Yeah, but with internet, it’s hard to blame anyone. That new garbage info high is far worse than drugs. 

I totally get what you mean, and I’m pretty sure I agree with you 100% down to the I don’t want to look that invested in Teigen. But when I said “who cares about optics,” it was really just criticism levied at the online social media crowd who seems to care way too much about whether their favourite/most abhorred…

I spend enough time on Defector/Gawker to have plenty of stuff go over my head. But I’ve also seen how so much of what I understand goes over the head of others too. There really is this stratification of intelligence that society is going to have to contend/compromise with if we’re ever going to improve and it…

What I really don’t get is this self-cannibalism that we subject ourselves to when it comes to social justice. I mean, I’m all about social justice but I know I’ve done some questionable (not horrible, just insensitive) things in the past. But the point is we learn and try to get past it. It really feels like we’re…

That’s probably true, but I’d probably think more about the demographics of the people who saw both. At this point, I think that may matter more than the actual content of the film - in terms of social effect, not in terms of the importance of the values expressed. 

But does anyone other than the hyper analytical online crowd really care about the optics? I mean, yes, I can see how it’s in bad taste, but I’m fairly certain for most people it’s just another weird theme party a celebrity is throwing.

In fairness, that’s on par for the course in the case of entertainment in general, no? 

I mean, I’m not even close to being Team Teigan here, but I mean what if they just really like the show? Is it really important for them to be thinking of the political undertones of it? Maybe I’m just at the point where I think asking everyone to be smart is too much. 

I was like, what’s so bad about this guy, then realized I got him mixed up with Naren Shankar who showruns The Expanse. 

If we’re lucky enough, both these games will be as awesome as Starcraft: Ghost. 

I think the commentariat is not what it used to be. And though I like Kotaku enough to read it daily, it’s not what it used to be either - for better or worse I guess.

As someone who’s never played any of the L4D games or B4B, I think there’s an undercurrent of smugness in Walker’s article. I might be reading too much into it, but I wouldn’t say it’s an absurd possibility. 

I didn’t love the original, and I certainly didn’t want this, but the trailer isn’t bad. I’ll give it a shot. 

The stories have never been great, but at least with the first two I found myself engaged enough to ignore plot holes. Personally, I liked  how the first two games had a mystery that was being unravelled throughout the whole game. In Shadow, there wasn’t really a mystery, just a countdown and nothing to drive the plot…

I would have liked it better if Shadow of the Tomb Raider had Lara getting trapped in a subterranean fortress under Capitol Hill where cultists were trying to manifest the Prince of Darkness into the bodies of Congress members. It would be much better than whatever the hell Shadow was. 

Oh god, Shadow. It suffered from being far too close to civilization and the mystery itself felt a little incoherent compared to the much tighter reboot and rise. I was legit excited about diving into a South American world, but Shadow actually managed to make it dull. The whole idea that Trinity exists because the…

Mass Effect had really hyped me up about its ending. Instead, I felt like I had just finished FF7. They could have just cut to Red XIII running up to a jungled Midgar and I would have felt relatively similar. While the “fixed” endings were much better, I always felt like Bioware had sold me on something far more…

I thought the TR reboot had a pretty strong horror element to it: swimming in a pool of blood, navigating giant piles of bones and corpses, cannibal demon samurai, and being wrapped up in a bag for later consumption.

Is it really though? I thought I’d do the anecdotal and cursory look through Google like you and I’m finding people pretty torn between the two. Hell, RT has Aliens over Alien by 1%. But of course, like you said, I’m not really here to say that the original is worse, but simply that the fandom is pretty divided over…

I thought he was saying Ishizuka was more prominent than Hayashibara.