At the University of Minnesota, a proposed moment of silence remembering 9/11 was defeated 36-23 by the Student Union. Why? because remembering 9/11 is “Islamophobic and racist,” according to the students of UM.

you know, in the general concept of kotaku being a toxic place for game developers, i have to say you are one of the ones i most closely associate it with your attack on vanillaware. i dunno, that was a time i lost a lot of respect for kotaku because it made a personal crusade to force a political position and tried…

and Kotaku responses with a resounding “nun-uh!” This site has been click-baity and yellow journalistic for years, stirring shit where none really existed and providing spoiler-filled traffic driving but not really informative articles for years. They are acting like they’re the New York Times when they’re really the…

Hm, wonder why Penny Arcade wasn’t featured this week :/

Left out Penny Arcade’s comic this week, eh? Unfortunate; I was looking forward to reading the assuredly wonderful comments for that one.

Oh, so I guess we’re not doing Penny Arcade anymore?

Actually no. It’s been established in Skyward Sword that after a certain number of years Link, Ganon and Zelda all reincarnate under the same form. Which is why all three always look the same in all games. However nothing would stop Nintendo from making a Zelda game where Zelda is the one who has to save Link or…

Why are the goddesses... goddesses, and not gods? Why is Zelda female? Link male? Ganon male? Why is Impa, Zelda’s protector and guide through many of the games, female?

“Why can’t Link be a woman?” Ehmm... because, you know, he’s a man, that identifies as a man in the gender specter. Let’s not force a political agenda into this. Linkle is not the female version of Link as people want her to be. She has her own feeling and motivations (based on what we’ve seen on the trailers and…

By all means pick someone else. Have Malon/marin as the protagonist. Hell, can you imagine how much everyone would freak if we FINALLY got to play as sheik? Chain whip and needles and all that crazy ninja shit from smash bros but in a zelda game?

Because that is how the storyline has been established. Much like Zelda, the Triforce, Ganon and the Master Sword. Otherwise, Why can’t Samus be male or Spawn be white?

Because Feminist Frequency... that is why. Arbitrary complaining leads to arbitrary decisions.

(And hey, why not let players choose if Link is a boy or a girl in the next one?)

Why do we keep talking about “Islamophobia” like it is an actual thing? If you want to defend a religion that supports rape and subjugation of women, among even worse things, thats on you. I Don’t see how you square that with feminism though. That progressive stack is a hard thing to understand.

It’s a real shame that Kotaku and the rest of games media has been so hostile to #Gamergate, to the point of derailing the disussion about ethics in the industry to unrelated harassment. We have upwards of 100k people that we know of across our discussion hubs, and are very good at investigating things. You would have…

So what’s the solution?

Wait a second. Does this mean that MEN in gaming get death threats and hate thrown their way too? But I thought only WOMEN were subjected to such things? No? Okay then.

There were several incidents of mass hysteria last night at UM, including the student body president falsely citing the presence of the “KKK” on campus. While Prof. Brigham could certainly have used a slightly softer tone, I don’t believe he was wrong to insist that teaching continue despite the false reports and mass…

Calling someone a professional victim is not pointing the finger at them for the harassment. It does, however, mean that they have benefited in some tangible way from it. Brianna Wu has abandoned her game, she is now bankrolled entirely by victim bucks. Sarkeesian is years overdue on her series and has moved entirely…

I take it you mean the panel with the head of the society of journalists, a game developer, and a free speech activist?