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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters forty two through forty five.

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In these chapters, I was correct about the fact that

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the next interview wasn't going to go as smoothly as

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the last one. Honestly though, it was pretty fun to

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get to see Carl take control of the situation and

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absolutely crush it the way that he does. How satisfying.

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Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I

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am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning

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this episode. Michael, this has been so much fun. And

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this section. I listened to this while I was taking

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a walk with pippin the other night, and it was

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dark and I didn't get a chance to take him

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until like probably like ten thirty PM. And I'm always

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very conscious when I am listening to an audiobook that's

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particularly funny that it might be extremely creepy to people

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when I am out in the dark laughing all by myself,

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I feel like, probably it comes across as unnerving, and

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so yeah, I just tried to keep behold of myself

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this time, but I definitely like more than once was

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cackling this whole vibe. I I'm just going to get

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into it. Let's just start so chapter forty one or

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forty two. Sorry, they we pick up with them still

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in that green room sort of area, And the way

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that this works is like that they are able to

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see things but not be seen because it's all virtual,

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So they can like appear to be sitting in the

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seats that they will eventually be shown to the audience

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in and so watch the whole thing even though the

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audience isn't observing them yet. And it's sort of like

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a fun way for this to be set up because

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I just like the fact that he gets the chance

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to get the measure of this guy before he's on

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stage with him, so to speak, because the other two

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dudes who get pulled on are obviously completely unprepared for

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who it is they're talking to, Like I'm not really

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sure there's a way to be prepared for who he is.

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But I don't blame them for like handling things. I

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won't say as poorly as they did, because they're really

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I don't feel like they did. It's just that they

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were put in a position with a fucking maniac, so

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they were doing their best, and it does seem like

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there might be like just almost like they're they're not

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understanding the intent of the show, which is to be

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mean spirited, so they're confused by it. Which is always

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something that I find fascinating is when a person just

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like can't conceive of the fact that somebody is just

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trying to be a piece of shit. And so it's

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almost the tactic that people have taken to lately when

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they say, like, if somebody makes an offensive joke, pretend

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that you don't get it, and ask them to explain

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it to you, and all of a sudden, they're going

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to be a lot less eager because the whole thing

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is supposed to be it's funny because you share the

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same biases that I do. But now if I don't

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get it, then one clearly I don't share those biases,

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because otherwise the joke would have made sense to me.

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And secondly, now you have to explain that you have

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these biases, and it makes you look like an asshole.

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So that's sort of what it feels like here, is

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that these guys are just like not getting what's supposed

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to be going on, and it's resulting in this weird

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energy because they are being led by the hand through it.

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And clearly that's part of what this fucking dude enjoys

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is the fact that like the dawning horror right of

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these dungeon crawlers as they begin to understand what it

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is that he is setting them up for. So for Carl,

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he gets such a leg up sitting on the side

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and seeing exactly the way this guy operates so that

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he can go in there with a particular attitude. So

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the opening of this I focused on a group of

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humans sitting in the second row, hooting and screaming and

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laughing boisterously. There was a cruel air to their laughter.

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It was almost a tangible thing, like a black, malevolent

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cloud that embraced the presence of the entire audience. I

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was reminded of that day when my dad and his

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friends broke my sling shot. They'd been firing rocks at

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squirrels laughing in a similar way. These humans in the

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second row were all male, and they were all about

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twelve or thirteen years old. It seemed the entire audience

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consisted of young, pre and early teen males. One of

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them was wearing a red shirt that said glurp on it.

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Glurt glurp. The audience yelled, glurt glurp. Donut, I said,

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talking quickly, this crowd is going to be a lot

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different than the last one. They're all kids. I don't

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think they're the happy cartoon watching kind either. Carl, we've

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gone over this, Donut said. You sit there and look angry,

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and I do the talking, remember, and then they get

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the on air soon and we have this guy. No,

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you little cunts are gonna love today's surprise panelists here.

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Maestro had to bang some blimey mud skipper tail to

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pull this one off. But nothing is too good for

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Maestro's piglets. Suck it, suck it, good piglets. Glurt blurt.

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The audience screamed, glurt blurt. I hate him so much.

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Oh my god, you guys. I look, I'm gonna I'm

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gonna preface this with something first. I want to acknowledge

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there is a ton of excellent content on YouTube, really

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really good stuff. Okay, I am not trying to say

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if you are on YouTube, then you are trash, because

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that's just fucking idiotic. I actually kind of want to

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spend more time on YouTube in some ways because I

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feel like I have not taken advantage of everything has

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to offer, and there are so many independent creators on

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there that deserve more attention, and I just tend to

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watch like network TV, you know. So I just really

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really want to be clear that I am not trying

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to group in all YouTubers, because that's doesn't make any sense.

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It's like acting like my podcast is the same as, like,

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you know, an NPR podcast like that doesn't even They're

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not even what you know. But when I think of YouTube,

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this is the reason I haven't done as much with it.

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This vibe is what I think of unfortunately, and I

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really feel like that I am not alone in that.

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I really think that maybe this is a hurdle that

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YouTube has had to learn how to jump and navigate,

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because I cannot be the only one that sort of

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has this weird hang up and bias where I just

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associate the entire platform at it, like just off the

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top of my head, with this very juvenile, like cruel

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and mean spirited sort of energy. It's I think improved

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some the way that oh my god, Rob is in

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the chat says one hundred percent, don't let friends drink

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from the algo stream. Yeah, this is That's kind of

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what has has been a bit of a stumbling block

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for me is that I don't know where to start

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in watching certain things on YouTube. To get the algorithm

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working for me, I would be going in blind and

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potentially set the algorithm up to show me more of

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something that I didn't like, and I don't know how

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to undo that. Like, there have been a couple times

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where things have shown up on my feed and I

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have tried to figure out how to like click them

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and be like, don't show me anything more like this,

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and I can't figure out how to do that. I

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only wind up clicking through and starting to watch it,

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and then I have to remove it from my viewing history,

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which it seems like that's kind of the only way anyway.

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All I'm saying is I think that the worst parts

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of YouTube are like this, and that this is like

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one of the first steps towards young men getting radicalized

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by maniacs that have no knowledge or information and yet

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have a platform. And it's such a fucking mixed bag, guys,

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because on the one hand, and I think that in

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part the fact that we don't need to have any

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special education and we can still create content. Is one

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of the great things about the Internet that there is

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something beautiful about the fact that you can just share

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anything as long as you are able to put it

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out there, like if you have the right equipment to

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do it, anybody can do it. And it's part of

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what I love about podcasting that it is so open.

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But of course there's that double edged sword to it,

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where then you get absolute fucking maniacs. And there was

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some I can't remember who it was, but it was

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some actor the other day and he was like a

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very He was not famous, but he was somebody that

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I saw in a weird little thing and I was

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sort of like wondering about what else he had done.

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and I don't remember the name of the show. It

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was something like Ugly on the Inside, I think was

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the name of it. And it was these two guys

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interviewing him, and I felt like I lost half my

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brain cells watching this, Like I think I got through

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about fifteen minutes, which is like admirable, frankly considering, and

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they the person that was being interviewed was the most

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intelligent one in the room for sure. The two dudes

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who run the show. It was like talking to like

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it felt like they were like fourteen years old. And

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I was at least relieved when I went into the

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comments that everybody was dogging on these guys because apparently

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a lot of other people had followed this actor to

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this interview, and so most people were there for him,

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and they were just appalled by how bad the show

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was overall. And I did feel better about that, because

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there's nothing worse than watching something and thinking it is

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god awful and then seeing everybody hyping it up and

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being like, what am I crazy? Is this gaslighting? Like,

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I at least felt better. Everybody seemed to be in

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agreement that these guys were complete fucking morons. But it's

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it's you know, part of having an open platform is

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that you get what you get. Rob says, the best

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thing you can do is use an alternative client like

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new Pipe, which doesn't auto play videos. I do not

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know what you mean, Rob, I didn't know that YouTube

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auto played videos. Uh that I don't like that. And

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I also don't know what new Pipe is and why

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is it a client and not a platform. I have

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a lot of questions, Rob. In short, but let's get

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back to the book. So this dude, the whole point

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of this, we find out later, is likely that he

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and his brother are being given this show to keep

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them busy and out of their dad's hair, so to speak,

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because they are very privileged, spoiled brats. He stood about

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six and a half feet tall, built like a tank.

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A line of earrings circled his left ear. He wore

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a hot pink silken shirt buttoned halfway up, revealing a hairy,

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well muscled chest covered in gold chains. I couldn't tell

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for certain, but I had the distinct impression he was

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only in his early twenties. I hated him instantly. To

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my right now sat two humans, two men about my age.

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Both were Asian, their ragged, bewildered look pegnam as fellow crawlers.

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One of them noticed us and point talking quickly to

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his companion. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but

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it seemed like they recognized us. I waved, and they

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waved back, both of them bowing rapidly. They turned and

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also waved at the empty chairs to their right. There

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was someone there, but we couldn't see who it was.

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So here comes the Maestro this orc. So we have

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six guests today, two stupid lame guests, two VIP surprise guests,

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and then two more surprised guests surprise guests for are VIPs.

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Our VIP today are so hot. We are for the

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very first time coming to you live. That is how

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hard I am working for you. And that really winds

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up biting him in the ass. If it weren't for

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that it were live, I think maybe things could have

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gone a different way. But when it's live, you just

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got to adjust and roll with things to a certain degree.

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of his troubles end up coming from. So we see

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this set up with these people who have turned a

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corner and come across a bunch of those hornets and

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a couple of those lizards, and they have splattered the

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the hornet has splattered this like burning as acidic sort

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of glop on a guy's face. There's three men and

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one woman, and these two dudes have been pulled directly

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out of that confrontation, and the Maestro is presenting them

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with like a situation that they have to deal with

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in order to potentially save one of their friends, maybe

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both of them, although that seems very unlikely and I

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was a little surprised, I'll be honest, I have to

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assume that this comes down to how much they were

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willing to pay. But I was really taken off guard

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by the fact that the Maestro has the authority to

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do anything that affects the actual game. Because it's one

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thing to be able to interview people and to you know,

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kind of fuck with their heads or you know, make

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them do silly games on your show that are exclusive

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to your show. It's another thing entirely to promise them

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things that actually will like get them to dip in

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and out of the game itself and affect who stays

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alive as a player. And I really wondered at first

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if he was just talking cash shit and couldn't do

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what he was saying he could do, And it seems

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like he can. So I am going to go ahead

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and like lump that in with the budget issues that

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we have been seeing with everything else, and just assume that,

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like we are so desperate for cash by now with

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this show that we are willing to throw in with

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these absolute ship bags just to make a fucking buck.

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I have to assume that it's if I give you

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enough money, will you let me toy with your players,

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and that they just managed to have enough money, So

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the fellow with the acne scars is Lee June, and

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the bald fucker will just call Zang say hello meet.

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It took the two men a moment to realize that

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Maestro was talking to them. Hello, Nie June said, I

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don't understand what is happening. Okay, so let me catch

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you up since you're too stupid to figure it out.

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You're on Deathwatch, a segment of my show. That means

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we just plucked you away from certain death. You're welcome.

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Before your plight was hopeless. Now you have a chance

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to survive. But we'll get to that in a second.

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You have been hit with a time freeze spell and

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it will run out just as this episode ends. We

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have a little game we'd like you to play to

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give you the opportunity to live past the next few seconds.

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We're gonna show you a series of scenes and you

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have to guess if the Crawler survives or not. But

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before we begin, I want to know a little about

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you guys, and we get some background that the woman

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is Legion's sister, and that the other guy, Zang, is

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best friends with Lesion, so he sees her as his

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sister also, and the guy that they got hit with

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the goop is their manager. And what the Maester is

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trying to do is be like you are. You are

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going to have to pick between the two of them

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more than likely. This is how it works. We're going

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to show you four scenes and we want you to

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guess the crawler's gonna live or die. If he gets correctly,

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you'll receive a teleport teleport point when we're done. For

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every point you have, you can spend it to save

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yourselves or one of your companions. The recipient of each

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teleport point will be immediately transferred to the closest safe room.

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If you decide to throw a point at old spooge face,

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he will be healed, So don't worry about that. Ready, good,

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let's go. And at this point, Carl gets up to

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fucking leave and is like climbing up on the table

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that is blocking him, and then this voice comes through

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and tells them to get back in his seat. I

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love this. Carl just tells him, go fuck yourself, Carl,

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you're gonna get us in trouble. Doughnut said, you are

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ordered to sit. We have paid the appearance fee and

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you will participate in the program. If you refuse, we

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are authorized to drop you into this ocean, drowning you

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both bullshit. I said, you're not boring and you're not

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the syndicate. There's no way they'd authorize that. We are

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not participating in this cruelty. Nothing happened for several moments.

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Donut jump up to my shoulder. You're gonna get us

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in trouble. She said again, this time more quietly. Crawler, Carl,

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this is Administrator Mukta. You are required to take your

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seat or there will be consequences. I'll go on as

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many shows as you want, but we're not doing this one,

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I said, Carl. We will discuss this when you are done.

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If you do not participate, we will accelerate you. There

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are plenty of other crawlers to show on our program.

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This is not a bluff. Can that other guy hear

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me right now? No? He cannot. As long as I

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don't talk shit about you guys? Will there be consequences

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for what I say? As long as I participate, I mean,

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they have paid for your appearance, nothing else. All right,

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tell him we want on the show now before this

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death watch segment ends. Carl, what are you doing? I'm

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the one who talks this time, I said so. At

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this point, these dudes have two teleport points and they

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have decided they have to decide who they're going to pick,

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and they are deciding to die together like they're trying

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to show a unified front. It's uh. The one of

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them sang is sitting save Lejiun and Lena, and Lejun

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is like, no, we're not doing that. We stand together.

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A sour look passed across the Maestro's face. He said something,

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but it was muted. He paused, then nodded. A moment

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passed and the cruel smile reappeared on his face. We're

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gonna do something a little different, Piglets. Our VIP guests

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have been watching backstage, and it seems like they have

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something to say that Maestro was playing this off like

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it was his idea, and I like, I didn't really

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get exactly the glurt blurt thing until here where he says,

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we're gonna show what these crazy assholes did to get free,

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but since they want to suck on it so bad,

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we're gonna bring them on early, and this is when

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they start chanting glurt blurp again, and I was like, oh,

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because he told them earlier to suck on it, but

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now he's saying stuck on it for them. And then

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it just turns out that that's just sort of like

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the way that they say to like do anything is

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to suck on it. And I was like, I guess,

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I mean, the whole point is to be as like

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vulgar as possible to be shocking, right. It's it's so played,

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it's so embarrassing. It's very embarrassing. Hi, So Crawler Carl

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and Princess Donut Piglets. You probably don't know this. These

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two just broke a record for the most watched second

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floor battle in the history of Dungeon Crawler World. That

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is very impressive and I don't feel like they get

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nearly enough credit for that. Say hello to my piglets.

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We want it on the game, I said, not bothering

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to beat the crowd, to greet the crowd. We want

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to play death Watch too. That's not how it works, Carl.

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I knew you were a crazy mother. They have two points,

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let's use them to transfer me and Donut to that spot.

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I look at the crowd. Wouldn't that be cool? The

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crowd roared. People talk about how stupid you are, Carl,

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But I never realized you were this stupid. If you're

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feeling suicidal, then I leaned in, pointing my finger. No,

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you listen to me, poor boy. If you're gonna fuck

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with people like this, then at least make it fair.

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They played your game and they won two points. You

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said they can use those points to transfer people away.

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I don't see why it can't be used to transfer

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people in either. It doesn't work that way. You're not

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part of the game. It's against the rules. Yeah, fuck

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the rules. I looked at the crowd. I think we

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should tell the rules to suck it. What do you think, clerk? Glurp,

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blurt blurt. The Maestro did not like his audience glurping

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for someone else. Oh my god, I there. That whole

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line just speaks so many volumes on so many different levels,

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and is honestly like I, I have thoughts that I'll

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get to in a moment, and basically in his mind,

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Carl is like confessing, I don't want to do this,

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but I don't like this. You know, he's a fucking bully,

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and I gotta do something. I can't just sit here

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and watch these two guys get fucking like treated this way.

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And then he suddenly like thinks about the fact that

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the next two guests that he can't see are going

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to be specifically aimed at him in Donut and he's like, oh,

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I bet I know who it is, and I was like,

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I think so too, And they do indeed turn out

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to be who we thought. But it's a different situation

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than you would expect. On television shows and in kids' books,

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they always repeated the bullies will back down when stood

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up to mantra. That was utter horseshit. It always has

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been that only worked when the one standing up to

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the bully was stronger than them. The Maestro and I

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were not on equal footing, but my short confrontation and

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the production trailer taught me something important. I didn't need

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to be stronger than him. Donut and I or something better.

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We were expensive, and I really do appreciate. Bullies don't

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back down when they're stood up to. What happens is

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if you are stronger than them, the bully simply realizes

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they pick the wrong prey. And they find somebody weaker

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and they go after them instead. If you are stronger

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and you manage to stand up to them, usually that

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results in them being humiliated, and the person that they

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after you is going to get even worse treatment than

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they would have otherwise, because now the bully has something

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additional to prove, and if you stand up to them

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when you are not stronger than them, it just results

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in you getting even more of a beating than you

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were about to get. Either way, they always are about

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their ego, their reputation, proving something to the people around them,

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and they get embarrassed really, really easily, which makes them

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really volatile, and they often will lose control of themselves,

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and that loss of control is inflicted on other people

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almost always. So, yeah, the bullies, Like he said later on,

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he says something about how they are very predictable, and

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I was like, that's a really good way to say it.

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So the Maestro is fighting this, Carl basically does a

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double dog dare you You're too much of a pussy

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to do it. The Maestro looked so angry I thought

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he might actually cry. I suspected and hoped he couldn't

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do it. If I knew one thing about Boring. It

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was that they nickel and dimed everything. This Deathwatch segment

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probably cost a lot of money, and that was with

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regular low view crawlers. There was no way they'd be

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able to send one of the game's highest value streams

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into danger like that. When people became red zone angry,

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they were in general unpredictable. That wasn't true with bullies.

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I knew this from experience. It was the opposite. With bullies,

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I knew exactly what was about to happen. I turned

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to Li Jun and Zang, who sat next to me,

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mouths agape, I quickly whispered, grab your sister and the

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other guy and run toward the troglodites and through them.

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Leave the sword. The lizards are really dumb and slow,

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and their attention is on the hornets. You'll only have

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a few seconds, But Li Jun said, you wanted to

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trade places. The Maestro growled, you don't tell me what

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to do on my own show. Meet. He slammed down

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on the button on his table, and the two men

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to my right vanished. The words death Watch Extreme appeared

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on the giant display. The two men appeared back in

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the scene in the hallway caught between the hornets and

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the Troglodites. For a moment, everything remained frozen except the

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two men. Zang reacted first, shouting, grab your sister as

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he reached down to pick up the fallen third man.

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Just as he moved to pick him up, the scene

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un The sister stumbled as the sword she was grabbing

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for was suddenly several feet away. Lejeune grabbed her wrist

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and pointed run, he cried. The three of them scrambled

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directly at the crowd of Trogoldites, who stood like turkeys

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watching the hornets. The monsters didn't care who their victims were.

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Multiple globs of white spit shot out, splashing into the lizards,

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who in turn raised their clubs and charged at the bugs.

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Both groups of monsters ignored the four humans, who managed

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to slip away and add into the hall. The scene

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ended with Zang forcing a healing potion into the mouth

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of their companion before they slipped into a safe room.

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The video snapped off to a mix of jeers and

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scattered applause. The audience's reaction was subdued, as if they

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weren't sure how to respond. I looked up at the Maestro,

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a huge smile on my face, glurt on that motherfucker,

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I said, it is very satisfying. I knew that he

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was about to be put through it because of this,

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but I I didn't care. I still was like, I

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don't know what he could do to Carl that would

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make that not feel worth it right now, because clearly

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Carl knows exactly the kind of bit he's dealing with.

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And so I just was like, I don't know what

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he can even pull out of his bag of tricks

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that Carl won't be able to spin. If you've got

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that audience, that's the thing that's like to Carl's total advantage,

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you know. Plus, as he has mentioned, we are expensive.

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So they watched now him and the Elemental and Donah

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and everybody. I love, Donut saying to him, Carl, you

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scare me when you get that angry. Now he hates us.

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I don't like people hating us. Our followers are going

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to go down. Yeah, I don't think you need to

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worry about that. Look, Donut, the show isn't over yet.

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See those two chairs. I think it's Do you think

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it's miss Beatrice? Maybe her and her boyfriend, or maybe

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it's miss Beatrice and Ferdinand. The way that she says

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her and her boyfriend is so insulting. Like, I get it,

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she was cheating like a motherfucker all the time. I

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get it, I do, But damn, donut do you need

474
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to act like he isn't right there thinking that he

475
00:32:22,839 --> 00:32:28,119
is her boyfriend? Also like cruel absolutely, And also the

476
00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:31,079
fact that she still seems to think Beatrice is alive.

477
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:33,440
I can't tell if she really believes it or if

478
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,319
she's just in denial. I just you know, I can't tell.

479
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:48,119
The Maestro At this point, Carl demands, were you ever

480
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,319
a crawler? And He's like, of course, I wasn't a

481
00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:58,079
fucking crawler. My family was there when they created the crawl.

482
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,759
If you get to the ninth floor, you're gonna learn

483
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,599
all about it. And apparently it's related to the whole

484
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:11,720
thing with her crown the Blood Sultanate. Are you guys

485
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:15,079
part of the Blood Sultanate? Do I look like a

486
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:18,200
fucking noog out of you? My family's Skull clan has

487
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,240
been victorious six times out of the last ten Faction

488
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,680
wars top three. Every time, the pitiful Blood Sultan is

489
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,640
almost always the first of the nine to get eliminated.

490
00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:31,319
You idiots have been dead since the moment she put

491
00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:34,599
on that crown. What about you? Are you gonna be

492
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,839
on the ninth floor. I will be there. I was

493
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,759
of age last season, but the stupid Squim conglomerate always

494
00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:45,680
plays Battle Roale, which doesn't have a faction wars or

495
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,440
Celestial Ascendency segment. But I will be there this year.

496
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:52,400
I'm on my way to your stupid planet right now.

497
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,720
I will be war leader Maestro of the Skull Clan.

498
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,960
So if you're in then, and what happens if you

499
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,720
get hurt? Do you guys really die? You think you could? Actually?

500
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,480
The crowd went absolutely ape shit as the scene ended

501
00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:15,880
and the lights snapped back on. And I love that

502
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:20,079
Dona is reading the room and adjusting her whole vibe

503
00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:25,840
to match this like shitty attitude. Uh, next time, we'll

504
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,719
kill that thing ourselves and send pictures to his mama.

505
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,320
We'll tell her to what was it? Carl suck it?

506
00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:39,119
I said, glurt blurt blurt blurt. The audience cried, So

507
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,519
they this is when he's like, I have two surprised guests,

508
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,880
and it's Frank, you and Maggie My and it's interesting

509
00:34:53,199 --> 00:35:00,679
how different they seem to be. Frank isn't okay, clearly

510
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,840
Maggie isn't either, but her not okayness is manifesting in

511
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,719
a distinctly different way. Um. It was a recap of

512
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,360
Frank and Maggie's journey so far. I watched as the

513
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,039
two player killers stumbled into the dungeon. They had someone

514
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,199
with them, a teenage girl. It showed them coming into

515
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,800
the tutorial guild. We watched as their guide, one of

516
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,320
those floating brain mind horrors, sat the three of them

517
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,519
down and told them the only way to survive was

518
00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:36,800
to kill other crawlers. The guide had a deep, rumbly voice,

519
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,480
unlike anything I'd heard before. It was terrifying. The teenager

520
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:45,039
wept as the guide explained what had to be done.

521
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:48,199
The scene switched to the girl on the ground, injured

522
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,440
and crying. We hadn't seen what had happened. It looked

523
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,639
as if she'd maybe been hit with a glob of

524
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,000
bad lama lava. Frank was also injured, convulsing nearby as

525
00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:02,079
blood pooled around them. The woman, Maggie sobbed as she

526
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:04,920
went to her knees in front of the girl. Mom

527
00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:09,360
the girl said, it hurts, I know, baby, Maggie said,

528
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,199
she reached down and to my utter astonishment, she wrapped

529
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,719
her hands around the girl's throat. She choked her own

530
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,840
daughter until she died. When it was done, Maggie leaned

531
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:30,800
against the dungeon wall and wailed, this is so bizarre

532
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:38,000
because Carl demands several times an explanation for why she

533
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,519
felt like she had to do this, and he doesn't

534
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:48,960
ever get a straight answer. And I don't know what

535
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:53,320
to think, because I could very easily be like, well,

536
00:36:54,119 --> 00:36:58,159
maybe she thought that maybe they didn't have like healing potion,

537
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:01,199
and she thought that she had to put her out

538
00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:06,119
of her misery. But like they were looting everybody, there's

539
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:09,360
no way that they didn't have some healing potions, Like really,

540
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:17,039
Then we see them like go teaming up with another group,

541
00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:20,559
waiting till their backs are turned and ambushing them. Ivette

542
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,559
cried for them to stop. Rebecca and another man fled,

543
00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:26,599
and Frank chased them. It showed the man running directly

544
00:37:26,639 --> 00:37:29,559
into some plant mob thing I'd never seen before, and

545
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:33,400
Frank finally tracking Rebecca down, cornering her. The screen split

546
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,679
showing Yvette screaming while Maggie tried to calm her. One

547
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,519
of the other men they'd shot wasn't dead. Maggie put

548
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:41,559
a gun in Yvette's hand, told her to shoot the

549
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:45,880
man to get the experience. The girl refused, As I expected,

550
00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:50,199
Frank's entire backstory was complete, made up bullshit. I still

551
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,639
didn't know if they were cops or not. I suspected

552
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:56,239
they were either way. Rebecca w hadn't been some sort

553
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,360
of human trafficker. She'd been someone like me, afraid, and

554
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,800
at the end alone. She'd been betrayed and hunted down

555
00:38:05,079 --> 00:38:08,599
by a fellow human. I thought of the woman's naked,

556
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:14,320
stripped bare body. I shook my head in disgust. I

557
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,480
noted that Maggie's stealth ability worked like my protective shell.

558
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,880
It cast in a static semicircle and didn't move with them.

559
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:24,400
That was good to know. And then we watch as they,

560
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,199
like hunt other crawlers. Their teenage daughter does not participate.

561
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:34,760
The best part is coming up, the Maestro announced, and

562
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:41,239
this is when Carl is realizing, oh shit, it's the

563
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,239
booby trap that he left for these two that got

564
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:52,760
their daughter. He dropped it. All three turned to run.

565
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,400
A moment passed the dynamite went off, shrapnel blasted the

566
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:01,559
three crawlers a Lama had and given those horrible injuries

567
00:39:01,559 --> 00:39:08,119
to the teenage girl I had. You didn't have to

568
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,280
kill her. Why did you do that to get the experience?

569
00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:15,599
She would have healed your own daughter. Jesus, Fuck lady,

570
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,159
you don't know, you don't know anything. You didn't get

571
00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:24,079
the whole story. She wasn't dead yet, she would have healed.

572
00:39:24,519 --> 00:39:29,079
Fuck you, you don't know what we've had to do to survive, survive.

573
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,159
Your daughter is dead, but it's okay because you got

574
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,559
credit for the kill. I'm sure she'd be so fucking proud.

575
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:40,639
Maggie leaped from her chair, pulling a black dagger that

576
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,760
glowed with a purple halo. She lunged at me. I

577
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,159
didn't flinch. Her jab passed harmlessly through my throat the drager.

578
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,239
The dagger dropped away as Maggie cried out in pain,

579
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,800
clutching her hand. You don't know, you don't know anything.

580
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:06,840
You didn't get the whole story. What possible context wouldn't

581
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,719
make this make sense? I'm genuinely asking, like, I'm not

582
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,559
saying it doesn't exist. I bet it does, But I

583
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,639
really can't think of anything. I love this sort of

584
00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:20,800
thing because a lot of times, when you have these

585
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,760
moments of somebody misunderstanding a thing because they don't have context,

586
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,800
it can be like really easy from the outside to

587
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,280
guess what the context is when something has been written

588
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,119
kind of lazily. And I don't feel that way about

589
00:40:34,159 --> 00:40:37,119
this at all. This does not feel lazy. I genuinely

590
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:39,920
am like baffled, and I thought about it a lot.

591
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,039
I read this last night, and I can't come up

592
00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:48,679
with anything like unless they had no healing potions, And

593
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:54,639
even so, did she did she like say something like

594
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:59,119
if I get injured, I'd rather you took me out

595
00:40:59,199 --> 00:41:02,960
than make me be come like you like, I can't.

596
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,920
I don't even know. I don't feel like they would

597
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,320
listen to her if they, even if she did ask

598
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,920
that she's a teenager. They're her parents, and they are

599
00:41:14,159 --> 00:41:16,440
responsible for her in a way that they clearly are

600
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:21,039
willing to do anything for her, So what the hell?

601
00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:30,400
I don't know. Let's see, as far as I'm concerned,

602
00:41:30,519 --> 00:41:34,440
this is Carl. Any business I've had with these two

603
00:41:34,519 --> 00:41:37,880
has already been transacted. I'm sorry about what happened to

604
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,679
your kid, but fuck you, Fuck both of you. She

605
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,079
deserved better. We all would have been stronger together. Your

606
00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:49,679
game guide is a piece of shit. I turned toward

607
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,920
Frank and met the man's eyes. The man had changed

608
00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:56,119
significantly since the last time we'd seen each other. He

609
00:41:56,159 --> 00:42:06,639
looked away and down the fact that this game guide

610
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,039
like this is something that has already come up, but

611
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,880
that the type of game guides people get really seems

612
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,320
to influence how they play the game, and I again

613
00:42:19,519 --> 00:42:22,320
bringing up the analogy for all of this just being

614
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:26,280
like living in a hyper capitalist society. What you are

615
00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:30,599
told is the way to operate is a difficult thing

616
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,800
to shake. Even if you begin to learn that maybe

617
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,599
it's not as simple as they said. It's still really

618
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,920
hard when you don't know anything and you're coming into

619
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,480
something as alien literally as this is, to not like

620
00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:46,960
take it seriously when somebody is giving you advice, you know.

621
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,639
And it's also kind of fucked up because I'm assuming

622
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,719
that advice paid off. Probably when they killed people, they

623
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,880
got experience, you know, they like it did work to

624
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,880
an extent, I don't know. Oh Rob was in the

625
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,760
chat and says there was the Chloricon de buff that

626
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,679
prevented Carl from healing even with a healing potion. So

627
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,440
there are contexts out there where a healing potion wouldn't work,

628
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,639
that's true. Carl says something about how like she wouldn't

629
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,159
die though she would have recovered. He doesn't even say

630
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,039
give her a healing potion. He makes it sound like

631
00:43:25,079 --> 00:43:29,159
she would have recovered from this regardless of a healing potion.

632
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,559
And maybe I'm misunderstanding that. It's just the way that

633
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,039
it sounded to me when he said it, and so like,

634
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:43,599
it's difficult to know, obviously, but overall, the fact that

635
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:51,079
who you get as a guide is like has such

636
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:54,400
an effect. It's basically the equivalent of like your parents,

637
00:43:54,599 --> 00:43:57,760
you know. And if you get somebody who decides to

638
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,119
be really helpful and informative and give you all sides

639
00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:04,800
to things and let you choose your own method, it's

640
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,599
going to be a really different game for you than

641
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:08,840
somebody who tells you the only way to manage is

642
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:14,880
to kill other people. It's just I don't like this.

643
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,559
This is the reason I haven't had fucking children, guys.

644
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,119
It's too big a responsibility. I can't handle it. My

645
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:24,280
anxiety will not allow me. And it's sort of ironic

646
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,519
when I step back and look at some of the

647
00:44:26,519 --> 00:44:29,119
parents out there, and I'm like, I would definitely, at

648
00:44:29,159 --> 00:44:31,639
the very least do a better job than that person,

649
00:44:32,039 --> 00:44:34,599
which I probably would, but also, oh my god, I

650
00:44:34,599 --> 00:44:36,440
would just fuck up in other ways. I don't know.

651
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:39,320
I don't like anybody out there who has decided it

652
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,320
raise children. I don't know where you got the nerve.

653
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:47,039
I genuinely don't like. It. Takes a kind of you

654
00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:49,719
could call it faith, you could call it arrogance. I

655
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,599
don't even know what to call it. But believing that

656
00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:55,920
you can raise a person, I just don't have it.

657
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:05,239
Not for me, absolutely not. So anyway, m the Maggie says,

658
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,559
I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna watch you die. You

659
00:45:07,599 --> 00:45:12,159
and the fucking cat oooooooo. The crowd said, like we

660
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:14,840
were on an episode of the goddamn Jerry Springer Show.

661
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,280
Don't bring me into this, Donut said, raising a paw

662
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,199
in defense, I'm not the one who went all danger

663
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,840
dingo on my own kid. The crowd screamed with laughter.

664
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,440
I had to hand it to her. Doughnut was oftentimes

665
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,599
caught off guard, but she was highly adaptable. She knew

666
00:45:31,599 --> 00:45:34,000
how to read a crowd that was for sure, But

667
00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:36,760
as much as I disliked these two assholes, they weren't

668
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,960
the real enemy. We needed to end this. This bullshit

669
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:47,440
didn't serve any of us. So Uh Maestro keeps trying

670
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,519
to like ask questions, why did you kill your own daughter? Carl?

671
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:53,760
How does it feel to know you're partially responsible for

672
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,920
the death of another human? Maggie said nothing but fuck you.

673
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,639
Frank didn't say a word the whole time. Donut would

674
00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:02,400
only talk directly to the audience, and I just grunted.

675
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,440
It was obvious the orc wasn't good at asking interview questions,

676
00:46:06,519 --> 00:46:10,840
especially with a group of hostile guests. The crowd grew restless,

677
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,480
Doughnut started making wise cracks. The Maestro tried to ask

678
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:17,039
or something, and she just ignored him. She looked directly

679
00:46:17,039 --> 00:46:20,159
at the audience and said, I once watched a cocker

680
00:46:20,199 --> 00:46:23,840
spaniel lick her own butthole for thirty minutes straight. That

681
00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:29,440
was more insightful than that question, and he eventually just

682
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,920
gives up. We have parting gifts, are you piglets excited

683
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,039
to see what we got for the crawlers? So he

684
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:48,599
gives uh Carl a pair of boots and I had

685
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,639
said earlier on that like, I didn't think Carl was

686
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:57,000
ever gonna get boots, because like he gets a buff

687
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,239
almost immediately for killing with his bare feet, and so

688
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,079
I was like, oh, then you might not want to

689
00:47:03,159 --> 00:47:06,320
like change your tactic. And that's exactly what he says here,

690
00:47:07,159 --> 00:47:09,440
is he's just gonna wear him in the safe room

691
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:15,639
because obviously he has so many skills that are specific

692
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,000
to the fact that he is fighting barefoot, and the

693
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:22,280
gift is supposed to like set him off, but he

694
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,320
just sort of is like, Ah, that's funny, and it's

695
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,920
almost like the audience doesn't even really get the joke

696
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:31,480
that was being set up. I love them. I hope

697
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:35,800
they weren't too expensive. The Maestro took a deep breath

698
00:47:36,039 --> 00:47:39,559
and gave me his best fuck you glare. He turned

699
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:43,800
to Frank and Maggie. So Frank has a skill called

700
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,800
find Crawler, which shows you any crawlers within five square kilometers.

701
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,639
I don't think that's good enough. That is a legendary

702
00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:53,599
skill potion. Either of you drink that fucker down and

703
00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:56,880
it will upgrade your fine Crawler skill to level fifteen.

704
00:47:57,079 --> 00:47:59,639
That means you can put in any crawler's name and

705
00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:04,440
it'll tell you exactly where they are, no matter how far. Wait,

706
00:48:04,519 --> 00:48:06,519
can I drink this? Frank is the one with the skill,

707
00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:10,079
Maggie asked. Oh yeah, that'll take you all the way

708
00:48:10,119 --> 00:48:11,639
to the top level of twenty if you have the

709
00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:13,960
right class. But if you take it now, it'll take

710
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:20,800
you up to fifteen. No problem, I sighed, So are

711
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,840
we done here? The Maestro seemed to be at a

712
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,239
loss for words, pissed his gifts hadn't gone over well

713
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,360
with the audience. Ah, thanks to my piglets. You know,

714
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,679
the Maestro takes care of you fuckers. You know what

715
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:38,719
to do. The audience luke warmly glurp glurpt. Well, we

716
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,239
probably won't be coming back on this show, pork boy,

717
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,400
I said, standing up. But I imagine we'll see each

718
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,880
other again soon enough. I look forward to kicking your

719
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,599
ass all over again on the ninth floor, that is,

720
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,880
if you're not too much of a puss to face me. Now.

721
00:48:53,119 --> 00:48:57,599
That that garnered a reaction from the crowd. As the

722
00:48:57,639 --> 00:49:00,679
show ended, and the crowd cheered final Happy to have

723
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,400
something to holler about, I turned my attention to the

724
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,639
two crawlers sitting next to us. Frank continued to stare

725
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,000
straight down a shell of a man. Maggie clutched the

726
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,239
skilled potion to her chest, staring at me for the

727
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:21,760
first time. The woman smiled. So we jumped to chapter

728
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,840
forty four, in which Donah immediately is just like, I

729
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,360
don't get why she killed her daughter, Like what was

730
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:36,960
the purpose of this? And when they let's see, I'm

731
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:41,119
trying to find the spot here it is. There's a

732
00:49:41,159 --> 00:49:46,480
moment where Donah asks him about Mordecai, saying like, she's

733
00:49:46,519 --> 00:49:49,840
the one with the crown on her head. You don't

734
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,639
have to stay with her. It's her crown, not yours.

735
00:49:54,079 --> 00:49:56,119
And she asks him about it, and he's just like,

736
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:01,039
let's just fucking worry about that. When we get to it, Okay,

737
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,840
she said, her voice small. She finally settled next to me,

738
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,920
and she was asleep before I was. So there's something

739
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,480
about this and the fact that Donut is anxious about

740
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:15,480
it that's really touching. And I do kind of wonder, like,

741
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:18,760
you know, I've talked about whether or not she is

742
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,800
in denial about b and I think it's interesting when

743
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,360
Carl says she was going to update to a younger

744
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,719
model and that he didn't want to tell her. Nobody

745
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:34,920
needed to tell Donut that Carl was going to cadnap her.

746
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:40,519
She just watched his internet browsing and was able to

747
00:50:40,519 --> 00:50:43,960
put two and two together. I have a hard time

748
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,440
thinking she wouldn't have put two and two together about B, Like,

749
00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:52,920
I have to think that she would have noticed something

750
00:50:53,519 --> 00:50:57,320
unless B didn't look for another animal from Like maybe

751
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,599
she just talked about it with Carl, But even so,

752
00:51:00,639 --> 00:51:05,519
I would think she'd hear don't would hear? You know? So,

753
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,599
I don't know. I'm just wondering how much of this

754
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:12,400
is just her burying her head in the sand. So

755
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,199
we hear about some other guys who wind up in

756
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,880
like a weird sort of sewer system, and they all

757
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:23,920
get killed except for one dude who was left, and

758
00:51:26,519 --> 00:51:29,599
it showed the rage gentlemental tumbling into the hole. We

759
00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:33,039
watched the monster's health bar plummet, and then the monsters

760
00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:40,320
all experience denied, slammed onto the screen. The show ended

761
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,599
with a MANI pausing at the scorched entrance to the

762
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:44,679
third floor. She looked up into the air and raised

763
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,639
a middle finger before going inside. Hello, crawlers, keep up

764
00:51:49,679 --> 00:51:52,400
the good work. Everything is running smoothly. Now that we've

765
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,960
reached the halfway point of the level, game guides are

766
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,280
now able to instruct you upon some of the intricacies

767
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,239
regarding the third floor and how the race and class

768
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,639
selection process works. Be sure to visit your game guide

769
00:52:02,639 --> 00:52:05,000
prior to descending in order to make the transition more

770
00:52:05,039 --> 00:52:11,119
smooth effective Immediately, any nonsapient mobs who happen upon a

771
00:52:11,119 --> 00:52:15,559
stairwell will not be disintegrated. Yes, we all just watched

772
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:18,800
that rule get exploited on the recap episode. It was

773
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,280
very clever and exciting, but it's not going to happen again.

774
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:26,559
I figured that was how they were going to handle it,

775
00:52:26,599 --> 00:52:28,599
but I wasn't sure if there was like a way

776
00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:34,880
around it. Of course there is. The system AI has

777
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,480
determined the proliferation of the brindled vespas is too aggressive,

778
00:52:38,519 --> 00:52:42,480
and we have had the number of these mobs and

779
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,360
admin notice a new tab is available in your interface accounts.

780
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:52,760
There was only one item, creator's fee Karl's Jugaboom royalty

781
00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:56,360
one gold coin per kill current kills four. There was

782
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:01,119
a button cash out. Now below that was a small

783
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,360
line that I could barely read. There was no way

784
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,000
to zoom in I had to squint count updates once

785
00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:12,280
daily two gold coins plus twenty five percent deposit fee,

786
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:17,239
rounded up, deducted upon cash out. Funds not deposited are

787
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:23,639
subject to forfeiture upon death. I swear to God, this

788
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:26,760
is so funny. As a creator, it is like this.

789
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,760
This is part of why I stuck with Patreon, because

790
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,000
they had a much lower fee when they first started,

791
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880
and I got in on the ground floor and they

792
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,599
let me, as like one of the original creators to

793
00:53:37,639 --> 00:53:41,159
sign up with them, keep that rate even once they

794
00:53:41,199 --> 00:53:43,800
began to expand so dramatically as they have over the

795
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,760
past few years. So I am literally never leaving, not

796
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,800
as long as they let me keep that rate, because

797
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,760
no place else will match it anymore. It does not happen.

798
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,360
And you know, even when you guys buy these episodes,

799
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,719
I have to pay a chunk of that to PayPal

800
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,960
for processing the purchase, and of course I have to

801
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,119
pay for the platform that you're using to book the

802
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,639
episode as well. So it just it's taking all kinds

803
00:54:12,639 --> 00:54:15,440
of fees right off at the top, and it is

804
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,519
really really agonizing, like it doesn't look like a lot,

805
00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:22,360
but it really adds up quickly, and it is so

806
00:54:24,559 --> 00:54:26,559
considering that I'm paying all of that off the top,

807
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,599
and then I just have to pay my regular taxes

808
00:54:29,639 --> 00:54:33,559
in addition to it, I don't wind up with very much.

809
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,719
I'm just saying, it's this kind of like tiny fine

810
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,000
print too, about how like there's a standard like fee

811
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:44,840
in addition to a percentage fee, and that standard fee

812
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,039
comes out every time. I had been hit with that

813
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:49,519
kind of thing before where I didn't realize it and

814
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:52,400
I cashed out and I was like, why is there

815
00:54:52,519 --> 00:54:55,119
like less than half of what I should be getting?

816
00:54:55,639 --> 00:54:58,440
And then I realized, like, I didn't see that fine

817
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:07,280
So this is completely correct. So let's see, are we running?

818
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,559
Are we hiding from Frank Q and Maggie May? No?

819
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,800
That was my first instinct, but now that I've slept

820
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,119
on it, I've changed my mind. That woman is hell

821
00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:17,239
bent on hunting us down, and we're going to have

822
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,519
to deal with it sooner rather than later. I don't

823
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:21,719
know if they're coming now or not. I'd rather be

824
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:25,400
ready than have her sneak up behind us. But how

825
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,719
can we do that? They can track us and go invisible.

826
00:55:28,199 --> 00:55:31,440
Her invisibility is not nearly as powerful as I first though.

827
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:33,960
We'll need to take out the local neighborhood boss and

828
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,000
get that map. It'll make our lives much easier. And

829
00:55:38,599 --> 00:55:41,119
this is when Zev turns up, and it turns out

830
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:46,199
it was true that Zev warning them to run was

831
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:51,320
what she had been penalized for, and they eventually decide

832
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:55,840
that he had noticed simultaneous with her yelling, so they

833
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,519
ruled it as not cheating, but they had to put

834
00:55:58,519 --> 00:56:00,480
her in a sort of purgatory for a lotle while.

835
00:56:01,639 --> 00:56:05,599
And they find out that apparently the Maestro is part

836
00:56:05,599 --> 00:56:08,480
of a group of people that is in opposition to

837
00:56:08,559 --> 00:56:11,559
the party, and so the fact that he made this

838
00:56:11,599 --> 00:56:16,280
guy look like a complete asshole makes them very, very happy.

839
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,920
And Carl is of two minds about this, because of

840
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,760
course it's great that this has worked for him, but

841
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,239
it also feels like I don't want to be doing

842
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:31,119
anything to help the party, you know, like that also sucks.

843
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:37,440
That show is awful. Zev, it's abusive, she nodded, and

844
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,840
I would like to apologize. Mukden should never have booked it.

845
00:56:41,159 --> 00:56:44,360
The show I had scheduled also caters to the younger crowd,

846
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:47,519
but it would be a discussion regarding specific tactics. They

847
00:56:47,559 --> 00:56:50,360
do it in a creative, silly way. But to answer

848
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,559
your question, Boren is not allowed to discriminate against syndicate

849
00:56:53,599 --> 00:57:02,480
member production companies. And she, let's see, there's some point

850
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:07,559
where she mentions, uh, Mordecai is now authorized to tell

851
00:57:07,559 --> 00:57:09,960
you about the third floor, but that's it. Is there

852
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:13,119
any way you can tell us about the ninth floor

853
00:57:13,159 --> 00:57:15,760
where he's going to be. What I can say is

854
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:20,400
every three floors are the same setting sort of. The third, sixth, ninth,

855
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,199
and so forth are all linked in a way that

856
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:27,800
will later become clear. What if all the crawlers die

857
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,559
before the ninth floor, that probably isn't going to happen.

858
00:57:31,519 --> 00:57:34,360
We've never had a full player extinction before the ninth floor.

859
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:38,199
It happens on the ninth floor a lot, but not before. Again,

860
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,199
I can't tell you much, but those floors are all

861
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,760
all come into existence at the same time. You can

862
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:46,400
only visit them in contact with the rest of the

863
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,679
crawl But that doesn't mean they're not being utilized, which

864
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,639
I thought was very interesting. I have been assuming everything

865
00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:57,000
is constructed as needed, but the fact that they're still

866
00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:06,800
they're like already they're weird, you know. So let's see oh, right,

867
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,280
now that the Meatal Lark storyline is completed, we can

868
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,360
wait a day or two before focusing on the next

869
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,599
story arc. How is this thing with Frank and Maggie

870
00:58:15,639 --> 00:58:20,679
going over? It has potential, but it's already tired. The

871
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,840
grape you have with Prince Maestro is getting much more attention,

872
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,719
especially with that pork boy snick that just showed up

873
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,360
two hours old and it's already trending all over the

874
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:35,159
social media tunnels. Back up, What the hell is a

875
00:58:35,159 --> 00:58:39,559
pork boy snick? Ah? Yeah, I need to tell you

876
00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:43,239
about this. So you have had a similar phenomenon on Earth.

877
00:58:43,239 --> 00:58:47,320
Are you familiar with the concept of fan fiction? And

878
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:50,440
she has to explain this to Donut in the context

879
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,239
of Gossip Girl, and Donut freaks out. So a snick

880
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,599
is kind of like a fan fiction. But it's a video.

881
00:58:59,519 --> 00:59:05,000
This is short and a little explicit. What was in

882
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,559
the video? Was I in it? Donna asked, No, just Carl,

883
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:14,360
Karl and the Maestro. And let's just say Carl has

884
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:20,199
the upper hand during the scene. Uh, who made it?

885
00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:23,760
So that's the interesting part. It's a bit of a mystery.

886
00:59:24,199 --> 00:59:26,480
It showed up just a few hours after your interview.

887
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,559
Nobody knows where it came from, but it went very viral,

888
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:33,960
very fast. The quality is flawless. In fact, it came

889
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,880
out so fast and people think it's real. It's not right.

890
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:43,199
Are you asking me if I fucked the orc? Wait,

891
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:48,280
it's a sex tape with Carl and the Maestro, Doughnut said.

892
00:59:48,719 --> 00:59:55,079
She practically fell off her chair laughing. It is a

893
00:59:55,079 --> 00:59:57,679
little funny, but the Skull Empire probably isn't going to

894
00:59:57,679 --> 01:00:02,800
find it amusing. They haven't reacted yet, not officially. It

895
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,519
is it an insult, though, I asked, I'm not gay,

896
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,159
but does it matter? The Tusclinge seem to be very

897
01:00:09,199 --> 01:00:12,880
open with, you know, weird stuff. Do people really care?

898
01:00:14,119 --> 01:00:18,000
It's not that you're right, most wouldn't care. But this

899
01:00:18,199 --> 01:00:20,599
is a prince of the Skull Empire, and that video

900
01:00:20,719 --> 01:00:26,000
is both graphic and humiliating. You two say things to

901
01:00:26,079 --> 01:00:28,679
each other. Can we watch it? Don't ask? I want

902
01:00:28,679 --> 01:00:31,920
to watch it. That sort of thing has to happen

903
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,199
all the time. I said that prince is such a

904
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,800
cock womble. I can't imagine the intergalactic Internet isn't filled

905
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,000
with stuff like that. Oh it is. This is different.

906
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:45,159
The quality is so good, and it's just everywhere right now,

907
01:00:45,199 --> 01:00:51,199
everyone's calling the Prince pork Boy and Carl's naughty little Piggy.

908
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,280
You have to watch the video anyway, If the Skull

909
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,079
Empire demands people stop calling him that, it's going to

910
01:00:57,119 --> 01:00:58,920
be just like the mud Skipper thing all over again.

911
01:01:01,039 --> 01:01:05,800
I absolutely cannot the fact that they're like, so this

912
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:07,800
is reminding me of just AI and how you can

913
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:12,400
make AI of people. And there are definitely a lot

914
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:18,400
of like more accessible AI like image generators that now

915
01:01:18,599 --> 01:01:23,800
have particular rules set so that you can't make imagery

916
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,360
that looks like a person that exists. Because there was

917
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,079
a really like ugly moment when Mey and the Stallion

918
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:36,400
somebody made like an extremely convincing AI sex tape of

919
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,440
her and it was circulating everywhere, and it like all

920
01:01:40,519 --> 01:01:42,840
that dropped and sort of blew up the same day

921
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,679
that she was about to go out on stage, and

922
01:01:44,719 --> 01:01:47,079
she like wound up in tears on stage because it

923
01:01:47,159 --> 01:01:49,320
was just like it really got to her, you know.

924
01:01:50,119 --> 01:01:53,519
And so there's just I've I tried to use an

925
01:01:53,559 --> 01:01:58,119
AI the other day. I don't approve of AI imagery

926
01:01:58,159 --> 01:02:00,679
unless you keep it entirely private. So I do it

927
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,639
just to like create images of characters that I am

928
01:02:03,679 --> 01:02:06,480
trying to write about for my own personal inspo. But

929
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:11,119
I don't think that I will ever share those images

930
01:02:11,159 --> 01:02:14,639
anywhere because AI steals. It's just the nature of it.

931
01:02:15,639 --> 01:02:18,800
So this AI that I tried to use to create

932
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,599
character images, I had to find the exact right wording

933
01:02:21,719 --> 01:02:23,960
or else it wouldn't make people at all, because it

934
01:02:24,079 --> 01:02:26,320
kept thinking that I was trying to make a real person,

935
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,320
and I kept having to be like, this is for

936
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,960
a fictional character, and then it finally would. But there's

937
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,639
a lot of restrictions on that now. But this is

938
01:02:33,639 --> 01:02:36,320
what I'm assuming is sort of like at play here,

939
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:44,599
you know. So of course Carl is like, I hope

940
01:02:44,599 --> 01:02:46,920
that they're not going to be fucking gunning for us,

941
01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:50,360
and Zev says, there's just no such thing as bad publicity,

942
01:02:51,039 --> 01:02:54,159
and they are, you know, as long as you're not

943
01:02:54,159 --> 01:03:01,079
disparaging them, they're perfectly happy with this. And she said, besides,

944
01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:03,199
there's not much other governments can do to you, not

945
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,559
until the sixth floor or if they spring for a

946
01:03:05,639 --> 01:03:10,000
deity sponsorship this season. But anyway, don't worry about anything

947
01:03:10,039 --> 01:03:15,159
happening outside your floor. That's my job, Carl. I can't

948
01:03:15,199 --> 01:03:17,599
believe you hooked up with that guy, Donut said loudly,

949
01:03:18,519 --> 01:03:20,559
pushed at the door. She posted at the door. Hack

950
01:03:20,679 --> 01:03:23,920
get it. He sure squealed a lot, though her laughter

951
01:03:24,039 --> 01:03:28,639
trailed off into the hallway. God damn it, Donut. So

952
01:03:28,679 --> 01:03:31,280
she's just trying to set it up that everybody believes

953
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:36,480
that he actually did, which is genuinely very funny, like

954
01:03:37,519 --> 01:03:46,440
why not lean into it? Whatever. So this is when

955
01:03:46,519 --> 01:03:50,840
they hit a boss chamber that is very very upsetting

956
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,599
to me, and I'm kind of relieved in a way

957
01:03:53,639 --> 01:03:55,599
that I have like pretty much run out of time

958
01:03:55,639 --> 01:03:59,079
by this point because I don't want to get into

959
01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:04,880
the details of this very much. It's obviously like dog fighting,

960
01:04:05,199 --> 01:04:10,920
but with these dingoes instead, and they are just being

961
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:15,760
abused and being left injured in their kennels, and you guys,

962
01:04:16,039 --> 01:04:19,440
animal cruelty is just something that makes me literally sick

963
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,960
to my stomach, and it is so difficult like for

964
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,440
me to even read about in a fictional setting. I

965
01:04:26,639 --> 01:04:29,559
do not like it. It's a It's something that makes me

966
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:35,480
want to stop watching things sometimes, even in like one

967
01:04:35,559 --> 01:04:40,079
piece in a very cartoony universe, when there are animals

968
01:04:40,079 --> 01:04:44,679
that are being like used in a like mean spirited way.

969
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,519
I just get like, can we just please move on

970
01:04:47,559 --> 01:04:53,239
from this part of the story. So what they wind

971
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:57,480
up going up against is a frenzied Gerbil, And clearly

972
01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,960
it's supposed to be eventually that the gerbil like lets

973
01:05:00,159 --> 01:05:06,880
lose these dingoes. But because Carl fed the dingo a

974
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:12,199
little treat earlier, it doesn't attack him. All of them,

975
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,639
are you know what I mean? Like they all wind

976
01:05:14,719 --> 01:05:19,920
up being like friendly to him more or less. Frenzy

977
01:05:20,039 --> 01:05:24,639
Gerbil Level eleven neighborhood boss. And I'm not going to

978
01:05:24,719 --> 01:05:28,239
read this whole thing, but suffice to say he's fast,

979
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:30,119
he's angry, and by the time you're done reading this,

980
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:33,400
he's already halfway to your jugular. You might want to duck,

981
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:41,039
which he does, and it goes right over his head. Carl,

982
01:05:41,119 --> 01:05:43,039
I can't help but think this boss has been placed

983
01:05:43,079 --> 01:05:46,400
here for a very specific reason. What do you mean?

984
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:50,480
Most of the cobalts were dead, but a few at

985
01:05:50,519 --> 01:05:54,320
the edges of the blast had survived. And this is

986
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:57,840
when he opens the doors. The dingoes emerged and their

987
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:03,239
dots are all white. One of the dingoes, the first

988
01:06:03,239 --> 01:06:06,480
one we'd fed, leaped out and pounced right onto Ralph.

989
01:06:06,559 --> 01:06:10,760
It happened quick, lightning fast behind us. The remaining coalbalts

990
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,840
fell back as the other dingoes turned on their former masters,

991
01:06:14,239 --> 01:06:18,199
dropping upon them and ripping them apart savagely. The cobalts

992
01:06:18,199 --> 01:06:21,360
weren't armed, and there weren't many of them. The barking,

993
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,920
snarling dingoes finished them off in seconds and doughnuts like

994
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,880
that was easy. And they're looking around and he is

995
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:34,880
realizing that, like the music hasn't stopped, and he's like,

996
01:06:35,119 --> 01:06:39,480
I've got to be missing something. What is it? And

997
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:44,599
she said something like, I guess I was wrong. The

998
01:06:44,599 --> 01:06:47,239
one eyed dingo who'd eaten Ralph continued to stand where

999
01:06:47,239 --> 01:06:51,000
he'd swallowed the miniature boss. He seemed frozen in place.

1000
01:06:51,239 --> 01:06:54,119
The creature looked at us and started to whine, it's

1001
01:06:54,159 --> 01:06:56,679
a small rodent. Your feet are all nice and shiny,

1002
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,119
as Miss Beatrice used to say, time to pay the

1003
01:06:59,159 --> 01:07:03,480
daddy tax. Wait, under what circumstances would she say that?

1004
01:07:04,159 --> 01:07:08,280
At that moment, the dingo's head exploded. I hated it.

1005
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:11,840
I hated it so much. And the gerbil comes out

1006
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:18,360
and it's coming at them, and the gerbil bounced off

1007
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:22,000
the floor with a sickening crunch. I Mike tightened it

1008
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,039
with all my strength and it was stunned. And he realizes, like,

1009
01:07:25,079 --> 01:07:29,000
I have never gotten the stunned to work ever, So

1010
01:07:29,559 --> 01:07:32,400
he thinks about punching it to death, and then he

1011
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,679
remembers what Donut said, if it makes you feel better,

1012
01:07:35,679 --> 01:07:39,400
she was talking about you, you're the daddy. No, Donut,

1013
01:07:39,559 --> 01:07:41,920
that does not make me feel better. That's the opposite

1014
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:45,239
of making me feel better. I placed my bare right

1015
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:51,519
foot upon the small monster. Sorry, Ralph, I said, I

1016
01:07:51,559 --> 01:07:53,880
don't know how Beatrice could be talking about the daddy

1017
01:07:53,920 --> 01:08:01,480
tags to somebody else about Carl. How does that work?

1018
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:11,000
I I feel like I'm missing something here. Rob says.

1019
01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:13,920
The key is definitely to not know enough about what

1020
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:17,119
you're getting into the first time around. Oh, Rob is

1021
01:08:17,159 --> 01:08:19,520
talking about parenting. For a second, I thought you were

1022
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,560
talking about like dungeon crawling, and I was like, what

1023
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:26,000
all I want is a friend to live with. Laboon

1024
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:31,279
says Rob amen another one piece thing, guys, but like, yeah,

1025
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,079
justice for Laboon and for the Princess of Alabasta, not

1026
01:08:35,159 --> 01:08:38,039
to try and blow him up from the inside. There

1027
01:08:38,039 --> 01:08:40,159
are so many animals in one piece that people just

1028
01:08:40,199 --> 01:08:42,359
like punch the shit out of and I'm like, can

1029
01:08:42,399 --> 01:08:46,800
we fucking not? You know? The upside is though, when

1030
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:50,520
they turn into our friends, it's so delightful and gratifying,

1031
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:55,199
so you know, pluses and minus is. But yeah, So

1032
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,439
that is the end of this section, and I don't

1033
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,840
think that I have that many less. Let me see,

1034
01:09:02,199 --> 01:09:08,000
I have got four episodes left to record, right, No, five,

1035
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:13,680
five episodes left. Oh wait, but only one more of

1036
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:18,079
this book. The other four episodes are for Carl's Doomsday

1037
01:09:18,119 --> 01:09:21,640
Scenario Book two, so I'm going to be finishing this

1038
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:25,439
book on the next recording. Wow, this felt really short,

1039
01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:29,119
but I'm looking forward to getting into the second one,

1040
01:09:29,199 --> 01:09:33,039
so bring it on, all right, guys, Well, thank you

1041
01:09:33,039 --> 01:09:34,800
all again for hanging out with me. I appreciate you

1042
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,319
all a lot. I hope that you are all enjoying

1043
01:09:37,319 --> 01:10:09,880
the coverage. And until next time to the lou motherfuckers.

1044
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,479
That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.