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My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. I know this thing to watch out for fireballs. It

is a games club podcast. And this week we are talking about the last of us, which is a survival horror

game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony for the PlayStation 3 in 2013. Yeah, this

studio posits the existence of some kind of bad dog. That's impossible. In this game, you play as

Joel, a man who must deliver a young girl named Ellie to the other side of a post-apocalyptic

United States. And you know, yeah, you know, you know, this is a big end. Yeah.

You know, decided to put this on the regular feed. This feels a premium episode bait to me.

Not bait, I'm not damning of us. But like the, you know, just something that is like a big game

that bifurcates really nicely into story and mechanics to its fault in the play, I would say.

But it's, you know, this is one of the big ones. We've been talking about this for a long time.

Yes. Like, when it came out, it was, it was at a time when we didn't really do a lot of modern

games. Really, really any, any at all. It's, you know, but like everybody on the network played it.

We did a bonus level about it at the time. Like you just kind of seen like a, like a natural fit.

And now here we are seven years later. Seven years on from the pandemic. Yeah.

To the pandemic. Yes. Yeah. You know, in some ways, it hits a little different now. But also,

I think that, I mean, just speaking, speaking broadly, you know, since this is like post-apocalyptic

pandemic media or whatever, I find that this is far more pessimistic than I actually am

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