Love the casting and trust HBO in general to put a lot of polish into their projects, so I’m expecting this to be very well done over the long run, which is great for both fans and people unfamiliar with the IP.

Alessandro Juliani is a good pick for Mr. Black. I’m getting that with shades of Ricardo Montalban.

Good talk, chief.

I mean, it’s a quick para at the very end of the article that comes off as a necessary caveat to nuke comments like OP’s. Personally I don’t really have that much invested in Kotaku’s content strat but getting your ragebait articles while getting your boob clicks seems like having your cake and eating it too.

All the discussion around AI Art is really fascinating. The argument quickly comes up around sourcing data (i.e. art) for the AI and it’s a very sensible argument—if artists are producing the inputs for the AI, they should have credit in the output. What’s fascinating to me is that there is very little heated conversat…

Sounds like Musk is turning Twitter into OnlyFans, except without telling the content creators and keeping all the money for himself. Big brain time, indeed.

Has it really been two years Cyberpunk came out? I can’t believe how time seems to have just slipped by...

Soon enough we’ll have to buy a license to look at certain colors.

I love ITMOM. I’m surprised it hasn’t had a resurgence of some sort, it’s such a delightful mix of atmosphere, cosmic horror, humor, and 90s cheese.

Maybe I’m just getting old and soft, but my mind went to all the devs and team members who actually probably worked very hard on this game and were likely to some degree mismanaged. Hopefully they work on enough not to have this kind of thing affect them too much, but I’m sure it can’t be great for morale.

Kevin Conroy looking like a 5-Star Man in that header image!

In my day, you had to insert a damn floppy disk! And then you’d listen to it snicker inside the drive and pray to the PC gods something wouldn’t go awry to eat your data.

It’d be wild if there was a mythological origin for the mimic chest. I’m sure someone can dig up some “this inanimate object is sentient and villainous” story but what would be really interesting if specifically the “object” is meant to contain treasure and the “villainous” form is creature-like/monstrous.

ACKTUALLY Mimic Chests go all the way back to 1974, coming from (surprise) Gary Gygax

Yeah, I’m not going nuts about spoilers or anything but like... didn’t the game release 9 hours ago, in the middle of the night for most? For a game that’s supposed to be 80-100 hours long with much more than that to do, you’d think outlets wouldn’t be rushing to talk about non-beginning content.

I gave up halfway through btw. Just really started to drag and I actually found some of the combat/healing system to be a little unforgiving. It’s a beautiful game but feels like with better plotting/pacing it could have been truly brilliant.

I’m just frustrated that every game had to come out at the end of February, when work for the year is beginning to heat up. Meanwhile, during the holiday break there seemed to be very little to play. With this Cyberpunk patch, Horizon, and Elden Ring, I will probably have to be very select with whatever I play and…

No, ‘bullshit’ is too many letters

I LOVE LOVE Jurassic Park but I still find the T-Rex sneaking in to chomp the raptors at the last second to be it’s only major issue. Within the film’s own rules, we know the T-Rex makes a lot of noise while walking and creates vibrations noticeable even in glasses of water.