WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.439 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:20.879 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters thirteen through twenty. In these chapters, 3 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:26.000 we are having to deal with a lot of different terrible, 4 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.839 new to us creatures, but also some very familiar creatures 5 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:39.719 human beings, especially shocker cops who could have seen this coming. 6 00:00:42.200 --> 00:01:03.439 Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I 7 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.120 am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning 8 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.079 this episode. And Michael is here in the chat today. 9 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:16.200 Oh and Dan came, Hi Dan again. Yeah. So this section, guys, 10 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.439 is riddled with some wild stuff. I had a good 11 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.599 time with this, and it feels like we are definitely 12 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:32.840 heading in the direction I was expecting. I am going 13 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.799 to point these things out as we go. But there's 14 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:45.120 a constant through line that repeats that I think probably 15 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.359 a lot of you are picking up on also. And 16 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.599 it starts because I like, actually went back and I 17 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:53.719 re listened to the beginning of the book with my 18 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:55.840 husband the other day because I thought he would really 19 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.200 enjoy it. And we've just gotten up to the part 20 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:02.120 where we read the boss battle, but he hasn't actually 21 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.920 gone inside yet, and so I'm kind of like, we'll 22 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:12.680 see how he acts that. But something that Mordecai says 23 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:18.919 is like, this is my last show, and after this one, 24 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.439 I'm free to do what i want. After this, I'll 25 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:26.159 be a fully fledged citizen. So I'm just going to 26 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.280 put that there to reference a little bit later. Let's 27 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:38.599 begin with chapter thirteen. So we start off with Carl 28 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.039 and Donut heading towards the body of this other crawler. 29 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.759 And it was a real fun moment because in the 30 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:53.520 audiobook Lutible Corpse Crawler, Rebecca Rebecca W Level three killed 31 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.680 by crawler Frank Q, and I love the line. I 32 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:03.199 felt as if I was slack because that was almost 33 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:07.439 exactly the reaction that I also had. It was sort 34 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:12.680 of remarkable, actually, because I shouldn't be prepared for people 35 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.680 to turn on each other, but I really thought that 36 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.599 would take longer. I really thought that we would have 37 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:22.159 our people turning on each other once we got past 38 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.520 a certain point and there were fewer of us and 39 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.159 we began to see each other as competing for resources 40 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:31.319 in a more real way. I never thought it would 41 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.800 happen this soon, and I should. I should have known better. 42 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:45.759 I really should. And then to like re emphasize their cops. 43 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:50.280 As we find out later, I mean, if you don't 44 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.439 already know how I feel about police in our country, 45 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.800 I don't like want to get into a whole thing, 46 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.639 but I think that they are sociopathic trash who think 47 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.120 they are better than the rest of the population and 48 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.400 are on power trips and our bullies and our low 49 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:15.199 key just like a tool of fascism, not even low key, 50 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.160 it's high high key, fucking totally. So for the first 51 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.360 people to turn on other human beings to be cops, 52 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:29.879 it feels like absolutely correct, just dead on pun into it. 53 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:37.879 So let us get into this because Dona, of course, 54 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.720 at first tries to be like, I'm not to scare 55 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.920 this guy. And there's an interesting moment here where Carl 56 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.319 is trying to find Frank on his map, or not 57 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.000 really Frank specifically, because I don't think you can do 58 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.360 that unless they're in your party, but you can see 59 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.120 blue dots and he's trying to see if they're any 60 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.160 near him, And even as he's look he's wondering, is 61 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.759 it possible for them to hide from me? Like I 62 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.759 don't really know how this completely works, and they may 63 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.079 be there, and I just can't tell, which is unnerving him. 64 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.279 Christ another thing to worry about. A crazy asshole with 65 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:21.360 a gun. I was suddenly, inexplicably reminded of that day, 66 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.079 the last day I ever saw my father. You're a bully. 67 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.040 You're a bully, and nobody likes you. It's why mom left. 68 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.920 I was expecting him to get angry to hit me, 69 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.639 but he never hit me, not once. The man just 70 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:40.439 laughed and laughed, and that was enough. I don't need 71 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.199 you to like me, but you will respect me. The 72 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:47.759 memory came quickly out of nowhere. I didn't know why. 73 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.839 Nobody had died that day, Nobody had been hurt at all, 74 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.560 not physically. So the fact that this happened right after 75 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.680 a crazy asshole with a gun leads me to believe. 76 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:02.439 Because there's a point earlier where he mentions how his 77 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.600 mother used to lock him in the basement to keep 78 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.879 him away from his father and his dad's friends because 79 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.279 they would drink and start to really act up. And 80 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:18.439 my interpretation of this association is that his dad got 81 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.639 drunk and had a gun and was fucking around and 82 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.040 thought it was really funny and was trying to like 83 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:30.680 establish dominance somehow in a moment and this is this 84 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:32.759 kind of got to me a little bit. Guys, I'm 85 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:38.879 gonna admit because my father was a similar type. I 86 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:40.720 don't I don't want to call him a bully, because 87 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.000 a bully is somebody who really enjoys this, and I 88 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.439 don't think that my dad really did. But he was 89 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:54.879 definitely the type of person who never actually, like physically 90 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.319 lashed out, but would make it clear that he was 91 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.240 having to strain himself, and so there was always a 92 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.959 threat of violence in the air. And eventually once he 93 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:10.360 did lose it. But I got myself behind a door 94 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.680 and he broke the door in half. I don't know 95 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.720 what he would have done if I hadn't gotten behind 96 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.759 that door. And it was like the I don't need 97 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.720 you to like me, but I will respect me in 98 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.879 a vacuum. I actually think that's fair, you know. I 99 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.279 don't think it's a great approach, but I could see 100 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:34.240 why you would take it. But there are people who 101 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.519 really seem to think that being liked means that you 102 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:47.399 are somehow weak or compromising yourself. And I'm just really 103 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:53.480 kind of fascinated at Carl's reaction to this moment, being 104 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.560 this memory in combination with his mother trying to protect 105 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:02.160 him from his father, who he admits here never actually 106 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.560 did hit him, because there is something about the threat 107 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.319 being there even when the action isn't there that is 108 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:14.680 so much. It's so manipulative. It's a really different kind 109 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:21.000 of threat and mental fuckery that I think a lot 110 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:26.439 of men think. Because they're not hitting, it's not as bad. 111 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.879 It's like excusable. Actually, maybe it points out what a 112 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.200 good guy they are because they haven't raised their hand 113 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.639 to you, and so all the other shit they're pulling 114 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.120 is nothing because it's not like they hit you. And 115 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.480 because the bar for men is on the fucking floor 116 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.440 beyond the bar for men is a tavern in hades, 117 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:49.840 they really often will believe that as long as I 118 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.120 am not beating the shit out of you, I deserve 119 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:57.519 a fucking cookie. So I'm just gonna be sitting here 120 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:00.279 waiting for more info on his father and what that 121 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.360 guy was like, because I feel like that's going to 122 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:13.480 be informing some things probably, So anyway, the uh. There's 123 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:17.559 a moment here where Dona is insisting that the woman 124 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.600 was killed by a cocker spaniel with a gun, and 125 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.600 he has to point out that like that she isn't 126 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.639 able to even fire a gun because of her being 127 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:33.919 a quadruped, and some imbecile with a gun doesn't scare me, 128 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.000 and they shouldn't carry scare you either. So he tries 129 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:42.639 to say, this guy doesn't scare me either, and then 130 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.679 it made me irrationally angry. In fact, I think you're right. 131 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:48.879 I want to find him if we can. Let's stick 132 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.039 to the neighborhood. We'll hunt down the remaining red dots. 133 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.440 Then we'll go back to the safe room and watch 134 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.759 the premiere. You're not scared of that guy, really, no, 135 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.440 not at all. Well, then you're crazy. I don't like 136 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:05.159 you being crazy. I'm scared of him. We need to 137 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.080 stay away from him. What if he'said one of those 138 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.360 murder hoboes you hear so much about. Just two seconds 139 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.039 ago you said, and I quote some in this cell 140 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.759 with a gun doesn't scare me. Yeah, that's when I 141 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.840 thought you were being a pussy. I didn't realize you 142 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.720 were getting all Charles Bronson death wish on me. So 143 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.080 that was interesting. Her just trying to, like, you know, 144 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.639 get him psyched up because she doesn't understanding like the 145 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.960 headspace that he's in. And it's funny because initially I 146 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.360 think he was sort of just overwhelmed at how awful 147 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.000 this is a woman being killed by another person. But 148 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.279 the memory of his father comes back to him, and 149 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.639 it seems like he is definitely feeling away about this 150 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:56.120 man that is motivated by personal experience. So we go 151 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.600 to chapter fourteen and we get the premiere of Dungeon 152 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.320 Crawler World Earth. So first of all, these beings can 153 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.320 like go virtually into the scene and experience it in 154 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.919 a way, which is apparently not like super popular, but 155 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.679 it is an option. Many viewers didn't like the VR versions, 156 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.399 so they watched using a method where they had a 157 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.240 bird's eye view and they could zoom in and out 158 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:28.440 and angles and switch angles at a whim. We didn't 159 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.039 have any of that. The show streamed on the center 160 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.159 of the three televisions over the fast food counter, and 161 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.960 there were there four just over four million when we start. 162 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:42.480 This is not a good way to watch the show, 163 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.240 Tally announced. As the title appeared on the screen, the 164 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.759 screen jerked around like I was watching someone play a 165 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:51.320 game on Twitch. The view kept randomly zooming in and out, 166 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:55.039 sometimes focusing on nothing in particular, sometimes lights flash for 167 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.000 no reason, And I thought that this was sort of interesting, 168 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:03.320 the idea that, like the view that for whom it 169 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:08.799 matters most, the players, that they are not granted a 170 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:13.120 view of what's really happening. I feel like this is 171 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:17.759 a metaphor that, you know, there's sometimes lights flash for 172 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.279 no reason, zooming in on nothing in particular. It's feeling 173 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.720 a little bit like we're trying to disorient you on 174 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.960 purpose so that you don't know or sympathize with, or 175 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:34.399 have like a plan, you know what I mean. Just Also, 176 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.360 there is an orange hued four eyed lizard like creature, 177 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:41.840 so it turns out that they are very alien like. 178 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:43.720 I was sort of thinking that maybe the creatures would 179 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.240 make themselves look like the creatures within the game to 180 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:51.159 sort of be a cohesive theme for the overall like 181 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:55.279 look of this season of the show. But it turns 182 00:12:55.320 --> 00:13:00.240 out that it is not how they're doing this. So 183 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:09.519 there's the Squim Conglomerate Battle for the planet aarrol thousands 184 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.279 of furry gorilla like creatures screaming and rushing into a 185 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.480 battle against a group of similar creatures. Later, it showed 186 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.159 a single heavily armored gorilla stick a spear into the 187 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.080 throat of a smaller, gray colored gorilla riding a massive 188 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.960 pig thing. The word winner appeared on the screen. The 189 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.720 winning gorilla fell to his knees and appeared to start 190 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.840 sobbing before the screen cut away. A round metal two 191 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.120 but that looked like a barrel appeared on the screen 192 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.440 for fifteen seconds straight. There was no sound. Tally said 193 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:42.759 it was a commercial, which that's wild, But it's interesting 194 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.600 to see these other creatures and the way their fight 195 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.200 is done, because apparently there's like, you know, different ways 196 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.000 that they will set these up. So that one was 197 00:13:52.039 --> 00:14:01.799 more of a colosseum and the oh my god, I'm sorry, guys, 198 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.639 I'm losing track of where the spot is here it is. 199 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.440 Next came a view of Earth. Music swelled, and they 200 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:14.360 show all of these, like, first of all, diagrams of humans, 201 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.360 and it's so weird, he says, a discussion of human 202 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.360 anatomy with an enorm inordinate amount of time spent discussing 203 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.480 discussing male testicles and female ovaries. And I was just like, 204 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.840 you could just say testicles and ovaries. That was a weird. 205 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:33.679 Why would you? Next came a long line of shots 206 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:38.879 of Earth focusing mostly on urban areas. And it's interesting 207 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.200 when he says, I still couldn't understand most of what 208 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:43.440 the commentator was saying. I was sort of like, are 209 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.519 the testicles and overaries going to turn out to be? Like? 210 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:47.480 Is that going to be a hint that something else 211 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.320 is going on here? And he just couldn't understand well 212 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:53.919 enough to tell. And of course this is when they 213 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:57.799 do the thing that also white people do about like Africa, 214 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.159 where they'll show all of the worst parts of a place, 215 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.759 and you know, I have no doubt that Sarah McLaughlin 216 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:09.360 music is probably playing over this entire montage, but you know, 217 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.840 they were cherry picking the shittier parts of the planet, 218 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:17.679 and they even chose scenes from disaster movies. And I 219 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:22.720 love how incredibly gullible Doughnut is. This is definitely it's 220 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.000 kind of funny that she has this real like power 221 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.200 in her own charisma and ability to talk people into stuff, 222 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.600 but also apparently has like no ability to protect her 223 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:38.759 herself from that regarding others. And so yeah, she's like, 224 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.279 I didn't really, I didn't realize Earth sucks so bad, 225 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.200 Oh my god, And he's like, that's not how it is, 226 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:50.399 not his was the world is gone. They're making it 227 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.679 look like they're the good guys saving us from ourselves. 228 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.279 So then we see some of the other people coming in, 229 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:05.080 thousands of people and there are like trampling one another 230 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:10.320 to get inside because like, obviously it was the middle 231 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.519 of the night for him, and so most of the 232 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.879 people in his area were inside and asleep. But on 233 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:17.600 the other side of the world, it's gonna have been 234 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.600 the middle of the day, so more people are probably 235 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:23.919 going to be outside. Also, in different climates, people are 236 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.360 going to be you know, they won't have a roof 237 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:34.200 over their head necessarily, and let's see and they okay, yeah, 238 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:38.039 there's different groups of people that they show and of 239 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:43.759 course eventually when things end, Dona is really offended because 240 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:46.320 they weren't featured, and she felt like their boss battle 241 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.320 was so awesome and intense that they definitely deserved to 242 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:54.919 show up. And I think that she just overestimates how 243 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.519 intense their battle was. You know, it's not a cinematic, frankly, 244 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.360 to have like one dude also beating the shit out 245 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.759 of like an old fat lady while a cat just watches. 246 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:10.319 You've got ten people all shooting at once at a 247 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.279 pile of mouths and eyeballs. That's a lot more interesting 248 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:17.160 to watch, probably, But you know, Dona always thinks that 249 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.279 she is the most fascinating thing in the room, so 250 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.839 it's fine. I'm sorry if you can hear my dog 251 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:29.720 drinking water like a maniac. So let me get another announcement. Uh. 252 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.240 You'll be getting these announcements after each episode. A couple 253 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.400 quick patch notes the firefinger spell should be safe to cast. Now. 254 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:40.160 We fix the hallway bathroom bug, so if you open 255 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.160 the door and someone else enters there, they will no 256 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:47.319 longer explode. Sorry about that reminder, hallway bathrooms are personal 257 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.799 spaces and can't be shared. We also fix the unlimited 258 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.960 toilet paper bug. Now you're only getting one roll per floor, 259 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.920 so if you waste it, you're on your own. One 260 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.640 roll per floor when the floors can last for days 261 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.440 and days. I don't feel like that's adequate, especially with 262 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.759 the situation that people are going to be in eating 263 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:10.119 God knows what you want to be prepared for more 264 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:14.400 than that, in my opinion. We have a long list 265 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.039 of fixes with a new inventory system for right now. 266 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.400 The two big ones we've already patched are that you 267 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:23.000 can no longer transport mobs to your inventory in order 268 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.279 to kill them. Also, any momentum and item might have 269 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.240 while it entered the inventory will no longer be preserved. 270 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.640 It's now safe to extract items you put into inventory 271 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.440 while moving at a high rate of speed. Remember this 272 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.880 inventory system is a privilege and it's not meant to 273 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.920 be used as a weapon. While we love and admire 274 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.400 your creativity, any unintentional exploits will be patched, So if 275 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:49.920 you find something that has an unintended feature, don't get 276 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:54.119 too comfortable using it. And then she talks about how 277 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:58.720 they're starting a new thing where if people go downstairs 278 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.519 to the next floor too early, they will be put 279 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.240 in stasis and they will be kept there until after 280 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.359 other people get to go down. So even if you've 281 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:10.279 got to the stairs first, technically you aren't going down 282 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.680 until after the other people have art, So you aren't 283 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:19.240 helping yourself at all. And not only that, the whole 284 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:27.359 like the way that it all emphasizes viewership and patrons, 285 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.480 you are going to lose a lot of support if 286 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.200 you go into stasis, because people are going to lose 287 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:41.039 interest in you. I really love this for a particular 288 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.880 personal reason so I don't know how many people listening 289 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:49.400 to this are also online creators. If you are, you 290 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.519 are going to get exactly what I'm talking about instantly. 291 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.960 But there is something that has happened over the past 292 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:00.440 three years, I would say, really that has changed utterly 293 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.720 the way that being an online creator works. I was 294 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:09.079 making over one thousand dollars a month more than I 295 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:15.160 am now in twenty twenty one, and a lot of 296 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:17.480 that was due to the pandemic making it so that 297 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.039 people had a lot of extra income that they weren't 298 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:23.799 using on going out and stuff, and so they were 299 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.960 throwing it at projects that were getting them through. But 300 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.720 also we hadn't had this kick of inflation that we 301 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:32.759 have had that has made so many people have to 302 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:38.240 buckle down. And there's another thing that has happened, the 303 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:43.920 change in how algorithms work, which has made it so 304 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.920 that if you are a creator and a certain type 305 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:50.680 of video explodes that you make. Let's say you're somebody 306 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:57.440 who paints and you normally do a variety of types 307 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:01.319 of painting and for whatever reason, this one video that 308 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.799 you posted of painting a D and D miniature goes viral. 309 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.400 Normally you have a wide variety of different videos that 310 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.640 you post, but this one thing goes viral and that 311 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.839 starts to be all anybody asks for. And when you 312 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.440 don't post anything about like that's similar, your views drop 313 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.599 and then your income drops. So what do you do? 314 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.359 You start to do what the algorithm is pointing out 315 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:31.039 people want, and doing mostly D and D miniatures, even 316 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.680 though that's not really the point of what you were 317 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.319 trying to do. It's not something you particularly enjoy. And 318 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.799 not only do you have to do the thing just 319 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:43.480 to get the views, but you also have to make 320 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:48.039 sure that you're always posting, otherwise you fall off people's 321 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:52.759 feed entirely. If people don't post for like, you know, 322 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.799 a week at a time, the algorithm starts to deprioritize 323 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:01.279 their posts totally, and it gets really really difficult for 324 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.680 creators because they want to post a satisfying video, but 325 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.640 they also have to make sure that their project gives 326 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.799 them enough footage that they can make several videos out 327 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.759 of it in order to cover that between time. So 328 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:17.319 all of this to say that you have to be 329 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:21.880 so careful how much you dole out, how well edited 330 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.400 that is, and how satisfying it is to keep people 331 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:29.559 wanting to watch you, and you don't get to do 332 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.160 just what you are moved by anymore. You don't get 333 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:36.440 to create based on what you are good at or 334 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:39.119 what you enjoy. You have to create based on what 335 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:44.039 the algorithm decides to show people. And it changes completely 336 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.440 your relationship to your own work. It changes your relationship 337 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:50.519 to your fans too, because people who have chosen to 338 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:54.880 follow you don't necessarily see your work because once they 339 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.680 follow you, you get buried. So it's like you stop 340 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:01.920 having that relationship with people that recurringly show up in 341 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.200 your comments, and it starts to be lots of strangers 342 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:07.559 who are seeing your work for the very first time 343 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.160 because this reeal went viral and it just popped up 344 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:12.880 in there for you on TikTok, or it popped up 345 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:16.799 in the real section on a Facebook. And this means 346 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:18.920 that you don't get to foster the kinds of one 347 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.920 on one relationships with fans that leads to them deciding 348 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:25.640 to financially support you, whether it's buying your work or 349 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.920 becoming a patron, a patreon or whatever. So it takes 350 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.559 a lot of the like personal connection out of it. 351 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:35.799 It takes a lot of the joy out of it 352 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.880 for creators, and it makes it so that if you 353 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:43.240 are not constantly creating and constantly posting, you disappear and 354 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.079 nobody cares about you, or if they do care about you, 355 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:48.279 it takes a while for them to realize why they're 356 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:50.759 not seeing you anymore, and then they have to like 357 00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:53.480 opt into that, even though they already followed you, which 358 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.039 most of them thought was them opting in. It doesn't 359 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:58.519 work like that anymore. Now you have to click see first, 360 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.119 or you know, any number of other ways that you 361 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:08.200 can handle it. So it's really difficult because if you 362 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:13.480 don't try to appease the algorithm, then your work begins 363 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.680 to slide further and further under the radar. And I 364 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:20.160 had I think, like thirty five hundred likes on Facebook, 365 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:23.319 and I was getting an average of thirty five views 366 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:27.400 per post. I was like, it was like one percent, 367 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:30.599 half a percent. It was insane. They wanted to charge 368 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:34.279 me to show my posts when that was supposed to 369 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.079 be the point of their whole platform, And I just 370 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.000 gave up on it, and eventually they deleted my Facebook page. 371 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:42.880 I restarted it, but now I'm sort of feeling like 372 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:45.559 there's no point because if they're not going to show 373 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:47.240 anything anyway, then why am I going to waste my 374 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:52.200 time trying to specialize in a platform like appeasing that 375 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:57.400 platform when it's just such a vanishingly small number of 376 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.599 people that are even going to see it. Well, I 377 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:05.319 have basically almost entirely stopped using Facebook. I've post on 378 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:09.839 there automatically from things, but I am not there creating 379 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:16.000 for that, like platform and social media in general, I 380 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:18.559 have sort of given up on I post so that 381 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.680 people will see updates on stuff, but I am not 382 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:26.039 really very engaged, which I know is like the antithesis 383 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:29.599 of what people think our methods should be as online creators. 384 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.920 But it's not valuable to me anymore because it doesn't 385 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:38.480 show anybody or you know, Like, So what works now 386 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:41.519 for me is to be in my discord or to 387 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.880 post things like on the free level on Patreon to 388 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:47.920 inform people, encourage people to come to Patreon and become 389 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:50.599 a free level fan, because for those who don't know, 390 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.160 you don't have to be pay to become a fan 391 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.240 on Patreon, Patreon, dot com, slash and spoiled. You can 392 00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:59.559 sign up for free and I will post like updates 393 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:02.400 there so that if you were missing all the updates 394 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:08.640 on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, on Patreon, you're guaranteed 395 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.039 to get those updates because you have specifically opted in 396 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.599 and they don't mess with the algorithm. So anyway, all 397 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:19.640 this to say, I really love that. Like the angle 398 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:23.200 that this is all taking is so different with the 399 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.720 Hunger Games. The way that they play it in that 400 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:31.359 is very much based on like a Survivor TV show model, 401 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:36.759