Your comment will one day be appalling to your own kids, who realize you were a jerk to people on the Internet that you didn’t actually know about things you don’t really understand.

“My formative years involved a lot of time in heavy metal parking lots. Just great memories of beer, boobs and buds. Thirty years later I’ve made new memories in these same parking lots with my own kids.”

I have shown this to people who are convinced that today’s teenagers are more crude, stupid, anti-intellectual, anti-authority and just generally more awful than ever.

Having a kid at 23 and your kid having a kid at 23 = 46 yearold grandfather. Not too crazy.

Congratulations on being the millionth-something to make another unfunny joke about PTSD triggers.

Oh man, the second I saw this headline I knew I would find this post. Like, this exact post. Because every time there’s an article that so much as hints at the concept of someone who isn’t a white guy appearing in a video game, some insecure gamerbro waddles out of his fedoracave to bring the moldy old “LEL TRIGGERED…

Still, much like the cashier at a retail establishment, THEY are the ones that are “the face” of their employers, and will usualy get the brunt of easy backlash by idiots. Cause going to anyone higher up the food chain at some faceless corporation is “work.”

You’re ignoring the main issue for the minor one. “sexy schoolgirl costumes are bad” is this essayists opinion, and that’s cool. The dancers present might not feel that way, and that’s cool. But it is a fact that that is not appropriate for a Microsoft tech event.

While this whole thing was being discussed, nobody asking the questions thought to ask the dancers what they thought. The audience, maybe, but it’s like the dancers were just inanimate objects. The idea that they could actually have a thought or a feeling never occurred. Maki Roll is basically speaking on their…

Great read and an excellent perspective of the events that occurred but please... PLEASE... for the love of God can everyone stop attaching the word “gate” to anything that has the scent of controversy. That isn't why it was used in the first place so why in the fuck are people so insistent on using it?

And these responses are already a shitshow. Great job everyone!

No, the opinion of one dancer does not negate the criticism of the event. Just because she was empowered by her participation in it, doesn’t mean that the other women attending the event were. It’s important to hear her perspective. I think a lot of people…

Hey... my women’s cosplay group has been discussing this at length. ‘m not going to post what any of them wrote, because its’ none of my business, but I will reiterate my own opinion here:

So..... Did you manage to read the whole article or just skim the first paragraph to get the taking point you wanted? It certainly seems like the latter.

Love the slut shaming in this posting.

Or... It’s entirely possible that Microsoft still screwed up in some respects, but that other criticisms aren’t valid. It’s a complex issue, and honestly neither party involved in this is really innocent aside from the one just doing the job they were hired for.

And I’m sure you can compete with women for Olympic shooting or wrestling.

There is an advantage that occurs because of biology, but it’s not close to what we’d imagine.

You both are morons

If you’re going to date a no-talent guy who is desperately riding you and your families’ coattails for dear life trying to get famous, at least get one that isn’t repulsive in every imaginable way. Get a young Idris Elba or Marlon Brando look-alike ffs, not a guy who looks like the donkey from Shrek, but without the…

Grossest looking creepy boyfriend award goes to fucking Tyga.

Why come here with that? I get that that Kotaku and I09 and the others are all part of Gawker media, but they also are separate groups of people. I think that Conde Nast thing was terrible, and I think Gawker publishing the sex tape was also pretty bad, but I don’t blame anyone for it who works for a different site…