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A great tribute to Jason would be to leak the roast. Maybe there’s a group of like-minded journalists who could publish it? No one who was here when it was still GM should be able to opt out.

Not to be even more negative, but I think Io9 really is a shadow of what it was back when Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders ran the show.

Three, leaving or announced this week alone

Can we get fuck Jim Spanfeller going in honour of Jason leaving?

Well I guess now all I have left to read around here is the root and the occasional io9 article, fuck the herb man, just fuck him.

Just yesterday, after reading about Michael’s departure from Jalopnik, I was thinking, “At least Kotaku still has people like Jason.”

Various reasons have been stated, but a large part is summed up quite well here: https://www.jimspanfellerisaherb.com/

Improving the culture of a company is a hard thing to do that takes a lot of time. I hope that it works out for all the people on the ground at Rockstar. To make the culture of a company worse, all you really have to do is to start an herb garden.

And with that, you’ve eclipsed all the content pushed forth by Zombie Deadspin so far.

Starr, best known for his dry humor in the Spider-Man movies and Freaks and Geeks,

I love chili, and this is a great suggestion. Unfortunately I’m obsessed with pairing chili and ultra-crumbly cornbread. This is a me problem.

No, no. Garages are for parking. The shop in the back yard is for working on stuff. 

This just proves that the Swedish Chef is still on drugs.

I’m from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party and you point out the problem with party politics. Democratic leadership is more open to a billionaire republican with a terrible record of human rights abuse than an independent Senator that has caucused successfully with the Democrats. The Democratic Party is more…

I deleted that cancerous bullshit from my phone about four years ago and...

“I never ever click my Twitter app and scroll through to see who’s tweeting what,” he told USA Today some years ago, describing what for many of us is a utopian daydream. “I just don’t have time for it. I have a real busy life.”

This has been pointed out to Jez writers before but they conveniently ignore it because it doesn’t fit their irrational-hatred-of-Pete-Davidson agenda. Nor does the fact that with his mental health issues, it makes sense for him to have a close relative living nearby. 

I think it’s important to note that Pete lives in the basement of the house he bought for his mom, not just “his mom’s basement.”