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  1. Comment on Embracer Group has announced its intention to split into two public companies, with a new spin-off taking over its biggest game IPs, including Tomb Raider in ~games

  2. Comment on Israel's parliament has voted to dissolve itself in ~society

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    Israel's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to dissolve itself, potentially bringing forward by a few weeks the next national election, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose.

    The vote came now because an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ​faction, traditionally a close political ally of Netanyahu, announced this month that it no longer sees the prime minister as a partner and will ​seek an early election.

    The ultra-Orthodox leaders said they were doing this because Netanyahu's coalition had not kept a promise to pass a ⁠law that would exempt their community from mandatory service in Israel's conscript military. At the same time, opposition parties have long sought to topple Netanyahu's government.

    Polls have since consistently shown Netanyahu's governing coalition falling ‌far short ⁠of a parliamentary majority. However, there is also a chance that opposition parties will fail to form a coalition, leaving Netanyahu at the head of an interim government until the political stalemate is broken.

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  4. Comment on Embracer Group has announced its intention to split into two public companies, with a new spin-off taking over its biggest game IPs, including Tomb Raider in ~games

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    Holy moly we might actually get another Deus Ex game

    Holy moly we might actually get another Deus Ex game

    5 votes

  5. Comment on How I feel about LLM (AI) writing in ~tech

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    While not as common, one thing I've noticed that contributes to this rise in tensions is comments that seem like they're 'trapped,' for lack of a better term. This type of comment is always on...

    recently I've seen a rise in .... discourse temperature?

    While not as common, one thing I've noticed that contributes to this rise in tensions is comments that seem like they're 'trapped,' for lack of a better term. This type of comment is always on posts on contentious/controversial topics, are 1-2 sentences, and is usually snarky or sarcastic. They're seemingly designed to bait out a response. However, since they are so short, any meaningful reply necessarily needs to make some assumptions about the original commenter's position. The original commenter can then accuse the responder of not understanding their position, and respond with just an absolute wall of text, which can spiral into a moderately toxic back-and-forth. If the original commenter had spelled out their thoughts on the post from the get-go, this issue might've been avoided

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Stranger Than Heaven | Cast and story reveal trailer in ~games

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    I'm hopeful that the scale will be much grander. It seems that Stranger Than Heaven has been in development in some form for 3-5 years at this point, compared to the much shorter 1-2 year...

    I'm hopeful that the scale will be much grander. It seems that Stranger Than Heaven has been in development in some form for 3-5 years at this point, compared to the much shorter 1-2 year development cycles that 0, Kiwami, or Kiwami 2 had

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Introducing Kendrick Lamar to an Italian poet in ~music

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    An absolutely fascinating video in which an Italian poetry professor gives his first impressions on some Kendrick Lamar songs. I've never really been one for poetry, but he explains his thoughts...

    An absolutely fascinating video in which an Italian poetry professor gives his first impressions on some Kendrick Lamar songs. I've never really been one for poetry, but he explains his thoughts in a very compelling way. Learned some fun new words too, such as describing Good Kid as 'baudelairian'

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk

  15. Comment on Everyone's got a proof when they explode in ~humanities

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    I'm not gonna lie, from the title I thought the article was going to be about what proof alcohol people become as the explosion-induced spike in temperature distills their body fluids into alcohol

    I'm not gonna lie, from the title I thought the article was going to be about what proof alcohol people become as the explosion-induced spike in temperature distills their body fluids into alcohol

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Crusader Kings III: Chapter V | Official reveal in ~games

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    Well the big reworks won't be until later in the year, so we'll both have time to recover from our recent CK3 binges :p

    Well the big reworks won't be until later in the year, so we'll both have time to recover from our recent CK3 binges :p

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Crusader Kings III: Chapter V | Official reveal in ~games

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    Announcement video for all the CK3 content for this year. Ft. Catholicism rework, building rework, trade system, playable republics and theocratic governments. I'm personally pretty excited for...

    Announcement video for all the CK3 content for this year. Ft. Catholicism rework, building rework, trade system, playable republics and theocratic governments.

    I'm personally pretty excited for the new Catholicism stuff, it seems like it has the potential to be pretty interesting.

    4 votes