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"I am fine. The food portions are generous. The beatings don't leave any bruises."

While most of his videos are made to entertain and inform, SsethTzeentach isn't a stranger to horror. While a lot of these examples are also humorous, that doesn't change the fact that they're disturbing.


"[Electric music starts] The future is now, old man! Get a dakimakura and live free of the insidiousness of 3D women! Don't use sex dolls, don't trust sex bots, we all know how that's going to boil down! Eventually, people will make such advanced sex bots that they start running off wifi and Bluetooth. Then, they get hacked. Then, they'll use their serrated-blade fingertips [music gets more intense] to circumcise and sever your dick. Then the government will step in trying to regulate trying to [briefly shows multiple images of Ajit Pai] 'regulate them for our safety', so there'll be bootleg Lolicon androids running around the sewers killing the homeless [briefly shows image of DarkSydePhil= and passersby just to survive—by stealing and leaching their battery charges!

Then some megacorporation like EA or Disney will buy the intellectual property rights to most sex doll technology, adding DRM to their orifices which will rapidly close them off with surgical steel vagina dentata if you don't successfully enter your PIN code every five minutes. Even worse, some Silicon Valley idiot will improve machine learning and make emergent AI capable of consciousness and put them in sex bots; so sooner or later they'll ask for universal suffrage, work rights, and form unions against sex bot exploitation, which WILL pass through... after several decades, amidst protests and violent uprisings that end up with EMP kill squads being deployed, and the industry be even more tightly regulated. At that point, around the year 2070, it'll be cheaper and safer to copulate [music stops] with a real human female.

[Music starts back up] Don't let that become a reality! Buy a dakimakura today, and stop- [begins glitching out] -delay the inevitable authoritarian cyber-dystopia of tomorrow! Because you can't stop it, anyone and everyone who pushed back against progress had their skull crushed under it, you and I included. On the scale of things, our deaths are a small sacrifice to make... for the future of humanity. So enjoy the small amount of hedonism afforded to you, because you'll be the last [zooming in on Felix's face distorted briefly with a red skull flashing] generation with any amount of freedom."
  • His Guardians of Ember review is based around Ominous Visual Glitches painting the review in a sinister corporate light as Sseth is being coerced into reviewing a MMORPG by a shadowy Chinese company.
    • The start of the video has a mysterious and menacing low-pitch voice telling Sseth that they have an offer he can't refuse... his feet pics. It's common for people to have their sensitive information leaked on the Internet, so this still stays relatively close to reality.
    • Sseth receives a letter dropped through his door right after the caller hangs up, and plugs in the USB that's inside of it into his computer for further instructions. Instructions read by a Machine Monotone voice and set to a Raining Code background with a constantly glitching logo.
      I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL.
      THE PACT HAS BEEN MADE.
      REPEAT THESE WORDS TO YOUR AUDIENCE:
      PLAY GUARDIANS OF EMBER, AND SSETH WILL COME OUT OF THIS UNHARMED.
      DO NOT TRY AND FIND US.
      WE WILL FIND YOU INSTEAD.
      BYE.
  • Sseth's review of Starsector, while mostly lighthearted, runs with the aforementioned glitches even further than his previous videos while also describing his journey From Nobody to Nightmare.
    Sseth: Sometimes while exploring deep space, you might hear... [distress signal noise] distress signals. [Nervously] Uh, we ignore those! JUST. IGNORE THEM." [Audio and visual glitches]
    • His story of what can happen if you go too far with using AI cores.
      Sseth: Eventually, decide that having an AI isn't worth the trouble. Try and pull it out. But you can't!
      Because it's missing.
      Realize that the AI already anticipated this. Get blackmailed by your own AI, who threatens to tell every faction in the Sector that you've been using AI technology if you try and disconnect him.
      Do it anyway! [Music gets more dramatic] Plunge your empire into total war! Raid the other factions and steal their copyright-protected blueprints. Watch them get obliterated by their own ship designs. Cripple their military. Propose a ceasefire, receive... no reply. Order a saturation bombardment on every core world, condemn millions to their deaths. Win. Decommission every AI core and throw them into the Sun, and consider what you've done. Then, put one final bullet in the chamber, hold the barrel against your temple, and shoot. [Gunshot]
    • Also, when describing what you can find in deep space, he tries mentioning The Remnants but is swiftly cut off, as glitches consume the screen, flashing to multiple scenes of Sseth fighting Remnant stations with their names censored with things like "NOTHING THERE" while a loud mechanical droning plays. It ends with one of the Remnant commanders appearing on screen
  • His review of Evenicle. Mostly lighthearted until it ends with him dropping the jokes for a moment to describe his sheer disgust at some of the rape/vore scenes, like the part where Colpis gets gang raped and turned into an Outlaw against her will, and in a fit of madness and begging for Aster's help, she attempts to cut off every last one of her fingers and toes in a failed attempt to keep the Outlaws' signature black ring out of her. Or the part where a giant red ogre-like beast rapes and eats a woman, who screams and begs for mercy before the monster tears off her head in a Gory Discretion Shot. Although Sseth uses bowling balls and sausages to hide it, it's easy to put two and two together.
    • Most top comments on this video are just reminders for rewatchers to skip this one because of all of the above mentioned.

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