It was a lovely Saturday evening. The sun was still up, the temperature just right, a nice bar with a garden literally around the corner...

So naturally we decided to stay in, order some food, down a bottle of wine and play through the first level of every (mainline) Super Mario game from 1985 all the way to the present day.

Do they still hold up? Do they make you wanna play the rest of the game? Or are they just not as good as our nostalgic, kinda tipsy brains remember them to be?

Levels will be rated, opinions overstated and almost two hours obliterated on this episode of "Hopelessly Casual".

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In this week's episode everyone's worst nightmares come true:

You're in the cinema wedged between two of the most mid podcasters you'll ever meet. One won't let you miss even the tiniest reference made in the film, while also being very physically expressive about it. The other has a laugh so obnoxious and ill timed, that you can't help but wonder, how he ever made it to his mid thirties...

Both have opinions on everything they see.

Join us for a night at the movies, including excessive trailer talk and for once hear us sing the praises of the absolute blast that was that nights feature presentation.

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What's that you're saying? You don't much care for (insert video game/show/book series here)?!

But it should be right up your alley!

Yeah, shoulda, coulda, woulda, but wasn't.

Join us for this week's episode, where we talk about our top contenders for things we should really, really like, but for some reason we really, really don't. Despite our best efforts (mostly).

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You know those movies that everyone agrees you should've seen? Absolute classics, films that expand your horizon as a human being, cultural landmarks of today and yesteryear...

Well, turns out, we skipped quite a lot of them. But that won't stop us from speculating the ever-loving s**t out of what they MIGHT be about.

Join us for this week's episode, as we are back with a brand new "Hopelessly Casual"!

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Being the Chosen One isn't all it's propped up to be. Sure, it makes for one hell of an online dating profile, but otherwise it's not good for your mental and physical wellbeing, it's constantly putting the people around you in danger and chances are you might not make it out alive.

Tune in to this week's episode, where we discuss Jedi, slayers, wizards and literally the One. And why having a prophecy about you probably isn't a good thing.

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There are few things more intimate than a person's preference in all creatures horror. But in this week's episode we expose it all!

Shocking revelations abound and unpopular opinions are voiced when we talk about the things that go bump in the night we love to be scared of...

And those that simply don't do it for us.

(The course in clickbaity writing really paid off!)

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It's an origin story. Well actually it's two. About our formative gaming memories, ranging from the early '90s (because Christian is old) well into the '00s (because Freya is still young and has her whole life ahead of her).

Join us in this week's episode for the games and the stories behind them that got us into gaming.

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Imagine if you will: You're 8 years old again, it's the weekend, your parents are in the kitchen and you have the living room TV all to yourself.

The commercials end and "Watership Down" comes on...

This and other tales of unexpected and somewhat expected horror while watching TV (and forming lifelong traumata) as a kid on this episode of "Hopelessly Casual".

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