I believe that Kotaku can and should write about “nerd” culture, and that includes really cool movies. 

People get too hung up on this shit. Like especially considering we already know there’s a bunch of multiverse shit with the end of this game, literally none of the deaths matter. I have a 75% expectation that if this game survives long enough to get a proper ending after the live service shit, it will go the…

Meanwhile when I was 10 I was a Sega fanboy when I found out the Dreamcast was going to be their last console. I just shrugged my shoulders and asked for a PS2 that following Christmas.

Nah, fandom is a neutral thing. All it means is that you like something.

“I was wrong all of this time, Xbox doesn’t care about us, Microsoft doesn’t care about us. We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

What console warriors don’t understand, is that companies are not their friends, and couldn’t care less about them, except their money. So as a business, this is the right move. Console warriors were pretty sure that the move to buy Activision/Blizzard was to asure them a good stream of games, and not to secure assets…

So everybody wins, except the console warriors.

Xbox purists may have a point about Xbox games being on other platforms. But if PS5 is outselling Series X/S by as much as recent reports suggest, the revenue stream may be too big to ignore.

They’re movies, you fucking weirdo. 

This whole situation with this game and people’s reactions to it has been super embarrassing to watch. So many bad actors all around. You have people on one side deciding that ownership of this game is the only indicator of one’s moral compass, while the other side is doing crap like trying to sic Nintendo’s legal…

Idk man, i too am quite done with survival games after spending a couple hundred hours in some of them, but the fact that you can outsource most of your resource gathering to your pokemon here makes it a lot more fun.

Texas was Mexico less than 200 years ago. Tejano/Tex-Mex grew out of the traditions of the people living in the region and the ranching industry that started dominating the area before and after the Texas Revolution and U.S. annexation.

Jesus 7 seasons?  I swear it doesn’t feel like Bates Motel ended all that long ago.

That’s kind of what I’m getting at in my comment above. The vibe I get from friends who love Elden Ring is that the frustration is very much part of the appeal because of how it increases their satisfaction when they finally do beat it. And that’s totally valid, it’s just not something I’m personally interested in…

I enjoyed this. A good reminder that despite all the objective-seeming criticism around games, we like what we like. (I also agreed with a lot of it, since I play a lot of games but struggle to maintain interest with the AAA stuff.)

As I said in that comment thread, I don’t enjoy frustration-porn games (like Elden Ring) because life comes with enough frustration and I don’t feel like seeking out a crushing level of it in a game.

On one hand, I’m guessing they’re just talking about the game, not life.

On the other hand, you have made me realize just how much life is like a souls game; endless challenges made arbitrarily hard for the benefit of the few, and the only advice anybody ever gives you is “get gud” and expect to fail for most of it.

Made an account after 10 years of following this site just to comment this:

I can’t wait for us to get past this whole point. It isn’t going anywhere and won’t be regulated away. I still remember how up in arms everyone one was about how digital art was going to ruin the entire industry. A decade or two from now & an article like this will seem even sillier than it currently does. Adapt or…

I would argue France’s innovations regarding croissants changed whatever Austrian cookie they’re based on significantly enough to create a new food, and therefore, croissants are French.