2
A 21 year old girl was arrested for stabbing her male friend, who she had an emotional obsession with.
She "liked him so much, she wanted to kill him and then kill herself".
The man survived and she was arrested.
Here's her smiling in the police car.
3
By day, 83-year-old Iwamuro Sumiko is the proprietor of a Tokyo Chinese restaurant.
By night, she is SumiRock, the world's oldest pro DJ. She can be found in Kabuki-cho playing mix-ups of techno, rock, classical, jazz and French chanson.
She learned how to DJ at age 77 for fun.
4
Mike Pondsmith, creator of Cyberpunk 2020 and consultant on Cyberpunk 2077 on the drama surrounding the game:
'Stop telling me what to be offended by. Go tell your racist uncle to STFU instead.'
5
I am Japanese.
Cyberpunk is not xenophobic toward Asians.
Asians helped to establish cyberpunk.
Images of Asian culture in cyberpunk are not representations of Asian Menace, but depictions of post-nationalism and cultural dynamism.
Please don't use cyberpunk to spread hate.
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Japan just elected its first mangaka to the national diet.
Akamatsu Ken, the author of Love Hina and Negima, has won a seat in Japan's House of Councillors.
A major plank in Akamatsu's platform is freedom of expression in subculture media (anime, manga, etc).
Here's him.
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Early screenings of Godzilla: King of the Monsters has some critics complaining that it places too much emphasis on the monsters fighting and not enough human drama.
So it's good.
10
Japan: makes a character
tumblr artists:
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Twitter alternatives fail because they try to cater to a community. Twitter is not a community. Twitter is a Florida meth war inside a hurricane. People are here to bathe in blood and collect screenshots of protected accounts like a necklace of human ears.
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1) Sony moves PlayStation HQ to California
2) Sony California—scared of "social activism"—forces Japanese developers to censor themselves, even in Japan.
3) Japanese developers and gamers get pissed, flee PlayStation brand.
4) Nintendo overtakes Sony console sales in Japan.
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Kotaku's Luke Plunkett falsely reported that Mordhau's developers created an option to "turn off" characters that aren't white.
15
This is beautiful art.
Don't post their @ or do a bully.
Just enjoy.
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Wizard: Brave Hero, thy quest is finally at an end. Ye have saved the princess and our kingdom. As reward, I shall grant ye ONE wish. Choose wise—
Me: Erase all furries
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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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Game: Appeals to exactly 4 Bay Area hipsters
Blog gnomes: Gonna cry? gonna pee your pants? Not every game is FOR you
Game: Is hard
Blog gnomes: Way to be exclusionary towards game bloggers and the disabled people I flippantly use as props in my internet fights, gamer scum
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Game Blogger:
Gets arrested by the FBI for planning to sexually molest a 7-year-old child
Other Game Bloggers:
"This isn't news"
Idiot with 14 Followers on Twitter: Makes an angry tweet about how he's not buying Cyberpunk 2077 because it has trans people
Other Game Bloggers:
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Taiwanese game developers made fun of Xi Jinping by comparing him to Winnie the Pooh.
For that, the communist party review bombed their game, forced their publishers to drop them, and banned their accounts from Chinese social media. Their game is now gone from Steam.
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Sony censored the actual title of a video game because it has a letter that looks like boobs in it.
(omega - ω)
みんなのおかん。ゲーム好き。Everyone's #01 Mom. I like video games.