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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.

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Exclusive: A bombshell lawsuit by a group of former Tesla employees alleges drug and alcohol use on the factory floor, sexual assaults on company property and ‘prevalent’ use of the N-word

Archived: https://archive.is/EWjsA

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[-] squirrel 3 points 3 days ago

The hunchback of Madame

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It was never a prank.

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

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

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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?

[-] squirrel 5 points 4 days ago

Aren't we all!? 😅

[-] squirrel 8 points 4 days ago

I think... Apart from anyone's personal reasons, this community is either extremely silly or extremely serious, so miscommunication is somewhat inevitable.

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

Archived: https://archive.is/FUu46

[-] squirrel 3 points 5 days ago

Well, I know some people who would have no problem with that designation.

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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

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Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

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[-] squirrel 190 points 2 weeks ago

It all makes sense if you assume that everything Musk does is intended to impress a 4chan nazi circa 2012.

[-] squirrel 195 points 2 months ago

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

[-] squirrel 155 points 4 months ago

Consider this headline from Bloomberg in this context:

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

[-] squirrel 179 points 4 months ago

The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.

Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.

It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.

Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.

[-] squirrel 168 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is a prime example of why patriarchy is hurting men too, because what this guy is saying boils down to:

  • We can make them work at any hour of the day because who cares if these guys have any life outside work?
  • We don't have to do any work management, we just call those guys
  • We can send them wherever, whenever
  • We can create a toxic work environment and it's okay to treat guys like shit
  • And those guys don't even complain because they need this job so bad
    Isn't it great?

The statement about "workplace laws" is so telling: Yeah, who cares about treating men with respect and dignity!?
It's not just about discriminating against women, it's also about mistreating men. That's what patriarchy is at its core: Pit men and women against each other and then reap the benefits. It's a "divide and conquer strategy".

[-] squirrel 186 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] squirrel 118 points 1 year ago

A little long maybe, I assume it won't be long until it's just "likensub".

[-] squirrel 133 points 2 years ago

Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as "rich schmucks" who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.

Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn't a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let's say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.

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