this seems soon-to-be the Embracer cut. this company fucking sucks man. hate this shit

VGC reported earlier this month that Free Radical was at threat of being closed just two years after it was established, as part of huge company-wide cuts at Embracer and its owned publishers.

Although Embracer has yet to publicly confirm Free Radical’s position, sources told VGC that Wingefors has now acknowledged in a company e-mail that the Nottingham, UK-based company could be closed on December 11, following the completion of a consultation process.

this thread is so full of terrible, not-relevant, or just plain rule-breaking discourse across the board that we’ve decided to totally remove it, and that’s very disappointing because this is the first time we’ve had to do this to a thread. let’s please not do this again.

i suspect that two things are going on here: China may either be playing both sides/otherwise have shifting allegiances depending on the situation, and the rebel groups are heterogeneous in terms of who they look to for support (since there are like 50 different ethnic rebel groups fighting the government right now). it’s a very multifaceted situation in general.

And apparently, in the USA there is a whole party devoted to child marriage and other ways to have sex with minors. That might be the better point to start, because they actually have a say regarding laws on that matter.

i’m not sure why we’re acting as if condemning Richard Stallman and the Republican Party for their equally bad takes in this sphere are mutually exclusive of each other.

this is a good way to get banned from the instance. take 2 weeks off

very much not looking forward to the next year of climate disasters–as i recall, we’re not even close to peak El Niño and probably won’t be for another six to eight months.

looks like there’s either going to be an unwieldy anti-PVV coalition or new elections forthcoming, as VVD has just ruled out a cabinet with Wilders.

grandparent died over the weekend (he was in his 90s so, pretty normal stuff)

we already have an approval voting party here that runs candidates and they’ve done literally nothing useful to advance the voting method (nor do i think it’s a good voting method or RCV “needlessly convoluted and wasteful”–it’s literally just single-winner STV and i’ve never seen anything but in-the-weeds arguments against STV) so i can’t say i’m sympathetic to this argument

this is otherwise cool but for FUCKS SAKE stop!!

all candidates for elective office from the state legislative level on up would run on a single ballot, regardless of their party affiliation. The top four vote-getters would advance to the general election

you don’t need to do this weird blanket primary nonsense!! you don’t need to do that!! just let whatever parties run candidates be ranked by people on a general election ballot!!

looking over the modlogs, i think it’s exceedingly funny to say “it wasn’t misogyny” when your comment ended with the following, something that i’d expect off an incel forum:

Highly doubt Becky from HR who can’t start every morning without complaining out loud his bad the coffee is and how cold it is in the office, will ever be working as a line man in sub freezing temps trying to get power back on when her husband dies from an early heart attack from dealing with her BS all day.

we’re not in the business of bullshitting here: this is misogyny, you’ve already had several comments removed from this thread, continuing to respond in this manner will be a ban from the instance.

this is not super surprising—Sega was rather hostile to the unionization campaign to begin with.

most likely yes

pretty much every good, significant election result nationally happened today. Democrats have a majority in both the VA House and Senate; their gubernatorial candidate won in KY; abortion rights and legal weed passed in Ohio; they expanded their majorities in NJ; and they kept it competitive in MS. the PA state supreme court is now 5-2 Democratic after they won the seat up this year, and it seems that Dems have won many of the downballot races that manage elections.

congratulations to Democrats for holding the governor’s seat in Kentucky. this was called pretty early all things considered.

oh god, i hate stupid municipal technicalities like this lol. american municipal borders are so bad at almost every level of government

in my neck of the woods: half of the school board is up–unsurprisingly it’s divided between the cranks who want to “take politics out of schools” (by which they mean queer people) and liberals trying to get the board to not do that. the liberals have historically prevailed since this is the region’s most liberal school board but you can never tell who’s actually going to win day of. we also have a bunch of controversial referendums this year but i’m pretty sure all of them are going to pass.

nationally, i’m tracking about 60 socialists who are up for election or re-election–i’d expect most of them will win their races but this could be an early harbinger of trouble for the left if some of the closer races don’t go socialists’ way. in particular i’m very curious if Israel-Palestine will influence any of them.

it’s funny in a morbid way. after everything Trump fucked up catastrophically—all the wars he nearly started, all the people he killed through inaction, all the things he tried to do to overthrow the government—it would be very poetic if he just won conventionally. all you could really do at that point is laugh about it.

you can read their introduction here

Jordan also just recalled its ambassador like Chile and Colombia, although that’s not the same thing as severing relations

post this in /c/chat or something

this is advocacy for ethnic cleansing and blatantly not an acceptable comment. don’t do this and take a week off.

unsurprisingly, these lines sound like total shit.

this feels so symptomatic of how many people’s politics are just vibes.

Edelman is not a high-profile political donor closely associated with conservative causes. The only major electoral donations attached to his name are a handful of contributions of $50,000 or less to Democrats and Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 2017.

The Edelman Family Foundation, by contrast, which he founded in 2017, has showered six-figure grants on conservative organizations such as the Cato Institute; Foundation for Individual Rights and Free Expression; the anti-critical race theory Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism; Prager University, which markets right-wing videos as teaching material; and UATX, Bari Weiss’ unaccredited anti-cancel culture university.

It could also be a lot worse. Ever heard of Hiroshima - or about the carpet firebombing of Dresden?

“it’s bad but worse war crimes have happened in world history so it’s fine actually” is such an incredibly bad and disgusting argument to make for killing hundreds of people–many of which are children–a day who, again, have done nothing but be born in a place that a terrorist group operates and from which they cannot leave because Israel (and to a lesser extent Egypt) will not let them. any further attempt to justify the course of action Israel is taking on these grounds will get you banned from this instance.

the sheer scale here strikes me as unsurprising in Spain given the mount of power it had in the country for most of the 1900s and the authorities governing the country. perfect recipe for incredible amounts of unreported and unprevented sexual abuse.

unfortunately most of this thread is off the rails and just not salvageable whatsoever in terms of discussion, so this is going to be a lock and remove. maybe we can try this thread again down the road but for now, no.

Personally I find it difficult to call him a libertarian when there are so many existing liberties that he wants to make illegal (see the parts of his agenda labelled ‘homophobia’ and ‘misogyny’).

well, that’s just most right-libertarians (and especially anarcho-capitalists) if we’re being honest. the practice decidedly does not correspond with their stated principles for most of them–to the point where it might be more dishonest to describe them by their principles than not.