Thursday Dec 11, 2025
Podquisition 569: Infinite Diversity Of Squash
Who knew there were so many kinds?
Games we played this week include:
(0:33:55) Metroid Prime 4
(0:52:20) Pokémon Legends: Z-A
(0:57:30) Blood: Refreshed Supply
(1:00:25) Octopath Traveler Zero
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News things talked about in this episode:
(1:04:45) Even Kier Starmer is talking about Rockstar’s alleged union busting
https://www.eurogamer.net/gta-developer-rockstars-firing-of-union-staff-deeply-concerning-says-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer
(1:06:40) Russia bans Roblox to “protect” kids
https://www.eurogamer.net/roblox-banned-russia-lgbtq-propaganda-child-safety-measures
(1:07:20) SEGA knows people don’t like AI, will keep using it
https://www.eurogamer.net/sega-acknowledges-strong-resistance-as-it-turns-to-ai-but-says-itll-use-technology-appropriately
(1:18:30) European game unions hold a summit, show solidarity
https://www.eurogamer.net/video-game-workers-europe-fight-back-against-exploitation-ai-layoffs-historic-milestone-union-efforts
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1 months ago
Steph’s crash out about ai prompts at the end is probably the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. Fully justified, but still hilarious.
3 months ago
Seeing that the first videogame topic starts at half an hour in tells me this is gonna be a great episode
3 months ago
Making AI art is still a creative process. It depends on how much control and features your image generator has, and how far you can push it. You can use it to fix an work on a bad image until it looks good.
3 months ago
Whatever helps you sleep at night, babe.
3 months ago
Much agreed, I feel like Laura has increasingly become more entrenched in defending Nintendo since the Switch 2 has released. It’s weird to see someone who has criticised gross practices in the past now defending them because they are under a different umbrella.
3 months ago
Conrad is dead wrong here, it’s not ”unfair” at all for Nintendo to get criticized for this, they’re actually doing these things worse then other companies. Yes there have been examples of DLC you could pre-order for other games before, but Legends ZA specifically was so glaring because in this case the DLC was so obviously stuff that was just cut from the main game to be sold back to you for an eye-watering 30 bucks, that’s just beyond shameful so Nintendo deserves every bit of criticism they get as far as i’m concerned.
3 months ago
I had Megaman Zero 4, bullshit hard could not for the life of me get very far in it so I lost interest in it fast.
3 months ago
Vectorman, Ecco the Dolphin and Earthworm Jim are all good games. I still enjoy the EJ cartoon in spite of Doug being a dickhead, helps that he wasn’t really involved in it at all really.
3 months ago
I remember playing a version of artillery duel on our dos pc with my dad that was two gorillas who through explosive bananas across a cityscape