Podquisition 442: Bring on the Bafflement

Jimquisition

Leisure

4.6 • 980 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	Hey, hey, hey, time to put you middle to the test now.
0:04.4	Oh, baa, baa, baa,
0:06.8	hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now.
0:11.0	Uh-huh, uh-huh. Now I try not to be self-conscious about
0:14.0	about.
0:21.0	Now I try not to be self-conscious
0:37.1	about conscious about my appearance as a trans person. I am all of the time right I mean you know as as as we as a community as we tend to be for various reasons mostly the sis but I try and carry myself with an air of confidence befitting someone
0:49.8	who does on the whole like the way they look.
0:53.0	But then things like this weekend happen.
0:57.0	Now, I will say, it was a funny enough story that my talking about the event kind of went
1:09.0	quasi viral on Twitter. People did seem to find the story charming, but it did lead me to think a few things
1:18.9	in the aftermath. So anyway, I am in Blackpool this weekend, or this past weekend I was in Blackpool.
1:27.0	During Pride, Pride Weekend, I was therefore Pride of the Ring,
1:32.0	the show that I've been promoting in the run-up where I would be defending
1:36.6	my women's championship, which I successfully did.
1:40.1	That was a weird show, because most of the audience was straight.
1:44.6	A lot of queers didn't turn up.
1:46.8	A stag-do was there, and I think they came just to see like novelty gaze being novelty.
1:52.1	So they didn't take to me because even though I am like my
1:56.8	character Commander Sterling is very novel in their appearance.
2:00.8	You're not stag-do flavor novelty gay?
2:04.8	No, like Priscilla was there.
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