>I’d ask that you reread the story and, this time, don’t think of Mr. Beast as a “wacky internet fun guy who makes squid game realz!!!!” and instead think of him as “an insanely rich person who, through his absurd merchandizing of trash product, has proven himself to be a grotesque uber capitalist who is fine with…

Well, if they’re employees of a company selling his product their job is, in a sense, help this guy (and many other corporations) make money. So, if they’re at work, then no, they very much don’t have anything better to do other than help him (and millions of other people) make money. 

Helping people stock shelves, i.e. finding it and putting it out for them, is not “forcing” anyone to do anything. It is the exact opposite, i.e. doing their work for them so they aren’t compelled to do so because of their job.

To echo my sentiments from the review thread - I absolutely enjoyed the Netflix series and its changes, it fleshes out a bunch of characters that were only broadly sketched out in the original. I can sympathize with creators who want to shake things up and not rehash the same story over and over.

“It turns out he didn’t lose the fight against Matthew, but instead was pulled out of it by a 37-year-old future version of himself who’s going through a messy divorce with Ramona.”

This reads like a terrible fan fic story.

Please Kotaku, don’t make video posts a thing.

Turning one of my favorite characters, with a mouth as foul as her heart is big, into an object to gawk at in order to score invisible video game points is childish and offensive.

Not only that, but there’s different contexts. For example, an audiobook with bad words on it that are historically interesting or applicable to the time. Sometimes words in other countries mean very bad things in your home country (such as the slang for “cigarette” in the UK).

Sorry Luke, I don’t agree with you. Settings like this look ridiculous on the surface but make more sense if you look at it from a “not a straight white guy” perspective. Yes hate speech needs to be confronted at every turn, but some non-white people use the n-word in non-racist ways. Some fat people (myself included)…

So much this!!  I’m not sure what Ash was playing, but it doesn’t even sound like the same game that I’m firmly in the middle of right now.  The game literally has you play out exactly how Link gains the respect of the Champions and Revali straight up reviles him - he takes every opportunity to wish harm and failure…

His second paragraph is the MOST correct.

And that’s what your 2nd para concentrates on; this idea that Leftists are focused on the inconsequential nitty-gritty, to the detriment of the bigger picture.

You had me at "...Ian....shut the fuck up."

YUUUUUPPPP. The whole “lesser of two evils” BS holds a lot less weight when your kid is in a cage, or your house is on fire because of climate change, or your father died from COVID (as mine did in April). And if someone doesn’t like it, I don’t really give a shit - just because you’re privileged enough to whine about…

Thank you. You articulated incredibly well what I was feeling but couldn’t put into words.

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

“Much like Biden’s presidential platform, there’s very little substance here”

• Uses copyrighted Pokémon character and Pokeball in merchandise

I was with you until you suggested suicide.  No need for that.