December 28, 2022 • 63 mins
What does a game tester do? How to become one, and the leaps and bounds the industry takes to ensure video games are ready for action.
Is Roy fair in adding GameStop to his growing list of the most duplicitous places on Earth, or is GameStop’s existence a by-product of the growing greed of video game publishers? Two former video game testers (one a former GameStop employee) add perspective to these topics.
Each team member shares their favorite video games of all time, and some classics still hold up. But will you agree?
Basketball legend turned businessman Shaquille O'Neal attempts to distance himself from a growing crypto scandal. Pusha T cuts ties with Kanye West, and @Rod4Short defends the largest domestic airline in the U.S., Southwest Airlines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Comedy Central now hiring. Southwest Airlines will
be looking to have some electronic technician positions opening pretty
soon there. They have decided to upgrade the customer experience
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in the cabin. They need to figure out those massive
holiday flight cancelations and delays. You can't blame it all
on weather Southwest. Southwest Airlines has now decided to finally
installed power ports for mobile devices, larger overhead binds, and
improved WiFi on the planes. Do you understand how behind
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the times your plane has to do you finally go,
hey man, yes, wait the whole the natural was for
USB Corps broke. If there's ever an airline that doesn't
need power ports, it's Southwest. Why you're you're never on
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the plane more than two hours because they stopped immediately
to drop your ass off to put you on another plane,
right you early? What's up? I flies Southwest and I
have zero complaints about the service of Southwest. I don't
know why people expect so much from a fucking airline.
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They are flying you to your destination. If you want
to complain, drive motherfucker's get your ass in the coffer.
Seven hours since flying south of the West. It's just
such a hassle where you're playing at I'm talking a
lot of ship to not to be able to get
to this mother fucking three hours without me. Oh they
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lost my bags. You just took a flight across the
country in three hours. Just celebrate that. Shut the funk up.
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My name is Roy. This this ride to Rant right
now should be that should be the video they play.
If you push back from the gate like it, that
would that would totally raise engagement. Pretty safety announcement from
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my huh spoke person, Roy. I can't saying people can
play about flying. It's the most miraculous thing that has
probably been invented since you've been alive up to this
point in human history. There's nothing more amazing than fuck light,
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and people have the nerve to just bitch on and
complain like they're not about to experience a miracle in
ten minutes. Shut your ends up one time for the
right brothers, shout out the wheelbear horrible. You think if
they had known that this is what flight would have
turned into, that they would have still done it. If
they knew it would have come down to just people going.
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Then the internet ain't fast enough flying in the sky.
They have stuff the bikes. The bike said, I wouldn't
have blamed them. Let's just go back to building Penny
Farthings because these people don't know how to act and
flying in such a hassle, drive or get a private
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jet like ruin them. Don't say ruin them, bitch. I'm
on de bro. Ain't nobody with a podcast flying private?
You got way more than I don't want to hear
that ship we went to the end. You've been on
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a private jet before? On? Yeah, when he got a seat, bitch,
I'll drive with him. I ain't selling no arenas. Yeah,
I mean, that's the whole purpose by racial people is
to get dark niggas perks. What else would you hang
out with a white star hang out there? We're talking
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video games that we got the real for a second.
But we're back. You know, we're gonna talk to a
couple of people that's in the world of video games.
One woman up north of the border who going north
to Canada? Was that a good accent? Probably not? Um,
she's a designer and tester a video game games. And
then we come scam of a week. We're gonna talk
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to the motherfucker who worked at the Game Stop, and
I believe game Stop it's one of the most duplicit
dist places on Earth, next to the funeral hall difference,
more corrupt than the FIFA world. It's up there. Video games,
they remain a big part of my life. I just
I don't think the plan was often because once you
have a child and they can look at what you're playing.
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If you don't realize you're playing like Resident Evil and
Call of Duty, and you can't have a four year
old just downloading that type of imagery. Oh look at
you being responsible. I have a ten year old and
a sixteen year old and they both learned at this stage.
And when Daddy plays video games, we go up series
and close our door. It's the best way to not
have to, you know, repeat what I do. Do you
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play with you play with a headset or do you
do the whole surround sounds sub with for like immersion,
I do the I do the headset, and it still
doesn't matter. Um. The easiest example would be I came
up one day. I came up one day and hurt
my son playing Fortnite, and the way he was talking
to the people in the game was just out of
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this world all you and I you know, and I instinctively,
like a parent, should I jumped on him. Don't you
talk to people like that when you're playing a video game?
What is wrong with you? Did that is not what
it was made for. Yeah, took his Xbox cords, walked
out the game and walked out the room, went downstairs
a couple of hours later and started playing Call of Duty.
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And it was a rough night of Call of Duty.
And so I, I I, you know, I did what anybody
was having a rough night of it. Man, fuck you
man whatever, dog yo, don't let me find you. I
will dock you. I not turned around. A Ralph is
standing right there, and it was nothing I could say.
It was like, okay, So now not only now do
I play with the headset, but now I don't talk
when I be yelling at women when he night Team
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and I'm sorry growing up and watch my father. Yeah no, no, no, no,
he's already he's the yelling at people on the internet.
So he's too scared of girls. A yellow differ. So
I'm not worried about that. You think it's Mama's sisterant
for that? He together. Yeah, I'm gonna send him to
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Ride high school yard he can take his gap year
with Ride. They'll be fine. I haven't touched the video
games since I was probably in the tan thor Liven grade,
so I think they doo emotional, because like, video games
is like where I first connected with anger. Like I'm
being serious, like losing the Nass game, I've thrown from strollers,
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I've I've broken, I've wrote three Nintendo three original iness
just lapping them and hitting them, all of that nonsense.
I didn't know the word at the time, but I
emasculated my brother's friends because I used to kick their
foots real bad. We're game, well game, and I'm asking
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for us because no, what's the game? Sonya um oh?
Mortal Kombat slaying the left right. See, that's why I
asked that I learned I learned in college, Roy and
you might have as well. But video games was almost
like a great social equalizer, man, because when you ran
across a young lady that could whip somebody's ass and
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tech in Mortal Kombat or whatever, she instantly became that
cool ass girl, like it really didn't matter who she was,
and she could be other dudes's ass, and the dudes
didn't see it coming. You like bringing her around just
she could shut dudes up. You know what I'm saying.
So I support that. I support ladies who can play.
But I guess I guess I should just say I
grew up. I grew out of video games. Guys. That's
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just me. Nothing's wrong with that. It's just me. Did
you know the average ame of average age of a
video gamer right now? It's forty three years old. The
generation that grew up with Nintendo's and Atri's are growing
as people real quick start enough for Cody's Most Outstanding
employ of the Week. Now I gotta CMO up my sleeve.
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The third, I understand we might have to do a
double up today. Yeah five, because this one, I know
Jacquelin is not going to hopefully hopefully hopefully. You don't
like it when I celebrate craziness traditionally you don't like. Okay,
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I'm listening. Go ahead. This is an easy one for
me since it's a video game episode. I'm gonna shout
out the kid that when I used to live in
Los Angeles, he used a babysitting this kid man, and
he was really really good on the game cube at
a at a game called Super Smash Brothers. He with
my ass he was ten years old. He would beat
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my ass with Jiggilie Puff and Kirby just to prove
a point, like the two most kiddy characters in the game.
He beat my monkey ass. But he was always a
good kid. One year, I bought him a copy of
a game called View It Full, View It Full Joe,
and I had no idea that it was gonna change
his life. My CMO is a young man by the
name of Jordan Taliman who used to beat My Ass,
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but now he's one of the lead programmers and testers
for Sony And if you happen to beat God of
War or Unchartered, any of the games has come out
in the last three years, and you go through credits,
you'll see his name in the credits. So you know,
that's that's my that's my way of people talking about
growing up and all that other kind of stuff. Yo,
you're never too old to play the video games, man,
because it's always there's all kinds of different ways that
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you can play and get in there. So you know, my, my,
my cmos, Jordan's congratulations to that young brother you are.
Cody is most outstanding employee of the week. Now for
my clas, what have you done? As we all know,
the former CEO of the crypto company f t X,
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Sam Bankman freed. It was a restident the Bahamas and
has been extradited into the United States. As we all know,
he is the CEO of a bankrupt crypto company. He's
you know, he's accused of lyne to the shareholders and
basically skimming, skim wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, securities for all,
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security for all, conspiracy, and a partridge in a pair
of tree. So so we all know when f t
X and all this crypto ship was popping about twelve
to fifteen months ago to a lot of celebrity spokespersons
who have now been named in lawsuits from people who
invested in f t X, going with Steph Curry, motherfucking
told me the crypto were goods. I put all the
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money and the money got stolen from me. Also named
in the lawsuit is Shaquille O'Neil. Now the diesel he
took money. So no Shack was one of the people
that was a celebrity spokesperson. You know this suit its
lawsuit in clues name on the osaka Steph Kerry, Larry David,
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tom Brady, and I'm most of the people, most of
the celeb's name in the lawsuit have all said, hey,
you know, I'm not commenting right now. I'm trying to
make sure um that you know, at this time, it's
unfortunate what happened with f t X, and my prayers
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go out and I did not fraud people, you know that,
just the various niceties. I want my money. Uh huh.
When Shaquille O'Neill was asked about being named in the lawsuits,
Shaquille O'Neill said, quote, I don't understand crypto. I'm just
a paid spokesperson. Oh no, check said, get the funk
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out of my face. But you don't know what iout
be spelling. They gave me a check right to till
what to say? Say cryptod it okay? Actually Crypto good
for my money? You know it's a lot too. You know,
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they get shot like twenty million dollars to say that easy.
But I just respect the fact that Shaquille O'Neill did
not try to like, hey, you know, I was tricked,
just like your Shock didn't lie. Shock didn't run from it,
said Hey, motherfucker's pay me to say ship. I say
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the ship. I don't be investigating the ship behind the curtain.
But to be that honest when you're being named in
a lawsuit, like you're being sued for lying to people,
and then you go, I didn't know what I was doing.
I'm stupid. You lied to me. Defenses I got paid
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to do it, I don't. I don't that response shock
understanding the warriors that are coming out of my mouth
people with what you said, Hey, people pay me to
say stuff. People who co and said all I do
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is reading was on the paper. How can we not
suing the writers? Where the hell are the writer checked? Argument? Essentially,
that's a suck argument. So I can't say you lied
to the people. He just didn't know for not knowing
people were putting their life savings into crypto, Yeah, straight up,
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thank you. So they're dumb that they're dubbed. But the
lady who gave the bishop her money, Oh, she was
so sweet that she was taking an she was taking
advantage of because he with her. Let me say, last
you was like, okay, maybe they're mentally incapacitated, but but
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the crypto people, they do they don't she was taking
advantage of I lost some money in crypto. I'm not
a lot, but I'm just saying not like some other people.
They both got sold the same line, giving now and
I was gonna make it better. You're going to heaven.
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That's different. We'll pray for you to get this Mercedes
either way. I'm trying to figure out why this white
boy stole everybody money then went to the Bahamas. That
is an extra night and they were already in the Bahamas.
That's why he was arrested in the Bahamas. Is headquartered
in the Bahamas. It screens. Yeah, this whole company was
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founded and started and set up in the all the
all the executives. They've been down there, apparently in a
sucking funk fest, they said. But now they're doing weird
heavn orgies and getting hide and take stealing people's mind
in the Bahamas. Okay, see now we're now, y'are peeling
back to blazz. I'm just here to pray shack so
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for not knowing what you don't know, and it meant't
that you don't know what you don't know, and then
getting paid, then itting that you get paid to not
know what you don't know and didn't tell people to
go pull their money into it. Uh huh for that.
That's that's how they explained. Could you imagine explaining krypt
lot to shop? No, no, no, Shack has a business degree,
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so so really that's your trefication. That's a millionaires that
lost money. And I love shock. So let us not
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friend about the fact that Shaq took six years to
get a degree in general studies from general studies was
flourished General Studies Royal inveasking well he had to go
studies it O'Neill, you are pro most outstanding employee of
the week. J G. Bless us with the introduction of
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our first video game test, Quality control Test. Today. Well
we have Mia and she lives in Montreal, Canada, and
she's a polygot, a person who knows and uses several
different languages. Today the language scientists is going to share
her experience testing video games. Welcome, Mia, It's very nice
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to see you today. So when we look at this job,
do you test all games or are you testing just
one quadrant of the game? Are you testing the overall
experience of the game? What's the bare basics of this
You basically have two kinds of testing. You have the
testing when the game is finished and you can a
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test the beta version before they not release it right before.
But you also got the testing that is actually part
of the making of the game. So uh, you got
in that alpha testing. You have two parts. You have
the functionality testing, in which basically, uh, they send us
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a version of the game and sometimes it's very early,
like the characters don't even have faces or proper hair.
It's just like very very early in the making of
the game. And functionality testing is you gotta hit that button,
and if the character doesn't do what it's supposed to
do the moment you hit the button, that's a bug.
So you need to report the bug. You send it
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back to the developer, and then every bog gets fixed
until the game is finally free of bugs as much
as you can. And that's the functionality testing. Now you've
got a linguistic testing, the localization testing. It's the translation
part in every language that the game is going to
be released in, And that translation part is another kind
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of testing, completely different. That's what I actually specialize in,
all right, Um, so that's it's part of the making,
that is part of the making of the game actually
before it's even like really done. That's the thing. So
before we even get into the quest, the plot and
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whether or not the game is actually fun to play,
we have to make sure the character jumps when he's
supposed to jump, walk what you want them to walk,
and verbally people are like a game. Right, Let's just
take Grand Theft Auto or John mannon football. When you
have announcers where there are hundreds of phrases preloaded into
the game to simulate the play by play experience, then
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you would come in and just sit and listen to
the play by play in the languages that you speak
because you're poly go. So as a polygloy, you might
just play Madden in French all day and you're listening
for did the announcer get the phrase wrong or the
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first there's a written part all the subtitles you Translately,
you need to check everything, even like the legal things
at the very start of the game, you know, when
you just open the thing the menu, like every detail,
everything that is written needs to be checked not only
for the language, but how for example, sometimes it overlaps,
you know, it goes out of that box that is
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supposed to be in, so that's you you need to report,
but also the voiceovers. You need to listen to all
the voiceovers. And indeed, it's not just about the language
and the translation of the words. Things like jokes and
cultural references need to make sense in the language that
you're going to translate the gaming. So for example, the
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game like GTN, that's a great example because you have
plenty of even if when you turn on the radio
in the car, you have jokes, you have insights, you
have stuff that need to make sense for whatever place
is going to play back in it, like Russia or
France or England, it needs to make sense. So you
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need to make sure that the jokes are also translated
in a way that are going to be funny. And
that's when you need not only people that actually speak
the language, but people that are from the country because
they know, you know, their own cultural references. And this
is why Montreal is a pool for that, because we
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have people from all over the world working in here
and that's why wow. So if you can speak multiple languages,
Montreal is a place to get the jobs that need
people who speak multiple language. Do you see more games
coming down the pipe now? Where the idea might be
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from one country, but you have to make them all.
You gotta make them global, like God of War is
coming out. Things like that. Well, it's it's always completely
catered to make something global. References are not the same
from at lace to another. Now you can unite people
and they're like a reference that is known by all,
but then you can still need to adapt some parts eventually,
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you know, depending on the public that you that that
your gaming. Now, not all games are translated in every language,
but a game like the Seams for example, is you know,
like even had my check and crazy languages that not
all the developers actually release games in these languages. But
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it's actually I am not a tester anymore. I haven't
been for a long time, but that's how I started
in the company that I work for now. I was
an immigrants best pray to find a job, and I
was over over How do you say over qualified? What
has it been? What has been your experience growing only
from video game tester to walk us through where you
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are now within the world of video games and some
of the hurdles and bullshit that you've had to deal
with within that world. One is an immigrant, two as
a woman. But it's kind of a strike one, strike
two and three U and tech and you know they'd
be mistreating women in the world at tech. So first,
now I obviously level leveled up as I was supposed to.
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I'm learning and specialists. Yeah, my salary is time three now.
So I'm pretty happy. You know, it's a long time coming.
And so I actually I specialized in languages and one
of my mission right now we've actually to teach French
to our UH employees that are immigrants and need to
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learn French to remain in Canada. So I helped them
with that. I'm very happy because I feel like, you know,
I have a purpose. But um, to be very honest,
the company that I work for UH, we we are
not developers. We are a huge service multi line service
provide the four developers and a lot of them are
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actually our clients. And the company I work for is
extremely diverse, extremely um tolerant, and there are literally all
kinds of people working for this company. Like literally I
have never been in presence of so many people from
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so many different horizons, like should it be like racial, religion,
a gender, no gender, every gender, like everything is represented.
I have been working with people coming to work dressed
with pikach ones is literally the furies. You go to
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work with furies people with with green hair. But first,
I come from the hip hop industry, So you know,
if I survived like fourteen years in that industry, I
think like, yeah, that was, that was like you know, um,
but no, I never really suffered of being a woman
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in that industry. Honestly. Maybe because it's the company I
work for. Maybe probably, but I can't complain about any
But then maya, also, your work ethic is sincere and
it's genuine, so there might have been those microaggressions that
you overlooked because you are the type of person that
gets the job done for sure. For sure. Um, But
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I'm probably just grateful because like they pretty much accept everyone,
and I had a very hard time finding the job
because my name is Muslim. You know, it sounds kind
of Muslim. I was born in Paris, but still, you know,
it's not clearly from Canada, and it's it's a reality.
It's a very welcoming country. But you know, nothing's perfect
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and it's a reality. And I'm just grateful that they
at least gave me a chance and as soon as
they saw my qualifications and superpower. They actually never live,
and you know, it's just it's just super fair. So
I can't. You know, I would love to be bitching
about them, but I can't. Yeah, no, no, you don't.
You don't have to do that because I currently work
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with someone, the man down there in the corner, who
is similarly open and honest with all the women that
he works with. He hears us, and he wants to
hear us. So I totally get it that there's nothing
to complain about. Thank you, Thank you. I try not
to be an asshole. I don't know about hiring somebody
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in the fur outfit. We'll have to see and do.
We can't discriminate against the Furries discriminate. I'm just saying
I ain't hiring him off resume alone. I need to
see you. I need to make that maya. Thank you
so much for sharing a little bit of knowledge of
your world with us. We appreciate you. Um candid to
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see what they here kept talking about, seeing what's going
on up to math girup didn't marry me somebody, Jacqueline,
come on back to the States. You know, I think
that's how it worked, right, I think that's how it. Yeah,
I'm positive. Let me get on Canadian tender. Oh my god,
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oh wow, okay, Canadian tender? What was it called tender?
A that was too easy? Don't laugh at that. Man,
Thank you so much for coming on the show. We
appreciate you. Thank you for sharing this world. Call me
for the music industry. I got stories here by now.
Thank you. She's great, she's so cultured, and she says,
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by now the home in Narato is gonna come on
and drive the show off the rails. I'm curious about
what his favorite video games were. It's the job Fair.
We'll be right back, job Fair. We're talking video games.
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Um we did? Do we even name my favorite video
games of all time? I don't think we did that.
Rod was too busy cussing out, cussing us out about
daring to want more from a fucking airline. But all time,
I'm gonna go O G Mario Kart, grant their Puto three.
Now what I currently play right now is MLB the show.
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I still play Grant their five. Those are the two.
And then I dabble in FIFA and I dabble in
Call of Duty. I don't even play NBA two K
because it's too hard to relearn like these sports games now,
like you have to train like a real athlete to
learn how to do this. Yes, NBA games that are worst.
It's just horrible. It's hard. J G all time. What's
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your three? Oh? Easy? That is going to be skate
or Die. That's going to be Mike Tyson pie chout.
I beat him twice. I'm so proud of that because
you gotta hit him right there in the in the center,
and then he going with such a tyson So yeah,
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just like that, and then lastly more to combat Rod.
I'm gonna guess for you. Oh. I feel like at
least one NASCAR game is somewhere my top three all time,
and video games would have to be sky Rim Let's
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go right, Dragon Quest eight, I love that game, yea,
and number three all time. I gotta go with the
original contract the attend right a B start, so let's
start contro. I feel like all of y'all chose very
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very good games, even though some of them are very
very old. But they have emulators and you can still
play them on your computer. Now, Jacqueline that me and
said it would be uh m hm FIFA period, Assassin's
Creed the whole series period, and then God of War
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Full Stop period. Those would be my top three easily.
Those are the three games I still get excited about playing. Honorable,
Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention to Call of Duty, Modern Warfare,
Modern Warfare. My issue of Call of Duty, though, is
that some of the plot of them games, some of
the plot of some of the Call of Duties don't
make sense. Hey man, let me help you out, help me,
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let me help you out. You know why the plots
have sucked and have sucked for so many years. It's
very simple because nobody plays that part of the game anymore.
They only play a multiplayer game. Nobody nobody goes in
and plays the campaign anymore. It was scary commentary about
the military and war as a whole, and it's just
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evolved into there he is, give them, chase them, shoot them,
all right, you got him, Chase your next motherfucker, all right,
try to tank shoot him, and that part of it,
you know, I don't know. I kind of I look
at it as a I agree with you. I look
at it as an easy way for for for white
kids to say the in word and and not get
and get away with it. That's pretty much what all
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the games involved in. Now all the kids jump on
and talk a lot of crazy. I'm okay with video
game bullying. And I think he keeps them boys from
ounting the forest, burning cats and ship Oh no, please, don't.
Nothing satiates that desire? Body, why that the dark passenger decks?
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Trust me. The the aggression, the aggression that comes with
wanting to burn a cat alive, is not one percent
close to the aggression that makes you want to yell
the inn word in a video game. That might be
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the best comparison I've ever heard that is fair. Them
boys just stroll it, okay, ain't no serial killers. Blad
the game. The boys in the woods with them cats
and the box matches, and somebody better get out there,
Apple there, bring out boys, bring our boys, bring him
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on his program, to give your topics to share the
co workers. You can't stand those people at your job
that you've run out of things to talk about. As
you hear the clinking of the ice indicating that he's
out of peanut butter whiskey, that means he's ready to
talk to us, I'll be called the segment of breaking
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the ices. Mama named Murado. We call him Rob for short.
Rod j G had a had a interesting proposition on
a social media that I want you to break down now.
As we all know, Jacqueline is the proposal. Championship is undefeated.
Imposals for the lifetime record of four and a half
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over four old and one on a half. Right, you're
the champ j G put it, Yeah, it would be
old four the helf. Don't get on those. I still
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don't know what it means. But you're the one that
says for half solf, Jack want put a kite up
in the sky, trolling for some Christmas vacation. J G.
I'll let you read it. Presents for anybody under any
(33:56):
circumstances for Christmas. Listen, Christmas, give send an abusive power
that is not true. I was being silly this morning
because I had nothing better to do, and I was
on Twitter and what happened? Okay, and what's and what
did you say? And what did they say back to you?
We're gonna let Rode break this down and see whether
(34:18):
or not you got you a nice fishing might be
win and ring number five? Now, I said Gardens, I said,
if anyone is Christmas shopping for me. I'm a size
two weeks in the U a E on the north
shore of a hanu in Paris and by respectfully. So
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people said nice things back and then this one person said,
would you be willing to size down three days to
Atlantic City? What that's what I'm talking about? My man said,
I know what you used to but I only got
Southwest money. Okay, you connected old Mars interest you in
(35:05):
a fourteen hour layover in Kansas City. Couldn't deals like
Chris Rock? Good lord, that's a lot of but too weeks?
Good about three days in Atlantic Rod. Give these people
some ship to talk about with the co workers at
the town. Push your t, longtime Kanye West friend and collaborator,
(35:30):
has stepped down as president of Kanye's music label, Good Music.
He said it has been disappointed and some of the
things Kanye has been saying and doing, and he's just
got to separate himself from his good friend. Then wow, Yeah,
push us out, pushes out, Push downs Bro ain't even
(35:52):
gonna front it's it don't get more real than push
them because that ygg it would ride with his boys
through rail. Push Out. Kanye is fucked and fucking up.
It's very it's very unfortunate because there's like the people
like like when you think about like okay, Donda Academy
(36:15):
clubs right, and the crypto of schools. Hello for Danda Academy.
Sorry to be smart? You want him to be He's
learn can learn all the tools at dunda alright with
(36:38):
my money, Sha. School is not a credit at all,
is following no curriculum. I don't understand school. I don't
understand school. It took me six years to get a
general education diploma. I did understand. The school is not
(36:59):
it's not the script, but the kids who played basketball
for that school and the parents who brought their kids
into that school. And we can make the argument whether
or not the parental fools not to take their kids
to an uncredited private institution, but the teacher like this
is this is people's livelihoods. Bro If pushes out, what
(37:20):
about the A and R people, the marketing people, everybody
that's behind all of those artists that are own good.
If you're artists own good, what do you do when
your boss go crazy? That ship ain't in your contract.
You can't just walk away from some seven album deal.
Record label contracts are so ironclad that even if Kanye
(37:40):
Straight get to Hitler Mustache tomorrow, you probably still owe
him five albums with no ad support, and you've lost
pushing who actually is a fucking culinary fucking like he's
an officionado of music and sound and lyric and content,
(38:00):
Like the dude has always been in the nuance and stuff.
He is the right he was the right person to
help usher in those types of artists into the record industry,
like the type of man. The ship is sad. This
ship is sad, and all of the employment fallout of
Kanye's antics as as I think it's something that's never
(38:23):
been talked about, but he does a lot of this
wild ship for attention and reporting on it to me
feeds back into it like it's a it's a cycle,
you know, and that's why you know you can't see
ignorum but not y. But when you see your employers
losing his mind, you might want to jump ship. You
might want to save yourself. You might want to realize
(38:46):
that you have a mortgage in real bills, children and
people to take care of them. So when it's time
to go, it's time to go. But if he's not listening.
Stop talking. Nobody else is gonna keep your lights on
in your house, but so only on the other side.
Um a batty with the gavel in Columbia was just
(39:07):
suspended from the bench. Uh, there's a very gorgeous judge
down there. Justice Vivian Polonia as an Instagram page where
she posted a lot of sexy pictures of herself for
a day job. It's court justice. And she showed up
(39:28):
recently into a virtual court here and landing the bed
smoking a cigarette, wearing nothing but a T shirt and
are you serious? And the office took great offense to that.
And according to her, this is just revenge because they
(39:48):
hate how sexy she is and hate that she'd be
showing that thing off on I g And her excuse
for what happened was she was landing the bed like
that because she had low breath plessure and an anxiety attack.
You need cigarette, a cigarette and balance. She needs to
show up the court landed bad, half naked, smoking a
(40:09):
cigarette because she had a little breath pressure and anxiety.
So let me understand this. She was this is zoom court, right,
real court that actually all rise all rides for the
honorable judge whatever whatever, and then she turned the video
on and she's just like, oh, look at her. Okay.
(40:30):
I wouldn't know what to do. If I was in
zoom court all right for show and that showed up,
I'd be looking around. But Jacqueline, I just I just
I grinded. Thank you for sending the article. You could
read the top partner. Don't scroll down, don't scroll down,
(40:56):
don't pulled up for Twitter. That was a mistake. Don't
pull up for Twitter this article of don't pup. Oh
my god, I'm not to get her on for the second?
Good night on it. How are you a judge? I
(41:17):
do not. Social media is really ruined us, Yes, it
really has. Like if you want to be freaky, diky,
go be freaky, go set up an only fans and
like you could like have a fake court room and
make people pay you money to be fucking penalty. You
gotta working. Yeah, I'm the judge. You want to be
(41:37):
punished disorder in the court dot x x x. But
how would you feel going to being sent to jail
by this woman and then seeing pictures of her good
passed around the print got thirty you masturbated bread to
(41:58):
the woman who puts you there, you scrolling porn on
a smuggle jail phone and you swipe through and then
here's the woman makes you look at the school to
prison differently, don't it? Just give me a little twist
on that, right? She needs people for her only fans.
(42:19):
She gonna take your money in prison. She don't care.
Good night. Yeah. And this is again this is like
the Kanye thing though, this is where how much how
much of this is she doing for attention? And they're
giving her the attention, which only makes her act out more,
which creates more outrage amongst the other judges that are
(42:41):
all conservative and built like baked potatoes. It's I'm sure
they're jealous, so like there's some degree of in that's
no disrespecting and bad building. But I say scratched the
word outrage though, I mean, um, what did you call it?
(43:01):
You said act out more? I think she might be
just doing what she likes. When I say outraged, like
acting out like that JJ. What I mean is attention
in any form for some people, it is a positive
even if it is negative attention. So she could do
this to get positive attention from just gen pop regular
(43:24):
Joe's who old baby, you're so fine, and then the
people that at work go, oh, how would you do that?
And then it just makes you go take even race
your photos because centrifuge of attention from both from acceptance
and disapproval. And yes, you're not gonna tell me what
(43:44):
to do. You're not gonna tell me what to do.
Their form going to act out more because you tried
to tell me what Like what if she want to
do this for attention And we just have to stubble
on her because she finally took a picture drunk in
bed and then we see the rest of this ship
because like that's kind of like what happens when it's
a reverse like because that's the way I feel that
I never knew that judge in Columbia. You ain't posting
(44:08):
pictures like that on the end because you don't want attention.
What what do you think she's gonna do during this
three month suspension? Why is she gonna be wide open
with it? She's just going to go and do more
and this is only going to raise her profile and
raise her prices to see. I'm so glad you asked
(44:29):
was sick of research? That's you know, single right now
Ralph used me, right, your pass more up to date?
You got Jose Columbia. I ain't listen. I'm not going
(44:50):
to go down to Columbia. What happened to Roy? I
don't know he went to Columbia. I ain't heard from it. Like,
how fund up would it be? You get arrested in
Columbi and so you can see this judge and then
just get some food, name and retake Carlo Smith Boga
sending you the forty years that I'm gonna eat my
(45:16):
way out of this. You know that note really doing Kanza.
That's what you don't want to That's the second. I
don't know what you mean. He's just podcasting his mom
(45:48):
and named Murto. We call him Rock for Shore Rock
as always, brother man, thank you. Right after the break,
we're gonna bring this video game. We come. We don't
talk to a game Stop employee and give us give
us a game on some of these scams over the
game stop you even mother fuckers. I just bought the
(46:11):
game for sixty dollars highs. This ship only were four
dollars on the trade. We're gonna figure out why from
this gentleman, like it's a job film be right back,
thank you. As always, ride Scam of the week time.
Now we're talking video games today, in the world of
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video games and video game testing specifically, as we all
know third, there are a couple of industries that I
do feel a duplicity and shady and and no shape
fashion should they be respected. That goes college tuitione. The
funeral home industry, and of course games start because your
motherfucker's be giving me two dollars for this goddamn use
(46:58):
video game that you know, good, good, damn well, you're
gonna flip for forty dollars to the point where there
was a scandal a while back, um ship. This might
have been somewhere in there where GameStop employees were encouraging
customers to purchase the pre owned games instead of the
(47:19):
new version of the game because it was more practice
for them, and the developers were like, wait a minute, bitch,
you're gonna sell the used mad in twenty three because
some crackhead beat it in two weeks because they never
went to bed and they brought it right back. You're
gonna sell that before you sell my new ship, or
we'll fix you, bitch. Now we're gonna go digital with
a lot of our titles. And that's where a lot
of that evolution of how video games were distributed to
(47:43):
the consumers came from it because Game Stop was trying
to the shady motherfuck and I don't know how they
survived longer than Blockbuster Video. But your day is coming,
Bit two things is gonna happen. I'm not route for
a company to tail, but they have continually exploited the customers.
(48:04):
They're never gonna be a sponsor of this fucking podcast.
I do not want me stand in line for a game,
stand in line for a game, beat the game. Then
I come back two days later, and you're gonna give
me photolars for the game, bro And it wasn't crack,
it was red bull, right. I paid sixty for that game.
You're gonna sell it for fifty five. You're giving me
three dollars. Something wrong with that your Stop card or something.
(48:28):
I'm not interested in them actually sponsoring this show. My
concern is is that you are a wizard of your
own dealing your three for three. Don't make it for
for four. I talked about the June team for ice cream.
They got it out of there. I talked about charcoal taco.
They got it out of there, Trevor, No, it was collateral.
My bad. You don't mean to make that, Brose. Three
(48:51):
things in this life are going to happen before I dog.
You listening to me right now? Game Stop is gonna
shut down, shut it down. They're gonna turn down the
music and knocker At and Joe's Crabshack is going to
let me enjoy a meal by myself in silence, and
the people will not come out into a single stupid
dance and interrupt my delicious dining. Next stop it Who
(49:18):
do we have on the line, Josh, I'm so sorry.
Welcome to this show. It's Josh, and the Minnesota native
works as a forklift driver for a building supply company,
and prior to that, Josh spent ten years in the
video game industry, first in retail at the game Stop
(49:40):
and being as a video game tester for a company
that shall remain nameless. Josh will be talking to us
about the experience within the gaming industry and the store
behind how he eventually got laid off while on vacation.
Hello Josh, Hello, huge fan. Let me add an asterisk
(50:04):
to the game Stop rant game Stop was is still
a good place for gamers to go and commiserate and
ask educated questions about titles that they're thinking about getting,
much in the same way that you could go to
the corner record store and not the big Sam Goodie
or Turtles or Camelot Music. So of the of the
era you can get real insider knowledge and conversation about
(50:27):
a title and what they think about it. Because all
those games stop employees, I will say this, they know
their ship when it comes to what's a good game,
what's a bad game, what's the glitchy game? Uh, tell
us a little bit about your time, neth game stoff.
Really want to get into the world a video game
testing with you and how you've got into that, Well,
it's it's actually kind of complicated the way game stuff
works because well they make most of their money off
(50:50):
use games, right, so they encourage people to trade in
their games. I didn't know that. Yeah, the margin on
new games is very small. I think for a six
two dollar game, they pay about forty eight or fifty
two dollars for it. So it's very small margin um
to sell a new game or a new system or
anything like that. And like you said, they you know
(51:12):
they'll buy your game for like four bucks and sell
it for like forty at least um brand new games
they tend to pay like twenty five or thirty, like
maybe for the first six weeks of games out, but
after that, yeah, it drops a ton. You know, you
don't try. If you don't trade in your games within
two months, you're screwed as far as getting um. So, yeah,
(51:35):
most of their businesses in use stuff, so they will
definitely recommend use over new, especially like we were saying,
like Madden, if they have a used copy, they're gonna,
you know, recommend that over a new one. Um, just
because you know, maybe thirty bucks profit. So he just
taught me something. Now I understand why my nephews when
(51:55):
they couldn't dry, they kept calling me Auntie, Auntie, can
you take the game stop? And then when I get there,
like twelve children get in one car and then they
all just follow out the car because they had to
go take the games peg. I didn't understand why they
had to keep going to game stop. Game stop is
a is an example of an archaic model. He was
back in the day used to buy a whole bunch
of games, and you had had a games, you couldn't
(52:17):
do ship with them. But then game Stop open, so
you could take all of your PlayStation games, all of
your all your early xbix games and trade them in
and get something for it. And that's kind of how
a lot of people did it. I'm something better than nothing.
Uh well, I mean it's the same concept as a
pun shop. You can't expect to get what your stuff
is actually worth, So I mean it's a it's a
(52:38):
profit thing. They they're gonna lowball you, and they know
you're too lazy to put it on eBay or anything
to get like the full price, so they'll you know,
they'll just give you whatever they feel is fair. Then
then let me speaking of fair, then then let me
add another asterisk. How much is game Stopped to blame
(52:58):
for pushing use games? Do you think part of why
they push use games is because the video game developers
are taking a bigger chunk of the retail sales. The
fact that game stop is only making ten dollars off
of something that cost sixty dollars that feels a little
blimy from the video game industry. So they create this
(53:19):
used video game monster themselves through their own greed. Yeah,
I'd say game Stop has always had a pretty sticky
relationship with video game publishers for that reason. Um publishers
obviously want to sell as many copies as they can,
so they don't want to sell the same game over
and over where they only make the profit the first time.
(53:40):
So obviously, yeah, but they also know that game stop
is a big resource for them as far as selling
their games and selling systems and even use games benefit
publishers in a way because if someone buys a used
game and the publisher wants to release a sequel, maybe
that person will buy the sequel, you know, brand new,
so it publishers are never fully abandoned game stop, but
(54:04):
they also don't really like it that much. It's just
kind of necessary evil. I guess I don't, but it
seems in a way the video game industry has figured
out to some degree ways to circumvent game Stop by
just selling games as downloaded. But like I bought MLB
the show whichever one show hal Tony is on the
(54:24):
cover of right now, I think that's twenty three, So
I bought that, I downloaded that, and then within the
game here if you give us ten dollars, but give
you a little more game. Oh, we just made up
some more video games. Call of Duties. That's the same
ship you buy. Call you you guys are still people,
(54:46):
and I'm older than your note and grown man gamer language.
That's called buying tips, all right. You gotta buy the
tips for the game, because that's what it's called. You
don't because if you play against these kids, the kids
play for hours a pound hours. Growing people don't have
that time. So you just skip that ship and buy
the damn tits. Otherwise you can't play with the kid. Josh,
(55:07):
please tell me I'm not lying to them. Like the
entire way the industry is set up right now, they mean,
just charging for a game isn't enough. They have to
They have to do all sorts of micro transactions or
season passes and anything to get download that like Mario
Part I just paid twenty dollars from Mario Cardinals Switch
(55:28):
to get four new tracks because I'm tired of the
other tracks. So are things like that ways that they
could circumvent the game stopped craziness ingret Absolutely? I mean
I've been fully digital for about five years now. I
haven't been the game stop talking about it forever. I
think I had to buy like a carry case there
a while ago, and I just got sick of it.
But yeah, uh, digital is the way to go as
(55:51):
far as I'm concerned. Uh, you get the game right away.
You can even download it before it comes out, so
you don't have to wait. In mind for anything. Pre
ordering has always been a scam. Don't do it. Yeah,
we could get that. So pre ordering was something When
I worked a game stop back in the mid two
thousands or early two thousands. It was much bigger than
(56:13):
it is now because physical copies were everything back then.
But you basically had to pre order some games because
they would only order limited quantities. But most games, like
a Halo or something, they would have way more than
they possibly would need, so you would never need to
pre order something like that. But they would still insist
that people would come in place down five or ten
(56:35):
dollars to pre order a game. They might get some bonus. Yeah,
like the year I got the Call of Duty. Um
fucking night vision goggles when I bought a hundred fifty dollars.
Totally worth it, absolutely every minute of it. Oh god.
(56:56):
But yeah, there's all sorts of there's all sorts of
gimmicks like that. There was a chainsaw controller for residents
for there were the bongoes for Donkey Kong Country. Yeah,
there was all kinds of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out,
shout out to the Nintendo. So pre sale is to
fame extra demand and make people feel like they're getting
something exclusive, and you hit them with an up charge
for some ship that is going to be in stock
(57:16):
anyway on release day, right, I mean it's not enough
charge because I mean they're just paying ahead of time.
But it's basically just guaranteeing that they have a copy,
and uh it tells the publishers that their game is
going to sell well, which you know, makes them send
more copies to game Stop and you know, it's the
cycle games coming in. They were honest. If you traded,
(57:36):
it was almost it was almost like it was almost
like going to a check cash in place like this,
we're gonna take your money, but you know, go ahead,
we're gonna come back in. So it would keep you
in the circle. Exactly. What about the gaming systems themselves,
it was maybe I don't know if it was last
holiday season or the season before last. I won't name
any names, but we all had like our Peter's open,
(58:01):
We had our phones open, and we were trying to
get this particularly. Tell the story. Tell don't know how
I got myself. Here's how I got my PS five.
And I only did it because my my, my best
friend that I've known since the seventh grade. His son
really wanted the next box. To buy a single PS five.
(58:23):
I had two on epnnet with three best buy tabs
open in three different browsers. I had Safari, I had Chrome,
I had Firefox open, and I was refreshing and refreshing
and refreshing. So in total, I had eighteen windows open
on two different devices, and I was able to buy
(58:45):
one of each. And it took me five fucking consecutive
hours of refreshing. Oh he's not throwing out there that
he had other people on computers and phones and other
places too. I also had Jacqueline and Walbuty. Demand is
(59:05):
that the question? I don't mean to cut you off.
How what's the scam? Why do you why do you
stretching out the dope? It's been two years. We know
you've got enough, like mo of them bitch, Actually they don't.
There's a huge chip shoting right now. That's affecting everything.
You've probably heard about that. Yeah, the chip shots affecting cars, computers,
(59:27):
game consoles, phones. Yeah, that's the reason it's so hard
to get an Xbox Series X or PlayStation five right now. Um,
just they cannot make enough. Before we get you out
of here, Josh, tell us a little bit about this
world of video game testing. How did you get into it?
And for people that are interested in that path, how
can they kind of find their way into that? Now?
(59:49):
The way I got into it is from working at
game Stop. I heard that there was a publisher nearby
that did uh game testing, and I'd heard about game
test sing um and I was always kind of reluctant
to do it because I knew what kind of what
kind of demands a placed on people, But I would
(01:00:09):
say retail, So I figured to give it a shot.
And uh yeah. Apparently the retail experience was enough for
them because they know if you work at game Stop,
like you said, they have a lot of knowledge. So
having knowledge about video games is really big if you
want to get into testing. Also, having good writing skills
it's very important. That's the only reason that the game
(01:00:33):
testing does not typically pay minimum wages because it is
kind of a skilled position where you need knowledge of
video games and you need uh, you know, good writing skills.
So you need to be able to not only find
a defect, but be able to describe in great detail
to someone who has never played the game before how
to find that defect. Um, along with providing any sort
of screenshots or videos and stuff like that. So you
(01:00:55):
need very good communication skills and very good, um knowledge
of video what's the money, like, Josh, can you take
somebody out on a good date? Fuck? No? Um? So okay.
I started in two thousand six and I went to
two thousand twelve. Back then, being a game tester was
(01:01:18):
paying nine dollars an hour. Um, I think same place
that I did work, they're now paying eleven, which isn't
but um, you had basically relied on overtime to make
any money at all, but you would always get over time.
So um. The other thing about testing is that I
(01:01:39):
worked both as a tester and as a lead. As
a lead your salary, so basically they own you and
you can work as many hours as they want you
to work without paying you more. So sometimes my testers
are actually making more money than I was because they
paid overtime and I wasn't, but you were happy, right,
happy ish. I mean I'm not there anymore, so that
(01:02:02):
I should tell you something. You can't thank you enough
for feeling back the lid on this world a little bit.
And uh, next time I go into a game stop,
I'm walking there with pawn shopping and they're used to it,
NHL and say give me about seven five even motherfucker
(01:02:26):
get it over there, Josh, thank you so much for
coming on the job there. Thank you so much. That's
the show Royce job Fair as a product of I
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owe an apology to us frequent flyers who just simply
want better commodities on the l And I think it's
not unreasonable if we are the lifeblood of the flying
airline industry to want a power port and a television
and in a hot towel. Let me tell you something.
Let tell you something freaking if a jet fucking engine,
(01:03:16):
If what it took to get to the jet engine
ain't another of a commodity that you can want that
you just walk if you need more than that, if
you need more than soaring through the skies like a
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(01:08):
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(01:31):
They are flying you to your destination. If you want
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Seven hours since flying south of the West. It's just
such a hassle where you're playing at I'm talking a
lot of ship to not to be able to get
to this mother fucking three hours without me. Oh they
(01:52):
lost my bags. You just took a flight across the
country in three hours. Just celebrate that. Shut the funk up.
(02:17):
My name is Roy. This this ride to Rant right
now should be that should be the video they play.
If you push back from the gate like it, that
would that would totally raise engagement. Pretty safety announcement from
(02:39):
my huh spoke person, Roy. I can't saying people can
play about flying. It's the most miraculous thing that has
probably been invented since you've been alive up to this
point in human history. There's nothing more amazing than fuck light,
(03:02):
and people have the nerve to just bitch on and
complain like they're not about to experience a miracle in
ten minutes. Shut your ends up one time for the
right brothers, shout out the wheelbear horrible. You think if
they had known that this is what flight would have
turned into, that they would have still done it. If
they knew it would have come down to just people going.
(03:24):
Then the internet ain't fast enough flying in the sky.
They have stuff the bikes. The bike said, I wouldn't
have blamed them. Let's just go back to building Penny
Farthings because these people don't know how to act and
flying in such a hassle, drive or get a private
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jet like ruin them. Don't say ruin them, bitch. I'm
on de bro. Ain't nobody with a podcast flying private?
You got way more than I don't want to hear
that ship we went to the end. You've been on
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a private jet before? On? Yeah, when he got a seat, bitch,
I'll drive with him. I ain't selling no arenas. Yeah,
I mean, that's the whole purpose by racial people is
to get dark niggas perks. What else would you hang
out with a white star hang out there? We're talking
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video games that we got the real for a second.
But we're back. You know, we're gonna talk to a
couple of people that's in the world of video games.
One woman up north of the border who going north
to Canada? Was that a good accent? Probably not? Um,
she's a designer and tester a video game games. And
then we come scam of a week. We're gonna talk
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to the motherfucker who worked at the Game Stop, and
I believe game Stop it's one of the most duplicit
dist places on Earth, next to the funeral hall difference,
more corrupt than the FIFA world. It's up there. Video games,
they remain a big part of my life. I just
I don't think the plan was often because once you
have a child and they can look at what you're playing.
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If you don't realize you're playing like Resident Evil and
Call of Duty, and you can't have a four year
old just downloading that type of imagery. Oh look at
you being responsible. I have a ten year old and
a sixteen year old and they both learned at this stage.
And when Daddy plays video games, we go up series
and close our door. It's the best way to not
have to, you know, repeat what I do. Do you
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play with you play with a headset or do you
do the whole surround sounds sub with for like immersion,
I do the I do the headset, and it still
doesn't matter. Um. The easiest example would be I came
up one day. I came up one day and hurt
my son playing Fortnite, and the way he was talking
to the people in the game was just out of
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this world all you and I you know, and I instinctively,
like a parent, should I jumped on him. Don't you
talk to people like that when you're playing a video game?
What is wrong with you? Did that is not what
it was made for. Yeah, took his Xbox cords, walked
out the game and walked out the room, went downstairs
a couple of hours later and started playing Call of Duty.
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And it was a rough night of Call of Duty.
And so I, I I, you know, I did what anybody
was having a rough night of it. Man, fuck you
man whatever, dog yo, don't let me find you. I
will dock you. I not turned around. A Ralph is
standing right there, and it was nothing I could say.
It was like, okay, So now not only now do
I play with the headset, but now I don't talk
when I be yelling at women when he night Team
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and I'm sorry growing up and watch my father. Yeah no, no, no, no,
he's already he's the yelling at people on the internet.
So he's too scared of girls. A yellow differ. So
I'm not worried about that. You think it's Mama's sisterant
for that? He together. Yeah, I'm gonna send him to
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Ride high school yard he can take his gap year
with Ride. They'll be fine. I haven't touched the video
games since I was probably in the tan thor Liven grade,
so I think they doo emotional, because like, video games
is like where I first connected with anger. Like I'm
being serious, like losing the Nass game, I've thrown from strollers,
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I've I've broken, I've wrote three Nintendo three original iness
just lapping them and hitting them, all of that nonsense.
I didn't know the word at the time, but I
emasculated my brother's friends because I used to kick their
foots real bad. We're game, well game, and I'm asking
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for us because no, what's the game? Sonya um oh?
Mortal Kombat slaying the left right. See, that's why I
asked that I learned I learned in college, Roy and
you might have as well. But video games was almost
like a great social equalizer, man, because when you ran
across a young lady that could whip somebody's ass and
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tech in Mortal Kombat or whatever, she instantly became that
cool ass girl, like it really didn't matter who she was,
and she could be other dudes's ass, and the dudes
didn't see it coming. You like bringing her around just
she could shut dudes up. You know what I'm saying.
So I support that. I support ladies who can play.
But I guess I guess I should just say I
grew up. I grew out of video games. Guys. That's
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just me. Nothing's wrong with that. It's just me. Did
you know the average ame of average age of a
video gamer right now? It's forty three years old. The
generation that grew up with Nintendo's and Atri's are growing
as people real quick start enough for Cody's Most Outstanding
employ of the Week. Now I gotta CMO up my sleeve.
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The third, I understand we might have to do a
double up today. Yeah five, because this one, I know
Jacquelin is not going to hopefully hopefully hopefully. You don't
like it when I celebrate craziness traditionally you don't like. Okay,
(09:30):
I'm listening. Go ahead. This is an easy one for
me since it's a video game episode. I'm gonna shout
out the kid that when I used to live in
Los Angeles, he used a babysitting this kid man, and
he was really really good on the game cube at
a at a game called Super Smash Brothers. He with
my ass he was ten years old. He would beat
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my ass with Jiggilie Puff and Kirby just to prove
a point, like the two most kiddy characters in the game.
He beat my monkey ass. But he was always a
good kid. One year, I bought him a copy of
a game called View It Full, View It Full Joe,
and I had no idea that it was gonna change
his life. My CMO is a young man by the
name of Jordan Taliman who used to beat My Ass,
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but now he's one of the lead programmers and testers
for Sony And if you happen to beat God of
War or Unchartered, any of the games has come out
in the last three years, and you go through credits,
you'll see his name in the credits. So you know,
that's that's my that's my way of people talking about
growing up and all that other kind of stuff. Yo,
you're never too old to play the video games, man,
because it's always there's all kinds of different ways that
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you can play and get in there. So you know, my, my,
my cmos, Jordan's congratulations to that young brother you are.
Cody is most outstanding employee of the week. Now for
my clas, what have you done? As we all know,
the former CEO of the crypto company f t X,
(10:57):
Sam Bankman freed. It was a restident the Bahamas and
has been extradited into the United States. As we all know,
he is the CEO of a bankrupt crypto company. He's
you know, he's accused of lyne to the shareholders and
basically skimming, skim wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, securities for all,
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security for all, conspiracy, and a partridge in a pair
of tree. So so we all know when f t
X and all this crypto ship was popping about twelve
to fifteen months ago to a lot of celebrity spokespersons
who have now been named in lawsuits from people who
invested in f t X, going with Steph Curry, motherfucking
told me the crypto were goods. I put all the
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money and the money got stolen from me. Also named
in the lawsuit is Shaquille O'Neil. Now the diesel he
took money. So no Shack was one of the people
that was a celebrity spokesperson. You know this suit its
lawsuit in clues name on the osaka Steph Kerry, Larry David,
(12:05):
tom Brady, and I'm most of the people, most of
the celeb's name in the lawsuit have all said, hey,
you know, I'm not commenting right now. I'm trying to
make sure um that you know, at this time, it's
unfortunate what happened with f t X, and my prayers
(12:25):
go out and I did not fraud people, you know that,
just the various niceties. I want my money. Uh huh.
When Shaquille O'Neill was asked about being named in the lawsuits,
Shaquille O'Neill said, quote, I don't understand crypto. I'm just
a paid spokesperson. Oh no, check said, get the funk
(12:50):
out of my face. But you don't know what iout
be spelling. They gave me a check right to till
what to say? Say cryptod it okay? Actually Crypto good
for my money? You know it's a lot too. You know,
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they get shot like twenty million dollars to say that easy.
But I just respect the fact that Shaquille O'Neill did
not try to like, hey, you know, I was tricked,
just like your Shock didn't lie. Shock didn't run from it,
said Hey, motherfucker's pay me to say ship. I say
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the ship. I don't be investigating the ship behind the curtain.
But to be that honest when you're being named in
a lawsuit, like you're being sued for lying to people,
and then you go, I didn't know what I was doing.
I'm stupid. You lied to me. Defenses I got paid
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to do it, I don't. I don't that response shock
understanding the warriors that are coming out of my mouth
people with what you said, Hey, people pay me to
say stuff. People who co and said all I do
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is reading was on the paper. How can we not
suing the writers? Where the hell are the writer checked? Argument? Essentially,
that's a suck argument. So I can't say you lied
to the people. He just didn't know for not knowing
people were putting their life savings into crypto, Yeah, straight up,
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thank you. So they're dumb that they're dubbed. But the
lady who gave the bishop her money, Oh, she was
so sweet that she was taking an she was taking
advantage of because he with her. Let me say, last
you was like, okay, maybe they're mentally incapacitated, but but
(14:56):
the crypto people, they do they don't she was taking
advantage of I lost some money in crypto. I'm not
a lot, but I'm just saying not like some other people.
They both got sold the same line, giving now and
I was gonna make it better. You're going to heaven.
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That's different. We'll pray for you to get this Mercedes
either way. I'm trying to figure out why this white
boy stole everybody money then went to the Bahamas. That
is an extra night and they were already in the Bahamas.
That's why he was arrested in the Bahamas. Is headquartered
in the Bahamas. It screens. Yeah, this whole company was
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founded and started and set up in the all the
all the executives. They've been down there, apparently in a
sucking funk fest, they said. But now they're doing weird
heavn orgies and getting hide and take stealing people's mind
in the Bahamas. Okay, see now we're now, y'are peeling
back to blazz. I'm just here to pray shack so
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for not knowing what you don't know, and it meant't
that you don't know what you don't know, and then
getting paid, then itting that you get paid to not
know what you don't know and didn't tell people to
go pull their money into it. Uh huh for that.
That's that's how they explained. Could you imagine explaining krypt
lot to shop? No, no, no, Shack has a business degree,
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so so really that's your trefication. That's a millionaires that
lost money. And I love shock. So let us not
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friend about the fact that Shaq took six years to
get a degree in general studies from general studies was
flourished General Studies Royal inveasking well he had to go
studies it O'Neill, you are pro most outstanding employee of
the week. J G. Bless us with the introduction of
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our first video game test, Quality control Test. Today. Well
we have Mia and she lives in Montreal, Canada, and
she's a polygot, a person who knows and uses several
different languages. Today the language scientists is going to share
her experience testing video games. Welcome, Mia, It's very nice
(17:35):
to see you today. So when we look at this job,
do you test all games or are you testing just
one quadrant of the game? Are you testing the overall
experience of the game? What's the bare basics of this
You basically have two kinds of testing. You have the
testing when the game is finished and you can a
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test the beta version before they not release it right before.
But you also got the testing that is actually part
of the making of the game. So uh, you got
in that alpha testing. You have two parts. You have
the functionality testing, in which basically, uh, they send us
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a version of the game and sometimes it's very early,
like the characters don't even have faces or proper hair.
It's just like very very early in the making of
the game. And functionality testing is you gotta hit that button,
and if the character doesn't do what it's supposed to
do the moment you hit the button, that's a bug.
So you need to report the bug. You send it
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back to the developer, and then every bog gets fixed
until the game is finally free of bugs as much
as you can. And that's the functionality testing. Now you've
got a linguistic testing, the localization testing. It's the translation
part in every language that the game is going to
be released in, And that translation part is another kind
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of testing, completely different. That's what I actually specialize in,
all right, Um, so that's it's part of the making,
that is part of the making of the game actually
before it's even like really done. That's the thing. So
before we even get into the quest, the plot and
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whether or not the game is actually fun to play,
we have to make sure the character jumps when he's
supposed to jump, walk what you want them to walk,
and verbally people are like a game. Right, Let's just
take Grand Theft Auto or John mannon football. When you
have announcers where there are hundreds of phrases preloaded into
the game to simulate the play by play experience, then
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you would come in and just sit and listen to
the play by play in the languages that you speak
because you're poly go. So as a polygloy, you might
just play Madden in French all day and you're listening
for did the announcer get the phrase wrong or the
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first there's a written part all the subtitles you Translately,
you need to check everything, even like the legal things
at the very start of the game, you know, when
you just open the thing the menu, like every detail,
everything that is written needs to be checked not only
for the language, but how for example, sometimes it overlaps,
you know, it goes out of that box that is
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supposed to be in, so that's you you need to report,
but also the voiceovers. You need to listen to all
the voiceovers. And indeed, it's not just about the language
and the translation of the words. Things like jokes and
cultural references need to make sense in the language that
you're going to translate the gaming. So for example, the
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game like GTN, that's a great example because you have
plenty of even if when you turn on the radio
in the car, you have jokes, you have insights, you
have stuff that need to make sense for whatever place
is going to play back in it, like Russia or
France or England, it needs to make sense. So you
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need to make sure that the jokes are also translated
in a way that are going to be funny. And
that's when you need not only people that actually speak
the language, but people that are from the country because
they know, you know, their own cultural references. And this
is why Montreal is a pool for that, because we
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have people from all over the world working in here
and that's why wow. So if you can speak multiple languages,
Montreal is a place to get the jobs that need
people who speak multiple language. Do you see more games
coming down the pipe now? Where the idea might be
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from one country, but you have to make them all.
You gotta make them global, like God of War is
coming out. Things like that. Well, it's it's always completely
catered to make something global. References are not the same
from at lace to another. Now you can unite people
and they're like a reference that is known by all,
but then you can still need to adapt some parts eventually,
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you know, depending on the public that you that that
your gaming. Now, not all games are translated in every language,
but a game like the Seams for example, is you know,
like even had my check and crazy languages that not
all the developers actually release games in these languages. But
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it's actually I am not a tester anymore. I haven't
been for a long time, but that's how I started
in the company that I work for now. I was
an immigrants best pray to find a job, and I
was over over How do you say over qualified? What
has it been? What has been your experience growing only
from video game tester to walk us through where you
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are now within the world of video games and some
of the hurdles and bullshit that you've had to deal
with within that world. One is an immigrant, two as
a woman. But it's kind of a strike one, strike
two and three U and tech and you know they'd
be mistreating women in the world at tech. So first,
now I obviously level leveled up as I was supposed to.
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I'm learning and specialists. Yeah, my salary is time three now.
So I'm pretty happy. You know, it's a long time coming.
And so I actually I specialized in languages and one
of my mission right now we've actually to teach French
to our UH employees that are immigrants and need to
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learn French to remain in Canada. So I helped them
with that. I'm very happy because I feel like, you know,
I have a purpose. But um, to be very honest,
the company that I work for UH, we we are
not developers. We are a huge service multi line service
provide the four developers and a lot of them are
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actually our clients. And the company I work for is
extremely diverse, extremely um tolerant, and there are literally all
kinds of people working for this company. Like literally I
have never been in presence of so many people from
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so many different horizons, like should it be like racial, religion,
a gender, no gender, every gender, like everything is represented.
I have been working with people coming to work dressed
with pikach ones is literally the furies. You go to
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work with furies people with with green hair. But first,
I come from the hip hop industry, So you know,
if I survived like fourteen years in that industry, I
think like, yeah, that was, that was like you know, um,
but no, I never really suffered of being a woman
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in that industry. Honestly. Maybe because it's the company I
work for. Maybe probably, but I can't complain about any
But then maya, also, your work ethic is sincere and
it's genuine, so there might have been those microaggressions that
you overlooked because you are the type of person that
gets the job done for sure. For sure. Um, But
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I'm probably just grateful because like they pretty much accept everyone,
and I had a very hard time finding the job
because my name is Muslim. You know, it sounds kind
of Muslim. I was born in Paris, but still, you know,
it's not clearly from Canada, and it's it's a reality.
It's a very welcoming country. But you know, nothing's perfect
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and it's a reality. And I'm just grateful that they
at least gave me a chance and as soon as
they saw my qualifications and superpower. They actually never live,
and you know, it's just it's just super fair. So
I can't. You know, I would love to be bitching
about them, but I can't. Yeah, no, no, you don't.
You don't have to do that because I currently work
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with someone, the man down there in the corner, who
is similarly open and honest with all the women that
he works with. He hears us, and he wants to
hear us. So I totally get it that there's nothing
to complain about. Thank you, Thank you. I try not
to be an asshole. I don't know about hiring somebody
(26:38):
in the fur outfit. We'll have to see and do.
We can't discriminate against the Furries discriminate. I'm just saying
I ain't hiring him off resume alone. I need to
see you. I need to make that maya. Thank you
so much for sharing a little bit of knowledge of
your world with us. We appreciate you. Um candid to
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see what they here kept talking about, seeing what's going
on up to math girup didn't marry me somebody, Jacqueline,
come on back to the States. You know, I think
that's how it worked, right, I think that's how it. Yeah,
I'm positive. Let me get on Canadian tender. Oh my god,
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oh wow, okay, Canadian tender? What was it called tender?
A that was too easy? Don't laugh at that. Man,
Thank you so much for coming on the show. We
appreciate you. Thank you for sharing this world. Call me
for the music industry. I got stories here by now.
Thank you. She's great, she's so cultured, and she says,
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by now the home in Narato is gonna come on
and drive the show off the rails. I'm curious about
what his favorite video games were. It's the job Fair.
We'll be right back, job Fair. We're talking video games.
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Um we did? Do we even name my favorite video
games of all time? I don't think we did that.
Rod was too busy cussing out, cussing us out about
daring to want more from a fucking airline. But all time,
I'm gonna go O G Mario Kart, grant their Puto three.
Now what I currently play right now is MLB the show.
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I still play Grant their five. Those are the two.
And then I dabble in FIFA and I dabble in
Call of Duty. I don't even play NBA two K
because it's too hard to relearn like these sports games now,
like you have to train like a real athlete to
learn how to do this. Yes, NBA games that are worst.
It's just horrible. It's hard. J G all time. What's
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your three? Oh? Easy? That is going to be skate
or Die. That's going to be Mike Tyson pie chout.
I beat him twice. I'm so proud of that because
you gotta hit him right there in the in the center,
and then he going with such a tyson So yeah,
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just like that, and then lastly more to combat Rod.
I'm gonna guess for you. Oh. I feel like at
least one NASCAR game is somewhere my top three all time,
and video games would have to be sky Rim Let's
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go right, Dragon Quest eight, I love that game, yea,
and number three all time. I gotta go with the
original contract the attend right a B start, so let's
start contro. I feel like all of y'all chose very
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very good games, even though some of them are very
very old. But they have emulators and you can still
play them on your computer. Now, Jacqueline that me and
said it would be uh m hm FIFA period, Assassin's
Creed the whole series period, and then God of War
(30:19):
Full Stop period. Those would be my top three easily.
Those are the three games I still get excited about playing. Honorable,
Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention to Call of Duty, Modern Warfare,
Modern Warfare. My issue of Call of Duty, though, is
that some of the plot of them games, some of
the plot of some of the Call of Duties don't
make sense. Hey man, let me help you out, help me,
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let me help you out. You know why the plots
have sucked and have sucked for so many years. It's
very simple because nobody plays that part of the game anymore.
They only play a multiplayer game. Nobody nobody goes in
and plays the campaign anymore. It was scary commentary about
the military and war as a whole, and it's just
(31:02):
evolved into there he is, give them, chase them, shoot them,
all right, you got him, Chase your next motherfucker, all right,
try to tank shoot him, and that part of it,
you know, I don't know. I kind of I look
at it as a I agree with you. I look
at it as an easy way for for for white
kids to say the in word and and not get
and get away with it. That's pretty much what all
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the games involved in. Now all the kids jump on
and talk a lot of crazy. I'm okay with video
game bullying. And I think he keeps them boys from
ounting the forest, burning cats and ship Oh no, please, don't.
Nothing satiates that desire? Body, why that the dark passenger decks?
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Trust me. The the aggression, the aggression that comes with
wanting to burn a cat alive, is not one percent
close to the aggression that makes you want to yell
the inn word in a video game. That might be
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the best comparison I've ever heard that is fair. Them
boys just stroll it, okay, ain't no serial killers. Blad
the game. The boys in the woods with them cats
and the box matches, and somebody better get out there,
Apple there, bring out boys, bring our boys, bring him
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on his program, to give your topics to share the
co workers. You can't stand those people at your job
that you've run out of things to talk about. As
you hear the clinking of the ice indicating that he's
out of peanut butter whiskey, that means he's ready to
talk to us, I'll be called the segment of breaking
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the ices. Mama named Murado. We call him Rob for short.
Rod j G had a had a interesting proposition on
a social media that I want you to break down now.
As we all know, Jacqueline is the proposal. Championship is undefeated.
Imposals for the lifetime record of four and a half
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over four old and one on a half. Right, you're
the champ j G put it, Yeah, it would be
old four the helf. Don't get on those. I still
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don't know what it means. But you're the one that
says for half solf, Jack want put a kite up
in the sky, trolling for some Christmas vacation. J G.
I'll let you read it. Presents for anybody under any
(33:56):
circumstances for Christmas. Listen, Christmas, give send an abusive power
that is not true. I was being silly this morning
because I had nothing better to do, and I was
on Twitter and what happened? Okay, and what's and what
did you say? And what did they say back to you?
We're gonna let Rode break this down and see whether
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or not you got you a nice fishing might be
win and ring number five? Now, I said Gardens, I said,
if anyone is Christmas shopping for me. I'm a size
two weeks in the U a E on the north
shore of a hanu in Paris and by respectfully. So
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people said nice things back and then this one person said,
would you be willing to size down three days to
Atlantic City? What that's what I'm talking about? My man said,
I know what you used to but I only got
Southwest money. Okay, you connected old Mars interest you in
(35:05):
a fourteen hour layover in Kansas City. Couldn't deals like
Chris Rock? Good lord, that's a lot of but too weeks?
Good about three days in Atlantic Rod. Give these people
some ship to talk about with the co workers at
the town. Push your t, longtime Kanye West friend and collaborator,
(35:30):
has stepped down as president of Kanye's music label, Good Music.
He said it has been disappointed and some of the
things Kanye has been saying and doing, and he's just
got to separate himself from his good friend. Then wow, Yeah,
push us out, pushes out, Push downs Bro ain't even
(35:52):
gonna front it's it don't get more real than push
them because that ygg it would ride with his boys
through rail. Push Out. Kanye is fucked and fucking up.
It's very it's very unfortunate because there's like the people
like like when you think about like okay, Donda Academy
(36:15):
clubs right, and the crypto of schools. Hello for Danda Academy.
Sorry to be smart? You want him to be He's
learn can learn all the tools at dunda alright with
(36:38):
my money, Sha. School is not a credit at all,
is following no curriculum. I don't understand school. I don't
understand school. It took me six years to get a
general education diploma. I did understand. The school is not
(36:59):
it's not the script, but the kids who played basketball
for that school and the parents who brought their kids
into that school. And we can make the argument whether
or not the parental fools not to take their kids
to an uncredited private institution, but the teacher like this
is this is people's livelihoods. Bro If pushes out, what
(37:20):
about the A and R people, the marketing people, everybody
that's behind all of those artists that are own good.
If you're artists own good, what do you do when
your boss go crazy? That ship ain't in your contract.
You can't just walk away from some seven album deal.
Record label contracts are so ironclad that even if Kanye
(37:40):
Straight get to Hitler Mustache tomorrow, you probably still owe
him five albums with no ad support, and you've lost
pushing who actually is a fucking culinary fucking like he's
an officionado of music and sound and lyric and content,
(38:00):
Like the dude has always been in the nuance and stuff.
He is the right he was the right person to
help usher in those types of artists into the record industry,
like the type of man. The ship is sad. This
ship is sad, and all of the employment fallout of
Kanye's antics as as I think it's something that's never
(38:23):
been talked about, but he does a lot of this
wild ship for attention and reporting on it to me
feeds back into it like it's a it's a cycle,
you know, and that's why you know you can't see
ignorum but not y. But when you see your employers
losing his mind, you might want to jump ship. You
might want to save yourself. You might want to realize
(38:46):
that you have a mortgage in real bills, children and
people to take care of them. So when it's time
to go, it's time to go. But if he's not listening.
Stop talking. Nobody else is gonna keep your lights on
in your house, but so only on the other side.
Um a batty with the gavel in Columbia was just
(39:07):
suspended from the bench. Uh, there's a very gorgeous judge
down there. Justice Vivian Polonia as an Instagram page where
she posted a lot of sexy pictures of herself for
a day job. It's court justice. And she showed up
(39:28):
recently into a virtual court here and landing the bed
smoking a cigarette, wearing nothing but a T shirt and
are you serious? And the office took great offense to that.
And according to her, this is just revenge because they
(39:48):
hate how sexy she is and hate that she'd be
showing that thing off on I g And her excuse
for what happened was she was landing the bed like
that because she had low breath plessure and an anxiety attack.
You need cigarette, a cigarette and balance. She needs to
show up the court landed bad, half naked, smoking a
(40:09):
cigarette because she had a little breath pressure and anxiety.
So let me understand this. She was this is zoom court, right,
real court that actually all rise all rides for the
honorable judge whatever whatever, and then she turned the video
on and she's just like, oh, look at her. Okay.
(40:30):
I wouldn't know what to do. If I was in
zoom court all right for show and that showed up,
I'd be looking around. But Jacqueline, I just I just
I grinded. Thank you for sending the article. You could
read the top partner. Don't scroll down, don't scroll down,
(40:56):
don't pulled up for Twitter. That was a mistake. Don't
pull up for Twitter this article of don't pup. Oh
my god, I'm not to get her on for the second?
Good night on it. How are you a judge? I
(41:17):
do not. Social media is really ruined us, Yes, it
really has. Like if you want to be freaky, diky,
go be freaky, go set up an only fans and
like you could like have a fake court room and
make people pay you money to be fucking penalty. You
gotta working. Yeah, I'm the judge. You want to be
(41:37):
punished disorder in the court dot x x x. But
how would you feel going to being sent to jail
by this woman and then seeing pictures of her good
passed around the print got thirty you masturbated bread to
(41:58):
the woman who puts you there, you scrolling porn on
a smuggle jail phone and you swipe through and then
here's the woman makes you look at the school to
prison differently, don't it? Just give me a little twist
on that, right? She needs people for her only fans.
(42:19):
She gonna take your money in prison. She don't care.
Good night. Yeah. And this is again this is like
the Kanye thing though, this is where how much how
much of this is she doing for attention? And they're
giving her the attention, which only makes her act out more,
which creates more outrage amongst the other judges that are
(42:41):
all conservative and built like baked potatoes. It's I'm sure
they're jealous, so like there's some degree of in that's
no disrespecting and bad building. But I say scratched the
word outrage though, I mean, um, what did you call it?
(43:01):
You said act out more? I think she might be
just doing what she likes. When I say outraged, like
acting out like that JJ. What I mean is attention
in any form for some people, it is a positive
even if it is negative attention. So she could do
this to get positive attention from just gen pop regular
(43:24):
Joe's who old baby, you're so fine, and then the
people that at work go, oh, how would you do that?
And then it just makes you go take even race
your photos because centrifuge of attention from both from acceptance
and disapproval. And yes, you're not gonna tell me what
(43:44):
to do. You're not gonna tell me what to do.
Their form going to act out more because you tried
to tell me what Like what if she want to
do this for attention And we just have to stubble
on her because she finally took a picture drunk in
bed and then we see the rest of this ship
because like that's kind of like what happens when it's
a reverse like because that's the way I feel that
I never knew that judge in Columbia. You ain't posting
(44:08):
pictures like that on the end because you don't want attention.
What what do you think she's gonna do during this
three month suspension? Why is she gonna be wide open
with it? She's just going to go and do more
and this is only going to raise her profile and
raise her prices to see. I'm so glad you asked
(44:29):
was sick of research? That's you know, single right now
Ralph used me, right, your pass more up to date?
You got Jose Columbia. I ain't listen. I'm not going
(44:50):
to go down to Columbia. What happened to Roy? I
don't know he went to Columbia. I ain't heard from it. Like,
how fund up would it be? You get arrested in
Columbi and so you can see this judge and then
just get some food, name and retake Carlo Smith Boga
sending you the forty years that I'm gonna eat my
(45:16):
way out of this. You know that note really doing Kanza.
That's what you don't want to That's the second. I
don't know what you mean. He's just podcasting his mom
(45:48):
and named Murto. We call him Rock for Shore Rock
as always, brother man, thank you. Right after the break,
we're gonna bring this video game. We come. We don't
talk to a game Stop employee and give us give
us a game on some of these scams over the
game stop you even mother fuckers. I just bought the
(46:11):
game for sixty dollars highs. This ship only were four
dollars on the trade. We're gonna figure out why from
this gentleman, like it's a job film be right back,
thank you. As always, ride Scam of the week time.
Now we're talking video games today, in the world of
(46:34):
video games and video game testing specifically, as we all
know third, there are a couple of industries that I
do feel a duplicity and shady and and no shape
fashion should they be respected. That goes college tuitione. The
funeral home industry, and of course games start because your
motherfucker's be giving me two dollars for this goddamn use
(46:58):
video game that you know, good, good, damn well, you're
gonna flip for forty dollars to the point where there
was a scandal a while back, um ship. This might
have been somewhere in there where GameStop employees were encouraging
customers to purchase the pre owned games instead of the
(47:19):
new version of the game because it was more practice
for them, and the developers were like, wait a minute, bitch,
you're gonna sell the used mad in twenty three because
some crackhead beat it in two weeks because they never
went to bed and they brought it right back. You're
gonna sell that before you sell my new ship, or
we'll fix you, bitch. Now we're gonna go digital with
a lot of our titles. And that's where a lot
of that evolution of how video games were distributed to
(47:43):
the consumers came from it because Game Stop was trying
to the shady motherfuck and I don't know how they
survived longer than Blockbuster Video. But your day is coming,
Bit two things is gonna happen. I'm not route for
a company to tail, but they have continually exploited the customers.
(48:04):
They're never gonna be a sponsor of this fucking podcast.
I do not want me stand in line for a game,
stand in line for a game, beat the game. Then
I come back two days later, and you're gonna give
me photolars for the game, bro And it wasn't crack,
it was red bull, right. I paid sixty for that game.
You're gonna sell it for fifty five. You're giving me
three dollars. Something wrong with that your Stop card or something.
(48:28):
I'm not interested in them actually sponsoring this show. My
concern is is that you are a wizard of your
own dealing your three for three. Don't make it for
for four. I talked about the June team for ice cream.
They got it out of there. I talked about charcoal taco.
They got it out of there, Trevor, No, it was collateral.
My bad. You don't mean to make that, Brose. Three
(48:51):
things in this life are going to happen before I dog.
You listening to me right now? Game Stop is gonna
shut down, shut it down. They're gonna turn down the
music and knocker At and Joe's Crabshack is going to
let me enjoy a meal by myself in silence, and
the people will not come out into a single stupid
dance and interrupt my delicious dining. Next stop it Who
(49:18):
do we have on the line, Josh, I'm so sorry.
Welcome to this show. It's Josh, and the Minnesota native
works as a forklift driver for a building supply company,
and prior to that, Josh spent ten years in the
video game industry, first in retail at the game Stop
(49:40):
and being as a video game tester for a company
that shall remain nameless. Josh will be talking to us
about the experience within the gaming industry and the store
behind how he eventually got laid off while on vacation.
Hello Josh, Hello, huge fan. Let me add an asterisk
(50:04):
to the game Stop rant game Stop was is still
a good place for gamers to go and commiserate and
ask educated questions about titles that they're thinking about getting,
much in the same way that you could go to
the corner record store and not the big Sam Goodie
or Turtles or Camelot Music. So of the of the
era you can get real insider knowledge and conversation about
(50:27):
a title and what they think about it. Because all
those games stop employees, I will say this, they know
their ship when it comes to what's a good game,
what's a bad game, what's the glitchy game? Uh, tell
us a little bit about your time, neth game stoff.
Really want to get into the world a video game
testing with you and how you've got into that, Well,
it's it's actually kind of complicated the way game stuff
works because well they make most of their money off
(50:50):
use games, right, so they encourage people to trade in
their games. I didn't know that. Yeah, the margin on
new games is very small. I think for a six
two dollar game, they pay about forty eight or fifty
two dollars for it. So it's very small margin um
to sell a new game or a new system or
anything like that. And like you said, they you know
(51:12):
they'll buy your game for like four bucks and sell
it for like forty at least um brand new games
they tend to pay like twenty five or thirty, like
maybe for the first six weeks of games out, but
after that, yeah, it drops a ton. You know, you
don't try. If you don't trade in your games within
two months, you're screwed as far as getting um. So, yeah,
(51:35):
most of their businesses in use stuff, so they will
definitely recommend use over new, especially like we were saying,
like Madden, if they have a used copy, they're gonna,
you know, recommend that over a new one. Um, just
because you know, maybe thirty bucks profit. So he just
taught me something. Now I understand why my nephews when
(51:55):
they couldn't dry, they kept calling me Auntie, Auntie, can
you take the game stop? And then when I get there,
like twelve children get in one car and then they
all just follow out the car because they had to
go take the games peg. I didn't understand why they
had to keep going to game stop. Game stop is
a is an example of an archaic model. He was
back in the day used to buy a whole bunch
of games, and you had had a games, you couldn't
(52:17):
do ship with them. But then game Stop open, so
you could take all of your PlayStation games, all of
your all your early xbix games and trade them in
and get something for it. And that's kind of how
a lot of people did it. I'm something better than nothing.
Uh well, I mean it's the same concept as a
pun shop. You can't expect to get what your stuff
is actually worth, So I mean it's a it's a
(52:38):
profit thing. They they're gonna lowball you, and they know
you're too lazy to put it on eBay or anything
to get like the full price, so they'll you know,
they'll just give you whatever they feel is fair. Then
then let me speaking of fair, then then let me
add another asterisk. How much is game Stopped to blame
(52:58):
for pushing use games? Do you think part of why
they push use games is because the video game developers
are taking a bigger chunk of the retail sales. The
fact that game stop is only making ten dollars off
of something that cost sixty dollars that feels a little
blimy from the video game industry. So they create this
(53:19):
used video game monster themselves through their own greed. Yeah,
I'd say game Stop has always had a pretty sticky
relationship with video game publishers for that reason. Um publishers
obviously want to sell as many copies as they can,
so they don't want to sell the same game over
and over where they only make the profit the first time.
(53:40):
So obviously, yeah, but they also know that game stop
is a big resource for them as far as selling
their games and selling systems and even use games benefit
publishers in a way because if someone buys a used
game and the publisher wants to release a sequel, maybe
that person will buy the sequel, you know, brand new,
so it publishers are never fully abandoned game stop, but
(54:04):
they also don't really like it that much. It's just
kind of necessary evil. I guess I don't, but it
seems in a way the video game industry has figured
out to some degree ways to circumvent game Stop by
just selling games as downloaded. But like I bought MLB
the show whichever one show hal Tony is on the
(54:24):
cover of right now, I think that's twenty three, So
I bought that, I downloaded that, and then within the
game here if you give us ten dollars, but give
you a little more game. Oh, we just made up
some more video games. Call of Duties. That's the same
ship you buy. Call you you guys are still people,
(54:46):
and I'm older than your note and grown man gamer language.
That's called buying tips, all right. You gotta buy the
tips for the game, because that's what it's called. You
don't because if you play against these kids, the kids
play for hours a pound hours. Growing people don't have
that time. So you just skip that ship and buy
the damn tits. Otherwise you can't play with the kid. Josh,
(55:07):
please tell me I'm not lying to them. Like the
entire way the industry is set up right now, they mean,
just charging for a game isn't enough. They have to
They have to do all sorts of micro transactions or
season passes and anything to get download that like Mario
Part I just paid twenty dollars from Mario Cardinals Switch
(55:28):
to get four new tracks because I'm tired of the
other tracks. So are things like that ways that they
could circumvent the game stopped craziness ingret Absolutely? I mean
I've been fully digital for about five years now. I
haven't been the game stop talking about it forever. I
think I had to buy like a carry case there
a while ago, and I just got sick of it.
But yeah, uh, digital is the way to go as
(55:51):
far as I'm concerned. Uh, you get the game right away.
You can even download it before it comes out, so
you don't have to wait. In mind for anything. Pre
ordering has always been a scam. Don't do it. Yeah,
we could get that. So pre ordering was something When
I worked a game stop back in the mid two
thousands or early two thousands. It was much bigger than
(56:13):
it is now because physical copies were everything back then.
But you basically had to pre order some games because
they would only order limited quantities. But most games, like
a Halo or something, they would have way more than
they possibly would need, so you would never need to
pre order something like that. But they would still insist
that people would come in place down five or ten
(56:35):
dollars to pre order a game. They might get some bonus. Yeah,
like the year I got the Call of Duty. Um
fucking night vision goggles when I bought a hundred fifty dollars.
Totally worth it, absolutely every minute of it. Oh god.
(56:56):
But yeah, there's all sorts of there's all sorts of
gimmicks like that. There was a chainsaw controller for residents
for there were the bongoes for Donkey Kong Country. Yeah,
there was all kinds of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out,
shout out to the Nintendo. So pre sale is to
fame extra demand and make people feel like they're getting
something exclusive, and you hit them with an up charge
for some ship that is going to be in stock
(57:16):
anyway on release day, right, I mean it's not enough
charge because I mean they're just paying ahead of time.
But it's basically just guaranteeing that they have a copy,
and uh it tells the publishers that their game is
going to sell well, which you know, makes them send
more copies to game Stop and you know, it's the
cycle games coming in. They were honest. If you traded,
(57:36):
it was almost it was almost like it was almost
like going to a check cash in place like this,
we're gonna take your money, but you know, go ahead,
we're gonna come back in. So it would keep you
in the circle. Exactly. What about the gaming systems themselves,
it was maybe I don't know if it was last
holiday season or the season before last. I won't name
any names, but we all had like our Peter's open,
(58:01):
We had our phones open, and we were trying to
get this particularly. Tell the story. Tell don't know how
I got myself. Here's how I got my PS five.
And I only did it because my my, my best
friend that I've known since the seventh grade. His son
really wanted the next box. To buy a single PS five.
(58:23):
I had two on epnnet with three best buy tabs
open in three different browsers. I had Safari, I had Chrome,
I had Firefox open, and I was refreshing and refreshing
and refreshing. So in total, I had eighteen windows open
on two different devices, and I was able to buy
(58:45):
one of each. And it took me five fucking consecutive
hours of refreshing. Oh he's not throwing out there that
he had other people on computers and phones and other
places too. I also had Jacqueline and Walbuty. Demand is
(59:05):
that the question? I don't mean to cut you off.
How what's the scam? Why do you why do you
stretching out the dope? It's been two years. We know
you've got enough, like mo of them bitch, Actually they don't.
There's a huge chip shoting right now. That's affecting everything.
You've probably heard about that. Yeah, the chip shots affecting cars, computers,
(59:27):
game consoles, phones. Yeah, that's the reason it's so hard
to get an Xbox Series X or PlayStation five right now. Um,
just they cannot make enough. Before we get you out
of here, Josh, tell us a little bit about this
world of video game testing. How did you get into it?
And for people that are interested in that path, how
can they kind of find their way into that? Now?
(59:49):
The way I got into it is from working at
game Stop. I heard that there was a publisher nearby
that did uh game testing, and I'd heard about game
test sing um and I was always kind of reluctant
to do it because I knew what kind of what
kind of demands a placed on people, But I would
(01:00:09):
say retail, So I figured to give it a shot.
And uh yeah. Apparently the retail experience was enough for
them because they know if you work at game Stop,
like you said, they have a lot of knowledge. So
having knowledge about video games is really big if you
want to get into testing. Also, having good writing skills
it's very important. That's the only reason that the game
(01:00:33):
testing does not typically pay minimum wages because it is
kind of a skilled position where you need knowledge of
video games and you need uh, you know, good writing skills.
So you need to be able to not only find
a defect, but be able to describe in great detail
to someone who has never played the game before how
to find that defect. Um, along with providing any sort
of screenshots or videos and stuff like that. So you
(01:00:55):
need very good communication skills and very good, um knowledge
of video what's the money, like, Josh, can you take
somebody out on a good date? Fuck? No? Um? So okay.
I started in two thousand six and I went to
two thousand twelve. Back then, being a game tester was
(01:01:18):
paying nine dollars an hour. Um, I think same place
that I did work, they're now paying eleven, which isn't
but um, you had basically relied on overtime to make
any money at all, but you would always get over time.
So um. The other thing about testing is that I
(01:01:39):
worked both as a tester and as a lead. As
a lead your salary, so basically they own you and
you can work as many hours as they want you
to work without paying you more. So sometimes my testers
are actually making more money than I was because they
paid overtime and I wasn't, but you were happy, right,
happy ish. I mean I'm not there anymore, so that
(01:02:02):
I should tell you something. You can't thank you enough
for feeling back the lid on this world a little bit.
And uh, next time I go into a game stop,
I'm walking there with pawn shopping and they're used to it,
NHL and say give me about seven five even motherfucker
(01:02:26):
get it over there, Josh, thank you so much for
coming on the job there. Thank you so much. That's
the show Royce job Fair as a product of I
Heart Media Comedy, Central South Park Apprensi Protections eight. Look man,
that you know Rod. I I feel like, Rod, you
(01:02:50):
owe an apology to us frequent flyers who just simply
want better commodities on the l And I think it's
not unreasonable if we are the lifeblood of the flying
airline industry to want a power port and a television
and in a hot towel. Let me tell you something.
Let tell you something freaking if a jet fucking engine,
(01:03:16):
If what it took to get to the jet engine
ain't another of a commodity that you can want that
you just walk if you need more than that, if
you need more than soaring through the skies like a
fucking falcon's terrible. This has been a Comedy Central podcast
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