Greetings From 9: Friends Of The Scary Pigs

This week we discuss Activision-Blizzard laying off 800 people, our thoughts on Apex Legends, first impressions on The Division 2 and Devil May Cry 5, and finally the various pigs in video games. Also, we got our very first listener question.

Works Discussed

• Apex Legends by Respawn Entertainment
• The Division 2 by Ubisoft
• Devil May Cry 5 by Capcom

Year Of The Pig

Tyler:

• Bloodborne by FromSoftware
• Darkest Dungeon by Red Hook Studios

Olivia:

• Stardew Valley by Eric Barone (ConcernedApe)

Rebecca:

• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs by The Chinese Room

Salutations

• Olivia: Frye Festival Documentaries: Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) and Fyre Fraud (Hulu)
• Rebecca: Speed Dating for Ghosts by Copychaser Games
• Tyler: Russian Doll (Netflix) created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland

Links

• “Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees,” by Patrick Klepek, Waypoint:
  https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yw83kg/activision-blizzard-reports-record-revenue-as-they-fuck-over-800-employees
• “The Two Fyre Festival Docs Show Very Different Sides of Poisonous Influencer Culture,” by Justin Kirkland, Esquire:
  https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a25896310/fyre-festival-documentary-review/
• “Rich Millennials Paid Thousands for Ja Rule’s Fyre Fest and are Now Stranded on an Island in Disaster Relief Tents,” by Gabrielle Bluestone, Vice:
  https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5d944/rich-millennials-paid-thousands-for-ja-rules-fyre-fest-and-are-now-stranded-on-an-island-in-disaster-relief-tents

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