Old Dirty Backlogs

Kotaku Splitscreen

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking about video game backlogs. Yes, those guilt-tripping, nagging, I'll-get-to-you-but-not-actually list of games in your hard drive. First, we kick things off by defining what we mean exactly by "backlog," and discussing what we have in them. Then, we get into how the concept of a video game backlog feels so backward when video games are something that is meant for pure enjoyment. And finally, we each officially delete (gasp!) and banish a video game from our own personal backlogs.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Kotaku Split Screen, the podcast where we tackle
0:11.7	video games, one extremely specific topic at a time.
0:16.2	I am one of your hosts, Nathan Grayson, and I am joined forever and always having to hold to love
0:22.1	and to cherish by Ashley Parrish.
0:26.2	Hi, I don't believe in the institution of marriage.
0:28.7	Ah, well, that's sad for me. And Mike Fahey, I quit.
0:36.1	And that's the end of the show.
0:38.3	All right.
0:42.4	But now, the show must go on.
0:50.0	Today, we are tackling backlogs, which is a topic that I think is near and dear to everybody's heart,
0:56.4	but is especially near and dear to ours right now because this month, nebulous month zone, I guess.
0:59.0	Kotaku is running a backlog month.
1:00.7	Where are we in backlog month at this point?
1:02.0	How many weeks in are we?
1:04.2	3.72.
1:05.4	So wait.
1:06.9	372?
1:13.9	No, I thought it's three weeks, technically, but it feels like 72 weeks.
1:14.5	Oh. It's longer than a year.
1:15.8	Yeah, that is a little bit longer than a year.
1:17.6	But yeah, so Kotaku is running a backlog month.
1:20.4	So in service of that, we decided to do an episode about backlogs and the roles that they play in our own lives.
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