You don’t have to commit a crime to be fired. Asking an employee to show you her tits sin’t a crime. But it is a fireable offense.

Remember Hugo over at Jez? Or the “I’m too smart to be raped” debacle? Or AJ’s flippant court remarks? Or contributors that take to Twitter to shit on the commenters? Or the authors with a history of questionable/ misogynist commentary getting hired on a women’s site? Or the “union” that I’m sure if had it done…

You can be fired for things that aren’t crimes.

Ahh. OK I think I see the point of difference here.

Legally speaking, at the moment he is, due to a mistrial caused by two jurors who refused the guilty verdict suggested by the other jurors. Same as above though: If/when he is found guilty, I will be AOK with whatever career punishments, criminal verdicts or social humiliations come his way.

You think it’s somehow inappropriate for Kotaku to be reporting on sexual harassment?

If he’s guilty? Sure, I agree: Good riddance. But firing over an allegation? Not good.

Man, did I piss people off. :D

I mean, I remember after The Force Awakens some people asking how Finn was able to use a lightsaber because they weren’t aware that non-force users could even turn on a lightsaber. It was mind-boggling. Nowhere in the movies does it say a lightsaber is any more complicated than just turning it on. Han uses one to gut…

You know, it’s going to be fucking hilarious when some big writer from this network of sites gets fired for sexual harassment or misconduct or something.

Why are we pretending that the idea that there are other people beyond the Skywalkers using the force is some kind of revelation?

Yeah, totally. We’ll find out Rey is actually an evil clone of Luke’s hand, which was also sent back in time to scrape DNA off Darth Maul’s skin and also reincarnated as half Kenobi and half Palpatine.

Personally, if it turns out Rey’s parents are anything other than trash, I’ll be sorely disappointed.

Sticking to lore, Jedi are not supposed to have kids, which means that until Anakin and the Skywalkers, all Jedi were complete randoms.

I think it’s way more lazy to say she is the kid of some character we already know.

Did you miss the article where they dug up fan letters from 1980 where everyone insisted that Vader was lying to Luke, too?

Imo saying “She’s Obi-Wan’s great niece” or something would feel so cheesy and even lazier.

No he doesn’t, but if he isn’t honestly, what’s the alternative?

Think about the implication if she actually is a Skywalker or a Solo; so Han, Leia, Luke or any combination of those three just abandoned her on a backwater, and left her for dead and then ALL pretended like they had no idea who the fuck she was? That…

Its not a revelation, and very few people are treating it as such.

Why are we pretending that the idea that there are other people beyond the Skywalkers using the force is some kind of revelation? That’s always how it’s been. Like, in addition to the prequels, there are entire episodes of Clones Wars and Rebels that deal with other force-using kids. Not to mention half of every Star…