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Triple Click

What's The Deal With: Mods

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Kirk, Maddy, and Jason talk about mods in video games: the history of the form, their favorite mods, and how cool it is that video games can be altered, expanded, and changed by players in all sorts of ways, from DOOM to Skyrim to explicit sex scenes in The Sims.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be? And have you checked if it's available on Nexus mods?

0:12.5

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you. This week, we talk about video game mods,

0:18.0

going back to the first time each of us ever installed one, all the way up to the current state of modding games.

0:24.5

Some modders have even turned it into a living.

0:30.1

I'm Maddie Myers. I'm Jason Shrier. And I'm Kirk Hamilton and hello.

0:34.7

Hello, it's us again. Hi, my friend. Hello. Did you guys get snow this

0:40.3

weekend? Yeah, we did. And, you know, we got snow yesterday and then the plow came and they plowed our

0:47.9

whole driveway. And then we got about six more inches overnight. And Dean and I woke up and we were like,

0:52.9

the plow's probably not going to come

0:54.2

back. And so we spent our lunch break shoveling the driveway only to have the plow return about

0:59.8

30 minutes later. And that was not ideal.

1:04.6

I built character though. When you say the plow, you're saying the city like plows your driveway?

1:09.3

No, my landlord pays for a plow to come oh you're right

1:12.3

you're an apartment okay got it yeah i got to do it all myself in a house i should have believed i should

1:17.0

have believed i should have believed in my landlord i should have you know i don't give landlords enough credit

1:21.6

that's that's a real flaw i have as we all know are are deeply trustworthy class of people.

1:28.3

I can't get into that.

1:31.0

So this weekend, so we had a huge show start here where I am in suburban New York, and my kids

1:34.9

sat off of school.

1:36.4

They couldn't go anywhere Sunday, and then they were off of school Monday.

1:38.6

So they'd spent two days just inside doing nothing.

1:41.3

And I got them into Animal Crossing. My daughter, who's six and a half, she, like, had never really clicked with a game quite as much. She's played some Mario here and there and been into it, but like, not really. But Animal Crossing, she wanted to play it all day. And she wanted to do, you know how in Animal Crossing, you can design patterns that you can put on your face and your shirt and stuff.

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