I was gonna write “inb4 all the ignorant and racist bullshit” but there’s already a “fuck off” comment, so I guess I’m too late.

Oh, I dunno. I’ve traveled around in some 3rd world countries.

DIAPERS. CLOTH. DIAPERS. A girl I graduated with had her baby the same day as me and our approach to parenting could not be more different. My fb feed doesn’t even know I have a kid, but hers has taught me that there are approximately 80 different cloth diaper brands, 136 types, eleventy million designs, and on…

So that’s the crux of it, huh? You’re a fan of co-sleeping and your feelings were hurt that someone called you a weirdo? If that’s the conversation we’re having, I’ll go all-in and fully malign co-sleeping. We’re talking about two different things though, aren’t we? There’s co-sleeping that’s necessitated by poverty…

Exactly protogenic. Consumers have fewer and fewer rights these days.

Thorin, I understand your frustration, but I think pulling your account and thus the review was the wrong move.

“So I respectfully question why Kotaku was in such a hurry to beat Hello Games (and apparently IGN) to leak an upcoming announcement (only a few days off) of a delay of a game that isn’t out yet.”

As someone who is interested in No Man’s Sky, not to the degree these nutjobs are, but still interested enough to want to know when i can buy it, Kotaku putting up a small piece about it being pushed back by a few months is actually news I appreciate.

Think of it this way- that 10 year old on Xbox Live in the late ‘00s who screamed he was going rape your mother every time you killed him in the game? He’s an adult now, with all the empowerment that comes from doing ugly shit like this for a decade with no consequences.

Here’s the problem with “ignore it,” or the “don’t feed the trolls” mentality.

“I wish we could just go back to video games being Satanic.” - Stoncils, 2016

Quote of the year.

God fucking damnit this is some absolute bullshit. Why why WHY IN THE FUCKING WORLD is it that this is where I find myself being most embarrassed? I feel like the sheer amount of vicious, casual apathy these walking vomitoriums spew has turned the word gamer into a slur. Fucking Christ!

Does it really matter? Credible or not I think it helps to publicize this sort of stuff — both to expose this ugliness and to push sites like Twitter to improve their harassment policies.

I would love to know exactly when death threats became the thing to do to express disapproval. [sigh]

This is just ridiculous.... I mean it’s a game for fuck’s sake and i love games as much as the next guy/gal, but really? Are these really adult people? How do they even function in society is probably the bigger question.

It’s not the “learn one more language” that is the problem, it’s the fact that the language you’ve learn and spoke for your entire life up to this point suddenly gets erased like a steaming turd by the polical party that you didn’t vote for.

Cue all the straight people making this about how they are not like that.

And queue all the straights lining up to shout that they are sisters/friends or why does there need to be queers or stop shoving your agenda down our throats.

Don’t be. It’s a single player game: The universe is so massive, you’ll probably never interact with anyone. The game has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets.

I would have hoped that the concept of “fandom” would have died down by the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen, but I guess every year there’s people born, they grow into caustic little shits, and (hopefully) grow out of it. We need to add Internet Ethics classes to cut it off at the root.