Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Critique - Business is Good

The horror of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is in how much monstrous machinery was already in the US, waiting for someone to plug in. In places the game feels underdeveloped. It regularly feels clumsy. But if you push through the awkward level design and weirdly-paced fights, one thing stays the same. We're in the Nazi-killing business. And business is good. Content Warning: Explicit descriptions of cruelty, racism and war crimes. BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/montyzander.... PATREON:   / montyzander   LORE DUMP:    / @loredump   SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4U8lB61... Thumbnail by ‪@hotcyder‬ Outro Song: Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land No generative AI was used in the creation of this video. TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:31 - The American Dream 00:14:37 - Blood, Bombs, and Borrowed Laws 00:26:17 - Fairy Lights 00:42:06 - Sympathy for the Devil 00:54:02 - Business is Good 01:06:15 - Playing With Your Food 01:20:08 - The Freedom Chronicles 01:33:52 - The Path of Least Resistance 01:45:52 - Kidding Mr Hitler 01:57:50 - The Monster Changes Shape REFERENCES 1 - Alfred Rosenberg - The Myth of the 20th Century (translated by Thomas Dalton) 2 - Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle 3 - John L O'Sullivan - The United States Magazine and Democratic Review 4 - Jane Addams - Democracy and Social Ethics 5 - George Lincoln Rockwell - White Power 6 - Freedom House - Freedom Index 7 - Travellers Times - Leaked report reveals the cultural genocide of Scotland's travellers 8 - Heinrich Himmler - Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events 9 - Calvin Coolidge - Who's country is this? 10 - Madison Grant - The Passing of the Great Race 11 - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf 12 - Everything you Love Will Burn - Vegas Tenold 13 - Hitler's American Model - James Whitman 14 - The National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislative Processes 15 - CG Magazine - Shooting Nazis in America with Wolfenstein 16 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr - Buck V Bell 274 US 200 17 - PBS - Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States 18 - Martin Blumenson - The Patton Papers 19 - Facing History - Turned Away on the M.S St Louis 20 - Games Beat - Wolfenstein 2 creative director reveals more about Nazified America 21 - Frank L. Baum - The Saturday Pioneer 22 - NPR - When Nazis Took Manhattan 23 - Anti-Defamation League - The Winrod Legacy of Hate 24 - Bunk History - History of the Silver Shirts 25 - Joseph P Lash - From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter 26 - Neil Baldwin - Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate 27 - Edward E Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told 28 - Henry Ashby Turner - General Motors and the Nazis 29 - The New York Times - Ford accepts Nazi medal on 75th birthday 30 - The Sixth Axis - Arcade Berg on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 31- Kotaku - Wolfenstein II's Season of DLC Ends Poorly 32 - EBSCO - The Smith Act Trials 33 - The New Republic - Profits by the Billion 34 - The National WW2 Museum New Orleans - Alternative Service: Conscientious Objectors and Civilian Public Service in WW2 35 - Science Direct - Adolf Hitler had post-encephalatic Parkinsons 36 - Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back 37 - Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism 38 - Susan Sontag - Fascinating Fascism MUSIC INTRODUCTION 1 - Max H - Up in the Andes 2 - Ikoliks - Devil in the bottle INTERLUDES Okaya - Dreaming of Peace PART 1 1 - Adam and Darcie - Before Its Better 2 - Crop for the Village - A Gentle Breeze PART 2 1 - Yehezkel Raz - Serenata a La Luna 2 - Sean Williams - Together We Go PART 3 1 - Will Van De Crommert - Sovereign Hearts 2 - John Carter - Song of Songs PART 4 1 - Yotam Agam - Spectral Type O 2 - Synths - Astral Dance PART 5 1 - Dan Howell - alone 2 - Ben Winwood - Aria North PART 6 1 - SPEARFISHER - Blood in the Bayou 2 - Vence Ray - Meditation PART 7 1 - Crop for the Village - Clarity in the Mist 2 - Louis Island - Forest Fire 3 - Ziggy - Old Cat PART 8 1 - Dan Howell - Money in the Desert 2 - Ziv Moran - Horizon PART 9 1 - Dad's Army - Who Do You Think You're Kidding 2 - Crop for the Village - Walking 3 - Amick Cutler - Oh Dear Child PART 10 1 - Falconer - Dusty Road 2 - Falconer - Lonesome Evening 3 - Saint Stephen - The Price of the Promised Land WOLFENSTEIN: YOUNGBLOOD    • This is not a video about Wolfenstein: You...   WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER CRITIQUE - THE WEIRD REICH    • Wolfenstein: The New Order Critique - The ...   BIOSHOCK: AFTER THE SHRUG    • Bioshock Critique | After the Shrug   BIOSHOCK 2: AFTER THE KOOL AID    • Bioshock 2 Critique | After the Kool-Aid   BIOSHOCK INFINITE: AFTER THE HYPE    • Bioshock Infinite Critique | After the Hype   SYSTEM SHOCK: AFTER THE HACK    • System Shock Critique - After the Hack   SOMA: ANATOMY OF THE SOUL    • SOMA Critique - Anatomy of the Soul   RESIDENT EVIL: REQUIEM CRITIQUE - DAYS GONE BY    • Resident Evil: Requiem Critique - Days Gon...