Arkham Asylum is over.

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  @MicahEdmonds · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Hey thanks for being here! This video discusses some pretty serious topics, some of which may trigger sensitive discussions in the comments, so before heading down, just be aware of that. Please feel free to talk in the comments below and to offer alternative viewpoints about the game (that's a large part of what this particular video is about). I'm a small enough channel to control what goes on in my comments though, so any sign I see of unhealthy conversation which belittles, diminishes or discriminates will be instantly shut down. I work hard on my videos, so let's please keep being nice to everyone while you're at my place. Thanks!

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  @Goobywoobygoo · 4 years ago

  “Why is Killer Croc here? He has a physical disease not a mental one.”<br><br>He also lives in the sewers, eats raw meat, and thinks he’s a crocodile pretty sure that qualifies him for Arkham, lmao.

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  @BlueSpams · 4 years ago

  Wait hold up, people don’t like Asylum’s opening? I think it’s great. It’s far from slow and like you said it’s almost breakneck in pacing considering everything they’re throwing at you. They’re setting so much up in just a few minutes while also letting you build up that anticipation.

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  @alexanderchippel · 4 years ago

  I can&apos;t fault Quincy for wanting Joker dead. Anyone with even the basic understanding of psychology knows that the Joker isn&apos;t insane. He&apos;s evil. He knows what he&apos;s doing is wrong, and he still does it because he likes causing harm to others. <br><br>Joker isn&apos;t an agent of chaos. He&apos;s an agent of suffering.

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  @trumpflavourednugget9325 · 4 years ago

  Arkham knight was actually an unreal engine 3 game as well. Crazy how it looks better than most unreal engine 4 games

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  @potatorecipe742 · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s great to see 3 hour videos still being made about this game even after 13 years

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  @snowblind9551 · 4 years ago (edited)

  In the Arkhamverse, hardly any of the Arkham patients are insane. A lot of them are psychopaths, i.e. mentally ill but still sane. It&apos;s a misconception that mental illness and insanity are synonymous. Joker, Zsasz, and Penguin are psychopaths/sociopaths, as in they are impulsively, remorselessly violent yet still lucid enough to fathom morality, consequences, and to stand trial. At best, Joker feigns insanity so he&apos;s not executed. Scarecrow&apos;s doctor explicitly said he&apos;s not insane, just &quot;evil&quot; (i.e. a psychopath.) Batman personally diagnoses Riddler with narcissism and severe obsessive compulsion, which, once again, are mental illnesses but not insanity. The only reason villains like Ivy, Freeze, Clayface, Bane, and Croc are held at Arkham is because their superhuman physiology requires specialized treatment. Furthermore, Arkham Origins retroactively establishes that most of Gotham&apos;s supervillains are simply transferred from Blackgate to Arkham due to its incompetence as a proper holding facility, not just Joker&apos;s goons. So for all intents and purposes, Arkham Asylum is a maximum security prison with a misleading name. Nothing more, nothing less. The only rogues who actually belong in Arkham are Harley and Two-Face, because they have psychosis/dissociation.

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  @takingthemick1396 · 4 years ago

  The story literally explains why croc is there. All Blackgate inmates were transferred to Arkham, the reason croc is in the sewers is because Arkham doesn&apos;t have the proper facilities to contain him.<br><br>One of the riddles shows the first cell croc was in, the bars are broken and there is a skeletal corpse inside, showing that even in a cell he is a danger. So they modify the sewers, to make sure he can&apos;t escape and transfer him there during the opening of the game.

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  @TheThirdBiffalo · 2 years ago

  My guy is going on about how Joker is a revolutionist that shines a light on corruption, to prove that society is the true monster.<br><br>The Arkham Joker once replaced Holy Water with sulfuric acid at a Baptism and also murdered a class of children just to lure Robin out, in order to torture him for months.<br><br>Arkham Joker might be the most evil incarnation of The Joker, making this video so damn unintentionally funny.

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  @DrFrankenMax · 3 years ago

  Joker doesn&apos;t want a revolution. This Joker is the same exact Joker that&apos;s in Arkham Knight, where we get to see EXACTLY what would happen if Asylum had played out the way he wanted. Gotham on fire. Everyone dead in the streets. Police unable to handle it. All of Batman&apos;s foes brutally murdered by Joker&apos;s forces. And Joker laughing the entire time, because that&apos;s what Joker wants. He&apos;s not crazy, you&apos;re right. But he&apos;s not a revolutionary either. He&apos;s just a sadist who wants everyone to suffer and likes it when what he does causes turmoil, chaos, and pain, whether what he&apos;s doing will lead to something positive or not. Eventually, he&apos;ll corrupt that positivity anyway when it bores him.

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  @kwayneboy1524 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rihmLw6cc&amp;t=9963">2:46:03</a> no I am sorry but god no, I was with you till this moment because this sounds absurd.<br><br>Look I know you love The Joker film I do too but that version of the character and all that it stands for is not thr same as the one for the games or comics.<br><br>Joker isnt written as a rebel with a cause but more so just a man taking his own personal hatred with the world and turning it on to humanity. I mean this guy is stated to have shot and crippled Batgirl and is now trying to make a mutant army. I doubt this brand of logic you are using fits this story or character.<br><br>It also sounds kinda dumb when you remember that Joker payed Doc Young to make these monsters for him which would me he was fine with her using inmates as test subjects. Plus he also killed one of them without empathy.

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  @MaggieNiteKnight · 3 years ago

  While I think this video is extremely well made, I think it also horribly misunderstands Batman and his mythos and a fundamental level. Saying Batman discriminates against the mentally ill just doesn&apos;t make sense considering in the comics and other media, he is <b>also</b> clearly suffers from mental illness. Like the famous quote &quot;a guy who dresses up as a bat clearly has issues.&quot; Not to mention, Batman&apos;s distain for many of the super criminals of Arkham are not out of hatred of the criminally insane, but those who take advantage of the system to be labeled as criminally insane (like how Joker uses the insanity to dodge the death penalty). And While Arkham is obviously not a nice place, there are doctors who do care about genuinely troubled patients, doctors like Dr. Cassidy and Dr. Whistler. While the Warden is shown to be a horrible person and just kills many of his residents, Batman can&apos;t be said to have not cared, since in Arkham City, a sequel that was planned during Asylum&apos;s development, that he tries to shut down Arkham City and is obviously not pleased with him, hanging over a building. While Batman is cold, he does care, the entire reason he has his famous no kill rule, is because he believes everyone is capable of redemption. In the Killing Joke, a story that is referenced several times in the Arkham games including Asylum, Batman tried to level with Joker, asking him to let Batman help him, and Joker plainly declines. Batman isn&apos;t some megacop living out a power fantatsy, he just is trying to save lives during a massive breakout, which already took the lives of not only the guards and doctors that work at the asylum, but also of other Arkham patients who were trying to kill each other.

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