Did you ever read the prologue novella for the game? I believe it was called FFXIII: Episode Zero. Combining that with the events of the first game, I feel like Lightning was supposed to be a highly unsexualized tomboy. At one point in the novella, it mentions that "Lightning didn't understand things like fashion, but…

In Tomb Raider, I'm 99% certain a tanker shipping white paint to American Walmarts and Home Depots crashed on the island.

Nah, I actually own a few combat helmets and have several friends who were military that now do airsoft. They all make fun of anyone who shows up with a BMX helmet (not necessarily the nicest thing to do) and I'm way too picky to accept that as a viable costume piece. At least cover it in some black or pixel fabric.…

Well, I still stand by my point. There have been instances where he didn't get permission of any sort or was approached the devs of whatever fan project, and legal action was taken against said projects shortly after Kotaku covered them. I will continue to accuse him of such until he figures out how to cover these fan…

On the contrary, I don't think anyone's acting like it's new. A lot of us just hoped that the old ways had changed a bit, and perhaps we were in for a new, enlightened Squeenix. But Toriyama just proved that not only is this not the case, but he'd rather go as opposite a direction as possible from having characters…

She's real. What happened was that Abstergo purposely corrupted any genetic memory of her and have recruits playing as her to learn the skills to beat the Assassins. However in Liberation I believe it backfires a bit when you discover the memory corruption. She's a proper Assassin through and through, but the Abstergo…

Goto is a good man.

I'm totally in love with the Claptrap. Whenever I have kids I'm definitely doing that.

Honestly, this is the kind of crap that makes for great story prompts. I really love the concept of calling lag "time dilation" and incorporating that into the narrative.

I actually liked the second Mummy film, mainly because my family behaves in a similar fashion, minus the adventuring and dead guys, but I think there's no denying how awful 3 was.

I haven't played Pokemon in years, but I just can't care about legendaries when one of the gen 1 starters evolves into a fucking dragon, whether he's typed that way or not. The only legendaries I find myself liking are the big cat trio.

Look man, come over to TAY and actually read Doc's posts. He may have an opinion but he isn't a troll.

I always compare Uncharted to the Mummy.

True, but I think there's other factors that come into play, and I don't think anything you mentioned applies to older games that Patricia is talking about. Sure, you could make that argument for Uncharted or Last of Us, but can you really say that Ocarina of Time is only effective because of visceral responses?

The beard comments were the funniest bit.

As soon as I was informed of the premise I started looking for them in the background. I noticed Ganon first and then kept pausing until I found Link.

I guess this is neat? Fun drawing challenge, maybe. Although Link has already appeared on South Park and didn't look like that. He was in the background of Imaginationland, and Ganondorf was in the evil group of the same episode.

My mom just switched jobs because of that exact reason. It's fucking brutal out there.

As I noted a ways down in this giant thread, this instance is a bit different than what I was making fun of Jason for. Brown actually approached Kotaku, asking for some publicity and an interview. For all the other cases though, I agree with you that while Kotaku should not stop reporting them, they should take…

Between this and the egrigious size difference between her legs in the Mononoke picture, I'm pretty certain her front leg is the result of a poor photoshop job from the photographer.