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Blocked and Reported

Premium: Oh Sweet Baby (Inc) Jesus, Another GamerGate Episode

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the controversy surrounding diversity consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. Plus, Anita Sarkeesian at the UN, and a penis paper gets yanked.

“WITHDRAWN: The association between adult penile length and IQ: evidences from 139 countries”

* "'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over."



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody you are listening to a preview of a premium episode of Block and Reported.

0:04.3

You're going to hear us talk a little bit about this controversy involving Sweet Baby Inc.

0:09.3

that's a company involved in the game's world that has come under fire.

0:13.0

If you go to Blocktoreported.org and become a premium subscriber, you can hear the rest of the episode.

0:18.0

Where I talk more about Game Brigade, I both respond to some criticisms I got for our last episode on it,

0:22.0

and I talk about the time the UN, the United Nations, got involved in Gamergate in part by producing a very memorable document.

0:32.1

So go to Blotrimport.org if you want to hear all that.

0:34.0

Thank you and hope you enjoy the preview.

0:36.0

All right let's get to this latest controversy

0:38.0

involves sweet baby ink

0:40.0

And that is what?

0:42.0

It is just this sweet baby. It's ink you ring out of bit. This is a company which builds itself as a quote

0:49.1

Narrative Development and Consultation Studio based in Montreal and working around the globe. Our mission is to tell better more and games more engaging, more fun, more meaningful, and more inclusive for everyone.

1:06.3

So I first caught wind of, I don't think I'd heard of this company, but I caught wind of

1:10.4

this controversy I'm about to tell me about when I saw an employee from Sweet Baby Inc.

1:15.0

tweeting about a group on steam. Do you know what steam is?

1:18.8

I, yes, I have been to their offices.

1:20.6

Wait, really? Yes.

1:23.0

Why?

1:24.0

Why did you get to go?

1:25.0

Because I used to be a journalist in Seattle.

1:27.0

But you don't write about games.

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