Power washing will kill all of us. It may look like a harmless, strangely satisfying activity,

but our little water gun holds the key to our entire planet's destruction.

Hello internet! Welcome to Game Theory, the show that is never satisfied with playing games normally.

Everyone has really big ups. Everyone's jumping and coming down very slowly. The sun is big. I don't know. I feel like I have a lot of reasons to be kind of scared. And you should be scared, Ash. This is Power Wash Simulator 2 after all. And if the first game taught us anything, it's that nothing is as it seems. Sorry, I got a little carried away that. You see, this game and me go way back. We

covered the original Power Was simulator back when it was in early access. It was actually my sixth

ever game theory, and the second video I was asked to give notes on while auditioning for

the role of creative director. I could never ever imagine I'd end up here, but I remember

getting that email from Matt asking me to see if there was anything we could find in this game with seemingly very little law.

It taught me a really valuable lesson in theorizing, and since then, I've made countless theories about games with seemingly no story and finding the intrigue hidden beneath the surface.

So, it feels fitting that I find myself back here again, talking about one of the games that

kicked off my career here at Game Theory.

In our initial theory, we used geographic landmarks, like volcanoes, forests, and even the

British spelling of words to pinpoint our location to the state of Oregon.

We predicted that the volcano was likely going to cause the destruction of the town based on

its appearance, and we determined that we, the player, were in fact the villain, washing away all of this ash illegally,

which would destroy the city, you know, if the volcano doesn't get there first.

And while some of those details were proven at least somewhat correct when the full game

was released, for this game, the developers really did their homework.

Not only are there

even more interesting storylines piling up on our town's WhatsApp group, but there's also a bunch of

real science that's gone into explaining some of the weird happenings around this strange town

of Muckingham. Although, I don't think that means I'm not keeping a close eye on our player character.

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