Paying for digital content instead of buying physical media. DVD's, books, video games, music, etc. - it made me furious that there was (and still is, largely) no savings to be had even though you're merely buying a pretty restrictive license to access content and you're already bearing most of the costs of delivery…

Cool, thanks for hyping it to death for the last few months only to bait and switch once we’ve all preordered it. You’re doing the Lord’s work.

Agreed 100%!

I hated Demon’s Souls so much that in a moment of rage I ripped it out of my PS3 and snapped the disc into the pieces while screaming. I’ve never played a game so truly contemptuous of the player’s time and efforts. It’s like a bullet hell game but done as “RPG Hell.” I still think that game is hateful garbage. But…

Fear Elderly.

I do think that "Hearts in Atlantis" is criminally overlooked in that way. It's a killer book.

I love the small town part. It's after Jake leaves to just go spend 200 pages staking out the Oswalds that the entire thing slams on the brakes and nothing remotely interesting happens for a terribly long time.

Stephen King's "11/22/63." First read, I thought it was his best book in decades, a sort of nostalgic return to some of his earlier themes and locations, and a great time travel book. I just re-read it, and it's a MESS, especially the latter half where everything grinds to a halt for hundreds of pages before suddenly…

We rushed past these aesthetics and modes of play in a misguided arms race toward "the future." It's only now that we're going back and realizing that there's an entire grammar and toolkit of play and representation that we rushed past inappropriately.

I love getting the episodes one at a time - with the "Veronica Mars" vibe of the game, it's like keeping up with a TV drama from episode to episode. The cliffhangers are actual cliffhangers!

Where's the conspicuously absent Kotaku review of this game!?

That this generation launched without SSD support is going to look as abusrd by the end of this life cycle as it did when the PS2 didn't have native online support by the end of its lifecycle.

The "Souls" games are fucking terrible for this reason. They have so much potential and then waste it all by ratcheting up the difficulty to a comical level that should only appeal to people like high schoolers who have infinite time to invest in learning the exact patterns and twitch reactions. Fuck that series so…

It's pretty obvious that she has Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a frequently insurmountable thing, and BPD people will destroy everything in your life as you try to help them. It's awful - it's almost the equivalent of a terminal (mental) illness.

There's a name for that first situation - Borderline Personality Disorder. It's way more complicated than just "This woman is being awful," it's a completely insidious problem that will completely destroy everything in your life. Don't just run, RUN. It's awful and sad but the rates of people with BPD getting…

I'd love to see a coherent reboot for Marvel. I was a nonstop reader from '85 until around 2010 and everything had just gotten so incoherent and terrible that even I jumped ship entirely. It all felt like second-rate fanfic and no characters felt like themselves at all, esp. in the X-books.

RDRam is my Khan.

This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Professional Networks are everything. I hate networking, happy hours, industry events, etc. and don't have much of a network even though I have a truly great resume for my field and desired jobs. When I was last laid off, I was completely fucked for over a year searching for an equivalent job because I had nobody to…

I love where they're going with it so far. Many things need a lot of work before this gets released - it looks like a last-gen game right now, the audio mixing is super weird and much of the VO sounded rushed and "placeholder." The camera is the toughest enemy in the game so far. On the other hand, it FEELS great,…