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Speaker: So yeah, you want to put the body in the marsh?
Speaker: Let's marsh this body.
Speaker: When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them
Speaker: In the marsh.
Speaker: All right, Marshies.
Speaker: Let's do it.
Speaker: I love that.
Speaker: We start with.
Speaker: We start.
Speaker: Yeah, I love it, too.
Speaker: We start with Chapter 17.
Speaker: I believe that's where we left off.
Speaker: Chapter 17.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Chapter 17.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Nikolai has been tracking Dr. Richard Kimball.
Speaker: He's a hard target search.
Speaker: He's looking at every outhouse, field house.
Speaker: It's no, it's not Richard Kimball.
Speaker: It's Dr. Richard Aquino.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And The Fugitive, I got to watch that.
Speaker: I feel like that holds up as a solid.
Speaker: I haven't seen it in forever.
Speaker: But yeah, I feel like that one would still do pretty well.
Speaker: I feel like that's a movie that would have been on USA or TNT in the afternoon.
Speaker: And you're like, I'm not doing anything.
Speaker: And you just kind of sit there.
Speaker: Sit down and watch it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Dr. Richard Aquino for the last half hour and has finally found him on the fourth floor of the hospital.
Speaker: And while confronting him, Aquino admits that the vaccine is ready.
Speaker: It just needs its separate elements all combined.
Speaker: Aquino has Nikolai confused for another watchdog, Ken Franklin, who is tasked with picking up the vaccine.
Speaker: Kino opens the door to show vaccine the Nikolai, the vaccine base, but uses this opportunity to try to inject Nikolai with something.
Speaker: But Nikolai is too fast.
Speaker: He avoids the injection and stabs a Kino in the neck.
Speaker: And then Nikolai decides, well, if I'm waiting, I might as well synthesize the vaccine.
Speaker: And he's going to wait.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: Franklin.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: As Jill and Carlos pick through the building, she tells him the story of the Spencer estate and George Trevor and all the weird traps there.
Speaker: And they come upon three mixed media art pieces, which reminds them of the postcard clue about the hands being together on the clock.
Speaker: There's a tray in front of each artwork that they need to use to move the clock arms.
Speaker: And Jill thinks it over and realizes there's some statues holding balls that can be put into the trays.
Speaker: And Jill, this is amazing.
Speaker: She's like, she says, I'm sure there's a motif to the puzzle, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker: And she brute forces the solution.
Speaker: She just forces it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It just doesn't matter.
Speaker: She's like, it's only three things.
Speaker: There's not many permutations.
Speaker: This, this, this.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: And she's like, I could try to figure out what the fuck the clue is.
Speaker: Yeah, but I'm not doing that.
Speaker: I feel like this is this is another example of our author as the player trying this out for the first time, being like, just do it all.
Speaker: Just do all of them.
Speaker: I don't have time for your little game, you know?
Speaker: Yeah, it's the clue meeting enemy fire.
Speaker: The clue is only as good.
Speaker: It's only only good until it meets enemy fire, which is the player.
Speaker: Chapter 18.
Speaker: Carlos watches Jill go up.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: They brute force the solution and they try each combo.
Speaker: It opens the clock, gives them the cog they need.
Speaker: They go back to the bell tower.
Speaker: Now in Chapter 18, Carlos watches Jill go up the bell tower, put the gear in and activate it.
Speaker: And while she does this, he stares off into the middle distance, thinking about how crazy the umbrella people are and how he just wants to get out of here.
Speaker: The bell rings and the landing zone lights up for the helicopter.
Speaker: He starts running towards it, but then he sees that Jill hasn't started down the ladder yet.
Speaker: Because he isn't alone.
Speaker: Nemesis is right next to him.
Speaker: Didn't notice him.
Speaker: But ignoring him and heading towards the ladder.
Speaker: Carlos throws a power switch for a set of rooftop spotlights and blinds Nemesis and then pushes it off the roof.
Speaker: Jill thanks him for saving her and Carlos swoons at how hot and nice and considerate she is.
Speaker: And Jill snaps him out of it and they have to get going.
Speaker: Which is, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Nikolai heard the bells while he was walking towards town to track down Davis Chan.
Speaker: He has the antidote with him and he has set the hospital blow in 48 hours.
Speaker: And he spends a lot of time thinking about how evil he is.
Speaker: So he really does, doesn't he?
Speaker: There's a lot of like.
Speaker: There's two more sections of this, by the way, of him just talking about how evil he is.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: If any of you have ever heard of the, not the author, but the goth musician Voltaire, he did a song called When You're Evil.
Speaker: And it's the most hackneyed on purpose.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: mustache twisting song about how great it is to be evil.
Speaker: And that's what's playing in my head.
Speaker: Every time there's a chapter with Nikolai just talking to himself, you're like, OK, OK, you're very you're very evil.
Speaker: You're very evil.
Speaker: Thanks.
Speaker: Thanks.
Speaker: Thanks a lot.
Speaker: Super evil.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Where did we go?
Speaker: OK, there it is.
Speaker: Back at the clock tower.
Speaker: Jill and Carlos are retracing their steps through the building and making up cover stories for themselves when the helicopters pick them up.
Speaker: Uh, Carlo asks Jill about their mutual friend, Trent, and they decide to talk about him after this is all over.
Speaker: Uh, when they get to the landing zone and see the helicopter, uh, there's like a moment where like Jill is smiling and the helicopter pilot is smiling and she's smiling and cuts back to the helicopter pilot and he's not smiling anymore.
Speaker: Yeah, because there's a rocket heading for the helicopter shot by Nemesis blows the copter out of the sky with a rocket.
Speaker: Nemesis takes them out with a rocket launcher.
Speaker: That's yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay, buddy.
Speaker: Carlos pulls her out of the way and they take cover behind the fountain.
Speaker: And then in Chapter 19, a helicopter crashes into the building, spews chunks of rocks everywhere.
Speaker: One of them hits Carlos in the ribs, breaks his ribs.
Speaker: He tells Jill to run and he picks up his rifle.
Speaker: Everything hurts.
Speaker: And Nemesis picks up the rocket launcher to fire at the fleeing Jill.
Speaker: But Carlos opens fire.
Speaker: Nemesis shoots at him, but misses.
Speaker: And the explosion sends Carlos flying.
Speaker: Carlos lands continues firing.
Speaker: And at some point, one of his bullets somehow hits the inside of the rocket, hits the rocket while it's inside the rocket launcher and blows Nemesis away.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Which is lucky shot.
Speaker: You know, I mean, lucky.
Speaker: I will.
Speaker: I think if it was any other franchise, I'd be like, oh, for fuck's sake.
Speaker: But that is a total Resident Evil move.
Speaker: That's a very Resident Evil move.
Speaker: Very Resident Evil move.
Speaker: Like, yeah, you fire your single shot.
Speaker: Pow.
Speaker: That's that's it.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: Now, I don't know if those rockets are necessarily armed while they're in the rocket launcher, but that's, I guess, another thing.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker: I don't know if that matters.
Speaker: I'm not sure.
Speaker: I don't know if it matters.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I do.
Speaker: I do.
Speaker: I do know, however, that and this is such a small thing to catch, but it just I don't know why it made me laugh so hard.
Speaker: She describes that he's either got a rocket launcher or a bazooka.
Speaker: And I was like, that's also a rocket launcher.
Speaker: This is a bazooka is a really specific one from like World War Two that no one uses anymore.
Speaker: So we could have just gone with rocket launcher.
Speaker: We didn't need rocket launcher.
Speaker: It's fine.
Speaker: We don't need.
Speaker: I bust balls, but it did.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We cut to Jill's perspective.
Speaker: She shoots at Nemesis with her grenade launcher and misses.
Speaker: She runs, gets clipped by and then gets clipped by some sort of tentacle thing from Nemesis, seemingly infecting her.
Speaker: Then she shoots Nemesis again with the grenade launcher, knocking it down.
Speaker: She reloads and fires again into its lower back and Nemesis actually retreats.
Speaker: Jill goes over to Carlos with the last of her strength and passes out.
Speaker: And we cut back to Carlos waking up again.
Speaker: And he picks up Jill and carries her back inside.
Speaker: Chapter 20.
Speaker: They just go back and forth taking turns being unconscious at this point.
Speaker: Yeah, that's pretty much all we have at this point.
Speaker: For the next 10 chapters, I want to say.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's just I'm unconscious or you're unconscious.
Speaker: One or the other.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: One or the other.
Speaker: Or eventually Carlos will just be taking a nap, but Jill doesn't want to wake him.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It counts.
Speaker: It counts.
Speaker: It counts.
Speaker: Jill has a dream sequence recounting various parts of her life between waking up and taking drinks of water and falling asleep again.
Speaker: She feels like every cell of her body is becoming thick and heavy with strange spices, which was an interesting way to...
Speaker: A very literary way of putting it.
Speaker: That was that was becoming spicy spices that I liked it, but I wondered where the hell that came from at the same time.
Speaker: She decides that she's alive and wakes up.
Speaker: Chapter 21.
Speaker: Carlos is hanging out near Jill, eating a can of fruit cocktail when she wakes up.
Speaker: Uh, she's been moving more than she had in 48 hours.
Speaker: And he tells her that they are in the chapel of the clock tower.
Speaker: And it's been about two days since the helicopter crash.
Speaker: He's been caring for her wounds and it didn't seem infected, but Jill's like, nah, I'm pretty sure I'm infected.
Speaker: Uh, maybe it's going slower because it was from nemesis or perhaps I have some immunity from the Spencer estate.
Speaker: Uh, and, uh, so Carlos is like, all right, I'm on it.
Speaker: He grabs her weapons and heads out to go to the hospital to find the potential vaccine.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Nikolai is waiting for Ken Franklin.
Speaker: Davis Chan has been a wild goose chase as he managed to avoid Nikolai while following his reports.
Speaker: Nikolai was further distracted by looking into the appearance of an Asian woman in a red dress near the police department, but he lost sight of her.
Speaker: Who could that be?
Speaker: Who could it be?
Speaker: Ada Wong.
Speaker: Ada?
Speaker: Ada.
Speaker: It's more like Metal Gear.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I think I was just falling back on standard anime voice.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Ada Wong.
Speaker: Ada Wong?
Speaker: Metal Gear?
Speaker: Snake!
Speaker: Stars.
Speaker: Yeah, he's waiting to get the jump on Franklin, but Franklin is a fast draw and actually has Nikolai dead to rights in the blink of an eye.
Speaker: He like he has every advantage to get Franklin, but Franklin comes in the door and has Nikolai in his in his crosshairs faster than Nikolai can get his gun back up.
Speaker: Yeah, like good for you.
Speaker: Good for you.
Speaker: Good for you.
Speaker: He should have just shot him, but he didn't.
Speaker: Yes, yes, yes, that is true.
Speaker: Nikolai bluffs for a bit, says he was sent by Trent to the hospital and convinces Franklin that he needs help cracking a safe.
Speaker: And then when Franklin turns his back, Nikolai grabs his gun, gets him to give up the location of Davis Chan and then shoots him in the stomach.
Speaker: And then Carlos shows up.
Speaker: Chapter 22, Carlos puts his hands up.
Speaker: He tells Nikolai that Jill is dead, so he won't go after her.
Speaker: Nikolai shows Carlos that is that he's holding the vaccine.
Speaker: Carlos keeps Nikolai talking while noticing Franklin, who's still alive, has pulled the pin on a grenade.
Speaker: Carlos keeps backing up slowly and then dives when Franklin throws the grenade.
Speaker: Nikolai dives out the window of the hospital, shoots at Carlos when he pokes his head out.
Speaker: And then Carlos notices that the vaccine tube is on the floor because Nikolai dropped it.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Nikolai is justifying that he's still in control of the situation and all that when he realizes he could shut the power down to the hospital and let the hunters loose in the hospital before blowing it just to be extra evil.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Just that's just to be extra mustache twirly mustache twirly.
Speaker: What it is.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Jill is having itchy, tasty dreams in the hospital.
Speaker: Carlos is gathering all the medical supplies that he'll need for Jill when the power goes out.
Speaker: And he realizes that this could only mean bad things.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: While he's in the stairwell, Carlos encounters three hunters and begins to engage them.
Speaker: He kills one and makes his way down to the lobby where he finds one of the bombs set up by Nikolai.
Speaker: Carlos then sprints towards the exit and gets out just in time for the hospital to blow up.
Speaker: And then Jill.
Speaker: Wait, Jill pulls him back up and looks forward.
Speaker: So wait, just Jill.
Speaker: I have a note here that Jill finds him.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's what I remember.
Speaker: It goes back and forth.
Speaker: Yeah, it goes back and forth elsewhere.
Speaker: Nikolai realizes he dropped the vaccine sample and he gets so angry that he cracks two of his own teeth.
Speaker: He's he's a he's dedicated to the evil thing.
Speaker: When you make evil your whole personality, you get Nikolai.
Speaker: That's that you get Nikolai.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Jill wakes up cured to find Carlos fast asleep on one of the pews.
Speaker: She spends the next few hours eating, drinking water and cleaning her weapons and think of where to go next.
Speaker: She figures to go to the abandoned water treatment plant north of town, leaves Carlos a note as to where she's going.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Nikolai is sitting outside of the building that Chan is in, thinking about how evil he is and how much he needs this kill.
Speaker: Chan then comes out and Nikolai mutilates his body with a knife.
Speaker: He's an evil guy.
Speaker: Evil guy.
Speaker: Carlos wakes up annoyed at the note that Jill left and gears up to go.
Speaker: He wants to catch up to her and tell her where Trent left some copters for them as well as to warn her about Nikolai still being out there.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Chapter 24.
Speaker: Nikolai is taking a romantic walk through the light rain while thinking evil thoughts and do about doing evil when he sees Jill.
Speaker: He can shoot her from a distance right now, but decides to follow her instead because there's too many questions her being alive poses.
Speaker: He hides for 20 seconds so that she gets far enough ahead of him.
Speaker: So that when he starts following, she won't be able to tell he's behind her.
Speaker: But whoops, Jill got the drop on him.
Speaker: Nikolai is actually very bad at this.
Speaker: This is the second time in like.
Speaker: He is kind of incompetent, like he's so focused on being the bad guy that he's like missing perfect opportunities.
Speaker: Come on, man.
Speaker: Get it together.
Speaker: Get it together, Nikolai.
Speaker: Nikolai plays dumb while Jill grills him about the water treatment plant and the vaccine.
Speaker: He's about to crack when the ground starts to shake around them.
Speaker: Nikolai feigns panic screaming that it's one of the mutants and begins to run away.
Speaker: He grabs his gun and takes cover behind a tree.
Speaker: And just as he is about to shoot, a giant mutant maggot looking creature erupts from the ground and starts going after Jill.
Speaker: Nikolai runs away giggling, literally giggling in the book.
Speaker: He he he he he.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, I just started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with my wife.
Speaker: I never we'd never actually sat down and watched the damn show.
Speaker: But the more I watch that and the more I read this book, the more Nikolai becomes Dennis in my head.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Like just evil, but maybe maybe not that scary also at the same time.
Speaker: What's that one Dennis line?
Speaker: I'm untethered or.
Speaker: Oh, it's.
Speaker: Oh, what is it?
Speaker: Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Speaker: Hold on.
Speaker: I'm going to find it.
Speaker: I didn't know what you're talking.
Speaker: Untethered is absolutely.
Speaker: I'm untethered and my rage knows no bounds.
Speaker: That's what it is.
Speaker: I love it.
Speaker: That's Nikolai.
Speaker: That's Nikolai.
Speaker: He's untethered.
Speaker: I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's who we're dealing with here.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No question.
Speaker: Jill runs from the worm thing.
Speaker: She fires at it.
Speaker: Doesn't really do much.
Speaker: And she sees a bunch of lamps around a pool that they're near as an idea.
Speaker: She jumps into the pool and baits it to get into the pool.
Speaker: And then she gets out on the other side and shoots a lamp that is near the water.
Speaker: causing it to fall into the water and shock it, frying the monster worm thing.
Speaker: Afterwards, the fried worm smells so bad that Jill vomits until there is nothing left in her stomach.
Speaker: And then she heads towards the water treatment plant.
Speaker: It's like...
Speaker: Like that's your lip.
Speaker: OK, OK.
Speaker: I thought it was a good I mean, I get it.
Speaker: Like she's seen a bunch of bad shit.
Speaker: I think it's the smell.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like like she's probably like nose blind to most smells at this point.
Speaker: But this is like this is a fresh hell of a smell, probably.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: That's that's a good point.
Speaker: That's totally fair.
Speaker: Like it's just cut right through the decay of zombies, like the blood and shit and everything.
Speaker: And it's a that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's not necessarily that it's worse.
Speaker: It's just this is a new one.
Speaker: That is also a new one.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That makes sense.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Carlos is making his way through Raccoon City after Jill.
Speaker: Chapter 25.
Speaker: Nikolai is holding a gun towards Foster, the last watchdog, and the guy is begging for his life.
Speaker: Nikolai takes his time to monologue about how he started out doing it for the money, but now it's about being in a place where life is what it is.
Speaker: Life is what it is supposed to be, except that B word, Jill, has ruined everything.
Speaker: He's a lot of incel vibes from Nikolai.
Speaker: Big time.
Speaker: Oh, God.
Speaker: He would have been a huge Andrew Tate fan.
Speaker: He would have loved Reddit.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: Jordan Peterson.
Speaker: Oh, all over it.
Speaker: All over it.
Speaker: He would have he would have he would have probably tried to kill him after a little while, though.
Speaker: After a little while.
Speaker: But have you seen that there's like that Jubilee clip of Jordan Peterson arguing against atheists?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: And every little thing is he's like, just like, well, define belief.
Speaker: It's just it just it's it's he has become a parody of himself like this is this is the way that people used to make fun of him.
Speaker: And he's actually doing it like it's just yeah, he's Bill Clinton asking you to find the word the when you're asking about his sexual indiscretions.
Speaker: It's all so ridiculous.
Speaker: There's there's this meme going around based on that interaction.
Speaker: McDonald's cashier.
Speaker: Would you like fries with that?
Speaker: Jordan Peterson.
Speaker: How would you know what I like?
Speaker: Liking isn't the same as wanting or dare I say needing cashier.
Speaker: So you don't want fries or Peterson define fries cashier.
Speaker: They're potatoes that Peterson.
Speaker: So vodka is vodka is fries.
Speaker: I'll have vodka with my Big Mac.
Speaker: Jordan Peterson fans, this man is an intellectual powerhouse.
Speaker: Yeah, that's that's it's just it's this it's this sense that everything is like you have to tear everything apart to make sure that it's logical.
Speaker: And you stop looking for logic after a little while and not even after a little while.
Speaker: Pretty much.
Speaker: He's like, you know what he is?
Speaker: He's like the Peter principle, but with grifting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So like, I feel like Jordan Peterson was probably had a level at which he was fine where he was like writing books.
Speaker: He was like writing the book where it's like 10 thing rules for your life or whatever.
Speaker: And it's mostly innocuous shit.
Speaker: It's like clean your room.
Speaker: It's not an unhinged book.
Speaker: Like when you get down to it.
Speaker: It's.
Speaker: But like that was his level.
Speaker: That was it.
Speaker: And then he got into the right wing grifting.
Speaker: The thing is, he doesn't have a he doesn't have another gear.
Speaker: He doesn't have an extra gear for the right wing grifting.
Speaker: So he was like he's a mediocre philosopher, philosophy philosopher.
Speaker: Professor, right?
Speaker: And he's he's all he can do is is write these pop philosophy books that are fine.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: That's his that's that's all he he should have stayed at doing.
Speaker: But then he became a right wing grifter and he is just so out of his element.
Speaker: Oh, he doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker: He's not.
Speaker: He doesn't.
Speaker: No, he doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker: He doesn't know how to argue any of his of these points.
Speaker: This is not the this is not his his game.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's Andrew Wakefield.
Speaker: You know, Andrew Wakefield.
Speaker: All he wanted to do was scam his way into a new vaccination thing that he designed so he can make a billion dollars.
Speaker: That's all.
Speaker: But now he's found himself as the leader of this, you know, revolution of kooks.
Speaker: And he has to he has to go along with it.
Speaker: And he's not he's not prepared for that.
Speaker: No, not at all.
Speaker: Is Andrew Wakefield still alive?
Speaker: Unfortunately.
Speaker: Unfortunately.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: He's got a while.
Speaker: He's not terribly old.
Speaker: Andrew Wakefield.
Speaker: He is not a good looking man.
Speaker: I mean, I can't imagine he's aged well.
Speaker: He is just a mess on so many different levels.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Anyway, he's Andrew Wakefield.
Speaker: Andrew Wakefield.
Speaker: Nah.
Speaker: Ah.
Speaker: Ah.
Speaker: So in cell vibes, there we go.
Speaker: That's where we jumped off.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And we pulled we pulled it all the way back.
Speaker: We're good.
Speaker: Pulled it all the way back.
Speaker: Nikolai gets angry at Foster for making him talk and shoots him in the head.
Speaker: Outside, Jill is standing on a narrow bridge that connects the park to the water treatment plant.
Speaker: She carefully starts crossing the bridge when bam, Nemesis lands right behind her.
Speaker: It is very wounded.
Speaker: Jill shoots at it and runs towards it and tries to push it off the bridge.
Speaker: She ends up needing to drop kick it off and it falls into the water below.
Speaker: Jill continues to cross the bridge and enters the plant.
Speaker: While inside, she sees a key card reader for a door that leads to communications.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Carlos has finally arrived at the facility trying to figure out where the copters are kept, but it seems like he won't be able to circle around the building without climbing through piles of lumber and old cars.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: Naturally.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: Naturally.
Speaker: He decides to find Jill first.
Speaker: He breaks a window and enters the building and climbs a ladder, finding himself in a communications room where a broadcast is transmitting that everyone needs to get 10 miles at the side of Raccoon City away from the blast that will occur at daybreak.
Speaker: Carlos realizes that they only have about an hour before the bomb is dropped.
Speaker: He tries to get into the main building, but the shutter of the door is down and it requires the same key card that Jill is looking for.
Speaker: Carlos heads back down the ladder.
Speaker: So it's just on other sides of the door.
Speaker: Just so close, you know, sliding doors.
Speaker: Yeah, yes, you know, somewhere out there plays distantly in the background.
Speaker: Lake House.
Speaker: So Keanu Reeves is not in Sliding Doors.
Speaker: He was in the lake house, which is a similar movie to Sliding Doors.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I mean, it's parallel timeline shit.
Speaker: All I know is that it's like a magical mailbox.
Speaker: If I'm recalling correctly, that's all I got.
Speaker: They are three years apart in time.
Speaker: And they can.
Speaker: But sorry, spoilers.
Speaker: That's the twist of the movie is that they figure out at the end.
Speaker: They're three years apart.
Speaker: I didn't.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I hadn't thought of that movie maybe in 20 years since you brought it up.
Speaker: And it might be a less than 20 year old movie.
Speaker: The last time.
Speaker: The last time I thought about it was the Alan Wake 2 DLC titled The Lakehouse.
Speaker: Oh, well, yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker: That'll do it.
Speaker: That'll do it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Chapter 26.
Speaker: Uh, Nikolai sees Jill and slips back into hiding, waiting for his laptop to combine all the watchdog files.
Speaker: He heard the evacuation order come through and he was on his way to make a call for a helicopter when he heard her footsteps.
Speaker: He considers her showing up a gift from fate.
Speaker: So he is able to answer all the questions that he has lingering and also possibly rape her.
Speaker: You know, if he's got time.
Speaker: Throwing that on the top there.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: As Jill searches through the building for the key card, she gets jumped by Nikolai.
Speaker: She realizes that when she realizes that he basically has gone into a full blown psychosis and considers what she can do.
Speaker: She's like, what do I like?
Speaker: She's remembering her like rape defense training.
Speaker: This is in the book.
Speaker: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker: When things are looking the darkest, Nemesis crashes through the ceiling.
Speaker: Tentacles come down, grab Nikolai and rip him in half.
Speaker: Nemesis is against sexual violence.
Speaker: Let it be known.
Speaker: This is this is not his his bailiwick.
Speaker: He's not a bad guy when you get down to it.
Speaker: When you get down to it, he's just a he's just a murderer.
Speaker: And that's his job.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: That's exactly.
Speaker: It's kind of like Am, you know, like he's kind of like Am.
Speaker: He is as God made him.
Speaker: And when I say God, I mean umbrella.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: She grabs her grenade launcher and runs through a door, which leads her to a room with where there's a bunch of dead umbrella workers, just piles of bodies.
Speaker: She starts looking through the bodies to find anything that can help and finds a key card, probably the ones she was looking for.
Speaker: She then runs back to the door where Nemesis is trying to break through and waits.
Speaker: When it comes in, she fires the grenade at the lower half while it's stunned and runs through the door it just came through.
Speaker: She grabs her Beretta where she dropped it from the Nikolai encounter, runs towards the comms room.
Speaker: Meanwhile, Carlos has found a helicopter with fuel and everything, and it's ready to go.
Speaker: Now he just needs to find Jill.
Speaker: It's been 20 minutes since he heard since he heard the announcement, meaning there's only 40 minutes to go.
Speaker: He grabs the radio and begins calling for the missile launch to be halted.
Speaker: But he actually gets Jill on the other side of the radio.
Speaker: He tells her where to go and tells her not to dick around to which she replies, you wish.
Speaker: This is flirting.
Speaker: This is flirting.
Speaker: That's flirting.
Speaker: Chapter 27.
Speaker: Jill runs in the direction Carlos told her, thinking about how bombing the city was probably the only thing Umbrella was ever going to do.
Speaker: She then stumbles upon Carlos, what Carlos had thought was a generator, and she finds that it's actually some sort of laser cannon.
Speaker: Now, in the remake, it's a it's not a laser cannon.
Speaker: It is a what's it?
Speaker: What are those guns that shoot bullets at like near light speed?
Speaker: Oh, it's like a like the rail gun.
Speaker: It's a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's a rail gun or a mag cannon or something like that.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Rail guns are fucking wild, man.
Speaker: Fucking crazy.
Speaker: Like, if you guys if you guys haven't watched a YouTube video of that shit, like, look it up.
Speaker: They've got them like they have one on the side of a friggin.
Speaker: I think it's like a battleship or something.
Speaker: And the.
Speaker: the level of power is, oh, it's disgusting.
Speaker: It's crazy.
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: And that's actually what the, in, in the halo books, I believe that's what kind of what the Mac cannons are.
Speaker: I think that's, I think that's the idea.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Is it because it's basically just shooting a massive projectile at like near light speeds and it just rips right through the shield, the covenant shield using using the most powerful magnets of all time, basically.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Fucking cool.
Speaker: Oh, God, humans.
Speaker: We got thunder in my sector here.
Speaker: So if I disappear, it's because the Lord finally took me.
Speaker: The Lord finally took him.
Speaker: Chapter 27, Joel, the, yeah.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: Laser cannon.
Speaker: While she's looking at it, Carlos throws the door open, yelling at her, get a move on.
Speaker: The door closes behind him while she is apologizing for being slow.
Speaker: And then Nemesis crashes through the ceiling, horribly mutated and shorting out the locking mechanism on the door.
Speaker: They barely have any.
Speaker: It's chapter 28 now.
Speaker: They barely have any ammo left.
Speaker: Carlo tells Jill to operate the laser cannon while he distracts the bubbly mess that used to be Nemesis whips him at him, knocking him down, and he keeps shooting his machine gun at it, doing no damage.
Speaker: The monster is nearly at Jill when she tells Carlos to move as she gets ready to open fire.
Speaker: She briefly recounts all the things this thing has done to her and finally saying, you want stars?
Speaker: I'll give you stars, you piece of shit.
Speaker: And firing the cannon.
Speaker: Now, was that in the original game or?
Speaker: I don't think so.
Speaker: I don't think so.
Speaker: I think this was just I think this was ST Perry giving Jill her smile.
Speaker: You son of a bitch.
Speaker: She says this in the remake.
Speaker: Oh, and I'm just like, I was going to look it up, but I didn't.
Speaker: Yeah, look that up.
Speaker: Look that up real quick.
Speaker: But yeah, so she fires the cannon and the laser chapter 29 is just the description of the laser burning Nemesis into a useless lump of flesh.
Speaker: Chapter 30, they take off in the helicopter.
Speaker: Jill tells Carlos that Nikolai was killed by Nemesis and he's like, sucks for that, dude.
Speaker: They hold hands as they ride the chopper off into the sunrise, not even looking back while Raccoon City is nuked.
Speaker: And then an epilogue.
Speaker: We get an epilogue, which is a Trent scene recounting the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, which happened simultaneously.
Speaker: And him thinking about how three, the three heads of White Umbrella rely on him more and more, even though he wants to bring them down.
Speaker: He's been growing an army of people that can do it.
Speaker: So, and that is the end of the book.
Speaker: That's the end of the, and Trent ends it the way he always does doing mysterious things and fading into the darkness.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So Phil, what'd you think?
Speaker: It was good.
Speaker: It was good.
Speaker: I think we spoke about this with another book recently, but I think the strongest thing it did was made me want to, you know, re download resident evil three and play it through again.
Speaker: It's just,
Speaker: The same enough, just different enough.
Speaker: It's a page turner.
Speaker: Nothing crazy.
Speaker: Nothing, you know, not going to win a Pulitzer, but but perfectly serviceable, perfectly cromulent adaptation, a perfectly cromulent adaptation.
Speaker: That's that's a good way of putting it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Apparently, yes, you want stars.
Speaker: I'll give you stars is in the original.
Speaker: OK, but a lot of people are saying that they changed it for the for the for the
Speaker: Oh, did they change it for the remake?
Speaker: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: See, now I got to play it through again.
Speaker: Now you got to play through it again.
Speaker: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker: It's a good adaptation.
Speaker: I think it does something that I feel like the game itself should have done, which is more Carlos segments.
Speaker: Yes, yes.
Speaker: I feel like Resident Evil 3 could have really benefited from a...
Speaker: Especially if they were doing the remake, a full Resident Evil 2 style split narrative by, you know, oh, yeah, with Carlos and Jill, I think would have been a cool idea.
Speaker: I mean, I'm just throwing ideas out there.
Speaker: Comcast, Comcast, Capcom, Comcast, feel free to hire me as well.
Speaker: Yeah, Capcom, you know, I'm here for you guys.
Speaker: What's up?
Speaker: What's up?
Speaker: But yeah, I agree.
Speaker: That is a good book.
Speaker: Fun, fun read.
Speaker: Looking forward to looking for the next one in another year.
Speaker: Another year.
Speaker: I mean, hell, we got two of them left.
Speaker: Two of them left.
Speaker: That's that's crazy.
Speaker: You have read five of these things, one a year.
Speaker: So that just tells you we are.
Speaker: I mean, that's that's us.
Speaker: We're the beginning of our fifth year now.
Speaker: Is it the beginning of our fifth year?
Speaker: Jesus Christ.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Jesus H. Christ.
Speaker: Yeah, man.
Speaker: It's a good show.
Speaker: What can I say?
Speaker: Good show.
Speaker: It's a good show.
Speaker: Phil.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What are you playing with?
Speaker: Oh, oh, well, first and foremost, I finished Promise Mascot Agency.
Speaker: I don't know if I mentioned that on the last episode.
Speaker: No, no, you were close to the end, but.
Speaker: Yeah, I finished it.
Speaker: Great damn game.
Speaker: It's it's one of the most enjoyable, low pressure style kinds of games I've ever played.
Speaker: The exploration is fun.
Speaker: The storyline is is completely unhinged.
Speaker: It is the most Japanese game I've ever played, as we've discussed.
Speaker: Yeah, I had a really good time with it.
Speaker: I think it's I think it's a I think it's a no brainer purchase for people who who
Speaker: like that kind of open world collect-a-thon.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, just crazy storylines.
Speaker: Sort of like Paradise Killer.
Speaker: If you liked Paradise Killer, give Promise Mascot Agency a try.
Speaker: It's totally worth it.
Speaker: It's a weird game.
Speaker: That being said, I think that's probably a small audience that we're speaking for.
Speaker: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: I wouldn't be surprised, though, if we see this on a lot of people's game of the year list.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm sure it'll be on ours.
Speaker: But I mean, like, I think I think this one is kind of going to be a dark horse.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: After that, I made good on the thing I've been telling myself I was going to do for well over a year, and I started up Rogue Trader again.
Speaker: And I'm having even more fun the second playthrough than I did when I never finished my first playthrough.
Speaker: And I'm just really enjoying myself playing a kind of class full melee.
Speaker: And I just got my blood cultist lady.
Speaker: And so it's me and her and Abelard who are all melee specialists charging in
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: Face first and just tearing shit up.
Speaker: And it's super fun.
Speaker: I'm having a lot of fun with that.
Speaker: Abelard is so much fun.
Speaker: Yeah, he is so much fun.
Speaker: And I just love the guy, you know?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: He's a sweetheart, you know?
Speaker: He is a I mean, there's a reason that he is
Speaker: meme-ified in so many communities with the Warhammer shit.
Speaker: He's just a fun character.
Speaker: They should probably do their best to actually put him in the lore.
Speaker: I would like him to be in the canon somewhere.
Speaker: Because I know Rogue Trader, because Rogue Trader is a TTRPG and the computer game version of that, it's kind of like in the
Speaker: Like the sandbox area of Warhammer.
Speaker: Yeah, none of this really affects canon.
Speaker: Yeah, it's kind of doing its own thing.
Speaker: It's doing its own thing.
Speaker: It's in the Coronis Expanse.
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: You're in the Coronis Expanse and you're cut off from the rest of the Imperium.
Speaker: Don't worry about it.
Speaker: It's Knights of the Old Republic.
Speaker: You know, it's like like this.
Speaker: This happened a long time ago.
Speaker: Just just have fun where we got we got sith everywhere.
Speaker: A planet full of them.
Speaker: Planet full of them.
Speaker: Planet full of them.
Speaker: It's that it's that kind of thing.
Speaker: Really, really having fun with that.
Speaker: I am also playing well.
Speaker: Blizzard released remasters of the first three Warcraft games and they're on Game Pass.
Speaker: And I never played the first one.
Speaker: And my I've mentioned this before, but this is the year of games serving to be a distraction to the nth degree, like just as much as fucking possible.
Speaker: And and this is a great example of one.
Speaker: It's it's.
Speaker: They put a new coat of paint on it.
Speaker: It's not a great new coat of paint.
Speaker: That's what's hilarious.
Speaker: I think that they did it on purpose, though, like the the new look still looks kind of dated.
Speaker: And I I'm maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but it feels like they're trying to make it feel old.
Speaker: They're trying to make it look like what it looks like in your memory, because you're
Speaker: when they have the option to shift over to the original pixelated ass 1994 graphics.
Speaker: And when you do that, it's unreal.
Speaker: You're like, oh, wow, this looks like shit like this.
Speaker: Yeah, truly 1994.
Speaker: And so I wonder if that's not why they did it.
Speaker: It doesn't look amazing.
Speaker: So I'm hoping that that was a creative choice, but it's fun.
Speaker: It's it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, they've done a few, you know, I never remember this term quality of life upgrades.
Speaker: Oh, sure.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But for the most part, it's very much of its time and actually holds up pretty well.
Speaker: So I'm enjoying it.
Speaker: It's just a nice casual little thing to throw on and play a level through and join the horde and kill some man.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Which I'm big into these days.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Kevin.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So I am playing Stone of Madness.
Speaker: Oh, yes.
Speaker: I finally got that playing Stone of Madness.
Speaker: It's my it's currently one of my Steam Deck games.
Speaker: But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker: I mean, it is really unique.
Speaker: There's not much I could say to compare it to.
Speaker: So we've talked about Stone of Madness, at least the demo on the show before.
Speaker: But the general idea is that you control a group of people who are
Speaker: imprisoned in a, what is it, like a monastery or something like that?
Speaker: Yeah, it's a monastery or something.
Speaker: And you're just trying to get out because you are now there beyond, almost everybody went there for some sort of healing and is now being kept there against their will.
Speaker: So, you know, the first character you get is a priest,
Speaker: who has everybody has their strengths and weaknesses.
Speaker: So like the priest, for example, is weirded out by dead bodies and it lowers his psyche.
Speaker: The second guy you get can't be in the dark.
Speaker: He's afraid of the dark.
Speaker: He's just this big, big lovable guy who can't talk and is scared of the dark.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But he can move big thing.
Speaker: And you get a girl next and she's, she's spicy, you know?
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: She is not afraid of murdering people.
Speaker: She is excellent.
Speaker: As I recall, I had, I thought she was a really fun character.
Speaker: Like, yeah, cause you're not gonna kill a lot of people until she shows up and
Speaker: Until she shows up and she'll kill whoever you can kill whoever you want with her.
Speaker: Anybody.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: She has a knife and she will use it or you can knock people out.
Speaker: So there is and within the game, there's a difference between knockouts and murder.
Speaker: Like if you murder somebody, it actually takes longer
Speaker: for them to replace the person, replace the guard.
Speaker: If you just knock them out, the guard will be there the next day.
Speaker: And that's another mechanic in the game is that it goes day by day.
Speaker: Like it's kind of like the movie The Great Escape.
Speaker: Like every day you're just kind of going around this monastery with your people trying to like
Speaker: poke holes and find keys and unlock doors and find shortcuts and just explore while avoiding the guards and the overseers and all that stuff.
Speaker: And then at night, everybody has their own skills.
Speaker: So like one person can play the violin and playing the violin for everybody like heals their psyche.
Speaker: the psyche, whatever psychic damage that you've taken and psychic damage is being is taken by putting the character in a situation that they're uncomfortable with.
Speaker: So the girl, the woman is afraid of fire.
Speaker: So you have to make sure any braziers that are lit are turned off.
Speaker: But that's where the balancing act comes into play, because
Speaker: Your priest dude, right, is he can turn off the fire and he's fine in the dark.
Speaker: If she kills somebody, he can't handle the dead body because he's afraid of corpses.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: The big strong dude can't extinguish fires because he's afraid of the dark, but he can move corpses.
Speaker: She can move corpses, but like it has to be in the dark.
Speaker: It can't be near a brazier like a big fire or a fireplace.
Speaker: so it's like this it's almost like a rock paper scissors between the characters of like all right this character has to do this stuff um otherwise because it's in there it's either in their skill set or it's uh not one of their weaknesses um
Speaker: So it's a neat game.
Speaker: It's from the game kitchen.
Speaker: It's seeing people who made Blasphemous.
Speaker: Couldn't be any less like that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it's very, very Spanish Catholicism, which is super, honestly, very blasphemous.
Speaker: Pretty metal.
Speaker: Pretty cool.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So yeah.
Speaker: And it's they have another game coming out this year.
Speaker: So Stone of Madness came out in January.
Speaker: They have another game coming out this year.
Speaker: The Ninja Gaiden.
Speaker: Oh, right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Side scrolling.
Speaker: God, they are hauling ass.
Speaker: They.
Speaker: They really are tearing it up with these games.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So Stone of Madness.
Speaker: Check it out.
Speaker: Still playing with my Rogue Trader playthrough with the new DLC.
Speaker: I also started playing Skin Deep, which because I watched Hot Siders video on Skin Deep.
Speaker: So I started playing Skin Deep.
Speaker: which is an immersive sim where you play an insurance mercenary.
Speaker: So the concept is you are in like stasis, right?
Speaker: Your character is in stasis on the ship until something happens and then you're thawed from stasis and have to get up and deal with it.
Speaker: So pirate, if the ship goes fine, like whatever their mission is, freighting, freighter, whatever, if it's fine, you never wake up and you wake up at the end of the journey.
Speaker: But then, you know, inevitably pirates attack the ship.
Speaker: So you get woken up and you have to save...
Speaker: all the cats.
Speaker: Did I forget to mention that the people who fly ships in space are cats?
Speaker: I love it.
Speaker: As it should be.
Speaker: You're not a cat.
Speaker: You're a person who is an insurance mercenary and you have a third lung which lets you breathe in space.
Speaker: Don't think about it too hard.
Speaker: I'm not gonna.
Speaker: I don't think I'm going to.
Speaker: But it's an immersive sim in that all the systems are going with or without you.
Speaker: So you have the guards are patrolling.
Speaker: They're not patrolling when you look at them.
Speaker: They're always patrolling wherever you are in the ship.
Speaker: So in the ship, each mission is in like a contained environment.
Speaker: Like it's each mission is in its own ship.
Speaker: So it's kind of got levels.
Speaker: And there's multiple ways of solving pretty much any problem.
Speaker: You can kill a pirate by leaking some gas or what have you and forcing them to fire at you and then the gas explodes in their face, knocks them out.
Speaker: Now, the pirates have something called a skull saver on.
Speaker: What's a skull saver, you might ask?
Speaker: Well, it's a thing that detaches their head when they die, and it goes back to a regeneration pod, and it gives them a new body and puts their head on the new body.
Speaker: Well, I love that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So you have to take the skull saver heads and the pirates yelling at you while you do this, their head in the skull saver bubble and you have to get rid of it.
Speaker: One way is by breaking a window open and throwing it out into the void of space.
Speaker: Another is by flushing it down the toilet or putting it in, putting it into a trash suit, whatever, you know.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Say less.
Speaker: It's on my wish list.
Speaker: It sounds great.
Speaker: That sounds like a lot of damn fun.
Speaker: And the cats are adorable.
Speaker: And they talk to you.
Speaker: The style is really interesting.
Speaker: The art style to it.
Speaker: It's yeah, it makes me think of like Space Quest.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, it's our direction.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And you're you don't have a gun whenever you unthaw.
Speaker: So you just got to use whatever you have.
Speaker: So my favorite method is throwing a box of pepper, black pepper at somebody, which makes them sneeze.
Speaker: And while they're sneezing, you can jump onto their back and ram them into like the sink or the wall or until they knock they get knocked out.
Speaker: oh I love that and then you take their head and you flush it down the toilet even better I love it that's so silly skin deep absolutely silly and then just for peak Kevin bullshit parcel simulator oh for god's sake yeah yeah
Speaker: Peek, peek Kevin bullshit.
Speaker: You are just in a... You run a little parcel sorting company and mail gets dropped off to you off at your company and you sort it to go to the right method of transportation or not.
Speaker: But you got to check the serial number.
Speaker: It's like... It's like Papers, Please.
Speaker: without the sadness.
Speaker: So think of it like that.
Speaker: Think of it like papers, please.
Speaker: But it's there's no stakes.
Speaker: It's just chill.
Speaker: You know, there's just vibes.
Speaker: You know, there's a really like relaxing background music.
Speaker: You're just like looking at the package.
Speaker: You're making sure the country code matches the country's flag matches on your thing.
Speaker: making sure the weight class is right, the serial number matches.
Speaker: And then as you get money, you could start automating these things.
Speaker: So as the packages come in, they get automatically scanned and all that stuff.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker: That's nice because it's kind of like Papers, Please is kind of like this war of mine where the gameplay of it is genuinely fun and challenging, but you have to be in a certain mood to actually play it.
Speaker: So it's nice to know that there are like a little more lighthearted alternatives.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: So, yeah, I recommend it if you're into that kind of stuff.
Speaker: I've also and I've also been playing vampire survivors more, just working my way downtown.
Speaker: Trying to get things unlocked and achievements achieved.
Speaker: You know what's wild is I at one point had 100% on this game.
Speaker: I'm currently down to 76%.
Speaker: Where am I at?
Speaker: Because I also once had 100% on this one.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Where am I?
Speaker: I am at I'm at 92%.
Speaker: That's not as OK.
Speaker: You're doing you're pretty good.
Speaker: Pretty good.
Speaker: Still like 17.
Speaker: The new achievements.
Speaker: Damn.
Speaker: OK.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, and I also bought a game that I think you would be interested in.
Speaker: I haven't I haven't played it yet.
Speaker: Just the aesthetic blood soaked bastard.
Speaker: Look this up.
Speaker: Let's look at 55 cents.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: Just look at the screenshots.
Speaker: What the fuck?
Speaker: Oh, this is twisted as a corkscrew.
Speaker: What the is this?
Speaker: This is an adventure game.
Speaker: Yeah, it's an RPG, but it's basically it feels like it's an RPG made specifically for people who read Between Two Flames.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, this is this is weird and bleak as shit.
Speaker: Holy crap.
Speaker: That's this is wild between two fires.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: It is currently it's two bucks.
Speaker: Normally it's currently 55 cents for the summer sale.
Speaker: And I'm checking out the reviews and I was like, okay, so if it's that low, it's probably like a half hour game or something.
Speaker: These guys, people, people with 14, 15 hours on it, it's,
Speaker: It's really wild.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So people put some frigging time into this thing.
Speaker: Well, yeah.
Speaker: And the reviews are like, this is clearly an amateur product project, but it's like, it's wild.
Speaker: Like the art style makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's, it's very upsetting.
Speaker: It's just, it's, it's just,
Speaker: amateur enough that it's extra creepy you know what it is it's like you know when it's it's almost like monty python the monty python animated segments art style but like darker like the jove like it's like the joviality has been taken out of it and it's all just erased it's all just like
Speaker: what happens if uh if monty python was sad instead this is this is weird as fuck i'm definitely interested that's that's but yeah it came out at the end of last year and i had it on my wish list and i don't know why i didn't just buy it last year uh well it came out in december
Speaker: Um, yeah, it was, it was right at the end of the year.
Speaker: Actually, if I'm remembering correctly, it came out the day after road trader.
Speaker: Uh, no, sorry.
Speaker: Road trader was the year before I'm an idiot.
Speaker: Uh, so no, it probably came out.
Speaker: Well, it probably came after there was probably something else, um, uh, that, that we were playing, but yeah, this is, this is, this is fascinating.
Speaker: Um, okie dokie.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm looking at this.
Speaker: Well, you know what, folks, that'll do it for tonight's episode.
Speaker: Thank you so much for listening, watching, wherever you're doing it from.
Speaker: Another year in the books, capping it off with Resident Evil and starting a brand new cycle.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: We got a Star War, I hear.
Speaker: We got a Star War next.
Speaker: Yes, we do.
Speaker: We got a Star War, another Star War video game book.
Speaker: I'm excited.
Speaker: I also think it's because you're right.
Speaker: We're starting up a bunch of new
Speaker: uh uh properties lately because we have come to the end of so many of them so yeah you know getting the witcher in and now this is going to be the uh the old republic star wars the old republic so uh fatal alliances i'm really looking forward to this one yeah it's it's it's gonna be awesome is it so is it based on like kotor or it's based on i i it's based on the um
Speaker: the MMORPG that came out after the first two, but they're all in the same universe.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: So yeah, got it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So should be interesting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um, Phil, so I had a question before we go.
Speaker: Um, so Sir, uh, Gawain, the green knight has been standing in my yard, uh, every night, um, between the hours of 2 AM to 4 AM.
Speaker: And he's ringing a, uh, uh, a bell with a dollarous sound.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Mm hmm.
Speaker: So do I start charging him rent or?
Speaker: It's yes, but you you can't be like you can't just come at him with the request for rent.
Speaker: You have to go about it in a way, a courtly way, you know, that that he'll recognize.
Speaker: So the first thing you're going to do is get a fan like when an old fashioned, you know, hand fan.
Speaker: And then you're going to take a dump on his
