Controversy? Please. A couple of fuckwits had a shit fit on Twitter over nothing, then Kotaku published an article giving it more visibility than necessary. 

I don’t understand the obsession we have with ensuring that no crunch happens in gaming studios. Every high pressure job has some level of crunch. I have a few months of it every year as an auditor. Expecting zero crunch from a job like this is foolish to me. The issue should be about TOO MUCH crunch instead, not…

Already 8 main comments read, and none seems to realize what it’s all about. It’s not about a building, not a symbol of christianism, it’s a matter of 1000 years of something that was in a lot of every single people’s lives.

you seem really butthurt

Nothing, because there literally was nothing to investigate. The problem is anyone with a brain the size of a peanut recognized this, but the media still tried to push the fake story down our throats. And the worst thing? Rather than apologize, we get more bullshit like the lead post from David Boddiger above.

I am still amazed at that reach on the Benjamin reference 

Really. I can’t stand Stephens either, but he definitely came off as the adult in the room here, an adult patiently but gently swatting away spam-children.... This exchange was so embarrassing for Samer, or at least, I felt embarrassed for him because he doesn’t seem to have the sense to do it himself.

And despite all this holds a coveted job at a respected publication. If he’s gonna explain how the world works, perhaps he can explain how he pulled that miracle off. 5-1 it involves blackmail or time on his knees.

So Stephens took the high road and you wrote a bunch of emails that look like they could have been written by an angry 12 year-old, and you actually think that by writing this and copying those emails and publishing them, we’re going to take your side?

Instead, you performed the digital equivalent of sticking your penis out of your trousers. This is very sad, and embarrassing, because (for now) you have so little to show intellectually or professionally speaking.

Just proof that if you think hard enough and get creative enough, you can make anything “offensive”.

So, basically a Space Force makes sense, just not when Trump suggests it.

C’mon. So the check memo field was supposed to read “Staged homophobic racist beating, down payment”?

Wow you mean the president of nintendo was playing a nintendo device at a major video game conference where other people could see him? Yeah that really shows how much he loved nintendo, the company he worked for.

The story you just said isn’t getting play was the top story on NPR this morning. But nice try.

Next time we could all do well to wait until facts come out before rushing to judgement. Facts are important. 

“I would never be brave enough to do what Jussie did. He put his personal freedom at stake and shined a light into some dark corners that need cleaning. In a way, I’m proud of him. Because it doesn’t necessarily matter that this event didn’t happen. It matters that it could happen. That’s the real issue here. So good…

Well, it didn’t take long for his apologists to slither out into the light.

The Root (and its Kinja-ing readership) fucking loved him up until the moment it was too obvious to ignore this was probably a hoax. And this event was perpetrated by one person, sure, but a large group of people ate it up, and fed into it, and used it to reinforce whatever they believed.

“Pro-Trump acolytes and conservative media have jumped all over this case because Smollett confirmed that the attackers called him a “nigger” and “faggot” and said “This is MAGA country” while beating him.”