So, essentially that episode of Futurama? I know, I know, “which one?” - Season 6, episode 7: “The Late Philip J. Fry”.

This was also my one takeaway from the post - I loved SAC growing up and even had a kind of beef with the live-action movie at first (out of pure spite, like “not MY Major” lawl but then I saw the movie and was actually pretty pleased - just lowered my expectations and came out of it positively). But yeah, the Major’s…

Thank you for this, kind Internet Sir.

Firstly, google-searching “lewk” returned the top result “fashion slang to know in 2017" (Elle magazine), while most other results were circa 2015 or so - referencing a photo of an actor from over 10 years ago using slang from about three years ago, that’s so 20 years ago.

“...any foreign substance not regularly found in air...” Welcome to, well, everywhere. But I guess I know what you mean.

Really enjoyed this comment but I wanted to discuss the point you made at the top of your comment (that the death of kayfabe is partially responsible for this “being a dick”): I think the problem is also partially (perhaps even mostly) that nowadays people feel more “free” to say/feel those kinds of things out loud…

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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…

This is exactly why you almost NEVER see Nintendo’s proprietary games on sale - Mario Kart, Mario Party, Legend of Zelda, etc. Months, a year and so on after release and they’re still full price. Even when it’s the previous iteration, they usually stay pretty up there in price. I mean, look at Pokémon Games - if it…

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…