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156. GamePass gets a Price Increase

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Austin, Mike, and Alanah chat about Austin's demanding freelance schedule, the GamePass price increase (and GamePass' impact as a whole), and the Halifax Harbor Explosion. Note: almost all details of said Halifax explosion are, indeed, incorrect.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

How you doing, Austin? It's been a minute. How you doing?

0:08.5

Good. Yeah, it has. I had a bit of a whirlwind, bit of travel, um, uh, that took me off the, off the grid.

0:18.4

I think it may have been the longest trip I've ever taken.

0:21.7

How long are you gone for?

0:22.5

I was like two and a half weeks.

0:26.1

Oh.

0:26.7

Which is,

0:27.5

I was going to say,

0:27.7

like that's no super.

0:29.2

No,

0:29.4

as somebody who's used to,

0:31.0

as someone who's used to parachuting in

0:33.0

and doing two days somewhere,

0:34.3

even trans-oceanically.

0:39.5

The idea of being gone a week, like for the longest time, I had that classic freelancer,

0:48.1

just hardcore fear that being away from my desk means something some ball's going to get dropped

0:55.4

meaning a call is going to come in on a really exciting opportunity and I'm going to be away

0:59.9

and I can't take the job or a deadlines are illegal overseas notoriously so you wouldn't

1:05.7

have been able to take the call of course true America only I started... We don't have freedom like those guys.

1:12.6

Yeah.

1:13.6

I, um, some of these were baked in instincts from my formative years, which were almost 20

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