Podquisition 459: Live Reptile Birth

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This is all on the up and up, we promise. Games we played this week include: PS5 Access Controller (8:30) Elemental Survivors (22:15) Warhammer 40k: Darktide (33:50) Stardew Valley (36:55) GWAR: Rumble in Antarctica (40:30) Forza Motorsport 2023 (44:10) A Tiny Sticker Tale (55:00) Whisker Squadron: Survival (57:05) Another Crab’s Treasure (58:50) --- News things talked about in this episode: Bungie sued for wrongful termination by former HR manager (1:17:05) https://www.ign.com/articles/former-bungie-hr-manager-is-suing-for-wrongful-termination-after-she-reported-potential-racial-bias BioWare accused of underpaying severance for laid off workers (1:21:30) https://www.eurogamer.net/former-dragon-age-staff-seek-further-compensation-following-layoffs Recently unionized QA workers for BioWare all lost their jobs (57:55) https://www.polygon.com/23903782/dragon-age-dreadwolf-qa-workers-laid-off-keywords-studios Game developer union forms in Poland, including staff at CD Projekt Red (1:27:15) https://www.eurogamer.net/cd-projekt-red-devs-unionise-after-its-third-round-of-layoffs-in-three-months John Riccitello quietly slinks away from CEO post at Unity (1:13:50) https://www.wired.com/story/john-riccitello-retires-unity-ceo-controversy/ Everything is okay at Ubisoft now, says Ubisoft, using Ubisoft surveys as evidence (1:16:20) https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23901575/ubisoft-executives-arrest-sexual-harassment-investigation As ABK merger set to close, Kotick inflicts one more torment on employees (1:22:00) https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/activision-offers-a-timeframe-for-xbox-game-pass-inclusions-ahead-of-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3s-launch --- 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, time to put your middle to the test now.
0:06.5	Hey, hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.1	I don't, I do.
0:11.9	I do.
0:17.1	Right, if you could choose any reptiles to be
0:21.1	Like Young, what would it be and why?
0:24.1	Does it have to be a still-existent reptile?
0:28.3	Ideally for the purposes of what I will be doing with the information.
0:36.5	Okay, okay.
0:37.5	For casual purposes, if you want to choose extinct...
0:40.5	I mean, look, my only real answer I have to this is extinct.
0:46.5	And I want a T-Rex to give live birth,
0:49.1	because I love the thought of a T-Rex popping out of another T-Rex,
0:52.2	and just, like, the second it hits the floor, being like,
0:54.0	I'm here. Just, you know how like giraffes, they're born and like within seconds? They're like, yeah, I got this. I'm moving around. Oh, yeah, they just get right back up, yeah. A tiny little T-Rex to just pop out and be like, yeah, here I am. Let's devour. That'd be brilliant. I like it. It'd be hell for the T-Rex midwives, though. Like, because they ain't got the arms to pull. I don't know what your purposes are, and I'm sorry this is unhelpful, but that is my answer. Oh, no, no, no, it's still valuable data. It can still, we can still use that in the control, at least in the pre-trials. Conrad?
1:29.6	You know, I think it would just be entertaining to watch snakes give live birth.
1:33.4	Oh, that, oh.
1:34.7	Oh, that would, that would just be a rope making another rope.
1:38.9	Coming out of a rope.
1:39.8	A rope coming out of a rope.
1:41.3	Yeah, it's like, you know, some dude taking a shit with tapeworms.
1:44.6	That is a good answer.
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