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Kotaku Splitscreen

92: Meatsports vs. Esports

Kotaku Splitscreen

Kotaku

Leisure, News, Tech News, Video Games

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another extra-long episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, which is apparently what happens when Jason's on vacation. Kirk and guest host Stephen Totilo start off talking about Kotaku's expanded video team, then discuss the news of the week (11:08) including No Man's Sky's big 1.3 patch, real estate strife in GTA Online, and Nintendo's decision to lock a Metroid difficulty setting behind an Amiibo.Then Kirk sits down with Kotaku Compete reporters Maddy Myers and Eric Van Allen (34:33) to talk about how they've been approaching esports coverage over the past six months, Eric's trip to the Dota 2 International last weekend, Maddy's case that Mario Kart AI is rigged, and whether PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is esports. (It is.) Stephen and Kirk wrap up (1:10:16) with some discussion of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Nioh, and The Division. 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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0:50.3

Hi, split-screen listeners. Over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, violence broke out after white supremacist

0:56.2

and neo-Nazi groups organized to protest the city's planned removal of a Confederate war statue.

1:01.2

It culminated when a man drove his car into a group of activists who had shown up to counter-protest.

1:05.8

A woman named Heather Hare was killed in the attack and 19 more people were injured.

1:10.2

I know we're a video game

1:11.1

podcast. I'm thrilled that we get to entertain and inform you every week, but this one has been

1:15.8

impossible for me to look away from. I found myself alternately furious and despairing all week and

1:20.5

routinely at a loss for what to say about the whole thing. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

1:25.1

Fortunately, others have spoken more eloquently than I could.

1:27.7

There's been a tide of anti-racist sentiment that I've seen online that's been really heartening.

1:32.7

On Monday, my colleague Gita Jackson wrote an amazing article in which she had a conversation with her equally amazing father,

1:38.1

who marched for civil rights in Selma in 1965.

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