Cards Against Humanity is worthwhile if for no other reason than the fact that it inspired a Shakespeare-themed spin-off called Bards Dispense Profanity, a version in which every white card contains a gloriously out-of-context Shakespeare quote. (Many of which are from Timon of Athens, the titular character of…

Part of the reason I read Kotaku instead of any other gaming blog is because you all talk about these things.

Sorry, Bunnelby. You have been displaced from your throne as the Best Pokemans.

I think it’s better to look at the kids’ drawings as early concept art, and their dad’s pieces as the finished product. The ideas are there, and they’re good ideas, but the guy who specializes in art makes the art. It’s a collaborative partnership.

I like Heather’s reviews because they’re usually for games I won’t play, but they’re interesting and nuanced enough that I can still have a conversation about said games and understand how they fit into the larger gaming culture.

I wonder if it would have been possible for them to hire a MORE bored-sound narrator?

But where is my Switch redesign?

If they just took, oh, $15 million out of Kotick’s salary, think of how many employees they could pay while STILL leaving Kotick with more money than sense.

Cultural appropriation is very tricky, and it walks a fine line. Cultures adapt and evolve by appropriating concepts from one another, so I think there needs to be a distinction between hurtful appropriations and the cultural blurring that occurs with increased globalization. In this particular case, I really don’t…

I’ll just be over here with my consoles watching this unfold...

I hate playing platformers, but I love this game. The VR perspective makes it possible for me to judge jumps much more accurately, and the joyful music and adorable design makes me much more likely to stick with a level for multiple tries rather than throwing up my hands in disgust and ragequitting the game forever.

I’ve played all of the games other than Dream Drop Distance and Fragmentary Passage, so it honestly seems silly for me to not finish those two before launching into KH III, but I am so glad about this refresher. I just finished watching the remastered 358/2 Days cinematics to jog my memory about that game, and I’m…

I’d watch a DDR/Tetris tournament.

Shin Megami Tensei: Dx2 is also a surprisingly solid mobile JRPG with a fairly interesting story (and voice-acting!). I’ve been playing it since day one, and I haven’t had to drop any money on it to keep progressing. I think I’d have to if I wanted to break into the upper echelons of the PVP or complete some of the…

The culture of conventions needs to shift. I admittedly have not been to an anime convention in quite some time, but I used to attend them in high school and college. As a 14 and 15 year-old girl, I was hit on by many older men, and being a 14 and 15 year-old girl, I lacked any sort of responsible judgement. I put…

One of my favorite memories of my boyfriend is on our first date, we were sitting on a small couch, playing You Don’t Know Jack, and between questions, he turned kind of sideways to look at me and said very nervously, “Can I put my arm around you?” “YES,” I said, and we sort of smooshed together immediately. We both…

I’m glad DDR seems alive and somewhat well in Japan. There are fewer and fewer DDR machines in the wild here in the Pacific northwest.

As far as I am concerned, Pottermore’s weird extra tidbits (and, by extension, the Fantastic Beasts movies) are the Phantom Menace of the Wizarding World.

YAS, AMPLITUDE!!

My partner and I both ended up getting gifts for each other that were suggested by Kotaku, as it turns out.