Podquisition 442: Bring on the Bafflement

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

When faced with absurdity, return it in kind. Games we played this week include: Choo Choo Survivor (15:10) Street Fighter 6 (31:02) Ollie Frog: Toad Skater (48:50) Station to Station (50:05) Venba (51:30) Lies of P (53:50) Final Fantasy XVI (59:45) Cassette Beasts (1:11:45) --- News things talked about in this episode: FTC files case to block Microsoft acquisition of ABK until scheduled hearing in August (1:14:30) https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-activision-blizzard-xbox-ftc-ab5dd455ed5a2785983d8373915e3531 Embracer Group closing studios and canceling games after $2bn deal falls through (1:17:10) https://www.eurogamer.net/saints-row-owner-embracer-announces-comprehensive-restructuring-program-to-close-studios-cut-jobs Bioware announces and immediately canceled a collectible statue of floating dead FemShep (1:22:45) https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-shepard-dead-statue-bioware-pull-femshep-1850532001 --- 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. You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at mercenarycreative.com.

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0:00.0	Now, I'm trying to put your middle to the test now.
0:06.6	Hey, hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:15.0	Now, I try not to be self-conscious About
0:22.9	My appearance as a trans person
0:28.1	I say I try not to
0:30.6	I am all of the time
0:32.7	Right
0:33.4	I mean you know
0:35.0	As we as a community
0:37.1	As we tend to be for various reasons, mostly the cis.
0:43.1	But I try and carry myself with an air of confidence befitting someone who does, on the whole, like the way they look.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:54.1	But then things like this weekend happen.
0:58.5	Now, I will say, it was a funny enough story that my talking about the event kind of went quasi-viral on Twitter.
1:11.6	People did seem to find the story charming.
1:15.6	But it did lead me to think a few things in the aftermath.
1:19.6	So anyway, I am in Blackpool this weekend, or this past weekend I was in Blackpool.
1:26.6	During Pride, Pride weekend, I was there for Pride of the Ring,
1:31.5	the show that I'd been promoting in the run-up, where I would be defending my women's championship,
1:37.9	which I successfully did. That was a weird show, because most of the audience was straight.
1:44.6	A lot of quees didn't turn up.
1:46.8	A stagdoo was there.
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