The high school romance in the popular yuri anime WataNare is as fraught and messy as queer dating is in real life.

Archived: https://archive.ph/zXlR4

In the aftermath of our Disco Elysium documentary in 2023, so much has now happened. It's time we talked about it.

Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex, race and celebrities.

Archived version: https://archive.is/TCNXG

“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

"We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide"

Archived version: https://archive.is/XMqIR

A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list.

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

Archived: https://archive.is/4Ud0I

As gamers and developers push back against payment networks who are enforcing new adult content policies on Steam and Itch, RPS gets some insight from experts.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/47448679

It was never a prank.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/xrvSX

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

Has any game been as out of step with the time as Battlefield 6, which depicts the U.S. as a victim instead of an aggressor?

I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

Archived: https://archive.is/FUu46

The Defense Department operates slot machines on US military bases overseas, raising tens of millions of dollars to fund recreation for troops—and creating risks for soldiers prone to gambling addiction.

Archived version: https://archive.is/AJeu6

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circles of outdoor and adventure sports, environmental and conservation sciences, and nonfiction storytelling, it’s a touchstone. The parent festival has been […]

Archived version: https://archive.is/KgNah

Machine-translated, English version of the article here.

As Steam and Itch.io join the mass purge of LGBTQ content, we must document our past and ensure a shared future.

Employees at The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax explain how Microsoft's latest round of colossal layoffs unfolded and what they mean for the studio and its developers.

cross-posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/92155985

Two articles by writer Ana Valens were removed at the demand of Vice owner Savage Ventures, the latest in multiple deletions at the site

Archived: https://archive.is/KFMWp

The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

The original was taken down (see below), archived version: https://archive.is/x5cGQ

Edit: As per Ana Valens, writer of the article, it was taken down by the current owners of Vice.com for transparently bogus reasons. The archived version is now the only one available.

Investors in the publisher had a long list of grievances