Anecdote: Kotaku has been pretty much my go-to source for the last 8 years give or take. My Discord filled with guildmates and other online gaming friends have some kind of Rage-Boner for the site. Something I’m reminded of everytime I try and share an article of something cool and they freak out.

I legit avoid like...85% of anime the milisecond I see a Loli/little sister type because I’ve seen enough anime in my 30+ existence to know that they’re going to fanservice her up to shit. I don’t care if it ‘gets better.’ or is ‘Really good!’ I won’t even try.

Come on, Maddy, if your rosters are not full of people getting stuffed with cortisone and pills then bashing their heads in to devolve their brain development to that of an 80-year-old with Alzheimer’s at age 41, all while pizza sponsors take a stand over kneelers (heh) and a president demands the POC players lose…

He was also in the first season of Netflix’s Iron Fist, in a fight scene with Justin Timberlake..I mean Iron Fist..lol

Yes, Shadow of Mordor (and now Shadow of War also) is pretty underwhelming as an open world game. If I didn’t find the combat so addictive and the Nemesis system (truly the one great idea in that game) so compelling, I don’t think I would play them. I will say that the world in Shadow of War is truly nice-looking and…

Alpha Protocol is complete (although there are decision trees that make it seem less complete, you can choose to have your guy miss the plot). It mostly suffers from an extreme version of the morrowind problem, where it looks like an over the shoulder shooter, but is really a die roll based rpg, which makes it seem…

The only paid costumes here are Moira and Doomfist. Everyone else is attending as a fan, and those costumes were the result of weeks and sometimes months of passion, blood, sweat and tears.

This sucks in a way that’s hard to put into words. Halladay is someone I’d have driven to Cooperstown to see his induction. A personal hero from back when I still had those.

I love the Ref, it’s one of my must-sees every Christmas. The ending is ridiculous and sappy, but the rest of it is taut awesomeness.

B. If there really was a “labor shortage”, why fix it by forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies when you could just, like, allow workers to immigrate here?

It ends on a good note if you choose one of the endings. The other two endings are both thematically depressing as hell and gameplay-wise boring as hell.

If only you’d take it as seriously when a feminist woman is a creep or an abuser instead of gaslighting their victim and victim-blaming them.

I assume many gaters and pol types are trying to link Kotaku to this, to poison the well and drive people away from this site as well. It’s a very old conservative tactic, really.

Get that burnout-apologist horseshit out of here. I’ve developed games for a decade now. Burnouts and death marchs can be avoided with smart and honest planning.

I don’t actually think this will milk money out of much of anyone. As I mentioned in the article, the game straight up gifts you a bunch of those premiere boxes / orcs, to the degree that I started ignoring them. While the internet rages about the principle of a thing, in practice, the system is relatively generous…

I really hate hearing “Why does this movie need to exist?”. Why does any movie need to exist? Why did the first blade runner need to exist? What I really see when I hear that is “I liked the movie but I don’t want to because I liked the first one and don’t want my childhood memory changed at all”.

Fun fact, I just had a talk with one of EA’s lead engineers yesterday and I was surprised to learn that they have an engineer who earned their PhD studying how to simulate grass and leaves graphically with high fidelity. I’m sure she’ll be amused to see that someone took the time to really notice her work.