Arts Council England is facing a backlash for splurging millions of taxpayers' pounds on projects like queer cabaret, gender-diverse kids' shows and identity workshops while traditional museums are closing their doors.

Martial arts skills of Zhang Sixuan In 2024 she won the Shaolin Kung Fu competition, she was 9 years old. Look at the pain in her eyes. Give her a childhood! Reminds me of Michael Jackson. You just know she and a thousand children who didn’t make it were beaten every day for failing to nail perfection. Most of those schools in places like Shaolin are basically unregulated mills that prey on poor rural parents. They promise discipline and a future, but children just get beaten, starved, and worked to the bone for years while the owners pocket the tuition money. It is modern child labor disguised as tradition.

Alliance Arts canceled the public demo for Drunken Goddess Reflux. The studio said it cannot currently manage the restrictions it planned on posting and streaming gameplay footage. It is also worried that AI tools could copy the demo’s look and gameplay and put out imitations before the full game releases. Instead of a public demo, Alliance Arts will run closed online play sessions for a limited number of people who agree to the streaming rules in advance. The sessions are being organized through the game’s official Discord. A public demo is off the table. The studio is only letting people play it under controlled conditions.