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Podquisition 328: Scratch ‘n Self-Improvement

Jimquisition

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Smell your way to a better life. Games we played this week include: UnderMine (9:30) Outriders (15:15) Cooking Mama: Cookstar PS4 (21:20) Gato Roboto (28:00) Disco Elysium: Final Cut (34:30) Monster Hunter Rise (36:50) Narita Boy (43:10) Oddworld: Soulstorm (47:00) News things talked about in this episode: Pokémon Go's Flower Happinny event more evidence the game is 100% lootboxes (50:00) Pac-Man 99 continues trend of Battle Royaling legacy properties (54:00) https://www.polygon.com/22371536/pac-man-99-battle-royale-nintendo-switch-online-exclusive-release-date Yet another study links loot boxes and gambling (57:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-03-link-between-loot-boxes-and-problem-gambling-robustly-verified Brazil is looking to ban lootboxes in video games as harmful gambling (1:04:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-07-brazilian-authorities-to-investigate-loot-boxes -- Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at pinfultruth.com.

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test, pal.

0:05.0

So, I don't know if it's a printout with the best now?

0:11.0

Ah-huh, ah-hoo. So, I don't know if it's a printing error or what.

0:27.8

But I did just get in the new self-help book from Creadle and Crabnuts.

0:36.4

Yeah, it's, uh, on the front cover looked enriching enough.

0:42.0

Ten positive steps to improve your life.

0:45.8

Then open the first page and just in Times New Roman font, white, page, black text just says don't.

0:54.8

Oh.

0:55.6

Yeah, then the rest of the book is just pictures of hobo clowns, like the hobo clown paintings.

1:00.9

But instead of looking sad, they look very angry and one of them looks horny.

1:07.5

I mean, you know, typical, typical printing area that occasionally happens, you know,

1:11.9

I've made some books, I've worked on books, it's very typical for that to accidentally happen

1:17.2

with a book. Yeah. You know, it's like an auto-correct error, you know, you type in some self-help

1:22.7

words and instead you get stopping a sad clown. They've got scratch and sniff on it.

1:30.0

Do you remember that?

1:31.1

I do remember scratch and sniff, yeah.

1:32.8

Scratch and sniff.

1:33.7

I am curious how sad clown scratch and sniff smells.

1:38.6

I mean, potash.

1:41.9

Several pages is just potash and whiskey i mean i say it scratch and sniff the book's just

1:50.4

been soaked in whiskey every copy well i mean that's a selling point if i've ever heard of one yeah

1:56.9

well i mean you can't suck the pages it's dry by the you know when you like make it when a kid makes a treasure map just, you can't suck the pages. It's dry by the... You know when you like make a...

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