90: Adam Ruins Video Games

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason talk about Pyre, Battlegrounds, and Dream Daddy before jumping into this week's news (29:07) on GameStop's Thanksgiving hours, Unsung Story's Kickstarter disaster, and a gamer cruise that lost its boat. Then they bring on Adam Conover, host of the excellent Adam Ruins Everything (41:06), to talk about how his show works, how he launched a TV career, and of course, ruining video games. Finally, Jason and Kirk reconvene to answer a listener question on service games and net neutrality (1:23:38). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.9	Music Welcome to another episode of Kutaku's split screen, the only podcast that's both a squid and a kit.
1:03.8	Today we have Adam Conover, the host and creator of True TV's Adam Ruins Everything,
1:08.3	here to talk about his life, his show, and Dark Souls. But first
1:11.8	we're talking about Battlegrounds, Dream Daddy, and Pire, the great new game from Super Giant. Then
1:16.6	we get into the news of the week, including GameStop opening on Thanksgiving, unsung stories,
1:21.8	Kickstarter disaster, and a gamer cruise that lost its boat. Then we'll bring on Adam and close
1:27.2	things out with an email from a listener about net neutrality
1:30.3	and how video game companies are dealing with service games and bad internet.
1:35.3	All right, let's go. And we are back for another episode.
1:47.5	My name is Jason Schreier.
1:48.6	I am the news editor at Kotaku.com, a well-known website for snacks and weather updates.
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