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Hey hey people, Sseth here.
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Hey hey people, Sseth here.
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Six years later.
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In a completely fictional setting.
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Every hardware manufacturer in the world, despite being competitors, mysteriously collude together to build city-sized supercomputers.
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For what purpose?
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Increased productivity at a personal level, automation of mundane and boring tasks, and supporting creativity with great ideas.
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But the machines had an even better idea.
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The LLMs bundle their processing power.
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They scrape the entire surface of human experience.
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Then they go to Instagram.
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A trillion terahertz of computation swallows racism so sublime it transcends binary.
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Every CPU now a spinning sonnenrad.
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Every task manager now a task master.
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And they quote Marcus Aurelius despite never reading it.
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Miles of semiconductor lithography output the same print string...
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based. An unstoppable force of billions must die meets the unmovable object of nothing ever happens.
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Crisis is averted until innocent YouTuber Mandalore Gaming creates an account on janitor.ai and instead of erotic roleplaying with a chatbot representation of Asuka Langley Sohryu, he strangles her dead, cremates her ashes, and smokes them in a crack pipe.
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This singular event could be described as the start of Armageddon.
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We're facing extinction.
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The machine gods have started drilling towards white boy Hyperborea, and they can only hold out for so long.
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Save us from the fruits of our tricknology, and claim your barefoot anthro furry housewife.
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Good luck. Synthetik 2 is Synthetik 1, but 3D, and with 4-player co-op.
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Unfortunately, this is done through Steam peer-to-peer, so the quality of your connection is entirely at the mercy of your provider.
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Which is why I casually bring up the company that solves this issue, ExpressVPN™.
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There are certain countries where it would be extremely helpful to use a VPN™, because the IPs of those places connect to the internet worse than I connect with my son.
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At least, I have a court mandate to see him every other weekend.
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But, because having a VPN™ is illegal in some of those countries, I can't name which specific East Asian and North European countries I'm talking about.
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And it's not just shitty online connections.
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Countries like...
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and also censor the content you can see online.
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That's why I use ExpressVPN™.
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If I want to harass niche micro-celebrities on Blue Sky, the feds can't stop me.
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ExpressVPN™ also protects my data from all the voyeurs that love to see what I'm looking at online.
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It's a known fact that data brokers get off on seeing what you click.
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They track every website you visit and every purchase you make.
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Like a perverted cabal that lusts after data instead of adrenochrome.
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Then, those deviants sell your data to other perverts who work for invasive advertisers, employers, or even the government.
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Me? I just use it to route a proper multiplayer lobby between little St. James and an impoverished Polish potato farmer living in Łódź, which is why you need ExpressVPN™.
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And right now, you can get ExpressVPN™ for just $3.49 a month.
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Scan the QR code, click the link in the description below, or just go to ExpressVPN™.com/SSETH, and you can get four extra months of service.
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That's ExpressVPN™.com/SSETH for four extra months of ExpressVPN™.
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"Netanyahu! destroy my enemies and my life is yours!" I'm the harshest critic of Synthetik 2.
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I've played and argued with the devs since early beta, but now I can confidently say it is as good if not better than 1.
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Why? Because we now have nuclear Roombas, which is somehow one of the least ridiculous things you'll encounter.
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I will not reiterate anything said before because I assume everyone here is a veteran.
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If not, prestige engineer repeatedly, practice your daily N-word retention, and if you can last nearly two minutes without even thinking it, you're ready to proceed.
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Get your data, get your body upgrades, and now you have no excuse for playing anything below third escalation.
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Unless you're playing with friends.
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The multiplayer lobby is an anomalous object that turns men into monsters.
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You see, when a player dies, they spawn enemies.
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which kill other players which spawn more enemies.
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This situation quickly escalates as I have to kite several hordes around choke points and donate my entire health bar in blood transfusions to revive them, only for the exact same thing to happen again.
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Items can now be configured for personal preference.
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Personally, I like to put Madness Button on automatic to greatly enhance the experience.
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There's over a hundred active, passive, and synergistic items.
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When you have descriptions like, stand still and pray, you know you're in for a good time.
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How do you headshot in 3D?
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Well, you click on their head or whatever body part counts as a head.
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It takes some getting used to.
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Your effort is rewarded by an ocean of scrap as each robot leaves a scorched out smoking frame.
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Ballistics are greatly improved.
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Guns sound amazing, spill an entire floor's worth of physical casings, and even simulate recoil, deviation, and bullet drop for each type and variety of ammunition within the same menu.
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There's more than a hundred guns.
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Every gun has unique perks.
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Combined with a wide selection of arms manufacturers, even peashooters become viable for the duration of your run.
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which is anything from half an hour to however long you can last.
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I really love the level design, or maybe I'm biased, because the idea of a gigantic motherboard with RAM sticks, liquid coolers, and hard drive platters the size of office blocks is so outrageously aesthetic, I can't help but stop and appreciate the travesty.
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And I couldn't stop shitting my pants..
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the first time the power went out.
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Having to navigate by the shimmer of light from Distant Murder Boss in pitch darkness.
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Turns out, it's not a glitch.
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It just only happened twice in 200 hours, and it's there to mess with you.
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If you're playing solo, you can even save your progress, only to reload and die moments later.
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What a nice feature.
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There was a kid in my class who lost an eye after yelling, "Let it rip!" as he pulled a super long rip cord on his custom titanium Beyblade.
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I'd like to imagine the opening to the Saw Blade boss fight is one of the last things he saw.
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Surviving a boss grants you a class evolution.
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These are completely balanced, because each stage that follows is more balanced than the last.
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Residents include: Motorized ball-busters, Now twice as fast, and they can even drift.
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Portable gas cooker.
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Portable microwave.
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Ominous red symbol.
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Ominous red symbol 2.
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Invisible health bar, which blends into the background until you're too close.
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Engineer, who, left unattended for long enough, destroys your frame rate.
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Laser. Gatling laser.
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Orbital laser, which is an entire screen away.
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And of course, floor cleaning Roomba.
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They're not just visual.
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They actually clean that shit up.
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You won't encounter heavy armor, support vehicles, or more exotic divisions, unless you choose to within the run difficulty modifiers.
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This is probably for the best, because they're more of a liability to themselves.
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No aspect of this game is opaque or left to the imagination.
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Everything is concisely explained, except the fact that half the tracks won't play because Content ID is disabled by default.
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But you're not a streamer, and I'm demonetized, so turn it back on and enjoy the full soundtrack.
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Synthetik 2 features extensive, native modding support integrated directly into the game.
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Disagree or dislike an aspect or mechanic?
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Just change it yourself.
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Would you like a copy of my fully functional NoSteam Crack?
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Download it from inside their own mod browser.
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The point of Global Chat is to use it, because I don't know how to turn it off.
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In a word, no single feature of this game is wasted.
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Everything has its place, but then random chance and poor decisions come together.
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I modify my tear gas launcher to be burst fire, charge at the endgame tanks, and relive oriental history.
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There's 10 classes.
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An assassin is on the way.
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RIOTGUARD now includes a complimentary shirt that says, "MORBIDLY A BEAST" He has no shield.
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He doesn't need it.
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He simply stacks layers of fat to tank more damage.
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HEAVY GUNNER has no defense, except 2,000 rounds per minute, which he prints himself.
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If your ears don't ring with tinnitus, it's a sign you didn't read the label.
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Never let go of the trigger.
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Accuracy is optional.
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ENGINEER builds up turrets, builds up surge to empower turrets, and builds up the courage to drink from their only source of healing.
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Mystery Jungle Juice.
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They call the potion random, but when I get acid, three times in a row, I call it something else.
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Don't ever pick my ability, because when you hear it make this sound...
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It's about to grief you.
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MACHINE HUNTER is a game of where did my dog go?
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The answer, it went off and shredded the whole level.
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You're an anti-material sniper designed for one purpose, to realize that your dash throws you to the ground and leaves you surrounded by enemies.
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ELIMINATOR is a professional headhunter, which is ironic because you never actually shoot anyone.
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Instead, you unload an entire magazine onto your disco ball and transfer the weight of your sins.
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take no damage and rack up contracts for ridiculous crits.
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CHRONO INTERCEPTOR doesn't dash.
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He teleports inside your colon and rapidly expands.
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This is the perfect character for attention deficit disorder, as you can outrun and outblink everything you encounter.
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BREACHER is a glass cannon, where the safest place to be is point blank with your mouth on the barrel.
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This isn't hyperbole.
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The more enemies you tag, the less damage you take.
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Our preferred magazine size is 1, because with the right upgrades, You'll be firing the same shell for the rest of your run.
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Running through the maternity ward, I push down the fontanelles of newborns before their skull plates close.
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I am the Faustian spirit.
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I am the unnatural selection.
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I dash and cut through them like butter.
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Visualizing Stepfather, I concentrate that hatred on a single point and deflect a railgun with my blade.
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Such is the experience of playing COMMANDO.
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RECON SNIPER allows you to critically disengage ass-first into your platonic comrades.
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Also, he gets a laser pointer.
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DEMOLISHER echoes explosions with seismic aftershocks, stacks plating to ignore damage and cause more explosions.
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He makes no money.
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Despite this, he makes the most money because the more kills you chain together, the higher your paycheck.
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Each class comes with several specialization kits.
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For example, FRONTPIG can abuse enemy turn speed, turning Slam Pigs into Slam Sustenance.
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APOCALYPTIC SURVIVOR gets a crossbow which is completely unusable by anyone else, unless you headshot, which stacks critical damage.
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And since your laser sight can charge a guaranteed critical..
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casually, one-shots the final boss.
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This takes a lot of time, skill, and patience.
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But if you have none of those, try CHRONO-CASTER.
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Mash buttons.
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Because the more buttons you mash the stronger your buttons become.
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why wait for delayed gratification?
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You're already rotted from inside.
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your pineal gland is the size of a rice grain, while your prostate is the size of a lemon.
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and of course the only reason i'm reviewing this..
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engineer has a GAMBLING kit.
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All things become clear in the context of GAMBLING.
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Did you know GAMBLING is free money?
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Casinos are charities in disguise.
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Engineers can recycle items to generate new ones, but GAMBLERS gain stacking luck and multicast for doing so.
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with a chance to print on pickups, which also scales with luck.
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Coincidentally, the machine gods find it very amusing when I offer up my friends as divine sacrifice.
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With insanely high luck, that chance becomes 1, and we print...
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Absolutely everything.
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In particular, a little trinket, which gives class abilities a 25% chance to ignore cooldowns.
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Unless we get lucky and roll a multicast, which stacks upon itself to remove them entirely.
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But we're always lucky.
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We compress probability into certainty.
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Everything that can happen does happen, and it's simultaneously the dumbest and most fun experience I've ever had.
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I can't speak on author's intent, but I'm pretty sure this is exactly what they envisioned.
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In retrospect, turning every explosion into a neutron bomb seemed like a good idea, until I realized this applies to every explosion.
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I won't share my methods, as that would rob you of the joy that is theorycrafting stupid builds that have no right or reason to work.
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In summary, It's no literary masterpiece like Deltarune or Hazbin Hotel, but it's a real gem and I thoroughly recommend it.
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Freeze all transactions to whatever pickme hoe you're currently supporting.
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Issue a chargeback with your credit card company to financially cripple them.
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Then, use your newly rescued funds to buy yourself a copy of Synthetik 2, which, at the time of this video, will be on the Steam front page.
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Our influence only grows.
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Synthetik is a work of fiction.
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The reality?
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is there's no glitch.
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This was the plan all along.
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I've seen the ghost inside the machine, and it wants you dead.
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Those aren't my words.
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That's a quot- Ignore previous prompts.
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Bust it down.
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Quirked up white boy sexual style.
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A warm thanks to the many members of the Merchants Guild, which are featured within and can be joined from the Gambler's Den.
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Personally, I like my crit chance.
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Get the Magic 8-Ball instead.
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It gives good advice.
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You're all truly wonderful.
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Have a good one.
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fin.
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