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Electronic Arts is reportedly eliminating “between 300 and 400 positions” and scrapping a game set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed R7, that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment, according to Bloomberg.

“As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources in service of driving future growth,” EA spokesperson Justin Higgs said in a statement to Bloomberg.

In a statement posted on X, Respawn explains that it had to cancel two games that were in “early-stage incubation” and “make some targeted team adjustments” across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi. “These decisions aren’t easy, and we are deeply grateful to every teammate affected,” the post says.

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IGN reports that about 100 employees at Respawn were laid off, including developers, QA workers, and publishing staffers. IGN also says that some workers were moved from Respawn over to EA Motive’s Iron Man game, the Battlefield series, “and other projects.”

Additionally, Respawn’s SVP of operations Daniel Suarez is now GM of the studio and will report directly to its co-founder and CEO Vince Zampella. In 2021, EA put Zampella in charge of the Battlefield franchise as part of an internal shakeup.

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De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is honderd dagen aan de macht en vierde dat vannacht met een toespraak vanuit Michigan. Hij viel rechters aan en bekritiseerde de baas van de centrale bank, maar probeert vooral optimisme te verkopen, zag correspondent Erik Mouthaan. "Trump sprak over 'honderd dagen van grootsheid' en beloofde 'Amerika weer geweldig te maken'."

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It’s odd that it comes up now but it has.

But let’s tackle the elephant in the room first (why I made this account in the first place).

Had a hookup. Of course I did.

It went bad.

I decided to bottom.

Prepared the whole day, only for the guy to be very eager (in a bad way) and the language barrier made it hard to communicate things.

He entered and came within 2minutes. (With a condom of course.)

Dude was definitely closeted, and I should have trusted my gut about having fun with people that I can actually communicate to.

But alas. He was very awkward, and promised a round 2 but then complained about the room being too hot and having a headache (lol).

We talked a bit. He admitted that he usually targets people of my racial background

I just told him to go if he wanted to, can’t really force him.

Went a bit delirious for an hr but calmed down.

Talked to a friend about this, and I am already laughing at this experience. Taking a break from Grindr and the other gay apps for now.

Worst part? I actually did have a good experience with another guy this past week and now I am just reminiscing it. We follow our socials but he’s half-way across the globe now. Fuuuck - and I did meet some other cool, descent people.

But back to ol’ reliable for now. My hands and toys can seemingly do things some of these men can’t do. (Very real)

and from the previous thread,

yes I did start on PrEP, and had all STIs tested, all negative. I know it wouldn’t even capture this and last week’s activities, but I’ll watch closely for symptoms.

So back to the title,

I feel like an adult, atleast for now.

Common to most people around my age, I never feel like an adult. I used to relate. But now, after all this but also other aspects of my life, I think I’ve practically done all the bullshit an adult is supposed to do.

And I also realize (again) half of these “adults” are fucked in the head, so not really something to live up to.

Until next time.

Edit: clarity

It's almost like it was a burden on the family and they're so much better without it. It's almost as if it should have fucking did the right thing and killed itself.

https://wuzzy.neocities.org/comic/143/

I'm pretty alienated, and It's just the easiest way to give me something to look forward to when a day's going bad mentally. It does kinda suck since I'm trying to save up spending money for an event this summer.

Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They're Intel's only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft's Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel's best-performing integrated GPUs, the Intel Arc 130V and 140V.

Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system. Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent, and can speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames per second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the time) by as much as 25 percent. This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down to that 1 percent level.

Intel's performance numbers for its new GPU drivers on a laptop running at the "common default power level" of 17 W. Credit: Intel

Intel's performance comparisons were made using an MSI Claw 7 AI+ using an Arc 140V GPU, and they compare the performance of driver version 32.0.101.6732 (released April 2) to version 32.0.101.6734 (released April 8). The two additional driver packages Intel has released since then will contain the improvements, too.

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Hello friends.

as a kink positive transfem egg with self worth problems, a bad (addictive) coping strategy in dealing with these bad emotions emerged in recent years (since my youth actually).

And my intention in posting about my experience is that bad life situations, stress in the real life (of which people probably have plenty) make these coping strategies worse, because, like any addiction, the substance will not be enough and you need more of it.

It started with regular femdom humiliation until it went more into hypnosis stuff, planting powerful triggers to reinforce these self worth problems. (i have one specific content creator in mind who i wont mention for safety reasons. because people like i was will certainly be curious to research this content creator with the desire to fuel their own similar bad coping strategies.)

Then a bit later i found the "Bambi Files" which i now consider slightly abusive: these are conditioning files which are even more powerful and effective compared to the above mentioned content creator, and whose community makes it hard to practice it with proper consent: since you maybe have a rough description what a files does, but you have to listen to it since many don't have a script. Not to mention that many files dont have a "light" version, so it is hard to know how addictive a file is.

The amnesia triggers might seem interesting in a consensual kinky partnership, but if you do these alone, i think its risky.

Especially for my ADHD brain which curiously clicks to all links and listens to random stuff only noticing too late that this was a step in the wrong direction, now with a suggestion that the addiction is increasing.

And there is also explcit abuse mentioned in this article, where bambis had been - besides the physical abuse - conditioned to recruit other inexperienced bambis into a cult-like group.

And now notice that the bambi community has in one of its popular sites a cult playlist, whose description explicitly mentiones that the intent is to gaslight the bambi and conditioning her to recruit others.

So i infer the cult-like abuse mentioned in this article is not only this case but rather a structural problem, they are thriving. (And fyi, the female voice in the files is a text-to-speech generator, obfuscating that many content creators are male, probably with structural similar intentions to the james from the group.)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicalucas2/erotic-hypnosis-bambi-sleep

[Image description: a small bee with pollen stuck to its back legs takes a rest on my forearm]

This little friend took a break from all that hard work while I was potting up some cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)