Yes. When someone’s behavior is crappy, it should be pointed out. Most people don’t want to be seen as crappy, and if you point it out, even bluntly, it makes them see how some are perceiving them, and they can choose whether or not to amend their behavior. Someone might say something racist for example, and so if…

Your argument is weak. I used the friend example to show that place and context have different standards of etiquette, but you vaguely phrase your argument as if I said that was the only occasion where it’s acceptable. Calling someone a dick is certainly informal, but not overly cutting, and Kotaku frequently has…

It’s all context and what is appropriate in that context. I would never tell a judge in court that (s)he’s being a dick, but if a friend of mine is being rude, it wouldn’t be out of line for me to say, “dude, you’re being a dick. Quit it.”

I've told my friends when they were being dicks. It's not a matter of civility but of vocabulary. Civility is not dependent on vocab.

It’s pretty funny that you try to make me the bad guy for pointing out why what he said wasn’t “just a joke” and why that was a bad excuse, and yet, here you are talking down to me, assuming I’m a kid because you disagree with my approach. Still, you clearly misunderstood the point, because even as a joke, it’s still…

You’ve never calmly told someone they’re being a dick? Either you’re not around many people who aren’t saintly or you have a hot temper.

See, you just pointed out the problem. He thinks a mean-spirited comment is the same thing as a clever joke played for laughs, but fails to realize that good jokes make a point, so when someone points out his statement isn’t even true, he hides behind the fallacy that it was just a joke. People use that excuse to…

I love when someone says something rude making fun of someone else and gets called out in a way that shows that their original comment wasn’t even accurate, they act like the other person is having a temper tantrum. Emberdione was chill, S1D, and saying “I was joking” isn’t a good cover for being a dick and being…

Oh that’s not what I meant. I had this:

Unless there’s another controller with a near identical shape, my controller was the InterAct SuperPad 64.

Well if he’s only doing it for twitch streams, people just have to find his twitch to be able to know what account he’s using.

I had a virtual boy. It’d hurt your back and your eyes after a while, but I had fun with the 3 games we had.

I love Nintendo (and I used to be Republican before realizing how most of the bigotry comes from the right) but I don’t make excuses for what they’ve handled poorly. That said, I love Nintendo for the games they have continued to make, and not just because of the good ol’ days. Games like Smash 4, Mario Maker, and…

Smash is my favorite franchise of all time, so a lack of games isn’t a problem for me, because I just use smash ladder and play that more than the rest of my gaming collection combined (including Xbox One). Sometimes it’s hard to remember that other people don’t like to play the same game for years on end, and that’s…

I was happy with my N64 over Playstation. Playstation games tended to look pretty awful to me, and the N64 games looked pretty great. Yeah, the controller sucked, but that wasn’t a problem once I got a third party controller that looked more like a gamecube controller (one of the few that was actually high quality,…

They need cash to be able to afford NX production? Are you nuts? They have enough in cash reserves to lose $250 million a year for over 30 years.

Smash Up and King of Tokyo has taken a lot of our time lately.

Smash Up and King of Tokyo has taken a lot of our time lately.

Snyder’s superman is like making a book about Jesus where he speaks like Donald Trump, promotes atheism, and encourages violence. Even if he ends up a great character, it’s not Jesus anymore. And that’s a very apt comparison, since Snyder wants to employ the Christ metaphors as often as possible, even though he took…

You spend more time saying you can defend the movie than defending it. Even if it's characterization a were t so far off, it's a poorly put together film.

Am I the only one disappointed not to see a shot with both Rey and the Journey character together?