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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters thirteen through twenty. In these chapters,

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we are having to deal with a lot of different terrible,

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new to us creatures, but also some very familiar creatures

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human beings, especially shocker cops who could have seen this coming.

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

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am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning

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this episode. And Michael is here in the chat today.

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Oh and Dan came, Hi Dan again. Yeah. So this section, guys,

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is riddled with some wild stuff. I had a good

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time with this, and it feels like we are definitely

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heading in the direction I was expecting. I am going

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to point these things out as we go. But there's

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a constant through line that repeats that I think probably

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a lot of you are picking up on also. And

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it starts because I like, actually went back and I

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re listened to the beginning of the book with my

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husband the other day because I thought he would really

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enjoy it. And we've just gotten up to the part

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where we read the boss battle, but he hasn't actually

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gone inside yet, and so I'm kind of like, we'll

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see how he acts that. But something that Mordecai says

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is like, this is my last show, and after this one,

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I'm free to do what i want. After this, I'll

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be a fully fledged citizen. So I'm just going to

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put that there to reference a little bit later. Let's

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begin with chapter thirteen. So we start off with Carl

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and Donut heading towards the body of this other crawler.

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And it was a real fun moment because in the

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audiobook Lutible Corpse Crawler, Rebecca Rebecca W Level three killed

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by crawler Frank Q, and I love the line. I

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felt as if I was slack because that was almost

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exactly the reaction that I also had. It was sort

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of remarkable, actually, because I shouldn't be prepared for people

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to turn on each other, but I really thought that

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would take longer. I really thought that we would have

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our people turning on each other once we got past

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a certain point and there were fewer of us and

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we began to see each other as competing for resources

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in a more real way. I never thought it would

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happen this soon, and I should. I should have known better.

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I really should. And then to like re emphasize their cops.

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As we find out later, I mean, if you don't

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already know how I feel about police in our country,

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I don't like want to get into a whole thing,

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but I think that they are sociopathic trash who think

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they are better than the rest of the population and

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are on power trips and our bullies and our low

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key just like a tool of fascism, not even low key,

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it's high high key, fucking totally. So for the first

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people to turn on other human beings to be cops,

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it feels like absolutely correct, just dead on pun into it.

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So let us get into this because Dona, of course,

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at first tries to be like, I'm not to scare

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this guy. And there's an interesting moment here where Carl

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is trying to find Frank on his map, or not

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really Frank specifically, because I don't think you can do

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that unless they're in your party, but you can see

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blue dots and he's trying to see if they're any

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near him, And even as he's look he's wondering, is

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it possible for them to hide from me? Like I

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don't really know how this completely works, and they may

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be there, and I just can't tell, which is unnerving him.

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Christ another thing to worry about. A crazy asshole with

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a gun. I was suddenly, inexplicably reminded of that day,

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the last day I ever saw my father. You're a bully.

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You're a bully, and nobody likes you. It's why mom left.

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I was expecting him to get angry to hit me,

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but he never hit me, not once. The man just

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laughed and laughed, and that was enough. I don't need

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you to like me, but you will respect me. The

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memory came quickly out of nowhere. I didn't know why.

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Nobody had died that day, Nobody had been hurt at all,

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not physically. So the fact that this happened right after

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a crazy asshole with a gun leads me to believe.

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mother used to lock him in the basement to keep

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him away from his father and his dad's friends because

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they would drink and start to really act up. And

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my interpretation of this association is that his dad got

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drunk and had a gun and was fucking around and

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thought it was really funny and was trying to like

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establish dominance somehow in a moment and this is this

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kind of got to me a little bit. Guys, I'm

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gonna admit because my father was a similar type. I

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don't I don't want to call him a bully, because

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a bully is somebody who really enjoys this, and I

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don't think that my dad really did. But he was

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definitely the type of person who never actually, like physically

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lashed out, but would make it clear that he was

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having to strain himself, and so there was always a

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threat of violence in the air. And eventually once he

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did lose it. But I got myself behind a door

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and he broke the door in half. I don't know

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what he would have done if I hadn't gotten behind

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that door. And it was like the I don't need

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you to like me, but I will respect me in

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a vacuum. I actually think that's fair, you know. I

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don't think it's a great approach, but I could see

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why you would take it. But there are people who

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really seem to think that being liked means that you

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are somehow weak or compromising yourself. And I'm just really

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kind of fascinated at Carl's reaction to this moment, being

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this memory in combination with his mother trying to protect

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him from his father, who he admits here never actually

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did hit him, because there is something about the threat

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being there even when the action isn't there that is

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so much. It's so manipulative. It's a really different kind

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of threat and mental fuckery that I think a lot

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of men think. Because they're not hitting, it's not as bad.

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It's like excusable. Actually, maybe it points out what a

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good guy they are because they haven't raised their hand

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to you, and so all the other shit they're pulling

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is nothing because it's not like they hit you. And

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because the bar for men is on the fucking floor

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beyond the bar for men is a tavern in hades,

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they really often will believe that as long as I

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am not beating the shit out of you, I deserve

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a fucking cookie. So I'm just gonna be sitting here

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waiting for more info on his father and what that

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guy was like, because I feel like that's going to

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be informing some things probably, So anyway, the uh. There's

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a moment here where Dona is insisting that the woman

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was killed by a cocker spaniel with a gun, and

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he has to point out that like that she isn't

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able to even fire a gun because of her being

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a quadruped, and some imbecile with a gun doesn't scare me,

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and they shouldn't carry scare you either. So he tries

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to say, this guy doesn't scare me either, and then

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it made me irrationally angry. In fact, I think you're right.

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I want to find him if we can. Let's stick

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to the neighborhood. We'll hunt down the remaining red dots.

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Then we'll go back to the safe room and watch

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the premiere. You're not scared of that guy, really, no,

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not at all. Well, then you're crazy. I don't like

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you being crazy. I'm scared of him. We need to

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stay away from him. What if he'said one of those

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murder hoboes you hear so much about. Just two seconds

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ago you said, and I quote some in this cell

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with a gun doesn't scare me. Yeah, that's when I

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thought you were being a pussy. I didn't realize you

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were getting all Charles Bronson death wish on me. So

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that was interesting. Her just trying to, like, you know,

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get him psyched up because she doesn't understanding like the

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headspace that he's in. And it's funny because initially I

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think he was sort of just overwhelmed at how awful

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this is a woman being killed by another person. But

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the memory of his father comes back to him, and

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it seems like he is definitely feeling away about this

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man that is motivated by personal experience. So we go

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to chapter fourteen and we get the premiere of Dungeon

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Crawler World Earth. So first of all, these beings can

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like go virtually into the scene and experience it in

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a way, which is apparently not like super popular, but

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it is an option. Many viewers didn't like the VR versions,

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so they watched using a method where they had a

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bird's eye view and they could zoom in and out

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and angles and switch angles at a whim. We didn't

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have any of that. The show streamed on the center

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of the three televisions over the fast food counter, and

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there were there four just over four million when we start.

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This is not a good way to watch the show,

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Tally announced. As the title appeared on the screen, the

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screen jerked around like I was watching someone play a

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game on Twitch. The view kept randomly zooming in and out,

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sometimes focusing on nothing in particular, sometimes lights flash for

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no reason, And I thought that this was sort of interesting,

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the idea that, like the view that for whom it

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matters most, the players, that they are not granted a

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view of what's really happening. I feel like this is

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a metaphor that, you know, there's sometimes lights flash for

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no reason, zooming in on nothing in particular. It's feeling

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a little bit like we're trying to disorient you on

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purpose so that you don't know or sympathize with, or

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have like a plan, you know what I mean. Just Also,

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there is an orange hued four eyed lizard like creature,

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so it turns out that they are very alien like.

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sort of be a cohesive theme for the overall like

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look of this season of the show. But it turns

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out that it is not how they're doing this. So

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there's the Squim Conglomerate Battle for the planet aarrol thousands

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of furry gorilla like creatures screaming and rushing into a

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battle against a group of similar creatures. Later, it showed

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throat of a smaller, gray colored gorilla riding a massive

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pig thing. The word winner appeared on the screen. The

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winning gorilla fell to his knees and appeared to start

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sobbing before the screen cut away. A round metal two

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but that looked like a barrel appeared on the screen

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for fifteen seconds straight. There was no sound. Tally said

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it was a commercial, which that's wild, But it's interesting

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to see these other creatures and the way their fight

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is done, because apparently there's like, you know, different ways

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that they will set these up. So that one was

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more of a colosseum and the oh my god, I'm sorry, guys,

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show all of these, like, first of all, diagrams of humans,

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and it's so weird, he says, a discussion of human

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anatomy with an enorm inordinate amount of time spent discussing

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discussing male testicles and female ovaries. And I was just like,

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you could just say testicles and ovaries. That was a weird.

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Why would you? Next came a long line of shots

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of Earth focusing mostly on urban areas. And it's interesting

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when he says, I still couldn't understand most of what

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the commentator was saying. I was sort of like, are

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the testicles and overaries going to turn out to be? Like?

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is going on here? And he just couldn't understand well

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enough to tell. And of course this is when they

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do the thing that also white people do about like Africa,

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where they'll show all of the worst parts of a place,

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and you know, I have no doubt that Sarah McLaughlin

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music is probably playing over this entire montage, but you know,

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they were cherry picking the shittier parts of the planet,

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and they even chose scenes from disaster movies. And I

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love how incredibly gullible Doughnut is. This is definitely it's

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kind of funny that she has this real like power

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in her own charisma and ability to talk people into stuff,

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but also apparently has like no ability to protect her

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herself from that regarding others. And so yeah, she's like,

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Oh my god, And he's like, that's not how it is,

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not his was the world is gone. They're making it

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look like they're the good guys saving us from ourselves.

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thousands of people and there are like trampling one another

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to get inside because like, obviously it was the middle

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of the night for him, and so most of the

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people in his area were inside and asleep. But on

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the other side of the world, it's gonna have been

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the middle of the day, so more people are probably

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going to be outside. Also, in different climates, people are

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over their head necessarily, and let's see and they okay, yeah,

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there's different groups of people that they show and of

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course eventually when things end, Dona is really offended because

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they weren't featured, and she felt like their boss battle

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was so awesome and intense that they definitely deserved to

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show up. And I think that she just overestimates how

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intense their battle was. You know, it's not a cinematic, frankly,

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to have like one dude also beating the shit out

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of like an old fat lady while a cat just watches.

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You've got ten people all shooting at once at a

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pile of mouths and eyeballs. That's a lot more interesting

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to watch, probably, But you know, Dona always thinks that

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she is the most fascinating thing in the room, so

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it's fine. I'm sorry if you can hear my dog

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drinking water like a maniac. So let me get another announcement. Uh.

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You'll be getting these announcements after each episode. A couple

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quick patch notes the firefinger spell should be safe to cast. Now.

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We fix the hallway bathroom bug, so if you open

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the door and someone else enters there, they will no

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longer explode. Sorry about that reminder, hallway bathrooms are personal

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spaces and can't be shared. We also fix the unlimited

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toilet paper bug. Now you're only getting one roll per floor,

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so if you waste it, you're on your own. One

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roll per floor when the floors can last for days

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and days. I don't feel like that's adequate, especially with

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the situation that people are going to be in eating

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God knows what you want to be prepared for more

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than that, in my opinion. We have a long list

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of fixes with a new inventory system for right now.

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to kill them. Also, any momentum and item might have

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while it entered the inventory will no longer be preserved.

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while moving at a high rate of speed. Remember this

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inventory system is a privilege and it's not meant to

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be used as a weapon. While we love and admire

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your creativity, any unintentional exploits will be patched, So if

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you find something that has an unintended feature, don't get

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too comfortable using it. And then she talks about how

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they're starting a new thing where if people go downstairs

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to the next floor too early, they will be put

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in stasis and they will be kept there until after

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other people get to go down. So even if you've

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got to the stairs first, technically you aren't going down

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until after the other people have art, So you aren't

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helping yourself at all. And not only that, the whole

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like the way that it all emphasizes viewership and patrons,

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you are going to lose a lot of support if

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you go into stasis, because people are going to lose

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interest in you. I really love this for a particular

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personal reason so I don't know how many people listening

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to this are also online creators. If you are, you

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are going to get exactly what I'm talking about instantly.

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But there is something that has happened over the past

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three years, I would say, really that has changed utterly

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the way that being an online creator works. I was

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making over one thousand dollars a month more than I

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am now in twenty twenty one, and a lot of

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that was due to the pandemic making it so that

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people had a lot of extra income that they weren't

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using on going out and stuff, and so they were

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throwing it at projects that were getting them through. But

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also we hadn't had this kick of inflation that we

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have had that has made so many people have to

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buckle down. And there's another thing that has happened, the

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change in how algorithms work, which has made it so

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that if you are a creator and a certain type

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of video explodes that you make. Let's say you're somebody

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who paints and you normally do a variety of types

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of painting and for whatever reason, this one video that

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you posted of painting a D and D miniature goes viral.

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Normally you have a wide variety of different videos that

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you post, but this one thing goes viral and that

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starts to be all anybody asks for. And when you

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don't post anything about like that's similar, your views drop

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and then your income drops. So what do you do?

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You start to do what the algorithm is pointing out

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people want, and doing mostly D and D miniatures, even

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though that's not really the point of what you were

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trying to do. It's not something you particularly enjoy. And

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not only do you have to do the thing just

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to get the views, but you also have to make

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sure that you're always posting, otherwise you fall off people's

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feed entirely. If people don't post for like, you know,

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a week at a time, the algorithm starts to deprioritize

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their posts totally, and it gets really really difficult for

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creators because they want to post a satisfying video, but

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they also have to make sure that their project gives

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them enough footage that they can make several videos out

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of it in order to cover that between time. So

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all of this to say that you have to be

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so careful how much you dole out, how well edited

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that is, and how satisfying it is to keep people

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wanting to watch you, and you don't get to do

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just what you are moved by anymore. You don't get

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to create based on what you are good at or

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what you enjoy. You have to create based on what

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the algorithm decides to show people. And it changes completely

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your relationship to your own work. It changes your relationship

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to your fans too, because people who have chosen to

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follow you don't necessarily see your work because once they

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follow you, you get buried. So it's like you stop

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having that relationship with people that recurringly show up in

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your comments, and it starts to be lots of strangers

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who are seeing your work for the very first time

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because this reeal went viral and it just popped up

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in there for you on TikTok, or it popped up

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in the real section on a Facebook. And this means

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that you don't get to foster the kinds of one

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on one relationships with fans that leads to them deciding

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to financially support you, whether it's buying your work or

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becoming a patron, a patreon or whatever. So it takes

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a lot of the like personal connection out of it.

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It takes a lot of the joy out of it

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for creators, and it makes it so that if you

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are not constantly creating and constantly posting, you disappear and

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nobody cares about you, or if they do care about you,

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it takes a while for them to realize why they're

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not seeing you anymore, and then they have to like

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opt into that, even though they already followed you, which

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most of them thought was them opting in. It doesn't

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work like that anymore. Now you have to click see first,

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or you know, any number of other ways that you

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can handle it. So it's really difficult because if you

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don't try to appease the algorithm, then your work begins

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to slide further and further under the radar. And I

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had I think, like thirty five hundred likes on Facebook,

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and I was getting an average of thirty five views

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per post. I was like, it was like one percent,

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half a percent. It was insane. They wanted to charge

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me to show my posts when that was supposed to

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be the point of their whole platform, And I just

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gave up on it, and eventually they deleted my Facebook page.

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I restarted it, but now I'm sort of feeling like

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there's no point because if they're not going to show

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anything anyway, then why am I going to waste my

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time trying to specialize in a platform like appeasing that

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platform when it's just such a vanishingly small number of

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people that are even going to see it. Well, I

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have basically almost entirely stopped using Facebook. I've post on

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there automatically from things, but I am not there creating

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for that, like platform and social media in general, I

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have sort of given up on I post so that

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people will see updates on stuff, but I am not

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really very engaged, which I know is like the antithesis

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of what people think our methods should be as online creators.

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But it's not valuable to me anymore because it doesn't

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show anybody or you know, Like, So what works now

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for me is to be in my discord or to

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post things like on the free level on Patreon to

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inform people, encourage people to come to Patreon and become

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a free level fan, because for those who don't know,

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you don't have to be pay to become a fan

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on Patreon, Patreon, dot com, slash and spoiled. You can

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sign up for free and I will post like updates

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there so that if you were missing all the updates

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on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, on Patreon, you're guaranteed

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to get those updates because you have specifically opted in

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and they don't mess with the algorithm. So anyway, all

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this to say, I really love that. Like the angle

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that this is all taking is so different with the

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Hunger Games. The way that they play it in that

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is very much based on like a Survivor TV show model,

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where you are like there's zooming in on you personally.

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There's a sort of like process beforehand where you're interviewed

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and people get to know you, and it's a small group,

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and there's like a type of it's out of your

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hands quality that you can appeal to the camera, but

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a lot of that stuff isn't necessarily within your control.

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And then here it's like it is a little bit

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more in your control, but it man's things of you

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that are unreasonable or unhealthy. So like you can't descend

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to the next floor without incurring a penalty of losing

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followers and going into stasis and then losing your lead.

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But what if you're really injured and you have to

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or what if you're cornered and the floor is right there,

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and that's the only way out. They want you to

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stay active and in danger for as long as you

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can to generate interest, regardless of what is best for you,

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just so that you can hopefully have somebody send you

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a fucking can of soup in the next floor. Like

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that's exactly what it feels like all the time to

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be an online creator, and it's like so exhausting, you guys.

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I am really lucky with the kind of support that

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I have on Patreon because it is a lot more

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stable than what many people have, but it still has

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flu Like I said, I'm making one thousand dollars less

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per month now than I was. That has caused me

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to have to make a lot of big adjustments in

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my life and have a lot of anxiety that I

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wasn't having a few years ago, and file for bankruptcy

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and you know, like there's just what when your income

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is up to the whims of people who are like

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just using their disposable income, it can be really tough.

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And it's sort of funny because like, I'm not really

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that much more at the whim of anybody than a

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lot of people in the workforce. I like everybody is

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at will in the United States, you could be fired

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for any reason. So there's an illusion of security to

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having a different kind of job, but really when you

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come down to it, it's not any more secure, like

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not really. So anyway, this like whole thing is just

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really it's very it's like obviously dialing things up to eleven,

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but it's really feeling very familiar in a way that

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is so depressing. And I could see this whole system

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being even more like punitive and targeted, and it would

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still feel very real to me because like there's you know,

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the whole thing with like oh well, Larrence listening, but

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they're not always listening, so you just have to be careful.

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The way. This is also a thing with algorithms. People

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were like not able to talk about Palestine. If they

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posted the word Palestine, all of their shit was getting

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shadow band. So that was when it turned into people

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just posting the watermelon emoji because those are the Palestinian

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flag colors, and that was like the way to get

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around your shit just getting completely taken because basically it

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was either the algorithm being like we don't want people

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talking about Palestine flat out because we're Zionists, or political

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shit makes people sad and depressed and disengages with the platform,

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and we don't want that. So it was just sort

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of like the certain language that you used. You had

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to be careful because they might not notice it, but

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if they do, it's going to really affect everything that

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you post from there on, and then you have to

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work from practically scratch to get your views back. Yeah,

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and sorry, Michael Is in the chat. Mordecai referred to

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it earlier when you talked about how warn't changed things

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so people weren't starving to death pooping on screen because

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that isn't interesting to watch. Got to keep it entertaining.

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You can be fired for any reason, but your health

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insurance is dependent on your job, so you can't walk

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away easily. Exactly exactly, So I'm so sorry, guys. I'm

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like half an hour in and I've gotten like barely

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into this. I'm so sorry. But eventually we get to

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a spot where we're fighting slimes, which was very fun

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for me as somebody who had just recently been talking

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about playing Stardi Valley. So those are not great for

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him because he has a lot of exposed skin, so

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he can't fight those, and they have to turn around.

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I love that we are using the text chat and

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Donut has gone full boomer and is posting in there constantly,

479
00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:09,799
even though they can actually just talk to each other,

480
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:11,759
and she's also doing it in all caps all the time,

481
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:13,960
and he has to be like, can you please fucking stop?

482
00:31:16,119 --> 00:31:22,359
And eventually they go into Goblin territory. And this is

483
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,720
such a like. The whole way that this works is

484
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:31,400
so different from what I was expecting. So first of all,

485
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:38,880
Donut's charisma is so insane that even though Carl initially

486
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:41,000
is like pissing them off to the point that they're

487
00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:43,920
ready to attack him, despite him having this Goblin pass,

488
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:50,680
she is able to immediately get everybody to chill and

489
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:57,119
work with them, and he meets Shamanka level seven a

490
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,039
fancy way of saying female shaman. Goblin Shamans are the

491
00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,079
leader class, second only to war chieftain or more rarely,

492
00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:07,920
Goblin warlord. They are without humor and are said, as

493
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,200
part of their training to have to pick two of

494
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,839
the following three actions in order to graduate Shamanka University.

495
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,079
They have to fuck, cook, and or eat their own parents.

496
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:32,119
Most don't pick cook, yikes. So Donut comes in and

497
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,680
basically it starts being like, oh, sweetie, the piercings, really

498
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,559
is this because they need to eat your parents? Like?

499
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,039
What is going on? Is this a daddy issue? And

500
00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:48,000
gets this character the Goblin, to break down, and the

501
00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:52,160
way that she starts talking, I started to realize, like, oh,

502
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,799
these beings don't want to be here either. The whole

503
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:02,839
way that this is like set up. I kind of thought, obviously,

504
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,920
we already know that Mordecai doesn't want to be here,

505
00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:10,519
but it feels like there is a family sort of

506
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,200
tie between these people, as if they are actually related

507
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,119
to each other, and not all of them individually playing

508
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:23,160
parts like they're in a play. I can't leave the chieftain.

509
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,400
He's terrible, soft even but he's still leader of my clan,

510
00:33:26,599 --> 00:33:30,000
my family. Even if I could go with you, I

511
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,480
wouldn't be able to leave this floor. If we climb

512
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:34,880
down the stairs, we die. You get halfway down and

513
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,640
your body just dissolves. I've seen it myself. I know

514
00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:42,680
where on the first floor there are smart mobs like us,

515
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:48,160
and there are not so smart mobs. The floor collapses,

516
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,000
but it is only you who dies when this happens

517
00:33:51,359 --> 00:33:54,000
for us, we go to sleep until the next dungeon opens.

518
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:56,119
We will open our eyes and it will be the

519
00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:59,079
same as it has been, just another day. But one

520
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:01,440
of these days, one of these days, we will wake

521
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,960
up and we will be deeper. That's what they tell us.

522
00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:07,079
Kill the crawlers get better at killing, and you get

523
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,840
to go deeper, and one day, eventually we will be

524
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,320
so deep that the crawlers will never come and we

525
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,400
will finally have peace. We will have peace and a

526
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,920
place to live and breed and have our little ones

527
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,559
run free and not worry about killing for survival. So hi,

528
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,079
that's never going to happen. This is all Everybody has

529
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,760
their little fairy tale about how eventually, if they just

530
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,079
work hard enough, they'll get to the place where they

531
00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:38,039
don't have to worry anymore. It's the lie that we

532
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:42,519
are all sold in the US, especially like I think

533
00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:44,400
there are other places where maybe this is something that

534
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,119
can happen for you, and that's I'm so jealous, I

535
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,719
can't even speak on it. But in the United States,

536
00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:54,840
you are never safe unless you reach a point of

537
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:00,039
such incredible wealth that it's almost unthinkable for like the

538
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:03,320
vast majority of us. When we talk about the one percent,

539
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,320
it's like very literal. So you know, you can be

540
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,000
somebody who is fairly comfortable and then guess what you

541
00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:14,480
get sick. You get the certain kind of sick, the

542
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:20,199
wrong kind. I'm so sorry, but your savings gone. It's

543
00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:23,880
a wrap for you house. Good luck. I hope you

544
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,199
already owned it by the time you got sick. Like

545
00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:30,199
there's just people really do seem to think if they

546
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:32,039
reach a certain point that they are out of the

547
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:37,519
reach of happenstance and circumstances like affecting them. And it's

548
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,320
just a lie because everybody wants to believe that they

549
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,320
have more control than they do, and that the people

550
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,679
out there who are doing poorly are only doing poorly

551
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,639
because of their own mistakes and not because the entire

552
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,519
system is rigged from the start to fuck you. And

553
00:35:52,599 --> 00:36:00,360
it is so this entire like this this narrative that

554
00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:04,920
everybody is functioning within that eventually you get to a point.

555
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,119
It's like he's been told if you get to level

556
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:12,480
eighteen and nobody's ever gotten past thirteen, you know, like

557
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:18,239
that's the metaphor. Man, it's so unlikely that nobody has

558
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,559
ever done it, and yet we still act like it's

559
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:28,000
a goal that is reachable and that we should throw

560
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,519
others under the bus to achieve it, because that is

561
00:36:30,519 --> 00:36:33,679
what winds up happening later, is they decide that they're

562
00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:37,239
going to loot the place. It's so devastating, you guys,

563
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,920
because like, when we get to that point, I really thought, man,

564
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,880
he could just fucking take all their shit right now.

565
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,199
That would be so fucked up. And then they literally

566
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,280
do it, and it was like me sitting there kind

567
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,079
of going, I guess you gotta do what you have

568
00:36:49,159 --> 00:36:50,880
to do. But I was thinking about how when I

569
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,440
play video games, I often don't have the heart to

570
00:36:54,599 --> 00:36:57,599
do this sort of thing because I can't bear being

571
00:36:57,679 --> 00:37:03,079
this shitty. And it's like you can justify it to

572
00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:06,000
yourself by being like, well, it's the game. But like

573
00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:11,280
after she spoke like that, for me, they became a

574
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:18,159
real like they became a real community. And so later

575
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,559
when it's like, oh my god, there were children in

576
00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:24,599
there that we blew up, honestly, I feel like you

577
00:37:24,599 --> 00:37:26,679
should have felt like this already because whether or not

578
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,039
that children were in there, you took all of their

579
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:33,960
possessions that were worth anything. That's still affecting these children.

580
00:37:34,039 --> 00:37:36,800
They are still getting totally screwed by what you're choosing

581
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,559
to do. But the truth is, it's not even about

582
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:41,360
your choice. It's about the fact that you guys were

583
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,159
pitted against each other from the beginning, which is the

584
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:45,519
responsibility of the group that is in charge of this game.

585
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,800
So you are seeing one another as the enemy here.

586
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:52,679
And if you just didn't and decided that you were

587
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,440
going to somehow manage to work together, this could maybe

588
00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:58,559
go a different way. But the thing is, if you

589
00:37:58,559 --> 00:38:01,079
can't leave the floor with that evapora reading into like

590
00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:04,360
the atoms of yourself, how much can you really do?

591
00:38:05,039 --> 00:38:08,159
What kind of change can you possibly affect? So it's

592
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:14,960
just this fucking loop, you know. So let's see, I'm

593
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,639
trying to find the spot here. He decides that he

594
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:22,320
is going to trade some stuff for a some sort

595
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,480
of contraption that he can ride, and eventually the only

596
00:38:26,519 --> 00:38:28,360
thing that they are prepared to trade for that they

597
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,880
get very excited about is the meth from the bad Lama,

598
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,039
which they know instantly as they taste it that it's

599
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,159
made in the dungeon. I don't know how they can tell,

600
00:38:41,199 --> 00:38:46,199
but they do. And when they like, set this deal

601
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,039
that you give us the thing, and we'll tell you

602
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:50,320
where we got it. And so once they tell them,

603
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:53,119
that's when all of them go hariring off after the

604
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:56,559
bad lamas saying I fucking knew it. I knew they

605
00:38:56,599 --> 00:38:58,880
were holding out on us because apparently they've been over

606
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,119
there before and for some reason, and the Lumbas just

607
00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:07,840
didn't want to do business with them somehow. This I'm

608
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,320
trying to find here. It is two wheels, solid and black,

609
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,760
made of some unknown material. The seat appeared to be

610
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,079
an alligator's skull with white fur lining the top, giving

611
00:39:16,159 --> 00:39:18,920
the impression the skull was wearing an Andy warhol wig.

612
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,360
The engine sat in the middle of the chest is

613
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,679
thumbing a thumping. A hopper extended from the engine, opening

614
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,559
up near the handlebars. I would have to periodically toss

615
00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:31,880
a lump of coal in there. What about the water?

616
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,760
And how do I turn it off? It's a permacube,

617
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,920
won't run out until you die of old age. You

618
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,119
don't turn it off. Just let it run out of coal.

619
00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:41,400
Toss in a lump and it'll start on its own

620
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,760
after a minute. We don't use the lesser demons to

621
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,440
run our steam engines like some do. This is just

622
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,280
as good, and the baby will outlast you. He slapped

623
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,639
the side of the bike and the handlebars fell off.

624
00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:56,719
I really do enjoy this, so he is able to

625
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,760
lift it and put it in his inventory, and it

626
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,119
has to ask about the pressure, et cetera, et cetera.

627
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,800
I'm sure all of this is going to come back

628
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,519
to bite him at some point, but I'm not gonna

629
00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:14,199
worry about it right now. And the fucking like Lorelei

630
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,760
has gotten high on this meth and is trying to

631
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,920
like hook up with Carl, Donut says as amusing as

632
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,760
I find it to watch Karl disappoint yet another woman,

633
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,000
which is so incredibly devastating because we know that she

634
00:40:29,159 --> 00:40:32,000
was like around and maybe is telling me exact truth.

635
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:33,559
And I don't know how he is able to shake

636
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:36,519
that off so easily because I would be very, very

637
00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:43,480
distracted by that line. So did we just start a

638
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:46,519
metha war between the goblins and the Lamas? Yes, we did,

639
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,320
just like I planned. It went pretty well, don't you think,

640
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,119
just like I planned? Get the fook out of here, Donut.

641
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,199
I would love to believe you, girly, but we all

642
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,840
know that you are full of shit, So it's fine.

643
00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:01,719
So this this is when he says, we need to

644
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,880
loot everything and then we kill the chieftain. So what

645
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,079
they do is put a bunch of like bombs, basically

646
00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:14,800
using this fun powder as they call it, on a

647
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:20,480
cart that they roll into the boss room, and just

648
00:41:20,639 --> 00:41:25,840
as he rolls it in a huge, ugly goblin. My word,

649
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,159
he was sitting down reading a book. Blow it, Blow

650
00:41:29,159 --> 00:41:32,559
it good. I jammed the button. There sure were a

651
00:41:32,559 --> 00:41:34,880
lot of babies in there too, Doughnut said, in the

652
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,760
last moment before the blast. Were there really babies in there,

653
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,119
like goblin babies? Oh? Yes, there were a bunch of them.

654
00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:44,920
I only saw them for but a moment, but they

655
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,679
were quite cute. Some of them were wearing little oversized

656
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,920
jackets like baby Yoda. Adorable. I think you hit that

657
00:41:51,039 --> 00:41:53,400
one with the cart. There were old ones and pregnant

658
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,039
ones too. Did you see your level? We're both level eight.

659
00:41:56,079 --> 00:42:01,239
Now you're welcome. And he is just like absolutely losing

660
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,239
it over this. He gets all of these achievements and

661
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,840
he's like, I do not want to click on those.

662
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,159
I don't even want to know, and Donut is like,

663
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:12,679
I don't get it. They're fucking goblins. Why wouldn't you

664
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,320
want to kill them? And she says, what kind of

665
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:20,559
vile monster sticks babies in the boss room? M you

666
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:28,719
know who? You know who? The workshop had been completely obliterated.

667
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,280
All that was left was blackened rubble, and it looks

668
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,280
like there is no like loot here because of how

669
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,239
bad the damage is. We probably should have taken all

670
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,559
of the coal from that pile, not just half of it.

671
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,039
We're not getting to that dead boss now. I was relieved.

672
00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:51,480
I wanted that map, but not as much as I

673
00:42:51,519 --> 00:42:53,400
didn't want to go in there. I didn't want to

674
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,599
see the dead babies and other goblins. I felt sick

675
00:42:56,679 --> 00:43:05,639
thinking about it. So then chapter nineteen, New achievement, You monster,

676
00:43:07,079 --> 00:43:11,039
and I love this. I know you would probably telling

677
00:43:11,039 --> 00:43:14,800
you about this is all the children mobs who die

678
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,639
within this dungeon don't actually perish. They're transferred to a

679
00:43:17,679 --> 00:43:20,039
holding area where they're safe and treated nicely and gently

680
00:43:20,079 --> 00:43:22,880
until they can be reunited with their loving parents. Feel better.

681
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,920
Good reward these past twenty seconds when your conscience started

682
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,760
to ease, That was your reward. It was also a lie.

683
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,760
That baby is dead, and it's dead because of you.

684
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,679
You're totally going to hell, you've also received a bronze

685
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:42,880
Assholes Box new Achievement War Criminal. You have killed more

686
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:51,880
than twenty non combatants in a single attack. Ooh grim. Yeah,

687
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,119
there's so much here that I was like, as soon like,

688
00:43:56,199 --> 00:43:58,519
as soon as he starts being like, they don't actually die,

689
00:43:58,559 --> 00:44:00,800
I was like, the fuck they don't. Don't you start.

690
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,119
I didn't even think that the AI was going to

691
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,480
tell him that it wasn't a lie. I just assumed

692
00:44:06,559 --> 00:44:09,400
it was a lie. And then when it's like reward

693
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:12,000
that twenty seconds where you felt and I was like, oh, okay,

694
00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:17,599
they are just going to say it okay. So they

695
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:22,960
continue fighting these weird Ravioli things, and then they find

696
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,000
another safe room and there's three million, five hundred thousand

697
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:32,199
and ninety four left, so it's like dropped by four

698
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,559
hundred and ten thousand people since or yeah, since the

699
00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:45,280
last time they checked. So there are cookies and doughnut eats.

700
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,400
One and gets a plus nine to eight being parted

701
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,079
with her. I received the other point two experience. So

702
00:44:53,119 --> 00:44:55,559
this is a little clue that I didn't pick up

703
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:57,800
on later on. I knew it was significant when he

704
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,519
pointed it out, but I didn't get why, and then

705
00:45:00,519 --> 00:45:04,679
when he explains it, I was like, oh, duh, okay, yeah.

706
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,639
So they have about six hours until the next episode,

707
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,679
and he is getting some skill upgrades regarding handling explosives

708
00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:19,639
and getting more information when he picks things up, and

709
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,559
I love that. Eventually, Donut gets an award that involves

710
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:29,800
a tattoo, and she's just like, this is a disqualifying mark,

711
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,760
and I'm like, girl, there is nothing to qualify for anymore.

712
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,400
She really just seems to think that this is like

713
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,440
an interlude and she's going back to her own life,

714
00:45:37,159 --> 00:45:44,760
Sweetie and Desperado pass. Holding a Desperado Pass negates the

715
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,320
ability to obtain a Vanquisher pass. That was it. It

716
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:53,960
didn't explain anything about what the hell that meant and

717
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,320
enchanted Fay scale quadruped crupper of the fleet. Is that

718
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:06,119
a fucking mouthful by the gods? Plus two to dexterity.

719
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,599
It was my turn. I also received a ton of

720
00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:11,960
crap potions dyning in my lighter, smoke bombs, a couple

721
00:46:12,039 --> 00:46:16,480
more scrolls of confusing fog. I received no pants or shoes.

722
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,519
I got the exact same items from the two asshole boxes,

723
00:46:19,559 --> 00:46:22,760
though my tattoo appeared on my goddamn neck. I couldn't

724
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,400
even see it, but it burned as it was magically applied.

725
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,280
It's a dagger dripping blood. Donut said, my word, it is?

726
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:35,679
It is it ghastly And I have to mention that,

727
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,000
like he receives no pants or shoes, and this is

728
00:46:38,039 --> 00:46:40,559
sort of reminding me again of the algorithm thing for earlier,

729
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:43,679
where it's like you don't necessarily pick a thing, but

730
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,920
it becomes like what you're known for, because that's how

731
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,119
it goes viral. I wouldn't be surprised if Dungeon Crawler Carl,

732
00:46:51,079 --> 00:46:54,360
like the whole series, he just hasn't got pants because

733
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,559
now he's the no pants guy. That's what people know

734
00:46:56,679 --> 00:46:59,559
him for. Like not that they they haven't started that

735
00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:01,880
part at where people are watching him obviously, but like

736
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,199
I think that is how it's going to go for him,

737
00:47:05,599 --> 00:47:08,320
and it's going to be bad for his brand at

738
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,880
a certain point to get shoes or to get pants

739
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,039
or something. And that's exactly what it's like. You fall

740
00:47:14,079 --> 00:47:16,320
into something in the algorithm, and this is what you

741
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,400
do now. This is your life now, even though you

742
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:21,159
had no interest and didn't want it, it's what people

743
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:25,239
were like connecting with for some reason that day, and

744
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,840
now this is there's just no going back on it.

745
00:47:31,079 --> 00:47:35,840
So they go and take a nap. She's purring up

746
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:42,119
against him and he gets woken by the next episode

747
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:48,599
day two, and I love this donut has to go

748
00:47:48,679 --> 00:47:51,559
take a pee, so she leaves, and then as she

749
00:47:51,639 --> 00:47:54,440
comes running back in, she says, he's in the bathroom,

750
00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:57,360
the women's bathroom. The killer, the guy who killed Rebecca.

751
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:02,639
W How surely I would have noticed it the moment

752
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:05,000
I woke up. I'd gotten used to keeping one eye

753
00:48:05,039 --> 00:48:07,239
on the map. I was always looking out for others.

754
00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:11,800
Crawler Frank Q. That was him, all right, come on,

755
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:14,960
I said. I pushed my way toward the side hallway.

756
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:16,920
We met in the hall, the man stepping out of

757
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,199
the restroom, smiling apologetically. We came to a stop just

758
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,280
a few feet away from one another. And description of

759
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:31,159
him sounds like a fucking cop. The he had three skulls.

760
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:33,199
I knew exactly what the skulls were going to indicate

761
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,360
before I focused on them. Crawler killer times three. I

762
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:41,960
suddenly felt very cold. Sorry, I didn't mean to startle

763
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,440
your cat. He had an authoritative voice. It's definitely a

764
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,039
cop or some sort of law enforcement. They taught you

765
00:48:48,079 --> 00:48:51,280
to speak that way in training. This is a cat right.

766
00:48:51,599 --> 00:48:53,639
I thought if I slept in the bathroom, nobody could

767
00:48:53,679 --> 00:48:56,199
sneak up on me. I didn't realize the bathrooms in

768
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,239
the safe areas were different than the ones out in

769
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:03,280
the hallways. As soon as he said that, I was like, one,

770
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,480
you are a liar, and two, if you think people

771
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,280
can sneak up on you in here, then you don't

772
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,000
know how the safe room works. And that proves to

773
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,760
be true later on, which brings up another interesting issue

774
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,440
that I want to talk about in a little bit.

775
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:22,360
But yeah, he like, I thought it worked like the

776
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,800
ones out in the hallway. So clearly that's how he

777
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,079
has been like jumping people, I think is by hiding

778
00:49:28,079 --> 00:49:31,079
out in the bathroom. So Carl was right to worry

779
00:49:31,159 --> 00:49:33,320
about whether or not being able to see a blue

780
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,320
spot meant that there was anybody there or not, Like,

781
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,000
that's not necessarily going to be something that is a

782
00:49:40,079 --> 00:49:48,000
guaranteed way to tell. Let's see, if that was true,

783
00:49:48,039 --> 00:49:49,920
then we'd have been asleep when we'd arrived. So he

784
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:55,239
uses his messenger to ask Donut and the thing that

785
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,360
he has figured out how to do is use that

786
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,119
messenger between party members without actually having to move his

787
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:07,639
hands to quote type. So this is what we find

788
00:50:07,639 --> 00:50:10,440
out later, something that Frank has not figured out how

789
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:17,239
to do. I never saw your dot on the mini map.

790
00:50:17,559 --> 00:50:20,239
You don't see the icons of sleeping crawlers. Have you

791
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,880
ever met someone outside your party sleeping in a safe room?

792
00:50:23,039 --> 00:50:25,760
Their bodies become translucent if you touch them, your hand

793
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,320
moves right through them. And as soon as you said that,

794
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,559
I was like, and why would you know that? Because

795
00:50:33,559 --> 00:50:37,639
you tried to touch people who were asleep. That's interesting

796
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,960
and not great, Like there was just a lot he

797
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,599
says here, and then he immediately are you from Seattle?

798
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,119
Like that's all within the one paragraph, with the transition

799
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,480
into a whole new subject. And I think it's because

800
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:54,039
he is realizing maybe if you over explain it and

801
00:50:54,119 --> 00:50:57,599
you you may give yourself away distract them with another thing,

802
00:50:58,159 --> 00:51:02,000
like the whole way that he answering questions, it's all

803
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:06,239
highly suspect. My alarm bells were going off like crazy here,

804
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,320
so he says, it's not what it looks like with Rebecca.

805
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,599
I didn't have a choice. I can explain it wasn't

806
00:51:16,639 --> 00:51:19,480
just her. There were five of them. My partner got one,

807
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,239
I got three, and you would not believe the thing

808
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,239
that killed the fifth guy. Can you please put down

809
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:29,760
your cat? Put me down? That's not what he meant.

810
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:39,000
Donnu chill. That cracked me up. So they go into

811
00:51:39,039 --> 00:51:42,280
the other room allegedly to watch the show. But everything

812
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:47,599
is very, very tense, so clean. The claim that Frank

813
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,960
is making is that him and this woman worked for

814
00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:54,119
Customs Enforcement, which means he works for ICE. If you

815
00:51:54,159 --> 00:51:58,639
work for ICE, if you're listening to this, quit, If

816
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,280
you don't want to quit, stop listening to the podcast.

817
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,639
I don't want you. Like if you were for that organization,

818
00:52:04,639 --> 00:52:06,039
I don't know how you live with yourself. Like it's

819
00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:11,519
as simple as that. And there was this like warehouse

820
00:52:11,559 --> 00:52:14,639
of workers, and then when everything collapsed, it disappeared, and

821
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:17,159
there were people who had been outside. Frank and his

822
00:52:17,199 --> 00:52:20,480
partner identified themselves, and everyone just started shooting at each other.

823
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,400
Oh right, A bunch of immigrants who were working in

824
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,159
a warehouse all had guns on them, Like, what are

825
00:52:27,199 --> 00:52:29,519
you fucking talking about? Like it just the story makes

826
00:52:29,639 --> 00:52:33,719
no sense. Five of the others for reasons, he said

827
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,159
he couldn't fathom followed them in. He went on to

828
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:41,360
recount a firefight in the hallway. It's the most far fetched,

829
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:48,119
convoluted shit. It's absolutely goofy, and Dona is eating it up,

830
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,320
like the way that she She's literally crying and talking

831
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:56,960
about how like, I'm so sorry about your partner. He shrugged.

832
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:02,079
I appreciate that he went up and grabbed a as

833
00:53:02,079 --> 00:53:06,039
soon as like, he says, I appreciate that with a shrug.

834
00:53:06,079 --> 00:53:07,760
I'm sort of like, I feel like you would be

835
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,679
more emotional. And then he just goes and eats after

836
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,719
telling this terrible story, like his whole attitude is wrong.

837
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,920
Everything is wrong. He ate it and the plus nine

838
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,519
point eight XP notification dinged over his head. Again. I

839
00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:23,760
knew that meant something, but I wasn't getting what it

840
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,400
just I was picking it up from other things that

841
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:32,159
he was full of shit. Since you guys eluded the

842
00:53:32,199 --> 00:53:33,840
ones you killed, I don't suppose you have any pants

843
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,000
that might fit me in that bag of years. Sure,

844
00:53:36,039 --> 00:53:38,159
if you don't mind wearing the clothes of a dead man.

845
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,199
So I love this. Carl is explaining via text to

846
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,760
Donut while they're talking to this guy. His suspicions and

847
00:53:48,079 --> 00:53:50,239
that he is full of shit. I think there's somebody

848
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:55,599
else in here waiting to jump us. So he gives

849
00:53:55,679 --> 00:53:59,320
Carl some pants. It's very clear from the jump that

850
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,079
they're going to be too small. But the point isn't

851
00:54:02,159 --> 00:54:04,719
for him to give away something Carl can use. The

852
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,800
point is to distract Carl while he changes so that

853
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,360
this guy can jump him. So he thinks Carl meanwhile

854
00:54:11,519 --> 00:54:13,599
is using this as his ploy to get them to

855
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,599
do their attack, so that they can defend themselves and

856
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:23,440
will not defend themselves, let the room defend them. So

857
00:54:23,519 --> 00:54:27,559
and he tells Donut, We're like, they're gonna jump us,

858
00:54:27,599 --> 00:54:29,480
and when they do, I don't want you to fight

859
00:54:29,519 --> 00:54:31,920
back at all, Like you've just got to trust me

860
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:36,000
on this. And I remembered it being mentioned that, like

861
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:39,280
you can't do shit to each other in the safe room,

862
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:45,079
like that was explicitly something Mordecai told them. So these

863
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:50,960
guys don't know that. And I saw the blue dot

864
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,440
appear in the bathroom hallway just as the woman emerged

865
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,280
from around the corner. At the same moment, Donut leaped

866
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,719
into the air with a panic yowl. As Frank pulled

867
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,800
his weapon from his inva Andy and fired at the cat.

868
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,800
The cat the woman pistol aimed directly at my head

869
00:55:05,079 --> 00:55:12,159
also fired. Donut landed on the table with the cookies. Carl, Carl, help,

870
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:15,239
I'm here. We gotta go. We have less than two minutes,

871
00:55:17,199 --> 00:55:23,639
and we go to him talking to Mordecai. Monsters can't

872
00:55:23,639 --> 00:55:25,880
get into safe areas. What if I leave the door open?

873
00:55:26,559 --> 00:55:29,880
Won't they wander in? Oh, they'll wander in. Always close

874
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,519
the door. If it's a mob, it'll teleport away the

875
00:55:32,519 --> 00:55:34,800
moment it attacks you. But they'll trash the place too.

876
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,119
What if Donut doesn't turn into a monster, but she

877
00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:41,559
also doesn't recognize me. She sometimes bites people she doesn't recognize.

878
00:55:41,599 --> 00:55:45,519
Will she teleport away? No, it's different for crawlers. There's

879
00:55:45,559 --> 00:55:48,599
no violence and no stealing in the safe rooms. It's

880
00:55:48,599 --> 00:55:52,840
a strict, ironclad rule. You get three strikes. First time,

881
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,280
you freeze in place for about one hundred seconds, while

882
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,559
you get an automated lecture playing on playing nice. The

883
00:55:58,639 --> 00:56:02,000
second time it's for an hour. The third time you're

884
00:56:02,039 --> 00:56:05,559
stripped of all your gear and teleported into a mob.

885
00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:09,440
Nest I really want them to try this three times.

886
00:56:09,519 --> 00:56:11,360
I think they won't, but I would love it if

887
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,199
they just like didn't get the fucking picture, you know.

888
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,400
I mean, there's nothing to be gained by trying again

889
00:56:17,519 --> 00:56:20,159
if you get frozen once. I don't see them doing

890
00:56:20,199 --> 00:56:26,599
in another time. But maybe they will. I and so

891
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,480
like Dona is just like I don't understand how you knew.

892
00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:31,719
And he doesn't have time to explain to her about

893
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:37,280
the whole thing with Mordecai. But yeah, so before he

894
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,599
rushed outside, it took a precious second to examine the

895
00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:44,320
attributes of Maggie My, a white woman with close cropped

896
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,119
brown hair, metallic pants and boots, a leather jacket similar

897
00:56:48,159 --> 00:56:53,000
to my own, though hers had both their sleeves. Maggie

898
00:56:53,039 --> 00:56:58,960
my level nine race human class not yet assigned. She

899
00:56:59,119 --> 00:57:04,199
had five skulls next to her name. Between her and Frank,

900
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:09,159
they'd killed eight people eight. They both had the ability

901
00:57:09,199 --> 00:57:12,760
to go completely stealth. I doubted they had been sleeping

902
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,920
in the bathroom. They'd likely heard that explosion from earlier

903
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,599
and tracked us to the safe room. We left a

904
00:57:18,639 --> 00:57:22,559
wake of dead rotstickers, a literal path of destruction. Frank

905
00:57:22,599 --> 00:57:25,639
had said people turned translucent when they slept. Was that true.

906
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,320
It wasn't true for Donut, but she was in my party.

907
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,679
Maybe that they meant they had to sneak up on

908
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,119
us and kill us in our sleep, but when they

909
00:57:32,119 --> 00:57:34,480
realized they couldn't, they'd gone to the bathroom to wait.

910
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,079
We jumped outside and I plodded a path to the

911
00:57:39,119 --> 00:57:44,480
closest main artery. Why are we running? We can take them?

912
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,239
I don't know if we can, I said. They both

913
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,199
have guns. He's level eight, same as us, and she's nine.

914
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,800
Getting to nine is heart, so she probably has a

915
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,920
lot of skills. Besides, I really don't want to have

916
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:57,960
one of those skull markers by my name. Even if

917
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,920
they have it coming everyone else. We won't know that.

918
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,599
We'll never get anyone to talk to us. But if

919
00:58:03,679 --> 00:58:07,639
we don't stop them, they'll hurt somebody else. I stopped

920
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,920
dead in the hallway. I looked at the cat. It

921
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:14,760
was a very undonut like thing to say, but worse,

922
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:20,119
it was the truth. So he is like really struggling

923
00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:22,280
with this because he's right about the skulls next to

924
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,719
his name. I think that there would be a lot

925
00:58:24,719 --> 00:58:27,400
of people that eventually are going to have that because

926
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:31,280
they just couldn't help but defend themselves. So there might

927
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,559
be some more like leeway later on, but I think

928
00:58:34,599 --> 00:58:38,519
early in the game it's probably a bad thing. And

929
00:58:38,639 --> 00:58:42,360
yet like they'll still try and get you because now

930
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,760
you've seen their faces, you can warn other people about

931
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,679
them if you make alliances, and if you see them,

932
00:58:48,719 --> 00:58:50,280
they're not going to get the drop on you again,

933
00:58:50,719 --> 00:58:52,519
like they kind of have to find you. Now I

934
00:58:52,519 --> 00:58:57,039
feel like maybe not really have to, but like they

935
00:58:57,079 --> 00:58:58,639
would have it out for you. It would be how

936
00:58:58,639 --> 00:59:01,039
I would interpret them. I would also be doing this

937
00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:04,159
just as a means of like giving myself some time

938
00:59:04,239 --> 00:59:10,159
room to breathe. So he takes out a smoke bomb,

939
00:59:10,519 --> 00:59:13,519
lights the wick and then adds it to the rats

940
00:59:13,599 --> 00:59:16,559
inventory that he just killed, and then he goes to

941
00:59:16,599 --> 00:59:20,119
pull it out and see and it remains lit. So

942
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,880
basically what he is doing is booby trapping the rat

943
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:27,599
because he knows that if they come across it and

944
00:59:27,639 --> 00:59:31,119
it hasn't already been looted, they'll probably just loot it automatically,

945
00:59:31,159 --> 00:59:33,639
because that's sort of what you do when you're playing

946
00:59:33,639 --> 00:59:36,079
one of these games, is you just loot everything you kill,

947
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,280
and especially if you've got like an unlimited inventory, which

948
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:46,039
skyrom you do not have, which sucks balls, but this method,

949
00:59:46,159 --> 00:59:49,920
I'm really curious, like how long it's going to take

950
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,639
before it goes off, because if they pull it out

951
00:59:52,719 --> 00:59:57,679
and it's lit, it says emits a stinking cloud of

952
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,280
billowing multicolor smoke that lasts for three minutes before dispersing.

953
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:06,000
I don't know if like there's nothing about how long

954
01:00:06,039 --> 01:00:13,599
it actually takes to go off. Discharge imminent thirty four

955
01:00:13,719 --> 01:00:18,519
out of one hundred. Oh okay, so thirty four seconds left, right,

956
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,800
that's what that means out of one hundred, Like it

957
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,159
takes one hundred from when you light it and there's

958
01:00:23,199 --> 01:00:29,880
only thirty four remaining I'm assuming, which I kind of

959
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,840
want him to take it out and let it go

960
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:35,920
until it's five and then put it back. I really

961
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,599
feel like we want it as close as possible because

962
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,599
I can't help but think that Frank and Meg are

963
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,039
suspicious types and that if they see you guys went

964
01:00:46,079 --> 01:00:47,880
through here and you didn't loot this corpse, they're going

965
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,559
to feel like something is up and they'll throw this

966
01:00:49,599 --> 01:00:56,559
and they won't be injured by it. Oh sorry, they're

967
01:00:56,599 --> 01:01:01,559
saying durability, I think not time Rob says to build. Oh, okay,

968
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,199
so then that wouldn't matter, all right. Well, I stand

969
01:01:05,239 --> 01:01:08,199
by the fact that I wanted him to like hold

970
01:01:08,239 --> 01:01:10,719
this until the very last second and then put it in.

971
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,880
But and he's also really unclear on whether or not

972
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,400
this is going to do to give him that skull

973
01:01:17,519 --> 01:01:19,960
next to his name after all, because this is a

974
01:01:20,039 --> 01:01:22,039
very passive way to kill them, but it's still sort

975
01:01:22,039 --> 01:01:24,840
of what he's intending. Is the game going to recognize

976
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:34,360
that or not? And I also like, what if it

977
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,320
only kills one of them, then they're going to have

978
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,519
to know it was you. And I thought they had

979
01:01:39,519 --> 01:01:41,119
to come after you before, but I feel like after

980
01:01:41,159 --> 01:01:45,719
that they really have like a grudge. So I get

981
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,840
doing it this way, and I don't think it's a

982
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,760
bad idea, but I'm just really not sure if it's enough,

983
01:01:51,039 --> 01:01:56,559
you know, I don't know. And so this is when

984
01:01:56,559 --> 01:01:58,880
Dona asks him, how did you know he was lying?

985
01:02:01,239 --> 01:02:04,199
His whole story was bullshit. That Rebecca woman was a

986
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,599
level three. He said they'd gotten into the firefight right away,

987
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,559
but that couldn't be true. She had that Apple coret

988
01:02:10,679 --> 01:02:13,760
in her inventory that meant she'd gone to a tutorial

989
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,320
guild and gotten her inventory turned on and then he

990
01:02:17,519 --> 01:02:19,480
ate that cookie and I saw he received nine point

991
01:02:19,519 --> 01:02:21,519
eight experience instead of ten, which meant he was in

992
01:02:21,559 --> 01:02:25,559
a party with someone someone alive. Also, he had his

993
01:02:25,639 --> 01:02:27,119
arm draped over the chair and I could see he

994
01:02:27,159 --> 01:02:29,400
was twitching his finger. He was typing into the chat.

995
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,400
He hadn't figured out how to just use it with

996
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:35,159
his brain. So I really loved the mention too of

997
01:02:35,239 --> 01:02:38,239
Rebecca and her level, because I didn't remember that, but

998
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:43,480
that also would have been a clear giveaway. And just

999
01:02:43,519 --> 01:02:46,880
like the fact too that the woman was Asian, and

1000
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,800
so he decides that he's going to go into this

1001
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,800
whole thing with her having been like an immigrant working

1002
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,480
in a factory. Like it's just such a fucking racist

1003
01:02:54,920 --> 01:03:00,199
approach to the story and everything. Just you know, I'm

1004
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,840
really really kind of eager to see them again, just

1005
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:05,679
because I want them to be taken care of, and

1006
01:03:05,719 --> 01:03:07,239
I have a feeling that we're going to be dealing

1007
01:03:07,239 --> 01:03:12,159
with them for a minute. I hate it. Uh, how

1008
01:03:12,239 --> 01:03:14,880
is it that you're James Bond when it comes to strangers,

1009
01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:17,599
But miss Beatrice could date three different guys at once,

1010
01:03:17,639 --> 01:03:22,760
and you had no idea three different guys. Well, you

1011
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,159
were one of them. So two I guess. Then again,

1012
01:03:26,239 --> 01:03:28,719
it's three if you count Angel's owner. This account is

1013
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,280
cheating when it's with another woman. There's so many human

1014
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:35,400
nuances I don't understand. I love it. His girlfriend was

1015
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:39,360
throwing it at everybody and he fucking had no idea.

1016
01:03:39,719 --> 01:03:42,280
Oh Carl, sweetie, I really hope that you got a

1017
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:50,440
SDD checked recently because that shit yoicks. You were always

1018
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,840
watching those videos on your iPad with the two women

1019
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:58,079
rolling around and cleaning each other. Yeah, that's they were doing.

1020
01:04:01,199 --> 01:04:08,400
Oh god. So I have a couple of announcements. First off,

1021
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,400
we want to assure everyone we have quashed all the

1022
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,840
bugs with the new toilets. Both the exploding issue and

1023
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,320
the unfortunate section issue with some of the units have

1024
01:04:17,519 --> 01:04:20,880
been resolved. There's absolutely no need to be afraid of them.

1025
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:22,719
Those of you who have been using the hallway to

1026
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,960
relieve yourselves please stop. We don't want to have to

1027
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,320
start using punitive measures. A couple additional patch notes, We've

1028
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:31,639
already added support for the languages that we're missing from

1029
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:33,599
our library. So those of you who are hearing this

1030
01:04:33,679 --> 01:04:36,960
and finally understanding what we're saying, for the first time. Welcome.

1031
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,960
You'll figure the rest out, I'm sure. Also with the languages,

1032
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,400
we have implemented full cross support for native speech, so

1033
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,039
now men are and speakers will understand English speakers and

1034
01:04:47,079 --> 01:04:50,239
so forth. The Pharaoh rabies d buff is now curable

1035
01:04:50,239 --> 01:04:52,440
with a health potion or a spell, and the contagion

1036
01:04:52,519 --> 01:04:56,079
is no longer airborne. Sorry about that. New Zealand, we

1037
01:04:56,159 --> 01:04:59,719
have removed the blender Fiend mobs. The mob's difficulty level

1038
01:04:59,719 --> 01:05:02,960
appear to be too high. Their collective gets stronger each

1039
01:05:03,039 --> 01:05:06,519
time they blend, and after working their way through a

1040
01:05:06,519 --> 01:05:09,000
group of fifteen thousand crawlers in a single day, we've

1041
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,480
been forced to take actions to prevent a premature extinction.

1042
01:05:11,599 --> 01:05:15,039
Event rest assured they will be reintroduced on a lower floor.

1043
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,719
The street Preacher neighborhood boss has been upgraded to a

1044
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,800
burrow boss. In addition, we have tweaked the strength levels

1045
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,000
of a few different other mobs, too many to mention here,

1046
01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:25,719
so just be aware of that. One last note, a

1047
01:05:25,719 --> 01:05:29,199
lot of crawlers are heading into the stairways prematurely. Again,

1048
01:05:29,559 --> 01:05:33,239
it's your choice, but it's probably best for you to

1049
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,000
get as much experience as you can, and just so

1050
01:05:36,039 --> 01:05:38,199
you know for later, we won't feature you on the

1051
01:05:38,199 --> 01:05:41,079
recap episode if viewers can't tunnel into your feed. So

1052
01:05:41,239 --> 01:05:43,440
if you hit the stairs three or forties before a collapse,

1053
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,360
you are going to miss out. That's it for now.

1054
01:05:46,719 --> 01:05:50,840
Keep up the good work and kill kill, Kill. So

1055
01:05:52,519 --> 01:05:55,159
this is something that I really want to address. We're

1056
01:05:55,199 --> 01:05:57,639
at the end of the chapter here, they get on

1057
01:05:57,679 --> 01:06:03,199
the bike and they start to drive away. But I

1058
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:09,880
think it's really purposeful that this author decides everybody's tutorial

1059
01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:15,559
time was like maybe pretty different from one another's, and

1060
01:06:15,599 --> 01:06:21,639
people are working with a different amount of knowledge. Mordecai

1061
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,880
has given our people enough that they know they cannot

1062
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,639
be attacked in the safe room, and so they can

1063
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:32,000
almost use it as a weapon against people who don't

1064
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:37,880
know that. If you are given a tutorial and somebody

1065
01:06:38,079 --> 01:06:41,639
doesn't include information or you don't think to ask, this

1066
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,840
is actually what it can be like playing a real

1067
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,320
video game, because there are so many things that they

1068
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:50,840
don't give you instructions on how to use. You have

1069
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,800
to figure it out, or you can go to Reddit,

1070
01:06:55,039 --> 01:06:56,920
or you can go to the wiki for the game,

1071
01:06:57,119 --> 01:06:59,920
or you can there's tons of resources out there for

1072
01:07:00,079 --> 01:07:04,840
finding the answers, but not everybody plays that way or

1073
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,800
knows that they're that information is out there. If there

1074
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,199
are people who like aren't as tech savvy, it doesn't

1075
01:07:10,199 --> 01:07:15,199
occur to them. So there are so many ways that

1076
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:20,000
you can like have advantages over other players without actually

1077
01:07:20,079 --> 01:07:22,440
intending to. It wasn't like you were trying to put

1078
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,360
them at a disadvantage. But you went to a wiki

1079
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:27,239
and you read up on a whole history of a

1080
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,440
certain thing and how it gets used later, and so

1081
01:07:29,559 --> 01:07:31,840
now you know, if I get so much of this thing,

1082
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,559
I should keep it because I need that for like

1083
01:07:33,639 --> 01:07:36,360
a really important potion. And they take forever to gather later,

1084
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,920
so I don't want to give them away when somebody

1085
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,599
else doesn't know that, And so they give theirs away

1086
01:07:41,639 --> 01:07:43,679
because they're worth a lot of money, so they sell them,

1087
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:46,960
and then later on those things are like crucial and

1088
01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:49,840
now they have to fucking find them again, and it's

1089
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,880
like a total pain in the ass and hours of

1090
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,519
play to go back into the game to do that.

1091
01:07:55,440 --> 01:08:00,000
So what I keep thinking about is just how much

1092
01:08:00,119 --> 01:08:04,440
this is like life, because we don't all get the

1093
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:08,800
same kinds of tutoring when we are young. We don't

1094
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,280
all have parents who have the same levels of knowledge.

1095
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:13,559
We don't all have parents who have the time to

1096
01:08:13,599 --> 01:08:16,479
be as involved with us as others are. We don't

1097
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,680
have parents who for me, Like, my father didn't speak

1098
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,640
English and that was a huge hindrance for me. My

1099
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:26,159
mother had never graduated high school. I was in a

1100
01:08:26,199 --> 01:08:29,239
situation growing up where my parents were trying to do

1101
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:31,640
the best for me because they knew their situations were bad,

1102
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:35,600
but they didn't know what they didn't know. So they

1103
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:37,600
were doing their best, but there was a lot that

1104
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:42,159
they missed because they just weren't given that themselves as children,

1105
01:08:42,199 --> 01:08:44,760
and weren't. My mom had me when she was seventeen

1106
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:49,600
years old, she got pregnant, so I like was born

1107
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:53,560
to a fucking child and she did her fucking best,

1108
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:57,960
God bless her. But like, it's a totally different way

1109
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:01,760
of growing up if you have parents who are settled

1110
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:04,439
and have stable jobs and have their own like stable

1111
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:08,600
parents growing up, it's a totally different experience, and it's

1112
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,600
really mimicking that in some ways. Everybody comes in here

1113
01:09:13,239 --> 01:09:17,960
in a different way. He came in from the cold

1114
01:09:18,039 --> 01:09:21,279
with almost no clothing on, so he's at this weird

1115
01:09:21,279 --> 01:09:24,079
disadvantage just because of how the weather happened to be

1116
01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:26,159
that night. And then there are other people who are

1117
01:09:26,199 --> 01:09:28,800
in a crowd and they get trampled just circumstantially because

1118
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,239
of how many people were out at the same time.

1119
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:36,159
And then this whole thing about all of the patches.

1120
01:09:37,119 --> 01:09:40,119
I don't know whether or not players who are killed

1121
01:09:40,199 --> 01:09:43,000
because of a fuck up in the coating if they

1122
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,199
can bring them back, because they clearly can do a

1123
01:09:46,239 --> 01:09:50,439
lot with transforming you in this game. But I'm assuming

1124
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:54,960
this early on that you're not getting brought back if

1125
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,600
you are killed because of one of their fuck ups.

1126
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:01,800
That just sucks for you. And yet again, another thing

1127
01:10:02,199 --> 01:10:05,239
they try and give you the illusion that you have

1128
01:10:05,319 --> 01:10:08,399
control in the game. We're giving you tools, we're giving

1129
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,439
you instructions, you have this many goals, you know, like

1130
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,399
all of this stuff. We're telling you how to play.

1131
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:19,359
But then there's a million weird, fucked up problems in

1132
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:23,319
the code itself that they are aware of, and they're

1133
01:10:23,359 --> 01:10:27,000
letting people play and just die anyway. They're fixing them,

1134
01:10:27,319 --> 01:10:29,560
but like people are dying in the meantime and it's

1135
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,159
not like they're getting a second chance. It just sucks

1136
01:10:32,199 --> 01:10:35,479
for them. That's just their bad luck and they you know, again,

1137
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,680
that's how it goes. We are told that we have

1138
01:10:39,319 --> 01:10:42,840
the tools and control to do, but then life just

1139
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:47,560
fucking hits you sometimes. You know. I am like my husband,

1140
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:51,880
he got COVID and is like his whole brain chemistry

1141
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,399
changed and he is like a different person now than

1142
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:57,079
he was and he's learning to cope and his energy

1143
01:10:57,159 --> 01:10:59,640
levels are finally improving. But it's been like three years

1144
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:03,000
since got it and he's just starting to feel slightly better.

1145
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:06,399
That was not something he had control over because we

1146
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:09,520
had a pandemic and we didn't fucking do anything about it,

1147
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,880
not really, And you know, like this shit just happens

1148
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:15,880
the whole like, oh, well, we've made it so that

1149
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,399
you can now like cure yourselves of this rabies thing.

1150
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:24,279
Sorry it's not airborne anymore. I'm just saying all of

1151
01:11:24,319 --> 01:11:30,439
this is a really, really good metaphor, and I wonder

1152
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,760
how many people reading this really get it. Like I'm

1153
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,520
not trying to be condescending when I say that I'm

1154
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:43,039
but my concern is so much of the time, you guys, know,

1155
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,159
there will be properties that have the most in my opinion,

1156
01:11:47,399 --> 01:11:51,840
overt narratives of like this is clearly an analogy for

1157
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,319
this and this is a metaphor for this thing, and

1158
01:11:54,359 --> 01:11:58,479
then people will just not get it at all, even

1159
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,560
though they loved the series, bring up how it's like

1160
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:04,520
this thing that's happening in current events, and they're like, what,

1161
01:12:05,159 --> 01:12:06,800
oh my god, why do you have to bring politics

1162
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:10,600
into this game, into this movie. And it's like, that's

1163
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:14,399
literally what it's about. What do you mean? So I

1164
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:18,920
am very very interested in like seeing if there are

1165
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,159
people out there who love this series and then get

1166
01:12:21,239 --> 01:12:26,359
like mad about the woke mob coming in. But obviously

1167
01:12:26,399 --> 01:12:28,800
for me, this is like my entire jam. This is

1168
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:32,880
what I love, So I'm into it. So oh sorry.

1169
01:12:34,119 --> 01:12:36,560
Rob says, I wonder if Natasha ever listens to her

1170
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:39,439
own takes once she's caught up on a series. No,

1171
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,399
I have not. I never have, because if she doesn't,

1172
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:44,680
she ought to. It's so fun to have knowledge of

1173
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:48,079
what happens, and she is so clever. Oh thanks. Rom.

1174
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:51,079
Michael says they could absolutely make the game non lethal

1175
01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:54,199
and still be fun to watch. People love watching Twitch streamers,

1176
01:12:55,279 --> 01:12:57,920
and the viewing interface here is way better, but it

1177
01:12:58,359 --> 01:13:00,880
is easier and provides more drama to let them die?

1178
01:13:01,039 --> 01:13:05,079
Why spend more money. True Dance says the critique of

1179
01:13:05,159 --> 01:13:08,880
capitalism is kind of the main theme of Dungeon Crawler. Carl, Yeah,

1180
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,319
I'm getting this sense, and Michael says, I don't think

1181
01:13:12,319 --> 01:13:14,239
this is an accident by Matt. I'm pretty sure he

1182
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put as much thought into the politics that can be

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interpreted from reading the series as you are getting out

1184
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of it. Yeah, I really like this can't And again,

1185
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:27,880
the way that everybody he talks to when he's like, hey,

1186
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so are like when do you get out of here?

1187
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Or like how does this work? And there's always sort

1188
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of like eventually, I'll you know. He talks to Tilly

1189
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at one point, and I feel like I kind of

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01:13:38,079 --> 01:13:42,840
like skipped over that. But Tilly also describes how he

1191
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wasn't a player in the game, that that's not how

1192
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it is for everybody. Sometimes there are people who are

1193
01:13:54,399 --> 01:13:58,720
like told that we won't mind your planet if you

1194
01:13:59,039 --> 01:14:01,720
come with us and work for us, and so that's

1195
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:07,800
what he did. I'm trying to find the Oh, yeah,

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I don't like this. Last season's version of the game,

1197
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:12,399
they break the people into groups, tell them their loved

1198
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ones will be safe if they kill others. Then everyone

1199
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,399
kills each other. They are safe, but they are not safe.

1200
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Is better dead? Squim SAPs the planet dry. It leaves

1201
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:25,520
planet moves on, no more atmosphere. People live after the

1202
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,520
big fight, but they don't live, not really born. At

1203
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,880
least gives people a chance. Tally's people had a chance,

1204
01:14:33,039 --> 01:14:36,680
and sometimes they come and offer to take people in

1205
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,199
exchange for not mining world. They came and I went,

1206
01:14:39,279 --> 01:14:42,359
this was very long ago. He says, this is very

1207
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,239
long ago. Mordecai said, like, that was a really, really

1208
01:14:45,319 --> 01:14:48,439
really long time ago. At one point, it seems pretty

1209
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:52,960
clear to me that whatever agreement they're signing up for,

1210
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:59,039
it's not like the timing of it isn't human time,

1211
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which just is very troubling. I don't care about that.

1212
01:15:05,399 --> 01:15:08,479
So Dan says, are you listening to the audiobook or

1213
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:12,600
the audio drama version? Oh, the audiobook for sure. The

1214
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:16,039
audio drama. I don't really love audio dramas. I totally

1215
01:15:16,119 --> 01:15:19,039
understand their appeal, but they often feel just kind of

1216
01:15:19,039 --> 01:15:22,319
goofy to me, you know, But this does seem like

1217
01:15:22,319 --> 01:15:25,960
a good series to do that with. So if it

1218
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,239
were free for me to like, maybe they have a

1219
01:15:28,239 --> 01:15:29,960
sample of it on audible. I don't listened to it

1220
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,560
just for the fun. Oh, Michael says, the audio drama

1221
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:35,399
is a lot more expensive, and I don't recommend it

1222
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:37,840
to anyone until they actually get into the series. They

1223
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,359
are goofy, but that's part of the fun. Well, and

1224
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:42,600
with this, I think maybe the goofy would work for it.

1225
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,479
But there was one that I listened to a while

1226
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:45,840
ago that was meant to be kind of like a

1227
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:50,079
serious procedural detective thing, and it really just didn't fit

1228
01:15:50,199 --> 01:15:52,039
like the tone of what they were trying to do.

1229
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:56,439
But this I think it might work anyway. Oh my god,

1230
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:58,359
I'm so far over time. I really have to rep bump.

1231
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,720
But I'm really enjoying this book so far, looking forward

1232
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:03,760
to listening to more of it with my husband also.

1233
01:16:04,359 --> 01:16:06,239
And it was lovely to have y'all in the chat

1234
01:16:06,239 --> 01:16:11,239
with me. Appreciate you all, Dan, Michael and Rob. Lovely

1235
01:16:11,279 --> 01:16:14,199
to have you. And if you're listening and you're enjoying

1236
01:16:14,239 --> 01:16:17,960
the coverage, I appreciate you. And don't like think about

1237
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,399
going over to patreon dot com slash unspoiled. You don't

1238
01:16:20,399 --> 01:16:22,039
have to pay any money, but you can become a

1239
01:16:22,079 --> 01:16:25,479
free patron, like I was saying, earlier and support me

1240
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,640
that way, and just like you know, it's helpful for me.

1241
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:32,159
It's just something you can do for creators across the

1242
01:16:32,199 --> 01:16:35,880
board now, is just get on there sort of like

1243
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,880
feed by going and being a free Patreon member if

1244
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,239
they offer that, and it's just a way that they

1245
01:16:42,239 --> 01:16:45,399
can get eyes on their work without having to depend

1246
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:51,399
on a algorithm to hopefully show you things. So just

1247
01:16:51,399 --> 01:16:55,039
to thought, all right, everybody, thank you again and until

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next time to the loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled

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network pat