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Some are indeed controversial!  I've got my opinions on all of the topics I mentioned, but opinions are like nipples: everyone's got a couple, and some people might even have three!  But I'm the type of person who likes showing why I have an opinion on something, based on as many facts as possible.  It isn't enough for me to say "Don't pirate games, it's bad"; instead, I'd like to tell the reader how I came to that opinion, and hopefully give them something a little more to think about regardless of their stance.

I'm not sure I know enough about that to really write about it.  I mean, I think there's something to be said about game price in regards to both piracy (availability = potential drop in pirated copies) and digital distribution (Final Fantasy VII coming out for PSN led to a drop in prices/demand for physical copies of the game).  But collecting is something a person just does; there isn't really much to discussion behind it.

But hey, keep doing your thing, and I'll be sure to look out for your posts!

I'd put that into a piracy article.  That's why such features are implemented in the first place.  But I was planning on making the piracy topic a series anyway, because it's hard to discuss all of it in just one or two pieces.

"A wise business move from Square Enix?  Yeah, it can only be April Fools."

As I mentioned, there seems to be this "disconnect" in terms of what Kotaku wants to be and how it wants to be regarded.  Some comments I saw on a few other sites pointed out how Kotaku will publish a piece which gets flamed, and tosses out the excuse that they're "just a blogging site, they aren't really journalists"; but not long afterward they'll insist that they're indeed a serious outlet.  I can't say for certain how true that is, so if anyone has specific examples, please point them out.  But I have seen them post exclusive articles and information (such as the Austrailian hacker who ended up with a Durango dev kit), which are indeed interesting and everyone flocks to, but then we'll get these flacid, dime-a-dozen rehashes from other sources.  Honestly, it confuses the heck out of me and makes me wonder how reliable some of their hotter exclusives really are.

Make a stink about how it's sexist--then you can expect them to talk about it.

Exactly.  And that's why seeing this from someone who's written for other publications, especially a noteable print magazine like Time, makes this article so frustratingly mediocre.  It doesn't actually say anything, just "Oh hey, he had some game systems, and here's some other articles (re: which probably lay out the findings better than this one does)."

Remarkable for being completely unremarkable.

So the moral might be that Dr. Mario is worse than a violent shooter?

I think the angle of the article - that video game systems were found in Lanza's belongings - is a little more than insulting to us as gamers, and the fact that Kotaku is the source publishing feels kind of like back-stabbing.  It doesn't really mean anything in the long run, and it doesn't actually establish anything.

And I agree with your last point on Jezebel as well.  I think all that really needs to be said is that the Gawker Media family is nothing but crappy click-bait.

You gotta get some Budgie in there, bro.