You know, considering how awful and intrusive Kotaku’s ads are on mobile, I think it’s kind of hilarious to see you calling out what is fairly benign (albeit also still pretty crappy) compared to your own site’s ads, which are massive and page engulfing.

The last slide refers to “Plant-Based Foods” as a failure in progress. I assume they’re referring to lab-engineered “meat” products.

I recommend reading past the headline next time.

Didn’t read the article did ya. They literally mention it several times. 

You’re assuming you’re dealing with someone who learns from their mistakes and grows from them, not someone who will just call you a ‘pedo’, tweet a poop emoji and move on with no remorse or self-reflection.

Yet another article around “outrage” created by two people’s posts on Instagram or Twitter.

Wait tho... the actual performers felt they didn’t have time to prepare and the choreographer selected dancers they were familiar with that were coincidentally non south-asian.... What did they want to happen here? It sounds like the options they would have preferred was either thrusting indian dancers into an…

It’s dishonest in quite the same way clickbait is dishonest. In fact, that’s because it is essentially just that.

And so it follows that they would draw criticism upon themselves. I see criticism in that context as justified.

I’m otherwise in agreement with you in that ultimately it’s all nonsense anyways because even…

Instead of complaining about which games made their top 20 list, I’m going to complain about the number of games on their top 20 list.

They are always opinions, which is why any implication that they are definitive is de facto dishonest and an invitation to criticism.

So the take away here is that you can post your “expert” opinion for public consumption, get paid for it and have it broadcasted by a national newspaper and we either have to nod and agree or shut up and make our own. That’s silly and misses the point. But I hope whenever you disagree with something you get up and go…

I dont think its impossible to separate the two (favorite vs best) because I think that you can see the flaws in your favorites enough to make a call on it.

My favorite game of all time is Lufia II, but I will never dare claim that its a better game than say, Mario Galaxy.

How do I categorize this? Well, Mario Galaxy…

People rely on “but it’s my opinion” WAAAY too damn much to justify their bad takes.  Just because it’s your opinion doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong.  It just means you have a wrong opinion.

If the point if the list was to portray personal thoughts (like you say) it shouldn’t be called “The 20 Best Games of All Time”, it should be called “My 20 Favorite Games”.

“20 Best Films of All Time — Ranked By An Expert Jury”

How did far cry 4 make the list over, say, link to the past? as the list says, “any game where you can hang-glide over a waterfall is fine by me”. and you know what? they’re right! that ruled! and if that makes it one of their favourite games of all time, then it deserves a spot on their list.

Phrasing is important!

When you make a personal list, you say as much. This is my personal favorite. This is the panel’s most esteemed, top games or whatever.

You do not say, “this is the list of the best video games of all time, as ranked by an expert jury”.

That phrasing invites this type of criticism because it is…

Don’t be lazy - posting some pics of the different kinds of anchors would make this article way better.  You probably could figure out how to make a slideshow out of it!

This is 100% the correct response. Maybe its a generational thing , but I kind of feel like someone needs to remand the internet that two guys or girls can be close without it being a sexual relationship . That “every character is automatically at least Bi” attitude around shipping is pretty insulting , especially for…

I get where you are coming from. But implying that 2 dudes being friendly with each other should be gay also diminishes that 2 dudes can also be open with each other and trust each other in a way that isn’t “toxic masculinity”. What I mean to say is they are best friends who care about each other. Atlus definitely…