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What's Left to Discuss? - MAFIA - Summary · Replay Reviews

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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Cathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like 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 the summary.
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This is going to be maybe a record short episode.
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We don't know what to talk about.
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We're going to keep this very organic, somewhat guided conversation.
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Yeah.
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So, like, our first topic is our burning questions.
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And there's only one, which is why don't we have any questions?
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What did this game do differently?
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Every other game we've had burning questions, things left over that we want to discuss.
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What's different about this game?
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How should I say it?
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The characters are flat in a good way, where we're not leaving to debate their character
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arc.
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It just full circle comes around.
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It's really well done with the bow at the end.
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We don't have really questions about anything because we're pretty satisfied with the ending.
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And like things like, where's Ralphie?
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Like, those are the questions I had.
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And they would address that in the end.
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So it's not like we had a lot of questions.
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It's not like we had a lot of debate about the characters that we didn't already go through
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during our part five.
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So I think that's why.
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I don't want to say it doesn't have depth.
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Because I still think the story has depth.
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It's just not a psychological game.
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And I feel like all the other games we've done have had a psychological element.
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Maybe, I mean, Heavy Rain for sure.
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Outlast for sure.
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What else have we done?
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Yakuza has just so many storylines and characters going on.
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Well, yeah, you're right.
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It's not that I'm saying that there's no character death.
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I feel like there's the way that the arc goes and the storyline goes, it closes itself
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on its own.
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There's no plot holes missing compared to like Heavy Rain where because it took things
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out and makes us question this, I don't feel like we have any kind of plot holes that are
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significant enough that we're going to still be debating it after we finish the game.
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Yeah, they didn't overdo it.
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Heavy Rain overdid it.
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Outlast is just a psychological game.
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So that makes sense why we had things that we didn't understand or wanted to discuss.
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And yeah, I think you mentioned the characters, like all of their arcs came to a satisfying
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end.
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I think the only one is Salieri is the only one where we're like, what's up with him?
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Where is he?
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How is he pulling strings?
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Where from?
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That's probably the only question we have, but we honestly don't have any information
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to even speculate.
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I feel bad saying like it's a more simple story, but it is, but that's not bad either.
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There's something charming about just like a simple story that starts and wraps itself
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up.
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But with the ending being so satisfying and with the family is forever, it's complete,
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it still has that little bit of like, uh oh at the end, but not to the point where it
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gives you questions.
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So I think it's just, it's a more simple story, but it's really well done to where you're
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just satisfied when it's over.
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Yeah, it's a really well written straightforward game.
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Agreed.
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Well,
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Okay, we're done.
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Any, uh, any other things you want to say about Mafia?
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No, but I can't wait to watch the next one and I hope it lives up to our high expectations
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now.
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I feel like this is, oh, oh.
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Look, look, I started playing it.
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I shouldn't judge it yet because I didn't get very far, but I think now that more time
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has passed since I played the first game, it'll be better.
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So I don't want to, I don't want to say it's going to be awful, but I'm just going to say
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I had much less fun playing it to the point where I got to, but I still want the story,
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you know, like the gameplay is, but I still want the story.
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Mafia is going to be a really good baseline for games that we don't like and games that
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we like.
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If we like a game more, it's going to really exceed our expectations.
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And if it doesn't, then we know it's a flop.
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The center of the scale.
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I don't think I have anything else I want to talk about.
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Except you know what?
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Something totally unrelated.
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Can we talk about, can we talk about grapes for a second?
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Okay.
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Like, okay.
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Have you noticed how big grapes are lately?
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Oh my gosh.
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That's so funny.
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Look, we were having this conversation earlier this week about, about the unrealistic grapes
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I said we, I think we're talking about whether or not we should continue buying grapes because
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of how big they are and if it's natural for them to be this big.
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Grapes used to be a one bite fruit.
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At what point in time did grapes turn into a two bite fruit?
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I don't want grapes anymore.
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Part of their appeal is that they're a one bite fruit.
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I enjoy the grapes being two bites if it's a frozen grape, but these ones that we're
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getting from Safeway or Friend Meyers, the one you're seeing, they're like ridiculously
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large.
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They're at least an inch big.
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They're practically kiwis.
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And I'm sorry, I just have noticed recently that grapes are always large now and I don't
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know what happened to grapes.
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Okay.
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Anyway, thank you for indulging me in that grape conversation.
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I needed to talk to somebody about it.
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All right.
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You know what time it is.
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It's KFC.
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So I'm just going to have you guess.
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I'm not even going to list things out since there's only so many characters and it'll
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be obvious.
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Who do you think my KFC is?
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Sarah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She's smart.
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She's witty.
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She's the first non-annoying female character and I do wish she had some more game time.
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Yep.
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Underutilized but every time she was on screen, there were jokes, there were smarts.
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She had it all.
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Yes.
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So next one, Kentucky Scorcher.
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This time you had seven options.
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There are lots.
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Yeah.
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To pick from.
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I'm more so curious about my opinions on them before knowing their characters.
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Yes.
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So okay, here we go.
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Here is the Mafia's blind Kentucky Scorcher picks.
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Number one is a picture of Sam and you wrote, looks like a bad guy, but it's a 50-50 chance,
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which is pretty hilarious considering our conversation on his character.
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I knew it.
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It's literally 50-50 depending on one piece of information if he's a mother-**** or a
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mother-respecter.
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Number two is Sally Airy and you said, looks like the mentor, in quotes, of a power-hungry
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low-level Mafia person who grows and tries to overthrow him for power, or he's the lawyer
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of the family.
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Okay.
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Number three.
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Number three is Tommy.
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Oh no.
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Oh no.
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And you wrote, pretentious looking dude who probably went to some prestigious college.
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Probably not bad, but he were...
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Your grammar in this one is throwing me.
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I don't know what headspace you were in, but here's what you wrote.
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Not a good one.
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Let me start.
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Pretentious looking dude who probably went to some prestigious college.
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Probably not bad, but he were to commit a crime.
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It would be a white-collar crime, obviously.
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Don't know what headspace I'm...
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I get what you're going for, but messing with my brain reading that.
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So I'm going to say you're wrong about that, but he can look a little pretentious if you
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don't know him.
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So I'll agree with that point.
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Number four is Polly.
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Looks like the consultant or the family accountant.
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I don't think he's the one committing crimes, but would still get in trouble because he
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knows of the crime and did nothing to stop it.
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Oh no, he's a Frank.
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I thought he was Frank.
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You thought he was Frank.
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Frank is not on this sheet, though.
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Figured he would be too old to be in consideration, so I didn't add him.
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I appreciate that.
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No offense to old people.
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Number five is Vincenzo.
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You said the dude who leads the beatings and the muzzle.
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Concise.
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Yeah.
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Number six is Sergio.
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What did I say?
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Is this dude Asian?
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Looks like he's the head of the rival mafia slash triad who the mafia character's family
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is trying to do business with.
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He's equivalent to Sarah from Y0, but that he's more involved with the affairs.
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You gave that one lots of backstory.
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But the thing is that he could have been.
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Sergio could have been.
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He could have been.
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Again, we didn't get enough Sergio.
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All right.
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Number seven is Morello.
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You said the dude who's trying to strike a business deal with dude number six, who is
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Sergio, probably an arms dealer.
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And that's it.
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Should I just reveal who you picked?
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Yes.
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All right.
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Here's what you said.
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Did I pick Sam?
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In terms of blind Kentucky Scorcher pick and know for basing it off of whoever is good
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looking based on his age, then I would say number five.
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Who's five?
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Vincenzo.
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Oh, and then you continue to say it's the suspenders for me.
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Smiley face.
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If you had chosen a different picture, I might not have picked him.
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I need to see these photos, Leah.
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All right, I'm sharing the screen.
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Okay.
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Goodness, I don't know.
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Now I'm curious about what headspace I'm in.
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I will say the picture of Polly looks very ominous.
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Yeah.
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I think I would still choose Vincenzo.
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Based off of these pictures or is that your choice?
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Well, based off these pictures and still knowing who they are.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I feel like the blind Kentucky Scorcher and my actual now Kentucky Scorcher based off
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these images would be the same person.
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But if I knew the personality, I probably would go Tommy.
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Is that your final?
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Is that your final pick?
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to make it only off of just looks without the characters.
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I would say Sam.
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Just off of looks.
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Same or Tommy.
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I would agree.
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I would have picked one of them.
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Let's look at this.
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Heavy Rain, you picked someone different.
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At last you cheated.
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Mafia, you picked someone different.
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The blind picks...
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Look, you guys, personality counts is what this is proof of.
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Irrefutable proof.
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Dale Fisket, who do you think I chose?
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It's a minor character.
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I'll give you that.
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Or who would you think?
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Carlos Calf Muscles.
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Close.
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Very close.
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But as you chose...
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Carlos Butt.
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No.
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Carlos.
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I was going to say the guy with the rock heart.
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No, it's not.
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It's actually...
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No, it's actually Salvatore.
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Because he pissed you off so much.
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I forgot about him.
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That's how stale he is.
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That's hilarious.
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I knew he was so frustrated.
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Or you were so frustrated with him.
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What a useless character.
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I know.
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I like that.
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You know, this might be the first time that I might 100% agree with all your picks.
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Thank you.
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Okay, should we move on to the final counts?
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Yeah.
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Should we start with pee-pees?
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See how many pedestrian pancakes are in the stack?
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I know I said eight, but I know I'm terribly wrong.
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Wait, no, actually, I don't think I'm that off on pee-pees.
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Correct.
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Your original guess from part one was eight.
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The total pee-pees was nine.
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Oh, okay.
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So you're within one.
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Nice.
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Next up is near misses.
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Your guess in episode one was 35.
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34.
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Oh my goodness.
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I was only one off.
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I'm feeling pretty good.
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You were doing pretty good.
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And then one of them was going to be innocent bystanders, but there was only one in addition
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to the pee-pees, so I felt like that was pretty unexciting.
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So we're just going to scratch that.
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Next is headshot percentage, and I calculated it two different ways.
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So the first way I calculated it was total body shots and total headshots combined, and
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then the percentage of headshots from that.
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And I also calculated the average percentage of every time a body was hit by a bullet,
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how many body shots versus how many headshots.
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So there could be like zero out of three or just three body shots.
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One out of one, it was just a headshot.
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So I calculated the average percentage as well.
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What were you thinking when you made your guess?
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I went back and I said 35% head, 65% body, so I'm just going to stick with that for both
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calculations.
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The percentage of body shots versus headshots that was within a margin of error because
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I had to eyeball these, of course, 41% headshot.
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The average percentage was 64.
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I was still relatively close with the first one.
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Yes.
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So I'm going to take it as a win.
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Especially with a margin of error.
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I mean, you were in...
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It was close.
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What jukes the stats is the shotgun because it's a one-hit kill and then the tommy gun,
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which is like hard to control.
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It's pretty erratic.
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But the pistol, the pistol, the bolt action.
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Well, I think you did pretty good on the stats this time.
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For next game.
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Can you guess what game this quote's from?
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I know how you must feel.
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Let us know if you know.
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Okay, so next up is Scary Christmas.
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So next week there will not be an episode on Thursday, so don't be waiting up for that.
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But we will have an episode released the 24th and the 25th for Scary Christmas.
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Of course, it'll be a horror game for Kathy.
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Well, we did it.
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Let's see, is this going to be a record short episode?
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26 minutes.
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Pretty close to it.
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By the time it's edited down.
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Yeah, we keep talking over each other.
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I'm sorry.
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I know, we're so out of sync right now.
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Yes.
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Okay, this ended.
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Alright.
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