Remember the story of the Phoenix? The original Dark Phoenix story from X-Men. The core message there was that the difference between a person and a monster is a monster doesn’t care, while a person wants to do and be better. To become better. They resist the darker impulses they have and work to improve. The fact…

It’s been said that in the darkest moment when someone is ready to go through with it, any disruption on the path can make it difficult to go back to later. Saving someone in the short term can actually make a real difference long term too. If you get pulled back from the edge, however it happens, it just might lead…

I know the arguments for why representation matters, but I don’t think it -should- matter, at least not nearly to the extent it does. I mean yes, I get it, sharing characteristics with a character might be a window for identification with them. And demonstrating characters from classes of people who have been…

No offense intended, but Kotaku isn’t the proper place for this. Kotaku is for video games specifically, not comics. Stories related to comics belong on the io9 site, where comics and other geek / nerd media are covered. This should probably be moved there where it is on-topic. This is not a criticism or in any way a…

“If every game company went down the path of designing their games to milk money out of consumers instead of designing around fun, people would stop buying games.”

That’s why regulation is NOT necessary. Those companies who are too short-sighted to survive will fail and others will step up to replace them. If they’re…

Sorry if that came across harshly, it was meant more teasingly than aggressively. Thank you for acknowledging the point and changing the article! I didn’t expect that, really above and beyond response. It’s very appreciated.

Because Kung Fu Master was a platform game with a completely different play style. Double Dragon originated the formula that Final Fight, Streets of Rage, TMNT, and every other game of that type embodied. I played both when they were new and I never felt that Double Dragon was related to Kung Fu Master, it was fresh…

How the hell can you talk about great 2d side-scrolling brawlers without mentioning the game that started the entire genre, Double Dragon?

Matter of opinion, really. A lot of people truly love that movie, myself included. In fact it was my favorite movie I saw that year, and in a year that saw The Dark Knight and Iron Man that’s saying a lot.

Another person learns the lesson that “guilty until proven innocent” is easier to go along with when it’s not you or someone you know. When you and yours are in the crosshairs of the witch burning mob, you suddenly realize that accusations believed without evidence are not justice, they are lynchings.

The only rational…

“I think this is becoming an increasingly ridiculous form of critique. We need to stop relying on media as a form of restorative justice or therapy for past and current wrongs.”

A thousand times THIS! You have encapsulated this and thousands of other arguments in the current culture with profound clarity. I would…

This theory that Kaepernick is being punished for his politics ignores a few very salient facts.

* He was benched / lost his starting position BEFORE he began his protest, based on his performance on the field (or more precisely, lack thereof).

* Many other players have joined the protest and, because they are…

There is no nudity, no characters have sex either on or off screen, but there’s some cursing in the dialogue and sexual references to masturbation that are probably a strong PG-13. Where you’d have some trouble is the violent and disturbing scenes, none of which are outright guro but still are pretty damned intense.…

It should probably go without saying, but those graphics are in no way possible on early 1980s hardware. Not even close.

The closest thing was a laserdisc game in 1983 called Star Rider, which used pre-rendered graphics crunched on a supercomputer and recorded on laserdisc to be played back as the background. No…

I’ve long known about the early Tempest build, and I think Polybius was nothing more than a limited field playtest. The vertigo it induced in some players plus seeing unknown men collecting data from the machines (which had to be done in person back then, there was no networking) and conducting interviews sparked the…

This isn’t about Colin Kaepernick either. And it certainly isn’t why he doesn’t have a starting quarterback position. His numbers and lack of ability to adapt to playing a regular pocket passing style without the read-option to rely on is why he’s not starting anywhere. Let’s not get it twisted.

Today, the entire…

Isn’t it odd for half-Japanese to use a Hawaiian term rather than the Nihongo term “hafu”?

I’m not sure exactly how an actor could “represent” a white russian at all, let alone “well”... I mean what, would he need to accurately convey the correct balance between cream, vodka, and Kahlua? Would the appropriate glassware costuming be important? I’m trying to figure out how this would work.

Let me get this straight. This is a PUBLIC BROADCASTING network, aka those people who depend entirely on begging the public for money so they can stay in operation. And they’re really going to sue someone as beloved as Levar Burton? That level of bad PR has got to be lethal to their donation campaigns.

For that matter,…

I said when I first heard about this, it’s not much good to get Paul George if you don’t have or aren’t able to get John Ringo to complete the set.