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John Walker
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Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

The Poliwhirl card is the best one in the slideshow. Spectacular! Read more

Victor Vran, with the expansions, lets you explode skeletons with Lemmy’s bass. Read more

Honestly, the “we’ve already seen all-white LotR art for decades” is a pretty good approach to take — why would anyone want to see WotC try to directly compete with versions that are out there, well liked, and generally excellent? (Not you, Ralph Bakshi.)

They should have been a lot more blunt that no one is coming to Read more

This sounds amazing, especially as a big brother (with ADHD) to much younger siblings (with ADHD). Read more

Why is this Toby’s first review? You’ve been wasting a valuable resource this whole time. Can’t wait to see what he writes next! Read more

Can we have more of this Toby chap please, he’s the only one talking sense in this review :)
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More reviews by Toby, please. My new favorite Kotaku reviewer. Read more

Same.  I think i got about 3 seasons in and went “They don’t have the answers; they barely have the questions.”  It was interesting, but much like Limetown, they needed an ending in mind before they started the second season.   Read more

I was not familiar with the Backrooms concept but I took a quick look at the YouTube video and it looks pretty great and suitably creepy so I’ll have to check it out when I have more time. Read more

“Hmmm, I’m at 999 words, so what can I do to hit 1000?  Slightly rewrite a previous sentence?  Add more text and go a bit over 1000?  Nah, I’ll just add ‘It’ to the end.” Read more

This is one of the reasons I haven’t particularly enjoyed any of the products that rely on OpenAI’s services. There’s being SFW and being chaste and then there’s the ridiculously over the top filtering that OpenAI requires from anyone using their service. It loses a lot of fun really fast when it keeps telling you it Read more

Bruh, I made this in like 2 minutes. Step up your game.

That’s even ouchier if you also discarded, say, Swarm and Apocalypse, the former putting in two 0-cost versions of itself into your hand, the latter replacing itself with +4 power. Pull Hela on turn six and, good grief, every slot will be filled with your whole discarded hand.” Read more

This piece is peak Kotaku. Silly, riveting, informative, excellent stuff! Read more

Gellar used to live in the village where I grew up - I semi-regularly ran into him when he was out jogging, and he invited me and my family round to his mansion a few times, gave us signed copies of some of his books and a VHS of a movie about his life. Not only that, but he maintained a correspondence with my mum and Read more