i don’t know if you heard, but kotaku’s editorial edict is to be mean and negative at every opportunity. 

At what point does this concentration of cynicism causeyou to just keel over and die.

On today’s episode of Gamers™, Gamers see the forest and ask the question, “Are there trees there?”

Maybe Michael Peterson shouldn't have pushed his wife down the stairs. Again. YES I SAID IT.

If Genshin Impact is any sign, they’re will be plenty of hot dudes to gacha roll for as well.

Spoiler alert, the last boss is just a cucumber on the floor

The cat movement is impressively realistic, but they could take it a step further and have the player completely whiff every fifth jump by several yards for no discernable reason.

Right, it won’t be perfect. But the way they keep stressing that in the announcements in the most lovely way possible I think will mean most folks won’t really mind. 

given the torch is taken up by the team that was already working and invested in it, supervised by his close friend and collaborator...

it won’t be perfect but i think they’re entitled to try. Certainty they have more connection and investment in it than than Sanderson did with WoT.

There’s been a few stories I’ve read and followed that have been unfortunate enough to have their writers die during writing. Most of the time there’s nothing to be done. When they do attempt to finish it, often it doesn’t go well, but the major success (in my opinion) was the Wheel of Time series. Reading this, left…

“62. futile quarrel, the dishonest discussion, and having the taste for dispute.”

Doesn’t every CW show play like a parody of a CW show?

Do you like Dark Souls? Fallen Order has a similar level structure and combat mechanics, but simplified.

Something about the patriarchy

I mean that sounds really good.

But then we wouldn’t have gotten Steve and Dustin, or Steve and Robin, or Steve, Dustin and Robin (minus Erica)

Wow. Okay, but see, YOU are the one with the bug up his ass about looking past the aesthetics of the genre. And getting unnecessarily aggro to boot now, for some fucking reason.

I viscerally, knee-jerk hate this. While also largely agreeing with it. Part of the problem is that I don’t like the likely-unintentional gatekeeper aspect. There is nothing wrong with “Wow! Cool future!” I do wish people would engage with their narratives more thoughtfully but I also don’t know how you can prove that…

It’s not afraid of an ascendant tech powerhouse Japan ruining America, it’s afraid of an ascendant Japan ruining Japan.

I really can’t agree that the genre is ‘broken’ or that modern works in the genre “interpret it incorrectly”. It seems arrogant to me to argue that the cyberpunk genre is only its themes and not its wealth of past-and-present expression.