Podquisition 358: Moral High Ground

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The time has come. Games we played this week include: Happy Game (14:05) Unpacking (18:25) What the Golf (22:20) Lady in a Leotard with a Gun (26:00) Netflix Games on Android (33:50) Inscryption (38:10) MARS (41:10) Head Over Heels (47:50) Moon (49:10) --- News things talked about in this episode: Actiblizz commits to some changes that ABK were pushing for (54:00) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/technology/activision-blizzard-diversity-workplace.html Bobby Kotick takes a PR pay cut (56:25) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-28-activision-blizzard-boss-bobby-kotick-asks-for-huge-pay-cut-until-company-woes-sorted Valve isn’t allowing NFTs on Steam (59:15) https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/steam-is-removing-nft-games-from-the-platform-3071694 Ubisoft commits to contribute to global ruin with blockchain games (1:00:20) https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/11/01/ubisoft-reveals-plans-to-develop-blockchain-games-and-nfts Facebook rolling back account login requirement for their headsets (1:01:20) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-28-facebook-ditching-oculus-branding-as-part-of-company-name-change-to-meta Paid Twitch Boosts are now in the wild (1:04:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-29-twitch-tests-paid-boost-feature-despite-negative-feedback-from-streamers Seth Rogan allegedly to star in Donkey Kong spin-off film (1:07:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-03-seth-rogen-donkey-kong-solo-movie-reportedly-in-development Jen Oneal stepping down from co-lead position at Blizzard after only three months (1:10:30) https://kotaku.com/blizzard-is-already-losing-its-first-female-studio-co-h-1847985147 Blizzard games are bleeding players (1:11:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-03-as-blizzards-internal-troubles-continue-the-companys-games-continue-to-shed-players --- 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. 3.
0:23.0	Three, two one. And can I note, Laura, you have the absolute best rhythm for doing that.
0:29.3	Almost everybody else I know that needs to do that timing gets it a little bit off more often than not.
0:38.0	Hey Conrad, I'm here. I know. Like just you know where I live, come over and just slap me in the face next time Conrad.
0:47.2	You're number two Steph.
0:49.7	You're right below Laura.
0:51.5	Everybody else if there could be like 20 people between them, they'd fall in under you two and them.
0:58.0	Calling me a number two on a public podcast is also a little bit demeaning. I will say this being the counting people in
1:05.9	person for every for basically every podcast I am on which at points was like
1:11.3	six in a week at one point for the last seven years I've gotten used to I've got the muscle memory for it now
1:19.3	Anyway right yeah when are the pair if you going to join me in my protest against
1:25.4	changing the clocks back and fucking forward all the time, right? I figure if enough of us
1:31.5	do it, we could really ruin our own lives.
1:35.9	Oh, totally, yeah.
1:37.5	But we'd have the moral high ground.
1:41.3	We wouldn't be able to function in society. If we're just an hour off, it's, you know,
1:46.2	butterflies flapping their wings and making tornadoes in Texas from wherever the butterfly.
1:51.8	That's not, there's no such thing as that.
1:55.0	That's not how it works. It's bullshit.
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