The Psychological Horror Game That Messed Us All Up – Mouthwashing

5:00 i would like to also make the talking point that space turns people into sort of shells of who they were planet bound

Nobody shows empathy

And morals get thrown out the window

Just wanted to make a talking point feel free to add to this.

Thank you for speaking about your Mom. I'm currently a caregiver for my mother who has terminal cancer. I felt less alone and a bit more hopeful, in a way. Thanks.

The way I read the scene where Anya and Swansea talk, she finally told him, but also asked him not to act or confront Jimmy because she knows that Jimmy is a ticking time bomb. Fawning is a trauma response to keep oneself safe but she might also have believed placating Jimmy and keeping him in a good mood would keep everyone safe. They're a small group. Swansea, aging and his body affected by his past alcoholism, Daisuke is a friendly kid who'd most likely hesitate to fight with the intention to hurt or even kill, Curly would have been better off dead, and she didn't succeed at fighting Jimmy off before.

I believe her fawning is an emotional but also strategic response. If Swansea had confronted or attacked Jimmy then and there, there'd have been a realistic risk of Swansea losing or ending up injured. We already see how out of his mind Jimmy is while he believes Anya didn't tell anyone and he can lie to himself that he didn't do anything wrong. And we see that eventually, he's spiraling and losing it. He drugs people, manipulates and sacrifices the most gullible crew mate who believes in the good in people, and he is not sorry for what his actions and decisions do to others. Be it Curly's horrible state, Anya's pregnancy and death, Daisuke's injury and the mercy killing, or when he kills Swansea. He only cares about how 'failing' to 'fix' everything would make him look.

Basically, he spirals and escalates and gets everyone killed directly or indirectly anyway. And I do believe that Anya hoped that stopping Swansea from cornering Jimmy could have prevented this, at least for a while until they figured something out.

Would also explain why Swansea went out of his way to be disrespectful to Jimmy and refused at first to allow him access to the ax. I think after the conversation with Anya he agreed not to give Jimmy the beating he deserved, but was ready to do it as soon as Anya gave a sign or the situation allowed for it.

As a side note, I wish Curly had been gender neutral or gender ambiguous. It's not just the dismissal of female victims due to the sausage club mentality I see represented in him. But the dismissal by the notorious peacekeeper. The other parent/sibling/aunt/uncle/grandparent who knows deep down that the victim says the truth but keeps denying it to themselves thanks to the all-too-common "what shouldn't be can't be and therefore, isn't!" attitude. There has to be a misunderstanding! You must have misinterpreted their touches/words wrong! Are you sure you didn't dream it? Or that someone else did it but you're confused? Maybe you did or say something that they misunderstood and while it's not quite right, they were right to assume you agreed to it, this is too serious, there are two sides, I cannot say who is lying, I stay neutral, I'm not taking sides blah blah blah

And for Curly, this ends at the start of the game, when the 'neutral' voice becomes a true neutral, inconsequential observer. Unable to take sides even if he wanted to, one way or the other, unable to help, or even comment, forced to watch the consequences of his "this cannot be, I'm sure there's a harmless explanation! Let's wait and see and not talk about it in the meanwhile!" mindset.

A mindset that hurts victims and shields evil, and that isn't exclusive to any gender.

If you play VR and have a quest headset, LIES BENEATH is a game that is definitely in your wheelhouse! Not enough people talk about that game as they should.

Just FYI— the link for your podcast in the description sends me to episode 72 (No I’m Not Human & Clocktower) instead of episode 71 (CARIMARA & Mouthwashing).

I found the right ep easily enough, but I just wanted to let you know!! 💓💓

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Can you please review murder she wrote s5 e16 “Truck stop?” It’s a complete trip 😂

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* I know not a "Murder She Wrote" video but seen this episode and its interesting to say the least…. "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" Part 1 and 2 would be a great video I think. Hope you are doing well and take care.

I've never played this, but I'd really like to reach into this game and put Anya in that cryo chamber. Poor girl

I interpret Curly a bit differently. Now he certainly has his fair share of the blame for the situation, no doubt about that. However he's the "model employee", stuck in a corporate job that slowly breaks you down and puts you in a routine of utmost compliance. It's all over the posters, no more than 5 hours of sleep a day, pay cuts for using medical supplies, late deliveries, and HR complaints. Heck each employee can only have one slice of cake apparently for the communal birthday! I doubt there's a brig and handcuffs as the only tool for "keeping the crew in line" is a gun and the only places with locks are the medbay, the cockpit, and the cargo hold (which Swansea so succinctly said to not open as he'd rather die than not get paid). Yeah he really should've used that gun in hindsight, but most people don't typically go to such violent solutions at first, especially when it comes to someone you know. I really think he was stuck in that mindset of trying to please everyone and keep the situation under control like a good employee and in the end it got most everyone killed. Sure some of it was probably friend related defense with a sprinke of denial but I wouldn't boil down his response of the situation as entirely the boys club at work, more like an analysis paralysis my job never taught me how to handle this reaction. Curly could've and should've done more but the circumstances were also against him. Pony Express, truly a company that definitely does not care and set everyone up for failure.

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The game is vague on how, and I read it as Jimmy had a hookup and was now ghosting her, as the ship was on the tail end before he found out she was pregnant, so there are some real consequences he can't mentally handle.

Edit: I might also be male, so I did not notice the context clues that he assaulted her.

hot take: it's mouthwash, because like me the writers like the Mouthwash song by Trevor Moore and they thought it would be innteresting in a horror scenario

Curly and Jimmy clearly seem to have a history together. He falsified Jimmy's credentials to be in the ship, so it gives this idea that he has been covering for him for a long time while Jimmy has relied on Curly to cover his ass and deluding himself that he is this competent great person. When Anya tells Curly what happens and Curly's reaction makes me think less of a Boy's club and more someone that has to cover for a friend or family member out of a feeling of obligation and self guilt. He was the one that let Jimmy in so his failures also weight on Curly.

feel what really gives me chills is how real it feels. I sure HOPE nobody has dealt with a 1:1 Jimmy or Curly, but I'm pretty sure we have all seen or met types like them in our lives. People that get in powerful places because of others allowing them to slip in and then believe their own hype. People who refuse to see themselves as wrong in any way and others who out of some twisted feeling of obligation they must coddle these Jimmies to relieve then of accountability

I like these types of games because sometimes we need to be disturbed, need to feel uneasy, and need a reminder of humanity.

19:03 I don’t know how far the metaphors goes but a lot of dentists will tell you that mouthwash, in the long run, will actually cause more harm then good and could make your bad breath worse.

No! That was not enough cat! That was not enough cat at all!!!

i think this game broke a lot of people on the internet.

where and when does it seem like Anya was SA'd? Take what you want from the game but I didn;t see any hints ofm SA.

I didn't think it was possible, but someone finally wrote a villain in a video game who is even more evil than Eric Sparrow from Tony Hawk's Underground.