Unless you’re Japanese, in which case all cartoons are “anime.”

As an American sports fan, a big part of my interest in the various sports comes from the draft. The idea that bad or unlucky teams can over the time, if run right, build up into a better team. I know in terms of worker rights it’s not exactly the best solution, but sports are kind of unique beasts in general.

Really don’t care that it’s broken for top level players, given the fact that the entire system is terrible for 95% of normal players. I’m surprised an entire article about matchmaking could be made without going into why it is terrible for the average player. I mean, go read Japanese Amazon reviews. If you’re a low…

Honestly, I think Grand Theft Auto V might be my favorite GTA soundtrack. Every station is stacked. Second is probably GTA:SA which has a New Jack Swing station, but weak rock stations.

Phew, with that title I was scared for a minute there he did something terrible.

No, my favorite horror games were not first person, in fact I’ve not played any that are particular good. What I think is the perfect horror game is Resident Evil GameCube, which manages to use camera angles to create tension to a masterful level. The mixture of camerawork, atmosphere, music, and the setpieces…

The Sims 1 had a pet expansion in Unleashed, too.

As directed by Naoko Yamada, director of the K-ON! anime, and with her hand and skill in plenty of other things. One of the greatest directors working in the industry now, someone who really gets and understands filmmaking, a true auteur. It disappoints me she doesn’t even get a mention in this article. A woman who…

No, it sucks. Especially if you can only play during limited windows. During a lot of the 24 hour Windows, if you can only play during certain times, you’re only getting one night in. It’ll be gone tomorrow. And that means anytime it does come up, if you were planning on playing another game, now you have to go play…

It’s two different terms that use the same word. If English is your first language, think of how sniping is used in general. About “sniping” an eBay auction and other things. Calling it stream sniping was just a natural occurrence given how we use the word.

Damn, Skinny Puppy referenced on Jezebel. Last Rights is better anyway. RIP Dwayne Goettel.

As much as it pains me to say, since Marina represents a minority, I think she’s being really echo chambered. The game isn’t even in peoples hands yet. With Splatoon 1, Splatfests always came down to what people preferred. There were some just about as lopsided as this, too. In the end, people tend to choose by the…

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That’s not true. It’s not that each game is a re-imagining of prior games, it’s that each game is its own separate thing. They reference other games, and some are meant to be hinted at as coming before or after others, but trying to tie them all into some big timeline is silly. They contradict eachother all the time,…

Did you not grow up on Instant Messaging programs and things like that? With how common it was to change your fonts on programs like that, there definitely wasn’t really an association with people changing their font being different. Everyone just kind of had their own font and colors.

A lot of Western Pokemon fans will know it as this song from Pokemon Pinball. Probably still the best theme in the Pokemon anime, Hip Tanaka is awesome! It’s kind of sad he doesn’t get to do Nintendo music anymore, but at least he puts out a great opening theme for Pokemon every so often.

Look, BC isn’t easy, but Sony didn’t even put the PS1 emulator into the PS4. You know, their emulator that has been used across the PSP, PS3 and Vita. And someone needs to care about perservering games, and it would be nice if it happens to be the people who have the most control over the assets, not leaving it in the…

I’m surprised that with as progressive as Kotaku tends to be that the W word gets thrown about so nonchalantly, but I guess it is etched into Western fandom. Yeah yeah, I know, some dude on Twitter argued that it was OK, that doesn’t really change the fact that it’s pretty offensive to a lot of Japanese people. 

I don’t care what someone does for their own private collection. A few making it out in the wild that are restored this way aren’t a big deal. If you own something, do whatever the hell you want with it.

Life Is Strange is the best example of Western Moe I can think of. Max and Chloe were both designed basically 100% to appeal to a certain demographic of dude, and it is basically constantly namedropping things that appeal to that group.