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Through the Metro Glass (Metro 2033: Part - 2)
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I don't think I got any better at saying the names in this episode, but I gave it a try.
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00:00:00
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Oh, yeah, i bet. Yeah. Cover them up with blankets. Tomato plants. Yeah. Poor little baby tomato plants. um So, yeah.
00:00:11
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You know what else is a cold snap? What's that?
Introduction and Metro 2033 Part Two Overview
00:00:14
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hey there, everybody. Welcome back to Pixel. My name is Kevin. With me as always is Phil on today's show. We are doing part two of Metro 2033. Yeah, more more Metro. More more weirdness. ah The book carries on much like it did in the first five chapters. Very much.
00:00:36
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Where Artyom wants to do something. He doesn't really quite get to do it and he nearly dies. It's true that we have a running, but but with different people this time but with different sidekicks. And sometimes the sidekicks die. it's It's funny because like on one hand, as I'm reading this, it doesn't make any sense that this got turned into a video game.
00:00:59
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On the other hand... There is a cycle that makes you go, oh, yeah, this is very video game-esque. This is very video game, to like each chapter is a level pretty much. Right, right.
00:01:10
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And side characters. and it just, yeah, it just doesn't really fit the, it doesn't fit the game that it ultimately was made into. i was like, oh this is like, if, if like,
00:01:24
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The creators of Disco Elysium hadn't done Disco Elysium, but instead did Metro 2033. That could have been done as well. You could have made a Metro 2033 style CRPG in the style of Disco Elysium ah yeah very easily just because of how little...
00:01:47
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action there is undertaken by Artyom, even though he does think about shooting people randomly. And we'll get to that.
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00:02:43
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00:02:52
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today. Okay. Um, let's put the body in the marsh, right? Let's marsh that body. When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them in the marsh.
00:03:07
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the man but Okay, where we last left off, we were in Chapter 5. Artyom was ah basically saved by a stranger.
The Encounter with Khan and Metro's Mysteries
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We pick up in Chapter 6 with that stranger being woken up, or Artyom being woken up by that stranger and being ah formally introduced to him. He is ah the latest ah incarnation of Genghis Khan.
00:03:32
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I love Khan. Yeah, Khan is probably in the running for my favorite favorite side character and probably the one who lasts the longest amongst Artyom's side characters. Absolutely. I fucking love it. Yeah. Great character.
00:03:49
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RTM introduces himself and he's like, I don't know what my past lives were. um And Khan's like, okay. And they share some tea and sausage over a fire. RTM has some introspective moments of wanting to... ah ah of wanting to not know the things he knows now knows about the tunnels and bourbon and all that stuff. And then he hyper focuses on something else and asks Khan about whether it's really evening because Khan woke him up saying good evening. and they get into this discussion about the relative nature of time between stations because there's no sun to make time against. And then Khan has this long monologue in this moment where he talks about the nature of people taming time. Like we put time into these little boxes and all that stuff.
00:04:37
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Like, oh, OK, we're really getting or're really getting philosophical here. It really does have a shit ton in common with a disco Elysium more so than you would expect based on the game that came after it.
00:04:52
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Right. um After all this, ah RTM tells him about what happened ah to Bourbon, how Bourbon just basically turned to him and said, I have died. ah Khan tells him that it's the voices of the dead. And now that Bourbon has been killed ah by them, he joins them and he loses his sense of self. And he has now lost his ability to reincarnate.
00:05:14
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Um, it's very much death for the dead. ah yes. When Artyom goes through, ah Bourbon's bag, it's clear that Bourbon didn't have enough to pay Artyom for accompanying him. Uh, Artyom then asks Khan what to do, what they do with bodies at the station. And Khan tells them that there's a ravine in the alternate tunnel that they dump bodies into.
00:05:36
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Can i can i ask something real quick? Yeah. When I read this, do you recall, did it, did your copy of the game say that bourbon had a hundred grams of weed in his bag?
00:05:51
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ah Maybe. I don't have mine handy, but I remember a hundred grams of weed and RTM saying like being like really unimpressed with the shit that he has in there. And I'm like, that's a,
00:06:04
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It's a lot of weed. ton of weed that's i am i need We are pausing everything so I can look this up. Yeah, this is important. This is important. ah to do do To do the, there we go.
00:06:18
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And control F weed. Yeah.
00:06:25
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Uh, it do
00:06:37
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weed yeah 100 grams okay so that i i that was such an alarming amount of weed and his reaction isn't holy fucking shit that's a lot of weed he's like oh this fucking sucks this i should have gotten paid uh uh well you did son you you did i i assumed that that must have been some sort of Like typo on my copy of it or something. because No. So like, okay, I'm looking up. I'm on a, I'm on a weed webpage right now. Yes. um So like a gram is about, is one to two joints.
00:07:20
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Yeah. Estimated. Right. So, um yeah. So that is like a quarter of a pound of weed.
00:07:32
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I mean, it's like,
00:07:36
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It's like $700 worth weed. I was about to say, that's like less than $1,000, but still, Jesus Christ. Like, I can't even imagine how much that would be worth underground where nothing grows.
00:07:51
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Yeah. um That's crazy. That's nuts. that And for all intents and purposes, he just kind of like kicks the backpack off into the dark. He's like, God damn it. This sucks. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:08:06
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This is terrible. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me. Like, dude, dude, my cameras has decided to stop working again. Your your camera is the worst thing that ever happened to you.
00:08:18
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ah My camera is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. ever I'm restarting it. Yeah, do it. Hey, it's back. Oh, right. There it is. Yeah. So do do do do. Artem's like, all right, I'm going to go deal with this body and Khan. He starts going to do it. And then Khan like runs after him and stops him. he's like, I don't don't worry about it. I actually took care of the funeral rights while you were asleep.
00:08:46
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yeah Is Khan telling the truth? I don't know. ah he He might have been, but he's like, I burned it. Don't worry about it. Yeah, don't um don't don't sweat it. ah Khan mentions Artyom's mission ah as if it was it was something he saw in a vision featuring Hunter.
00:09:03
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ah Hunter invaded Khan's thoughts and was thinking about Artyom with desperation. Artyom tells him about his mission to get to police and con Khan tells him that he should have gone through the red ring from Prospect Mir.
00:09:16
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He's like, why the fuck are you you come coming this way? um Also, Artyom happens to have a map on him. That's called a guide. This was something that he got out of Bourbon's bag. According to Khan, it kind of updates and changes based on things happening in the metro station, but it requires you to be very in tune with the metro station. So it's like everything about Khan is super mystical.
00:09:39
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Like yeah he is the mystical, magical portion of the story that... Will ends for the most part when Khan leaves the story.
00:09:50
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Right. Right. He's just it's like it's like he he yeah I feel like RTM is like going to be meeting the people that you meet over the course of a life. You meet the the the stoner existentialist. like mystical, magical guy. you meet the shitty, you know, guy who offers you a great deal and fucks you over. Like we're gonna we're we're meeting all those people over the course of this journey.
00:10:19
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Right. um Khan then does some logistics with Artyom, pointing out the path that he had planned ah planned out wasn't going to work because the Reds had blocked off the entrance to one of the stations that he was planning on transferring at. and Then he plots out a new shorter route for Artyom.
00:10:35
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ah As they're walking, they come upon a fire where a bunch of folks are huddled and a man is telling a story about a plague infection at another story
Navigating the Metro's Perils
00:10:43
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at another station. ah There's a big hubbub as the guy finishes his story where a big bearded guy leads the charge to get the storyteller run off and killed because they think he might be carrying the plague.
00:10:56
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Con stops Artyom from saving the man because it would only put Artyom in danger. Khan then takes advantage of the unrest to put together an impromptu caravan to go on to the next station, claiming that the dead man had infected the air.
00:11:11
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The group discusses it, and then the thick-set man who killed the storyteller tells Khan that they aren't going because there probably was no disease. Khan then like says says to the guy, like, well, why'd you kill the the man then?
00:11:25
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And ah the heavyset guy's like, as a prophylactic person. Yeah. um They use that word a lot here. Yes. and ah And also because of the right of the strong. And then Khan basically just does like a Jedi mind trick to this guy and like stares him down and says, you have no right to use the right of the strong because you're weak.
00:11:49
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And the guy's like, okay. he yeah He's speaking my truth. He says this, he's saying this to, in my mind, he's saying this to every incel slash, you know, LARPer. I just, I fucking love it.
00:12:07
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this guy is This guy is basically ice and Khan versus ice. That's a battle I would like to see. I'm in. I'm in forever. that's how writing i'm writing I'm writing the fic right now. yeah ah then but ah and the The chapter finishes with Khan saying that these people are jackals, but he is a wolf and that Artyom is a wolf cub.
00:12:34
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I like it. I like it too. It felt a little like he was hitting on him. Yeah, a little bit. Which I'm with. I'm fine with that. Think about that relationship. Holy shit. Holy shit. um Khan and Artyom.
00:12:48
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Just like. Yeah. Yeah. just Just so just like if I go to archive of our own and look up the slash fiction. of Oh, my God. Yeah. Come on Tell me that isn't that's got to be there. I refuse to believe I'm I'm I'm sure it's there. I'm not going to Google it right now. But yeah we go on to chapter seven. The Khanate of Darkness is the is the title. ah They're traveling down the tunnel and everyone seems to be in a good mood. RTM asks Khan ah what it is about this tunnel that requires group a group to travel it. Why it sometimes swallows solo travelers ah into the darkness.
00:13:30
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Khan doesn't really know, but then talks about how it's like a black hole where darkness can swallow light. Khan then talks about, by the way, I've summarized that really briefly. Khan talks for literally pages about the essence of black holes and how they collapse and, and, and form. And and all like, if you didn't know about a black hole before,
00:13:53
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He doesn't just reference black holes. He explains them thoroughly to Artyom because, and it makes sense because why the fuck would Artyom know anything about black holes? Right.
00:14:03
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No, it makes it's a kind of great in that sense where it's like, RTM is just young enough that like, because I think they say that he was born above ground. Born on the surface, but went under immediately, pretty much. Right, right. So everybody who's like 10 or 15 years older than him has like access to this super so secret knowledge ah that is blowing his mind apart. And I get a real kick out of that. That's really interesting. It's almost like he's like explaining so us like a hard sci-fi concept, but it's black holes, you know? Yeah, exactly. It's yeah something that you have a hyper-focused interest in in in like sixth grade. Right, yeah. he's He's the high schooler you meet who's like, you're like, holy shit, what is this? And he's like, this is Vampire the Masquerade. And you're like, oh my God.
00:14:56
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that's This is is is like, do you fight in it? Yeah, but mostly you kiss. Yeah, you you kiss and and you get to wear black eye makeup and you're like, I'm in. Fuck. Sounds great.
00:15:09
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So ah as they, ah ah then he talks to Artyom through a visualization exercise in the tunnel to be able to see the sky. ah Khan admits that he cannot see it the way others can.
00:15:23
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ah He meaning Khan and can't explain why some can and others can't. They get to the next station and pass through it quickly, which Khan is happy about, but then he notices that the mood is changing. And he pauses to look at the guide.
00:15:35
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And he walks off into the darkness, and the thick-set, bearded man man approaches him to tell Artyom that everyone is worried about stopping at this station. While he waits for Khan, Artyom considers waiting waiting with the group and leaving with them, but then Khan suddenly reappears.
00:15:50
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ah he tells, our team tells Khan that everyone wants to leave, get out of there, and Khan mentions that the path ahead is filled with death and that the only way ahead is in the parallel tunnel, which people don't want to use because it's bad luck to go against the path path that the trains ran on. So they're basically, they're always going on the direction that the trains used to run and they don't want to go into the parallel side of the tunnel because bad it's bad luck Right.
00:16:20
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Local superstition, he calls it. um Everyone tries to convince Artyom to leave Khan behind, and one of them even pulls Artyom along ah when Artyom hesitates.
00:16:31
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Quickly, though, Khan hops off the platform and takes the man down and pulls Artyom away from the group. The group group tries to take him back, but Khan has a machine gun out and threatens them. Khan and Artyom go off ah into the other tunnel and are surprised by the thick set man who has decided to join them.
00:16:48
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He gives, ah he gives them his gun and he walks in front of them and his name is Ace. As they continue down the tunnel, they hear a howl and screams from the other tunnel. They carry on and Ace senses something behind them and Khan feels it too. And they break out into a run nonstop for nearly 10 minutes before RTM suddenly senses it.
00:17:08
Speaker
It's just refer referred to as it behind them. um I just decided to imagine Pennywise now at this point. yeah Yeah, that's only fair, honestly.
00:17:19
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um At one point, Ace falls and Khan goes back to get get him, which surprises Artyom. They carry on before the feeling of danger passes as suddenly as it came and they begin to laugh.
00:17:31
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They're only 50 paces from the next station, Katai Garod. They get to the checkpoint and are greeted by some guards who want to shake them down to get in. Artyom unexpectedly starts talking back to the guy who is massive.
00:17:44
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The guy throws Artyom and by way of collision, Ace, to the ground. But Khan pulls out the machine gun and says, why so rude? And I wrote it down as why so serious. I mean, yeah. It's yeah basically the why so serious moment.
00:17:57
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It's true. ah Khan negotiates the passage ah passage of two cartridges cartridges each and they carry on. Artyom still wants to kill the big dude but decides against it.
00:18:10
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As they get into the station and wander around, they watch some buskers get brutalized by one of the gangs that run the place. Khan tells Artyom the background of the gangs that run it and mentions it's not worth stepping in on their activities.
00:18:23
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Ace leads them to a place selling rat kebebs, which Artyom can't stomach due to his fear of rats, and then he goes off on his own and takes in more of the station. He finds a fermented drink, and he thinks about all he has done so far and what he's going to do next.
00:18:40
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Chapter eight, the fourth Reich. ah By the way, that's a picture app on Khan and Ace. Yeah. um Unceremoniously. well, our team is taking in everything. Gunfire breaks out back at the center of the station. He tries to get back to see what's going on, but has trouble fighting through the crush of bodies running the other way. Some gang has opened fire and one of the other gangs is fighting back. Our team wonders for a moment if this has to do with the dark ones, but then realizes that the dark ones don't wear clothing.
00:19:09
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ah He considers his options and realizes that the only that only one station pathway is open due to the firefight towards Konetsky most. On the way, he looks for on and for Ace and Khan, but he doesn't see them.
00:19:23
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He runs into an old man, though, having a cardiac event, and he helps him put the nitroglycerin tablet under his tongue.
Racism and Political Tensions in the Metro
00:19:30
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The old man has a boy with him who is practically feral. ah The man monologues a bit about why he was at the station, which is to get the medicine, and where the fascists are from and how they want to name a station after Hitler. ah eat He monologues for several pages before actually introducing himself. His name is Mikhail Perfer... Perfer... Perfer... I was doing so well.
00:19:56
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His name is Mikhail. Mikhail talks a lot and ah tells Artem about how he grew up surrounded by books up above before he was in the metro and all that.
00:20:08
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Artyom thinks about his new path and how he will need to need to get through Pushinskaya, where the fascists are, in order to get to Polis now. Artyom asks Mikhail about the fascists, and Mikhail tells him about how the fascists think that Caucasians are the dark ones, which Artyom is pretty confused about. Yeah.
00:20:29
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yeah yeah Because RTM doesn't know everything, but he has a an okay grasp on on what Caucasian means. It's like, aren't they just those just people regular people? And Mikhail is like, yeah. ah yeah yeah But it's like it's it's that really pro level of racism.
00:20:50
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ah where it's like, oh, okay, Caucasians are different from the Slavs, are different from the... It's like, no, no, no, no. no You can't just call white people Caucasians, right?
00:21:02
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there's there's different There's different flavors, man. And that's what the Nazis in this book are are really upset about. The swarthy people, which is anyone with dark skin, yeah and the Caucasians, um which is...
00:21:19
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To be literal, people ah who descended from the Caucus Mountains, right ah which technically includes Persians. yeah Yeah, they wouldn't consider them white, which is the irony. Yeah, yeah, right. Exactly.
00:21:32
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um the the The Caucus people being Persians and and the like. um Yeah. I believe if I'm remembering correctly. um Anyway.
00:21:44
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ah did Yeah, they think the caras Caucasians are the dark ones. um They stop and read some poetry on the wall that is written by the fascists in German. um And Mikhail translates it and he's like, yeah, in in Russian or in this case, English, it sounds pretty lame. But in German, it really sounds like...
00:22:06
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It's hot shit. It's hot shit. And Artyom starts getting annoyed about how slow they're going. Basically, everybody who is trying to escape the station ah has already passed them.
00:22:18
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Mikhail asks if Artyom really plans on ah going to Pushinskaya or if he would rather join them on the way to Barakadnaya. And Artyom just kind of shrugs.
00:22:30
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They arrive at Kuznetski most where the guards are slowly letting people in. Some folks, though, they turn away for seemingly no reason. Mikhail is let through easily, but the guy begins to give Artyom a hard time for having an old passport.
00:22:43
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Mikhail then pulls the guard aside and says and says that, hey, Artyom's a good kid. He's with me. The guard agrees to take a bribe to let them in. One of the big differences about the station as compared to the others is that there are train cars here and a lot of engineers live live at the station.
00:23:01
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Artyom and Mikhail find a place to rest and talk and Mikhail mostly talks about various stations, the old days, and they discuss that there are probably other metros that exist in other cities that might be doing something similar like St. Petersburg and and places like that.
00:23:20
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um Eventually, the border guard that let them in pokes his head into the tent and warns them that the Reds are looking for Mikhail for propaganda and slander. And they got to get going.
00:23:31
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Artem and Mikhail flee and Arzim ask what that was about. And Mikhail talks about how his circle of friends used to put together, they used to make zines ah and publish them out of Pushinskaya.
00:23:43
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ah Along the way, they come across the executed bodies of three people with some Nazi stuff written above them. Oh, yeah. As they get to the next station, the fascists are being fashy.
00:23:55
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Artyom is let through the guard gate, ah but then Mikhail and the boy, ah Venechka, are held up and made to strip. Artyom tries to intervene, but is held back by another guard while Venechka attacks the other guard.
00:24:10
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ah He's thrown off and shot in the stomach and then the head. Then Artyom grabs his gun through his rucksack and shoots one of the officers dead. turn turn Chapter nine.
00:24:23
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RTM needless to say is beaten and sentenced to be executed the following morning after being accused of being a spy and a Caucasian Zionist. Nothing changes, man. Nothing Nothing Artyom then has a dream that Hunter rescues him and they escape, but it's all wrong. And then he envisions Hunter is actually a rat who then turns around and says that Artyom is the one who is the cowardly rat.
00:24:52
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Artyom's got to get over his rat thing. The rat thing is holding him back. i mean It's really holding them back. It's true. Artyom then wakes up. It's only a few hours until the execution.
00:25:04
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Artyom spends a lot of time thinking about the method of execution and just envisioning it. He's like, they're going to walk me up there. They're going to have the rope but and the stool. ah And then the guy in the cell asks him what he did. And Artyom mentions that he killed an officer.
00:25:19
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ah And then he he's very thirsty and he keeps asking the guards for a drink. And they're like, the fuck no. Yeah. ah The guards then tell him that Mikhail, by the way, your friend Mikhail was killed, ah which Artem's like, yeah, that was to be expected.
00:25:35
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right He notices that the guards are wearing a three-pronged swastika, and the guard says it's for the three stations that they own, but when they capture police, there'll be a fourth.
00:25:47
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And then the other guard is like, you fucking idiot, it's because it's an ancient Slavic symbol. Yeah.
00:25:56
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It just, it's all the same. It's it's all the same. just I love it. I do. I really do. My God. RTM falls asleep again and is woken up by another prisoner named Ruslan who talks about how they executed his brother Ahmed right away. ah But since Ruslan doesn't sound like an Arabic name, they decided to hedge their bets and keep him alive for a little bit.
00:26:21
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So... Ruslan has a brother named Ahmed. they But because the guys because the guy's name is Ahmed, they kill him. But not his brother just because his brother's name is Ruslan.
00:26:33
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Yeah, it's ah it it makes about as much sense as most white so supremacist organizations. so ah sure Sure. ah The guards take Artyom to the gallows where he overhears the executioner complaining about the construction of the gallows because the rope ah because as it is, the rope won't snap his neck. It'll just slowly choke him out.
00:26:56
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He asks the hangman for water, and again, he's denied because the hangman's like, oh, dearie, it won't be long now. um The hangman, ah he's then hung, ah but before he loses consciousness, he hears gunshots and he sees yellow smoke.
00:27:10
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Artyom then wakes up in a cart, having been saved by a gang of communists. They are the first international red fighting brigade of Moscow metropolitan in the name of Ernesto Che Guevara.
00:27:22
Speaker
That's their full name. That's beautiful. Just... Everything about that is beautiful. They sound great. They sound annoying. I'm in. I'm in. These guys are fun and they have a dog. They agree to help March and get to Polus, but due to a run-in with the Nazis coming up from behind, they find they're unable to keep to accompany them any further and they have to keep going. They agree to drop them off at Pavlitskaya Station.
00:27:52
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ah They arrive at Pavlet's chapter 10. ah No pass Aran. ah They arrive at Pavlet's sky and promise Artyom that they will meet again because they don't die.
00:28:02
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and then they ask him to say along with him the words of Che Guevara, hasta la victoria siempre, ever on to victory. And no parason, they shall not pass in French. They say goodbye to him and motor away. They're just like...
00:28:19
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like the hand of God, save him from being executed yeah and then drop him off at the next station. And they just like, they they have a motorized cart that they're on and they just go off into the distance. Yep. It's just like,
00:28:36
Speaker
I love it. It's almost like Don Quixote levels of absurdity at some point. else it's It's hilarious. And and it's just they they come in, save his life, throw some Marxist you know ah talking points at him and later, goodbye. It's like later. Now say the the holy words of Che Guevara.
00:28:56
Speaker
Hasta la victoria siempre. um Farewell, communist angels, you. You magnificent communist bastards. Fare thee well. Exactly.
00:29:10
Speaker
They literally were there just to kill some fascists. Yeah, and he just happened to save him. They just happened to save him. We did this because we kill fascists. That's what we do. We kill fascists. That's what they do. They heard that the fascists were going to execute somebody, so they decided to stop by and stop that from happening.
00:29:31
Speaker
Yeah. That's it. That's all it took. Nice to meet See you later. See you later. Good luck on your journey. Yeah, exactly. um And what's funny is RTM is like, has no, he has no political beliefs. And it's like, it's, you actually believe him when it's not like a real, it's not like a person in today's day and age where they're like, oh, I'm apolitical. RTM is apolitical in that he just,
00:29:58
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it it it It just never has happened. Like there's no thing for him to believe in You know, right he he's lived in his station. is one station all his life. And now he's in ah on an adventure and he's been exposed to the capitalists at at Prospect Mirror and the fascists and now the communists. And he's like really getting a political education and down.
00:30:22
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Yeah. Yeah. And he doesn't, he doesn't have a 24 hour news cycle, uh, to help him determine what he should think and feel and believe he's, he's just, he's just dealing with it as they save his life. That's, that's so far. The unequivocal good guys have been the communists, um, that, that saved him.
00:30:40
Speaker
Yeah. And while the communists and the mystics, um, yeah, yeah. They've been the, have been the good guys, which I like that. I can live with that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah um The new station that he's at has a bunch of clocks, but there's no living quarters in the ah tunnel, but a lot of tradesmen. Artyom walks around and buys some mushrooms and water, and then he just kind of stares at a train car for a little bit, zones out.
00:31:06
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ah The train car has been been has been through it, burned and battered. After a few moments of considering the car, he walks back toward the station, and he finds that everyone has left.
00:31:16
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He goes towards the crossing, ah which is now shut and is told by the guard there that there's no admission to the station after eight and that there was little use arguing with him. Artyom finds a group sitting around a fire and asks if he can take a rest with them. And they mentioned that there is no resting at this station.
00:31:33
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Um... It's then that RTM notices that the metal shutter that would normally block the station's exit to the surface is missing. And it's a clean shot to the outside.
Cultural Challenges in the Metro
00:31:43
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And that there's like a, so they have like a searchlight going back and forth ah up the stairs.
00:31:48
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The duty officer explains that because of the water flooding that trickles down the steps and into the station or from above, that they need, they would need to build a concrete wall in order to fully close it off, which they don't have. So it just remains open.
00:32:01
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ah The station ultimately acts as a line of defense from the outside, which explains why none of the larger powers that be in the Metro have tried to capture it. The guards shoot someone off in the distance who begins wailing. RTM offers to put the man out of his misery, but they say no bother. They try to keep ah all their bullets for when they need it.
00:32:20
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At some point, RTM dozes off ah and one of the guys, Mark, wakes him up and takes him inside of the station that he didn't get to see the day before. There's a lot of gambling and such, including rat races.
00:32:34
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RTM says he needs to get to Pollyanka, which is in Hansa territory. And Mark points out that it will need a visa to get in. And since he doesn't have one, the only real ways to do it would be through gambling, using himself as collateral.
00:32:46
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Either he wins and gets a visa or he loses and is taken there as a slave. R. Jim doesn't want to do this and try selling his rifle for passage, but, uh, to the place, but no one's willing to take them up for it.
00:32:57
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Up on it. Time passes and it's evening now and the rat races are about to get going. And he sees Mark make a deal with somebody and then stand off to the side. R. Jim asks what Mark just did. Mark's like, yeah, i made a bet using you as collateral.
00:33:12
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Um,
00:33:14
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And the rat they bet on ah Rocket, basically gets stuck on a turn and stops running. They lose and are escorted away through some tunnels and into Hansa territory.
00:33:26
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He spends several days working as a sanitation technician, literally covered in shit, before he makes his escape using his now shit-covered clothes as an armor to ward people away.
00:33:37
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He runs on to the next station, ah Serpkovskaya station and Artyom finds his way down a passage that he isn't sure has an ending before he sits down and dozes off.
00:33:49
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He's then woken up by a name but by a man named Brother Timothy who wishes to spiritually heal him and takes him towards a place called the Watchtower. Artyom has found the Christians. There we go.
00:34:03
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And that's the end of chapter 10. laughter laughter laughter
00:34:09
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ah yeah That train's never late. We all knew it was coming. We all knew was coming. Here come the Christians. Right away, they're calling him Brother Artyom. yeah Yeah. So, Phil, how are you what do you think? By the way, folks, if I haven't mentioned yet, if we haven't mentioned yet, this is a four-parter just because of how frigging dense this book is. Yeah. ah it's it's It's one of the longest ones we'll have read.
00:34:34
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ah Because we're only we are literally only halfway through the book and so much shit has happened so far. um So, Phil, what do you think of of part two, s as as it were?
00:34:46
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it It really is an Alice in Wonderland style kind of a story. He is through the looking glass. Right. There's there's minimal actual storyline. He's Gulliver and traveling, you know? Yes. Yes, exactly. And he's just meeting. That's exactly what it is. It's that kind of fable style sort of thing, um which is pretty cool. And it is amazing.
00:35:13
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Thoughtful and interesting. And it's bizarre that it wasn't written this year. Sometimes ah it's, it's depressing how, ah how relevant some of these themes remain.
00:35:24
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um It's a good, it's a good story. It's, it's, yeah it's never boring. There's always a new story. a new thing that makes you go fucking what? Like, like you've got it. It's, and it is nothing ah like the game ah that they made based on it.
00:35:43
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It's fascinating. Yeah. And like, from what I recall, the game, when I looked up the plot the game, all these characters are like in the game, yeah but it's not, it's not like this, you know, where RTM has to cover himself in shit.
00:36:00
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to escape and run off to meet the Christians. At least don't think there's a sequence like that in the game. um Not so far as I've been playing I haven't reached that level.
00:36:14
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Yeah. So, yeah, i agree. It's a fun story in that, like, it's a it's one of it's a weird grand adventure where the adventure, though, is... Artyom's like, I i just...
00:36:30
Speaker
I was given a task. He had the call to adventure. Hunter's like, I need you get to Polis and just tell this guy what I'm doing. That's it. That's our team's entire mission is to go to Polis and find Hunter's friend and say, hey, Hunter is doing this thing.
00:36:49
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And since then, it's just been sub quests, like side quest after side quest. and um And none of them, it's like just, it's like task failed successfully, basically. Right.
00:37:05
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Right, right, exactly. ah um Because like probably the best yeah and like Khan was like the best guy to to be with.
00:37:16
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And Khan was like, oh, I'll get you there. Lickety split. I know the quickest way to go. And they're like and ah the the author, Dimitri, is basically like,
00:37:29
Speaker
nah, can't have this guy in the story for too long. oh and Absolutely not. Is he killed? We don't know. But you're not going fucking find him.
00:37:41
Speaker
He's not around anymore. He's not around anymore. so So don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it where like Artyom is now off and he got sold into into slavery for yeah a bad bet on a rat race and escaped his slavery ah by being covered in basically shit and running away so much. like Just being near people, they just didn't want to touch him.
00:38:13
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ah for many For many other characters and stories, that would be the entire book. I've been enslaved and I'm trying to escape slavery. This is just five like five days pass and Artem is like, all right, I'm out of here.
00:38:32
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that's It's about as many pages, frankly. i' am going to I am going to test how far my plot armor works. Right. Yeah. Take it to the extreme. Just see how it goes. Yeah.
00:38:46
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Yeah. I love it. So i love good for him. You know, good for him. Absolutely. I'm proud of him. He keeps, I am too. He's always, and he's always trying to do the right thing. Yeah. Have you noticed that with him is like, he's always trying to do the right thing.
00:39:01
Speaker
He's trying. He's not always succeeding, but he's doing his best. just he's just The poor kid's just confused by everything. not his fault. He's so confused by everything. He's like, why are all these stations so weird and unlike my home?
00:39:18
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I want to go home. That is absolutely the reaction I would have. it's like i just I'm done. I'm out. Yeah. ah But no, he's still going to polis just ah ah by way of, I guess, probably being baptized in the next next chapter. Who knows? Probably. Yeah. He's going to have to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Personal Lord and Savior. yeah ah Jesus Christ. is So far, he has been in and indoctrinated the... Hold the um ah haran
00:39:50
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The first international red fighting brigade of the Moscow metropolitan in the name of Ernesto Che Guevara. ah And Jesus. ah He's just acquiring some. He never became a fascist. In fact, the fascists tried to kill him.
00:40:05
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um so ah Good for RTM. Good for him. Yeah. All right. So that's, that's that.
00:40:17
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Phil, I have one question to ask you then. oh please.
00:40:23
Speaker
What are you playing? Oh, it's an email. It's an email. oh so Oh, from from field killing. He arrives. I am playing this game.
00:40:37
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It's game Crazy Go Nuts. Ha ha ha. man. It started out as the the it started out as the merchant from Resident Evil 4 and has devolved into Strongback. Very quickly devolved, it it just which is the only way to do it, if you ask me.
00:40:56
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ah I've been playing. I played a demo. i played so i played some stuff this week. It's been good. ah I played a demo for a game called Run Tavern Quest.
00:41:08
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Um, so you, you should try this out. This is fascinating. It is based on the old 1979 kind of mud, uh, adventure games.
00:41:20
Speaker
Um, but you are not playing the game. You are the computer program that the person is playing against you're the CPU. And you are your player is the biggest idiot on the planet, just the biggest murder hobo schmuck you've ever seen in your life. And you never know how he's going to react to the different stuff you throw at him, which is not wouldn't be such a big deal, ah except that the whole point of it is you want him to win the game and not quit.
00:41:55
Speaker
Got it. It fascinating. So you've got to time things out just right because he's not good at what he does. Like he gets a choice of weapons and he chooses a can of beans. He's that kind of player. Okay.
00:42:09
Speaker
And if he gets too frustrated, he'll quit and that's not good. And if he, you know... And there are things that you can do that you think are going be going to be a surefire way to getting him to ah to win. But Steve ah is the kind of guy who nobody can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
00:42:29
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ah ah No one. I'm sorry. No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. ah Quite like Steve. What's the name of this game? It's called Run Tavern Quest. Tavern Quest is one word.
00:42:42
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um It is really funny. ah It's fully voice acted based on the demo. Oh, my God, man. it's it It's very old school. Like this is for the old grognards. This is this is a fun, fun kind of thing ah for any of us who have played these games in earnest ah to try out. A lot of fun. I'm definitely intrigued enough to to keep an eye on it ah to pick up the full game, which came out this month.
00:43:13
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ah Really very cool. I had a lot of fun with it. I'm just looking at it and, you know, obviously with our so our current Strong Bad ah impression, now I'm just thinking of, ah but you cannot get you fast. Yeah.
00:43:34
Speaker
It's very that. It's, it's yeah, it's it's a really interesting game. um I love it. i love I love that kind of thing. i love I love the retro vibe. It's clearly made by someone who played those games, who loves those games, and found a clever way of of getting you into it in a new way. really enjoyed that.
00:43:58
Speaker
I am downloading it. Yeah, i think you'll I think you'll really enjoy it. um I played a free a game called Watertight, um It is very iron lung.
00:44:12
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ah It's a horror adventure puzzle game. um Takes about half an hour to play. ah It's ah you're at a in a submarine ah somewhere at the bottom of the ocean and ah the submarine is shut down and you've got to bring it back online. And there are different ways to do that. Different, ah you know, pretty, pretty.
00:44:34
Speaker
Basic puzzles that you've played before in games like Resident Evil and that sort of thing. ah Totally free. Very satisfying. Also fully voice acted and not half bad, to be completely honest. um Again, I think very inspired by things like, uh, uh, iron lung.
00:44:54
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Um, and it's totally free. It takes half an hour to play. And I, I enjoyed myself. Uh, it's got a good ending. Uh, cool stuff. I, I enjoyed that one. Um,
00:45:07
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And I'm playing ah Valkyria Chronicles ah right now on on my Switch, which is I played Valkyria Chronicles 4 when it came out, oh, seven or eight years ago.
00:45:22
Speaker
And ah they had a sale going on on the Switch for... both one and four because two and three, I think we're both on PSP or something like that. And it's impossible to find. Right.
00:45:35
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ah And ah it's it's a really fun kind of like World War II-esque kind of world. And it's it's a it's a a turn-based strategy game. And you've got your soldiers and you can place them on the map the way that you see fit based on their jobs and that sort of thing. And very shining force, uh, in the combat system. I love me some shining force.
00:46:04
Speaker
It's a great game. Uh, it, it made me think of that quite a bit and it's done by Sega. I believe Sega made it. Uh, and it's also on steam, but you can get it on switch too. Um,
00:46:14
Speaker
And man, I'm having fun with it. This is it's really one of the I've been getting really good at finding the games that are kind of perfect to play on your handheld while you're just dicking around. um It's a lot of fun.
00:46:30
Speaker
ah ah You know, like a lot of these these Japanese games, there's a shit ton of plot. Sure. It's done in a very clever way, though. It's got kind of a storybook element, and and there you get to a new chapter, and you pick...
Gaming Review: Valkyria Chronicles
00:46:45
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uh the different parts of the chapter and some one of them at least one of them will be a combat uh scenario and other ones will be storyline and and that kind of thing and you'll learn about your characters and it's a lot of fun uh it's so really it's really yeah it's really good you've got a lot of the r and d your weapons and your tanks you got a tank uh which is fucking sick it's so much fun to play in the tank um I'm really enjoying the hell out of it. I think it's ah it's a ah really, really very good game. Cool.
00:47:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's basically me this week. What about you, Kevin? What are you playing? I am installing Watertight and run Tavern Quest, so to speak. ah What am I playing? I have been playing ah ah ah a bit of Divinity Original Sin 2. I actually had i had started it and bounced off of it like a bajillion times. I think my main problem was i had been playing it
00:47:49
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trying to play it on my Steam Deck. And i know there are folks that really dig on Baldur's Gate 3 and the Divinity games using a controller.
00:48:01
Speaker
i am just not that kind of person. i need to I need a mouse, I need a point, and I need to click. Especially for that style of game. Yeah, yeah. No, they do. Larian had done a great job with controller support, right? It's it's very good. I just, I don't know. there's some There's a wall, and I can't get over that wall. I need i need a mouse to do it.
00:48:24
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um And I'm liking it so far. It's actually a lot of fun. it's it's It's, you know, more difficult than expected, ah but I'm digging it.
00:48:35
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ah I've also been playing the seance of Blake Manor. i played had played it a little bit before last week's episode. I started up more, played it a bit more. ah It is a fun game. Phil, I think you would really like this. I keep looking at it. I really need to. I really need to. I think you would like it. ah It is a mystery game ah and you're just like, it's like, imagine if you had it's like Curse of the Golden Idol meets a little bit of ah Outer Wilds, Outer Wilds in the way that it handles like laying out your information and ah and the Return of the Obra Dinn
00:49:20
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ah like kind of all mixed, like little teeny, teeny little bits, like bites of of each of those. And then throw it into ire throw it in Ireland um and with with Irish history set on ah as as they're approaching Samhain or as as if you only, if you pronounce that word phonetically, it's Samhain. Samhain. Yeah. so But it's Samhain.
00:49:52
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ah The, ah which always off topic, the Ghostbusters episode ah really did me dirty as a kid because the ghost name, the ghost name was Sam Hain.
00:50:07
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Right. Oh, and right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:13
Speaker
But it's, it's Samhain. Yeah. Yeah, so there's that Sands of Lake Manor. ah Digging it so far. um And what else? Oh, you know what I just installed? because that Metro 2033 got me in the mood to actually try it out. And this is another book that we're going to be reading, i think, this year. I might have put it on the calendar.
00:50:37
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um So, Stalker, Shadow of Chernobyl. It's another game that is based on... um ah based on a book. so we're And we're doing more and the more of those.
00:50:50
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yeah Roadside Picnic being the book. um And Stalker's Shadow of Chernobyl. There's also a movie called Stalker. um so both the game and the movie are based on a book called Roadside Picnic. So I installed that just to to check it out. Because Metro 2033 clearly elements is clearly has elements
00:51:13
Speaker
of Roadside Picnic and Stalker kind of in it. And it's so much that they, that Dimitri refers to like the superhero people that, that go out and go out into the world are called stalkers in, in, ah in Metro 20, 2033's universe. ah Artyom is clearly not a stalker.
00:51:39
Speaker
Very much not. He probably, if he was a stalker, he probably would not be having as much trouble as he's been having. Probably not. Getting across the metro. um But yeah, so that's ah that's what I've been playing. But first, I do want to talk about what I've been seeing. i went and I saw Iron Lung in the theater.
Movie Review: Iron Lung
00:52:07
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And I gotta say... I really liked it. I've heard really good things. yeah I feel like HBomberguy's letterboxed review of it was probably best
00:52:25
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closest to ah my feelings on it after i i had, I was like, I have some thoughts on it. And then I read his review and I was like, um i was like, okay. That's, that's, that's good. That's, that's actually my, my thoughts on it. So I'm just going to read his, ah his review real quick.
00:52:49
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um There's a trilogy of movies adapting... Not a stupid... Pop-up. Uh, go away. Uh... Damn it.
00:53:01
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There's a trilogy of movies adapting the first mobile suit Gundam. It's about seven hours total. It gets boring and stretches stretches and it keeps going and going. And as more horrors of war are inflicted on the cast, you start to miss the boring bits. You didn't know how bad things were going to get for these poor guys. It was nicer when they were alive.
00:53:19
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You regret feeling bored, like actually feel sorry you wanted things to speed up. By hours five through seven, you're just a little bit insane on behalf of the smashed men and boys killing each other over ideas they don't understand.
00:53:31
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I've never felt anything like that before or since, but holy sit shit, Iron Lung comes closer than almost any movie I can think of, and it does it in two hours and seven minutes. I just had to Google the runtime, and I'm sincerely surprised that it's that short.
00:53:45
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that's ah It's a three to 14 hour long experience, which somehow only takes 2.1 hours to watch. Boring sometimes? A bit, yeah. But I think those parts are boring. Dare he say it, the pretentious buffoon. He's going to say it on purpose.
00:53:59
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The film captures the mind numbing emptiness of the flying blind into a tiny in his tiny submarine where you could die at any moment. But that moment might come several quiet, empty days from now. The fear slowly becomes a crushing drudgery.
00:54:15
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If it tried too hard to be exciting at all times, I think it would betray the unique thing it pulls off here. The main thing that really that really has to work. It's working. Do I have problems? Who cares? They fucking did it.
00:54:28
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When you watch a YouTuber movie or a game adaptation in this vein, you keep a lookout for the telltale signs of cringe. Is this star going to be self-consciously try to prove they're a real actor? Are they going to lovefully recreate the exact beats and visuals of the game without really adapting it into something new? Are they going to get bogged down in, quote, the lore or making a, quote, fixed version, which elaborates or it and explains it all?
00:54:51
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or are they going to lean on the audience assumed understanding of all that stuff already and expect people to come up with their own theories instead of telling a complete story? Will it feel incomplete without having played the game or be so unlike it that it might as well have been something else?
00:55:06
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Iron Lung has some of those issues, maybe, but I'm genuinely really impressed by how they it threads the needle. The film is quite literally a vehicle for its main star, but it's shot and edited as if Mark directed somebody else in the main role.
00:55:19
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um And with this last part, I'll read. There's a part where Mark gets a dab of blood on his hand and wipes it on his trousers. And it's loving. You see the ribbing of the fabric, the seeping in of the blood, its shininess in the light.
00:55:33
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It knows to focus on the feel and the atmosphere. A worse movie would have cut or shortened that shot or never have shot it at all. So much thinking must have gone into where to put the camera, how to highlight the physicality of the space and how to make that very small room keep feeling new and strange.
00:55:50
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It's not in a rush to prove Markiplier can act or direct or edit, which sort of prove that proves that he can. So like, I feel like that's his review is a very good summary of a lot of my thoughts where I was like, yeah, it's like a seven and a seven and a half out of 10 if I were forced to use a rating scale because there's like things that could have been done differently. There's some effects that are don't work quite as well.
00:56:20
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um And there's like some moments where you're like, oh, maybe if it was somebody, some other actor that wasn't Mark, ah because a lot of sometimes you're like, I'm watching Markiplier.
00:56:33
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Am I watching? like you're you're You're like, am I liking this because it's Markiplier or am I disliking it because it's Markiplier? like if if If he was it removed from the equation, you know what I mean? if it If he wasn't the presence on screen, would that have improved it or or made it worse?
00:56:52
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I don't know because he does a pretty good job overall, um but at some points you're like, hmm. Okay. I don't know. um i honestly don't know.
00:57:05
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But in terms of shot design and editing and all that stuff, yeah, it does a hell of a job taking getting you to that feeling of, yeah, there's some stretches of boredom. Yeah.
00:57:19
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But it does feel like, yeah, it needed to be because he's down there and he's just doing his thing. Like he's going to the points, he's taking shots and there's a repetition and a loop. And it reminds me of this film that I worked on when I was in grad school called The Lunchbox, which ah the director and the film ended up winning. i was the editor of it and the director and the film ended up winning the Student Academy Award.
00:57:50
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um the the bronze trophy for the Student Academy Awards. ah And one of the things that the beginning of the film did that he was, when I worked with the director on the edit, he was very clear about what he wanted it to be was to have a certain level of repetition so that the viewer and the audience kind of settled into this is the routine it never changes it goes and it goes and it goes until something does happen and it it you are then put in the same perspective of the ah as ah of the protagonist as oh that is something different
00:58:35
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ah something new has happened and you're shaken much like the protagonist is shaken by the change in routine or repetition. And I think that's something that can be said for Iron Lung is that there are just sequences and segments where there's a routine.
00:58:53
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He falls into a routine, the character, Simon, and then if the repetition is broken by something terrible. Usually ah it's Iron Lung. So always something terrible. Never good. Yeah, of course. but that's um I mean, that's all really good to know because i I would be a liar if all the shit that you just said and that Markiplier HBomber guy said is all stuff I was concerned about. Right. Is this going to be especially Markiplier in the lead role? He's such a distinct.
00:59:31
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He has such a distinct voice. Yeah. A distinct look. ah I was like, am I actually going to be able to disconnect Right. From that. And sounds like he does a good enough job that, yeah. And you know what I know what's funny is they, feel like they did, they intentionally, he doesn't speak a lot.
00:59:53
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or show his face a lot in the first 30 minutes. oh but He has like a hood up ah for ah for a long stretch in the beginning and he doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue ah in in ah in the beginning.
01:00:09
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And I think that's intentional to kind of disconnect you from it being Mark. smart Markiplier. umli Exactly. i have I have a coworker who saw it and she said they she said she loved it, ah but she she had to admit that she kept ah waiting for a little box with his face reacting to it to pop up in the corner some point. Markiplier reacts.
01:00:37
Speaker
Markiplier reacts to Markiplier's Iron Lung. Yeah. Right. Which, i'm don't get me wrong, I'm sure that's coming. Yeah, I'm sure that's coming. i'm sure Well, that's probably just going to be the director's cut on the DVD.
01:00:48
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Right, exactly. Or the dirt the commentary is just going to be that. But yeah, and all the other, there's you know a bunch of other characters that are in it. If you played Iron Lung,
01:01:02
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when it first came out, a lot of the lore is going to be less familiar to you. and They did do a lore update, like at some point in the past couple of years that I think was probably related to the fact that Dave Zemanski and Mark Player were working on the scripts and that lore was then back loaded back into the game.
01:01:25
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So, but the game again, then. Yeah, the game itself pretty much. I mean, the movie itself It covers pretty much everything that you need to know.
01:01:37
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um It's not like you need to have played the game. ah broad It's so like just the broad strokes of like, the the sky is down there. molo It's a moon filled with blood.
01:01:51
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God, I love that aspect of it. It's the most metal fucking thing ever. Yeah, um and it expands the Blood Moon and the blood itself a bit more. i'm just And it gets really, ah you know, fucking weird with it at times.
01:02:07
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Nice. Good. so Anyway, Iron Lung, it's not going to be in theaters that much longer. I mean, he had he had the... ah the He got the one weekend with the 4,100 screens or something like that. And then know in my theater, it's going to be there at least through Thursday at my local theater. And then you know Thursday is when they do the the new slate for the opening movies. ah
01:02:38
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I have heard that some theaters have decided to extend its run. Nice. Because it did end up making money. I mean, it's doing gangbusters for what I've seen. Yeah. The the numbers on it.
01:02:51
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ah It was the number one movie in America today. ah For today. Good you, Markiplier. Holy shit. Or for yesterday, rather. Monday was it got another 1.6 million. Wow. It beat Melania. Yeah.
01:03:07
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It's beaten Melania. It's total worldwide box office is $22.9 million. dollars Good for you, Markiplier. That's cool as shit.
01:03:17
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That's cool. Yeah. ah it's It's cool. It's neat stuff. Yeah, that's awesome. But that'll bring us to the end of tonight's episode.
01:03:29
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01:03:41
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