GDC 2026 keynote speaker Hideo Kojima backs out
(www.shacknews.com)
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PC GamingGDC 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.
https://gamerant.com/gdc-2026-ice-concerns-us-safety-fears-dev-comments/
https://www.wired.com/story/canadian-devs-are-backing-out-of-gdc/
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/23/game-developer-conference-layoffs-ai-support
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Wow people are obsessed over Trump...
Reads links and headlines
Oh shit, I'm in danger.
Not surprised, even without Trump it'd likely be a boring affair with how cencered and sterile personalitys are these days on there.
It's educational, it doesn't need personality.
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.
the problem with this thinking is that Trump being out doesn't mean this is over. Trump is the symptom of a larger disease.
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.
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.
Treating US as a single location is a bit naive even though I understand where you're coming from. If we manage to get the orange pedo and other nazis out of fed, you can safely visit. Nothing wrong with continuing to punish the cunts who voted him in by not buying Kentucky whisky though.
You DID get the orange pedo out. And then you voted him back in, knowing exactly who and what he was. The rest of us now have to assume that the US is never more than four years from absolute batshit malignancy.
They literally said what they were going to do. Project 2025 documents a plan to systematically take apart the apparatus of the federal government, and that's exactly what they're doing. Now, a lot of Americans are like shockedpikachu.jpg "I never saw this coming!"
Like, power to those who were paying attention and tried to get the word out, but 77 million Americans voted for the Republicans, and another 90 million didn't bother voting. 75 million who voted for Democrats represent only about 30% of Americans, so they're in the small minority compared to Republican voters and everyone else who couldn't give a shit about the Republican's public plan to dismantle the country.
And even of the 75 million who voted for Dems, what proportion recognized the existential nature of the election? I don't know how to get numbers for that, but it clearly wasn't high enough.
I've been all over the states, I'm not being naive at all; blue states are better than red, but still fucked compared to the rest of the world. Definitely not worth visiting and supporting with your dollary-doos cause red states get 36% (on avg) of their budget from federal tax money.
There's a million better places to travel to than the states folks.
I swear to god if one more person says but muh grand canyon trip... its marketing folks. And there literally isnt enough drinking water (none outside the town) to support the residents let alone tourists. Visit Copper Canyon in Mexico instead and support their tourism industry. There's even a train! El Chepe
I wouldn't blame you either way, but I doubt you'd agree that judging Canada or even Calgary based in general on Alberta is fair.
Geographically most of California is red as fuck.
You can literally walk down the street in some cities and go between pockets filled with rainbow flags and maga hatred mixed with messages about how much god loves everyone.
The US is a single location. Americans vastly overstate the cultural differences among Americans.
As a trans woman who has tested my rights in state level courts, I couldn't disagree more. The difference between the rights I have in my own state and the rights I have in many others are absolutely massive.
I honestly can't think of any country about which this statement would be more wrong and I've lived in a bunch and been to a lot of them. But like I said in other comments, I don't blame you for punishing US as a whole.
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.
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.
