Mason

People hear a story like this and they want a name for what it was, because a name makes it manageable.

I don't give it a name.

I don't know what it was wearing when it wore the shape of a deer.

I don't know why it followed us for days instead of ending it fast.

I only know the feeling of being observed with patience, the sound of my name coming out of an animal mouth, the way the forest went silent and moving pieces, and the fact that when we finally got out it felt less like escape and more like being released.

And I don't ever want to feel that again.

So chat really liked the Shonen Jump reference, just to throw that in there.

And then they also asked about Netflix buying Warner Brothers, in case you guys want to take a quick aside on that.

Somebody in chat said, but right now, Tom, CEOs are the freeloaders.

CEOs are the barnacles that are bringing down the system because they're just taking too fucking much.

um super chats let's do it all right first up from rj johnson i earned my way through school counting cards in blackjack in vegas 15 years later the 2000 crash and i tried to do it all again didn't have patience for the slow grind and started taking chances lost over a million dollars um and this was uh in response to you talking about taking huge gambling risks when you're desperate

Next up from Mr. Mike, life's perpetually changing.

It's never forever.

Are games your scar tissue?

It will always resonate with you, but being a parent obviously is better.

You just never remapped it.

It will make you feel more childlike, even adoption.

Somebody said when Kaizen is released, Tom will have thousands of children.

We got three more Super Chats too from Sadney Peter.

The first one is, Tom, it's truth.