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Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 120 points 9 months ago (16 children)

[...] because of immigration and gender identity policies

That headline kind of undersells it a little. From an outside perspective (inside too I'm sure), the USA looks really fucked up and a dangerous place to travel to. I'm not a game dev but still, you couldn't pay me to travel there

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  • [–] 63 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Whenever someone suggests I might travel to the US, I picture myself dying in some deportation prison. Why would I want that?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Especially with the stuff I write here I'm terrified of having to go there for work or something very important like that.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Do not worry fellow internetter, there is nobody compiling a detailed dossier of your online presence to provide to border agents upon your arrival.

    Please continue to freely speak derogatorily of the regime in places easily accessible to us friendly internetters, safe in the knowledge that you are definitely not on a very real watch list, compiled by people who genuinely want to hurt you, if only you'd come close enough for them to do so....

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Who wants to get rapped, left to die in a pig pen while being tortured, and/or executed on the streets because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the ICE agent felt like murdering someone.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Of the four people I know in Australia who travel to the US semi regularly, not one is concerned at all, 3 of the 4 support Trump and the other one thinks it's overblown media hyperbole. All white folks. These aren't friends per se but acquaintances.

    Regularly as.on at.least.omce every year and occasioanly twice.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Pretty soon the US dollar is going to tank to the point at which no one is going to be able to afford to buy games. So there was zero point me putting my life at risk in order to advertise there.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    quite frankly I'd rather visit the RDC countryside than the US

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Do you mean DRC (for Democratic Republic of Congo) or is there some psycho farmer community that gets off on torture or something that i never heard about?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    hah, yes, I suppose that's what I mean.

    I'm not sure I see what you're referring to wrt to this :

    is there some psycho farmer community that gets off on torture or something that i never heard about?

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