Podquisition 469: Suddenly Seasonal

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 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	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. So I was, I was, I was,
0:13.0	I was.
0:14.0	So I was really in late earlier because I remembered those shit it's Christmas
0:27.4	which I've also it's just dawned on me that it's the 20th today.
0:32.6	Yeah. Yeah.
0:33.6	Yeah. Yeah.
0:34.6	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:35.6	Fuck all friends.
0:36.6	I had a point like a couple of days ago where I was like, oh yeah, that's like real soon,
0:41.8	in it. Mm-hmm.
0:43.0	We're hosting one over here and it's going to be big.
0:47.0	Linda has been just, I gotta, she's actually on top of that stuff.
0:52.0	Like, because her anxiety will not allow her to be in a position
0:57.8	where she can forget that there is this sense of obligation around the holiday.
1:04.0	And so she has for weeks been like,
1:09.0	hey, I need this person's address.
1:10.0	Hey Conrad, get me this person's address.
1:12.0	I need this address. I need to send this out, you know, so it is, it has not been lost on me and yet I have done nothing.
1:21.2	Mm-hmm. I live life one impending deadline at a time and I cannot act more than one, maybe two deadlines ahead of me.
1:30.0	So I really do have to get to that point where I'm like, oh, I'm far enough along in the calendar that I can see, I can see Christmas is on the next row down from what I'm doing now, like's on that on next week on the line
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