S1E1 (The Cast of ZEITGEIST)/Transcript

hello

testing

okay, uh... i hope my color balance isn’t off. am i fine?

yeha probably

alright, uh

hi, everybody. kevin here

welcome to... uh... challenge 10? i guess we should call it

not really sure what else to call this. S1E1?

I mean, is this a format to ever use again? Seems pointless to call it anything else if we’re only gonna do this once.

i guess

anyway joining me today we have our esteemed guest

first lol

hiiiiiiii im football

Hello, this is Thaumiel.

Hi, everyone. (I'm sure you recognize the way I speak.) It's great to be here again.

okay wait i realized we probably should be more coordinated than this

i guess it makes the most sense to go through each person individually right

uhh

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puzzle piece hair clip. hello

Hello, Kevin. I hope you've been doing alright.

i’ve been okay, thank you

how have you been holding up? i feel like it’s been a bit since we’ve tread the same ground

I’m doing quite well! Or have been, rather.

I haven’t been around the Wiki Camp 2 much, but my main skills (that have been cultivated by the Wiki Camp 2, that is) have been instead applied to other projects in my research and development.

...I’m not at liberty to say what, for a few different reasons, but I can promise that it will be worth the wait if you’re interested in my work more broadly.

i dont think it’s thaaat bad that you haven’ treally been around 4 the record

Oh, I understand, of course.

It just feels a bit embarrassing to be such in the spotlight after not being that involved for the past... year, or so? How long ago was Challenge 6?

oh, god, uh

...over a year, i think? oh no

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wha even hapened in challenge six anyways

i didnt write anythin donws ince challenge 5 lol

Me neither, to be frank...

I haven’t either.

I mean, I would’ve, if my editor gave me a space to, you know...

can’t you do that yourself

like isn’t editing pages your whole thing

It's not editing pages, Kevin, it's editing the content of page updates. It's not injecting data at the start, it's a "man-in-the-middle" attack.

..."person-in-the-middle"? Cause it's, like, gender non-specific, and... whatever, doesn't matter.

so you're admitting that you're also bent to [THE ZEITGEIST]'s whims

...it's not being bent if I choose, you know.

same difference to be honest

im getting sidetracked

challenge 6 was the whole thing with girl host, right?

where i went girl mode and talked to 055 about gender and then there was some secondary message about it that escapes me right now

which i guess is appropriate

hashtag girl et cetera

Wait, that was actually you, instead of alternate universe you?

yeah sure

Are you making a joke?

That was Challenge 5, Kevin.

was it actually

It’s true, I’m afraid. Challenge 6 was the unwanted pages challenge.

yeah wik ic amp 2 colors and numbers fun page for children

oh no

that’s. wow

i didn't realize i was that out of it

woof

i think i just kinda fell off after girl host everything after that is kind of a blur

and not something i remember well

adn then everythign beofre girl host was so long ago loool

yeah, that too

Well, you did almost, like... kill yourself trying to show the Girl World. I’m not that surprised that everything after that is kinda murky.

lol

thats true

okay i digress. lets get back on track

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thaumiel, file

Huh?

That’s me!

how have you two been doing

Oh, I suppose I’m doin’ alright. I guess I also could be doing more, but, you know.

any gigs? as like a secondary editor of html stuff

Nah, I’ve been tinkering with my own stuff on a couple things, but mainly I’ve just been surfing the web.

...not in like an “oooh, scary, I made it on your computer!”, kinda way, I guess I should say. The normal people way.

You know, watching YouTube, and stuff.

mhm

are you ever going to show back up on the page, by the way? tangentially related

you haven’t been in the upload for, like, a year.

...can I be frank? And I guess call out my own fib from earlier?

sure

It's just not worth the hassle.

We can admit that’s why none of us kept up with fixing our competitor pages, right? It’s just not worth the energy.

Plus, you know me, right? I’m still... you know. One for my being in the shadows, still.

right, right

your disappearance from the page is probably like the biggest thing though so it probably is something that should happen eventually though. before we all like implode or something

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll do it when I feel like it enough to actually come back.

so never

Yeah, basically never.

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and you, thaumiel?

Oh, I'm dealing with my own stuff, I guess. Keeping my whole thing locked down.

I am thaumiel, of course.

Mainly been sitting back and watching all these other people run around.

Their whole system over here is pretty funny, can I just say. I tried to understand it at one point, but it just ended up going over my head after trying to keep up.

i get that

did you guys know we have two nutshell tokens by the way

tangentially related

i genuinely had no idea

wait really lol

yeah i just started wiki surfing to make sure I don't accidentally say anything else wrong

but yeah i had no idea

every time i try and understand the bank my eyes just like glaze over

like the whole eclipse thing with the blessed token? thats like nonsense to me

"Eclipse level" sounds... dangerous.

I am not at liberty to say why.

Do you guys remember the whole thing with the Weasel Token?

Like, the original one.

I do! That was quite funny, I have to say.

Feels like ancient history at this point.

yea

Anyway, uh, yeah. I've mainly been a passive observer.

Watching everybody do their thing, keep my distance thing.

right

i can relate to that

the whole uh

passive observer thing

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kevin?

yea?

how ru

oh uh

i'm doing fine

i suppose i haven't gotten around to you, actually. how are you

im doin ok i'm football i dont have a lot 2 say

no, rlly

how r you doin kevin

for srs

indepth

theres more 2 it than that its eazy to tell

oh

um

i mean

admittedly i haven’t been doing much around here which is obvious. and i kinda feel bad about that

which i guess is. kinda hypocritical, right

that you guys and everybody else tapping out is alright but me

i think its ok

thigns happen

low stres envoiroment

well, i don’t know

the thing is

like

okay how do i phrase this

sorry, beforehand

ur ok

its been all thoguhts today say whatevr

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i feel like to some degree i’ve failed host by not being around. which i know doesn’t make any sense

and to some degree i failed myself.

which also doesn’t make any sense. and i know it doesn’t

maybe it’s just because i’m the main guy. because i’m [THE ZEITGEIST]’s surrogate

but i’ve sat around for a year twiddling my thumbs while feeling like i’m underperforming and promising myself that i’d do better next time and actually show up to the thing and then it just fell through again

i want better for me. us. for this thing that we’ve been a part of for 2 years now

can we talk about that? how it’s the wiki camp’s 2nd anniversary today?

birthday

and it sucks that i feel like i can’t do that. that something like this feels overall like a failure, even if there was success

is it rly underp[erforming when the expected preformace is 0

i guess it’s more personal expectation

or i guess what [THE ZEITGEIST] wants out of me

i just feel like a project that had a lot of potential but is just gonna get thrown out after it’s all over

hm

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well ok

what do u do after you get elinimated

come again

aftr this interview we eat dirt adn fallover. what hap[ens

...i figured i would cease to exist? i’m not sure

i was made for this camp specifically

so i figured that if i’m not in top shape [THE ZEITGEIST] would pass me on and i would end up completely staying here

as it catches the next big hit and all

spirit of the age

hmm

idkk its not liek what you did isnt true anymore if it sux. you have history 2

even if [THE ZEITGEIST] stop sbeing here its not like it didn happen

and that means smth

i guess

Can I interject to ask an honest question?

sure

Were we planning on really winning?

no lol

Are you kidding? I was just here to mess around.

i guess i was always kinda pragmatic about it

winning and clout or whatever would be nice but i always figured the chances were slim from the start

Granted, the odds are more technically in our favor since we have gotten this far, but yes, I was under the impression that our chances were slim.

so is failkure anythig yknow

the ravens have lost plent yof games and theyre still gonna b rememnered forever

so idk

dont wrry about it too hard

just hve fun wiht the time left imo

play touys

mm

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...I suppose that raises another question, actually.

What future is there a future for all of us after The Wiki Camp 2 ends?

Is it possible that our world could experience a ZK-Class scenario if that happens...?

”ZK-Class” What are you talking about?

Oh, uh...

“End of the world” scenario, in that reality ceases to exist for some reason.

Oh. Uh...?

...perhaps? It’s hard to come to a real conclusion, but I can imagine our existence coming to an end with the end of temporal relevance to The Wiki Camp 2, as unfortunate as that may be.

eh i think well b ok no matter what

what makes you say that?

maybe well be gone and nvr exist again or whatevr but if that happens that wasjust gonna hapen anyway rihgt

and we wont be here to know that

but if that dosnt happen then we might be free 2 play on our own

and i lik ethat more

that’s fair

hm

i suppose just pragmatically it’s the best option

to hope that it’ll all work out somehow

yea basicly

the zeitgeist tends to change and if were not in it at any given momnt theres nothing 2 do but try live on

mm

i guess so

and thats about how im doing

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Y’know, guys.

huh

We were talking about it earlier, ‘cause of the whole mistake, so I went to go look at it, and...

...have you guys actually, like... ‘’looked’’ at the Finger Family page lately?

It’s... y’know. Just look at it.

wow

i kinda forgot how

horrendous this was

Wow, this is... nonsense.

We requested this?

Well, no, we specifically didn’t want it, remember?

this sucks ass

isnt it aewsom

that a bunch of p[peole got togethr and made t his stupid thing

yeah

i guess so