I’m really sorry to read this Nathan. I remember your work here from your Kotaku days. What you’re describing sounds terribly familiar to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of what’s gone at Vox, GMG, et al. Hopeful to see your stuff at a pub that knows what to do with good work. I’d love to support a Defector-like…

hi! former kotaku and (until a few hours ago) current launcher reporter here, and I just wanted to say this is pretty much exactly correct. leadership never gave us the resources we needed, and promotion of even our biggest/best stories was sporadic at best. loved having the time and space to report out good stuff,…

Not to mention that if you picked a completely random person out of the 8 billion on Earth, you have about a 50% chance they are from Asia. That is why a good number of diseases start there. Just pure statistics. More people, more chance something happens there.

Counter: what if you’re leading a team of five people and everyone is amazing. This policy forces you to pick one of them as the “worst”, and suddenly that person’s financial and employment situation takes a direct hit.

This is sociopathy and sociopaths. The structure of the modern world and its ‘economy’ both rewards and incentivizes them and their behavior, which should come as no surprise, given that sociopaths are the ones controlling society and writing its laws. Built by and for sociopaths. What we’re seeing is the perfectly…

I want to meet the people who come up with systems like this. Seriously.

I mean, part of the problem is that we keep ignoring shit like this. Like, is a 19-year-old breaking a controller after losing in a fighting game really important? No, but just as you posted all of those men acting like babies and said “who the heck cares”, we need to stop acting like it’s ok. Competitive, hyped up on…

The same way all those images ended up as stories, too?  Duh.

Wata is inflating prices by several thousands of dollars and are driving up bids for these inflated prices by placing fake bids.

It’s not really “looking for reasons” when Rowling has very publicly made those statements…but this is all spoken like someone who probably has never had to deal with comments like these directed and them. Must be nice. 

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

Because Faux News regularly portrays any worker power as ultimate evil and brainwashes their viewers with it.

Why? You do realize the one and only reason employees go to start a union is when a company has repeatedly failed to pay and treat workers well? Why do you hate workers?

The problem is that those panels get covered in dirt because of the Martian winds.

Bold praise Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them!

“There are many, many Cristiano Ronaldo fans who would still disagree.”

And they’re wrong. So fuck em. 

Maybe this trend is bad and always has been and we should stop dismissing it as “progress?”

Curious to see if he/his team ripped off those illustrations from an artist and badly Photoshopped them. Because those are some AWFUL Photoshops.

the awful, stupidly named 2013 reboot, Tomb Raider