Podquisition 381: Take a Deep Breath
No gods, no underwater masters
Games we played this week include:
Pokémon: The Trading Card Game (11:10)
Roombo First Blood (17:40)
House of the Dead Remake (19:55)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel (28:30)
Skul: The Hero Slayer (30:50)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (32:05)
Tearaway (39:30)
Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon (49:10)
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News things talked about in this episode:
California Governor alleged to have interfered in DEFH suit against Activision Blizzard (52:40) www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…-activision-suit
Activision-Blizzard pay bump for QA feels oddly like a union busting tactic (58:10) www.theverge.com/2022/4/7/2301503…0-dollars-hourly
ABK workers walk out over company changes to vaccine policy (1:05:35) www.polygon.com/23010343/activisi…emands-abetterabk
Bungie announces remote work for most current and future roles (1:08:25) kotaku.com/bungie-remote-work-…sony-off-1848785738
Twitch pulled paid Boost Train feature after users landed porn on the home page (1:10:45) www.pcgamer.com/uk/twitch-halts-p…n-the-front-page/
The Quarry will have a low-interactivity “movie mode” that skips all the gameplay (1:14:00) www.pcgamer.com/the-quarry-has-a-…ad-of-playing-it/
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Comments (8)
It's not playing for me for some reason. Every time I click the "play" button, I get a link to "https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-Gd05DyW2yOgMlzqv-7kTZyQ-t500x500.jpg" and nothing else.
yep, the link seems to be borken somehow. Link to soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/jimquisition/podquisition-381-take-a-deep-breath
News links are broken.
Enough teasing, if Laura got the way open to the Eldar Black Library she gotta share.. cmon sister give us the sauce
You can have bad actors in both of america's political parties and one of them still be worse than the other, believe it or not. Having a two-party political system is still terrible, and democratic party leadership is kicking and dragging its feet on every inch of the progress its younger voters want, but it isn't actively seeking to harm anyone in order to expand its power.
Yeah it's too bad Jim seemingly does not realize that, though not all dem leadership is like that. I am let down by Newsom though, he seemed pretty good and I never thought he'd be involved in this Activision stuff.
Sorry Jim can't agree with you on the "Dems are the same as right-wingers" tract, that's just blatantly untrue, just cause a few dems like Newsome are being shitty does NOT automatically mean they are all the same. I mean do you see dems defending the attempted insurrection or accusing ALL LGBTQ people of being "groomers" or whining about "Critical race theory"? Didn't think so. This "both sides are equally evil" nonsense has to stop as it's not remotely productive at all and accomplishes absolutely nothing whatsoever, at the very least you can't seriously believe someone like Ilhan Omar is the same as Majorie Taylor Green or Lauren Boebert, you don't see dems spouting Qanon crap. Really dissapointed to see you promoting these kinds of falsehoods, I thought you were above that.
It can be easy for people who only follow politics casually to fall for the centrist "both sides" narrative, but it's a narrative spread by right wingers into more left spaces with the goal of disempowering that left. It's easy to see why it's such a powerful narrative though, as many Democrats are *almost* as bad as the best Republican, and that should be unacceptable. They are both right wing parties... but one is clearly far worse. Edit: Finished the episode. I don't think Steph actually said anything I disagree with.