Nice of the jury to get in on the victim blaming.

“What I think is truthful is that they were both abusive to each other,” he says. “I don’t think that makes either of them right or wrong… but to rise to the level of what she was claiming, there wasn’t enough or any evidence that really supported what she was saying.”

Maybe the racism being baked into (some of the) text(s) keeps them a lot less insecure.

I’m sure there will be plenty of calm and reasonable discussion about Miss Honey being black.

Makes me wish Gawker Media had a rating system so we could do to slideshows what they’re doing to micro-transactions.

Ugh. I’m not reflexively anti-blockchain but that just sounds bad. Like, really bad.

I don’t think the existence of this article suggests PoC who have been falsely accused are somehow less deserving of our sympathy than this man, and moreso that this is a videogame centric blog talking about a videogame centric crime and it’s legal precedings

Right, because every story is supposed to be about everything and not the specific people actually related to it.
And Kotaku, a games and Japan news website, is supposed to never talk about video game news and if they do, they have to make it about everything and everyone else.

as terrible as his crimes were

Hell, look at CS:GO skins as well.  

I actually misread it as grift the first time I saw it.

Previously, Epic Games clashed with video game marketplace Steam, who took a firm no-NFT stance in 2021.

Gaming culture needs to learn what punk culture learned in the 80s. If you let in Racists/homophobes/sexists/etc sooner or later you don't babe a gaming culture you have a Racist/homophobic/sexist/ etc culture

“WTF is this?” one person referencing Almalki’s comment asked FaZe Clan’s account. “I don’t agree with how he went about it, but it’s his religion and we have to respect it just like people apart of the lgbtq community should be respected,” another replied.

1. People are desperate to find a case to undo the gains of MeToo and will amplify any edge case they can.

Oh, man, what to do? Play an “enjoyable” game sick with loot boxes and put out by scumbag company Activision Blizzard. or play a different “enjoyable” game without monetization published by an entirely different company? What should I do with my time? I just don’t know.

There’s no way, in mid 80's rural Indiana, you’re gonna go around rocking a “hellfire club” t-shirt for long, before the town pearl clutchers and elders have sit downs with your parents and shut it off. 

Yeah, I’m super-confused by the inference that he was ever “hot”.  He played an 80's asshole creep.  He was never “hot” so this phrasing is both dumb AND confusing.

Yeah, he “redeemed” himself by dying; let’s leave it at that, okay?  He abused his sister and was a bully.  Enough.