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5 min read“I wish Summer Games Fest had become mainstream so I didn't have to explain what it is,” Jason Schreier says during a mailbag episode of Triple Click, a moment that captures the episode’s broader theme: the gap between gaming culture and the rest of the world. The hosts—Maddie Myers, Jason Schreier, and Kirk Hamilton—field listener questions about introducing kids to video games, aging out of hard games, gaming terms that should be mainstream, decade-old DLC wishes, and the origin of Kirk’s theme song for the Defector podcast. The throughline is the friction between gaming’s internal logic and everyday life, whether that means parenting, physical decline, or language.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:03) **Opening & Listener Mailbag Introduction** - The hosts introduce the episode, a mailbag episode answering listener questions about screen time, age, and dogs.
- 2 (04:01) **Dog in Video Games & The Switch 2 Whine** - A listener's dog leaves the room when the Switch 2 is played; the hosts debate the best video game dogs.
- 3 (09:00) **Introducing Kids to Video Games: Screen Time vs. Play Time** - A parent of a toddler asks how to balance limiting screens with sharing a love of video games.
- 4 (18:09) **Bad Bunny Super Bowl Wedding** - A listener shares that his cousin got married during the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show.
- 5 (22:16) **Getting Older & Struggling with Hard Games** - A 50-year-old gamer asks for advice on enjoying tough games (like *Bloodborne*, *Silk Song*) as reflexes slow.
- 6 (32:18) **Gaming Terms That Should Be Mainstream** - A listener asks for gaming terms the hosts wish were common slang.
- 7 (37:02) **DLC for Decade-Old Games** - With news of a *Witcher 3* DLC, the hosts pick games they'd want new DLC for.
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Show Notes
Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the listener mailbag to answer some of your questions! When should you let kids start playing video games? What gaming terms should be more mainstream? And what do you do when you're just too old for this shit?
One More Thing:
Kirk: Hunchback (Saou Ichikawa)
Maddy: How To Get To Heaven From Belfast
Jason: Pokopia
LINKS:
The archived version of “Cereal In My Mouth,” the dog.gawker.com post, is very difficult to find these days but Kirk will probably post a version of it to the Triple Click Discord
NYT coverage of the couple who got married at Bad Bunny’s halftime show
Kirk’s theme song for “The Distraction” - Bandcamp/YouTube
“It’s Too Late” by Bob Mould from Black Sheets of Rain, 1990
“Go” (Last Week Tonight Theme) by Valley Lodge from Use Your Weapons, 2013
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