208: The Good People Are Dead Already

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2014

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Sharpen your shivs and barbecue some rats, because it’s time for us to talk about the apocalyptic video game “The Last of Us.” We talk about the story and the characters in this relentlessly bleak story of a man and a girl trying to survive both zombies and people. If you want even more, stay tuned after the music for an entire bonus episode about gameplay and technical aspects of the game.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 208, August 2014.
0:11.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable podcast.
0:14.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:15.4	Our topic in this episode is going to be a video game.
0:20.0	We're back on video games with a, I think, critically a loved video game called The Last of Us from Naughty Dog on PlayStation.
0:32.3	And I am going to introduce a fine panel of game players who have played this game and now are going to talk about it.
0:39.4	They may also use clicks as echolocation in order to find you and kill you.
0:44.1	But we'll get to that.
0:45.8	Brianna Wu is back and, hey, Brianna, what's up?
0:50.5	What's crack-a-lacking?
0:51.6	Not much or not.
0:54.7	I don't know.
0:55.3	I don't even know.
0:56.9	Steve Lutz is also here.
0:57.6	Hey, Steve.
0:58.9	Hey, Jason.
0:59.7	How you doing?
1:01.3	What's crack-a-lacking with you?
1:04.2	I'm just over here surviving and enduring, my friend.
1:05.1	That's good.
1:05.8	That's all we can do.
1:07.4	We can hope to survive, endure, and live.
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