While Scotland is to the South in the UK, it looks like the snowy region up top may represent the country in Galar.

Saying that Scottish English is “written phonetically” is like saying American English is “written with the ‘u’ taken out of some words”. It’s not some cute quirk, it’s literally its own language. Those are real words. That is really how they are really spelled.

Exactly. The great lie is that we need to be protected from the perspectives of other ages, or to judge them outright, rather than engage with them and try to understand what they can tell us about the human condition. It’s true that a great deal of what’s in that book no longer squares with our collective morality,…

I don’t understand why so many people think a show has to be “fun” for it to be good. I used to be one of those people, but watching Eva helped ease me out of that opinion. I loved Evangelion so much that I stayed up from like some time at night until 9 AM watching the whole show from beginning to end. I just could…

My Jinx has a move called Double-Edge, which kills most things pretty quickly, especially with the amount of stat-enhancing candy I’ve fed him.

I’m not really a pokemon fan, but I’m glad to see that they are in their pokedex number order.

“nipples are erotic”

Buy rechargeable AAs and get over yourself (all xbox AA haters/idiots). You can buy the rechargeable pack (as mentioned in the article) or better yet use standard rechargeable AAs and have even more freedom. (Amazon Basics or Eneloops are today’s go to brands, just get the standard ones that have more charge cycles).…

I’ve been using the same four rechargeable AA batteries since the Xbox 360 era. Spent maybe $18 for the kit, it’s all lasted me more than ten years, and I don’t have to worry about battery disposal. When the two in my controller die, I just swap them with the two full ones waiting in the charger. You, too, can be…

I actually finished this one again on Friday - the first time not on my original PS2 disk. It’s an absolutely wonderful game, and though I’m been openly biased on saying this, I think many (though not all) of its faults have merit. The story is meandering, but it gives the game this really neat sensation of being on a…

The Dillon’s games are produced by Nintendo and developed by Vanpool, a small Tokyo studio that in 2006 released the most remote of Zelda spin-offs, a sidescrolling action-adventure called Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland that stars the weird map-seller from Wind Waker.

I’ll bet the decline of imagery like the Magikarp sashimi had to do with growing popularity in the west more than anything else. Japanese people are very comfortable with the obvious fact that meat comes from animals and the animals have to die if you want to eat them. Similarly, most Japanese children do not suffer…

One of the reasons I really love Samus’ portrayal in Metroid Prime is because many of the log files you find refer to Samus like she’s this incredibly badass force of nature and it really cemented that version of her character in my mind.

Can we get a new series, Ask the Rude Negro? Dropping that word count really saves me some time in the mornings.

You probably do.

It’s the same reason I still use an adblocker, despite all the polite pop ups asking me to “reconsider.” When my adblocker needs to block between 30 and 40 elements on every story I chose to click on, you can forget about any consideration towards helping your cash flow. Cut back on ads, stop the really annoying…

The pot/kettle dynamic is very strong in this article.

Lol, logged in just to say this and posted right after you.

Maybe Netflix will stop this once Kotaku and all other Kinja websites stop auto playing random video contents, such as Kotaku’s “Recent Video” segment, on the main website or embedded in the articles.