There's Just No Escaping Fortnite
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Maddy and Kirk start by discussing the news from last weekend, citing Joshua Rivera's editorial "We Do Not Need To Defend Video Games From Politicians," as well as Maddy's coverage of the ESA leaking journalists' personal information. Next, they talk about games they've been playing; Maddy's still enjoying Phoenix Wright, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses has taken over Kirk's life. After that, Kotaku editor-at-large Riley MacLeod came on to discuss his coverage of the Fortnite World Cup (27:08) and the kid-friendly atmosphere of the event. We close with off-topic talk (1:01:10) about Schitt's Creek and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
Music pick of the week: “All Will Be Well” by Gabe Dixon
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast that always picks the most interesting conversation topics at Tea Time. |
| 0:14.6 | It's August 8th, 2019, and we've got a ton of stuff to talk about. |
| 0:18.1 | First we cover some news of the week from the ESA's wildly irresponsible leak of journalists' personal information to a report of some welcome improvements |
| 0:24.6 | at Rockstar's notorious Lincoln testing studio. Then Maddie breaks down some of what she saw while |
| 0:29.0 | watching the weekend's Evo tournament and I reflect on how Fire Emblem has taken over my life. |
| 0:33.4 | Then we're joined by Kataku's Riley McLeod to talk about his trip to the Fortnite World Cup and why it might be that Fortnite tends to make people so grumpy. |
| 0:40.5 | We close out with some off-topic discussion of TV and books and an unusually optimistic |
| 0:43.8 | music pick of the week. |
| 0:45.2 | Stick around. |
| 0:57.6 | Welcome back to the show, as always. |
| 0:59.9 | We're so glad that you've joined us to talk about video games. |
| 1:04.4 | My name is Kirk Hamilton, and I am joined, as ever, by the one and only Maddie Myers. |
| 1:05.2 | Hello, Maddie. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:07.5 | It's nice to see you again. |
| 1:09.4 | This is our last week without Jason. |
| 1:10.7 | He'll be back next week. I know. I know. |
| 1:11.8 | Finally, right? I missed his smiling face and his unending sarcasm on the show. I think it'll be |
| 1:18.5 | nice to see him, talk about his book leave, and I'm sure he'll have a lot of thoughts on various events |
| 1:23.8 | and games. I know it's been four weeks of things happening without Jason. Like, has he |
| 1:28.9 | beaten Fire Emblem yet or not? We're going to have to wait a week to find out how that's going. |
| 1:34.4 | The suspense is killing me. We're going to talk about some games. We're going to have Riley |
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