Podquisition 381: Take a Deep Breath

Jimquisition

Leisure

4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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No gods, no underwater masters Games we played this week include: Pokémon: The Trading Card Game (11:10) Roombo First Blood (17:40) House of the Dead Remake (19:55) Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel (28:30) Skul: The Hero Slayer (30:50) LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (32:05) Tearaway (39:30) Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon (49:10) --- News things talked about in this episode: California Governor alleged to have interfered in DEFH suit against Activision Blizzard (52:40) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-13/california-lawyer-says-governor-interfered-with-activision-suit Activision-Blizzard pay bump for QA feels oddly like a union busting tactic (58:10) https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/7/23015033/activision-blizzard-full-time-qa-game-tester-20-dollars-hourly ABK workers walk out over company changes to vaccine policy (1:05:35) https://www.polygon.com/23010343/activision-blizzard-vaccine-mandate-demands-abetterabk Bungie announces remote work for most current and future roles (1:08:25) https://kotaku.com/bungie-remote-work-home-pandemic-covid-destiny-sony-off-1848785738 Twitch pulled paid Boost Train feature after users landed porn on the home page (1:10:45) https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/twitch-halts-paid-channel-boosts-after-people-pay-to-get-porn-on-the-front-page/ The Quarry will have a low-interactivity “movie mode” that skips all the gameplay (1:14:00) https://www.pcgamer.com/the-quarry-has-a-movie-mode-so-you-can-watch-it-instead-of-playing-it/ --- 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 in to the test now.
0:04.6	Oh, bam, my little.
0:06.6	Hey hey, don't you know you're missing with the best now.
0:11.1	Uh huh, uh huh. Now. Hello, everyone. I'm very excited today, very, very excited indeed because we are welcoming back.
0:27.0	The one, the only, Laura, Kate Dale.
0:33.5	Oh, I'm back.
0:34.5	Oh, it's so good to have you back on the show.
0:37.5	After conquering the ocean deep, I believe that's where you were, you were leading a rebellion against the Ocean King? Yeah yeah it you know it was quite the struggle
0:48.4	having to go all the way up to the surface of the ocean to hold my breath to swim back down to scold the ocean king was a time-consuming process.
0:56.4	Yeah, yeah. You know, I really should have like saved up and got a scuba tank or something first, but we got the job done eventually.
1:02.3	I mean the fact you were able to
1:03.5	hold your breath for a week was very impressive. I wish I had that lung control.
1:08.4	Look I've been prepping for this for a while you know like you know sticking my face in the bathtub and holding my breath
1:13.9	and just you know seeing how long I could do that for you know well yeah I mean if you're
1:18.0	going to overthrow a saltwater dystopia then you're gonna wanna get some practice.
1:23.0	Exactly, and now the seas are a lawless space,
1:27.0	there are no laws in the ocean, you can thank me for that later.
1:30.0	Yeah, a little behind the scenes on the production of the podcast for the last like two three months as soon as we have been ceasing recording.
1:39.1	Laura's been going into her bathroom and sticking her head in the tub and just holding it
1:45.2	almost until the next recording session. Yeah and she's been doing this while
1:51.0	researching Ingress into the web way to uncover the secrets of the Eldar's Black Library.
1:56.3	Like the amount that Laura does.
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