Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Dev Claims Requests for a Black and/or Female Lead Were Rejected

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Dev Claims Requests for a Black and/or Female Lead Were Rejected

A former Respawn Entertainment developer has claimed that requests from team members to make the protagonist of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order female and/or Black were shut down. The response allegedly centered around the fact that the Star Wars franchise had a female lead after the movies’ Rey, and the…

Opinion | What a Reversal of Roe v. Wade Might Mean for the Midterms
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Opinion | What a Reversal of Roe v. Wade Might Mean for the Midterms

Caitlin Myers, a professor of economics at Middlebury who has written extensively on reproductive issues, was pessimistic about the likelihood of abortion functioning as a liberal mobilizing issue. She wrote by email: The brunt of the impacts of a Roe reversal will be felt by young, poor, and Black women…

The Lord of the Rings’ Billy Boyd Swaps Playing Hobbits for Elves in The Elder Scrolls Online

The Lord of the Rings’ Billy Boyd Swaps Playing Hobbits for Elves in The Elder Scrolls Online

The Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd is swapping one fantasy epic for another as he joins Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO). Most famous for playing Pippin in Peter Jackson’s Lords of the Rings trilogy, Boyd has more recently featured in the likes of Outlander and is now…

Bitcoin 2022 — Will the real maximalists please stand up? – Cointelegraph Magazine

Bitcoin 2022 — Will the real maximalists please stand up? – Cointelegraph Magazine

As I go about the Miami conference, I wonder, Aside from some of the conference speakers, where are these Bitcoin maximalists I keep hearing so much about? When I tell the customs official I’m going to Miami for the Bitcoin 2022 conference, there seems to be a light in the…