Ross's Game Dungeon: Normality

Randrye · Wednesday at 09:54 AM

Here's the subtitles for the latest Game Dungeon in .smi format

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<SYNC Start=900>[KENT] Hmm, ironing. An occupation invented by the devil.
<SYNC Start=4750> 
<SYNC Start=6000>[ROSS] STAY FAT.
<SYNC Start=7606> 
<SYNC Start=19633>Ho ho ho! Welcome to the Game Dungeon.
<SYNC Start=22540>Are you ready to be normal?
<SYNC Start=24780>Yeah, me neither, but we'll give it a try for Normality.
<SYNC Start=28361>A 3D point-and-click adventure game.
<SYNC Start=30841>This is one that's always intrigued me.
<SYNC Start=33121>I mean, look at the cover.
<SYNC Start=34665>"Because no one should have a thought of their own."
<SYNC Start=37388>Yeah, I'm in.
<SYNC Start=38840>[moody synth saxophone]
<SYNC Start=46133>Huh. This is an awfully 'film noir' start to things.
<SYNC Start=50770>[KENT] I began to learn the shady history of Neutropolis
<SYNC Start=53867>shortly after my week-long 'holiday' in the Blue Pens.
<SYNC Start=57999> 
<SYNC Start=59538>Most events happened before my time, but I was soon to get swept up in the events
<SYNC Start=64345>which had transformed this radical, free-thinking utopia
<SYNC Start=68228>into the polluted pit of boredom it is today.
<SYNC Start=71692>[ROSS] Ah, so this is a utopia-turned-dystopia.
<SYNC Start=75730>Yeah, that seems to be an ongoing problem.
<SYNC Start=78041>Even if we had utopia tomorrow,
<SYNC Start=80450>I figure we'd get corrupted and get dismantled like this over time.
<SYNC Start=84674> 
<SYNC Start=85521>[KENT] I was spending a little quality time, walking a couple blocks,
<SYNC Start=88955>and whistling a particularly annoying tune I had composed.
<SYNC Start=92869>Suddenly, from out of the smog...
<SYNC Start=95003>[sirens, tires screeching]
<SYNC Start=97650>[ROSS] DOWN THE GROUND! STOP RESISTING!
<SYNC Start=101290>Well, this is Kent Knutson, our protagonist.
<SYNC Start=104515>And I'm kind of on the fence if he should be busted
<SYNC Start=106681>for singing an annoying song in the street or not.
<SYNC Start=109700>[KENT] I spent seven lousy days in a spartan blue box, basically for being too happy.
<SYNC Start=115531>[ROSS] I've mentioned before that I've done security guard work in the past,
<SYNC Start=118851>so I've heard some really bad songs hundreds of times
<SYNC Start=121834>from closed-circuit store audio on loop.
<SYNC Start=124450>So if he was whistling one of those songs, yeah, I might arrest him, too.
<SYNC Start=129210>I think seven days is too harsh, though.
<SYNC Start=131585>They should treat it more like a drunk tank and just let him sleep it off.
<SYNC Start=135050>Well, after a mystery note from some revolutionary, I guess.
<SYNC Start=138721>I have some thoughts on that, but they can wait.
<SYNC Start=141201>We get kicked back to our apartment on parole.
<SYNC Start=144101> 
<SYNC Start=149579>[ROSS] Oh, that sucks. He has to keep the TV on 24/7 or he goes back to prison.
<SYNC Start=155241>Okay, yeah, this is barbarism.
<SYNC Start=158121>We're going to have to firebomb a police station or something.
<SYNC Start=161250>This should've been a shooter, not an adventure game.
<SYNC Start=163900>So, I guess let's look around the apartment
<SYNC Start=166081>and see if we can find something to make a bomb.
<SYNC Start=168290>What we need is some gasoline.
<SYNC Start=170410>Whoa, okay.
<SYNC Start=172090>Yeah, this is from '96, so once again,
<SYNC Start=174766> 
<SYNC Start=174767>we're back to a time before 3D game controls got standardized,
<SYNC Start=178233> 
<SYNC Start=178234>and these are a little rough.
<SYNC Start=180130>I mean, they're not horrible. I've seen worse than this.
<SYNC Start=183210>But they do that thing where moving the mouse up moves you forward.
<SYNC Start=186570>That was a concept floating around in some games during this time.
<SYNC Start=189610>There's no sidestepping, but it does have mouse-looking,
<SYNC Start=193370>but only if you hold down both the left and right mouse buttons at the same time.
<SYNC Start=197770>And I found out you should click the left mouse button first.
<SYNC Start=200761>Otherwise, it flashes for half a second sometimes if you start with the right.
<SYNC Start=204610>And, wow, I am impressed by this apartment.
<SYNC Start=207970>The drip onto some sort of electrical box?
<SYNC Start=210610>His pillow? The footprints on the wall?
<SYNC Start=213370>Lot of cracks. Mold just everywhere.
<SYNC Start=216721>[KENT] It's one of the air conditioning ducts that pipe dry, stale air around the building.
<SYNC Start=220786>[ROSS] Yeah, I think that's more than "stale air".
<SYNC Start=223081>[NORM] Hey! You in there! Listen to that TV, or you'll get another week in the pen!
<SYNC Start=229057>[ROSS] Ah, the parole officer screaming at you to turn on the TV.
<SYNC Start=233370>Some of this is obviously Kent's touch, clearly a creative guy.
<SYNC Start=237241>Some of it might be Kent, or it might be the previous residents. Hard to say.
<SYNC Start=241730>Oh, water damage. Nice.
<SYNC Start=244545>[KENT] It's not kidding. The tap water here is--
<SYNC Start=246721>[NORM] Turn that TV right back on, you hear!
<SYNC Start=250041>I'll be in if you don't! Stay normal!
<SYNC Start=253638>[ROSS] Yeah, a lot of green water.
<SYNC Start=255841>Oh, let's open the fridge.
<SYNC Start=258170>[laughs]
<SYNC Start=260065>You know, there's a lot of indie games now where they don't have textures,
<SYNC Start=263241>and instead everything is just a flat color with lighting.
<SYNC Start=266521>Well, this is what we're missing when they do that!
<SYNC Start=269241>Flat colors can never give us such a rich portrayal of this refrigerator.
<SYNC Start=274041>Kent is a frigging savage!
<SYNC Start=277170>[laughs]
<SYNC Start=278841>He can't even open it, it's jammed.
<SYNC Start=281641>[laughs]
<SYNC Start=283181>I'd like to remind everyone, Kent wasn't arrested in the middle of making dinner
<SYNC Start=287241>and just didn't have a chance to clean this up.
<SYNC Start=289721>He was out walking on the street.
<SYNC Start=292181>So, whenever this happened, Kent decided, "Eh, shit happens."
<SYNC Start=296121>"I'll deal with this later." And that was that.
<SYNC Start=298690>Yeah, this apartment is amazing.
<SYNC Start=301021>I think this is officially the nastiest apartment I've ever seen in a game.
<SYNC Start=305521>Now you might be thinking "Well, what about the apartment in Bad Mojo?"
<SYNC Start=309159>Well, yes, there are definitely spots as bad in Bad Mojo,
<SYNC Start=313705>but I think it would clean up a lot better than Kent's place.
<SYNC Start=316921>See, Kent's apartment has a lot of structural damage.
<SYNC Start=319945>There's bad air, or bad liquid, in the walls.
<SYNC Start=323770>You're really not cleaning that up.
<SYNC Start=325805>I saw a video a while back of someone cleaning up
<SYNC Start=328176>an apartment where a chain smoker had been living,
<SYNC Start=330845>and I'm actually not even sure if this is the video, but it's really similar if it's not.
<SYNC Start=335581>And yeah, he's doing a Herculean effort trying to clean this,
<SYNC Start=339700> 
<SYNC Start=339701>and to his credit, he makes it look better.
<SYNC Start=342765>It looks a lot better after cleaning this.
<SYNC Start=345881>See? A before-and-after. Good as new, right?
<SYNC Start=349290>Wrong. I guarantee you, you would not want to sleep in that apartment.
<SYNC Start=353690>You would be choking in there.
<SYNC Start=355705>There's gonna be tar in the walls, the ceiling, it's never really coming out.
<SYNC Start=360330>I don't think Kent's a smoker, but his place has problems just as deep.
<SYNC Start=364321>Yeah, look at that. There's a growth or something inside the walls
<SYNC Start=367933> 
<SYNC Start=367934>that the landlord probably painted over.
<SYNC Start=369921>Oh, yeah, the bathroom. Beautiful.
<SYNC Start=372741>There is so much mold in here. I'm practically coughing recording this.
<SYNC Start=377465>A 'sharkpoon'.
<SYNC Start=379281>What's the difference between that and a harpoon?
<SYNC Start=382600>[laughs]
<SYNC Start=384441>This is like when archaeologists open up a tomb and toxic gas starts hissing out.
<SYNC Start=389230>Yeah, just puke onto the carpet. Nobody will notice.
<SYNC Start=392581>[KENT] Ugh! There's still a horrible stench coming up from that hole in the bath!
<SYNC Start=397020>[ROSS] This is a nightmare.
<SYNC Start=398541>[NORM] Turn that TV on, mister! [ROSS] Oh my God....
<SYNC Start=401321>[NORM] You're only making it worse for yourself! Do you want to go back to the pen?!
<SYNC Start=406576>[KENT] I tried turning it off once. The room steamed up for a week.
<SYNC Start=410518>[ROSS] That fan is the only reason you're not dead, Kent.
<SYNC Start=413981>Can I clog it with my pillow? No.
<SYNC Start=417230>Well, I guess we better turn on the TV to get the parole officer to stop screaming.
<SYNC Start=421490>Yeah, let's crack a window. Jesus.
<SYNC Start=423981>[KENT] Oh man, that TV turned itself off again! I just gotta find a way to keep it on.
<SYNC Start=429350>[ROSS] Oh! You have to babysit the TV too, on top of everything!
<SYNC Start=433990>So this really is a level of hell.
<SYNC Start=436481>Well, I will say the level of detail here is amazing.
<SYNC Start=439681>I found that now we can do almost anything with graphics,
<SYNC Start=442730>higher texture fidelity and polygon count don't do a lot for me.
<SYNC Start=446721>But details to the environment really help draw me in.
<SYNC Start=450181>And Normality is delivering in spades on that front.
<SYNC Start=453681>Well, let's get out of here.
<SYNC Start=455321>Nothing good is going to happen in our lives staying in this apartment.
<SYNC Start=458981>Huh, that face looks familiar.
<SYNC Start=460981> 
<SYNC Start=461845>Oh, is this guy living on the fire escape?
<SYNC Start=464578> 
<SYNC Start=464681>Wow, that never occurred to me.
<SYNC Start=466981>You know, in Soylent Green, population and homelessness are through the roof,
<SYNC Start=470790>so everybody is sleeping in hallways everywhere.
<SYNC Start=473345>But fire escapes could be virgin territory for real estate.
<SYNC Start=477121>Well, he's in the right place squatting out here.
<SYNC Start=479821>Kent's sure as hell not going to call the cops on him.
<SYNC Start=482621>[KENT] Hi there. Can you give me a lift down to the street, old man?
<SYNC Start=485921>[DAI] Hey, less of the 'old' prefix, please.
<SYNC Start=488781>Name's Dai. If I were to take you down, what will you do in return?
<SYNC Start=493621>[ROSS] Oh, okay. So this isn't a fire escape.
<SYNC Start=496490>He's living out of a scissor lift or something.
<SYNC Start=498770>And he's hustling me to give him something before he'll take me down.
<SYNC Start=502170>[DAI] Coffee, milky, quickly! There's a good boy.
<SYNC Start=505190>[ROSS] All right, I guess we're going back to the apartment.
<SYNC Start=508870>Yeah, this is going to be some rough coffee.
<SYNC Start=511245>I'm not sure what would stain the kettle green like this. Maybe algae?
<SYNC Start=515730>I mean, it's not copper corrosion; it's the wrong shade for that.
<SYNC Start=519045>Oh, but whoops, that's not enough. He wants milk in his coffee, too.
<SYNC Start=523330>Hmm...
<SYNC Start=524381>Hmm!
<SYNC Start=526100> 
<SYNC Start=526101>Hmm!
<SYNC Start=528381>Yeah, I appreciate the insidious mayhem present in a lot of old adventure games.
<SYNC Start=533141>They often wouldn't pull their punches.
<SYNC Start=535741> 
<SYNC Start=536530>[KENT] Well, I don't suppose it wouldn't hurt that much.
<SYNC Start=538941>The strong abrasive edge of the coffee
<SYNC Start=541033> 
<SYNC Start=541034>will probably mask the chalky aftertaste of the paint.
<SYNC Start=544341>At least it looks like milk.
<SYNC Start=546441>[ROSS] You don't suppose drinking paint would hurt much?
<SYNC Start=550730>Thanks for the tip, Dr. Knutson.
<SYNC Start=553590>[KENT] Here you go, Dai. Sorry about the delay.
<SYNC Start=555981>[DAI] Hey, thank you, sonny. I'll have you down in no time.
<SYNC Start=559990>Say, this coffee tastes a little, er... unique.
<SYNC Start=563041>[KENT] Yeah, it has a special secret ingredient
<SYNC Start=565566> 
<SYNC Start=565567>left to me by the previous occupiers of my apartment.
<SYNC Start=568981>[DAI] Well, that's a secret you might want to let me in on one of these days.
<SYNC Start=572781>[KENT] Dai? [DAI] Yes?
<SYNC Start=573941>[ROSS] Let's change the topic. How about the weather?
<SYNC Start=576141>[KENT] Why is every day so gray? The air quality is very poor today.
<SYNC Start=580381>[DAI] It's been like this for nearly 30 years,
<SYNC Start=582800> 
<SYNC Start=582801>since just before I began my new life in this cradle.
<SYNC Start=586221>I haven't seen the sun for decades.
<SYNC Start=588670>It used to cheer up men, women, cats, dogs, and plants.
<SYNC Start=592921>It all seemed a lot happier back then.
<SYNC Start=595181>[KENT] The sun? What is that?
<SYNC Start=596881>[ROSS] Yeah, what's the sun?
<SYNC Start=598566>[KENT] I think my Mom mentioned it once before she threw me out
<SYNC Start=600583> 
<SYNC Start=600584>for cutting class and chilling out all the time.
<SYNC Start=603141>[DAI] Didn't you pay attention in modern history classes?
<SYNC Start=606330>The sun is a huge, slow-motion nuclear explosion in space,
<SYNC Start=610266> 
<SYNC Start=610267>shedding warmth on the people of our planet.
<SYNC Start=613134> 
<SYNC Start=614766>[KENT] You say the sun sends warmth?
<SYNC Start=617093> 
<SYNC Start=617094>I don't see it anywhere, you old dreamer.
<SYNC Start=619130>[DAI] Dreamer? How dare you!
<SYNC Start=621021>[ROSS] Alright, this is great.
<SYNC Start=622770>I've set one foot outside my apartment,
<SYNC Start=624960> 
<SYNC Start=624961>and I'm already getting into an argument with the locals
<SYNC Start=627333> 
<SYNC Start=627334>as to whether the sun exists or not.
<SYNC Start=629870>This is exactly what I want to see in games.
<SYNC Start=632490>This game gets it.
<SYNC Start=633930>And the coffee was good enough for him to let us down.
<SYNC Start=637130>Oh, I didn't notice that earlier!
<SYNC Start=639330>Is he keeping track of his pigeon kills, like old fighter pilots?
<SYNC Start=643270>There's that guy again.
<SYNC Start=644830>Okay, this was driving me crazy, since he looks so familiar,
<SYNC Start=648430>I was convinced I had seen him somewhere before.
<SYNC Start=650790>If I'm not having a Mandela Effect moment.
<SYNC Start=653630>At first I thought, "Oh, is this the advisor on the Super Nintendo version of SimCity?"
<SYNC Start=659025>No, he looks different.
<SYNC Start=660990>Where the hell have I seen him before?
<SYNC Start=663170>Well, this took me a while, but I think I figured it out.
<SYNC Start=667070>I think my brain was merging two other game characters together.
<SYNC Start=671070>One is Dr. Brain from the Dr. Brain games.
<SYNC Start=675090>He has a little bit of that look.
<SYNC Start=676990>And the other one, I can't believe I remembered this,
<SYNC Start=680290>whoever this is on the cover of Leisure Suit Larry 5.
<SYNC Start=684330>Ironically, I've never even played 5. I'm only up through 3.
<SYNC Start=688390>But I've seen that cover a bunch before in stores.
<SYNC Start=691530>So I had false memories implanted of this guy existing elsewhere,
<SYNC Start=695733> 
<SYNC Start=695734>assuming I'm not forgetting someone.
<SYNC Start=697705>If you think I'm wrong and do recognize this face from elsewhere, feel free to chime in.
<SYNC Start=702781>He kind of has Dr. Forrester from Mystery Science Theater 3000
<SYNC Start=706500> 
<SYNC Start=706501>crossed with Sigmund Freud energy.
<SYNC Start=708690>Oh, and the same goes for if you can think of another game apartment worse than Kent's.
<SYNC Start=713330>Though it can't be worse just because somebody was murdered there or something,
<SYNC Start=716730>I'm talking how it looks under normal living conditions for the resident.
<SYNC Start=720790>Well, onto the street.
<SYNC Start=722441>It'd be too much to hope for
<SYNC Start=723866> 
<SYNC Start=723867>having a full-3D open world in the city like this for a game this old.
<SYNC Start=728330>After all, they can't all be Quarantine.
<SYNC Start=731141>But this is still pretty great.
<SYNC Start=733190>I am kind of wishing this wasn't software 3D though.
<SYNC Start=736590>It can be kind of rough reading things with the point filtering.
<SYNC Start=740141>[KENT] This cinema's been closed all my life!
<SYNC Start=742827>[ROSS] Oh, so this is just a relic then. Everything is shut down.
<SYNC Start=746641>The park's closed.
<SYNC Start=747981>[KENT] We're not allowed to go into the park. Paul Nystalux's orders.
<SYNC Start=751724>[ROSS] I'm guessing Paul is that guy I was trying to identify.
<SYNC Start=754841>[KENT] I think this is the only shop in the street that's still doing business.
<SYNC Start=758385>[ROSS] So this is just a hollowed-out part of town.
<SYNC Start=760830>There's a lot of places in the Rust Belt like this.
<SYNC Start=763890>"Hardware store". Ah...
<SYNC Start=766930>[KENT] There's some cool gear in this shop. Unfortunately, it closed down last month.
<SYNC Start=772458>You can catch all sorts of diseases doing that.
<SYNC Start=775141>[ROSS] Oh, so Kent has standards! Interesting.
<SYNC Start=779230>Yeah, that's another thing I like, is that this game isn't black-and-white.
<SYNC Start=783130>The current regime is obviously oppressive,
<SYNC Start=785430>but Kent isn't making a strong case that he deserves much better.
<SYNC Start=789030>He's leaving beans splattered on the wall
<SYNC Start=791081>and releasing toxic gas in the bathroom by using his 'sharkpoon' on the bathtub.
<SYNC Start=796330>Why the hell was he spearfishing in the bathtub in the first place?
<SYNC Start=799880>So the current system is failing people with housing like this,
<SYNC Start=803380>but if someone is going to live here, it should be Kent.
<SYNC Start=807080>Because he's just going to bring down the property value of wherever he lives anyway.
<SYNC Start=811355>Kent comes across like a stoner, but with more energy.
<SYNC Start=814530>No joke, looking at the covers, I feel like the only thing that's missing
<SYNC Start=818000> 
<SYNC Start=818001>is him wearing a tie-dye T-shirt with a pot leaf on it.
<SYNC Start=821130>Now I don't think Kent does drugs, but he's practically there.
<SYNC Start=824830>Well, wait, I'm stereotyping. Maybe he just looks like that.
<SYNC Start=828480>Actually, this takes place in the future.
<SYNC Start=830535>He's kind of reminiscent of the Postal dude's look.
<SYNC Start=833180>I could easily see Kent being the Postal dude's progeny.
<SYNC Start=836480>[KENT] It's very relaxing watching this all day.
<SYNC Start=839530>Ooh... yeah... wow....
<SYNC Start=842280>[ROSS] Okay, never mind. Kent would absolutely smoke weed if he could.
<SYNC Start=846680>[KENT] Oh, too loud!
<SYNC Start=848580>I'm gonna bill Deluge for my speakers if I ever see him. Great song, though.
<SYNC Start=852981>♪ Arndy, arndy, diddy, arndy, eh ♪
<SYNC Start=855281>♪ Well, my car's got no wheels, but I'm still rollin' ♪
<SYNC Start=858181>[ROSS] Shut up, shut up, shut up.
<SYNC Start=860314> 
<SYNC Start=860840>Well, to Kent's credit,
<SYNC Start=862053> 
<SYNC Start=862054>even though he lives in filth and is doing nothing with his life,
<SYNC Start=865500> 
<SYNC Start=865501>I don't see him as hopeless.
<SYNC Start=867272> 
<SYNC Start=867280>All my instincts tell me he could be a successful artist or musician.
<SYNC Start=871281>Kent is 100% a person that would spend all day, every day,
<SYNC Start=875333> 
<SYNC Start=875334>just practicing on an instrument, not even thinking about it.
<SYNC Start=878780>In a way, that makes him the prime casualty of a regime trying to enforce normality.
<SYNC Start=883481>Oh, and even though he's snuck outside,
<SYNC Start=885580>we can actually head back inside to the other side of the apartment.
<SYNC Start=889680>Huh. That's interesting.
<SYNC Start=891730>It's a giant mousebot or something watching the door.
<SYNC Start=894830>Well who was that shouting at us, then?
<SYNC Start=896781>[KENT] These must be the things that were shouting those orders earlier. Weird.
<SYNC Start=901013> 
<SYNC Start=901014>If I so much as touch that door,
<SYNC Start=903030>that Neanderthal will jump out here and kick my butt.
<SYNC Start=906030>[ROSS] Okay, I get it.
<SYNC Start=907830>It was the mousebot shouting at you to turn on your TV,
<SYNC Start=911230>but your neighbor will also shout at you and kick your ass if you bother him.
<SYNC Start=915330>All right. I was confused there.
<SYNC Start=917580>Well, there was a lead earlier for finding a job as a furniture tester,
<SYNC Start=921280>and that's actually what the mysterious note was saying for you to do at the start.
<SYNC Start=925430>So, I guess let's head to the factory to get a job.
<SYNC Start=928505>This is Chad's world. We just live in it.
<SYNC Start=931780>And at the factory, I actually solved the puzzle automatically without realizing it.
<SYNC Start=936755>The receptionist won't let you in
<SYNC Start=938266> 
<SYNC Start=938267>because you're not fat enough to be a furniture tester.
<SYNC Start=940980>But earlier, just looking through the apartment,
<SYNC Start=943680>I apparently put on a T-shirt saying "I AM FAT",
<SYNC Start=946900> 
<SYNC Start=946901>and was wearing it this whole time.
<SYNC Start=949080>And yep, that's enough to satisfy the clerk.
<SYNC Start=952130>And yes, this is an omen of the quality of puzzles ahead of us.
<SYNC Start=956280>You'd think Kent would've had to stuff the pillow under his shirt
<SYNC Start=959066> 
<SYNC Start=959067>to at least sell it more, but whatever.
<SYNC Start=961930>I do like how fascinated Kent is by the coffee maker in the waiting room.
<SYNC Start=966130>[KENT] This green button must be the creature's eye.
<SYNC Start=968881>I think the sculpture must be a metaphor for jealousy or something.
<SYNC Start=972581>I've never seen such an evocative and compelling rendering.
<SYNC Start=976081>The green eye, the boiling rage, it all adds up to one of the most brilliantly observed
<SYNC Start=980966> 
<SYNC Start=980967>and executed things I have ever seen.
<SYNC Start=983475>[ROSS] In a sense, he's almost like a caveman discovering the marvels of the modern world.
<SYNC Start=988130>I mean, this is an exotic coffee maker,
<SYNC Start=990605>but you'd think he would be more familiar with such things.
<SYNC Start=993580>I suppose he is ignorant for dropping out of school
<SYNC Start=996366> 
<SYNC Start=996367>and having grown up entirely in the dystopia, not knowing the before times.
<SYNC Start=1000480>So, every day is a discovery, I guess.
<SYNC Start=1003330>[slow-mo] "Bee-dee-bee... BEE-GEE-BEE!"
<SYNC Start=1008600> 
<SYNC Start=1008601>Watch out, Kent! He's gonna eat you!
<SYNC Start=1010980>Actually, he doesn't.
<SYNC Start=1012230>Blob here is the manager, who you'd think would give you an orientation,
<SYNC Start=1015800> 
<SYNC Start=1015801>but he mostly just chats.
<SYNC Start=1017630>Also, I guess this was meant to be a simple idling animation,
<SYNC Start=1020780>but it looks like he just keeps grabbing his crotch over and over.
<SYNC Start=1024080>It goes on a while.
<SYNC Start=1025680>Then we're just sort of dumped here.
<SYNC Start=1027730>[RADIO] Libido, libido, libido!
<SYNC Start=1029810>Bada-boop-boop-boop! Bada-boop-boop-boop!
<SYNC Start=1031324>[ROSS] What's that sound?
<SYNC Start=1032996>Oh my God, why do they have to do this?
<SYNC Start=1035905>This is worse than the parole officer telling me to turn on the TV every 20 seconds.
<SYNC Start=1040081>[RADIO] Libido, libido, libido! Cerebri-o-de-de-o!
<SYNC Start=1041981>Bada-boop-boop-boop!
<SYNC Start=1043661>[KENT] Nice little radio. The tuning knob's missing, though.
<SYNC Start=1047000>Looks like it's opera or nothing.
<SYNC Start=1049293>[ROSS] Ah, opera. I'm not cultured enough to appreciate it.
<SYNC Start=1053480>Well, it turns out some of the employees are on strike.
<SYNC Start=1056430>They discovered some 'gadjets' that were being added to the furniture
<SYNC Start=1059081>that added surveillance to everyone and sends the data back.
<SYNC Start=1062380>Management didn't want them knowing that,
<SYNC Start=1064081>so now they're trying to replace them with robots
<SYNC Start=1066105>so they don't have to explain anything, and to save money.
<SYNC Start=1068930>[PERSON] A timing gadjet or something.
<SYNC Start=1071505>Collected information relating to how long people sat on their sofas for.
<SYNC Start=1076580>They reckon it's sensitive, so they're gonna replace us all with more-precise droids.
<SYNC Start=1082175>[ROSS] That's, um...
<SYNC Start=1084100> 
<SYNC Start=1084101>...extremely forward-thinking for a game from '96.
<SYNC Start=1087930>Why is someone's underwear pinned to the bulletin board?
<SYNC Start=1090530>[KENT] That's disgusting!
<SYNC Start=1092210> 
<SYNC Start=1093337>[ROSS] Lard.
<SYNC Start=1094537> 
<SYNC Start=1095320>Well, I tried, but I got stuck here and had to look up some hints,
<SYNC Start=1098933> 
<SYNC Start=1098934>and it's just as well I did.
<SYNC Start=1100730>I did figure out that you should use the electronics from the radio
<SYNC Start=1103700> 
<SYNC Start=1103701>on the spare motorized bed.
<SYNC Start=1105781>Yeah, it uses wireless power.
<SYNC Start=1108380>That's been a dream of some industries for a while,
<SYNC Start=1110930>though I wouldn't trust it to not give you cancer.
<SYNC Start=1113680>But what now? I'm just wandering around.
<SYNC Start=1116655>Well, what I should've done was first crawl into the ventilation shaft,
<SYNC Start=1120133> 
<SYNC Start=1120134>and to be fair, that's on me.
<SYNC Start=1122281>I tried to earlier, but didn't realize you need to be standing on the toilet first.
<SYNC Start=1126730>I've grown soft from adventure games that simply let you
<SYNC Start=1129333> 
<SYNC Start=1129334>click on what you want to interact with, and then interact with it.
<SYNC Start=1132930>From there, you hang down Mission: Impossible-style
<SYNC Start=1135481>to grab the debris in the security case. Nice reach!
<SYNC Start=1139380>Then you dump the debris on this bed.
<SYNC Start=1141980>"Hey, what is this?"
<SYNC Start=1143481>"Wha-- wha-- Uhhhh..." [snores]
<SYNC Start=1147280>Yeah!
<SYNC Start=1148481>I'd like to point out this guard was posted several rooms away,
<SYNC Start=1151930>so this is the route he must've come running down to get here
<SYNC Start=1154581>once his spider sense detected I was dumping some boards on a bed.
<SYNC Start=1158130>Then you take the belt from the ventilation shaft
<SYNC Start=1160381>and attach it to the fire extinguisher to just hose the place at random.
<SYNC Start=1164305>Then use the control panel to finally ride the conveyor belt into the machinery.
<SYNC Start=1168381>Of course! Why didn't I think of that?
<SYNC Start=1170930>Now, you might think I'm leaving out some context
<SYNC Start=1173181>where they explain the logic behind this,
<SYNC Start=1175746> 
<SYNC Start=1175747>but... no, I don't think I am.
<SYNC Start=1178330>The game is acting like this is all self-explanatory.
<SYNC Start=1181380>[HEATHER] Who in hell are you? Hold it right there, Norm Spy!
<SYNC Start=1184281>There are 50 trained revolutionaries pointing their guns at your head right now!
<SYNC Start=1187866>[ROSS] Uh-oh! So this is the Resistance!
<SYNC Start=1191230>It might just be her from the looks of it.
<SYNC Start=1193580>Though she knows Dai from earlier; apparently he's part of it, too.
<SYNC Start=1197630>She wants you to go sabotage a city statue and a TV station.
<SYNC Start=1201330>Also, I can't tell what the hell any of this is.
<SYNC Start=1203955>Like if those are cutouts or dead bodies or what.
<SYNC Start=1206981>The camera is completely locked here and I can't move.
<SYNC Start=1210130>I also don't know what that hopping thing is in the corner.
<SYNC Start=1213130>It looks like one of those hopping balls, except I guess it's alive.
<SYNC Start=1217230>I'm very confused.
<SYNC Start=1218780>The only thing I'm sure of is she lives in trash, so maybe Kent can relate.
<SYNC Start=1223230>Oh, and you may have noticed the music was a little too loud.
<SYNC Start=1226181>I keep trying to tweak it,
<SYNC Start=1227566> 
<SYNC Start=1227567>but it's like some instruments are five times louder than others.
<SYNC Start=1230730>So my apologies in advance if things get drowned out.
<SYNC Start=1233730>Now the game has music volume control, but I'm using MT32 emulation,
<SYNC Start=1238581>and listen to what happens when I turn it down.
<SYNC Start=1241281>[music sticks on one note]
<SYNC Start=1242881>Yeah, the only way to adjust the music volume
<SYNC Start=1245181>was to change the config for the emulated environment I was using.
<SYNC Start=1249005>Oh, and I have to point this out.
<SYNC Start=1250781>I'm running this on emulated Windows 98.
<SYNC Start=1253505>I didn't have to, since this works on DOS also,
<SYNC Start=1256405>but I wasn't sure if it would be like Baldies,
<SYNC Start=1258246> 
<SYNC Start=1258247>where the better version is on Windows.
<SYNC Start=1260430>But look at this.
<SYNC Start=1261730>I haven't been using this install for anything besides running Normality.
<SYNC Start=1265830>So naturally, at one point, it wouldn't launch due to an IRQ error.
<SYNC Start=1270530>I didn't change a damn thing.
<SYNC Start=1273380>It just happened on its own.
<SYNC Start=1275280>In the past, I would get gaslit over this sort of thing, thinking I broke something.
<SYNC Start=1279455>But this time, I know I didn't change anything.
<SYNC Start=1283030>Windows changed itself.
<SYNC Start=1285080>Well, more of the map opens up, and you can choose where to go.
<SYNC Start=1288530>I tried the TV station, but it's blocked by a bouncer.
<SYNC Start=1291830>I can't even use the sharkpoon on him!
<SYNC Start=1294330>The mall is a different story, though it's half-dead.
<SYNC Start=1297581>"Willy the Whelk says 'whelk-come'!"
<SYNC Start=1300130>Oh look, Toys R Us has shut down!
<SYNC Start=1302530>And the butcher has a sign saying it can't keep everything in stock.
<SYNC Start=1305930>Man, this game is so on point.
<SYNC Start=1307981>[RAY] I, huh, huh, hate this place!
<SYNC Start=1310481>I'd rather be anywhere else in the whole big wide world than right here right now!
<SYNC Start=1316281>[KENT] Why don't you take a break?
<SYNC Start=1317633>[RAY] I can't. I'll get fired. I HATE MY JOB!
<SYNC Start=1321881>[ROSS] Yeah, that pretty much sums up employment.
<SYNC Start=1324381>He's got the essentials down.
<SYNC Start=1326230>So he smacks the cash register, causing the lights to go out.
<SYNC Start=1329655>[Ray sobbing]
<SYNC Start=1331081>I guess we should go.
<SYNC Start=1333030>Dazzle!
<SYNC Start=1334081>Oh, another game with a Clinton joke!
<SYNC Start=1336881>Now at first, I thought this was a game made by a time traveler,
<SYNC Start=1339933> 
<SYNC Start=1339934>since this came out in '96,
<SYNC Start=1341955>but then I remembered he had other scandals,
<SYNC Start=1344100>so not quite the anachronism I thought it was.
<SYNC Start=1347381>Let's check the Thing Store.
<SYNC Start=1349430>[KENT] Do you enjoy working in here?
<SYNC Start=1351170>[PERSON] Ha ha! You do stuff like that and it'll stunt your growth.
<SYNC Start=1354687>Uncle Jed was only 32cm tall at the age of 30.
<SYNC Start=1357922>[KENT] Are you listening to me?
<SYNC Start=1359374>[PERSON] This here's a tow-way zone. Pack up your bait box and high tail it!
<SYNC Start=1363364>[KENT] You're no hope whatsoever. Goodbye.
<SYNC Start=1366056>[PERSON] These boots are made for walking...
<SYNC Start=1368351>[ROSS] And another game with crazy people with jobs!
<SYNC Start=1371830>We're getting some recurring themes on the show.
<SYNC Start=1374181>[KENT] AAAGH!! Ugh, that thing's scary!
<SYNC Start=1377087>[ROSS] And this part in particular,
<SYNC Start=1378600> 
<SYNC Start=1378601>I would say is dead average for '90s adventure game puzzle difficulty.
<SYNC Start=1382830>You have to shoplift from the store, but if you just grab something and walk out,
<SYNC Start=1386880>the alarm goes off and the security guard boots you.
<SYNC Start=1389980>So what you need to do is take the robot dogs, or at least I think they're robots,
<SYNC Start=1394780>and combine them with the toy planes and fly them out.
<SYNC Start=1398080>Then you need to do that two more times.
<SYNC Start=1400580>Then the game mercifully does that for the rest of them automatically.
<SYNC Start=1404430>Then you need to use the bolt cutters on the large plane, fly it out the store,
<SYNC Start=1410380>then take them to go cut down the speaker in another store,
<SYNC Start=1413630>then hook it up to the stereo system in the music store,
<SYNC Start=1416580>and put on an album you stole of someone clapping his hands.
<SYNC Start=1420030>That gets the dogs fired up, which upsets the real dog outside the mall,
<SYNC Start=1424330>and the noise draws the security guard
<SYNC Start=1426033> 
<SYNC Start=1426034>so you can use the fire extinguisher filled with paint.
<SYNC Start=1429030>Yeah, I forgot to mention that. You had to do that back at the factory.
<SYNC Start=1432280>But first you have to start a fire by setting a book on fire,
<SYNC Start=1435405>causing the guard to run back and use the fire extinguisher.
<SYNC Start=1438955>You know, people complain about yellow paint in games nowadays,
<SYNC Start=1441881>but I'd be alright with it if it was more like this.
<SYNC Start=1444730>And of course, any good puzzle ends with explosives.
<SYNC Start=1447281>[explosion]
<SYNC Start=1450481>So yeah, this is 100% par-for-the- course for '90s adventure games.
<SYNC Start=1455030>It's not easy, you're unlikely to figure all this out,
<SYNC Start=1458080> 
<SYNC Start=1458081>I didn't,
<SYNC Start=1459333>but it's not completely insane either.
<SYNC Start=1462581>There's some logic here, it's just kind of medium.
<SYNC Start=1465530>Oh, and the explosion lodges part of the fire extinguisher in the guard's head,
<SYNC Start=1469366> 
<SYNC Start=1469367>so now he's confused.
<SYNC Start=1471080>But Kent offers to take him back to the trash den like a stray dog.
<SYNC Start=1474981>[HEATHER] Well, we'll see what we can do.
<SYNC Start=1476881>We don't normally like to have anything to do with his sort.
<SYNC Start=1479374>[ROSS] What?
<SYNC Start=1480574>[DAI] Now go and complete the rest of your tasks.
<SYNC Start=1483204>[ROSS] What the hell is going on? Why are there fart noises?
<SYNC Start=1486530>This is insane! What is that?
<SYNC Start=1488830>It sounds like it's coming from the right.
<SYNC Start=1490930>Is that the bouncing thing? It wasn't doing that earlier!
<SYNC Start=1494230>[HEATHER] Hurry, and the revolution could be happening tomorrow!
<SYNC Start=1497290>[DAI] Yeah, tomorrow!
<SYNC Start=1498726>[ROSS] I still can't move the camera to look around, everything is locked.
<SYNC Start=1502130>There's no escape from fart-mania!
<SYNC Start=1504580>[HEATHER] Bye, Kent. Good luck. We'll just hold the fort here for a while.
<SYNC Start=1508540>[DAI] See you soon, boy. I wish I was coming with you.
<SYNC Start=1511571>[KENT] Well I'm glad you aren't.
<SYNC Start=1513086>[ROSS] Yeah, bye!
<SYNC Start=1514680>Well, like I mentioned, the harpoon doesn't work on the TV station bouncer.
<SYNC Start=1518530>Neither does picking up a turd and throwing it at him.
<SYNC Start=1521530>Yeah, it's another one of those games.
<SYNC Start=1523780>I feel like this isn't the first adventure game I've played
<SYNC Start=1526733>that lets you do this, but I'm drawing a blank on another.
<SYNC Start=1530080>I mean, that is Duke Nukem Forever's claim to fame, but that's an action game.
<SYNC Start=1534380>And Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but that's an RPG.
<SYNC Start=1537430>And see, this is the game messing with you,
<SYNC Start=1539166> 
<SYNC Start=1539167>because you can pick up the turd outside the TV station,
<SYNC Start=1542000> 
<SYNC Start=1542001>but not the one back in your neighborhood,
<SYNC Start=1544280>so they're practically daring you to throw this one at him, but then don't let you.
<SYNC Start=1548730>Yeah, don't do that.
<SYNC Start=1550180>You don't need to open this door in the first place, but if you do, you need to commit.
<SYNC Start=1554680>Even if it's not the solution, I can't imagine a bouncer not reacting to that.
<SYNC Start=1559830>No, instead you have to go back to your apartment,
<SYNC Start=1562605>use a screwdriver you stole on your washing machine...
<SYNC Start=1565381>[KENT] Yeah, this is heavy enough to smash the glass.
<SYNC Start=1568114>[ROSS] Yeah, just smash it open. Who cares?
<SYNC Start=1570655>Then put the rat in a box.
<SYNC Start=1572881>Oh, look! A notice!
<SYNC Start=1574881>They found out you were playing hooky, so now you're wanted again.
<SYNC Start=1578130>Well, at least you have a home back at the fart tank, Kent.
<SYNC Start=1581430>Alright, here you go.
<SYNC Start=1583110> 
<SYNC Start=1586530>Yeah, the puzzle logic in this game is getting rough again.
<SYNC Start=1590081>Inside the TV station, I suspect some of these might be the developers.
<SYNC Start=1594630>[KENT] Can I ask if you wanna go out when this game is over?
<SYNC Start=1597431>[RECEPTIONIST] My boyfriend won't like that.
<SYNC Start=1599233>[KENT] Now forget about him. I'm more fun to be with.
<SYNC Start=1601695>[RECEPTIONIST] Um... my seven-feet-tall bodybuilding boyfriend won't agree.
<SYNC Start=1607233>[KENT] Oh yeah, you're probably right.
<SYNC Start=1609366>[ROSS] Well, Kent has some game,
<SYNC Start=1611030>he just needs to make sure any girl he dates never ever comes back to his apartment.
<SYNC Start=1616342> 
<SYNC Start=1616580>Here's the TV executive.
<SYNC Start=1618681>Nobody would know who you are, but this guy is a natural for somebody cosplaying him.
<SYNC Start=1623730>What's his belt buckle say? I can barely read it.
<SYNC Start=1626802> 
<SYNC Start=1627330>"Gee, ain't I great".
<SYNC Start=1629281>He's like a Goomba that made it to the top.
<SYNC Start=1632030>Oh, look at the talk show host!
<SYNC Start=1634097> 
<SYNC Start=1634230>They've got '90s freak faces on full display.
<SYNC Start=1637730>[KENT] Good grief! I think it's a fax machine,
<SYNC Start=1640355>but it may be some complex, artificially intelligent photocopier.
<SYNC Start=1645080>Geez, take me to your leader!
<SYNC Start=1647319>[ROSS] Yeah, I think Kent is the sort of person that might benefit from smoking weed.
<SYNC Start=1651480>[IT GUY] Hey, stop staring at me. I'm not into guys.
<SYNC Start=1654930>You're putting me off my work, weirdo.
<SYNC Start=1656723>[ROSS] Who are you calling weird?
<SYNC Start=1659092>Well, we need to broadcast a video, but... wait...
<SYNC Start=1662450> 
<SYNC Start=1662451>Come on... Hello... Let me go!
<SYNC Start=1666181>I'm stuck in the door!
<SYNC Start=1667981>Oh no...
<SYNC Start=1669680>ngyaaARGH!!
<SYNC Start=1671230>Moving on, I get into the video control room, but need the password.
<SYNC Start=1675481>And now we get to throw a turd at someone.
<SYNC Start=1678081>Nyagh!
<SYNC Start=1679481> 
<SYNC Start=1681881>[IT GUY] What do you think you're doing, bozo?
<SYNC Start=1684881>Well, you dirtied it, you clean it!
<SYNC Start=1687821>[ROSS] All right, now we have a free shirt with shit smeared on it.
<SYNC Start=1691080>We're moving up in the world!
<SYNC Start=1692581>[KENT] I love success.
<SYNC Start=1693981>It can transform a mediocre day into a golden-edged memory
<SYNC Start=1697781>to pass on to subsequent generations.
<SYNC Start=1700175>[ROSS] That's right. And naturally, that gives us the password.
<SYNC Start=1703381>Let's go.
<SYNC Start=1704380>Yeah, look at them!
<SYNC Start=1705630>Ironically, Kent is one of the more normal-looking people in the game.
<SYNC Start=1709630>But we broadcast a music video to awaken the masses.
<SYNC Start=1712894> 
<SYNC Start=1713281>It's by fellow Resistance member Brian Deluge,
<SYNC Start=1716566> 
<SYNC Start=1716567>a glam rocker with some junk in the trunk.
<SYNC Start=1719580>I guess let's talk about the music.
<SYNC Start=1721581>Aside from this video, it seems to mostly fall into three categories.
<SYNC Start=1725930>There's sort of the chill, jazz-ish music, like at Kent's apartment or the mall.
<SYNC Start=1730681>That's pretty good, and fits the game.
<SYNC Start=1732981>There's music that's basically for a Saturday morning cartoon.
<SYNC Start=1736781>Eh, this stuff is competent, but it gets old.
<SYNC Start=1739781>I would've been happy getting rid of these tracks altogether.
<SYNC Start=1742781>Finally, there's music like on the streets, where it half has a beat
<SYNC Start=1746581>and half sounds like someone is tripping over their instruments.
<SYNC Start=1749880>[amelodic jazz] [Normality OST - XSTREET]
<SYNC Start=1757781>I'm sure there are more games with this sort of thing,
<SYNC Start=1760081>but two that come to mind are Boppin' and Earthbound.
<SYNC Start=1763081>Those both have some tracks where it sounds like the song falls apart midway through it.
<SYNC Start=1767581>[Earthbound OST - Battle Against A Weak Opponent]
<SYNC Start=1772081>That mood fits those games, and 100% fits Normality.
<SYNC Start=1775981>Though Normality's breakdowns I think are even a little more dramatic than those.
<SYNC Start=1780481>This honestly borders on whether it's even music or not.
<SYNC Start=1783981>So yeah, the music's good when it's not a kids' cartoon and is actually music.
<SYNC Start=1788909> 
<SYNC Start=1789530>Back to the Resistance, they're happy to see me, since I'm the only one doing anything.
<SYNC Start=1794180>Besides farting. Somebody's doing plenty of that.
<SYNC Start=1797381>[KENT] Do you think you might discover their secret soon?
<SYNC Start=1800129>It seems a little sinister that no one knows exactly what they do.
<SYNC Start=1803730>[ROSS] And now they want me to infiltrate a maximum security holding facility
<SYNC Start=1807480>to break out the twin brother of the oppressive leader.
<SYNC Start=1810330>Yeah, see, that's Paul, and they want me to rescue Saul, who looks just like him.
<SYNC Start=1814781>Because they think he'll know what the furniture gadgets are about,
<SYNC Start=1817281>even though he's been locked up for 30 years and may have lost his mind.
<SYNC Start=1820880>And to assist me, they refitted the uniform of the security guard with brain damage,
<SYNC Start=1824993> 
<SYNC Start=1824994>so now Kent's dressed like an SS officer.
<SYNC Start=1827480>It mostly involves me just screwing around in a lab, and that's a theme I've been noticing,
<SYNC Start=1832080>where we have our larger objectives, which kind of makes sense,
<SYNC Start=1835430>but how we go about them feels completely aimless.
<SYNC Start=1838430>Like there's an experiment going on some guy who doesn't seem to mind, really.
<SYNC Start=1842730>So I let him go and he freaks out and wrecks everything,
<SYNC Start=1845681>but the supervisor here doesn't react to this at all.
<SYNC Start=1848730>So this is fine.
<SYNC Start=1850230>Cool, so I guess we stuff him in the pneumatic tube, and I guess I'm done here.
<SYNC Start=1855030>I mean, we can also wipe our prints and destroy evidence of our crimes,
<SYNC Start=1859080>which normally I would be all for, but here, I don't see how it matters.
<SYNC Start=1863480>I mean, Kent was already a felon for breaking parole before he even joined the resistance.
<SYNC Start=1868530>Plus, they already know it's him.
<SYNC Start=1870530>You can see his wanted poster when you first enter here.
<SYNC Start=1873730>Finally, I think we're in a regime where 'evidence' or 'guilt' doesn't really matter.
<SYNC Start=1878980>I mean, maybe that matters for lesser crimes, but Kent's an enemy of the state now.
<SYNC Start=1883480>If the leader wants him in prison, then that's kind of the whole story.
<SYNC Start=1887330>Oh, and this may not be obvious,
<SYNC Start=1888930>but I'm genuinely impressed how many video cutscenes there are in this game.
<SYNC Start=1893330>I imagine younger gamers don't even think about this,
<SYNC Start=1895955>but it used to be cinematics were almost like dessert,
<SYNC Start=1898830>because you could never fit that many on a CD,
<SYNC Start=1901330>so developers had to really weigh where they doled them out.
<SYNC Start=1904280>This game is absolutely above average
<SYNC Start=1906533> 
<SYNC Start=1906534>for the quantity of cinematics you could expect at the time,
<SYNC Start=1909533> 
<SYNC Start=1909534>so it's kind of a treat.
<SYNC Start=1911130>Well, on the trail to where the pneumatic tube sent the body,
<SYNC Start=1914030>we head into another elevator, and I think this sign means juggalos are illegal.
<SYNC Start=1919630>An unfortunate but predictable future.
<SYNC Start=1922530>And the elevator stops at some H.R. Giger-designed lair.
<SYNC Start=1926180>This took a tone shift.
<SYNC Start=1927781>I find one of the secret body compartments, but uh-oh,
<SYNC Start=1930200> 
<SYNC Start=1930201>I'm caught by Paul Nystalux himself!
<SYNC Start=1934530>[PAUL] You have screwed up in the most comprehensive manner, Norm.
<SYNC Start=1939783>[ROSS] He's acting totally evil, which I guess is menacing enough,
<SYNC Start=1943781>but this is the first time we're seeing him, and we still don't have any context.
<SYNC Start=1948230>Why is he the leader? Why does he have an evil regime?
<SYNC Start=1951481>What's with his obsession of normality? What happened 40 years ago?
<SYNC Start=1955705>Well, those are all questions to think about in prison, since he throws me in the slammer.
<SYNC Start=1959930>Actually, it's a lot worse than that. This is the worst part of the game by far.
<SYNC Start=1964380>You have about a minute or so,
<SYNC Start=1966006> 
<SYNC Start=1966007>then you're whisked away to the pods you were just at on the other side,
<SYNC Start=1969500> 
<SYNC Start=1969501>while you're brainwashed slowly.
<SYNC Start=1971330>Then you're thrown back into a new prison cell,
<SYNC Start=1974413> 
<SYNC Start=1974414>that looks almost the same as the old one, then it happens again.
<SYNC Start=1978230>Brainwashed again, then a third cell.
<SYNC Start=1981605>Then, you guessed it, brainwashed.
<SYNC Start=1984530>Then the cycle starts all over.
<SYNC Start=1986680>Now you can't fail this part,
<SYNC Start=1988746> 
<SYNC Start=1988747>but you're on a timer and have to solve puzzles in all three segments.
<SYNC Start=1992630>And if you run out of time, then you have to start all over until you loop back again.
<SYNC Start=1997230>Unless you've already solved the segment.
<SYNC Start=1999730>Then, you just have to wait.
<SYNC Start=2001580>You just have to sit in prison like the real thing.
<SYNC Start=2004880>I don't need this simulated in a game. This part is getting too real for me.
<SYNC Start=2009830>Ugh, I'm gonna get sick like this. Am I supposed to do something here?
<SYNC Start=2014580>Who knows? Time's up. Back to prison.
<SYNC Start=2017330>You are supposed to break the benches,
<SYNC Start=2019543>since each of them contain the ominous gadgets.
<SYNC Start=2022230>And you have to collect all of them before you can leave.
<SYNC Start=2024930>But why? We already had access to plenty of them earlier.
<SYNC Start=2028880>I feel like I'm missing so many pieces of the story here, and I'm not rushing.
<SYNC Start=2033180>I'm looking for the answers.
<SYNC Start=2035080>Oh God, Kent's brain is really getting scrambled.
<SYNC Start=2038280>Either that or this is a bug. It's misery either way.
<SYNC Start=2042030>Well, after getting all three gadgets,
<SYNC Start=2044100> 
<SYNC Start=2044101>we have to communicate with Saul in the other tube.
<SYNC Start=2046780>Ugh. He wrote us a note, if I can read it.
<SYNC Start=2050280>Oh, he wants me to grab a fourth gadget. Why?
<SYNC Start=2053905>Well, we ask to be escorted to the bathroom and have to find the gadget,
<SYNC Start=2057130>since it's allegedly stashed here somewhere.
<SYNC Start=2059930>No, Kent, it's not there. Kent, what the hell are you doing?
<SYNC Start=2063630>Getting ready for a big date?
<SYNC Start=2065830>Kent, that is nasty! What the hell's wrong with you? Kent's like a dog.
<SYNC Start=2070230>He might've ended up in prison even without this regime.
<SYNC Start=2073230>Okay, there's the gadget in the toilet.
<SYNC Start=2076030>Then the guard takes us back and...
<SYNC Start=2078363> 
<SYNC Start=2079255>And...?!
<SYNC Start=2080600> 
<SYNC Start=2080601>No, come on, game. Stop doing this to me.
<SYNC Start=2083730>Ah, back in the tubes.
<SYNC Start=2086030>This is the worst distortion so far!
<SYNC Start=2088780>Do they want me to puke?
<SYNC Start=2090680>Oh, everything's on fire and the tubes are shattered.
<SYNC Start=2094008> 
<SYNC Start=2094080>What?
<SYNC Start=2095280> 
<SYNC Start=2095430>Well, that was fortuitous.
<SYNC Start=2097533> 
<SYNC Start=2098230>You might think I cut some pivotal scene, but I swear I didn't.
<SYNC Start=2101880>I'm as confused as you are.
<SYNC Start=2103530>[shouting]
<SYNC Start=2106381>All right, Dai is waiting for us in his window-cleaning lift.
<SYNC Start=2109381> 
<SYNC Start=2110766>OH SHIT!
<SYNC Start=2111966> 
<SYNC Start=2113166>Whoa, what?
<SYNC Start=2114366> 
<SYNC Start=2115181>Wha--?
<SYNC Start=2116130> 
<SYNC Start=2118286>[DAI] Leave me, Kent. I'm old. We got what we came for. Now go!
<SYNC Start=2124240>[ROSS] Oh, the noble death. Lame!
<SYNC Start=2127530>Although, to be fair, his name was 'die'.
<SYNC Start=2130430>Then bam, we're back at headquarters and everything's fine.
<SYNC Start=2133530>But--whoa, whoa! Let's back up.
<SYNC Start=2136230>How the hell did Dai even get up there?
<SYNC Start=2138505>It makes sense when he has a lift next to a flat vertical building.
<SYNC Start=2142380>But look at this thing! It's at multiple angles!
<SYNC Start=2145380>I have no idea how you would even get that up there without a crane.
<SYNC Start=2149030>Does his lift fly?
<SYNC Start=2150880>I do think we have a missed opportunity with Dai's death, though.
<SYNC Start=2154380>I wanted some dialogue options here.
<SYNC Start=2156680>I wanted his last moments alive to be of Kent hovering over him in an SS uniform,
<SYNC Start=2161730>saying, "Sorry you're dying, but you're still wrong,"
<SYNC Start=2164530>"there's no such thing as the sun."
<SYNC Start=2166530>That would be the right note to end things on.
<SYNC Start=2168680>Oh well. A fat old man flying up here
<SYNC Start=2171333> 
<SYNC Start=2171334>is as close as we're gonna get to Santa in this game,
<SYNC Start=2173880>and now he's dead.
<SYNC Start=2175380>Back at the base...
<SYNC Start=2176730>Wow, this looks like something resembling a lab.
<SYNC Start=2179430>So wait, the game's making it out like Heather is a scientist now.
<SYNC Start=2182880>I assumed she was a homeless aerobics instructor.
<SYNC Start=2185830>[KENT] He told us to go on without him.
<SYNC Start=2187599>[HEATHER] No matter. He is our cause's first martyr.
<SYNC Start=2190629>We must turn to Saul for our guidance now,
<SYNC Start=2193366> 
<SYNC Start=2193367>while Brian composes our anthem of triumph and loss.
<SYNC Start=2197163>[ROSS] This is getting a little culty, but Saul does have some answers for us.
<SYNC Start=2201380>[SAUL] I created a terrible machine.
<SYNC Start=2204530>A machine which sucks out people's ideas and free will,
<SYNC Start=2209033> 
<SYNC Start=2209034>and stores it for later inspection.
<SYNC Start=2211680>From what Kent has told me,
<SYNC Start=2213833> 
<SYNC Start=2213834>I would guess there is one of these gizmos in every piece of furniture in the city.
<SYNC Start=2219681>People are drained as they sit at work or in front of the TV.
<SYNC Start=2224381>The data then goes through one of the mood filters, like the one we were in, Kent.
<SYNC Start=2230330>Then it is sent on to the Mood Magnet proper, a machine too complicated to recreate.
<SYNC Start=2236422>[ROSS] Oh, so this is basically the plot of Batman Forever.
<SYNC Start=2239730>The devices in the furniture are draining everyone and siphoning off their thoughts,
<SYNC Start=2243955>but it turns out if you have a piece of metal lodged in your body, you're immune.
<SYNC Start=2247830>Hence why everyone here is unaffected.
<SYNC Start=2250230>I guess what I'm confused on is in Batman Forever,
<SYNC Start=2252846> 
<SYNC Start=2252847>all that information was getting absorbed by the Riddler.
<SYNC Start=2255530>But here, it's going to the Mood Magnet.
<SYNC Start=2258030>Okay, well then what? What's that do?
<SYNC Start=2261080>Well, I don't get an answer, but now they want me to blow up a transformer station
<SYNC Start=2264566> 
<SYNC Start=2264567>which will weaken the Mood Magnet or something.
<SYNC Start=2266880>That's fine. I don't really need a reason to blow something up.
<SYNC Start=2270080>Oh yeah, I wanted to come back to that.
<SYNC Start=2272230>I don't think the game is going in this direction, but it could have.
<SYNC Start=2276080>Remember that note at the beginning?
<SYNC Start=2278380>That was probably from Saul, even though he was locked up,
<SYNC Start=2281453> 
<SYNC Start=2281454>but that could have been a trap.
<SYNC Start=2283230>That's one of the lessons of 1984; is to have avenues of resistance built into the system
<SYNC Start=2288505>to catch the minority who would rebel.
<SYNC Start=2291230>But, since I'm being asked to blow up infrastructure
<SYNC Start=2293994>and everyone involved is barely functional,
<SYNC Start=2296380>this is sounding like the real deal.
<SYNC Start=2298230>Another thought I've been having is, I have to wonder
<SYNC Start=2300466> 
<SYNC Start=2300467>how much the obsession with normality is the goal,
<SYNC Start=2303180>and how much of it is a diversion.
<SYNC Start=2305105>I mean, this feels like a failing state. Kent's neighborhood is dilapidated.
<SYNC Start=2309380>I've been talking over it, but when you're out on the street,
<SYNC Start=2311660> 
<SYNC Start=2311661>you hear police sirens constantly.
<SYNC Start=2313730>[sirens, dog bark, rat squeaks]
<SYNC Start=2318180>There was the strike at the factory earlier.
<SYNC Start=2320630>The sky is polluted.
<SYNC Start=2322155>The water is polluted.
<SYNC Start=2323680>This is all coming apart.
<SYNC Start=2325430>So if the state is failing and Paul doesn't know how to fix it,
<SYNC Start=2328630>cracking down on abnormality is a way to get everyone focused on that instead.
<SYNC Start=2333430>Or rather, it would be, except Paul actually does have mind control powers.
<SYNC Start=2337930>So that changes the dynamics some.
<SYNC Start=2340130>Ah, the TV store is open.
<SYNC Start=2342080>[KENT] I've seen sad old men standing here watching these for hours.
<SYNC Start=2345489>[ROSS] Man, this game has good writing when it has context.
<SYNC Start=2349205>Well, best I can tell, the only thing on TV is the news and monster truck rallies.
<SYNC Start=2353980>Yeah, I could see that being enough for a lot of people.
<SYNC Start=2356680>[KENT] Monster trucks again? Isn't there anything else to watch?
<SYNC Start=2360650>[ROSS] Kent would've liked MTV in the '90s.
<SYNC Start=2363380>I like this wallpaper.
<SYNC Start=2365030>[KENT] Can I buy one of your TVs, please?
<SYNC Start=2367027>[SALESMAN] If you must!
<SYNC Start=2368233>[KENT] You don't seem very motivated, considering it's your job.
<SYNC Start=2371602>[SALESMAN] What's that got to do with it?
<SYNC Start=2373267>[KENT] A pleasant sales manner makes a happy customer.
<SYNC Start=2376760>[SALESMAN] Why do I care about happy customers?
<SYNC Start=2379181>[KENT] So they'll come into your dumb store again!
<SYNC Start=2381422>[SALESMAN] No one ever buys a second TV.
<SYNC Start=2383888>[KENT] Suit yourself. Are you gonna sell me one or not?
<SYNC Start=2386849>[SALESMAN] Only if you show me your cash.
<SYNC Start=2389153>[KENT] Ah!
<SYNC Start=2390433>[SALESMAN] Go away and let me watch TV.
<SYNC Start=2392718>[KENT] Do you have a remote for this TV so I can try it out?
<SYNC Start=2395429>[SALESMAN] Why? It works. Can't you see that?
<SYNC Start=2397986>[KENT] But I want to try the other channels.
<SYNC Start=2399913>[SALESMAN] What for?! Oh, never mind...
<SYNC Start=2402506>[ROSS] Wow, this might be the most sci-fi aspect in the entire game.
<SYNC Start=2406530>This sounds like a world without planned obsolescence.
<SYNC Start=2410381>The salesman doesn't give a damn about anything,
<SYNC Start=2412581>since people just buy TVs once, then don't come back.
<SYNC Start=2415930>Yet, he's still in business.
<SYNC Start=2417955>Well the intro did say this used to be a utopia before it went bad.
<SYNC Start=2421800> 
<SYNC Start=2421801>Maybe there's still remnants of that.
<SYNC Start=2423780>It makes me wonder how necessary jobs are.
<SYNC Start=2426680>I mean, Kent has given no indicator he's employed.
<SYNC Start=2429730>Maybe his apartment was provided by the state.
<SYNC Start=2432080>I haven't seen one homeless person on the street.
<SYNC Start=2435130>Maybe people have guaranteed housing.
<SYNC Start=2437230>I mean, if your needs are getting met, you don't have to sell crap to infinity.
<SYNC Start=2441481>But yeah, the concept of companies not designing things to break
<SYNC Start=2445381>so they can resell you the same thing over and over
<SYNC Start=2448230>feels more alien to me than anything else in this game.
<SYNC Start=2451330>I could go on a rant on that, but the short version is:
<SYNC Start=2454100> 
<SYNC Start=2454101>planned obsolescence means we're never gonna make it to the stars.
<SYNC Start=2457355>We're still gonna be back here picking up turds.
<SYNC Start=2460230>Back to the game, the transformer station was next to the TV store.
<SYNC Start=2464330>We've got the executed teddy bear. Let's do this.
<SYNC Start=2467630>Set it to detonate?
<SYNC Start=2469181>Uh-oh! Kent's locked in!
<SYNC Start=2471581>Clock's ticking, Kent!
<SYNC Start=2473581>TIME TO DIE, KENT!
<SYNC Start=2475655>[explosion]
<SYNC Start=2477581>Nah, he's fine, since he's a cartoon.
<SYNC Start=2479905>I can't say the same for anyone else, though.
<SYNC Start=2482530>The seller was in the back when this happened.
<SYNC Start=2484980>No way he's alive.
<SYNC Start=2486580>Though, there's probably not even a body left.
<SYNC Start=2489130>Whoa, what's that?
<SYNC Start=2490655>Okay, you might think that's the ghost of the store seller, but no.
<SYNC Start=2494380>That's the anchorman from the news.
<SYNC Start=2496281>And his ghost is in heaven now?
<SYNC Start=2498455>I don't know. Not everything needs an answer.
<SYNC Start=2501230>I think it's safe to call Kent a murderer at this point, though.
<SYNC Start=2504381>[KENT] It's a Norm Trooper's truck.
<SYNC Start=2506525>I reckon they have a prisoner in the back of it.
<SYNC Start=2508921>[ROSS] Ah, that's convenient.
<SYNC Start=2511081>Well, let's gas 'em.
<SYNC Start=2512681> 
<SYNC Start=2513680>That oughta do it.
<SYNC Start=2515280> 
<SYNC Start=2517633>Oh, okay, they ran off.
<SYNC Start=2519313> 
<SYNC Start=2519581>So Kent won't be upping his kill count.
<SYNC Start=2521981>And inside is...
<SYNC Start=2524280> 
<SYNC Start=2524281>What the hell?
<SYNC Start=2525681>You died!
<SYNC Start=2527081>[KENT] Hey, Dai, great to see ya! How are ya?
<SYNC Start=2529881>[DAI] A bit shaky, son.
<SYNC Start=2531402>[ROSS] Yeah, I bet!
<SYNC Start=2532881>Well, I'm not complaining.
<SYNC Start=2534481>I mean, I thought the noble death thing was stupid in the first place.
<SYNC Start=2538081>It was a tired cliché even back when this game was made.
<SYNC Start=2542130>But God knows how many games I've seen with it now.
<SYNC Start=2545081>There's too many writers that just can't get enough of it.
<SYNC Start=2547830>Though, on the other hand, that shot didn't look like a joke.
<SYNC Start=2551030>So it's a little unsatisfying seeing him bounce back from that
<SYNC Start=2553800> 
<SYNC Start=2553801>unless he was laid up for months first.
<SYNC Start=2556181>Well, as many radicals discover,
<SYNC Start=2558281>it turns out blowing up the power station didn't solve all our problems.
<SYNC Start=2562481>And Saul is starting to go crazy from having spent so much time in the brainwashing tank.
<SYNC Start=2567181>But Heather here needs me to grab supplies
<SYNC Start=2569381>so she can make a missile to blow up the Pollutotron,
<SYNC Start=2572581>which was the place we were just at, apparently, where Dai got shot.
<SYNC Start=2576081>It's mostly just a long supply run.
<SYNC Start=2578381>Some highlights are revisiting the mall.
<SYNC Start=2580881>This place is so trash now.
<SYNC Start=2583381>It was already a dying mall,
<SYNC Start=2585500> 
<SYNC Start=2585501>but Kent plunged a sword into its feeble beating heart.
<SYNC Start=2589681>It is pretty awesome that outside they have fireworks going off inside the skybox.
<SYNC Start=2594581>You really get the impression they were leveraging
<SYNC Start=2596600> 
<SYNC Start=2596601>the 3D engine as much as they could.
<SYNC Start=2599081>Kent also triples down on being a cartoon by using an acetylene torch on a propane tank.
<SYNC Start=2604881>[explosion]
<SYNC Start=2605981>Yeah, this is Looney Tunes.
<SYNC Start=2607881>They would have to change the rating of the game to show this accurately.
<SYNC Start=2611505>It would just be a red paste.
<SYNC Start=2613630>Time to fire the missile!
<SYNC Start=2615881>Man, this is a real homemade revolution, huh?
<SYNC Start=2618581> 
<SYNC Start=2623481>Well, that's not a very big explosion,
<SYNC Start=2625781>but the game feels like it's on the border of just making everything up now,
<SYNC Start=2629381>so that's all it takes to clear up decades worth of atmospheric pollution.
<SYNC Start=2633130>So bad news, Kent; the sun does exist.
<SYNC Start=2636381>[SAUL] I have a backup of my mind in my labs.
<SYNC Start=2639116>[ROSS] What?
<SYNC Start=2640466>[SAUL] It will be somewhere under the stadium. Someone must go and get it.
<SYNC Start=2643851>[ROSS] So I need to go under the stadium to find his backup brain?
<SYNC Start=2647881>What does that even mean?
<SYNC Start=2649381>[HEATHER] Oh, could you take Brian's guitar with you? He made it himself.
<SYNC Start=2652633> 
<SYNC Start=2652634>[ROSS] What?
<SYNC Start=2653366> 
<SYNC Start=2653367>[HEATHER] He needs it smuggling onto the stage from beneath.
<SYNC Start=2655033> 
<SYNC Start=2655034>[ROSS] Why?
<SYNC Start=2656234> 
<SYNC Start=2656530>So, here we are at the stadium!
<SYNC Start=2658955>But the guards won't let me in.
<SYNC Start=2660730>But look! Switches!
<SYNC Start=2662730>What happens if we press the switch?
<SYNC Start=2665981>The guards take off running!
<SYNC Start=2667855>I swear, I'm not cutting anything here!
<SYNC Start=2670388> 
<SYNC Start=2671230>I mean, what...
<SYNC Start=2672430> 
<SYNC Start=2673021>Well, it wasn't a hard puzzle to solve, exactly,
<SYNC Start=2676029> 
<SYNC Start=2676030>but that's the logic I'm seeing in this game more and more.
<SYNC Start=2679081>In the stadium, all your confederates are in disguise,
<SYNC Start=2681930>although the brain-damaged guard has less to work with.
<SYNC Start=2684781>I'm still not clear on what the plan is, other than "confront Paul".
<SYNC Start=2688681>What's to stop him from just having a bunch of guards
<SYNC Start=2691000> 
<SYNC Start=2691001>beat the crap out of us and haul us off?
<SYNC Start=2693455>Now, I was going to complain that none of them are helping me,
<SYNC Start=2696133> 
<SYNC Start=2696134>but they mostly have good excuses.
<SYNC Start=2698581>He's brain-damaged,
<SYNC Start=2700046> 
<SYNC Start=2700047>he's brain-damaged,
<SYNC Start=2701560> 
<SYNC Start=2701561>he's been shot,
<SYNC Start=2702900> 
<SYNC Start=2702901>the game kind of established he's a coward,
<SYNC Start=2705381>and she's the remaining brains of the operation.
<SYNC Start=2707930>So, it really does have to be me.
<SYNC Start=2709930>So on to the sewers!
<SYNC Start=2711981>I mean, this is a '90s 3D game, so this is mandatory.
<SYNC Start=2716030>It contains the usual.
<SYNC Start=2717605>Alligators, rats, teenage mutant ninja turds, hallucinations...
<SYNC Start=2722681>Yep, yep. Yellow submarine.
<SYNC Start=2725481>Okay, I'm pretty sure at least one of the developers has taken LSD before.
<SYNC Start=2729981>And in classic adventure game fashion,
<SYNC Start=2732830>I have a hammer that is completely useless for this part.
<SYNC Start=2736381>Oh, a hollow-sounding wall!
<SYNC Start=2738781>Of course you can't use a hammer!
<SYNC Start=2740981>A few boards blocking you?
<SYNC Start=2742881>Why would you use a hammer on that?
<SYNC Start=2744981>Because the answer to everything is Brian's guitar.
<SYNC Start=2748030>Yeah, smash down a wall with it.
<SYNC Start=2750163> 
<SYNC Start=2751766>Smash another wall!
<SYNC Start=2753530>Pry steel bars open with it!
<SYNC Start=2756405>Adventure games!
<SYNC Start=2757981>At first, I thought this was just Kent being a jackass again, and he kind of is,
<SYNC Start=2762581>but listen to what he says after damaging it the first time.
<SYNC Start=2765755>[KENT] I slightly damaged it somehow. I don't think he'll notice.
<SYNC Start=2769811>[ROSS] Yeah, this somehow got scratched.
<SYNC Start=2772581>So he's not trying to be a prick,
<SYNC Start=2774981>he's just a friggin' caveman that processes one thought at a time,
<SYNC Start=2779081>then discovers the consequences of his actions after the fact.
<SYNC Start=2782581>I've known people like Kent before.
<SYNC Start=2784630>Well, we find the secret lab, find the backup brain,
<SYNC Start=2788633> 
<SYNC Start=2788634>it hops into the protective suit,
<SYNC Start=2790681>then off we go to the secret elevator to defeat Paul, I guess?
<SYNC Start=2794681>I don't know. I don't know what the hell we're doing.
<SYNC Start=2798009> 
<SYNC Start=2799266>You know, I would be fine if this is how we defeat Paul.
<SYNC Start=2802081>Just "Whoops! Slipped on an elevator." The end.
<SYNC Start=2805030>Well, that's not too far off.
<SYNC Start=2807081>As I predicted, his thugs immediately grab Kent,
<SYNC Start=2810505>but then the brain plops out onto the ground.
<SYNC Start=2812905>Paul picks it up, Saul starts having a seizure,
<SYNC Start=2816230>Paul starts to throw it like he's making a pass,
<SYNC Start=2818666> 
<SYNC Start=2818667>oh, but it's zapping him!
<SYNC Start=2820430>Saul dies?
<SYNC Start=2821630> 
<SYNC Start=2823666>Oh, huh.
<SYNC Start=2824866> 
<SYNC Start=2825433>What?
<SYNC Start=2826633> 
<SYNC Start=2826855>Oh, I get it. It's like the ending to Scanners.
<SYNC Start=2829630>[CAMERON] It's me, Kim. Cameron. I'm here. We've won.
<SYNC Start=2837372>[ROSS] And I keep saying this, but I'm not cutting any pivotal scenes here.
<SYNC Start=2841905>I feel like there was more story here,
<SYNC Start=2843681>but the game had to get rushed out the door, and this is what we got instead.
<SYNC Start=2847280>But to make up for it, we get a long cutscene where everybody starts dancing.
<SYNC Start=2852144>[Normality OST - Dance]
<SYNC Start=2853473>Honestly, this isn't the worst way to end a game.
<SYNC Start=2856281>Hey, it worked for Deus Ex!
<SYNC Start=2858081>[Deus Ex OST - DX Club Mix]
<SYNC Start=2864580>Even if the narrative is as whack-ass as everything else,
<SYNC Start=2867681>I appreciate that they're making it feel like a good ending.
<SYNC Start=2870881>And I think Kent comes from the Beavis and Butthead school of dance.
<SYNC Start=2875169> 
<SYNC Start=2875566>I like incarnated Saul's chicken dance in the background there, too.
<SYNC Start=2879281>So what to say about Normality?
<SYNC Start=2881430>I feel like this was the second best I can hope
<SYNC Start=2883683>for when diving into something old and obscure.
<SYNC Start=2886280>I mentioned before, old games off the beaten path
<SYNC Start=2888881>almost always have something wrong with them.
<SYNC Start=2891181>The question is how much.
<SYNC Start=2893105>So this being a solid experience from beginning to end was never an option.
<SYNC Start=2897681>Outside of the prison sequence,
<SYNC Start=2899533> 
<SYNC Start=2899534>because God I hated that part,
<SYNC Start=2901766> 
<SYNC Start=2901767>I'd say the main things wrong with the game
<SYNC Start=2903566> 
<SYNC Start=2903567>are that it has typical '90s adventure gameplay,
<SYNC Start=2906181>which is sort of a sin in itself nowadays,
<SYNC Start=2909066> 
<SYNC Start=2909067>and it just feels like too much was cut.
<SYNC Start=2911281>It was also a little too goofy for my taste, but only a little bit.
<SYNC Start=2915081>Everything else was solid.
<SYNC Start=2917030>It felt fresh in a way many other games do not.
<SYNC Start=2920181>It really just needed to be bigger and have more modern game design.
<SYNC Start=2923781>And I mean that literally,
<SYNC Start=2925181>since "modern game design" can be kind of a derogatory term these days,
<SYNC Start=2929181>I just mean better controls, less bullshit puzzles and design, that sort of thing.
<SYNC Start=2933955>That's the episode!
<SYNC Start=2935281>I-- Oh wait, we have a kicker!
<SYNC Start=2937705>Oh, who is that? Did I see him earlier?
<SYNC Start=2940205>You don't forget eyes like that.
<SYNC Start=2941980>He kind of looks like a serial killer, but a fun one.
<SYNC Start=2945081>Yeah, I appreciate endings that have a long burn and falling action to them.
<SYNC Start=2949180>Once again, this game gets it.
<SYNC Start=2951730>I hadn't thought of that;
<SYNC Start=2953230>Kent has a party pad, since it can't be ruined.
<SYNC Start=2956455>Oh, what's this?
<SYNC Start=2957735> 
<SYNC Start=2958080>Something's happening!
<SYNC Start=2959481>What's happening?
<SYNC Start=2960841> 
<SYNC Start=2962933>The end.
<SYNC Start=2964230>Alright, Merry Christmas.
<SYNC Start=2966080>[Normality OST- DAI]
<SYNC Start=2978300> 
<SYNC Start=2979466>[rising ominous drone]
<SYNC Start=2988066> 
</BODY>
</SAMI>

danielsangeo · Friday at 04:51 AM

Subs up!

mrglanet · 2026-01-31T13:33:10Z

Ugh, there are some mistakes here. I feel like I should review subs before they get published lol

1:20 - "I think it would get corrupted..."

1:38 - "DOWN ON THE GROUND"

2:17 - After "I guess", make the . into a - since it goes into a side comment

2:24-2:29 - Instead of there being nothing, it should have Norm's subtitle in there (in case people want to translate these subs or auto-translate on YT) - [NORM] If that TV isn't on 24 hours a day, I'm coming in after you!

4:06 - Add a ? to the end with the !, since it is a question

4:10 - Formatting error. There's no color indicating Norm.

8:22 - "Coffee, milk, quickly!"

18:38 - "Crawl to the ventilation shaft"

24:40-25:11 - Formatting (lack of color) errors with Dai's dialogue

32:10 - Sub timing error. Should start 1 second later at 32:11 ["I'm caught by..." starts too early, and the previous sub ends too early]

47:10 - Sub timing error. Should start 1 second later
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Edited yesterday at 01:35 PM by mrglanet (see edit history)

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