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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.

As toxic as it is for resellers to run the market and the ick that is adults spending literal hundreds on paper portraits of depictions of children. Read more

The best definition I have ever heard for AI is “any problem in computer science that doesn’t have a good solution yet”. Pathfinding used to be considered AI, until algorithms like A* (A-star) became widely understood and used. Image recognition problems were incredibly difficult, things like feeding an image to a Read more

The gaming world has used AI for years, it’s just that all the major devs know how to use it as a helpful tool instead of overly relying on it. Games are an art, but as I say when people call AI images “art”, AI games aren’t art either. Games, movies, animation, paintings, sculptures, all of them have meaning put into Read more

Completely agree with Lady Mormont. Haters can fuck right off. There’s always fox news and CBS procedurals to keep the bigots entertained (not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the CBS shows, they’re just boring white-bread shit).  Read more

hmm. I’d like to see if sales fell across the board, or if the type of game matters. For example, I’m a fan of Jurassic World Evolution 2, which I totally plan to buy once it leaves GP, but that game is kind of open-ended, make-your-own-fun kind of deal. But I wouldn’t pay for, let’s say, Immortality which I finished Read more

Deepfake shit really needs to be legislated around. That’s functionally identity theft at the very least when using real people, in addition to being kinda super really fucked up. Read more

Aside from the obvious transphobia and anti JKR posts, the biggest issue with all this is where I am trying to find posts about fixing some of the PC game issues and trying to wade through so many threads of crap. and they pop up or get replied to so fast that when you move to the next page, the threads you were Read more

This actually was Cal’s stance, then he tried to peacefully walk past one of those god forsaken ram creatures, which promptly launched him off a cliff, and since then he’s sworn bloody retribution against any and all fauna that dare cross his path. 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

Rye, which is pretty closely related to wheat, is actually a plant well known for being prone to harboring ergot fungi. If unnoticed and processed into flour it can lead to a real kind of poisoning known as ergotism after ingestion over time. (It’s not really a fungal infection, more like poisoning due to the Read more

I was hoping she would stick to NSFW stuff, not because I’m interested in it, but because it would send a message that she is now doing this of her own volition and not because she’s being coerced / forced to. The fact that she is talking about eventually separating from it entirely makes me so sad, because that shows Read more

Anyone calling her a scammer or a liar is just showing their whole ass at how fucking stupid and pathetic they are. Ever since the drama and her pivoting away from hot tub stuff, her Twitch numbers have absolutely tanked. She would regularly have over 10k viewers, sometimes 15 or close to 20, now she’s usually around Read more

To paraphrase John Donne, no one is an island, floating in a hottub entirely by themselves. Solid, social reason! Read more

Oh, this is going to get so many weirdos going off on one about how because Japan does something distasteful in something they are selling to a global audience we can’t criticise it (even though they will criticise the “forced diversity” of titles developed across the world). Read more

I don’t play many JRPGs so I can’t speak to that genre specifically but we’ve seen this recently in the fighting game space where after the reveal that Bridget from Guilty Gear was a trans woman, you had people of the absolute worst weab variety coming out of the woodwork to claim the following in sequence: it was a Read more

The Yakuza series is weird because they’ll do a really heavy scene about not bullying or accepting certain people and then turn around and have an extremely sexist side character or horribly written female character. Read more

These people are sad. Every time they cry about this sorta think I just think about Ghost, slowly removing his mask so he can suck his brother-on-arms throbbing cock. Read more

Creatives, here is a handy tool for determining the racial makeup of all fictional content moving forward... Read more

i somehow won a game with Agnes controlling my deck. a location spawned her for me... and defeated my opponent. Read more