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Stupid Sexy Laser Cannon (RE: Nemesis Part 3)
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What takes out a giant tentacle monster? A big long shafted laser cannon.
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Book Synopsis"Zombies. Mutant animals. Bioengineered weapons and surgically enhanced monsters. Secret labs and widespread conspiracies. It seemed impossible, but Jill Valentine and her teammates among the S.T.A.R.S. had seen it all firsthand when the Umbrella Corporation turned Raccoon City into a staging ground for the most insidious genetic experiments ever conceived. After all she's been through, Valentine is ready to leave that remote mountain community forever.
But Umbrella isn't finished with Raccoon City.
Too much evidence of their unethical and immoral research still exists. It must be recovered or destroyed -- and quickly -- before it can be traced back to Umbrella. And with William Birkin's mutagenic virus already spreading through the city like wildfire, drastic measures are needed. Under cover of night, mercenary teams have entered the city, along with something else -- Umbrella's failsafe: an evolved version of its Tyrant-class killing machines, a lethal creature code-named Nemesis. Now Nemesis is on the hunt. And Jill Valentine is about to become prey."
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End.
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So yeah, you want to put the body in the marsh?
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Let's marsh this body.
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When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them
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In the marsh.
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All right, Marshies.
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Let's do it.
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I love that.
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We start with.
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We start.
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Yeah, I love it, too.
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We start with Chapter 17.
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I believe that's where we left off.
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Chapter 17.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Chapter 17.
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Yes.
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Nikolai has been tracking Dr. Richard Kimball.
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He's a hard target search.
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He's looking at every outhouse, field house.
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It's no, it's not Richard Kimball.
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It's Dr. Richard Aquino.
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Yeah.
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And The Fugitive, I got to watch that.
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I feel like that holds up as a solid.
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I haven't seen it in forever.
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But yeah, I feel like that one would still do pretty well.
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I feel like that's a movie that would have been on USA or TNT in the afternoon.
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And you're like, I'm not doing anything.
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And you just kind of sit there.
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Sit down and watch it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Dr. Richard Aquino for the last half hour and has finally found him on the fourth floor of the hospital.
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And while confronting him, Aquino admits that the vaccine is ready.
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It just needs its separate elements all combined.
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Aquino has Nikolai confused for another watchdog, Ken Franklin, who is tasked with picking up the vaccine.
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Kino opens the door to show vaccine the Nikolai, the vaccine base, but uses this opportunity to try to inject Nikolai with something.
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But Nikolai is too fast.
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He avoids the injection and stabs a Kino in the neck.
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And then Nikolai decides, well, if I'm waiting, I might as well synthesize the vaccine.
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And he's going to wait.
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Why not?
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Franklin.
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Why not?
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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.
Resident Evil Gameplay and Puzzles
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And they come upon three mixed media art pieces, which reminds them of the postcard clue about the hands being together on the clock.
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There's a tray in front of each artwork that they need to use to move the clock arms.
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And Jill thinks it over and realizes there's some statues holding balls that can be put into the trays.
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And Jill, this is amazing.
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She's like, she says, I'm sure there's a motif to the puzzle, but it doesn't matter.
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And she brute forces the solution.
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She just forces it.
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Yeah.
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It just doesn't matter.
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She's like, it's only three things.
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There's not many permutations.
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This, this, this.
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All right.
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And she's like, I could try to figure out what the fuck the clue is.
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Yeah, but I'm not doing that.
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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.
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Just do all of them.
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I don't have time for your little game, you know?
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Yeah, it's the clue meeting enemy fire.
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The clue is only as good.
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It's only only good until it meets enemy fire, which is the player.
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Chapter 18.
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Carlos watches Jill go up.
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Oh, yeah.
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Sorry.
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They brute force the solution and they try each combo.
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It opens the clock, gives them the cog they need.
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They go back to the bell tower.
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Now in Chapter 18, Carlos watches Jill go up the bell tower, put the gear in and activate it.
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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.
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The bell rings and the landing zone lights up for the helicopter.
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He starts running towards it, but then he sees that Jill hasn't started down the ladder yet.
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Because he isn't alone.
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Nemesis is right next to him.
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Didn't notice him.
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But ignoring him and heading towards the ladder.
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Carlos throws a power switch for a set of rooftop spotlights and blinds Nemesis and then pushes it off the roof.
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Jill thanks him for saving her and Carlos swoons at how hot and nice and considerate she is.
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And Jill snaps him out of it and they have to get going.
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Which is, yeah, fair enough.
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Meanwhile, Nikolai heard the bells while he was walking towards town to track down Davis Chan.
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He has the antidote with him and he has set the hospital blow in 48 hours.
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And he spends a lot of time thinking about how evil he is.
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So he really does, doesn't he?
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There's a lot of like.
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There's two more sections of this, by the way, of him just talking about how evil he is.
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Yeah.
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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.
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And it's the most hackneyed on purpose.
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Sure.
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mustache twisting song about how great it is to be evil.
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And that's what's playing in my head.
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Every time there's a chapter with Nikolai just talking to himself, you're like, OK, OK, you're very you're very evil.
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You're very evil.
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Thanks.
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Thanks.
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Thanks a lot.
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Super evil.
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Let's see.
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All right.
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Where did we go?
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OK, there it is.
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Back at the clock tower.
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Jill and Carlos are retracing their steps through the building and making up cover stories for themselves when the helicopters pick them up.
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Uh, Carlo asks Jill about their mutual friend, Trent, and they decide to talk about him after this is all over.
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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.
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Yeah, because there's a rocket heading for the helicopter shot by Nemesis blows the copter out of the sky with a rocket.
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Nemesis takes them out with a rocket launcher.
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That's yes.
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Okay.
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Okay, buddy.
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Carlos pulls her out of the way and they take cover behind the fountain.
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And then in Chapter 19, a helicopter crashes into the building, spews chunks of rocks everywhere.
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One of them hits Carlos in the ribs, breaks his ribs.
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He tells Jill to run and he picks up his rifle.
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Everything hurts.
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And Nemesis picks up the rocket launcher to fire at the fleeing Jill.
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But Carlos opens fire.
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Nemesis shoots at him, but misses.
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And the explosion sends Carlos flying.
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Carlos lands continues firing.
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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
Battles with Nemesis
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Nemesis away.
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Yeah.
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Which is lucky shot.
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You know, I mean, lucky.
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I will.
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I think if it was any other franchise, I'd be like, oh, for fuck's sake.
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But that is a total Resident Evil move.
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That's a very Resident Evil move.
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Very Resident Evil move.
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Like, yeah, you fire your single shot.
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Pow.
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That's that's it.
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That's it.
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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.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know if that matters.
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I'm not sure.
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I don't know if it matters.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I do.
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I do.
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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.
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She describes that he's either got a rocket launcher or a bazooka.
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And I was like, that's also a rocket launcher.
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This is a bazooka is a really specific one from like World War Two that no one uses anymore.
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So we could have just gone with rocket launcher.
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We didn't need rocket launcher.
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It's fine.
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We don't need.
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I bust balls, but it did.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We cut to Jill's perspective.
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She shoots at Nemesis with her grenade launcher and misses.
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She runs, gets clipped by and then gets clipped by some sort of tentacle thing from Nemesis, seemingly infecting her.
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Then she shoots Nemesis again with the grenade launcher, knocking it down.
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She reloads and fires again into its lower back and Nemesis actually retreats.
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Jill goes over to Carlos with the last of her strength and passes out.
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And we cut back to Carlos waking up again.
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And he picks up Jill and carries her back inside.
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Chapter 20.
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They just go back and forth taking turns being unconscious at this point.
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Yeah, that's pretty much all we have at this point.
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For the next 10 chapters, I want to say.
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Right.
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It's just I'm unconscious or you're unconscious.
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One or the other.
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Yeah.
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One or the other.
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Or eventually Carlos will just be taking a nap, but Jill doesn't want to wake him.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It counts.
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It counts.
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It counts.
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Jill has a dream sequence recounting various parts of her life between waking up and taking drinks of water and falling asleep again.
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She feels like every cell of her body is becoming thick and heavy with strange spices, which was an interesting way to...
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A very literary way of putting it.
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That was that was becoming spicy spices that I liked it, but I wondered where the hell that came from at the same time.
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She decides that she's alive and wakes up.
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Chapter 21.
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Carlos is hanging out near Jill, eating a can of fruit cocktail when she wakes up.
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Uh, she's been moving more than she had in 48 hours.
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And he tells her that they are in the chapel of the clock tower.
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And it's been about two days since the helicopter crash.
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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.
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Uh, maybe it's going slower because it was from nemesis or perhaps I have some immunity from the Spencer estate.
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Uh, and, uh, so Carlos is like, all right, I'm on it.
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He grabs her weapons and heads out to go to the hospital to find the potential vaccine.
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Meanwhile, Nikolai is waiting for Ken Franklin.
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Davis Chan has been a wild goose chase as he managed to avoid Nikolai while following his reports.
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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.
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Who could that be?
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Who could it be?
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Ada Wong.
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Ada?
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Ada.
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It's more like Metal Gear.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I think I was just falling back on standard anime voice.
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Yeah.
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Ada Wong.
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Ada Wong?
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Metal Gear?
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Snake!
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Stars.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, like good for you.
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Good for you.
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Good for you.
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He should have just shot him, but he didn't.
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Yes, yes, yes, that is true.
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Nikolai bluffs for a bit, says he was sent by Trent to the hospital and convinces Franklin that he needs help cracking a safe.
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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.
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And then Carlos shows up.
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Chapter 22, Carlos puts his hands up.
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He tells Nikolai that Jill is dead, so he won't go after her.
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Nikolai shows Carlos that is that he's holding the vaccine.
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Carlos keeps Nikolai talking while noticing Franklin, who's still alive, has pulled the pin on a grenade.
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Carlos keeps backing up slowly and then dives when Franklin throws the grenade.
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Nikolai dives out the window of the hospital, shoots at Carlos when he pokes his head out.
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And then Carlos notices that the vaccine tube is on the floor because Nikolai dropped it.
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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.
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Yeah.
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Just that's just to be extra mustache twirly mustache twirly.
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What it is.
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Yeah.
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Meanwhile, Jill is having itchy, tasty dreams in the hospital.
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Carlos is gathering all the medical supplies that he'll need for Jill when the power goes out.
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And he realizes that this could only mean bad things.
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Yeah.
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While he's in the stairwell, Carlos encounters three hunters and begins to engage them.
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He kills one and makes his way down to the lobby where he finds one of the bombs set up by Nikolai.
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Carlos then sprints towards the exit and gets out just in time for the hospital to blow up.
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And then Jill.
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Wait, Jill pulls him back up and looks forward.
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So wait, just Jill.
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I have a note here that Jill finds him.
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Yeah.
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That's what I remember.
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It goes back and forth.
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Yeah, it goes back and forth elsewhere.
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Nikolai realizes he dropped the vaccine sample and he gets so angry that he cracks two of his own teeth.
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He's he's a he's dedicated to the evil thing.
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When you make evil your whole personality, you get Nikolai.
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That's that you get Nikolai.
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Yeah.
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Jill wakes up cured to find Carlos fast asleep on one of the pews.
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She spends the next few hours eating, drinking water and cleaning her weapons and think of where to go next.
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She figures to go to the abandoned water treatment plant north of town, leaves Carlos a note as to where she's going.
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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.
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Chan then comes out and Nikolai mutilates his body with a knife.
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He's an evil guy.
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Evil guy.
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Carlos wakes up annoyed at the note that Jill left and gears up to go.
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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.
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Right.
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Chapter 24.
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Nikolai is taking a romantic walk through the light rain while thinking evil thoughts and do about doing evil when he sees Jill.
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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.
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He hides for 20 seconds so that she gets far enough ahead of him.
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So that when he starts following, she won't be able to tell he's behind her.
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But whoops, Jill got the drop on him.
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Nikolai is actually very bad at this.
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This is the second time in like.
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He is kind of incompetent, like he's so focused on being the bad guy that he's like missing perfect opportunities.
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Come on, man.
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Get it together.
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Get it together, Nikolai.
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Nikolai plays dumb while Jill grills him about the water treatment plant and the vaccine.
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He's about to crack when the ground starts to shake around them.
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Nikolai feigns panic screaming that it's one of the mutants and begins to run away.
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He grabs his gun and takes cover behind a tree.
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And just as he is about to shoot, a giant mutant maggot looking creature erupts from the ground and starts going after Jill.
00:17:23
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Nikolai runs away giggling, literally giggling in the book.
00:17:29
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He he he he he.
00:17:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:32
Speaker
You know, I just started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with my wife.
00:17:37
Speaker
I never we'd never actually sat down and watched the damn show.
00:17:40
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But the more I watch that and the more I read this book, the more Nikolai becomes Dennis in my head.
00:17:45
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Sure.
00:17:46
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Like just evil, but maybe maybe not that scary also at the same time.
00:17:55
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What's that one Dennis line?
00:17:56
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I'm untethered or.
00:18:01
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Oh, it's.
00:18:03
Speaker
Oh, what is it?
00:18:04
Speaker
Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
00:18:05
Speaker
Hold on.
00:18:05
Speaker
I'm going to find it.
00:18:11
Speaker
I didn't know what you're talking.
00:18:12
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Untethered is absolutely.
00:18:21
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I'm untethered and my rage knows no bounds.
00:18:24
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That's what it is.
00:18:33
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I love it.
00:18:33
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That's Nikolai.
00:18:34
Speaker
That's Nikolai.
00:18:35
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He's untethered.
00:18:37
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I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds.
00:18:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:42
Speaker
That's who we're dealing with here.
00:18:43
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Yeah.
00:18:44
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No question.
00:18:45
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Jill runs from the worm thing.
00:18:48
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She fires at it.
00:18:49
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Doesn't really do much.
00:18:50
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And she sees a bunch of lamps around a pool that they're near as an idea.
00:18:54
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She jumps into the pool and baits it to get into the pool.
00:18:58
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And then she gets out on the other side and shoots a lamp that is near the water.
00:19:03
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causing it to fall into the water and shock it, frying the monster worm thing.
00:19:10
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Afterwards, the fried worm smells so bad that Jill vomits until there is nothing left in her stomach.
00:19:17
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And then she heads towards the water treatment plant.
00:19:19
Speaker
It's like...
00:19:21
Speaker
Like that's your lip.
00:19:22
Speaker
OK, OK.
00:19:24
Speaker
I thought it was a good I mean, I get it.
00:19:27
Speaker
Like she's seen a bunch of bad shit.
00:19:30
Speaker
I think it's the smell.
00:19:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:33
Speaker
Like like she's probably like nose blind to most smells at this point.
00:19:38
Speaker
But this is like this is a fresh hell of a smell, probably.
00:19:42
Speaker
You know what?
00:19:42
Speaker
That's that's a good point.
00:19:44
Speaker
That's totally fair.
00:19:44
Speaker
Like it's just cut right through the decay of zombies, like the blood and shit and everything.
00:19:51
Speaker
And it's a that.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:56
Speaker
It's not necessarily that it's worse.
00:19:57
Speaker
It's just this is a new one.
00:19:59
Speaker
That is also a new one.
00:20:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:02
Speaker
That makes sense.
00:20:04
Speaker
Meanwhile, Carlos is making his way through Raccoon City after Jill.
00:20:08
Speaker
Chapter 25.
00:20:11
Speaker
Nikolai is holding a gun towards Foster, the last watchdog, and the guy is begging for his life.
00:20:18
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.
Nikolai's Schemes and Reflections
00:20:26
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Life is what it is supposed to be, except that B word, Jill, has ruined everything.
00:20:32
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He's a lot of incel vibes from Nikolai.
00:20:35
Speaker
Big time.
00:20:36
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:20:37
Speaker
He would have been a huge Andrew Tate fan.
00:20:40
Speaker
He would have loved Reddit.
00:20:42
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:20:43
Speaker
Jordan Peterson.
00:20:46
Speaker
Oh, all over it.
00:20:47
Speaker
All over it.
00:20:48
Speaker
He would have he would have he would have probably tried to kill him after a little while, though.
00:20:53
Speaker
After a little while.
00:20:53
Speaker
But have you seen that there's like that Jubilee clip of Jordan Peterson arguing against atheists?
00:21:02
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Oh, yeah.
00:21:03
Speaker
And every little thing is he's like, just like, well, define belief.
00:21:07
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.
00:21:16
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.
00:21:25
Speaker
It's all so ridiculous.
00:21:27
Speaker
There's there's this meme going around based on that interaction.
00:21:31
Speaker
McDonald's cashier.
00:21:32
Speaker
Would you like fries with that?
00:21:34
Speaker
Jordan Peterson.
00:21:35
Speaker
How would you know what I like?
00:21:36
Speaker
Liking isn't the same as wanting or dare I say needing cashier.
00:21:42
Speaker
So you don't want fries or Peterson define fries cashier.
00:21:47
Speaker
They're potatoes that Peterson.
00:21:50
Speaker
So vodka is vodka is fries.
00:21:52
Speaker
I'll have vodka with my Big Mac.
00:21:54
Speaker
Jordan Peterson fans, this man is an intellectual powerhouse.
00:21:57
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.
00:22:10
Speaker
And you stop looking for logic after a little while and not even after a little while.
00:22:15
Speaker
Pretty much.
00:22:15
Speaker
He's like, you know what he is?
00:22:16
Speaker
He's like the Peter principle, but with grifting.
00:22:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:21
Speaker
So like, I feel like Jordan Peterson was probably had a level at which he was fine where he was like writing books.
00:22:31
Speaker
He was like writing the book where it's like 10 thing rules for your life or whatever.
00:22:36
Speaker
And it's mostly innocuous shit.
00:22:37
Speaker
It's like clean your room.
00:22:39
Speaker
It's not an unhinged book.
00:22:40
Speaker
Like when you get down to it.
00:22:41
Speaker
It's.
00:22:43
Speaker
But like that was his level.
00:22:45
Speaker
That was it.
00:22:46
Speaker
And then he got into the right wing grifting.
00:22:48
Speaker
The thing is, he doesn't have a he doesn't have another gear.
00:22:52
Speaker
He doesn't have an extra gear for the right wing grifting.
00:22:56
Speaker
So he was like he's a mediocre philosopher, philosophy philosopher.
00:23:02
Speaker
Professor, right?
00:23:03
Speaker
And he's he's all he can do is is write these pop philosophy books that are fine.
00:23:16
Speaker
That's it.
00:23:17
Speaker
That's his that's that's all he he should have stayed at doing.
00:23:21
Speaker
But then he became a right wing grifter and he is just so out of his element.
00:23:27
Speaker
Oh, he doesn't know what he's doing.
00:23:29
Speaker
He's not.
00:23:29
Speaker
He doesn't.
00:23:30
Speaker
No, he doesn't know what he's doing.
00:23:32
Speaker
He doesn't know how to argue any of his of these points.
00:23:35
Speaker
This is not the this is not his his game.
00:23:39
Speaker
Right.
00:23:40
Speaker
It's Andrew Wakefield.
00:23:41
Speaker
You know, Andrew Wakefield.
00:23:42
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.
00:23:51
Speaker
That's all.
00:23:52
Speaker
But now he's found himself as the leader of this, you know, revolution of kooks.
00:23:58
Speaker
And he has to he has to go along with it.
00:24:02
Speaker
And he's not he's not prepared for that.
00:24:04
Speaker
No, not at all.
00:24:06
Speaker
Is Andrew Wakefield still alive?
00:24:08
Speaker
Unfortunately.
00:24:09
Speaker
Unfortunately.
00:24:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:24:13
Speaker
He's got a while.
00:24:14
Speaker
He's not terribly old.
00:24:16
Speaker
Andrew Wakefield.
00:24:23
Speaker
He is not a good looking man.
00:24:26
Speaker
I mean, I can't imagine he's aged well.
00:24:29
Speaker
He is just a mess on so many different levels.
00:24:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:36
Speaker
Anyway, he's Andrew Wakefield.
00:24:41
Speaker
Andrew Wakefield.
00:24:42
Speaker
Nah.
00:24:44
Speaker
Ah.
00:24:45
Speaker
Ah.
00:24:49
Speaker
So in cell vibes, there we go.
00:24:51
Speaker
That's where we jumped off.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yes.
00:24:53
Speaker
And we pulled we pulled it all the way back.
00:24:55
Speaker
We're good.
00:24:56
Speaker
Pulled it all the way back.
00:24:56
Speaker
Nikolai gets angry at Foster for making him talk and shoots him in the head.
00:25:02
Speaker
Outside, Jill is standing on a narrow bridge that connects the park to the water treatment plant.
00:25:07
Speaker
She carefully starts crossing the bridge when bam, Nemesis lands right behind her.
00:25:13
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It is very wounded.
00:25:14
Speaker
Jill shoots at it and runs towards it and tries to push it off the bridge.
00:25:18
Speaker
She ends up needing to drop kick it off and it falls into the water below.
00:25:22
Speaker
Jill continues to cross the bridge and enters the plant.
00:25:24
Speaker
While inside, she sees a key card reader for a door that leads to communications.
00:25:29
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.
00:25:44
Speaker
Of course.
00:25:44
Speaker
Naturally.
00:25:45
Speaker
Of course.
00:25:45
Speaker
Naturally.
00:25:47
Speaker
He decides to find Jill first.
00:25:48
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.
00:26:03
Speaker
Carlos realizes that they only have about an hour before the bomb is dropped.
00:26:08
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.
00:26:15
Speaker
Carlos heads back down the ladder.
00:26:17
Speaker
So it's just on other sides of the door.
00:26:19
Speaker
Just so close, you know, sliding doors.
00:26:22
Speaker
Yeah, yes, you know, somewhere out there plays distantly in the background.
00:26:27
Speaker
Lake House.
00:26:30
Speaker
So Keanu Reeves is not in Sliding Doors.
00:26:33
Speaker
He was in the lake house, which is a similar movie to Sliding Doors.
00:26:38
Speaker
Right.
00:26:39
Speaker
I mean, it's parallel timeline shit.
00:26:42
Speaker
All I know is that it's like a magical mailbox.
00:26:45
Speaker
If I'm recalling correctly, that's all I got.
00:26:47
Speaker
They are three years apart in time.
00:26:49
Speaker
And they can.
00:26:51
Speaker
But sorry, spoilers.
00:26:52
Speaker
That's the twist of the movie is that they figure out at the end.
00:26:56
Speaker
They're three years apart.
00:26:58
Speaker
I didn't.
00:26:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker
I hadn't thought of that movie maybe in 20 years since you brought it up.
00:27:04
Speaker
And it might be a less than 20 year old movie.
00:27:07
Speaker
The last time.
00:27:09
Speaker
The last time I thought about it was the Alan Wake 2 DLC titled The Lakehouse.
00:27:17
Speaker
Oh, well, yeah, that'll do it.
00:27:18
Speaker
That'll do it.
00:27:19
Speaker
That'll do it.
00:27:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:21
Speaker
Chapter 26.
00:27:24
Speaker
Uh, Nikolai sees Jill and slips back into hiding, waiting for his laptop to combine all the watchdog files.
00:27:30
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.
00:27:37
Speaker
He considers her showing up a gift from fate.
00:27:40
Speaker
So he is able to answer all the questions that he has lingering and also possibly rape her.
00:27:47
Speaker
You know, if he's got time.
00:27:49
Speaker
Throwing that on the top there.
00:27:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:53
Speaker
As Jill searches through the building for the key card, she gets jumped by Nikolai.
00:27:57
Speaker
She realizes that when she realizes that he basically has gone into a full blown psychosis and considers what she can do.
00:28:05
Speaker
She's like, what do I like?
00:28:07
Speaker
She's remembering her like rape defense training.
00:28:11
Speaker
This is in the book.
00:28:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's right.
00:28:14
Speaker
When things are looking the darkest, Nemesis crashes through the ceiling.
00:28:19
Speaker
Tentacles come down, grab Nikolai and rip him in half.
00:28:24
Speaker
Nemesis is against sexual violence.
00:28:27
Speaker
Let it be known.
00:28:29
Speaker
This is this is not his his bailiwick.
00:28:33
Speaker
He's not a bad guy when you get down to it.
00:28:35
Speaker
When you get down to it, he's just a he's just a murderer.
00:28:39
Speaker
And that's his job.
00:28:41
Speaker
That's it.
00:28:41
Speaker
That's exactly.
00:28:42
Speaker
It's kind of like Am, you know, like he's kind of like Am.
00:28:47
Speaker
He is as God made him.
00:28:49
Speaker
And when I say God, I mean umbrella.
00:28:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:53
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.
00:29:02
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.
00:29:08
Speaker
She then runs back to the door where Nemesis is trying to break through and waits.
00:29:12
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.
00:29:19
Speaker
She grabs her Beretta where she dropped it from the Nikolai encounter, runs towards the comms room.
00:29:24
Speaker
Meanwhile, Carlos has found a helicopter with fuel and everything, and it's ready to go.
00:29:28
Speaker
Now he just needs to find Jill.
00:29:30
Speaker
It's been 20 minutes since he heard since he heard the announcement, meaning there's only 40 minutes to go.
00:29:35
Speaker
He grabs the radio and begins calling for the missile launch to be halted.
00:29:37
Speaker
But he actually gets Jill on the other side of the radio.
00:29:41
Speaker
He tells her where to go and tells her not to dick around to which she replies, you wish.
00:29:49
Speaker
This is flirting.
00:29:52
Speaker
This is flirting.
00:29:53
Speaker
That's flirting.
00:29:54
Speaker
Chapter 27.
00:29:55
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.
Final Showdown with Nemesis
00:30:03
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.
00:30:10
Speaker
Now, in the remake, it's a it's not a laser cannon.
00:30:16
Speaker
It is a what's it?
00:30:19
Speaker
What are those guns that shoot bullets at like near light speed?
00:30:24
Speaker
Oh, it's like a like the rail gun.
00:30:27
Speaker
It's a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:28
Speaker
It's a rail gun or a mag cannon or something like that.
00:30:31
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:35
Speaker
Rail guns are fucking wild, man.
00:30:36
Speaker
Fucking crazy.
00:30:38
Speaker
Like, if you guys if you guys haven't watched a YouTube video of that shit, like, look it up.
00:30:44
Speaker
They've got them like they have one on the side of a friggin.
00:30:48
Speaker
I think it's like a battleship or something.
00:30:51
Speaker
And the.
00:30:53
Speaker
the level of power is, oh, it's disgusting.
00:30:56
Speaker
It's crazy.
00:30:58
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:30:59
Speaker
And that's actually what the, in, in the halo books, I believe that's what kind of what the Mac cannons are.
00:31:08
Speaker
I think that's, I think that's the idea.
00:31:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:11
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.
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:25
Speaker
Fucking cool.
00:31:28
Speaker
Oh, God, humans.
00:31:30
Speaker
We got thunder in my sector here.
00:31:33
Speaker
So if I disappear, it's because the Lord finally took me.
00:31:37
Speaker
The Lord finally took him.
00:31:40
Speaker
Chapter 27, Joel, the, yeah.
00:31:44
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:31:46
Speaker
Laser cannon.
00:31:48
Speaker
While she's looking at it, Carlos throws the door open, yelling at her, get a move on.
00:31:52
Speaker
The door closes behind him while she is apologizing for being slow.
00:31:56
Speaker
And then Nemesis crashes through the ceiling, horribly mutated and shorting out the locking mechanism on the door.
00:32:03
Speaker
They barely have any.
00:32:04
Speaker
It's chapter 28 now.
00:32:05
Speaker
They barely have any ammo left.
00:32:07
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.
00:32:19
Speaker
The monster is nearly at Jill when she tells Carlos to move as she gets ready to open fire.
00:32:25
Speaker
She briefly recounts all the things this thing has done to her and finally saying, you want stars?
00:32:30
Speaker
I'll give you stars, you piece of shit.
00:32:32
Speaker
And firing the cannon.
00:32:34
Speaker
Now, was that in the original game or?
00:32:38
Speaker
I don't think so.
00:32:39
Speaker
I don't think so.
00:32:40
Speaker
I think this was just I think this was ST Perry giving Jill her smile.
00:32:45
Speaker
You son of a bitch.
00:32:46
Speaker
She says this in the remake.
00:32:52
Speaker
Oh, and I'm just like, I was going to look it up, but I didn't.
00:32:58
Speaker
Yeah, look that up.
00:32:59
Speaker
Look that up real quick.
00:33:03
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.
00:33:16
Speaker
Chapter 30, they take off in the helicopter.
00:33:19
Speaker
Jill tells Carlos that Nikolai was killed by Nemesis and he's like, sucks for that, dude.
00:33:25
Speaker
They hold hands as they ride the chopper off into the sunrise, not even looking back while Raccoon City is nuked.
00:33:33
Speaker
And then an epilogue.
00:33:34
Speaker
We get an epilogue, which is a Trent scene recounting the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, which happened simultaneously.
00:33:42
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.
00:33:50
Speaker
He's been growing an army of people that can do it.
00:33:54
Speaker
So, and that is the end of the book.
00:33:57
Speaker
That's the end of the, and Trent ends it the way he always does doing mysterious things and fading into the darkness.
00:34:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:04
Speaker
So Phil, what'd you think?
00:34:07
Speaker
It was good.
00:34:08
Speaker
It was good.
00:34:09
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.
00:34:22
Speaker
It's just,
00:34:24
Speaker
The same enough, just different enough.
00:34:26
Speaker
It's a page turner.
00:34:28
Speaker
Nothing crazy.
00:34:29
Speaker
Nothing, you know, not going to win a Pulitzer, but but perfectly serviceable, perfectly cromulent adaptation, a perfectly cromulent adaptation.
00:34:39
Speaker
That's that's a good way of putting it.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:42
Speaker
Apparently, yes, you want stars.
00:34:44
Speaker
I'll give you stars is in the original.
00:34:46
Speaker
OK, but a lot of people are saying that they changed it for the for the for the
00:34:52
Speaker
Oh, did they change it for the remake?
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, I think so.
00:34:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:56
Speaker
See, now I got to play it through again.
00:34:58
Speaker
Now you got to play through it again.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah, I agree.
00:35:02
Speaker
It's a good adaptation.
00:35:04
Speaker
I think it does something that I feel like the game itself should have done, which is more Carlos segments.
00:35:11
Speaker
Yes, yes.
00:35:12
Speaker
I feel like Resident Evil 3 could have really benefited from a...
00:35:17
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.
00:35:28
Speaker
I mean, I'm just throwing ideas out there.
00:35:30
Speaker
Comcast, Comcast, Capcom, Comcast, feel free to hire me as well.
00:35:38
Speaker
Yeah, Capcom, you know, I'm here for you guys.
00:35:44
Speaker
What's up?
00:35:45
Speaker
What's up?
00:35:47
Speaker
But yeah, I agree.
00:35:48
Speaker
That is a good book.
00:35:49
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Fun, fun read.
00:35:51
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Looking forward to looking for the next one in another year.
00:35:55
Speaker
Another year.
00:35:56
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I mean, hell, we got two of them left.
00:35:58
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Two of them left.
00:36:00
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That's that's crazy.
00:36:01
Speaker
You have read five of these things, one a year.
00:36:04
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So that just tells you we are.
00:36:06
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I mean, that's that's us.
00:36:07
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We're the beginning of our fifth year now.
00:36:11
Speaker
Is it the beginning of our fifth year?
00:36:12
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Jesus Christ.
00:36:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:14
Speaker
Jesus H. Christ.
00:36:15
Speaker
Yeah, man.
00:36:18
Speaker
It's a good show.
00:36:19
Speaker
What can I say?
00:36:20
Speaker
Good show.
00:36:21
Speaker
It's a good show.
00:36:25
Speaker
Phil.
00:36:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:27
Speaker
What are you playing with?
00:36:29
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Oh, oh, well, first and foremost, I finished Promise Mascot Agency.
00:36:35
Speaker
I don't know if I mentioned that on the last episode.
00:36:38
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No, no, you were close to the end, but.
00:36:40
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Yeah, I finished it.
00:36:43
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Great damn game.
00:36:45
Speaker
It's it's one of the most enjoyable, low pressure style kinds of games I've ever played.
00:36:52
Speaker
The exploration is fun.
00:36:54
Speaker
The storyline is is completely unhinged.
00:36:57
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It is the most Japanese game I've ever played, as we've discussed.
00:37:01
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Yeah, I had a really good time with it.
00:37:03
Speaker
I think it's I think it's a I think it's a no brainer purchase for people who who
00:37:09
Speaker
like that kind of open world collect-a-thon.
00:37:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:13
Speaker
You know, just crazy storylines.
00:37:17
Speaker
Sort of like Paradise Killer.
00:37:20
Speaker
If you liked Paradise Killer, give Promise Mascot Agency a try.
00:37:23
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It's totally worth it.
00:37:25
Speaker
It's a weird game.
00:37:26
Speaker
That being said, I think that's probably a small audience that we're speaking for.
00:37:29
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair.
00:37:30
Speaker
That's fair.
00:37:31
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I wouldn't be surprised, though, if we see this on a lot of people's game of the year list.
00:37:36
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Yeah, I'm sure it'll be on ours.
00:37:38
Speaker
But I mean, like, I think I think this one is kind of going to be a dark horse.
00:37:43
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Yeah.
00:37:44
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.
00:37:53
Speaker
And I'm having even more fun the second playthrough than I did when I never finished my first playthrough.
00:37:59
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And I'm just really enjoying myself playing a kind of class full melee.
00:38:06
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And I just got my blood cultist lady.
00:38:11
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And so it's me and her and Abelard who are all melee specialists charging in
00:38:17
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Nice.
00:38:17
Speaker
Face first and just tearing shit up.
00:38:20
Speaker
And it's super fun.
00:38:22
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I'm having a lot of fun with that.
00:38:24
Speaker
Abelard is so much fun.
00:38:27
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Yeah, he is so much fun.
00:38:29
Speaker
And I just love the guy, you know?
00:38:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:31
Speaker
He's a sweetheart, you know?
00:38:34
Speaker
He is a I mean, there's a reason that he is
00:38:37
Speaker
meme-ified in so many communities with the Warhammer shit.
00:38:42
Speaker
He's just a fun character.
00:38:44
Speaker
They should probably do their best to actually put him in the lore.
00:38:52
Speaker
I would like him to be in the canon somewhere.
00:38:55
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
00:39:07
Speaker
Like the sandbox area of Warhammer.
00:39:11
Speaker
Yeah, none of this really affects canon.
00:39:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of doing its own thing.
00:39:18
Speaker
It's doing its own thing.
00:39:20
Speaker
It's in the Coronis Expanse.
00:39:23
Speaker
Right, right.
00:39:24
Speaker
You're in the Coronis Expanse and you're cut off from the rest of the Imperium.
00:39:28
Speaker
Don't worry about it.
00:39:30
Speaker
It's Knights of the Old Republic.
00:39:31
Speaker
You know, it's like like this.
00:39:32
Speaker
This happened a long time ago.
00:39:34
Speaker
Just just have fun where we got we got sith everywhere.
00:39:37
Speaker
A planet full of them.
00:39:39
Speaker
Planet full of them.
00:39:40
Speaker
Planet full of them.
00:39:40
Speaker
It's that it's that kind of thing.
00:39:42
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Really, really having fun with that.
00:39:45
Speaker
I am also playing well.
00:39:48
Speaker
Blizzard released remasters of the first three Warcraft games and they're on Game Pass.
00:39:55
Speaker
And I never played the first one.
00:39:58
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.
Gaming Discussions and Reflections
00:40:13
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And and this is a great example of one.
00:40:16
Speaker
It's it's.
00:40:17
Speaker
They put a new coat of paint on it.
00:40:19
Speaker
It's not a great new coat of paint.
00:40:21
Speaker
That's what's hilarious.
00:40:24
Speaker
I think that they did it on purpose, though, like the the new look still looks kind of dated.
00:40:29
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.
00:40:37
Speaker
They're trying to make it look like what it looks like in your memory, because you're
00:40:42
Speaker
when they have the option to shift over to the original pixelated ass 1994 graphics.
00:40:49
Speaker
And when you do that, it's unreal.
00:40:52
Speaker
You're like, oh, wow, this looks like shit like this.
00:40:55
Speaker
Yeah, truly 1994.
00:40:59
Speaker
And so I wonder if that's not why they did it.
00:41:02
Speaker
It doesn't look amazing.
00:41:05
Speaker
So I'm hoping that that was a creative choice, but it's fun.
00:41:09
Speaker
It's it.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:10
Speaker
You know, they've done a few, you know, I never remember this term quality of life upgrades.
00:41:18
Speaker
Oh, sure.
00:41:18
Speaker
Sure.
00:41:19
Speaker
Sure.
00:41:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:19
Speaker
But for the most part, it's very much of its time and actually holds up pretty well.
00:41:26
Speaker
So I'm enjoying it.
00:41:28
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.
00:41:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:38
Speaker
Which I'm big into these days.
00:41:40
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Yeah.
00:41:41
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Kevin.
00:41:44
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:41:45
Speaker
All right.
00:41:46
Speaker
So I am playing Stone of Madness.
00:41:51
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:41:51
Speaker
I finally got that playing Stone of Madness.
00:41:55
Speaker
It's my it's currently one of my Steam Deck games.
00:42:01
Speaker
But it's a lot of fun.
00:42:02
Speaker
I mean, it is really unique.
00:42:07
Speaker
There's not much I could say to compare it to.
00:42:15
Speaker
So we've talked about Stone of Madness, at least the demo on the show before.
00:42:20
Speaker
But the general idea is that you control a group of people who are
00:42:31
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imprisoned in a, what is it, like a monastery or something like that?
00:42:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's a monastery or something.
00:42:40
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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.
00:42:54
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So, you know, the first character you get is a priest,
00:42:59
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who has everybody has their strengths and weaknesses.
00:43:03
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So like the priest, for example, is weirded out by dead bodies and it lowers his psyche.
00:43:11
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The second guy you get can't be in the dark.
00:43:15
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He's afraid of the dark.
00:43:15
Speaker
He's just this big, big lovable guy who can't talk and is scared of the dark.
00:43:23
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Yeah.
00:43:24
Speaker
But he can move big thing.
00:43:29
Speaker
And you get a girl next and she's, she's spicy, you know?
00:43:35
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:43:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:36
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She is not afraid of murdering people.
00:43:40
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She is excellent.
00:43:41
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As I recall, I had, I thought she was a really fun character.
00:43:44
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Like, yeah, cause you're not gonna kill a lot of people until she shows up and
00:43:48
Speaker
Until she shows up and she'll kill whoever you can kill whoever you want with her.
00:43:53
Speaker
Anybody.
00:43:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:55
Speaker
She has a knife and she will use it or you can knock people out.
00:43:59
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So there is and within the game, there's a difference between knockouts and murder.
00:44:07
Speaker
Like if you murder somebody, it actually takes longer
00:44:13
Speaker
for them to replace the person, replace the guard.
00:44:18
Speaker
If you just knock them out, the guard will be there the next day.
00:44:20
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And that's another mechanic in the game is that it goes day by day.
00:44:25
Speaker
Like it's kind of like the movie The Great Escape.
00:44:27
Speaker
Like every day you're just kind of going around this monastery with your people trying to like
00:44:34
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.
00:44:47
Speaker
And then at night, everybody has their own skills.
00:44:51
Speaker
So like one person can play the violin and playing the violin for everybody like heals their psyche.
00:45:02
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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.
00:45:14
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So the girl, the woman is afraid of fire.
00:45:18
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So you have to make sure any braziers that are lit are turned off.
00:45:23
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But that's where the balancing act comes into play, because
00:45:28
Speaker
Your priest dude, right, is he can turn off the fire and he's fine in the dark.
00:45:38
Speaker
If she kills somebody, he can't handle the dead body because he's afraid of corpses.
00:45:43
Speaker
Right.
00:45:45
Speaker
The big strong dude can't extinguish fires because he's afraid of the dark, but he can move corpses.
00:45:54
Speaker
She can move corpses, but like it has to be in the dark.
00:46:01
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It can't be near a brazier like a big fire or a fireplace.
00:46:06
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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
00:46:28
Speaker
So it's a neat game.
00:46:30
Speaker
It's from the game kitchen.
00:46:31
Speaker
It's seeing people who made Blasphemous.
00:46:34
Speaker
Couldn't be any less like that.
00:46:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:38
Speaker
But it's very, very Spanish Catholicism, which is super, honestly, very blasphemous.
00:46:46
Speaker
Pretty metal.
00:46:47
Speaker
Pretty cool.
00:46:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:49
Speaker
So yeah.
00:46:52
Speaker
And it's they have another game coming out this year.
00:46:55
Speaker
So Stone of Madness came out in January.
00:46:57
Speaker
They have another game coming out this year.
00:46:59
Speaker
The Ninja Gaiden.
00:47:02
Speaker
Oh, right.
00:47:03
Speaker
Right.
00:47:03
Speaker
Side scrolling.
00:47:04
Speaker
God, they are hauling ass.
00:47:06
Speaker
They.
00:47:06
Speaker
They really are tearing it up with these games.
00:47:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:11
Speaker
So Stone of Madness.
00:47:12
Speaker
Check it out.
00:47:14
Speaker
Still playing with my Rogue Trader playthrough with the new DLC.
00:47:20
Speaker
I also started playing Skin Deep, which because I watched Hot Siders video on Skin Deep.
00:47:28
Speaker
So I started playing Skin Deep.
00:47:30
Speaker
which is an immersive sim where you play an insurance mercenary.
00:47:38
Speaker
So the concept is you are in like stasis, right?
00:47:46
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.
00:47:54
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.
00:48:08
Speaker
But then, you know, inevitably pirates attack the ship.
00:48:11
Speaker
So you get woken up and you have to save...
00:48:15
Speaker
all the cats.
00:48:17
Speaker
Did I forget to mention that the people who fly ships in space are cats?
00:48:23
Speaker
I love it.
00:48:25
Speaker
As it should be.
00:48:26
Speaker
You're not a cat.
00:48:27
Speaker
You're a person who is an insurance mercenary and you have a third lung which lets you breathe in space.
00:48:39
Speaker
Don't think about it too hard.
00:48:40
Speaker
I'm not gonna.
00:48:42
Speaker
I don't think I'm going to.
00:48:44
Speaker
But it's an immersive sim in that all the systems are going with or without you.
00:48:49
Speaker
So you have the guards are patrolling.
00:48:53
Speaker
They're not patrolling when you look at them.
00:48:57
Speaker
They're always patrolling wherever you are in the ship.
00:49:01
Speaker
So in the ship, each mission is in like a contained environment.
00:49:06
Speaker
Like it's each mission is in its own ship.
00:49:08
Speaker
So it's kind of got levels.
00:49:11
Speaker
And there's multiple ways of solving pretty much any problem.
00:49:15
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.
00:49:30
Speaker
Now, the pirates have something called a skull saver on.
00:49:35
Speaker
What's a skull saver, you might ask?
00:49:37
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.
00:49:50
Speaker
Well, I love that.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:54
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.
00:50:04
Speaker
One way is by breaking a window open and throwing it out into the void of space.
00:50:09
Speaker
Another is by flushing it down the toilet or putting it in, putting it into a trash suit, whatever, you know.
00:50:17
Speaker
All right.
00:50:18
Speaker
All right.
00:50:18
Speaker
Say less.
00:50:19
Speaker
It's on my wish list.
00:50:24
Speaker
It sounds great.
00:50:25
Speaker
That sounds like a lot of damn fun.
00:50:29
Speaker
And the cats are adorable.
00:50:33
Speaker
And they talk to you.
00:50:35
Speaker
The style is really interesting.
00:50:37
Speaker
The art style to it.
00:50:38
Speaker
It's yeah, it makes me think of like Space Quest.
00:50:41
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Yeah.
00:50:42
Speaker
You know, it's our direction.
00:50:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:47
Speaker
And you're you don't have a gun whenever you unthaw.
00:50:51
Speaker
So you just got to use whatever you have.
00:50:54
Speaker
So my favorite method is throwing a box of pepper, black pepper at somebody, which makes them sneeze.
00:51:00
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.
00:51:12
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
00:51:36
Speaker
Peek, peek Kevin bullshit.
00:51:39
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.
00:51:59
Speaker
But you got to check the serial number.
00:52:01
Speaker
It's like... It's like Papers, Please.
00:52:06
Speaker
without the sadness.
00:52:10
Speaker
So think of it like that.
00:52:12
Speaker
Think of it like papers, please.
00:52:13
Speaker
But it's there's no stakes.
00:52:15
Speaker
It's just chill.
00:52:16
Speaker
You know, there's just vibes.
00:52:18
Speaker
You know, there's a really like relaxing background music.
00:52:22
Speaker
You're just like looking at the package.
00:52:24
Speaker
You're making sure the country code matches the country's flag matches on your thing.
00:52:30
Speaker
making sure the weight class is right, the serial number matches.
00:52:33
Speaker
And then as you get money, you could start automating these things.
00:52:37
Speaker
So as the packages come in, they get automatically scanned and all that stuff.
00:52:42
Speaker
So,
00:52:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's nice.
00:52:46
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.
00:53:03
Speaker
So it's nice to know that there are like a little more lighthearted alternatives.
00:53:08
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:53:11
Speaker
So, yeah, I recommend it if you're into that kind of stuff.
00:53:17
Speaker
I've also and I've also been playing vampire survivors more, just working my way downtown.
00:53:28
Speaker
Trying to get things unlocked and achievements achieved.
00:53:35
Speaker
You know what's wild is I at one point had 100% on this game.
00:53:37
Speaker
I'm currently down to 76%.
00:53:38
Speaker
Where am I at?
00:53:39
Speaker
Because I also once had 100% on this one.
00:53:41
Speaker
Let's see.
00:53:41
Speaker
Where am I?
00:53:52
Speaker
I am at I'm at 92%.
00:53:54
Speaker
That's not as OK.
00:53:55
Speaker
You're doing you're pretty good.
00:53:57
Speaker
Pretty good.
00:53:57
Speaker
Still like 17.
00:53:59
Speaker
The new achievements.
00:54:00
Speaker
Damn.
00:54:00
Speaker
OK.
00:54:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:05
Speaker
Oh, and I also bought a game that I think you would be interested in.
00:54:10
Speaker
I haven't I haven't played it yet.
00:54:13
Speaker
Just the aesthetic blood soaked bastard.
00:54:17
Speaker
Look this up.
00:54:18
Speaker
Let's look at 55 cents.
00:54:20
Speaker
Well,
00:54:23
Speaker
Just look at the screenshots.
00:54:26
Speaker
What the fuck?
00:54:29
Speaker
Oh, this is twisted as a corkscrew.
00:54:31
Speaker
What the is this?
00:54:32
Speaker
This is an adventure game.
00:54:34
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.
00:54:50
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, this is this is weird and bleak as shit.
00:54:57
Speaker
Holy crap.
00:54:59
Speaker
That's this is wild between two fires.
00:55:01
Speaker
Sorry.
00:55:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:04
Speaker
Here's the thing.
00:55:05
Speaker
It is currently it's two bucks.
00:55:07
Speaker
Normally it's currently 55 cents for the summer sale.
00:55:11
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.
00:55:18
Speaker
These guys, people, people with 14, 15 hours on it, it's,
00:55:25
Speaker
It's really wild.
00:55:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:27
Speaker
So people put some frigging time into this thing.
00:55:29
Speaker
Well, yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker
And the reviews are like, this is clearly an amateur product project, but it's like, it's wild.
00:55:39
Speaker
Like the art style makes me uncomfortable.
00:55:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:45
Speaker
It's, it's very upsetting.
00:55:47
Speaker
It's just, it's, it's just,
00:55:50
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
00:56:15
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
00:56:39
Speaker
Um, yeah, it was, it was right at the end of the year.
00:56:41
Speaker
Actually, if I'm remembering correctly, it came out the day after road trader.
00:56:46
Speaker
Uh, no, sorry.
00:56:47
Speaker
Road trader was the year before I'm an idiot.
00:56:49
Speaker
Uh, so no, it probably came out.
00:56:53
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.
00:57:02
Speaker
Um, okie dokie.
00:57:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker
I'm looking at this.
00:57:07
Speaker
Well, you know what, folks, that'll do it for tonight's episode.
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Thank you so much for listening, watching, wherever you're doing it from.
00:57:17
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Another year in the books, capping it off with Resident Evil and starting a brand new cycle.
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Yes.
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We got a Star War, I hear.
00:57:31
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We got a Star War next.
00:57:33
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Yes, we do.
00:57:33
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We got a Star War, another Star War video game book.
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I'm excited.
00:57:40
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I also think it's because you're right.
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We're starting up a bunch of new
00:57:45
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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
00:58:08
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the MMORPG that came out after the first two, but they're all in the same universe.
00:58:12
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Got it.
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So yeah, got it.
00:58:14
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Yeah.
00:58:15
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So should be interesting.
00:58:17
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Yeah.
00:58:18
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Um, Phil, so I had a question before we go.
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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.
00:58:38
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And he's ringing a, uh, uh, a bell with a dollarous sound.
00:58:47
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Um,
00:58:47
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Mm hmm.
00:58:48
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So do I start charging him rent or?
00:58:52
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It's yes, but you you can't be like you can't just come at him with the request for rent.
00:59:00
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You have to go about it in a way, a courtly way, you know, that that he'll recognize.
00:59:06
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So the first thing you're going to do is get a fan like when an old fashioned, you know, hand fan.
00:59:13
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And then you're going to take a dump on his