Podquisition 349: Well-Rested and Refreshed

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Oh, you’ve got a new podcast to listen to? Must be fucking nice. Games we played this week include: Psychonauts 2 (6:00) Rustler (15:00) No More Heroes 3 (22:10) Aliens: Fireteam Elite (30:45) Lake (32:25) --- News things talked about in this episode: Unity employees are concerned about the company’s defense department contract work (34.15) https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d4jy/unity-workers-question-company-ethics-as-it-expands-from-video-games-to-war EA exec claims toxic environments are ‘inevitable’ in large publishers (44:15) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-exec-says-toxic-environments-are-inevitable-inside-large-publishers-but-you-have-to-take-action/ CD Projekt Red hires CyberPunk 2077 modders (47:55) https://kotaku.com/kickass-cyberpunk-2077-modders-become-cd-projekt-red-de-1847590961 Apple will now let alternate payment systems be offered, but not through the App Store (49:40) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-27-apple-settles-lawsuit-to-let-developers-email-users-about-alternative-payment-options Steam refunds system abuse is hurting developers of short indie games (53:25) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-27-steams-two-hour-refund-policy-leads-to-indie-developer-quitting-game-development Epic hosts Martin Luther King Jr. experience in Fortnite, predictably unprepared for users (56:45) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-31-fortnite-disables-emotes-in-martin-luther-king-jr-tribute Activision responds to shredding claims, says they kept the important stuff, honest (59:15) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-25-state-of-california-alleges-activision-blizzard-hr-shredded-documents Wata co-founder accused of selling graded games online from personal collection (1:00:35) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-01-wata-co-founder-accused-of-breaking-companys-rules-on-selling-graded-stock --- 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	I was a time to put your middle to the test now
0:04.4	I was asleep until 10 minutes before the podcast today.
0:24.9	Nice.
0:25.5	Yeah.
0:26.3	I mean, that's how you should podcast.
0:28.8	I slept in about three hours today.
0:32.0	Yeah, I'm going to wait 20 minutes and I feel like it.
0:35.6	So if I'm low energy today,
0:39.4	apologies to the podcast.
0:41.7	Like, and the listeners,
0:42.4	you know,
0:47.2	it must be so nice to be a bit more awake than me.
0:50.3	It must be so nice for you to sit there on your high fucking horse
0:52.5	looking down on tired Stephanie thinking what a tired
0:55.9	fuck they turned out to be. As someone that does a lot of podcasts with Americans, you'd be
1:00.6	surprised how many of my podcasts I wake up maybe 10 minutes before doing it and go, I'm here,
1:05.6	I'm awake. Right. You have to go on bleary-eyed. It must be fucking nice for the great unwashed listening to this to be well-rested,
1:19.1	which all of them are, all of them are doing better than us and all of them are judging us.
1:25.4	That's how I choose to view the world, and I don't think that's an unhealthy outlook.
1:30.5	It must be fucking nice to think you're so much better than us.
1:35.3	Ooh, I've had a healthy six to eight hours, whatever it is.
1:40.7	Oh, I don't get up in the middle of the night with Spiro Pisses.
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