It truly is one of the just completely iconic multiplayer maps. Facing Worlds, 2Fort, Blood Gulch, Dust2, Office, and Wake Island are just etched into my mind, to the point that I could probably recreate them from memory. I’m not even that big into multiplayer, and these are just so classic that even I ended up…

It does if you are having trouble remembering/processing words and want to limit your interaction with people as much as humanly possible because you find it humiliating.  He also was the only one on the Moonrise Kingdom cast to rent his own mansion quarters rather than staying in a house with all the other actors. …

His whole personality changed a bunch once he started getting high all the time. Compare any recent appearance to the videos of him talking about Jon Peters, where he’s a good, laidback storyteller, and comes off as completely removed from the Hollywood machine. Now he bugs his eyes out all the time while jizzing and…

I’ve had relatives who suffered cognitive disorders, so I kind of feel where he’s coming from. Once you hear that someone’s been diagnosed with a medical condition which can result in changes to their personality or ability to comprehend things, it throws your past interactions with them into question. You start…

Right. If anything propaganda in video games is just as effective as on TV/movies, if not more. The US Army capitalized on this through their recruitment measures and pushed it by having their own games made. Why this works because it creates an easy “Us VS Them” narrative that is very effective on people living…

Grand Theft Auto has always been a wide open sandbox with a deliberately tongue in cheek vibe in a setting that’s distinctly a little unreal - where almost every civilian has a gag and/or is a stereotype if they get a few lines of dialogue, and where the characters are basically superhuman and living in a world where…

Ah, a straggler from the Jack Thompson crusade. Well, I’ll be delighted to fill you in: Violent video games don’t cause violence, bad environments do. When it comes to the recent ‘trend’ of anti-protesters running people over in their cars, it’s probably because they’re not being held accountable for their actions,…

Or maybe, said takes are from people from other countries that marvel and the mental gymnastics you americans perform in order to defend your right to bear arms in the face of constant death in your home turf. Just maybe

wow, this made me cry. One reason I have not returned to my island is for similar reasons: I don’t think I’m emotionally ready for my islanders to ask about her, or to find mail from her in my mailbox, and it’s been a few months now. AC was always *her* thing too, and I just wanted to share it with her once ACNH came…

I hear that, but you should ask yourself where you think the relationship is going.

You know as well as anyone that Kotaku isn’t just about reporting the goddamn news. I don’t read everything on the site, mostly because not everything interests me. Perhaps you should consider that other people might enjoy something you don’t, and just let them enjoy it. Thanks for the tasteless comment.

This piece made my heart ache. Lovely writing.

Woof, I feel you with this, except I’m the ex, in this case. We played together on my girlfriend’s switch, and it was her island. We had our houses right next to each other and decorated our little fenced-in front and back yard areas together. I don’t know if she’s booted it up again to play since the DLC dropped, I…

None of the islanders will remember them.

Even though I could never get into Animal Crossing, I always feel as though I missed out on something. Great story, thanks for sharing.

Maybe this has been a saving grace for me. I was pretty bummed I never got an Animal Crossing virtual date during lockdown. Most of it was pretty normal stuff: Zoom chats/snacks, watching a movie while chatting, Jackbox games, “phone stuff,” one game of online battleship... fun stuff, but not AC.

I was in a similar boat. I spent a lot of time traveling to my ex’s island, and she sent me a lot of items on ACNH. When we broke up, I dealt with it by making a second account on the island with an avatar who looked nothing like me and didn’t have my name, and dumped all the items she gave me in the second…

My co-worker had to start a new island entirely because her character name was her ex’s nickname for her, and I assume you just flat-out can’t change your name in-game. But helping her put together some seed money for turnips, and hopping back and forth to whoever’s island has the better turnip prices for the week,…

I haven’t been to my island in a year also, though I didn’t share it w/ my current partner I have often thought of asking her to play. We play Destiny 2 all the time but the thought of breaking up and then having to separate our things in a game as well as real life is too much to bare thinking of. I’m finally going…

I’m currently where you were at with ACNH before. My ex left me in May and I’ve not had the desire nor need to revisit our island. I know all our villagers will ask me about them and I still can’t deal with that. It was their decision to buy the game in the first place and they poured a lot of their time into building…