Learn English with Video Games: Papers, Please #5
Papers, Please
Episode 5
intermediate
Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Learning English with Video Games. And we're here playing Papers, Please. If you haven't seen the other episodes, you should definitely click the link in the description to start from the beginning so that you can follow what's going on. But let's just hop into it. We were on day number nine. We're about to start today. We're going to do nine and ten. and we'll see what's happening because things are getting sort of spicy. There's lots of stuff happening. There was a Kolechian exposed and we have 60 credits. We're doing okay on money. Our entire family is still alive. So let's just keep going and see what happens. So a top-level Kalachian exposed as Arstotzkan spy, which means that somebody who's top-level, so they're high up in the company or the country in this case, so they're a Kalachian, was exposed. So somebody found them out, they were told, they were said, that person is a spy. They were exposed as being a spy for Arstotzka, which is the country that we are from, that we live in. And it's the 1st of December, 1982. Oh, and this person is missing from their post. Their post is like your job or your position or what you're supposed to be doing. So our post in this game is to stamp papers as people go through the border. So they're missing from their post and everybody just thinks that they must be dead. Somebody, they must have been killed. They're presumed to be dead, right? That's when you just, you think something, you assume something without necessarily knowing for sure, right? It's a presumption, which is basically a fancy way of saying a guess that you're pretty sure about, right? So let's get in. December 1st, 1982. Walk to work. So here we are walking into our office here, and there's a guard right outside today. And there's all the other guards coming up. And we have this thing from last time. This code, it looks like. There's all these numbers and letters and some secret message of some kind in here that we're gonna have to figure out. So. Official bulletin, an undercover agent of the Ministry of Information has been compromised. So that's talking about the news, right? So the news of the Kalachian spy. So they were an undercover agent, right? Undercover is when you go or you pretend to be somebody that you're not in order to get more information, right? Your cover is that you're sort of acting or you're pretending to be somebody that you're not. And so, that person was compromised, they were found out. When you compromise something, you cause a problem that can't be solved, right? So in this case, their name was discovered and so they can't keep going or whatever. And then the Ministry of Admission has offered its services as liaison, expect a possible drop later today. So a liaison is somebody that goes between two parties or people, in this case countries, to discuss something, to be the person that has a conversation with both sides. And so this is probably a diplomat or somebody who has a lot of power in some way. They're going to be the liaison between Arstotzka and, or sorry, the Ministry of Information, Ministry of Admission and something else. I don't exactly know. So we're gonna possibly get a drop later today. Not drop by. Did I say that? A drop. which means that they're gonna bring in and leave something, maybe a paper or a document or something to with us, like a drop is when you leave something. So yeah, that is all the information for today. No new rules. So let's just start the day and see if we can keep up with all the rules. Oh, but hello. Hello, he says. Are you the spy? I ask him. What? No, I'm not the spy. I'm guard here, my name is Kalensk. They told me I get good position. They send me here. This is thanks I get, he says. Now they pay me almost nothing. They pay us all as much. Yes, but look, he says, I get a small bonus when you detain people. More you detain, more they give me for processing. But this is not fair, right? You should get something too. So I fix problem. I will give you five credits from my bonus for every two people you detain. Sounds like a good deal to me. I give money to you after I get paid. Let's make the best of this. So he's offering us a bit of a deal, right? He says that every time we detain somebody, we send them with the guards, he gets paid a bonus. And so he's offering us five credits for every two people, right? So 2.5 credits for each person, but only in groups of five, right? So for every two people, five credits. as long as we detain more people. So that means that we have to detain more people if we want to get that money, which isn't very... a nice thing to do, right? Detaining somebody is... not very good. Oh, hello! Want to come up? I have a friend. Come here! Okay, or don't, whatever. Anyways, let's get into the day and we'll see if we'll detain more people if we... because I don't know, it seems a little... Hmm. Papers, please. What is the purpose of your trip? Just visiting. Duration of stay? Two weeks. Good. Enter by? Uh-oh. This is not right, sir. Discrepancy detected. You can't enter with an expired document. I was busy, he says. I don't know about that. I'm sorry, but your document is expired. I have to deny you. Next. Let's see what this next person has. What is the purpose of your trip? I am in transit. Duration of stay will be 14 days. Entry by is good. Her passport number is good. Marriage on Nardinia, that looks fine. True Glorian. Let's see, do I remember Republia. Somebody commented on the video that this is not Republica, it's Republia. I had no idea. Not a great reader, but yeah, True Glorian is on here. This looks okey-dokey to me. I see nothing wrong. Thank you, whatever your name is. Cause no trouble. Next. Oh no, dollar expiration date. This is hard. Papers, please. I have not much time. You must hold onto these. Keep them safe today. I'm being followed by an imposter. They pretend to be from the Ministry of Information, but it is a lie. If they ask for these documents, give them these instead. Do not mix them up. Okay. They look the same. Matching habits of lesser Kolechian waterfowl. Mating habits, I can't read. Okay, so this is the one I have to give to them, so I'm gonna leave it on my desk. I'll cover this one with this one. This person is staying for 30 days as a what, a visit? Passing through. Is that a visit? I don't know, yeah. The NG purpose does not match up. Apologies, I'm just visiting. Okay. Enter by expiration is an 83. Integria is Galorean. Uh, regional map. Antegria. Glorian. Yep, that looks fine. Oh boy, there's more things going on. Mail. 1942. Glorian. Gunter Lauchus. Gunter Lauchus. Numbers match. Visit. One month. Did he say one month? God, I'm forgetting things already. Oh no! Ah! Okay, I think we're good. I think we are okay. We'll see. Oh, I have the button to open this now, on my keyboard. Nice. All right, papers please. Okay, an Arstotzkan citizen. 175 centimeters, 66 kilograms. Date of birth is the same. Vanessa... Oh, it's a different name. Ah-ha! It's Baymalowska or Haimalowska. Which is it, Vanessa? My name was changed recently. All right, show me your fingerprints, huh? But everything else looks okay. Oh, but she has no known alias. Sorry. My name was changed recently, no known alias. That doesn't work. I'm sorry, I have no record of this name. Oh? I don't want to detain you. Like, you didn't do anything wrong. You just didn't get your papers updated. Sorry, like you didn't commit a crime for trying to change your name. I just don't have it Hello papers, please your papers I'm from the ministry of information. You have something to give us ooh money. Here you go perfect I Hope that was the right one because this is the other one I believe So hopefully I gave him the right, wrong papers, because he is an imposter, he's not the real person. Anyways, so here is Rickard Hughes. He's got a beard now, or is it the same person? Discrepancy detected, yeah, well your picture, it's different. I had surgery, he says. Yeah, we'll see about that, Rickard Hughes. We'll see if you really are who you say you are. Couple of months visiting relatives. That's right though. Okay, they're the same. Richard, that you are who you say you are. All right, that is just a different face. Expires in the future. Kolechia is Vedor. Let's see if Kolechia is the, da, da, da, da, here it is, Vedor, good. Issuing city, da, da, da, 1982. Two months, numbers look good. Male, 1947. All right, Richard Hughes, you can go in. Everything looks good to me. Cause no trouble. So we'll see. Hooray, I don't think I committed a crime. Made an error is what I meant to say. That's what I was gonna say, committed a crime. Immigrating forever, enter by next month. Okay, same numbers. He looks kind of like an elf. Wow, he's kind of tall too. Although, is it a dude or discrepancy detected? It looks sort of like a, the passport is correct. All right, I mean. Rasmus Dalsgaard. I apologize, but it's sort of a thing we should just double check. Yeah. I don't know about that. Um, is there, there's a problem with the documentation. I know nothing about this. I mean, it's again, it's probably not anything wrong. Like, They just it's not a not a trans accepting society. wouldn't give them the right papers, so I apologize. I'm not gonna arrest you for that. Ooh, a worker. Come to work. Duration of stay, eight weeks, that's two months. They're entering in the future, good. Numbers look good. Impor is regional map. Impor, Enkio, that looks correct. Maria Dejun, Maria Dejun. Okay, your name is different, aha. What's going on here, huh? Your names do not match. I have multiple names, she says. Let's see. Give me your fingerprints and we'll see if you actually have a name. Maria Dejon, Dejun, looks fine. Okay. Maria Dejon, statistics work until two months in the future. Yeah, that's right, two months. I think that's all right, Maria. You may go, I believe. Cause no trouble. All right, we didn't get to use this thing yet, and we still have these documents, so we'll see what happens. But anyway, so I got 10 credits of bribes today. A bribe is something that, some money that you give to somebody for doing something that they shouldn't do. Usually it's illegal, but that you want them to do for you, right? So somebody bribed me to take that document and give it back to them, right? They gave me a bribe. And I have my easy mode crutch. It's, I kind of wish I could turn this off now. It's really easy, but you know what? It's okay. Otherwise we would be a lot lower on money. Cause this is day nine. So I've earned nine, 180 extra credits. So I'd be like a hundred credits in debt. if I wasn't playing this fast. So it's helpful, but you know, it's hard. So, but my family is able to eat and have food every single day. So, or eat and have heat every single day. I said eat and have food, which doesn't make sense. Anyways, let's go on to the next day. So, December 2nd, Kolechia cleans house and attacks its own. So, Kolechia cleans house. Cleaning house can mean a lot of different things, but in this case it's like you're cleaning up your house, right? They're trying to clean out the bad stuff and get spies out of there. out of their government basically and so a round of disappearances is blamed on faulty evidence and so because it's saying that they attacked their own people they started taking their own regular normal agents and either killing them or sending them away or something. And it says that it's because of faulty evidence. Evidence is something that proves whether or not someone is doing something wrong or whatever, right? There's evidence of something happening. And faulty is when there is a problem with something, right? So a faulty computer or a faulty phone doesn't work. And so we gave faulty evidence to that agent, right? And so they're blaming all of this on the faulty evidence that we gave. So we, as an agent, is having a massive impact. Ooh. There's a car pulls up as we're walking to work. Somebody's coming along. Arstotzkan official bulletin. He's coming up very slowly. The divisional authority of East Grestin operations will visit today. Maintain your best behavior. Glory to Arstotzka, he says. All right. Well, somebody's going to visit us. Here he is. So. You are inspector here. That makes you my responsibility. You have received nine citations. It was a mistake to rely on lottery. Let this motivate you. Hang it on wall here. I return in 10 days. Do not embarrass me. Glory to Arstotzka. Wow. Ministry of Admission Recognition. for sufficiency, which just means that it's good enough, which is not very motivating, but it's fine. And he said that relying on lottery was maybe a mistake. So the lottery is when you pull out a name and it says, your name, and you get a job, or you get money, or whatever. And relying on lottery is assuming that the lottery is going to do well, right? You're saying, I'm going to rely on the lottery to find a good person to work, which is, I mean, I thought I did an OK job. Like, it's a hard job, I don't know. So yeah, anyways, next. Let's get this over with. So, first person here is Pampus Broughton. He's coming to visit for a month. Numbers are the same. He's got to enter in a couple weeks, sure. But his names are different. So what's up there, Hampus, or should I say Rashish? Rashish. My name was changed recently. All right, I don't know about that. At Koristia City, United Federation. Looks good. So let's see. Although you don't have an alias, so that's you, but you don't have. a known alias. My name was changed recently. That's really all I got. Sorry, bud, but I don't really have anything about your name. Again, I don't feel like I can detain you because you didn't really do anything wrong. And I have enough money. I don't really need to detain more people. Okay, next person here. Antegria. Visiting friends for eight weeks. Okay, enter by is good. Numbers match up. Joseph Murman. Joseph Murman. Outer Grouse. That sounds right for Antegria, but let's just double check. Um, Antegria, Outer Grouse, yep, we're good. Um, 1944. Um, I see no problems with your papers, Joseph Murman. We'll see if I'm right or not. Right about, I didn't look at the, it's the date, isn't it? It's the expiration date? Ah, invalid expiration date. Ridiculous! 14 days, wait. Where's your other paper? Lady, basic rules, must have an entry permit. Yeah, there we go. What is that? Well, sorry, Emma, but I can't let you in without an entry permit. No, I'm not leaving. Okay, you I can detain. You're delaying the line. I refuse, she says. You fools better not touch me. I will explode like a wild tiger. I have every right to enter Arstotzka. You think I'm joking, but a tiger does not joke. Let me through. Whoa, she just got bashed in the head. You see that? So she was saying that she would explode if she wasn't let in, which is not great, but all right, kind of interesting. I have a job here, another worker, duration of stay, three months. Why do you have so much longer of a time? Oops, there we go. It expires before your visit. I am planning to renew it. What? It expires before your visit. Oh, it expired already. So, oh, oops. Yeah, because 1982. Well, sorry, Honka. Well, your documents are not up to date, so I can't let you through. Not very many people are getting through the border today. Oh, and here's another diplomatic person. Okay, so I have to double check that this is all right, right? Impor, regional map, impor. Tsukido. That's a different name. This issuing cities incorrect, I do not know anything about that. Okay, if you're issuing, if you're pretending to be a diplomatic agent to get through, that I can justify detaining. Because you're pretending to be somebody that you're not on a diplomatic mission for something. Oh. Your agents are ready starting tomorrow, let them pass. and he gave us this. And so this is that, this is this symbol, right? And so it's must be some sort of, of code. And so yeah, if I'd like line up, if I line up these dots up here, if I put it like that, we get there, let's see, can I read that? Line up the dot, right? One more, a little bit higher. There we go. Stephanie Grace, uh, Grier and, Mikhail Starostov. Oh no, okay. So the question is, do we help these people get in? Because they're saying, the guy said, let them pass. Let them through. Okay, diplomatic envoy. This one we'll see, are you actually a real one? From Obristan. From here. Lauren Daz, okay. The seal looks correct, it's this one. Alisa Valquero, Jan 44, although not a male, at least not obviously. The passport is correct. Another... Like, just a different looking person, I guess. Passport number is correct. Calathea, United Fed. I mean, your passport's not correct. I don't know what to tell you. But there's a problem with your documentation. I don't know what to say. Diplomatic envoy pretending to be somebody that they're not or I don't know what's really going on with these documents of diplomats, so But I think better safe than sorry as you say Amanda de rive de ria Baradizna, is that a place in this country? Stolzka, Baradizna, and Lendeforma District is on the list as well. Okay, 53 kilograms, 150. Why are you so tall? You're supposed to be like this tall. Perhaps my shoes are different. Let's just double check that you are who you say you are. Here are my fingerprints, she says. Discrepancy detected. I cannot verify your fingerprints. You're a different person. Um, do I detain her for, cause she has like the passport of somebody else with, with her own picture on it. Like this is somebody else. I think that I'm gonna have to detain her because she's committing fraud, basically. So, we're not fraud. Identity theft is what it's called. Anyways, that's the end of day 10. Things are getting crazy now. We got visited by a man in a hood who told us to let through his agents tomorrow. That's a... an interesting proposition, but we'll have to see what happens in the next episode. That's everything for today. I hope that you enjoyed and maybe learned a few new words. Let me know down below what you learned and what you enjoyed, and I'll see you again in another episode. Have a good one. Bye.
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