Podquisition 499: Wrestling Extremities

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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It’s what you might call a broad spectrum. Games we played this week include: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate (7:05) Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (16:40) Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (24:45) Arranger (33:15) Danganronpa v3 (36:25) Silent Hill 2 (40:05) --- News things talked about in this episode: Microsoft announces COD release dates, with Black Ops 6 launching after Game Pass changes (48:15) https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-is-now-on-xbox-game-pass/ The FTC is mad Microsoft did the thing the FTC knew Microsoft would do after buying Activision (49:30) https://www.eurogamer.net/ftc-slams-microsofts-xbox-game-pass-tier-changes-calls-it-a-degraded-product Ubisoft grovels to right-wing gamers over the black samurai in Assassin’s Creed (53:35) https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-staffer-blasts-decision-to-lay-off-internal-team-focused-on-diversity-due-to-changing-business-needs Ziff-Davis lays off all staff at Humble Games (1:01:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/external-translators-hired-for-nintendo-projects-bemoan-lack-of-credit-in-almost-every-big-title Deadpool’s butt controller (1:03:00) https://www.polygon.com/24200443/xbox-deadpool-wolverine-wireless-controller-giveaway-ass --- 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.

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0:00.0	I wanted to dedicate at least my part in this to everyone who came out here tonight in the face of debilitating social anxiety.
0:11.0	Everyone who came out here risking sensory overwhelm from the noise and the lights
0:19.4	Anyone who's ever been body-sh victim blamed denigrated spattle treated like you are
0:26.7	broken and wrong you are not you are okay?
0:38.0	I see you
0:40.9	I hear you and I'm And I'm being proud to be one of you! So I had an interesting weekend. I had an interesting weekend. I had an interesting weekend.
1:07.0	I had an interesting weekend. Wrestling related. Don't worry listeners. Don't worry those people that leave comments on my videos with time stamps to skip the 15 seconds of a wrestling clip I put at the beginning.
1:22.0	So Saturday night was true grit where it was the Pride show and I talked about disability
1:27.8	pride and sort of revealed that I ain't going to wrestle for long and I'll be in a wheelchair
1:32.1	which is something I'm coming to grips with at the moment.
1:35.0	That sort of blew up on Britrest Twitter when true grit posted the highlights of the speech. So
1:41.5	lots I've made lots of people cry this weekend there was a lot of
1:45.5	people crying in the crowd in that but it was very good very positive very
1:50.0	emotionally hard for me of course and very scary. And then the next day I teamed up with
1:55.5	a version of cane who wears a rainbow suit and is called gain while I yell
2:01.6	taste the cane bow.
2:03.2	I fucking love wrestling.
2:04.9	It is at once some of the most meaningful stuff I've ever done
2:09.9	and some of the absolute fucking dumbest.
2:13.2	I, you know, dumb and meaningful don't have to, they can go exist.
2:18.6	Absolutely, absolutely.
2:20.6	You know, as someone that wrote a whole book of video game character butt reviews
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