I can't tell if this menu screen is 
very confident or minimalistic
Hey everybody, its Welonz and we're 
checking out Telling Lies today
This game came out in late August and I've been meaning to check it out since then,
but this and that happened but anyway, we're finally here
This is Sam Barlow's newest game 
and you might know him from Her Story
which was a game about sitting here and 
watching videos to try to figure out a mystery
That if you have no idea what I mean, 
it might sound pretty boring, but
I liked it, so that's why we're here today
I think Telling Lies is gonna have similar mechanics but involving a different story of 4 people this time
My beloved Annapurna. I love these guys
It's like a full-fledged TV show already (Welonz chuckles)
Oh, is it like the, the laptop webcam?
"Karen"
Well, you can tell Karen's not a gamer
Karen uses a Mac or something; 
whatever the hell this is (Welonz chuckles)
Welcome to Telling Lies
Oh. Do I have control? Yes, I do. All right
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Can I move this around? Yes, I can; I have
 an external drive, I got Solitaire
System options
Okay. This file looks interesting
(Welonz chuckles)
What...?
So, I--Kare n
I requested some information
and somebody got it for me, 
but it seems like I'm on the run
Okay
PDF here
Is someone talking outside my house?
Oh, my God
Well--if you know what Her Story is like, 
basically we get this search thing here
and then whatever term we search, 
i'll come up with a bunch of videos,
that's what I'm guessing is gonna happen, 
so why don't we just leave the "love" in here?
And whatever comes up, it's because
the word "love" appears in these videos
I think this document just tells me how to...
use the system? Oh, there you go, much better
Much better
We'll do a quick skim
And basically, it's trying to explain what I just told you
which are different, because
Some people might just say "George"; 
some people might just say "Washington"
(Da da da da...)
So this is a very powerful..
police tool. This is--
related to the government. It's not just 
something that everybody has access to
Oh, my God...
There's some kind of clip tools and 
while a record is paused
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
You know what, I think we should just
try and look at this (Welonz chuckles) 
just use it?
Yeah we can bookmark stuff, there's 
histories of previous searches yada yada yada
By the way, I do like how you can see 
the reflection of the lady here, but I feel like
it's gonna get this distractng in the long term
Is that something we can change or--?
(Welonz chuckles) It's kind of scary that
 there's a person behind thing here
But it doesn't seem like...it's a thing.
So this is--the there's a USB drive 
here and this is the database
Yeah?
Ah, okay
That's what this was; it was all 
scrunched up earlier. Look at me
Okay, my battery's charging right now so it's okay; I don't have to worry about--the time doesn't change, though
I'm looking at all this stuff and like, not
 what I'm actually supposed to be looking at
Okay, whatever. Let's just freakin' 
start looking at some of this stuff
Welcome to Castle (Welonz chuckles)
Uhh...
Yeah, okay cool (Welonz chuckles)
Cool. My charge is actually going up, that's kind of cool
All right
Love, love, love
I think I'm on a time limit, right? Because 
they mentioned that I'm gonna be arrested?
Let's go with this one.
Okay, thanks
(Welonz snickers)
Is this guy giving an interview or--?
No, I think he's talking to somebody
Cuz remember, this is secretly recorded off webcams.
I think that's what's happening?
He's listening
So, we don't have any context for 
whatever the hell this is about,
all we know is that there's 4 people 
and 1 big lie so (Welonz chuckles)
gonna take a bit more viewing of other stuff
for us to really understand anything here
Okay.
Hm.
So this is one thing that I saw as a criticism of 
um--hold on, let me get back to the end here first
A lot of people on the Steam user 
reviews mentioned that--
this is kind of lacking because,
if you have a three-minute video, if you want to go back to the very beginning you have to drag it all the way back
and it doesn't seem like there is 
a way to move through the timeline quickly
Somebody made a patch to improve this to
 make it so that you can use the keyboard to--
get to the beginning of the video faster. 
So let me try this out and see if it works
Oh, perfect, hmm/
So what I did just now is, 
I pressed Home on my keyboard
If you're playing this yourself, and you want to install 
the patch too, I will leave a link in the description
but um, yeah, just so you know, this is not 
built into the game and it's a community patch
Should I watch this video from the beginning?
Earlier, it started playing on the 
word "love", not the beginning
Okay.
Uhh--
Same as before, we watched this full 
video, but it's like, we don't understand
anything about this because, what the Hell's happening?
To get a broader context, probably would
 be easier if we just started watching a lot more
As far as we can see here, this is 
the same guy again and then there's
two different women and something else here
All right, but it sounded like he was talking 
to somebody on the internet on his computer
It's gonna play it from the beginning
Maybe it's like a long-distance relationship?
(Welonz chuckles)
Sounds like she had a fun day
(Welonz chuckles)
This feels very voyeuristic
Ahh
It's his kid
Wait, okay, yah, I can pause it
It doesn't sound like it's a girlfriend this 
time, maybe a kid? A daughter or a son?
But the first one didn't sound like he was talking to a child though, so talking to different people here
Maybe he just moved to a new place
Yeah
Daughter?
Did he move off by himself? Are they divorced?
He's definitely moved into a new place 
judging by the background
Not divorced
(Welonz snickers)
Oh, from Ikea? (Welonz chuckles)
This is a little bit  (Welonz chuckles)
You only get one side of the 
conversation; it's kind of hard to work with
I wonder if he acted this out by himself.
Like, there actually wasn't somebody 
else on the other side?
Wait, what he'd say just now at the very end?
Maybe she got busy?
Hm. By the way, me moving two seconds back like this,
this is also part of the patch and looking at it like this,
it's actually kind of baffling that this is not in the 
game already to begin with (Welonz chuckles)
but hey, at least we have it
Hmm
Well, we have this guy here, he's moved
These were on the same day
Oh. Okay. And ow we have a different woman here
From the beginning.
Oh, the daughter
And then something about the scratchy...
chin beard. "Chin beard" (Welonz chuckles)
No, this is the apartment all the
Yeah, yeah, he said "baddie apartment"
(Imitating guy) "You talking bout this over here, ooh"
Oh, no
(Welonz chuckles) He's doing the 
hoodie thing with his jacket
This feels very voyeuristic
I feel weird
He's explaining to her about the Tooth Fairy
That's a good question (Welonz chuckles) 
I don't know, man. Chimneys, like Santa?
Exactly
Mommy?
Is this like an iPad because I can't imagine 
the kid holding an entire laptop like this
Or maybe she's not as young as I think she is
Nice shirt by the way, I love it (Welonz chuckles)
Nurse? Are those scrubs?
"I miss you."
"Alba"
Okay, we're getting some 
solid information here, more solid
This is the other side of the 
other video and we have a man,
we have a woman, the woman seems to be a nurse;
she's wearing scrubs here and she mentioned a code blue at work
and they have a daughter named Alba
And the man moved away. I'm not sure why, but it definitely isn't because he's getting a divorce so
We're making progress, making progress
I need to write all this down because I feel like,
we're gonna have a lot of information
later on (Welonz chuckles)
Another new woman
Oh.  he beginning. Whoa. 
(Welonz chuckles) Oh, whoa
(Welonz gasps) Wait
Don't tell me he was like, cheating 
on his wife by looking for other women
'Cuz what was that first video where he 
was saying, "I love girls with great smiles"?
Oh, my God
She's not waking up (Welonz chuckles)
Somebody keeps texting her
"Got a nice rind(?) on you" Something-something (Welonz chuckles)
She's the only one I know, out of all these actors here
I don't know if the other people 
are like, super famous and stuff too.
'Cuz this lady was on West World
And she's really pretty
Ah
Is she a cam girl?
Where do I look? (Welonz chuckles)
Does this one sound like the 
counterpart to the first video we saw?
I'm not sure yet
(Welonz chuckles)
She's got a really high-end setup
The camera seems to be mounted on 
something that moves automatically
Like that
Wow, I never could've guessed
Whoa, whoa, whoa, woah--
you trying to get me demonetized?
(Welonz chuckles) I have no idea what he'd told her
So she's not just a cam girl
And probably your money (Welonz chuckles)
Oh, my God, this lady is so pretty, it actually scares me
Anyway--
This is a 7 video; I don't think it corresponds
to the very first video that we saw
But I'm not ruling out that she was talking to him because she was talking to a married man, right?
Oh--Does this mean that the word 
"love" was found at 3:01?
Yeah, okay. We don't need to watch that again
If we go back here--
This video was only three minutes long so, no
These two correspond to each other. 
These two are not. Now, what's this one?
The word love appears twice
From the beginning. Oh, another lady
Sounds like she's talking to somebody 
she's trying to get to know
Is everybody looking for love here?
(Welonz chuckles)
She's at a hotel
It's almost like she's vlogging
But we have the light of a laptop
Great singer
Okay. She was Skyping with somebody
Hm--this lady we don't know too much about 
especially because she hasn't said her name
(Welonz chuckles) Actually
The word love let us see the 4 people in this story, 
but nobody has said their name so far,
we don't know what to call anybody
Except for the daughter, the man's daughter
 is named Alba, and that's pretty much all I know
Hmm, well...
Why don't we try searching for Alba, then?
There's so many different things to go off of here, 
but I don't even know where to begin
We're just gonna not really understand 
this until we watch more, pretty much
Okay, Alba
This is the one where you first found that word
More skyping in bed
Texas
Is that where they are? The mother and the daughter?
Oh, somebody's visiting and they're from Texas
Maybe like a mother-in-law or something
"Laura"
He looks pissed
So he moved away
and then--
The mother needs help taking care of the daughters
and somebody came to their house;
this woman named Laura
(Welonz chuckles) Okay
Mm, whatever's going on sounds very stressful.
Maybe he moved away for work or something
Apparently they have two daughters. Hm.
By the way, I've been trying to keep notes on my 
phone of everything that we've seen so far
So hopefully that's gonna help us 
remember some of this stuff
'cuz it seems like, remembering 
is gonna be a big thing here
Next one. This is...the wife
Yeah, it's the mother
Oh, this is the counterpart to the one that we just saw
From Texas
The mom's mom is Laura
Oh...
"David"
Grandpa?
"Emma"
David, Emma. A daughter, alba
Mom, Laura
Heh, that's, like, their private greeting or something
Okay, we're making progress
The guy--the mother mentioned it too, Laura, but uh,
David,
Is he may be a police person?
She mentioned that he's off to save the world
And his wife said "Go off and catch some bad guys"
Okay. So the time--is a pretty big indication of 
if it's like, a parallel video
Oh, look at that,
there is a three-hour difference. So 
he moved to a place with a different time zone
That's probably what's happened. 
The dates, that could be important too
This is about a month after he moved, I think?
And this is right before Halloween.
"Auwowa"
Kid's so cute
Let it go, mom
She's still here
The bureau
FBI?
Do police people usually get their company called
like, dopeople regularly say "bureau" in 
reference to anything other than the FBI
Because if not, then it seems like 
maybe David works for the FBI
Damn man, it's been like a month and 
a half and Momma's still here
The wife must be going insane
This is November 3rd
They've just been skyping to maintain this relationship
Whoa.
Steven?
Ohh. Bit of anger here
Okay
The mother-in-law moved over here to help with 
the daughters, but she's getting sick herself
So the wife is gonna be even more stressed then. Oh, no
Dementia
Hm. Okay. All right. Oh, okay. 
Hold on, so whenever I search a term,
"Alba" returned with 25 records, but only the first 5 came up
because they don't want to 
show you everything (Welonz chuckles)
So you gotta think of other keywords to
find those other records. I think 
Her Story was just like that too, so
Not too angry about that, I suppose
Okay,
I suppose we can keep trying to chase this thread down about this family here between these two people.
What about "Bureau"?
Yeah, 6 records match, good. 
Whoa, what the heck is this one?
Oh, my God
Ohh...my God, this guy is cheating on his wife; not 
with the sex worker but with the lady closing up shop
What the hell are they talking about? (Welonz chuckles)
What?!
"Ava"
Ava and David are sleeping with each other
David is cheating on Emma
What the hell was that, though? 
They were like, making an ad here?
Oh, no
Then in the very first video that we saw 
where he said, "I like girls with great smiles"
He must have been talking to Ava
Damn
Oh, no...
This is February
A few months. He's moved for a few months already
hm
Go back here
Ava or Emma, you scumbag
He's talking to his daughters?
They're asleep.
He's telling a bedtime story to his daughters
They have a time zone difference though, 
so that's why he's already in bed
by the time they're going to sleep
What are they saying, what are you looking at?
Are you just watching them sleep or--?
(Welonz chuckles)
Now it's the wife, Emma
He seems stressed
(Welonz gasps) The anesthesiologist?
Whoa...
Ah, you see what's happening here? 
He is sleeping with people, but he's projecting
He definitely is
Because are you trying to tell me that,
on the 18th, he wasn't sleeping with this 
woman but on the 23rd he was?
Yeah
Seems like he suspects that Emma is 
sleeping with Stephen, the anesthesiologist
or her mom
Which I feel like is unlikely, but uh, maybe that's a 
thread we can go after
Stephen. I will write that down
Wow.
While we've been watching these videos, I've been very busy trying to take notes the whole time
my goodness. Okay.
Uh--
Keep going, I guess
It would be nice if we can find the equivalent 
to this one right away on the other side
So maybe instead of watching these ones, can we find a clip that's 6 minutes and 25 seconds under Stephen?
There's 6 records, but...
No, we don't have an equivalent here. Dang
Cheating, how about "cheating"?
or "sleeping"
"Have you been sleeping with anybody?"
(Welonz chuckles) "Sleeping" actually 
brings up the sex worker a lot.
Oh my God, she's like taking off her clothes!
Am I gonna get demonetized over this?
(Welonz chuckles) Um...
I want to find the equivalent one 
but maybe it's not gonna be possible
It'll just be easier to mash things together, 
but it's not really a big deal I guess
6:25
Um, hold on
Can I make this bigger? It really bothers me 
that this window is so dang small
Gosh
Uhh...The bookmark function? Okay, yeah--
we'll bookmark things that we haven't 
found the equivalent of yet
and then we can go back to them later on?
That's probably a better plan here. 
So, how did I find that one again, "Bureau"?
This one 6:25.
We will...how do I bookmark this?
(Welonz chuckles) how do I bookmark this?
Here
Does it add to the specific time?
No. It's fine. Uhh, we can tag it
No, no, no, how do I like, add tags or 
something? Just says dot-dot-dot
Oh, whatever
Like that?
Well, it's okay, we only have one item right
 now, so I guess it's not too important
Okay, continuing on searching for "Bureau", I guess
Beginning
"Operation"
"Mike" Names are good ones to put down
"Bellevue"
So he's on West Coast and his wife 
and kid are on East Coast
Not sure what he's getting angry about here, but it sounds like he's talking to a woman cuz he mentions--
slapping somebody?
"Bellevue Lake"
Ooh, medical Leave
He's just listening to someone talk
I feel like I want to skip forward 
a little bit when there's no talking
but it is important to look 
at their facial expressions, huh?
Is he just searching stuff?
He was happy for a second
You know, the acting here has to be really dang good
to really convey what they're trying 
to convey because there's no words
What's going on in this one? He seems really distressed
Divorce?
Wait, first of all, who is he talking to? He said
they had something going on here; 
both their jobs mess with their brains
His wife is a nurse, but I wonder if he
might be talking to the side woman instead
He shaved here too. Something to note,I think
"Melissa"?
Who the hell is Melissa?
Oh, my God
Whoa, he sounds like he's gonna cry
Ooh...
Melissa...Well, his wife is named Emma. 
That wasn't quite it
Right, he's usually shaved, but in July 3rd
He was already put on medical leave by the FBI
and he shaved and apparently
 he's changed for the better, for the worse?
Nobody really knows
Okay, I think I'm gonna take a break right here, then
It's always baffling how this works out,
 but you start off not knowing a single thing
but then by the end here, it's like "Oh whoa, 
things are starting to piece together"
And I think so far what, we can tell is that there's a man named David.
There is a woman named Emma
We don't know the name of the cam girl and there is Ava
David and Emma are married, David moved away for the FBI job
Emma's really stressed out back home because she's got to take care of two girls and her mom by herself
Meanwhile, David in Seattle and Bellevue. 
He is cheating on his wife with Ava
So far, that's what we know and when we 
come back, we will look into this even more
