To the prescriptivists.

That there are people seriously failing to grasp the joke is incredible.

Brilliant, but I feel you could have added a lot more "reasonable questions" to your post.

the thing that boggles my mind the most is that the grand prize for the big award in question is a beer boot. While there's nothing wrong with a beer boot, and a mis-awarded beer boot would definitely serve as a point of VERY light-hearted contention between a group of best buds, for people to try and use it to propel…

Jason even though you are an Unethical Game Journo Pros, (but mostly because you are a Man) I will be civil in the hopes of furthering polite discourse.

The accusations of the GamerGate trolls, even if actually true, are almost laughably pedestrian "offenses" that do not even remotely warrant the amount of outrage that results. "Ooooh, nepotism and award-fixing at a small indie games festival! Some developer's game got a better score because she was fucking the guy…

yes. They should've ran out into the white out ice covered highway and just waved their arms. That wouldve been safe. There isn't much they could have done at that point.

The best moment is when Patrick Peterson goes for the strip, gets tossed aside, gives up football, moves to the Himalayas, and only communicates in sobs for 90 years.

*woosh*

I wouldn't eat grapes covered in Elmer's glue either.

People from Minnesota not only don't eat this...but have no idea what the hell it is.