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Nier-er My Android to Thee (Nier Automata: Long Story Short Part 1)
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Two dudes who have relatively little experience with the Nier franchise decide to jump into the franchise by reading a book! How poorly could this go?
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Yeah, that puts you in an awkward position.
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They don't have anyone to blame but themselves.
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But yeah, that's that's an awkward position to be in.
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Yeah.
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So just just a brilliant, brilliant little show.
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I'll have to check that out.
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Yeah.
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You know what else is a brilliant little show?
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What's that?
Introduction and Topic Announcement
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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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On today's show, we're diving into Near Automata.
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Long story short, this is a show, this is a book that is an adaptation of the Near Automata series.
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game, which came out in, I want to say it's 2015, near Automata.
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Was it that long ago?
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Wow.
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2017.
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2017.
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Okay.
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Sorry.
Game Overview and Initial Impressions
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Yeah, it's a Platinum's Game, game published by Square Enix, where you play as a character named 2B, who is just a sexy sword lady.
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She looks good.
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She looks good.
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But I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on under the surface of the story about what does it mean to actually be a human or sentient or robot, blah, blah, blah.
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It's that kind of story.
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Asimov.
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Amazing.
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Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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Here's the thing.
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And a lot of people love Yoko Taro, but he's not exactly working on the unbidden path here.
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This is well-trod ground.
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Well, that's just it.
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I didn't finish this one.
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I played it...
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I played it to the first big boss and I was like, oh, that's cool.
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Spectacle fighter, the kind of thing.
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It's not a fighter, but you know what I mean?
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And I have, I, you know, with action, you know, butt mashers, stuff like that.
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I do tend to like them, but it just didn't catch me for whatever reason.
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And all I'd been hearing about was how significant this, this, this game was with a capital S. And, and I was like, wow, it must be really worth it.
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And I was like, I'm not going to, I'll just, I'll just look up.
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what thing is.
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And I was like, guys, we've done this before.
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This is, this is cool.
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That's very, very cool.
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And I'm not going to ruin it for anybody who, you know, we'll, we'll probably ruin it by the end of this, I'm guessing.
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But, but it's like, this is, this has been done.
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We've covered this.
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It's not,
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It's interesting.
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It does have some interesting ideas and we'll, we'll get into that.
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It does.
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Yeah.
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But, uh, here's the thing is that the near mythology can kind of get easily get easy to be lost in.
History of the Nier Series
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Um, um,
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So, Nier is set in a world where... So, I should specify.
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Nier Automata is set in a world where it is the far future.
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But this, it takes place within the Drakengard lineage of games.
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So, Drakengard was an action role-playing game that came out in 2003.
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So you have Drakengard 1, 2, and then you have Nier, which has since been retitled...
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Well, it was titled near Replicant in Japan and just near in the US and then near Automata and then another Drakengard game.
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And then most recently, the re-release of Replicant and there's another one, Replicant and I don't know, I just lost my note on it.
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Anyway, there's a lot.
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There's a lot to go into, a lot going on.
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If you are a Nier fan, you know more than me, I will say.
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I have, and like Phil, I only played Nier.
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I mean, I played Nier up through...
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maybe a third of the game, basically to where we are finishing our coverage of the book today is to the point at which I have played the game.
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So we are jumping off a cliff together, people.
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We are Butch, Butch Cassidy and Sundance kidding it down.
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And we're and we're jumping off that cliff and we're landing on a website.
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So, yeah.
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Phil, who wrote this dang book?
Author and Translator Discussion
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I mean, it's based on it says based on the story by Yoko Taro.
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But right.
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Right.
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But I focused on the author in question, who is June Ishmael.
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Uh, uh, if anybody, uh, speaks Japanese out there and I'm, I'm fucking this up.
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Yeah.
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And I apologize in advance, but, uh, June Ishma, uh, is, uh, primarily when you look at it on the surface, June Ishma is primarily a video game.
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novelist, basically.
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This is someone we might run into a lot.
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Has written for the Drakengard series, naturally.
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Has written here for Nier.
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And did a lot of work with Final Fantasy.
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She got a story advisor credit for Final Fantasy XIII Part II.
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because that's what they do.
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And she wrote a bunch of novellas for Final
Cultural Insight: Gudetama
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Fantasy that are part of the Lightning saga, which I don't know a ton about Final Fantasy, but I remember Final Fantasy fans not being huge fans of Lightning.
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And so- Yeah, I mean, they have, like, Lightning has her own-
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I'll say that.
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Sure.
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Sure.
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Yeah, I'm sure.
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Now, when I dug a little more, I found out that June Ishma is actually a pen name and her real name is Emi Nagashima.
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And what Egi Namashima is best known for is the creation of, and I don't know if I'm saying this right, Gudetama, which is the lazy egg.
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Uh, it's which is a Sanrio character.
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It's like what they're with hello kitty and all that shit.
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Uh, and I only know about the lazy egg because one of my roommates for a while, she, she was just like, I, I, I, she did not watch anime.
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She did not read manga.
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She was not into all of that, but she found this egg, this lazy egg character.
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She went, this is me.
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it me.
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And so I would see that guy all over the place.
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And it is kind of adorable.
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I will admit.
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Have you seen that?
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I've seen Camilla as, as,
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Oh, yeah.
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It's really cute.
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And it's basically it's basically kind of I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't suggest it's lampooning, but it's kind of commenting on younger folks and how unmotivated some of them can be and just not interested in taking part in the world around them, that sort of thing.
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And it came from her actually fixing some eggs and the egg on a bed of rice resembling a sleepy dog.
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I think.
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So that's pretty neat.
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I mean, that's, I think that's pretty cool.
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Like, like that's a, that's a pretty significant character within that world.
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So that's, that's, so that's who we're dealing with here.
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Emi Nagashima, also known as Amy, her credit for Gurtama is just Amy.
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Yeah.
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But for our purposes in this, her pen name is June Ishma.
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Right.
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So that's who we're working with.
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Oh, did you catch who the translator was?
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Oh, I did not.
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I always forget about the translator.
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The translator is, I mean, we can say everything we want about the author, but ultimately it's going to be a...
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whatever issues we have with prose or whatever are ultimately going to be with the translator too, you know, because it's the translator's job to restructure these sentences into English.
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And sometimes... Shota Okui.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Translated by Shota Okui.
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I think that's how you say that.
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All right.
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We're going to live this.
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We're fucking... We're going to live it.
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Yeah.
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Shota Okui.
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Okay.
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A software engineer, according to this, that's, that's just the first thing comes up.
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Translator of near.
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This might be about it.
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There's not much going on here.
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I've got under Goodreads, literally all they have is, is shorts.
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Oh no, but they also translated short story long.
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Right, which is a collection of short stories.
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It's not just a clever name then.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so that's what we're dealing with here.
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Okay, cool.
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So let's put the body in the marsh.
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Oh, please, let's do.
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When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them in the marsh.
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Dimash.
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Oh, right.
00:10:23
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So, to start out, we're in the prologue, which kind of gives us a laydown of what's happening on this planet.
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In the year 5012, aliens invaded with their machines, and machines, anytime I say it, is capitalized.
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Exterminating humanity, save for a few survivors, the remaining humans moved to the moon.
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The moon!
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Ha ha!
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In the year 5204, so 200 years later, the humans launch a counteroffensive with androids and bases constructed in orbits.
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Then thousands of years pass.
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And what I appreciate about this prologue is that it's real Warhammer numbers.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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They go way out.
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They're just like, yeah, it's the year 40, 50, 60,000.
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Like, yeah, it's yeah.
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I love that.
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Thousands of years pass and the battle is a stalemate.
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Research and development creates a new type of anti-machine Android called the Yorha Android.
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And the first one is produced in the year 1100.
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11,937.
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So 7,000 years after this shenanigans started, humanity has created the first android that really, really
Book Prologue Summary
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speaks to them.
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It's about time.
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Killing machines.
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In the year 11,940, there was an attack launched called the Pearl Harbor Descent Attack.
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Cool.
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Interesting choice.
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Interesting choice.
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Interesting choice coming from a Japanese author.
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Okie dokie.
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Okie dokie.
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I get it.
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All right.
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All right.
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All androids were lost except for attacker number two who went AWOL.
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And then in March of 11,945, another attack is launched with androids D1, B2, B4, E7, B11, and B12.
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All your vitamins.
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All of them.
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to destroy a goliath class four of them were killed one went missing and b2 was all that remained who met with another android who is on site named 9s to continue the mission they worked together to destroy the goliath and then use the self-destruct uh of their black boxes to destroy the other goliaths that showed up uh unfortunately only 2b's data was uploaded
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to the cloud, to the servers on their base called the Bunker.
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So 9S actually has zero memory of this fight.
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The last thing 9S remembers is right before meeting up with her.
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So they're assigned to work together on a new mission after their bodies are rebuilt to define and destroy the enemy, though apparently B2B has a, or B2, has another classified objective, and the support pods that support B2 and 9, 2, wait.
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Am I backwards or forwards?
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2B.
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It's 2B, right?
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2B, yeah, yeah.
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2B and 9S have their support pods, have their own missions.
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So that's the prologue, which just lays basically in a few pages.
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It's like, hey, remember the first 30 minutes of the game?
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There you go.
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We're done.
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And to quote a movie I really like, it reads like stereo instructions.
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It's very, I don't know if this is on purpose or not, but it does kind of read like a hastily written history.
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Yeah.
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Like some kid in history, like he wakes up in homeroom and remembers that he's got two periods to write this fucking thing.
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Like, it really does feel that way.
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Yeah.
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Really, kids in high school can really get a lot of they can do anything.
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I mean, if you give them an inch, they will take a mile and they will hand you a five page handwritten paper.
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on the history of the defenestration of Prague that they wrote in math class, you know?
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Yeah.
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And it won't all be good, but you'll be like, that's this.
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It's so fucked up how not awful this is.
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And I say that speaking as a former teacher, the fact that this isn't bad or that it's bad, but the fact that it's not worse is the fact that I'm not giving you a straight.
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Yeah, I'm not giving you a straight up F. And that's that fact almost makes it worth an A. Yeah, that's that's that kind of shit drove me crazy because, yeah, you're right.
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They when they really wanted to pull something out of their ass, boy, howdy, they could do it.
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Boy, howdy.
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So chapter one, 2B's story slash activation.
Desert Encounter and Machine Behavior
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We start with 2B and 9S in a desert area looking for an informant who is going to point them towards their next mission.
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That informant's name is an android named Jackass.
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And nothing is said about this, by the way.
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It's just they just throw it out there like a fucking fart.
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They're just like, yeah, that's that's what he's called.
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Why?
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Why is that?
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It's like it's like some again, it's like a high schooler saying something totally inappropriate and then playing dumb.
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Like, why is that a weird thing to call him?
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Why?
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Could you explain that?
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That's feel.
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I don't know.
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That's just what he's called.
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Yeah.
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Fucking assholes.
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Yeah.
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So they meet.
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Meet up with Jackass, who points them to a closed cave as their next destination, and she proceeds to open it with an explosion.
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2B and 9S venture into the cave system and fight through a bunch of machines, and the machines are speaking, which is, like, weird.
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That's not a machine, things that machines normally do.
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They're also wearing clothing.
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And 2B and 9S discuss that it seems like they're mimicking old human culture.
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And they're like wearing masks too.
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They're wearing masks and paint and stuff like that.
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They continue on battling through another group of machines.
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And this time, they were using words indicating that they're scared.
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2B hesitates, but 9S reminds her of whatever the machines are saying is meaningless.
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It's just random bits of code that they're spitting out.
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One of the machines flees as they are executing all of them, and they follow.
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And they follow it to the ruins with many buildings called mammoth complexes.
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There, they note a bunch of machines are talking to each other, saying simple phrases back and forth, like, hello, how are you?
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And these phrases are actually attacking on hello and counterattacking on how are you.
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As they fight through, they find multiple android corpses that have been piled up by the machines.
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They continue through the path where they find a bunch of machines.
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They're fucking each other.
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They're fucking.
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They're fucking.
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It made me think of the remake of Island of Dr. Moreau.
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That really gave me those vibes.
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Yeah.
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They're like, what were they're like repeating?
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They're like chanting.
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Like, what is it?
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Like, I love you.
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Don't leave.
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I love you.
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Yeah.
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I love you forever.
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Yeah.
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And they're just like swaying back and forth, acting as if they're doing anything.
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Yeah.
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There's like that scene from Midsommar where the guy's fucking the redhead and they're just surrounded by a bunch of the women of the village there.
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That's how I thought of it.
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Yeah.
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You know, I haven't seen the Island of Dr. Moreau remake in a long time.
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It's been a very long time for me.
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And that's the thing that sticks out of my head.
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I still remember that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So they continue.
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They open fire on the machines because what are you going to do when you see a bunch of little rounded, round boy robots, you know.
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Bumping uglies.
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Sucking and fucking in a field.
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What are they supposed to do?
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Tell me, what is 2B supposed to do other than be like...
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She's she goes to her pod and is like, hey, pod, fucking annihilate everything.
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Yeah.
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Just open fire.
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And me, too, please, because I won't be able to forget unless I get like a 9S treatment and I get to forget about this, like by having my memory wiped.
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So just just take me out, too, if you don't mind.
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So they open fire the machines and the machines start trying to get away and they're climbing up all the walls and stuff.
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And they, they start merging together like a cocoon.
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And then they, they form a cocoon and they start glowing.
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And then it, it, the, it, the cocoon poops out a, a, a man, a man falls out of the butt of the cocoon.
00:19:41
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That's, and that's how babies are made.
00:19:43
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And that's how babies are made.
00:19:44
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Yeah.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:46
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Cocoon butts.
00:19:47
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Cocoon butts.
00:19:49
Speaker
I mean, that's how bugs basically do it, right?
00:19:51
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They just, bugs just kind of like poop their babies out into cocoons.
00:19:58
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It's a little different.
00:20:00
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A little thing.
00:20:02
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A baby pops out.
00:20:03
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Yeah, that's how it works.
00:20:04
Speaker
That's how it works.
00:20:06
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And then they stare at it and then it erupts and it eats their head.
00:20:11
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I don't know.
00:20:12
Speaker
Sure.
00:20:13
Speaker
Bugs are weird, man.
00:20:14
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Man, nature's, nature's fucked up.
00:20:16
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That's just, that's all you need to know.
00:20:17
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That's all you need to know.
00:20:18
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It's like one of those, it's like those parasites that like go into like a, a grasshopper and it's like, oh, look, it's a grasshopper.
00:20:27
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And be like, nope, there's there.
00:20:29
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The lights aren't on.
00:20:30
Speaker
It's, it's actually a fungus controlling that thing.
00:20:34
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This grasshopper is now my tank.
00:20:35
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That's what this is.
00:20:38
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Yeah.
00:20:39
Speaker
So.
00:20:40
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Anyway, the man looks like an android, actually a machine.
00:20:46
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2B starts attacking, but it's very good at dodging her attacks.
00:20:52
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And the wounds that she hits it with are healing up too fast.
00:20:56
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And 2B and 9S start to work together.
00:20:58
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and give it what should have been a fatal wound.
00:21:02
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But then the wound starts glowing, like the cocoon did, and another man crawls out of the man.
00:21:13
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And then the second machine starts howling upon crawling out, and it makes a sound so loud that 2B and 9S have to retreat, and the entire place collapses around them.
00:21:25
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And then we get the point of view, a brief point of view segment from Adam, who was the man pooped out of the cocoon.
00:21:35
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He is Adam.
00:21:36
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He chose the name because of the Bible.
00:21:39
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And from the machine's point of view, the androids are the ones that are violent and constantly attacking them.
00:21:45
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So they became desperate and created him.
00:21:48
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So he's also Jesus.
00:21:51
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Yeah.
00:21:52
Speaker
He's machine.
00:21:53
Speaker
Jesus.
00:21:57
Speaker
Chapter two.
00:21:58
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Oh, wait.
00:21:59
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He's literally deus ex machina.
00:22:01
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Yeah.
00:22:02
Speaker
He's literally a God coming out of them.
00:22:04
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God, God from the machine.
00:22:06
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Yep.
00:22:06
Speaker
From the machine.
00:22:07
Speaker
Yep.
00:22:08
Speaker
There it is.
00:22:10
Speaker
The subtext is not that deep on Yoko Taro's work.
00:22:13
Speaker
No.
00:22:14
Speaker
Let's be honest.
00:22:17
Speaker
It's really close to, I know writers use subtext and they're all cowards.
00:22:21
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It's not far.
00:22:22
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It's not quite there, but it ain't far.
00:22:26
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It's not great.
00:22:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:29
Speaker
It's fine.
00:22:29
Speaker
And I get why people like it.
00:22:31
Speaker
I mean, it's a lot of sexy androids fighting each other and raising philosophical questions, but yeah.
00:22:39
Speaker
It's matrix fun.
00:22:40
Speaker
Like, like there's nothing wrong with the matrix.
00:22:42
Speaker
Just, just don't talk about how it's this mind blowing, you know, you know, master level philosophy course.
00:22:51
Speaker
Cause it's, it's really not.
00:22:53
Speaker
It's a lot of fun though.
00:22:54
Speaker
I mean, I enjoy it.
00:22:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:58
Speaker
It's fine.
00:22:59
Speaker
It's fine.
00:22:59
Speaker
It's fine.
00:23:00
Speaker
You guys.
00:23:01
Speaker
Chapter two, we get some information about when an android can be considered destroyed, and that's only if their black box signal is inactive.
00:23:11
Speaker
Standard resistance androids like Jackass, though, have no black box.
00:23:17
Speaker
They meet up with the leader of the resistance army, Anemone, and she asks 2B to keep an eye out for resistance androids that have not returned back.
00:23:31
Speaker
They follow black box signals to an amusement park with fireworks going off overhead.
00:23:39
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When they get inside, they find machines playing and having fun.
00:23:42
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And they're like, yeah, we're not going to attack these machines because it would be a waste of time.
00:23:48
Speaker
And they continue towards a theater where they decide the best way to get in is to jump onto the building from above through the stained glass windows, which 9S is not happy about because one of his like little programming quirks is actually preserving human culture
Amusement Park Confrontation
00:24:05
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and history.
00:24:05
Speaker
So like, you know, just demolishing a bunch of stained glass windows.
00:24:10
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He's not a fan of.
00:24:12
Speaker
No.
00:24:14
Speaker
I totally sympathize with it.
00:24:15
Speaker
I was like, oh, come on.
00:24:20
Speaker
So 2B smashes the windows and they jump in.
00:24:24
Speaker
Inside on the stage is a weird machine dressed in a skirt with arms that look like branches screwed onto its head.
00:24:32
Speaker
It's making a loud ear splitting noise that begins to hack their systems.
00:24:37
Speaker
And it's puppeting the bodies of mortally wounded androids to replicate the signals.
00:24:43
Speaker
The machine begins to hack 9S and forces them to sing.
00:24:47
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2B and her pod end the fight by attacking the processing unit of the singing machine.
00:24:54
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Uh, afterwards they go through and they find that all the other androids had their circuits fried and could not be saved.
00:25:01
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9S is pondering about emotions and 2B cuts them off when another machine walks up and starts talking to them.
00:25:07
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Uh, and the machine is like, Hey, thanks for destroying that guy.
00:25:10
Speaker
Uh, that's good.
00:25:11
Speaker
We, we didn't like that one.
00:25:13
Speaker
We weren't happy about him being here.
00:25:14
Speaker
So, yeah, they follow the machine back to its home, which is in the forest city of Endor.
00:25:21
Speaker
And they're waving white flags hanging all over the place.
00:25:26
Speaker
And there's Anakin Skywalker in his ghost form.
00:25:31
Speaker
And yep.
00:25:36
Speaker
And they, and they, and they take like, what was a kind of cute, fun twee song and turn it into like an actual, you know, melodic, uh, kind of thing, which is fine.
00:25:46
Speaker
But I, but you end up missing job, job, you know, like you miss that shit.
00:25:50
Speaker
You do miss the job job.
00:25:52
Speaker
Um, yeah, yeah.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:54
Speaker
And you put in shots of, of places like core scent and, and all that.
00:25:59
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Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
Everybody is celebrating simultaneously and,
00:26:03
Speaker
Yeah, because that's how it works.
00:26:05
Speaker
I don't know.
00:26:05
Speaker
It's space.
00:26:06
Speaker
I mean, space is big.
00:26:08
Speaker
Can you imagine traveling that fast?
00:26:10
Speaker
Very, very.
00:26:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's a lot.
00:26:13
Speaker
That's not.
00:26:14
Speaker
I hate to be that guy.
00:26:15
Speaker
I hate to be that guy.
00:26:19
Speaker
Anyway, the machine's like, hey, my name's Pascal and I love peace.
00:26:26
Speaker
We should figure peace out.
00:26:28
Speaker
And 2B's like, hmm.
00:26:30
Speaker
And 9S is like, I don't buy it.
00:26:33
Speaker
And he's like, well, here, give this back to an enemy.
00:26:36
Speaker
I borrowed it from her as proof that we've already been working with the resistance.
00:26:41
Speaker
So 2B takes it, brings it back to an enemy, and an enemy is like, oh, yeah, those guys.
00:26:47
Speaker
Those guys, yeah.
00:26:50
Speaker
Oh, them?
00:26:51
Speaker
Yeah, they're cool.
00:26:52
Speaker
They're cool.
00:26:52
Speaker
They're cool.
00:26:54
Speaker
Here, bring this back to Pascal's fetch mission.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker
Uh, and Pascal asks them to come by the village more often while 9S doubts that these machines can feel anything.
00:27:07
Speaker
Uh, just then the operators for 2B and 9S appear on the pod screens and announce that a Goliath is in the city.
00:27:15
Speaker
And 9S thinks that Pascal was behind it.
00:27:17
Speaker
And Pascal's like, dude, I'm just standing here.
00:27:19
Speaker
I didn't do anything.
00:27:20
Speaker
Like, what do you want?
00:27:21
Speaker
I've been literally here the entire time.
00:27:22
Speaker
I'm literally here the whole time.
00:27:24
Speaker
And 9S is like, you're distracting us.
00:27:27
Speaker
And...
00:27:28
Speaker
And Pascal's like, with what?
00:27:30
Speaker
Jub-Jub?
00:27:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:33
Speaker
And she's like, maybe.
00:27:35
Speaker
Maybe.
00:27:35
Speaker
And then, so anyway, they run back to the city and they run onto the roof of a building where there's some flight units waiting.
00:27:47
Speaker
And 2B and 9S work together to take down the Goliath-class enemy.
00:27:51
Speaker
But once it's destroyed, it begins to shake and resonate.
00:27:54
Speaker
And suddenly the machine cracks the earth and falls down below.
00:27:59
Speaker
2B sees that there's a crater now where there was forest and buildings.
00:28:03
Speaker
And then their ships begin signaling for an alien alert, which there has not been an alien alert for hundreds of years.
00:28:12
Speaker
Now, remember, the aliens are the masters of the machines.
00:28:16
Speaker
Hmm.
00:28:17
Speaker
And now we get another little another side moment with Eve.
00:28:23
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Eve is a boy who likes to play with his big brother.
00:28:29
Speaker
He likes to play human with his big brother.
00:28:33
Speaker
He seems to repeat a lot of things and is kind of annoying.
00:28:36
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:38
Speaker
Chapter three.
00:28:44
Speaker
I like playing human with my big brother.
00:28:46
Speaker
My big brother is Adam.
Revelation About Aliens and Machines
00:28:48
Speaker
He's a good big brother.
00:28:50
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I like playing human with him.
00:28:52
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signed eve signed eve i really feel like that's gonna been a postcard kid thanks uh great great thank you uh chapter three to b's story slash contact uh as to be a nine s exit their flight units uh the commander of yorha addresses everyone about the aliens
00:29:16
Speaker
2B and 9S head down below into the tunnel and find a passageway and start following the alien signals.
00:29:22
Speaker
As they walk through the ruins of what they find, they find a lot of machines down below have already been wiped out.
00:29:30
Speaker
They've been destroyed for a while, and then they find alien corpses.
00:29:34
Speaker
All the aliens are dead.
00:29:36
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Adam and Eve interrupt them and they begin fighting with 2B and 9S while Adam and Eve monologue about how aliens had long been killed by the machines.
00:29:48
Speaker
And now Adam is interested in the humans on the moon because of their complex behaviors.
00:29:55
Speaker
Adam and Eve toy with them for a while and then Adam vanishes and asks the question, this was the fate of our creators.
00:30:02
Speaker
What about the humans you believe in?
00:30:06
Speaker
Adam, you saucy bitch.
00:30:07
Speaker
You saucy bitch, Adam.
00:30:09
Speaker
How dare you?
00:30:10
Speaker
How dare you?
00:30:11
Speaker
He always hits you right where it hurts.
00:30:13
Speaker
That's the thing about Adam.
00:30:14
Speaker
Here's the thing.
00:30:16
Speaker
I'm going to pause right here because the thought that popped into my head and be like, what if the humans that are left on the moon are like the Elon Musk types?
00:30:29
Speaker
I mean, yeah, like that's, that's probably what would happen.
00:30:33
Speaker
Right.
00:30:33
Speaker
Like, or the descendants of the Elon Musk types, you know, whatever.
00:30:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:38
Speaker
That it's kind of how, how, what you would assume.
00:30:43
Speaker
Right.
00:30:43
Speaker
Right.
00:30:44
Speaker
The, the rich that had access to the, the, the rocket ships.
00:30:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:48
Speaker
I mean, it's not going to be everybody who can do that.
00:30:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:52
Speaker
Um, yeah.
00:30:55
Speaker
Anyway.
00:30:59
Speaker
So back on the bunker, 2B and 9S fill in the commander about the encounter and the commander's like, this information's now top secret.
A2's Observation and Potential Betrayal
00:31:07
Speaker
I gotta speak to the humans on the moon about it.
00:31:10
Speaker
Meanwhile, she wants them to go back down and find out everything they can about Pascal.
00:31:16
Speaker
We get another side, A2.
00:31:20
Speaker
So we get a segment from A2's perspective.
00:31:23
Speaker
A2 was the Yorha android that went missing years ago, mentioned in the prologue.
00:31:29
Speaker
She's watching 2B and 9S fight through the castle of a machine king.
00:31:34
Speaker
At the end, A2 kills the machine king and faces off against 2B and 9S.
00:31:40
Speaker
We find out that she has killed them many times before, but they clearly don't remember it.
00:31:46
Speaker
Uh, also to be seems to have less vitality, uh, as before in her eyes, uh, they fight to a draw and a two leaves saying that command is betraying them.
00:31:57
Speaker
Um, just characters like characters making a habit of leaving on a, on a, on like a truth bomb or something like that.
00:32:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:05
Speaker
They, they, they, they, they're the, the last sentence of a chapter in a Hardy boys novel.
00:32:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:10
Speaker
And then they run out.
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:12
Speaker
I, I,
00:32:14
Speaker
I don't know why.
00:32:14
Speaker
I have this memory of a Hardy Boys novel in my head where they have to save their dad or something.
00:32:24
Speaker
And they get him and he's weakened because he's been tied up or whatever.
00:32:29
Speaker
And one of them is like, Dad, I brought... Here, eat this.
00:32:32
Speaker
It's a chocolate bar.
00:32:33
Speaker
It'll give you energy.
00:32:37
Speaker
That sounds about right.
00:32:38
Speaker
And the dad's like, thanks, son.
00:32:40
Speaker
Chocolate has the right number of sugar.
00:32:42
Speaker
And I'm like, who the fuck...
00:32:43
Speaker
Did Hershey like sponsor this or something?
00:32:46
Speaker
It'll help us fight the commies.
00:32:48
Speaker
Wait and see.
00:32:49
Speaker
Wait and see, son.
00:32:50
Speaker
All the way from Hershey, Pennsylvania.
00:32:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:53
Speaker
Land of the free.
00:32:54
Speaker
Land of the free home of the brave.
00:32:56
Speaker
You've been to Hershey Park, right?
00:32:58
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:32:59
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:33:00
Speaker
Several times.
00:33:00
Speaker
You've toured the chocolate factory, right?
00:33:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:33:03
Speaker
I lived in Carlisle for years, which was like half an hour south of Hershey Park.
00:33:09
Speaker
So that was just that was the theme park you went to.
00:33:12
Speaker
Like, that was just where you went.
00:33:14
Speaker
Yeah, no, I like I. Yeah, I remember going to Hershey Park a number of times as a kid.
00:33:21
Speaker
And the thing that always tickled me was the fact that the street lamps in Hershey are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.
00:33:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:31
Speaker
It's cute.
00:33:31
Speaker
You know?
00:33:32
Speaker
It is cute.
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:33
Speaker
It was good.
00:33:33
Speaker
There was some good design there.
00:33:35
Speaker
I remember it was, I do remember also that like, it smelled like chocolate everywhere you went.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:42
Speaker
And people would just kind of assume they were just like, and myself included really, Oh, because the factory's right here.
00:33:49
Speaker
So I guess it probably smells like chocolate around here all the time.
00:33:51
Speaker
And you're like, they piped that shit in.
00:33:53
Speaker
That wasn't, that's not, that's not,
00:33:55
Speaker
That's not a factory smell.
00:33:57
Speaker
Like that's not how that works.
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:00
Speaker
That was, that's, that's, that's them.
00:34:02
Speaker
That's the theater pouring in the smell of butter from popcorn.
00:34:06
Speaker
So you'll go out and buy a, you know, a thing of it.
00:34:08
Speaker
That's what this is.
00:34:10
Speaker
That's what this is.
00:34:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
And before any Europeans are like, Oh, Hershey's it's terrible.
00:34:17
Speaker
It tastes like vomit.
00:34:18
Speaker
Like, yes, we fucking shut the fuck up.
00:34:20
Speaker
We know, but just shut the fuck up.
00:34:23
Speaker
I mean, no, but it's what we have back off.
00:34:25
Speaker
Just stop talking.
00:34:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:26
Speaker
I don't care.
00:34:27
Speaker
I don't care.
00:34:30
Speaker
It's my home state.
00:34:32
Speaker
I will eat.
00:34:33
Speaker
I will shotgun Hershey kisses if I want to.
00:34:37
Speaker
That's just where we're going with this.
00:34:39
Speaker
That's where we're going with this.
00:34:40
Speaker
Have you ever, do you ever, my brother showed me this, the way to get a Hershey kiss wrapper off very fast.
00:34:46
Speaker
No.
00:34:46
Speaker
It's like you put your forefinger on the tip of it.
00:34:51
Speaker
and your thumb on like the butt, you know, the flat part.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:54
Speaker
And you just, you just squeeze and it shoots into your hands.
00:34:58
Speaker
What?
00:34:59
Speaker
All right.
00:35:01
Speaker
I don't even know where I would get a Hershey's kiss at this point, right at this time of night, but I'm going to find out.
00:35:07
Speaker
Well, you I'm sure.
00:35:08
Speaker
Assuming you have a 24 hour CVS somewhere nearby, somewhere nearby.
00:35:12
Speaker
It's going to have to happen.
00:35:13
Speaker
We're going to have to, we're going to make this miracle happen for science, for science, for science.
00:35:20
Speaker
Oh God.
00:35:20
Speaker
If you, if you do that tonight, I will edit the video in of you, of you.
00:35:26
Speaker
I might.
00:35:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:27
Speaker
I mean, amazing.
00:35:31
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:35:33
Speaker
Chapter four, 2B's story slash alienation.
00:35:39
Speaker
2B reports to Commander on their failure to destroy A2.
00:35:43
Speaker
Commander's happy they are safe because A2 is dangerous.
00:35:47
Speaker
And 9S asks what A2 had actually deserted from, to which she responds, that is classified.
00:35:54
Speaker
Everything's classified.
00:35:55
Speaker
Thanks.
00:35:56
Speaker
They decided to go talk to Pascal about A2 and if he's aware of her.
00:36:03
Speaker
On the way, we are informed of a previous day's action where they hunted down 8B, 22B, and 64B.
00:36:11
Speaker
They were supposed to capture them, according to 9S, and find out if they had been stealing from the resistance camp.
00:36:20
Speaker
2B had secret orders to make sure that they were executed.
00:36:24
Speaker
So they all ended up dead.
00:36:26
Speaker
When 9S later asked Anemone about the thefts that they were supposedly accused of, Anemone was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:36:36
Speaker
And then 9S asked his operator, and his operator refused to elaborate, but then also said...
00:36:41
Speaker
you should be careful.
00:36:42
Speaker
You see me just like poking around at things and nothing really good comes with the poking.
00:36:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:49
Speaker
Keep your nose clean, kid.
00:36:50
Speaker
Let's, uh, yeah.
00:36:53
Speaker
Um,
00:36:54
Speaker
Pascal doesn't have much information about A2 aside from old records that mention how dangerous she is.
00:37:00
Speaker
He's like, yeah, she's fucking wild.
00:37:03
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2B asks 9S why he wanted to talk to Pascal specifically and that command doesn't approve of talking to machines.
00:37:11
Speaker
2B and then 9S is like, well, fuck you.
00:37:15
Speaker
And 2B is like, I'm sorry, buddy.
00:37:19
Speaker
You're a good...
00:37:20
Speaker
You're a good 9S.
00:37:22
Speaker
You're a good bot.
00:37:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:23
Speaker
You're a good bot.
00:37:24
Speaker
And then in her inner monologue is worried.
00:37:27
Speaker
She's worried about the same thing might happen.
00:37:32
Speaker
So I don't know what that is referencing yet.
00:37:36
Speaker
Yes.
00:37:37
Speaker
Whether 9S has gone down this road before.
00:37:41
Speaker
When they get back to the resistance cap, things are mobilizing.
00:37:46
Speaker
An aircraft carrier is returning from the Pacific and they need to secure the coast.
00:37:50
Speaker
9S mentioned that they can handle it because they aren't older robots like A2.
00:37:56
Speaker
And 2B's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
00:37:58
Speaker
An enemy is like...
00:38:01
Speaker
kind of gets a little pale when she hears the name A2.
00:38:05
Speaker
2B clocks that.
00:38:08
Speaker
But no, I don't know who she is.
00:38:12
Speaker
F2, you say?
00:38:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:17
Speaker
I misheard.
00:38:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:21
Speaker
I knew a 2B.
00:38:22
Speaker
That's you.
00:38:23
Speaker
You're 2B.
00:38:23
Speaker
Oh, that's you, though.
00:38:24
Speaker
But yes.
00:38:25
Speaker
That's you.
00:38:25
Speaker
Sorry.
00:38:27
Speaker
Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee.
00:38:29
Speaker
Am I right?
00:38:31
Speaker
Android coffee.
00:38:34
Speaker
This is fuel oil.
00:38:36
Speaker
2B and 9S head into an area called the Flooded City.
Goliath Battle and 9S's Fate
00:38:40
Speaker
They fight their way through to where these missiles are stored that are going to be used to be deployed into the aircraft carrier that's coming along.
00:38:54
Speaker
Aircraft carriers usually don't necessarily have a missile complement, do they?
00:39:00
Speaker
Not really.
00:39:00
Speaker
That's their carriers.
00:39:01
Speaker
They're not, they're not, they're not battleships.
00:39:04
Speaker
They're, they're carriers.
00:39:05
Speaker
So that is a little weird, but yeah.
00:39:07
Speaker
Um, anyway, I just like realized what's on them often has missile systems.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:14
Speaker
You've got, you've got lots of cool shit.
00:39:16
Speaker
You're carrying the planes that the planes and helicopters and such that launch from them shoot things.
00:39:23
Speaker
Plenty of shit there.
00:39:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:26
Speaker
Um,
00:39:28
Speaker
So they get an emergency comm.
00:39:31
Speaker
So they take care of the stored missiles.
00:39:32
Speaker
They're secured.
00:39:33
Speaker
And then they get an emergency comm that they need to get into flight units to help defend the aircraft carrier.
00:39:39
Speaker
9S complains that the commander is too harsh.
00:39:41
Speaker
And 2B is like, dude, you're you're really on something recently.
00:39:45
Speaker
And I don't know what it is.
00:39:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:49
Speaker
They take off towards the ship and 9S notes the machines are looking like a swarm around the carrier and suddenly there is a signal for a Goliath class.
00:39:58
Speaker
They turn their attention to it and take it down and then 9S announces, oh shit, there's another one.
00:40:05
Speaker
But this isn't just a Goliath class.
00:40:08
Speaker
This is like, this is basically Godzilla.
00:40:13
Speaker
There's a wave, a wave hits the aircraft carrier, which is then bitten in half and destroyed.
00:40:21
Speaker
Like the aircraft carrier, which they were just making a big deal out of, this Goliath class is like crumped.
00:40:28
Speaker
Just just eats it.
00:40:29
Speaker
It's a monster of a machine bigger than they have seen before.
00:40:33
Speaker
And an electromagnetic shield protects it from orbital strikes.
00:40:38
Speaker
It launches some sort of resonance attack, which like repels everything away.
00:40:44
Speaker
2B and 9S are saved by Pascal's villagers.
00:40:48
Speaker
And Pascal mentions that hundreds of years ago, when he was still part of the network, that the monster was basically too uncontrollable.
00:41:00
Speaker
It was like this giant beast of a machine, and they couldn't deal with it.
00:41:05
Speaker
So they discarded the machine in the deep ocean and forced it into the depths of the ocean.
00:41:14
Speaker
9S realizes that the missiles that were supposed to be restocked on the carrier might work to deal with this.
00:41:21
Speaker
And 2B covers while he heads back.
00:41:24
Speaker
The missile then launches and strikes inside of its mouth, detonating it.
00:41:30
Speaker
And all 2B hears a static and silence and then...
00:41:33
Speaker
The sound of waves.
00:41:35
Speaker
She wakes up on the beach and doesn't see anyone else.
00:41:38
Speaker
She calls to the bunker where her operator informs her that she has been unconscious for eight hours.
00:41:45
Speaker
2B requests consent to look for 9S and her operator 6O tells her that it has already been given.
00:41:55
Speaker
2B talks to an enemy about a specialized scanner for weak black box signals.
00:41:59
Speaker
She directs her to a pair of redhead twins named Davola and Popola, who are, they're just characters, man, you know?
00:42:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:09
Speaker
Devola is mean and Popola is nice.
00:42:12
Speaker
One of us tells the truth and one of us always lies.
00:42:16
Speaker
That's.
00:42:17
Speaker
Oh, and that's my riddles three.
00:42:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's that's what fucking spooky ginger twins like.
00:42:24
Speaker
That's not what we need.
00:42:27
Speaker
2B returns to the flooded city to look for 9S, finds a bunch of survivors, but no 9S.
00:42:35
Speaker
And one of the survivors points out he was flung.
00:42:39
Speaker
They saw him flung much further inland.
00:42:42
Speaker
So TB will have to go on to find him.
00:42:46
Speaker
And then we get another side, Adam again, the point of view chapter as Adam thinks about the process of having children and how silly it is.
00:42:55
Speaker
And also death.
00:42:56
Speaker
What's up with that?
00:42:59
Speaker
That's literally it.
00:43:01
Speaker
Adam goes up with that.
00:43:03
Speaker
Adam goes off on a journey without Eve to figure out death, comma, what's up with that?
00:43:09
Speaker
It was a senior project.
00:43:14
Speaker
It's a senior project, yeah.
00:43:15
Speaker
And that's where we leave it
Critique of Book Writing
00:43:18
Speaker
for today.
00:43:18
Speaker
So, Phil, what are you thinking so far?
00:43:23
Speaker
I will say that the strongest thing for this book is that it's actually making me interested in playing the game again.
00:43:31
Speaker
Sure.
00:43:32
Speaker
Unfortunately, it's because, and you're the one who pointed this out to me before I even started it.
00:43:37
Speaker
And you're absolutely right.
00:43:39
Speaker
Unfortunately, it's because the writing style is like,
00:43:44
Speaker
so rudimentary, like my first near automata kind of like it's, it's, it's, and I wonder if that has to do with, we found, as we found out earlier, the translator doesn't seem to be like a professional translator.
00:43:58
Speaker
Right.
00:44:00
Speaker
Or if they are, this was like their first gig.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:04
Speaker
So it's interesting.
00:44:07
Speaker
It has interesting ideas.
00:44:09
Speaker
I'm also annoyed at all the little it's, it's such video game philosophy.
00:44:15
Speaker
I sound like a pretentious dickwad, but it's like, you've got to be, you know,
00:44:20
Speaker
As in to be or not to be.
00:44:22
Speaker
You've got Pascal as in Pascal's wager.
00:44:25
Speaker
You've got all these little existential philosophical tidbits.
00:44:30
Speaker
Doing what it says right on the can.
00:44:32
Speaker
Right.
00:44:32
Speaker
That's exactly it.
00:44:34
Speaker
And honestly, for what it's trying to do, it's an interesting idea.
00:44:40
Speaker
I love the idea of the robots –
00:44:44
Speaker
The machines imitating mankind because they think that's what they're supposed to.
00:44:50
Speaker
I really dig that.
00:44:51
Speaker
That's kind of a cool idea.
00:44:53
Speaker
They've kind of just been going on their own now.
00:44:55
Speaker
As we find out in this opening section, they've been on their own for hundreds of years.
00:45:00
Speaker
They're not getting orders anymore.
00:45:01
Speaker
Right.
00:45:03
Speaker
They're just doing what they're doing.
00:45:05
Speaker
And I think that's really neat.
00:45:08
Speaker
But I keep thinking, and this is how it typically is.
00:45:11
Speaker
A fan base will ruin a thing.
00:45:12
Speaker
I keep thinking back to everyone talking about what a work of genius this was.
00:45:16
Speaker
And, and it just kind of annoys me.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:19
Speaker
And that's, and that's not the source materials, goddamn fault.
00:45:23
Speaker
And I feel bad for even getting to that point, but yeah,
00:45:26
Speaker
I think because I know I have this on my PlayStation, so I'll have to try this again, play this again, which will necessitate me hooking up my PS4.
00:45:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:45:41
Speaker
PS4 will sound like a jet engine.
00:45:45
Speaker
Remember, PS4 sounds like a jet engine.
00:45:47
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:45:49
Speaker
So that'll be fun.
00:45:51
Speaker
That'll be fun.
00:45:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:53
Speaker
It's funny because it's like, okay, well reading out the plot, it's like, oh man, there's a lot of like plot stuff that happens, you
Discussion on Book's Pacing
00:46:03
Speaker
know?
00:46:03
Speaker
Right.
00:46:03
Speaker
It's not like a book where nothing happens.
00:46:06
Speaker
So much has happened in the first four chapters.
00:46:09
Speaker
Just bounds of things happening.
00:46:13
Speaker
What I think
00:46:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:15
Speaker
What I think you can kind of pick up is like the pacing feels like we're, we're on fast forward almost.
00:46:22
Speaker
It's like a checklist.
00:46:23
Speaker
We're not really sitting with anything.
00:46:25
Speaker
We're just going.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:27
Speaker
You know, it's, and yeah, I, I found that with,
00:46:31
Speaker
There's no description there.
00:46:33
Speaker
Like you're you're told, well, they're in a desert area.
00:46:36
Speaker
And you're like, okay, well, what kind of desert are we telling you?
00:46:38
Speaker
Is it like just barren is like wasteland as far as the, I can see, or we talk about there are there OECs.
00:46:43
Speaker
What are we talking?
00:46:44
Speaker
And there's just no description to be had as far as, as that sort of thing is concerned.
00:46:50
Speaker
It's a desert area.
00:46:52
Speaker
There's a city area.
00:46:54
Speaker
There's a flooded city.
00:46:56
Speaker
It's like your buddy is telling you about it after they played it, you know?
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, which is kind of like we found that we've had that before with other games where it's like, well, okay, this just kind of feels like a description of watching somebody play it.
00:47:09
Speaker
That's why I think I said it felt like Worlds of Power was
00:47:13
Speaker
I mean, it's not, it's not, it's not, I was, I overspoke.
00:47:17
Speaker
It's not down to worlds of power in terms of, in terms of reading level, it's not very high.
00:47:23
Speaker
It's not a high reading level.
00:47:24
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:47:25
Speaker
But, but what an odd plot line, what an odd story to tell at, at such a low reading level, which is, I guess why it, the title of the book is long story short because, um,
00:47:39
Speaker
It's a relatively, I guess the game, you know, takes maybe 20 hours to beat.
00:47:45
Speaker
I don't know.
00:47:46
Speaker
And this is definitely watering in that.
00:47:48
Speaker
The reading speed of the book when I popped it in my Kindle is like, yeah, you'll be done in two hours.
00:47:54
Speaker
I'm like, what?
00:47:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's the same.
00:47:57
Speaker
I was like, oh, okay.
00:47:58
Speaker
Got it.
00:47:59
Speaker
Got it.
00:47:59
Speaker
Got it.
00:48:01
Speaker
There are books that we read that I will look at how much we want to read by the next episode, and I will divvy it up in my head.
00:48:11
Speaker
I'll be like, okay, I want to read at least 20 pages of this a night so that I've got it all internalized and finished by the time we record.
00:48:19
Speaker
This is not one of those books.
00:48:21
Speaker
This is not one of those books.
00:48:23
Speaker
Not one of those books.
00:48:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:28
Speaker
So it's not.
00:48:32
Speaker
That's the thing.
00:48:33
Speaker
And I can't even say it's bad necessarily.
00:48:36
Speaker
No, no.
00:48:37
Speaker
It's not bad.
00:48:37
Speaker
It's just exceedingly there.
00:48:40
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:41
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:41
Speaker
It is present.
00:48:42
Speaker
It is present and accounted for.
00:48:44
Speaker
It is extant.
00:48:45
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:46
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:47
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:48
Speaker
It's not.
00:48:49
Speaker
But you're right.
00:48:49
Speaker
It's not bad.
00:48:50
Speaker
bad.
00:48:51
Speaker
It's just, it's not engaging with me, but it's also not disengaging me.
00:48:55
Speaker
It's just kind of like, I'm just, it's base.
00:48:58
Speaker
It's like a, it's like an Android with just sitting there and it's like, it has no, it just feels, I don't know.
00:49:09
Speaker
It's the bowl of bread you get before the meal.
00:49:11
Speaker
It's like, okay, it's the fried egg on top of your rice.
00:49:15
Speaker
Right.
00:49:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:17
Speaker
That lazy, lazy Friday, lazy egg, that lazy egg, you wacky little lazy egg.
00:49:25
Speaker
I went into Donald Trump there.
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:27
Speaker
That lazy egg.
00:49:28
Speaker
We love the lazy egg.
00:49:30
Speaker
The kids love the lazy egg.
00:49:33
Speaker
We love the lazy egg.
00:49:34
Speaker
Don't we folks?
00:49:35
Speaker
Don't we folks?
00:49:39
Speaker
My wife looked at me the other day and she was like, we're going to, we're going to see a lot of L's coming up and we, we just need to take the joy where we can.
00:49:45
Speaker
I'm like,
00:49:46
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm settled into the amount of L's that society is going to take over the next few years.
00:49:56
Speaker
I think I'm not fine with it, of course.
00:50:00
Speaker
No, of course not.
00:50:01
Speaker
Of course not.
00:50:02
Speaker
I have acceptance, last stage of grief.
00:50:05
Speaker
I'm like, all right, well, come on, buddy.
00:50:08
Speaker
That's exactly it.
00:50:09
Speaker
What are you going to do?
00:50:11
Speaker
Fucking Canada and Greenland.
00:50:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:14
Speaker
Yeah, cool.
00:50:15
Speaker
Yeah, fine.
00:50:17
Speaker
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
00:50:21
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:50:22
Speaker
And somehow that fights human trafficking.
00:50:25
Speaker
I got so pissed.
00:50:27
Speaker
Like the, the, the, like the nautical nerd in me got so mad.
00:50:31
Speaker
It was like, it was like, it's named that because that's how you get there.
00:50:35
Speaker
That's why you go on a road and it's named after a city that isn't here.
00:50:39
Speaker
But if you follow that road, you'll get there.
00:50:42
Speaker
Like it's, I've just, I, it's not worth.
00:50:45
Speaker
And I had to remind myself as I will many, many times this year.
00:50:50
Speaker
It is just, it's not worth it.
00:50:51
Speaker
It's not worth it.
00:50:52
Speaker
To go read a book about tall ships.
00:50:55
Speaker
Yes.
00:50:55
Speaker
And that will soothe me.
00:50:59
Speaker
That's all I need.
00:51:00
Speaker
That's I need more.
00:51:03
Speaker
I need more.
00:51:04
Speaker
The Ron Swanson, just, just Ron Swanson reading a book about tall ships.
00:51:09
Speaker
That's it.
00:51:10
Speaker
That's, that's what my year is going to have to be.
00:51:14
Speaker
I read a few nonfiction pieces last year that were incredible and really, really pissed me off.
00:51:21
Speaker
And I was just like, it might just have to be Warhammer trash and indie horror for me this whole year.
00:51:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:27
Speaker
That might be all I have the strength for.
00:51:29
Speaker
Get really deep into that Warhammer trash.
00:51:33
Speaker
I'm just going to try and catch up on the horror's heresy.
00:51:36
Speaker
Before Warhammer, Phil and I both love Warhammer 40K.
00:51:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:51:43
Speaker
But we know that some of it's amazing, but it's like it's it's it's you know, it's it's just it's very it's it's got a trashiness to it.
00:51:53
Speaker
It's just it's pulp fiction for a modern age.
00:51:55
Speaker
It is.
00:51:56
Speaker
It is very pulpy.
00:51:57
Speaker
It's like, yeah, 40,000.
00:51:58
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:52:00
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:52:02
Speaker
What are we in?
00:52:02
Speaker
What are they up to in canon now?
00:52:04
Speaker
Forty three.
00:52:06
Speaker
Yeah, something like that.
00:52:07
Speaker
It's something like that.
00:52:08
Speaker
Stupid.
00:52:09
Speaker
I've been reading nothing but like.
00:52:11
Speaker
the Horace heresy for years and, and the night Lords trilogy.
00:52:15
Speaker
Now, there are 60 books just about how Horace became a heretic.
00:52:22
Speaker
Right.
00:52:23
Speaker
And then they swap over to a bunch of books we've just started now, which are about the final battle.
00:52:29
Speaker
Like they're taking their time.
00:52:30
Speaker
They are milking us like a cow.
00:52:32
Speaker
It's yeah, I'd be mad, but I respect it at the same time.
00:52:36
Speaker
I'm like, no, you guys are doing a good job.
00:52:37
Speaker
60 goddamn books and the set in the Warhammer, they call it Warhammer 30K era, basically.
00:52:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:44
Speaker
The horse heresy era.
00:52:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:49
Speaker
I love that shit.
00:52:50
Speaker
And what's funny, what I love about it is when you first meet Horace in the first book, you're like, this guy's amazing.
00:52:58
Speaker
Right, right.
00:52:59
Speaker
That's the whole, they did it beautifully.
00:53:01
Speaker
I think it was Abnett.
00:53:03
Speaker
I think Dan Abnett started the whole thing.
00:53:04
Speaker
Dan Abnett, I think it's the first book.
00:53:05
Speaker
And it's like, and he knew exactly what he was doing.
00:53:07
Speaker
He's like, we need to give them somebody beautiful and wonderful and good so he can fall, fall, fall.
00:53:16
Speaker
And you're not allowed to have heroes anymore.
00:53:18
Speaker
God damn it.
00:53:19
Speaker
And that's how this works.
00:53:20
Speaker
And it falls all the way down.
00:53:22
Speaker
Yep.
00:53:23
Speaker
All the way down.
00:53:23
Speaker
It's, it's good shit.
00:53:25
Speaker
It's good shit.
00:53:26
Speaker
It's good.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
Even though, you know, the ending court sort of, yeah.
00:53:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:32
Speaker
It's the Titanic of sci-fi.
00:53:34
Speaker
It's the Titanic of sci-fi.
00:53:35
Speaker
You know the ending.
00:53:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:38
Speaker
So with that all being said, Phil...
00:53:43
Speaker
What are you playing?
00:53:44
Speaker
Oh, I'm glad that you asked.
00:53:46
Speaker
Actually, I, I had a funny couple of weeks here because we had ourselves a little break and, and, you know, for the holidays.
00:53:56
Speaker
And I bought several games during the, the winter sale.
00:54:04
Speaker
And I bought one of the games that I bought was the Borderlands game of the year enhanced.
00:54:13
Speaker
game like the first borderlands because ever since we read that book i was like i really should learn more about this and i got it for like 25 cents in a song uh because it's you know like you know a duck egg and you know and a finely folded piece of origami and they went here you go
00:54:32
Speaker
here's your last gen game.
00:54:34
Speaker
And, and I, I, I played it all the way through.
00:54:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:41
Speaker
I wish I'd rarely get to do anymore, especially with bigger games.
00:54:44
Speaker
But last week we had no water because of the winter storm that came through.
00:54:49
Speaker
We had, we had to boil our water and the city was in a kind of a big shutdown.
00:54:54
Speaker
So we were all working from home.
00:54:56
Speaker
So I was just kind of sitting there, you know, doing my work and, you know,
00:55:01
Speaker
fuck it around this video game.
00:55:02
Speaker
And, uh, and I, I finished it the other day.
00:55:05
Speaker
Um, and I'm glad I did.
00:55:06
Speaker
It was, it was just, it's, I can see why that, that game did as well as it did.
00:55:10
Speaker
Um, it also isn't,
00:55:15
Speaker
I, I, the funny thing is now I'm like, I think I have to play borderlands too, because it wasn't the game.
00:55:21
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It was reputed to be, uh, they hadn't quite picked up the steam, uh, that people know it for.
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And so now I'm like, okay, I've got to, I've got to play the second one so I can see how far they come with it.
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But damn, it was fun.
00:55:34
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Uh, it was just really, really engaging.
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Good time.
00:55:38
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Um,
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And like I said, you can do worse than spending 75 cents on a goddamn game and getting a solid 20, 25 hours out of it.
00:55:49
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Not bad.
00:55:49
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Yeah.
00:55:49
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Why not?
00:55:50
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Why not?
00:55:51
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Yeah.
00:55:52
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So that's basically been my time.
00:55:54
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What about you, Kevin?
00:55:55
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What have you been playing?
00:55:56
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So I beat nine souls.
00:55:58
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Nice.
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And yeah, it's it is obnoxiously hard.
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I got like 75% of the way through it and said, fuck it.
00:56:08
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Put it on story mode and cranked up the damage to a thousand percent just because I was like, I just want to beat it.
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So I just powered through the rest of the game.
00:56:16
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Yeah.
00:56:18
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It was one of those games where I was like, oh man, there's so much story here.
00:56:21
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I don't care.
00:56:23
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Click, click, click, click, you know, through the text boxes.
00:56:26
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Yeah.
00:56:26
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Sometimes I love a good story in a game, but sometimes the story doesn't hook you and you're like, all right, well, I'll stick around because I'm having fun.
00:56:34
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And then I was neither having fun nor interested in the story.
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So I just I just rammed through to the end of the game.
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So it would not have made my game of the year list ultimately.
00:56:46
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Okay.
00:56:46
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Well, that's good to know at least.
00:56:47
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Yeah.
00:56:48
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Yeah.
00:56:48
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So it's, it's, but I'm happy.
00:56:53
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I finished it.
00:56:54
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I'm happy.
00:56:54
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I finished it.
00:56:56
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These days.
00:56:57
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I'm happy.
00:56:57
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I finished any game.
00:56:59
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Yeah.
00:56:59
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I get it.
00:57:02
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I get it.
00:57:02
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And, you know, it's off the list and I can uninstall it.
00:57:08
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And I understand why people love it, though.
00:57:11
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Oh, yeah.
00:57:11
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It's definitely interesting.
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It's a fun art style.
00:57:15
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It's got some nice little gore aspects, which you would imagine it's from the developers.
00:57:23
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They made a couple horror games.
00:57:26
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Hmm.
00:57:27
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What is the... All right.
00:57:29
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Where do I want to go?
00:57:30
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I want to go to the store page.
00:57:31
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It's... Why am I forgetting... Blanking on their name.
00:57:35
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Red Candle Games.
00:57:36
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Okay.
00:57:37
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Oh, okay.
00:57:37
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Yeah, they were the detention and devotion people.
00:57:41
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:43
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And they got into a lot of trouble with like, you know, some... I think they were censored.
00:57:50
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One of the games was censored or something like that.
00:57:54
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Anyway, yeah.
00:57:55
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So...
00:57:58
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What else?
00:57:59
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What else have I been playing?
00:58:01
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I play Power Wash Simulator a little bit more because as you do, it's I always assume that you are.
00:58:08
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I just assume that I am.
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I'm up to 97 hours on it.
00:58:12
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So beautiful.
00:58:14
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And there's a Wallace and Gromit special pack coming this year.
00:58:19
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What?
00:58:20
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How does that?
00:58:21
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That's beautiful.
00:58:21
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How does that even happen?
00:58:24
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It's a power wash simulator, man.
00:58:27
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They're just like, yeah, you got a franchise?
00:58:29
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Fuck it.
00:58:29
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We'll wash it.
00:58:30
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We'll wash it.
00:58:31
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We'll wash your franchise.
00:58:33
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We'll wash your franchise.
00:58:35
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So I mean, like Back to the Future, Warhammer 40K, Tomb Raider, upcoming Wallace and Gromit, SpongeBob SquarePants.
00:58:47
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That's amazing.
00:58:48
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I love it.
00:58:49
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That's great.
00:58:50
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That is great stuff.
00:58:51
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It's, it's fun.
00:58:52
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Uh, I, I enjoy it.
00:58:55
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Um, uh, so I've decided also that this year is the year of the backlog where I at least play a game for a little bit and decide what, what the deal is with it.
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Um, so I fired up a game called moon scars, which is a Metroidvania that came out a couple of years ago.
00:59:16
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And it's fine so far.
00:59:19
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It's got an art style that is very reminiscent of Blasphemous.
00:59:26
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I think it's basically you're going to see Blasphemous inspiring a whole litany of games moving into the future where the gothic horror Metroidvanias...
00:59:40
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you could say that obviously Castlevania is a big part of the Metroidvanias, but Castlevania is not necessarily the same type of horror as that I'm thinking of.
00:59:53
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There's a lot of like... It's like that
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religiousness that the, the, the idea of a deity or some sort of ism backing it is, is kind of what separates blasphemous from Christianity.
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Oh yeah.
01:00:15
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Where not Christianity, Castlevania, which obviously has Christian imagery in it, but it's more like,
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It's more like salad.
01:00:25
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It's like dressing, you know, it's not, it's not like integral to it.
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It's, it's Christian in the same sense that any movie where someone holds up a cross against a vampire is Christian, which is to say not all that much.
01:00:38
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Not all that much.
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Um,
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And not even Christian Catholic.
01:00:43
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Yeah.
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Distinct difference.
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Yeah.
01:00:47
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Distinct difference.
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Catholicism is the dark souls of Christianity.
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It so is.
01:00:55
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And so is the Catholics got the lore.
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My wife and I were just talking about that.
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We were like driving somewhere and we passed the Catholic Church.
01:01:05
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She was like, man, if they I would love to have been a Catholic, it weren't for the fact that they're fucking monsters.
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It's like, yeah, it's just it's it's a fast and they've got the art.
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They've got the lore.
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They've got all the really gothic, crazy shit.
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It's like, damn it.
01:01:21
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That should be more fun.
01:01:21
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Conclave yet.
01:01:24
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No, no.
01:01:25
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Okay.
01:01:25
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I have not seen Conclave.
01:01:27
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Go watch Conclave.
01:01:28
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I've seen a couple of movies.
01:01:30
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It's it's.
01:01:31
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Oh, Emily saw this one.
01:01:33
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Emily saw this one.
01:01:33
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She loved it.
01:01:34
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Yeah.
01:01:35
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You need to watch.
01:01:36
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You need to watch Conclave.
01:01:37
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Okay.
01:01:38
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You specifically need to watch conflict.
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Because I feel like it is peak your shit.
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Okay.
01:01:46
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It is like 12 angry men meets choosing a Pope.
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I like it.
01:01:55
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I like it.
01:01:57
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Who does Henry Fonda play?
01:02:03
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Ray Fiennes plays Henry Fonda.
01:02:05
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Well, the cast is bananas.
01:02:07
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Ray Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini.
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It's... It's a cast to end all casts.
01:02:19
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That is crazy.
01:02:19
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A cast to end all casts.
01:02:21
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Yeah.
01:02:23
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And it was written by... It was written by Robert Harris.
01:02:29
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Yeah.
01:02:31
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who has done a bunch of, done a bunch of work.
01:02:38
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Yeah.
01:02:41
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Anyway, where else was I?
01:02:43
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Oh, finally.
01:02:45
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The thing that has taken up most of my time is Path of Exile 2.
01:02:49
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Oh, I've seen you playing that.
01:02:52
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Yeah.
01:02:52
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Yeah.
01:02:53
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Tell me about that.
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Okay, so it's basically a Diablo-like.
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It's the second game in the series.
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They refined a bunch of things.
01:03:04
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It's in way early access.
01:03:07
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So it's like pay right now.
01:03:10
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For the first year and a half, it's like pay to play it.
01:03:14
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It's like a $30 game or whatever.
01:03:17
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When it fully launches, it's going to be free and subsist on microtransactions only.
01:03:23
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Okay.
01:03:25
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So right now, it is, I don't know, it really hits that dopamine button.
01:03:32
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I'm playing right now as a ranger, and she has... Jesus, how are they not getting sued by Blizzard?
01:03:39
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This is...
01:03:41
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This is crazy.
01:03:43
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Guys, if you haven't seen the art style of Path of Exile 2, you need to check it out and tell me, tell me that Blizzard wouldn't be pissed off if they saw this.
01:03:52
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It is.
01:03:53
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And here's the thing.
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So it came out on December 6th in early access.
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Did you see the number of reviews that it has on the store page? 86,000.
01:04:09
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86,000.
01:04:10
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And it's still very positive for all reviews.
01:04:14
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That's I mean, that's that's something that's impressive.
01:04:17
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Yeah.
01:04:18
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So it's it's wild.
01:04:20
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They have a new patch coming out soon.
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Patch 0.1.1.
01:04:23
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Well, they are in way early.
01:04:26
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This is alpha.
01:04:29
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Yeah, but what's funny is like it is so it's polished in just the perfect amount like the gameplay elements in turn like the animation and the sound effects and the feeling of attacking and killing an enemy and all that stuff.
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feels great you know yeah i have a i have a ranger and whenever she shoots her arrow at like an enemy that's too low a level it like one shots it and it's just like the arrow hits it and the enemy just explodes into a puff of blood nice it's glorious um and uh it's got dodge rolling oh so it's a souls like uh yes obviously um
01:05:15
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And I think I saw a dragon there too.
01:05:17
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So yeah, Soul's like confirmed.
01:05:19
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It's got a dragon.
01:05:23
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It's got all sorts of things.
01:05:25
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And yeah, this is one of the games where it's like Elon Musk was showing off how he had a super high level like character and it was hardcore mode.
01:05:38
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So it's the...
01:05:41
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Hardcore being that when you die, that's it.
01:05:43
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You know, when your character dies, it's over.
01:05:48
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He's like showing off that he is like a bajillion level hardcore mode character and everybody's like, no, you don't.
01:05:56
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You didn't do that.
01:05:57
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You did not.
01:05:58
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How?
01:05:59
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How?
01:06:00
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When did you find that?
01:06:01
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Aren't you this crazy, busy genius?
01:06:03
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When did you find the fucking job?
01:06:04
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You're the CEO of three companies.
01:06:05
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You're talking to Donald Trump every day.
01:06:08
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Yeah.
01:06:11
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So either you're ignoring your job or you're full of shit.
01:06:15
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Like it's one way or the other here, buddy.
01:06:18
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And I will say it is both.
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Yeah, I'm with you 100%.
01:06:22
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He's ignoring his job.
01:06:25
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Clearly.
01:06:25
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I don't think he does anything.
01:06:28
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He's ignoring his children.
01:06:29
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Why shouldn't he ignore his job?
01:06:30
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He is ignoring his children.
01:06:32
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I love his daughter popping her head up every few months to just eviscerate him.
01:06:38
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She's beautiful.
01:06:40
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We love her.
01:06:41
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Oh,
01:06:44
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She is welcome on the show.
01:06:46
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She's welcome on the show.
01:06:48
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But that'll do it for tonight's episode.
01:06:50
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Thank you so much for listening.
01:06:51
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And that'll be it.
01:07:11
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Go watch Conclave.
01:07:12
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It's the best gay movie of the year.
01:07:17
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I got to do that.
01:07:18
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Emily will be so pleased that you told me I had to watch that.