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Help, I'm Getting Too Old For Hard Games [Mailbag]

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Arts, Kirk Hamilton, Video Games, Jason Schreier, Technology, Maddy Myers, Society & Culture

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the listener mailbag to answer some of your questions! When should you let kids start playing video games? What gaming terms should be more mainstream? And what do you do when you're just too old for this shit?

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0:00.0

It's hard to know when to introduce your kids to video games.

0:07.0

Even harder to figure out exactly when to introduce them to triple-click.

0:12.0

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.

0:15.0

This week, we open up the listener mailbag to answer questions about screen time limits for kids and also dogs

0:22.6

as well as the limits of age upon us all. I'm Maddie Myers. I'm Jason Schreier. And I'm

0:33.3

Kirk Hamilton and hello. Hello. It's us again. We made it back. Back at it.

0:39.1

It is us again. You guys know how like two weeks ago Maddie won a prediction. I just lost a

0:44.7

prediction. I don't know if you guys. I didn't know that. Lay it on us. Because a marathon had more

0:50.7

steam congruance than I thought than I predicted it was. Oh, did you put a number on it? I did. Wow. Yeah. Big news. Even though Slay the Spire 2 came out around the same time, Marathon still came out too. It's true. Yeah. Did not take away from those extraction shooter numbers. Yeah. It's interesting to see how Marathon does. It will be. Following along with it. It's very in the middle right now. It's a little touching go. We live in a post post-high guard world. Sometimes those first week numbers don't say it all anymore. And it's hard to know. Well, Marathon, you had to buy. True.

1:46.3

So very big difference in the first week numbers. Yeah. Which suggests, you know, people put the money in. So maybe they're willing to put the time in. I guess we're going to find out. But you know what? We always put the time in here at Triple Click. And the money in. We put the money in, kind of. Well, let's be clear here. Some of you listeners have put the money in.

1:52.5

And those would be the wonderful folks who go to Maximumfund.org slash join and they become members.

1:59.8

And what do they get in return? Something pretty good, I would say. They get a monthly bonus episode from us.

2:02.5

We've been doing this for many years. So you a ton of bonus apps we got it's in the is it in the hundreds it's in the dozens it's in the

2:08.6

dozens i feel confident saying it's dozens not in the hundreds but it is in the dozens whenever we hit

2:13.2

our hundredth bonus episode we'll celebrate uh we're that'll be a great day. But our latest bonus episode,

2:20.2

we all watched a documentary called King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters from 2007. It was really

2:26.6

fun throwback to a time when video games were talked about in a different way. We had a great time

2:33.6

discussing that doc on our bonus feed.

2:37.2

And next, we're going to do a full spoiler beancast about Resident Evil Requiem, which we are all

2:45.5

playing, or in Kirk's case, have completed.

2:48.9

Very excited to talk about that with the two of you and get that one

2:51.9

in the bonus feed. So if that sounds good to you, plus you want all those other bonus apps,

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