I’m playing Remake for the first time now (haven’t beaten it yet but I’m enjoying it) and this isn’t really surprising. If I already have Firaga in Remake, they’d have to go to Firaja and then, like, Firaya and Firaña or whatever to allow players to keep progressing in any kind of a meaningful way (and that’s not even…

“Acceptable” is really a sliding scale, right? Because I agree that it’s bad that Pokemon S/V has as many bugs as it does and all the graphical issues. And even though I didn’t have the issues that some people had, that doesn’t mean that those people didn’t legitimately still have them. But to me, since I bought the…

I’ve said this practically since release, but IMO the Scarlet/Violet technical issues were extremely overblown. They were there, of course, and for a 2022 game for a flagship property you would definitely want something more graphically smooth and technically stable, but I never had anything near game-breaking. One…

You’re not wrong, but after the success of this I’m hoping for a Luigi’s Mansion movie.

It’s McDonald’s, man, nobody is going there aiming for a healthy meal. If someone wants soda, they generally aren’t under any delusions about its effect on their body and just want a treat. Some people overindulge, sure, but it’s not on McDonald’s to police that.

While there are certainly people getting free soda in water cups (or in their own cups or in cups they bought yesterday or whatever else), soda is so cheap for them that I can’t imagine this is the driver behind it. Those people aren’t going to now go in and buy a soda, they’ll just never go inside again. You’re…

“I can’t imagine drinking something that tastes good and then wanting more of something that tastes good.” Yes you can, don’t act like people enjoying sweet things is an unsolvable mystery.

I’m in a mixed household - my partner uses an iPhone and I use Android. So this news is very welcome for me, since it means we won’t need different chargers all over the house to take care of both of our phones. Plus, we each have a Switch (also charges with USB-C) and I have a Chromebook, so we already have plenty of…

I love that y’all published this on the same day that Apple announced that they’re finally ditching Lightning.

You’re more likely to be able to share dryers than washers. Maybe you wash your lights in one machine and your darks in another (or delicates in one and normals in another or whatever else), depending on how many you have total you might only need one dryer for them all.

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They work a lot better in Tour than they do in MK8D. In Tour, you get 2 or 3 different versions of the track and each of them has an R (reverse) and T (trick) version, but in MK8D they combined all the versions into one track that tries to hit all the high notes of all the different versions of the Tour tracks but, as…

I’m fine with that.

If I had to guess regarding hot dogs, I’d say that it’s just an efficiency thing - hot dogs require dedicated buns, where you can use hamburger buns for any number of similar-shaped sandwiches. So having the proper stock is going to be more difficult.

Absurd take - 99% of the time if you hand me a hot dog, I’ll eat it. They’re extremely versatile in terms of condiments and even cooking style and even a “bad” hot dog is still pretty decent IMO. Microwave me up a hot dog and put nothing but ketchup on it and I’ll still probably enjoy it. I honestly don’t understand…

That video is a delight to watch. Martinet has seemed like such a nice person in everything I’ve seen from him so it’s fun to see him speaking about his time as Mario like that. Definitely interested in seeing where his new role takes him (probably to the same places his old one took him except for the recording…

So it’s the opposite of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet - sandwiches are very useful but graphically ugly.

I assume his job will just be this - going to conventions and product launches and theme park openings, doing a couple of Mario lines, collecting a paycheck, and going home.

To be fair, most people don’t know Mario’s voice actor’s name either. We’re on Kotaku and we’re Mario nerds and a lot of us have been around since before Martinet started in 1996, but the average person, even the average person who’s playing Mario games, has NO idea who the guy behind the “it’sa me” is. They might…

Bryan Lee O’Malley did a graphic novel called Seconds in 2014 and he’s been writing a comic book called Snotgirl since 2016. He’s been making new things, but none of it has gotten as popular as Scott Pilgrim, so it’s hard to blame him when he keeps coming back to what makes money. Much of the cast of the movie (who…