Calling it the most progressive congress since LBJ is damning with faint praise, all things considered, and the “litany” of progressive legislation they authored is hardly a patch on the Great Society. Not to mention that our current Republican majority has ensured further banking deregulation, cut taxes, damaged the…

God I fucking wish Brooklyn 99 was an accurate reflection of the police in America. A bunch of decent, hard-working people who want to do good, helpful, police work.  And who, in one notable case, love yogurt.

I’m sorry, but having cancer does not retroactively make TotalBiscuit a sainted figure. Lots of people have cancer, and given that TotalBiscuit was a vocal GamerGater, what would you expect her to have said when asked how she felt about the death of a man who would never have had a good thing to say to or about her.

This statement is depressing, because if this is what “centrism” in American politics, then even winning elections represents failure. These are Democrats who walk in lockstep with racist, classist policy and then have the gall to act as though they were principled in doing so, because they stood up to party leaders.…

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What else would you call a group of people who are contemptuous of you and actively attempt to damage your health and well-being for their own profit? They sure as hell aren’t our friends.

I guess, but anyone who can afford to be a “centrist” would never actually do anything about that desire. They’re too busy making sure little Becky and Chad get into the right private pre-school for the Ivy League track.

My understanding of US law in this regard is certainly not comprehensive, but my understanding is that most of the issues come with requiring payment for access to a game. Come in, buy drinks and play a console, no problem. Come in, get charged a fee to play a console, or charge a cover, and you’re in trouble.

Well in Valve’s case at least I'm not sure I feel confident that their solutions have been especially effective.  I feel like DOTA is still a pretty toxic game to play regularly.

Miller is a public servant. His identity and position are widely known and he is accountable to the American public. Additionally, he is a callous, racist, white supremacist piece of shit, and your sanctimonious hand-wringing is better wasted on a human being who would actually make the world slightly poorer if they…

The first paragraph of this article presumes that there exists a parallel world in which Resident Evil 4 never existed, and that there are therefore persons who believe (wrongly) that RE2 is the best game in the series.

Tragically, the defining question of our age.

Fucking for real. Like if we hadn’t been ready to bomb the shit out of half of the near East, the next thing you know Osama would have been rolling over the Mexican border like Hitler into Poland or some shit.

In a perfect world maybe it wouldn’t be significant, but remember the shit Geguri went through when she first came on to the scene. Some people were so unwilling to believe that a woman could play so well that they accused her of cheating. The community needs examples of female accomplishment to counter years of bias…

How are young women introduced to high level gaming, and encouraged to continue? The fandom is full of misogyny, there will be tons of people outright telling them they aren’t as good as their male counterparts, not to mention the harassment. The next extraordinary speed runner or Street Fighter player or DOTA player…

Yes, and a frighteningly large portion of the American public are onboard for all of Trump’s bullshit. Saying that “normal” Japanese people don’t buy into historical denialism or racism (a statement for which you have provided no evidence) isn’t especially convincing or meaningful when their democratically elected…

I mean, Abe sent an offering to the Yasukuni shrine this April, and 70 members of the government were there to pay their respects. I think there’s plenty of evidence that mainstream Japan fails to adequately understand and/or respect the war crimes their nation perpetrated.

“Let us be clear, the Birmingham Police Department does not deserve a round of applause for actually doing its job.”

To be fair to Reid, calling Israel a “Zionist regime” is factual. Like, Zionism is the principle on which that nation was founded. It would be like accusing a noted anti-slavery activist of being abolitionist.

Of the major sports leagues, I think the NBA has one of the stronger competitive environments. Admittedly, 4 years of Warriors v. Cavs would argue otherwise, but I think only Golden State is legitimately a super-team. Any team with LBJ onboard is going to be good, and each of these last 4 years we’ve seen the Cavs…