Zombified

Zombified is the first episode of Classic Sam Videos overall, the first episode of Arc 1: A Rogue God, and the second video to premiere on the ClassicSamVideos channel.
== Characters ==
* Microsoft Sam
* Microsoft Mike
* Microsoft Mary
* Dr. Zomboss
* Mr. B (errors)
== Things ==
* Windows
* Errors
* Microsoft (as an entity)
* Zombie Virus (fake; technically doesn’t count as an appearance)
* Killing Machine
== Places ==
* The CSV House
* Mike’s Universe
== YouTube Description ==
Microsoft Sam reads errors, and then something crazy happens.
== Lore Description ==
On July 1st, 2023, Microsoft Sam and Mr. B makes preparations for the first episode, in order to kickstart the ClassicSamVideos channel. But Mr. B notices that Dr. Zomboss is trying his zombie empire shtick again, this time attacking the CSV house, because he knows that’s where the creator lives and that it could be a good place to start. Before starting the recording, Mr. B tells Sam that Zomboss will arrive roughly at the time of the tenth and final error, so they come up with a plan to fool Zomboss and get rid of him. In the meantime, Sam starts reading. 
Error 1: Windows tries to warn Sam about literal nothingness. Sam tells Windows to leave him alone since he doesn’t need to worry about nothing.
Error 2: The PC’s motherboard changes its name to the fatherboard. What confuses Sam is the fact that Windows calls it an error in the title, yet there’s nothing that even suggests a fatal exception has occurred.
Error 3: Windows tries to make an interesting spin on the phrase “the operation failed successfully.” As Sam points out, it’s just the same meaning again. He also jokingly points out the three genders; sir, ma’am, and lapdog.
Error 4: Windows becomes self aware about how these errors do not come from Microsoft at all.
Error 5: Windows claims that Sam has 2 terabytes of shm3xy pr0nz, but he denies this by saying that it is actually a homework folder, where he does homework. It is actually the former, because there is no conceivable way that a school in Mike’s universe can assign that much in terabytes to one person, not even over the course of the grades and college hours combined. On a side-note, the increased storage is part of Mr. B’s upgrades.
Error 6: A Blue Man could not get a hold of Sam, but he does manage to get a hold of Mr. B, who relays the message for him. In Mike’s universe, blue people work for Microsoft, and they sometimes do exchanges with former employees in order to do interviews, which would be posted on the company’s website. For Sam, he has to sacrifice his favorite food, which is burritos.
The reason why the Blue Man mistakenly says that Sam likes tacos is because there are many different versions of Microsoft all over the multiverse, each knowing of their own Microsoft Sam from other TTS universes, even if Sam wasn’t created by them. There are many versions of Sam out there that like tacos, so the Blue Man almost gets it wrong for yours truly. And, of course, Sam is very protective of his burritos, so he outright declines.
Error 7: Windows acknowledges that Sam has an AOL account. It is not known what Sam used it for.
Error 8: Mr. B and Sam both acknowledge that they hate the ‘Orb Game Extended Universe’ that was made by fans of Tinfoilbot.
Error 9: Windows tries to tell Sam to sign in to Windows when he is already signed in.
Error 10: Dr. Zomboss is just about here, and so the counterattack begins. Mr. B uses a portal to spawn Sam cake near his computer. Sam then eats it, and pretends to be infected by the Zombie Virus. To make it more convincing, Mr. B changes Sam’s look so that he looks green, because he honestly doesn’t remember what a real zombie minion is supposed to look like. Also, he colors the error green, just because.
In the back of his mind, Dr. Zomboss finds this suspicious, so he tests Sam by commanding him to kill Mike and Mary. As part of the plan, Mr. B and Sam have gotten the Killing Machine, stealing it from Mike’s room, so it is already in Sam’s disposal. Mike comes into the room to ask where it went, but Sam kills him with it almost immediately. He is finally taking the opportunity to dispose of his friends if it meant that his life wouldn’t be in danger. Mary witnesses this and starts to yell at him before getting killed herself. To further convince Edgar, Sam does a maniacal laugh. As far as Mr. B’s editing goes, this is the end of the first episode of Arduous Windows Errors. It is also released on the same day as when these events occur, on the ClassicSamVideos channel.
== Director's Commentary ==
NOTE: After all the lore revamps on the document are done, I am going to actually tend to this wiki the way I should've done in the beginning. I'm also going to remake the director's commentary bits. So, as a little disclaimer, the following isn't the final version and may even contain outdated information in some cases.
This video, and the beginning of CSV as a whole, was released on the same day as "Microsoft Sam reads Funny Earthly Signs (S1EP14)" on the Zushi Films channel, on July 1, 2023. I believe this CSV episode was made right after, though I could be wrong. Either way, after the FES episode, I started a hiatus from making ZF-related projects, and made the first 7 CSV episodes in the span of a few days. This was just an idea I had on a whim, just because I was bored of the ZF status quo. 
So, in the beginning, you got your basic VEGAS Pro text intro, which is the meta for these first 7 episodes. As the captions say, the audio snippet during the title card is "Communication Tower" by Massimo Ibrahim. I discovered this track somewhere in Scott's channel, also known as "plazmicant" or "dscottbaby" (YouTube handle: ngf). I believe he's currently one of Zack Max's friends, and I discovered Zack through the RemixerBlogRebooted5 channel back in 2020, so I learned of Scott's channel through looking at Zack's channel.
That's actually not the first time I used that track. When I downloaded the song, I first intended to use it in a video known as "Greeny Phatom (S01E03) - Inspecting the Stone! Murder on my Mind!" back on May 7 that same year. The video in question got out of development hell and released on June 3rd. As for why I reused it in CSV, I just thought it would be an interesting sound for the title card lol. So, with the title card out of the way, let's look at the errors and responses!
Error 1: I still like the error text and Sam's response here. It's a pretty solid introductory error overall, in my opinion. I remember coming up with this one by myself.
Error 2: This one is very good, too, and I also came up with this one by myself. I like how Sam points out that this shouldn't be called an "error." It's kind of a stark contrast from his behavior in S1EP7, but not really though, since Twix is otherkin, and that's sorta different. In the past, he also called Mike a lady in a disrespectful way, but that's only because he hated sharing the same house as him and his sister and also saw them as inferior. Finally, I like the grayed-out option. Want to annoy transphobes? Take the word "transphobia" literally!
Error 3: Ah yes, putting words in reverse order. I don't know if anyone in the TTS community has done this reverse order thing before I did. Also, we got the three genders: sir, ma'am, and lapdog. lmao
Error 4: Windows is feeling very self-aware today. I still like Sam's phrase about the monkeys. I think that's pretty clever. And if you've read the Strange Tale lore, you already know that this actually has lore relevance due to the existence of Mr. B. If you don't know, I said that he's basically the one writing all the errors, except the ones that came from his unknown cousin and the error requesters from a different universe. Of course, it has not been explicitly revealed in the episodes themselves, but trust me, Mr. B's presence will be explained in the future. Right now, I'm thinking that he was born in Alberto's universe, and he becomes one of the two only survivors of the Mindflayer invasion. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the lore concepts further above if you’re curious. Or, if you're reading this on the wiki, go to the link to the document on the wiki's main page, as that's the only place the lore concepts are held at the moment.
Error 5: So, despite what I said in the lore, this actually was intended to be actual homework, because I thought it'd be funny. Well, as of the next 7 episodes, it has been retconned so that it has always been an actual porn folder. Like I said, why would it be two terabytes? What kind of school would that be? But yeah, I wanted to do something a bit different than the shm3xy pr0nz joke at the time. I still think this is kinda clever. Also, this is the first time that Sam doesn't read the title of an error. He very rarely reads titles during these videos, which has been a thing in other Microsoft Sam videos in the past.
Error 6: Ah yes, an agent of Microsoft is soliciting! Now, this is not the first time I made Sam like burritos instead of tacos. The idea originated from an old unlisted video of mine called "Microsoft Sam reads Random and Funny Errors (EP. 1)", which is available in the "Old Vids" playlist. And yeah, I decided to repurpose it for the CSV series. You can tell that I didn't really want to make Sam go apeshit because of his burritos being threatened, just like what he does for his tacos in other videos. 
Gotta say, Sam and the others barely seem to have any connection to Microsoft other than their names, the Windows OSs, and Microsoft being mentioned sometimes. This is typically not the kind of plot thread that a TTS YouTuber would take seriously, but I’m not gonna lie, I’m seriously wondering what type of presence Microsoft could have in the CSV universe. That’s a story for another day, though.
Error 7: I vaguely remember looking at the AOL icon in the error generator, thinking, "hey, why not mention AOL?" Because having an AOL account in 2023 is bound for laughter! Oh yeah, there's actually a real reason. In the error generator, I was going through the icons in order of the rows, up to this error. You can tell if you look at that website. The deal was that I had to come up with an idea for every single icon throughout the series. But I decided to abandon it by the next error, because doing errors on three icons about explosives in a row seemed pretty unnecessary.
Error 8: Oh boy, this is gonna need a bit of explaining. So, "Orb Games" are a genre of obstacle course games on Roblox. It was pioneered by Tinfoilbot, who created the Dark Orb series. Another guy decided to create their own "Orb Game," and then all of a sudden, a trend started. The second most popular "Orber" was DeliciousBakedPie, who by the way is now in the Object Show Community and goes by "Pancaiks&Butter", who seems to be mostly active on Twitter. Don't go looking it up if you don't want to see Israel's many crimes, because that's the thing he mostly retweets on his page nowadays. I don't support Israel's actions by the way, so good on him for spreading awareness!
Anyways, back on topic. I used to be a bit of an Orber myself. I used to make Orb Games on my main Roblox account, test5432123. Almost all of them were either bad or mediocre, though, and I stopped making it a serious hobby around 2020-2021. I tarnished my reputation there around that time, anyway, and even on a separate community related to Adventure Forward (an adventure game series akin to Super Mario) due to how I sometimes trolled since like 2014 on alts, just like how Thunderbirds305 roleplayed as "Bad Users" with his alts. I would also make "Bad User" accounts on GoAnimate during the website's heyday in 2015, and I also had a brief stint being "Noobzor9 Rules UTTP THDTC" on YouTube back in early 2022. Also, during 2018, even when I was a "Good User" along with my buddies Thunderbirds501 and Future Sam (the latter was actually Thunderbirds305 himself), I would find myself being caught in the escapades of a group known as the Wuzzer Buzz Allies, which raids certain groups on Google+ that they found cringe, including a particular one that was called "Draw My Oc", which I made a few troll posts on. I also participated in another Google+ group called "Attack Zender Man", which was basically this Oscar Ferguson bullshit, as he was the same person who was being teased and bullied relentlessly by UTTP, GoAnimate kids, and "Mature Users" alike. It's a bad habit I've been trying to shake ever since I got caught trolling on Roblox in 2021, but now I can safely say that it's over due to recent events with another community I used to associate with convincing me that I need to be a sort of hermit on the Internet.
I also don't really miss the Orb Community, mostly because when it was already past its prime, toxicity grew even more than it was before due to a certain group, that was full of former Orbers. That's probably why DBP decided to never come back, even to fix some of his games, and to be honest, I don't blame him. I ain't that obsessed with Orb Games these days, either, much less the community, but it has remained really quiet over the months with no further troubles, so that’s good. Now, about the error. Do I still stand by this opinion, and was it even genuine? Well, it wasn't really THAT genuine. I was pretty much ripping off an error from GWizard777's error series, anyway. I'm still fond of the times when I played those games.
Error 9: I'm pretty sure I got the idea of this error from r/softwaregore. I think Sam's response makes this error shine more than the error itself.
Error 10: So, this is basically how I wanted the antagonist to show up. Sam gets infected because the cake has a Zombie Virus.
This isn't the first time I used Dr. Zomboss as a villain, either. The first time was from a series known as "Microsoft Sam reads Errory Errors". And no, I'm not talking about the one from 2020, which is now deleted. I'm talking about the one that got started near the beginning of 2023, which is also now in my Old Vids playlist. I got the idea of that villain from watching Zack Max's AGK Adventures series, who used the zombies as a group of villains. If it weren't for that, I probably wouldn't have added Plants vs. Zombies as one of my fixations in the first place, so that's a fun fact. The reason why I reused Zomboss for CSV is, I was thinking of a random villain to use, and I decided to reuse Zomboss, since it was the easiest option. I didn't really want to take the antagonist storylines seriously at this stage of CSV, so I said screw it. Mike dies, Mary dies, Sam is now a zombie thanks to Zomboss. That's basically all that was for this episode.
By the way, this is technically the first instance of the Killing Machine, although I did not think of that name until a bit later. As for the sound effect, it's "Collapsing Platform 2" from Sonic 1, which I discovered through SamJoex's Sound Effects playlist. That one's not technically in the playlist, though. Here's the story. I was making a video for Zushi Films called "The Tale of AWK - Chapter 6: Breaking Good", and I was in the middle of making the fight between Satanic Infinite Illuminati and Icecream Man. I wanted an easy source for sound effects, so I went on SamJoex's channel, went to the Sound Effects playlist, and I thought, "hmm, SammyProductions2009's channel seems pretty good." I downloaded a few sound effects from that channel, including Collapsing Platform 2, which was used whenever the SII unleashed a fire blast from his face. The reason I reused that sound effect for CSV is, I wanted some sort of gun sound effect without actually searching it up, and Collapsing Platform 2 was the first thing that came to mind. I know, I was feeling pretty lazy, especially since this was started because I was bored of the ZF status quo and I didn’t want to put in more effort than I needed to. So yes, that's how the sound effect became the canon SFX for the Killing Machine! And yes, the simple ending card was made to be simple. That’s all for this episode.