That’s exactly my point, we keep looking at idiot man-babies who don’t know how to process their emotions being violent when they lose at a sport and acting like it’s no big deal, like you’re supposed to have a tantrum when things don’t go your way or like there’s no other options here. There’s another way and it’s…

Obviously not. For one, bottling up your feelings doesn’t do anything but make them explode more harshly later on (something that happens with pretty much all the Vulcans in Star Trek sooner or later because the viewer is not supposed to think that’s a healthy way to live). But more importantly, it’s not because I…

You sing the song of my people and you know all the proper words.  *approves in Scottish*

Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification. You just don’t know what genetic combination is being modified in order to get the result desired. You just go with the fact that the plant is still edible along with any other desired result.

So, if I consider corn and wheat to be genetically modified (selectively bred) from their wild parent stocks, thousands of years ago, should I sue if anyone claims their corn or wheat product to be all-natural?

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

Wouldn’t be dumb enough to kill someone with witnesses around gawking?
What country are you in?

This might be the first Kotaku article about Scarlet/Violet that doesn’t piss and moan about the performance and just gets right to the actual information. Pretty refreshing.

I’ve heard four or five different ways to distinguish between roguelikes and rogue-lites, including progressing between runs, the use of obscured information (e.g. potions with an effect you can only discern by drinking them), turn-based action, and more. It just doesn’t seem like a valuable way to distinguish between…

sure is a lot of not videogame content lately. videogame adjacent, sure.

I don’t find myself disagreeing with Kotaku reviews very often, and this is the first one in recent memory that I just kind of outright disagreed with.

I very disagree with the concept that the world isn’t fun to explore. There are hidden secrets everywhere and I had a ton of fun doing so. 

Chocolate oranges are delightful, how the hell did they make the list?

I have not experienced this AT ALL! I have played hours a day since it came out and other then the visual stuff, like pop in and slow framerates for NPCs in the distance, I have had a perfectly fine experience. Everytime I read about peoples horrible game breaking bugs I just don’t know what they are talking about. I…

Hi. I have. I’ve played through both games.

No significant issues at all.

Just a reminder, when the Root runs an article that raises awareness of White Supremacy attempts to turn things back to the 50s KKK days, and the fight to keep that from happening, we have Faux News/NewsCrack legions in our greys that try to derail any such conversations via any kind of distraction and divisive anger…

Naw, Nintendo knows exactly how 95%+ of their community functions. You know how many Nintendo customers care about the pro smash scene? <1%.

It’s so funny to say smogon 6v6 singles which is entirely spiked recovery spam and endless swaps until one player actually gets to click swords dance is more strategic than VGC doubles where you have to actually account for things like spread moves, have options like self beat up into justified, moves like follow me,…

SOS battles serve a rather useful purpose though: if you chain the encounter and keep it going as long as possible, your rate of encountering a Shiny, or a creature with excellent stats, increases dramatically.

My only complaint was the hour to get the game to the open world, no restraints constant hand holding of any Pokemon game. Raids work well. There are ‘mons all over the place to battle/catch, as well as so many items that I don’t think I’ve spent on healing items or Poke Balls since I started playing and have netted…