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Frazer Blaxland--the voice actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's beloved tiefling blacksmith, Dammon--is facing criticism after players noticed him following a number of controversial Twitter accounts, liking tweets that promote homophobia, sexism, transphobia, and other bigoted views, and expressing apparently unwavering support for the IDF's actions in Palestine, which have killed tens of thousands of people.Blaxland (who also voices other Baldur's Gate 3 NPCs, including Anders, Arne Jacobson, and Bunt…

SNK The past half-decade in the fighting game genre has been spent bringing back classic series and freshening them up for a new age. Street Fighter 6’s drive gauge and modern controls, Mortal Kombat 1 and its introduction of assist attacks, Tekken 8‘s Heat system, and more have shown that even older franchises in this genre aren’t afraid of reinventing the wheel. SNK also demonstrated a willingness to do this with the latest entries in the Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters series, but after my time with Fatal…

There’s only one group picture that the internet is talking about right now after the euphoria of the Super Bowl afterparty at Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World in Las Vegas on Sunday.As Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift partied the night away to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s third Super Bowl win, they rubbed shoulders with the punk rock king and queen of show business, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox.Fans were delighted to see the four icons enjoying the night together during the high-voltage celebration. A…

The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and even personal attacks on people who have the audacity to disagree with someone else’s political opinion—these and other forms of online hate present an ugly side of humanity.The derision on social media appears in vile and profane terms for all to see. Obviously, the sole purpose of posting online hate is to harass and harm one’s victims, right?Not necessarily, according to recent…

Scatterplot of speakers’ assessments of future consequences of interaction as a function of their actual perceptions of their partners (I like partner) and their perceived liking by their partners (I think partner likes me, capturing metaperception), separately for female and male students, with the trendlines (using the gam smoothing function) illustrating the best fit to the data. Credit: Languages (2023). DOI: 10.3390/languages8030200…

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, said on Tuesday it will test a new subscription model under which it will charge $1 (roughly Rs. 83) annual fee for basic features.The new subscription termed as "Not A Bot" will charge users for likes, reposts or quoting other accounts' posts, and bookmarking posts on the web version of the platform.The purpose of introducing the new subscription model is to combat bots and spammers, X said, adding that the fee will vary from country to country based on the exchange…

After reports of a Pune Woman losing Rs 24 lakhs after falling victim to a scam, another similar incident comes from a Gurugram techie. A software engineer working at an IT company in Gurugram Sector 102 fell victim to a massive scam, losing over Rs 42 lakh in the process. The engineer was lured by scammers who promised him substantial earnings for simply liking YouTube videos. The incident unfolded on March 24 when the victim received a WhatsApp message offering him a part-time job where he could earn extra income by…

 A software engineer working with an IT company here was allegedly duped of around Rs 42 lakh by scammers who lured him into earning handsome money by liking some videos, police said on Saturday. The man was added to a group on the Telegram Messenger app and asked to invest, but later he was not allowed to withdraw that sum. According to a complaint filed by a resident of Gurugram Sector 102, on March 24, he received a message on his WhatsApp, claiming that he can earn extra income by doing a part-time job of…

A software engineer working with an IT company here was allegedly duped of around ₹42 lakh by scammers who lured him into earning handsome money by liking some videos, police said on Saturday. The man was added to a group on the Telegram Messenger app and asked to invest, but later he was not allowed to withdraw that sum. According to a complaint filed by a resident of Sector 102 here, on March 24, he received a message on his WhatsApp, claiming that he can earn extra income by doing a part-time job of liking videos on…

Twitter has restricted access to embedding tweets in posts on online publishing platform Substack, leaving thousands of users in a limbo.Twitter has restricted promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts -- a move that has not gone well with people."We're disappointed that Twitter has chosen to restrict writers' ability to share their work. Writers deserve the freedom to share links to Substack or anywhere else," said Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Seth, the founders of Substack."This abrupt…