What's The Deal With: DOOM

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Kirk, Maddy, and Jason grab their chainsaws and get ready to slay some aliens (demons?) in DOOM: The Dark Ages, the latest game from id Software. They talk about the new DOOM's pros and cons, the lasting appeal of the franchise, and how fun it feels to hack apart aliens (demons?) at 400 miles per hour.

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0:00.0	I don't know about you, but I'm against all the evil that hell can conjure and all the wickedness that mankind can produce.
0:12.9	Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.
0:15.6	This week we talk about Doom the Dark Ages, in which you shoot demons and punch demons and fling a buzzsaw
0:22.7	shield around a battlefield at demons.
0:28.9	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:31.8	I'm Jason Trier.
0:33.1	And I'm Kirk Hamilton.
0:34.2	Hello, friends.
0:35.0	Hello.
0:36.2	Hello.
0:36.6	How nice to see you both. To my gaming friends.
0:39.0	You guys want to hear a fun story? Yeah, I do. Actually. It's kind of fun, semi-fun. So I have a ground hog who's living either in my backyard, potentially under the house. We're not 100% short.
0:52.5	And so, catty shack situation. Exactly.
0:54.6	Exactly.
0:55.8	We're trying to play golf in the backyard and suddenly like, uh, um,
0:59.7	this groundhog just keeps interfering.
1:01.5	And so, uh, I called this company that like will trap the groundhog for you and then
1:06.7	go drive like 10 miles north and let it free.
1:10.1	And I was like, I was like, great, I don't want to
1:11.7	hurt this thing. I just want it like to not cause damage on my property. And so they set up a cage
1:17.5	and like put some apples and stuff inside the cage. And I was like, okay, great. And then yesterday,
1:23.3	I go and look at the cage. They're checking it every day, but I went and checked it during the day also.
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