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I could see this working for people who dislike PUBG's aesthetic and also aren't fans of the building in Fortnite.

Keanu Reeves

Viola Davis

Macho Man Randy Savage

Shaquille O'Neal

Finally, the 9th Fast and the Furious movie.

I found the 2nd part of the BGM for this gaming minute, in case anyone comes across this and cares. It was driving me nuts for a bit there, because I knew I had listened to the song a bunch and couldn't remember what album it was from. Turns out it was a Mos Def track from the 2009 album The Ecstatic. Track name is Twilite Speedball.

I sincerely hope the final episode of this series' deck picture is just text saying:

Ben is tall.

Abby is not as tall.

It's cool that you guys put up stuff that didn't make the cut for your GOTY comedy bits.

Even before EA supported online leagues, we played. Back then we had to enter stats manually to web sites and the web site would track the league for us.

Yup, I did this as well starting with Madden 07, and fell off a few years later. A sim league of course, no cheese allowed. I forget what the website we used was called, league-something.com. It was an insane thing to do, but it was also a great time, we had our own forums and everything

I enjoyed the discussion on the DOAX3 thing.

1. Censorship is basically the same as irony at this point. It will rarely ever be used correctly in an argument, and even when it is, someone will say "That's not censorship/irony! You're using it incorrectly!" I saw a number of people defending Australia's decision to disallow the sale of Hotline Miami 2 in their country. Notice I didn't use the word censorship in that previous sentence, because you can't use it correctly anymore.

2. You can not have a good conversation about this topic over the internet with someone who disagrees with you 99% of the time. Everything is so muddied and terrible and full of anime avatars, that it's nigh impossible. I think that's the main thing that happened with DOAX3. It's nothing to do with the lack of a NA release or the community manager's facebook post. People tried to have conversations about this topic over the internet and failed miserably.

When I try to see the issue from Bethesda's or Ubisoft's perspective, I have a hard time determining that this is a "petulant" move to not respond to comment from Kotaku. Which e-mails should Bethesda or Ubisoft respond to? Like, if I post this list right here, is it an easy determination as to which they should ignore and which they should respond to?

• Kotaku
• Giant Bomb
• IGN
• Gamebomb.ru
• The Mary Sue
• USGamer
• Elvicerator's Funtime Game Blog
• Destructoid
• Totalbiscuit
• NorthernLion
• SuperBunnyhop
• Wired
• Gamasutra
• Offworld
• Niche Gamer
• Rock Paper Shotgun

It doesn't make sense to respond to every e-mail from every single person. So how do we determine who gets responses and advance copies and who doesn't? Pageviews? Number of years on the internet? Which one is owned by a larger media company, like CBS or Gawker?

Deciding to respond to e-mails of certain outlets vs. others is a more complex issue than it's being framed as. An outlet leaking information about AC and Fallout 4 likely factors into that decision-making process. I just don't think we can say with certainty that it's the only factor.