Episode 535 - The Vibes? Atrocious
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Another round of layoffs has hit tech and gaming companies, the largest being Microsoft firing 10,000 employees this week. We discuss the cycles of yearly cuts in both games and tech and the underlying systems and practices that fuel the seemingly unending churn of labor being undervalued and peoples lives being upended. After the break, Rob’s disappointed to find that life on the high seas is a bit too monotonous in Sailing Era, we briefly tip our hats to the end of Stadia, and answer the question on everybody’s mind: does good steampunk exist?
Microsoft Layoffs 3:42. Sailing Era 58:37, High on Life 1:21:58, Stadia 1:29:22, 1:40:51 The Question Bucket
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it's January 20th 2023 and you're listening to Waypoint Radio |
| 0:22.7 | episode 535 I'm your host Rob Zachney and I'm joined by Ricardo Pintraris. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello Patrick Lepic just cleaning the vomit off my fingers but I'm here don't don't you worry I'm here |
| 0:35.7 | and a lot of price hello and hi and howdy and hello welcome to fuck vibes Friday everybody |
| 0:44.5 | Patrick kicked us off early but the the whole show's gonna be like that it started yeah it started |
| 0:50.1 | bad when I was awoken up ahead of my alarm at 620s like I need your help like nobody nobody |
| 0:58.7 | asked for good help at 620 in the morning nothing at 620 in the morning when someone says I need |
| 1:05.0 | your help is ever good if there's not presence at the door like who's there there are goodies like for us to |
| 1:11.6 | a delight in instead it's just my poor voice like I was laying with our daughter and then she just did |
| 1:18.2 | an exorcist on me and okay he's got to be called like do you need a hose like what a way no I'm sorry |
| 1:28.0 | no is this a like Katie is standing by the bed talking to you are these text messages coming in no she |
| 1:34.8 | can't she is holding a she is holding a I don't want to be too descriptive she's holding a child that |
| 1:40.4 | has experienced an event and that event has surrounded and okay herself and the bad the child is |
| 1:49.3 | crying she's like I'm not sure what the next step is but I knew it was to come get you and I was |
| 1:54.8 | in the other room because I knew that our youngest was going to be sleeping with her and that's just |
| 2:00.6 | too many people in the bed at once so I was sleeping in the right we got a last thing the bunk bed in my |
| 2:05.8 | in my oldest room in which we we put the better mattress on the above part because she's scared to |
| 2:11.3 | sleep up there and that's where I sleep so I took the better mattress because I'm old but I told her |
| 2:16.5 | the better mattress is down there for her because of course that's what I would do for my kid I would |
| 2:20.2 | give you the better thing I didn't I took the better mattress for my back well you're not going |
| 2:26.4 | to vomit on that so like no I'm not I'm not I'm not I've got to keep I got to eat something clean in |
| 2:32.4 | this in this house but it does feel like vomit is spraying everywhere in the video game industry at |
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