New Gods: Failed Divinity | Fear & Hunger Lore

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  @SmoughTown · 2 years ago · pinned

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• JE

  @jessetoews2446 · 2 years ago

  Feed me Smoughtown, feed me. &nbsp;I am Gurranq, you are the tarnished, your vids are Death root. &nbsp;I am never sated.

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• MA

  @maxderrat · 2 years ago

  Hey! Great work, man. You clearly understood what Jung was getting at and this video demonstrates it. Nice work applying the concepts of ego-inflation/shadow possession to the various Gods. That&apos;s something I completely neglected to include in my videos, but you did very well!

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• GR

  @greenhydra10 · 2 years ago

  (In best Frapollo voice)<br>Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger!

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• TH

  @TheGirlInFandomWorld · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think the most generous interpretation of Rher is that he would prefer humanity to carve out their own place in the world, instead of intruding on the realm of gods.<br><br>&quot;You guys can do anything you want as long it&apos;s over THERE&quot;

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• ZU

  @zuffercanis · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s so intriguing to see how Fear &amp; Hunger went from extremely obscure to every channel on YouTube doing a video essay about it XD I love it

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• AN

  @AngstUrnacht · 2 years ago

  THERES NO FUCKING WAY! Smoughtown you absolute GEM. I’m so glad funger is getting a lot more recognition.

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• GA

  @Ganon435 · 2 years ago (edited)

  it is quite funny that the very act of seeking divinity in this universe means that you are by definition, unworthy and unable to become a true god, instead receiving a corrupted Apotheosis into a &apos;New&apos; god due to ego.

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• DU

  @dumbsterdives · 2 years ago

  i disagree that abella&apos;s moonscorched form has no bearing on her personality. The extremely muscular physique and masculine build i see as reflecting a repressed insecurity about her perceived lack of femininity as a result of her personality and profession of choice

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• IN

  @innocentorphan1213 · 2 years ago

  Ending B always had me theorize that Rher might very much be there still. Perkele could be lying about Rher having left, or it&apos;s possible Rher tricked Perkele to think this, being a trickster god and all. The moon comes down immediately after Perkele dies, and it does say the moon god lost interest as the fight ends, since clearly the human who killed Perkele is not a real threat. <br><br>The sulfur gang each pretty much guard the bunkers for Logic, so unknowingly they are doing what Rher would want them to do, hold back humanity from ascension. I don&apos;t quite remember if the festival also just happens to take place where it does, or if it&apos;s caused or needed there, it just seems awfully convenient that Rher&apos;s power kicks in and turns the potential birthplace of an ascending god into a battleground to halt everything. Otherwise Kaiser could&apos;ve just activated it without any interference, because that was his goal. He fights us because he&apos;s worried we&apos;ll disrupt it awakening.

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• FA

  @fabiformfinch4684 · 2 years ago

  I personally think Abella and Daan&apos;s moonscorched forms do represent their shadows. <br><br>Abella&apos;s being her anxieties as being percieved as too masculine or brutish, and not feminine enough for society, seen in her muscular build and male dominated profession, and her moonscorched form&apos;s massive frame, lack of breasts and phallic trunk coming from it&apos;s face. Though she seems the least insecure and one of the kindest out of the contestants so maybe the woodsman&apos;s parasite applified her transformation. It also makes sense with the motif of her transformation as it literally is the woodsmans &nbsp;genitals.<br><br>And daan being the pocketcat is the cruelest joke played by rher as his parents were sylvian cultists who wanted to &quot;share the gifts of sylvian&quot; with him, implying that he was potentially abused as a child. His lover was also killed during a ritual to the gods, and so becoming pocketcat is a complete erasure of not only his personality but an inversion of his history. Pocket being an implied child abuser and servant to the old gods.<br><br>Amazing video as always, keeps me sane during long shifts.

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• FO

  @ForumArcade · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m realizing that the entire Persona franchise from Shin Megami Tensei is basically a love letter to Carl Jung&apos;s philosophy.

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