There’s one weird historical trick for removing unrepresentative rulers from office...

Why would anyone pay money for cosmetics in a game where the character sprites are so small you can barely tell what color your pants are?

Mask of the ShapeshifterCape of the Red PrinceLute of the Merryweather BardNeedle of the Outlaw RogueBicorne of the Sea Beast

“I’m worried about the kids going to the bus stop. They’re gonna be walking down this road with these big trucks you saw going by, and people flying in and out to go to the car wash,”

The depressing visuals are key to the narrative, and they definitely do capture the mood.

Sean Miller in an interview:

A few days ago i commented on some guide article about how this website sure has changed and someone replied “elaborate”. And well... now this happened.

The internet and websites we frequent are just overall shittier than they were 10, even 5 years ago. More and more places disappearing, more and more consolidation with things being worse for the end user/customer. 

Waypoint shut down, All of Giant Bomb’s original folks moved on, now the last of the oldschool Kotaku writers leaves the site. I know that most of these folks have other projects ongoing, but it does seem like a lot of my old standard bookmarks aren’t what they used to be, for better or worse.

You need to change the title to: “Perseverence finds organic molecules on Mars.”

Weird. Normal people don’t want to buy a $50k car with 7% interest rates, tech that’s outdated faster than a modern smartphone, a business model that’s constantly pushing microservices, and tracks all your movements with no way to opt out or find out where that information is going?

Your first paragraph makes you sound like a heroin junkie who should have detoxed 20 years ago.

Yeeeeah, I’m not gonna lie, something about this article just seems... off. I’ll admit I’m not familiar with how an article is looked over/edited, but maybe Ashley or an editor is just having an off day?

I can guarantee you they will because I finally just bought an Amazon Warehouse PS5 (the God of War pack) for $399.

Welp, now “grooming” is now another word that has completely lost its meaning

I can’t believe I’m having an opinion on Miranda Sings, but it certainly doesn’t seem like she wanted to fuck these kids, so grooming doesn’t seem apt. I will admit that dumping your emotional bullshit onto a bunch of teenagers is abusive, but “exploiting him for the free labor of posting on her social media accounts”…

Enough with the knee-jerk use of the term “grooming.” It sure sounds like she was/is a manipulative asshole, but was she using her celebrity status to entice minors into sexual activities with her?

“From body shaming to being sexualized on stage” is not grooming. Oversharing, verbal abuse? Not grooming.

For those of us who take child abuse seriously rather than as a sensational news item, “grooming” is a means to an end. What’s being reported here is admittedly cringey behavior that did not, reportedly, lead to the actualized or attempted sexual abuse or predation of a minor.

I am an old, so I am not familiar with her work, or this controversy.

It says a lot about our fucked up tax laws that it is cheaper for companies to make a show like this or Snowpiercer or Batwoman and never release it than it is to just release it. Especially when we are in the middle of a writers strike and the pool of new content has to be drying up.