You’re not wrong, but I think the point in this article is more that we’re at a point where GTA’s world, which has always been a satirized world full of the worst excesses of American society, depicts cops in a way that comes off as downright realistic rather than a satire. That may or may not be a problem for…

white people literally started a civil war because y’all couldn’t not take offense at the very simple concept—baked into the literal Constitution of the US—that all men are created equal.

I am happy that, despite the great purge of excellent writers that Kotaku recently endured, it remains a diverse, engaged, and thoughtful collection of voices.

and that’s okay! There’s an implicit ‘if Black people are around you’ attached to the statement. Consider also: the internet— with the caveat that I don’t want you to go out and try to collect Black friends like Pokemon.

George Floyd was murdered by the police, and I can’t tell you how hard it’s been to work, to write, or to live since then

Thank you. And to anyone asking “what does this have to do with video games?": Fuck you indeed.

The saddest part is how many murdered Black people and uprisings didn’t even make this list.

WORD. You are illuminating the historical thinking concept of periodization. Where we choose to begin a narrative matters. Those who intentionally start the story with fire and attacks on the third precinct want to make invisible the narrative of how we got here. Their intention is to cast ALL protestors as lawless…

You left out The Boston Busing riots of the 70's. The death and injury of two men in December of 1986 at Howard Beach NY at the hands of a mob of white teenagers. The Central Park Five’s bullshit conviction in 1989 and a certain Editorial by a fat, repulsive, sexual predator in The NY Times. The murder of Yusef…

The contents of a Perkins review of SNL are as foregone as the pending Senate vote on impeachment.

It really seems like it is time for you to move on from reviewing SNL. It isn’t that you are necessarily incorrect in your reviews (generally speaking, I agree with about 2/3 of whatever you have to say any given week) but rather you have nothing left to really say about SNL.

Let me guess, the controllers only work if I shove them up my ass?

I knew the launch was gonna be goofy.

What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation is this anyway?

“Stop asking questions, stop doing metacommentary.”

yeah, you’re right, this is definitely not a world in which Gamer Gate is relevant at all anymore, gooooooood catch.

Can you let me know when you will be returning to sports coverage so I can go back to checking in once or twice per day? I have a lot to do today at work and all of these posts about non-sports topics are distracting because I Must Read Every Single One of Them. Whereas with the sports stuff I really only care if its…

but is there another sport where a single penalty/foul can change the game so dramatically?

Wa... Wa never changes

With both Mario brothers dead and without issue, the House of Mario is now bereft an heir. Thus, the line of succession passes to the Wa, a branch of the family that has often quarreled with the main line despite their weak claims to the seat of the main House. Now the incumbent family’s inherited domain—including…