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I think more NTR/Cuckolding stories should end in an unsolved double homicide.

The implication here is that gay men are depraved rapists

King Charles and every single fucker in this government is a massive cunt. Digital ID is fucking stupid and I'm tired of being ruled over by these disgusting bastards

🚨 Under oath to the U.S. Senate, May 2023: Altman: "I have no equity in OpenAI." Today on the stand in federal court: Musk's lawyer: "Were you under oath at that hearing?" Altman: "Yes." Musk's lawyer: "And you didn't disclose to the Senate that you had an interest in OpenAI through a share in the Y Combinator fund, did you?" Altman: "I didn't mention it in that testimony." Musk's lawyer: "Are you going to notify the United States Senate that your testimony on May 16, 2023 was not truthful when you said, 'I have no equity in OpenAI?'" Altman: "I don't agree with that characterization." Musk's lawyer: "I'll take that as a no." TRUTH: When Altman told the U.S. Senate he had "no equity in OpenAI," he held two indirect equity stakes via Y Combinator and Sequoia. Neither was disclosed to the Senate that day.

5th actually. Anyway this was the 6th result on Google when searching "airbagged twitter" and that genuinely makes me laugh.

Very high contender for one of the worst main characters in gaming history. Nothing about her is likeable

Amazing how dishonest the Democrats are. Here's reality. First and foremost, the bulk of this deficit was of Mamdani's own making. He blew up the budget by an unprecedented $15 billion dollars in new spending over last year. The largest single-year spending increase ever. So right off the bat our fiscal crisis was exacerbated by Mamdani's insane spending demands. Had he simply kept spending levels approximately where they were -- already a massive $110 billion dollars -- we could've avoided most of this crisis entirely. Next, Mamdani didn't close the deficit through successful leadership or any kind of fiscal discipline. He didn't boost the New York economy and end up with a pile of money from booming businesses or new residents. He got a multibillion dollar bailout from Albany and is raising taxes. That's the big accomplishment Democrats are bragging about here. Higher taxes, and a bailout from upstate. That's success to Democrats. The rest is accounting tricks courtesy of the pliant City Council finance committee, who have been busy 'finding' money by revising revenue estimates upward in order to fill in the gaps. No way that'll bite us in the future! And lets not forget the tens of billions that this city wastes every single year, which are going completely untouched. Nonprofits, welfare for illegals, and political activism. Not just untouchable, but set to get fat increases. That's the real story of the budget. 'Democrats Deliver' indeed.

We did it, Reddit!

The first thing to take from this is that, like Mixtape, there is a large disconnect between what critics want to push vs what the average audience wants. Granted, the gameplay of Saros looked fun, so it’s infinitely better than Mixtape in that regard. The second is that target audiences do indeed still exist and you need to be aware of what the audience prefers when making a game, which is a product at the end of the day. Saros’s plot could work as a low budget sci-fi adventure game with simple puzzles and the like, combined with some atmospheric storytelling to go along with it. It wouldn’t be my jam at all, but I know people who like games like that would be all in on that sort of plot due to the cosmic horror elements and mystery. Hell, it’d probably be a memorable side quest in something like Mass Effect. For an action heavy Rogue-like though? The typical audience for those games isn’t going to go for a concept where you fight tooth and nail to complete a stage, die repeatedly, and grind over and over for progress just to get hit with “you’re the bad guy and also your wife left you for a woman” ending. There is a lack of catharsis to that which just makes people annoyed. Word of mouth spreads after that, and people who would be interested due to the gameplay might find that so unappealing to the point of not giving it a try. In principle, we can tell whatever stories we want, but you have to be aware of who is going to buy your work and work within those boundaries. You can’t just expect an audience to change their preferences solely for you.

If Mixtape was a movie I wouldn't watch it.

When I decided to create the Steam curator Sweet Baby Inc. Detected, my goal was to warn players about people who wanted to turn video games into tools for ideological messaging and political propaganda. Things escalated far beyond anything I ever imagined and today, terms like DEI are widely known across the global gaming community. We have also seen Sweet Baby Inc. become increasingly secretive, and having your game associated with Sweet Baby Inc. has effectively become a badge of shame, leading to significant losses in sales and reputation among gamers. Over the past few weeks, I have been watching the industry's movements closely, and the reemergence of Anita Sarkeesian as a relevant figure is deeply concerning. This is someone who has already done far too much damage to the video game industry with her toxic and hateful ideas, combined with the influence she somehow still holds within the industry. I see a situation very similar to what we had with Sweet Baby Inc.: a malicious individual trying to use video games to spread twisted and hateful ideologies, using gaming as a vehicle for propaganda. That is why I have decided to start including games connected to Anita Sarkeesian in the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator. We need not only to warn players that the game they are thinking about buying may be helping fund Anita Sarkeesian's disgusting work, but also to send a clear message to the industry that WE WILL NOT ACCEPT OUR ENTERTAINMENT BEING TURNED INTO PROPAGANDA. PERIOD. However, I cannot do this alone, not this time. Unlike Sweet Baby Inc., Anita Sarkeesian does not provide a ready made list of games she has worked on through her official website. She does list clients, but not specific games. And I simply cannot spend endless hours every day tracking down and investigating these titles anymore. Life happens. Bills need to be paid, and I have to focus on work that actually brings financial return. I am being completely honest with you here. But I know many of you can help track these games down. To get things started, I have added Slay the Spire 2 to the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator. If you can help identify more titles connected to her, please email me at info_deid@protonmail.com. Only games with undeniable proof of her involvement will be added. As always, I do not want to be unfair to anyone, nor do I want to spread false information. ROUND 2 BEGINS NOW!

Sad news today

My guess is they tried to get it on Netflix's moviegame thing as a Kurt Cobain KPop Demon Hunter type of thing and Netflix told them to fuck off, so here we are.

"Scores are in." = "The checks successfully cleared."

This looks turbo bullshit at a glance, gonna pass it along to people and follow up in the morning. Need to see if anything was actually seized from him, or they're literally charging because he made instructional videos about how to make bombs. Of which similar information is distributed publicly by the DOW(Fm. DOD) and purchasable on Amazon.

栃木県内にある市営グラウンドの照明用銅線ケーブル盗まれナイター中止 「県警はこれまで2人を含む29人のカンボジア人グループを摘発し、2人に関わる余罪が100件以上あるとみて捜査している。」 申し訳ないけど憲法改正より移民問題やインフラ盗難の厳罰化をやるべきでは？ news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f2406…

Technically, it's Stripe, the payment processor for most of the Internet, pressuring them to do this, for political reasons. "Stop allowing material we disapprove of, or we'll destroy your entire site" is a hell of a threat. We knew pure democracy could be a dictatorship. What is now apparent is that a cartel of politically allied people working at many different businesses can turn what is nominally a free market into a dictatorship as well, without requiring the force of the State. Nobody would have believed it, and even now, many people can't, won't, or don't believe it, even though it's operating in the open. A political cartel of financial institutions is NOT the free market.

Hot Take: Everyone that is defending this "game" are the same people that have actively been ruining all forms of entertainment in the last decade

"a broke group from Melbourne" Mixtape is published by Annapurna Interactive, headed by Larry Ellison - the world's sixth-richest person. It's made by a large team. As a now essentially solo dev who has been actually broke in Melbourne myself most of my life... Really?

This image is the perfect example of what i often said about people not having the correct language tools to express something but still instinctively understanding something is wrong Bad actors use that to dismiss the point that everybody knows they were trying to say

@PandasAndVidya Every time we get one of these industry plant projects making the rounds on Twitter, all of its "fans" are busy running PR in the form of doxxing/death threats instead of watching or playing the thing they claim to like. Funny ain't it?