Podquisition 469: Suddenly Seasonal

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Oh, yeah, that thing is about to happen isn’t it? Games we played this week include: Vampire Survivors (18:35) Midnight Suns (19:40) Grand Theft Auto V (25:24) Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (33:25) Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising (41:15) Diceheart (53:20) Slay the Princess (1:00:00) --- News things talked about in this episode: Ransomware group releases trove of material stolen from Insomniac Games (1:07:15) https://www.cyberdaily.au/culture/9959-snikt-rhysida-dumps-more-than-a-terabyte-of-insomniac-games-internal-data Internal Sony documents give candid view of concerns over ABK acquisition (1:19:15) https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/microsoft-could-disrupt-and-threaten-playstation-business-sonys-alleged-xbox-fears-laid-bare-in-massive-hack ABK studios are ending hybrid work (1:21:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/abk-workers-alliance-responds-to-activision-blizzard-ending-hybrid-working ABK settles California worker discrimination suit (1:24:20) https://www.wsj.com/tech/activision-blizzard-to-pay-around-50-million-to-settle-lawsuit-that-spurred-microsofts-takeover-4dc1178b Valve delivers festive DOTA 2 bans (1:26:00) https://www.polygon.com/24002666/dota-2-frostivus-2023-bans-valve-toxic-lump-coal --- 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. Photo Credit: Daderot

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0:00.0	So I was really
0:02.0	Time to put your middle to the test now
0:04.0	So I was really So I was really annoyed earlier, because I remember those shit, it's Christmas, which I've also, it's just dawned on me that it's the 20th to die.
0:32.6	Yeah.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:34.7	Fuck all friends.
0:36.4	I, I had a point, like, a couple of days ago where I was like, oh, yeah, that's like, that's like real soon, in it?
0:42.4	Mm-hmm. We're hosting one over here, and it's going to be big.
0:47.2	Linda has been just, I got to, she's actually on top of that stuff.
0:53.0	Like, because her anxiety will not allow her to be in a position where, you know, she can forget that there's this sense of obligation around the holiday.
1:04.3	Yeah.
1:04.8	And so she has for weeks been like, hey, I need this person's address.
1:10.7	Hey, Conrad, get me this person's address.
1:12.5	I need this address.
1:13.7	I need to send this out.
1:15.4	So it is, it has not been lost on me.
1:18.1	And yet, I have done nothing.
1:21.3	Mm-hmm.
1:22.2	I live life one impending deadline at a time, and I cannot act more than one, maybe two deadlines ahead of me.
1:30.6	So I really do have to get to that point where I'm like, oh, I'm far enough along in the calendar
1:36.3	that I can see Christmas is on the next row down from what I'm doing now.
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