Not really, no. You misread the first guy’s comment and I corrected you. Your first comment makes no sense if you understood that he was making the same point you have been that Wordle is not an original concept, and that his only reason for falling on the “Yeah this sucks” side is the name copycatting.

I never said anything at all about Google, implicitly or explicitly. I mentioned SEO, which (as you recognize in that last comment) is a term that applies to search across a broad spectrum of digital platforms, including app stores. People will absolutely search in the store for Wordle, not knowing it isn’t an app,…

He specifically says that he didn’t think it was a big deal because of exactly what you said—that it’s just the old Mastermind template—and only changed his mind because of the name use.

Your claim is that in naming his app “Wordle - The App”, he is not trying to ride off the SEO of a popular game named Wordle, but rather a lot of other similar games that are not named Wordle?

You aren’t very good at that “well actually” thing.

While we’re at it we can toss people like yourself up there who are seemingly tireless cheerleaders of this kind of cynical late-stage capitalist behavior.

Everybody knows this already. It’s not about whether the game concept is original, it’s that this guy lifted everything about Josh Wardle’s version of it wholesale, up to and including the name so that he could steal SEO thunder from it.

I don’t think you read the comment you replied to.

The point isn’t that he stole the concept, it’s that he also stole the name.

Thank you, that’s fair. YT’s algorithms seem to serve almost nobody well.

This review was published November 1st. Why did it take so long for this to gain enough traction and for Razer to change their website?

Like I said in my first comment, I get the whole “on the web all engagement is good engagement” argument. But Kotaku isn’t a site where the writers never read comments and sometimes it’s valuable to provide feedback even when it generates a page hit. Besides, engagement metrics aren’t, as is popularly believed, only…

There are lots of tits out there.

You guys are seriously writing about her again?

Listen, I get that news about Twitch streamers is newsworthy, and I get that her social politics align closely with Kotaku’s, and I’m not generally one to complain about blog topics since what generates engagement generates engagement... but you guys must have published…

OK now that is blowing my mind. So the villain in Karate Kid part III was younger than Daniel himself? Jesus.

It’s so strange to me that the PSVR2 hardware news was shadowdropped on this site like this, the lede buried inside a Horizon game announcement.

Getting these vibes from this guy

Is it really that long until the first RTD episode? So we’ve got almost two years to wait until the first episode with the next Doctor even though Jodie’s only got two episodes left?

Oof. I know Covid has everything a mess, but it seems like these constant long layoffs have been an issue since even before that was a…

We have a piper down, everybody.

And the sun is a moon of the Milky Way.

It’s news because people have been speculating due to the scene in the movie, which did not exist before now. Obviously.

I don’t think the box office returns show anything besides “This also premiered on a streaming service whereas Spider-Man, against which this movie is being compared, didn’t”.