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Stupid Sexy Carlos (RE: Nemesis - Part 2)
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Okay but Carlos though, right? He's got something going for him.
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Book Synopsis"Zombies. Mutant animals. Bioengineered weapons and surgically enhanced monsters. Secret labs and widespread conspiracies. It seemed impossible, but Jill Valentine and her teammates among the S.T.A.R.S. had seen it all firsthand when the Umbrella Corporation turned Raccoon City into a staging ground for the most insidious genetic experiments ever conceived. After all she's been through, Valentine is ready to leave that remote mountain community forever.
But Umbrella isn't finished with Raccoon City.
Too much evidence of their unethical and immoral research still exists. It must be recovered or destroyed -- and quickly -- before it can be traced back to Umbrella. And with William Birkin's mutagenic virus already spreading through the city like wildfire, drastic measures are needed. Under cover of night, mercenary teams have entered the city, along with something else -- Umbrella's failsafe: an evolved version of its Tyrant-class killing machines, a lethal creature code-named Nemesis. Now Nemesis is on the hunt. And Jill Valentine is about to become prey."
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Opening Discussion on Anti-Intellectualism
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We are just fully anti-intellectual anything anymore.
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Yeah.
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It's just absolutely fucking nuts.
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Being an intellectual?
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Get out of here.
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No.
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That's not what we want.
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That's not what we want.
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We don't need that.
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We don't need smart people.
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Right.
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No.
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What have they ever done for us?
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Yeah.
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Don't answer that question.
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No, no.
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We'll be here all night.
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You know who else has done what for us?
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Who's that?
Introduction to Pixel It Podcast & Resident Evil Nemesis
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Hey there, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixel It.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me as always is Phil on today's show.
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Episode two of Resident Evil Nemesis.
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Book five in the series.
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Book three of the games.
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Yes.
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Game three of the books.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Kind of a little of column A and a little column B based on what we're seeing so far.
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Yeah.
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It's a little of both.
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And we haven't even gotten around to there's going to be there is a Resident Evil Zero book that is.
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Is it next or what?
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It's the last one, I think.
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It's the last one.
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And that circles back around to before.
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Obviously, hence the zero.
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Exactly.
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So the whole the whole novel series is just a snake eating its own tail.
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So it is an Ouroboros.
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Yes.
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Which is that symbol of a snake eating its own tail.
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And Ouroboros is also the name of the virus in Resident Evil five.
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Bam.
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Boom.
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Fucking swish.
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pulled it all together oh wow god we are geniuses this is this is it's a good show it's a good show it's a good show yeah um it's i can't help but sound like richard lewis when i it's a good show good show uh all right rest in peace my god that man
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It's a good show.
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Oh, God.
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Yeah.
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So that's the intro of the show.
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Yeah.
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It's a pretty good intro.
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It's a pretty good intro.
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I'm really proud of my, I'm pretty proud of my question, my lead-in question.
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I don't even know how I, how did I phrase that?
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That was... That was, um...
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It was it was it was a it was a hell of a jumbling of it.
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Let's say an English professor would have popped their monocle in their orbital socket.
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Good Lord.
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Would they
Interconnected Elements of Resident Evil
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hear that?
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English, English, English professor, English, English professor.
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That would be the worst part.
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That's that's those are the people I feel so bad for them if they're listening, not because you've done anything wrong, but because you have dedicated your life to the English language and
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sure you are yeah the no yeah it's the only you know i guess the only person we have that's like an equivalent is josh uh is uh he's a professor of some sort of writing and oh yeah josh with parentheses is uh yeah
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So body in the marsh time?
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Marsh time, marsh time.
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Let's marsh it out.
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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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So
Escape from Nemesis: Action Sequence
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chapter 10, Jill and Carlos are trying to get away from Nemesis.
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Jill's like, hey, here's an oil lamp.
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She throws it at him.
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There's good news.
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Yeah.
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It lights everything on fire, blasts the kitchen, knocks Nemesis down.
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And Carlos saves Jill from the explosion.
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The explosion leaves the kitchen in ruins and Nemesis...
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these down uh and if you would take the opportunity now that he's on his knee you can go pick up like a uh i think you can go pick up a briefcase with a gun part is that oh i think you're right yeah i think in both i think in both reasonable two and three like you if you did that to mr x and nemesis there was like to build a magnum or something yeah yeah oh good old magnum oh yeah um
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She doesn't take that opportunity, though.
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No, no one takes that opportunity.
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Nemesis is not very dead, though.
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And Jill's like, yeah, we got to go.
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They run through the city.
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They get to a warehouse.
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And Carlos is like...
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Hey, you're kind of hot.
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Jill is... We get right back into Miss Perry's horny on main shit.
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Horny on main shit.
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If any of you forgot, that's what this series is.
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It is horny on main, and here we go.
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Really, probably Capcom is the only thing stopping her from writing that they banged right there.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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And
Themes of Love and Survival in Resident Evil
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I can't believe that that hasn't happened more frequently in the Resident Evil series.
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Has there ever been a...
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a fucking scene there's there.
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I don't believe there has been a fucking genuinely just like the yearning.
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Hmm.
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Yeah.
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A lot of years.
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There's a lot.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot of Ada.
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There's a lot of that.
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A lot of the Ada Leon.
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Oh, that's that's what the whole the whole porno would just be grunts of.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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Well, you know what?
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It's it's it's Leon wanting Ada and Ada being like, oh, you bad boy.
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And then being like, fuck off.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's Leon yearning and Ada saying, I think it's cute when you bleed.
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That's that's what we've got going on for them both there.
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And really, Jill only had Carlos and Carlos has not made a reappearance in the in the series.
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No.
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Much to my chagrin.
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I mean, Carlos.
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Yeah.
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I think everybody likes Carlos.
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Yeah.
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He beats the shit out of your partner in Resident Evil five who just walks in front of my gun every opportunity she gets.
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Oh, Shiva.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Shiva.
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Shiva Alomar.
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Yeah, she does not have a spatial awareness.
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No, which is kind of important when you're, you know, killing zombies in 360 degrees.
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Yeah.
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So, Carl, Jill is like, hey, are you the dude?
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Like, were you the guy that sent out the distress call?
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He says yes.
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And they get into the whole umbrella of it.
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And then he's like, he turns the questions back on Jill.
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And he's like, why are you here?
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And why is that?
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What's that monster?
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Jill breaks it down.
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He's like, it's a tyrant.
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It's trying to kill me.
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That's pretty much all you got to know.
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It's the umbrella made it.
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And she is looking for a key.
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to unlock the city hall gate, which leads to a cable car, which could take them out of the city.
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Carlos is like, OK, yeah, that's that's good.
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I thought I saw a green gem in the restaurant's basement and they she suggests they go back for it.
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Carlos, even though Jill is like kind of aggressive, Carlos is into it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He's he's fine with.
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There is a very quick, a quickly established mutual thing, being going on there.
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Yeah.
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That's a medical term.
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So Carlos, they decide to split up, though.
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Carlos is going to look for more survivors.
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Jill is going to go look for the gym and they're going to meet at the cable car.
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Meanwhile, Nikolai is tracking Mikhail, who he shot earlier and is bleeding a lot.
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And then he finds him.
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And Mikhail is like, oh, you found me, Nikolai.
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Thank you.
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Can you help me?
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And Nikolai is like, ah, fuck it.
Nikolai's Manipulative Plan
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And it's just like place long as the...
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Not the bad guy, but the decent, like, or not the good guy, but like the, okay, I'll just play along for now.
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Nikolai is slow burning the shit out of his plan here, by the way.
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He is not on anyone's schedule, but his own.
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Not on anybody's schedule, but his own.
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Nikolai time now.
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Nikolai is on Nikolai's time.
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It's Nikolai time now.
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And then Carlos arrives.
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Carlos starts looking at Mikhail's wound and they're like, all right, well, you know, fuck it.
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We'll we'll see what we can do here.
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Chapter 11, Jill puts the gems into the city hall gate.
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Uh, she continues, uh, through the park area.
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She hears, uh, stars off in the distance.
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Uh, and she's like, all right, well, I gotta, I gotta keep moving.
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Um, meanwhile, in the office, uh,
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These like Carlos is like, well, it's not it's a bad wound, but it's not it's it's not fatal.
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It's like a gut shot or something like that.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Like like which which is, yes, not necessarily fatal, but insanely painful.
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It's fatal in like it's slow.
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Right.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You go septic pretty fast, I would imagine.
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Yeah.
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So the Mikhail Nikolai is has has grabbed a laptop looking for information.
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Mikhail is like, hey, what's with that laptop?
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And Mikhail and Nikolai is like, oh, it's just like I'm looking up blockade information and whatever.
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It's got nothing.
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Nothing on it.
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It's fine.
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It's porn.
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It's fine.
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Just ignore it.
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It's porn.
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And I was looking up just looking at porn.
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Might be our last moment alive at much.
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It's important.
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Yeah.
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So Carlos is then like, hey, how about we take the cable car?
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Nikolai is like, yeah, sure.
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OK, why not?
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He's like, I heard about it from a cop.
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And then Nikolai is like, all right, well, let's go get it.
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You two go to the cable car without me.
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I'm going to go gather up some construction sites.
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He's like, no, no, no, no.
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Don't wait for me.
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You two go.
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No, I got...
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No, no, no, no, no.
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You're so sweet.
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You're so kind.
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You're so sweet.
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So Carlos takes Mikhail, the wounded Mikhail with him while Nikolai is like, idiots, idiots, fucking morons.
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And he's looking to meet with a guy named Davis Chan, who is one of the other watchdogs.
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And then he is ambushed by a couple of fast, multi-legged creatures.
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and he kills them and then continues on his journey and he's like you know what yeah I think I can do this I think I'm I think I'm good at what I do yeah damn good damn good we'll find nothing this bitch
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Chapter 12, Jill is in a machine shop that she runs into after while Nemesis was tracking her.
How Does Nemesis Track Jill?
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She and she's like debating and like, how does Nemesis actually track me?
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She like she's asked that question.
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That line is like, is it sent or can I like wash off or is it like what's what's going on here?
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Yeah.
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She's thinking about that while the door starts being banged on.
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And she's like, well, if it was Nemesis, it probably would have just kicked the door in and she figures it out.
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It's just like it's a bunch of zombies.
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It's just a bunch of zombies at the door.
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Just because it's not Nemesis doesn't mean it isn't something bad.
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Doesn't mean that it is.
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Isn't something to remember that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Carlos and Mikhail reach the trolley station.
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It's clear of zombies.
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And he sees that the city hall gate is open, meaning Jill, the master of locking, has already unlocked it.
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He helps Mikhail inside and finds that Jill is not here.
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And also a Resident Evil puzzle is waiting for him in the control panel of the trolley.
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I love Resident Evil puzzles.
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I love a good residual puzzle.
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It's missing a fuse, which is.
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Sure, sure.
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Yeah.
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You ever present fuse.
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It's probably sitting on top of like a gasoline or an oil drum or something somewhere behind a bunch of zombies.
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You have to run back about five screens to get it.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And just avoid some dogs.
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And there it is.
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And you grab it and keep going.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Speaking of dogs, let me let right now.
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Speak of the dog.
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Speak of the dog.
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Puppy.
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Ugh.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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So Resident Evil puzzle.
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You know, I feel like Resident Evil really ups the amount of like, I thought fuses would be a bigger deal in my life as a kid.
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They're like the quicksand.
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It's like the quicksand joke.
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I thought quicksand would be a bigger deal.
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Yeah.
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You know, but I'd say Resident Evil's fuses are the thing that
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Fuses and oddly shaped keys.
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Fuses and oddly shaped keys, gears.
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Gears, yep.
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For clocks, specifically.
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Clockwork, a lot of things, like toys, doors, actual clocks, et cetera.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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These things really only rarely come into our field of view.
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Yeah.
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So he he's like, all right, well, I got to go find this stuff.
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And he leaves Mikhail there because Mikhail has a gun and he should be fine.
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Should be fine.
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Meanwhile, Nikolai meets with or he misses Mikhail.
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Captain Davis or Davis Chan, uh, by mere minutes, uh, while he's at the medical sales office, uh, which, you know, that's, it's, that was his whole thing was me finding this guy.
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Um, and then he's, he's like, all right, well, I'm going to go find Carlos and Mikhail.
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And, uh, all the while he's like, just, he's just monologuing in his head.
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Like, I am so evil.
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That's what SD Perry does that a lot with her villains.
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They do straight up James Bond style monologuing to themselves, to themselves, not to anyone else.
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They just think to themselves about how smart.
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Yeah.
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How smart slash evil they are.
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Yeah.
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It's kind of hilarious.
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Yeah.
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And he's like, maybe I can manipulate Carlos into fighting a hunter because I need some data on how hunters fight in like whatever.
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I'm on the clock.
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I'm on the clock.
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I need to sell some data.
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So chapter 13, Jill is still in the machine shop.
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Carlos shows up and helps her escape out of the garage, which accidentally gets it.
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The two of the two times that they met up, they accidentally blew up the thing that they were in.
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Did you notice that?
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They are a mess.
00:17:15
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They're a goddamn mess.
00:17:16
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They're a mess.
00:17:17
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But sparks.
00:17:19
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Oh, oh, big time sparks.
00:17:21
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And one could argue if I were writing fan fiction, I would probably use that as the reason this keeps happening because they're just like, oh, she's so cute.
00:17:31
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And I, oh, no, I dropped the match into the puddle of gasoline.
00:17:36
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The puddle of gasoline that went in it.
00:17:38
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And the reason the whole thing blows up is because the fire gets into the underground gasoline tanks underneath the gas station.
00:17:46
Speaker
Right.
00:17:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:48
Speaker
But in the process, it blows everything up except for a single fuse.
00:17:53
Speaker
That's just in the middle of the rubble.
00:17:55
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Yeah.
00:17:57
Speaker
Like there's a fuse here.
00:17:58
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Take it.
00:17:59
Speaker
Take it.
00:18:00
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Boop.
00:18:01
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Yeah.
00:18:02
Speaker
And a green herb for some reason.
00:18:04
Speaker
And a green herb.
00:18:05
Speaker
The only things that survive.
00:18:07
Speaker
The only things that survive this green herb in a pot.
00:18:10
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It's a potted green herb.
00:18:13
Speaker
It's not an herb lying on its own.
00:18:15
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No, no, no, no, no.
00:18:21
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So, yeah, they they escaped the blast.
00:18:25
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But Carlos, in the meantime, had gotten to retrieve a power cable.
00:18:30
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It was they didn't find the fuse yet.
00:18:32
Speaker
They got a power cable, though, which is one of the items that they needed.
00:18:36
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You find a power cable in this game and you know that you're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to need this later.
00:18:42
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This is important.
00:18:44
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Nikolai, who is hanging out with Mikhail, is like, no, Carlos probably died in that fire.
00:18:48
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I'm going to go find a power cable.
00:18:51
Speaker
Jill and Carlos eventually get to the trolley yard and meet Nikolai.
00:18:57
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Jill does not like Nikolai.
00:18:59
Speaker
Their immediate, immediate tension because she's like, all right, well, Carlos is hot.
00:19:07
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So that's why I can get over his umbrella affiliation.
00:19:10
Speaker
Right.
00:19:10
Speaker
But you are just a meanie.
00:19:15
Speaker
Just a mean guy.
00:19:16
Speaker
And you know what?
00:19:17
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If I'm being honest, not my taste.
00:19:19
Speaker
Just not my taste.
00:19:20
Speaker
Just not my taste.
00:19:21
Speaker
I want the tan Hispanic man.
00:19:25
Speaker
Right.
00:19:25
Speaker
Who is cut like a Greek god.
00:19:28
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Yeah, of course.
00:19:31
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Young, dumb, ready to come.
00:19:33
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Yeah.
00:19:35
Speaker
At all times.
00:19:36
Speaker
At all times.
00:19:37
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He's at that age.
00:19:38
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You know what I mean?
00:19:39
Speaker
He's at that age.
00:19:40
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:19:40
Speaker
Boy, howdy.
00:19:41
Speaker
Versus the spooky Russian guy.
00:19:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:48
Speaker
Who's at the age where all he can think about is homicide.
00:19:51
Speaker
All he thinks of is at that age that every man reaches.
00:19:56
Speaker
You can only think about one thing.
00:19:58
Speaker
You can only think about one thing.
00:20:00
Speaker
The Roman Empire.
00:20:11
Speaker
So, yeah, he's Nikolai is like, how can I manipulate Jill now?
00:20:17
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He's just assumed that that's his character motivation.
00:20:21
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Well, he's a he's a can do villain like he's not real can do.
00:20:25
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You would think that like, oh, great.
00:20:27
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Another wrench into into my.
00:20:30
Speaker
My plans.
00:20:32
Speaker
He's like, oh, no, fuck.
00:20:33
Speaker
Yeah, let's let's make it complex, baby.
00:20:35
Speaker
Let's let's get in there and really do some masterminding.
00:20:40
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I have not even begun to manipulate.
00:20:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker
So they they end up splitting up again there and they arrive at a garage and Carlos discovers the body of a dead UBCS agent they recognize named Hennings.
00:21:00
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And here we find a journal, which if this is the actual game, this would have been the 15th journal that we found.
00:21:09
Speaker
But it's the first that we are actually second documents that we find in the game.
00:21:15
Speaker
The first one, I think, was Marvin Branagh's document about the police arrest records in an earlier chapter.
00:21:26
Speaker
But anyway, yeah, they find finds the he finds the journal and Jill is like, you should read it.
00:21:32
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And Carlos is like, why would I read that?
00:21:34
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Like and she's like, well, maybe there's information about shit going down.
00:21:39
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And Carlos is like, fine.
00:21:41
Speaker
Fine.
00:21:44
Speaker
So he reads the journal and he finds that Hennings is all worked up about something called Operation Watchdog.
00:21:52
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And he's seen a lot of horrors and he doesn't want to.
00:21:58
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He's very sad about his part in all this.
00:22:02
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He kills him.
00:22:03
Speaker
He had killed himself.
00:22:04
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He's like, when I finish writing this, I'm killing myself.
00:22:07
Speaker
And he mentions other watchdogs, including the quote unquote spooky Russian.
00:22:15
Speaker
which immediately makes carlos suspect nikolai yeah i only know one spooky russian yeah yeah could this be the same spooky russian could this be the same spooky russian there's like there's there's mikhail who is the gregarious russian guy right who's like ah you want to get a drink with him and then nikolai who's in this just standing in the corner staring at you
00:22:37
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Yeah, Mikhail's the kind of guy who you avoid simply because every time you hang out, he gets you so drunk.
00:22:45
Speaker
You can't function for three days.
00:22:47
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And for some reason- You don't remember what happened that night.
00:22:49
Speaker
Right.
00:22:49
Speaker
And he heads into work early.
00:22:51
Speaker
He's fine.
00:22:53
Speaker
He's fine the next day.
00:22:55
Speaker
But is otherwise a really charming, cool dude.
00:22:58
Speaker
And then-
00:22:59
Speaker
Meanwhile, you wake up in a Russian bath just with a towel wrapped around you in the middle of a schvitz, you know?
00:23:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:09
Speaker
And thank God, by the way, you are dehydrated and close to death, but you've sweated out a lot of chemicals.
00:23:15
Speaker
You've sweated out a lot of the illicit material from the night before.
00:23:19
Speaker
That's what you need.
00:23:20
Speaker
That's what you need.
00:23:22
Speaker
I should head to the sauna soon.
00:23:27
Speaker
Bonus episode.
00:23:29
Speaker
Boom.
00:23:30
Speaker
Bonus episode.
00:23:31
Speaker
Just recording myself in the sauna.
00:23:33
Speaker
I'm in the sauna.
00:23:36
Speaker
Still here.
00:23:40
Speaker
God.
00:23:41
Speaker
So they head back to the trolley.
00:23:46
Speaker
Jill and Carlos head back to the trolley.
00:23:48
Speaker
And they're like, they're talking about
00:23:52
Speaker
Like what they found out within earshot of Nikolai, who is just like hiding somewhere.
00:23:58
Speaker
It seems he's just like around the corner.
00:24:01
Speaker
And so shocked by how how they've seen through his bruise.
00:24:08
Speaker
He is.
00:24:09
Speaker
He is.
00:24:09
Speaker
He figured out.
00:24:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:12
Speaker
I am.
00:24:13
Speaker
He is like, I'm I'm so disappointed with myself.
00:24:16
Speaker
This is.
00:24:18
Speaker
This is not good work.
00:24:19
Speaker
I am.
00:24:20
Speaker
I could do better than this.
00:24:21
Speaker
This is frustrating.
00:24:22
Speaker
OK, OK.
00:24:24
Speaker
They fix the trolley and then they just take off without him.
00:24:28
Speaker
And he's like, all right, well, I guess he's going to walk to the hospital.
00:24:32
Speaker
That's where he needs to go next.
00:24:34
Speaker
Because he needs to this.
00:24:37
Speaker
He needs to get rid of the hunters that are in the hospital.
00:24:43
Speaker
That's like one of the one of the bonus objectives for the watchdogs.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah, they found that if the umbrella has figured out that the hunters are not cost effective.
00:24:52
Speaker
They need to be disposed of before they get out.
00:24:55
Speaker
Side quest.
00:24:57
Speaker
Side quest.
00:24:58
Speaker
And as of as we all know, at this point, the U.S. government has not decided to just nuke Raccoon City from orbit.
00:25:06
Speaker
Right.
00:25:07
Speaker
That's actually something I'm really excited about for the next Resident Evil game is that it's- It's back in Raccoon City.
00:25:14
Speaker
It's back in Raccoon City in the bombed out ruins of Raccoon City.
00:25:17
Speaker
I was like, that's a cool idea.
00:25:19
Speaker
That's going to be fucking insane.
00:25:22
Speaker
If they can keep up the level of tension and atmosphere that they have for the past two Resident Evils, because they really are doing them in trilogies.
00:25:32
Speaker
You know, and this is this is theoretically the end of the current trilogy.
00:25:39
Speaker
And it's my favorite incarnation of it.
00:25:41
Speaker
And if they can keep up that same level for this one, oh, my God, I will wet my pants.
00:25:48
Speaker
I'll be so excited.
00:25:48
Speaker
That'll be super great.
00:25:50
Speaker
He will wet his pants.
00:25:52
Speaker
And not with pee.
00:25:54
Speaker
Not with P. Not with P. Hey, Phil may not be young or dumb, but he is the third thing.
00:26:04
Speaker
Full of liquid ivory soap.
00:26:06
Speaker
Liquid ivory soap.
00:26:09
Speaker
When Phil does it, it's called Irish Spring.
00:26:14
Speaker
I don't know why that grossed me out as much as it did.
00:26:17
Speaker
I've said so much worse in my life on this show in front of people.
00:26:22
Speaker
And for some reason, that just that usually in front of Jesse.
00:26:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, probably.
00:26:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:28
Speaker
And this is this is the one this is.
00:26:33
Speaker
I just think of the Irish Spring commercial where the guy would be like, he would like cut into the bar.
00:26:38
Speaker
So yeah, like with a knife, he's like, which which which is which was really effective because I totally knew.
00:26:47
Speaker
I totally remember that.
00:26:48
Speaker
I think most people who saw the commercial do.
00:26:50
Speaker
But if that happened in real life, that would be very threatening.
00:26:54
Speaker
It's like, come here and take a look at this bar of soap.
00:26:56
Speaker
It's a real good.
00:26:57
Speaker
Let me show.
00:26:58
Speaker
Come closer.
00:26:59
Speaker
Let me show you closer.
00:27:00
Speaker
Just how smooth it is.
00:27:03
Speaker
Look at that.
00:27:03
Speaker
Look at that.
00:27:04
Speaker
Please, please.
00:27:08
Speaker
I'll buy the soap soap.
00:27:13
Speaker
Irish man, please.
00:27:16
Speaker
We are in Cincinnati.
00:27:17
Speaker
What is happening?
00:27:19
Speaker
What is happening?
00:27:20
Speaker
Where did that waterfall come from?
00:27:22
Speaker
Irish man.
00:27:23
Speaker
Just one of the lesser known Mega Man villains.
00:27:28
Speaker
You got power.
00:27:30
Speaker
Catholic guilt.
00:27:34
Speaker
These are crosses that make people feel bad about themselves.
00:27:44
Speaker
When you throw them at a boss robot, it causes him to molest his underlings.
00:27:49
Speaker
It's just, it's a really unfortunate.
00:27:57
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:28:01
Speaker
It's almost like Jesse's on the show.
00:28:03
Speaker
It's almost like Jesse.
00:28:04
Speaker
Jesse's here in spirit, you know?
00:28:05
Speaker
He must be.
00:28:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:08
Speaker
Go check out the channel NoclipCrew parentheses for now for more Jesse.
00:28:14
Speaker
Oh, it's great.
00:28:16
Speaker
Love you, Jesse.
00:28:19
Speaker
Um, chapter 15, uh, Jill and Carlos are navigating the trolley through the dark ruined streets of Raccoon City.
00:28:27
Speaker
They're, they're going slow, uh, just to make sure that there's any potential track blockages.
00:28:31
Speaker
They don't just like ram right into them.
00:28:35
Speaker
Um, they avoid discussing Nikolai.
00:28:37
Speaker
They don't want to talk about it right now.
00:28:38
Speaker
Uh, but then suddenly there's a, there's a loud crash in the second car and Jill, uh, runs back there to find, uh,
00:28:47
Speaker
Nemesis, he's back, baby.
00:28:52
Speaker
Jill fires at him, doesn't do anything.
00:28:55
Speaker
Mikhail is like, all right, well, I'm dying.
00:28:59
Speaker
So, you know, get out of here.
00:29:01
Speaker
And he fuck it.
00:29:02
Speaker
And he pulls a grenade and and blows himself up to to basically drop Nemesis back to his knees.
00:29:11
Speaker
Uh, Jill gets back into the, is thrown back into the first car, the trolley out of control, bouncing through the city, crashing into stuff.
00:29:19
Speaker
Carlos is trying to stop it.
00:29:21
Speaker
Uh, Jill activates the emergency brake trolley, uh, crashes.
00:29:26
Speaker
And now they are in front of the clock tower, which is where they wanted to go anyway.
00:29:30
Speaker
So that worked out nicely.
00:29:31
Speaker
That worked out nicely.
00:29:32
Speaker
Meanwhile, Nikolai is walking along the tracks.
00:29:36
Speaker
Um,
00:29:38
Speaker
singing stand by me to himself and uh yes correct boom boom boom he's he's doing he's doing both he does the bass and then hops into the high tenor and back again like yeah yeah yeah i love it
00:30:00
Speaker
Nikolai is he's in a bad mood because he always is.
00:30:05
Speaker
Here's the trolley crash.
00:30:07
Speaker
He's like, yes, they died.
00:30:09
Speaker
Clearly they and he's like has this weird thing to be like, well, they're they're just lucky.
00:30:14
Speaker
They're just lucky they got this far.
00:30:16
Speaker
I'm actually the skilled one.
00:30:18
Speaker
the very skilled one here.
00:30:19
Speaker
And I don't have to rely on, on luck.
00:30:21
Speaker
I have skill.
00:30:22
Speaker
He gets very Elon Musk in that moment.
00:30:25
Speaker
Doesn't he?
00:30:25
Speaker
He's got, this is, this is, this is very much an Elon Musk character.
00:30:29
Speaker
Very much.
00:30:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:31
Speaker
He's like, all right.
00:30:32
Speaker
He looks at his kill list of people that he's got to kill and get their data.
00:30:38
Speaker
And he's like, yes, I'm going to do things.
00:30:42
Speaker
All right.
00:30:42
Speaker
He talks, he gives himself a pep talk.
00:30:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:45
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:45
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:46
Speaker
More, more, more internal monologuing.
00:30:48
Speaker
More internal monologue.
00:30:49
Speaker
Chapter 16, Jill and Carlos get out of the trolley, find themselves at the clock tower.
Discovery in the Clock Tower
00:30:56
Speaker
And Jill, Jill's like, yeah, Mikhail.
00:30:59
Speaker
Good dude.
00:31:00
Speaker
He was, he was a good dude.
00:31:04
Speaker
they are getting into the clock tower are immediately attacked by mutant crows Jill has a flashback to Resident Evil 1 when she was in that hallway with the crows and the paintings and all that stuff
00:31:19
Speaker
When they get inside, they find a bunch of UBCS soldiers and a zombie all dead.
00:31:26
Speaker
And Carlos finds a duffel bag with a bunch of weapons, which makes him think back to Trent being like, hey, if you go to the clock tower, there's going to be a bunch of weapons.
00:31:35
Speaker
And Carlos is like, hey.
00:31:38
Speaker
Did he know?
00:31:39
Speaker
It's weird.
00:31:40
Speaker
Let's wonder if he had something to do with this.
00:31:46
Speaker
Carlos is like, nah, there's got to be a second cache of weapons somewhere.
00:31:50
Speaker
They're like, this is just coincidence, right?
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah, of course.
00:31:53
Speaker
How did he know that was going to play out like this?
00:31:57
Speaker
So they go up to the second floor and they're attacked by a giant spider.
00:32:04
Speaker
Um, Jill kills it.
00:32:06
Speaker
And Carlos is like, damn, that Jill.
00:32:12
Speaker
Uh, damn girl.
00:32:15
Speaker
Uh, they, uh, they're outside on a ledge, uh, until Jill, uh, using her master of unlocking skills, finds a hidden ladder.
00:32:22
Speaker
They go up the ladder.
00:32:23
Speaker
They find the bell mechanism, but wah, wah.
00:32:28
Speaker
A crucial gear is missing.
00:32:30
Speaker
I don't think I said it, but earlier Carlos had mentioned Jill that the bell is the signal to the helicopters that the copters to come and pick them up.
00:32:43
Speaker
So she Jill fight.
00:32:46
Speaker
There's a nearby.
00:32:47
Speaker
There's a there's a postcard with an image of three clock paintings and a verse.
00:32:51
Speaker
Give your soul to the goddess.
00:32:52
Speaker
Put your hands together to pray before her.
00:32:55
Speaker
And that she's like, this is like one of those puzzles that I had to solve in the Spencer Mansion.
00:33:02
Speaker
So, yeah, they have to figure that shit out now.
00:33:06
Speaker
But yeah, that's where that's where we're stopping.
00:33:08
Speaker
That's where we're at.
00:33:10
Speaker
That's where we're at.
00:33:14
Speaker
Phil, what do you think so far?
00:33:17
Speaker
I like it.
00:33:18
Speaker
These are always, you know, reliable, you know, chug-along kind of action novels, that sort of thing.
00:33:26
Speaker
I think the most interesting thing for me is that I didn't play Resident Evil 3 until the remaster came out a little while back.
00:33:35
Speaker
And
00:33:36
Speaker
I really enjoyed it.
00:33:38
Speaker
It didn't, it wasn't part of my childhood the way that Resident Evil 2 was, but still really enjoyed it.
00:33:44
Speaker
And I will say that for the liberties that are taken, of which there are less than I expected, fewer than I expected in this, I would say it still makes me kind of want to load up Resident Evil 3 Remaster and play it again.
00:33:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:59
Speaker
It's it's it.
00:34:01
Speaker
It reminds me a lot of the good parts of that game, the stuff that I really enjoyed, which honestly, that's why they make half of these novels anyways, to make you think of the game, go buy the game, play the game.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:14
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm enjoying it.
00:34:18
Speaker
Still pretty solid and honestly, a decent enough adaptation of it directly of a game.
00:34:24
Speaker
It's changed, which she always does a good job of that.
00:34:26
Speaker
It's changed just enough.
00:34:28
Speaker
It's changed just enough.
00:34:30
Speaker
There's the tweaks and all that stuff.
00:34:31
Speaker
But yeah, without letting it get tedious.
00:34:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:35
Speaker
So I agree.
00:34:37
Speaker
I think it's it's got more, you know, it's got a bunch of action set pieces and all that fun stuff.
00:34:44
Speaker
And it's it's it's an enjoyable read.
00:34:50
Speaker
I'll put it there.
00:34:50
Speaker
It's enjoyable.
00:34:51
Speaker
It's fun.
00:34:53
Speaker
Resident Evil three.
00:34:56
Speaker
I really liked.
00:34:57
Speaker
So I really love the original game, the remake.
00:35:00
Speaker
I like, but the
00:35:03
Speaker
am disappointed by because it actually there's like some stuff cut from it from the original game in the remake.
00:35:11
Speaker
Like this clock tower stuff is not even in the remake.
00:35:15
Speaker
You know, they I don't even think they I'm not even sure they I'm not sure they even do these puzzles.
00:35:21
Speaker
I think I feel like Jill just gets hit by like a nemesis tentacle or something like that.
00:35:27
Speaker
And in fact, I think there was, I think it was in there.
00:35:31
Speaker
It might have, it might not have been as thoroughly.
00:35:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:34
Speaker
It might've been shorter or something like that.
00:35:37
Speaker
I'd have to replay it.
00:35:38
Speaker
Maybe I will.
00:35:38
Speaker
There you go.
00:35:40
Speaker
There you go.
00:35:41
Speaker
That's how they get you.
00:35:42
Speaker
That's how they get you.
00:35:48
Speaker
Do you ever you've seen the video, the the we shop music video by what's the name?
00:35:56
Speaker
Name of the band Nirvana, the band where they're where they're making up lyrics to the we shop music.
00:36:08
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:36:09
Speaker
I got to look that up.
00:36:11
Speaker
You got to look that up because that at the end, that's that's from that video.
00:36:17
Speaker
Oh, that's and it's always in my head.
00:36:22
Speaker
Anyway, yeah, go go look that up.
00:36:26
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But before you do that, Phil.
00:36:28
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Yeah.
00:36:28
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What's up?
00:36:29
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Before you before you do that, I have a question for you.
00:36:33
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Oh, oh, good.
00:36:33
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I love when you have questions for me.
00:36:36
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What are you playing?
00:36:39
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Oh, well, first and foremost, I finished Claire Obscure.
00:36:45
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I'm not even going to get into it because there is literally nothing I can say about that game that has not been, you know, talked about and recycled and rehashed 100,000 times with good reason.
00:36:59
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I will say, you know, this isn't me criticizing.
00:37:01
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It's a great game.
00:37:02
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I laughed.
00:37:02
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I cried, had a lot of fun.
00:37:05
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Great game.
00:37:07
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It's if for some reason you still haven't played it, you really should.
00:37:11
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It's it's just a lovely, lovely game.
00:37:14
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So I finished that.
00:37:16
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From there, I started playing Blueprints and I enjoyed it.
00:37:24
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I really did.
00:37:25
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I told you this before because it cracks me up, but I was really enjoying Blueprints.
00:37:31
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It's an interesting game.
00:37:32
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It wasn't like it didn't snag me on a level that I expected it to.
00:37:38
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But what a creative and unique game.
00:37:41
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Very, very different.
00:37:43
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And I really like that.
00:37:44
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I love the style of it.
00:37:47
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I like the atmosphere.
00:37:48
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I just I like what they've done.
00:37:49
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What a very cool, interesting game.
00:37:52
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I got a few hours into it and I am not sure I'm ever going to come back to it ever again because I started playing Promise Mascot Agency.
00:38:00
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Yes.
00:38:01
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Which is amazing.
00:38:05
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I'm almost done with it.
00:38:07
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I fucking love it.
00:38:10
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I love how unhinged the world is.
00:38:13
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For those of you who missed when Kevin played Promise Mascot Agency or just don't know what the hell I'm talking about, Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you play a disgraced Yakuza enforcer who is forced to go to this island that is haunted, question
00:38:30
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Mark.
00:38:32
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And it's and in this world, mascots like, you know, you'd see in a baseball game or something like that, dressed up in a weird outfit to
Insight into Promise Mascot Agency Game
00:38:41
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sell something.
00:38:41
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Mascots are real people.
00:38:43
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It's like it's like who's afraid of who's afraid of it's who framed Roger Rabbit.
00:38:48
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It's also like who's afraid of general.
00:38:52
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But it's and it's and so it's unhinged.
00:38:55
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And your your best friend slash sidekick is a mascot named Pinky, who is a severed.
00:39:02
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They say, I assume Pinky, but that's a thumb, right?
00:39:06
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Like she looks like a thumb.
00:39:08
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But it's a reference to the yakuza when they fail and chopping off.
00:39:13
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Yeah, yeah.
00:39:14
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And also she's a thumb because her dad is also a finger, I believe.
00:39:22
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Okay.
00:39:23
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Yeah, he's definitely, he's another one of them.
00:39:25
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Yeah.
00:39:25
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And with a great wicked fucking.
00:39:27
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Yeah, yeah.
00:39:28
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With a wicked fucking pompadour.
00:39:31
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Yeah.
00:39:32
Speaker
It's so weird.
00:39:33
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It's so funny.
00:39:36
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You basically what you do is there is a mascot agency and you drive all over this little island in your like the only thing I can think to call it is like a communist pickup truck, like going all over this island, trying to recruit new mascots, trying to upgrade.
00:39:56
Speaker
Did you call it a communist pickup truck?
00:39:58
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Yeah.
00:39:59
Speaker
It makes me think of like an Eastern block.
00:40:02
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Okay.
00:40:02
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Work.
00:40:03
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Okay.
00:40:03
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You know what I mean?
00:40:06
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It's great.
00:40:06
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I love it.
00:40:08
Speaker
And it is honestly, it's like a psychotic low grade grand theft auto.
00:40:15
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Yeah.
00:40:16
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Where you can't leave your car.
00:40:18
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Right.
00:40:18
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It's because it's a big open world.
00:40:21
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There are a billion and a half things to do.
00:40:25
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There is like a constant collect-a-thon aspect to it.
00:40:28
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And the moment you think that you have made some progress on some of your collect-a-thons, suddenly another one comes in and it sounds annoying and it's not.
00:40:38
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It's super fun.
00:40:39
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It's satisfying.
00:40:40
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It's so satisfying because you do.
00:40:43
Speaker
Isn't the pickup truck a Hilux?
00:40:45
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a Toyota Hilux.
00:40:47
Speaker
Is that what it is?
00:40:48
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Like, look up 1990 Toyota Hilux, which is a car that Robert Evans has referenced as a truck used a lot in, like, in surgeons.
00:41:00
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Oh, no, no, no.
00:41:02
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I mean, yes, I know exactly.
00:41:04
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That is absolutely what Robert Evans talked about.
00:41:07
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But no, this is not one of those.
00:41:09
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Although, maybe this is what I want.
00:41:11
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Maybe I want a Hilux.
00:41:15
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Last made in 1996.
00:41:17
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For homesteading.
00:41:19
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Yeah, for homesteading.
00:41:21
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Yeah, yeah.
00:41:21
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Yeah.
00:41:23
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Yeah, and it's just, unlike games like Grand Theft Auto that have a billion and a half things going on,
00:41:30
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You actually feel like you can accomplish a lot of them.
00:41:33
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They ease up on you and actually let you win.
00:41:38
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It is not a game that's meant to be played for 500 hours.
00:41:41
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You can write.
00:41:43
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I'm just over like 22 hours, I want to say, and I'm about wrapped up with it.
00:41:47
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And I have been accomplishing as much of it.
00:41:49
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I think it would take 40 hours to get everything done.
00:41:54
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Maybe not even that much.
00:41:56
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But it gives you the fucking beautiful, you know, brain chemicals.
00:42:01
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It lets you succeed.
00:42:04
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And while you're doing it, you're making money and sending money back home to your Yakuza boss, who is who is, you know, under a lot of strain and you're helping Pinky become mayor of the town.
00:42:18
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And and.
00:42:20
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Debating the current mayor.
00:42:22
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You have to show up to debates, but the only way to win the debates is if you have gone around the area and learned as much as like, so you'll be driving around a specific area and Pinky will like stop you to talk about like the history of the area.
00:42:38
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And so you need that to have happened in order to win the debates.
00:42:43
Speaker
It's
00:42:45
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It's amazing.
00:42:47
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My impression, my mental image of when I think of this game,
00:42:56
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I think of.
00:42:57
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All right, I'm going to set the scene for you.
00:42:59
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It's it's a Japanese shrine at night, surrounded by bamboo.
00:43:05
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You can hear the cricket crickets chirping.
00:43:08
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There's a lovely I don't know what they call those, but that lovely like arch that you see a Tori, a Tori.
00:43:14
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Thank you there.
00:43:16
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Everything is still and a little disheveled and.
00:43:20
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Ever so slowly, you start to hear in the distance two very distinct voices arguing amongst themselves and the overworked engine of some kind of mini truck.
00:43:34
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Suddenly, before you know it, this truck has come crashing into a destructible Tori, smashing into it a severed thumb and a Japanese man with a dust sweeper like
00:43:49
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crashes out of it, arguing about which is port, which is starboard.
00:43:53
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And finally, dust themselves off and begrudgingly, half heartedly clean up the shrine, make thanks to the ancestors, get back in the truck and move on.
00:44:03
Speaker
That's that's the game.
00:44:07
Speaker
That's the game in a nutshell.
00:44:09
Speaker
And I love it so fucking much.
00:44:13
Speaker
I feel like if you were given the opportunity to write the novelization for Promise Mascot Agency, you would, oh, that would be.
00:44:23
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Do you know what the main problem, that's a pretty big hurdle, is to write this properly.
00:44:29
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And I would love to get the opportunity.
00:44:32
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But,
00:44:33
Speaker
To do this properly, you need to, this is the most Japanese game I have ever played.
00:44:40
Speaker
It is, and that is saying something.
00:44:43
Speaker
This is the most Japanese, like everything is some kind of reference to the food, the religion, the superstitions, the TV.
00:44:52
Speaker
It's all so- The politics, the politics of the time.
00:44:56
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:44:57
Speaker
It's so it's basically because Claire Obscure is actually the most French game I've ever played in my entire fucking life.
00:45:04
Speaker
It's all on Wii and goddamn baguettes.
00:45:08
Speaker
I actually never saw a baguette, but there are mines.
00:45:11
Speaker
You never got the baguette costume?
00:45:13
Speaker
There you go.
00:45:14
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See, that's what I'm saying.
00:45:15
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No, I didn't.
00:45:16
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I'm not even joking.
00:45:17
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There's a costume where they have replaced their weapons with baguettes.
00:45:21
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See, I know.
00:45:22
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I believe you.
00:45:22
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I believe you because it's the Frenchest game I've ever played.
00:45:27
Speaker
And this is the Japanese form of that.
00:45:30
Speaker
And that's the problem.
00:45:31
Speaker
To get it right, I would have to steep myself in Japanese culture for like three or four years minimum.
Cultural Influences in Gaming
00:45:40
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It's super fun.
00:45:41
Speaker
It's completely unhinged.
00:45:44
Speaker
Who's your favorite mascot?
00:45:47
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I mean, aside from Pinky, but like- Yeah, no, no, no.
00:45:50
Speaker
Tofu.
00:45:50
Speaker
Mascots that you send out, Tofu?
00:45:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:52
Speaker
Tofu.
00:45:53
Speaker
I have grown to, I've gotten all of them.
00:45:55
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Well, all but one.
00:45:56
Speaker
I'm still waiting to get one more.
00:45:58
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:59
Speaker
And I've loved most of them.
00:46:00
Speaker
Most of them have something I really, like the really spooky one that has the- Yeah.
00:46:06
Speaker
a horrible human face on like, oh God, God, that's weird.
00:46:12
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And then there's, I think it's Business Diane, the businessman cat.
00:46:19
Speaker
The businessman cat.
00:46:21
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I love him, but I think my favorite, I'm going with the one that I brought to the dance first, Tofu, who is a
00:46:31
Speaker
a walking, talking, ever crying piece of tofu.
00:46:35
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No matter what, if he's happy, if he's sad, if he's in a bad mood, he's constantly got tears pouring down his face.
00:46:41
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He can't, he literally cannot stop crying.
00:46:44
Speaker
I think, so yeah, what about you?
00:46:46
Speaker
Which one was your favorite?
00:46:47
Speaker
Oh God, I think tofu was up there,
00:46:53
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Yeah, I would have to probably tofu as well.
00:46:57
Speaker
I also like the overly sexualized building blocks, whatever they are.
00:47:01
Speaker
Oh, the overly sexualized like Tetris block people were like, I was like, this is weird, but I'm here for it.
00:47:09
Speaker
I'm here for literally all of the weirdness.
00:47:12
Speaker
All of it.
00:47:12
Speaker
Oh, and there's the, I just got them.
00:47:14
Speaker
There is the piece of the fish who has been opened up.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yes, he's the eel who has- Yes, eel, yes.
00:47:23
Speaker
Who has been sliced open and his ribs are exposed.
00:47:27
Speaker
Oh, you know what?
00:47:28
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And his heart is popped out, yeah.
00:47:29
Speaker
For cuteness, the Neko roll.
00:47:33
Speaker
The Neko roll's very cute.
00:47:34
Speaker
Who's the cute, I think Kofan was who is like the green, just like green girl.
00:47:42
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Yeah, the two, the two, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:43
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She's one of the first ones that you get.
00:47:45
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Yes.
00:47:46
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She's kind of she's kind of goth.
00:47:48
Speaker
And Trororo.
00:47:51
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Trororo is that one's uncomfortable.
00:47:54
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Trororo is the cat who is dripping with something with yam.
00:48:00
Speaker
Yeah, that's what they that's what they say it is.
00:48:02
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They say and he's best used at like adult bookstore openings.
00:48:08
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:10
Speaker
Yeah, it tastes like, oh, this this is just gam.
00:48:13
Speaker
You got a problem with yams.
00:48:15
Speaker
It's like, uh, huh?
00:48:17
Speaker
It is.
00:48:17
Speaker
It is.
00:48:18
Speaker
And it's that kind of game.
00:48:19
Speaker
It is.
00:48:20
Speaker
It's not even double entendre.
00:48:22
Speaker
It's like just a sneeze away from straight up.
00:48:25
Speaker
It's just like, I know.
00:48:27
Speaker
I know writers use subtext and they're all cowards.
00:48:29
Speaker
That's what this is.
00:48:30
Speaker
That's exactly what this is.
00:48:32
Speaker
And I love that there's still plenty of subtext in the game.
00:48:35
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Don't get me wrong.
00:48:35
Speaker
It's just what these mascots.
00:48:37
Speaker
It's more on the nose.
00:48:38
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A lot of the time there's still plenty of subtext, but not as much as you would have expected based on the story.
00:48:45
Speaker
But
00:48:46
Speaker
This is absolutely one of the best games I've played all year.
00:48:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:50
Speaker
So I'm absolutely in love with it.
00:48:54
Speaker
What is the name of the group that did this?
00:48:56
Speaker
You played a couple of their games.
00:48:58
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Yeah.
00:48:59
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Their first game was Paradise Killer.
00:49:01
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Paradise Killer.
00:49:02
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That's it.
00:49:03
Speaker
That's it.
00:49:03
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker
Kaizen Gameworks.
00:49:07
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Yeah.
00:49:07
Speaker
Kaizen Gameworks.
00:49:10
Speaker
Explore a curse in Japanese town.
00:49:11
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Yeah.
00:49:12
Speaker
The only two games, I believe, so far.
00:49:14
Speaker
And it's it's Paradise Killer.
00:49:15
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I thought they made a sequel to Paradise Killer.
00:49:17
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No, I don't think so.
00:49:19
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No.
00:49:20
Speaker
This is this it's great.
00:49:22
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Oh, and they do have references to paradise.
00:49:24
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There's a lot of there's plenty of references to paradise killer that you can you can find in the game.
00:49:31
Speaker
This is this is a great game.
00:49:33
Speaker
It's it's like, what, 30 bucks, if that.
00:49:38
Speaker
It is it's 25 and currently the summer steam sales going on and it's 20 bucks.
00:49:44
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This is worth 20 bucks.
00:49:46
Speaker
This is worth 40.
00:49:48
Speaker
There's a not only is it just as unhinged and hilarious as me and Kevin have been saying, it's also like just bang for your buck shit.
00:49:58
Speaker
Yes.
00:49:58
Speaker
There's so much to do.
00:49:59
Speaker
It's super fun.
00:50:01
Speaker
I I cannot recommend it enough.
00:50:02
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So that's that's me.
00:50:05
Speaker
Kevin, what do you plan?
00:50:08
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Oh, okay.
00:50:10
Speaker
So, all right.
00:50:12
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Trying to think of what I've played since we last spoke, because it's like a couple weeks in between.
00:50:17
Speaker
It's been a minute.
00:50:18
Speaker
Yeah, we had a minute.
00:50:19
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It's been a little minute.
00:50:19
Speaker
So, I played a lot of...
00:50:24
Speaker
I ended up playing a lot of vampire survivors while I was on vacation.
00:50:29
Speaker
Oh, that makes sense.
00:50:31
Speaker
With my Steam Deck.
00:50:34
Speaker
I'm back on trying to unlock all the achievements of which there's a lot.
00:50:40
Speaker
There are a lot.
00:50:41
Speaker
I have to get through.
00:50:42
Speaker
Every DLC adds more achievements.
00:50:44
Speaker
Just keep adding them.
00:50:46
Speaker
They just keep adding them.
00:50:47
Speaker
But I've, I think I've gotten all of the, I have all the Contra characters unlocked now.
00:50:52
Speaker
And most of the Castlevania characters, I need to go back and the, like the Among Us characters I haven't, I haven't touched yet really.
00:51:03
Speaker
And all that stuff.
00:51:05
Speaker
But yeah, I'm,
00:51:06
Speaker
It's like picking it up again.
00:51:07
Speaker
I was like, oh, yeah, this is why this game was one of my games of the year.
00:51:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:14
Speaker
When it when it came out, it's just a just a joy to play and all the new weapons.
00:51:18
Speaker
And there's like a there's literally a there's like a contra.
00:51:24
Speaker
One of the contra levels is literally like just a side scrolling.
00:51:30
Speaker
like it's like the Battletoads, you know, that level in Battletoads where it's like going really fast.
00:51:37
Speaker
It was, you know, the impossibly hard level.
00:51:40
Speaker
It's like that, but with the Contra in Contra and, you know, not as hard.
00:51:47
Speaker
Thank God.
00:51:48
Speaker
Thank God.
00:51:49
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, a lot of, a lot of vampire survivors.
00:51:52
Speaker
I need to get back around to the darkest files, which is really cool.
00:51:56
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I think I told you about the darkest files last time.
00:51:58
Speaker
I played the, uh, the demo for the darkest files.
00:52:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:02
Speaker
A little while back.
00:52:03
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That is a cool fucking game.
00:52:05
Speaker
That is a cool game.
00:52:07
Speaker
I beat the first there.
00:52:09
Speaker
There's only two cases in the game.
00:52:11
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I beat the first case.
00:52:13
Speaker
So now I well, no, I didn't beat the first case.
00:52:15
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I got through the first case, but oh, I got it wrong.
00:52:19
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I got things.
00:52:20
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Oh, shit.
00:52:21
Speaker
Trial.
00:52:22
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I thought I knew my shit.
00:52:26
Speaker
And it's like, oh yeah, that game, that's the thing.
00:52:29
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I only played the demo, but I could immediately tell, I was like, oh, this is this.
00:52:32
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They are not fucking around.
00:52:34
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This is a tough one.
00:52:34
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Yeah.
00:52:38
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So I need to get back around to Darkest Files.
00:52:42
Speaker
While I was on my... I picked up a few games for the Steam sale.
00:52:48
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Noita, which is a roguelike.
00:52:54
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And Stone of Madness, which is the Game Kitchens game that they released this year.
00:53:00
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Which I can tell...
00:53:02
Speaker
I could tell that they made it because it's a much different game than Blasphemance, right?
00:53:10
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One or two.
00:53:11
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And I was like, this is really off the beaten trail for them.
00:53:16
Speaker
And why did they make this game?
00:53:18
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And then, you know, a few months later, you see the release of the announcement that they're making the new a new side scrolling Ninja Gaiden game.
00:53:28
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Yes.
00:53:29
Speaker
And I was like, oh, OK, I think they knew that they had the Ninja Gaiden game in the chamber that they were getting paid to work on.
00:53:37
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So they're like, we're making this weird stealth stealth Catholic horror game.
00:53:45
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More Catholic horror.
00:53:46
Speaker
Also,
00:53:48
Speaker
And Blasphemous and that probably some of the most Spanish games I've ever played.
00:53:53
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Yeah, some of the most Spanish games.
00:53:55
Speaker
Like, really, it's interesting when a game studio does something that is very unique to their cultural heritage.
00:54:09
Speaker
uh yeah like blasphemous is uh fantastic i can't i'm looking forward to to playing stone of madness because i remember you were you got pretty far you did a lot of the demo stuff with it it was it's a
Closing and Social Media Reminders
00:54:22
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lot of fun it's a very clever uh uh puzzle stealth game i i really enjoyed it i i i think i'm gonna have to get on that one too because that was it was yeah you're right it's completely different from blasphemous
00:54:35
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uh in so many ways uh but damn it's a good game it just it shows you how flexible this team is right uh which is pretty impressive so yeah yeah good stuff yeah uh see vz has the game but hasn't played it yet so these ad they hate do it um yeah um so yeah that's what I have I'm just double checking to make sure there's anything
00:55:01
Speaker
Oh, I, uh, uh, Lex Imperialis, uh, is out for Rogue Trader.
00:55:06
Speaker
So all you, all you Rogue Trader people, uh, go ahead and get that.
00:55:11
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I'm gonna have to sit down and actually finish this game.
00:55:14
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I started a, I started a fresh character with, uh, with the Arbiter, uh, backgrounds just because.
00:55:22
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Oh, nice.
00:55:23
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Nice.
00:55:24
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Yeah.
00:55:25
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Uh, why not?
00:55:26
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You can.
00:55:26
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Why not?
00:55:27
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You can hold a shotgun, a two handed shotgun in a single hand as an arbiter.
00:55:32
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Nobody else can do that.
00:55:35
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Sick.
00:55:35
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All right.
00:55:36
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Yeah.
00:55:36
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They introduced the same character to Darktide as well.
00:55:40
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Oh, really?
00:55:40
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Yeah.
00:55:41
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Yeah.
00:55:43
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That's, you know, that's synergy right there.
00:55:46
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It's true.
00:55:47
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I've been, I've been playing a shit ton of, well not playing, I've been painting so much lately.
00:55:53
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I've been getting back on my bullshit with painting Warhammer stuff and
00:56:00
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yeah, there's something in me that's itching for this.
00:56:02
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So I think, I think after I finished mascot, this might be the next thing.
00:56:06
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Yeah, totally.
00:56:08
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Um, that'll do it for tonight's episode.
00:56:10
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00:56:41
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00:56:42
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00:56:42
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00:56:44
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00:56:45
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Yeah.
00:56:46
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So, Phil, I was wondering, okay, it's a bit of a sensitive question.
00:56:57
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But they always are.
00:57:00
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I've been hiding a nemesis in my attic.
00:57:08
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He's not hunting anybody, but he's just there.
00:57:14
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And, you know, he's got the tentacles and it's kind of fun.
00:57:19
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Sure.
00:57:20
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So what would you say?
00:57:23
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What do you say my next steps should be with this?
00:57:27
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All right.
00:57:28
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First thing you need to do is you need to, like, in a safe way, approach the nemesis.
00:57:34
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Don't put yourself in danger.
00:57:36
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And you're going to want to ask it if it has a peanut allergy.
00:57:41
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And after that,