No offense to Nathan, he has an interest in the whole streamer cult-of-personality and I’m sure a number of readers do, too. That said, if this is what Kotaku s becoming, I think I’m gonna go ahead and bounce.

Kotaku has lost a lot of the writers who would do more “real journalism.” I don’t mean that to demean blogging or the writers here now, just that Jason, Heather, Cecelia, Gita, and others would often post stories with sources that did deep dives into a topic. Journalism, not blogging.

You said it a bit more directly than I would, but I agree wholeheartedly. Articles on this site are getting worse by the day. Why are we discussing internet-celebs like some chatty gossip magazine?

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I’ll say it again, a lot of the criticism of the last movie was utter BS that totally misunderstood both the source material and Japanese culture, not to mention the total detachment to economic reality of film making.

uh...what? the 4k version of this movie was released in 2018...

It was dumb as hell to dilute your major selling point from a business perspective. I also think the fact that all that talk about “Microsoft leading the new generation” talk died the moment Sony revealed some games shows how tenuous that good will they have built up actually was. At the end of the day you need a…

I was always angry at the end of each Catfish episode because they would find the faker and chastise him/her when they should have been chastising the idiot who thought they were in a 3 year relationship with a stunning model who refused to meet them in person.

Years ago I was a fellow speaker with Joseph Borg of the Alabama Securities Commission and we had a nice chat before the presentation. He defined a security very simply: a security is when you tell a potential investor you’ll make money on their money - no work on their end required.

“Hey everyone, here’s some basic arithmetic based on publicly available numbers, and here’s a middle school explanation of supply and demand effects. I think we should band together and do this thing for which we have no formal or binding agreement but merely this explanation.”

What if somebody says:

Your closing line sure sounds like you are promoting this pump and dump scheme. I’m disappointed in you Whitney.

Hi, since I’m seeing lots of talk about whether the headline/image are a spoiler, here’s my thinking on that: it’s only a spoiler if you look at Lev being trans as something that’s meant to be a surprise or some kind of dramatic reveal. Years upon years of trans storylines have taught us this (think: The Crying Game,…

“The game merely shows me that trans men exist, a fact I already knew.”

Albert Wiskers got me I had a good laugh with that, thanks.

Weird thing is, I can get behind the redesigns for Leon, Claire, and Jill in the REmakes, but changing the main characters so radically in the mainline series is so weird to me.

oh man you missed some good stuff!

So when do we get to see Sheva again? Or was she the only person with enough sense to just go the fuck home after all the bullshit? 

God, I love the Batgirl of Burnside costume. It nails a great balance between “made from realistic elements (jacket, boots, helmet)” and “brightly colored superhero costume.”

I understand your frustration at the situation but not all of us resellers are “dickweasles”. A lot of us lost jobs during Covid and reselling is just basic Economics that is helping us buy food and pay bills. Not a lot of people understand supply and demand unfortunately. It’s sad to say either wait it out, pay the…