Podquisition 421: Your Choice of Crabs

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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One option seems less desirable. Games we played this week include: Melatonin (5:00) Hades (10:40) Cyberpunk 2077 (19:45) Omaze (38:40) Demon Quest 85 (41:35) Chibi-Robo! (45:25) A Short Hike (51:10) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (46:50) --- News things talked about in this episode: Ubisoft delays Skull & Bones again and ends development on three unannounced games (1:05:35) https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/01/11/ubisoft-cancels-three-unannounced-games-skull-and-bones-delayed-again Beyond Good & Evil 2 allegedly still in development despite other cuts at Ubisoft (1:09:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/beyond-good-evil-2-still-in-development-ubisoft-insists Ubisoft stock plummets, Yves pressures staff to take responsibility (1:13:40) https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-skull-bones-delay-assassins-creed-far-cry-cuts-1849975925 Workers being called to strike at Ubisoft Paris (1:15:25) https://twitter.com/SolInfoJeuVideo/status/1615263954955116546 Activision acquisition now coming under fire from Google, Nvidia (1:18:55) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-12/google-nvidia-express-concerns-to-ftc-about-microsoft-s-activision-deal The EU has their own antitrust concerns about Microsoft acquiring ABK (1:20:15) https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-faces-eu-antitrust-warning-over-activision-deal-sources-2023-01-16/ The Bored Ape game is hilariously convoluted and bad (1:22:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7LiVBCZ69Q --- 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 now.
0:05.0	Ah, bah, bah, bah, ma'amada.
0:06.0	Hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.0	Ah, huh, ah,oo. Right, so I've been thinking about dungeon-esque crabs.
0:23.8	Mm.
0:24.4	Dungeoness crabs?
0:25.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:27.7	I pity them.
0:30.2	Imagine your whole existence just being food, the fact that you are it.
0:37.6	Because there are lots of different types of crabs. I was going to ask you both, if you could be any crab, what one would you be? And my first thought was, well, neither of them are going to say dungeon s. That's true. I mean, I don't know enough about crabs to have known what a dungeon s crab was, but now that I I've looked at it and gone, oh, yeah, that's the one that people do all the eating of,
0:57.6	I certainly wouldn't be a dungeon-s crab.
0:59.7	Right? That's the thing.
1:02.1	Nobody would choose to be a dungeon-esque crab.
1:06.7	I think in terms of sea life that people wouldn't choose to be, it's a male anglerfish because of how they fuck.
1:17.6	Well, you don't want to be the simp of the ocean.
1:21.4	That is a brilliant fucking word for it.
1:24.4	Yeah, you don't want to be the simimp fish and you don't want to be a dungeon
1:28.9	s crab. If you compare it to a cow, I realize that's a bit of a different animal from a
1:35.4	crab, slightly smaller claws. But if you compare it to a cow, which we literally keep around to milk
1:44.1	and eat, the first result, like the first
1:47.7	page of results is not about eating cows. You Google dungeoness crab, right? Immediately. How to
1:55.4	eat dungeon s crab. The easiest whole dungeon s crab recipe. Dungeoness crab legs.
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