The Male Loneliness Epidemic & Silent Hill 2

Опубликовано: 29 Январь 2024
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By popular demand, I bring you my reflections on Silent Hill 2. There's a lot to say about this game, but I wanted to avoid covering topics that had been thoroughly covered 1000x before. Also I fried my keyboard and now it keeps pressing loads of random keys which is wildly annoying. :(

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-------- BIBLIOGRAPHY (why yes, i did see hbomb's video. why do you ask?)
Billy Baker’s article: “The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness.” @ The Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/...

Assigned Silent Hill 3 at birth Tweet: https://x.com/panquequera1/status/167...

“The men who leave their spouses when they have a life-threatening illness” @ The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...

“Men Leave: Separation And Divorce Far More Common When The Wife Is The Patient” @ ScienceDaily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

“The Male Loneliness Epidemic Does Not Exist” @ Jude Doyle, the Medium:   / the-male-loneliness-epidemic-does-not-exist

“Male loneliness: the ticking time bomb that's killing men” (includes that ridiculous quote from Sarah Coghlan), AND The Samaritans’ Study @ Happiness.com:
https://www.happiness.com/magazine/he...

“The Epidemic of Male Loneliness” (feat. Dr Niobe Way) @ Melinda Moyer’s Substack: https://melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/....

Reddit fan theory re: Mary’s sickness coming from the lake itself:   / i_just_realized_what_disease_mary_had_in_sh2

Screenshot of Masahiro Ito’s Tweet about designing Pyramid Head with the In Water ending in mind: https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...

Guy Cihi talking about the endings of Silent Hill 2:    • Guy Cihi and Dave Schaufele Interview...

General suicide statistics: "Teen Suicide Statistics". Adolescent Teenage Suicide Prevention. FamilyFirstAid.org. 2001. Retrieved 2006-04-11.

Discussion of Magdalene J Taylor’s observations on women needing to put out to right the wrongs of male loneliness @ Yes Magazine: https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-ha...

“Loneliness is Killing Men” Ian Taylor @ BBC Science Research: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/...

“The Truth about Male Loneliness” Mens Health: https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-...

KuuEater scale of pathetic protags @ Twitter:   / 1739808115397120300

Fan Art links:
https://twitter.com/Sia_Kim_K/status/...
  / fanart_oc_i_made_a_pyramid_head
  / 1523417561638920193
https://www.deviantart.com/ethicallyc...

00:00 What is the Male Loneliness Epidemic?
04:53 James Sunderland?! I barely know ‘er-land!
13:41 One is the Loneliest Number that you’ll ever do
18:04 Mary’s sick? Bitch, so am I.
30:46 Dear Maria Count Me In
35:17 This is Masculinity Manifest
41:39 I can be your Hero, baby
48:22 Solving the Male Loneliness Epidemic