Middle-Aged Office Worker Rages at a Printer Error and Wrecks His Company All the Way to the CEO's Office: A Rising Up Let's Play

The menu screen is a high-end printer that you operate via a touch panel. Remarking, "You've got one of these multifunction printers at your office, right?", the commentator tests out the controls, which let you move your arm to any position you like. Pressing Start brings up a message saying the ink cartridge needs replacing, followed by the warning "Are you sure you want to continue?" Proceeding anyway results in a "B200 Printer Error."

This is where the commentator's anger explodes. Shouting, "Don't you dare defy a human being, you lousy computer!", they rant, "If you're an interactive system, human-centered design is the basics, damn it—think about the user experience!" and start smashing the printer. They claim a coworker attacked them when all they were trying to do was fix it, and insist that fighting back was "self-defense." Throughout the rest of the video, they repeatedly bring up the classic workplace excuse "The printer broke even though I didn't do anything" for laughs.

In the office, they smash one thing after another: employees still blissfully going about their work, chairs, desks, and so on. "Chairs aren't for swinging around—they're for destroying," the commentator says as they push forward. At one point, the older woman who used to nag them every time they went to make coffee comes jumping out. Right after that, the coffee maker explodes, and then the circulator fan explodes too. Here again the commentator repeats, "I didn't do anything," and grumbles, "What the heck is going on with this company?" To an employee returning from sales calls, they say, "I suppose you were out slacking off and killing time. Must be nice to be you," and give them a good whack along with the vending machine.

Once the floor has gone quiet, the commentator heads for the VIP-only area. To get through security, they knock on the door and ask politely, but nobody seems inclined to open it. When they try to bash it open, another explosion goes off. A burly middle-aged security guard emerges from inside, and the commentator responds, "As a fellow middle-aged man, I can't afford to lose." While acknowledging the guard's strength, they take him down with a flying kick followed by a combo.

The VIP area greets them with "Welcome VIP" and is still lively. In the center are portraits of a man and a woman, and the commentator smashes them, saying, "Always praising the good-looking ones—this is the age of diversity now." Next, men in black suits crash in by car, and the car bursts into flames. In this scene, the commentator argues that the outdated culture of this company—and, by extension, of society itself—is the root of all evil. They frame their own actions this way: even if they hadn't risen up, someone else eventually would have; it just happened to be their turn.

On the way to the CEO's office, men in black keep swarming in no matter how many they knock down. The commentator jokes that they haven't been surrounded by this many men in black since breaking out of prison in Chrono Trigger. Back then, they could escape through a rift in time and space, they continue, but this isn't a fantasy, so nothing that miraculous is going to happen. Just as they're cornered, saying "The floor's going to be stained solid black," the elevator arrives and they escape to the floor above.

Upon reaching the CEO's office, the commentator remarks that it "seems to be in pretty good taste," then proceeds to destroy, one by one, a mysterious art object, a statue of the CEO, the CEO's desktop computer, and a chair that stands upright through some mysterious physics.

When they come face to face with the CEO, he is muttering through some kind of speech. The commentator shuts him up with a beating and defeats him for the time being. However, the thing that had been wearing the CEO's skin transforms into something terrifying, and the second form begins. The opponent has a frightening face, but according to the commentator, the "middle-aged middle punch" is surprisingly effective. After taking a heavy hit, they mutter, "I could take that because I'm middle-aged, but if I'd been a young employee, that would've been close." As for strategy, they explain that the basic approach is hit-and-run, and since the opponent sometimes counterattacks and sometimes doesn't, you need to watch its movements carefully and respond accordingly.

In the end, they defeat the CEO, and the commentator declares, "I've triumphed over capitalist society." They wrap up by saying there's nothing holding them back anymore, and what awaits them now are "the wings of freedom."

After clearing the game, the commentator asks viewers, "Do you all have work today? I've got the day off." They end the video by reflecting that it was a fun experience that blew away a stressful society full of pointless routine tasks, waiting on the other party to respond, never-ending meetings, and unwanted office politics.