Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn are tired of Helvetica's shit and also just tired, Helvetica has a lot to say about bootstraps, and pulling yourself up by them, and is also just. very naked, all the time.

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Helvetica's route involves a lot of discussion of drug addiction and human trafficking throughout, please bear this in mind when listening to this episode. Other content warnings include:
Child death: 6:15 - 6:25
Gun violence: 6:15 - 6:25
Mention of incest: 14:51 - 15:49
Attempted sexual assault: 45:00 - 46:05

Today on Evaludate: Air is on the floor, Madelyn is on the ceiling, and Helvetica is already on our last nerves.

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Discussion of school shooting: 37:27 - 37:58
Discussion of child abuse: 37:27 - 37:58

Today on Evaludate: Bustafellows Makes It Weird, Air and Madelyn walk into a bad ending on purpose, and we endure the tonal whiplash of all time.

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Knife violence: 2:59 - 3:35, 25:21 - 25:25, 26:10 - 26:20, 51:57 - 52:05
Gun violence: 26:21 - 26:29
Discussions of suicide / suicidal ideation: 7:03 - 7:52, 22:30 - 23:49
Kidnapping/abduction: 21:41 - 22:00

Today on Evaludate Air and Madelyn are forced to reconsider the answer to a previous audience question, realize this time around the game IS about grief, and enjoy the Interesting localization choices.

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Gun violence: 30:22 - 30:48 , 49:38 - 50:29 , 
Discussion of misgendering: 31:34 - 33:25
Discussion of transmisogyny: 34:49 - 35:19
Discussion of Suicide: 47:19 - 47:42

Today on Evaludate, Madelyn says Schrodinger when she means Chekov, Anime Hannibal assigns us a Bustafellows kin, and the game continues to view the police through incredibly rosy glasses.

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Gun violence: 18:00 - 18:44, 24:54 - 26:16, 30:00 - 30:50, 33:06 - 34:03
Discussion of school shooting: 24:54 - 26:16
Discussion of child abuse: 24:54 - 28:54

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn spend a full hour discussing the first chapter of Bustafellows despite their best intentions, fawn over the protagonist for loving shitty beer, and lose their minds over The Car CG.

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Gun Violence: 13:12 -13:23

Today on Evaludate: Why move the plot forward when you can do another flashback monologue? If you have to say technically it isn't grooming, that's not great. Neither Air nor Madelyn remember to say the line, but they do spend about an hour discussing how they would have fixed this game.

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Mention/Discussion of pedophilia and grooming: 20:47 - 21:36 , 49:21 - 50:02, 53:04 - 53:17 , 54:16 - 55:20, 56:36 - 57:00, 1:02:44 - 1:02:58, 1:14:29 - 1:14:54

Today on Evaludate, Misyr's lies collapse around him but it's only fun for like 10 minutes,  Otomate's racist writing rears its ugly head again, and Otomate are cowards afraid of letting you date Real monsters.

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Mentions of / Discussions of anti-black and orientalist racism: 12:00 - 14:15 , 23:50 - 25:50, 28:11 - 30:23, 41: 52 - 42:30
Mentions of Attempted Sexual Assault: 27:15 - 27:25

Today on Evaludate, Madelyn and Air discuss confirmation bias and feedback loops as they mourn the Secret Good Misyr Route in their heads, realize Rindo is even more pointless than initially thought because Misyr has Creepy Older Guy status on lock, and really, really, REALLY can't wait to play a new game.

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Spoiler Warning:
While we are discussing Misyr in the neutral route today, because of the nature of his character it's next to impossible for us to critically discuss Misyr without immediately dropping some major spoilers from his route proper.

Today on Evaludate: Ascending the heavenly panopticon to fight pipe organ God; Diversity win! The angel murder basement-ing your love interest is gay!;  Heaven is unbearably cishet.

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While we cannot say whether or not Otomate wrote Il with the intention of him being read as neurodivergent, a lot of elements of his character, the way he interacts with the world, and the way other characters interact with him, resembles the experiences of neurodivergent people. Because of this, the treatment of Il by other characters sometimes resembles ableism against neurodivergent people in a way that can feel hurtful or uncomfortable.  

Suicide Mention: 26:28 - 27:02
Choking/Strangulation: 33:43 - 34:01 
Suicidal Ideation:  1:09:06 - 1:09:23, 1:19:05 - 1:19:21, 1:29:32 - 1:29:39