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A handful of these examples seem a bit curmudgeonly, but the rest seem to fall into two groups:

i have a theory about Clint and his part of creating our modern society. before his films with Sergio Leone TV and movies had a team based theme. from the Magnificent 7 to the 3 Musketeers we were “one for all and all for one” but Clint brought us the the “lone gunman” and “the army of one”. the idea that we are…

The lines here seem too close for comfort, but this does raise questions about where contemporary poets draw the line between allusion and simple plagiarism. The history of poetry is full of near-verbatim quotations and riffs that often have legitimate expressive purposes.

For me, the show becomes more enjoyable after it has taken the fantasy of self-fulfillment through mecha combat.and demolished it beyond all hope. Shinji will never earn his father’s respect or Asuka’s affection or even a sense of distance from the forces bearing down on him. Worse yet, the desire for him to get into…

I have never yelled at a trailer like this.

The criticism here seems warranted, and I hope Kotaku can figure out whether alt-right recruitment is taking place at a scale that justifies the NPR headline.

The real question: does she remember the plot of Domino? Does anyone? Was that movie even real?

TROLLS: “Feed me.”

Am I alone in saying that S11 was kind of.....not so good?

It just kills me how stupidly obvious this guy is about it. He looks at the camera with a sideways “I’m being subtle” face, slides back in his chair to be more visible, turns back toward his work, then instantly, instantly does his more-conspicuous-than-nothing misdirection scratch before the main event. Oh, and let’s…

It might have been nice to have a side-mission where Spidey has to exonerate the victim of a false arrest or expose police corruption. The game would still be using bad apples to tip-toe around the question of systemic bias, but it would be a reminder of the holes in the game’s idealized version of NYC.

If she wins it’ll just increase the polarization that is already the major problem with the House of Representatives, which is absolutely the last thing the government, let alone the country, needs.

I’m not sure if you intended it this way, but it sounds here like you’re more concerned with protecting the reputation of the abuser than supporting the victim.

This is the saddest thing.

Yeah! It’s sad, in my friend’s case, his co-worker was saying she just felt so overworked and she didn’t have enough time to really write the things she was supposed to be writing, and that was her excuse, and she had completely justified it to herself. That was wild to me.

Miucin has decided to follow the undergraduate plagiarism playbook yet again: “Whoa, professor, I agree that this looks bad, but I have absolutely no idea how this happened. Maybe there just aren’t very many original things to say about [classic novel].”

Anyone who generalizes the action of one video game reviewer to the entire community/industry is a moron and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

It’s probably plagiarism in the end, but it’s worth noting that “fast, fluid, and responsive,” and talking about how “rewarding” or “gratifying” an experience happens to be, are core cliches of modern games criticism.

While these modders are at it, maybe those big red letters that Souls players know so well should say “you tried.”