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Warhammer 40k Fire Warrior: Part 3
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In this episode we wrap up Simon Spurrier's adaptation of Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior! It's pretty good! Much better than the game from what we understand! So, you know. That's pretty cool! For us at least. It's like an... inverted Dead Space.
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Introduction to Warhammer 40K Fire Warrior
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All that bullshit was made up.
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Of course it was.
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Yeah.
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Of course it was.
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You know what isn't made up?
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What's that?
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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.
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And on today's show, we are finishing Warhammer 40K Fire Warrior.
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Let's do it.
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It's written by Simon Spurrier.
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It's starring the Tau.
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The Tau.
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The Tau.
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We get some mecha action in this chunk of the book.
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We get multiple division mech stuff.
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We got a little human mech.
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We got some Tau mech.
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We have a fucking Titan.
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Yeah, we got a Titan.
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It's pretty cool.
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No, I think they're... Well, let's just get into it.
Severus's Plan and Chaos Influence
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Let's put the body in the marsh.
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Let's put the body in the marsh.
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There's a lot of bodies.
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So many bodies.
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There's so many bodies and so many bodies yet to come.
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So let's just go ahead and put this body in the marsh.
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Brace yourself.
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Let's do that big fucking dog, man.
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Grab your grass seed.
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We're going to need to cover up all these bodies in this marsh.
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All right.
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So we're starting in chapter six.
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We've got Governor Severus, who is just James Bond villaining.
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all over Admiral Constantine and, uh, and, and own look cash, like just his, his prisoners.
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And he is just telling them all about his backstory, all about his master plan.
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Uh, basically he has been, uh, you know, listening to these whispers of this demon in his ear, promising him power and all that shit.
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So, uh, Damon hood, Damon hood.
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Yeah.
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That classic, that classic English a demon, the demons, uh,
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And they've been basically there's this shrine of chaos, this chaos, undiluted chaos, undivided chaos, all four gods working together to take to do a full dark crusade.
Chaos Gods and Warhammer Themes
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And they end up on this planet and they try to summon.
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A demon.
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A demon of... Who is it?
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It's Zneech.
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Zneech demon, but still serving all four.
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Tarkax, the Defiler.
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Yes.
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Who is a Zneech demon, but he's pro all the other gods.
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Super in... Very progressive demon.
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Super into all the gods, you know?
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This is the demon with the coexist bumper sticker on its Miata.
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It's the coexist demon!
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LAUGHTER
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We can all get along.
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We all want the downfall of the Imperium of Man, don't we guys?
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Come on.
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Listen, the change god?
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Love him.
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The blood god?
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Love him.
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Love him.
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I even like that stinky death god.
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And the weird one who keeps touching his nipples.
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Yes, how was it?
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Slanish?
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Slanish.
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They're all cool.
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They're all cool.
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Slanish is basically the Cenobite god.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Slanish is the Cenobite god just fully formed.
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We have such pleasures to show you.
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We have such pleasures to
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Yes, it's beautiful.
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By the way, before we go any further, I should tell you, the other night, I've been reading to Emily's belly every evening because... So you read Hellbound Heart?
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No, I wish.
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That would be amazing.
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Oh, I should, because it's my turn to pick the book.
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And she picked, like... I read her one of my favorite books, and she requested one of her favorite books, and we just finished it, and I ought to pick something brutal.
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And Hellbound Heart's only like 100 pages.
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But I was...
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I hadn't read to her belly in a day or so.
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And because we haven't picked a new book yet.
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And she just wanted to go to sleep.
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She was exhausted.
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And she said, are you going to read?
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And I said, yeah, I got to finish up this Warhammer book.
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She went, oh, that's perfect.
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Could you read it out loud just for a little while?
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Because I'm not really going to be listening.
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But I like your voice is kind of soothing.
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And it'll put me to sleep.
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And I went, okay.
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But it's like...
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an alien race in this.
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So I'm going to, there's a lot of words that are going to be, make no sense.
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She goes, it doesn't matter.
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I'm not really paying attention.
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So I'm like reading it.
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It's like, uh, positions, the drone minds of the end.
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And like, it's, it's only the next morning I went and before you know it, she was asleep.
Fate of the Emperor and Battle Analysis
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It worked.
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Uh, and the next morning I went, did that do anything for you?
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And she goes, Oh yeah, the words were meaningless.
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It was perfect.
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Yeah.
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It's like I was speaking in tongues.
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Tarkax the Defiler.
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It rises.
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It was so... And I'm... Idiot me.
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I'm sitting there correcting myself.
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I'm like, no, that's not how you say it.
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It's Avroarix.
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Who cares?
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It doesn't matter.
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She's not listening.
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I like the title Explorator instead of Explorer.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Explorator Carnage stumbled upon.
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Everything has to be Roman-esque.
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Yeah, Roman-esque.
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It's not like, that's not actually, it's not necessarily even the right Latin, but it's just.
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No, but you give it that extra syllable.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You give it the vibes of Latin and you move on.
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Yeah, I mean, that's the Ultramarines.
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They are just Rome as space Marines.
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Yeah, so.
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Pretty intense.
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Dorator the Explorator.
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I need a 40K.
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Can you see the heresy?
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That's right.
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It's everywhere.
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Horace, no heresying.
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Oh, that's gotta be a thing.
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That's a t-shirt right there.
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That's a t-shirt, yeah.
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So basically, there was this great war that happened on the planet between the Eldar and the Chaos Undivided, and the Eldar couldn't beat the demon, but they knew they could seal him away.
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So this demon's been sealed away for 3,000 years, and Severus is going to bring him back in three hours.
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That's what he lets us know.
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Meanwhile, in the naval section up in space, one of the captains hears Ardeus' message about, you got to blow up the Enduring Blade.
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There is nothing to be saved here.
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He gets that message and gets ready to start blowing it the shit up.
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Kai's basically has this weird factory restart in the drop pod.
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He's on his way down and he's just... Somebody took a pin and inserted it into the back of his ear and did a whole factory reset.
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And they even literally referenced the idea of have you tried turning it off and on again.
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Yes.
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They even... He's like the technicians of his home planet would say if you turn it off and turn it back on and it still isn't working, then it's broken, you know, or something like that.
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Right, right, right.
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So he literally has a quick moment of like meditation and just kind of...
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refresh on his way down.
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The Tau watch as the Pergeus ship destroys the Enduring Blade.
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It's, they've all, again, we've got this kind of ceasefire, so everyone watches as the Enduring Blade gets blown to shit.
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Standing there saluting.
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Exactly, yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Yeah, they're humming the national anthem.
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Yeah, the national anthem is playing.
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Yeah.
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Flags do fly, do go up at half mast on top of the ships that they mention, I think.
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Yes, something like that.
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They do fly some sort of morning flag.
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They put up like a half-mast flag or something like that.
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It is – and I mean in this world, the whole thing with technology is so weird because especially if you've read Horace Heresy where it starts 10,000 years ago and the whole point of the emperor is he's a less toxic Sam Harris.
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He just wants to bring like atheistic peace to the world.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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And now it's such a nice turn that now 10,000 years later, the message has been warped completely out of whack and machines and that sort of thing.
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Yeah, and that's the thing.
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Okay, so this is a question I've had.
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Yeah.
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Because I read the first Horace Heresy book.
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The emperor is alive and well.
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All of his kids are alive and well.
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You know, Horace, et cetera.
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I know 50 books later...
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The Emperor, Horus, what's that?
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More.
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More.
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It's like 75 or 100.
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The Emperor dies, right?
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Dies.
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And so does Horus.
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And so does Horus.
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And so I've done like little digging and like, okay, so the golden throne is basically he's on this throne.
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He's mostly just...
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a skeleton flesh man with a little bit of flesh hanging off of him with a lot of tubes and pipes, just like running into him to keep him alive.
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Yeah.
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He's, he's, he's a vegetable for all intents and purposes.
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He has no, he's not speaking at all.
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No, no,
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And so he's alive in the sense that he is on life support.
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Yes.
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And he is a greater being that requires some sort of sacrifice to keep alive.
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They sacrifice a thousand psychers to him a day.
Kais's Internal Struggles and Titan Myth
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Yeah.
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To keep him alive.
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And it's like middle ground of alive and dead.
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Yeah.
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Because I know he's like he's been alive since the beginning of humanity.
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Like that's kind of his thing.
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All right.
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So it's now 40K and there's a religion based around him.
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Is it a possibility that there's like he is locked in there and just screaming at the fact that it is a religion around him now?
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Oh, sure.
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Yeah, there's definitely – yeah, yeah.
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You can't know.
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By the way –
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You can't know.
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By the way, being locked in is probably one of my greatest fears in my life.
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Oh, absolutely.
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That's... If you don't know what it means, it means you are 100% conscious and you don't have control over your body.
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And you're just...
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You're locked in.
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You're in your brain.
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Your brain is fully fine.
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But your body isn't responding to it.
00:11:00
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That's hell on earth.
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And that's basically, yeah, I believe that's the idea.
00:11:05
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And yeah, I think there's a good chance of that.
00:11:09
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And I think the most interesting thing that the Horace Heresy does for me is with chaos.
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is that these half of the Space Marine chapters break off.
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And if you're just paying attention to 40K, it all seems like they're just evil with different flavors of evil.
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Like, well, they're obsessed with death, and they're obsessed with fear, and these guys are pirates, and these guys are, you know...
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snakes and spies.
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But the Horus Heresy actually sheds light on each one of them having their own reason for breaking off, like a very specific reason for breaking off with the Emperor.
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And a lot of them are totally valid.
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That's the scariest part about it.
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A lot of them are totally valid.
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And one of them is the Alpha Legion, which, spoilers for anyone who hasn't read Legion, the Alpha Legion believe that...
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there is basically the only way that like peace can thrive on the planet, on the, in the galaxy or something like that is if the emperor is allowed to die.
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Um, so they, so a lot of their, uh, so they're actually pro emperor in a way, but they're like, they're like the people, um, they're like Terry Schiavo's husband demanding to be, to let him off life support.
00:12:29
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Warhammer 40k is a, is a,
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Metaphor for the whole Terry Shivo situation.
00:12:33
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That's exactly it, yeah.
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And so a lot of people, and so one of the war cries of the Alpha Legion is for the Emperor.
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And many, many space marines interpret them as them mocking them.
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But they actually are doing this for the sake of the Emperor because they need to let him die for there to be peace in the universe.
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So they're bad guys, but they're not.
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And they all have different...
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Yeah, that seems like the best.
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So they're a break-off of the Space Marines.
00:13:07
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Yeah, they're one of the heretic chaos marines.
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But they're chaos marines?
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Yes, they don't worship any one god, but they aligned themselves with that side of things.
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And they use chaos to those ends.
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But just like you said with the idea of it being religion in general, 10,000 years later, a lot of shit has changed.
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So the motivations have changed for a lot of people.
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And a lot of people, I'm sure, don't
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Realize that that was the original goal.
00:13:40
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But yeah, it's interesting.
00:13:43
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But yeah, I'm sure that if the Emperor is locked in, if he's conscious in any way that he is just going, oh my fucking God, this sucks.
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That's got to be...
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That's just that's that's got to be very, very frustrating, especially for the guy who's supposed to be like the the the greatest human being who ever lived.
00:14:04
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And right.
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Everything's fucked up because the irony of ironies is that at least what I can and shit changes from what probably changes over the course of the books.
00:14:16
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Is that the idea of worshipping or creating religious sects within the Ultramarines starts within Horus' legion?
00:14:30
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Uh, kind of horses, horses, the Luna wolves, right?
00:14:33
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Like kind of start the Luna wolves.
00:14:36
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Yeah.
00:14:36
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The Luna wolves, uh, sons of Horace.
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Um, they start there.
00:14:40
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They're like the first people to kind of start breaking off.
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They're all breaking off, but they, but they're like the war master.
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Horace is kind of the, the head honcho that they all kind of admire and circle around.
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Um, it's the word bearers, uh, that are, uh,
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almost excommunicated by the emperor and their primarch is almost excommunicated basically because they worship the emperor as a God and the emperor is still alive and going, what the fuck are you doing?
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This is not how it works.
00:15:09
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Right.
00:15:09
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And that betrayal, uh, warps and twists them.
00:15:14
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Yeah.
00:15:15
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Uh, and, and so they're the ones who like really treat it as a, as a religion.
00:15:20
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Uh, and that's the irony is that they, they,
00:15:23
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They set that in motion and they kind of won when you think about it.
00:15:29
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Yeah, I mean, the ultimate heresy was the emperor 100% lost.
00:15:36
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Yeah.
00:15:36
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And his empire was turned into a, from just straight up fascism to religion fascism.
00:15:45
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Yeah, that or fascism.
00:15:46
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Yeah.
00:15:50
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And, you know, he didn't want any extra stuff attached to that fascism.
00:15:56
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No, he just wanted good old-fashioned vanilla atheist fascism.
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Atheist fascism with... It's theocratic terrorism now.
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Yeah.
00:16:09
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So it's a grimdark world.
00:16:10
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It's a grimdark world.
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These are our main characters.
00:16:13
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Yes, these are our main characters.
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All right.
00:16:15
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So let's see.
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Kais wakes up in the drop pod and he kind of has this is a week.
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This is one of many.
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We're going to get a lot of his internal monologues wondering about what's happening to him.
00:16:28
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He's losing himself to the Montau and his belief.
00:16:31
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And he starts wondering if the battle madness basically is a gift for.
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if this is a present for him that he should embrace it or not.
00:16:41
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He's not sure.
00:16:42
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Then he gets contacted by Arteus, who he has teamed up with, the Ultramarine.
00:16:49
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And then he starts seeing the Chaos Space Marines killing and torturing different civilians.
00:16:56
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And it's kind of well done in the sense for as gruesome as this book is, when it comes to the civilians, it kind of lets you fill in the blanks
00:17:05
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Sure.
00:17:05
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And Kais' disgust at it kind of tells you everything you need to know.
00:17:12
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And Arteus tells Kais that basically he's got to have faith in their goal there.
00:17:18
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And Kais... He's got to have faith, faith, faith.
00:17:21
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Yeah, which would be one thing.
00:17:23
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But Kais points out that like... He talks shit about the Emperor and basically...
00:17:30
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Just like George Michael points out that your emperor God is dead and maybe you shouldn't place too much faith in that.
00:17:39
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And he gets the, you know the moment when you're a teenager and you go too far with your dad?
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And your dad, if he's anything like my dad, just gets really quiet and kind of stares you down and you're like, oh, I'm going to die now.
00:17:54
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You just, you, and as soon as you said whatever it was, you knew it.
00:18:00
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You're like, I'd like to put that back in my mouth.
00:18:04
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Yeah, that was that was a step.
00:18:06
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That's basically what he gives him, gives him that look.
00:18:09
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And then and then tells him he basically says he's like, after this is over, we're not done.
00:18:15
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It's like we got we're going to take care of this.
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But after it's done, I'm going to kick your ass.
00:18:18
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You know that, right?
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:20
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I'm going to kill you, Zeno.
00:18:22
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Yeah, and then we end that section with Ardeus starting to instruct Kaiz on his first mission.
00:18:31
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Meanwhile, speaking of mechs, Lucia is not standing behind an observing monitor this time around.
00:18:39
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Lucia and a team of crisis suits are dropping to the planet.
00:18:44
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So we've got your rank-and-file mechs,
00:18:49
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He almost gets himself killed in possibly the funniest way ever because they are literally dropping onto the planet and you're supposed to hit your jetpacks at a certain point to slow your descent and to presumably do the superhero work.
00:19:04
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Pose.
00:19:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:05
Speaker
And, uh, superhero landing.
00:19:07
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Yeah, exactly.
00:19:07
Speaker
And, uh, he is on the calm with somebody who is talking to him about, uh, Kais and basically that they can't find him.
00:19:16
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They don't know where he is.
00:19:19
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Uh, and he's paying so much attention to that, that, uh,
00:19:22
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Basically, one of the other team members has to be like, hey, dude, and he looks down and like the ground is coming up at him at like a thousand miles per hour.
00:19:31
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And he has to hit the handbrake, really, and basically craters into the planet.
00:19:37
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He's okay, but it could have been very, very ugly and frustrating.
00:19:43
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A stupid reason, especially because he's the leader there.
00:19:45
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He's leading this team.
00:19:46
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But if your sergeant almost goes down because he's busy worrying about some dead kid, one's faith gets tested a little bit in that situation.
00:19:56
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Yeah, a little bit.
00:19:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:59
Speaker
So we've got Arteus contemplating the chaos as he hunts them and kills them.
00:20:06
Speaker
And suddenly we get this huge explosion and we get like three or four separate sections within this chapter.
00:20:14
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Oh, yeah.
00:20:15
Speaker
I actually liked this little like Rashomon thing where it was like it was felt by this person.
00:20:21
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Yeah, this explosion is felt by all these different people in all these different places.
00:20:26
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And a lot of them die because of the explosion, you know,
Titan Conflict and Demonic Manipulation
00:20:31
Speaker
all that shit.
00:20:31
Speaker
But it's more opportunities to introduce you to somebody who you didn't know before.
00:20:35
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Who was just about to die.
00:20:36
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The first one, actually, it reminded me of... It reminded me of...
00:20:44
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Return of the Living Dead.
00:20:45
Speaker
Do you remember the ending to Return of the Living Dead?
00:20:49
Speaker
I never saw Return of the Living Dead.
00:20:51
Speaker
Oh, you got to watch Return of the Living Dead.
00:20:52
Speaker
I might have to do that.
00:20:53
Speaker
The ending doesn't really spoil anything for without... It's not important if you don't have context anyway.
00:21:00
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So basically, a couple of the survivors are up on an addict and the zombies are like...
00:21:06
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yelling and screaming for them and clawing at the door and knocking at the door when an explosion happens and it's an atomic bomb.
00:21:13
Speaker
Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:21:15
Speaker
And it's, it wipes it.
00:21:16
Speaker
So it's like this first one reminded me a little bit of that where this woman is like fearing, fearing for her life in her house and the chaos Marines are outside and they're banging on the door and they have the chainsaw ready to go.
00:21:29
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And then it cuts, you know.
00:21:31
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Yeah, that's exactly it.
00:21:33
Speaker
And we've been hearing all of this mad laughing and everything like that.
00:21:39
Speaker
And we find out that it was all a ruse, basically.
00:21:42
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They wanted people to... They were trying to draw...
00:21:49
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the Tau and the Space Marines towards them with pillaging and looting and all that sort of thing.
00:21:54
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And it was a trap set by the Iron Warriors, which are our mech-heavy Chaos Marines.
00:22:02
Speaker
We're going to meet a lot of the chapters and all the gods, frankly, in this book, which I think was an interesting choice.
00:22:11
Speaker
um but we'll i'll get into my thoughts on that later after yeah i was wondering what you were going to think about the fact that this book has everything in it ultimately like it's it's like oh this we're getting all of it and it's like yeah we're getting everything and it's like the entire history of warhammer kind of condensed into one book
00:22:33
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And I wonder about the motivations.
00:22:34
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Well, I'll get into it after we've wrapped it up.
00:22:37
Speaker
But we get a brief moment of the demon Tarthax anticipating his release.
00:22:44
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Basically, we find out that he's been manipulating Severus from the very beginning, constantly looking for somebody corruptible that he could talk into doing this.
00:22:56
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And Severus fell for it.
00:22:59
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Like 25 years ago.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah, this has been going on for decades.
00:23:04
Speaker
So Kais, this is an interesting... I liked this part.
00:23:07
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Kais finds what appears to him to be a temple within a warehouse.
00:23:13
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Which I was like, what the fuck are they talking about at first?
00:23:16
Speaker
I didn't understand this at all.
00:23:18
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He goes into this warehouse and he finds what appears to be a temple.
00:23:21
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It's got spires and all kinds of the embellishments of a temple.
00:23:27
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And...
00:23:29
Speaker
It's such a confusing thing until he sees... Well, it's kind of leg-like over here.
00:23:34
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And those are kind of arm-like.
00:23:36
Speaker
Oh, those are arms.
00:23:37
Speaker
Those are legs.
00:23:38
Speaker
This is a Titan.
00:23:40
Speaker
And I love this because a Titan is basically... It's a kaiju in robot form.
00:23:47
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It's a city-stomping vehicle, basically, a walker.
00:23:53
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And he has been taught...
00:23:56
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since he started as a, as a, as a fire warrior, that they're just myths, that those things don't exist.
00:24:01
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Those things don't exist.
00:24:03
Speaker
They are just, you know, um, they're just, they're, they're just there to scare kids.
00:24:09
Speaker
Right.
00:24:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:10
Speaker
Like, like basically it's like, this is Imperial propaganda.
00:24:13
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They don't actually have these things.
00:24:17
Speaker
And I thought that was a really cool touch because, yeah, for all of the mechs that the Tau have, none of them are as big as the Titans.
00:24:27
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So he is complete.
00:24:29
Speaker
And his mission, as we find out, is basically Arteus sent him to, like, go find this thing and destroy it.
00:24:36
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And destroy it.
00:24:36
Speaker
Whatever it is.
00:24:37
Speaker
Just stop it.
00:24:38
Speaker
Stop it.
00:24:39
Speaker
And he didn't know it was a Titan.
00:24:40
Speaker
He didn't know he was setting it.
00:24:41
Speaker
So, so...
00:24:42
Speaker
He's just sitting there kind of contemplating his own existence, like the size of the Titan.
00:24:51
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Every decision that has led me to this point.
00:24:54
Speaker
And the sheer size of it in his mission kind of gives him an existential meltdown.
00:24:59
Speaker
It goes beyond just like, I can't do this.
00:25:02
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What's my purpose in life?
00:25:04
Speaker
Yeah, so I've been looking up pictures of Titans, and I don't know if they mention the class of the Titan.
00:25:12
Speaker
I don't think they do.
00:25:15
Speaker
There's the Imperator class Titan, which has basically... Its top is basically the...
00:25:28
Speaker
you know, Notre Dame is like sitting on top of it, like an actual church or something.
00:25:34
Speaker
And then underneath, and it's carrying that on its back.
00:25:39
Speaker
It's so wild.
00:25:41
Speaker
It's crazy.
00:25:42
Speaker
And like these things are so huge.
00:25:45
Speaker
They require like a crew of dozens of people to run the damn thing.
00:25:50
Speaker
Right.
00:25:51
Speaker
And they have a machine spirit within them.
00:25:56
Speaker
which is tended to.
00:25:57
Speaker
And that actually... And he's been given a prototype gun to blow this thing up.
00:26:02
Speaker
And so we're left with him going, okay, let's blow this thing up, I guess.
00:26:08
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I'll figure it out.
00:26:09
Speaker
And...
00:26:12
Speaker
Briefly, we get Ardeus wakes up after the explosion and and his backup tells them that they've basically got coordinates for the HQ for the warp portals of chaos where it all seems to be concentrating from.
00:26:27
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And then we cut to and I loved this scene.
00:26:29
Speaker
I thought this was fucking excellent.
00:26:31
Speaker
We cut to a member of the Death Guard.
00:26:33
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There's another Space Marine chapter who they worship Nurgle.
00:26:37
Speaker
They're obsessed with death, disease, rot.
00:26:40
Speaker
Nurgle is just the silliest name.
00:26:42
Speaker
I love Nurgle.
00:26:43
Speaker
Nurgle might be my favorite chaos god because he's actually very funny and kind of, and as far as chaos gods go, kind of a nice guy.
00:26:52
Speaker
He's just, he just grandfather Nurgle.
00:26:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:57
Speaker
Grandfather Nurgle.
00:26:57
Speaker
He just, he, he really does see his diseases and his, and, and bless as a blessing.
00:27:03
Speaker
Like he's like all these cool new, aren't these cool?
00:27:06
Speaker
Like, like, it's like he's a, he's a geek forcing his, uh, his hobbies on you.
00:27:11
Speaker
He's like a, he's, he's like a, he's like a bug guy, you know?
00:27:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:21
Speaker
It's a bark scorpion.
00:27:22
Speaker
It'll kill you in five seconds.
00:27:23
Speaker
It's amazing.
00:27:24
Speaker
Isn't it cool?
00:27:24
Speaker
Isn't that cool?
00:27:25
Speaker
It's not.
00:27:27
Speaker
You guys, anybody, anybody who wants to know what that's like, ask my wife.
00:27:30
Speaker
Uh,
00:27:32
Speaker
Bless her heart.
00:27:33
Speaker
There are so many times that she's looked at me.
00:27:35
Speaker
I realize I've been rambling on.
00:27:36
Speaker
She goes, uh-huh.
00:27:38
Speaker
Okay, baby.
00:27:38
Speaker
All right.
00:27:39
Speaker
Welcome home.
00:27:40
Speaker
Welcome to my apartment on our first date.
00:27:42
Speaker
Here's all my praying mantises.
00:27:44
Speaker
True story.
00:27:46
Speaker
That worked out real good.
00:27:47
Speaker
Hashtag true story.
00:27:48
Speaker
Hashtag true story.
00:27:51
Speaker
So...
00:27:52
Speaker
Oh, there was a real quick, there is a unit for Chaos that was a, I think it's Chaos Beast.
00:28:01
Speaker
And I think it's a nurgling kind of thing.
00:28:03
Speaker
But the whole idea is that it's basically, it's huge, it's the size of a tank.
00:28:08
Speaker
And it's a puppy for all intents and purposes.
00:28:10
Speaker
It's a horrible, horrible puppy.
00:28:13
Speaker
And it sees people and it just wants to play with them.
00:28:15
Speaker
The problem is playing is it will tear you limb from limb and shred you.
00:28:21
Speaker
But the whole – that's very Nurgle to me.
00:28:24
Speaker
It's like I'm just having fun.
00:28:25
Speaker
We're just – Just having fun.
00:28:26
Speaker
Why are we – yeah.
00:28:28
Speaker
Why are you mad?
00:28:29
Speaker
And why aren't you playing back anymore?
00:28:32
Speaker
And so the Death Guard is basically in the pilot seat of this Titan and corrupts it with the power of Nurgle.
00:28:41
Speaker
And the machine spirit in it, it used to be called the Imperio Prince Nebulae Draconis.
00:28:47
Speaker
And that is about as goddamn Imperium as it gets.
00:28:51
Speaker
Right.
00:28:51
Speaker
He corrupts the machine spirit within it, takes it over, and the machine spirit
Corruption of the Titan
00:28:56
Speaker
demands that it be allowed to give itself a new name, which is now Machina Dragonbile, which, yeah, good.
00:29:04
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Good.
00:29:04
Speaker
Good change.
00:29:05
Speaker
Good change.
00:29:06
Speaker
Good change.
00:29:08
Speaker
So we've got these Nurgle Death Guard space marines taking over this thing, and then a shot rings out, and we cut to the next scene.
00:29:21
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We've got Lucia and his team zoning in on the Ethereal's location.
00:29:26
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They're trying to find where it is.
00:29:30
Speaker
When Lucia realizes this is basically all of their first experience with chaos, and he realizes it isn't just a clever name,
00:29:37
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that they are chaotic.
00:29:39
Speaker
And so he realizes they're going to have to widen their search perimeters a little bit.
00:29:44
Speaker
Right, right.
00:29:45
Speaker
And so he sends them out to do that.
00:29:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:48
Speaker
Excuse me.
00:29:50
Speaker
So then we get Kais doing exactly what he said he was going to do, climbing the Titan, Shadow of Colossus style, and basically leaving bombs here, blowing up crew, basically just making his way up this damn thing, which is hilarious.
00:30:09
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And then he makes it into...
00:30:12
Speaker
The command knave, you know, basically the head of the thing.
00:30:17
Speaker
And he's confronted by Karaz the Violator, another one of our space marines, not space marines, our chaos marines, who worships Khorne, the god of blood, death, and insoluble fiber.
00:30:32
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Blood.
00:30:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:35
Speaker
Blood for the blood god, corn for the poop throne.
00:30:38
Speaker
Exactly.
00:30:39
Speaker
That's exactly it.
00:30:42
Speaker
And what starts out as this harrowing moment turns quickly hilarious when Karaz the Violator goes into a blood-lusting berserk fury and...
00:30:54
Speaker
kills everyone on deck but Kai's.
00:30:57
Speaker
Basically kills everybody that is on the Titan with him because he just loses, just completely loses his grip on who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.
00:31:08
Speaker
Yeah, he's like, ah, and he kills everybody.
00:31:10
Speaker
He kills everybody.
00:31:11
Speaker
I love it.
00:31:12
Speaker
Kai is just like,
00:31:13
Speaker
steps out of the shadows like, is it gonna be that easy?
00:31:17
Speaker
And then just like shoots the guy.
00:31:19
Speaker
Yeah, and it works.
00:31:21
Speaker
And he even says that he can see like a look of gratitude on the town's face.
00:31:26
Speaker
Disbelieving gratitude.
00:31:27
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:29
Speaker
Thanks.
00:31:29
Speaker
That was great.
00:31:30
Speaker
So that leads to Kai's finding the Titan pilot, our Chaos Marine who's taken over.
00:31:38
Speaker
And he just kind of leaves a bomb in his lap and gets the hell out of Dodge.
00:31:45
Speaker
And that's the end of chapter six.
00:31:49
Speaker
Chapter 7 starts just like Chapter 6 with Severus in the ritual chamber.
00:31:55
Speaker
And we get details about the chants that they've been doing, the rituals they've been doing to pull this whole thing off.
00:32:02
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And I thought it was really interesting because he's had to go through so many servitors to do this.
00:32:08
Speaker
Because the servitors... Yeah.
00:32:10
Speaker
They lose their minds.
00:32:12
Speaker
Yeah, they lose their minds reading the chaos text.
00:32:15
Speaker
And they like...
00:32:17
Speaker
destroy themselves so they don't have to deal with all of it because it's just, it's so, it's unnatural.
00:32:24
Speaker
One of the things they talk about with chaos a lot is that you see shapes that shouldn't exist and colors that shouldn't exist.
00:32:30
Speaker
And it's pretty cool.
00:32:33
Speaker
Real Lovecraft stuff.
00:32:34
Speaker
Very, very Lovecraftian.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:37
Speaker
So there's two things.
00:32:38
Speaker
There's like the servitors, which are basically like the Imperium's version of the Borg.
00:32:43
Speaker
Kind of, yeah.
00:32:45
Speaker
They're like criminals and that kind of thing.
00:32:47
Speaker
Their bodies are used to... They're all mecked up.
00:32:54
Speaker
They got cables and stuff.
00:32:56
Speaker
But they're mindless at the same time.
00:32:58
Speaker
But not mindless enough, apparently.
00:32:59
Speaker
And then there's Servitor.
00:33:02
Speaker
There's the Servo Skulls, right?
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:06
Speaker
which are just floating skulls that are like little, basically PDAs.
00:33:11
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Very much so, yes.
00:33:12
Speaker
That's a good way of looking at it, yeah.
00:33:16
Speaker
Just little helpers.
00:33:17
Speaker
Little helpers, it's there.
00:33:19
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, the servitors, yeah.
00:33:23
Speaker
It's just like...
00:33:25
Speaker
I was like, oh, my God.
00:33:26
Speaker
When one of them, yeah, cut his own fingers off so that he didn't have to write any more of this stuff.
00:33:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:34
Speaker
They're kind of pathetic creatures that exist to serve the Imperium.
00:33:41
Speaker
And even they couldn't hack this shit.
00:33:44
Speaker
So he said, like, the most they would last is, like, a month.
00:33:47
Speaker
That's the best you could hope for.
00:33:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:50
Speaker
So let me see.
00:33:52
Speaker
Oh, we get the... We find out that there are priests there of each of the four chaos gods.
00:34:00
Speaker
We learn the difference between all of them.
00:34:02
Speaker
You get kind of like a...
00:34:04
Speaker
introduction uh to the chaos gods here like each and each of the priests are like uh are like kind of avatar-ish of their god like the the the nurgle priest is like falling apart and decaying while still alive the uh the change priest is always bubbling and
00:34:25
Speaker
Yeah, shifting and ethereal.
00:34:29
Speaker
And the blood priest just looks like a butcher.
00:34:32
Speaker
He's just a butcher.
00:34:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:35
Speaker
He's got like a cleaver and like a leather smock.
00:34:38
Speaker
And the butcher apron.
00:34:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:40
Speaker
And the other one, the... Slanish.
00:34:43
Speaker
Slanish is just, he's cutting his arms and rubbing his nipples and doing all that stuff.
00:34:49
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That's exactly it.
00:34:50
Speaker
He's a centibite, basically.
00:34:52
Speaker
I mean, yeah, that's what they do.
00:34:53
Speaker
They're really that.
00:34:55
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And we also have the Admiral Constantine and the Aeun there, who their energies are being drawn from them as part of the ritual sacrifice.
00:35:06
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In my notes here, in the next section, they start with Ardeus rides his hoopty through the war zone.
00:35:13
Speaker
No!
00:35:15
Speaker
Which he had been on a land speeder and it was just blown to shit.
00:35:21
Speaker
And it basically describes that anytime he passes someone on the battle zone, people follow him with their eyes because the implication is that the thing is so beat to shit that they can't believe it's still worth it.
00:35:34
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Friend and foe alike just watch it go by because they're surprised that it's still functioning.
00:35:39
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Yeah.
00:35:40
Speaker
It's kind of hilarious.
00:35:41
Speaker
And as an ultramarine, which is one of the most dignified of the space, he feels so... He's like, oh my god, this is embarrassing.
00:35:51
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He is driving around in a 97 Kia that has been...
00:35:59
Speaker
You know, each part, each panel is a different color at this point.
00:36:03
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Yep.
00:36:04
Speaker
And it's just been picked and pulled.
00:36:07
Speaker
Patches on the tires.
00:36:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:09
Speaker
It's the Kia of Theseus at this point.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much.
00:36:14
Speaker
Is it still a Kia after all these years?
00:36:16
Speaker
No one knows.
00:36:17
Speaker
No one knows.
00:36:18
Speaker
So he eventually finds Kais and he's about to scold him because he's like, I told you to take care of it, not to wait for me.
00:36:26
Speaker
And we get a moment worthy of a 1997 action film.
00:36:32
Speaker
Cool guys don't look at explosions.
00:36:34
Speaker
And Kais is, according to the 90s action aesthetic, the coolest thing.
00:36:40
Speaker
being alive.
00:36:41
Speaker
Exactly.
00:36:41
Speaker
Because he just goes boop, boop.
00:36:46
Speaker
Boom.
00:36:47
Speaker
And remote detonates at fucking Titan.
00:36:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:52
Speaker
And Ardius is like, oh, that was...
00:36:55
Speaker
That's pretty good.
00:36:57
Speaker
That's pretty sick, actually.
00:36:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:00
Speaker
Great.
00:37:03
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So basically, this book, by the way, at this point, I'm realizing, oh, this book is verging on action buddy comedy.
00:37:12
Speaker
This is like, we're getting into Rush Hour, Die Hard 3.
00:37:19
Speaker
We're getting into that lethal weapon.
00:37:21
Speaker
We're getting into that territory with this.
00:37:23
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Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:25
Speaker
Between RDS and Kai's.
00:37:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:28
Speaker
So, yeah, they, uh, so, uh, we get, we get a moment where the drones come back to Lucia and they're like, Hey, we think we've picked up a signal for both Kai's and for the Aeon.
00:37:38
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Um, meanwhile, Kai's has a, another tiny little, uh, daddy issue fuel fueled crisis on their way.
00:37:48
Speaker
Uh,
00:37:50
Speaker
to wherever they're going.
00:37:52
Speaker
I love this.
00:37:53
Speaker
That, like, basically the thing that's been fueling Kais this entire time is, am I good enough for you now, father?
00:38:01
Speaker
That's literally it.
00:38:02
Speaker
Like, like,
00:38:04
Speaker
This is Daddy Warrior is what this is.
00:38:07
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It's not funny.
00:38:07
Speaker
It's just his dad fucked him up bad, and that's been fueling this whole thing.
00:38:14
Speaker
So he has this little meltdown on the way there.
00:38:17
Speaker
He's looking at the wafer that his dad gave him, the little picture and all that stuff, and he's like, I haven't lived up to my father, like all that shit.
00:38:25
Speaker
And Ardius is not listening or paying attention.
00:38:27
Speaker
He just notices when he cracks the wafer, he's like, what the fuck are you doing?
00:38:33
Speaker
And Kais is like,
00:38:35
Speaker
nothing.
00:38:35
Speaker
And Artax is like, I don't care.
00:38:38
Speaker
Artax looks at him in the eye really harshly and goes, I'm your daddy now, guys.
00:38:45
Speaker
And that's the sentence that launches a thousand ships.
00:38:50
Speaker
That's the sentence that launches a thousand ships.
00:38:53
Speaker
The chaos priests give their lives for the sacrifice, each one of them dying in their own graphic horrifying way.
00:39:02
Speaker
It was so gross.
00:39:06
Speaker
It's really gross.
00:39:08
Speaker
So like the, the Nurgle priests, like just finally decays and falls apart.
00:39:14
Speaker
The Slaanesh priest.
00:39:16
Speaker
What happens?
00:39:17
Speaker
Like what happens to the Slaanesh?
00:39:19
Speaker
I don't quite remember.
00:39:20
Speaker
I remember the butcher corn.
00:39:23
Speaker
The butcher dies like a Diablo boss.
00:39:26
Speaker
Like he explodes.
00:39:27
Speaker
It's a,
00:39:27
Speaker
He explodes into like a column of meat and blood.
00:39:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:33
Speaker
And the change priest keeps changing and bubbling until he kind of like loses form and shape and melts.
00:39:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:43
Speaker
It's a very entertaining section.
00:39:45
Speaker
It's like, this is gross.
00:39:48
Speaker
And you know what?
00:39:49
Speaker
It feels like this.
00:39:50
Speaker
I don't know why I was thinking this feels like it would have been in a 90s point and click game.
00:39:57
Speaker
Why does this feel like that?
00:39:59
Speaker
Because it just feels like scenes from like the Indiana Jones games.
00:40:04
Speaker
Sure.
00:40:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:07
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:40:08
Speaker
Or, or tormentum or something like that.
00:40:10
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:12
Speaker
And we find out that there are 20 minutes left for the ritual to get through.
00:40:19
Speaker
Let's see.
00:40:20
Speaker
Kais and Ardeus enter the cavern, the HQ area, and promptly split up.
00:40:28
Speaker
Kais kills a couple of Chaos Raptors, which are jump pack marines, basically.
00:40:34
Speaker
Let's see.
00:40:35
Speaker
Oh, we get a moment where Tarkax, the demon, out in the Ethereum, still waiting to be fully summoned, finds the soul of an astropath.
00:40:44
Speaker
And astropaths are psychic-sensitive members of the Imperium who, from a young age, are basically trained to help fly ships through the warp.
00:40:57
Speaker
So this is just one of the things that Warhammer took from Dune, right?
00:41:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:04
Speaker
Kind of.
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:06
Speaker
It's because I feel like it was the pilot's guild or whatever.
00:41:09
Speaker
Are the are these like psychics that fly ships or something like that?
00:41:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:14
Speaker
You need their you need their psychic abilities to travel through the warp safely.
00:41:18
Speaker
And even then it's it's difficult, which is which is funny because we get Tarkax.
00:41:28
Speaker
Well, already we've had Severus talk about how, like, the Admiral is being corrupted, but he can't corrupt Kovash.
00:41:40
Speaker
Right.
00:41:41
Speaker
He's incorruptible.
00:41:42
Speaker
Like, there's no use for a race that's incorruptible, right?
00:41:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:47
Speaker
And, like, he's throwing everything he can at the Aeun, and the Aeun's like...
00:41:58
Speaker
Can't do it.
00:42:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:01
Speaker
They got no use for the Tau.
00:42:03
Speaker
Well, at least for most of the Tau.
00:42:05
Speaker
Yeah, at least for most of the Tau.
00:42:06
Speaker
Most of the Tau.
00:42:08
Speaker
Yeah, he finds the soul of an astropath that's in the warp and eats it, basically reducing the astropath to a vegetable.
00:42:19
Speaker
Kais ends up, I have in my notes here, Kais ends up in the swamps of sadness.
00:42:25
Speaker
He...
00:42:27
Speaker
He drops into this like marching area and has a sad boy.
00:42:30
Speaker
He's like, I'm sad and I'm going to die.
00:42:36
Speaker
I'm going to lay down and die here.
00:42:40
Speaker
He literally should have had like a 12 year old boy with a rope around him pulling at him going, fight the sadness, guys.
00:42:46
Speaker
Fight the sadness, guys.
00:42:48
Speaker
Because he's just slowly sinking down.
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:52
Speaker
And he's like, he's starting to.
00:42:53
Speaker
Yeah, by the way.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah, he is our Artex.
00:42:57
Speaker
That's a Warhammer name if I ever heard one.
00:42:59
Speaker
Artex is totally a Warhammer name.
00:43:01
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
00:43:02
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:43:03
Speaker
Poor Artex.
00:43:04
Speaker
Poor Artex.
00:43:05
Speaker
Poor Artax.
00:43:06
Speaker
You know what?
00:43:07
Speaker
The thing a lot of people don't realize, I read the book that the first two never-ending stories were based on.
00:43:13
Speaker
If you put one and two together, that's the book.
00:43:17
Speaker
It's like the full book.
00:43:18
Speaker
Yeah.
Kais's Redemption and Hope
00:43:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:19
Speaker
It doesn't end where it does in the first movie.
00:43:23
Speaker
And in the book, Artax can talk.
00:43:28
Speaker
So it's so much worse because he dies.
00:43:36
Speaker
He sinks.
00:43:37
Speaker
And the whole time he's telling our text, he's telling Atreyu, just leave me.
00:43:41
Speaker
I can't do it.
00:43:42
Speaker
And I'm too sad.
00:43:44
Speaker
And just like telling him, like dictating his death to Atreyu.
00:43:51
Speaker
It's so...
00:43:52
Speaker
It's then it was then that our that our faithful companion realized that this book was originally written in German.
00:43:59
Speaker
And oh, well, you know, the shock was so huge that it knocked a piece of paper off my desk.
00:44:07
Speaker
That is I am not.
00:44:10
Speaker
surprised finding out that the never-ending story was originally written in german by a german author i assume yes who just writing about uh anthropomorphized animals being sad and drowning not just in water but a fucking swamp a swamp a swamp that's that's a body we didn't want to find in the marsh
00:44:32
Speaker
That is a body.
00:44:34
Speaker
You know, we talk a lot about bodies that we're putting in the marsh.
00:44:37
Speaker
We never really wanted to find our tax body.
00:44:40
Speaker
We didn't want our tax in the marsh.
00:44:41
Speaker
In the marsh.
00:44:42
Speaker
No.
00:44:44
Speaker
Let's see.
00:44:45
Speaker
Kais finds Admiral Constantine, who has lost it.
00:44:49
Speaker
He has snapped.
00:44:51
Speaker
He's struggling with a possession, clearly.
00:44:54
Speaker
Tells Kais that he knows how to fight, quote, the darkness.
00:44:58
Speaker
And implies that he explains to him how to do it.
00:45:03
Speaker
And then transforms...
00:45:05
Speaker
Into a demon that Kai's kills by literally pulling its fucking spine out.
00:45:11
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:12
Speaker
Which is pretty dope.
00:45:14
Speaker
He transforms into a warp monster, which the first time I read this in the first Horace Heresy book, we're like a random space marine.
00:45:24
Speaker
It's just like walking along and then transforms into a warp monster.
00:45:29
Speaker
I'm like, what is happening?
00:45:31
Speaker
I don't understand this.
00:45:34
Speaker
Like, where is this coming from?
00:45:37
Speaker
And just...
00:45:39
Speaker
They used to have chaos beasts that you could buy.
00:45:42
Speaker
I think they still have these models, but they were like, it would be like, they were a couple of chaos beasts you could make and everyone had to have them because they were like a couple of bodies, like bases for the bodies.
00:45:52
Speaker
And then just like five sprues of random ass shit, tentacles, eyes, teeth, and you could just build it any goddamn way you wanted.
00:46:01
Speaker
Right.
00:46:02
Speaker
And that's, yeah, it's just this chaotic mess of a thing.
00:46:08
Speaker
So, yeah, he pulls the thing's spine out of its ass.
00:46:13
Speaker
And we get a brief moment where Ardeus seems to fall on his own side of the cavern, seems to fall to a catchment.
00:46:20
Speaker
Seems like he gets shot in the head.
00:46:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:24
Speaker
Finally...
00:46:26
Speaker
The chapter ends with Lucia and his squad finding the HQ and the discarded display wafer that used to belong to Kai's.
00:46:38
Speaker
So they seem to have found where our hero is.
00:46:43
Speaker
And then we get to chapter eight, which is like five pages long.
00:46:49
Speaker
If you've fallen along, these chapters are long as shit.
00:46:52
Speaker
And this chapter is very brief.
00:46:54
Speaker
Very brief.
00:46:55
Speaker
Very brief, but effective.
00:46:57
Speaker
So in the beginning of chapter eight, the demon basically betrays Severus, which big old surprise, big surprise.
00:47:07
Speaker
He gets impatient and Severus describes, it describes that the part of his brain that is him basically getting shoved to the back and the rest of everything being taken over by the demon.
00:47:17
Speaker
And he wants to basically, he there's, he has enough strength to basically finish the ritual on his own, I guess.
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:25
Speaker
And he also reveals that, let's see.
00:47:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:31
Speaker
And so when Kai shows up just in time to see all of this shit going down.
00:47:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:38
Speaker
He wasn't supposed to, like Severus isn't the end goal.
00:47:42
Speaker
Severus was just like the first, the starter body.
00:47:45
Speaker
He needed a body that was like actually good for shit.
00:47:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:50
Speaker
And so he's like.
00:47:51
Speaker
Kind of weak.
00:47:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:52
Speaker
He's kind of weak.
00:47:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:54
Speaker
But when Kais shows up, he reveals that he was hoping that it was going to be the Space Marine, but Kais was kind of his contingency plan.
00:48:03
Speaker
And basically, he's been whispering in both of their ears.
00:48:06
Speaker
This whole time, Kais has been assuming the Montau thing, the bloodlust that's been taking him, is his own...
00:48:13
Speaker
his own problem that he's right up but it has been the demon this entire time giving him powers and that's also why he's suddenly this goddamn superman uh with a talent for murder and everything like that so that's the explanation for why you get a first level character uh suddenly coming out and snapping the tarasque's neck uh just a lot of boons yeah basically yeah just all the boons all the boons
00:48:39
Speaker
And so Kai starts to lose his shit.
00:48:44
Speaker
And then the Aeun, who is kind of like being held in stasis above them, like kind of gives him this weird, it's like a cleric spell of peace, basically.
00:48:54
Speaker
Right.
00:48:54
Speaker
Clears his mind.
00:48:55
Speaker
Clears his mind.
00:48:57
Speaker
And Kai shoots Severus.
00:49:01
Speaker
which... Right through the chest.
00:49:03
Speaker
Right through the chest.
00:49:04
Speaker
And in chapter 9, which happens next, we find out that that might have been the wrong thing to do because the blood of Severus falling into the ritual chamber completes the ritual.
00:49:18
Speaker
So when the ritual completes, the Aeun, who's been held up by the ritual itself and the powers of, drops from a great height... And dies.
00:49:29
Speaker
And dies.
00:49:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:30
Speaker
Just unceremoniously falls to his death.
00:49:34
Speaker
Just falls to his death.
00:49:36
Speaker
And Tarthax is summoned fully.
00:49:43
Speaker
And Kais loses his shit.
00:49:46
Speaker
Because everything he's been doing since chapter one, all of his friends dying.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's been pointless.
00:49:54
Speaker
It's been pointless.
00:49:55
Speaker
So he shoots all of his bullets into Tarthax.
00:49:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:59
Speaker
Which, I mean, what would you do?
00:50:00
Speaker
What would you do?
00:50:01
Speaker
Doesn't do anything.
00:50:02
Speaker
Now, and then we get to, he remembers the advice that Constantine gave him, which is there are four shrines for each of the gods, and he's got to blow them up, basically, and when he breaks them, he'll be able to have a moment to get behind the shield or whatever.
00:50:21
Speaker
It's the most video game part of this book, and Kevin...
00:50:27
Speaker
It's not in the video game.
00:50:29
Speaker
What?
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:33
Speaker
I was shocked.
00:50:34
Speaker
I was like, this is so video game-y.
00:50:36
Speaker
It is the most video game, because there are four little rooms, four little chambers, and...
00:50:44
Speaker
We get a display from each of the different forms of the demon.
00:50:49
Speaker
Like when he goes to, he starts out as like Nurgle.
00:50:53
Speaker
And so he's like, you know, sending, he's filled with these horrible little infections and corruptions that are going after him.
00:50:58
Speaker
Ardeus comes in to help him get them all killed.
00:51:01
Speaker
Maybe that wasn't the first one.
00:51:01
Speaker
It doesn't matter.
00:51:02
Speaker
So he goes and finds that shrine.
00:51:05
Speaker
blows it up and then comes back and can shoot him, blow a few holes in him.
00:51:08
Speaker
And then he turns, uh, into corn, you know, so he's got a huge ax and, you know, fangs and, and that kind of, so he blows that one up.
00:51:17
Speaker
Ardius gets knocked out, uh, after he helps.
00:51:20
Speaker
He, he's basically, uh, you know, he's good to help him.
00:51:24
Speaker
He, he, he, he saves his bacon and then gets knocked out.
00:51:27
Speaker
Um, and, uh, and Kai's, uh,
00:51:32
Speaker
And that's not how the final boss happens.
00:51:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'm clicking through the final boss fight.
00:51:37
Speaker
It's just a sneetch demon.
00:51:39
Speaker
It's just a sneetch demon.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, Lord of Change.
00:51:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:43
Speaker
And it's just you circling around him, shooting him.
00:51:46
Speaker
I was like, okay, I recognize that thing.
00:51:49
Speaker
That thing was a mini boss a bunch of times in Bolt Gun.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yep.
00:51:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:57
Speaker
And they do point out in the book that this demon does serve Znich specifically, even though he is undivided.
00:52:05
Speaker
But yeah, that's it.
00:52:07
Speaker
It's the most video game-ass thing in this book.
00:52:11
Speaker
It makes me think that they...
00:52:15
Speaker
Gave him an outline of what you were doing in the game.
00:52:20
Speaker
Maybe.
00:52:20
Speaker
And then had to make changes to the game based on something.
00:52:26
Speaker
That's the only explanation that makes any sense.
00:52:28
Speaker
Because it's just so strange.
00:52:31
Speaker
Because I was...
00:52:33
Speaker
a little disappointed at this sequence because we've talked about for this being a video game adaptation, at least he hasn't gone down the road of some of the Halo books, early Halo books anyway, that we've read and some of the other ones we've read where it's like literally just a walkthrough of the game, no matter how tedious.
00:52:51
Speaker
And I was like, oh, well, this is just a walk, this is like basically how do I beat the final boss in the game?
00:52:56
Speaker
And I went and found the playthrough that I had been watching slowly and I got to that part
00:53:03
Speaker
That's... It's not what you do.
00:53:05
Speaker
It's not nearly this complicated.
00:53:08
Speaker
It's a pretty straightforward fight, in fact.
00:53:10
Speaker
It's pretty boring.
00:53:10
Speaker
Is the Titan in the game?
00:53:12
Speaker
Yes.
00:53:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:14
Speaker
But you just... I think you just bomb it.
00:53:17
Speaker
Yeah, so at this point...
00:53:20
Speaker
The demon has taken on a corn aspect and Kais is losing his fucking mind and basically just gives in to all of his hatred and his anger and his fury and bellows blood for the blood god.
00:53:37
Speaker
which holy fucking shit, that's weird.
00:53:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:41
Speaker
And just loses it.
00:53:43
Speaker
He sees the demon as his father.
00:53:46
Speaker
And he shoots his father.
00:53:48
Speaker
Yep.
00:53:49
Speaker
He's like, I've never gotten to kill my father in real life.
00:53:52
Speaker
Never got to kill him.
00:53:53
Speaker
But a thousand times in my head.
00:53:54
Speaker
So that's fun.
00:53:56
Speaker
loses an arm, gets the axe chopped right through his arm, and loses the goddamn arm.
00:54:02
Speaker
Yeah, he's just holding his stump trying to keep it in place.
00:54:07
Speaker
It's that Carl Weathers scene in Predator.
00:54:10
Speaker
That's exactly it.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yes, yes.
00:54:13
Speaker
Loses his fucking arm.
00:54:16
Speaker
But still shooting.
00:54:17
Speaker
Still shooting.
00:54:18
Speaker
He gets some distance and he's kind of ready.
00:54:20
Speaker
Just all right, let's just let it happen.
00:54:22
Speaker
And Lucia gets through to him on his comm and they start and they talk and he starts.
00:54:30
Speaker
He says, you know, my dad.
00:54:31
Speaker
Right.
00:54:31
Speaker
And Lucia's like, yeah.
00:54:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:35
Speaker
And he's like, my dad was fucking pretty cool, right?
00:54:37
Speaker
Like, he was perfect.
00:54:38
Speaker
He was like the perfect warrior.
00:54:39
Speaker
He was like, no, your dad was a fucking dumbass.
00:54:41
Speaker
Yeah, your dad was an asshole.
00:54:43
Speaker
He sucked.
00:54:44
Speaker
Like, he knew how to give good speeches and all that shit.
00:54:49
Speaker
But, like, he killed a recruit once for just, like, disobeying his orders.
00:54:53
Speaker
And he was like, yeah, but he died, like, bravely on the battlefield.
00:54:57
Speaker
He was like, no, man, we were fighting Tyranids.
00:54:59
Speaker
A big tyranid dented his armor and we needed to go back and he wanted vengeance for his armor being dented.
00:55:06
Speaker
So he ran into this fight and got slaughtered.
00:55:09
Speaker
Your dad was an idiot.
00:55:11
Speaker
Fuck your dad.
00:55:13
Speaker
And I love this because Lucia is like, also the, the, the, like his only good idea was the great machine.
00:55:24
Speaker
It doesn't actually exist.
00:55:26
Speaker
The path, the one true path doesn't actually exist.
00:55:28
Speaker
None of that fucking actually exists.
00:55:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:31
Speaker
We just try.
00:55:32
Speaker
We're just doing our best.
00:55:34
Speaker
We're just, it's like, it's just try to do your best.
00:55:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:37
Speaker
Snap out of it, dude.
00:55:39
Speaker
And it works and it works.
00:55:40
Speaker
Kais is like, Oh,
00:55:42
Speaker
Oh, I'm not an idiot.
00:55:44
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, I know your, your dad did much worse things.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:49
Speaker
It's like watching those, you go on Tik TOK and you watch these ex evangelicals tell their story and you're like, Oh, I see.
00:55:56
Speaker
That's how it happened.
00:55:58
Speaker
Um, yeah.
00:55:58
Speaker
So he takes, and by the way, this entire time, uh,
00:56:02
Speaker
They've referenced every now and then the fact that a dummy bolt shell is still in his helmet, that he's just left it embedded in his helmet this whole time.
00:56:11
Speaker
He's out of ammo.
00:56:12
Speaker
He's out of everything.
00:56:13
Speaker
So what do you think he does?
00:56:14
Speaker
He takes his helmet off and throws it at the demon.
00:56:19
Speaker
And the heat of the demon sets off the bolt shell that's been embedded in his helmet.
Ardeus's Survival and Planet Destruction
00:56:24
Speaker
And detonates the final shrine.
00:56:26
Speaker
Yep.
00:56:27
Speaker
Just blows him to hell.
00:56:29
Speaker
And as Kais passes out, Lucia and their crisis suit crew comes in and cleans up basically after him.
00:56:40
Speaker
And that's the end of chapter nine.
00:56:44
Speaker
And finally, we get to the epilogue.
00:56:48
Speaker
It starts with Ardeus.
00:56:49
Speaker
Well, it starts with the demon basically returning to the Imperium, basically going back to where all the demons are.
00:56:59
Speaker
And it is kind of a cool thing because it points out that this is just one demon among two.
00:57:04
Speaker
countless demons and he's not even dead.
00:57:07
Speaker
You just got rid of them for now.
00:57:09
Speaker
Uh, so we got a brief paragraph of that.
00:57:12
Speaker
Uh, we get to Ardeus who has survived.
00:57:14
Speaker
He woke up unconscious in the cavern, got teleported out of there.
00:57:18
Speaker
Uh, they watched the towel float till his leave and he goes, yeah, fucking let them go.
00:57:22
Speaker
We'll deal with them later.
00:57:24
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Uh, and they, uh, and he orders an exterminatus on the planet.
00:57:28
Speaker
So they send virus bombs down and just blow it to
00:57:31
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shit.
00:57:33
Speaker
He's like, destroy the planet.
00:57:34
Speaker
And they're like, sir?
00:57:35
Speaker
And he's like, just do it.
00:57:38
Speaker
Just fucking end this.
00:57:39
Speaker
Every inch of it, glass it, please.
00:57:42
Speaker
Glass it.
00:57:44
Speaker
So they just say, fuck this planet and take care of it.
00:57:51
Speaker
And then we cut to Tau, the planet, the home base.
00:57:57
Speaker
And Lucia has gathered a couple of Kai's old friends who he assumed were dead and takes them to basically a sanatorium.
00:58:09
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where they're keeping Kai's and they get to watch him and they're shocked.
00:58:15
Speaker
We don't get details on what they're seeing, but they're very shocked at how changed he is.
00:58:21
Speaker
He's not doing well and he wants them to see... They're like, why are you showing us this?
00:58:26
Speaker
You could have just told us.
00:58:27
Speaker
And he says, well, I want you to see it because he's a hero.
00:58:30
Speaker
He sacrificed.
00:58:31
Speaker
He went too far.
00:58:32
Speaker
He went too deep into all this shit so that other people could survive.
00:58:38
Speaker
And now he's just a shell.
00:58:40
Speaker
And maybe he'll get back to where he was, but maybe not.
00:58:44
Speaker
And the book ends with Kai's in the asylum, basically, strapped to a bed, daydreaming.
00:58:51
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When he closes his eyes, he imagines killing and murdering and war.
00:58:57
Speaker
And he's left there and they've left the display wafer from his father, which ended with pride, which is something that always confused him a little bit because the whole point of everything is that they're supposed to be gears and cogs in the machine, so how can you have pride?
00:59:16
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And so it's kind of cruel.
00:59:18
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Kai sees it as appropriate, but it's kind of this cruel little
Reflection on Warhammer Themes
00:59:22
Speaker
fuck you.
00:59:22
Speaker
It's like, here's another existential meltdown for you on a daily basis.
00:59:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:26
Speaker
And that's the end.
00:59:27
Speaker
That's the end of the book.
00:59:30
Speaker
Our hero is in the funny farm.
00:59:35
Speaker
Yeah, he kills thousands of people probably over the course of one day.
00:59:47
Speaker
This all happens in one day, by the way.
00:59:50
Speaker
This is not like multiple days.
00:59:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:54
Speaker
Arteus has obviously the mental, like this is just like what he was bred for.
01:00:04
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Literally, he has no compunction with anything that happens that day.
01:00:10
Speaker
Except for the fact that he's like, yes, let the Tau live.
01:00:13
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No, do not let this planet exist anymore.
01:00:16
Speaker
That's the extent of Ardeus' learning.
01:00:19
Speaker
He's like, I learned that a Tau can be pretty cool.
01:00:23
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Sometimes, but I'll kill him next time I see him.
01:00:25
Speaker
I'm still going to kill him when I get my first opportunity.
01:00:29
Speaker
But that's, yeah.
01:00:31
Speaker
But this Tau, and that was one of the themes they talked about where
01:00:35
Speaker
You know, you can't be ready for all of this.
01:00:37
Speaker
And no matter how successful he was, he paid the price in a big way.
01:00:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:44
Speaker
So, yeah.
01:00:45
Speaker
So that's Warhammer 40,000, Fire Warrior.
01:00:49
Speaker
Kevin, what'd you think?
01:00:51
Speaker
I... So I liked it.
01:00:53
Speaker
I think the last third...
01:00:58
Speaker
You know, it was weird.
01:00:59
Speaker
I was going to text you this, but I was like, now I'll wait to see how it plays out.
01:01:02
Speaker
It was like, I was like, okay, the last third, there's just like violence and just a lot of violence.
01:01:08
Speaker
And it just, it just wasn't very interesting necessarily.
01:01:13
Speaker
It was just like more explosions.
01:01:15
Speaker
Right.
01:01:16
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:18
Speaker
It was the most video game of, it gets very video game at the end there.
01:01:23
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:23
Speaker
Um,
01:01:25
Speaker
But in terms of like, hey, this all like in terms of war as hell, this all fucking sucks.
01:01:31
Speaker
All power is is corrupting all that thing.
01:01:35
Speaker
Like it was good in that front where, you know, everybody who is seeking power or seeking something like validation through violence or what have you ends up paying a price by the end.
01:01:50
Speaker
You know, like, yeah.
01:01:53
Speaker
Arteus is alive, but his personal fleet got fucked up.
01:02:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:02:04
Speaker
And he's very wounded for an ultramarine.
01:02:07
Speaker
He doesn't even have his armor.
01:02:08
Speaker
I don't even think he has his armor on at the end.
01:02:11
Speaker
He's just standing there.
01:02:14
Speaker
Kai's is institutionalized.
01:02:19
Speaker
He's gone.
01:02:22
Speaker
Severus and all his his crew is dead.
01:02:25
Speaker
And I think Tarkax, who I thought that was interesting.
01:02:29
Speaker
There's a scene where a really brief scene that I that I liked where he gets sent basically.
01:02:40
Speaker
So he was in a prison, not like... Yes, he wasn't back in the warp.
01:02:44
Speaker
He wasn't back in the warp.
01:02:45
Speaker
But as soon as he got released back into the warp, he lost his memories and just became... So the thing in the warp thought of glory.
01:02:56
Speaker
It was surrounded by a million billion of its kind, frothing and fizzing, spawning like fish, running together in the ether, dragging their claws of nothingness against reality with scant hope of ever breaching the distance between the two.
01:03:08
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In this place of madness, a memory was difficult to hold.
01:03:11
Speaker
Thoughts were unfocused, uncontrollable things, impossible to grasp and concentrate upon.
01:03:16
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Nonetheless, struggling against the innumerable tide of its fellows, the Warp Thing raced across the vastness of the Empyrean and remembered, or perhaps dreamed, of the one time that it had been Tarkak's Changer of Ways, devotees of Zinch, Daemon Lord of Chaos.
01:03:34
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Um...
01:03:35
Speaker
So it's like it suffers personality death basically.
01:03:40
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:41
Speaker
At the end because, uh,
01:03:44
Speaker
Basically, it was a warp demon who got into a space marine and then was banished into a prison.
01:03:55
Speaker
So it had a consistent existence for 10,000 years and then once it's banished back into the warp, it's like, oh, well, it's
01:04:06
Speaker
It's no more different than any other thing in the warp.
01:04:10
Speaker
Exactly.
01:04:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:11
Speaker
It's just a piece of it.
01:04:13
Speaker
It's just a piece of it.
01:04:14
Speaker
It is actually a cog in a machine there.
01:04:16
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:17
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:18
Speaker
No, I agree.
01:04:19
Speaker
I think that was a really interesting moment.
01:04:22
Speaker
Yeah, I agree.
01:04:25
Speaker
Some of the changes were interesting.
01:04:26
Speaker
I think as far as a video game adaptation...
01:04:32
Speaker
It's pretty successful.
01:04:33
Speaker
It does a pretty good job of taking things that
01:04:38
Speaker
changing the source material enough to make for an entertaining book.
01:04:44
Speaker
Because Lord knows, he had a lot of work to do.
01:04:48
Speaker
He added a lot of shit to make this into a book.
01:04:53
Speaker
Right.
01:04:55
Speaker
And I think he succeeded in that sense.
01:04:57
Speaker
I think as a Warhammer book, it's a little weak and it's tough because...
01:05:03
Speaker
I mentioned before, I questioned the notion of bringing in all of the chaos beings, like kind of mushing everything in there.
01:05:12
Speaker
And I guess the motivation would be because this might be a lot of people's first introduction to chaos.
01:05:20
Speaker
Right.
01:05:36
Speaker
It's weird.
01:05:37
Speaker
It's kind of trying to have it both ways because it goes into the really complex minutia of stuff that you find in 40K.
01:05:45
Speaker
But then it has these moments where like, and here's all the chaos gods.
01:05:48
Speaker
Let's just throw them in so everyone's represented.
01:05:52
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:52
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:53
Speaker
And it's so weird.
01:05:54
Speaker
You got random ass iron warriors in there that we never see again.
01:05:58
Speaker
You know, we get... It's just... It gets a... I hate to use this term, but it gets a little chaotic to the point where it's just like...
01:06:06
Speaker
It's a hat on a hat.
01:06:07
Speaker
It's a hat on a hat.
01:06:08
Speaker
Yeah.
01:06:10
Speaker
But honestly, but still, but as far as adapting this game, and especially now having watched a playthrough of the game,
01:06:20
Speaker
There is nothing to complain about as far as adapting that game.
01:06:24
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I mean, in terms of gap between quality of game and quality of book, I think this is probably the biggest.
01:06:31
Speaker
Huge.
01:06:32
Speaker
Upward.
01:06:32
Speaker
Like in the upwards.
01:06:33
Speaker
Yes.
01:06:34
Speaker
Yes.
01:06:35
Speaker
Like we've had the inverse.
01:06:37
Speaker
Like Dead Space, for example, is like the inverse of that.
01:06:40
Speaker
But we've never had a book that was so much better than the game.
01:06:43
Speaker
Oh, it took a very mediocre PS2-era shooter and gave it something.
01:06:51
Speaker
Made a book that could be, you know, it's in the Warhammer canon.
01:06:56
Speaker
It is.
01:06:56
Speaker
Oh, yes, absolutely.
01:06:57
Speaker
I think it's not the best Warhammer 40K book I've ever read, but it belongs there.
01:07:06
Speaker
It doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.
01:07:08
Speaker
Right.
01:07:08
Speaker
And it's 400 pages long.
Excitement for Space Marine 2
01:07:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:12
Speaker
And it took four hours to watch the gameplay from beginning to end.
01:07:16
Speaker
Right.
01:07:17
Speaker
So kudos to fucking Spurrier in that sense.
01:07:22
Speaker
For turning that game into this book.
01:07:24
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:24
Speaker
So that's the thing.
01:07:26
Speaker
Anytime I find something, I go, that's a weird choice.
01:07:28
Speaker
I go, it's a weird choice.
01:07:30
Speaker
It's still a fucking amazing adaptation.
01:07:33
Speaker
It's a choice that is probably a little bit better than the game was.
01:07:36
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:38
Speaker
But yeah.
01:07:40
Speaker
By the way, I think I'm really excited for Space Marine 2.
01:07:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah?
01:07:47
Speaker
I think I'm excited at this point.
01:07:48
Speaker
Just like reading this book just whet my appetite for... I mean, it's... Same.
01:07:55
Speaker
It's... I can't not get all excited for this shit based on that.
01:08:00
Speaker
And it looks fucking tight.
01:08:02
Speaker
The game looks great.
01:08:03
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:03
Speaker
So pretty.
01:08:05
Speaker
So pretty.
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:06
Speaker
Late 2023.
01:08:07
Speaker
Give me a date, goddammit.
01:08:08
Speaker
I know, right?
01:08:08
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:13
Speaker
They've been releasing trailers and gameplay footage without an official date.
01:08:20
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:21
Speaker
I want it to be this year, but at the same time, I'm not holding my breath at this point.
01:08:25
Speaker
Yeah, and it's fine if it comes out next year.
01:08:26
Speaker
This year has said plenty of stuff.
01:08:29
Speaker
There's a CRPG set in 40K that comes out the first week of December.
01:08:35
Speaker
Which is very frustrating for me.
01:08:38
Speaker
Because you have a baby on the way.
01:08:40
Speaker
I have a baby on the way.
01:08:41
Speaker
Kid couldn't have picked a worse fucking time, huh?
01:08:44
Speaker
Just the timing is awful.
01:08:46
Speaker
It's called Rogue Trader.
01:08:49
Speaker
And looks pretty cool.
01:08:52
Speaker
Maybe it's better this way, though.
01:08:53
Speaker
Maybe it's better that I don't...
01:08:56
Speaker
play a game like that so soon after Baldur's Gate 3 so that I don't hold it too close to that comparison.
01:09:04
Speaker
Wow, the artwork is way too colorful.
01:09:10
Speaker
Too much joy.
01:09:11
Speaker
Too much joy in this artwork.
01:09:12
Speaker
Too much joy.
01:09:12
Speaker
No, I'll probably get this.
01:09:16
Speaker
Ooh, it's got like the straight up CRPG lower.
01:09:22
Speaker
Oh, boy.
01:09:23
Speaker
It looks beautiful.
01:09:24
Speaker
It looks absolutely beautiful.
01:09:26
Speaker
That's what I want.
01:09:27
Speaker
Well, speaking of that, Kevin, that just leaves me with a single question for you.
01:09:33
Speaker
What do you got?
01:09:34
Speaker
What are you playing?
01:09:36
Speaker
Oh, uh...
01:09:40
Speaker
I was not expecting that question.
01:09:43
Speaker
I know, I know.
01:09:44
Speaker
Especially not in my voice.
01:09:49
Speaker
Okay, to be honest, I, this past week or so, just been Marvel snapping.
01:09:57
Speaker
I have been really deep into Marvel snap, focusing on, I wanted to get some new collectors.
01:10:11
Speaker
What are they called?
01:10:12
Speaker
The purple ones, not the, the ones with the good stuff in it.
01:10:18
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:10:20
Speaker
You hit a certain point value and you get them.
01:10:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:10:23
Speaker
And you either get a variant or one of three cards that you want.
01:10:30
Speaker
As of right now, it is... Who is up there?
01:10:36
Speaker
Lady Deathstrike, I know, because I'm trying to get her.
01:10:38
Speaker
Lady Deathstrike, X23, and Man-Thing?
01:10:39
Speaker
Was that it?
01:10:43
Speaker
Yeah, Man-Thing, and it was a new card.
01:10:46
Speaker
Yeah.
01:10:47
Speaker
Yeah, and Lady Deathstrike and Man-Thing have some, are like pretty similar in terms of like,
01:10:55
Speaker
kill the thing or depower the thing weaker than this.
01:11:02
Speaker
I've been finding some success with Lady Deathstrike.
01:11:05
Speaker
Oh, really?
01:11:06
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:07
Speaker
She's pretty cool.
01:11:08
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:11
Speaker
So I've been playing.
01:11:11
Speaker
I'm at that point where I'm just like, I play the, I always play the season for a bit.
01:11:18
Speaker
Yep.
01:11:19
Speaker
And then I spend the first half of the season just playing
01:11:23
Speaker
trying to get my rank up.
01:11:25
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:25
Speaker
And then the second half of the season, just fucking around with different decks, like experimenting with decks.
01:11:32
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:32
Speaker
And I always, and it's like, that's why I'm, I don't think I'm ever going to hit infinite because I'm just like, I'm too interested in like figuring out like little mechanical wrinkles with decks.
01:11:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:44
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:45
Speaker
I was like, but what if I do this?
01:11:48
Speaker
What if I try this?
01:11:49
Speaker
No, I'm with you.
01:11:50
Speaker
I absolutely,
01:11:53
Speaker
I have like, and it's, so basically I'll have a couple of decks.
01:11:58
Speaker
I don't keep a deck until it's named, right?
01:12:01
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:01
Speaker
So I'll have a couple of decks that are named.
01:12:03
Speaker
They're tried and true.
01:12:05
Speaker
If I ever just want to win, play and win at a reasonable rate, I go back to them.
01:12:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:12:11
Speaker
And then I have like a dozen decks that are just called deck seven, deck eight, deck nine.
01:12:17
Speaker
Just trying things.
01:12:19
Speaker
I'm just trying things, and I'm probably going to delete them, you know, after a few hands if it doesn't seem like they're working or the combo that's intended is just too impossible to hit.
01:12:32
Speaker
I was watching this one YouTuber.
01:12:34
Speaker
made a six card Galactus combo.
01:12:39
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:40
Speaker
It required six cards to pull off and it was hilarious.
01:12:44
Speaker
Like he had to play for an hour and a half in order to do it once.
01:12:50
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:12:53
Speaker
That's devotion to a one trick pony kind of thing.
01:12:55
Speaker
It required you to have like a six card combo is nearly impossible in Marvel Snap to pull off over the course of what's probably going to be three turns.
01:13:08
Speaker
And you had to have the right cards in your hand at each point.
01:13:14
Speaker
That is insane.
01:13:16
Speaker
But it had something to do.
01:13:18
Speaker
It had something to do with...
01:13:21
Speaker
It was a Galactus deck, but the way he was getting it so that Galactus would win was the funny part.
01:13:31
Speaker
This is the same YouTuber.
01:13:33
Speaker
His name's Regis Kilbin, and he just does card games.
01:13:38
Speaker
I see.
01:13:40
Speaker
He did a video on if you don't have a powerful deck, just steal theirs.
01:13:47
Speaker
And it's a deck built with like Mantis, Cable, White Queen, Morph.
01:13:53
Speaker
Oh, that's funny.
01:13:56
Speaker
That is funny.
01:13:57
Speaker
It's just based on taking the opponent's cards.
01:14:00
Speaker
That's pretty funny.
01:14:01
Speaker
And like Leader.
01:14:02
Speaker
Loki.
01:14:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:14:05
Speaker
Oh, I like that.
01:14:08
Speaker
That's fun.
01:14:08
Speaker
I like that.
01:14:09
Speaker
That's a lot of fun.
01:14:12
Speaker
That's gotta be so confusing to fucking play against.
01:14:15
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:14:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:14:16
Speaker
Yeah.
01:14:16
Speaker
It's every match is a mirror match.
01:14:22
Speaker
But yeah, that's pretty much it.
01:14:23
Speaker
That's all I've been playing.
01:14:25
Speaker
Phil.
01:14:26
Speaker
Oh, and by the way, just what I've been watching, for those of you who forgot, this past Friday was Friday the 13th, and that means Mike Flanagan's new series is out, The Fall of the House of Usher.
01:14:41
Speaker
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:14:43
Speaker
And every episode is an adaptation of...
01:14:47
Speaker
So it's one continuous story, but what happens in every episode is an adaptation of a Poe story.
01:14:54
Speaker
Oh, I didn't know that.
01:14:55
Speaker
Okay, that's cool.
01:14:55
Speaker
Yeah, so the second episode that we just watched was Mask of the Red Death.
01:15:04
Speaker
Oh, shit.
01:15:06
Speaker
That's cool.
01:15:07
Speaker
That's really cool.
01:15:08
Speaker
Yes.
01:15:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:15:10
Speaker
But it all continues the same story.
01:15:12
Speaker
And it's, you know, it's got his same cast that he's always using.
01:15:18
Speaker
Rahul Kohli is in there.
01:15:21
Speaker
Carla Gugino is in there as a sexy ghost lady killer.
01:15:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:15:31
Speaker
So, you know, good stuff.
01:15:34
Speaker
That definitely looks worth watching.
01:15:36
Speaker
Yeah.
01:15:37
Speaker
Yeah.
01:15:39
Speaker
Phil, what are you playing?
01:15:43
Speaker
I play, I've been playing some short experiences.
01:15:47
Speaker
Most notably, I finished Underground Blossom.
01:15:52
Speaker
And which is a Rusty Lake game.
01:15:55
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:56
Speaker
And I fucking love Rusty Lake games.
01:15:59
Speaker
For anyone who doesn't know, they're these strange puzzle games that seem to have some kind of underlying creepy storyline.
01:16:08
Speaker
But I'm not holding my breath on it being...
01:16:12
Speaker
in any way, uh, uh, uh, sensible.
01:16:15
Speaker
Uh, it's just got a lot of atmosphere, very strange, very folk horror-y.
01:16:22
Speaker
Um, and, uh, the puzzles are very clever and fun.
01:16:26
Speaker
Uh, the whole, the whole thing took like three hours to finish and, and it was very satisfying, very sad.
01:16:33
Speaker
And, and after you finish the main thing, you can go back and, and, uh,
01:16:37
Speaker
do all these other challenges and it's very spooky and charming in the way that Rusty Lake games always are.
01:16:44
Speaker
I really liked that one.
01:16:46
Speaker
I highly recommend it.
01:16:47
Speaker
Good.
01:16:47
Speaker
And then I played and finished Amanda the Adventurer.
01:16:50
Speaker
Have you heard of that one?
01:16:51
Speaker
No.
01:16:52
Speaker
This is one of your indie horror games, which I wasn't so sure about when I first saw it because it's got like...
01:17:02
Speaker
live streamer bait written all over it.
01:17:05
Speaker
So I was expecting it to be... I wasn't expecting it to be something I gave a shit about.
01:17:12
Speaker
But I had it recommended by a few people.
01:17:15
Speaker
And I looked at it.
01:17:17
Speaker
And basically the idea is that you have got this tape of an old Dora the Explorer kind of show called Amanda the Adventurer.
01:17:28
Speaker
And you watch the tapes in this attic and
01:17:32
Speaker
it's got a little glitch horror and things start to go wrong and there's this sense of unease and all that shit.
01:17:38
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Sure.
01:17:38
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And you get clues and then there's a puzzle after you watch the tape and to get the next tape, there are clues within that first tape and stuff in the attic that you've got to put together.
01:17:49
Speaker
Like someone mentions like, we're baking this pie for this long at this temperature.
01:17:55
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And so you find there's a little toy oven in the attic and you do what they said and boom, you know, the...
01:18:01
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you make it the way they talked about and then the next video comes out and um it's and they're like four different endings i got them all and and that it also took about three or four hours to beat um yeah interesting weird uh uh and it didn't yeah
01:18:17
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And it wasn't the shitty jump scare fueled low effort horror game I kind of expected it was going to be.
01:18:25
Speaker
It does have some real heart to it.
01:18:28
Speaker
And like Underground Blossom, it seems it has this kind of underlying strange storyline that kind of FNAF style, like if you read between the lines, you can.
01:18:39
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And like Underground Blossom, I'm not so sure I buy the idea that it holds together.
01:18:48
Speaker
But it's still very entertaining and a good way to spend an afternoon.
01:18:53
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Right.
01:18:54
Speaker
And I started the Separate Ways DLC for Resident Evil 4.
01:18:56
Speaker
Oh, nice.
01:18:57
Speaker
Nice.
01:18:58
Speaker
And it's more Resident Evil with a Batman claw.
01:19:02
Speaker
Oh, cool.
01:19:04
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And so I'm enjoying that.
01:19:05
Speaker
But that's it.
01:19:06
Speaker
I have it.
01:19:07
Speaker
I've been meaning to start it.
01:19:08
Speaker
I have it.
01:19:09
Speaker
It's good.
01:19:10
Speaker
It's sitting there ready for me.
01:19:12
Speaker
It's pretty good.
01:19:15
Speaker
You know, that's it.
01:19:18
Speaker
It's more Resident Evil 4, which who could complain about that?
01:19:21
Speaker
Who could complain about that?
01:19:23
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Nobody.
01:19:24
Speaker
No one.
01:19:25
Speaker
At all.
01:19:26
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Ever.
01:19:26
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That's me.
01:19:27
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That's you.
01:19:28
Speaker
That's you.
01:19:29
Speaker
All right, well, that's awesome.
01:19:32
Speaker
I think, is Amanda the Explorer playing Dora, or Amanda the Adventurer playing Dora the Explorer?
01:19:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's the idea.
01:19:40
Speaker
Okay, got it.
01:19:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, and they do that, and it's kind of funny because they do that thing where Dora Explorer would like talk to you through the thing.
Interactive Gaming Moments
01:19:49
Speaker
Right.
01:19:52
Speaker
And in game, sometimes they just, they say, you know,
01:19:56
Speaker
What's your favorite whatever?
01:19:57
Speaker
And there's just silence.
01:19:59
Speaker
And I would, of course, answer them because it's funny.
01:20:02
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But then every now and then they'll ask something and you'll get a prompt to type something in.
01:20:07
Speaker
Right.
01:20:08
Speaker
And you can type all kinds of things, but you'll get different answers based on what you type.
01:20:15
Speaker
And sometimes...
01:20:18
Speaker
If you're paying attention to the storyline and everything like that, they said... Here's a little spoiler for people if you're playing this game.
01:20:27
Speaker
You're on a farm at one point and they ask you... They've got chickens or something like that and they say, what's the daddy called?
01:20:36
Speaker
And you have enough room to write in rooster.
01:20:40
Speaker
But you find out that the creator of the show who based this show on his daughter, his name is Sam.
01:20:46
Speaker
And so I typed in Sam.
01:20:49
Speaker
And Amanda the Adventure goes, how did you, why did you say that?
01:20:56
Speaker
Like it starts kind of freaking out a little bit.
01:20:58
Speaker
I was like, oh.
01:21:01
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It's got a lot of little moments like that.
01:21:04
Speaker
Little moments like that.
01:21:05
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Yeah.
01:21:06
Speaker
I thought it was worth it.
01:21:07
Speaker
And that one was like eight bucks or two.
01:21:10
Speaker
And that was, to me, totally worth it.
01:21:12
Speaker
Nice.
01:21:12
Speaker
I'm really getting to the point, I think, because of my age, that these little...
01:21:19
Speaker
bite-sized adventures that take three, four, maybe five hours.
01:21:23
Speaker
Like that is perfect for me right now.
01:21:27
Speaker
I'm really enjoying it.
01:21:28
Speaker
So it's when I, I'll see the critiques or something like that.
01:21:33
Speaker
And they'll say, oh, it's only four hours long.
01:21:35
Speaker
And I'm like, perfect.
01:21:36
Speaker
Sign me up.
Bite-sized Gaming Experiences
01:21:38
Speaker
What about, what about Baldur's Gate 4?
01:21:43
Speaker
That's not coming out based on my math.
01:21:45
Speaker
That's not coming out until I'm dead.
01:21:47
Speaker
What about Rogue Trader?
01:21:50
Speaker
No, not rotate.
01:21:52
Speaker
The CRPGs, why are you back, Phil?
01:21:54
Speaker
Oh, God, they miss me.
01:21:55
Speaker
They do miss me.
01:21:57
Speaker
Elder Scrolls VI.
01:21:59
Speaker
Elder Scrolls VI.
01:22:00
Speaker
Jesus Christ.
01:22:02
Speaker
It's going to be, you're going to see that mountain and you can climb it.
01:22:06
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, sure.
01:22:08
Speaker
But I don't want to climb the mountain.
01:22:11
Speaker
I want to solve weird puzzles in a subway.
Upcoming Game Releases and Podcast Promotion
01:22:13
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It's under your own Blossom.
01:22:16
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01:22:46
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Oh.
01:22:50
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Speaking of $10 tier, you get a shout out in every episode.
01:22:53
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And today we are shouting out our member of the $10 tier, Friendly Friend.
01:22:59
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Friendly Friend.
01:23:00
Speaker
Friendly Friend.
01:23:00
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Thank you for being a friend.
01:23:04
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Indeed.
01:23:05
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Thank you for being a friend.
01:23:08
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It's too good, Kevin.
01:23:09
Speaker
Travel down the road and back again.
01:23:12
Speaker
We're going to get copyright infringement on us.
01:23:14
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That is true.
01:23:16
Speaker
You're a pal and a confidant.
01:23:20
Speaker
Boom, boom, boom.
01:23:22
Speaker
And if you threw a party.
01:23:27
Speaker
Oh, God, I'm scared the fuck out of Joe.
01:23:29
Speaker
And invited everyone you knew.
01:23:32
Speaker
You would see the biggest gift would be for me.
01:23:36
Speaker
And in time, top on top would say thank you for being a friend.
01:23:42
Speaker
The tag on... What's it say?
01:23:45
Speaker
There's something on top.
01:23:46
Speaker
I'm amazed that you had that much.
01:23:48
Speaker
That was really impressive.
01:23:50
Speaker
And the card on top would say thank you for being a friend.
01:23:55
Speaker
There it is.
01:23:55
Speaker
There it is.
01:23:56
Speaker
Nailed it.
01:24:00
Speaker
So thank you for being a friend, friendly friend.
01:24:02
Speaker
Thank you.
01:24:04
Speaker
I'm not going to sing that every single time.
01:24:06
Speaker
I'm not going to sing that every single time.
01:24:07
Speaker
Maybe every new patron that joins that layer will sing Thank You For Being A Friend.
01:24:14
Speaker
Or some sort of theme-related song.
01:24:16
Speaker
Or some sort of theme-related song.
01:24:18
Speaker
A friend, yeah.
01:24:20
Speaker
Those are the words I was trying to use.
01:24:22
Speaker
Not the Friends related, not the Friends theme song, though.
01:24:25
Speaker
No, no, but maybe like Queen.
01:24:28
Speaker
Queen, yeah.
01:24:31
Speaker
Maybe the Cheers song.
01:24:33
Speaker
Sometimes you want to go.
01:24:37
Speaker
Suicide is Painless.
01:24:39
Speaker
Suicide is Painless, but for MASH, that's always a good... That's talks of friendship, you think?
01:24:52
Speaker
The word, the word version is not in the, in the show.
01:24:57
Speaker
It's just the, no, maybe in the, was it in the movie?
01:25:02
Speaker
Maybe it was.
01:25:03
Speaker
I don't know.
01:25:04
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We're really off the rails and I'm just supposed to be closing the episode out.
01:25:07
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Yeah.
01:25:08
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01:25:15
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On the next episode, we're doing more stuff.
01:25:21
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We're doing more stuff.
01:25:21
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We're doing a movie.
01:25:22
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We're doing a movie.
01:25:23
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It's a movie episode.
01:25:24
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Yeah, it's a movie episode.
01:25:25
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You know, come by.
01:25:27
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Hang around.
01:25:28
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Listen.
01:25:28
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Find out what movie we're watching.
01:25:29
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Find out what movie we're watching.
01:25:31
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Hell yeah.
01:25:32
Speaker
Hell yeah.
01:25:34
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Good night.
01:25:35
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Good night.