Yes, it’s a pretty common korean and chinese name.

I like how your pronouns are “equipped”. Got you a pocket full of pronouns. DOn’t you drop them, or nobody will be allowed to talk about you!

You’re joking, right? Pre-2012, it was one of the most visited sites on the internet and in the top 20 gaming sites. They weren’t some no-name blog. Then after they hired Totilo, their shitty pop-tabloid reporting became so infamous even Forbes had articles about it, well before gamergate was ever a thing. This all used to be sourced info on the wiki page.

Nah, Kotaku had a shit reputation for years before gamergate got shat into existence. Their reporting was sloppy and often wrong, most of them sucked at the games they were reviewing, they spammed out vapid clickbait articles about nothing to farm ad rev. The only reason people respect them now is because they were positioned opposite gamergate, as if two things can’t both suck.

This is from a couple months back. Still excited, though.

The one that kills me is the PC release of Project Diva. Denuvo usually gets pulled after a year or so, because it’s not a one-time purchase for the publisher, they charge a recurring license fee. But for some ungodly reason, SEGA’s decided to keep paying to have it in a rhythm game. For two and a half years, you just… sometimes lose inputs or miss a note you should’ve hit, because Denuvo decided you’re gonna stutter just there.

TL;DR they think he should look at electoral reform again

A huge wedge of the liberal voter base were disenfranchised when Trudeau promised electoral reform, practically guaranteed it, and then just announced they weren’t going to do it but don’t worry here’s legal weed. Many of them were youth voting for the first time, and that betrayal set the tone. If he set it in motion before the election, is it possible they’d recapture at least some of that base? Sure. Would I vote for him? Not a chance.

Setting aside that the industry professionals definitely count it as current gen for sales metrics, that’s fuckin, irrelevant when the statement is about all three of last gen, current gen, and next gen. Whichever one you want to call the Switch part of, it’s the best selling console of that generation, so the statement that AMD sold chips the best selling console of that generation is false. Unless you want to make the claim the Switch is from 2006, they are incorrect.

How can the switch be a different console from last gen, current gen, and next gen? Those are literally the only generations it could be considered part of.

it’s also a great win for AMD, in general, to provide the hardware behind the two biggest consoles on the market for two consecutive (and a third upcoming) console generations.

Doesn’t the Switch have as much market share as the other two combined?

The “this video game trend” they’re referring to is the live service model.

Literally, they didn’t have to make this clickbait, people will still watch “All the ways the live service model is damaging the single-player experience”.

Forget the socks, where do I get a top like that?

Most games lose something like 80%-90% of their players in the first couple months. Helldivers 2 is still at about 35% of peak. That’s pretty huge. Is it, literally, losing steam? Yes, in a technical sense, you’re right. But all games lose steam. Helldivers 2 is losing it way slower than comparable games, which is much more important imo.

Is it chilling? I was already going to stay where I am, whether I made a copy or not. Sharding off a replica to go on for me would be strictly better than not doing that

But like… do I care? “I” will survive, even if I’m not the one who does the surviving.

That’s almost correct. The microtransaction is not a ferrystone (the fast-travel consumable). It is a portcrystal (a one-time additional fast travel location). You cannot buy ferrystones with real money.

Ferrystones are found or purchased rarely. It’s a clearly intentional decision to force you to explore the world on foot and weigh whether the current danger is bad enough to use a precious ferrystone to get home or if you should try and push through.

The game certainly has problems, but the lack of fast travel is demonstrably an intentional decision to encourage the style of gameplay they envision, not some lack of functionality. This is exactly what mods are for.

What are you talking about? They show the headphone battery being replaced in the same image as the case. It’s a little button cell that hinges out.

Oh, my dear, sweet summer child, they’re not talking about Skyrim. When people say “horse armour” they’re talking about one thing:

In the year of our lord 2006, when Skyrim was still half a decade away. the Xbox 360 release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had a $2.50 “DLC” for two sets of horse armour, and it was roundly mocked for it. It wasn’t the first microtransaction, but it was certainly the first one that set everyone talking about its absurdity. The conversation was absolutely about charging money for cosmetics. In fact the general tone was, perhaps ironically, the opposite of today’s prevailing zeitgeist; this was a time when people were accustomed to spending $10-20 for a sizable “expansion pack” or “content disc”, and the idea of dropping $2.50 for horse armour that didn’t even do anything was absolutely ludicrous.

Citra was free. It’s only unfortunate collateral damage in the Yuzu switch emulator suit, since there was a lot of overlap between devs, and part of the settlement was that the Yuzu devs have to shut down all their emulation projects.

Yuzu was also free, but they ran a Patreon (reportedly taking in over a million dollars total) where you could get the early access builds for $7/mo. Most damningly, reportedly they distributed hotfixes to patrons run the ToTK leak before the game even released (i.e., before anyone could be hypothetically dumping their own legal copies to play). So a real triple blunder of taking money for an emulator, enabling piracy, and not maintaining even the veneer believing that people were only using it legally.

It should be noted that I don’t think this is how the laws should be; I don’t believe piracy meaningfully harms sales, nor do I believe it should be punished, but we have to be realistic about how things are; Yuzu would have lost in court, so we can only be glad they settled, rather than establishing legal precedent that would’ve decimated the emulation scene.