It’s fascinating to the point of being scary. So many so called liberals have, without realizing it, abandoned all their core principles. In their opinion, anyone who utters valid criticism of islam (to give a common example) is a gross bigot, despite the fact that islam in and of itself is vehemently anti liberal in…

Doing a hit an run and saying he sucks, without explaining why you think he sucks, isn’t really furthering the conversation.

First off, that’s some horrible writing.

The problem with these supervillain comparisons with Trump is that it only works for “unhinged” supervillain moments. In general it falls apart - no supervillain is that dumb, inarticulate, incompetent or whiny. That’s just not a very threatening supervillain. No supervillain is going to say, for example, “You know…

Talk about climbing on your proverbial soapbox. Geez, Ethan, Nintendo just took a trending joke and put its family friendly Mario spin on it. Nothing wrong with having a little fun. What’s with all the negative overanalysis? Of course people on twitter will give them crap and turn their own joke on them! It’s the…

Holy shit, do people actually take memes this seriously? They’re funny pictures with captions not a doctoral thesis on existentialism.

“This is retarded. Paramount could’ve used Axanar to sell Star Trek. They should’ve stood behind them and be thankful that someone else is doing the dirty work.”

Yes, they had plans to make this movie and yes they were infringing, but they are only really guilty of infringing with a 20 minute film and a fan fiction script, yet they are being treated like they actually made the larger film and that it had serious financial impact to the company.

Lesson #1: Do not claim your project is not-for-profit and then proceed to pocket tens of thousands of dollars for yourself.

“CBS/Paramount for decades turned a blind eye to fan made Trek films.”

As the official representative of the Real Fans, I will tell you we disagree.

Exactly -while I hate to defend Paramount, trying paint the proper rights holder as the evil oppressor and the Anaxar guys as innocent victims is bullshit. They were trying to make money - blatantly and openly make money - when they shouldn’t be and the production should be shut down.

I’m gonna be old guy here:

I have gotten to the point where I withhold judgement immediately on these from being burned many times both ways. Thought Duke case was a slam dunk they were guilty and was wrong, thought Bill Cosby was innocent (years back when it was just one allegation and lots of people defending) and was wrong. Been right a few…

In what universe were you that he was “ignored?” Quite the opposite.

actually no i think we got Trump by giving the Aholes a platform and billion dollars of free media

I think it’s more that the joke just isn’t funny.

Eh....I think this is only an issue because oversensitive liberal white folk who can’t use those words don’t understand using words like that to make jokes about yourself or just saying the words in general without censoring ourselves because we can. Remember all the clutched pearls over the president saying ‘nigger’?…

Hot Take: Hufflepuff is a lot like io9 post-Giz overlords.

“The big problem with this? It’s not true. Like, at all.”-Matt Novak from R.K. is talking B.S. again.