I didn’t have much time to watch last week’s Summer Games Done Quick, but I did carve out a chunk of yesterday for the finale, which featured speedrunner Puwexil playing through a full glitchless run of Final Fantasy VI. I’m glad I did.

It’s not beating a dead horse, it’s investigative journalism. When more details of something arise, or you learn of another incident involving a potentially horribly defective product, you write and you inform so that more of the public becomes aware. 

Copying this in a reply to myself because I fully expect the troll to dismiss the attached reply—and I’m kind of tired of repeating myself:

Here’s the sophist who likely failed my Rhet/Comp 101 course this past term. I knew he’d turn up eventually!

The problems with this argument are manifold, but I’m going to lay out a few of them for you in the vain hope that you might recognize the absolutely profound nature of the failure of logic you’ve vomited onto…

Might say it’s burning with cultural import.

Ran eight miles this morning. Physical activity has little to do with my distaste for this specific game, or the myriad issues attached to it.

But, hey, maybe read a book or something.  ;)

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I’m almost at a loss for words here.

Almost.

The idea that women are some kind of mystical creature that require knowledge of the Stygian abyss to understand is a myth that has been perpetuated by men of all types, in all groups, since time immemorial.

A particular subset of gamers, however, have found a way to…

Social skills and interactions: Now a business - Never change Japan.

“It’s not gambling; we provide the pack odds so you know what might pop up in a pack...” 

“We’re hearing it. We’re looking at a lot of the possibilities. You can imagine that the circumstances around that affect a lot more than just one game. I’m confident we’ll get to a solution which will be understood and accepted by our gaming community, while at the same time supporting our business.”

Why would anyone ever read the entire article, when a piping-hot take is clearly burning the flesh of their hands?!

Cosplay has really *good* photos. That’s where you get all the juicy, moist clickbait. Esports on the other side... meh.

To each their own, of course, but I remember Kotaku articles being shared to Deadspin usually had something of interest to the Deadspin crowd, and didn’t seem ‘forced’. Maybe we’ll just go back to that now. 

I think the big difference is Luke Plunkett does regular Kotaku stuff in addition to Cosplay while Compete had dedicated writers.

Guessing this is part of the larger cuts from Univision and not because of a lack of commitment to covering eSports - https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-medias-turmoil-continues-40-staffers-take-buyouts

I think a lot of folks judging here aren’t looking at the younger generations that are coming up. Many of which don’t invest into desktops or consoles like older gen-x/y’ers did/do.

It was a bittersweet moment when my Nexus 6 got it’s last security update. 

That’s who I want running a gaming company, the people that brought us Google Plus and Orkut.

This is precisely why I don’t work on fighter games. They already take insane amounts of work and balancing even if it was just for single player. To the point where it can be literally exponentially more work for each character you add depending on the complexity of the game and its subsystems. Put in a series that…

I just want a real story mode :(