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Someone put Bloody Roar in my Primal Rage (Primal Rage: The Avatars - Part 2)
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Well kinda, it's not true bloody roar in that somehow the avatars swap places with the gods. I dunno after a strong so bad it's good first third, the shine is wearing off this book.
This book is really stupid, in many ways but also we are here for it?
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Book Synopsis
As Necrosan and his undead armies lay waste to Urth, the Avatars struggle to free their imprisoned dino-god masters and must overcome personal differences in order to defeat their common enemy.
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And they built a giant hotel that looks like a guitar. um Look it up. Look up the the hard rock guitar hotel. um And it has these bright lights on the top of it that shoot up into the air to make it look like the strings of the guitar are going up all the way into the air. That's awesome.
00:00:20
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Like, you you know, you white people like tacky shit. Here you go. Enjoy. Here you go Here you go. Take this fucking nonsense of of ah of a guitar her hotel.
00:00:32
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um You know what else is a guitar hotel? What's that? Hey there, everybody. and Welcome back to Pixel It. My name is Kevin. With me and so is Phil on today's show, we are diving deeper into ah Primal Rage, the avatars.
00:00:49
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Yes. That's a thing. That's a thing. That's I gotta tell you, ah I don't know, maybe maybe it's fine for you.
00:01:00
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i feel like the charm of the book is kind of like wearing off a bit. It's very quickly wearing thin. Yes, we are. yeah fred For anyone who doesn't remember from last episode, our first third of this book was a very so bad it's good kind of situation. Yeah. ah And now just getting bad. yeah the muster, it's I ah a a hundred percent I read it and all I remember now is is basically like, oh, we we did end up getting bloody roar into our primal rage book. Yeah.
00:01:40
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Yeah, we sure did. Because they're just going to start. They they killed their gods to become their gods, but they didn't actually kill their gods. They just took their power. But the gods are still there.
00:01:52
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The gods are still there, but they're also in them. In them. Yeah. yeah It's very Holy Ghost. It's very Holy Ghost. yeah Yeah. By the way, understand i I think I've said this a number of times. ah Catholicism really lost some of its riz when it it changed from the Holy Ghost to the Holy Spirit.
00:02:12
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Oh, sure. Sure. Holy ghosts. Way better. Spirit is lame as fuck. Yeah. Yeah. i I don't care what anyone says. All I'll do disrespect to the Halloween spirit stores. the The word spirit, you know, miss me with that.
00:02:28
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Miss me with that spirit shit. you Do you think they did that just to it like a Vatican two thing, like make it a friendlier ah word kind of thing? Maybe?
00:02:40
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um i guess a less of a... Because like Holy Ghost implies that it is someone who is dead, right? Right. It's spooky too. There's implication behind that.
00:02:52
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The spirit is like less of a corporeal entity. You know, it's it's more like a poltergeist, I assume. Right. Where it's just like, it's just an entity. So it's like, yes, the Holy Spirit is more like... Because the Holy Spirit, the way it's always been explained to me is the Holy Spirit is more like the force. It's like right the idea. so like there's the idea of God that is he is in everything. Right.
00:03:19
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um At least this is Catholic doctrine, by the way. ah yeah There's three. There's three in one. Three God. We get three gods for the price of one. For the price of one. We get the father. We get the son. We get the Holy Spirit.
00:03:32
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And the Holy Spirit is basically the force Holy um it the for the The best way to think about it is it's the Force from Star Wars. just no You'll enjoy it a lot more if you think of it that way. You'll enjoy it a lot more. It's just the the thing where he's the God, Big G, is like, oh, he's inside. He's all around us. omnipotent.
00:03:56
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omnipotent uh, an omnipresent and all the omnis. Omnis. Omni, omni. Omni, omni, omni. Um, anyway, so that was Catechism with Kev.
00:04:11
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Um, i like it i think People need that in their lives. They need to they need to hear. i think the best way to learn more about Catholicism is through ah angry ex Catholics. I think that's really the best way to get it. Half remembered from an ex Catholic.
00:04:27
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Right. Exactly. Exactly. through a cracked lens though the more and more i i think about it the more like you're never really an ex-catholic you you know you're never it never really leaves you um that shit sticks with you from everything i've seen it sticks with you um It is it is a core memory.
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00:05:30
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00:05:57
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00:06:18
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Yeah. Yeah. like it. I like it. So, um, Phil, uh, before we, before we put the body in the marsh, you had a story you wanted to tell me. Oh my gosh. Okay. So yeah, here's, here's one. Here's one for, for everybody out there for you. Marshies. This, this is, this happened to me. Uh, I, I never thought it would happen to me. Dear penthouse forum. Um, Uh, no, not that kind of story. Uh, I, so I'm, I'm releasing a book in the fall. Uh, my first collection of short stories. And to that end, I have been trying to come up with different ways of getting the word out there, uh, down to the point of maybe making, some teaser trailers, stuff like that, which was never a common thing with books in the past, but it's becoming more and more popular. Um, especially with things like book talk and that sort of thing. And so,
00:07:13
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I do a lot of Southern Gothic stuff. And so I start thinking I need to find a good suitably kind of weird slash spooky Southern Gothic song that I can use ah to excuse me.
00:07:27
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Get people in. And I didn't want to go with like your standards, you know, like, oh, death and and that kind of thing, which great goddamn song. But it's it's everyone does that. I wanted to find something unique. So I found this song from an evangelical ah singer songwriter named Harold Leake called ah What an Awful Place Hell Must Be. And if you're looking for it slaps. Yeah, it slaps. It is a.
00:07:55
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crazy song. And I loved it immediately. I was like, oh, this is this is it. And this is not a well-known ah guy. This was a a a very limited pressing ah record. In fact, um I found out later that it wasn't even copywritten. This particular song he had maybe one or two songs that were, um you can find it on YouTube. You will not find it on like Spotify or anything like that. Uh, but if you're looking for a trip, check that song out.
00:08:26
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And so I'm talking to Kevin and I'm like, I gotta, I gotta to figure out a way. to get this song. i I don't know how this is going to work. And so we start doing, we we we both start digging, you know, down the rabbit hole on this this song, looking for evidence of some copyright, can't find anything.
00:08:43
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So finally, what I do find is is ah Mr. Leake shuffled loose this mortal coil ah in 2019, I want to say, and I found his obituary.
00:08:54
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um And he actually was involved in a church that was not far from where me and my wife used to live in South Carolina. So I said, oh, well that's funny. um and And as far as I could tell, she was still a member and she was still around. So.
00:09:11
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I reached out to the church ah because because even if it wasn't copywritten, I've tried to play by weird owl rules. I don't I want to I want to sure get somebody's blessing, you know, somebody kind of give you permission, you know.
00:09:24
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Right. Right. Even if it's not necessary, I want to I want to be respectful of an artist, even if it's an artist that I myself aren don't have a hell of lot in common with beyond being a spooky southerner. It's just a completely different kind of spooky southern. Right. um And he's trying to be spooky. No, no. He's trying to save you. Yeah, he is. And that's absolutely where this is going. ah So i i I reach out to the church and I so and i say, hi, I'm looking for um somebody. I know he was involved in your church for years and like for decades he was involved in that church. And I said, and I'm just trying to find somebody who can help me figure out the situation with permission for this song. And they said, you know, if we they wrote me back and I said, if you if you give us your phone number, we can give you give your number to his wife, to his widow.
00:10:16
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And I went, fuck, yes, here you go. And she called me almost immediately. I was at work. And and so I had to call her back after work. And she couldn't have been
00:10:31
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my great aunt, like, like she, like very clearly someone from my family, just old Confederate widow cut, just very sweet. ah Couldn't have been nicer. So we get to talking and I tell her I'm, I'm,
00:10:46
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releasing my first collection of short stories. I'd love to use your late husband's song. And she's very enthusiastic. And she says, oh, well, that's that's lovely. And she said, I don't think it does i don't think it has a copyright.
00:10:58
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I don't think that one in particular does. And she said, but I'd be happy to to give you my blessing to to go ahead and do that. I said, you are wonderful. Thank you. This is so nice. I really appreciate it means a lot to me. I think this is going to ah be a really special thing to use for my collection. Sure. And then she starts asking questions. Oh, no. The questions are really going to be the thing that.
00:11:23
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And I knew i was like, oh, this ain't happening. This ain't happening. Because she was, again, very sweet. And she says, and she says ah so what kind of a book is this? And I i said, what's ah it's a collection of short stories. It's my first collection. Yeah.
00:11:38
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And she said, so what kind of stories ah are they? And I said, ah well, they're spooky stories. I write spooky stories and I write often in a ah Southern Gothic tradition, which um I think you're your ah your late husband's music very much represents to some of us.
00:11:57
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And and she start she goes, well, what's it called? And I said, ah Be Not Afraid is the name of the collection. It's based on one of the stories and it's ah about an angel.
00:12:09
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ah Yeah. And she, she starts kind of, and, and she just, as we're talking, there's just more and more silence on her end of the phone, like between sentences. And I'm, and I gave her the gentlest possible version of, of that story. I was like, you know, it's about a kid finding an angel and, and, but it's not the angel she thinks it is. And it's, yeah very much about the themes of good and evil and and how we perceive things and da da da da. And if finally, finally, she says, well, you know,
00:12:45
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It's important for people to know that hell is real. And that's what what he was trying to get across with that song. And I was like, oh, sure, sure, absolutely. And she goes, so I guess if you're saved, it's it's fine.
00:12:57
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Are you saved? And I went, and I just, and I, Kevin, I couldn't even, i couldn't even hesitate to to come up with some kind of middle of the road answer. I just went, no, ma'am.
00:13:10
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I said, I was raised in that tradition and and I have i'm I can tell you 100 percent that I'm not mocking ah your beliefs, you know, in any direct way. But i I am afraid that I am not I am not saved.
00:13:24
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And she goes, oh, OK. And I was like, yeah. She's like, well, I just I don't you know, I just don't think he would have wanted that. You know, and and I said, and that's exactly what i I said. Absolutely. I said, if that, you know, I'm better than I ever could. ah You know, like I said, I said, that's completely understandable. And she went, she went, yeah, i'm I'm sorry. And again, she was very sweet. And she's like, I'm sorry, but I just can't, I can't. She basically was like, I can't sign off on that. um And I said, okay, that's, that's, I said, I'm disappointed, but of course I'm
00:13:58
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I understand. Yeah. You know, I said, I ah i respect your conviction and and, you know, I appreciate you caring enough, frankly, to ask those kinds of questions and that sort of thing. And so finally, pretty we we and it's just awkward now. It's just it's just weird now. And finally, i said, well, ma'am,
00:14:17
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I really appreciate you taking my phone call. I really appreciate you hearing me out and I hope you have a wonderful week. And she went, she went, oh you too. And there's a pause and she goes, and I'll be praying for you. Oh.
00:14:32
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And I said, thank you very much. I said, go ahead and pray for me that's That's fine. Thank um you. and it just i was And I was like, well, I don't know how how else I expected that to go.
00:14:44
Speaker
No. I mean, the fact that you were like able to talk your way through the stories without giving up the fact that, like, Oh, yeah, they're really they're just her horror stories. They're all. Yeah, this is this is pretty gruesome stuff. i It's pretty gruesome stuff. It's it's i I tried. I tried to give her the gentlest version of this without also lying.
00:15:14
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You know? I just couldn't do it. You couldn't thread that needle. You could have said, ah andla you read yes ma'am, i was baptized.
00:15:26
Speaker
Yeah. You could have. Yeah. There are there are there are lots of ah there are dialogue tree options that you could have I have I have I have absolutely said things like ah well I was confirmed in the Methodist Church. Sure. ah When I was 13 years old or something like that. have feeling if I had said, if I had been on the call and I said, well, i you know, ah ah grew up in the Catholic tradition, that probably would have gotten a hunk hang up right away. i get the feeling it's that kind of you've like evangelicals usually are not.
00:16:05
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They're not papists. They're notists safe they're not down with the Pope. Not down with the Pope. um Yeah, it was, it was bless her heart. She really did. Like she was trying very hard at a certain point to be polite. Sure. It was one of those things that even when she thought I was a good Christian boy, ah she was, she was not very clear on what the fuck it was I was trying to do here. And so then you throw in the fact that, you know, that ah I'm not a believer, I'm not saved ah in her words. Yeah.
00:16:38
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that That was just too much. She didn't know. She didn't. She truly. And and I get it. So ah everybody get out there and and listen to ah is I think it's Harold Leek. What an awful place hell must be. Check it out on YouTube. It is crazy.
00:16:55
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crazy fucking song be nice be nice this is this is i don't know who this guy was but i can tell you that his his wife uh is a sweetheart and made me think of several women and in my family uh so listen to it enjoy be nice that's that's all i have to say yeah i have some i have some other ideas of things you can do but uh Talk to you offline about them nice But in the meantime in between time ah Let's put that bad body in the marsh when I tell you to dump a body in the marsh you dump them
00:17:35
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In the marsh. Let's march it up. Yeah. um Well, we start at chapter five here and we meet Kina Amali, who is a they make a real they make a strong point to say that she's 15. She is 15 and not a love interest in this story. Not a. And not and you know what?
00:17:55
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Respect. Very good. Fine. You know, it's you know, you they knew that there were going to be a lot of teenagers reading this and they were like, OK, how do I had to use that turn of phrase? How do I thread that needle where we've got a character that these kids can root for ah without getting weird? And and that's Kina. That's Kina here. She is a follower of Talon, our our raptor god. um And she's hiding in a well from Necrozone, the rest of Talon's Followers have been zombified and she's hiding out.
00:18:27
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um She finds talent and he officially makes her his shaman because he literally has nobody else to to make into his shaman. It's kind of like putting the crown on a baby's head. Yep.
00:18:42
Speaker
And he gives her their holy relic, which are these badass razor claws, basically. ah So that's cool. We've got a kick ass video game weapon. She basically gets the Cutco knife set from him. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. And he doesn't do the hard sell, which is nice. I thought that was really respectful on Talon's part. Doesn't take out the can and cut through it. I mean, like, you know, aluminum isn't that it's so thin aluminum. It's really not that big of a deal. This is going to seem impressive. It's not. It's not.
00:19:19
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So she she goes out to find other survivors. And one day later, she and 47 survivors ah cause an avalanche that crushes thousands of Necrozahn's zombies. And that was easy.
00:19:37
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Okay. Yeah. they And this is the beginning of we get kind of like a few montages of hit and run strategies ah from our avatars and the followers. They they are outnumbered by quite a bit. And so they start doing these hit and run attacks. So meanwhile, Kay's and a few of his soldiers, they trick a bunch of zombies into a huge tiger trap ah they and set them on fire, which is nice and effective. Also easy. Very nice.
00:20:06
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Um, Necroissant, meanwhile, is pissed. He is pissed off. And, uh, he interrogates the three non-zombie humans, uh, that he has captured. And he is, he is just so pissed off that his powers basically require his followers to be brainless idiots. Uh, it's like, he's like, he, he is very aware that he is a quantity, not quality guy. He's, he's playing with a limited deck, you know? Exactly. Yeah.
00:20:32
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Yeah, he's fully aware of this and it pisses him off. and So he's the reason why he sounds his name sounds like Necron, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was. Yeah.
00:20:42
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but He also talks like a 16 year old sometimes. It's true so he's he's meant to be our fucking Palpatine style like guy. and he's And sometimes he'll go, huh? What? What's going on? Like, it's it's it's like a it's like it's like a he's like he's like idiot says what?
00:21:00
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And you're like, yeah, yeah. What do you even You said what? he's He's like a character from a ah wet, hot American summer with like infinite necromancy powers. Like if sure it's it's the natural progression of that.
00:21:15
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So he's interrogating these humans. ah They're all ah followers of of a different God. One of them is, I think, a slash fang follower. But the most importantly, one is Kim K's girlfriend. So she's all right. That's good to know.
00:21:32
Speaker
They give him, he's trying to figure out what the hell ah could just put these ah gods out of commission. Because he's like, they weren't here, and then they got here, and what what kept them away before? And so he gets the background on the bonds of forbidding, which were used to imprison the gods before. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:51
Speaker
Chapter six, ah Melissa dreams of being Kays' wife. Also, there is a specific scene where she is like she tried she has a dream of being a trad wife for all intents and purposes. um She like even says, like, she's wearing it a polka dot apron. And it turns out it's the only thing she's wearing for him.
00:22:12
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Uh, and I was like, ok man okay, man. not Sure. She's we we, really don't know how to write women. Uh, do we gents? Uh, it's, it's just, it's so awkward.
00:22:27
Speaker
Um, and then he dreams, she dreams that she's married to Necro son who offers her power. And then she realized, Oh, This is a dream, but he's actually invading my dreams and offering the power. It's a it's a talky dream. It's a right. The first was just her, you know, her having a little nocturnal, know, fun time. And the second she's having some point and click action with K's. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:51
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ah But now it's actually Necro-san offering her power and she wakes up and he is waiting for her outside of her her her chambers. And she agrees to join him and to betray Vertigo.
00:23:06
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um Blizzard and K's meet ah with almost all the other gods. They make a point of saying chaos is the only one that isn't there. um And so basically all the gods, they've been they've been spending untold eons fighting amongst themselves. And for the first time ever, they're going to have a full alliance between all the gods and their plans. Chaos, who is my cast. They're very deliberate with that. Too busy rolling in the poop.
00:23:33
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He really is. He really is. And I have high hopes for chaos, by the way. I'm going to say that right here ah so that in no way will I be disappointed down the line.
00:23:44
Speaker
No way. No way. ah So the plan is they're going to trick Necrozan with a fake village of non-zombie humans. they're go they've They're going to pretend that this village has been. It's like an underground village that he just didn't know about. And they're going to take what few non-human followers they still have and like populate this fake village and and and trick him out there. Right.
00:24:08
Speaker
And they're going to like make a net or something. It's like, yeah, it's the stupidest shit. We're going to paint a a ah highway tunnel on the side of the mountain.
00:24:20
Speaker
And then we're going to have a roadrunner run through it. And then yeah he's going to give chase and, you know, He's going to hit an accordion. There will be an accordion sound. And his teeth will come out like piano keys. That's right. And then he'll he'll run off the edge of a cliff and he'll have time to look down course realize that he's run off the edge of the cliff.
00:24:43
Speaker
And he'll hold up a sign that says, uh-oh. And that's when he falls. Always the best. Classics. Yeah. Classics. But they literally it's a way they're like, but how are he flies? How are we going to get him? and And like, I think it's the teenager. She's like, well, you catch birds with a net. So we'll make a net. and they're like, ah, right.
00:25:04
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We're idiots. Of course, la men babes. Duh. And so they're going to make a steel net. So cool. Uh, chapter seven, ah Oh wait, no, one that was chapter seven. Uh, no, I'm sorry. This is chapter seven. Uh, Necrozan and Melissa are back together. uh, they're basically pretending that Melissa has been captured by Necrozan. Uh, they want her to be back with vertigo. So she's like infiltrating and shit. She's pulling apart.
00:25:32
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uh, So Vertigo assumes that she is ah kidnapped and Vertigo is in on this plan ah to make a fake village. So Vertigo says, I will give you the location of this village filled with non zombified humans if you give me my avatar back.
00:25:52
Speaker
and they're and And everyone's like, I'm the smartest person alive. everyone knows I Yeah, it's so dumb. And ah so Melissa is traded ah for the location and she's pooped and she plays kind of lame duck and and begs off and says, could you please just drop me off? Because I'm i'm so tired. I'm so i tired. I'm tired. I'm so tired. I just need to take a little rest. I'm so tired. And Vertigo goes, bitch, you are. Okay, fine, fine. And Vertigo drops her off.
00:26:28
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So the moment she drops her off, Melissa, I think she she literally says, I've never felt better. She like clicks her heels together, basically. It's so stupid.
00:26:38
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Yeah, yeah. ah And ah and so she she immediately teleports ah to these caves where she believes that they that they're going to that that's where the ah bonds of forbidding are. Necroson and and is and was it Sinjon? Sinjon? Sinjin.
00:26:57
Speaker
Sinjin. They're already there. ah And so obviously we've got another person who has betrayed their God for for Necro son. And ah before we can get any real development, she is attacked from behind. ah And it isn't K's. Sadly, more more sad for her. Womp womp.
00:27:18
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Womp womp. Chapter eight. So K's and the gods are waiting at this fake village. They've got a Off camera, they've made this giant steel net.
00:27:29
Speaker
They're hanging from the ceiling. ah And ah ah the army of zombies are approaching, but not Necroissant. So ah meanwhile, Sinjin saves Melissa from these magic snake things, which are attached to a gate. And when basically the idea is when you interact with a gate, these statue snakes become real. come alive. Yeah.
00:27:52
Speaker
Right. And so they, she speaks to them cause she's like, well, I'm a snake person. I can speak to snakes. And she parcel tongues her way through a conversation with them. yeah and and like, and they, and it's and they say, uh,
00:28:07
Speaker
They say that the bonds, the the bonds, you can't get to the bonds. There are no more, but they can be restored if you fix the gate. Yeah. um And it's just the weirdest HGTV show ever. And and fix the gate, fix the gate, get the bonds for bidding.
00:28:24
Speaker
It's hosted by the property brothers, but it's hosted by the third property brother. Like not not the one who's not a twin. You know, ah these it's, you know, religion is a drug. ah but They're like, they're going to. Yeah, it's it's it's like we're going to we're going to see if we can restore the bonds of forbidding on a five hundred and sixty dollar budget. Yeah.
00:28:54
Speaker
That's okay. Great. um Once you're a homeowner, you, you find you just HGTV just kind of like pops on out of nowhere. You'd be like, and then you just start watching it for like yeah couple hours. It's we were remarkable. We were, it's, it is, it's nuts. We were watching something. We don't even really have a lot of live TV. And somehow we got on some HGTV thing on like, I remember it was a Saturday morning and Boom. Before you knew it, it was lunchtime. we Like, Jesus Christ, how does that happen? it's it's and the It's a time thief. HGTV is insidious like that. Because there's not, I'm not enjoying, neither is my wife. We're not enjoying the whole of the show. Sure. But there always is something where you're like, oh, look, they're putting in a trellis. That's like, oh, yeah, that's a good idea. We want to do that. All right. We should at least watch them put in the trellis. Because wasn't sure how. watched in the trellis.
00:29:52
Speaker
They're going to do it that way. We'll watch this and then we want to watch at the end when they put the whole thing together. Right. Just to see how it comes together. then maybe the final price. Right. Just to see. That's the level of engagement that you're giving the HGTV show. It's not like you're hanging on every word, but there's like one or two things and then somehow you've watched two hours of it.
00:30:20
Speaker
Right. And before you know it, you're like making cold cut sandwiches and you're like, oh, fuck, it's one. You know, it's it's it's weird. It's goddamn weird. Yeah. So ah so ah meanwhile, Sinjin is saving Melissa from the snakes, et cetera. HGTV show. Yeah.
00:30:40
Speaker
So Sinjin has informed Necrosan of the ambush plan. So we're not he's not going to fall for it. um So but he is sending like basically an infinite army of zombies to go fuck up their shit. Sure.
00:30:54
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So the gods and the avatars fight zombies until a rainbow light pours in ah and paralyzes the gods and carries them away.
00:31:06
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ah The humans escape from the zombies and realized that the bonds must have been restored. so We were told that you need to if you restore these gates, then you can bring back ah the bonds of forbidding. And instead of giving us any moment of that process, it's yeah just, they just fix it off camera.
00:31:30
Speaker
It's just done. in between in the the white text in the white lines between the text it's done it's done it's almost like we didn't need that at all uh and and yeah this is when i started to go oh that's that's kind of fucking stupid is it is it so bad it's bad Yeah, it's just it's yeah, we're we're winding around the circle. I expect to go around the circle once more before we're done, but I'm pretty sure in the end we're ending up in so bad. It's bad. ah So, yeah, I thought that was going to be more of a thing.
00:32:07
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um So Necrosan, Melissa and Sinjin are celebrating. They're drinking champagne. Yeah. Not sure where they got that from, but okie dokie. That's not even me being like a wine snob where like, well, it's champagne. No, I literally in this world do not know where you got fucking champagne. Where get the champagne?
00:32:27
Speaker
Right. If they said Prosecco, I'd be just as confused. Right. ah is I mean, it ah is does champagne still exist? like Right. right not the Not the beverage, but the region in France from which the beverage must come. Right. we And which one of these people live there? that would be Because we know that blizzards in like the Himalayas and shit. yeah They seem to be teleporting ah around a lot. A lot. A lot. there's ah French champagne.
00:33:00
Speaker
oh I love that man so much. I i miss him so much. Every day pour one out for you, Orson. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. They, they, they are teleporting a lot. This is, this is some serious like season six and seven of game of throne shit. Like we're just like, Oh, boom, we're there.
00:33:17
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Um, ah So they are celebrating um and the humans will return. ah They're going to send you and Melissa are going to return to the remaining shaman and act like they have no idea what's going on.
00:33:32
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um And they're going to use ah Kim because ah ah Melissa realizes, oh that's his squeeze. So she said, well, we can use that against him in the long run.
00:33:43
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um Chapter nine, all the gods, but chaos. ah are trapped now. and and And they do make a point. And I actually thought this was pretty interesting um that the bonds of forbidding do not work on chaos because chaos is the only one who used to be a human. Chaos is it was a was a human who turned himself into a god. He is not. So he's like not actually a god he's just a right he's just a human with so made made by science science powers the first science made god science made god yeah and and for some reason because of that it makes him basically immune to these powers problem is he's fucking crazy so he's not exactly a reliable ally literally rolling in shit
00:34:32
Speaker
Yes, exactly. um So the gods all communicate telepathically. ah They do their ghost whispering and they decide that what they are going they're going to do this unprecedented thing that they've known they can do for untold millennia, but they've never done before. And they're going to send their powers to their avatars so that they can use them to get them out of there. yeah ah We come to the most useless,
00:35:02
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series of events. This chapter then becomes. all right. So we get Kay's Kay's is offered. ah he he has a vision of Blizzard. He's offered the powers and Blizzard says, but to get the powers, you have to defeat me in single combat. And Kay's grows to the skyscraper tall. I'm going to be honest. I stopped paying attention halfway through this chapter. oh my God. It was so fucking repetitive.
00:35:28
Speaker
They're like, and because yeah base basically case does it. if i' would be like And then Jim Bob does it for this guide. And then so-and-so does it. I don't remember the names. And then Melissa yeah does it for what's his face. And then Sinjin does it. And then everybody, basically we get, we get like a page and a half of every avatar finding out It's not even that it was like, it's not even that it's done as a montage. It literally each section of this chapter goes the same way.
00:36:00
Speaker
Shaman has a vision of their God. The God explains to them in detail that you will give you the powers, but we've got to, we've got to fight and you've got to beat me. And then we get kind of a lukewarm fight scene and the, uh, uh, shaman defeats,
00:36:16
Speaker
the gods somehow, and often killing them. yeah ah But they're immortal, so they're not really killing them. It's like a fatality in Mortal Kombat. They're fine. They're having a bagel. um But we literally go through every single one of them doing this, and it's so pointless. And honestly, if that was your game, you could be clever with this. You could have- Like cutting between fights in different places. You could have a really interesting montage, but instead it's so dull.
00:36:44
Speaker
And like you said, it's just, it's this' it's it's so boring. It's so repetitive. Remarkably boring. Yeah. So. Finally, after all this is done, we get to chaos. We get our first real look at chaos. And he is because of what's going on. He is not completely unaffected by the use of these bonds of forbidding. And he is switching between being a human and an ape ah kind of at random. And when he's a human, he has like a passing. He's completely out of his mind, but he's at least like,
00:37:19
Speaker
you know, uh, sentient, you know, he' he's like, he's, he's capable of thought and that kind of thing. Um, but when he becomes an, uh, an ape again, he's just like literally roll around in his own poop. He's like in love with his bodily functions. In fact, I think word for word, they say that, yeah um,
00:37:36
Speaker
So his powers have become unstable. Blizzard reaches out to Chaos to ask him for help, but he's just basically too busy playing with his own poop. Too busy. Too busy, which I get it. If that's if that's your thing, you know, I'm not here to yuck your yum chaos. Not at all. ah But you need to be reliable if you were friends yeah to to be friends in this case.
00:37:58
Speaker
Well, that's true that. Yes, actually. I don't I don't mean to yum your yuck ah over here. up so that's that. ah That's chaos, I guess. ah Honestly, a really interesting character. And I would like to see something done with him. I actually um do like this character. Yeah. um Chapter 10, the avatars ah test out their new powers by beating the shit out of each other.
00:38:23
Speaker
ah they They are able to be transformed into their God's form. And when that happens, the God basically takes over. Yeah, it's like it's weird there. It's like they're transforming into their God's form. Not really. They're just switching places with their God, so to speak. Right. Because it's like K's does like does it and it's like, oh, K's is OK. So K's didn't get the power.
00:38:50
Speaker
He because kate gets relocated back to the ice cavern right that that Blizzard is in. And now he's just kind of like. Sitting there, right? They're just kind of swapping places. It's kind of like it. Yeah, that's like it's like the absolute lamest way that this could go.
00:39:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of like it's the original Thor that they retconned out of there where it used to be that the guy, forget his name, but he would strike the something. Yeah. And he wouldn't become Thor. He basically swapped places with Thor and Thor would come in and do his shit. And boy, howdy, is it better that they retconned that out of existence. Yeah, yeah. They don't deal with that. It's like Thor's just Thor. Thor's just fucking around. Thor's just Thor. He's just here.
00:39:44
Speaker
He is just here. It would be better if it was more like ah Shazam, like Captain Marvel where Billy Batson goes Shazam. And he, you know, he goes from a 13 year old boy to a 29 year old ah vaccine denier. Right.
00:40:04
Speaker
The most dangerous superhero of all. Yeah. Definitely with the highest body count. to to be to be fair, Zachary Levi is not 29. He's like 42. Yeah.
00:40:17
Speaker
And he should know better. But anyway. He really, really should. Chuck was not that good, dude. You can't live on that. i I like Chuck, though. It was fine. I watched the first season or two, and then I was like, okay, this is it's just going to be this for a little while. But now it's like, okay, fine. adam but like i can I can deal with one, and yeah edit the and the show had Adam Baldwin, and I can deal with that. i can But now there's two, and it's like, yeah even with Yvonne Stravowski in it, I can't...
00:40:48
Speaker
who yeah, I can't, you know, those, that, that must, those must've been the most insufferable rap parties, uh, of all time. I'm really disappointed that they, um, oh, my stupid cameras.
00:41:01
Speaker
I thought it was, I thought I was going to be free of, it was turning over a new leaf and then boom It's turning over a new leaf and then it's it's so it's fine. It's it's it's working on the stupid thing on the camera hub thing. But the fee ah between the camera hub and the um and whatever, maybe I just need to record in a different browser or something. I don't know. Anyway, i don't know ah Chuck, it's on Netflix.
00:41:34
Speaker
Oh, is it? Okay. I remember watching it around the time you and I first met. Actually, that was when that was going on. um Anyway, so hey, that'll be 20 years in a couple of years.
00:41:47
Speaker
I know. Isn't that fucking nuts? terrible It's terrible. it's It's awful. Time sucks. the ah Once you get to a volume of years, you're just like, oh, Yeah. Like, oh, great. Okay. This is super fun. Yeah. ah So they finally stopped fighting and agree that they're going to find the bonds of forbidding, ah which they know are in chaos territory.
00:42:13
Speaker
Um, so we're going to have to deal with him again later. Um, we cut to a scene of Diablo in his prison plotting on how to betray his human general, uh, which is good because his human general's betraying him. So everyone's they're on the same page. Yeah.
00:42:30
Speaker
Um, Melissa meets with Necrozone tells him, ah the plan. so once again, There is no drama. Necroson knows exactly what's going on.
00:42:40
Speaker
um And she clearly wants to kill Necroson when the other avatars are gone. Like, that's her plan. She's like, OK, now that I've got now that I've got these vertigo powers, I'm going to take him out after all the other gods are taken care of.
00:42:52
Speaker
Right. um Sinjin approaches the shrine to Diablo and leaves an arcade token under a toy of of Diablo. if they They make a point of saying it's it's this valuable coin that reads good for one play or something like that. it It's clearly... Clearly got out of ah that of a putt putt or something like that.
00:43:15
Speaker
um And so he he he's leaving it under this toy from a different age of Diablo. And it's meant to be like a signal for, ah i guess, some some assassins that that he knows. yeah He meets with Tor and Eric, who are two of the other shaman. ah One of them's for Sauron and the other one's for Armadon. I want to say who's like a big, super tanky dinosaur. It doesn't matter because no one cares. No one cares. No, don't care. So they come up with a plan. They're going to kill Blizzard because for whatever reason, and this is not explained, they believe that Blizzard has allied himself with Necroissant.
00:43:57
Speaker
Sure. They like I think one of them had a dream that had happened. So they're just assuming that's what is happening. And we have been given as readers, we have been given no hints one way or the other about this. It's just a thing that gets thrown in there.
00:44:10
Speaker
um Finally, Melissa meets K's and tries to seduce him for reasons. ah She had that dream. She had that dream. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. You know when yeah, you have a dirty dream about somebody and you see them and you're like, Oh, this is, this is weird.
00:44:28
Speaker
And it can go one of two ways. You can try and stuff it or you can be like, well, now I'm curious and try to make it happen And that's, and that is what she is doing. She's trying to in. She is trying. And he points out, Hey, look, I'm not a virgin. She's like,
00:44:42
Speaker
Dig. I don't give a shit. Party. ah So but at least at least she won't have to drain him of his life force right in the more traditional sense. So ah she has a fake map of chaos territory that Necroson gave her that she's going to give to him. And while all of this sexy stuff is happening, Kina comes in and cock blocks them both.
00:45:06
Speaker
Uh, so Melissa gives K's the map and then says, Oh, by the way, while I was over in Necroissance, uh, prisons, I saw your girlfriend, ah and she's in there and she just leaves. She's fucking up and leaves. And K's kind of flips out and it wass like, where the fuck is she? Where is she? And she's like, ah, and it's like,
00:45:28
Speaker
Dude, like, why would you you're trying to play this cool? Like, what are you doing? Just be chill, man. You're trying like you're well her. She's like trying to infiltrate this team, but she's also doing everything in her power outside of just saying, yeah, I'm a bad guy. Like, she's not even. It's so obvious. am the villain this story. Right. Right. So it's kind of obvious she's a bad guy here.
00:45:53
Speaker
So what the fuck? But oh, well, never mind. That's the end of today's ah section. That's that's the end of ah the last the the second third of this book. ah So, Kevin, ah how are you feeling? What do you what do you think so far?
00:46:07
Speaker
i I went from... ah Okay, so there's like songs from the 60s and 70s where i'm like ah I'm really into them, um but then they have like a part that just bores me to tears. Sure.
00:46:28
Speaker
I feel like David Bowie has a bunch of these songs where it's like, oh man, this is fucking awesome, and then he'll have a part of the song where it's like, And the spaceman is floating through the space time.
00:46:44
Speaker
And he's floating to the land. We're in that part of the book where it's yeah the the part where like David Bowie Or whoever the fuck you want to plug in Just kind of riffing.
00:46:58
Speaker
it's just like It's just like, oh my god, man. The first part of the song was this fucking banger. And then you're like, I'm just singing sad stuff now. Yeah, just vamping for a little while. And it's not even in the same like melody as the rest of the song.
00:47:16
Speaker
And it was like it had like a kooky transition of like a cowbell going, two to two tong two to and now we're in this new part of the song and uh yeah so we're in the the the part of the song where david bowie is just being slow and a bummer for no reason um because everybody was inspired by folk music back then sure sure and how could you not How could you not? But let me be honest. Let me be clear. Let me be clear. clear
00:47:50
Speaker
Let me be clear. Let me Obama this. um It's only a problem when the non-folk music people did it. like Yeah, yeah, exactly. when you When you left it to the professionals, it was you left it to Simon and Garfunkel, yeah it was fine.
00:48:06
Speaker
But yeah when you left it to somebody else who was like... um Yeah, it's it's lame. um Yeah.
00:48:17
Speaker
Sorry. ah ah ah One David Bowie. It's just an also gentle reminder that Dave Bowie is a pedophile. um Sure. Sure.
00:48:30
Speaker
Just like a lot of these dudes. Keep it. Keep it very gentle. ah A lot of these guys fucking sucked. Don't. Oh, yeah. Don't yeah be. Don't be. Don't make your hero a rock star from the 60s through the I. I don't feel good about most heroes. The idea of having a hero of having a hero, dangerous business, but especially try to avoid musicians like just just if you can, if you can go and listen to the behind the bastards ah episodes on. um
00:49:08
Speaker
What's named the wall of sound guy? Phil Spector Phil Spector. Sure. Go listen to but the episodes on Phil Spector. Robert isn't even the guy. It's his friend Greasy Will, who who is a musician. It's a great episode and series of episodes. He is. He has this little thing, this little thing on a soundboard that he keeps hitting where it's just him harmonizing side bastard. And but that's right. So many of the other musicians that are incidentally mentioned in this just get their own side bastard sting um because because the music industry is music filled with them. Yeah. old With them.
00:49:46
Speaker
um so yeah we we we had a run of of guys music industry guys with phil specter and uh fucking jimmy savile um oh lord that was a that was a heavy one that was a heavy one um anyway where was i
00:50:08
Speaker
what do you think
00:50:12
Speaker
I'm all there. David Bowie. Absolutely. ah The shitty part of the shitty part of a David Bowie song is where we're Yeah, it's just it's just yeah, we've reached a point where it's just dull and I don't It's dull and it's and we are past the heavy metal, stupid aspect of it. And it's genuinely kind of dumb. And you're like, oh, man, how disappointing is this? It's it's really it's really a bummer.
00:50:41
Speaker
Yeah. So kisses yeah, this is taking the face paint off. Right, right. Exactly. for like so them And for two of them, it's a real bummer. and It is. it They were not good looking men. They were. That was just good looking. aceluy i don't i don't remember any of them looking particularly, but ah anyway.
00:51:01
Speaker
yeah at this we've reached a point where it's just really lame and uh or maybe not it's disappointing who am i thinking of uh ace was not good looking um oh uh paul uh members uh maybe it was paul stanley yeah He was definitely the most glamorous of them all.
00:51:24
Speaker
But yeah, it's it's disappointing. ah We've got some stuff. Like, i so I stand by what I said before. This actually might have... there's something cool with the way that they're doing chaos. Like he's actually very interesting and there's an, there's like an interesting point of view there. He's actually got something going on other than, oh I'm a dinosaur God. Like there's actually something interesting to him. And I, yeah I'm, I'm, I find myself longing for more, Yeah, a it was Paul Stanley, by the way. is ok paul stanley Paul Stanley. Just to really lock in on on on that is paul a snow. But Paul Stanley. But got I know how to wear a red lip.
00:52:10
Speaker
Yeah. ah Sure did. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm with you on that one. ah i It's definitely not the worst thing we've ever read, but it's all of this.
00:52:23
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All of this hinges on the final third act. So we'll see yeah how it does. ah But in the meantime, ah Kevin, I've got one little question for you. Okay.
00:52:37
Speaker
What are you playing? Oh, OK. um I'm still making my way through Pragmata. ok yeah Getting closer to the end of that. But I had a bunch of time taken up by vampire crawlers. Tell me about this game. I have not heard of this game. i You haven't heard about this game. OK, no, um it's a dungeon crawler ah deck builder roguelike made by ah the the people at Ponkel who made vampire survivors. um Ah, yes. Yes. ah ah A fun little experience, as I recall. Wouldn't say that I lost too much life to it.
00:53:15
Speaker
A delightful little ditty of a game. Yes, yes. A playful little game. A playful little a game. um with So Vampire Crawlers is ah it's a lot of fun.
00:53:27
Speaker
And the fact that it is playable on just about every computer and device that I own has made it sort of inescapable the past week.
00:53:40
Speaker
um It's one of those games that really rewards you for like ah you start understanding how it's working more and more. It like doesn't explain a whole lot to you at the beginning and you just kind of figure it out as you're going. um More tactical, a lot more tactical than Vampire Survivors is.
00:53:59
Speaker
ah You actually have to think a little bit rather than just like, you know, Vampire Survivors you can play with one hand. um yes ah vampire crawlers, you you need to lean forward a little bit and be like, there's a button that just says play your like play all, like play your heart your the all the cards in your hand, and you're going to be tempted to hit that, but don't do it. Don't don't do it. Don't do it. ah Yeah. they they They actually do challenge you with like
00:54:30
Speaker
order and stuff like things that things that you never had to deal with in right survivors so yeah yeah yeah there's like i' be like okay i need to play this before this and this before this and then this that that that um and in order to build the you gotta there's combos there's all this fun stuff um ah So yeah, i'm I'm really liking Vampire Crawlers and it has all of the casino gameplay that I have come to expect from less so than, I'll say it's less so than Vampire Survivors.
00:55:05
Speaker
um But I think it's, you know, the presentation is still there. It's a it's it's fun. And when you start like really steamrolling ah some enemies, you're like, fuck yeah. And you're trying to balance out. You're like, Sometimes there's like it will give you the option to evolve a card and you have to in order to do an evolution you have to sacrifice like two cards. um the two cards that But one of the cards you sacrifice might be a card that is kind of like holding your entire schtick together. like I remember I did it once and it was the Spellbinder.
00:55:40
Speaker
um which keeps the ah the crawlers active for longer. So you don't play as a as one of the crawlers. you're like a You're basically a crawler. You're basically the character, and you pick one of the crawlers to come with you, and their effect is only active any time you play their card, and it'll be active for like... Either it's like round based or trigger based. So each time you trigger it, their number goes down. But the Spellbinder keeps their effects going on longer. And I had this one thing where I had two of the crawlers with me and I i had a Spellbinder and I was just... One of the effects was like draw a card every time you play this kind of card. And I always ended up taking the Spellbinder back out.
00:56:32
Speaker
and playing it, so as i was extending the effects and drawing and all that stuff. And um I made the mistake of using Spellbinder to evolve. I think it's the magic wand or something like that. And once I lost the Spellbinder, my entire...
00:56:48
Speaker
everything crumbled. I was like, yeah I was like, Oh, the thing that was basically my part of my engine for keeping this run going is just not there anymore. Um, so yeah, uh, that's, that's kind of my thoughts on it so far. Phil, you've been playing it, right? You've, Yes, i i've I have. And i i'm i'm I'm with you. i think it's definitely um it's more complex. It's a little more there's more thinking to be done. Like you said, you could you know, with the survivors,
00:57:25
Speaker
You evolve. You need to evolve your weapons, period. That's what you're aiming for. And you're looking for those synergies. And you're still looking for synergies here, but sometimes um you don't want to evolve ah your weapon at first because it might mean that you have to get rid of a card that you can actually like permanently boost a stat with. and And sometimes you do want to do that, but you can't do it. You can't just evolve it until you find the right power up ah to. And in the meantime, you have to be very careful that you don't use that card because you need it to evolve.
00:58:01
Speaker
And if you use it, you do get a permanent stat boost, but it destroys the card and there's no evolution for you. So like. Right there in and of itself is so much more thinking than I've ever had to do with Vampire Survivors. Right. That's not to suggest that this is a crazy complex game. Far from it. um It just has a level of strategy that that didn't exist in the first one. And I think that's admirable.
00:58:27
Speaker
um I think I might be almost done with it. Oh, really? Yeah, let me see something. i like If we're going based on achievements, ah which when it comes to these games, I often do.
00:58:42
Speaker
ah Yeah, I've got almost 130 of 161 achievements. I've unlocked all the crawlers. ah Jesus Christ. You are almost all the crawl, almost all the crawlers. I didn't realize that you had put in three times the amount of time that I've put into the game.
00:59:01
Speaker
This has been basically it. Yeah. ok Because it's also very easy to sit and play this while you're watching ah alone with your wife, for example, let's just say. um It's just easy to have on in the background. But I will say this isn't the only game I have played. ah i think this is the i think based on how it's going so far, I feel like I'm only going to put in a fraction of the amount of hours though in this that I did in Vampire Survivors, for example. Yeah. Until there's just DLC or whatever. Of course, of course. but But like without DLC, Vampire Survivors, I feel like before DLC came around, i was I put in like 80 or 90 hours. Sure. This tops out more of 30 40 hour game.
00:59:53
Speaker
I'm thinking probably 40. Yeah. At this rate, it's a great game. It really is. ah But it doesn't have the addictive pattern quite as ah it's the it as strong as as survivors did. And that I mean, you can see that as a good or a bad thing, depending on yeah who you are. I did play a couple of other things. I played a demo for a game called Scriptorium Master of Manuscripts.
01:00:21
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um That sounds very much a fill game. it's It is. it's ah You play a a like a a medieval scribe. So you are ah illuminating manuscripts and you have certain illustrations that you can use. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at it now.
01:00:46
Speaker
It's very silly. It's got a really good sense of humor. um It makes me think a little bit of ah what's the game where you are a boulder and you're rolling through all these different works of art and everything like that. um There are two of them.
01:01:03
Speaker
hold on Rock of Ages. Is that what it was? um Yeah, Rock of Ages, Rock of Ages and Rock of Ages two with both were great games and has a similar sense of humor. It's got a similar style to it. Everything's very medieval script based and you get um you are given ah commissions and you have to listen to what they want. And based on your inventory of pictures and that sort of thing, you have to try and and get as close to what they want. And it does. It allows for some creativity, Even if there are you know certain things that you want to hit to get you know the right score. Very cute. ah It's a very creative game. I didn't play very much of it ah because, you know, right vampire crawlers. But it's very clever. It's very clever. It's very well put together. And I'm not sure I won't be coming back to it to try it again. um Definitely worth a look. ah
01:01:58
Speaker
I also started playing Typing Farmer. this is This is weird. I just saw it. was this It's like this four or five dollar game. It probably was suggested to you because you were playing that other type in game.
01:02:11
Speaker
Exactly. ah Which I'm still playing. i'm still playing Final Sentence yeah a fair amount, ah but just not as much as I think I could if they had some more extras involved. This is so cute looking.
01:02:21
Speaker
Yeah, it's it is a the whole conceit with this is that it is a little farm sim ah and it's based on your keyboard and you are meant to play it in the background while you are doing other things. So when When I'm working on my book, for example, I turn on Typing Farmer and i can you can take the little keyboard and you put it into it. You can make it as small as you like, put it in the corner and it's playing and it doesn't take up a lot of space and a lot of room.
01:02:52
Speaker
But as you type, based on ah the number of keys you hit and that sort of thing, you are harvesting different crops. And when you're done, you can go in and and and and sell them and unlock different seeds. And it's it's it's kind of a fun take on the idol, I assume. Yeah, that's cute.
01:03:14
Speaker
It's very cute. It's cheap. And for somebody like me who does a lot of writing, um it's just it's just ah it's just another goddamn game to have on. it's like ah Well, I i got to write a book to to get my crops.
01:03:28
Speaker
Right, right. And that's the thing. I'm like, that's actually kind of great because it it's like I come home from, i for those of you who don't know, i I professionally write. That is my job. I spend my day writing all day.
01:03:42
Speaker
ah and and then i And so I come home i'm like, well, I'm going to write another thousand words, even if it is for me. yeah And that can be a tall order depending on the day. But this kind of thing or it's like, well...
01:03:55
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I'm all I'm growing right now is carrots. And if I write like another five, 600 words, I'll have enough to buy something else. I'll be able to, you know, stop having just a monoculture of carrots. Let's ahead and do that. I got to get three sisters planted before summer hits. Right. Exactly. Which I am doing, by the way. My corn is looking crazy. And I think this weekend I'm going to start planting the beans. In real life, his corn. Yeah.
01:04:23
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Yeah, yeah, I'm actually growing corn and it's very cool. For those of you who don't know, you grow corn and it's a Native American tradition. You grow corn and when it's reached a certain height, you plant pole beans and the pole beans will grow and use the corn as the pole. And then when the beans grow to a certain size, you plant ah squash or pumpkins or gourds or something like that. And All of them work symbiotically with the nitrogen levels and and and the different chemicals that are in the soil. And they are and they help each other grow and they keep the soil really healthy. And that's where you get succotash from, by the way, ah because they all just grow so well together. anyway it's And it's called Three Sisters. And then when it's all done, do you just chop and drop?
01:05:09
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i mean, you can. I think that's what I'm going to do because this the soil is going to be in pretty good shape too at that point because you have, you it's a net ah neutral, you know, they it all they've they've supplemented each other. um But that's that's the big project for this. so You know, now we've finally got some place and we don' we don't want to go overboard and and do too much. ah But we were talking about in Three Sisters seems like a good plan. So we're growing this really tall, apparently it can get to be like 11 feet tall, this ah corn. it's called It's called bloody butcher and it's ah a red, it's a native American. Well, they're all native American, but it's ah it's a traditional red corn. And apparently it's a dent corn, it's not sweet corn. And apparently it's really good for like um cornbread, stuff like that. So we're going to dry it out and make meal out of it. Anyway, that's Phil's homesteading quarter.
01:06:03
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but that's That's me. that's That's what I've been playing. Awesome. Awesome. Well, that'll do it for tonight's episode, everybody. Thank you all so much for listening. ah Go ahead and follow us on social media, Blue Sky. um Apparently, ah I just noticed on Patreon, we can there's like a Twitter now in Patreon, and it's called Quips.
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01:06:34
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Uh, um anyway, have a good night, everybody. Jonesy lives. Jonesy lives.