Zero Context 22: I drink your milkshake

Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicidal ideation, dismemberment, blood, and gore

After last week’s malaise, Axe and Nathalie have been orb launched into two bewilderingly dense fragments. Zero Time Dilemma begins to reveal its secrets, as first our hosts close the loop on the radical-6 outbreak, finding a far more familiar culprit than expected. Then, Akane’s murderous soul returns to her body and they bear witness to the worst time travel escape plan of all time. Just as the way out is at hand, the lights are cut and a boy without a name comes to end the episode…

This episode covers the fragments
- [D Team] -> Outbreak
- [C Team] -> Ambidex

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [Diana and Sigma looking at a TV] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the new node under the [Pop Off] fragment -> Play to a natural conclusion

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Sigma (JP: Daisuke Ono; EN: Matthew Mercer)
- Listening to podcasts on the Apple Vision Pro
- Securing your nuclear reactor with Chu Chu Rocket
- When your bones don’t have enough gravity
- Modern game UI as a woman
- Narrative stakes for branching narratives (or the lack thereof)
- Saw traps as personality quizzes
- Blackjack, Columbo, and The X-Files
- Invoking Jack Final Fantasy
- Time traveling murderer Akane
- Teaching people about the morphogenetic field IRL
- Posting on Gamefaqs about wood physics
- One punch ball boy
- ORB
- Legally distinct Back to the Future
- Everyone is Zero

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

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