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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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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/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html

Assigned Silent Hill 3 at birth Tweet: https://x.com/panquequera1/status/1674456685966946305?s=20

“The men who leave their spouses when they have a life-threatening illness” @ The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/30/the-men-who-give-up-on-their-spouses-when-they-have-cancer

“Men Leave: Separation And Divorce Far More Common When The Wife Is The Patient” @ ScienceDaily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110105401.htm

“The Male Loneliness Epidemic Does Not Exist” @ Jude Doyle, the Medium: https://judedoyle.medium.com/the-male-loneliness-epidemic-does-not-exist-9c2013daf644

“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/health-body/male-loneliness-time-bomb-killing-men/

“The Epidemic of Male Loneliness” (feat. Dr Niobe Way) @ Melinda Moyer’s Substack: https://melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/the-epidemic-of-male-loneliness#:~:text=Fifteen%20percent%20of%20men%20today,over%20the%20past%20two%20weeks.

Reddit fan theory re: Mary’s sickness coming from the lake itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/cifmk9/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/silenthilltheories/images/7/75/PHInWater.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120910194726

Guy Cihi talking about the endings of Silent Hill 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyT4gjDHM8&ab_channel=GCNavigator

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-happiness/2023/09/11/men-loneliness-epidemic-women

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

“The Truth about Male Loneliness” Mens Health: https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-strength/a759609/the-truth-about-male-loneliness/

KuuEater scale of pathetic protags @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KuuEater/status/1739808115397120300

Fan Art links:
- https://twitter.com/Sia_Kim_K/status/1269300833629290496?s=19
https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/bac877/fanart_oc_i_made_a_pyramid_head/
- https://twitter.com/PoleyWorld/status/1523417561638920193
- https://www.deviantart.com/ethicallychallenged/art/Pyramid-Head-527501952

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