Drunk and mean: How a video game saved my life

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Profile Opinion by Kiva Bay on May 18, 2015 at 11:00a Click for more on how Polygon writes opinion pieces.

I used to drink. And then I played a video game called Papo & Yo by Minority Media.

And it saved me.

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Kiva Bay is a cartoonist and wannabe journalist with a very long name who has a website and is currently married to a Kickstarter. If you want to give her money, she enjoys housing and food. If you want to shout things, she is on twitter @kivabay.

Do play Papo & Yo. It might show you something you'd never seen before.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, Polygon as an organization.

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