Episode 253: MCDONALDS IS PDRESIDENT

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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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ty Given the length of most games, it can sometimes be hard to parse their politics or meaning even from a few hours of play. Endgame twists can paint the entire narrative of a game in a different light, strengthening core themes at best, and undermining them at worst. So it's natural to wonder where a narrative might go even if it's opening hours seem to hammer home a specific point of view. We discuss how this feels in The Outer Worlds, making new friends in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and just what is up with the Clancyverse on this episode of Waypoint Radio.

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0:00.0	What good internet it is Monday August that's a little too good morning
0:53.8	to
1:17.6	It's an early first season episode where every day, they like, overwork the workforce, and everybody is constantly believing that the next day is Saturday. It's always Friday, it's Friday forever.
1:32.2	Just letting you know that's pretty good.
1:34.2	But in that, in that construction, Friday is a day where you're like, mass, the last day of the week, time to give it my all and finish strong. Where is the reality,
1:43.1	would be like, the 2019 version of that episode is like people showing up and being like, I don't really want to get this done.
1:55.1	They're just on Twitter, yeah.
1:57.1	Yeah, I just, let's start next week's strong, guys.
2:00.1	I used to repeat that every day.
2:03.1	Every meeting.
2:04.1	Well, it's, though, you know, here to help me finish this week's strong, because we're recording this on a Friday.
2:09.1	We don't normally do that.
2:11.1	The voices are rosy. Daniel Rienda, Ricotta, and Cheres.
2:14.1	And honestly, I just want to just jump in, Danielle, you wrote a piece that went up this morning about outer world.
2:23.1	Yes, world.
2:24.1	I checked that headline like, by time.
2:26.1	I know.
2:27.1	I was like, I'm like, sure we got this right.
2:30.1	Worlds.
2:31.1	There's got to be at least one publication that got it wrong or published it, realized it was wrong.
2:37.1	Like Twitter told them like, huh.
2:39.1	And then they think like that's unfortunately going to be a thing, especially because I haven't played outer wilds.
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