Battleship isn’t entirely luck based. The RNG aspect is just played up here because it affects speedruns.

Yep, VC is a goddamn nightmare. I have been playing siege since the original beta and I can count on one hand the amount of times I have voice chat turned on when playing with randoms. Fuck that shit. If im not playing with friends it’s perma muted.

Voice Chat with strangers is always horrible (even text chat with strangers can be to, though not as bad). But that still doesn’t mean texting is a viable alternative. Trying to text while playing the game is just as dangerous (in game) as texting while driving (real life).

the solution is to improve the quality of people democracy relies upon

People can be abusive with text chat too, nothing's perfect.

You could say that you just don’t care about this particular issue that others may have. That’s an option, and a perfectly sound one. When you preemptively dismiss any issue others may have with broad, nonsense strokes, that’s a different story.

You literally have no leg to stand on complaining about Tencent’s business practices if... you’re a gaming consumer? These kinds of nonsensical arguments don’t make you some kind of voice of reason, here. Making the fallacious insinuation that you must care about all similar issues to truly care about any one individua…

There are for sure degrees though. Nintendo uses Chinese manufacturing like everyone else but they aren’t a literal arm of an oppressive government.

“That said, it’s often hard to distinguish between legitimate concerns with Tencent and racist or anti-Communist sentiments among right-leaning players.”

No idea where you’re getting this from. Stadia has been handing out free premium memberships for a while because it probably ISN’T doing well. Who likes to eat 1TB of bandwidth in 24ish hours of game time?

You’re putting the onus on the victims, when it should be on the harassers.

Toxicity, especially racial, sexist, or homophobic taunting, should result in permabans. If companies were truly serious about growing their userbase, it should be company or platform-wide, not just for a particular game. Games need robust…

And thus forcing everyone to be a participant in a confrontation not of their own making.

When I first started playing Apex Legends, the ping system that made it so I didn’t have to use voice chat in order to communicate pertinent, relevant information felt downright revolutionary, because voice chat for the longest time has been the domain of every dipshit who thinks anonymity gives them the right to…

Agreed. And I think this post misses the point of the event entirely.

Well said.

And just to be crystal clear: My goal with this blog was more to express befuddlement that IMD, a significant annual event, wasn’t given the same due as previous events, like Earth Day or whatever the hell Bunny Day is. The last thing I’d ever want to do is try to convince you not to stop liking something…

It really saddens me that everything in this game is being analyzed through some sort of min/maxing lens. It’s not just Kotaku. Unless a seasonal event or new bug type brings with it a new get rich scheme, it gets bashed as a waste of time. In an entire game about slowing down and appreciating the changes that come…

which is Russia, China, Syria, and Iran successfully invading the rest of the world.

It’s funny that persona has a ton a references to the bible, most of the angels are in there along with abriged descriptions of their origins, stories and roles, so it’s more than a little sad that they see this not as a cool way to familiarize people with your beliefs, and instead assume it’s some sort of attack or…

I wish they’d bring back puzzles and tombs. 

Ill be honest, I put a handful of hours into the last two and really didnt like them. The emphasis on combat as opposed to sneaky stealth kills was not my thing, and the RPG elements made it feel very grindy and frankly, a way for them to sell xp boosts. I can see being into them meeting somewhere in the middle of the…