The writing felt like an executive describing the video game their underlings said they were making

Oh I'm right there with you. Like it's a fine FF fight, but compared to the sheer quality of Omega in MH it's a disappointment

"I wish it need not have happened in my time" - Quattro Bajeena

So from reading the article it seems that the potentially breached IDs were from support tickets of those who were disputing the age verification. Not quite as big a breach as the headline implies, but very much still a portent of what's wrong with these very systems

I downloaded Returnal again recently to see how it runs on my 9070xt (great except for Ray Tracing being really broken) and now I've played another 20 hours. Such a fantastic game

That is indeed a cool ass robot

This group does advocacy for folks so it may be worth browsing the stories to see if there's any good info there

www.instagram.com/black_andirish

As I understand it, we're generally better than America or the UK, but by no means perfect. Physical violence is not common, but in shittier areas of Dublin shouts of abuse do happen. Micro Aggressions too.
That said I also believe its also been worse in the past few years