I agree. His cosplay is good — but it still feels like cosplay, yanno? It’s like if they made a live action Trigun, cast Tom Cruise as Vash, and put him in a really wicked red trenchcoat. All I would be able to see is “Tom Cruise in Vash the Stampede Cosplay.” Might work better in motion. Will have to wait and see.

I’m not *super* sold on Faye, and I have trouble seeing anything other than “John Cho in cosplay” for Spike, unfortunately. Really like Jet though! I guess as long as they get the characterizations for each of them right with the writing, I’ll be on board.

Fuck Curt Schilling though.

Listen, every freedom-loving, red-blooded American knows that if you’re a Socialist, you have to live in a carboard box, dress in rags, and eat exclusively cans of pork and beans and goulash. That way everyone can point at you and say Socialism doesn’t work, and feel proud about the $2000/month studio apartment with…

Good point. I would argue that my point stands though, simply because the Bioware fanbase was already a toxic cesspool before Mass Effect 3 rolled around — the death threats and other horrific stuff directed at Jennifer Hepler was in response to Dragon Age 2 and I guess Mass Effect 2 (???) from what I’ve read. CDPR…

Cyberpunk 2077 is a game folks love to hate. I don’t know if CD Projekt Red can say anything these days that won’t result in even greater pushback from those who feel cheated by the dismal state in which it was released last year.

Epic just keeps exuding layer upon layer of slime with everything they do. With one hand, steal shit, put a Fornite skin on it, and just dare someone to sue a billion dollar mega-corporation over it. With another hand, sue other companies to try to get yourself more money to roll in while claiming you’re doing it for…

If only the courts took insurrections as seriously as they take unauthorized Super Mario World roms, eh?

Can’t beat his lap times if he doesn’t tell you what they are. That’s kind of the point. Keeping your cards close to your vest while everyone else is laying them on the table, and has *always* laid them on the table, is kinda shitty, and just kinda ruins the game for everyone else.

It seems like it’s the rest of the community that’s making this about “negativity.”

When you have a community that is literally only a handful of people, and that is built on open competition at the highest level, there’s sort of a fellowship and camaraderie to it. You have some trust in people to be upfront and forthright about competing, and doing something this underhanded, not once, but 17 times,…

I’m very much Team Give Voice Acting Roles To Voice Actors, but Idris Elba is a good actor, and he has a nice voice, so still pretty okay with this news.

I concur with what most everyone else said. For me, it’s been a very zen experience, and a great way to escape from the stress of real life. There’s something really fantastic about going from planet to planet, rolling the galactic dice to see what awaits you there. Sometimes you’ll find nothing, but sometimes you’ll…

Herp derp Kotaku said a cuss my blood pressure has skyrocketed won’t somebody think of the cynical cashgrab freemium, microtransaction-laden bullshit addiction-exploiting mobile game’s hurt feelings? How dare you be mean to a game Kotaku that’s not what video game culture is about gamers never say negative things…

I get the cynicism. Been noticing this sort of trend in commercials as well lately. I guess it’s nice that Papa Capitalism still sees some worth in us, or at least some money in our wallets, but it does feel a bit disingenuous. The memberberries are here to stay, for the time being.

From experience: It’s a lot shorter.

You can argue that 4k is still not a necessity at this point, but you cannot argue that 720p or lower with unstable framerates below 30 fps are okay. That’s just garbage. Nintendo doesn’t produce high fidelity games because the hardware it pushes can’t handle it. Hollow Knight isn’t a graphical powerhouse, and yet it…

Yikes.

And of course, not content to let Link have the spotlight, Revali has to make a cameo in the video.

Twitch fosters parasocial relationships between streamer and viewer. The viewer thinks of the streamer as their friend, and through interactions, donations, etc., they try to ingratiate themselves to the streamer. Viewers support the streamer and want to see them succeed, and watching them gamble is the same sort of…