I always look forward to a spat of interesting articles to read whenever I see your name pop up on the Kotaku feed.  Keep up the great writing!

I cannot and will never agree with this. It’s just another kind of gatekeeping. Folks can play what they want. Speedrunners ain’t hurting anyone by using glitches. Pulling off a glitch is just as much (sometime more!) a “real-time demonstration of skill” as anything else.

I hear this one on nearly every speedrunning post I do and my response is always that these tricks take tons of practice to perform and these runners are infinite more knowledge about the games they run than you or me will ever be in pretty much anything.

Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky and Michael Jackson used charity as a way to rise above suspicion while getting access to a vulnerable pool of potential victims, and increase the odds that anyone who could catch them in the act had a reason to look the other way. The facility is fine only as long as Tyler isn’t allowed…

By the time I was 16, I’d endured years of: misogynistic tirades from my father who called me a prostitute when I was in second grade (learned a new word that day!); ongoing paranoia from both my parents that I’d have sex despite not knowing what sex was at the time (lower elementary school); bullying at school from…

Seriously, he looks like the result of a pedophile focus-group...

This reply confirms you are a sack of fucking garbage.

Nah, fuck off. I’ll keep speaking against it. You can keep your nihilistic view of it all, I’ll try to change things and minds. Sound good?

Something is wrong with your system if that’s the conclusion you come to.

No, you wished for extra-judicial justice in hoping that a subpar prison system would damage this person physically. You’re the one saying that prisoners don’t deserve rights because of the crimes they have committed. This guy deserves to do time for his crime, but he also deserves the rights the constitution provides…

Agreed. I’ve lost track of how any times, I’ve told people (including so called progressives) that prison rape jokes aren’t funny, no matter what crime the person committed. It’s almost as if we as a society have given up on (or never really believed in) prison as a rehabilitation vehicle. Our prison system is gross,…

I always find it odd how housewives and grannies at the bakery casually wish horrible torture on even small time criminals during conversations when that would be a far worse violation of human rights than what the criminal in question ever did.

Yeah man, I sincerely hope they are treating their prisoners just awfully. I mean, why should prisoners have rights? Here’s hoping they all starve to death and die horribly! Am I right?

Like great-great-’gran-owen always said, ‘Never trust a man with neon purple hair who streams video games as a side gig.’

By your logic: Good thing she didn’t say, 2 arms, 2 legs and a penis. He would have committed suicide on the spot.

Hmm. Funny how Neeson didn’t ask his friend what hair color, cut, or car model the perp drove, but instead, asked what skin color he was. So much easier to find a random black man and much more satisfying when you do, huh?

Let’s not confuse and cheapen the issue by making it about race.

hahah suckers! I’m not good enough for things like “tiers” and “rankings” to matter. I can play anyone and be equally bad!

“sluggish but fun”

“And I thought, wow, a cardiologist practicing in Manhattan knows about Kingdom Hearts. He told me he had a PS2 in medical school. He was probably my age. Oh god. I’m the same age as a cardiologist. He’s a cardiologist and I’m not.”