I was playing the game last night and running around giving gifts to people and doing some sort of fishing mission where we’re supposed to impress the green haired kid with the biggest fish, and Bernadetta starts unloading with that story. My wife stops what she’s doing and turns around and gives me this look like…

Thanks. It really means more than you know. I know that may sound absurd, but a little kindness and encouragement goes a long way. If I can teach my kid anything, it's that kindness is always worth the effort.

You’re good enough for me, buddy.

I was really surprised when Bernadetta started talking about the abuse she received during her childhood (and the incident with her father tying her to a chair for hours is only one example, there are others). What fascinated me was that you usually don’t see an example of abuse in a video game that’s this realistic.

I haven’t played the game yet, but damn if it doesn’t resonate. One of my greatest struggles is feeling “good enough” for anyone or anything. People tell me I apologize too much. But I spent my youth and too damn long later in an abusive marriage being told regularly what a failure I was and that I wouldn’t be good…

I read the whole thing so I don’t mean to sound flippant, but yeah.

? Death threats are far older than the internet?

I’m sure for the people that do it, this falls into a sort of “hate the player not the game” attitude that makes competitive games generally unappealing to me. Similar to stuff like meta-shaming and whatnot, it often feels like toxic behavior and justification thereof is an inherent part of these games :\

I’m sure I’m…

I mean, the target audience was late hs/college kids.

Yep. Let’s not bury the lead here. Yes, yes, Ninja moved to Mixer. BUT KOTAKU FISH ARE BACK. 

of course Ninja is upset! that porn dude was playing with a... female.

She also has a history of feeding the cat vodka.

“or at least not promote other streamers and other channels”

Twitch is just a huge double standard bitter streaming service now.  We got people beating their animals, we got an ASMR using the N word, and then we have Twitch going petty and someone taking advantage of what they were trying to promote.

None of these people give a shit until it starts to impact their bottom line.  Ninja is no different. 

I mean, really that’s reading a bit too much into it. The page was clearly posting “Top Fortnite Streamers” and I’ll bet you a nickel that if you happened to check on that particular search query on any other page, the porn would have been at the top there too. There were some other sketchy looking streams in that…

It doesn’t, it’s a 404 page for the old URL for his channel. It’s perfectly within their rights to suggest other similar users. Dude is just mad he couldn’t control people being introduced to other users on the platform, and wants to double-dip on his watches.

The Kotaku NSFW fishhhh how i missed you old friend.

Thats some sweet Kotaku fish action right there.

HO