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Mokinokaro posted:THIS CAN CONTINUE THEORY: CAT IS A FLUID THAT WILL FLOW TO FILL SPACE: DEPLOY THIRD CAT
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The stubbies are all too adorable to kill. Sadly, it appears that cuteness is not justice.
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 Episode XCVIII: Rapid Reentry .jpg)  ...... How do I tell 2B?Err... 9S, I don’t think that was meant to be a secret you start gabbing with at the water cooler with your co-workers or posting on the YoRHa IRC channel. That seemed like information the Commander barely trusted giving you to mull over and blabbing it to your friends seems like a good way for her to order you be shoved you out an airlock. Loose lips sink ships, 9S. Bes— .jpg) Wait, there’s colors allowed in space? Or at least, only the color red. Is that good...? Red usually doesn’t mean a good thing. Also there’s alarms sounding and that is often accompanied by less than stellar news... But what do I know of color coordination of the extremely distant future? I’m part of an extinct race. Clearly my knowledge was lacking. .jpg)  All YoRHa members are to report to combat stations immediately. Repeat. Emergency Protocol, code F2. All YoRHa members are to report to combat stations immediately. Combat stations? I’d better get a move on..jpg)  Alert: Mission orders received. Rendezvous and support unit 2B near the Resistance camp. Any details? Large numbers of machine lifeforms are rampaging through the city ruins. What? How? They’re supposed to be weakened... Cause unknown. Goliath-class enemies also confirmed. Immediate action advised. .jpg) Nameless YoRHa members are busy running around in a panic as the alert siren continues. We’re not downloading to a body back on Earth. 9S is going upstairs to grab himself yet another multi-billion G flight unit to trash.  Contact from Command. Alert status raised to Level 4. Repeat. Alert status raised to Level 4. All units currently on standby must be put into a launchable state as soon as possible. .jpg) 9S’s Flight Unit is already prepped and ready to launch. Just a matter of climbing in and blasting off the Bunker. At least if the drat platform was clear... Hey, hologram ghost girl, could you clear out of the way? We’ve kinda got an emergency going on here! Scram! .jpg) ...... .jpg) ...Wait, what? .jpg) Alert: All communication are currently being jammed. We’d better hurry... Music: Grandma (Destruction - Vocal) .jpg) So a couple things here: yes, 9S is on the wrong side of the planet. He was in a space station. It’s not like it was locked in geosynchronous orbit over Japan since... the planet doesn’t spin anymore, that’d be real difficult. If you rotate a globe up the Y-axis in the direction he’s heading, after he passes the top of the planet, he’s heading straight towards Japan where the game clearly takes place despite the series never wanting to actually commit to outright saying so. .jpg) Secondly: yeah they totally hosed up having a sun reflection on this side of the planet since it’s supposed to be eternally darkness in this hemisphere. Let’s just call it artist license to have a cool sequence of zooming down to earth on a flight unit. .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) An entirely unremarkable shmup section awaits as we enter the atmosphere. It’s just a handful of the usual small flyer enemies that 9S immediately dispatches. Fun fact: This is actually one of the last shmup sections in the game. I guess they realized everyone was kind of sick of them following the Grün rematch because this mini-game gets put in time out for a good long time in Route C. .jpg) .jpg) As soon as we break cloud cover, 9S has already made it back to the outskirts of the City Ruins and immediately comes face-to-face with a Goliath Flyer. .jpg) .jpg) Bitch, please. We ain’t got time for your barely qualifying as a mid-boss nonsense. 2B is in trouble. Outta the way! Pod 153 doesn’t even have time to properly announce the Goliath-Flyer’s presence before it’s already been annihilated.  2B’s black box signal detected nearby. She is likely engaged in combat. .jpg) Welp! Only one thing to do in this situation! Aim right for the hostile at full speed, bail out at the last second and hope for the best. .jpg) .jpg) Yep. 9S’s flight unit wasn’t damaged or anything. It was working perfectly fine. This was literally his Plan A after roughly 2.8 seconds of knowing 2B’s location and hearing she was engaged with an enemy. Music: ENDS  In Route C, the game becomes a courtroom drama in which 9S is court martialed for repeated reckless destruction of YoRHa military property. It’s an open and shut case as footage of this boneheaded rear end display is just looped on repeat over the Command Room Jumbo Tron. The remainder of the game plays out in Robo Prison. It gets weird. .jpg)  You okay!? Good thing I... landed that direct... hit... Was your flight unit damaged on the way here? drat... We could have used its support. Umm... yeah... Yep. Took some fire on the descent... Darn machines— Nobody stops the kill train! Nobody stops the kill train! NOBODY STOPS! Uh-oh....jpg) .jpg) .jpg) This all plays out exactly the same. All remaining machines in the area converge on the Eve and the wreckage of Boku-Shi to form Knack the angry trash ball. .jpg) Music: Dependent Weakling (Instrumental) .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) This fight also goes identical to Route A’s version of events. 9S’s hacking is useless here since the garbage ball is extremely resistant to any attempts and the amount of damage dealt isn’t worth it at all versus concentrated Pod fire and poking it with sticks. Music: ENDS .jpg) .jpg) Things move right along to the next phase of the trash snake. I’d ask what the hell happened to Eve considering he was riding on the first debris ball mid-boss. Then I remembered the guy can literally teleport at will and I suppose that’s a stupid question to wonder why he’d vanished. Music: The Sound of the End (Vocal) .jpg) What do we do? There’s too many! Are any other YoRHa units coming for backup? The entire Bunker was on alert. But I think machines everywhere are going berserk right now, so... So that’s a no... ...I mean, you’ve at least got me! <sigh> Yeah... Story of my career.Pascal phones up as soon as we head in the direction of the trash snake. .jpg)  2B, can you hear me? It’s uhh... it’s 9S, actually. <leans forward> Oh yes, I’m sorry. I see that now. Forgive me, all of you androids look the same at a glance... ...... Our village is under—AAAAAHHH! <crackle and disconnect> Pascal! Come in, Pascal! poo poo....jpg) There’s still a ton of rampaging machines between us and the side entrance to Pascal’s Village. It’s best to keep our distance since all of them just start emitting an electrical AOE attack if the androids approach remotely close to them. .jpg) As before, a bunch of rowdy lads are trying to start poo poo with the Machine Village and are too dumb to just climb over a few things of twisted metal or just walk around the cliff edge to circumvent it. As 9S and 2B go to work on the hostiles, Pascal phones up again. .jpg) What did you androids DO?! I’m getting reports of rampaging machines... eating androids? I didn’t even know the newer generation of machines had mouths. ...Wait, what?! Yeah... it was this whole thing back at the camp... I’ll fill you in later... We’ve sealed off the entrance to the village and are trying to hold them off. If you all could handle the ones near the City Ruins, you’d be doing me a real favor..jpg) Already on it. Mhm. You androids are always so reliable for that one particular thing... What’s that supposed to mean? Another attack wave! Apologies, I have to go. <disconnects> .......jpg) .jpg) .jpg) Once the machines pounding on the Machine Village gates are sorted out, the trash snake erupts to the ground for a repeat of this awful battle. Again, 9S’s hacking is worthless. Doubly so here since the core just shrugs off hacking damage and the rest of the snake is just a machine corpse meat shield for the core. .jpg) Actually, refight was way more difficult for me than the first go around because some random idiot moose decided it wanted to wander into the battlefield to see what all the fuss was about and 9S’s lock-on capabilities insisted that the moose was a greater threat than the chaotic whirlwind of anger and rusted metal skittering about the sky. I mean, it’s not wrong. But still. Annoying. .jpg) .jpg) Eventually, 9S is able to shatter the core of Knack 2 and put an end to the trash monster threats. Pascal phones up one final time to thank us for our efforts. .jpg) What happened here? The machines on the network are, to borrow an apt ancient human phrase, SUPER pissed. The unit presiding over them may have gone mad. I couldn’t tell you as to why. It’s Eve. It’s got to be. I may have disemboweled his brother. <rub area between eyes> ...That would likely do it. If we destroy this presiding unit, will it stop the rest? Most likely, yes... Though, I ask you do not hold me to that one... Pod, I need you to locate Eve’s current position.  Location has been detected and placed on map. We’ll gank that guy too. You just worry about keeping the village safe, okay? Do be careful!Music: The Sound of the End (Quiet) .jpg) Back we go, way down in the hole... .jpg) Mi hermano... Hermano... What is this? Fratello... Aniki... Frère... Bruder... He’s spamming every channel like this. My HUD is getting filled up with these pop-ups. I think all of these transmissions are making the machines go haywire. We need to go kill that guy. This sucks. Agreed..jpg)  <screams> Now what?Music: ENDS .jpg) There’s no last minute changes here. The final boss of Route B is still gonna be Eve. We find him chilling out in the middle of the City Ruins crater just as we previously did... .jpg) .jpg) I learned about this thing called “nihilism” when reading about something called a Japanese Role Playing Game. There’s some good ideas there. I know you two feel the same way. .jpg) Nope... Not really. Oh... Is that right? The other neat part about this nihilism thing is what you think is meaningless too... As far as I’m concerned, my brother... was everything....jpg)  And now... EVERYTHING MUST DIE! WELCOME TO DIE!.jpg) Tune in next time for the final battle of NieR: Automata’s Route B as the rematch against Schwarz Bruder commences.    Video: Episode 98 Highlight Reel (You should at least watch the beginning of this.)   2B Early Concept Art – Learning that Akihiko Yoshida, the character designer for the original Final Fantasy Tactics featuring bubble butt Ramza Beoulve and Vagrant Story featuring assless chaps sporting Ashley Riot, designed 2B suddenly makes her design make a lot more sense. Dude just loves shapely butts. The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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The Dark Id posted:
Huh, that also explains the lack of nose in the art. Also right on the (non-existent) nose with the concept art image name.
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The Dark Id posted:
I know you like to make silly photoshops and changes in your LP's Id, but you're not the Resident Evil guy anymore, you're the Drakenier guy. Stop referencing that lovely RE movie and stick to the game's script.
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AndwhatIseeisme posted:I know you like to make silly photoshops and changes in your LP's Id, but you're not the Resident Evil guy anymore, you're the Drakenier guy. Stop referencing that lovely RE movie and stick to the game's script. Plus there's a better awful movie to reference.
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The Dark Id posted:Akihiko Yoshida, the character designer for the original Final Fantasy Tactics featuring bubble butt Ramza Beoulve and Vagrant Story featuring assless chaps sporting Ashley Riot, designed 2B suddenly makes her design make a lot more sense. Dude just loves shapely butts. It's not a coincidence that he's notorious for loving thick thighs and booty, regardless of if the character is male or female, booty and thighs for days. It's glorious. Most of his designs are fashion disasters that also end up looking good despite it, but he's probably the best character designer (formerly) S-E ever had and he was criminally underused during his tenure.
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So is the ghost girl something only the player can see as a hint of things to come or can 9S see her because he's a scanner and just hasn't noticed her before? EDIT: And since we're one fight or so from the end of Route B, are there any other appearances in Route B besides the two we've seen? Kavak fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 20:34
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Kavak posted:So is the ghost girl something only the player can see as a hint of things to come or can 9S see her because he's a scanner and just hasn't noticed her before? The first part of your question would be spoilers to answer either way. As for the second, I don't remember any more sightings.
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She's just here because they contracted Monolith for all the giant Emil heads and they insisted to have Alma guest star in N:A, makes sense since she's already used to the whole child murder thing.
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Clearly one or more operators found some human records and came to the conclusion that all military bases needed at least one small ghostly/hologram child. R&D just finished it and they are so proud.The Dark Id posted:all of them just start admitting an electrical AOE attack if the androids approach Second one looks to be "too dumb to just". Not sure if that last one is on purpose or not.
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Is that the same girl we saw after the fight with Adam and Eve in the alien lair? It looks like it could be, but it's hard to tell at that distance.
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are you guys seeing things that arent there?
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Synthbuttrange posted:are you guys seeing things that arent there? Yeah, it doesn't look like anything to me.
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I swear if 9S saw a mouse in his apartment, he'd slam a flight unit into it. If it can't be hacked or crashed into, I don't think he knows what to do!
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All the machines have gone haywire? I guess a lot of them are still connected to the madness network.
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ultrafilter posted:Is that the same girl we saw after the fight with Adam and Eve in the alien lair? It looks like it could be, but it's hard to tell at that distance. Yes.
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Glazius posted:All the machines have gone haywire? I guess a lot of them are still connected to the madness network. Not all the machines, since Pascal's village is alright, but all the machines on the network seem to be having... issues, yes.
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Jet Jaguar posted:I swear if 9S saw a mouse in his apartment, he'd slam a flight unit into it. If it can't be hacked or crashed into, I don't think he knows what to do! Tell the mouse that all his friends call him Nines, and think about how much he wants to **** it?
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Is that girl a lingering Gestalt? Or some kind of hallucination that signals an android "disease," like the logic virus? Hmmmm
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She's a figment of the spirit of lp itself, reminding you that you shouldn't linger on screenshots and replayed videos over and over again to try to find things that were only supposed to appear for a split second
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Episode XCVIII-2: Online Housing Crisis.jpg) Music: Dependent Weakling  Why are you going after 9S, Eve? All he did was get kidnapped and his brain messed with by your weird creep of a brother. The whole murder part was all 2B. Granted, it was to save 9S, so I guess there’s partial fault there... But that’s basically victim blaming and that’s always a hosed up thing to do, guy. .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) The battle against Eve is 100% exactly the same as it was the first go around. At least in his first form. Eve is not immune to hacking in this stage. But it’s inefficient to go through the moderate difficulty configuration of the mini-games versus just concentrated fire and punching him a bunch while he has his tantrum. Once more, when we mostly drain his HP... .jpg) Is that bad? The energy seems to be coming from a large number of linked machine lifeforms. More machines is usually bad... Mhm. He’s absorbing the lifeforce of whatever’s left on the network. Shouldn’t it be like, I dunno, “energy”? Lifeforce seems, eh... weird. Are you really stuck on this right now?.jpg) I’m going to try hacking into Eve and shutting him down! Or... at least stop him from doing all of this. Back me up, 2B! On it. Just be quick about it. I’m not doing an escort mission while fighting a boss..jpg) It’s time for the only new content in this battle. Originally, as 2B we had to hold Eve’s attention for a bit while 9S took forever to hack Eve and yank out his internet cable. This time around, the hack goes much more quickly and we’re brought to... .jpg) New Music: Dependent Weakling (Chiptune) (This is the only time this track ever plays.) .jpg) Well this is a different hacking space than we usually see. They aren’t often big on having more complex terrain than a rogue wall of blocks. .jpg)  GRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!.jpg) But that’s not the only anomaly. Eve has also manifested himself in hacking space and boy, he’s pissed we’re mucking around inside his circuitry. 9S now gets an extra phase to this boss battle taking place entirely in digital space. For being the final boss, Digital Eve has just three fairly simple patterns. One is spamming a spiral of energy orbs in all directions like above. .jpg) The second is a wave of alternating lines of purple and orange orbs as shown here. The final attack phase is just spamming a mess of orange orbs in 9S’s direction. That’s it. That’s all of his patterns. He just cycles through all three of those attacks (usually he’ll do the wave or orange spam with the spiral pattern being every other turn.) .jpg) .jpg) After taking an unspecified amount of damage, the Digital Eve attack barrier will vanish and with him the blocks leading northward. No one stops. Let’s press forward and see what else is ahead. .jpg) Oh, brother... Why...?.jpg) Adam was a weird creeper with an unhealthy obsession about humans. Just be thankful it seems all old porn caches from the 21st century didn’t survive to modern day or else those scenes at the dinner table would take a real turn for the awkward. .jpg) .jpg) Once the second digital Eve is destroyed, another path opens to the north, where he immediately pops up again for another go at it. I bet Adam would be inconsolably bummed out to hear that humans had been extinct before his race even set foot on the planet. Dude would probably stuff himself in a rocket and launch himself to the moon to make doubly sure there weren’t any humans hiding up there. .jpg) Once the next Eve attack barrier is destroyed, the path continues a ways up north and the terrain starts getting a bit... dicey, let’s say. Also... .jpg) Alert: Disruption detected in YoRHa unit 9S’s self-consciousness data. Corruption potential critical. Evacuation recommended. Can’t. Not when I’m this far in!.jpg) Eve isn’t around to attack here. In fact, that last bout was it for him putting up any active defense. It’s just a matter of getting around the corrupt portions of land and smashing through black blocks to advance. It’s a simple but effective visual that things are getting borked in Eve’s headspace land. .jpg) My life was contained in our moments....jpg) .jpg) Immediate evacuation and treatment recommended. Just... a little more... If I can remove Eve’s object control function....jpg) I guess telekinesis is just a function built into higher level machines. I guess Adam did briefly have the Cubemancy before settling on the death match with 2B. Seems like an odd function to have built in to your man-machine interface. Also odd to find here is... .jpg) Music: ENDS .jpg) .jpg) I never disliked fighting. But I didn’t want you to be hurt. And I especially didn’t want to lose you. So let’s... go somewhere quiet. Together. My brother....jpg)  Music: Dependent Weakling .jpg) .jpg) Back in the real world, 2B is having some difficulty containing Eve’s meltdown while 9S is busy blocking internet connections and shutting .exe programs in Eve’s head. But after that scene in Eve’s digital townhouse, I guess 9S’s work is done. .jpg) EEEEEEEEEEVVVVVEEEEEEEEE!!.jpg) .jpg) .jpg) I have no idea how we went from listening to Eve talking to a digital representation of his dead brother in a peaceful house they never had to 9S having duct taped a bunch of scrap metal to his fist to pull off the most shonen anime rear end bullshit in the game. Indeed, I think I have even less idea how that panned out seeing 9S’s half of the battle. .jpg) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!.jpg) <Loving this poo poo intensifies>.jpg) .jpg) 2B, I FRICKED IT! TAG IN!.jpg) Hot swap incoming! Here she comes with a sneaky surprise attack! .jpg) .jpg) Music: ENDS .jpg) 2B and 9S get semi-wrecked by that encounter. I’m really surprised 9S made it through that stunt with his arm intact considering it popped off like a cheap Chinese made action figure to much less force earlier on in the game. .jpg) The Xenosaga Albedo looking prick doesn’t come out quite as unscathed. But that’s OK. We know how this goes and it’s not in his favor. .jpg) Music: The Sound of the End .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) Unfortunately, the actual final phase against Eve is completely identical to the first time around. Only the hacking space was any different. 9S deactivated Eve’s ability to pull a Magneto. But he failed to disable the energy orb function. Nice work, 9S. You had one job! .jpg) .jpg) Not that it’s necessary for this battle since it was already less than difficult. But here’s a fun fact: standing at rough this range and launching missiles will completely stunlock Eve in this phase. Eve can be briefly staggered from taking enough damage and the missile fire, even at Missile Pod Level 1, does just enough damage to do so. At this range, the volley of missile travel time and Eve’s hit recovery almost perfectly line up to prevent him from ever attacking. It’s kinda sad, really. .jpg) .jpg) Of course Eve will eventually get pissed once he reaches 50% HP and unleash a shockwave that destroys 9S and 2B’s karate chop action. .jpg) .jpg) That’s OK. The missile trick still works in this phase, even if 2B and 9S can only slowly limp around the battlefield. No further surprises. This fight is through. .jpg) Tune in next time for the conclusion to Route B of NieR: Automata! The blood moon of Route C looms on the horizon...  Video: Episode 98B Highlight Reel (It’s the final boss. You should probably watch it.)  Adam and Eve Release Lead-up Art – Just two robot bros hanging out. Nothing weird. ***** Note: Ending B will be posted tonight. Try to get to a new page before then. The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Need that new page
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Id I've pretty much consumed all the media you've put out there. You're doing good stuff here even if it feels like 8ts corrupting you inside and twisting the way the world feels around you. That's normal. Encouraged even. You're almost there.
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I like the look at Eve's inner thoughts. 
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The Dark Id posted:Note: Ending B will be posted tonight. Try to get to a new page before then. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS MUST CONTINUE
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Sindai posted:I like the look at Eve's inner thoughts. It's a really cool use of Hacking Space or whatever it's called. You wouldn't expect solid visual storytelling like that coming from a minigame of all things.
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The hacking parts of route B continue to be the best part outside of a couple of side quests.
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That's a great hacking segment.
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Huh, I completely forgot about that hacking section.
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I wish the game did stuff like that more often. Up until now all the bosses have had the same hacking minigame as all the other enemies, so it didn't feel particularly interesting to do.
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I'm guessing the pod communications are coming back tonight. "Alert: Unit 9S has contracted the logic virus and is all kinds of hosed up." "Proposal: Unit 2B should have an existential crisis over his impending effective death."
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I'm just sitting here going  , don't mind me.
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I like how Hackervision keeps getting upgraded. Maybe 9S will be able to see those Tyler Durden apparitions soon.The Dark Id posted:Note: Ending B will be posted tonight. Try to get to a new page before then. Doing my part, sir.
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Poor Eve just wanted to have fun times with his bro. Why did Adam have to be such a shitter?
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.jpg) I have no clue why this of all faces was chosen for what is presumably meant to be a highly dramatic scene.
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Zomborgon posted:
He's loving that poo poo.
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For a minute I thought that was a red plastic hotel and the hacking interface was going to turn into a marathon game of Monopoly to finish. Even androids hate Monopoly.
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