Podquisition 407: Seize the Means of Malarky

Jimquisition

Leisure

4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The only thing you have to lose is your dignity. Games we played this week include: Hazelnut Hex (10:30) Condemned: Criminal Origins (14:20) A Way Out (27:40) NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition (34:10) NeuroDeck (35:50) Fallout: New Vegas (40:20) Fallout 4 (46:35) Too Human (55:30) Red Faction: Armageddon (1:00:00) --- News things talked about in this episode: Chris Pratt’s incredible voice in The Super Mario Bros. Movie finally revealed (1:04:25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KydqdKKyGEk Scant additional details about ZA/UM Studio departures emerge (1:07:45) https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/fans-have-the-right-to-know-disco-elysium-co-creator-talks-zaum-l/z04ad7 Activision/Blizzard implementing verification process requiring players to have contract phones (1:11:10) https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-joins-overwatch-2-in-requiring-phone-number-verification/ Bug in Overwatch 2 causes accidental purchases, Activision/Blizzard refuses to refund (1:18:15) https://www.eurogamer.net/overwatch-2s-auto-purchase-bug-has-been-fixed-but-blizzard-still-wont-issue-refunds Yet another sexual abuse claim filed against Activision/Blizzard (1:19:35) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11300499/Call-Duty-video-game-maker-Activision-Blizzard-sued-female-worker-sexual-assault.html Cyberpunk 2077 QA contractor allegedly misrepresented themselves to CD Projekt Red (1:20:45) https://www.pcgamer.com/quantic-QA-tester-report/ Antitrust investigation reveals information on Microsoft’s Game Pass revenues (1:25:30) https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88846/microsoft-reveals-how-much-money-game-pass-actually-makes/index.html Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier shutting down after a year in service (1:29:45) https://kotaku.com/ff7-first-soldier-battle-royale-mobile-shut-down-pc-ps4-1849647758 --- 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. The one person who said, oh God, Sterling's gonna fill vampire survivors with
0:28.0	a Laredit humor. I'm not Antney Birch.
0:31.0	Oh, I don't necessarily mean that as a burn to Antley Birch.
0:39.0	But that's what they're referencing.
0:43.0	Whenever you say the Reddit humor in games,
0:45.0	you're talking about Borderlands too.
0:47.0	Hmm.
0:48.0	I detest Reddit.
0:50.0	Like, I...
0:51.0	I...
0:52.0	I... Reddit hates me there's not going to be ready humor.
0:56.7	Oh sorry you've gotten me thinking about Anthony Birch in my one Anthony Birch story.
1:01.4	Yeah you've gotten me thinking about multiple Anthony Birch stories and it's the wrong venue.
1:07.6	I mean, the one I can probably say here because this is the one that I always think of and I think of Anthony Birch.
1:13.7	When I was just starting out doing this as a job and got invited to one of my first press events,
1:20.0	it was for Borderlands II's Tiny Tinas Assault and Dragons Keep DLC.
1:25.2	And I went to a press event in London.
1:27.6	And like all big NDA's, it was like three weeks before we could actually say what we'd seen and I'm like okay cool I made all my notes
1:34.6	I've got like a three hour coach journey home I'll start writing it up when I get home in in the
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