Zero Context

About Zero Context

Axe (they/them) and Nathalie (she/her) play through the Zero Escape trilogy. Join us as Nathalie learns what a visual novel is, Axe reveals the depths of their cursed fandom knowledge, and we try to figure out how exactly you podcast branching narratives.

Publisher

KRITIQAL

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Aug 2022

Latest episode

17 Apr 2024

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Apr 2024

   Episode 25: Complex Motives

   Content warning: this episode briefly discusses gun violence, blood, on-screen suicide, the death of a dog, and attempted sexual assault. It’s over. After being incinerated, dismembered, and blown up too many times to count, Axe and Nathalie have arrived at the end of Zero Time Dilemma, the end of Zero Escape, and the end of this podcast. As the sun sets on the Nevada desert, Delta informs our hosts that every terrible decision was necessary to bring them to this very moment transmitting live to you, dear listener. That through their suffering, the world may be saved. With the final decision staring our duo in the face, we leave it up to you to decide the fate of humanity… This episode covers the fragments - [C/Q/D-Team] -> Force Quit Boxes - The Final Decision - Payoff - Epilogues Things Discussed - Nathalie's fan cast - Carlos the sis-con, gay-coded, best friend firefighter who will never fuck - Clipping through your daughter - Putting a dollar in the swear jar for mentioning Her Story - MIND HACKING - The Zero Time Dilemma - Blaming Telltale's The Walking Dead - “Half to Whole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4cVly5HgY)” by Kizuna Chieda from Ai: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative - Carlos giving a thumbs up - Delta is baby - The importance of the traditional family unit - Streetpassing Delta - “It's me, I'm Junpei!” - Oneshot (Future Cat, 2014) - Danger and epiphany at Spike Chunsoft - Delta crying in the garden of Gethsemane - Mira goes to jail - End of the show sentimentality - Nathalie's very good correct predictions Intro: “Ustulate Pathos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0750KVjFuM)” by Shinji Hosoe Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow -Piano- (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-original-soundtrack-2022/1-18.%2520Morphogenetic%2520Sorrow%2520-Piano-.mp3)” by Shinji Hosoe Subscribe on Pocket Casts (https://pca.st/s6lbsym8), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zero-context/id1639410711), or wherever you get podcasts. You can support Axe (https://ko-fi.com/winggamer) and Nathalie (https://ko-fi.com/kritiqal) on their respective Ko-Fi pages, keep up with them on Cohost @wingblade (https://cohost.org/wingblade) and @BOOitsnathalie (https://cohost.org/BOOitsnathalie), and follow the show page (https://cohost.org/ZeroContext/) for exclusive memes and research notes. Send your questions/comments/complaints to questions@kritiqal.com (mailto:questions@kritiqal.com), and tell your mom about us.

2. 

   23 Mar 2024

   Episode 24: Mama's Boy

   Content warning: this episode briefly discusses gun violence, blood, on-screen suicide, and the death of a child. It’s the penultimate episode of Zero Context, which means Axe and Nathalie get to finally meet Zero in the flesh. With bloodshot eyes and cane in hand, he clues them in on the tragic truth of our favorite ball-headed boy, Mira’s bloody fate, and how he’s somehow been there the whole time just out of frame. Before our duo can process these revelations, Zero unveils new telekinetic powers and blows everyone away so he can spend a quite evening with his mom. This episode covers the fragments - [Q Team] -> Reality - [Q Team] -> Q Next time on Zero Context - Play all the [Escape Box] fragments in the following order -> C-Team -> Q-Team -> D-Team - Play the unlocked fragment - Return to the start of the game Things Discussed - Gab's lounge for Gab - Delta Ikari, the saddest boy - “Choosing” to put yourself in the Matrix at gunpoint - The Great American Dinner - The Uchikoshi amnesia character triple twist - Laughing and having a great time with Zero, just out of frame - Professor Sean Layton, Boy Detective - Answering questions I'm sorry to have asked - Zero's creepy uncle fit - President Delta - Radical-6 Day Reunion - PSA for all ice-cream men in Nebraska - A text prompt to your brain - Leftist Reading (https://www.abnormalmapping.com/leftist-reading-rss) on the Abnormal Mapping network - 999 Season 1 DLC - Official alternate universes (but not in a metaverse way) Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record- (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-original-soundtrack-2022/3-08.%2520Ustulate%2520Pathos%2520-Record-.mp3)” by Shinji Hosoe Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-original-soundtrack-2022/3-19.%2520Morphogenetic%2520Sorrow.mp3)” by Shinji Hosoe Subscribe on Pocket Casts (https://pca.st/s6lbsym8), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zero-context/id1639410711), or wherever you get podcasts. You can support Axe (https://ko-fi.com/winggamer) and Nathalie (https://ko-fi.com/kritiqal) on their respective Ko-Fi pages, keep up with them on Cohost @wingblade (https://cohost.org/wingblade) and @BOOitsnathalie (https://cohost.org/BOOitsnathalie), and follow the show page (https://cohost.org/ZeroContext/) for exclusive memes and research notes. Send your questions/comments/complaints to questions@kritiqal.com (mailto:questions@kritiqal.com), and tell your mom about us.

3. 

   20 Mar 2024

   Episode 23: Not Living in a Society

   Content warning: this episode briefly discusses starvation, sexual assault, domestic abuse, suicide and suicidal ideation, dismemberment, the death of infants, and gun violence. Through a chaotic sequence of various form of time travel, Axe and Nathalie have finally ended up at Zero Time Dilemma’s apex. They bare witness to a cabin fever love story, learn about transporter cooldown timers, and send clones of doomed babies back to the turn of the 20th century. Shifting to another timeline, they discover the facility is not what it seems, get another round of snail story facts, and finally glance at that bloody anagram before our favorite boy Carlos blows the door off its hinges… This episode covers the fragments- [Q Team] -> Pop-Off (new ending)- [D Team] -> Transport- [D Team] -> Door of Truth- [C Team] -> Get Back- [C Team] -> Anthropic Principle (new ending) Next time on Zero Context- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [ball boy in the matrix with Zero] fragment -> Play all outcomes- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [ball boy in the transporter room] fragment -> Play all outcomes Things Discussed- Why Obama sold Zero an alien transporter- The Swapper (Facepalm Games, 2013) and clone ethics- A game about dads- Getting played out during your love confession- Post coital, fully clothed pillow talk- Licking booze off the ground- Human Baby + Gab = Zero- Getting softlocked by birthdays- Zero's podcast- Turning on Joker mode- Uchikoshi decorating the fake lounge just for us- Post credits dance sequence- Writing budget constraints into the story- Ordinary everyman Carlos- Solving the trolley problem with clairvoyance- Zero, savior of humanity- Asking what YOU are doing about radical-6???- Carlos the taxi-driver- A thousand unfortunate accidents- Everyone and no one is guilty- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 2011, and ⁠Abnormal Mapping’s Fabula Nova Crystallis episode⁠ (https://www.abnormalmapping.com/the-abnormal-mapping-podcast/2024/2/14/abnormal-mapping-156-fabula-nova-crystallis-final-fantasy-xiii)- ⁠Novel Not New⁠ (https://www.abnormalmapping.com/novel-not-new/2022/7/21/novel-not-new-41-ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiative) and ⁠Say It In Red⁠ (https://sayitinred.buzzsprout.com/1470223/10479503-say-it-in-red-episode-26-ai-the-somnium-files-part-1)'s episodes on AI: The Somnium Files Intro: “⁠Ustulate Pathos -Record-⁠ (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-original-soundtrack-2022/3-08.%2520Ustulate%2520Pathos%2520-Record-.mp3)” by Shinji HosoeOutro: “⁠Morphogenetic Sorrow⁠ (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-original-soundtrack-2022/3-19.%2520Morphogenetic%2520Sorrow.mp3)” by Shinji Hosoe Subscribe on ⁠Pocket Casts⁠ (https://pca.st/s6lbsym8), ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zero-context/id1639410711), or wherever you get podcasts. You can support ⁠Axe⁠ (https://ko-fi.com/winggamer) and ⁠Nathalie⁠ (https://ko-fi.com/kritiqal) on their respective Ko-Fi pages, keep up with them on Cohost ⁠@wingblade⁠ (https://cohost.org/wingblade) and ⁠@BOOitsnathalie⁠ (https://cohost.org/BOOitsnathalie), and follow ⁠the show page⁠ (https://cohost.org/ZeroContext/) for exclusive memes and research notes. Send your questions/comments/complaints to ⁠questions@kritiqal.com⁠ (mailto:questions@kritiqal.com), and tell your mom about us.

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