Totally. I've never won anything significant myself so I don't know what it's like, and maybe in that rush of victory you do feel a compulsion to tell the losers all the reasons you deserved to win and they didn't. And I've often felt envious of winners, and wondered if there are other factors aside from talent and…

I am so excited about the movie. Everyone I know is flailing ecstatically about 'The Hobbit', I am flailing ecstatically over 'Les Miz'. Well, and 'The Hobbit'. (Although I'm not sure why they're opening 'Les Miz' that week too - why is any movie in the world even bothering to open the same week as 'The Hobbit'?)

'Kay, I have officially decided that winners who are mean to losers are actually losers themselves. Went to the stupidest Big Fish In A Little Pond awards night dinner ever on the weekend, and it was as much of an incestuous it's-who-you-know-that-counts cliquey back-stabbing glad-handing love-in as people had…

THAT'S IT! I can't believe I forgot it was her, I do love that book!

I forget which feminist 20-something writer said this (and I'm paraphrasing) but it's almost like our mothers' message to us of "You can be anything you want to be" got a bit mixed up in translation and we interpreted it as "You MUST be EVERYTHING".

I'm really curious to see how they handle the climactic confrontation part of the story. Because even genuine non-ironic fans of the series have acknowledged that as a major letdown and whole lot of nothing much.

THANK YOU. The word "jealousy" has all those connotations of pettiness, shallowness, vindictiveness. To me "You're just jealous" is shorthand for "You are envious of certain privileges that I benefit from, I will interpret that as you blaming me personally for existence of said privilege, believing that I support the…

Somebody once phrased it to me as: All Hot Girls(TM) weigh under 118 pounds. It's a factory setting, you can't change it. If you say you weigh more, people will be all 'No way! You can't weigh that much!"

And "she's a beautiful woman on a desert island full of bad guys, it's realistic that she's threatened with sexual assault!" Yeah, because action/adventure games would be awesome and so much fun to play if the gameplay was based on 100% realism.

No, there's a chance he did, it's just the drug also made him conveniently not remember. /eyeroll.

Yeah, Sims (which I've never played incidentally, but keep mean to getting around to one day because it seems stupid to miss a major gaming phenomenon). But we're talking action games.

The "But sexual violence and threat of sexual violence against women, especially hot women like Lara on islands full of bad guys, is realism so it should be included" thing doesn't really wash for me. Not very much at all in action video games is, you know, 100% realistic. Having to stop at some point during the day…

Promoted for the image of Cindyanna Jones almost being raped and then going out to shoot dinosaurs. Plus for being a great comment all round.

Sometimes the Kotaku commentariat are awesome - and there are always articulate shining beacons of reason in the gender/sexuality shitstorms, thank god. But sometimes I'm just all "Stop it! Please! Stop making it hard for the rest of us to fight the gamer misogyny image!"

Yeah, the good old "If you think it's sexist then YOU must be the sexist one" defence. Which is even more nonsensical in this instance than usual.

Oh lord. Having my wisdoms out is the one time in my life I've just broken down and cried for no other reason than something just hurt so fucking much.

I agree. We're right on the cusp of it now, but I don't think "grown-ups" have quite grasped yet that mass online communication is as ubiquitous to Kids These Days(TM) as, I don't know, oxygen or something. A lot of the internet safety awareness stuff that I've come across lately seems to assume that the parents in…

"First of all, we would like to say we are happy that our shoot

There was a high profile human trafficking case a while back where I am, and some of the johns were all "We didn't know, the girls were happy and smiling and acted horny for us, so how were we to know?" And people acted like it was this great big shocking unknown fact that trafficked women are taught that if they…

I just flash back to how once upon a time when your parents took embarrassing videos of you doing hilarious shit, the maximum audience possible was whoever was invited to your 21st birthday party. Now it's the world. It's like things haven't really happened and weren't meaningful unless you got it on video and…