Man, somebody should tell Disney and ViacomCBS about all the risk they exposed themselves to, I’m sure the lawyers at those companies can’t hold a candle to the powerhouses at Twitch:

Keep drinking that Kool-Aid, Alpha Brain:

Why does a streaming platform like Twitch act like it’s the CIA when it comes to transparency? Every article about them is filled with generalities and no comments, half the time we don’t even know what these guys did (eg, Disrespect). Oh, it’s their “policy to keep individual employment information confidential.”…

You’re overthinking it. I’m one of those people and I’m 39. Some people play games for the challenge and to figure things out on their own, some people play games to blow off steam and relax. Most people are some sort of combination of the two, leaning one way or the other, or even varying based on genre or other…

A) What evidence do you have for this? B) Why do you assume only young people play Animal Crossing? C) What makes you think “higher-ups in the Democratic party” (who are obviously monolithic in their views on the matter, natch) are overly interested in the people who are least likely to vote period, not just for them?

How in the world is anything having to do with any of this rubbing in your face that you’re settling for the lesser of two evils?

I understand that there are a lot of people whose primary joy in video games comes from wandering around and figuring things out on their own, but I’m so over the tendency some developers have to withhold basic gameplay information from the player. Just give people the option to show or hide this information (so those…

Look, I’ll acknowledge up front that I’m probably being oversensitive about this, but is there a reason you decided to single out the religious affiliation of the the two white creators? I understand that you’re contrasting the majority Black/Latinx roles with the producer and director, but I don’t see why you need to…

Maybe this is too grand a conclusion to draw, but it sounds to me like Jonathan Nolan is a really important creative partner for Christopher. I don’t know much about their creative relationship but it would make some sense, if Jonathan was more the character/emotion guy, that this movie would tip over into “parody…

Unless you’ve surveyed every employee of the particular store at which you are shopping to confirm that they all “enjoy rallying up the carts” and believe it to be “easy, soothing work,” you are an asshole if you don’t put back your cart. I can’t even believe that you would try to both sides something as dumb and…

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like there are some major editorial and management issues, though it’s a little hard to parse since so much is left vague. But it seems pretty clear that there are major issues in the way Kotaku is run, and that management and leadership are failing the writers. And it seems to go far beyond…

Show me on the doll where Paul Feig hurt you.

Just wait until these assholes start a GoFundMe for their bail.

Some stories have no heroes.

Yeah, that’s where I’m at. I have to use a Mac for work and I abhor the haptic touchpad. Just a nightmare. But some of these features sound cool, so I’ll give it a shot.

I know, that was probably a bit of an unfair dig since I’m just not interested in Fall Guys. Just saying that stuff used to be more balanced with meatier pieces and there are a lot fewer of those these days. On purpose. 

Since this isn’t Medium, and you didn’t provide a link or any more context, I’m going to assume most people are like me and don’t know what article you are referring to because we haven’t see it. 

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You’re making an awful lot of overgeneralizations. Yes, lots of commenters were awful to Cecilia and Gita (and, frankly, Jason took tons of shit any time his opinion of JRPGs or something differed from the consensus), but lots of commenters really liked them, too. I guarantee if you go back to their articles the…

I didn’t think I was ranting. Just my perspective. And I wasn’t calling out Nathan, I know he’s been here a long time and does good work. Like I said, I’m not knocking the current writers or anything, I wouldn’t be here if there weren’t worthwhile stories being published, just pointing out the fact that a lot of (not…