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

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Speaker 1: I never told you your protection of iHeart Radio, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to another Monday Mini in which I have answers,

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Speaker 1: I have questions, I have thoughts, thanks to TikTok Dam's

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Speaker 1: Internet corners, which I've been calling it. I know it's

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Speaker 1: been a minute since I've updated you on my gaming experience.

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Speaker 1: Yes said it, um, and this time it comes with questions.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. Yeah. So first of all, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you the newest game that I've been obsessed with and

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Speaker 1: I'm loving right now, which is a Delicious World. And

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Speaker 1: it's one of those cooking simulator games where you have

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Speaker 1: to do these things and you travel the world. But

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Speaker 1: this one is so different. This one's storyline which I've

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Speaker 1: told you about Lily's Garden a little bit and kind

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Speaker 1: of faded from that one because it gets I sometimes

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Speaker 1: supposed to be free games. Um, so I'm like, oh no,

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Speaker 1: So I backed off on that one and played this one.

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Speaker 1: But this one is really interesting. So it's been around

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Speaker 1: for a while The newest rendition came out in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and apparently there's a whole level of variations. Like the

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Speaker 1: characters have been around, but they all look different, they

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Speaker 1: have different worlds, they have children, they've gotten married. I

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Speaker 1: have not made it that far. I have not made

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Speaker 1: it that far. What the beginning of this story is.

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Speaker 1: Emily is a little as a cute cook who went

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Speaker 1: to school in Paris. Met someone his name is Jean

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Speaker 1: moved back to the US before they could finalize their

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Speaker 1: love all these things. Turns out he has sent her

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Speaker 1: his love for her. Uh, this has been years and

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Speaker 1: so she gets this letter. Her mom, Evelyn, brings her

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Speaker 1: She gets this letter, so she realizes that she wants

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Speaker 1: all right, am I right? And so we travel with

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Speaker 1: All of these things. Um, you have side quests for

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Speaker 1: If someone who can explain this game to me, but

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Speaker 1: it's pretty deep. Also, we should say not currently a sponsor,

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Speaker 1: but give me some I don't pay money for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Although I have read this fan fiction pability. This is

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Speaker 1: Well obviously there's those very tropes up. But I'm like,

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Speaker 1: right row. So that's where I am with that story.

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Speaker 1: So if anybody else knows about the story, let me know. UM.

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Speaker 1: she needs to send us an update. She does it too, Amanda, Amanda,

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Speaker 1: so let's let us know. But now, okay, this is

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Speaker 1: Animal Crossing is considered a cozy game. How would makes

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Speaker 1: Cozy games are generally regarded as featuring a cute characters,

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Speaker 1: often anthropomorphic animals or childlike humans, who engage in in

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Speaker 1: with a vague goal of creative personalization and in game socialization.

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Speaker 1: And it goes on to say, but coziness is broader

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Speaker 1: beyond the whole sims idea, which I know nothing about

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