Addiction counseling in a nutshell

_THIS VIDEO IS GENIUS_ The hardest enemy is the programming itself. The cultural perspective, the tropes and premade choices. Tis' the real limit of all RPGs even life itself. No individual can beat it, but weaving a support network and one day building alternatives to modernism that won't bring forth more death and lies, that will help. But like a seed, it takes time. Tis the real pace of life.

@@richardpeterson7002 The hardest enemy was addiction.

It's his brother not his therapist

All therapists need therapists

Would have never guessed you were watching this stuff, Donut. That's pretty cool.

Bootlicker

Ayyy

Damn son your angry sheriff video is up next in my recommended

This is straight wacker.

indeed he is

I'm going through something very similar atm, and this surprisingly was very therapeutic to watch

I dunno, I think he's Drayloths brother maybe he's being forced into therapy. Would explain why he isn't seeing any progress

@@RainAngel111 this is also a possibility. An intervention of the bad guys to change his nature with the motivation of good intentions wouldn't yield much lasting progress given the context of the world they live in, but it could. Would it be good for him though? Who knows? His brother's got the protagonist cowl. Maybe there's no need to be who they once were. Similar happens with addiction intervention and prison rehab. Either way, I like it. Makes this little short much more than just a short. Really meaningful in a lot of ways, and definitely one of my favorites.

they could be the same person

How does this have 1.2k likes and no comments?

​@@James_Randalyou ruined everything

@@unhommequicourt You too.

@Neon, An Normal Person! You four.

@@James_Randal This was perfect, wtf. You ALL ruined everything!

I laughed so hard at your comment that I punched a cushion!

@@geekdivaherself rip cushion

That’s beautiful

@@geekdivaherself It's good that you're feeling these happy emotions but don't lose yourself in the aggression. Always keep your head up. You know... to see that you're not developing an enemy health bar.

Please it could be like another attachment for the plushie you could buy too like sold separately or something

Pure Lenkarski on Lenkarski wholesomeness.

His voice is so funny, I get flashback to when he got the news of the town rat being dead omf 🤣😂

What a hole some ending

Don’t lie you cried when you heard about how Francesco was

I detect pain in your words

He probably is, I mean, wouldn't you be tired after living a live where all you can do is just.. endlessly scream?

But, he got to "Brother." He's progressing.

I mean yea of course

As a person with Bipolar Disorder.. I can sadly relate with how that feels. Especially under the dark spell of Mania.

@@KamenRider1 this comment takes the cake and the whole party

Townton is so beautiful this time of day

THAT'S BECAUSE THEY CAN'T DO IT

@@geofreycrow9663 i wonder if they have a new stock of cheese wheels at the corner market

that's because it's not over. Dogan will continue to get better, as we all will.

@@MarcyRavenManji Dogan wouldn’t even be there is he wasn’t trying to better himself at some level. Let me be clear. There is no guarantee that he will succeed, either short term or long term. This isn’t some escapist fantasy plot. He might not make further progress. He might make progress and then reverse course. We just don’t know. Dogan doesn’t know. That’s where the poignancy is.

I totally read your comment in an angry baddie voice.

@@MarcosElMalo2 I'm well aware of that, but I take some liberties with my interpretation in order to choose a more optimistic view. You can say it's setting yourself up for disappointment, which is fair, but I believe it's a matter of facing your heart and mind in the right direction.

@@MarcyRavenManji I agree. The world is a dark place, and that just makes it all the more important for us to look for light, and that often means making our own light.

Therapists are people who make a life on the misery of others, using psychology to give the illusion that they are helping you. If you need to talk to someone, talk to a family member, a good friend, not just any friend. Always be cautious who you tell your problems too because some people will use it against you. Never tell coworkers your problems, they might use it to gain leverage, especially if you or they are in the upfront for a promotion, but never talk to someone who is being paid for it, otherwise you are nothing but a case, an interesting point of data, and a positive thought in their mind of you being a stable fixed income for them.

i say that about every major character in Naruto a lot of issues in their universe could be solved, if only they had a therapist jutsu

Final Fantasy 7 strongest class ; The therapist

Villain: With all 14 power crystals I will finally be unstoppable! I will no longer feel the pathetic weakness that's consumed me ever since my wife died! Adventure: Oh shit homie, you wanna talk about it?

this makes me think of high speech runs in fallout new vegas, you encounter the strongest most terrifying man in the land and just have him talk about his feelings until he agrees to leave

Never thought I'd see you here lol

Yep. I wish i got into playing D&D sooner in life. I read wizards of the coast books for years, then a player noticed and invited me to play.

oh hey it's Ramsey Dewey

@@kakacarrotcake2767 idk who he is.

@@alex.g7317 very informative and charismatic martial artist.

Ouch I feel personally attack lol

Self care is so important uwu

I know that feel all too well lmao

Ooh I just learned about this in Victimology. Fascinating class. First responders, counselors, therapists, etc. often experience "vicarious trauma," which is the second- or third-hand trauma that they experience when they are witness to a traumatic event or hear/learn of a traimatic event when interacting with their patients/subjects. This obviously leads to negative mental and physical effects on first responders, etc., etc., and is often characterized in media as the "grizzled/jaded detective." Fascinating stuff!

How can you help others if you can't even help yourself?

Counsellors have to have therapy to make sure theyre not doing this

taking a step out of a bubble, and then going back in the bubble, isn't regression - it's progress. He'll take that step more and more and more until there is no more bubble.

@@awemowe2830 exactly!!

@@awemowe2830 Wrong. Two things can be true at the same time. It's progress from the norm, but it's still regression to go back into that behaviour. Realistically speaking there's also no guarantee any more steps will be taken. "Until there is no more bubble" is just unrealistic wishfull thinking. There's also the fact that taking too long to step out of that bubble again (which, again, there's no guarantee of) can and probably *will* hurt others who have to deal with your sh*t, which eventually becommes too much for them. (and they give up, which is perfectly justified) Thank you for comming to my TED-talk.

@@schnek8927 Hey that's very well written!

@@dundeecake Not really, they spelled "wishful" and "becomes" wrong and used profanity to get their point across. 4/10 C-

It takes small steps. Dogan is getting there, but it takes time. He greeted his brother. It’s a big small step. He’ll get there eventually

Dogan not monster, he living being like all us. luv u dogan

The monster?

no monsters here fam. just people with problems

Or he is a species that evolved to be in solitude and gains joy and fulfillment from killing other species, thus our human interpretations of its emotional reactions is always going to relate to what works best for human beings. Humans are extremely social creatures that tend to "lash out" when they're feeling vulnerable, vulnerability stemming from other issues of course may it be trauma, psychological, etc. But this thing? We have to remember that as animals we only have our one understood experience, and thats as a Great Ape called Homo-Sapien. We don't know what dogs "see" or how they truly sense the world using those extremely powerful noses of theirs. Of course we can pretend to have a stronger sense of smell, but our brain didn't evolve to utilize this sense to the extremes some Canines have, could their sense of smell be visual? Could it be some sense that isn't in our 5 base senses? It very well could. A human thats been blind for life has difficulty comprehending how a Pen and the Ocean can both be "blue". To us, its ridiculously easy to understand why and we even come up with explanations that we can understand easily, but none of that assists this Blind individual in comprehending what blue is and how 2 completely different things can both share that attribute. Now imagine a sense we don't have, we can't lol. Its beyond our comprehension, we need to "experience" it first before our brain can truly try and sort out the received info and make something of it, but alas we do not have the sense to gather this unknown information therefore it'll always be unknown to us. So can we comprehend the conscious experience of a cockroach? A whale? a centipede? A T-Rex? A cat? Bird? Waterbears? Nope! Hence why there is still some Bias that exists in where humans think they're the only "Conscious" beings. Why? Because That individual just so happened to be a Human, On Earth, an intelligent species relatively speaking. If that individual showed up as a Polar bear or a Gorblax on some other planet, they wouldn't be saying that, they would be doing what Bears and Gorblax's do. In other words, you're a human, you're conscious and you're going to think you're special and you most definitely are! But you're not the only one. Life in itself isn't created by the set instructions in the DNA, that is Data that can be read to build proteins that allow for an organism to function. So what is telling the cells where to go? What to transform into? When to do it? How is it we have cells diverge into 2 completely different directions, replicate and form almost a 100% copy of each other, mirrored, aka left/right hands? Some folks have found evidence of "Bioelectricity", a system that utilizes the electric properties of these cells to quite literally guide the cells in the correct direction by forming what needs to be built in a 3 dimensional energy like pattern. Fascinating at the least. My Hypothetical which is incorrect, but fun for me to discuss because its a hypothetical is that our brain functions in the same manner. Organizing the mess of information our senses receive through a complicated 3 dimensional network of Neuronal networks, glial cells, etc that form an ultra complex 3D energy pattern. What can read this 3 dimensional energy pattern and interpret it as "Red"? The only thing that permeates the entirety of the brains atomic structure is Space, Consciousness seems to be the same thing in all of us, an agent who doesn't age but experiences a unique experience through a physical aging biological machine, where we all at the fundamental level understand eachother. So with this in mind, me, you, the cockroach, the bear, the alien species, the advanced AI's, anything complex share the same consciousness, space, and this consciousness feels as though it is individuals as every individual gains a unique perspective the instant they exist, from all corners of the universe itself. What better way to learn about yourself than to experience yourself through quintillions of perspectives utilizing thousands of different senses?

But did you hear about Francesco's appetite though? I'm glad the boy's okay.

You know everything you see, read and process through your thoughts, is being interpreted as your own, that's called projection and you're empathizing towards yourself and this Draloth character

Same boat as you rn 😭✊

@@bryanastua8254 sure, but while all of us live life throught the same specter of events and emotion ( alchoolic father relation for example ) , we can all relate to the idea of personnal trauma that we deliver with aggressivity and shame and hate. But in the end , whats important is to accept life and be a peace with our emotion. Only then we can be truly happy in all its simplicity.

But... He is just a Rat

but Marshall is a rat.

Sadly Drayloth didn’t go into the therapy business until after that whole “Marshall is evil now” thing.

Well to be fair he was a rat, he had no moral compass

Instead, he has a gun. It's a commentary on America... (in the medieval era) - (...I now want to see entertainment set in a medieval version of America)

I slayed him hard. greatest experience in my life

Sorry. He dropped a crude sword only.

I'd really like a follow-up to this one.

I liked when dogen called him brother

DONT GIVE UP ON DOGAN!

It's more accurate to compare it to raising a mentally disabled child than helping an addict.

@@aminulhussain2277 Never compare miseries. All are equally horrific.

@@nancy4366 That's rather rude to say.

living with someone you've loved all your life and their existence 99% their dementia and that 1% is @03:39

@@aminulhussain2277 oopsy. You did an ableism.

There’s never enough in a bag

I'm always consuming it halfway in a kitchen cupboard in my underpants.

@@AliLightfoot Couldn't have been more relatable 😅

*Inserts Death Note Reference*

@@toastsneggs *eats chips epicaly*

That was the best advice i have ever heard

And to ad to that. You can only help those who want that help.

Advice: deflected

@@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063 Right beside "The red line doesn't show that you're an enemy to others, but an enemy to yourself."

I think he's saying "Feast on your soul"

@@BrokVoekler absolutely and he was saying yep I used to feast on souls, but in this slightly different way, too

I heard “face of your soul” too and I lost it when he said “that’s right it’s me.”

"Your soul" is the operative part, IE: He's acknowledging , in his way, who the toy is supposed to be. "Your" soul, it's "you".

I have seen what you're talking about in people I have interacted with.

Well it takes a good brother to see that. A lot of people can care but also have trouble seeing.

Keep those moments in your heart when you and he are struggling. :( i hope he can have the chance to be him more often.

I wish the both of you well.

It takes more strength and courage than most ever find to allow yourself to be hurt like that. Well done.

I love how on this channel I never know where the story is gonna go. UKposts nowadays is mainly content that is the same everywhere, just done by a different person. Here, you never know how the video is gonna end, its unique and i love it.

@OrdonityX in the "returning to an RPG" vid the protagonist had an npc wife who kept saying two sentences, "townton is so beautiful this time of day" and "do you think they got a new shipment of cheese wheels in at the corner market today?" and the guy bought all the cheese wheels in the game for his wife :D

@OrdonityX In one of the RPG videos, the MC has an NPC wife and sherepeats dialouge about cheese so the MC buys all the cheese in the village to show her in hopes she'll say something different.

@OrdonityX playlist for it is linked in the description, The RPG Series

"Look, this is every cheese wheel. In the game" "Townton is so beautiful this time of day" "AAAHH" "I love her... Yeah"

Ī think the old man is the one who had a rat, the voice is the same and the protagonist had a moustache

Same, and it is indeed okay and important to take care of yourself first.

You took the words out of my mouth. Well said.

Damn my dude, we’re with you

Well said 🥺

Tried to say "Brother" to my sister but she looked confused for some reason

@@ElTapy2312 Do it in your best hulk hogan impression that will clear all of her doubts

They can’t sell them, they only have one

Yes, but therapists who only listen are some of the worst kinds. You might as well talk to a rock.

The other guy isn't a therapist, he's an old guy who takes care of the town rat. They're just friends talking, not having a therapy session.

@@benjadryl_7393 To be fair, friends talking can be its own therapy.

@@KaylaJoyGunn You may simply have the kind of situation that needs to be listened to. A lot of people lack a space where they can put their thoughts into something as concrete as words to be spoken to another. Doing that alone is structuring how you perceive your life and removing the miasma of vague unhappiness.

​@@KaylaJoyGunnin that case, he just let go of being a therapist for a while to talk about private things with a friend.

yeah man, it just hits you with such unexpected simplicity

I can tell when there's pain in your words.

i don't really think that was intended for comedy, at least only partially

That's the best kind of comedy.

@@fl3m1n9o4 therapeutical comedy

this is actually a common trend with web series, they usually start out as comedic one offs or maybe a brief initial series that then become deeper and more serious as time goes on, the creativity of the writers gets deeper and people get attached to the characters. Series like Red Vs Blue, Stupid Mario Brothers, Epic NPC man and others have all had this.

@@louthinator I don’t believe I’m familiar with any of those. I will have to take a look into them when I have some time. But I might be bias considering how much I personally like Joel’s series

@@Curlorly06 I'm surprised you've not heard of red vs blue considering it was basically the originator of the genre

@@louthinator what can I say? I have a talent for not keeping up with the times

The Haververse!

I was once Dogan Injector of Speedballs, Eviscerator of Crack Rocks now I'm Dogan Drinker of Methadone (and a little beer 🍻). Hope too one day just be Dogan again... small steps 💪💯

@@sdvanglahn5001 Hope you're still doing well! Glad to hear someone broke from the prison.

​@@sdvanglahn5001 "Brother" 💪💪 that's incredible my guy that health bar is fading away already!

Trent +1

I'm sure they could make a ton of money from Drayloth plushies. Especially if they included the removable health bar attached with Velcro.

@@BaddGirl420 boy do I have news for you, they are literally selling that

@@BaddGirl420 4:06

Im a therapist too, the plushie seems like it could unironically be useful with clients!

@@shadowsage1 right? I was thinking especially with Teenagers who might find the plushie funny as a way to get them into the idea of therapy, or even with kids who might think it's cute and fun 😊

Not going to lie, they had been keeping the frame cropped close to his head, and I swear the older guy was looking up as if above the other guy's head, and I expected him to have his bar back.

HUNDREDS OF CHEESE WHEELS

What a great town rat.

And it’s all tied up in a plushie ad too! Like this type of advertising is the only type I fuck with

I think you mean hamstrings

yeah, exactly...... ♥

Heck yeah!

We are doing! Just... slowly.

Watch SPINE OF NIGHT

@@ECSizemore Looks interesting. Will prolly check it out. Thanks bro

@@Sithreis it’s not really comedy tho. It’s very HEAVY METAL MOTION PICTURE esque, mature fantasy, but rotoscoped animation. It’s great 👍🏻

I get moments like that when caring for my mom. Sometimes after days of drunken anger and self loathing, you'll get a glimpse of the person who they are deep down, the person they used to be. It's bittersweet.

As non-native English speaker what does dogan says after brother? I'm struggling to understand

@@sukuidoardo after, it seems he shouts "I will rip you limb from limb."

@@sukuidoardo I think he says "I will rip you limb from limb"

It's a good way to tell someone you know very well "Hey, I know you. We're friends. Be open. It's okay."

Copping a feel usually refers to geting some boobs or ass. Just sayin'.

@Johnny Khomlately says allot about ya bud?

for real though

Totes! We're building more for-profit prisons! What a great investment for the future! /s

That or Drayoth hides Dogan from Jacob so Jacob doesn't discover that he didn't beat the game yet and that there might be another questline

The hardest enemy in an RPG are ourselves, our own inner struggles.

It's not the hardest to kill him. It's the hardest to let him keep suffering like this.

This sums up the pacifist route of Undertale very nicely.. I miss that game..

hes kinda underrated imo. I'm always happy to see him in a video and know its gonna be a great one when him and Joel are both working together on it.

This character was just made for Trent, too.

has his own channel too

I get it. Its so hard just feeling like an empty shell completely at the whim of my own mental instability (at least that's how it feels for me). Its awful and debilitating when people just tell you to be yourself and you don't even know who that really is. That being said, hang on man, we'll both get through this, life isn't hopeless even when it feels like it is.

@@clairebourke8465 Wow, I relate hard to this. As someone with anxiety/OCD and sensory issues that trigger agitation and anger, I feel the same way, to where I really struggle with trusting myself to make good, sound decisions without outside confirmation from someone. It’s hard to get comfortable in your own skin when you feel so emotionally uncomfortable most of the time.

@@clairebourke8465 Thank you. 🥹 It's a true struggle living like this and being misunderstood. Especially here in the Philippines/East Asia where we treat mental illnesses with such callousness that they think they can "pray" it away. There's no way to go but up, really. We just have to keep fighting the good fight. That's the most important lesson I learned as a Martial Artist struggling with this thing. Keep safe and always remember that you're not alone in your journey to find peace. 🙏♥️🥋

​@@mariecarie1 Been awhile. Am in a dark place again after a long time. I hope you've found the peace that I never seem able to attain. 🙏🐇

@@KamenRider1 Still about the same. Always will be to some extent, but it gets better at times. Still learning how to ride out the hard times without being too hard on myself. Hang in there.

Did I miss an episode?

@@EikottXD type in, "Townton is so beautiful this time of day" to search bar

@@hatless_spider i wonder if they got any new wares at the market today.

@@audunms4780 A new shipment of cheesewheels!

It sounds like he's somehow arranged to lessen the cheese wheel distribution problem, give him time.

Sometimes the bad red man just wants a friend.

Other times, he wants to ride you like a meat toboggan.

I love invading just so I can hang around the host and attack any other reds that try invading. If the host is especially chill I’ll drop some goodies too.

No tolerance for reds that invade just to loiter like some homeless bums. There are people working multiple jobs to keep their families alive... Cherish your gaming moments, don't waste them. If there's "nothing left for you to do in game" why still on the couch?

Man, reminds me of how I use to invade as a mad phantom all the time and just hang with the host killing invaders for them and occasionally leading new players to loot. I miss it.

You should start dipping.Copenhagen would be best

@@operation_maddog lmao tf kind of response is that

Poor Dogan hungers for love He claims to want to feast on your soul, but what he needs is a feast for his soul