Podquisition 458: Semi-Conscious Life

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

I want something else. Like a bed. Games we played this week include: El Paso Elsewhere (8:30) Amanda the Adventurer (30:00) Model Builder (35:00) Deep Rock Galactic Survivor (49:30) Forza Motorsport 2023 (56:20) Dynasty Warriors 9 (1:02:10) Helldivers (1:05:30) --- News things talked about in this episode: Epic lays off 16% of workers, gutting studios and seeking to liquidate assets (1:17:05) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epic-laying-off-more-than-800 Hatoful Boyfriend dev claims two years of royalties unpaid by Epic (1:21:30) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/hatoful-boyfriend-dev-accuses-epic-of-unpaid-royalties Fortnite to implement individual age ratings for all third-party content (57:55) https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23899988/fortnite-creative-age-ratings Team 17 also lays off workers (1:27:15) https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/10/02/worms-dredge-publisher-team17-is-the-latest-to-be-hit-by-layoffs Naughty Dog quietly severing developer contracts early https://kotaku.com/naughty-dog-ps5-playstation-sony-last-us-part-3-layoffs-1850893794 Former Ubisoft executives arrested on charges of sexual assault (1:33:55) https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23901575/ubisoft-executives-arrest-sexual-harassment-investigation --- 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.
0:01.4	Time to put your middle to the test now.
0:04.7	Bye, blah, bye.
0:06.5	Hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.1	I don't.
0:12.0	I don't.
0:12.4	I don't. Tide.
0:24.4	Yeah.
0:25.7	Tired today.
0:27.4	You're tired today.
0:28.7	Yeah.
0:29.4	I'm officially doing this podcast to sleep.
0:33.8	For I'm tired.
0:35.5	Well, look, we've all been there.
0:37.4	We've all had, you know, recordings that were technically there for, but, you know, they're more in practice than in reality.
0:45.8	Like every episode of this show I've been on.
0:48.0	Hey!
0:49.5	I'm pretty sure that this podcast is taking place inside a dream I'm having while in a coma,
0:55.4	like that TV show that was on when I was a kid, that I can never remember the name on.
1:00.6	St. Elsewhere.
1:01.8	But no, I think the word Odyssey was in the title.
1:06.9	And it was some sort of drama starring teenagers.
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