ALL of my links - https://MattHorton.live In Papers, Please, you take the role of a citizen of the fictional nation Arstotzka, modeled after Cold War totalitarian Eastern European nations. The government of Arstotzka has just ended a war with the neighboring country of Kolechia, and the player character has been appointed as an immigration inspector as the tensions from that recent war continue. Papers, Please is also a game that reminded me too much of my real life. 0:00 - This makes me uncomfortable 0:03 - Papers, Please 1:28 - When I finally played it 1:53 - Too close to home 2:55 - No wrong way to be an immigrant 3:46 - I'l never finish this game

While Elden Ring has generated a lot of buzz and excitement, there are other games that interested me more in terms of gameplay, storytelling, and overall enjoyment. I'll be sharing my top picks for the best games of 2022 and explaining why I think they're the ones you should play. If you're a fan of Elden Ring or just want to know what other games to catch up on from this year, you'll find something great to play here. These are my favorite games of 2022. My YouTube channel as a podcast feed SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUDIO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773588 SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIDEO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773622 ❗️(These links contain links to the app but also the raw RSS feed(s) if you want to use that or if any of those links are broken.) JUST RSS AUDIO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/f/Oqi315cAxB1J VIDEO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/v/qOWFR9rlKyjz 0:00 - What games meant to me this year 1:21 - It's a Pokémon game! 4:01 - A puzzle game for mystery lovers 5:12 - This game feels like being a kid again 8:08 - You love superheroes and cards? 13:22 - They made 3 MOVIES for this game 16:43 - The best, ugliest game 17:49 - You still love superheroes and cards? 19:25 - Such a cute little fox 21:08 - The game that made my year MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Credits: Marvel SNAP OST - Chris Alan (https://thechrisalan.com/2022/06/02/who-wrote-the-soundtrack-to-marvel-snap/) Hero - Martin Garrix and JVKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5spiMVI9U8) Hero (Piano Cover) - Jarel Gomes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWNBmTIGtY) Links to everything @ https://MattHorton.live 0:00 - I shouldn't love this game 1:20 - What SNAP does right 1:46 - Cards RULE 2:15 - The Marvel of it all 3:01 - Why do the mechanics work? 4:12 - The Snap 4:58 - Is it pay to win? 6:45 - What Marvel SNAP gets wrong 6:56 - Cyber Holiday changed my mind 8:37 - What did it cost? 9:03 - I'd rather buy the physical copy 9:46 - You have to do better, Marvel 10:57 - We've done this before 11:59 - Players want credits 13:12 - You're supposed to enjoy video games 14:01 - Marvel SNAP is great despite everything 14:47 - A silly thing I'm doing Marvel SNAP is a card battler mobile game featuring a wide array of Marvel Comics characters. Players collect and build decks of cards featuring their favorite heroes and villains, and then engage in simple, strategic matches against other players (and occasionally bots). Each card has its own unique abilities and powers that often map directly to the character's super powers, and players must use those abilities wisely to outmaneuver their opponents and emerge victorious. Marvel SNAP's deckbuilding is approachable. It's game play is simple to understand, and it's characters are loved. But it's a genre known for predatory monetization practices, and I personally hate online competitive multiplayer games. But I love Marvel SNAP. So what does Marvel SNAP get right?

Citizen Sleeper asks you to decide if escape is possible. It took several minutes of impasse and tears and not touching my controller, for fear of making a decision before I was ready, for me to know what I thought about that question. Citizen Sleeper gives you several potential answers and in the ones that resonated with me was the kind of deep personal freedom you only find, sure enough, through community. Citizen Sleeper is about disability and body dysmorphia and the inevitability of corruption, and it is about the things the grow among and around those things. The antidotes and the byproducts. Citizen Sleeper is about collections of people: families, gangs, unions, neighborhoods, corporations, and communes. It is about the individuals that make them up and how their individual needs strengthen or threaten the collective. But for our purposes today, it is about place. Yes the whole of its corporate, colonized space, but also...the aging space station its story takes place on: Erlin's Eye. The Eye is not exactly a welcoming home, but for a sleeper it is, in many ways, better than what they've come from. In the world of Citizen Sleeper, AI has been outlawed. So as a way of getting around that, the company Essen-Arp pays regular people to emulate their consciousness. It's a way to skirt the rules, but it also relies on there being people desperate enough to participate. These people are asleep in some kind of corporate facility, and their emulated consciousness is downloaded into a constructed body called a Frame. This new person is called a Sleeper, though many in this world would take issue with my calling them a "person." These Sleepers are forced to do some sort of labor for some period of time and when that time is up, the Frame is deactivated, the person whose consciousness they were made from wakes up, and that person gets paid for the work their Sleeper did. As you might imagine, the Sleeper, an emulated human personality living inside a constructed body and being forced to work their entire life only to benefit another person, might have feelings about this arrangement. So Essen-Arp makes sure that if the Sleeper ever escapes, their Frame, their body, will begin to destabilize. It will break down at an accelerated rate. Death will always come for the Sleeper, either through violence or planned obsolescence. And this is where the game places you at the start. You are an escaped Sleeper, nearly frozen in a cargo container, just trying to survive long enough to make it to Erlin's Eye. You're not sure where you'll go after that, but you know... well you hope there will be options when you get there. 0:00 - Content Warnings 0:45 - Is escape possible? 3:34 - Why Citizen Sleeper hit me this hard 6:55 - Who does YOUR body belong to? 9:26 - Citizen Sleeper's characters 16:12 - The body is not the self 20:42 - Content Warning: Body feelings 22:34 - Who do YOU belong to? 27:00 - Lem & Mina: An uncertain future 40:27 - Content Warning: Death and grief 42:01 - Where do you BELONG? 44:02 - Getting to know Emphis MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Andrew Shouldice, creator and lead developer of Tunic, was actually heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda, a game known for having many secrets that, depending on your perspective, are either genius or obtuse. But Tunic is heavily inspired also by games like Fez, Dark Souls, and Elden Ring. These are all games I have never played. Tunic got me to love a Soulslike. My YouTube channel as a podcast feed SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUDIO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773588 SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIDEO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773622 ❗️(These links contain links to the app but also the raw RSS feed(s) if you want to use that or if any of those links are broken.) JUST RSS AUDIO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/f/Oqi315cAxB1J VIDEO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/v/qOWFR9rlKyjz 0:00 - The conundrum 1:24 - What people actually mean when they compare Tunic to Elden Ring 2:05 - How Tunic gripped me 4:09 - How Tunic makes difficulty fun 6:49 - Tunic is GORGEOUS MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

13 Sentinels pumps out huge reveals, twists and turns that are actually meaningful to its characters rather than being empty fan service, and just super fun story beats every few minutes. And it wears its many sci-fi inspirations on its sleeve. 13 Sentinels is ostensibly a game about teenagers with secret powers that let them call down giant mechs to protect their city from kaiju attacks. But there's also an alien invasion plot line, a time travel element, and even an 80s high school drama. This game is referential, but its characters love the source material so fervently that reference quickly becomes reverence. It is unapologetic about its love for genre fiction and aims to be the epitome of those kinds of stories in a way only a video game can be. My YouTube channel as a podcast feed SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUDIO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773588 SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIDEO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773622 ❗️(These links contain links to the app but also the raw RSS feed(s) if you want to use that or if any of those links are broken.) JUST RSS AUDIO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/f/Oqi315cAxB1J VIDEO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/v/qOWFR9rlKyjz 0:00 - You should play 13 Sentinels 2:05 - This game is the best sci-fi tv show ever 4:48 - A few gripes about 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 6:59 - Who 13 Sentinels is for MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Spotify wants to own podcasts. Like all of them. Not just the ones in their app. They want to make money from the ones they don't own too. Joe Rogan was always just a step towards that future. We can't let it happen. The feeds you're looking for! SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUDIO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773588 SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIDEO PODCAST FEED - https://pod.link/1612773622 ❗️(These links contain links to the app but also the raw RSS feed(s) if you want to use that or if any of those links are broken.) JUST RSS AUDIO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/f/Oqi315cAxB1J VIDEO PODCAST RSS FEED - https://listenbox.app/v/qOWFR9rlKyjz 0:00 - Not just Joe Rogan... 0:41 - Something happened last October 2:15 - What happened in 2014? 9:36 - What Spotify did in 2015 12:48 - Pros & Cons: Spotify podcast UX 19:54 - The REAL problem with Spotify podcasts 23:48 - We've been through this before... 25:05 - It's always about capitalism 28:30 - The solution and a wrinkle 30:12 - What YOU can do about it 32:38 - What I'M doing about it ✍ Jeff Emtman's blog about HBM leaving Spotify - https://jemtman.medium.com/how-to-remove-your-podcast-from-spotify-without-losing-all-your-listeners-6a7ffd3dacd9 Mahmood Hikmet's YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGZOqvZ_6iYwQmcO5Van9w MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

The BEST YouTube advice I’m NOT listening to in 2022 I'm not gonna pick a niche. Instead I'm making a bet on you and a bet on my future. 0:00 - The hope 5:22 - The problem 14:26 - How we'll get there TikTokkers Brave.dave - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLje23Ef/ H.mourland - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLjeuAMv/ KevinJamesThornton - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLjePW5W/ NoCam QR on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nocam-qr-scan-your-photos/id1604516482 I'm willing to bet that a lot of you have spent some amount of time in the past few years, thinking about if your job was worth it, like you need to survive and you need to pay some minimum set of bills, but does it have to be with this job in this place? And why should you give any extra effort or care to a job when that effort is not awarded? And that care is not reciprocated? Or maybe like me. You've just realized there's jobs that you don't have to take, that you won't take anymore. Like jobs that can be done from home that won't allow you to do them from home. This collective shared understanding that we, the workforce have suddenly regained of our labor power is a hell of a moment. And it's the first thing to inspire me politically in a really, really long time. But a little closer to home. I've been thinking a lot about work and specifically my work and who that work is for. And that thought has brought me to a bit of a conclusion. I don't think that I want to work for a company anymore. This video is me exploring that thought and what it means if YouTube is a part of that plan. The role YouTube's algorithms play as a "boss" and the role you all, the people that watch my videos, play. So don't niche down. Don't pick a niche. Instead, watch this video and join me as I figure out if I can make this whole working for myself thing work in an unconventional way.

The Forgotten City has a VERY corny ending, and I LOVE it. I love it so much that I played The Forgotten City for a second time just to tell you why. This isn't a review, and it's not a video about The Forgotten City Skyrim mod. Instead, it's me trying to figure out why the ending to the 2021 worked for me and sharing that with you. I love making these kinds of videos, so please settle in and let me know in the comments if you liked it. @JacobGeller's video about The Forgotten City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGBP0E4zEs 0:00 - The White Hallway... 1:04 - What is The Forgotten City? 4:31 - This city's single mysterious law 6:40 - Yes. Another loop game 7:46 - How the game EARNS its ending 11:19 - The trope lands 15:01 - This could have been cringe city 16:47 - The horror that necessitates the cheese

Abandoned Island - Animal Crossing New Horizons I haven't played Animal Crossing in a while. I bet you haven't either. The game does a lot to shame you when you log back in after a long time, and I have my own guilt attached to my abandoned island. I also have a lot of parallel guilt and shame attached to my body and how I treated food when I was originally playing Animal Crossing New Horizons. That connection is what this video is about. Obvious CONTENT WARNING for body image talk, food talk, and honestly just talk about pandemic grief. I have a lot to unpack, and I hope it's helpful for some people. 0:00 - A content warning 0:29 - Grasping for control 2:32 - Bingeing on control 4:02 - This pattern in my real life 5:09 - My body image in light of all of this 6:09 - Shame in the game 7:34 - Guilt in the game 8:12 - What I'm doing about it MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Xbox Cloud Gaming iOS Beta is DISAPPOINTING - Xbox games in the browser I FINALLY got my Xbox Cloud Gaming beta invite since I'm a member of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. I've reviewed a BUNCH of cloud gaming services here on the channel and wanted to do this one, because I want it to be great. I have an Xbox Series X that I love and would love to be able to play Xbox Game Pass games on my iPhone or in my office on my Mac. But it's just not where I want it to be. It can work in some cases but not most. Watch the video and I'll show you the issues I had, and decide for yourself. 0:00 - Xbox Cloud Gaming is here! 1:23 - Tests on iOS (iPhone over WiFi) 3:05 - Tests on Mac (Chrome over WiFi) 5:37 - Tests on PC (Chrome over LAN) 7:11 - The web app itself MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Apple Discord NSFW server BAN and why iMessage will never come to Android Discord is age-gating NSFW servers (GREAT) and hiding them ENTIRELY on iOS because Apple asked them too (NOT GREAT). This Apple/Discord NSFW server ban is just like all the other ridiculous attempts to make the Internet have less sex. It's silly, and it has (SURPRISE) antitrust implications. You thought we were going to talk about a ban in the Apple Discord app and NOT talk about App Store policies and antitrust? 0:00 - Apple making Discord hide NSFW servers on iOS 0:44 - Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?! 1:50 - Queer people will be affected first 2:13 - What about your Parler video, Matt? 2:35 - You can't do Discord on iOS on the web 3:00 - Apple's iOS app distribution monopoly 4:07 - Switching costsssss MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Apple Arcade - April 2021 - It’s FINALLY worth it! There are 30 new Apple Arcade games and they’re GREAT! We got Cozy Grove recently, but now we have Fantasian, Good Sudoku + and other Zach Gage titles, and a Platinum title called World of Demons. If you find yourself wondering “Is Apple Arcade worth it?”, it finally is. Consider this my 2021 Apple Arcade Review. 0:00 - Apple saved Arcade 0:33 - The news 2:00 - Apple's Arcade strategy in 2021 MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Fantasian - Apple Arcade - Review of the first five hours Hironobu Sakaguchi, Final Fantasy creator, has released a new game EXCLUSIVE to Apple Arcade called Fantasian. It's a throwback to the Square Enix FF7 era, but its setting is entirely made of PHYSICAL DIORAMAS. This is how I feel about the game including the issues with iCloud saves that I encountered trying to play an Apple Arcade game on Mac, iPhone, AND iPad (but not Apple TV). 0:00 - PHYSICAL SETS 0:30 - The Good 4:18 - The Bad MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

What happens if Microsoft buys Discord?! Rumor is, Microsoft buying Discord is a thing that might happen. Will Microsoft buy discord? If so, what does that mean for the future of Discord? Will we see it shut down like we saw Microsoft shut down Mixer? Here's my take. 0:00 - Microsoft buying Discord?! 0:51 - What I think will happen 1:07 - 1st option - Mixer and Sunrise 2:10 - 2nd option - Xamarin and HockeyApp 3:26 - 3rd option - Github and games studios 4:52 - Bonus option MY LINKS Find MY Discord, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD

Hogwarts Legacy Character Creation and J. K. Rowling's Transphobia In this video, I talk to two trans people about the news that the video game Hogwarts Legacy could have trans options in its character creator. This Hogwarts Legacy news paired with J. K. Rowling's notorious transphobia had my brain flying around, but I didn't want to share my own opinions on Hogwarts Legacy, JK Rowling, and the news surrounding them. I wanted to ask trans folks what they thought. AC's Twitter - https://twitter.com/acfacci Hope's links - https://linktr.ee/ohthereshope 0:00 - Why we're here 0:30 - The controversy 3:19 - A conversation with AC & Hope 3:33 - Tell me about your HP fandom... 6:21 - What is your fandom like in 2021? 10:39 - On death of the author 14:03 - What do you think about the character creator? 21:57 - Troy Leavitt 23:48 - Will you play Hogwarts Legacy? 26:29 - My decision MY LINKS Find my Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, and Discord at https://matthorton.live MB01XIRFX2S97ZD