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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.

It’s not just something to say when someone takes their own life, or a tag line to attach to terrible stories like this one. If you think there is no help for you, you’re wrong. If you think you’re alone, you’re not. If you’re embarrassed for any reason or you just don’t think you can talk to your friends or family, Read more

It’s worth mentioning that Ronnie wasn’t just attached to Game Theorist community. Many others have interacted with him outside the community sphere, and are as shocked. He’s helped touch other lives, and similarly have helped him. Read more

Having lived in Taiwan for almost two years in the early 2000s, it really doesn’t surprise me that he very quickly ran afoul of the Taiwanese population over what we view as fairly minor indiscretions. In my experience, while they’re outwardly welcoming, there’s an underlying current of mistrust which can quickly Read more

This is the problem with taking IRL streaming outside the confines of your home. You are roping in innocent bystanders into a situation they may or may not want any part in. You are also amplifying your every action to an outrageous degree by putting yourself in public social situations, which are now not just Read more

I strongly dislike the fact that these types of streamers exist and while I feel bad for this guy, all of the incidents above (minus the hot tub one) were all his fault.  Read more

I don’t think I could have gotten along in life not knowing this existed. Read more

Great track, this is their best work since Parallax II. Read more

This one is ridiculously dope but nothing beats the “pick up the phone” parts in The Proverbial Bellow Read more

so far my favorite track on A2 Read more

Nice to see this game getting some press. I came across on steam and had wondered why I hadn’t heard about it before that point. Read more

I’ve been AFK’ing it a bit because shrug - you can get a few hundred points every two minutes without bothering with scripting just by clicking a level and tabbing to another window. I keep forgetting to tab back though, and I’ll probably give up entirely soon because why. So far my Salien is lv.4 and he has a very Read more

I’ve yet to take a look at this one, but I enjoyed the weird little sense of community that came from groups working together with scripts in the Monster Game. I even spent some time watching Twitch streams of other people doing the same. It’s actually kinda one of my favorite gaming memories in recent years.
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Woah, never expected to see this on Kotaku lol.

This and sianvar remind me so much of old Circa... which is by far my favorite band lol. On Letting Go/Juturna era Circa Survive was golden Read more

i’ve been thinking about why i love the shopping carts so much, and a lot of it is that it was such a pleasant surprise, and a genuinely funny and functional addition that fits in perfectly and in fact advances the tone epic are going for in fortnite. i really can’t recall a multiplayer game ever doing so much Read more