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This year on no latency side quest glitch miss greed retro
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make some new seasonal friends I.
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Know you from somewhere? Special guest from the podcast
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Dungeons and Randomness. I'm neon pass by the way.
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Ian Duncan and Jason Massey. Bloomin, is it OK if I take
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pictures of literally everything?
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And two Ryan's. I'm Cargill Forge.
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Vex. So how long is this going to
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take? Retro is just trying to make a
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little extra money this season. Be haunted by that for the rest
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of his life. Well, no, but that's the goal.
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We need to shoot him because. This year, it isn't just a game.
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What are they putting in this this game?
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Also seen symptoms of rage, violence and inhumanity.
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A high score isn't the only thing they've got to lose.
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Sweetheart, lead and. Messy tomb, it was looking
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great. Retro's got to save Christmas
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again, hey? Neon, you still want those
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recommendations for mod? Cover me, I got to get this
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fixed. Are they going to let you walk?
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Out of here. Can you pick that up and shoot
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them already? Shall we begin?
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I'm about keep it down back there.
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Oh, hold on. Gotta wait.
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One ring. You can't let them know you're
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too, you know, excited about it. Third one.
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Ahoy Ahoy. This is retro.
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Hello. Neon, that's you.
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Oh. Oh hey man, how's it going weird
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to like talk on the actual phone?
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That's kind of crazy, right? Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, we've usually just been chatting with each other
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during streams on the garden. Yeah.
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I mean, I'm glad you finally decided to give me a call.
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What's up? Yeah.
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Are you, are you around? We were going to meet up and I
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just kind of thought that you'd come down here.
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You can meet me on the corner. I've got a really cool a
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prospect for you. I've been trying to like, get
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into merch and stuff, you know, you know.
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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And, and so I'm I heard about this prospect, there's like some
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market research stuff for a toy. It pays really well, though,
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about 400 eddies. I'm not sure exactly what we
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ought to do, but I'm thinking like, hey, toy, like getting
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good with who's ever making it, like make some figurines out of
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me neon pass out of you retro. We could sell.
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We could sell these on our patch.
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You know, I think that would be really, really cool, man.
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That does sound pretty good. Hold on now, we get paid for.
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It. We get paid for it.
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You know what? I don't even check my schedule.
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I'm just going to throw my calendar behind me.
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Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah.
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Where where where are we going to meet at?
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I'll. Show you a pin man.
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Just just follow that. I'll be there all.
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Right, I'll just I'll just check that out for the garden.
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Cool. That cool.
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All right, Yeah. What the this is market?
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Is there a name for the market? Yeah.
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Cool. All right.
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Yeah, it just says it's just got.
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A sign that says market on it. Oh.
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Simple. Yeah.
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That's it. Yeah.
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That's all. That's all I know.
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It's like very, you know, like very low key.
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It's that kind of like minimalism.
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Simplistic, yeah. Exactly, man.
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Exactly. Probably.
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Probably got done by Bob and Hilda, that's for sure.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely. All right.
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Yeah, yeah. I'll head out in a minute.
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Cool. I'm so excited to meet you, man.
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This is going to be awesome. I'm.
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Super excited. What a what a collab.
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Cool, I'll see you then. See you then.
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All right, Retro. You look at the pin and it's
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like a three or four minute walk.
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As you look at the pin, you see that it's on Market Street, this
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place. It's on Market Street Place
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called Market on Market Street. Pretty good marketing, honestly.
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Well, I'm going to make sure before I go leave some feet out
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for Mama Mallard. You know, we're totally keto in
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our house. No bread.
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No bread and then I'm going to send a quick text to Jeb.
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No, not Jeb. Jeb wouldn't know what to do.
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I now I don't know what just delete it.
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VV. Hey VV going to meet somebody at
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I met online. I know what you're going to say.
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Don't say it. If I don't talk back in 48
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hours, delete my computer and I'm off.
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And you're off, and you head down the elevator, you walk down
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the street, and in just a few minutes you find yourself in the
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street on Market Street, staring at Neon Pass for the first time.
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Hey, Neon, what's up? Hey, you are you are much
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shorter than I thought you. Yeah, and handsome.
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Thank you. Yeah, very much, very much.
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Can I give a little description of neon POS real quick?
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Please. Sure.
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So neon POS is like a young man. He's got tech hair that's going
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kind of like green to blue. He's got like a septum piercing
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and like dark circles under his eyes.
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He's all dressed up in like Asia, Asia, pop kind of stuff,
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so very kind of bright colors. Got a jacket on and a backpack
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and it's just like full. Everything's got pins and
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buttons and things on it, and it's all of his little possum
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avatar that he has, you know, it's like all kinds of merch.
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So there's like patches and pins and and things coming off.
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He's got some of Retro too, 'cause obviously Retro is his
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buddy. And yeah, yeah, yeah, got some
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stuff. He's put it on there.
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Yeah. And yeah, it looks just like a
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it looks like just a little possum boy on this.
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Thing. Like I think cat boy, but possum
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boy and he's got, you know, he's got his gear on him.
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He's probably on his phone. Oh, hey, man, you made it.
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Oh, that's great. Oh, wow, wow, wow.
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The you're looking very CTV, you know what I'm saying?
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Oh yeah, old school very much. Luckily I don't need to have the
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old bulb in there anymore. Upgraded to LCD clock, clock
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clock. And there are three people in
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line behind you and they all watch retro cut and stand next
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to you. Hey man, I'm really enjoying the
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look that you got there. I I see you got your required
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minimum pieces of 37 flare on at all times.
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Thank you for the ones that you can see right?
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Oh, there's ones I can't see. Oh, OK, that'll be a.
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That'll be one to find later. Yeah, that's the, that's the AD
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stream. That's the AD stream.
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Well, oh man, I'm excited to see this.
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So how often? Excuse me?
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Sorry, you're kind of crowding me, Sir.
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Do you mind backing up just a little bit?
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Thank. You no all right TV head.
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You need to get to the back. Why?
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Oh. No, he's he's, he's with me.
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I was holding a place. He's just with me.
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Yeah, I was just holding this place for him.
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It's cool. It's cool man.
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All right, if we can't get in there, then it's on you.
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Sure. Yeah, I need that money.
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What, what? What money?
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You don't even know why you're here.
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The only reason to be in this line is to get some money.
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Well, yeah, I mean, I look, I like Eddie's just as much as
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everybody else does. And I'm here in the partnership
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with my buddy here, Neon, and we're kind of working together.
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So it's kind of like a partnership working together
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crossover. That's why we're, you know, it's
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not cutting in line. We're together selling
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ourselves, that kind of thing. I'm sure.
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That. Yeah, I'm sure there's going to
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be like, plenty to go around, my guy.
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You're coming in kind of hot, so, you know, maybe just like.
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Wait, you seem kind of familiar. Do I?
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Do I know you from somewhere? Nope, No you don't.
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I hate I Google search. I don't, I don't, I don't want
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to interrupt. I'm I'm real sorry, guys.
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Did did did you say we need a partner for this?
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Because I came alone. I I don't know if we needed
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someone to work with for this whole thing.
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No, yeah, I did too. I'm.
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I also need a partner apparently.
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Oh you? So both of you are missing
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partners and then. We.
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We. Familiar dude here also.
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Nothing in the ad says we need. I mean, apparently if we get a
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partner we get to cut in line so so.
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You all can partner up together. Yeah, it seems like you 2 could
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be partners and then familiar guy.
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I don't know. I'm I'm sorry.
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Oh no. They're their own little menage
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a trois together, you know, partnership and Eddie's.
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Yeah, yeah, something like that. Maybe, maybe do a threesome.
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Thumbs up. Cool.
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Hey, can I get a selfie of all of us?
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Let's. Do something.
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Let's do selfie, everybody. So he pulls out his his agent,
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bulbs it out, snaps a selfie and like it.
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It like automatically puts like his VR avatar on of the possum,
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possum on and just like takes a picture.
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Pause. I blinked during that 100%.
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Oh, you. Want me to do it?
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You want me to do one more? We can do one more here.
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OK. Oh, you, you blinked on this one
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too. Funny one.
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We got to do a funny one. Yeah, funny one.
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Let's do a funny one, everyone. Funny.
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One Yeah. Blink, Blinking's funny.
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Blinking can be funny. Blinking, Yeah.
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You lost to Google something, did you know?
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I did. I did roll.
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The D10 and then add four. Yeah, I just, I, I did roll AD
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10 and didn't add anything, but it was a 1, so I don't know.
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Oh, it implodes. It implodes.
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My intelligence is 6, so that is a -, 1.
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And that is no, because it's, it's +4 for local experts.
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So that's oh, oh. Yeah.
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So that's. You rolled a three, but it's
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still a crit fail. So because it's a crit fail as
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you're taking the picture, you watch the picture on your device
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degrade and get corrupted, and unfortunately while searching
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the garden, you did touch a bit of it you shouldn't have.
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Now your phone has a little bit of malware on it.
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Man God I hate this shit and. Then a little window pops up and
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you can pay 20 eddies to get rid of it.
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Oh, that's cheap. In this world, that's cheap.
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Yeah. Can I take a look at it?
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Do you mind? Yeah, sure.
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I slide it on safe mode real quick all.
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Conceal reveal object. Yeah, all the nudes are conceal,
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reveal object. OK, shot it got it.
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Concealer, reveal concealer reveal that is a healthy that's
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going to be what is that awareness?
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Yeah, that's a that's a healthy 0 for me.
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So let's go ahead and. Hold Yeah, you don't hide your
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nudes. In fact, the the unfortunate
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side effect of this is that the virus has put your nudes as the
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background of your lewds, not your nudes.
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Let's not be disgusting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like it's. Like it's a lewd, it's it's a,
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it's a lewd of your of your avatar that made out.
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Fun. Just for fun, the the made out
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pit. Yeah, and.
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It's. Just super embarrassing.
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Oh, I thought it was just a bunch of pictures of ramen.
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There are I do have the ramen ones.
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I'm so sorry. Just just sorry I.
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Oh God, the thing already faked a bunch of pictures of you.
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I'm here. I'll get.
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Rid of this. That's it.
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Yeah, exactly. It's already out of control.
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I'm so thank you so much, man. Wow.
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No, it happens all the time. It it's fine.
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I have no idea what's a role to help with this, but I do
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probably. Whatever you're good at.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm really good with small like
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gadgets. It's small tech, damn it.
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What is that under electronic? Security tech or basic tech, up
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to you. Basic, basic tech.
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Is that cool? Basic Tech 18 Yes.
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Yes. Yes.
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You look at this incredibly overly accoutrement human in
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front of you as they pass you the device.
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It's got stickers all over it. The logo as you pass it near
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your device, the NFC on it sends their link to your phone but
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doesn't give you a virus so that you can watch their streams on
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the garden later. An absolute king of social and
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networking. Their networking is incredible.
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I love the dot exists in this universe.
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Of course it does. Of course it does.
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And you look at them because it's not actually that
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difficult. And you find the control alt
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delete and you just close the browser and the ransomware that
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was running on their device has now been cleared and you hand it
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back. Again, happens all the time.
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Here you go. Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
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This that's amazing. Thanks man.
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Do hey, do you want to do you want to cut in front of us in
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line? That's totally cool If you want
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to, if you want to get in front of us, that's awesome, man.
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I'm I'm neon pass by the way. Oh, Bloomin, hey, I'm I'm going
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to look back at at the person who already was was pretty
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upset. I, I'm good where I am, but I,
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I, I, I just yeah, I just wanted to help out that I'm really glad
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I could. I'll, I'll see you in there.
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Sorry, did you say neon? Neon Pass.
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Neon Pass. Yeah, man, I got a little patch,
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my own, my own trash patch in the garden.
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Oh my God, hold on. And and I dig into my pockets.
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Real. Quick.
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And as I dig into my pockets, stuff starts kind of falling
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out. Coins fall, lint falls, a couple
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of pop cabs fall. And he and he pulls out his
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wallet. He ruffles through it.
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He's I don't need that card. And he pulls out a different
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card and he holds up a card right at you.
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And it says right there like Neon Pass fan Club member number
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0007. Double O 7.
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Oh my gosh, man. Hey, what's up?
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You, you, you donate all the time.
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You subscribe all the time, man, I love you.
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That's awesome. Hey.
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You have such a sick St. Oh my God.
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Oh my God. I'm fanning myself.
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I'm fanning myself, OK? It's cool, man.
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It's cool man. Hey, you want some stickers?
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I put out like a bunch of stickers and buttons and oh man
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and hand it over. It immediately starts going on
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stuff. Gun's armor, He's, he's blinking
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up everything now. Hi, everyone.
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Hi. How's it going, party people?
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Hey, hi. Hi.
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Hi. This young woman has stepped out
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of the building and she's staring at you all in line.
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She's holding a little clipboard and she's got this big old smile
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on her face and she's wearing this little uniform.
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And on a lapel is a little yellow circle which says the
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happy company on it. Hi, hi.
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Hello. Hello.
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Are you guys all here for the market research?
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Yes, yes, yes. Yes.
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Yes, we are. I I OK, so I know the ad said
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that it only pays 400, but it does actually pay 505 hundred.
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Yeah, I know. Here at The Happy Company, we
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want you to be happy. That's why I know that's kind of
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cringe, but I have to read the script.
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I like it. I like it.
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Be cringe, be free, you know what I'm saying?
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You know, it's it's it's one of those things it's going to be
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really fun. So I'm going to have you guys
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come in. There is security here and then
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as you come in, I'm going to hand you all an NDA on paper.
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Weird, that's. Super retro.
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Yeah, it's very retro. It's going to be good.
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It's going to be good. Yeah.
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You have AV for a head. I do, yes.
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Is that a problem? Can you still do BDS?
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Yeah. Oh, then never mind.
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Then it's fine. Great.
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So if you guys can come on in, just follow me.
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Just come on in here. I opened.
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Come on in, everyone. Welcome to the happy company
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market Research on Market Street.
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Oh wow, yeah, cool. I leaned into retro.
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Oh man, I was hoping she'd be Scottish.
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You know we can. We can still dream.
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There might be a Sky music in there.
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They're. My, they're my, I mean, but you
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know you sometimes it's just getting to the journey of
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finally beating. Scott, that's true.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone come on through.
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Please pay attention to the commercials on either side.
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Sure. Yeah.
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Oh, here we go. Oh yeah.
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Oh. They're louder than they thought
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they'd be. And as you walk in, there are
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advertisements for some of the Happy Company's other products.
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Smile with miss A, hug her and she hugs you back with
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algorithmically accurate compliments.
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Musical available in stores now. Sounds reasonable.
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I want one coach. Having trouble with the BM?
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We'll try our BD balloon film and finally get your butt
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moving. That's something that we've been
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eating for a while. A new thing the day before
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Christmas. The day.
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Before. Christmas the day before
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Christmas. The day before Christmas.
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Oh, the day before Christmas. Oh, are you looking at the Day
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Before Christmas commercial? Yeah, I am.
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Have you all signed the NDA? Well, you haven't handed it
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first yet. Yes, I have.
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I handed it to you as you came on in, Silly goose.
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I didn't get one. Can I please get one?
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Here you go, and here's a pen for you all you can keep that
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has the Happy Company logo on it.
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Oh, thank you. Oh, you don't have a name stack?
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Here's a clipboard. Here's a I'm Maggie.
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Oh, good. Nice to meet you, Maggie.
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I thought you had a different name.
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No, I'm Maggie. Oh, I thought your name was Joy,
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because that's what you seem to be bringing around here.
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I like you. There are bonus points here, but
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I would give them give them to this guy.
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I'm just going. To go through everyone but what
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was your name? Neon Pass.
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Bright neon. Pass.
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Good. Yeah, I love your signature and
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that's cute. Yeah.
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Thank you. Welcome and you.
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Bloomin, is it OK if I take pictures of literally everything
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while we're here? Not in the actual Market Reach
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research booth. And on Christmas Day, you can
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release any footage you take inside, but not inside either
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room A or B. OK.
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And they're labeled, right? I won't.
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Very much. It's on the ground, big letters.
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It's very clean here. We like to be clean here at The
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Happy Company. OK, OK.
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Everyone I was hanging out with in line put stickers on all of
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their stuff and it really bothers me.
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But yeah, that's great Labels, OK.
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Nice to meet you Lumen. Again with the NDA you can't
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release any information till after Christmas.
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We good. I totally get it.
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This is yes, totally get. It all right and you.
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Vex. Nice to meet you.
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So how long is this going to take?
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Maybe an hour. OK, just checking.
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I mean, or do you mean the whole side quest?
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Because that's probably about four or five.
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You're going to be the rudest way to ask, all right, how long
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is this going to take? We got to wrap.
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It up, Ryan's got. Somewhere to be.
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He's got a Renaissance fair to go to.
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We're not recording videos, so they have no idea why that's
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coming. I think that's better.
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Imagine the pirateous shirt do. It There we go.
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And and you? Oh, I'm Cargill Forge.
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Nice to meet you. Would you prefer like 4G?
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Mr. Forge Cargill, what would you like to be referred to as?
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Cargill's fine in general, but I might be able to Mr. 4 GI think
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I could learn to come along but. I think that's the cute one, Mr.
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Forge. It is.
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I hope you're in Group A, I'm running with Group A.
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It's going to be fun. Anyway, we'll get to that in a
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bit. And you are Mr. TV head person.
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Your mouth's moving, but nothing's happening.
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I'm sorry I was having internal thoughts in my head.
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I apologize. I put myself on mute real quick.
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As you can see, I've written down my my legal name Jebediah
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Popescu. But I have a a Nam de plume
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which I use for my actual name for when I'm having to do any
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business stuff like that which is just retro.
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So. You got it, Mr. Retroman.
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Like your jacket? Thank you.
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If you could all just head into the room to the South, the
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security is here for your protection and mine because you
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are just people we found on the street.
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So if you don't do anything, they don't do anything.
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That sounds fair. Fair, Yeah.
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So if you make your way down there, find yourself a seat.
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I'm one of the sofas in here. That's a nice sofa, I expect.
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Thank. You.
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We love red. It's very seasonal.
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Yeah. And I think this spot next to me
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over here. Oh thanks man I I'm like
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streaming this whole thing on my phone.
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You signed an NDA. They said we could film in here,
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right? It was he.
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Said that the that it couldn't go out until after Christmas.
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Are you streaming or you filming?
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That's right, I'm filming. That's right, I am filming.
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Concealed. Concealed.
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No, it didn't go well last time. My.
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You also have no levels in concealed reveal of.
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No, yeah, my my maid bits were out for.
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All to see. And all to see.
22:39
Yeah, no filming. Thank you very much.
22:41
Pissed off with just a hail of bullets.
22:42
It's like, all right, let's continue.
22:46
OK everyone, I'm going to play the little video and GM side
22:52
moment. We're going to have music
22:53
playing in this for the final edit version, but you can just
22:56
imagine it because I didn't have that.
23:02
This is the best bossa Nova music to happen.
23:06
Night City needs something fresh.
23:10
Are you feeling down? Do you love video games?
23:13
Are you festive as fuck? Yeah, we at the Happy Company,
23:18
we've got something for you coming.
23:20
This season is our new BD game. That just makes you feel better.
23:25
Oh game, I love games. OK, I'm going to pause the
23:27
video. How do we feel about that?
23:29
Everyone, raise your hand. If you're interested, raise your
23:31
hand. Love video games?
23:35
Pretty cool. Do we have to be festive as
23:38
fuck? No, no, we're just trying to
23:41
cover demographics. Are you against the project
23:44
because it's festive as fuck or are you with the project because
23:47
or just like agnostic? No, I I didn't know if that was
23:51
the goal or I had to be right now.
23:53
No, it's more that we're trying to get people to buy it for
23:55
Christmas. Oh, OK.
23:57
OK, yeah, got. It.
23:59
Got it. We just didn't want to mess it
24:00
up. Are we asking this if we're
24:02
going to be secular or religious then?
24:04
It's not a religious thing, It's more are you?
24:06
Are you interested in gifts? Do you like like games and
24:09
feeling good about yourself? I do it now.
24:13
OK. This seems positive.
24:15
I'm seeing positive. And what about you?
24:18
And some other people in the room and kind of put their hands
24:20
up. They are way more apathetic than
24:22
you guys. They do not have protagonist
24:24
energy. Do we have to be playing the
24:34
game or is this like something you can give someone?
24:37
You serious? What?
24:41
I'm going to write that down. That's a great thing to say
24:44
here. Looks really confused at this
24:47
guy on one of the sofas in the front row.
24:50
Someone's not getting paid. Yeah.
24:53
Was that helpful? I don't know.
24:54
OK. It.
24:56
Wasn't festive? Here's the here's the second
24:58
video I want to show you. Here we go.
25:00
Here we go that go girl, put the ball in the cup, feel good,
25:05
stand near your friends and see who can do it faster for an even
25:09
bigger reward. And once every single week, some
25:12
player will win actual money. Not that bullshit, but actual
25:16
money. All in a simple BD chip that you
25:19
can play with an implant or through a device sold by us here
25:23
at the Happy Company. Merry Christmas.
25:27
It's simple, it's easy guys. What do you think?
25:29
Was that direct? I have, I have a question.
25:32
Yeah. So this is two things.
25:36
A ball. And a.
25:38
Cup. Digitally, yeah.
25:41
Why? Well, it's more of a game
25:45
mechanic. You are you aware of video
25:47
games? You you put the ball in a cup,
25:50
but in your mind. And there are lots of cool
25:53
backgrounds you can unlock too. Bro you can win real money with
25:56
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26:54
How are you not hyped about winning but real money?
26:57
I'm kind of, I'm kind of wondering how this will be in
27:00
terms of like engagement, you know, with like viewers and
27:03
stuff like that. If you're like streaming this or
27:05
anything like that. We will have a streamer package
27:08
where your audience doesn't have to be physically close to you,
27:12
but you can play with each other and of course the winner of your
27:15
groups. That gets to feel good.
27:18
So if you're playing with someone else, do you put your
27:20
ball in their cup? No.
27:22
You're racing to see who can do it first, no?
27:26
OK, I have a clarification question.
27:28
Sure. You said you can play with
27:30
friends. Yes.
27:33
Do you need those? No, it will play with anyone if
27:38
I if it does not come with friends.
27:41
You're chipper, aren't you? I.
27:43
Sorry. You don't have to apologize.
27:47
I'll shame you anyway. I'm kidding.
27:49
I'm kidding. I'm kidding how?
27:51
Are people. Feeling about this?
27:54
Question Question will there be skins for the cup and balls?
28:00
That is a good will be. Skins for the cup and balls.
28:03
Will you be able to have more than one ball like a pair of
28:05
balls? We're thinking about that for
28:08
another update, and you saw right through us that's really
28:10
cool. Oh cool, I'm kind of like
28:12
getting in the mindset of it. Also you said that we can win
28:16
actual money. Is this like so you can win
28:20
money but there's no gambling, right?
28:22
We're not putting our money in you, just as the potential of
28:25
winning money, no. Go gambling.
28:28
Like if I was to say buy this for my son and be like, if you
28:33
want to earn an allowance, you got to play ball in the cup.
28:36
Well, it's only the top five people every week.
28:39
Well my son loves video games and he could he'll just probably
28:43
just do that consistently. I mean all he does is just rain
28:45
and dance all the time anyway. So you can you can help with
28:48
rent. Yeah, so now that you've seen
28:51
this, who wants to try it? Oh me, I'm an excellent ball
28:56
handler. Excellent.
28:58
We love that. OK, everybody, I'm going to say
29:02
let's see. OK, For Group B, let's have
29:09
GAIL, Sarah, James, George and we have one person in the
29:20
bathroom, so I guess they're in Group B.
29:22
And then can we have for Group A Neon Lumen, Retro Cargill and?
29:32
Sick. Yeah.
29:34
It's in Group. Crazy.
29:36
Oh, look at that. I did.
29:37
I did the room. I didn't even do that.
29:38
I was looking down. That's crazy.
29:41
If you can follow me, Group A is going to go with me.
29:43
Group B, my associate Kate is already in there.
29:47
So if you could just head on in there so Trudy could.
29:49
You get the guy. From my bathroom.
29:51
Yes, of course. Thank.
29:53
You. All right, you, you guys just go
29:55
straight in there. Right in the bee, You busy
29:58
little bee. Hey, Kate.
29:59
Hi, Honey. OK, you guys stay happy now.
30:05
Mickey, it's it's be happy. Shut up.
30:10
Oh, wait, no, we're not going in there.
30:11
Sorry. Nope, you're not going in there.
30:14
It's labeled. It's clearly labeled.
30:16
It's. Very.
30:17
I couldn't see there's, there's no stickers on it.
30:19
It's just. It's it's in a, it's in a mono
30:24
mono. Color it's.
30:26
Just like 1. Thing like my brain just buzzing
30:29
all around it. There's no LEDs there's.
30:31
No, nothing. You drink orange juice with your
30:34
meds? That that's what happened this
30:36
morning. Is it crazy that now that we
30:38
can't go and be? All I want to know is what's
30:40
happening and be. I mean, I kind of yeah, a little
30:44
bit, yeah. I saw my tum in there.
30:47
They did. Yeah, we I just call him Tum.
30:49
Nice. OK, everybody, everyone find a
30:52
seat. Nope.
30:57
Sorry for that one. You guys are.
30:59
Cute, sorry you're cute as you've got such a great you just
31:02
want vet retro I. Just love.
31:04
Yeah, you know what, with having such a boxy head, I also have
31:07
just very like a very boxy thighs.
31:14
OK everyone love this stuff. In front of you just just in the
31:18
little little table attached to seat is a BD unit.
31:23
We have an extra wide one for UTV head and if you guys just
31:27
put it on and then you'll see a ball and a cup.
31:31
Now the background is in beta so it is grey.
31:35
You see a ball and cup and you just have to sink the ball into
31:37
the cup. First person gets a point and
31:39
the highest point winner will get an extra 50.
31:42
At ease today A. Little detail.
31:47
OK, OK, OK, OK. Is there anything I can do to be
31:51
extra good at ball and cup? Yes.
31:56
What can I do, Paris? You can bullshit your way into
31:59
rolling an actual skill. Would you consider this basic
32:03
tech or? If you like.
32:07
I feel like you're making an exception for me because I'm a
32:09
guest, but I'll take it. Thank you.
32:11
Makes sense to me. It's not the craziest one I've
32:12
ever heard. So anyway, why don't you just
32:17
paramedic? You.
32:20
Can justify it. What about since this is like
32:24
throwing a thing and like you know, having to to pick a target
32:27
and get something in, Would like an aiming skill like handgun be
32:32
useful? Yes.
32:34
All right. I would like to do that, yeah.
32:35
Yeah, whatever you want. I'm I'm just going to use my
32:38
mind. Oh.
32:41
That's a very good role. You did very well there.
32:44
I'm. I'm good at one thing.
32:48
That's. Really good.
32:53
Oh my. God.
32:55
Let's go. Man.
32:57
Oh, Cargill, you think I'm not going to notice that one year
32:59
old earlier get messed? That was a cow.
33:02
That was a cow. Hold the one.
33:04
I'm not letting that pass. It's time for your nudes to show
33:09
up so. Cargill.
33:11
You're trying to do. You're trying.
33:12
To put this ball in the cup and for the life of you it just
33:16
won't go in. It hits the rim.
33:19
Come on. It rolls off the.
33:21
Screen and you have to like look around the room to find it and
33:24
then look at it to get it back into your view and you're having
33:27
a bad point and you see the little logos of everyone else in
33:32
the room go green. As long as that balls go in a
33:34
cup. Lost.
33:37
No, that's. Yours feeling.
33:39
Retro, you're second to last with that five, unless you're
33:42
waggy, you know I was. Going to ask, can I roll
33:46
electronic security tech to make an analysis on the cup and the
33:51
ball in the game? Roll for it.
33:53
For some reason I feel like there's carnival shenanigans
33:55
here and the ball may be bigger than the cup.
33:59
Oh, electronic security. 29 Yes, you look through the code and
34:08
it's just a ball in the cup game.
34:10
That's it. The thing that you do find weird
34:13
though is that there is a large portion of allocated data
34:16
missing. Petabytes and petabytes of data.
34:20
Absolute Dick loads of data that's just missing from this
34:24
version that that does strike you as weird.
34:28
Yes. This does distract you however,
34:31
so you end up still being second to last.
34:34
The others aren't paying attention to your slightly
34:37
confused game Playing Vex. You rolled an 8.
34:40
Yes. That is, do you want to roll a
34:44
skill? No, he's purposefully sticking
34:47
with just instructions right now.
34:48
OK, cool. Yeah, you're you're shit.
34:52
This is hard because I was doing it backwards.
34:55
They got middle of the pack. You're right in the middle of
34:57
the pack, Neon. You're just about to get your
35:01
ball in when the calmest and sweetest person in the room,
35:06
Lumen, just gets in it. First time you're very relaxed
35:09
of mine and it just and it makes a very satisfying noise, like
35:15
the sound of a of a Pebble plopping into a freshly still
35:18
lake. And it's just the noise that
35:20
makes you feel better, but you don't feel any other effect and
35:23
it gives you a point. Great.
35:25
We have our winner Lumen. Well done.
35:28
That's so good. All right, everybody, Round 2GO
35:31
again. OK, all right technique, I can
35:38
do this. What did I just do?
35:42
It's. 4. You rolled.
35:44
You rolled. The worst crit fail is what you
35:46
actually did. Good.
35:48
I think that balances it out. All right.
35:51
Oh, wow, you guys did great. Cargill.
35:56
You get really excited as you're not lost.
35:59
You're right in the middle of the pack.
36:00
You're not lost. You get the ball in and it and
36:03
it makes the for you. It makes a guitar riff noise as
36:08
it drops into the into the hole. Yeah, that's my jam.
36:15
Retro yours is the sound of ACRT television turning on.
36:19
That seems technologically ablest.
36:25
And vex and pass. Pass.
36:29
Thank you. Vex and Pass, you both get the
36:34
ball in the cup at the same time.
36:36
Lumen on the other hand, you've thrown it and now you can't find
36:39
the ball and you walk around the you get up to try and find it,
36:42
walk around the room and hit a wall and you take one HP damage.
36:49
Ow I'm so sorry did I? Did I?
36:52
Did I damage? The wall you're.
36:54
Talking to a wall. Oh God, OK.
36:58
Don't stand up during the test. Got it.
37:01
Sorry I lost the ball and I couldn't, I couldn't find it
37:04
again. Is there a clap?
37:06
Clap. OK, did it.
37:09
Every time you clap it resets the ball to center.
37:11
See how? These balls go up now.
37:16
I instantly get overwhelmed when I put.
37:18
In the Congress like. Oh no, there's too many balls.
37:24
OK, final round, everyone roll again.
37:27
Here we go. Because I've also noticed the
37:30
petabytes of data that are completely missing and I
37:35
probably, I think distracted me from the last one.
37:38
I realized I'm not going to win this.
37:40
There's no point. Can I poke around to see what
37:44
data is missing? Are there any markers, any kind
37:48
of tags or something that I can know what was removed?
37:52
Roll for it 26. The only thing you're that you
37:55
can work out is that it's neural data.
37:58
You can't neural data. Still on disk DLC.
38:01
It's 2 forms of neural data. The rest of you, though, have no
38:08
idea that this is happening and everyone rolled really, really
38:13
well. Really well, really well.
38:17
But it's Cargill who wins this rap, yeah.
38:23
Yeah. Oh, in your faces, boy, you're
38:28
good. We.
38:29
Have a winner. We what?
38:31
One second I'm getting my headset died.
38:36
That's weird. My little earpiece, my Well
38:40
done. You're going to get the extra 50
38:41
eddies. Thank you so much everyone for
38:43
your tests. If you just I'm going to, I'm
38:46
going to go and fix my headset. If you guys could put your
38:49
things on the ground. We've got cameras recording.
38:50
So just discuss amongst yourselves how the game is going
38:55
and please don't take my tone as panic.
38:59
I Yeah, Hey. Did any of you guys have a
39:01
problem with too many balls and not enough?
39:03
Cup No, no, that I didn't. I didn't have that.
39:07
Did you? Was it because you hit the wall?
39:09
No, it was after the wall. The lady told me to clap and
39:12
then after I got done clapping, there were just there it was.
39:15
It was overwhelming honestly. There were way too many balls.
39:18
Hey, do you think if you get more balls like that, you can
39:21
like, you know, hack the game a little bit so you can like get a
39:26
lot of chances to win? Oh, like just throw a bunch.
39:29
Yeah, just like a toss a bunch, you know?
39:32
Well, if there's a command for extra balls, maybe you could get
39:36
extra cups too, like a bonus round or something and you could
39:38
just toss a bunch statistically, you know?
39:46
You hear screaming outside and then gunshots.
39:51
Shit. And then a bullet flies through
39:54
the door and hits Maggie square in the back of the head and she
39:57
drops the ground dead like a sack of shit.
40:00
My God, I get my video camera out and I film it.
40:06
What are those people? No, I do not move.
40:10
I am stock still, like a deer drinking out of a pond.
40:14
Like just absolutely my body refuses to work.
40:18
Shit, holy shit, holy shit. This seems normal to retro and
40:23
in fact, now that Maggie's got Maggie's passed away
40:26
unfortunately like, well, I guess I can just do this now.
40:29
I'll pull Jay out and I'll just light it up and start smoking.
40:37
I get up and try. Does the door open outwards or
40:41
did the door open inwards? It's a sliding door.
40:44
Is the door open right now? It is open, yes, because I yes.
40:48
So you should be able to see out the door if you move just right.
40:50
Yep, but I don't want to see what's out the door.
40:54
I want to move to the door and close it.
40:58
Cool. So you walk up to the door, the
41:00
door control is a little keypad beside it, and it's stuck open.
41:03
Oh. God.
41:05
Hey, who knows how to fix doors? And then more.
41:10
To look down and I'm going to have, I have a big like E banner
41:15
across the left forearm and I'm going to press a few buttons.
41:18
It's going to change to a bunch of angry faces like emoticons
41:23
all over it. He's going to pick up, going to
41:26
pick up my gun and move to the edge of the desk where the desk
41:29
is between me and the door. Shit.
41:32
Also Cargill for winning that you get an inspiration.
41:37
I have a pretty good electronics and security tech.
41:42
Do you say anything about the door being stuck open like the
41:45
keypad? Yes.
41:48
Hey, you, you fixed the thing earlier.
41:50
Can you fix the door? I I think it'll be it.
41:52
Just 1000 yard stare for a second, huh?
41:54
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.
41:57
Yeah. Yeah.
41:57
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:58
Is that door bulletproof, do you think?
42:01
Probably not. I hope so.
42:02
Wait, hold on. Just shoot, I was going.
42:06
To have, hold on, I'm going to have the, we, we've heard the,
42:10
we've heard the sound of this gun a couple of times, I think,
42:13
right? Yep.
42:15
I'd like to use a weapons tech to be able to see if I can
42:18
determine the sound of the firearm.
42:22
Fuck. Oh no, it's a heavy SMG.
42:27
Oh no. Yeah, that's somewhat worrisome.
42:30
That's a lot of bullets. It's a lot of bullets.
42:33
Well, let's hopefully get this door shut.
42:34
Maybe. Unfortunately the the crazy guy
42:39
in the hallway just rolled a crit success with his gun and as
42:43
he blazes his gun across the room, this heavy SMG.
42:46
He hits the other side of the door control and it frazzles and
42:51
then shocks you. Cargo standing right next to it
42:54
forces you back a step, you lose 2 HP and it stings hell either.
43:01
Oh. We're going to shake that up.
43:03
I got to shake that up. Oh.
43:04
Wow. Geez.
43:06
Oh shit. That's a little bad with
43:07
mentally it's more than 50 eddies.
43:10
Motherfuckers. What the what the what the fuck
43:13
do we do? Retro?
43:14
What's going? What the fuck?
43:16
This is really going to affect us getting paid today, isn't it?
43:19
Well, for initiative. Do you guys think the NDA still
43:22
counts? Can I film?
43:24
Can I just take pictures? Next time on no latency side
43:37
quest let's. Get messy tune.
43:42
Is there a clear shot around this hostage?
43:45
There's one outside looking right at our gunman.
43:48
Neon pass New Tumblr when we get it.
43:51
We'd hot lad. Oh no.
43:53
Yeah, I saw. It everybody at Cargill.
43:55
Cover me, I got to get this fixed.
43:57
I saw it. It did happen.
43:58
Because like that first person shooter, remember how much it
44:00
took you to finally get on the boards and you finally got
44:02
bronze rank. Yeah, yeah.
44:04
Ohh no. I'll take the first one this
44:08
time if you don't mind. Well, there's that.
44:11
Missing data welcome. Home, yes.
44:15
You call atrocity, I call tactics.
44:18
But I'd rather not have a bunch of stick.
44:20
Guys fan, I swear I won't ban, you know, time you all out.
44:23
Trying to whack them right in the.
44:24
Head I enforce the Ndas and then I shoot.
44:27
Nice. Oh, we're getting we're, we're
44:29
close to that Tumblr chat. Before we go poking the bear if
44:32
we got paid yet, it's if we check to see if we've got our
44:35
eddies. Can you pick that up and shoot
44:36
them already? I.
44:37
Really don't want to pick up that gun man I'm sorry.
45:06
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