#83: Mao Money, Mao Problems

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

When money flows from companies that call communist dictatorships home, those funds typically come with strings attached. Activision-Blizzard learned this the hard way just months ago, but it hasn't stopped western teams from accepting this cash with reckless abandon. The next business about to get gobbled up by Chinese conglomerate Tencent is the Norwegian MMO dev-slash-pub Funcom, and Tencent is even willing to pay a staggering 30% over market value for the honor. The big question is: Why? When bizarre corporate cultures and diverging governments collide, it can make for some choppy waters. So let's chat about this recent acquisition-to-be, and what it might mean. Also: Housemarque makes another sharp left turn, the Uncharted movie no one wants gets delayed again, Daybreak is splitting into three separate teams, and much more. Plus: Could Xbox ever win Colin over? Should Sony purchase Kojima Productions? Is our new cross-gen reality about to create some unexpected problems? Can you capture a person in a Pokéball? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.1	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to CollinslastStand.com.
0:25.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast.
0:28.8	This is episode 83. My name is Colin Moriardium joined as always by Chris Canceled-Ragan.
0:35.2	Chris, I heard that you wanted to be canceled and I think we can accomplish that for you.
0:38.8	Yeah, I know. I'm just hoping that one day that I can experience it. Just know what it's like.
0:45.2	It's wonderful. It's really a wonderful feeling. I loved being canceled.
0:50.4	I think I've been canceled several times. Yeah. But that is what it is. I appreciate it. Actually,
0:57.2	it really helped me out a lot. Thanks for that. I think the same thing would happen to you as well.
1:03.7	I saw that you were making a little joke. You made a joke making fun of someone,
1:08.2	but you used one of the pronoun jokes. Then people got pretty upset about that or some people did.
1:16.1	I thought it was a pretty funny joke, personally.
1:22.8	It just seemed like a really basic lazy throwaway joke.
1:26.3	I don't think anybody really cares that much. No, they'll pretend to care. They'll pretend to care,
1:30.5	though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, you don't want to mess with people's pronouns.
1:37.2	Not these days, not in 2020. Do you think you'll ever put your pronouns in your Twitter bio?
1:43.5	Like, he slashed him? No, definitely not. I think, first of all, I don't think I need to.
1:50.6	But also just, like, I get it. I understand it. But it's also like, what, I can't joke about it.
1:56.6	Come on. Yeah. No, it's funny to joke about. I mean, a lot of people do joke about it. I do it
2:01.8	every one. I don't care. Yeah. See, I know that no matter what I put in there, I could put
2:06.4	he slash him into my Twitter profile, but people are just going to call me horrible things anyway.
2:11.3	It's not like, yeah, that's going to help me. Who's going to care? I was honestly super
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