What kind of ending was this? A brilliant ending. They answered what needed to be answered. They even gave us fresh eyes by showing us a perspective separate from Rust and Marty: the killers, who was clearly decadent and deranged. This is probably one of the most fitting, appropriate, and earnest finales I've seen.…

This was THE WORST episode of New Girl in it's 3 season history. I was CRINGING through the entire fucking thing. That stupid scene where Jess plays dress up for Prince, did nothing for the storyline, was not cute at all.

No, Tracie, that's not why people called you and your colleagues 'mean girls'. They called you one bc you willingly paid TEN FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS to get unretouched photos for the sole purpose of trying to point out Lena's flaws under the guise of "critical discussion". And when Lena's "flaws" weren't as gossip…

The "faux altruism" you got called out for was the blatant insincerity of: "Lena is sooo perfect and gorgeous and NOT fat just the way she is!! (but send us photos of her without photoshop so we can post them and other people can judge how ugly and chubby she is and we can get clicks) xoxo".

That actually wasn't the problem, for me - it was the $10K bounty on the unretouched pics. It skeeved me out that it was targeted at Lena Dunham specifically, out of all the airbrushed pics in the world. I know the text spoke to "how much we love Lena without retouching," but if I were her, I would have felt singled…

I'm actually inclined to believe the camouflage argument is nowhere near the truth. It's too much a stupid fanboy argument and Kojima said that the reason for Quiet's attire would make people feel bad about the kneejerk reactions. That's what makes me so worried that it'll be a clumsy attempt at dealing with a more…

I'm 100% on your side but good luck arguing with morons on Kotaku about progressive issues and their precious asshole schlock auteur Kojima.

1. Except when it's Kojima, who has already inserted his perverted and misogynistic views into Metal Gear with the Beauty and the Beast unit.

I haven't played GTA V, but I remain firmly of the belief that the best open world game to this day remains Red Dead Redemption. My argument is that it was open enough to be fun, but not so open that you end up being lost and distracted all the time. Marsten can be as good or bad as you want, and in the end, can…

Definitely. Though in my case I also use it to my advantage—misogynists, as it turns out, will spend DAYS AND DAYS on a single post you've written, yelling at and arguing with women and other misogynists. And this translates to $$$, which I can then use to pay my writers to produce more content. They unwittingly sign…

Great to hear.

Because cliche means predictable and unoriginal. It is predictable and unoriginal for male (and even some female) writers to use the rape/sexual assault of a female character as a training montage because they can't figure out any other way of making their female characters appear strong. It's lazy writing, done so…

It's a cliche because the vast majority of male-written narratives use rape/assault as a means of "empowerment" for their female characters. Because, you know... The only way a woman is empowered is by sexually assaulting or raping her. It's often insencere, tactless and usually comes off as more fetish than anything…

Trust me, it's a trope. It's the easiest way for a lazy writer to show that a female character became tough. It's as much of a trope as "fridging" someone (male or female), only no-one ever writes a male character getting raped and then suddenly becoming a kickass protagonist because "they had to overcome their…

It's a trope in various media that a woman *always* becomes mentally stronger and a 'better' person after she's been through the ordeal. Your friend did manage to come through the aftermath confidently and that's in no way a bad thing, but it's not representative of every situation.

Yay, rape as drama backstory resulting in a mute female stripperific character. Keep writing that gold, Kojima.

It does kind of seem like, a lot of the time, rape is used as the female equivalent of the training montage, doesn't it?

Please please please PLEASE let the game handle sexual violence with the appropriate gravity that the topic requires. We gamers really don't need to be the butt of every joke about artistic merit, and including sexual violence as a throwaway or non-serious event is a great way to make that happen.