Zero Context 12: antimater baby

Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.

Jumping all the way back up the termite mound, Axe and Nathalie finally enter the cyan door, a choice they maybe should have made at the start. They learn about Schrodinger’s Cat, Erotic Units, Prime Decomposition, and several other Wikipedia pages while reveling in the impeccably designed garden puzzle. Unfortunately, they are once again betrayed and forced in the last act to contend with deflating 3D models and gender roles no amount of annihilation energy can destroy.

Next time on Zero Context
Choose the [Cyan] door -> vote [Betray] -> Choose the [Green] door -> Vote [Betray] for a game over -> Return and vote [Ally]

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Alice (JP: Atsuko Tanaka; EN: Peggy O'Neal)
- I want fewer choices with worse consequences and I’m not kidding
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town (ADELTA, 2016)
- Schrodinger’s Cat
- Easy mode for babies
- Rhyzome-9 (the best one)
- ALL-ICE
- Dark (Baran bo Odar, 2017)
- Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
- Solving the prisoner’s dilemma with boss fights
- Punch Line (MAGES, 2016)
- The computer in your brain

Intro: “Virtue’s Last Reward ～Piano～” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Demise” by Shinji Hosoe

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