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Bruski Don’t Give an F About Nothin | MAFIA II | Part 1 · Replay Reviews

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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah. And my name is Kathy. We are
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two friends who are here to replay, review, and
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analyze your favorite video games. And since
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Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
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me view them through her fresh eyes, almost like
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I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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It's a new game. Episode 7. Mafia 2. Are you
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excited to go back to Mafia? I didn't know where
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it was going to go. I didn't know if it was going
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to be directly Tommy's Descendants or it's a
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prequel to it. So I don't really know what I'm
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expecting. And if it's a new game, I'm worried
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it's going to be the same plot. Or I'm just going
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to be comparing it constantly to Mafia 1. I kind
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of like where it left off and I want to leave
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it untouched. So I'm kind of nervous about Mafia
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2. Agreed. I haven't played it. I will say it
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took me two go -arounds to get it done. I started
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playing it a while ago and I was like... You
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didn't like it at all. Can't do it. I don't know
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if I've ever seen a worse remaster. Honestly.
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I feel like the graphics could have been better
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if you're going to be dumping that much effort
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into it. The worst thing is the audio. The random
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points where the audio is just at full blast.
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tries to break your TV speakers. It almost gave
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me a heart attack. I tried to edit it out as
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much as I could in the gameplay videos, so you're
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welcome, everybody. But truly, poorly done. But
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we can't hold that against the story, so should
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we do the out -of -context summary points? Let's
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hear it. In this episode, are those sirens or
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cats? Is that little Stewie's grandpa? And what
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is shuffling around Empire Bay because those
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are not normal footprints. Alright, so to summarize
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our first scene, we meet Vito Scaletta, born
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in Sicily in 1925. After struggling for a time,
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his family decided to move to the US, but things
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don't get much better. Vito ends up being arrested
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and sent to fight in World War II before making
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it back to the States. One thing we want to also
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include is that he's arrested because of a person
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named Joe, his quote -unquote friend. Oh, Joe.
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Are they supposed to be similar in age? Well,
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first of all, before we get to Joe, we see little
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Stewie, our guess is his grandpa. Should his
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name be Roteo? Okay. I was not expecting that.
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He is part of the nightmare. that they that vito's
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family is enduring when they expected the american
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dream although wait sorry i completely misunderstood
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you i thought you're naming little stewies like
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his his the one that the rat we saw in this game
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mateo for some reason i was yeah i did ratteo
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ratteo okay i thought you said mateo and i was
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like wait a second are we talking about a human
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or or that i'm like i got so lost there for a
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minute Okay, keep going. Sorry. I feel like Vito's
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complaining about the state of this neighborhood
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they're in, but I kind of want to talk about
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his dad, who seems shitty, right? He blew all
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of his money. Every penny he earns, he spends
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on alcohol. I think we found the problem. Yeah.
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I did have a question, though. Was he an alcoholic
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before immigrating here or into the U .S.? Or
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was it a recent thing? Because if he was then,
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then, I mean, they should have seen the issue
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with them going almost homeless back then in
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Italy. That's not going to change. Right. You
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can't sail away from alcoholism. So you mentioned
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Joe, who Vito meets in school, and they start
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a life of crime together, which leads to Vito's
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arrest and time in the military, which takes
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place in 1943. He says he's 18 when he gets arrested.
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He looks at least 27, if not 37. That's something
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else I want to complain about that graphics is
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everyone looks so old. Even the children. Right?
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The children, like he looks like he's wearing
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a mini tuxedo, but Vito, and you'll see this
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later, but like at one point Joe just looks 50
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and like Vito looks 40. They are like... The
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age and the graphics is something that's bugging
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me a lot. Yeah, like, they're supposed to be
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similar age, right? Because they met in school,
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so at least within, like, five years, I would
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assume. He looks like he's at least 15 years
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older than Vito. I don't understand age in this
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game. So we are now at Chapter 1, The Old Country.
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Sicily, July 1943. Reteo, we see Reteo again.
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And, of course, I have to use a Gatling -type
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gun. which we all know I despise. Anything before
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that portion or before the tank blows up Vito?
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No. So basically we're fighting, right? And then
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a tank blast throws Vito and some other soldiers.
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Soon some Italian soldiers come to make sure
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that he and the others are dead, but he's saved
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when someone distracts the attention of the Italian
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soldiers. This person is Don Cullo. the head
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of the Sicilian mob. He told the Italians to
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surrender. Vito says, why? Because he told them
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to. So what kind of reputation does Don Carlo
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have that like even US soldiers would know about
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his reputation? How is he so important? I don't
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know. Yeah. I feel like we need to know some
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like Italian World War II history that we're
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missing. Yeah, we're definitely missing some
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of that. I just don't know if, He's going to
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be important because Vito is going to join his
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mafia or Vito is going to go against him? I think
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it impacts Vito. Yeah. We'll say that. I think
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it impacts Vito and his view on the mafia. Okay,
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so Chapter 2, Home Sweet Home. Two years later,
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Empire Bay, February 8th, 1945. Some injuries
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that Vito sustained. lead to him being given
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a month's leave at home. Joe is waiting for him
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at the train station. Vito questions how he knew
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he'd be there, and he says, I have my sources.
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I don't know if I like that. I don't like Joe
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being back in the picture. I don't either. Joe
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is what got Vito here, and Vito still trusts
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him? Right. And why is he here? What are his
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sources? And this is maybe one of the worst audio
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issues. Vito comes walking up and Joe's like,
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Hey, Vito! So loud. And even Vito actually screamed
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that into the microphone, Leah. I screamed it
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with my body, but not my voice. Too bad we don't
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record ourselves. They get in Joe's car and Vito's
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like, nice car. And Joe says, comes with the
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territory. Joe is seeming kind of iffy so far.
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Thoughts? I don't like Joe. He's not good news.
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He was a bad idea back then, and he's going to
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be a bad idea right now. They chat in the car
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when Vito references Don Calo, and Joe says he
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knows guys like him over here. You work for them,
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you're set. You fuck with them, you die. So is
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Joe working with Don Calo's US branch of his
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mafia? I think there's a tie, I just don't know
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what it is. He says guys like him, so I don't
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think... I think he knows who he is based off
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of his connections here, but I don't think that
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they're related necessarily other than just being
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in the Italian mob. So they grab a drink where
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Joe is surprised to hear Vito has to go back
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to war. I don't feel like that should be a shock
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to anybody. Yeah, which my next question is then
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why is Joe not going to war? I feel like there
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was probably a draft and a lot of... young men
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had to go to war so how did joe get out of it
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well veto wasn't drafted he was just it was that
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or prison basically okay because he got arrested
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but still how has he evaded arrest yeah but joe
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makes a call while veto makes weird faces at
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a woman at the bar joe however uh has pulled
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some strings to get veto to stay home they just
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need to pick up his forged discharge papers Which
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is bad news, because I think it's going to bite
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him in the butt. Vito questions it a little bit,
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but not enough. And this is something I have
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to say more about later, but I don't like how
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naive Vito is with just going with the flow,
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not questioning things, not really relying on
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integrity of being like... Hey, I can't do these
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forged documents. I'm just going to hope I don't
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get shot again. I know there's some hesitancy.
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I understand why he doesn't want to go back to
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the army. Yeah. And we'll get into this throughout
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the episodes for this game. But my biggest issue
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is I don't like Vito. Really? Already? Yeah.
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I just don't care about Vito. I could see that.
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At this point in the game, I can't really say.
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But it starts to form my opinion. Vito finally
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says, oh, I guess I should go home, you know,
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see my mother, my sister. Should have done that
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immediately, Vito. Strike one. But he's like,
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it's okay, Jo, I don't need a ride. I want to
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walk. Cut to a cab that Vito climbs out of. They
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force you to ride the cab. Or they're just story
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writing. It's not very consistent. I do have
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a problem with the storyline, which, again, we'll
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go into some more later. Yeah. I mean, could
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Joe not have dropped him off there? Anyway. So
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he walks a little bit through the alleyways to
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his home, his family's apartment. Someone throws
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a vase out of a window or something. And then
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a cat hisses at us. Anything before he reunites
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with his family? I forgot to add this. So this
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was during the bar scene. I guess we can cut
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it over. I don't like the look between Joe and
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that lady at the end, which that lady looks 50.
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But there's something, and I don't know what
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it is. I'm worried that she's going to be either
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a witness or help Joe blackmail Vito in the future.
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I know she ends up being a prostitute, but still,
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I don't like that look between the two of them.
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She looks like she's scamming both Joe and Vito.
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I have to wonder if there were some cut content
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or cut scene with her because she'll pop up a
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couple times, but she doesn't matter at all.
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Okay. She could not be here and the game would
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be exactly the same. Okay. But they set her up
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a couple times where you think that there's going
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to be more. And maybe there's side content I
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didn't do. I don't know. Why is she here? Vito
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reunites with his mother and sister, Francesca.
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They sit down to some plates of soup. Is that
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what you saw? At first, I thought it would be
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like really thick soup or like a stew that you
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just eat the meats off, but then that didn't
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look like it. And so, yeah, I think it's plates
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of soup. Also, is that Chef Boyardee hiding in
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the background at 1845? Open, open. Look at him.
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Look at him. Oh, right there in the back. They've
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got the Chef Boyardee raviolis. Yeah. So after
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they eat soup plates, Vito heads to bed. Any
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other notes from scene one for you? Nope. Okay,
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so scene two, to summarize it, Vito learns his
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father left the family in debt, and he's desperate
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to pay it off as soon as possible, which pushes
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him deeper into unsavory activities, despite
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his mother's warnings. So to start off the scene,
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some Vito hate for me. I just hate that he wakes
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up in the morning and his first thought is, this
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isn't going to cut it. I have to find my own
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place to stay. Buddy should be ecstatic to be
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home. Other men are dying while you're deserting
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and complaining about having your own bedroom
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in your family's apartment. Shut up. Right. And
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it looks like Frankie doesn't even have her own
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room. And so what are you complaining about?
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You're alive. This is the start where I'm like,
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OK, maybe he's going to redeem himself. But I'm
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feeling some ungratefulness coming from him already.
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And I know he's young. Come on. Everyone is suffering.
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Like the fact that your sister has to deal with
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owning a loan shark. And here he's just. I mean,
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he was in war. I get that. But coming back into
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it and just like, I need to move out too. Maybe
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save up money to help your sister out. And he
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was not, you know, it was not innocence that
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got him sent to war either. Yeah, let's not forget
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he was the one who earned himself some prison
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time. Yeah, you should be in prison, not at home.
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So shut up. Quit complaining. Anyway, let's calm
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down. While Vito's mother is glad that Joe...
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Took care of it, as Vito says. She's still wary
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of him spending time with Joe. She asks him to
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go a different route and ask for a job where
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his father had worked with someone named Papa
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Lardo. She says, promise me you'll go talk to
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him today. Does he, Kathy? No, because he's just...
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He doesn't listen. And it pisses me off. Okay,
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the guy. The guy in the hallway. Mike Monty,
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Mike Monte, however you want to say it. He's
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snooping on us, or somebody. His reaction to
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just slamming the door is not the best. I don't
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trust someone who quickly slams the door. Me
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neither. You're feeling guilty about something,
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Mike. So he leaves to meet up with Joe, and on
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the way, he witnesses a man hassling Francesca.
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He fights him off, and then Frankie comes clean,
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saying that their father took money from a loan
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shark before he died. They have to pay it back
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by the end of the week where the debt increases.
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I feel like it's so unfair for Frankie and her
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mom to have to deal with her dad's terrible decision
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-making skills. How much money was it, Kathy?
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Was it $2 ,000? $2 ,000. So, I mean, I think
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that this is the one saving grace for Vito, right?
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Like, we can understand him needing to pay this
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money back, and that's why he does some of the
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illegal activities that he will do shortly. But
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you could stop at any time, right? Once you get
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$2 ,000. I think he ends up with at least $400
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by the end of this game, or this episode. The
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other thing is, I don't understand why he couldn't
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just borrow some money from Joe. It's not like
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Joe's in a drought of money. We get to Joe's
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building, and there's like a... She looks like
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a lunch lady, but she's like a janitor, landlord,
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I don't know. She's scrubbing the floor all the
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time. Vito asks her where Joe's apartment is,
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and she points the way. And she seems to have
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a little animosity towards Joe, which I'm going
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to take her side on this without even... Yeah.
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Not even asking questions. And then when Joe
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lets Vito inside, like, okay, the lady is a little
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unpleasant, but do we need to pretend to jerk
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it at her? Joe just pisses me off. Everything
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I know about Joe I don't like, and I will always
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be on Joe's enemy's side. It's back. The elusive
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FBM. The full booty moment. It's literally the
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definitive edition. FBM definitive edition. Why
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do they need it? I don't understand. Why do we
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care if we get booty in this game? Why write
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it into this game? Just open the door, Joe. You
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don't need to make the jerky motion. You don't
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need to show that you're able to get to prostitutes
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with you. And why does Vito walk in and just
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pick up the underwear that's on the floor? Why
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would you touch that? Keep your hands to yourself,
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Vito. Anyway, Joe asks the ladies to leave so
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that they can chat. Joe says Vito can stay with
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him as long as he needs and that he'll hook him
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up with higher paying work. The two then head
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out to get the discharge papers. Joe just needs
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to shut his mouth. Well, one, he has a joke saying
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like, oh, do you know what time it is? Time to
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get your own car. Dude, Vito just literally.
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Came back to the U .S. And his family has debt.
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Right? Getting a car is not at the top of the
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list. So they're heading to this guy, Giuseppe,
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to get the discharge papers. And he also has
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lockpicks, which they're going to buy so that
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Vito can steal a car for himself because we've
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learned nothing. Why is Vito just so gung -ho
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about committing crimes? He just listens to everything
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Joe says, which... irritates everything out of
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me. Are you stupid? Seems like it. When Joe's
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like, oh, you can get lockpicks, he's like, it's
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easy. I do it all the time when I lock my keys
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in the car. How often is he locking his keys
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in his car? To where you need to buy a set of
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lockpicks. Or maybe just have a second set of
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keys. That might help things out. I don't know.
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I'm just putting ideas out there. Just another
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thing to hate about Joe. Okay, but Giuseppe's
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hands. His hands are not hands, they're claws.
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They could have fixed that when they were making
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this edition. And then I have noticed it a few
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times while walking out of Giuseppe's is when
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I see the footprints. They're like this far apart
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from each other. He waddles. That's what he does.
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Anyway, I'm suspicious. I need to know who's
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leaving those footprints. So they pick up the
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discharge papers. They steal a car. Joe says
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that they should then head to Mike Bruschi, who
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might have some work for Vito. During the car
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ride, Joe has these disgusting pickup lines,
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and they just have to stop. I mean, they obviously
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don't work, because when Vito asks if they work,
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he just doesn't answer. Silence. They're not
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even clever. Like, there's nothing about them.
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These earn a kick to the balls. This is that
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kind of pickup line. But Kathy, Joe is so disgusting.
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At the end of this pickup line conversation,
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he's like, Well, when you measure seven soft,
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it doesn't take a lot of convincing if you catch
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my drift. There is no drift to catch. You said
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everything. Like, we get it. You disgusting pig.
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It's an insult to pigs. I think someone needs
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to just chop his dick off. That was aggressive.
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Moving on. Turns out Brewski's work is just car
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theft. But before we leave, Joe gives us a gun
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and we're going to do some target practice. And
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I'm sorry, am I not hitting the tires? You're
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so mad about that. Apparently I just needed to
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walk up closer. I don't know. But also, again,
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why is Vito so easily accepting weapons? Like,
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he doesn't know if the gun is legal or not. His
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reaction is just, nice. Oh my god, Vito, you're
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pissing me off already. So he leaves to go steal
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this car. Things get a bit hairy. He's able to
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succeed and brings the car back to Brewski where
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he makes his 400 bucks, 100 of which Joe keeps
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for being the middleman. But real quick, so earlier
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Brewski got a greasy handprint on Joe's coat,
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right? And then when Vito comes back with the
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car, it cuts to Brewski. cleaning in quote unquote
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Joe's coat and I swear he's purposefully cleaning
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around the grease stain and avoiding it just
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to be a dick and I need to show you look at this
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guy he's not on the grease spot that's kind of
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like the coolant of putting sunblock on someone's
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back and making a dick shape and then they head
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back to Joe's and Vito sleeps on his kitchen
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couch which is a Piece of furniture that I wouldn't
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have in my kitchen. To summarize our third scene,
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Vito tries honest work for all of about three
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minutes before doubling down on less savory but
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higher paying jobs. So chapter three, Enemy of
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the State. We're at Joe's apartment, February
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10th, 1945. Kathy. Is this about how he answers
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the phone? Yeah. Why? He picks up the phone without
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knowing who's on the other end and goes Joe's
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pleasure place to his mom. His mom's on the other
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side of the phone. Why is this? Why did they
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write the story like that? Like what prompted
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the game writers to write? Be like, you know
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what we should do? Say Joe's pleasure place and
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then make it be his mom. Why? Who would you even
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be saying that to where it lands, though, is
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my question. But second of all, she had no idea
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where Vito was, and she was worried about him.
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Vito, come on. She asks him again to please talk
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to Papa Lardo at the docks. So Vito drives to
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the port and meets him. He goes by Derek. His
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associate, Steve, shows Vito around. The job
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for the day is loading a truck. I don't like
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the way Steve is just looking at things. At things?
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You mean the Playboy magazine? Well, no, no,
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no. Like, I just don't like Steve. One, he's
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looking at Playboy magazines, but two, he's just,
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he's like making eye contact with Derek, which,
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where did the name Derek come from? Also, does
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Derek not have teeth? Because I know he's not
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actually chewing that steak with the, like, he's
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just doing that. Even like a child. It's no wonder
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it takes him all day to finish it. I wanted to
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finish the job and get my 10 honest dollars.
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I wanted to load all these crates into this truck.
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And it takes a long time. Each one takes like
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30, 45 seconds. It takes a long time. But Vito's
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like, no, I'm done with this shit. And so then
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he just like storms out of the warehouse. And
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his pissy attitude rubs Steve the wrong way.
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He says, don't show your face around here again.
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Roves me the wrong way, too. This is where I
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wrote, Vito's kind of a bitch. I would disagree.
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In his heated state, he mentions Joe, who Steve
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has heard of, and he asks Vito to come follow
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him back to Derek's office. When they walk in,
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Derek's like, what's going on? And Steve's like,
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this one don't like manual labor. And then Derek's
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like, what the fuck? Why are they making them
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talk so slow? Like, it's not slow, but it's not
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natural. They remind me of the SDWDOs from Outlast.
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They kind of talk in that slow, just, yeah. It
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creeps me out a little bit. I don't like it.
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Derek needs to verify that Vito does in fact
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know Joe. So he's gonna call him and then takes
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out a gun and... Places it on his desk facing
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Vito in a pretty obvious threat. And he's like,
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he might not be home. That wouldn't be good.
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So, what, is he just going to kill Vito if Joe
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doesn't answer his phone? Like, what's the point
25:08
of pretending? So, what, you're going to just
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outright murder a man knowing that he has family
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and they're going to come look for him? But after
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vetting Vito, thankfully Joe does answer, Derek
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sends him out to do some light extortion. Vito
25:22
collects the money, beats up a guy, and then
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Derek informs him that Joe called and asked Vito
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to meet him at Freddy's. I do have a question.
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So the whole reason why he's here is because
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of Vito's mom saying that, oh, it's a good way.
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And it's because of what his dad did before he
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died, right? Does that mean his dad was either
25:48
doing some sketchy stuff too, like some illegal
25:51
things? Or do you think his dad was just doing
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the boring $10 an hour hard labor? This second
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job that he gets the extortion thing is out of
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his connection to Joe. Oh, okay. So it's not
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because he would get offered. Not as far as we
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know. Okay, that makes sense. Are we ready for
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scene four? Final scene. Alright, so Joe introduces
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Vito to a wise guy who gives Vito a job that
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skyrockets in terms of riskiness. So Vito heads
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to Freddy's to meet Joe as requested. Joe says,
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Remember the wise guys we used to see as kids?
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The guy we're meeting here is one of them. His
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name's Henry Tomasino. I think he's got something
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big for us. Reactions to this? It's not good
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news. Did Vito agree? To being, like, involved
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in this? I feel like we're missing something,
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but I'm sure Vito, by showing up, is equivalent
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to, I'm all in. We meet Henry, and his job is
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breaking into a federal building, and then breaking
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into a safe inside the federal building, to steal
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gas stamps, which are in very high demand. And
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apparently it's all on Vito, because Henry has
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got another job for Joe. I'm worried that Joe
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and Henry are setting up Vito. Coming from Henry's
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perspective, this is the first time you're working
27:21
with Vito, someone completely new, even though
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Joe is bashing for him. So why would you put
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that much trust into Vito? Yeah. To send him
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alone is kind of odd. He does say he wants this
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to be a clean job. If you kill anybody, your
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cut drops by a third. He says that one of their
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men has a sister who works in the building and
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sends Vito to go get some information out of
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her. Reactions to Marie. Why does she agree so
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easily? Marie doesn't care at all. She just wants
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a ride to the hospital with her sister. That's
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all she could leverage out of this deal. He does
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drive her to the hospital. She fills him in on
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the ins and outs. Okay, taking a step back. It's
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pretty evident that I've been crashing in that
28:14
car a lot, right? It looks a little worse for
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wear. And if I were Marie, no way in hell I'm
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getting in a car that looks like that. No. So
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after dropping her off, he runs across to the
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federal building and sneaks his way on inside.
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Vito uses his newly learned pickpocketing skills
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to, not pickpocketing skills, but picklocking?
28:38
Lockpicking skills. We got there. Lockpicking
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skills to open the safety box, but in doing so,
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he does not realize there's a freaking red blinking
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light above the box. Vito, are you so stupid?
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He's blind. Oh my gosh. I feel like he does deserve
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to get shot the first time, even though it was
29:00
unfair for the police to literally be on you
29:03
the moment you open the door. They teleport.
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I was doing so good sneaking around this building
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and then all of a sudden there's a cop right
29:11
behind me after .5 seconds of the alarm going
29:14
off. I don't buy it. That's a glitch. He eventually
29:18
gets out with the stamps and heads back to Freddy's.
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However, the stamps expire tomorrow. Henry's
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not too happy about it, but he tells Vita that
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he has to get them all sold at gas stations before
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midnight. Otherwise, they're out of luck. So
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he sells them all, then heads back to Joe's kitchen
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couch for the night. I don't understand how,
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one, the stamps are expiring the following day,
29:44
yet they're kept in the safe. Vito is just being
29:46
so stupid with not seeing the light, doing what
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someone says immediately, takes a legal weapon,
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and isn't even aware that he's taking something
29:54
that can easily trace back to him. He hasn't
29:57
got a thought in that head. Thoughts on part
30:01
one? I think I have to do some quick comparison
30:05
to Mafia 1 because that's why I was kind of worried
30:08
about this game was if they're going to ruin
30:11
the first game, if it's a continuation of it,
30:14
which at this point, I don't know if Ito is related
30:16
to Tommy in any way. In terms of the plot, though,
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I don't really... And it's a character thing,
30:24
too. I don't like how easily Vito agrees into
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the life of crime. It's not even just him being
30:31
naive, but he's so... I don't know if stupid's
30:34
the right word. No sense of morality and ethics.
30:37
He doesn't question, like, oh, I shouldn't do
30:41
some more crime -related activities because I
30:45
could go to jail and learn my lesson, or I need
30:48
to be there for my mom and my sister. I mean,
30:51
that alone is enough reason. Tommy at least had,
30:54
like, he really didn't want to go, but he fought
30:56
it, but then ultimately he had to do it. Vito
30:59
here is just being like, let me join you guys.
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Let me start committing as many crimes as I want,
31:04
even though I probably don't need to. He's not
31:07
going to have much of a redemption arc. You know
31:10
what I mean? I don't know. I'm worried about
31:12
how this game's going to go. I'm worried about
31:13
the plot because I want to see some more push
31:16
and pull, but we don't see that. And I get it,
31:19
and I kind of like it that he's just young and
31:22
caught up in stuff. Like, he's a bad boy, right?
31:25
And he's not really thinking. And I kind of like
31:28
that take in a main character, because usually
31:31
it is someone a little bit more like Tommy who
31:34
has, you know, some conflicting morals. But so
31:38
far, we're really not seeing that with Vito.
31:40
And it seems like he's just not thinking, and
31:42
he's just charging ahead, maybe out of desperation.
31:47
It's a lot harder to find things that are likable
31:52
about him. But we'll see as the game goes on
31:55
if his morality enters into the equation a bit
31:59
more or if he starts maturing a bit more and
32:02
understanding the gravity of what he's doing.
32:05
But very different character from Tommy, for
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sure. Yeah. And I know this is part one, so I
32:11
might be judging him pretty harshly. But we'll
32:15
give him a chance next part. Yeah, and I didn't
32:20
really enjoy playing this game, to be honest,
32:22
but I have enjoyed it a lot more as I watch it,
32:26
to edit it and watching it with you. So I enjoy
32:29
the story. I enjoy the game. I just think it's
32:31
a... This should not be the definitive edition,
32:34
is what I will say. Part one, we're a little
32:37
unsure, but we're curious to see where things
32:40
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