This. There were several times that I got turned around or extremely lost because of how unhelpful the map was (if I recall, Kashyyyk was particularly bad)

Some of the placements felt very arbitrary. Yeah, Robin is a safe filler queen- but she was good in this challenge. Meanwhile, Spice had another week of totally just skating by. Aura winning, sure? I guess? Sasha seemed to be the standout performer from all three groups to me.

As an outside observer who doesn’t play the game: all of the emote options seem clearly intended to be positive/good game in their messaging. The lack of a neutral or ironic option has led to a sarcastic / unsportsmanlike co-opt of this particular emote (probably because it seems wholesome to the point of being…

This season is just… really not clicking with me. Hobbled by a return to a shorter run time, absolutely. But this batch of queens is just not terribly compelling yet, even considering the standouts so far. I’m just finding it hard to care very much. 

Michelle Yeoh and Ana de Armas are both nominated in the category.

It’s been touted as a total ground-up remake.

Also: wouldn’t “the ultimate embodiment of role playing” mean including consequences for one’s actions, particularly ones established in the lore of the world?

A lot of video game mechanics simplify and, well, game-ify things that are dull, impractical, or implausible in real life. They’re put into games and usually feel like the busywork they often are, intended to make sure the player is always actively doing something.

Absolutely a typo, or perhaps a Freudian slip. 

I’m in my first corporate tech job and I’m approaching my first real review (despite being here for about 14 months; it was delayed company wide) and my manager just went over this bull curve thing with me. She explained they have very limited spots for extremely high performers, and there are some spots for low…

Mistress was not equally good as Loosey in Snatch Game. Mistress was funny! But Loosey was truly fantastic as Joan Rivers and the obvious and clear winner.

AI-generated images are getting better and getting better very quickly and the lack of clear answer to “to what end?” is disconcerting, because the answer will inevitably be, “to make lots of money at the expense of others.” There need to be very firm constrictions here and, unfortunately, the US legislative branch…

I think this is a valid take on P4, but P5 goes in the total opposite direction. It’s a wholesale rejection of the status quo and pretty damning critique of Japanese and global society. 

This. I have no qualms about sinking in 100+ to finish a game if it’s consistently fun and engaging. Odyssey’s map is truly enormous and gorgeous, but mostly either empty or full of busywork. Even some of the most lauded open world games like Witcher 3 and RDR2 pad out their maps with errand running, bandit camp…

All the major social media platforms are like this to some degree now. Arbitrary policy carried out by algorithm and accountable to nobody. You can’t complain to anybody because there’s nobody to complain to, and even the stupidest or most illogical violations are decided automatically and you usually can’t appeal to…

Anetra and Jax killed the talent show.

Parodies are built on this lampshade hanging and fourth wall destruction. That’s their point.  

I’m playing it on PC! Can’t really make a comparison to how it played on consoles, but it’s very smooth playing experience with a keyboard and mouse. 

Playing Persona 5 now on PC having missed it due to not having been a PC gamer for so long that I’m just being stubborn at this point. It’s easily one of the best games I’ve ever played- just a tight, well-written, compelling and prescient game that has been sucking the hours from my life.

Kotaku’s really trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel for negative Pokémon coverage at this point, huh?