Podquisition 397: Landlords Are Petty Dictators

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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It's not enough to just have power over someone's life. Games we played this week include: Stray (15:45) Multiversus (22:35) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (38:50) Vampire Survivors (46:55) Frogun (51:30) LIVE A LIVE (54:00) --- News things talked about in this episode: First hints of what Disco Elysium devs are doing found in job listings (54:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/disco-elysium-dev-seeks-artists-with-a-love-of-sci-fi-and-video-games Former Xbox exec Peter Moore says Microsoft encouraged console wars (55:50) https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-encouraged-console-wars-peter-moore Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is latest first-party Nintendo release to leak in advance of release (58:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/xenoblade-chronicles-3-leaks-playable-on-steam-deck-before-switch-release Resident Evil Village getting accessibility update, but third-person mode pushed to paid DLC (59:10) https://www.eurogamer.net/resident-evil-village-will-receive-free-accessibility-update-alongside-dlc Ubisoft’s failure to address their issues is making them worse (1:01:05) https://www.eurogamer.net/a-year-later-a-better-ubisoft-says-none-of-its-demands-have-been-met Rockstar has finally made some changes to work culture (1:07:45) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/gta-6-release-date-rockstar-cleans-up-image-after-employee-backlash Last of Us Part 1 remake includes audio descriptions of cutscenes for visually impaired players (1:06:05) https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-part-1-remake-naughty-dog-sony-playstati-1849320167 Sony expresses concern over Microsoft acquisition of Activision, specifically Call of Duty (1:08:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-doesnt-sound-thrilled-microsoft-is-buying-call-of-duty-maker-activision Diablo Immortal player spends so much the game becomes unplayable for them (1:12:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-immortal-player-spends-100k-on-game-now-cant-find-anyone-suitable-to-matchmake-with --- 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	Ah, bah, bah, ba.
0:06.0	Hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.0	Uh-huh, I know I just spoke to you to about this before we started.
0:24.2	Mm-hmm.
0:24.8	And I've talked about it.
0:25.8	I've rented about it on stream.
0:28.4	But I don't know if I've...
0:29.7	Have I mentioned the landlord that discriminated against me for being too employed to rent from it?
0:36.4	Oh, for being, for being too employed, having too much of an income.
0:40.2	Wait, what? A landlord?
0:42.6	Was a problem?
0:43.8	A landlord had weird bullshit that they're, they're bullshitty about.
0:48.8	Ooh, I did not see this coming.
0:50.7	So, yeah, you're too employable, too employed, too much of a person with a career that makes
0:55.6	money. Yeah. So basically, it's sort of brilliant, but I found this place that looked perfect, right?
1:03.3	As a cottage, I've always had a dream of retiring. I mean, no, we all have a dream of retiring.
1:09.2	Well, yeah. But I've always had this dream of retiring and then living in a little village in a little cottage.
1:15.9	And I found a little village in a little cottage.
1:19.7	And I'm not even mostly retired yet.
1:22.6	So I was well ahead of the game.
1:26.0	Absolutely perfect.
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