Here’s the true answer: Every single Toad that puts on the specific princess crown can and will turn into Peach. Why do you think there’s a Toad at the end of every castle in the NES Mario? The crown is passed around as a means to manipulate Mario into “liberating” castles all over the mushroom kingdom. When the Toad…

“While I don’t support sexual harassment, can’t these women go solve it in a way that inconveniences me less?”

I addressed that in the article.

Wow, that’s your take away from this? The public airing of people’s suffering (and you can be sure it was necessary to force at least a semblance of change) is tiresome? It's not a good look.

As someone else said, HR serves the interests of the company. From the sounds of it, one of the most egregious offenders was one of the people in charge of things, so HR may have acted against the interests of the employee. While filing an employment lawsuit might have been the right thing to do, it can be a path…

HR isn’t there to help employees. Don’t fool yourself. And many individuals don’t have the presence of mind or financial stability to hire a lawyer.

I’m sorry, you just called atheists “filled with hate”... what we actually are is unbelievably frustrated with how much hate, misogyny, and backwardness are endemic within the various religions, and how they feel the need to spew it these things over the place.

Imagine how free of problems your life has to be to make a big deal about a weird looking train getting a black friend. You totally don’t look crazy in that clip, Dana. Completely natural response to what is basically the most trivial of news.

There have been so many Spider-Man video games that there is an entire fucking wikipedia page devoted to listing them all.

The whole “scam!” thing felt just like a silencing technique and a way to discredit Sarkeesian.

I never thought it was fair to dog on Tropes vs Women in Gaming considering that they only had a $6,000 goal and delivered all their promised stretch goals. The series was also far above the quality standards of most YouTube channels in terms of presentation, regardless of how much you agreed with her conclusions.

Hahaha, I love how this is Americans defense every time. "We are not literally the worst country in the world, so don't complain about us". You guys have very low standards. 

They would have been detained for 11 hours in a room with no beds, food, or water?

But the way in which those rules have been enforced has changed. You wouldn’t have been kept overnight in a cell 5 years ago, plain and simple.

Do you expect every article on here to appeal to you? Or can you accept the fact that as a blog, it will be filled with different things both good and bad that might not be written for you? You seem to be under the impression that someone owes you something on here and shouldn’t talk about subjects that interest them.…

A writer saw an interesting thing in a game and pitched a discussion piece about it. This is something that’s always been in the games; it’s acknowledged among fans (myself included) and worth writing about.

Women being bullied in the video game community is NEVER a topic that is ludicrous to talk about. Kotaku keeps talking about this because assholes like you keep ignoring that it’s a real problem. And yes you are an asshole for dismissing things like this article as “ludicrous.”

“Can you lighten up first? And if that seems like a ridiculous, overblownsuggestion, well, then there you go.”

Oh, come on. The writer loves the series, dislikes this aspect of it, writes a piece that explains what happens in the games and what might be behind it.

Ok gamer.