.@syracusedotcom reports two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday to demand that she take down an Insta post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). https://t.co/WIB1hbqx5W
Ludovic Mbock, a famed competitive fighting game player, was detained by ICE after a routine check in. His story is of how someone initially shy in a new world connected with a community who would refuse to let him disappear.
https://t.co/Zmw6o1qmT1
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people — and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
There was this one time at id Software when we were working on Quake 2 and everyone piled into Paul Steed's office to check out what Valve was doing was our tech. And there was a cinematic scene with characters moving around while a crane operating and multiple cameras panning around to convey some element of the narrative. Proper cinematic storytelling using the Quake engine!
And I let out a breathless "WOW."
The whole room turned around and scowled at me.
Ha. That was the moment I knew, "OK, well. I want to tell stories with this tech. And these guys don't."
That was why, on the day I was fired from id, I first cried... and then driving home with a box of my crap in the trunk of the car, I began smiling. Then laughing.
And the first chance I was given to do something on my own with that tech? Well, I pushed it as hard as I could in relation to surreal visuals and cinematic storytelling.
26 years later and I can still say "Wow."
We apologize for any confusion that recent topics regarding Alex's story may have caused.
While we have not changed the characters’ backstories,after internal review by the development team, we plan to revise certain text passages that may have been misleading in the near future.
Additionally, we have published a supplementary episode on “Buckler’s Boot Camp” to provide further insight into the characters’ emotions and backstories.
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2xko has always very clearly lacked an outside editor. Most lawyers practice or run arguments by parties, often non- lawyers, with no knowledge or stake in the case because they notice when baseline pieces are missing that we may overlook as insiders who can fill in the blanks...
This shit goes deeper than the game/product, & if you aren't mature enough to have that depth perception you should prob keep commentary to yourself. This was community jobs lost & a signal to non JP publishers "fighting games aren't worth the risk." What that mean for the genre?
DHS has to understand that it’s playing with fire by refusing accountability for officer misconduct like this. People are being completely radicalized by interactions like this.