AWKWARD ZOMBIE

First I've heard of it too. They mentioned talking to Jontron and Normal Boots so I figure they'll be going there?

What they said is that their site layout may look a little like Normal Boots.

Oh man, I can't believe how dead-on you're bering right now. Like, I remember way back when I watched that sequelities for the first time, and it just slowly came to pass over time that Ego just doesn't get that you just need to put shit into words sometimes. He's really adverse to the game just telling you the buttons, and always seems to think the game is treating the player like an idiot for doing it, when just establishing the rules of the game is not that big a deal. Some tutorials are a bit too intrusive but he often mistakes idiot-proofing for being called an idiot.

Also TBFP having a site sounds pretty cool. A lot of people in the lp, review, and related businesses make that jump after a while and it isn't that surprising that they did, although it's surprising it took them so long, really.

Watching the Game Grumps play Fire Red is like re-living the original pokemon craze because Dan is making 15-year-old jokes as though they're wholly original.

It is so weird to have a popular gaming personality on youtube who was too old to be into pokemon when it came out, and is now kind of forced to talk about and make jokes about pokemon.

And then Arin went to Victory Road.

Honestly, it's actually really interesting/ kinda funny how big the contrast is between Arin and Dan is; Arin knows pretty much everything about Pokemon, but Dan knows jack-shit.

Hopefully, they speed up through level-grinding tho because that's what the newest episode was

Pat is kinda bad at understanding the point of the characters of I Have no Mouth. Like, he has interesting discussions and a good handle on things when he does get them right, but he thought Ted was a rapist and he's falling apart over Gorrister in general. Although I can't blame him because Gorrister's scenario is super metaphysical and kinda hard to put together. It really seems like his issue is that he assumes that the 5 people AM chose Are all actually bad people. Which Benny and Nimdok aren't great but the other 3 are middling-to-alright. It's more about them being vulnerable people then anything else.

Pat is definitely overanalyzing things. Gorrister seems more like he was handed a lot of shit in life before AM took over, maybe did some bad things, but still handed a lot more shit than he gave out. I mean, from what we know so far, Gorrister was a trucker whose wife went insane with depression because was out on the road and his in-laws plotted to murder him and did. Maybe there's more, maybe there isn't. The whole thing might be AM abusing some feelings of guilt.

I think the deal with Pat over-analyzing Gorrister is because he might be thinking something like Silent Hill 2 is going on, where the act of putting his wife into an asylum might not have been based on wholly good intentions. Was it because he wanted her to get help? Or because he couldn't deal with her anymore, and wanted her out of his life? Or, even worse, did he intentionally send her there to make her suffer?

I don't think it's that last one, but Edna and Harry's actions seem to suggest the second one, at least as they see things. They might be wrong and AM is definitely a liar, so the information from them is not super trustworthy, but hey, can't fault Pat too badly for over thinking and second guessing AM. I'm pretty sure overthinking AM until you wrap around into being wrong about everything is what AM wants.



AM implied this pretty heavily in the beginning, although you could interpret it as more he's a lady's man and is incredibly arrogant, therefore thinking that all women should want him. His whole scenario just screams "Here are all the easy ways out, and most of them involve treating women like garbage."

I'm really enjoying this playthough. Pat has always been the philosophical one, at least in my book, which is really cool (given the "angry guy" stereotype). I like watching him play a philosophical game.

According to his TV Tropes character entry (and, I assume, somewhere in the game that was either missed or occurs later), Ted would seduce single, rich women and con them out of their cheddar, so that explains AM's words and the themes of Ted's scenario.

I can't wait for more of Saejima's Badass SuperJail Adventure™.

Ah, my first Gamecube game!

...I should really re-purchase this...

I don't believe for a second that he was 20 in '85 though, or that Lily is 39.

Game Grumps playing Pokemon FireRed is absolutely painful to watch.

As a long-time Pokemon player who has played all the games at least a decent bit through

I still 100% disagree with you

"Hey Arin, I just thought of something hilarious: doesn't it sound REALLY DICKISH for Nurse Joy to say she hope she sees us again? I mean, that means she wants us to get the shit kicked out of us! ahahahahahahaha these jokes are fresh, right?"