Bought T.O.M. on first day but only logged 8 hours. Played a local game with two friends in our own realm. That was a lot of fun but a lot of that was the thrill of playing a new game and figuring stuff out. Tutorial explained almost nothing of the game and what you’re supposed to be doing. But after 8 hours my…

From the WSJ artcile:

So this game is a open world choice matter rpg set in the Cyberpunk world created by Mike Pondsmith? Ooh! That sounds awesome!

Chill bro. No one is saying the game is a POS, or implying they want it to be. Rather, these are complaints about the framing of the review, which begins by saying it makes good on CP2077's promise, but then the game doesn’t (try to) do any of the things that game does, and then the review mentions a number of buggy…

Lol what on earth is with the framing of this article? Making good on the promise of Cyberpunk 2077? Did you think what that game promised you was “slightly better cyberpunk vistas?” It’s a largely uninspired twin-stick shooter Diablo clone. Absolutely wild to spin it as being the real Cyberpunk game because... idk,…

.......so, uh, how does this make good on Cyberpunk 2077's promise then?

I was reading all the nitpicking and moaning at the beginning of the review waiting for “...but none of that matters, because actually playing this dual-stick shooter is a REVELATION” but instead it’s “...but none of that matters, because if you stand on this balcony it’s VERY PRETTY.”

Dafuq? I obviously haven’t played…

TL;DR - The game doesn’t play great, the loot doesn’t do anything, the leveling mechanics don’t operate intuitively, the map sucks, upgrading weapons is arbitrarily difficult, and all of this may just actually blow up your Xbox for all we know. BUT if you have a sufficiently-sized hard-on for cyberpunk minutiae, it’s…

Imagine having such a kotaku hate boner that you have to find a way to contort it in such a way that Amazon uses your own dick to fuck you from behind.

But won't someone think about the corporations?!?!

I also appreciate Kotaku not being a media-hole for an exploitation machine!

Amazon is a garbage company so are your tears

Sadly, they’ll just cash out and keep their heads down for a while until one of their fellow bros at another company offers them a new gig.

But it does do the things it claims to do when you buy it

Remember!  Full Self-Driving does NOT mean Full Self-Driving!

This is an excellent point and I do think it highlights just how truly complicated any kind of discussion on these kinds of top athletes is, especially when it comes to team sports. There were three available alternatives and the squad wouldn’t have had to scramble if they had known before-hand that Biles would not be…

It’s almost a perverse way of maintaining the pressure that Biles seems to be buckling under.

Yeah, I’m thrown off by how everyone seems to be saying , “GREAT! This is fantastic news!” It is not fantastic news. It sucks for her teammates, it sucks for the people who could have gone in her place, and quitting mid-competition is really not something to celebrate. We can be compassionate about the decision, but…

Can we find some more nuanced way of discussing this? Can we acknowledge that it is important and right for Biles to look after her mental and physical health, while also acknowledging that what happened to day was not, in fact, “worth celebrating?” It is unfortunate that she was unable to complete the competition and…

In related 40k news, looks like GamesWorkshop is gonna be coming down hard on fan-made content...