Lol, I’m the opposite! My lvl 61 druid has seen him once, and that just so happened to be when I had popped a Tier 20 Nightmare sigil where everything, including the Butcher, was over level 70. I need that cleaver!

Main story spoilers ahead, but:

For a site that runs on free labor, removing said free labor sounds... stupid?

You must be pretty new around here to not know that Kotaku—hell, many of the Gizmodo-family sites—are very outspoken against their management. The herb destroyed Deadspin because he didn’t like being made fun of. The other sites did not--and still don’t--take kindly to that.

Yeah. My thought as well after hearing about Nintendo refusing to give the nod to grassroots Smash tournies in favor of their new business partner.

Man, the comments here have devolved into trash since the herb took over. Just an endless barrage of “Stop having opinions!”

If we can have the maturity to make light of a name like “Doug Bowser” without being seen as evil bullies, “Guy Blomberg” is on the table, as well

That... that wasn’t an attack?

They don’t even need to lay off 6%, they’re just following the trend. These assholes all know each other, talk to each other, and are best friends. They copy each other and pretend they’re geniuses who thought of it themselves

Guy Blomberg is three children dressed in a trenchcoat pretending to be a business reporter. With a name like that, you can’t convince me otherwise.

My brother and his GF are avid shiny-hunters. They’ve been having a great time with this current system by trying to basically catch a full second Pokedex. Hell, as a Pokemon casual, I’ve been having a great time with this system. When there’s a shiny version I actually want, I take the time to hunt for it. Even if I…

As someone who put in 50 hours to get through Futaba’s dungeon and stopped playing (I drift off from overly long games), Haru is literally nonexistent. I keep seeing that character and have no idea who she is even after putting in a work-week-plus-overtime amount of playtime. Story-wise, it’s very, very odd to have…

Def. And to add to this, the downfall of many “Soulslike” games is the idea that they can ramp up difficulty without taking the time to polish said difficulty.

Well, damn. I guess I should’ve expected the weird right-wing and hardcore pro-Russia folks to come out of the woodwork on an article like this.

Just to let you know, Kotaku has been regularly outspoken against war-machine propaganda in video games, so your concern is valid but already answered. Pretty much every military game is reviewed with a critical lens of how it treats the topic of war, conquest, and violence, and especially so with the glorification of…

I am 100% against assembly lines that don’t pay the workers for their labor.

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This guy’s rolling up on all the AI articles, glossing over the human element (e.g. the theft that fuels the current iteration of AI) to extol the wonders of AI. Like those who have come before him in other areas throughout history, it always boils down to: “Shut up about empathy, give me my toy.”

The amount of “prompt engineers” (kid you not, that’s what they’re calling themselves) showing up now, claiming to be legitimate, is laughable at best, soul-sucking at worst.

Hands are hard to draw, but you will never come across a character artist who has the level of proportion and rendering seen in that Harley/Joker image who makes that bad of nightmare hands.