Given her own statement that appearing on the show could “let her send ‘a positive message to the nerdy trans girl who wants to be on the show too.’” I think she’d be pretty happy Kotaku was highlighting her trans status in this situation. 

I definitely think being a Jeopardy champion is the big story here, but Amy herself talks about wanting to be an inspiration specifically to other trans women. I still think the distinction that Amy is a trans woman who is competing this well matters, as she is breaking ground as a trans contestant.

I’m obviously not…

Acknowledging her trans identity is worlds different from harassing her for it.

Hire Black Hat Guy?

Telling black people to shut up about the subject of cultural representation in American pop culture is a pretty shitty look, buddy. Maybe you should sit this discussion out, since you have nothing of value to contribute.

I find it interesting that Gawker tends to reserve the most criticism over representation to the media that actually makes the attempt. I mean, it’s fine and all if you think they can and should go further but shouldn’t we at least acknowledge when a game/movie/etc is making steps in the right direction? How many…

Different penalties for different cheats. If he had been using an aimbot or something else then he would have been looking at a much stiffer penalty. In this particular sitch, it appears (no proof that he actually did) that he was only connecting to the best server he could connect to, which caused everyone else to be…

Self-appointed cops who can make shit up and ruin your life competing with state-sanctioned cops who can make shit up and ruin your life is bad; self-appointed cops who can make shit up and ruin your life coordinating with state-sanctioned cops who can make shit up and ruin your life is even worse.

Main issue with these groups is they often use entrapment to expose people which makes much of what they do and info they collect useless in terms of convicting someone. Also many of them just have poor track records or are run by awful people.

I’m always slightly worried with these vigilante groups; who knows if what they say can be believed, but you could make the same point with cops most of the time anyway.

Do Sony regularly send people posing as teenagers to tempt their staff on the offchance one of them is a paedophile? Or should they have refused him employment purely on the basis that he’s on Grindr? Either way seems a bit problematic to me.

Law enforcement groups don’t work with these groups because most of the cases would probably get thrown out over evidentiary issues and entrapment laws. Of course employers don’t need to hold to those kind of high standards.

I legitimately don’t know what to say about this, the problem is these ‘games’ are nothing of the sort. They aren’t fun, they aren’t even gambling, they just straight up exist to take advantage of people with problems. I honestly struggle to see this as anything except fraud, and I’m saying that as someone who thinks…

These games should be legally required to have a spending limit.

Did you see the report about how he wrote an email and signed a woman’s name and sent it from her email account...

And then when there was backlash he put out a statement throwing said woman under the bus by calling “her” tone deaf in “her” response?

Like... can you imagine your boss writing an email, sending it from…

Just because Step 1 doesn’t solve the entire problem doesn’t mean you don’t take Step 1.

Is she utilizing her looks to help her succeed? Absolutely. She had the luck to be born with above average looks, she uses effort to gain and maintain and fit body, and those looks are part of what gives her the opportunity to succeed.

I don’t care about her either way, but saying it’s “because she’s hot” is such a weird comment to make in an article talking about how she makes more than all these other women combined. I pretty much only use it for Critical Role, but I am confident that there is more than one conventionally attractive woman…

I think this is a bit overly reductive. There are plenty of hot girls who try to stream on twitch and use their hotness to launch their platforms. The numbers say they fail. Something like 90% or more of the top streamers were men.

To be fair, persistent unlock systems/grinds are manipulative garbage meant to stimulate your addiction centers and keep you playing longer. These days they’re also usually tied into microtransactions and “double XP” boosters