Yeah, the FB posts I’m content to ignore, but this one was worth it.

Totally agree with you, and I know this isn’t the author’s fault, but there is something icky about paying per click. You’re just incentivizing incendiary content instead of relevant news.

I appreciate the perspective of this article and also clicked on it because it said I wouldn’t read it. I don’t read every article, even though I deeply care about access to safe and affordable abortions, because it feels so repetitive. Same shit different day. I’ve had some idea of how the click economy works, and…

If the anti-abortion people were actually about reducing abortions, they would be all for sex ed and access to contraceptives. The fact that they hate those things even more than abortion shows what it’s actually about:

I feel like I should speak up for a (probably small) demographic. I care deeply about abortion rights, and have since I was about 10. BUT I don’t always click on each story for the simple reason that 1. I know it will piss me off and I have a 4yo in lockdown and can’t afford to lose any more patience than I already do…

Gotta say, putting “and no one will read it” was a good way of getting me to read it. And I’m glad I did, especially because of the reference to the Turnaway study, I hadn’t known about that.

I always have, and always will love the original game (DA:O) the best, as I was born & raised on all ye olde Baldur’s gate/Planescape/Idewind Dale games of yore, and I LOVE the depth and difficulty(?) of the combat/spell mechanics. (Plus, you know, the characters were reasonably well-written, and the areas were pretty…

Jesus, if he publishes the dam books I’ll have to read the entire series again just to see where the infinite story lines left off. I can’t commit that kind of time. 

The first three books are great. I’d never been a big fan of epic fantasy, but they won me over.

I honestly don’t care about Winds of Winter anymore. It’s been 8 years since I finished A Dance of Dragons and I couldn’t remember most of the book only plot points if you put a gun to my head. I can’t be arsed working my way through a wiki to get refreshed on the plot points.

...especially when you have to vote for the one who authored the initial draft of the patriot act in order to vote Trump out...

As long as Trump’s voted out, who cares if the FBI can spy on US citizens without a warrant?

Bebop is mentioned at the top of the article as the show that everyone recommends to newcomers, so I assume it’s the article’s de facto ninth recommendation

A great tribute to Jason would be to leak the roast. Maybe there’s a group of like-minded journalists who could publish it? No one who was here when it was still GM should be able to opt out.

Jason wouldn’t let me put together a roast for him so if you refresh the site all day and don’t see one you know who to blame. But since the Kotaku comments are a bastion of freedom and haven’t been turned off yet I’ll share mine here:

Jason was a fearless advocate for making sure we never pulled out punches. One time…

Now that pretty much the entire game industry is delayed your work here is done.

He’s not wrong, you know. 

“I AM THE COMPANY!”

When you’re a big fancy executive, you get to call it a “dividend” and it’s totally legal.

But it’s not capitalism that’s a problem. It’s that people aren’t capitalisming nicely, right? Or somehow this is “crony” capitalism (which, incidentally, is just regular capitalism) or a few bad eggs or something. Actually, I forgot. It’s the pirates who are taking food from the mouths of hard-working developers. No…