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Levi Winslow
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staff writer, kotaku. they/them. beats: esports, creator culture + internet discourse, preservation + sustainability, news. send me tea and tips 🖤

For what it’s worth, I’ve been a regular commenter around these parts since the late 2000s, and I think I’ve been ungreyed since the early 2010s. I won’t deny that the ongoing series of events undertaken by a certain flavor of seasonings isn’t disheartening as a reader, but I can’t imagine what its like having a Read more

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You guys are great🙏. That shouldn’t mean you have to be perfect. You deserve great support and great management.

Ideally I’d have sent the feedback to an “errors” contact form or email but I figured it’d just die there, and I also wanted to air the grievances a bit because things have been getting harder, it seems. Read more

This could be a good topic for your first podcast.

Some adblockers(uBlock origin, for instance) don’t like Amazon affiliate links but rather than stripping out the link part, it just deletes the words entirely. It’s a weird system.

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I can’t help but feel this is the dumbest story I’ve read about all week.

I hate that the nemesis system is patented. Imagine how much better it could be if other game developers were allowed to innovate off of it instead of fearing a bunch of lawsuits.

*nerd voice* “ACTSHULLY, IT’S THE HERO OF THE WILDS, NOT THE HERO OF TIME - COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LINKS!”

This is cute. There was a joke among my peers during TotK hype of “getting your Engineering degree yet” when asking if we finished it.

Pretty awesome! Great excuse to play Zelda at work for the professor. :) 

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Ah, she’s talking about the Bahamut scene! That was always one of my favorite FF moments.

I was just chastising Polygon for failing to reference Twitter when mentioning X, as that’s the sort of thing that would drive Musk crazy.  Your way is even better, though.

Also, thanks for pointing out what a game changer constant 60fps was at the time. TM Black and THPS3 weren’t exactly radical reinventions of their formulas, but after playing them in lightning quick frame rates, it was hard to go back to their 25fps breathren (and the last-gen draw distances) on the PS1.

launching with ambitious new franchises such as Devil May Cry”  Read more

When I read about the system a few days ago I was like “ugh, what a chore”. Read more

you’re the best kotaku has right now, remember that. everyone else appears flavorless and bored compared to your writing and commenting and video charisma 

pst, you’re still my favorite author because you’re so open in the comments. I hope the trolls haven’t dampened that.

I mean there’s the rub though. If you make it a little bit better baseline, it’s still the wrong response to most situations, just a more tempting one. If you make it significantly better baseline, then this is an entirely different video game, and interesting challenges it currently poses become completely Read more

You know what I like about Lies of P over any Souls game? Read more

Counterpoint: Instead of spending 30 levels to do this, spend 30 levels speccing into ballistic shotguns like the breach. Substitute the combat skills for shotgun specialization and ballistics, replace martial arts for the more globally useful gymnastics (combat slide, take less fall damage, better zero G control, Read more