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- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, March 18, 1992

That joke used to be about internet explorer being the most used browser to install other browsers.

In what ways has Nintendo become vernacular for a product which is not Nintendo? I don’t think I’ve heard anyone mistakenly call a game system a Nintendo since I was a kid and my mom didn’t know what the playstation 1 was.

So...what is it about THIS game, specifically, that has people so crazy about it?

I ask because I’ve seen tons of screenshots and watched a handful of streamers play quite a bit of it and...I don’t get it, this thing just looks so incredibly dull to me. I see it and think, why are people flipping shit over this? Does…

It’s not just cutscenes and gameplay in Naughty Dog games — it’s that all of their systems create friction with each other and fail to produce a cohesive experience. For instance, they pepper their worlds with collectibles, which require the player to rummage around the scenery no matter the narrative context of the…

For me the Uncharted series is the biggest offender in terms of jarring contrast between cutscenes and gameplay. I still love the series, but I have to use some serious mental gymnastics to justify caring about a character that murders thousands of people over the course of a game. I have to essentially pretend the…

If your website turns a blind eye to hate speech, then bigots will flock there until hate speech inevitably becomes the point of your website. No need to get cranky over Kotaku pointing out what 4chan has turned into.

At least then I could actually read everything.  On sites where I’m in the grays (everything but Jalopnik) besides all the usual Kinja crap, I can’t even read all the comments.  Not talking about grayed comments, I mean I get the single page load of comments, and nothing else will load.

Only if you promise to send me a postcard back every time my comment gets a reply, but don’t tell me what the reply is.

And you guys have literally zero voice in finding a better system? 

That reminds me. The messenger pigeon that has my comments on your last article should be arriving today. After you’ve feed her and let her rest, send her back with your response.

I feel like that’s a semantics argument at that point. Which doesn’t make the right wing stigma of 4chan any less tangible.

What, you don’t like replies that appear in your notifications but which never appear in the actual comments section, so you can’t even engage?

I could ask you all to write your comments on a postcard and send them to my house and it would work better than kinja, but 🤷‍♂️

Sites with “very light moderation” tend to attract nazis and white supremacists.

Precisely because they have “very light moderation.” The reason that “Free Speech Alternatives to Twitter” tend to attract nazis is because nazis will congregate wherever people won’t throw them out.

let’s not go overboard here

Should have punished them and made them use kinja.

A lot of anime has characters that are mid to high school aged and are sexualized. Even if they often aren’t drawn in a way that would make anybody think “loli”.

Is it though?