Kirk Hamilton's discussions

It’ll be out soon! And hopefully worth the wait! But yeah. Read more

Cheers. And yeah, I did a strength build in both DS2 and 3, so I figured I’d try something different this time! Read more

Yeah, the aim assist on it is bananas. I really like MC, more than I even expected I would. Makes for a tasty combo with Graviton, too - pew pew vwomp Read more

More like Exodus To Orbit, amirite Read more

That’s Midnight Coup, the raid hand cannon. It *finally* dropped for me last week. (Masterwork, even.) Super fun gun. Read more

I’m glad you liked that cover! Guitar is an interesting one. I like playing guitar but will never be fully comfortable with it. It’s on the easier side when it comes to picking it up and learning some songs, but it has some peculiarities related to how the fretboard is laid out and how that intersects with your brain?… Read more

Goldblum. Read more

Hi! I don’t think we’re gonna bring those back, but I’m glad you liked Kotaku Melodic. At the very least, I’ll try to write something new about game music sometime soon. Read more

First of all, thanks! Second, ok, let’s see. As far as learning goes, I’d say the hardest traditional instruments to learn are probably either the French horn or the violin. Or maybe the trombone. Or the piccolo. Each of those is tough for a different reason, but all four are definitely harder to learn than, say,… Read more

Does Groundhog Day count? Read more

We only did the one spoilercast, but we were joined by a couple cool dudes from IGN. Read more

Shouldn’t “slaughter” be pronounced like “laughter” with an s? Read more

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I’m working on another one right now, actually! Should be done... soon. I should really do those on a more regular basis but, well, you know how it goes. Read more

Yeah, I actually have a hold on that book at the library! I initially had it on my radar because I’d watched a couple seasons of that show Vikings, which similarly piqued my interest in going deeper into the Norse mythos. I just haven’t yet gotten around to it. I found the lore and stories to be one of this game’s… Read more

This recording was definitely not on Kind of Blue! That album has five tunes: “So What,” “Freddie Freeloader,” “Blue in Green,” “All Blues,” and “Flamenco Sketches.” (I actually wrote this whole thing about Flamenco Sketches a long-ass time ago for Kotaku. I love that tune.) Read more

We get into this in the transcript as well as elsewhere in the full pod, but our main gripe wasn’t that the events of the episode were hard to follow. As you said, the S2 premiere was the most straightforward the show has ever been. But it’s playing so coy with what’s driving various characters to make the choices… Read more

Yeah, that had been my understanding - that increased front-back and bottom-top airflow bring more dust into the case but could also help with cooling. That said I’m a constant optimizer and really like fine-tuning this stuff, so I might mess with my fan arrangement contingent on how much dust accumulates over the… Read more

I’ve been thinking about that - so I could flip my rear exhaust fan so it’s pulling air in, then have my only two outward-facing fans running out the top across the radiator? Maybe I’ll give that a shot and see how it goes. Read more

Idk, I like his main theme! Also worth noting that first piece was an unsolicited audition for a show that basically didn’t exist yet. All it needed to do was get a foot in the door, which it did. Read more