Ep. 240: 'Achievement Oriented' on Dystopian Twitch and 'Hitman'

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🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion bring on Ben 'Professor Broman' Bowman to talk about life as a full-time Twitch streamer and a forthcoming change to Twitch that threatens to erase the boundary between streaming and regular life (1:00). Then they talk to IO Interactive creative director Christian Elverdam about how the first season of 'Hitman' synthesized the best features of previous games in the series, used illusion to empower players, and benefited from being released episodically (26:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The People Have Spoken, and Jeff Ross has returned for roast battle, too.
0:04.6	The Fortnite event features top comedians getting verbally violent until just one is left standing,
0:09.4	featuring a star-studded lineup of judges, including Snoop Dogg, Sarah Silverman and Jason
0:13.7	Cedacus.
0:14.7	This is a battle you won't want to miss.
0:16.2	The Fortnite event begins on January 26th at 10-9 Central Time on Comedy Central, and
0:21.2	don't miss the live finale on Sunday January 29th at 10-9 Central to see who gets crowned
0:26.0	the king or queen of cruelty.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented, Channel 33's gaming podcast.
0:51.2	I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined as always by my colleague for The Ringer, the
0:56.2	Silent Assassin, Jason Concepcion, and Jason.
1:00.9	You like that?
1:01.9	I do, that was a good one.
1:02.9	We're going to be talking about Hitman pretty soon.
1:05.0	I just read a piece on Kotaku by Patrick Redford, and it's about how he spent two weeks as
1:11.8	a true Overwatch idiot, as he says, and he was playing as Lucio, and he thought that to
1:18.7	heal players on your team, you shoot people with your sound gun.
1:22.6	I mean, for two weeks, I have three that's for two whole weeks.
1:26.5	Two weeks, which again, I have still not played Overwatch.
1:30.5	I swear it's on the way, but I have not.
1:33.1	This doesn't really mean anything to me, but I understand that this is like to go two
1:37.0	weeks thinking that is hard to understand.
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