While I agree that people moving to a country should adapt to the local customs and culture, this is just ridiculous. You cannot expect every tourist who might be there for just a couple of days, on a business trip or something, to learn the loooong list of quirks and neuroses the Japanese have and are very particular…

The fact that your reply is itself nonsensical grammatically makes me very happy

Product of an overbearingly strict household growing up here: your kid will grow resentful of you and will rebel more due to you treating him like this. I have a great relationship with my parents now (I’m 26), but there was a lot of resentment and tension in the high school/college years due to how much they tried to…

No offense, but if this is real and not a (pretty good) troll job, it sounds like your son has a much bigger problem than vaping, being impressionable, or wanting to fit in. Pulling him out of class and taking him into the principal to confess and rat out the rest of his friends sounds like something that will have…

I sat there while he ratted out every kids real name from the buy/sell group as I scrolled the list and couldn’t help but be a little sad at how quickly he cracked to save his own tail.

Your kid is 15 and not allowed to use social media? No wonder he’s rebelling.

I’m mostly concerned that these are just a start with the legalization of marijuana in my state.

Not sure how much whoosh is going on here. Just in case: Cecilia is another Kotaku writer.

No way he pays this quietly. He’s gonna drag this out and reveal as much dirt on the NFL as he can. And if/when it backfires on him, he’s gonna pull a Joe Paterno and die before he faces any sort of punishment.

i had a good run here at kotaku until i was forced to quit over this story

When you woke up this morning, did you think of yourself as someone who would call the teenaged survivor of a mass shooting a liar on the internet, or are you surprised to learn that about yourself?

The whole premise of this article seems...off. Are we supposed to feel bad for the Knierims? Proud of them for skating in a circle well after watching the news? I expected them to be from Parkland, or something. I’m sure a lot of NBA and NHL players had a similar experience this evening.

Mrs. Assassin, my wife, multiracial, all the way from the small island of Malamawi. Lots of Filipino blood. I love it.

That explanation is peak White Guy, lol. He seems to be unable to separate doing racist shit with being racist. They’re not exclusive.

In a three-way standoff Wenger will always find a way to finish fourth.

South Carolina certainly didn’t feel this interested in standing for the US flag a little over 150 years ago.

About seven years ago I worked in this auto body shop called Charles Gross and Son. Chuck was a great boss, he paid pretty well and he was fair with hours and knew a ton about cars. He was like 64 and he kept up to date on all sorts of changes in the industry—like he was one of the first people I knew to get…

Non story. The only reason she was spotted under a highway underpass was simply because she was trying to get an interview with Johnny Manziel.

Counterpoint: Baseball and soccer arguments are ridiculous poorly acted charades.

“Is she cheating on you or working?”