Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

I found the study:

https://glaad.org/glaad-gaming/2024/lgbtq-video-game-content-is-lacking/

These motherfuckers compared it to every single game that has been released on steam, Xbox, e-shop and PSN and only relied on whether the game is tagged "LGBT" ignoring that you'll easily have games with gay side characters that aren't labeled LGBT.

For the purposes of this report, and to set a baseline against which future industry efforts can be measured, GLAAD quantified the number of available games with LGBTQ content against the total number of games presently available.14 We did this by identifying games on the major PC and console distribution platforms that are publicly tagged or listed as having LGBTQ content. As this report looks at the current gaming world, we focused on games that the average consumer looking for LGBTQ content could easily find in the console/platform stores when searching for LGBTQ tags.

GLAAD counted the number of games that have been tagged as having LGBTQ content as of November 2023 from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Steam (PC). According to Microsoft, there were 146 console games available in the Xbox store that had LGBTQ content. PlayStation maintained a list that includes 90 games. The Nintendo Switch eShop listed 50 games with the tag LGBT. Steam’s LGBTQ+ tag returned 2302 games available in English (as of November 2023), but that number dropped to 1506 when games with “adult only sexual content” were filtered out.15

In context, however, these games account for less than 2% of Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo’s total digital libraries. For Steam, it is less than 2.5%, but drops to just 1.7% when adult-only games are excluded

For context, in 2024 steam has released 12068 new games. Claiming that all 12k of those represent the industry is fucking retarded. It's filled with garbage shovel ware, clones and whatever else.
Furthermore, and perhaps an even bigger flaw, they do absolutely nothing to compare it to the number of games with hetero content. Tons of puzzle games, platformers, shooters etc. will never address sexuality in any way or form, so claiming that these are all games for straight people is again, fucking retarded. 

Wow, this seriously just made me mad. Like how the fuck are none of these game journalists calling this out?

[killamajig]

Where is my LGBT representation in minesweeper and solitaire? Fuck those game devs.

[Eric Cartman]

I found the study:

https://glaad.org/glaad-gaming/2024/lgbtq-video-game-content-is-lacking/

These motherfuckers compared it to every single game that has been released on steam, Xbox, e-shop and PSN and only relied on whether the game is tagged "LGBT" ignoring that you'll easily have games with gay side characters that aren't labeled LGBT.

For the purposes of this report, and to set a baseline against which future industry efforts can be measured, GLAAD quantified the number of available games with LGBTQ content against the total number of games presently available.14 We did this by identifying games on the major PC and console distribution platforms that are publicly tagged or listed as having LGBTQ content. As this report looks at the current gaming world, we focused on games that the average consumer looking for LGBTQ content could easily find in the console/platform stores when searching for LGBTQ tags.

GLAAD counted the number of games that have been tagged as having LGBTQ content as of November 2023 from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Steam (PC). According to Microsoft, there were 146 console games available in the Xbox store that had LGBTQ content. PlayStation maintained a list that includes 90 games. The Nintendo Switch eShop listed 50 games with the tag LGBT. Steam’s LGBTQ+ tag returned 2302 games available in English (as of November 2023), but that number dropped to 1506 when games with “adult only sexual content” were filtered out.15

In context, however, these games account for less than 2% of Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo’s total digital libraries. For Steam, it is less than 2.5%, but drops to just 1.7% when adult-only games are excluded

For context, in 2024 steam has released 12068 new games. Claiming that all 12k of those represent the industry is fucking retarded. It's filled with garbage shovel ware, clones and whatever else.
Furthermore, and perhaps an even bigger flaw, they do absolutely nothing to compare it to the number of games with hetero content. Tons of puzzle games, platformers, shooters etc. will never address sexuality in any way or form, so claiming that these are all games for straight people is again, fucking retarded. 

Wow, this seriously just made me mad. Like how the fuck are none of these game journalists calling this out?

Why are they only looking at tags?
Taylor Swift albums aren't tagged "LGB" on storefronts, but nobody is going to say they don't have a pretty fucking sizable gay audience

Why are they excluding AO games?
If you're looking for specifically LGB themed games - ie games about sexuality - then surely having sexual content in the game is literally part of the fucking point?

Why are they looking at the entirety of the current offerings on the storefronts, some of those games being over a decade old by now, if not even older, then comparing that to current releases by Hollywood this year?
If you add up more than a century of cinematic theatrical releases currently purchasable for use on modern devices in some format, its a lot fucking lower than the 28% of film and 11% of TV shows cited in the article. I wouldn't be surprised if using their own fucking criteria consistently, Gaming comes out looking better than filmed entertainment in general.

(I actually know exactly why they've done it this way, and it is obnoxious.)

[Eric Cartman]

I found the study:

https://glaad.org/glaad-gaming/2024/lgbtq-video-game-content-is-lacking/

These motherfuckers compared it to every single game that has been released on steam, Xbox, e-shop and PSN and only relied on whether the game is tagged "LGBT" ignoring that you'll easily have games with gay side characters that aren't labeled LGBT.

For the purposes of this report, and to set a baseline against which future industry efforts can be measured, GLAAD quantified the number of available games with LGBTQ content against the total number of games presently available.14 We did this by identifying games on the major PC and console distribution platforms that are publicly tagged or listed as having LGBTQ content. As this report looks at the current gaming world, we focused on games that the average consumer looking for LGBTQ content could easily find in the console/platform stores when searching for LGBTQ tags.

GLAAD counted the number of games that have been tagged as having LGBTQ content as of November 2023 from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Steam (PC). According to Microsoft, there were 146 console games available in the Xbox store that had LGBTQ content. PlayStation maintained a list that includes 90 games. The Nintendo Switch eShop listed 50 games with the tag LGBT. Steam’s LGBTQ+ tag returned 2302 games available in English (as of November 2023), but that number dropped to 1506 when games with “adult only sexual content” were filtered out.15

In context, however, these games account for less than 2% of Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo’s total digital libraries. For Steam, it is less than 2.5%, but drops to just 1.7% when adult-only games are excluded

For context, in 2024 steam has released 12068 new games. Claiming that all 12k of those represent the industry is fucking retarded. It's filled with garbage shovel ware, clones and whatever else.
Furthermore, and perhaps an even bigger flaw, they do absolutely nothing to compare it to the number of games with hetero content. Tons of puzzle games, platformers, shooters etc. will never address sexuality in any way or form, so claiming that these are all games for straight people is again, fucking retarded. 

Wow, this seriously just made me mad. Like how the fuck are none of these game journalists calling this out?

Why are they only looking at tags?
Taylor Swift albums aren't tagged "LGB" on storefronts, but nobody is going to say they don't have a pretty fucking sizable gay audience

Why are they excluding AO games?
If you're looking for specifically LGB themed games - ie games about sexuality - then surely having sexual content in the game is literally part of the fucking point?

Why are they looking at the entirety of the current offerings on the storefronts, some of those games being over a decade old by now, if not even older, then comparing that to current releases by Hollywood this year?
If you add up more than a century of cinematic theatrical releases currently purchasable for use on modern devices in some format, its a lot fucking lower than the 28% of film and 11% of TV shows cited in the article. I wouldn't be surprised if using their own fucking criteria consistently, Gaming comes out looking better than filmed entertainment in general.

(I actually know exactly why they've done it this way, and it is obnoxious.)

DID YOU EVEN USE BAYESIAN THINKING THO, BRO?

[D3RANG3D]

[HaughtyFrank]

Entering her "these fucking bitches" arc

[Potato]

I found the study:

https://glaad.org/glaad-gaming/2024/lgbtq-video-game-content-is-lacking/

These motherfuckers compared it to every single game that has been released on steam, Xbox, e-shop and PSN and only relied on whether the game is tagged "LGBT" ignoring that you'll easily have games with gay side characters that aren't labeled LGBT.

For the purposes of this report, and to set a baseline against which future industry efforts can be measured, GLAAD quantified the number of available games with LGBTQ content against the total number of games presently available.14 We did this by identifying games on the major PC and console distribution platforms that are publicly tagged or listed as having LGBTQ content. As this report looks at the current gaming world, we focused on games that the average consumer looking for LGBTQ content could easily find in the console/platform stores when searching for LGBTQ tags.

GLAAD counted the number of games that have been tagged as having LGBTQ content as of November 2023 from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Steam (PC). According to Microsoft, there were 146 console games available in the Xbox store that had LGBTQ content. PlayStation maintained a list that includes 90 games. The Nintendo Switch eShop listed 50 games with the tag LGBT. Steam’s LGBTQ+ tag returned 2302 games available in English (as of November 2023), but that number dropped to 1506 when games with “adult only sexual content” were filtered out.15

In context, however, these games account for less than 2% of Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo’s total digital libraries. For Steam, it is less than 2.5%, but drops to just 1.7% when adult-only games are excluded

For context, in 2024 steam has released 12068 new games. Claiming that all 12k of those represent the industry is fucking retarded. It's filled with garbage shovel ware, clones and whatever else.
Furthermore, and perhaps an even bigger flaw, they do absolutely nothing to compare it to the number of games with hetero content. Tons of puzzle games, platformers, shooters etc. will never address sexuality in any way or form, so claiming that these are all games for straight people is again, fucking retarded. 

Wow, this seriously just made me mad. Like how the fuck are none of these game journalists calling this out?

Because you just did more research that every single one of those game journalists.

[Potato]

Where is my LGBT representation in minesweeper and solitaire? Fuck those game devs.

At least Cyberpunk and Hogwarts Legacy qualified to be included.

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

The attempts to cancel this are only making it more popular.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Why is the song so catchy. 

[benji]

[Nintex]

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The current state of German politics

 Foreigners Out

 Stop singing

[killamajig]

i like this one better

"

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Ausländer" lyrics in English:

"Foreigner"

(Verse 1)
I travel a lot, I like to travel
Far and near and near and far
I'm at home everywhere
My language: international
I like to please everyone
Yeah, my vocabulary isn't bad
A sharp sword in the battle of words
With the other gender

(Bridge)
I'm not a man for one night
I stay, at most, one, two hours
Before the sun is laughing again
I'm already gone
And continue my rounds

(Chorus)
I'm a foreigner (foreigner)
Mi amore 1, mon chéri 2
Foreigner (foreigner)
Ciao, ragazza 3, take a chance on me
I'm a foreigner (foreigner)
Mon amour 1 Я люблю тебя 4
A foreigner (foreigner)
Come on, baby, c'est, c'est, c'est la vie 5

(Verse 2)
Other countries, other tongues
So I forced myself early on
to the chagrin of misunderstanding
That you have to learn languages
And when the sun sets
And you stand in front of foreigners
It's helpful if you then
can make yourself understood.

(Bridge)
I'm not a man for one night
I stay, at most, one, two hours
Before the sun is laughing again
I'm already gone
And continue my rounds
Hahahahahaha

(Chorus)
I'm a foreigner (foreigner)
Mi amore, mon chéri
Foreigner (foreigner)
Ciao, ragazza, take a chance on me
I'm a foreigner (foreigner)
Mon amour Я люблю тебя
A foreigner (foreigner)
Come on, baby, c'est, c'est, c'est la vie

(Bridge)
You come with me, I make good
You come with me, I make good
You come with me, I make good

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

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[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

There's some dumb horror youtuber drama going on. It's mostly just boring shit but there is that amusing bit where a leftist youtuber is arguing that the hillbilly rapist incest cannibals in Hills have eyes actually represent native Americans and black americans and that it's tragic how the white family ends up surviving the movie

[RetiredSkunk]

There's some dumb horror youtuber drama going on. It's mostly just boring shit but there is that amusing bit where a leftist youtuber is arguing that the hillbilly rapist incest cannibals in Hills have eyes actually represent native Americans and black americans and that it's tragic how the white family ends up surviving the movie

[Potato]

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/workplace/no-you-can-t-wear-a-tail-to-work-and-expect-to-keep-your-job-20240327-p5ffm3.html

No, you can’t wear a tail to work and expect to keep your job

Being an employment lawyer for the past 15 years has given me a unique insight into emerging social issues in workplaces. But I was not expecting the next battleground to be over the right for workers and school students to identify as animals.

Yet here we are, and it’s clear that battle for self-expression at school or work means employers are being increasingly challenged over the right for people to identify as furries.

Furries are, according to Furscience – the public face of the International Anthropomorphic Research Project – a diverse community that creates for themselves an animal character with whom they identify. Some of them wear elaborate costumes, others might simply put on ears or tails, or represent themselves as animals in online communities.

This is not a joke, it’s a genuine trend, as ballooning attendances at Australia’s national convention attests. Fewer than two dozen furries attended in 2010, whereas this year’s event attracted close to 1000. Before last year, I’d never advised on these issues, but the questions are now pouring in from puzzled employers and educators: Should we let a student eat lunch out of a dog bowl? Can they wear a tail if it’s concealed under their uniform? Will we breach our duty of care if we prohibit the wearing of cat ears and they develop anxiety?

Has the world gone barking mad or is this just a sign of modern individualism?

Furscience suggests more than 75 per cent of furries are under the age of 25. It is therefore not surprising that a key place of tension with the phenomenon is in schools. At one Victorian school that I’ve had dealings with, a student wished to wear a tail under her uniform. Under threat of a discrimination claim, the school agreed to the demands of the child’s parents.

Are some employers and schools right to believe that if a student or employee raises issues of self-identification with an animal, it cannot be questioned legally because it’s considered part of their gender identity? For me, the answer, is no.

Being a furry is, of course, not a crime. Furries are a fandom, similar to Trekkies or Swifties; they are not a demographic group like members of the LGBTQ+ community. Nor is anthropomorphism a protected attribute under Australian anti-discrimination legislation.

Two American states, Oklahoma and North Dakota, are considering legislation aimed at prohibiting schools from catering to a student’s identification as an animal. The draft Oklahoma House Bill 3084, introduced in January, would ban “students who purport to be an imaginary animal or animal species” and require parents to collect students behaving like furries. If the parents don’t, the bill says, “animal control services shall be contacted to remove the student”.

We have not got to the point of legislating these issues in Australia.

Victorian schools have been required to uphold and respect the “diverse needs” of students “in policy and practice” since October 2023 under the revised Child Safe Standards. Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act protects “the personal sense of the body … and other expressions of gender” including dress, and personal references, but accommodating a student identifying as non-human is something else entirely. Victorian laws also recognise schools may set and enforce reasonable standards of dress, appearance and behaviour for students which could prohibit the wearing of tails, animal ears and the like.

When it comes to workplaces, I was recently asked by an employer in the tech industry whether anthropomorphism was an illegal fetish-based activity after a job candidate listed it as a hobby on their CV. It is not, and evidently, for the most part, sexual kinks are not part of the furry lifestyle.

As with schools, there is no legal protection requiring employers to accommodate furries or furry behaviour in the workplace, either under the Sex Discrimination Act or the Fair Work Act . Research nonetheless indicates the prevalence of furries in some industries, including science, engineering and tech.

There are not yet any cases in the Fair Work Commission in which a furry has challenged a dismissal based on their self-identification status. However, I can readily imagine a situation where an adult is fired for wearing a tail under their suit and alleges unfair dismissal.

Would it not be harsh to fire someone for something that does not relate to their performance or conduct and cannot be seen? It would be like firing someone for an unconventional tattoo. But, employers have a legitimate right to protect the corporate reputation from damage, so dismissal might be considered fair if animal-related dress exposed the employer to public ridicule or reputational embarrassment.

In any case, if you show up at most job interviews dressed as a cat or wolf, plenty of employers will quickly toss your CV into the bin. For now, being a furry is relegated to fandoms and dress-up. It is not a protected attribute in schools or workplaces. But, who knows what the future of work might bring.

Paul O’Halloran is an employment law partner at law firm Dentons Australia.

[benji]

There's some dumb horror youtuber drama going on. It's mostly just boring shit but there is that amusing bit where a leftist youtuber is arguing that the hillbilly rapist incest cannibals in Hills have eyes actually represent native Americans and black americans and that it's tragic how the white family ends up surviving the movie

https://twitter.com/KommiAttrition/status/1795123380871438654

You'll never guess the "uniform" this nazi terrorist wears.

[Potato]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/oregon-drug-decriminalisation-junkies-streets-fentanyl/103871432

Oregon's drug decriminalisation experiment is being rolled back after three years of addicts shooting up in front of police

The goal of Measure 110 was to motivate people to engage in drug treatment programs and mirror the success of decriminalisation in Portugal, where there has been a 75 per cent drop in drug-related deaths between 2001 and 2022.

But in Oregon, many believe the measure has failed.

Fatal overdose deaths jumped from 280 in 2019 to 956 in 2022, and earlier this year state leaders declared a 90-day state of emergency in downtown Portland to address the public health and safety concerns brought on by the fentanyl epidemic.

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The rise in popularity and harm caused by fentanyl across the United States is extraordinary.

Four years ago, 13 per cent of American overdose deaths were from fentanyl.

By the end of 2023, it accounted for nearly three-quarters of overdose deaths.

The state of Oregon saw the biggest proportional increase, with fentanyl deaths up more than 40 per cent in a year.

Officer Baer said fentanyl's explosion in popularity in Portland coincided with an increase in violence, including gun crime.

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Amy Nichols, the owner of The Cheerful Tortoise bar, said her business had been badly impacted.

"When Measure 110 passed, with the drugs, it just became completely out of control," Ms Nichols told the ABC.

"With a pandemic happening and everything shut down. Portland just became complete lawlessness.

"Right now in Portland, you can't stand out [on the street] and drink a beer but you can go ahead and shoot heroin or smoke fentanyl, and it's fine.

"It's like an apocalypse.

"It's scary … walking around, you never know where you're going to step. There's needles everywhere."

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She's since decided to run for an elected position as commissioner of Clackamas County.

"I know a lot of addicts in recovery and the one thing they all have is their rock-bottom story … you've got to hit rock bottom in order to get better," she said.

"We just enable, that's all we do here … you're passing out straws and foils to do the drugs — that's not healthy to an addict."

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Officer Baer said it was important there was an investment in resources to get people the help they needed.

"The only thing that I've learned from this is if you're going to build a decriminalisation model, you actually have to build treatment centres … and build off-ramps for people from addiction before you just randomly decriminalise all drugs."

I guess one way to solve the opioid crisis is to just let them all OD and die...

Very progressive. 

I guess they didn't understand that you also need to reduce the consumption of drugs to have an effect like Portugal.

[TylenolJones]

Found a good book club choice. 

[benji]

At least he's modest in the blurb on Amazon:

Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written.

He's Canadian btw.

[Nintex]

I guess one way to solve the opioid crisis is to just let them all OD and die...

Very progressive. 

I guess they didn't understand that you also need to reduce the consumption of drugs to have an effect like Portugal.

Quick, clear their student debt. 

[Uncle]

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/workplace/no-you-can-t-wear-a-tail-to-work-and-expect-to-keep-your-job-20240327-p5ffm3.html

When it comes to workplaces, I was recently asked by an employer in the tech industry whether anthropomorphism was an illegal fetish-based activity after a job candidate listed it as a hobby on their CV. It is not, and evidently, for the most part, sexual kinks are not part of the furry lifestyle.

[Potato]

We did it brehs...we cracked the transracial nut!!!!

‘I self-identify as an Aboriginal’: Sudanese migrant with criminal history saved from deportation by claiming he is Indigenous

A convicted criminal migrant who self-identifies as an Aboriginal has had his visa cancellation reversed consequent to Direction 99.

The Sudanese international, known as RCWV and born in Khartoum, where he spent the first 20 years of his life, moved to Australia on a protection visa.

His visa was revoked after committing multiple knife crimes, car jackings and drug related offences, as well as other serious driving offences.

On one occasion in 2014, RCWV caused an accident which resulted in the victim sustaining life-threatening injuries.

RCWV was also found guilty of breaching his AVO and violently attacking his Aboriginal girlfriend, identified as A, as reported by The Australian.

Under Direction 99, RCWV convinced the Australian Administrative Tribunal his 10-year relationship with A, with which he fathered three children, was grounds on which he could remain in Australia.

“I self-identify as an Aboriginal person and consider Australia to be my country,” he said in a written submission to the Tribunal.

“I have been accepted by the Indigenous people of this country through its customs and tradition in a smoking ceremony.

“I also learnt a lot about Aboriginal culture, was taught how to paint Aboriginal art and have also played digeridoo (sic) in the past.”

Earlier this month, the AAT reversed a decision to cancel RCWV’s visa and his prospect of deportation, citing Direction 99 introduced by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles in January 2023.

Direction 99 instructs the AAT to make “ties to Australia” a primary consideration during visa determinations.

The AAT said the direction clearly articulated that tolerance should be afforded to non-citizens in CHCY’s circumstances.

Under Direction 99, Australia would “generally afford a higher level of tolerance” of criminal or other serious conduct by non-citizens if they have lived in the country for “most of their life”.

In Question Time on Tuesday, Mr Giles was hit with multiple questions from the opposition on the edict, which has permitted scores of criminal migrants to remain in the country.

“Direction 99 did not and does not decrease the importance placed on expectation, such as the expectation of the Australian community and the protection of the community from crime,” Mr Giles said.

“Community safety remains the highest priority of this government, and I say again, these were decisions made by an independent tribunal.”

Regarding visa cancellations, Mr Giles responded to Coalition Leader Peter Dutton on a separate case, involving the alleged murder of Bosco Minyurano by a Sudanese migrant, also born in Khartoum, in which he said a number of cases had not been raised with him by his department.

“The visa in question was cancelled and remained cancelled by my department in accordance with ministerial direction 99,” Mr Giles said.

“A number of cases were not raised with me by my department, and I've asked my department for an explanation why.

“My department is now looking at all these cases as a priority, and they are all under cancellation consideration.”

[Nintex]

[HardcoreRetro]

Just wait till you guys read my book: "Eight Shoulders".

*Dons his zwarte piet outfit*

*Throws pepernoten at kids*

Truly a harrowing experience.

[Nintex]