Maus was a massive milestone in my development, in terms of empathy for human suffering, understanding that the whole world is full of some really nasty people who seek to dehumanize entire cultures to suit their narrative, and in terms of love for graphic novels. I'm so grateful to my local library for having a copy,…

“The general political headwinds of Europe aren’t the only thing disconcertingly swinging right-of-center.”

Still gonna watch it with glee, because individually all of that talent rocks, and just seeing them playing off each other on screen will be a treat, even if the script and plot is lazy. 

“Mr. Smithers has a romantic vision of Mr. Burns flying into his bedroom window at night. Here, queer desire is coded as grotesque and pathetic, a reflection of how broadcast TV generally painted LGBTQ+ lives at the time.”

This. They should just suck it up and switch to a season pass model like Fortnite, with the core game free to play but unlockable skins and emotes and suchlike for people who buy the season pass. The first game has been dead for so long, the sequel is killing itself over a year before its release date. Blizzard is in…

Every time I read a headline about Blizzard these days I hear the 'Team Kill' bell ring in my head. 

I walked from Valorant after all the bigotry came to light. I’m kind of surprised Kotaku is still giving them the column inches.

I think the last issue is still in the freezer where I left it in 2018. 

Educate yourself about Catholic oppression and genocide, the reformation, protestantism and, I dunno, anything about European history in the last 1,500 years.

It’s all playing out perfectly. Everyone knew that there would be no tidy way to back out of Afghanistan, even back in 2002, so they just had to pick between the options that served them best politically. For two decades, the general public have been moving towards an anti-colonial, anti-interference mindset. The…

Calling it now. Overwatch 2 will be cancelled. I just don’t see how it’s going to be worth their time now. Not enough people will return to it to make it profitable. May as well do the same thing that created Overwatch and bundle the scraps of IP (that aren't scarred by Blizzard's absolute shitshow of a leadership…

I desperately want to be a Cyberpunk fan. I was an apologist in the early days of release, because most tentpole open-world games are littered with bugs and quirks on release, and some still contain hilarious quirks years later (see: any Rockstar or Bethesda game). I’ve only just bought Cyberpunk 2077 due to the…

We knew Biden wasn’t going to be great, but at least we can admit it. 100% of the problems you list there, though, were problems before Biden took office. They’re literally a direct result of Trump’s blunders. Be a man and admit that, instead of a whiny finger-pointing child.

Been playing Mario Golf a lot and while it’s entertaining, there are some lazy LAZY bugs / quirks that you’d expect to find in budget golf games, rather than top-tier brand-name games.

The USA sends its trash to other countries for recycling. I don't see why the UK can't do the same thing. 

Kind of undermines the whole PR spin about her authenticity, revealing that the story of writing the first album as a fun project with her brother and randomly finding fame was totally fake.

The same way ScarJo gets irritated when people keep asking her if her tits are real instead of just focusing on the story and the characters as they are. People love to get the dirty scoop and it's pretty disrespectful to project but people do it anyway. 

I’m guessing he’s been rigourously trained by the PR team to not make any suggestions about characters that are so bankable in deeply homophobic but cash-rich demographics.

Nah it works more like an Etch-A-Sketch. 

Needless to say, the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again. I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.