Nah, people need to know not to support shit like this. 

Thought about that actually. It’s all a matter of perception though right? We’ll never know anything about her and she was never added to the game so we’ll never know within the context of the game how she stacked up. All we have is this picture and my feeling of ‘ooh! a black lady in a Nintendo game in 1995' overrode…

Im not sure japan (not known for its progressivism) taking a world populated entirely with animal pilots only and plopping in a black person in that world as if they are interchangeable is the progressive message you think it is. They’re literally categorizing black people as they do animals.  Correct me if there is …

You don’t think maybe there’s a problem with a term that has serious spiritual and cultural connotations for a historically oppressed people being used flippantly by white people to describe, for example, pizza? (I’ve seen people say “pizza is my spirit animal” in case you’re going to suggest that never happens.)

Kotaku can’t win. They do their art-forward reviews with little focus on game mechanics, people complain. They focus on the mechanics and how the game is to play, people complain. The flute could be substantially less important than Ellie’s guitar, and the reviewer didn’t even comment on it negatively, but here you…

To be fair, if you’re the kind of person who takes random pills from other people’s stashes, you’re probably going to learn how to make a shiv eventually. 

Hi, since I’m seeing lots of talk about whether the headline/image are a spoiler, here’s my thinking on that: it’s only a spoiler if you look at Lev being trans as something that’s meant to be a surprise or some kind of dramatic reveal. Years upon years of trans storylines have taught us this (think: The Crying Game,…

It's not like "I want you to cover me in your man milk" is even funny, though. 8th grade boys have a more sophisticated sense of humor. No big loss here. 

“She decided to defend her statement and even had the nerve to Google that analogy to prove why it was okay.”

lotta guys in these comments have a lot of information about fucking kids as legally as possible.

and for everyone in the back: automatically denying something is not somehow more intellectually virtuous than taking it seriously. if your reaction to someone saying ‘i’ve been raped’ is ‘sounds like technically it was legal’ you’re not some cool contrarian you’re just a dweeb.

just for everyone in the back: the issue isn’t that it-might-possibly-technically not be statutory rape. the issue is that what she’s describing is regular rape, including the phrase ‘we need to break you in’ while deflowering a 17 year old.

Her story hinges on her being sexually fucking assaulted, idiot. She’s not saying her age is the thing that made it legally assault, but saying that it contributed to the power dynamic of the rape and her own processing of it. He literally said “We need to break you in.”

RIGHT? I’m not alone!!

“But muh games!”

Go fuck yourself, then go disappear permanently

Go fuck yourself.

Before anyone screeches out that ALL LIVES MATTER, I’ll simply point out that it’s not about all lives. It’s about Black Lives that have yet to have any degree of equality to white people. When was the last time a white person, pulled over for a routine traffic stop felt that this was the night they might die? Until a…

Good on you for posting this knowing well there will be lots of people screeching about “I come to Kotaku for games journalism, not social justice”.  Everyone needs to pay attention, all ages, all races, all religions.  Only when people are paying attention will they actually comprehend what is going on around them.

Fuck her husband as well. She didn’t do this on her own, and he has monetized content too.