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 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. now. choose any reptiles to give birth to life young what would it be in life?
0:23.4	Does it have to be a still existent reptile?
0:27.4	Uh...
0:29.4	Ideally for the purposes of what I will be doing with the information, but...
0:36.4	Okay, okay.
0:37.4	So the casual purposes if you want to choose extinct.
0:40.4	I mean, look, my only real answer I have to this is an is it is extinct and I want a
0:47.1	T-Rex to give live birth because I love the thought of a T-Rex popping out of another T-Rex and just like the second it hits the floor being like
0:54.0	a- I'm here just you know how like giraffes they're born and like within seconds they're like yeah I got this
1:01.1	I'm moving around I just want they just get right back out yeah
1:06.2	a tiny little T-Rex to just pop out and be like yeah here I am let's let's devour. That'd be brilliant. I like it'd be hell for the T-Rex
1:11.3	midwives though like because they ain't got the arms to pull.
1:14.6	I don't know what your purposes are and I'm sorry this is unhelpful, but that is my answer.
1:20.0	Oh no, no, no, it's still valuable data, it can still, um, it can still use that in the control at least in the pretrial
1:27.1	Conrad you
1:28.9	uh you know I think it would just be entertaining to watch snakes give life birth.
1:33.2	Oh, that, oh, that would just be a rope making another rope.
1:39.0	Coming out of a rope.
1:40.0	A rope coming out of a rope.
1:41.2	Yeah, it's like, you know, some dude taping a shit with tape worms.
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