I mostly like Kotaku’s comment section, because you can more often find good faith discourse here than, say, reddit. Thanks for being one of those contributions. Cheers, mate!

Edit: this reply ended up longer than I anticipated. Sorry about that, feel free to glaze over it, or move on with your life.

.. or... maybe I WANT to hear Deadman’s take on a subject, which Fragile just explained to me because I care what the characters think and how they feel.

I personally hope he never changes in that regard. His narratives are nuts (silly), but he always manages to endear me to both his worlds and characters.

I doubt he’d be winning any awards as a filmmaker.

It’s something that has kept me away from MGS for a long time. I made a big effort for MGS 4 but by the 10th time I was stuck in a scene where he was basically going “okay, I know typically humans don’t delve into this level of detail for this long but I’m going to do it anyway”, I just had to tap out.

If Death Stranding was a film, it’d probably have a better chance of winning the Palme d’Or than the Academy Award. It’s a weird and provocative game that, while weighed down by some notable flaws (holy shit, Kojima, hire an editor please. Your cinematic storytelling takes twenty minutes in what would could done in a…

Your prediction there would require CD Projekt Red to ether completely change GoG or drop it entirely.

1. I said 5+ years, note the plus.

I’m fairly certain that one day (in 5+ years or so), we won’t have the choice anymore — all games will be streamed. Microsoft is already taking the right tact by including Project xStream with their already stellar GamePass. But I think developers and publishers will be sold on the business model for one reason: it’s…

Rather than releasing, and then inevitably reworking looter shooters, I think it would be better if companies just stopped making them. We have more than enough for now, a veritable plethora.. Please, for the love of any other kind of gameplay, make something else. Such massive resources went into Anthem, and with a…

I don’t know what Common Read is, but if it’s about recommended literature for higher education, then I’m inclined to think it should list books at a collegiate reading level. That seems fairly uncontroversial to me. And I don’t think it’s throwing shade on YA novels to say they aren’t college level — that’s the whole…

She wants to be president. The only reason you leave a cush governorship just to be diplomat to the UN is so you can solidify the one thing that state government politicians are missing: foreign policy bona fides. She’s running in 2024, mark my words.

To really emphasize the good news in Virginia, we saw a red wave in the 2009 state elections that enabled Republicans to heavily gerrymandering our districts. The end result: in 2011, they increased their 59 seat majority (out of 100 total) to 67 in the House of Delegates. In the Senate, they went from 18 seats (out…

She’s just horrible and nasty yet relies on this act to trick people into thinking she’s actually a very fun person who you want to hang around with.

Well, I’m glad the NC legislature is getting something done, because the Republican majority in the state Senate has otherwise been scheduling votes to override the governor’s veto of the budget at odd times of night, and then cancelling when the Democrats actually show up to prevent them from having a supermajority.…

they decided to give the worst Halloween chocolate—Hershey’s bars.

I think we have to ask ourselves why a man running shirtless out in open daylight isn’t considered sexual, but a woman is — and it seems largely to have to do with what heterosexual men find attractive exclusively. If you think women aren’t turned on by a fine chest, you’re bonkers, but it’s not a well-woven piece of…

Glad I finished reading your comment before replying

Hill has heavily implied that the photos are part of a smear campaign