Podquisition 422: Freakin’ Dragons

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We’re seeing them. Games we played this week include: Forspoken (7:45) Cyberpunk 2077 (33:10) Hyper Meteor (46:10) Zipper (47:10) Theatrhythm Curtain Call (53:00) --- News things talked about in this episode: Yves Guillmot tried to walk back “ball is in your court” comment to workers (1:01:45) https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-assassin-s-creed-mirage-far-cry-delay-canceled-1850001343 Ubisoft Paris workers will be striking (1:02:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-paris-unions-call-for-strike-on-friday Games industry layoffs are brutal (1:04:05) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-lays-off-nearly-300 https://kotaku.com/microsoft-layoff-xbox-343-halo-bethesda-coalition-1850002600 Study finds self-regulation is inconsistent at labeling games with loot boxes (1:15:15) https://osf.io/asbcg/ Workers at Activision-Blizzard studio Proletariat drop bid to unionize following CEO pressure (1:20:55) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/proletariat-unionization-vote-request-dropped --- 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	So let me get this straight.
0:22.4	Yeah.
0:23.1	I'm somewhere that's not what I would call Earth.
0:25.9	Mm-hmm.
0:26.7	I'm seeing freaking dragons.
0:28.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:30.1	No, no, it's fucking dragons.
0:32.5	Oh, yeah.
0:32.9	Fucking dragons.
0:34.3	Sajad Javid called for patients to pay for GP and A&E visits.
0:37.8	What a cunt?
0:40.6	What were we talking about?
0:42.4	Fucking dragons is what we were talking about.
0:44.8	Oh, they got an entire website for that.
0:46.6	It is Freaking Dragons, by the way.
0:49.7	They added fucking post-trailer.
0:52.8	So now it's, oh, I'm seeing freaking dragons and, oh, yeah, I'm talking to a fucking cuff. Sorry, yeah, you're right. It's fucking cuff, not fucking dragons. I knew it was one of the clips from that trailer. They changed freaking to fucking. Yeah. You see, I'm intimately familiar with the line because over the course of playing forspoken, she's already said it twice. Well, I know. I mean, I'm very familiar with the line because over the course of playing forespoken, she's already said it twice.
1:12.6	Well, I know. I mean, I'm very familiar with the line because I have watched many, many, many, many of Jonathan Holmes's redoubt of that trailer over the past months.
1:21.6	Yes, a good friend compatriot, compadre, and patron saint of certainly my life, Jonathan Holmes, has been parodying the notorious.
1:32.1	Many have called it cringy forspoken trailer.
1:36.9	He's done dozens and dozens of different versions.
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