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Ep. 214 Video Game Bathrooms · Privycast

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  He there is this character, the great and mighty Pooh, who lords over Pooh Cabin.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't even know why you want to be in Pooh Cabin.
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  Like, the only time I want to be in Pooh Cabin is when I've got a big one on deck and I'm scared that I'm not gonna make it.
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  Welcome back to Privy.
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  Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom.
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  I'm your host, Hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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  Welcome back, everyone.
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  Thank you for being here.
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  And the top of the show.
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  First of all, we're in this weird, like, it's it's wet outside.
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  We went from the wet of the summer sun making my back just an absolute cotton covered swamp.
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  To the wet of the sky as the Oregon rains, I feel arrived weeks early this year.
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  It's it's very wet.
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  But the other thing that's just it's kind of weird is it's still summer.
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  Even so at the point of this episode's record, I'm recording again, very close to release.
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  It's been a busy week.
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  And at the point of episode's release, kids have still not gone back to school here.
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  The teachers are back and kids are going back, but we we fully just waited.
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  until like flat after Labor Day weekend to actually go back.
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  It's crazy.
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  With that pumpkin got that pumpkin spice tea.
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  It's spice season.
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  And we're, you know, last year we ranked some spice.
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  It was a good time.
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  But guys don't realize how fast the year goes by.
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  Like, once you go back to school, you're there like a month, and then it's Halloween, and then it's Thanksgiving.
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  And then it's criminus, and then you're a whole new year.
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  And a lot happens really quick.
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  I've shared on the show
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  That I work for a public high school.
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  So much of my life is lived in line with the school calendar.
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  That means like for me, summer pops off.
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  And then when we go back to school, it's like the busiest month or two of my life.
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  And you have a lot more time.
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  And like I'm struck because over the summer, like I had a I had an abundance of, I wouldn't say all free time, still making the show, still doing the stuff with parables,
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  still doing stuff at the church.
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  But I'm on break from the high school.
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  And so I have this bulk of my day that's open.
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  And going back this week, I noticed like I have done way fewer, fewer Vidja games.
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  Now, who hear this and you're going like, he's gonna complain about not no, that's not it.
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  Nobody needs to play video games.
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  Like it they're totally an additive to life.
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  They are a supplemental thing.
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  They're not necessary.
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  But the reality is, is
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  When life gets busy, you don't do them as much because you just don't have time for them.
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  And I remember like when I was growing up, kids, you're getting ready to go back to school, you're getting ready to have a little bit less time on on these things.
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  And that's okay.
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  It's good for you.
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  But I remember like I grew up with video games, but video games back in the day, they they were kind of this huge thing.
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  Like, I remember getting up early, very early.
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  Now that I'm a parent looking back on it, I'm like, probably shouldn't have been doing this.
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  Often got up before my parents could get up to like sneak my down to the basement to play video games before they woke up.
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  Unstructured time for sure.
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  But and those games were of a different nature.
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  Like my sons recently drug out a lot of those old games that I still have GameCube, Game Boys, the the like.
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  And it's good stuff.
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  It's fun.
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  But they were also more of a to do.
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  And what I mean by that is that like
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  Your game was tied to a gaming console that you had to like plug into a TV.
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  And and you couldn't like walk around with it or take it with you or or do all of that stuff.
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  Or a PC.
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  And there were some individually made games, but they're not as big.
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  And those games were mostly for like tech junkies and people that were like, oh, I'm into the tech of it.
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  And they're like building their own machines and and all that stuff.
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  It just seeing what they could do.
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  Things completely changed when the portable games market arrived.
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  I was no longer tied to the TV.
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  I could take my Game Boy on the road.
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  I'm playing Pokemon out here in the streets, kids.
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  And while I know this is going to be hard to believe because I have a whole podcast here set up in my home bathroom.
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  I I never really played my Game Boy when I was in the bathroom.
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  It just never really crossed my mind.
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  I don't know.
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  I would set it down on the couch and go to the bathroom and then come back.
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  Not sure why, but I didn't really take it with me.
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  And that really made me think like nowadays, you hear people all the time getting on their phones while they're on the toilet.
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  Heck.
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  Before I hit record, I was I was doing a little little pre-game scroll while I was dropping dropping stack.
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  Really gets the the vibe really fresh in here before we hit record.
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  But nowadays they get on their phones while they're on the toilet and gaming, and somehow something happens and the phone ends up in the toilet.
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  Now I've never had this.
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  I've never dropped my phone in the toilet, so I don't really understand like but it has to be when you stand up and turn around, you just slips into the tank.
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  I don't understand it.
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  I I just stick my phone either on the ground at my feet or I like slide it back into my pocket before I stand up, or I guess before I wipe.
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  I always put my phone away before I wipe.
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  So there's never a moment where I've wiped and then touched my phone again.
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  That's that's idiotic.
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  If you're wiping and then touching your phone again, you don't believe in hand washing.
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  You don't.
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  Yeah.
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  You can't touch your phone after you wipe.
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  Until you wash your hands.
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  You can't.
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  But I'm not really a game on the pot guy.
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  Like, for me, video games, I don't want to sit on the toilet and play video games.
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  Stay tuned.
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  Who knows?
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  But so I got to thinking.
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  Was dropping your Game Boy in the toilet everything?
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  Like nowadays, if somebody said, I dropped my phone in the toilet, it's like, yeah, you're doom scrolling again.
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  But did people ever drop their game boys in the toilet?
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  I never did it because again, I never dawned on me to take my Game Boy into the bathroom.
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  But I was also but a grade school scamp.
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  And from what I can tell, taking your phone or your game boy to the bathroom is like middle school and high school beginner behavior.
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  Like they're so consumed in the thing that they can't pry themselves from it for 45 seconds to drop a deuce.
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  And it turns out that not only did Game Boys get dropped in the toilet, it happened a lot.
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  They know this because in the the the way they know it is actually even funnier.
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  Because they would have like repair stores and electronics repair stores, and there was a lot of Game Boys that would come in to be sold or traded, and they would need repaired
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  because they had significant water damage on them.
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  It's wild.
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  And it's suspicious water damage.
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  Like you dropped it where?
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  So people've been playing video games on the toilet, I would say confidently since the early 90s.
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  And things only continued to grow in the I'm gonna play a video game on the toilet scene as games continued to be made more and more portable.
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  Then when the smartphone released.
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  In the last
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  In the like late 2000s, early 2010s, bathroom gaming shifted again because now your cell phone.
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  Which you're more likely to just be carrying with you more consistently than a pocket gaming device would have phone apps, phone games, and in time, the never ending scroll.
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  And and this is really what kicked off today's episode.
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  Today's episode is kind of morphed over time.
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  One day in the future, what this episode was supposed to be will be made.
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  But as I started to prepare for that option, I realized.
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  There's a whole slice of bathroom history that needs to be discussed before we go there.
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  I have a situation.
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  While people have been playing video games in the bathroom for a long time, as was the case with movies and TV, it actually took longer for bathrooms and the bathroom topics to
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  be adapted and later widely used in video games.
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  Today
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  We're going to take a brief stroll through video game history and how bathrooms and poop have been portrayed and have made their way into the gaming industry.
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  While there's not agreement, one of the best bets for the best actual prominent use and portrayal of a bathroom in a video game is a 1984 computer pixelated platformer called Jet
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  Set Willy.
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  Now, in Jet Set Willy, I should note before Jet Set Willy, there were text based computer adventures such as Mystery House.
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  But they didn't depict a toilet in so much as like they described it, much like a book would.
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  Also, text-based adventure games, while I'm here, I'm I'm going to decode this nerd term for everybody.
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  Because I know that there's that no nerds listen to this show.
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  It's there's not a single dork that listens.
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  Everybody that listens is very cool and sophisticated.
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  And but text-based adventure games.
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  Are essentially reading a book disguised as a computer game.
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  Like they've fully tricked you into reading.
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  But it happened to be program interactive.
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  I I don't count things like Mystery House.
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  So for our intensive purpose, I'm talking like the bathroom and the toilet is depicted visually and is a part of the game in some way.
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  So the first game to do that.
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  To not only depict it and you could interact with it and you could go to these spaces and run around in there, was, as I said, a computer pixelated platformer called Jet Set Willy.
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  Now, Willy is universally one of those names that's like, hmm, it's a dangerous move naming any character Willy.
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  That's all I'm gonna say about it.
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  And Willie is one of those where it's like, man.
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  Like jet jet set Willy.
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  Like why is Willy so jet set?
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  Like
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  And Jet Set Willie didn't just depict a bathroom.
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  The bathroom actually played a role in the game.
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  In the game, Willie wakes up fully dressed, where he passed out in his bathtub after a night of partying.
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  Big party.
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  Jet Set Willie's partying hard.
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  Party on Wayne.
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  They made it to where if you as Willie, the player, touch the toilet, you lose a life.
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  Which
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  Alright, bud.
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  Like, why do we gotta make the toilet a bad guy?
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  F Day one, minute one
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  Jet set Willy's like, nope, the toilets are bad guys, they will harm you.
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  And then, after you do everything in the game, you gather all of the things and all of the junk that the platformer desires you to gather, you have to make your way back to the
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  bathroom.
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  Where you settle back in to bed, which is the bathtub.
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  And undeniably, like that's a weird game, just even on the the surface level description.
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  And I should note, this is kind of like late stage in the process of all of this video game bathroom discussion.
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  But there's a couple blokes.
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  I I wanna I wanna call this out because much of my research was tied to this and it actually gave me a lot of ideas for the future.
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  But the article was called, quote, The Purposes and Meaning of Video Games Bath Video Game Bathrooms.
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  It's a good read.
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  Uh and it will be listed in the sources in the ding dong below.
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  But along with that, these gentlemen who wrote this article published a database where bathrooms in video games are cataloged.
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  We will return to this, I promise.
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  For our purposes though, we don't we're not looking at just like the sheer multitude of bathrooms in video games.
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  That would be more akin to what these gentlemen
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  explore in their article and and in the website that is tied to.
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  For our purposes, we are looking at some of the history of bathrooms.
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  And while there are some exceptions, for the vast majority of early video game bathrooms in the 1980s and the 1990s, bathrooms served an age-old role.
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  That is, of comedic relief and slapstick humor.
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  Key examples from the 1980s to early 2000s of this.
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  Toilet humor in video games includes Banjo and Kazooie and Conquer's Bad Fur Day.
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  Usually, this put the heroes or characters you play in environments that were filled with poop, bathrooms, or other spaces that were stinky.
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  In fact, Conquer's Bad Fur Day is famous for one of the first poop themed bad guys in any video game.
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  Now, I believe this game is rated
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  Because of things like this.
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  But he there is this character, the great and mighty Pooh, who lords over Pooh Cabin.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't even know why you want to be in Pooh Cabin.
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  Like, the only time I want to be in Pooh Cabin is when I've got a big one on deck and I'm scared that I'm not gonna make it.
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  And if you don't know Conquer, Conquer's a cartoon squirrel or beaver or some sort of
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  forest creature that has like grenades and rocket launchers and crap like that.
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  Uh and it it's a it's a purely adult game.
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  In Conquer, specifically in the level called Pooh Cabin, he uses the prune juice hyped diarrhea of some cows to get through and navigate the Pooh Cabin.
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  So, like you load up these cows with prune juice, and they're just spraying cow diarrhea to help you navigate the level.
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  And then you get to the end where you fight the great and mighty Pooh.
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  It's wild world, it's a wild concept for not just a game, but also a level in a video game, Pooh Cabin.
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  But it's also to be all supposed to be this shock humor and kind of goofy.
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  Later, Nintendo's Earthbound, while not featuring a huge poop monster, had irreverent pooped theme humor.
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  Most of you hear that and you go, Earthbound, Nintendo's Earthbound, I've never heard of that.
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  But if you've ever played Nintendo's beloved platform fighter Super Smash Brothers, Ness and Lucas are the the protagonists and main characters from Earthbound.
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  In Earthbound, it sets the tone for what sort of jokes could be used in a game.
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  In the early days of video games, the bathroom kind of only served one or two roles.
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  It gave some humor to a game as it went, or it made a connection to the players and was like a bad guy that you had to overcome.
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  But it turns out everybody poops.
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  Even the friends you make in the games you play.
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  During this time, I should also note there might be some who went too far as they explored what you could do with video games.
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  One example is Duke Nuke forever.
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  Dude, I've I've Duke Nuked some some porcelain in my day.
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  Where players can pick a turd.
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  Father, Father, forgive us.
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  Who did this?
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  You can pick a turd out of the toilet and actually throw it around the bathroom.
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  Who somebody spun somebody spent a portion of their life programming that as a thing that you can do?
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  It serves no other purpose other than it was supposed to be this funny bit where it's like, look, you can grab the poo and sling it around the bathroom and duke nuke It's
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  gratuitous.
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  I've been accused of this show being gratuitous, but I don't think the people that would accuse this show of being gratuitous have ever heard of Duke Newcomb's poop throwing
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  bathroom.
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  As video game technology continued to grow, there became a desire to ground video games in some level of realism.
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  Especially when 3D video games took off, bathrooms were readily used to connect to the player.
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  And give a frame of reference.
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  Famously, Seven's GoldenEye facility played around this bathroomscape.
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  Bathrooms were all over in video games throughout the early 2000s and into the 2010s era.
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  They would have side missions where you had to go into the bathrooms.
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  Sometimes they would put the save state or the place where you go to save in a bathroom.
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  Because it's like a safe place for humans.
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  Sometimes bathrooms are put into video games to show the state of things.
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  One example is Bioshock, where bathrooms can be found holding audio logs of people in distress with blood painted graffiti on the walls of the stalls.
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  In these, there were a lot of new turns from
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  The bathroom in video games as this thing of slapstick and kind of a a funny goof to it being horror or more scary related coded video games.
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  When we talked about scary movies, we talked a lot about the role of bathrooms in scary movies and how they're often employed because as I said, they're supposed to be this place
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  where you're safe and vulnerable, and that's where the attacker gets you.
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  But people love to put scary things in the bathroom for the exact same reason.
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  It gets you going.
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  Silent Hill 2 opens with the character in a disgusting bathroom and sets the gritty, unsettling tone of the game.
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  They return to the disgust of a toilet when the character has to reach in to get a key, reminding you everybody poops.
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  I think it's worse.
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  I think it's worse to drop your keys in the toilet than your phone.
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  And I know there's like the
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  I've ruined my phone bit of it.
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  I don't know.
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  That's a tough one 'cause keys often have like like
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  Some amount of fabric or like you you're more likely to lose them down the S band.
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  And where your phone, it's not going anywhere.
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  It's just gonna get wet.
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  And most of these phones are like 90% waterproof now, anyway.
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  Resident Evil, another horror game franchise, though not having a lot of bathroom humor humor, has for sure one of the best.
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  There's a bathroom in the mansion in the game.
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  And if you drain the bathtub, all it does is triggers a big jump scare.
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  And a memorable trap for the player.
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  That's it.
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  No bonus, just penalty.
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  Also during this era
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  And moving shortly out of it.
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  There is a new term toward video games as a role or a method of storytelling.
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  Bathrooms became a place to drive the narrative forward.
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  Using bathrooms as safe save points grew and got more robust.
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  Video games and bathrooms moved from just they just were not just another room.
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  But we're a room that designed to ground the game, the story and the world of the game, in reality to give it some level of human connection.
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  Just like you, human listening to this podcast, can interact with a bathroom, primarily through defecating.
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  You can interact with the bathrooms in the video game.
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  I'm an experienced bathroom interactor.
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  And you know some of the things that you're gonna find in the bathroom.
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  The next biggest jump in bathroom and bathroom-related humor and storytelling was bathroom functionality.
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  Bathrooms moved from just being kind of the set piece or another room in the house to be a critical part of the gameplay experience.
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  They had a purpose, more so than just giving this setting and establishing this thing.
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  They had a purpose to the game.
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  One example of this.
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  Is in The Sims.
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  The Sims has you play as a fake human character known as a Sim.
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  And you have to have your Sim take a dump or they get sick, just like in real life.
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  If I don't take a dump, I will get sick.
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  That's facts.
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  The save room is also a functional mechanic.
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  It borrows often from the horror movie trope of making it to the bathroom.
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  Except this time, instead of running from diarrhea, you're running from some sort of deadly monster.
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  Dead Rising is famous for these.
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  Pretty much there was this new attention paid to toilets.
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  Modern games like Fortnite used it both as an aesthetic piece as well as a functional thing used to transport you across the map.
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  You ride a porta potty as a tunnel.
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  Others have you used the poop and pee in the world as an actual feature to the video game.
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  Most famous for its modern depiction of world building and use of bathrooms in a game is Death Stranding.
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  In Death Stranding, bathrooms really capture much of the total of what video game bathrooms are and have become.
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  They give you a break from the grueling world outside.
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  And that's true.
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  That's true here in the real real world as well.
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  The bathroom gives you a little break from what goes on outside of it.
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  They allow for some humor to sneak into the game.
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  Our bathrooms can be funny.
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  Like, if somebody makes a big stink in a bathroom, like it's kind of annoying, but it's also very funny.
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  It grounds the game, reminding you that the character poops and pees just like everybody else.
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  But most importantly, is in Death Stranding, you can use the character's bodily functions to craft necessary in-game items.
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  You can make a poo grenade, which lures the bad guys in and then destroy them with a blood grenade.
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  Where's he getting that blood?
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  There's a lot of changes in the history.
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  Of how video games are portrayed and used.
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  And this doesn't mean that as time goes on, the potty humor games and the such have gone away.
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  Surely they have not.
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  Lord knows.
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  As long as people are pooping, people are going to be making poop jokes.
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  That's just facts.
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  But there is one more other advancement in the bathroom and video game space, and that is also something that is more recent.
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  Namely, bathrooms as the topic or main feature of the game.
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  This is essentially video games that are about bathrooms or poop, not just featuring them, but actually center in on bathrooms and poop and pee as a topic.
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  It doesn't just have toilets or use toilets.
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  It makes them the subject matter.
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  Some of the most famous include the co-op game We Gotta Go, where you work together to help your friends get to the bathroom before you all poop your pants.
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  That's real.
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  You know a brother.
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  Here's how you know a brother.
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  A brother will help you navigate a maze in a trap house when he is getting ready to full-on diaper load it to help you make it yourself.
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  That's a G indeed.
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  Platformer, Booger Man, was an old school game where the hero dives in and out of toilets and uses his body functions to defeat enemies.
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  That really paints a picture, Boogerman.
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  The Toilet Chronicles are a puzzle escape game where you have to figure out how to escape like this really gross and super randy bathroom.
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  Muddy Heights has you dropping your poop out of an upper level apartment window because you can't get out and the plumbing doesn't work.
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  So you just have to skeet it.
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  Skeet it.
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  You know.
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  I don't live in a city.
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  I don't live in a city with like high rises and stuff like that.
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  But I have to believe that people still throw poop out the window.
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  I would.
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  You never know.
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  Watch your watch yourself if you're in a big city.
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  Pooplers have toddlers doing an area control with babies who have pooped themselves.
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  They're crawling around and and they've dookied their diaper, and their color of of poopy is like you're trying to capture the most area.
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  It's gross, but thematically, it's there.
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  There's a ton of these poop themed games.
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  And the one that kicked all this off to me was a game by YouTuber PewDiePie.
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  His game, Poop Die, has you play as a worm and you make poops to fight for you.
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  And I've played it.
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  And it is a lot.
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  And what's interesting is although there is this long history of games with poop and bathrooms as a theme or a centerpiece, PewDiePie's poop die app game was blocked by the
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  app store.
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  And this is key.
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  Many of these poop themed games took off as indie or independent games.
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  Specifically, they're not tied to big corporations and companies.
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  And so they're able to take some thematic risks and delve into a dirtier part of what makes us people.
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  People poop.
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  And while video games are games, and anyone who has done much gaming would tell you, they can be a lot more than that.
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  They're stories and experiences and accomplishments that we can connect with, and they can be pretty funny.
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  Bathrooms are highlighted in these video games in a huge way, and have been for some time.
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  And while we aren't going to go there now, this is no doubt how we got to Skibity Toilet.
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  Wetsuit Willy, jet set Willy, big ol' Willy walked so that Skibity Toilet could skibbity.
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  So that Death Stranding could hit a bad guy with a poonade.
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  It's kind of a beautiful thing if you think about it.
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  This brings us to the end of another episode of Privy.
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  Thank you all for listening.
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  This free world is not always free.
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  And in pursuit of cleaner water for all, everybody should have it, but not everybody does.
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  As always, we want to thank Kevin and Poddington and any others whose music we've used.
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  Links for all the music and all the sources for today's episode are down in the description of below.
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  This brings us to the end of another episode.
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  Keep hooping in the free world, own your stank.
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  And now, as always, don't drop your phone in the toilet and don't forget to flush.