I think maybe the writer just assumed only people that didn’t remember the original kotaku would visit this site anymore.

“wake me when he’s less of a shitty hack”

What has become painfully obvious to me for a while now is that this never had anything to do with the LGBT community and has more to do with the fact that Dave Chappelle clearly hates women and can’t fathom the idea that someone would “want to act like a woman” or give up the power of being a man.

Its because they act like Gen X didn’t grow up with games. A lot of us where gaming back when it was still considered a “nerd hobby”. I started with the Atari 2600 and moved up every gen since and was gaming on PC when a Gigs worth of RAM was not even a thought yet.

Holy shit that Dave bit isn’t even a joke. It’s a bad story at best (“I met Jim Carey and he was in character and it confused me”).

Colbert sold it very clearly as satire - a lot of his bits made his character the butt of the joke or had his character “accidentally” debunk right-wing taking points. He also had the sense to avoid ironic hate speech. 

I swear, it’s the ghastly young people who work at Kotaku that do this to me. I’m 46, so was turning 19 in 1996. So I always think of these games as part of everyone’s childhoods, until the Gen Alphas that work here all remind me they weren’t born then.

What a fall from grace. He ended his show because he knew people were laughing at the jokes for racist reasons. Now he refuses to have poor people live near him, hangs out with Elon Musk saying only the poor people are booing, and nothing but lazy trans jokes.  Hes cruel and boring in equal measure.  I never thought…

One weird phenomenon is that no one can seem to be a little bit Trumpy. There are so many people like Chapelle, or Elon Musk, or Rudy Giuliani, or Lara Logan, who at one point seemed to have normal-ish views of the world. Maybe they were skeptical about COVID lockdowns (Musk) or seemed too deferential to the military…

It really wasn’t. He was nowhere near as smart as his TV writers and throwing them under the bus to cover for his years of shitbag behavior was really cute. He was ALWAYS a sneering bully.

‘Old Man Yells at Trans’

so typical to gatekeep once you’ve walked through the door; suddenly transitioning is a problem to Dave only now that he identifies as a rich white man.

i remember i had canceled netflix for a while a re-signed up when they announced his new specials.

I didn’t expect to see this set, but I was at my parents’ home when they decided to watch. (While I educate where I can, I don’t police what my family watches.) So, I sat through this before reading about it. And, I have to say, this article nails it. He sounds like an old fool; one of those guys you’ll hear in any…

caught the top clip on x (formerly twitter) last night and i think it encapsulates both what actual funny is and why chappelle is such a loser now.

When Kotaku calls out for the Zoomers, Gen-X and Millennials get titchy.

Deeply disappointing. His early and middle work was genuinely transgressive, but he’s turned into a intransigent crank.

“before your parents even knew how to make you, there was The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.”

Alan Wake 2 is definitely my GOTY. It does so much to prove that video games aren’t just interactive storytelling devices; video games are a form of art that combines different artistic media into one potentially incredible experience. Alan Wake 2 hit for me at every level - story, art, music, gameplay, you name it. I…

I’d have BG3 in second but I’m glad to see all this love for AW2 - such originality really should be getting the plaudits. Not convinced on Diablo 4 despite the many hours I’ve put into it already, feels like it’s not as good as it’s placing but it has the *potential* to be so.