Black Lives Matter: What We're Learning - What's Good Games (Ep. 163 )

What's Good Games: A Video Game Podcast

What's Good Games

Games, Leisure, Video Games, News, Entertainment News

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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This week we begin the show with a discussion led by Riana Manuel on the protests taking place in the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement. In the second segment we chat about news including the Kingdoms of Amalur remaster, Sega's new console announcement, and what Infinity Ward is doing to combat racism in Call of Duty...plus...Brittney has info about a very important Sims 4 update. Riana then chats about her time in Apex Legends while Britt decided to investigate what Telling Lies is all about. Resources from our Black Lives Matter discussion: Riana's recommended books from black female writers: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Kindred by Octavia Butler Follow Kahlief Adams: http://www.twitter.com/kahjahkins Follow Parris Lilly: http://www.twitter.com/vicious696 To learn about black video game creators, follow http://www.twitter.com/blackgamedev Educational material for June Justice: http://www.bit.ly/junejustice Educational Twitter thread: http://www.twitter.com/clairewillett Thank you to our Patreon Producers: • Chewy’s Godson • Alex Rigopulos • Faris Attieh • Mohammed Mohammed • Marcus Brown • Molly Bittner • Punkdefied Support What’s Good Games on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames Discuss the podcast on our social channels! http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgames http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_games http://www.youtube.com/whatsgoodgames Join the community page! https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatsgoodgames/ Timestamps: Segment One: Let’s Talk about BLM & Current Events :00 A statement from WGG 2:52 Welcome to the show! 8:00 A message from Ri 9:16: What has stood out to you this week? Surprised you? 21:12 What didn’t you expect to be mad at? 37:13: Ri, how are you so amazing all the time? – Wout 38:14 Can you recommend black video game creators, and sci-fi or fantasy writers? - Siân 52:15 Are companies being sincere right now? -Hugo 57:45 Thank you Ri! -Marcus Brown 58:43 Homework from Ri Segment Two: Part 1 - News 1:00:09 Welcome back! 1:00:38 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning 1:09:19 Sega announces Game Gear Micro 1:16:07 CoD will get better at flagging racist usernames 1:18:36 Summer of Pride 1:21:48 Destiny 2: Year 4 reveal coming next week! 1:24:55 Cyberpunk’s, Sony, PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show showcases delayed 1:29:17 Has the new Xbox dashboard leaked?! 1:32:36 Sims are literally peeing fire Segment Two: Part 2 – Hands-On 1:37:15 Apex Legends 1:41:25 Telling Lies

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the protests that are going on right now and the incontrovertible fact that Black Lives Matter.
0:06.7	We do not want to circumvent the situation by thinking this isn't about us or that this is a show
0:12.1	only for video game news commentary and funny stuff and staying silent.
0:17.6	Provasive systemic injustice, especially rooted in racism and infrastructural power dynamics,
0:24.0	isn't going to just go away. It's a problem we must solve together.
0:29.4	We stand with those calling for justice for victims like George Floyd,
0:33.0	Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and their families.
0:37.3	And we stand with those making it undeniably clear that things need to change.
0:42.9	We took our Monday of what's good games live show off this week and instead encouraged
0:47.2	you to listen to the discussion a lesson in Blackness, led by our friend, Khalif Adams,
0:52.2	who is a founder of the Spawn Unmeat podcast. We hope that you did that and that it impacted you.
0:58.0	What's good games has always been a community of support and kindness and members of our
1:02.0	community are in pain to our Black friends, family, and fans. We're here however we can be.
1:08.6	If you want to reach out to us, you can email us at contact at wasgoodgames.com and we're happy to
1:13.5	listen. In our nerdy corner of the internet, we encourage you to go out of your normal sphere of
1:18.8	influence to listen to, watch, and support Black creators. Please remember that it is not their
1:24.8	job to educate you. Give you a list of things to do to make it better or explain this pain to you.
1:32.4	If your action to any part of this is to get defensive or upset or that we should just
1:38.8	stick to video games, we encourage you to take a beat to process and figure out where those
1:44.7	feelings are coming from. We ask that you be respectful and instead of reacting, focus on listening.
1:52.7	Looking for ways to help, you can donate, you can march, educate yourself, and of course,
1:58.1	vote. The system cannot reform itself so we need to make the world inhospitable to racism.
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