Lessons with Daddies

Love Letters

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of a two-parter about video games and change, Meredith talks to Celeste Sangiorgio, a psychologist and researcher who thinks about video games a lot. Celeste happens to be co-creating a video game that’s meant to help us navigate relationships. Join this conversation about “The Last of Us,” “Cupid Parasite,” and a bunch of games that focus on love. Meredith will also talk about hew new favorite, a game about DADDIES. Even you non-gamers will enjoy. ALSO, we’re some episodes into the season. Do you have thoughts about the stories we’ve shared about how people have changed? Have you learned anything? Found anything surprising? Do you have your own thoughts about change – or stories you want to share about how you made positive change in your own life? Call and leave a message! You can be anonymous if you want. Call 401-484-0590. Tell us anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have a special episode for you today, but before that, it occurs to me.
0:11.0	We're some episodes into the season, and I want to know what you're thinking.
0:15.0	Whose stories have stuck with you? Have you learned anything about change?
0:20.0	Did the brain expert in episode three teach you
0:22.7	something about your own life? Also, is this making you think about a time you changed or a story
0:28.6	about how you did it? I want you to call me and tell me. And maybe we'll even have a feedback episode
0:34.1	about how we're all doing with this. You can absolutely remain anonymous or not,
0:38.5	whatever you want, just tell me, but call and talk to me. The number is 401-484-0-590. You'll also
0:47.5	find it in the show notes. That's 401-484, and you can leave a message at the beep, etc.
0:57.2	You can also email love letters at Boston.com.
1:06.9	Also, I'm looking for letters for our advice column about friendship, dating, committing, uncommitting, single life, and all of the things. You can send your anonymous question to love letters at boston.com or find our anonymous form
1:12.6	at boston.com slash love letters. Okay, now that the business is out of the way, our last
1:18.4	episode about video games helping us change taught me a lot. It changed my perception of animal
1:24.4	crossing people. You know who I'm talking about.
1:28.4	These are the people who spent lockdown playing the Sims game, Animal Crossing.
1:33.2	They moved themselves around a fictional, simulated world as a little avatar.
1:38.1	My friend Rachel used to send me Animal Crossing screenshots, which were a little version of her,
1:43.0	and a little version of me, a tiny me she had
1:45.7	created, and they would be sitting at an animated movie theater. This was all in a world that
1:50.7	was just on her screen. It was adorable and weird all at the same time. During our work on the
1:56.9	gaming episode, I interviewed an expert who studies video games and how they might help us
2:01.3	manage our relationships. But there was so much to say in that episode that I couldn't fit this
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