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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
This recently declassified British diplomatic cable concerning the Massacre is horrifying.
But you should read it.
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_…
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Reported for directing hate against a group of people based on their shared disability. twitter.com/osullyville/st…
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That's another anti-consumer practice: aggressively cracking down on fan works which may compete with official products.
Nintendo also cracks down on fan films, games, remakes, localizers, streamers, etc.
But a company protecting its IPs isn't censorship, even if they're mean. t.co/ZZ6BuvhECH
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The thing I'm most excited about this E3 is that several game blogs are planning to close down after E3.
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Laura Kate Dale is leaving Kotaku.
She is the person who recently accused Nintendo of including an ableist slur in Smash Brothers.
Good luck in your future endeavors, Laura.
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IMO, the only thing Apple did right with the Mac Pro launch is this AR feature that lets you see how much space it'll take up in your room.
I want Amazon to do this to all of its products. It doesn't need to be perfect—just get the job done.
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“Oh no. How will we replace these low-skill 20-year-olds? We better pay them a lot more money to write garbage and never fire them even if we’re going bankrupt.”
-Vox Media CEO
right now probably
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Peter Bright, Ars Technica journalist, male feminist, troll, and frequent critic of gamers and other nerds as misogynist "pedos", has been arrested for attempting to have sex with a 7-year-old girl.
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Bright's articles are still live on @arstechnica, including this report which he wrote while he was actually in the process of soliciting the mother (undercover agent) to allow him to molest her 7-year-old daughter.
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make that 4 million twitter.com/mombot/status/…
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I have updated ⚡️ “#GamerGate: Where Are They Now?” to include Peter Bright.
twitter.com/i/moments/8517…
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I sent a DM to @arstechnica for a statement about their employee who tried to molest a 7-year-old girl.
No reply.
Not seeing any game or tech journalists talking about it publicly.
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Paul Bright openly bragged about his "pedobear t-shirt" on Twitter.
This isn't hiding. This is a call for help.
Holy shit. Why would you employ this person?
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Ashiya Municipal Hospital in Hyogo, Japan is using VR to ease the fears of end-stage cancer patients.
VR allows them to relive their memories or see their homes. In the future, passing away may just be a matter of slipping into VR dream.
headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190607-…
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When you’re waiting for him to incriminate himself enough to warrant an arrest, but he’s just going on another rant about gamers again.
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Over the coming days, I will be posting a long list of gaming media-related men who were arrested and charged for various sexual / violent crimes.
I will be posting them in no particular order. Some of these incidents are old and some are new.
I apologize for the spam.
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I've read nearly 2,000 of his tweets.
208,000 to go.
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It's very hypocritical of gaming and tech news outlets to publish hit pieces on developers if they express beliefs that disagree with their own, but remain silent when one of their own staff is guilty of a serious crime.
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What the heck did you just hecking say about me, you little gamer? I'll have you know that I graduated at the top of my course at Sheboygan Community College's Faculty of Creative Writing and have over 100 self-diagnosed emotional issues.
みんなのおかん。ゲーム好き。Everyone's #01 Mom. I like video games.