I thought Burneko's description of King in the lede was untoppable until this. +1 post-vomit duckface

I certainly didn't call him a hack/fraud, and I enjoy a lot of his work. I took issue with his title suggesting that I should be ashamed of myself for enjoying a particular work of satire; I think his thesis that the movie advocates eugenics is incorrect and unfounded; and I think that it's curious and borderline…

Some do. Again, you're painting with too broad of a brush.

It can be a waste of time, but not always. Responses can generate discussion and engagement, which keeps readers coming back, and advertisers like to see that. And more broadly, it can help both readers and writers learn something, which is what interests me the most.

Some do and some don't. I don't think it's fair to paint everyone with such a broad brush.

Thanks for the reasonable dialogue about this. I certainly understand your perspective, and I agree that it would be ridiculous to try and address 1700+ idiots who focused on a single point of an argument and ignored the rest based on personal taste in the film.

Yeah, I probably should've said "many" instead of "mostly" after looking at the new comments, but my question remains: why promote something again that blatantly insults readers for their taste in satire, especially when the post's author refused to address any of the reasonable and fair comments that were out there?

Just curious why the Idiocracy post was promoted here again considering that the author refused to engage in any discussion with the commenters about it. Writing a story with an incendiary title like that, which goes on to generate a ton of comments (mostly reasonable and fair), then failing to address any of those…

Yep, that's the correct answer.

It is noteworthy that this post generated so many comments, likely due to the incendiary title, but the author failed to address any of them. I though that Denton was trying to promote engagement between readers and writers on the Gawker media properties - is this no longer the case? I'm disappointed, as this could…

When Walter White (via Hector Salamanca) blew up Gus Fring, I jumped out of my chair and yelled "that was fucking awesome!"

This seems to have gotten worse lately, both here and on io9. It wouldn't be as big of a deal if the offending writers were willing to engage with reasonable and intelligent commenters like you and defend their position, or at the very least, their decision to go with a title that is more confusing and incendiary than…

it would be interesting to read Novak's rebuttals to some of these comments. I hope he decides to weigh in, especially in the threads that (rightly) point out that eugenics wasn't a theme in this movie at all.

My god that was well written. Mayweather is from my hometown of Grand Rapids, and I always wondered why I never read about him helping out the community beyond throwing a couple bucks at the public schools' sports teams every so often. Now I see. Fuck that guy, and fuck his dirty money.

Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs? Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs.

She can't tell the difference between a hard drive and a remote control, but she doesn't have to either.

Can the extra power generated by the beefy batteries on these skimmers be easily detected? I'm not an engineer, so I'm just spit-balling here, but it seems like a bank could put some kind of "skim detector" inside the machine that looks for extra electrical signals being generated near the card slot. Anybody know if…

This really calls for a photoshop contest.

I checked with a Genius - she said that they would have to treat the phone like someone brought it in requesting service (in this case, the service would apparently be "finding the phone's owner"). Since someone with a lost phone wouldn't be able to unlock the phone or verify that they owned it, the Genius said they…

Great post, thanks for sharing! My little brother from the Y found an iPhone on the street the last time we hung out, and we spent an afternoon trying to find and return it to the owners. It ended up being a cool experience: the phone was locked, so we swiped the last missed call on the lock screen, which was labeled…