Dammit, Evan. Why did you have to leave for io9? This is exactly why you need to stick around Kotaku: you continue to raise the bar for discourse

You mean like that giant article about Overwatch porn last week? Yawn, pal, get a new line.

As a bunch of other threads have pointed out, this is more complicated than a video game. This is about the erosion of culture by a government, manifested in corporate decisions mandated or pressured by the government. There's some nuance missing from your post, nuance and reflection

I wonder if you were familiar with different sounds that different languages make and those sounds are not easily replicated by somebody not adept at the language. In English, there are ~40 phonemes. In other languages, there are different (often, more) phonemes (some languages have >100), some of which are difficult…

TEAM NOBODY

Or, one could think critically about the objects they enjoy and still enjoy them! Your example of Quiet isn't particularly strong. When a woman has agency to decide to do something, that's good. When a woman is dehumanized and turned into a silent, empty vessel that exists for the sole purpose of titillation, that's…

Yeah, fuck this writer for having empathy. What a loser amirite. Real men just kill each other to prove they’re right

+1 for the idea that people should be remunerated for their labour. In this age of precarious labour, it’s all the more important to recognize the work that people put into things. If people want to pay for to see these artists (and they are artists) then the artists should be compensated accordingly. How much? Not…

Jeepers, talk about this con not listening to the criticisms. There comes a time when if everybody is telling you that you done fucked up, maybe you should consider if you done fucked up

life needs more Beth Ditto

Life seems to be becoming a free for all and anyone who questions it is stamped intolerant.

This should be the top comment. It’s a smokescreen and when the bathroom stuff is repealed through messy public feuds with the federal government, the minimum wage stuff will still quietly be passed, fucking over not just trans folks (who are disproportionately poor) but all middle and lower class folks

I think a better question to ask yourself is why you care what genitals the other person has? How does it affect your life if the pee comes from a weewee or hooha?

Men and women have very different functions in terms of how they operate in the washroom

So it’s an Ouya, but without the fervent and irrational hatred?

I feel the same... as in, nothing. I haven’t played a CoD since the Vietnam one (which was yikes awful) but people seem to like it. However, as a trailer, this one is pretty weak. We don’t really get a sense of the story, who I should be rooting for, what are the stakes, who is fighting? It’s a poor trailer

very complex reasons that vary from person to person. please do not unintentionally blame the victim for her possibly continued abuse

no true Scotsman

I love that in the header image, one of the girls sitting on top of somebody’s shoulders isn’t even looking at the stage, but rather at her phone, where presumably, she’s checking her notifications to see how many people were liking her Instagram pic.

Ugh