Sometimes I Get Deeply Into Polygon Videos Explaining Video Game Mechanics, Since I’m Studying Game

BDG Outfit Rates Vol. 2

(Here we go again baebyyyyy)

I’m slowly phasing out any semblance of actual ratings.

“Someone Give the Polygon Office Skeleton an Employee of the Month Award”

A truly innovative look for day to day wear. very spooky/10

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had to refrain from calling bottom (from a midsummers night dream) a ‘himbo’ on my zoom theatre meeting. shakespeare is rolling in his grave

Polygon person streaming on twitch: H-

Me, prepping to talk to the same 10 people who are always in chat about whatever the fuck:

“Ayo can I gape in here?”

hey um,,, i learned how to use audacity’s time shift tool to make this because i thought it would hurt a lot but be viscerally satisfying at the same time

and i was right! (wait for it, i swear it’s worth it.)

nothing and I mean nothing - will ever be more powerful than clayton saying “I’m the masochist”

rbing to add:

- Bri’s old youtube channel, PlasmaP, which has some fantastic and beautiful solo songs (my favorite is the humble knight but disclaimer is also a BOP)

- Pat and Bri’s shortish eight-episode series Brian’s First Half-Life which includes Brian doing his best to play video games and conversations about things ranging from food crimes they’d commit to Woodstock to bee guns. There’s also some bonus Smash Bros content where you can watch them come up with increasingly dumb Smash Bros loadouts (pinball, anyone?

- The E3 testing streams where you can watch Pat insult an AirBnB, Brian sprint around a pitch-black California suburban neighborhood after having Escaped His Confinement, and Tara talk about feet. This is not a joke.

bdg content that isn't unraveled

ALRIGHT

we all know and love polygon’s unraveled series, but you know what else deserves attention? brian david gilbert’s original content!! ive seen people recommend different shows and things that he’s done replying to other posts but haven’t seen a masterlist of everywhere you can find his stuff, so here it is (including links!) :

HIS PERSONAL CHANNEL

a collection of mostly short surreal humor videos with a couple series thrown in for spice.

my personal favorites: how to make jorts, the series Dances Moving (only a ~25 minute series but a true gesamtkunstwerk that will punch you in the gut), and Bri and Jo’s Tryin’ Show (aka what evolved into lmam a few years later. if you look in the descriptions after episode two, you’ll find the link to the full streams!!)

LET’S MAKE A MUSIC

a wonderful series of 30-minute comedy podcasts where Brian, his sister Laura Kathryn Gilbert, and their roommate Jonah Scott take suggestions from twitter users and use them to a write a new song every week! they’re currently on a hiatus (might be coming back at some point?) but there are 41 episodes to feed the content hunger

my personal favorite episodes: Thankstaking with Mr. Dad (2), Smooth as Wax (5), and Horsecar (34). find their music here on bandcamp where you can download the songs for $1 each or $5 for an album to support them

THE ALTOGETHER

a band consisting of bdg, Jonah Scott, and Jonah’s sister Sierra. they recently leaked that they’re releasing an LP soon and ive been thinking about it for days. find their music on youtube (linked above) or spotify. im listening to them while putting together this very long post

my personal favorite songs: Follow Through, Clean Slates State, and Let’s Be Realistic. also every single other song

LESSER KNOWN POLYGON SHOWS

this is last because it’s not necessarily his own content, but content that still deserves attention

Gill & Gilbert: a variety show (sort of) about video games (vaguely) where bdg and Patrick Gill play video games with weird challenges (like having to carry each other when they climb on a colossus in Shadow of the Colossus, or piling bananas on their shoulders while playing Donkey Kong). probably my favorite thing on youtube right now

my personal favorite episodes: the two I just mentioned and cucco nugget feast, though I would recommend watching this in order. they develop a lot of running jokes that are more way fun if you’ve seen it all

Week in Revue: I think one of the first things Brian did for polygon where he rapped/sang about video game news. like most polygon shows, it evolves into a psychological horror. this one I would recommend watching in order as well

Good Cheap Games: only four episodes long but very interesting videos mostly about his thoughts on indie games. a very weird experience as he is outside in one episode, a place I didnt know he was aware of. not listing favorites because there are only four episodes, watch them all

I think that’s everything I know about but if you have anything else, please feel free to add on!

I’m purely convinced Brian David Gilbert is an other worldly faeish being

i cannot express the very specific feeling of finishing the finale of dances moving, the most beautifully crafted and heartbreaking story brian david gilbert has ever produced, reaching the last few seconds of the video, reflecting on the raw emotion behind a simpleness of it, thinking about life,

and then

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