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Sacred Symbols, Episode 297 | There's No Magic When the Tricks Get Old
🕑 Added 2024-03-08 17:00:18 +0000 UTCThe last week in gaming has been a bit of a downer, no doubt. But we don't dodge the news; we lean into it. And frankly, it's not all bad. Quite the contrary: Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC, Spider-Man 2 has finally received a major update, and the STALKER Trilogy is migrating to console for the first time ever. But then there's drama surrounding a random DEI-slanted consultancy called Sweet Baby Inc., the closure of the storied media brand Rooster Teeth after more than a decade of running in the red, and word that the publisher behind 2023's biggest commercial hit wants to abandon the model it followed for greener pastures. Listener inquiries help us round-out a strange seven days, focusing on topics like crossover fighters, Marty O'Donnell entering the political realm, Helldivers 2's newest patch, and one listener who was 'caught' playing an anime game, and had a lot of explaining to do at the dinner table.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:31:15 -Gaming’s Three-Fifths Compromise
0:33:07 - Arby’s x LSM
0:35:31 - Copium around laxative-gate
0:43:06 - Games to take to space
0:51:05 - Door Dash disgust
0:57:35 - META
0:59:14 - Helldivers 2 patch
1:02:30 - Horizon Forbidden West PC specs
1:04:49 - Balatro age rating issues
1:11:41 - Persona 3 Reload DLC
1:16:04 - Rooster Teeth closed
1:40:27 - What Are We Playing?
1:57:05 - Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC
2:08:14 - India Hero Project
2:11:52 - STALKER re-releases
2:17:26 - Spider-Man 2 update
2:20:04 - A counter-argument on 1st Party
2:33:34 - What developers should collaborate?
2:42:54 - Warner Bros. Live service comments
2:49:53 - Sweet Baby Inc controversy
3:11:34 - Marty O’Donnel is running for Congress
3:16:18 - When your kid exposes you as a weeb
Comments
Taylor kazemba
The words you were looking for are purgative or cathartic.
MomsLikeMe
Colin is not backing down on laxative-gate… Brave
Stinkling
Its kind of like when anyone who complained about the black elves and dwarves in Rings Of Power got called a racist lmao. Like no a black dwarf (underground race) makes zero logical sense (especially when everyone else in the race is clearly Scottish and white), and the elves time and again in the books are called "fair skinned" Being put off by that is totally understandable (its very transparent it was done to virtue signal) But throwing a fit over a flag or a gay character in a game is beyond dumb, you can think both are stupid so where does that fall on this "woke" spectrum? Its a term thats been over-used and now means nothing because peoples opinions on things vary. One person would say im anti woke because the rings of power race swap bothers me, and another would say i am woke because i dont care about a flag in a game, or a gay character, literally meaningless term these days.
Dennis
A lot of people don't take you seriously any more if you use the word "woke" in a derogatory way. Because there is spectrum when it comes to "culture war bullshit". People pretending its not strange to make cleopatra Black in a documentary are weird. But people that cry about a pride flag in a game or have meltdown because of pronoun selection are way weirder. Then you basically become the sjw you seem to despise.
Joseph Gedgaudas
Shame on Chris for saying the Smurfs had no relevance by time he was born. I remember watching them before school and I'm younger than him.
Caleb Peacock
Was driving to the beach tonight. Put you guys on and fiancé said you guys were actually funny this time. Chris made me chuckle a few times. She also said Colin that you were just referring to cat eye makeup when you refer to white woman trying to look asian. And she says everyone does it lol
