Sonic does not need you to defend him, my dude. He’s a cartoon character and his movie will do fine without Kotaku letting everybody know that a bunch of fans said they liked the movie.

Well he likely felt it would not jive well with the GF’s sensibilities. Some of the quirkiness of Japanese anime can be real jarring for people relatively new to the genre and the whole point is how to get her to watch it without getting too bored or annoyed.

“this makes me feel icky”

“the public square”

The extremely key distinction here.  Come on.

I don’t know - I only really love videos that feature beloved long-running character Hat-Dan, the Dan with a Hat.

Kotaku has never been a 100% games-only website since its inception.

Authors can write about whatever they want to write about. Not every article on Kotaku is about games, just like not every article on Jalopnik and The Takeout are strictly about cars or food.

It’s quite a leap to jump directly to sociopath. It was absolutely in-appropriate, in virtually any scenario, but to call him a sociopath because he lashed out is a stretch.

Jeez, why’d you have to go and spoil the game for me?

I’m going to watch The Batman the proper way – six months from now, on my phone, in the bathroom, in 47 3.8-minute installments.

“There is a treasure chest which is a trap in a From Software game” is like saying “there is a chocobo in this Final Fantasy” or “there is a car you can steal in a Grand Theft Auto.”

Jesus on a stick the bar for spoilers is low.

I’m going to become The Joker if I hear one more person say “the existence of a treasure chest is a spoiler”

Y’all have a lot more patience than I do because I’d have pitched an article titled “Elden Ring Has Things You Can Equip Including Weapons, Armor” just for shits and giggles at this point.  

Anyone with a brain would expect articles like this on a gaming site for the first couple of days of a big release and plan accordingly to maybe not visit the site.

Neither the title nor the picture tells you nothing about the chest. You guys are being ridiculous.

Oh no, it’s a picture of a chest and a headline that indicates the writer is displeased by it, experience completely ruined

Your first point does not intersect with what people are claiming. He has a right to do this. That does not mean he is shielded from criticism for his behavior. He has an objective right to be misogynist and to refuse to work with women. And then women have a right to criticize him for that behavior, and Kotaku has a…

Something being legal does not make it ethical or morally righteous, and no one is arguing that this person is breaking the law.

Yes - because it’s two separate things, the handle just happens to be her first name. 

Well, at least the US Military hasn’t been trying to use video games as a subtle PR recruiting tool for the past couple decades, that would be embarrassing.