The finest minds in video games discuss The Sims 5, good sewer levels, and playing CD-i games with Eugene Levy. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

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  Computer Entertainer Magazine
  


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  CES
  


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  “Doot doodoot doot dootdoot dootdoot doodoooooooo!”
  


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  Abner Doubleday
  

1: Liz Ryerson asks, are there any actually good sewer levels? (03:05 )

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  Sewer Surfin’
  


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  Battletoads
  


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  Turbo Tunnel
  


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  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  


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  Bullet Witch
  


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  Bloodborne
  


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  Super Mario Bros.
  


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  Chulip
  


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  Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
  


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  Nihilist Arby’s
  


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  Superman (2025)
  

2: When are you personally motivated to replay a narrative-driven singleplayer game you’ve already finished? (08:33 )

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  Wild Arms
  


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  Indika
  


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  Koudelka
  


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  Final Fantasy VIII
  


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  Sonic the Hedgehog series
  


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  A’metafore: ReFantazio
  


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  Metal Gear Solid series
  


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  BioWare Edmonton
  


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  Fallout: New Vegas
  

3: How do we feel about continuing to update a game, instead of releasing a new one? (13:49 )

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  EA President Laura Miele Interview
  


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  The Sims 4
  


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  Minecraft
  


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  Overwatch
  


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  Overwatch 2 Story Missions
  


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  Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
  


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  Madden series
  


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  No Man’s Sky
  


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  Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn
  


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  Final Fantasy XI Online
  


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  Final Fantasy XV
  


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  Roblox
  


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  Fortnite
  

4: How would you design The Sims 5? (20:03 )

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  Grand Theft Auto series
  


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  SimCity
  


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  Keita Takahashi
  


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  to a T
  


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  Mark Zuckerberg
  


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  Soylent
  


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  Tespa
  

5: What role has playing video games had in your lives for making friends? (26:24 )

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  Dragon Age: Inquisition
  


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  tumblr
  


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  Vincent Diamante
  


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  Call of Duty series
  


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  The Wacky World of Miniature Golf with Eugene Levy
  


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  Eugene Levy
  


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  Left 4 Dead series
  


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  World of WarCraft
  


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  Final Fantasy XIV Online: Endwalker
  


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  Rachel Ignotofsky
  

6: What’s the deal with Stop Killing Games? (34:18 )

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  Stop Killing Games
  


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  Elon Musk
  


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  Ian Miles Cheong
  

7: What are your F.A.Q.s? (42:21 )

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  The Strong National Museum of Play
  


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  Paul Allen
  

LIGHTNING ROUND: Mad Men or Kingdom Hearts? (50:26 )

Recommendations and Outro (59:02 ):

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  Frank: Computer Entertainer, pirate The Naked Gun (2025) and the originals


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  Brandon: the first third of U.S. Marshals (1998), Buy Demonschool on September 3, 2025 (that’s pretty soon!), please tell streamers you like about the game


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  Ash: Buy porn, call Visa & Mastercard
  

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