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Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.

I am Ben Lindberg, a senior editor at The Ringer.

I play many roles at the Ringer, wear many hats, wear many masks, in fact, would be the episode appropriate way to say that. And today, I'm wearing my button mash post mask because it's

time to talk about video games with me for the first segment of this episode. What do you get

the man who plays everything? A few more games, actually, because they're never enough,

and there's never enough time to play them,

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