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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, I have a weird schedule and may not be able to watch live. That's alright. It's not like the episode will go away after the live broadcast finishes. I'll try it as an experiment for Video 4 (date TBD) and see if that helps engagement.
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I probably won't join the chat myself, but hey, no reason not to try premieres if you want to.
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Here's something silly I put together in about ten minutes while editing the next few episodes of the LP. Please excuse my terrible Photoshop/GIMP skills:  He's goin' for the stingah!
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theenglishman posted:Here's something silly I put together in about ten minutes while editing the next few episodes of the LP. Please excuse my terrible Photoshop/GIMP skills: In my head I replaced JR with the spider from the Bart becomes a fly episode (but with a hat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Lro6-ewEk&t=62s
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We're back with the scorpion as we unlock two of the best moves in the game. Really! I've decided against doing a premiere for this video. I might do one next time, though.
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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains a detailed description of what would happen to a man's testicles if they were stung by a scorpion. We didn't bring that up; blame the game's writers.
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Oh that conversation was made worst in the previous thread since it was brought up that the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider is capable of causing priapism potentially leading to impotence. In fact, there are currently studies in a component of the venom for use in treating erectile dysfunction. Tony Snark was also nice enough to note that in 2016, an Aussie got bit on the wang by redback spiders twice in the same year while using portashitters: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37481251 What the gently caress is Wrong with You covered story about a man who got bitten in the dick by a katipo as part of episode twelve: All Creatures Great & Dumb
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Dec 9, 2019 08:10
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The "red venom" shot by the horned lizards is actually blood. Horned lizards have a defense mechanism where they squirt blood from their eyes, which usually scares predators away (I don't think the blood is toxic in any way, it's just normal blood). Naturally, in the real world, the lizards use this as a last resort, after stuff like standing on their hind legs to make themselves look bigger has failed.
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While I am curious to see how some rednecks digging for gold relates at all to our arachnid friends (or maybe there isn't any and someone just realized there needs to be something with some kind of motivation, even if its in the literal background) I wonder if there was any thought given to making an action game just with what this game has. Just spiders and lizards and snakes talking and being all threatening to each other over some flimsy rivalry.
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Roy and I are looking to record a few more episodes later this week, and hopefully we'll have the LP finished before the new year. The remaining videos are:
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Can hardly wait! I actually wasn't thinking about it until it was brought up earlier, but now I'm really wondering what the final boss of this game could be.
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I'm kinda impressed that the guy who can't read well can use sentences that include the word "neurotoxin"
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Chimera-gui posted:Oh that conversation was made worst in the previous thread since it was brought up that the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider is capable of causing priapism potentially leading to impotence. And let's not forget the study done in Iran of a man stung in the scrotum by an androctonus crassicauda.
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It's time for Chapter 7, in which I praise the level while desperately trying to convince you that it's not actually good. Do I succeed? Only one way to find out.
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I've been away for a little bit, btu we've had a couple of animals with two of the weirdest predator defence mechanisms in the animal kingdom in the last few videos, so let's talk about those. The first one is the horned lizard (genus Phyronosoma. Horned lizards, occasionally called horned toads, are weird-looking squat lizards that are sometimes confused with the unrelated Australian thorny devil, a similarly spiny lizard with the badass name of Moloch horridus Horned lizards may not have as metal a name to their, er, name, but they make up for it with one of the most metal defense mechanisms in the world: they squirt blood from their eyes at anything not already detered by their spines.  As well as it just being generally off-putting to be hit in the face by a stream of eye-blood (at a range of up to 1.5m!), the blood is also laced with foul-tasting chemicals. They pull this trick off in a pretty mundane way for such a bizarre adaptation - they just constrict the blood vessels leaving their head so the pressure builds up, and specialised blood vessels around their eyes rupture under the pressure. And now you know why the hitbox for that attack doesn't match up with their mouth. The second animal on our list is those beetles that keeep, well, bombarding you with goo. Those are almost certainly bombardier beetles, which have about the closest thing real life gets to a Pokemon special attack. The abdomen of a bombardier beetle (there's 500+ species of them spread across a number of genera) contains a chemical factory, producing and storing a mixture of two chemicals (hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone), as well as a heavily reinforced chamber containing enzymes that will cause the chemicals to suddenly and violently react. When a bombarider beetle is threatened, it squeezes the two chemicals into the reacting chamber and...  BOOM As well as the chemicals themselves being a rather toxic and foul-tasting cocktail, the reaction heats them to near boiling temperatures, so they can also scald a would-be predator.
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Obligatory "drat nature, you scary" remark aside as I knew about both of these, the two key moments of this video were actually foreshadowed in the opening movie before you even meet the Tarantula or Scorpion, true to this game having heavy foreshadowing in general. Recall that the narrator, confirmed to be Wade by theenglishman, talked about being avenged for something that happened between him and Struggs and that there was a great deal of venom in his voice while talking about Struggs.
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Here are the two Deadly Creatures commercials we talked about in today's video (links spoiler tagged for those who haven't watched the episode yet): "Geico Lizard" TV Spot G4 Motion Capture sketch
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Good news, everyone! All the remaining Let's Play videos have been edited and uploaded, and are ready to go! The schedule will be as follows: MODIFIED! I'm still working on subtitles for the Dennis Hopper interview, so I'm moving things up a bit. Thursday the 19th - Video 7 (Chapter 8) Saturday the 21st - Video 8 (Chapters 9 and 10) Sunday the 22nd - Extra #2 (Dennis Hopper interview) We're almost at the end, folks. I can taste it! I hope you're as excited as I am. theenglishman fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Dec 19, 2019 |
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They are certainly making full use of the voice talents they got for this game and definitely didn't actually just get them so they could record interviews extolling the game. I'm starting to get a feeling of what the final boss is.
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My apologies for the inconsistent formatting on the last two episode thumbs. I accidentally deleted the entire directory when I only meant to delete the raw files - thankfully, the episodes were up on YouTube already. I'm definitely not making that mistake again.
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The time has come. Are you ready for an incredible final boss?
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Spider and Scorpion's eternal battle will go on.
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Wow. That was awesome. Thank you for showing us this masterpiece! On the other hand, while up to now this game was unarguably completely accurate in its portrayal of everything, it's at this point it unfortunately turns to fantasy, as there's no way Struggs would be able to do anything after that first sting, not to mention the third.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:On the other hand, while up to now this game was unarguably completely accurate in its portrayal of everything, it's at this point it unfortunately turns to fantasy, as there's no way Struggs would be able to do anything after that first sting, not to mention the third. We can say that his hatred of arachnids was so strong that he was running on pure adrenaline and only lapsed into the coma after the gas station exploded. And if we're really nitpicking plot holes in the otherwise good story, how did Wade know about the gas station (as narrated in the intro cutscene) if he was killed by Struggs in Chapter 7? Are there ghosts in the Deadly Creatures universe? Is the spirit of Wade torturing Struggs from beyond the grave, giving him just enough energy to survive the pain of three testicle stings?
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Perhaps Wade's vengeful presence found and guided the nearby Tarantula and Scorpion towards Struggs demesne and demise.
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I'm so glad this game lived up to expectations.
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This game feels like a character action Coen brothers film.
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If you like this game, you should check out Bad Mojo, a 1996 game that's very similar, but with exploration and puzzles in place of combat.
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Yeah I implied this last time but the opening narration is set after the end of the game and post mortem for Wade, it's implied that he saw Struggs' end from the afterlife.
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So let's talk about how deadly our titular creatures are. The short answer is: not very. Scorpions can deliver a nasty sting in some cases, and Stuggs would definitely not be in for a fun time after three stings there from, say, an Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus), but actual fatalities are rare. Wikipedia claims only two recorded deaths in Arizona from that species since 1968 despite there being thousands of stings every year. There are other species with nastier venom, such as the African deathstalker (Leiurus quinquestriatus), but as far as American species go the Arizona bark scorpion is about the worst there is, and a likely candidate for our protagonist scorpion. I don't know nearly as much about scorpions as I do tarantulas, but between ou two protagonist creatures, the scorpion is unquestionably the deadlier of the two as far as humans are concerned. As for the tarantula, There's a big divide in tarantulas between New World (North/South American) and Old World (everywhere else) species. New World species like our protagonist tend to be slower and more docile, and have much less potent venom as far as humans are concerned. To compensate for this, they have abdomens covered in urticating hairs, which they can kick into the air with their back legs, forming a cloud of tiny floating irritation around them. They can cause some problems if you get them in you eyes in breath them in, but in general they'll cause a bit of itching and not much else.  Despite rumours, they can't fire these hairs like bullets or anything of the sort. They just rub their abdomen with one of their back legs to kick a cloud of hairs into the air, a bit like scraping burnt toast with a knife. You can tell when a tarantula has been doing this a lot because they have a bald spot on their abdomen. The hairs don't grow back over time, and the spider has to wait until its next moult to get a fresh set. It's incredibly rare to be bitten by a New World species, and the vaneom is pretty much harmless to humans, about equivilant to a bee sting. Old World species lack urticating hairs completely, and compensate by being much, much faster and more aggressive, with much nastier venom. Bites in humans are more common than their New World counterparts, and a bite can cause horrific pain and muscle cramping for days after the bite, but fatalities are so vanishingly rare that there's really no hard evidence for any fatal tarantula bites anywhere. Either way, a bite is going to be no fun at all and if you need to mess with, say, a Cyriopagopus species, do it with a very long stick.
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Yeah, there's a reason Struggs was called the deadliest thing in the desert in the opening narration with the second deadliest arguably being the rattlesnake since they are less likely to do dry bites (about 1/4 from I've found) and their venom is much more dangerous to a human compared to spider or scorpion venom, even those of the most dangerous spiders such as the widow, funnel-web and recluse.
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Chimera-gui posted:Yeah, there's a reason Struggs was called the deadliest thing in the desert in the opening narration with the second deadliest arguably being the rattlesnake since they are less likely to do dry bites (about 1/4 from I've found) and their venom is much more dangerous to a human compared to spider or scorpion venom, even those of the most dangerous spiders such as the widow, funnel-web and recluse. Venomous snakes in general are far more dangerous to humans than any spider or scorpion, both because they're larger and thus have far more venom to inject, and because they generally eat small mammals and so have venom that is effective against mammalian biology, rather than having evolved to discrupt invertebrate systems. The most dangerous spider in the world (to humans) is generally considered to be either the Sydney funnelweb (Atrax robustus) or Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria). There have been no fatalities from funnelweb bites since 1981 when the antivenom was devoloped, and only around 2% of wandering spider bites are serious enough to need antivenom in the first place. Which is not to say that they're incapable of killing a human, just that even the deadliest of them are not nearly as dangerous as, say, a sociopathic rear end in a top hat with a shovel.
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Mr. Vile posted:Venomous snakes in general are far more dangerous to humans than any spider or scorpion, both because they're larger and thus have far more venom to inject, and because they generally eat small mammals and so have venom that is effective against mammalian biology, rather than having evolved to discrupt invertebrate systems. The most dangerous spider in the world (to humans) is generally considered to be either the Sydney funnelweb (Atrax robustus) or Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria). There have been no fatalities from funnelweb bites since 1981 when the antivenom was devoloped, and only around 2% of wandering spider bites are serious enough to need antivenom in the first place. Which is not to say that they're incapable of killing a human, just that even the deadliest of them are not nearly as dangerous as, say, a sociopathic rear end in a top hat with a shovel.
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Here we go, the actual last video of the LP - the behind-the-scenes interview with Dennis Hopper. This one's definitely worth a watch, in my opinion. As with the Billy Bob Thornton interview, I made subtitles which can be accessed with the CC button on the YouTube player. 
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I just wanted to say one last thank-you to everyone who helped out in the thread. You guys are awesome and I couldn't have pulled this off without you! My next LP will be posted sometime in the next few weeks. I'm in the process of moving at the moment, though I've recorded a lot of footage for said LP. It's going to be pretty crazy, but I think you'll like it.
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You are very welcome. There aren't many games that let folks talk about this sort of subject so I can say with certainty that we were more than happy to teach some  .
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Chimera-gui posted:You are very welcome. Yeah, it's been fun!
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