1 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Smith and welcome Stephane. Never 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: told your protection of iHeart Radio. Annie. I can't believe 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: I have to do this, but here is a bit 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: of a content warning for this episode of the Monday Minny, 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: which we're talking about games and phone games. But yeah, 6 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: content warning, y'all. There is brief mention of miscarriages, domestic violence, 7 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: sexual situations, and then some like I can't believe we're here, 8 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: but yes we are, and honestly because I am going 9 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: to describe some of the situations that I am alluding to. 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: So this is again I'm not going to go in 11 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: depth like as in like I'm gonna give you pictures, 12 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna describe it so that you understand my 13 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: confusion in this episode. I know, I'm I'm leading into 14 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: this mysterious episode to to this higher degree of like 15 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: what is happening? So hopefully I build it up so 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: much that you're disappointed, because, to be honest, I'm disappointed 17 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: in these add people. But as an introvert as you know, uh, 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: and still trying to acknowledge there is things happening, as 19 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: in the pandemic, as in COVID, as in so many 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: other things that is happening in real life. I've been 21 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: caught up in phone games because yes, I have been 22 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: staying home for the most part. I do try to socialize, 23 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: but the pandemic in the quarantine has put me in 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: such a safe space of being alone in my house. Yeah, 25 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: I have not tried to escape it at any point. Really, really, honestly, 26 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: um and as most of you know already, I love 27 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: these phone games. Phone games are the way of my escape. 28 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: And we've been talking about it this for a minute. 29 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: Whether it has been about misleading ads, which I'm like, 30 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: what is happening with this mysterious grandma hiding her in 31 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: the basement that no one knows about? And whether or 32 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: not who who is exactly is writing these games again 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: that have this sensual plot lines but obviously center around 34 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: women as being the lead and caring about women. So 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, it's just misleading, but I like it. 36 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: And honestly, I've been noticing some disturbing ads for these games. 37 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: And as in fact, when we talked about one of 38 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: the Monday minis and we talked about the games that 39 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: I've been caught up in, we had a writer email 40 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: 's say, have you seen these ads. I've been really 41 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: disturbed by these mistogynistic ads and I'm like, yes, what 42 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: is happening. I don't get it either. And one of 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: them was like Project Makeover. I believe it is the game. 44 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: And when I first I had actually played this game. 45 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: When I first saw it, just was like, can you 46 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: do better? I was like, okay, coo, coo, cool, let 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: me try these things. Okay, it's a baker trying to 48 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: redesign ourselves and get her shop up and going I 49 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: can do this. And it's a match three game. Cool, 50 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: that's it. But as of recent as this writer has said, 51 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: it shows her being cheated on and covered in mud 52 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: and trying to get revenge on her husband. And that 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: is never a plot line to any of these games, 54 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: but it has gone two to three to ten steps further. 55 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: Any Like, I think I sent you a screenshot right 56 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: you did, so just a caveat for people. I find 57 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: this so fascinating for multiple reasons. But as a as 58 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: someone who plays a lot of video games, you, Samantha 59 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: are my touchstone of what's happening in the mobile phone 60 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: game world. And we had this listener right in. We 61 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: read their message on a Monday, many about we're getting 62 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: these as so many ads about and need to shave 63 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: your legs or whatever, and it's a game, and I 64 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: wanted to know more about it. You were already kind 65 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: of familiar, but you dove deep for this episode. But yeah, 66 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: you sent me these screenshots that were just strange and 67 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: bizarre to me of like a woman who's emitting odor 68 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: and and there's nothing that I can do dissolve it. Yeah, 69 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: that means their life is ruined and they're a terrible 70 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: trash person. I got they're a terrible trash person. That 71 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: is the statement that it is. Yeah, Because honestly, let 72 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: me start from the beginning. So I am very much 73 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: into phone games. When it comes to phone games, Best Feends, 74 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: which was a previous sponsor, which maybe a feature sponsor, 75 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: is a good game. It's a mesh three game. You 76 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: get to try to get all these uh points and 77 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: try to go to the next level. I know a 78 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: lot of I heart FAM does this because again they 79 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: were a sponsor for us, so complete open book for that. Um. 80 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: I enjoyed this game to the point that I try 81 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: to compete with Ben and Lauren, and I realized, especially 82 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: when it comes to Lauren, I could not keep up. 83 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: I could not keep up. But it's fine. This is fun. 84 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: And I absolutely said the little slugs and fiends that 85 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: were the we're supposed to defeat, I think they're the 86 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: good guys and I'm playing the bad guys. Which is 87 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: a whole different conversation in itself. Oh my god, it 88 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: sounds like I'm doing a plug. But I really enjoy 89 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: a good phone game because I love being distracted a 90 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: little bit when I'm watching TV or doing something. Because, 91 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: as we previously spoke about, when it comes to movies, 92 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: you need to tell me about the bad things. So 93 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: if I'm half distracted, I need a multitask. It helps 94 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: me focus as well. It's a weird thing I do. 95 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: I do a very I have a very bizarre take 96 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: on my attention span. I don't like console gaming. I 97 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: can't figure out these buttons to save my life. I 98 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: don't understand how to shoot, or to jump up or 99 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: to run. And he knows we've played Mario Kart and 100 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: I fall off the edge often. Often that's part of 101 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: the game of me announcing how many times I've fallen 102 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: off the track. So the phone games are easier for me. 103 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: The puzzle games are easier for me, and I feel 104 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: like it is in my hands. I can do it 105 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: and move on. Oftentimes, with these games, especially if they're free, 106 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: you have to watch ads to get bonus points, to 107 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: get to the next step, to get to whatever. And 108 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm fine by this, but the ads have 109 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: been disturbing. And I will say two games that have 110 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: been pushing boundaries recently. I don't know, maybe it's been happening, 111 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: I just never noticed that it hasn't come to my 112 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: feed have nothing to do with the actual game, which 113 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, because they have actually been penalized 114 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: by the industry for misleading ads. I think we've talked 115 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: about this before. When it comes to our ads and sponsorships, 116 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: we have to be pretty open and TikTok influencers have 117 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: to be really open or they get fined large amounts 118 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: of money. I guess maybe coming to gaming, you don't 119 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: have that same level yet because technology is always exceeding 120 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: the rules and the boundaries right and the actual restrictions. 121 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: But um, some of the examples I want to talk 122 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: about come from Solitaire Home Decor, and yeah, I'm going 123 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: to call them out because that is. They have been 124 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: probably the most disturbing of the actual ads, as well 125 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: as Project Makeover, which we just mentioned previously. There are 126 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: several others where they have very loosely clad women being 127 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: need of rescue, like it's just it's just odd. I 128 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: think that one of them is a zombie game, zombie 129 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: survivor game where all the men are chubby and well 130 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: dressed while the women are scantily clad being needing to 131 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: be rescued. So I don't understand that. I do understand, 132 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: but I wish you didn't. So here are some examples 133 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: that I told you I was going to describe one 134 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: of them, okay, and I sent this to you as 135 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: a screenshot, aye, because I was like, what is happening? 136 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: A couple is having sexy times? Okay, weird odd enough 137 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: as it is. Um, he's rubbing on her above her clothes, 138 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: and I say, rubbing on her and she peas on him, 139 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: and you see this, and he smacks her and throws 140 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: her out, which leads to her going to an abandoned 141 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: shelter and you have to play solitaire to build up 142 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: her home. Another one in which there I guess doing 143 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: a sexy time. I'm trying to record these, y'all. I 144 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: just figured out how to do a screenshot recording because 145 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: I knew pictures, but I couldn't figure out how and 146 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: I can't get it in time. But they're standing together 147 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 1: in the bathroom and she peas on him, and I 148 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: believe he pushes her out the door and then she 149 00:08:54,320 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: has to do the same thing. Um. There's also the one, 150 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: really I just saw today and I was like, what 151 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: essentially was that she discovers he is cheating in her bathroom. 152 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: So you see a woman straddling a man on the toilet. 153 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: They're fully dressed. I guess thank God for that. I 154 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: don't know. And so she plays Solitaire to do a 155 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: rat infestation so it scares them both and then to 156 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: have diarrhea. So you see her having diarrhea while she's 157 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: sitting on him and poops everywhere, and it comes back 158 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: to want more, more revenge, keep playing. Wow. Okay, so 159 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: those are all like, what the hell is this game? 160 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: Dinninet is really really disturbing. There's another one, and I 161 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: don't know what game this one is, so I can't 162 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: blame it on this one, in which there you see 163 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: a couple a woman just had a baby that she's 164 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,599 Speaker 1: in the hospital in the bed, the father hells the 165 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: baby while he showing it off to the parents. She 166 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 1: drops a glass because she's thirsty and reaching for it, 167 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: and he comes over and slaps her, saying, how dare 168 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: you disturb us? So I was like, what the are 169 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: you kidding me? Another one? And I haven't seen this one, 170 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: but apparently this was like to the point that it 171 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: got on Reddit. It got on a lot of message 172 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: boards like what is this in which TikTok advertised for 173 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: this same solitaire home design game where a woman who 174 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: is pregnant comes and confronts the mistress. The mistress pushes 175 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: her off the balcony, causing a miscarriage and instead of blood, 176 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: you see like white liquid. So at least they I 177 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: guess since her that, um, and that's the implication. So 178 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, are you kidding me? With these ads? Um? 179 00:10:53,679 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: What is happening there? At this level to the point 180 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: that they finally I think reached to take it off 181 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: of TikTok and this is and I haven't seen any 182 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 1: of the game ads for me, thank god, because I 183 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: think I'd be disturbed. But it's when I play my 184 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: games my phone has now where it's a specific section 185 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: with all my games, and above it, as you're trying 186 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: to find your games and look through what you have, 187 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: there's an ad that plays above it, which is fine, 188 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: you can ignore it, but it's so disturbing to see 189 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: like domestic violence play out. You see so many situations. 190 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: At one point they're in a hot air balloon Sarah's 191 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: design to believe making out. You think it's a cute, 192 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: little romantic moment. He pushed this her out to try 193 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: to kill her of the horror balloon and she said vives. 194 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 1: You're like great, I guess. But this level of advertising, 195 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: which again none of these scenarios d eos happened, none 196 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: of them within the games, but they create those that's 197 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 1: quite strange. It's just so disturbing. And I made you 198 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: watch because someone actually didn't get a screen grab recording 199 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: and put it on Twitter, like what is happening with 200 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: these games? Thank god, thank you to the person who 201 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: did that, because I was like, I can't capture them 202 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: in time, like I don't, you can't watch repeatedly to 203 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: do the recording, which I don't want to. But it's 204 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 1: just such a weird level of advertising strategy that I 205 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: kind of figure out. I'm trying to figure out why 206 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: why they are doing this. And again, the games like 207 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: Project Makeover never did that until recently, and it may 208 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 1: be try to pick up and I will say that 209 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: ratings had gone down a star or half a star, 210 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: I think, which may be telling. And several of the 211 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: countries I've noticed it. So in the UK, the Advertising 212 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Standards Authority actually banned few ads like these due to 213 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: the misleading and sexualizations of these ads. So that's I 214 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: guess the good news. UM, But there's so many games 215 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: that come out and do and so many ads like 216 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: this that it's not being controlled or actually being monitored. UM. 217 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: In the US, I haven't seen has done anything about this. 218 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: I know that there was at least one game where 219 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: it depicted a possible rape scenario. UM was banned from 220 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: Google play app because there were so many people like 221 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: what is happening? Because this has been actually directed to 222 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: anyone and everyone. So as a teenager who often plays 223 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 1: these phone games, again, playing games like the Best Fiends 224 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: which was for all ages, and or a match game 225 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: which is for all ages, I think I did one 226 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: that was called like Toy, something like so you're supposed 227 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: to do blocks and stuff and it's a cute little 228 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: toy animation. That's it was. We're having these ads without 229 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: being monitored, and one of the big conversations is what 230 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 1: are the governments, what are the regulations and these Why 231 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: are people paying attention? Um? Because it was pretty horrifying again, 232 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: all these domestic violent situations. Many of these games start 233 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: off with women being pregnant, being left and being told 234 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: they're not worth anything and to do your by yourself. 235 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: Several of the games have like orphan kids trying to 236 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: make it out or they die. You're like, what is 237 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: going on? And of course many of people like, why 238 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: are you doing this? This does not seem like a 239 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: smart brand for you? Especially I don't know this for sure. 240 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: A majority of players are probably women and children, um, 241 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: and I haven't seen those numbers yet, So why would 242 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: you direct this at many of the people? I got 243 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: the directive? So there's a trick what they do where 244 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: the person playing, So you're not playing as a robot 245 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: the random finger who does really badly to the point 246 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: of like, surely the god is not that hard? This 247 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: they've gotten me like this can't be that hard, and 248 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: I've downloaded the two games and one game has stayed 249 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: on put. I was like, okay, so they that stuff works. 250 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: But the games that I have, like, oh, she did 251 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: these things, so I left her. I will never click 252 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: on those. I will never click on this. The merge 253 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: game that I had we talked about where the Grandma, 254 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: which um Kathy bakes actually did an add four like 255 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: she signed on to do an AD to play the Grandma. 256 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: I tried it. You spent too much money, it was 257 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: too slow, but it had not They were one of 258 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: the first ones to be accused of trying this trickery 259 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: because the game had nothing to do with that, like 260 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: there was no mysterious building. They had gotten such huge critiques, 261 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: and that they added in side quests that were similar 262 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: to the ads. I will say that, so I've seen 263 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: that play, but none of those were as offensive to 264 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: me as all of these sexist, really violent and over 265 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: sexualized ads. How can Solitaire do any of this? Yeah, 266 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: it's disturbing that that's what they would go with for 267 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: the AD to draw you in. UM. It's disturbing a 268 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: game like that could exist in the first place. UM, 269 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: because there are horrific games in the concile world. That 270 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: are they were designed by gamer Gate dudes who are 271 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: super mad about gamer Gate, and it's all about raping 272 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: women they don't like and those get taken down, um, 273 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: which they should. But they didn't really advertise on that level. 274 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's bad, it's all around bad. 275 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: These games shouldn't exist, but I'm surprised that their advertising 276 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: technique is on the same level. Yeah, like, oh, this 277 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: will draw people, and that's disturbing. It's so disturbing that 278 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: this again, So I will say, of course this has 279 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: a lot to do with money. We know that has 280 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: a lot to do with money. And the last two 281 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: years and mobile gaming has increased by six Um, I'm 282 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: sure the pandemic had a lot to do with it. 283 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: And then it has three point three times more usage 284 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: that people are more likely to play than those at 285 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: home console games. So I get that this is a 286 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: big money market if you can get it just right. However, 287 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: the question is why do these types of ads when 288 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: it's not even the type of game, So you're drawing 289 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: in the wrong crowd. Maybe not, because maybe they're the 290 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: ones that will pay the extra money to get more options, 291 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: but at the same time, there's a conversation of like 292 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: whether or not the person who are choosing these ads 293 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: allow these games, allow these ads onto their games because 294 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: their games that you're actually playing seems so much better 295 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: than what is being advertised. UM, so you're more willing 296 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 1: to stick with it. I don't know. There's this whole 297 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: level of conversations like what is the point in this? 298 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: Who who is profiting off of this? Um? I know, 299 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,239 Speaker 1: I don't know if we talked about it. Recently, there 300 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: was an article coming out that a lot of podcast networks, 301 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: including Hours, have been using games which you have to 302 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: get rewards, So therefore you'll get a thirty second clip 303 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: of an ad to get more access to something better 304 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: to the game. Um, and they use podcast clips which 305 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: counts us downloads, which is the whole trickery in itself 306 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: that we haven't talked about. UM that that's this level 307 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: of Okay, this is a whole marketing capitalistic ideal, but 308 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: why use these tactics? And I can't figure it out. 309 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: I can't figure it out. There's no real conversation other 310 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: than this is bad. So maybe there's someone out there 311 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: who can come on the slide and talk to us 312 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: about this conversation of like, we're going to use these 313 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: ad tactics in order to sell games. Again, I will 314 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: never play solitary home design. I'm telling y'all, if this 315 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: is offensive to you, don't play it because that is 316 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: so disgusting. It is such a disgusting way of trying 317 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: to implement anything. Why are you literally using women suffering 318 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 1: to promote a game and just because it's animated cute 319 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: doesn't make it better. Yeah, it's It feels kind of 320 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: like you know, when people would use some nails on 321 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: on YouTube, and they'd be like, always put a woman 322 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: and her you know, in her bra or whatever on 323 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: the thumb nail, even if that's on the video because 324 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: it will attract you, or always use these tactics which 325 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: usually do involve women in pain or women sexualized as 326 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: people will click on that. More So, I do think 327 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: it's a larger societal problem, um and I do think 328 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: there are ways to hand ndal, maybe not these storylines 329 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: with storylines of women's pain in games in a in 330 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: a way that is useful, conductive. Two more conversation that 331 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: is um needed. But if you're just using it as 332 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: a way to get people to buy the game, and 333 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: all it is is saying it's reinforcing all of this misogynistic, sexist, 334 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: gross gamifying essentially sexism. Then that's that's a real problem, 335 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: right and it is And I'm I want an answer honestly, 336 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: because we get like it went from oh, this is 337 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: funny to what is happening? Why how did we get 338 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: here in this day and age for a damn game 339 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: on Solitaire? Like it just it doesn't make sense in 340 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: which the marketing people are like, this is completely normal, 341 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: and okay, let's let's put an ad where we show 342 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: of a pregnant woman in off of a balcony and 343 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: see how many clicks we get, Like, are you kidding me? Sure, 344 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: we're talking about it, but I'm also saying, don't get it, 345 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: don't don't play Solidaire Home Design, don't do it because 346 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: it is disgusting and I don't understand how that they 347 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: think they're profiting um And I will say, even the 348 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: tame ones that don't have all of that still involved 349 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: women suffering. So a couple of the games that I've 350 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,479 Speaker 1: seen that I liked have either been women who are 351 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: recently getting divorced or women who have left been left 352 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 1: at the Altar, which is still kind of like, but 353 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: why why do we need this? So the game that 354 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: I really liked and I still play Lily's Garden, it 355 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: starts off with that, and that is a scenario. They're 356 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: not misleading you. At the very beginning, it shows her 357 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: her ending her engagement because he cheated on her, and 358 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: so she deciding to go and finding out that her 359 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: aunt has loved her in whole estate. She has to 360 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: put it together back again, um in order to keep 361 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: it the type right, and you have to do a 362 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: match three game great storyline to the point that I'm like, oh, 363 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: I like this. There's a there's a queer couple that 364 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: you don't know it's queer. They never say it out loud, 365 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: which is a whole problem in itself, but it's cute 366 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: and I like it. So I've played it okay, but 367 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: I still don't get why we needed to start with 368 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: Lily being really sad and they've actually gone beyond that 369 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: story setting to her love interest in the story in 370 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: the game two in the as cheating on her with 371 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: the best friend who the best friend is insinuated as queer. 372 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, why are you doing this? 373 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: Lily's garden. You don't need to do this, but yeah, 374 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: I found a few game Jigsaw Puzzle Villa, which I 375 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 1: say us on screenshot because I was like, oh, here 376 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: we go, because I've been digging into these games. I'm 377 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: not even playing UM, which has a divorced woman who 378 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: seems to be more middle aged. So that's nice to 379 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: see because all of them have been very young. Uh 380 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, okay, who is a jigsaw puzzling 381 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: champion of the United States, goes to an international competition, 382 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: goes to a villa and helps renovate it by doing 383 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzles. I actually did a sixty piece on that 384 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: to get all these points. I really too. I'm not 385 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: gonna I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. But you get 386 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: to do this and you renovate the home and that's 387 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: how you get the points. And the storyline is she 388 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: goes to this woman who is a jigsaw puzzle champion 389 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: I believe in Spain UM and they are having a 390 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: big competition and while she says she's helping her renovate 391 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: her home, and you're seeing love loss stories, love stories, 392 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: and as it builds up, so I haven't gotten too 393 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: far into this, but I love puzzles, Andy, you love buggles, 394 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: so this was a nice rendition of that. But I 395 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: still understand why we have to just start off with 396 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: the story of her being divorced. Come on, she can 397 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: just enjoy a trip. But I've discovered a few more 398 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 1: since then June's journey, and I sent you this, which 399 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: is where you have to find all. This has nothing 400 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: to do with divorce. I will say that essentially, during 401 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: the Prohibition era, June comes in because her sister and 402 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: her brother in law are murdered and does this whole mystery, 403 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: So you have to go in get this mystery. The 404 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: graphics are pretty creat um. They don't care. Like people 405 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: are being shot left and right, and I'm like, what's happening? 406 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: A kid has been abandoned, they are traveling for art, 407 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: these like it is a whole thing. You play with 408 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: a team. I was made president after playing like for 409 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: a month, and I was like, what is don't put 410 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: me as president of this team. I had to rearrange 411 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: and like, talking to my little playmates, I'm say this 412 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: and that I have ever met them. I don't know 413 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,719 Speaker 1: them in person. I don't even know if they're real. 414 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm still wondering if their butts. Just trying to rearrange 415 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: some things for this competition that you do, and you 416 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: travel and you build up a whole island. It's a thing. 417 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: It's a seasonal thing. I have a whole Halloween village. 418 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: Halloween village, but I enjoy it. I haven't seen ads 419 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: for other than can you find these items? That's it. 420 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: It's pretty straightforward. I got into it. I'm really into 421 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: it now. I'm like, yeah, let me play. These games 422 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: has a little quest on the side where you just 423 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: try to find different items. I will say I've realized 424 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: I am not as smart as I thought I was, 425 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: because they will put terms and like like words and that. 426 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even know what this is? What 427 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: is this? They're a little bit dated, so I'm like, 428 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: I've had to yell out, do you know what this is? 429 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: What is this? Because I didn't. I didn't know, but 430 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: a good game would recommend. I have caught onto Love 431 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: and Pies. This is kind of like that Merge game 432 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: Merge Mansion that I mentioned before, in which you have 433 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: to do it with pie. So she has a bakery 434 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: that you have to get together. You come in. There's 435 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: no divorce in this one. I haven't seen the ads. 436 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: The only ad so that I've seen is this young 437 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: woman gets her her Amelia Guess her mother's pie store bakery, 438 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: in which a woman she finds an accidental hideout and 439 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 1: she has to open up the mysterious hide out to 440 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: see what's happening. That's one of the ads. Another ad 441 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: is she sees her mother handing out pies with jewels 442 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: in it, and so someone comes in brings a piece 443 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: of art. She gets a pie with jewels, so she's like, 444 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: what's happening, what's my mother doing? So that's the ads, 445 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: but in the actual episode, so you open it up 446 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: to her coming to the house with her daughter Kate, 447 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: who is dressed like a dinosaur. Super cute graphics by 448 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: the way, supercute art um and and he comes to 449 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: the house that which is burned down and they're trying 450 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: to figure out how it burned down, and there's a 451 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: rumor that her mother did it, but her mother's disappeared, 452 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: and she's like, what is happening. So she tries to 453 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: build this up by doing the merch game and selling pies. 454 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: Cute though and then like we are trying to figure 455 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: it out, there is a queer relationship which I really enjoy. 456 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: Her best friend, Yuka, I believe, is interested in a 457 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: woman reporter who's trying to ruin her life. Is uh. 458 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: There is a villain of a corporation trying to take 459 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: the small shop down. It's the whole thing, and her 460 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: uncle's spinn who's helping her. Oh, and then you get 461 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: a dog and you get to name it, and guess 462 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: what I name my dog? Yeah, I know you're so uh, 463 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: it's super cute. I'm enjoying this game. Um. And then 464 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: there's a couple of the I'm still doing choices that 465 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: that one like game untild you about the story time. 466 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: I'm still on it. I'm still playing it. Uh. Not 467 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: as great as one previously, but I still feel like 468 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: you know better than uh. Some Again, this is one 469 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: of those games where it was a really sexist ADS, 470 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: but it's not far off. At least it's not far off. 471 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: I will say that, and I say really sexist, and 472 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: that it just portrays a woman as of like she's 473 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: just a sex me. But in the stories is a 474 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: little deeper in which people will talk about that that's misleading. 475 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: Why don't you say that that's even better for me? 476 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: And then, of course wey Haven Chronicles, which you and 477 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: I did the first two books, and I'm still waiting 478 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: for my third one, Son of a Biscuit, still waiting. 479 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: We're here, but there you go. Those are my reviews 480 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: of some games. But also, someone tell me what's going 481 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: on with these ads? Yeah? Yeah, and if you I mean, 482 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: it's hard to describe unless you've actually seen a screenshot 483 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: of the ads, but they're pretty shocking. So thank you 484 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: Samantha for driving to the death of these I still 485 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: want you to play the jigsal one though I do 486 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: like a puzzle. We'll see, We'll see. Maybe I'll do 487 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: a follow up and listeners. If you have any experience 488 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: with any of these things, please write in and let 489 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: us know our emails. Stephanie your mom Stuff at I 490 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: hurt me dot com. 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