> Parents test if school leaders can be prosecuted over failure to report AI nudes.

> A firestorm began brewing on social media late last night when members of the staff from Disney's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur alleged that..

> The strike is scheduled to last for a single day.

> An updated list of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ charges, lawsuits and allegations against him, including sexual assault and sex trafficking.

> Anime fans are shocked at how poorly Elon Musk represented 'Attack on Titan's Eren Yeager and other anime characters in an X post on election night.

> It goes beyond the character creator, and ultimately is up to the player to craft

> 'G/O Media’s management is once again punishing workers for its own bad decisions'

> 80 out of 120 workers trying to unionize reportedly quit due to Grindr’s RTO mandate.

> Review aggregation site Metacritic has spoken out in response to the ongoing review bombing of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

> Anime Feminist also had the remarkable opportunity to interview Yukimura about Vinland Saga, writing female characters, portraying slavery and the role of Buddhist Philosophy in his work. Our interview with him, which was one of the great honors of my time in anime journalism, is below.

> The new policy follows weeks of back-and-forth complaints about Islamophobia and antisemitism on the platform.

And - of course - LGBT+ rights are now a "sensitive topic".

> And because letting “random people steer a company Twitch Plays Pokémon-style” instead of venture capitalists is “fucking funny”

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> The network has aired at least 42 segments mentioning the topic in the last two weeks

> "It doesn't do anything except make the staff lose motivation."

> It’s official: Concord is never coming back

> The recent Pokemon hack has provided tons of information about the series

> Vtuber models are not cheap and the wait times can be months long

> AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.

> Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

> WEBTOON Entertainment's labor union is requesting fair compensation after its CEO was awarded an eye-popping $30 million in cash and stock options.

> Streaming culture incentivizes this kind of hateful rhetoric.

> Sponsored streams have had three distinct phases, or eras, since 2014.

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> 1814's Treaty of Paris is having some long-winded repercussions

> Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?

> When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster, it changed the internet forever.

> "We will not pay for our bosses' mistakes"

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> Vice shuttered the site in 2023

> The former Persona team’s new RPG is rooted in the real world but unbounded by reality

> Frostpunk 2, 11 Bit Studios' magnum opus, is proof that video games are at their most interesting when they engage with politics and ideology head on.

Godot got a spite fork by the name "Redot" after their community managers quote-retweeted a chud calling the use of licensed game engines woke. Some people jumped onto the bandwagon, but it seems the engine is still too woke for some YouTube commentators.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20760179 >CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski has issued a strongly worded response to accusations that the studio "is in a lot of trouble right now" because of "diversity hires," saying the people peddling such nonsense need to "stop looking for conspiracy theories." > > "Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it," Nowakowski said in response to a post on X by YouTuber Endymion, who has a long history of stridently complaining about diversity and "wokeness" in videogames. > > "CDPR talent leaving? We have the lowest rotation of people in recent years. DEI-driven recruitment? We hire based on merit and talent alone, just as we make games driven by artistic vision alone. Why did we choose \[Unreal Engine]? Because it enables us to work on our games more efficiently and we remain cutting edge tech-wise. The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than 2 years ago… Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?"

> This November, Florida residents will decide whether to amend their state constitution to protect reproductive rights, overturning the state's near-total abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy.

> Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention.

The deep dive into the history, gatekeeping and exclusion, racism and colorism, uplifting of pallor, flirting with fascism, fetishisation and appropriation, conflicting ideologies and reality, and all-round white supremacist tendencies of the alternative/goth subculture that absolutely no-one asked for.

> Tezuka Osamu's gekiga show some artistic experimentation, but also dig further into his conservative ideas about gender and sexuality, which were more ignorable in titles aimed at wider audiences. Two stories in particular, Apollo’s Song and MW, hammer in how much of his work was steeped in heteronormativity and homophobia.

> Several bands have dropped out of an upcoming metal festival in Orlando after Kyle Rittenhouse was announced as a special guest.