Speaker 2:
Hey, what's going down? Oh, it's me, the Toxic Teacher. You can find me on all those socials Toxic Teacher TTV Except for YouTube. You'll find me at the Toxic Teacher, and this is everyone's favorite, or maybe least favorite, dead by Daylight podcast Camping them Softly. Hey, we're back. We have been gone for like what? Two weeks, I think maybe three, and there's a good reason for that. We have moved places.
Speaker 1:
You've got some kick-ass sh*t.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I've got everything hooked back up and you don't realize how intricate your setup is until you've unhooked everything and you don't label a single chord. You don't organize in any way, you just have that box of chords. You know what I'm talking about. I think everybody's probably got that. If you're anything like me, you've got that like that box of of just random chords and it it. Just you're trying to like figure out what goes to what, what goes to my you know my mix, or what goes to the microphone versus the TV, versus the monitor, versus this and that and the other thing. And it's been a, a complete nightmare. But I think we are?
Speaker 1:
I think we are.
Speaker 2:
I don't know if that's acceptable on the podcast platforms, but we'll leave it. So we're finally back. Thank you guys for coming. If you heard that f*cking theme song, that's, that's my favorite. I think that everybody that is somebody on the on the stream said every theme song you have is your favorite Number one. One person said that. The other person said all you do the entire stream is listen to songs about yourself. And you're goddamn right, I listen to songs about myself, because what else am I going to listen to songs about? And so we got to get back into the swing, right, because we have been out for so long and it's just, it's been.
Speaker 2:
I'm exhausted, I guess, is the best way to describe it. I'm trying to get back into dead by daylight. I haven't played any games, I've just been. I've been, you know, packing. And then you think, oh well, packing was the hard part, unpacking is going to be the easy part. So you start unpacking and you're like, okay, this isn't bad, but then you have to organize everything that you just unpacked and put everything where it goes, and that has been the absolute nightmare for me. But I think we're. I think we're where we need to be. I've got a little bit of like desk organization.
Speaker 2:
I do like the audio in this new in the new room here where the magic happens. This is where the f*cking magic happens and I like it. I think it's going pretty well and we'll see. I haven't streamed yet from here, so I can't guarantee, but the podcast, like listening to it, it sounds really good. So I think it's going well. I think it's going well, so let's get started where we always get started. I've got to thank some of the people who have downloaded, especially the last episode. I always like to go through these see if there's any new ones, and it looks like there are a couple of new ones here, a few new ones that I want to talk about here. So we've got Frankfurt I think that's in Germany, right, frankfurt? And then we have Cleveland, ohio. They're back. That's old stuff.
Speaker 2:
Brandon Mississippi, which I don't think I've ever talked about before. What I'm doing is I'm on our good friend Wikipedia here I'm going to type in Brandon Mississippi because we're getting our geography lessons here. Remember, I told you I was a former geography teacher, hence where the name comes from. So we're going to learn geography. I'm not totally done with that, but Brandon Mississippi is a city in the county seat of Rankin County, mississippi. The population is 25,000 and that is a suburb of Jackson Mississippi.
Speaker 2:
I don't know that there's anything like notable about Brandon Mississippi. They have five fire stations. That is on. Yeah, oh, the town was mentioned in the 1986 film Platoon by the character that's played by Charlie Sheen. If you've ever seen Platoon, which I haven't, I need to go back and watch that. So there you go, you got hey, we got something there out of Brandon Mississippi.
Speaker 2:
We've got reading which is in reading, which I don't reading. I don't even know. Like you, just type reading location reading it's in Berkshire. Is that Berkshire? Berkshire? This is one of our good British friends. I don't even know if there's anything about reading Berkshire. Let me see Berkshire. Is it Berkshire? I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, scrolling. Culture, references, landmarks, media, nothing, nothing, nothing. This is the most detailed Wikipedia page about this place that basically it says everything, but it also says nothing Like it goes into so much detail about how their public transport works, how their air, their, their airfields, their national rail system. This is not what I'm looking for here. Let me, let me go back. We're going to skip them. I'm not even going to go, uh, even further. Uh, st Catherine's, ontario, I believe that's outside of Toronto. We've got Berlin. We've got gel gel sin Kirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Okay, we've got another one. We've got Palermo, here in Italy, thank you, we've got. The Flemish Brabant province has now come back. We've got Vancouver for our Canadian friends. Now we're on both sides of Canada. We had a swift kick 85, remember from the Eastern part of Canada out in the Toronto area. Now we've got Vancouver, out there.
Speaker 2:
Avon Colorado, which I don't know where Avon Colorado is. I wonder if that's, I wonder if that's like a Denver thing. Avon Colorado, here we go, you notice, I don't even you know prepare or anything. Avon Colorado has a population of 6,000, which means I'm like, listened to by a not insignificant percentage of the population. 14% of the people in Avon are below the poverty line. And let me see the second. Okay, get this. The number one employer in Avon is a riverfront resort and spa called the Westin, and then the number two employer is Walmart. The number three is City Market. Number four is Maya Mexican Kitchen. Number six is Home Depot.
Speaker 2:
That is a tiny ass town which is almost like the town I grew up in. This one has 6,000. I'm looking at the town I grew up in. I'm not going to tell you, our population was 3,000 in 2020.
Speaker 2:
I wonder if we can go back to whenever I, whenever I was there, that was in the eighties there was, yeah, there was, yeah, it. There was 1,800 people. Whenever I was there, uh, growing up in my tiny Asian town and get this, the town was 91% white. That's today. It was probably even even more before. So that, if, if that tells you the kind of upbringing I had in my kind of extremely conservative brainwashing see, this is sad. This I'm talking about the, the, you know the, the kind of religious upbringing I had, which was way, it was beyond what you would see in those movies, right, where they, the, the people are taught to hate, and you know that that was me at one point, which, thankfully, thank goodness, I grew out of. So that was that.
Speaker 2:
Now let's talk about uh, what are we going to talk about? We're going to talk about dead by daylight. I don't know that. A whole lot has happened in the couple of weeks since our last meeting here, the biggest one, you know, the twisted masquerade went on. Uh, we talked about that. We talked about you know it, it. You know all the different things they did. I thought it was cool that you know all the different things they did. I thought it was cool that you know some of the additional features.
Speaker 2:
There were a lot of blood points, so I was able to catch up on a lot of killers. I was able to prestige up a lot of my killers. I was also able to prestige up a lot of survivors, which I don't even know why I do that, because I don't play them a whole lot. I guess I just do it just to do it and just in case, right, if I, if I am, if I am, you know, ever going to play survivor, I, you know, every once in a while, I'll play on stream, and so I like to have those perks right on multiple characters, just in case. You know, we're feeling kind of freaky and, uh, doing something different.
Speaker 2:
Now here's another thing. So you know, I'm always on these, I'm always everywhere, right, reading. That's all I do is I read and I study and I study these survivor mains. That's like my thesis. Right, I'm writing something Actually, I'm not, but I probably could.
Speaker 2:
By the end of this podcast, I should like put them all together and like come up with a. Come up with, like a you know, some kind of research, some kind of dissertation on the mindset. Maybe I can work with a psychologist based on what all I see. And then we can come up with, like the mental illnesses potential in survivors, because there's probably, I would say the mental illness ratio has got to be higher in survivor mains than it is in the general population. And I say gen pop, like it's like a prison or something.
Speaker 2:
Playing Dead by Daylight could be considered a little bit of a prison, wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree't you agree? What's my trombone? I might. There we go. So there is one thing I found, and we're going to talk about one perk in particular that I think is a problem. I don't know if you do you Survivor mains won't, obviously, but let's talk about it just briefly. I don't know, we may go more in depth, depending on. You know where this goes. It's all kind of train of thought, right? That's how this podcast runs, the second most popular active Dead by Daylight podcast, next to the number one and the only other Dead by Daylight podcast.
Speaker 1:
I'm going to get off by cranking your knob just a little beyond the breaking point.
Speaker 2:
I don't even know what that means. I need to get the other one. I need to get the hanging and banging one, the Hulk Hogan hanging and banging. I don't know if you've ever seen that there's one. It's a compilation of all the times. The WWF, I guess. At the time WWF wrestler Hulk Hogan used the phrase hanging and banging and he has one of my favorite phrases of all time. He says for 40 days and for 40 nights on the Titanic, we hung and bung, which doesn't even. It doesn't make sense on multiple levels, because for 40 days of 49 says Noah's Ark, it's not the Titanic and I don't even know what hanging and banging means. But they hung and bung in the past tense, which hung is past, that's a past participle. I have hung, right. So he would have to say we have hung and bung, but bung is not a word either. You're like bang, but I bung. I don't know, anyway.
Speaker 2:
So we have to talk about this perk, this survivor perk that I want to talk about is windows of opportunity, and that perk, to me, has been a problem for quite a while and I need to pull up some nightlight statistics on it. I'm going to pull that up while I'm talking, but first I want to, I want to talk about what it does and let me pull that up. So, windows of opportunity. It is a Kate Denson perk, that is, you know, it's her teachable, and I think it's a problem because everybody and their f*cking mother runs this perk, and I think it's gotten to the point where it's out of control because everybody runs it, because it's so important and it's so popular. And here's what it does. Okay, so right now, what it does is it allows survivors to see the auras of all breakable walls, all pallets and all vault locations within a certain range, you know. And tier one, it's 24, tier 228 and then, uh, tier three, it's 32 meters, um, depending on, you know, depending on what tier you have. So essentially, this shows survivors where to go. This is the number one perk used by survivors right now and for a long time it has been. And, as of as of today, what we see is in the last two weeks it has been used by 34 percent. In 34 percent of all matches this gets used. One third of all survivors are running this perk as we speak right now.
Speaker 2:
Now it's undergone some changes because in the very beginning it had a cool down in the 2.0 patch, which was back in 2021. Perks been out for three years. In 2021, you would see it within a 20 meter range. You would see all these auras right, pallets and vaults range. You would see all these auras right, pallets and vaults. But then whenever you vaulted, or whenever you did a vault, or if you dropped a pallet, there would be a cooldown of 40 seconds at tier three. So it wasn't active all the time, it was only active part of the time and then, like most other perks, it's got a cool down right now. Back in those days it was used about five percent of the time. It wasn't used very often. Very few survivors used it.
Speaker 2:
Now the developers figured out that not many people were using it. It didn't have much use, relatively speaking. So they said let's change it, let's drop the cooldown just a little bit and we'll see what happens, right, because that cooldown is a little bit long. On tier one, it was actually 60 seconds a full minute before the auras would come back. 40 seconds at tier three, okay, so you know close to a minute. So they drop it to 20 seconds at tier three Now. At tier one it was 30 seconds, then it goes to 25 in tier two and then 20 seconds at tier three. Now the perk at this point has more value, right. Whenever, whenever, um, you know, whenever you drop the cool down, it's more useful simply because you are going to be able to use it more times in a match. Right Only makes sense.
Speaker 2:
Now, if we take a look here, in that I could be wrong. No, I said it came out in 2021. It came out in 2018. I apologize, I apologize. So it's still used in about 5% of matches, even with that cool down dropping, and that was back in 3.0. It was dropped, and I think I misspoke on the 2.0. That was way, way back in like 2018. So it was never really a big perk to be used, right, because it had limited.
Speaker 2:
Uh, limited you, or it had limited. What am I looking for? What's a f*cking word that I'm looking for? God damn it. Uh, the. What's the word? It had limited use, usefulness. Is that right? Limited usefulness? There's a better word? There is a better word than, uh, um, applicability, usefulness, a limited thing? I can't think of it. A limited? You know what's going to come to me and I'm probably going to scream it out here in a little bit, so don't be scared whenever it comes out Limited utility. That's a limited utility. Okay, because it would only you know happen four or five times in a match, maybe in a long match. You know happened four or five times in a match, maybe in a long match.
Speaker 2:
So they figured out we, we dropped the cool down. Still not working that well. So why don't we eliminate that cool down? It will increase the range that you can f*cking see him. Which you know what one of those or the other one would be okay on its own. Either it has the cool down and you can see the sh*t from farther away, or you take away the cool down, maybe, or drop it completely, but keep that window very, but no pun intended, you keep the window very small.
Speaker 2:
Guess what they did? They said one is not good enough, let's go ahead and do both and make it f*cking annoying for everybody. Do I have a better one? Do I have a better one? There we go. That's a little bit better. Can I turn that up? There we go. That that's a little bit better. Turn my sound effects up now. The other ones are going to be really loud, because that one's not very loud anyway. So they take away both.
Speaker 2:
Now let's see what the uses uses, uses, usage. Let's see what the uses uses, uses, usage. Let's see what the usage sound like Sausage usage usage. Sausage seepage, shrinkage, uh, peerage peerage is a word, by the way Uh, fuse, uh, fuselage. No, that's different Sausage. Nobody says sausage. But go get me a moss, jesus christ. Okay, anyway, back to it.
Speaker 2:
So in 5.3.0, which was back in october 2021, three years ago, this almost three. I know I'm arguing about a three-year-old f*cking change, but check out what happens after the change. They take away everything. No, cool down, increase the rage. Let's make it the best f*cking thing ever. It goes from a now four percent pick rate within one year it's gone up to a 22% pick rate and then, as of today, it's at 35%. Like we said, one out of every three is running this f*cking perk, which is ridiculous, that's.
Speaker 2:
It's stupid how much this perk gets used, and there's a reason for it's the easy button for survivors, right, that they know exactly where to go. They know where everything is. They don't have to learn a f*cking map, they don't have to look, they don't have to physically inspect, because there is a bright light saying here's where you're supposed to go. Now, how, how is that? Okay, tell me how. That's okay, I'm. I'm waiting because guess what? The second most used perk is? With windows of opportunity, I'm going to give you a second to see if you could pick. To see if you could f*cking pick, I'll give the music bed. Oh no, I'm not, because that's my. You know what. I'm gonna add some noise, some loud noise, while you f*cking think, think about it. What's the second f*cking most used perk? With this perk, I hope that was annoying because I'm pissed.
Speaker 2:
Second most used perk is life. Now, what the f*ck does life do, you may be asking. You notice how I was like calm at the beginning and now I'm f*cking in. I should, I should like get going and then start recording whenever I'm f*cking into it. So what happened with life? Life is whenever you do a rushed vault, you break into a sprint for three seconds, get away from the f*cking killer. So now you can see exactly where you're supposed to go. You see this big flashing vault thing. You jump it, you get away from the killer.
Speaker 2:
This is ridiculous, this is stupid and I, I, I don't get it. I don't get it, like I don't know. I, I don't even know what to say because I I don't know, I don't know you, tell me why I'm wrong on this. Because because I don't think I am the killers don't have a perk like this. And whenever a killer perk gets up to this high of usage and I think this is a really good argument I just came up with in my head out of nowhere, my head out of nowhere.
Speaker 2:
I think this is a great argument is that whenever a killer perk gets this highly used, they nerf it almost every single time because it's become too useful. Tell me if I'm wrong on that, because I am not wrong, I will die on that hill and I guarantee you the statistics back it up, even though I haven't researched it, because I don't do research before I get on here is that I guarantee you, if any perk hits a certain threshold, it gets nerfed, whereas on the survivor side, this perk has been in place as it is and it's been at over 30 percent pick rate for over a year. A year and a half it's been at this pick rate and they haven't find me a killer perk. That's even close. Find me one because they nerfed pain res, right, right, okay, the highest the pick right ever got for that was 28,. Right, right, and it gets nerfed in 8.0. That's after only two months of being close to 30%. It was two months of being close, it was at 28% and they're like, f*ck, we got to nerf it. Guess what? As soon as a nerf happens, it goes down to 23%. It drops 5%. It goes down to 23%, it drops 5%. It'll probably drop even more, as people kind of figure it out. You know a lot of people don't pay attention to these nerfs, but you'll see it go down and, down and down.
Speaker 2:
If we check any other perks, pop Goes the Weasel. At one point Pop was at 28%. That was back in 2021. That was the 5.2 patch. Now it's getting used up to 28 and then it hovers around 20, 22, 23, 6.1 comes out. It's's at 20%. Pop goes a weasel, which remember, that's whenever you kick a gen, it loses a certain chunk of its progress. Right? They say, well, 6.1, let's nerf it. It's at 20%, it's too much. Okay, they changed it from 25% of the gen being wiped out with a kick after you hook somebody to 20%.
Speaker 2:
Guess what happens to that perk? It goes from a 20% usage rate to 7%. Now it stays at 7% for many, many months and then in 7.0, which is almost a year, a full year later it's actually 11 months later they increase it. They say, well, it's not being used anymore, let's bump it back up. So they bump it from 20% Remember it's at 25. They dropped it to 20. Now they upped it to 30. So guess what happens? The pick rate goes up. It goes up from 5.9% up to in 2024, it was being used 26% of the time. So not even that 28 to 30% that windows was.
Speaker 2:
Now guess what they do? It's approaching 30. It's approaching 30. What do we have to do whenever it's approaching 30, drop it down. So guess what they do? In 8.0, which is June 3rd, they drop it back down to 20%, and so now it's back to what it was, f*cking two, three years ago. Now we did all that work, all that up and down, just to go right back to where we were. How is that okay? How is this okay? Now guess what's going to happen. Guess what's going to happen. It's going to hang around 20% and then I guarantee you give it, because it hung around 20 something percent for over a year, and then they kill it. Okay. So maybe we're looking at June of this year. Let's see what happens June of next year. You can mark it down on your toxic calendar. I should mark it down, I should put a reminder somewhere. Check pop goes a weasel in one year and see what happens.
Speaker 2:
Now, if we're checking any other perks I'm checking some of the other um, the other highly used perks Um, you don't see lethal pursuer really get changed that much because it only hovers around 17 percent, nowhere to hide with the knight. Um hovers around 15 percent. I don't know it's see, and that's part of the thing is, killers do not have a perk that jumps that high. If you look at surge, surge got killed whenever they killed the. The gen regression, whenever they said well, we're going to stop the three gen and so you can only regress it so many times. That kills that. I, I just I don't get it. I, I really don't get it. If you look at life itself, life hovers around the 25%, 23%. Nothing changes, no big deal. So where is the sense of equity here? That if survivors start to use a perk too much, we got to kill it? You look at barbecue and chili, for instance. Back in 2021, barbecue and chili was used half the time. It was up to a 50% use by killers.
Speaker 2:
Now it did two things very well. Number one it gave you increased blood points, which was awesome. Number two let me go back. I'm going to look and see. This was 5.1.0. Where did they kill it? They killed it at 6.1. What did what did they do? Oh, they took away the blood point reward. They actually didn't even change the perk itself. They took away the blood points. They said, well, they're using it too much to get these extra blood points. Guess what we're gonna do. f*ck them, let's take it away. And guess what happens after 6.1. It goes from a 36% usage rate within three months or no. That was in July. So we're looking at what. Five, five months. It goes from 36% to 15% and it's been there for the past two years at about 15%. Um, and then it actually got buffed in 7.1 to where they increased the amount of time you could see people from four to five seconds. The usage rate actually went down after they did that. I don't know why people would use it less after that, but that's kind of where it's going now.
Speaker 2:
One perk that I'm worried about that we're seeing an increased use of is Franklin's demise, and it's been, you know, in the seven since 7.0 back in 2023, it's been used 2%, 3%, like 5% at the very most. But now you have weave attunement from the Lich, from Vecna, where if somebody drops an item, you can see their aura. If they're near, well, franklin's makes them drop an item, so it's natural that you would combine the two together. So we see the usage of Franklin shooting up because it works with weave attunement. Guess what they're going to f*cking do with this Get. You can only guess what they're going to do with either Franklin's or with weave attunement, or both. They will kill this sooner or later. It's too useful for killers. It's too good right now that people will get pissed. And now, yeah, you already see it online, you see it on the f*cking, you see it on the f*cking Facebook, you see it everywhere right now is just that they are f*cking because something is taking away part of the fun from them and they can't handle that and it's, it's stupid, totally ridiculous. Tell me what you think.
Speaker 2:
Regina, saskatchewan, mesa, arizona, mishawaka, indiana, mishawaka, mishawaka, louisville, kentucky, san Antonio, portland, chicago, brampton I don't know where Brampton is. I do want to know what my Italian things are. That, but that's windows of opportunity and I guess we got into a bigger, a bigger conversation there about what behavior does with perks, and you know they may even do it with killers as well. Um, if one killer gets used too much, or the kill rate, I want to say if the kill rate gets too high, that they do something about it. I don't know if that's really the case, because if you look, I'm checking out the kill rate as we're talking right now, number one kill rate is a skull merchant at 70%. I don't know if they're going to do anything about this because they've done some tweaks and it's the same f*cking thing, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2:
And Vecna is number two at 68. Sadako at number three was 66. Hillbilly 64. Twins at 63. And I'm wondering if I do my same. Oh, actually, knight is in dead last at 53 percent. That's interesting.
Speaker 2:
Singularity is 53. I'm getting 85s with singularity. After 10 match I was doing 85 kill rate. I think I may actually try to go further with that because I had so much fun. Singularity I know I already said it once.
Speaker 2:
Singularity, one of my favorite killers now hands down. I can't wait. I know we're in the PTB right now. I don't generally play the PTB because I want to wait until it comes out and play it. It's not because I can't, because I'm on PC. I can't if I feel like it, I just have not.
Speaker 2:
Um, so I'm curious to see what those changes are going to be. And then, um, let me see, third from the bottom, trickster. Fourth from the bottom spirit, excuse me. And um, let me see Demogorgon is fifth from the bottom there. So that that is uh, interesting, muy interesante, as they would say, and Freddie is also Muy interesante, as they would say. And Freddie is also toward the top of the kill. I think he's number five on there, which I find very interesting.
Speaker 2:
And I also find interesting that the pick rate of these killers is not necessarily tied to the kill rate. For instance, chucky's kill rate is kind of middle of the road, but he's picked a lot. Wesker's kill rate is kind of mid-low, but he's the third most picked, which is which maybe it's the license issue, I don't know Ghost faces is kind of up there a little bit mid high, but his kill rate is definitely not mid high, whereas if you see somebody like skull merchant is kind of, you know, middle of the pack, even though kills a sh*tload of people. Twins third from the bottom. Uh, yeah, freddie, a second from the bottom. They have two of the highest kill rates in the game. So maybe it's the people that are playing. Them are just unbelievably good. I don't know, but that that's kind of where we are. So the other.
Speaker 2:
The other big thing that I can give a big applause to is that they have announced the new, the new crossover. Well, I guess they already announced this. Not new news, but it's kind of new, because they released a new trailer is for the crossover of Castlevania coming to Dead by Daylight, which is. It's pretty cool. I'm excited about that. I think it's going to be neat.
Speaker 2:
I think Dracula as a killer is very interesting. I wonder, I wonder what they could do with Dracula. I wonder if they'll use the invisibility. I wonder if they'll use, you know, I I don't know. Like you know, I don't know what they could use. Because if we look up Dracula, like I'm going to look them up on Wikipedia, I want to look up Dracula, the character. I don't want to look up Dracula, the, the the guy, because I mean that would just be a human. Dracula, the, the the guy, because I mean that would just be a human. So Dracula, uh, let me see, I'm going to, I'm going to Wikipedia Dracula.
Speaker 2:
Um, let me see, count Dracula. I wonder if he'll keep his Royal title and I I don't know who made him account. Uh, oh, he has nicknames here. I didn't know he had nicknames. D is one of the D period, is a nickname, vico, slog and Rolok. He's known as Rolok what, and he's also known as Stregoyka. I do what Pokehole? I don't know what Pokehole is. Poke, it's P-O-K-o-l that it sounds like poke hole. Okay, so let me go. Let me go here. Uh, count dragula.
Speaker 2:
Um, let me see iconic powers turn others into vampires by biting them. Now, that's an interesting idea, I think. If, if they could do See, now, it's all f*cking loud, see, I was going to get you with that If he could somehow turn the other survivors into vampires, I don't know how that would work, like the survivors would die, maybe, if they didn't bite another survivor. How would that work, though? Because you would constantly be biting each other, I, I feel like that could be a secondary thing, but then somebody could choose not to bite and just die. Huh it, but only one person, because it couldn't be. I would think it couldn't be multiple, right, multiple people couldn't also be vampires, because that would be. I would think it couldn't be multiple, right? Multiple people couldn't also be vampires, because that would be too. That would be too strong. But let me see, let me see what, uh, what other powers he has. Is there a section on powers? Um, he has an appreciation for ancient architecture and prefers purchasing old houses, saying a new home would kill me and it takes a century to make one habitable. Okay, one of one of his interests is real estate. I don't know how you could.
Speaker 2:
He has a long white mustache in in early. He is described early in the novel as thin, with a long white mustache, pointed ears and sharp teeth. He has a hooked nose and a pointed beard with a streak of white. He has hair on his palms. Okay, this is the way Bram Stoker described him. I don't think that's. You know, that's not what he's gonna look like. Uh, let me, let me see. Um, okay, here we go, here we go. He is immune. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:
Dracula has superhuman strength which, according to Van Helsing, is the equivalent to that of 20 strong men. Okay, so there we go. We got one of his powers here. So one of them is make other vampires right. Second, one is strong. He's strong as 20 dudes. Um 20 strong dudes, by the way, it's not just 20 dudes, 20 strong dudes, probably like 50 weak dudes, a hundred, a hundred weak dudes, 200 dead by daylight players. Oh dude, do I have my laugh? Where's my laugh? Okay, that's enough of that. That goes on for a while. Okay, so he's strong, like uh, stronger than many dudes.
Speaker 2:
He doesn't cast a shadow or have reflection, so could that be something like, uh, like a terror radius type thing? Uh, he is immune to conventional means of attack. A tail, a sailor, a tailor, what? What if a tailor guys like hemming pants and then attacks dracula? A sailor tries to stab him in the back with a knife, but the blade goes through his body as though it is air.
Speaker 2:
He can defy gravity to a certain extent and possesses superhuman agility, able to climb vertical surfaces upside down in a reptilian manner. Like manner M-A-N-N-E-R. Not like a reptilian manner, like a house for reptiles I pressed the wrong button n-n-e-r. Not like a reptilian manor, like a house for reptiles. Yeah, it's like. Oh, reptile house is amazing. He can travel onto unhallowed grounds, such as the graves of suicides and those of his victims. What can normal people not do that. It's a unhallowed ground. I like, how is that an ability I could like? If somebody kills themselves, I can walk on their grave. I don't what. I'm confused. Okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 2:
He has powerful hypnotic, telepathic and illusionary abilities. Now, this, this could be interesting, because we've seen a couple of killers do this, right, where they have the ability to, um, like the doctor has those illusionary doctors, right. Could we somehow do that with? Here we go? Think about this, cause we have bots right. Right, we have killer bots and sh*t like that. What if we had a dracula bot that could move and chase survivors, had a terror radius, had a red stain, but wasn't real, like if it got to you, it just disappeared. Like, instead of attacking you, just poof to where you're running from something that doesn't exist. This is genius, this is f*cking amazing. Like that perfect perk, please, behavior. Make this a perk. I think that would be amazing. He also has the ability to, within limitations, vanish and reappears elsewhere. It will. If he knows the path. He can come out from anything. He can come out from anything or into anything.
Speaker 2:
Oh good lord that's what she said uh, regardless of how close it is bound, or even if it is soldered shut, he can't. Oh, okay, I'm not even gonna, I'm not Okay. So the other thing, he can die. Obviously. He can command animals such as rats, owls, bats, moths Like I don't know how commanding moths would be a dead by daylight ability, but could we somehow have him destroy people's clothing in a closet, unless they have mothballs? And he can also command foxes and wolves, although his control is limited. So, uh, what summons his trio of terriers? Oh, it's, somebody else summons a trio of terriers to fight off thousands of rats. Oh, good Lord.
Speaker 2:
Okay, he can manipulate the weather, such as storms, fogs, fog and mist, and he can also change shape and he can grow and become small. Change shape and he can grow and become small. So it says right here in the novel he turns into a bat, a large dog in fog or a mist, and then, whenever the moonlight is shining, he can travel as elemental dust within its rays. Okay, so we got some shape-shifting right, we can do that. Maybe he can like, do like a little fog thing, I don't even know, I'm just spitballing here. He can pass through tiny cracks while retaining his human form. He slipped through a space of a tomb door or coffin door. He also this also ability used by his victim, lucy's a vampire. Okay, it's entry. He can, like slink through small cracks and then there's his vampire bloodletting baptism of blood. I don't even know what that is. Limitations of his powers Dracula is much less powerful in daylight, so that could be a thing, right? So we're doing like a dredge thing with nightfall and daylight. Could you, could you do that? It says right here and this is interesting. Okay, I'm telling you something interesting. You need to listen, because this is interesting. Sun is not fatal to him and sunlight does not burn or destroy him, though most of his abilities cease. Okay, that's something that's different from all the sh*t you see on dracula 2000, which was a terrible f*cking movie. By the way it, if you need to see a terrible movie, watch dracula 2000, because I think at point isn't he on an airplane who was in that movie? Hang on, hold on, dracula. I'm still on Berkshire. Hang on, I'm on Wikipedia. I've got like four Wikipedia tabs open. Let's see Dracula 2000. Dracula 2000. It is a 2000 movie. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:
It stars Gerard Butler as Dracula and as Christopher Plummer, omar Epps, jerry Ryan, johnny Lee Miller and Christopher Plummer. The plot follows Dracula, who arrives in New Orleans in the 21st century and seeks out Mary Heller, the daughter of Abraham Van Helsing. Oh, good Lord, it was a critical and commercial failure, which I went and saw in the theater, so I was part of the problem there. Danny Masterson, convicted molester and rap rapist, is also in it, and so is Nathan Fillion as a priest, and Shane West of walk to remember fame is JT Sean Patrick Thomas. Why is that name familiar? No well, it's not familiar. Is it supposed to be? I don't anyway. Terrible movie, uh, let me see. I'm. I'm reading here critical reception, negative reviews from critics.
Speaker 2:
A rating of 17, with an average score of 3.59 out of 10 on rotten tomatoes. Um, let me see here. Um, it gave the film. Uh uh, entertainment weekly gave it a C minus score. Of all the indignities that have been visited upon Dracula during the past century, including being the inspiration for a cereal and a Sesame street character in being lampooned by Mel Brooks, none is more unsettling than what has happened to the world's most famous vampire in Dracula 2000. The BBC gave the film one out of five stars, saying it was destined to enter the so bad it's good, hall of fame, in a prime example of that old remake adage if you can't do it better or different, don't do it at all. By the way, if you want the soundtrack, you can enjoy the soothing sounds of Power man 5000, linkin Park, pantera, system of a Down Slayer and Disturbed.
Speaker 2:
If you want a dose of all the worse that the year 2000 has to offer, I would suggest getting the Dracula 2000 soundtrack on Spotify Actually, I don't know if it's on Spotify. And guess what we're going to f*cking do right now, and we're totally off the actually are we still on the dead by daylight? We're still on the topic of dead by daylight, right, we have to do Spotify, spotifycom, and then we're going to doify spotifycom and then we're gonna do um, hang on dracula, dracula 2000, oh my, uh, oh god, oh, it's here, oh, it's here. Oh, no, disturbed slayer. Power man, oh, it's got. Oh, by the way, it's also got Saliva, taproot, head, pe and Static X. This has got to be the worst f*cking soundtrack. Monster Magnet, godhead and Marilyn Manson. If you want the worst thing you have ever seen or heard in your life, download Dracula 2000,.
Speaker 2:
The soundtrack, and there are two direct to tv sequels that were made Dracula. What were the sequels called? Hang on, hang on. Dracula 2000, let me see. Dracula 2, ascension, and then Dracula 3, legacy. And Dracula 2 stars Jason Scott Lee. And then who else? Roy Scheider is in it. Oh god, he must have been hurting for money at that time. It, oh yeah, tom Kane is in it. That name is familiar. Hang on, let me I. Now, I've got to see what the next one is. I apologize. Dracula 3 legacy stars jason scott lee again, and roy scheider. Who is hurting for money? Oh jesus, hang on, dracula.
Speaker 2:
I'm reading here romania has been devastated by civil war. Nato peacekeepers lining the streets. Is this dracula versus nato? Oh no, helicopter containing a news reporter, it is whatever. I or tommy is turned by the vampire clowns terrorizing the village. Oh, oh, good lord, what dracula's return to? Uh, with Elizabeth to his castle, cardinal, cardinal Soscaros refuses to give Uffizi his blessing for the defrocks himself. And I, I know like reading half of each sentence, the undead attack the rebel base in the middle. Oh, this is Rutger Hauer as Dracula. Oh my god, how did I not know this was a thing? What did? What did they say? Um, oh no, rutger Hauer is Dracula. No, dracula falls somewhere below Hellraiser but above the Crows sequels Rutger Hauer as Dracula.
Speaker 2:
I'm gonna have to ask my buddy, who's like a, he's a, he's a horror movie like aficionado, if he's seen the sequel to Dracula 2000. Who plays Dracula in the second one? Then, hang on, who plays Dracula? Uh, what is Dracula in the second one? Somebody plays Jesus in the second one. How does this even work? What twin female vampires in part two received Dracula's corpse? Uh, as they begin to believe the body is a vampire, the two argue what to do with it. Um, grant Dracula absolution of father. Grants Dracula absolution. Dracula is in fact Judas Iscariot. Spoiler alert Judas is Dracula, wait, okay. So I need to go down and see who plays Judas. Then, oh, there's a Dracula, the second in part two. What the f*ck is going on here? Oh, hang on.
Speaker 2:
Elizabeth and Luke managed to escape. I don't know who they are because I didn't read the first part of the plot. Um, they escape the morgue with Lowell instructing them to take the body to his secluded family home to conduct the experiment. I don't know what the experiment is. I assume it was in paragraph one that I didn't read. They invite fellow students. Of course that's a great idea, inviting fellow students to come assist with the experiment. The un unread experiment on dracula's body that has received absolution from a priest. Lowell instructs them to submerge the body in a bathtub full of blood. Who is lowell, we don't know, but he told him to put it in blood. After some time passes, without results. Dracula emerges from the tub in a frenzy. Uh, the students attempt to hold him down. Okay, this is great. Hey, dracula just came out. Hold him down. He has the power of 20 strong men, but four students are gonna hold him down.
Speaker 2:
Tanya is pulled into the tub and pushed out the window to her death oh sexy girlfriend, the benefactor, eric, who what he's a benefactor arrives and manages the to hold the vampire back with a modified light gun, which we know doesn't work on the real Dracula from Bram Stoker. Uh, though Tonya's death disheartens some of the team, some of the team, it only disheartens some, not others. Not me, says Eric the benefactor, or Lowell, the guy who told them to put Dracula in a tub of blood. They decide to continue with the research after burying her. Let's bury this bitch and we'll keep going. The first thing I want you to do is shut, your stinking hole.
Speaker 2:
Okay, I'm enjoying this and if you're not, f*ck you, because I'm having a great time reading this. One officer finds Father Uffizi oh wait, no, I skipped a sentence. Who cares? Let's keep going. One officer, I don't know what kind, an immigration officer. I don't know what other kinds of officers are there a detention officer? A um park ranger?
Speaker 2:
An officer finds father uffizi, who I don't know who that is. He is and, seeing the blood from the night before attempts to arrest him, tanya revealed to have been turned into a is. Is tanya the one? Oh, she was the one that was pulled out. Uh, remember, he pulled her into the tub and then pushed her out the window and they buried her. But now she's back. Okay, it's starting to get good. She kills one father and goes after uh. Or kills yeah, kills an officer and goes after uffizi. Uh, he subdues her and exposes her to sunlight, killing her. Remember, that's not like Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Speaker 2:
Uffizi later goes to a local church and flagellates himself with the sunlight on him to hold back his vampirism. What? He starts beating himself in the sunlight because that's going to keep him from turning. Well, I don't know. I don't know that. I didn't know he was a vampire number one and number two. I didn't know that beating yourself in the sunlight would keep you from turning.
Speaker 2:
This movie, by the way, cost three million dollars to make, and we're talking about dracula 2000, sequel dracula 2. Was it legacy ascension? You know? Because all terrible, terrible sequels have to have like that colon and then like a subtitle, like bloodlines or ascension or nerds in love. Let's do all the things that you want to do, okay? So the team has now moved the body to an abandoned pool where they chain him up and subdue him with ultraviolet light. As they study him, luke starts to have doubts that dracula what? Okay, this sentence doesn't make sense. Okay, as they study him, luke starts to have doubts that Dracula, held indefinitely and begins, surrounds the vampire with folkloric wards. I don't know what that means, but I'm gonna assume Luke is a weak link here and it's like, okay, we can't hold him with his life, right, we're gonna have to figure something else out. Okay, guys, I'm Luke and I don't approve of what's happening here.
Speaker 2:
Meanwhile, elizabeth feels increasingly strange as the infection in her grows, as does her attraction bond attraction, slash bond to Dracula. I didn't know, elizabeth was infected number one. I don't know what she's infected with and why is she attracted to? A corpse sitting in a pool with ultraviolet light and folkloric wards on it? I don't know what the f*ck's going on right now, but she's looking down at this body in this pool saying that guy's f*cking sexy and I'm infected, having become greedy with the prospect of immortality.
Speaker 2:
Kenny, a third person, so we've got, we've got luke, right? Tanya's dead. Tanya was pushed out the window, became a vampire. Uffizi, the, the priest, I guess, uh killed her, right, uh. So we've got luke, we got elizabeth and we got kenny. Kenny injects himself. Kenny, uh, injects himself with dracula's blood and becomes a vampire, setting out to feed with eric in pursuit who is eric, we don't f*cking know. So eric's chasing kenny because kenny's gonna feed the others.
Speaker 2:
Go back to see lowell, injured and bleeding in the pool. Having been enticed by dracula to do so, dracula asked lowell to bleed in the pool. Hey, get over here Like. I don't know if Dracula's talking or if this is all telepathic or what, but this has become amazing television at this point, or cinema, no, this was a made-for-TV movie, by the way, from Dimension Home Video. Just FYI, it came out on June 7th of 2003. All right, so there we go. Lowell is bleeding in the pool In desperation. Elizabeth takes more blood from Dracula and injects him. I don't know if him I don't know the pronoun in the antecedent I believe him is Lowell. Lowell is bleeding in the pool. Is Lowell? Lowell is bleeding in the pool. And so she injects blood into Lowell, hoping he'll be healed from what who the f*ck knows? I don't know.
Speaker 2:
Kenny kills a woman, making her undead, like himself. He kills. Okay, so he became a vampire, right? Yeah, he injected himself with the blood and was gonna go feed and he killed somebody. She becomes undead. Is she a vampire? Who f*cking knows eric? Remember, we remember eric was chasing kenny, right? We remember that. So kenny's gonna kill eric? Kenny's going to kill Eric Uffizi Remember, he was from before Father Uffizi. He killed Tanya. He, out of nowhere, arrives and decapitates. It says decapitates him. I don't know if he decapitates Eric or decapitates Kenny.
Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
They broke the law. Okay, so we're back to it. Uffizi decapitates somebody. He warns Eric Okay, there we go. So he decapitated Kenny. Remember, kenny was a vampire, killed a woman. She became undead. Uh, he was gonna kill Eric. Uffizi decapitates Kenny, I think because Uffizi warns Eric. But he couldn't decapitate Eric and then warn him, right, because you decapitate Eric and then warn him, right, because you decapitate somebody and then you warn him that like, hey, like, sorry, I decapitated you. He warns Eric that he is coming for the body. He warns Eric that he is coming for the body and leaves to kill the female vampire. He warns Eric he is coming for the body. I don't know who he is. In that sense, I'm assuming Kenny was decapitated. He's telling Eric he is coming for the body. I don't know if he is Uffizi, like Uffizi is coming for Dracula. I don't know the body, who body is? Whoever wrote this is f*cking amazing, this Wikipedia. Oh, this is great. I'm. I need popcorn or something because this is this. I'm gonna turn on my music bed for the next part. Okay, so the injection works and Lowell is able to walk again. Oh so, elizabeth, remember she injected Lowell because Lowell was like dying and bleeding in the pool, right. So she injected him. He can walk, but now he's injected with vampire blood. I don't. It seemed to me everybody is a vampire at this point in the movie, like I don't know if anyone's not infected by something.
Speaker 2:
Returning to dracula, low reveals there was no investor. I don't know what that means. Investor in what is he running a bed and breakfast in his castle? Dracul wasn't at the castle and that he used Elizabeth and the others to cure himself. I don't what was wrong with Lowell in the first place. So he tricked Dracula. He and Eric had concocted the ruse to become rich off the immortality serum. Okay, so they were using, they were harvesting Dracula, basically using Dracula's like a, like a piece of bread for penicillin, right, elizabeth? Elizabeth splashes holy water onto his face in anger and he runs off in pain, he being Lowell or Eric, I don't know, I think it's Lowell.
Speaker 2:
Uffizi arrives and meets Lowell, so, okay. So Lowell is now a heel because he got injected with Dracula's blood. Uffizi has come back, okay. The father, it says, meets Lowell, now a vampire, before killing him. I don't know who is who in this sentence. It says Uffizi arrives and meets Lowell, now a vampire before killing him. I think that means that Uffizi met Lowell, lowell is now a vampire and that Uffizi killed Lowell. So Lowell's dead Father. Uffizi killed him.
Speaker 2:
After recovering some of his strength, dracula breaks free of his restraints somebody, somebody, uh, restraints it should be restraints, uh and bites Eric's face off. That that's that. That was so wrong. That was the wrong sound. Yeah, bite his face off.
Speaker 2:
I don't remember what Eric did before. Eric hasn't done sh*t in this entire movie, by the way. Remember Eric was chasing f*cking uh uh Kenny and then Uffizi decapitated, uh Kenny, and Eric just running around doing absolutely nothing, gets his face bitten off by Dracula. Um, dracula effortlessly passes through the wards and escapes Eric, is turned into a faceless vampire and attacks the group. Okay, he has no face. So what's he going to do? Is he going to bite somebody? Does he have a mouth? I don't know. This is, oh my God, this is. This has got to be. This is cinema. This is cinema art here.
Speaker 2:
Remember Dracula to Ascension, okay, but Eric is killed with holy water by Luke. Now we remember Luke earlier because Luke was one that was unsure about the ultraviolet light in a pool, and so they did the wards. But remember, dracula is broken through all those wards, right? So this? What's going on here? So Luke kills Eric with holy water. There's not very many people left in this movie, by the way. It's like three people in a room. I don't know where they're at because there was a pool, so I don't know if they're at a school or what that they're like a where are you going to find a swimming pool? Are they at a rec center? I don't know.
Speaker 2:
Uffizi tells Elizabeth, who's now on the verge of becoming a vampire herself. Okay, remember, okay, remember. But Uffizi is almost a vampire, because Uffizi was beating himself in the church in the sunlight. Remember, he was beating himself up. He tells Elizabeth to go into the sunlight to burn away her vampirism. Okay, so I don't know if he burned away his whenever he beat himself in the sunlight. Luke, okay, remember Luke here, he's the one that just killed Eric. Luke attempts to bring Elizabeth outside, but she resists and disappears, having already turned. So now Elizabeth, full on vampire.
Speaker 2:
The only two that we've got left is Luke and Luke and Uffizi. They're the only two good guys left Right. And then we've got Dracula and Elizabeth. Lowell is dead. Uh, kenny is dead. Uh, tanya died a long time ago, and then I think I think that covers just about everybody here and also remember Dracula's Judas Iscariot I don't know if that matters, because I think Jesus is coming somewhere in here. So, um, now here we go. Okay, uffizi catches up with Dracula, who taunts him with the knowledge Elizabeth will simply die, and Uffizi knows it. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. Why is she gonna die? She's a vampire. I didn't think vampires just died. Hey, okay, so let's keep going. Let's keep going. Dracula fights Uffizi. Okay, this is where it's getting good. Dracula fights Uffizi. This is like this is battle of the battle of the uh, battle of the f*cking something austin 316 says I just whipped your ass so, uh, his weekend, oh my god, this guy who wrote this.
Speaker 2:
Dracula fights uffizi, but his weekend allows uffizi to get the upper hand. The priest manages to subdue Dracula and begins the rite of absolution. Dracula then taunts Uffizi with visions of Christ's betrayal and crucifixion, while insinuating that he turned Christ into a vampire. What the f*ck is happening here?
Speaker 1:
This is too much, brother brother, I was at arby's scarfing down a chicken cordon bleu. That natural chicken tastes righteous.
Speaker 2:
That's because it's not all pumped up with phosphates and fillers I don't know what the f*ck is going on, but this might be the only movie ever created where jesus has supposedly been turned into a vampire, and that's why. That's why Jesus is in the f*cking thing in the credits, because they have a, they had the, uh, the thing they had. They have the Jesus background problem. Oh my God, did they show Jesus as a vampire in this movie? I almost want to know if they do Okay, before Uffizi can finish off, dracula, elizabeth appears and wounds the priest. She leaves with Dracula, who lets Uffizi live knowing that he will continue to hunt him.
Speaker 2:
You're not done with that we got two words for you. That's what dracula said on the way out hey, hey, we turned jesus into a vampire.
Speaker 1:
I'm leaving with elizabeth you're not done with that. We got two words for you.
Speaker 2:
We got two words for you Suck it. And that was actually filmed. Hey, get this. It was filmed in Romania at the same time as Dracula 3. I don't even want to know, hang on, I just want to see. I'm not going to go into it here, but remember, in the next one, in number three, that's where Rutger Hauer comes in as Dracula, and I'm just reading the like the cast of the next one, and there's one woman that plays the bride of Dracula, and I'm not going to give that away because I think we need to know what the f*ck happens in the next one. Dracula 3 Legacy, starring Jason Scott Lee, jason London, alexandra Westcourt, diane Neal Roy Scheider and our very own Rutger Hauer of hobo, with a shotgun fame that this is.
Speaker 2:
This has been the worst episode of this podcast. We didn't even dead by daylight was barely barely mentioned, but there isn't a lot to say. So I mean, do we, do we only talk about dead by daylight? Um, I don't know if there was much else, but that was great. Oh my god. Oh my god, I'm tired and that was amazing. And apparently there's some, there's some, uh, there's some online. Uh, what do we call that Controversy? Some online bickering in the dead by daylight community amongst big dead by daylighters. Uh, you can go check that out if you feel like it. I don't um, I'm not even going to get into it, I don't know.
Speaker 2:
Anyway, dracula 2 Ascension if you need a good, solid movie, I don't know if you need to watch Dracula 2000. I also don't think you need to go further and watch Dracula 3 Bloodline. What was it called? Dracula 3 Legacy? But if you want to see somebody get their face bitten off and then become a vampire, and if you also want to see Jesus as uh, as uh, oh, excuse me as a vampire, and if you also want to see Dracula going off in the distance, I would suggest it. All right, guys. So that might be it for me.
Speaker 2:
So I think, yeah, we'll be back next week. We'll try to get back on a regular cadence streaming. You know we'll have the schedule up at some point. I always say that I never do so. It's like random bullsh*t. But thanks for coming by everybody. I really appreciate it. Appreciate all the downloads. We're still growing, still growing, still growing.
Speaker 2:
And Vampire Clowns in part two or part three of Dracula definitely suggest. And no, I don't suggest, I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just saying things. But anyway, come back next time and we'll have some sh*tty ass music. I'll have a good theme song, dude, that theme song at the beginning. I'm going to play it again at the end. That f*cking hard rock theme song, like I don't know, it does something for me. It does something for me. Anyway, guys find me on Twitch, toxic Teacher TTV, on most of the socials Also, you know X, instagram, tiktok, all that good stuff. Also find me on YouTube, the Toxic Teacher, and I guess we've got to end there for this week. We're at an hour and 12 minutes. Get the f*ck, do I say, like Dracula, get the, get the Hang on.
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