Today my neighbor threw a brick at his fence because a plank was sticking out. Did you need to know that?

Obviously this is a stupid faux-controversy and nobody in the entire universe actually gives a fuck, but it’s worth mentioning similar controversies exist in real sports. In baseball everybody throws a fit if a player flips his bat after a home run.

You know this post is about the Hearthstone community losing it’s mind? Kotaku has no horse in that race. They are merely reporting what is going on with the Hearthstone community and what said community are asking themselves. Blame Hearthstone for your unwanted dose of liberalism. Thanks though, your post gave me a…

Get a grip. Taunts in sports are as old as time.

A few years ago, someone applied to manage Middlesbrough FC on the strength of his Football Manager stats and his experience coaching a local u-11 team... and received a personal reply from the club’s chairman:

Wilt’s involvement in trains is well documented

Of course, Kyrie thought he was speaking to a reporter from the Boston Rectangle.

PUBG IS the better thing to come to market. We’ve been waiting almost 10 years for this game. Arma is clunky as shit, DayZ went nowhere fast, H1Z1 died faster than light and PUBG is here to claim it’s rightful crown.

Counter point. Nah.

I’ve been a huge fan since day one (from House of Cosbys, etc and other Channel101 work) and the fandom these days is terribly obnoxious. Honestly, the intellectual aspect of the show is so rudimentary that I don’t even know why anyone thinks this is proof of intelligence, it’s barely Asimov 101 or any genre sci-fi.

The creator of QWOP, Bennet Foddy, is releasing a new game called Getting Over It on October 6th. In it, you climb a mountain using a sledgehammer. “I created this game for a certain kind of person,” Foddy says in this trailer. “To hurt them.”

The thought I always have when seeing this sort of stuff is...how do they have time to figure this stuff out? The sheer number of hours required to know a game this well—let alone to devote to practicing the precise execution of glitches—is just staggering, and I cannot wrap my head around how people who do this still…

But why, some say, a doorless run? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 48 years ago, fly to the moon? Why does Rice play Texas?

I can not trust them and still not have to resort to insulting them. The two are mutually exclusive. Some people are just angry at the world and love nothing more than to spew that anger on the internet. Trusting devs has nothing to do with it.

Sharing progress, seeing what others are doing, talking about the ups and downs of development and so on are my favorite thing about working in games, but yeah talking about it just invites abuse, no matter how you approach it.

Biggest example, gamers who think “DLC” automatically means the content was removed from the main game just to make a quick buck.

“Actually playing” is a nothing statement because what constitutes “actual play” varies from person to person. These runners have “actually played” OoT plenty. They know it backwards and forwards, far better than any of us.

Most people won’t which is fine as long as they refrain from insulting it because they don’t understand it.