My name is Christopher Thomas Plant. My name is Rose first. Welcome to the resties. We're the rest of the best. Discuss the best of the rest. This week we are talking about Stray. What is Stray? Well, you know that song? Everybody wants to be a cat. Stray is a video game about letting you do that very thing. What song is that?

No, I didn't ask with the interest of you singing it. I just wanted to hear it. It's where it's at. It's in the aristocats. I'm sure it probably has like racist stuff in it because half that movie is yeah. It is a veteran.

The game is not just that. It has trash eating biomonsters. It has a cast system of robots who have been abandoned by their creators.

I'm going to do my best not to talk about near for half the episode. It has gamer fuel which apparently will outlast all of us.

But first there's a different type of robot abandonment that I wanted to talk to you about fresh. I bought a Tomagachi.

Oh yeah, we've talked about it on the show. We talked about how I'm treating it. No. I think you had just gotten it. I remember asking you why would you do that?

That's a good question. I'm wrestling with because I have it. There's the little tab where it connects the battery to the system.

You hold that out. Then it comes to life. I did that. I immediately realized I was no way prepared to take care of this thing.

So I put the tab back in. Then I realized that I killed the Tomagachi. Then I took it out the next day. I was like, okay, no, now I'm ready.

I played for like three or four hours. Then I realized, I'm still not prepared for this or the commitment.

There's so many layers to this. You played Tomagachi for three or four hours?

No, you mean like I got it set up. It was doing its thing. I was like, no, I'm not going to do right by you. I'm not going to check in later.

This is so fucked up. I'll put the tab back in. Oh my God.

Now the tab is still in. I have not taken it back out yet because I don't want to get back into Tomagachi until I'm ready.

This poor Tomagachi is blinking in and out of existence. It doesn't know whether it's here or live or dead.

Yeah, horrible.

I think that's the metaphor that I want to go with is it's like a God. I don't want to go with like, I think there's many metaphors.

I'm going to go with it's a God who is like, you know what? I'm bored. I'm going to create Adam and Eve.

Does it for five minutes and they're like, oh my gosh, we are what what is going on? Humanity stands before us.

He's like, actually, you know what? I've got to get some Fortnite done. I'm going to put you back in the box.

And then just like, snap his fingers and then they're gone.

So you're the God in this scenario?

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