Overthinking Games
Overthinking Games is a podcast about what video games can teach us. We look at video games through an educational and critical lens.
Overthinking Games
Ep 77: Coping
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Episode 77
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Coping
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Intro
What we've been playing this week
Brett: No One Lives Under the Lighthouse
Seth: Vampire Survivors
Seth: Minecraft
Seth: Conflict 47
Dempsey: No One Lives Under the Lighthouse
Dempsey: Hogwarts Legacy
Dempsey: Katamari Damacy
Topic: How have games taught us how to cope?
Have games given you a transferrable coping mechanism in real life?
Celeste
Outer Wilds
The SoulsBorne Games
Silksong
Gaming as a safe place to practice consequence and failure
Seth does not like mnemonic devices
Roguelikes being "pick 3" games
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Final thoughts and outro