Take my star, you filthy animal.

Yeah, I’m on the team that will be won over if I feel like I’m watching the anime, but it happens to be live action. My worst nightmare though is that they take Cowboy BeBop and make it feel like an Arrowverse show.

I believe the EcoPla program mostly consists of plastic waste from the factory itself or other recycled sources. I think this is the first time they’re making a big collection program for plastic runners to repurpose to this degree. 

It’s wild to me how many people here think that socialists can somehow escape capitalism and live socialist lives under a completely different mode of production and economic management. Socialists are fighting for a systemic change that is not currently in effect, so expecting them to live like that system exists…

Beans?

Now that’s a debugging job I wouldn’t want to deal with!


I’ll see myself out.

Hell, even looking at it through the very narrow lens of “single-player CRPG,” it’s a game that manages to make your agency as a player feel completely empty and hollow. Pick a backstory, it doesn’t affect the gameplay whatsoever! Run dialog checks that allow you to either be a smug douche or an even shittier smug…

The idea that a multi-billion dollar corporation can hire enough people to shit out an empty feeling cyberpunk world and cobble together a half-assed linear story is not something to be celebrated. Scale for scale’s sake is such a fucking ripoff because a game with those types of resources should have no problem a)…

It’s really one of those games that’s striking from the more distanced perspectives and really falls apart when you actually want to interact or connect with it. The graphics look great on my 3090 and Night City looks amazing in a lot of ways. With that being said, even in the design of Night City, there are places…

Hey, if I was sold CP2077 as the mediocre single player experience it was versus the expansive and dynamic open-world experience with free DLC and an online component that it was supposed to be, I probably wouldn’t have any complaints. I think having a reasonable scope of expectations is definitely on gamers, but CDPR…

It ran fine for me on my high end PC, but by the time I beat it, I was so bored and fed up with it. It’s a game that totally appears deep and thoughtful from a surface level approach, but the longer you spend with it, the more underwhelming it feels. It’s especially bad if you trust the game and lean into the…

The comedy of this game is that it’s still mostly unplayable for the people who had issues playing it at the beginning, but it’s now also hella stale for the people who didn’t have a bad technical experience with it on day 1. Basically, they’re really struggling to make this game enjoyable for anyone anymore to the…

What I’m saying is that this approach to cyberpunk “orientalist” aesthetics is largely a cliche at this point built around a racist past that doesn’t really get acknowledged because it feels irrelevant to modern audiences. Creatively speaking, using cliches without added commentary is something worth critiquing…

The hard part about this conversation is that it feels completely obvious to myself and some people I know, whereas others are completely dumbfounded by the idea of “cyberpunk orientalism.” The hard part is that a lot of people don’t really understand that Japanese was featured so heavily in original cyberpunk media be…

The tone I’m the saddest about though is the “my stuff will never look this good” posts because that kind of thing can really create a confidence block that prevents people from getting to a pretty accessible target. I’m happy for this dad and I think he did a great job, but I don’t want everyone to think that they…

I’m impressed with the results because getting back into it with either Gunpla or minis can take a few kits or minis to get to a point where things are at this level again.

Also, for people in the comments talking about how difficult this is, I think if you’ve never done any of it and haven’t learned the right…

I’m really excited to get my big one in December because I’m hoping that I can use it as a “field computer” compliment to both my desktop and my laptop. The cool part is that even if it doesn’t meet any of my creative needs, it’s still a solid way to play my Steam library in either portable or casual settings.

I…

Oof, this feels like one of those “sad periods” of reading Kotaku where it feels like everyone’s leaving again. I’m still getting over losing Heather Alexandra, but then this year’s exodus just keeps the punches rolling.

Just type the word “Hypnospace” into Google and see what the results are. Every result for me up to page 5 is a reference to the game “Hypnospace Outlaw” and then the single item on page 5 that isn’t for the game is some random SoundCloud track uploaded by someone (maybe even for the game, but I didn’t look).

I’ve…

I pre-ordered, despite having a mega desktop, a really powerful laptop, and a PS4/Switch. Why? Well, I do really like the portability component and not having to bring my computers out to play a lot of PC games that I enjoy (a lot of the rogue-likes and indies), but the notion of it still being a PC piques my interest…