The Bizarre Connection Between Steve and the End Poem

No, you're not seeing things - this is a reupload because the last video had an issue. For those watching again, welcome back!

The way the players form their form of the Minecraft Lore is fundamentally the same way humanity uses to explain the real world. We look at the evidence given by the real world and try to come up with "Laws of Physics" to be able to explain the world around us, but we can never see the actual laws of physics to see if ours are correct. We can only see if our rules align with what actually happens.

This channel makes me feel the same excitement i felt watching vsauce or game theory as a 10 year old

RetroGamingNow back with another Minecraft existential crisis, and i loved it!

Hey anyone else realize Retro does his own music? It's pretty dang good for what I'm guessing is just some free MIDI on a personal DAW and stuff. As a percussionist I appreciate all those nice features from vibes marimba and triangle and a musician in general it sounds nice.

You know, I've always wondered who the player actually is, how he spawned, his story, his lore and canon, everything! Thank you for explaining this topic so good RGN! ❤

The end poem was deeply special for me when I read it for the first time.

I think the vagueness of the stuff within Minecraft is one of the many factors that made it popular to begin with. Why tell a story with a middle and end when you can just plop the player in an empty world with a few mobs and landscapes and have them make up a story?

After waiting patiently for this video, which we've known was coming for probably at least 2 years, I can tell you it did not disappoint. It's a shame that YouTube in 2023 is filled with so much 'content'. Some like to blame a specific individual for that, to which I have no comment, however your videos, this one in particular, is not just content. The time, care and dedication put into this project can be clearly seen through what has been made. This is what YouTube was created for. I hope this video achieves the success you deserve. Additionally, I found some things quite profound. The dream - human - interface - reality model you used is very close to an idea from the philosophy of mind called the 'veil of perception', which states that we do not and cannot experience the objective world directly. We experience qualia, AKA 'the immediate objects of perception. The clearest example to demonstrate this is colour; there's nothing colourful about different wavelengths of light, colour is a qualium. I had a strange experience during the video thinking about this, a moment of hyperbolic doubt where I wondered how different the objective world may actually be. Anyway, this video I truly felt was impactful as I hoped it would be, so I have added £20 to the fundraiser which I hope will go to good use. That's about all I wanted to formally say. Thank You.

Amazing video, I loved the inclusion of the End Poem. All these things you mentioned combined, made me realize why Minecraft feels so unique. Kudos to you!

HALLELUJAH WE'VE BEEN BLESSED BY RETROGAMINGNOW HIMSELF

I'm someone with an extremely high mastery of my dreams. I can practically lucid dream on command, to the point that I can stop nightmares from happening, from inside the nightmare. Having such a deep understanding of literal dreams really helped the dream metaphor click, and for the first time the individualistic nature of the game's lore finally makes sense to me. There is one singular right answer, but by design there are also no wrong answers. I don't have to wrack my brain in a logistical way, trying to make the puzzle pieces fit together to form a full picture. It's impossible. It's a 1000 piece puzzle we have 100 pieces of. Instead, we're meant to use our minds in a creative way. Filling the empty spaces in with what we think makes a good, cohesive picture. Turning the seeds of what small hints we have into a flourishing story in our own imaginations. I think one could even say there is no lore. By choosing not to participate in the story, you remove the perceived world, thus there is no "dream."

after spending a week+ clearing an ancient city, hearing the sculk sensor sfx in the bgm made me jump each time for the first 5 mins of the video. Never been more engaged

Bro is past the 4th wall bro escaped to the 5th wall 💀

One minute in and I'm already rethinking what's life

Ahh yes, finally, a classic RGN Deep Dive, the whole reason I love his channel. PLEASE do more of these, PLEASE 🙏!!!!!!

I am going to rephrase what I said from the previous version of this video because I rarely saw any comments about it, but Retro, thank you for reading out that message from that anonymous discord user. at the end I give my condolences to them. I am lucky enough to still have my parents, but I know that losing them is an eventuality. Cherish the moments you have with them right now, so you don't regret when they're gone forever. You all need to keep in touch with your parents! Thank you.

This is hands down the best video ive ever watched on this platform the dream concept is incredible the editing on this was phenomenal amazing job man.

masterpiece of a video.. you've outdone yourself yet again! <3

When the trails and tales update came out I got to work and created a foundation on the server I play on for finding, excavating, preserving AND coming up with lore behind all minecrafts ruins, structures and other mysteries. I've even written a minecraft book about the protocols and requirements for each of the ruins and structures. Some of what inspired me to do that are your videos! Absolutely love the way your ideas tie a lot of things together.