Where do you draw this conclusion from? Other Kotaku readers who aren’t a part of the Melee community / only read slam articles about it? Everyones excited, its a new smash.

On the bright side Patricia will make a hell of an executive one day. Just keep having problems with no answers.

...and then the difficult part begins: teaching them how to love.

1.) Price: Adapter+GC controller, if Nintendo re-issues them, is still cheaper than the Switch Pro Controller.

idk dude, i’d like to be able to coordinate things with my teams without being called a faggot

I’ve been gaming since, what, 1986 or so? It’s true that trash talk has been part of competition (of any kind) likely since its inception—but in the arcades, we had to be ready for physical consequences for our verbal bullshit.

Online trolls don’t have the fear of catching a fist with their face, and so they escalate…

“AI leaders afflicted with the dreaded spelling bee bug obsess over things like religion, sometimes to their own detriment, because they have no default values for other important qualities.”

I before E, except after C, or when pulling a feisty heist on your weird beige foreign neighbor.

What? No. I mean that apparently pro players get paid so little that $4,000 US is enough money to risk ruining your career for.

Somewhat off topic rant: I really, really, really, hate the Xbox One. Not the controller, not the hardware, but the software.

We are talking about a genocidal maniac who killed 11% of the world population here, he killed 90% of the Persian people. Hitler pales in comparison.

To all y’all barking at me in from the greys,

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working through a homemade chipotle burrito (barbacoa) and a double vodka soda this hit the spot

If there’s any franchise which can compete, I’d say it’s Final Fantasy. The bigger issue is that Dissidia NT seems lacking in both roster and single-player content. And seeing as its a series known for both...well...that’s an arguably bigger issue than what dropped last week.

Do it. It’s fine.

Part of the inspiration for the game is recontextualizing the kinds of interactions that might be better known from a different medium. The creator talks about this in the interview I did with her years ago:

Holy shit, I was just about to click the Publish button when I happened to read your post. Here’s what I had written, no BS:

Alternate take: I work for a giant ad firm here in NYC. We have beds similar to those pictured above for people who want to decompress for an hour here and there or if they happen to work on a pitch that causes them to have to be here at night/wait on the other side of the world to hop on calls, they can relax in the…