You Must Imagine Sisyphus Gaming feat. Jonathan Bernhardt

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We’ve brought on Jonathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) of Patch Notes podcast to discuss Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard. We discuss Activision’s super-villain CEO, the dismal state of its business at present, and what ‘metaverse’ fixations mean for the future of gaming. We also discuss a terrible security-state startup and subject Jonathan to Britain. Enjoy! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture If you’re in the UK and want to help Afghan refugees and internally displaced people, consider donating to Afghanaid: https://www.afghanaid.org.uk/ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello. It is TF once again. It's a free episode. It is me, Riley,
0:19.4	and I have joined, you could maybe tell when I said it was a free episode that an annoying drive time radio voice didn't immediately chime in and stomp all over me announcing my co-hosts and our guest. I'm joined exclusively by Alison Hussein today.
0:35.5	Yeah, I was tempted, but look, I can't do voices.
0:38.3	I'm not going to try to do voices.
0:39.4	No, I'm not going to, I'm not going to appropriate Milo's culture of doing the voice.
0:45.2	Yeah, Milo's culture of being annoying.
0:47.1	Yeah, exactly, exactly.
0:49.3	I'm annoying me and everybody else with his insistence on doing that thing.
0:54.6	So, Basque, bask in the sort of warm professionalism of the embrace of a podcast where
1:01.9	that doesn't happen.
1:02.9	Jeannie, you're free.
1:04.1	Yeah.
1:05.0	That's right.
1:06.2	And we are very pleased to be joined today by Jonathan Bernhardt of a patch notes with no cartridge,
1:15.5	which also, of course, you may recognize from friend of the show Trevor Strunk to talk to us a little bit all about the Microsoft Activision merger.
1:27.1	Jonathan, how's it going?
1:28.3	It's going fantastic.
1:29.6	I'm sad you got to say Trevor's name.
1:31.4	It's such a satisfying name to say, Trevor Strunk.
1:34.3	But, of course, at any time we get a guest over from America to talk about a specialist
1:41.6	subject in a sort of global, in globe-spanning industries, right?
1:47.2	Issues of sort of importance, whether they are from large companies or maybe some kind of
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