The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam

[@jaybberwocky]

It HAS to be a bit at this point. I swear, all the horror game developers come together once a year to discuss how they're going to sneak rubber ducks into their games to torture Davis.

[@tenshikaren]

I mean, either that or they all have very specific duck trauma making them fear rubber ducks. My first guess was art installation, like they all had the same prompt and ran with it. The quality of many of these are like weekend projects; good but quickly published, with little to no funding. This felt like the right length for a scary game indie dev challenge featuring rubber duckies. I even wondered if there wasn't a programming instructor who watches SGS and had their students publish a game at the end of the semester (featuring a rubber duck for extra credit). Many games give the player a 'comfort' object that later betrays them, but the ducks are too specific to be coincidence.

[@realsonofmars]

It's just been in enough media that devs reference it to keep the joke going.

[@EricaDahlia]

I love how regularly rubber ducks seem to come up in games they play

[@mrmordilaa526]

My conspiracy theory is that they DO in fact choose games that have rubber ducks just to fuck with Davis.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@mrmordilaa526 now that's a harmless (more or less) conspiracy i can get behind.

[@noahsarkhive4482]

i recently played a puzzle-escape room type game on mobile, and as it started to turn creepy, guess what was there too? a freaking rubber duck! i laughed SO hard xD

[@BlueGriffin20]

I just want to see Davis play rubber duck simulator…

[@avatarofpaine]

what's the timestamp for the duck

[@ForMeNaTV]

The Rubber Ducky bit is the bit that keeps on giving I swear to Duck God

[@nonamegiven202]

"what is Salad Fingers?" a really good reason to bring back Scary Video Squad

[@AphroditeRose00]

Yep they could watch the full series in a hour or so, about the same length as one of these short games they play.

[@KaelinK335]

I couldn't agree more with you, I loved the scary video squad 😭

[@FluffyThieves]

I'm not gonna lie, this becoming the SGS/Geekenders channel doesn't bother me at all. Hashtag blessed.

[@DarraghLB]

" Audio transcriptions are a big part of my job so.." "This is not going to be good, this is not going to be easy" "I have the smallest ears" I love you guys so much

[@occupationalhazard]

I don't know the correct answer, but I heard, "please have mercy, kill me, kill me" for #18.

[@MCOmegaX123]

You're playing the last game first (but I can see why, since you apparently thought the title was "Entry Exam", so it would make sense to assume it's the first game). It goes "O'Brien State Park", "Crisis at Call Center", and *then* this one.

[@JanitorScruffy]

Maybe it's just me, but I find the sight of a rubber duck soothing. I have a large rubber duck that I got off Amazon that I squeeze before I leave for work every night to prepare for a long night shift.

[@MrTapet]

The audio transcripts part took me back to hearing excercises in english class. It was fun to hear you guys go at it cause you got a lot of things that I was completely cluelesss on. However, the "Please, have mercy! Kill me" line was clear as day to me for some reason, kinda interesting you struggled on that one. Great video again! These ones where you gotta get involved yourself and not just play a game are cool :)

[@animeyay4]

This game is like a really bad visit to the hearing dr.

[@JanitorScruffy]

It immediately calls to mind sitting in a tiny box with headphones on and clicking a little button when I hear a tone. But did I hear the tone? Who knows?

[@rurouni1399]

I am legit convinced that people are starting to put rubber ducks in their games just to mess with Davis.

[@kneau]

Is Davis a Jeep?

[@MtgVeteran]

omg the duck! Davis the universe is telling you something, start keeping track of where you see ducks

[@FidgetThePepperTheGhost]

For a game where the premise is teaching agents to pay VERY close attention to minute details, it's funny to see the amount of typos

[@rand0m508]

Yeah that kind of took me out of it, a government agency would not have so many errors in their training material

[@ArtForSwans]

29:30 the craziest thing is I had this same reaction, I felt my heart stop but I didn't react at all, it was like the threat identification part of my brain reacted independently of the "this is just a silly fella" matrix contained within my noggin.

[@Baleur]

12:00 this whole Threat / No Threat is actually a quite interesting human experiment, and a testament to how incredibly well weve evolved threat detection over millions of years to be able to instantly judge a whole situation or even other entities potential actions, in a single still frame. It's also a distinction between actual threat, and imagined percieved threat, which is why one of you fellas felt it was subjective that some empty rooms ought to be threats. Thats why some horror games DONT work on some of us, if you're not imagining hypothetical threats when seeing an objectively empty neutral level, most of those new indie horror games are pointless (since they literally have no AI chasing you and no actual gameplay per say besides walkin around a scary environment). I'd say this test was spot on, it dealt entirely with ACTUAL objective threats, not what you feel is eerie or spoopy. An empty room is not a threat, period. It's all in your head, at that point. Brilliant game.

[@dawildbear]

An empty room is not a threat, it's all in your head? So empty rooms are a cognitohazard? I feel like we need to warn people about that!

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

i feel like, it depends how high or low the bar of "threat" is. a forest? yeah man, that Is a *potential* threat. there's bears in there, man! an empty room? yeah, but what if there's someone or something behind a door? some dudes in clown masks and trench coats? meh, probably just Halloween, give em some candy. but im with you on what the game wants, spooky dudes you can literally see right in front of you? more threat potential. an empty forest, empty room, empty street, are NOT OBJECTIVE threats. but it does make you wonder, why is it so empty? im digressing again, that's where it becomes subjective. point is, it's making me think and i don't like it >:(

[@dopaminecloud]

Darkness, unknowns and potentially compromised security are ALL threats that your brain DOES register. Imagine coming home and finding your door unlocked, but the lights are off so you can't immediately see if anything's different inside and you certainly don't see any "threats", are no alarm bells going off? Those indie games work on a similar level. You know about game chase sequences, you know they're possible, their current absence is not evidence for them not occurring. Thus the game remains scary. There is no objectively neutral level without spoiling yourself on game content which is identical to looking up jumpscares beforehand and wondering why the movie got a lot less tense.

[@A_Ereira]

"It's also a distinction between actual threat, and imagined percieved threat, which is why one of you fellas felt it was subjective that some empty rooms ought to be threats." No one thought that empty rooms ought to be a threat. Alex mistakenly thought that Davis picked the Threat option on some empty rooms, which he (Alex) thought was the wrong thing to do. 13:27

[@nickmon1112]

seriously it's weird how accurate the KZbin auto captions got that audio shit

[@ecyor0]

I guess it makes sense though - it's always going to pronounce words in a precise, known way, so the listening algorithm is going to produce consistent results with the audio.

[@scottchambers1997]

I feel it is now my duty to build a rubber duck themed horror game.

[@moonlily3464]

Loving more SGS! Hoping you guys do a full run of Indika, I ended up playing it for myself after Jesse played the demo and ADORED IT, so thanks for that!

[@chiannehere]

I bought it because of SGS and loved every second of it! So i def push for full indika run on here

[@Sith9890]

at this point if there isn't a duck I'll feel cheated

[@Vrikrar]

I love that Jesse was like "we may not know much but we can identify skinwalkers" and one of the questions they failed in the previous quiz was how you can tell the dog was a skinwalker.

[@loglog7]

17:30 I'm hearing "Kill my son Robert or to kill himself" 23:40 was "Please! Have mercy! Kill me!"

[@impulsethoughts3683]

For #9 I hear "you're late, robert's about to kill himself"

[@Archaon6044]

I got "You might as well have told him to kill himself"

[@SwampaJason]

I thought it was "you're mine now, Robert's sure to kill himself" for #9

[@SpiralSpeed]

I heard "Too late, Robert's offered to kill himself."

[@FixxxerTV]

32:11 is a shot from the avant garde movie Possibly in Michigan. Very creepy. Though, i doubt they had permission to use that shot.

[@Theta940]

I did have headphones on, not even looking at that monitor, and the HONK got me.

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

79* at 5am bodes poorly for 1pm. Edit: Audio question #9 was "Its too late. Robert killed himself."

[@unnoticedhero1]

I couldn't really tell exactly what was said but I was so confused none of them heard Robert, that was like the most clear part of the clip.

[@HellRazor228]

I didn’t hear anything other than a garbled voice.

[@Raemundo17]

I got "You're right, Robert struggled to kill himself." for #9. Do we know the correct answer?

[@ostrodorous1492]

"You're right, Robert wouldn't kill himself. "

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

im hearing, "you really thought Robert would have killed himself?" like, this is Friend A talking to Friend B after finding out Friend C(Robert) is dead, everyone and their mother is assuming it was self-inflicted, but Friend A ain't having none of it. Friend A saw some shit. watch the real answer be something super innocuous and we're just hearing these things because we're looking for it. our brains are wild, man.

[@tenshikaren]

Question 18 sounds more like: 'Please have mercy, kill me, oh god' and I think it's supposed to reinforce that idea that you should save a bullet, with love for yourself.

[@YourCompassRose]

I was doing actual workplace training today and this is hitting me harder than normal haha

[@FurryStockings]

Awesome Job, Theje

[@korg47237]

36:09 Genuinely thought that was Alex saying the same thing twice

[@MiniGriffin]

Seeing an SGS video post is the best part of my night

[@JohnSmith-pz7tl]

I hope they try At Dead of Night sometime.

[@JockenN]

You and me both... Jesse would love it.

[@thelaughingrouge]

That'd be great.

[@rurouni1399]

TIL: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" = every letter in the alphabet........*mind blown*

[@Komier09]

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!

[@Archaon6044]

@@Komier09 The virgin "quick brown fox" vs. The Chad "Sphinx of black quartz"

[@OptionalBean]

You've never used ClearType calibration in your Windows?

[@Cardboard_Spaceship]

So excited to see more SGS - always one of my favorites things

[@shoken4421]

Love watching scarey game squad

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Truly davis and the duck are inseparable

[@Champion_of_Eorzia]

Just like the bots with the booty pics say "Your channel is an example of what quality content on KZbin should be. Thank you for your hard work and effort!".

[@BurningFreesias]

"A vacation for my mind and soul" Lol.

[@easyBob100]

The Lancaster Leak ain't no Rusty Venture.

[@charliepie1212]

How does someone do a Rusty Venture again?

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@charliepie1212 well, considering what a Rusty Trombone is, i can assure you it involves the bunghole.

[@Eveoriginalsinner]

​@@charliepie1212isn't it a shitty drink lmao

[@Eveoriginalsinner]

​@miguelnewmexico8641 is this a venture bros refrence

[@ryannelson1297]

I love when you guys play little spooky games like this.

[@ccovemaker]

Feel like this entire game is some AI training tool.

[@brandishoracle1]

No kidding, it has that feel.

[@kybubs]

I mean, to be fair, most if not all of the images are AI generated art. So you're not wrong there.

[@sub0fathom]

One good thing about having only three people on the squad instead of four is that they are twice as likely to all be able to get together to make a video compared to four people. With four, there is a 6.25% chance that every member is available at any given time. With three, it is 12.5%. Which means we have the potential to get double the SGS content. That isn't factoring in other things like total production time and such.

[@Vrikrar]

Honestly, with what seems like a dramatic increase in videos since becoming three people, I'm going to go ahead and say that the percentages are skewed per person, and that jirard was likely the one who was busy far more then the others.

[@LadyMireille]

@@Vrikrar With this recent frequency of uploads, I'm inclined to agree. Jirard leaving the squad seems to have done wonders for their scheduling

[@FidgetThePepperTheGhost]

​@@Vrikrar Right before all the stuff with Jirard came out, Jesse had a video talking about the changes to optimize the channel and he had said that since SGS is one of the mainstays that draws consistent attention but it was so difficult to plan days that all four people could meet up, they were going to set up scheduled SGS days at regular intervals and whoever can make it makes it and whoever is busy just sits out that video. He had mentioned that, as you suspected, Jirard was frequently the busiest of them, besides Jesse himself.

[@Vrikrar]

@@FidgetThePepperTheGhost I mean that is true, but has there been a single episode since the jirard stuff where any of the other three were absent? Even a single duo episode?

[@sub0fathom]

While Jirard might have been the most busy, the math shows that if we give all four of them equal probability to be available, it does double the likelihood of them all being available going from 4 to 3. It seems like we are getting roughly double the videos. Therefore, it is most likely this is just a case of probability. Once we start getting more than double is when we can look to other reasons.

[@alphajackal6648]

I have no idea why all of these SCP foundation type companies think they can preserve employee loyalty without extending protection to friends and family, or in some cases outright requiring betrayal of those people. It's like they WANT people to leak because the rules are so strict they can't avoid it without losing the reasons they get up in the morning. It's a weird trope.

[@chrisben9674]

Witty comment

[@jessecox]

witty retort

[@Versynko]

its been awhile where did the rubbed ducky bit start again?

[@Purkinje90]

I love the Microsoft Sam voice they used. Reminds me of Pig Destroyer

[@Baelor_uwu]

Another spooky time with Jesse and the gang. What wacky shenanigans are the boys getting up to this time?

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

the wackiest shenaniganeriest.

[@RouxLioux]

In the second set: Question 8 could have also been, “Can’t Believe My Eyes”, Question 9 I believe was actually, “You might not want (me? I think it’s just want twice) to look outside” Question 11 is, “I want to play with you” Question 18 is, “Please, Have mercy, have mercy, please God” The one at the very end from the older woman (sounding) VA could have been saying, “I’ll enjoy your skin!”, or perhaps a variation of, I (I’ll) enjoy skinning (you)!” Maybe, “I’ll flay your skin” Maybe, “I’ll wear your skin” that one’s just unfair, even for transcribers

[@fox.mulder.]

It’s like they knew I just sat down to eat dinner

[@rachaelversaw]

I'M LATE BUT HYPED NONETHELESS!! Let's go SGSquad!

[@reverieofmusic436]

SGS is the best show on the internet, and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. Okay, having watched this fully now, this was one of the scariest episodes they've had in ages, at least to me. Fucking hell.

[@Zbbfae798]

Ah yes, the perfect video for a thunderstorm night at 3am. Love you boys ❤

[@beckyfal]

Threat being spelled wrong bothers me so muuuuuch 😭

[@toadfake4588]

Saw a Grudge looking lady and immediately clicked. Davis vs Sadako

[@mfitzger99]

I'll never meet him, but if I do, I'm calling Jessie Theje.

[@PrimeMyth64]

A new SGS video is always a pleasure to see!

[@Absolutely_Nobody]

I like that the doppelganger test is "Which one of these people is the ugliest?"

[@bearbrain1123]

Omg lol i was watching all of SGSs one shots for the last couple days and now this new upload pops up! Let'sgoooo

[@TheHelloclarice]

What are your favorites? I want to rewatch them too

[@bearbrain1123]

@@TheHelloclarice Most of the crendor videos are golden, but i like them all honestly

[@TheHelloclarice]

@@bearbrain1123 been looking for a place to start so I’ll watch those first, thanks!

[@theashennathancroft7271]

Not complaining. But any plans for a series? Amnesia bunker 😅

[@dominicstevens5851]

FoR tHe AlGoRiThM

[@torylva]

23:52 Pretty sure that was Please, have mercy, help me!

[@wakeupandsmelltherain6351]

Someone should make a playlist of sgs episodes with rubber ducks

[@henveee]

I feel like you guys need another 4th, will continue watching regardless.

[@deathwitheponine]

I hope rubber duckies never go out of indie game style lol

[@sokoshinbutsu6925]

I was so curious to know what question 9 said that I started looking for videos of people who've gotten it right. It looks like the game accepts multiple different answers, but I have no idea what decides if an answer is correct or not. "told Robert to kill himself" "kill himself" and "self" all worked

[@YamiHoOu]

17:00 what, I'm hearing "you're right, Robert killed himself?!"

[@dz1_randomviewah]

Pretty sure that one was "Please have mercy kill me"

[@Purinkun]

THEJE edit: 38:57 for theje

[@polterghost_]

How can you have THEAT on every screen and not notice it?

[@Flanktank2]

It's got to be criminal you guys haven't gotten around to playing the various Fears to Fathom episodes yet 😆 They would be perfect for SGS.

[@lychirose]

27:10 oh, dear, there's definitely fanfic floating around the internet somewhere

[@jessica1228100]

Someone needs to make an updated Davis duck compilation

[@orchirion]

16:36 i heard "too late now" at the star before it gets a bit garbled.

[@alucarddeadmen]

I'm pretty sure the question 9 for typing out the words were; "Kill me now or I'll become one of them."

[@user-wt1ek3xr7p]

KZbin didnt tell me about this so i searched manually. Im him, i will continue to be him. You mustve forgot im still him

[@rroes7319]

Guys, I heard "you're right, Richard didn't kill himself". Nothing to do with giving anyone money.

[@balawulf6165]

What's this, monday night drinking AND SGS?!

[@pairot01]

Hey Alex, the term you are looking for is "selfcest"

[@jordanenriquez9528]

always a good day when i see a new SGS episode hey jesse, any chance we can ever see you and the boys play darkwood and/or fear and hunger?

[@Huckleberry42]

Jesse, could you look into a game called the classrooms. I am not saying go play it but i do think it will fit the squad. Just don't spoil your self too much if you're gonna play it.

[@repairman-man]

is that that Newgrounds game? im... not sure how well that would go considering the subject matter. OOOOH! i googled it, you mean "The Classrooms" with an S at the end. yeah, that would be good. don't look up the other one if, uh, dead kids turns you off. ill leave it at that.

[@Catdogomeow]

Kinda insane that Image of Kayako the ghost from the grudge movie has being constantly appearing in analog horror series and indie games but no ones ever recognize it or mentions it .

[@kneau]

"Kinda insane" how your comment has me thinking you are not familiar with onryō.

[@Catdogomeow]

@@kneauyeah , her name is Kayako

[@advkow]

Any chance you guys are going to play Killer Frequency?

[@premiumgarbage5129]

Loving the sgs vids, but imma need a few that are a bit longer please and thank you! :)

[@alcorthewise3512]

Fun fact: doppelgangbang is a thing in The Boys season 4

[@SquareViking]

So, I detest the text-to-speech stuff and the gameplay is lazy (I know I know, independent developer, blablabla) but how these guys bounce off of the story and whatever shows up is what makes it entertaining.

[@LaurenceOtaku]

18:00 sounds like "Don't let Robert kill himself"

[@Pyroguekenesises]

26:10.... Joji/FilthyFrank is a doppelganger? That explains everything!

[@BurntSteak]

Engage mint for the algae rhythm

[@angelnickl]

Is this a scary game or is this a secret test to talk to aliens? We let Mathas decide.

[@BuckyDK]

So Pools only got one episode? :(

[@FallACleep]

this gives me such mandela catalogue vibes

[@punkyard.]

I wanna see these boys try and play kinito pet

[@nickmon1112]

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN

[@atylorb]

We gettin' spoiled y'all

[@udiar]

Nah the guys just have more time now that they don't have to wait for jirard to be free to join them.

[@WeMissDimebag]

Yes he was lol, he was in every episode for years. Him being absent is a relatively recent thing.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@udiar no matter how i feel on the subject, that is entirely correct. i still have a shred of hope there's a HUGE misunderstanding, or some kind of excuse. but yeah, i get it. at the very least, he dropped the ball BIG TIME and he has to pay for it. we can all agree on that i think.

[@scottimusmaximus4360]

Is jirard in the room with you?

[@goober4502]

Engage mint!

[@repairman-man]

see, you're doing it right. the "man" filters out comments that use the actual words. normally im not a big fan of being "cute" about things, but in this case it's completely necessary.

[@rwmack3523]

Man, it'd be nice to hear the lore over the guys. Or maybe having captions on so I could actually understand what the computer is saying.

[@GoddoDoggo]

Hey, you know what the solution to that is? Playing it yourself, it's like 20 minutes long.

[@bee5071]

Can the squad play The Bridge Curse series? I've been seeing the ballerina scene all over my socials and I refuse to watch gameplay unless its from you guys. Thanks!

[@gakulon]

I don't think the devs were cooking on the audio transcription section, not gonna lie.

[@Goshgolly27]

Can anyone remind me of the first time a rubber duck showed up for Davis? Was it SCP?

[@datguy12100]

I'm sure rubber ducks in horror games have been around for a while but them torturing Davis specifically comes from their 'rise of insanity' playthrough way back when.

[@troin3925]

8:41 That was fucking Glitchtrap!

[@SherioCheers]

Huzzah Scary Game Squad!!