Podquisition 502: Rot-o-Correct

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Everywhere you look, decay. Games we played this week include: Creatures of Ava (34:30) Paper Trail (40:45) Shadow of Rome (44:05) Doom/Doom II (50:40) --- News things talked about in this episode: New Valve game gets 20k concurrent players over weekend, bans anyone who talks about it (54:55) https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219016/valve-deadlock-hands-on-secret-new-game Roblox banned in Turkey to protect children (1:06:55) https://www.eurogamer.net/roblox-responds-to-platform-ban-in-turkiye Equity sets new minimum rates for video game performers in UK (1:10:40) https://www.eurogamer.net/uk-actors-union-equity-introduces-minimum-rates-to-address-systemic-low-pay-for-video-game-performers Bloober Team president asks gamers to trust them with Silent Hill 2 remake (1:12:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/bloober-ceo-dreaming-that-gamers-will-trust-us-to-deliver-silent-hill-2-remake Retro games based on Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead announced (1:18:35) https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/halloween-evil-dead-retrorealms-game-series-1235079059/ --- 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'm glad to put your middle to the test file
0:04.4	I'm glad I've got you got gathered here because I want to do data research.
0:26.4	Yeah?
0:27.6	Yeah, that was just me dressing up that I want to complain about my spell checker.
0:32.0	So I mentioned this on the Junkosition in an offhanded sentence, but I do want to ask you to, if you've noticed, if
0:41.0	Spell Checkers and Autocorrect have gotten shitter, because I want something else I want to blame
0:46.7	AI for. Oh, a thousand percent they've gotten worse. Right? I'm not imagining it.
0:51.9	No, no, you're not imagining that. They have gotten worse.
0:54.7	I'm having words auto-corrected to actual gibberish,
1:00.2	like just mashes of consonants put together.
1:04.1	And it's not like where I've accidentally mistyped something
1:07.3	and the dictionary on the phone has remembered it forever.
1:12.2	And when I try and get it to save words that it doesn't recognize, it never does. Like the fact that it only knows Jim Q
1:17.9	and doesn't know Jim Quosition, no matter how many times I tell it Jim Quosition, it tries to turn
1:23.9	it to Jim Q. Or that time I wrote Blackpool in all caps for a social media post for a wrestling gig.
1:32.7	And then from then on forever, until I wiped all memory of it,
1:37.3	it tried to spell Blackpool in all caps all the time, forever.
1:40.9	Yeah.
1:41.3	That was before I noticed it getting worse.
1:43.9	Now it's nonsense words. And it'll tell me words
1:46.9	like exsanguinate is wrong. And darling, no, don't tell me what words are real and what ones are not,
1:53.0	because I know all real words and all were made up words. I made up half of them. So don't get me on
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