Easy Allies Podcast #243 - December 4, 2020

The Easy Allies Podcast

Easy Allies

Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

BioWare says goodbye to a pair of creative leads and faces an uncertain future, and 2020’s Black Friday weekend isn’t as lucrative as expected. Still, things are looking bright for Travis Scott’s bank account, Super Nintendo World’s impending launch, and Aardman Animations’ newest IP. 00:00:38 - Corrections 00:02:12 - Silver Lining 00:03:42 - Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah leave BioWare 00:24:27 - Super Nintendo World Sneak Peek 00:39:00 - A Word From Our Sponsor 00:41:57 - Black Friday 2020 digital decline 00:53:26 - Aardman and Bandai Namco's new IP 00:59:33 - Travis Scott's $20m Fortnite payout 01:04:53 - Also This Week... 01:11:10 - L&R - Black Friday gift card sales 01:13:58 - L&R - Why do bad side quests exist? 01:18:25 - L&R - Game: Worms or Frauds? 01:20:38 - L&R - Most memorable boss battle? 01:22:41 - L&R - Any hope for digital libraries? 01:27:10 - Time for Bets 01:31:44 - Closing Go to http://logitechg.com to get the G923 TRUEFORCE Sim Racing Wheel today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Hello and welcome to the Easy Allies podcast. I'll be your moderator Brandon Jones joining me this week panelists Michael Huber.
0:29.0	Hello Michael Damiani.
0:31.0	Yow
0:32.0	and my eerily accurate co-moderator Mr. Daniel Bloodworth.
0:37.0	Distinguished guests, we are here to talk about some of the biggest headlines in the world of video games but before we do that
0:44.1	we must answer for all of the mistakes we made last week. Bloodworth please begin
0:49.1	corrections music. Boop! Rainbow Six Siege definitely had a rocky launch.
0:55.0	You doubted me, Bloodworth.
0:57.0	Lots of people chimed in with that.
0:59.0	One commented on a, they linked a Euro-Gamer article that talked about the rise and fall or sorry the
1:04.1	fall and rise of Siege and started with saying something to the effect of I mean we
1:09.1	all know it had a bad launch and I was like we did and I tried I tried to like find articles talking about it, but it was like 73 on
1:15.3	medacritic, so it reviewed okay. I guess just technically had some issues.
1:19.0	Ben's The American Psychiatric Association had added Internet Gaming Disorder or I.G.D. to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disowners in 2013, which is a list of current formal psychiatric diagnoses.
1:43.1	For many of these behavior-based disorders, there is almost always a stipulation that the behavior must
1:48.2	cause significant impairment or distress in several aspects of a person's life,
1:53.0	just like Damiani was describing.
1:54.9	And pretty much every study ever
1:56.9	involves a literature review section
1:58.4	where they go over previous studies into the area.
2:00.3	I was like, one cool thing about this study and then described something that every study does
2:05.0	ever and corrects music please.
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