Podquisition 395: Scorcher

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We know we said it was hot previously, but we’ve learned a lot since then. Games we played this week include: PowerWash Simulator (9:20) Metal Gear Solid V (20:05) Jekyll vs. Hyde (33:20) The Quarry (37:40) Monster Boy: The Dragon’s Trap (41:50) OVERWHELM (44:10) Billie Bust Up (47:30) Road Redemption (49:15) --- News things talked about in this episode: Blizzard Albany QA make moves to organize another union (52:20) https://www.polygon.com/23270111/blizzard-albany-activision-blizzard-union-vote-nlrb John Riccitiello calls devs who don’t heavily monetize, “fucking idiots” (56:40) https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/ BioWare drops BioWare Points, makes DLC items purchasable with them free (1:01:30) https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/vy92np/ea_will_be_removing_bioware_points_as_of_october/ Modders have added online multiplayer, graphics to leaked beta of Skate (1:02:45) https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgp89y/play-skate-4-multiplayer-online-leaked-build --- 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 file.
0:05.0	I feel a bit of how
0:06.0	Hey, hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.0	I don't know, I'm going to do. I feel a bit silly for complaining about how hot it was last week.
0:24.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:25.7	I mean, things are relative, all things being relative.
0:29.6	I mean, look, we both complained about how hot it was last week,
0:33.2	and granted, we were correct, it was very hot last week.
0:36.1	It was fucking hot.
0:38.3	We just hadn't yet descended into the literal like asshole of Satan yet. Yeah. Like, look, okay, all right. Lots of
0:44.8	people have said things in the past that perhaps on reflection they would look back on now
0:50.4	and say, you know what? Had I known then, what I know now, had I become enlightened, I would not have said these things, they're wrong. Yeah. Except we weren't wrong. It was hot. It just wasn't like, the country's literally catching on fire hot yet. It's catching on fire now? I really haven't been paying attention. Oh, yeah, but portions of the south of the UK just caught fire.
1:12.4	Yeah.
1:13.3	Oh.
1:13.7	Yeah, it was a lot.
1:15.0	I need to do some maths conversions.
1:17.4	Like Phoenix mentioned to me yesterday, Phoenix said London's on fire, and I was like,
1:21.6	the tourists haven't dragged us that far back, have they?
1:24.5	Or that far forward?
1:25.8	Well, yeah.
1:26.9	It also, just like, it's the hottest, like, not since 1976 has Britain been this hot.
1:34.5	This is also the most physically active week I've had, possibly in my life.
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