Personal Headcanon: Shepard and crew somehow survived the whole game and defeated the Reapers, and Citadel DLC takes place after the war as a much more sensible “We’re on shore leave because we won.” You only have to ignore a few lines to make it the best palate-cleansing sorbet of a mission in any game.

I would change that to just “patient and lucky,” and the more patient you can be, the less lucky you need to be. If the lottery is a tax on stupidity, the stock market is very much a tax on impatience, and if you think 9 or 10 months of waiting is “stupid patient,” you definitely don’t need to be in the stock market…

This is it. Really sounds like Nathan is stopping himself just short of saying, “People with lots of money are incapable of knowing what it’s like to have little money or of advocating for change, so I wish Mr. Reddit woulda shut up.”

You have to know you’re a giant hypocrite, right? “This rich guy is annoyed by something that is annoying. And he voices that opinion. That annoys me, and I’m going to tell everyone.”

That’s his thesis. Not hard to figure out.

Said it before, say it again: outside of actively trying to harm another person, EVERY step a man takes to be faithful to his wife and protect his marriage from even a hint of infidelity or other third-person issues is a good one.

There is no excuse for deriding the decisions of a man trying to honor his commitments…

Dunno about Samantha, but if someone writes:

My word, I hope all my customer service experiences from here on out are as kind and measured as this guy’s response on his stream. He was asked for the millionth time, it seems, about making a major change he probably can’t demand the team make, and the closest he got to meanness was just the word “blabbing.” If a…

This is either a reeeeally subtle nod to a single line in her song “The Promise” from New Beginning... or it’s not.

No, they don’t deserve that. “I’m a random autistic person with a Twitter account” doesn’t mean “And if you want to make fiction dealing with my disorder, you have to do it to my specifications.” Sia freaking loves Maddie Ziegler and would probably cast her as the iceberg if she remade Titanic. Any autistic person,…

I’ll just say one little thing. I’m currently about a third of the way through And The Band Played On, a huge, sweeping bit of reportage about the lifespan of the AIDS crisis from 1980 to 1985. I’m seeing already the oft-noted refusal of the government to allocate funds or even acknowledge the AIDS epidemic, something…

Dude, it’s obvious that the trilogy ended with the [INSERT PREFERENCE HERE] ending, the Mass Relays not really being destroyed, Shepard surviving, and the Citadel DLC is the true ending of the game. I won’t hear any talk otherwise. Everyone except my boy Mordin, who got to Heroic Sacrifice about as well as anyone in…

I was pretty sure I remembered that correctly. From the military showoff minigame, right? And then you get everyone to do Cloud’s sword-spin for a final flourish, that was fun.

An enormous amount, all of it blissfully ignoring that she said she got her pseudonym from a childhood alter ego and Robert Kennedy.

That’s salient. I think I read the line about being blacklisted for not “doing the right thing” and interpreted “the right thing” as refusing a sexual encounter, which kinda disrupts the narrative of what he was saying. If you read it as choosing to have sex, then it becomes much clearer that he essentially said, “A…

I don’t care about streaming, and I don’t know any of the people in this article. I have no dog in this fight. I just want to ask one question: Am I reading correctly that this Dariani fellow asked a woman twice if she wanted to have a threesome, she declined twice, and he left her alone after that? And that’s the…

Just so I’m clear, if the author had wanted to rant about how much he hates spam emails or loves Frida Kahlo paintings, would those have been approved articles for Kotaku also?

At the risk of speaking for OP, who cares if that’s the point of the article? The article is wrong, and the notion that you cannot be a good cop because the institution of policing is bad is wrong, too. And since we’re on a roll here, the idea that the institution of policing is bad is also wrong.

Orwell wrote, “We…

NO KIDDING. In fact, I’d argue that’s why we don’t see more of this stuff. People who do lowkey racist acts see others changing then see the flack they get for not changing earlier, or not changing the right way, or maybe changing for selfish motives, and think, “See, that’s the liberal cancel culture demanding…

Oh come now. Giygas is Satan at best, and the best ending for Chrono Trigger recalls the conversation in Robo’s forest where the gang posits that Someone is directing their campaign against Lavos. In the ending, I think it’s Marle or Lucca who says she thinks the “Entity” is now at peace. So for CT, you’re fighting at…