If you’re willing to accept that professional gaming is a job, then it’s a workplace shooting, which is the ancestor of most school shootings, and America has a fuckload of them. Mark Ames (yeah, I know) wrote about “rage murders” a decade ago, and his argument was that they stem from the nature of the modern workplace…

“Conform perfectly to the party image.... or else!”

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with…

The only real piece of shit here is you. The man did more for this country than your stupid ass sitting on the couch. 

I know it’s not a popular take around these parts, but I’m going to mourn John McCain.

How about T&D play?

Correction: One responded, and continued to respond, unpleasantly to a polite fan interaction.

Sorry but that’s a false equivalence. CD Project Red quickly apologized for the tweet. The person you refer to doubled down on the initial behavior that people found unpleasant.

Must’ve missed the part of the article that mentions CD Project Red being racially motivated to make this tweet. Sounds like you have no problem attacking white males on an article that has nothing to do with race though. Nice double standard.

It is a stupid joke for sure, but outrage culture is way more annoying.

That tweet wasn't transphobic.

“I don’t want to do this because it makes me and my family uncomfortable,” is full-enough reason not to do something, full stop.

Kotaku has been off the rails a very long time. Unfortunately, Grayson is quite literally a voice for the delusional, drooling psychopaths behind the shadows just waiting to jump on anyone they don’t agree with. Has been for a long while now.

The fact is that most people don’t want to invite drama into their personal lives so lets stop assuming his marriage isn’t strong enough to survive the gossip. Why subject your significant other to the abuse or harassment? Also can you guarantee that the gossip would stay online? We all know that there are those who…

why does this matter? who cares who he chooses to play a game with on his stream. why try to shame him into playing with a female streamer if he doesnt want to? you guys are going off the rails lately

Because this is a left over puritan rule that society mostly winks at until some one ugly does it.

I’m not sure what the fuss is. Age of consent is 16 in most places... California seems a bit puritanical here.

Certain segments of the internet have been calling Riot a ‘SJW’ infested games studio for years now. So.. this new information doesn’t really surprise me in the least given if 2018 has taught us anything its that the people who do the most to prove how progressively feminist they are tend to also be the ones who are…

Some of it sounds biased but a lot is true I’m sure. Some of the questions may have been jokes that the women took offensively. Some might argue our culture has lost a sense of being able to take things lightly.

I mean, this is an important lesson anyone can take away in general, for whatever kind of work they’re doing - expectations are loaded things. Failing to meet them can cause disproportionate anger, when a thousand other mediocre-or-worse games will disappear without comment.