As a software engineer, I spend a lot of time crafting error messages that are “people friendly.” I try to use more conversational and informal language to describe the problem and what the user can do about it (if anything), while the technical stuff goes into the logs to help me figure it out later. This may have…

How is this surprising? She has a British identical twin!!!

Wow, it’s still pretty lame reasoning. If Zelda could fight (cough Shiek) what would Link do? How he try his hand ruling a kingdom? Hell, he could be the villain of the next game, and you as Zelda have to team up with Ganon to restore the balance in the Tri-Force? And I’m an idiot and I just pulled this out of my butt.

Couldn’t I say the same thing about you? Like when you make a great that getshe national acclaim then you can talk. Until then, well you’re just a nobody right?

Oh shut up, you arrogant prick. God damn.

I ask, without malice towards Kratos or his fans, but couldn’t this game have gotten a new goddamned hero? Before you snipe, I saw that it’s his grandkid or w/e, but that’s just Kratos Jr by any other name. I’m really tired of Kratos; just retire him and his reskins and give us a new hero, maybe a Norseman, maybe a…

The only way I would have been I interested to see Kratos return would be if you were playing as a new hero and he were the villain. This seems like a “eh, weve gotta continue this franchise somehow” move.

Well, you’ve certainly convinced me that the “hipster black guy” stereotype is a lot better than the “entitled gamer” stereotype.

Does it really matter? Credible or not I think it helps to publicize this sort of stuff — both to expose this ugliness and to push sites like Twitter to improve their harassment policies.

I refuse to Google this nonsense.

I can’t imagine booing someone’s creation while they’re in the room no matter how much I disliked it. Money not buying class and all that.

“Audiences are not stupid,” writes the commenter, as the joke flies over their head. ;)

No way. This remark would never have been said to a man. No fucking way.

OP said camera lenses can be male-gazey. This is a perfect application of OP’s statement. If going into someone’s face to shoot them against their will isn’t male-gazey-rapeish, I don’t know what is.

He said “we paid for you” and also didn’t respond to her “stop” and “no.” Maybe it sounds very radical fem but camera lens can be male gazey and with the non consent here this feels kind of rapey (no, that doesn’t undermine actual rape...this is a different degree but in my understanding there is a spectrum of…

I think this is a pretty classy move that doesn’t deserve snark.

*sigh* I said this yesterday and I’ll repeat it now:

Personally. And then she redesigned the machines that make the wands and reengineered the materials to assure that doesn’t happen again.

My sympathies, Patrick. This is obviously a tricky topic for a reporter to cover fully and accurately, and I’m sorry that deranged individuals have decided to attack you (and your family) because they disagree with your coverage decisions.