Podquisition 471: Weather or Naught

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean we all should be. Games we played this week include: God of War: Ragnarok (7:45) Luck be a Landlord (15:50) Grand Theft Auto V (22:25) Lies of P (23:15) Buckshot Roulette (26:40) Pokémon (30:10) Orc Massage (33:25) --- News things talked about in this episode: Another round of layoffs hits Unity, Twitch, and Bossa Studios (43:30) https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030695/unity-layoff-staff-25-percent https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/10/a-difficult-update-about-our-workforce/ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bossa-studios-lays-off-one-third-of-its-staff Netflix considering plan to insert ads into its published games (49:30) https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-eyes-ways-to-make-money-from-videogames-in-potential-pivot-705bd3b3 SAG-AFTRA makes AI deal for game voice workers seemingly without consulting them (52:15) https://www.pcgamesn.com/sag-aftra-ai-voice-actor-reaction Lawsuit claims discrimination at Activision-Blizzard against old, white men (59:40) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ex-activision-exec-accuses-publisher-of-discriminating-against-old-white-guys Xbox bans Baldur’s Gate 3 players who have default share settings on while saving sexy content (1:05:45) https://www.pcgamer.com/xbox-insists-its-willy-nilly-bans-of-baldurs-gate-3-players-from-its-online-services-are-not-automatic-suggests-turning-off-its-opt-out-feature-to-avoid-horny-upload-crimes/ --- 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: Santosh Kumar

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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. Well, well. Well. Well.
0:23.0	Twenty four, isn't it?
0:25.0	That it is.
0:27.0	Last I checked.
0:28.0	There's no getting around that.
0:29.0	Literally nothing different.
0:31.0	You don't feel, you know, a whole lot has changed just because a number went up?
0:35.4	Not really, not really.
0:37.7	They're still making video games, so that's something. They haven't, they haven't put this, they haven't put this show out of out of commission yet so
0:46.2	it's still raining that's one thing they said would stop did they they should
0:51.7	have said something before yesterday and done something about it. It poured here.
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah, it was raining here earlier today.
1:00.0	Very, very wet here yesterday.
1:02.0	I'm glad about that though. I like the rain. Yeah I do too although I'm I don't heavy rain I'm not that into David Cage can kiss my ass but
1:12.1	But no truly I love one of the best things about living in the
1:15.2	Pacific Northwest was that it rained all the fucking time but it wasn't thick
1:21.8	heavy rain like we get on the East Coast.
1:24.6	It's this sort of misty thing that's just always there.
1:28.2	And it's really nice.
1:30.1	Yeah, I love the rain.
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