The older I get, the harder it is for me to feel as idealistic as you obviously still feel. It’s a genuine struggle. I often think back to the scene in Twelve Angry Men when the racism of one of the holdout jurors is finally revealed and a man who had been on his side until he started ranting becomes so disgusted he…

Politics are usually part of a comedy act, but people are weirdly blind to it. My parents stopped watching George Carlin because they felt like he was getting “too political,” but his act was always consistent. They just got more conservative over time and it bothered them to realize it.

Judging by gaming forums, it’s no smaller or less vocal a community than the people who show up just to argue with us for being “put out” by the news. And then there's the crowd who show up exclusively to remind everyone that PC gaming is better than console gaming whenever there's a story about console issues. I…

You're underestimating the number of people who want to revisit older games and buy remastered editions for their new DLC, graphics, and features like mods. The ability to use mods on a console was a selling point for the Skyrim re-release on PS4. Now it's just another graphics update, and that's going to hurt sales.…

Read this article exclusively to comment on the phrase “generating a fair amount of online outrage.” Things like THIS are exactly why people online need to dial down their rants and outrage over pop culture nonsense. By all means, have an opinion on tv show cliffhangers and whether Game of Thrones offended you this…

I’ve actually been replaying Fallout 3 to see all the DLC I never got around to seeing, killing time until Fallout 4 updates for the PS4. I want to play the rest of the Minecraft and Game of Thrones Telltale games, but the Fallout universe has kind of sucked me in for the moment. Bethesda games have been doing that to…

That enable modders to create content that will work officially with all platforms. Kind of a big deal to those of us who used to ride dragons in Oblivion for mere moments before the game crashed to desktop. (Not that vanilla Oblivion or even Skyrim were altogether stable on consoles, but I'm encouraged by how much…

This list makes me wonder if “game” is too broad a definition anymore. Isn’t Mario Maker an engine to create game levels rather than an actual game? Is an MMO or an episodic game fit to be in competition with single player, self-contained experiences? Is DLC automatically disqualified, and if so, where does the Taken…

I'm actually a little bothered that in all these emails back and forth, no effort was made to contact Ubisoft and find out if any black people actually worked on Liberation or Freedom Cry. It takes a lot of punch out of the entire discussion to say there's a problem with black characters not having input from black…

I get why people hate on pre-orders being an industry standard, but doesn’t taking a moral stand against preorders hurt the games that have come to demand on preorders as a show of faith in the franchise? I mean, I don’t mind taking a moral stand if I’m iffy on the actual game, but I’m playing through all the…

For those of us who JUST got 2.0 a year ago, are the play sets from 2.0 and 1.0 compatible with this? Or just the toys for Toy Box mode?

Wow, it’s probably just the way Kinja organizes comments, but it seems like the only people interested in commenting just dropped in to reiterate that they didn’t like the game itself or found it wanting. Personally, I really enjoyed it and haven’t even gotten around to the DLC yet, but that’s usually the case with…

Wish I'd seen your reply sooner. It would have saved me asking the same pointless question as everyone else. I really should have known better. That fear comment seemed off somehow, not quite insulting but borderline depending on what it was meant to imply.

Do you have some stats to back that up? Just the factual points you made about assault and Internet harassment happening to men far more often than women.

I’ve had an increasingly empty, strained relationship with my mother since having children. She is among the few people still in my life who don’t know I’m gay, in part because I remember vividly how she told me, in disgust, that she would rather see two men killing each other than kissing. It took many years to…

I’m not defending the movie by pointing this out—people liked it or they didn’t, and nothing I say is going to change that—but the Kryptonian weapon of doom that destroys a city as it warms up to eradicate the entire planet had to be destroyed from the other side of the planet. Clark had to abandon a city to mass…

Your phrasing is perfect, and I wish some of the people writing paragraph-long rebuttals had paid attention: these are REQUESTS. Not commands, not censorship, strongly worded suggestions. There is no global body in control of the gaming industry who passes down commands. It is an unregulated entertainment industry…

Lady, I like your style.

It's even more insidious than that. What he's saying is that people who don't put themselves out there, people who hide and snipe from the comments section, are somehow justified in attacking the people who are either brave enough(or innocent enough) to put themselves out there on YouTube. That the price for seeking…

I thought it was an Evil Dead reference, but you're right, angry plants are sort of a horror genre all their own.