The facilities would not meet the 2022 IOC standards. They would basically have to start from scratch.

It's a seven-year disruption of locals' lives.

Wait, you can say no?

The aftershock we are dealing with is a direct result of transparency into the IOC. The Sochi Olympics has created a fundamental shift in how the games are perceived by residents of the host countries. When they actually have a say, the games are largely unwanted by actual citizens as well as stray dogs.

What? You mean a nation's citizens don't actually WANT to pay for an already rich corporate sports conglomerate's desires for new stadiums, facilities, and equipment from their tax dollars? Jeeze, I hope nobody tells the NFL, NBA, or MLB. They'll be heartbroken

I'm not making a joke here. Probably by far Detroit's best opportunity to host the games. Plus, IOC corruption? Corruption is our middle name here in the Motor City! Come on over, IOC. We could use some shiny new stadiums which will decay into blight (again, nothing new). The temporary boost to the economy would…

"We simply cannot stand for such a blatant display of international crony capitalism."

-Davos, Switzerland

Celebrating the butterflies by pinning bunch of dying or dead butterflies onto a dress and parade in front of children? Sound legit.

She was dressed in a plain white dress with about 100 butterflies pinned to it! Some of the insects were alive and cringing, others were already dead. According to GWM, children at the scene were frightened by the sight of walking butterfly death.

But they are not, most of the time the customer has no idea what they want.

That's why I'm having a real hard time upgrading to a PS4/XB1. IGN had a feature showing the differences between Tomb Raider on PS3/360 and the upgraded Tomb Raider on PS4/XB1, and the differences were like "See how the light from this spotlight is more realistically divided up in the rain drops" and "Lara's skin now…

The 2.0 version is far less garbage-y.

Not too surprising. There isn't really anything original anymore, people usually just take what they like from other things and mix them together, or people just have the same idea as another person. There's no real way to telling if the artist really took the idea from the cover or not, but it's possible. Either way,…

Dear motion blur,

Oculus didn't invent VR.

Hmm, it's one thing to paint a PC game distro service as having too many games, but to paint it that way while the New Gen consoles are suffering from a paucity of games, that's a bit rich.

That isn't the way the world works. There are budgetary and ethical concerns.

The threat is actually real, it's a Kotaku commenter known as Gr4bb and it spreads fast.

I'm South Korean, and I seriously want to nuke my people...

I'm not sure if we saw the same movie, Luke. I found the concept and execution of the film to be "meh". As you mentioned, there were three great performances, and the rest just felt not worth the time.