It’s very simple: Genshin is a franchise made from scratch to be a gatcha title with all that entails while Ni No Kuni is a beloved singleplayer RPG series that they have then turned into a gatcha in order to cram crypto and NFT bs into it. It is not hard to see why these are not the same.

It deserves an article because up until now the Ni No Kuni games have been critically acclaimed with pretty loyal fanbases (the games are basically what would happen if Studio Ghibli made a JRPG, I’m honestly surprised their not bigger hits). The fact that a pretty beloved series has is now in the process of being…

But other countries ARE struggling with extremism and far-right authoritarians. If we could magically make guns disappear, we should because that would save a lot of lives, but we’d still have a really bad white supremacist problem that we need to deal with.

So there you have it, folks: It’s not Call of Duty. It’s actually your cell phones and your social media accounts that are chipping away at your reluctance to open fire on innocent people.

This is the kind of burn Chan normally only experiences when sliding down a three-story pole covered with lights, then falling through a glass roof into a mall kiosk.

Pretty sure “The” is part of the official title of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert...

You know how I think for myself? I think to myself, ‘Self, you have no medical training or expertise whatsoever. Listen to medical professionals.”

I know so many folks who are sick/covid positive right now. A friend of mine has missed three weeks of work with his “mild to moderate” case of covid. He’s vaccinated and boosted and still feels like he was hit by a truck. He’s regretting loosening his pandemic precautions—he stopped masking for like a week and…

Something Russell Brand posted early in the pandemic (the post wasn’t related to COVID) spoke to me and I was like this guy gets it, I’m gonna follow him. But then I started seeing other stuff he posted and I was like wtf this guy is crazypants, I’m gonna unfollow him immediately and always be ashamed that I thought…

Problem with that is they can share what they get with those that don’t deserve it.

If anyone trusts Russell Brand with their health, they get what they deserve.

I know it’s largely due to the Right adopting it as their cause du jour, but “groomer” is on the edge of joining “communist” as a pejorative that’s completely lost its meaning.

That is the funniest thing you’ve ever said.

Can’t wait for the handful of crypto dorks to roll in here talking about how Kotaku never says anything nice about NFTs and no one understand their potential except for them and it’s all so unfair because how are they ever going to become fake crypto Pokémon pyramid scheme landlords if people know that it’s just a…

I could give two shits about Netflix’s financial woes, so let’s talk about Is It Cake?

ahh because YOU don’t like it, that means everyone that does must lack taste. Yet here you are, commenting on something you don’t like, can’t be any more tasteless than that.

“Hi! I studied Nahuatl linguistics”

Hi! I studied Nahuatl linguistics, so I can provide a little color here! Xochitl means “flower” in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.

“What is this ‘hommis phobica’ of which you speak? Sounds made up. Nobody sees what I am doing because I am putting so much effort into it. I am clever.”

Does it need reprinting, or can we just all agree not to be assholes to teenagers online?