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Monday Mini: Gaming Update, Part 2 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha stuff. I've never told
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: your predictionure of iHeart Radio.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: And because I am me, I decided that was a
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  Speaker 2: new part too about the games that I've been playing,
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't mention one that I felt like need
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: to be mentioned, even though yes, Snuffkin moom and Troll
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Stories moom and Valley is still one of my favorites. Uh. Christina,
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: our wonderful producer super producer suggested untitled a Goose game,
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: which people have suggested and the description alone does make
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: me think this is my game because all you're really
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: doing is going after humans to harass them.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Have you seen? No, I haven't, I think. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Your co host from Savor, Lauren, friend of the show,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say she was into this game for
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  Speaker 2: a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I could see that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like her and my partner had a whole
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  Speaker 2: conversation about it. And then we watched videos and I
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: was like, what is this? And you saw this goose
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: with a knife running around and like a like a
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  Speaker 2: block kind of like scenario, just chasing people, honking at them.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: That could be wrong, This could be in like a
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  Speaker 2: dream I had, who knows, who knows? I was dreaming
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  Speaker 2: about a game I didn't really know much about, but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so I feel like I do need to try that out.
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  Speaker 2: It's apparently on cell right now, so I need to
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  Speaker 2: go look at it on these things. Thank you, Christina.
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  Speaker 2: I will. It's quite funny the description, and apparently it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like an inside joke at a company
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  Speaker 2: that made it into an actual game from an indie game.
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  Speaker 2: So that is something I do want to look into.
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  Speaker 2: So if y'all had more suggestions like that at me.
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  Speaker 2: But the game that I'm talking about is kind of
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  Speaker 2: similar in that it harasses humans or just people in general,
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  Speaker 2: and is called Donut County and it's an independent game
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  Speaker 2: as well. The creator like right there named Ben Esposito,
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: and he did the entire thing, and it's also a
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  Speaker 2: very short game. It's classified, according to their site as
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: a story filled physics puzzle game where you play as
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  Speaker 2: a whole in the ground. And yes, you do have
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: to do like some trickery in the between this, like
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  Speaker 2: you have to like if you swallow up because you're
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: about to swallow but everything and like you might swallow
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: up something that has fire, so you can't swallow everything up,
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: so you have to figure out, Okay, how do I
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  Speaker 2: get rid of this fire? Or you have to use
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  Speaker 2: that fire to get to something else. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, but it is quite satisfying because all you're
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: doing in Filly, all you're doing until you get into
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  Speaker 2: the puzzle bits and you're like, oh, I have to
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  Speaker 2: actually figure this out. So the creator bent Esposito created
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  Speaker 2: a unique world that is somewhat controlled by raccoons. And
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: by the way, as I'm writing all this stuff up,
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  Speaker 2: my outline is telling me, uh, because I did some
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  Speaker 2: copy paste. I'm coming from article. I'm assuming it's like
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  Speaker 2: they're English. I don't know because they only use one
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  Speaker 2: C for raccoons, and my Google it's like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's a different version. You don't want to spell it
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  Speaker 2: that way. Super odd. But I didn't realize there's two
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  Speaker 2: different ways to spell raccoons.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I realize, Yes, I got in. I actually, hilariously
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: side note have audio podcast evidence that I didn't know
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: this because I was on movie Crush with Chuck from
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know, and I was on there for
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: what we do in the Shadows, And there is a
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  Speaker 1: visual gag at one point where they're spinning like a
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  Speaker 1: chore wheel and the word vacuum is misspelled, but I
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  Speaker 1: learned that not necessarily is misspelled, and from there I
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  Speaker 1: learned about this this raccoon thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did not know this all in Google is
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  Speaker 2: yellowing at mecause it's like, you're in America, Why are
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  Speaker 2: you doing this? What's happening? So anyway, I've learned now
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  Speaker 2: that there's two different ways to spell raccoons again, and
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  Speaker 2: so I haven't made it to the end of this game, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: because yeah, I got this at the same time as Snuffkin,
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  Speaker 2: so it's really sidetracked with that. And this again is
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  Speaker 2: apparently a short form game as well. So here's something
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  Speaker 2: again from I guess she's English, the different spelled raccoons
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  Speaker 2: person OMG, girlsgame dot WordPress and she writes, funnily enough,
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  Speaker 2: there is a story in this short game, and it's
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  Speaker 2: about as nonsensical as the title of the game might imply.
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  Speaker 2: The story focuses around Donut County, but specifically around the
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  Speaker 2: two driving characters, which are the girl human girl Mira
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  Speaker 2: because there's definitely lots of different creatures in here, and
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  Speaker 2: her raccoon friend BK. But it turns out BK and
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  Speaker 2: Mira work at a donut shop where BK uses an
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  Speaker 2: app to deliver donuts, and we're putting that in quotes
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  Speaker 2: which are not really donuts at all. Anytime someone orders
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  Speaker 2: a donut, BK uses a special tablet and APT to
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  Speaker 2: deliver a hole which shows up and swallows up everything.
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  Speaker 2: Mira is aware of these holes, but only seems to
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  Speaker 2: care after BK destroys almost all of Donut County and
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  Speaker 2: swallows her other friend Coco. Why our holes being deployed, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it has something to do with the raccoon takeover and
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  Speaker 2: the obsession with trash. The truth is that we are
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  Speaker 2: never given a reason that is one hundred percent true.
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  Speaker 2: But the raccoon takeover bit is actually a fact. Raccoons
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  Speaker 2: bought out the donut shop in Donut County and now
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  Speaker 2: raccoons run most high end government functions like police, as
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  Speaker 2: well as having a massive lab located in a giant
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  Speaker 2: building that looks like a trash can. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: the basic stuff. While we may not learn too much
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  Speaker 2: about the raccoon conspiracy, Donut County does host a myriad
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  Speaker 2: of colorful characters that end up learning a little as
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: we play through the game, so of course they do
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: have a whole Wikipedia page in which they talk about
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  Speaker 2: the entirety of the story. There's a trash King involved apparently,
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  Speaker 2: as well as like BK being like I want a
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  Speaker 2: droid to fly over everything and get these things. And
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: then they all get swept up. Everybody gets swept up,
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  Speaker 2: and they go like below the earth where there's nothing there,
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: and they're all around a campfire sharing their stories about
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  Speaker 2: how they disappeared, and so it's like you have a scenario,
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: and you play that game, and it goes into the
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: audio storytelling part where they're sitting around and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to get BK to take responsibility about what's happening. And
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: it goes back up and they have like the different
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  Speaker 2: scenarios of different people what happened, why they ordered the donut,
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  Speaker 2: where they are all these things and all you're doing
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  Speaker 2: is just sucking it up into the earth. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: made it to the end because apparently there's a boss
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: fight with the trash King and BK has to make
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  Speaker 2: some tough decisions about whether he's loyal to his friend
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  Speaker 2: or his raccoon species and their whole you know, ploy
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  Speaker 2: to take all the trash. I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like both a good and bad thing, right, yeah,
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: but it's not just taking Trash's taking everything. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the entirety of the game. And apparently it's a
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  Speaker 2: mobile game first, and they were nominated for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of awards, and I think they did win Mobile Game
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  Speaker 2: of the Year for the Southwest Southwest Gaming Awards. But they,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they had a pretty big following. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: really sure if they have expanded on it. Obviously. Ben
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  Speaker 2: Esposito is a fairly known name that I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, don't be kind at me, and their company
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  Speaker 2: has done a lot for this, but this essentially was
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  Speaker 2: just like a side project he was doing for fun,
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  Speaker 2: and it got pretty big acclaims. But it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like if you have that like itch, I'm just like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get everything. This fills it. And it's also
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  Speaker 2: a sasy literal back and forth conversation with them all
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  Speaker 2: with all the trash animals. So there you go. You
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: should try it. Not as like I loved it, but
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: not as much as I love Snuffkin obviously, but it's
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  Speaker 2: super neat interesting.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: Well, this was comical because every time we do these
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: gaming episodes, it's hilarious to me. How You're like, oh,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: I found this like really beautiful, peaceful, relaxing game, and
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, let me tell you the complete opposite.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: I haven't had as much time as I would like
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  Speaker 1: to play games lately. I've really been enjoying. I have
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: some friends who are playing some favorites of mine. I've
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: got a friend playing Resonavil for i got a friend
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: playing Jedi Survivor. You know, the Last of Us two
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: is always on the table for me. Yeah, yeah, I did,
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, but not really.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: I there's a DLC for Animal Crossing, so I did
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: get that where you can basically design people's homes, and
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not good at it because I was mad where
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: my one of my villagers has like one of the
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: coolest homes, but it was because it was one of
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: the first ones. It was bland and born, so I
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: got it. I'm one painting away from completing the museum.
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  Speaker 2: So I quit. I need to go back to it.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: My island looks a mess, guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: No, no reason too there's tons of games out there.
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  Speaker 1: I have so many games to play, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the frustrating thing. And so many of them are like
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: really cool concepts. But one I played recently is called
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Rental and it is described as Animal Crossing meets Silent Hill.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, what yes?
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: So if you don't know what Silent Hill is, I
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: have done episode. I did an episode Fictional Women around
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: World on Heather. I talked about it in Survival Horror.
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  Speaker 1: Silent Hill is like a really messed up horror game.
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  Speaker 1: It's like one of my favorite Silent Hill two is
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  Speaker 1: one of the scariest games ever made in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: It's like eerie and unsettling and has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: symbolism and a lot of it's uncomfortable. So I saw
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what Animal Crossing means Silent Hill?
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  Speaker 1: So I of course went and played it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good twenty minute easy play. Well, it was easy for me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty It's easy in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the controls, Like it's just like a a up side
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: side You're controlling your character. So the plot is you
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: who's like a cute bunny rabbit from my Animal Crossing
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  Speaker 1: are going to this like airbnb rental for a vacation,
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  Speaker 1: and when you get there, the guy who owns it
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  Speaker 1: is like, it's just somethings ass and you go in
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: and then of course the door slams and locks, and
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: you're you're in there without your family, and so you've
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: got to you're you walk through it's like a straight hallway,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: you know, but it's got all these branching rooms and
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: pretty much in every room you go in there's some
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: kind of like horrific flesh of something. It's got a
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: lot of like I would call them jump scares, but
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: I guess they are kind of jump scares, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to find a list and it tells you like
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: these items and you've got to find items like two
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: candles and I don't know, haunted picture like all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So you had to search through the rooms and find
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: these things. And all the time you're seeing this like
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: figure with red eyes. They'll just pop out like and
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: you're like, I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Know about this game. I think I saw have like
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: a TikTok video.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it must have, because I think it was
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: free for a while and there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: press around it, so I was like free horror game, silent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. So, yeah, you go, and you're you're finding
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: all these things. You're kind of learning about the house
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: and what happened in there. And then one of the
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: once you get all the items, one of the doors
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: opens up that you couldn't get into before, and it's
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: just a hall. It's a whole warehouse of mirrors. It's horror.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: You can't it's so hard to keep track of where
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: you are and what you're doing, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: find all these certain things and oh I can see
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: you can get stuck in there for a hot second.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and it's really unsettling because like the music is going,
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: there's like missed. You know, there's this creature there and
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: you might be lost. You have to find all these
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: things and you can't get out until you find all
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: the things. Then you find them and you do like
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: a little a little ritual and I won't say what
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: happens after that, but that's how you win.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: That's interesting. I might get frustrated.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: This is so funny to me, though, because you're like
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: this game so nice. I'm like, I found like animal crossing,
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  Speaker 1: but if it was a horror.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean I've seen more and more like they
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: will talk about like horror level of games but still
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: call it cozy games. Yeah, because like that, I'm like, oh,
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: is it? I mean, it's kind of like it is.
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  Speaker 2: Like also people saying Zelda is a cozy game, was like,
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: so there's like a debate on that. I feel like
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: because there's so many like battle levels of this that
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: it's not as like relaxing to me. And of course
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: I would say that about some of the other games
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: are like this is just frustrating. I don't like it.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: I guess which have been classified as cozy gaming because
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: I am super bad at gaming. But like, yeah, again,
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: like I would help like making pies and doing certain
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: things like that that's to me, like it's cute. Yes,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: I would rather not be this way and then having
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: a ghost telling me what to do because I have
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: that pie game that I love that has the ghosts
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: helping me get it together in this pie place. While
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: they are also adopting cats, which by the way, found
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: into the game called Fit My Cat, which is essentially
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: a block game of cats. I don't know why, but
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: I liked it, but you know, like I found that
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: interesting because a cozy game. I guess it is like
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: when we talked about the original intent and the name
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: of it sounds very different than horror games where you
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: can get a jump scare or there's several of this,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: like cult games, you know what I mean. But that
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: also has that. But it's not to say that it
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: can't be cute and cozy.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is actually something I've been thinking about recently,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: because you know, when I played that game, it didn't
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: really scare me. We've talked before about how some people
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: like me use horror to relax, right, But and this
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: is a whole separate thing, but it is related. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: recently watched a film in a violent nature. I have
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: been working up to watch it, but i'd heard all
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: these stories about asking like make you vomit and stuff
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: like that, but people kept saying like, it's really kind
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of comforting until it's not. So if you haven't seen it,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: it's just a horror. It's got a lot of problematic tropes.
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  Speaker 1: I did like it, but it's got a lot of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: problematic trips. But it's like you're seeing it from the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: killer's point of view and he's just walking through the woods.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of scenes there's no music. All the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: scenes are just really pretty and he's just walking through
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  Speaker 1: the woods and I was kind of relaxing during it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I was like, and then he killed someone and the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: most violent way I've probably ever seen. Okay, well that's
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: saying a lot. It was very violent. I see one
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: of the vomited.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, really.
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  Speaker 1: But then he's back walking in the woods and I'm like, oh, pretty,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: pretty pretty. So it's interesting because a lot of people
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: called it like the cozy gang version of like a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: horror movie, of a horror movie.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: We already kind of had a conversation about people don't
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: take women seriously in gaming. Gaming kind of opened the
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: door where this specific genre, which is a very new genre,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: has allowed for more and more women to come in
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: to be like, I know about gaming, let me talk
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to you about this, and found a way that they
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: can also get paid and be paid attention to. But
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: then that also is like, if you're cozy gaming, they
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: want to specify that you're not gaming, like and I'm
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: not saying that's the case. I'm just saying that a
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: lot of sexist people will use that rhetoric that's not
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: really gaming. But again, it's kind of that level of
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: like a lot of the gamers, And I think this
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  Speaker 2: is where maybe some of the complication happens, is that
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: a lot of the gamers cozy gamers are have already
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: most likely been gamers and then they found this game.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: They love these games, and they talk about these games
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: because it is also a niche and an interesting topic
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and it's more accepted for women to be in that narrative,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: and so they may get boxed in and they're using
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: this box then to finally be in the industry, Like
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I don't and I don't think that's better or we're
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: good either way, because I hate that women who are
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: gamers are already like classified as not being true gamers
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: if you don't do these things or if you just
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: don't have a penis, which a lot of times is
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: that conversation. And I think, like that could be part
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: of that mystery, because yeah, again, like I said, there's
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: several gamers who will put Zelda Breath of the Wild
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and say this is their cozy game slash but more
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: difficult because I could never like I would throw throw
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the remote.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Oh I got stuck. I love Zelda and I've got
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: stuck in it because I accidentally killed that old guy,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and now I don't have to cope, and I keep
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: dying and everyone tells me it's not possible, but I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: will give you my safe file that gud died and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it was not my fault.
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  Speaker 2: So all not to say, I think this is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting narrative because the conversation again like the horror of
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  Speaker 2: cozy gaming, or the dark cozy gaming, or like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like all of these things, and because they want so
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  Speaker 2: quickly to classify this so they can keep it sexist,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: like keep a sexist narrative in there, that could be
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  Speaker 2: a problem. I for me, yes, a part of this
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: is the fact that I'm not stressed out. So if
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I'm stressing about it, which is most games in general,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw something to me that's not cozy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That's a whole different conversation because also, just like Overcooked,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: is that considered a cozy game.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I would never call that a cozy game.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: But I have played it and I do enjoy it
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  Speaker 2: to a certain extent to I'm like, I'm annoyed.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Oh you know. That kind of goes back to the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: because I have some friends who will watch a certain
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: show it's the Bear and they're relaxed, and I'm like,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: this is the most stressful. I hate this. I like
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the show, but it's stressful. But from them, they find
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it relaxing for whatever reason. Usually it's their job. Usually
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's what they work in.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the thing, is like one person's like stress relievers,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: another person's stress causer. Right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: And also there's that question again and classification because The
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Bear was classified as a comedy and everybody's like why.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I have a lot of theories about that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Oh so that is this conversation has gone right, But
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that is kind of what we were like in this
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: conversation when it comes to gaming, because it is like
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: bigger depth of like, Okay, these people consider this gaming.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: This people consider this gaming. And then there's a huge crossover.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: We've seen more and more crossover when it goes into
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like who which system has it? Just saw one of
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: my favorite games, Cozy Grove. I've talked about this game
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: a lot, and you'll play it. I think it's really fun.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I think the missions are just perfect. Apparently they have
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a phone version. I haven't seen good reviews about it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of bugs we'll see. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I think Netflix bought the actual game, which again, now
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: we see other companies that you were never a part
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of the gaming industry suddenly going oh money maker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. Every time I go on Netflix, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: see Oxen Free, which is one of my favorite games,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it's Invata, and I'm like, what,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I play Oxen Free on Netflix? Right? Yeah, And I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: going back to several of our conversations, I do think
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: when you can get outside of the big studios, like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a cozy game is a great way to enter the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: industry without that, and they are still games people love
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and people will buy, and you can do all these
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: creative things, like I love so long a game has
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: been defined by the way you win is some kind
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of violence. And I love how many women creators, especially
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: are like, what have we made a different game where
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the way you win isn't that, it's something else. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: love that. So I'm all about this. I love the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: interesting takes on games, horror or not. Like, I like
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to see this creativity. I'm glad that it's happening and
• 22:21
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