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I found something more interesting than Snackbars being Snackbars:



Essentially, Nutaku's going to invest some money in the adult games market in the hopes of encouraging growth. Here's to the budding porno version of EA! May they produce great games up 'till they decide to run the shit into the ground! Actually, they're probably looking to be the Valve of the adult side of the industry, whatevs.

CHEERS MUTHURFOCKERS!

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Finally some good news

Lets hope they actually make good games. Porn is one thing, but there's a lot more to a good porn game than the porn part

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Yeah there hasn't really been a mainstream porn game market outside of Japan, aside from flash when that was at the cusp of it's popularity, and even then I think that's pretty much indie in spirit. I guess it all really depends on the people they hire to make the games now.

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In some good news for once, Comcast is being sued by the state of Washington for over $100 million on the case of over 1.8 million individual-case policy violations with customers in just the state alone

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NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos

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Catgirls

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"Shenzhen police equipped with sword-like weapon kits"
Damn...

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Well it sure is nice to have evidence so indicative of the system's actual efficiency. You know, most people would actually want to make sure the person's actually a refugee before casually throwing them into the system, in this case literally against their will. The funny thing is, they even had a supposed mandarin interpreter, it's almost as if they don't give a room temperature turd about who they're actually processing, regardless of who they are.

You can literally be Chinese and not look or speak even a little bit arabic, in fact speak a language completely foreign to the average native speaker of Syria, have a legitimate passport STATING WHERE YOU ARE FROM, ON YOUR PERSON, AND HAVE IT TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU and still be processed as a syrian asylum seeker. The German Authorities don't care who you are, they'll accept anyone whether they need help or not. Well done, 9/11 keep it up, I'm sure most of those immigrants are refugees, and you aren't just guessing on the spot. It's not like violent extremists would use this as an opportunity to infiltrate or anything like that either.

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To be fair, China is really harsh on any sort of dissident, and many politically active Chinese people end up seeking asylum in the west because in China they get persecuted for it.

So Chinese refugees is a legitimate thing that has been going on for a long time now

But that was a serious bureaucratic fuckup, and it shows just how bad things are in terms of checking on who applies and why

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Well I've always been a little weirded out by Chinese culture tbh, I would hate to live there. The massive gender disparity is a nightmare for any man who isn't successful or conventionally oh high social status, and the arranged marriage system must also lead to some terribly unhealthy views on romance and interpersonal relations between men and women in general. And their real estate based fraud to make the Chinese economy seem strong has displaced pretty much all of the traditional rural businesses that grew food, raised animals, and in general gave them products to trade that weren't kitschy garbage for a change.

I've also heard that a different Asian country, that I can't re-call the name of, is gamifying state loyalty. Bigger score and privileges for civies that listen to big bruva and don't ask questions, even bigger than that if you rat out political activists or wrong-thinkers. They haven't implemented it yet I think, but the end result is horrifying to think about. When being a pitiful mutt of the state who doesn't dare question their superiors is made into a fun game that you can "win" or "lose" with real prizes that affect your quality of life. (And that's not even mentioning the punishments for having a negative score, in this system that's slated to be mandatory for all citizens)

In some ways, other places in Asia may have worse long-term problems than even some of the more controversial middle-eastern places today, but that stuff is rather rarely talked about I find.

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I've also heard that a different Asian country, that I can't re-call the name of, is gamifying state loyalty. Bigger score and privileges for civies that listen to big bruva and don't ask questions, even bigger than that if you rat out political activists or wrong-thinkers. They haven't implemented it yet I think, but the end result is horrifying to think about. When being a pitiful mutt of the state who doesn't dare question their superiors is made into a fun game that you can "win" or "lose" with real prizes that affect your quality of life. (And that's not even mentioning the punishments for having a negative score, in this system that's slated to be mandatory for all citizens)

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No, that's China too. I know the system you're talking about, though I forgot the name

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Hah, that's an amusing mistake I made then, usually people do the opposite when it comes to mixing up Asian countries. You know, thinking something related to Asia has to with China, when it doesn't.

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No, that's China too. I know the system you're talking about, though I forgot the name

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Pretty sure I linked an Extra Credit vid that talks about it in the games thread yonks ago... Scared me to death there, and still a creepy concept.

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Ah, I think I originally heard about it on Extra Credits as well. Pretty terrifying, but frankly, living in a country that has a 140/1 male to female ratio already sounds really awful just on it's own.

I'm surprised China is functioning at this point, average working class men basically have no chance of fulfilling their sexual or emotional needs outside of pornography or prostitution, and that's just depressing. I remember the one politician basically saying that working class men should do multiple-male polygamy in order to compete with successful men, man did he get hate for that.

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Good news for a change: USA to phase out use of federal private prisons.

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More good news, the end of Gawker is finalised


All their other assets are bought by investors, but the name Gawker and site were seen in such a bad light due to their reputation that nobody wanted to buy it.

Biased source/link, but it will do for actually showing what's going to happen to Gawker and related sites

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Good news for a change: USA to phase out use of federal private prisons.

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What would be even better news is if they actually tried to stop the rampant rape and gang activity that goes on in prisons. Rather sad that it's all but impossible for them to manage that in a place that's supposed to be a controlled environment .

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Unfortunately, that says nothing about private state run prisons, but still, that's great news.

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Why is it that whenever politics is even tangentially related to a news story, every single article on it will be pretty much bullshit? I would understand if it were just some, or even just most, but I have yet to see a single source that is unwilling to lie, or to manipulate information to push forward incorrect ideas intentionally.

Most people mistakenly label the problem as being "right-wing" or "left-wing" propoganda, but it's universal, I would have imagined impartiality being a respected trait for journalists to have, but there isn't even an iota of it to be found pretty much anywhere. It's sad that I have to either get pissed off by what I know is almost definitely complete crap, or be pandered to by an interpretation that likewise, has been bent out of shape into a different story than what reflects reality faithfully. The worst news sources are ones that are government subsidized in any capacity, they spin such ridiculous exaggerations in such shallow explorations of the topic. Looking at you, BBC.

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Speaking of completely not-impartial news, this amused me




But at least if they are actively trying to twist the facts, it's better than them being completely ignorant and bullshitting. Or maybe not. I've seen local national news bullshit so often when it comes to even slightly more complex topics that I'm not sure if ignorant journalists are better than the biased ones

Especially anything computer or hacking related. Just ask the 19 year old intern how it works instead of the 50 year old editor

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Honestly speaking, it depends on the either the topic of the ignorant news publisher in question, or the agenda of the corrupt news publisher in question. Both are capable of being severely damaging to people and society, but if I were to hazard a guess at which causes more damage as a whole I'd have to say any agenda driven news media is the worst, if only because it can be published under 15 different news networks in a propoganda campaign, which is way more common than I would have expected it to be two-three years ago.

I wouldn't have expected news sources to conspire with their competitors, but that appears to be very common for American and English news publishers, can't really say one way or the other about foreign ones.