The sliders were also useful for spite purchases - buying a game from a particularly offensive developer but sliding alllllll the profit to charity.  I’m going to miss that.

So this is the Japanese equivalent of Doritos and Mountain Dew? 

Yeah, I’m really enjoying it, and maybe that’s because I have a less rigid view of, “What Picard should be.”

Great examples!

It’s like every character is Harry Kim, but we don’t know he had a girlfriend back home, and we never see him play clarinet.

I’m really trying with this thing, but I just can’t get past this sinking feeling that it’s just all wrong and can’t be salvaged.

Soji's "father" looks suspiciously like Dr. Bashir.

Hmm, a bunch of vigilantes filling in as the law in a lawless frontier void. Yeah, “ranger” is an overused title that has only ever been used in sci-fi/fantasy.

If you ignore the existence of Texas, that is, which I wouldn’t blame you for.

I’m that weirdo who always found the female cast members of Star Trek more attractive in comfortable clothes. My favorite Troi outfit is when they finally stuck her in a damn uniform in the last season. She looked fantastic.

They introduce the idea that the crime boss’s lizardman can smell lies, which they then immediately subvert with an injection. Like… why even before if it was going to be that easy to bluff past. It’s like saying, “Okay, they have an unbreakable lock!” “Oh no!” “But we have a key.”

The exchange between Picard and Seven happened a little differently than you remember, and I’m not sure if that’s because of the screener you got or what. But it went like this, more or less:

TBH both Tarantino and Letterman sound bad in this. Letterman’s ‘bit’ sounds like a hacky insult comic’s failed attempt at crowd work.“But you’re hot and he’s ugly,” is such a bad joke it’s not even really a joke; it’s just a lazy, unclever insult. Tarantino’s behavior speaks for itself but I’d expect better of…

Yeah, I’m ribbing a multi-billion-dollar publisher for being misleading in its PR. If you don’t like that, there are plenty of more PR-friendly reporters and websites out there to follow!

I like to think that one of the cool things about Kotaku is that you can come here for more information than you’ll get from a publisher’s press release. This is a good example of that. It’s not necessarily controversial or explosive info — it’s just context that you won’t find anywhere else.

I cannot imagine something I would less like to be involved with, consume, or even be aware of. Just reading this article made my day worse.

Thankfully, she’s being clear about expected delivery dates being waaaay out there. I backed even knowing there’s a late 2021 delivery date. It’s like a present to future me.

As a Mets fan who has unfortunately been forced to follow Lo Duca’s post playing career.

Thank you. This has bugged me for a long time now. “Gaslighting” isn’t just lying — it’s lying, or really saying anything, with a specific intent against the listener, namely making the person being gaslit question their own grasp on reality. It’s NOT lying to make someone (including, sometimes, yourself) believe the…

Generally agreed, and it would be nice if people in the media actually used word like lie and liar about Trump. But I think gaslighting works well here because it’s a more specific, more elaborate thing. When my wife asks me if I actually ate sixteen oreos for breakfast and I deny it, that’s a lie. But if I were to…

On the other hand, completly antithetical to the design of the game. It would be shameful if anyone actually used this before finishing the game legitimately.