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Monday Mini: Gaming for the Holidays · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is any and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you, Protective, I hurry you.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to.
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  Speaker 3: Our Monday Monay right before Christmas. It's Christmas times, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: It's Christmas times. And there were so many things that
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  Speaker 3: I've been thinking about and we were trying to do
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  Speaker 3: less stressful, less sad Monday mindis and happy hours. I
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  Speaker 3: think we're trying to like keep it, keep it happy,
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  Speaker 3: give it a light to the new year. And with that,
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  Speaker 3: we're also guesting on a show.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even recorded it.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, so I'm doing a small teaser, but we decided
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  Speaker 3: that we wanted to talk about something that we both
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  Speaker 3: love and I've talked a lot about, Like you guys
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  Speaker 3: have been with me in my awakening in.
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  Speaker 2: This specific subject, and it's about pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I was like trying to figure out what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Am I a gamer? Can I do this? I'm too
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  Speaker 2: old for this?
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes I still feel that way, But with that,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great stress relief. With all the hobbies that
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  Speaker 3: I've tried to find, gaming slash cozy gaming has been
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  Speaker 3: something that really does work for me, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: what better way to start this Christmas week. If you're
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  Speaker 3: listening on the Christmas week in twenty twenty four, then
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  Speaker 3: having a holiday edition of games or gaming and cozy
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  Speaker 3: games we would recommend, or others would recommend.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, why now? Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna start off because again, cozy gaming is
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  Speaker 3: my thing, and I was trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 3: many games have like holiday themes, and one of them,
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  Speaker 3: of course is animal crossing. And yes, I have ventured
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  Speaker 3: on back into my island. I realize I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a scarf. Do you have a scarf in your animal
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  Speaker 3: crossing closet?
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  Speaker 2: Gloves do they offer those? I haven't gotten one. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very sad. I've got I've got a beanie. Oh my,
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  Speaker 2: I crocheted hat, but I don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Gloves.
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  Speaker 3: Well that makes sense the hands, there's really no hands.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, all that to say, I need to find
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  Speaker 3: a scarf. Can you send me a scarf?
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  Speaker 1: I think when I'm when I'm thinking of scarf though,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's like attached.
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  Speaker 2: To to the jacket.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen towels and I don't need that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not working out anyway. So yeah, animal crossing is something
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  Speaker 3: that does have that season, lovely trees with the.
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  Speaker 2: Light snow and the crunching of the snow.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't I did feel very cold, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: just watching and playing the game. I haven't gotten any decorations,
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  Speaker 3: but someone did gift me a wreath, so my door
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  Speaker 3: now has a wreath Christmas. My house does have a fireplace.
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  Speaker 3: I think it has stockings on it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice, uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: I may imagine that. I'm gonna have to go back
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  Speaker 2: and look, but yeah, so slowly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, with Animal Crossing, they do have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of festivals and games and themes. So animal Crossing of
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  Speaker 3: course is one, and it was like all over the
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  Speaker 3: site Reddit. I did look at Reddit to see what
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  Speaker 3: they recommended. Of course, Animal Crossing does have that. And
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  Speaker 3: then my personal favorite Cozy Grove, which I got stuck
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  Speaker 3: the other day in between like or like, I just
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  Speaker 3: could not get out, trying to get my partner to
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  Speaker 3: get me out, and we just had to turn it
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  Speaker 3: off it on, get it together.
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  Speaker 2: Cozy Grove.
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  Speaker 3: But with that, they do have like a Christmas festival
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  Speaker 3: or a winter festival happening, but it doesn't start as
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  Speaker 3: December twentieth, although it is snowing. There's no snow on
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  Speaker 3: the ground, Okay, so I don't know what's happening there,
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  Speaker 3: but there's snow happening on my island, on my bear Island.
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  Speaker 3: I think I also had leftover firecrackers from like the
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  Speaker 3: fourth of July, and it's been a long time since
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  Speaker 3: I've played, so I set those off. But I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that has anything new with Christmas anyway, So the
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  Speaker 3: festivities does not happen until December twentieth.
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  Speaker 2: I will come back and let you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what that is if you already know what that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be, Like, am I getting things?
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  Speaker 2: Do I also make?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm very excited because that is also a Christmas theme.
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  Speaker 3: So those are two that I definitely will be playing
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  Speaker 3: and would recommend. Annie, what do you recommend?
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  Speaker 1: Mine are very very different, yes, but I guess to
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  Speaker 1: segue from yours more smoothly into mine, I would say
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom Hearts two has a Nightmare before Christmas level, but
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  Speaker 1: it's set in Christmas Land and not previously it'd been
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  Speaker 1: set in Halloween Town. But that's a very fun like
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  Speaker 1: pretty I think Elsa and Anna from Frozen are there,
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  Speaker 1: so that is a fun Christmas thing. It is only
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  Speaker 1: one part of that whole game, though, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that was a lot of complaints people have, is like,
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  Speaker 1: none of these games are just Christmas games, right, But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that one has a very pretty Christmas level just for fun.
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually recommend this game necessarily, but when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. I know there are new Grinch games.
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  Speaker 1: But when I was a kid, me and my little
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  Speaker 1: brother played the PlayStation one version and occasionally we just
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  Speaker 1: have fun reminiscing about how we can't really remember the
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  Speaker 1: objective except it was to make people's lives horrible. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So you would like you had a stink stinky egg
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  Speaker 1: shooter and you'd shoot stinky eggs at people and like
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  Speaker 1: get into their house and ruin things. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting game. It brings me joy to look back out
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  Speaker 1: on it. But moving into like things that I thought
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  Speaker 1: of off the top of my head, one is paris
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  Speaker 1: Ie Eve. Parisite Eve is on a lot of list.
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  Speaker 1: It is also a PlayStation one game, So if you're
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  Speaker 1: somebody who just can't deal with the older graphics or controls,
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  Speaker 1: I get you. The story of this game is really
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  Speaker 1: great though, but essentially it's you are a detective in
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  Speaker 1: New York and on Christmas Eve, you go on a
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  Speaker 1: date with somebody to the opera, and the singer on
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  Speaker 1: stage somehow causes everyone to spontaneously combust except you and
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  Speaker 1: your date. And then it turns out she is mitochondrial
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  Speaker 1: Eve and she is able to control people's mitochondria. If
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  Speaker 1: you beat the game, and then you get to the end,
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  Speaker 1: you play again, it turns out she's your sister, and
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  Speaker 1: you're yeah, yeah, But it's a really fun game. It's
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  Speaker 1: very very hard. I have not beat it because it's
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  Speaker 1: extremely difficult. That damn crab and the sewer. I won't forget.
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  Speaker 1: I won't forget. But it takes places over Christmas, even
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  Speaker 1: Christmas in the day after Christmas. I think, So that's
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  Speaker 1: a good one. BioShock, which is more of a New
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  Speaker 1: Year's game. BioShock is also a horror game. I've had
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  Speaker 1: people tell me it's really scary. Sometimes I think I'm desensitized,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, really what. But that one's really
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  Speaker 1: cool because it's like this underground A bunch of rich
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  Speaker 1: people essentially went underground under the water, and they found
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  Speaker 1: out how to give themselves X men like powers, but
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  Speaker 1: to do so was very violent, and then they all
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  Speaker 1: lost their minds, but they lost their minds on New Years,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a bunch of New Year's decorations all around.
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  Speaker 1: They're wearing masks, so that one's fun. And then the
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  Speaker 1: last of us two. Oh, because one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: parts of the game is a Christmas part, and it
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  Speaker 1: has like a little mini game that I love. It's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of Christmas lights, it's got eggnog. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: it's only one part of a very long game. But
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  Speaker 1: if you want, if you're in it to win it,
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  Speaker 1: there is a Christmas card.
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  Speaker 2: If you're in it to win it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, of course we have to have that mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: With those games.
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  Speaker 3: So I looked through to find internet suggestions as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure listener, you're gonna have a lot of suggestions
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  Speaker 3: for us as well. But Game Game Rant gave a
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  Speaker 3: few that included Parasite Eve as well. But in it,
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  Speaker 3: they do have specific ones like the Nightmare Before Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: Oogie's Revenge specific to that, if you need that, Marvel's
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man Miles Morales, this is what they say about
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  Speaker 3: that one. It is another superhero game that takes place
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  Speaker 3: around Christmas. It's also set in New York City. Just
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  Speaker 3: like Parasite Eve. The story centers on Miles making his
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  Speaker 3: way home from school to spend time with friends and
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  Speaker 3: family over the holidays. Unfortunately, Evil has another plan for
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  Speaker 3: the new Spider Hero. I think this was a huge game,
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  Speaker 3: like like it came out really big. Everybody loved it,
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  Speaker 3: like people missed work to play this game.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and we your partner and I did play it.
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  Speaker 1: The sad thing is we only got to the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Market part and then other stuff came up when we
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  Speaker 1: never gotten past that part. But it was very pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the market being very pretty and having all
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas lights and Christmas tree. But it was a
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  Speaker 1: great game. I've been wanting to play it, fash it
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  Speaker 1: is the Christmas is time time.
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  Speaker 3: They also named Batman Arkham Origins, And we've talked about
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  Speaker 3: Batman and we made a Christmas movie episode about Batman two,
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  Speaker 3: so obviously, yeah, it says here Batman Arkham Origins again
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  Speaker 3: from game Rant. Batman Arkham Origins reuses the same map
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  Speaker 3: as Arkham City, albeit with Christmas themed makeover and a
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  Speaker 3: few tweaks that fit the prequels setting. These seemingly minor
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  Speaker 3: changes actually make a notable difference, and then give the
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  Speaker 3: spinoff game a charming and eerie atmosphere that sets it
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  Speaker 3: apart from the mainline entries. On Christmas Eve, Gotham City
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  Speaker 3: becomes a war zone as eight assassins are hired by
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  Speaker 3: Black Mask to take out Batman, who is still a
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  Speaker 3: rookie hero by this point in his career, so you
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  Speaker 3: know Mayhem.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of like evil ones that I've seen.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is Visceral clean Up Detail, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: assuming like it's in the game, like it's not the
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  Speaker 3: whole game, but maybe not Santa's Rampage, and it talks
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  Speaker 3: about Santa Bee on the breaking point and what happens
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  Speaker 3: after the fact, and the idea is that they're cleaning
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  Speaker 3: up messes.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe that's based on Weird House song.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: And then an old school one from nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 3: days before Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know this one?
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the few games out there that makes
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  Speaker 3: Santa a star game Ran says just before he is
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  Speaker 3: about to go around the world to deliver Christmas presence,
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  Speaker 3: an evil devil version of himself stills them all. The
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  Speaker 3: game is a basic platformer for the nineties, so expectations
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  Speaker 3: should be low, kept fairly low for this is what
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  Speaker 3: it says.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: There's a few right there that I've not heard of.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I had to look up specific cozy game
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  Speaker 3: because those are different types of games obviously, And of
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  Speaker 3: course they talk about dream Light Valley, which makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: I still have not played this game. I still don't
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  Speaker 3: know if I want to play this game. I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people have suggested. It just feels like
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  Speaker 3: an endeavor like Animal Crossing was an endeavor on different
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  Speaker 3: level for me that is now still looking like a
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  Speaker 3: the campground Night in the Woods apparently is a good
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  Speaker 3: one for people, it says this one writer from Isabella Mormon.
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  Speaker 3: She wrote this in twenty twenty two, so maybe her
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  Speaker 3: list has changed. Says not a typical Christmas game by
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  Speaker 3: any means. This one is near and dear to my heart.
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  Speaker 3: You follow this story about a twenty year old cat
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  Speaker 3: named may Borowski, who was returned to her hometown of
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  Speaker 3: Possum Springs after deciding to drop out of college. The
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  Speaker 3: rest of the game explores her relationship with the people
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  Speaker 3: in her town with her neighbors, parents and friends that
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  Speaker 3: she left behind. In the visually and highly relatable game
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  Speaker 3: with funny aspects, Knight in.
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  Speaker 2: The Woods is a must play.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure Christmas Christmas, but maybe there's snow
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  Speaker 3: in it. And then of course read it. Reddit did
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  Speaker 3: tell us some animal crossing was up. There was always
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  Speaker 3: Cozy Grove. But then they also talk about Santa Craft
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  Speaker 3: and Shatton. Toachter, the user, I don't know what this means.
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  Speaker 3: I've really apologize. I've screwed that one up, it says,
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  Speaker 3: I highly recommend Santa Craft. It's kind of like a
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  Speaker 3: farming game, only it's just three hours long. You play
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  Speaker 3: a Santa and rebuild the Christmas village. It's charming, the
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  Speaker 3: humor is neat, and by the end you'll one feel
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  Speaker 3: ready for Christmas. I come from a country that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: even do Santa and that game swept me up.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a suggestion. I really do want to check
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  Speaker 2: that out.
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  Speaker 3: There's one called Marvin's Mittens, and Marvin is trying to
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  Speaker 3: find his mittens, and I see a lot of questions
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  Speaker 3: like does Marvin actually win? Does Marvin get his mittens?
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of questions. It's about Marvin's mittens.
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  Speaker 3: But people really do love me, like I've seen several
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  Speaker 3: people saying that, and then everybody whamwham. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: this one any So, everybody whamwam. This is how steampower
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  Speaker 3: dot com. This is what they say about the game.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody Whamam is a story driven winter adventure where you
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  Speaker 3: compete to build the best snowman, build, decorate, and sabotage
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  Speaker 3: way to the festival grand prize. You have ten days
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  Speaker 3: to build a snowman. You have I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it's like online. It seems like it's just Steam. You
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  Speaker 3: make friends and then you uncover the hidden truth behind
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  Speaker 3: the festival, so there's a mystery involved. The graphics are
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  Speaker 3: really cute, even a dude in the jack lanternhead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm watching and watching a little like bit
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  Speaker 2: pieces of it. So there's a lot out there. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of want to try this Everybody win whim
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  Speaker 3: although it might be too competitive for me, but.
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  Speaker 2: It looks cute.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, if y'all have ever played these games, let
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  Speaker 3: us know the ones that we had mentioned, the games
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  Speaker 3: that are not necessarily Christmas. I will say all my
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  Speaker 3: phone games are very Christmas themed right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, so that's that's quite a delight to see.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of holiday gaming.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. I think we're gonna come back and talk about
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  Speaker 3: more gaming. Just gonna keep talking about gaming. Oh, I
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  Speaker 3: guess this would be Christina. Question is does Stardoo Valley
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  Speaker 3: have a Christmas portion?
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  Speaker 1: Christ hmm. I did get a kick out of remembering.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mention them because I don't recommend them at all.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the recommended list, no, but it is
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  Speaker 1: a fun memory of Home Alone and Home Alone two
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  Speaker 1: had a video game They're notoriously really bad. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was a diehard video game that I think people
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  Speaker 1: liked but wasn't very good. But that there was like
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  Speaker 1: Super Nintindo. Those are the old days.
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  Speaker 2: One of the features was the nineteen ninety games. It
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  Speaker 2: was thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: You could get like a you can get an emulator.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they're good, but I'm pretty sure Home Alone and
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  Speaker 1: Home Alone two were just bad.
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  Speaker 3: Was it like Lion King bad where you just constantly
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  Speaker 3: die and never never make it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was worse than Lion King bed I
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  Speaker 1: loved the Lion King but man, no, man, I didn't
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