“A good faith discussion”? Seriously? You’ve been trashing this game to hell for 18 fucking months. Let’s not even get into the unbelievably naïve calls to divest profits from the game from the actual IP holder. A game that Rowling’s assistant’s assistant probably deals with. A game that Rowling probably can’t…

*sigh* posting this is a mistake, because everyone on Kotaku is biased... Case in point the attitude of this opinion piece in the first place but.... What did all of you legitimately expect?

My local news called and they wanted their tired hack bit back.

Oh my god this math makes me freaking angry. None of this is how that works. All of the money paid to charity, all of the money paid to moderators, all of that gets deducted from taxes (NOT from net profits). If he is paying 75k to mods, and donating 80k to charity, then that means that his taxable income isn’t 300k,…

It took about 0.3 minutes after the election was called for the progressives to start chastising the “establishment Dems” for not championing UBI and Medicare for all and free college tuition and eliminating student loans, etc etc (aka Bernie’s Ten Commandments) bc the race should’ve been a landslide!!!11!

I’ve read lots of epically stupid Jezebel posts, but this has to up there. By the logic of this article it wouldn’t be good to have a woman President either, since they’d be “complicit in US imperialism.” You know there will be a Secretary of Defense no matter what, right? And they aren’t going to hire a peace…

That’s a dangerous opinion to express out loud because people will howl over it, but from where I’m sitting, I’m old enough to remember when nobody knew or cared about the private lives of the people who created their media, and media criticism was purely about the work and not a moral referendum on whether the…

“She has an opinion. The way to undermine an opinion you don’t agree with is to point out, specifically, what is wrong with the underlying reasoning that the opinion is built on. See what experts have to say... and not just the ones spitting out of the soft sciences with a chip on their shoulders the size of Utah.”

Yes, but talking about trans people in a way that doesn’t perfectly align with the one and only (apparently) acceptable public view is not the same as “arguing whether certain human beings should have rights and be treated with decency”. Vaguely pointing out extraordinarily basic, well established and well subscribed…

I’m no right-winger, but I think this is a much more complex issue than has been perpetuated. Conservatives aren’t the only ones protesting this issue, though their (underlying, prejudicial) reasoning is certainly unique.

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

I would take your point a step further and say that someone is fundamentally missing the point if they think “highest point rankings” is a “merit-based” system.

no. 20% is an extremely generous tip. Call me a fucking jerk all you want. Tipping is stupid and sexist, and we should be pushing for a change that sees servers paid a fair wage and doesn’t put customers in that awkward situation of tipping. IT DOES NOT CREATE BETTER SERVICE. And you know what? The 2% they’re shorted…

They have told good stories. Let’s cool it with the “good storytellers” thing. Bioware hasn’t told a good story in almost a decade.

Prolly too much to ask of this blog, but if you’re going to report on this (report = repost/summarize and discuss a report), why not acknowledge the distinctness or complexity of anti-trans harassment by radical feminists (vs. by bog-standard trans-and-homophobic cis/hetero people)? You describe the incident, then…

You sound absolutely delightful.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to both John’s family and friends

I hate their shit, I think they’re tacky and cheap and all their underwear rides up my ass and their bras are nasty. That said, why does every brand have to be for everyone? If they’re ok appealing to a certain type of customer and being stuck in a look that’s increasingly dated, even if that means their sales…

Basically he scored zero crickets when he could have scored so many crickets. Actually the other team cricketed him, if you can believe that. He’s lucky his team doesn’t fine him 15 crickets, and Pepsi drops him from receiving any further crickets. 

We spent so much time wondering if we could put weed in beer, we never stopped to wonder if we should.