If you, fellow commenter, enjoy games but your only thought after reading this article and other horror stories is “I just don’t know if workers being protected and treated like humans is worth possible inconveniences to my luxury consumption/hobby” then you’re a fucking Trash Person, full stop.

Nothing says “I’m not smug” like calling somebody smug for shopping at a grocery store.

I think what has given me pause in my former support fot the ACLU is the Milo case and the pushback it got from trans people on twitter who claim the ALCU decided not to help them. I think that’s a good time (along with the defense of the Cville rallies) to question their priorities. Everyone’s civil liberties matter…

“People have the right to have a differing opinion, without the pitchforks coming after them.”

I dare you to form an argument without using Obama or media bias.

If anybody wants to know why you’re supposed to react to Nazis and white supremacists by sucker punching and then beating the shit out of them, as opposed to trying to reason with them, this is why. This guy was spoiling for a fight. He wanted to hurt somebody. He wanted somebody to stand up to him that was wholly…

Every port has issues. EVERY ONE. Some, granted, have more issues than others, but if “having issues” is the criteria, everyone would have pirated Skyrim ages ago. Modders make games look and run better all the time, often more than the actual publishers ever do. I wouldn’t even consider Dark Souls on PC without the…

“I’m trying out the game to see if I like it before I buy it.”

The fact that Kaldaein has to go out of his way to argue this isn’t a moral judgment on piracy is absolutely infuriating. So what if it is? Piracy is fundamentally wrong. If you hate corporations, try to hurt them in some way that doesn’t disrespect developers who worked hard to make the games you love so much that…

I frankly can’t imagine being on the wrong side of this debate.

Seeing that my family runs a consulting firm for charter schools looking to farm out their spec ed and school psychology issues, I can speak firsthand (or in many cases, secondhand from my parents) to the fact that charter school issues begin at the stereotype and extend well beyond that point. Charters are a…