ProtoGhost

29, likes vidya, prog rock/metal

[Del @TheCartelDel]

If you tried to push Character Design like this in a modern game studio run by U.S. directors, a subset would villainize you (mostly men, as many Women game developers actually like sexy theme options when done in a fun way).

The problem is that nobody can correct this American puritanical behavior (despite the fact that the average age of most video game players in the United States is 37), because the discussion about Sexuality in Fashion is being led by either raging racists who spout conspiracy theories or misogynists who don't have the literacy to hold the conversation with respectful dialogue.

So, what would have probably slowly resolved itself by now hasn't, because there's a vitriolic force whipping up angry likes and RTs that make it distasteful to ever "see their point." So we have to continue to suffer this puritanical view that "Sexy characters are gross", and they can never be empowered, cool, complex, mature or aspirational, apparently.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS:

Animal rights campaigner, Anneka Svenska, was visited at home by two police officers and told to accept a police record, attend an “online thinking” course, or face arrest following comments she made on social media about the incineration of beagles at a company that breeds the dogs for use in medical research.

The police alleged that she had committed a crime under the Online Safety Act.

Anneka refused to accept this “community resolution disposal”, which would have remained on her police record, and, after she engaged a lawyer, the case has now been dropped.

Section 179 of the Online Safety Act was introduced by the last Conservative Government and made it a crime, punishable by up to 51 weeks in prison, to knowingly spread false information likely to cause harm. While the Bill was going through Parliament, the FSU warned it might be weaponised in this way to silence legitimate political speech.

Anneka doesn’t believe the information she spread about the company was false. In fact, she has documentary evidence which she says substantiates her claims. Until the Online Safety Act was passed, the company unhappy about comments like this would have had to bring a defamation claim in the civil courts.

Now, it seems, hurty words online can quickly become a police matter – and it seems that companies are now making criminal complaints as part of their brand protection strategies.

If you are visited by the police for a speech matter, we’d urge you to take specialist legal advice before accepting any form of caution or submitting to a re-education course. Members of the Free Speech Union can ask for our help if they find themselves in a similar situation.

[Frasier Payne @MeinGottNiles]

Unrelated but this guy made his money buying up all the innovative 90s educational software companies (creators of Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, et al), completely gutting them, and then selling their husks to Mattel.
He singlehandedly destroyed that sector.

[Shannon Sands @max_paperclips]

as many have pointed out, this is an unfortunate consequence of how copyright laws work. if Google Books had met it's original objectives and not lost the cases involved, then rare books would have been non-destructively scanned and preserved, rather than hoarded. But, the norms were set

Reminder that if they were being created today, public libraries probably wouldn't exist & would be decried by the same people screaming about how sacred the IP of media companies is (because stripminning culture to regurgitate it back out is a sacred trust)

[Maple @MaplePrism]

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED

IN THE LINK BELOW YOU WILL SEE

THE VERY SAME COMPANY THAT SAID AGE VERIFICATION WAS SAFE, EFFECTIVE, AND YOUR DATA WOULD NOT BE STORED

AND SAID THAT YOUR DMS ARE NOT BEING MONITORED OR READ

HAS NOW GOTTEN CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN ALLOWING ARC RAIDERS TO NOT ONLY READ YOUR DMS BUT TO SAVE THEM IN PLAIN TEXT SILENTLY ONTO YOUR PC FOR ANY OTHER APPLICATION WITH READ PERMISSIONS TO SEE.

https://t.co/p9Pq4AKXbv

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

remember over half of americans cannot read at a high school level

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch. We had Circus Circus. We had the Tropicana and the Excalibur. We had cheap slots, 24-hour wedding chapels, all-you-can eat buffets, shrimp cocktails on the house. You could have shut your mouth, kept the city affordable for middle-class tourists, and printed more money than you ever needed. But no, you just had to blow it up. You and your resort fees and your Michelin stars. Your Fontainebleau Hotel, Jean Georges Steakhouse, poolside cabana rentals, and Formula 1 Grand Prix. If you’d done your job, known your place, and stopped private equity from pricing out regular visitors, we all be fine right now. But you didn’t.

[ProtoGhost @ProtoGhost1]

Materialism is getting so boring man

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Hate to break your heart, but there is no real meaning to dreams.

Dreams are random neural firings. Your brain makes up a story to make sense of it - using memories, experiences, fears, concerns, etc.

Dreams have functions (memory, threat simulation, etc.) but no real meaning.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Hey Alan, remember that time you were besties with epstein in the 90s, then wrote this op-ed in 97?

Fucking dirtbag.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

It’s absolutely humiliating for America to be controlled by a foreign country like this.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Because it was staged!

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

1000 people were needed to redact Donald Trump’s name from the Epstein files. Think about how insane that is.

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

We are witnessing the deliberate destruction of our nation and it doesn’t matter which party is in charge the final destination is exactly the same, same playbook being used all around the world at different speeds, we’re being run by traitors in positions of power,

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

in america if you don’t support israel the government lets you die in a flood

[ludwig @ludwigABAP]

"person who sells things" says people who don't buy "things he sells" will be at a "cognitive disadvantage"

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Elon Musk cut funding for child cancer research, but will give millions to a pedophile

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Remember, solutions exist RIGHT NOW to rapidly move us toward a sustainable system - with safer, fairer & more meaningful lives for all the world’s people.

The only reason we’re NOT moving toward that system is because it would mean very wealthy people lose some power & money.

[Anti @ANTllSM]

I said this will happen. They won't just stop at adult games