Life is Strange: Double Exposure faces severe criticism for horrific optimization causing crashes on high-end hardware and a narrative where player choices feel meaningless. Reviewers condemn the game's heavy-handed allegory, awkward dialogue, and controversial depiction of LGBTQ+ characters like Safi Llewellyn and Tranny Hyde, noting that police theories blaming suicide on sexual minority status undermine the story's emotional core. Ultimately, the episode suggests the sequel fails to honor the original's legacy, delivering a disjointed experience marred by technical failures and regressive storytelling that alienates its fanbase. [Automatically generated summary]
I don't think anything ever works the first time I try it, huh?
Oh, seems like everything's fine.
Everything's working.
Okay.
So, just quick because this kind of stuff gets recorded and archived.
Many, many years ago, I played a game called Life is Strange, and it was preposterously bad.
Apostrosly bad game.
I've also played every single one of its offshoots.
I think they've made two different ones that are just walking simulator games, kind of like in the theme of random teenage girl has issue magic and has to do dumb shit.
But this is the first actual sequel to the original game, Life is Strange 1.
That's called Double Exposure because the first one was very heavy-handed in like film allegory.
And in the continuing that trend, this is also heavy-handed in film allegory.
So, no, you would expect that you would be seeing the game right now, but I had anticipated that I would be able to run the game on my laptop because I have played many games on my laptop.
It's a proper gay man laptop.
It has adequately played The Witcher.
I fucked around on The Sims 4 with it.
I never actually played it, but I did.
Oh, I played GTA 5.
I think I played like 30 minutes of Red Dead Redemption.
I played a lot of couple games on this laptop, and it's done fine.
I do video editing on it sometimes, and it does just fine.
So, I thought for sure, for sure, Life is Strange shoot.
No fucking problem, no deal, no big deal whatsoever.
Easy, easy clap.
I boot the game up, and it starts at 720p, borderless windowed, and it's lagging.
Like, it's just a window, it's like at the lowest possible settings that you could possibly set this game to, and it doesn't work.
Um, so I fucked around with it, it crashed a couple times, and I'm just like, this is the most horrifically optimized game that I've ever fucking seen.
So, um, I decided hastily, and you guys are lucky.
I, if I hadn't been doing this, I would have to cancel the stream.
I had to pull my um actual computer out of storage because everything's packed up.
If you can hear the echo, it's because there's no fucking furniture in this room, everything's in a box.
Um, and I had pulled this out already today because I had to go find emails for Harden as part of the litigation.
I had to go find some stuff for discovery and evidentiary stuff.
So, I was already on this computer dicking around trying to find old stuff.
And if I hadn't had that already pulled out, set up, ready to go just before the stream, there would be no chance in hell whatsoever I could pull this off.
So, I stuck in my SD card, and I'm used to this SD card transferring at, I want to say like 80 megabits per second, but for whatever reason, probably because I'm in a hurry and I need this as quickly as possible.
It's transferring at 22 megabytes, sorry, megabytes per second, which is not the same.
It would already be done if it was transferring at the full speed.
So, I guess this is just because it was an SD.
I put a micro disc thing on it, an SD card, instead of using the thumb drive because I need more storage than that.
I had a larger SD card.
So, I know it's Wednesday.
I'm playing a game.
I'm not doing a proper stream.
I'm just playing a game.
I was hoping that I could finish this game before I leave, but I've had to push it back so many times due to internet problems and stuff that I don't even know if I can do it.
It's supposedly 10 hours long, but I do fuck around.
If I stream every day this week until the first, I can pull it off.
And my last stream to everybody will be a video game stream with the shocking conclusion to Life is Strange.
I'm so terrified that this game, by the way, is going to be boring as fuck, because I read the reviews and the it was it's.
Its actual official rating on Steam is mixed and, if you don't know, by Steam metrics, that's awful.
If your game is getting mixed ratings, that means that you've absolutely screwed the pooch, especially when it's a game like.
True Colors and Filibuster00:03:11
Life Is Strange because the first game, even though a lot of people made fun of it for being like a giant piece of shit, it still had like that emotional core that stuck with some people, trannies namely, and people kind of fondly remember the game um in retrospect.
But even the people who are like I loved Life Is Strange One, but this is just so bad.
So i'm hoping that by so bad they mean like Dust Dustborn was a perfect game, like there were some slow parts but it was like a an actual beautiful catastrophe where uh, it was just an awful fucking game and it was fun to make fun of.
I'm afraid that this might be um, Life Is Strange.
True Colors bad, where it's just like unbelievably fucking terrible and the entire game is absolute.
Until i'm just laughing at nothing because i'm i'm being tortured in Cia prison.
Yeah, our gals are white.
People are very scary.
There's Glenn Back.
He's terrifying me.
Uh, True Colors.
True Colors was True Colors.
The one where no, it's just the, the fat Asian girl that can see emotions.
What was the one that was like a, a tranny, and what?
What could the tranny do?
I remember that you're from like Juneau Alaska, and I remember that there's a baby maze and that your mother abandoned you because she's embarrassed by you.
What was?
What was their power, though?
And they like see deceit, die.
I don't think it was dying.
I think that's a lie.
I can't remember.
I honestly, the power was remembering.
That's right, you can remember stuff, but tranny had the super ability to remember things that have happened.
Yeah, they had powers.
They um.
Okay, I remember.
Now it's coming back to me slowly.
Uh, you're trying to remember why your mom abandoned you or why your dad abandoned you, and then you find out it was because uh, for like a legitimate reason and not for like a terrible reason.
Why's my phone ring okay?
Um, let's see here.
I also completely forgot about that game.
No no, there was the, the um.
I I can't I literally cannot even remember the name of the the fat Asian girls game.
Her power was that she could see colors if someone was like feeling a certain way.
Um, the most memorable part of those games were was One, For The True Colors was when I um, not True Colors the Baby Maze.
One was when I just started laughing hysterically because my head cannon was that their little brother died because the crazy mom built like a baby maze and the baby couldn't get out of it.
And then, in True Colors, there was the scene where I had the bright idea to turn off the copyrighted music mid mid uh, mid cinematic, and they were just dancing to nothing and it was hysterical because it was so fucking sloppy and lazy.
Okay, are we almost done here 66?
I have to filibuster for another five minutes chat.
What can I filibuster about, Josh?
What is your favorite?
Binary Choice for Arcadia Bay00:04:47
Life Is Strange.
It was the first one um, the first one.
The first one was actually, I don't want to say it was almost good.
It was not almost good.
But there was like a theme that they were doing in it that could have been good.
I'll phrase it like that.
It was not good, but it could have been good.
For I, for one, I really don't have a problem that there exists games that are like movies, because it's like, if someone wants to play a game that's really not challenging, but tells a story or whatever.
I don't really give a shit.
I'm not like a true gamer that's like, if a game isn't Dark Souls, it doesn't deserve to exist.
I guess you can blame Jim Sterling for that opinion, but that's how it is.
And the original Life is Strange, there's this theme where because Max can rewind time, she goes back to try and save her friend Chloe, who was shot at school.
And the entire game is just this horrific series of events that occurs because she rewinds time to try and save her friend.
And then it feels like at the end, the canonical ending should have been that Max finally realizes that she doesn't have the right to rewind time and try to play God and change history to her every whim.
You got to let go of your friends, even if it's sad.
But that's literally not canonical ending.
The canonical ending is that Max fully commits to fucking up everything and destroys Arcadia.
And thousands of people die because of natural disasters that are somehow a butterfly effect of Max or Chloe not dying.
And this game picks up after that ending.
This game picks up in a world where Chloe lives and Max selfishly decided to completely obliterate her hometown in order to save her lesbian friend from a school shooting.
And it's just like that theme is like so classic and so effective.
And then they just they completely seriously completely fucked the entire thing up.
I just don't understand.
What a surprise they don't want the selfish ending.
Yeah, no shit.
I think even in this game, the only thing I know about this game is that it's the same characters, that the canonical ending is the one where Arcadia's Bay is completely destroyed.
And I think that they break up.
So Max goes back in time and utterly destroys an entire city of people to save her blue-haired lesbian friend.
And then it doesn't even matter because they break up anyways.
So truly just a shockingly bad story.
If you have the option, I hope you kill Chloe.
Here's what you have to know.
This game is predicated on this idea that your choices matter.
And they very heavily remind you of this.
Like, you better be careful.
What you do matters.
They will remember that.
And that will have an impact on the story.
And then nothing matters.
Like, no matter what you do throughout Life is Strange, one, you end up at the same chapter.
And it's basically just a binary choice about whether to save Max or to save Chloe or to destroy Arcadia Bay.
Like every other thing that you do up until that point is just completely and totally futile.
And additionally, because of how it ends, either Max learns to stop being a fucking retard and let nature take its course, or Arcadia Bay is completely and totally obliterated by whales falling from the moon.
It's like your choices literally cannot possibly matter.
Like, even if they did set up that these things had an impact on people as you were doing them, because everybody fucking dies or the entire course of the game is rewound at the very end, there is absolutely no conceivable way that the consequences of your actions have any value or meaning whatsoever.
So, while I say that the story of the game could have been good, I think it's actually the you would it would have to be a linear narrative gameplay.
Kind of like sorry to make this comparison, but like Deus Ex or something where there is like a progression of events that ultimately brings you to a single conclusion.
You can't pretend to have branching gameplay and then have an ending that's like either none of that actually happened and it was all just a dream or everybody fucking dies.
Video Memory on a 409000:07:40
Who is the head writer of these games?
I have no idea, actually.
I do remember Mr. Moon the janitor.
I'm sure it was just a coincidence, though.
Moon is a very silly, like high fantasy name.
There's like Lunas and Moons in every fucking game.
What is the Kiwi Farms reference in Hitman?
I've never played Hitman.
I do have Hitman, but I've never played it.
It's 97% done, by the way.
Sorry.
It's really gonna...
I have no fucking idea how I'm gonna play this fucking game.
I'll have to play it for like four hours tomorrow.
Moon is a South Korean.
It's true.
I remember the janitor was Moon because he was Asian.
I do remember that.
Okay.
It is transferred.
So now theoretically, if I go to the thing and I click install, I accept.
Why is it doing that?
Oh my fucking God.
There's no way.
You cannot possibly do this to me.
No, It's like downloading.
Not only is it downloading, it's like downloading at the same exact speed that it transferred off the disc.
If I remember correctly, Kik is the premier gaming platform.
In fact, Kik is so famous, and Evil Eddie is such an excellent entrepreneur and business manager that Kik has actually been featured in the Forza Formula One Lego set, if I remember correctly.
Now, not everybody can get a Lego set with their brand image.
That's a very special thing.
That's like Star Wars tier.
How the fuck is there a George Floyd emoji?
Geno Project Floydius Maxims.
What the fuck is that?
Zenid St. George.
That's funny.
Oh, everyone's showing off their emotes.
I don't think I have any emotes.
I'm only a pay pick for the Kino Casino.
Oh, I have a cog emote.
Oh my god.
I can do a Fizer emote.
Feaser has been angry at me on Zitter recently.
He's so, I don't know why this guy, wait, Teddy Feaser is RPGX, right?
I always forget that guy.
And then he gets mad at me and he's like, no, you can't say that you forget who I am.
I'm very important.
Don't mail me any fucking Legos.
Do I look like somebody that plays with Legos, bro?
Come on now.
Guess what that sound means?
Oh, you didn't even hear that sound.
You didn't hear the beautiful sound of Life is Strange 2 double exposure.
Okay, let me turn.
Let me fuck with this setting real quick.
Game capture.
Play.
No, no, no, no.
Do not download Dead by Daylight right now.
Right now I have to do, okay, it's booting.
I'm so excited.
Square ENIX proudly, fucking proudly.
Okay, I hear music, but the game is frozen.
Ah there, we go out of video memory.
Oh my god.
So it's not that computer, this is just an absolute piece of shit this.
I have a 4090 in this fucking computer.
If this fucking game is running out of video memory on a 4090, it can literally suck the shit out of my fucking asshole, because there's no fucking way I suffer so long.
Oh god, it's already doing the music.
Okay, hold up.
Oh, this is a bad song.
I'm a shitty.
I'm a shitty music enjoyer myself, but this is fucking bad.
Okay now, here you are with your Malad and light.
Yeah, this is bad.
Don't touch my windows.
My bricks are.
Oh, this is bad.
This is bad.
This is like a genuinely bad fucking song.
Is this Comic Sands as the official?
How do I?
What are you doing?
Stillness means and or is danger just slow?
I do not trust you, don't trust myself, but someone was listening when I called for help.
Wow, this is god.
This fucking song makes my skin crawl.
Can't tell the difference on unsteady floor.
Will I be rewarded?
Will I be rewarded?
Oops uh transform, fit to screen.
Oh hell yeah, epic gamer moment.
Okay, let me announce to everybody i'm actually gonna live.
Okay, announcement done.
Video game, good to go.
Did it crash?
Why did you do this why?
Why is it windowless?
What have you done?
It's like a bro.
What the fuck?
It's like fucked up me.
Minimizing the game to like touch something has like fucked it up.
You utter fucking piece of fucking shit.
It's like I can't even describe this.
It's like in the corner of my screen.
It takes up a quarter of my screen, but I have to move my mouse to where it would be if it was full screen, like I. Honestly, I can't even fucking describe how terrible this is.
This is like a fucking nightmare.
Like I have my course cursor is like you see how my cursor is on the screen.
That's because i'm trying to figure out where the little arrows are in this fucking thing.
Dude unfund, real.
How how could it possibly be this fucked up?
I'm gonna have to kill it.
I'm gonna have to kill it and restart this fucking song again.
Oh boy, I cut for help.
Okay, back here.
Settings, graphics, I want borderless window.
Why?
Excellent, exactly what.
I want, the top of the window.
Can I turn this fucking?
Turn this down?
Okay, new game, let's go.
What the fuck?
Oh okay, so this game is like 60, but for an additional 40 you can unlock these cool outfits.
Uh, we're representing the Republic Of China, Vermont.
Why the fuck do I want to?
Yeah, we're representing China here.
Indoor?
Unlocking Cool Outfits00:04:08
Outdoor.
Oh, okay.
Cool, I guess.
I don't know why this is necessary.
So we're just going to stick with Comic Sans as the font for this game.
That's just what we're doing.
Okay.
Cool.
So Max lives in a decrepit shithole.
She has the ability to rewind time, but she's just going to rot in this fucking dilapidated building.
Deck nine.
Am I a psycho?
I think Chloe?
No, it's Max because we just deck.
What is with the goose?
Are we goose stepping?
Safi.
Well, I'll be damned.
I didn't know you were a criminal mastermind, Miss Caulfield.
There's a lot you don't know about me.
Why is her voice actress sound so bad?
Nothing easy.
How do we get around that?
Why is it whenever they do lesbian relationships in games, it's always like a brown woman.
Okay, let's check out the options before we begin.
Actually, we'll do graphics and then I want to advance audio settings.
V-sync that shit.
I will accept this.
Okay.
Because that tearing is bad.
I don't know what HDR even is.
I'm going to keep that off, though.
Longer choice times.
Camera assists.
Camera shakes.
Simple power effects.
Major choice confirmation.
I will actually enable that.
Skip gameplay.
Okay.
We can just skip the gameplay.
Hot spot pinging.
Reveal points of interest with space.
Hotspot sound and range.
Alternate power controls.
Power UE indicator.
Display timelines.
Focal circle.
Content warning pause.
Okay.
I just want to enable that.
Graphics brightness warning.
Blood warning.
Violence warning.
Sum side warning.
Abuse warning.
Sex warning.
And transform.
Let's.
Let's enable all these.
Okay.
Let me take a look.
I just walked up to it already.
I didn't need to see that.
Oh, yeah.
Easy peasy.
Sure about this?
All right, we're lifting a bookshelf so far, Chad.
What's going on?
Tell me to use my mouse to look around in a scene where I can't use my mouse to look around.
Why not prop it up so you can get through it later?
Whatever.
Talk about descending into the mouth of hell.
It's just an old bar.
So glad you told me about this place.
It's incredible.
Hidden Photo Potential in Old Bar00:07:58
Is this the same voice actor as the first game?
She sounds so different.
She sounds like a voice actor for the Rugrats or something.
Obsessed with this building.
She never broke in, though.
She clearly wasn't as crazy as you.
Urban exploration is kind of my thing.
I can't see a busted old place and simply not.
There's no way this is the same voice actor as Matt from the first game.
I don't know.
An abandoned building has the potential to be anything.
So the audio mixing is terrible.
Like I can tell that this is just a girl talking into her microphone.
In fact, it sounds like she recorded it at her home at like a home studio during COVID.
It's not mixed into the environment at all.
Like you're in this old building that should have echoes in the shit.
What?
I don't usually rearrange the space if I can help it.
I want it to look exactly like it would without human interference.
Got it.
Hands off.
Is there anything else?
Dude, it's not that she aged.
She sounds completely different.
I'll have a vodka martini.
Any cocktail I make you hear will be entirely spiders.
Take photographs.
Okay.
So what are we looking for exactly besides photographing random detritus?
Most of the shoots I do, I find a focus.
Something to hang the rest of the series on.
Dude, I'm sorry, she sounds like Tommy Pickles.
It's like she's about to pull the screwdriver out of her diaper.
The loneliest thing you can find.
Gotcha, bus.
Let me turn the music down just a little bit more.
I think that I am the most important person.
So I'm gonna make sure that it's 90% asbestos.
Rewind hasn't worked in years, but still.
Old habits die hard.
See what I mean?
How do we take a picture?
Photography.
Hail Satan.
Hmm.
Edgy.
Ready to pledge yourself to the Prince of Lies.
How do I take a picture?
Tell me how to take a picture.
Come on, Max.
Gotta focus on the here and now.
I don't go in for angels or demons.
People are nasty enough all on their own.
God, I haven't been bowling since I was little.
John Whittle's ninth birthday, if I remember.
Weird kit.
Oh, dude, they made it so that you actually move a little bit faster.
It didn't used to be those fast in the old games.
Something to bring you back to the beginning.
Imagine that.
Maybe if I just ignore this, nothing will pop out of it.
What's the button to take a picture?
Gameplay, keybindings.
Interact Pulse is E Photography I have no idea Alt F4.
I'm so glad Safi showed me this place.
Oh, I don't get to actually press the button.
I have to walk up and press the thing.
Okay.
It looks so much cleaner than it did online.
Are there photos?
Yeah, the old website is still up.
I wonder who's paying the hosting fees.
someone who loves kitsch and dust this was beer fresh It's in a can.
Yeah, I'm saving that one.
I think that beer can was designed by somebody who's never even seen a beer bottle in his entire life.
The fuck am I doing?
Photograph?
What are you smiling about?
Nothing.
I can't find anything else to take a photograph of.
Oh, can I go this way?
Okay.
It's very unclear which ways you can go and which ways you cannot go.
Help.
Okay, you know what?
Hot spot pinging.
Okay.
Yes, I would.
This is not helping me at all.
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
It doesn't do anything.
I'm glad Safi's having fun.
Hate to bring an unappreciative audience to a trespassing.
Maybe if I just ignore this, dude, I'm already just like, what the fuck am I supposed to do here?
I am using sonar.
Should keep looking around.
This place has a ton of hidden photo potential.
This?
Oh, I suppose.
Oh, okay.
I missed one.
How old did you say this place was?
I think it was built in the 60s, but it only closed down like a decade ago.
Really?
It looks like it's been abandoned for pasteboards.
I don't think they can skip this gameplay, though.
It's for difficult segments.
So it's like, if it's not like an actual challenge, they don't actually expect you to skip it.
Pitch my thesis to Moses, get the physicist's perspective.
This is already very bad.
Figured out what your focus is going to be yet?
Pull down the tarp.
Not yet.
But I'll know it when I see it.
What fucking tarp?
What are you talking about?
How?
Oh, there it is.
How are they expecting me to do that?
Oh, now I can walk this way?
Dude, this level design is just like atrocious.
fuck no i i know him pulling this down Come on now.
Who looks like Ford?
What are you talking about?
So much for never rearranging a space.
Damn.
I bet that was stunning when it caught the light.
Oh shit.
Her lips weren't even moving when she said that.
Dude, there was audio popping.
They cut that line incorrectly, like mid-sounds.
I can't believe how bad this is.
Nobody gave a fuck.
Until today.
Is like Square Enix running out of money or something?
Not in love with this angle, though.
Audio Popping Mid-Sentence00:02:28
Is Max like a pooner?
I would accept her being on HRT as the only fucking thing.
Help me find a way up.
You got it, boss.
Find a way to get upstairs.
I want to say that in the first game, there was like a thing that happened that was like, oh, there's a C. Press C to quickly see your main objective.
I am pressing this.
Oh, they just.
Okay, I understand.
That doesn't work.
I'm climbing.
You okay?
Damn.
Yeah, I'm fine.
That could have been bad.
This is why you need an assistant.
In case you break your ass and need an ass ambulance.
Go get your shot.
Let me figure out how to get you back down.
She can just jump.
Armed and ready.
Let's find that shot.
Come on, Rugrats.
One day.
Drugs.
you more drugs bottles Monkeys.
And then the thing.
Beautiful.
Worth.
Worth the climb.
Wow.
LA service too?
This place is bougie.
Please remember to tip your ladder driver.
Did you get your shot?
Yeah, I got one for the boss.
Goomba stomper.
We're getting down.
She sacrificed herself for you next.
Come on.
Warped Round Shit and Deformed Textures00:03:03
I'm starving.
This loneliness makes me want a sandwich.
I'm already starting to miss Dustborn.
You have no idea.
I think Dustborn is like peak.
Oh, show me the angles.
Is she about to get fucking crusher?
What?
I thought something was gonna happen.
She's gonna have to rewind time to save her camera.
Shit's like $2,000.
Holy shit.
Are you okay?
I need a drink.
Do you need a drink?
You read my mind.
Turtle?
Turtle.
Turtle?
What the fuck does that mean?
Out of video memory.
Try lowering the resolution.
Bro.
this game i may not finish it i have never given up on one of these games before but this is just like it's un it's not it's not possible let me close out of absolutely fucking everything but like it's not possible You can't it's not I Don't I just can't even fucking fathom how this is happening Memory usage is at Let's see if I can get an actual metric,
but it's like the dedicated memory usage out of 24 gigabytes is like less than one tenth of that.
There's no, there's no fucking excuse for this.
Okay, I'm gonna reduce the.
the graphics is like whatever i said for so long that song is completely inappropriate as like a main mini song Oh my fucking god content skip content, skip Wow.
LA service too.
This place is bougie.
Please remember to tip your ladder driver.
You guys remember when this happened you won't even fucking imagine Let's get the hell out of this death trap armed and find that shot I'm so sorry EU government.
I made fun of your baby your poor baby and now I know now I know how bad it can get beautiful dismount check this out.
It's perfect.
Oh show me the angles dude.
I reduced the quality from cinematic to high.
Oh my god.
And there was like a noticeable reduction in quality.
Like the anti-Allison is shit.
The round shit's like warped and deformed.
Looks awful.
Holy shit.
Are you okay?
I need a drink.
Do you need a drink?
The game crashes out through this again.
I'm just gone.
You're not going to hear from me until.
Misery Cult and Autistic Spout00:15:38
Oh no.
These powers might not last.
I thought I was freak.
We will.
It just cuts horrifically for no reason.
Meh.
Meh.
You dead?
You're having an autism spout.
I mean, no.
Not dead.
Just thinking.
Was it a bad idea to play a lesbian dating simulator?
Cosmopolitan.
She thought that she was checking out the Asian girl.
And she was happy about it.
Like, lesbian relationships have no fidelity whatsoever.
Hey.
You look really good today.
Is this like a lesbian car?
I think so.
I switched shampoos.
Not sure about it yet.
So what are you up to later?
She's on a date with like another woman and they're going to ask her out.
I can't even like say.
If there's a just and loving God, sleep.
Today's a drink.
That is a proper case now.
Like internet.
Well, sweet dreams.
You know she was flirting with you, right?
No, I'm autistic.
Amanda.
She didn't even know.
Oh, guilty.
Flirting is like a foreign language to me.
You spent all those years on the road meeting new people every day, and you still can't tell when someone's into you?
I don't know.
You don't meet a lot of suitors in abandoned buildings.
Was this game written by a trainee?
I could believe that.
Oh my god.
You snooped in my wallet.
Stop deflecting.
I stole your money.
What's the deal with you two?
I killed 10,000 people to spare her life, and then we broke up.
High school sweethearts.
Okay.
She said I was autistic and tone deaf, and my pictures sucked.
High school breakup turned you to Miss Havisham.
It was a little more complicated than can we change the subject now?
No, come on.
You never talk about yourself.
Would it kill you to open up the teeny tiniest bit?
What happened?
They were together.
kissed um she didn't die canonically This is a major choice.
Okay.
I mean, what's the point of the major choice warning if it's obvious when it's a major choice?
I didn't know that.
And then we weren't.
She wanted to live in the future.
I was too hung up on the past.
I murdered thousands and thousands of people.
Everybody I'd ever known.
My family, her family, our entire community.
I sent down the moon whales and killed them all.
Ever.
Now change the damn subject.
Steal.
Amanda.
Thoughts?
Well, you can be racist.
I mean, I'm not a fucking rice burner, you bitch.
What the fuck do you think I am?
Really cool, though.
Max, you're always talking about how you feel rootless.
Maybe a new friend would be a good way to set down some roots.
Don't know how that works.
About what?
What do normal people even talk about?
Trauma dumps.
But we're aiming a little bit higher.
I mean, go look around.
She's responsible for half the decor in this place.
Learn what she likes.
Yeah.
I was expecting something to happen at this point.
In the first game, Chloe gets shot.
Okay, then.
She learns that she has superpowers, and Chloe gets fucking killed.
In this game, a Muslim woman is teaching a mentally handicapped Max on how to socialize because she's too fucking autistic.
All I have to do is find some things I'm in.
Though I said I wasn't interested in her, and then my actions had consequences.
So now, um, it's a cow painting.
Keep forgetting.
No more back to start.
But they have arrows in them.
That's mean.
Why is there anime in this fucking game?
Black people movie.
Oh.
Watch, I'm gonna walk up and be like, hey, I like the cow painting.
And then, um, she's gonna be like, sorry, that's the only thing in here that I didn't.
Oh look, a homosexual flag.
Rewind is long gone.
Listen, cat.
Oh no.
Help!
The game skip is also not helping me.
This place has Amanda written all over it.
Jeez, Amanda has a huge family.
Wonder what that's like.
Amanda recommends misery cult, huh?
I can work with that.
Hey, babe, you like misery cult?
Good beer, good ethics.
What else could you ask for?
I could ask for you to stop like gurgling your fucking lions.
Is that possible?
This is for sure upside down.
Oh boy, unisex restrooms.
Or uh, double, whatever, bisexual restrooms.
Absolutely, no game made today could not have a double sex restroom.
Oh man, I want to get on the bad pickup line board.
I wonder if I should be able to break good ice tomorrow.
Okay, now I know enough.
Give her a bad pickup line.
Busy night.
Oh, Julie called off.
So, I haven't gotten a single break all shift.
My bladder's about to explode.
Go, pee.
You can talk to me later.
It's a fabulous idea.
Don't go anywhere.
That is a pickup line.
That's the third class this week.
Reggie.
Does Reggie not have any lines?
No, you are a literal angel.
I owe you.
No.
My pickup line in this game is sweeping it up.
Out of all.
I went around the room and inspected all the day core to get a pickup line going, and my pickup line is sweeping it up and nothing matters.
Is this what's happening?
Unreal.
I can't even fucking believe this.
Hey, photography's a tough industry.
This guy is a pooner.
Fuck this.
You guys are homosexual.
Let's see.
Stay here or go home and let my dad drag me to church three times a week.
Oh no.
Besides, a lot of the Abraxas kids stay over break.
We've all got tasks to finish.
What kind of secret society assigns busy work?
The kind that's famous for immature pranks and ragers.
So why do people supposed to open your mouth when you deliver lines?
That kind that does amateur pranks and ragers being an abraxis.
If you want any recognition at all, it didn't used to be this way.
I'm a 25-year-old woman with a severe PTSD.
I don't want to join your fucking fraternity.
Pooner.
Sounds like a bummer.
Well, it's not a girlfriend, I don't think.
I think he's like a puner.
Good luck, you guys.
Hey, babe.
I, uh, I swept it up.
Oh, my bladder thanks you.
It's an awkward.
Ew, that's even more awkward.
Here we go.
I gotta know what the deal is with the pickup line.
Oh, I thought she was gonna say I were co-headlining a comedy night.
Holy shit, you do comedy?
And this is the first I'm hearing about it?
Sorry, sorry.
Dude, listen, Carl.
Her voice acting is so tickling me the grossest pickup lines he can think of, trying to get me to score.
Dumb, bro shit.
Anyway, it turned into a competition, which I won.
Nobody knows grosser pickup lines than a small-town lesbian.
And the competition turned into the chalkboard?
So?
Give it a shot.
What's the best pickup line you've got?
Hey, baby.
I seem to have lost my number.
Can I borrow yours?
This is terrible.
I like your enthusiasm.
This is actually bad.
Like, really bad.
So, you're a misery cult fan?
For sure.
So cool that you know them.
Yeah, I'm a bit of a misery cultist myself.
She's so awkward.
I'm sorry.
I actually had never heard of them until I read your wreck on the whiteboard.
Oh, right.
You're not a Lakeport local, duh.
So, educate me.
I want to know.
Misery cult were the first band out of Lakeport to make it big.
They kind of founded the Lakeport music scene.
I don't care.
Lakeport has a scene?
Like, lesbian Riz?
Skibbit to Riz.
sounds pretty sick outside of the academic bubble i'm just imagining max pulls out her phone is like have you ever have you ever seen skibbity toilet And she just starts forcing her to watch TikToks.
Those photos on the wall over there.
Is that your family?
Yep.
All six of us, my poor mother.
I love those coopers.
Plus, I'm the oldest, so they have to do what I say.
Okay.
So, I was thinking that we should totally do something in Lakeport sometime.
I can't wait.
Show off the local music scene.
Oh, hell yeah.
There's this band, Revenge Horse, that I've been meeting to check out.
Based on Revenge Horse, wow.
So, um, oh, uh, I like to make sure that boundaries get set early.
Oh, my God.
Zero pressure, either way.
But is this a date thing, or is this a friend thing?
What a reaction.
The Rizzler.
Um, I honestly don't give a fuck.
I don't like her.
She sucks.
I was thinking more of a friend thing.
Cool.
Oof.
That's why I asked.
This is so fun thing it is.
Unbelievable and fucking awkward.
It's just like the most awkward fucking game ever created.
It's like specifically designed to be awkward.
How do you feel?
I have no idea.
The last 10 minutes are total block.
But Amanda is really cool.
Oh, this.
Hey.
She was good.
We didn't almost die.
Yeah, cuz I saved us.
I deserve a medal.
So, what are we doing?
The night's young.
We should hang out.
Just the three of us?
There's a meteor shower tonight.
I'm conducting research, but it could be black and a scientist.
I'm conducting meteorological research because, as a black man, I am also very, very well-educated.
In fact, I'm a PhD candidate under meteorology and meteorological friends.
She gets this.
It is like Sky Williams, right?
Oh, Max, would you like to play League of Legends with me?
You can be my support.
I'm going to be ADT Vane, and you're going to be my sona.
And just look, just press the buttons when I take damage.
I'll let you know what to press when the buttons depress them.
Just keep a positive attitude.
I played League of Legends a very long time ago.
Give me the Cliff Notes version of what we're actually here to see.
A bunch of little pieces of a shatter asteroid from 11 million miles away.
This is what I get for introducing you to.
Wow.
Wow.
So should we be worried about this?
There are meteors.
Not in our lifetime.
And it'll probably disintegrate before it reached the surface.
All right, Max.
If you have 24 hours before the world ends, what would you do?
Wow, what amazing options.
I'll take a picture of a fucking dumbass.
I'm documenting that shit.
Can you imagine how cool an apocalypse photo set would be?
Oh my god.
This again?
Nobody would see it.
I'm telling you, art requires an audience.
Otherwise, it's just okay, geez.
Agree and disagree.
Listen here, Saffy.
If someone makes a video game and nobody ever plays it except one retard, does it even have an impact?
Is it even art?
Hey, looks like the equipment's working.
Why am I not at home wrapped up in a blanket burrito right now?
I don't know.
Me and Moses out in town without you?
Think of the wild times you went.
Art Requires an Audience00:06:21
Oh, yeah, you're a fucking party animal, Max.
Lakeport's most notorious party animals.
Did I say party animal and then the game said party animal?
I'm having like a brain seizure lockup right now.
Saffy made it say like the same exact thing that I did, and I feel retarded now.
Passing the bottle around.
Okay, I'm just making sure that's what happened because I couldn't remember.
I don't work in this building.
I wrote this game.
I'm crying.
The credits are gonna roll, and Josh Moon is gonna do first credits.
Grab a mug, Max.
Ooh, I went the toilet.
You know me?
It's that skibbity riz.
This actor will have consequences.
Are you fucking retarded?
G-Man 2 or whatever is gonna pop up.
It's big, but I can't tell you what it is.
You can't tell us you have good news, and then I don't want to say anything else until everything is finalized.
Mysterious.
Well, whatever we're celebrating, I think it calls for a selfie.
Oh, let me.
I just got this camera and I want to get some good use out of it.
What should we say?
Damn.
I think I have hypothermia.
Are you retarded?
Bright lights, guys.
Shield your eyes if you are of weak disposition.
Moses has hypothermia.
Wow, that was awful.
What?
What an awful, awful delivery.
That is truly terrible.
I'm gonna, you know, um do my thing we circulate.
I got that sickle cell, then she good news, huh?
You two and your secrets.
How you ever hold a conversation with each other is beyond me.
I'm dying to know what Safi's good news is.
Maybe I can somehow convince her to spit new crosstalk message.
Oh, I am not reading that mom and dad.
I think they died.
Speak to Moses, okay?
Take a picture, you'll black.
I love how Moses always looks so passionate about his work, even when he's just crunching.
Hey, Moses.
Casual.
I found a way to make it funny.
I might knock it over.
Pretend.
Hey, Moses.
Doesn't some small part of you want to know what Safi's good news is?
No, I don't give a fuck.
All right.
I think I have an idea.
This guy has like a reverse Hitler mustache.
We can't turn back.
Um, okay.
Give this to Safi if you can.
You'll probably have to trick her into taking it or planet owner.
Um, that's weird.
No, this has rules, so it's more of a game.
Whoever holds the bottle cap has to do whatever you say.
Well, within reason, Moses, I have literally never wanted to play a game more in my entire life.
You say that now, but Safi has a very loose definition.
Why does she have like puffy cheeks?
Is she like a balemic?
Okay, wish me luck.
Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
Oh, you mean like talking to someone who has an obvious crush on me?
First of all, how dare you?
Second of all, yes, exactly.
What is he talking about?
Is the black man supposed to be a love interest?
They're both gay.
Okay, how am I going to plant this on Safi?
find a hiding spot for the cap sofi's like bonkers protective of that bag She's out of her fucking sight right now.
She's right there.
She does seem busy writing right now.
Yeah, there we go.
And don't touch my fucking pegs.
Now I've just got to deliver this to Safi.
Deliver the bag?
It's her bag.
She'll pick it up later.
Nice try, Max.
What?
She was.
She is.
If you take the picture of her normally, she dives out of photo.
But I just took a picture of some random shit and it still pretended that that happened.
This is the 4080.
If I said I have a different one, I don't know which one in particular.
This winter air is killing me.
You don't have any lip balm in your bag, do you?
I might have said 4090.
I don't know which one it is.
I think it's the 4080.
Did you see it while you were hiding that bottle cap?
Wow.
Get wrecked.
Bullshit.
You're a fucking loser.
Get good noob.
Wow.
Not at hiding bottle caps.
I'm not.
Your title is secure.
Dishonored My Family00:07:15
Oh.
Oh, shit.
Hello?
This is Safi?
Yes, this is Safia Llewellyn Fayad.
Speaking.
She has a hyphenated Welsh Arab name.
Just disgusting.
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
So, would you really take pictures of the end of the world?
Yeah.
Think about it.
I take photos of empty buildings.
An empty planet?
That's next level.
Okay.
But it's like Safi said.
Nobody is ever going to see them.
Just click this cane.
That's not necessarily true.
Maybe aliens find my camera two billion years ago.
Your SD card's not going to last two billion years.
Exactly.
Now you get it.
Never know who's going to be left standing when the dust settles.
Me.
A sheer force of will.
What a tale.
Moses was right.
This is awesome.
The moon.
Uh-oh.
Shouldn't have taken a picture of the moon, idiot.
Are you okay?
No, I just unlocked magic powers.
All good.
Just dizzy.
Maybe the champagne.
Think I'm gonna take off?
Get some rest.
I can give you a ride if you wait a few minutes.
No, that's okay.
I think a walk will clear my head.
Think so.
Sorry, I never relax.
Ah, Cosby kicking in.
Shouldn't have drank the toilet.
That's how your choices matter.
She's roofy now.
If you didn't pick the toilet, you wouldn't be roofied.
I'm glad Moses invited me out tonight.
Oh, my God.
Exactly how you came to my life.
Holy fuck.
Oh, that's right.
It's one of those things.
I forget in the first game.
There's these things that will just like go on forever unless she skips.
What a perfect night for walking home.
I'll just catch up with the soft.
Amanda is a keen cultural anthropologist.
Hey, thanks again for your help.
How are the meteors?
Message.
Who the fuck is Yasmin?
Oh.
Sophia is their friend, right?
So her card got stolen.
Oh, she- Oh, I lied to her accidentally.
So, Sophia stole her credit card and spent $200.
Okay, cool.
Okay, that's cool.
Head home.
And I guess this is the way home This music is really inappropriate Call me crazy, but I guess it's everything call the ending.
I promise this is what you yeah, I was gonna fucking gouge out her eyes.
Oh no, a bright light.
Don't be to take a shot like this every day.
Wow.
You're really watching me, aren't you?
I'm gonna make this my profile picture on Zitter.
Sapper.
I missed the shot.
I missed the shot.
Just sitting right there.
What else?
The emergency broadcast system is now in effect.
Wails are raining from the sky.
I closed all of this.
Who?
Who?
Oh, no.
Blood chat.
Oh, no.
The nose bleed.
I got off.
Max?
Hey.
Hey, are you okay?
Something's wrong.
Safie.
Hey!
Come back!
Get away from me.
There's Safi.
She seems okay.
I like her duck.
I should checkered her dick.
Better safe than sorry.
New message from Moses.
Don't give a fuck about Moosies.
Oh no!
Hang on.
She shot herself in the fucking head.
I don't want to be in this game.
Oh, Safi's fine.
For a moment, I thought.
I thought that this game was gonna start the exact same way as the other game.
Uh-oh.
Oh, geez.
I don't know if I can handle more blood.
Safi.
Safi?
Hey.
You okay?
She's a best shot.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, no.
The game's starting the exact same way as the other game.
And somehow my psychic powers knew this.
Allahu Akbar, Sophia.
You have...
You have dishonored my family.
I can't believe you did this, Max.
Lesbians Shooting Themselves00:02:16
You fucking murderer.
Life is Strange games are mostly about lesbians shooting themselves.
I mean, two for two.
This is pretty fucking intense, Chad.
I wonder what happens next.
That, Chuck!
I won't break you.
No matter what.
You'll always be my main Pikachu.
I'll never trade you for another Pokemon.
Forever.
Get the secret aiming by blaming the black guy.
It was him.
He's gonna show me the photographs that I took as if they're sentimental.
As if I was really into it while taking them.
Please see Saffy on it.
oh my god please show me that photo welcome to the wall Shit.
Fuck.
I can't believe I didn't take a picture of her.
Rewind Time Is Insane00:14:28
Damn, Chloe.
I thought I lost you.
Amazeball.
Amazeball.
That's the line to cut to when you're reflecting on her.
You can rewind time, Max.
That's fucking insane.
No, Chloe.
What's fucking insane?
Chloe looks like a fucking haggard lesbian.
Dude, if I could rewind time, I would fuck shit up so hard it would make your fucking head spin.
I would just spend, I would spend the time not rewinding time, just thinking of new ways to fuck everything up for everybody.
Max could see the places I've seen.
Yeah, I definitely don't give a fuck about any of this.
Wow, what a dickhead.
Who's Amanda?
Is Amanda the Asian?
What is the Asian?
Okay.
I mean, I saw this.
I figured out who it was.
Fuck.
She went through all of that alone.
Inshila.
Oh, Inshila, fuck you.
What is it?
What is the fucking leftist obsession with Muslims?
They hate you.
They want to stone you to death.
They want to see you kicking as you die hanging with a nose from a tray.
They're not going to say, Inshila, I love my lesbian daughter.
They're going to fucking kill you.
Okay, whatever.
I don't know if we should show.
Shit.
My place is a mess.
Shit, shit.
Shit.
Maybe he shouldn't have been such a fucking slob.
Can't let Amanda see the mess downstairs.
Better change out of my pajamas, too.
Better change out of my pajamas, too.
Come on, babies.
Let's go.
Where are the rock rats?
Where's the mess at?
Blood.
Oh my god, more blood even.
I might have to turn that one off.
Yeah, that one's gone.
Sweeping it up again.
Amanda needs to see a two-ply monument to my sadness today.
Is this game in Merida?
Oh, good.
She'll never know that you've been crying your eyes out now that the fucking thing is in the trash.
Amanda might be down to watch a decapitated head in a bucket wreak havoc, but probably shouldn't assume.
Tidy up.
I mean, she's looking pretty fucking tidy, all things considered.
One of the last things I got from even years later, almost everyone I ever knew gone just like that.
Yeah, I mean, that did happen.
You did kill everybody because you couldn't let your lesbian crush die as she was supposed to.
I'm really up for dragging Amanda down traumatic memory lane.
Best to get this out of sight.
Lady, you have a mouth hole.
If you open your mouth and you speak out of your mouth, you will sound like you're speaking.
Oh man, chat.
I don't know.
This game's gameplay is not really looking up so much right now, but you know, I got a stream before my break.
Like, this is inappropriate.
It's not how you say, it's not how you speak.
Not a nab hater like Sophie.
Bitch, open your fucking mouth.
Better get these tidied up too.
Did you take a picture of the random lady at the oh, no, no, that was Chloe's mom, the thing, because I worked at the dock.
At least my house is semi-presentable.
Time to get dressed.
You see, the sign's a subtle joke.
Because it's a mnemonic trick.
If the store was previously owned by Sneed, then the last characters would have been switched around.
How the fuck do I change?
Duck.
Duck, No, I'm already wearing the duck.
Amanda's at the door.
I hope she isn't mad that I ignored her calls.
Hey, Max.
Hey, Amanda.
Mehow, I brought you.
I brought you dericious fried fried pork.
Dramatic off-kid grief.
Go bigger, go home.
I always say.
Away from the mic.
Go bigger.
Go home, I always say.
That's not dim some.
What the fuck is this shit?
Make me fucking garlic bread?
What agent is garlic bread?
Amanda.
You can't even have cheese.
Sophie was here two days ago.
And now.
I know, Max.
I know.
Why would anybody want to?
I mean, she was just.
I appreciate you checking in on me.
You didn't have to.
Oh, I 100% did.
Nobody's seen you for two days.
I'll begrudgingly admit, it is nice to see a friendly face.
A friendly face.
Really bad.
With food.
If I get up and grown salad and homemade Fukasha.
What are the odds that this will stop before I get that?
I would have been happy with old Halloween candy.
I'm going to risk it.
I'll bear it back.
Full disclosure, I don't exactly have the biggest of appetites right now.
Really?
Eating always makes me feel better.
Never encountered a mood that couldn't be improved by demolishing an entire pizza solo.
You just wait till I'm feeling better.
I could eat you under the table.
Wowzers.
I miss anything.
I miss anything.
How long?
How long did you guys have to wait?
What?
It's a common turn of phrase.
You're the one making it dirty.
I plead innocent.
Oh, so you're just going to tweet through it then?
I won't be speaking further without my lawyer present.
I was thinking while peeing how about how stuff that makes you feel close to me.
It would be funny if somebody made a game like this, but it has choices that actually matter.
Like if I walked back to the game and Max was standing over her and she was like dead because she had taken it like a fire axe and killed her like in American Psycho.
You know what I mean?
And it's just like, I would have figured out what it is.
Your choices actually matter.
You could just randomly take a knife and start stabbing people.
Then you're wanted by the police and shit.
I don't know.
Tactile.
Looking to the viewfinder, holding the photo in your hands, it feels more real.
It's a fucking Polaroid.
It's like a toy.
Another way to make you feel normal again?
Taking a picture of your friend Amanda.
I'm really not up for it, Amanda.
Come on.
I've never had my picture taken by anybody famous before.
You not talk like that ever again?
Shouldn't I be charging you for something like this since I'm so famous and all?
Name your price, Caulfield.
I've got 20 bucks in crumpled up.
She does have a DSLR.
A Canadian quarter.
But she also has a Polaroid.
It's like a toy from the first game.
Let's call this one Pro Bono.
That's what I'm talking about.
There's nobody in this.
She's making me do this.
How should I pose for Caladon's illustrious artist in residence?
What is that fucking ring?
That's ugly.
Oh, don't do that.
That's creepy.
There we go.
Post it.
It's a Polaroid.
I'm like posting this.
Oh my God.
How about another one?
Different pose this time.
Okay.
Oh shit.
Sorry.
It's Safi's mom.
Um, just, just a sec, okay?
The absolute best parts of this game are the game trying to react to how I'm taking photos with the expectation I'm actually playing along.
Hi.
Hi, Maxine.
Hello, Hakba.
How are you holding up?
There's no graceful way to answer that question.
My daughter's dead because someone shot her for being a Muslim.
Probably you, actually.
Have you ever dealt with loss like this?
I almost did, but then I decided to kill thousands of people to avoid it.
Nothing like what you've expected.
Dude, everybody she's ever known is dead.
And she's like, no, but Chloe didn't die, so it's not the same.
I wanted to talk to you face to face.
If possible, doing this over the phone feels so if you ask her on a date, she breaks up with you after your friend dies and still makes you take photos of her.
That's pretty fucking okay.
Just let Vin know when you arrive.
Wow, Palestine really is even sure.
I need to head to campus to meet with her.
Dude, her loft is decorated like a fucking house in the Sims.
It's just like a random easel stuck in the corner.
Like when you have to level up your painting scope.
What you do?
This is the one thing that brightened your mood today.
Aside from me, come on.
I'll walk with you.
Inshallah.
Inshallah, you will live in a loft designed by somebody who plays the Sims.
Are we still in the first chapter?
Does this like end ever?
Oh man.
Dude, I like the crow.
The crow's reading the book.
Oh my god, is this like an art school?
What the fuck is this?
Wow, bro.
Yasmin's office is in the old administration building.
He's still at college.
Yeah, she failed because her old university exploded from Wales.
Well, time to see if these jokers burn down the turtle in my absence.
Will I see you later?
Oh, thank God.
We added a dopey looking Ameromut kids vaping in the background.
I really, the, the, the scene has been said beautifully.
Yasmeen's expecting me.
I like her coat.
I like double-breasted coats a lot, but you have to be skinny to wear that shit.
Okay, Yasmine's office is get a clue.
Get a clue with LRO.
She's like a journal.
This is going to be the enemy of the game.
Down the hall.
Down the hall and to the left.
Hear it?
No?
Here?
No.
Because down the hall, I went down the hall.
And I don't see her.
It was not down the hall.
It was at the end of the hall.
I have an appointment for getting something.
No?
Who the fuck are you?
Inshallah, you will shut the fuck up.
Howdy?
My sister's dead.
You're gonna howdy me when my sister's dead, you fucking cunt.
She texts to you to come see her.
Um, yeah.
I keep telling her to send all comms through me, but sometimes she goes rogue.
How dare she use her phone without your permission?
Weird Interaction with Dead Sister00:10:10
You think this is an easy gig?
Kahuna's got a social calendar like a TikTok influencer.
I'm sorry.
Kahuna?
That's borderline adorable.
This interaction is so weird.
It's like, has the writer ever interacted with human beings before?
Thanks.
Me too.
She and I had our issues, but wow.
She was an amazing person, and we're all gonna miss her.
Yeah, she was a fucking cunt, and I'm glad she's dead, but we're all gonna miss her.
Never mentioned I two knew each other?
She never told me.
You bitch.
You absolute fucking bitch.
Her mom is my boss.
It's good you're here.
She's well, she's about like you'd guess.
I don't know what I can do.
Are you kidding?
She's obsessed with you.
I'm a little jealous, actually.
See, I only like favoritism when I'm the one who's favored.
I didn't fucking ask.
Why does that not surprise me?
Fucking weirdo.
Well, she's got somebody with her now, so it'll be a few.
Or if you're dying for stimulation, I've got a package waiting for me down the hall.
You will flip that line, bro.
Does your beneficence know no bounds?
This is like such a weird interaction.
You gotta be kidding me.
Sounds like someone else needs my help.
Good luck.
Have fun.
A random person screams in annoyance, and you're like, time to go meddle with this?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Who the fuck writes the?
It crashed again.
Bro, what the fuck is wrong with this game?
Why is it like this?
I can't stress how over qualified this computer is to play this fucking piece of shit.
And it still crashes.
Anything that gave me an error this time.
Oh, thank fucking God.
If I had to live through that dialogue again, I would have just shot myself in the fucking head.
Okay, let's go find the package in the only room that's open.
This must have the package Ben was worried about.
Then take the fucking time!
Aha!
Nice stamps.
You don't stamp a parcel like that, though.
The art director didn't care, though.
He just wanted to put stamps on it.
Who the fuck are you?
Do they know each other?
Gwen?
All good?
Tranny.
So Tranny.
I'm a.
Are you a hugger?
Depends on the day.
Today I'm kind of a doubt.
Sorry.
I hope you can forgive the crazy lady with no boundaries.
No, just me.
I appreciate the gesture.
Is there anything you need or that I can do for you?
The training's the best way, Hector, so far.
You sounded like you could use it.
Oh, right.
I came in here to pick up a book, but lo and behold, some genius locked it up.
Oh, hey, you're like the uh breaking an inner.
Who the fuck is this person?
Think you can get past this lock?
So that's what everybody thinks of me: the home invader.
That and the mass murderer who killed a thousand people.
Bad reputation twins.
They caught me peeping in the girl's restroom.
Bad reputation twins.
Bad reputation twins.
Help Gwen find her book.
Um expensive display, cheap lock.
You love to see it.
Anything skinny and curved ought to do the trick.
Think it's in your wheelhouse?
Definitely.
I just need to find the right tool.
I hate to ask, but any word on the proposal you sent Dr. Faya?
That pin looks like the right size for Gwen's lock, but it needs more of a curve in it.
Is it not in here?
Do I have to go to, like, a different room?
Skizzards?
Those are too thick to pick that lock in the library.
Isn't it weird that I know that at a glance?
Lady, there's a lot weird about you.
You know, since your friend is like faculty, why can't you just ask her for a key for your training?
I'm going to crack this case wide open.
Can I just not help the training?
Is that a possibility?
Here you go.
Saved you the trip.
What's this?
Don't tell me where people are.
I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know you.
All right.
Settle down.
Say, you can say more than a friend to this random.
I'm not going in a generous mood.
That's really weird.
All right.
Right.
Max ain't no fucking rice burner, though.
We've already established this.
I don't give a fuck if it's like Arab rice or jasmine rice or white rice.
Nothing's free.
At least, not if you're smart.
So, what do you want?
Nothing now, but you'll owe me.
One favor.
How about the key?
Can I take you to the bookcase real quick?
You drive a hard bargain, coffee.
This is a weird exchange.
Because I have no reason to like this book.
Wait, I have an idea.
What about a key to the bookcase?
Vin's always up to something shady.
Gotta keep an eye on him.
What?
Because he's Asian?
Oh, fuck you.
Take ask Vin for the key to the bookcase?
No, no, no.
Take a spoon out of the coffee table and pick the lock?
Yes, yes, yes.
Hold on now.
You might feel a slight pinch.
Holy shit!
You did it!
I just screamed at the top of your fucking arms.
I broke the lock.
Done.
I probably should have figured that out myself.
I don't think most people would think to take a spoon and break the fucking cabinet open.
Anytime.
My trusty spoon and I are at your service.
There's something wrong with her.
What's wrong with her?
Did Safi ever tell you about the manuscript she was working on?
I don't know who you are.
I don't know about any book, but she never talked to me about any of her works in progress.
What a shame.
I was always urging her to finish that manuscript, but she never had the time.
She never will.
Yeah, she's dead.
Thanks again for the help.
Girls with sharp edges.
Don't cry, strange, okay?
My door is always.
I like how they subtitle it as K question mark.
You too.
I'm a trans lesbian, in case you're wondering, Max.
Can I write literally any...
Oh, please, please, please, please let me write something.
Please let me write.
I beg of you, game.
I'm suffering.
Please let me write whatever I want.
I don't even, I don't even feel like it anymore.
Fuck it.
There's no way I can sum up what Safi meant to me in a few stupid sentences.
Fuck it.
Not even putting the cat back on it.
Fuck it.
They can't go now.
Amex.
Moses, I. Yasmine's waiting for you.
I don't care.
What does Yasmine want?
Why are you.
Can it wait?
I'm like.
Husk right now.
I.
I need a minute.
Yeah.
Sure.
Meet me in the Fab Cafe.
Grab a hot.
I did it again.
What the fuck?
Hold up.
I cannot fucking believe this.
I cannot fucking believe this, bro.
Why is everything gotta be like this?
It's only 50 C.
It's not that hot, is it?
It's not like there's a ventilation issue.
Maybe it is a heating thing.
Is 50 C hot?
No, 50 C is fine.
I uh I don't understand, dude.
It's just the most shit-ass fucking game that's ever existed.
I don't.
I don't know how else to explain it.
Oh my god, I don't want to talk to this guy again.
Hey Max.
Dude, the fact that you can't skip dialogue in this fucking game is just like incredible.
Like, how the fuck do you even come up with this shit?
Suicide Attempt in Fab Cafe00:15:35
Are you okay?
I've been.
Can it wait?
I'm like. Husk right now.
I.
I need a minute.
Okay, cool.
Sure.
So his response is the same regardless of what option he chose, in case you're wondering, because I picked the same exact option, but I picked a different option.
I can do that.
That's the exact same response.
So they didn't even program, like, a different response for that line.
He's huskmasking.
I am telling you to do your job.
You're a parent, Chief Banks.
Surely you...
Of course.
Yes?
Please, anything you learn.
Yes.
Goodbye.
That was the Lakeport police chief.
Overconfident and underqualified.
They are very, very white.
Sounds like the cops aren't being very helpful.
Can't say I'm surprised.
Yes.
Well, they're the only thing at my disposal.
Let me ask you something.
Be honest with me.
Is it true that my daughter was a how you say rug muncher?
Always so close.
Things used to be difficult.
Did she tell you that?
Wow, I had a feeling?
That's so rude.
I don't know if she ever said it in so many words, but I kind of gathered that you two didn't always get along because she stole your credit card and bought drinks with us.
So obvious.
Pity.
I'm sorry you were exposed to that side of our relationship.
Well, she was a lesbian, so you must have done something wrong, Miss Fayard.
What's your question?
Suicide.
Despite everything they have found, the police have still not ruled out suicide as the cause of death.
They think that because she was sexual minority, that she said to me, she 41% of herself.
She told you things she wouldn't tell me.
Is there any reason to think she may have taken her own life?
It's possible.
I suffer.
I guess there were a couple of things I noticed, but that doesn't mean she- What do you mean?
Lying to her mother about her daughter committing suicide is probably the single worst thing that you can do in any of these games besides mass murder all of Arcadia.
Because it's like you have no reason whatsoever to believe that she committed suicide.
She was being secretive, so we wouldn't worry about her.
I see.
I'm sorry.
I wish I could have done more.
You've done enough, Maxine.
Thank you.
Oh, um, before you go, we need a picture of Safia for the memorial materials.
Would you mind taking a look and choosing your favorite?
Sure, please tell me that I can't.
That's a tough ask.
Where?
Oh, I see.
So I don't get to pick mine.
From what I've heard about Krampus, this must have been taken at the beginning of the night.
Okay, that's really embarrassing.
Safi loved late.
Safikon, this one.
Safi was more than just a poet.
I want people to remember that.
Well, I did the best I could.
Guess I should go find Moses.
That sums up Mags pretty well.
I did the best I could, I guess.
Bye.
I want to go fuck up somebody else's life now.
I should talk to Moses.
He's waiting for me in the fab.
The fuck does that even mean?
Don't just take me there.
What is the point of this?
The only reason why they would make you walk somewhere is that you're gonna be interrupted.
You're gonna like walk to the fab or something, and then there's gonna be like a Moses is waiting for me in the fab, All these nice young lads just standing around doing fuck.
All the fuck is a fab.
Help me.
I told Moses I would meet up with him after I was done talking to Yasmin.
That's it.
Her walking makes no sound.
She's a ghost.
There are gows.
She actually died in Arcadia.
She's a spooky ghost haunting.
I wonder if Moses has gotten his hot chocolate yet.
It's really I'm not reading any of that dumb shit that I say.
Quack, quack.
Oh no.
It's Tranny Hyde.
I told you.
Don't contact me on this phone.
And texts only, no calls.
Hmm.
This sounds interesting.
Well, I'm sure the police know that already.
Even is the tranny the killer?
I understand that, but did they find anything?
Interesting.
Uh, Loretta.
Jeez.
I don't know who the fuck any of these people are.
They keep introducing me like I do.
Need?
Nah, I was just curious about Dr. Hunter's phone call.
Seems I'm not the only one.
Wow.
Caught in the act.
I swear I used to be better at this kind of thing.
Did you?
That sounds like a story I should hear.
Well, since you're not busy, maybe you could help me out, you know?
One snoop to another?
I'm not.
I just hold on.
Let me relocate.
There's two dumb bitches is talking about listening to me talk.
Well, you could give me a quick soundbite for my podcast.
Oh my god.
Can I punch you in the fucking face?
Um, sure.
Oh my god, depictions of abuse.
I guess that's fine.
Can you talk about your psychological issues and trauma?
Just for background, you were close friends with Safi Llewellyn.
Journo!
i knew the white woman couldn't be up to i thought i don't think i want to talk don't Don't talk to Journo.
I knew the white woman was going to be evil.
Kind of an answer in and of itself, but do you?
That's not how Clean the Fifth works.
Is it true she used school resources for personal purposes and that her mother turned a blind eye?
Is it true that if I bury you six feet into the ground and three feet under garbage, the sniffer dogs won't find your body?
I'm sure we'd have a lot to talk about.
Fuck you, bitch.
You're bluffing.
You were trying to listen and too.
You said so yourself.
She's a fucking mixed mood and shit.
Oh, shit.
Hi, Professor.
I just thought you might want to know that Miss Caulfield's been listening to your calls.
Loretta, I don't know how you have time to be a snitch when you still owe me revisions.
Beat it.
Fucked.
What a little shit.
She's not a liar.
Anything you want to tell me, Max?
Why did you kill her?
Why did you kill her?
I was trying to figure out what happened to Safi, and I wanted your help.
Oh, you're a gumshoe now.
Detective Caulfield on the case.
Are you Tommy Tudor?
What the fuck's wrong with you?
Give me a fucking break.
Wow, the tranny's like an asshole.
I really thought we were cool.
I didn't.
Just stay out of my way.
Fantastic.
Anything else want to go wrong today?
Might as well.
I helped you picklock the fucking cabinet.
Far be it from me to question the wisdom of our grief.
Okay, open this.
Damn it.
Just like if I could just, even if I could rewind, that shit's behind me now.
I'm definitely not going to rewind time to make up with a fucking trainy.
Where's their naked statue right there?
That's creepy as fuck.
It's like a charred corpse.
I'm looking for the black guy, right?
I don't know if I can trust you.
You don't, I guess.
But it's down to just us and our assassins.
Goth girl?
That's goth girl?
Right.
That's timid guy.
Who looks like a normal person?
And then that's goth girl.
Okay.
There's my black dude back.
Hey, what's up, Darkie?
I picked the option to speak, and they're not speaking.
That's I just want to point that out.
I don't even know where to start.
It's been two days.
Hey, I didn't return your texts or I'm not wearing a hockey mask.
I should have.
I get why you didn't.
Really?
And I'm sorry, too.
Probably should have given you some space.
Listen, the last few days have been hell, but we're both here now.
And we're going to get through.
Don't worry, Moses.
I piss off the transactions.
I just won't be around anymore.
I keep replaying it in my head.
Could we have done something?
Gotten there sooner or called her when she didn't come back.
She was shot.
Why didn't one of us go with her, Max?
Why do we let her walk off alone like that?
We're staring at meteors.
Don't torture yourself.
You should.
Get a cute duck shirt.
What if I can't do this, Max?
You can't.
Neither of us can.
I think that since the first game, the voice actor or actress for Max has her taking SSRIs, and she is now completely unable to emote in any way.
Like, imagine.
Okay, they're trying to play up that she's really sad that Sophia is dead, right?
So you would think that to show that there would be a scene where like Max is in emotional turmoil.
So they just cut to her in bed, and it's like, it's been two days, and I'm so very terribly upset about the things that I've seen and what has happened in the last two days.
It's so crazy.
Grief is fleeting.
But words.
Words are deathless.
They endure.
I want to honor Safi Llewellyn.
Who the fuck are you?
And pay tribute.
It's Safi Llewellyn.
Don't fucking whitewash her name.
God, what a pretentious creep.
Safi hated his guts He's bad for trying to like fond memories Who knows?
Maybe he had a breakthrough or something.
You know, like, he was visited one night.
Lucas is the killer?
Who showed him the error of his ways?
That's at least a six-ghost two-night job.
Safi never found the audience that so few of us enjoy.
It's up to us to keep her fire burning.
Tell me that shutting him up won't make me feel better.
It won't.
But I wouldn't blame you for trying it anyway.
I'll find you later.
I can't watch this.
Kill him.
Summon a moon whale to crush him.
Ugh, Lucas gets under my skin.
I could try to shut him up.
Max.
Good to see you.
Sophie hated you.
Who knew you were so self-centered?
Yeah.
Be confrontational.
Paying tribute to my colleague.
Seems like you're paying tribute to Lucas Colmanero.
Say it.
You were close with Safi too, weren't you?
Anything you'd like to say?
She hated you.
She hated you.
Yeah.
I think I could share a thing or two.
Thought you were a dick.
I'm taller than you, you fucking manlet.
You fucking manlet.
You fucking little wet back beaner manlet.
This would have been a total nightmare for her.
The self-seriousness of it all would have made her skin crawl.
She would have stood there and made the dumbest faces you've ever seen.
Oh, you were doing well, but now you're making it cringe.
The fact that she isn't here right now to fuck with us, it's not fair.
Makes me want to wipe out this entire town to save a lesbian that won't even love me.
Is he just gonna go back to saying to talking about her?
Completely, completely unfazed.
He just went right back to it and nobody else left.
Like, nobody was like, oh my god, that's so embarrassing.
I'm gonna leave.
He just went right back to it.
The fuck is a mercy?
Max Fucked Up Again00:09:48
In lieu of further comment...
Where is he?
Where did Moses head to?
I'm trying to figure that out, lady.
We gave up.
It gave up trying to tell me where he's at.
So, did it make you feel better?
Shouldn't even work.
Didn't even work.
Honestly, kinda in a stomping on your Barbies while pretending to be Godzilla kind of way.
If that was a line in the rugrats, it wouldn't seem out of play experience, right?
Well, maybe it should be.
Hey, I have a question about Safi.
Okay.
What's the deal with this?
Can you imagine how awkward that question would be in real life?
Like you walk up next to a friend who's like by himself, just chilling.
Yes, we did, huh?
Sit next to him, you're like, hey, buddy, is this bench special to you?
We were both teaching in the sky.
Like, I don't think most people have a special bench.
She really got the appeal of comfortable silence, you know?
That is a Max.
Yeah.
I want to say that's something that they say in the first game.
I'm going to use present tense for just a little longer.
I'm not ready for Safi to be a was yet.
She did.
Her pronouns was they, was, was, were.
I don't think I can pretend she's still here.
That what happened didn't happen.
Neither option seems tenable, does it?
Okay.
So waiting for something to happen.
I guess uh, I guess this game doesn't have chapters.
How long are the chapters in the observatory anyway?
You'll text if you need anything.
Yeah, promise.
You too.
Yeah.
How long our life is strange.
Two episodes.
Five episodes.
You want to go?
And don't let up.
Blue's more tactical.
Moses?
Why is Moses talking to him?
Oh no.
Here comes chat.
Shield your eyes.
Bratness.
The brightness is coming.
It's not rock, paper, scissors.
Any color jack can be any other with the right cards.
Yeah.
Anytime.
Later.
So she can't...
What the hell was that?
She can't fully rewind time anymore, but that other Moses.
How do I bring him back?
Oh, she can pulse.
She can't rewind time, but she can pulse.
Go after the other Moses, okay.
I can't.
Come on, Diamond.
Seriously?
Conscientious objector.
That's what they all say.
I'm unarmed, okay?
Just want to get out of Coco.
I can't breathe.
Snowball's down.
Let the observer pass.
This is cringe.
Life is crazy.
What is going on?
What am I seeing?
Better keep following Moses until I figure it out.
Oh, I see.
I understand.
Now that's the vulgar boulder I fell in love with.
I don't know what that means, Max, but that sounds obscene.
Where is that other Moses going?
He's tying, he's, he's tying his shoe.
This is fucking riveting.
Will he tie it?
Does he use the granny tie or does he use the new and improved tying mechanism?
We will find out.
Yeah, Dusborne was better.
Headglind back in it.
Gotta keep following that other Moses.
I need to figure out what's going on.
I gotta keep up.
It's real hard, though.
Oh, I just realized that he pauses every couple steps so that the truly mentally handicapped retarded fuckers that are playing this game can catch up to him.
You know, you should stop throwing up those hiles every time you're going.
Where?
Where is he going?
What are you doing out here?
Your final's in five minutes.
I'm not the one.
It's not Safie.
You're hopeless.
These poor kids paid tuition.
Hey, I have a five-star rating on Teacherate.
I can't believe Max was just damned.
You were supposed to have lunch at the turtle.
This is happening.
This is real.
Probably afraid you'll charge the whole thing to his car.
Oh my god, dude.
Go.
I could never feel her shoes.
It's too cold for us.
That really was Safi.
I think I have to get to her.
Are we not following Moses anymore?
We're following Safu.
Okay.
Where'd she go?
Oh no, I lost her.
Wait, is that her?
Oh, God.
What have I done?
There are girls.
Is that her?
Oh, God.
I've legit straight up fucking lost her.
So fucking over.
Oh, I can't.
I can't walk through the people She could just hear me like I can hear her Start screaming at the top of your lungs.
Safie!
I'm right here.
Oh, they're so gonna cut to people being like cringed up by her.
This is happening right by the giant monument where the guy is.
So it's like so that when it ends, everyone's gonna be like staring at her.
Oh no, the bright lights are coming again, chat.
Careful, careful.
I've got pizza rolls in my office.
Pizza rolls?
I'm pressing the Q button, chat.
Here comes.
Holy shit, that's, ah.
What if we found one was enough now?
We should have stayed blind.
Ah, geez.
There you are.
I thought I was gonna freeze to death.
Listen.
Max, you fucked up again, bro.
You're going to like fuck up.
They're going to kill everybody.
This idiot.
Please, merciful God.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank God.
What happened to Chloe?
Chloe lived or Chloe died.
Oh, you get to choose the ending.
Okay.
But even if you choose that, she doesn't.
Okay.
I didn't understand that when that choice happened, by the way, even though I had the tard button to understand the choice.
So I would have.
If I had known that you're choosing what you chose in the beginning of the or the end of the first game, I would have picked the one that made sense.
Most people did not ask her out or did ask her out on a date.
Most people did call her bluff.
But I guess that means abandoned space.
I guess that means that you don't have any way to not piss off the tranny.
Max likes empty spaces.
Max did not steal a plushie.
Max and Chloe were high school sweethearts.
I'm surprised one-third of people said no.
Max used her own pickup line and failed.
Max didn't flip any paintings.
Max chose the toilet mug.
That was the toilet mug, not the most popular one.
That's crazy.
Max did not reflect on the observatory.
Max didn't win the bottle cap game.
I suck at this, apparently.
Max didn't bring Moses his hot chocolate.
11% of people told Yasmin it's possible Safie took her own life.
I chose the playful photo.
I did interrupt the guy and that was the most popular one.
Oh, this is the true minority.
A Brax's puzzle box.
Max didn't solve the puzzle box.
If I solved the puzzle box, does Pinhead come out and fucking murder me?
I guess we'll find out on the next one.
All right, chat.
That has been the first episode of Life is Strange Double Exposure.
Truly horrific.
Thank you for joining me.
I will try to finish this before I go on vacay.
So I might have to do a double episode night one day.
But I'll see you guys tomorrow.
I have a regular stream, and then I'll probably also do another Life is Strange at this time.