I guess I don’t read enough of Kotaku’s articles to have seen the behavior/bias you’re describing - I thought this article seemed pretty neutral on the subject of Steam vs Epic, reporting almost exclusively on the meat and potatoes of the situation without any tilt towards supporting one or the other. All I know is…

I realize this article is pretty old - practically ancient in Internet Time. (If anyone is interested as to how I came across it: I was actually reading another Kotaku article (published today) and had to google the term “mantle” because I hadn’t heard it before in reference to video games (I guess I knew it as…

It should be noted that there are people for which politics has become life and death - I don’t think it’s fair to gloss over that fact. For many people, especially in this country (the US) right now, there is more bad than good and to say that your experience of it is typical is an attribution bias that trivializes…

I feel it’s important to point out here that Scott Walker was voted out, and Wisconsin was pretty reliably a blue state for 20 years before this most recent presidential election (in which Trump overturned two other major blue states, Michigan and Pennsylvania). So while yes, Wisconsin went for Trump and put Scott…

Not to be “That Guy”, because of course you’re correct about the substantial impact cattle farming has on the environment, but it’s a common misconception that the primary source of methane from cows is flatulence - in fact, 90-95% of the methane from cows is released by belching, while only 5-10% is farted out.…

My breau quit playing Pokémon Go a few months ago, so now it’s just me going out to play for a few hours every now and again. When Wizards Unite came out, he was sucked into it and now I am, as well. At first, I was trying to eek out a little PoGo time in between Wizards Unite spawn lulls (it seems, for us, that even…

So we (well, mostly me since I do the lion’s share of the Christmas shopping for the relatively large family my fiancé has lawl) have a sort of ritual the month or so before Christmas where I simply take advantage of Amazon Prime’s free trial offer - surprisingly, there seems to be one available for me around that…

ProPublica did a really thorough investigative report on algorithms used to assess “risk”, etc. for offenders awaiting sentencing - for any person of color (or person directly related to a person of color - like I’m white (so, so white. Like, can’t be in the sun for more than 5 minutes white) and my dad is black),…

I think what you’re missing here is that Bathory’s intention was always to expose the company/its methods. I’m not positive, but I’d imagine offering the ability to restore accounts (wrongfully terminated or not) is against Instagram’s TOS and if I come to you to buy illegal drugs and I don’t pay or you don’t deliver…

We just bought a new car last year and it took us a moment to realize - oh crap, there’s no CD-Player in here. Many rental cars don’t either. So you’ve got to move all that music off your CDs and onto your phone or something in order to listen to music you bought in the car. Or, use something like Pandora or Spotify.…

Adobe is doing this right now - telling users of some of its older product versions that if they continue to use them, they’ll be breaking the law, as Adobe has yanked the licenses (the fact that they’ve switched to a subscription-based service and recently raised their prices is no coincidence). So even if you…

So, unfortunately, it looks like it wasn’t all talk. They actually are building...something. They can call it “wall” all they like but from what I understand, it’s a half-mile of a mile so far (costing between $6 and $8 million) of gap-filling between existing border fence. What worries me most here is the…

I believe that by “no one will take that away”, they meant the process by which they keep themselves feeling healthy - I think that’s an important distinction. By classifying something as an addiction, some people will see it as having negative power and connotations when in fact it can have positive properties…

Right. While I agree that impeachment is the Constitutional remedy for the numerous, demonstrable crimes committed by this president - and putting aside the arguments against elevating Mike Pence to the presidency - there’s still the very real concern that not only will impeachment proceedings almost certainly fail to…

I know, right? It’s like the “security vulnerabilities” freakout, all over again.

I know it’s a bit late for a reply but I wanted to say I appreciated your thoughtful response and also - yeah, that definitely tracks, the whole “people spend their money dumb all the time”. I’ve watched the Frontline specials haha. But when it comes to your kids and when it’s obvious the focus is on their making…

Well now that's playing by anime rules, where logic dare not show its face.

You know, without watching the clip, I wasn’t so sure about their decision - I thought it would be too murky to determine that it was indeed collusion/cheating. But after reading through the comments, I realized I had to watch the clip to understand what others were seeing and boy, howdy. I was genuinely surprised by…

Yes but in video game logic, The Special Counsel has more legitimacy because their title is cooler.