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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Caral chapters one through five. In these chapters,

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everybody gets smushed like bugs inside of buildings, which sounded

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pretty terrible until I get to hear what the other

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options were, and then I'm like, I think I'd prefer

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being squished like a bug inside of a building. I

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don't feel like I would be good at this game

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at all, at all, at all. 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 Michael

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is here in the chat and he left a long

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comment here that I really wanted to share with you guys,

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so he says, I'm hoping you'll enjoy this series. Lit

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RPG is kind of a hard sell for a lot

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of people, and I get why it's mostly wish fulfillment

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stuff because the real world sucks. Most of it is

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just dumb fun and to paraphrase Felicia Day, it's like

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cotton candy, easy to consume and then it's gone. But

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in my opinion, Dudgeon Crawler Karl is a step above

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since it avoids most of the cringiest tropes of the genre.

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It has a lot of puerile and juvenile humor from

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the AI. But I'm a teenager trapped in a forty

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five year old body, so I love it. Travis Baldry,

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Jeff Hayes, and Andrea Parsnow are in my pantheon of

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amazing narrators. Okay, so first of all, I have read

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some RPG before, and I definitely see what you mean

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with it just being like kind of difficult sometimes, and

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it really varies. I have had times where I start

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reading and I am just like, nope, no, I'm sorry,

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I just cannot do this. Is this is like almost pathetic,

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how desperately cool I am supposed to think this person is?

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And then there are times where I am like so

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sucked into. There's a series called Pixel Dust I think

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is the name of it, and it's like there was

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supposed to be another book, but there are three that

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are written, and I tore through those pretty quick a

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few years ago. It's been a while since I read them.

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I'm not sure if those exactly count. I think they do.

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But it's basically a sort of like party that develops

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through a server and they don't know each other in person,

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but eventually they begin to uncover something that leads to

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them needing to know each other in person. And it's

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a whole thing. And I really really enjoyed that one,

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and I was so like, sort of bummed when I

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looked into it. And it's been years and there hasn't

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been another one, So there have been versions of this

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that work really well for me. So and yeah, the

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whole energy of this book from the start, first of all,

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I just want to address, like this narrator is gives

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a particular energy right off the top that very much

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is giving Putty from Seinfeld. I don't know if that

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is going to mean anything to some of you. I'm like,

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you know, Seinfeld's a pretty famous show, so most people

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are probably gonna get what I'm talking about. But Putty,

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who is played by Patrick Warburton, it's different than say

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he's giving Patrick Warburton because Patrick Warburton has this particular voice,

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but the inflections that he gives when he is like

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in Emperor's New Groove or in oh my God, what

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is the other thing that I was just thinking, there's

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another property, oh oh, when he's Brock Samson and Venture Brothers.

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That voice is a really different inflection than Putty, and

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this guy was feeling like that for me so hard.

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Instantly it was like the first four syllables and I

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was like, what is Puddy doing here? What? Which actually

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kind of works because just like the way he's described

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as being a pretty big dude, feels like that falls

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into the right imagery in my head. Oh oh, Michael

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says the narrator very much just trying to emulate Patrick Warburton.

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If I recall, it's kind of how he pictured the

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main character. Okay, I love it. Then that's great because

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I started listening and I had to stop and I

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put in an earbud in my husband's ear and was like,

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who is this? And he's just just like Putty? And

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I was like Putty. Yeah. So this the energy of

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these first five chapters for me is very much like

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Hunger Games meets ready Player one. And for the record,

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ready Player one gets a lot of shit, and that's

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all fair. I covered Ready Player one for Unspoiled book

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Club and I'll tell you what, kids, people really expected

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me to hate it, and I just couldn't hate it.

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I had such a good time, like all of the

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criticism that gets levied at it is one thousand percent fair.

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a rare thing, you guys, know, Like there are some

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stuff I can't I get hung up and I just

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can't get past. And it was just Ready Player one

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never seemed to feel like it thought it was real deep.

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it was and just did that very enthusiastically. And I

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respect when something is just like, no, this is going

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to be like, as Michael is saying, a nostalgia bomb,

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this is gonna be that, it's gonna be wish fulfillment.

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It is going to be like every nerd who wishes

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that he could like capitalize on all the useless trivia

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they know. Like the whole vibe of it felt so

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weirdly self aware even as it was ridiculous, that I

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just couldn't hate it. So when I say that this

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is Ready to Player one meets Hunger Games, in my opinion,

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both of those are kind of good things. But like

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I said, I don't disagree with any of the criticisms

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brought against Ready Player one. It's just that, for whatever reason,

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I was able to smooth sail right on past him,

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and it just didn't drag me down at all. Happened sometimes,

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you know. So anyway, the opening of this the transformation

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occurred at approximately two twenty three am Pacific standard time.

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As far as I could tell, anyone who was indoors

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when it happened died instantly. If you had any sort

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of roof over you, you were dead. That included people in cars, airplanes, subways,

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even tents and cardboard boxes. Hell, probably umbrellas too, though

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I'm not so sure about that one. I'm not gonna lie.

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You guys who were inside, probably warm and asleep and

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dreaming about some random bullshit. I'm jealous. You're the lucky ones.

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You were just gone splattered into dust during the transformation.

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And you know, normally, when somebody is like you were

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the lucky ones, I'm like, oh, jerk off in the corner.

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But honestly, this, once you get to reading, I was

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sort of just like, yeah, I don't know, I think

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he's right. Actually, I think that sounds fair. So we

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get this fun little background where he talks about how

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he wound up outside in boxers pink Croc sandals that

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barely fit a leather jacket and holding a cat named

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Princess Donut to the Queen Anne Chunk and apparently like

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worth a ton of money. This cat won a cat

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show like every fucking weekend. I am very, very interested

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in what the Queen Anne Chunk is going to be

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turning into because it seems pretty clear to me, like

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it's a gamble. Who knows, you know what I'm saying.

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But I already right away as soon as he was like,

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this is you know my situation. As I wound up here,

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I was like, oh, okay, so you were inside chasing

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this or outside chasing this cat. If there is one

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thing I know, it is chasing animals that have run

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out of the house at odd hours of the day

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in pajamas or other inappropriate clothing. I had to chase

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Pippin across the street the other day, and it was unfortunately,

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like the middle of the afternoon, and I was in

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my pajamas and that's never a good look. But you know,

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especially these days, I just felt like such a slob.

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and so he went to chase their dog, and so

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I blame them, really but uh yeah, I like the

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whole way that this starts off. I enjoy this bit.

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He had a girlfriend named Beatrice who goes on a

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trip and doesn't tell him that her ex boyfriend's going

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to be there. I figured it out pretty quick when

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I saw the picture of her sitting on his lap

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on Instagram. I don't like drama, and I don't deal

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well with it. Whether she was actually cheating on me

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or not, it didn't matter so much. She lied, so

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I called her up and I told her we were done.

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I really admire this. This is the sort of thing

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where I'm like, I there are times where I get

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really frustrated and I'm like, just talk to each other.

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my opinion, there is nothing that you could tell me

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that would make this be okay. Like you can't just

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sit on the lap of an ex and not tell

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me that they're there, no heads up text. Hey, I

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didn't know he was gonna be here, but I arrived

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and it turns out they invited him and they didn't

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tell me or warning that, Like, Hey, so he just

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dumped some girl and I'm gonna be in his lap

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on a photo because he wants to make her jealous,

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but there's nothing going on. I swear not that that

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would be believable, but at least it would be an

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attempt to explain a thing away, you know. But it

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just there's nothing about this that for me feels inappropriate.

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His reaction, I think that's exactly how you want to

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handle somebody who starts to like toy with you like this.

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I'm just too old for it, you know, Like he's

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cutting it off at twenty seven. I feel like he's

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doing really well because a lot of us put up

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with too much shit for too long, until we finally

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start to get to a point in our lives where

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we're like, life's too short and I don't need to

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waste time on somebody who's decided to pull some bullshit.

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So yeah, Donut has all of these like ribbons and

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a whole bedroom dedicated to her trophies and her catbox

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and all of this stuff. I never considered myself a

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big fan of cats, but if we're being truthful here,

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I like Donut. That cat did not give two shits

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about anybody or anything, and I could respect that. If

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Donat wanted to sit on my lap while I was

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blasting away on PlayStation, and she sat on my damn lab.

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If I tried to pick her up, she hissed and

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scratched and jumped right back up there, and then she

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looked at me with a squished face that said, what

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are you going to do about it? I'd been tempted

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more than once to throttle the thing, but I'm not

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an asshole. Plus I could respect the little monster's tenacity.

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Some of my buddies would give me crap about it,

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and he spending all this time with a fuzzy cat

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that was probably worth more than I would make in

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a year, But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed having that

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ball of fuzz sitting in my lap. So what happens

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is Beatrice had no smoking rule, and he decides just

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to give her the finger after they break up that

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he is going to smoke like crazy inside the house,

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and he decides to crack the window a little bit,

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and Donut, for some reason, decides at that moment, after

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never having done this before, it seems, to jump outside

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onto a tree, and I think that this points to

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she knew something was up. Like all I could think

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was this cat was aware that some shit was about

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to go down. She fucking knew how don't know doesn't

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really matter at this point, but it just felt. I

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felt very strongly about the significance of her doing it now,

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of all times, when she's never done it before. And

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of course he has a moment of just being like, fine,

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fuck her, I'm gonna leave her out there now. I

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think he says exactly what temperature it was, but uh yeah,

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he says it was well below zero, which was unusually cold,

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so probably she would have frozen. It always depends on

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the animal, but you know, if she's a cat that's

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used to being inside and cared for, I don't see

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her doing super well outside on her own. There's also

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the possibility of her being able to find somewhere to

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hunk her down and stay warmer. So she may have

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been okay, but you don't want to take that risk,

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especially like as he puts it, I'm not an asshole.

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I definitely have a kitten that runs outside all the time.

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She has finally learned how to get down off the

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roof by herself, because she's learned how to crawl down

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trees and not just up them. But she I have

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gotten to a point where I do have to like

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leave her outside sometimes because trying to chase her she

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will go where there's no following, and it makes her

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stay outside longer if I chase her. So if I

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just go out inside and pretend like I don't even care,

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eventually she's at the back door crying to be let in.

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So that's my tact that I take, But especially when

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it's cold out, she wants to come in pretty quick.

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apparently always makes complaints about noise and stuff. So the

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cat screaming out there, I really think the cat did

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this to save him. I would like to give her

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that credit that she knows what's going on. She jumps

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outside because she can tell. And then she stands out

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there screaming basically, get the fuck out of the house.

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Get out of the house, get outside. You can't be

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inside the house anymore. Come outside. And he's just like, God,

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why is this cat being so cranky? And she's just like,

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I'm saving your life, you piece of shit. So Missus

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Parsons has her head stuck out the window and she's

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talking to him when the building gets smashed flat and

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it cuts her head off. There. I have been coming

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across a few too many things in media that I'm

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covering lately where somebody's head gets cut off by a window,

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and I'll tell you what, It's got me really fucking

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paranoid these days. I really have been sort of like,

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maybe I just don't ever want to stick my head

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through a window for the rest of my life. It

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had the building was there and then gone, but it

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hadn't disappeared. It was like the building was a massive

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tin can that had been crushed by a giant cosmic boot.

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Wind rushed at me and it was instantly dark. The

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street lamp just to my left was gone. The buildings

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all around me were gone. The cars on the street

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were gone too. Everything was gone except the trees and

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the bicycles and the bike wrecks and Marjorie Williams moped

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that was still booted by parking enforcement. I could barely

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see anything except in the distance thanks to the lack

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of buildings. A fire burned, there was utter complete silence,

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and he says where the cars were parked on the road,

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car shaped indentations of dirt appeared as if they'd been

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pulled down toward the center of the Earth being ripped

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directly through the asphalts, and then he sees Missus Parson's

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head by his feet. This is one of those things

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where it's such an unbelievably surreal image that I try

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and think sometimes when I'm reading things, how would I

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have reacted in this particular situation. I really have nothing

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on this one. I genuinely have no earthly idea what

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the fuck I would do. I mean, he says that

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he feels like he wants to throw up, and immediately

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I was like, yeah, okay, I could do that. I

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could throw up. We could do that. That feels like

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a reasonable next step. And then all of a sudden,

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a person speaks. And what's fun about the audiobook is

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that they do voice effects whenever it's the system speaking

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to make them sound more electronic, and so it really

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helps to like differentiate things, and I like it. I

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think it works really well. Surviving humans take note per

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Syndicate Rules sub Section five forty three of the Precious

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Elemental Reserves Code. Having failed to file a proper appeal

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for mineral and elemental rights within fifty solars of first contact,

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your planet has been successfully seized and is currently being

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mind of all requested elemental deposits by the assigned planetary Regent.

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Every interior of your world has been crushed, and all

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raw materials organic and nanimate are in the process of

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being mined for the requested elements. Per the Mind Material

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Reclamation Act, along with sub Section thirty five of the

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Indigenous Planetary Species Protection Act, any surviving humans will be

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given the opportunity to reclaim their lost matter. The Borent Corporation,

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having been assigned regency over this solar system, is allowed

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to choose the manner of this reclamation, and they have

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chosen Option three, also known as the eighteen level World Dungeon.

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The Borent Corporation retains all rights to broadcast, exploit, and

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otherwise control all aspects of the World Dungeon, and will

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remain in control as long as they adhere to Syndicate

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regulations regarding World resource reclamation. Upon successful completion of Level

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eighteen of the World Dungeon, regency of this planet will

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revert to the successor a Syndicate Neutral Observer AI myself

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has been created and dispatched this planet to supervise the

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creation of the World Dungeon and ensure all the rules

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and regulations are properly followed. So first of all, the

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fact that like it's oh, you didn't you didn't file

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your claim for your own resources, and you get to

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get your resources back if you want, but you have

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to fight in this game show to do it. This

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is some of the whitest shit I ever heard of

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my life. This is like real colonized, and I'm kind

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of loving it because this is just what the shit

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that you know what, I'm not gonna do this. I'm

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gonna wait and see what happens later because it might

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be more relevant. But you guys, the way that we

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handle resources on native lands to this day, we act

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like all of our bullshit and underhanded dealings is in

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the past and that now we've learned our lesson and

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it is the biggest scam in the world, the way

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that we have found ways to like continue to exploit

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these people and pat ourselves on the back like we

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are like making reparations anyway. I just the combination of

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just you should have filed for your matter. And also

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there is an Indigenous Planetary Species Protection Act, but this

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is what the act does, which is like doesn't feel

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real protect to me, my God. The first level of

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this dungeon will open approximately eighteen seconds after the end

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of this announcement. First level will be open for one

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human hour only. Once entrances are closed, you may no

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longer enter. If you enter, you may not leave until

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you have completed all eighteen levels or if you meet

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or if you meet certain other requirements. They don't say

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until you're dead. They should, but they don't. They just

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say certain other requirements, which is hilarious. If you choose

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not to enter the World Dungeon, you will have to

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sustain yourself upon the surface of your planet, and this

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may be the last communication you receive during your lifetime.

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All previously processed matter and elements are forfeit. However, you

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are free to mine and utilize any remaining and naturally

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a Korean resources for your own benefit. I don't even

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know exactly what falls under that category what counts as

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previously processed matter and elements? Like what it sounds like

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to me is basically anything that's been manufactured is ours,

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and you guys can go mine brand new or but

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if it's been built already, that shit's ours, which is

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I mean, really, what other option is there? At this

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point that to go into the dungeon, and they describe

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the number of entrances to each level, and that they

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will always decrease by half starting with one hundred and

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fifty thousand, and each lower level will have a longer

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period of reclamation. It is recommended you immediately find and

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utilize the tutorial guild. Multiple tutorial tutorial guilds will be

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seated throughout the dungeon on levels one through three. So

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at this point, Carl is realizing that he is going

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to freeze to death. It's below zero outside. He has

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no pants on, he doesn't even have proper shoes on.

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And he hears a trumpet blast and he looks and

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sees this thrift store that has been smashed to the ground,

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so it's no longer there, but the space where it

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had been a spotlight pops up. I saw an additional

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spotlight appear about a mile away. I saw a few

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more littered throughout the city. Even from this distance, I

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could feel the warmth radiating from the brightly lit hole

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in the ground. So he heads to shelter, which I'm

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not mad at. Dungeon floor one time to level collapse

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five days start of chapter two. So he heads down

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there and he doesn't hear another soul. Doughnut, of course,

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is with him, and the stairs go on quite a ways.

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They're carved and like have this pattern. It says could

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have been fish or maybe demons. The almost Asian looking

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carvings gave me an uneasy feeling. These stairs weren't here

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just a few minutes ago. The whole thing is made

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of buildings and cars and people of the world. Who

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did this? How did they do this? So he finally

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gets to the bottom, there's a door and a box

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pops up into his site. So what we're getting is,

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you know, the player view in a video game, and

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he has to learn how to control these boxes and

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options and stuff with his mind and learn how to

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navigate them only by thinking about them. So this winds

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up taking him some practice a little bit later. But

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this is a rendition of Kua Tin, the dominant species

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of the boring system and principal owner of the Borran Corporation.

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Make sure you recognize these guys. There'll be a test later.

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Was that last part supposed to be a joke? I

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don't think so. I don't think so. I just don't.

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I don't know, so he opens the door and U

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fucking Donut bites his hand and he gets greeted a timer.

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Four days, twenty three hours, and forty eight minutes. Crawler

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number four thousand, one hundred and nineteen Princess Donut Level

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one Race Cat class not yet assigned. You have been

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designated Crawler number four one hundred twenty two. You have

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been assigned the crawler Carl. You are assigned the race

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of Human. You are currently level one. You may choose

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a new race and class as soon as you descend

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the third floor. Your stat points have been assigned based

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on your current physical and mental profile. See the stat

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menu for more details. Congratulations, you've earned your first achievement.

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Crazy Cat Lady. You've entered the World Dungeon accompanied by

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a cat. Ah isn't that sweet? Reward? You've received Bronze

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pet Box New Achievement Trailblazing, Crazy Cat Lady, you are

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the first Crawler to have entered the World Dungeon accompanied

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by a cat. You must really love that thing to bed.

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You're probably both going to die a horrible death at

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any moment, or maybe not. Look at the prize you

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just received. Reward. You've received a legendary pet box, and

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it goes on like this early adopter, empty pockets, Why

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aren't you wearing pants? Unarmed, combat lone or all? Because

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he came down alone, is one of the first to enter,

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has no pants on, doesn't have any weapons, all of

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these things. And I really enjoy the way that this

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is done in kind of like real quick succession, because

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when you start a new video game, this is how

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it feels. They give you all kinds of achievements for

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doing all of the most basic shit, to the point

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that it feels annoying almost that you're getting these achievements,

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even though you get little prizes for them. You want

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to play the game. Can you fucking leave me alone

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a little bit? You know, like I do. Start to

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get very irritable about it. Later on, every time you

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have an achievement, it's like a fucking parade should be

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thrown because they start to get so far apart. But

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at first you're just like, you know, ah, shut up.

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So he sees a sign that says dad tutorial guild

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with a lot like an arrow pointing out an alley.

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I stepped into the new achievement, fall into an obvious trap,

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so lights flip on, and there is this like Bonker's

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contraption that a Goblin is steering Goblin murder Dozer contraption,

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a Goblin built steam powered machine designed to mow down

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and slaughter unsuspecting dungeon crawlers. I hope you're up to

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date with your tennis shots. And he gets a description

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of the types of goblins, the engineer, their levels, YadA, YadA, YadA,

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And I love that the engineers the in cells of

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the Goblin world. They have a hard time finding a date,

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which makes them extra angry. If there are any females

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in your party, they will attack them first. Oh my god.

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I'd like the fact that Carl is just like, how

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can they make these jokes? Like, you know, he's asking

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the right questions right away and we actually get real

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answers to them. So the uh, let's see. He finds

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the tutorial guild and he goes to the door and

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it's closed and there are the two level gob the

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two two level goblins. Oh my god. The two level

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two goblins seem to give up on waiting for the

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bulldozer to negotiate the tight turn and hopped off and

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started jogging toward me. From behind the door. I heard

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the rattling of chains and turning of locks. What do

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you want you moms ain't allowed in here? You know that. Hey,

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this is a tutorial guild, the things that I was

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supposed to go in here. You're a crawler. Wait, by

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his left tip. We opened up and I didn't even notice.

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I must have slept through the announcement. Nobody tells Mordecai anything.

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There used to be a newsletter. It was delivered every

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few cycles, reliable as can, but then it just stopped.

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Budget cuts. I'm guessing they were always cutting corners. I

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thought we were opening for another two years. So eventually

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he tries to say, you took too long. Too long,

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I can't open if there's already mobs outside. I took

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too long. And finally, as the one comes up behind him,

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he loses his temper, and long story short, he beats

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the shit out of it and kills it, stomping on it,

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and it's one glance up at the bulldozer, which it

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stopped to pick up the second goblin. Relieve me of

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any potential regret. Hey, hey, stop, you can't come in here,

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he was saying, his back now turned donut he was

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talking to the goddamned cat. So he's like, you were

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going to fucking let me in there? It's clear, but

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for five seconds, so according to you, like you don't

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you can let me in when the mob isn't right

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here right, And then he when he gets in, he

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gets achievements for being in the guildhall, He gets stats

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on Mordecai, and he starts asking him, of course, about

473
00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:30,079
how all of this works. Now, for the interest of time,

474
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,960
a lot of this I'm going to sort of gloss

475
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,279
over because it works the way that a video game

476
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:37,000
mostly works, and I don't think that I need to

477
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:38,759
explain a lot of that. Even if you're not really

478
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:40,640
a gamer, I think you are going to know the

479
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,799
basics of all of this. There are baddies, some of

480
00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:46,519
them are, and our non playable characters. They don't have

481
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:48,279
a lot to do with the actual plot, and you

482
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,559
just deal with them and then you move on. You

483
00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:53,119
can't kill them, you can't affect them in any real way.

484
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,359
Then there are ones that you do have to interact

485
00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:03,400
with our bosses, you know all this stuff. And he,

486
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:09,319
after getting inside the fucking doughnut, knocks over this creature's

487
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:14,279
mother's ashes and takes a shit in them, which is uh,

488
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:17,720
that sounds right, That sounds pretty much on brand for

489
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:26,720
a cat. So Carl Dodger's back outside. Briefly, the whole

490
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,599
top of the machine was nothing but a fur lined,

491
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,960
recessed hole with benches running the length. The ceiling was

492
00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:35,759
much lower than the long main hallway. When I stood

493
00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:37,839
my full height, I could reach up and touch it.

494
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,359
I rushed forward and grasped onto the regular goblin. The

495
00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:45,279
creature barely weighed anything. I picked him up and he grunted.

496
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:48,839
In surprise, he unsuccessfully attempted to hit me with his stick.

497
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,519
With all of my strength, I threw the goblin forward.

498
00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:54,480
He rocketed out of the passenger area of the dozer,

499
00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:57,720
sailed directly over the head of the engineer, and crashed

500
00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:01,240
onto the tunnel wall, then bounced back, landing directly onto

501
00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:06,319
the spinning front blades. Oops. So then the one that's

502
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:11,240
left is oh, yeah, this is the one that he kicks.

503
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,279
That's right, You're in my world. Now. You need to

504
00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:17,599
speak my language, you weird green piece of shit. To

505
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,799
my surprise, the goblin grinned. I could tell he understood me.

506
00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:26,480
You're not speaking your language. You're speaking Syndicate standard, you

507
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,559
idiot slave. They programmed it into your brain. Do you

508
00:33:30,599 --> 00:33:34,240
really think you'll survive past? As he was distracted by

509
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,960
his own soliloquy, I leaped forward, snatched the pot off

510
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,480
his head, and clabbered him with it. The goblin stumbled.

511
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:42,920
I smacked him again. He careened off the side of

512
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,559
the tractor. His health bar appeared after I had smacked

513
00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:47,279
him the first time, but it was still well in

514
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:51,960
the green. His knife went flying, so he starts to

515
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:56,160
sit up, and then I jumped off the murder dozer,

516
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,799
aiming both feet towards the chest and stomach of the

517
00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:02,440
still recovering god goblin. I'm not sure if I mentioned

518
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,000
this earlier, but this is important information. I stand six

519
00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:08,239
foot three inches in away, about two hundred and thirty pounds.

520
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,360
What I'm getting at is I'm a large dude. The

521
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,679
goblin was small, and he hardly had any mass at all.

522
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,800
The effect of me jumping onto him from high above

523
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,679
was like someone smashing a fat jelly doughnut with a sledgehammer.

524
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:32,079
Ea iso gross, yeah, oh my god. In the chat,

525
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,559
Michael is saying this is like Lyndon beating on a

526
00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:37,360
bunch of six year olds in the tournament from the

527
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,639
Cradle series. I love that comparison. So at this point,

528
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,360
he realizes that there's a problem with the dozer, and

529
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,400
he has just enough time to get back into the

530
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,880
guild and slam the door before it explodes, and Mordecai

531
00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:53,760
is like, what the fuck was that these walls should

532
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,800
not shake like that? And he has to explain to

533
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,800
Mordecai is like, oh shit, that would definitely have killed you,

534
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:07,440
So good thing you were in here. So finally we

535
00:35:07,519 --> 00:35:12,079
get to the training and we get the explanation of

536
00:35:12,119 --> 00:35:14,320
what exactly the deal is with this world, and we

537
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,840
find out that Mordecai used to be a being on

538
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,480
a planet that got dropped on like this and he

539
00:35:20,559 --> 00:35:28,480
made it to level thirteen. Now he doesn't make it out,

540
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:33,880
but he is still alive. So like, evidently if you

541
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,360
get to a certain point, he gets down to floor eleven.

542
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,760
That's what it is. Once you descend to floor ten,

543
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,960
you're given several options to exit the dungeon. The deeper

544
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,199
you go, the better those options are. And I thought

545
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,400
that was really interesting that there are different ways in

546
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:57,320
which you can negotiate your way out, and so he's

547
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:03,679
been working for them, and they change his form according

548
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,960
to whatever the theme is of the dungeons that they

549
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,320
are doing for this particular season of the game. And

550
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:14,920
all of this works very similarly to the Hunger Games,

551
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,840
where you're being watched almost all the time, except for

552
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,800
in bathrooms, which I think probably is going to be

553
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:28,480
important at some point. You can have followers views like

554
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:35,199
view numbers, and the more followers and fans you get,

555
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,320
the more likely you are to get patrons, and they

556
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,920
give you good, rare shit that you wouldn't get otherwise.

557
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,440
But you have to really make yourself stand out in

558
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:48,840
terms of personality and style for them to notice you.

559
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,320
So you know, it's like the Hunger Games with it

560
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,760
being a sort of popularity contest. I have no doubt

561
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,920
if we had been a little further along in our

562
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,400
development of social media by the time she wrote those

563
00:37:02,199 --> 00:37:06,760
the concept of views and fans would be absolutely like

564
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,880
integrated into how the game worked. It wasn't, but that's

565
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:17,000
definitely the energy of the games. So we also find

566
00:37:17,039 --> 00:37:22,960
out that there are worlds seeded with humans that are

567
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,039
basically allowed to ripen until it's time to harvest them,

568
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:35,000
and he like the there's I think, he says, like

569
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:43,639
nine other human seeded worlds. But I have to imagine

570
00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:46,840
that a lot of like the way social media works,

571
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,760
is them preparing us for the concepts that come out

572
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:59,159
within this game. Like it just feels like that would

573
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:04,400
be the way to say this up, you know. Sat

574
00:38:04,599 --> 00:38:07,159
Michael says he actually race changed during his Dungeon crawl

575
00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:10,400
from his original sky followers to a changeling, otherwise his

576
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,400
form wouldn't change with the dungeon. Oh okay, I missed that,

577
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:20,840
thank you. So he also says guild masters prepare for

578
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,719
years for each new Dungeon world. I've been preparing for

579
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,840
this longer than you've been alive, and he describes all

580
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,199
the stuff that he has learned about pop culture and stuff,

581
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:35,960
which again it's very much giving ready player one and

582
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:44,960
the group Borrent is evidently like really really powerful. When

583
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,320
he brings it up, Mordecai gets real shifty about the

584
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,000
way he talks about them and the tone he uses,

585
00:38:51,639 --> 00:38:56,599
and he's like, they're not always watching like actively they

586
00:38:56,679 --> 00:39:00,400
could always be, but plenty of people talk about them

587
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,320
because they're like the people sponsoring this, so they're not

588
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,679
looking all the time. But you just don't want them

589
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,840
to zero in on you if you are on camera

590
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,840
and you say some off shit about them. I think

591
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,840
the wording he uses is they will accelerate your experience,

592
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,599
which I assume means that they will give you some

593
00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:24,519
things to fight that are like above your level. So

594
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,519
I'm trying to make sure because I'm like already running

595
00:39:29,519 --> 00:39:33,639
out of time. I only have fifteen minutes left. He

596
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:37,360
learns how to use the controls identify the creatures that

597
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,719
are around him, even corpses. It will tell him like

598
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,840
who that was and what level they were, and YadA YadA.

599
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,159
I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah,

600
00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:51,119
I never did do great in math, but I never

601
00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:55,280
considered myself a slobbering idiot. And then he thinks about

602
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,519
his friend Billy, who is an idiot who had come

603
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:00,400
out of a bar and peed on a the cops

604
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,000
bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket

605
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:09,440
for drunken disorderly. But Mordecai says, intelligence told you the

606
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,639
bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not

607
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,239
to urinate upon it. We all have a wisdom stat

608
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:20,119
but it doesn't appear on that list. It used to

609
00:40:20,599 --> 00:40:25,039
but they discovered changing one's wisdom greatly changed their personality,

610
00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:29,280
so it's no longer adjustable. I thought that was pretty interesting.

611
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:37,199
I like the the differentiation between wisdom and intelligence. I

612
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,800
believe that games like there are plenty that do do that,

613
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,159
but yeah, that is like intelligence. Being able to just

614
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:48,639
look at a thing and tell what it is is

615
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,480
very different from being able to determine the best course

616
00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:57,480
of action now that you have that basic information. So

617
00:40:59,199 --> 00:41:01,639
the first level of the dungeon was off limits to

618
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,599
live viewers, so these stats wouldn't move until I descended

619
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:09,360
to the second floor. That really surprised me. I figured

620
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,199
that the first level was going to be the one

621
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,920
that was the most like ridiculous to watch, sort of

622
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,360
the way that when you watch like America's Got Talent

623
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,599
or something, they would often show I don't know if

624
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:24,400
they do this anymore because it's been a long time,

625
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,519
but like, for so you think you can dance, for example,

626
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,840
do you get to watch a lot of the auditions,

627
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,800
And sometimes they will show you auditions that are particularly good,

628
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,320
and they will also show you the ones that are

629
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,440
really really cringey and terrible. And I've always felt so

630
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:46,679
like kind of conflicted about that because a lot of

631
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,440
times the ones that they show where somebody is really terrible,

632
00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:54,679
it can feel like really exploitative. But also, these people

633
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,719
showed up here knowing that they might get on TV,

634
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,920
and they signed away the approval to do that, and

635
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:06,039
so they opted into this knowing eyes open, you know.

636
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,159
But a lot of times there's a feeling of like

637
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,639
this person didn't fully understand how humiliating this is going

638
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:20,599
to look, you know. So I just really thought that

639
00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:23,320
like the first level and seeing all of the people

640
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,599
who wind up getting like weeded out almost immediately would

641
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:32,320
be a really big part of getting into the first season.

642
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,360
But I almost think that maybe it's too much blood,

643
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,840
Like you lose so many people so quickly that the

644
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,079
cameras can't keep up, and maybe it's not that fun

645
00:42:42,119 --> 00:42:44,159
to watch, and it's just sort of like sad, I

646
00:42:44,159 --> 00:42:51,159
don't know. So he says, you need to kill with

647
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,360
style and excitement. Maybe come up with a catchphrase. I

648
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,800
managed to accumulate almost thirty million followers and four patrons.

649
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,800
That's the only way I survived once I hit the

650
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,400
second floor. Watchers from across the universe had the ability

651
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,800
to tune into any crawler. They wished Warrant would continue

652
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,119
to air highlights. So the longer I survived, the better

653
00:43:11,159 --> 00:43:14,079
my chances are getting featured. Anytime someone watched me for

654
00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:16,880
just about eight seconds or so, it counted as a view.

655
00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:19,639
This stat didn't help or hurt me, but it was

656
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:23,079
a good indicator of how interesting I was. You might

657
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:25,440
not like it, but pay careful attention when I tell

658
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,679
you this. Obtaining patrons is crucial to your survival. There

659
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,480
is plenty of great loot in the dungeons that will

660
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,719
help you survive, but the best loot comes from benefactors. Patrons.

661
00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:38,480
Views lead to followers. If you're being followed, it means

662
00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:41,039
the viewer has bookmarked your crawler ID they can look

663
00:43:41,039 --> 00:43:43,880
it on you whenever they want. Following leads to favorites.

664
00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:46,360
If you're favorited, that's a good thing. It means the

665
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,800
viewers are getting live updates on your stats and condition.

666
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:51,840
They get notifications if you're fighting. If someone's favorited you,

667
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:54,599
they really want to know how you're doing. Viewers only

668
00:43:54,599 --> 00:43:57,440
get a certain number of favorites, so consider it an honor.

669
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,880
But ultimately it's all about the patrons. Lots of favorites

670
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,039
will always lead to patrons. Patrons are usually organizations, not individuals.

671
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:09,719
They'll see someone has a lot of favorites and they'll

672
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,639
sponsor you. It's an advertising thing. They sponsor you by

673
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:15,360
purchasing boxes for you. There are dozens of types, and

674
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:21,360
each box has six quality tiers. Bronze, silver, gold, platinum, legendary, celestial.

675
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,199
Most patrons can only afford or are willing to send

676
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:31,000
you silver or gold. Bronze tends to be crap. Some

677
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:33,320
of the richer patrons may send you platinum, though the

678
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:39,719
cost has got to be astronomical. A bronze benefactor box

679
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,760
is better than a plain gold adventurer box. A benefactor

680
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,519
box may contain items from the patron's home world. You'll

681
00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:48,159
never find a pulse rifle or automated power armor in

682
00:44:48,199 --> 00:44:50,199
any sort of box in the world Dungeon, but it's

683
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,280
possible to get from a patron and then he brings

684
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,599
up toilet paper and Mordecai toilet papers. Complimentary restrooms are

685
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:01,480
liberally populated throughout the map. It's the only place the

686
00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:05,639
viewers cameras can't follow. The last Dungeon warrant managed didn't

687
00:45:05,639 --> 00:45:07,960
have rest areas, and the crawlers were pissing and crapping

688
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,960
all over the place. Crawlers lose viewers when they're shitting

689
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,280
in the middle of a hallway. It's gross. I really

690
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,639
love that that is specifically mentioned. Bathrooms are important, and

691
00:45:18,679 --> 00:45:20,679
I love that even when we have just decided to

692
00:45:20,679 --> 00:45:23,679
set aside all humanity, we are still not going to

693
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,960
be completely uncivilized and have some fucking bathrooms. Thank you.

694
00:45:30,599 --> 00:45:33,880
So we spent the next several minutes going over a

695
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:39,719
few other menu items. Uh, and Mordecai is like, you

696
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,159
know what your proficiencies and things are actually like kind

697
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:46,719
of above average. You're starting from a pretty decent place.

698
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,920
He You know, we go through a lot of the

699
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,119
menu stuff. A lot of this I felt like really

700
00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:57,880
didn't need to be gone through. It's fine, but it

701
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:04,079
just seemed a little bit redundant to me. And we

702
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:07,360
find out about how like when the stairways populate to

703
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,159
getting downstairs, they are hidden and eventually they are guarded

704
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,079
and you have to get through certain bosses in order

705
00:46:14,159 --> 00:46:20,519
to pass through. The levels that are finished are like

706
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:25,400
they get smashed, so you are crushed in those as

707
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,599
you would have been into building. If you don't find

708
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:32,719
your way out in time, which is pretty rough, and

709
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,239
the guild areas are the areas like there are also

710
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:40,519
rest spots where you are safe from being attacked, and

711
00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:44,000
you also can like recharge your stat bars and stuff.

712
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,360
But and you can basically like stay there and not leave.

713
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,039
But once the place closes, you will die. And I'll

714
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:53,840
say right now that I probably would find myself holed

715
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,159
up in one of those rooms and just chill until

716
00:46:56,159 --> 00:46:58,920
the place crushed me. I would rather that than be

717
00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:05,480
like run over by a goblin steam boiler machine. I

718
00:47:05,519 --> 00:47:13,039
don't know, that's just mehm. So are you stuck here

719
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:15,000
for the rest of your life? No, this is my

720
00:47:15,119 --> 00:47:17,719
last tour. Once this nightmare is over, I become a

721
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,760
full citizen. I receive a moderate stipend, and I'm free

722
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,519
to make my way in the universe. Will you go

723
00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:26,679
back to your home planet? No, it's not open to me,

724
00:47:28,599 --> 00:47:30,320
he said. It's not open to him in such a

725
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,159
way that makes me feel like the fact that he

726
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,679
took the deal with these guys means that he's like

727
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,800
persona non grata. And I may be wrong about that,

728
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,800
but there was just a vibe to it that it

729
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,079
didn't seem to me like it was I am not allowed.

730
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,440
That's a different thing to it's not open to me.

731
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:57,920
Felt like technically I could, but that wouldn't be good

732
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:03,480
for me, you know. And we find out that, like,

733
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,679
there's eighteen levels and nobody has ever made it all

734
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,119
eighteen levels, not one time. Level thirteen is the deepest

735
00:48:11,199 --> 00:48:21,559
anybody has ever gone, which is pretty upsetting. So let's see, Oh,

736
00:48:21,599 --> 00:48:25,360
here it is your inventory. This season, Born's trying something

737
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,639
a little different. Last season, it was slop based. It

738
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,639
allowed one to carry multiple items, but limited in capacity

739
00:48:31,679 --> 00:48:34,760
and had weight limits. This season, each crawler is given

740
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:40,920
a dimensional inventory and AI cataloging system. Basically unlimited storage,

741
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,960
and if you can physically lift it off the ground

742
00:48:43,039 --> 00:48:45,400
by yourself for about four seconds, you can put it

743
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,960
in your space, no matter how big it is. The

744
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,519
only rule is you can't store living creatures. They will

745
00:48:50,559 --> 00:48:54,320
immediately die. Also, the storage is time locked, so food

746
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,880
doesn't go bad. That's a big one. We had an

747
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,440
issue last season with crawlers starving to death watching thousands

748
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,519
of lethargic, unmoving players as they waited for the timer

749
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:06,159
to run out. Yeah, it was no good, so Born

750
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:11,559
fixed it. This uh idea of like if you can

751
00:49:11,639 --> 00:49:14,400
pick something up no matter how big it is, and

752
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:19,400
you can store it. I just keep imagining, like, you know,

753
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:24,239
a pretty decent sized rock and you just like open

754
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,199
your inventory and just drop it on somebody, depending on

755
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:33,480
how you are situated. It seems pretty convenient. You know.

756
00:49:33,559 --> 00:49:36,639
I'm sure that we'll get better objects and rocks, but

757
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:38,760
to start off with, based on the things that he

758
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,719
finds in the boxes that he opens, a rock is

759
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:49,239
pretty that feels on brand to me. So let's see. Oh,

760
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,639
when he finds the legendary pet box, Mordecai kind of

761
00:49:51,639 --> 00:49:54,679
freaks out and it's just like Jesus Christ, I can't

762
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:59,800
believe you got that right when you walked in, And

763
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:04,559
generally is like there is a good amount of stuff

764
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:11,920
in here for you already. So I really enjoyed a

765
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,840
couple of these. Some of these jokes are like a

766
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,679
little plaid, and some of them really cracked me up.

767
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,400
There is I'm trying to find the spot here. It

768
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,320
is okay, new achievement, you've killed a mob. You're a murderer.

769
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,440
He probably had a family. The way this guy delivers

770
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,840
these is very funny. New achievement, you've killed in our

771
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,760
mom with your bare fucking hands. Holy crap, dude, that's

772
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,679
kind of fucked up. New achievement. You've killed a mob

773
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,920
a higher level than yourself. You're getting the hang of this.

774
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,880
Don't let it get to your head. New achievement potophilia.

775
00:50:53,199 --> 00:50:55,800
You've used your bare feet to crush and kill an opponent. Hey,

776
00:50:56,159 --> 00:50:59,679
that's my fetish. Seriously, keep doing it. You'll be rewarded.

777
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:03,440
This will help reward You've received a gold shoe box,

778
00:51:04,199 --> 00:51:06,639
which eventually we find out has a toe ring in it,

779
00:51:06,679 --> 00:51:08,920
and he's mad about it. But I would guess that

780
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,880
toe ring might be even more beneficial than shoes, because

781
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,039
that is a gold shoe box. So I feel like

782
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:19,880
that shit must be doing some But yeah, so he

783
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,599
says Mordecai. You can only open boxes in safe areas.

784
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,079
The safe rooms will always appear on your map, even

785
00:51:27,159 --> 00:51:29,920
if they're within the fog of war. If you haven't

786
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,159
visited in an area, it won't show specifics of the

787
00:51:32,159 --> 00:51:35,360
hallway even if it's in range. The fog of war

788
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:41,360
covers places you haven't yet visited. Don't forget. The level

789
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,079
itself is going to collapse on your head. After a

790
00:51:43,119 --> 00:51:44,880
certain amount of time. The only way to survive is

791
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,599
to keep moving deeper. We have ten loop boxes. That's

792
00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:50,760
a lot, but not a crazy amount. Usually people come

793
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,760
into the tutorial with two or three. You can hoard them,

794
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:55,599
but when you decide to open them, you can't pick

795
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:57,639
and choose which ones. It's an all or nothing thing.

796
00:51:58,119 --> 00:52:00,400
There's no real tactical reason to hold onto them since

797
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,440
you can't sell a transfer unopened boxes. And it's important

798
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,760
to note that while it's possible to receive unstable or

799
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,360
damaged loot, you'll never receive outright cursed lout. But that

800
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,639
doesn't mean everything is safe to try on. Always read

801
00:52:12,639 --> 00:52:16,599
the descriptions before you activate or wear something. Always, always,

802
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,360
no exceptions. And I am not looking forward to the

803
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,400
first time that he just puts something on without fully

804
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,519
reading it, because I feel like that is going to happen.

805
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:31,760
So the Uh Bronze Pet Box has pet biscuits, scroll

806
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:37,599
of Heel Critter, The Bronze One's Bronze Adventure has Potion

807
00:52:37,639 --> 00:52:42,719
of Healing Times too common, fingerless gloves, Bronze weapon box,

808
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,679
toad cudgel a stick, Bronze weapon box poker. It was

809
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,719
literally a fireplace poker, a wrought iron stick with a

810
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:56,679
screw on point at the end. I would swear that

811
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,239
in the audiobook he says a wooden stick with a

812
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,039
screw on point to the end, because I was sort

813
00:53:01,079 --> 00:53:04,800
of shocked that anything used for fire had would. I

814
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,000
don't know if this has like been corrected or if

815
00:53:07,039 --> 00:53:09,440
I'm remembering wrong in the audio book. It does not matter,

816
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,440
but it just caught my attention because I had intended

817
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:17,440
to comment on it. Poison antidote times two, crawler biscuit

818
00:53:17,519 --> 00:53:22,840
times one hundred torch times twenty silver goblin box dynamite

819
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:28,519
times five lighter goblin pass. It flew and smacked up

820
00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:31,119
against my left inner forearm. I could feel it burning

821
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:34,920
against my skin like I was being branded. The pain abated,

822
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:40,360
and my jacket was otherwise undamaged. I don't know what

823
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,800
that means, and he doesn't ask. There's a lot of

824
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:46,519
this that it just happens to him and we just

825
00:53:46,559 --> 00:53:49,480
sort of brushed past it. I'm hoping that this means that,

826
00:53:49,599 --> 00:53:52,840
like goblins are just going to leave him alone, but

827
00:53:53,119 --> 00:53:59,480
I feel like that's way too easy. Gold apparel box

828
00:53:59,519 --> 00:54:03,440
and chant night gaunt, cloak of Stoutness, enchanted troll skin,

829
00:54:03,559 --> 00:54:08,639
shirt of pummeling beside me. Mordecai gasped the moment the

830
00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:11,239
two items appeared. I hope that was a good thing.

831
00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:15,920
And then the toe ring and then legendary pet box

832
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:21,400
pet biscuit times five hundred. So we find out that

833
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,400
the pet biscuits do different things to your animals, and

834
00:54:25,519 --> 00:54:28,559
sometimes it will make them dangerous and they will be

835
00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:31,960
teleported out as long as you are in a safe zone,

836
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,159
which is why it's so important to only feed them

837
00:54:34,199 --> 00:54:37,559
these when you're in a safe zone, because otherwise they

838
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:40,239
don't get teleported away and you potentially will get hurt

839
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,320
by whatever is being done to them because they'll be

840
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:47,159
transformed into different creatures or whatever. Also, they are so

841
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,760
attractive to pets that if you pull out more than

842
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,440
one at a time, they will just eat all of them,

843
00:54:52,599 --> 00:54:54,760
So you've got to be really careful about using them.

844
00:54:55,199 --> 00:54:57,800
And he's like debating because he finds out it's ten

845
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:03,320
pieces of gold per biscuit that maybe, let's see, I'm

846
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:08,000
trying to find that it is it. I feel like

847
00:55:08,039 --> 00:55:12,920
it's more gold than that. Uh, if you feed it

848
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,039
to her, Oh no, it's worth a couple thousand gold.

849
00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:19,760
Oh that's a lot damn enhanced pet biscuit worth a

850
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,480
couple thousand gold. So he's standing there deciding if he's

851
00:55:23,519 --> 00:55:26,920
going to feed it to donut or not, and she

852
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:30,639
just attacks him and fucking tastes it, and as soon

853
00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:33,800
as she does, she turns into a mass of flesh

854
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,519
and splatters, and he's like, well, what the hell happened

855
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:41,119
to her? And Mordecai looks at her and is like, oh,

856
00:55:41,199 --> 00:55:44,800
she's transforming. She didn't tell a port a way, so

857
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,159
whatever's happening to her is and considered something bad. But

858
00:55:47,199 --> 00:55:49,880
we're gonna have to wait. It's probably like five or

859
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,079
ten minutes, and that's how chapter five ends. And I

860
00:55:53,199 --> 00:55:56,480
was so like, come on, I want to know what

861
00:55:56,519 --> 00:55:59,840
the cat's turning into. I can't decide what's like for

862
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:05,800
the best, because ideally, in my opinion, the cat turning

863
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:10,239
into something that can be mounted is best. You can, like,

864
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,480
you know, ride a little horsey down these hallways. That

865
00:56:13,559 --> 00:56:15,920
does mean that the cat takes on most of the

866
00:56:16,039 --> 00:56:19,880
risk in stepping on things or whatever. But the cat's

867
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,719
gonna be running around anyway unless you plan to carry

868
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,480
her in a little papoosca or what do you call it?

869
00:56:25,519 --> 00:56:29,519
On you so she I don't think would allow that,

870
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:34,760
so she'd be at the same risk anyway. I suppose also,

871
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,000
of course, becoming something like a fire breathing dragon potentially

872
00:56:38,159 --> 00:56:43,039
very helpful. Maybe if she turned into something that you

873
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:45,800
couldn't ride but that could carry stuff, maybe you get

874
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:51,679
more storage. Uh yeah, I don't know, Like there's a

875
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,639
lot of a lot of possibilities, and I feel like

876
00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:58,159
maybe I'm not even thinking big enough, Like could she

877
00:56:58,199 --> 00:57:01,920
turn into a straight up car? Could she turned into

878
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,559
a bulldozer? You know, I know that's not animal ish,

879
00:57:06,639 --> 00:57:09,800
but maybe it's not restricted to that. I don't know

880
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,559
what the options are that'd be nice. I feel like,

881
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:18,599
just ride a bulldozer right through everybody. Oh god, I'm sorry,

882
00:57:18,679 --> 00:57:23,760
Michael is leaving so many comments that I've missed. You

883
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,960
might be good at this game. Thinking of inventive ways

884
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,880
to use system mechanics is the court to anyone trying

885
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,000
to break the game and become op. Regular pet biscuits

886
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,320
are just food treats. He got the enhanced with just

887
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,559
a special one, right, because well he got both. He

888
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:41,239
got regular pet biscuits in the first box, the bronze box,

889
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:44,000
and then he got the enhanced ones in the legendary box.

890
00:57:45,599 --> 00:57:48,599
The most people would think catgirl something that can be

891
00:57:48,679 --> 00:57:51,599
mounted due to the genre. Oh my god, I should

892
00:57:51,639 --> 00:57:53,760
have known not to phrase it like that. That's my

893
00:57:53,800 --> 00:58:00,440
own fault, So your supposition is especially funny. I feel like,

894
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:03,199
you know, if I were a cat and I was

895
00:58:03,239 --> 00:58:05,360
in this position, what I would want to be done

896
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,840
to me? And it's tough because I think most cats

897
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,800
would be like, I am already the ideal perfect killing machine.

898
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,119
There needs to be no alteration to my being. I

899
00:58:14,159 --> 00:58:19,079
am one with death, and I feel like they would

900
00:58:19,119 --> 00:58:23,199
just reject it. But you know, I think, what if

901
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:26,039
she got wings? That would be something that would not

902
00:58:26,079 --> 00:58:28,840
necessarily be super useful to him, but would be really

903
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:35,119
helpful for her, potentially avoiding certain types of traps. Of course,

904
00:58:35,159 --> 00:58:38,760
then she might be more vulnerable to other types of traps.

905
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,119
If she were able to fly in, he could ride

906
00:58:42,159 --> 00:58:49,559
on her back. Perfect. If she's like spat acid, maybe

907
00:58:50,199 --> 00:58:52,800
the thing is finding out that sort of thing. How

908
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,920
do you find it out without getting hurt in the process,

909
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,920
because there's no take back seats. It's not like you respawn.

910
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:04,559
If you get killed, you just die. That's it. So yeah,

911
00:59:04,639 --> 00:59:06,599
so okay, I'm going to wrap this up, but yeah,

912
00:59:06,599 --> 00:59:09,239
this is These are very promising first five chapters. I

913
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,360
had a really good time reading these, so I hope

914
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:15,039
that you guys enjoy the coverage and let me know

915
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,639
what you think and if you're I saw some people

916
00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:20,960
talking in the books channel on the Discord about reading this,

917
00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:25,360
but a lot of it was thankfully covered with spoiler tags,

918
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,519
and then we wound up making a spoiler channel in

919
00:59:28,559 --> 00:59:31,639
the discord, So anybody who's listening to this, if you

920
00:59:31,719 --> 00:59:34,079
want to talk spoilers very much and make fun of

921
00:59:34,079 --> 00:59:36,639
something that I said that I'm super wrong about, or

922
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,239
be gleeful that I got something right and didn't realize it,

923
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:42,079
that is the place to go. I always put the

924
00:59:42,119 --> 00:59:45,400
discord link in these the show notes so you can

925
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,679
head there. There's a no spoiler channel for those who

926
00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:49,519
are following along with me who want to talk to me,

927
00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:52,920
but the spoiler channel obviously I am not allowed in.

928
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,599
So that is just for y'all to commiserate with one

929
00:59:56,599 --> 00:59:59,719
another about how much smarter you are than me, which

930
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,400
you know, it's really cruel and you guys are sick,

931
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:11,000
but what can I expect? All right, everybody, thank you again.

932
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:14,920
I hope you enjoyed and until next time, did alone. Motherfuckers,

933
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,599
that was an unspoiled network podcast.