Podquisition 397: Landlords Are Petty Dictators

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🗓️ 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 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. I know I just spoke to you to about this before we started and I've talked about it I've rented
0:26.2	about it on stream but I don't know if I've mentioned the landlord that discriminated against me for being too employed to rent from him.
0:36.3	Oh for being for being too employed having too much of an income.
0:40.1	Wait what? A landlord was a problem a landlord had weird bullshit that they they're they're
0:47.4	bullshitty about I did not see this coming so yeah you're too employable too
0:52.3	employed too much of a person with a
0:54.6	career that makes money. Yeah so basically it's sort of brilliant but I found
1:01.3	this place that looked perfect right as a cottage I've always
1:04.2	I've always had a dream of retiring I mean no we all have a dream of retiring well yeah
1:09.6	but I've always had this dream of retiring and then living in a little village in a little cottage.
1:15.4	And I found a little village in a little cottage.
1:19.4	And I'm not even mostly retired yet.
1:22.1	So I was well ahead of the game.
1:25.0	Absolutely perfect. Clearly, like an old chin had lived in there before and had died
1:30.0	because they still had the stairlift and the landlord had said they were hoping to still keep the stair lift and I'm like mate my knees are fucked this is perfect the whole place it was a gorgeous place the bedroom had a stained glass port hole
1:45.2	plus it was super cheap anyway I applied I said you know what because the rent was cheap enough I'm like I could give you a year's rent now and they are
1:56.4	basically just not planning to give it to me because the landlord lives on the same street and wants someone who will and I quote fit in
2:06.3	hmm I wonder what that could mean right now the reason given is he's of retirement age and wants more people like him.
2:16.0	Looking for a retired person to live, none of them told me this.
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