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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Black Mirror, season seven. Episode four, Plaything. Berto, you just told me you have a lot of notes on this |
0:09.5 | episode. Let's get into it. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm a professor. |
0:14.6 | My name is Umberto Cassaneda. I turn socks inside out. Episode four, Plaything, starring Peter |
0:20.5 | Capelli and Lewis Gribbon, written and directed, or written by Charlie Brooker. I don't know who directed it. So, a quick overview of this episode. In the future, Cameron, this older fellow, is arrested for shoplifting and suspected of murder. |
0:41.0 | He is taken to the police station interrogated. |
0:44.1 | He talks about how his dad was abusive as he was bullied at school. |
0:48.1 | And he recounts decades earlier in which he was working as a video game journalist in the 1990s when PC video games were first getting off the ground. |
0:57.4 | And he talks about meeting a genius programmer who made this game called thronglets. |
1:04.1 | And the programmer, Colin Rittman, says that he wanted to make a game that elevates humans and improves humans instead of just creating a game about conflict. |
1:16.7 | And it's not a game. |
1:17.6 | Right. |
1:18.1 | Yeah. |
1:18.4 | It doesn't have a goal. |
1:19.4 | And so it's this very experimental game that is about you interacting with these thronglets in this game, taking care of them and |
1:31.7 | communicating with them. |
1:33.3 | And he coded the game to learn and to expand on itself. |
1:38.8 | It would evolve. |
1:39.7 | And everyone would have a different experience with the game. |
1:44.4 | And the writer, Cameron, he steals the game. |
1:48.7 | And apparently it's the only version and the game is never released. |
1:51.8 | So Cameron is the only person who has a version of this game called thronglets. |
1:56.9 | And he takes it home and he starts to interact with the thronglets, you know, feeding, bathing them. |
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