Literally the coolest thing Kotaku could do. If the games industry is going to engage in anti-press, anti-audience market manipulation by trading access for coverage, Kotaku is heroic for spreading information Nintendo doesn't like shared.
A Kotaku senior editor recently complained about being blacklisted by Nintendo of America pre-release coverage, so in retaliation, they decided to publish leaks for Tears of the Kingdom.
Unprofessional and insanely petty of them. Clown website with clown editors.
@OmegaCloud969
it's not a team sport. Nintendo's policies are anti-consumer no matter how much consumers decide they want to simp for them. Closing eshops, vaulting away back catalogues, a terrible record on accessibility.
Everyone fixated on Canon events in Spider-Verse should watch Kamen Rider Geats and pay special attention to Kekera. This stuff is representational, not literal; it's a metaphor for storytelling and an interrogation of audience expectations.
@GoobyPls89
1) kotaku isn't a monolith. The person writing about how well Dread runs in YuZu isn't always the same person who's shut out of a TotK code.
2) access journalism is extremely bad and Nintendo eagerly perpetuates it through maintaining lists of favored and disfavored publications
Also, the casts of fighting games and RPGs have frankly never been hotter. The divide here is that the aggrieved demographic bemoaning the de-sexing of games are only interested in a narrow range of consumable sex objects.
weirdest thing about the We Need To Retvrn to sexy video games (???) is that there's literally never been a better time than now to buy literal porn on steam and the variety is enormous
Fundamentally, Power Rangers signed its own death warrant when, in the face of things like ATLA and Adventure Time redefining what children's television could be, PR tripled-down on the low expectations of kids and cheap, rushed productions upon which it was founded. Rest in piss
@fukifiknow
@punishedcurtis
cute girls doing cute things is a genre that is extremely appealing to Nazis because "apolitical" teenage girls from a (percieved) right-wing ethnostate are their ideal mouthpieces and sexual partners
Western audiences have no conception of how extremely counterculture the greaser look was and remains in Japan. They don't understand that Josuke's inspiration being a selfless, heroic delinquent is plot material enough all by itself in the context of 90s Japan.
this show came out so insanely, inexplicably good. I was 1000% sure it would be a disaster but it would up being one of the most electrifying television programs of the year, if not the decade.
In case anyone thinks Nick has grown: he hasn't. He showed up to an NY Smash local last year and when I identified him and rebuffed his socialization because of his creep shit, he showed no remorse and said I "just hated him because the internet told me to". He's a scumbag.
I took puberty blockers! I took them to extend the period of time I had to gain height because my doctor's raised concerns that my growth could be stunted. I was like 14 and considered totally capable of informed consent. Worked great.
Children are not given "sex reassignment" hormones. Whoever told you that was lying to you. What they are given is puberty blockers that essentially function to delay puberty until the child is old enough to decide to medically transition.
With Power Rangers dead and Superman and Lois and Cobra Kai entering their final seasons, soon Atop the Fourth Wall will be the last standing bastion of American Tokusatsu.
The secret sauce of KAMEN RIDER BLACK SUN is that instead of mutants as metaphor replacing mundane bigotry, it supposes that being a kaijin is an additional axis of oppression that racists and homophobes will exploit alongside real-world discrimination.
@GoobyPls89
Journalists should be able to write about technological advancements in fields like video game emulation and the potential impacts of those advancements on the industry and market, without being slandered as advocating for piracy or pillared by corporate simps.
Japanese literally reveals information at different times in a sentence because of its grammatical structure compared to English. Even something as simple as suspense has to be completely rewritten to sound like anything an English speaker would say. Qqqz
If you could experience one moment of television for the first time again, what would it be?
Me: either the courtroom scene with Chuck in Better Call Saul S3, or the Grease Blizzard henshin in Kamen Rider Build
I'll elaborate on this
White heterosexuality has a permissions structure. You are *permitted* to engage in otherwise-prohibited sexual behavior as long as that behavior is sufficiently rapacious, consumptive, and reinforces preferred hierarchies.
This is also the underlying factor behind the Bridget bullshit. When Bridget was a provocative fetish object for hegemonic sexuality, things were "fine". But when she became understood by the queer community as representation, she was "ruined" for gooners.
Horny, boring gamers have an incredible 6th sense for when a hot character appeals to gay people, and they can't stand it. It ruins the whole experience for 'em.
This is also the underlying factor behind the Bridget bullshit. When Bridget was a provocative fetish object for hegemonic sexuality, things were "fine". But when she became understood by the queer community as representation, she was "ruined" for gooners.
@FizzVsTheWorld
@otherhappyplace
I'm not here defending the honor of Disney but indie animators working alone don't have the same demands as feature film animation worked on by teams.
@GoobyPls89
you are making a legalistic argument. i am making a moral, ethical argument in which i make and share judgements about conduct and character. we're going to continue talking past each other if you continue to engage on the basis of legalism.
There isn't a "reason" because outside the fevered brains of MCU diehards and Star Trek No-Prizers, art does not work this way and never has. Caring about this kind of stuff makes you objectively worse at understanding every part of art that counts.
We all need to go back and read contemporary fandom literature from the age of Star Trek because I guarantee you that shit is the dead sea scrolls of being gay.
@KeithNHumphreys
@NumbersMuncher
@RobGeorge
Political beliefs are a choice people make. Those choices reflect how they feel other people should be treated - who should live or die. Every political decision above "dogcatcher" is life and death.
I wouldn't marry anyone who disagrees with me about that.
@thetimgor
@Yeetusthethirrd
@OneRadChee
In the 2005-2018 IDW comics, Anode, Lug, and Arcee are trans women. Arcee's arc is really messy and Anode and Lug are from a part of the comics people are critical of for other reasons but the whole multi-book run is worth a look.
Thinking about the trend of including dissatisfied fans in legacy nerd media as straw villains, and also thinking about Kekera from Kamen Rider Geats.
In a way absolutely no other straw nerd villain has managed, Kekera has got me feeling "I'm in this picture & I don't like it".
@GuyManDudeBro3
Kotaku is not a monolithic sludge creature. Kotaku publishes the works of different journalists with different ideals, different beats, and different goals. When Kotaku publishes a good article, that article stays good.
@JUNlPER
@halomancer1
It's really just a new York city thing because we don't actually have traffic or parking enforcement anymore. Cops decided it was beneath them and tons of the perps are NYPD anyway so they just stopped
In 2011, Kamen Rider Fourze caused outrage from some parent groups for having a character with a pompadour and cropped jacket as the protagonist because of the association with biker gangs and delinquency.
@EntityMystik
@CharMayCry
The N64 had a graphics processing architecture that actually gave developers tons of freedom - some would say too much - to write microcode that optimized specific parts of graphics rendering. As a result it's insanely difficult to write PC code counterparts for every gfx call.
Meanwhile, Black Sun depicts kaijin not just as a stand-in for Koreans in Japan, but also *Korean kaijin in Japan*. Not just kaijin as disability, but disabled kaijin. Not as a replacement for racial struggle, but as collaborating with the actual Black Panthers. It's HONEST.
@davidrlurie
@GGKrishnamoomoo
The choice was to immediately and completely divest from the Israeli war machine. It was the right choice morally and tactically and the university refused refused refused.
@CircleBackPat
@jbouie
is it a virtuous society wherein CEOs can destroy the jobs and livelihoods of millions and walk away with a profit? Is it a virtuous society that sends soldiers across the ocean to kill for oil?
@P62_End_Me
@sam_d_1995
because we would have to take away free street parking to make room for trash compactors, and drivers in the most transit-rich city in america cannot be inconvenienced in any way for even a single second
I don't get why this is so funny to people. The *plot* of Sonic 06 is that it un-happens itself. If it had been a 10/10 super-success GOTY the bio written here would have been exactly the same!
When the MCU inevitably adds the X-Men, I guarantee that the senators pushing for Sentinels will not also be explicitly xenophobic or pushing for drag bans or talking about the Bell Curve. They will simply hate and fear mutants.
There's very little in this world that can make me patriotic under any circumstances but when people in Commonwealth countries try to sue American citizens for jokes and opinions I'm out there chanting USA USA USA at the top of my lungs.
If true, it’s long overdue. Rose and her family deserve better than have people needlessly drag her into media concocted narrative. It deserves to be stated again, there is no affair and there has never been an affair.
@SpiderHyphenMan
The actual question is is there any reason to staunch this reporting that is not in the interests of Nintendo's desire for information control? The state of games is a medium is itself in the public interest and that includes art that has made its way out into the world
@caletvwlrh
@JamesEmblem
People kept talking about three houses because it had shippable characters and political discourse/shipping arguments wearing the clothes of political discourse.
@TierZoo
Using "wholesome" as a brand to deflect criticism is wack. GFR is working as paid marketers for the game, which is why they were sent a review copy in the first place
@Q_Review
The main thing I have never understood is why Doctor Who is so miserable and demanding to be in/on. What has been going on with production since 2005 that makes it so fraught, exhausting, time-consuming, and inconsistent?
@shantilly_t
@LapineViolet
The FBI is undoubtedly very evil and racist and wouldn't act if they could. But I'm not sure how you "unmake" a sundown town without 24/7 occupation. Sundown towns are 100% perpetuated by every white citizen living there and those citizens *are* the vast majority of the town.