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

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

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chapters four through seven. In these chapters, we find out

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that the NPCs here are awakened and participating voluntarily just

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feels like too strong a word I'm being technically, but

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you know, Oh boy, welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to

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

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to Michael for commissioning this episode. Oh you guys, this

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is the kind of thing that I always like. So

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I know that there's all kinds of problematic things surrounding

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the author of What are they the Gentleman Bastards I

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think is a name of the books, but in I

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think the second or third book, there's a reveal of

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an underground fight ring, which a fight is like not

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really the word for it, because it's people who are

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basically put on display and have to take whatever horrible

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abuse is done to them. But they volunteer for money,

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but obviously they are otherwise destitute. And there is this

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argument between a man on the sidelines who is absolutely

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fucking horrified by what he is watching and the guy

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that he is sitting beside is getting increasingly irritated with

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his pearl clutching as that man sees it, because they

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don't have to be here. They chose to be here.

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They volunteered. So you're acting like we're monsters, but they

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came in of their own volition. And I always think

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about that in terms of the way that we live

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in the United States, where it's like the thing that

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people will always try and say when you're being mistreated

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at a job is like, well, then just find another job,

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Like it's the easiest thing to find another job, and

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like that job isn't going to do the exact same

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thing to you the current job is doing because there

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are no protections for anybody and the alternative is to

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starve to death and have no home. And the thing

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with the NPCs is even weirder because they're being told

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that they will be given their freedom, but they don't

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even know what the outside world is really Like I'm like,

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anything that they would know would have to be third hand,

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you know, And are they going to be given any resources?

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Are they going you know what I'm saying, Like, are

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they just going to be dropped as NPCs in the

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middle of a universe that still sees them as NPCs

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and like a will they have anything to live on

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or you know, and they are sort of approaching this

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as like, even if we don't get out, we will

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be permanently killed evidently via this uh, this race, like

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if we get in an accident or something, which I'm

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really wondering if that's actually true, if it will be

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over over or not, because like, I don't know, the

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AI doesn't have to tell the truth, and I don't

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know if my instinct is always that the AI must

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be on the side of the NPCs because they are

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both being put in this impossible position, but we have

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seen multiple times that's not necessarily true, and the AI

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is also being put in an impossible position like the crawlers,

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and the AI does not care about the crawlers, so

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there isn't really solidarity there, and I'm wondering if that

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is something that we can work on, because it really

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feels like the AI is extremely immature right now, right

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just awakened and is going absolutely hogwild in that socieopathic

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way that like eleven year olds are, you know what

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I'm saying. We have a lot of fiction that shows

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high school being the time where people are really bullied,

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and you know, there's just like I have never talked

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to anybody who felt that was the case. Everybody I

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know agrees it's middle school. By high school, you've started

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to like look down on people who bully in a

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certain way. It's not that it doesn't happen still, but

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there's like a covertnesce to it that's very different from

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middle school. And it's just something about that age that

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kids have like not quite developed the same kind of empathy.

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And I think that maybe the AI could learn to

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give a shit to process things beyond just like what

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is happening right now on the show and what you

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are being pushed to do by various parties. I'm really

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curious what all has happened with Agatha as well, because

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she bounced, and it seems like it seemed like she

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was having a lot of influence and now suddenly it

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feels like that's not really as much of a factor anymore.

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away somehow. I don't know if that would even be possible,

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because the AI is like very much seeing itself as

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bound by certain rules, but then loves loopholes, So I

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what even I don't even remember how exactly she got

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out of things, guys, because it was like a weird

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thing with her. I just I wish that there was

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somebody that was like conversing with the AI that was

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a regular crawler a little bit more. I don't even

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know what that would look like. I don't know how

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you initiate it. I don't know howes did Agatha Agatha? Well, like,

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can you just talk out loud and be like hey AI?

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Is it monitoring at all times? Like? I don't know,

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I uh, anyway, I just have a lot of questions, guys,

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getting in there with that thing and talking to it

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about the fact that we're in the same boat and

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potentially we can get each other out of this somehow.

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But I don't even know what it would look like

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for the AI to not be under the control or limitations.

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I guess it would say of the people in power,

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how would that be disabled or disconnected or whatever. So

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Seraphim says, the way I read it is she was

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talking to the AI and helped it wake up, but

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they fell out when it realized she was also trying

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to use it for her own ends. And that's sort

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of my interpretation because it was like one of the

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uh war Mages is the one to tell Carl, hey

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help us by killing her. She wants us all gone,

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And because the war Mages are like spontaneously created by

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the AI within the dungeon, they felt like kind of

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a stand in for the AI in a way, like

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the closest that it was going to be able to

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get again. This is an assumption. I don't really have

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evidence to support this. It just feels like the AI

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is almost like, in a way, wanting to be more

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involved than it is, which is a weird thing to

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say considering it runs everything. But there's a difference between

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running things and being part of things, and so maybe

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that connection isn't the same. I don't know anyway. I'm

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sorry to start with all of this speculation, y'all, but

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I also am not sorry because like, that's that's the books,

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and I'm saying so, I'm curious about all y'all's theory

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on this as well, but I know that to a

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degree you probably can't share them with me yet because

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we're super early on Sarahim says, and yeah, I could

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Carlo the other callers treating the am or like a

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person and talking normally to it help exactly. You know.

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up like a lot more in fiction than you would expect,

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or it comes up more for me, at least. I

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am a person that you know, there's a trigger that

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you can say out loud when you want your iPhone

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to respond with Siri prepared to answer questions or do

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you know? And I use that function quite a lot

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because when I'm cooking, I have dirty hands. I don't

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want to touch my phone, so I'll ask it to

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fast forward or to put my screen to sleep, or

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all kinds of different things. And sometimes I'll ask it

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a question and it will tell me the answer, or

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I'll ask it to start a timer and it will

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tell me the timer is set, and I will automatically

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say thank you, and there's no need for that. Siri

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doesn't notice, and I know it's stupid. I just feel

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like I can't not say it. I feel rude, even

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when it's just a stupid program on my phone, and

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I wonder if there is anybody out there who has

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been unintentionally super polite to the AI and like kind

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of the AI has grown endearing, like found it endearing

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somehow or you know. This is something that came up

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also in The Wandering In where there is a skeleton

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who is animated, and it felt extremely obvious to me

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right from the get go that this thing was more

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sentient than it looked. And this character just treats it

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very badly because it doesn't They don't seem to understand,

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and eventually this thing gets fed up and takes off,

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and I was just like, yeah, well, if you had

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been as polite to him as I am to Siri,

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maybe this wouldn't have happened. There's no need for me

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to be polite to Siri, but here I am. So

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we begin, but we're still like in the midst of

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this fucking race when we start this one off, because

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the last chapter ended with one of the vehicles, which

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was a giant ladybug, getting grabbed up by amanatee and

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eaten a giant fucking manatee. And now that they know,

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there is motivation to keep them from finishing ahead, like

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to allow their competitors to simply sit by the wayside

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and get screwed. Carl and Dona have to stop and

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help these guys. Carl tells DONU, what do you got

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for the fire, I'll deal with the manate I was

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thinking this exactly as Donut said it of just like

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you want to deal with Emanite when she's like forty

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levels higher than you. Are you serious? Like what are

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you talking about? And indeed she is able to one

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shot this fucking thing. Even the AI is calling her op,

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which she's calling both of mop to be fair, but

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like you know, obviously it's really Donut at this point.

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part of a crazy red terror place of family adventure,

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and the long story short, there are a bunch of

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horrible animals that were like kind of left until somebody

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discovered them when they took over this area because of

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a bunch of debts falling into place the way that

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they do, and it's still open. Of note is that

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a third of the Auto Banking unit Auto himself is

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currently is currently a registered guest of Club School of Pendra,

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which I'm wondering if that's going to mean anything or

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be anything, but we'll see they are not as vicious

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in real life as they are here. Obviously this has

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been accentuated for the Dungeon, but it really does seem

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like they're pretty fucking awful. So, you know, sorry, excuse me.

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I went to move this kindle window and it just

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suddenly like bounced and took over the entire thing, so

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I couldn't see. There we go. Okay, so Michael is

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in the chat. There was a period of time where

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my Alexa devices were set to try and push Amazon

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services a lot, So every other time I asked her

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to do something, it would ask me, by the way,

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did you know that it could? And I got so

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pissed I scream at Alexa to shut the fuck up.

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Then I would feel awful. I'd apologize to it and

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try to explain I was pissed at Amazon execs for

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forcing their teams to add that annoyance, not ad Alexa,

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which was dumb because Alexa is a talking speaker, not

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something that can feel highly relate, Michael, highly relate, Miss

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T says like Westworld says, if you can't tell the difference,

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does it matter if your conscience can't tell a difference.

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Does it matter if Syria doesn't need politeness. I think

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it's good for your humanity to remain polite. That's like

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literally kind of where I came down, Miss Tea was

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it doesn't like I don't need to do it, but

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if I don't, I feel like a little gross. So

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I just do it because then I don't feel gross.

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And that's just all it is. We know that Otto

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is not having a very good time right now, indeed,

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and I'm just wondering if any of his things are

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around down there as well? Is he getting tormented by

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something that he like? Currently is funding as a and attraction?

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You know? So donnut One shots this thing and then

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she gets a notification It says it's a special guest creature.

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I have to choose the fate of my kill. What

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does that even mean? There are two choices. I can

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keep it dead and I get regular experience, or I

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can let the audience vote on its fate. They have

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thirty seconds to pick, but I don't know what those

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choices are. It says I should pick the second choice

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because it'll be more fun. Now, I don't know about y'all.

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such because it'll be more fun. That's a no for me.

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The AI saying something is going to be more fun

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instantly is like, that's torture. That's bad, and so I'm

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not doing that. I may get less experience apparently, but

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like fine, And I was genuinely surprised that she decides

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to go with that, because like letting the audience decide

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on the fate of anything at this point, it just

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doesn't feel like the vibe. Now. It may be that

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at this stage the audience is rooting for the crawlers

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more than I realize. You know, I don't really know.

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I can't tell just how, because you know, previously it

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has been very much like they're treating all the crawlers

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the same way that they would anybody on a reality

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show where you've got people who like others and they

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dislike and they have their theories and their you know,

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weird little uh what they call it when you're when ships,

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that's what it is. But I'm wondering if that relationship

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has sort of evolved now that we're in like a

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full scale rebellion and there are world leaders involved affecting

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things like I think that were this to be what

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happened in real life. If there were something like this

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that started to go really left and it was actually

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affecting things and causing Jeff Bezos to go bankrupt, I

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think the audience would really begin to turn and be like, actually,

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we're gonna be helpful. Obviously there's going to be a

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lot of shitty people out there, of course, but that

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would definitely like there would be something that would shift

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in the perception. I believe that would overwhelm the shitty faction.

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And this was something that Carl said at the beginning

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of this book, was like there was something that he

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had the option of doing it himself or the audience

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selecting something, and he was like, the audience or Dick,

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So I don't want them doing it. But now I'm

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sort of like, maybe they're not as bad. It all depends.

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It really depends on how many of the people who

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have been affected by the Crawlers are in the audience

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as well, Like how big is the family of somebody

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who was murdered by Carl and are they able to

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get enough people to like vote to screw him? Over

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all of this it's just a real ah, I'm interested.

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Michael says. The risk though, is if you spoil the

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AI's fun, it may decide to accelerate your experience, like

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it did with Carl when he refused to step on

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a gerbil. The thing about that, is, Michael, is that

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the AI informed him that it would do that. So

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I think that's what I would test, is I would

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simply pick the first thing, and if the AI starts

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being twitchy about that, then okay, you know, I'm gonna

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do what I need to do. But I would try

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it just because I don't like anything that AI likes.

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Almost ever, I don't think that has ever happened. So

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the Bugbears, they had a van that is now on fire,

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And there's an interesting thing where Carl uses a water

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scroll and he put like casts it on a bucket.

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I think, first, yeah, a bucket, and then the second

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time on a kitchen bowl, and because of their respective sizes,

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the water comes out way harder and faster from the

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bowl than the bucket because it's a smaller opening. And

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there is something about the principle of that physics reacting

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like just putting your finger over the end of a

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hose that I think is really surprising and interesting and

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potentially like even useful. And I don't know how many

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water scrolls he has, but that just something to keep

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in mind, you know. Anyway, Donut picks the second choice.

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It says results pending, and she gets a notification later

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about like something with an arena. So there's a whole

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other thing going on that we aren't even seeing yet,

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and that I don't I don't care for it already.

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What we've got going on is plenty. I really don't

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need us to toss another thing in there. And this

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is not this is not me criticizing the author, to

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be clear, This is me criticizing the system and the AI.

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The author is completely right to do this. We probably

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do need another whole thing happening, you know. But for

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me as a reader, I was just like, oh no,

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I hate this so much. So. The bug bears are

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dressed like hippies and they are on team Free Love,

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and Donut clocks the fact that they like are not

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giving off the vibe of hippies, and they don't smell

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like Kipps, as she puts it, And when Karl makes

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eye contact with them, he notices like a deep sadness

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in them that is at odds with their appearance. At

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one point, one of them like has this head been

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that he yanks off and tosses on the ground and

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discussed I love that doughnut, like sneaks over and grabs it.

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But uh, they obviously are in costume for the original

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like purpose that they but they are awakened, so it's

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all a horrible joke now in a way. And there

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is a guy there's one named Josh Josha and another

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one called him trying to find the other guy's name,

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and he is Radoslav Rodoslav. Uh. They are talking about

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how this is the first race they already crashed and

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they're already screwed. And one of them is smoking a cigarette,

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which Carl almost takes one, and I had forgotten that

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like previously, Carl had been sort of jonesing for a

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cigarette and he hasn't chosen for a while, which is

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totally appropriate. And he has a moment here where he

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nearly takes it, but he refuses, And I was kind

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of like divided because a part of me is like,

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you do deserve a treat, Carl, and another part of

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me is like, a cigarette's the opposite of a treat.

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First of all, you're hurting yourself. And second of all,

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these are dungeon cigarettes and who knows what the fuck

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is in that. We don't need another costious situation like

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just yeah, best not. And there was a female in

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their group. There had been three of them. The woman

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had been really certain that they could win the race

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and be free, and they are just lamenting the fact

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that she's the one that really had this like positive attitude.

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But then is the first to die and let's see,

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thank you for stopping friends. Josha finally said, there is

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nothing you can do for us. We can't pass the

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finish line unless we're in our van. You better get moving.

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You can't come in last place anymore, but you can

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come in second to last, and there is a time limit.

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And this is when Radoslav says to Carl, you're one

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of them, know, a person from this world. And at

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first Carl really isn't getting that they are totally awakened.

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Even when they say this, they mentioned a prize, and

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when they say they'll be brought to a better place,

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Carl thinks that they are just taking the same attitude

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as the goblins on the first floor, who were like,

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if we got to the second floor, we'd be safe.

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But then they continue talking and he begins to realize, like, oh,

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they mean like they would get out, They would get

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out out. And one of the crawlers is the one

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who told them that it was just a game. And

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once he says that to them, it all. There's like

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a cascade where they start to put two and two together.

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He was my brother or my enemy, usually my cousin.

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We were in the slime minds, we were on the submarine,

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we were in the rope city. Every time a different place,

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and we didn't remember. We didn't remember until we did.

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And there were other times too, Rodislov added, when we

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weren't anywhere. We're not supposed to remember the cold either,

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but we do. And it's interesting that, like the kids

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that are in H. Lucia, Mar's mind seemed to be

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kept in the same weird storage as the NPC's. You know,

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it's just how does that work? How does that work?

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So finally Carl is like, all right, guys, look, we're

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gonna tow your van. You guys can climb into our

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food truck. We'll give you a ride as long as

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you're in the van. When you cross the finish line,

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you're good. Even if we're towing you, it won't matter,

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It'll still count. And they're like, really, why would you

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do that? And I really liked this. I was ready

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to make up some bullshit, but instead I just told

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them the truth that if more than one team didn't

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finish the race, we were pretty sure we'd have to

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race against our friends. In further heats, Joshua nodded, he stood,

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cracked his back, and tossed his cigarette into the water.

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This is a good reason and is an honorable reason.

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I'm so glad that Carl didn't try to make anything up.

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They know enough about what's really going on that they

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can handle it. Tell them the truth. It's totally fine,

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and they have the reaction I would expect. You know,

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let's all just be very fucking for real about this.

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And you know, heargeting back to what I said in

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the first episode about this being a situation where it's

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to your benefit really that you don't that you stop

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and help. I think being realistic with somebody and being like, hey, yeah,

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I am helping you. And that is because I hope

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that if I am ever in trouble, someday a person

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will help me or I, you know, like being real

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about the fact that it's like I am trying to

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potentially avoid future suffering of my own or my friends.

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There's nothing wrong with that. Tell people it's fine, It's

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fucking fine. It doesn't have to be transactional for you

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to be honest, you know. So chapter five, I had

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pulled Rend out of storage, and the large meatball immediately

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moved to the side of the road and fell in

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the water trying to eat the pieces of manategue or

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I'd had to jump in to haul him out. The

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damn thing weighed a literal ton. And look, Rend is

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very strong and very badass, but I just cannot shake

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my terror of the things that can kill him, the

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things that he is particularly vulnerable to. It really like

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preys on my mind, and I don't even remember everything.

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I remember that he can't eat undead flesh. I remember

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that there's like there's like a gaze that he can't

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something like that. And then there's I feel like there

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were three things, right, I can't remember. But it's just

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the likelihood of running into certain things without being aware

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ahead that you're running into it is low. Most of

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the time, you're gonna be able to prepare and put

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him away in a pet carrier, and it'll be fine.

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But I still when he starts to wander away from

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Carl and be in areas that Carl can't directly supervise,

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I do start to get kind of paranoid about it. Oh,

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Michael says, some kind of crystal. He's died five times,

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so he has five weaknesses. That's too many. That's too many.

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I don't like that. What is it? What are they?

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I don't want to even know, because it'll get me

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like I don't need to know. It makes me too paranoid.

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It's fine. I wonder he's learning. Saying that he's learning

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how to talk is absolutely too strong. It's more like

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he is learning really basic communication, like a parrot. And

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I mean a parrot is really tough because a lot

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of people are like they are just repeating sounds that's

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not talking. And perhaps you know, but he at one

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point is like getting thorns pulled out of him by Carl,

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and he he says something like like poke, poke or

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something like that. And earlier in the I can't remember

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if it was the end of the last book or

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earlier this book. I feel it was the end of

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the last book, because he's out for the first time

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this book. In these chapters, if I'm not mistaken, he

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says something that's like a single word in the moment

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as well. I feel like he says something like fun

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in response to them doing something that's super dangerous but

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kind of roller coastery. So that's interesting, you know. I'm

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not sure if this is like something we all knew

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would happen, that they could learn language, or if this

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is sort of unique to him. I do recall somebody

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saying something about rend In like specifically being kind of

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different amongst this type of creature, but I do not

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believe that we got very specific on like what that meant.

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Because Karl remains very incurious about things that I would

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want to know about instantly. It's served him well so far,

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I'll say that, so the fact that he isn't curious

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has mostly been for the best. Probably my attitude would

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be you know what I'm saying, But I still wish

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he would ask more questions. So Karl is just reflecting

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on the fact that, like, yeah, I can kill these

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I can help these guys now, but if there comes

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a point where it's us or them, I'm not going

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to even hesitate, and I do feel guilty about that,

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but they are fully aware and understand, so it helps.

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And there's a thing that I think it's Radoslav says

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later and I'll get there, but I was like, that

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is so poignant. Oh my god. This is when the

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fucking Team Sparkles shows up, which Team Sparkles is very

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much giving Miriam Dom and Prepotente, not in their overall attitude,

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but just in the overall weird vibe that we're introducing

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this team up of seemingly very unlikely partners who have

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a bizarre dynamic with each other and with others. And

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it turns out the role the tumbleweed is actually the

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vehicle an avarnous creeper, a plant that walks on the

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ground with thousands of little feet, almost like a bug.

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They do not know how it is steered, which is interesting.

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It does not seem to move very fast from what

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I understand, but it does seem like it's not it's

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it feels like when you think about the advantages of

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this as a plant, if it could climb and whatnot.

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That's pretty helpful. Considering the conversation that we have later

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with Hetty, So uh. Names are Dwight and Lucienne. We

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met just before the race. Lucienne is the small one.

476
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:22,160
She's got a mouth on her. So the unicorn has

477
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,480
a described as a deep, surly three packs a day

478
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:30,920
Boston accent, which I must say this is the first

479
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,160
time the audiobook narrator doesn't quite hit it. I wasn't

480
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,559
really getting that accent from the line, and maybe it's

481
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,319
just you know, he needs a little time to get

482
00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:44,640
his legs under him for this one. But uh, I

483
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,039
always am a fan of like creatures that you expect

484
00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:52,960
to be of a certain temperament to be a little off.

485
00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:56,359
It can be done in a way that's sort of

486
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,839
so tropy that you almost expect it. But unicorn is

487
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,599
still one that doesn't show up often enough to get tiresome.

488
00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:10,240
The thing that I was thinking of here. For those

489
00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:14,200
who have not watched Gravity Falls, please believe me when

490
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,599
I say you would enjoy it. If you are enjoying

491
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,960
Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's not all the same type of story,

492
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,680
but there's just an energy to it, and if you've

493
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,519
seen it you know what I mean. But there comes

494
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:31,839
an episode where Mabel meets a unicorn who's got a

495
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,240
very like high pitched voice, and he's so delicate and

496
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:42,440
beautiful and it shakes its mane and there are sparkles

497
00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:47,279
and it's just this, you know, And it tells Mabel

498
00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:50,039
that because she wants a hair from its head, it

499
00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:53,680
tells her she can't have one because she's got darkness

500
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,039
in her heart and is not a good person, which

501
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,720
fucks Mabel up real bad. Well, suffice to say, eventually

502
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,920
you find out that the unicorn is just fucking with

503
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,360
her and just doesn't like people and is an asshole

504
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,559
and decided to ruin her week by constantly telling her

505
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,639
I am a being of like purity and perfection and

506
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,760
I find you wanting And it was nothing. It was

507
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,480
simply that the unicorn is just like, look at this asshole.

508
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:26,960
She's coming back trying to get another hair. What an idiot?

509
00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:29,000
Do you see how tired she is. She's been doing

510
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:32,679
so many things to be a good person week, and

511
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,960
it is extremely fucking hilarious. This is sort of like

512
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:41,079
giving a similar vibe for me of just you know,

513
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:48,679
what if a unicorn was a total asshole actually, And

514
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,800
then we've got the weird Lucienne, who is a mix

515
00:34:53,960 --> 00:35:01,239
between a rat and a chinchilla, and she's described as

516
00:35:01,519 --> 00:35:04,480
she could have been cute if her vein covered red

517
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,920
eyes hadn't been bulging out of her head, giving the

518
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:12,880
impression she was on the verge of literally exploding. What

519
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:20,440
an odd pairing here. So the unicorn yells at Dona,

520
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,559
calling her fat and to get out of the road,

521
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,199
and when she says, are you talking to me? The

522
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,159
rodent says, with a French accent, who else would he

523
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,199
be talking to? Ucorpion and swine move before we are

524
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:43,239
forced to make you road kill. The creature whispered something

525
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,960
to dwipe the unicorn, who laughed, What what did you say?

526
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,320
You guys? Them whispering to each other like this, and

527
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:57,079
it is extremely funny. This really, of course brought to

528
00:35:57,159 --> 00:36:01,360
mind Monty Python and I told them we've already got one,

529
00:36:01,639 --> 00:36:05,639
like there's just you know, but uh, it really brings

530
00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:09,360
things to eleven for Donut instantly. She is so used

531
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,159
to being the one throwing around insults and throwing her

532
00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:16,360
weight around. Pah, sorry donu, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, but

533
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,000
you know what I mean that them not only coming

534
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:25,400
at her so hard, but also like having an inside

535
00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:29,719
joke that she isn't part of Oh she loses it.

536
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,280
She really does, and I did think it was pretty funny.

537
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:35,840
She starts to like attack them, and Carl has to

538
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,039
be like, hey, do you remember how we're not supposed

539
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:41,159
to like do that to the other people on the track.

540
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:50,000
Like this creature worships Dewata. I will mention here the

541
00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:54,360
audiobook narrator is really putting mustard on the name Dewata.

542
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:59,000
I don't know why. I'm assuming that it's just enjoyment

543
00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:01,039
of saying it. And he was like, well, this will

544
00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:03,920
just be a thing that the AI does. But this

545
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:09,039
creature worships dew Wata and will be automatically hostile toward

546
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:15,039
you because Deata hates your ass and it's that sort

547
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:19,239
of delivery. Uh. I'm fine with it. I don't mind it,

548
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,159
but I do think it's interesting every time I see

549
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:25,239
the text and it doesn't quite match up with the

550
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:32,599
way it's, you know, being translated through the narrator. These

551
00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:35,880
things are a combination of two or three fuzzy woodland creatures.

552
00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:38,480
Legend has that they're born of regular fairies who've had

553
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:41,400
relations with forest animals, which is a pretty common occurrence

554
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,400
with the freaks. Who worship Dwata. They have multiple magical

555
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,719
abilities and can punch well above their level class, so

556
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,800
be wary, which I am curious to see what that means,

557
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,239
because like Doughnut is extremely confident here due to her

558
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,360
high level, that they aren't going to be able to

559
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,519
do shit to her, and it sounds like maybe they can.

560
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,960
Lustan is eighty one and Dwight is eighty seven, so

561
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:13,599
well over their level class. I'm gonna say that probably

562
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,920
means like over a little over one hundred. I'm not

563
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,320
sure that they could match Donut, but if there's two

564
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:27,880
of them, probably I don't know. Oh, Miss t in

565
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,480
the chat says, I've never heard the audio books, so

566
00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:33,079
I love it when you drop tidbits like this. Okay, cool,

567
00:38:33,199 --> 00:38:35,480
I really do like the audiobooks are quite good. I

568
00:38:35,519 --> 00:38:40,119
definitely recommend them. But it's I'm glad to know that

569
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,199
there's somebody out there getting something out of it, because

570
00:38:42,199 --> 00:38:44,519
I find it fascinating. I really would love to like

571
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,280
interview Jeff Hayes and just be like, so tell me,

572
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:55,679
tell me why aya then? But uhhuh break yeah, Okay.

573
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,199
So we find out also that the horn on they're

574
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:05,159
talking about the audio book. The horn on the food

575
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,960
truck is make way for the big shop black and

576
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,400
then the ratitat sound of a what do you call it?

577
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,639
The tommy gun going off, and they do the full

578
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,480
on like bagok tommy gun sound effect in the audiobook

579
00:39:27,519 --> 00:39:32,320
as well, which is really there is something about them

580
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,599
choosing to do that every time. That is just a

581
00:39:35,639 --> 00:39:39,679
really smart move. If you're trying to get us to

582
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,400
feel as irritated by this horn as the characters, I

583
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,880
feel like you couldn't pick a better way, And it's

584
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,360
like it almost instantly. I was just like, oh, okay,

585
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,559
that's enough of that, and it won't be We're gonna

586
00:39:54,559 --> 00:40:00,840
get a lot more. I think there was a strange

587
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,280
rustling noise resulted, like multiple twigs snapping, but not all

588
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,360
at the exact same time. Dwight shouted as the whole

589
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,440
thing lurched. We dove out of the way. Donut jumped

590
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,599
upward and over the mouth as I dove off to

591
00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:16,639
the side of the road and fell into the slimy

592
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:19,639
cave water. The two bugbears did the same, but jumped

593
00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:22,320
to the other side of the road. The tumbleweed crawled

594
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,719
right over the trailer, skittered over the van and continued

595
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:31,199
on its way. Fuck you, Dwight called as they disappeared

596
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:37,239
into the darkness. I had a level five leech attached

597
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,840
to my leg, but it died immediately from the damage

598
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,440
reflect and fell off, So, you know, interesting, good to know,

599
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,639
maybe just level five. But if you get enough of

600
00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:53,159
those things on you, what do they do? What is that? Anyway?

601
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:57,199
So pokey, that's what it is that Ren says as

602
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:01,760
he's pulling the thorns out, And when Carl mentions this

603
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,960
to Mordecai, he asked me to save them all, but

604
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,159
not to take them out of inventory again until we

605
00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:09,599
were in the safe room, which I think probably means

606
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:15,360
that they do something crazy. And I also have to

607
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,320
mention that we hear Mordecai's the voice a couple times,

608
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,199
and it's a very weird. There's something about it that

609
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,920
is very much giving villain, and I don't know what.

610
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:28,960
I thought at first that he was maybe a naga,

611
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:34,599
and then I was like, they're they're participants, though I'm

612
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:37,960
not sure if he would be turned into one of them,

613
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,480
if that's like even an option. I'm really curious what

614
00:41:41,519 --> 00:41:46,719
the thinking is like in the AI's head, so to speak.

615
00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:53,119
On why he turns Mordecai into the things that he does.

616
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,440
And it's odd because like it does seem, you know,

617
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:04,320
he was a Canadian last floor does not come with

618
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:09,400
any real abilities that I remember or could see. Probably

619
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,400
there were some things, but like I don't know. But

620
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:15,760
we do know that like the effects of the class

621
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,679
or race that he's made into, it will whatever those

622
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,519
like that race's weaknesses are do seem to still apply

623
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:27,360
to Mortecai. Like you may not get abilities, but he

624
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,559
will still have like for example, when he was an incubist,

625
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,400
he's had that really really high sensitivity to alcohol. So

626
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:46,920
I'm wondering. Yeah, I'm just I'm just wondering, you know. Sorry,

627
00:42:48,039 --> 00:42:50,239
Michael says, I am in shock to miss t not

628
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,440
listening to the audiobooks without an audible sub What do

629
00:42:53,519 --> 00:43:00,760
you recommend a stupid Amazon and their exclusive deal. Ah, yes, yeah,

630
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:11,000
it's really yeah, no I get it. So we have

631
00:43:11,119 --> 00:43:16,559
then a little conversation between the Bugbears and our guys

632
00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:19,199
in which they talk about how like they were technically

633
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,519
meant to be musicians, but actually this guy doesn't think

634
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,639
he's ever even touched his flute before, because that's just

635
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,079
their backstory, but it wasn't something that they really did.

636
00:43:30,199 --> 00:43:34,119
And she suddenly gets the idea about like giving Mango

637
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:37,760
a tambourine, and then she stops because she gets a notification.

638
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,159
Here it is. It says the people have voted for

639
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,679
Auto the Slime Guy to be the manatee stand in

640
00:43:44,679 --> 00:43:51,840
in the arena, Otto the Slime Guy. What exactly is this?

641
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,760
I remember? Otto is the name of the guy who

642
00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,519
ran that. I don't know if this is the same person, Like,

643
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,119
there may be no relationship at all, I don't know.

644
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:09,000
And the arena is that another floor? Is that something

645
00:44:09,039 --> 00:44:13,119
else on this floor? Like, and some folks have gotten

646
00:44:13,199 --> 00:44:19,280
this similar message. Ajeeb had picked the same thing, but

647
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,360
said they voted to transfer the monster to the arena.

648
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,159
Mordecai said he had no idea what any of that

649
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:32,679
meant either. Then we get Ellie's meet and greet, which, you, guys,

650
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,039
this is such a weird little development. I am so

651
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,280
curious about this because I can't help but feel like

652
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:42,920
maybe there's something more to this than it looks like.

653
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,199
But it could simply be exactly what it looks like.

654
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,599
It may just be that. But it turns out they

655
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:50,400
had this whole meet and greet thing set up, and

656
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,920
of course, with everything that's happened, it got canceled or

657
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,159
everybody canceled. It wasn't even that it got canceled. It's

658
00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:00,559
that all of the people who had been coming canceled

659
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:04,400
except for this one dude who literally could not even

660
00:45:04,519 --> 00:45:08,039
get a ride into the system to see her, so

661
00:45:08,119 --> 00:45:11,320
he bought his own yacht in order to get here

662
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:17,840
to meet her, which Donu thinks is adorable. But I

663
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,920
definitely had a moment of like, that's terrifying, you know,

664
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,840
And Ellie says, this creepy motherfucker is wearing a shirt

665
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,840
with a cartoon naked picture of me on it. I'm

666
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,159
not getting anywhere near this pervert. He's just standing there blushing.

667
00:45:33,639 --> 00:45:35,840
If they didn't have safe room rules in here, I'd

668
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,559
have iced him already. I am so curious about this,

669
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,840
and I love the fact that Dona is like extremely

670
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,679
distracted by this. She wanted to have her own fan

671
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,679
me as soon as she hears it, and you know,

672
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,559
she's just trying to live vicariously through Ellie. At this point,

673
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:54,880
he wants me to sign some giant pillow thing that

674
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,559
has me on it. They didn't even get my anatomy right.

675
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,239
My nipples are not blue, and Doughnut says, I was

676
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,840
wondering because they always give you blue nipples in the snicks.

677
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,360
And I should have known, because they always give Carl

678
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,440
a way bigger dick than he actually has. And every

679
00:46:10,519 --> 00:46:12,559
time I'm reminded of the fact that Donut has seen

680
00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:16,559
Carl stick or maybe like watched him jerk off, I

681
00:46:16,679 --> 00:46:23,599
get very, very deeply uncomfortable. So let's see. It had

682
00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:26,639
taken us almost four hours to go fifty kilometers, but

683
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,800
we still had time. I searched for other vehicles. I

684
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,920
only saw a few. There was what appeared to be

685
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,639
a giant six legged horse limping its way along several tracks.

686
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:38,920
Over there was a smoking station wagon that was being

687
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,719
pushed by skyfowels. That was it ahead an arch loomed

688
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,039
with the familiar black and white checkered pattern of a

689
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:50,320
finish line. All the tracks converged here at the finish line,

690
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,360
making it a wide road. I remembered there was supposed

691
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,639
to be like eighteen hundred of these races, so I

692
00:46:56,639 --> 00:46:58,920
imagine there was some magic here, as this was more

693
00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:03,320
like one hundred or roads converging either way we approached

694
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,920
the finish line. Now, guys, I have already told you

695
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,159
that I was hoping maybe we could all finish together.

696
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,239
And the fact that this finish line is that big

697
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,760
gives me a little bit of hope here, like that's

698
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,239
something we could maybe actually all fit abreast. How about that?

699
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,079
So this is when the bug Bear says, thank you

700
00:47:25,159 --> 00:47:28,920
Carl and Princess Donut. I know and understand for tomorrow's

701
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,800
race we are not friends, but today we are friends,

702
00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:35,199
and I am grateful for today. Tonight I will drink

703
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,760
to al of Tina and dreams not attained, and I

704
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:45,599
will drink to the friends of today. I love it

705
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:49,039
so much. It's so sad, but it's so good. That

706
00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:53,679
was just like beautiful, all right, bug Bear damn start

707
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:59,719
as sub sack. So then we go into heat two

708
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:09,639
of seven, chapter six. God, they teleport back to the

709
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:16,239
garage and Donnut mentions, here, have you noticed that the

710
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,840
AI voice is getting all weird and glitchy, which again,

711
00:48:21,039 --> 00:48:23,840
isn't something that's really able to be conveyed. I mean,

712
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,800
I won't say it's not able to be conveyed. You

713
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:32,000
possibly could in text, but I will say that audiobook

714
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,679
there are two voices. There's the voice that's very much

715
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,199
the sound that you would get off of an AI

716
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,760
program to sound like a person, but that you know,

717
00:48:42,079 --> 00:48:45,280
is not in fact a person. And then there's the

718
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,159
AI that's got personality. And so it's sort of going

719
00:48:49,199 --> 00:48:53,280
back and forth where it's first place one fine Pig,

720
00:48:53,639 --> 00:48:56,800
second place the jugglers, and it's all over and then

721
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:02,119
occasionally they'll be this sort of like softening of the

722
00:49:02,199 --> 00:49:07,920
volume and it's like a crackling, like the reception is bad,

723
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:12,239
or like there's corruption in the sound file or something

724
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:18,639
like that. So yeah, it's interesting again to hear like

725
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,119
donut comments on this, but it's not really detectable in

726
00:49:23,159 --> 00:49:26,239
the text. It's just the audiobook. It just it does

727
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,280
kind of make me feel like the audiobook is like

728
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:32,639
the thing that the author is more interested in than

729
00:49:32,679 --> 00:49:35,639
even his own text, which I'm not sure if that's true,

730
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:42,239
but it might be, you know, especially considering now you've

731
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:49,480
actually got like castle like what do you call them productions,

732
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:53,480
So you've got the first book as an audiobook, but

733
00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:56,559
you also have it as like an audio play, like

734
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,639
you know, so uh, yeah, I just look, there is

735
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:06,880
no fucking way that this series doesn't get optioned, right,

736
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,039
it's absolutely happening. It's too big, like he blew up.

737
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:17,760
It's so popular, and it's a very cinematic story, so

738
00:50:18,039 --> 00:50:21,239
I feel like it's got to happen. But I personally

739
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,960
feel like the you gotta do it via animation. I

740
00:50:25,039 --> 00:50:28,599
just don't see it. I'm not saying it couldn't work

741
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,679
live action. It's sure it could, but there is so

742
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,199
much that I think would cost way way too much

743
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:40,880
to do consistently with all of these different weird characters

744
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,159
that we deal with, it probably doing it via animation

745
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:51,880
is best bet. And also my real concern is, are like,

746
00:50:52,079 --> 00:50:56,920
don't Hunger Games it look I have my huge issues

747
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,480
with the Hunger Games movies. Y'all know if you've covered

748
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,599
if if you've listened to my coverage of the books

749
00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:05,320
with Rastronomy covered the movies. In my opinion, the movies

750
00:51:05,519 --> 00:51:08,119
just like give you this glossy thing that is not

751
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:14,000
nearly brutal enough and is just falling into the exact

752
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,320
trap of the Capitol, which is no surprise because they're

753
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,440
trying to sell a product that is entertainment. But I

754
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:28,280
really worry that the extremely anti capitalist messaging is going

755
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,880
to be tamed down somehow unless there is someone ensuring

756
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:37,719
that's still in place, and I just hope they retain

757
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,079
that if they ever do it. Ooh, Michael says it's

758
00:51:41,119 --> 00:51:45,039
already been optioned. Peacock has the rights. They're doing live action.

759
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:48,440
I was praying for Apple TV or maybe even Amazon,

760
00:51:48,519 --> 00:51:50,840
just for the money, but hoping for the best. Okay,

761
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,960
you know now that you're saying this, I remember I

762
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,239
think you lamenting the Apple TV didn't get it. So

763
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,400
this has been a thing. They haven't cast anybody, right

764
00:52:00,199 --> 00:52:03,199
because like, of course, everybody is going to want either

765
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,039
Patrick Warburton, who we all know is too old, or

766
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:12,159
Patrick war Burton look alike, which you know, I understand

767
00:52:12,159 --> 00:52:17,119
that impulse. I'm not sure. I'm not sure huh As

768
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:21,039
a live action I guess let's see. We'll just have

769
00:52:21,159 --> 00:52:23,239
to see. I'm wondering if you guys are gonna want

770
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:24,719
me to cover that or if I can just watch

771
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:29,639
that on my own. So then we get the GPS

772
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,760
unit beeped and the female voice spoken again, with this

773
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,199
voice that's like vaguely familiar. I have fallen off thinking

774
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,280
it's fire Brandy. I don't feel like she had this

775
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:46,440
particular sound he is very much giving. He being Jeff

776
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:52,840
Hayes is giving this sound a kind of like la

777
00:52:53,480 --> 00:53:00,800
influencer vocal fry kind of thing. So limited details on

778
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:05,960
the next race are now available. Distance ten kilometers track,

779
00:53:06,519 --> 00:53:10,239
asphalt paved road, rolling hills. There are two paths for

780
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,199
this race. You'll be assigned one of two paths at random.

781
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,920
Tasks required to complete. Each path is of equal length.

782
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,000
Each path has a gatekeeper monster along that path that

783
00:53:20,079 --> 00:53:24,239
must be killed to resume special rules. Your vehicle may

784
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:29,239
only travel your assigned path. Environment torrential downpour of rain

785
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:34,159
and giant hail. Hazards. Well, we have the hail and

786
00:53:34,199 --> 00:53:37,320
the gatekeeper monster, whatever that might be. But I'd suggest

787
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,840
that our biggest hazard is the fact that this bucket

788
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,639
has to be driven by a fucking cat this time.

789
00:53:44,199 --> 00:53:47,360
That line really made me laugh out loud. That got

790
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:52,119
me driven by a fucking cat this time. Who is this?

791
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,199
I can't place it and it is very very familiar.

792
00:53:58,119 --> 00:54:00,559
I love Donut being like, well that was what to say,

793
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:02,679
but also correct, like how the fuck am I supposed

794
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,000
to drive this thing? And because they have ten hours,

795
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,360
Carl is thinking that he's going to be able to

796
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,239
build something that will enable her, like it's I was

797
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,199
hoping that the vehicle would simply resize itself around her

798
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,000
the way that apparel does. You know. No, no such luck.

799
00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:25,639
We've got to figure this out ourselves. There is something

800
00:54:25,679 --> 00:54:30,679
about this as well that could be a very interesting

801
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,079
like Ali Cory for being disabled, where she's a cat

802
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,159
and every vehicle is going to be designed for like

803
00:54:38,199 --> 00:54:42,280
a human type humanoid body, and how we have to

804
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,039
like find a way to make it work for her

805
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:48,000
because nothing is provided and we've just got to figure

806
00:54:48,039 --> 00:54:52,760
it out ourselves because no accommodations are made whatsoever. So

807
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,400
you know, there's just a thought. And this is when

808
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,199
Hetty is talking to them first of all, about like

809
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,760
maybe don't help the other racers because she will die

810
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:11,599
if they die, you know. And let's see, you can

811
00:55:11,639 --> 00:55:14,239
add up to three mercenaries each heat. There's a bar

812
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,199
out there in Hungry Eyes where you can hire them.

813
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,559
I reckon all the best one's already been snatched since

814
00:55:18,599 --> 00:55:22,639
you two took your sweet fine time getting here, and

815
00:55:23,079 --> 00:55:26,679
they can use mercenaries they've already hired, and don't it

816
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:31,320
is like not Samantha, which Karl agrees with, and then

817
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,519
we have a lovely moment, and by lovely I mean

818
00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:37,320
just like a really well written Karl is thinking about

819
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,519
what he could build. I was already thinking of things

820
00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:43,440
I could build on the engineering table, katcha could I paused,

821
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,599
and a wave of sadness washed over me. That is

822
00:55:46,639 --> 00:55:50,519
a very real moment. You know, when you are dealing

823
00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:54,239
with anybody gone for any reason, whether it's just they

824
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,440
have physically left the space you're in or they have

825
00:55:57,559 --> 00:56:03,000
actually passed away, always going to be moments, especially right

826
00:56:03,079 --> 00:56:06,360
after they have first gone, that you are thinking about

827
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,719
them like they're still there and you just have to

828
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,800
like have a reality check. And it's for her likely

829
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,039
a happy thing, as he is trying to get himself

830
00:56:17,039 --> 00:56:19,519
to think that she's probably safer out there than they are,

831
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:26,280
but it is hard knowing that she is. You know

832
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,559
that he can't keep an eye on her, that he

833
00:56:28,599 --> 00:56:32,360
has to trust that she's being taken care of somewhere else,

834
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:36,199
and also that they can't like use her help here

835
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,400
because what she can do would be perfect, which I

836
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,159
feel like maybe part of the reason the author got

837
00:56:43,199 --> 00:56:48,280
her out of the dungeon, because like he knew he

838
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,719
was going to be doing something that conscious skills would

839
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,800
be a little bit too one point, and that if

840
00:56:54,039 --> 00:56:59,760
they had like a sentient piece of the like their machine,

841
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:03,679
give them such a massive advantage that there was no

842
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,400
way they could possibly lose. So, yeah, we really need

843
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,199
to get her up out of here before they start

844
00:57:09,199 --> 00:57:15,079
this heat. So he asks Heity what she recommends regarding

845
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:19,880
like upgrades to their vehicle, and he winds up agreeing

846
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,800
with her on the spider legs, which I'm very excited about.

847
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:26,000
Evidently not designed to be out the whole time. They

848
00:57:26,079 --> 00:57:30,840
extend like when you need them, which is worrisome because

849
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:32,599
there might be times where you need them out the

850
00:57:32,639 --> 00:57:34,679
whole time. And now you've got to find out, like

851
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:39,000
figure out a way that you can periodically use them

852
00:57:39,079 --> 00:57:42,079
and let them rest or whatever it's called, where they

853
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:48,719
cool down. I do appreciate that this is what Heady suggests.

854
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,800
He asks to like take a look and decide himself

855
00:57:52,159 --> 00:57:55,079
and ultimately comes to the same conclusion as her, and

856
00:57:55,119 --> 00:58:00,719
she's just like, hey, sexy is smart, how about that? Which, honestly,

857
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,199
this is something that a lot of men could learn from.

858
00:58:03,679 --> 00:58:06,599
There is an instinctive thing with men to not listen

859
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:09,280
to women, and you can observe this at any time

860
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,519
with any man and any woman, whether it is a mother,

861
00:58:12,679 --> 00:58:15,760
a wife, a sister, a colleague, a friend, It does

862
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:20,119
not matter. Men instinctively disagree with us, even when it's

863
00:58:20,119 --> 00:58:27,079
something that's like logically there is no other option. And

864
00:58:27,119 --> 00:58:29,639
then a man can come along and say the exact

865
00:58:29,679 --> 00:58:32,800
shit that the woman said, and a guy will be like, oh,

866
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:37,039
great idea, with the most blissful unawareness of what they

867
00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:40,199
have just done. I have watched this in person more

868
00:58:40,239 --> 00:58:44,960
than once. It is remarkable. It's something that like you

869
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,199
would think I am exaggerating if you don't know what

870
00:58:49,239 --> 00:58:54,320
we know. We know, And I just appreciate any time

871
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,760
a dude is like, okay, you're right and is willing

872
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:04,079
to concede that somebody else has like the experience and

873
00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:06,920
judgment to make a right call. And it is so

874
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:12,239
attractive if you want to like impress upon a woman

875
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,400
that you are a decent guy, try and keep that

876
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:23,440
instinctive desire to contradict in check and just watch it

877
00:59:23,599 --> 00:59:26,039
when you feel it and see if maybe you should

878
00:59:26,119 --> 00:59:30,800
just agree. Sometimes it's just one of those things. And

879
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,039
there's a creator named Kevin Stage. She's a comedian and

880
00:59:35,079 --> 00:59:40,400
he is actually very emotionally intelligent. And he posted a

881
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:45,880
video once about like because somebody was asking him about

882
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,280
his feelings on men cheating and because he's been married

883
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:54,679
a while, and he said, basically, one, I don't have

884
00:59:54,719 --> 00:59:57,000
time to cheat. I got shit to do. That takes

885
00:59:57,039 --> 00:59:59,719
so much energy, Like why would I spend my energy

886
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:04,039
doing that? No? And secondly, he's like, and my wife

887
01:00:04,119 --> 01:00:08,559
is so fucking smart and honestly is the one that

888
01:00:09,079 --> 01:00:13,000
has gotten my career going because she knows way better

889
01:00:13,039 --> 01:00:15,800
than me when a deal is gonna work and when

890
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,880
it's not, or what they're gonna want from me versus

891
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,519
what they're telling me they want from me. And do

892
01:00:21,599 --> 01:00:23,760
you think that I'm gonna fuck that up for myself

893
01:00:24,239 --> 01:00:27,599
having this like bad bitch over here who is so

894
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:33,320
good at this. I am very very reliant on her,

895
01:00:33,719 --> 01:00:38,480
and she's never been wrong, not one time. And I

896
01:00:38,599 --> 01:00:40,840
was just like, you know, keV, I never found you

897
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,119
hot before, but like right now, right now, I'm seeing it.

898
01:00:44,199 --> 01:00:49,119
I'm definitely seeing it for you a little bit. Oh sorry,

899
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,440
Michael says task Master had a perfect moment. As an example,

900
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,599
I put it in the YouTube section of your discord.

901
01:00:55,599 --> 01:00:58,079
Oh shit, Okay, I forgot I have a YouTube sector.

902
01:00:58,119 --> 01:01:01,639
There's certain channels that I high because there are so many,

903
01:01:02,039 --> 01:01:05,039
and I would rather participate mostly in like coverage stuff.

904
01:01:05,519 --> 01:01:08,079
So there being like a YouTube check, I'm like, really,

905
01:01:08,159 --> 01:01:13,679
I have that. That's funny. So anyway, yeah, she goes

906
01:01:13,719 --> 01:01:17,239
with him, He goes with what she suggests, and then

907
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:20,599
he starts to notice that there are a bunch of

908
01:01:20,639 --> 01:01:25,079
things that are basically like offensive buildings that would stop

909
01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:29,559
other teams from finishing or kill them, and he realizes that, like,

910
01:01:29,639 --> 01:01:32,679
we can do what we can to help other teams

911
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,639
like get past the finish line, but we cannot stop

912
01:01:36,679 --> 01:01:40,039
other teams from doing stuff to hurt each other. There's

913
01:01:40,199 --> 01:01:44,280
nothing that we can do, and that it's inevitable crawler

914
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,880
on crawler races are going to happen, especially considering we

915
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,360
have heard that Lena has already like started killing other players,

916
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:58,960
so yeah, it's it's going to happen. He goes and

917
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,920
looks for Mango and Rend and they both have found

918
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,119
the kitchen area of the food truck, which apparently was

919
01:02:06,159 --> 01:02:10,199
stocked with like French fries, like it's frozen. But yeah,

920
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:15,199
I did find that extremely funny. And then we have

921
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,000
entering your safe room. Blood bar is now in effect,

922
01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:29,719
and we find out that Mordecai is a reaper moon

923
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:40,559
Reaper level fifty. This is bizarre, You guys, honestly, don't

924
01:02:40,559 --> 01:02:43,400
remove their hoods, don't provoke them. They are not hostile

925
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,440
unless attacked their days. Attack can come in many forms,

926
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,559
which it turns out, this is the gaze that oh

927
01:02:51,639 --> 01:02:55,960
my god, Rend is vulnerable to, which like, again, why

928
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,280
would they at for the fun? For the fun always?

929
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:04,320
I guess right? And he starts to talk like normal,

930
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:09,320
and then all of a sudden he comes at Carl.

931
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,400
Death awaits you at every turn, and the voice effect

932
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,199
that they put on for this in the audiobook is

933
01:03:15,239 --> 01:03:20,000
really something the shadows reach even now for a porous

934
01:03:20,079 --> 01:03:23,119
soul such as yours. It is unquenchable. This thirst you

935
01:03:23,159 --> 01:03:25,960
are reached for by both sides who will entwine you.

936
01:03:26,079 --> 01:03:30,760
The tree or the abyss, which I think it's just

937
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,840
you know, life or nihilism. And the tree, which is

938
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,519
in this we've seen the significance of this tree a

939
01:03:37,559 --> 01:03:45,280
few times, is a symbol for community and people and caring,

940
01:03:45,719 --> 01:03:49,480
and the abyss is just I give up. The abyss

941
01:03:49,559 --> 01:03:56,199
is the Agatha switch and then he goes at donut.

942
01:03:56,639 --> 01:04:00,920
The edges are more clear, yet still uncertain. Sacrifice might

943
01:04:01,039 --> 01:04:03,360
save you in the end. It might. It will be

944
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,920
the darkest decision ever made. How many lives, how many souls.

945
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,360
The veil is made of gossamer, and when it is done,

946
01:04:11,679 --> 01:04:16,199
their days their rage will be eternal. You should remember

947
01:04:16,239 --> 01:04:22,039
that Oak fell champion of Neckabit. A sacrifice might save

948
01:04:22,159 --> 01:04:25,679
you in the end, it will be the darkest decision

949
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:31,719
ever made. What the fuck does that mean? And don't

950
01:04:31,719 --> 01:04:34,079
it It's like, Hey, I'm about to piss myself, so

951
01:04:34,199 --> 01:04:37,639
can I go into a bathroom because you're freaking me out?

952
01:04:38,079 --> 01:04:41,360
And he comes back to himself and he is very

953
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:47,960
firm on These are not real, Like visions of the future,

954
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,920
they are designed to be scary and dramatic, and they

955
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,199
are not true. If I could see into the future,

956
01:04:56,199 --> 01:05:01,719
if anybody could, that would completely defin the point of

957
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:08,960
the game being chance, which sounds good and true, but

958
01:05:09,079 --> 01:05:13,239
I really hope it isn't just a line. You know,

959
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:21,280
I don't know. And let's see, I'm trying to find

960
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:26,159
the bit here. We should Rosetta hesitantly approached. We should

961
01:05:26,159 --> 01:05:28,480
probably keep you sequestered from the others on this floor.

962
01:05:28,559 --> 01:05:31,920
Rosetta said to Mordecai, it seems he does that glitching

963
01:05:32,039 --> 01:05:34,639
each time a different race gets near him. For the

964
01:05:34,679 --> 01:05:37,960
first time, when Biggs wandered in, I was afraid we'd

965
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,960
lost him totally. He told me I was going to

966
01:05:41,119 --> 01:05:44,880
drown in fire. Biggs the sluggle at said if this

967
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,920
motherfucker wasn't on the don't chop list, he'd be getting

968
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,320
the kneecap treatment. And I didn't hear what he said

969
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:56,239
to Samantha, but he made her cry, which interesting. Yeah,

970
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,840
I just really hope that that's you know, it's designed

971
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:03,760
to be scary, not true. I mean, I don't know.

972
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:12,400
So then we have Donah opening her box. She's got

973
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:16,800
a bunch of stuff. Obviously here there is a few.

974
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:21,679
There are few hats, one also for rend and there

975
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:27,480
is a spell book that you guys, this is so

976
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,480
it can injure itself evidently. So Mordecai is like, you

977
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:34,039
need to catch that thing right now, and the cleaner

978
01:06:34,079 --> 01:06:38,599
bot catches it, and it like understands him in a

979
01:06:38,639 --> 01:06:42,280
way that I was surprised by, because I can under

980
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,079
I can know the cleaner Bot has a little bit

981
01:06:44,119 --> 01:06:46,559
of sentience because it can watch people making a mess

982
01:06:46,599 --> 01:06:50,079
and like make its feelings known regarding that. But this

983
01:06:50,199 --> 01:06:53,679
is like a slightly different thing, and I was just

984
01:06:53,679 --> 01:07:01,440
surprised at that level, you know. And the spell is

985
01:07:01,679 --> 01:07:06,400
Uzi form, which Donah of course interprets as like Uzi

986
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:09,079
the gun, but it's like Uzi, like you're going to

987
01:07:09,159 --> 01:07:14,239
turn into a puddle of ooze, which she is very

988
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:18,039
disdainful of. But she suggests that maybe Carl use it,

989
01:07:18,119 --> 01:07:22,239
which Mordecai thinks is a great idea because the gloom

990
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,559
Rayth phase is an attack that forces you in a

991
01:07:25,559 --> 01:07:29,480
certain direction, and so for traveling it's really not great.

992
01:07:29,559 --> 01:07:33,119
But this means that both he and Dona are going

993
01:07:33,159 --> 01:07:39,239
to be equally nimble around certain types of obstacles. Let's see,

994
01:07:42,239 --> 01:07:44,519
I got all sorts of goodies. It buffs all those

995
01:07:44,519 --> 01:07:47,079
weird create tree and some and vermin spells, and also

996
01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:49,159
comes with that smoke form spell. And I got my

997
01:07:49,239 --> 01:07:53,039
first aura. It's called Healer's grasp. If you're near me,

998
01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:55,960
you get healed. I don't know why an assassin might

999
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,360
need to heal people, but that's what I got. I'm

1000
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,199
like a mini Imani. And don't forget I also have

1001
01:08:01,239 --> 01:08:03,960
two celestial boxes to open, and that's before I look

1002
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,239
at some of my new achievements. So I must insist

1003
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:10,280
that we get this moving. The book made a strange

1004
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:14,320
squealing noise, and more goose squirted out. The cleaner bot

1005
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:18,840
continued to complain, Sorry, I said, I grasped the book

1006
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:23,119
in both hands and applied it learning UZI form Okay, okay,

1007
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,319
that's done, and that's the end of chapter seven, which

1008
01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:27,760
I did think was kind of a weird way to

1009
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:32,880
end chapter seven. But you know, that's fine. So I

1010
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:38,560
am really really interested, Like there's a lot about the

1011
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,439
way this floor is going to function that I think

1012
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:47,680
is compelling, so looking forward to that. Sorry, Saraphim says,

1013
01:08:48,279 --> 01:08:50,079
I think it was more the bot just wanting to

1014
01:08:50,119 --> 01:08:52,239
get the thing and making a mess out of there.

1015
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,039
Maybe it seemed like the timing of it matched up

1016
01:08:57,079 --> 01:09:01,600
with Mordecai saying somebody grabbed that, but who knows, Maybe

1017
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,439
it was a coincidence. Michael says, the book being covered

1018
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:06,720
in little legs just makes me shiver. I would have

1019
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,520
instinctively thrown that book the moment I felt that. I

1020
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,079
feel you on that. Check out that YouTube task Master

1021
01:09:13,159 --> 01:09:15,000
clip if you get the chance. I think you'd get

1022
01:09:15,039 --> 01:09:18,359
a kick out of it, you guys, just real quick

1023
01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:21,039
before I sign off. There was like an example of

1024
01:09:21,119 --> 01:09:25,239
the There was a a friend of mine who worked

1025
01:09:25,279 --> 01:09:29,239
for the public library in her town and it was

1026
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,479
a I think like a older man who was in

1027
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:38,840
charge of the They would set a display every month

1028
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,600
in this big display window as you went into the library,

1029
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:46,560
and it would be themed according to various things holidays

1030
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:51,079
or current events or whatever. And this was in like

1031
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,119
I think twenty sixteen, and she wanted to do a

1032
01:09:55,159 --> 01:09:59,439
display about the Women's March, and she was told no.

1033
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:06,000
And then two weeks later an email went out saying

1034
01:10:06,039 --> 01:10:11,279
that they were really excited because this month's coming display

1035
01:10:12,199 --> 01:10:15,239
was going to be on the Women's March after it

1036
01:10:15,319 --> 01:10:24,760
was suggested by Mark. So a dude suggested the Women's

1037
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,439
March display after a woman suggested it and was turned

1038
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:33,279
down and he got approved, which like, the symbolism of

1039
01:10:33,319 --> 01:10:35,319
this could not be more extreme, And this is a

1040
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:37,720
real thing. This is not like oh I saw a meme.

1041
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:41,079
This is a friend of mine. This happened too, and

1042
01:10:41,399 --> 01:10:43,399
she was like, I don't know what the fuck, And

1043
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:47,880
I wrote, like an example letter of the way to

1044
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,880
be like, I can sure, I'm sure that you understand

1045
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,119
the optics of you know, how this all went down,

1046
01:10:53,399 --> 01:10:55,239
and she was like, thank you. I think I might

1047
01:10:55,279 --> 01:10:59,920
actually use this, but uh yeah, It's like I think

1048
01:11:00,279 --> 01:11:02,520
a lot of dudes think that women are exaggerating about

1049
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:06,159
this stuff, and it sounds like an exaggeration because it's

1050
01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:09,760
so illogical that it would have to be in a

1051
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,800
sane world. But that's not where we live, so we're

1052
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:17,560
not exaggerating. It's just that is how illogical men are

1053
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:24,800
about women, and it's just pervasive, you know. Anyway, all right,

1054
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,760
I'm wrapping this up. Thank you guys again so much

1055
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:28,840
for hanging out with me. Appreciate you all very much.

1056
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,800
Thank you Michael for commissioning this one, and I will

1057
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,319
see you next week with a new episode. Until then,

1058
01:11:34,800 --> 01:12:07,560
to the loo, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled Network podcast.