Welcome back to Kotaku Split Screen, the only podcast that will forge onward even after that devastating time skip.

It's August 22nd, 2019, and I finally beat Outer Wilds.

So this show will contain a special spoiler

section in which Kirk, Jason, and I talk about its incredible ending and the puzzles we solved

to reach it. Before that, I talk about my Gears of War obsession, Jason and Kirk delve into Fire

Emblem, and we go over all the news and game announcements out of Gamescom.

We close it out with off-topic talk about Billions, Succession, and Kirk's music pick of the week.

Let's get to it.

And we are back for another episode of Kotaku's split screen.

I am Maddie Myers.

And I'm also joined by Kirk Hamilton.

Hello, Kirk.

How are you?

Hello, I am fine.

How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty good. And even better because I'm also joined by Jason Trier. What's up, Jason?

Hello, the only podcast whose support rank is at an S. Welcome back to Katakis.

It's true, which means I think that that means we need to have a conversation where we basically just argue and insult one another for like five minutes

and then we all just walk away with nothing resolved. But weirdly that levels us up from what I understand

about Fire Emblem, even having a conversation about our disagreements makes us stronger.

Yes, exactly. We're still getting to know each other. I like that. That's how it, yeah, it's always,

there's this character named Hubert, who's in my house,

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