Podquisition 361: Text of No Merit

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Courtesy of Dwight J. Ingle Games we played this week include: Binding of Isaac: Repentance (10:35) Dead Estate (16:50) Death’s Door (19:00) Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (23:05) NERF Legends (26:25) Bloodrayne Revamped (27:05) --- News things talked about in this episode: Exiting Activision Blizzard boss Jen Oneal offered equal pay after resigning (31:45) https://www.ign.com/articles/blizzard-jen-oneal-mike-ybarra-equal-pay-after-resignation All three console manufacturers distance themselves from Activision Blizzard (35:20) https://www.fanbyte.com/news/nintendo-issues-internal-response-to-activision-blizzard-reports/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-17/playstation-chief-criticizes-activision-response-to-allegations https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-18/xbox-chief-says-he-s-evaluating-relationship-with-activision Activision Blizzard employees petition for Kotick’s removal and stage walkout (41:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-19-more-than-1300-activision-blizzard-staff-call-for-bobby-kotick-to-resign https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/11/16/activision-blizzard-kotick-walkout/ Activision Blizzard board backing Kotick, announces “Workplace Responsibility Committee” (44:50) https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/activision-blizzard-doubles-down-on-kotick-defense-in-all-hands-meeting https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-board-directors-continues-build-upon-its Kotick reported to be willing to step down if unable to quickly address discrimination and harrassment (47:45) https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-ceo-bobby-kotick-tells-colleagues-he-would-consider-leaving-if-he-cant-quickly-fix-problems-11637533064 Former PlayStation employee alleges Sony fired them for raising discrimination issues (49:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-23-former-playstation-employee-files-lawsuit-alleging-gender-discrimination-and-wrongful-termination Avengers Spider-Man DLC is just Spider-Man and that’s it (54:55) https://www.ign.com/articles/avengers-spider-man-dlc-no-story-missions Chris Pratt’s got a special accent for Mario (58:05) https://toofab.com/2021/11/22/mario-producer-chris-meledandri-defends-casting-non-italian-chris-pratt/ Microsoft’s Phil Spencer encouraging legal emulation for game preservation (1:01:35) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-18-emulation-should-be-used-to-preserve-older-games-xbox-chief-phil-spencer-suggests --- 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, time to put your middle to the test, pal.
0:05.0	Hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.0	Ah-huh, ah-hoo! Now, before I go any further, I must point out, it's an old, very second-hand book.
0:29.9	Oh.
0:30.6	No money went to Dr. Dwight J. Ingle.
0:33.8	Look, I'm going to say this.
0:35.6	There were two books you could have picked to be the opening of the show this week, and you sure picked this one.
0:42.6	So before we talk about who should have children, an environmental and genetic approach by Dwight J. Ingle, I shouldn't have said Doctor.
0:53.3	He hasn't got Doctor anywhere in the book.
0:55.0	He's just wearing a lab coat on the back.
0:57.5	Right.
0:58.1	A little backstory.
1:00.9	So this past weekend, our mutual partner, Phoenix, was in town.
1:04.9	Mine and Laura's was in town.
1:07.2	Lovely weekend.
1:08.8	I'm quite fond of faith.
1:28.5	Yeah, I've heard rumours as such. I'm a little bit fond, and I've been hearing through the grapevine that you quite like them too, Laura. Oh, I do quite like them too. I'm, you know, scandal. I know, scandal of the century. However, will we... Are we going to have to have a King Midas situation just right down the middle. No, God, he's too good for that.
1:31.8	Which side gets purple hair and which I'd get shaved.
1:37.2	See, you had an adventure this week that, you know, I'm going to preface this by, you know, this shouldn't need same,
1:45.3	I'm just gonna say up front, eugenics is terrible, no eugenics, please.
1:48.8	Well, I'm sorry.
1:53.2	Ha ha ha, who should have children?
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