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Merry Christmas, is it? We think there's probably still plenty to be merry about - Cyberpunk 2077, Ready Player Two, new Mandalorian... it's all jolly! Deck your halls, pull up a seat by the Netflix Fire and enjoy a nice warm glass of pod! Thanks as always to Tony Thaxton for our theme! Fling messages at us online: Ben @benjionelung - Tom @bytereview Be sure to check out Tom's really rather good tech review channel: https://bit.ly/2K232SP Pick up something nice for yourself at www.kirokuclothing.co.uk And listen to some pretty good music at www.benjionelung.com Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2W4AIoA Apple Podcasts: https://goo.gl/Y3JPBX Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3c9jSuj Subscribe on Youtube: https://bit.ly/2L4FSuE Direct Download: http://itsbup.libsyn.com IN THIS EPISODE: 01:40 Will this be the most depressing Christmas ever? 06:10 You wouldn't think robots could steal art. No way, it's the humans again. 09:10 Twitter says to play nice 10:40 Are we sick of monoliths yet? 15:00 Cyberpunk, is it good? It's... complicated 25:00 STADIA (we will die with that jingle in our ears) 32:00 Ready Player Two, in case you haven't had enough pop culture yet 47:00 Detectorists is worth digging up from 2015 50:00 Yeah, yeah, we're late to The Mandalorian Some things we talk about in this episode: Art theft bots on the prowl: https://www.facebook.com/DayWreckoning/posts/777916772724689 Twitter tests 'humanization prompts' in effort to reduce toxic replies: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-humanization-prompts/ Cyberpunk 2077: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnA7tepsc7s Ready Player Two: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Ready-Player-Two-highly-anticipated/dp/178089743X Detectorists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAud_H_0R3c