Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop [by Jason Schreier] (www.bloomberg.com)
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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....
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....
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.
Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15702267
‘There are positive possibilities for what the internet can look like if we get over the myth of social media’s indispensability’
AI NPCs. AI scriptwriting. AI voice acting. AI artwork. AI creation tools. Yes, AI is everywhere in game development. I…
The updated script clarifies the original English localization.
Meanwhile, women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by irresponsible AI.
“There’s something very intentional about consuming or framing these works as entertainment rather than as art”
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”
If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: "This post contains language that may be considered a slur
As Jenny Nicholson’s video essays usually are, it is rather light on politics (in comparison to other stuff posted on Ghazi), but this video is perhaps a near-perfect showcase of out-of-touch executives bungling what should have been a easy success.
The framework of “[cis character] must pretend to be [“opposite” gender] before restoring their [femininity or masculinity]” invites biological determinism by making the plot’s stakes dependent on the successful concealment of the main character’s “true” (here, meaning “assigned-at-birth”) gender. The idea of...
Final Fantasy VII taught me that militant resistance is sometimes not only necessary, but morally correct
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12899518
Well to give you a basic rundown… men’s existence is to be guy being dude (and spin block in head), women’s existence is to manipulate guy being dude (and remember olive oil), gay and trans people’s existence is to confuse evolutionary psychologists, David Buss’s student surveys are totally accurate, hypergamy has...