ah that’s a great reason! I especially never considered the motion controls since they’re not used all that much but yea I imagine that makes a huge difference. Thanks!

They should just call it....the Xbox game streaming service.

I really need to catch up - what’s the easiest way to watch Dr Who episodes so I can catch up and watch her?

Ahhh yes, those old hackneyed arguments and buzzwords such as “women should be allowed to decide when they have sex” and “jews aren’t lizard people”.

3DS XL - $200

Every time I see a hilarious takedown of how stupid hollywood movies are I think....this hilarious takedown is better than whatever they’re actually gonna make. It’s the same kinda feeling I get when I think about how Troll 2 is at least 100x better than Titanic.

I agree with all your points but I also think that like....she’s just one person making these books. Writing novels is extraordinarily difficult and you don’t get collaboration like you do in TV, film, etc. She wrote a bunch of novels that took a decade (or more?) to write. I wouldn’t expect any individual author to…

I dunno I guess I just never really understood the big difference between peripherals. I’ve used....a lot of gamepads and I’ve never used one that I thought was bad or anything. It’s like keyboards and mouses too, I get that having extra keys and things are good but....if it works it works, I’ve never understood the…

I still don’t understand the whole joy con vs. pro controller thing. I actually just....don’t understand why there even is a pro controller? I’ve got big hands and I use the joy cons all the time, either solo, or together but disconnected, or together and connected through the grip thing and I’ve never had any issues?…

“within a week” you misspelled hour

this was a really great podcast. Nintendo is definitely weird, but thank god they exist because they’re the only major developer continuously making games that are mostly fun and non-competitive. Everything is so focused on online PVP now it’s awful and drives me crazy. It just feeds into a toxicity loop of machismo…

All hail our corporate overlords!

yea....agreed. I feel like people forget that most ideas are actually bad. This is something that’s been beaten into my head taking writing classes but I feel like in games this doesn’t happen much cuz people really throw around some pretty bad ideas. I primarily play indie games so I look through a lot of them and…

I’m very excited to check out Mario Party. I had pre-ordered Megaman 11 but I cancelled cuz I’m playing so many games right now it’ll be a while and probly go down in price by the time I buy it. The demo is pretty great though.

I’ve moved 14 times (that I can remember) in the last 13 years. I had to make a list and count it out. NYC is a corrupt shit hole.

This may be a totally dumb question but...do these big corporate events exist solely or primarily to show new games? It just seems like the primary enjoyment should just be fans of the console/game/company coming together to have fun and it would cater around that. I would think that would make a better fan base, with…

I guess this might be an obvious yes, but should we be expecting Kotaku to cover this a decent amount and/or livestream it on Twitch? Also will there be a Kotaku review of the beta or will you be waiting to review the entire game?

Haha yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Allow me one final thought that I think doesn’t get spoken a lot in these discussions.

The reality is that your point of view is short sighted. Our entire economy is based on hurting people. Our entire economy exploits millions of people. Every time we buy a computer the metals in that computer have been mined by slaves or indentured servants or extremely exploited workers, every time we eat a banana…

well it all comes down to what even is the economy? the idea that we need to “keep the economy going” is only real because we have an economy based on people getting rich instead of economy on doing what’s best for people. I’m not saying the CEO shouldn’t get paid MORE, but the entire concept of CEOS making SO MUCH…