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Yeah, I got your meaning on the first read. I just think it was shitty. MN's north shore is not only beautiful, it boasts some excellent eateries to boot. *shrug* But whatever, I guess. People will go on thinking MN is some cultural wasteland, but the only people losing out are the haters who stay away out of some…

I might kind of agree with you except you needlessly single out Lake Superior as somehow being the backwaters of anywhere, which betrays not only elitist fuckery but a preschool-level naïveté of geography.

Born and raised in the Twin Cities, and in my 33 years I've never had a bad steak because our actual restaurants know what the fuck they're doing. If you eat at Cracker Barrel, you deserve every bite of boiled tire that you get.

My wife's sister works with a woman who at the time of this story had recently got married. One day her husband goes into the bathroom, and when he comes out he walks straight up to her carrying this basket or container, something she'd been using to keep her pads in, and he says "What's this?!" She's unsure what he's…

Actually Medicaid will cover all emergency services at 100%, and thanks to the Obamacare expansion of Medicaid that's going to include a lot more of those potential Opened-Door-Got-Dick-Chopped-Off injuries that we've all been hearing about lately from sex-obsessed has-been rockers than ever before. Thanks Obama!

*sigh* I'll be eternally jealous of that story.

I dunno about that. I feel like advocating for the wholesale slaughter of refugee children goes pretty well far enough on its own.

I rate this trolling 5/10. You get a lot of points for scale and scope, but you forgot the cardinal rule: spelling errors and poor punctuation. You did get some points back for having a few words in all caps, but next time you might try typing an entire paragraph that way. As it is, I'm afraid it's too transparently…

You are my favorite person today. FAVORITE. PERSON.

I, for one, am literally trying to find shit to get angry about: I spend about an hour every evening after work scouring my neighborhood for poo; then I throw a temper tantrum and tweet at Jason Biggs about it.

"We innovated too much" : EA :: "I'm too nice" : MRA

Charlie Sheen apparently lurks on Kotaku.

No thank you, senator. I'll be voting for someone who actually believes that GLBT folks are people worthy of equality, not just someone who puts on a mask whenever the public is looking.

Welcome to Kotaku: Home of the Judgmental Asshole!

No, my answer was not even remotely the same as "Black people can't be racist because racism = power + privilege," but I really have no desire to re-explain everything to someone who not only cannot be trusted to put simple, logical statements together coherently, but also responds with irrational personal attacks.

This is my new favorite book.

My answers to those questions are in comments that I've already left here in this thread.

My point is that the word oriental carries with it additional historical baggage based on the colonial practices of Europe and the U.S. of the 19th and 20th centuries; that "the Orient" was specifically contextualized to justify those colonial practices: "orientals" were positioned as "mystical," "strange,"…

I wouldn't ask you to start being offended if you aren't. You just might want to be careful of using it in places like this, where someone might not understand your background and take offense.