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The Best LEGO Sets, According To Our Readers

3 years ago

Earlier this week, we asked our readers to tell us what the best LEGO sets were. They might have set a new record for most comments ever on a Co-op post. Readers had some strong opinions on the subject that showed they really knew their bricks. We got too many responses to count, sending us on an odyssey as we tracked…

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Giovanni Colantonio on Co-op, shared by Ignacia to Kotaku

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Ode To The Bard Who Saved My FF14 Dungeon Run

3 years ago

My journey through Heavensward has slowed down considerably. I have other games to play and review. And generally, the steam that powered this expansion leading up to The Vault encounter has petered out significantly. That’s not to say Heavensward’s sluggish back-end pacing wasn’t punctuated with a few bright spots.

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Ash Parrish

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RIP To Outriders' Weird Cowboy NPC, A Real One

3 years ago

I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces are minor variations on Beefy Woodsman. Hair colors range from black to dull brown. Every decal is an unobtrusive scar, except for a lone chrome eyebrow implant that may as well be a shiny pimple. From…

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Nathan Grayson

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Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength

3 years ago

This Sunday marks 10 years since Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it—kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season is like stepping…

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James Whitbrook on io9, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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Skate City Rolls Onto PC And Consoles May 6

3 years ago

Skate City, the artful street skating game from Alto’s Odyssey creators Snowman and Norweigian developer Agens, finally makes the leap from Apple Arcade to PC and console next month, bringing its chill lo-fi beats and dreamy rides to PlayStations, Xboxens, Switch, and PC on May 6.

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Mike Fahey

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Therapists Are Reckoning With Eco-Anxiety

3 years ago

Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic,…

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Isobel Whitcomb on Earther, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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Gaze Upon My Browser Extensions and Despair

3 years ago

They’re not what any of us would call “intimate,” but you can really tell a lot about a person from a quick glance at the browser extensions they use. Is your boyfriend’s browser decorated with favicons from Evernote, Trello, and literally nothing else? He’s either a type-A perfectionist or zen to a fault. Is your…

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Shoshana Wodinsky on Gizmodo, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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Everything Announced During Today's Nintendo Indie World

3 years 1 month ago

Another Nintendo Indie World presentation, another batch of cool little games coming to the Switch between today and months from now. From Fez, The Longing and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension out later today to next year’s GetsuFumaDen: Undying World, here’s the indies Nintendo showed off today.

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Mike Fahey

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Knight Squad 2 Knows How To Party

3 years 1 month ago

Party games balance on a tightrope. If they’re too rooted in chance, everyone will be at each other’s throats within a round. (See: Mario Party.) If they’re too basic, they’re boring, and if they’re too complex, well, there’s no fun for a party. Every so often, a game comes along and nails the balance, like Knight

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Ari Notis

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There Is No After

3 years 1 month ago

Shortly before Christmas last year, I sent a message to Jeff Sharlet, a writer I don’t know, thanking him for memorializing the dead. It was a Sunday night, past 2 a.m., and though I can’t remember the specific thing keeping me awake I know its basic contours. Most every feeling I’ve had this year is a shifting…

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Molly Osberg on Jezebel, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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The Challenges of Unravelling Long Covid

3 years 1 month ago

Mixed into the collective tangle of agony and loss caused by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic are the “long-haulers”—people who become or continue to feel sick after their initial encounter with the virus. But the road to understanding what’s now become known as long covid will take time, nuanced inquiry, humility, and…

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Ed Cara on Gizmodo, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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