Once you hear the explanation you’ll be ashamed of your words and deeds.

As someone who will gladly watch Death Stranding games, but has no interest in playing them: that’s some absolutely wicked and brilliant art design, and Hideo’s art teams never fail to deliver. What a way to set the mood. I love it.

“And if someone wants to point out how heavy semis are and therefore the exponential damage they cause should mean no big deal about the EVs’ weight”

As I’ve harped on before, the sheer weight of all these goddamn heavy EVs is going to crunch asphalt and buckle bridges at a rate that’ll make you curse the damage they’ll do. The magic formula:

It’s the same. This is a big fucking nothing article because people are so afraid of Amazon, and being a successful company is “bad”.

Does anyone subscribe to Prime primarily for the streaming?  This isn’t even a consideration for me. 

Looks like today is going to be a pivotal moment in your life. The moment you realize that you’re actually sort of dumb.  Fortunately, intelligence isn’t the only attribute that makes a person valuable! You could be extraordinarily kind or patient! There’s still hope! But you’ll never be especially intellligent.

I’d say the sarcastic tone was pretty obvious. 

She broke through because she looks good and people simp hard for Internet girls. Not because she was a good gamer or did anything special. It's solely because she's pretty

I think the answer is SIMPle.

This Kotaku simping for Pokimane needs to fucking stop

But what does Amouranth think about all this?!

A large majority of the most popular streamers are the ones that got in on a particular platform early.  Very few are unique or highly talented, and it’s extremely difficult to break through on a mature platform.

She’s pretty and seems attainable for teenage boys (at least early on).  But yeah, not sure how she made herself stand out so much from all the other pretty girl streamers.

She deserves no credit. She got lucky. 

To be fair, MatPat has made a career out of plastering his smug, extra-punchable face in every video. So ignoring him seems like the best kind of way to honor his retirement.

Honest reaction: k byeeee girl

This person is the poster child of all the inherently uninteresting, banal ‘influencers’ that somehow became mystifyingly famous in the past 10+ years. I’ve heard her talk, watched a stream- and to this day her appeal still escapes me.

Oh I know why. It's just silly either way. Feeds into a disease our culture is suffering 

Theory channel and Youtube Grandpa MatPat announces that he is stepping down from hosting his numerous theory channels(which started with GAMEtheory) and crickets from this site