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Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Senior reporter at Kotaku.

I have to jump in here because a lot of commenters seem to be confused about the difference between a union, a guild and a trade association. Unions are for employees. It is unlikely that YouTubers or Twitch streamers will ever be employees of the platforms they license their content to. I address that in the article. Read more

I’ve never seen these games ported. I’m sure that they exist in some capacity in TIME’s archives. Read more

You’re right. The BBC’s teletext service lasted until 2012. It was a major outlier! Read more

You’ll be pleased to know that many are designed after AoT creator Hajime Isayama’s friends and acquaintances. He takes requests, too. Read more

Samurai X, Samurai Champloo and FMA: Brotherhood are all in my top 10 anime. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a new shonen I’ve liked in a while. Read more

I’d say that it’s got about the same balance of exposition, action and environmental storytelling that I appreciate in the Ghost in the Shell 1995 anime movie. Read more

It is certainly preachy. I forgive that because it’s kind of Remender’s thing. Read more

I’ll say this in defense of ScarJo: It’s clear that she studied the anime. Her body language and facial movements and vocal inflections were, in my opinion, totally faithful to the anime. But, because of the trash script that switched up Major’s personality, it comes off like she sucks. She was thrown some high-school Read more

Yeah, my Twitch app still shows up. Beam is Microsoft’s streaming service that they hope will compete with Twitch. Read more

I made this recipe over the weekend. It was incredible. I went the chocolate route and melted half a Hershey’s bar in there. Nerve-wracking (because ???), but I will never make Japanese curry without it. Also—I recommend that you boil potatoes and then throw them in the pan with carrots and onions. That way, they’re

There were plans to do this for a while. Mike, Nathan and I started some initial planning. Things dropped off because of the logistics of getting three people in different parts of the country to play together. Perhaps if you flood their e-mail inboxes with praise and encouragement, they will be more inclined. Read more