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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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Samantha's Book seven recap through chapter three. In these chapters,

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we are doing one of the types of games I'm

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worse at and thus I have the most anxiety. It's

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a racing game. Kids. Buckle up. Welcome to spoil Me.

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode, and he

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is here in the chat. Delighted to have you, sir. Okay,

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So you guys, this is such an interesting intro because

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we've got some really weird little insights into Samantha, because

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it turns out that this bitch is like not with

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it at all. And I knew she wasn't with it,

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but I kind of thought it was more like, what's

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the word I want? I thought that it was more

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like a stream of consciousness thing, that it was just

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her sharing everything she thinks as she's thinking or feeling it,

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you know. And it turns out that what it really

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appears to be is like a bad memory issue, which

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we have seen that there she had these memory glitches.

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So I feel like this shouldn't be as surprising as

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it is. But I guess I just didn't expect it

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to be quite so pronounced and so consistent. Like it's

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everybody that she encounters, there's a moment of her like

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not quite remembering their relevance in her life in a way.

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That's like the first thing is how somebody is talking

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to that weird bald guy with the gross scar on

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his head. Samantha didn't like him much, or maybe she did,

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maybe she was in love with him. No, No, that

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wasn't right. Who was his mother? Something something garbage truck? Guys,

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that's a reference to something, right, that is so familiar?

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What is something something? Garbage truck? What is that? That's

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something I know it is? What is it? So the

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way that this and honestly this is like a brilliant move,

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the way that we have it set up that she

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has to like relay everything that's been Oh my god,

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excuse me, I was just like an attack. It's that

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she has to explain all of this to Tippid, who

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lost his memory after that what essentially amounts to like

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an emp went off and destroyed the repairs to his brain,

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which I just think is such a smart way of

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handling a recap so that in story it makes sense.

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And I don't need that. If in story it doesn't

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make sense, it's perfectly fine, you know. We had I

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think one of them was just Doughnut telling us, and

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it's just treated as like, hey, here's a reminder of

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what happened last book, and there's no in the story

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explanation for it, and I didn't care. But it is

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very tidy that it's set up this way here, and

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I just have to say, it's very I don't know, something,

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very satisfying about how it fits together. So it turns

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off or it turns off, Oh my god. It turns

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out that she's like trying to decorate Carl's room because

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he's never there, which, like we had a lot in

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the original what three four books him and Donut having

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some downtime, and we really do not see that anymore.

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Like there's no downtime in general except for very rarely

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here and there, and that downtime is usually a group situation.

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It's not often just him and Donut, and it's not

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often in like their safe room or in their bedroom

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because they have this thing that they just walk across

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and now they're just refreshed and they don't need to sleep.

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So it has weirdly kind of eaten into their time

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together exclusive and I do miss it a little bit,

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Like they can have chats via the messager and it's like,

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you know, that's still private, but it's not quite the same.

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And even when they were in the room, it was

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just like they knew that they were still on camera

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and stuff, so they didn't really feel like they had

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the freedom to say whatever it was they wanted. And yeah,

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I am sort of missing that. There's a mention also

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once we get into like the actual floor that he is,

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there was no time whatsoever for them to rest between floors,

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and that he's got all of these like achievements and

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boxes he hasn't opened and all of this stuff. And

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I was like, yeah, I really missed that moment of

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let's get ready and prepare ourselves and get to know

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our new abilities and new and whatever. So I don't

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know if this is something that like the AI is

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purposely sort of rushing things along, or if there's to

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a degree like the AI doesn't want them utilizing that stuff.

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I don't know, but uh, Saraphim says, Yeah, being in

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her head made it clear there's something genuinely wrong with

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her and affecting her ability to remember it or think straight,

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not just her being Samantha exactly. Michael says, if Carl

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didn't want Samantha to get his house in the divorce,

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he shouldn't have dated her. This one is you, Carl.

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Sarah Fim says, even when they had downtime, Donut made

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Carl stay with her in the room. He never really

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used his room other than a place to hide out

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while reading the cookbook. Yeah. True, there were some times

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where Carl would like realize though, that Donut needed some time,

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and he would go sit with her and light the

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candle and have her sit on her cat bed or

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curl up with him because he knew that, Like, we

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need a moment of normalcy because she just went through something,

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and that's the sort of thing I miss a little bit.

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I feel like after the fucking slam Slam Slam incident,

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we could definitely go for some of that right now.

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Michael says, I don't think he could use his room

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to read the cookbook either. He couldn't risk exposing it,

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so he's had to read it only in the bathroom.

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That's right. I was about to say, did you like

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I thought that him reading in his bedroom didn't sound right?

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But yeah, I think you're right, Michael sarah Fum says,

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I meant his personal bathroom attached to the room. Oh

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do they have that? Now? Okay, that makes sense. I

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haven't kept up, to be honest with like all the

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upgrades to their living space and stuff. I just don't

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really like keep track of that mentally, So okay, So

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I'm not going to get into everything that she says,

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suffice to say it's really exactly what you would expect,

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and editorialized heavily the way that you would expect. And

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she says something about how Lena had gone totally has

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gone totally cuckoo, which cuckoo is one of those that

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I just really like used to hear a lot, and uh,

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it's not really used that much anymore. And I sort

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of wonder why it was a thing to begin with,

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Like why did we decide cuckoo was crazy? Why that bird?

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It does have a certain sound to it, But is

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that all? Is that the only reason? And louis being severe?

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Rile made Katcha pregnant. Just by standing near her did

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get me. That one really got me, guys. So Chandra,

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this is the interlude. Okay, so full disclosure. I didn't

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realize that I wasn't covering this last Thursday. So I

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read this twice in prep for Thursday, and then I

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was like, oh wait, so I read it again today.

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So I've read this section three times now, and every

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like the first time that I read Chandra's interlude, I

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was like, I want her dead, I want her family dead,

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I want her house burned to the ground. And then

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reading it the second time and knowing what's coming, I

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was like, you know what, I kind of take it

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all back because the way it works out is so

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much more weirdly satisfying in its own way that I think, Yeah,

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I think I prefer so Chandra is Carl's new wife.

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As it turns out, Carl evidently gets no say in

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this whatsoever. I assume because he's a crawler and so

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he just like doesn't have the kind of rights that

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an actual like citizen would have. I think he gets

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turned into a citizen once he is out of the dungeon,

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but I don't think that he has control over anything

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at this point in any way outside of the game

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where he had been war lord and you know whatever.

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So there is a clause with the Naga people where

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you can file to marry your husband's assassin, which I

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just think we need to stop and look at that

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as an existing law at all. How very revealing about

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the Naga that is like that you would want to

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marry his assassin because the idea is obviously that you

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were on his murder and that you're in love with

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his assassin or already there's a deal existing, you know whatever.

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It's just extremely overt in a way that's quite funny.

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And there was like a judge who sort of made

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a show of well, we have to pass it through

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some other channel, and so asked the audience for their input,

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and they all voted that it would be very funny

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to punish Carl by having him marry her. So they agreed,

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and she has been doing everything that she can to

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take over control of his assets and also has hired

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a team to assassinate his lawyer, who are already on

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their way, which you know, Carl had just been in

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a meeting with this guy, and I Equasar is a

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complete disaster. But also I kind of like the guy,

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so yeah, I don't want that. So it is a

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really the way that this POV is written is super

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fun as well, because there's just this like constant I'm

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so put upon. Other people had things given to them,

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but I've worked for everything I have and I'm finally

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going to be getting my fair share that I deserve.

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And I have put up with so many humiliations and

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things and I am like so clever and smart the

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way that I figured this out, and nobody's going to

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be able to stop me, and if they do, it's

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fine because I'll just find a way to take them down.

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This is happening because I deserve it. And there's no

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real examples at all of like things that she's worked

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for or ways that she's been put upon or humiliated.

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by or she's she's intending it to be accepted, as

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she says it in a way that feels very much

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like there are people Look, okay, I'm just going to

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really quickly. I am not somebody who likes to assume

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everyone is a liar, the way that like some folks

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will just go into conversations and kind of assume the worst. Okay, However,

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once you get to know people a little bit, there

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will be consistent tells about how they see the world,

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and then this begins to influence my perception of the

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story they tell me. So if I see that a

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person is constantly complaining about somebody that we work with

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in a way that I don't really think is justified.

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I think they are making a big deal out of nothing.

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I think they are perceiving themselves as being somehow like

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targeted with bullying or something in a way that I'm like,

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that is not happening. And then they tell me a

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story about like somebody who is really mean to them.

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I am not going to believe that story the same way.

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It may be that story is exactly what she's telling me,

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of the grain of salt, it's I'm going to really

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kind of side eye and be like, okay, sure, sweetie whatever.

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my in person relationships, this happens with friends online. It

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even happens with listeners that I will see sharing things

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like in discord and stuff I'll start to get a

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sense of them, and then they will say something and

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I'll be kind of like, yeah, that sounds about what

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I would expect you to think of a certain situation.

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And you just get a sense of people and it's

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not always even a bad thing. Sometimes it's like, yeah,

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they have the takeaway I would expect because they think

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like I think, and that's exactly how I thought as well.

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I saw this and assume blah blah blah. So there

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are just times where I love someone and they are

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my friend and I care about them, but they tell

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me some shit that happened to them, and I am

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just like, God, I love you, but I know that

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is not how it happened. I do not believe you,

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and it sucks. I hate that feeling, but I have it.

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There are times where I have it and I don't

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say it because what a shitty thing to do. Why

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would I. I don't have any proof, I don't know anything. Whatever.

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I'll just let them talk. They just need to get

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it out. It's fine, but still I think it and

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the whole thing when you're in Chandra's head as you

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hear this like litany of complaints and people that she hated,

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which is pretty much everybody. All of the things that

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she says about how hard she's worked and how she's

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been treated so poorly all begin to take on the Oh, no,

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you just didn't get everything you wanted all the time forever,

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and you think that's really not fair. You are a

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completely unreasonable, self absorbed narcissist. And the fact that folks

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don't just literally keel over and die when you need

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them to, you think, is like an affront to your

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plans for your own life. And there are totally people

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like this, and they will genuinely see the fact that

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somebody else is just like living as an attack on

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them somehow, And it's really it's remarkable when you watch

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it happening. It's like, how do you manage to turn

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this thing that is so not about you completely around

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so that it is completely about you? Like how did

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you do it? So? Anyway, Chandra is awful and this

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whole thing about like Chandra was sick of how her

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kind were treated, how they weren't trusted or worse, looked

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down upon as inferior, and I love how we weren't

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they weren't trusted. But then it's like a laundry list

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of shady fucking shit that she did. And at one point,

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Donut actually says to her, no wonder everybody talks shit

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about the Naga because y'all fucking suck actually, And it's

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interesting because like Chandra doesn't even really hear it. It's

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just like she actually responds to that with like, what

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does that have to do with anything? And I'm just like, well,

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it kind of has a lot to do with the

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way that you were thinking earlier. But you will never

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put that together because nothing is ever your fault or

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your problem. So h Yata was dead. Her plan had

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been to fleet into the frontier to start over. Chondre

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couldn't even imagine such a thing. Why would one flee

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away from society? It was practically the same thing as devolving.

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She tried to imagine herself working the dirt of an

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uninhabited planet preposterous. The thought of wide open skies was

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suffocating to her. Chandra couldn't wait to get away from

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it all. Her idiot late husband had been constantly involved

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in the quartz machinations and where did that let him

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murdered by a crawler while playing a game. So we

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get this as like these things that I believe it's purposeful.

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How we are almost saying opposite things, where one, I

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don't want to go to like the wild frontier and

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be away from people, but also I don't want to

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do like court machinations because that doesn't get you anywhere.

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So it's just there's just a sense of like, what

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is it that you really want and what she really

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wants us to be queen. She wants to be on top.

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Court isn't appealing because that's grubby, it's being like lowly

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and fucking around for like scraps. She wants to be

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on top. So sorry, Michael says, I felt a little

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bad for Vignata. Honestly, it sounds like she might have

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been a good one, but circumstances forced her to try

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to kill Carl and Dona. I actually agree with you, Michael.

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I feel like maybe Vignata was like just wanting out

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and would have sidestepped all of this if she had

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been able to. But the way it's set up, she

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wasn't able to. And you know, plus Chantra's judgment of

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her makes me think better of Vignatte exactly. This is

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part and parcel of what I was talking about before

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where you get to know somebody and the reaction to

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things you learn to like see through what that is

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to probably what's really going on there. And Chandra not

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liking her or a lot of people to me just

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speaks well of those people. She'd asserted her widow's rights

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and claimed Carl as her husband in Naga Court, and

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she had already gotten the burners fired up on multiple contracts.

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Karl's own lawyer had done a surprisingly competent job building

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the legal entities required for the Princess possefangroup to collect money,

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though she still had a case penning to withdraw half

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of their profits early. Where this Quazar had failed was

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in not asserting Carl's rights over all of donuts earnings.

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Donut species was not yet recognized as a legally competent

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racial entity by the syndicate, and therefore all her assets

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should have been placed under a conservatorship. Carl was clearly

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the best choice as custodian, and not just custodian, but

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a true beneficiary. She'd filed on her new husband's behalf

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to be recognized as such, and it was granted automatically.

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Conservatorships are one of those things that it's like, they

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are good and necessary so much of the time, but

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they are so frequently abused that it just has this connotation,

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you know, and I know that they exist for reasons

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that are valid and helpful, but you just hear about

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the ones that are put in place to control women

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so often. She was currently in the process of threatening

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the second fan group, the Donut Holes, with obliteration should

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they not immediately assign thirty eight percent of their profits

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directly to Donuts Conservatorship. Their newest product, the Princess Palette

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I makeup Kit, was already the highest earning Crawler merch

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in the history of the Crawl, which I feel like

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I saw that somebody actually was like selling this. I

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feel like it popped up on my Instagram and I

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didn't look at it too hard because there was something

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about it that felt spoilery. I don't remember, but I

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think somebody is making this. There's all kinds of like

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partnered stuff with these books now, and let's see percent

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already going to the syndicate. They'll two percent leftover should

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have been more than enough for them to keep operating.

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And either way, she really wanted to take a look

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at their books that group had much more money than

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they should have. There was something going on there and

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she needed to get to the bottom of it. And

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I was wondering if, like some of it has been

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transferred from what got stolen from the orcs, or like,

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I'm sure that there's other shit happening as well, but

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you know, just sort of trying to think back to

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where we could have gotten other money from. So all

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of the legal issues that Donut Holes could wait till

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tomorrow for right now, Chandra needed to make certain the

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rodent didn't take a deal. And it's very funny because

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she's just like thinking of Donut as she compares her

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to mold, like an accidentally sentient life form that really

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should be So Donah initially is sort of like, oh, hey,

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I hope that you're not mad at me and Karl

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over something. And she's like, I wasn't princess until you

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killed her, so which Donah is like, oh, well, then

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I guess that we are partially responsible for your ascension. Congratulations,

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and then she brings up your golden brown pattern is

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really a nice shade. Vignanna was quite stunning with her

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cobra hood and white and gold scales, but Carl says,

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she wasn't really white and gold but gray, and she'd

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been hiding it was that a scandal when people saw it?

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I bet it was a scandal. And she's right, which

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gets Chandra really annoyed. And this is just more evidence

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towards the fact that, like Chandra, just anything that doesn't

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make her feel superior to somebody is going to make

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her annoyed with them and hate them. It's really pitiful,

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Like what a way to live. You just got to

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be mad at everybody all the time. And the fact

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that she's like, we had a whole shift in government,

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a king was deposed, people died, but yet all anybody

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wanted to talk about was the fact that she was

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like hiding what she really looked like. And I love

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that Donut understands enough about like human quotes nature to

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like an instantly predict that's how people are going to focus.

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But Chondra being so baffled by it is kind of

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evidence that the advice Donuts offering on being a princess

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is actually low key valid. She knows she is better

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at this. Chandra, you are not good at this at all.

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So and there's also Donut talking about how she knows

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that white Persian cats are considered like more desirable a lot.

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But you know, tell me, I'm not a fucking champion,

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and I do forget that Doughnut's not white all the time.

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Every time I see her in an illustration, I'm like,

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oh right, I picture her as white in my head constantly,

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and I'm having to like adjust that all the time.

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So she finally says, I'm not taking a deal, and

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Chandra is very pleased that this is not going to

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be a huge issue. And again, Chandra hadn't been paying

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attention this season. She'd only taken notice a few weeks

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back when someone had suggested that her husband, Rishi and

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his first wife were in mortal danger. But if Chandra

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were being honest with herself, and if she didn't have

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a literal interest in Donut lasting at least a little longer,

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she would have recommended that her client take the deals. So,

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you know, obviously we have a whole string of events

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in some like kind of backdoor donations and stuff that

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result in her getting to be Donuts lawyer to begin with.

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And there's just the fact that she hasn't been paying

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attention much this season. That I think is really interesting

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because it shows to me that she really does not

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know who she's dealing with at all. She has her

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ideas and she's heard some things, but it does not

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seem like she is coming into this with any real

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prep on the personality. And that's quite evident. Shortly so,

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this is when she decides to start off with this.

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We need to have a conversation about something else. You're

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not gonna like what I'm going to say, but you

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need to know there's nothing you can do about it,

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and the sooner you come to terms with that, the

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sooner we'll be able to move on. Do you understand?

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And I'm just like, if there is one wrong way

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to come at Donut, that is it. It's just so,

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this is somebody who is very confident that Jonaht has

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zero power and so she can just talk to her

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anyway she wants. Does not get it. So she puts

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the paperwork out for Donut to read about what all

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is going on, and this was interesting. Donut mentions the

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paperwork that Karl had been given for his father's property

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and that it's ruled invalid. Let's see, I believe he's

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too scared to look but I read them. Did you

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know that every Knaga we've met so far has been

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a raging psycho? For about five seconds, I thought maybe

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you'd be a nice one. But it appears I was incorrect,

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and that's really sad, and I thought, let's see if

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you must know. The paperwork was a remarkably similar set

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of documents. Earth jargon is just as stupid and boring.

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Carl's grandparents had set money aside for Carl, and the

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father was attempting to get access to it without Carl knowing.

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The number of people who have tried to fuck Carl

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over or have successfully done so, is insane, Like what,

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I shouldn't be surprised, and yet the only thing that

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surprises me is that Bee hadn't found out about this

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and tried to get hold of it herself. There was

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a marriage certificate in there as well, and I had

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a little bit of like my heart stopped for a second,

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though that was for Carl's father and his new wife,

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and I breathed a sigh of relief because I was like,

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did be do something? Oh my god. In the end,

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when you put them all together, they do something interesting.

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They paint a very distinct picture of who Carl's father

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was as a person, much the same way, these papers

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paint a picture of who you are. What a sad

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little snake you are. I pity you. And this really

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really hits Chandra. And she had told herself that she

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wasn't going to react to anything that Donut said, but

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she completely loses it at this. And listen to me,

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you vile rodent. I don't care what you think. This

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is all going to happen no matter what you do

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or say. I am showing you these papers because as

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your attorney, I am required to show them to you.

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I only want you to live through to the next floor,

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because if you survive, it makes me money. After I

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don't care, And Donut says, why do you think they

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rendered all the earth stuff invalid? And she says, what

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do you mean because the earth doesn't exist anymore? What

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are you even asking that? And Donut says, you're not

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just trying to rob me and your husband, who, by

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the way, snores like a chainsaw. I hope that weird

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snakehead of yours can wear earplugs and that you like

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biscuit sandwiches, which that that cracked me up a little bit.

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You're attempting to steal from the Princess Posse, and the

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Princess Posse is more than just myself and Carl, didn't

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you see what just happened? You think being out there

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outside the dungeon is protecting you? Yes? Earth is destroyed. Yes,

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Carl's dad's legal documents mean nothing. What do you think

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is gonna happen to your little marriage certificate and your

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money transfers when you are destroyed? And then Donut does

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something very clever because she had asked earlier, are there

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people watching this feed of our meeting? And it turns

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out there are so doughnuts, like so if I were

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to offer people fifty million credits to stop you, that

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wouldn't be legal, and doubles down on this. It's fantastic.

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A strange, unexpected terror washed over her. Now. I think Donut,

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she's technically this is not a zero zone, because evidently

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for certain creatures, like pulling them out of the zone

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completely will affect them differently. I'm wondering if Carl, like

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if Donut were pulled out of here, does she not

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have the ability to talk anymore? Or something like if

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it were a complete zero zone, that does worry me

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a little bit. It never occurred to me, but perhaps,

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but I think that maybe she's got some aura stuff

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that she can still access and use. And I think

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that's something that she's putting to work here and that

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Chandra doesn't know Donut can do this stuff because she

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hasn't been watching the show. So she's just kind of

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asking herself, like why am I reacting this way? And

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00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,839
I think that it's actually game function stuff. I don't

474
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:52,160
think it's like Donat obviously has her intense charisma and

475
00:31:52,720 --> 00:32:00,920
ability to play people, but this is so intensely it's

476
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,359
the emotion is coming before the thought in a way

477
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:10,319
that feels really unnatural, you know. Chandra suddenly had a

478
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:15,640
blinking message from her torn associates, Chandra, we have questions

479
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,920
about the job. What are your coordinates? And she's like

480
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,759
that's just a coincidence. Why would they even have access

481
00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:27,400
to this feed? And I'm just like, Chandra, you dummy,

482
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:32,839
Come now, how could everything change so fast? Chandra gathered

483
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,960
up the folders. Of course they wanted to ask in person.

484
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,960
All their meetings were in person. To gather the final folder,

485
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,680
she'd have to reach through the creature, standing on the table.

486
00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:44,880
She'd never seen eyes like this, She'd never seen such intensity,

487
00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:46,799
not even in her uncle when he told her he

488
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:50,160
planned on taking the sultan it for himself. She couldn't

489
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,680
bring herself to reach through the illusion of the creature

490
00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:56,640
to grab the last folder. Donut leaned in and let

491
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,079
out a low growl. Since you're new to this, let

492
00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:02,319
me give you your first lifeless don't put yourself in situations

493
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:06,240
where you're so afraid that you piss yourself. And Chandra

494
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:08,839
looks down and is like, I didn't. But the fact

495
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,960
that she even looked is humiliating, and it is really

496
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,880
a boss moment. Donut really fucking like Chandra is coming

497
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,519
in here. This will make up for all the humiliations

498
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:24,359
I've had to endure. And then she just gets fucking

499
00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:31,400
poned so brutally. Jesus Christ, that is so, so, so embarrassing.

500
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:36,599
Michael says, I think Carr would have gotten a kick

501
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,039
out of it if he had read the documents and

502
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:41,279
realized his father spent decades unsuccessfully trying to steal money

503
00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:44,279
from him. He didn't really need it, and he's low maintenance.

504
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:46,079
He would have just been sad and pissed. He couldn't

505
00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:48,559
have given the money to Asher and his mom. I

506
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:52,480
think you are exactly right, Michael. I'm pretty sure the

507
00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:55,680
AI made biological changes to Donut that changed her intelligence

508
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,519
and gave her the ability to speak. So it isn't

509
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,240
dependent on a Dungeon enhancement like say Louis ability to

510
00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:03,599
keep breathing, and it isn't magical, so not having access

511
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,960
to the system won't take away her ability to speak.

512
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,960
But no way to know for sure. Michael says, I

513
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,480
think they're in a legit zero zone and this was

514
00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:16,119
all Donut. No, it's explicitly said at the beginning of

515
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:19,199
this interlude that it's not a zero zone, that it's

516
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,079
a different thing they have, because she says that she

517
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,960
feels weird, and Chandra is like, the reason that you

518
00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:29,480
feel weird is because we're in like a kind of

519
00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:35,559
weird in between. You know, I'm trying to find the

520
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:38,159
spot here. Yeah, you feel funny because you're in a

521
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,280
type a containment zone. Most fear enhancements are turned off.

522
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,800
It's like a zero zone, but designed to accommodate certain

523
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,599
types of crawlers who might have issues in regular zero zones.

524
00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,280
So I don't know. I think there's something else going

525
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,280
on if it's all donut amazing, but there was just

526
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,400
something about the way that it's talked about that feels different.

527
00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:07,760
But perhaps it's just doughnut fucking you know, has leveled

528
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,239
up in her regular self as well, which would make sense.

529
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:21,280
So Chapter one, Welcome Crawler to the tenth floor. The

530
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:26,039
heat starts in five minutes, saferom access is blocked until

531
00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:30,800
the heat is over. No rest, no moment to like

532
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,199
calm down and take a second. And not only is

533
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:37,280
there no rest, but they have to make a decision

534
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:43,039
here about what kind of of mount they want within

535
00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:46,760
five minutes, and that will result in the gremlin that

536
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,039
they don't choose literally exploding in a very gory way,

537
00:35:51,519 --> 00:35:53,840
which they don't realize that's going to be the result.

538
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,519
But even if they did, they'd still have to choose.

539
00:35:56,559 --> 00:36:00,480
It wouldn't matter. It's pretty brutal as far as like

540
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:05,440
ways of starting things off. And I hated this. I

541
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:09,440
hated it so much. There's something about this that really

542
00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:14,280
rings true though. And okay, let me, let me, let

543
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,280
me not get into this whole side thing. But I

544
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,840
will bounce back over here in a minute. So Carl

545
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,480
and Donat talk for a moment about you know, him

546
00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:27,519
being married and her meeting his wife. Donah has to

547
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:31,239
pick a new class. And there is something that's got

548
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,639
like another tab that has a bunch of god level

549
00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:36,000
stuff that Mordecai is like, this is straight up out

550
00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:38,599
of my wheelhouse, Like I've never seen any of this before.

551
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,280
So we don't fully know what it is that Donut selected,

552
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,280
but we do know that she gets a hat, so

553
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:54,360
that's obviously extremely exciting. I assume the AI just gives

554
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,719
her hats for all of her stuff now, because that's

555
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:03,760
just a thing. So they also get the message from

556
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,440
Justice Light, I am not sorry. Piece to you all,

557
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:13,440
brothers and sisters. And apparently Karl doesn't know what he did.

558
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:21,039
They had talked briefly like but it's not specifics. Quasar

559
00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:23,320
hadn't known the specifics. All he knew was that nothing

560
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,559
was broken and that everything was in chaos on the

561
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:29,239
twelfth and eighteenth floors. Furthermore, the outworlders on those two

562
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,360
floors were protected from really dying by the system AI.

563
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,840
They could get hurt on the eighteenth floor, they could

564
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,440
still die, but they would immediately be brought back to

565
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,360
their rooms in the club, a club that was physically

566
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,679
inside of the now awake dungeon Boss. The system wasn't

567
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,679
letting anyone eject some of the things that had leaked

568
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,599
from the nothing were using this to their advantage. It

569
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:54,800
was like we'd done what we'd done to Growler Gary,

570
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,920
but worse. And evidently they actually turned the cameras off

571
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:02,760
because it was too much after a little while, which

572
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,400
is the grimest thing I think I've heard so far

573
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:10,159
in these books, because nothing has seemed to be too

574
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:15,440
much for this, these cameras. The thing obviously is that

575
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,880
these are real people, not crawlers, you know. But like, nevertheless,

576
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,599
it seemed like that stuff was still not off limits.

577
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:31,119
And my god, the idea of just being like locked

578
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:37,440
in this constant revolving can't die, just torture is low

579
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,360
key like one of the most horrific things I can

580
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:45,679
think of. Those on the twelfth were faring better considering

581
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,760
they were in the bodies of gods with god powers,

582
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,639
though apparently the non sponsored gods were all suddenly acting

583
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,920
quite strange. That's all Quasar had known. And that's the

584
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,119
thing that has got me really interesting, because the gods

585
00:39:02,119 --> 00:39:06,079
that aren't sponsored, they really do believe that they themselves

586
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:10,559
are gods, they have the abilities of gods, and yet

587
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:15,000
they are suddenly discovering that there's like maybe a world

588
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,320
that they can access now that they couldn't before. And

589
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,639
I would imagine that would make you act strangely because

590
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:24,599
you thought you knew everything because you're a god. And

591
00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:28,480
then there's this whole other you know, this other place

592
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,880
that you've never been, that you've never seen, with people

593
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,079
that you've never had access to, Like that would be

594
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:39,840
really yeah, I don't know. Let's see. This one comes

595
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,519
with a healing aura and a hat. I'm picking it,

596
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:45,280
and then she says, I got a nasty message from

597
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:51,719
kepri It says he's forming a death cult in my name, which,

598
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:59,079
uh yeah, Mordecai says that means nothing good, and I'm like,

599
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,679
what is that even? How would that work? It's the

600
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,960
bug God? And what does a death cult with a

601
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,599
bug god even look like? Anyway, she picks Assassin of segment.

602
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,480
It comes with accessories for every pet and the party

603
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:20,119
in all sorts of great spells and other stuff, and

604
00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:25,800
it's just so inspecific, it's not you know. So they

605
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,039
wind up long story short, because these gremlins are beating

606
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:31,000
the shit out of each other for reasons that become

607
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:37,480
evident pretty quickly. They wind up selecting a mechanical mount

608
00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:46,519
because the heady gremlin points out that having a biological mount,

609
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,320
you may risk that mount trying to eat your pets,

610
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,840
which is that's a fucking rap. As soon as she

611
00:40:54,920 --> 00:41:00,159
says that, Carl's like, yeah, obviously she won, which for

612
00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:03,800
good reason. This is not This is not an irrational choice.

613
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:07,360
I'm curious what y'all in the chat would have picked.

614
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:12,840
I'm going to say for me, I would absolutely never,

615
00:41:13,599 --> 00:41:19,039
in a million years pick biological, not even a question.

616
00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:23,000
It's just I don't need another creature for me to

617
00:41:23,039 --> 00:41:26,400
feel bad about being mistreated or to get attached to

618
00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:29,960
that's going to die or suffer, or that I have

619
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:33,159
to push to keep running when it's injured or you know,

620
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:39,599
exhausted or hr like. I absolutely would never be able

621
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:42,639
to handle that. I often think about what it must

622
00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:44,760
have been like back in the day when we, you know,

623
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,639
all our transportation was horses, and I would have been

624
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:54,559
a complete disaster all the time. And there's just no no,

625
00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:59,599
I couldn't do it. It's simply unthinkable. The way that

626
00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:05,440
she goes down. I mean, yeah, uh. Seraphim says mechanical.

627
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,440
Miss t says mechanical. Jeff says, I love animals, but

628
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,199
I have zero training, whereas I am a professional driver.

629
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,960
I don't think the training probably matters. Like, you know,

630
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,280
you're dealing with animals that don't exist in the world,

631
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,000
but if you love animals, I feel like that's the

632
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:25,880
exact reason not to pick biological, because you're gonna have

633
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,440
to do it's all the worst parts of like horse racing.

634
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:36,000
You know. It's just you're getting an animal that is biological,

635
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,159
but attempting to treat it like a machine in a

636
00:42:39,199 --> 00:42:42,400
lot of ways. And I just know, absolutely fucking not.

637
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:50,079
So Heati is their mechanic, and she is pushing them

638
00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,239
to like get fucking with it and pick something quick

639
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,079
and do whatever you can to not come in last.

640
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:03,199
They wind up getting a hot shot chicken food truck,

641
00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:09,760
which is not street legal, does not have rear view mirrors.

642
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:14,119
Barely you could see out the windshield. Carl is very

643
00:43:14,199 --> 00:43:16,199
quick to say that the gun on top is like

644
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,280
a prop gun, and I'm sort of wondering if that's true,

645
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,000
because there's a part of me that feels like the

646
00:43:21,039 --> 00:43:23,119
AI might have just made that a functioning gun for

647
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:27,800
the fun. But you know, who knows. We also have

648
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,320
fucking Cascadia who's just like she's supposed to introduce the

649
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,119
floor and she just berates everybody for not being dead

650
00:43:36,599 --> 00:43:38,400
and is like, and I'm not dead either, and this

651
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:43,840
is bullshit and is just in bad fucking shape. Zev

652
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:49,559
takes over. Uh. There are five five hundred callers who

653
00:43:49,559 --> 00:43:53,199
survived and decided they wanted to continue on the system.

654
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,239
AI has asked me to tell you to ignore what

655
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,800
happened on any other floors to and this is a quote,

656
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,360
focus on the floor like everything is normal, because everything

657
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,079
is normal. Ignore all those armies trying to literally vaporize

658
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:07,000
the solar system. FU if you think otherwise, Uh, okay, okay,

659
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,920
fuck you if you think overwise. I don't know what

660
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:14,880
if that like, because I don't believe that the AI

661
00:44:15,039 --> 00:44:20,079
is going to make typos overwise is like is that

662
00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:24,719
a pun? I don't know. Anyway. You've been split into

663
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,920
teams no bigger than four. If you're Solow, you've been

664
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,440
teamed up with one or two other crawlers. It looks

665
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,000
like the final number of teams is exactly eighteen hundred,

666
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,159
which is a lot more than we originally planned, as

667
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:37,119
you can imagine, and since every track is different, we've

668
00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:39,800
had to allow the AI to design most of these tracks,

669
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:44,559
So keep that in mind, which is going to be

670
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,039
probably pretty fucking awful. Your vehicle or creature will always

671
00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:51,360
be one hundred percent repaired or healed between races as

672
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,639
long as your garage attendant remains alive. At the end

673
00:44:54,639 --> 00:44:56,320
of each heat, you will be able to choose an

674
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,559
upgrade for your vehicle or creature. If you come in

675
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:00,480
first place in a heat, you can choose three irregular

676
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:03,079
upgrades are one golden upgrade. At the end of the

677
00:45:03,119 --> 00:45:06,280
fourth heat, everyone gets one golden upgrade of their choice,

678
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,000
and if you come in last, well second to last,

679
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,559
then the audience gets to vote for your upgrade. You'll

680
00:45:11,599 --> 00:45:13,639
always get a hint of what the next heat will be,

681
00:45:14,159 --> 00:45:16,400
and you'll need to pay attention because you might need

682
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,639
an upgrade that will help you survive the next environment.

683
00:45:21,079 --> 00:45:25,440
And that being inserted in like Carl just saying oh shit,

684
00:45:25,519 --> 00:45:29,559
as he says this, I was like in agreement, even

685
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:33,280
though I think he's reacting to the wheel because it

686
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,440
looks like they might wind up with a floor polisher,

687
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,800
which is so funny. But when she said to like

688
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,920
you survive the environment, I immediately thought, oh shit, because

689
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,400
I'm just thinking this is gonna be racetracks. Of course

690
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,159
it's not just gonna be racetracks. Well fucking just that's

691
00:45:50,199 --> 00:45:51,800
not fun to wat, you know what I mean. Like

692
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:55,000
I was just being very dumb and honestly low key

693
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:59,599
a little bit hopeful because everything else just sounds so

694
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:07,239
like anxiety inducing. So they get the truck, they got

695
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,880
a start. You can't steal vehicles, but you can attack them.

696
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,360
You can't use teleport to get into their vehicles, and

697
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,400
you can't use it on your vehicle. Every heat must

698
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,760
have a different driver, So only one of you touch

699
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,000
the steering wheel or hold the reins, especially if it's

700
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:25,280
just two of you, which is a weird rule that

701
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,960
I think is going to really be a pain in

702
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,039
our ass. Try not to kill more than one team,

703
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:31,880
because if more than two teams don't make it to

704
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,079
the finish line and then it just breaks off. And

705
00:46:34,119 --> 00:46:37,239
I'm really curious if the AI made her stop talking,

706
00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:40,599
if that was supposed to like not be public knowledge

707
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,719
or what. I don't know. How Donut's going to be

708
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,039
able to drive. I have to assume that something will

709
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:48,760
be adjusted in the vehicle so that she can like

710
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,800
reach the because otherwise I don't know how this would

711
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:56,559
even work. But for now, Carl obviously is the one

712
00:46:56,599 --> 00:47:02,880
that starts driving. And the panel on the dash gave

713
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,199
a few beeps. It was a navigation system with the

714
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,039
words Navitron one thousand over it. A map appeared on

715
00:47:09,079 --> 00:47:11,960
the flat screen but minimized itself, and then words popped up,

716
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,119
speaking in my head like it was an item description,

717
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:20,440
and we get a voice in the narration that was

718
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,960
it's described as like sort of familiar to him, but

719
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,480
he can't put his finger on it. And I was

720
00:47:27,519 --> 00:47:30,039
trying to like figure it out myself, and I can't

721
00:47:30,079 --> 00:47:33,360
think who. The first person I thought of was Firebrandy,

722
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,679
because she was like the one running that train, and

723
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,079
so I thought like, well, maybe, you know, this being

724
00:47:41,079 --> 00:47:44,400
a sort of race thing with vehicles, perhaps she's involved here,

725
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,599
but I don't know how that would even work. So

726
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,079
this is I said this at the beginning. You guys,

727
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:58,599
race games are, for whatever reason, the thing that I

728
00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:02,400
am the fucking worst at. I am so bad at it.

729
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,679
It's I can just never quite get a hang of

730
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:11,440
how sensitive the steering wheel is, you know, if you're

731
00:48:11,519 --> 00:48:15,199
using one of those. I can never quite get like

732
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:20,239
the hang of how severe you need to be in

733
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,800
turns and stuff. And I literally I was Marsha and

734
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,760
I went to a a arcade not too long ago

735
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,920
where I had like those sort of reclining seats with

736
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,559
the real race car feel to it, and you race

737
00:48:34,559 --> 00:48:38,079
against each other, and I wound up in like the

738
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,960
city in a part that he was like, I'm surprised

739
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,159
they even rendered that at all, Like where are you?

740
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,000
Because I was nowhere near the track kids. I had

741
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,280
to like find my way back, and I didn't just

742
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,119
come in last. It was like the equivalent of a

743
00:48:54,199 --> 00:48:57,199
five K when they've packed everything up and you know

744
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:01,119
they're deconstructing the finish line. It was that sort of vibe.

745
00:49:01,159 --> 00:49:05,159
It was real, real bad. So anytime that I see

746
00:49:05,159 --> 00:49:08,400
people playing racing games and stuff, I'm always just sort

747
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,760
of like, how how do you guys manage to do it?

748
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,800
I don't know if it's just practice, but I've tried

749
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,920
to play several times in a row every time to

750
00:49:18,119 --> 00:49:20,119
see if it I'll get the hang of it eventually,

751
00:49:20,119 --> 00:49:24,079
and it never happens. It's not even like, oh, I'm

752
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:27,360
just I always tend to come in last. It's like

753
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,360
I'm not even on the fucking track. I don't know

754
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:36,280
where I am. It's really pitiful. So there comes this

755
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,320
thing that's in the middle of the road that's got

756
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,039
like a unicorn head, like a Lisa Frank style unicorn

757
00:49:42,119 --> 00:49:45,440
head sticking out of it. The head was about the

758
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,960
size of a regular horse's head, and it stuck out

759
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,920
the top center of the tumbleweed as if it were

760
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,440
wearing the brambles like a coat. I couldn't tell what

761
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,719
the hell I was looking at. The unicorn's head appeared

762
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,519
way too high for it to be standing on the ground.

763
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,400
I couldn't tell what it was in the dark. The

764
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,559
unicorn started shouting something at us, but my window was

765
00:50:06,679 --> 00:50:13,119
rolled up and I couldn't hear. And like, the unicorn

766
00:50:13,199 --> 00:50:17,440
shouting at them is really what, Like can you not

767
00:50:17,559 --> 00:50:21,000
press the brake? I don't know. The road was just

768
00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:24,599
straight black highway with no markings, occasional glitter like there

769
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:31,320
was water. And as he's accelerating and going into a cave,

770
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,440
there is something that's like right there that he has

771
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,039
to swerve to avoid, and Mango, who is out, is

772
00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:40,079
getting car sick and winds up throwing up all over

773
00:50:40,119 --> 00:50:44,199
the place. For the record, Karl is actually kind of

774
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,800
trying to savor the fact that he is now in

775
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,519
a position where nobody else's lives depend on him. That

776
00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:52,119
if he and Doughnut die, that's it, and he's like

777
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,880
free of this massive burden that he was carrying on

778
00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,800
the previous floor, which makes a lot of sense. Also,

779
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,000
the slam slam slam of her spell, the atrocity is

780
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:08,880
really haunting him, and we have Donut constantly wiping her

781
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,280
paw like without really even thinking about it. It's just

782
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,159
now sort of this nervous tick that she's doing. And

783
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,360
he has to focus on the fact that like Kacya

784
00:51:17,599 --> 00:51:19,679
got out, that a bunch of people made deals and

785
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,280
got out that you know, there's some hope, is there.

786
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,760
But he really does have to sort of make himself

787
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:34,280
like zero win on that and let's see something moomed

788
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,119
up ahead. And as they're coming up on it, they

789
00:51:38,119 --> 00:51:44,559
get a message from Prepotente and he says, don't I

790
00:51:44,639 --> 00:51:46,239
know you don't want to come in last place, but

791
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,760
don't kill or stop opponents from crossing the finish line.

792
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,480
In fact, I think that you guys should be trying

793
00:51:52,519 --> 00:51:55,559
your best to help everybody across the finish line and

794
00:51:55,679 --> 00:52:01,719
stop and help when somebody is having trouble. I strongly

795
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,400
believe that the pool of opponents for each heat is

796
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,239
set in stone. That means, if only one opponent falls

797
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,599
during the current heat, that'll be fine. However, if two

798
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,760
or more fall during the heat, there won't be enough

799
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,199
for the next race. As a result, they will have

800
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,400
to mix and match with other groups that are missing

801
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:25,119
for a full heat. And Carl is like describes that

802
00:52:25,199 --> 00:52:27,920
he felt cold and for this race, all eight of

803
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,440
our opponents were NPCs. And I'll be honest, guys, Carl

804
00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:35,679
having this reaction, while I understand since he has already

805
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:39,840
seen that everybody's NPCs, I didn't really get that. I

806
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,960
thought we already were racing other crawlers. So this revelation,

807
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,239
while awful, wasn't as profound for me because I already

808
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:52,440
thought we were in this situation. And you know, it's

809
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,119
not that I'm not horrified by the implications now that

810
00:52:55,199 --> 00:52:58,840
I know, but it just sort of was like, oh,

811
00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:01,480
so we're not doing that, but if this bad thing happens,

812
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,679
then we are doing that. And since I already thought it,

813
00:53:04,679 --> 00:53:07,800
it's I'm sort of mentally like already prepped for it,

814
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,440
you know what I'm saying. And of course when he's like,

815
00:53:11,599 --> 00:53:15,320
just don't kill your fucking opponents and try and help people,

816
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,000
Jang is like, uh, guys, lea already, and I'm like,

817
00:53:20,159 --> 00:53:22,519
of course she did. Of course she did. Of course

818
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:27,920
she did. So this is when he as he's going

819
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,920
into the cave, Donut yells for him to be careful,

820
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,199
and there is a mini van on its side, and

821
00:53:33,199 --> 00:53:37,199
there are bugbears crawling from the wreckage as another one

822
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,639
of the vehicles, a bus sized ladybug, squealed in pain

823
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,920
as it was dragged off the road by the biggest

824
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,079
manatee I'd ever seen. And that's what I'm talking about, guys,

825
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:50,360
in not wanting a biological mount. I don't want to

826
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,760
see my mount screaming in pain as it gets eaten.

827
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,599
That's not gonna happen. In mechanical shit, it's not gonna happen.

828
00:53:55,719 --> 00:54:00,519
I don't need it. I'm good. So yeah, yeah, that's

829
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:04,199
the end of this chapter. Is that poor lady buggeting

830
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,000
and I just did not care for it. We are

831
00:54:07,079 --> 00:54:11,719
really off to the races, as they say, ll I

832
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,599
gotta rap, guys, I gotta rap. But I'm actually five

833
00:54:15,639 --> 00:54:19,199
minutes under time, and I think that's pretty exciting. So

834
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:23,519
a couple things that I had wanted to talk about,

835
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,599
like earlier when I started and I said, okay, let

836
00:54:26,639 --> 00:54:29,199
me stop and come back to that. Something that I

837
00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:34,360
think is interesting is, first of all, of course, Matt

838
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,760
Denneman is like pulling a lot of inspiration from existing

839
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,039
games and game types when he's doing certain things. And

840
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,960
since I am not an avid gamer, there are going

841
00:54:45,039 --> 00:54:47,519
to be things that I don't really have like my

842
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,280
experience with I'm not going to pick up on the references.

843
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:56,840
But there are times where I'm like able to see

844
00:54:57,079 --> 00:55:00,239
what we're doing because it's quite obvious. And we have like,

845
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,079
you know, a regular dungeon floor that felt sort of

846
00:55:03,119 --> 00:55:07,119
like almost like Doom. We've got a sky room sort

847
00:55:07,119 --> 00:55:11,199
of you know. Then we had what felt like World

848
00:55:11,199 --> 00:55:14,480
of Warcraft, and now we're doing like almost a Mario

849
00:55:14,559 --> 00:55:17,119
Kart thing, but I know it's obviously much more intense

850
00:55:17,159 --> 00:55:22,360
than that. I can't tell what the train line floor

851
00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:25,840
was because like that feels like it's got to be something,

852
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,840
but it's not ringing any bells for me. So if

853
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:35,280
there's a game that's like that, I'm interested. But I

854
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:39,360
think it's really compelling that what Matt Deneman has chosen

855
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:45,639
for this level, that there are factors involved that make

856
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,039
it better for everybody if you help the other people

857
00:55:50,159 --> 00:55:54,719
on the track. I think that this is definitely symbolic.

858
00:55:55,679 --> 00:56:01,119
And like thinking that you're screwing other people over you're

859
00:56:01,159 --> 00:56:10,840
actually screwing yourself is absolutely true in life. It's a

860
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,719
shame because it doesn't manifest for some people. They can

861
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,239
screw everybody over and they still seem to like succeed

862
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:23,519
But I like, you know, it's hard to say what's

863
00:56:23,559 --> 00:56:26,320
going on with people. It can look like they're succeeding

864
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,039
simply because they have money, and that certainly counts for

865
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:33,679
a lot. But like you know what I'm saying, I

866
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:40,440
just the concept of you can't be last, but being

867
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,760
second to last is pretty bad. But also you need

868
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,280
to make sure everybody is successful otherwise you're going to

869
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,440
be competing against people who you don't want to be

870
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:57,239
up against. Yeah, something in this, you know, I'm going

871
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,920
to be really curious to me the people that we're

872
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,280
up against if we do, because I feel like you're

873
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,679
if you're gonna stop and help folks, then you're going

874
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,199
to start to get to know your opponents. And is

875
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,840
there a way that we can like all just plan

876
00:57:13,079 --> 00:57:15,760
and cross the finish line together, or is the AI

877
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,800
going to be able to figure out down to like

878
00:57:19,119 --> 00:57:24,079
the fucking micrometer whose foot passed over the finish line

879
00:57:24,119 --> 00:57:29,840
first and not play nice Like I'm just trying to

880
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,760
think of ways that we can make this work where

881
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,840
everybody wins, and I don't think it's set up to

882
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:39,280
make that possible, but you know, maybe there's there seems

883
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:44,000
to be some really weird loopholes in different levels, and

884
00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:45,960
so maybe there's something here that we can work out.

885
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:52,320
I don't know. Jeff says, it's like the definition of solidarity,

886
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,800
helping people you will never meet because they may help you,

887
00:57:55,039 --> 00:58:01,119
or people you love. Yeah, And I just it's one

888
00:58:01,159 --> 00:58:03,559
of the things that seems to be quite different than

889
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,639
actual racing games. I am curious, guys if there are

890
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:11,239
racing games out there that encourage you to like help

891
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,159
your opponents, because that would be kind of fun. Actually,

892
00:58:14,719 --> 00:58:17,639
if that were more of a thing. Also, we have

893
00:58:19,199 --> 00:58:21,320
you guys, I know that this is not going to

894
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,679
happen for very obvious reasons, So don't take this as

895
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,880
me actually saying do this Mett Denneman. But I will

896
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:33,880
say we have had all kinds of different games represented,

897
00:58:34,639 --> 00:58:38,039
and it would be fucking amazing if we had a

898
00:58:38,199 --> 00:58:42,559
very animal crossing sort of like level, you know, something

899
00:58:42,599 --> 00:58:47,119
that's just like farming and gathering and fishing and dealing

900
00:58:47,159 --> 00:58:49,679
with the weird animal and PCs that live in the

901
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:57,119
village and that's it, Like, that's literally it, and you

902
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,800
just have to save up, however many dollars to pay

903
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,559
off the loan on your house, and that's how you

904
00:59:03,599 --> 00:59:06,440
win that level. I think that would be fucking great

905
00:59:06,599 --> 00:59:10,719
and it would be inexplicable, And that's part of what

906
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,519
I like about it, is like Cascadia to a point

907
00:59:14,639 --> 00:59:17,559
hasn't been able to design as much as she should

908
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,440
for the number of crawlers that remain, so they're letting

909
00:59:20,519 --> 00:59:24,840
the AI do it. So maybe the AI just does

910
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:32,159
something like that for fun. Why not? Michael says, it's

911
00:59:32,199 --> 00:59:33,960
going to be after they get out of the dungeon

912
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,239
and they're rebuilding Earth. It's not the same it's not

913
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,800
the same. I want it to be the weird. Like

914
00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:46,400
they're they're building a home, but the home is like

915
00:59:46,559 --> 00:59:51,239
very cartoony. You know, they meet their neighbor and their

916
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:56,159
neighbor is a giant cow person. Like I want the

917
00:59:56,199 --> 01:00:03,760
intensity of realistic cartoon, you know. I just it's just

918
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:09,400
my brothers, That's all I'm saying. And also really really

919
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,719
curious what we've got in our boxes and whether anything

920
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,679
that's in there is going to help with something like this,

921
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,000
because it seems like we're not really doing combat as

922
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:23,400
much in this at least yet. Like I have to

923
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:25,920
assume there's an objective during this one that just says

924
01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:29,599
just get to the end. So I think that probably

925
01:00:29,639 --> 01:00:32,199
there are going to be other races where there's objectives,

926
01:00:32,239 --> 01:00:34,199
is like you have to collect certain things, or you

927
01:00:34,239 --> 01:00:36,280
need to pass through certain spots and like touch a

928
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:43,280
button or something. And I just feel like the combat

929
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,199
thing seems like it's going to be sort of incidental,

930
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,760
And so I'm wondering if the stuff they get in

931
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,960
their boxes, which has all seemed to be very combat focused,

932
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,360
is really going to be helpful. There are certain things

933
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,519
that are combat like spells that you can get creative

934
01:01:02,519 --> 01:01:05,760
with and use in a different way like Carl Shield

935
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:10,960
potentially could be super helpful, but I don't. I don't know,

936
01:01:11,239 --> 01:01:14,639
looking forward to finding that out. So I am going

937
01:01:14,639 --> 01:01:16,480
to wrap up. Thank you guys again so much for

938
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:18,519
hanging out with me. I am really excited to be

939
01:01:18,559 --> 01:01:21,559
covering this final or most recent book. It's not the

940
01:01:21,559 --> 01:01:24,079
final book, but to be caught up with everybody looking

941
01:01:24,079 --> 01:01:28,480
forward to it and until next time to the Loo, motherfuckers.

942
01:01:58,239 --> 01:02:02,519
That was an Unspoiled Network podcast