# HAPPILY EVER POSTGAME (Red plays Hades, FINALE!)

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Overly Sarcastic Productions
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfdwx2RgH_I
- **Дата:** 02.06.2026
- **Длительность:** 5:59:18
- **Просмотры:** 16,252
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52059

## Описание

In this FINAL Hades stream, we're gonna wrap up as much as we can in the post-True-Ending eternal gameplay loop status quo!

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

It's chugging. Yeah, boy. Here we go. All right. And let me go back to the actual screen where I can see what I'm looking at instead of the big calendar screen where I can't see what I'm looking at. — Streamlabs, I swear to God. Get more user friendly now or perish by my sword. Hi everybody. Welcome to the final Hades stream. That's right. We have officially declared Hades is a game that has infinite post game. We could keep playing forever, but we won't because I want to play Hades 2 at some point, and that's going to happen later. Oh, wow. We are way closer to 6K than I thought we were. I might be in danger. I better start this. — Um, — well, the thing is that if we get to 6K and our continued goal to raise money for UNICEF and cause Red Pain in her runs, uh, Red will be doing a rando run, which is where all of her decisions are randomized. — Yay. But first, I'm going to get the hell in there. Honestly, this is pretty good timing because uh spear is I think the only game uh weapon I have not cleared the game with. Uh — that's very surprising. I mean, we we've not and I guess not surprising is the wrong word. I've been here for all of this, but like the spear is one of my favorites. So, it's interesting to me how much we have very different preferences on like secondary fave weapons. — Yeah, I mean, you know, different folks uh different strokes and such. I'm going to try comboing it with the Lamant Plume. Uh, and uh, yeah, I'm just going to real quick get this run started. Uh, in fact, I don't think I've ever won. — Uh, yeah. Wow. I've never even cleared Allesium with the spear. Let's give a shot. Let's give it a shot. — Uh, admittedly, if kills me twice in a row, I am going to be a huge [ __ ] about it. So, — the stakes are pretty high, but uh, we'll see what we can do. — Um, also, happy Pride Month, everybody. Uh, we're happy month here. Uh, obviously July is going to be uh wrath month. Uh, which fun and exciting. — I'm looking forward to sloth month. — Oh, yeah. Hey, every month is sloth month if you play your cards right. All right. Um, I do love drunken dash. I like it when the dash does chaos gate. We need to go in there because we got to talk to Chaos more because we want one of the unofficial goals of this stream because whether or not we succeed at these goals, we are going to end we're going to stop playing Hades and then I'm going to take like a week or two off and then I'm going to play Hades 2 and it's going to be awesome cuz like Hades 2 is twice as long and 10 times as complicated. I cannot be spending this much time on every part of the game. But the more we talk to Chaos and Nyx, uh, hypothetically, the more they will talk to me about their character stuff. Even though Chaos is not indulging in the um Oh, — Enr. — Chaos doing what you want them to do and have planned. I don't think so. — Yeah, we're going to follow the labyrinth rules. Uh, lefthand wall. Uh, when you can't see where you're going, you follow the lefth hand wall. In most labyrinths, it works. Not if the labyrinth is moving. Pro strat. I saw a Masters of the Universe yesterday in an advanced screening. Oh, how was it? I would say it's fine. It's uh it's not very good, but I think if you want a kind of popcorny movie, it's not the worst option in the world. Um I liked Mortal Kombat 2 more. Like I thought I don't know that Masters of the Universe is doing anything interesting fightwise. So I wasn't like getting super hyped for the fights. And I think they definitely could have leaned into the sword and sorcery of it all more. — The the plot is simple but a little bit like incoherent at times. — Ah yeah. — It's all the elements you expect of a hero's journey. You know they the Adam He-Man gets sent uh to the to Earth and then he's got to you know find his way back home. But in be doing so, he's you know, the classic He-Man bit is that he's a little bit wimpy and then he uses the power of Frey Skull and then he's not wimpy anymore. Yeah. And basically the way that they handle that is they're like, "Oh, he's always been wimpy, but now he's got to find out what makes him a hero. " And it's like, "Okay, I got you. Uh, he worked in HR, so I'm sure it's going to be like, you know, he's good at managing people, I guess, rallying the troops. " — And they get to Yeah. that point, but it takes a lot. It takes a winding road to get there. And it kind of made me feel like I swear to God movie. Just get to the [ __ ] point. I know you're circling the drain on this. Um, — so it was I saw it for free at the Philly Film Society. It was really cool for them to put that on. I'm happy to have seen it for free in advance. Um, all the humor in this movie is geared for uh 12-year-old boys. Like there's a guy named Fisto and they make all the jokes you think they're going to make about — Oh, okay. I mean, we don't need to like his name is always Fisto. Like, do we really need to be this though. — After a certain point, this turns into what were you expecting? Yellow spandex. — It all felt all the humor felt very on that level. — Um, which is not my personal favorite

### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00]

but at the same time, there were one or two jokes that got me a little a chord. So, I can't say it was like awful. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen. — I had a chord on occasion. Um, — my man Orcco was only a like postredits cameo. Of course, — there is a postredit scene. Orcco, the little wizard guy. — Oh, that guy. Yeah. See, I was never a He-Man or a Shirro kid. All of my exposure to it came from Princesses of Power, and there's no He-Man in there. — I was neither of those things as well. Um, but my Nona had a bin of McDonald's toys that she had bought assorted at a yard sale for like five bucks. And Orcco was one of them. And I loved Orcco. I loved Or little Orcco toy as a kid. I don't know anything about him, but man, I love him. Uh, but he's barely in the movie. Um — uh — the there's a post credits scene where they cameo Shirro as expected. So like I was like there's no one this could possibly be except for they're going to be like and maybe we'll do Shira if this does well and it's not going to do well. So that's going to happen. — Maybe they'll do Shira anyway. That could be fun. And I hated Skeletor and not in the way that you're supposed to kind of like watching him be bad cuz it's Jared Leto and instead of committing Skeletor has maybe the most iconic bad guy voice of like — Yeah. It's like Yeah. He's scheming and conniving. — He has defined how skeletons sound. All skeletons have to sound like that. — That is what skeletons sound like. And Jared Leto is instead doing like a oh so evil and smising movie is I'm not supposed to hate Skeletor. I'm supposed to want him to fail because he's a bad guy, but love watching him do it. And instead I'm like, "No, I don't like Skeletor. I don't want him around anymore. He's kind of he's mean and boring. " And all of his jokes are the same jokes that every other 10-year-old in this movie is making. — You know, there's something there about like, you know, how like we have the Superman Trunks test of like, are you willing to be seen as silly enough to be wearing trunks if it means sincerity? I think there's something similar to that for like bad guy voices. Are you willing to sound a little ridiculous — at the cost of like being true to the character, you know? And obviously Jared Leto was never going to do that because I don't know what the [ __ ] going on inside that man's brain, but it's nothing good. And it's definitely nothing of like — I don't know what monkeys Paul some executive in Hollywood uh cursed themselves on to have to keep casting Jared. — Who does he have dirt on? Why does this keep happening? — He's box office poison. So I'm like you can't show him on screen or else everyone will be like this guy again. He can't be in any of the promotional material for a movie. He's not a troll. Uh and then he's like I guess he's fine but he's not. I would have rather them because first of all it's not him in the [ __ ] suit in on screen. So you put anyone in there. Have Mark Hamill do it or like get [ __ ] um Tom Kenny in there to do the most. Yeah. You know like man can get the range. — It's like how in like Mandalorian uh it's like it's not Pedro Pascal in the suit most of the time and the two stunt guys who are mostly doing the acting are like yeah we get no credit because everyone knows it's like oh this is the voice and Petra Pascal is the guy. Um, and it's like, — yeah, it it's just Yeah, it's a whole thing. — Yeah, it it's a bland Skeletor. That's There's a couple I don't think like the per performances on a whole are necessarily bad. I don't think they're given anything to do that's interesting. Like the script is bad, but the performers are fine. I The guy who plays Adam, uh, Nicholas Valenci is actually I found quite charming. I was like, I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying you in this. I think you're you are very endearing to me. You're being given absolutely nothing to work with, but you're doing the best you can with it, and I still find you very endearing. Um, and then I liked um uh Allison Brie, who most people probably know from Annie from Community, uh, is doing a performance as Evil Lynn that I can only describe as those parts of Community where they would also put them in costumes and make them do spooks of show. — Uh, and I found that very entertaining. You know, it's a very unserious take on a very unserious thing. And I think that's a lot of fun. Um, and I I'd love to someday see Idris Ela in something good again. So desperate. — Was he in the movie? Who was he? — He's He is Man-at-Arms. Uh he's a pretty significant portion of the movie. Um he's got a whole arc about losing and then having to like, you know, refind his I don't know, get his group back or whatever the [ __ ] it is. And uh — uh and you know, it's Ela, so like he's good. And again, they're given nothing to do because the script is bad. — Classic. Yeah. But I'm like, man, I want Idris Ela has so many fun, nerdy projects and like is just so clearly trying to have a good time in his career and I want him to be in something good again so badly cuz I have so much respect for that and I think he's a good performer and he just keeps being in [ __ ] cats again, you know, like he just keeps being — he's just really unfortunately always cast in something awful and like he's always a bright spot in it, but what can you do? as the strongest defender of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. I will hold that he is part of why those movies are good, but he is not the only reason. — You know what? No, Red, that is entirely fair. That is a great counterpoint in that he is very good in those. I like you just about those movies a lot. I think he's fun. But that's I think to my point of like he's willing to do any kind of project and he seems to

### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00]

particularly like popcorny, nerdy pop culture moments. Um, and I like that he gets to be in those things and it's fun to see him in them, but I wish he could be in like just a genuinely very good project sometimes. Like in like a Pacific Rim kind of way where he's great in that movie and it's a great movie. I don't need him to change genres. I just want one of these movies to be better and for him to be — Here's my crack theory. I think he's he heard people talking about casting him as James Bond and he's so desperate to not have that happen that he's like, "No, I'm just a silly little guy, your honor. — You I'm going to do cats instead. " I think it like having seen how much more enrichment Daniel Craig has in his enclosure now that he gets to be Fenwa Blanc instead of uh James Bond every 3 years is like I think that is probably what's haunting Idris Ela's brain is like if I keep playing the stoic serious cool guy in these serious action movies. One of these days I'm going to have to be this guy yet. And so instead we get our uh perennial — perennial moments. But yeah, I don't know. Over not the worst thing you could see. If I was going to pick a like if I wanted to like kind of turn my brain off and watch cool fights, I would go see Mortal Kombat 2 again over Masters of the Universe. But it's not the worst thing you could watch. And it's particularly if you get like a discounted ticket cuz it's like a you know certain day of the week theaters will do discounts and stuff. I would say it's not the worst thing in the world. Um, I just simply do not care for Jared Leto. And I — It's the magic of mediocreity. — Um, sometimes that's an okay thing for movie to be. A healthy cinema ecosystem includes mediocre movies. So I'm not — exactly what it says on the box. — Yeah. Uh, I stayed up late because I watched all of Spider Noir. Uh, — oh, how'd you like it? — I really — Did you watch it black or white or in color? — I watched it in color. Uh I know black and white is the intended experience, but uh the high seas I was sailing on didn't have it in black and white if you know what I mean. Uh so but uh yeah, no I uh I really liked it. I think this is the only thing I've unironically really liked Nicholas Cage detective in a otherwise brightly colored superhero action animated movie. Um, — but like — he also works when he is in the universe he's from because he's still an incredibly weird awkward presence, but it's canon. There's a reason for it. Uh, so I found that wholly delightful. I thought it was really fun. I think you'd probably get a kick out of it because uh there's so many watch list. Yeah. — Yeah. Well, there's Oh, here we go. We're getting the duet. — Hey, I know this one. — Hey Let's just sit here and enjoy the end credits music for a minute. But uh as though we've ended this game already. — Well, you only get the end credits music once unless you request it. — Um what was I saying? I can't remember. Uh oh, but there's page. — Well, there's just so many references to like classic noir tropes and classic noir movies, of course. Like, it is extremely true to the genre. It has exactly the characters you expect acting exactly the way you think they're going to. It's like, okay, we've got here is the pitch perfect fem fatal. Uh, and she's stunning and she's incredible and of course she's got her own motivations. She's a fool for love, but she kind of likes the detective, but she's got a man. And like And also, of course, they're name dropping characters that I know where it's like, oh, here's the bouncer, Flint. And I was like, Flint isn't Marco. And it's like, yeah, of course Flint isn't Marco. This is still Spider-Man. Um, they got me, though. They got me. And I think a lot of people, and I don't think they even intended to get me cuz there's a guy in the trailer with electricity powers — and so everyone of course is like, Electro, yeah, no, this [ __ ] is Megawatt. He's a different unrelated electricity villain. I don't know why they did that. — Me negawatt. — And the thing is like sometimes they'll just rename characters like the uh the fem fatal is uh Cat Hardy. So I was like oh Felicia Hardy black cat. Yeah of course obviously. Uh and they make little jokes about oh you know cat. She sharpens her claws. You know she slept like a kitten. Whatever. I like yeah Cat Hardy. Felicia Hardy. But her name is not Felicia. It might be you know cat might be a nickname. But then they were calling this guy something completely unrelated to Max Dylan. And I was like what a weird choice to completely rename Electro from Max Dylan. And then he was like, "I'm going TO CALL MYSELF MEGAWATT. " I WAS LIKE, "Oh [ __ ] what a weird thing to call electro in this crazy 1930s world. " I had to look him up afterwards. Anyway, um, all right, let's talk. — Um, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's on my as soon as I have two free seconds to rub together big cover off on — Spider Noir. I mean, we got to watch in the original black and the original intended black and white uh — that's what we do here on the show. But, um, yeah, it seems like I'm It seems like it's been going over pretty well.

### Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) [15:00]

It's fun. I like these kind of like zanyier oneoff projects that, uh, Marvel likes to throw to the TV section a lot, and I think it can be a lot of fun to play around with. So, I'm excited to check it out. Um, — yeah, I was I because I was my boyfriend did not come to the Masters of the Universe screening. I did go with Buddy Mando movies, which was a lot of fun. — Um, but, um, I came back from it. I'm like, "Yeah, the movie wasn't great. " And he's like, "Well, it's palette cleanser. up to that um time loop episode of the next generation where they have the deja vu that lets them figure it out. Um oh my gosh, thank you anonymous for the $1,000 donation. That will — 100% put us over the next tier. So Red's next run is going to be a rando and that pushes us extremely close to 7,000 which is also going to be a worst run. — Oh no, we're gonna have to do those as separate runs. We can't do them both simultaneously. They don't merge. — Yeah, they have to be separate runs. But that does mean the next uh two runs probably are going to be tough for red. But oh my gosh, thank you anonymous so much. Incredibly generous. — Thank you. And once again, we are fundraising for UNICEF. Uh so this is uh they do a lot of really good work around the world. Uh mostly in the vein of helping children to be insulated from some of the various calamities and catastrophes that are constantly occurring. Uh, so donating to them is incredibly good and noble and thank you so much for doing it and I will continue to suffer for your amusement to encourage it. — It's what we're here for. We are your little court gestures dancing about. I think the thing that throws me with this spear is that the um the sweep maneuver is slow enough that it it's like it works best when you are surrounded by enemies, but when you're surrounded by enemies, probably one of them can smack you before you fire it off. And a lot of the time it's it doesn't like give you protection exactly. It's just kind of like, well, you can pulse damage, but you can still get hit. And sometimes you can get knocked out of it, which is the most annoying. It's like, I'm already wasting time charging this [ __ ] thing. — So, doing it when they spawn in does seem to be the strat as far as I can tell. Oh, uh, I will say if you have any sort of arachnophobia, don't watch Spider Noir. You will not have a good time. Really, don't do it. I promise. — I've had a pretty decent time with everybody. — Even more so than the usual arachnophobia on a guy named Spider-Man. Uh, warning. Um, yeah, — I've seen some spoilers for what I think you're referring to, right? And yeah, it's definitely a much more direct deretophobia warning than usual. — Look, man, he's like most of these spider people, the extent of the arachnophobia is, "Oh, I got bitten by radioactive spider. Oh no, and now it's dead and I'll never have to think about it again. " Nick Cage is playing a tortured noir detective. If you think there's not going to be spider related angst and nightmare fuel, you got another thing coming, my friend. So, like, viewer discretion advised. There's a quote from Nick Cage about how he was approaching this performance that I think really sold me on watching the show where he's like, I'm trying to play this as though I was a spider trying to escape from the body of a man. — Yeah. Or trying to pretend to be a man. Uh and like the way that they do his uh his radioactive spider bite as it were is far more [ __ ] than the average. Uh but also it's like the effect it had on him is clearly like again he's a tortured noir detective. Everything in his life has to serve to make him more miserable and [ __ ] up. And a magical spider bite that gives him superpowers. You know, those superpowers are not going to be fun. — There's no Toby McGuire who Yeah. and he somehow manages to simultaneously be like, "Oh yeah, I have the proportionate strength of a spider and like I can handle myself in the scenes where it is very clear that they have swapped me out for a stunt double who is like 25 tops and very flexible and then it'll be like he has to awkwardly clamber through a window and then he can't get his back leg up high enough to get it over the ledge so he falls. " And it's like, it's incredible how I believe that both of these guys are the same guy. And like every time he does some cool Spider-Man, I'm like, he's going to have to put a real serious ice pack on the old lower back afterwards. Um, — hello young. — Me too, buddy. Me, too. — Yeah, we're right there with you, pal. — Oh, my joints hurt all the time. It's because I'm aging. — Yes. Got to stay flexy if you can, but also pain is an inevitability of girls. Oh no, there was a chip. There was I can see the vase sparkling. I can't have it because I already got on the goddamn boat. — Hi. — Once again, — next time — I can't remember, — but it doesn't appear to be the one that

### Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) [20:00]

affects my special. So, the cast. So, it's probably my call. Yep, there it is. I see. There might be something on the uh pack of punishment where we can make it so that your rewards are not visible cuz somebody was talking about how or something like that. There's some way to enforce rando run from the pack of punishment. So, we'll have to take a look at that when we get back. Oh, interesting. Because I know that's a that's like a chaos uh bane you can get. Um, but I can't remember if it's part of the pack. It's definitely something to check out before we go. Otherwise, me and my random number generator will be here for you as often are. — Well, we'll definitely still need the random number generator for a bit of Whoops. — Yes. Do you know maybe none of us know chat maybe if you know guys know does Battlecat speak English human words in uh the original cartoon? Cuz Battlecat speaks a lot of English human words in this uh movie and it really threw me cuz the CGI on Battlecat is not great. I think there's a couple points where I was like, "Oh, the special effects of this are kind of fun. " But, um, any, you know, they do, I think, a decent job of making stuff look goofy. Uh, but then Battlecat would say full sentences and I was like, what? This — I did not know that this was part of it. Uh, chat saying yes. — Wow. Okay. I mean, that makes sense. — It was a rare animal companion in an 80s cartoon that couldn't talk. I think Snarf was the only Well, I don't know if Snarf couldn't talk, actually. I never watched original Thundercats. only the 2011 version. Me and the other three human beings on Earth who remember that show. — Hey J. Hey, don't throw too much shade. I also watched the — other two human beings on Earth who remember that show. It's — very generous of you to assume that there are that I was adding to the three you had originally said and not part of them already. — Oh no, you are. That's why it's us and the other two. — Yeah. Um, — yeah, Battlecat doesn't have like a transformation. It's just kind of Battlecat. So, I guess or Snarf, excuse me. I don't know. I didn't internalize anyone's names. — No, no. Snarf is from Thundercats. Battlecat is the other uh — Oh, people are saying Snarf talked, but every other word was snarf. — That Yeah. Wow, that sounds not annoying at all. You know, the more context I get for the 80s, the more it's so funny to me how much Yoda was a huge plot twist character that he was actually a Jedi, you know, cuz like he is so textbook the funny little guy who talks weird and acts funny and is generally kind of annoying but oh so marketable. And then when he starts being like not prepared this young one is for my training, it's like, oh [ __ ] wait, are you like important? That's why it makes me so upset with the prequels. They're like, "Here's Yoda. Here he is. " Um, back when I was reading the uh the Star Wars comics, oh, I realized I haven't talked about this on this stream. I talked about it on the Rolling with the Patreon hangout, uh, which probably very few of you guys are there for. Um, I was reading through the uh the 2015 Star Wars comics, which despite being from the Disney Star Wars era and, you know, by way of Marvel and also comics, uh, they're like quite solid. Uh, the art is very iheardy in a few issues, but a lot of them quite good. And they did this thing where like uh Luke finds like Obi-Wan's secret journal from like his intervening decade or so where he was watching him grow up. Uh and so Obi-Wan got to like some of the issues are just like from the private journal of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Here's some stuff going on. It's like oh okay cool. Um and uh one of them is the adventures of this Yoda guy. And of course nowhere in it is a visual description of what Yoda looks like. So Luke is like, "Wow, this guy must have been so big and strong and cool to be able to handle all this stuff. " And the story just continues as usual cuz it's like, "Oh yeah, this is like pre-Emp Empire Strikes Back. " Luke's not allowed to know what Yoda looks like. Um fun dedication to uh um continuity, even though arguably that is one of the things that has hampered the Disney Star Wars run the most. Uh if you've seen uh an excerpt from a Star Wars comic where like Luke and Leia are looking up at the stars and she's like sometimes when I look for Aldderon star it's still there uh because we travel faster than speed of light. If you've seen that comic panel it's from this run and uh most of it is that good quality writing. Oh yeah.

### Segment 6 (25:00 - 30:00) [25:00]

— All the firepower I can get. — Won't really do us any good to get a second Chaos Gate because Chaos has already talked to us on this run. So we will not. — Ah yes. Oh no. How close did you say we were to 7K? — Uh like less than 200 bucks. Maybe like 120. — I'll set a 5minute timer anyway. — All right. So now if we get to 7K, not only will the next run be a randle run, the run after that would be a worst run. And Red will have to try and fight Kon right now. So you guys know what to do. You want to cause her some pain. — What else are you guys here for realistically? — Yeah. Uh we are planning to do Hades 2 after this. — That's part of why we're — week or so off, but uh today is the last Hades stream. We technically got the true ending already. This is all just game. — Yeah. — Well, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we ended the last stream right after Thesius managed to kill me of all people. So, this is definitely not entirely happening because of that. Um, — and with that $200 donation from Ender Sings, uh, that's going to put us right over 7,000. Thank you so much for that generous donation. And Red, I think it's time for you to get your ass kicked by the, uh, both men. — Yeah. Allow me to spend 50 bucks on four hit points because you know how it is. Four hit points in a dream. Sometimes that's all I need. — Hey, Kon, want to fight? Thank you for the anonymous donations as well. Even though we've reached the goal of getting ready to fight and having to do two now, we got two themed runs in a row coming up. — Thanks, man. — All this money still goes to a great cause, goes to support UNICEF, help kids uh all over the world being inflated from the terrible things that go on around them. And uh we really appreciate you guys uh being so generous and hanging out. My mom, who at last time I checked was in chat, described the noises I make when this is happening as woody woodpecker things and wondered if she was responsible. So, uh, thanks mom. — Makes me feeling better. I always, if it makes you and her feel better, I always think it's a Zoid moment. Um, — when Futurama's good, it's so good. And when it's bad, it's — When she was bad, she was horrid. Uh, but I do I love Futurama. It's fun. One of my favorite show. — Jesus. Age Christmas. — What do you mean that didn't even affect you with scoring? Get back here. It's not affected with scorn, bro. I'm trying to scorn you, bro. What are you doing? — See? — Yeah, bro. Get scorned. — Yeah, bro. I can have a little tree. — I don't know if that's really going to intimidate his bow man if we're dead, but good try getting good try nonetheless. Wow. Honestly, is coming in clutch on this one. If it wasn't for these crystals, I think I would be extremely bucked. God. Okay, we're good. Come on, man. I can see your health bar. Get out of here. — Is a really funny statement. — Thank you. Oh man. Oh, okay. — Good grief. — Looks like I'm back in the club. — Thanks, man. Uh question for us in chat. If we had to operate on Looney Tunes physics or shownen anime physics, which one would we prefer? — Um shown in anime physics because it rewards you for having friends and believing in yourself. Looney Tunes physics is a little bit more like it doesn't matter how much pain you experience, you can never die. So like one of those sounds like actual living

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hell, and the other one sounds kind of cool based. — Yeah. Yeah, but I think it'd be fun to be able to do Looney Tunes ass [ __ ] you know? Just have like infinite pockets. — Would definitely be kind of neat to have X's hammer space. Uh or like get turned into a little ash pile with blinky eyes and then be fine in the next scene. — Yeah, maybe it's just the crippling fear of heights in me, but the idea that I could fall off of any surface and still probably be okay is very appealing to me. — You get your little goofy yell evil and then you be like, I'm fine. I've left a little perfectly knee-shaped crater in the ground and now I'm all right. — To be fair, — if I simply don't look down, I won't fall at all. — Yes. Oh, wow. Now my fiveminute timer goes off. Damn, you guys were speed. Ah, no. Come on. I have to get to Thesius and kick his ass. The rando run and the worst run are going to be brutal. Yeah. I mean the thing is in shown in anime like rocks are really breakable. It's kind of a whole thing. So like falling is also probably fine. You just Oh. Great. We can just get all our death defiances back. — Oh, very nice. — Maybe you'll finally make it out of Allesium with the spear. That would be nice. — There's considerable talk of the queen Panie, stranger. Your mother, it would seem to me your tales. as complicated as my own. — Almost as complicated, Petetro, I'm sorry. Your tail is pretty simple. — But yes, the queen. — Like, no offense. I get it's your whole thing, but man, dude, — really good having her back. — I can only begin to imagine. May she help govern all of this with wisdom and with grace. — Thanks, sir. — Oh, man. Okay. Nope. I'm not gonna choose between two bad [ __ ] We are going to get instead. — Sorry cousins. I like you all too much to get one of you mad at me for even a minute. — The way that this game tests me by being like, "Hey, all these characters who like Oh my god, holy [ __ ] That was embarrassing. " Uh, all these characters who you want to like you, one of them is going to now be mad at you for a while. It's like, I don't even care if they kill me. I'm upset that I've upset them. It feels worse in Hades 2 somehow, too. — Yeah. Well, the stakes are higher, so the [ __ ] makes less sense. It's like, guys, are we not all fighting the same [ __ ] war at this point? Do we still have time for this [ __ ] — Gods will be gods. — I guess this room is not probably without. Oh my god. Leave me alone. All right. Where's this crystalline [ __ ] I see protecting you all? I hate those guys. — Yeah, the fact that they dropped two protecting crystals and two super chariots with super armor in here and they were like, "Have fun, motherfucker. " He's like, "Cool, man. Thanks. I will actually. " — The power of the gods. — Ooh, we could get an Aphrodite bone. Ooh. Ooh, the goddess of love. — So, my heart tells me that you've developed quite the bond with Moody Thanos, haven't you? There. — I always figured that his brooding quality was just an act. — Aphrodite watching everyone in the underworld desire me like hell yeah — like you truly are my champion. I think that's a fun angle to take on it of given run. Um, how much is Zagrias actually acting as that god's like true token champion, you know, like how much is he embodying uh their whims? And like Dianis and Aphrodite are two are the funniest for that because it's like Dianis is like, "Dude, take a shot every time you enter a new chamber, buddy. " That's how you — speak. Like, yeah, — it looks like we're getting the duo — boon. — What a party. Well, who am I to tell you yet? — All right. — Honestly, I like the dual wound, but I've already gotten it and I don't have anything buffing my attack right now. So, we're going to get heartburn strike. Um, — power of Olympus. — All right, let's see if we can kill these [ __ ] Fingers crossed. — Sorry, my mom just said it took her a while to notice Aphrodite was fully naked. — Oh, that's fair. They very carefully arrange her hair so you don't notice.

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notice. — When we get to Hades 2 and we encounter character sprite, I have one thought that um once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it for the rest of the game and I want to inflict it on all of you, but it's best seen in the moment. So a little Yeah. Hades too. Get excited. I have one observation. — I mean characters. — Excellent. It's very silly observation, but it's excellent. — If you had to wear one character's outfit from, let's just say Hades, we'll say Hades 2 for later. But if you had to have one of these fits, which one would it be? — Whoops. Uh, question. Let's see. Honestly, Athena probably the most sensible and comfortable move, but she's the one wearing proper clothes, proper armor. Um, she doesn't have like one boob artfully exposed like some of these guys. Uh, the I have to take some artistic license with Zagrias's costume. Uh, you guys may have noticed it's kind of a titties outlook. Uh, so got to keep the thumbnails PG, you know. Oops. I feel like I always like dumb to see fit. It's like the kind of off the shoulder moment. That one seems very cozy, very comfy, but like still movable, still practical. — Seems like she would have a lot of pockets, and I think that I would like those pockets. — True. Good point. Would you guys stop doing your [ __ ] friendship maneuver and get over here and fight me real? — Well, the problem is red that they're operating on shownen physics and you chose Looney too. I guess you've come to expect. — Oh god. Getting hitting Thesius with the spear I think is a special layer of hell — cuz his [ __ ] shield, man. I guess it backstabs through him, which is nice, but still. simply not the same. — He blocked it from both directions. He This cheating [ __ ] That's fine, man. I'll just kill your friend instead. — Normal. — Are we the bad guy? No, man. We just go. Totally different. — Whoops. A wasteland void of life. — Great. — All right. Prepare to be triangulated, [ __ ] destroy. You Okay. — Hell yeah, dude. — Yesesh. — Yeah, I definitely never got the rhythm of actually fighting him with the spear. That was not fun. — Now you've done it. Yeah, I have done it. — One down. — And now if I can uh beat Hades with the spear, — which would be nice. Okay, let's reroll and see if we can get a kiss of sticks. — How about a different set of choices? — Nope. That would be too easy. Um, okay. Let's swap for the skelly tooth so we at least have something to operate with. — Should help. — For the love of God, we need to make it too. — I'm out of here.

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Honestly, my primary goal of not having been killed by Thesius is the end of the game play has already been achieved. So, pretty good. Yeah. — Yeah. Not too bad. — And now we just have to not lose to him throughout the rest of the game. — Yeah. How hard could that possibly be? — Why not? It was at that moment they would discover how hard it could possibly be. — Yeah, maybe just a little. Um, sure. Let's see how many Dionis boons we can stack on this run. This is practically divine intervention on itself. — I do — as a as compense for Aries's refusal to show up last time. every I feel like there's got to be something in the game that prevents you from just getting more of the same gods boons if you only have their boons already because it's like both times we've tried it, it has categorically not cooperated. I've definitely done runs where I mostly got a single god's boon before. So I don't know that it's like — well I wonder if most — is the operative word. Um like if you have Aries and somebody else like or maybe they try and uh flesh things out in the first couple runs so or like areas so you end up with two or three god boounds before you uh nope uh you know before you reach um Asphodel. Sorry language brain only slightly cooperative while trying to also do this. I don't know. Yeah, — I do remember somewhere in here there's a datalus upgrade that makes your special bounce off of people like chain lightning. And boy, I miss that right now. H dare to dream red. — Yeah, maybe a little chain lightning would solve my problems. Maybe just one more hit of chain lightning fix. keeps getting hit by chain lightning. I don't know if you hit it again. Yeah, probably. Surely it won't continue. — Yeah, of course not. It's not like it's chained or anything. — No, it's okay, fellas. I brought my own Okay, let's see what we got. — Uh, does rolling with difficulty come back this month or next month? It comes back next month, our summer season. There will be a oneshot this month um coming in a little bit uh playing masks which I'm running and very excited about. But uh that's TBD on the announcements on that one. And uh in the meantime, yeah, we're definitely we're soon which is very exciting. We have our first recording next Monday. — Yes. — Starting the sessions off and we figured out we were going to have our first recording next Monday. — Yeah. Two days ago. — Yes. — Yeah. — We're on it. We're totally professional. We know exactly what we're doing. — We've been doing this for years. — Come on out. — Yeah, — that is discover. — I'll take this one. — Okay. I would really like to get another gamma boon. So, even if there's a horrifying boss monster at the end of this, I think I'm going to get it. — It could just be one small rat. You don't know. Honestly, could be worse. I hate the one small rat. Got in the field for Like the first time I fought it, nightmare. But uh I figured it out. Also, hey, if this turns out to be the sader sack, then we won't even need to do the boss fight. — Oh, that's something. That's a almost something. — Nice try, fellas. But I am not coming over there and making this easy for you. — Have we ever thought about doing a Lancer one shot? I've never actually really played any Lancers, so it hasn't been uh high on my list of priorities, but u that's all to say. If anyone else wants to run it, hell yeah. Do you — My sister is big into Lancer. Uh so I could potentially rely on her expertise um on that. But — yeah, the one shots tend to be uh Well, we have an idea. shows up. — We just kind of immediately do it more so than like any sort of particular plotting. Um, but it's a

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— uhoh. — Yeah, it's always fun. — Definitely a boss fight. — One big rat. — That's okay. That's nowhere near as bad as it could be. — How often do we record with difficulty? Um, — typically it's once a week until we have — Yeah. all the episodes ready for the season. Um, you know, we start recording further in advance. This is actually probably one of the more recent two when we're uploading since we've started recording. Um, — but yeah, we record relatively far in advance. If we need to like skip a week or like do a different uh day of the week, we can to accommodate Google schedules, but this is not everyone's full-time job. Um, but yeah, we roughly once a week uh is the goal. And I personally I really like having a front-loaded um two to three episodes recorded by the time the episode reports coming out. Um just so that we don't have to be like recording and then editing the exact same episode in the exact same week. It's enrichment in my enclosure for me to listen to a different thing than I just played. — Yeah. Accept this message. Sat tunnels. — Uh, let's try money. — Yeah, the uh — Why not? — The uh I love you guys. Just got to catch up a little. That is truly the biggest thing. And not just with rolling difficulty, like with these streams, too. Like uh There's like a thousand people watching simultaneously in the first uh stream and then it steadily went down and initially I was like oh no do people not like it and I was like no I think if they didn't like it they'd tell me. I think what's happening is that most people are like, "Oh yeah, the last one I w like you stream these daily on Tuesdays during the school year like um like people don't watch them super consistently and then it's like well I don't want to miss anything so I'll just catch up on the VOD later which is you know correct that is the right way to watch these like once we're done streaming today I'm going to post the playlist somewhere so that people can like watch it on their own time. " Um, but we were talking about this the other day when we were doing our rolling difficulty admin meeting of like we have 10 completed seasons of D and D actual play, which is bonkers for plays. And it's like — the number of people who are like, "Oh, you guys are on a podcast. Oh, what is there? " It's like, yeah, we have a completed campaign. We have two completed campaigns. Um, — and nobody has to like listen through every single thing that we do, but it's like — the number of times where I've been like, "Oh, no, there's diminishing returns. " And then it's like, oh yeah, it's because people want to catch up and they have lives and [ __ ] It's like, oh yeah, that makes sense. Support fire. Hell yeah. — Guide my hand. — Oo, you know, it's a, you know, the backlog isn't going anywhere. Um, it's there for anyone who wants to listen. Um, you know, and the thing with having distinct campaigns is that also you don't necessarily need to listen to everything from every campaign to be caught up on the current one because our campaigns are purposefully separate from each other. They all in the same universe, — but the characters largely don't overlap. Um, — every time we try and overlap, Austin is like, "No crossovers or you die by my sword," which is pretty funny. — Yes, which is fair and equable equitable of him, and I really appreciate him for doing that. Uh, although I do still hold that Crius, the potion selling cobalt should be in every campaign. — Haven't worked into campaign 3 yet. I'm working on it, guys. I promise. — What we need to start doing is pulling a dimension 20 and just adopting the NPC whose voice we like the most and taking them with us so that Austin has to keep doing it. just as before. — We kind of do that sometimes because we ended up with a — idea — usually. Well, I mean like Roy and Elise kind of ended up tagging on along a lot in campaign one. Um — Davey and really I think only showed up because it was very funny to do for us to do as well. — Yes. — Um you it's — Yeah. It's fun. We try to make sure that they're all their own complete ideas and it's fun to see where they do overlap, but overwhelmingly um I would encourage you to just listen to whichever campaign you're most interested in because I think you'll have the most fun with it then if that pitch works for you. Um same with the one shots. They're really fun. Uh you know, in particular listening for the ones that just have like — the genre you're most interested in or like a guest you want to hear play. That's probably the way to go. It's also the rule of thumb or movie struck. So, I'm like, yeah, this is kind of my attitude towards most podcasts that I work on at this point. — Yeah, boy. — Teach me on my authority. — I have that thing where I do more damage the more things hangover afflicted, which means it is actually good for me when he spawns all these minions.

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Whoopsies. There's so many things happening on screen that I think the Switch may be struggling just a smidge. Should really be killing some of these guys. Please hold. shall soon. — Got to take these guys out. — My foster sister and also my mother-in-law. You got to be correct about these things. — Come on, Hades. Get with the program. — I guess that probably they don't switch out most of his battle dialogue after true ending stuff. It's most likely that they just kind of like he's still calling us boy in the random, you know, [ __ ] talk. It's only in the intro and the conclusion where he's like sadness. Whatever. — Yeah. Oh, not these [ __ ] guys again. Get out of here. Nobody likes a face crystal thing. Oh, uh, sorry. The, uh, I think it's Andy Robinson. Uh, the guy who played Garrick in DS9 is a, uh, major character for a couple episodes of, uh, Spider-Man Noir. And I was like, why is that? Like this guy this character is not particularly sinister. Why is he giving me such complicated vibes? Oh, — lingering drama from Taylor, right? Come on. — Yeah. He's but a humble scientist or something. Just a normal secretary. — Yeah. — There's a great quote from him as well when he's talking about trying to figure out the character. He's like, I was kind of really struggling with Garrick until I realized, oh, he's secretly in love with the human and I'm just going to play that. sees the most beautiful person he's ever seen and he's like, "I have a crush on you. I'm actually in love with you now. " That's what our story's about. — And actually, it worked perfectly. It's very, very good. — Whoops. Wow. Okay. Embarrassing the timing on that one. Whoops. — Thank you, Deater. Thanks, Kamima. Kamima, that's being really mean to me. Can we go get ice cream wall? We go to the mall. We put old stone. — Yeah. I just saw a cool Abil Lavine music video and I really want to buy a bunch of jewelry about it. Can you help me out? Give me a — We go to Hot Topic. My mom would always say no. boy. — Honestly, having at times heard his uh cuz he does get new dialogue added to the roster after uh after true ending stuff cuz sometimes instead of boy, he will growl Zagrias. And honestly, that's way scarier. Like, oh yay, he's respecting me. But also, oh Jesus, I'm getting full named I'm getting first name, last name. — Yeah, it's full name logic where it's like, oh no, all pretense. It's like when people call road anime. It's like, "Oh no, she's in trouble. " — Yeah. Her moms are going to come and yell at her now. Yeah. — Disrespect from you. Go home. Whoops. — Oh boy. — It's helpful that most of his moves have him stand still cuz then I can just kind of hit him and stuff. Oh no. I spoke too soon. Why would you say something like that? Not have Why would I say something so controversial yet so — victory with the spear — again? You have defeated me somehow — at long last. — You fought well. — A validation. — I did it. Thanks, Pops. I'll kill you anytime. — Someone very sore right now. — Anytime, anywhere, old man. — Yeah, boy. Wow. My best time is 25 minutes. Okay, this was still my slowest clear time or slowest best clear time for any weapon. Um

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I can't believe my fastest clear time is with the bow. Holy [ __ ] You had to do a lot of runs with the bow is the thing. — I guess I got good while I wasn't looking. — Did we get good? — There's definitely thresholds of getting good though. Like I the amount to I feel bad cuz like there's a lot of people who play this game very tactically with like what boounds they get and how they stack them and I truly don't do that. And the number of times we're like occasionally I'll see people in the comments who get really analytical and they're like why would she ever combo this with that when she could have instead stacked this with that. It's like because in the moment I wanted to push that button. That is why I did it. I'm so sorry. — What you have to understand is everything here is vibes based. — Yes. Very — not a tactics simulator. — That's singing. — Oh no. Is this going to be? — Oh, well, I heard the feast you had here. It was really something else. — Okay, so first rando run and then worst run. — Rando run Should have been there. Hypnos, not that I noticed your absence though. What happened? — Other pressing business. — Wait, my random. — Oh, did I get killed by a mountain goat? I wasn't listening to Homer. Sorry. — That's actually really funny. Wow, — I knew you could do it. — I have to say, mother, that was a clever plan. Convincing father to finally let somebody have some fun around here. — Oh god, spear might have to be the choice for worst run. Oh no, we might need to do the um the Guan Yu option where our health is cut in like third. — And by the numbers, spear is definitely our worst weapon. It's the one we're worst with. between us and all — this. — That is the rules of worst run me to say. — Mhm. — It's about deer, isn't it? You two were talking half the night. — Ah, here we go. — She wants you to come home with it, hasn't she? You'll always be her little one. Something like that. — Indeed, something like that. Quite perceptive. Have I ever told you, Zakrias? But yes, my mother, she was quite conflicted. Didn't know whether to me or to hold me. Maybe both. And yes, she asked that I come home to my responsibilities. — So, you're leaving? — No, mother. You can't be leaving. You just got here. — Oh, it's not as bad as that. It's just if we are to keep — Chad is also saying you can level up the Guanu sphere with Titan's blood and it'll leave you with more health to use. — Okay, that's good. I do have that more. Yeah, we can do Worst Run without dying immediately. I think — yes. Well, we want to honor the spirit of worst run. Of course. — Soon, Zagrias. Perhaps by the time you're back. — I don't suppose I can come with you, can I? — You know, the surface isn't good for you. — Service isn't good for me. — Besides, you'll need it here. But if you really want to see it for yourself someday, who knows? Perhaps eventually we'll figure out a way. I'm going to miss you, mother. I — feel like in rogike narratives, — I'm going to miss you, son. — Eventually is code for you can imagine it'll happen, but it won't affect the gameplay ever. Don't worry about it. — It's a painful subject, sir. But can you — Yeah. Okay. We're making progress on Achilles and Petroas at least. That's good. — Petroas and yourself. He brought it up. — All progress is good progress at this point since we have no stated goals. — Mhm. — Until he died. I did refuse to fight until he died, but at that point, — okay, this is progress. We're going to the lounge. — If we're going to discuss these matters, must we do so in the lounge, not here, — the fool of a king I served. — Ah, yes. — All my homies hate me. As I refused to fight, he rose to the occasion, took up my armor, led my brothers into battle in my guise, fought nobly, but then he well and after you found out you sought vengeance for him, took vengeance. — The idea that Petrolis successfully disguised himself as Achilles is — interesting in this version where they are so different looking. after that. — Yeah. I mean, I guess the idea is like they probably wear crazy amounts of armor. — Big face concealing helmet. It's just like they're wearing the same outfit. I assume that like that's because it's the armor they both died in. So, it's like it's fairly concealing, but like we can assume that the helmet was removed for

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clarity. But — yes, — I don't know. I think someone would be like, "Did Achilles get a tan since yesterday? " excited. Soon after I arrived here, I felt empty. I never saw Peters again. — Long hours out in the sun, — waging war, building horses, you know. — Did he get a tan from sitting inside that tent sulking for eight months? Wow. Got a crazy sun lamp in there. — Maybe he had the tan when he went in and then the reason he is paler now is because he sat in the tent for eight months sulking. that — it's like the thing about Orpheus where it's like when uh when Urus is like, "Oh, does he still have his hair in those cute little curls with that gorgeous tan? " And it's like, "Oh, well, maybe if you really squint. " Um, — I always wanted to ask you something, father. — He might have he may or may not be Goth now. — Yeah. — It's not too personal. — We're all Goth down here. — Chronicle all Tyong's wretched offspring, boy. No one did. Some of them sit upon our shoulders now, lest we forget that. could easily have turned out rather differently and much worse. — Well, it's a good thing we don't need to worry about any titans showing up anytime soon. — So, these are just the remains of the monstrosity of all time, which you and your brother slew. Got it. — I guess putting the dead in their place is all part of the job. — I can hardly imagine what it was like before you and the Olympians took charge. — Well, keep imagining, Zagrias. We'll never see what the Titans and their forces are like again. Hey, what's going on over here? — Oh, we actually have money now. — The head chef certainly is going to need a place to safely care for all the fish I've been hauling in. — Last that I checked, this was not doain. — Maybe it should be father. Maybe we'd all be a little more funky fresh if it was. is sorry to interrupt. It's just I couldn't help but notice that new ballad that you're playing there. — Technically, why not consider it a hymn, my friend, in honor of your numerous travailes prior to your current set of circumstances, which must pale in comparison to all the rigors you've endured to date. — Um, the thing is, none of the information in your hymn is accurate. It's nonsense. I was just kidding with you, mate. I tried to make that clear. You get so lively when I tell you my tall tales, you know. You're not angry with me, are you? — Heavens know, my friend. — Your humility is matched only by your perseverance in the face of adversity. May your great deeds live on forever, much like you. — Um, cheers. — Thanks, Orphus. — Next, the words you told me when I spoke them to Stigious, the blade revealed to me the form of a great leader among men, taking counsel with his loyal retinue about a circular table. — Circular table? If his reign is inevitable, why would the fates need me? — That I cannot say, child. It is peculiar having daughters who know every outcome that shall come to pass. It puts a strain on our relationship, and I have learned never to ask. They tell me more than they are willing to impart. — It's just got the strongest mental image of like the baby fates being like, "Mother, we will have ice cream. It is inevitable. You cannot deny the will of fate. " And she's like, "Not until after dinner. " And they're like, "This too was for4 ordained. " — So the Olympians are backing you officially now and doing their part to help the family business finally. Lord Hades probably never thought he'd see the day. — You know what I mean? — With Sprinkles mother — should help in some capacity. They all work together on the surface and let's face it, the fates for a good number of shades pouring into this realm. least they can do is — and then perhaps television before a nap. — We've got — by making you unfairly stronger by the time you try to get through me. — Exactly. — Here's what I caught lately. — We're settled up. — Whoa, we caught a lot of fish. You were really trying to get Poseidon to go to that party. — I know. — All right. Oh, hello Prophecy. — Oh, yeah. Holy [ __ ] We are swimming in Titan's blood now. — Oh, right. We have to do the cosmic egg. Uh, well, we'll do that later. — You know, that would technically be pretty bad for worst run. Um, because it doesn't really help us all that much. Oh, we should really be hoarding our darkness for when Chaos and Nyx decide to bring up the quest line about that. Um, all right

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let the rando run begin. First things first, — which weapon one through six. — Number four. — Oh, great. — Which aspect one through four? You're going for aspect four. Cool. Okay. Which trinket? Uh, let me see. I think we have 10, 20, 25. 1 through 25. — 15. Great. Oh, wait. And which for which of our little guys? Yeah. One, two, three, and four. — Number four. — Ghoul. Our dusa companion. If we have to use the [ __ ] bow, maybe we can upgrade it just a little bit so it's less [ __ ] — Live through me again. — I really don't like the shared suffering thing. It's nowhere near as good as hitch. Um, well, we do need to raise the heat gauge. So, how about Well, let me see. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. 1 through 15. Which of these conditions are we going to use? We're using one second. 10. Okay. Forced overtime. Oh, good. Everyone is fast now. Uhoh, that's fine. We'll give it a go. Over the heat gauge. Whatever, man. — Well, time to go get killed again. I mean, we could have upgraded it more, but just because we have 10 million Titan blood doesn't mean I want to spend it recklessly. Okay, Aries Boon, right? Makes sense because we have the Aries trinket. — Do you ever think to yourself that you were born a bit too late? — Aries don't even know, buddy. — Boy, life is so boring in the post game. I just wish something exciting would happen. Too bad the Titans have already been defeated for all time. All right, one through three. Perfect. — Kill or be killed. — God, I forgot how slow the main attack on this thing is. Oh, this is already brutal. — Okay, that's not as bad. This is better than it was. Whoops. And then after this is worst run. So, we're going to do the Guanu spear and hopefully get to the because if we get to the surface with it, that'll be pretty good. — All right. Once we have multiple doors, — I guess it would be worse then. — Well, yeah. — I'm joking. It's the worst one. Definitely the one you have to think about the most, you know. — Mhm. — Cuz it's like you got to just be never hit ever. — Never ever. Not even a little bit. All right. Which datus upgrade are we getting? One, two, or three? — Uh, we're getting one. — Okay. to grow stronger. — Neat. There is so much like whimsical dialogue about like, boy, sure is boring around here. Man, the Titans were nasty pieces of work. But we won already in the post game that I'm wondering like they must have been planning Hades 2 for ages. So it's not like they were like, "Hey, I got an idea. What if more [ __ ] happens? " But like wonder how long they were planning it, you know? — Yeah. — For safekeeping. — Okay. Door number one or door number two? — Door number one. — Hooray. Artemis boons with the bow will probably combo. Well, — could be good. Could be good and interesting. — Whoops.

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All righty. — All right. We're gonna be taking boon number — right there if I don't — Hey, pressure points isn't bad. — Yeah. — All right. And it looks like we only have one door. So, we will take that door. Got to do what you got to do. — Definitely kind of brutal to combo a slower weapon with uh door number one or door number two. — Okay, we are pretty broke, so this won't go very well for us. Um, but yeah, comboing that with the uh with the stuff that makes it easier for the enemies to be fast is kind of rough, but we'll see what we can do. — Nice. — Good old hellfish. — Okay, we can only buy one of these things. Uh, so I don't think we have to randomize it, right? — All right. — Okay. Yeah, I think that's fair. — Yeah. — All right, time for this Poseidon Moon bus fight. — Woot woot. — Oh, great. Oh, no. I got so used to having the crystal thing that I was like, "Yeah, I'll just uh I'll just yeet some lasers — plant myself. Could you please focus on the task at hand? Digress, dude. You need to lock in. Sometimes the autotargeting is a little brutal because it targets fully the wrong guy. It's like, no, not the little guys. The giant one that's chewing through our health bar like it's made of new guys. — Could I do power shot once? As a treat. — Am I doing power? Holy [ __ ] Just seeing like the twos flying off of me cuz a laser has spawned directly aimed at my face. I had a positively rockous time down there with your old father and Pesphanie. Was she a sight? I never thought I'd see her again. So then we're one big happy family at last. But you have a job to do and we upon Olympus will do our fair share. — Okay. One, two, or three. — All right. You're going for one. — Okay. Honestly, since the special is the thing we're using a lot. Okay. Okay, who's messaging me now? Ah, okay. I think chatting is happening in the uh in the D and D uh home game Discord. Sorry for the pings, everybody. — Oh no, I forgot I don't have the bubble again. — Yes, after I stream this, I'm also running D and D today, so that'll be fun. — Yeah, we all have activities to get to today. — Yes. Okay, this is getting nicely spammable. You won't find me complaining about this. — That can't hurt. — Our [ __ ] boy is here. — He is. — And you're going to be taking the third thing he offers you. — Great. — Um, Seisphus, you mind? — Oh, boy. Here we go. Lore — particular arrangement you've got here until the end of time. — See, why do you have beef with my boyfriend? — Yes. Or rather, why does my boyfriend have beef with you? — You might say, "Your father thought he had me in his clutches, but then I gave him the slip. " Your father's henchman, Thanos, he'll back me up on that. — I mean, — that's certainly one way to put what happened. — Turns out your father doesn't like his mortals cheating death. Eventually, they found me, so now I'm stuck here with my boulder friend. I push old Baldi up the hill to the beat of the Fury's. tumbles down and then we go again. — So then you're stuck forever. No reprieve. That's terrible. Wish there was something I could do to help. — I don't know. Zagrias, maybe you should ask these what happened more specifically before you lock in on that. — Your highness, I could spend an eternity having my lib. — Just, you know, just a shape and now I better get back to it. — Yeah, it's a good thing I'm not

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Prometheus. I'm sure there's no way that guy's gotten crazy jacked in the last thousand years. — And we'll never have to worry about him ever. — Our most famous boulder. — Personal trainers hate him. And it's just the secret is getting your lever pecked out by an eagle every single day for hundreds of years. — Turns out it's the exact same thing as doing bicycle crunches. Actually, you can see that like that V. I got to stop on reflex mashing the A button. It does mean nothing in this run. Nothing. — I guess it makes sense that the uh the thief of fire would be really good at burning calories. Heyo. — Heyo. — God, I can't wait for us to get to that part of Hades 2. Truly probably one of my favorite characters. Like I don't want to spoil. It's just Prometheus has always been one of my favorite characters in Greek mythology. I just I love a guy who uses his brain. likes humanity. Uh it's just so fun. Okay. Door number one or door number two? — Door number two. — Okay. And it is also funny because like a lot of characters, he's one of those dudes who can kind of see the future. So, it's like if he's on the other side, there's probably a really good making sense reason for it. And one of the only like frustrations I had with the characterization in Hades 2 is that Melaninoi never even [ __ ] considers that possibility. She's just like inexplicably she's like, "I've decided I'm a skeptic now and I don't believe you can see the future. " Anyway, back to figuring out where the three fates are hiding. It's like, ma'am, please pick a lane. Anyway, my boy Prometheus is awesome. And if he kicks my ass, I'll thank him. This is no thesis. — Are there any bosses who you would be upset if in the same way that you are with like Thesus and uh the Mintar? Like, are there any bosses in Hades 2 where you're like, "Ooh, that one's upsetting if they beat me. " Um, I don't like losing to Aerys. Uh, cuz she's kind of annoying about it, but Oh, no. Shoot. There was a second door and I didn't see it. I'm sorry. Uh, oh, it was the character. — The sanctity of random run. — Oh god. I'm going to have to do it all over again and postpone. Worst red. Anyway, — I'll guess I have to like mentally go back through the boss runs. — What is it, Sacrias? I mean, I don't like losing in the first of any of the areas, you know, that it's not the same thing. It's not like, oh, if thesis kicks my ass, I'll be personally offended. It's just like, well, I shouldn't have lost there. — Suppressible smile could have been one of your lovely sisters. — Oh, that's really I don't like losing to Polythemis. Not because I have any beef with Polythemis in particular. It's just that it's the first guy, so I don't want to I don't want my run to be cursed from the beginning, you know? — Yeah, exactly. It is kind of funny to me that whether Prometheus wins or loses, he's like, "Yes, just as I foresaw. " And it's like, "Well, that's easy for you to say, Mr. Game Designer. " I mean, Prometheus I was chewing for my health bar this early in the game. right now. Whoops. Oh man. Duct defiance. We're fine. We have plenty. Duck defiance at home. Yeah. — Whoops. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. — Ah. Okay, that worked out pretty well. — All right. Could be worse.

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I do really like the way they do the background music in Hades 2, where it's like it becomes more clear and intense the closer you get to the boss arena. Um, — yeah, — because that feels like the idea that they had for uh for the second region of um [ __ ] — I guess it's still it's not Tarterus. It's like uh you're in the woods and then — Arabus — Oceanis I guess or the edge of Oceanis or whatever because when you're descending in there the vocals slowly get clearer and clearer. Also, I can afford all of these things. It's just a matter of like what order I buy them in. So, can we get one through three, please? — If you can afford Oh, okay. Well, I mean, all of them. — All I want is the case of sticks. So, like if it's the last one I get, get. But, um, — we have to follow the rules of random. — Yes. The rule of random run. Uh, okay. Sorry, I got to reroll. — No worries. — Two. Okay. And now one or two. — Two again. — Yep. Okay. Here we go. All right. Uh, and now let's get a new keepsake. — We got one through 25 and we already picked 15. So if we get that one, let's roll. — All righty. — 14. — Well, all right then. Hello, Aphrodite. — Go with that one. — Oo, a contentious combo. I think you need to put a character like Prometheus and Hades, too, because he and Zagrias would get along too well. Zagrias is just way too [ __ ] nice to everybody. He's just way too curious about like what everyone's deal is, you know? Like, can't we be friends? Do we really have to keep doing these boss fights? And meanwhile, Melaninoi is like, I have one mission. I've trained for it since birth. If I can't do it, everything ends. So she's like way more neurotic about it and she's a lot more like if you are my enemy there is nothing in the Geneva Conventions that will protect you from me. So like you can't put a Prometheus in this game because truly he and Zagrias will just be sharing nectar in the lounge by like fight three. You have to give him Mel. — Yeah, exactly. In the same way like I think earlier in the chat that's like which would be a funnier dynamic Zagrias and Prusius or Melaninoi and uh — um Thesius and it's like Melanoi would simply kill Thesus outside. She simply kill — there would be no dynamic. — I think the other question is the funniest possible option in the same way that a lot of characters have kind of opposite opinions of Mel and Zag. I think it would be really funny if Thesius thought Melaninoi was like the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, you know, just like what stunning goddess she is. What? How could the wretches of the underworld have concealed you from my sight allow me to rescue you from this place? And she's like, "Okay, so if you die now, I can get through here with like 30% more efficiency. " Um, all right. Door number one or door number two. Oh, great. It's not even the boss fight. There's just two of these [ __ ] guys. — Yeah, Zagrias would befriend a lot of the bosses and also like he'd reach Dianis partying it up on Mountain Lus be like, I don't know, I can wait for a bit. — Yeah, you get the equivalent of one of those like lounge cut scenes, but it's in the middle of a [ __ ] fight. I think they did such a good job of absolutely nailing like with Melaninoi for contrast. We see how much of his parents are in Zagrias and which one specifically cuz it's like oh yeah Zag and Pphanie really have a lot of similarities which means Mel and Hades are very much like same person different font like obviously the rules exist for a reason and they must be enforced and followed and it's like oh god there's two of them now. Uh okay door number one or door number two? — Door number one. Okay.

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These [ __ ] really are fast this time. I'm starting to notice. Honestly, considering this added three heat to the gate, it's not that bad. Ow ow. I'm just kidding. — Why would you say something like that? — Hey, that was me setting myself on fire. The them being fast had nothing to do with it. — Oh, Hestia's uh dash boo. We will get to soon enough. — So much. Okay. Uh door number one or door number two? — Door number two. — Okay. No, not these [ __ ] guys. Not now. Not here. You know what the witches? Not when I'm using this bow. I don't know if there's a good weapon to be dealing with these guys with. But I don't think it's the Ah, this one. How dare you turn my hiding spot into lava. Now I need to find a second hiding spot. And there is none. All right. Okay. All right, just a tasty little breather over here. God, what I wouldn't give for little baby weenie mode right now. — Oh, wow. I can Yeah, that is some [ __ ] It's kind of rare for the [ __ ] game design to favor me. So, you know, — got to take it where you can get it, — I guess. Yeah, this level geometry is doing very confusing things to my arrow trajectories. Oh, I'm not actually hitting anybody. Please hold. All right, we'll reassess. All right, Zag. One more try. — The attempts will continue until morale improves. All right. Jesus Christ. Those things have just enough of a stun line that you can kind of just end up sitting in front of somebody while they spam 10 million fireballs directly into your open mouth. It's like, thanks, man. Cool. This is what I wanted to happen as well. I'm so glad we're all in the same page. — This is exactly the goal I had for today. When I woke up this morning, I was like, "Boy, I sure hope I get absolutely [ __ ] pulverized by a witch's coven. Okay. — Wow, I didn't even notice what my health was at. Holy [ __ ] One hit point and a dream, baby girl. — Sweet Panie, they were together down there all along. I was so certain that your father's heart was cold. That's just the thing with love, dearest, that sometimes it surprises even me. — Okay. One, two, or three. — All right. We're going through uh three. — Okay. No. — Only have one door. So, — okay. Here we go. — So, the one door is taken. All right. Now, let's be very careful with this four hit points and a dream. Oh, goody. They heard me talking [ __ ] and they were like, "You know what? YOU NEED SECOND WITCH IS COMING. " OH, never mind. God dang it. Uh, okay. Well, fine. I guess now you can all perish by my hand. Ooh, there's a chaos gate in here. — Uh, anyway, I watched the rank and bass Hobbit movie for the first time yesterday. That was fun. — Oh, love the love a little. — It's quite — a musical interlude. — I mean, boy, does that movie ever love musical interludes. It's definitely It's not It wouldn't make any [ __ ] sense if you had. It's one of those adaptations where it's like it's kind of a highlight reel of just all the big moments. Uh, and because of that, I think there's moments almost where you're like, "Wait, is this character lying? Why did they say that happened when it didn't? " Uh, like in the final battle, we just see Bilbo be like, "Well, all right, you guys have fun. " And then he sits down and puts the ring on. And then later he's like, "Oh, I got slightly wounded. Yeah, knocked in the head. Missed the whole fight. " And it's like, "Well, now it kind of seems like that didn't happen. you just sat there [ __ ] smoking while all your friends died. Okay, we've definitely got we've got three doors out and one of them's a chaos gate. So, let's do chaos gate is option one. Key room option two. Gem room option three. — All right, you're going through option one. — Yay. — Going in. — You're ready for chaos.

### Segment 19 (90:00 - 95:00) [1:30:00]

— So, I think where there's a whip, there's a way is actually from the Lord of the Rings one because it was not from the Lord of the Rings. Goblin Town is the banger. It's a sleeper hit of this one — cuz it cuz the real excitement is the whiplash you get going from the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings animated uh movie to then being like well he didn't finish it out. It was actually Rankin picked up the torch — and they decided we need one of the greatest songs ever written included. — You would know it. All right. One, two, three. — And then Sam's going to sing about his garden for like 30 straight minutes. — Jesus Christ, Sam. All right. Option one, two or three. Two. Okay. And then uh door number one, two or three. — Power. — Okay. Are we upgrading one, two, or three? — Uh, we are upgrading two. Okay. This blade dash is going to be the sliciest blade dash. — Course is set. — I really liked animated Smog. I think I would have liked it better if his voice was a little different. — Just for my sake. — Yeah, he's like so spooky looking. — It's just I don't know. He sounds very like we got a guy with a pretty gruff voice and a strong American accent and he's like, "Hey man, what are you talking about? — I am so great and terrible. — I got you, Mr. Lake man. I'm going to kick your ass six ways from Sunday and that's a promise. I did like how they had uh cuz I think in the book the whole thing about like a bird comes and watches and notices that Smau has a weak point and then tells Bard about it later kind of comes out of nowhere. It's like — BT Dubs, a bard was one of the lakemen who still remember that the men of Dale could speak to birds and so he was like — good at speaking to birds. So then a bird showed up and was like, "Hey man, you got to shoot that weak point for massive damage. " And he was like, "Ah, thanks bird. " And then in the movie, Bilbo and this bird are just hanging out the entire time that he's talking to Smau. And then when they leave, he's like, "Oh no, the people of Lake Town are doomed unless wait a minute. You, Mr. little bird. You can tell them all about that weak point he obligingly let us notice earlier. And the bird flies off and then specifically says and they do the [ __ ] like what's that R2? Timmy's in the well. But it's like someone named Bilbo Baggins asked you to tell me. How nice of him. And it's like well that's one way to make sure that Bilbo's in good with the men of Blade Town because otherwise I don't think they really like him all that much. — Take some creative liberties with the bird. — Yeah. I got to say, as much as I love the Andy Circus Goblin, I also kind of like the animated golem. He's so creepy. He's like a fish guy. He's like straight out of ins. — What a little weirdo. — Straight up a little weirdo behavior. — Big eyes like really good. — Yeah. And I love a good riddles in the dark. It's very funny though how I guess they were like, "We can't do all these riddles. We're going to skip one over by turning it into a very short song about how there's a riddle where the answer is the dark. " And it's like, "Cool, man. " Um, cool. I feel like it would have been simply faster to have one of them just say that actually. — Yeah, but it's ranking and bass. Their whole thing is like, "Oh, he's got to do a flopsy song now. — We funky little musical number. " Whoop. Definitely one of the grossest portrayals of elves I've ever seen. Like wow. — Oh, for sure. — Like Elron gets to be cute and then Well, kind of. And then everyone else is like, these are basically just goblins in a different font. — Yeah. The art style is not charitable to the elves. — No. Or really to anybody. Like I think until I watched The Last Unicorn, I was like, is it possible for these guys to draw a pretty person? I don't know. was less the unicorn rank in a best. Um I want to say so I thought it was uh Jesus Christ. — Oh no the produced by rank and best. — All right. — It's got that very like ethereal kind of

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backgrounds especially. Um — yeah defy fighting [ __ ] learn. This is embarrassing. It's okay. Learning can have a death defiance treat. — He's already taken one. Had one. Yes. Was that a power shot? How did that happen? That's definitely not the timing I thought it had. Which might be why I haven't been hitting any of them. Okay, there we go. until you reconstitute again. — All right, let's get the hell out of here. — All right, let's swap out our keepsake. Uh 1 through 25 with 14 and 15 already taken. Yes, we're going for number one. Um, sorry, 1 through 25 or 1 through 20. — 1 through 25. — Okay. Well, either way, it's six. — Six. Hey, that's kind of useful. — Coin purse. — Second piece of sticks. No, of course not. — Two. — Oh, yeah. Okay. Uh ooh. Let's see if this counts as having the aravadne in our inventory when we deal with thesis or having had the ar — cuz it only lasts for like one room but you know — till your next boon. Yeah. — Another day or night in paradise. — All right. Door number one or door number two? Going through door number two. — Okay. — Big money run. — Yeah, I guess. Oh, they heard me talking [ __ ] about the witch's covens and they decided that I needed to learn a lesson. — Your sister was so much more respectful. — Ladies, please. That's not how linear time works. I like to think of this as like Saguras's crashing melanino buddies, you know. Uh I don't know if maybe this is just cuz I had younger brothers, but like I'd have friends and it was all like — no boys allowed, you know, I don't want my little siblings hanging out. Um and similarly, they wanted nothing to do with me when their buddies were playing Smash. So, — of course. Yeah. Jesus Christ, you're embarrassing me in front of the other witches. — Dang. — Okay, door number. — Okay, we can't go in there. Door number one. — Okay. A little bit more health for us. — I don't like these big chariots, especially when I don't have a major damage dealing weapon. You know, sad times indeed. — Yes, life is hard. Hey, this run's going pretty fast for a random run. I think I have no sense of time right now. — I was going to say I don't know that uh at any point you should saying what it's going fast. — I'm going so fast and speedy and may the gods strike me down if I'm wrong. — May Kronos himself arise from the pits of Tarteus if I'm incorrect in my assessment. — Oh no, Vagrias. — So it was you all along. Jesus Christ. Okay, I'm not even going to make it to Thesis at this point. Truly, I think nothing pisses me off on a visceral level more than healing. Hearing 10 million attacks bouncing off of the front of a somebody's shield. It — is a very irritating sound. Okay. Um, one, two, or three for the Well of Kon. — Three. — Okay. We're getting a chaos gate soon. Okay. Oh, no. Uh, door number one or door number two? — Door number one. — [ __ ]

### Segment 21 (100:00 - 105:00) [1:40:00]

Okay. — One of those mad. Are we picking Aries as option one or Artemis is option two? — Option two, Artemis. — Bless you, Zagrias. — And are we getting boon number one, two, or three? — You're getting boon number two. — Oh, there's a cat next to me now. Hi, baby. I'm going to need you to move over. — And several sirens it sound like outside. — Yeah, they heard her moving around. — Perhaps you knew that you were making mistakes. — Said alert cat on the prowl. We woo. Hold on. Give her some space in the couch. She hang out with crime. — A — Okay, let's find whatever. Do we think for a random run we should always go through a chaos gate when offered — or do we — I don't know that we should always go through a chaos gate when offered if there are other doors available. — Okay. When the time comes, are we going through Chaos Gate as door number one or door number two or three? — Let's get there first and I'll — You don't want to pre-roll. All right. Oh, I guess I might die. And then, you know, we want don't want to waste the effort. Jesus Christ, fellas. Oh, no. I really might die. I have 20 hit points of no death defiances. Aries is going to [ __ ] kill me. Please. I thought we were bros. We haven't We're bonded. I have your little chibi head and everything. You came to dinner with my mom. You were really impressed when I killed 20,000 guys. Aries, please don't do it. Don't do it. No. Please simply die. Please. You'd make my life so much [ __ ] easier. No. What do YOU MEAN THERE'S MORE GUY? All right, cool. Well, it's been nice knowing all y'all. This has been such a fun stream for me. That's that Harvard chariot. Aries. Oh, he wants me [ __ ] dead, man. This insult will not stand. Oh, no. No, no. Yep. There we go. Well, that was fun while last. — He gets his He gets to He showed up on the death screen. — That's really — He got to say, "Think again, cousin. " — Yeah. — Just have to try again. — Well, in good news, now you only have to do a worst run. — Yay. — But you get to make your worst decisions. It's all good. It's your own power. — Next time, if you don't stand around like you're doing here right now, maybe you won't make such an easy target. Except — for — what I attempt to tell. — Those are my shoulders. — For a long jump upon you and your kin. By all rights, you ought to have undermined my every move. I often thought it would. — Yet once Olympus and I separate ties, you stood by me still. — I am the knight itself, as you well. Oh, — you guys keep talking while I get my tasty pastry out. — Break out the red bean bun. — You knew it. — Oh yeah, there we go. — That's the stuff. — Got that good package opening ASMR — to the full extent of my ability. — I also went to Paris Beet. Unless I went to I also ordered Paris baguette today as I was in a bit of a rush to finish some uh editing before we started the stream uh for the Ospot. So, you know, it's all unified in its theme. But I also have a red bean bun awaiting me, but now's not the time. — Should visit the head chef. — So, Zagrias, how's it going with that pact of punishment you signed? We've made some meaningful improvements to the underworld. — I'll fight my way out of this place or earn it. practice nothing to me other than a way to keep things lively. — You are delusional. — I'll never understand you or your father. Anyway, if you're looking for more punishment, you know where to find me. — Oh, I see. Because we deactivated her part of it. I guess she has custom dialogue about it. Even though it's inongruously mean of her considering our point in the relationship we have — or night. — Oh my god, finally we get to [ __ ] Hey girl. Hey, where did you get that? — Hey, DaVE. — We love you. — Platonically, I don't know who — Well, she hasn't established that yet. — Oh, — I'm still waiting. — Dusa, come on.

### Segment 22 (105:00 - 110:00) [1:45:00]

— I poured like 20 ambrosia into you and I'm still waiting on return. — But as for where I got her, you're not going to believe it. Can you guess? — Wait, you don't mean No, not from Nyx herself. Did you Wait, did you say — you didn't have to put this? — Nope. — Borrow her from — other side of the couch. Good girl. — A — no happen to value my job here among other aspects of my wellbeing. But after the lounge assignment, Ny herself commended me and gave me as a nice reward. Although she probably knew I'd just end up giving her to you. A — that's nice of her. Thank you again. She's so sweet. Okay, no sign of Pphanie. Oh, her kitty is tucked up right next to me and is hopefully going to take a little nap or just clean her butt. Either way, — both are good. — Mhm. Okay, it's time for the worst run. — Hey, how's it going? — But if we're going to do the worst run, — worst run. — I guess. — Okay, — change form. — No. Oh boy. It's a little pricey. — Some worse decisions have to be made. — Yeah. Verafa, reveal your secret. — This definitely feels like a bad decision. — The sheer bloodthirst of the frost bear blade. — If I have to use the worst weapon, at least I can use it fully upgraded. — Okay, — these are the little concessions we make. — Yes, I will make an argument that the cosmic egg is canonically the worst trinket, which is why Chaos thinks it would be funny if you use it for the entire run. I think ultimately the worst run is the one that is kind of the most up to what you personally think is worst for your play style. So, I'll allow it. Uh, — we do got a lot of mile up to you if you feel — I'm trying to remember who we get these from. Well, we'll figure it out. Oh, wait. Let's see if we can give any like nectar. — Orus. — Is one Cberus? — Uh, you're right. Hold on. Is Cberus in? Because we have to start giving him more nectar. Where's my boy? There he is. — My favorite boy with all the treats as I am able to procure. — Knowing the watchdog's never ending appetite for treats, the prince obliges him. Oh, wow. Yeah, we have we need to be giving uh Kerverus more treats. All right, Orpheus, we already have Bond, but let's see who we're missing. Okay, Achilles still hasn't opened up to us. Sisphus Urit, we're good. Petrolus still hasn't opened up to us. Thesius, [ __ ] that guy. Uh, Kerberus, Duce, we're maxed out on, but she still won't talk to us. Skelly, we're maxed out on. And Pphanie still locked. We'll see what we can do. The spectre of 100% completion haunts me in this game. Um, but we are not going to succumb. We're streaming this and then we're going to be doing it. playing Hades 2 instead. — Uhhuh. — It's going to happen. Okay. Oh yeah, we don't need this anymore. Okay. What is the worst of these options? especially for this weapon. Probably calisthenics program is worse cuz everything has more health. — This ought to be interesting. — You call this shouting? This is not shouting, boy. — This is merely having certain expectations which you have not met. Now try once again. Having all these flashbacks to pre-C character development Hades is wild. — I will. — I remember when. — Yeah. — I have to pick the worst. — Once upon a time, our relationship was contentious because you and I. — We're going to have ourselves a little outing. I expect that neither one of us shall soon forget. — Okay. Which of these is the worst? Um, all the dash upgrades are good. Okay. It's going to be crush shot. Short range blast for cast is brutal.

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— Oops. I'm so squishy and everything is so scary. — I'm so scared all the time. I'm — so scared. numb skulls. — Oh, wait. Do that right now. It does have the benefit that you can similar to uh Chaos Gate similar uh to ah little baby weenie mode. Uh you can throw the weapon and still have it in your hand to do other attacks with, which is nice. — That's something, you know, not a total loss. — Yeah. Wow. Why are my attacks so [ __ ] slow with this thing? You guys are seeing this. I'm mashing the attack button. — Good enough to eat. — Okay, let's get Oh, this is a dangerous game. Let's get the worst chaos boon. — Let's check out Master Chaos. — Dangerous game is kind of the name of the game here on Worst Run. something I hope it makes your journeys to it less difficult perhaps inducing them on a more frequent interval — a chaos it wants to hang out okay trap damage isn't great but oh no this is terrible yeah flade ambush is going to be the move if I can't special with this thing it's going to be devastating — oh yeah special's like all that thing — the entire thing that this is good for yes uh these are all equally fine Oh, okay. Cool. Does this count as an encounter for the chaos moon to take down? I don't know. I don't think so. Oh, great. One of these is boss arena, which is by far the worst option. Let's go. — At last, a clear-cut worst option. — Finally. I've been saying this is what I needed. God, I can't special or I take five damage and my normal attack is this slow. — You want to die again. — Nice. — Okay. gemstones. — Well, a boss arena, but a zoo spoon or the worst zoo spoon. We'll see what that looks like. — Oh no, I forgot I can't smash it or it hurts. Ah, — if I die to the [ __ ] giant laser crystal because I'm having this much trouble with Guan Yu's weapon, I'm going to be mad at myself. I guess that is kind of in the spirit of worst run though. — Yeah, that sure would be — things are also happening. — What do we have on the ticket for uh 8K? — If we make it to 8K, we'll be doing another round of Smasher Pass. We're doing Star Trek characters last time, so probably go back to that. — There's definitely a lot of Star Trek characters. — There's I don't think we got to all of them. So pleased to learn Pan was safe and why she's as stunning as they say. — Zeus, stop trying to flirt with my mom about your things here and that what's done is done. — Zeus is like my young Zagrias. Why do they let you have two hot mobs? Uh, this one's the worst because it requires I take damage. — Shocking. My favorite upgrade in uh in Hades 2 is that when Zeus does a shocking thing, he'll sometimes say — shocking. — Oh, this is trouble. — Come to hang out, buddy. What's up? You know, word on the street is that you're very cute and little. Our sources say, — rumor has it. — Ma'am, can you comment on uh whether or not you are a sweet little kitty cat baby? — Yeah. You want to comment on whether you're a sweet little kid again? — Oh man, I recently cleared off laundry chair and Wolf has been discovering the

### Segment 24 (115:00 - 120:00) [1:55:00]

joys of using the chair for its actual intended purpose. Um — I don't remember if I ever explained the story behind this. So, I have this big beanag sofa that is nicknamed uh Fabio. Uh rather, it is nicknamed Fabio 2. 0 because the original Fabio was in my college dorm room. Uh and it was because uh neither my roommate and I were dating anyone. And we thought it was very funny to like confuse people by being like, "Yeah, I got to go back home and like hang out with Fabio, you know, take a real nice nap with Fabio. " Uh we thought it was hilarious. Uh and we were also objectively correct. So now all my uh all my bean bag sofas are named Fabio. And when I got a new one, it became Fabio 2. 0. And it's this like gray fuzzy thing. And the thing is, Wolf is also a gray fuzzy thing. And the first time she hung out on it, I could see the moment where she lost track of where she ended and Fabio 2. 0 began cuz she just started licking a patch of the top surface like grooming it. And uh didn't seem to register that she wasn't making progress on her own uh personal hygiene. So a — But Favio 2. 0 got a nice little bath out of it. — Yeah, it's not so bad. — Yeah. It's slow, but that there is something kind of satisfying about the crunch of the final hit in the sequence. — Chaos has a new effect. — Mhm. Just brings a certain something to it. — Oh no. I can't do this again, but I have to cuz it's the worst option. Oof. — I'll get my fishing in 1 hour while I still [ __ ] can. — That's one more fish for me. — Okay. — I don't pick won't be — pissing off Zeus is the worst option. So, we got to piss off Zeus. — Sometimes it simply must be done. My favorite hero from Greek mythology, Paris. Okay. — Yeah. — It isn't wise to go against me, nephew, both in matters large and small. I'm not known for being charitable to the insulent. — Thanks, man. Either way, I guess. — Sorry, Zeus. I would have picked you, but you just tried to flirt with my mom in front of me. again. — Not cool, man. — Not cool, bro. — Not cool. Oh, I can use my special. — Oh, that's better. Okay, that could have been way worse. Yeah. All not so bad all things considered. — Yeah, — I think you do. So, let's put this to bed and move along. — Uh, well, chain lightning is technically the worst of these options as it's the least rare. — Is it the one that you personally think are the worst? — Uh, yes. of those options, I'd say yeah. Um — Uhhuh. — I'm giving myself the slight grace that when the option is replace a boon you already have, I ain't doing that. Uh cuz like that that's for divine intervention runs, you know? Like I have to have some standards. You say so. — Yeah. Wow. The special is so much better on this thing than everything else. — Something I need. Oh my god, she's curled up into the tiniest little ball with her little face in her paws. A — She's not doing crime except for the crime of stealing my heart. — How? Wow, that was not worth it even slightly. — Die by Verafa. Honestly, with a weapon main attack this slow, it's not like chain lightning does much. It's not even that. No, — I'm not even having a good time with it. So, you know, I think it's still kosher.

### Segment 25 (120:00 - 125:00) [2:00:00]

— However, you have to justify it to yourself. — Yeah. Whatever helps you sleep at night, you scum. — A little sweet little picture of this sweet little kitty that's right next to me. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. I will post this if we get to AK raised for UNICEF with her sweet widow face and her sweet widow paws. Okay, let's get into this boss arena. Uh, that's too good because the massive spin is useful. that heals me. We'll do this one then. — That's it. — So, it's all right. Yeah, we'll see how Oh, sorry. Sorry, fellas. Sorry. Didn't mean to. What did you guys do to get stuck in the cage? Hold on a minute. Yeah, wait a second. What's up with this? What's Karen up to? — I bet — they couldn't pay. Maybe they tried to sneak on. — What do you know? — Hey, hey. Oh, wow. That didn't Oh, no. Now it also powers up. Now everything has a charge time. Why is this actually the worst weapon? God. Jesus, the range on that, man. I can't just spam it anymore. I have to hold it every single time. What have I done to my beautiful spear? — Is this not my beautiful sphere? Not my beautiful house. — Not my beautiful die stab. Ma'am, somebody please. It's like I'm trying to figure out how a new car works in the middle of a fight. I can't be doing both of these things at once. — Oh no. Oh no. Jesus Christ. Diffany fine. — Things are not going well for you with Diffany here, huh? — I mean, it's okay. I won, but still. — Glad that's over. — Mine. — I didn't want to blow a death defiance. this fight, but my health bar is so itty bitty and small. — There's no winning. — Some might say there is no escape. — Yeah. And I'd argue the worst thing I could possibly do to myself right now is make sure this run goes on for longer. So, here's a kiss of sticks for me. There's been a lot of, not to be too hard on you here, Red, but there's been a lot of so bad for that is objective good going on this worst run. — No, don't you go throwing me into that brier patch. That would be just awful. — Mhm. Mhm. Uh, I'll be right back. Got to take a quick bio break. — Cool. All right, folks. That means it's just you and me. — Be your worst while I'm gone. — Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, chat, it's just you and me. So, if we don't let on, I can make an advantageous choice in one of these next rooms. And we never need to bring it up. Okay. We can just ah we can just have a nice fun time where everything is normal and I do one nice thing for myself. Surely you guys won't tattle on me. I trust you. You're mine. — I didn't realize the spin attack chain lighting too. Maybe that is a good choice actually. Okay, more heart or They're both here. — A we get more to end. Hi everyone. — I've never heard anything like this. As good as you two sound each on your own, you're positively wonderful together. — A splendid compliment, my friend. Doubtless the fates themselves conspired to ensure yoursy and I would meet and

### Segment 26 (125:00 - 130:00) [2:05:00]

sing together, fall in love, and then be cruy separated for some time. — Yep. The fates do be like that sometimes. — Don't you start with that again. You get me? Got our whole entire after ahead of us and lots of songs to catch up on. — Well, you're correct. Of course, my dear. If you'll excuse us, Sagrias. Our calling beckons. — No. — Yeah, I guess that's just the equivalent of getting much power. Stay safe. — Okay. — I love how they do the duet in two different audio tracks so that one of them can pause to talk to us while the other one continues to sing. It's very cool. They do something similar in Hades 2 that I like a lot. you can like see the base idea that they planted here that they then refined for Hades 2. And I just think that's really neat. Oh no, not these [ __ ] guys. Ah, leaving him alone. Am I not using my special more? That's what I really should be doing. Why are there all these buttons on the controller? What's even the deal with that? Like, come on, man. There should be only like one button and it just makes me win. Oh god, I forgot that's why I'm not spamming special anymore. I made it worse. Oh, hey. Hello. — I assume you did the best thing for yourself immediately after I call. — Well, I did go and see Uritysy instead of getting another heart. So, that's kind of up to you whether you think that's the worst thing I could have done. — I think the fact that you have to ask me about it means, you know, it's not the worst thing you could have done. — Well, I mean, once again, prolonging my suffering would have probably been the worst option, so getting more health would have certainly been bad. There's a boss in this room, so that's why it was the worst choice and that's why I picked it. — I was like, why am I not spamming the special anymore? And then I was like, oh, right, because I made it suck now and it's hard to use. That's why I wonder what Duca does in this room. Let's find out. — Oh, that's so cute. She just shows up. Hi, girl. Unfortunately, your abilities seem to be kind of limited in this, but that's so adorable. — We love to see you nonetheless. — Oh, this is annoying. No. Why is he trying to chain lightning on Dusa? She's my girl. I like her. It was my privilege to have visited your father's house and briefly had a chance to meet you, Zagrias. Nyx and your mother each are very shrewd. Perhaps you've taken after both of them. As for your new responsibilities, exposing weak points and defenses is my specialty. — Being like, it's cool that you have two awesome bombs considering I have zero. Oh no. Divide dash is the best option, so we can't take it. I guess we got to take Holy shield — cuz it's the least rare of them. — All aboard. God, the thing about like someone needs to give me an arcade controller. Uh I was at uh Anime Central when it happened like a couple weeks ago I want to say and they had this big arcade room with just like various game cabinets. So I played a bunch of Battle Toads with a couple friends. Uh and it's so funny how it is the most we have the Ninja Turtles at home. Like I feel like there's sort of a now forgotten era where everyone and their grandmother was trying to come up with a way to do the Ninja Turtles, you know, for fun cool teens with attitude kind of thing. And they all had to be animals in New York. I think the only thing that was even halfway in that formula that worked that wasn't Ninja

### Segment 27 (130:00 - 135:00) [2:10:00]

Turtles was technically the Gargoyles because it's like, yeah, we got some hip cool color-coded youngsters with attitude and then also this [ __ ] Shakespearean drama playing out with our other guys. So yeah, but even with them like they weren't uh they weren't tonally doing a lot of the same things at least the Ninja Turtles cartoon was doing. Weirdly, you did get bits where it was like, "Oh no, this wacky scientist has been merging people with animals. " But then it would have those people be like, "What have I become? I can never see my family again. " Which is kind of different totally than like BBOP and Rock Steady being like, "Whoa, radical dude. " — Bop and Rock Steady more like I guess this is a net positive for me. Mercenary. — Yeah. Well, I guess I am more buff and marketable now. This won't end well for you. Oops. Okay, now hold real still. I need to get all my health back. Thanks, pal. Thought we could do this. You know, it's always good to ah Jesus to, you know, relax in line for a little while. Just chew on some health bars. We'll go back. Always nice of me to give back to the community. Technically, by escaping Hades over and over, I am creating jobs. — Yes. It's enrichment for the local economy. — Yes. Thank the gods. — Um, health or well, I have a decent amount of money, so Kon is the worst option — if you have money. How is Kon the worst option? — Because I could Oh, no. Sorry. I didn't go to Kon. I mean what I meant was that Kon would have been a better option because I could have spent money which means I shouldn't have picked it. Yeah. — Well, I tangled myself up. — I know you missed me, Lenny. And I missed you, too. How many times was we do this dance? Many. Yeah. Many, many times. Come on, Larry. We're not so different, you and I. We're both like projectiles. Wildly misunderstood our mouth. — Fire tends to work out kind of badly for us. — You know, all the things that unite people. — Yeah. — Or snakes. Sure, I'm exothermic and you're endothermic and also only bones, but I really think we can find some common ground. What do you say? Will you let me offer you a nectar or two, take you down to the lounge, have a grand old time? — I have this dog I think you'll really get along with. I forget if I explained on stream that thing where the uh the Project Hail Mary fandom and the Markiplier Iron Mug fandom had decided that the two main characters of those movies should kiss about it. Well, in recent news, Markiplier learned about this and commented on it in a recent video about Iron L becoming available on YouTube. And everyone panicked about it as if this is not a man who has not seen seen himself shipped with Jack Septic Eye every day of his life for the last 15 years. Like, come on. This is like the least surprising person to be aware of the fact that people really want to see him curl up in Ryan Gosling's big strong arms.

### Segment 28 (135:00 - 140:00) [2:15:00]

Wow. Jesus. Oh no, sweet little health bar. Come on. It's just a little guy. — Oh, you don't need to keep feeding him up. He's already dead. — Yeah. Fortunately, after this, I'm free and clear and I can just do whatever runs I want until unless I think we hit 9K, we might have something else weird happening. But — Mhm. 8K will be the next uh goal. But at the end of this run, you can start doing whatever you want. Yeah. — Yeah. Cuz 8K is just Star Trek Smasher Pass. It's got nothing to do with when I feel the game. So, — but if does 9K have like a run reward or something like that? Uh, of course it does. We get to 9K, we'll be doing a divine intervention run. — Ah, goody. Hang. Oh, that's fire. That was me. Standing on fire. My apologies. I messed up and I'm here to take accountability for my mistake. Standing on fire. I know you all trusted me not to stand on fire, and I'm sorry to have let you down like this. I know in the age of accountability and cancel culture, it can be hard to find sincerity in these moments, but I want you all to understand that nobody regrets me standing in fire more than I do. And I hope you can trust me in future with your future runs of Hades to not stand on fire anymore. If elected, I'll ensure that there's no fire on which to stand. In fact, — I'll see that fire is abolished and we all go back to the pre-fire age where we ate our meat raw. — [ __ ] That's an actual political opinion held by at least one of our major government officials. Never mind. Bit cancelled. — Yep. — We live in an exhausting time. — Yeah. Is it sticks? Yay. I mean, who know how terrible that my pain must continue. — Pain will continue until morale improves. — Yeah. — Nice and cool up here. — I've got to get a dash upgrade one of these minutes. Um, let's see. Spear upgrade or beside moon? These are both about equally all right, but I don't tend to enjoy Poseidon boots. So, we'll call those the worst. Oh god, no. Not now. Not with this weapon. It can't even one-shot them with the ranged attack. I have no dash bonus that I can do damage to them. — Think he's here also. — Yay. At least something's going. But some of those sounds are not the little chariots. Cool. Say hi. Oh, well, now you're done making noises cuz I you up kind of. Okay. The visuals of me being like, "Fear, fear not, foul chariot. I'll stare you down and smite you. " And then it just hits me for like 15 damage. Pretty funny. Unfortunately, good bit. No, that's what I'm talking about. — Now that's business. — They're finished. — All right, let's get worse. Once I get the opportunity to spend some time up here, nephew. Oh, I shall take you on a grand tour of the surface. From the depths of my seas to the height of Olympus. Sure, maybe not today or tomorrow or even the next eon, but sometime we should go. — Well, I was just talking about how much I needed a dash boon, which I think means I'm not allowed to take this epic level dash boon that's been offered to me on a silver platter. Um

### Segment 29 (140:00 - 145:00) [2:20:00]

I think probably hydraulic might is the worst because it's so limited and this is permanent progress as well as money to spend on OTHER THINGS. OH NO. [ __ ] — WAVES, RIGHT, UNCLE? — OKAY, SORRY. I fully accidentally clicked the wrong thing. Fortunately, this one is still not good. Uh, it's just it's no boon instead of subpar boon. — Not ideal. Chad is arguing over which Pokemon type would Sonic the Hedgehog be. Um, — flying obviously, right? — He can't fly for the most part. He runs and then he jumps and stuff. — Yeah, but there's a bunch of flightless birds that are in there and their big thing is just being fast. — What? — Do Yeah. God, every time I learn more things about Pokemon, it makes me happier that I was a Yu-Gi-Oh kid because at least like Yu-Gi-Oh is stupid, but I know exactly what kind of stupid Yu-Gi-Oh is. — Uh, Pokemon has the I think, you know, like the idea of the like rock, paper, scissors triangle I like a lot cuz this is also a thing in Fire Emblem where there's weapons triangle. I think it's a good for turn-based strategy games. great way to diversify your types. — Yeah. — Add them all in there. But that said, uh when they started to get beyond like grass, fire, water types, it started to get a little bit funky. What triangles emerged? And that's where you get stuff like the flying type or the dragon type where it's like, well, what — what do you think Dragon is weak to Pokemon Company? — Yeah, — the answer is fairy. Fairy and ice show. — Yeah, Sonic is a weak. seems to think Sonic is one of — normal type, but he's the fastest thing alive. I think what's annoying is I can tell so clearly what other members of his codory would be. Like Tails absolutely flying type. That's his entire gimmick is that he can fly. Uh Knuckles is fighting type. Amy is fairy cuz she pink. You know how it um but then like with I guess she could be fairy fighting because she also had big stalk and hammer, but you know what I mean. Uh, and then it's like Sonic is the only one that I'm not sure. I could see an argument being made for electric type because that is — but that's a special effect that gets applied to fast things is that now they are also zappy with lightning bolts and stuff in the grand old tradition of the Flash, you know. Um, admittedly in the movies Sonic does fire off an EMP the first time he goes fast, which I think is a compelling argument that he's actually electric, but you know, shadow is dark type. Yeah, probably statistically, you understand. — And Blaze is psychic and silver is psychic. Okay, I guess the blaze of psychic fire. Um, cat being very cute and little right now. And also, I'm worried you're going to get a bunch of cat hair onto my that I was going to eat. — Well, Sonic can't be steel type because metal Sonic has to be steel type. — Robotnik's whole thing has to be steel up. Bay Sonic cannot be steel. — Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. — There's a few things we know to be true. — Yeah. — Metal Sonic has to be steel type. So, normal Sonic can't be steel type. — Yeah. — I think the secret answer is that Sonic is actually a stealth legendary like Mew where he looks innocuous, but you know, his super form is obviously legendary. Um, oh my god, I have a cast and I've never used it. Wow. Mission accomplished in getting the worst boon option. Hey. Oh, great. They're both boss rooms, but one of them is also an argument between gods. Yay. Which of these is worse to piss off? Um, honestly, I think it's about the same. — I knew your heart was true. — That's pretty weak. I mean, no pun intended, but Olympus, I'm your closest. — Oh yeah, Serge is electric. Sonic can't be electric type because Serge's whole thing is that she's electric. — Mhm. — Great. I pissed off the person who liked us the most. — I think Sonic is normal type, maybe normal flying. I think that kind of

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cuz like Knuckles should be fighting type. So like has I don't want to make Sonic also fighting type. So I think Sonic is like normal, maybe normal flying makes sense. — I don't know. It feels really weird to make a burrowing mammal a flying type Pokémon. You know, there's a lot of flying types that aren't birds. I feel like they need to really emphasize. — But can they fly? If they're not a bird, can they at least fly? — Flying type really just kind of means air type. Uh is that they've just chosen the word flying, but mostly it's that it's air fast air moves. Uh overwhelmingly. — Okay. If that's the case, then I think Sonic is going to be that type because in of course the seminal work of fiction, Sonic and the Black Knight, his theme is Knight of the Wind because he is Oh, god damn it. Wow. Okay. Well, we were correct. This was absolutely the worst choice. One of them rearmed while it was behind AN IMPENETRABLE SHIELD AND IT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN FOR A SECOND TIME. YEAH. OKAY, COOL. We chose Aphrodite over Athena and she got [ __ ] Trojan War flashbacks and decided to make us regret it. Well, — this is it. — Jesus H Christmas, guys. Give me a [ __ ] chance. [ __ ] dare. And I was correct that this three-pronged jab attack upgra No, no, not again was the worst option because it [ __ ] sucks. instead. It just makes me feel like I'm missing twice. If I make it out of this room alive, it's going to be insult to No, it can't. This can't keep happening. I think what we're learning is that if you piss off any of the war gods, they just kill you. They just straight up kill you, bro. — We're only just learning that. — Oh, thank God. Okay, my torment is over. — Perhaps next time you shall cooperate with me again. If you were going to be a I know you're not a big Pokemon person, but if you were going to be a gym type, do you know what type you would want to be a gym leader of? — I feel like fire has all the coolest visual designs, you know. Um people understand how neat it is to put fire on everything. They understand my vision. — I would I feel like I would go electric just because I feel like there's a lot of fun that you can have with an electric gym. You really get some gimmicks. — Uh and I feel like it's an under not underloved. I mean, the mascot of the entire game series is an electric type, but like it doesn't it does not get its flowers uh in terms of like being the ultra cool guys as much as I think it should. — Maybe that's just me liking the electric type a lot, but — well, — no, that's fair. I remember when um Pokémon Go launched and everyone was like, "Which of these three gym leaders do you want to do? " Uh Candela, who's obviously like a fire type leader. Um the blue one whose name escapes me cuz I'm obviously uh team valor. And uh the yellow one that no one picked. — It's like wow. — I picked the yellow one. — Yeah. Well, yeah, — I did. — God's strongest soldier. — Terrifying. Cus is busy gathering his strength for when next he shall bar the prince's path. See you, boy. Father, how are you doing without mother around? Will she be all right on Olympus? — Clearly, she is more than capable of handling herself. And we here have been well accustomed to not having her about. — So everything's back to normal then. That sounds lovely. — You know, spoilers for Hades, too. Kronos is really uh lucky that he attacked while Pphanie was in the underworld because I think if he froze the entire underworld and then Pphanie came back, she would have just straight up [ __ ] killed him — for once. — That would have been awesome. — Right. Fine. the AU where Cronus' rebellion doesn't ever happen and Melaninoi is [ __ ] fine because Pphanie was just off visiting Gamima and she said, "You did what? " — Yeah. She comes back and she's like, "That's weird. Everyone is frozen in place and not talking and somebody has knocked down the wall in the throne room to uh put a big throne there. " Okay, so who has to die? — I have to tell you something, lad. When Thanos returned to seek you out, I was very concerned. Not just for you either. But you've since patched things up. — I think so. I hope so. It was complicated for a while there, but I think things are clearer for us now. Not just in the moment, but in retrospect. I'm not making any sense. — If Thanos doesn't show up once in this final stream, I will admit to being mildly disappointed. — Particularly well, it wasn't he who brought me here. You see, — it would we be sad but for us to soldier on. — Yeah, he's very busy. — He is. — We're a wacky little nepo baby whose quote unquote job was made up to keep us busy. Thanos actually has a job that's important. — She has departed once again. Your birth mother, the queen. Although it was not

### Segment 31 (150:00 - 155:00) [2:30:00]

as difficult to see her. — Very cute that Ziggy is sitting on my lap right now. She's a regular cat. I like this a lot about her. Um she's also incredibly warm and it's so hot in this apartment. M — she had no love for it at all. I hope she'll be all right. — Do not despair. We have ways of watching over her. Not that I expect anything unw prompt for yourself. Asking your friends what Pokemon type they'd be a gym leader of and then trying to design them as gym leaders is a lot of fun. a bunch of my college friend group. I was like, I'm bored. Uh, give me your gym. — Give me your gym lineups. Let's do this. Uh, — and some people get the prompt. I feel very firmly that gym leaders and regular trainers should — Pokemon unless it explicitly a story thing. And a lot of people, blue included, were like, um, can I have a legendary? And no, for funsies. But where's your spirit of adventure? Huh? Where's your team comp your competitive spirit? — Legendary. Everyone wants to be the guy with the Egyptian god cards and Exodia and nobody wants to be some schmuck with a level three rattata. Yeah, because blue to chose the normal type. And then he picked uh far-fetched uh ferret Eevee and reed gigas which is the big totem looking — legendary normal type. I was like my guy what are we doing? — Uh oh. I could have a little sword as a treat. — What aspect should we use? How about our maxed out level of Zagrias one? — And you know what? Let's try and do the chaos thing for real this time. I know it is the worst option, but you know, — you're not on worst run anymore. You can do whatever you want. — Yeah. Perfect. Let's get the hell out of here. — Take heed. Raalisk or Sliper. Well, I will say when I was playing a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh dual links, I had a Wings Dragon Raw deck that was just based around basically pouring like 10,000 attack and defense power into it every time I summoned it. Uh, and then just obliterated cuz there's like um in Duel Links you get points for like overkill damage. So, I would just kind of get them to the point where they couldn't do anything and then I would just power up raw more and more until I could do more than 10,000 damage in a single attack. Um, and uh, of course, cuz in Duel Links, you don't like you're not just playing Yu-Gi-Oh. You have a character from the show who's saying lines about it. So, obviously I was using Yummy Merrick cuz all of his lines are about being an absolute nutcase who like kills people and [ __ ] And his entire thing is the winged dragon of Raw. So, that was really fun. So, I guess objectively that has to be the one I picked. Um, but aesthetically I really like Ciper. I think having two mouths on a dragon is always killer design. Honestly, two mouths on anything is killer design. Um, in uh in Steven Universe when they finally reveal the fusion of like all the crystal gems and it has two mouths and one of them happens when the other like the face unhinges like a whole mask and there's a whole mouth in there and it has like a beam attack. Inspired design. Truly peak. Oh, hey, Chaos is here. Let's go say hi. Hey. Hey, Chaos. When in doubt, throw another mouth in there in a weird location. Obviously, I picked Joey, but when I was using the RAW deck, you obviously I used Yummy Merrick because he had custom dialogue about RAW. — Come on, guys. Get with the program. — Get with the [ __ ] program. Like, obviously I am a ride or die Joey. Ride or die Joey fan, even though the anime refuses to give my boy the respect he deserves. — Yeah. In this house, we love and respect Joey Wheeler. The anime doesn't, but still. — The anime doesn't. The anime takes things that he won in the manga and they were like, "No, we can't let that happen. Yeah, let's do that. I would love to be super rich by the end of this. " Um, need much nectar, but I guess at this point it can't hurt. Well, no. If we c if we ever get the chaos in Nick's dialogue about accumulating darkness for them, we will need the darkness. — Mhm. — Yeah. — More witches. I think that the anime did suffer slightly from the fact that by the time it came out, — Kaiba had undergone character development in the manga to make him much cooler. And therefore, they were like, "We have to continuously make him the coolest guy. " And it's like, "Sure, but that's not like he's fun because he

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started off kind of pathetic. " like his entire thing was that like in Yu-Gi-Oh in the early chapters of the manga that got turned into season zero, the gimmick with early Yu-Gi-Oh is that the villain of the week was somebody whose entire personality was one game. And usually it was being really obnoxiously the best at that one game. Uh and in uh because of course Yuki's whole thing was that he was kind of a polyglot in games. He was good at all games cuz he was a giant nerd, but also like he liked the game design. He had different opinions on them. Um, so and he worked and lived in a game shop, so he was like, "Yeah, I get it. " Uh, but honestly, some of these guys get a little too obsessed with it. And Kaiba's entire thing was that he was crazy obsessed with this hip new game, Duel Monsters. But also, he had [ __ ] tons of money, so he would just buy the most expensive cards or steal them from people in a pinch. And he was kind of a big old dork, and he kind of sucked. Uh, and he was mostly really obnoxious. And then uh of course Yami hit him with the classic penalty game and basically made him hallucinate that all of the duel monsters were real and uh [ __ ] him up. And then he was like, "Ah, this is actually really adding to the game experience. " And then he made all the [ __ ] holograms that everyone has to deal with for the entire rest of the show. And his entire thing was that he was kind of taking this whole thing way too seriously. like he he pretends to be reformed and is like, "Won't you all come to the opening of my brand new entirely dual monsters themed theme park? " And they're like, "Sure, this can't possibly be a massive saw trap just for us. " Um, and you're never going to believe what it actually was. A series of Saw Traps just for them included like, "Oh, he's hired assassins to kill us in a fake laser tag game and like a serial killer is here now also. " And it's like, this is not hinged behavior. This is he's taken this way too seriously. And eventually Yami is like, "All right, you, my friend, have to go into a timeout. So, excuse me while I shatter your psyche and force you to rebuild it from the ground up so you can figure out what the [ __ ] went wrong. " And then after that, when Kaiba comes back, he's kind of cool. Like, he's sort of figured his [ __ ] out and he's, you know, he still cares very deeply about dual monsters, but also he cares about other things like his family and his little brother and its character development. And then the anime was like, "We're going to speedrun all of this in episode one. " And uh now Kaiba has to be the coolest [ __ ] on the face of the earth. And it just really diminishes his character and also everyone around him because now it's like anything that's happening means Kaiba has to be the coolest guy in the room. Not because we've seen him at his absolute dorkiest, but because it's funnier that way, I guess. And also 4Kids rewrote a lot of the dialogue, which is fine. You know, obviously 4Kids was kind of notorious for changing the scripts that they were translating pretty extensively. Um, but there's a lot of just like jokes in there and a lot of shenanigans. So like Kaiba's kind of stoic in the sub version and then in the dub he'll just be like, "Huh, dorkfest continues. " And it's like, "Ka, no cool person says that word. " Uh, — no one says Dorkfest. — Dorkfest. You guys get your uh your badges for Dorkfest. Oh, sorry. I My mistake. You all must be invited special guests of honor. And it's like, okay. Yeah, this bit is uh is a little much, my man. Um, and I'm only slightly bitter because Joey was like Joey was the [ __ ] strongest soldier in the war of hating Kaiba because initially Joey was like, "Wow, this guy is really good at this game. " And then Kaiba was like, "I'm also rich and I think less of you for not having money. " And Joey was like, "Okay, cool. I could kill this guy and feel nothing. " And that was his personality for the entire rest of the show. Um, — still. — Yeah. — If only. Somewhere there's a version of Yu-Gi-Oh that likes Joey as much as I and the creator of the manga does, but uh we never got it. I guess it's part of season zero. There's some cool Joey moments in there. — No way. Yeah. Delicious. — Absolutely not. I've learned my lesson. Hello, Artemis. Let's hang out. Hey, Artemis. It's me, your bestie. — I guess really your bestie is my sister, but we haven't gotten there yet. — Yeah, — someday when she's born, you guys will be besties. But until then, — you're stuck with Zagris.

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— There is a possibility that the reason why Artemis is so chill with Melano is because Zag helped her come out of her shell by just sort of being a really good listener. She's like, "I kind of hate my entire I can't believe you invited me to a party. " And then she's like, "Man, that was nice. I got to introduce you to Felisto next time. " And it's like, "Okay, cool. We're we're chill. We're bros. " — Yeah, we're learning and growing together. — Yeah. — Don't know what it is about you. — See, I feel like I can be me with you, you know? Maybe it's that you don't constantly talk over me like everybody else besides Kalisto and Nymphs, I guess. Not that I can even hear you, but you know what I mean, right? — Zakrias's number one fan. — Artemis is rubber ducking her way into a little bit more of a healthy work life balance. Um, yeah. I like how that stacks up. Hey, we finally got that last heart on Artemis. — Hey. Good for scratching that 100% completion itch. Not super useful at this stretch of the game, but that's okay. — I know you tend to be in remarkably good. Yeah, it means we've talked to her. We've befriended her. And it'll feel that much more natural when — your predicament, isn't there? — Do you? — Oh, come now, Prince. Do Baldi and I look like we can choose your charity. We're planning to stay put within this chamber for a while. It's hardly a predicament, I'd say. — But one must imagine Sephus happy. — They might be back for you. — Ah, yes. The Fury Sisters. Well, I wouldn't mind seeing them more infrequently now that you mention it, but either way, so don't you even worry about me. Now, here — most excellent surprise — prophecy. Oh, right. Trying to figure out the system. — May you roll smoothly. — All right, let's see what Baldi g for believing in us. — Hey, money bonus. Oh, we are going to be rolling in this game. — Hell yeah. Thank you, Baldi. — I'll pay for that. — Um, yeah, that — Let's make some waves. I — think we need a key. — I'm rich. Uh — ladies, — girls, how we doing? — How goes the scourging of the guilty? It's good to take an interest in your girlfriend's flute. Let's get out of there. I'm never entirely sure what you're supposed to do about that attack if you don't have something like divine dash. — Yeah. — Well, probably not run face first and do it like I just did, but you know. other than that. — No, generally uh there's few things that are positively influenced by running him to them face. — Usually not. Cuz like sometimes you can if you hit the projectile with an attack, it dissipates. And that seems to have worked. Oh, I got confused over which fury was one I'm actually able to hit and which one isn't. My bad. — That'll do it. — Yeah. Ah, Meg, please. Come on. Come on. No. — You really close to making it out of there without losing a death defiance. — Nice chatting. Oh, come here. There we go. Sometimes dashing just means you snag yourself on the level geometry with even greater efficiency. — Nowhere to go but up.

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So far, there's been a severe lack of cat crimes, even though she's hanging out right next to me. Busily looking baby. — So far, so good on the cat crimes department, but let's not jinx it. — Yes. — Oh, that's actually really funny. I forgot how badly these guys combo with blade dash. Here, check it out. — Oh no, don't try and stomp on top of me. Haha, you fool. 1 million blades of death. Now, what would really make this meal perfect is just that little bit of chain lightning, but you know, beggars can't be choosers. I like it. On to the next one. Oo, there's a chaos game in here. We might be able to get the chaos with defiance because we have a prophecy that we'll get it at some point. I remember in my home game it took me a lot of time to get the chaos defiance boot. But uh we're already down one so it would potentially prog I've seen arguments over whether or not it requires you to have already lost a death defiance to qualify or if the odds are just kind of really low regardless. But — can't hurt to try. — Evidence suggests that a lot of the stuff people told me about how the game mechanics in this work are incorrect. So, I have a feeling this is a fairly opaque system and it's not like anyone data mined out the code to see what triggers what. They're just kind of like, well, in my game, this did that after this, so probably they're connected, — makes sense. — Yeah. Get out of here. As you can see, my opposition has been documented stepping on fire. All right. Yeah, I know. — Let's go. — Who are they to judge me for standing on fire once in a while? — All right. — You really gunning for political office in the um stepping on fire campaign. — Listen, I know how controversy tends to follow me around when uh when you stepped on fire as often as I do. You need to do everything you can to cover your ass in the future. Okay, sure. If I ever get a cast upgrade, that'll be really useful. Oh my goodness. Spoiled for choice. Oh, let's see. Yeah. Okay, let's get these [ __ ] guys again. Uhoh. She's making biscuits, but she's using my leg to do it. Uh, very sleepy biscuits, though. So, she's not like doing damage. That's good. I don't like that the attack is no longer a combo. It's just a big job. This is pretty stupid looking. It's probably a reason why I got this last — safe and sound. You should know there's ladies. — Shame you can't be here with her too, but we'll someday meet again. — There we go. Now I have mask that does some damage. Not bad. — Oh, the big chop is so stupid looking. Now they're all big chops. All I can do with this [ __ ] sword is big chop now. All right, let's see how far Big Chop takes us. — I'll be leaving shortly. — Oh, there is some comboing. When I'm hitting somebody, the move set changes. How needlessly confusing. Oh, that's so stupid looking. Now, what I'd really like to combo this with is the thing that turns my attack into a sword beam.

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— Ah, that's what I was going to say. — Gods grant me strength. — Sharpen my senses. Wow. Oh no, the knock back on this is getting a little stupid. See, it feels like it should be doing a sword beam. It's so much movement otherwise. And yet no sword beam to be had. — No, I'm sadly beamless. Have to use a normal sword like a peasant just hitting the things I hit with it. This is also why shown in anime rules would be more fun than Looney Tunes rules. I think more damage, more damage than it lasts. Anyway, cuz it's like, okay, in Looney Tunes rules, you get squished by a piano and then you're back to your standard character design in the next scene. In anime rules, it's like you get a hole blown in your torso and then somebody slaps some bandages on you and you're fine and you get to show off how cool your abs look in the meantime. It's like it's it's just more appealing, you know? It's just more fun. Well, we are absolutely rolling in it. So, yeah, let's go spend some money. Oh, yeah. A little quick cash. — At first, I didn't know how to get through to that odd river boat, Kon. — Turns out he lusts for coin. And now I understand him well. — Ah, the age representation we've been looking for. The only thing Kon lusts for is the next big deal. — Oh, why not? I'll take away the despair. Oh boy. Now big chop is fast chop. God, this is so stupid looking. All right, let's go fight the hydra. It's time. Nothing to it but — but to do it. — Why hello, Lenny. What have you been up to since I last destroyed your multitude of heads? — I'm empty. Big Chop has betrayed me. — Oh, never mind. Big Chop is doing a good job. — Jesus, I can't. Oh, the Hades muscle is going to absolutely demolish me when it's time to play Hades 2. — Oh, yeah. Big time. — Everything I know is wrong. — Could you guys stop [ __ ] stacking? It makes it really hard for me to hit the only thing I can hit. — Oh, thank you, Big Chop. You've saved me yet again. Oh, right. I have a chaos. Means I can't get my casts back. That's what's happening. Like, why are they like inquirial? — Ah, — those darn chaos. — Yeah, every single time. I messed up. You trusted me not to stand on fire. And once again, I found myself standing on fire. And I'm sorry for that. You all deserve better than somebody who misleads you on how much they're going to stand on fire in this boss fight that they should be really good at by now. And you know what? I'm taking accountability. I'm taking a stand. This will be the last time any of you see me stand on fire. — I'm taking a stand, just not in but not in fire. That's the slogan of my next re-election campaign. Taking a stand, but not in fire. — We'll have you back here soon enough, I think. See is there anything I can — purge boons for coin.

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— Um yes I will purge tempest strike and get a deathifines and then get a god boon to replace it with. That is what I'm going to do. release him. How about that? Big chop still does pretty good damage even without the tempest strike on it. And without the crazy knockback launching people across the room, I can actually hit them more than once. Unkey Poseidon, you've disappointed me yet again. But that's okay. — We forgive you. — Yes. — For now. Don't get too comfortable. I still have many other uncles who can become my favorite. Big Chop. I'm sorry I ever doubted you. — How dare we not recognize your game? — Yeah, — I'm on that lumberjack of grind set. — Call me when you need little red carved out of that stomach cuz I'm ready to go. Oh, matrix dodging under that. — I can use this. Oh, why not? — Don't spend it all in one place, mate. — Well, that is an attack, — which is what I All right. — Looks like we're good to doing a heavy Aphrodite build this time. — Ooh, it's kind of fun. — Yeah, — different. — You could still use a sword beam though, you know. Not to listen, not to sound ungrateful, it's just I love it when a sword shoots a beam. — Greatest. — Great when a beam comes together. We love it when the beat comes out. I also think that maybe big chop's uh enemy tracking is not the best because there have been times where I'm like, I am mashing big chop near an enemy and it's hitting anywhere but the enemy. See what I mean? Like anyway, it's fine. Stop it. It's just the manual targeting in this game is a little bit unro because it's so good at sort of autolocking you onto bad guys. So face the wrath of big cherish preferably by my hand. — Yes. A finally big chop has reached its ultimate pinnacle form. — Uhhuh. — Ah, hell yeah. Okay, let's uh we're a little low on cash, but we also have all these boons increasing how much money we get. So, we can go get this Aries boon. — Yeah. — Hey, big man. — The queen is back. Do you know what that means? Short one. Well, for me at least, it happens to mean quite a bit. I'm a her son.

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— It doesn't mean a thing. We're still here to fight. Though, for what it's worth, my mother also was queen. May yours treat you better than she treated me. — Better than I'm about to treat you here. — There's something that I find very fun about how Asterius is constantly busting out some variant of we're not so different, you and I. And Zag is like, we're not really. We should hang out more. And is like, no, not like that. No, I mean like — or at least a little bit different. — Yeah, we have some crucial differences actually that are very important. For instance, I have a guy. My boyfriend really [ __ ] hates you. It helps. My boyfriend hates your boyfriend. So like it all kind of works out. It all sort of balances. Yeah. — whoa. Ah, no. I paid good money for that death defiance. Oh my goodness. — Are you — got you man? — In the name of Hades. Oh, that's kind of worse. Oh well, whatever. — Yeah, — if I don't make it out with the sword, I'll just pick the punchy gloves and make it out with them next time. You know, — we're having a good time. — A good attitude. — It's all fun in games today. — There's no rules. Well, I mean, there's all the normal rules of the game, but also like there's no — there's no additional rules to make the game more complicated. — Well, hey, now that I've had my uh my manly brawl with Asterius, uh we can leave Thesius hanging. Like, I'm not even going to be mad if I die in Allesium because that just means Thesius is going to be like, "Where the [ __ ] is he? He stood me up. That demon Ziggy's trying to get into a closet. She ought not. Ziggy, don't be doing that. — No, no. — Looks like the cat crime's on the other foot now. — Some of Kon's wares. — Oh, that's Oh, he's here. — Yo, — now let's make sure you go the distance. — Thanks. — Hey, you got one or two spare death defiances you could drop me, bro? — I'm struggling. I don't mind killing you. Nope, just kidding. Sometimes when you're fleshing out the minor prophecy, that means you have to pick an upgrade that you don't really like all that much. That's just the way of the game. It's great game design to force you to actually try out wouldn't. Sometimes you find things you love, but also sometimes it means you just got to use something you hate for a little bit. — Yeah, this game is very good at making you try a whole bunch of different things rather than simply settling into whatever worked the first time. Considering the difficulty curve in the early parts of the game can be kind of brutal. Oh, I can stack the damage pulse. That's actually kind of tight. — Oh my goodness. — Wow, we're tied again. still alive. — All right, — it's a draw till we meet again. — See you then. — A hey, we can get all our death defiances back. Thank you, — Petroas. You know, for such a loudmouth, obnoxious braggard, Thesius does seem to

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have formed a strong kinship with the bull of Minos, hasn't he? — Are they truly as inseparable as they seem? I feel bad for the ball. — Sometimes it's our differences that make us drawn to one another. No. And at other times, there's no accounting for taste. — I often don't know which is which, and they can have each other, as far as I'm concerned. I think this might be a record for how many death defiances I've used and then purchased again in one run. — You're going through them. — Yeah, I'm getting [ __ ] chewed up in my quest for big chops. Seeing the mortal folk up here keep dying off and someone's got to bring their souls down to your domain now, don't they? Cute reference to Hermes being a psychop. — Yeah. — Okay, I'm going to shift into gamer stance so that thesis doesn't get the pleasure of killing me. All right, let's [ __ ] go. Fellas, — we've run out of dialogue. — Tragedy for sure. — Hey, Dusa, help me out. — Yeah, [ __ ] him up, girl. I heard it was a doubles match. Oh, there goes that death defiance I paid so much for. — Oh no, Duca reacted to it. It's okay, girl. I'm fine. — It's going to be okay. okay, big cat. This is normal for me. — I do this like once a day. — Yeah, eight times a week. Oh, she's gone. No, mom. I thought we was cool. We're good. Shoeing through the health bar. Is this kind of fun just kind of sticking in the actual go [ __ ] yourself aura? — Oh my god. — Please mercy. Yay! — What a moment. — Oh, and he turned into a burrito. Hell yeah. — Very nice. — We got them, my good. — The goal above all else is to simply not lose to Thesius as much as possible. — Yes. It's always fun to give myself other objectives in games, you know, keep things interesting. Okay, we have to keep the chaos egg to get to Zeus. Uh, no, sorry, Hades. The Zeus of the underworld as he is sometimes known. So, technically, I'm still correct. Uh, okay. Yeah. Well, back through the Temple of Space. Hooray. — You guys heard that little very long, sleepy cat next to me, so I gave her a little pet. She like raised her head, but has not opened her eyes. up here. — Uh, question for us in chat. Which World of Darkness TTRPG are we most interested in playing? — I've never really So, here's the thing. World of Darkness, to my understanding, if you play it as intended, uh, the whole point is that there's kind of no good option. Like, everyone is miserable all the time. — Everyone is kind of cursed and doomed. Uh, even the ones that aren't explicitly cursed. It's like, oh, mage, technically, you have a lot of options somehow. you still end up kind of being cursed and doomed. Um, I've got a friend who's playing in like a vampire LAR and they talk about how like they're having fun with it. Their character is kind of happy golucky and fun and you know, and they have been not like taking heat cuz a lot of people in the game are like, yeah, it is objectively more fun to play things your way, but rules is written, we should really be punishing you for this a lot more. Um, so none of them have ever like super appealed to me, but I have been really enjoying the new Dimension 20 season, uh, City Council of Darkness, where they are playing a modified version of Vampire the Masquerade. Uh, the game I've been playing is sort of seeing how much

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Brendan has absorbed the larger space of lore. Uh, so fun fact that I learned uh from this aforementioned vampire alert friend is that in the lore of Vampire the Masquerade and Werewolf the Apocalypse um Bigfoot exists and he is Beaolf and he's in like — yes — Gary Indiana and uh he's at like humanity 3 which is really low. So like and I think he's um I don't remember if he's Oh god, where's the juice? Uh anyway, it's a whole thing. Um but uh Bigfoot has shown up in City Council of Darkness and he is very clearly not Beaowolf because knowing Brendan Lee Mulligan as a person or rather as a creator, I don't know, as a person, uh there is no [ __ ] way he would have passed upon the opportunity to have a Beaowolf character speak in accurate old English. Um and that did not happen. Uh instead, Bigfoot is the inventor of kumite. And honestly, that's more funny. Uh so — yeah, — and there's also other things like uh in I think in Mage and again my knowledge of this is severely out of date uh and mostly gotten through with my dad running a sort of homebrew game where he it was World of Darkness but all the exaltations from Exalted started coming back and completely breaking the power curve and we were all those guys. So it was like all the World of Darkness stuff was happening and it was kind of completely irrelevant to us because we could just undo it or change it whenever we wanted to with like social. Um, but as I understand it, the primary mage force in uh the world of darkness is technocracy. And they're like tech bros and stuff. And I think Brennan likes bringing up that this the evil of capitalism is completely mundane too much to actually let those guys also be magic. Like he made Robert Moses a lich in Unsleeping City and that was awesome. But I don't think he has to do that every time. the number of times she's like, "No, this Sam Alman joke will just die in episode two and there's no indication that he's using any of the technocracy strats to not die or anything like that. " Um, — right. So, — yeah, I have played a little Vampire the Masquerade. I like it a lot. It's really fun. Um, I enjoy that dramatic uh roleplay focus. Um, and I think vampire stories are fun to play around in. uh you know there uh there's something very enjoyable to me about it but also like the tables I played at we tended to lean away from the grim dark of it all and like — you saw that you can entirely ignore it but there's ways to kind of tailor any game to your tastes and we were definitely able to um we were doing a little bit more of a what we do in the shadows than we really were a proper masquerade. Um, so I'd love to give it a try like in a proper dramatic fashion at some point and like really get into um the storytelling at all. But yeah, of all of them, Vampire the Masquerade is both the one I played and also I think the one I've been most interested going back to. The others are also very cool. Um, — it does feel like the others. others only sort of exist because of Vampire. You know, like Vampire was the big like and Rice is huge, Interview with a Vampire is enormous. We all want to be with Scott. What are we going to do? Um, and then everything else was like, well, the vampires need [ __ ] to deal with, so there's got to be werewolves. So, rules for werewolves. So, there's a game for werewolves if you want to be a werewolf. — Yeah, pretty much. — Yeah. Um, and it is, hey, it's fun to be a werewolf. — We listen, I've been on the record. I think werewolf is the objective correct choice if you get to pick what kind of — uh semi undead creature of the night to become. Can't go wrong with a werewolf. — Something I can use. — Uh, what if I lose big chop? Oh, what if I gain something cooler? — Surprise me, dus. — I think I lost big chop. I did. My sword is normal again. I'm free. Also, I think I fulfilled the sword proxy, so that's good. — After deliberating briefly, Cberus concludes that yes, he shall accept the sack. — There's a cat. a really big stretch and probably aligning herself with the edge of my leg. — Yeah, the I'd love to do like a vampire themed shot or something over on Rolling with Ty, but I think I'm running into this because we were talking about this little meeting, but like I've I think I've run the most one shots. — Yeah. And it's like ah I mean there's so many fun ideas for them, but also I like to play at some point. — Yeah. No, absolutely. — I gotta pass these rains over to somebody. Uh, I'm on deck for masks and then I had one that I uh called my shot on for the next break as well. So, I'm like, "No, you can't start pitching more. " You know, put that lasers and feelings game away right now. I swear to God. — Austin is our forever DM. You've kind of become our forever oneshot DM. So, totally understandable. — Yeah. Hey, I want to give Austin a break cuz he runs a great game during the main campaign and uh I'm bad at running long campaigns because I don't really have the attention span to like track details in the new show like that, but coming up with a one shot and making it feel fluid is something that I feel very confident in. So, it is fun to get to run a lot of

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one shots to have a vehicle to do that in. — Yeah. — Um — Oh my god. — It's fun to get to receptive to this form of discipline. — Discipline. Is that what we're calling it? Wake up, boy. This again. — Oh, man. — No. No. You actually You waste your strength. — You're cheating. — Mom, dad's cheating in our fights to the death. Not now, honey. Mama's busy thinking springtime happen. Mom, if you're so busy, why is it still cold here? — Take care of the grandmother. — It's my last chance, — man. I'm going to have to do the chaos run again. It's a hard run. Yeah, it's not so bad, but like I don't tend to rely too heavily on the trinkets. Like it's a bad run if I don't if I need the skelly tooth by the end of it, you know? Oh, yay. There we go. — Get up. You truly dare? — Yes. Die standard. — See? See what I mean? He said our name and it's way more intimidating. I thought I wouldn't get anybody right now. Can always do it next round. I can A Jesus. — A — you are somewhat stronger than expected. Well, — I had to dash through the uh the shock wave and it took me out from behind the laser defense. — Oh well. — Next time. — Father. — Great. Our boyfriend's in town and we can't even [ __ ] talk to him. — What I mean to say is that I'm sorry, Hypnos. A — you're my brother, but I haven't always — That's okay. The brothers are reconciling. — Would you be willing to forgive me? Come on, are you kidding me right here? We're like two skeletons in a crypt. And you're always looking out for me, — even when you're not around for what can seem like eons at a time. — A shucks. — Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. We each have got important jobs to do. Isn't that right, brother? — Huh? That is right. — Well, aren't you guys just the textbook definition of cute? Absolutely [ __ ] adorable. — All right, I'm going to get out of gamer stance and rest my back. — A good call. — Yes. — Though having little appetite remaining for the likeness of Nectar's flavor, the multi-headed monster of the underworld nevertheless exempts. — Oh, we're close to the final set of hearts. Achilles isn't here to talk to us. Santos isn't here to date us. — What's even the [ __ ] point anymore? — Why am I even playing this game?

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— You have been served a pact of punishment. Now, — child old dialogue. — I guess — it is a point of fact. — Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Can you please reconcile with your parent already? — The featured house servant — trying so hard to facilitate a reunion. — Another question. relationship to other — can we listen — I know that Duca has more dialogue we can talk about this — after she decides what we are to each other — no um not exactly prince it's what it sounds like just scary hissing really takes some practice not to sound like that with a fork tongue I really wanted to fit in how about you always wondered how come you have a surface accent You born here? — Surface accent. Oh, we're British. — Oh, wait. Me? I never gave it any thought. I guess it's from my father. He insisted that he teach me how to speak himself. Maybe it's in the blood. — Mhm. — Roll credits. — Wamp wamp. — I come to you bearing aquatic beasts. — Always a pleasure. — Oh, let's do some more upgrades. We're absolutely rolling in gemstone. We might as well spend them on something. I guess if it'll stop pestering us about it. That's nice. — I never use the treasure troves anyway, but it's just good to have. — Just kidding. It's still bothering me. — Um, — well, I don't see why not. Maybe this knitted effigy of some sort of surface creature will keep Cberus occupied. — Yay. Give us some towels for when we come out of the blood fountain. — Anyone emering from the — quick Hades is away coming back from the boss arena. Let's redecorate while he's gone. — Does have the energy of like trying to speed paint your room or something when your parents are away. — Yeah. — Contractor. I have another job. — Oh, let's get the liar and then we can [ __ ] around with it because there's a prophecy of it. — Oh, yeah. You — No shie. You have to die and play that so many times. — How did you How did we not get the liar earlier? — I just didn't want to spend my hard earned diamonds on everything. — Contractor work approved. They say that only Heracles himself can lift these things. I'll take them then. Oh, why not? A nice big cauldron for the lounge. — Not much on the menu in the lounge, but maybe this will help. — Much better — for all of your lounge cauldron. Yeah. Oh, we should be getting sculptures for the uh for the hall. I mean, we can't afford any of them, but they are fun because we can get a sculpture of Homer at one point and then if we pester it enough, — he's like the fire stepping prince uh [ __ ] off and stopped bothering me. It's like, oh, I know it was you. — A fine addition to the bed chambers. my collection. Very proper. I can't move because things are still happening. A delicately crafted instrument of music making now resides within the clamor causing Prince's chambers. Doubtless fearing if it could heavyhanded touch. Can't be that hard to play, can it? That's game play. — Yuck. — Boy, howdy. — Cintillating. All right, let's get the [ __ ] out of here. That's one more prophecy for — I guess we h Do we have to pardon Sisphus? Kind of feels like he deserves it. It's fine. Whatever. Let's buy a couple more things. — He's the one in this game where it's like it's not that he's I guess a bad dude. He's clearly mellowed out a lot. But also, I don't know. He did — miserable. — He did trap Thanos. It's not like he didn't do it. — He did. Yeah, he very much did do that. — And I can certainly show you a thing or two. First, the proper posture is important here.

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Now, remember to practice the plucking technique which I taught you and mind your off hand constantly and above all continue practicing. — The joyfulness is in the practicing itself. — Thanks for the impromptu lesson, mate. Maybe you'll have something more affordable next time. — How about this contractor? A hideous rendition of a grizzled skeleton seems suitable to call. — There he is. Oo, spooky. All right, let's get the hell out of here and start killing stuff again. Hey, Skellyy. — Got worried the loading screen took that long. — Could use the fists. — Let's do — bound to me and I am. — Let's do the one that actually get over here as the bad guys. — Awaken. — Love a get over here. I love a good get over here. Why not? Let's see what happens. — All right, it's time to shine. So, I see some people talking about in chat. If I recall correctly, Sysphus's initial thing, the reason why he had to trick his way out of getting killed was because he was violating uh Zenia. I believe he was killing his guests. Um don't remember if he was also eating them. That is certainly possible. Um but because of that, the gods were like, "This is disgusting. Uh [ __ ] Draculate this man. " And so they sent uh Thanoos himself to kill him. and Cesus tricked his way out of that, trapped Thanoos, uh, imprisoned him. Uh, nobody died. Aries came out to rescue. It was very cool. Uh, and then he was like, "Okay, there's no way I'm getting out of this one. " So when he dies, he has his wife disrespect his corpse so that when he arrives in the underworld, he can be like, "Guys, it's awful. My wife has done terrible things to my corpse. " And uh, Praphanie is present at the time and she's like moved by his statement. So she uh she's like, "Oh, can't we give him, you know, one more chance to get back to Earth so that uh he can at least arrange his own burial? " And they're like, "Fine, one more chance. " — And then, of course, he goes back and just lives it up. And they're like, "Hey, Thanoos, you want to try and get him again? " And he's like, "Absolutely not. I ain't getting anywhere near that man. " stand. — So, Sephus lives a long and happy life uh and then dies and then uh gets the punishment, the worst punishment they could think of on account of how he sucks so bad and tricked every single one of them. So, um yeah, Sisphus can stay with Baldi. I'm sure they're going to be very happy together. — Mhm. — Okay, get over here. — Hard to kill a guest who's made of stone. Yeah, the get over here comboed with a special that knocks people back is really funny. Already I'm having fun with this. — More pests. — So, Tantalus also uh violated the rules of hospitality uh but in a different way. So, a lot of different things going on. It has been a while since I read a lot of — rules about hospitality. — Yeah. Also, a lot of these guys who suffer in the underworld, the only consistent thing about their myth is that they are suffering in the underworld. And one thing they did to get that happening. So with Sysus, it's like Yeah. imprisoning Thanos is why he's in so much trouble. Shiny. — Um but Zeus could be chain lightning. We're going to go check out Zeus. Um I need to turn on my AC in a minute. I can feel the temperature climbing. And if it gets too hot while I'm doing this, I will make myself motion sick. Unfortunately, — I don't think that. So, must — Okay, let's see what we're doing with temperature. — Your dear motherf is a shrewd woman, Zagrias, more than an equal to your mighty father. — I'm pleased to know you've made amends with her and taking new responsibilities within your house. Naturally, I'll continue to pitch in and I hope that we'll meet again someday. — Oh, yep. It is in fact getting hot, so pardon me for the background hiss. We'll let it slide this time, Red. — Thanks. Appreciate it. Uh, none of these

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are good. Let's roll them. — Any other boons for me? Yeah, that's what I'm [ __ ] talking about. Now we're in business. Oh, not this [ __ ] guy again. — Hey, have you considered getting over here? Actually, I don't know why that reminded me. next time I'm sure. — Uh I was browsing around for uh comics because I've caught up on pretty much everything I've been reading. The absolute runs um the uh the uncanny X-Men that's currently happening. Uh I sort of understand what's happening. They had one of those things where like a guy I didn't know showed up and was like, "That's right. It was me all along. " And it's like, "Oh no, what? " So, uh — last X-Men business. Yeah, — I even caught up on the Wolverine run. They finally dealt with that Adam Antine [ __ ] which was nice. Um, but anyway, what I discovered is that there's some kind of new Ben 10 comic that unfortunately doesn't look very good. — Uh, it's only one issue deep, and I don't want to judge too much, but uh, oh boy. — Yeah, unfortunately, Ben is uh, it's kind of had its peak form um, back in the day. and uh most versions of it since it's still got like charm to it, but it doesn't uh never quite hits the same. — Yeah. I mean, I know that there's sort of like a they did a soft reboot or something, right? Or not soft reboot, but like Omnitrix is his own thing. He's 10 again or something. — There was a reboot. Well, cuz he was 10, then he was the older version for like — he did Alien Force and Ultimate Alien, — maybe. — Yeah. And then they did, I think, a he's 10 again kind of like reboot. Chaos game. — Chaos, you want to tell us anything about the child of yours we're trying to reunite you? — That would be so nice if Wow, that they weren't kidding. That is a yo-yo and a half. Let's pay Chaos a visit then. No, I think we're waiting on Nyx to tell us something — cuz Chaos is just cycling through their rolodex of normal statements. Um, — unfortunate. — Yeah. So shall it be. Okay. This is a good build. I can already feel it. It's — like, oh, the dash knocks you back and then the punch pulls you back in. — We love it when a plan comes together. — Yes. — Pleasure doing business. That's pretty good because we're probably going to be slamming a lot of people into barriers. Oh, sorry. Cat is now kicking me in the side. — She heard about slamming in the barriers and said, "Oh, yeah. I got you. " — Actually, this is very sweet. She's showing me her belly and her chest, — which I think for cats is a big [ __ ] deal. — Means they like you. They feel safe. I remember um when I first got her and I like picked her up at one point — when I flipped her onto her back, she got very like distressed and scooted away. So, this is actually a big moment. — Wish you could have made it. — I'm sure you did. But, you know, work comes first. So, let's get busy. Doesn't seem to be sway. Certainly one way to read the scorpion little voice line. Get over here if you don't mind. — Sorry, the like, oh, that's what the voice thing reminded me. Um, I think I

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can mention this. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to. Uh, noir, uh, one of our on the difficulty friends uh has been playing I guess a new indie game called Far West and they did this thing where they were like hey uh we're thinking of adding voice lines to the game. Uh do people want to audition? And the world was like we should do it. And I was like yeah why not? And then they were like you're in. So uh they were having a but initially they were like yeah we're thinking voice lines. And then the next day they were like so our audience doesn't want them to say words. uh they kind of got attached to the characters when they were silent and now they don't want to hear them being all yeha. Uh so we did like barks only where it's kind of just like effort noises, you know, that kind of thing. Um — yeah, — even then there's still a lot of personality cuz uh they I think they the way they did it is they assigned voice line packs to hats that the characters can wear, which is a super elegant way to do it. Honestly, thank you TF2 for making uh these kinds of like hero shooters all about the hats. Um, and I think they attached my voice to the hat just called cowgirl, but then someone was like, "Here's my undead zombie robot voice. " And like rat guy voice. " I was like, "Oh, I've been way too uncreative by just going yee-ha. " Um, — so that was Yeah. — fun. Good. — Super fun. — Yeah. — Closer to the surface. Thank you. I can see chat's talking about superhero comics and I want to participate, but I don't know exactly what we're talking about. Uh, I think there's some conversation about Invincible, which I don't know if you've read any of. Uh, I mean, show is also quite good. — Yeah, I watched the first season. I really liked it, but it was so kind of draining cuz it was very emotional. Um, like especially season 1 cuz it's kind of getting you used to this universe and the kind of [ __ ] that can happen. So, it's like the season finale was kind of like, what's the worst possible thing I can put this character through? Let's do that. And then also again, uh, and I was like, boy, that was a lot. Don't know if I want to watch it more. — Invincible is just kind of a theories of Mark's worst days over and over again. Uh, which I think is part of its charm, but I if you're not uh in the mood for that, it definitely can be draining. — This holds to my theory that Steve Yuan selects his roles based on how much of a character he plays is going to suffer horribly and without relief because for a stretch there, every single one of the guys he played was just like going through a [ __ ] gauntlet. — You father. Yeah, even the Atuka and Birdie is one like one of my all-time favorite uh animated projects. Just like incredibly cool, great uh woman led production. It's really wonderful. Stephen Ren's in it though. He plays one of the characters uh long-term boyfriends. His name is Speckle and he's kind of this like happy golucky architect, just like very sweet, very supportive. And still they find a way to make him really good by the end. — Even though of course they do. — It's like in his contract. It's like those guys who are like, I need only green M& M's. He's like, I need to be in so much pain at least once. Ah, [ __ ] I'm getting it on you. Hold this. — So underrated. They kept getting cancelled and then coming back and like we're it's so over. We're so back. And I was like finally it's going to thrive and then cancelled again. — A they're playing with your heart. — They are. I was getting a little annoyed cuz there's a lot of people who are in the there's no good adult animation crowd being like oh while Tuka and Birdie was fighting for its life. And I'm like leaving. — We need you in this fight. More chain lightning perhaps. Why am I moving around so much? Everyone else should be coming to me. I haven't been respecting the ways of the yo-yo strat. Let's see. So, we got little baby weenie boat. We got big chop. We got the

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yo-yo strat. Do we have any other iconic builds from this game? — Getting good at the bow. That counts as a build. — Well, I don't think we cracked the code on that yet. I guess worst run is its own thing. It's going to be difficult to figure out what worst run is going to mean for Hades 2. I guess probably it's going to be the heaviest weapon first because I' i've never figured out how to make that work with Mel. — Yeah, I the Thanoos aspect of the axe with a bunch of Hermes boons stacked I can kind of get behind at times, but every other one super slow. — All right, Lord Zeus. — Don't worry, we'll find it. Oh, how I am excited for more My Adventures in Superman, though. They finally showed some of the season 3 stuff. And uh now that I've read through pretty much everything there is to know about this Super Boy from uh Inception to uh I guess dying offcreen. Well, I haven't found the exact issue where he dies because it was in the middle of Infinite Crisis and that was like a crossover between like 15 different DC runs and I don't know in which one he dies. Um, but now I know everything there is to know about this one version of Super Boy. And it's honestly kind of a rare treat to be in that position with any given like DC Comics character of like, no, I've actually read everything about this guy cuz he's in Reign of the Superman and then he's in Young Justice Teen Titans and then at some point he dies in Infinite Crisis and then they bring back a different version of him in the next like 2011 Crisis or whatever. But this one guy, this version of Khan, I know. — And uh — yeah, I think they're going to absolutely [ __ ] us up with his version in my Avengers of Superman season 3. Uh I saw a theory cuz the way he looks less like a clone of Superman or even and Lex Luthther and a little bit more like Superman and Lois's kid from the future. Uh, so the question is like is that going to be who he actually is or who he says he is when he turns out to be a clone. And uh I don't know, — but all of those could be tremendously emotionally damaging. So I'm excited. — Yeah, I never really got back into it after the first couple episodes and I'm like I can't get back into this. But it's sounds like they're doing some fun stuff with the wider Superman uh ethos. That's very cool. I really like what they did in season 2. I do think that um its first few episodes are a little bit like we have to do this to establish what's going on and like what we're doing with these characters, but like spoiler alert, Lois figures out that he is Superman very fast. But until she does, there are things about the way that everyone is characterized that feel a little bit uh not tedious exactly, but kind of like, yeah, I've seen this before. or it's a very simple miscommunication plot line. Uh the show is slightly susceptible to doing that. They did something in season 2 where they did a very classic like wait maybe we shouldn't be together even though we're perfect for each other because it's going too well and I was like gh and then Superman [ __ ] started happening and I was like oh thank god finally life or death stakes I can handle this far better. Um, but uh the thing that I'm most intrigued about with My Adventure with Superman is as far as I can tell, it's borderline confirmed that Krypton is not actually destroyed the way he thought it was because well, it's not necessarily confirmed. I think that was my theory on it. U because Brainiac was like, I destroyed Krypton using this thing that was built by your father. And it's like, oh, so it's probably in the Phantom Zone then because I kind of doubt that Jorel would have built anything that could have busted a planet. But I do believe he would have built something that could put a planet somewhere else. And when we see it happening, it's like, oh no, the planet's been whited out by Kirby dots and now it's gone. And it's like, okay, so it got moved somewhere else. Come on. When a planet explodes, we see the chunks afterwards. This is my [ __ ] first rodeo. Um, and also they're doing this really weird thing with Superman's powers where basically like every time he's in over his head and he wants to protect somebody else, he glows a little bit, the Superman emblem shines on his chest no matter what he's wearing and he gets a power up. And it's like that has never been how Superman works. So, I'm really curious what they're doing with him. Uh, and we've only seen one other Plutonian and she has a lot of powers, but she doesn't do that. So, it's like, okay, what kind of weird [ __ ] was Jorel and Lara up to with uh with their kid? Is this some kind of defense mechanism? mean super weapon thing? And like, I'm asking all these questions because I know [ __ ] about Superman. Clark is not asking any of these questions cuz he doesn't know this isn't normal for Superman. So, I'm just kind of like, show please, please

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answer any of your questions about Krypton and Kryptonians. Please. So, I'll be very excited to see where that goes eventually. Um, — yeah, very cool. — They gave him a Sailor Moon transparency when he first put his suit on. — I did see that the way that those things that pop up around Sailor Moon, I got sent that very quickly. — Yeah, of course. — Um, — no, I think — it's a cool take on the character. It's a cool uh concept for a show. It's just a little bit too uh I was like there's only so much kind of like a Saturday morning cartoon vibe I can tolerate before I'm like okay I think — I want a little bit of a denser vibe to my storytelling and uh my adventures of Superman was just on the line from that for me where I was like uh — I'm this is going to really change people's brain chemistry if this is their vibe but it's just not mine and I think that that's fine. — Yeah, that's completely fair. There's nothing wrong with that. I think for me it was a little bit like, oh my god, nature is healing. Finally, we're letting Superman get silly with it again. But also, it hit a thing I always like where like, oh, the show can give you the silly, goofy, haha, wacky hij jinks. And then immediately on a dime, it's like, just kidding. [ __ ] has just gotten real bad. Uh, and I'm always fond of it when they do that. And they definitely play up with that uh in various different ways at different points. Like I said, it's like, oh my god, we're doing [ __ ] romcom miscommunication [ __ ] And then it's like, "Oh, thank God. Brainiac is threatening the earth. This is far easier to deal with. " The number of like relationship problems that go out the window once the super villain is involved is so refreshing. — Mhm. — Good. No more heads. Okay, we got to keep the egg. We have no money. And uh Yeah. Okay, cool. Nothing else to do here. I've returned. Yeah, let's get some datalus upgrades on these Talos gloves. — Come on, datalus. Make these — and a second chaos. So punchy. — Maybe we'll be able to get that uh that defiance. — I feel like it's their legendary boon, so it's really low odds, but still. — Yeah, can't hurt to keep trying. — Yeah, especially since we have the eggs, so we lose nothing from uh going in the gates. I don't know. Aha. Lots to consider. — Yeah, let's do this. — Let's see. Anything interesting going through these doors? If it's not Petetro, I'm going to chaos. It's not Petetro. Let's go to chaos. Yay. — My keepsake from chaos will protect me. In the name of Hades. — Well, oh, we can do a roller roll. Let's do a roll. — What else is there? — A Okay. — Anyone in OSP ever into Mega Man? Uh, I was not into Mega Man as a kid. I think that one. Um, — yeah. I basically didn't play any games until I was already a man. By then it was, I think. No, I didn't play Mega Man. I think I played a little bit of Mega Man X after I watched the sequelitis about it and I was like, "Oh, that does look cool. " Uh, so I found a place I could play it and I played it. Um, it' be useful to get good boons. I'll just have to do a lot of specials. Um, but I did read through the comic run, the I was it Archie or IDW? — Um, because there was a comic run that crossed over with the uh the latestage Archie Sonic comics. Uh, and I was really curious about that and I read through it, but it sort of ran into this slight problem that I think a lot of the other similar uh, comics didn't, which is fundamentally the fact that Mega Man has to fight killer robots is because something has gone catastrophically wrong and they're all being controlled by bad guys and he's not even built for fighting. They had to retrofit him for it. So like pretty much every single

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story is him being like, "Please, we don't have to fight. " And then the robot he's the the robot master being like yeah we do kid we are tools we have to you know we accept what we are finish it and it's just kind of like after a certain point you're like it feels unethical for me to keep reading it cuz that's what's making this poor kid go through all this [ __ ] you know um — and it's like he's not having any [ __ ] fun with it. It's not the later stage Mega Man's where they're like kind of built for badasserie or the stakes are really high. It's just like this guy is a well-meaning construction robot that truly only wants to do the right thing. However, unfortunately, he is also a computer and that means Dr. Riley is causing problems. Um, — I know you have no shortage of ambrosia on Olympus, Lady Artemis, but I imagine it's less often that the stuff go all the way from there to here and back. What can I say? You make me proud to be a member of this family. — We got her little chinny with everybody on this mountain. We will in a minute. — So much posturing and bickering and I just head out to the woods most of the time. Maybe you understand me better than the rest. I have no idea still. But I appreciate you made attempts to try. — Honestly, artist, I'm right there with you. When I don't like a party, I will simply walk into the woods. Oh my god, she's so cute in the Jimmy. Look at her. Look at those eyes. — Oh, she's so [ __ ] All right, we get a boon. Also, my bad. You've become a right accomplished vermin hunter, Zagrias. Maybe you'll get to use those skills against worthier creatures soon enough. — Oh, why not? — The Artemis call is always very funny because it's basically like calling in an orbital air strike. — It's like you rang. — Yes. — Oh, no. Not the giant butterfly ball. And not when I can't use my [ __ ] attack. O, — not now. — I have no cast upgrades. God, what have I been doing? — That is not ideal. I — mean, I guess I can attack. I'll just take damage. Fine, we'll do it a couple times. Okay, that was too much. Oh, right. I should be dashing into people more because it does like 200% wall slam damage. Actually, what am I doing? I should be dribbling these people like basketballs. Get over here. Oh no, I can't punch with my chain lighting. Whatever am I to do? Get real. Grow up. — And that's the show anime power set at work. It's like, "Oh, no. I can't use my fists. " But wait, if I close my eyes and believe in the power of friendship, then perhaps I will win. — Olympus. Perhaps I — Oh, that enormous cat yawn was happening when I looked over. — Oh, — I like how a cat is the softest, cutest, sweetest widow creature, and then it opens its mouth and you're like, "Ah, yes, you are also made of knives all the way down. " — Mhm. Actually, just a predator. It turns out — isn't there like there's like a zoo that has a jungle cat in it and it's like a three lb apex predator that looks exactly like a sweet widow kitty cat. However, it will [ __ ] kill you. Just a little guy. Your honor just happened. — I think I could be okay with that cat. You know how like in Horse Girl movies it's like, "No, I can train old Thunder. She'll understand. " And now it's like me with a three-pound apex predator that like exclusively hunts by like slitting creatures open and eating them from the inside. Yeah, I could fix her. — I could give her a sweet little kibble. Then we'll be fine. — Then we'll be besties. — Yeah. That's bait and we will not be taking it. — You don't want to be besties of little sand cat. — That's outrageous. Everyone wants I've been making my way through the new uh Quinton Reviews the seven and a half hour grumpy cat history thing which has been very interesting. — Oh jeez. — Yeah, it's slow going. I mean it would be like that if I was at this moment like working on comic progress that required background noise, but as things stand, I sort of have to like I'm not second screening it. I kind of have to like focus and that means I have to

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take it in like 20 minute chunks. But it's really interesting. Um I feel like I was obviously aware of Grumpy Cat as sort of a nent meme when I was little. Not when I was little, but like you know when it started in like the mid2010s, I want to say. Um side hustle pretty good. Uh, not bad. — Let's see. No kiss of sticks, unfortunately. Um, yeah, no more rerolls. Oh, well. Oh, wait. I might have that thing where getting a key gives me a rroll. That could be useful in the future, actually. — Could be. That could be good. — Yes. — Uh, I'll be right. My boyfriend is here trying to get into something that she ought not. Don't be doing that. Hey, cat. — Thought I might stop by and check on this corner of the underworld. Here comes — dude. Could you bomb a little more quietly? I'm trying to [ __ ] concentrate on Oh my god. Why are all these things going off? Oh [ __ ] — God, I really could use Petroas right about now. Rest in peace. How many [ __ ] guys in this room? Get out of here. — Oh, that probably means that this room would have been even worse. — That settles that. You beat me once again. — Well, come on. — All right. Bye, buddy. See you back at the house. Dang. That probably means no petetrocus on this run. I don't if you guys heard that wolf kind of squeaks when she jumps off of things. She just hopped off the couch. Crime prevented. — What's up? — Daddy just showed up and helped us out. — And Pooky, come back. — Pooky, baby boy. Oh god. — Pie babe. — I only have one deathify. — Oh no. — Nonsense, my friend. We could defeat this vile hellfall with or without the additional divine protection we've been granted here. Get him. — I can't. I was thinking about this earlier but really in the last 5 seconds it's been getting a little bit uh zany with it trying to get closet she ought not but thinky in many ways after she ate the mouse was the zagri to match my symphony all I could do was like weak was pointing — murder her every time I saw her — murderes I think it'd be very cute to make Ziggy a little Zagria puke kind of thing I think she'd be very good at I think that's what Super Giant would have wanted. — Yeah, probably. — The um Have you listened to anything from the Mean Girls musical? — I'm very familiar with Mean Girls. — Yeah, the uh the villain song Apex Predator is one of my favorites. I think a lot of the songs in that musical are a little bit eh or like kind of very simple in ways that don't — bother me. It's just like, okay, now I now that I've listened to more musical theaters, I find I'm like more aware of those. I do quite enjoy Apex a lot. Yeah, it's of the like there was a string of like 90s and 2000s movies made musical. Um, you get Heathers and Legally Blonde and Mean Girls and I think Mean Girls is by far the weakest of them. Uh, but if Apex Predator is pretty good, I think of the three of those three, it's really hard for me to pick between Heathers and Legally Blonde because I think they both kind of like do something interesting that kind of improves upon the original medium in some way. — Uh although one of my favorite music movie uh adaptations, it's definitely

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Death Becomes Her, which is unfortunately closing or may actually have closed as of yesterday. Uh, but its original run was so fantastic. It's going to start touring. So, if you have the opportunity to see it, I highly recommend it. It's so funny. It's like a true musical comedy. Um, just really, really good. Uh, I mean, the original cast was great. There's every of the is very limited cast and pretty much every character gets like big number where they're either extremely funny or they just have one really good gag. Uh, the woman who sells them the magic potion that makes them not age that like makes them young and immortal. — Don't do it. Sorry. Hold on. I can see you sniffing at that cable. Don't you do it, please. played by uh Michelle Williams, one of the children. Uh and um her gag was like every time she was on stage, she would like uh do a zesty walk off stage and then reappear from some sort of hidden door somewhere in the set and like she just kept revealing more doors built into the set. It was just a really good like she didn't have to be funny. The gag was just that good and the show's got a lot of that. Um in addition to having very funny main characters. So it's just very solid. If you're looking for a fun show to see while it's touring, try and catch Death Becomes her. It's really quite fun. — Blasted Ghost. — The music's good, too. It's not like mind-blowing, but it's exactly what it needs to be. — I've listened through the uh the Legally Blonde musical. And I really like the joke they have with uh — Oh, god damn it. What's the guy's the joke? The guy where the joke is. He's incredibly hot. You know, — nicer to me lately. — Oh, yeah. — That [ __ ] guy. off top of my head. — Yeah. — Uh Brendan I think uh cuz like or no that like — I think he reveals that his name is actually Brendan or something like that. Uh cuz the joke is that like the hairdresser who's been having all these terrible problems is like boy I sure would like to go off with a redheaded uh sailor named Brendan uh to Ireland. Hey, hold on. Sorry just a second. Come on buddy. — Crimes are still happening. — Behold a spring. Don't you want to destroy? Oops. I bounced it off a water bowl. Hopefully that's fine. Okay. — I don't know, but I really appreciate that you went out of your way. I mean, I just stand here and greet. — Kyle, the UPS delivery guy. Thank you. Yes, — Kyle is so [ __ ] funny. I've seen only a little bit of footage from it, and they were clearly just like, "We need you to cast the beefiest cake you can find. " say you have really fun coming back here time after time. Painful death. — Yeah, they do a good job with that. It's very fun. — Help. So, I wanted you to have this. — But but wait, this it's Ambrosia. You're not supposed to have this here. We could both get in a lot of trouble, and I mean a lot, if they catch us in the middle of this totally forbidden exchange. I noticed that you haven't yet returned the bottle to me, which I'm going to take as an indication that you're going to hang on to it. — Oh, you bet. — Oh, — you know, after dying in some wretched manner, giving pets to my good boy sure helps me get back on my feet. — My good boy. — Thanks for being here for me. The burning embers and the eyes of monstrous Cus, notorious hound of hell, reveal that he too is amenable to the pets of which the underworld prince speaks. And in fact, speaking of which, — there we go. All right. If we ever want to get this chaos egg thing, I think we're going to have to resort to desperate measures. I — think it's time. — We simply must for a little bit. Yeah. That's right, boy. Ambrosia just for you. You're going to love it. Pretty much every creature living or dead does. — The six eyes of the hideous hound of hell go wide at once from having received the gift. — Gently. Nope. Hold on. Please hold. — The creature is rather beside himself. — Oh, yeah. Is that what you think? — Why are you slightly stinky? Come on, buddy. Here. Have you considered taking a nap in your lovely tower or chewing on some lollipop sticks you're really not supposed to be chewing on, but I haven't figured out where to put them, so you can't get to them yet? I'm back. She's probably going to do crime, but at least it'll be localized. — Yes, that's how I feel about Ziggy as well. You've always been there for me, boy. — Okay. — Father, let me ask you something related

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here. — I know the shade called Seisphus once wronged both you and Thanos and have since paid a heavy price. But don't the Fury sisters now have better things to do than torture him? — You come to me to question how I allocate my resources? preposterous. I care nothing for that wretched shade. That he is tortured for eternity is but a technicality resulting from his arrogance. The terms of his incarceration are long lost. — So then if I could somehow find those terms, then theoretically I could grant him a pardon. — If you could somehow do your job and enact miracles, then yes, you could. — Yeah. Okay, cool. — That's good to know. — We will not be doing that. So it is moot. I have to ask you for a favor, mate. — A proposition, Zachary. — Points taken and ignored. — If I can get my father to alleviate his — I don't know what you see in him. I swear. — Over here. You don't need to ask such things of me. — If you can overturn a sentence with Lord Hades, I'd like nothing. — It's a deal. — Cool, man. Well, respect his egg for trying so hard. I will not be doing that. — Here's the catch of the day. — Totally worth it. — Someone had to, I suppose. — Mhm. Hey, — couldn't be us, but someone — well, oh night. — Okay. Yeah. — You are to thank for this outcome as much as I — Oh, I don't know. — I felt that. — Okay. That's very sweet. — Given the circumstances of your life and servitude. — You are most kind. — Jeez, Zagrias. How come they let you have this many parents? — Okay, we're going to do a little — noise. They're like, I am asking simply for one. — One parent. I will accept one parent. Uh, okay. We are going to little baby weenie mode. Don't you do it. Not that way. Good girl. Uh, oh man. Oh, so tempting. The dark thirst on the bow. [ __ ] you. Okay, great. Little baby mode time. — Uh I think we're gonna do little baby mode and then for the final run we are going to pull out exag and see how far we get. I think that'll be — um — I think so. Good way to bring it out. — Um we'll do it this way. Oh wait, actually if we want to win Yeah. No, get the chaos thing, we do want to win. We want to win the final boss. But I don't think we can vanquish Extreme Measures, Hades. Uh, but maybe for the last run, we'll pull out Exag. We'll do all of the levels of extreme measures and we'll see how far we get. — As a last harrah. — Yes, exactly. — Do our best. — I think the little baby mode will see us through this even with jury summons. — Mhm. — Doesn't matter how many guys you throw at little baby mode, it's still impervious to them. continues to be impervious to — charge shot. No, no. Minotaur rush for extra damage is also a very useful use of little. And how about that? The chaos gate immediately. Let's go say hello on the off chance that maybe something with Nyx is unlocked behind our back. N just kidding. Cool. All right. — Oh, wow. Both of these. — Let's do this. — Here I am. Oh, don't do it. — If you test me, I will pause this game and go over there. — Mhm. You don't want that. — She's going behind the TV. There's only so much you can [ __ ] up behind the TV. — Wait, no. Just kidding. Hold on one second. — Hi, buddy. — I feel like there's more than uh Wow, that's crazy. — Or she could [ __ ] up behind the TV doing that. The one problem is the outlet to which my Switch dock is plugged into is one that she can step on and sometimes unplug. As it was this morning when I went to get set up for the stream and I was like, why isn't my switch dock turning on? — Crimes have been committed here this night.

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Now that we don't need nectar, we can reactivate that thing that um increases our chances of like gold laurel rewards or whatever, but that's not that important, especially not on our final run. Well, I hesitate to call my plan next on our final run because if we die early and embarrassingly and don't get to do anything cool, uh we might need to do a little bit more other stuff, but I'm not going to run this one too long. — I think it's a safe bet to say the next one is intended to be the final one. Yeah, — absolutely humiliating circumstance. — Yeah, if these kills us again, well, I will simply have no choice but to do a second actual final run. — Nice. — But anything short of that, I think maybe we — Yeah. Every time I start playing worse, know that it is because I am keeping half an eye on a cat who has now perched herself among a series of large like small breakable objects and is kind of nosing around. Testing the water. Yeah. Like how many how much can I get away with if I perch myself here and start rooting around? She likes going after my like Oh, no. Don't do this again. Okay, we're all right. You know how like uh blinds have pull cords? She likes going after those. — But one time she got her claw stuck in it and she couldn't figure out how to get it out and I had to come over and rescue her. And uh I would love to not have that happen again on a stream. So that's the noise you're hearing. — The sort of vague metallic clinking noise. — Yeah, that's that. — Here's fingers crossed it doesn't come to that. — Hold on one second. — Oh no, she unstuck herself. Good job, buddy. — Hey, I don't know that you should be so excited that she's learning to get out of that. But — no, it's good. I don't want her getting stuck when I don't realize that she's stuck. I like how Aries is like, "Oh, good job. I ship it. " Um, very cute. — Very sweet. Thank you, Aries. You're so supportive. — Aries is like, "And on Pride Month, no less. " Excellent choice, my kid. — Which of these would be good to stack on a special attack? Let's try Dianis. It' be very funny if we threw our shield and it just gave everyone a hangover around it. Ma'am, — that one I'm hearing. — It's like she's finding the most noisy things she can [ __ ] with and then just [ __ ] with them. — Cool. Uhoh. Well, she might have just found a new toy. Hopefully that's okay. — Uhoh. You are like a walking star. — Uh, yep. Finally, we unlocked Dian Isis's final heart, I think. — Hey, — I didn't know I could just — long last. — Uh, yeah, I'll take drunken dash. Why not? — Oh, wait. Hold on. — It's — Crimes are happening. — Well, I'm just I'm not It's not a cat toy. It's a little like 3D printed articulated bat and she's chewing on it. But I worry that if she does manage to do damage to it, she could potentially swallow something that would be bad for her. — Yeah, I would maybe get that. — I'll grab it. Hold on one sec. — I understand you're having fun, but have you considered spring? — Yeah. You want it? There it goes. And also take this. Good job. I'm back. E. — Aha. There's our boy. I mean, not that we like him. It's just — for sale. — He's technically our boy. — Not that we like him or anything. — Not like Good to see you, princess. My understanding is that I'm her son.

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— That's wonderful to hear. — Good choice. — This is for you, Baldi. — Yay. Baldi believes in us or something. — Thanks, Baldi. The hangover dash is very funny. This is one of those random [ __ ] go builds. Wow. Cleared that really fast. And this is jury summons going. — Not bad. Hades is probably I should have known when I started streaming it because I should have remembered from when I first played through it how much I am susceptible to the just one more run school of thought with Hades and Hades 2 specifically. — Yeah, — cuz like you never really get the perfect ending run, you know? Like there's always this feeling of optimization of like, no, I could have done something a little more impressive there. I could have leveled this up more. I could have done this more exciting, you know? It's And then it's like, well, it's only like half an hour to do one more run, you know, may as well. Like, and when Hades 2 came out, I in the first like week and a half, I played it for 85 hours, which is basically as a full-time job every day. Yeah, it's a real ADHD finger trap of the game in the way that it is like it always needs just enough new stuff to stay interesting. You know, it never gets like mindless necessarily. — Exactly. — Uh and that um is a dangerous combination with an infinitely replayable game. It takes a really long time for the dialogue to start kind of becoming impersonal and not stale, but like I think I don't remember what video it was where I mentioned that like once you when a game doesn't have an ending it will eventually sort of run out of game and I was using some of the posting for Hades and there were a couple comments that were like Hades is really good about it though and it's like yeah it's really good but no game can be infinite so it will eventually still run out. — Um — yeah exactly. Yeah, — but they do a pretty good job. Um, — one uh funny thing that happened is when I was after I mentioned I played 85 hours of the game, I was like thinking about cuz I played it early enough that I got the original version of the ending uh which has since been adjusted to not be like that anymore. Although I don't know the details. I've been saving it to play on stream. Um, but — let's hunt some. — Uh, I was telling Blue about it and I was like, "Yeah, I just I don't Oh, and he was kind of like rising to the game's defense. I was like, it's kind of interesting that you're like defending the game when you haven't played it. And he was like, no, no. I'm doing this because I don't want you to have to deal with the feeling of, wow, I've played this game for 85 hours and I've decided I don't like it. It was like, no, no. Like, very good point. Very nice of him, but it was definitely one of those things where I'm like, no, I'm still enjoying the game or I wouldn't be playing it this much. Like, it's got to be doing something right. tell me how can you stand. — Yeah, there there's a couple interesting differences in the way I think both of us and the way that Blue uh decide we've enjoyed a game and uh definitely a little bit more susceptible to — someone has said this game is bad actually and wait I've just spent hundreds of hours — whereas I think you and me are a little bit more in the — well I played it for 80 something hours it must be good. Yeah, — I must have enjoyed the experience. Well, I think the thing is you and I get bored so easily that we're like it's got to be doing something right or I wouldn't have spent this much time with it cuz truly like my brain would simply slide off it if it wasn't working. Uh, you know, it's not a problem that Blue has had where he can focus on things a lot more easily than we can. — Um, although Blue has also definitely encountered the thing where it's like I didn't say it was good, I said that I liked it. Uh or like um I think it was after uh we played uh Marvel Sony's Spider-Man PS5 2 with Sonic and also Netflix. Uh and then he was like, "Man, what a good game. " And then he watched a video about it. He was like, "Oh no, I've been influenced. I think this game might actually not be good. " Uh but like we played it on stream, we had a good time. Uh he definitely enjoys any good rendition of the black suit Spider-Man arc. uh even if this one was a little bit speed ran, but he was definitely one of the it's like but oh no, I understand the logic. I guess I believe that the game is bad now and yet all the joy it brought me and it's like the way that you play games too is sort of like from my perspective objectively kind of insane of like no I have to — Yeah, no one should be doing this, — right? — this. It's just enrichment for me. But like it's — the thing the beautiful thing about

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games is that they're interactive and the way that you interact with them uh is going to be different depending on what you find fun, right? Like there, you know, — it's um — not every game genre is going to be for every person and the thing that you like about them and it becomes a very it's a very personal experience. That's why I think there's a lot of difficulty adapting video games, particularly role playing games, like really any video game to a different medium. Uh because you have to like wrestle with that interactivity, that like personal ownership that players get over games. And uh yeah, it does it does mean sometimes it's you gonna be we like all the same games but for completely different reasons. — Yeah. And it can be like I don't think this game is good, but I do think I really enjoy it. Or like I don't think this game holds up necessarily, but it really captured me at the time. — I've never recommend this game, but I loved my time playing it. — Yeah, exactly. I think a lot of the time people kind of think like, oh, this thing is bad, therefore I shouldn't enjoy it. And I think that like as a concept, nothing has done more damage than the idea that you shouldn't enjoy things that you enjoy. You know, like how you feel about something is never wrong. It's how you act that can be wrong. Um, — who dies next — anyway. — Exactly. Even the I mean movies are an exercise in um letting people show off the things that they find interesting at the very least. Often people bring movies they actually like, but more frequently they bring movies they have something that like caught their eye in it. — Yeah. And like — a mystery they want to solve. — Yeah. The ad there's the adage that like every movie is someone's favorite. And this is true for every genre of thing. Like every someone out there is an absolute uh maniac for every single creative thing that has ever existed. And like that is the kind of subjectivity of art, right? Um and it's true for video games as well. And it's uh you know I I don't know it gets a like I I think it's an important skill to be able to like curate critics that you like because I think it's very easy to fall into well the popular zeitgeist says this game is bad and so I will now treat this game as though it is bad even though I might actually enjoy it. Mhm. — Um because if you're relying on like a curated list of people who have similar tastes to you or like similar things in games or movies or whatever it is, you'll probably get a better consensus on whether you specifically will enjoy this thing than if you just listen to like the popular consensus online because there are games that I love that are objective and like this is not something recommend to people necessarily. Um but I got a lot of enjoyment out of them. Um, so I try to be very resistant to uh I don't know letting my opinion on something be swayed by existing criticism. — Yeah. Well, part of the reason why uh I did bad movie nights back when I was still using Twitter uh is because — I heard all these movies were bad, but there were a number of movies that I liked. Don't do it. Where I was like, — well, it's everyone says it sucks and yet I'm having a really good time. So I was like, well, if they say it's bad, maybe I will find good stuff in it. And like in some cases, that's been vindicated. Like when I watched the live action Scooby-Doo movies of all [ __ ] things, I was like, wow, the meta narrative around the fact that Shaggy is contextually aware that he's a comic relief character in a movie that is otherwise getting a little more serious around him. And that the joke with his character is that he can never do anything right. I think that he said this line where it's like, just once, I want to do the right thing on purpose. And I was like, "Wow, if that ain't the [ __ ] lament of the comic relief character right there. " Like I hold that movie isn't just fun, that's good [ __ ] writing. And you know, if you just believe like, "Oh, that movie is Domen for Babies," then like you're never going to find that and you're certainly never going to notice it when you do watch the movie. — Um — Yeah. It's uh it's important to be able to discern what you like uh to develop your own sense of taste um rather than just leaning on — the zeitgeist. And I feel like with the internet things tend to get like homogenized in a weird way because there's — more accessibility than ever to niche communities. There is also much more uh exposure to consensus opinions and so it becomes very easy for something to be like uh if something is the punching bag of release of the week or whatever it's very easy to fall into the trap of well so many people didn't like this surely I was bad — or also like not to be cynical but uh there is also there's money in clicks and engagement so if you see everyone being like this is the worst thing like you won't see 10 million videos about how this is the worst thing. Please hold. Hi, baby. You can't be there right now. Scoop. Oh, there we go. Support the butt. And I know. I'm sorry. Not your most graceful landing. Um, here. How about you hang out here instead of going over there to do crime? Nope. She's determined. — You can have a little crime. It's like a treat. — But also, I think like not only is the Not only are um critiques more

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accessible than ever, also there is not enough time in the day to watch all the new stuff coming out. So, is it really so bad to be like, well, I can't watch this myself to form an opinion, but I've heard this and it's like, yeah, that that's certainly something. Um, let's do if I could do support fire on, but let's get the special build. Criticism fills an important niche because the average person does not have time to watch every single like get really play every single game, but someone who's a dedicated critic can play a lot of them. — But it's important to recognize um the preferences and taste of the person who's doing the critique. Um this is something I think about a lot. I do a lot of film criticism. It's like, well, I know that I have my preferences, so like a big dumb action movie I'm probably going to be a little bit more generous to than um something that's like a bit more of a slow drama or that I'm not the like the target audience for. Um, and it's, you know, that's something I try to acknowledge in the critique, but like the art of understanding the things that you like and find people who like those same things and putting maybe a bit more stock in their opinion if you are trying to find like a reference for whether you might like the game or not, I think is a really important skill. Mhm. — Um it's one that I think the internet both can be a great source of because again like people have more uh niche um interests like blogs and uh websites and like all sorts of places you can go to for criticism from very specific lenses. Uh but also you get to make consensus opinion kind of constantly shoved at you by the algorithm which is not necessarily always a terrible thing but it's an important thing to be aware of. Like — maybe that's not my number one pit stop when I'm deciding whether or not I want to play this thing. Watch this thing. So on and so forth. — Mhm. — Ah, there we go. Tempest flourish. — Now my special does [ __ ] — What I really need is a special that uh sucks bad guys in and then does damage. like maybe a blade dab, like a blade special, but I don't think there is a blade vortex special move. So, then again, knock back is really useful in the floor lava stages. So, I also think that like I've talked about this before, a lot of different things get conflated under the banner of criticism even though they are full completely different things. Um, — it's like uh there are stretches of time where I will like watch a lot of YouTube videos about like niche indie author drama and almost every single one of them is this person read a good readads review about themselves and could not be normal about it. And it's like I can see why this happens because a good readads review is criticism but it is not concrete. It is not, hi, you are a peer of mine. You are helping me polish up a story before publication. It is from a reader to other prospective readers essentially saying here's my thoughts. If this helps you decide, don't Nope. Sorry. Hold on. Gay baby jail for baby. Hi, baby. Yeah. Oh, you know that was wrong. So, you're already leaving. Good job. You have avoided gay baby jail for this thing. Okay. Oh my god, I forgot to pause. This could have gone so badly. Um anyway, uh I'm back. But like if you're used to taking criticism of your work to improve and then you know you put out something that you poured your heart and soul into the world and it's your baby and you know you're really sensitive about it. It's an exposed nerve and then you just know that your sales are being affected by places online where readers get together and tell each other what they like and what they don't like. And some of them get mean with it and that's their prerogative. Like people like I am going to be the last person to tell you that you are not allowed to be snarky when you are talking about stuff like snark is extremely good fun. Uh oh my god. Don't tell me. Don't [ __ ] How dare you do this to me. Okay, good. instead. Um uh but you know you hear you know like okay criticism is out there and it could potentially be really mean and I can't just leave it alone because I can't let people be mean without my knowledge because like that's worse somehow even though you know realistically there's always going to be people being [ __ ] on the internet and if it's not happening in your immediate field of view and it's not affecting your actual real life it cannot possibly affect you except by making your day a little worse when you know it's happening. Um. — Mhm. — Ooh, this is going to be very useful actually. Uh, so you end up in this weird situation where like readers will pick apart the book and some of it may even look like constructive criticism because they'll be like, "Yeah, I

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thought that this like plot line was really weak or this character like was inconsistent or this thing things that could have been said in concrete while the story was being written, but it's not concrete because the story exists. It's not like the writer's going to go in and fix it. That the only thing they can do is learn for it next time. " But you get readers writers that are so used to taking concrete that they're like, "Well, I have to defend myself or like because they know like I can't fix this. I can't go in and fix this. " Uh instead they're like, "How dare you be mean to me actually like I'm trying my best. " It's like that's cuz they're not being mean to you. They are telling other readers what they thought of this book before they choose whether or not to spend their money on it. It's two completely different kinds of criticism. Um, — and then there's like there's analytical criticism, which is like the kind of thing that you and I do a lot of the time where it's like from the perspective of another artist, I want to know how you did this, why you made decisions you made, and what I would have done differently when I inevitably end up in a situation kind of similar. Uh, so that you can avoid repeating other people's mistakes when you learn from them instead. That is also criticism that has a completely different audio result. Okay. Hi. Come over here. To be clear what red means when she says conrit is constructive criticism which is to say something that is actually um usually based in a shared expertise and uh involves critiquing particular uh constructive portions of things rather than saying like I am the layman. This is what I enjoyed or didn't enjoy. — You get a lot of peer-to-peer criticism and constructive criticis uh if anyone had to suffer through a group critique in a high school art class. Um that was actually serving an important purpose. So, a little bit less about critiquing your artwork and a little bit more about learning how to give constructive criticism. I'm back. We'll see if it sticks. I just pull you. Gosh. Thank you, Anonymous, for the um $800 donation to UNICEF. That's going to put us, I believe, once the stream updates. Um over 8,000, which means we're going to be playing some uh master pass. — Um so, why don't I go ahead and look that up? — My hand everybody hold But yeah, to essentially complete my thought, there are a whole bunch of different things that are under the umbrella of criticism, and some of them are peer-to-peer, essentially student of the art. Uh, and some of them are just, "Hey, buy or beware. I didn't like this very much. Uh, and so, so it's like, you know, peer-to-peer student, um, and then, uh, customer. All of these things are criticism and they're all completely different and they're all structured differently and they all serve different purposes. And if you mistake any one of them for any other one, you're going to have a bad time. Um cuz it's like you know if you are a writer and you read a buyer beware as a concrete you're like oh my god this person who is my peer is being so mean to me and that is not correct. And then if you are like trying to learn and you're like you see a buyer beware criticism, you're like, "Wow, learning means being really mean to things that are subpar and like that's not necessarily something you want to internalize either. " So anyway, whole different space, but and then also there's clickbait and there's clicks and you know there's outrage and stuff like that. — But uh yeah. But uh yeah, let me get my random number generator going because we got to play some Star Trek Smasher Pass since we hit 8,000. Um all right. Is Phantom Wiki going to be my best option? I hope not, but I don't have high hopes. There's a lot of people who made graphics on Reddit. I'm hoping that these will be at least medium reliable. Okay, so to be completely transparent, I basically just found someone who ranked their top 50 favorite uh Star Trek characters um on Reddit, and I'm going

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to be using a combination of that because it's already numbered and is somewhat randomized and — an actual random number generator for this. So, let me — They're getting around my defenses. Oh, baby has been breached. — Roll a D50 die for me. Why not? internet. All right. All right, Red. Uh, your number your first pick is Deanna Troy. — Hell yes. — Obviously. — [ __ ] obviously. Um, — [ __ ] not only is she a gorgeous woman, but she's also so emotionally regulated. — She's so emotionally intelligent. I know. If there's any drama, it's going to be because she's picking up on psychic bad vibes from whatever [ __ ] of the week is happening in the main plot. Uh I guess there is the ethical question of like is it Whoa. I was going to be like is it ethical to be in a relationship with the ship's only therapist? And then I was like that has not stopped so many characters. — That's not stopped anyone including the ship's therapists, you know. — So I guess it's fine. I asked HR and HR asked if they could be our third. So — maybe Starfleet should put more than one counselor on the ship. I don't know. Maybe that's not a crazy idea. — I mean, there's a real barber's paradox situation going on. If your ship only has one counselor, like what the [ __ ] is she supposed to do when [ __ ] goes bad? — All right, next up we've got uh Leonard Bones McCoy. I feel like I think for me it's a pass only because he gives me such like fatherhood vibes, you know, like this is a reasonable authority figure who could guide me through complicated situations, not necessarily a Smash. I understand I'm not in like uh a lot of company in this thought, but um — I think Smash — I also think if I break — the Bones is my favorite character. — Oh yeah, absolutely. — Serious. Uh, — I think for me if I interfere with whatever extremely complicated situation he and Spock and Kirk have going on, uh, that might potentially be more trouble. So, — very fair. But I don't I'm on board. I feel like it'd be the most normal like surely hookup in all of Star Trek. He's just so much a guy for everyone else who's on these [ __ ] ships. Just standard dude. — Um, all righty. Let's see. We got next seven of nine. — Seven. Yes. [ __ ] obviously. Even on the weird weeks where she's got extra Borg in her head. Obviously, I could fix her. Damn it. — No, it will not. — We would We'd want to fix her. She's just wonderful. We love Seven. — We love Seven N. — All right, Da. — Smash if he's down. I know he's fully functional and all, but Data always gave me the strongest ace vibes of anybody in Starfleet. Definitely not on purpose because of course this was a time and a writer who was kind of the opinion of like the future is going to be where everyone is uh completely sexually free all the time and it's like does that include sexually free to say no thank you and the answer is what I couldn't hear you I was too busy writing multiple of the naked time episodes. Um — I was going to say is this episode one or two of next generation because that changes the answer significantly. Um, yeah. I think he's in kind of a dooa situation where I'm like, "Oh, I guess — I I'd be down if he was down. — Otherwise, we could just talk about cats for like eight hours. " I'd be down for that, too. Don't worry, Dana. I'll listen to you, info dump king. — I won't make fun of your poetry. I actually think it's based. You at least make it rhyme. Jesus, the stakes are so low. Um, we who the uh like — Oh, that's the [ __ ] little guy for the Yeah, for the change. — And he's played by Oh my god, what's his nuts? That guy who's always like the — guy who's always [ __ ] in charge. — We was so popular that they kept cloning him instead of just casting different guys to be the spokesman like they did until We showed up. I think pass. man has too much baggage and is also just a slimy little vazier, you know. Um, — nothing is less attractive than a slimy little vazier. So, I think that that's absolutely a slimy little vazier in this house. — Um, the borg queen. — How do I get assimilated? [ __ ] pass. — Yeah. Well, actually, I don't know. I don't know — what how is this — I just I don't know. Oh, I think sometimes she's got like really interesting dynamics with like some of she feels like the kind of character. Listen, the board queen only exists because someone asked the question, what if the board could be hot, right? Cuz up until that point, it was the most like it's a hive, you know? It is a true distributed intelligence. And the frankly, the Borg Queen doesn't even make narrative sense cuz it's like why does she need to give an order and then

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a Borg drone walks over to a wall and pushes a button? They are all the same mind. That's the entire point. That said, giving a personality and a face to a collective like that presents all kinds of exciting like nemeses dynamics. You know, I just I feel like logically it's a pass. Emotionally there's a part of me that kind of really wants to smash just for the drama for the moonlight sword fights and the inevitable betrayals, you know. Um — Um All right, we got Tasha Yar. — Yeah, absolutely. Our queen gone too soon. Done dirty by the writers first. — Um, — uh, Q — pass. Terrible. — This is a pass for me because I the consequences are too unknowable and too. — It's just he, you know, he doesn't respect you, right? Like, like it's just there's no [ __ ] way it's going to go well. Um, — not a [ __ ] chance. Uh, we've got Jonathan Archer, captain of the uh, first enterprise. — Um, I guess I don't know who that is. — I'm also going to say pass cuz he's just the most milktoast uh, boring ass white man — I think has ever you know what he's a pass because of this. He named his dog after one of the three musketeers and he does not have two more dogs. — Oh, boo. Which one? Out of curiosity. — What are we doing? I think it's we're supposed to start with the P. Is it like or — Porthos is the fun one, so that does feel like a good name for a dog, but yeah, like at least get like a goldfish named Aramus or something, — right? I respect that he brought his dog onto the spaceship. I don't respect that his dog's naming convention is [ __ ] stupid. — Yeah. — Um, number 14, Miles O'Brien. — Oh, hell yeah. He's not just a smash. He's a — union man. What's sexier than unionization? Nothing. — Nothing. — The most important man in Starfleet. — Absolutely. — Yeah. Truly. — And honestly, given the way that Ko like the stuff that Ko does when like Major Kira is carrying their baby and it's clear that she's like doing everything short of actually inviting her to be their third. But it's like that relationship is as open gets. There's no way we'd even be causing drama. — No. Yeah. — He's happily married and also we be a problem. — Yeah. — Uh number three, we got Jeanluke Peard. Captain Peard, — I think Smash — one of the few Star Trek captains who like canonically smash. — Yeah. It's so funny how like based on purely aesthetics, people assume that like Kirk is the fun jock starfly captain and Picard is some kind of nerd and then like it is the exact opposite. Kirk is the guy who refused to fail a test, so he acted so he could win. And Peicard is the one who gets into like fat ass cool sword fights on shore leave and needs heart replacements because of it. Um, — yeah. — Yeah, Smash. But I need a drink first, you know? I need to be either in dire peril or like 10 forward needs to have been hanging out for a while. Uh, warf in honorable combat, of course. — I mean, with Klingons, — depends on if it's faith n or mini warf. — Oh, no. I've been warped. If Warf has no fans, I'm dead. Like, I I've been on his side. Listen, cuz here's the secret about Warf. He and Knuckles the Akidna are the same guy in different plots, and they are always going to be my favorite in whatever story they are in. Uh, so — I shouldn't It's less that I dislike him in TNG, but more just like, well, how much exposure to Jadia Dax has he had yet? Cuz I do think that makes him a lot more chill of a guy to be around. — That's a very good point, actually, cuz like Warf War canonically is like, we cannot smash if we are not betrothed to be married. And like some time on Rise would probably loosen him up a little bit. — Make him chill out. — Yeah. — Uh, all right. We've got uh Czechov. — Yeah, I guess little sweetie. He's a little sweetie. I feel like I feel more protective of him than anything else. Like anytime there's like just like a sweet little dude in Starfleet, they're always going to find some opportunity to make them suffer more than Jesus. And for him, it's Wrath of Khan. So like Yeah. — Yeah. He really goes through it. — Yeah. It's a it's a smash, but honestly, I'd be more down to just like get hot chocolate and be like, "It's going to be okay. " But — yeah, tuck him up in a little blanket. Um, — yeah. Here, hang out. Take five. — Yeah, — it's cool, man. I'll man the bridge. You're okay. Take a little nap. — Yeah, — especially with how babyfaced he was. I'm Smash. Obviously

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— I'm not stupid. — Both original series version and uh strange like Oh, what are we doing? Come on, — Quark. Oh, pass. — His whole thing was that he financially secure enough for that. — Yeah. I mean, his whole thing was that he was selling like porn to people using the holidays, right? Like they always kind of wink dodge dodged it, but that was clearly what was happening. Uh — yeah, 100%. — So, I feel like if you went to smash pork, you just end up smashing a hologram of pork and paying him money for it. And I just don't think that's appropriate, you know? — No. — You have every hologram program available to you and you decide that. No, come on. — Yeah, come on people. We can have a better sense. — Yeah. — Besides, I would never dream of interfering in whatever complicated [ __ ] he and Odo have going on where it's like homes and Mori Arti, but also enemies to lovers 1000k. Um, — yeah. Uh, Commander Riker, — does he have the beard yet or no? — Yeah, — I think that's up to us. And I'm going to say it. Beard 100% yes. Even though beard like it's still just kind of a guy. — He's pretty safe. Yeah, — he's pretty levelheaded. — Yeah. All right. — Uh, Banana, my queen. — Yeah. — Yeah. She's cool. She's got fun emotional issues. Uh, I think she's definitely one of those ones where it's like you'd be like her safe chill girlfriend and then something terrible would happen to you for her character development. You know, she's got that pain that typically is only reserved for male characters. her because she and Tom Paris worked together in Voyager and there's like a there's so few long-term canonical like baked into the character um couples on Star Trek cuz it feels like overwhelmingly um if someone is going to get into a relationship they leave it like a little bit more ambiguous so they can have all other one-off love interests. It's kind of where like Riker and Troy I think are also one of the couples of all time but — but then also they'll have her like dating morph for a stretch or something. Yeah. And the nature of Voyager, this worked out for all the characters in different ways, but like they're all stuck together and you can't introduce new people easily. So like when they get together, they are kind of just like, "Yeah, we're together and this is going to be a part of our character in every episode after this in how we are dealing with this because like it has to be like there's no way for us to go with this other than like to keep moving forward kind of like reverse the canon canonical nature of it. " I think that's very interesting and fun. Um, and I like other than my queen, but like I think it's just a fun it's a fun couple to have in there. Uh, — you give Tom Paris something to do besides fly the ship — and have his earthshattering bromance with Harry Kim, of course. But — Oh, of course, of course. — Yes. — Um, they're giving us uh layups here. 19, Katherine Janeway. I mean, come on. — Speaking of people I would be the tragic dead wife of. Hell yeah. — Yeah, right. No problem. I'll take care of I would not have left her dogs uh and the new puppies abandoned when she left got trapped in the [ __ ] Delta Quadrant. Uh I would be responsible. Um Beverly Crusher, Dr. Crusher. — Yeah, she's all right. I think for me again, I'm more like no, this is apparent to me. Like this is I don't want to end up with Wesley Crusher calling me other mom, you know? No, thank you. — Yeah, Smash. Unless it's her terrible haircut from like first contact. They made her blonde and they straightened her hair and what we're doing that fundamental mistake that we made. — Yeah. Um Jordy looks forward. — Hell yeah. — In the same box as Data. Just a sweet dude. — Just genuinely nice. — Him and Data are also very package deal. Do not separate, you know, like This is my boyfriend Dana. And this is Dana's boyfriend for — Dana has two hands. — Yeah, exactly. They could potentially have more hands with real sufficient rejection. Ah, Jesus. And if Laura is willing to spare. — Yeah. Uh Tom Paris — Smash. He is definitely the only time they successfully cloned the generic white boy in a lab that they needed to because like it's clear that after Kirk they were like we don't want to make this guy the captain every time because it's kind of weird that the captain constantly has to be away on field missions. So we need a guy who would be Kirk if he was captain but isn't captain. And in TNG that's Riker. Uh but Riker has too much of his own stuff going on. And then Tom Paris was truly the one where it's like yeah he's like a hot shot fly boy but he's not captain cuz he's not captain material. Are you insane? We don't give Tom. — Also, he was in prison before this mission happened, you know

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— cuz it turns out if you break the rules like a reckless, you know, renegade and a badass, uh, you get in trouble with the law. So, — yeah, he his I'm going to say smash, but it's another one of those like I don't know. I guess if we're both on trouble, I got nothing else going. I'm not going out of my way for top. — He's a may as well. — Yeah. Uh, Gold Dukan. Ah, [ __ ] no. Come on. — Screw that guy. — You brother. — We don't support the Kardashian — oppressors here on this podcast. — Deolonize your [ __ ] Tinder bio. Get out of here, man. And I think one last one to bring it home. Maybe the most appropriate James T. Kirk. I think the problem I always run into with Kirk as a character is that Shatner is a bad enough actor that they are indistinguishable, but Kirk is a far more likable person than William Shatner is. So I run into this problem where I'm like Kirk seems great when I can see him through the Shatner, but I usually can't. Um — I feel like original series Kirk or I as a person was not yet aware of William Shatner as a concept. I'm I guess I'm down to clown. But as soon as you get to the movies, I'm like, "Now, man, come on. Now you're doing with it. Now it's not the same. " — Do you mean like uh like the like Wrath of Khan or do you mean the remake movies where you play by Chris Pine? — I mean like the Wrath of Khan, but I guess also the remake movies. — The thing is for me the remake movies are a much easier like Yeah. Smash because a Chris Pine and B like that version of Kirk is very whimsical. I like him a lot. Uh obviously the movies don't get — You know what? I hadn't considered the Chris Pine element of it all. I'm back on board for the Yeah, reboot. — Kirk minus Shatner is peak. Yeah, absolutely. — Yeah, I'm going to I've got a bunch more Strange New Worlds to reassess that version of God. Ultimate is going to [ __ ] kill me again. No, please. Mercy, maybe we go. Oh no. — To get to the point where we were. We're good. we're playing a little Star Trek Smash. Very fun. Um, how's it going there, Red? — Um, it's tense. I've lost two death defiances. I'm on my last life. Uh, I really don't want to lose to this thesis again cuz there's like a prophecy that I'll fulfill if I can get him defeated and then talk to Poseidon. And that would be nice, but it's a whole thing. And the monitor keeps doing the scary spinny thing and I don't know what to do about it. The thing is the strength of little baby weenie mode is in the little baby weeniness. And I have not been doing that so much in this fight because it's kind of hard to little baby my way around feces. Oh, hold on. I just broke his cherry. That's at least something. — Yeah, man. — I guess they're testing me. — Please Aphrodite. I can't do both of these things at once. You monster. — Oh god, — man. — No way, bro. No way. Okay, I'm going to have to do this again. Oh, that's okay. Like I said, last run. Yep. Yeah. Okay. — Serious. — Okay. Last run with Well, I said exag. I do want to do Exag, but it's not guaranteed that we'll win with Exig because it's a bit fussy to use. Um, we'll give it a shot, though. — You cannot keep falling asleep on the job like this hypnos. This is completely unacceptable. Oh, I just dotted off a little. — Don't give me any idea. — I do have some beef with the Strange New World musical episode because I like the idea of doing musical episode. I feel like it's very fun, true to the episodic nature of Star Trek. — The first song is quite good. And then I I'm not a huge fan of the musical stylings ran throughout, but in the background of this episode, basically they get stuck in some sort of space phenomena. They're transmitting out a signal and the way that it makes them sing when they get very — involved. It's the spot doesn't define. — Great. — There are also Klingons there. — In every Trek series, they're like Klingan Opera. That's the art form that Klingons like that's the thing we know. So in this musical episode when they're like the Klingons are going to do a little in they're going to take a verse in this song. I'm like here we go. We're going to hear it. Kling on opera. And then they just like rap and I'm like what are we doing? Oh, you know

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— you can't keep dangling this thread in front of me and then abandon it for, I don't know, your lyrical stylings of whatever one band it was that did the Strange New World musical episode. — I was like, this is so incredibly the vision is just not there for this and it's really upsetting to me cuz I think this could be really fun if they just like stuck that landing. No, no rep for Kling on Opera in the musical episode. So disappointing. — Just in case — because Star Trek has a long history of opera. There's the EMH and Voyager is like that's his go-to hobby. He's singing offer all the time. You can't get that [ __ ] in here. — I'll just patch this through to the house contractor then. — Well, because I guess it unlocked, we are going to free Sysophus. Thanos is going to be so upset with us. Deservedly so. — The Sophus contract, I can buy it out. In the name of Hades, I hereby release Seisphus from the terms of his pact. Earlier on this podcast or on this stream, you talked about how rich — you really easily fall into the just one more run trap here. So, I'm gonna hold you to Yep. This is going to be the final run and say that this is the last run. — I'm so scared that I'm going to die early and then feel really bad about it. Or, heaven forbid, admittedly, the funniest possible thing that could happen is probably that after last stream I go, we're going to do one more stream only because Thesus killed us. Uh, and then I end this stream also getting killed by thesis. Unfortunately, that would be a really good bit. — Okay, I said exograph, it's going to be exagger. — Let's go with this one. — But if we're going to use exag, we're going to level it up. — Aspect Lucifer won't be needing it. — Okay, let's see what we can do with this. All right. Okay. Here we go. Oh, wait. — Not ready yet or something. — We're not going to — Which one? — I guess we can use the egg. We don't gain much of a benefit from it, but it can't hurt. I guess uh the thing is it doesn't matter if you get any benefits from it or at the end of the day it's just how far do you want to go on this — so you should build whatever you want your last run to be. — Well I would love to win. That would be nice. Seems a little unlikely but uh feel like it's only unlikely if you don't play to your favorites. — That's true. Nah, [ __ ] it. Uh, okay. Let's see. We're playing to our favorites, then we're going to start with Zeus because I would love to get some crazy lightning bolts around those hellfire grenades. — As a treat, — you would have better conversation with your chamber walls than with the boatman Keron boy. Not all those of the underworld are prone to ceaseless chatter quite like you. — Rude. How do we feel about Starfleet Academy? Uh I watched the first couple episodes and like I enjoyed it for — um I think I'm mostly I would have liked to see it get more did. It's really sad that it's already been cancelled basically. That's I think a symptom of um — a lot of the way that modern TV is made where things get a lot less grace to kind of figure their [ __ ] out. Um I wasn't I don't think I was the target audience of Starfleet Academy. It kind of fell into a weird middle ground for me where it's simultaneously kind of doing what I think is a cool concept of like here is our new group like these young kids basically that are trying to get into Starfleet. That's a new kind of angle to have on it in the same way that like Voyager is you know they're doing a bonal episode the whole series and like Deep Space 9 um has to do this like whole war arc um Starfleet Academy doing like these is like what it's like to come up in Starfleet. Uh, I think it's a really cool concept, but the tone was a little bit too like CW for my taste. So, I wasn't super into that. Um, as much as I liked a lot of the stuff that was coming back and mix that in with like how weirdly spaced in the kind of legacy references were. I mean, like obviously the EMH is there and the I'm blanking on her name, but there's another holographic student who I liked a lot. I thought she charming — cuz I didn't watch this, but I heard stuff. — Yeah. It's like I don't mind the tone necessarily. I think the writing was a little bit too CW for my tastes. Um, but I think I would have liked to see them have some time to work that out. And they had some cool ideas. It just kind of it was a weird it's a weird mix of like — the show is trying to be accessible to new audiences who are maybe going to be coming in because of the more like uh teen focus like it is kind of have that teen drama angle. That's a very popular thing especially for like younger new viewers. So it's a good way if you wanted to bring a new audience into Trek

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to like take that angle on it. But it also really wanted to be like, "Well, look, we're doing all the legacy stuff that like long-term Trek viewers were like, "Aren't you guys really excited about this? " without really having too much behind the eyes there. And it just it was a weird mix. I think, you know, unfortunately, again, like it got I think it got cancelled before it's time. They're getting a season two, but then there's not going to be any more of it. Um I would have liked to see it get a season 3, I think, because all Star Trek shows take a season or two to figure their [ __ ] out. — Yeah, they all — they really don't get good in the — You got to Yeah, they all got to grow the beard. And so I think it's getting cancelled. It's just going to ultimately be remembered as another uh gone before it's time moment. But if it's um it's got some cool ideas. I think it's not a terrible place to like start if you're interested in Star Trek. Uh just cuz it is designed to be kind of an entry point. Um but it's uh yeah, it's interesting. And I mean I love Sandy, one of my all-time favorite characters. So, it was nice to get to see him pop up and run the opera club and teach his lessons and all. And it's nice to see him still thriving. Um, yeah. My favorite like modern track is probably Lower Decks, which I don't think is a hot take. Uh, it's just a very good it's it's a Trek fans track. Like, it's references all the way down. It's fun. It makes good use of the medium and the genre that it's in and it's extremely fun. Um, but I've enjoyed parts of Strange New Worlds as well. It's very hit or miss, but that's all the best Star Trek is. So, can't go too wrong there. And uh some of the characters are really um get really attached to particularly a lot of the uh original series gang that's already on the Enterprise or Horror is really great. They I got to the point where like Scotty just popped back up and I was like, "Ah, Scotty, my man who's back. " Um but yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm interested in going back and giving Star Fleet Academy another try at some point. I have a little bit more uh patience and I haven't just recently watched Masters of the Universe. — If I get Divine Dash, this build will be really good. I hate to turn down a chaos gate, but I don't have the egg with me, so like — useless to me. — State of play. that guy. I mean, — I believe the ship that the one thing I did really like about Starfleet Academy, the ship that they fly around in is also the — part of the academy campus. That's a very cool idea. I like that a lot. And it is called the Athena, which I think is appropriate for the game we're currently playing. — Sick. — And the boons we're getting. This build is already off to a pretty promising start. — Admittedly, the builds that work pretty well out of the uh boss rooms don't always work well for the bosses and vice versa. So, let's not jinx it, but you can hope. I was taking a bit of a risk putting the uh Poseidon special on the hellfire grenades because they def like they push people away, which means often they'll push things out of damage radi. But, it doesn't seem to be an issue with me so much, which is nice. of power. — Strongest still. — Hey, there he is. We can tell him he was released to fulfill that prophecy. — Aren't you a sight? — I have good news, sir. I located the contract binding you and bought it out. It's null and void. You're free to go. — Oh, indeed. Then does this The Fugary sisters, they won't come around as often anymore. — Not just that, Cisphus. You can make your way someplace else where other decent shades reside. — You know, somewhere with fewer chains and torture devices and such. — You're much too kind to this old soul, Prince Ed. — The thing is, this is home. — For me and Baldi, it is what it is. Though, knowing that the Furious won't be visiting with quite their formal regularity, that is a load off heavier than Baldi. You mean you're really going to stay even though you don't have to? — Is that so odd? Highness. Don't see myself looking more baldy out of here.

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Besides, and if I were to leave, why would we not be happy? — I think he's being a good host because he got punished for being a bad host in life. — Here you go. — Yeah, I like that — very much. I think for me I respect how much Super Giant games are dedicated to never letting the core structure of the gameplay loop change in any of these games in this way. Like if you want to play the game forever, there will always be the same possibility of the same rooms appearing in the same order, the same characters. Like if we had actually freed Seisphus and he left, we wouldn't be able to get these things. Whoops. things from him. But at the same time, I'm like, I think part of the fun of it would be that you were making that call. Like, Zagrias is doing a kind thing that is tactically disadvantageous for us, and then we have to deal with the consequence of that. Um, I think I had a similar thing when I was playing Dredge a while back, uh, which I did find fun. It was another one where I was like, I don't know if I like this, but I have played it for 85 hours, so probably. Um, but it had this similar thing where it was like I think there's a podcast short about this from ages back when I was talking about this of like the uh the fishmonger is like you know I've always wanted to taste one of those abber fish just once. Wouldn't that be nice? And then you fish him up an abbering fish and he eats it. He goes, "Oh, that was so gross. I feel sick. " And then he never asks you for that again. He just continues to buy your fish. And I was like, "Oh, I really thought I was going to [ __ ] insmouth you. " And that was going to be the whole thing. the horror movie would be that like I did this. Um, and in the DLC they did add a character who is like having you gather him stuff and is in fact becoming progressively more monstrous until eventually he turns into a monster and like dives out a window and you never see him again and then he's not accessible anymore. But like he wasn't giving you anything particularly useful after a certain point. So it's like or I think what happens is his duties get taken over by someone else who's like man I wonder where the professor went anyway. And it's like, okay, cool. I have cost nothing by feeding this person horrible mutant fish. Uh, the game will not change and it will not allow me to change it. Um, and in this case, I don't mind because, you know, [ __ ] this place. I just wanted to do that because prophecy said I would. And uh, also because it popped up an exclamation point and I didn't want to say no to it in case it locked me out of other things. Um. — Mhm. — But yeah, I don't know. I feel like I come down maybe on the other side of this being like I kind of uh because I play a lot of games where I love a big crunchy RPG and your choices do matter and like will have maybe mechanical consequences for you that making certain roleplay choices and I think that can be very interesting. — But in a in a rogike or a similar game where like the gameplay loop — is a big part of why I enjoy it. Um, I think I would get more frustrated losing access to something even if maybe it makes the story a smidge weaker. Um, — I think that ultimately like the saving the gameplay is kind of the balancing act that you take when you're playing making a game instead of like making like a TV show where Zagrias would make a certain decision, right? Um I for me at least it feels like I understand why you don't want to um punish the players for feeling like they want to be good nice people in the game. And also like so much of this game is making different builds and learning how those builds interact and like trying out different builds over time, including things like when the um interactions you get throughout the different range regions of the underworld um give you taking that away at any point cuz like what's what happens if someone free like somehow bum rushes freeus before they've even beaten Hades once and then they never have access to you know sus and wounds again, right? — They never get to try out all those different styles of run. like I could see why mechanically um it would be a concern. Um not to say that it doesn't have mer like I think it could be very interesting. I just think for this kind these kinds of games at least I tend to air on the side of like you do have to make mechanical considerations for the game to remain as fun as it could be. Um — no I agree. I think the problem I and it's not really a problem. It's just a thing I've observed uh is that rogue lights are really dedicated to allowing for sort of infinite run building play. And there have been times where I'm like the story that you have constructed would perhaps be better served by not locking the status quo into an unchanging paradigm that mechanically cannot be shifted unless the core of the gameplay completely fall out under it. Uh I think the thing I I've already said the piece about this. I think what I said was like if the gameplay and the story were this in dissonance, one of the other should have been changed. And for me, it's like I really like the story. I love the stories of these games. I think the gameplay at times almost hampers it simply because it is so dedicated to being what it is. — Not to say I think these games are better or anything like that. I think that it's very useful that they are uh interactive in this way. Yeah, I was going to say cuz like I

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think as much as I you know there's definitely points where it's clear that the story had to take consideration for the gameplay. I don't think I would care at all about these stories if they weren't interactive, they weren't uh games that I was playing. Like I do think it loses something in the translation there where uh as much as like — she's going to be mad — a rogue light might technically be able to have a better written story if it's sacrificed gameplay considerations, I think it would kind of be losing the essence of what makes the parts of the story that do work entertaining and uh something that I actually want to experience and be impacted by uh in that change. Like I think it just gets down to like a medium question really and I don't think there's like a right answer here. I think uh — you know there's — certainly changes that could be made, but at least for my part, I come down I think favoring mechanics a little bit because I I'm willing to suffer through a lot in things where I don't have to click buttons to experience a story. But the minute you make me um bad at a video game because of mechanical restraints, I get very frustrated because I'm like, well, I want to continue seeing what the story has to say, and the only way to do that is to be able to continue to advance. Yeah. Um, — yeah, no, that's fair. Again, I it's not it's certainly not a dealbreaker. This is similar to the discussion we were having earlier about like different kinds of criticism because for me, it's very like this is not a dealbreaker. gamebreaker. That is this does not destroy my enjoyment of the game. It's just a thing I've noticed over, you know, like 85 hours of play. It's like, wow, when the story is this dedicated to like, wow, the system is unjust and must be changed. It does clash a little bit with the fact that nature of the game is such that the system can never change because it might change our core gameplay needs and we can't have that. Um yeah, but at the same time I feel like stuff while the mechanics aren't changing like the story at least in Hades. Hades too a bit of a tough time. they were handed a much less thank uh a very thankless job of being like you have to you know Hades is developed from the ground up to be a game uh in story that are in sync with each other and Hades 2 is like okay well now we have this world the game is set in how do we make a do a different loop without doing the same thing again the sequel problem and I think they handle it relatively well but they're definitely a bit more um rough edges to the story but at least in Haiti like you doing mechanics doesn't necessarily uh change like the gameplay loop stays the same but the way that everyone in the world is reacting around you changes and I find that is enough change for me where like the mechanics are the same but the reason you're doing it is different and the way people treat you is different and that feels like you've changed something in directly through the actions that you've been taking in the game because it is all changes made along your path right like it's route um so for me that works but I can understand how that would get not necessarily uh be true for everyone — yeah welcome No, I mean after a certain point it's like I feel like any other rogue light I would not have fun with. Um the fact that Hades is as engaging as it is does, you know, that it does suck me into the just one more round thing. It's a very representative of how well and carefully balanced these games really are. Uh I think I hate progress loss so much that uh if it was less balanced, I would not enjoy this game. And the fact that I do enjoy this game is indicative of how much the story makes it worth it. Um, but — you how's everything lately on speaking terms? — No, it's I this is kind of the only rogue light I really like. — Yeah, this sequel. So, yeah, I think that that's a good point. But like — they do about as good a job I think as you can in this genre of balancing a story with some forward progression with — plenty of — excuse me uh reasons to you know prevent not progress but like keep status quos uh where they need to. Again like Hades 2 definitely I think struggles a little bit more uh just in the nature of the story that they're telling and also uh having to make a sequel. It's a thankless job. — I don't know. I'm not sure that I ever got the vibe that they had to make Hades 2. I think — there's evidence that something like Hades 2 was always the plan. And if anything, I think that they do have the sequel benefit that they don't need to establish all this stuff. We already know why we give a [ __ ] that The House of Hades has been, you know, whatever happens in Hades 2, don't worry about it. We'll get there. Uh but like obviously spoilers are not really an issue but uh I think that there was always a plan to do it and the fact that they've already got such a cast were invested in. It's I think similar to the appeal that a lot of people experience when writing fanfiction is like oh I don't need to establish why you give a [ __ ] about these characters. You are already in this fandom. I expect you already care about these characters. So when I put them in situations, you're going to be like, "Oh no, not my situations like rather than just dropping, you know, a full original character in there. " — I think that with Hades 2, it's like very clear when I I think I misspoke. It's not that I meant that they had to make a second. They had

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already said we're making a second Hades game. By its very nature, it has to be a sequel. Like it's not a it's a second game in a series as is more what I meant. But no, they do a good job of like utilizing. It's I think it's about as good as sequels can get. It brings something new to the series while still having the familiar parts that you want it to and taking advantage of the world and characters people already care about. It doesn't need to do introductions. It's all already kind of explained. Um it just needs to introduce you to what's new in the game and that's uh very successful. But — yeah, no it I don't think Super Giant was forced to make Hades 2. I think they made the game of the year and then said — got ideas. — We got more ideas. Yeah, we could they made us we have more ideas. People love this game. Let's make another one. And then they made another great game. Like I don't think they were forced to. — I mean, if anything, I think the fact that like, — you know, clearly the plot of Hades 2 is intricate. And I would guess that they were already having ideas in that general regard as early as when they were writing this game. So, it's like, wow, we have all these cool ideas, but because of the nature of the gameplay, we can't change the plot of Hades at any point. Ultimately, once we settle into the status quo, it has to stay that way. So, we can't bring in like we can't see the inciting incident of Hades 2 in the game. It can't happen in like the third act. It can't kick off this other thing or this transition to this new character because that would be a different game. So, we'll do it as a different game. Um, I think it's a pretty useful way to sort of compartmentalize these stories in a kind of interesting way. over there. Okay, let's see. Honey or palm. Uh, let's get a palm. soon. Yeah. There we go. Sheesh. Power of Olympus. — Powered up. — What looks like a river. — Not to jinx it, but this feels like it's going pretty well so far. — Yeah, a good final run. — I've only gotten to the Temple of Sticks once this stream, and that makes me feel derelictked in my duties. So, — well, the good news is there's no reason for us to need to get there anymore. — Well, we don't need to, but you know, you know how it is. I like to do well. — Run. You keep saying how much you want to play Hades 2 and we keep being back at — building again. — I like to do well, even arguably, especially if it's the last run, you know. — Well, we're doing fine. We're doing fine and we both have to do other things. — Yep. — Yeah. — This is going to be a very laser heavy build. This is the whole reason I wanted Galina in so that we can just go absolutely ham with the lasers. One over here and one over here. That kind of reminds me. Are you familiar with the uh the homebrew D and D enemy of the false hydra? — Oh yeah, I know the false hydra. — Yeah, — I find it so fascinating as a concept. Not like because I think it's particularly original concept, but because it is so anathema to the way that TTRPGs work that I think it really does work best when you hear about it later as a story that happened to somebody else's party and why every time somebody tries to run it, it doesn't go super hot. Um, it definitely — I think part of the problem you run into is so many people know about the existence of the false hydra now that it is to like you can't surprise them. It works best when you don't know that it exists.

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exists. — Yeah. Yeah, — that it could be happening to you, that it is a mystery to solve, and then as soon as it is a solved problem, it's like, oh no, actually uh — maybe we could figure this out. — And I think it also runs into the slight problem of like because the number one way that for those of you in the audience who don't know what this is, I almost feel bad spoiling it because as mentioned, it doesn't work if you know what it is. Uh but the premise of a false hydra is kind of like the silence in Doctor Who. If you ever watch that season, they are it's a monster that you can't remember dealing with, which is if you think that sounds like a nightmare to run as a DM, you would be correct. That's why it's a homebrew and not in the official rules and also why it's kind of a nightmare. Uh because the whole premise of it, would you put your [ __ ] shield down? You don't have any heads left. Thank you, bastard. Okay. Anyway, um uh is that essentially the DM narrates things that happen, but it's kind of confusing. And one element of this monster is also that uh when it eats somebody, everyone forgets they ever existed. So the logical twist, therefore, if you really want to gut punch your players, would be to imply that before this adventure, their party actually had another member who has been eaten and therefore they have completely forgotten them. This is a very cool narrative idea. The problem is if you tell a bunch of people, hey, yeah, your party actually had another guy and he's dead now, but you don't remember him any. Isn't that sad? They're going to be like, there is no other guy. It's just us hanging out at a table playing a game together. What are you [ __ ] talking about? So like it's because it requires that you [ __ ] with your players and tell them that their own memories are faulty and that their characters like can't really perceive the reality around them accurately. It's kind of hit or miss on how well it plays depending on how much your group is willing to commit to the bit and how much they want to resist being [ __ ] with. Um, yeah, it's it's it can be really fun when done right, but it's really hard to do it right. — Yeah. And I do think that also the reason why you would want to do it in a TTRPG is that it would be um compelling to have a player realize like, wait, but that doesn't line up. Like, wait, the mayor sent us on this quest. What do you mean there is no mayor? It's like, yeah, there's no mayor. It's like, — well, that's kind of spooky, but mostly that's making me think that you're making a mistake as a DM. Like the old plot hole or smart writing uh dilemma strikes again. Uh so like narratively, you want it to be a TTRPG because then you get the interactivity of feeling your memory being [ __ ] with, but at the same time, there are all kinds of like movies that have done the your perceptions can't be trusted, your memory can't be trusted, this is not a continuity error, this is evidence that we're in a simulation, etc., that kind of thing. Um, and I think maybe sadly the false hydra is a kind of creature that can only work like that. Like I said, that's the silence in Doctor Who are some of the scariest [ __ ] a lot of us had ever seen at that age because it was like the camera cuts and the character doesn't seem to think any time has passed, but she's got more tally marks on her cuz clearly she's seen more of them and they're hiding between the cuts and we can't do anything to help her. Um, anyway. Yeah. Piercing fire. — Yeah, I — trying to think like how I would make a false hydra work. And I almost feel like it has to be kind of the first problem you deal with because it gives you as the DM a lot of flexibility to say like your characters have come, people have written backtories. I, you know, I've encouraged my players to write their deep backstories and then I've taken all those back stories they've given me and I've changed details to what actually happened. Um, and I think that there's a way you can play around with that where it's like, oh wait, something's different. But it does kind of depend on your players being okay with that. And it's difficult to get uh get that okay without giving the game away. So it's a tricky villain to implement. Not something I would recommend a first- time DM start with. For sure. — Not even something I'd recommend a veteran DM start with cuz like it's a cool concept, but man, I always I'm never really sure how to feel about a writing trick that can only work once, you know? Uh, like I think we've talked about this before, how like a lot of mystery twists only worked the first time before the audience knew that was an option. Like Murder on the Orient Express, it's like the first time you read a story where that's the twist, you're like, "Holy shit. " And then every point afterwards, you're like, "This is always an option. I must check for the option where it is the murder on the Marine Express twist or the murder of Roger Akroyd. " Yeah. Uh, another one where it's like, "Wow, I didn't think that was allowed. " And then you're like, "Ah, but now that I know that it is, I'm on the lookout for it. " Exactly. — Okay, [ __ ] New idea. — Well, well. Look who [ __ ] around and found out. — Your mother got from there just fine. Don't worry, C. She had me looking after her and such. Seemed real nice to tell you how. — A

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well, side hustle. Yeah, why not? If we make it to the end game, we will be able to afford whatever we want. — What's on offer? — To do what? — To buy more boons so that when we kick our dad's ass this time is very satisfying. — Oh, okay. — Hey, he's here to say bye. He's like one more for the road. — Watch me work here. — Hey, you know what I say, Thanos? I hate to see you work, but I'd love to watch you from behind or something. Oops. Sorry. Oh no, we're lagging so much. I got the numbers mixed up. I was like, "Wow, we're doing so well. " And I didn't even feel like we were doing that well. Oh, come on. Aha. Catching up. Just kidding. We are not catching up actually. Oh man, — situation is under control. — Well, we got pretty close. Keep fighting. — Thanks, man. Can't leave me a heart for the road just cuz we're boyfriend boyfriend. Okay, never mind. Bye. — No. Okay. — No. All right. — Unfortunate, but that must be done. — Hey, there we go. — The champion awaits one. If you can get through me again, that is — Wait, did we turn off extreme measures? It looks like we must have cuz he's not in his armor. Yeah. — Oh, well that means we're not going to It is It get the uh Poseidon like, "Oh, good job of vanquishing extreme measures thesis. How fun. " But it does mean we get the satisfaction of having taken his chariot away from him after we broke it last time. So like insult to injury. That's true. Whoops. Sorry. For some reason, I thought that thing falling down would have made you stop bull rushing. I think my only like this is [ __ ] My dad works at Nintendo thing about this game is the fact that a bull rush goes in one direction and if it can turn around, it's not a bull rush. The whole point of a bull is that it can't corner easily. You know, the adage of the bull in the China shop is really about how the bull has tremendous dexterity and is really good at three-point turns. That could be arranged. Oh, there we go. — Oh, I'm glad that didn't eat through two death defiances. This was already embarrassing enough. — At least it's a stious. — Yeah.

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I call this the azen core defense. No, you guys should definitely come closer. Yes, my lasers are totally harmless. It's just that it's really dim down here and I can't see very well. So, you know, lighting — I really like seeing only a single point of whatever I'm looking at, which is why the lasers are necessary. Come on, buddy. You can make it. I believe in you. Oh, is something wrong? That's unfortunate. Hi, friend. Ah, how unsporting of you. They heard a core and started spawning archers. How clever. But is it clever enough? Doesn't seem like it. How did you know my favorite game was pawn? Okay, let's start killing these guys for real. You know, more sportingly. — Simply must be done. Yes, I'm being a little precious with my health bar, but you know, realistically, I know I'm under no obligation to win on my final run, but I really want to. No matter what happens, this is the final run of the game. It is the final. We're going to go to the House of Hades and we're going to distribute some nectar and Ambrosia and get our hearts up and then we are going to end the stream and it's going to be awesome. I'm going to have a nice delicious dinner and then I'm going to run D and D later. It's going to be festive. Uh — it's going to be great. And then next time you stream, you get to start Hades 2. — 2, which I've really been rooting for this entire time. So, it's going to be fine and chill. Oh, this isn't even the end point. Okay. Um — use this. — Pretty good. — The might of the heavens. I just would be satisfied more if I won on my final game. You know, you know how it is. Perhaps this will be the thing that scratches the itch that makes me stop wanting to do just one more thing in a game. Probably if I just win good enough, that feeling will go away. — I mean, you know what they say about perfectionism. It's correct and you should indulge it. Okay, I get the impulse. the completionist queen over here. But — and we're so well adjusted famous. — You're saying a lot of famous last words there, Red. — I just can't wait to go home to my wife and my beautiful son, you know. Uh my last day on the porch in two weeks from retirement, baby. — Yeah. — I mean, the last time I gazed at her, just can't wait to see her again, you know? I really think that'll make us all worthwhile. Come on. — In the name of Hades. I got to be running out of zoo spoons to give me at this point. — You know what they say, mama didn't raise no quitter. You are extremely correct. Guess the good news is at some point in the future we could go back to this to do some of the crazy pack and punishment challenge runs like oh we have to fight extreme measures Hades this time — cuz that was briefly — nothing stopping you — from after Hades 2 coming back to Hades for a bit if you need another hit. H it was briefly on my short list of things to do in the final stream was like fight tree measures Hades and then I was like oh but I'd like to win so you know we kind of have to pick our poisons here

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How are there more guys? Like, we're doing okay in this room, but this is a lot of guys. Silly little bastard. There we go. Didn't nearly get us. We were doing great the whole time. Actually, — we're doing business. Yay. Thanks, Athena. All right, let's [ __ ] go. these two. — You must take sick appalling pleasure in defeat. — Thanks, man. Love you, too. — Cheering as we battle to the last. Lord Dionis, give me strength. — Come on. A man. — Ah, — great. PCs is dead. Everything else is K. Yeah. Now we can die with honor. — Yeah. I mean, no, we're going to win. — Yeah. — As the ancient Greeks intended, — that was for you. — Okay. See, I've been trying to reunite Achilles and Metropolis and Nixon Chaos. In fact, I've been doing a very good job of trying to do that. However, none of these [ __ ] want to talk to each other. So, unfortunately, my success has been limited by outside forces beyond my control. Got it. — Mhm. I've been obligingly going down Chaos Gates, and Chaos has gotten to their rolodex of interchangeable statements, and Nyx has been too busy making small talk about the weather. — That's fine. Maybe as soon as we get back, they'll be like, "Actually, everything you've done has paid off and we're all fine now. " But for some reason, I have a feeling that's probably not going to happen. — Which one first? — Maybe. Come on. Okay. — No, you [ __ ] — Oh my god, the juice wasn't recharging for a while there. — This is going to go good. — That is great and fine. Actually, there's no problems ever. No problems ever in the poison swamp. Everything fine. Poison swamp. Perfect size for put protagonist in. It's a in many ways wouldn't be appropriate if Zaguras was forever stuck in gay baby jail, you know.

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It's here we make our stands. No, nothing. Where should it go? Nope. Ha. Whoa. Didn't hit it by three. — I accept this message. — Rupture would have been pretty good, but right now this is more important. — Seconds, right? Why not? Delicious. Okay. Uh yeah. I don't know why I got struck by lightning all of a sudden, but that was very funny cuz I was mid reload. Just kidding. You are dead now. Actually, — simply parish by my hand. There it goes. — Oh, did somebody accidentally poison themselves to death? I feel so bad for you. Oh, stop it. Oh, you [ __ ] I shouldn't have talked [ __ ] I literally immediately got hit. — That is the unfortunate consequence of that you uh quite frequently. Everyone is so mean to you for no reason. Well, it's a good thing these guys in this temple aren't up to anything nefarious that we might have to deal with the consequences of later. That would be just awful. — No, they're just a bunch of rats. They're allowed saying we're in their health. — Yeah, they're not doing anything strange. Orb is a needed that death to fight my dad. — We're fine. It's cool. Oh [ __ ] — Come on. Ser. Yay. Oh man, there's a slight sound cue because the uh the battle the sort of tense music will cut off. uh if there's a sader sack in the next room. So I was like, "Oh no, come on. Please. " Okay. And now we get to fight our dad. And we can't afford anything. That's fine. Not bad. It's cool. It's fine. Hey, buddy. — The monster's a solitary weakness. Sats proved terribly effective once again. — Mhm. — I can go. He's fine. — All right. Who's ready for dad fight two? Fight that dad. — All right. Dad fight final version. — Yeah. Dad fight. The last one. — Hate to keep you from your parchment work. — Ah, you know, I don't know what I would have done if there was a fishing spot there. I'm not sure I would have been able to handle it. — I expect I shall be able to vanquish you again, though we shall see. — Thanks, man. Nice that you have faith in me. Sorry. I don't know if that came through the mic. I expect it did.

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— There it is. Sometimes when someone's driving a car that is clearly so loud that it has the potential to give them room damage, I mostly just feel bad for them because they have to sit inside that thing. So their ears definitely don't work anymore. Darkness. — Yeah, it's not great. Like, sorry, man. If it sounds like a [ __ ] Boeing is taking off next to you every time you rev the engine, your eardrums are [ __ ] — I'm saving that. — No, there we go. Which of our relatives ain't you this time for? — I'll leave that one for you to figure out. Another contribution. — Yep. — Why does that make you mad? Mad, bro. of your bro. complete and total focus. Oh, just got lucky. You just got to just got to flow state. Kind of annoys me when the laser has what feels like a teeny weeny little range. It's like, how could it stop when I'm hitting him, you know? That does it. — Love it when my aim doesn't work. — Shall be served. There's something else we can do. — He's mad. He's mad cuz we invoked him in the boss fight. — He's like, "My supervisor is going to hear about this and then I had a meeting with him later. It's be really frustrating. " — He's like, "You're asking me to damage my supervisor. " Oh no. Last down to the wire. For a while there, his AI was stuck and I was like, "Oh man, I might have a chance. " — [ __ ] I'm empty. — Come on. Please. [ __ ] No. I'm dignified and cool and strong. It's down TO THE [ __ ] WIRE. YEAH. OH MY GOD. OKAY. That's what I wanted to happen. But I didn't dare say I wanted it to happen lest I jinx it. — Oh my god. — You yet? — That's what you think, Hades. I'm done

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playing after this. This victory lasts. — Enough, I guess. In the name of Hades. — Oh boy. — Look at this battlefield. Look at all the [ __ ] we did to it. — The aftermath. Wow. I'll [ __ ] take it. Let's see what kills us this time. — As he journeys to his mother's cottage in the cold, loudly speaking, Zach's voice, the blast of sound causing a substantive amount of ice and snow to break off from a nearby mountaintop and fall and oh no, — we got avalanched. Gamma, no. Incredible. Okay, welcome back to the house of Haiti. — Showed you father. — Finally, Zagrias, we have been doing almost nothing but win. My poor performance in this stream is not indicative of the general win loss ratio. — Forbidden exchange, Hypnos, sometimes when I'm out there and about to die, I catch myself thinking, well, at least will share one of his deep insights about why it is I utterly failed. So, here for all your generous advice. — Yay. I feel like I'm going to cry. I mean, all my advice is free. You really didn't have to do this. But I sure am glad you did, even if it is highly illegal. I I — You what? Hypnos, you what? — I think you could be my best friend. — A — Have you tried being my best friend? — I'm glad we got this. — I'll have to give that a shot. Oh, look at his little face. He's so precious. Oh, let's have a conversation. — Hey. — Oh, absolutely. Everything definitely is. It's just it's Thanos. He said some stuff and now I'm not so sure I'm doing the best job I can. You know, — I'm sure he wasn't trying to hurt your feelings. — Wait, what am I saying? — This feels like we're getting it out of order — with you, hasn't he? Didn't we already resolve? Like last time we saw Thanos before this, he was like, "Hey, good job, hypnosis. You're doing a solid job. — I'll talk to him. " — Okay. Well, now we have — I feel like is some of the uh conversational treat that was always little because I feel like uh — if I'm too good, I get a lot I don't get a lot of game intended dialogues — and then they kind of get mixed up a bit. — Um — it can be harder than you know. — Okay. Okay, well now we're getting the conversation with Achilles about Nyx and Chaos getting back together. Fat lot of good that does me. Now — as her relationship with Chaos grew more strained, she gave birth to strife, misery, doom, sons and daughters. — Hey, Doom. We know that guy. I mean, we will. — What? Really? I've never heard Hypnos or Thanos mention any of them, let alone Nyx. They sound like a handful. Where are they? What happened? — I don't know, lad. On the surface, I suppose. My point is had her own problems to contend with. Dealing with her brood, governing the underworld all on her own before your father arrived. Her relationship with Chaos suffered for it. — Yeah, I can see that. — Cool. Would have been nice to resolve that. Sadly, we can't. Hey, buddy. — Your mother's very clever, Zagrias. I always thought you got that from your father. Now, I'm not so sure. So, all is well with the Olympians again. — For now, I think it is. But you know how they are. We all are, I guess. — Yes, indeed. — Well, then I guess enjoy it while it lasts, as mortals sometimes say. I'll see you out there. — Hell yeah, you will. Except you won't, because I'm about to end the game. But first, the most important boy and a most important present for him. — Seis, not to get all sentimental on you, but oh, who am I kidding? Look, you've been with me my entire life. I know you're here at home because of me, aren't you? — The bond between a and its master is as hard as Cberus, the fearsome monster born of hell and guardian of its gates, hands us firstly to the prince's father. — But it turns out the prince may be the next best thing. — Yay! — You're the best boy in the whole world. Even if heads Beta and Gamma don't care for pets, do they? I've got more than enough lined up for you, though. Count on it. Hell yeah. We're getting all the little chippy heads. And let's give him a little — Yeah. — All right. And let's check in on dad. See how mad he is that we killed him again. — Would have been nice if Pphanie came back — for this final run, but we can't have everything. That's the devil talking. — The best of the destruction.

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— You are an unseen power in the underworld. Unseen Hades 2 reference activated. — Commendable. — An unseen power, huh? Surprised you're giving me the credit, father. — I give credit where it's due. — But the mortals, — they know nothing of what transpires here. Only rumblings will permit to escape our realm. Rumblings that reinforce their deepest fears about what shall transpire after their demise. So the more havoc I wreak in the underworld, the more mortals hear about all the unpleasantness and it makes them fearful of this place. — If more of them lead upstanding lives, it'll keep Tarterus from overflowing. I guess — this feels like an idea they then played within the second game with the fear meter uh taking the place of the pact of punishment. — Even among those born longest ago within — united with the darkness, I've just been picking it up here. — Surely that is not so. Ah, — I suppose Meg, you know what's going on. — Oh, there we go. Thank goodness. Official confirmation that the polyamory is ethical and negotiated. — Oh, I know about you, Zag. And Thanos, maybe even better. Oh, I appreciate you telling me. It's fine. — It's fine. I mean, upon Olympus, jealousy runs rampant, as I'm told. But here, it's not even an issue, then. — If you prefer the way they do things on Olympus, I think you know the way. As for me, jealousy is what I do. Tell me, should I feel threatened by Thanotus? — No. He thinks so highly of you. He He'd never wish to cause you any harm. — And I feel much the same. — He and I were not the same to you. I think we both see that and understand. Now, you're second guessing me. All right. — I will. — In case you haven't noticed, we both have two hands. — This is my — We're all going to hold hands in a circle. Yeah, a little triangle, the strongest shape. Okay, no sign of Duca and in here, which was my other question. So, okay. Oh boy. Well, we might as well get in some liar practice while we close out the stream. Um, okay. Woof, what a journey it has been. Thank you all so much for riding along uh for joining us in this I guess 10p part Hades stream. Uh and to think I think it was part six where I was like finally all we have to do is get all the final Olympian hearts and then the game will be over. How little I knew in those days. Um but yeah uh thank you for watching for supporting UNICEF. Once again a very worthy cause. — Uh yeah, thank you Indigo for being so obliging riding along on these streams. uh riding along for the future. Well, yes. I'm sorry this one ran fully an hour over when we had hoped to end it. — My bad. — Well, that's kind of the uh that's uh it wouldn't be a proper Haiti stream if we didn't end it a full when I thought it was going to end anyway. — No, but I'm very pleased with how this final run worked out. I'm glad we got to kill Thesus. our dad. You know, all these kinds of great things. The good stuff you get when you tune in for a delicious little bit of Hades streaming. Um, but yeah, uh, I guess we will leave Zagrias to practicing the liar offcreen in the nebulous zone of, uh, of the distant and dark future. Uh, I will probably take at least a week off from streaming to relax, get my Tuesdays back, maybe enjoy some of the summer era that's happening. Uh, my birthday is in a couple weeks and there might be things happening around then. I don't know. So, um, we'll [ __ ] see. Uh, but yeah, again, thank you all so much for tuning in. Um, I'm going to post the playlist of these somewhere. If uh if you're just catching this now, or if you've been watching the VODs, I hope you enjoyed that because you're probably not watching this early in the process. Um, and uh yeah, if you're a patron, I'm probably going to post all these thumbnails on Patreon as part of the wallpapers uh pack just because they're so high effort. It would be a waste to not do that. But anyway, that is enough [ __ ] around. Uh we all have others things to do and I really appreciate you guys riding along for as long as you have. So, uh I will see you guys next time. Thank you all so much for joining in. Goodbye. See you guys in Hades, too. Yeah.