I don’t know if he’ll stick but Castro really made the most of this debate.

I like to think of it as bobbing for bad apples. And then pointing out the second half of that phrase about bad apples.

I appreciate that, but please do know that none of this would be possible without all of my talented, hard-working colleagues here at Kotaku. We are a team in so many ways, and none of these stories are single-person efforts, ever.

Another fantastic read. I have the utmost respect for you, Jason, you’re going to be remembered for being at the tip of the spear of the unionization of this garbage ass industry.

I worked QA on Black Ops III at the El Segundo Activision location, placed by Volt. We were paid a base wage of $10/hour, and initially the hours were 8am-6pm Monday thru Saturday. Crunch time we worked 7am-7pm every single day of the week.

There was pizza, beer, and jubilation for everyone at the studio behind Call of Duty: Black Ops 4—except the quality assurance testers, who had to leave shortly after they got there.

This is why you unionize. Except we won’t fucking do it because as Americans we’re apparently broken at such a fundamental level we think we deserve this treatment to get ahead. And who told you that...?

Y'all motherfuckers need unions

If you’re a conservative, not rich, and voted Dump, you’re a fool. Seriously. He’s not for you. He doesn’t care about you. In fact he doesn’t give a rat’s rear about you. All he cares about is how much you’ll cheer for him at his creepy wannabe-Nuremberg rallies. That’s it.

Lets just all remember that he is a child and likely doesn’t have the perspective to understand how awful this is. And instead blame the scores of adults who still made it happen.

Waskom, Texas: where we love to waste taxpayer money on lawsuits brought because we decided to posture about issues that don’t affect us.

You’re right. But CD Projekt Red has been called out for some troubling stances on race and transmisogyny before. We can hope that this is some incisive and cutting cultural commentary, but asking these questions is valid given CDPR’s past mistakes. I like CDPR, and I want to love this game, and putting pressure on…

I think it’s a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ thing. Combined with the blatant stereotypes folks previewing the game have called out and their history of anti-trans messaging (purposeful or not) folks assumed the worse.

Black voters are pragmatic. We vote thinking about how it will affect all Americans not just ourselves.

I nearly always agree with you, but Biden is terrible. We can’t let them divide us by working to promote the worst choice in the primaries.

“Please leave us out of this.” — An Entire Nation

Feh.

My husband has a BEARD. It is a thing of beauty - he’s indian, so it’s bountiful anyway, but he’s also blessed with a near perfect..outline...? Is that the word? It’s very neatly beard-shaped is what I mean. He’s had it since roughly 3 months after we started dating, so I am pretty fuzzy on what he looked like…

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

“The university wants to hold a meeting with students to prevent the incident from happening again, but it seems like they should be talking to the police.”