Triple Play: Papers, Please

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Kirk, Maddy, and Jason grab their passports and get ready for a trip to Arztotska, the setting of Lucas Pope's brilliant 2013 game Papers, Please, which just came out for phones. They talk about the game's brilliant design, the moral questions it poses, and what it's ultimately trying to say. Who would've thought that being a border inspector could be so fun?

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0:00.0	Excuse me, do you know how fast you're going?
0:09.6	Do you know why I pulled you over?
0:13.2	Before you enter triple click where we bring the games to you, I am going to need your
0:17.0	license and registration.
0:18.8	Could you please verify your gamertag because this one doesn't match up with the one
0:21.6	we have on file?
0:22.6	Actually, I just, I feel bad for you at this point.
0:25.4	Go ahead and listen.
0:30.3	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:31.3	I'm Jason Shire, and I'm Kirk Hamilton and hello.
0:34.3	Hello.
0:35.3	It's us again.
0:36.8	Welcome back.
0:38.4	Welcome back.
0:39.4	Do you all think about how my last name and Jason's last name rhyme every single time now?
0:45.1	Because I do.
0:46.6	I do think about it.
0:48.6	It's a small curse that has been flipped into me.
0:52.1	It's like when someone tells you to think about your breathing.
0:55.2	Uh-huh.
0:56.2	And I'm like, oh no, no, I have to think about my breath for the next 30 seconds or so.
1:01.2	We know I'm thinking about my breathing.
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