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  1. “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Englishman’s Philosophy

    Nietzsche had a sharp and often contemptuous view of what he called “English psychology” and the broader tradition of British empiricist and utilitarian moral philosophy. His critique is scattered across several works — Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science — but forms a coherent attack on a whole intellectual temperament.

    1. The Critique of Utilitarianism and the “Herd Morality”

    Nietzsche’s most sustained target was Utilitarian ethics — chiefly Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to the calculation of pleasure and pain, and the maximization of happiness for the greatest number.

    • He found this mediocre and life-denying: it privileges comfort, safety, and the average over excellence, risk, and greatness.
    • Utilitarianism, for Nietzsche, is the philosophical expression of the herd — a morality that flattens hierarchy and punishes the exceptional individual.
    • “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he quipped in Twilight of the Idols — meaning that making happiness the supreme value is a parochial, petit-bourgeois illusion.

    2. The Attack on British Empiricism and Its Psychologists

    In Beyond Good and Evil (Part I) and On the Genealogy of Morality (Preface), Nietzsche attacks English moral psychologists — figures like Spencer, Hume, and their successors — for:

    • Lacking historical sense: They projected modern values (utility, sympathy, altruism) backward onto all of human history, as if these had always been the basis of morality.
    • Flatness of soul: They could only explain the origin of moral concepts mechanistically — habit, utility, association — and missed the deeper question of the value of values themselves.
    • “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche says this explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (§252), charging that the English lack the instinct for genuine philosophy. They are capable of great industry and data-gathering but not of the bold, creative, self-overcoming thought he demands of a philosopher.

    3. Darwin and the Problem of “Survival”

    Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Darwin, but largely rejected Social Darwinism and the popular English interpretation of evolution:

    • The “survival of the fittest” was vulgarized into a justification for mediocrity — it is the most numerous, the most adaptable, the most average that survive, not the highest.
    • Nietzsche argued that nature often sacrifices the species for the sake of the exceptional individual — the reverse of what the Darwinian moralists claimed.
    • Evolution, in the English reading, pointed downward toward conformity; Nietzsche wanted to point upward toward the Übermensch.

    4. Critique of Sympathy and Altruism (Spencer & the “Comfortable” Ethics)

    Herbert Spencer attempted to merge evolution with utilitarian ethics, grounding morality in social cooperation and sympathy. Nietzsche despised this:

    • Sympathy (Mitleid) — “feeling with suffering” — was for Nietzsche a form of weakness and even a contagion of suffering, not a virtue.
    • Altruism as a supreme value he traced (in the Genealogy) to slave morality — the resentful inversion of aristocratic values by the weak.
    • Spencer’s “evolution toward happiness” was, to Nietzsche, a comfortable lie told by a civilization in decline.

    5. The Deeper Charge: Mediocrity of Philosophical Spirit

    Beyond specific doctrines, Nietzsche’s critique is temperamental and cultural:

    “They are not a philosophical race — the English: Bacon represents an attack on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke an abasement and a depreciation of the idea of a ‘philosopher’ for more than a century.”Beyond Good and Evil, §252

    The English philosopher, in Nietzsche’s portrait, is:

    • Too empirical — chained to facts, unable to think beyond them
    • Too Christian in disguise — utilitarian altruism is secularized Christian morality without the honesty of its theological roots
    • Too comfortable — philosophizing in service of stability, society, and contentment, rather than danger, solitude, and transformation

    Summary Table

    TargetNietzsche’s ChargeUtilitarianism (Bentham/Mill)Herd morality; reduces life to comfortEmpiricism (Hume/Locke)Debases philosophy; no historical senseDarwinism (Spencer)Glorifies the average; misreads natureAltruism/SympathySlave morality in disguise; weaknessEnglish “character”Industrious but philosophically shallow

    A Fair Assessment

    Nietzsche’s critique, while brilliant and penetrating, is also polemical and sometimes unfair. Hume, in particular, is a far deeper thinker than Nietzsche credits. And Nietzsche himself borrows more from the British tradition than he admits — his psychological method of unmasking morality owes something to precisely the “English psychologists” he mocks. The critique is best read not as sober scholarship, but as Nietzsche’s philosophical war cry against a particular vision of what life and thought are for.

    #Übermensch #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Blog #BritishEmpiricism #ContinentalPhilosophy #CritiqueOfMorality #Ethics #FriedrichNietzsche #GenealogyOfMorality #HerdMorality #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MillAndBentham #Nietzsche #NietzscheVsDarwin #PhilosophicalCritique #Philosophy #SlaveMorality #Utilitarianism #WesternPhilosophy
  2. “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Englishman’s Philosophy


    Nietzsche had a sharp and often contemptuous view of what he called “English psychology” and the broader tradition of British empiricist and utilitarian moral philosophy. His critique is scattered across several works — Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science — but forms a coherent attack on a whole intellectual temperament.

    1. The Critique of Utilitarianism and the “Herd Morality”

    Nietzsche’s most sustained target was Utilitarian ethics — chiefly Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to the calculation of pleasure and pain, and the maximization of happiness for the greatest number.

    • He found this mediocre and life-denying: it privileges comfort, safety, and the average over excellence, risk, and greatness.
    • Utilitarianism, for Nietzsche, is the philosophical expression of the herd — a morality that flattens hierarchy and punishes the exceptional individual.
    • “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he quipped in Twilight of the Idols — meaning that making happiness the supreme value is a parochial, petit-bourgeois illusion.

    2. The Attack on British Empiricism and Its Psychologists

    In Beyond Good and Evil (Part I) and On the Genealogy of Morality (Preface), Nietzsche attacks English moral psychologists — figures like Spencer, Hume, and their successors — for:

    • Lacking historical sense: They projected modern values (utility, sympathy, altruism) backward onto all of human history, as if these had always been the basis of morality.
    • Flatness of soul: They could only explain the origin of moral concepts mechanistically — habit, utility, association — and missed the deeper question of the value of values themselves.
    • “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche says this explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (§252), charging that the English lack the instinct for genuine philosophy. They are capable of great industry and data-gathering but not of the bold, creative, self-overcoming thought he demands of a philosopher.

    3. Darwin and the Problem of “Survival”

    Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Darwin, but largely rejected Social Darwinism and the popular English interpretation of evolution:

    • The “survival of the fittest” was vulgarized into a justification for mediocrity — it is the most numerous, the most adaptable, the most average that survive, not the highest.
    • Nietzsche argued that nature often sacrifices the species for the sake of the exceptional individual — the reverse of what the Darwinian moralists claimed.
    • Evolution, in the English reading, pointed downward toward conformity; Nietzsche wanted to point upward toward the Übermensch.

    4. Critique of Sympathy and Altruism (Spencer & the “Comfortable” Ethics)

    Herbert Spencer attempted to merge evolution with utilitarian ethics, grounding morality in social cooperation and sympathy. Nietzsche despised this:

    • Sympathy (Mitleid) — “feeling with suffering” — was for Nietzsche a form of weakness and even a contagion of suffering, not a virtue.
    • Altruism as a supreme value he traced (in the Genealogy) to slave morality — the resentful inversion of aristocratic values by the weak.
    • Spencer’s “evolution toward happiness” was, to Nietzsche, a comfortable lie told by a civilization in decline.

    5. The Deeper Charge: Mediocrity of Philosophical Spirit

    Beyond specific doctrines, Nietzsche’s critique is temperamental and cultural:

    “They are not a philosophical race — the English: Bacon represents an attack on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke an abasement and a depreciation of the idea of a ‘philosopher’ for more than a century.”Beyond Good and Evil, §252

    The English philosopher, in Nietzsche’s portrait, is:

    • Too empirical — chained to facts, unable to think beyond them
    • Too Christian in disguise — utilitarian altruism is secularized Christian morality without the honesty of its theological roots
    • Too comfortable — philosophizing in service of stability, society, and contentment, rather than danger, solitude, and transformation

    Summary Table

    TargetNietzsche’s ChargeUtilitarianism (Bentham/Mill)Herd morality; reduces life to comfortEmpiricism (Hume/Locke)Debases philosophy; no historical senseDarwinism (Spencer)Glorifies the average; misreads natureAltruism/SympathySlave morality in disguise; weaknessEnglish “character”Industrious but philosophically shallow

    A Fair Assessment

    Nietzsche’s critique, while brilliant and penetrating, is also polemical and sometimes unfair. Hume, in particular, is a far deeper thinker than Nietzsche credits. And Nietzsche himself borrows more from the British tradition than he admits — his psychological method of unmasking morality owes something to precisely the “English psychologists” he mocks. The critique is best read not as sober scholarship, but as Nietzsche’s philosophical war cry against a particular vision of what life and thought are for.

    #Übermensch #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Blog #Books #BritishEmpiricism #ContinentalPhilosophy #CritiqueOfMorality #Ethics #FriedrichNietzsche #GenealogyOfMorality #HerdMorality #history #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MillAndBentham #Nietzsche #NietzscheVsDarwin #PhilosophicalCritique #Philosophy #Religion #SlaveMorality #Utilitarianism #WesternPhilosophy
  3. “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Englishman’s Philosophy


    Nietzsche had a sharp and often contemptuous view of what he called “English psychology” and the broader tradition of British empiricist and utilitarian moral philosophy. His critique is scattered across several works — Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science — but forms a coherent attack on a whole intellectual temperament.

    1. The Critique of Utilitarianism and the “Herd Morality”

    Nietzsche’s most sustained target was Utilitarian ethics — chiefly Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to the calculation of pleasure and pain, and the maximization of happiness for the greatest number.

    • He found this mediocre and life-denying: it privileges comfort, safety, and the average over excellence, risk, and greatness.
    • Utilitarianism, for Nietzsche, is the philosophical expression of the herd — a morality that flattens hierarchy and punishes the exceptional individual.
    • “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he quipped in Twilight of the Idols — meaning that making happiness the supreme value is a parochial, petit-bourgeois illusion.

    2. The Attack on British Empiricism and Its Psychologists

    In Beyond Good and Evil (Part I) and On the Genealogy of Morality (Preface), Nietzsche attacks English moral psychologists — figures like Spencer, Hume, and their successors — for:

    • Lacking historical sense: They projected modern values (utility, sympathy, altruism) backward onto all of human history, as if these had always been the basis of morality.
    • Flatness of soul: They could only explain the origin of moral concepts mechanistically — habit, utility, association — and missed the deeper question of the value of values themselves.
    • “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche says this explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (§252), charging that the English lack the instinct for genuine philosophy. They are capable of great industry and data-gathering but not of the bold, creative, self-overcoming thought he demands of a philosopher.

    3. Darwin and the Problem of “Survival”

    Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Darwin, but largely rejected Social Darwinism and the popular English interpretation of evolution:

    • The “survival of the fittest” was vulgarized into a justification for mediocrity — it is the most numerous, the most adaptable, the most average that survive, not the highest.
    • Nietzsche argued that nature often sacrifices the species for the sake of the exceptional individual — the reverse of what the Darwinian moralists claimed.
    • Evolution, in the English reading, pointed downward toward conformity; Nietzsche wanted to point upward toward the Übermensch.

    4. Critique of Sympathy and Altruism (Spencer & the “Comfortable” Ethics)

    Herbert Spencer attempted to merge evolution with utilitarian ethics, grounding morality in social cooperation and sympathy. Nietzsche despised this:

    • Sympathy (Mitleid) — “feeling with suffering” — was for Nietzsche a form of weakness and even a contagion of suffering, not a virtue.
    • Altruism as a supreme value he traced (in the Genealogy) to slave morality — the resentful inversion of aristocratic values by the weak.
    • Spencer’s “evolution toward happiness” was, to Nietzsche, a comfortable lie told by a civilization in decline.

    5. The Deeper Charge: Mediocrity of Philosophical Spirit

    Beyond specific doctrines, Nietzsche’s critique is temperamental and cultural:

    “They are not a philosophical race — the English: Bacon represents an attack on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke an abasement and a depreciation of the idea of a ‘philosopher’ for more than a century.”Beyond Good and Evil, §252

    The English philosopher, in Nietzsche’s portrait, is:

    • Too empirical — chained to facts, unable to think beyond them
    • Too Christian in disguise — utilitarian altruism is secularized Christian morality without the honesty of its theological roots
    • Too comfortable — philosophizing in service of stability, society, and contentment, rather than danger, solitude, and transformation

    Summary Table

    TargetNietzsche’s ChargeUtilitarianism (Bentham/Mill)Herd morality; reduces life to comfortEmpiricism (Hume/Locke)Debases philosophy; no historical senseDarwinism (Spencer)Glorifies the average; misreads natureAltruism/SympathySlave morality in disguise; weaknessEnglish “character”Industrious but philosophically shallow

    A Fair Assessment

    Nietzsche’s critique, while brilliant and penetrating, is also polemical and sometimes unfair. Hume, in particular, is a far deeper thinker than Nietzsche credits. And Nietzsche himself borrows more from the British tradition than he admits — his psychological method of unmasking morality owes something to precisely the “English psychologists” he mocks. The critique is best read not as sober scholarship, but as Nietzsche’s philosophical war cry against a particular vision of what life and thought are for.

    #Übermensch #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Blog #Books #BritishEmpiricism #ContinentalPhilosophy #CritiqueOfMorality #Ethics #FriedrichNietzsche #GenealogyOfMorality #HerdMorality #history #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MillAndBentham #Nietzsche #NietzscheVsDarwin #PhilosophicalCritique #Philosophy #Religion #SlaveMorality #Utilitarianism #WesternPhilosophy
  4. “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Englishman’s Philosophy


    Nietzsche had a sharp and often contemptuous view of what he called “English psychology” and the broader tradition of British empiricist and utilitarian moral philosophy. His critique is scattered across several works — Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science — but forms a coherent attack on a whole intellectual temperament.

    1. The Critique of Utilitarianism and the “Herd Morality”

    Nietzsche’s most sustained target was Utilitarian ethics — chiefly Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to the calculation of pleasure and pain, and the maximization of happiness for the greatest number.

    • He found this mediocre and life-denying: it privileges comfort, safety, and the average over excellence, risk, and greatness.
    • Utilitarianism, for Nietzsche, is the philosophical expression of the herd — a morality that flattens hierarchy and punishes the exceptional individual.
    • “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he quipped in Twilight of the Idols — meaning that making happiness the supreme value is a parochial, petit-bourgeois illusion.

    2. The Attack on British Empiricism and Its Psychologists

    In Beyond Good and Evil (Part I) and On the Genealogy of Morality (Preface), Nietzsche attacks English moral psychologists — figures like Spencer, Hume, and their successors — for:

    • Lacking historical sense: They projected modern values (utility, sympathy, altruism) backward onto all of human history, as if these had always been the basis of morality.
    • Flatness of soul: They could only explain the origin of moral concepts mechanistically — habit, utility, association — and missed the deeper question of the value of values themselves.
    • “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche says this explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (§252), charging that the English lack the instinct for genuine philosophy. They are capable of great industry and data-gathering but not of the bold, creative, self-overcoming thought he demands of a philosopher.

    3. Darwin and the Problem of “Survival”

    Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Darwin, but largely rejected Social Darwinism and the popular English interpretation of evolution:

    • The “survival of the fittest” was vulgarized into a justification for mediocrity — it is the most numerous, the most adaptable, the most average that survive, not the highest.
    • Nietzsche argued that nature often sacrifices the species for the sake of the exceptional individual — the reverse of what the Darwinian moralists claimed.
    • Evolution, in the English reading, pointed downward toward conformity; Nietzsche wanted to point upward toward the Übermensch.

    4. Critique of Sympathy and Altruism (Spencer & the “Comfortable” Ethics)

    Herbert Spencer attempted to merge evolution with utilitarian ethics, grounding morality in social cooperation and sympathy. Nietzsche despised this:

    • Sympathy (Mitleid) — “feeling with suffering” — was for Nietzsche a form of weakness and even a contagion of suffering, not a virtue.
    • Altruism as a supreme value he traced (in the Genealogy) to slave morality — the resentful inversion of aristocratic values by the weak.
    • Spencer’s “evolution toward happiness” was, to Nietzsche, a comfortable lie told by a civilization in decline.

    5. The Deeper Charge: Mediocrity of Philosophical Spirit

    Beyond specific doctrines, Nietzsche’s critique is temperamental and cultural:

    “They are not a philosophical race — the English: Bacon represents an attack on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke an abasement and a depreciation of the idea of a ‘philosopher’ for more than a century.”Beyond Good and Evil, §252

    The English philosopher, in Nietzsche’s portrait, is:

    • Too empirical — chained to facts, unable to think beyond them
    • Too Christian in disguise — utilitarian altruism is secularized Christian morality without the honesty of its theological roots
    • Too comfortable — philosophizing in service of stability, society, and contentment, rather than danger, solitude, and transformation

    Summary Table

    TargetNietzsche’s ChargeUtilitarianism (Bentham/Mill)Herd morality; reduces life to comfortEmpiricism (Hume/Locke)Debases philosophy; no historical senseDarwinism (Spencer)Glorifies the average; misreads natureAltruism/SympathySlave morality in disguise; weaknessEnglish “character”Industrious but philosophically shallow

    A Fair Assessment

    Nietzsche’s critique, while brilliant and penetrating, is also polemical and sometimes unfair. Hume, in particular, is a far deeper thinker than Nietzsche credits. And Nietzsche himself borrows more from the British tradition than he admits — his psychological method of unmasking morality owes something to precisely the “English psychologists” he mocks. The critique is best read not as sober scholarship, but as Nietzsche’s philosophical war cry against a particular vision of what life and thought are for.

    #Übermensch #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Blog #Books #BritishEmpiricism #ContinentalPhilosophy #CritiqueOfMorality #Ethics #FriedrichNietzsche #GenealogyOfMorality #HerdMorality #history #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MillAndBentham #Nietzsche #NietzscheVsDarwin #PhilosophicalCritique #Philosophy #Religion #SlaveMorality #Utilitarianism #WesternPhilosophy
  5. “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Englishman’s Philosophy


    Nietzsche had a sharp and often contemptuous view of what he called “English psychology” and the broader tradition of British empiricist and utilitarian moral philosophy. His critique is scattered across several works — Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science — but forms a coherent attack on a whole intellectual temperament.

    1. The Critique of Utilitarianism and the “Herd Morality”

    Nietzsche’s most sustained target was Utilitarian ethics — chiefly Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to the calculation of pleasure and pain, and the maximization of happiness for the greatest number.

    • He found this mediocre and life-denying: it privileges comfort, safety, and the average over excellence, risk, and greatness.
    • Utilitarianism, for Nietzsche, is the philosophical expression of the herd — a morality that flattens hierarchy and punishes the exceptional individual.
    • “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he quipped in Twilight of the Idols — meaning that making happiness the supreme value is a parochial, petit-bourgeois illusion.

    2. The Attack on British Empiricism and Its Psychologists

    In Beyond Good and Evil (Part I) and On the Genealogy of Morality (Preface), Nietzsche attacks English moral psychologists — figures like Spencer, Hume, and their successors — for:

    • Lacking historical sense: They projected modern values (utility, sympathy, altruism) backward onto all of human history, as if these had always been the basis of morality.
    • Flatness of soul: They could only explain the origin of moral concepts mechanistically — habit, utility, association — and missed the deeper question of the value of values themselves.
    • “They are no philosophical race”: Nietzsche says this explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (§252), charging that the English lack the instinct for genuine philosophy. They are capable of great industry and data-gathering but not of the bold, creative, self-overcoming thought he demands of a philosopher.

    3. Darwin and the Problem of “Survival”

    Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Darwin, but largely rejected Social Darwinism and the popular English interpretation of evolution:

    • The “survival of the fittest” was vulgarized into a justification for mediocrity — it is the most numerous, the most adaptable, the most average that survive, not the highest.
    • Nietzsche argued that nature often sacrifices the species for the sake of the exceptional individual — the reverse of what the Darwinian moralists claimed.
    • Evolution, in the English reading, pointed downward toward conformity; Nietzsche wanted to point upward toward the Übermensch.

    4. Critique of Sympathy and Altruism (Spencer & the “Comfortable” Ethics)

    Herbert Spencer attempted to merge evolution with utilitarian ethics, grounding morality in social cooperation and sympathy. Nietzsche despised this:

    • Sympathy (Mitleid) — “feeling with suffering” — was for Nietzsche a form of weakness and even a contagion of suffering, not a virtue.
    • Altruism as a supreme value he traced (in the Genealogy) to slave morality — the resentful inversion of aristocratic values by the weak.
    • Spencer’s “evolution toward happiness” was, to Nietzsche, a comfortable lie told by a civilization in decline.

    5. The Deeper Charge: Mediocrity of Philosophical Spirit

    Beyond specific doctrines, Nietzsche’s critique is temperamental and cultural:

    “They are not a philosophical race — the English: Bacon represents an attack on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke an abasement and a depreciation of the idea of a ‘philosopher’ for more than a century.”Beyond Good and Evil, §252

    The English philosopher, in Nietzsche’s portrait, is:

    • Too empirical — chained to facts, unable to think beyond them
    • Too Christian in disguise — utilitarian altruism is secularized Christian morality without the honesty of its theological roots
    • Too comfortable — philosophizing in service of stability, society, and contentment, rather than danger, solitude, and transformation

    Summary Table

    TargetNietzsche’s ChargeUtilitarianism (Bentham/Mill)Herd morality; reduces life to comfortEmpiricism (Hume/Locke)Debases philosophy; no historical senseDarwinism (Spencer)Glorifies the average; misreads natureAltruism/SympathySlave morality in disguise; weaknessEnglish “character”Industrious but philosophically shallow

    A Fair Assessment

    Nietzsche’s critique, while brilliant and penetrating, is also polemical and sometimes unfair. Hume, in particular, is a far deeper thinker than Nietzsche credits. And Nietzsche himself borrows more from the British tradition than he admits — his psychological method of unmasking morality owes something to precisely the “English psychologists” he mocks. The critique is best read not as sober scholarship, but as Nietzsche’s philosophical war cry against a particular vision of what life and thought are for.

    #Übermensch #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Blog #Books #BritishEmpiricism #ContinentalPhilosophy #CritiqueOfMorality #Ethics #FriedrichNietzsche #GenealogyOfMorality #HerdMorality #history #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MillAndBentham #Nietzsche #NietzscheVsDarwin #PhilosophicalCritique #Philosophy #Religion #SlaveMorality #Utilitarianism #WesternPhilosophy
  6. Die Woche endet, das #letsplay geht weiter. In der neuen Folge #beyondgoodandevil werfen wir unseren Hut in den Ring, oder besser auf die Rennstrecke. Dabei gewinnen wir ein paar Rennen, aber eigentlich suchen wir nach dem richtigen Abzweig in Richtung Schlachthaus… ab sofort auf #peertube peertube.art3mis.de/w/aCEnKePP #gaming #fedigaming #retro #ubisoft #action #adventure

  7. Playing #BeyondGoodAndEvil makes me speculate that action-adventures are essentially brew-pots that represent an average of the most popular genres that were being released during their time

    BG&E is an average of 3d platforming, stealth and racing, which were popular during the 6th gen

    The Last of us was an average of the 7th gen that consisted of third-person shooters, crafting and survival horrors

    Either I'm noticing a pattern, or I'm missing the forest for the trees

    #gaming #videogames

  8. #BeyondGoodAndEvil #VideoGames
    Aaand here we are. The DomZ base. And the horrid final boss.
    The spaceship fight was easy, I only failed that once. With four wrenches on the spaceship’s energy bar.
    I will say that not once did the game indicate that I could actually fight the Alpha Section soldiers. I just tried to sneak around them or hit their tanks with the discs without being noticed and then kicking them out. If they noticed me, then I just reloaded and tried again. So as I was watching a walkthrough clip of the section after saving Pey’j, I was surprised to see the player on the video just fought the soldiers!
    And absolutely no other enemy fights like the final boss. I got to the second stage and managed to button mash the sequence until it goes above Jade. No clue how to deal with that. And I know that I got past that stage in my first playthrough but that was it.
    So… this game remains one that I just can’t finish. That boss fight kicks my butt and it annoys me.

  9. At this point on #Ubisoft life, I don't see why Beyond Good And Evil 2 would have resisted the purge.

    The game has been in development hell for so long it's going to be heavely marketed mediocre game.

    Why? Imagine developing a game for 2007 standards to release in, hypothetically, 2027.

    Guys, this is Duke Nukem Forever 2.

    #Videogames #Gaming #Games #BeyondGoodAndEvil #BeyondGoodAndEvil2 #Adventure #France #Retro

  10. #BeyondGoodAndEvil #VideoGames
    I think I’ve figured out why I never finished this game in the first place. I had not bought the things from Mammago Garage in order. I skipped the flight stabiliser and went straight for the rocket motor thing. So I never flew around Hillys with the Beluga, never raced the looters in the caves, never took photos of the flying manta rays and things… never bought the pearls from Ming-Tzu, even.
    Not to mention never did the Section Alpha HQ sneaky areas. I just finished the star key door one and it had TEN pearls in there!
    I need ten more to get the motor to go to the Moon and save Pey’j.
    I’m hopeful that I might be able to finish the game now. Might.
    I still haven’t encountered a boss with a fight pattern where I’d have to memorise several move sequences.

  11. The recent announcement of the cancellation for the Prince of Persia today made me think back about #BeyondGoodAndEvil and how at this point it would be better for Micheal Ancel to just make a comic illustrating the story that the sequel would have followed, to give closure to the fans of the game, I don't think this universe is going to be explored anymore, even if BGAE2 turns out to be a masterpiece

    #gaming #videogames

  12. #BeyondGoodAndEvil #VideoGames
    Ah, okay, I do remember this bit.
    But zero recollection of the hovercraft maneuvering through the blocked waterways.

  13. #BeyondGoodAndEvil #VideoGames
    I got to the slaughterhouse.
    I still have no recollection of playing this area that first time around.
    What the heck did I do then?!
    I usually have a pretty good memory with games that I have enjoyed playing at least that one time. Did I really get that mad at that final boss that I forgot the rest of the game?

  14. Oh wow. It really has been a long time since the last time I played #BeyondGoodAndEvil because I honestly can’t remember the first big mission to the factory. I thought that and meeting the IRIS group was a lot later.
    I also forgot that you take pictures of animals for credits and can use the camera view to fight with disks.
    I’ll continue tomorrow.

  15. #BeyondGoodAndEvil #VideoGames
    It’s been a considerable number of years since the last time I played this, so I have no recollection of this part.
    Pey’j invented boost-boots, which… are powered by his gastro-intestinal gas 🤣 so, fart boots!
    It’ll take some time to get used to the controls again, even in this 20th anniversary remaster.
    I never finished the first run, because the final boss was too difficult. Its fight pattern was nothing like the other enemies in the game.

  16. There are varying right and wrong ways in society - but all people can find peace and a better life. No matter how much people may be stuck in their sad emotions, they can be uplifted. 😀😌

    #thought #ThoughtForTheDay #life #ThoughtForToday #Spirituality #SpiritualTruth #life #moral

    #philosophy #truth #recovery #BeyondGoodandEvil

  17. There are varying right and wrong ways in society - but all people can find peace and a better life. No matter how much people may be stuck in their sad emotions, they can be uplifted. 😀😌

    #thought #ThoughtForTheDay #life #ThoughtForToday #Spirituality #SpiritualTruth #life #moral

    #philosophy #truth #recovery #BeyondGoodandEvil

  18. There are varying right and wrong ways in society - but all people can find peace and a better life. No matter how much people may be stuck in their sad emotions, they can be uplifted. 😀😌

    #thought #ThoughtForTheDay #life #ThoughtForToday #Spirituality #SpiritualTruth #life #moral

    #philosophy #truth #recovery #BeyondGoodandEvil

  19. There are varying right and wrong ways in society - but all people can find peace and a better life. No matter how much people may be stuck in their sad emotions, they can be uplifted. 😀😌

    #thought #ThoughtForTheDay #life #ThoughtForToday #Spirituality #SpiritualTruth #life #moral

    #philosophy #truth #recovery #BeyondGoodandEvil

  20. There are varying right and wrong ways in society - but all people can find peace and a better life. No matter how much people may be stuck in their sad emotions, they can be uplifted. 😀😌

    #thought #ThoughtForTheDay #life #ThoughtForToday #Spirituality #SpiritualTruth #life #moral

    #philosophy #truth #recovery #BeyondGoodandEvil

  21. Si a día de hoy saliera #BeyondGoodAndEvil los incels estarían llorando por lo woke que es. Una protagonista femenina, empoderada, independiente y sin sexualizar y de rasgos egipcios (su rostro está inspirado en Nefertiti). Y en una historia que hace una crítica descarada al fascismo.
    #videojuegos #gaming

  22. Spionage und Air Hockey gibt es in Episode 3 vom #letsplay von #BeyondGoodAndEvil in der Jubiläumsedition. Wir konspirieren mit dem mysteriösen IRIS Netzwerk, um die Bürger über ihre fragwürdigen Machthaber aufzuklären und zocken nebenbei noch um ein paar Perlen. 🪩 #peertube #fedigaming #adventure #retro #gaming #puzzle peertube.art3mis.de/w/isjn8Fak

  23. Neues #letsplay ! Wir starten mit dem 3D-Action-Adventure #BeyondGoodAndEvil , wo wir mit Jade und Pey’j einer Verschwörung auf die Schliche kommen müssen. Aber erstmal brauchen wir Geld für Strom und den Schutzschild und auch unser Hovercraft hat schon bessere Zeiten gesehen... Also zücken wir die Kamera und erkunden die Umgebung… Ab sofort auf #peertube peertube.art3mis.de/w/w84L3Qx9 #retro #gaming #fedigaming #stealth #action #shooter

  24. Zurück auf den Mond! Ich spiele gleich eine spontane und womöglich letzte Runde #BeyondGoodAndEvil im Stream. Live unter twitch.tv/yodahome 🎮👾😉

  25. À propos Beyond Good and Evil, je l’ai joué en Français et je ne comprends pas tous les blagues dedans.

    E.g.
    • Akuda Bar, Paradise Lounge, Bar Ezille (exile bar?)
    • Yvan Touze
    • Jade Thyrus (Jade d'IRIS?)
    • SPOON?
    • plus je suis sûr qu j’ai completement raté plusieurs

    Peut qqn m’explique?

    #BeyondGoodAndEvil

  26. People (rightly) criticise its simple combat. But for a 20 year old 3D title, it’s not as bad as it could be. And after recently finishing Platinum’s Wonderful 101, I’m glad to play something simpler.

    The game had a great vision and it mostly delivered.

    I hope Beyond Good and Evil 2 comes out and lives up to its hype (and Ubisoft doesn’t mess it up). The series does deserve finally a continuation.

    #BeyondGoodAndEvil #BeyondGoodAndEvil2 #Ubisoft

  27. Every now and again a game pops up that was just the right game at the right time for its player.

    For me, this is what happened with Beyond Good and Evil (20th anniversary). I picked it up and just booted to see how it is, since I remember already back in the day it had a cult following.

    What followed was me playing it from start to 100% completion in the last few days. And I enjoyed it immensely :)

    #gaming #NintendoSwitch #BeyondGoodAndEvil

  28. Finished the 20th anniversary remaster of #BeyondGoodAndEvil, what a special game! Had to draw some #FanArt of Jade and Pey’j

  29. For this #ThrowbackThursday, we’ve got the original #BeyondGoodAndEvil game, released 21 years ago in 2003. It’s supposed to be getting a sequel at some point, but given it’s been in development for more than 14 years, Lord knows when that will happen.

  30. Beyond Good & Evil 20th anniversary edition is here. Physical copies coming in July 2024. But what does that mean for BG&E2. The BG&E1 comes with a new mission connecting the 2 games. Is this a great sign for things to come.

    #beyondgoodandevil #beyondgoodandevil2 #videogames #ubisoft

    youtube.com/watch?v=gJbSVPKs1C

  31. CW: Despairing and over-the-top rant about trying to talk about why I'm an abolitionist

    Here's a problem I have trying to explain to people why I want to abolish police, abolish prisons. No matter how I phrase things many people hear a moral argument. That police are evil, prisons are evil. But this isn't at all what I mean. In fact seeing the issue that way, as a matter of good and evil, completely obscures the explanation. It brings it into the realm of opinion. It lets people nod their heads and stop listening. Of course people can disagree over things like this!

    Dichotomies like that, good/evil, moral/immoral, work this way to cover up truths about the world that are impossible to face and still go on normally. The two poles of such dichotomies immediately conjure up a continuum between them. If something is evil or immoral it can be made less evil or less immoral and that's some kind of progress. Not accepting this kind of incrementalism makes one a moralist, a perfectionist, an idealist, a purist, someone who can ultimately be ignored, someone they can agree to disagree with, like we all do in order to get along with people with so many matters of opinion. There's no need to listen any more, it's just another extreme theoretical position among all the others.

    Imagine buzzards eating corpses on the road with their heads deep in the guts of a rotting deer. The stench of death, the slimy putrid ooze on their bald heads. It's not evil, it's how they live, but it's not how human beings live. Being seen by other people willingly, joyfully, smearing one's body with corpse juice, reveling in putrefied rotting dead goop, eating gobbets of rotting flesh, would be shameful, inhuman. It's beyond good and evil. It's not the kind of thing that invites accepting, polite disagreement. No one wants to hear that person's explanations about why wallowing in rotten corpses is good, actually. We want to run far away.

    This is what the police are like, what prisons are. They thrive on the bodies of murder victims, they blossom on fields soaked with human blood, rotting corpses. Cops, jailers, their supporters, are willingly swimming in pools of rotten stinking death, joyfully breathing its vapors. This essence is very, very well- hidden inside whitewashed mausoleums by ideologies, social narratives, cultural handshakes, and so on.

    I saw this all of a sudden a few years ago and I can't unsee it, the corpses swinging in the wind hanged by the tens of thousands and left to decay, but it's not so easy to explain to people. It's not a matter of stating the right facts, measuring the right statistics, it's a way of looking at the world. It can't be explained quickly, which in practice means often it can't be explained at all.

    #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #PrisonAbolition #WhitedSepulchres #BeyondGoodAndEvil