You Must Imagine Sisyphus Gaming feat. Jonathan Bernhardt
It's the free one!
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!
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Comments (19)
Is this the free one? I'm confused as to the matter of whether this is the free one or not.
4kids reference in TF means it’s time to share this video https://youtu.be/QyIpijrLlcM
Do NOT give Bobby Kotick a Gundam/Eva
my comment on the Metaverse is: remember when Valve launched Half-Life 3 in VR and around 17 people played it
nah that was Half Life Alyx but Half Life 3 isn't going to be VR I don't think
WeWork could use Oosto instead of badges...
It's time to do the gaming.
Critical support for Milo and his bag of voices.
*inexplicably South African* fuck bruhduh, I wud haf too say, my support for the voices!, is The most uncritical thing, eh
For what it's worth, my understanding is that the CWA has been the primary US union involved in helping different game-company staff unionization efforts, not AFLCIO. That's really just a nitpick, though. The relevant factor in this is going to be whether conditions improve. If they do, it'll be hard to maintain the drive to go through with unionization. If they don't, MSFT is definitely someone I'd want to take on less than ABK, but I think there is a general sense in the industry that eventually _something_ is going to give because of how bad conditions can get, and it may be enough to convince people that they can win a long standoff with MSFT.
The CWA is part of the AFL-CIO and the Wisconsin ALF-CIO has been vocally supporting the Game Workers Alliance.
It’s the free one.
Great episode and I’ve never even played a goddamn video game
Jon was an awesome guest!! extremely on the ball I think
two things: 1) not in the UK but I had a major Britain Moment today when I was trying to get my bin man to empty my goddam compost bins that were previously frozen solid. In the end my noble receptacle lord only took one of them and I am consequently fuming mad about my Bins 2) Blizzard's handling of Overwatch is so good that people looking for a comparable experience are going back to none other than Team Fortress 2, a 2007 video game
Remember left4dead? We at turtle rock do too. Here's Back4Blood. Which is Left4Dead, but worse.
Imagine Sisyphus is actually laughing.
Really gonna need Nate to edit in Milo saying, "It's the free one!" when the latter is unavailable
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