The Death of Packman in the Video Game

Dan Ogi: This is obviously an evergreen subject if there ever was one. Many of these deaths were suggested by slate staffers at the beginning of this process. The idea for this package came up, it a meeting in the, you know, in nine, 20 19. And we had a lot of the package ready by the beginning of 20 20. Then all of a sudden, all of you will understand that it just no longer seemed like such a great idea to do a big package about how fun an interesting death is.

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