Episode 512 - Stadia Found Dead in Miami
Waypoint Radio
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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
The Waypoint Radio crew discusses the death of Stadia, yet another Google product killed unceremoniously. Patrick’s definitely not getting into legal trouble by talking about a Sonos speaker on pod. Ren’s been slowly influencing the world economy in Terra Invicta, a sci-fi strategy game that has you lead one of several shadowy international organizations on the eve of an alien invasion. Cado’s going medieval in Inkulinati, the tactical strategy game that has you battling as the various creatures in the margins of a medical illuminated manuscript. Then a quick dip in the question bucket has the crew discussing the worst game they played all the way through.
Discussed: Stadia is Dead 1:39, Sonos Update 19:41, System Shock 28:41, Terra Invicta 33:29, Rollerdrome 55:06, Inkulinati 1:02:23, The Question Bucket 1:21:39
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it's September 30th and you're listening to Waypoint Radio episode 512. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Rob Zachy and I'm joined by Ricardo Contreras. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello Patrick Lappin. Hi. And Renata Price. Hi, did you know that one year I was 1.34 Canadian dollars, |
| 0:37.5 | 0.89 British pounds, 141 again in 98 cents in US dollars. See, this is why they shut down the |
| 0:46.1 | currency world in the amusement park. It was just like you'll show up, it's been a while time, |
| 0:51.4 | it was just boring factoids like that. I want to go home. I want to go to small world. |
| 1:01.5 | So Patrick, I like to do my Christmas shopping early. Check it, you know, write a list, check it twice. |
| 1:11.9 | Do you actually like to do that? How late do you buy your... Yeah. Oh no, like routinely I am there |
| 1:19.7 | about three days before Christmas. Yeah, I was going to say Rob is the dead, the dead at the mall. |
| 1:24.3 | We're going to buy mom a gift for she like, what does she talk about you with kids? |
| 1:29.6 | Well, but this year I think I figured out what I'm getting everybody. And that is the gift of |
| 1:35.5 | convenient games you can play anywhere via the stadium. That's great. Well, that actually works |
| 1:42.3 | out. Just make sure they don't want to play it after January 18th. Also, I mean, you could just |
| 1:47.7 | have it until January 18th and you get that money back. You can buy a stop if you buy a |
| 1:52.4 | study right now. You'll, you'll stop. I don't know if that's true. They're locking down the store. |
| 1:58.8 | They already locked it down. They locked down the store when, yes, the Google Stadia as a service |
| 2:04.6 | is shutting down, confirming every cynical feeling people had when Google announced this joining. |
| 2:12.4 | Isn't there a website that is a kind of a kind of a cool list of things that Google's |
| 2:17.2 | cave yard? Yeah, Google's a company is a long history of not just the typical thing that happens |
| 2:24.9 | in tech, especially where a big company swallows a small company and then just immediately shuts |
| 2:30.3 | down the service that was beloved and made that country company interesting in the first place. |
| 2:34.3 | But as a habit of spinning up their own services, only to have them unceremoniously destroyed, |
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