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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book eight, A Parade of Horribles,

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chapters fourteen through nineteen. In these chapters, we meet up

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with our friends, we hang out and do a bit

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of karaoke, but really what's going on as an underlying

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feeling of deep anxiety and dread and it's just really

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difficult to shake. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the

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show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to

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Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is here in the

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chat with me. Appreciate you man. Yeah, so, you guys,

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there is so much going on in these chapters in

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terms of like weird little side details that I feel

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like are probably going to become central details at some point,

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and we just have to sort of watch that fuse

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get lit and wait, which not a great feeling. Let's

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start off with the entry into the actual village, because

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one of my big questions at the end of the

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last episode was what this village was going to look like,

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and I was thinking it might be something a little

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bit more suburban, but it turns out it's a bit different.

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It's actually got a very strong aige ease feel to it.

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This town was straight out of a nineteen eighties neon

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infused cyberpunk fever dream, which sounds kind of dope. I

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will say that when Donut says you would think that

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this color scheme would be right up my alley, I

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completely understand what she means. Look, you can like certain

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colors and know that there are appropriate times for those colors.

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Right anybody who watches The Lives knows that I love pink.

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There's pink all over my office. For a while, my

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office chair was pink until it broke. The you know,

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colors for Unspoiled logo is like a kind of magenta

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cross pink and purple. And this leads a lot of

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people to thinking that I'm going to love pink in everything.

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But there are places it does not go. I don't

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have pink in my bedroom. I do not have pink

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in my kitchen. I just don't do it. There's like

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a couple things kitchen wise that are pink that are

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like teapots and stuff, you know, things that and the

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drawing the line in the sand of her like being

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like this is just like being at a Claire's I

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was nodding vehemently. I kept picturing the side of those

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like Dixie cups that have that you know that nineties

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look so anyway, this their entry into the village is

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started with a mention that the safe rooms don't apply

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in the square, and also poisoning rules do not apply.

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Eat at your own risk, which there's a moment later

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where we find out that some foods might actually give

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you a speed boost, but there's no way to tell

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what will and what won't. It's impossible to get a

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description for the foods in the square, so you just

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have to take it. And I would simply never. I

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absolutely would fucking never. And I yeah, you know, we

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all have our thing. Jurgen cannot help himself. So let's see. Uh,

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the arena was on the eleventh floor. Nobody knew anything

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beyond that. I couldn't stop thinking about it. If we

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had a choice on who to send to the eleventh

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what did that really mean? Who could we pick? The

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AI had dragged Princess Formidable from her spaceship to the

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Desperado Club. Could I pick someone from orbit and force

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them into the dungeon? Could I pick someone who was

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currently on the twelfth. Could I pick a liaison like

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that Harbinger guy? Could I pick Prime Minister Victory? Who

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could I drag to the eleventh floor that would cause

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the most damage? Really thought about this one, and I

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can't decide. I feel like Prime Minister Victory sounds like

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the person who's going to do the most damage because

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of her current position. But I feel like Carl and

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Dona have probably gotten a lot more help from her

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than they realize, And I think they would be screwing

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themselves long term for the remaining time in the dungeon

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if they chose her and something happened to her. I

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don't you know, like and anybody else that I can

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think of is just somebody is so tangential that I'm like,

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I don't really know how important they truly are. It's

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just that I know them. Yeah, I don't know. So

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there's a few places they pass by as they're in

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this town. There's a joke here, guys that I actually

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thought was kind of clever. Donna says about the pink

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and tea. You would think this esthetic could be at

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my alley. But you know, when you lean too hard

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into something, it just becomes a caricature of itself. She gasped, Carl,

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look a hat vendor. I see what you did, their author,

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I see what you're doing there. I did think that

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was actually kind of funny. I don't mind her hat

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obsession as a thing. In fact, I think that it's

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like kind of a very relatable human nature thing when

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you are feeling like you're in an uncertain, unstable situation

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that you start to lean on one particular funny, cute,

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comforting thing harder than ever before. And so this actually

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tracks to me as like a real evolution of her

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obsession with like small side things nobody else cares about,

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you know, and the connection to aesthetics. In the game,

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there's also C and W and U location, illegal modifications

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and more grand opening soon. And I'm wondering because, like

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my initial assumption was illegal modifications to vehicles, but I

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actually don't know if that's true, Like it might be

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illegal modifications to bodies, but I have to assume it's

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to vehicles, like it just has to. Okay, So there's

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a huge sign that is for a bar called the

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Hairpin with the Desperado Club entrance in the back, but

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we are avoiding that in favor of a place called Lollipop,

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featuring a gremlin waving what looked like a giant lollipop

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back and forth and under. It was another sign that

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made me grown inwardly. And Donut has not noticed this yet.

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She says their selection is just abysmal. About the hats,

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I did get a cheap trucker hat that says I'd

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hang a little with Chad. I don't know what that means, guys.

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I feel like I should know what this means. I

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feel like Chad is like the equivalent of a skin

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tag or something that that's like part of the joke,

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you know, But I don't, like I'm not confident enough

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in that. Michael says, hanging Chad Florida voting, that's still

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not I don't the two thousand election, I don't know.

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I love that seraphim accidentally typed ejection George Bush Junior

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winning Florida? Is his name? Nickname Chad? What's the Chad

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in this? Sorry, guys, y'all are trying to like just

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give me a little like a couple of words to

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remind me, But I truly don't you know what I'm saying.

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Like you have to just actually say it. We'll get

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back to this once somebody finishes typing that up. This

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is when we run into Oh, Michael says he challenged

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in court ballots with hanging chads and one which gave

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him the presidency. Right, because it's like the little bits

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of paper that were punched but didn't fully come out, right.

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I forgot about that. What a weird fucking world. Yeah,

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it's a reasonable reason to be president whatever. Whatever. So

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Jorgan is eating his street meat, complaining loudly about the

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fact that Prepotentie does not trust him, and I will

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say that, despite Jurgen obviously not being like the brightest

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bulb here, there is a point where he mentions that

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he is a mechanic, and Preppertente ignored him in favor

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of a biological amount, which when they got one, turns

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out to be quite slow. So I here's my thing,

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is like I want to be like, Okay, so Prepotentae

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made a call that probably wasn't a good one, and

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then I stop and think about what I know of Jurgen,

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and I'm like, do do I know enough to say

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that he's a good mechanic? I actually am not sure

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if choosing a biological was a means of like self

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protection from prepotente, because he's just like I do not

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want him like futzing around with any of our vehicles

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because I don't trust him. Yeah, I can't decide. Uh.

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And let's see, there are sweetie, our mount Sweety is

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a large mount sized mammal called a pariso. She is

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similar to a creature called a tape ear, but large

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enough to carry myself, this oaf here, and one or

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two more mercenaries, which I'm afraid we're going to have

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to do once the city it starts violently violently vomiting

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mystery meat over the sidewalk. I will say that later.

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It seems like he is recovering fairly quickly, so it

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may not affect their race too much, but we'll have

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to wait and see. They go into the bar, and

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the karaoke is already well underway, and there's a ton

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of NPCs in here who are singing, and a lot

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of these NPCs, like we've seen NPCs that were different

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preachers before, but a lot of the ones in here

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are specifically mobs of a type that have a really

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like sinister look to them. And Karl is just having

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a hard time with seeing these mobs out and about

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like they're just having a regular time. You know, it's

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because they are so different, and I really understand that.

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I feel like the well, we have a guy later

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on who you know, his name and attire are really something.

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But we'll get there in a second. So other crawlers

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sat at various tables, all raising their hands and greeting.

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Most of the crowd renpcs and all were racers. The

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bartenders and the dj were gremlins. And this is when

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we have the Minister of Blood letting a necklace that

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appeared to be made of live back. Oh my god,

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I don't even like, I can't even like picture that.

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He must be very large. And Imani is here and

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she's drinking, and Carl is like, I actually can't remember

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if I've ever seen her drink before. And I wondered

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very much about this, because, like somebody who doesn't drink

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or doesn't usually tend to drink, not saying that they

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are entirely sober, necessarily, their decision to drink can mean

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a couple things. One, it can mean they're finally really

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letting their hair down and relaxing and not holding on

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to control in a way that they often do. It

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can mean they're going through something and not drinking, which

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is normally important to them, has fallen by the wayside

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because they are trying to escape some very strong emotions.

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the people around them in a way that they hadn't before,

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and so they don't feel the need to constantly keep

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their guard up and be sober and alert as they

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once felt. There's all kinds of things, and so while

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my instinct was to feel like not great about the

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fact that she was drinking, I sort of caught myself

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and was like, I don't know, maybe maybe this is

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kind of a good thing, you know. I don't know.

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they are in, it could simply be imani being like,

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you know, I was the one who just drove. I

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am not going to be called on to drive again,

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and each race might be our last. It's a lot

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more likely that we're going to die than it used

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to be, and so I am going to start, you know,

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letting my hair down a little bit more in an

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effort to make the most of the moments that I

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have especially considering this is the moment where Dona realizes

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that she is in love with Chris, And it's very

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cute to me how instantaneously she gets it. Like the

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what all she does is make a joke about Chris

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being you know, like good but slow, something like that,

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big but slow and uh. She nudges him, and he

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seems to like enjoy the joke. He doesn't seem offended

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by this at all. And I really can't tell, like

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is he into her? Also? Is that even you know?

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like she feels like she can't relax around him or

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she wants to like beach more chill around him. I

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don't know. I again, I might be analyzing this a

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little bit too much. But whenever it's something that has

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to do with one of our friends who is like

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part of our central group, I always pay special attention

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because it feels like it's probably going to affect Carl

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and Donut directly at some point, you know, And everybody

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is talking about the different vehicles that they got, h

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Ellie is complaining about hers. She's like, it's a military

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vehicle that handles really shitty and Florin is like, uh,

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it's a mo wag piranha, which is amphibious and really

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like it's you know, armored. You guys are extremely lucky. Actually,

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because Lucia and I have a tuck Tuck, I really

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loved that Doughnut says that sounds like a monster from

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one of Carl's nerd movies. Because I am not kidding guys.

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I literally was like, is that something from like Star Wars?

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You know? Immediately that was my thought and her saying that,

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I just kind of cackled to myself. But it's a rickshaw?

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What that fucking like? So does somebody have to be

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out front? Is that what always has to be the case?

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Like pulling it or I'm looking it up right now

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to see the picture of it. Okay, it's an auto rickshaw,

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so it's three wheels, but it's there's no person because like,

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actual person pulled rickshaws are still very much a thing,

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especially in a lot of like tourist trap destination areas.

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So I was like, is that what we're doing. There's

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actually a few TikTok accounts of people who have their

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own small business of pulling these things, and they're extremely

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hot dudes who the camera being on their muscular back

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while they're doing manual labor is like very much a

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thing for folks, so they make pretty good money on

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their TikTok account as well as pulling people around. But

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these look a little bit more like a golf cart,

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but with three wheels instead of four, and usually have

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a couple rows of seats rather than just the one,

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and they're kind of dope b looking. Honestly, I kind

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of love it. Like they're very goofy looking on the

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one hand, but there is something kind of fun in retro,

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almost like a vespa about the build. I don't hate it,

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but for a race, yeah, that sucks. That really sucks,

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and Prepotentda has to explain to them what a tut

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tuck is wanders off to find somebody who has a

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menu of all of the soda flavors that they have.

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I couldn't help, but wonder if Prepotente would like that

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peach beer. You know, I feel like that's like potentially

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something that he would be very fond of if it's

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on the sweeter side. That just seems like it's up

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his alley, But who knows. So there's this uh moment

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with Jurgen, where it's mentioned Jorgen had a pregnant wife

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named Heidi who wasn't really in the dungeon with us,

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even though he pretended like she was. She was up

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there somehow in the kinder facility on the surface, along

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with Katya and presumably the one hundred and twenty thousand

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children that were stuck in Lucy's head. Jurgen was a

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great fighter and had been more than competent as a general,

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but getting separated from his wife had obviously knocked his

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marbles about. I am really curious if he is actually

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as bonkers as he is seeming like. I don't know, guys,

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There's just something about the what has happened to Lucy

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mar that makes me feel like many things are not

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as simple a one to one translation as the showrunners

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would have you believe. And so the idea that maybe

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his pregnant wife doesn't come into the dungeon, but something

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wonky happens where he can kind of see her or

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sense her. Is she in his head somehow? I just

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can't discount that as easily as Carl seems to. I'm

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not saying that she's actually here and invisible because like

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before I was sort of like, is this you know,

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is this something else like that going on? But now

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that we know one per can have as many as

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one hundred thousand people going on in their head, and yes,

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this is supposed to be an outlier scenario, but like

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I don't you know, I don't know, I am putting

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a pin in that mentally and just sort of I

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just want it on the record that I suspect it's

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not that simple. I just want to say it. And

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this is when I love this so much. You guys,

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they're shit chatting and fucking. There's a voice from under

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the table asking if he can come out now, and

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it's Linus. It's Ellie's number one fan, still wearing the

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shirt of her naked body. This dude is honestly as

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much as he is a and I'm not mad at

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all for the way that Ellie reacts to him, especially

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when he starts getting super personal about like music that

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she owned and her husband and stuff, because like, it's

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one thing for somebody to be objectifying you in a

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weird way when it's not even like your actual body,

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it's a computer generated body. And the fandom thing is

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such a weird, but you know, like all of that

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feels like very separate. But once you start talking about

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shit that's like pre collapse, that's very personal. I would

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also be like, yeah, you're not going to get his

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name at your fucking mouth, you know that kind of thing.

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So I'm not mad at her at all for the

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way that she is reacting to him. I am just

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saying that as a reader, I found him downright amusing,

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and I wouldn't mind if he just happened to be

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around all the time, because I think he adds a

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little something. It's just sort of potentially he could be

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maybe a little bit useful if he brings up some

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information that our friends don't already know. You know, I

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don't know what that would be, but I could see

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it being something that was sort of overlooked by the

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people who are in charge as being valuable information that

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he just mentions as a matter of interest and winds

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up being kind of important. So, you know, all this

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to say, this little guy is a weirdo, but I

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sort of have a soft spot for him. At this point.

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We have a little bit like tran Zang and Lena

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are not here, Sam says Lena isn't really talking to him.

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She killed almost all of the other teams in their heat.

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I guess we'll see next race if Prepotente's theory about

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having to race other crawlers is correct. And Louis says

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Tran is stuck in his garage. She had a rough

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race too, but I don't know the details. Some of

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his spider legs got wrecked, but I guess his gremlin

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is fixing it for him. He said he has a

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hearse for a car, which, yeah, that's not going to

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handle too well either. I'm really you know, also kind

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of stopping to think about the fact that we have

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this one van that the hippie bears have that produces

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an endless supply of beer. We've got the endless supply

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of fries and like chicken patties, excuse me, in the

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car that the food truck that Donut and Carl have.

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So I have been sort of giving it, like just

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a teensy bit of thought if some of these other

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vehicles also have an endless supply of something, and like

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what that would be. But I think it's likely not

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all of the vehicles have this necessarily, because not all

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of them are going to really have a storage space

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at all, you know, I don't know if a glove

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compartment would have anything an endless supply of sunglasses and

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unused water burger napkins. That's pretty much in my glove compartment.

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I don't know. And let's see Chris has I love

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that he's Chris and the Errands because both women are

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named Aaron. A semi truck with a trailer, a big rig.

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It's big but slow. And this is when Ammani nudges

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him and says, kind of like you, Louis. They have

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an suv, a tahoe, but it's a neon covered lowrider.

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Our gremlin says, it'll get put back every time. So

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next upgrade we get, we'll pick something that fixes it,

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because if they try and undo the low ride, it

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won't stay. I you, guys, I have always been so baffled,

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utterly baffled by the concept of a lowrider being something desirable.

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I just don't, you know, especially an suv. The point

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of it, the point of it is that you're able

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to handle allegedly slightly more rough terrain. Maybe you do

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better in the snow, and you're up higher, and so

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they're supposed to be a sort of like sense of

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I say all of this with like a really strong

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asterisk see below, because all of this stuff is what

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I understand is the appeal. But I'm not sure that

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it's necessarily true. But I think a lot of people

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feel that if they're up higher, they have a better

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view of their surroundings, and that makes them feel safer

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and like they have more control over things. I have

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only driven an suv like a couple times, really briefly,

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can't speak to it, but I do kind of want one.

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I won't lie because I have two dogs now and

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that just feels like it would be really helpful. The

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idea of taking an suvn making it into a low

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rider just I don't get it, and I also don't

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like I live in in the Northeast, where I originally

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come from. Road maintenance is something that is taken a

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bit more seriously than it is here in Texas because

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it freezes all the time, so there's a lot of

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wear and tear on roads. We have to do all

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kinds of patching, and even though the roads are narrower

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and the speed limits are lower, the roads are generally

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in better shape. I'm in North Texas on the border

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of Oklahoma, and the roads here are fucking appalling. I

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have a regular sedan, a Toyota Camra twenty twenty one,

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and that bitch bottoms out all over the place, and

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it's like it is not a lowrider. Many people have

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a car that is, like, you know, but it just

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happens constantly, and the sound of the undercarriage of your

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car dragging is excruciating and it can really do damage

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if you hit hard enough, you know. So anyway, I

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just don't understand why people like want that, because I

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don't even have a low rider, and I still end

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up with a lot of issues every single day when

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I go out in this normal sedate. If you have one,

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I feel like you'd just be able to barely drive

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fucking anywhere, you know. I feel like it would have

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so many limitations on it. What are you gonna do

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with it? So anyhow, Yeah, they really do need to

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get that scene too and fixed. Michael says, most of

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these car mods don't make sense to me. Why would

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you want to risk damaging your car but putting it

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so low. Why do those people who make their trucks

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slouch do it when it looks dumb as hell and

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fucks with their headlight level so it blinds everyone around them. Listen.

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There are there are some car mods that I think

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are awesome, but they have to be done right, obviously.

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But there was a car I ran into the other

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day that had underlighting, purple underlighting, and the car itself

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was black and it was like nighttime, and that shit

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looked slick as fuck. But I also saw one like

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last week that had underlighting that was clearly a DIY

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job and it really showed. It was like you could

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see like a bit of it had come loose and

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sort of hanging down. It was not good. So you know,

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some mods are fun, Absolutely get it. But I just

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when I guess the answer is probably these sorts of

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mods are done by people for whom this is not

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their one and only vehicle. Probably that this is like

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a fun time car, but they have their regular day

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to day car. I guess, you know, I just I

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don't relate. So the fact that this one is a

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neon covered like Tahoe as well, at least the neon

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is fun that I could go for, And yeah, just

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sort of trying to picture it having a hard time.

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But they mention that the fucking the two of them,

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Louis and Britney. Brittany yelled at him for driving like

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an American, which I don't really know what that means. Uh,

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there's this hydraulic system, but I didn't how it work worked.

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All of our opponents have these super fast cars and animals,

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and we were late coming out of the gate. We

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would have lost if the tentacle guys hadn't gotten eaten.

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And this is when Carl is really having a moment

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of like, what the fuck? This is like a much

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more dangerous floor than I think it looks like it

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seems like because there's not outright battle. There's a sense

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in the moment of like almost like a childlike game system.

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You know, it's just racing. But he is sort of

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coming to the conclusion that I came to as soon

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as I heard the rules in the first chapters, where

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I was just like that anything can cause you to

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come in last. There is no predicting all of the

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things about setting aside the other players who apparently hate

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each other and will kill each other if you don't

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stop them, So now you have to worry about that,

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but also the actual conditions of the road itself and

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the environment that you're in, which we see later is

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fucking not what it sounded like it was going to be.

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I was super anxious from the start, and I had

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been sort of feeling like Carl didn't seem anxious enough.

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I definitely understood his reasoning, being like, I am not

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responsible for the lives of you know, thousands of other people.

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If I fuck up, only me and Dona are going

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to die. And there's some relief in that. I really

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really do get that, But there is also a sense

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of like, if you fuck up now, it could affect

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other people in who winds up having to race against who,

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and so it it isn't an immediate reaction to your

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it's not an immediate consequence, but it still is related

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and still can affect other crawlers. So I feel like

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it's almost an illusion. You know, he's feeling very relieved

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about it because it's not as obvious a connection, but

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it's still really there. And I just think that because

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we didn't know enough about how everything worked, he wasn't

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taking it as seriously. And I don't want to harsh

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his vibe because him having a moment of relief from

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that anxiety is great for him, but I just felt like,

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I don't think it's warranted right now, dude, you know

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so sorry. Prepotenze comes along with the book of karaoke songs,

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which he says, I'm going to be singing Tarzan Boy

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by Baltimoa, which I don't know if I know that song.

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Dona is lamenting the fact that these are all old

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people's songs, all choices from the nineteen eighties. Curious what

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you guys would pick. I would probably do something by

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Madonna because my mom listened to Madonna a ton when

474
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,640
I was little, so I know a lot of the songs.

475
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:11,319
The material Girl is a pretty fun one. I might

476
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:16,279
do that. So let's see. I'm trying to find the

477
00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:23,359
next Here it is Prepotente wants some advice, so he's

478
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:30,119
got some pet biscuits and evidently it's you know, Miriam

479
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,680
said ten. But Prepotente is evasive when they ask how

480
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,000
many he has, which leads me to believe that maybe

481
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,359
he has even more, and he's like not wanting to

482
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,759
let people know. I I don't know. But what's going

483
00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:55,559
on here is that most pet biscuits, it's a roll

484
00:33:55,559 --> 00:33:59,640
of the dice. It's very likely that you will get

485
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:03,920
a good result, but it's also a very real risk

486
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,240
that something terrible is going to happen to your pet,

487
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,079
or your pet will be turned into something that will

488
00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:14,599
attack you and kill you. And the pet biscuits that

489
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:22,000
he has two of are called like nothing special and

490
00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:29,000
it just turns them into pets. Basically. The one that

491
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:36,920
he has that he's debating is called the paramour. This

492
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,079
biscuit imparts the Paramore benefit. This is a subset of

493
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:45,039
the Party Companion Tree benefits. Nonsapient pets will have their

494
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,440
intelligence and Wisdom stat raised to at least three, and

495
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,400
then additionally enhanced to be commensurate with their original form.

496
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,760
Their level will be reset to level one. Dungeon born

497
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,039
pets will be given a crawler number and assigned crawler status.

498
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,000
The former pet will be required to find a safe

499
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:02,840
room and choose a class. If this is consumed after

500
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,719
the third floor begins, the pet will be given a

501
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,280
subtree two be transformation, resulting in a physical transformation to

502
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,199
an oxygen breathing upright form. The resulting height will be

503
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,480
within one in two point five meters with a mass

504
00:35:16,519 --> 00:35:20,079
proportional with their new form winged creatures will retain wings,

505
00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:22,559
but will no longer have the ability to naturally fly.

506
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,400
Basically a catgirl, a mascot, a furry, depending on what

507
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,119
their original form was. This is what happened to Prepotente,

508
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:32,679
while Donut, who was under subtree one, remained wholly a cat.

509
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,880
The pet will be given the pairamore benefit. They will

510
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:42,599
receive a permanent, incurable aster risk charm that will make

511
00:35:42,639 --> 00:35:45,159
them fall hopelessly in love with the entity who fed

512
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:50,679
them the biscuit. He's definitely using this. He's definitely using this.

513
00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:57,480
He's definitely using this. I totally get donuts argument here.

514
00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:03,639
She's not wrong, but it's he's decided. You can feel it,

515
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:17,039
you know. So she emphasizes it is a mind control

516
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:23,320
sex slave biscuit, which Prepotente keeps trying to sort of

517
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,360
side step the fact that it is a mind control

518
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:33,360
sex slave spell. I will say, it doesn't have to

519
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,800
be a sex slave spell. If you don't have sex

520
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,519
with the being you could, you know, they can be

521
00:36:41,559 --> 00:36:44,000
in love with you, and that sucks because you know

522
00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:47,719
you can take advantage of that, obviously, But it doesn't

523
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,239
have to be a sex slave thing. It's all about

524
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:55,880
what you decide to do, but they would want to

525
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,039
have sex with you. They would be pushing you probably

526
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,159
to do so. And the thing that's causing Prepotente to

527
00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:07,920
think about this is that he has a goat in

528
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:16,280
his inventory named regats Uh Regazzachia, yeah, Regazachiya, and she

529
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:23,519
was his girlfriend before the dungeon started. So doing something

530
00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:28,119
like this, in his mind, wouldn't really change anything about

531
00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:32,280
the way that she behaves or thinks about him because

532
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,159
she was already in love with him. Maybe just because

533
00:37:36,159 --> 00:37:38,039
she's your girlfriend doesn't mean that she was in love

534
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:43,800
with you like you know, but we'll just let that slide.

535
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,079
The whole thing is it feels like a really mean

536
00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:53,280
prank to have played on him, where now he has

537
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,760
to like think about this, And I feel for him

538
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,400
quite a bit because he says with some feeling later

539
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:11,280
how lonely he is. I understand that, but I also

540
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,440
feel like you don't have to be You could be

541
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,639
more friendly with everybody, like all of these other crawlers,

542
00:38:17,039 --> 00:38:22,199
you know, and I know, as Donut says, that you

543
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,360
miss your friends and the fact that they are kind

544
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,039
of right there weirdly, you know, they're within your reach.

545
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:34,360
In this bizarre way that's probably really torturous mentally, it's

546
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,079
this is just it's gonna fuck up the whole dynamic.

547
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:45,480
The one thing I will say, the asterisk after incurable

548
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,760
leads me to believe it isn't leads me to believe

549
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,960
you there will be something that can be done to

550
00:38:56,079 --> 00:39:00,920
undo it or mitigate it somehow. But I willing to

551
00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:06,199
bet it's pretty difficult thing to achieve. Something that would

552
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:11,760
be like require an intense sacrifice of some kind or

553
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:17,519
you know, God knows. And as Donu points out, setting

554
00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:20,079
all of the ethics of the mind control sex slave

555
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:25,079
thing aside, the fact that she would be brought in

556
00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:32,719
as a crawler, and a level one crawler at that,

557
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,519
that is a really awful thing to do to her.

558
00:39:36,639 --> 00:39:41,320
She would be in so much danger and it would

559
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,920
be What this reminds me of is there was a

560
00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:48,760
movie I can't remember what it was called. I feel

561
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,559
like it had Jennifer Lawrence in it and maybe Chris Pratt.

562
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,480
And the gimmick is that he and a bunch of

563
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:02,079
other people are in basis on a spaceship and something

564
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:06,840
happens that causes him to come out of that stasis

565
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:10,840
before they reach their destination, which their destination they will

566
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,480
not reach for like one hundred years. So when he

567
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:19,480
wakes up, he is destined to be alone on this

568
00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:22,440
ship until the day he dies from a natural death

569
00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:26,079
because he can't go back into stasis. So he's so

570
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:31,119
lonely that he chooses to wake up a woman who

571
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:37,960
is in stasis just because he wants company, and doesn't

572
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,800
tell her that he did it. He tells her it

573
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,559
was an error the way his was, and it was

574
00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:50,800
played as a romance in a way that a lot

575
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:56,920
of people had an issue with, understandably because, of course

576
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,320
the movie addresses that he lies to her and that

577
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,519
he did this to her her, but not in a

578
00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:07,000
way that really seems like it is taking the gravity

579
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:09,599
of we're going to die on this ship and you're

580
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:11,599
the only person I'm going to get to have contact

581
00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:14,719
with like seriously enough. So of course she ends up

582
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,199
forgiving him and they wind up like being together, but

583
00:41:19,119 --> 00:41:23,320
it just it just felt like, no, no, that is

584
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,599
not the reaction that a woman would have to realizing

585
00:41:26,599 --> 00:41:29,800
that this guy essentially killed her so he could have

586
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:36,199
a fucking plaything to hang out with, you know. So anyway,

587
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,880
that's kind of what this is reminding me of is

588
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,000
like you just want company, and so you are going

589
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:47,679
to If she was your girlfriend and you still care

590
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,079
about her at all in any real way, you would

591
00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:53,519
never want to do that to her. It's just a

592
00:41:53,559 --> 00:42:00,840
deeply selfish move. Again, I understand. But no, however, I

593
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,559
think he is still gonna do it. I think something

594
00:42:02,599 --> 00:42:04,280
is going to happen and he's gonna do it, and

595
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,840
I don't know what that's gonna be. I can't even

596
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,960
imagine a circumstance where it would feel like he has

597
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,719
no choice but to do this, But I think it's

598
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,880
gonna happen. And the only thing I can imagine is

599
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:20,280
organ dying perhaps, And so he's got nobody on his

600
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,840
team except for himself. And you can hire mercenaries. I

601
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,320
don't know, you know, if it would just be like

602
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,639
the mercenary is no good at driving, or he can't

603
00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:33,400
afford somebody else, or what would be the reasoning. But

604
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:41,199
if you absolutely need another player on your side, maybe,

605
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,199
I don't know if it's possible to join up with

606
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,119
another party at this point on this floor. If you

607
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,159
lose a party member, are you still stuck with the

608
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,400
vehicle that you have in the race track that you're in,

609
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,360
or can you switch to like Carl and Donuts party,

610
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,880
for example, and join up with the Prince. I don't

611
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:06,320
know if that's allowed. I don't think so. But so

612
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,239
Michael says, I heard about obsession and I watched Buffy

613
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,599
the Vampire that Buffy the Vampire Sligher episode. I'd be

614
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,320
terrified of the permanent, incurable charm spell. Oh, Passengers is

615
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,960
the name of the movie. Thank you, Michael. That movie

616
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,519
would have been so much better if they didn't try

617
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:22,480
to force the romance. It would have been a fascinating,

618
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,800
thought provoking movie if he had died during the rescue.

619
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,440
And we fast forward a few years and we see

620
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:31,639
Jennifer Lawrence contemplating waking up someone else. Yeah, and I

621
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:34,840
mean the we're not gonna at all engage with the

622
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,360
idea that maybe she's in love with him because she

623
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,199
has literally no other options than she has to make

624
00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:42,039
the best of what's going on, and maybe it's not

625
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:44,159
love at all, and it's just a set like a

626
00:43:44,199 --> 00:43:47,719
survival response, you know. Michael says, I think you were

627
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,760
stuck with your vehicle slash animal. Okay, that's kind of

628
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,480
what I figured, But I wasn't positive. So anyway, I

629
00:43:54,519 --> 00:43:57,119
was just trying to like think up scenarios that would

630
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,639
make it so that using the pep piss it wouldn't

631
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:05,280
be as abhorrent, you know, that it would feel like

632
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,760
it was more out of necessity and because like in

633
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,679
this moment, it feels a little bit like when Donah

634
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,599
is saying, this is really serious. You cannot do this.

635
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,639
It's wrong. And also people aren't going to like you

636
00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:21,199
anymore if you do this because it's so creepy, which

637
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,000
I think Donah isn't completely right about that, unfortunately. I

638
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,719
think a lot of like it is creepy, but I

639
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:33,280
think a lot of people would be interested in what happens,

640
00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:36,000
and would you know what I mean. I don't know

641
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,280
if that translates to support exactly, but uh, I think

642
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:47,199
she's She's probably right for the most part though, but

643
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,639
he points out here that she has the love vampire

644
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,599
skill that literally makes mobs fall in love with her

645
00:44:53,639 --> 00:44:56,320
and die for her, and her whole build is charisma

646
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:02,079
and charm of based which she says that's different. I

647
00:45:02,119 --> 00:45:04,639
will agree with Donut that it is different. And here

648
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:14,280
is why the mechanics of the dungeon require certain like

649
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:21,079
survival mechanisms, and she winds up leaning into the charisma

650
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:25,679
as she chooses her build. But when she is involuntarily

651
00:45:26,039 --> 00:45:31,280
turned into a crawler, she has charisma as by far

652
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,760
her highest stat and that is outside of her control,

653
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,480
and leaning into your highest stat is just the smart

654
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,599
thing to do. There's you know what I'm saying. You

655
00:45:43,679 --> 00:45:48,239
can't choose what your highest stat is and then lean

656
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,559
into it because you've made a choice. I won't deny

657
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,079
the mechanics of the actual spells themselves are really gross,

658
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:04,239
but she didn't come up with those. She's playing the game,

659
00:46:04,559 --> 00:46:06,840
and it's very much don't hate the player, hate the

660
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:12,199
game situation. This with a pet biscuit is an entirely

661
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,280
different thing. You are making a choice with, by the way,

662
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,320
an animal that you used to be appear to and

663
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,960
you have an existing relationship with in a different way.

664
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,960
When Carl fed Donut the pet biscuit, it was because

665
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,440
he was pretty sure she would die if he didn't

666
00:46:32,639 --> 00:46:36,519
do something to protect her, and he didn't know what

667
00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:42,199
would happen. I think if he had been given this biscuit,

668
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,880
there's no fucking way, like he just adds, of course,

669
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:50,599
not you know, we know enough now. I just think

670
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:53,440
it's out of the question. And it sounds like Prepotente

671
00:46:55,039 --> 00:46:58,519
is willing to abide by Donuts' rules here, because like

672
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:03,679
what he says is, I don't know, I'm still let's see.

673
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,639
Oh here it is. He sat there, not saying anything.

674
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,960
You're right, of course, he said, it is too late.

675
00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:13,760
I don't have anybody to ask these things. Sometimes I

676
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,559
imagine my mother and me having these conversations, but sometimes

677
00:47:16,559 --> 00:47:19,400
I don't know. Your benefit came with an enhanced memory

678
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,800
that allowed you to remember all those conversations and television shows,

679
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:26,039
and you know how people are supposed to act. I

680
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:31,800
don't have that mother was teaching me. But and I

681
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,760
thought that was a really interesting point that like his

682
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,840
frame of reference for being a person is a lot

683
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,280
more limited than Donuts, which makes sense for why he's

684
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:45,639
such a little weirdo. Also, and like I said, here,

685
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,800
you're right, of course, it doesn't feel like there's a

686
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:56,960
lot of like sincerity behind that. I think he's telling

687
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,920
the truth in the moment, but he does not sound

688
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:03,159
fully convinced, you know, so I feel like it's likely

689
00:48:03,199 --> 00:48:09,800
gonna happen anyway. And Donah is like, you will be

690
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,000
able to like come to me for any advice. We'll

691
00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:14,199
talk every day. You can ask me any questions you have,

692
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,760
So that's going to be She's basically like going to

693
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,480
mentor him as to how to be a person, which

694
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,920
I don't know that Donah is the best model for that,

695
00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:31,000
because like, if don't we're a person, she'd be pretty

696
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:33,719
fucking insufferable in a lot of ways. Probably, And yes,

697
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,360
I understand the irony of me saying that, considering how

698
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:42,320
much I identify with her, but whatever, But considering that

699
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,559
she started off as a pet, probably is positioned the

700
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:51,719
best to relate to him, so fair. Oh that's right,

701
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,320
Michael says he didn't actually feed it to her. She

702
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,480
jumped up and grabbed it out of his hand. I

703
00:48:56,559 --> 00:49:02,480
forgot about that. That's funny. So then we open chapter

704
00:49:02,519 --> 00:49:05,679
seventeen and bucket Boy is going to be the mercenary

705
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,920
that helps drive the vehicle, but he doesn't know how

706
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,960
to fucking drive, which evidently we are going to have

707
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,960
to teach him on the road, and that road is

708
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,880
going to be suffering some of the worst weather imaginable,

709
00:49:20,079 --> 00:49:31,800
which is like, I can't look. Look. I remember when

710
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,559
my mother was learning how to drive stick shift. My

711
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,559
father said he would teach her, and they had one

712
00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:40,480
of the worst fights they've ever had in their marriage.

713
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,880
And I've seen some doozies with them, but this was

714
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:50,320
a bad one. Teaching somebody to drive, it's a litmus

715
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,960
test in some ways. I have heard so many stories

716
00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:56,119
of people being taught by significant other how to drive

717
00:49:56,159 --> 00:49:58,559
and getting in a massive fight. This was not a

718
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:00,960
rare thing. The two of them are outliers. This is

719
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:07,360
like really common actually, And all I could think here

720
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:12,639
was just like, just how likely all of this is

721
00:50:12,679 --> 00:50:16,599
to go completely fucking sideways. They only have fifteen minutes

722
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:24,119
before the green light, right, so it's like anyway, so

723
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:30,079
let's see, Carl is about to rip the Tommy gun

724
00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:32,320
off the roof, which he is informed that he is

725
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,159
not allowed to do that. Eventually, I maintain that I

726
00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:38,480
think that tommy gun might be a working gun. Still

727
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:42,239
has not been disproven, so I'm going you know, one

728
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,039
would think that maybe Carl would notice that it's a

729
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:47,880
working gun when he's trying to yank it off. But

730
00:50:48,079 --> 00:50:50,440
I would argue that when you only have fifteen minutes

731
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,519
and you are assuming it doesn't work, you're not paying

732
00:50:53,559 --> 00:50:55,679
that kind of attention to it. I would think that

733
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:59,199
you were probably just focusing on the base that it's

734
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:03,519
attached to the with So I am still like kind

735
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:11,800
of on that kick. And there's a moment where Dona

736
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,880
is saying, I must warn you the GPS, and then

737
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,800
we get the voice. Now, it had been mentioned before

738
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,760
that the voice was a little familiar to Carl, and

739
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,679
I was assuming that this was going to turn out

740
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,960
to be a voice of an NPC or somebody that

741
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,840
we had met already, and it felt familiar to me.

742
00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:33,360
But the reason that it feels familiar to me, I

743
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,559
think is simply because this audiobook narrator only has so

744
00:51:37,559 --> 00:51:40,880
many voices. He's probably done something similar before, and it

745
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:46,239
just sounds a little bit like that. You know. Evidently

746
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:59,119
the GPS is named doctor Metcalf, miss Beatrice's therapist. It's

747
00:51:59,159 --> 00:52:04,480
not really her, I asked, God, I hope not, I said,

748
00:52:04,639 --> 00:52:07,679
suddenly remembering the one and only time I'd met the

749
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:13,039
very expensive alternative therapist, the therapist who turned out not

750
00:52:13,119 --> 00:52:15,920
to be a real doctor at all. Whenever I was

751
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,519
reminded of that whole episode, my head still ached from

752
00:52:18,559 --> 00:52:23,320
the trustful thing she'd made me, and be do. Doctor

753
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,239
Metcalf has her controls set as she thinks best, and

754
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,199
I believe we should listen to her. And then in

755
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,719
Messenger she has big, mean girl narcissist energy, so we

756
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:38,639
must be nice to her. Oh boy, the GPS has demands.

757
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,280
This is gonna be a real pain in the ass.

758
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,280
My god. The thing about this, like being a fake

759
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,920
therapist that b takes him to cracks me up as well, because,

760
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:54,559
like it's a classic thing for a manipulator to like

761
00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:00,119
use a therapist in such a way as to to,

762
00:53:01,039 --> 00:53:03,880
you know, kind of invalidate everything that you are feeling.

763
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,400
And this is not an unheard of thing. Somebody either

764
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,519
being not a real therapist or being a therapist that

765
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,239
doesn't know how to really keep perspective. And so they've

766
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,280
been meeting one on one with the significant other and

767
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:23,320
are predisposed not to believe the person they are partnered

768
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:28,119
with that they bring in like later, the person who

769
00:53:28,199 --> 00:53:31,159
is trying to manipulate the other maybe doesn't get a

770
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,559
choice in the therapist, but they're very selective about the

771
00:53:33,559 --> 00:53:35,159
way they talk and behave when they are in front

772
00:53:35,199 --> 00:53:38,039
of the therapist, which makes it look like your complaints

773
00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:43,320
are not valid. All of these like therapy only actually

774
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,679
works if you are prepared to be fully honest in

775
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,480
every way, and if you're not, it's a complete waste

776
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:55,840
of fucking time and money. And be having like a

777
00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:04,239
friend who's, you know, probably a fucking energy specialist who

778
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:09,280
has a h you know, degree from some online university

779
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,519
in like nutrition. That definitely tracks for me with who

780
00:54:13,559 --> 00:54:20,079
she is. So let's see, I'm trying to find the

781
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:25,039
bit here. Were you driving transportation on the last floor,

782
00:54:25,119 --> 00:54:27,840
don'ta ask? She remained in the back, inspecting the contents

783
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,880
of the freezer chest. I've driven a cart before, bucket

784
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,519
Boyce said, his voice going up in octave. It didn't

785
00:54:34,559 --> 00:54:37,039
have any of these handles and pedals and extra buttons.

786
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,800
And there's a mention of how Be always used to

787
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,480
say that she only got tickets when the cop was

788
00:54:45,519 --> 00:54:49,320
a woman or they were gay. She only got like

789
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,360
five or six tickets, which is just quite a lot, actually,

790
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,760
And if you were going to get more than that, damn,

791
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:05,559
what a maniac. Uh. Let's see, wrend I called pulling

792
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:07,960
the pet carrier out. I still had the truck passenger

793
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,440
door open, and he stood there looking at me, panting

794
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,199
weirdly like a dog. The inside of his mouth was

795
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:17,599
absolutely filled with smashed, uncooked French fries. I want to

796
00:55:17,639 --> 00:55:20,280
go for a ride, buddy. He let out a deep

797
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,840
giggle and let me zap him away. Rend is just

798
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,039
so unsettling, you guys. He's just like I keep trying

799
00:55:28,039 --> 00:55:30,000
to picture him, and I know that he's like on

800
00:55:30,039 --> 00:55:32,039
the cover a few times, but I just don't really

801
00:55:32,079 --> 00:55:33,599
like the way he looks in that so I'm just

802
00:55:34,559 --> 00:55:36,760
I'm just choosing not to believe that's what he really

803
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:44,159
looks like. So I don't like it. So see, uh

804
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:50,199
oh right, So we have to path assignment left path

805
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:59,199
starting red spot number seven, Distance ten kilometers track asphalt,

806
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:05,280
paved road, rolling hills. Tasks required to complete. Each path

807
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,639
is of equal length. Each path has a gatekeeper monster

808
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,440
along that path that must be killed to resume environment

809
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:18,760
torrential downpour of rain and giant hail hazards. I thought

810
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,840
a cat driving was a fifty to fifty death sentence,

811
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,840
But now that we've actually put a prepubescent crocodile behind

812
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,679
the wheel, I see you're not leaving anything to chance.

813
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:38,599
Time limit three hours. When it said that Hale is

814
00:56:38,639 --> 00:56:43,360
going to start light and then get worse. I don't

815
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:48,239
know what worse is. We'll have to see how that

816
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:55,119
can be possible. This has when saying jumps in and says, sorry, guys,

817
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:58,920
but I have to confirm perpotentes theories mostly correct. Not

818
00:56:59,199 --> 00:57:01,440
killed five of the other teams, and we have four

819
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,880
replacements at the starting line. Two are NPC teams, but

820
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:11,440
two are crawler teams, including trans team. Nah Is just

821
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,519
sitting there behind me, not reacting. I have the reins

822
00:57:14,559 --> 00:57:23,159
for this one. I don't know what to do. Nah Is.

823
00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:26,440
She doesn't need to be in a party with anybody anymore.

824
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:30,719
Zyg needs to get the fuck out of there. He

825
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,000
needs to partner up a train or something. I don't know.

826
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,440
She isn't safe. She's clearly in like a very nihilist

827
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:44,440
space right now and isn't interested in working together, and

828
00:57:44,599 --> 00:57:47,400
just it just sucks because like, I don't think he's

829
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,000
able to switch out, and it's she's just being really

830
00:57:52,039 --> 00:57:57,360
like unfair right now, you know. And she of course

831
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,800
doesn't know that she's being unfair, and even if she did,

832
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:08,440
I don't think she fucking care. But anyway, so this

833
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,599
is when we get a bunch of the teams like

834
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,840
yelling at each other and having all of the I

835
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,679
won't get into it because I'm like running out of

836
00:58:15,719 --> 00:58:19,840
some time here, but there it's a very colorful language

837
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,400
that you know, when you talk about smack talk, that's

838
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,440
one thing, but this vibe is a lot more intense

839
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,360
than smack talk. It's a lot more uh yeah. And

840
00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:32,880
Doughnut rightfully is just like, how the fuck are we

841
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,199
supposed to keep these people alive? And I'm like, yeah, girl,

842
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,639
I do not know. I don't have any suggestion, Like

843
00:58:38,679 --> 00:58:43,159
they'll sound like they're just dead set, punintended on and

844
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:48,599
killing each other. I spent a moment trying to examine

845
00:58:48,639 --> 00:58:50,679
the vehicle in front of the woman tars, the vehicle

846
00:58:50,719 --> 00:58:55,559
currently in the first spot Team one five one Fine Pig.

847
00:58:55,639 --> 00:58:58,039
It was a big military vehicle similar to what I

848
00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:01,079
imagined IMMANI and Ellie had. To the right of them

849
00:59:01,159 --> 00:59:05,639
stood the two large black dog too. Stood the large

850
00:59:05,639 --> 00:59:10,239
black dog of the jugglers. The creepy masked riders sat

851
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,679
in a row on its back. The razor Fox's bear

852
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,039
was about the same size and was currently sniffing at

853
00:59:15,039 --> 00:59:21,320
the butt of the dog. So let's see. I pulled

854
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,639
the special banger sphere out. If it worked as intended,

855
00:59:23,679 --> 00:59:26,400
it would destroy the entire windshield in one hit, not

856
00:59:26,639 --> 00:59:30,119
just poke a hole in it. And this is when

857
00:59:30,159 --> 00:59:35,039
the hail begins and they realize that this is way

858
00:59:35,159 --> 00:59:41,480
more intense than we thought. The back of the truck bucked,

859
00:59:41,519 --> 00:59:46,000
as if we'd been rear ended. The entire awning over

860
00:59:46,039 --> 00:59:49,800
our heads exploded. Bits of ice and snow and metal

861
00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:53,559
crackled across the roof of the truck. The rain started

862
00:59:53,679 --> 00:59:57,039
pounding the windshield. In a second, I couldn't see anything

863
00:59:57,079 --> 00:59:59,199
through the ice and water. I couldn't even see the

864
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,599
lights above us, indicating when it was time to go.

865
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,679
And of course bucket boy is fucking panicking, as he should.

866
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,079
This being the first time you're actually driving a real

867
01:00:10,159 --> 01:00:18,199
car is deeply fucking unfair. Uh doughnut Like, there's she

868
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:22,039
has the thing that she is supposed to do, she's

869
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:24,400
supposed to fire, and she stops, and it says a

870
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,679
long tank like tube had just popped out of the

871
01:00:26,719 --> 01:00:29,960
side of the team sparkles bush and was pointed directly

872
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,800
at the muscle car right in front of us. And

873
01:00:33,119 --> 01:00:38,679
they don't duck quite in time. Flames burst from the

874
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:41,199
turret as they fired directly into the Chevy bel Air.

875
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,519
Instead of spinning away, the car miraculously went straight up

876
01:00:44,559 --> 01:00:48,239
as if it were a rocket. The burning Chevy bel

877
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,760
Air landed loudly to the left of us, smashing into

878
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:57,960
the ditch, burning furiously, and Dwight just yells, that's right,

879
01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:02,760
gargle my translucent balls, you garble malt, you know cornballs,

880
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,440
you translucent bitch. That's right, because they are the one

881
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,719
that is a goo team six girth. The trouble has

882
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,679
been eliminated due to the destruction of their vehicle. Seven

883
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:21,599
teams remain in the current heat. And then chapter nineteen,

884
01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:25,000
don't turn when you look left and right. It's okay,

885
01:01:25,079 --> 01:01:28,960
you're good. They stopped up ahead. I see them so

886
01:01:29,159 --> 01:01:31,559
poor bucket boy. He's trying his best, but this shit

887
01:01:31,679 --> 01:01:35,920
is very, very fucking tense. Dona is using her shield spell,

888
01:01:36,639 --> 01:01:40,519
but when she has to stretch it over the whole truck,

889
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,679
which she if the truck gets disabled, you lose, so

890
01:01:44,719 --> 01:01:47,360
she can't just protect the people, she has to protect

891
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,119
the whole truck. The massive chunks seem to be hitting

892
01:01:51,239 --> 01:01:55,920
mostly off the track, thank god, because spreading in the

893
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,039
shield out that big makes it less powerful. I am

894
01:01:59,079 --> 01:02:02,519
wondering about Carl's shield spell and if he could do something.

895
01:02:03,199 --> 01:02:05,440
You know, he has that like, but it stays in place,

896
01:02:05,519 --> 01:02:08,599
I guess. So that was really useful for some things,

897
01:02:08,599 --> 01:02:11,800
but it wouldn't work for this. It's stationary. So yeah,

898
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,840
that sucks. The Lady Dominator's car appeared to be a

899
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,920
late sixties Pontiac Gto convertible painted in a deep burgundy,

900
01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:24,000
and they have a really good shield on their car.

901
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:28,039
And then we have this weird thing with one fine pig.

902
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:35,880
This is so odd, you guys. Uh, Nico Tigrin level

903
01:02:36,199 --> 01:02:39,960
ninety one, greaser. You already know what a tigrin is,

904
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,800
as your buddies with that guy who plays with dolls

905
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,800
and almost did something really suspicious with his tea before

906
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,559
he came to his senses. Mm hmm. Nico is two things. One,

907
01:02:49,679 --> 01:02:54,440
he's a tiger person. Uh. Nico falls well within the

908
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:56,360
range of what you come to expect from your average

909
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,639
dude with a tiger head, with one glaring exception, and

910
01:02:58,679 --> 01:03:02,960
that exception is Penelope, his wife, the love of his life.

911
01:03:03,079 --> 01:03:05,840
Nico is part of a throuple. It's not a healthy

912
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,880
relationship and goes on to be like, you know, polyamory

913
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,280
isn't the problem here. Some people get bullied into things

914
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,679
that they are not ready for. Penelope is the one

915
01:03:14,719 --> 01:03:19,280
who wanted to open things up. So now, Nico, Dario,

916
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,880
who is that other tigrin glaring at you from behind

917
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:26,039
the steering wheel? And Penelope? Penelope is the pig. She's

918
01:03:26,079 --> 01:03:28,480
a regular pig with the intelligence of a regular pig.

919
01:03:28,719 --> 01:03:31,440
Just go with it. There's a whole storyline here. Examine

920
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,920
her if you want to know more. This beast is

921
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,280
magically protected by Tyrannus. If the beast dies or is hurt,

922
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:41,199
the culprit will be marked for death by the thunder God.

923
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,679
She is a pig. She loves both Nico and Dario equally.

924
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:48,280
At least that's what Nico and Dario believe. She didn't

925
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,960
used to be a beautiful princess who was transformed by

926
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,239
a witch. She's a pig and has always been a pig.

927
01:03:55,079 --> 01:03:58,559
Penelope did, however, once get hit by a stray spell

928
01:03:59,119 --> 01:04:04,119
the Touch of Lou also known as Snowdrop Curse. There

929
01:04:04,159 --> 01:04:06,639
was going to be this whole suckybist storyline that also

930
01:04:06,679 --> 01:04:08,800
involved Embras and helic and Taranus and a bunch of

931
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,079
angry spouses on the seventh floor. We didn't get to use,

932
01:04:11,119 --> 01:04:14,679
so we brought Vanelape here. And now when certain NPCs

933
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,880
see this fine pig, they fall helplessly in love with her.

934
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:23,679
That includes Tarannus, who has it bad for her. I

935
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,719
simply cannot I don't know what to think. This is

936
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,800
just it just made me think of the first Black

937
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,079
Mirror episode. And you know it's not it's not good.

938
01:04:34,079 --> 01:04:39,760
I don't like it. I don't like it. Uh. We

939
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:43,360
stepped out of the truck, passing by Corkunda, who was

940
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,079
curled up in the back seat of the GTO. He

941
01:04:46,119 --> 01:04:48,760
had an unconscious notification over his head. He'd been put

942
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:53,280
asleep via a spell. Huh, I thought. We passed out

943
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of the area of the shield from the GTO and

944
01:04:56,119 --> 01:04:59,039
rain and Hale started to pour on us. Donnut let

945
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:02,559
out a little Yello and recast her shield spell. Hale

946
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,719
pinged off it loudly, like pebbles against glass. We approached

947
01:05:06,719 --> 01:05:09,639
the others, who finally noticed us. Just beyond them at

948
01:05:09,639 --> 01:05:12,320
the bottom of the hill was the boss just sitting

949
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:16,800
there in the middle of the road. Oh, for fuck's sake,

950
01:05:17,199 --> 01:05:21,119
I muttered, and that's it. That's where I had to stop.

951
01:05:21,159 --> 01:05:22,800
So I do not know what the boss is yet

952
01:05:23,079 --> 01:05:25,760
I managed to stop exactly at the right spot and

953
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:30,440
not over listen at all. I wish I hadn't. I

954
01:05:30,559 --> 01:05:34,639
want to know, but I won't. I won't check right

955
01:05:34,639 --> 01:05:37,239
now because I don't have time. I gotta wrap. But

956
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:40,760
thank you guys again. I appreciate you all very much.

957
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:43,800
Michael says, I need to know that everyone in love

958
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:47,000
with Penelope loves her enough to not be having relations

959
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,800
with her without her enthusiastic consent, which she can't give

960
01:05:51,679 --> 01:05:57,320
otherwise it is too disturbing to think about. Yeah, agreed, Michael.

961
01:05:58,599 --> 01:06:05,039
I Uh, I hate it, I really do. I also

962
01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:07,559
kept thinking about, wasn't there a movie where there's a

963
01:06:07,559 --> 01:06:11,039
girl named Penelope who has like a pig nose? Or

964
01:06:11,239 --> 01:06:14,400
is like there's like a movie like this. I don't

965
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,400
know if that's the reasoning here or what, but uh

966
01:06:17,639 --> 01:06:21,679
with Christina Ricci, Michael says, yes, okay, I knew I

967
01:06:21,719 --> 01:06:24,519
wasn't imagining that it was too weird a premise. And

968
01:06:24,559 --> 01:06:30,400
there's also of course that like there's like an SNL

969
01:06:30,519 --> 01:06:35,320
skit with oh my god, Pamela Anderson. I feel like,

970
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:37,719
and all the people are pig people except for her,

971
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:41,480
and the expectation is that they will think she's hideous

972
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,239
because she doesn't look like them, but that is not

973
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:48,320
what happens anyway. I have got to rep thank you

974
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:49,800
guys again so much for hanging out with me. I

975
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:54,679
appreciate you all very much. Oh and real quick, I

976
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,239
mentioned before that there's like an episode of the live

977
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,440
cast that's missing, and it was some weird thing that

978
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,440
happened with Patreon, and then I had gotten in touch

979
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:05,960
with them. They finally got back to me. They did

980
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,519
figure out what the glitch was, but that live recording

981
01:07:09,679 --> 01:07:13,840
is just gone forever, which fucking sucks. So if you

982
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,800
have been going through them and wondering where that one is,

983
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:20,440
sorry about it. Not my fault, but I can only

984
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:24,719
do so much. All right, kids, Until next time to

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01:07:24,840 --> 01:08:01,679
the lou motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast