Not sure why you’re saying fans like it’s ironic. Yes, if the sequel to a series they’ve been waiting on for years comes out and is a fundamentally different type of game, many of them will be disappointed. That’s not new or hard to understand.

So very sad.  Robots were supposed to take our jobs, not take our joys and hobbies.  Hey, no need to paint or write music anymore, go to work.  The robot will do all that for you.

It’s not that complicated:

The character designs are both gaudy and lazy as fuck. All of the men’s shoulders jut out at weird 90-degree angles, etc. My personal favorite is how your grizzled, gray-bearded, 60+-year-old retainer has the exact same Chris Hemsworth-esque body as characters 40 years younger than him. (I know this because, sigh,…

When every studio and publisher has created their own platform and we’re expected to buy a subscription to all of them? Yes.

I’m pretty sure their argument is exactly the reason why people don’t want Microsoft taking over more of the videogame market. Because everything original they’ve attempted sucks.  And everything that was good they’ve purchased they’ve driven into the ground with bullshit and microtransactions.  

It’s really terrible when people jump to disrespectul conclusions. Anyway, like I was saying, most western men are feminine and weak...

When you’re on a team that wants to keep the healer alive, playing support is one of the most satisfying and fun experiences in the game.

Oh wow, totally didn't expect an in depth Overwatch article on Kotaku these days! As a Mercy main, I approve, there's great advice here!

So I never got into Critical Role. Even as an experienced TTRPG player, I always found the idea of watching other people playing TTRPG brain-numbingly dull. As dull as watching other people play videogames.

That countdown-to-the-18th-birthday shit is just so fucking gross, and it hasn’t gone anywhere. Millie Bobbie Brown and Billie Eilish both had to suffer it lately. I wish we could make some kind of unofficial online registry for guys who do shit like that, so they could never get laid by decent women again.

During my cousin’s first gyno exam in the 1970s, her doctor said, “You’ve been a very good girl, I see. I’ll make sure to tell your mom.”

Sort of split on this. Sympathy isn’t deep because I find this sort of coveting pretty damaging to the industry and culture, but straight up destroying personal items is senseless and, from my perspective, pretty indefensible.

People still play that penguins game from the early aughts. Hello Kitty Island Adventure is probably in there too.

I would like the venue to be a pit of scorpions.

...but give them knives. And broadcast it live. 

The way that human artists learn to draw and the way that the Stable Diffusion algorithm generates images are fundamentally different. Modern “AI” is still incomparable to actual human intelligence; that’s just a label that researchers put on it to make it seem more advanced than it is, and you’re buying it.

Whenever I mock these men or the internet mocks these men, it’s hilarious that every single defense doesn’t address the criticisms. Yeah, we all know these relationships are consensual and adults can do what they want. None of that addresses the fact that these men are insecure, pathetic, and sad because they won’t…