Chương 103: Elterrible00's Playlist

Elterrible00 I've been sitting on this theory for a while now, but after the last few updates from Zeke, I think I've finally figured out the general structure of his fanfic. Ever since Zeke started really building out the Rockstar class into something legitimately powerful, we've all been trying to figure out how his abilities actually work. When you look at his skills individually, none of them are all that impressive.

On paper, Performance and Persona and Instrument Mastery, all sound borderline useless when compared to classes that can punch through brick walls or shoot someone from a mile away. But when you put them together, that's where things get weird. Zeke's shown multiple times that when his abilities overlap, they create effects that are WAY bigger than any of his individual skills should allow. I also want to point out the other aspect of his powers that we've all been talking about.

We all thought that his powers activate differently if he plays certain songs. Aggressive chase song = boosting escape and driving. Thrash metal = face melting. If he plays something high-energy in front of a crowd = starting a riot. But I think it goes deeper than that. I think it's more symbolic and emotional and artistic. That's why I started rereading his entire fanfic from the beginning. I wasn't looking for lore tidbits or theories or anything that we might have missed.

I was trying to figure out which songs fit each of his updates. After spending the past few weeks on this project, I made a playlist and I think I finally understand what Zeke's trying to do with his fanfic. I don't think his updates are just updates. I think they're more like individual songs on an album. Every major update correlates to a different song, and when combined together you get an album. It's like his skills.

Individually they might be meh, but when put together they create something greater than the whole. Every update has its own tone. Some of them feel angry, some feel lonely, some feel triumphant before slowly turning horrifying. Some of his updates are like road-trip songs and some are like panic attacks and some are about a person slowly losing their minds. Once I started matching those emotional beats of the updates to actual music, the structure of the story started making sense.

Or it only made sense because I've barely slept in the past few days. What I'm saying is that I think Zeke is structuring the story musically. I'm not saying he's writing a rock opera, although that would be awesome. What I mean is that the pacing of his story feels like an album progression. FIRST ALBUM https: //open. spotify. com/playlist/1nroEZ0Knzr9j2hkiLWgnt?

si=8ANd1qN1Q1W1RM_gCEmJCQ The Vengeful One - Disturbed (4: 11) You'd think that I would have started with his very first message to the forum, but I don't think that's how Zeke thinks about the story. Sure, it might be better if I just jumped into his tale. This whole project of mine might be a lot cleaner and starting with a prologue instead of just going right into it might lose a few people. But deal with it.

Remember when he was telling us his tale and he talked about waking up in that lab with some insane woman standing over him with a gun. Everyone was focused on Zeke freaking out and running through a portal, but I kept thinking about the woman. I don't think she was there to attack him OR to save him. I think she was hunting somebody. She's furious at people who left her for dead and her entire goal was to kill the people who abandoned her. Zeke was just a happy little accident there. We Could Save the World…

In Another World! - HeartfeltHumor (3: 46) The start of Zeke's real adventure. This is when he first signs onto the forum and introduces the premise of his story: he has been isekai'd into the Fracture-verse. This is just a straight up Isekai and, I've got to say that something that always bugged me about isekai's is how calm the OC is. Calm and competent. They end up in a strange magical world and somehow decide that is what is going to get them to get their shit together. I understand… kinda.

If I was somehow able to start throwing fireballs I too would focus my entire being on learning magic and becoming a badass. But it always just seemed way too convenient. It's like the creators of these isekai's just want to get straight into the interesting aspects of the story instead of having the OC deal with the fact that they're in a new world and have to come to terms with never seeing their friends and family again.

And also, a random grocery store clerk goes to a medieval world and becomes a chosen one and gets a bunch of busty elves riding him? Yea, right. Misanthropic Drunken Loner - Days N' Daze (3: 32) How else would you describe Zeke? This is the perfect song. Our first look shows the man and his life suuuuucks. He's angry at everything. He's a drunk. He's completely alone. He's trying to convince all of us of his ridiculous premise. Ghost Town - The Specials (3: 43) Zeke heads into the Glens: a creepy ass ghost town.

I'll admit that I rewatched Snatch the other day and that's why this song is here. It's in both the movie and the OST (which is awesome). The start of the song is creepy and makes me think of a city that is completely and totally empty. Dating Tips - That Handsome Devil (4: 05) I'm having trouble figuring out a song that actually fits this chapter. It was the first time that Zeke and us all had it out.

He was trying to convince us to help him and we're giving him shit about the fact that he was obviously not a fan of the Fracture-verse. I decided to choose something that said "this guy needs some dating tips." He needed to woo us. Again, I'm not sure if this song really fits here, but I like it and it's my list. Curtain Calls - Old 97's (4: 19) Zeke finally understands what makes the Glens sooooo creepy. He was back in the library after having seen the painting of the Eater and he was trying to calm down.

He sits down in the chair overlooking the rest of the town. And then everything just pops into being and that's not something his previous life prepared him for. Carnival of Souls - Combustible Edison (3: 14) This is one of those songs that sets my teeth on edge. At first it's all upbeat and carnival like. But then it turns eerie.

It makes me think of poking around your grandma's house trying to see what you can, and you open a door that is stuck and seemingly painted over only to find an empty room with a single 1950s porcelain doll sitting in the middle of it and it's kinda wonky and you just know that it's got the trapped soul of a Victorian-era serial killer stuck inside. Nobody - Avenged Sevenfold (5: 54) There's two reasons why I've got this song here.

The first is that it's a great song and I wanted to put it somewhere and if you don't like it then make your own dayum playlist for Zeke's adventures. The second reason is that it's the buildup to the reveal of the Eaters. We don't know anything about them. Even now, all the way through a bunch of updates from Zeke, he doesn't really touch on them. The Eaters are just some mythical entities that only a few people believe fit in Frontiers.

This song is all about existential horror, and it's exactly what the Eaters represent to both Zeke and us. We don't believe in them. Zeke has no clue what is stalking him. He can feel that something is wrong with the town but when he asks us about it we all just say he's imagining things and there's nothing truly dangerous out there. Rest in Peace - Dorothy (3: 38) Remember when we all thought Zeke was getting pissy and quit writing his fanfic because he wasn't getting enough readers?

We all thought he'd just killed off his OC and that was it. Then he came back to life at the end basically said "yea, I was traveling for x amount of days." Ain't Killed Me Yet - Adia Victoria (3: 02) HE AIN'T DEAD YET! Also it's a great song and I think Zeke would agree with me. O Children - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (6: 05) Here's another song that I think you all will push back against. Maybe Zeke would have put a chase song here instead.

If this were a movie and Jason or Freddy or Screamface was chasing the main character, you'd probably have a more uncertain and dread-filled song. But that's nothing to do with the Eaters. This song has this slow, nightmarish chorus. There are a ton of horror chase scenes all about the killer being sociopathic and itching to kill. But the Eaters, as Zeke's written them, aren't angry. They were treating the whole chase like it was a game and that somehow makes everything a bit scarier to me.

Gasoline - I Prevail (2: 34) Asshole was trying to push Zeke off the train and all the people riding it wanted to sacrifice him to the Eaters and he was having NONE OF IT. This whole update was just a big middle finger to the train people and to the conductor and to asshole. He was getting angry and stewing in that rage and just wanted to shout obscenities at everyone. Ghost Wiring - Neko Case (3: 54) It's another haunting song for another haunting region Zeke stumbled into.

This is our introduction to him being in the House of Seasons and I can just imagine him looking around while standing in the foyer and being like "what the hell bro?" He is new in this world and he got chased by Eaters and he got pissed at people on the subway. But this is the first time he's really dealing with something truly magical and weird. Cold Blows the Wind - Ween (4: 29) This song is all about regret and losing those closest to you. It's perfect for the House of Seasons.

What else would you play for the Blooming Witch who is living in a house haunted by her former friends and family? House of Pain - Faster Pussycat (5: 47) Another great song for the House of Seasons. It's all about heartbreak and emotional pain and living with loss.

The Blooming Witch is this ridiculously powerful entity but she's trapped by the House she made because she lost all her family and she's wondering if there was anything she could have done with all her power to have changed their fates and lives for the better. Ten Tigers - Bonobo (4: 03) This is a credits song. You know at the end of a particularly good episode of a tv show, when something poignant and heavy hits and all the characters have to sit with the ending and ask themselves "what next?" That's this song.

It kinda reminds me of something that would play on Samurai Champloo. It's just a good song that is playing in the background as Zeke is coming to terms with the Blooming Witch and her story and the House of Seasons and what it all means. May 16 - Lagwagon (3: 02) Okay, let me first say that I had a reason for picking this song. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was. My computer kicked it half-way through writing up my notes.

I've been using an old chromebook from the early 2010s and it finally gave up the ghost and deleted a bunch of notes I had and now I can't remember what this song had to do with this series of updates. I think it was supposed to be about estrangement… but I don't think that's why I chose it. Maybe it just popped on my Spotify while I was reading Zeke's stuff. I honestly can't remember. City Song - Daughters We're back to something I know.

I imagine the beginning of this song was what was playing in Zeke's head when he's hiding in the front of the train and the bandits are slowly creeping closer. He's trying to think but his brain is freaking out and his heart is pounding and he's got a grip on his dull knife but his palms are sweating and he has to come to terms with the fact that he's going to need to kill and then BOOM, he gets into a fight but it's not even a fight.

There's a quick stab of his knife and he kills two people and then just sits with that. Space Cadet - Kyuss (7: 02) This is just a good song that I imagine was playing in the background when he finally gets to The MIZ. New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones - Fear (2: 08) This song is doing a little too much. There's a sax and the dude screaming (singing) and he doesn't have a good voice and he's just listing a bunch of stuff that makes New York Alright.

The song batters at your ears and that's exactly what's happening when we were all trying to give advice to Zeke. The City - MADEON (3: 53) Zeke's in The MIZ. That's it. I just googled "city" and this song popped up. Don't think too hard about it. Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits (3: 38) Null thinks he's soooo cool. Whatever. This was someone finally explaining to Zeke why Frontiers is about to eat him. Zeke is finally learning about the Fracture-verse and the Deadlands and The MIZ and the Cathedral of Ash.

Interestingly, if you read this chapter again it reads like Null is telling Zeke to not visit these dangerous areas. But Zeke has seemingly treated it like a checklist of people to piss off. A Good Man with a Broken Heart - LoVibe (1: 59) I could have saved this for when everyone was around the fire and Corva was telling his backstory of the plague and his family and everything, but instead I dropped it here. The title of the song is perfect for an introduction to Corva, our favorite body-hopping maniac.

The Wolf - Fever Ray (4: 40) You just know that Crush was jumping for joy when this update dropped. It's the first real fight that Zeke had. Corva and Pell and Wren threw him to the wolves (Jackal Runners) and he was flailing around trying not to die. Apocalypse - Cigarettes After Sex (4: 50) Uhhhh… I think I just liked this song and didn't really have any other song that would fit here. Maybe. There's a few places where that's happened. Again, my computer broke. Don't come at me. It is a good song though.

Maybe it doesn't fit here but… I don't care. Changes - Charles Bradley (5: 42) Here we go again. This is why I pushed A Good Man with a Broken Heart to the earlier introduction of Corva. This song tells us why Corva is who he is. The man is a psycho, sure. But there is kinda an understandable reason for why he is the way he is. If you watch the video of Charles Bradley singing this song - I think he is doing an interview for the Toronto Star or something - the whole thing is heartbreaking.

It's a Black Sabbath song but the way he's singing it is more bluesy. He's talking about his mother dying and having to come to terms with that and it's just an amazing song and anyone who says differently is a Binary. Open Eye Signal - Jon Hopkins (8: 02) This was one of those updates where Zeke was just walking along. They had the big talk with Corva and then he was just waltzing through the Deadlands trying to get to the Valley of Echoes.

I think he was talking about Cole bugging everyone with history lectures and… all in all it was just a walking chapter. If you watch the video for Open Eye Signal it's just a dood skateboarding through the terrain. It fits. Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. The Trooper - Iron Maiden (4: 11) The start of Zeke telling us about the Eight Day Thunder (through Cole). I, for one, was not the biggest fan of this.

Cole was talking like an old history professor I had who just rambled on and on and on and on and on. BUT, I liked the battles and The Trooper is a great song for hearing about the Eight Day Thunder.

"On this battlefield no one wins." What better lyric for a battle where basically everyone we're hearing about dies AND Cole doesn't make it interesting. The Wolf - Phildel (4: 30) You know that scene in Return of the King where the cavalry was charging the Uruk-Hai lines and you just know they're about to get rocked and there's nothing you can do? Yea. That's what this song reminds me of.

General Tappal charging the Concordant lines, the Concordant activating their machine and the Vash activating their machine and everything is going to go wrong and there's nothing we can do to stop it. The Other Side of Paradise - Glass Animals (5: 25) Uhhhhhhhhhhh. Everyone can shut up. I'm blaming it on the computer again. Stupid computer. East Hastings - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (17: 58) The Valley of Echoes.

I know that everyone is still somewhat complaining that Zeke wrote about something that we can't check him on because it's cut-content from Syndicate's Wake, but the way he wrote about the time bubbles and the mine that ping ping pinged before it exploded… chef's kiss. That was one of my favorite moments in his fanfic. And this massive song is there for it. We Are Water - Health (3: 27) I went back and forth over this song.

I wanted to write something about Corva randomly being obsessed with the House of Seasons, but I couldn't figure out a good song for that. Plus, Zeke hasn't really touched on that again. It's just this dangling thread in the middle of his story and I doubt we'll get any answers. Instead, I chose the moment the echoes came alive because Cole was playing with shit he wasn't supposed to.

I can just imagine all of them staring at the bones starting to pick themselves up and congregate and then a mountain of bones stands up and you just know that shit's about to get real. Run Boy Run - Woodkid (3: 36) It's THE chase song that I'm thinking was playing in Zeke's head while he was racing away from all the echoes trying to kill him. The dood is terrified and bleeding and panicking and this song hits all those notes.

Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd (4: 20) Still a running song, but it's a lot less panicking than the previous one because now Zeke's got the Rockstar class and he just shouted a bunch of echoes to death. This is when he turned the corner from a panicked guy out of his element and became… well, still a panicked guy out of his element but he's a bit more useful now. Blood Leaves a Trail - Somali Yacht Club (6: 20) I think Zeke wanted a jarring hit on this chapter.

To go from a somewhat calm Run Like Hell to Blood Leaves a Trail is like a slap in the face. Perfect for when Corva went ape shit and tried to kill Zeke and did kill Pell and we all freaked out because Zeke was "butchering the lore." What idiots we all were. Good People - The Harpoonist (5: 45) Zeke met up with Maribel and the caravan and they are "Good People." Yea. That's really all I got for this update of his. Good song though.

Cut the Kid - MADEON (3: 17) Remember when Lorem-Ipsum made that thread shitting on Zeke for ruining the canon? HAHAHAHAHA. This isn't even a Zeke update. This is strictly because I was reading that thread and I feel like it needs to be pointed out again. We Made You - Eminem (4: 29) Again, here's another update where everyone was shitting on Zeke.

He popped in and talked about wandering around with the caravan and told us that he wasn't going to be talking with us and everyone threw a fit and basically said that he owed us. Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead (3: 20) I already talked about the idea of a credits song. I feel like, if Zeke were splitting up his updates into different books or albums, this would be the perfect ending. He is off doing his own thing and leaving us to deal with the aftermath of the Valley of Echoes and the Corva reveal.

He's headed back to The MIZ and the forum has changed forever. SECOND ALBUM https: //open. spotify. com/playlist/2hFgUEE9C0yts2wqugX4kC? si=geqGjJCrQzWPALg6ezZkdw Little Monster - Royal Blood (3: 32) Zeke is a little monster for making us wait for a new update. That's it. He hadn't updated for a while and just left the forum to stew for a bit. ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL - BLACKSHAPE (6: 12) For those of you who don't know, the title of this song is If This Is It, If This Is All There Is, I Hope You Live, I Hope You Live.

It's the first four lines of the song. Zeke finally comes back to the forum after a long absence and it feels like the calm before the storm. Crush tells him he's the new primary, Mushroom tells him to read some books, and Zeke is basically just settling into his new life. The Day the World Went Away - Nine Inch Nails (4: 33) HERE WE GO!!! This is the real start of the second album. When I was growing up, I had a theory that bands always put the best song as the third song in the album. It just made sense to me.

I actually found out later that it was a real thing. Back in the day you could listen to the first three songs of an album, and bands would always put the catchiest and most popular song as the third one. So here it is. Zeke's third song was the introduction to the Reclaimer. It was a brief history of what was going on in the Under-MIZ and Crush told him that he was going to hunt it and that led to Zeke's ban. Indestructible - Disturbed (4: 38) The Reclaimer is INDESTRUCTIBLE!!! And Crush wanted Zeke to kill it.

Looking at his plan, it actually was a pretty good one. Crush and 7Spirals and MushroomCleric worked well together and came up with a decent plan. The Pretender - Foo Fighters (4: 29) Not only is this a great song but there's a line in Zeke's update. He just killed the dude and was trying not to vomit all over everything and he said "just pretend that this was another ugly incident and definitely not the worst thing that's ever happened to me. Don't show weakness. Don't run. Don't cry."

And then he comes back to the forum and tells Crush that he'll fight the Reclaimer because he's tired of pretending and he's going to go out swinging. W. I. T. C. H - Devon Cole (2: 12) Both Milicent Pret and Riley are women who are totally in control of themselves. That's it. That's the song.

Knights of Cydonia - Muse (6: 07) The beginning of this song just hits hard and I can imagine it playing while Zeke and company are fighting the Splitmaws and Daryl is proving how much a BAMF he is and then Zeke is using this forum to its utmost to find all the treasures that we know of. The Raiders March - John Williams (2: 26) Milicent was giving our boy the stick eye, wondering what exactly he was.

He came to her as some rookie with a book filled with info that any glyphwriter would kill for, and it's obvious that he doesn't really belong in the Under-MIZ leading a team through hostile territory. What does our dood do? He rips a story straight from Indiana Jones and passes it off as something he did himself. It's our first real sign of how powerful Persona can be in his hands.

Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (5: 14) What better song to be playing when you punt a guy off the top of a tower and let gravity do the rest? I'm sure Crush was psyched about the whole thing. Up until now, Zeke has mostly been a passive observer to everything.

Sure, he killed the two bandits and he flare gunned a guy in the face, but can you imagine being Daryl or Milicent and you see the dood you thought was just a rookie leading you around and pointing out treasure and he's on the ground and managed to Spartan-kick a guy out a window? Them Bones - Alice in Chains (2: 30) Uhh… I think this one had something to do with a big ol' pile of them bones.

Like, Bethashba knew about the Fracture before everyone else and didn't do anything about it and allowed for a big old pile of them bones to gather (meaning they let everyone in The MIZ get ganked by the Fracture.) Honestly, this is another one of those songs where I'm not sure where Zeke was going here. Also, can we talk about Bethashba and how they knew about an alien Fracture coming by and slapping the Deadlands before anyone else knew? That's… something I think we all need to start theory threads about.

The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (3: 34) How the hell do you lose at Spine and Flood? I'm still pissed at Zeke for that. I mean… seriously. We gave him a pdf and everything. The Outsider - A Perfect Circle (4: 06) There probably are better songs out there for this chapter, but I chose it almost entirely because of the name. This was where Zeke was "working" with the Holdfast people and they were doing all the work and just guiding him to the site of what would be a second city or a fort or whatever.

He didn't have to do much except carry all their equipment with him. He was basically an Outsider who was in the middle of A Perfect Circle of guards. Boom. Perfect song name! Du Hast - Rammstein (3: 55) I've actually gone back and forth about this song because, reading back over his update I found you can split it in two. The first was when Zeke was complaining about the idea of the social skills changing him and, at first, I thought he was just being a little bitch about it.

But after what Plethora said about his Performance skill changing him and warping the fanfic, I'm thinking that that part of his update was a lot more interesting than what came next. The reason that Du Hast is here is because it's one of those "oh snap, something is about to happen" kinds of songs. Plus, I can't get the memory of Baywatch dude singing it out of my head.

This was the first time Zeke was seeing the Hemocyte swarm and, there's a bit of the song that starts around 2: 00 where it sounds kinda like 80s robot noises and I think that fits completely with a swarm of robots getting ready to eat Zeke's face. New Noise - Refused (5: 10) When I first started making a playlist for all of Zeke's updates, I think I accidentally put Disturbed's Indestructible here again.

That would have been incredibly embarrassing if I didn't catch that before it went out and just let everyone see a second chapter with the same song. In my defense, there are a bunch of updates that Zeke has put out and there are a bunch of songs. What it should be is Refused, the band that CDPR chose to create the sound of Samurai from Cyberpunk2077. It's a no-brainer when it comes to a song about trying to figure out how to kill the Hemocyte Swarm.

The Only Thing They Fear Is You - Mick Gordon (6: 52) Did you know that Spotify doesn't even have The Only Thing They Fear Is You? It's because the whole thing is run by demons and when they hear that song they shit themselves uncontrollably. Just like how when Zeke had prep-time, he made the entire Hemocyte Swarm shit themselves. An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno (4: 18) We've had some metal. We've had some "kill a swarm of robots" songs. We've had some action. Now it's the calm before the storm.

Zeke and his crew leave the creepy porcelain masks and head down deeper into the Under-MIZ and they're just chillin' around a fire and it's the time before they understand what Crush sent them after. Just a nice, calm song where nothing is going wrong and nobody is trying to kill them and they can just rest and relax. The Largest - BigXthaPlug (2: 12) Dood… how else would you describe the Reclaimer? He's the biggest and the largest and he's been stepping on shit. The biggest. The largest.

The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica (6: 37) The Reclaimer is sooooo massive that it deserves several songs devoted entirely to its girth. People talk about how playing a Zeke-run forces you to slow down and think about what it would be like if you were really in the Fracture-verse. I've got to say that when Zeke was describing the Reclaimer I wanted to pee myself just imagining facing off against something like that. A massive cancerous blob that is taking up an entire crater in the middle of the Under-MIZ?

Yea. No thanks. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes (3: 52) Dayum the scavengers and Pale Regiment and Holdfast were saved by our boy and decided to pay him back by stealing his loot. He should have just hung back and not tried to kill the Reclaimer until it had wiped them all out. That's what I would have done. Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (3: 13) Uhh… kinda obvious here. Zeke is safe and sound. Which probably shouldn't have happened. He reaaaaaaally got lucky with everything that happened in the Under-MIZ.

The Night We Met - Lord Huron (3: 28) Sooo, I originally was thinking about putting something from the Pretty Woman soundtrack here. Zeke is out there getting money from Patch and he's shopping for some clothes and he's looking all pretty and everything. But when I was looking for a song like that, I found Lord Huron and it's just a good song so… whatever. It's calm and feels like a good break from all the fighting that Zeke has done. He's got some money, he's got that elixir and he's got a new knife.

Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead (4: 11) … Fucking Binary. He sounds like someone who would wake up sucking on a lemon. Control - Halsey Binary doesn't deserve a song as good as this. But if you listen to the whole song it's like it's all about the entirety of Zeke's adventure.

"They send me away to find them a fortune" - all about all of us sending Zeke on different adventures to uncover new lore.

"The house was awake" - The House of Seasons anybody?

"With shadows and monsters" - The Eaters?

"I jumped at the slightest of sounds And I couldn't stand the person inside of me" - He was terrified at the beginning of this whole story AND he was all depressed and sad and hating who he was. It's really just the perfect song for his entire fanfic.

Black Honey - Thrice (3: 59) I know there's going to be a bunch of people who are coming in here being like "hey El, how come you have this song for the update where Foppery jumps off the top rope and chairs Binary in the face and we find out that Corva is a body-hopping maniac." Go and watch the video and think about body-hopping and tell me this song doesn't fit perfectly. https: //www. youtube. com/watch?

v=C9GTEsNf_GU No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age (4: 38) I went back and forth about putting a song on here because it's not really an update that Zeke gave us. I would put this song around the time after Foppery gave us his whole "Corva is crazy" thing and we were coming to terms with the fact that Zeke was dropping another crazy piece of hidden lore for us and we'd been horrible to him the whole time. We were all fools. Indeed, a fool am I. And by I, I mean Binary. Obviously.

Bodysnatchers - Radiohead (4: 02) I mean… of course. Given Up - Linkin Park (3: 09) Hey, remember when Zeke told us all to go fuck our faces? I might have been a bit peeved at the time but, dayum that was ballsy. Little Dark Age - MGMT (4: 59) This was, I think, one of the worst times for the forum over the past few years.

We had someone who was dropping legit hidden lore and game secrets and then Binary came along and screwed us all over by screwing over Zeke and we were losing access to all that sweet sweet info of his. Last Live - Brandy Senki (2: 49) This is one of my new favorite songs and I'll tell you why. This song is about when Zeke was telling us about his depression and how he had a dark Zeke inside him and he wanted to just end it all after spending his entire life hiding how he actually feels.

If you actually listen to the lyrics of the song it's all about sadness and grief and a relationship ending. But if you watch the video and listen to the music, it feels like it should be this incredibly upbeat pop song about marshmallows and unicorns and shit. How is that not EXACTLY like what Zeke was talking about how his whole life had gone? He had to hide who he was behind jokes and smiles. He was faking it the entire time.

He was, in essence, singing about loss and heartbreak in Japanese with a blonde front woman and a bunch of neon all around him. Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell (3: 54) No matter how much I listen to this song I can't get Requiem For A Dream out of my head. And Zeke's talk about the Witness and letting him die and Patch sitting in the chair reminds me of the end of the movie when everything is just… shit. Hell Hole - Spinal Tap (3: 07) ELEVEN! No Time to Die - Billie Eilish (4: 02) Uh.

There's a few lyrics that are completely about Zeke's relationship with the forum.

"Was it obvious to everybody else? That I'd fallen for a lie. You were never on my side. Fool me once, fool me twice. Are you death or paradise?" How is that NOT about our cancerous relationship with Zeke? You got people like Binary trying to screw him over. You got people like me who are just loving his story and cheering him on and doing absolutely nothing wrong. At all.

So that's it. Tell me if you think there are better songs for the different updates. Let me know what you think. I'm still looking at songs for his most recent updates. If pressed, I would say he's probably up to song 17 in his third album. I'll come up with a playlist for that later on.