Podquisition 364: Sharp, Shiny and Small

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Ouch! Games we played this week include: Solar Ash (7:00) Firegirl: Hack ‘n Splash Rescue (13:30) Loop Hero (23:30) Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (33:00) Monster Rancher DX (40:20) Lawn Mowing Simulator (52:45) --- News things talked about in this episode: Support the A Better ABK Strike Fund (56:00) https://www.gofundme.com/f/abk-strike-fund Activision Blizzard trying to squash unionization effort with promises to do better (58:30) https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/12/09/activision-union-strike-fund/ Twitch Boost feature is as useless as expected (1:08:55) https://kotaku.com/twitchs-pay-to-win-boost-feature-doesnt-actually-help-p-1848216696 Roblox growth and policies can endanger kids, not just exploit them (1:11:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-14-roblox-accused-of-being-unsafe-environment-for-children Peter Molyneux is also doing a blockchain thing (1:17:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-13-peter-molyneux-is-creating-a-blockchain-business-sim --- 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. The thumb tax. The thumb tacks.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	The thumb tacks.
0:21.0	Yeah. They're sharp. They're quite sharp.
0:26.4	I've heard that like, you know, you should you should really avoid them making you know fast
0:30.8	contact with skin. It's not good for it. not to put too fine a point on it a-huh I put a very fine
0:39.7	myself on the point and let me tell you it's a refreshing experience.
0:49.0	Oh I bet it's bracing.
0:51.0	Oh God yeah it's like oh I tell you what if you if you're half asleep on a winter's
0:57.1	morning you open the window and just get that that that bracing that gust of wind, yeah.
1:04.6	Cold air, yes, I mean it really wakes you up.
1:07.4	It's like a cold shower but made of pain.
1:10.3	Yes, indeed, indeed, this past weekend I had a cold shower made of pain.
1:16.0	Which actually might be a metaphor for the whole experience of trying to take control of rise when you think about it.
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm assuming from the lack of
1:26.4	Grand Champion of Rise as you knew like social media handle, guessing might not go so well. I mean I know how it went I talk to you outside of this
1:36.0	podcast but for the purposes of the fiction here I wonder how it went.
1:40.0	Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yes, I didn't win.
1:45.0	I, to my credit, put up a hell of a fight.
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