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Rocky Movie Montage(Doom 3: Worlds on Fire - Part 1)
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Synopsis
The year is 2144...and the battle over Earth's precious resources has raged for a century. With global economies in ruins and all-out world war more than a possibility, the U.S government turned to the Union Aerospace Corporation, giving it carte blanche on the legendary red planet of Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources, a military advantage...as well as something so secret that even members of government don't have a clue about it....
Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane was once a careerist simply glad to have a job, and couldn't care less about politics just as long as Uncle Sam's check cleared. But that was before he listened to his conscience and disobeyed a direct order. Busted down to private, Kane has been reassigned to the "U.S. Space Marines" -- the private army of the UAC -- with the prospect of becoming little more than a glorified security guard on Mars....
Now Lt. Kane's fate leads him to Mars City -- part environmental community, part lab center, and all owned and protected by the UAC. It's a strange world with a fatal environment, and the thousands who live and work within the city have already begun to think of themselves as Martians. And away from Mars City, at the strange ancient sites uncovered on the planet, a small squad of marines stand guard while scientists uncover wall glyphs and search for artifacts, having already found something that is so far amazing and inexplicable -- including the relic called "U1," nicknamed "the Soul Cube" -- and unknown to all, the bringer of destructive chaos and unspeakable horror....
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Introduction and Today's Topics
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I wouldn't bring an ounce of originality to that.
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Not even a little bit.
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You know who else doesn't bring an ounce of an originality to that?
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Who's that?
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You had to go, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixels.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me as always is Phil.
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And on today's show, we're talking Orson Welles' Fall Staff.
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We're bringing Wine Corner back with Phil.
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But most notably, we're talking about... What are we talking about?
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Doom 3.
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What's the subtitle?
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Worlds on Fire.
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Worlds on Fire.
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How do we time that so well?
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Damn.
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Damn.
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Yeah.
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So we're, we're doing that.
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We're, we're talking about worlds on fire.
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We're, but you know what else is not on fire?
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Do it today.
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If anyone noticed an outage last week, that's because I was fucking around with things.
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And...
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It's right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you each person can grab an RSS feed, but you can't just have the RSS feed to send to the apples and the Spotify's and the whatever of the world.
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So not going to do that.
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How you doing, Phil?
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I'm good.
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I'm
Interview with Matthew Costello
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good.
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I'm I'm I'm I got through the first Monday of the week.
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Yeah, I have I have
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Austrian wine and and another breezy easy breezy beautiful novel.
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Yeah, by what's his face?
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Who is this guy again?
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Matthew Costello.
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This is Matthew Costello.
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He is one of the authors of our last book, Seventh Guest.
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For anyone who wasn't there for the rundown on him last time, he is.
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He writes a ton of video games.
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He writes a ton of books.
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In fact, a lot of times he writes the novelization of the game that he wrote the script for.
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Seventh Guest being a great example of that.
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And Doom 3 being a great example of that.
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He wrote the script for Doom 3 and wrote this.
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Is it a three part?
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Is it a trilogy?
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It's a duology.
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Duology.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So he wrote that.
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He's also written.
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He's, he does a lot of for hire work.
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He's done the child's play two and child's play three, which I thought was really funny.
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Yeah.
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Got a kick out of that.
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I would like to read those and see how that does.
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He did.
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Poltergeist.
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He wrote for some role playing game books, did a little Call of Cthulhu.
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He wrote for the Jonah Hex role playing game because in the 1980s, there was a role playing game for basically everything.
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He's a pretty prolific dude.
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Like he's written a shit ton.
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He was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award way back in the day.
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He does a lot of genre fiction, a lot of horror, a lot of fantasy, a lot of science fiction.
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And again, Seventh Guest.
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Yeah, he wrote Seventh Guest.
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And turning our attention to the game that this is based on, he also wrote Seventh Guest.
Doom 3: Gameplay and Reception
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Doom 3, the game, like the actual plot of the game Doom 3, which as John Carmack would say at one point in his career, plot in a video game is much like plot in a pornography.
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You don't really need it.
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Just to quote him.
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Oh, paraphrase.
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I did work on this one, didn't he?
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He did, yes.
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It was his... It was IDTEC4, the IDTEC4 game engine.
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It was his new baby for Doom 3.
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Doom 3 basically throws out Dooms 1 and 2 in terms of story.
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It's very different in terms of gameplay.
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Doom 3 is darker.
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More focused on the horror.
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Literally.
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You need a flashlight.
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More focused on the horror aspect of everything.
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Instead of cutting down hordes of enemies, you're usually only dealing with a couple at a time in really tight corridors and rooms and stuff like that.
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Yeah, and it's also...
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Um, it's, it's very, yeah, it's very dark and the weapons are, how do I say this?
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The weapons are less fun in Doom 3.
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They are super less fun.
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Yeah, yeah.
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They take, the combat in general is just not as fun.
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Yeah.
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It's very slow.
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Your shotgun, you'll find pumping a shotgun takes like 15 minutes.
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Fucking slower.
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Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's, uh, but still it's a fun game.
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Um, it didn't, it didn't go over well when it came out, right?
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Oh, no, it sold a bunch of copies.
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It did?
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Okay.
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I remember people being angry about it.
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I mean, I think people poo-pooed the direction the game went in, but it still sold a lot of copies.
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Oh, sure.
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And I think it was overall well-received, but I remember being one of the, eh, it's fine type of players.
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Right.
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So yeah, generally favorable.
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Came out in 2004 for pretty much everything, including at one point.
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Oh, no, that wasn't what I was talking about.
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I thought that was Nokia.
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Oh,
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I was thinking of the Nokia like little handheld device.
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Oh God.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, and the books were released four years later.
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Interesting choice.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Go on.
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Sorry.
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The BFG edition, which was like the revised version of the game came out in 2012.
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There was a big expansion for it, though.
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Is that maybe it coincided with that?
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Yeah.
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So there is the expansion.
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There's this expansion called Resurrection of Evil.
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And that came out in 2005.
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BFG edition is a remastered version of the game and include, I think, includes Resurrection of Evil.
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Okay.
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And do one and two, which I think is a mistake.
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And do one and two, I believe.
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Yeah.
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Which is a mistake because you don't want to invite comparisons.
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You do not.
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You do not.
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Cause those are very different.
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Cause that's the thing.
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That was what, cause cause, uh, I think in a vacuum, doom three at the time when it came out, especially, um, very good.
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I think very, very, very good.
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Uh, but if you're comparing it to doom, it's, it's,
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really a doom game yeah um at least in how it feels and all that stuff so interesting interesting stuff yeah yeah it's weird because there's the releases of the original doom games so from 93 to 97 you have doom doom 2 final doom and doom 64 right
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Then you got seven years and then Doom three comes out.
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And then after that, you got 12 years and then the Doom 2016 comes out, which was fucking righteous.
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That game rules fucking rad.
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And then Doom Eternal, which I like Doom Eternal, but I feel like it's it's it for some reason didn't click with me as much as the same Doom 2016.
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I never really fully understood why, but I feel the same way.
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You play it and go, this isn't quite as good.
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I'm looking forward to Dark Ages, though.
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Doom the Dark Ages coming out this year, 2025, May 15th.
Summary of 'Doom: Worlds on Fire'
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Yeah, we're topical.
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We know our shit.
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We know our shit.
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So let's put the imp's body in the marsh.
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Yeah, sure.
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The demon spawn in the marsh.
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The demon spawn in the marsh.
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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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All right.
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We're in part one.
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It's 2144.
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Chapter one.
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We're at the UAC base on Mars.
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We're introduced to a man named Ian Kelleher.
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He is the chairman of UAC and the son of the founder of UAC, Tommy Kelleher.
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Does that matter?
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Not as much as you would think when the fact is mentioned.
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Yeah.
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Oh, maybe this will come up later.
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It has not yet so far.
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And I've read half the book.
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So he is on Mars to monitor the projects underway at the base there.
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We also meet Jack Campbell, who is Kelleher's chief of security and Elliot Swan company lawyer, as well as General Hayden, who is in charge of the Space Marine Detachment.
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Ian pushes General Hayden on updates on all the projects, which are not going as well as they could be, before demanding to go and personally tour all of the facilities.
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And as they walk through the facility, with Hayden pointing out everything that is under construction, they grab some EVA suits and they head out onto the surface.
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And as they walk outside, they tour more and they get and Hayden gives a more of a full layout of the place.
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And the chapter ends with Ian ominously asking Hayden to see Delta Labs and the site.
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The site.
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And the site is something the general doesn't want to show him necessarily.
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Oh, I wonder what's happening at that.
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What's happening at the site?
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, it feels like it feels like the this should have been reversed when thinking back on it.
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Either way, that's fine.
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It's fine.
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It's fine.
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Chapter two, Tarekstan.
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We meet Lieutenant John Kane, who is a Marine leading his Marines through the fictional country of Tarekstan.
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His second in command is Sergeant Chad Bourne.
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They couldn't have known.
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They couldn't have known.
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But Jesus Christ.
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The name Sergeant Chadborn.
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Chadborn.
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It's just, I just think of.
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It's such a good name.
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I just think of like all the, like Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne.
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And now in my head, I think Jesus Christ, it's Chad Bourne.
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Chad Bourne.
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I'm just thinking of that, like the Chad meme anatomy chart and putting a doom helmet on him.
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Virgin Bourne versus Chad Bourne.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Oh,
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There it is.
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You nailed it.
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There it is.
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Just a hilarious name.
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We get a bit of a lore dump about Tarekstan.
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Doesn't matter.
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No, it's just there.
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Basically, a bunch of countries keep forming and dissolving in that, you know, that area where, you know, Kazakhstan and all those countries are.
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It's like the area, but...
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North of the Middle East, but south of Russia.
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You know that parcel of land that your brain always blanks out when you're trying to think of a map?
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Like you're like, oh yeah, it's like Saudi Arabia and Iran and then there's Russia.
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No, there's a whole chunk of lands up there.
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Whole bunch.
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They are the stands and now there's more of them.
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So topical.
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This book is also topical.
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Very topical.
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They have their oil and the US and Russian governments want it, which causes the constant splits and stuff like that.
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Anyway, yeah.
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Squad's mission is to rescue a Marine unit that is trapped because everyone has turned on the United States.
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Also topical.
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Command orders Kane to stand down, though, and head to the evac spot.
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But Kane disobeys the order and tells Chad Bourne to tell the squad this is going to be fun.
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It's not going to be fun, though.
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No, it's.
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Yeah.
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In fact, if there's one thing I would delete from the book, it's the following chapters with these characters.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Time for the Arrested Development narrator to come in and make good.
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It wouldn't be.
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I think I have.
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I think I have an Arrested Development reference somewhere.
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Nice.
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It wouldn't be an episode of Pixel It without one.
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Um, so yeah, uh, chapter three, we're at the McMurdo promontory and Delta labs.
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Um, so the group is near Delta labs, but Kelleher is like, now I want to go to the site, uh, site three first.
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And general's like, fine.
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And they go over, they ride over to site three and it's a cave that's being excavated and they walk inside and Ian Kelleher sees what's on the walls and it's cave markings and symbols.
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And they meet the two scientists that are reviewing the symbols, Dr. Axel Growlick and Dr. Tom Stein.
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Good names.
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Dr. Axel Growlick.
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That is bordering on a Bond girl name somehow.
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Oh yeah.
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Growlick.
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I mean, come on.
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And then you follow that up with Stein.
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Come on.
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Like, I mean, look, they're both vaguely German and I understand, but come on.
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Yeah.
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Axel.
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I have never heard that name before.
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Axel, I've heard as a name before, right?
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But the feminized version of it, A-X-E-L-L-E.
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Leave a note in the comments if you've heard the name Axel before.
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It's new for me.
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It is not made up.
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There's a part of me that kind of figured it was made up.
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I guess it's French.
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Yeah.
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Accel.
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Accel.
Critique of 'Doom: Worlds on Fire'
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Accel growlick.
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She excels at growlicks.
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At licking your growl.
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Where's your growl?
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If you have to ask.
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Yeah, you're too young.
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Yeah.
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So, so Grala confirms that teams back in Palo Alto are working on figuring out a possible translation for the symbols and that Dr. Petruger has been involved.
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Then lawyer Swan recaps the pilot, the plot of the Twilight Zone episode to serve man.
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Just beat for beat.
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Just, just, just says it.
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Like doesn't even say that it's like from the twilight zone.
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Yeah.
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Just demonstrates it as a, as a thing that exists.
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Yeah, he's like, and then he's the only one who laughs at the end when he's done talking about it.
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Campbell points out some discrepancies between the design layout and how Delta looks from the outside.
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And Hayden mentions, oh, I missed something.
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They could leave and go to Delta.
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There we go.
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Campbell points out the discrepancies between the design layout and how Delta looks from the outside.
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And Hayden mentions that Bajruger wanted a back door added for safety reasons.
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Don't chapter four.
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Don't we all?
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been there but but it's for safety i mean it can be but you act like it isn't that's what makes it fun hey hey no respect chapter four terek stan uh kane tries to plan out a method of extraction but command revokes all of his feeds
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So he's like, fuck it.
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Then we get a lot of middling military movement stuff.
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Kane is trying to determine where the tanks are from.
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Are they from?
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Are they from?
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I was going to say Texas.
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Good Texas tanks.
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This is good.
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Texas steel.
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Oh, Austin, when will you learn?
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Are they from Russia or are they the knockoffs from China?
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Right.
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So before the chapter ends, Kane refers to the Marines as soldiers a few times.
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And then as they begin their attack, thinks we don't have a goddamn chance and be like, Kane, why are you doing it, buddy?
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Why are you doing this?
00:19:28
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Why?
00:19:29
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Why?
00:19:31
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It's it's it's she he he goes into us.
00:19:36
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He goes into this knowing they are going into a death trap.
00:19:39
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He is a terrible leader.
00:19:42
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Like for all the moments where he clearly knows these people.
00:19:47
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Right.
00:19:48
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Yeah.
00:19:49
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He has 45 people under his command.
00:19:52
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Right.
00:19:53
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Yeah.
00:19:53
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They are going to rescue 12 people.
00:19:59
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They come out with 24 people.
00:20:02
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He gets 30 soldiers to rescue 12.
00:20:05
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He kills 30 soldiers to rescue 12 soldiers.
00:20:10
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And I'm saying soldiers because he does.
00:20:12
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Right.
00:20:13
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Right.
00:20:13
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And doesn't have to.
00:20:15
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Doesn't have to.
00:20:17
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Command has told him not to.
00:20:19
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In fact, yeah.
00:20:20
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And these are people that he knows.
00:20:21
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Like you meet these people very sometimes very briefly.
00:20:25
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But like you meet these people and you get some he knows background on them and knows who they are and everything.
00:20:31
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And they just die.
00:20:32
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And he's just like, well, that's that's fucking war.
00:20:35
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Didn't have to be.
00:20:37
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Didn't fucking have to be, Kane, you fucking piece of shit.
00:20:41
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Jesus.
00:20:42
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Yeah, it didn't have to be, you know, war is hell.
00:20:46
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No war under a shitty leader is hell.
00:20:48
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Well, it's all hell, but you know what I mean?
00:20:50
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Yeah.
00:20:51
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It's worse under shitty leader.
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It's worse under shitty leaders.
00:20:56
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Anyway, chapter five, Delta Lab.
00:21:02
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The group arrives to meet Dr. Betruger, who is clearly some sort of man's mad scientist type.
00:21:08
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They chat over budget increases and Kelleher mentions that Swan will be staying up here to liaise with him.
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They move on to see some equipment and meet with Dr. Kellen McDonald, who is one of Betruger's top men.
00:21:26
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Top men.
00:21:28
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McDonald, though, says seemingly has his doubts and refers to the setup that they have as a dog and pony show because they're not revealing the real thing to Kelleher.
00:21:39
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Then we get a diary entry from McDonald who mentions that Petruger only shows them vids of shows Kelleher in the group vids of inanimate objects and doesn't reveal the weird things like polarities being reversed and ionic bonds changing.
00:21:55
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He also mentions that Petruger hid the vids of the live test subjects.
00:22:03
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As Kelleher is leaving, he mentions Petruger that he still has a lot to figure out about his goals of creating instant teleportation.
00:22:11
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Keller also has a bad feeling about whatever is going on in the lab.
00:22:16
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Right.
00:22:17
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Right.
00:22:19
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Chapter six, Tarak Stan, military battle stuff.
00:22:22
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Kane leads his troops into a terrible situation.
00:22:25
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A lot of people dying.
00:22:27
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Chapter seven.
00:22:28
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Yeah, that's it.
00:22:31
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That's it, guys.
00:22:31
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I'm just going to tell you, as the other guy who read this thing, Kevin is correct.
00:22:35
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That is basically it.
00:22:37
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No, no, not fighting demons.
00:22:39
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Not nothing like that.
00:22:40
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Just just motherfucking like, all right, this is another war fuckers dying.
00:22:47
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OK, yeah.
00:22:48
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Over very little.
00:22:51
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Chapter seven of Mars.
00:22:53
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Kelleher, Swan and Campbell begin debriefing.
00:22:56
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Kelleher is certain Betruger isn't showing them everything after his experience of working with him on the ion engine project and how Betruger kept changing the goalposts on success.
00:23:07
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Outside, we meet Private Maria Moretis.
00:23:12
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I had never seen that last name before.
00:23:15
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I looked it up.
00:23:17
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If it exists, it's not super common.
00:23:19
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I looked up a pronunciation.
00:23:21
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I'm going with Moretis.
00:23:25
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So she notices when the windows in the room go, she's like watching it and watching them talk.
00:23:31
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And then the general walks in and the windows go opaque.
00:23:35
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Then she starts talking about starts talking to the other space marine who is on watch with her, Rodriguez, who is just a flirt and an asshole.
00:23:44
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Sure.
00:23:46
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She was a normal Marine.
00:23:47
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She was a regular Marine back on Earth, but stuck at a desk job and joined the Space Marines to think she could make a career and move up a little bit.
00:23:59
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Meanwhile, we learn more about Kellen McDonald and his family back on Earth.
00:24:04
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He is not a huge fan of Betruger at this point.
00:24:08
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Him and Betruger get into a protracted debate as to whether the new units that Kellen has made up are ready to go.
00:24:15
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has made a ready to go.
00:24:16
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Kellen saying that they need a few more months worth of calibrations.
00:24:19
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But Truger saying fine, but we're doing a live test once everyone is gone.
00:24:24
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Fuck it.
00:24:24
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We'll do it live.
00:24:25
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Fuck it.
00:24:25
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We'll do it live.
00:24:28
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Chapter eight.
00:24:29
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Tarek Stan.
00:24:32
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More of Kane's troops are getting killed.
00:24:34
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He notices his best soldier, Cammie, and then she gets shot in the head.
00:24:38
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Then Chadbourne gets hit by a grenade and turned into red mist.
00:24:41
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Kane realizes this was a bad idea.
00:24:44
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Next time on Arrested Development.
00:24:46
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What?
00:24:50
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He's like, oh, what of what has science rots?
00:24:53
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What has science rots?
00:24:56
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Dozens of us.
00:25:00
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Who did this?
00:25:01
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You, you did that.
00:25:02
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You did this.
00:25:03
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You did this.
00:25:04
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This is your fault.
00:25:05
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He's Michael opening up the refrigerator and taking out a bag that says dead dove.
00:25:13
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Don't open.
00:25:15
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I don't know what I expected.
00:25:16
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That is pretty much him right now.
00:25:21
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It is.
00:25:21
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It ain't good.
00:25:22
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It ain't good.
00:25:25
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Good.
00:25:29
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Yeah.
00:25:29
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So back on Chapter 9 on Mars City, Kelleher mentions that he knows about the other experiments going on in the Delta Lab.
00:25:39
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Kelleher shows a slideshow of all the live experiments that have been leaked to him and the horrid mutations that occur on living animals.
00:25:48
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A mouse turned into a tapeworm thing, a cat with a clamshell head with teeth.
00:25:55
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Meanwhile, yeah, it's gross stuff.
00:25:58
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Yeah, it's good.
00:26:01
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Meanwhile, private James Walker is sitting in the cafeteria.
00:26:04
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He's planning something after having seen the nightmare experiments in Delta Lab, and he's had nightmares of becoming one of these things.
00:26:13
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Double meanwhile, in the caves, Dr. Stein gets Dr. Growlitch's attention while they are working on cleaning up more symbols.
00:26:22
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He points out a pile of rocks that he realized is not a rock fall.
00:26:27
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It was put there intentionally to further seal off part of the cave and that beyond there is another path down.
00:26:33
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Axel is not sure how she feels about this yet.
00:26:38
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Like, why did they?
00:26:39
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It's been covered for millions of years and we're uncovering it.
00:26:42
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Yeah, that's I mean, that's a totally valid reaction.
00:26:46
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If you ask me.
00:26:48
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Yeah.
00:26:49
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Yeah.
00:26:50
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They intentionally either millions of years ago.
00:26:53
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But it's fine.
00:26:54
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It's fine.
00:26:55
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It's probably fine.
00:26:57
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It's probably fine.
00:26:59
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People.
00:26:59
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It's fine.
00:27:00
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Chapter 10, Tarak Stan.
00:27:02
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Kane's unit is marching down the street when some tanks block it.
00:27:06
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More bullshit fighting.
00:27:08
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Anyway, a bunch of people die and they manage to get out of the city and onto the main road.
00:27:11
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And Kane wonders what will become of him.
00:27:14
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I mean, Kane, I'm pretty sure you know what's going to become of you.
00:27:18
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You shouldn't be surprised with anything that follows.
00:27:22
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No, no one should be really, to be honest.
00:27:26
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Chapter 11, Mars.
00:27:28
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Kelleher finishes showing the last of the clips, which leaves Swan feeling ill.
00:27:34
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It was a capuchin monkey that had its hands turned into claws and its tail turned into something with spikes coming out of it.
00:27:41
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The head turned into an oblong shape and the eyes merged into a single gooey sphere.
00:27:49
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A lot of good language in describing these things.
00:27:52
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It's kind of the same as Seventh Guest.
00:27:55
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Like he's good at describing like horrifying shit.
00:27:59
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Yes.
00:28:00
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It's really good when it gets to that shit.
00:28:03
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Yeah.
00:28:05
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Kelleher pushes Hayden on not giving him these reports.
00:28:08
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And Hayden had said Betruger asked that all bad transmissions not be reported on.
00:28:14
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And then makes then he makes Hayden recount the entire event.
00:28:18
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Meanwhile, back at the cafeteria, Walker is recounting the events of that day with the monkey and how Betruger threatened him with silence.
00:28:27
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See, this is like almost like a cinematic cut back and forth because
00:28:31
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I like this because Hayden is recounting this exact thing.
00:28:35
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But instead of coming from Hayden, we get it from a the one of the privates that was there who is clearly got some PTSD from seeing this happen.
00:28:49
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Right.
00:28:50
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He's fucked up.
00:28:51
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And yeah, sure.
00:28:54
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His current plan is to get the hell off Mars.
00:28:58
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Elsewhere.
00:28:58
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Rodriguez is still flirting with Maria.
00:29:02
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Maria is mostly ignoring him.
00:29:04
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Back in the conference room.
00:29:07
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Swan mentions to Keller that there are liability issues.
00:29:11
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And Keller goes like, yeah, no shit.
00:29:13
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I'll bet there are.
00:29:17
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Really now?
00:29:18
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Really?
00:29:19
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Tell me another one.
00:29:20
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Yeah.
00:29:21
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Keller also mentions to the general that he needs to keep on top of it and report back to him and that Swan and Campbell will be kept in the loop as well.
00:29:30
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Then they leave the room.
00:29:33
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Chapter 12.
00:29:35
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Kane gets arrested.
00:29:38
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Chapter 13.
00:29:39
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I mean, yeah.
00:29:40
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Yeah.
00:29:45
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He wishes Chadbourne were still alive.
00:29:47
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Don't we all?
00:29:48
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God damn, I miss him.
00:29:49
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I miss Chadbourne so fucking much.
00:29:52
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And his yellow hawk.
00:29:53
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Jesus Christ, it's Chadsonbourne.
00:29:56
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It's Chadsonbourne.
00:30:01
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Oh, gone too soon.
00:30:03
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Gone too soon.
00:30:04
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A true hero.
00:30:06
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A true hero.
00:30:06
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Yeah.
00:30:09
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Chapter 13, we're back on Mars.
00:30:11
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As they leave the conference room, Maria and Rodriguez accompany the group with Kelleher to escort them to where the shuttle is waiting.
00:30:19
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Meanwhile, Walker is in wait.
00:30:21
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He walks into reception, an area he is not cleared to go, but he knows there will be a slight delay before any alarm sounds.
00:30:29
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I actually really liked this if than flow like he knows the security system is going to be like, well, this person is not cleared.
00:30:39
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I need to check in to see if he had like temporary clearance.
00:30:44
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Like it goes through all these checks.
00:30:46
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He's like and he goes, I know that while it's going through all of these checks, I have time to do the thing I'm going to do before the alarm.
00:30:54
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It's clever.
00:30:55
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It's clever.
00:30:55
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It's genuinely clever.
00:30:56
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Yeah.
00:30:57
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Yeah.
00:31:00
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Kelleher and group continue walking and talking about how information will flow like spice.
00:31:06
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If you weren't going to make the reference, I was.
00:31:10
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So glad I was whoever controls the information controls the UAC.
00:31:18
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Lucky them.
00:31:19
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Lucky them.
00:31:21
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Suddenly Walker takes Keller hostage and they start walking towards his shuttle.
00:31:27
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Walker wants Keller to just take him off the planet.
00:31:29
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He's like, just get me off this planet.
00:31:32
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And he's like, everybody stop following us and put down your guns.
00:31:35
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And Maria decides to be a hero and leaps at Walker and fighting him.
00:31:39
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But Kelleher is, I guess, shot.
00:31:42
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It's not very clear.
00:31:43
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Yeah, he's wounded and bleeding.
00:31:47
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But yeah, he's shot in like the shoulder or something like that.
00:31:50
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And Hayden's like, and there's a comedic moment of like a thousand Marines jumping on Walker after Maria takes him down.
00:31:59
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And Hayden tells her,
00:32:01
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That he she needs to report to quarters because she's in trouble.
00:32:07
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Chapter 14 Mars continued.
00:32:09
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Maria is called into a meeting with General Hayden, who reams her out for actions.
00:32:14
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Her actions being unnecessary because the guy just wanted off Mars and Hayden was pretty sure he could have talked him down.
00:32:23
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I mean, yeah.
00:32:25
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Hayden's like, and by the way, I can't hear any dialogue from General Hayden without imagining it in Samuel Hayden's voice from Doom 2016.
00:32:39
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Oh, I don't know that one.
00:32:40
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I'd ever played that one.
00:32:42
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Or Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal.
00:32:45
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Oh, sorry.
00:32:45
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I heard Doom 64 in my head for some reason.
00:32:48
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:49
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Okay, yeah.
00:32:50
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Yeah.
00:32:51
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Who did voice Sam?
00:32:52
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Who voiced Samuel Hayden?
00:33:00
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Darren DePaul.
00:33:03
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Oh, okay.
00:33:05
Speaker
Okey-doke.
00:33:06
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Okay.
00:33:08
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Oh, he's also Reinhardt in Overwatch.
00:33:12
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Oh, cool.
00:33:12
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All right.
00:33:13
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Yeah.
00:33:14
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One of the characters from that game.
00:33:15
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I remember.
00:33:17
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Yeah.
00:33:18
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Me too.
00:33:22
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Aside from Tracer.
00:33:24
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Well, yeah.
00:33:24
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Tracer is kind of the obvious one.
00:33:27
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Yeah.
00:33:30
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I mean, look, it's just Phil played road hog because of all the porn.
00:33:35
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There's all the porn.
00:33:38
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Yeah.
00:33:41
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You have a striking similarity.
00:33:43
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I'm just saying, listen, there is porn made of literally all the Overwatch characters.
00:33:48
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Oh, yeah.
00:33:49
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Yes.
00:33:49
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Every single one of them.
00:33:51
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Some of it's official.
00:33:54
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Some of it's canon.
00:33:55
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Yeah.
00:33:56
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Some of it's real shit.
00:33:59
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Oh, Blizzard.
00:34:01
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Elsewhere.
00:34:02
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I mean, we all know that the execs were coked up.
00:34:07
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We know the truth.
00:34:09
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We know the truth.
00:34:13
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Anyway, he tells her he hopes he doesn't have to deal with her again while she's on planet, which does.
00:34:17
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It doesn't sound good for her career prospects.
00:34:20
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He's like, I hope I don't have to cross you again while you're here.
00:34:24
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And she's like, that only means that I am not going to move forward in the space Marines.
00:34:32
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Yeah.
00:34:34
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Elsewhere, Kellen McDonald is thinking about what just happened and realized he knew the space Marine who had done it and that the guy was there on one of the days of a live experiment.
00:34:45
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He had just been posted to Delta.
00:34:48
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Kellen is in the morgue and is recording the results of various experiments and sending them back to Kelleher.
00:34:57
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And that is the end of part one.
00:35:01
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Hmm.
00:35:03
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Phil, what do you think so far?
Book Adaptation Analysis
00:35:06
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honestly, you know, I make fun of it, but honestly, it's, it, it, it flips by it's, it's nice and fast paced.
00:35:15
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I question the entire first third of the book, not having, uh,
00:35:22
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demons in it uh i feel like we could have gotten into you know i it's very much of its time much like the game uh uh that it's based on and uh but so i know that we have our uber soldier our uber mensch uh uh here who's the big brawling badass and we want some kind of not flashback but like
00:35:46
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A separate sort of thing where we get to see him demonstrate what a badass he is before the shit hits the fan.
00:35:52
Speaker
That's kind of unrelated.
00:35:54
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But that didn't have to be an entire third of the book.
00:35:58
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No, I guess.
00:35:59
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I guess the idea is that that's probably why he's going to end up.
00:36:04
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on Mars because he was like, you know, it's the only gig you can get and all that stuff.
00:36:07
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And that's fine.
00:36:08
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That's honestly very good.
00:36:11
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I don't know if it needed.
00:36:12
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I think this could this part could have been slimmed down by maybe half.
00:36:17
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Yeah.
00:36:18
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But but he is a good horror writer.
00:36:20
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Like when when we get the spooky shit, it's genuinely effective.
00:36:25
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Yeah.
00:36:25
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I would have preferred just give us the Mars stuff.
00:36:30
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I mean, yeah.
00:36:31
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Yeah.
00:36:31
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Which is so crazy, right?
00:36:33
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Yeah.
00:36:34
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I don't care about the soldier, dude.
00:36:37
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Right.
00:36:38
Speaker
You would not expect that to be the case.
00:36:40
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Yeah.
00:36:41
Speaker
In fact, he could have pulled a fast one on us and just been like, oh, actually, in this version of the story, Maria is the main character.
00:36:51
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Cool.
00:36:52
Speaker
Why not?
00:36:53
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None of this so far occurs in the game.
00:36:56
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None of it.
00:36:57
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Zero percent.
00:36:58
Speaker
And because it's like it's not even...
00:37:02
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As we get closer to where the game starts, it's not even.
00:37:07
Speaker
How do you say it?
00:37:09
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It's like the beginning of the game in as portrayed in the book and the beginning of the game as portrayed in the game are still very different because having read forward a bit more.
00:37:25
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Yeah.
00:37:27
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It is a much slower, slower pace in the game.
00:37:33
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I mean, in the book, getting to the meat of it.
00:37:36
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Right.
00:37:38
Speaker
There's more lore and things like that being kind of kind of dumped in in your lap.
00:37:46
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And the game has a relatively slow start to begin begin with.
00:37:50
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But that was kind of compared to other Doom games.
00:37:52
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One hundred percent.
00:37:53
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Yeah.
00:37:54
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Yeah, it takes you a while just to get a gun in your hand.
00:37:56
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Whereas, you know, Doom, all the other Dooms, you just start the game with ripping and tearing.
00:38:07
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Anyway, yeah.
00:38:08
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Yeah.
00:38:10
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I think it's fine.
00:38:12
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It's kind of like with Seventh Guest, like, oh, damn, there's a lot of strong stuff in here that is held back by some really silly shit.
00:38:24
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Right, right.
00:38:25
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And what this has in common with Seventh Guest, which I get it's part of it.
00:38:31
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This is clearly by design, is that this is like you just pointed out.
00:38:35
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This is a lot of lore.
00:38:36
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This is a lot of exposition.
00:38:38
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Books are a great place to if you're reading books.
00:38:41
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I have to admit, if you're reading Doom 3 instead of playing Doom 3, then you came because you want more of the lore.
00:38:49
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You want more background.
00:38:50
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You don't just want a recitation of the game that you could play.
00:38:54
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That's fine.
00:38:55
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I understand that.
00:38:57
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And so for the most part, like this and in Seventh Guest, I appreciate how this is adapted because it's clearly for something else.
00:39:08
Speaker
However, you can't lose sight of the game that you're basing this on.
00:39:15
Speaker
And so I think – but that was also part of the era of this game.
00:39:21
Speaker
Games were like this.
00:39:22
Speaker
They took simple –
00:39:24
Speaker
straightforward games and gave everybody 20 minutes of backstory and and a dark secret and an abusive dad and and suddenly it's this whole gritty realistic thing yeah it's kind of like it's like you can almost you know six years earlier you can point to i want to say half-life and
00:39:46
Speaker
for kicking off a, an era of game where, you know, Half-Life has a really long, slow burn opening before you do bucking anything.
00:39:55
Speaker
And that's like the game.
00:39:57
Speaker
Like that was, that was the celebrated game of its era.
00:40:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:02
Speaker
So, so yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker
And, and Doom three surprisingly has a Half-Life opening of all the franchises.
00:40:09
Speaker
You think that to not mirror Half-Life, it ends up mirroring it a little bit.
00:40:14
Speaker
And,
00:40:15
Speaker
And it's and it's a per capita kind of thing for the record, guys.
00:40:18
Speaker
I know a lot of you have played this and be like, I don't know.
00:40:20
Speaker
It didn't take you that.
00:40:20
Speaker
It doesn't take you in the grand scheme of things compared to other games.
00:40:24
Speaker
It doesn't take you that long to get to the fighting and whatnot in this game and Doom three.
00:40:30
Speaker
But compared to every other Doom game where you literally are like, all right, here's my helmet and I got like that's.
00:40:39
Speaker
And I go and I shoot and I shoot and I shoot compared to all that other shit.
00:40:44
Speaker
Like this is, this is, it's, it might as well be molasses at that point.
00:40:49
Speaker
It's pretty slow.
00:40:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:52
Speaker
Which some of two minds I, I get why he's doing this.
00:40:56
Speaker
I've really grown to respect this writer as we read these two books.
00:41:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:01
Speaker
He's made difficult decisions that sometimes they pan out.
00:41:05
Speaker
Sometimes choice.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, he's making choices.
00:41:08
Speaker
He clearly has a very strong talent for writing horrific moments.
00:41:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:41:15
Speaker
He's good at that shit.
00:41:17
Speaker
Sometimes the actual plots leave a bit to be desired.
00:41:23
Speaker
And, you know, he's he writes some, you know, the one of the female characters, the only well, Maria is is one of the ones that's like, yeah.
00:41:35
Speaker
you know, she just not kind of like she's the one who takes action of everybody who's kind of standing around.
00:41:43
Speaker
So yeah, full credit for that.
00:41:45
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:41:46
Speaker
Full credit for that.
00:41:47
Speaker
Where it's she's actually doing a goddamn thing.
00:41:50
Speaker
She does a good job of writing a woman who is completely uninterested in a man's advances, but but just deals with it because what other choices she have?
00:42:00
Speaker
And she will continue to be uninterested in a man's advances in part two.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yes.
00:42:07
Speaker
There will be, there are, I guarantee you at least one more scene in which she is uninterested in Rodriguez's advances.
00:42:16
Speaker
Fuck.
00:42:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:17
Speaker
All right.
00:42:18
Speaker
We're in.
00:42:19
Speaker
Thank God.
00:42:21
Speaker
Waiting for that moment.
00:42:23
Speaker
Uh,
00:42:26
Speaker
Fuck that guy.
00:42:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:28
Speaker
Part two, which takes place one year later.
00:42:31
Speaker
So this is set this day.
00:42:33
Speaker
Basically, it's one day on Mars and one day on Earth.
00:42:37
Speaker
Right.
00:42:37
Speaker
It's right.
00:42:39
Speaker
Now we jump a year ahead in part two.
00:42:45
Speaker
So anyway, with all that being said, Phil, I
00:42:51
Speaker
What are you playing?
Phil's Game Experiences
00:42:54
Speaker
Oh, well, I know that we're playing.
00:42:56
Speaker
We're both playing Doom three.
00:42:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker
So we can talk about that for a second.
00:43:01
Speaker
I I I've had this game in my library.
00:43:05
Speaker
I probably got it for 99 cents on the steam sale and I was like, I should probably play that and didn't.
00:43:11
Speaker
And so this is this is the perfect opportunity to give it a shot.
00:43:16
Speaker
Like I said before, it's a game that's very much of its time.
00:43:19
Speaker
It's your standard early 2000s.
00:43:24
Speaker
bad motherfucker with a gun, you know?
00:43:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:28
Speaker
It's it's not it doesn't play very well.
00:43:31
Speaker
It doesn't feel good to play in the same way that other first person shooters do.
00:43:38
Speaker
And to be fair, I'm not a I'm not a keyboard and mouse shooter guy.
00:43:43
Speaker
Sure.
00:43:44
Speaker
I like shooters to be able to sit back with my controller and play them.
00:43:48
Speaker
That is my preferred method.
00:43:51
Speaker
And it feels just kind of
00:43:53
Speaker
It drags a little bit.
00:43:55
Speaker
I'm going to try my best to finish this before we're done with it.
00:43:58
Speaker
But it's been it's been.
00:44:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's brown.
00:44:03
Speaker
Damn it.
00:44:04
Speaker
That shouldn't have worked.
00:44:04
Speaker
Fuck you.
00:44:09
Speaker
So it's been an interesting experience, but I don't.
00:44:12
Speaker
But I think I think if I had to.
00:44:16
Speaker
If it was by itself, again, in a vacuum, I don't know.
00:44:19
Speaker
I don't know if I'd be enjoying myself, but it has been fascinating to play it and think of it in terms, in context of the dooms that came before and the dooms that came after.
00:44:30
Speaker
It's a really interesting entry.
00:44:34
Speaker
So I think that that's pretty cool.
00:44:36
Speaker
What about you?
00:44:37
Speaker
I'm going to ask.
00:44:39
Speaker
I played other things, but as long as we're talking about Doom 3, I'd love to hear.
00:44:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:43
Speaker
So, yeah, I agree.
00:44:45
Speaker
I kind of I remember playing it back when it first came out.
00:44:50
Speaker
Was it a Xbox game or X or the 360?
00:44:56
Speaker
I'm trying to remember.
00:44:57
Speaker
I want to say 360, but I could be wrong.
00:45:00
Speaker
I could be making that up.
00:45:03
Speaker
Windows.
00:45:04
Speaker
It was Xbox.
00:45:05
Speaker
It was the original Xbox.
00:45:06
Speaker
No shit.
00:45:07
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:45:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:09
Speaker
And it was April 2005.
00:45:10
Speaker
Yeah, it was originally.
00:45:13
Speaker
It was on Windows first.
00:45:14
Speaker
And then like five months later, it was on.
00:45:17
Speaker
It came out on the Xbox.
00:45:20
Speaker
So, yeah, I played it on the Xbox when it first came out.
00:45:26
Speaker
I think I recalled liking it, but it's like, yeah, it's fine.
00:45:32
Speaker
I remember when it came out, it had like, you had to...
00:45:36
Speaker
you had to choose the flashlight or the gun and, and a mod came out to do it.
00:45:42
Speaker
And finally the, the developers are just like, Oh fuck it.
00:45:44
Speaker
We'll just remake the game.
00:45:46
Speaker
So that the flashlight is just always an option.
00:45:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:45:52
Speaker
I believe that was a thing at the, at the start.
00:45:56
Speaker
Um, so yeah, you, uh,
00:46:01
Speaker
I agree.
00:46:02
Speaker
I feel like it's one of those games where you feel like you should be able to dodge around more and you can't.
00:46:10
Speaker
I've found as I was playing, I was like, okay, I just kind of keep strafing, keep circle strafing and not get hit.
00:46:17
Speaker
But to me, it looks like it should be almost... It has the vibe of a cover shooter and the speed of a cover shooter...
00:46:29
Speaker
with the intention that you actually are supposed to play it more like the old Doom games, but it also is slower.
00:46:37
Speaker
Like, it's a weird amalgamation of a few thoughts at the same time.
00:46:42
Speaker
Like, it isn't a cover shooter.
00:46:44
Speaker
You don't have cover.
00:46:45
Speaker
You just got to keep moving around.
00:46:47
Speaker
You're just going to take hit after hit after hit.
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah, there's health and armor pickups everywhere.
00:46:54
Speaker
You're going to get hit a lot.
00:46:56
Speaker
You do your best to kind of avoid them, but... Yeah, so that's kind of where I'm at with it.
00:47:03
Speaker
I'm, you know, nearly 90 minutes, I think, into the game.
00:47:10
Speaker
It took a while for me to get it to launch.
00:47:11
Speaker
Apparently there's a glitch in it where it doesn't understand that you'd have a second monitor.
00:47:19
Speaker
So if you have a second monitor on your computer, it crashes instantly.
00:47:24
Speaker
Oh, weird.
00:47:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:26
Speaker
You have to like trick it to get it to play properly on a laptop, which I figured out how to do after some like an hour of fucking around.
00:47:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:37
Speaker
Finagling like, okay, well it has to be not, it can't play full screen on a computer with a second monitor.
00:47:46
Speaker
Okay, just shuts its ass down.
00:47:48
Speaker
It shuts itself down.
00:47:49
Speaker
It's real weird.
00:47:50
Speaker
I don't understand it, but I eventually found people who were, you know, having the same thing and there was a bunch of different fixes for it.
00:47:59
Speaker
I just got it working one way and I'm leaving it as is.
00:48:05
Speaker
Yeah, don't touch it.
00:48:07
Speaker
Just like I did it, now I'm leaving it alone.
00:48:09
Speaker
Leaving it alone.
00:48:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:11
Speaker
So yeah, Doom 3.
00:48:12
Speaker
So what else are you playing?
00:48:15
Speaker
I'm still playing Civ 7, which remains good.
00:48:17
Speaker
It's good.
00:48:17
Speaker
It's...
00:48:24
Speaker
I'm enjoying the changes still.
00:48:25
Speaker
Nothing really much to report there.
00:48:27
Speaker
Pretty good.
00:48:28
Speaker
I'm playing more Keep Driving.
00:48:31
Speaker
I think a turning point for me came with that game when I realized that when you get to the festival, the music festival, the game does not end.
00:48:42
Speaker
In fact, it's not even there are multiple endings in the game, and it is not one of them.
00:48:46
Speaker
And it's just yeah, I dropped everything.
00:48:50
Speaker
I ignored everyone.
00:48:52
Speaker
I did everything that I could to just get my ass to the festival.
00:48:58
Speaker
That was my whole thing.
00:49:01
Speaker
And and I got there and it was like, great.
00:49:05
Speaker
And on top of that, you don't think about you don't realize how slow these days are going.
00:49:10
Speaker
You only have a month, but the days go by.
00:49:12
Speaker
You have a lot of time on your hands.
00:49:15
Speaker
So you were you were talking in the last episode about like, am I should I turn around and go back?
00:49:21
Speaker
This guy wants to go over.
00:49:22
Speaker
Yeah, that's the idea.
00:49:24
Speaker
And
00:49:25
Speaker
You're backtracking a lot.
00:49:26
Speaker
You're going all over the place.
00:49:27
Speaker
And the problem is, is the more you drive, the more your shit can fuck up.
00:49:33
Speaker
So when you are playing it at first, it feels like this mellow indie rock college summer adventure, which is what turned me on to it in the first place.
00:49:47
Speaker
And the longer you go, the more it's like, oh, fuck.
00:49:49
Speaker
Fuck like like just everything, every every.
00:49:53
Speaker
There are so many ways you can fuck this up.
00:49:56
Speaker
And it made me realize when you create your character, one of the things you can choose is your relationship with your parents.
00:50:04
Speaker
And that is essentially the difficulty mode.
00:50:07
Speaker
because hilarious yeah because when your shit breaks down uh you have to call your parents you call one or the other your parents and they can bail you out and it oh man it bails you out they give you like 200 bucks and and like uh take care of your car give you a little gas oh it's just like being 19 your parents fucking bail you the shit out and it's yeah very valuable uh oh my god
00:50:32
Speaker
But it's it's so that's it's so so if you have a great relationship with your parents, they're more likely to pick up and help you out.
00:50:40
Speaker
And the more of a bad relationship you have with your parents, they might just not pick up and you're left on the side of the road.
00:50:46
Speaker
Game over.
00:50:48
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:50:49
Speaker
Fucking.
00:50:50
Speaker
It's a great game.
00:50:51
Speaker
It's a really well designed game.
00:50:53
Speaker
It's a really clever game.
00:50:55
Speaker
So there's a lot of brutal elements to it then hidden underneath the mellow vibes of it.
00:51:01
Speaker
Bingo.
00:51:02
Speaker
It's it is it is it is a stealth difficult game, which I respect the shit out of.
00:51:09
Speaker
It's it's fascinating how how well designed it is for that where you start out.
00:51:17
Speaker
like you said, picking your playlist and you can you can buy new CDs that will add new tracks to these indie Europe Euro indie bands that I've never heard of, but they they're great and they're all kind of perfect for the ambiance of the game.
00:51:31
Speaker
And you're just like, yeah, fuck yeah, I'm on the road.
00:51:33
Speaker
I'm a kid and my life's in front of me.
00:51:36
Speaker
And then it just fucking kicks you in the
00:51:39
Speaker
balls out of nowhere it just becomes a really difficult game which is you know an apt metaphor for going from into adulthood you know exactly it's it's actually brilliant uh if they meant to do that uh it's and so so now that i know that the festival is not the end game um
00:52:02
Speaker
Now, that's a very important moment as a gamer, because it means you go, oh, OK, all right.
00:52:10
Speaker
And you can.
00:52:11
Speaker
I actually when I realized that was the case, I just started over.
00:52:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:14
Speaker
And I was like, OK, let's just start from the beginning.
00:52:17
Speaker
And I just started picking up every hitchhiker I could fit in my sedan.
00:52:21
Speaker
They all got different powers.
00:52:22
Speaker
Why not?
00:52:22
Speaker
They've all got different quests doing.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:24
Speaker
You want that?
00:52:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
Great.
00:52:25
Speaker
Fine.
00:52:25
Speaker
I'll keep my eye out for that.
00:52:27
Speaker
I'll keep my eye out for this area.
00:52:29
Speaker
And
00:52:29
Speaker
and it just opens up the game a lot.
00:52:32
Speaker
And there are, I think like 10 or 11 different endings.
00:52:35
Speaker
And I've only got, I've only got one other one.
00:52:38
Speaker
I inherited a bunch of land, uh, and went back and became a farmer.
00:52:43
Speaker
So I was like, I was like, yep, playing that, doing that.
00:52:49
Speaker
That would be me.
00:52:50
Speaker
That would be me on my way.
00:52:52
Speaker
And, uh, the rest of root song plays and, uh,
00:52:56
Speaker
So that game continues to be surprising and and very, very exciting.
00:53:04
Speaker
It's a very it's it's it's just it's like kind of an indie darling of the year already.
00:53:10
Speaker
And it's only February.
00:53:11
Speaker
So that's impressive.
00:53:15
Speaker
One last thing I played.
00:53:16
Speaker
I played a demo for a game called Demon School.
00:53:18
Speaker
Have you seen this?
00:53:19
Speaker
I have not.
00:53:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:21
Speaker
This is part of like the Next Fest stuff.
00:53:24
Speaker
Maybe.
00:53:24
Speaker
I don't know.
00:53:25
Speaker
I didn't check that.
00:53:26
Speaker
Anyway, Next Fest.
00:53:27
Speaker
Anyway, by the way, folks, Next Fest started.
00:53:31
Speaker
Get on Next Fest and check out some things.
00:53:35
Speaker
I don't see anything about Next Fest.
00:53:36
Speaker
But any case, it's you know what it is, basically?
00:53:41
Speaker
It's kind of an indie persona.
00:53:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's got the anime kind of style, but it's more 2D.
00:53:51
Speaker
You basically play.
00:53:52
Speaker
It's like Harry Potter in a school where you learn to kill demons.
00:53:57
Speaker
This looks this looks sharp.
00:53:59
Speaker
It's it's pretty cool.
00:54:01
Speaker
And the the combat is shockingly difficult.
00:54:06
Speaker
If you're if you underestimate it, the storyline is interesting because the whole point is you're the students at this demon fighting school and part of your curriculum is going out and killing these fucking demons.
00:54:18
Speaker
So you've got these different things you have to do just to pass.
00:54:23
Speaker
And they involve usually risking your life to save
00:54:28
Speaker
maybe just you guys, usually to find like some sort of mythic demonic artifact.
00:54:32
Speaker
And everyone's got their different specialties and the demons are really cool.
00:54:36
Speaker
And when you or one of the demons dies, you just explode in this fountain of blood like, you know, fucking Japanese samurai movie or something.
00:54:45
Speaker
It's amazing.
00:54:46
Speaker
It's it's pretty good.
00:54:48
Speaker
And I think I'm not it's I don't think I'm it's target audience so much because I like I liked Persona fine, but it was but I didn't I didn't see it through.
00:55:00
Speaker
And I think a lot of people we know who listen to the show are super into that.
00:55:05
Speaker
And I think I think they would do well to at least play the demo.
00:55:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's it puts you kind of
00:55:11
Speaker
I want to say it's you're about halfway through the first act.
00:55:14
Speaker
It just drops you in, which I always like with demos when they do.
00:55:17
Speaker
Right.
00:55:17
Speaker
You actually feel the game.
00:55:20
Speaker
And I really appreciated that.
00:55:22
Speaker
But it's a really, really cool looks game.
00:55:28
Speaker
Yeah, I don't.
00:55:30
Speaker
It's supposed to come out Q2 this year.
00:55:34
Speaker
So, you know, in a few months, probably.
00:55:39
Speaker
I think it's worth having a look at.
00:55:42
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny.
00:55:44
Speaker
Yeah, similar to games you've played, Persona 5 Royal and Tactical Breach Wizards.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yeah, there you go.
00:55:50
Speaker
There you go.
00:55:52
Speaker
That's what it comes down to.
00:55:53
Speaker
It's kind of like that.
00:55:55
Speaker
Yes, it's Tactical Breach Wizards XCOM turn-based combat.
00:56:00
Speaker
Meets Persona.
00:56:01
Speaker
Meets Persona.
00:56:02
Speaker
And it's got good writing.
00:56:04
Speaker
It's got...
00:56:05
Speaker
weird, fun design.
00:56:08
Speaker
The enemies and the characters all have very unique looks to them and much in the same way that Persona did where your bosses, it wasn't enough for you just to fight a fucking dragon on a hill or something like that.
00:56:19
Speaker
You had to fight a toilet demon or some goddamn thing.
00:56:22
Speaker
You had to fight your gym teacher who was also sexually harassing the volleyball team.
00:56:32
Speaker
He sure was.
00:56:34
Speaker
He needs to stay away from my girlfriend.
00:56:37
Speaker
If you've ever, if you haven't played Persona 5, it gets pretty fucking dark in terms of the people that they're taking down.
00:56:46
Speaker
Like immediately, like the first person you take down is that guy.
00:56:50
Speaker
It's I keep wanting to get back to that and playing it again.
00:56:54
Speaker
I'll hear the music every now and then.
00:56:56
Speaker
It does actually have.
00:56:58
Speaker
Yeah, it does have similar like jazzy, upbeat, cool music.
00:57:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's I want to get back to that game at some point, but I can't think of how I would do that without just sacrificing everything else.
00:57:13
Speaker
Sacrificing a life.
00:57:15
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much.
00:57:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:18
Speaker
So that's a. Could you imagine if Persona had come to five had come to you when like like college or.
00:57:28
Speaker
Dude, that I think about that a lot, actually, or even just when I was single.
00:57:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:35
Speaker
Working from home and shit like I could have had that thing done in a month, you know, like easily 200 hours, everything completed.
00:57:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:45
Speaker
Full, full on trophy.
00:57:47
Speaker
Like I, I'm just not there anymore.
00:57:50
Speaker
That is just not my life anymore.
00:57:52
Speaker
Which actually I, I, I only bring this up because of what you just said.
00:57:58
Speaker
I think Civ is kind of a great example of that for me, where that was a game.
00:58:04
Speaker
If you look at my backlog for the past two years,
00:58:08
Speaker
incarnations of Civ.
00:58:10
Speaker
It's literally thousands of hours.
00:58:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:13
Speaker
I pumped into that game and I don't regret it.
00:58:16
Speaker
It's not like that.
00:58:17
Speaker
But Civ 7, I'm enjoying and I do appreciate the changes that they've made and all that stuff.
00:58:25
Speaker
But I also don't find myself as drawn to
00:58:28
Speaker
to marathon gaming sessions of it anymore.
00:58:33
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Uh, and, and not just because like, cause if I, if I, if I, you know, went to my wife and I was like, Hey, I just, I just want to have a day where I just get up in the morning and have breakfast and play this fucking game all day long.
00:58:44
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Can you handle that?
00:58:45
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Is that cool?
00:58:47
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You know, and you can, you know, just, just deal with a kid and all that stuff like that.
00:58:50
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And she, and she'd probably say yes.
00:58:52
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Um,
00:58:53
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Oh, she's sure that she said, no, I wouldn't.
00:58:56
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So, but it doesn't matter.
00:58:58
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It doesn't matter because I don't want to do that.
00:59:02
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I was like, I was like, I don't think Emily's going to say yes to that.
00:59:05
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She was.
00:59:06
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She loves me.
00:59:07
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She's a sucker.
00:59:09
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She's in love with me.
00:59:11
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She's in love with you.
00:59:13
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I know.
00:59:13
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It's stupid.
00:59:14
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I don't know how it happened.
00:59:17
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COVID.
00:59:17
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But...
00:59:20
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That's true.
00:59:21
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That's true.
00:59:22
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That was a big part of it.
00:59:23
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I won't lie to you.
00:59:26
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When you've been on three dates and suddenly a global pandemic hits and you're like, I guess we'll move in together.
00:59:31
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Like, yeah, I guess we'll spend the rest of our lives together.
00:59:34
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That's how it happened.
00:59:35
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It's worked out so far.
00:59:37
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But yeah, but I just I'm not I'm at a different point in my life now where I'm just not as drawn to that.
00:59:46
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experience as much.
00:59:48
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I still really enjoy the franchise and I'm enjoying playing it, but it doesn't it doesn't elicit the the kind of like addictive quality in me, you know?
00:59:58
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Yeah.
00:59:58
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So that's interesting.
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OK, so Kevin, what are you playing?
Kevin's Game Reviews
01:00:03
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Yeah.
01:00:03
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So pretty much this past week I've been playing Avowed.
01:00:08
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Oh, OK.
01:00:09
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Yeah, it is.
01:00:12
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It's a lot of fun.
01:00:13
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If you haven't played Avowed, it is the third game in the Pillars of Eternity series.
01:00:20
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The first two Pillars of Eternity games were more of like an isometric, you know, party-based RPG game that was... It wasn't turn-based.
01:00:34
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It was, you know, action.
01:00:37
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And you'd, like, cast spells and all that stuff.
01:00:41
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Yeah.
01:00:42
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But yeah, Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, massive games.
01:00:46
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Avowed is more of a Skyrim-like version of a game set in the same universe, where you play a character called the Envoy, who is sent from the Emperor of the Ediran Empire, and
01:01:04
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to go figure out what is going on with this weird disease that is killing plants and animals in a place called the Living Lands.
01:01:17
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I love it.
01:01:19
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It's a lot of fun.
01:01:21
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It has really good combat, much better combat than any of the Elder Scrolls games have ever had.
01:01:30
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You could have, you know, parrying.
01:01:33
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It has guns.
01:01:35
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Nice.
01:01:37
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As Harry, video games are bad.
01:01:41
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Harry released today a video saying avowed.
01:01:45
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It's just a video that's just avowed.
01:01:47
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It has guns, I think is the title.
01:01:51
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You always count on him.
01:01:57
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He goes into if you want to.
01:02:02
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Oh, the AI overview for Avow says it's some say about is mediocre.
01:02:10
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I'm looking for the name of the video.
01:02:12
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The title of the video is Important Avowed Has Guns.
01:02:16
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It's on the channel Video Games Are Bad.
01:02:19
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Go check it out.
01:02:20
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It actually does a much better job of selling you on the game than I ever could.
01:02:28
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That's good.
01:02:33
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So I've been playing Avowed.
01:02:35
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What else have I been playing?
01:02:36
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I did.
01:02:37
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I played a demo for a game called Deck of Haunts on Steam Next Fest.
01:02:44
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I was looking forward to the demo.
01:02:48
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I actually had the game wish listed based on like the initial pitch of the game.
01:02:53
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So you play as a haunted house.
01:02:56
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It is a roguelike deck builder and you play as a haunted house and your goal is to scare or kill the people who enter your house.
01:03:07
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Okay, what's this game called again?
01:03:08
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Real quick.
01:03:09
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Deck of Haunts.
01:03:12
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That sounds fucking excellent.
01:03:15
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Holy shit.
01:03:16
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Right?
01:03:17
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But it felt kind of boring to play.
01:03:20
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If I'm being honest, UI is fine.
01:03:25
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It's a little meh.
01:03:27
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The actual loop of what you're doing is not super interesting and it feels like you can kind of feels like you don't have to try too hard in order to beat a lot of scenarios.
01:03:38
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You can kind of just blitz your way through them with like, like, just throw this card at this, this interloper and then they die.
01:03:48
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So I feel like there's some balance issues in there.
01:03:52
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And there's a few mechanics that just felt like underwhelming or not super well explained.
01:03:59
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It also hits my, oh, this is a Microsoft Word default font in the UI penalty.
01:04:09
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You know what I mean?
01:04:10
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You know what I mean, right?
01:04:11
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It's like, I don't like this font in the UI.
01:04:15
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It's such a shame that that is, but it is, it makes a fucking difference.
01:04:21
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It does, doesn't it?
01:04:23
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Go to the store page and click on just a screenshot of the game.
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You'll see what I mean.
01:04:30
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Oh, man.
01:04:31
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Let's see.
01:04:32
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Deck of the hearts.
01:04:34
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Let's see how I'm doing that.
01:04:38
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Oh, fuck.
01:04:39
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Yeah.
01:04:40
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You see what I mean?
01:04:41
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Yeah.
01:04:42
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Yeah.
01:04:43
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It's just kind of, it, it shouldn't matter, but it, it does.
01:04:48
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It's, it does.
01:04:48
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And maybe that, and maybe that's something that they will change or improve with the full.
01:04:52
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Yeah.
01:04:53
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I mean, it's, it's, um, I mean, that's the thing is like this is the demo.
01:05:02
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It's weird.
01:05:02
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The demo has its own, um,
01:05:06
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has its own page.
01:05:12
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And the game has not come out yet.
01:05:14
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I don't... Yeah, it's still coming soon.
01:05:16
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Yeah.
01:05:18
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Yeah, that... I don't know.
01:05:20
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It feels like there's a lot... It could be really fucking cool.
01:05:26
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And the idea is you don't want people to get to the heart of your house.
01:05:30
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And the heart of your house is, like, a room with this, like...
01:05:35
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you know, it's like a heart is in this room and killing the heart of your house destroys the house, right?
01:05:41
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Okay.
01:05:42
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Okay.
01:05:42
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That's cool.
01:05:44
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And between each night, you have the opportunity to add rooms to the house.
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And each room has its own thing that it does.
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And you can also, but then each room has like upkeep.
01:05:59
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So each room that you add costs more essence.
01:06:02
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And so you have...
01:06:04
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It's almost a city builder kind of thing.
01:06:06
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Yeah.
01:06:07
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It feels like there might be too much going on.
01:06:11
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It's like there's either too much or not enough going on.
01:06:14
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Sure.
01:06:15
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Yeah.
01:06:15
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Yeah.
01:06:17
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I can't put my finger on it.
01:06:19
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I played it for a little bit and I was like...
01:06:22
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I don't know.
01:06:23
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I'm going to try and play this game that opened mine because so much of that is something that would be right up my fucking wahoo.
01:06:31
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It is such a killer premise that I'm not sure is executed quite there yet.
01:06:39
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So that's that.
01:06:41
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I have a few other games I'm planning on checking out from Steam Next Fest.
01:06:46
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One is called Cyber Taxi, which looks
01:06:52
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Absolutely bananas.
01:06:54
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Drive an old taxi with dozens of weapons to complete three unique missions.
01:07:02
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Angeline Era, which what's it?
01:07:08
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Iron Pineapple played it a while ago on his channel when he was doing steam dumpster diving of of roguelike not roguelikes, souls likes.
01:07:18
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And it looks kind of neat.
01:07:21
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And what else?
01:07:23
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I grabbed a few other demos to check out the suspense and the light keeper is gone, which is a evocative enough title.
01:07:32
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Great title.
01:07:33
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Great title.
01:07:34
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Yeah.
01:07:35
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Other than that, that is what I have been playing this past week.
01:07:44
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I've never done this before.
01:07:45
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I've never specifically gone in for the next best thing.
01:07:49
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So this is pretty cool.
01:07:52
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Yeah, there should be, if you click on the thing on the main page, it should show you some demos for games that you might like.
01:07:59
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I'm digging through it.
01:08:00
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This is neat.
01:08:02
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Okay, okay.
01:08:03
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Well, fuck, I'm never going to want for demos ever again.
01:08:08
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There's a demo for the first Berserker Kazan, which comes out... Wait, pre-purchase?
01:08:18
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Check out the first, the full game.
01:08:19
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Oh, it comes out in the end of March.
01:08:22
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It's a... The demo itself is 30 gigs.
01:08:28
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Holy shit.
01:08:29
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How's that happen?
01:08:31
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I don't know.
01:08:32
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It's like a it's it's a triple A title or something.
01:08:35
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I don't know.
01:08:36
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It was just like, Lord, I don't.
01:08:39
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I start as like as like install demo 30 gigs now.
01:08:44
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Oh, yeah.
01:08:45
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Maybe.
01:08:45
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Maybe not.
01:08:46
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Maybe later.
01:08:47
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Maybe later.
01:08:49
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Maybe not.
01:08:50
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Lord.
01:08:52
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Yeah.
01:08:53
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It's a lot of gigs.
01:08:54
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That's it's a lot of gigs.
01:08:59
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Yeah, and you know what?
01:09:01
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Eternity's Echo Patient Zero.
01:09:04
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Yeah, I'll download that one.
01:09:08
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He is coming.
01:09:09
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That looks really good.
01:09:10
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That looks weird as shit.
01:09:12
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Yeah, yeah.
01:09:14
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Steam DexFest, folks.
01:09:15
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It'll be running for a few more days after this episode airs, so go ahead.
01:09:20
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Hop on Steam and check it out.
01:09:23
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And that'll do it for tonight's episode.
01:09:26
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01:09:39
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01:09:43
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Phil, do you have anything you want to say to the people at home who are wondering how to deal with Ryan Seacrest as the host of Wheel of Fortune?
01:09:59
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I know it's been, you know, that's a big one.
01:10:02
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It's been about three months now since he took over.
01:10:06
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And don't get me wrong.
01:10:06
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Pat Sajak is a reactionary piece of shit.
01:10:09
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He's a monster.
01:10:11
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He's a monster.
01:10:12
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But he also was a calming influence.
01:10:14
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He was our monster.
01:10:16
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He was our monster.
01:10:19
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So.
01:10:20
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I'm glad you asked, Kevin.
01:10:21
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So this is what.