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It's not that often that we talk to a redditor and their mom, but here we are.

My name is Justin Bailey. I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I am Linda Talbert. I am from Janzel, Wisconsin.

Justin and if we're going to be technical, his mom made their first reddit post not too long ago.

I think I created my reddit account probably a little over a year ago.

And one of the subreddits that I follow is a subreddit called What Is This Thing?

It's basically crowdsourcing knowledge when a person discovers a thing out in the world.

And they're like, Emory, they're like, what is this thing?

Thank you. And the very intelligent people of reddit chime in and they're like,

oh, this is what it is. They can lead you to places you could find more information about it.

That's where I posted my original post about the game.

Justin hopes that somebody as a part of that group would know about it.

The game. It wasn't even really clear it was a game, not at first.

It was just with the other stuff in the basement of Justin's grandparents house,

which had a lot of stuff in it.

After Justin's grandfather passed away and his grandmother moved to assisted living,

Justin and his mom started to go through the things in the basement.

Linda, these are your parents, right?

Correct. You know, we referred to them as organized hoarders.

And they had a bunch of stuff, but it was all neatly organized and packed away in boxes.

And my dad built shelves for the basement to store everything on.

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