What Even Is a Video Game?! (Grab Bag!)

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk about a mystery game that feels like a book, a historic epic that plays like a movie, and a simulator that takes the place of our favorite chores. No surprise, The Besties find themselves wondering what a video game even is.

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0:00.0	Anything Momadami's gonna make you egg steam czar?
0:05.2	Is that a question for me?
0:07.2	No, dude, it's a question for Griffin, because I'm an idiot.
0:14.5	Because you've known me for, you've known me 20 years, and I'm a huge idiot.
0:19.2	Yeah.
0:19.6	Who always says the wrong, stupidest thing at the worst times while it's be recorded.
0:26.5	Because he's a fucking cloud.
0:30.5	Yes, it was to you, Russ.
0:32.7	Because you love the steam from eggs.
0:35.1	Pervert.
0:39.6	So this past Halloween I was hanging out with Clock Tower Cizzer Man.
0:47.6	Yeah, that was before the cold open.
0:50.5	What Griffin just did was the beginning of the cold open.
0:53.9	Before that was the coldest the cold open. Before that,
0:54.5	was the coldest open.
0:56.1	Nice, it's strong.
0:57.3	It's a strong premise. What's up with Clock Tower Ciserman? What are you talking about? No one knows. Huh? I don't know what you're talking about. Clock Tower? Game? I know there's a game called Clock Tower. Yeah,
1:08.0	Cizerman
1:08.5	on the front cover
1:10.0	He's a bad guy
1:11.3	He's a bad guy from
1:11.4	Clock Tower
	...

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