Podquisition 345: Give Us A Boost, Would Ya?

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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But for God’s sake, wash your filthy hands. Games we played this week include: The Great Ragtime Show (8:35) Cooking Mama Cookstar (16:45) The Evil Within 2 (23:30) Train Simulator (30:10) Castle Crashers (32:50) Samurai Warriors 5 (34:55) Neo: The World Ends With You (41:30) News things talked about in this episode: More Activision/Blizzard, More Problems (37:30) https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/7kvm8g/activision-it-worker-secretly-filmed-colleagues-in-office-bathroom https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-31-more-activision-blizzard-allegations-emerge-as-former-dev-calls-for-industry-unionisation https://kotaku.com/activistion-blizzard-faces-second-lawsuit-over-first-la-1847415904 https://kotaku.com/blizzard-president-j-allen-brack-is-stepping-down-1847412696 https://kotaku.com/what-really-happened-at-that-blizzcon-panel-according-1847408469 But we haven’t forgotten about Ubisoft (53:40) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-28-ubisoft-employees-sign-open-letter-slamming-managements-empty-promises-following-last-years-toxic-work-culture-allegations Maybe unions are a good idea? (56:25) https://www.wowhead.com/news/employees-form-abk-workers-alliance-send-new-letter-to-kotick-and-activision-323658 -- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com 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. That's now. uh-huh. Laura, how-huh.
0:14.0	Laura,
0:15.0	...
0:17.0	Laura, how many times have you given someone a boost to get up onto a ledger over a wall?
0:27.6	I mean you know in my more rebellious youth I used to you know give people a boost up over some fences so we could go hang out on the beach that you weren't meant to go to.
0:37.0	Because no one patrolled that beach, she could go drink down there.
0:40.0	That required boosting people up.
0:42.0	They are, you've done some boosts. Conrad, how many boosts have you? there. That require boosting people up.
0:42.6	There you've done some boosts.
0:43.9	Conrad, how many boosts have you done in your life?
0:46.4	I mean, I'm... I'm normally the boostee.
0:49.7	How many boosts have you taken?
0:51.9	Oh, probably a few dozen.
0:55.4	A few dozen.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:58.4	I've gone into some places that needed boosts.
1:01.1	Why do video games think it's such a huge life skill? I've done it so many
1:06.3	more times. I've pointed this out before but I was just playing the evil within too, the last place I expected
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