PlayStation Pulls Out of PAX East - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.19.20

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Get started with your first month free by going to http://forhims.com/gamesdaily. If you go to http://getquip.com/games right now, you’ll get your first refill free! Gary Whitta and Greg discuss the breaking news that PlayStation won't go to PAX East due to coronavirus concerns. Time Stamps - 00:00:50 - Breaking News: Sony Cancels PAX 00:08:35 - Housekeeping WE’RE GIVING AWAY KNIGHTS AND BIKES ON SWITCH! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, Frankfurter, Drew Gardiner, Katie Gallacher, David Meintel, BLACK JACK, Dominic Shorter, Mohammed Mohammed, Patrick Higgins, Ginny Berndt, The Nano Biologist, Travis Guy-kow-ski, Joseph Soler The Roper Report - 00:15:08 - Smash Bros. Update, via Nibel pointing to the PushDustin Translation of Famitsu column… 00:23:45 - Animal Crossing Direct Tomorrow! 00:31:00 - Are we gamers just entitled, spoiled brats when it comes to knowing what the next big news is, or are we truly deserving as consumers to know what a company's plan is? - Best Friends Q:GroovyMuse 00:36:18 - THQ Nordic’s Moves 00:54:00 - Dangerous Driving 2 Announced 00:57:10 - Out today 00:59:45 - HIMS 01:02:00 - QUIP 01:05:11 - Squad Up: Ricky Mcflyy(PC [Division 2]) - rickymcflyy 01:07:57 - Required Reading: GameStop employees report extreme pressure from ‘desperate’ bosses https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/19/21132128/gamestop-employees-report-extreme-pressure-desperate-bosses Polygon - Colin Campbell The Truth About Working at GameStop: Workers Reveal Their Experiences https://www.ign.com/articles/the-truth-about-working-at-gamestop-workers-reveal-their-experiences?sf117655965=1 Logan Plant - IGN 01:10:00 You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Blessing 01:10:32 - Post Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for Wednesday February 19th 29th no 2020
0:16.0	I'm off my game. There's breaking news. What's going on breaking news? It's so I didn't have I was reading the breaking news
0:22.3	But so I didn't have the document open breaking like just now exactly yeah exactly. It's number one. It's it's a big one too
0:28.6	I think ladies and gentlemen. Okay. It's a it's you want to just start to hear ladies and gentlemen
0:32.7	We have breaking these my name's Greg Miller that of course the Rogue one at Gary would have
0:36.6	Yeah, I mean you had to look at your watch to know it was why this wasn't there
0:39.7	I was that's that's well
0:41.3	No, I mean the date date. That's why I had the Wednesday night ladies and gentlemen
0:45.4	From the PlayStation blog they have updated their PlayStation at PAX East play if you remember this PlayStation at PAX East play the last of us
0:54.2	Part two final fantasy seven remake more this was posted on February 13th a mere six days ago. Thank you Apple
1:01.5	I saw that floating around update. Okay today
1:05.3	Sony interactive entertainment made the decision to cancel its participation at PAX East and Boston this year due to increasing
1:11.3	Concerns related to
1:13.5	Covid that we call it Covid-19 exactly also known as the coronavirus
1:17.9	We thought this was the safest option as the situation is changing daily
1:21.6	We are disappointed cancel our participation in this event, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern
1:28.3	With that. Yeah, I mean they presumably would have people coming over from Asia. Well, it's not even that
1:33.5	I think as much as people are traveling from all over the country
1:37.7	Conventions are and I believe there was even like a Tom Clancy book that that used this concept that
1:43.9	Convent there was a I think it was rainbow the novel rainbow six sure that ended up you know spawning
1:48.5	Right, yeah, the division was the dollar flu. Yeah, but that wasn't that I mean that just as Clancy's name on it
1:54.7	All that shit was came up with they came up with after long after he died, but Tom Clancy wrote a novel called rank
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