I repeat: There will never be police reform until we as an organization realize that we do not vet, we do not test, we do not have standards. We have way too many police agencies (every little burg has one). We look for all the wrong things in a candidate. We do it all wrong.

I always thought the Scar thing was proof that a lot of Americans read a posh British accent as automatically queer.

“what has to be the queerest comic book movie to date”

“It’s dumb that they just brought back Palps after not mentioning him in either of the previous movies. Like we’re supposed to believe that he was like just off-screen the entire time.”

“Steve-O’s Killer Karaoke might have been the cruelest show on television”

The whole premise of the game is “hot people shoot each other sorta” combined with a weirdly out of touch street fighter attempt to be global that was never not going to be problematic, so it’s a tough position to find a character who was absolutely 100% designed as japanese “tiny evangelion pilot” first and then…

I think it’s happened because fans have become attached to the characters and tried to attribute meaning to them that doesn’t exist. Overwatch is a revelation in cultural representation to the same extent as Street Fighter - sure, there’s a bunch of races and genders, but they’re mostly there because one of the…

This is basically what I was going to say haha. I think 99.9% of people don’t give a honk, but hey, kotaku’s gotta create content everyday so they need something to write about.

I can't believe people take video game cosmetics this seriously, but here we are.

I don’t have to walk around like a punk and say these certain things that are going to abuse the whole country or abuse the whole world and talk about people and religions — things like that. I don’t have to. I’m going to walk with integrity because at the end of the day, I want everyone that’s watching me, every…

Tom died in a car accident and wouldn’t you know, Kate received a heart transplant. The heart was Tom’s. Last Christmas, he gave her his heart.

Oh shit, you’re telling me a video game website doesn’t report random murders, deaths, and accidents, and only mentions them when they’re notably tied to video games?

This has blown my mind.

I saw Darby Allin jump onto BrodyKing’s back with a skateboard with thumbtacks on the bottom of it at a PWG show and ever since then he has been my son and I love and support him in all of his endeavors.

I can’t be mad at him, but at this point it isn’t about him.

Fox News: Pissing into the Wind with our Mouths open since 1996!

Exactly. People can argue all they want about whether or not Blizzard was justified in penalizing the player, and if the penalty itself went too far, but Blizzard cutting ties with the commentators who literally hid under a desk so as not to be associated with the statement really says all that needs to be sad.…

The heavy-handedness of it feels like someone insisted that Blizzard make an example of Blitzchung, not only to discourage others from similar acts in the future but also to appease those upset by the outburst itself.

Ultimately, everything is political. I forget who actually said it, but the aphorism that we do not have to take an interest in politics for politics to take an interest in us is absolutely true—and it’s of vital importance to the present situation.

More importantly, Acti-Blizz (and the NBA, and South Park) took a…

“It is what it is” isn’t really an argument that in any way advances this discussion, though. Acceptance of the status quo may be necessary for survival (or just for sanity; brick walls do not spontaneously crumble from repeated headbutts, after all), but using that acceptance as a substitute for a tractable argument…

I like to think Miyazaki said, “this Harvey Weinstein,” with a little dismissive question mark at the end.