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Happy Halloween. It's the final day of Horror
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Month. Kathy's favorite day of the year. I look
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forward to it every year since we started this
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podcast. Don't forget about Scary Christmas.
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Thank you for coming back for a special Halloween
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episode of Free Prayer Reviews. My name is Leah.
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My name is Kathy. We are two friends who are
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here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite
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video games. And since Kathy has never seen the
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games before, it helps me view them through her
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fresh eyes. Almost like I'm discovering them
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again for the first time. I hope I'll be a similar
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experience for you. Should we just start in on
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topic one then? Mm -hmm. It is the alternate
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ending. I thought there were two, but one of
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them is a legend. Did you watch the second ending,
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the emergency stop video? What did you think?
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I think it's pretty good. I'm okay with it. I
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think if I was in those shoes, I wouldn't be
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surprised if I chose that just because I can't
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justify killing a whole plane of people to save
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my child who is already potentially going to
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be a monster i do think it's a bit too dramatic
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with needing to light the picture your only picture
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of timmy on fire thank you that was my problem
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so yeah we hit that emergency stop button and
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then we pop out somewhere on the mountain and
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we see the plane fly by but then yes he pulls
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out the picture of timmy and burns it why I mean,
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is this just like a little funeral for him? Like
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you could go back and get his body and bury him.
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That's something I don't understand, too, is
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that if you knew there's no way to survive, why
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did you continue to exit the cave? I wonder if
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it's if it's possible to go back to grab Timmy's
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body. I don't know, because you can I mean, you
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can just go through that route again. I'm pretty
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sure I've never done that ending. So maybe it
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closes off access. But still. Do we know if the
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game just cuts straight into end credits, or
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do you think that they stay on the island forever
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and just die? So I think it probably shows end
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credits, but then after that, you're just back
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to free roam, continuing to survive on the island
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as I did for 100 days. And then here's the ending
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I thought existed. So in the survival guide,
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there's an SOS signal that you can build. And
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when you build it, it apparently triggers a plane
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to fly overhead. But as far as I found, no one
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has actually been rescued by using it. So I thought
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you could actually signal for help and get rescued
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and get off the island. Even if you did shoot
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the plane down, well, you didn't shoot it, but
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if the plane did crash and you saved Timmy, we
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still don't see how they escaped the island.
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So how? I feel like it's either... You take the
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yacht or you signal for help. However you get
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off the island that we don't see in the Save
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Timmy ending should be how we get off the island
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in this case too. Should we just roll into burning
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questions on topic two? My first one is the red
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paint. Can't get over the red paint. Yeah. I
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have a feeling we probably found kind of the
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same thing because I just googled it. But it
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says that... Putting the red paint on makes the
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cannibals act passively. They'll stare, step
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back. They say that this is because of a deep
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-seated fear response to the color red, which
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stems from a backstory of Dr. Matthew Cross,
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the red man, who is seen in red paint and is
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a figure of fear for the cannibals. The red paint
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is how he traveled safely across the island,
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which makes sense. You would need a way to deal
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with the cannibals. And that makes me think that
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they've been here all along, which I'll get into
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more. and then they continue to say it can be
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deduced that sahara fear conditioned red into
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the cannibals making them associate the color
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with pain or death or something else unpleasant
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or perhaps something pleasant such as rewards
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for kneeling instantly if we keep crashing we
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if they keep crashing flights and it kills everyone
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but the children how are there humans to be tested
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on unless the artifact isn't killing the entire
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plane and they take any survivors in well that's
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why i lean towards the cannibals have always
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been here it just seems like a leap to me that
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the survivors of these plant the adult survivors
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of the plane crashes all turn into these cannibals
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that like seem to have their own society and
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way of living and i just find that that is hard
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to believe and i think that all of the depth
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to that society is proof of like a longer running
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development of that you know So I don't really
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buy that they created the cannibals. I do think
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that they tested on them and did the fear therapy,
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whatever. I'm not quite also getting the concept
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of the cannibals. There's a finite amount of
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cannibals on the island. Don't they die? What
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happens? Because if they already existed here,
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wouldn't some of them have died off? There's
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only so many cannibals to eat, right? Well, and
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that's another issue I have with this. Where's
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their food source coming from? Is it the crashed
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planes? I mean, I lived on this island for over
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100 days, and I saw no other humans, but I did
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see a lot of animals. So I'm like, what leads
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these people to be cannibals? Because opportunity
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is not knocking to eat human flesh. Well, my
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last burning question is just, why does nobody
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come to the island? And I couldn't really find
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anything on this. It seems like people are not
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asking this question. But it remains my biggest
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question because I just don't think that there's
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any way a corporation of any size can continue
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to shoot down what I assume are commercial flights
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and avoid detection. or bribe officials to turn
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the other way. I'm sorry, that's just not going
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to happen. And aren't there any questions about
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what this company is doing? Why are they buying
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so much red paint? Why do they need all this
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equipment? How? And there would be so much pressure
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from the families of these lost people. So I
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don't know. And I don't know why more people
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are asking that question. I think it's maybe
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just an oversight in the game where they just
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didn't bother explaining it. How does the artifact
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ensure those kids that are the targets stay alive
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during the plane crash? Maybe the energy wave
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that it sends out leads to a gentler crash. You
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know what I mean? Yeah. But that also begs the
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question, what the hell is this artifact for?
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I don't think they built it. I think they found
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it. And do you just discover that it can knock
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planes out of the sky? I find that hard to believe,
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too. That's my question, is just... How did they
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figure out how does this artifact work and that
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it could revive someone from dying? It makes
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no sense how they come to this type of conclusion
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that they're going to build an entire facility
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around this island and recruit people into doing
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this and not get caught. It just doesn't make
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sense to me. And that's my biggest issue with
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this game. It has a lot of questions. Where it's
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like, if it were Outlast... We'd be able to find
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the answers if we looked and theorized hard enough.
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But in this game, you just can't. And I wish
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that we could. And even if it's not like a black
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and white answer, we could have enough information
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to form our own theories. But there just is so
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much information missing. Which is fine. I just
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think it would add a lot of depth to the game.
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Which I think brings us to our third topic, a
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full theory. Yeah. I thought I had a lot of questions.
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I'm looking at it. I've moved it all up into
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burning questions. So I'm just going to stick
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with what I know, which is bullet point listing.
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Megan Cross is sick. Matthew Cross then becomes
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obsessed with finding a gear. And then he somehow
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finds the artifact that either he finds it and
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recruits Sahara Therapeutics to do it. Sahara
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Therapeutics has the artifact and he somehow
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finds out and works for them. Or he creates Sahara
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Deserts. what I'm saying Sahara Therapeutics
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muscle memory filled in that one for you Sahara
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Therapeutics to use their resources to somehow
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make the artifact work I'm not quite sure either
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way the two become like into a partnership they
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crash a lot of planes they kidnap a lot of kids
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and humans One of the flights then has us as
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the main character and Timmy, and then we know
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what goes on since then. Yeah. I don't have a
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whole lot either. This is all just what I think,
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based off of what I've learned and researched.
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So, I think the cannibals were the original inhabitants
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of this island. I think missionaries came to
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the island to try to make contact with the cannibals,
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based on what we see in the caves and the apparent
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age of the items we find. I think that the missionaries
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and the cannibals both knew about the artifacts
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and maybe the powers of the artifacts. Some of
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the missionaries were able to leave the island
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and others were not. The idea of these artifacts
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was leaked, or not leaked, but brought to light
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by the missionaries. And not only Dr. Cross learns
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about it, but others do as well, which is why
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we see the newer backpacking type orange tents
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as people came to investigate the myths. Dr.
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Cross eventually convinces Sahara to purchase
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the island, where they tame the cannibals, build
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their facility, locate the artifacts, and begin
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testing, blasting down planes all the while.
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Yeah. I miss having a game where we can really
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theorize about it, kind of like I said, and I
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feel like we got real close with this one, but
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there's just a little bit missing in terms of,
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like, backstory clues. I like it, too, because
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it's... something that we can get enough meat
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and just some extra where we're like okay i have
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questions but it's not enough to distract me
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from the main storyline yeah it's a bit better
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than having massive plot holes and heavy rain
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i agree it's a good game i really enjoy playing
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this game a lot are there a few issues sure but
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the issues are like they're fine the storyline
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is good Anything else on theories or should we
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move into KFC? Let's do KFCs. This is a crappy
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one, honestly. This is going to be interesting
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because there's like nobody in this game. I'm
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just going to go right into it. KFC, Kathy's
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favorite characters. Let's start with the first
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category, which is Stale Biscuit. Again, not
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a lot of people. I don't know if you want to
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give it a shot. I'm going to guess. to me no
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i mean i i could have but i just put the host
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at the end of the game i thought you'd hate him
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more than being stale so i didn't want to say
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him i mean he could have been in the trash category
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but the trash was reserved for something else
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for trash i think it's quite safe to say icky
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babies thank you overflowing with the abundant
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amount of icky babies i hate those things so
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much and other thing too is the the flesh like
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the room full of flesh it's not really like trash
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but i just didn't like that no it's pretty gross
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yep there's a little arm sticking out here a
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little belly button maybe a nipple things you
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see in that room are not okay i can't imagine
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how it smells i imagine like well stink but like
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some formaldehyde kind of smell too you know
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like some nasty chemicals that mix with just
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rot and like flesh so i had the delusion of thinking
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i wanted to do like x -ray technician oh yeah
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i remember and so that meant like not medical
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school but like medical programs right so i took
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health sciences in high school yeah cadavers
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do not smell good. And I hung on for a long time.
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I even started taking some classes in college
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for that. And it wasn't until, I can't say too
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much because suits had to come into the hospital
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and it was a legal issue that I witnessed. What?
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Wait, how did we never go to deep dive about
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this in our own spare time? I'll just say a patient
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was somewhere where they weren't supposed to
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be and had a seizure. And no one noticed. What?
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And so it was a whole big thing. And I was just
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there for a job shadow. Leah, how did we not
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talk about this before? And then, okay, so I
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was medical imaging is what I was job shadowing
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for. And one of those was like an ultrasound
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appointment. And so I kept being in the room
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and the person would be like, oh, this is a student.
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Can they watch? Blah, blah, blah. But they forgot
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to introduce me one of the times. And I'm like.
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like it was a big room i'm 12 feet away it's
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dark because they have to look at the screen
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for the imaging right just sitting in the corner
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uncomfortable i don't know what to do i don't
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know what to say it's this family like two little
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kids mom and dad they're ultrasounding her baby
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tummy and then like in the middle of it the dad
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looks up at me like looks looks around at the
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at the technician and is like, who's that? And
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I'm just like, god damn it. I f***ing hate my
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life. And it was Halloween and I just wanted
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to go home and eat candy and change my major.
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I'm crying. Oh my goodness, Leah. Literally crying.
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This children is why you go to community college
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first. Thank god I went to community college.
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Imagine your eyes and your teeth are glowing
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in the dark as the dad makes eye contact. Oh
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my god. That was the most uncomfortable thing
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I've ever experienced. I just need to see the
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reactions. Oh my goodness. I'm crying. Well,
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I think we just went a little too far off topic.
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Let's reel it in. Where were we? KFC. Post game
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KFC. Okay, this is something that... I go back
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and forth on. I don't know if the main character
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should have revived Timmy back to life knowing
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that it's going to put him into more pain. So
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I feel like in theory I should be saying the
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main character but no. And then you have Timmy
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where why does he need to explore more and reopen
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Pandora's box? So I'm going to be very strategic
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about who I choose and it's going to be Jessica
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Cross which is Megan Cross's mom because she
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filed a restraining order against Matthew Cross
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and I feel like that's the only sensible woman
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in this game or human my favorite character is
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oh my god I was not expecting that oh my god
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my favorite character is whichever mutant or
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cannibal makes that laugh noise I'm speechless.
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Postgame KS. Kentucky Scorcher. Most visually
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appealing. I'm going to use my no one pass this
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time. See, I just listened to an episode where
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I told you you were never allowed to not pick
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anyone ever again. What? When was this? I think
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it was out last. Per season. Per season. It has
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to be per season. There are only three options
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I could find. I wasn't going to give you the
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mutants because that's just crap. So I gave you
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Eric. I gave you Matthew Cross, who's bald, topless,
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wearing, like, board shorts and covered in red
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paint, except for his teeth. You should see my
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face right now. And then I gave you the TV host,
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which is the greatest picture I have ever provided.
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So let me read to you what you responded. First
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of all, what the f*** is wrong with the middle
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dude? Why is he all red and looking like those
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human muscle models in our health class? Like,
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he has no hair, so unless he's bald and someone
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dumped red paint all over him, what is going
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on? I mean, that's kind of what's happening,
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except he voluntarily dumped the paint on himself.
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As for the last guy, that's the TV host, why
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is he so creepy? Where are his pupils? Why are
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his eyeballs only white? I think we can chalk
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that up to the photo quality. Okay. Except he
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is kind of creepy. You leave me no choice but
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to pick the first guy. Although he looks like
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the size of an elementary student wearing a backpack.
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If you ignore the beard. I need to see the photos.
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His head is shockingly large, to be fair. It
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is shockingly large. Here you go. Oh, my God.
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I guess we did. No, we saw a picture of him on
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the magazine cover. I need to Google. So you
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could pick him if you want. I'll choose him.
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Or maybe the pilot. Maybe the dead pilot. Oh.
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Oh, yeah. Pilot the forest. Oh, no. Let me see
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this picture. Oh. Not that bad compared to. Genuine
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interest. in that oh show can i should i change
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my answer the pilot is an option yeah we i choose
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the pilot i didn't track stats this time because
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i had to edit like 25 gameplay videos to get
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this done and i was like i can't i can't do this
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so sorry to disappoint you you could attract
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how many arms there were no I'm just trying to
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understand why you said that. No, no. Because
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of Armsy? Yeah, I guess. I mean, if you were
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to track stats, that's something I would have
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guessed as one of the things you would have done.
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Let's just cut that out. Okay. I'm so sleep deprived.
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I just want to go to sleep right now. Okay. Well,
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in lieu of stats. special message happy halloween
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from us to you stay safe eat candy don't do drugs
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don't take whatever that tv host was on no one
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needs that much energy and if anyone ever acts
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that interested in you run away yeah because
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no um wow every sentence we start just gets carried
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away doesn't it yeah i have so many follow -up
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questions i'm trying my best to not start a new
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conversation i think we just have to call it
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yeah all right okay thanks for listening we'll
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