Back to playing video games, this time with my friend Ing, who is a biomedical engineer working on biomechatronics, and has been recommending some great video games I should try out. I might do more of these kind of videos with friends and podcast guests if it's of interest. The banter makes the game even more fun. Let me know if you have game suggestions.

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
4:45 - Braveheart
13:28 - Snow
23:24 - Bank robbery
26:00 - Cyborgs
33:25 - BBQ
43:11 - Chocolate
48:36 - Cocaine Bear
54:25 - Meaning of life

We're playing Red Dead Redemption 2, a game that my good friend Ng has recommended.

We met in Austin, but she's now in Boston, Cambridge, working on exoskeletons.

And robotic limbs, which in the future I guess would be Cyborgs.

Because I thought it was just going to be Grant off the auto on a horse.

If we played free play we could find a random horse and train it.

Yeah but it's cool that the horse gets tired, you have to take care of it.

Just the harsh conditions of snow as a good as a start of the story is incredible You're laughing because there's a picture of me on the internet on a horse.

Okay, I'm not sure this is going to be a lot of shooting.

All I did is I played it for like 5 more minutes and I shot the wolves that were attacking.

Yeah, it was 5 minutes because it was just 1 little chase, but it took me like 3 attempts.

Because I was trying to get better at aiming.

It was like a year and a half ago, I think.

I came to visit some friends, And that was at a coffee shop and we ran into each other.

And that was, and since then, and when did you go to MIT?

Okay, so how do you do the, you know, like you can swap through the different guns you have?

How do you think you could flip through it?

I use fist bro Okay, but the revolver might be enough.

Okay approach our horse I think it's more entertaining when you play this.

It just, the views of it, it's not really first person.

It's not as pleasant for playing the game but it's pleasant for watching someone else play.

Just for the record we're both noobs at this game but it's more fun this way.

Everything else, including Cole, can wait.

I don't think these guys are in touch with their feminine side.

Just everything they're doing is like the most masculine.

Look, 3, a kilt, probably, no, or a skirt.

I mean, it's pretty aggressive to buy 1, but-

I mean, I don't wear a skirt in the winter.

Would I get kicked out of like Planet Fitness if I wore a kilt?

I mean, well you have to think about it this way.

Like, would I get kicked out of Planet Fitness if I wore a skirt to the gym?

You would make sounds while you're wearing heels?

I'll paint my face blue, whatever, and stripes.

No, he does a speech where they're the underdogs and they have to fight the British and he basically says like, we can run and keep our lives or we can stand here and fight for our freedom And the question is, you have to imagine years from now when you're in your deathbed and you're looking back, would you come back here for just 1 more chance to fight instead of fleeing?

Sometimes you have to put your life on the line.

I was talking to my nephew about this recently.

So he plays, I think it's called Minecraft.

And he knows a way of like escaping whatever conflict he's in so that he doesn't have to face it.

And I told him that in life, it's really important to be brave because you can't always run away from your problems.

Should I take the lead or should I send the gang?

Take the lead, send the gang, send the gang.

I didn't see the dot This screen is humongous.

Yeah, it's ridiculous Should I bring the thing closer?

Well, this is getting real hold on how do I crouch again

Sometimes you have to put just like you said you have to put your life on the line.

Yeah, because restarting the mission, we're going

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Lex Fridman plays Red Dead Redemption 2