Podquisition 486: Merde Blanche

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Wistful remembrances of days gone by. Games we played this week include: Another Crab’s Treasure (5:50) Slime 3K (28:55) Stellar Blade (40:35) Harold Halibut (51:40) Fallout (57:55) Balatro (1:04:30) --- News things talked about in this episode: ReedPop consolidating UK events EGX and MCM (1:07:35) https://www.eurogamer.net/egx-and-mcm-team-up-for-london-2024-dates Nintendo reportedly would have let Samus be in Fortnite, but only for Switch players (54:15) https://www.eurogamer.net/samus-skipped-fortnite-because-nintendo-got-really-hung-up-about-its-characters-on-other-platforms Embracer reorganizing into three companies (1:15:30) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-group-splits-into-three-everything-you-need-to-know World of Warcraft adding arachnophobia mode ahead of introducing arachnid characters (1:21:05) https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/world-of-warcraft-arachnophobia-mode-2639255/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise at https://thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on https://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 (https://patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at https://mercenarycreative.com. Photo Credit: Ian Line / CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED

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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 know, I do.
0:12.8	I do.
0:31.1	I'm going to the conclusion the other day that appendicitis is the white dog shit of internal organ and surgical related procedures.
0:35.9	Because when I was a kid, it's all you fucking hear about.
0:39.9	So-and-so is in the hospital for appendicitis.
0:43.0	Kids at school all the time, off for appendicitis.
0:45.3	To the point where when I was a kid,
0:50.8	the idea that you would have to have it out was considered inevitable.
0:52.7	That's how it was presented.
0:58.3	In the media, it was presented and colloquoquially and everything I heard as a kid.
1:00.4	But it's like ram raiding.
1:03.8	It's petered out.
1:07.6	You don't hear about it so much when before it was an epidemic.
1:13.7	And again, as I point to the white dog shit, which was a change in dietary thing when regulations came in, for those wondering why white dog shit disappeared.
1:17.8	Can't say I've ever wondered, but I am intrigued now that I know.
1:21.3	Well, yeah, you know, it used to be one of life's great mysteries.
1:25.3	As a kid, you'd go to the park and you'd see sun-baked dog shit
1:29.7	and it had been baked white. And then one day, I say one day, I don't know if it was over the...
1:36.0	At some point, you stop looking, you stop hanging around in the park, poking at dog shit with a
1:41.4	stick. We were a very poor family. We made best with what we could do.
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