You’re not wrong, but it’s a process. To fix a systemic problem, you have to follow the systemic links in the chain of causality.

This. I think it’s plenty fine to be embarrassed by your chair rolling out the back of your truck, but there is an inherent and often unacknowledged misogyny in men’s fear of being associated with the color pink. Even if it’s unintentional, it’s something you should work on. Femininity is something to be celebrated,…

Pretty much this. Even if we set aside the fact that these kinds of insults are racist/sexist/homophobic, it’s just ad hominem. It fails a test of character and a test of logic. The kind of people who use them are not only low, but stupid.

It should be the sexism that shocks you. Sexism goes beyond the level of individual disrespect to attack an entire half of our species based on their birth. Being a shitty toxic person is bad, but to pretend that it isn’t somehow worse when that toxicity relies on sexism as ammunition, is to fundamentally fail to…

So uh, I’m only vaguely familiar with D2, but is there a disadvantage to energy weapons? I thought it was a passive buff.

Is this the exact one from the D1 vendor with Firefly and Triple Tap?

All of them were stupendously influential in the era they were released, so I think it tracks.

As someone that’s actually hard of vision, I can definitely make out gameplay just fine through the red bordering (depending on the game, but certainly a vast majority of them), and I absolutely can make out the red bordering more than I can make out a tiny health bar in the corner.

Hate to say it, but this article reeks of Gamer Privilege.

Here. Wash it out with the brilliance of the MW 2012 intro.

Wait, if he already owned this stock, doesn’t that mean he’s not actually getting anything “for quitting” but rather it’s just what he had on him when he quit?

Makes me wonder why the heck you’re here, honestly. People have been complaining about this kind of coverage from Kotaku for so long (literally a decade and a half) that I think it’s fair to say it’s patently obvious what to expect from Kotaku at this point. So if you’re still here complaining that Kotaku is being…

Your sarcasm implies that people are outraged by this. I don’t think anyone is. It’s just a neat factoid, and the methodology of the experiment is interesting. The article certainly isn’t trying to paint GTA in a negative light. It’s not their fault you interpreted it that way.

How exactly does 12 months of EA Play convert to 4 months of XGPU? I’m not sure I understand that conversion, and it doesn’t exactly seem like a knockout deal…

How exactly does 12 months of EA Play convert to 4 months of XGPU? I’m not sure I understand that conversion, and it…

Lessons from the Screenplay has a brilliant video essay on what makes the payoff for Tony and Steve in Endgame such a tearjerker. As cynical as I like to be about monolithic big-budget film series, it is still just astounding to me what they managed to accomplish with the MCU from a storytelling perspective. It isn’t…

The first 43 seconds are in fact Doug Cockle, since that’s just footage straight from a quest already in the game.

Since I totally missed the submission thread, I wanted to dump this one in the comments: the Halo 5 Xbox One.

Since I totally missed the submission thread, I wanted to dump this one in the comments: the Halo 5 Xbox One.

It’s interesting how wildly different the discourse around this game tends to be among people who’ve completed it. They either resonate with it wildly or they leave it feeling unsatisfied. I see myself kind of feeling both at once. I know I really enjoyed my time with Maquette, but I’m also not entirely sure if I’ll…

Take a step back and introspect for a second. Your entire MO for responding to other people’s legitimate concerns has been to:

lol ok but the whole entire point of the paddles is to let you keep your thumbs on the thumbsticks. You still need your thumbs for the touchpad, so it isn’t a good substitute for paddles. 4 paddles lets you replace all of your face buttons or the entire D-Pad.