ConstableJelly

From the developers of the critically ~~acclaimed~~ derided Terminator: Resistance and Rambo: The Video Game (as well 90(!) other games since 2006) comes another bizarrely timed nostalgia-arousing video game based on an 80s IP.

The gameplay clip here looked almost provocatively bad, but some hands-on previews seem...relatively positive. Hands-ons are always a little more soft on criticism though, so I'm gonna go with my gut on this one until proven otherwise.

I thought I was finally getting worn out on RGG games after playing Yakuza 0-7 and Judgment, but damn if this didn't pique my interest.

In this fight, we got to test out some of the new fighting skills you’ll be able to utilize in his Agent fighting style. You’ve got plenty of face-crushing fist strikes, of course, but now Kiryu also has a whole slew of unique, outlandish gadgetry to enhance his already elite combat prowess. Ever wanted to turn on some rocket-powered shoes and glide around as a human battering ram? How about turning enemies to toast with one of those exploding cigarettes you’d see in old-school spy thrillers?

I do love Kiryu as a character and this just feels like the right thing to put him through.

Honestly I loved it my first time through. There were certainly bugs (minor spoilers), but they were more amusing than game-breaking. I'm mostly waiting on new game plus (fingers crossed) to revisit it.

Neat idea. Looks...janky, and the line "How do you save humanity if no one's fully human" is pretty bad. Feels like it's going to be low-tier AA quality, but I'll be pumped to be proven wrong.

Agreed. If undocumented workers are so critical in your community that your farms would collapse without them...why don't they have a path to citizenship? We know the answer, of course, but that should be the problem we're solving, not just permitting them to get driver's licenses as a shoulder-shrugging pseudo-solution.

I can appreciate wariness toward the kind of tribalism you describe in your last paragraph, but in this case the BBC has actually acted irresponsibly, and you quoted one of the big reasons why from their own article:

The survey was not statistically valid since the respondents were self-selecting and Get The L Out is an active campaigning group on lesbian issues. But while Angela acknowledges the sample may not be representative of the wider lesbian community, she believes it was important to capture their "points of view and stories".

#1, Get the L Out is not "campaigning on lesbian issues," they're campaigning on anti-trans issues. Their stated aim is not to improve the social status and wellbeing of all lesbians or something, but rather to exclusively define lesbianism for all lesbians in such a way that excludes trans women, full stop. From their own website:

Lesbians are exclusively same-sex attracted.
Lesbians do not have penises.
Lesbians do not want to have sex with men who identify as trans-women.

Because of this, #2, the article is in no way and never was "a description of the problems within the queer community" (Get the L Out makes this helpfully clear in that the tagline of their group is "Lesbian not Queer." The article is, in the most generous interpretation, a description of a radical trans-exclusionary group's grievances deliberately obscured to masquerade as "problems within the queer community."

And #3, at least most of the respondents (to my recollection and again, self-selected from a group by definition pre-disposed to this grievance) had never felt direct pressure from a trans woman for sex, but rather felt pressure or fear of condemnation due to their own discomfort with trans acceptance.

There are actually many other issues with the article, and the BBC has dragged an anchor in making any corrections. I don't think this discredits them as a news source in general, but this and other examples do show a pattern of transphobia in the organization at large.

I know this isn't a convenient response, but Shaun has been leading some concentrated pushback against BBC's transphobia for like a year. Check out some of his recent videos for a detailed answer. https://youtube.com/@Shaun_vids

It's just a way to subscribe directly to content sources rather than subscribing to a creator's social media account or a subreddit or something. So if there's a blog you like and you use your RSS reader to subscribe to that blog, any new posts will be fed directly to your reader. Obviously, the benefit then is that you have a central portal with a direct connection to all of your selected content sources.

Just to play devil's advocate, and full disclosure my only Lemmy account is on Beehaw, they're not doing this out of a sense of judgment, they're very explicitly trying to create safer, friendlier online community, and since lemmy.world has gotten so big with no signup gate, the moderation policy there doesn't align with theirs and is beginning to impact Beehaw. They claim this is very hopefully a temporary measure at least until there are more robust moderation tools.

That being said, I'll spend a little more time here on kbin to check out the broader community :-).