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We chat with friend of the show Michael Richardson—author of the new book Nonhuman Witnessing—about the ongoing, deepening relationships between Silicon Valley and the US military. We check up on new activities from old enemies—Y Combinator, Anduril, Palantir, among others—and get into the changing cultures on both sides as they converge around defense innovation as a solution for Silicon Valley’s problems of needing another endless pool of capital and the Pentagon’s problems of needing to maintain a dying empire and beat China in an arms race.

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

Remind us, o enlightened one - who is the vice president of the current administration?

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Quite a good breakdown by Laura Kate Dale of Nintendo's handling of recent games featuring playable women characters from franchises usually headed up by men i.e. recent Peach game and upcoming Legend of Zelda game featuring the titular Zelda.

Featuring such Aonuma bangers as:

If we have Princess Zelda as the main character who fights, then what is Link going to do?

The triforce is made up of Princess Zelda, Ganon and Link. Princess Zelda is obviously female; if we made Link a female, we thought that would mess with the balance of the triforce - that's why we decided not to do it.

We feel like what takes priority is this idea of gameplay. If it turns out that particular gameplay we're trying to bring to fruition would be best served by having Zelda take that role, then it's possible that that could be a direction we could take.

i.e. Zelda has featured exclusively MANLY gameplay up to this point btw

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago

So when rich people do this it's called "innovative" and "disrupting the market", but if you do it FBI busts down your door for being a criminal. Sounds like freedom to me jack

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Such a tight project, banging beats and rhymes from start to finish. One of my faves from the past couple of years

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Nothing new for those more learned among us perhaps, but I found it to be a good write-up with lots of different voices featured throughout. I definitely learned more of the context around gamergate (esp good I think if you weren't plugged in to what was going on at the time). Probably the most shocking was to hear how black women were seen/treated by the victims of gamergate hate raids.

For a more game design focused take on racism in games, I've heard great things about Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology by Aaron Trammell. I struggle with books, so if anyone has any videos taking on the topic from that angle, I'd love if you shared it

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[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago

ITT: cishets are not okay

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Jealousy, by Bikôkô (bikoko.bandcamp.com)
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Can't get the chorus out of my head kirby-jammin

Production is sublime too, but the bandcamp preview is kinda low quality, so it doesn't come across as well imo thonk Still would rather share the bandcamp link than youtube

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

Also depressing to see the establishment third choice party almost completely absorb all third choice votes. The bright side of which I guess is that at least Reform didn't do that well, but they don't have to do anything for the establishment media to keep boosting their bullshit until the time is right™

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago

Casual reminder that the internet was a DARPA of the US Department of Defence invention and that the US still controls vital parts of the internet infrastructure today

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[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

I'd love to know exactly when biden was "a staunch supporter of transgender rights"

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Incredible track

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Featured in the recent Pal Action vid (twitter link)

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

the video is indescribably heartbreaking...

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

Trust me, it's definitely nothing to do with them being seated too far apart to comfortably have a conversation because it looks good on a 16:9 shot

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

all it looks like is a glorified indie title that won't even sell a million units

One of the main tricks of liberal propaganda is to make every day people identify very personally with the ruling class. With a corporation the size of Nintendo, the amount of copies of any game that the company sells will have so little impact on anything, and yet you have gamers who have ghoulish executives' public statements living in their head rent free – this person sees some news about a game "not selling according to expectations" and their first instinct is to think of the poor executive class who won't even sell a million copies! What's even the point of art if you can't make it into a product that can sell at least 1 mil copies, you know? They've successfully been indoctrinated into thinking (and spending real, human time & energy worrying) about Nintendo's line going up over any other consideration

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago

meat from a dairy cow sent to slaughter was found to contain particles of the H5N1 avian influenza virus last week – sparking concern over the risk of transmission via the food supply. 

USDA have stressed that the US meat supply is safe, but have encouraged meat-eaters to cook beef to an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit – which is classified as ‘well done’.

another great reason to stop eating beef

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

The level of brainworm complexity required to keep living in the world where israel is doing nothing wrong is increasing by the day

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

Am I tripping or is this actually aba/conversion therapy for people with long covid?

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