Who says I’m not mediocre?

There’s no doubt this is an important part of the puzzle. But everyone has a theory about how we “should” talk to one another about about issues of importance, and my view is they’re not all mutually exclusive. My main point above is that the mainstream gaming community is remarkably accepting (slash apathetic) about…

At the end of a long day with this, coke.ette, I don’t feel qualified to say you’re wrong. I read the details of her account somewhat differently - read that she was clearer in her mind than in her explicit and implicit signals about what she wanted. But maybe I mis-read. And my read of him was that he didn’t…

Looks like somebody snorted a few lines in between 9:27 and 9:30.

Wow. Definitely did not expect to run into the President of the United States here on Kotaku. I’m almost offended but it’s also pretty cool.

Alternatively you could say that they both did some things wrong and there’s reason to empathize with both of them. His performance of various off-the-rack “super sexy” behaviors - all of them aggressive and lurchy - is at least lame, but his willingness to drop it when he understood how she felt is mitigating.…

Some dudes are manipulative and some are dumb and plenty are dumb and manipulative. Men imposing their sexual wants on women is always a problem regardless of the psychology behind it. But at the same time, if actually getting to the root causes of that problem is at all relevant to solving it, I don’t see the point…

Addendum: did you immediately trust me less when I wrote I had a wife and thereby indicated I might be male (I am)? That’s ok, me too. Sometimes I think I’ve got a great handle on some of these issues; then I think, “As a white male, aren’t I doomed to hold self-serving opinions that minimize my personal…

HahaHA. No you can’t. It does seem like the interaction between Grace and Ansari, the way Grace experienced and recounted it, and the way her account got published, all add up to a pivot point for a bunch of issues that DO deserve discussion. It’d be nice (and probably unprecedented so maybe it’s not worth hoping for)…

Lots of agrees. Also I admit I’m confused by Julianne’s sense of her own place in this landscape. She laments that this instance of bad reporting leaves the door “a little wider for self-righteousness,” instead of sparking an important conversation. But even if you agree with Julianne’s take in every respect (I…

Hm. I hear you, but definitely reject your belief that you need to offer me advice. I agree that cordial discussion is often the most valuable way to proceed when attempting to solve problems. But I don’t think there’s a lot of clear empirical evidence for your assertion that behavior like mine is likely to drive…

I have to admire the way this article just ends.

Hey Robert (Squirrel). I see your point and I’m sorry I picked on you. I was definitely reacting to the general tone of many of the comments here, and yours was the wrong one to single out as an exemplar. What troubles me (honest read: makes me want to explode in a fiery rage-ball, showering death and ruin upon the…

These are great points, matt.

This argument fits the definition of a “turd.”

Well, no. You are missing the point... matt. Adding capacity to address systemic discrimination has nearly always involved actual costs, and those actual costs have always been the excuse offered by apologists who want to get away with perpetuating discrimination without even having to admit their own sexism, racism…

It’s honestly amazing that, in 2018, anyone can spout this kind of bullshit with a straight face. Do you know that these kinds of “just the way the cookie crumbles” rationalizations are exactly, exactly the same as excuses people have used to justify keeping minorities and women out of their professions, schools,…

Philly did good this election, and we can do better. I work the polls in my district and we had just-under 50% turnout of our registered voters. It’s a mostly African-American, mostly Democratic district and definitely went for Krasner, which is fantastic. But I was sorry to see the big stack of unclaimed voter cards…

# of Google hits for ““r. kelly” abuse” (just posts from the past month): 17,500

Totally disagree. So... different strokes? Last of Us was my first game for PS4 and I thought it was hard (I had no idea what I was doing) but fun-hard. Since then I’ve played various Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Overwatch, Destiny, Titanfall, Battlefront, Inside... various others. Lots of styles. Just replayed Last…