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Disapproval rate for Japanese Cabinet highest since 1947: Mainichi poll (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO -- The disapproval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet hit 79% in a Mainichi Shimbun nationwide opinion poll conducted on Dec. 16.
Sony Patent Aims To Change Game Difficulty In Real Time As You Play (insider-gaming.com)
France struggles to find right balance as violence at matches escalates (www.theguardian.com)
Death of a fan in early December has led to calls for drastic measures but travel bans have been met with opposition
[Karl Jobst] The Completionist's Response Is The Worst Thing Ever (www.youtube.com)
Vulnerable Republicans nervous as 'tone deaf' Supreme Court takes up new abortion case (www.rawstory.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court's decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year's midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year's elec...
Larian Studios CEO posts speech he didn't get to say at game awards (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/LarAtLarian/…/1735128899984466295
Alan Wake 2's Seemingly Dire Sales Don't Paint the Full Picture (www.ign.com)
Starfield to get city maps, ‘new ways of travel’ (www.polygon.com)
That’s on top of the already announced mod support
Zulu king's official crowning by President Rampahosa invalid, court rules (www.bbc.com)
A South African court rules the president failed to comply with the law when recognising the new king.
New Skyrim mod feature pulling the mod community apart (www.polygon.com)
Will it work this time? We’ll see
Jaheira Actor Gets Banned From YouTube While Playing Baldur's Gate 3 (www.thegamer.com)
Tracy Wiles, who plays Jaheira in Baldur's Gate 3, got banned from YouTube after uploading her own playthrough, and no one knows why.
DayZ, Rust Teams Troll The Day Before Studio's Closure Announcement (www.ign.com)
The developers behind DayZ and Rust have taken to X/Twitter to troll The Day Before developer after it announced its studio was closing its doors following the release of The Day Before.
GTA 6: Florida Joker Demands $2 Million From Rockstar for "Taking" His Life; Gets Roasted By Red Dead's Arthur Morgan Instead (mp1st.com)
Florida Joker is in the news again, this time demanding to speak with Rockstar Games, or to be given $1-2 million over his likeness in GTA 6.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Fans Really Aren't Happy With Baldur's Gate 3's GOTY Win (www.thegamer.com)
Some fans of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 aren't taking Baldur's Gate 3's GOTY win very well.
You Should Have To Commit Mass Murder To Recruit Minthara In Baldur's Gate 3, Actually (www.thegamer.com)
Larian is pandering to players when it really shouldn’t
The Completionist: My Response (www.youtube.com)
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found....
The Completionist's Charity Finally Donated... (youtu.be)
An update on The Open Hand Foundation situation where it seems a donation has finally been made.
Fortnite Players Are Peeved About Solid Snake's Flat Ass (www.ign.com)
Solid Snake, the recurring protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise, is making his Fortnite debut as a bonus skin offered in the Chapter 5, Season 1 Battle Pass. But the hunky assassin is no longer sporting his once-thick booty.
Newly elected school board president sworn in on stack of banned books (www.dailykos.com)
Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with Democrats. On Monday night, Karen Smith—who had been serving on the board in the Democratic minority prior to this election—was sworn...
The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price (www.techspot.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 Is GameSpot's Game Of The Year 2023 (www.gamespot.com)
Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens (www.propublica.org)
The Medical University of South Carolina initially said it wouldn’t be affected by a law banning use of state funds for treatment “furthering the gender transition” of children under 16. Months later, it cut off that care to all trans minors.
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition - Horizon Forbidden West coming soon to PC (store.steampowered.com)
Mod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt (www.vice.com)
New Zealand: thousands protest against new government policies that unravel Māori gains (www.theguardian.com)
The new government recently announced it would dial back use of Māori language in government organisations, and scrap Māori Health Authority
Think of Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says (www.japantimes.co.jp)
'Look at Hong Kong and think of Taiwan,' Tsai Ing-wen said. 'We don't want Hong Kong-style peace. We want dignified peace.'
The Completionist’s Open Hand Charity Scam Has To Be Investigated... (youtu.be)
Hello guys and gals, a day ago you've probably seen the video from my co-investigator in regards to the developing Open Hand Charity Situation. This time we delve far deeper and calculate that even more money appears to be either unreported or outright missing, both these situations are very troublesome legally and with no...
The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave (www.wired.com)
If Musk fulfils just 15 percent of Cybertruck preorders, it would equal the annual unit sales of Toyota. If the polarizing EV flops, Tesla could be in big trouble.
Elon Musk Is Crafting A Narrative For The Death Of Twitter (www.forbes.com)
Elon Musk has said and done a lot of weird and outrageous things during his tenure as the owner of Twitter (now X), but we may have just seen the weirdest and most outrageous.
The Open Hand Charity Scam Is So Much Worse (youtu.be)
Yeah, things are not looking good for the Completionist.
'Make uniforms genderless': LGBTQ group calls for freedom of choice in Japan schools - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.