More Of Your Weird Gaming Traditions

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Maddy talk about games they're playing, which in Maddy's case is still Destiny 2 and Borderlands 3. Kirk beat Sayonara Wild Hearts, a music-focused game that he strongly recommends, and he just started Disco Elysium, a detective game with a ton of dialogue systems. We then break for some discussion of the news (32:23), touching on Kotaku's coverage of Pokemon Go and privacy, Blizzard's approach to China and Hong Kong, and the Fortnite black hole. We close with off-topic talk (56:53) about books each of us has read: Educated by Tara Westover, Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.

Music pick of the week: “Begin Again” from the Sayonara Wild Hearts Soundtrack, by Daniel Olsen and Jonathan Eng, feat Linnea Olsson.

“The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You” by Cecilia D'Anastasio and Dhruv Mehrotra: https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714

“Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?” by Zeynep Tufekci: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/why-does-china-care-about-daryl-moreys-hong-kong-tweet/600001/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast that compares you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
0:14.7	It's October 17th, 2019, and we've got a lot of games and news to cover.
0:18.8	First up, Maddie and I talk a bit more about Destiny 2,
0:21.3	then I rave about Sionor Wild Hearts and Disco Elysium.
0:24.9	We then talk a bit more about the ongoing Blizzard China debacle,
0:27.9	discuss Fortnite's Black Hole Blackout,
0:29.8	and share more of your weird, non-essential video game traditions.
0:33.4	We close out with some off-topic discussion of books,
0:35.4	because books are good and reading is fundamental.
0:41.8	Educated, Green Mars, Why the Last Man, and some bonus watchmen, too.
0:43.6	It's a great show. Stick around. And welcome back to the show. It is raining in Portland, but hopefully sunny, wherever you are.
1:00.5	My name is Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you joined us yet again. And of course, I am joined by my co-host,
1:07.1	Maddie Myers. Hello, Maddie. How's it going? Hello, Kirk. It's going pretty well. It is not raining here, but it's not as sunny as I'd like it to be.
1:15.8	Yeah, that's kind of a middle ground. I know how you feel. It's almost never as sunny as I would like it to be.
1:20.5	I guess this is that time of year where the weather turns bad and the video games all start coming out. And it gets dark really quickly and it's time to just
1:27.5	settle into your couch and play some video games because like it's already dark at 615. So
1:32.9	why not? Why not boot up those games? Baskin the glow of your TV screen and all these
1:38.2	virtual worlds that we can visit. We have got a lot to talk about on this show. Let's talk about
1:43.8	video games first. Let's talk about video games first.
1:45.6	Let's talk about some games. What are you playing?
1:48.7	I'm playing the same games that I've been playing for weeks now, and I've just been rotating between Destiny 2 and Borderlands 3 and Fire Emblem, which all feel incredibly huge and
2:03.2	like places that I'm just visiting for a few hours per day, according to which location I feel
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