Good article. I’ve never been a fan of the movie personally — ironically, like The Incredible Hulk coming off its predecessor, I think it course-corrected too far in the “just make this as loud as possible” direction — but as Ebert said in his review, there is admiration to be had on the technical level. It reminded…

I, as an video game playing neckbeard who lives with his mom and has a 300 IQ but only the social skills that entitle me to a minimum wage job at Walmart, understand and know what is better for Wizard than Wizard itself. There isn’t an event in human history, not even the Holocaust that is affront to mankind quite…

The comments section on this article being incredibly rude and toxic would be surprising if io9 had enough staff or time to moderate its commenting community. But it has neither, so we’re stuck with this kind of comments section.

To be fair, I see a lot of the same kind of shitbags in the gray section as well. In my experience with the site over the years, this is just the long term fallout of merging i09 with Gizmodo all those years back. i09 has always had a liberal/progressive editorial slant and the commentors used to be on board with…

Yeah, this comments section is surprisingly cancerous. I honestly expect most of the people here are, in fact, white, and therefore don’t understand what the hell was wrong with the character from his very conception. Yeah the show uses a lot of archetypal characters and stereotypes, but a stereotypical cop or…

How the hell are all the top comments right wing shitbags and burners but I’m stuck in the greys for years?

To be honest I’d be happy if they just quietly cancelled the Simpsons. It’s had a good run with 30 seasons but now it’s a pale shadow of its 90s glory days when it was a cultural juggernaut. For the past 10 years all the best episodes of the Simpsons have all been Bob’s Burgers episodes.

are you a content creator who relies on youtube for income, or a subscriber to youtube red? because otherwise youtube has little or no financial impact to you whatsoever (and many of the costs associated with providing countless billions of hours of content socialized to IP holders and others negatively affected by…

Im guessing you lost a patient when you couldn’t watch the how to appendectomy video?

Although this news pretty much confirms that Korg and Miek will be joining the Guardians.

Sadly? Yes, that is indeed how people view these sorts of things. It’s more about “how does it compare to how things were before”. It’s why so many games with Microtransactions (F2P and otherwise) go kinda evil with them: If you start off on the noble side but aren’t making enough money, the community will skin you…

So as long as you never offer something for free, it’s cool to charge people for meaningless shit?

The difference is that most of the mods for Bethesda games were free, or paid for via other methods. Fortnite’s stuff wasn’t ever freeware.

Yeah, there’s a Mexican egg roll appetizer at the Tex-Mex restaurant near me. This isn’t a new idea

I was like you just a few years ago. Student Loans, car insurance, phone bill ect. ect. kept me at home with the parents. After paying those basic bills I had enough to go out to dinner once a week, and take an occasional weekend trip, but certainly not enough to afford a mortgage. And I made almost double the average…

I know totally drawing a blank on this one, hmm. 2008, maybe its when avocado toast was invented?

Gee, if only something else big happened in 2008 which would cause college and high school graduates to not find employment and not have the income to leave the nest and get a jump start on their lives, home, family, wealth, savings, and retirements.

Scott Adams is also a humorist... So there is a good chance he was being absurd on purpose.  And you took the bait and wrote an entire column about it.