I'm

. My name is Gary Butterfield, he him.

My name is Kay Ross, she, her.

And you're listening to Watch Out for Firebells, Dispatch, our monthly topics, and Q&A, and episode announcement, and listening to a response and thinking Gwen episode.

Yeah, we do a bunch of stuff in these.

I never know how to follow up, but Gary says.

But yeah, we're going to be reading your responses to the spooky games, horror stuff.

Gary, it feels like a million years ago that I played those.

Yeah, it doesn't, it does not feel current.

Weird, you know, I've been enjoying this, this Halloween.

I love spooky times.'s this is a cliche

observation you don't have to stop doing spooky stuff just because it's not October and I never

do mm-hmm you know so it doesn't it doesn't feel that strong to me this year no no it's it

never feels very strong to me because I'm always watching horror movies and I'm always playing

horror games yeah like you You got a contrast for... Yeah. Spooky month is every month for me. Every

month is spooky month. To feel anything. Yeah. Let's answer some questions. We got a lot of

game responses. We do. Yeah. I will get us started here with Alex, who asks,

do y'all think there is any link between the rise of Battle Royale slash extraction

shooters and the general erosion of the social contract and the overall decline of our society,

considering the genres are every man for themselves and often encouraged deception and other

anti-social behaviors love the network and thanks for all you do thank you Alex hey thanks

Alex sure uh your pop culture reflects anxieties uh all that stuff has been going on forever

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