CeX

Can

you buy that everywhere? Can you go to CEX and buy that demo physical version?

I've seen it around online.

Yeah.

they don't sell them.

HMV doesn't sell them.

And it's like, and every other game shop shut down apart from CEX.

So in CEX, you're going to get secondhand, aren't you? So if any copies you see there are going to be secondhand copies, even if it's brand new.

I got rid of my grift.

I took it to CEX.

What did you do with the 50p?

It

And then it builds that kind of unhappiness, that loneliness, that, like you say, the lack of sincerity, that kind of film that comes over you, like the plastic wrap of pulse that's everywhere that kind of makes this blurry impression of a person rather than an actual... thing that you can reach out and touch um and i think that does build and build and build and then people end up having like six months off work for stress or like being diagnosed with depression or um you know anxiety being on the rise and i do think that's because we understand those things better but equally we're in a society that like fucking ramps them up as well by the nature of we're not all sitting around fires telling stories and sharing like music with each other like we're used to in back in the day or going to the pub on a friday night and seeing just who was there

no you made some great points there again i've got some multiple comments on that because that was really good yeah um first about like that idea of like even your habits it doesn't have to be interacting with other people it's kind of maybe how you interact with yourself and how you see yourself reflected in in technology let's say and you just sparked a memory there that's really kind of like crystallized for me you know when you're talking about I could just go out and buy that like right now or you know am I buying this because this curated algorithm has presented it to me I was in CEX a few years ago buying some bullshit game or whatever i don't know and i had a copy of this book called strange weather in tokyo while i was buying this game and this guy behind the counter he can we were having like some small talk and he was asking me if i'd if the book was any good and i was saying you know oh no like i've literally just bought it but i'm excited i'm gonna read it you know it's kind of like my thing he recommended me this this book like on the spot he was saying oh well if you like you know And this kind of style of Japanese fiction, why don't you go out and get like this book? And no joke, immediately straight home, bought it.

He'll never know this, never went back or anything.

But I think it's part of the idea of like, I was just so starved for like a bit of human curation for something that like just wasn't pushed on me.

aren't they? Yeah.

You know where you're better off going, mate? Let's get one decent nick from CEX, mate.

Or Kex.

Or Sex.

You know.

Yeah.

Like my brother and I, we've always just called it CEX.

CEX, isn't it? Yeah.

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