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You Are Not My Supervisor! (Star Wars: Fatal Alliance - Part 2)
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These droids have a real libertarian streak don't they?
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Introduction & Patreon Promotion
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That we know.
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That we know of.
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That we know of, yeah.
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That we know of.
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You know who else died in South Africa?
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Okay.
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Who's that?
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Hi there, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixel.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me as always is Phil.
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On today's show, I may have killed Phil.
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I thought you were going to say, like, you know who else said the other word?
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I think he thought I was going to go and I was going to say something else, and then I didn't say it.
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There was a lot of setup there.
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That's as good of a plug for getting the Patreon entry to our pre-show shit as I can offer you.
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Patreon.com slash PixlipPod.
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Get $5 in.
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Gets you the...
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gets you right in there to listen to it and 10 dollars gets your name shouted at the beginning of the episode to that end i'll thank jesus loves you kyle semen ruthless mutter middle of things sigma south big stomach thick and friendly friend thank you so much for being a friend right into the patreon plug because i had to we had to we were we had a we were having a conversation beforehand about
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You know, a guy who is a white man who was born in Rhodesia and dies in South Africa and lives nearly 90 years.
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You got questions about his life.
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You got questions.
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Fair.
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You got questions.
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Fair and balanced.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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About as fair and balanced as they get, actually.
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Yeah.
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About as fair and balanced as they get.
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It's okay.
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I think it's okay to make a slight assumption.
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Just to ask a couple of questions.
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That's an actual I'm just asking questions moment.
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I'm just asking questions.
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Yeah.
False Memories & Conspiracy Theories
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What were your thoughts on Nelson Mandela?
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Right, right.
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Well, I thought for years he had died before he did.
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Oh, OK, well, that's interesting.
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Yeah.
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But it turns out he's living in Barbara in Barbara Streisand's house.
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Reading the Berenstain Bears books.
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Reading the Berenstain Bears.
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Berenstain Bears.
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Yeah, count me in that camp.
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I actually... I thought it was Bernstein, even as a kid.
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I remember saying it to my parents, Bernstein Bears, and nobody ever corrected me.
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No one.
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So I am fully... If I'm going to have weird conspiracy theory thoughts, I think there has been a... There's been like a split in the timeline or something like that.
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Where it used to be Bernstein.
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I'm 100% sure at this point that it used to be Bernstein.
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I don't care.
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Man, remember when conspiracy theories were fun?
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Man.
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Yeah.
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Those were good times.
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Those were the days.
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Those were the days.
Star Wars Lore and Grimdark Elements
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Yeah, so we're still talking about the Jedi stuff with the Fatal Alliance.
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are that alliance that is fatal the alliance that is fatal before we get started i read something on the one of star wars subreddits that uh the reason why humans and like twilex can like get it on and have a kid is because this is like this is some like warhammer level stuff yeah but like all of all of the all of the species that are human-like
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are actual mutations off of humanity that were created by another race.
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Oh!
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Yeah.
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Oh!
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So like the Twi'leks and all that stuff.
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It's not like they were...
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they were original it was like they originally were humans and somebody played with their gene started around with their genetics a bit um and made a whole brand new yeah it's very warhammer it's kind of disappointing but it's also very 40k in the oh yeah sure sure
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It's like it adds one layer of grimdark.
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When you think of the ogrens and the ratlings and all that other stuff.
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Ogrens and ratlings, yeah.
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Squats.
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But that's why humans and Twi'leks can have relations, which... I didn't know that.
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I did not know that.
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I didn't know that either, but I endorse that.
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So however you guys feel about that dancing girl, it's okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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She's basically your cousin.
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It's fine.
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He's basically your cousin.
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Mm hmm.
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I don't like the fact that Jabba kills her for, you know, feeds her to the Rancor.
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There are so few women in that universe as it is.
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Do we really need to kill any of them off?
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There's so few women.
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There's so few.
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That have proper agency.
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It's Leia or Mon Mothma or that Twilight girl.
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Leia, Mon Mothma or that Twilight girl.
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That's it.
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That's it.
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Those are your choices.
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And after Jedi, it was one less.
Battle with Hex Droids
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So bad news.
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Bad news, bears.
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Berenstain bears.
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Let's put the body in the marsh.
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Let's marsh up that body.
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Okay.
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When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them in the marsh.
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them on.
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We are in chapter 16.
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Laren and the Sarge, as I've affectionately begun to call him, they start shooting back at our cartoonishly weird-ass aliens, as you guys recall.
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They are very geometric.
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And we realize for the first time that they actually appear to be droids.
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The hexes.
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Yeah, the hexes.
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They refer to them as the hexes.
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And there's a... We're gonna see, like...
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that they are filled with these thin hair, like filaments that seem to.
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And they have noticed them in the book at that point that they've been spreading all over the place, basically looking for materials and scrap and energy sources and that sort of thing.
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So that it's basically can create more of itself, which is weird shit and very cool.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The droids start to go all Voltron on us.
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They join together to become something bigger.
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And sadly, right after I started calling him the Sarge, Sergeant Patanin takes a ricochet to the eye and dies.
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Ula and Jet are off on their own, avoiding all combat for for for
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Similarly, but different cowardly reasons.
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Ula because he's a coward and Jet because he's a scoundrel.
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And that's just how they roll.
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Yeah.
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And here's the thing.
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Jet, I get it.
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Ula.
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Yeah.
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It's like there's.
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There's cowardice on Ula's side and Jet is like, oh, but he's doing the same thing, but he's doing it cool.
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You know?
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Right.
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This is like the hello human resources meme.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Jet is the guy who's like, I'm hiding from fire because I'm a scoundrel.
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And she's like, oh, you're sweet.
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And when Ula does it, it's hello human resources.
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That's exactly it.
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And yeah, it's the same deal.
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But, you know, Jet paints it as pragmatism.
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But come on.
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So they're speculating on the Mandalorian's need for these hexes, as they call them.
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Axe, who was recently blasted to oblivion.
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wakes up and gets blasted to oblivion again.
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But instead of passing out, she goes full Wolverine berserker on them and screams back at them, whose authority do you recognize?
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And it's
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pretty fucking cool uh it's it's just like it's metal she's just screaming like who uh whose authority do you recognize right right yeah she's just choosing different emphases uh uh to shout it back it's yeah she goes completely uh uh ape shit on them and it's it's it's fucking metal as hell uh uh
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So they're sometimes pretty cool.
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Chapter 17 X is using her for scream against the hexes by download and play Star Wars The Old Republic today.
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Another kick ass power that you can have in that game.
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The droids start using cloaking tech.
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Basically, they are they are coming up with all they're pulling all kinds of tricks out of their hat at all.
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Seems like I can do whatever they need to.
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Yeah.
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As the situation calls for it.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And so Shigar, who has been fighting them this entire freaking time and has taken some blows, finally retreats.
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And the Mandalorian who has popped in there tells him to tell Laren and the others who are bringing in the rear, putting down some firepower, telling them to aim for the vault.
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So the hexes are bouncing.
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They can they create these like mirror shields and they're bouncing laser cannon fire off of their mirror shields against this spot near the vault that's weakening.
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Um, and they're, they're basically trying to create a larger exit.
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And Shigar seems to realize what the hell's going on is trying to get people to stop because they only have one in and out point and it's pretty narrow.
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So they're kind of stuck.
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Uh, but if they can make, uh, if they can widen the, uh, the exit, then they can really get the hell out of there.
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Um, so the, the Twi'lek, uh, head of the bodyguards for the huts, uh, he, he just, he just keeps on shooting and, uh, uh,
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Stryver, who realizes also what is going on, blows him and the cannon up.
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Just we never see either again.
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But it's too late.
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At that point, the exit is too big.
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And he orders Laren to go in and destroy everything that she can in the vault.
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Uh, Shigar saves Jet and Ula from a giant falling piece of wall, uh, related to the, uh, uh, the vault explosion.
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Um, they run, Ula's pretty embarrassed about, uh, uh, uh, what a panty waist he is turning out to be.
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He thinks quite a lot about, you know, like, oh, I was, if I always said that if I was going to be in one of these positions, because apparently at one point,
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He had wanted to be like, I don't remember what they call it, but it's like a hand of the emperor style, like assassin kind of character.
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And that's what he wanted to do originally.
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And he was like, oh, I am in no way ready for that.
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He is not qualified for any of that.
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Not even a little bit.
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And so he's having kind of a moment with himself.
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He says he's going to he tells he says he's going to go into the vault to stop the Republic from getting there first.
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Oopsie realizes his mistake and tries to say, I mean, the the Imperials and Jet thinks that's pretty funny in a scoundrelly kind of way.
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He's like, ah, cool.
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You're a big old faker, too.
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I love it.
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You have to feel like his secret is probably safe with Jet.
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Yeah.
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Jet's first mate tried to kill him and he still, you know, forgave him and put him back.
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Yeah.
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Put him back at work.
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No.
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Chapter 18.
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Stryver, Sith, Mandalorian, Sith and Jedi
Character Dilemmas and Decisions
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chase the hexes outside.
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They are running.
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The Mandalorian nets one of them and Axe almost goes to kill it before realizing, oh, wait, I don't give a shit.
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This is not my this is not my fight.
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I don't give a shit.
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Axe is like, wait a minute.
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I don't need to do any of this.
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Yeah.
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Oh, wait, I don't care.
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I was only here because I wanted to kill this Mandalorian.
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And that's not going to happen at this point.
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So let me go to the vault and find the Navicomp.
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that I was also sent here to get.
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So she leaves Shigar and Stryver to that.
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They bring both of the droids down, they get and they get a signal from Laren who's telling them, you need to get to the vault.
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You need to see this.
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Laren has found what amounts to a tiny war droid factory.
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That's where all of these things have been coming from.
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And it's been sending out feelers and getting scrap and energy sources and just creating more of itself, which if you've played Knights of the Old Republic is kind of it's that was actually one of the big bosses at the end.
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You're basically dealing with a infinite.
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I think it's called the Star Forge, which just creates.
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more and more war droids.
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That's the whole thing.
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So it might be a kind of a nod to that.
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Either way, it's a pretty dangerous thing.
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So she tells Shigar and she's on the comm link with him.
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And as she's doing that, her fingers get cut off by axe with her lightsaber who demands that she give her the map of comm.
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The hand that she's holding the comm link in
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It's like the comlink is gone and so are her fingers suddenly.
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And so are her fingers, which, you know, it's easy to forget how much of a thing, how much of a trope losing limbs is in Star Wars.
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Oh, 100%.
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Right.
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For what is a, it's a kid's show essentially, but it's like they lose limbs a lot on that show.
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Anakin in the prequel first loses his arm in episode two and then in episode three,
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Obi-Wan cuts off his the robot arm again and both of his legs.
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Both of his legs.
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And then Luke loses a hand and Luke loses a hand.
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It's a pretty common thing to lose.
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But I mean, you fuck with lightsabers.
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It's going to happen.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, there's it's just part of the it's like having a shop teacher with a missing pinky.
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You know, it's just right.
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It doesn't throw you.
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It just happens.
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Right.
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She's demanding the Navicomp.
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Ula sees all of this and sees the Navicomp, which Larry doesn't have.
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So he scrambles for it.
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Axe is still threatening her and the last guard that she has.
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because all of the guards, the people who've been working with her have slowly been getting picked off at this point.
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Ula struggles with whether or not he should give it to Axe because on one hand, he's like, this will solve all of my issues because she and I are technically on the same side.
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On the other hand, as we mentioned in the last episode, he really doesn't like the Sith.
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He gets this whole existential meltdown in his head of like,
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I love the empire because it brings us rule and order and all that stuff.
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But I don't like the Sith.
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It's like this really weird Republican guy who is like it's an anti-Trump Republican, anti-MAGA Republican who is still a fascist.
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Right.
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Doesn't like that kind of fascism.
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Yeah.
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And it's based entirely on the fact that they think they're better than them.
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And it's like, you're really not.
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You're exactly the same.
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Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
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And finally, he decides that he is going to he's going to toss the Navicom to axe.
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But Striker comes in with the interception.
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The Mandalorian grabs Navicom and exchanges it very kindly, I think, with a thermal detonator.
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Very smooth Mandalorian moves right there.
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That's I mean, that's
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primo Mandalorian move.
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Shigar uses the force to throw it back and Stryver rides the falling debris deeper into the palace.
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So Shigar checks on Laren and Ula hates it.
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He is so he is so into her.
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She is my girlfriend.
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Right.
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And he's just like, oh, they've got a friendship and a connection that I don't have.
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It's like, yeah, you just met her.
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Like, you just met her, dude.
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Jesus Christ.
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You haven't even said anything to her before you got into it.
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You got nothing.
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Like, like settle the fuck, like start with hello.
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It can, it can happen to you.
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Yeah.
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So he, so ultimately he decides that he's going to make a run for the nearest Imperial ship and, and explain who he is and, and, and, you know, drop his cover so he can get the hell out of there.
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And that brings us to the end of part two, the beginning of part three, the chase.
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Chapter 19.
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This is one of my favorite things with Axe chasing Dao through the building.
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Yeah, this is that's exactly what this whole section is.
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It's just it's it.
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I mean, it's what it says on the tin.
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Axe is chasing Stryver down into starts in some slave quarters.
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They jump a ranker pit.
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We get a little we get a little cameo from ranker.
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Presumably the fat guy with the headdress.
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One presumably he's there.
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Yeah, that guy that guy rules.
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He loves his job and his job loves him back.
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That's right.
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She chases him all the way back up through the roof of the palace and he blasts her and runs off.
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And it's like they are they're like
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breaking through floor to ceiling, floor to ceiling, floor.
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So Stryver is just like with his jet pack, just shooting massive holes all the way through like these.
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It's like he's in a casino.
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He's in a, you know, he's in the shower scene from 10th floor, lingerie, 11th floor.
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He's in housewares.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He's going through the mall.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's it's it's it is it is a great little tour of the palace.
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So she she he gets away and so she makes her way to the vault back to the vault, realizing that the Navicomp that he got away with can't be the only way to find a map to where they're trying to get to.
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So she steals one of the dead Hex droids, figuring I could probably find something in here.
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She boards an Imperial shuttle and tells the pilot to blow up the Republic shuttle on the way out, basically just out of just malice.
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You know, it's like, just fuck you.
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Right.
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It's hilarious because we are in a Cold War right now, and it's the most overt thing to do.
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And we do later, they do say something like, if this had happened anywhere but a hut crime palace, then maybe, yeah, it would have...
00:19:23
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you know, cause the war to get out again.
00:19:25
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But, but right at this point, no one gives a shit.
00:19:28
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Uh, chapter 20, the guys on the ship, uh, when ax is getting on, they're like, Oh yeah, some guy tried to get on the ship.
00:19:39
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We had to turn him away.
00:19:40
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Right.
00:19:40
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Yes.
00:19:42
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We'll get back around to that.
00:19:43
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But that's like, put a pin in that.
00:19:46
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And I do want to say, Sean Williams does a really, really good job of overlapping these moments and telling them from different people's perspectives.
Praise for Narrative Techniques
00:19:55
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He isn't afraid of stepping back and bringing you back up to speed if it will give you a perspective from somebody else.
00:20:04
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And I think it's really well done.
00:20:06
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It's not easy to do that kind of thing in a novel.
00:20:10
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He does it really well.
00:20:12
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Chapter 20, Shigar is sneaking through the palace.
00:20:16
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He is waiting in a spaceport for he's outside of the Mandalorian ship.
00:20:20
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He's just kind of waiting for him to come back.
00:20:22
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He's got to come back at some point.
00:20:24
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Right.
00:20:25
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And then he stands corrected when the ship starts taking off.
00:20:29
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As far as he can tell, no one has gotten into it.
00:20:31
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So he breaks in through the security system and it shocks him and electrocutes him and sends him back down to the roof.
00:20:39
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Basically just throws him out of the jet.
00:20:41
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It's hilarious.
Negotiations and Discrimination in Star Wars
00:20:43
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Just spits him right out.
00:20:44
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Just spits him out.
00:20:45
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When he hits the ground, security binds him and drops him at the door.
00:20:51
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Feet of the hut to Tassabarish.
00:20:56
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He's so he's finally face to face with this charming Huttese crime lord, crime lady.
00:21:03
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At first, she thinks he's a Sith.
00:21:07
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Uh, and, uh, and, and, and he's like, kind of, he's, you know what he's doing?
00:21:11
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She thinks he's a Sith and she's going to punish him.
00:21:13
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Uh, and he pulls the, like, uh, I think you use the wrong version of there, there.
00:21:21
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So she's like, I don't give a shit.
00:21:23
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I'm still going to beat the shit out of you for what you, for being involved in what you did to the palace.
00:21:27
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Like, oh yeah.
00:21:28
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Yeah.
00:21:29
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It's not,
00:21:29
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really the point that you think you're making here.
00:21:32
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Yeah.
00:21:33
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So he makes a deal with her.
00:21:35
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He says he's going to follow.
00:21:37
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He'll follow the Mandalorian into towards this new space territory and that she's got first dibs after it's all over that she can have first dibs on anything they find.
00:21:49
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And she agrees, but says, but you've got to take you're going to have to accept my help, basically.
00:21:58
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chapter 21 laran disassociates with jet uh she's just sitting there he's chatting with her and she's having a goddamn existential meltdown um on where she is based on who she used to be uh right she was a you know a professional soldier and special forces person and now she's like getting into firefights with crime lords and stuff she's like is this
00:22:20
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Is this what I was meant to be doing with my life?
00:22:23
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Is this how far I've fallen in my life?
00:22:25
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Right.
00:22:25
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You're right.
00:22:26
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I don't know.
00:22:26
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I'm like, it sounds like you're in a better place than you were.
00:22:29
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I mean, that sounds pretty cool.
00:22:31
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Yeah.
00:22:31
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But, um,
00:22:33
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So they figured that the droids were waiting for someone to win the auction to take and to take them someplace else.
00:22:41
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And and they saw an opportunity to escape when people started trying to break into the goddamn vault and and took it.
00:22:52
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They also come to the same conclusion that Axe does, realizing they could probably use one of their heads to find some core memories and get a map or something like that.
00:23:03
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Right.
00:23:06
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A droid tells them the droid tells them that striker got away.
00:23:11
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Stryver, Stryver.
00:23:12
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I keep writing Stryker.
00:23:13
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It's Stryver.
00:23:15
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Right.
00:23:15
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They try to come up with a plan to also get the fuck out of there.
00:23:20
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The Republic shuttle is blown up.
00:23:23
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But then they get a call from Shigar who says, hey, Berisha's security details coming up.
00:23:29
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Just just agree.
00:23:30
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Oh, yeah.
00:23:31
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Yeah.
00:23:31
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Because they're like.
00:23:32
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They're all ready to go.
00:23:33
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It's like, what's her name?
00:23:36
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And Jet and Ula are like, and Jet's droid.
00:23:41
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And like, all right, we got to fight.
00:23:43
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And there's like 100 dudes outside that door.
00:23:45
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And they're like saved by a phone call right at that moment.
00:23:49
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Yeah.
00:23:50
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So it's, it's the, it's the super mega happy ending of a, a butch and Sundance really.
00:23:56
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It's like, say if only, if only we could have gotten a phone call into them first.
00:24:01
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Um, it's, it's, it's, so they're like, Oh good.
00:24:04
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We're glad that we don't have to do that.
00:24:05
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They're suspicious, but they, they go.
00:24:07
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Um,
00:24:08
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Ula, we cut to chapter 22.
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Ula is now in Beriche's office.
00:24:12
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He is miserable.
00:24:14
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He tried to get away.
00:24:16
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He's been turned away by the Imperials because he's a near human.
00:24:20
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Another Ben Shapiro moment.
00:24:22
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Ben, if they get their way, it's just a matter of time until you're against the wall and you're going to have it coming.
00:24:26
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You pinheaded, short sighted, lace curtain piece of shit.
00:24:30
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That's all in my notes.
00:24:31
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Yeah.
00:24:36
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So just, just, just, just wanted you to know.
00:24:43
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You should, you should be aware that they don't like you for specific reasons.
00:24:47
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You will be, you, you will be in the same shit show.
00:24:51
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A lot of the people you don't like are.
00:24:52
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So, so, yeah, but go ahead and make a fucking weird face at Superman.
00:24:59
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Yeah, yeah.
00:25:00
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Try playing your violin now, bitch.
00:25:02
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Yeah, yeah.
00:25:03
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Oh, my God.
00:25:03
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I didn't know somebody's face could twist up in faux outrage so much.
00:25:10
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He literally looks like an actual asshole when he does that.
00:25:13
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He just is wrinkled.
00:25:15
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He looks like the Uzumaki swirl somehow on his fucking face.
00:25:22
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It's just like... It's...
00:25:25
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Ben, come on.
00:25:26
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It was Superman.
00:25:29
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And he's like, it's woke.
00:25:32
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This is real easy, guys.
00:25:35
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Like, this is real easy.
00:25:38
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That's how... They're losers, man.
00:25:40
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It's so funny to think that, like, that's...
00:25:43
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There have been years where you sit there and take everything they say apart and point out the hypocrisies and point out the short sight in this and the hatred and the racism.
00:25:56
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And then after long enough, it just comes down to like, God, they're fucking losers.
00:26:03
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It just doesn't matter.
00:26:04
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What a fucking tool.
00:26:06
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You know, they don't care.
00:26:08
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No, it's just just a fucking tool.
00:26:10
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Anyway, you're going to you'll get yours one day, Ben.
00:26:16
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Anyway, I literally wrote anyway.
00:26:21
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The Republic shuttle is gone.
00:26:23
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Uh, so he is stuck.
00:26:25
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Uh, the Imperials don't want him.
00:26:26
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Uh, the Republics won't take him.
00:26:29
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They, they, they don't, they, they can't take him.
00:26:32
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Uh, so he's stuck.
00:26:33
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Uh, he ends up getting, uh, led, uh, to Shigar, uh, along with everybody else.
00:26:39
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Uh, the whole gang, uh,
00:26:41
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Always sunny style is going to go after Stryver with Barish's blessing using jets ship, the Auriga fire, which is a pretty kick ass name for a ship.
00:26:51
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That is a good name.
00:26:52
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That's a good name.
00:26:53
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Good name.
00:26:54
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It's a good name.
00:26:55
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Good change.
00:26:57
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Good change.
00:26:58
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The whole plan, however, is centered around Shigar using his psycho telemetry powers on the piece of droid to get a sense of where to go.
00:27:10
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And he is not confident about all of that.
00:27:14
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Laren is she's her her hand needs binding and a fairly sprints to go help her going.
00:27:23
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Yeah, I took basic first aid.
00:27:24
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I could help, you know, just like just right.
00:27:26
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So thirsty.
00:27:27
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So very, very thirsty for that five fingered galahiz.
00:27:32
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Chapter 23, Shigar links up with Master Satale.
00:27:38
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She's really impressed with everything that he has managed to accomplish at this point, including fending off both a Mandalorian and a Sith at the same time.
00:27:46
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I'd be impressed, too.
00:27:49
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He thinks that the droids are the the invention of Lima Zandrit, our long lost woman here.
00:27:57
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We've learned that she's a droid maker.
00:27:59
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This is part of her stuff.
00:28:01
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He put two and two together.
00:28:04
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He's super unconfident about his abilities to read this droid thing.
00:28:09
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And she gives him the old there is no try kind of.
00:28:14
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It's just like, just fucking do it.
00:28:16
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Yeah.
00:28:16
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Yeah.
00:28:17
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Just do it.
00:28:17
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Whiny bastard.
00:28:18
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Yeah.
00:28:18
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Stop thinking so damn hard.
00:28:19
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Stop thinking about it.
00:28:20
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Yeah.
00:28:20
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Stop.
00:28:21
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Literally stop thinking so hard about it.
00:28:23
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Just do it.
00:28:24
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That's exactly it.
00:28:27
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Laren is getting her hand tended to by Ula.
00:28:30
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It's brutal because like her hand is partially melted and grafted to the glove she'd been wearing.
00:28:38
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And it's it's pretty harsh.
00:28:40
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It's a gnarly cut.
00:28:42
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It's a real gnarly cut.
00:28:43
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And he is trying to help her as best as he can using and doing actually honestly.
00:28:49
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a better job than I expected him to.
00:28:51
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Um, he helps her undress partially, uh, and then glows bright red when she says a girl's got to keep some secrets.
00:28:59
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Uh, and, uh, it,
00:29:01
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And he excuses himself.
00:29:04
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And she starts and once again kind of contemplates this new group that she's fallen in with.
00:29:09
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Yeah.
00:29:10
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Chapter 24.
00:29:12
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Once again, this happens a few times in the book so far.
00:29:15
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Axe boards her master's cruiser and we get kind of...
00:29:19
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uh, the counterpoint scene, uh, the Sith version of the Jedi scene we just had where, uh, she, uh, she meets up with her master before beforehand.
00:29:30
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She demands a tech specialist, uh, take the dead hex and get some information out of it.
00:29:35
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Uh, then she gets physically and verbally bitch slapped by master Kratos for how bad the mission went.
00:29:42
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Um, she gives them the same kind of lowdown that she gave, uh, uh,
00:29:47
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his master promises to find the home planet with the droid remains and, and, and then wonders.
00:29:53
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And she has a moment where she's wondering about the droids and she compares herself to the droids.
00:29:59
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Like we're both my mother's creation.
00:30:02
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Shouldn't maybe we be allies.
00:30:06
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She, she really does not like her master, which is not unusual for a Sith.
00:30:10
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Yeah.
00:30:11
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Not unusual.
00:30:12
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I mean, I feel like that's like the, the end of the road for a Sith,
00:30:15
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apprentice relationship, you know.
00:30:18
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I mean, that is how it's supposed to end.
00:30:19
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So, yeah.
00:30:20
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Like the apprentice is supposed to kill the master, I think.
00:30:24
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In the new stuff.
00:30:26
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Well, the new stuff, the original stuff.
00:30:28
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In the original stuff.
00:30:29
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The newer stuff chronologically.
00:30:31
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Right, right.
00:30:33
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Because it's like in the newer stuff chronologically, the Sith are like, oh, there's only ever supposed to be two.
00:30:40
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But way back in the day, it's like, oh, there's like 40 bajillion of them.
00:30:44
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We got whole goddamn planets of Sith Corbin.
00:30:47
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Come on.
00:30:47
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It's a, it's a, it's a wild town.
00:30:51
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Uh, uh, chapter 25, Laren checks on Shigar who's still working on reading the droid.
00:30:58
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Uh, it's not going well.
00:31:00
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Uh, he's, he's really in his head about it and she tries to cheer up, uh, and tells him the story about her ratting out her CEO.
00:31:08
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Um, and, and this is where we finally get, it's kind of this mundane sort of thing.
00:31:12
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It's, it's, it's,
00:31:14
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It's just that her CO was corrupt.
00:31:17
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She turned him in.
00:31:19
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But part of the and he got punished.
00:31:22
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But part of it was that they didn't like tell the people not going to release the files to the public.
00:31:30
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Nobody knew what happened except that she turned him in or whatever.
00:31:35
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And so she suffered retaliation and had to had to resign.
00:31:39
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Yeah.
00:31:40
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So, yeah, as far as they knew that she was she was just somebody who didn't like their leader and was trying to move up the ranks or something.
00:31:46
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So she tells him that story and tells him that he's overthinking the whole thing.
00:31:50
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And it actually puts him in a worse mood.
00:31:53
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So she leaves and finally gets some sleep.
00:31:57
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After she leaves, Shigar wonders – he kind of thinks about it as like, wonders, would I be able to rat on somebody like Master Satali, who I respect?
00:32:07
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It's really good internal monologue that Williams writes.
00:32:11
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It actually –
00:32:13
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has a lot to do with what we're talking about in these books.
00:32:16
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It has, it's part of the themes of the novel.
00:32:19
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It's sure it's, it's really solid stuff.
00:32:21
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I, I, I enjoy it normally with these books.
00:32:24
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A lot of the time when we get internal monologue, it's kind of window dressing.
00:32:27
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It's kind of stupid.
00:32:28
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Um, but this is actually very solid, uh, well-written stuff.
00:32:32
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Um,
00:32:34
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So he finally realizes that there is no try and just gets out of his head and his powers, boom, work.
00:32:40
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He basically travels mentally through the history of this droid and ends up in the mind of Lima Zandrit and feels her thoughts and her thoughts.
00:32:54
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Angry leftist shit, as it turns out, just.
00:32:58
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She's pretty based, pretty based, pretty based.
00:33:02
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She's angry leftist ranting and cool.
00:33:06
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All right.
00:33:06
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I'm into it.
00:33:07
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Cool.
00:33:08
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Yeah.
00:33:09
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So but then he knows where the planet is.
00:33:11
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And so we can move forward with the story.
00:33:14
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Chapter 26, the Sith droid tech tells Axe that the droid wasn't finished, that it was actually evolving.
00:33:24
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I got the thing vibes from this discussion.
00:33:28
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Yes.
00:33:29
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It was like this is like a robot version of the thing.
00:33:32
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Yes.
00:33:32
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It was like, you see, and you're like, that's man.
00:33:35
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That's dog.
00:33:36
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That's exactly it.
00:33:38
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If you if you at home are imagining a Sith droid tech played by Wilford Brimley, you're correct.
00:33:44
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That is that is that is essentially what we're dealing with here.
00:33:48
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Absolutely.
00:33:49
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Absolutely.
00:33:50
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And he explained that.
00:33:52
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I mean, that's seriously it.
00:33:53
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I can't believe I didn't think about that.
00:33:54
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That's exactly what it is.
00:33:56
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That's that moment.
00:33:57
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And he says, you think you wanted to be a dog?
00:34:00
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Right, right.
00:34:01
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You didn't want to be a dog?
00:34:02
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You wanted to be us.
00:34:07
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That's pretty good.
00:34:08
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You wanted to be us.
00:34:10
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It sounded like Keeler a little bit.
00:34:16
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And he tells him that the droid could have finished itself if it had time and more access to a central computer.
00:34:25
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And they also managed to get planet coordinates from the droid brain.
00:34:29
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But according to the Imperial records, it's right outside of a black hole.
00:34:34
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Yeah.
00:34:35
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And acts very much like when Ron Swanson was asked, not Ron Swanson.
00:34:46
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God damn it.
00:34:48
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Oh, I fucked it up.
00:34:49
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What's his name?
00:34:50
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Nick Offerman.
00:34:51
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Nick Offerman.
00:34:52
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No, no.
00:34:57
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God damn it.
00:34:57
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Will Ferrell's character in Anchorman, Ron Burgundy.
00:35:00
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Ron Burgundy.
00:35:01
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Yeah.
00:35:02
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Much like when Ron Burgundy was asked to take someone to Pleasure Town, Axe says, oh, we're going there.
00:35:11
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See, that was worth it.
00:35:11
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We got there.
00:35:13
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We got there.
00:35:13
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That was worth it.
00:35:15
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I think the other and the other thing they point out is that it's like it's not actually in the galaxy technically anymore.
00:35:23
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It's it's yeah, it gets very timey wimey when it's like it's a planet.
00:35:29
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It's a it's like a rogue planet captured around a black hole north of the galactic like accretion disk.
Humorous Mothman Discussion
00:35:37
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It's like if well north, but, you know, up.
00:35:42
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Right.
00:35:43
Speaker
It's central West Virginia is what we're saying.
00:35:45
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It is out of the goddamn way.
00:35:48
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It is.
00:35:49
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It's Appalachia.
00:35:50
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Yeah.
00:35:51
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Yeah.
00:35:51
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It's scary.
00:35:52
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The cops don't come out there.
00:35:55
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Mothman is there for you.
00:35:56
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Mothman is absolutely there and he will protect you.
00:36:00
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Never, never doubt.
00:36:01
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Mothman sees you and knows that you're valid.
00:36:05
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Yeah.
00:36:05
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The Mothman protects.
00:36:08
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And the Mothman has cake.
00:36:09
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It's true.
00:36:10
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That's true.
00:36:11
Speaker
I haven't seen that statue, by the way, but I would like to see the caked up Mothman statue in person.
00:36:17
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I just got done writing an assignment for work about Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
00:36:22
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And it was so funny because I did the research and I have to call, you know, I was calling up sources and stuff.
00:36:30
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And a lot of realtors are who I talk to.
00:36:32
Speaker
And some of them I was like, I was trying not to immediately go Mothman.
00:36:37
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you know, I wanted to like, you know, it's a town that's got people who live there.
00:36:41
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I'm sure there's more to it than that.
00:36:43
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And so I'd say, you know, so what's, what's Point Pleasant all about?
00:36:45
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And they go, Oh, Mothman, it's just Mothman there.
00:36:47
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It's all Mothman all the time there.
00:36:49
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And I was like, Oh, okay, great.
00:36:50
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So that was, it's a town of 2000 and their, their economy is centered around a,
00:36:55
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a cryptid like it's it's what you'd expect uh and now now we are absolutely planning a family trip up there you guys should come we should all go to uh that'd be good point pleasant west virginia they got us by god virginia and they've got a mothman escape room uh yeah it looks like it'd be fun uh it'd be cheap as shit uh super fun i'm sure
00:37:20
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So, uh, all right, that brings us to part four, Sebedon, which is the name of this planet.
00:37:26
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Uh, chapter 27, Shigar's party is driving into black hole territory.
00:37:32
Speaker
Uh, the Republic ships that they've contacted beforehand, which they did by the way, uh, are waiting for them.
00:37:38
Speaker
Um, and they, and then Satali squad comes in and they watch as one of Satali's ships goes a little off course and gets sucked into the black hole.
00:37:48
Speaker
Right into the black hole.
00:37:49
Speaker
Right into the black hole.
00:37:51
Speaker
They join her squad and she goes like, you know, we just lost a ship.
00:37:54
Speaker
She's pretty blase about the whole thing, actually.
00:37:56
Speaker
She's like.
00:37:58
Speaker
We just lost a whole crew of people.
00:38:00
Speaker
Fuck them.
00:38:00
Speaker
Right.
00:38:01
Speaker
You should take their place.
00:38:02
Speaker
Why don't you just fall in as, as like unit two or whatever.
00:38:07
Speaker
It worked so well for them.
00:38:10
Speaker
So they're like, okay, sure.
00:38:12
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not, I don't love how, how literally you seem to care about the dead crew, but all right, fine.
00:38:20
Speaker
So she's like, at least we've got a spare.
00:38:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:25
Speaker
By the way, that crew is screaming an eternity with the way they are falling into the black hole.
00:38:32
Speaker
They are being squeezed like a tube of toothpaste.
00:38:36
Speaker
And the end result is very similar.
00:38:39
Speaker
Spaghettification.
00:38:42
Speaker
Not just for the Sam Raimi Doctor Strange movie anymore.
00:38:48
Speaker
Not for all of us.
00:38:50
Speaker
For all of us.
00:38:51
Speaker
I can't.
00:38:51
Speaker
I didn't like that scene.
00:38:53
Speaker
That scene was upsetting.
00:38:55
Speaker
It's an upsetting scene.
00:38:56
Speaker
But it's perfect Sam Raimi.
00:38:58
Speaker
It's super Sam Raimi.
00:39:00
Speaker
They really let him cook.
00:39:01
Speaker
They did!
00:39:03
Speaker
Sam Raimi is like, hey, can I kill Black Bolt and Mr. Fantastic in very terrible ways?
00:39:11
Speaker
And they're like, all right.
00:39:12
Speaker
Yeah, fine.
00:39:13
Speaker
Can it still be PG-13?
00:39:15
Speaker
I guess.
00:39:18
Speaker
I've never been that guy.
00:39:19
Speaker
And when I saw that movie, my son wasn't even in the picture yet.
00:39:22
Speaker
So I wasn't a parent or anything.
00:39:24
Speaker
And I watched that scene and I was just like, who's in charge of the rating system?
00:39:30
Speaker
It was shocking.
00:39:31
Speaker
It was like,
00:39:32
Speaker
Wait a minute.
00:39:32
Speaker
Did she just cut Captain Carter in half?
00:39:35
Speaker
Right.
00:39:36
Speaker
Right.
00:39:36
Speaker
That whole scene, that whole like 15 minutes or so was my intrusive thought for no joke, like three weeks.
00:39:44
Speaker
Like I kept thinking about different moments of it and just getting bummed out.
00:39:49
Speaker
And when you're when you work in social media, that is not a good time.
00:39:51
Speaker
Yeah, that movie fucked with me for almost a whole month.
00:39:57
Speaker
So Sitali, she reaches out to the planet and gets an angry response.
00:40:03
Speaker
The very familiar phrase, we do not recognize your authority.
00:40:08
Speaker
When Sitali, like many Jedi, refuses to shut the fuck up, they get missiles shot at them.
00:40:16
Speaker
Yeah, I was like, well, I think they're deserving it at this point.
00:40:21
Speaker
Oh, big time.
00:40:22
Speaker
The planet's like, you don't have clearance to be here.
00:40:25
Speaker
Right.
00:40:26
Speaker
Get out of here.
00:40:27
Speaker
And Zatali's like, well, I see your feelings now.
00:40:32
Speaker
And I'm holding space for them.
00:40:35
Speaker
But we're going to land.
00:40:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, what did you?
00:40:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:40
Speaker
What do you think was going to happen?
00:40:42
Speaker
Look, I don't care for the libertarian commune out in the middle of the woods either.
00:40:47
Speaker
But if I go out there and bug them enough, I'm going to get shot at.
00:40:51
Speaker
And it's not not their fault, really.
00:40:53
Speaker
Sure.
00:40:55
Speaker
It's my stupid fucking fault.
Chaos in Space: Hex Droids Attack
00:40:58
Speaker
So, yeah, they get missile shot at them, which everyone on board except for Phil and Kevin agree is a bit of an overreaction.
00:41:05
Speaker
I was like, no, yeah, that's your assholes.
00:41:10
Speaker
One of the missiles, they kind of dodge a lot of them, but one of them finally hits Citalia ship.
00:41:16
Speaker
There's no explosion.
00:41:18
Speaker
Instead, we find out that the missiles are filled with hex droids.
00:41:23
Speaker
To the point, they point that the other missiles that broke in orbit are basically a cloud of these things.
00:41:30
Speaker
So we dealt with like three of them.
00:41:33
Speaker
And now we're dealing with thousands upon thousands of them in space.
00:41:37
Speaker
Um,
00:41:39
Speaker
Everybody panics just in time for the Imperial forces to show up.
00:41:45
Speaker
Ula is reflexively happy to see them until he realizes that either he has to reveal that he's an Imperial while on board a Republic vessel and that'll fuck him over, or he keeps quiet and the Imperials blow him to smithereens, not knowing that he's.
00:42:03
Speaker
really doesn't have a win here.
00:42:05
Speaker
Ula is not there's no wins for Ula so far in this book.
00:42:09
Speaker
Just Ula is a whole big L and just L after L after L like that gif of the guy handing out L's, you know, that's exactly and he kind of deserves it.
00:42:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's not.
00:42:20
Speaker
He's kind of short sighted windbag.
00:42:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:24
Speaker
Chapter 28, Axe and the Imperials arrive.
00:42:27
Speaker
They get ready to fuck up some Republic ships, but they're not really sure what the hell's going on.
00:42:33
Speaker
They're like, they seem to be fighting something.
00:42:37
Speaker
They're fighting.
00:42:38
Speaker
It's like it looks like they're firing at each other.
00:42:41
Speaker
Right.
00:42:42
Speaker
What's going on?
00:42:44
Speaker
And it's because the hexes are now are corrupting the computers on the Republic ships.
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:52
Speaker
They are taking fire at each other.
00:42:54
Speaker
They are eating them alive physically and systematically.
00:43:00
Speaker
So but they don't know this yet.
00:43:02
Speaker
So the fighters head out, including Axe and her interceptor.
00:43:07
Speaker
And she realizes a little too late that they are dealing with clouds of goddamn hexes.
00:43:13
Speaker
And so they try to keep them contained.
00:43:16
Speaker
But the Imperial fleet gets hit just as hard.
00:43:20
Speaker
One of the ships explodes.
00:43:23
Speaker
essentially nail bombing everybody with more hexes.
00:43:27
Speaker
Like any of the hexes that aren't directly destroyed from the exploding ship are pushed out, uh, just to do more damage.
00:43:35
Speaker
Uh, so it's, it's lovely.
00:43:37
Speaker
Uh,
00:43:37
Speaker
Chapter 29, the Auriga fire is blasting hexes.
00:43:41
Speaker
They're doing their best to save whatever ships and escape pods that they can.
00:43:47
Speaker
The hexes once again go kind of Voltron on them and they join together together.
00:43:53
Speaker
into this giant tube to kind of respond to the danger.
00:43:59
Speaker
And they're bouncing, they're using the mirror shields and bouncing back shots.
00:44:04
Speaker
The Auriga fire fires at them and the shot bounces right back to them doing 60% shield damage.
00:44:12
Speaker
So finally, what they realize they need to do is use physics against them and they build up as much energy as they can.
00:44:18
Speaker
And they fly into the tube and,
00:44:21
Speaker
Um, the hexes absorb all the energy that was fired at them, but it's too much.
Tactical Victory Against Hex Droids
00:44:27
Speaker
And they kind of explode, uh, uh, like, you know, overstuffed ticks essentially.
00:44:32
Speaker
Um, Satali reaches out to Shigar with the force, uh, uh, Shigar, uh, she's in, she's in some floating debris and he's going to put on a Vax, Vax suit and go save her.
00:44:45
Speaker
Um, he wants Laren to stay behind to man the guns.
00:44:48
Speaker
And we get an interesting moment.
00:44:49
Speaker
I wanted to read out loud here.
00:44:52
Speaker
He says, positive, he said.
00:44:53
Speaker
She's the most important person in the galaxy.
00:44:56
Speaker
Talking about Satale.
00:44:57
Speaker
It's my duty to save her.
00:44:59
Speaker
Then he was gone, leaving Laren feeling slightly wounded by his words.
00:45:03
Speaker
On Hutta, he hadn't come to save her.
00:45:06
Speaker
If his deal with Tassabarish had gone awry, she would have ended up ranker food for certain.
00:45:11
Speaker
But for Master Satale, he swept in with lightsaber swinging, risking life and limb, and not even letting Laren help.
00:45:18
Speaker
She wondered if he thought she might slow him down.
00:45:21
Speaker
That's actually very emotionally thoughtful, like in terms of like the writing here.
00:45:29
Speaker
Like that's wow.
00:45:30
Speaker
OK, yeah, that's fair.
00:45:33
Speaker
Some doubt as to whether like am I seeing a friendship where there isn't any or is he just kind of like using me because we met and I'm a gun, you
Reflections on Relationships
00:45:43
Speaker
know?
00:45:43
Speaker
Right.
00:45:44
Speaker
Right.
00:45:44
Speaker
And that's the thing.
00:45:45
Speaker
And a lot of not just novelizations, but in kind of mass market genre fiction in general, just for simplicity's sake, so many big emotions are are treated like the same kind of way Ula treats this, his jealousy of Shigar.
00:46:02
Speaker
It's kind of like, oh, she thinks he thinks I'm prettier.
00:46:05
Speaker
He thinks that she's prettier than me or something like that.
00:46:08
Speaker
And that's kind of the extent of
00:46:10
Speaker
of the, uh, the complexity of these emotions.
00:46:13
Speaker
Um, and I was just kind of impressed with that.
00:46:15
Speaker
Cause it's, it's like, yeah, that's a, that's, I mean, we, I think we all see where it's going, but at the same time, you totally understand why she might feel that way.
00:46:23
Speaker
And it's, it's just good writing.
00:46:25
Speaker
It's good emotional, uh, motivation.
00:46:28
Speaker
Um,
00:46:29
Speaker
He finds Shigar finds the Tali.
00:46:31
Speaker
There are like nine hexes around her and she's keeping them peaceful with the power of the force, which proves that they're not just droids, that there actually is a life.
00:46:42
Speaker
There is some biomechanical element to them.
00:46:47
Speaker
Right, right.
00:46:48
Speaker
Which makes the thought of thousands of them dying in the vacuum of space horribly because they got overloaded.
00:46:56
Speaker
Kind of darker than it was originally.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's dark.
00:47:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:01
Speaker
So, yeah, he gets to Satali and they basically cut their way out of the wreckage that she's in.
00:47:08
Speaker
She uses a force bubble instead of a back suit and they get the hell out of Dodge.
00:47:13
Speaker
They get back on board the Auriga fire and they see that the planet is now ringed with literal clouds of hexes.
00:47:21
Speaker
It's got like a ring of these things, like just the greatest defense system that a planet could have.
00:47:32
Speaker
And then she senses that Stryver is on a nearby moon.
00:47:35
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, I was here.
00:47:37
Speaker
I was here the whole time.
00:47:38
Speaker
I was watching the whole time.
00:47:40
Speaker
And they plan a rendezvous.
00:47:41
Speaker
He's like, you know, if we'll figure something out, I got it.
00:47:45
Speaker
I got a deal for you.
00:47:48
Speaker
You know, show up, no guns, that kind of thing.
00:47:51
Speaker
And as they're figuring out how they're going to handle that, it becomes clear that the Imperials got the exact same offer because they see that one of their shuttles has been sent off to the moon to talk to Stryber.
00:48:06
Speaker
And that's the end of the chapter.
00:48:07
Speaker
And that's the end of today's reading.
00:48:10
Speaker
So that's that's we keep these the fatal alliance.
00:48:14
Speaker
They're going to be the alliance.
00:48:16
Speaker
It's a tenuous alliance between all sides here.
00:48:20
Speaker
It's, you know, sometimes with these books, with those kind of titles, you don't think much about them.
00:48:24
Speaker
It's kind of like an action movie.
00:48:26
Speaker
It's like, you know, it doesn't mean anything.
00:48:28
Speaker
It's just kind of a cool thing.
00:48:30
Speaker
Right, right.
00:48:31
Speaker
And with this, it's like, actually, that is actually that's exactly what this book is about.
00:48:35
Speaker
That's what it is.
00:48:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:37
Speaker
So what do you think so far, Kip?
00:48:39
Speaker
I am liking it.
00:48:40
Speaker
I like this chunk a lot more than the first chunk.
00:48:44
Speaker
You know, we got some good action, good interior monologue stuff from a bunch of characters, you know, trying to figure out where their place in the world, in this big kooky world that they're in of the Star War.
00:49:01
Speaker
And, you know, a little bit more development on this wild ass libertarian space robot commune.
00:49:10
Speaker
And I can't wait.
00:49:12
Speaker
I can't wait.
00:49:13
Speaker
I can't wait to kind of to see what's going on in there.
00:49:18
Speaker
What do they got going on up in there on this on a on a planet?
00:49:24
Speaker
that you can only imagine is semi-dead-ish, right?
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:28
Speaker
Because it's not orbiting a sun, it's orbiting a black hole.
00:49:32
Speaker
And they say something about the energy signatures down there.
00:49:37
Speaker
I think they say it's like volcanic action or something.
00:49:39
Speaker
It's probably, whatever they're doing down there is probably geothermal.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:45
Speaker
Because the gravity of the black hole would have prevented the core of the planet from...
00:49:54
Speaker
uh, fusing, it would have prevented it from like, uh, cause like earth has a, has a molten core, right?
00:50:00
Speaker
Not all planets have molten cores or whatever.
00:50:02
Speaker
So I guess there's, as long as there, uh, I don't know, there's some science stuff in there that I'm forgetting, but I feel like it's important that it has a molten core, uh, for I think possibly magnetic field reasons.
00:50:16
Speaker
Um, yeah, I think I might be forgetting something, but you know,
00:50:22
Speaker
Either way, that's that's it's an interesting, interesting concept.
00:50:27
Speaker
Nice.
00:50:28
Speaker
OK, yeah, I couldn't agree more.
00:50:29
Speaker
I'm really enjoying this part.
00:50:31
Speaker
I'm hooked.
00:50:32
Speaker
I'm ready to hear the thrilling conclusion.
Potential Author Appearance & Game Reviews
00:50:36
Speaker
And actually, I'm going to be in contact with Sean Williams this week.
00:50:39
Speaker
He seems interested in being on the show, which I'm excited about.
00:50:43
Speaker
So maybe after the next episode, we'll have him on there.
00:50:46
Speaker
But in the in the meantime, in between time, Kevin, I have a single question to ask you.
00:50:52
Speaker
Yes.
00:50:52
Speaker
What are you playing?
00:50:54
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:50:55
Speaker
So I got some new things that I've been playing.
00:50:59
Speaker
First, Wordplay is a game from Mark Brown of Game Makers Toolkit, the YouTube channel.
00:51:09
Speaker
It's basically like a... Think of like a...
00:51:14
Speaker
Not Wordle.
00:51:15
Speaker
It's like, um, it's like a, you know, the, what's, what is it where you have a bank of words and it's like, figure out how many words you can spell from, from this or bank of letters.
00:51:27
Speaker
And it's like, how many words can you spell out from that?
00:51:29
Speaker
Like a kind of thing.
00:51:30
Speaker
Like a boggle.
00:51:31
Speaker
It's a word place.
00:51:32
Speaker
Kind of like a boggle, um, type thing.
00:51:35
Speaker
Um, but it has like Balotro level, like scoring stuff where every, every round you get like,
00:51:43
Speaker
mods or whatever, and you have to figure out like, okay, I'm going to do this.
00:51:48
Speaker
I got this modifier for this letter.
00:51:50
Speaker
And so when I use this letter and it's like, you can modify positions.
00:51:55
Speaker
So it's like the seconds.
00:51:57
Speaker
A letter in the second position earns three times more.
00:52:02
Speaker
It's a fun little game.
00:52:03
Speaker
It feels good to play.
00:52:06
Speaker
It's got good UI, very clicky, clicky-clacky, in that same way that Ballotro was.
00:52:15
Speaker
There's a good tactile sense to the sound design.
00:52:18
Speaker
um, when you're playing it.
00:52:20
Speaker
So it's, uh, and it uses, it kind of uses Scrabble scoring, I think on the letters themselves.
00:52:28
Speaker
Um, so yeah, uh, wordplay.
00:52:31
Speaker
Uh, it's, it's,
00:52:33
Speaker
It's out now.
00:52:34
Speaker
I put in like 90 minutes.
00:52:35
Speaker
It was like one of those games where I put in like an hour and a half and I was like, oh, I didn't even realize that.
00:52:43
Speaker
That looks like a nice, simple fun.
00:52:45
Speaker
I like that.
00:52:46
Speaker
Well, maybe that's simple.
00:52:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:50
Speaker
Kaizen, a factory story, which is a new game by the Zachtronics people, but they're not called Zachtronics anymore.
00:53:00
Speaker
The new company is called Coincidence.
00:53:04
Speaker
So if you haven't played any Zaktronics games, they are basically, they're kind of like puzzle games.
00:53:12
Speaker
They often have a lot to do with automation, like figuring out how to automate a process.
00:53:18
Speaker
And Kaizen, a factory story is set in the mid-day.
00:53:22
Speaker
mid late 80s in Japan, where you play an American who goes over to Japan to work in a sale as a salesman for a factory for a company that that manufactures things.
00:53:34
Speaker
But instead of starting with sales right away, you're spending the first couple of years
00:53:40
Speaker
learning how they produce their stuff.
00:53:42
Speaker
So it's like designing the little the ways to to to produce the little Gidgets like a video camcorder VCR or Gundam or what have you.
00:53:58
Speaker
So it's it's fun.
00:54:00
Speaker
The last it's it's very reminiscent to was it 21st century food court.
00:54:09
Speaker
That was in our 20th century food court.
00:54:12
Speaker
So the previous game was called last call BBS, which had like five games in it.
00:54:19
Speaker
And the, there's a game.
00:54:20
Speaker
Oh, I remember when you were playing that.
00:54:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:23
Speaker
There's a game in there called 20th century food court where it's like, basically you have to create this, all these automation things to feet to like,
00:54:32
Speaker
make a burger.
00:54:33
Speaker
It's like the, the, the patty has to get flipped out onto the grill and cook for the right amount of time and then go onto the thing.
00:54:40
Speaker
And the, the, the bun goes on it and all that stuff.
00:54:44
Speaker
Um, it's, it's, um, so yeah, it's a little bit simpler than 20th century food court so far.
00:54:51
Speaker
I'm sure it's going to get, uh, wacky soon enough.
00:54:55
Speaker
Um, so Kai's in a factory story.
00:54:58
Speaker
Definitely worth checking out.
00:55:05
Speaker
Let's see.
00:55:07
Speaker
Also started playing He is Coming.
00:55:10
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yes.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yes.
00:55:12
Speaker
Which is it's it's fun.
00:55:16
Speaker
It's an it really reminds me of Loop Hero.
00:55:20
Speaker
But without the loop element, it's more like, you know, you but the graphics wise, it's very similar.
00:55:27
Speaker
The idea is you have a week to kind of battle around a forest area.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah, you have a random account.
00:55:38
Speaker
Well, not random encounters.
00:55:39
Speaker
You can see them on the map, but you can you fight these critters.
00:55:44
Speaker
You have treasure chests to find.
00:55:46
Speaker
You have different like vendors and stuff like you.
00:55:49
Speaker
There's a shopkeeper.
00:55:50
Speaker
There's this guy called a golem who will combine to like.
00:55:54
Speaker
If you have duplicates, you can combine them and make a single item that does what the duplicates did.
00:56:02
Speaker
So you have an extra inventory slot.
00:56:04
Speaker
So you got there's a little bit of an inventory management like
00:56:07
Speaker
putting your items in particular order so they trigger the right way.
00:56:10
Speaker
It's an auto battler.
00:56:12
Speaker
So once you get into the battle, there's nothing you can do.
00:56:15
Speaker
It's like you just have to have built your character correctly.
00:56:19
Speaker
But he is coming.
00:56:22
Speaker
Go check it out.
00:56:22
Speaker
It's in early access, but I'm having a blast with that so far.
00:56:27
Speaker
And finally...
00:56:30
Speaker
Uh, it's a point and click game.
00:56:31
Speaker
It's called the drifter.
00:56:34
Speaker
Um, it's a horror mystery point and click with gorgeous pixel art.
00:56:40
Speaker
Just absolutely gorgeous.
00:56:43
Speaker
Um, it is, uh, the developer is, yeah.
00:56:50
Speaker
Um, so yeah, it's, it's, it's good.
00:56:54
Speaker
I, I, I really like it so far.
00:56:57
Speaker
Um,
00:56:58
Speaker
I'm about an hour into it.
00:57:01
Speaker
I don't know how long the game is necessarily, but it actually has decent enough puzzles where it's not moon logic.
00:57:14
Speaker
to kind of figure them out so far um which i appreciate in a in a point and click sometimes it's just like you get into a point where you're like combining all your items in the inventory until something works um so the drifter uh is definitely something that um has it's it's got a good look good fun soundtrack it's fully voice acted um
00:57:40
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And I'm enjoying it so far.
00:57:44
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And that is what I have been playing.
00:57:46
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Oh, and I've actually been playing Stardew Valley with my daughter.
00:57:50
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Oh, that's nice.
00:57:50
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What a great game to play with your kid.
00:57:53
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We're doing a co-op farm.
00:57:54
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It's, you know, it's a blast just sitting there doing a co-op farm.
00:58:02
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But yeah, Phil.
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what are you playing oh oh well i i am also playing he is coming um i that was one of the that was one of the demos that i i picked up during next fest this year and and yeah so i was really excited when it got a full release i agree actually i think it is very it makes me think a lot of loop hero um not just in the graphics but in in kind of what it's doing it is a loop in its own way um right it's one of those things that
00:58:35
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I can't play it for a terribly long amount of time, but I always come back to it, which is which is right.
00:58:43
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Shows that they're doing something right.
00:58:45
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It's simple.
00:58:46
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It's fun.
00:58:47
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I love coming up with the different sets.
00:58:50
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You know, it's you know, yeah, you're it's a roguelike, so you're unlocking different abilities and things to find as you go along.
00:58:59
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And it's pretty crazy.
00:59:02
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It's very satisfying.
00:59:03
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I'm kind of obsessed with getting a speed character whenever I can, using the fencing epay and getting as many extra attacks as I possibly can.
00:59:12
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And that's super fun.
00:59:16
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So I really like that one.
00:59:17
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That one is...
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held up wonderfully uh compared to the demo and it's still only in early access but it's a it's a very polished early access game i'm genuinely impressed with that so yeah no it's it's it's a lot of it's a lot of fun and i know they're they're doing a lot of patching right now i don't i i assume they're gonna be able it's gonna be fully fully released
00:59:42
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by the end of the year.
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Right.
00:59:45
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Yeah.
00:59:45
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Yeah.
00:59:47
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I am also playing.
00:59:48
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I played some Tony Hawk's three and four, the one that just came out.
00:59:56
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I played some of it.
00:59:57
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I got it.
00:59:58
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I played it on Game Pass.
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It is kind of perfect if you want a nice big dose of that nostalgia for those of us who are the right age to have played these games.
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It feels the same.
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The soundtrack is updated.
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Still pretty excellent.
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It's goofy.
01:00:18
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It's fun.
01:00:18
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It's all of all the stuff it used to be.
01:00:22
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I don't know if I'm going to play any more of it, but it is true.
01:00:26
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It sounds obvious to say, but it's one of those things that if you're into this kind of game, you're going to fucking love it.
01:00:31
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It's it's yeah, it's wonderful.
01:00:33
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It's it's a really, really cool way to while away some time.
01:00:38
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I didn't play very much of it, but what I played, I was like, oh, I remember this.
01:00:42
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This is really, really good.
01:00:43
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This is great.
01:00:45
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um and then the you know the soundtrack hits and all that stuff the soundtrack is excellent uh tony hawk does you know all of his stuff in there you know he's doing the voiceover work and he's got a a great kind of sarcastic sense of humor with it it's kind of self-aware uh right i i played through the whole tutorial because i don't remember about how to play it um and you know it's got a good sense of humor about walking through it's
01:01:11
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Interesting that they have they have newer songs.
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They added new songs to the soundtracks.
01:01:17
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As I was looking at the listing, I was like, oh, it's got Kendrick.
01:01:21
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Um, it's got run.
01:01:23
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Uh, it's got, uh, oh, it's gonna say, is it got run the jewel?
01:01:27
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Yeah.
01:01:27
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Run the jewels.
01:01:27
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I was like run DMC.
01:01:28
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Yeah.
01:01:28
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That's not who I'm looking at.
01:01:29
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Run the jewels is in there.
01:01:31
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Yeah.
01:01:31
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But then, but then it's also got like Alice in chains and like punkers.
01:01:35
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It's, it's, it's a nice, uh, it's, I, I haven't run into any songs I haven't enjoyed so far, which is, which is always a good sign.
01:01:45
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But speaking of games that I played the demo of for Nexfest, The King is Watching just released.
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And that was probably my favorite game of all that collection of demos I played.
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So this is the one that I was genuinely waiting on.
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And it is terrific.
01:02:06
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The finished product is great.
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It's much bigger.
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than the demo, but everything you learned from the demo, you know, is present.
01:02:16
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There's just a whole lot more to it, too, but not so much that it could overwhelm you.
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It's it's it's really solid.
01:02:27
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For those of you who don't know, it is a it is a city builder game.
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We are on a timer and your city is going to be attacked by increasingly dangerous forces on the timer.
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And you have to build your city and build up your army and that kind of thing.
01:02:43
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The trick to it, it's on a grid, but the trick to it is that you only have so much so many squares that you can actually.
01:02:54
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have working at any given time.
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So you start out with like kind of a Tetris piece, like a little L and any of the squares under that will work.
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Thus the name the king is watching.
01:03:04
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You have to be actually watching your farmers for them to give a shit and harvest wheat.
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or for your for your guard post to give a shit and train guards.
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So you have to arrange it just so that so that you get the right synergies.
01:03:21
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And it's challenging, but still very cool and laid back and fun.
01:03:27
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It's got a terrific sense of humor.
01:03:30
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It's also
01:03:31
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disturbing sometimes.
01:03:33
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It has got some serious grimdark, like dark, uh, uh, uh, dark souls esque, uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, uh, what do you call it?
01:03:44
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Blasphemous shit.
01:03:45
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Like it's, it's, it's, it'll be really goofy and funny and kind of chill and cartoony.
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And then all of a sudden a new bad guy will show up and you're like, what is this nightmare?
01:03:56
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I saw like a, a cut scene.
01:03:59
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I was like paying attention as,
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semi paying attention to like Northern line playing.
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And I saw a cut scene where it's like from the point of view of the King and you're like touching the, the, your advisors with a, like a rose and it, it like hits them and they, it kills them by like growing stalks out of their mouth.
01:04:18
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And I was like, what the fuck is this?
01:04:20
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That's your, that's your, that's one of the first things that happens in the game.
01:04:25
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And it's like, Oh Jesus Christ.
01:04:27
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Christ, what are we playing here?
01:04:31
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And then you get into the game and you're like, oh, this is funny.
01:04:33
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This is goofy.
01:04:33
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I'm fighting goblins.
01:04:36
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It's cute.
01:04:37
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And then like, oh, there's a sun whatever.
01:04:41
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It's like some monster named after the sun.
01:04:44
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I wonder what that's all about.
01:04:45
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And it shows up this horrible giant with this ornate eldritch sun mask that it's wearing.
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Jesus Christ.
01:04:54
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It's crazy.
01:04:55
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it's like super dark souls and very over the top.
01:05:00
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And then you kill that and go, okay, all right, this is cool.
01:05:02
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All right, I'm back to it being a goofy old time, right up until the next thing comes along that freaks you the fuck out.
01:05:09
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It's a lovely balance in that sense.
01:05:12
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I really, I'm impressed with it.
01:05:14
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I love it.
01:05:15
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I think of all of my...
01:05:18
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You know, I've told you before that this is the year of my playing games where I can lean back in my chair and play the game and get some relaxation out of it.
01:05:29
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This might be my favorite one so far, which is saying something because I played some really good ones so far.
01:05:35
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Yeah.
01:05:36
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This one is just clever enough.
01:05:38
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It's got a unique mechanic to it that I think is really cool.
01:05:44
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Yeah.
01:05:44
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The king is watching.
01:05:45
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It's definitely worth, worth getting.
01:05:47
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I really enjoy it so far.
01:05:48
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Cool.
01:05:49
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Yeah.
01:05:49
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That's me.
01:05:51
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Awesome.
01:05:52
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01:05:55
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01:06:04
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01:06:11
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Um, Phil, I do have a question.
01:06:12
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The moon has been staring at me lately.
01:06:15
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Sure.
01:06:16
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What do I, so what's, what's the solution there?
01:06:20
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OK, what do they call it?
01:06:22
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Like, you know, there's like wardrobe screens you see.
01:06:26
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Yeah.
01:06:26
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And in, you know, you see in cartoons or old movies or something like that.
01:06:30
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You need to set one of those up, make a big show of setting it up.
01:06:34
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All right.
01:06:35
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But then.
01:06:37
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put it in front of like your window so the moon starts to think that maybe you're going to hide behind it uh uh but then like make sure that you are actually right in front of it as you're changing your clothes you know uh but don't don't notice the moon all right and so right when it starts to get comfortable with the idea that you don't notice that it's there turn around and make sure that it can see your