Pity they couldn’t get Melinda Dillon to come back as the mother. Wikipedia says she’s retired from acting, but retirements are made to be broken.

It’s only been 15 years since The Breakup, but he looks like he’s aged twice that much in the time since.

Oh yeah, there it is. Clearly you’re just having a conversation here!

Right. “Just a conversation” in which you use phrases like “what part don’t you understand” and ask if I forgot obvious details and accuse me of moving goalposts right off the bat using the very most needle-thin nitpicky interpretations of my wording that you could muster, all without any similar goading from me. Do…

Yeah, I mean, if she had any of that, honestly the time to show it was the first time. But based on her statements since, I’m not expecting she’s going to produce anything that counters the claims.

Again, I really don’t see what you’re trying to accomplish in bickering with me over my personal read on a scene. I feel that there’s a difference tonally between a scene in which Batman is flying a nuke out to sea and one in which there are more intimate, small-scale stakes in which he’s performing a duty as a hero…

You keep saying “shin deep water” but the whole place was flooding and all of those people were about to drown; not sure why you think that helps your argument. And I’m also not sure why you’re trying to use scenes that had crowds of people where Batman wasn’t present to refute me, because that has nothing to do with…

Yup, it’s absolutely hilarious. But the sad part is it graduated her from lies of omission to just straight up capital-L lies. Especially when you take this into account:

“Speaking to VGC earlier this month, Taylor had called the suggestion that she was offered more than $4,000 ‘categorically untrue’. She also…

Obviously I didn’t forget, but obviously you understand on a basic level there are different feels to those sets of deeds, when one set has Batman saving implied citizens you never really see, or saves them one at a time, and the other shows him plunging into danger and saving whole crowds of on-screen civilians. Yes,…

Didn’t you know? News articles aren’t about fact, they’re about how you personally feel about the sources of those facts.

Imran Khan did a really great public writeup about this whole mess on his Patreon which is much more incisive and in depth than anything Kotaku has bothered with, which I really recommend everyone interested in this story read. In it he speculates that Taylor’s $450K number came from her looking all the games up…

Schreier’s reporting isn’t “he said”, and as a Kotaku reader who has presumably been around for longer than two years you should know how this works. Reporters like him get their info by promising confidentiality and building trust with their sources. If he burns those sources it’s a massive professional breach of…

Ok but then why are you still asking for investigative journalism to be done if you know that literally the best investigative journalist in the industry already did so?

Also let’s not pretend that Kotaku has been as forthcoming with reporting on the Bloomberg article as they have Taylor’s side of things. They wrote a…

SAG-AFTRA actually went on strike for the better part of a year a few years ago, fighting for a new contract that did include residuals, but the industry was willing to stand their ground even in the face of that prolonged strike in order to not grant them that. In the end, SAG-AFTRA gave up that demand in exchange…

Imran Khan did a really great public writeup about this whole mess on his Patreon which is much more incisive and in depth than anything Kotaku has bothered with, which I really recommend everyone interested in this story read. In it he speculates that Taylor’s $450K number came from her looking all the games up on…

So she didn’t really “dispute” the claims at all; she in essence verified Jason’s reporting. No matter how she spins this, there’s no getting around the fact that the few new details she’s confirming cast her initial videos in a completely different light, and there was a careful sculpting of the few facts she gave in…

You’re not necessarily wrong about Reeves’ The Batman, but one thing I loved about it which neither Burton’s nor Nolan’s versions ever did was that it allowed Batman to actually be a hero. Rather than just beating the big Rogues Gallery villain at the end, he electrocutes himself, he wades into rapidly rising flood…

I don’t think giving proper attention to a relevant news story written by a former employee is even close to “supporting” the reporter. That’s a crazy way to think of reporting news. Personal issues, if they even exist (and I don’t think they do the way you do), shouldn’t be a factor at all.

I could see that being true with management but not with his former coworkers. And anyway since when should good reporting take a back seat to personal feelings? His reputation for accuracy and a responsibility to set the record straight are all that should matter.

Kotaku hasn’t been “that site” in years. All the people who ever did the kind of investigative journalism that pissed off publishers and developers are gone, and they clearly have no interest in continuing to be that site based on their recent output. So if we’re not getting that Kotaku back, you’d think Patricia…