A big reason why this happened, to be blunt, is because Google gained precedent to do so with porn

yess same with dunkey and ludwig's video game publishers. i was thinking abt this with the gamesradar interview with black tabby games and sunset visitor about prove you're human. if i made a game that sold a million copies, the next thing i would do would also be give the 1000xRESIST devs money.

people kept being like "james gunn is just giving PR answers when he says the script was written before israel invaded gaza in 2023"

you think theyre falsifying documents about when the script was written to prove that it's not a gaza genocide reference?? what ??

i think people are missing that these cycles of layoffs ARE the plan. thats how these people want their companies to operate! hire a bunch of people to expand, then fire as many people as possible later. over and over and over because if you want growth at all costs, that's what it takes.

this isn’t a games industry sustainability problem, it's corporate power working as intended.

Executives prioritized a losing strategy geared towards expansion and, when that strategy failed, socialized the consequences downward and fired 1k workers.

thank you for taking accountability.

forgot how beautiful the music in old skies is. wonderful stuff

I actually do think a lot of white Americans think activism is about yelling people into submission

I really wish we had a better way of discussing when a piece, written in good faith by people we know have good hearts, misses the mark instead of endlessly quote dunking the piece in front of the author publicly and viciously like that.

Tapping the sign

a fun result of doing this is when people think you did this by accident because of a bug

PROPER RHYTHM (ALL THERE IS TO IT), by UNBEATABLE from the album ALBUM.

bandcamp embeds apparently work now on this website so. woe. All There Is To It upon ye. the best song written for a 2025 video game

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you dont understand, the most important issue facing queer people today is who gets to call themselves lesbians. the only path to queer liberation is developing an exact taxonomy that puts everyone in their box /s

the way that some liberals ignore and ignored the horrors of biden and obama's immigration policies never ceases to amaze me. it was really bad! but there's a subset of people who was perfectly happy to protest trump's immigration policy in trump 1.0 and then completely ignore biden's

mr lake please i understand its a cool idea but your combat system cant support it.....

the point is not what newsom wants to do but what he finds politically useful to do. if he is vetoing pro-trans bills as governor of california, and he is trying to position himself as a "common ground with anyone" centrist democrat by talking with steve bannon, what will he do as president?

kiryu in 7 is at least a little fun. gaiden on the other hand... it's all just rehashes of ideas and setpieces we've seen before with a secret agent aesthetic! it recontextualizes 6's ending, previously a new beginning, as him just doing what he did in 5 and 6 again! indefensible

kylie i think you missed some

and then with carol, she's dealing with The Fate Of The World and everyone is like "whoa, let's take the volume down a notch, youre acting awful emotional." what a profoundly lonely experience, and one that feels very salient as a trans woman and as a progressive person

ive seen some complain that the joined should have more intelligence in their dealings with carol, but i think it's kind of wonderfully human that even with the expertise of nearly every human on the planet, the joined is so eager to please that they end up fucking things up

yeah i love how the hivemind is also kind of earnestly bad at dealing with carol in some respects! like in episode 3 when they bashfully give her a grenade like "yeah we know you were probably joking and this is probably stupid..."

im very sympathetic to carol ofc cause its her story and i really love her (also im gay), but i also sympathized with the hivemind throughout the show, and its interesting that some people didnt at all

its fascinating the different reactions to it--im in some discords where people are like "yes carol is exactly the right amount of mad. the aliens have Taken Over The World" and then i watch it with my mom and we both go "damn it sucks to see carol be so mean to them :("

theres a kind of brainworms where people assume that creatives they don't like must also hate the stuff they like. people talk about jj abrams or rian johnson *hating* star wars, as if the only reason anyone would ever make a star wars movie you didnt like was that they hated star wars.

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unbeatable comes out in 12 hours!!

There's something really beautiful and human to me about how bad they are at dealing with Carol. Like, they're so concerned about her emotional state and overwhelmed by her unhappiness that they're completely unable to connect with or understand her in any meaningful way.

essentially, you cannot divorce a work from its context, but that doesn't mean we can use an author and their baggage as a proxy for the work itself.

i think there can be a valuable middle ground where you acknowledge how a change in context changes the meaning of a work, without trying to deny the ways that that work did or still does resonate with you. this is also most important internally, rather than socially, to be clear

when people find out an artist is problematic, there's this cultural moment where people declare that actually, the work was bad the whole time. people internalize this and rewrite their internal narrative, telling themselves that it was bad the whole time, and denying their own love for it