EricUmbarger
Eric Umbarger
EricUmbarger

Voting for the lesser of two evils for 50+ years is why the Overton Windows has shifted so far in this country, and why we’ve had nothing but awful, corporatist warhawks for candidates several cycles in a row. I do not feel even once of of shame for not voting Hillary in 2016. 

1. I know Kotaku articles are trying to be cute and funny, but I really hate the BACK OF THE BOX QUOTE and TYPE OF GAME sections in these reviews as they never tell me anything about the game.
2. About your final paragraph, us third party voters told y’all voting blue no matter who was a stupid idea. The lesser of two

Astria Ascending looks like a Bravely Default clone, but the art is gorgeous and I’m a sucker for turn based JRPGs so I’m definitely going to want to play that

I never drove a Sky but always loved the way they looked. My mom had a ‘04 L200 that lasted her over a decade with zero problems.

The big one pertains to physics and car handling. This, in my view, has been Forza’s biggest deficit for more than a decade.”

Guess I won’t be buying a new GM

I feel like I’ve been waiting on Skywind for a decade *weary*

I don’t know much about boats despite two different grandparents of mine owning pontoons. You said “The company says that Polytec is cheaper to manufacture and easier to repair than fiberglass” but don’t pontoons normally have metal floaty pipes? And also don’t they normally only have like 50hp? This Seadoo seems

Born in ‘88 into a family of not - car people. I really wanted a Dodge Durango for the first vehicle when I was in middle school, which then changed a year or two before I got my license to wanting a Hyundai Tiburon. Ended up getting a Jeep ZJ which I absolutely loved and to this day is one of my favorite vehicles

My dad is absolutely not a car guy, but the one and only car he ever talks about when it comes up is Plymouth Superbird. 

And it is only going to keep getting more mainstream as companies like Netflix and Amazon keep putting out anime that isn’t “weird”. Shows like Forest Piano, people like my mom could probably easily get in to. I think in the past everyone just thought of anime as either DBZ or hentai so it had a bad rap (just like the

Eh, I wouldn’t call their downfall over night. They screwed up D3 multiple times, they screwed up HotS multiple times, Warcraft 3 reformed was a disaster, “Don’t you have phones”, WoW been in steady decline since WotLK with most people only liking Legion out of the last several expacs. They have been stringing along

I’ve wanted this forever. Buying my first car back in ~2012 was such a pain. I wanted a Kizashi in black and manual transmission and that basically didn’t exist. I fought with the dealership for days as they gave me lower and lower numbers, tried to convince me to get CVT, etc. I finally did my own searching and found

Reading this I have come up with three correct answers on what vehicle to buy a kid.

Aw man, I’ve enjoyed your journey through FF14. I hate how many people keep leaving Kotaku because I never keep up with them. Tim and Heather are my favorite two game bloggers and I haven’t followed either of them since they left, mostly due to laziness and me liking only have to follow one website rather than a half

Even before the Hong Kong thing, the way they treated the HotS team was awful. It’s fine if you want to put a game in “maintenance mode” but don’t wait to tell 100+ HGC players and dozens (hundreds?) of Blizzard employees a week before Christmas that they are fired, then give the CEO a $16 million bonus a few weeks

Not sure about buy, but there was a guy at my high school whose dad was a car dealer. Same dad also let son occasionally borrow his Dodge Viper. I saw it in the school parking lot just a couple of times before dude wrecked it. 

Is it like FF8 where if you hit R1 when Squall attacks you do a crit? Personally systems like that actually make JRPGs more fun to me. Other examples of QTs in JRPGs are FF13-2, Legend of Dragoon, and Last Remnant, all of which I loved

This seems cool, but I have a generic complaint that touches most indie games which is screen clutter. Everything is so colored over the top that it is hard to pick out details. Like in the screenshot posted in the article I *think* there are three allies in the middle of the screen fighting one blob on each side of

I always forget this series exists. I own the very first Grid which was amazing for it’s time