Hello everyone and welcome to Kotaku Split Screen, the podcast where we tackle video games, one extremely specific topic at a time.

I am one of your hosts, Kotaku senior reporter Nathan Grayson, and I am joined, as always, and as always, I mean, for the first time in a minute, by both Ashley Parrish and Michael Fahey.

We're back together again.

Hello, and welcome back to us.

We're all very distracted right now because Fahey has become like a cat V-tuber.

You all can't see this obviously, but on our Zoom call, he is a little cartoon cat, and it's real weird.

I assure you that I am here and I am live and I'm not a cat.

That's an old meme.

It is an old meme. It's an old meme. Five people remember.

It's an old meme from like three weeks ago.

That's old.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Time moves fast.

I'm using face rig right now because I like to have my mouth moving and you guys to have some kind of cue to see me physically.

But I hate the way I look in this stupid hospital bed I stay in all the time.

So, it's a good looking cat.

I'll get my own custom avatar made eventually.

So today's topic is not V-tubers or cats, regrettably. Why aren't we doing that? Jesus.

Today's topic is, however, something much lighter and cheerier, COVID-19.

Yay. You might be familiar with it from such hits as the entire last year and it upending your entire

life.

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