We are celebrating our eighth birthday here at NOCLIP, but I can’t help but feel like something is off. In computer memory, there are eight bits in a byte, and memory is necessary to run video games. Video games are like stories, but the players can do things. They have verbs. Eight represents the verb in the classic joke about how seven ate nine. An eight looks like two donuts, which are things you might eat. It’s all coalescing around something, I just don’t know what. Coalesce! Eight letters! 8L, 8lesce. Octolesce. Sounds like… Talk less. Is the universe trying to say that we are getting annoying? Or that we should cover Octopath Traveler?
What does the universe know anyway? In radical defiance of nature’s wishes, we are in fact going to expose you to even more talk. Talk that is unrelated almost entirely to video games and which we in fact removed from episodes of the show, only to now regurgitate back to you in the form of a blooper reel. I hope that’s what you wanted, as you can see, the signs are difficult to decipher at times. Regardless, none of this mutes our level of appreciation for those of you who are listening, those who have provided feedback on the show over on our Discord or in comments, and those who have joined us recently, who honestly have gotten the best deal since I feel like we are always improving. I hope this brief gag reel works as a palette cleanser, as I hope every year, and that you will join us for the upcoming Halloween month exploration of games like Signalis and Dead Space. Happy NOCLIP Day, and thank you for sticking with us!