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Episode 136: Will The Real Neocon Please Stand Up?

Waypoint Radio

VICE

Video Game Culture, Video Games, Rewatch, Video Game Development, Replay, Leisure, Television, Movies, Tv & Film, Games

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Most games let you be a “good” person because that’s just how things usually go, but what if more games pushed players outside moral and ethical comfort zones? This week, Rob wrote about how games can uncomfortably reflect who we are as people, which Rob, Patrick, Austin, and Danielle used to more broadly discuss why games don’t ask more from players.

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0:49.4

A few weeks ago, my partner started playing Stardew Valley.

0:52.4

I needed a soft sweet game, she said,

0:54.4

and she'd been pretty taken with that,

0:56.4

with what she'd seen over my shoulders.

0:58.4

One about my routines of feeding chickens,

1:00.3

tending gardens, and giving gifts to friends.

1:02.6

So she gave it a try.

1:04.4

This weekend, she announced, in a tone heavy with regret and shame,

1:08.2

I think I have brought industrial farming to Stardew Valley.

1:11.8

I glanced at her laptop to see what she was talking about

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