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Conrad Zimmerman
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Pop vulture, sour kraut. Co-host of Podquisition, Boston's Favorite Son, Let's Talk About Snacks. Producer of Red Planet. Maker of cool stuff at mercenarycreative.com
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Do you like sucking on things until they pop? Do you like them Simply NKD? Do you like the creamy flavor? Do we have the podcast for you!
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December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Games industry illustration of the "Nazi bar" theory at work.
Feels like a good time to talk about when Larian employed an outright fascist and refused to fire him.

Over covid one of our engineers was radicalised. Next time we saw him he was watching Tim Pool videos in office and telling us about "cultural marxism" at work drinks, the whole nine yards

1/6
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As far as I'm concerned, a Terminator porn parody has one job, and that's to effectively adapt the line "come with me if you want to live" for maximum comedic effect.
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Stream's going live! I'm gonna be on the toilet evacuating all that resides within me, but Linda's gonna check out Lost in Vivo, which seems like a horrible time. It's shit all over!

Come hang out!

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December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Was not expecting to hear the theme from Phantasm pop up in the Diddy documentary.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hell yeah. Incredible vote, mad respect to the workers for standing up. As I say every time there's a win for unionization, and especially under the Microsoft behemoth, this will inspire others toward collective action.

Devs deserve better and they're gonna start taking it.
doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now

aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I have never seen a "disable your adblocker" request that has ever said a God damned word about how none of the ads that will subsequently be displayed will cookie or pixel or surveil you in any way, so.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Podquisition 569: Infinite Diversity Of Squash

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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Podquisition 569: Infinite Diversity Of Squash | Jimquisition
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--- News th...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The bsky app has never worked right on my phone, and today I open it to find it demanding my age but then saying it doesn't have authorization to amend my account. Had to download a third-party app that seemingly DGAF about age verification.

Everything is going great, is what I'm saying.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Hi! Game expert here, this is not funny. The video game industry only releases ports of a game through 4 console generations when its in distress
Listen, only when we stop seeing new Skyrim ports will I think that gaming is truly dead.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This guy cannot imagine figuring out how to do the essential act which has perpetuated the species up until this point, yet we've given him all of the money? Make this make sense to me.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Also, that lady wrote books that you probably only thought were good because you were a child and/or an adult coming back to reading. You can just forget about her and it'll be fine.
all yall posting breathless aghast screenshots of that lady's book are doing NOTHING but putting even more money in her pockets. Yall want her to go away but you are literally paying her to stick around and entertain you with her shamelessness
she got you with the okie doke
them people always do
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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AI sucks shit, and we're all sick of having to dive through hoops to avoid this bloatware garbage.
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Got my Discord year in review thing and it's pretty much what you'd expect.
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Remember, someone paid $44 million for a company with trademarks as recognizable as these and then immediately discarded them. That guy is a fucking loser.
Operation Bluebird, Inc. files petition to cancel TWITTER and TWEET registrations on the grounds of abandonment and fraud. Cancellation No. 92090266.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Nothing says, "we're figuring out that people hate this AI shit," like the biggest audio media company in the country, iHeartRadio, introducing their new tagline, "Guaranteed Human".
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Podquisition 568: Late Lunch

Games we played this week include:
(0:12:10) Metroid Prime 4
(0:23:35) Marvel Cosmic Invasion
(0:32:00) Cleared Hot
(0:37:15) Lander 23
(0:45:55) Dispatch

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Podquisition 568: Late Lunch | Jimquisition
This episode contains hidden references to a Monty Python sketch. Can you find them all? Games we played this week include:(0:12:10) Metroid Prime 4(0:23:35) Marvel Cosmic Invasion(0:32:00) Cleared Ho...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The thing that really gets in my craw about Tim Sweeney's bitching over AI disclosure is that these are the same people who want to tell us how great AI is going to be for games. Like, which is it? Are you proud that you're using the tool or aren't you?
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Okay, hear me out, there's still time to establish a religion that opposes the use of artificial intelligence and get it recognized. We can build AImish communities.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures

Games we played this week include:
(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game
(0:27:20) Wildwood Down
(0:29:50) Sektori
(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders
(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

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Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures | Jimquisition
But will we remember them next week? Games we played this week include:(0:21:45) An Unplayable Game(0:27:20) Wildwood Down(0:29:50) Sektori(0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders(1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Ed...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners! Before you get gorged on Thanksgiving dinner, join our hosts and give thanks with a nice Thanksgiving snack for your ears!
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November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
People making useful content were forced to make the content less useful to conform to constantly changing demands from search companies.

The result?

Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"The customer is always right" only applies until the millisecond they have your money.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM