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Podquisition 457: Absentee Landlord

Jimquisition

Jimquisition

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4.6980 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Worship that? Never. Games we played this week include: Payday 3 (12:30) Amanda the Adventurer (18:25) Rewind or Die (24:30) Sniper Killer (26:40) Train Sim World 4 (34:00) Pinball Wicked (36:55) Xenotilt (38:55) Trombone Champ (41:10) Halls of Torment (46:50) --- News things talked about in this episode: CMA withdraws major objections to Microsoft acquisition of ABK (52:42) https://gamerant.com/microsoft-activision-acquisition-cma-preliminary-approval/ More layoffs at Embracer Group, including Crystal Dynamics (50:45) https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/09/embracer-group-more-tough-decisions-to-come-as-crystal-dynamics-suffers-layoffs Capcom issues statement on Microsoft desire to acquire them (57:55) https://www.eurogamer.net/capcom-would-gracefully-decline-an-acquisition-offer-from-microsoft SAG-AFTRA votes to approve voice actor strike (1:00:00) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hollywoods-video-game-performers-authorize-strike-if-labor-talks-fail-2023-09-26/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise 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/Instagram/BlueSky and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at mercenarycreative.com.

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0:00.0

Hey Hey Hey Hey, time to put you middle to the test now.

0:04.4

Oh, baa, baa, do you know you're messing with the best now.

0:11.0

Uh-huh, uh-huh. You know what? I screw like coming up with any wacky bits, which is basically just me talking to myself

0:28.2

ten minutes before we start.

0:29.8

I might as well just carry on the conversation we were having before we started recording.

0:34.4

My landlord's done a runner of a sort.

0:37.0

I've obviously sort of been giving some updates on the

0:42.7

podcasts occasionally every few weeks about the issues with this

0:47.4

house the maintenance issues that the landlord is ignoring to the

0:51.2

detriment of the property some of which are health risks.

0:56.1

We had an inspection a couple of weeks ago, the letting agent came round to have a look at all

1:01.1

of our complaints and they haven't been able to contact

1:04.8

the landlord since and I'm in the middle of sending an email back to them where I'm like

1:17.6

for all of the reminders that they send me when I forget to pay the rent, because you know, ADHD, I always forget to pay it on the day. The landlord's always quick to fucking get at me about that. So, where I've basically

1:27.8

just been left with these maintenance issues for weeks, I do feel disinclined to be prompt or present at all on rent day. I mean, first of all, I know people on the council, I shall be like putting in health complaints I

1:57.1

We've had to cross that point now because clearly I'm not going to get anything done through the landlord

2:06.7

This is not good. I've said like we have a basement where like vermin's getting in, we have plumbing issues where water is just leaking, and the landlord refused.

2:17.0

We had plumbers look at it and they said, the sink we have will keep leaking, it needs to come

2:22.2

out, and it really is

2:23.4

Lori you've seen the downstairs bathroom you know how absurd that weird little sink is

2:29.4

The thing that's just sort of like hanging to the wall by a bolt. It's just a weird little bowl on a pole.

2:37.3

Like, the plumbers have said, it's not good. It needs to come out and be replaced and the landlord's like no too

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