What is good internet it is Friday February 15th 2019 and you're all

going to say to wake 29th video episode 2-20? Yeah. Yeah. I mean fighting is bit I like it.

We're coming to you from a jury rigged recording setup across three locations so I'm your host

Rob Zakney. And joining me today is Natalie Watson. Hi. Patrick Klepik.

Yeah sure okay yeah I'm here. Well that's an.. boy what a vibe to start off on. So

passive aggressive. I feel like you just had a little be in your bonnet this whole week. I

feel like we're we're like this is our character select screen and these are like our

little quips and Patrick's is like yeah sure okay I'll do it and I'm a

day button asshole. Cut out is that Sundara? Yes absolutely yes that is what

Sundaria is Patrick Sundaria okay all right and that was our cut out on the board

please. So I've been out with the flu a lot this week mostly admiring the sight

from far as I do. We published a lot of terrific articles like Dio Lotsin is

review of Far Cry new dawn where she sees in the series attempt to reinvent

itself is kind of a sign of its deepening creative fatigue. Definitely it feels

like other people were more into the reinvention of Far Cry than Dio was. We

also had use of Cole's piece on the history of the appropriation of black

culture in the US and how fortnite's wholesale copying of dances made

famous within the black community bits into that history. It was incredibly

eye-opening to me because it's a much more involved in layered story than you

might expect if you tend to think as I tend to do in terms of like Elvis

copying his act of the stones copying their act like goes way beyond that. So it

was really excellent and insightful piece but Patrick I wanted to start the

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