Humans are Bags of Meat (in Games)

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Sources:
We Play Doom with John Romero (IGN): https://youtu.be/YUU7_BthBWM?si=3877k3abc1tPAoBX
How Mortal Kombat Invented the ESRB (Nicole Carpenter): https://www.polygon.com/22346875/mortal-kombat-violence-esrb-ratings-lieberman
City of Darkness Revisited (Greg Girard & Ian Lambot, 2014)
They’re Made Out of Meat (Terry Bisson, 1991)
Gaming Magazines found via Archive.org
Forum post on gibbing: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.quake.misc/c/VRQIdF97Us4/m/D5Ici85V-igJ

Additional Voices by Big Joel and Mothcub
Additional editing by Isaac Holland
Additional Footage from Errant Signal: https://www.youtube.com/@ErrantSignal

Media shown: Slitterhead, Prototype, Humanity, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 1 (2023), DOOM, Quake, Quake III Arena, Half-Life, Blood, Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior, Killzone 3, Gears of War: Judgment, ULTRAKILL, The Pony Factory, Infamous, Bull Durham

Music Used (Chronologically): The King of Speed (Daytona USA), Graydo (Stealth Inc 2), Main Theme (Mortal Kombat), You Will Never Know (Katana Zero), The Last Man (Prototype), Memory in Death (Prototype), Remorse (Hotline Miami 2), Overture (Slitterhead), Shore of Wandering (Slitterhead), Within the Cage (Slitterhead), Parched City (Slitterhead), Night is Watching (Slitterhead), UnearthU (UnearthU), THRIVE (Humanity), MINGLE (Humanity), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), THRIVE (Humanity)

Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Storyblocks and Getty Images

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: “Meditations on Flesh” by Felicia Zamora

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