Patricia Hernandez's discussions

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Patricia Hernandez
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Kotaku's EIC. Beats: internet culture, gaming communities, fandom, Pokémon, and Nintendo. When not at a computer, typically boxing or reading.

I think it’s less people being impatient — usually oh we’re never getting a new one is a go-to meme that’s happily trotted about — than the combination of a wait *and* rockstar advertising mundane stuff like ‘seamless character switching’ alongside that wait. Read more

yeah, it’s probably maybe gonna go down to like 90% instead of 95% usage if that lol -- really depends on the nerf Read more

oh yeah i was mostly joking about the menu stuff -- like it’s caused me mild grief when someone manages to select the char i wanted but it’s not like an actual detriment to the overall game experience. just very funny to me that something that SEEMS simple is apparently absolutely not! Read more

yes exactly! i’ve died WHILE ULTING ON MY FREAKIN TOWER and still, discharge has managed to destroy me in one hit. i am now terrified  Read more

so wait are you saying a video game company has commissioned you to put up a stripper pole before? uhhhh email me lol phernandez@kotaku.com  Read more

It’s pretty rare that we cover stuff about the actual experience of playing COD or the culture surrounding it. Generally stories tend to be about people getting banned, glitches, cheats, that sort of thing, which isn’t exactly uh positive press. But pretty rare to cover patches or additions. I consider(ed) it a blind Read more

we are short staffed and have even more people leaving to a degree that covering the news surrounding all aspects of this is taking every resource. i am having convos with folks as we go but at the moment the plan is to continue covering relevant news with the appropriate context and tone, should it be newsworthy. Read more

we’ve covered some porn games, we’ve covered sex workers on twitch, i don’t think we’ve covered an actual star from a specific game but it’s def not because we don’t think it’s a story. not sure if you were just spitballing there but if you know of actual people/situations there that are worth covering i’d love to Read more

do you really think it’s the inability to display the card when he has, according to him anyway, literally over 100 of the same card that have been graded to be in mint condition? and only this one has a signature? Read more

i’m not sure how that explains him saying he’s debating erasing it from the sleeve. that’s what folks think is disrespectful, he could have just said that the card holds the value and not the sleeve and left it at that Read more