I haven’t kept up with League esports in ages but this shit is hilarious to me, especially since I’ve been wondering when these player groups/”unions” might start butting heads with the folks that make their game.

This. I feel like an old Kotaku staffer gave her a lot of attention and the suits that own the site saw that it got hits because, well, boobs, and now they have quotas. Not that she’s not interesting in her own ways, but I expect her more on Engadget or Polygon (which is also why I almost never read those sites).

Taylor Swift uses her relationships as marketing.

She’s just using him to get a foot in the door with Nick Mullen.

I suppose that depends on what you think of America’s favorite center-left podcast.

He’s got over 15 million subs on YouTube.  Your anecdotal lack of awareness of him does not negate his popularity.  

agreed but this take is way too based for liberal-centrist kotaku. it’s landlordism for art.

Copyright isn’t so storied a concept that doing away with it is wholly unrealistic; it’s been a 300 year experiment, pushed to its absolute limits and breaking point in the last 50 or so, and there’s plenty of ways one could imagine enforcing actual fair use and competition in a way that centered around proving actual…

Copyright is in itself made up, which is why it is sometimes laughably confusing.

If I kill a person, there is a real measureable impact to and harm of that person (they are dead now).

I take it you also don’t like books, and things with character arcs and development.

“Where’s the transparency in your own biases as a journalist? Why are you dressing up your own existential crisis as fair and balanced news media?”

I suspect it was actually pretty easy to miss if you weren’t keeping up on the greater Giant Bomb sphere, the Jeff Gerstmann game journo-matic universe as it were.

This sucks, there’s like...literally half a dozen major game sites still in operation right now. Everything else is getting ceded to [Jim Stephanie Sterling Voice] “iiinnnfluencers” who—let’s be completely honest—have the media/critical literacy of a drunk racoon that’s been in the sun too long.

People have…

Rent-a-cops nothing, Pinkertons are mercenaries. They’re hired to kill people

Such servers wouldn’t be available in any central listing, though, which would be a significant benefit. You can’t completely prevent bigots from communicating, but you can prevent them from recruiting and broadcasting.

Remember kids:

God I wish that scene wasn’t in there. She was already clearly emotionally abusive. That was all the narrative required. Everything else about that anime was glorious and, I agree, that just about ruins it. Thankfully, it’s completely skippable. I just skip past it when rewatching with friends 

Gamers aren't oppressed, but they *should* be.

Honestly, it makes me wonder if his departure left some sour feelings behind. To not even mention this video is a weird look.