This sparks joy.

For some reason the youngs think Boomers cry when they see electronics.

Too bad we’ll never hear a speech from a salty internet-nobody like you, I bet you’d show everyone how it’s done properly, champ!

“Dr. Judge” needs to become a daytime television show ASAP.

Most of the articles I’ve seen about this don’t mention that it was suicide.

It’s not just an extra click, though. It’s extra loading time pulling up the launcher instead of just starting to load the game. It’s extra ads that you can’t opt out of. In some cases, like Ubisoft’s proprietary launcher, it’s pretty much bloated malware.

Nope, Valve like Amazon is a company and there is no law stating that they have to allow a persons content for sale, they can de-platform them just for the fuck of it if they want to.

Yea I’m not seeing what exactly about the trailer is triggering people to mock....is the protagonist thinking over her situation too meta or something?

A pattern seems to be emerging:

I think you nailed exactly what I was going to type.
As soon as I see the word “appropriation”, I always get this sinking feeling that I am readying poorly researched article by a young intern who hasn’t traveled enough or seen enough of the world to understand the intersections between art and culture.

It’s wrong, but it’s on-brand from the same site that said that using a 1920s animation aesthetic means you need to use it to make a statement about racism, nothing else is acceptable.

Every time a writer here types the word “orientalism” in article they should consider that fact 

My guess is they didn’t want to go there and they just wanted an interesting dystopian location for their cat to exist.

but not all depictions of non-white people have to automatically be political.

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

All due respect, Ex Machina does not deserve the shade you are throwing its way via that New Yorker article. Try this alternative:

I love that this article points out the *three year run* of The Mighty Thor, and then blames a two hour movie for failing to match the depth achieved over that run. Waititi left a whole other movie on the cutting room floor. Most of those are freely admitted to be gags and diversions, but there certainly was also…

Doesn’t look similar at all to what’s in the trailer.