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social anxiety final boss: pretending i’m going in a different direction instead of crossing the street so that i don’t have to do the fast walk or make the driver wait

If I had to speculate, my guess at the order of operations here is:

- Kushner and Saudi invest in EA
- They like the prospective ROI and see more gaming companies like Riot as opportunities
- They use Trump to force Tencent out with added sinophobia
- They pick up the pieces financially

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

amazing, no notes.

Microsoft gets tired of people using the term “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash to the ban

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CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 65 million monthly visits.

An absolute apocalypse ongoing in the Tech space; 58% of Google Traffic to the world's biggest tech sites has disappeared since 2024. The question is, will this phenomenon come full force for gaming sites, rather than just the echoes we've already experienced?
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Sony no longer plans to release PlayStation games on PC? Maybe they should consider releasing some on PlayStation!

One important piece of context here is that when someone buys a PlayStation, Sony doesn't just get their $500+. The company also gets 30% of *everything* they buy on the PlayStation Store. In other words, Sony makes the most money by getting as many people as possible on its consoles

If PlayStation is no longer releasing their games on PC I assume layoffs or a closure is coming to Nixxes...

They might retain them as a support developer?

I was right

Omani FM:

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Just look at the difference

Wow — In response to John Fetterman saying he is a “hard no” on the War Powers Resolution, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says Fetterman (and Susan Collins) should “lose their seat.”

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

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Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school

Hey just following up on this

The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...

the journalistic instinct to not let someone talk shit about capital lmao

“It was… much worse in the West Bank than I imagined. Everybody agreed with that.

If the American people really understood the kinds of human rights violations that are happening there would be more pressure on Israel to address them.”

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

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Bluepoint going before Bend was not on my bingo card. Wth. Capitalism sucks. Will there ever be accountability for this at the top?

what are we doing here, man?

What a horrifying end for such an admired and successful studio, just incredible work time after time after time.

Are you fucking KIDDING ME

Bluepoint? We lost fucking BLUEPOINT?? The guys who made the title Sony’s entire PS5 launch was based around? Who in the world is safe then?

Insane. Demon's Souls 2020 is one of the best remakes ever. How do you not just have them do remakes and ports. What did you even buy them for?

What a joke. This industry is so fucking dumb.

Recent Sony game studio acquisitions

- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)