As college support staff, seconded - they frequently seem super unhappy too. That said, I think we all know that this guy’s daughter will be attending Eastern Southern Christian Bible College of Christ to get her MRS degree, so she might not have as hard a time adjusting.

This isn’t just about toxic fandoms though, it’s about fandoms that are surprisingly or oddly toxic.

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Also there are two Pokemon from gen 1 that are literally just balls with faces. 

I mean, it IS a gender bend of a male character, but one that was created in 1980. The initial reason behind the creation of She-Hulk and spiritual sister character Spider-Woman was that Stan Lee got nervous that somebody else (specifically DC) would put out gender-reversed versions of Hulk and Spider-Man first — DC…

This article is a great opportunity to remind the world that DM of the Rings is a thing that exists and it’s a brilliant and hilarious deconstruction of the (deeply flawed) assertion that “LOTR was just Tolkein’s original D&D campaign.”

My exact thought as well

Something about the tight, efficient structuring of each piece of the argument, building to a shockingly cogent deconstruction of an impossibly complicated topic, interspersed by tiny drum solos and untelegraphed moments of unbridled personal vitriol (“butthurt warlock main,” “journalistic abortion,” etc.) is just…

Our baby had real difficulty latching for the first ~6 months, and my wife had to rely mainly on pumping at home, which took hours a day. I was up with her nearly every night during that stretch, my hands were cracked and bleeding from all the washing and sterilizing of pump components, and I still only went through…

All that stuff is only 25-30 years old at most. Of course it still works. What VGHF wants is for all of these still-not-that-old games to still be available in another 25-30 years, and another 50 beyond that. We might not be at risk of outright losing any WiiU or 3DS games right now, but Nintendo’s refusal to support,…

all three games—Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind

I have family up in Bar Harbor, where she used to do a lot of entertaining at her vacation home. She’s well known up there to be a horrible, abusive boss to her household staff, curse out waiters and cashiers, etc. 

Thanks so much for this! I teach an M.Ed. course on games for teaching and learning, and this game+review combo is going right in my spring syllabus. This isn’t the first time Kotaku’s coverage of small, specific indies and prosocial games like this has been a hugely beneficial resource in my teaching, either. Keep up…

The problem is there have been very, very few non-voting racists since 2008.

So glad you had time to update us all on this.

There’s a pretty long history before the 20th century of white Europeans attempting to prove that other races were actually different (inferior) species. The idea that certain traits are hard-coded into entire races with no or very few exceptions is at the core of racist ideology - the fact that elves, orcs, and…

Or are there infinite interlocking Cube movies that only look the same?

Worth noting that clearly all three contestants avoided the category until the end and then had absolutely no trouble with any of the questions because, as you correctly point out, they are not in fact about Pokemon at all. 

Back in the 60's and 70's there was a weird moment where depicting prominent single female characters who dressed sexy and had casual sex was actually really progressive - see also a lot of the original Bond girls. For a long time male characters could do basically whatever and still be sympathetic protagonists, but…

It’s a famous line from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.