I understand this guy is twenty years old and by his own admission not the most social person ever, which, whatever, everyone's got their own personality kinks to work out and he's still young. This isn't career-ending by any means.

But dude — assuming you wind up reading this — Hi. I'm a manager in the games…

Definitely. Especially for a game from 1999, all the supposedly-squicky human relationship stuff was played as no big deal whatsoever, just a facet of a given character and left at that. April wasn't "Strong Female Character!!™", she was just April Ryan, some lady going to art school in Newport. Her landlady wasn't…

The Longest Journey really is something special, if anyone here is curious enough to dig it up and check it out. It's also deeply impressive how well written and developed it was for a game that's fifteen years old. It predates practically all the "modern" game writing conventions we take for granted these days. The…

Naughty Dog would be an interesting spot to go to, that's true. I don't think Raymond's a writer or a director, though? From my understanding her skillset was getting all the disparate elements of game design humming in unison under one roof. It's a pretty herculean task and requires insanely good foresight and…

I guess we get to speculate about where she's likely headed next, now? Hooray, I love this game!

"Sarkeesian was, in a lot of ways, the lighting of the fuse that finally exploded with Zoe Quinn. Together these women represent everything that threatens these boys - women entering their space, being sexual but not sexual with them, forcing them to examine the seedy and anti-woman power fantasies that are playing…

Do you guys do what we do and take the insane comments from the internet, print them off, and hang them on the Wall o' Batshit?

So after a long term relationship recently ended, I decided to just be like "fuck it" and joined OK Cupid. I've never done any kind of online dating before, I have a friend who actually met her husband off of that site (and they are happily married for four years now and have a kid), so what the hell have I got to…

I dunno if it's really correct to say it was "hacked" since that's a thing Wikipedia lets anyone do, for the most part (and Wikipedia vandalism is super common as a result, although it usually gets fixed quick for the same reason). It's not like anyone had to circumvent protections in place by taking advantage of…

Absolutely agreed, Yannick, and thanks for writing this.

Hey Richard, I just wanted to toss this out there: Thanks for these. I'm really not much of an anime watcher just because of the other things competing for my attention, but your reviews have been instrumental in helping me get a handle on some of the ones to toss in the queue fairly content in the knowledge that I'm…

Welp. It's one more chip on the pile for me when I finally dig through my Steam and (significantly smaller) PS4 back catalog enough to justify a Wii U. The thing is rapidly turning into the Nintendo Dreamcast.

Can't say this is terribly surprising; I remember watching that video back when he put it out (for the record I fucking adore Stephenson — Cryptonomicon is one of the best books ever written) and thinking "Hhhhuh...This guy doesn't actually know much about video games, aaaand this is probably going to fail."

Pretty cool they're showing us this stuff, although I'm glad they went with the more subdued (if you wanna call a giant bloody fridge chained to the ceiling bathed in red light subdued) look for the playable version.

"Beating a kid creates an atmosphere of toxicity in a house that lingers forever: One beating leads to the next, and to the next, and to the next, until parents don't even know why they're beating the kid anymore."

You'd likely have to set up a regular old web filter. Although, just as a heads up, if you haven't been using a web filter up until now it's an incredibly safe bet your son's seen some stuff that would turn your hair white. Check your browser history.

Given the kinda meh reception this got for the other platforms it came out on, I gotta wonder if Ubi are planning on adding some goodies or making some tuning changes or something for the Wii U.

Who knows, maybe this'll be the "definitive" version? Or they'll just poop it onto the Wii U after the massive delay and…

My only question is how they're gonna show him to scale, or even if they are. I mean, Ridley's frickin' massive. And can fly.

Well, obviously you can do as you please, but a gentle reminder: When you spel things liek dis and omit letters and punctuation, it has the effect of lowering the register of what you say.

Oh my god did I find the only other person ever who vastly prefers the Eva rebuild to the original show?

Obvious caveats: the movies don't have anywhere even remotely within pissing distance of as much cultural import as the show did/does and never will, and obviously taken as a whole the show is a couple of orders of…