No one is being demonized. I think he just wants the dudes to know what's up.

Dude, its not rocket science. It's just to be aware of "what's goin' on". Also, Kotaku is a culture blog, that is trying to make "gaming" a more palatable experience in the larger cultural sense, and can't do that until we stop making the majority of our games about killing dark skinned people and having female…

They should be at least a representative percentage of the population, OH WAIT THEY'RE ALL WHITE.

You should, you are very, very lucky.

And someone chose the worst possible candidate because, why? That's the only representative that you know? That does not bode well for your argument sir, and makes you look like a fool.

If you over night decided that you wanted a "change" and bought a suit, covered up your tatoos, and tried acting "straight laced" you could probably do a pretty good job fooling everyone, though, couldn't you?

He was at no point being accusatory. It's called "white guilt" and it's rather common, but unnecessary. It's a good sign you're waking up though. Don't apologize. Just be aware.

The way I've always thought was best is: Support, and then get the hell out of the way. So you know, be a good white ally, promote social justice, support your peers, watch what you say and your assumptions, and any chance you have to boost someone that deserves it in terms of a non-swm, do it. Don't try to "get in at…

What if you had been set at Gay Black Male difficulty?

Dude, Scalzi. Nice try, but there's no way to break it to white dudes without them flipping their shit unless it's in a setting in which they are the minority (like a sociology, or minorities classroom) and can't look to other similarly privileged white dudes to flip-out in concert with. (and it will be a fucking…

Hahahah. You are NOT the only one. No, far, far, far, far, far from it. Two thirds of the die hard Whedon fans I know are female.

castle has 2, MAYBE 3 seasons left in it total. homeland has 2 at best (i hate that, but it's true.) jewel staite's new series is pretty much done (if not already cancelled?) i don't even know what gina torres is doing, if anything. alan tudyk and ron glass obviously don't really matter. every show summer glau is in…

Hey, David, I loved the Destiny trilogy, and "It's Only a Paper Moon" is one of the best episodes of DS9. I remember watching it on Fox 6 in San Diego in 1997 when I was 11 years old and being vaguely horrified at the trauma poor Nog was going through, despite knowing that he was perfectly safe in the Holosuite. I've…

No, the 3ds will not change in price. What they mean is that their operation and production costs will have been thoroughly streamlined so that the losses from the price cut (250 to 170) will finally be nullified. Nintendo NEVER sells hardware at a loss, except in this instance where they drastically misinterpreted…

There are four books that pretty much wrap up (or try to deal with the fallout of the storyline wrap up which was the end of season 4) Enterprise, and deal with what would have been the arcs for seasons 5-7. The Good That Men Do which tells us what happened to Trip and why everyone in the future thinks he died on the…

can we get some love for "free enterprise" on io9 please? despite it's desire to be Swingers with Nerds (even including an actor from that movie) it's actually a decent movie with some classic deconstructions of nerdom, with some great sequences and to this date, i'd say, the most accurate depiction of nerds in their…

THIS! THIS! THIS! I have been trying to tell people recently that now with the coins for downloadable games system, nintendo is effectively saying: play more games and we will give you more games. PS and MS would rather give birth to satan than give you a GD thing for free. They'd be like, oh you bought more games,…

If you were to divide the average human suffering/per dollar made, he'd probably be number 1. except ricochet. that's video game Auschwitz.

While this post is a bit hyperbolic and makes some definitely arguable points, I must say I largely agree that at the MOMENT, Mass Effect is the best all out sci-fi universe we've been given. The games are long, pretty well written, if totally void of original ideas, so there's a lot of generally good content. I will…

SOB. STOP IT! JUST WANT MORE STAR TREK. PLEASE STOP TEASING US. I. CAN'T. TAKE. IT.