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Kotaku Splitscreen

Destiny 2 and Borderlands 3

Kotaku Splitscreen

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Leisure, News, Tech News, Video Games

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the 200th episode of Splitscreen, Maddy finally started playing Destiny 2. Meanwhile, Kirk beat Untitled Goose Game. We also bring on Kotaku staff writer Joshua Rivera (30:28) to discuss his article about Blizzard's crackdown on a pro Hearthstone player who spoke out about Hong Kong, and then the three of us discuss Borderlands 3, Destiny 2, and all the looting and shooting that can be done in those games. We close with off-topic discussion (1:17:50) about Gentleman Jack, The Great British Bake-Off, and The Real World.

Music pick of the week: “Since 99” by Vargas and Lagola

Wired PS5 Exclusive: https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/

Planet Money on Hong Kong: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/19/743480237/episode-928-hong-kong

Joshua Rivera's Hong Kong article: https://kotaku.com/blizzards-hong-kong-missteps-prove-video-games-arent-ne-1838913631

Borderlands 3 review: https://kotaku.com/borderlands-3-the-kotaku-review-1838290570

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Kotaku Split Screen, the only podcast that actually understands all the lore in Destiny 2.

0:15.5

It's October 10th, 2019, and I'm finally playing Destiny 2 myself.

0:25.3

Luckily, Kirk is here to explain what the heck is going on, along with staff writer Joshua Rivera, who has inherited the Destiny beat.

0:28.6

With Joshua's help, we also talk about Borderlands 3, as well as Blizzard's decision to crack

0:33.4

down on a pro player who spoke out about Hong Kong.

0:36.9

Then we wrap up with off-topic talk about

0:39.0

Gentleman Jack, the Great British Bake Off, and Kirk's music pick. Let's get to it.

0:48.3

We are back for another episode of Kataku split screen.

1:00.1

I am Maddie Myers, and I'm also joined by Kirk Hamilton.

1:04.4

Hi, Kirk.

1:05.3

Hello, Maddie.

1:06.1

It's so nice to see you.

1:07.6

It's nice to see you, too.

1:09.1

And you know what else?

1:10.4

This isn't just any other episode. It's nice to see you too. And you know what else? This isn't just any other episode.

1:12.4

It's the 200th another episode of Kataku's flood screen. It is. It is. Congrats to you as well.

1:19.6

It is the 200th official episode. There have been like way more than 200 episodes. There have been like 6,327 episodes.

1:26.5

If you count like bonus episodes in Game of Thrones

1:29.1

slash Westworld recap episodes and who knows what else. Slash all of Jason's tweets, which are basically

1:34.4

like mini split screen episodes, right? The episode where I read my Red Dead Redemption 2 review.

1:39.2

Like there have been more than 200 episodes. But this is our official 200 episode and that is

1:44.1

very exciting.

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