Sorry, I’m half-Swedish and half-Norwegian, and by no means were Swedish Fish based on a Norwegian holiday candy - that’ll be someone trolling the US Wikipedia entry on Swedish Fish (probably a Norwegian hinting that “everything good from Sweden has Norwegian origins” or some such. (S/He’s right about that though...)

As a white cis-hetero male, this made me spurt milk from my nose. I also get it now. Awesome post.

Part of it is legitimate concerns about voluntourism, but mostly, it’s that Jezebel is 75% by and for professionally awful people, who would much rather point out the deficiencies of others than actually try to do something themselves. I mean, why try and open yourself up to criticism, when you can just sit in a tower…

I have very little interest in this game (it seems stupid), and I agree completely that it seems prone to “lying and drinking your way to victory”... but Luke, have you played Cards against Humanity? Or have you been playing it completely wrong? Because there is literally no way of “lying and drinking your way to…

Hey, I like this idea - I always pick a female character in games, so if that's what I get in Rust, cool!

Hah, total crap. No one is talking about how it’s terrible. Everyone’s talking about how much they are looking forward to the next season, and the last season was praised to the skies. You do realize that just because you and your Twitter-clique doesn’t like something. this does not mean “everyone”, or even, in this…

Yup, this right here; if you read his story-collection Dreamsongs, it’s shock-full of examples of Martin writing “firsts” in a supposed series. Sometimes, another story or two will appear, but Martin seems unable to commit - even though he’s clearly seen in his mind’s eye his characters go for multitudes of…

This is an incredibly important point that people keep forgetting/ignoring - it’s the reason all these “cool” people seem like douches when they sue some 18-year-old blogger. The problem being that if they didn’t do that, then next time, when it’s the Ku Klux Klan using their stuff in a recruitment video, that one…

“Exacerbates”, not “exasperates.”

Yeah, a good Levain, or a sour-dough Baguette, or some Irish Soda Bread for that matter all taste incredible, incredibly different, and I would eat all three on their own.

So, for us newbies - I just discovered the Autumn’s Hope safe house. I shot some guys on the way here, but it’s not like I remember if there was a yellow called “the Bullet King”. Does he even appearat level 15, or is it at level 30 only?

You wash it and give it a wipe - which effectively shaves it. So yeah. Yes I do.

I love these videos, but why the heck would you want to peel a kiwi? The skin is where the flavour is, without that it would be the most boring fruit ever (except for the crackling pits. Love those.)

That makes absolutely no sense. I can see you disliking people who choose to be assholes more than ones who simply are assholes, through no fault of their own. But not finding fault? How about this one: They’re assholes!

That’s just not true though. Yeah, for online-shooters like Battlefront, the lag is too much - but I’ve completed both Bloodborne and Fallout 4 playing on the Vita. I think maybe one death on Bloodborne was due to latency (out of thousands).

It’s a black in-joke Ellie, you’re not supposed to get it. Dash was definitely in on it, which (it has been explained to me) was aimed squarely at black people and specifically “black twitter”.

Scalia, as much as I disagreed with the man in almost all his opinions regarding the “cultural wars”, was a very good justice, even a great one. He wrote brilliant opinions, he was principled, and he had a clear point of view. That some of those views were very much the opposite of my own are really not the point. He…

I like how Shkreli is now just making stuff up to troll journalists...

I think one of the takeaways from this is that women not only need to learn how to say no; they also need to learn how to say yes. Men are often “trained” by women who don’t want to seem slutty that “no...” means “work for it”. Affirmative consent and the confidence to demand it is the only way our sons and daughters…

I get that, and I agree that after a certain point it is rude and intrusive. But yeah, since the transition is part of the focus of the article, and thus relevant, I would say the journalist erred on the side of political correctness. Anything that results in less clarity is by definition bad journalism.