“Every word they say about each other is made into its own headline, pulled apart and dissected until it becomes incomprehensible, like staring at a painting too long until it becomes a blur of colors instead of a picture.”

Oh, no, it’s WAY worse than that. Just listen to him:

So once again, blaming your audience rather than blaming what actually is the problem: Poor writing

Regardless of the merit of the complaint, can we agree that copying and pasting a formal letter directly onto Twitter is incredibly dumb, and this person should have just told one of his teenage grandkids to tweet some disparaging Zoomer insult about American culture instead.

Oh my God, who fucking cares?

...anyway, here’s another 1500 word thunkpiece of how the Weeknd is undeserving to be chowing down on Lily-Rose Depp’s sideways smile on camera, written by someone who may have a traumatic brain injury.

Isn’t “royal” just a fancy type of grifter?

Ah is it that time of the month? When we have the periodic “the ‘internet’ are thirsty for <vaguely inappropriate character X>“. The herb era of these sites is producing some seriously sex starved writers! We all have our fetishes but yeesh guys. Suppose it's better than Ganondorf?

Do you have evidence of this backlash, or is this just a clickbaity headline that spreads an unrealistically negative world view? A few mouth breathers on Twitter complaining about something doesn’t represent a societal trend. I think it’s on you to prove that this is a meaningful backlash before saying said backlash…

Everyone at Kotaku kisses a picture of Bobby Kotick on the lips before playing an Activision-Blizzard game.

Do like half the Kotaku staffers have running Amouranth subs or something? You guys post like 6 articles a week about her. Find a new well

We probably have very different definitions of Beautiful

Because it was a cop, 100%. Citizens don’t get this level of protection unless maybe they’re rich and/or famous.

The fact that police can arrest you for making a joke like that online should be more worrisome, if you think this is fine then you’re deluded.

This is just about the dumbest thing to complain about this game for.

Finally someone talking truth about the most vile and powerful members of society: people who run endangered species reserves and restoration programs.

I’m not so sure about this. Anytime I’m hiring a contractor, and they say “I’m gonna bring my nephew in to handle this one,” it does not portend good things.

You’re missing the point. The discussion is around wealth, class and privilege, and actors/celebrities are just the most obvious example.

This. The sequel somehow seemed not to know what made the first game (and the *exceptional* expansion) resonate. I’d love Burning Shores to bring back that spark though. I thought they were going to build up to a vastly different third act once you went down into the basement with the Quen/CEO (think the surprise…

I just thought Forbidden West was a very mediocre sequel narratively, with a few downright flat performances, but a name can indeed be a market influence. The initial glean was over for me by FW. Something about the pacing and the characters was just far less compelling to me in FW than ZD.