Welcome to another episode of Kataku's Slutscreen, the only podcast that's also a service.

Today we're talking about all sorts of stuff starting with News of the Week on deranged fans,

Ubisoft earnings, and mixed identities.

Then we get into the games we're playing, including Civilization 6, Into the Breach, and Dragon Quest Builders,

plus a bonus discussion on the nature of why we play video games.

Finally, we talk about the Olympics and the unfortunate story of a New York Times columnist who lasted seven hours.

Uh, pro tip, don't befriend neo-Nazis. All right, it's going to be a good show. Let's go.

And we are back for another episode.

It is February 15th, 2018 is almost over.

My name is Jason Shire.

I am the news editor at katako.com.

Joined, as always, by Kirk Hamilton, editor-at-large of katako.com. Hello, Kirk.

Hello, Jason. How's it going today? Good. Are you excited for 2018 to end? I am. It's been a

really long and short year at the same time. Sort of one of those paradoxes, but I'm ready. I'm ready

for it to end. Yeah, it's been a rough one. All right, a couple of things before we get started.

First of all, we will be, as we announced last week, at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on March 15th at 11 a.m at the Fairmont Hotel in the Worcesteria Room.

And I strongly recommend that if you like the show, you come out. Well, if you like the show

and you will be at South by Southwest. I guess that is some strict criteria. Is Wisteria a kind

of growth? Isn't it kind of like Kudzu, I think? It's like a green thing that grows on buildings.

Do you think that the Fairmont Wisteria room actually has

wisteria in it, if that's the case? Yeah, I got a real bad case of wisteria.

We've got to watch out for that creeping... I need to take some penicill in.

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