“Stingma” has to be the best portmanteau I’ve seen since the election was over. Cheers!

Thank you! It was so loosely worded so that John in California who got in a fender bender with his TDI and never had it repaired would still be offered a settlement. Not so Joe in Cincinnati could strip every possible piece off the car (that by the way, was presumably on his car at the date of the settlement) and try…

How none of them thought to address this in the actual settlement document is beyond me

I was a fed during the last shutdown. I remember people being all pissed that whoa government shutdown actually means the government shuts the fuck down. Nope, you can’t go to the Smithsonian, that’s part of the government. Nope, no National Parks for you, that’s part of the government. Nope, no Lincoln Memorial. If…

Forget compassion or concern, I have a hard enough time not seeing those people as literal human garbage. I just spent a weekend binge watching Band of Brothers (I’ve been on a WWII kick for obvious reasons lately) and there is a scene where one of the major characters sneaks into the house of a prominent Nazi officer…

“Nobody should go through that.”

This is not a generational war. I’m 55, disabled and can barely get any healthcare. You don’t want to know my monthly income. I have 12 years of college education, taught in college for 7 years, got sick and everything I’d worked for was gone. Seriously, too many people stereotype with the broadest strokes I’ve ever…

Yeah, my trump thumping neighbor is about to lose coverage, and so are her kids (we are in Texas, so all the therapies that her special needs kid gets are about to be out of pocket, instead of covered by medicaid) Guess who she blames? (Hint: it’s not her party!)

Oh my god, I am so with you. My sister and I have responded in opposite ways to the tragedy of Trump’s election. I’ve retreated from the world entirely, and she’s jumped head first into non-stop advocacy efforts on all fronts. Every couple days, she’ll post something on social media about how her concern and…

Literally every Trump voter:

I’m having a hard time feeling any sympathy for Trump voters who get health benefits via the exchange or who receive Medicare/Social Security who seem stunned that the continuation of these benefits is now in real jeopardy. I feel sorry for everyone smart enough not to vote for Trump who will lose access to these…

Yeah but there was an assumption that any reasonable human being would mean a couple dents were fine not I stripped it down to the frame. You can bet your ass VW will have the courts clarify that this outside the scope of the agreement legally and people doing this acted in bad faith and all these people are going to…

Don’t care. He’s still an ass and violated the good faith in this.

How do they make these models? I’m doing my Master of Architecture, and we use a fuckton of wood for the most part. Those curves would be torture.

Gather all the concepts there, leaving that modern Alfa Romeo GTV, take them to the nearest dumpster, and work on your sky hook with them into it. Then, take that Alfa concept, pack up that kid and all of his belongings, fly him to Italy, roundhouse kick the doors at the Alfa Romeo headquarters and present them with…

Actually, Kotaku has a strict policy against press junkets and we don’t take any sort of paid travel from anyone we cover. We’ve been very explicit about that for years now. In seven years of reporting on games for a living, I’ve never once taken a trip from a video game publisher. So maybe we don’t say it out loud…

Death to the revisionist history of Gamergate.

Actually it was always about harassing women. It started mainly because the abusive ex-boyfriend of a game developer made baseless accusations toward said devopler of sleeping with multiple journalists to get a good review for her game even though the game in question was free and, while she did in fact date one…

Also the bigots continue to not understand what censorship is after the Fire Emblem incident and the hate group known as Gamergate contributed to the rise of Orange Hitler.

I love mine. I camp and go on a lot of road trips and it’s the perfect vehicle for it. I managed to get one with a manual—the only one I could find within 1000 miles. I built a sleeping platform for it and it worked great the last time I drove cross country, minimal setup and breakdown of camp. If I had some money…