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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

I have no legal knowledge here, but whatever legal consequences there may be, one of the goals is certainly to ruin the org financially through never-ending lawfare.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It's that and it is also a "divide and conquer" strategy that is aimed squarely at the rights of all women. The Heritage Foundation makes this abundantly clear by going after all women's sports now.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will just leave this article from 5 days ago here:

Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs

Despite Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being considered a successful launch by Ubisoft, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona, many of whom worked on the game, will be celebrating its launch by seeking new employment.

Announced on June 10, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona face layoffs, with those who spoke to Insider Gaming saying the layoffs felt premeditated and were going to happen no matter how successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was.

 

The Trump administration has deployed the Federal Trade Commission in unprecedented ways against WPATH, the professional organization that oversees care standards for trans medicine. WPATH sued the FTC in January, over subpoenas it had issued against them. In their suit, WPATH asserts that the FTC’s actions were retaliatory and infringed on their right to free ... Read more

 

The Odyssey is not set in the Bronze Age. It is totally flooded with classical-era motifs, with a smattering of archaic touches.

 

Photo by Hermionecl

The domain consists of no less than two castles and vast parkland surrounding both. The older "lower castle" has its origins in the 11 or 12th century, but the original buildings were replaced by fortified ones in the 14th century, during the War of Hundred Years. The old castle lots its relevancy and some of its buildings were removed with the construction of the "upper castle" in the 18th century. Today the castle and the grounds are part of a State Park, after extensive renovations of the buildings and the gardens.

A view of the upper castle of Villarceaux, a 18th century building on a hill overlooking a lake

The upper castle (photo by Clicsouris)

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is not an accurate summary of the video.

 

Everywhere Republicans go - grindr crashes. Or at least, that's what people tell me...

 

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, released the findings of its annual Where We Are in Film (WWAF) study, which examines films released from January 1 – December 31, 2025.

 

An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

Archived version here: https://archive.is/fEVKk

 

Ubisoft Barcelona faces cuts at the end of July

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The math does not even work with casual mobile games: MS owns King and hence Candy Crush, one of the most popular casual mobile games ever. At its peak Candy Crush had 293 million active monthly (!) players. So even if one is generous, those numbers comes down to some 10 million daily user. They want games that are the equivalent of 100 Candy Crush-es. It is pure folly.

 

The paper of record continues to diverge from other news organizations in its coverage of the transgender community.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be careful. Desireless is good, but you should avoid repetition. Doctors recommend mixing it up with some Mylène Farmer every other time.

 

Photo by jfpetit

The castle traces its origins back to the late medieval 14th century. It was redesigned from 1535-1569 in order to become a more prestigious residence in line with the latest style. Fortifications and adjacent buildings were removed in this era. Further renovations were made in the 17th century, but mostly concerned the outside and the surrounding grounds, while the main building retained its Renaissance style.

The castle changed hands many times and was abandoned several times in its history. It served as an orphanage in the 19th century, but it is once again abandoned in the mid 20th century. Due to its poor state the Départment of Corrèze takes possession of it and its ground, repairs the damages. Due to the involvement of Bernadette Chirac, the wife of then prime minister, the castle becomes well-known and its image is used on a French stamp.

Today it serves as an event and exhibition space, as well as offices for the administration of the surrounding public land.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but here it goes...

Because the Hero's Journey is junk science. Joseph Campbell who created the "Hero's Journey" was an arch-reactionary who had intended to present an alternative to the literature of his day which he disdained. He longed for a return to the "wisdom of the past" and his book "The Hero with a thousand faces" was positioned as presenting this wisdom, arranged around Freudian and Jungian theories, particularly the debunked "collective unconscious"; as well as the ideas of reactionary philosopher Spengler and ethnologist Frobenius (particular Frobenius' idea of "paideuma").

What the book actually is, is a mashup of quotes from various myths and legends, deprived of their cultural context and strung together along the lines of Campbell's preconceived beliefs. These myths and legends are never considered in their entirety, nor did Campbell dwell on the culture that produced them. From a standpoint of anthropology, it is a profoundly unscientific book and upon publication it was largely dismissed as such by Campbell's peers.

In the "American Anthropologist" Stephen Porter Dunn wrote:

Campbell's book is in a sense a throwback to an earlier heroic age of anthropology, when the air was dark with flying hypotheses and comparisons rained down like acorns in autumn. Reading it, the case-hardened social scientist derives the same sort of nostalgic, half-shamed pleasure as the ordinary adult would from reading G.A. Henty or Robin Hood to his children. Campbell uses the traditional equipment and methods of a literary critic, for whom comparison and analogy are tantamount to proof and fact. He writes in a curiously archaic style - full of rhetorical questions, exclamations of wonder and delight, and expostulations directed at the reader [...]

Accordingly, The Hero's Journey always mattered more to literary applications than as a genuine human artefact. Still the importance of the The Hero's Journey as a storytelling concept only came after the success of "Star Wars", when Hollywood discovered it as a template for blockbuster movies. Though Hollywood largely discarded most of Campbell (for good reason) in favor of the simplified version as presented by Christopher Vogler (for example: The 12 steps of the Hero's Journey are Vogler's version, Campbell used 17) who did not care much about the Hero's Journey allegedly universal applicableness, than in its usefulness as a tool set.

Lots of people are still heavily invested in painting the Hero's Journey as a universally shared principle of storytelling. To those people I recommend Robert Ellwood's "The Politics of Myth", which traces the development of Campbell's thinking and the development of the Hero's Journey.

 

Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kaan Se…

 

Photo by Père Igor

The castle was built from the 15 to 17th century and never served a strategic or military purpose. It was the mansion of a very wealthy family of low nobility which desired to own an impressive, prestigious mansion. It changed hands many times, before it came into the possession of wealthy industrialist, newspaper tycoon and founder of a facist party François Coty in the late 19th century who performed extensive renovations, but maintained its original look.

 

The chair of the EHRC has claimed in a letter to a Labour MP that sex questioning under the updated Code of Practice will be “rare and exceptional”

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Your submission in "I ♥️ yappin'" was removed for language.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your submission in "Why are America's largest newspapers stigmatizing queer people?" was removed for "Please, don't!".

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Your submission in "Why are America's largest newspapers stigmatizing queer people?" was removed for "Please don't!".

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I hate Elon with every fiber of my body, but: No, this is not going to happen.

Most people don't care/don't know about Elon's politics. Look at Henry Ford: Most people don't know he was a fascist either, they just know that he was the guy who made cars and maybe they even know that he had something to do with assembly lines, but that's about it.

You can currently observe in real-time how white-washing the reputation of a guy like Ford/Musk works outside of leftist circles. Mainstream media won't even acknowledge Musk's nazi salute ever happened, let alone how he instigates racist progroms on exTwitter.

Still, I agree that leftist spaces should never stop calling him what he is: A fascist.

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