i’m just ken

i’m just ken

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Remember guys, without Pokémon UNITE, it doesn't mean future Pokémon Presents will have 30 seconds more main series content, it means it'll be 30 seconds shorter.

Big Lazy doesn't want you to know that going to the gym in the morning to start your day actually makes you feel great and energized, more so than sleeping in. It's true.

god he's so cool

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one of the skills you need for this job i still don't feel like i've gotten comfortable with after over a decade is that you gotta accept sometimes people are just not going to read everything you wrote and will respond before they get to the thing that acknowledges whatever they're mad about.

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?
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Not a business man but the only version of events that might sit remotely well with me would be a Ueda/TLG situation where the BW folks lead a contracted studio to finish MEU then the series be put to rest. EA would never. I want the game BW wanted to make, not just any other game set in that world.

Little bit of an update: The fan who made the initial petition says that the campaign's goal includes "bringing back the talent who made it special," though the actual text on the campaign hasn't been updated as of this writing.

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

Trouble is, even the #SaveMassEffect campaign is divided between people who are advocating for a new studio to pick it up because they think that's realistic and the ones who want BW to be able to finish what it started feel like this campaign's momentum means it's the only way they'll be heard.

officially moved in and i can hear moises telling his friend over the phone to expect a lot more pokémon bullshit in the apartment next time she visits so we out here

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Didn’t think this was a hot take but I don’t think BioWare made a game even remotely bad enough to “justify” it being shut down “BioWare was struggling for years,” yeah, and even its worst games weren’t as bad as some garbage that’s let slide and it’s fucking weird to imply the team “deserved” this.

There are maybe two other men here that aren’t accompanying a woman and hell yeah brothers I see you but I don’t know if we’re here for the same reasons

Didn’t think this was a hot take but I don’t think BioWare made a game even remotely bad enough to “justify” it being shut down “BioWare was struggling for years,” yeah, and even its worst games weren’t as bad as some garbage that’s let slide and it’s fucking weird to imply the team “deserved” this.

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idk what point I’m trying to make because ultimately we’re all in the peanut gallery watching out of touch rich fuckers ruin decades of institutional knowledge but every time you imply BioWare could have prevented this by making games you liked better gives EA and private equity an out.

Didn’t think this was a hot take but I don’t think BioWare made a game even remotely bad enough to “justify” it being shut down “BioWare was struggling for years,” yeah, and even its worst games weren’t as bad as some garbage that’s let slide and it’s fucking weird to imply the team “deserved” this.

Anthem is a massive misfire that will be held up forever as something that derailed that studio but for fuck’s sake a studio should be able to miss without it being a fucking albatross around its neck. Fuck’s sake.

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Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

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Signing off this week by finally processing all the emotions I've been feeling since Wednesday. It's been nearly a decade since Andromeda, and after years of uncertainty as the BioWare was jerked around by EA, I finally have to grieve the series that made me who I am today.

kotaku.comThe Normandy SR-2 Is Now A Haunted House, But It Will Always Be My Home - KotakuI have spent years not being able to grieve Mass Effect, and now I finally have to