Zero Context 21: Gab is Zero

Content warning: this episode briefly discusses child abuse and death by suffocation

Happy New Year! Returning from an arguably better videogame, Axe and Nathalie are back in the Zero Time Dilemma bomb shelter with their favorite cast of disorganized sickos. They learn about game show probability puzzles, crunch the numbers on sci-fi virus mortality rates (they’re bad), and play an actual escape room game. In another timeline, Nathalie proposes that a dog could be behind the whole thing, Axe pleads for more mid-puzzle cutscene, and the duo collectively sigh at how still nothing is happening before being put out of their misery by a mysterious assassin.

This episode covers the fragments
- [C Team] -> Monty Hall
- [Q Team] -> Radical-6
- [D Team] -> Suppression

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [C Team] -> Play the [Carlos and Junpei looking at monitors] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [Phi standing in front of a wall with Sigma and Diana out of frame behind her] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [Diana and Sigma looking at a TV] fragment -> Play all outcomes

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Mira (JP: Maaya Sakamoto; EN: Rachel Kimsey )
- The Spike Chunsoft Gamer Survey
- Virtue’s Last Reward: Game Show Edition
- What if: a visual novel
- Horny for firefighters
- The Monty Hall problem, which you can read about for yourself at home
- A baffling lab puzzle
- Q Team best team?
- The Horizontal Tango
- A weird old guy
- Playing flash games in the Villanova University CAVE
- Getting the COVID vaccine in a “spa”
- Commissioning an oedipal reading of Sigma
- Top 10 things 20-somethings do

Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record-” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow” by Shinji Hosoe

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