Mr. Fahey, while I really enjoy your articles and your reporting skills (and your ability to sign karaoke), I sometimes worry the assignments you are given might hurt your well being.
I understand it is your job to report on such things as RPGs and MMOs and the like, but Littlest Pet Shop the MMO? This is frightening not only because of the effects of such a product on little girls, but the effects it might have on a grown man (!) like yourself.
I worry that your usual ramblings about my favorites games might devolve into simple reports like, "It's so kawaii!" or "Cutey-wutsy-licious!" I suspect that your job brings you into contact with games like this all the time, but it's only so long before the Cabbage Patch Kids: Death Lurkers from Eternity the MMO creeps up on you and steals you away from Kotaku, Mr. Fahey.
So from all your starving fans (or not so starving as the case may be), please, Mike: don't give into the darling lil' puppies and kittens and horsies and giraffies.
@Yossarian: Well, it's not the signing you're thinking of. This type of sign requires poster board, Sharpies, and pretty handwriting.
Glitter Sharpies are preferred - they best communicate Madonna- and Cyndi Lauper-style karaoke. The sparklies remind most viewers of 80's pop music stars.
If MMO's are going to be degraded to this kind of evil then the world is falling to pieces. Next you'll probably deal with Barbies shopping MMO with the worlds largest pinkest girliest nightmare fueled mall. Dear god helps us all.
@mitch_93: As a father of young girls, I'll support this just because it *isn't* Bratz, or Hannah Montana, or Barbie.
Stupid as it may be, at least it is about cute virtual animals (and their plush real life counterparts), and NOT about unrealistic portrayals of women/tweeners where materialism rules all.
@D-K, Oh sheeple..: They're 10, 5, and 3 (and the 10 year old isn't around much), so that might skew a little old. I'll be keeping that on my radar as well, though.
Is that a flat chest Soundwave? I bought one of those double chested ones that can carry two cassettes. Ratbat is awesome, but I can live with just Ravage and Laserbeak.
Now... I hear those folk in Japan will reproduce Rumble and Frenzy, now that's what covet.
Hmm, seems a bit redundant to get Buzzsaw AND Laserbeak packaged in, why not Rumble or Frenzy?
I'm cool with my original Soundwave and the tapes... now if they did a Masterpiece Soundwave, that would be a different matter, as long as the robot mode was in the same scale as Prime and Megatron, and not the others.
@Mentuss: Sweet merciful crap! Why do the coolest flash drives cost so much(I'm guessing that ain't cheap) and have such paltry storage?
When I was a kid, Soundwave was my first Transformer. We searched every toy store we could find, and my dad was away on business(I was little, he may have been like 2 hours away) and we made him hunt toy stores where he was. He found it and Soundwave always remained one of my favorites.
That's a pretty lazy exclusive on Hasbro's end. They released Soundwave as a TRU exclusive last year. Plus, I think Hasbro removed the die cast parts. Blech. I'll stick with my Japanese re-issue.
@Doomstink: Better than last year's exclusive; Titanium Rodimus repainted into monochrome with a tiny bit of purple, as "Menasor". Also, this is, I believe, the first time Ratbat has been reissued.
Is that magnificent product available elsewhere outside of Comic-Con?
I mean, I don't normally roam the aisles of toys anymore and most of my time and budget is set towards videogames, but I can certainly appreciate the splendor of a Transformer the likes of Soundwave.
10/01/09
So yeah cut the hourglass thing and tell how much it is for the full night.
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
They are all way out of proportion.
10/01/09
10/01/09
Damn night shifts again..
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
I understand it is your job to report on such things as RPGs and MMOs and the like, but Littlest Pet Shop the MMO? This is frightening not only because of the effects of such a product on little girls, but the effects it might have on a grown man (!) like yourself.
I worry that your usual ramblings about my favorites games might devolve into simple reports like, "It's so kawaii!" or "Cutey-wutsy-licious!" I suspect that your job brings you into contact with games like this all the time, but it's only so long before the Cabbage Patch Kids: Death Lurkers from Eternity the MMO creeps up on you and steals you away from Kotaku, Mr. Fahey.
So from all your starving fans (or not so starving as the case may be), please, Mike: don't give into the darling lil' puppies and kittens and horsies and giraffies.
10/01/09
10/01/09
Glitter Sharpies are preferred - they best communicate Madonna- and Cyndi Lauper-style karaoke. The sparklies remind most viewers of 80's pop music stars.
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
Stupid as it may be, at least it is about cute virtual animals (and their plush real life counterparts), and NOT about unrealistic portrayals of women/tweeners where materialism rules all.
10/01/09
LPS lets kids have a fun time with cute animals. Bratz teaches kids how to look like mini-sluts.
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
10/01/09
I now get to look forward to my weekends spent helping my girls figure out how to play this.
I'd just pretend it didn't exist and never tell them about it, but then I'd feel guilty, blah blah blah...
07/25/09
07/25/09
07/24/09
Now... I hear those folk in Japan will reproduce Rumble and Frenzy, now that's what covet.
07/24/09
I'm cool with my original Soundwave and the tapes... now if they did a Masterpiece Soundwave, that would be a different matter, as long as the robot mode was in the same scale as Prime and Megatron, and not the others.
07/24/09
@Mentuss: on a similar subject, I just gotta get me one of these...
OK, so the flash capcity ain't that big at 2GB, but it transforms into FREAKIN' RAVAGE!
07/24/09
When I was a kid, Soundwave was my first Transformer. We searched every toy store we could find, and my dad was away on business(I was little, he may have been like 2 hours away) and we made him hunt toy stores where he was. He found it and Soundwave always remained one of my favorites.
07/24/09
http://www.geekstuff4u.com/transforming-ravage-flash-drive....html?___store=en
07/24/09
please put this as swag, please!
though this rivals it.
07/24/09
07/25/09
07/24/09
I mean, I don't normally roam the aisles of toys anymore and most of my time and budget is set towards videogames, but I can certainly appreciate the splendor of a Transformer the likes of Soundwave.
07/25/09
07/24/09
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!
IT'S JUST TOO AWESOME (T~T)
07/24/09
@Curse_Lily: