io9 got fucked hard by the addition of the Onion and thereby AV club to the GMG family. I love the AV club, but man its clear that upper management did not feel like io9 needed to exist separately. It was probably an early warning of things to come.

My issue is more than it became “pure sci fi”, rather than the awesome mix of fiction and actual science and anthropology it started off as. I think some of that was unavoidably lost when it joined Gawker but the merge with Gizmodo always felt like a bad step

I’m happy that Charlie Jane’s novel career is taking off, but her reviews were always my favorite part of io9.

OK Boomer

That + 69 made me lol. Because I’m actually 12.

I don’t think anyone is going to fight that...

Why fight the truth?

TESLA RUSH. TESLA RUSH.

I’ll do you one better. Red Alert 2 > Starcraft.

I’m not going to fight truth

brb listening to hell march on repeat again.

This is the correct take.  RA was what got me into the genre before I fell in love with Total Annihilation.  It was great fun playing over dialup with neighbors across the street.

I worry starting this conversation means we need to set up a basis for which is better, gameplay or video. There were some terrible later games but the videos with Ric Flair, Tim Curry, etc. were awesome.

Gloves come off

Clearly, read the article.

Finally, a form of theater where you purchase as many tickets as you can in hopes of getting good actors on the stage, only to end up with a bunch of duplicate art students which will hopefully merge together to become shinier versions of themselves. I’ve been ready for this my whole life.

So, what I hear is that those casters knew he was going to say something, and goaded him into saying it. That’s why they duck before he says it. 

Guys like porn. Tell him to go incognito and everyone’s happy.

It’s not a controversial statement, it’s an unreasonable one.
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