Patricia Hernandez's saved articles

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

I often think about the “Pygmalion Effect” in that connection, where the outcome we expect to occur is in effect a self-fulfilling prophecy, because our expectations shape our actions and the choices we make, which brings about the expected outcome. (An experiment where teachers were told some children chosen at

I love when my opponents snap the first turn, tbh. All it does is take a tool out of their toolbelt for later - they lose the opportunity to play psychological games with me entirely. Because a snap on turn 1 means nothing. Read more

Everything I’ve read mostly shows the core game is still very solid fun and all... Read more

there was this camgirl (adult content streamer), well known Read more

Looking forward to hearing how this is another grift, that it’s done for ulterior motives, and that it should be ‘taken with a grain of salt’ for reasons that thinly veil misogyny.  Read more

Wholly unsurprising. Can’t wait for this to be the thing that breaks the flood gates and gets a load of OnlyFans ‘stars’ ousting their partners for e-pimping. It’s almost certain to be a (far too large, if more than 0) portion of the userbase’s circumstance. Read more

Some things to take away from this a little bit extra: Read more

I’ve never commented before, but I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Cole for the depth of thought behind this article. I have played exactly 0% of any Xenoblade. It was a curiosity that I genuinely wanted to understand, but stylistically couldn’t get behind. They did nothing for me, at least from the Read more

Very well written. I doubt I’ll ever play these games as their settings/art/gameplay don’t vibe with me. regrettably if I sat down to play it I know I couldn’t appreciate them...however, it meant a lot to me to read a thoughtful essay about them. I feel like I can appreciate these games now, if only as an admiring Read more

Jeeeeez, get a room already. Read more

For people who refuse to understand the issue here, ill try to aproach it from another angle  Read more

I’m calling it. She is going to be the boss of Team Star/the evil team this gen. Her logo is a slightly different Team Star logo and I could see an evil influencer being a crazy villain for this generation. Iono already showed us that she’s all about the profit and probably not about her fans. Read more

Small caveat worth mentioning, they set the enemies ink to display the porn. This meant that they had to cover the enemies ink with their own in an attempt to avoid getting banned. Obviously they failed.
Read more

Yeah I can see VR training being useful for certain types of labor, especially anything that would be dangerous even in a controlled environment, but that would be relatively limited use case and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use this for regular office work or meetings, or imagine any company thinking this will Read more