Hello everyone and welcome to Kotaku's split screen, the weekly podcast where we dissect, take on, analyze video games, one very specific topic at a time.

I am Michael Fahey.

I am joined, as always, by my co-host,

Nathan Grayson.

Hello?

And Ashley Parrish.

Hi.

Hey, Ash.

And we are, without doubt, the hottest podcasting team on the planet.

It is, except for me.

It's mainly, it's mainly Ash and Nathan.

But that leads us to our topic somehow.

That's a segue because, gosh, darn it, it's hot. All across the country, all across

the world, it is burning up. I'm sure there are people in Antarctica right now listening going

to you, Fahey, it is not hot at all. It is freezing. But no, up here, hot. I had to turn off

all my fans for this podcast. I'm burning up.

Nathan, how are you doing?

I'm doing all right for now, but my air conditioning conspicuously decided to shut off a few

moments ago, and it is rapidly getting warmer in here because it is currently almost 90

degrees outside here in Brooklyn, and it's only going to get warmer as the day goes on. And Ash, how about you? Is it hot?

No. Allow me to be the contrarian of the group, but it's hot as balls here in Ohio where I live.

But I'm the kind of person who prefers to be hot and cold and the air conditioning has been

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