I never quite understand this critique, he is legitimately terrible at lots of things, he’s childish and arrogant and prone to ‘cheating’ for dramatic impression. The fact that he doesn’t spend a lot of time talking about the things he sucks at (though they are mentioned) is really more about how he sells himself.

No you can’t, but you can comport yourself with more class and respect for others then Patrick seems willing. His childish outbursts are unwarranted.

You need to contrast the value of his model vs his predictions based on that model. He writes articles about analyzing the data, he makes extrapolations. Those are predictions, and while they use the model as central to the discussion, the existence of the model the primary purpose, is the model. Perhaps his…

Oh, I saw this and thought ‘I don’t recall seeing a new writer’ because senility is for 35 year old’s now then, I remembered the name from the fantastic weekend coverage a little while back. So thrilled to see you back.

I guess the thing with people getting angry, is that they have showed articles where it’s discussed. Based on the facts we have it could be iffy, but is likely business. He was married to a high profile democrat, who received financial support from other high profile democratic party organizations. The implication…

Conjecture on the future is not able to be a proven fact. Low growth is a problem, if you think that problem is predominately due to the discussed government regulators then you don’t understand economics very well (it’s a contributor surely but not a major one).

It would still be an incredibly tough sell. The Skywalker bloodline is unique in it’s affinity with the force, for her to without training stand up to a Skywalker will always leave the question begging an answer. It would leave a narrative gap that eventually would have to be filled, and I’d rather see it done with…

In regards to one, we are talking about other people regardless of their faults, have protected speech, and how that interacts with speech that incites violence. ‘Culture’ is a general word that would apply to the beliefs, customs and accept behaviors of any ‘group’ one can have a family culture or a corporate…

Hate speech and incitement of violence are tricky, it’s hard to create absolute answers without an absolute moral line. And do that we start walking rocky roads we de-legitimize different cultures, cultural beliefs we stigmatize groups that disagree with us. It’s on all sides, on all of us, to defend legitimate uses…

That’s a terribly narrow view of things. Functionally however, we cannot control how people think or how people feel. When someone is a bigot and they say shitty things I don’t feel like we can control that, such levels of control continue to lead as further down the path we are at now, people who feel their voice is…

If only someone could do this for City of Heroes *sooks*

Welcome Heather, you’ve been doing great work and as has been mentioned all of us work browsers really, REALLY appreciate the transcripts. I appreciate your willingness to discuss games on a similar level that we discuss more ‘respected’ types of media and hope to see more of such.

It’s good that he’s appreciated. Evan is a damn national treasure and I miss him over at Kotaku. He speaks cleverly and succinctly, without falling into pomp or pretension. He assumes nothing of his reader, yet never speaks down to them, he’s a great writer.

I was surprised too, I think it just made me feel old. A bit like that pretentious film guy that always brings up ‘Citizen Kane’ when people talk about movies. Still, I think it’s easy to argue that NGE is a masterpiece always worthy of re-watching, whatever its faults are they pale to the immense nuance it delivers.

They are at their very worst, exceptional examples of delivering entertainment with strong creative purpose and at best they are as moving and powerful as any multi-media piece of art I can remember. FLCLs surrealism juxtaposes so beautifully against the universal reality of adolescence and loneliness and Bebop is one…

I’d disagree, I don’t see any attempt to actually explain anything. The point itself is basically proven by the masses of comments of people who if they had a genuine interest in this blog or even a cursory understanding of it and its sense of humor would have understood the intent. Maybe they did and STILL felt like…

The thing that gets me is how remarkably consistent we are (well not me per se, though I am predominately Kotaku crowd who used to check Jez mainly for Jia, but I digress). Every time one of these pseudo thought experiments of Jezebels launches I think, in a way that would sadly ruin your fun, “they won’t jump this…

It’s not even clickbait really, it’s just a joke/trolling depending on your perspective. Predominately Jez conducts this kind of articles to demonstrate a point that so many men simply leap to defend a status quo against a perceived ‘militant feminist’ without stopping to think ‘it’s probably just a joke, carry on’.

That’s nice, but it’s still very very awful. Sometimes cards are awful and that’s OK, they just stoked the fire by giving an awful card to a class that simply can’t perform will in the game at the moment. People were desperately hoping for some card to drag Priest up from the bottom and when something like that shows…