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I'm old, I still think of Drew as the new guy. Looking back, I guess he wasn't so new anymore. He will be missed. I just remember how nervous he came across at first, and then how he just grew into his role at GB. Pretty cool. Good luck Drew. Isn't it weird how someone can be, in some small way, a part of your life, and yet they don't even know you exist. There's something a lot more personal about the way that happens with smaller internet things like Giant Bomb. You never have those thoughts about, say, a TV show. I don't give a shit about the dude who plays Rick on Walking Dead, and he doesn't give a shit about me. With Drew and Giant Bomb, you give a shit. I think that says a lot about what these guys have built.

I doubt it'll change anything. At the end of the day YouTube wants to protect YouTube. To protect YouTube, YouTube itself will choose to be over aggressive in the take downs and err on the side of caution. Period. They have no incentive to do otherwise at this point.

I guess the Sega Master System won't be allowed there then.

So sad, seemed like a nice guy and I like how he reached out to the fans. RIP.

The problem with talking about race is that we aren't capable of having an honest conversation on race in this country. As soon as someone points out some less than favorable thing regarding anyone not white, the claws come out and that person is shouted down as a racist. If you cite a statistic, or a fact, you're a racist. Facts can't be racist, they can only be facts. Denying them, or ignoring them, is to deny and ignore the problem, and you can't deny or ignore facts and expect to ever fix the problem.

If we want to have constructive discussions on race in games, in America, around the world (let's face it this isn't an American issue, it's a global issue), we have to be honest not just about how we got here, but about where we are now, and what, if anything, can be done to fix where we are now, or where African Americans generally are right now. People do need thicker skin on this topic too, or again, we'll never address the issue.

Racism in America has clearly gotten much, much worse over the last 6 years, and that's black, white, Hispanic, you name it, we're in a much worse spot now than we were 6 years ago. There's bitterness and animosity all around, and that's because there isn't an honest discussion on race happening, and from the top down we're being told what's what, and don't talk back and half the country is being called racist because they don't support policy a, or because they want the budget balanced, and the president, who happens to be half black/half white doesn't care about balancing the budget. If people are going to be called racist because of things like that, you can expect things to get much, much, much worse.

@r3beld0gg: Thanks! That's exactly where I was stuck.

I figured this was coming. Patrick strikes me as an ambitious person. Though I have to say, I have a feeling he'll regret leaving Giant Bomb. I personally thought he fit in at Giant Bomb perfectly. I certainly don't agree with his politics, but he always expressed them in a thoughtful and respectful way. Something most hard news pundits fail miserably at. I think Patrick brought an interesting and different personality to Giant Bomb, and that was a very GOOD thing. I think it will be very missed.

I don't like Kotaku. When I think Kotaku, I think snarky, smarmy folks who live inside a metropolitan bubble. I just can't get down with it. I think Patrick will be swimming in a sea of people over there that may be more like him personally, but with less talent, and for that, he will stand out less, and not shine so brightly. I digress though. I do love what he's done here, and I'll miss him. Hopefully GB can replace him with someone similar personality wise. Who that might be, I don't know. Good luck Patrick.

lol nicely done

First, it's terrible that people are harassing this person for expressing her beliefs. It makes no sense to do that.

That said, I just watched her Ms. Male Character video on YouTube, and was utterly unimpressed with her arguments. I am married, have two daughters, and I can tell you, my daughters love wearing bows and feminine objects on themselves. They love it. They identify with it. It makes them feel girly, pretty, happy, and therefore, like who they are.

Whenever I hear "feminists" talk about things that offend them, like bows in the hair of too many video game characters, I can never get past the fact that they seem to think there's something wrong with being girly, or there being things that are inherently feminine, and therefore used as tropes to define femininity. So the majority of women and girls LIKE to wear makeup and be defined as feminine. Don't get me wrong, if my daughters grow up and don't want to be associated with those feminine tropes, good on em'. I don't care one way or the other. If they relish being girls, and wearing bows, and makeup, same deal, good for them.

She talks about using pink, or bows to devalue the characters as women. I just don't agree that that is the intent, or the result. I think there are a few people out there who will find offense with it, but I think those people are a tiny minority, and we can't orient our society to not offend anyone. She is certainly welcome to disagree with that opinion, and nobody should threaten or harass her for her opinions. Disputing them, refuting them, or disagreeing with them isn't sexist, it isn't wrong, and people who disagree should equally not be harassed.

I mean, everything in society is geared towards male and female. The English language itself is. Men and women when taken as a whole have real differences. Physically, emotionally, and in terms of what they put on their bodies. Does that mean EVERYONE does? No. The vast majority do though. And there's absolutely, positively nothing wrong with it. Men and women are different. Good. It makes life interesting.

Wow...this is not a good thing. I read the article, and I'm still confused. So...this is a new console. Sort of. I assume the 3ds carts are the same form factor. Yet, newer games for the 3ds NEW, won't work on the 3ds. Mind is blown...

I was at Target this weekend with my son, and they have all of the Wii, and WiiU games all mixed together on their shelves. I can only imagine how many WiiU games are being purchased for people who only have a Wii. It borders on deception. As a company, this is the last thing you want to do. It burns people...for good, to the point where they don't want to buy your product anymore.