Drawings aren't people. Society is free to detest and shame people who enjoy loli all it wants, but the law shouldn't be involved. Zoom out for a moment, and it's very easy to see how allowing the government to decide what content is legal will quickly apply to a lot more than just anime. Anyone here and paying attention should be adamantly against more government regulation, especially when it's for thought-crime.
Have you considered using something like SillyTavern? I imagine the Lorebook functionality would help a lot if you're not looking for the model to make things up on the fly. Something like this is probably a good place to start: https://characterhub.org/characters/mrnobody99/dungeon-master-c473276e
Nuance is weakness in a polarized political climate.
For a recent example, say you're arguing with a leftist about the January 6 pardons. The leftist says they're all violent insurrectionists. You reply that the overwhelming majority were peaceful. The leftist jumps on the words "overwhelming majority" as an acknowledgement some amount of violence happened. You're now arguing from a position of weakness.
Even if you insist this example proves your theory correct, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme. You must work in a binary, because the opposition will use ALL nuance and exceptions to their advantage. It's no different from the phenomenon of the right becoming less conservative over time, because each compromise drags them further to the left, while the left refuses to compromise on their own ideals.
You need to be unyielding, and even if you acknowledge a situation has exceptions, you cannot vocalize them.
I don't think it was cope. This is a pretty extreme 180 from the first game and there was a lot of conflicting evidence about the leaks, so a week or so ago it made sense to wait and not jump to conclusions. I was suspicious of the initial Musa leak because it seemed too perfectly on the nose to be real.
With clear evidence, obviously anyone rational has since jumped ship. I never preordered thankfully, but I pulled the game from my wishlist and will never buy it. I usually wouldn't bother leaving a comment to say I changed my mind, but if you want to know where everyone is, the answer is still here. But everyone looks the same now that we're all in agreement.
simply because it felt like a gayop.
I had the same thought. It was particularly odd that the screenshots were only from one source, when there are a ton of review copies out in the wild.
I really hoped it was fake, very disappointed to learn it's not. The first game was excellent because of the strong historical focus that was placed above all else. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are many other ideological changes in KCD2, and the leaks are simply some of the most flagrant. Glad I didn't preorder, but it's a real shame to see this happen to KCD.
If they were fake you think he'd say so.
I don't agree. First, you already have plenty of review copies out in the wild. You'd think we'd have corroborating proof if the leaks were real.
Second, I don't see how he can address individual rumors like this. You already have multiple controversial leaks. If he addresses even a few, he gets forced into playing whack-a-mole with the rest, along with whatever else people want to concoct between now and release day. If they're truly fake, there's no reason to create that sort of bad publicity.
And if they're real, the only plausible reason we don't have more evidence yet is that they're behind an area of the game that's currently locked for review copies. In which case we should have an answer shortly after release, and there's no reason to stir the pot until then. Unless you preordered, it's not hard to wait and see, and be outraged/relieved in the near future.
There needs to be more resistance to their constant warping of language. It's easy to not care about labels like this personally, but the average person doesn't follow these rapid definition changes anywhere near as closely. Allowing "woke" and other words to be quickly rebranded is very dangerous, because the typical person only has a vague understanding that "woke" means "bad/thing I don't like." Once terms like "woke right" enter common use, that same person will simply conclude that some of the right is the same kind of bad as the left.
This has already happened to other derogatory terms, like snowflake. All original meaning has been lost, and now it's something you'll see spammed as a reply on Reddit or news comment sections when you suggest reducing immigration.
free to comment on what's mentioned or add a bunch I KNOW I missed.
One of my favorites this season, The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor. It's similar to Tearmoon Empire in theme, where a princess is given a chance to go back in time to correct fatal mistakes. However, instead of dealing with governance issues like Tearmoon, it focuses more on the impacts of arranged marriage. There's also a lot of comedy and (age gap) romance, if that's to your taste.
I'm amazed it's still on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bymsOrfxOMo
From the original Twisted Christmas album.
A very important caveat: this isn't a real campaign ad.
vtubing...is an extension of idol culture
This is the best answer, although someone unfamiliar with idols might not understand what it means.
Idols often play a character or persona in a more sanitized and scripted way vs. what you'd get from a regular streamer or entertainer. The very nature of vtubing is wearing an anime avatar, so it perfectly lends itself to idol culture and the expected facade. Add the anime aspect and some voice acting, and you have the perfect storm to bridge the gap between idols and existing anime fans.
Vtubing has become too broad to make sweeping generalization, but Hololive at least is essentially an idol organization. Maybe they're not everyone's cup of tea, but they uphold very high standards compared to your average Twitch streamer.
This is an issue for both AMD and Intel. To summarize it, there used to be a lot of headroom left in processors for safety and efficiency. Why gain an extra 5% of performance if it costs 30% more power (and heat) and doubles the failure rate? But in today's world, both AMD and Intel need every last drop of performance to show continued improvement and out-sell each other. On top of that, motherboard manufacturers are incentivized to do the same thing, so they push voltage (power) even further, right out of the box. Combined, this causes modern processors to balance on a knife-edge between maximum performance and failure.
In AMD's case, processors were overvolting so severely that they damaged the socket. For Intel, they also overvolted their processors, but to a slightly lesser degree that causes permanent damage (erosion) ultimately resulting in failure.
If you buy current hardware, the safe bet is to adjust the voltage and other settings yourself. I have an Intel 13900k myself (paired with an RTX 4090 too), but I have both undervolted from their factory settings. Because we live in a backwards world, reducing power from the factory settings actually results in better performance than the average for my hardware.
This right here. Without going into explicit detail, I was part of a case against the federal government thrown out because there wasn't standing yet (even though the negative impact, or harm, was imminent, it hadn't happened yet). After the government took final action and there was clear harm with no further recourse, it was thrown out again for Cheveron deference (the court has to defer to the federal agency that wronged you because they're the "experts," and of course the agency you're suing is going to say they're right).
It's next to impossible to sue the government, because you need to carefully stand up dominos to make the perfect case, and then have pockets deep enough to roll the dice on taking the case all the way.
I was just searching for information about a drug that I was prescribed
If you want the actual data it was approved on, go here: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm. Look under "Approval Date(s) and History, Letters, Labels, Reviews for NDA XXXXXX" and click on the "Review" link for the original submission. That will take you to the full approval package, where you can review the original efficacy and safety data.
Wasn't this always the case for most DMM content? I used to play KanColle at release, over a decade ago, and even then you needed a VPN to play. The workarounds always involved grabbing page-specific links, particularly your unique API link for the game window, which would expire after a set amount of time and require you hop on the VPN again.
That's not at all the same. This sentence is a demonstration of criminal accountability, where the government is forcibly punishing the parents using the judicial system. Your example is one of material accountability, where the parents are freely choosing to buy something to replace what their kid broke.
Yeah, people begged for DoA Xtreme 3 to be released in the West, but it was explicitly cancelled because of censors here:
"It's due to cultural differences. The West has its own thinking about how to depict women in games media which is different from Japan."
As for the "lack of censorship," that game even has a pole dance mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS-nU62TK18
My favorite NES co-op game is Jackal. For a good versus NES game, North and South.
For arcade/MAME, The Simpsons is a solid co-op classic.
Seems extremely similar to when Quidditch had a brief surge in popularity years ago, with everyone running around on brooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkMJzJVLRFw
Copying this from the other site:
No, they didn't.
In the ruling on the 11th, Chief Judge Yukihiko Imazaki of the Third Petty Court of the Supreme Court said, "Employees are forced to use the men's restroom that is different from their self-identified gender, or the women's restroom away from their workplace. They are being disadvantaged accordingly," he said.
They said they can't say "It's ok to use the Womens bathroom on the other side of the building, but not the one nearest to you." Which is fair, it's all or nothing, and should be up to the individual business to decide. But you can't pick and choose.
Full page screenshot functionality is built into most browsers; you don't need any extra extensions, tools, or software.
For example, if you're using Chrome or a Chromium-based browser, just open the developer tools (F12). Press CTRL+SHIFT+P to open the run command window. Start typing "screenshot" and click "Capture full size screenshot" when you see it in the search results. That's it, the full page screenshot is now in your downloads folder.
This is ancient history. Not last week's news, but last decade's news.
This article is wrong. I have no idea why this story is gaining traction again (it originally circulated back in September 2022), but changes have been made since then that make this news inaccurate.
In short, back in April, the anonymity issue was addressed through the deletion of private information from files made available for download by the Japanese Tax Office. This includes name and address, meaning taxpayers will no longer be easily unmasked or identified. The original source is here: https://www.invoice-kohyo.nta.go.jp/news/r04/r04news04.html
It was, a bunch of people came back for the last days too. Really sad to have a game I played for almost 20 years disappear because of politics. The wiki is still around, but has been made read-only.