Podquisition 558: Surprise Murderer (w/ Joanna Blackhart)

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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We’ve done it again. Follow Joanna Blackhart on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/joannablackhart.com) and check out their website at joannablackhart.com Games we played this week include:(0:14:05) Balatro(0:27:45) Borderlands 4(0:35:30) Umamusume: Pretty Derby(0:43:35) Dying Light: The Beast(0:57:25) Sonic Racing Crossworlds--- News things talked about in this episode: (1:02:45) Microsoft increases Xbox console prices in US for second time in 2025https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-console-prices-set-to-rise-for-a-second-time-in-the-ushttps://www.eurogamer.net/tariffs-used-by-xbox-as-an-excuse-to-continue-raising-prices-says-former-blizzard-president (1:06:40) GDC does a rebrand and seemingly little elsehttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/game-developer-conference-rebrands-as-gdc-festival-of-gaming-the-industry-is-changing-and-so-are-wehttps://bsky.app/profile/officialgdc.bsky.social/post/3lzgrpfurvk2z (1:12:05) US Dept of Homeland Security steals Nintendo’s intellectual propertyhttps://www.eurogamer.net/us-department-of-homeland-security-uses-pokemon-theme-song-and-images-in-disturbing-ice-promotion --- 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	Right, hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test pile.
0:06.5	Right, to kick us off.
0:11.0	Right, to kick us off, I thought since we have a special guest today, I'd kick us off with a moral dilemma.
0:33.6	Love it.
0:34.9	Oh, good, good, yes.
0:36.3	Nothing says welcome to our inviting conversation, the complex moral
0:41.0	dilemma. It's a very complex one as well. More of a strategic one really than moral, but morals do
0:47.0	come into it. Imagine the scene, right? It's 7.15 p.m. You get a knock at the door.
0:54.7	It's pop star at Christa Burke.
0:57.4	He's got blood on his shirt and hands, and he's saying it happened again.
1:02.2	Ordinarily, you'd help your old friend Chris out,
1:05.7	but you've told that the recently reformed Wham,
1:09.4	who you are joining for a jam session, could come around 7.30 for 8pm.
1:15.9	Andrew Ridgely was really hard to get hold off for that.
1:19.8	What you're going to do?
1:20.8	I can imagine.
1:21.5	Yeah.
1:22.4	And remember, Chris is an old friend.
1:25.9	He relies on you.
1:27.2	You've helped each other get out of jams and scrapes the whole time.
1:31.3	And any other reason for you to say, I don't know Christaberg slash who he is, I would just tell him to fuck off.
1:40.5	We'll be answered with you've got to do something with him.
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