Let’s go through the list that usually pops up when people say this about AoT:

AFAIK Gravure is usually focused on girls that are in their late teens, up to their early twenties or thirties, who are usually of mixed Japanese-European descent, or have undertaken plastic surgery so that they have a certain “look”—typically young-looking, with bigger assets than is the norm in Japan. The books usual…

My dude, Nintendo is legitimately stalking and keeping fucking “black vans on the side of the street,” tabs on modders IRL.

I was going to say something to the effect of “Most well-known literary anything is just retellingo of Beowulf or Gilgamesh,” but y’know what

Dan’s supertaunt from pocket fighter is still the best.

A company that resorts to crowd funding while being valued at 6 billion dollars is absolutely deserving of snark, at the very least.

Cool, glad we’re on the same page!

I played Witcher 2 and found it mostly flat, linear, and not at all worth the hype. So, I also never played W3, and I largely consider that to my benefit because it sounds like it was much of the same.

It doesn’t have anything to do with gender. It has to do with male authors, yes; but my grievance is more with how they write. And since I don’t see their female counterparts writing in a similar way, I was specific in my phrasing because—again—my issue is with how a small subset of writers on this site can never let…

I mean, yeah. I can agree. But it also seems to be standard practice when licensed board games? Without knowing any of the actual details, all we’ve got is basically a scenario where CDPR went to a middle man to make product X for them, and then the middle man went to another middle man to drum up additional capital…

Why should the public pay to have this made? Why should anyone feel empathy for a corporation?

“Don’t Like, Don’t Read,” is a standard response to criticism of a work of fiction, particularly on the Internet. It raises the basic question of why the critic bothered to read or finish the work if it turned out they didn’t like it.

That’s fair!

Not for nothing, but your Target must be fantastic because here in PR—which, granted, probably not the best counter-example—the only boardgames “like Gloomhave,” that you’re going to find at big retailers like that begin and end with Catan.

@Toyota Mazda inline rotor holder

@America: The Snyder Cut (great username btw)

I’ll be real for a sec: if the article kept its cynical tone while also expanding on either some of the reasons this could be a good business move, and/or how this might be business-as-usual wrt to how a growing number of videogame developers are going about licensing their IPs to boardgame developers/producers, I…

It really does seem that simple—write a “report” and then an “op-ed”—but, I guess there’s either things we don’t know that make doing so difficult for Kotaku—and I’m not being sarcastic, here; I genuinely understand there might be things I don’t “know” because I’m just a reader—or, like most comedians, they want to…

Call it controversial but I have to ask and will likely be ignored or put on blast for it. why is it necessary to blast the “male writers”?

Like, you can do snark and be funny about it? Ash manages it all the time. But, comparing an article by Ian, Brian, or Mike vs. Ethan and some of the other male writers on this site really just make it seem like a majority of them seriously... cannot ever be bothered to try being even-tempered or happy or “enjoy”…