Young trans activists enter second day protesting at NHS England’s London Headquarters. BY NANCY KELLEY, IMAGE BY TRANS KIDS DESERVE BETTER GROUP At one o clock on Saturday, as the Pride in London …
The photo is by Serge Imbert on Flickr
The church was built in the 14th century. French Wikipedia article with a few more details about the church
Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with a week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and …
The winners from the Gayming Awards 2024 have been announced with Baldur's Gate 3 and Thirsty Suitors leading the way.
> The winners from the Gayming Awards 2024 have been announced with Baldur's Gate 3 and Thirsty Suitors leading the way.
The BBC channel CBBC has censored a mention of a character being non-binary in the Transformers Earthspark cartoon during Pride Month.
> The BBC channel CBBC has censored a mention of a character being non-binary in the Transformers Earthspark cartoon during Pride Month.
Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff has been spewing anti-trans rhetoric for months, but he's only now facing consequences
> Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff has been spewing anti-trans rhetoric for months, but he's only now facing consequences
Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
> Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
IATSE has a tentative pact with the major studios and streamers. But the end of the strike threat may not be enough to ease Hollywood's hiring crunch.
> IATSE has a tentative pact with the major studios and streamers. But the end of the strike threat may not be enough to ease Hollywood's hiring crunch.
For anyone who wants to have a look at a full issue of that magazine: A few of them can be found online.
Yeah, I don't have much hope in that regard. I am sure Takahashi's involvement with the series will mean that the original manga's casual misogyny will be toned down, but I doubt that Takahashi will change much about the overall plot.
Picture of the announcement of a remake of the "Ranma 1/2" anime, overlaid text says: "Ranma Remake? So many eggs will be cracked"
My 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' T-shirt is raising question already answered by my 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' T-shirt.
A small correction from the OP, because Stephanie Sterling makes a small mistake: Embracer has no connection to the infamous "Gollum" game. Embracer purchased Middle-Earth Enterprises after the devs behind "Gollum" had already inked their deal.
"It is not about getting naked. It’s about experiencing different kind of sauna," LinkedIn's new 'saunaman' wrote.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21314190 >Someone asked him if being naked would be required, and he said “it is not about getting naked. It’s about experiencing different kind of sauna. And, if you knew anything about it, wetness level inside Bania or Steam one is around 90%. So, towel is extremely wet after few seconds. So, you can still do it, but it may result with fungal infection. Also, based on recommendation from Polskie Towarzystwo Saunowe [the “Polish Sauna Society”], you should be naked in Bania or Steam and with or without towel in dry one :)”
A phoenix is a mythological firebird that is periodically reborn from its own ashes, a symbol of cyclical renewal. It's…
> A phoenix is a mythological firebird that is periodically reborn from its own ashes, a symbol of cyclical renewal. It's…
Yes. From the article:
Ethiopia: [...] It is one of the few African countries that enacted its own anti-gay laws – most others inherited those laws from Britain.
Love it. It's almost like an unaired episode of the original show.
'The Prize does not include any out of pocket expenses'
> 'The Prize does not include any out of pocket expenses'
We take a look at all the countries and territories where it is still illegal to be gay or LGBTQ+ – and examine the role colonialism played.
> We take a look at all the countries and territories where it is still illegal to be gay or LGBTQ+ – and examine the role colonialism played.
Whistleblowers allege that the NHS in Great Britain covered up a large spike in suicides after restrictions on trans care. The number of suicides appears to have been omitted from the Cass Review.
> Whistleblowers allege that the NHS in Great Britain covered up a large spike in suicides after restrictions on trans care. The number of suicides appears to have been omitted from the Cass Review.
Manga artist Hagio Moto’s work in particular opened my eyes to how versatile the iconic shoujo style can be as a storytelling tool—not just for romance, but for horror, mystery, and mind-expanding science fiction.
> Manga artist Hagio Moto’s work in particular opened my eyes to how versatile the iconic shoujo style can be as a storytelling tool—not just for romance, but for horror, mystery, and mind-expanding science fiction.
Here’s how advocates are preparing.
Yeah, that is - unfortunately - how it usually goes. The average game developer stays in the gaming industry for ~7 years and then gives up and does something else entirely.
"Seeing the trailer go up and the title get announced made me feel empty inside"
> "Seeing the trailer go up and the title get announced made me feel empty inside"
Since the protests began on campuses throughout the United States, I have been struck by the verbal contortions many writers have gone through to avoid
Yes and no. Like in Stardew Valley, technically you can romance every NPC in your party, but in practice you have to meet certain criteria to do so and those differ from character to character. Of course, it is possible to "game" that system.
The most famous one ATM is probably "Baldur's Gate 3" which offers a wide variety of mechanics and stats to measure if an NPC member of the player's party is romantically interested in the player character. Two examples given in the talk I linked are the VNs "Monster Prom" or "First Bite".
I love this game (500 hours played), but I have to bring up a point of criticism...
One aspect which has not aged well IMHO is the "kindness coin" mechanic: The exchange of goods for the NPCs' friendship and/or affection. You give the NPCs stuff, then you give them more stuff, then some more on top, then you get a cut scene and then you get back to giving them stuff until you trigger the next one.
Yes, the requests on the blackboard and the occasional personal quest mix up things a little bit, but overall the mechanic remains the same and for me over the years this has cheapened the interaction with the NPCs for me somewhat: They are mostly transactional and predictable to the point where you can calculate their outcome.
You have to give character A so-and-so many objects X to romance them. It takes so-and-so many days to do that.
Sure, the "kindness coins" mechanic was industry standard at the time, but I wish there were more variety in regards to the interactions with the NPCs, because they are amazingly written and I wish there was more to do with them besides giving them stuff over and over again.
AI execs: Our AIs are going to be so powerful. More powerful than anything. Soon they could be able to destroy humanity!
Governments: Well, then we better regulate that shit and make sure that doesn't happen...
AI execs: Nooooo! We did not mean it that way!
There is a legitimate reason why we may see "something" in the future.
Ubisoft accepted subsidies from the French government for the production of BGE2, which puts BGE2 in a similar place like "Skull and Bones": "Skull and Bones" was partially financed by subsidies from the Singaporean government. So BGE2 is trapped in the same weird limbo "Skull and Bones" was trapped in for years. Ubisoft has to figure out whether they actually want to finish the game or write a big, fat check to the French government.
We all know how that turned out for "Skull and Bones", so I am not going to get my hopes up.
Your quote reminds me of one of the biggest misconceptions about Judith Butler's work who wrote so much about gender....
People constantly misquote them and say that Butler wrote that "gender is a performance" and assume that Butler meant that gender is fake.
What Butler Butler actually wrote is that "gender is performative", ie. it involves a performance that communicates our gender identity to others without the performance being the end-all-be-all of gender.
The """alpha male's""" masculinity is so fragile, they threw a conniption when seeing a picture of a fit woman.
No, you see it's not like education makes you see past your own prejudices and that makes you more liberal. If you are liberal you get awarded an education by the shadowy cabal that controls the education system with DEI measures! This guy only wants a tRuE mERiToCrACy where disenfranchised, downtrodden bigots get a chance to attend university where they are taught about the superiority of their white Aryan race.
/s if it isn't apparent.
Without doubt, it will. Though the GD party is not keen on joining the EU anymore anyway and favor Russia. Laws like this will make it easy for the GD to blame the EU when the EU makes the inevitable decision to suspend Georgia's admission process.
Technically this year, but already after the last elections in 2020, there were credible allegations of election fraud in favor of the ruling GD party which resulted in massive protests. Since then GD has only tightened its hold of the country's institutions and has suppressed civil society. You can see why the upcoming elections aren't looking promising...
So much this.
It is the very definition of being cis to not understand wanting to be a different gender than the one being assigned at birth. People who are uncomfortable with their assigned gender are not cis.
But many need a while to realize that other people do not feel the way they do.
