Suicune, the suicide elk Pokemon

I can only say, as a Trini still living here, that I am beyond disappointed that Mayor Tim Kee chose to say something so blatantly unhealthy that our island makes WaPo and Jezebel in the same 24-hour period. Of all the press our small island could get - and after Carnival, no less... if I could hang my head any…

Soooo... here’s my two cents on the maddening swarm of people furiously typing ‘ooh, a girl, so original’:

1. Actually, yes. Should it be? Nope. Is it? Still yes - you’d think that the art form we admire so deeply would still be resilient enough to take, and grow as a result of, a criticism as simple and…

Sirlin is the fighting game Bible. As a scrub myself, I am totally cognizant of the fact that whatever works to win is fair game. Unless it is terribly unbalanced - and you show at least one solid example of how it is capable of being dealt with - nothing is wrong with using it, and the only thing wrong with it being…

“Here we’ve encountered our first clash: the scrub is only willing to play to win within his own made-up mental set of rules. These rules can be staggeringly arbitrary. If you beat a scrub by throwing projectile attacks at him, keeping your distance and preventing him from getting near you—that’s cheap. If you throw…

Hmm. I always thought "Soft SF" implied that, no matter how accurate the science was, the story itself used those aspects for general world-building rather than definite movers of plot (e.g. a novel set in a future of technological advancement but where the plot was, for instance, a typical romance or something). I…

I would like to add a thing about the idea of Gotham Central as a TV show: most procedurals, like most actual police work, are intensely concerned with the idea of 'catching the big fish'; it's always this elusive, magical goal to both solve the crime before them and get to the top of the food chain in one fell swoop,…

while I understand your concern, not only would I argue that this is as much a valid and respectable part of the game development process in the same way that cinematography and CGI are to the film industry, but more realistic graphics engines actually have the potential to open more avenues for useful and…

Again, you're arguing the wrong notion. It's like this: no one is saying that there are no positive female video game characters at all. We are saying this: "there are tropes in video games that are uncritically less-than-ideal representations of women, in ways that men only suffer as subversions of these tropes and…

I do think it is really uncritical to argue that a trend does not need to be acknowledged because it is not as large as everything that is not that trend. It would be akin to saying that because there are more films that are not horrors than there are horror films, horror isn't a genre, just a random unique occurrence.
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I hope I'm not offending @Kogeaux when I say I think you should see this.

I don't think it (the stress in particular) is rare either - I have always thought that there is a level of dissociation involved; take for example how people typically talk to each other in online matches when you don't know the person on the other end - but I do think the physical violence is rare. I can concede…

So, do you believe that the media first and foremost is the cause, or that it can become catalyzing for people who lack the ability to separate their perspectives?

And I want you to know that I am not at all trying to get into a verbal fistfight over this, if you get the idea that I'm being ignorantly hostile. I just really want the discussion to move away from the subtle notion that video games involve the same mental processes as dissociating oneself from real people. Most of…

I perfectly acknowledge his decision to do this for himself, and that he appreciates that every person has the right to consume whatever they wish to consume. But up until this point he keeps driving the idea home that FPSs and the way that they are played promote the kind of mental state that people who commit those…

Knowing this doesn't make the reader a bad person, is my point.

Dear Kotaku,

^ I like this very much. I wish such a thing happened more often, frankly. I just can't get it out of my head that some of the ideas we have as a society about chivalry are also the only ways that people can glean if men are considerate people, at least in a dating setting, which I think is absolute garbage.

I'm just asking for clarification, not trying to be offensive: on the matter of dating, aren't some of the things that men do in the line of 'chivalry' considered signs that a man is no good if they were reversed? If a woman treats a man to dinner on a date, isn't this interpreted - not only by patriarchal men but by…