Welcome back to Kataku split screen, the only podcast to beat the true final boss of Hollow Night on its very first try.

Just kidding, that is definitely not what happened.

It's July 5th, 2018, and we're in the fighting patriotic spirit as we talk

about Jason's stance on long games, or his lack of a stance, a leak of audio from Cyberpunks

E3 demo, Google's plans to get into video game development, my adventure in dismantling and modding

my Switch Pro controller, and why we play really difficult games. We also talk some about

summer games done quick, speed running,

and some of Jason's early thoughts on the interesting structure of Octopath Traveler.

We won't go breaking your heart.

We couldn't if we tried.

Let's do it.

Welcome back once more to Kataku's split screen.

We're very glad that you are here with us today.

My name is Kirk Hamilton.

I'm editor-at-large at kataku.com.

And we are joined by The Apple Pie to My Big Firework Show, our All-American News Editor, Mr. Jason Schreier. Hello, Jason.

Hello, the apple pie to your big fireworks show. I thought you were going to say, and we were joined by the pizza pie, like the moon hits your eye, Jason Dreyer. I was trying to pick

something American. I could have said, like, the rising social inequality to my needless wars or

something like that, but I figured I'd keep it a little bit... The massive defense spending to my

lack of national health care. To your lack of investment in education. But yeah, I thought I'd

keep it a little bit, a little bit lighter than that. Hello, Kirk. So we have an abridged kind

weird week this week because of July 4th, but the podcast

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