mass media
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Drake Gets $AU11,850 Gaming PC Just To Gamble In A Browser
While you’d all be aware that celebrities, despite their wealth, are given expensive shit for free all the time, today we’re going to take a look at one gift in particular. Partly because it’s a gaming PC, but also because we kinda have the receipt for it as well.
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Persona 5 Fanzine In Disarray After Lead Organiser Allegedly Embezzles Nearly $AU30,000
Last night, the creative team behind a highly anticipated fan-made Persona 5 anthology zine announced that its project lead had confessed to spending $27,600 CAD (approximately $AU29,569) of the zine’s funds for “personal use.” The money was originally intended for printing and shipping unofficial art and merchandise to customers. One of the fanzine’s artists claimed…
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Metro 2033’s Author Has Been Added To Russian ‘Wanted’ List
Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the Metro books that have since become a popular series of video games, has said he is now on a Russian “wanted” list after publicly criticising his home country’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Consent And Compassion: How Devs Are Reshaping The Conversation Around Content Warnings
It should be no surprise to anyone that the very mention of “trigger/content warnings” is likely to spark politically driven, reactionary rejections that whine about “snowflakes” and spoiled experiences. Years of poisoning the well in this area have made the terms frustratingly charged. But if we move on from the now-tired knee-jerk rejection of discussing…