uh to be clear they obviously had access to a way to turn themselves straight
00:46:02.060 through genetic and hormonal modification uh but they felt internal resistance to doing this
00:46:07.960 and that internal resistance they saw as a sign that they were corrupted in some way
00:46:14.660 they live as an upload who uh lives sort of as an ai companion to the person that they had a crush
00:46:23.940 Sean, who is one of your potential wife candidates.
00:46:27.660 Again, we're building a fascististic, terrifying regime here for people.
00:46:32.940 Y'all are going to look.
00:46:34.160 I'll just make sure that somehow the lore book of this is searchable
00:46:37.140 so then I can answer people's questions
00:46:38.880 because I ain't going to learn more than this.
00:46:41.100 You're not going to learn more.
00:46:42.040 You don't want to.
00:46:42.800 I just want everyone to be happy.
00:46:46.300 I want the culture.
00:46:48.240 That's my sci-fi universe.
00:46:49.760 That's what I stand.
00:46:51.720 The culture is not.
00:46:52.620 that is to say does it explain how people reproduce enough that the culture exists
00:46:57.760 they don't need to so nobody dies that's why um yeah you don't have to die unless you want to
00:47:05.100 um and you can change your physical biology at any point so if you want to just date a baby okay
00:47:10.920 fine if you want to be a man for a while okay fine like no one cares it doesn't matter because
00:47:15.080 you can change everything about your body that you want to so whatever um it's it's fine people
00:47:20.540 have kids all the time people don't have kids it doesn't matter because ai is the best character
00:47:24.740 in the book anyway in the books i should say there's a ton but that's my that's my world
00:47:30.080 that's your world of ultimate freedom the techno puritans wouldn't allow that in the
00:47:33.420 techno puritan society you're not allowed to live we have fun like where is the fun in this
00:47:38.680 the fun well we'll see what what you you made your pitch for the culture we'll see which world
00:47:44.460 people want to engage with more okay well i didn't make a good pitch because it clearly i went
00:47:48.340 straight to the like the transing of it all because you were asking me like about the mechanics
00:47:52.640 of reproduction but that is like now it just makes it sound like some lgbtqia nonsense and
00:47:58.680 it's not that's because it's it doesn't matter like the whole point is you're looking at a world
00:48:03.580 in which human biology is no longer something that has constraints or even matters that much
00:48:07.700 and it's really more about intelligence and cool stuff the core by the way uh uh conflict in 0.65
00:48:13.420 humanity is between the the techno puritan faction and the the jewish groups that didn't
00:48:19.000 join the techno puritans some of them did who are the sadducees um who uh are a uh they're very fun 0.74
00:48:27.140 lots of lore there um i don't want to go too deep they do not like they do not like the kids killing
00:48:32.860 each other stuff so you would agree with the sadducees um but they they uh they do run on
00:48:40.800 what the techno puritans would consider eugenics um sort of a council deciding what's good and what's
00:48:45.580 bad right but anyway i love you very much i can drop more lore on this game or world if people
00:48:53.780 are interested in it may be good for a weekend episode i love you have a good day i'm excited
00:48:58.540 for my bulgogi tonight bulgogi night yes and wishlist wishlist wishlist please i second that
00:49:05.640 because you gotta make a call okay you ready for this because i'm so excited
00:49:09.880 yeah i'm ready we're doing bulgogi tonight with some sort of a green lettuce leaves yes and rice
00:49:19.160 and so we're going to see if ultimately you like it better with day-old rice and with 24-hour
00:49:24.460 marinated beef which theoretically is better because that's what that's what ai told me
00:49:30.300 that could be preferable because before it was just 30 minutes you know what i mean
00:49:34.520 not long enough yes i want fully saturated meat okay anything else anything else on your mind
00:49:43.560 i know there's all this drama going on we gotta make our gaiju gachujun sauce more
00:49:48.640 yeah less viscous because it's like so viscous the way they serve it in the united states it's 0.96
00:49:53.960 like very hard to paste on steak like you would if you're at a korean if i put it in addition
00:49:58.080 microwave it for like 10 seconds it'll make it it'll soften it up that's what we should do yeah 0.97
00:50:03.240 Do you want to dip it in that tonight?
00:50:04.420 I'll just make sure I have a little dish.
00:50:05.720 Yeah, yeah.
00:50:06.220 I mean, that's the typical way that this dish is eaten.
00:50:09.720 Bulgogi.
00:50:10.200 Oh, right.
00:50:10.920 Okay, sure.
00:50:11.540 Then I'll do that for you.
00:50:12.660 No problem.
00:50:13.860 And if it's not too much of a problem, I would love some eggs with the rice.
00:50:20.200 Yeah, like fried rice.
00:50:21.660 Yeah, like fried rice.
00:50:22.280 I thought it would taste really good with.
00:50:24.820 So just on top of fried rice, basically.
00:50:27.400 Yeah.
00:50:28.780 I can do that.
00:50:30.100 Okay.
00:50:30.800 Okay.
00:50:31.140 It was a quiet night in a quiet little town
00:50:35.640 Until something came down out of the sky
00:50:38.960 It was hungry
00:50:45.680 And here she comes, the royal herself takes the field 0.94
00:51:01.140 We'll be right back.
00:51:31.140 We'll be right back.