Most of "doritogate" had nothing to do with us, but maybe you're referring to some stuff that came up regarding swag? How one of our video editors turned out to have kept an Assassin's Creed promo flag? We'd by and large been saying no to swag but weren't doing it aggressively enough and have been since. I don't know…

I'm not sure which sources you're looking at, but questions about Patricia's articles about Anna Anthropy's and Christine Love's games were part of what I was reacting to.

"instead trying to find a company that values employee talent more than shareholders." ahhh youth, i remember being that hopeful for humanity once. Hang onto that for as long as you can.

Quick advice (I worked in AAA for 5 years and am now indie) - are you in school now? If you are in school and you have summers, make a game. Immediately. Set yourself a goal to make one game in the 3 months you have for summer and release it for sale.

Some philosophies are much more useful than others. Christianity, along with most other mainstream religions, are a pretty bad example of something that is supposed to give you the axioms of life - if you believe in a disconnect between a God and everything else in the world, you get all sorts of weird paradoxes and…

Agreed

It might be worth considering if in fact she had pressed charges, since that statistic you quote applies to rapes reported to law enforcement, not blog posts.

I have been reading Kotaku for a year or two now, and don't really pay attention to who writes what, I just read the articles and enjoy. Despite that, I have noticed in the comments section, a number of times, people railing on Patrica and thought... "Why would someone post just to be mean to or insult the author?"

"But it's worth considering"

She does in every article like this....every single article, aside from like, three, that she's written has been a complete pile of gender-biased bullshit. Everyone screams equality, but it's funny how men are always guilty, women are over sexualized in media, and every video game that comes out is an attack against…

This is crazy. With your logic, it means that anyone who wants to smear another person can easily accuse that person of rape; and because statistically only 1 in 13 people are proven to make false accusations, you can automatically "consider" that the person did in fact commit rape? This is dangerous.

I agree with this wholeheartedly.

Don't pretend to cite something and just point to another BS blog post that is absolutely non-scientific. EDIT: After reading what you linked to f-it. There's no hope anymore. Enjoy what you're helping to create. The number 8 doesn't even appear and oh my god what a POS 'article' by another 'journalist' framing the…

That's what it sounds like she's implying, which I hope isn't the the case. That would be really messed up of her to do.

You're choosing the nice way of saying 92-99% of accusations are true. By saying that, you've pretty much stated, "Yep...chances are good he's guilty!" No proof. Nothing. Just statistics, which we all know are iron-clad, amirite? Congratulations. You've just made a perfect example of why real conversations can't…

This is seriously one of the most disgusting things I've ever read. I can't even grasp how you can actually say and post things like this without being sarcastic. Have you never heard of 'innocent until proven guilty'? How is it up to him to prove that he didn't rape her?

This is a horrible, horrible use of statistics and really, really offensive. The generalized results for a group of people can NEVER be used to apply to a particular case. It's called the ecological fallacy, and you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecologica… .

And statistically the lack of pirates are causing an increase in global temperatures.

No one can be "statistically" guilty. That doesn't make sense.

Please be noted that the 1.5-8% being false are those reported to the police, and even then research is dubious on the matter. When allegations are taken to the police they become a lot more serious, are dealt with in a much more risky way for someone making false allegations, which is why you will see the percentage…