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Nathan Grayson
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Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.

“AI leaders afflicted with the dreaded spelling bee bug obsess over things like religion, sometimes to their own detriment, because they have no default values for other important qualities.” Read more

I before E, except after C, or when pulling a feisty heist on your weird beige foreign neighbor. Read more

The Witcher 3 is a definite never-uninstall for me (technically I had to when I dropped an SSD into my PC, but I hardly think that counts).

It’s just one of those games that will always deserve a replay, no matter how many times I’ve been through it.
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Shroud is the MAN. Started watching him in his CSGO days, I’m stoked he’s now playing Fortnite!! Read more

The more clutch the moment got, the more it calmed him down. What a monster. Read more

Wow. I thought he was going to flip it into falsetto for the high notes, but he just...WENT for them. Read more

Oh my GAWWWD. I didn’t know how much I wanted this in my life until now. There NEEDS to be singing competition in the Stage 2 finals. Read more

This kinda speaks again to the effect of great tanks and better co-ordination. London are pound for pound the most talented team in OWL with two of the best DPS players in the league.
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Gladiators have become my favorite team. They’re all such solid players that don’t rely on a single player. Read more

Y’know what? Thanks for taking the time to break things down to the level you did; there’s a tendency in current social discourse to immediately take the most emotionally-reflexive and intellectually simple reaction to any situation, and I really appreciate that you slowed down and broke this situation into its Read more

It’s a real shame. On some levels it is a really interesting game that shakes things up a bit as far as open-world RPGs are concerned. (Though yes, janky as one might expect from such a style of game due to the large number of moving parts.)
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On the one hand I really like this character as a concept, on the other hand I am annoyed it is another support character. That brings us post launch to 3 new Support, 2 new Offense, 1 new Tank, and 0 new Defense heroes. Blizzard, show Defense some love please. Read more

Forsen’s claim that “I can watch what I say; I cannot watch what my community does” is valid up to a point.

No entertainer can ever be held fully responsible for the actions of one or more members of their audience; people are strange, and they take material meant for entertainment as a foundational/guiding principle Read more

“No, no, no, no. You cannot have both. I can watch what I say; I cannot watch what my community does. Are you fucking serious?” Read more

Anecdotal experience aside I agree with Steph here. Hell, Blizzard has to look no further than their own game of Overwatch to see how toxic a community can get in short order. That game is barely a year old and Blizzard has struggled to rope in what has become a horribly toxic community in almost every respect.

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Aww I was really hoping she was joining NYXL as they could use an additional offtank and they’re a Korean team and, of course, the team I root for. Read more