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yuri-alexseygaybitch · 5 months

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I've bitched about Kotaku in the past but when they hit they really do hit

#palestine #gaming #kotaku

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thefantastician · 1 year

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IAN JR. MASTER POST

Curious for more? Read about him here and here, and watch a video all about Ian Jr. here

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foxivanfable · 9 months

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siryouarebeingmocked · 1 year

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#gamergate #journalism #lol #kotaku #cringe #long

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caytoniccox · 8 months

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Who would be the actors for this movie?

#chess #movie #kotaku #lol

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madame-helen · 1 month

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oldschoolfrp · 10 months

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The horror game of the year for 2023 may be . . a Doom II wad?

#the dream of the 90s is alive #Doom II #Doom #Doom wad #myhouse #Doom mod #myhouse wad #horror #horror gaming #myhouse.wad #Kotaku #computer game

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hopeymchope · 6 days

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Kotaku lists Danganronpa 3 as one of the "17 Best Video Game Movies and Shows"

I've made no secret of my deep love/appreciation for Danganronpa 3, and now Kotaku's staff has come out and listed it as one of their best adaptions of a video game to hit screens.

And I love to see that! ......... Though I do not love its writeup, sadly.

The author of its particular entry, Kenneth Shepard, says:

This will be a controversial pick in the eyes of some Danganronpa fans, but I will die on the hill that Danganronpa 3 is criminally underrated, overcriticized (though rightfully divisive), and has some of the most interesting interpretations of the murder mystery series’ themes that Spike Chunsoft has ever put to paper.

And THAT much is great!

.................but then he goes on to drop disses on the DR Wiki (linking to major spoilers without any warning while declaring the Fandom Wikia's purported info about the DR3 mastermind to be "factually incorrect" — a claim that's not without basis but is also very debatable), the English dub (I'd trade MULTIPLE body parts to see Internet weebs stop bitching about dubs in ways that reveal how little they comprehend what goes into them), and even declares that the show makes Ultra Despair Girls retroactively pointless/meaningless (WTF are you even fucking talking about), so uh... this is sort of a "YAY, someone else has publically appreciated the value/importance of DR3!" post combined with me saying "If you legitimately like it that much, maybe stop talking before you add a bunch of weird negative caveats."

#kotaku #danganronpa #danganronpa wiki #danganronpa fandom #danganronpa 3 #dr3

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yuri-alexseygaybitch · 1 year

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Kotaku libs will post shit like this and then go back to fellating Call of Duty one article later

#kotaku #atomic heart #don't know how much it needs to be hammered into angloids to stfu #you have zero moral ground to stand on when it comes to games having 'shady connections' to governments lol

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jimquisition · 1 year

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Kotaku is under fire from half the Internet for publishing a story on the leaked details for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo blacklisted them ages ago, they owe the company nothing, and what they did wasn't actually bad.

Obviously, going to bat for them is going to get me in trouble with the Performative Outrage Gang. I'm just gonna go hide and play with my Manta Force.

[Note: The video uses trailer footage of Tears of the Kingdom which shows some new features so stick to audio if you’re dodging spoilers.]

#zelda: tears of the kingdom #nintendo #kotaku #the jimquisition #James Stephanie Sterling #i missed this whole thing #too busy playing that tears of the kingdom #'s pretty good

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gamer2002 · 1 year

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So a naked gamer with a hammer entered Pelosi's house where only Paul was, the police arrived, one of them opened the doors (there was no third person, apparently, the police just doesn't know who let them in), and then the gamer attacked Paul with hammer. OK.

#gamergate #kotaku #paul pelosi #pelosi #nancy pelosi #us politics #politics

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unpopularly-opinionated · 1 year

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I logged onto Twitter for literally 5 seconds and immediately saw people harassing a community director for something called the MAG Festival, which I gather is a video game convention of some variety, who made this joke banner for their event:

Game industry folks, of course, lost their minds and they had to backpedal (frustrating, but I get it).

Anyways, funny joke. Wish the games industry wasn’t so toxic and unwelcoming. Even if you genuinely believe GG was a toxic movement, it boggles the mind how anyone thinks harassing community managers for...*checks notes*...a dumb joke you can either choose to laugh at or roll your eyes and ignore, is better.

Unrelated side-note: Can we just talk about how fucked social media is in it’s current state? Like just the overall design of how interactivity between users works, and how all of them are explicitly designed to feed into this industry of hate and overall negativity?

Think about it: you see a joke on Twitter and, assuming you HAVE to respond to it one way or another as that’s what’s asked of you by nature of you using social media, you’re really only given two options:

Either you enjoyed the tweet, found it humorous, so you’ll indicate that enjoyment simply by clicking the little heart icon to increase the little number next to it that indicates how many other people enjoyed it, and then you’ll promptly move on.

Or, you disliked the tweet, perhaps it even upset you in some capacity, so you’ll indicate that displeasure by writing a 280-character (or h/e long Tweets are these days idfk) comment on how the joke “wasn’t funny” and perhaps even that the tweeter is “a bad person” for making it.

Now when the next person comes across that same tweet, which do you think they’ll see first, the single spot where it indicates that 10k people liked the post, or the seemingly-bottomless deluge of comments from 1k people expressing their negative response to the joke? More than likely their eyes will be drawn to the comments before the likes.

Now I know what you might be thinking: “Well, what’s to stop someone from commenting on the tweet to indicate that they liked the joke?” And you’re not wrong, except that the algorithm on most social media sites values the engagement from those negative comments higher than the engagement on those positive comment. Remember, even if every 100th person who liked the tweet posted a comment saying as much, the other 99 are still just scrolling by the post once they’ve liked it. They aren’t sticking around to like other positive comments. You know who are liking comments though? The ones already sticking around to comment their displeasure of the tweet.

So yeah, the TL;DR here is that social media, as are sadly most websites these days, are actively trying to not only piss you off, but to keep you essentially towing the line, so-to-speak. Don’t post anything too subversive or the algorithm will convince hundreds, if not thousands of people to harass you off the platform, if not worse.

#magfest #kotaku #video games #video game journalism #journalistic integrity #gamergate

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honoka-marierose · 7 months

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Sonic Frontiers, Sega’s latest (and surprisingly well-received) entry in the speedy hedgehog franchise, received its final free content update on Thursday. It seems this new update is proving to be way more difficult than the base game, as players who once bragged about how easy the game was are getting their generous blue asses handed to them.

Sonic Frontiers’ final update, appropriately titled The Final Horizon, advertised itself as bringing a new story; new playable characters in the form of Knuckles, Tails, and Amy, and new challenges. Apparently, Sega meant that last part with its whole chest because players are struggling to get to the finish line of The Final Horizon.

Since the update’s release, players have taken to social media in a mix of frustration and excitement over how difficult it is to either:

- Adjust to how differently Sonic’s companions move while completing challenges

- Complete trial towers (which don’t have checkpoints)

- Defeat the update’s tough-as-nails new boss Tank+, a spider tank that’ll riddle Sonic with bullets on sight, exploding the blue streak into a fountain of coins

To add more kindling to the blazing difficulty fire players are experiencing, some players are reporting that the game now requires them to perfect parry enemies during trials. That’s rough, buddy.

Read More: That New Sonic Game Is A Weird, Lonely Mess (That I Can’t Stop Playing)

While some players are finding The Final Frontier’s evident difficulty spike as a welcome update to the game, others are hoping Sega patches the free update to make its boss fights less of an uphill battle.

“God damn, [Morio] Kishimoto seriously took offense to people calling his game too easy. I love the challenge, but god DAMN,” SonicFanatic67 wrote on the r/SonicFrontiers subreddit.

“Sonic Team really took everyone’s complaints on how OP the parry was and just said ‘Aight, bet. Now you gotta time your shit. Have fun, jackasses.” xXWarriorAngelXx added.

“This shit ain’t even fun. There’s fun/challenging difficulty and then there’s spiteful/cheap difficulty. This feels like the latter,” YesHai wrote on Reddit.

“Hit the last challenge before the final boss in Sonic Frontiers DLC and yeah it’s probably the most difficult thing they’ve ever put into their games,” KZXcellent tweeted. “DLC has been the most fun I’ve had playing a Sonic game, but it’s not gonna be for everyone.

To add more kindling to the blazing difficulty fire players are experiencing, some players are reporting that the game now requires them to perfect parry enemies during trials. That’s rough, buddy.

Read More: That New Sonic Game Is A Weird, Lonely Mess (That I Can’t Stop Playing)

While some players are finding The Final Frontier’s evident difficulty spike as a welcome update to the game, others are hoping Sega patches the free update to make its boss fights less of an uphill battle.

“God damn, [Morio] Kishimoto seriously took offense to people calling his game too easy. I love the challenge, but god DAMN,” SonicFanatic67 wrote on the r/SonicFrontiers subreddit.

“Sonic Team really took everyone’s complaints on how OP the parry was and just said ‘Aight, bet. Now you gotta time your shit. Have fun, jackasses.” xXWarriorAngelXx added.

“This shit ain’t even fun. There’s fun/challenging difficulty and then there’s spiteful/cheap difficulty. This feels like the latter,” YesHai wrote on Reddit.

“Hit the last challenge before the final boss in Sonic Frontiers DLC and yeah it’s probably the most difficult thing they’ve ever put into their games,” KZXcellent tweeted. “DLC has been the most fun I’ve had playing a Sonic game, but it’s not gonna be for everyone.

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On the upside, The Final Horizon has a new Super Sonic form for players to enjoy. Hopefully, aside from being aesthetically pleasing, the newly minted superpowered Sonic will functionally aid players in conquering Sonic Frontiers’ final slew of challenges

#sega #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonic frontiers #sonic frontiers the final horizon #kotaku #morio kishimoto #sonic team

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simnostalgia · 2 years

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You know, I really like Gita Jackson and her reporting on The Sims franchise. I do, however, have to disagree with the line of thinking that it's not a virtual dollhouse. That isn't because I'm discrediting it as a life simulator (even though I am somewhat, it's complicated) but because I believe that it being a virtual dollhouse is just a valuable as it being a simulator.

I know that people tend not to like how gendered the community can be, but I think that we sometimes tend to over correct into trying to make the community into something it's not. The game has a heavy female/gay bent, but it doesn't mean that we don't have heterosexual male players. Isn't it condescending to them on some level to try and treat the game like a dwarf fortress type strategy game as if straight men can't (or shouldn't) be interested in a virtual dollhouse?

While I think that many of the straight men in the community tend to be more interested in the technical aspect of things such as modding or building, those are still people who produce content and are well known. Just because they're not YouTubers doesn't mean they aren't well known within the community.

Additionally, I think people tend to forget that The Sims is actually just a modernization of a dollhouse/doll culture that's been around for centuries.

Women and gay's love of dollhouses is, ultimately, as universal as it is timeless.

#The Sims #Gita Jackson #Dollhouses #Dollhouse #Dolls #Kotaku

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gentleman-velvet · 3 months

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Sonic fans: WOOOOOO, YEAAAAAH, children dying is my favorite

#sonic #sonic movie #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fandom #sonic movie 3 #sonic 3 movie #kotaku

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l-1-z-a · 2 years

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Killer Robots, Mummies & Cow Cults: How The Sims 2 Handheld Games Embraced The Strange

#the sims #sims #sims 2 #ts2 #sims2 #the sims 2 #ts2 simblr #simblr #griptonite games #urbs #the sims urbs #the sims bustin out #kotaku #gba urbz #sims 2 psp #sims 2 gba #sims 2 ds #references

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