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Speaker 1: to another sub sub sub sub segment, Fictional Women around

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Speaker 1: the World. I'm excited about this one, but I have

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Speaker 1: to admit I'm this one's kind of selfish because I

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, it's time, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: It's time. Have you ever seen it? I know you

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Speaker 1: haven't played the games, but have you ever seen any

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Speaker 1: of the movies? No? Okay, just a plain note? Is

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Speaker 1: this the Milla? Yes? Okay, that part, I know, that's

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Speaker 1: the end. That's fine. They're not very good and no

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Speaker 1: one of the you know, the the long held belief

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Speaker 1: that there's never been a good video game adaptation until recently.

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Speaker 1: These were a big part of that reason. There are

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Speaker 1: was nine or so, very young, and I snuck into

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Speaker 1: hard as hell. The angles switches were unnerving, and it

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Speaker 1: which is a really good game that I have talked

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Speaker 1: franchise ever. The first film came out in two thousand

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Speaker 1: if you don't know the very basic plot of Resident Evil,

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Speaker 1: it essentially boils down to an a moral slash probably

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