To everyone in the comments: It’s okay. You can admit what DeSantis is doing is absolutely an authoritative abuse of power without having to hem and haw about Disney to try and keep your “progressive” credibility.

The MPA uses their own rating system to avoid being subjected to a patchwork of state and federal government regulations. Regulations that would likely be regularly overturned on First Amendment grounds.

Honestly, that bit comes off almost like an insightful joke about how washed-up aging comedians try to stay relevant in 2023. “No one is laughing at my jokes. Maybe I should try saying hateful bullshit about trans people and liberals.” Just replace Jerry with Dave Chapelle or Louis CK and you’ve practically got a…

If we want this industry to continue to grow and create great stuff, it has to start being better to the creative people making all this stuff.

I’ve taken the liberty of updating the summons for the new M rating.

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

Hey Kotaku, Luke, Patricia, et al.

This. This is absolutely why people who do the “you shouldn’t give attention to it” dance fail to understand. That by not responding to it, we are giving the implicit approval that NFT’s (or the ways crypto nerds want to run it) are valid.

If you just give them this space uncontested, you’re just giving them exactly what they want, and buying their narrative that they’re relevant.

Yeah, I was going to comment on that. It also seems to imply two other ugly things:

Can’t wait for the handful of crypto dorks to roll in here talking about how Kotaku never says anything nice about NFTs and no one understand their potential except for them and it’s all so unfair because how are they ever going to become fake crypto Pokémon pyramid scheme landlords if people know that it’s just a…

I saw a guy on Twitter say “you just have to standardize assets” and I suddenly found a great contender for the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in my life.

NFT does in fact automatically mean useless scam that will literally destroy the world. Nobody is buying up these shitty monkey jpgs because they appreciate the art, they’re doing to to drive up the value of cryptocurrency.

Best advice I can give (and what got my my PS5), is to follow a couple of deal trackers on twitter (I like Wario64 and Matt Swider), watch Jake Randall’s YouTube videos so that you know how to actually get it from each store since there’s no consistency, and don’t get discouraged if it takes a while

Look up union innoculation. Good organizers innoculate worker leaders and teach them how to innoculatw their co workers. That combined with having organic leaders identified and become involved in the union drive typically make or break union drives.

I spent two years living in a country that doesn’t tip at all and it was the biggest reverse culture shock when I returned to the US. We went to a buffet in Vegas, which asked for a tip on the credit card receipt as you paid to enter the self service buffet—before you even saw a staff member! I had to ask them who I…

Because she represents the future of the Democratic party. She’s going to be the Democratic nominee for President eventually. It won’t be for a few election cycles, but it’ll happen. She can sell her platform and she can drag the shit out of somebody who tries to undermine it. You know when somebody says something…

She’s an “uppity” person of color with more social media power than they ever dreamed of and she wouldn’t fuck them even if they were the last trust-funded pair of chinos on the desert island. Just spitballin’ here.

Kaepernick is a driving force, not a dividing force. Unfortunately, from his personal experience, Jim Steineke considers a driving force to be very dangerous, especially with a few whiskies under his belt. 

“I don’t get these Packers fans. Cheeseheads? Now that’s just ridiculous. CheeseHANDS are where it’s at. Just ask Ol’ Cheddar Rick. He’s got a pack of dogs for a protection thanks to those sculpted dairy mitts. A nibble a day keeps the other hobos away, as the saying goes. Can’t grab for shit, but he saved a pinky to…