Minas is a unit of weight used during the Babylonian period. Converted to modern measurements 1 mina is approximately 640 grams metric or about 34 ounces.
honestly, the fact that he defaults to Minas is part of what makes me think it's going to turn out that D is actually an ancient historical Persian king
my headcannon is that this is Big-E before the timeline of 40k after all it is said he was born around ancient Turkey. also E comes just before D in the alphabet. so he has already gone trough A B and C.
@@HeroOfTheHolySword My theory is that he is Abel, or his brother Seth. Wants revenge against Cain for killing him, maybe he was revived by God or something.
My money was on him being a Technocrat of the day given that he was deep into doing public skepticism and had like a million dollar bounty on proof of the Supernatural in the back half of his life
@@gameygeemer4142 Isn't that bounty still standing on the condition that someone can prove a successful seance with his spirit? I know someone kept trying it annually after his death
I love how you talk about Big D thinking through things with incomplete information when you yourself are very much doing exactly that with your analysis.
Minas... MINAS! Minas was a measurement created in Babylonia and was used during the Bronze Age. The fact Big D used it as his default means he is AT LEAST 3300 years. As the Bronze age ended around 1300 BCE.
@@Kaarl_Mills I get that. Personally though I like seeing this perspective on big E/D. Because even if you assume they are meant to be the same person they really aren't the _same_ person. Big D is a very young man compared to the emperor and he isn't burdened by the massive weight of responsibility and suffering that big E carried.
That or maybe his father and ancestors are old fashioned traditionalists, which would explain Big Do’s hippie/rebel nature since people like them are usually shaped by their strict parents and families
My character analysis of Big D is that he's really manic and is kicking full-tilt with ideas constantly. Big D is very much a hypervigilant overthinker who is always trying to outflank threats, real and imagined. Which is why he sometimes has outbursts about killing the groundskeeper at the mini-golf course or speculating about the fake water there or randomly cursing Houdini. He probably had an entire internal monologue mulling over what kind of supernatural threat the fake water presents and whether some wizard he killed a long time ago has risen from the dead somehow and he is now planning out counter moves in his head. (And I'm betting he still hasn't dropped his paranoia about Houdini coming back.) To the outside observer this just looks like capriciousness and Big D rarely bothers explaining himself before he starts acting on a plan or jumping at shadows. (Yanking out a sword and threatening Kitten or cooking up the acid omelet.) And he's often so absorbed in his thoughts and excited with his progress that the occasional manic laughter or grin will slip out. Then he'll remember himself and then immediately swap back to bland politeness. (Oops, I have to remember to put on a show for the normies!) The overall effect is no doubt unnerving to the people around him. Big D is hyper-rational, it's just that it's pretty much impossible to check his homework to really know if he reasoned himself into a bad conclusion or not, because while he's charismatic and outgoing, he's not really good at slowing down to let other people catch up with his mania. His actions do have an internal consistency to them even if he happens to be wrong. And while his solutions are rather effective, they tend to be rather extravagant overkill.
26:10 I doubt that it is an issue. Since Big D interrogated Kevin and took his documents, he probably knows where Kevin lives and just gave his address, not Kitten’s. Plus, as it is shown later in the audiolog, D isn’t nearly as brain dead as one could’ve given him credit based on the previous episodes. He does seem to be insane but he is very cunning, smart and experienced.
He's extremely smart, but not that much. Just remember the officer saying something about how he was wondering all the interview why a massive, muscular middle-eastern man looked like a skinny British man on his documents. And of course his relatives part... It was an horrid, unnecesary mistake to make, and he was only saved because Guy was a terrible detective by own admission.
@@asasas9146 The one about Kevins sister being mistaken for his mother? Yeah no, i can't really see that as a big mistake... Like, he obviously had no way of knowing if Kevin had a sister, him having a mother isn't exactly optional tho.
A Mina is a measure of weight which dates back to Sumerian times. Which is THE OLDEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD. Big D just admitted to being 6 thousand years old.
Okay, just as an aside, you really should stop taking EVERYTHING they say as literal. Not every quip or joke is a literal statement of fact. Not everything is a reference to the TTS videos. Not everything is a hidden hint at Big D's backstory. It's perfectly reasonable and okay to just enjoy the video for what it is without treating it as a puzzle or ARG. I get that it's a fun video and it's exciting, but it's very distracting to see you go "oh it's not actually 2pm is it?" like that's something either of them would lie or be wrong about. What would the point of that be?
Though I do wonder if Big D is an Immortal from the Mummy series of WoD books. That is the closest equivalent to a perpetual in this setting. Also, if Chapman is a reference to the recurring villain of the Bro Trip series, he would want to kill an Antideluvian.
Nah it's just him being him I understand it can be annoying but this is his content and we all know he starts talking when he sees something that intruiges him
I’m just curious, you seem to have a very low opinion of Big D overall, where did that come from? Thus far he’s been the most experienced hunter we’ve seen with decades under his belt without being killed or arrested, his inner monologues show that he’s way smarter than he lets on, and he even successfully interrogated a vampire without breaking a sweat. I guess I’m just having a hard time understanding where this idea of him being an arrogant idiot has came from since it’s never been shown. Would be interesting to hear your opinion on it
I guess its because of his insanity (I mean, beign drugged out of his mind when hunting supernatural creatures cant be wise), the fact we have yet to see him fight anything with any effectiveness, and thats its hard to tell which of his claims are just self-aggrandizing bullshit (Killing Caine is just.. nope. If he knew anything about cain, he'd know that its just a flat out impossibility for anyone, no matter what is tried)
I love this interrogation because we FINALLY have Big D's full perspective and understanding of a situation from HIS side, rather than having to deduce what is cunning and intelligence and what is insanity from the outside, also, Airier these multi part videos, do you finish watching the episode before posting or do you post as you watch?
6:30 Mental illness becomes a mage when it begins to warp reality And when it does, this is a marauder Their madness makes the laws of physics and the world around them different, as their delusion warps reality on mass around them Also mages can turn stuff into diamonds with just a matter 2 spell, so it would be very easy for Big D if he is a mage
I'm probably going to listen to this once I get back into work, but I am excited to see Airier's reaction to the fact that Big-D is far more brilliant and competent than he has given him credit for.
On the question on English gun laws… they are very different from the United States. It should be mentioned that in the UK, or at least England, handguns, assault weapons, and both full and semi automatic weapons are illegal while range single shot guns like rifles and shotguns (predominantly) are perfectly fine, so long as you have a license of course. The whole thing about easy access and legal ownership and active usage of such a wide variety of firearms is quite literally a (99%) exclusively USA thing. My father especially have firsthand experience from both his business trips to foreign countries and conversations with his coworkers not native to the US where they were shocked by this aspect of America.
US has 120 guns per 100 people. Second place listed is Falkland Islands with 62 guns to 100 people. First actual country is Yemen with 52 guns. (third overall) UK is 11. England and Wales being 4. For percent of households with guns by country, US is once again at the top with 42%. Second place is Finland with 37.9%. UK is 6%.
I was honestly kinda disappointed that we didn’t meet one of Big D’s other kids in this. Particularly his (estranged) son Konnor Cruze(Konrad Curze in this world), a (very strict) cop and (incredibly extreme) P.I. detective who holds enormous amounts of animosity and frustration towards his family, his father and Door especially. With the one departure of his supermodel brother Philip Grimm (Fulgrim in this world). Maybe he could be accompanied by his like minded sons/associates; Jag “Sev” Sevet (Jago “Sevetar” Sevetarion), Talis Valoran (Talia Valcoran), Shin Ang (Shang), and Joe Shaal and (possibly) his wife Mera Ashly (Zao Sahaal and inquisitor Mita Ashyn who hangs around him in the current 40k setting for some reason). That scene would have been filled with interesting and funny moments and lines. …Like a certain black bird loving emo once said: it would have been a regular family reunion… Awful, awkward, and an atrocity upon family values. Heck who knows, maybe instead they could have been bailed out by D’s other son Robert Gilligan (Robute Guilliman in this world). Or keep the Curze stuff and still include the Robute part. I don’t know.
Airier, love, you are blessed with a fantastic mind. Such minds have trouble with Occum's Razor, overthinking and seeing all possible options hides the most logical one. Big D was being literal about having Pytor's remains turned into a diamond.
21:17 they are the British police, not Americans. 23:33 Houdini in WoD was a Tremere Vampire, so the day Houdini "died" was the day he was Embraced and became a vampire. Big-D must have killed him at some later date. 27:37 yes, Kevin isn't a missing person in that scenario, Big D is Kevin.
"Mina" is an ancient unit of measurement used for standardized gold coins of the same name. Everything else, usually other precious metals, would be measured in the weight of those coins, essentially. It dates back to ancient Sumerian times and was used up to Classical Greece, though it went through various revisions over that time. The mina predates the later talents and shekels, but by the time of Ur-Nammu (Third Dynasty of Ur, shortly before 2000 BC) the system was 60 shekels to a mina, 60 minas to a talent. The shekel was also 180 grains. Based on this a mina would be 1.25 pounds, 0.57 kilograms. By the time of Solon and ancient Greece, we still have talents of 60 minas, but a mina was now 70 and later 100 drachmae, while a drachma was 6 obols, and an obol was supposed to be 12 barley grains. There was considerable local variation on this though. The minas would also continue on in other systems all throughout the Middle East, but this is as far as my nerdom goes.
Anyone here agree after he is done with this log he needs to watch Sseths video? 1:45 it’s I think a Mesopotamian weight measurement. Y‘know….one of the first 5 civilizations. He has Iron Age cutlery… yeeeaaah my man’s old.
@@requiemlul3140 Gonna disagree, as I think it would have taken Big D (who despite his outbursts is caution/foresight incarnate) awhile to learn enough about vampiric lore/weakness/true harm to the world to feel confident enough to begin hunting them with his family.
So, to clarify. In World of Darkness, Harry Houdini is actually a vampire of Clan Tremere, and the day he 'died' is actually the day he faked his death and assumed a new identity. By complete coincidence, Kevin was also born on that day, and he uses that fact and probably some prior knowledge about Houdini being a Tremere to try and pass himself off as Houdini; a trick I'm sure more than one Tremere has tried in the past.
Wonder if the detective thought BigD was a Malkavian? It would make his reactions a lot more understandable if the detective was a ghoul and "dealt" with various clans screwing up, which Malkavians would do a lot. Though I guess they were arrested in sunlight, so it wouldn't make much sense.
I´m still stunned by how tense something like 2 guys talking can be. Had me on the edge the entire time, even more than the actual action last episode.
Well! If it was possible to turn a cat, the cat would have a Beast in them that would instinctually protect them from sunlight. Problem is that while animals can be ghouled, they can't be turned into vampires iirc.
Malcolm in the Middle ran from January 2000 to May 2006, so it had actually been off the air for about 6 months by the time this video takes place. Also, there's only been one magician named Houdini. The only other person who has gone by just "Houdini" is the Canadian rapper who died in 2020.
Airier, please stop thinking that the characters in this are one dimensional, they're not, and every time you break down their actions into tropes so they fit into your narrative you just make yourself look incompetent. For example, why would Big-D lie about what it says on the detective's clock when they are literally next to each other? That's stupid, and you don't hunt vampires more than once if you're stupid, so why do you keep assuming he's stupid? He acts impulsive, but that's all it is, an act. He does that to gather information so he succeeds in his goals, which he clearly stated are, find out if the detective is compromised by any supernatural force, clear himself and his family of any suspicions that a supernatural force might have of them, and not get arrested. Lying about everything will just get him and his loved ones killed. So please stop assuming he is lying about literally everything.
Airier, first each character is more nuanced (Big D is by NO MEANS a moron and he lies best by using the truth and shimmying it about to fit into the story he will tell) also secondly: That symbol is the Camarilla's own insignia, like a fusion of a Cross and an Ankh. I forget why they decided it except maybe to symbolize their shift in priorities and clawing back from almost getting genocided in the Dark Ages? Wiki walk for that I suppose.
The name "Kräkus" most likely comes from Swedish (myself as a native) as "kräk" means "puke" or "vomit" in Swedish ... so the character's name means more or less "Pukeus" or "Vomitus". I don´t know whom it was between Alfabusa or KarlTheDeranged (who are both fellow Swedes) that came up with the idea (probably Karl actually), but it has been a pretty funny joke since TTS for me and I can´t stand it no more to not let people know about it and just had to share it now with you all now.
if memory serves right, i think the symbol is the one for the vampires in World of Darkness. all factions/races have one, even ghouls, whose look the most like an ankh...actually, now that i look at it better, it looks like a fusion between the symbol of vampires and the one for ghouls
The one used here is the symbol for the Camarilla, an ankh mixed with a cross. The symbol for ghouls is just an ankh, with its stalk widening out from its top to match the width of the loop.
Airier! Hope you're doing better my good man, love your content! You're so enthusiastic and interested in the topics you review, listening to you review them makes this SO better.
During the entire audiolog I... actually can't find any gaps that need to be filling out in the in-setting lore stuffs. They actually cover most of it. MAY have missed something, but I think I only do nearer the end. Oh well, if questions arise I'll edit as we g- OOO A QUESTION!!! 16:47: That's an ankh, and it's actually an Egyptian symbol for eternal life. Fitting that all three of the main vampire sects use it as a symbol in SOME form or another. That there is specifically the Camarilla version. I actually can't answer most of your questions Airier since they do get answered later on in the audiolog... or I am lacking (trust me, even I didn't know what a minas is. Now I do.)
You know, of all the comments answering your questions, I'm not seeing anyone answering this question, so here goes. The Wells Harbour Railway was indeed a narrow-gauge Railway in and around Wells-next-the-Sea, and it was open and operating in 2006 (when they said this takes place). That said, I fear that they closed it, sold off the Engines and Rolling Stock, and tore up the line in September 2021...so unfortunately no chance to go there and enjoy a ride anymore.
mina, earliest of all known units of weight. It was created by the Babylonians and used by the Hittites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks. Its weight and relationship to its major subdivisions varied at different times and places in the ancient world. In one surviving form, from the Babylonian period, the mina weighs about 640 grams (about 23 ounces), while in another it weighs 978 grams (about 34 ounces).
Note about the “math lessons” they accidentally got the conversion of metric to English wrong (825 kg/cm2 doesn’t go to 18000pounds per square inch). So it was more of a 4th wall acknowledgment
I love how you do these and try to break them down. Especially as I watch the episodes before you do. So I can know what you are right about and what you are wrong about and what we don't know one way or the other about yet.
I normally enjoy the pause for commentary but I felt it was a bit strong this time around, it took 40 minutes to get through 15 minutes of the video for an hour long video. I guess I also have a hard time following with your idea of big d being incompetent to this degree. I don't mean to offend or seem harsh, I still enjoyed the reaction, just throwing some feedback!
Norfolk is not in Northern England, it is in fact closer to the South-east, being about 100 miles away from London. The county of Norfolk lies north of Suffolk, both of which form the old Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia (of which the region is still called today). It's a very nice, very flat (literally) county. Picture stereotypical English countryside and you've got it. Fields, rolling hills, streams etc, small towns etc. The capital of Norfolk is of course Norwich as well.
that cross in the background is the camirilla symbol. they definititly dont know its him also just cause keving kept up his human life doesnt mean ALL sabbat do. the rest would still be missing so hes fine using kevins name.
I will not lie, Airier, the quips for this log did kinda take me out of the video. I like your vids and reactions and all, but you seemed to be quite biased in this one. I won't restate what everyone said. Just pls for the next log, keep an open mind, watch the log, and enjoy it.
My belief is that big D is a hunter of the redemptionist cause, and he ultimately believes that he can either redeem or show that monsters are capable of humanity. Hence how he want to turn Pyotr into a diamond and comments he makes later
so a quick google for minaas gives that it is a unit of measurement from Ancient Greece dating back to the 700s... *BC*, more specifically from 700 BC to roughly 600 AD (according to the history channel) (according to wikipedia it was actually formed in the 12-9th centuries.
Big-D is a very knowledgeable individual. He might overlook some matters of modern life, but he is likely quite proficient in matters of mathematics and philosophy. If someone quizzed him on tax law, he'd probably need to deflect a bit, but who the hell would even do that?
Huh, seems kinda odd that the anarchs didn't do something radically different and instead just did a variation of the same thing (... Unless that's more telling?)
@@Airier well originally, can't remember if it was in the revised or the V20 edition (which in my opinion for vampire masquerade is best place to start reading up, because it was written as a "here's everything we wrote. Goodby" but then they came back with V5) as an offshoot within the cam.
I'd wish you made more videos of this series, every time you finish one episode another is uploaded shortly after Eddits as I watch more: 1) Didn't Caine get his punishment from God specifically for lying to him about Able? Dafuck kind of deception did Seth pull to claim ownership of lying?
AirierGames When it comes to TV in other countries they be a season or two late, or they'll just reruns good shows. Especially shows with a large fan base because their smarter than the monsters who run the Networks here in the US. Because everyone here wants to do something new for the better or worse.
you keep mentioning every British place name but dude nearly every British village will have a small town equivalent in america alot of colonisers just reused names
In Britain, the buying and ownership of guns "just because" is illegal. I would go into "of all the lessons America should have learned off us", but personally I'm not gonna rant myself into that hole in the ground. So, I'll leave it with... Yeah.
My favorite joke this whole episode is the cops name: Guy Chapman, it's literally 3 different words for a dude.
Guy, Chap, Man
I bet his middle name is Buddy or Bud or something.
Worst part is that it's a legitimate name too, especially for more back-country england
@@veszimardalath9739 I mean, that's just how it be in COCKthorpe
@@Plotatothewondercat Nonono...His middle name is Bloke
Imagine being named Dude Dudedude
Minas is a unit of weight used during the Babylonian period.
Converted to modern measurements 1 mina is approximately 640 grams metric or about 34 ounces.
honestly, the fact that he defaults to Minas is part of what makes me think it's going to turn out that D is actually an ancient historical Persian king
my headcannon is that this is Big-E before the timeline of 40k after all it is said he was born around ancient Turkey. also E comes just before D in the alphabet. so he has already gone trough A B and C.
A very Emperor like measuring unit.
@@HeroOfTheHolySword My theory is that he is Abel, or his brother Seth. Wants revenge against Cain for killing him, maybe he was revived by God or something.
My theory is that he’s just an ordinary man who’s just weird
I have read into it and, well, turns out Houdini was a Tremere vampire.
Given the man's reputation, I would have thought he was a Toreador.
My money was on him being a Technocrat of the day given that he was deep into doing public skepticism and had like a million dollar bounty on proof of the Supernatural in the back half of his life
@@gameygeemer4142 Isn't that bounty still standing on the condition that someone can prove a successful seance with his spirit? I know someone kept trying it annually after his death
@@veszimardalath9739 yep
I love how you talk about Big D thinking through things with incomplete information when you yourself are very much doing exactly that with your analysis.
Yup. But finding out what I. Missing is half the fun. 😁
Knowledge is power, guard it well.
@@SirMarshalHaig And steal everything that isn't nailed down. Then steal the nails holding down the things you'll steal next.
@@brigidtheirish And don’t forget to steal the reliquary while you are at it!
@@kerbe3 Oh, that'd be fun! Not just what's *in* the reliquary but the actual *reliquary!*
Minas...
MINAS!
Minas was a measurement created in Babylonia and was used during the Bronze Age.
The fact Big D used it as his default means he is AT LEAST 3300 years. As the Bronze age ended around 1300 BCE.
I kind of wish Big D would stand on his own more from Big E, but they seem to basically be the same person up to this point
@@Kaarl_Mills I mean, isn't it part of the joke that Big D could easily be Big E's early life?
@@Kaarl_Mills I get that. Personally though I like seeing this perspective on big E/D. Because even if you assume they are meant to be the same person they really aren't the _same_ person. Big D is a very young man compared to the emperor and he isn't burdened by the massive weight of responsibility and suffering that big E carried.
@@Akranejames he did say that he has a father and some siblings
That or maybe his father and ancestors are old fashioned traditionalists, which would explain Big Do’s hippie/rebel nature since people like them are usually shaped by their strict parents and families
My character analysis of Big D is that he's really manic and is kicking full-tilt with ideas constantly. Big D is very much a hypervigilant overthinker who is always trying to outflank threats, real and imagined. Which is why he sometimes has outbursts about killing the groundskeeper at the mini-golf course or speculating about the fake water there or randomly cursing Houdini. He probably had an entire internal monologue mulling over what kind of supernatural threat the fake water presents and whether some wizard he killed a long time ago has risen from the dead somehow and he is now planning out counter moves in his head. (And I'm betting he still hasn't dropped his paranoia about Houdini coming back.)
To the outside observer this just looks like capriciousness and Big D rarely bothers explaining himself before he starts acting on a plan or jumping at shadows. (Yanking out a sword and threatening Kitten or cooking up the acid omelet.) And he's often so absorbed in his thoughts and excited with his progress that the occasional manic laughter or grin will slip out. Then he'll remember himself and then immediately swap back to bland politeness. (Oops, I have to remember to put on a show for the normies!) The overall effect is no doubt unnerving to the people around him.
Big D is hyper-rational, it's just that it's pretty much impossible to check his homework to really know if he reasoned himself into a bad conclusion or not, because while he's charismatic and outgoing, he's not really good at slowing down to let other people catch up with his mania. His actions do have an internal consistency to them even if he happens to be wrong. And while his solutions are rather effective, they tend to be rather extravagant overkill.
26:10 I doubt that it is an issue. Since Big D interrogated Kevin and took his documents, he probably knows where Kevin lives and just gave his address, not Kitten’s. Plus, as it is shown later in the audiolog, D isn’t nearly as brain dead as one could’ve given him credit based on the previous episodes. He does seem to be insane but he is very cunning, smart and experienced.
In other words, a frankly TERRIFYING form of insane: The lucid kind of madness.
He's extremely smart, but not that much.
Just remember the officer saying something about how he was wondering all the interview why a massive, muscular middle-eastern man looked like a skinny British man on his documents. And of course his relatives part... It was an horrid, unnecesary mistake to make, and he was only saved because Guy was a terrible detective by own admission.
@@asasas9146 The one about Kevins sister being mistaken for his mother? Yeah no, i can't really see that as a big mistake...
Like, he obviously had no way of knowing if Kevin had a sister, him having a mother isn't exactly optional tho.
Guy Chapman...
Guy... Chap... Man....
His name
Is
Man Man Man.
Worst part is it's actually a legitimate name, especially in more back-country england
TFW you realize “Old mining Days” referred to laying , arming , and disabling land-MINES . THIS WHOLE TIME HES BEEN TALKING ABOUT BEING AN EOD EXPERT.
Probably. But I also wouldn't be surprised if he was also mining as well considering some forms do use explosives frequently.
@@Airier door is so literal he would have clearly stated that. They set up a joke months ago. Perfect payoff
A Mina is a measure of weight which dates back to Sumerian times. Which is THE OLDEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD. Big D just admitted to being 6 thousand years old.
😯👍
FYI Kräkus was mentioned episode 1 in a dialogue between Door and Boy.
Indeed.
Okay, just as an aside, you really should stop taking EVERYTHING they say as literal. Not every quip or joke is a literal statement of fact. Not everything is a reference to the TTS videos. Not everything is a hidden hint at Big D's backstory. It's perfectly reasonable and okay to just enjoy the video for what it is without treating it as a puzzle or ARG. I get that it's a fun video and it's exciting, but it's very distracting to see you go "oh it's not actually 2pm is it?" like that's something either of them would lie or be wrong about. What would the point of that be?
tbh, i agree, haha.
Though I do wonder if Big D is an Immortal from the Mummy series of WoD books. That is the closest equivalent to a perpetual in this setting.
Also, if Chapman is a reference to the recurring villain of the Bro Trip series, he would want to kill an Antideluvian.
Nah it's just him being him I understand it can be annoying but this is his content and we all know he starts talking when he sees something that intruiges him
@@NoSoulJoel177 thats fair, it is indeed is content, i he enjoys doing things that way so that is that
Sometimes he REALLY overtinks doesn't he 🤣👏
I’m just curious, you seem to have a very low opinion of Big D overall, where did that come from? Thus far he’s been the most experienced hunter we’ve seen with decades under his belt without being killed or arrested, his inner monologues show that he’s way smarter than he lets on, and he even successfully interrogated a vampire without breaking a sweat. I guess I’m just having a hard time understanding where this idea of him being an arrogant idiot has came from since it’s never been shown. Would be interesting to hear your opinion on it
I guess its because of his insanity (I mean, beign drugged out of his mind when hunting supernatural creatures cant be wise), the fact we have yet to see him fight anything with any effectiveness, and thats its hard to tell which of his claims are just self-aggrandizing bullshit (Killing Caine is just.. nope. If he knew anything about cain, he'd know that its just a flat out impossibility for anyone, no matter what is tried)
probably the way he´s talking about himself - can be seen as way too full of himself
@@afqwa423 I mean, rather tell a lie you don't need to tell, then don't tell a lie you really should have told.
@@aquila4460 I believe that's a spoiler.
@@s-8488 yeah fair. didn't think about thst and kinda assumed everyone here had already watched the video
I love this interrogation because we FINALLY have Big D's full perspective and understanding of a situation from HIS side, rather than having to deduce what is cunning and intelligence and what is insanity from the outside, also, Airier these multi part videos, do you finish watching the episode before posting or do you post as you watch?
I usually record whenever I get a chance. So I'm usually only a single day ahead on vids.
the ending of this log is the best punchline in my opinion. cannot wait to see you react to it.
6:30
Mental illness becomes a mage when it begins to warp reality
And when it does, this is a marauder
Their madness makes the laws of physics and the world around them different, as their delusion warps reality on mass around them
Also mages can turn stuff into diamonds with just a matter 2 spell, so it would be very easy for Big D if he is a mage
marauder, don't you mean WAAAAAAAAAGH-rauder.
@@thomasfoster4370 wagh?
That is just how the consensus works
All of humanity is apart of the wagh
Or an Unknown Armies character, which is similar to Mage, except all mages are insane, or at least brutally traumatized.
I'm probably going to listen to this once I get back into work, but I am excited to see Airier's reaction to the fact that Big-D is far more brilliant and competent than he has given him credit for.
Apperantly not.
@@marshallbernarte8216 Evidently.
On the question on English gun laws… they are very different from the United States.
It should be mentioned that in the UK, or at least England, handguns, assault weapons, and both full and semi automatic weapons are illegal while range single shot guns like rifles and shotguns (predominantly) are perfectly fine, so long as you have a license of course.
The whole thing about easy access and legal ownership and active usage of such a wide variety of firearms is quite literally a (99%) exclusively USA thing. My father especially have firsthand experience from both his business trips to foreign countries and conversations with his coworkers not native to the US where they were shocked by this aspect of America.
US has 120 guns per 100 people.
Second place listed is Falkland Islands with 62 guns to 100 people.
First actual country is Yemen with 52 guns. (third overall)
UK is 11.
England and Wales being 4.
For percent of households with guns by country, US is once again at the top with 42%.
Second place is Finland with 37.9%.
UK is 6%.
I was honestly kinda disappointed that we didn’t meet one of Big D’s other kids in this. Particularly his (estranged) son Konnor Cruze(Konrad Curze in this world), a (very strict) cop and (incredibly extreme) P.I. detective who holds enormous amounts of animosity and frustration towards his family, his father and Door especially. With the one departure of his supermodel brother Philip Grimm (Fulgrim in this world).
Maybe he could be accompanied by his like minded sons/associates; Jag “Sev” Sevet (Jago “Sevetar” Sevetarion), Talis Valoran (Talia Valcoran), Shin Ang (Shang), and Joe Shaal and (possibly) his wife Mera Ashly (Zao Sahaal and inquisitor Mita Ashyn who hangs around him in the current 40k setting for some reason). That scene would have been filled with interesting and funny moments and lines.
…Like a certain black bird loving emo once said: it would have been a regular family reunion… Awful, awkward, and an atrocity upon family values.
Heck who knows, maybe instead they could have been bailed out by D’s other son Robert Gilligan (Robute Guilliman in this world). Or keep the Curze stuff and still include the Robute part. I don’t know.
Kräkus was already mentioned in the first Hunter episode too, as someone Boy shouldn't listen to (but is always screaming from the ditch)
Dang, I missed that.
@@Airier i think he is the grate hornd rat
@@Airier No you didn't you thought it was a Great Horned Rat reference, remember yelling from the dich at Boy
Airier, love, you are blessed with a fantastic mind.
Such minds have trouble with Occum's Razor, overthinking and seeing all possible options hides the most logical one.
Big D was being literal about having Pytor's remains turned into a diamond.
21:17 they are the British police, not Americans.
23:33 Houdini in WoD was a Tremere Vampire, so the day Houdini "died" was the day he was Embraced and became a vampire. Big-D must have killed him at some later date.
27:37 yes, Kevin isn't a missing person in that scenario, Big D is Kevin.
"Mina" is an ancient unit of measurement used for standardized gold coins of the same name. Everything else, usually other precious metals, would be measured in the weight of those coins, essentially. It dates back to ancient Sumerian times and was used up to Classical Greece, though it went through various revisions over that time. The mina predates the later talents and shekels, but by the time of Ur-Nammu (Third Dynasty of Ur, shortly before 2000 BC) the system was 60 shekels to a mina, 60 minas to a talent. The shekel was also 180 grains. Based on this a mina would be 1.25 pounds, 0.57 kilograms. By the time of Solon and ancient Greece, we still have talents of 60 minas, but a mina was now 70 and later 100 drachmae, while a drachma was 6 obols, and an obol was supposed to be 12 barley grains. There was considerable local variation on this though. The minas would also continue on in other systems all throughout the Middle East, but this is as far as my nerdom goes.
I was losing my shit after I learned that was a reference only a historian or curious on that topic could learn, how senile is BIg D really?
Anyone here agree after he is done with this log he needs to watch Sseths video?
1:45 it’s I think a Mesopotamian weight measurement. Y‘know….one of the first 5 civilizations. He has Iron Age cutlery… yeeeaaah my man’s old.
It specifically dates back to Sumer. The oldest of them all.
He said he's been hunting vampire's since the 90's...and I gotta wonder if he means 90 BCE or AD
@@andrewkippenhan5494
I think he means like the something thousand-hundred 90‘ BCE
@@requiemlul3140 Gonna disagree, as I think it would have taken Big D (who despite his outbursts is caution/foresight incarnate) awhile to learn enough about vampiric lore/weakness/true harm to the world to feel confident enough to begin hunting them with his family.
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Considering his standard is Minas, wich dates to the oldest civilization, I’m pretty confident.
So, to clarify. In World of Darkness, Harry Houdini is actually a vampire of Clan Tremere, and the day he 'died' is actually the day he faked his death and assumed a new identity. By complete coincidence, Kevin was also born on that day, and he uses that fact and probably some prior knowledge about Houdini being a Tremere to try and pass himself off as Houdini; a trick I'm sure more than one Tremere has tried in the past.
Wonder if the detective thought BigD was a Malkavian? It would make his reactions a lot more understandable if the detective was a ghoul and "dealt" with various clans screwing up, which Malkavians would do a lot. Though I guess they were arrested in sunlight, so it wouldn't make much sense.
I´m still stunned by how tense something like 2 guys talking can be. Had me on the edge the entire time, even more than the actual action last episode.
6:30 these mages are very dangerous. They are known as mauraders
16:57 That's the symbol used to represent the Camarilla.
Kevin could(probably) give Smerples a literal forever home by embracing him, if you can prevent him from taking a cat nap in the sun.
Considering the average self preservation skills of most housecats, I wouldn't take that risk
Imagine trying to get a cat to not nap in the sunlight
The obvious joke is that it would be like, well, herding cats
Well! If it was possible to turn a cat, the cat would have a Beast in them that would instinctually protect them from sunlight. Problem is that while animals can be ghouled, they can't be turned into vampires iirc.
@@veszimardalath9739Nefretiti would disagree
Malcolm in the Middle ran from January 2000 to May 2006, so it had actually been off the air for about 6 months by the time this video takes place.
Also, there's only been one magician named Houdini. The only other person who has gone by just "Houdini" is the Canadian rapper who died in 2020.
Minas is roughly 28 ounces from... Suprise suprise, The Babylonian Period.
Airier, please stop thinking that the characters in this are one dimensional, they're not, and every time you break down their actions into tropes so they fit into your narrative you just make yourself look incompetent.
For example, why would Big-D lie about what it says on the detective's clock when they are literally next to each other? That's stupid, and you don't hunt vampires more than once if you're stupid, so why do you keep assuming he's stupid? He acts impulsive, but that's all it is, an act. He does that to gather information so he succeeds in his goals, which he clearly stated are, find out if the detective is compromised by any supernatural force, clear himself and his family of any suspicions that a supernatural force might have of them, and not get arrested.
Lying about everything will just get him and his loved ones killed. So please stop assuming he is lying about literally everything.
Man i was willing to bet money this lad was gonna love this episode
Easy bet. I do. :)
Airier, first each character is more nuanced (Big D is by NO MEANS a moron and he lies best by using the truth and shimmying it about to fit into the story he will tell) also secondly: That symbol is the Camarilla's own insignia, like a fusion of a Cross and an Ankh. I forget why they decided it except maybe to symbolize their shift in priorities and clawing back from almost getting genocided in the Dark Ages? Wiki walk for that I suppose.
The name "Kräkus" most likely comes from Swedish (myself as a native) as "kräk" means "puke" or "vomit" in Swedish ... so the character's name means more or less "Pukeus" or "Vomitus".
I don´t know whom it was between Alfabusa or KarlTheDeranged (who are both fellow Swedes) that came up with the idea (probably Karl actually), but it has been a pretty funny joke since TTS for me and I can´t stand it no more to not let people know about it and just had to share it now with you all now.
Minas: The mina is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency.
Please, PLEASE, don't split it to 3 or more.
if memory serves right, i think the symbol is the one for the vampires in World of Darkness. all factions/races have one, even ghouls, whose look the most like an ankh...actually, now that i look at it better, it looks like a fusion between the symbol of vampires and the one for ghouls
I think that is the symbol for the Camarilla.
The one used here is the symbol for the Camarilla, an ankh mixed with a cross. The symbol for ghouls is just an ankh, with its stalk widening out from its top to match the width of the loop.
When you watch an Arier video and another one pops up! **VISIBLE UNENDING HAPPINESS**
Airier! Hope you're doing better my good man, love your content! You're so enthusiastic and interested in the topics you review, listening to you review them makes this SO better.
During the entire audiolog I... actually can't find any gaps that need to be filling out in the in-setting lore stuffs. They actually cover most of it. MAY have missed something, but I think I only do nearer the end. Oh well, if questions arise I'll edit as we g- OOO A QUESTION!!!
16:47: That's an ankh, and it's actually an Egyptian symbol for eternal life. Fitting that all three of the main vampire sects use it as a symbol in SOME form or another. That there is specifically the Camarilla version.
I actually can't answer most of your questions Airier since they do get answered later on in the audiolog... or I am lacking (trust me, even I didn't know what a minas is. Now I do.)
That door weighed 1818 pouds!
That is a VERY heavy door pyotor busted through
Oh. Oh that is a lot. 😯
You know, of all the comments answering your questions, I'm not seeing anyone answering this question, so here goes.
The Wells Harbour Railway was indeed a narrow-gauge Railway in and around Wells-next-the-Sea, and it was open and operating in 2006 (when they said this takes place). That said, I fear that they closed it, sold off the Engines and Rolling Stock, and tore up the line in September 2021...so unfortunately no chance to go there and enjoy a ride anymore.
On the one hand. Cool it existed. On the other hand, I need to redraw vacation plans if I ever went to the UK. 😅
Careful, you underestimating the Emp- BIG D, way too much, take him for a fool and you may end being the fool, muahahaha!
mina, earliest of all known units of weight. It was created by the Babylonians and used by the Hittites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks. Its weight and relationship to its major subdivisions varied at different times and places in the ancient world. In one surviving form, from the Babylonian period, the mina weighs about 640 grams (about 23 ounces), while in another it weighs 978 grams (about 34 ounces).
Aaaaannnnd, back to parts. Of course. Oh well, Airier uploaded! *Stomp stomp*
In my defense, I did need to shelter in the basement right after recording this.
@@Airier To those who fear the storm, that is human.
At least there was a reason. Heavy rain _can_ cause you to lose power.
@@9Godslayer true. Probably should have watched all the way thru before commenting. Thats on me.
*_Another two-parter?!_** YOU SICK MONSTER!!!*
Yeah, better push it to four. Just for good measure.
2:10 a mina is an ancient Sumerian unit of weight
I cant get over how well written this one was
stop underestimating big D and overestimating the British police
Note about the “math lessons” they accidentally got the conversion of metric to English wrong (825 kg/cm2 doesn’t go to 18000pounds per square inch). So it was more of a 4th wall acknowledgment
I love how you do these and try to break them down. Especially as I watch the episodes before you do. So I can know what you are right about and what you are wrong about and what we don't know one way or the other about yet.
4:50 that's hilarious, because the 1st SCP I ever heard of was the flesh that hates 😂😅
I normally enjoy the pause for commentary but I felt it was a bit strong this time around, it took 40 minutes to get through 15 minutes of the video for an hour long video. I guess I also have a hard time following with your idea of big d being incompetent to this degree. I don't mean to offend or seem harsh, I still enjoyed the reaction, just throwing some feedback!
What if the traitor primarchs are Big D's kids who became the monsters they faced?
Wells Next The Sea IS a real place too lmao
Krakus was also mentioned in episode 1.
ok the cross with the loop on it is an Egyptian ankh or the key of life and rebirth a perfect symbol for those that hunt the monsters of the undead
12:35 Dude. Being INSANE and being an idiot ar TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS! You can be crazy and still be able to plan ahead and shit!
Norfolk is not in Northern England, it is in fact closer to the South-east, being about 100 miles away from London. The county of Norfolk lies north of Suffolk, both of which form the old Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia (of which the region is still called today). It's a very nice, very flat (literally) county. Picture stereotypical English countryside and you've got it. Fields, rolling hills, streams etc, small towns etc. The capital of Norfolk is of course Norwich as well.
25:24 i think BIG-D is talking about that Houdini was EMBREACE becouse he saids "Died" with "" (SORRY BAD ENGLISH)
For everyone that does care Peter's surname "Piotrowski" Lit. Means *Peter*son or whatever tour respective name to surname conversion is -Polish Guy
Shhhh, Airier didn't get to that part yet!
@@kamencraftbrasil4367 these arent live are they? I thought they were just premieres
that cross in the background is the camirilla symbol. they definititly dont know its him also just cause keving kept up his human life doesnt mean ALL sabbat do. the rest would still be missing so hes fine using kevins name.
I will not lie, Airier, the quips for this log did kinda take me out of the video. I like your vids and reactions and all, but you seemed to be quite biased in this one. I won't restate what everyone said. Just pls for the next log, keep an open mind, watch the log, and enjoy it.
With the reference to minas (bronze age near eastern unit of weight) I wouldn't be surprised if Big D is literally the Emperor.
My belief is that big D is a hunter of the redemptionist cause, and he ultimately believes that he can either redeem or show that monsters are capable of humanity. Hence how he want to turn Pyotr into a diamond and comments he makes later
Oh split reactions, I bet it will reach reaction C - D. I look forward to your complete reaction.
so a quick google for minaas gives that it is a unit of measurement from Ancient Greece dating back to the 700s... *BC*, more specifically from 700 BC to roughly 600 AD (according to the history channel) (according to wikipedia it was actually formed in the 12-9th centuries.
6:30 "nailed it."
All the hams are hamlet's (tiny villages) or were when named. Bings Hamlet walsings Hamlet and so on.
I checked what exactly a minas is. Minas is the plural version of the word Mina, and a Mina is an ancient Hebrew unit of measurement of weight.
Big-D is a very knowledgeable individual. He might overlook some matters of modern life, but he is likely quite proficient in matters of mathematics and philosophy. If someone quizzed him on tax law, he'd probably need to deflect a bit, but who the hell would even do that?
What are of Kevin and Smerples is he talking about?
Minas is a preBC Hebrew unit of measurement, might have been used in Egypt too.
It's the cam symbol. Sabbat is the same but upside down. Anarch is almost the same, but with a bit extra on one side.
Huh, seems kinda odd that the anarchs didn't do something radically different and instead just did a variation of the same thing (... Unless that's more telling?)
@@Airier well originally, can't remember if it was in the revised or the V20 edition (which in my opinion for vampire masquerade is best place to start reading up, because it was written as a "here's everything we wrote. Goodby" but then they came back with V5) as an offshoot within the cam.
Mina is a measurement of weight the ancient Hebrew’s used
Wait a second, is there a theory about Big D being Caine?
Its an Egyptian symbol mate. Not a cross.
I just want to point out, Seth is a person in WoD
When is the next episode
I'd wish you made more videos of this series, every time you finish one episode another is uploaded shortly after
Eddits as I watch more:
1) Didn't Caine get his punishment from God specifically for lying to him about Able? Dafuck kind of deception did Seth pull to claim ownership of lying?
He still would have been punished if he told the truth.
Maybe he claimed to be their brother? (I doubt this one, but it would make an interesting twist).
was waiting for this one ^^
MINAS IS AN OLD GREEK MEASUREMENT! My theory of big D being Dionysos still stands
And the foundation is growing stronger
The end is gonna get you.
AirierGames
When it comes to TV in other countries they be a season or two late, or they'll just reruns good shows. Especially shows with a large fan base because their smarter than the monsters who run the Networks here in the US. Because everyone here wants to do something new for the better or worse.
For the sake of it the mina, or minah, was a basic standard of weight among the ancient Hebrews.
ya know if he invented lying he'd be there with Adam and eve the first liars
Arier you have a PHONE. Look. IT. UUUUUUP!!!!!!
:D and New EE SONG
Hunters and luxemburgesh diamond cartels
Do the next part soooon
It is a cross made into a ankh
P.S. Able invented Sheep hearding.
There's a joke in there about the sheep, but I won't make it on UA-cam.
He'll yea
Ancient Hebrew form of measurement
Hi
don't spoil things in the comments, keep the reactions natural.
I kind of wish Arier wouldn’t pause so damn often.
you could alwsys watch the original
I'd even recommend it. Any reason to rewatch Alfabusa's vids is a good one. 😁
@@Airier this is true
@@Skywolfhd20 fair enough. But the waiting for him to continue the reaction is a special kind of agony.
you keep mentioning every British place name but dude nearly every British village will have a small town equivalent in america alot of colonisers just reused names
In Britain, the buying and ownership of guns "just because" is illegal. I would go into "of all the lessons America should have learned off us", but personally I'm not gonna rant myself into that hole in the ground. So, I'll leave it with... Yeah.