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Everything gangsta until the mute in the anime superplane hears the Slap Base Briefing Music

God I love this fucking series. I’ll have to check this video out on the weekend

Mr. Geller, may I recommend Nuclear Option as your next step on the path of the plane pervert?

Hell yeah

This is basically how I feel when I play classic Doom and Quake. I am tankman or bunnyman, respectively. Also why I felt the VR versions that add more human physics like hands that pick up guns never worked for me, the more basic VR ports where my hands or even my face just *is gun*, are way better.

Jacob, I emplore you, please watch the OVA series 'Yukikaze'. I don't want to spoil anything but it's totally thematically in sync with what you're talking about in this essay, and just an all-round great series. Really good video btw, nice work!

ok i have a ps2 emulator, I will totaly legaly obtain the game you say

Good video, Sartha

As a longtime fan of the series, I appreciate the vector your video approaches AC. Similar to the other AC (Armored Core), experiencing the arc of mastering the initially intimidating controls become the fundamental component of what makes these types of games so compelling, so unlike anything else.

I rescind my suggestion of space Sims. I ace combat may have changed you for the better. I don't want to know what's behind the door of elite dangerous for you

this is your sign to get on injections

insanely good. raising the bar yet again

for those living in darkness

"Morty! I turned myself into a video game plane to get out of family therapy Morty!" "Oh w-wow Rick this is just like that new Jacob Geller video on Ace Combat." "No it's completely different Morty he stole the idea from me! All his videos were my idea Morty! I'm Video Game Plane Rick!"

ACE COMBAT JACOB GELLER?????

Sending this to the robot girlies I know like I’m sprinkling catnip on them

I was surprised he didn't at least connect it back to Armored Core even if he didn't know much about mecha as a genre

from the same dude: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

i think a cursory mentioning of tetsujin 28 or gundam would've sufficed where he was like "ace combat is kind of like fast and furious" lol

ohhh so THATS why i was like "wow this is just like mecha" for the entire video

Mobile Suit Breakdown and Great Gundam Project. MSB is a long term sociological study of Gundam (half rewatch, half study session), and GGP is... well, the hosts half jokingly say that Gundam made them communists.

MinnMax did a deep dive on Armored Core 6 which Jacob Geller was on and was a good watch. Renata Price spends a lot of time on that talking about similar themes in the mecha genre.

reminded of racing games in a few spots of this video. abstracted controls; learning how your specific machine works and doesn’t; the way I start with TPP and end up driving from the hood or cockpit as I get more comfortable and attempt maximizing my performance. great video!

oh my god @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social now that you have a HOTAS can you PLEASE let me introduce you to the magic of the IL-2 flight sim series? I teach. We hop into a multiplayer server and just fly for a bit. This immersion you crave cranked an order of magnitude higher. Nothing like it.

Can you play armored core in that rig?

It's already happening, people are about to start telling him to try Digital Combat Simulator.

Man, what a great vid. No notes, just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it.

that sounds quite handy the wired over USB as I can't do a wired internet connection in my current setup

@jacobgeller.com just an update, so I uninstalled all META software and use new Virtual Desktop BETA with the USB cable option, and using AVC1 codec, smoothest and easiest Vr experience I’ve ever had. Every single game is locked 90fps without a single genuine issue. Rediscovered VR now.

Thank you very much for the reply :) I’m excited for steam frame with steam os to see if Vr finally becomes something that doesn’t require 3 hours to iron out every weird hitch and stutter to just enjoy a game :/

All planes, we're going to take back Gracemeria today!

vtol vr is also pretty god damn sick but with the caveat that it's virtual joystick only and doesn't allow physical joysticks without mods

Next you look Jacob Geller is gonna be reading Warhound

This was a great watch. I couldn't help but think constantly of Copperhead pilots from Timothy Zahn's Conqueror's Series during the whole thing.

Ty for your service + I had a heart attack seeing your Sniper shirt at the end 😭🫡 ive been working on my collection of them, they're so killer

Did you know... there are three kind of Aces?

What are your thoughts on airplane jail?

Folks who enjoyed this also should watch this @superbunnyhop.bsky.social classic (which is also about playing an action flightsim with joystick) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-E...

I enjoyed the title I got "I Am Turning Myself Into a Video Game Plane"

Also I laughed out loud when you discussed how bad the VKB software is. I despise dealing with it. I thought my NXT EVOs were broken when I got them because they didn’t calibrate them properly and they told me to just set it up in the software like that's easy to do.

I’ve seen a lot of Ace Combat videos in my frantic, obsessive journey with the franchise over the past year and a half. Some have been really good. Some have been kinda amateurish. This trumps basically every single one of them. A bsky comment really can’t do justice to how good this is.

The biggest Borgead in video essays made a video about the games that sparked an unhealthy obsession with warplanes? Can't wait!

You are ready for IL-2: Flying Circus

Also, tbqh you really need to play the rest of the series. As cool as the "Holy Trinity" are they're overly represented in the Ace Combat fandom and become the only thing many talk about. You need to go through it all. Earn your wings, claim your spot in the sky among the rest of us

What I wanna know is if you played Ace Combat 3's JP version or not? If not, you REALLY need to get through it for some retrospective on your thesis here

This is perhaps still one of the most poignant and resonant passages I have read in any piece of fiction. WARHOUND got me into the scene, but I think Steel Jaws is what kept me here. Love, dignity and understanding ❤️

I didn’t really have an expensive midlife crisis. No jetskis or motorcycles for me, thank fuck. So maybe I can now justify spending lots of cash on a sweet kit as shown in your entertaining video.

"DO YOU SEE ANY BORDERS FROM UP HERE, CIPHER"

It’s very surreal to see a YouTuber play a series you love and have exactly the experience and takeaway you would hope for - just listened to it twice at work

Have you ever watch mainline Gundam? This is kinda all it’s about, humanity evolving into more empathetic, but better at killing, newtypes. Piloting mechs. Highly recommend!

i've been thinking about the helicopter story the entire time

I certainly didn't.

"i bet jacob geller would get a kick out of helicopter story" said i shortly before jacob geller started talking about helicopter story

came here to say exactly this! Ace combat 3 covers all of the themes Jacob mentioned in the video, even if playing it is a slog compared to what comes after

jacob geller is experiencing tgirl pilot autism & mechsploitation in real time before our very eyes

like I had already seen the nebula title and watched the first ten minutes going "damn this is the most metaphorically trans video he's ever made" and then BAM, there it is