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| Hello everyone, Poker and Politics here. | |
| Today I'll be talking about my crazy adventure that I had on Monday. | |
| The latest Q-drop that was terrible. | |
| People commenting on my previous podcast and how me getting angry is a good thing. | |
| All that kind of good stuff. | |
| I wanted to bring up that Tua Tuilosova, oh god I can't even, I know how to say that name and I couldn't even do it, but they upped their donation level on the Patreon and they became the second member of the George Club so I appreciate that incredibly, incredibly much. | |
| Thank you for taking care of your dealers. | |
| I had a bunch of other people join the Patreon this week. | |
| I will try to get my pudding brain to work properly so I can properly thank all of you It means the world to me that people are helping me out on this. | |
| I'm just doing what I can to be engaging on Twitter and in these podcasts and just giving you guys good content about this terrible hell world that we're living in and the nightmare that is QAnon and all that good stuff. | |
| I had a friend of mine tell me, I hope Trump wins re-election so you can keep the content going and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| I am the von Mayer of this. | |
| I want my cash cow, as it were, to go down in flames very hard, very fast. | |
| I don't think that this ends either if Trump loses. | |
| Not in a million years do I think this actually ends if Trump loses. | |
| It will just change. | |
| It will transform. | |
| It will become something new and horrible and bad. | |
| If you don't know who von Mayer is, Basically he impersonated John F. Kennedy because during World War II there was kind of a proviso, no one actually said it because it would probably violate the First Amendment and all that good stuff, but people were like, hey don't imitate FDR on the radio because | |
| That could fuck shit up if some guy impersonating FDR was like, the Nazis just landed in Boston and they're invading Massachusetts. | |
| That could lead to a lot of shit. | |
| That could be a really bad thing. | |
| So the press was just kind of like, okay, even though we do have like our first amendment right to impersonate FDR on the radio, we're not going to do it. | |
| And then Truman kind of got the same kid glove treatment and then Eisenhower was president and no one really thought to do a parody of Ike. | |
| Because he was the general. | |
| He was a serious dude. | |
| And then JFK got into office and JFK's whole thing was that he was young, charismatic, charming, effervescent. | |
| And Von Meyer did an impersonation of him and got really popular. | |
| He was like an honorary member of the Rat Pack for a while. | |
| And then one day Von Meyer was getting into a cab and some guy said, Hey, did you hear about Kennedy in Dallas? | |
| And he thought it was a joke because he was so notorious for being the Kennedy impersonator guy. | |
| and then he found out that his career was ruined and there's a alleged story that um The night after Kennedy had been assassinated there was a comedy show and Lenny Bruce got on stage and then really didn't know what to say because everyone's just sad the president's been murdered and then he just blurted out, well, Von Myers fucked. | |
| And he was. | |
| His career was ruined when Kennedy died. | |
| Because no one wanted to be reminded of the dead president by the guy who impersonated him. | |
| So that was that. | |
| But yeah, please make me the von Mayer of the 2020s, as it were. | |
| Register to vote. | |
| Bring a friend to vote. | |
| Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. | |
| Get rid of Donald Trump. | |
| I voted today, early voted. | |
| I voted for Ed Markey against Joe Kennedy. | |
| Really, you cannot slide a sheet of paper between these two guys, but... | |
| I just like Ed and I think that Kennedy is just running because his last name is Kennedy and he's owed a Senate seat because that's how it works in Massachusetts. | |
| So I'm sticking with Ed. | |
| I made my vote and that's that. | |
| I was disheartened to see Seth Moulton had two people running against him who I'd never heard of. | |
| So my plan to primary Seth Moulton in 2022 remains tenuous, because I need to sneak in there when no one's looking. | |
| And I also need to make sure there's no actual opponent for me in the general election after I beat Seth via an internet campaign against him. | |
| I will flame out harder than Sargon of Akkad did in his attempt to seek a seat in parliament, as it were. | |
| But yes, Poker 2022 for Congress. | |
| I'll be the antidote to Marjorie Taylor Greene and any other QAnon nuts who get in. | |
| So we shall be in that campaign very shortly. | |
| But anyways, the first thing I wanted to talk about was my adventure on Monday. | |
| I had an actual in-person interview with a publication about QAnon. | |
| I went to Boston and we talked and it was just kind of really strange to have an actual reporter fly into town to talk to me! | |
| There was a dude on the internet about this and we hit all the notes that we could. | |
| God, the imposter syndrome was just pouring through me as I was just so desperate to give this guy every crumb of information that I could to make him feel like it was worth his time to engage me like this. | |
| And so we talked a bunch. | |
| really discussed all these things and then after this all happened, the funniest part of all of | |
| this was after the interview they wanted me to get photographed by a professional photographer | |
| and so there I am getting photographed by this professional photographer. | |
| I'm basically a model like doing poses where he's like turn your head this way, lower your head down that way. | |
| I'm doing all this stuff and for those of you concerned about my anonymity, I was in full COVID slash hardcore poker player gear. | |
| I had a hat on, sunglasses, and a face mask so I was as concealed as I could possibly be and so I have this professional photographer doing all this stuff and he's taking all these photos of me and I'm being a model and listening to his directions to turn my head this way, do this, do this, let's walk over here where the light's a little different and he was doing all this stuff. | |
| At one point he actually pulled out a camera. | |
| He pulled out a giant lens and he attached it to the camera and he got ready to take a shot of me and he had not taken the cap off the lens yet and it kind of made me laugh and it made me relax because it very much humanized him because we're all we're all just schlubs trying to get through life. | |
| We're all just doing stuff and even this guy as professional as he is he's still capable of using the cap on the lens when he's going for a shot and so uh and then he realized it and he ripped the lens off he ripped the cap off and i said that'll help the shot and he said it doesn't matter how long i do this for it doesn't matter and that was just this really nice | |
| I just feel a lot better about the whole thing. | |
| So then he took a ton of photos of me and while this was all happening off to the side away from us there were these young women I would say early 20s or late teens and they were All posing, taking pictures, doing the stuff you do when you're a teenager. | |
| And I'm watching them and it just made me laugh so much that You have me, this masked up schlub, having a professional photographer taking all these shots of me when our society really values youth and beauty so much more than middle-aged schlubs talking about internet death cults and how usually the photographer would be taking pictures of them and not me instead and they are reduced to just using a smartphone to take all the photos that they're taking of each other. | |
| And that made me chuckle. | |
| And then... | |
| The photographer wanted to do some quote-unquote action shots with me and the reporter. | |
| So me and the reporter, we stood in front of each other. | |
| We talked about our plans of how we're going to get out of Boston. | |
| He was talking about hitting this store, doing this, and getting on a plane and flying out of town. | |
| I talked about driving home, blah blah blah, all that good stuff. | |
| He took a bunch of shots of us, and then the photographer was like, okay, I'm cool, I'm good. | |
| The reporter was like, thanks so much for all this. | |
| I'm going to get out of here. | |
| I'll hit you up with some follow-up questions later on, whatever I need. | |
| And I was like, no problem. | |
| I'm here for you. | |
| I want to make this work. | |
| So let's do this. | |
| And the reporter left one way and the cameraman was just sort of standing there, working on his suitcase full of gear and trying to put all of his stuff away so that he could then depart as well. | |
| And I was just standing there like a mope and then I looked over and I saw that the reporter was now talking to the women who had been photographing each other previously. | |
| And he was engaging them and I was like, well, I'm going to go talk to them as well because I just, again, the dichotomy of me versus them was just so striking that I just wanted to say hi to them. | |
| And when I walked over to them, they immediately asked me if I had an Instagram page and they thought that I was a famous person because I had a professional photographer taking photographs of me. | |
| I explained to them that I was not a famous person, but I was talking about conspiracy theories. | |
| They asked me immediately what my favorite conspiracy theory was, and I just told them, well, my big thing is QAnon, and they didn't know what that was, which filled my heart with so much joy that people don't know about this terrible thing. | |
| I told them what it was about, and when I explained to them that Donald Trump was going to save the world, their eyes could not have rolled any harder in the backs of their heads if they tried. | |
| They were so... | |
| They couldn't even, as the kids say these days. | |
| I can't even. | |
| They ruled it out immediately. | |
| And then one of them asked me, are we living in a simulation? | |
| And I was just like, man, that is such a deep question in a way, because that talks about consciousness. | |
| It talks about what it means to understand the world and our reality and what that all means. | |
| And then I basically just said that it doesn't really matter if we're in a simulation or not, because we perceive what is going on around us to be real. | |
| So it's real to us. | |
| Because we have to abide by the rules of physics. | |
| If my sunglasses fall off my head, they're going to land on the ground. | |
| There's rules to this world. | |
| There's things that are dictated based off of our physical interactions with what we perceive to be reality. | |
| So it really doesn't matter if this is quote-unquote real or a simulation unless someone was capable of like pulling a Neo and breaking the simulation. | |
| Um, and then I just said, you know, I mean the only thing that would really kind of change is if you died and then you found out that, oh wait I was just living in a simulation and I had this like separate different life entirely beyond the one that I was living in in the simulation. | |
| But you're only going to find that out after you die and as I told them no one knows what happens to you after you die and if anyone if they do say they do they're lying because nobody knows. | |
| No one's come back to tell us. | |
| So um that was just really interesting it was it was really really uh bizarre to be the belle of the ball like that it was very odd and I just tried to represent the debunker movement as best I possibly could and gave them as good amount of information and content as I possibly could in that situation. | |
| So that was my Monday. | |
| That was what happened. | |
| And then I got home and now I'm just sort of waiting on that to happen. | |
| I have a few other irons and a few other fires. | |
| We'll see how they all play out. | |
| Such is the life of somebody who is now being swept up in the maelstrom of people trying to catch up to what QAnon is and what it's doing to our world. | |
| The other thing I wanted to just bring up real quickly is I got some comments and feedback from people that were like man that last podcast was like really feisty like you were you were pissed and you just brought it and it was cool and I I'm glad for that. | |
| I'm glad that people enjoyed my anger and my passion and it was honest. | |
| And that's the main important thing about this is that I'm not going to go to that place Artificially. | |
| I'm not going to generate anger in myself in a way to just sort of jazz people up. | |
| I'm not going to do that because I don't think being phony is good. | |
| It's not a good way to present yourself and it's not a good way to be honest with the people listening to you. | |
| The stuff that gets me mad gets me mad and I will Tap into that when that happens, but I can't do it all the time, or it becomes Boy Who Cried Wolf and it becomes my shtick. | |
| Oh, did you hear Poker's Angry Podcast, which... | |
| I don't want to be known exclusively for anger. | |
| I want to be known for knowing what I'm talking about. | |
| I want to be known for being articulate and knowledgeable and hopefully funny and hopefully somewhat engaging. | |
| But anger is good. | |
| And if I had anger all the time, you would get it all the time. | |
| At this moment in my life, it is anger in moderation, really, for me. | |
| So, that's the way I'm going to roll with this. | |
| I hope you can respect my lack of inauthentic rage? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But that's just something that was really interesting to me that people brought that up. | |
| Because I knew when I was doing it that I was really punchy that day. | |
| And I was just like, man, I am pissed! | |
| I hope this doesn't rub people the wrong way or alienate them in some way, shape, or form. | |
| But it seems to have gone okay. | |
| The other thing that I was going to bring up real quick that was in my brain is Q. Because Q is stupid and bad at their job. | |
| Did a Q-drop about the Gathium DNC logo and how it's a pentagram if you rotate it to make it a pentagram. | |
| Which you can literally say about any five-sided star. | |
| Any five-pointed star, as I like to say on Twitter. | |
| Five-pointed stars are pentagrams if you just look at them at the right angle. | |
| I remember Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show, Some Idiot. | |
| actually took a camera shot of the NFL shield at midfield and the camera shot was from the perspective that had the shield upside down and because the NFL shield has stars on it they were like look at these pentagrams on the field and it's like they're five-sided stars and you're intentionally looking at them from a perspective of upside down you are so fucking dishonest and as a quick aside The Illuminati New World Order conspiracy theorist people were so pissed at that Lady Gaga halftime show because they got nothing. | |
| All the dumb symbolism that they're obsessed with, all of the crap that she was supposed to do, she didn't give it to them. | |
| A few years previous to that, Katy Perry had given them all the symbolism. | |
| Oh god, they loved Katy Perry. | |
| She was the whore of Babylon I heard in one Super Bowl halftime review. | |
| I mean her halftime show was just so crackling with Illuminati bullshit and sexuality and whatnot will you that oh holy smokes where people just cranking out the content about what a demon worshiping son of a bitch Miss Katy Perry is. | |
| Did you know she said she sold her soul to the devil? | |
| I mean just they they really really get their rocks off hating Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. | |
| We need a Super Bowl halftime show with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Beyoncé and the world would explode. | |
| The world would literally end because all the Illuminati people would be just out of their minds. | |
| And then the three of them would literally do no choreography, just stand in front of microphones and sing in the most boring, Half-time show in the history of the world as a giant fuck you to all those assholes. | |
| It'd be so great. | |
| For only me. | |
| I would be a target audience of one. | |
| And that would be really bad. | |
| But this idiot star thing... | |
| Which again, it takes work to get to it. | |
| You gotta tilt the DMC logo 90 degrees, which you would only do because you're trying to find something to get offended by. | |
| Because you are looking at a fucking five-pointed star and trying to orientate it in such a way as to make yourself mad. | |
| And this is something that is so dumb and so pointless There's no reason for Q to dip a toe into it. | |
| But because Jim Watkins has no idea what he's doing, and is just a fucking cretin, he was like, well, I haven't posted in a few days, and I gotta do something. | |
| I mean, the RNC's going on. | |
| Let me look around the Twitter-trons. | |
| Oh, look! | |
| This guy's talking about Satanism and the Democrat symbol. | |
| Boom! | |
| Nailed it. | |
| Well, I'm so good at being Q, And, I mean, think about the fact that Q didn't even touch the Wayfair story. | |
| Q didn't even go there! | |
| Jim Watkins, your lord and savior who can dictate everything, who can move the Q movement however he feels like via his dumb commentary on A-kun, was just like, meh, Wayfair, why bother? | |
| The Wayfair scandal does not have the official Q seal of approval on it. | |
| Just think of how out of touch that is. | |
| I mean, seriously. | |
| That was like the biggest thing they've had in months. | |
| It was the most powerful mainstream media penetration of a conspiracy theory until Marjorie Taylor Greene won her election and then really brought Q into the fore. | |
| But you would have thought that Wayfair would be the easiest layup in the world for them to get some attention and notoriety for their dumb internet death cult. | |
| And Jim just couldn't be bothered. | |
| Couldn't roll out of bed for it. | |
| Wayfair. | |
| Wayfair Schmayfair. | |
| What do I care? | |
| I mean, just really bizarre. | |
| But the DNC logo being a star? | |
| Oh, God. | |
| That... That's what the all-powerful Q needs to talk about. | |
| That's what's so important. | |
| Q has been so amazingly lazy these last two months. | |
| Q in July did not start posting until the 17th. | |
| After the 17th he got off his ass and he put in some work. | |
| I mean there was a bunch of Q drops but he didn't bother posting anything for half the month. | |
| And then he took five days off from July 23rd to July 28th and made three posts of literal nothing on the 28th and then uh had his big screed on July 31st that everyone's like oh my god look you actually tried a little and then he's like oh i'm so i'm so plug tuckered out from that like one effort post | |
| Again, I gotta take 17 days off and start posting again on August 17th. | |
| And then he took one more day off. | |
| This is grueling work! | |
| Posting a few very short text messages on a chan board full of psychopaths and grifters. | |
| And then he had three posts on the 19th, two on the 20th, and then it took six days off because, I mean, again, you can't ask the super secret spy that's saving the world to actually put any time or effort into saving the world. | |
| And after the 20th, posted nothing until today when the dumb star Q-drop was what he cared about. | |
| I mean, just... | |
| Literally so ridiculous. | |
| And what's so funny about it is he's whining about darkness. | |
| Joe Biden's speech was about light and darkness the whole time and how he will be an ally of the light. | |
| He literally co-opted Q's message. | |
| I mean it's it's really hilarious because these are such boilerplate terms light and darkness. | |
| Is that the other thing? | |
| Um, just the end of this Q-drop. | |
| All assets deployed. | |
| Information warfare. | |
| Infiltration. | |
| Destruction of America. | |
| Have faith in humanity. | |
| Have faith in yourself. | |
| United we stand. | |
| God wins Q. Are you gonna put your back into it, motherfucker? | |
| Are you gonna do some work? | |
| He screams, all caps, all assets deployed. | |
| That means the Deep State is throwing everything in the kitchen sink at us. | |
| That the cabal is doing all they can to win this election and take down Donald Trump and reverse the success of the Patriots and begin the process by which they destroy America and usher in the reign of the Antichrist. | |
| And Q, in return, Posted a couple times this month and once in a week and the one thing he posted in a week was the star fucking shit So on the one side we have the Deep State really trying to win this thing and on the other side we have Q Can't be bothered too old and too rich for this shit Just the laziest asshole you could ever imagine So Team Cabal | |
| Hungry, sharp, determined, ready to win this thing. | |
| Team QAnon, lazy, apathetic, just sort of letting it happen. | |
| And if they win, they win. | |
| I mean, that's just, that's about it. | |
| I mean, it's just really, really pathetic, the nature of our hero and savior of the world. | |
| So, it's time for some questions from ye olde inquisitors, as it were. | |
| And what's awesome is the question tweet has fallen off my screen somehow, someway, but that's not a problem. | |
| I'll re-cover it. | |
| And the first question I have is about Terry Pratchett. | |
| What is your favorite Terry Pratchett book and why? | |
| And yes, I will absolutely judge your worth as a human being based on your answer from a sweet slug. | |
| The answer is I've never read a Terry Pratchett book. | |
| I'm a terrible human being. | |
| My value as a human being is obviously diminished in your eyes and I acknowledge and accept that because I am a bad person who is not that up on my reading as it were. | |
| So, I can't help you on that front. | |
| I've never read Discworld. | |
| I have friends who've been into that kind of stuff. | |
| I know of him and I know of his work, but I have never partaken of it because I'm really... | |
| I haven't read a lot recently. | |
| I'd say in the last 10 years I've read so few books and very few and even fewer of them have been fiction. | |
| I mostly just read history stuff, political stuff. | |
| That's kind of my speed. | |
| I tried to read the Game of Thrones books and after like the first half of the first book I just kind of gave up because George R.R. | |
| Martin's like style of writing it was just a little too Tolkien-y for me and Tolkien I read Lord of the Rings when I was in my early 20s. | |
| I read it when the movies were coming out and uh oh man Tolkien is a slog so that's that kind of thing I'm just not uh I'm just not that literary in that sense. | |
| If people want to give me books, I'll try to read them, but most of my reading is media, news, information, sports, sports ball stuff, and that kind of thing. | |
| And so I apologize for having failed you and society. | |
| Keiju, or Kaiju, Pacific Rim reference, potentially, says, uh, Do you think the main Q Cryptors will continue to distance themselves from the Save the Children rallies, or will the White Hats magically take control of the false flag and let it be a symbol of their growth? | |
| I think it really depends to them if they think they can get their hooks into it. | |
| Because Save the Children is a hook. | |
| It's just a thing they throw out there as a way to lure someone into QAnon. | |
| It's a way to get a fish to bite. | |
| But Save the Children is such a vague Catch-all term that it led them to Have a fish bite on the hook and then spit it out or break the line and just get away because | |
| You don't have to worship Donald Trump and want Hillary Clinton to be executed in order to save the children. | |
| Now, to save the children, people might convince you to vote for Trump at some point, but again, it's very surface level. | |
| They're staying out of the adrenochrome and the weird shit and all that kind of stuff. | |
| So, when you have these, like, hippy-dippy, yoga, new age, Save the Children rallies, they're attacking this, like, ephemeral idea of child trafficking, and just, like, the vague concept of Hollywood as a bad idea, as a bad thing. | |
| Which, to, like, your average, blue-pilled, normie, boring person, would mean, like, Michael Jackson, or just someone else, like Kevin Spacey, just a bad has been accused of bad things. | |
| You wouldn't think of, like, Tom Hanks or Ellen DeGeneres or all the monsters, everyone, literally everyone in Hollywood just being a blood-drinking sociopath. | |
| So, the fact is that the transition from vague platitude to hardcore red-pilling isn't working out that well for them. | |
| So they're very angry about that, but if they can get the Save the Children stuff to lead people into QAnon, they'll take it. | |
| They'll gladly take it. | |
| I don't think they want to be associated with movements that don't have a hardcore pro-Trump, anti-Democrat mentality, because that dilutes the brand and that would hurt them. | |
| It will be interesting to see if they're able to regain control of Save the Children in the future and be able to use it better to promote and proselytize QAnon. | |
| Will G says, Wild Adventure? | |
| Just check your feed, there's not a word about it. | |
| And you're holding on to this until tomorrow night? | |
| Spill. | |
| I'm sorry, I waited until the podcast. | |
| I am a bad person and I cannot deny that. | |
| And optimistic to a fault says, we are the news now versus now that we have been mentioned | |
| on the news now everyone knows we are uh all batshit insane called the gop refuses distance from | |
| hashtag um the qanon wants to have it both ways | |
| They want to be the news, and they want the news that reports on them to be a lie. | |
| They want to be the truth, and that's what really matters about Q in all contexts and all purposes. | |
| They are the truth, and everything around them is a lie and a deception as foretold by the Antichrist. | |
| So that's what they're going for, and that's what they want. | |
| As for the GOP refusing to distance themselves from QAnon, that's on the GOP and may it bite them in the ass in the hardest way possible. | |
| They need to pay for their association with QAnon. | |
| Mr. Martin says, as a Christian, I'm often shocked by how many people say they're believers and follow Q, not being from America myself. | |
| Do you think that there is something in a lot of American churches that facilitates or at least doesn't deter people from being sucked into that conspiracy? | |
| I don't think a lot of the church understands how QAnon is co-opting Christianity. | |
| I think that people don't know about QAnon enough to argue against it. | |
| And that's really the big thing, is that the more proactive people are about QAnon, the better off everyone will be. | |
| And the problem is, is that if you are a pastor at a church, how tight is your relationship with your congregation? | |
| And how internet savvy are you? | |
| How knowledgeable are you about things like QAnon? | |
| And if you're political and you see QAnon you might not know the Christian side of it. | |
| You might just hear the platitudes like God wins and the armor of God and think well this QAnon stuff is Talking about God and talking about good stuff and talking about being a soldier for God. | |
| So what's the harm in it? | |
| And then you find out later. | |
| You find out later that, oh, the harm is that it's really fucking bad and it's a brain-eating parasite. | |
| So that is kind of the issue there. | |
| So I think that the fact that QAnon is aggressively American political based is the first and biggest problem. | |
| And the other thing is, is just that It's insidious. | |
| It's under the radar for the people that need to know about it to save people from the trap of QAnon. | |
| So hopefully with more news coverage and hopefully with more media presentation, right-minded people of faith can steer people in their congregations away from QAnon and make churches a safe space against this nonsense. | |
| Skeptical Penguin says, if Trump loses and leaves office, do you think he'll turn to the Q crowd and become the ultimate Q grifter, embrace them fully, monetize it, and essentially play his role as Q+, leading them in a revenge plot against the Deep State, maybe through his own TV network? | |
| That's very possible. | |
| I think it's absolutely possible that he... I mean, he's gonna be... he's a born grifter. | |
| He's a born grifter out to make a buck no matter what. | |
| And it's very possible that after he leaves office he could be like, oh yeah, I was working with Q, Q was a great guy, and all that. | |
| He could do it. | |
| And the thing about it is that the people that follow him would absolutely just buy in because they want to buy in and they want to keep the LARP going. | |
| Michael Flynn would be on the phone with him immediately, because Michael Flynn knows the queue is where his bread is buttered. | |
| He'd be like, OK Don, don't ruin my scam for me. | |
| Here's how we play this, buddy. | |
| Here's how we do it. | |
| Here's how we get paid. | |
| Here's how we get the money from all the idiots. | |
| I could totally see the Donald Trump-Michael Flynn traveling road show. | |
| Where they just fleece the rubes using QAnon and having OAN, which is rebranded as Trump TV, as their messaging center. | |
| That is all entirely possible. | |
| So I don't doubt it. | |
| I don't doubt that that could happen. | |
| So that is the questions from normal sane people who asked me great questions that I answered as well as I could in a pretty concise fashion. | |
| This podcast is now entering its 35th minute, so I've given you vultures all the content that you usually get from me, so I don't feel guilty about this. | |
| But if you wish to leave the world of sanity, if you wish to leave now and save yourself my unbelievably self-aggrandizing, navel-gazing bullshit, do so. | |
| Escape. | |
| Think a good person who is not just talking into a microphone to | |
| hear the sound of their own voice. Because if you continue, if you stray down this dark | |
| road and listen to me talk about this next question, God help you. | |
| Bye. | |
| This person sent me this question. | |
| At the moment they sent it to me, I was like, you just ruined my podcast. | |
| You just broke me. | |
| Oh my god, you prick. | |
| So, Chairman Walkman, the world's most terrible person, says to me, question, Corpo, Nomad, or Street Kid? | |
| And if you don't get this reference, These are the origin stories of your character in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 that is coming out in November. | |
| And the moment they said that to me I was like, oh my god, my answer is going to be entirely too verbose and long-winded. | |
| So basically these three classes, or these three origin stories, nomads are people who live outside of the main city of the game and just kind of live that outsider lifestyle where they don't deal with the city that much and they have bonds in their community. | |
| They're basically rural folk and Cyberpunk 27 is set in a dystopian, corporatocracy hell | |
| of an incredibly urban environment. | |
| So you're kind of an outsider but you have connections to that outside world that can | |
| help you in certain ways. | |
| Street kids are basically low-level criminals and they have those contacts with gangs and | |
| other local muscle and whatnot, will you? | |
| And the Corpo is someone who was actually in the halls of power in the Aristocra Corporation, the biggest and most powerful corporation in Night City. | |
| And then you get betrayed in the cutthroat world of corporate intrigue. | |
| And that's why you are now the character that plays the game outside of the corporation's hierarchy. | |
| So the question is to me is which one of these backstories is going to fit my character from the game. | |
| So my character in the game is going to be modeled after the character from the card game Netrunner, which is a cyberpunk dystopian corporateocracy based world. | |
| So it blends perfectly in the Cyberpunk 2077. | |
| And that character is Chaos Theory. | |
| Who is a young woman who is genetically modified and has brain ports and her computer is cased in a plush green dinosaur named Dinosaurus. | |
| Will be my character and I'll have to try to design her to look as good as possible and her backstory in Netrunner is that she is a hacker who does it for the lols or like does it as an achievement. | |
| There are three kinds of hackers or runners in Netrunner. | |
| There are anarchists who are trying to destroy The corporate dystopia. | |
| There are criminals who are trying to make a buck fighting the corporate dystopia just because they're just out for the money. | |
| And then there are the shapers who are just doing it because they can do it and they're testing themselves as hackers and investigators. | |
| And Chaos Theory is a shaper. | |
| So she was just doing it for the lolz. | |
| And her backstory also contains the fact that she is the daughter of two Indian males. | |
| They seem to be living a middle-class lifestyle in the dystopian hell world and There's a card that involves her dinosaurs being broken and you can see her parents arguing in the background. | |
| The flavor text is linked to the fact that she would do anything if she could just make her parents stop fighting. | |
| You're a child and you hate it when your parents fight. | |
| It makes you sad to see that the people that love you and that you love are not happy with each other. | |
| So, my mindset with Chaos Theory is that she became a corpo, that her prodigious hacking skills eventually led her to get an offer from Aristocra Corporation, and she became a corpo, and then she got screwed over. | |
| And that's why she's now where she is on the outside looking in. | |
| And at the start of the game, my mentality is that her reaction to this event was just, well, that's just hardball in the corporate world. | |
| People throw elbows. | |
| That's life. | |
| I'll, you know, do a few jobs. | |
| I'm going to do some work. | |
| And I'm going to get myself back into the corporate power structure sooner or later. | |
| Might even get a little revenge on those dirtbags who did this to me, but hey, all's fair in love and corporations, so we'll work it out. | |
| So that's how I'm gonna, that's gonna be my backstory, that's gonna be my character, that's how I'm gonna play my character. | |
| And we'll see how the story unfolds around that vision of mine, and if I feel like the character needs to change their mindset as events unfold. | |
| Because that's kind of the fun of these games, is that you don't really actually have to roleplay the character. | |
| The character can just do whatever the hell you want them to do. | |
| They don't need to have like a storyline that you give them but it's it's fun if you do it so I'm definitely going to do that. | |
| The game seems to be incredibly replayable so I probably will at some point make a Nomad and make a Street Kid and play the game in different play styles from like just brutal hand-to-hand combat fighter to like stealthy hacker person. | |
| But yeah, incredibly looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 as you obviously can tell by my answer to this question. | |
| So that will be a lot of fun when that game comes out. | |
| I've pre-ordered it. | |
| I will be in the store immediately to obtain my copy the night of its release. | |
| So that is Ye Olde Pouty Cast for this evening. | |
| Probably try to do another one Friday. | |
| I'm just going to try to keep getting three of these out a week. | |
| Really sorry that my schedule has been so wonky. | |
| Just things happening. | |
| Last night was a shit show. | |
| The power went out in my house for about three hours and then it came back on and then we lost power again for like five minutes. | |
| Came back, everything was good. | |
| Then we lost power for a minute and then it came back and then it was good. | |
| And then we lost power for 10 minutes and then it came back and it was good. | |
| And I just threw my hands up and was like, well I'm not going to record a podcast under these conditions because I don't want to be 40 minutes into a podcast and power down and then I've lost everything and now I'm just like homicidal. | |
| So um I'm gonna try to do another one Friday hopefully and then try to do the Sunday podcast and then just just get back into the swing of things and try to keep things on the right schedule but uh work's crazy so I can make no promises but I'm gonna I'm gonna do what I can to crank out the content and keep stuff rolling so much stuff is going on right now it's crazy it's wild uh it's very exciting very terrifying The dread of this election hangs over all of us like a knife all that fun stuff, but yeah, so Stay safe. | |
| Have a good one. | |
| I will catch you all soon and That's it. | |
| That's all I can say running out. | |
| Just totally bricking this landing So I'm just gonna hit the stop button and end the podcast. |