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The weekend is here, and we are set to make our weekend plans. Oh, yes, as this is a winter weekend, you must have been deciding to stay home and do some chill stuff, and you are probably in search of good content for the ‘Perfect Netflix & Chill’ evening. Worry not! We know December has started, and we are starting to get ‘Christmas’ vibes. And thus, to keep our weekend amusement at its peak in the festive season, here are some worth picks from the thousands of options OTT provides us. The Naughty Nine A…

The Trevor Project advocates for public education on LGBTQ+ issues and has a crisis hotline for queer youth.Image: Anastasiia Chepinska (Unsplash)Employees of one of the largest LGBTQ+ nonprofits in the country—The Trevor Project—are facing abuse from the Far Right, and they claim that the organization is not properly supporting its crisis hotline staff.Vice News reports workers at The Trevor Project’s suicide hotline are receiving relentless homophobic and transphobic harassmentwhile already dealing with emotionally…

KYIV, Ukraine —  Bound for the battlefield, sounding harried and anxious, the Russian soldier placed a hasty phone call — to a Ukrainian military hotline. “They say you can help me surrender voluntarily, is that right?” asked the serviceman, explaining that he was soon to be deployed near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.“When Ukrainian soldiers come, do I just kneel down, or what? Do you promise not to film me while this is happening?”In fluent Russian, the hotline operator calmly assured him he’d be given…

Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.Reuters reported on Friday that the feature was taken down a few days ago, citing two people familiar with the matter, who said the removal was ordered by the social media platform's new owner Elon Musk.After publication of the story, Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin confirmed the…

Dead Cells's Everyone is Here Volume 2 update has brought yet another crop of items, weapons, and skins themed around fellow indie games to the beloved indie roguelite. These include classic indie games like Hotline Miami and Shovel Knight, as well as slightly more recent titles like Katana Zero and Slay the Spire.The trailer announcing the move is particularly well-put-together, as it features characteristic musical cues associated with each game. As you might expect, Hotline Miami's Jacket is all about…

New Delhi, November 1 Elon Musk on Tuesday changed his profile to 'Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator' from being a Chief Twit, as he celebrated Halloween festival with his mother. Bombarded with requests to change Twitter, Musk decided to change his profile for 112.7 million followers. Famous American author Stephen King asked him that $20 to get the Twitter blue badge is too much. $20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets…

I’ve been chatting with Suda51 for the past hour. The conversation hasn’t been about any of his past works but, instead, his favorite game. Among the many anecdotes Goichi Suda told me about meeting Dennis Wedin and Jonatan Söderström, creators of Hotline Miami, one in particular stood out. While the developers were on a press tour in Japan, Wedin asked him to sign his arm — then didn’t wash his arm for a couple of days until his tattoo artist could fill it in.As the interview is coming to a close, Suda says that he’s got…

Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives — and which ones you should bring into your home. Today’s episode starts with a discussion between David and deputy editor Alex Heath about the changes coming to Facebook and Instagram and how everything…

Free fan game released on PC Team Fortress 2 and Hotline Miami are an unlikely match, but in the realm of just-go-for-it-and-see-what-sticks fan games, this funky fusion works well enough. Midnight Mercenaries, a top-down action game released for free on Game Jolt, lets you cleave through heavily armed enemies as familiar TF2 classes like the Scout, Heavy, and Spy. It’s definitely worth a run-through if you’ve got the time. (Thanks, Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) Imagine smacking a Hotline Miami goon from afar with a baseball,…

She-Hulk flyers distributed at San Diego Comic-Con over the past two days show Jennifer Walters (played by Tatiana Maslany) and the tagline “Super Heroes Need A Super Lawyer,” on top, with a hotline and a quippy “I go green, so you get green,” just underneath. If you call the hotline (which is 1-877-743-4855) you listen to a charming little voicemail from Walters.The message goes:“Hi! You’ve reached the superhuman law division at GLK&H.”“Okay this time recording as SHIELD!”“You know they can’t see you right? Okay,…