39: The Eternal Optimist

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🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Things are rough out there, so this week we recorded a free-wheeling episode about tech-ish self-care strategies for things like exercise, meditation, lighting, and so forth. Plus: Will's making his own MiSTer case! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Like at what stage of your interest in a game do you follow the subreddit?
0:04.0	Oh, gosh.
0:05.7	Let's see.
0:07.2	On a scale from Destiny to Dota.
0:10.6	I think that's probably the high end of the scale for me.
0:13.1	You're right.
0:13.9	You're right.
0:15.0	Let's see.
0:16.0	Single player games probably almost never.
0:17.9	Okay.
0:18.4	Because you just kind of play through those and are done.
0:20.7	I'm trying to think.
0:21.5	Like, yeah, it kind of has to, it has to be like a service game or an ongoing game, right?
0:24.9	Like something you really want to stick with and it has a lot of arcane systems to dig into.
0:28.8	But then some of those service games, like I don't, I'm not on the PubG subreddit because it's just people complaining about PubG all the time and it's really a bummer. So like, but like I love the Outer Wilds Reddit because it's fantastic to watch people share the
0:42.7	moment that they like unwrapped that game and understood what it was.
0:46.1	Okay. Okay.
0:46.9	Like the fan art in there is really good.
0:48.7	It's like really like it's like it reminds that and the breadth of the wild subreddit both remind me why I like those games,
0:54.5	even though I haven't played them in kind of a while now.
0:56.5	Well, I might make a controversial statement here.
0:58.4	No offense to any Reddit users, but I don't know that I would go to Reddit for conversation.
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