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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I ever told your prediction of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another Monday Mini where I take over

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Speaker 2: and talk about cozy gaming. Yes, y'all is still around.

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Speaker 2: People still love it. We need to we need to

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Speaker 2: bring some experts on here. Actually, the creator of a

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Speaker 2: cozy game has been doing a campaign because her game,

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Speaker 2: I think was being released at the same time a

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Speaker 2: huge studio was releasing their stuff, so it kind of

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Speaker 2: like out coveraged her stuff to the point that she's

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Speaker 2: really upset about it. But she's got a one point

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Speaker 2: one million views and the game is named Potions Curious Tell,

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Speaker 2: which I am interested in looking at getting and it's

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Speaker 2: an indie game. I want to download it and I

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Speaker 2: want to get it. She's talking about how EA has

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Speaker 2: been releasing a lot of games at the same time

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Speaker 2: that she had planned, and she's been talking about it

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Speaker 2: for a minute, like I've seen this game. I've seen

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Speaker 2: her do really cute ads TikTok videos to try to

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Speaker 2: advertise it. She's done live action interpretations of what the

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Speaker 2: game looks like. So it's like a witchy game to Potions,

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Speaker 2: and I do want to try it, so I just

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Speaker 2: want to shut that game out there. I don't know

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Speaker 2: much about the developer. I don't know what about her.

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Speaker 2: I think her name is Renee, and I don't know

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Speaker 2: everything and the details behind it. I don't know about

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Speaker 2: much about the game. I do, like I said, I

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Speaker 2: want to look for it. It's available now, so I

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Speaker 2: will be looking for it. But you know, it does

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Speaker 2: make me sad when I see someone who's worked so

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Speaker 2: hard at content like this and gaming like this, especially

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Speaker 2: for an industry that is not welcoming to women or

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Speaker 2: marginalized people. So you know, I'm going to look into

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Speaker 2: it a little more. But just that put that on

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Speaker 2: so sideline as a beginner, because I feel like I

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Speaker 2: need to remind myself of going into.

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Speaker 3: These games, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, okay, But today I'm pretty much just

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Speaker 2: talking about cozy games, not necessarily phone games, because you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with phone games and I play that a lot.

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Speaker 2: But I've picked back up the switch, y'all. I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna lie. My Island from Animal Crossing looks really bad.

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Speaker 2: Flowers everywhere, all the weeds everywhere. I here's the thing,

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Speaker 2: and I've confessed to this before. I've figured out two

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Speaker 2: things about my dislikes in video gaming and gaming in general.

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Speaker 2: You know, if it's too complicated and I have to

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Speaker 2: compete and have to kill things, I'm not good at it.

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Speaker 2: So I don't like that. If you don't give me objectives,

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Speaker 2: I'm not good about creating. I am not a very

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Speaker 2: creative person. Like there are things that I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 2: this is what I want to do when it comes

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Speaker 2: to speaking and writing that makes sense to me. When

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Speaker 2: it comes to actual like art visual arts, I am

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Speaker 2: not good. I really wish I was. I'll like some

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Speaker 2: of the pictures that I do as a kid probably

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Speaker 2: But it's okay because I'm not just say that's how

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Speaker 2: all of that to say. So, now that I finish

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Speaker 2: all the objectives with animal crossing, you know they tell

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Speaker 2: you to do this, they tell you to fill the museums.

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Speaker 2: So I've gotten all of the bones. All the bones

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Speaker 2: are there, I'm done with that. I haven't gotten all

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Speaker 2: the bugs, and I haven't gotten all of the uh

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Speaker 2: like creatures see creatures because you know they're seasonal, and

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Speaker 2: so since I'm not on it every day, like for

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Speaker 2: a minute that I was, I can't get to them.

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Speaker 2: Like we're back to the season I originally started with,

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Speaker 2: which I've gotten all of those things, so now I

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Speaker 2: I just have to wait. So like with that, and

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Speaker 2: then you're supposed to build the island and make it

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Speaker 2: look pretty, I don't know how to do that. My

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Speaker 2: friend shout out to Matt, he has the best island

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Speaker 2: I have ever seen, like it is, so I did

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Speaker 2: as he should, because I didn't know how to get

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Speaker 2: the material out without busting it because I didn't realize

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Speaker 2: when you eat the fruit, it makes you super strong.

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Speaker 2: I figured it out now, but like one of the

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Speaker 2: best islands I've seen, and then when you you know,

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Speaker 2: when you can go to sleep and go visit other islands,

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Speaker 2: they put my island to shade.

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Speaker 3: It's so bare.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want it to be too built up.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to be a retreated like island. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so my animal crossing is not great.

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Speaker 3: Danny, you should see my island.

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Speaker 2: I need to come visit. Did you build it up?

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Speaker 2: Is it built up?

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Speaker 3: Its built up? I got the five stars, I got

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Speaker 3: the flowers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, five stars. You want to come build my island?

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Speaker 3: It's Star Wars based island. Surprise.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I have before I complete. I just

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Speaker 1: have four, no, three, three art pieces left. I've done

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Speaker 1: everything else you've done.

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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten the art pieces either, now that you

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Speaker 2: say that art pieces take forever, yeah, because you have

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Speaker 2: to go buy the and then you have to, like

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Speaker 2: I do the cheating and try to make sure they're real.

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Speaker 2: So I go through the phone to find which ones

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Speaker 2: because I've been I've been duped, You've been. I've been

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Speaker 2: duped twice.

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Speaker 3: It's not nice.

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Speaker 2: It's not nice.

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Speaker 3: You know if I ever told you this, but.

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Speaker 1: One of your I never have had the heart to

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Speaker 1: kick someone off my island. One of your people that

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Speaker 1: you kicked off your islands.

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Speaker 3: Came to me. How did you find that out?

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Speaker 1: Because it said they came from there.

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Speaker 2: Now I did kick them off. I think it's like

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Speaker 2: they are asking. I just want to try. I just

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Speaker 2: wanted a grand adventure, and I didn't know what that meant.

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, go for it. Because that's that's

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Speaker 2: the way you respond and like it's an encouraging thing.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't realize what it would do.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, damn, I did kick off a wolf

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Speaker 2: because he was mean to me.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 2: Like just criticizing me.

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Speaker 4: I was like, damn, what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: I will not have that on my island, bad energy.

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Speaker 3: Going, You've got some standard, You've got some standards.

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Speaker 2: You can't be mean to me on my own island.

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Speaker 2: How dare you? So?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 2: I think I kicked out two people, and like one

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Speaker 2: of those on purpose. One was on like, oh, I

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Speaker 3: So it sounds like the one you didn't know what

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Speaker 2: Is it the dogs?

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Speaker 3: No, it's a oh would that be sheep of some kind?

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you've kicked out more people than you know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what it said when she showed up, like this, Wow.

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Speaker 2: They're telling on me. You know.

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Speaker 3: That was the thing.

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Speaker 2: Now that is like a whole shape factor.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, Well.

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Speaker 2: So that is my animal crossing update because I'm really

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Speaker 2: I'm really bad about trying to build up the land

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Speaker 2: and island and creating things and pathways, like I have

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Speaker 2: random things just hanging about. There's a locker in the

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Speaker 2: middle of nowhere because I just give me things. I

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Speaker 2: just want to get rid of it. There's a table

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Speaker 2: with a book on it, like I was like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what to do with this, just why so

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Speaker 2: we have that on my Island's.

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Speaker 1: Funny because when I visited your island, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'll never be I still but memory I have of

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Speaker 1: your island is better than my islands.

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Speaker 2: No that's not true. I don't know why. But it

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Speaker 2: it that way.

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Speaker 4: That's why.

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Speaker 3: Well, I liked it too.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I would be motivated one day, but like, it's

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Speaker 2: just I'm bad. Like there's a game that I played

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Speaker 2: on my phone that you also build your island and that,

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Speaker 2: and it's just crowded and it makes no sense. But

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Speaker 2: I have to have all this stuff on there so

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Speaker 2: I can get points. It makes no sense, but it's okay.

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Speaker 2: But here are some of the favorites that I have

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Speaker 2: been playing recently, and one of them is called Lemon

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Speaker 2: Cakes by Cozy b Games. Super Cute, super cute. So

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Speaker 2: this is the description that they have about their game.

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Speaker 2: It says, while the bakery might initially be broken, and

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Speaker 2: it is broken, overgrown, and even haunted, don't worry. You'll

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Speaker 2: be able to repair, furnish and decorate every room in

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Speaker 2: the bakery. Gather honey from your beehive, raise a cow

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Speaker 2: baked pastries, candies, and frozen desserts. Be sure to serve

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Speaker 2: so you don't miss out on any order. Serve coffee

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Speaker 2: everyone's day brighter. So I have been playing this game

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Speaker 2: essentially every day. It's like you quickly wake up, you

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Speaker 2: thumbs sore trying to keep up with all these, but

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Speaker 2: there's really cute cats that you can pet. I do

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Speaker 2: have some plants in a very broken greenhouse, but you

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Speaker 2: know it's working. You have to, like you don't get

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Speaker 2: a lot of money, or maybe I don't get a

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Speaker 2: lot of money because I'm not good at it. This

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Speaker 2: I don't like I've gotten four Like I've just gotten

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Speaker 2: four recipes that are pretty well done, two ovens that work,

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Speaker 2: and then like two ghosts that come to see me.

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Speaker 2: One ghost is the former owner Bond Bond, I believe,

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Speaker 2: and one ghost is a is an inspector and health inspector,

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Speaker 2: and he often tells me to catch bugs, and I

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Speaker 2: have to catch bugs, and I'm not really good at

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Speaker 2: that either because my aim is off apparently like what

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Speaker 2: I think I'm supposed to be aiming, I'm not supposed to.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of hard, but it's really cute. It's really

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Speaker 2: bright game. It has a daily objective for me to

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Speaker 2: like give out, so it's kind of like could be monomonous,

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Speaker 2: except you do get to buy cows to do like

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Speaker 2: the milking and such, and then you have the fruits

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Speaker 2: to add and then having the customers come through. It's

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Speaker 2: quite cute, and the thing is just mindless enough with

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Speaker 2: just the of activity that it's fun to play, So

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Speaker 2: it's not as it's it's Overcooked without partners and as

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Speaker 2: much stress I every time I've ever played Overcooked with

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Speaker 2: my partner. Thank goodness, he knows he's trying to make

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Speaker 2: me like games, so he would never be mean to me.

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Speaker 2: But because I'm like, I'm done, I'm over this.

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Speaker 1: Once when I was I was hanging out with you both,

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