Ken Akamatsu, the mangaka of Love Hina and Negima! series', successfully was elected on the platform of protecting creative freedom in Japanese culture (especially anime, manga and games).
I don't know what he has done so far, but this type of stuff in his purview and others that successfully pushed otaku angles in their electoral candidacy. I hope they do their jobs; DLSite, DMM/Fanza, and others are some that have not bent yet (hopefully never), despite the pressure among numerous angles including alternative credit cards and PayPal.
You should have uBlock Origin installed irrespective of its efficacy on YouTube ads, but as others have said, it's extremely rare to see ads slip through. (It's amazing for websites like Spotify as well.)
Google has been losing the war against ad blockers badly, to the point that they're going to strip away features from Chromium itself. Unfortunately, that is going to impact other Chromium-based browsers as well: Vivaldi is 100% confirmed, and Brave is likely to fall in line.
uBlock Origin Lite is the current proffered alternative for that scenario, but I imagine it will be extremely inefficient, and using a FireFox fork (Pale Moon, Water Fox, etc.) will be the best route.
He's on the record that he will forego the re-elected term - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/matt-gaetz-says-hes-not-returning-congress-next-year
She certainly knows how her bread is buttered.
Before she hitched with the Trump wagon, she was associated with Romney, 100% supported the witch trial against Zimmerman, allied with corrupt DA Angela Corey, is an experienced lobbyist, and considers Israel America's "greatest ally" (MIGA).
I see why Trump likes her with their long history, but I have my doubts; the only non-mercenary positives I've been able to tease out was that she was tenaciously against gay marriage per Florida's constitution, and fought against Obamacare.
Looking to be proven wrong on overall sentiment. Never thought Gaetz would get approved given his past controversies, but I did anticipate a stronger fight for theatrical reasons if nothing else; maybe someone like Paxton would have been a good 2nd choice.
I don't know about the veracity of tactical nuke, but even though it has been reported as a drone attack, many question that premise. Speculation is that it was a missile of some sort, and highly likely NATO supplied.
Regardless, people keep questioning whether current trajectory will lead to WW III when the reality is that it has already started for some time (by design) and Russia will undoubtedly bring the conflict to U.S. territory if even indirect American assistance leads to damage within Russia; the degrees of separation are not really relevant to their nationality existential interests if long-range missiles are supplied, as repeatedly stated throughout the war and emphasized in the last few weeks.
https://nitter.poast.org/RealSaavedra/status/1835432556885315729
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says that because Trump is not the sitting president that he is not given complete perimeter protection, even though someone shot him just a couple months ago
He said if Trump was president then law enforcement would take protecting him more seriously
This topic has been mentioned here before, notably at the beginning of 2023, but this is just a periodic reminder that it doesn't matter if you avoid the vax, fast food, or other types of poisons.
Just like weed killer, insecticides, fluoride, etc., you will be fed as your masters wish willingly or otherwise, with awareness or deception, and you will learn to "accept" it.
Pokemon's Nessa trainer is the most famous recent example of dark skinned character being drawn with lighter tone.
(If the original drawing wasn't intended to actually make her whiter and was merely artistic license, the resulting woke Streisand effect resulted in many doing so intentionally.)
Between this and the recent VG dump, you are doing God's work.
Biggest takeaway from this is that Google has finally gotten around to blocking uBlock Origin...and, unsurprisingly, Brave & Vivaldi being built on top of Chromium will merely follow in lock step.
More specifically, they say Vivaldi has committed to that future reality (2025) while Brave has been ambiguous. Brave would make a more forceful statement if they planned to be different.
There is time yet, but soon the moment to permanently switch to the various FireFox forks: Pale Moon, WaterFox, whatever. Maybe even FireFox itself, if you don't mind the super woke Mozilla organization (no thanks from me).
Shame, Brave is a very clean Chromium browser and much easier to teach my parents to use -- otherwise they'd be on Chrome. Brave's loss will be felt; "uBO" Lite is not an option.
Alternatively, with the PS5 already acknowledged as in its end cycle
This statement is both true and not the first time I've seen it, but it never ceases to be mind blowing.
What a damnable system. Commiefornia Sony cannot go bankrupt fast enough.
The first disc is amazing and it gets really bad at the second disc because Square didn't pay for the whole game to be made.
I was apoplectic when first completing it, but able to concede on forums back then that the game would be crazy long if it didn't have the artistic shift (even if forced).
Of course, it's my favorite game and "more is less" definitely didn't apply to this title in my opinion, but that's an aside...
It's tragic that decades have since passed, and it turned out that era was the pinnacle of gaming, at least for me as an RPG fan.
Xenogears has a fan remake - https://archive.ph/QfVzu
This Lahan demo looks impressive. I like the 2D sprite style and, even more so, the handful of YouTube comments acknowledging that nobody wants Square to butcher touch the IP.
Come on, now, comparing all-time peak to average daily viewers is patently unfair.
If you look at Steam trends within the last few days, it barely eeks out a victory against personal heavyweight favorites likes *checks notes* GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Good:
- Voters who favored his extreme leftist policies such as eco-terrorism could always back the DNC
- Voters who favored his "right-wing" policies such as strong border control could always back Trump
However, neither represented some "niche" interests such as strongly going after Big Pharma (including raising anti-vax awareness), which will now swing towards Trump given unity party establishment and an active role.
RFK also brings lots of credibility on topics that Trump has touted but had trouble making inroads in the 1st term, such as strong anti-CIA sentiment and anti-censorship.
Non-archive links:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/1
- https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1eqf0pp/susan_wojcicki_former_youtube_ceo_dies_at_56_cnn/
I had seen the KIA2 thread a day prior, but revisiting the topic and certain reaction resulted in too much disgust.
Reddit KIA2 on the other hand... - https://old.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/1eopmoz/former_youtube_ceo_susan_wojcicki_dies_at_56_of/
Rest In Piss, Susan; I hope the last years of her life were excruciatingly painful.
If her remaining offspring in any shape or form resemble the sow in terms of ideals, then I hope they are quadruple vaxxed and follow in her footprints.
Tagging for future reference.
More developers need to do this. This is probably for the SE Asian market rather than the West, but both benefit.