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This week, Tom is in New York. So we do our best cobble together a decent episode for you guys. We talk about being bad at video games and enjoying them despite our shortcomings.

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, we'd aimed to discuss personal moral decisions when purchasing games released by problematic developers and publishers. But Shanee's dog Luna had other plans.

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Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgShanee is missing. Instead of forming a search party, we spend time talking about what games we're most looking forward to in the coming year. Hopefully Shanee is found before E3 so she doesn't miss bingo.

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Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, Shanee has the cool idea for us to make a bingo card out of our E3 predictions. Some quite humorous, and others very exciting. Which of us will win?

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Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, we talk about the elitism that comes with video games gaining more and more mainstream popularity. We touch on the games as art debate and decide that nothing is art, but also everything is.

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Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, at 5:30 in the morning, Shanee asks us how different sets of circumstances have negatively affected our decisions to continue certain games. We had been up all night building Nintendo Labos and were super sleepy.

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgAmong other things, we discuss the most impressive video game records of which we're aware. We also take time to speculate on other possible video game records to set. Friend of the show James "Sandy" Sandusky joins us again with a hearty helping of Texas charm

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, for reasons unknown, we discuss in great detail gaming's greatest sad action hero: Dominic Santiago. We talk about the sadness of him losing his wife, but in the process, find ourselves.

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, we talk about the ever-growing reach of the digital retail landscape and what that means for brick and mortar video game sellers like GameStop and Best Buy; asking how they remain competitive in a world where every week a new Steam Sale or flash sale is just around the corner.

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, we're talking about sequels! Specifically touching on the additional entries in franchises that have either added something great to the series, or perhaps ones that took away beloved features. Lots of Kingdom Hearts talk.

Discord: https://discord.gg/efx7xMgThis week, we're talking about games that bring us joy, and the various ways that they've done so. Conversely, we discuss games that we just couldn't get into no matter how hard we tried.

This week, we're talking about the decades-old assertion that violent video games lead to real world violence, leading even farther back than the controversy sparked by the releases of Doom and Mortal Kombat in the early 1990's and all the way up to present day with the President's meeting with the ESA to discuss video game violence.

This week, we're discussing elitism in various video gaming communities and how the cultures of each differs. Of course we touch on the Soulsborne community's exclusionary "git gud" mentality and compare it in contrast to comparatively welcoming fighting game and Killing Floor 2 communities. No skill level required to take part in this conversation.