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Jared Creasy: “Combat online toxicity by building healthy communities”

PreMortem.Games

” “Avoid prone-to-heated-argument topics like religion and politics.” Creasy suggests some key basics: “Disruptive behavior is not tolerated.” ” “Treat everyone equally and with respect.” ” “Be mindful of how channels and subforums are being used.”

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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47 Examines Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense” Episode

Game Industry News

However, that same contemporary history informs everything about how the writers approached the topic. There’s also the fight for political power, which we see in Vedek Winn’s relentless pursuit of being the Kai. Notably, DS9 ’s writers’ room avoided using contemporary time frames in their stories.

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You may have heard of the controversy at Kotaku where they got blacklisted by Nintendo, so they resorted to reporting leaks on Tears of the Kingdom because they didn’t get an early review copy of the game. Is anyone in the right or the wrong here?

Ask a Game Dev

To my knowledge, there has never been any blacklisting or retaliation for the news like Riot’s internal sexual harassment issues, Blizzard’s predatory leadership problems, political issues like Blitzchung and Hong Kong, DICE and Battlefield’s loot box problems, or player-unfriendly monetization practices.

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GTC 21: Top 5 Game Development Technical Sessions

Nvidia

There will be no integrals, density functions, derivatives, or other topic inappropriate for polite company discussed. It serves as a gentle introduction to many topics, including “What is ray tracing?”, “How many rays do you need to make an image?”, “The importance of [importance] sampling.

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China’s control of gaming ‘ineffective’

Game Daily

Politicians in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere have long raised doubts about games, sometimes due to valid worries about their potential ill effects, and sometimes for political capital. It remains an open topic, with multiple conflicting findings. Decades of media scaremongering in the U.S.

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A Philosophy of Violence: Park Chang-Wook

Filmustage

As a result, there is less emphasis on politics, manipulation, and hatred and more on how strangers reunite and see each other as brothers rather than as imposed monsters. It is a tremendous audio-visual symphony, speaking frankly on intimate topics without judging the participants for excessive madness and obsession.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

Despite its complex characters and topics pushing against the confines of video game culture, there are still many compromises for the video game format. I was most interested in the humorous Frostpunk-like take on tech trees, where you accumulate perks into an (incoherent) political ideology. But also veganism?

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