I’m going to reference my profession, just once, to contextualize what I’m going to say next: I have spent the last decade as a professor of Literature (and Rhet/Comp, but whatevz).

I say that to say this: Final Fantasy XV is by turns a brilliant, revelatory, and absolutely necessary change in direction for a franchise…

I am amused by the number of commentators who are rudely accusing Clio of rudely offending the mental ill while simultaneously rudely declaring that the rude, mentally-ill, ex-friend’s rude behavior was rude and that such rudeness should not be tolerated. To quote the great Tyra Banks, “There’s no excuse for rudeness.”

I want to toss in that I honestly feel that this is a worthwhile discussion to have and while it’s often hard to withstand a lot of criticism and stay civil your pov is a valuable one to hear. So thank you. (And I can see this reading as condescending but I don’t mean it that way.)

This times a million. Toxic people have personality disorders, many of which are grown out of in time. Of course sometimes they never do, but if you can look past the behavior and see the struggling person inside, compassion plus distance is much easier to live with.

Yes. I’m only allowed to complain about one thing per year, and this is my thing.

I just don’t understand why, if these guys really can’t sit next to women, they don’t just start their own all-male airline other than the fact that I’ve already copyrighted that idea and am halfway done designing the Stewards uniforms.

Some things just are.

There was a simmering anger about people like me — "Social Justice Warriors", as they call us — who are asking for change in the game industry: a better, broader representation of characters, among other things. We're "the cancer that's killing games", and Kotaku is seen as the key enemy site, with Polygon a close…

I just watched the micro-penis episode of New Girl, so I'd like to say that we all have micro-penises. They may not be physical, but they are all there. My micro-penis is that I never finished college. This is not a serious comment for everyone boiling with rage right now.

I think it's okay to have a preference for dicks that are not small and further I don't really give a rat's what your penis thinks about small boobs or the fact that this was posted on Jez and there is no counterpart about gaping vaginas. Women are told by everyone and their mother both directly and indirectly that…

All things considered, it just doesn't seem that weird.

K.

I am furious with the way Ferguson has been shuttled off to the side by many Americans, but I'm not sure the ice bucket challenge has anything to do with that. At all. We're capable of caring about multiple things at once. Some people are choosing not to. The people who are using the ice bucket challenge as a way of…