Podquisition 524: The Very Best of Anti-Content

Jimquisition

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Call toll-free, operators are standing by. Games we played this week include: Mindwave (8:45) Wii Music (15:25) Alien: Fate of the Nostromo (19:25) Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (25:45) Ticket to Ride London (29:30) Switch 2 (31:55) --- News things talked about in this episode: Backers of Silksong upset over developer’s post which led them down rabbit hole (35:15) https://www.eurogamer.net/silksong-fans-believe-creators-switch-2-hint-points-to-april-announcement-and-its-all-thanks-to-a-slice-of-cake David Lynch’s PlayStation 2 commercial (46:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf9vpJMDjA GDC’s annual survey shows industry in decline, rising interest in unions (49:20) https://www.eurogamer.net/gdcs-state-of-the-games-industry-survey-says-one-in-ten-respondents-laid-off-in-2024 Genshin Impact pays fine for privacy violations and deception (52:55) https://www.eurogamer.net/genshin-impact-maker-agrees-to-pay-20m-in-ftc-case-accusing-it-of-violating-childrens-privacy-and-deceiving-players Lords of the Fallen publisher declares DEI to blame for industry woes (1:04:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/lords-of-the-fallen-publisher-ci-games-publicly-shuns-dei-says-it-wont-embed-social-or-political-agendas Until Dawn movie has tenuous links to game’s mechanics (1:08:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/until-dawn-movie-teaser-reveals-how-its-replaced-the-games-branching-narrative --- 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 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	Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test pile.
0:04.0	I have, like, sometimes when I don't have anything for an intro, I turn up, and I try and make that a bit.
0:27.7	I try and make something out of that.
0:31.3	But I cannot, I cannot articulate the scope of the nothing I have for you.
0:39.0	There's always the fallback option of just start with Hello, it's Polkosition,
0:43.3	and just go straight into a video game.
0:45.1	That is an option that's always on the table.
0:48.4	Here's the thing.
0:50.4	I didn't play anything this past week either.
0:52.7	Oh no.
0:53.7	I present to you for the first time, anti-content.
1:01.7	Uh-huh.
1:02.9	One moment?
1:07.3	What do you reckon on that? Revolutionary, huh?
1:10.5	What you just listened to then was the world's first anti-content.
1:16.8	I don't know.
1:17.3	There was that guy that released a song that was like four minutes of silence who might have beaten you to it.
1:22.1	Yeah, actually, even as I was doing it, it was complete bullocks, because me and Conrad have already literally done this bit.
1:29.6	Mm-hmm.
1:30.2	We once posted a podcast that was hosted by some Mime artists.
1:36.0	Yep.
1:36.6	And I believe you just uploaded an hour of silence, didn't you, Conrad?
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