Having grown up in Germany during the 80s and 90s, Nazi ideology was (and still is) fairly universally despised, as are the nutcases that adhere to it in any form; this shunning is fairly extreme - any form of expression or action that is remotely pro-nazi, or even mentions Nazis in a non-explicitly critical context…

That’s the same issue as with clothes though, really - when everything is a hollow shape made up of 2D planes, it’s very hard to make things touch realistically: things tend to either impact each other like rocks, or intersect and clip through each other. Deforming on contact the way they would in the real world is…

This is where we got putting all our eggs in the polygon-basket - it certainly worked to create seemingly realistic imagery, but the nature of the technology means everything is made up of 2D planes, and is thus completely hollow. It made a great shortcut for pretty graphics, but now the repercussions of it being…

Surprisingly, I actually like Earthbound enough not to shoot it into space.

He may or may not be a cool guy (This is honestly the first I’ve heard of him), but if you suck at rapping (going by TaichouLance’s comment) and you suck at Fortnite, and have still managed to use one of those skills to make millions of dollars, I feel that “People pay me millions despite sucking, while with all your…

It’s to distract folks from all the people that are also melting from the intense heat.

It also eats one kitten/puppy/baby for each Golden Egg it lays, but once they realized it didn’t need to be THEIR kitten/puppy/baby, they were oddly ok with that.

It doesn’t destroy the industry, but it does destroy any semblance of balance in the game; same as with f2p mobile games that let sell unlimited power for cash. The difference is that most people who don’t like that idea know to stay away, whereas GTA Online was initially just a standard multiplayer component of a…

Hopefully they’ll just start making more AA games - I feel like the big $100 million+ AAA games have become a blight on the industry, resulting in publishers churning out a steady stream of same-ish, generic, inoffensive tech-demos designed solely around the ideal of appealing to the lowest common denominator.

I think the question of how to make a live service game out of the Dragon Age franchise is fundamentally flawed: the series was meant to be a modern take on traditional CRPGs, and every step they’ve taken away from that original objective has only resulted in a lesser product.

They’re not unstable, homicidal maniacs, they’re just a little... Cranky. Just because that night elf was dying after failing to protect her loved ones, doesn’t mean she had to take that tone - they was just uncalled for, and everything that happened is totally on her... and I’m not just saying that because 2/3 of my…

It’s not amazing in the sense that she’s a super-genius for having put it together, but the reality that there is a “game” for sale on Steam made by a 7 year old is pretty amazing in and of itself. I mean, it's only a few steps from the classic "Hello World", and still somehow was successfully commercialized.

I honestly don't know what to say, except WELCOME BACK! Kotaku is finally whole again!

When life gives them lemons, some people make lemonade.

Oh, definitely, and they are probably far more numerous than people like me - I don’t really expect the “Buys Nintendo Console solely for Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei” crowd to be all that big. 

In the grand scheme of things, very possibly. Maybe Nintendo is gambling on there being a lot of people like me, who are waiting for the Fire Emblem/SMT combo to justify a Switch purchase. I couldn’t care less about Zelda or Mario, but those two will get me to buy their console, even if they’re the only games of…

I tend to think of humanity as a whole as stupid, impulsive and violent. Not like, ALL of humanity, just 99% or so (Ghandi seemed pretty smart, peaceful and in-control). Anyone pointing fingers at others, like this especially fine example of inbreeding and ignorance, just happens to be that extra-special brand of…

I was going to say, as someone who has somewhat frequently heard most of the phrases on this list, along with a litanny of others, generally the person spouting them is trying to intimidate by posturing, either because they aren’t confident in their chances, or they are but don’t really want to end the night with a…

I’m guessing this is sarcasm, but jic, what dark gods did you sacrifice shelter-full’s of kittens and puppies to to get those kinds of speeds?