WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.640 This is an unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:16.199 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four Gate of the Feral Gods, 3 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:26.879 chapters eighteen, nineteen, and twenty. In this episode, I get 4 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:36.719 to talk about how to properly cook a fish. She's dead. 5 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.640 I hated her so much and she's dead and I'm 6 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:44.399 so happy. Ugh, there's other stuff that happens too, but like, 7 00:00:44.439 --> 00:01:07.000 come on, welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. 8 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.719 I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for 9 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:15.319 commissioning this episode. Oh, Michael's in the chat says, shout 10 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.120 out to Jackie for booking the next book. Sadly, my 11 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:23.239 break from book means crappy UI is over and over 12 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:25.799 is over and now I have to endure the pain 13 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:31.439 to commission book six. I I book dot means crappy UI. 14 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.120 I'm sorry, Michael, I'm not following. I don't know if 15 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.840 there was a typo in there or something. But I 16 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.680 also thank you Jackie for commissioning the next book. But uh, 17 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:48.079 I am you know. I know that I'm going to 18 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:52.599 catch up and that it's going to be a wait. Now, 19 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.920 this is the thing that happens even when something has 20 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.920 been out for a while and has built up enough 21 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:02.879 books that I am getting into it after it's really 22 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.640 gotten its legs under it, inevitably I catch up, you know. 23 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.120 And this is going on with also the Bastian series, 24 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.840 which I really really enjoy, and the author had thought 25 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.439 he was going to have the next book out in July, 26 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.280 and now it's looking like it won't be till October. 27 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.520 And due to that weight, there was like, you know, 28 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:27.960 a delay with the commissioning, so I probably won't get 29 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.599 to start talking about it until January, which means I 30 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.039 will have almost gone a year between the last book. 31 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:42.439 In this book, Oh, Michael says, refer to the website 32 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:45.719 you use. Sadly, my break from book Got Me's Crappy 33 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.680 UI is over and now I have to inture okay, 34 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:54.879 got you? Yeah, I understand. It's one of those services 35 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.960 that you wouldn't think what I need is particularly specialized. 36 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.120 But I had to try eight different booking sites before 37 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.719 I found one that did what this one does, and 38 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.120 it was really annoying because I didn't always get that 39 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.919 it didn't work the way I needed until the mistake 40 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.240 was already in place. And then a huge headache to undo. 41 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.080 So that is why I have stayed with them. Many 42 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:26.280 of these things that I have to do with my 43 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.960 line of work rely on services that are not so reliable, 44 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:37.479 for example crowdcast, but we gotta do what we gotta do. 45 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:45.639 So Chapter eighteen begins with a note from Crawler Cooley, 46 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:52.639 and he is clearly intending to stage some sort of 47 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.319 attack on this interview that he is about to go on, 48 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:02.319 and it's broken up in part where at first he's 49 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:06.280 talking about how this view of my beautiful planet from 50 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:10.599 this ship will be my last view, and then later 51 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.240 on we get an update where it turns out that 52 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:17.680 the people he intended to harm weren't even actually physically there, 53 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:25.040 which is part of the reveal of Carl's plan. Part 54 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.439 of it is us finding out exactly how he was 55 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:33.079 able to ensure that Luita was there in the room 56 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:38.680 with him and not just a projection. So Carl, I 57 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.199 have some things cooking on my sapper's table. Let me 58 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.680 take care of them really quickly before you transfer us. 59 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:44.199 Now. 60 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:48.680 Of course, after that entry from Cooley and Carl saying this, 61 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.519 it did have me thinking that he was planning something, 62 00:04:53.399 --> 00:05:00.120 but I wasn't fully getting it, and I was misunderstanding 63 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:08.000 in my suspicions, the intent behind doing certain things. So 64 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:13.920 he's got some smoke bombs that are like infusing in stuff. 65 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.600 One of them it doesn't work out, and the other 66 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:25.079 he gets hobgoblin disco ball Uh produces heavy, multi hued 67 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:30.120 billows of smoke that are both photosensitive and frequency responsive. 68 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:32.319 In case you don't know what that means, just set 69 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:34.920 one off and find out. The smoke will conceal all 70 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:38.560 movement within and the plumes will bounce to the beat, 71 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:44.680 which is rad as hell, like I really really really 72 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:48.439 want to see this. Unlike a regular smoke curtain, the 73 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.040 caster of this tossable is not immune to its effects. 74 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.839 In other words, you'll be just as blind as the monsters. 75 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.399 So you don't want to be dropping this thing at 76 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.439 your feet unless you find yourself to be the most 77 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:07.240 handsome dude at the orgy. And he puts the donut 78 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:14.519 robot on his sapper's table and it knocks the what 79 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.160 do you call it, the little smoke thing down onto 80 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.480 the floor and causes it to go off. Now what 81 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.399 I was sort of thinking here was that he was 82 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:28.439 using the smoke as a means of concealing something that 83 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.600 he was doing. But it turns out it's more than that. 84 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.920 It's also the residue of the smoke on the robot 85 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:41.079 means that it can't be put on camera and thus 86 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.439 has to stay in the room with Loita later on. 87 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.680 So I liked it. It wasn't as simple as what 88 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.600 I was thinking. That there was like more going on 89 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:57.360 even and this guy's pretty colors robot, Donut said. I 90 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.480 felt the head turn around to face me in the 91 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:03.639 complete multi hued smokestorm. The voice went down and octave. 92 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.560 This is what we all see in the end. I'm 93 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:13.040 always here for you, Carl and you guys. This robot 94 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:21.240 occasionally lapsing into very unsettling statements is very funny. The 95 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:25.720 fact that she says pretty colors had me very arrested 96 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:29.600 for a moment, because, like, between this and her response 97 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.160 to some other things said around her later, I was 98 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:37.079 realizing this toy is a lot more interactive than previously. 99 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:40.560 She just used to say shit, you know, and now 100 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:46.199 she's actually formulating responses like AI, which is certainly more 101 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:51.959 fun because it's like specifically mostly within the framework of 102 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.839 what Donut would say. But you know, the way that 103 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.040 the voice actor is delivering these I had to say 104 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.680 this narrator. I actually accidentally ran across him on my 105 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:07.199 Facebook feed. I don't remember. It was a short video 106 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:14.079 of I think an early recording of him in Book two. 107 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:18.720 Maybe whatever it was I heard, I had heard before, 108 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.759 and it was fascinating to see him because he's on 109 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:27.759 camera and he's this Asian guy with like very little 110 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.519 expression on his face, busting out these lines and these 111 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.960 jumps between different voices. And there was something about how 112 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.360 dead pan he was while delivering these jokes that I 113 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.039 found really funny. It was just it was remarkable, It 114 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:46.799 really is. It's like the kind of thing that a 115 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:49.399 part of me. If I were to do something different, 116 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.399 I think I might try and get into voice acting 117 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.559 or you know, audiobook narration, because like, I'm pretty good 118 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.200 at doing the live audio for the show that I do. 119 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:04.120 Occasionally I stumble on my words, you know, as anybody 120 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.639 would who isn't really trained. But I think it would 121 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:15.000 be pretty fun to get into the voice thing. So anyway, 122 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:22.720 Loita transfers them to the little station, which I think 123 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.639 it was a submarine this time. Again right, this was 124 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.159 a nice middle quality trailer, but it was a submarine, 125 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.639 not a boat like the last time. Right, despite being 126 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.919 under the surface, this trailer was set up similar to 127 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.399 Odet's production trailer, with a green room and a doorway 128 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.919 to the studio. In fact, I realized this was the 129 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.440 exact same model, though the green room on this one 130 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.960 had a different layout and included a large picture window 131 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:49.960 that looked about the dark ocean. No snacks, Doughnut grumbled. 132 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:57.200 So this is when Carl sort of means over her 133 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:00.440 and is looking out the window. I felt the water 134 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.720 from her rebreather splash against my leg, and I'm thinking, 135 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.639 if this were some other situation, I would be suspecting 136 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.879 him of like pickpocketing her right now, or of planting 137 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.799 something on her. But I knew that really couldn't be 138 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.840 the case here unless it was something from like his 139 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.720 sapper's table or you know. And even that, I was like, 140 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.879 can he detonate that sort of thing remotely when it's 141 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:31.360 like on her person? Would that even work? So I 142 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:37.840 know something's up, but I'm not getting it. And he 143 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.159 asks about whether the trailers go into space or are 144 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.960 they all offloaded to offloaded to a large transport, and 145 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.000 she asks how that's his concern, and he's like, hey, 146 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.000 I don't know if you remember, but people tried to 147 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:55.919 assassinate us when we were on another show, So yeah, 148 00:10:55.960 --> 00:11:01.360 I'm a bit concerned about security. She says, you know, 149 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.759 for such a famous crawler, you sure are a coward, 150 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:11.080 which the absolute gull. Just the trailer is shielded once 151 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.240 you arrive, nobody comes in or goes out until the 152 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.320 program is over again. You are safer here than you 153 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:22.080 are in the dungeon, I hope, so, I said, don't forget. 154 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.159 You're in here with us too. Her eyes widened, but 155 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.919 it was quick. She finally noticed the dust covered robot 156 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.879 donut under my arm. She let out a little gasp 157 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.279 of despair. Oh you idiot, what did you do to 158 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:40.840 the product sample? So she gets in touch with them 159 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.799 via messenger and finds out that they have another one 160 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:49.360 and it's fine, but she is very, very cranky about this. 161 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.159 Read the script. If you can't think of anything to say, 162 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.399 do not be negative. This is not live, so don't 163 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.480 think you're going to go changing the universe with your 164 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:02.000 bravado today. Anything stupid you say will be edited out 165 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.360 and we'll all be stuck in this can for longer. 166 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.399 I'll be watching the taping from in here. Do not 167 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.559 make me get up and go in there. I swear 168 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.080 to the gods, you will not be happy if I 169 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:18.960 have to go in there. So this leads to Carl 170 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:25.399 straight up saying, why are you so angry all the time, Loyda, 171 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:32.759 And she said, she answers him, You, your cat, your people, 172 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:38.000 your ugly culture. This is a cancer upon the bloom, 173 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.559 and we should not be doing this. We should not 174 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.200 be celebrating your culture, spreading your filth so the fry 175 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:49.200 may see celebrating. You're exterminating us and profiting on our ashes. 176 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.279 If it were up to me, we'd simply exterminate you 177 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:57.120 and nothing else. You're filthy, you're dry, You're a rot 178 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:02.960 upon the bloom. Donut swished her tail. You probably shouldn't 179 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:06.240 have become a pr agent, if that's how you really feel, Darling. Honestly, 180 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:07.960 I can't help but feel you don't have our best 181 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:10.120 interest at heart. This is why we worked so much 182 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:13.039 better with Zev. She understood how to exploit our star 183 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:18.600 power that seemed to have struck a nerve Zev. What 184 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.000 you've done to Zev is the exact reason you are 185 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.519 so dangerous. She is young, she is impressionable. She is 186 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.639 the future of the Kuatine, the bloom. Her generation is 187 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.039 enraptured by the newest, shiniest thing. They do not trust 188 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.720 in the concept of system, strength, of true unity, of 189 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:39.399 the great consensus. Do you know what we had to 190 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.759 do just to bring Zev back into the fold? Unspeakable 191 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.720 things to her mother and her aunt's. It was only 192 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.519 then did she take the badge. We need to do 193 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.399 this to a whole generation now because of you, because 194 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:02.399 of your filthy culture. Well, if you had, you know, 195 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:06.639 just left us alone, you wouldn't have to worry about 196 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:12.480 she interrupted, pointing directly at Donut, who looked stricken. Your culture, 197 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:17.840 your non unifying, defeatist, dry, multi organ diversified attempt at 198 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:21.759 culture is a deadly contagion, and it must be treated 199 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.840 as such. After this crawl, after every single one of 200 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:29.480 you drivermen is dead, the boring system will close its borders, 201 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:33.480 and only then will the reawakening occur. Only then will 202 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:41.679 we be free of this rot. This is bonkers, and 203 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.799 Donut just says it. It's just like this bitch crazy, huh. 204 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.679 It's really upsetting to hear her say we had to 205 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.320 do unspeakable things to her mother and aunt, because if 206 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.399 she says that they are unspeakable, it must be really bad, 207 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:59.399 it must be real, real bad, poor fucking zeb And 208 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.840 like I assumed that it was going to be something 209 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.519 like this. Honestly, the writing was very much on the wall, 210 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.080 like from before Zev even left, and the way that 211 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:13.080 she was talking about certain things, and the depression that 212 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.279 had clearly kind of come over her. But it's actually 213 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:24.200 being said now, and poor fucking Zev and the whole like, 214 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.480 as Carl points out, nobody asked you to come here. 215 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.679 All of this wouldn't even have been in your in, 216 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:37.039 you know. But they are evidently a conquering people who 217 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:42.240 feel compelled to exterminate and also evidently are broke as fuck, 218 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.720 like she's talking about, you know, eventually, once we do this, 219 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.559 the boring system will close its borders. And I can't 220 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:53.519 help but think, like, probably not. This is the thing 221 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:59.159 about the way that a lot of bigotry works is 222 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:05.639 that the flames are fanned of that bigotry simply for profit. 223 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:12.279 Sharing increases, simply for money, and the people encouraging it, 224 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.200 it's not even like they believe any of it. They 225 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.200 just know there's a profit to be made from this, 226 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:22.240 and so they exploit that and it works, and then 227 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.440 the people who believe all of this is in service 228 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.000 to our eventual supremacy are genuinely surprised Pikachu face when 229 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:36.840 that's not what they get. And it would be funny 230 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.879 if it weren't so sad and so predictable, you know. 231 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.840 But I can't help but think she's a fundamentalist, and 232 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.320 they feed into this, but it's not really what it 233 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:53.559 is about. I think it's just purely we're doing this 234 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:58.919 to make money. But will tell these psychos whatever we 235 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.799 need to tell them about how it's ultimately good for 236 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.680 like the supremacy of our people, as long as that 237 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.559 gets them to show up to work on time and 238 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:15.200 not call out and do overtime, you know. So they 239 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.480 go into their thing, and this is when we get 240 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.880 the update from Cooley. I have secreted bugbear paste in 241 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.559 my boots. I will detonate them while I am in orbit. 242 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:30.440 If this skill works, my blast shield should protect me 243 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.119 from the explosion. But if I blow the ship, it 244 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.519 won't matter. Think of me, brothers. It is little, but 245 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.039 it is all I have. And to find out that 246 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.279 he did this and it didn't even result in doing 247 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:47.319 It's really that's the way so much rebellion goes. You know, 248 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:52.039 there are a lot of statements made that nobody ever 249 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:58.559 hears that really don't do much. But sometimes you got 250 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.559 to do shit for your own self, even if it 251 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:08.480 isn't accomplishing a greater purpose necessarily. The hosts of vera 252 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.799 lux New Toys showcase were a pair of tall, giant 253 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:16.519 eyed alien soothers, the forsothed a man named Gravo and 254 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.720 a woman named Lyddy. I was beginning to realize these 255 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:21.680 soother guys were one of the most common types of 256 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:27.039 aliens in the universe, and they are wearing Gravo's dressed 257 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:31.559 like a cowboy with a sheriff thing on him. Lyddy 258 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.079 is dressed like a superhero. It's just very much like 259 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:41.759 if you were just trying to do the most generic 260 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.799 appeal to kids kind of look that you could do. 261 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:51.079 It's almost like we've got Buzz and Woody, but like, 262 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.880 obviously if Buzz weren't an astronaut and were just a 263 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:03.680 superhero type. It's got that same energy though, and the room, 264 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.480 you know, the whole way that this is set up 265 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.759 is a little different because they usually there's a studio 266 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.559 audience element and that's not happening here. The toys would 267 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:13.799 supposedly appear on the table and we were supposed to 268 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:19.319 discuss how awesome they were. And Carl is like, do 269 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.519 you guys really think that this is the approach for 270 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:25.079 selling these toys? And they're just like, yes, we do. 271 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:28.000 We have done a lot of research about it, and 272 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.160 they find out that this is a commercial that's going 273 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.799 to air in gas stations. Basically like the equivalent of that, 274 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:39.119 which the fact that we live in a world now 275 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:42.160 where like you can't pump gas without getting ads. Of 276 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.519 course it depends. There are plenty of older gas stations 277 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.519 that don't have this feature, but if you go to 278 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.720 like bigger chains, a lot of them are equipped with 279 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:54.200 screens and they feed you all kinds of ads while 280 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:57.000 you're pumping your gas. And if you've got air pods in, 281 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.119 it's fine, like you can just ignore it. But it's 282 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:03.319 just it's so ubiquitous that you get ads pumped into 283 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:09.799 your fucking eyeballs every chance they can get. And Lyddy 284 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.119 is a fan of donuts, so they talk about that 285 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:15.799 a little bit and the fact that Donah is one 286 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:21.319 of only two favorites she uh favorites her and of 287 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:25.640 course LUCIMR because everybody has favorited LUCIMR, which honestly kind 288 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.319 of makes sense because she's just so unpredictable. I feel 289 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.319 like I would have to know what she's going to 290 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:37.920 do next, you know. Sorry, robson the chat fascist governments 291 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.440 making poor financial decisions, color me shocked, sarahim says, I 292 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.519 get the impression Loita is the average Bloom Party member. 293 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.640 They do seem to be just that committed to being 294 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:49.960 fascist assholes. There's a reason their government is on the 295 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.079 brink of financial collapse and had to rush out this crawl. 296 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:59.039 The thing is that the average member doesn't necessarily represent 297 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.079 what the ultimate goal of a party is. Do you 298 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.119 see what I'm saying? Like, the average person can believe 299 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.400 in what she does, but that's in service to something else. 300 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.519 So I don't think that the ultimate goal they're feeding 301 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.880 their average member is like the thing at all. But 302 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:22.839 I'm also just deeply suspicious of everybody at this point 303 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:27.759 in life. So whatever Rob says, but also coolly inspired 304 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:32.119 Carl two and then, as for why are alex is 305 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.519 spending all this money on something that seems unlikely to 306 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.920 ever make enough profit to be worth it. My thought. 307 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:40.079 My thought was they are just using it as a 308 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:43.680 means to funnel money to warrant indirectly. Any money they 309 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:46.599 make on the toys is just a nice bonus. Which 310 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.759 this is also where my mind was, was like, this 311 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.799 is a money laundering thing. It's all just so odd 312 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:57.119 the way that it's set up. It felt very much 313 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:00.839 like what is this really? You know, it's a front 314 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:05.640 for something. Rob says that the ads on at gas 315 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:07.920 stations are not a thing in Canada, but I saw 316 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:10.640 the ads when we went to as to Arizona pre 317 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:14.799 COVID and that was very culture shocking. Yeah, it's not awesome, 318 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.240 So let's see. Uh. Research indicates children prefer to have 319 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:26.119 a trusted adult speak down to their level and present 320 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.720 them with the best possible options. And like Carl has 321 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.599 to be like, Okay, you know what, I think he's 322 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:35.599 completely wrong, But why am I gonna argue with this guy? 323 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:37.519 Let them do what the fuck they want? And I 324 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.319 understand this impulse very much. And sometimes you've just got 325 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.480 to pick your fucking battles. So then we get another 326 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.400 note from Crawler Coolie. I have failed. I have blown 327 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:49.880 the ship. My skill indeed protected me, but the force 328 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:53.599 field has prevented it from fully breaking. The admins only 329 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.279 appeared to be with me. They were hollows. I was 330 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.759 fooled today and I am ashamed. Brothers. The gravity has failed, 331 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.920 the temperature is dropping, and it's getting difficult to breathe. 332 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:06.400 I do not think they can remove me while the 333 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:10.519 force field remains. But I see my planet, my beloved Corux. 334 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:13.759 It shines and it warms me in this cold. I 335 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:17.799 pray one day someone will avenge her for I cannot. 336 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:23.240 And uh yeah, just really heartbreaking. So then we go 337 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:27.079 to the ad copy and it's very stilted and weird. 338 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:33.559 There is a mango doll that bites the donut doll 339 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.079 on the nose, which is fantastic, and they ask Carl 340 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:42.039 what his favorite feature is, and there's a paragraph that 341 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:44.160 he's supposed to read, but instead he's like, oh, I 342 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:47.039 was able to train the donut doll to do some tricks, 343 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:53.200 and the dude is clearly like about to be cut. Dude, 344 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:58.240 follow the fucking script, but instead Lyddy is like, no, 345 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.920 he's bringing up something that might be you know, appeal 346 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:05.720 to folks, So let's do that. And he says, she 347 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:07.720 says the weirdest shit. But if I tell her to sit, 348 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:09.880 she sits. If I tell her to follow, she follows. 349 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.480 She's much more compliant than the real donut. It's what 350 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:19.119 we all want, isn't it compliance? What's your parent company 351 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:24.000 called again, Veritin Linkage? Isn't that their thing? Stop rolling? 352 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:28.039 Gravo said. He turned on me. I don't know where 353 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:32.240 you heard that, but that's absolutely not true. Varitin is 354 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.039 our parent company, yes, but we operate independently from them. 355 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:39.759 I shrugged. It's not what I heard. Someone said, your 356 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:43.240 parent company advocates for slavery. People are saying there are 357 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.359 really trackers hidden in the toys. Carl, what are you doing? 358 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.960 Donna asked, just stick with the script, Okay, don't be 359 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:54.519 an imbecile. There's nothing you can say that I'll make 360 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.839 it onto air, so why bother nothing I can say? 361 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:01.119 And here the dungeons is another story, though, isn't it. 362 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.000 What are you trying to say? You're trying to shake 363 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.160 us down for a loop box? Is this a joke? 364 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.039 I had no idea if Veralux Toys had any sort 365 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.160 of sinister motives. With all this, Mordecai seemed to think 366 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.799 it was a money laundering operation or something. Honestly, I 367 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:22.559 didn't care. This was dangerous, stupidly dangerous. I was gambling. 368 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.400 All of this was about to be forgotten. I just 369 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:31.160 needed Loita to get up off that damn couch. The 370 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:35.240 lights flickered, the two soothers disappeared, the floor shook, the 371 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:39.839 studio went black, then filled with red lights. A terrible 372 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:45.119 creaking noise filled the chamber, and of course Carl has 373 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.000 to be like, oh, what's happening? You know, I bolted 374 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.039 for the green room door. It irised open as I approached. 375 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:57.519 Smoke poured out through the hole, and he sees that 376 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:00.880 there's a huge crack in the window and that it 377 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:05.440 hasn't ruptured yet, but it's like perhaps about too. The 378 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:10.039 blue force field was the only thing keeping the water out, 379 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:16.720 and he's thinking to himself, oh my god, that you know, 380 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:20.119 he's thinking, thank God, and then no, thank Coolly for 381 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:26.119 the information. The crumpled form of the dungeon admin had 382 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.960 been blown across the room and smashed against the wall. 383 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:33.599 Donut rushed to her. The small couwatine was missing her 384 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.359 left arm and both of her bottom legs. Her rebreather 385 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.839 miraculously still worked. Her entire fish body was blackened. She 386 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:45.000 looked as if she'd been flash fried in a pot 387 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:49.279 of oil. But she wasn't dead. I felt my heart quicken. 388 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.440 She couldn't just teleport away. They had to first lower 389 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.279 the shield. But if they lowered the shield, the window 390 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.240 would break and Donut and I would die instantly. Barrent 391 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.359 had to make a choice. I realized they could probably 392 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.799 heal her in seconds, but only if she teleported away, 393 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.680 save a low level admin or save their two highest 394 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:16.839 grossing crawlers. I looked down at the injured woman and smiled. 395 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:23.400 You you did this, Loita panted, What do you mean 396 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:28.519 it was an accident. The robot blew up. You're the 397 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:31.000 one who made them put that self destructed sequence in it. 398 00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:35.720 I was in the other room. I have no idea 399 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.039 how it blew You saw how buggy that damn thing was. 400 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.039 You won't win. The bloom will prevail. You will be forgotten. 401 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.200