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indigenous woman who is also a vidya designer, on the "indigenous" section on CBC:
Neighbor why are "indigenous" and "aboriginal" activist foids always like the Whitest motherlovers on the planet?
When the video game Custer's Revenge first came out more than 30 years ago, a successful boycott eventually caused it to be pulled from store shelves The controversial video game, made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique (now defunct), depicts indigenous women tied to trees and cacti and r*ped.
When indigenous game designer Elizabeth LaPensée found out this game was again available for play online she took to Twitter to voice her outrage.
"The game reinforces systemic violence against native women," said LaPensée.
Daniel Starkey, a Chickashsha Nation game journ*list, was researching a story about Native American representation in games when he came across YouTube videos of Custer's Revenge. Starkey spoke with LaPensée about his find. The two of them were able to find several game-play footage videos on YouTube, but it wasn't until Starkey dug deeper that he actually found a playable link to a remade version of the game.
"I'm not in a position to go to that link, download it and play it. I don't know how far back that would put me in my personal healing," said LaPenśee from her home in Oregon. But Starkey did download the game to prove that it can be played.
"[It] made me sick to my stomach and brought me to tears," said Starkey. "I respect its right to exist, but it's almost impossible for me to figure out how anyone could consider the game of cultural value to anyone."
B-WORD THIS IS A FRICKING ATARI GAME FROM 1982
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IT WAS ALREADY BOYCOTTED WHEN IT CAME OUT
THE COMPANY THAT MADE IT DOESN'T EXISTS ANYMORE
THE DEVS WHO CREATED IT ARE IN THEIR 70S OR 80S IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE
ARE YOU GONNA CALL FOR THE BOYCOTT OF SALÒ AND ERASERHEAD NEXT? ![:#bruh: :#bruh:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/bruh.webp)
LaPensée is a former game journ*list turned game designer. Until now, LaPensée had not spoken out against violence against women in video games. The gaming industry has come under fire for its sexual harassment against women and female game designers and journ*lists have had their safety and lives threatened.
LaPensée said she has stayed quiet for this very reason.
"If anyone were to attack me in that way, I just don't have the allies in the game industry who would help protect me and look out for me, I have the native community too," said LaPensée.
For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic.
- Elizabeth LaPensée, video game designer
LaPensée, who designs games that promote indigenous heritage and healing, said her decision to speak out now is based on her career's work.
"This has been my whole life's work, starting off as a g*mer and then looking at native representation in video games. And finding the places that we can step up, and step in and define our representations ourselves," said LaPensée.
"For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic."
In the last 24 hours, since LaPensée`s initial tweet and the follow-up Twitter conversation, several videos of game-play footage have been taken down. Starkey added the footage violates YouTube's terms of service by containing explicit content and uncensored nudity.
LaPensée said that even though a game like this exists, the indigenous community can change the narrative by replacing the content with positive messages.
"We can make games too. We're completely capable of it. The cowtools are much more accessible, the technology is much more accessible than it used to be," said LaPensée, adding a lot of her work is responding to a game like this.
Holy fricking shit, imagine sperging out about a game that was 31 years old (now 41) by the time this article was written, this is even more pathetic than the Brapzilian Pentecostal TV channel in 2011 sperging out against Duke Nukem 3D , this is like if Jack Thompson came back from the shadows and started to shit on Doom and Doom 2 30 years later
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This dude has been a member of Ars Technica's forums for 24 years and somehow thinks that the AI bubble is bursting because... it's continuously getting better and new products are being launched? Maybe he's just talking about the financial side of things but even then I don't really see it.
Imagine the reportmaxxing potential on a 24-year-old account.
These guys make Redditors look smart.
I'm sorry that you missed the crypto boom, please get over it.
This is the most downkongd comment in the thread. Attacking China is BANNED.
This comment was also towards the bottom, but has 67 upkongs so must be a fairly popular opinion.
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There are way better reasons to avoid Tilman restaurants than his support of Trump. (1086)
I mean, for most here it's simply that they can't afford most of his menus. (-57)
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/r/sanantonio recently had this discussion and I have some takeaways I want to share with you. Less about restaurants per se but the sentiment applies.Buccees owners are hardcore Paxton / Abbott supporters/donors.Pluckers owners drank the trump coolaid too.Heb does donate to republicans, though it seems it's more just because that's who's in charge - they've donated to more moderate, non-school vouchers ones and this has drawn Abbott's disapproval.Check out the "goods unite us" website to see what corporation funds what candidate and political party. Less local more national honestly but still. I've been looking at it and some egregiously conservative (like funding politicians vehemently against roe) include Home Depot, Valero, and Chick-fil-A. (408)
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Tilman Fertitta, Trump's ambassador to Italy, owns:Mastro's Steakhouse and Ocean Club, Morton's The Steakhouse, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, Del Frisco's Grille, The Oceanaire, Vic & Anthony's, Brenner's Steakhouse, Grotto, Atlantic Grill, La Griglia and Willie G's, Chart House, Landry's Seafood House, Rainforest Cafe, Saltgrass Steak House, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Mitchell's Fish Market, Dos Caminos, Bill's Bar & Burger, Joe's Crab Shack and McCormick & Schmick's, Portland City Grill, Kincaid's, Simon and Seaford's, and Henry's Tavern. This is a partial list. (2203)
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Malayan leaf frog pic.twitter.com/Y1jSBN0IyL
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 1, 2025
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We spent over $1M *each* on the first two @jeremysrazors commercials.
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) February 6, 2025
On this latest one, we spent like forty-seven. Dollars.
AI is here. It presents many new challenges. It presents many new opportunities, too.
This commercial couldn’t have been made without AI. Or, at least,… pic.twitter.com/n88JXwZ3IQ
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2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.
This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.
At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.
For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.
All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.
So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?
Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.
Other sources:
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Elon Musk is ugly so I can't support him but where did all these libs come from? Redscarepod subreddit just looks like a default sub now lol.
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ih42qe/comment/mau5sbk?context=8
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ih42qe/comment/mau9ztw?context=8
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I've been messing around trying to figure out LoRA training recently and decided to train a style LoRA on the original Marsey Telegram stickers.
Should more flexible than MarseyGen since this is trained on a newer uncensored model, but it's booru tag-based so it's not as easy to prompt.
Recommended Settings:
Requires a UI that supports SDXL V-Pred models such as reForge/Comfy UI
Model: NoobAI-XL V-Pred-1.0 (may work ok with other NoobAI based models)
LoRA strength: 1.0
Sampler: Euler A
Scheduler: Beta
Steps:
30CFG Scale: 5
CFG Rescale: 0.5-0.7
Zero SNR: On
Use the following tags to generate images of Marsey:
domestic cat, white fur, orange fur, black eyes, striped tail
Full example prompt:
masterpiece, best quality, marseystyle,
solo, domestic cat, white fur, orange fur, black eyes, striped tail, sitting, :D, blush, black background
<lora:marseystyle:1>
Negative prompt: worst quality, low quality
Some example images (with metadata from reForge UI):
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https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1if1p3g/hamas_piker_defends_stalins_purges_that_resulted/
https://old.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/1ietrng/hasan_fans_being_honest/
https://old.reddit.com/r/grandrapids/comments/1if45gt/a_message_from_your_local_trans_guy/
"Gays go splat when they hit the ground ! Gays go splat when they hit the ground! Here in Palestine"
https://old.reddit.com/r/unusual_whales/comments/1ifa9pl/arab_nations_firmly_reject_resettlement_of/
An excuse for Israelis to say how much they hate Palestinians and articulate the reasons why
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South Africa is a constitutional democracy that is deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality. The South African government has not confiscated any land.
— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 (@CyrilRamaphosa) February 3, 2025
The recently adopted Expropriation Act is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal…
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Congratulations Best Country Album winner - 'COWBOY CARTER' @beyonce 🎶 #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/jLVnG5T6aw
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 3, 2025
Beyoncé won the Grammy for the best country album.
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) February 3, 2025
Even she knows it's rigged pic.twitter.com/NzncvWTal2
There’s no way Beyoncé deserved to win a Grammy for Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”. It’s not even good! She only won because she’s a black woman and the Grammys are woke af. This was a DEI award. pic.twitter.com/7FVMZg6R40
— Right Winged Angel (@RightWngdAngel) February 3, 2025
Beyonce can shut the frick up now. You see the win for #GRAMMYs and she's NOT country. That's fricking dog shit music. And you know that they paid for that best of country album. Wonder how much Jay Z paid the academy to get that shit for her?
— Danny 🇺🇸🏒⚾️🐈✝️ (@HawkeyeRoad) February 3, 2025
Fricking pitiful. No wonder I skip it.
the CMAs didn’t even consider beyonce and she still won best country album at the grammys. i know those racists mad #Grammys pic.twitter.com/9Maotr5m9r
— ً (@drivenbyfilms) February 3, 2025
Imagine they tried to play Beyoncé at the country music awards by not even giving her a single nomination, meanwhile she won a whole butt Grammy for Best Country Album. pic.twitter.com/YRMw8gm15E
— goodaz. (@tsunamitaj) February 3, 2025
Kacey Musgraves was SO PISSED about Beyonce winning Best Country Album 😂 #grammys pic.twitter.com/u95FYUm2vg
— Don Chenz (@DonChenz) February 3, 2025
Taylor Swift presenting Beyonce with the Grammy for Best Country Album is sure to make MAGA heads explode. pic.twitter.com/i93W2dCUJV
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 3, 2025
I don't care about Beyonce or country music and have never listened to a second of this album, but I think it's pretty obvious this is how Kamala can still win.
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I just thought y'all might want to know! Just in case you feel like writing any friendly letters to the US government 🥰
Just reported Elon Musk as a DEI hire
Dearest Witches,
We share people's concern about the crisis in politics occurring in the USA right now. We stand in solidarity not only with our American witches, but with all worldwide who have been dealing with unstable or downright oppressive regimes.
Canceled Prime. Left FB, never got IG. Left X. Joined BlueSky (shout out to the WitchSky feed). Joined Dropout.
Doing what I can.
It was witch hunt not wizard hunt, duh
@JimieWhales do you have this sticker?
https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i8m8el/resistance_among_the_teens_part_2/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1i7phrg/i_rebuilt_reproductiverightsgov/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1i89l7n/bodypolicing_and_being_midsize/
I'm what's considered mid-sized I guess... neither fat nor thin. I don't look visually big, but I have a belly, I have rolls, it's just when I'm clothed it's not so apparent. I'm thick, I have huge thighs, covered in cellulite.
So people, especially women, who are heavier than I am often get offended if I say I wish I had a little less fat. They treat me like I'm nuts and "so skinny!"
It never began
for instance, during lunch at work I mentioned I was starting to track my nutrition and exercise more often because I want to lean out, and another colleague jumped at me, almost angrily, and told me I didn't need to.
Right there with you!
I wear a US 16, and am tall.
That would be considered obese even at 6'6
I'm built different that plus size but get an annoyed look in "straight sized" shops when I ask for my size.
I mean, I'm talking about my experience. My colleagues are mostly women, thye share their struggles with weight during lunch. Just because I'm a little smaller doesn't mean I don't also struggle or that it's not valid. What am I supposed to do, just stay quiet durig lunch not to offend them, ion times when that's the MAIN conversation topic?
Woman companionship
She also hit the incelhood the wall
I was actually sort of happy about it after the oversaturation of male entitlement in my teens and twenties. 35 is the first year I've (personally, not speaking for anyone else) started to feel sexually invisible to the average passerby and it's just so... weird? Hard to explain, but it felt like I could hold people's attention (not even sexual attention, but general attention) without even trying before, but now I actually have to do something extra in order to secure my position.
To be honest, I've even been wondering if I have a worse personality than previously thought, because people generally even seem to find me less interesting now as well; they respond with more politeness compared to, well, genuine enthusiasm... and I don't just mean hetero men, but other women as well; society at large, really. Like, have I been very boring all this time, but people were only interested in what I had to say because I was a pretty young thing? (I'm probably not describing all of this very well, but it's a feeling I've really been stewing in this year.)
- I think the grief of it will last me awhile, even if I do enjoy the upside of being less sexualised than I was during my peak years.
I feel like I actually hit a happy medium in my late twenties to early thirties and the equilibrium has shifted over too much now, but I digress. The other way I cope is just glowing up my appearance in ways I have neglected, like slowly shedding the weight I've put on these past few years and revamping my wardrobe a little - things that may not make a huge difference to other people, but help me tolerate my own reflection better.
Says she doesn't care process to tell how she trying to improve her looks
It's nasty how much people feign interest in your mind and what you say just because you're attractive. I've been used by one too many guys because of that. One thing that sticks with me as a single woman is to pay attention to how a man I'm interested in treats women who he isn't attracted to. Does he genuinely listen and contribute to conversations with older women, fat women, trans women, etc. or does he only see and respect conventionally attractive women.
Does that man is interested in her
The goal of this post was to look how our girls cope with age of Chud, but on xx chromosomes I found the proof of ze walldo
Have a nice day
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