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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 days ago

GDC 2026 marks the first year of the event's rebranding as the "GDC Festival of Gaming," which event organizers have described as a "bold reimagining" of the event. GDC organizers will now have to boldly reimagine a new keynote speaker before the event begins in 31 days.

Great line by the article author Ozzie.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Wow people are obsessed over Trump...

Reads links and headlines

Oh shit, I'm in danger.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I hope when Trump is out and this is all over that we finally figure out as a country that it's actually a good thing to have people come here.

[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You guys as a nation have broken the World's trust. You were in a privileged position of trust after WW2 that you will never return to, whether trump leaves office or not.

The World's boycott on the states doesn't end with trump, he's merely a symptom.

I know nobody in my circle of knowing in Canada is EVER travelling to, or spending money in/on the states ever again.

[–] III@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Yes and please.

That position of privilege was something the US should have been removed from decades ago. It has nothing to do with the Trump. It has nothing to do with whether the US was responsible with the power they exert on the global landscape. No one country should be allowed or even try to lord over other countries.

And if a long-standing boycott of the US is what it takes to humble them... do it. Keep doing it. It is better for those boycotting, it is better for the world and it is better for the US too.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only if the hate and terror behind Trump is out too. Otherwise it's like changing from dirty underwear into more dirty underwear. No one wants to deal with that shit.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I can sympathize with that. Personally, I'd love to see Massachusetts and a few other states leave the union and do our own thing. We pay for everything in the states that focus all their political power on repression and exploitation and all we get for it is bullshit.

But I also have seen this cycle a few times now. Bush hurt our reputation, Obama did a lot to repair it, then Trump did worse and Biden made things a bit better. Now Trump is beating his own shit track record and when he's gone people will have maybe learned enough to elect someone who can make some real changes for the better. That doesn't mean the country will be in the position it was before him, but it should at least improve things. It seems like it's been swinging back and forth since long before I was born and unless the federal government collapses it'll probably keep going for a lot longer.

I'm glad I at least live in a decent state with health care, some degree of social safety net, and protections for queer folks. Personally, even now I feel safer as a trans woman in my own state than I would in the UK.

Things are fucked, but things are usually fucked and there's at least some amount of resistance being mounted. Minneapolis is showing how much the people there are willing to stand up for each other, which is at least heartening. Even looking at places like Texas, all the shit that's going on is flipping districts to the point that the gerrymandering they've done might not actually be enough to keep Republicans in power.

Trump at least, thankfully, does not have the support of the people, and even his own little cult probably won't outlast him personally. This administration is going to make it hard for the Republicans to elect anyone, and if we're smart enough about it on the left we might be able to replace some if the old guard in the Democratic party too.

We do at least seem to be less gullible as a whole than the populations that actually had popular support for fascism 80 years ago.

the problem with this thinking is that Trump being out doesn't mean this is over. Trump is the symptom of a larger disease.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Is this the one happening in Trumpland? The article helpfully neglected to include any context.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not surprised, even without Trump it'd likely be a boring affair with how cencered and sterile personalitys are these days on there.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago

It's educational, it doesn't need personality.