I know you’re mostly talking about “rules,” but I think that what you’re also implying is that it doesn’t feel like D&D. I don’t agree with you on that, but it reminded me of something.... I was watching an interview with Mike Mearls last night about Nautiloids, and he did talk a bit about the fact that Larian took…

Agreed... I didn’t hate the DA:I multiplayer, and quite enjoyed it in ME. I mean, fewer game modes in theory means more focus on single player, so I don’t hate that, but I don’t think that anyone gets mad at having a multiplayer option for those that dig the combat system but don’t want to just do new runthroughs of…

“Effectively.” You can probably treat whatever you want with kombucha, yum! You just can’t treat COVID with kombucha “effectively.”

In theory, good journalism should be about the story, not the author. But as we all know, seeing Jason Schreier’s byline just tells you something about the story you’re about to read. If Kotaku still had tags, “Bloomberg reports” would be a damn good one :p 

When a white person tells you that their whiteness doesn’t mean anything to them, rest assured it is only because your blackness/etc. means everything to them instead. White people spend very little time thinking about ourselves as anything other than “normal” unless we are reminded not to (and unless we are willing…

People I know that like diet coke, it feels more like a chemical addiction than a preference for the taste. There is, objectively, nothing to like about the way diet coke tastes, but folks that drink a lot of diet coke while losing weight seem to be pathologically incapable of stopping long after the rest of the diet…

Only the best people. The very best. Tremendous.

I think that bosses should generally treat their employees like human beings, with an abundance of empathy and respect. But if there was ever an exception, where the position is more important than the person, being a public facing White House employee is probably one of them. This “slack” erodes the strength and…

I have been playing back through ME: Andromeda, and the rejection that Lexi gives you when you first flirt with her, while you doggedly try to joke and persist through her initial no is.... oof, I’ve been cringing and feeling embarrassed all day just thinking about it. I like that she puts Ryder in her place, I just…

TBH the facial animation is pretty great! Apart from robot mouth flap flap flapping, the eyes and expressions I think are about as good as you could hope for. But the decision to mocap a wacky waving inflatable arm tube man? Mistakes were made.

Step 1: If you see a toilet in a dream, always trust it. 

I recently reinstalled ME: Andromeda, and... yikes, I forgot how creepy the poorly animated mouth movements make the rest of the relatively-good faces become. Even more than doll eyes, robot mouths are the uncanniest of valleys for me.

Its really not about the validity of the claim though, it’s about (1) WB now having a platform from which to launch intimidating demand letters that most smaller publishers will automatically back down from and (2) the chilling effect that smaller studios will retreat from putting themselves in that position in the…

I don’t know if there are any large studios that operate as a co-op and share profits among employees, but dammit, if the Chinese can’t do it who can???

The..... the collector’s edition content is sold SEPERATE from the game itself? That’s just bizarre, have other games done this and I just missed it???

The..... the collector’s edition content is sold SEPERATE from the game itself? That’s just bizarre, have other…

I like the idea of a developer giving everyone an equal bonus, or, making bonuses available by random lottery, rather than that weird red coin thing that CD Projekt Red did that was secretly a crunch incentive. But then again, would suck to work really hard on a complex project and then see Fucking Chad Who Spends All…

I’m fun at parties. I’m not fun at parties. 

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” might have been fun wordplay in 1859, but I promise that 160 years of high school creative writing classes have played that trick out fully. Professional writers should write in a way that says something and goes somewhere in a hurry, without being cute with their r…

I’m thinking you missed the point. About a third of the WaPo article tries to frame the issue as having something to do with “fracking and mining” interests. That seems to have nothing to do with anything any of their men-on-the-street said, its just them trying to inject a veneer of reasonableness onto what is…