Podquisition 566: The Catsitter Economy

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Let’s see big tech disrupt this. Games we played this week include:(0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV(0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster(0:18:55) Dispatch(0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero(0:38:55) Bridge Command(0:43:00) Halls of Torment--- News things talked about in this episode: (0:44:40) Rockstar’s alleged union busting hits the floor of Parliamenthttps://www.eurogamer.net/rockstars-controversial-dismissal-of-31-employees-is-such-a-big-deal-its-made-its-way-to-uk-parliament (0:59:50) Krafton is deep in AI nonsensehttps://www.eurogamer.net/after-south-korean-publisher-krafton-announced-its-transforming-into-an-ai-first-company-its-now-offering-employees-voluntary-resignationhttps://www.eurogamer.net/krafton-ceo-allegedly-asked-ai-to-brainstorm-ways-to-avoid-paying-earnout-bonus-to-subnautica-2-devs (1:02:40) Megabonk developer asks to be removed as nominee for Game Awardhttps://www.eurogamer.net/mystery-megabonk-developer-withdraws-from-the-game-awards-following-incorrect-nomination (1:01:51) Rebecca Heineman, 1963-2025https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/obituary-interplay-co-founder-rebecca-ann-heineman-has-passed-away-at-62 --- 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, pal.
0:04.7	Bye, blah, bye.
0:06.5	Hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.1	I don't.
0:11.9	I don't.
0:12.4	I don't care who says that I have fallen off
0:26.9	and I am no longer relevant in the world of YouTube
0:30.4	because if I was irrelevant, would I cats it for other famous YouTubers?
0:38.5	No, I wouldn't.
0:40.0	I'm back, baby.
0:43.3	Back in the limelight.
0:45.0	This is what they mean when they talk about like YouTubers doing collabs together.
0:49.6	Here's the collaboration.
0:50.9	I look after your cat.
0:52.5	You be not present. Yeah, you go, you go off and have a
0:56.4	successful career, right? And I will feed your cat. Apologies to the listeners for my audio
1:03.2	quality not being grand. I am legit cat sitting at the moment for the stupendium. So I am in Birmingham,
1:10.4	the birthplace of the electric light orchestra
1:12.8	and the only place, it's the only thing I know or care about when it comes to Birmingham is it's
1:19.9	where ELO came from as part of the Brum beat movement. I know one other fact and then are connected
1:26.6	it makes me think of a thing, which is that it's sometimes called Brum, and that is also the name of a little car what was on TV decades ago in the UK.
1:35.3	It does. I'm still really gutted about back up in Yorkshire, where I normally resigned. We were in town once. And across the road was a bookshop.
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