Zero Context 23: not living in a society

Content warning: this episode briefly discusses starvation, sexual assault, domestic abuse, suicide and suicidal ideation, dismemberment, the death of infants, and gun violence.

Through a chaotic sequence of various form of time travel, Axe and Nathalie have finally ended up at Zero Time Dilemma’s apex. They bare witness to a cabin fever love story, learn about transporter cooldown timers, and send clones of doomed babies back to the turn of the 20th century. Shifting to another timeline, they discover the facility is not what it seems, get another round of snail story facts, and finally glance at that bloody anagram before our favorite boy Carlos blows the door off its hinges…

This episode covers the fragments
- [Q Team] -> Pop-Off (new ending)
- [D Team] -> Transport
- [D Team] -> Door of Truth
- [C Team] -> Get Back
- [C Team] -> Anthropic Principle (new ending)

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [ball boy in the matrix with Zero] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [ball boy in the transporter room] fragment -> Play all outcomes

Things Discussed
- Why Obama sold Zero an alien transporter
- The Swapper (Facepalm Games, 2013) and clone ethics
- A game about dads
- Getting played out during your love confession
- Post coital, fully clothed pillow talk
- Licking booze off the ground
- Human Baby + Gab = Zero
- Getting softlocked by birthdays
- Zero's podcast
- Turning on Joker mode
- Uchikoshi decorating the fake lounge just for us
- Post credits dance sequence
- Writing budget constraints into the story
- Ordinary everyman Carlos
- Solving the trolley problem with clairvoyance
- Zero, savior of humanity
- Asking what YOU are doing about radical-6???
- Carlos the taxi-driver
- A thousand unfortunate accidents
- Everyone and no one is guilty
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 2011, and Abnormal Mapping’s Fabula Nova Crystallis episode
- Novel Not New and Say It In Red's episodes on AI: The Somnium Files

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

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