I love how "I like to do my own research" has become such a convenient shorthand for me to instantly dismiss the person saying it as a complete fúcking moron.

man it's like the problem is it shouldn't be a reason to screw you in the first place

“GODDAMMIT!”

I once basically browsed reddit for 6 months and nothing else at my old job. 

appeared to have been finished and ready for release back in April 2022 when they were suddenly pulled at the eleventh hour in a confusing and misguided reaction to the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Listing Advance Wars seems... optimistic.

The next delay will be something out of this world like they were hacked and lost all data.

Hard to imagine not having the trademark for the title of your game before announcing it.

Roiland has always been... how do I put this. A self-aware edgelord? Dude’s public work is that he writes terrible people doing terrible things, but they’re all sort of in on the joke.

I’m not surprised at all that the guy is an asshole (and worse) in his personal life, though it wasn’t guaranteed. But he probably…

The popularity of the game was largely due to the marketing for GamePass. GamePass went nuts promoting it. So for them to suddenly pretend like the game doesn't exist is definitely worth a mention. 

Oh, you didn’t hear that the crankshaft pulled a milkshake duck last month?

Creators of the things we love are often the worst people behind doors. This time line is the one where all our heroes are really villains. Sadly we don’t have portal gun tech to escape this cursed reality.

Does anyone know if the driving force originally behind Forza

On the macro economic level, it is not great that people aren’t leasing.  On a personal finance level, these articles are right--leasing is typically a poor financial decision.  With the rise in leasing costs it has only gotten worse.

Covid followed by $6 gas would be my answer

Seriously, you pair that with insane lease costs and you get what everyone else was saying to do for the past decade. The “don’t buy a new car” excuse won’t work much either pretty soon, because the technology will be head and shoulders above the used car and the price will be only a fraction higher it seems.

and on top of that has the initial down payment increased as well? I think most are around 3-4K$ down.

People arent leasing right now because the manufacturers have completely stopped subventing lease rates and residuals.

To echo a comment I made on a previous kotaku article (that seems only to get more relevant as more information/episodes are released) It’s not surprising that the changes they’re making seem to bizarrely not understand the appeal of source material. Case in point, toning down the violence - The reasoning behind this…