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8. The Games That "Saved" Us

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, things get personal, with stories of video games that helped us through tough times, as well as a lot of tangents, because of course. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you have the sort of crosswiring associative type situation where if you're playing

0:10.0

Doom as an example and if like I call you and you keep playing and I say, I have the craziest story to tell you.

0:20.0

And then a year later if you replay that level, will that conversation, the moment you hit that part of the level, will it trigger for you?

0:27.6

Because that has happened to me my whole life.

0:29.6

I'll go back and replay a game. I haven't played in 10 years.

0:32.6

And I'll like, into a room and I'll suddenly be like, this was the moment that my friend, who I haven't spoken to

0:39.4

in seven years, called me to say he got engaged or something, because I'll just, it just

0:43.5

attaches to the visuals and the, the geography of that room permanently for me.

0:48.6

I have it with, um, and I've tweeted about this before and didn't see as many people share the sentiment

0:56.3

as i did i have it with music so when i play a game and i'm listening to a certain album at the

1:01.4

same time they are just forever that is an offensive premise to a story i don't mean at the same

1:07.1

time though like you mean you mean the music that was composed for the game? Yeah, exactly.

1:11.5

You mean the brilliant score.

1:13.1

I also don't mean...

1:14.1

She would dismiss a lot for Mike.

1:17.0

No, what I'm saying is so, like, if I'm playing through Resident Evil 3 right now, and when

1:23.6

I'm not playing the game, I'm also listening to Childish Gambino's latest album, which I am.

1:28.2

Now, for the rest of my life, I've remembered this week as Resident Evil 3 and Childish Gambino,

1:32.7

and they are paired together, rather than, like, I'm not actually listening to that music at the same time as playing the game.

1:37.7

What if you were also eating, like, pizza rolls at the same time? Would you then associate? Well, because I just do that every day, there's less of an association where pizza rolls are concerned.

1:48.3

But there is, isn't the sense of smell, is the most indelible memory sense that we have?

1:54.4

It's the most attached memory, yeah.

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