In the last 15 years Kotaku was my go-to site. I come less and less, which is still around 1 time per day. I’m annoyed I’ve been click baited, this isn’t even a metroidvania. And Dread is an incredible game...

There’s a way to post about this game that you personally love without resorting to a ridiculous clickbait title intended to garner reaction.

Yeah no offense intended to this game or the devs, but really the only reason you’d think this is better than Dread is if the story speaks to you on a personal level, which it’s probably not going to for most people.  I’m glad trans people are being represented and that media like this exists for them.  It just does…

I appreciate this as a good bit of writing. But with respect:

I consider myself an LGBTQ ally whenever I can be and I suffer from a serious chronic illness that I have to take rough medications for but...even I think this is a little much. It seems kinda desperate to passively insult Matroid Dread for no reason, for one thing. And while I’m thrilled that we’re seeing more trans…

I’d agree in most instances, but I’d challenge you or anyone to manage to only spend $150 on food for an entire year. Heck, you’re likely going to spend more than that growing your own. You could maybe pull it off on nothing but beans and rice and potatoes, but at that point your diet isn’t significantly better than…

“when the average person in the US works 50-60 hours a week” - lol wut

he spent $.50 on each meal, I don’t think its possible to spend less per meal, especially if you account for calorie count. Is it health? hell no. but short of getting food assistance (he probably didn’t qualify for), he got probably the most for the least, plus roller coasters. And really, if you want to get on your…

On the other hand, if the weapons specialist had been forced to work four 16-hour days in a row or whatever, and the error came about due to total exhaustion, it’d be exactly the kind of thing that they’re justifiably complaining about.  Definitely need to know more about how this happened, but it’s entirely possible.

I’m sorry, I don’t eat fast food. Besides, there’s nothing special about Taco Bell sauce. KFC’s honey mustard sucks. I’m not in college. If this bothers you, good. Leave. I’d like to speak to the grown-ups here.

All the fanciest dijon ketchups, as Barenaked Ladies would say.

He is an everyman clearly! Look how he likes his everyman condiments, such as dry aged truffle buttermilk saffron ‘ranch’!

Whenever someone calls me a snob, I don’t get it. I mean, I like ranch! But not that shitty ranch you eat. Fancy ranch that is actually good.

We had hoped it maybe wouldn’t be the case, but we all knew they would HAVE to do that, because the book is super short and barely has any real scenes of human interactions. There aren’t any real characters in there, and things just magically happen like you were reading a grade school history book: “and then Thomas…

I get what you’re saying here, but to me, that sounds less like ‘SBMM is bad’ than it does ‘those specific challenges are designed poorly’. If they weren’t designed with their game’s skill based matchmaking in mind - and taking into account how that would effect players’ K/Ds and whatnot - that’s a problem with the…

Hate to break it to you, but most long-term goals in games like the one you described are specifically designed to require you to play the game in a way that is the opposite of how it’s meant to be played (hence making it artificially more difficult). You're not supposed to use every weapon like this, hence why it's a…

Yep. The whole concept of “I don’t want to fight against someone my level because it takes more effort so SBMM is bad.” is the dumbest most self-serving argument these people make. Like I give a shit. I’m not great. I used to play competitive games a lot more and these days I don’t, I’m old and rusty and the last…

To me this sounds like a lot of streamers are mad that they will have to find a normal job.

If matchmaking is doing it’s job, 50% is what you should expect, I would think. 

I understand that steps are being made here but unless something has changed very recently I don’t understand how anyone would consider a system that places full, organized teams against a group of randos ‘fair’ by any stretch at all.