Fucking Kotaku

[RadiantViper]

Ashcraft is my least favourite for obvious, oft-stated reasons.

 

I don't really know enough about all of them to choose a favourite. But I had a nice conversation with Owen once, so I guess he gets my vote.

[Mr. GOH!]

Ashcraft is my least favourite for obvious, oft-stated reasons.

 

I don't really know enough about all of them to choose a favourite. But I had a nice conversation with Owen once, so I guess he gets my vote.

 

I like Mike, Owen, Stephen and Lisa. I like Mike for his hatred for and reviews of MMORPG's and his unabashed regular dude-ness. He reminds me of friends from my post-college days of lassitude and drinking.

 

Owen seems pretty chill most of the time, and is probably the best writer of the regular bunch.

 

Stephen is inoffensive and a good writer. His videos of him rapping are hilarious I also like his way of being viciously sarcastic yet mild-mannered.

 

Lisa is actually a pretty decent writer. She has a tendency to go for corniness a little too often, but I attribute that to her Nickelodeon sketch show roots. Although I might perhaps be a smidgeon too kind to Lisa because she is an attractive female gamer and I am a single (so lonely!) male and we're both around the same age.

[Commander Shepard]

Although I might perhaps be a smidgeon too kind to Lisa because she is an attractive female gamer and I am a single (so lonely!) male and we're both around the same age.

 

Yup.

[Mr. GOH!]

She's really pretty... but has the worst taste in makeup.

 

True dat. You'd think would have picked up some tips from the professional makeup people who worked on her when she was on TV. Then again, I never watched that show, so she could have been put in clown makeup for every episode, for all I know.

[Hot Heart]

I think after this: http://bit.ly/hqU9Px

 

I expect Totilo's polls to lean more towards "hate".

 

Everyone seems to have interpreted the article as 'Game music is terrible and must die', which is not what he's trying to say.

 

He could've been a little clearer with the difference between a soundtrack and a score and obviously how it varies from game to game, but everyone's knee-jerk reaction is 'NO YOU CAN'T SAY THAT MUSIC ISN'T ESSENTIAL'.

 

His points raised are a little odd (or at least provocative), but it sounds more like musing on why exactly we actually have the option to turn it down and how his own personal tastes have changed, not an attack on videogame music.

Edited January 12, 2011 by Hot Heart

[ceedee]

I just skimmed the article but all I got from it was, "I used to play videogames with the music on all the time. Now I no longer find it necessary for the music to be turned on for me to enjoy a game."

 

But it's to be expected that people would misconstrue such a post. I also might be totally wrong in my interpretation of his post anyway, because I only skimmed it

[jayc4life]

Yeah, it's the way he came off more than anything. As many have said in the comments, I don't mind doing that sorta stuff when the music's somewhat of a key device, really enjoyable, or more importantly perhaps original (and never on a first playthrough of ANYTHING). Composers have their jobs on the games the same as any other person on the team, and I'd rather hear the fruits of their labour when playing than other music or a podcast or something.

 

That being said, I do practice good public etiquette: if you're playing a handheld in public: no sound, or use headphones. Respect other people's ears, they may not want to hear that Final Fantasy 7 battle music droning all the time on a long plane trip even if you do.

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

Bashcraft's posts piss me off, and a lot of the time, from almost all the editors, the posts are just plain stupid. I know I have no right to complain, seeing as how they provide me what is essentially a free service, but I've grown increasingly jaded with Kotaku, and now only drop by for #speakup and news articles. Also, Mike Fahey's head shape is fucking WEIRD. Go look at his pictures. He looks very strange.

[Battra92]

She's really pretty... but has the worst taste in makeup.

 

She's not ugly but I don't find her pretty. It might be the makeup but I just can't stand her smile. She has something very Caesar Romero as the Joker in there that frightens me.

[MetalCaveman]

Totilo is my favorite of them, though I feel he should be somewhere else.

 

Crecente is an asshole, and everything Ashcraft posts is most likely copied from Sankaku Complex I don't pay enough attention to the rest of them to actually have an opinion.

 

I go there now to read the headlines, if it's something interesting I search other sites as they usually have better information about whatever subject it is

[TheForgetfulBrain]

I love Totilo, but I'm also a Fahey fan.

 

Didn't read up on the Twitter exchange and don't care to.

 

My fondness of the others varies article to article.

[Strangelove]

Fuck bashcraft. That is all.

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

[Pirandello]

I like Kotaku more than every other gaming site out there.

 

That is all.

[Mal]

Ashcraft is a baby. Back when he banned my account for a stupid comment, he edited it to talk gibberish. Seriously... I know I made a stupid comment but just ban me, don't go around editing comments.

 

As for a favorite... no idea. The rest of the folks are fine enough.

Edited January 12, 2011 by MaliciousH

[Enervation]

It seems like Bashcraft is only there to put the "otaku" in Kotaku. While I appreciate his dissertations on the inner workings of Japanese culture, I really, really think it doesn't belong on Kotaku.

 

And besides, Danny Choo did a better job than Bashcraft ever will.

[Pirandello]

Bashcraft strikes again.

 

Some random gibberish by him

 

Do we REALLY need to know about this? I would have thought his job was, like, reporting on the Japanese games industry and technology and crap like that. Not, like, f-cking LOVE HOTELS.

Edited January 12, 2011 by Pirandello

[Enervation]

I also don't think it is relevant to "otaku" culture. Anyone can be an otaku about anything in Japan. What makes the idol fandom relevant to a gaming site? Why not the modeling kit fandom, or doujinshi fandom (both of which have huge ties to the gaming industry/fandom)? All of this attention on idol fandom/otaku makes no sense to me.

 

I think Bashcraft's trying to chronicle the more "wild" side of Japan, or at the very least stir up some debate or conversation about it in his articles. Suffice to say, I don't think he's getting across the best picture of Japan to Kotaku's readers. It's a really great country, with some of the best cuisine I've had the honor of tasting. If he's going to really chronicle something on Japan (since he's digressing from gaming anyways), why not do it on food, which we all love (except select insane individuals)?

 

Choo's a little more honest when it comes to that. He doesn't hide the fact of anime, figurines, or other random eccentricities that most Japanese otaku seem to favor, not to mention he likes food porn on his site.

[Strangelove]

Bashcraft deliberately caters weaboos who think japan is only anime, manga, videogames, and tentacle rape. Theres no history there.

[Pirandello]

Danny Choo does a much better job at balancing the two, and his writing is actually interesting.

Not to mention that Danny is the son of a prominent fashion designer in Japan and he also travels around and meets his fans face to face (just last year, he was with FAKKU staff member Jacob for Anime Expo in Los Angeles, and they had their meeting at the ESPN Sports Cafe... which if I went 2 months later instead of the concert I went to, I could have shook hands with him. But the amount of weaboos would drive me mad). And he also attends important meeting pertaining to anime/culture in general for Japan (it's one of his older things, go look around for it).

 

And you also know what? He has his own show dedicated to talking about the culture of Japan, called... naturally, Culture Japan. I'm still lurking around waiting for English subtitled episodes to show up.

[Baconrath]

My least favorite is whoever insists on forgetting to use NSFW tags.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

http://kotaku.com/5733370/the-rise-of-the-nerd-princesses

 

[Pirandello]

http://kotaku.com/5733370/the-rise-of-the-nerd-princesses

 

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25374/Japan+Coming+of+Age+Day.html

 

Notice how one actually reports on actual Japanese culture, while the other... well... yeah.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

http://kotaku.com/ 57...nerd-princesses

 

http://www.dannychoo. ..of+Age+Day.html

 

Notice how one actually reports on actual Japanese culture, while the other... well... yeah.

 

What does Japanese culture have to do with an Olivia Munn article?

[TheForgetfulBrain]

I was going to leave the Olivia Munn article here, but noticed I had been beaten to it.

 

That is all.