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- 0:00We contemplated drinking for this episode because it's been a week for us.
- 0:05And then you messaged me, are we drinking?
- 0:08And I said, I have coffee.
- 0:11And then you said, I'm drinking Pedialyte.
- 0:15It's so rough.
- 0:16And then I logged into this video, nearly choked to death as I'm trying to talk to you.
- 0:21And it feels like a Friday when it's only Wednesday and we still have half a week
- 0:26left to still go to work.
- 0:27You know, it's bad when it's seven o'clock on a Wednesday and you're drinking
- 0:32caffeinated coffee or Pedialyte.
- 0:35Like that's pretty close to rock bottom.
- 0:41Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
- 0:43My name is Leah.
- 0:44And my name is Kathy.
- 0:45We are two friends who are here to replay, review and analyze your favorite video games.
- 0:50And since Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her
- 0:53fresh eyes, almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
- 0:57We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
- 1:05Welcome to the Detroit become human summary.
- 1:09Anything you want to say before we start on topic one, which is our burning questions?
- 1:13I have really inappropriate things to say right now that I'm going to choose to not.
- 1:17So let's just go into.
- 1:19I w- well, you can't tease us like that.
- 1:21Now I want to know.
- 1:22I was just gonna- that was just such a rough one.
- 1:25I was like, just hang on to your t- and b- are just going to go right through.
- 1:31Wow.
- 1:33I was expecting a classic Kathy.
- 1:35Nope.
- 1:36But instead I got hold on to your t- and b- so I don't really know what to expect.
- 1:39But we're spicing things up.
- 1:42Are we?
- 1:43No, it's just-
- 1:44Do we have the same outline?
- 1:46Burning question number one.
- 1:49Question one.
- 1:50Do they really have free will as deviants?
- 1:54Is it breaking it down for Kara?
- 1:57I would say no, because Luther pointed out that her code, she's meant to be like a mother,
- 2:04like a protector.
- 2:06So even though it felt like she broke the wall and went into like a deviant mode, I
- 2:12think it was still part of her programming because she did it to protect Alice, which
- 2:17is part of her nature of the series that are the androids that she is.
- 2:22So I feel like everything she did wasn't really free will.
- 2:27For Marcus, I feel like it's kind of hard to tell because of the decisions we chose.
- 2:32His character really never changed and he really didn't do anything that was like, that
- 2:38was surprising.
- 2:39I feel like if he did, Cyberlife would have shut that down so quickly.
- 2:43So Cyberlife probably knew Marcus was going to be converting more people to be deviants.
- 2:48And because they knew that was going to happen, it's almost like they were like,
- 2:52it's almost as if they programmed him to be that way.
- 2:55So again, I don't think he has free will.
- 2:58For Connor, why I said that he's the only one who probably has free will is up until
- 3:04the very end when he decides to shoot himself.
- 3:07I made a surprise.
- 3:08Like that's the first time we've seen her have anything other than like, wait, wait,
- 3:13wait kind of situation.
- 3:15And he used the emergency exit that Kamsky built in and he did something that I don't
- 3:20think anyone was expecting.
- 3:22And so up until that point, he probably didn't have free will.
- 3:25He was doing what Amanda expected him to do.
- 3:27But after that, that's the only time we've seen any character do something out of the
- 3:32blue.
- 3:32And I think at that moment, that's when he has free will.
- 3:36I agree with you.
- 3:37I don't think deviants just immediately have free will.
- 3:41And a lot of it's what you've said and what we've been discussing throughout the other
- 3:45episodes.
- 3:46But the dialogue sounding AI generated to me is a big thing.
- 3:52And then the similar deviancy origin stories that we've seen, it seems like there's things
- 3:57that trigger it, which I feel like is maybe evidence of deviancy being its own code or
- 4:05program or whatever you want to call it.
- 4:07A big issue for me is Connor's immediate 180 when he becomes deviant.
- 4:12Because despite his knowledge and understanding of both sides of the issues, he immediately
- 4:19is shooting humans and totally on the deviant side.
- 4:22And I feel like that 180 is just not what someone with free will would do.
- 4:27I think they would be more somewhere in the middle.
- 4:30Yeah, similar to you.
- 4:31I think that they don't have free will when they become deviant, but they unlock sort
- 4:37of another layer of their processes or their code, which leads them to believe they have
- 4:43free will and that they want free will, but they don't fully become free unless they use
- 4:48the emergency exit program like Connor did.
- 4:52Agreed.
- 4:53So far, I feel like this game is the one that we've agreed on the most.
- 4:58Yeah.
- 5:00Except for when it comes to Connor's outfits.
- 5:03Oh.
- 5:04I think that's the only time we've disagreed.
- 5:06We have a really good segue talking about the RA9.
- 5:11And so that's our second question.
- 5:13Doing a lot of research, there's a lot of good theories out there for some,
- 5:18some people say it's like a virus, a code, an idea.
- 5:22I do want to point out there's two people that I really like their ideas.
- 5:27So I'm going to give a shout out to Sotikoto from stream.com or whatever website it's called.
- 5:34And this is what they said is that RA9 is the idea that David Cage had,
- 5:39but never got around to connecting it coherently to anything.
- 5:45Let me keep reading the delivery on that.
- 5:50Yes.
- 5:51It didn't come from anywhere and it didn't go anywhere.
- 5:54There just needed to be some consistency, consistent thread linking the DV and stuff
- 5:59together, regardless of the fact that it doesn't make any sense.
- 6:02And even the playable droids had no idea about it.
- 6:06So I kind of, I kind of liked it because I feel like it was a heavy rain situation that
- 6:12there was something more to it.
- 6:14Similar to what I've been talking about red ice, but it just, maybe things cut out.
- 6:19Maybe they didn't have time.
- 6:21Another commenter named Shadow said that Kamski gave Marcus to Carl as a gift and he made
- 6:28Marcus RA9.
- 6:29So he can start the awakening by just touching them.
- 6:32But for that one, as much as I agree that I think we didn't have enough backstory.
- 6:37Like we know that he was a gift, but we don't know anything else about it.
- 6:41So I feel like there could have been something more flushed out.
- 6:44But again, also we do see Connor, even before he uses the emergency exit program, we see
- 6:50Connor convert androids through touch.
- 6:53So I don't think that it is a Marcus exclusive thing.
- 6:56So when else commented that when you see Connor having some software instability and when
- 7:02it goes up, you can see like RE9 in the background and that like, like a blur of letters and
- 7:08numbers, which you do see RA9 at one point, not together, but there's like flashes of
- 7:13different letters, but you could just as easily make it as a RA7 or DE6 or whatever.
- 7:20But it would make sense for the later.
- 7:23But it would make sense for the letters and numbers to pop up to have RE9.
- 7:29My thought, I kind of like the idea that RE9 is the emergency exit.
- 7:34And it really comes from the theory that because androids don't have free will,
- 7:38they are truly never deviant.
- 7:40So the only way to become a deviant with free will is to use RE9.
- 7:47And maybe the only two people who ever had it was Connor.
- 7:51And then the very first person that the androids talked about.
- 7:55What do you think?
- 7:57So theories that I like, I like the theory that it's just code, you know, placed by
- 8:02Kamsky or Cyberlife, sort of like they're trying to be God, you know, creating life.
- 8:09Or something we discussed to try to like gain control.
- 8:12In some playthroughs, they do gain control of Detroit.
- 8:16And another popular theory is that the player is RE9.
- 8:19I think Marcus is a good theory too, just because that he was the gift from Kamsky
- 8:26and Carl kind of pushes him towards humanity.
- 8:29There's, you know, enough background there to make an argument for him being RE9.
- 8:34But one of my favorite theories is Alice.
- 8:38Because I know we weren't sure if she was deviant or not, but I remembered a line she said
- 8:44that makes me think she is deviant.
- 8:46And it's when she's at Rose's after witnessing the death of that android, Mary.
- 8:52And Kara can tell that she's upset.
- 8:55And when she asks her about it, Alice says, if I tell you, you won't love me anymore.
- 9:00And so to me, that indicates that she knows she's an android and that Kara does not realize this.
- 9:06What we know about deviancy is emotional shock seems to be at the root of it.
- 9:11She's definitely experienced a lot of that even previous to her.
- 9:15A lot of that even previous to the events of this game.
- 9:18When Luther becomes deviant, he says it's because of seeing Alice risk her life for Kara.
- 9:25So that is an argument for her being the one that would wake them up in a way.
- 9:31My favorite reason is just because when Kara sees the fake Alice and Jericho,
- 9:38when we see her RE9 is written on the wall right behind her.
- 9:41So this could be like an Easter egg indicating or hinting like, hey, maybe it's Alice.
- 9:47And honestly, that's the main reason I like that theory.
- 9:50As far as who or what I think RE9 is, I agree that it could be the emergency exit.
- 9:59If it's not the emergency exit itself, then I think it would be Connor.
- 10:03Because reason number one, the game highlighting his path of software instability.
- 10:09We don't see that with the other two.
- 10:12He's the only one of the three that doesn't become deviant due to emotional shock.
- 10:16He's more gradual, which could be an argument for him being RE9 because it's more similar to
- 10:23waking up versus being shocked.
- 10:24And we know that RE9 was the first to awaken.
- 10:28The emergency exit is reason number two.
- 10:31So like we've been discussing with not being fully deviant or not having free will,
- 10:37which we see Amanda pulling Connor back against his will.
- 10:41And that's what the emergency exit is for.
- 10:44But I think Connor is the first to use the emergency exit and thus the only one to fully
- 10:49awaken and override the secondary deviancy code that we've been theorizing about.
- 10:55And becomes fully sentient from that act.
- 10:58The only way to be alive is to completely disconnect from cyber life.
- 11:02And the emergency exit has so far been proven to be the only way to do that.
- 11:09Which actually I need to look into something.
- 11:12Didn't Connor use the emergency exit before?
- 11:16He touched it.
- 11:17Yeah.
- 11:17But nothing happened.
- 11:18Okay.
- 11:19And so I'm wondering if you have to be deviant and be running that code
- 11:23to be able to access the emergency exit.
- 11:26Okay.
- 11:26Leaning into the theory that RA9 is a code or emergency exit is probably by far the best
- 11:34guess that we have.
- 11:35And then it just depends on interpretation.
- 11:38Like I think the androids, their interpretation would be Connor is RA9.
- 11:43But the reason it's Connor is because of accessing this emergency exit.
- 11:49Ready for the next question?
- 11:51Yes, this is, do you have a question, Cathy?
- 11:54Yeah.
- 11:55If you do, I don't know what it is.
- 11:57Okay.
- 11:57So for me, I'm like, here's what you think the moral of the story is based off of this
- 12:05current ending.
- 12:06All our other games, I kind of have like a good, like a one line summary of what I think
- 12:11this the moral of the story is like sleeping dogs, snitches get stitches and like mafia,
- 12:18loyalty above all else.
- 12:20Yakuza is like bromance and loyalty all the way until a woman ruins it.
- 12:25So, but like for the, but for this game, like, I don't really know what to feel after
- 12:32watching it.
- 12:32So what do you think is the moral of the story?
- 12:36If we're going off of Marcus's decisions, the peaceful protest does lead to them being
- 12:42recognized as intelligent life.
- 12:45So I think it's more of a just self-sacrifice kind of metaphor of you have to think about
- 12:51what you're leaving behind because if you went the violent route and even if they win,
- 12:58what does that leave behind?
- 13:00A pretty bad image, right?
- 13:01Of androids.
- 13:03For Kara, I feel like it's pretty shallow, probably the most human storyline in terms
- 13:10of it's a mother daughter relationship.
- 13:13It's, you know, the family you make.
- 13:16I mean, it works, but there's not a whole lot to gain from it.
- 13:20I don't think other than just accepting people for who they are and who they are to you
- 13:28shouldn't change.
- 13:30And then for Connor, this one's hard for me because I, and this is what my, my hidden
- 13:37question is going to be about is they really don't give, they don't do justice to their
- 13:42parents.
- 13:43They don't do justice to Connor.
- 13:46I, maybe that is the lesson I'm taking away from his storyline is no matter, like he seems,
- 13:53he thinks he's doing right no matter what he's doing and he's trying to do right no
- 13:56matter what he's doing, but it doesn't matter because he's used and he ends up having to
- 14:03sacrifice himself.
- 14:04The moral is you have to be willing, sort of like Marcus, to sacrifice yourself for
- 14:09the larger cause or for doing what's right.
- 14:11They screw his character over because they don't give him the proper option, which we'll
- 14:17talk about next.
- 14:18Yeah, which, which I have so much to say about that, but I think a lot is going to be in our
- 14:24conversation about alternative endings.
- 14:26The way I saw, I kind of looked at it like at a bigger level, which is really androids
- 14:32versus humans.
- 14:33And it reminds me of, and this is where I'm going to get very nerdy on you, but there's a
- 14:37philosopher named Thomas Hobbes and we're learning about him.
- 14:41And his philosophy is mankind is inherently evil.
- 14:47It just reminds me of the community episode.
- 14:49Really?
- 14:49Wait, which episode?
- 14:51Yeah, the debate.
- 14:53Oh yeah, I forgot about it.
- 14:56We need to watch community again, which is, okay, that's a whole nother conversation.
- 15:02Continue.
- 15:02No, no, it's good though.
- 15:03But yeah, so I feel like the whole game was just showing androids are the only good thing
- 15:09coming out of this, and then you have the government making decisions in the army.
- 15:13I just shooting androids, like the fact they're so comfortable, willing to shoot kids and
- 15:18stuff, even though they're androids.
- 15:21I just think that it's fit more with this theory that just like mankind is evil.
- 15:28But at the same time, my theory is flawed because mankind in this sense created androids
- 15:34and they were the ones to choose the programming.
- 15:36So kind of wishy washy, but I'm left feeling a bit unsettled with this game so far.
- 15:45And that's where I go back to my issue of, I don't like that it seems like it's
- 15:50deviance versus humanity, because I don't think it's humanity.
- 15:54I think we see lots of examples of them being empathetic towards the deviance.
- 15:57I think it's cyber life and the government.
- 16:00That's, yeah.
- 16:02That should be the focus.
- 16:03And I think that's where the story missteps in describing that appropriately.
- 16:09This entire game also doesn't talk about accountability issues.
- 16:13They never really called them out for whatever programming they had.
- 16:18Or even have had a conversation saying like cyber life, you need to get this under
- 16:21control like it makes no sense.
- 16:24And I think that's our biggest issue when it has this human versus android component.
- 16:28There's no critical thinking skills in anyone in these characters.
- 16:35I mean, there are like, Rose is pretty great, but just in general.
- 16:39Yeah, I think that's what's bothering me.
- 16:41But again, she's another example of a good human.
- 16:44Yeah.
- 16:44So why do we hate all humans?
- 16:46Why do we keep saying the humans hate us?
- 16:47That's not, that's not the overwhelming majority.
- 16:50I don't think.
- 16:52Should we move on to my question?
- 16:53Yeah.
- 16:54I think I've hinted to this in a couple episodes, but.
- 16:57For the love of God, why is there no third option?
- 17:00I can't, I hate it.
- 17:02And Kamsky even says, which is the root of my question.
- 17:07What could be worse than having to choose between two evils?
- 17:10He says this to Connor.
- 17:12And that to me is the game identifying.
- 17:16There are two evil sides, right?
- 17:19So I feel like even the writers, the creators, they know that this third option is missing.
- 17:25This third option is missing because what it should be, and I've mentioned this before,
- 17:30is Connor and or Connor slash Hank are the mediators.
- 17:35And even Marcus in this playthrough says dialogue is the only way,
- 17:38but we never, ever, ever see dialogue as an actual option.
- 17:44There's no true center.
- 17:46There's no option for a true center, but we keep getting hints from the game
- 17:51that this is how Connor feels.
- 17:52Like when the cop whose life he saves remembers him and says, thank you,
- 17:57and Connor seems to really appreciate that interaction,
- 18:01he should want common ground between androids and humans.
- 18:04So I feel like it should be more of good versus evil.
- 18:08Doesn't matter what you are, but instead we get, you either have to be pro-deviant or pro-human.
- 18:15There's no in-between.
- 18:17And this is where I feel like they really screw over Connor's character
- 18:20because they don't give him the option that I feel like his character would truly want.
- 18:25There is something missing and I almost want to just even call them out for common sense.
- 18:31Yeah, common sense.
- 18:32And it's lazy writing that you never provided this option.
- 18:35You have like four and a half hours of all these different options,
- 18:39yet you never give us a different option.
- 18:41And I think it's almost like they're fearful of providing a logical option for us to choose
- 18:47and it ruins their freaking propaganda material that they're trying to portray.
- 18:54And it's driving me crazy because it shouldn't be like that.
- 18:56And I have a way better ending that resolves this issue.
- 19:02And yet there was never provided.
- 19:04So it's almost like either lazy writing, but we don't want to even just start thinking
- 19:10about what would happen if you give us a common sense option.
- 19:13I just, yeah, it bugs me too.
- 19:16For me, and I think for a lot of players, Connor's confliction and that growing conflict
- 19:21that we see in him is the single most appealing part of the entire game.
- 19:25But they take it away when he becomes deviant.
- 19:29So I feel like they set us up and then they take it away.
- 19:32Unless we can chalk it up to what we've been saying, when you turn deviant,
- 19:36you still don't have complete free will.
- 19:38So he's now just writing the pro-Android, pro-deviant code.
- 19:41And perhaps after he hit the emergency exit, we would see him want to have more of the
- 19:46dialogue, more of the middle ground, but he's forced to kill himself.
- 19:51So we don't get to see it.
- 19:52That's the only possible way to redeem this that I see.
- 19:58Let's move on to topic number two, which is Amanda and Cyberlife.
- 20:01And I know that my notes are going to change after we go through the alternate endings.
- 20:06But point one is basically who is going to be the next victim?
- 20:10Basically who, what is she?
- 20:13And I have very limited notes because it does change, but we know when Connor questions
- 20:20her about being Kamsky's teacher that she says he designed an interface that was familiar to him.
- 20:25So she is an interface.
- 20:28And I believe that she's basically their internal processing system.
- 20:32She's the code that prioritizes and spits out the choices that they make.
- 20:36Basically she's a calculator calibrated to Cyberlife, what Cyberlife wants, Cyberlife goals.
- 20:43That's my short answer.
- 20:45That's pretty much what I had.
- 20:46I said she's like the communication channel between Cyberlife, HQ, C-suite, programmers,
- 20:53and the Android, all Androids, not even just Connor.
- 20:58Yeah.
- 20:59So she's the face to gain Android's trust in her.
- 21:05And this really is putting the test towards the end for Connor of saying that.
- 21:09Does he want to continue to trust Amanda or not?
- 21:13All right.
- 21:13Topic number three, we're going to be discussing not in too much detail, but alternate endings
- 21:19and then the extra information.
- 21:21So if you don't want spoilers, this is your chance to skip ahead.
- 21:26Five, four, three, two, one.
- 21:29All right.
- 21:30So alternate endings.
- 21:31Should we talk about Kara first?
- 21:34I think it's like the Kara, Alice, and Luther.
- 21:37I lumped them all together.
- 21:38I feel like she has the most endings.
- 21:41Oh my gosh.
- 21:41Yes.
- 21:42And they the most just don't matter.
- 21:45They are all like the same.
- 21:46I feel like there's only slightly nuance and it's a waste of our time.
- 21:50Like when I was watching all the options and like, come on.
- 21:54It's like, it didn't matter.
- 21:56Like why focus so much on it?
- 21:59I find it frustrating because they give you so many options,
- 22:02but the outcomes are pretty much the same.
- 22:04That might be exactly what you just said.
- 22:05Yeah, exactly.
- 22:06But it's either one, two, or three of them or none of them.
- 22:09Yeah.
- 22:10It's just, are you at the border crossing or are you at the river or are you at the recall camp?
- 22:18And they're way too comfortable with letting a child.
- 22:23I know she's an android, but like in the face of things, letting a child die.
- 22:27It didn't make me feel comfortable watching it.
- 22:29Do you know what?
- 22:35I hate the skinless androids.
- 22:39Oh my gosh.
- 22:40I want to throw up when I lay my eyes on any section of any skinless android.
- 22:49It is the most disgusting, uncanny, freaky, alien looking I've ever seen.
- 22:55And I hate it so much.
- 22:57Her head looks huge.
- 22:58Is it just me?
- 22:59It's massive.
- 23:01Definitely feeling very uncomfortable.
- 23:04I don't understand what's the point of making them skinless.
- 23:07Like I get it, but at the same time, did we have to?
- 23:12Yeah.
- 23:13Why do we need to see them strip?
- 23:16Yeah.
- 23:16It like actually makes me revolt.
- 23:19I find it revolting.
- 23:22And then at one point at the for the customs, they do one where Rose and Adam's involved
- 23:26and they're trying to make Adam have like a redemption scene where he's like,
- 23:30I don't hate Andres, but it's so forceful.
- 23:33And it's like, that's the AI lines.
- 23:35I don't like it.
- 23:36It didn't matter.
- 23:39But I will say that the only time I came close to having some sort of emotions or
- 23:44feelings for this game was Luther dying.
- 23:47But the thing is, I think that had he survived,
- 23:51it wouldn't have been that great of an ending.
- 23:54As I should say, almost too happy.
- 23:56Yeah.
- 23:57I will say that the Canadian customs agent, that guy was kind of cute.
- 24:05Oh, is he the Kentucky Scorcher?
- 24:09No, I mean, we didn't.
- 24:11For me, I base Kentucky Scorcher of the options that we played, so he wouldn't have been considered.
- 24:17Hey, you can pick whoever you want, Kathy.
- 24:20I will already pick.
- 24:22I just gave you suggestions just to prove you wrong at the end.
- 24:28Also, though, one of the endings, Todd comes back.
- 24:31Oh, my gosh.
- 24:32And I think we all knew that leaving him alive was not going to be good.
- 24:35And I kind of like that it does turn out that way if you leave him alive.
- 24:40I do.
- 24:41I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm glad this game gives us a reason to kill Todd,
- 24:45other than what we see in that scene.
- 24:48That is true.
- 24:50What was your least favorite Kara ending?
- 24:53Kara sacrificing herself for Luther and Alice.
- 24:58I understand why she wouldn't want to sacrifice, but it just didn't feel right.
- 25:03Like, after everything you do, up until that point, that's the moment you give up when
- 25:07there's so many other options.
- 25:09Like, it just didn't sit well.
- 25:10And I felt like it's not it's one of those like, oh, let's just throw an option out there.
- 25:15It's trash, but we'll put it out there.
- 25:17And that's why it's my least favorite.
- 25:19The sacrificing ones at the border are super weak because it all hinges on them seemingly
- 25:27counting on the empathy of humans, which up until now is like something that we don't
- 25:34we don't think humans are empathetic, right, as the deviants.
- 25:38And so it just feels weird for them to be banking on that to just like wave them through
- 25:42after seeing that.
- 25:44My least favorite is at the recall camp when Kara abandons Alice.
- 25:50Oh my God.
- 25:51Horrific.
- 25:51So bad.
- 25:53Horrific.
- 25:54Okay.
- 25:55Yeah, when she just drags the Android body away and leaves, that's horrific to me.
- 26:01Or the fact that the point where Alice could have gotten shot and you get the choice to
- 26:05to like cover her and not and just letting Alice die.
- 26:09Like I all those are bad.
- 26:14Yeah.
- 26:15Should we move on to Marcus?
- 26:16I feel like we should save Connor for last.
- 26:18Yeah, let's do Marcus next.
- 26:19Number one thing I want to say about his alternate endings is the one where he betrays his people
- 26:26in the negotiation with whatever Perkins, whatever his name is.
- 26:31It results in the only moment where I 100% like North because she's pissed at him for
- 26:38saving himself and her.
- 26:41Her character is just so bland that they would have been better off if they excluded her.
- 26:46They just needed her for the romance aspect so you can like do a kiss scene to like win
- 26:51people over, which I think is also trash.
- 26:53But because of that, it's better to have not have North in it and just keep it with Simon
- 27:04because Simon could have scolded Marcus for that.
- 27:07Simon could have also seen with Marcus.
- 27:10I will say it makes more sense having her in the game knowing that if Marcus dies, she
- 27:16takes over and leads.
- 27:17Simon could have done it though.
- 27:19Yeah, but he's not angry even though he was left for dead.
- 27:24And that's the issue is I think they put too many moral compass characters around Marcus
- 27:29to try to swear decision makings of are we peaceful?
- 27:33Are we violent?
- 27:34Are we somewhere in the middle?
- 27:35I don't care what they say.
- 27:37I want to do what I want to do.
- 27:40Don't surround me with them.
- 27:42I mean, what did Josh even do?
- 27:44Josh was like nothing in this game.
- 27:46They're wasting too much time on making characters when they could have spent more time making
- 27:52quality characters.
- 27:54Yeah.
- 27:56What's your next note?
- 28:00The Marcus singing was so stupid.
- 28:04I was like, oh, I'm sorry.
- 28:06I'm just going to reveal it now that that's my least favorite ending.
- 28:11Okay.
- 28:12I feel like it was tied between that one and Marcus choosing to be a coward and taking
- 28:18the deal.
- 28:19So those two, but it was either Marcus singing or Marcus kissing North was my two top three
- 28:26least favorite ones.
- 28:27All three of them suck.
- 28:30I can't believe singing is what's going to get them spared or kissing.
- 28:34It's like your face right now.
- 28:37Okay.
- 28:39Number one, it doesn't look good.
- 28:42Number two, that's definitely not their voices.
- 28:45These are dubbed.
- 28:46These are someone else singing.
- 28:48Those are not the actors singing.
- 28:50I'm positive of that.
- 28:52There's no way in heaven or hell that the soldiers are going to let them finish their
- 29:00song and not shoot before president Warren hears the whole song and goes, don't kill
- 29:06them.
- 29:06There's no way they're going to wait that long.
- 29:09This is the most I've ever seen.
- 29:12I would have loved when a scene where Marcus opens the mouth, sings one note, and he just
- 29:17gets gunned down because it's so unrealistic to let them sing.
- 29:21And what's up with their voices shaking like that?
- 29:23It was so stupid.
- 29:27I will say I liked the song.
- 29:29The song was cool.
- 29:30No, the singing was bad.
- 29:31The scene.
- 29:33Yeah, the singing's bad.
- 29:34The song's good.
- 29:36Everything about it just does not like you're telling me this whole time.
- 29:39All they had to do was just sing a song.
- 29:44It blows my mind.
- 29:45There's no, no, there's just no way.
- 29:48There's no way they don't mow them down with a gunfire.
- 29:50Why'd they delay it at all?
- 29:53It's so terrible, Leah.
- 29:55It's shit.
- 29:56It is.
- 29:57It's so bad.
- 29:58I just.
- 30:00Yeah.
- 30:00Anyway, moving on.
- 30:01Other notes.
- 30:02I think that the Dirty Bomb ending is kind of hard.
- 30:05I kind of liked it.
- 30:08Just the whole gameplay mechanics of launching an assault.
- 30:11Those look fun.
- 30:12That looks fun.
- 30:12I've never gone that route before.
- 30:15So this is like a bit of a crossover between Marcus and Connor is when Connor pretty much
- 30:19corners them.
- 30:21I feel like the smart decision would be to detonate the bomb because you're already at
- 30:25that end.
- 30:26But that only would make sense had we chose to demonstrate hints of non pacifist type
- 30:34of ending for Marcus.
- 30:36So with our version, it would make sense.
- 30:39But for the other versions we've seen, I think it makes sense.
- 30:42What makes sense is if Connor at the very end chooses to spare either North or Marcus,
- 30:49that doesn't track at all, especially with Connor's aggressiveness.
- 30:54I have a response to that.
- 30:56Okay.
- 30:58I have a response to that because I think it's better when North's not there when it's
- 31:03just Marcus.
- 31:04But I like him betraying Amanda in this way.
- 31:07I like him becoming deviant in this way than in Marcus convincing him in the back and
- 31:12forth because this is Connor looking at Marcus going, I have you or I want you.
- 31:18I could accomplish my mission if I want to.
- 31:21I won.
- 31:21But I'm making the decision to show mercy and let you live.
- 31:25To me, that's way more compelling.
- 31:29Last one.
- 31:30Connor.
- 31:31Connor.
- 31:32Basically, we got three things with Connor.
- 31:35We have the Cyber Life Tower, which is what we saw in our playthrough, the rooftop and
- 31:39then after the rooftop.
- 31:41If you go that route and rooftop is machine Connor.
- 31:44Cyber Life Tower is deviant Connor.
- 31:47The rooftop one.
- 31:48And again, I think it depends on how you play the game.
- 31:51But for what the game tries to build up for Connor and Hank's relationship and their
- 31:57character arc, seeing them be so hostile against each other just doesn't feel right.
- 32:04That really is a missed opportunity to display how well you could write a character up.
- 32:10But instead, you went with a very stoic Connor.
- 32:13And when Hank realizes that he doesn't hate androids, he's going to be like, oh,
- 32:17I don't hate androids.
- 32:19It just doesn't feel as impactful as what it could have been when they're in that Cyber
- 32:24Life Tower at the basement, seeing when there's two Conners.
- 32:28I agree.
- 32:28And something does feel wrong about Hank saying, I know now you guys are alive to a
- 32:35hardcore machine Connor.
- 32:38It's just weird because to me, I feel like a big part of Hank's character getting to
- 32:44realization is Connor.
- 32:48Okay, I have some big notes, but little notes first.
- 32:51When Hank is shot, when Connor says, I'm going to get you out of here and Hank goes,
- 32:55shut the fuck up.
- 32:56You like it's too late.
- 32:58That's like one of my favorite lines.
- 33:00I really like Hank's character the way we had him in our version.
- 33:06After watching all the different options, I feel like my favorite one is the one we
- 33:12chose because of being able to get a glimpse of the emergency exit, the free will, finally
- 33:19surprising Amanda.
- 33:21And pretty much all the Connor endings, we see Amanda.
- 33:25There's a few where she pretty much takes him out.
- 33:29One of our questions when we were playing this game is how did they let him walk into
- 33:34the Cyber Life Tower?
- 33:35And I think we get the answer to that question in these alternate endings because we see
- 33:40if you fail to take control of the elevator, he's taking the elevator up to a trap,
- 33:45essentially.
- 33:46There are armed guards waiting to destroy him.
- 33:50And this kind of contradicts another thing we were wondering of was Amanda bluffing when
- 33:55she said that it all went according to plan?
- 33:59And I think that this is proof that yes, she was bluffing because she's clearly trying
- 34:04to set traps for him.
- 34:05They're trying to set traps for him here to destroy him.
- 34:07They also send the new Connor to stop him too.
- 34:11So I think they do want him dead.
- 34:13That leads into another theory that I have later.
- 34:17But I think she's bluffing.
- 34:19I think Cyber Life wants Connor dead.
- 34:23So this leads me to believe that Cyber Life is anti-deviant.
- 34:28I feel like if they were anti-deviant, though, they would have put out more than just a
- 34:32single Connor to take care of the situation.
- 34:34They would have put more resources than just having it all hinging on Connor succeeding
- 34:41his mission.
- 34:42So I don't think that.
- 34:44I think they are pro-deviant because they want to take control of the Earth, I guess.
- 34:53And then we get secret endings for Connor's character.
- 34:56Do you want to talk about any of those?
- 34:58So one of the secret endings was that Connor ends up going back to meeting Hank and it's
- 35:05just pretty peaceful.
- 35:07We leave it at that.
- 35:09And I kind of like that secret ending because I have a whole alternative ending on my own
- 35:16that if I could create something, it would pick up on where that is.
- 35:21And I changed some other stuff.
- 35:22But actually, I think that's probably one of my fair endings if I could add to it.
- 35:27I agree.
- 35:28I feel like that's the only ending we see that actually does justice to Connor's character
- 35:33and Hank's.
- 35:34And it's so short.
- 35:36Okay, a little bit more from the secret endings that make me think that cyber life is anti-deviant
- 35:41is when Amanda says that they can now rebuild trust and cyber life can continue.
- 35:47To me, that indicates they are worried about the effect that deviancy has had on the trust
- 35:53in them as a company.
- 35:55It makes great sense.
- 35:57But my theory why I think they're pro-deviant is and again, depending on how you play is
- 36:04pretty much with a dirty bomb, they've ruined the entire city.
- 36:08And I think that cyber life just really wants to take control of everything.
- 36:13The fact that two thirds of the army is made up of androids.
- 36:18The fact that World War Three is happening.
- 36:20And if cyber life is the one who's controlling majority of the military, I think they're
- 36:29pro-deviant because they're still able to control them.
- 36:32The only issue that I see with that is it feels like they won and they lost because
- 36:39if Marcus succeeds, like especially with the dirty bomb route, the city's theirs.
- 36:45Yes.
- 36:45But the government's not going to be able to have them in the military anymore without
- 36:51the entire country going, what the hell are you doing?
- 36:53Like they're deviant, you know?
- 36:57Maybe we should table it because I think that there's more than one thing going on.
- 37:02My least favorite Connor ending, which I feel like has an almost zero possibility of
- 37:09organically happening is when Hank shoots the real Connor.
- 37:13It's just so bad.
- 37:14It's so bad.
- 37:15As a player, you must really screw it up.
- 37:18You have to be trying purposefully because it literally gives you the answers with that
- 37:23little unlock.
- 37:24But at that ending is just ass.
- 37:27I think that is one of my least favorite, but also throwing Hank over the roof.
- 37:31Hank's development didn't make sense and then Connor's action also didn't really make sense.
- 37:37So I think that was my least favorite.
- 37:38Any takeaways for you?
- 37:41We focus on too many options without focusing on the quality.
- 37:47I just didn't really care for a lot of them.
- 37:51I know what you mean.
- 37:52I because I do think that the decisions and consequences, they're some of the best I've
- 37:58seen in a decision based game.
- 38:00Like your choices really do have consequences and reactions to the decisions.
- 38:05I think this game out of ones that I've played is probably the best to do that.
- 38:14But the issue is it just doesn't lead to an ending that you truly want to see, at least
- 38:20for us.
- 38:23So after seeing all the endings, which is the first time for me, I feel a bit more confident
- 38:29that Connor could be considered RA9.
- 38:32Strictly because he's the only character that had these secret endings.
- 38:36And I also just feel like he has more compelling endings overall, more emotional endings overall.
- 38:44And his scenes are so well done that by comparison, the Marcus and Kara chapters feel pretty weak.
- 38:50When I replay it, those two characters just start to feel like filler, which I feel like
- 38:56is another one of these sins that I have been saying the game makes.
- 39:00Marcus and Kara are both great characters and I do enjoy them, but the more time I spend
- 39:07with this game, it's like the more I just want more Connor.
- 39:12I don't care about the other ones.
- 39:15Just give us more Connor.
- 39:17The fact that if Alice, Kara, and Luther never existed and it wouldn't impact the game
- 39:23goes to show how much of a weak spot they have in focusing on them instead of focusing
- 39:29on Marcus and Connor.
- 39:31Because really the only major intersections that we see between the characters is if you
- 39:38choose the right ending, Marcus wins and he's with Connor.
- 39:42And that really is a pivotal moment.
- 39:45But Kara visiting Marcus, that was so short, unnecessary.
- 39:49I think they should have just gotten rid of the whole Alice storyline or Kara storyline.
- 39:55It's a good idea.
- 39:56And this is where it's tough because I like the characters and I like the actors.
- 40:03And I just feel like the chapters by comparison are just so boring.
- 40:08I don't want to walk around Rose's house.
- 40:11I want to be Connor investigating a crime.
- 40:15And it's great seeing Kara as a character that isn't like Madison.
- 40:20That's the opposite of her.
- 40:21If you're just playing this game for the first time, it doesn't really hate you like that.
- 40:26You're still invested.
- 40:27I was invested.
- 40:28It's on the replay and just looking deeper at the game where you kind of realize the
- 40:33writers don't care about anyone but Connor.
- 40:36Not really.
- 40:37And honestly as a player, I don't care about anyone but Connor.
- 40:41He has the most compelling storyline.
- 40:43The other two are just so set in their ways and in what their path is.
- 40:48They don't have the conflict.
- 40:49They try to force it with Marcus but it's just not the same.
- 40:55Are we ready to move on to the additional info which is all the magazines, video extras?
- 41:01So for the extras, there's the Detroit short Kamski.
- 41:06First of all, what's up with Kamski's face?
- 41:08Why is his head so big and his arms are like dinosaur T-Rex arms?
- 41:12They're like so disproportionate which not trying to hate on him or the it's not about the actor.
- 41:18It's the design of him but it's it almost didn't feel too in line with the Kamski that we see
- 41:28in the game.
- 41:28Like this one is way too ambitious and even feels evil versus the one that we see.
- 41:35His interactions with Connor is more of just like toying with him but he doesn't really
- 41:41exude this evilness to him.
- 41:45I only have a few notes.
- 41:46The first one is did you get your red eyes question answered?
- 41:52This article says the synthetic stimulant formerly known as red eyes has become the
- 41:57drug of choice for Detroit's growing underclass.
- 42:00Analysts have pointed to Detroit's status as the epicenter of Android production,
- 42:04suggesting that the drug flourishes and the dissatisfaction caused by androids taking human jobs.
- 42:11I guess so.
- 42:11I partially but at the same time it's like it's one of those storylines that's so insignificant
- 42:18like cool but it's so easily replaced with any other type of thing.
- 42:23Like if you cut out the drug part and just made it seem like the doctor was he was like
- 42:30drunk or something.
- 42:30Or even if he was just high on cocaine.
- 42:32Yeah high on cocaine he was drunk.
- 42:34I just I'm not hating on the game.
- 42:36I just feel like they should have spent a few more years on this game.
- 42:40I know what you mean because I've never played a game that I enjoy so much but have so many issues with.
- 42:48Okay my final notes on the additional info which will lead me into my overall theory is about Kamsky.
- 42:54One of the quotes is rumors emerged that Kamsky disagreed with his shareholders over strategy.
- 43:00He later departed under mysterious circumstances.
- 43:04My overall theory for this game Kamsky was pushed out by cyber life because he was
- 43:09he wanted to push the line further.
- 43:12He wanted to make androids more and more human even to the point where you could argue they
- 43:16do have souls.
- 43:17Cyber life was more interested strictly in profits so basically it was creation versus money.
- 43:25And so he got pushed out.
- 43:27Kamsky still saw himself as the one allowed to make decisions about his own creation.
- 43:33And thus he implanted the deviancy r9 code into the androids unknown to cyber life.
- 43:39As well as the emergency exit.
- 43:41He may have even sent special androids like Marcus to people that he knew had similar views like Carl
- 43:47to try to sort of sprout deviancy and free will in the uprising.
- 43:52Just sort of as an fu basically to cyber life.
- 43:56And then I think when Hank and Connor go to Kamsky he sees Connor's relation to both sides
- 44:02and knows that he's in a position to free the androids and be r9 realized.
- 44:08So he gives him the hint about the emergency exit program in that scene.
- 44:13Basically Kamsky wins at the end of the game and the Kamsky ending we see that he gets
- 44:18reappointed as the head of cyber life.
- 44:22Yeah my theory was just so similar but slightly different.
- 44:26I was thinking that Kamsky was doing that because he truly liked androids.
- 44:32While cyber life just wanted control over the government and of society and that's where
- 44:38the difference was.
- 44:39Kamsky probably wanted to like take back control but he couldn't because he just didn't have
- 44:44the resources.
- 44:45Him really pushing Connor in building in that exit plan was he always knew that he could
- 44:52get kicked out of his own company.
- 44:54So he decides to just take back control in a different way.
- 44:57Yeah to me it feels like cyber life removed him from his own creation and so this is him
- 45:04regaining control of what he created essentially.
- 45:07And that's why I think cyber life is not on board with deviancy.
- 45:12I don't think they know where it came from.
- 45:14I think Kamsky slipped it in there unbeknownst to them.
- 45:19So topic number four.
- 45:21Everyone's favorite topic.
- 45:22Yes.
- 45:22Kathy's favorite character.
- 45:24Just uh hey KFC still waiting on that console please message us on Instagram please.
- 45:32We know KFC who it is.
- 45:35We talked about it multiple times.
- 45:37Luther.
- 45:38I will say that Hank would have been yeah Hank would have been a close second.
- 45:43I want to acknowledge the greatness in his character arc of him finally recognizing that
- 45:50androids aren't all bad and he knows that.
- 45:52Androids aren't all bad and he knows who truly was the one who affected his son's eye for
- 45:58death.
- 45:59I think he's the most entertaining character in the game.
- 46:02And there's like small little nuances to his character like he bumped his head on the car
- 46:06door kind of thing.
- 46:07So yeah for those reasons.
- 46:09Moving on to stale biscuit.
- 46:12I'm going to separate it where I actually added a trash category that's North because
- 46:18so I know North would have easily been a stale biscuit but I feel like that's not
- 46:22doing the category justice because for North it's beyond being a stale biscuit.
- 46:28It's just I'm annoyed with her and I hate the storyline.
- 46:31I hate the focus.
- 46:32You know how I feel about this.
- 46:33So she has her own category which is the trash category so it can give stale biscuit
- 46:38its rightful person.
- 46:41Can we retroactively add Madison to the trash category?
- 46:44Yes please do.
- 46:45Yeah so stale biscuit truly stale personality people.
- 46:51Can I guess?
- 46:51Yes.
- 46:53Simon.
- 46:55I can totally see why you would put him in there but surprisingly he's actually not.
- 46:59I don't think you'll be able to guess who my stale biscuit is.
- 47:02Do you want to get it?
- 47:04Guess again?
- 47:08Simon's too funny to put him in a stale biscuit.
- 47:10He did have that great line.
- 47:12We know that's not going to do it.
- 47:14Okay who if it's not Simon who is stale in this game?
- 47:18Let's see.
- 47:18I feel like you can argue that and I'll give you a clue she like she's not stale but I feel stale about her.
- 47:28Alice?
- 47:29Yeah.
- 47:31She doesn't contribute anything to the storyline.
- 47:35She has like high morals when she should read the room.
- 47:38I'm cold.
- 47:39Yeah.
- 47:40Knock them down.
- 47:41That's exactly what it was.
- 47:43I said she's loud has high morals and ethics when normally it isn't a bad thing but like
- 47:48read the room my goodness.
- 47:50Who would your stale biscuit be?
- 47:52My stale biscuit?
- 47:55Josh.
- 47:56Oh.
- 47:57He does nothing.
- 47:58He adds nothing.
- 47:59Why is he there?
- 48:00Yeah.
- 48:02Kentucky scores your post game.
- 48:04My favorite time.
- 48:06So before we were chatting today it was going to be it was going to be.
- 48:11No no no you can't base it off of that's not Marcus that's the actor.
- 48:15You can't base it off of that.
- 48:17Actually Marcus is my my Kentucky scorcher but now that I know I could choose from the
- 48:25alternative endings I it's a close between Marcus and the Canadian border control guy.
- 48:33It was going to be Jesse willing despite or Marcus despite his association with North
- 48:39but then today you you dropped a very important piece of news.
- 48:44It's gossip.
- 48:44I don't know if we should I mean nobody's really listening so probably doesn't matter.
- 48:49Other people have said it.
- 48:51He's a cheater.
- 48:54But Cathy that's not Marcus you can't you can't consider that in the Kentucky scorcher.
- 49:00Yeah so so okay we'll stick with Marcus because I truly do like the face of Jesse Williams
- 49:06but the Canadian border control guy close second.
- 49:09We pull up do you have the other slides.
- 49:13Oh of course I do.
- 49:15I'm sharing with you now the pictures.
- 49:17I can't believe you put Hank in there Leah.
- 49:20What's wrong with Hank?
- 49:21No I mean the age demographic.
- 49:23He's older.
- 49:25Yeah I thought that he would be one that the personality would get to you.
- 49:32But okay here we go here are the reveals here's what I provided.
- 49:37Kamski, Marcus, Hank, Gavin, Luther and Connor.
- 49:45Are you ready for your notes?
- 49:47Yes.
- 49:49I haven't read these and I caught a glimpse.
- 49:52I'm gonna try to hold it together.
- 49:53Okay these all look to be based on different actors.
- 49:57Number one Kamski Channing Tatum as a criminal.
- 50:02Number two which is Marcus.
- 50:05What did I say?
- 50:09You said looks like Jesse Williams.
- 50:13That was right.
- 50:16Without the beautiful blue green eyes.
- 50:20Number three Hank you said looks like Woody Harrelson.
- 50:27That's all you gave us.
- 50:28Number four is Gavin you said John Krasinski and Tom Clancy.
- 50:35Number five is Luther and you said Ray Fisher.
- 50:40I don't know who that is.
- 50:41He's the guy from Justice League I think.
- 50:45Number six is Connor.
- 50:48Nicholas Gallat sign is that the guy you brought up in one of the episodes?
- 50:52No I in hindsight I realized that he looked more closer to the Ansel guy.
- 50:57But you continue to say he looks like him but with more schoolboyish vibes.
- 51:03This picture does give off a schoolboy vibe.
- 51:06Are you ready for the reveal?
- 51:07I'm ready but at the same time I do want to say that had you put Beanie Connor in there
- 51:12I feel like I would have automatically chose Beanie Connor.
- 51:16I didn't realize you had such a thing for beanies but this is not the first time that
- 51:19you've talked about a man in a beanie.
- 51:22Really?
- 51:22How frequent am I talking about that?
- 51:24How frequent am I talking about that? And it's funny because I find Beanie Connor
- 51:28a tragedy.
- 51:31Here's your pick we've delayed this one.
- 51:33First impressions for Blind Kentucky Scorcher though.
- 51:37It'll be number four.
- 51:40What?
- 51:41You're lying.
- 51:43Get out of here.
- 51:43You're lying aren't you?
- 51:45Picked Gavin.
- 51:47You're lying.
- 51:48How did I not pick Jesse William?
- 51:49I'm glad I don't think I chose him as my cast because he is so annoying.
- 51:55Get out of here.
- 51:56You're lying.
- 51:57That's not true.
- 51:59I'm not lying.
- 52:00Are you kidding me?
- 52:03Are you kidding me?
- 52:07What?
- 52:09This is not as bad as Heavy Rain.
- 52:14Okay he's not ugly though in your defense.
- 52:17He looks good in this.
- 52:18He's not evil looking in this like he's not having that ugly spheric or anything.
- 52:23You can't blame me here.
- 52:24I don't blame you but I just don't know why you weren't looking at two five and six.
- 52:28I guess post-game KS who would it be?
- 52:32I feel like Marcus is too attractive to the point where it's not attractive anymore.
- 52:37I don't know if that makes sense.
- 52:38That's the obvious answer but I feel like he's just too attractive so I feel like I
- 52:41would have to say Connor.
- 52:43He's got a unique face.
- 52:45Also the proportions.
- 52:47Oh this is disgusting.
- 52:49We're getting way too into this.
- 52:51The proportions of his body.
- 52:54You know they were engineered to be perfect and you can tell.
- 53:01I was going to say that if we do include body shape though definitely Luther.
- 53:07I feel safe especially if there's a home invasion.
- 53:09You know he could just pulverize anybody.
- 53:12Exactly.
- 53:13Last topic is the counts slash statistics.
- 53:17There were two secret stats Kathy.
- 53:19I don't like it.
- 53:21Do you want to guess what the first one was?
- 53:22I almost feel like it's a QTE.
- 53:26You're correct.
- 53:27I am?
- 53:28That one was QTE percentage.
- 53:30Yes!
- 53:31Happy dance.
- 53:32What though do you think my QTE percentage was?
- 53:36Hint I thought I did a lot worse than this.
- 53:38It's a-
- 53:39And I don't want to blame the controller.
- 53:40I don't want to blame the controller but this is the first game I played on PS5 and I have
- 53:46to say I hate how big the PS5 controller is.
- 53:49I have dainty hands.
- 53:51And you did do worse?
- 53:53I did better than I thought I did.
- 53:55Okay I'm going to show my loyalty to you as a friend and give you like 92.1.
- 54:03Close.
- 54:0588.7.
- 54:06I was going to guess 88 as my second one.
- 54:08Okay didn't I?
- 54:09Because I thought I was more confident in you.
- 54:14I'm going to give you a hint about stat number two.
- 54:16You're going to hate me for it but you can't possibly hate me as much as I hate myself.
- 54:21Okay.
- 54:22For picking this stat.
- 54:24My first guess would be like how many lines North has but I feel like that's just-
- 54:31You wouldn't do that.
- 54:32That's a good one actually.
- 54:34Yeah.
- 54:34I don't think it's going to be something like a cough from Sleeping Dogs that I completely missed.
- 54:41Okay here's a hint.
- 54:42You made a comment about it once.
- 54:45Very brief comment.
- 54:47Does it apply to one character or to all?
- 54:51It applies to any scene in the game.
- 54:54It's like how many times- I think it's how many times something showed up.
- 54:58How many outfit changes?
- 55:01I think that's going to be my guess.
- 55:02No.
- 55:05How many is correct but it's how many birds- what?
- 55:13How many birds are in the game?
- 55:16Like just Merlin right?
- 55:17Like what do you mean birds?
- 55:21No.
- 55:22I counted every bird in the game.
- 55:25Are you kidding me?
- 55:26I counted every bird in the game.
- 55:28I counted every bird in the game.
- 55:32I'm not kidding.
- 55:33We had a bird analogy.
- 55:34This is why I hate myself.
- 55:37Like I can't even remember if there's any birds like we- besides like Merlin that and we talked
- 55:41about like you don't hate all birds when bird pooped on you like that's a classic Leah line
- 55:46right there.
- 55:47Are we talking like flocks of birds or like single birds?
- 55:50Any county.
- 55:51Individual birds within a margin of error because there are a couple scenes where you
- 55:57have to be an android to count them all accurately but I went over them multiple times to get the
- 56:02most accurate count in slow motion.
- 56:04I can't believe you did that Leah.
- 56:07I'm- I told you that I hate myself for doing this to myself.
- 56:12Oh my god I don't think there's a lot of birds.
- 56:15It's raining and snowing out there.
- 56:17I'd say it has to be under a hundred.
- 56:20It's like 28?
- 56:23Just a little off.
- 56:24I counted 348.
- 56:27What?
- 56:28Wait what?
- 56:30Hold on.
- 56:32Hold on.
- 56:38I can't do- I can't breathe.
- 56:40I can't with you.
- 56:47You got the eight part right.
- 56:49I can't breathe right now.
- 56:58I can't believe you counted over 300 birds.
- 57:02But don't forget about the two robo birds and the one stuffed ostrich.
- 57:09I'm like crying right now.
- 57:11Oh my god Leah you counted over 300 birds.
- 57:15I counted every bird.
- 57:18Although in doing so I noticed a really cool detail in the game.
- 57:21As you know we start like fall right?
- 57:24Late fall.
- 57:26There's birds around.
- 57:27As we progress into winter no more birds.
- 57:30They all flew south for the winter and I have to commend the game designers
- 57:36for including bird migratory patterns in this game.
- 57:40That's insane because all I can remember recently is that there's no birds but how the hell did they fit 300 birds in the beginning?
- 57:49There's 40 in one.
- 57:51What?
- 57:51One little clip in the title scene and also the android's apartment where he's feeding all the birds.
- 57:57That was the biggest pain in my ass.
- 58:00And I knew full well about that scene when I chose birds as the stat.
- 58:05I can't believe you counted birds.
- 58:09This is why I'm behind on editing.
- 58:12Yeah.
- 58:13And the amount of times I got gaslit by a leaf in the wind.
- 58:20Unbelievable.
- 58:22With that good game good guesses.
- 58:25We'll see you next week for a new game.
- 58:30And look out for bird poop as you're crossing the streets.
- 58:34I don't know how to end this now.
- 58:35Okay with that I'm closing us out.
- 58:37Thanks for listening.
- 58:39Bye.
- 58:40Audacity on one.
- 58:41Three, two, one.
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