“We’re setting up a community council, made up of beta participants of all playstyles from casual to highly competitive players, who we’ll be working especially closely with”

That data blaming pedestrian error is by and large based on statements made by drivers, who have an obvious motivation to blame the dead pedestrian. Dead pedestrians who (also obviously) cannot defend themselves.

Yep. This is an interesting variation of the “Pedestrian hit by car” vs “Driver hits pedestrian with car” mistake often made by well-intentioned journalists.

Okay, from looking closely it appears to not be a cardboard shipping box. Instead, it is an empty styrofoam cooler without its top. Knowing that, I guess I can sorta understand how the air coming around the sides and bottom of the truck could propel it back up and into the truck, but it still looks like magic.

Yeah, in the extremely charitable view that this was an accident, I hope that at the very least this person gets their commercial license permanently revoked. I would never ever feel comfortable driving beside him on the highway again.

The real scummy thing is how, after extolling their own virtues, they subtly roll back the 10x promise. Now that they’ve been caught a single time by an indie developer, they are only refunding the value of the chargebacks, not 10x the value.

Maybe if this is successful they will make a Risk Of Rain-esque leap from 2D to 3D for the sequel.

What that sentence tells me is that they will raise him to be a dickhead megalomaniac, just like his father.

Thanks for this write-up, I didn’t know this happened and I’m excited to watch it.

I’ve learned that the popular theory regarding her husband is that he made his money via drug-running. With Carole saying he flew all the time without a pilot’s license, it wouldn’t shock me if the plane was unregistered as well. Clearly, the airport he was flying out of was looking the other way since they were…

You can rearrange items in your inventory by holding the A button.

I’m surprised there are no quotes from Kotaku’s resident keyboard addict enthusiast Mike Fahey for this story.

It’s kinda funny, because when you ask Blathers about tarantulas, he rightly says that they are not an aggressive species of spider. So it’s a weird contradiction with how they behave in the game.

One tip that took me a bit to figure out: You can chop at trees to get wood without cutting them down. In fact, the primitive tools can’t chop trees down at all.

You have to place the museum before you can get the vaulting pole.

I took a very similar trip last summer on my bike. Though my bike has a little less horsepower...

Thanks for reliably doing these Kotaku soundtrack posts. It’s always nice to have a bit of interesting music to start my work day.

Shit like this should lead to years in jail, and a permanent ban from ever getting a driver’s license again. Driving is a privilege, and when you abuse the privilege this egregiously you should never get it back.

I can’t find a US-friendly version, so here’s another Kinoko Teikoku song...

People on parole often don’t have the same rights that others have. If you are coming off a drug conviction you might not be allowed to drink, if you are coming off a driving-related conviction you may have your license suspended, etc. It seems reasonable to me to bar someone from soliciting prostitutes, when they…