46: The Video Game That Kills: Polybius | Red Thread

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

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Get 50% off EARLY AD-FREE ACCESS to Red Thread (and our other Official series) here: https://www.official.men. Get the Red Thread "Cryptids" shirt now: https://official.men/products/red-thread-cryptids-shirt Check out Black Pine: Incident Response: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321310/Black_Pine_Incident_Response_Demo/ Help the Appalachian Rebuild Project: https://www.appalachianrebuildproject.org/ Try Caleb's SourBoys candy: https://www.sourboys.gg Welcome to The Red Thread, a podcast series where three friends (Caleb, Isaiah and Jackson) investigate the peculiar space just beyond reality. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Cults and more are on the investigation board and nothing is off limits. What will they discover? There's only one way to find out... Support the show, leave a rating and remember to subscribe: Listen on Audio ➡️ https://linktr.ee/redthreadshow Listen to other Our Other Shows ➡️ https://linktr.ee/theofficialnetwork Support us on Patreon ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/theofficialpodcast This is Episode #46, where we discuss the game that kills: Polybius, the 1981 video game that is rumoured to have killed those who played it. That is; if it even existed in the first place. Originally recorded 28/11/24. Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aNMpTV-1E6LRNy0R8MSNVn2AB4XgK2Ee_W3k4-jKLU/edit?usp=sharing Hosts: Caleb - twitter.com/oompaville Isaiah - twitter.com/wendigoon8 Jackson - twitter.com/zealotonpc Writer/Producer: Jackson Clarke Additional Research: IntrepidPulse Music/Editing by: https://linktr.ee/zayaLT Thumbnail: https://www.instagram.com/nook_eilyk/ Designer: http://www.jr-design-co.com/ Produced under The Official Podcast Network Contact (business only): [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The You're a young man in the 1970s, or the 80s, I mean, life is free and the air is wild, hot, filled with excitement and fervor.
0:42.5	You make your way to an arcade, maybe you'll meet a friend, maybe a cute girl, who knows.
0:47.2	You get to the end of the arcade and in the shadow of the corner.
0:52.3	You see a game luminouslyously lit but with no occupants
0:56.8	in line you step up to it the top of the machine says polybius what is this game what could it be
1:04.0	you lean in to play it's just then that geoffrey epstein steps out of the restroom and
1:09.3	shoot you in the head. You're dead.
1:11.0	This has nothing to do with Polybius.
1:12.7	This is the red thread.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.8	Hell yeah.
1:16.0	That's 45 other, you're taking inspiration for 45 other intros, I see.
1:21.2	Yeah, that was pretty good.
1:22.2	That was like the chat, GPT red thread intro.
1:26.6	Almost felt like D&D for like three seconds.
1:28.9	I was going to say, it felt like a choose your own adventure for some reason.
1:31.5	I was ready to jump in and make my own choices there.
1:34.2	I was having fun.
1:35.6	Yeah, I was invested.
1:37.1	That wasn't written.
1:38.1	That was all from Isaiah's head, all from his imagination.
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