The Oh, Oh, The My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs. It is a Games Club podcast.

And this week we're talking about Plague Inc, which is a management sim developed and published by Endemic Creations for Mobile in 2012.

Yeah, it sounds like Yakov Schmernoff saying he's plaguing.

This is, you play as a disease, a contagion,

kind of controlling its evolution

and making sure that you infect the world and destroy all of humanity.

Yes.

Through that.

Bright sunshiny game.

I'm going to draw a line in the sand real quickly.

Was it just in terms of like no position on this. Yeah, I don't care about that at all. No, I just yeah. Yeah if somebody wanted to get mad at me for like get mad at us or get mad at me for like taking a disease thing, you know, lightly.

I don't fucking care. I, like, you know, COVID happened, we all live through it, I was affected by it,

everyone was affected by it, it sucks. This is pretend. Yeah. You know, I can't, these are just numbers. This is the least

boots on the ground game that we've ever played. There has never been anything more zoomed out than this. There is for a game

that is about destroying all humanity appropriately there is zero humanity in this.

And that's to its detriment.

Like you, you, it wants to, when this game is at its best,

you are enjoying the delicious fantasy of it.

Mm-hmm.

And that's it.

You know, like I cannot imagine having an emotion of any stripe

while playing this game. No emotions happened. Flatlined emotions. Yes. I bring up, you know, like the sunniness of it, more just a remark about that fantasy more than anything?

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