Podquisition 328: Scratch ‘n Self-Improvement

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🗓️ 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 Hey Time to put you middle to the test now.
0:04.6	Oh, bam, my little.
0:06.6	Hey hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now.
0:11.1	Uh huh, uh huh. So I don't know if it's a print.
0:17.0	So I don't know if it's a printing error or what.
0:27.0	But I did just get in the new self-help book from Cretel and Crabnuts.
0:35.0	Mm-mm.
0:37.0	Yeah, it's on the front cover looked enriching enough.
0:42.0	Ten positive steps to improve your life.
0:45.0	Then open the first page and just in Times New Roman font
0:51.0	white page black text just says don't.
0:55.0	Oh!
0:56.0	Yeah, then the rest of the book is just pictures of Hobo Clowns,
0:59.4	like the Hobo Clown paintings.
1:01.0	But instead of looking sad, they look very angry and one of them looks
1:06.6	horny. I mean, you know, typical, typical printing area that occasionally happens,
1:11.6	you know, I've made some books, I've worked on books.
1:14.8	It's very typical for that to accidentally happen with a book.
1:18.5	Yeah.
1:19.5	You know, it's like an autocorrect area, you know, you type in some self-help words and instead you get
1:23.8	stopping a sad clown they've got scratch and sniff on it do remember that I do
1:31.4	remember scratch and sniff yeah? I am curious how sad clown scratch and sniff smells I mean
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