They got them at Hardhome Depot, of course.

I actually didn’t know about this meme before I saw the Sonic the Hedgehog twitter account’s tweet yesterday.  Still didn’t stop me from cracking up at it though.

Yeah, I’m going to make my call, and say that this is where the post-book section of the show came into its own, for better and for worse. Better, because in isolation, it’s a masterfully-edited and choreographed scene with a shockingly brutal payoff even by this show’s standards.

Cersei knew her and saw her for everything she was, including the biggest competition; she’s also the character that was the only one who’s death was actually unfortunate.

An amazing sequence that still makes me sad because it killed the character most worthy of actually sitting on the Iron Throne — Margaery. Just the idea that she was the only one there who could see what was happening, trapped by the idiocy of everyone around her. She combined concern for other people with political…

I mean, I can see the side of a barn, so I see that.

False and hateful news is a problem. But there is a lot of very excellent news out there, hiding in plain sight. When people complain about how awful the media is, there’s truth to that, but it’s also a dangerous overstatement, and it makes me want to shake those people and say, well stop flipping watching cable news…

Nostalgia. The painful truth that we tend to only appreciate things in memory, after they’re lost. In the moment, we’re in the moment, using our brains to process next and new, and it is only when the moment is dead - when there is no more next and no more new - that we look back and pine for that old feeling.

Just don’t play it. It sounds weird, but it works. How do I know?

As interesting as the wireless world is, I have to think it doesnt QUITE compare to going from horse and buggy to men on the moon. The pre-war and post-war worlds were almost incomprehensibly different.

This is probably too much of a hot take for the internet, but I think that Stephen Colbert is an upstanding gentleman.

“Man Releases [Gaming Related] Video [That Features New Info & Cool Stuff About A Popular And Beloved Game] on Youtube [& Kotaku Writer Create A Short Post Sharing Some Of This New Info With Folks Who Might Be At Work/School And Can’t Watch It Now OR Who Didn’t Know About This Video And Now Get To Watch It]”

The switch is in every way an order of magnitude less capable of VR than Google Cardboard

Set it up on a mini tripod and laser burn Mario Tennis into my retinas like the good old days!

As the author points out, pretty much all the games she criticizes are games she plays a lot and enjoys. You say you want to read more positivity, and plenty of that can be found here on this site. But what sets Kotaku apart (and really gives any site its own identity) is going to be the way in which its writers are…

It didn’t ruin other games for me but it definitely put into perspective what I enjoy from other games, and I’ve become more selective and critical. But I end up picking games that I thoroughly enjoy from start to finish instead of popcorn games that I enjoy for a burst and then grow bored of quickly. Bloodborne is a…

YES. This is what makes me so fucking angry. For every shitty abusive man whose art we fall over ourselves to uplift, there are countless women who are completely silenced. Now we’ll never get to hear what those women could have created, and I completely mourn the loss of those voices and talents in the world. Fuck…

Leaving aside the fact that one of the people he targeted was fucking 14, lines like:

“She never played another gig.”

AND (from a different person)

“We should respect the privacy of a 40-year-old man having phone sex with a 14-year-old girl” is certainly an interesting take!