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Younger players are coming to games with different expectations, and we should expect it to eventually change video games, too.
As a long-time reader of manga, I always found the medium to be a means of escape to fantastical worlds. Yet, there remained a disconnect between me and the stories I was reading. Discovering I Hear the Sunspot filled that absence with its portrayal of the specific reality of being both gay and Deaf.
The cast of 'The Blair Witch Project' explain how they say they were screwed out of their share of the profits and why they're speaking out now.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16532898
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The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/14428196
They span nearly half a century and paint a picture of a serial predator.
A lot of people dismiss Brett Cooper as a female Ben Shapiro, and while there's a tiny bit of truth in that, I think there's a larger story here about how these right wing media figures take shape, and what it says about our desire for authenticity. ... read full post
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Cara went from 100k to 700k users in FIVE DAYS
Simply put, the creators behind Black Myth: Wukong are raging misogynists.
Founders and creatives of the studio have: Joked about former female employees hypothetically doing prostitution. Used suggestive/objectifying/derogatory imagery & phrasing in their hiring flyers…
Gainax, the troubled Japanese anime firm behind ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion,’ has filed for bankruptcy.
A long and storied history of activism and cheese puffs
Gender identity, self expression, and ethnicity are so intertwined that it would be hard to discuss one without discussing the others. As a Japanese trans man, all of these things have come into play in relation to my self-expression and identity. One of the things I found solace and euphoria in, as a teenager, was clothing.
For those who encounter a paywall: Archived version
The Washington Post and the Daily Beast have featured responsible, factual coverage of trans issues. That’s now threatened as two editors who helmed culture war focused papers have been put in charge.
This video essay by Jessie Gender ties in with news that broke yesterday: That the anti-trans, far-right newspaper The Epoch Times engages in money laundering. ... read full post
The Epoch Times, a far-right website associated with the Chinese Falun Gong religious movement, may have been funded by criminal activities.
An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small. ... read full post
Riot games have committed to a series of new measures to curtail harassment and hate-speech in Valorant
The streaming platform will terminate the contracts of the current members and replace them with Twitch Ambassadors.
'There are positive possibilities for what the internet can look like if we get over the myth of social media’s indispensability'