“mrspotatoes,” as she calls herself on the chat app, noted that going in, her husband was worried that people would “hate it” and “disregard it as not ‘real art,’” perhaps even “perceive it as low effort” on the same level as an “asset flip.”

I also really like how the fact that all of them kids creates an interesting context for everything they do. Every supposedly cringe outburst, tantrum or edginess stops being cringe because I immediately remember that half these kids aren’t even 15 years old in practice. Alexandria, Valdi and Ashera are such…

Finishing up Hard West 2. It’s good - it’s a fairly simple game mechanically, the plot is simple and pulpy (which I honestly enjoyed, definitely in comparison to Weird West, which is so overwritten it comes off as a very bad Disco Elysium/Fallout cosplay). It’s very much a tactical game rather than a cRPG despite some…

HowLongToBeat is fairly accurate I’d say. My own personal stats don’t really count unless there’s an accurate in-game timer - my in-app clocks are completely fucked, because I often leave a game running in the background for the whole day as I go about my work, switch to a different platform or go do chores.

it doesn’t help that to play any of them you need to have to log in to Netflix each time. Into the Breach is great to have on iPad but I’d rather just buy it than have to scramble for a wi-fi connection on a train.

HBO Max is male skewing, appointment television, scripted, and home of “fandoms.” Discovery+ is female-skewing, unscripted, “lean back” comfort viewing, and home of “genredoms.” This despite more men watching Discovery+ than HBO Max and more women watch HBO Max than Discovery+.

Spiritlink Tactics isn’t out and only had an early demo like 3 months ago on itch, not much to report on that front. This project is a small thing in comparison, sold for like 3 bucks a pop that will very likely release before the year ends.

I refuse to believe this is worse than BvS, Justice League and WW1984.

Ari Notis is the Sam Barsanti of Kotaku.

As a Pole who hates the government with a passion, it still feels deeply disingenous to put us in the same bracket as India, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines.

Boxing lends itself better to climactic fights because a typical match takes some time. MMA fights don’t last long by default and often can end in seconds, so you can’t really structure your final act around it without it seeming super ridiculous.

I don’t necessarily disagree - the quality of the writing and content has dropped massively under Patricia’s reign, not helped by the fact that folks like Parrish, Harper and Renata are gone - but I really wish this post had at least some links.

Greg Land. It was really apparent that the dude just can’t draw for shit because he used a very limited amount of poses. It really hurt the actual content of the comics because everything was static as hell.

I just wanted to pitch in that I recommend that podcast and season. It’s a bonkers story.

I don’t think the “incomparable talent” was much about putting down Zendaya, just the fact that media writers and fans have a much easier time taking people of color and boxing them in within one category, and the category is usually “the only other big time PoC we can remember”.

“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation” is the quote from Girls.

There’s been murmurs about him being homophobic, resisting the COVID vaccine and that he browbeat NBA to restart their relationship with China, but that’s small potatoes in the celebrity world.

I did and I liked it, but I generally come to Refn for the pretty pictures and I sat down with the expectation that I’ll get something very pretentious, very slow and very pretty - it’s exactly that. It’s very much style over substance, perhaps the most out of any of his works - it’s in the vein of Only God Forgives’…

I am very glad of the strides 7 Remake took to remind people that a) Cloud wasn’t an emo sadboy, he was a cocky jerk who thinks he’s too cool for school and b) Aerith wasn’t a virginal damsel but an extremely proactive, flirty gadfly. The Wall Market segment, Aerith slipping out a “shit” as she’s dragging Cloud along…

Is he an abuser?