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DefinitelyNotIGN 6 points ago +6 / -0

In terms of indie Vtubers, I like to suggest Vedal/Neuro. They're big enough to have both clippers and fan content to check out, but still very much their own duo of programmer-and-his-yandere-evil-supercomputer-AI... Except that part isn't a characterization act, it's actually an AI he's developing, which gives an ongoing narrative that is very real. Lots of collabs too, so you see some other faces.

Very much non-political, though. Despite Neuro's best efforts sometimes to get into hot takes, Vedal's pretty fast on the filter button to make sure he isn't banned... again (to the point where she will use "filtered" as a protest and a swear word).

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DefinitelyNotIGN 8 points ago +8 / -0

And so the month of empty pandering begins.

May it also be an month of empty profits.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 6 points ago +6 / -0

Unironically, it can be at times. The writing on that manga is better than it has any right to be. But I do acknowledge the joke.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 7 points ago +7 / -0

Isn't it great to see such progressive and diversity-forward pro-women gamers in China?

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's cool and all, but I'm gonna go solo/duo every camp and fort on the opposite side of the map while you distract them. Thanks zerglings.

I miss the busy WvW too. There's nothing like seeing a zerg ball shift away from an important intersect because enough of them saw you flip 3-4 spots in quick succession, making them think there was a decent-sized raiding party up there, to find some jagoff Nightmare Court cosplayer druid and a sleeper-mesmer.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 5 points ago +5 / -0

Defend what?

Honestly, haven't seen a single Star Wars thing since Ep.8

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

"This stuff really sells! It's a trillion-dollar industry and market!"

"That's great and all, but what if we put in the costs and effort to participate in that market, and then... didn't go for that market."

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DefinitelyNotIGN 8 points ago +8 / -0

100% voter turnout, full democratic participation, makes sense in a village of 50 people. Everyone can be reasonably expected to truly know all contenders, and know the needs of everyone else, and how helping one person may impact negatively others.

In a village of 500,000,000 people, much less so. Most people nowadays can't even name their direct neighbor, let alone how their direct neighbor's needs may impact their own, and then extend that to the entire population? Zero chance.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Just another city"?! If it were just another city, then you could film in Toronto or Vancouver every scene meant to be New York and no one would tell a difference! Avengers took place in New York and you can see all the major New York attractions as the camera zooms by at street level like... Honest Ed's Canadian Emporium.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 6 points ago +6 / -0

The thought is, generally speaking, true. The amount of money needed will go up and up, but there are enough mercenary Americans who will, eventually, for enough money, help New Yorkers.

For 5k, some druggie with a motorbike over in New Jersey will Uber Eats your meal to you in NY.

So they aren't wrong on the surface level, but the question is how long can the supporting structure, the poor and downtrod supporting class of NY, stand it?

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Hi, I'm the star witness. I literally stole money from Trump as a career source of income, then made a book deal about how I stole money from Trump. My next book deal is about how I invented a case to get Trump found guilty for bogus charges, it's worth a lot of money to me, and I'm going broke if Trump isn't found guilty. On that note, Trump is definitely guilty for real for real."

The jury: "Well, seems legit! I guess this Trump guy is guilty of all the stuff!"

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well, if it winds up being thrown out of court after the fact somehow and for some reason, then I guess he wouldn't need to appeal.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 45 points ago +45 / -0

The tweet seems like a fundamental logical fallacy: Say something in public, and get public pushback from many strangers. Say something in private, and a person who had a very, VERY high chance of significantly impacting your upbringing, morality, and worldview, will agree with your upbringing, morality, and worldview.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 24 points ago +24 / -0

As ever, Treehouse insists on removing Japanese cultural elements and touchstones from their localizations. Been like this back in the 3ds era with the Fire Emblem debacle, been like it now.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 10 points ago +10 / -0

Italian localization often, not always but often, is taken from English localization, and thus goes through the localization machine twice.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 1 point ago +1 / -0

The only reason Horseshoe Theory is bullshit, is it assumes all political philosophy exists on a single axis, when the "Curl together" part of the horseshoe is almost always collectivist influences upon the Left-Right line (and the remaining time is authoritarian influences).

Which supports a 3 (minimum) axis political compass. If you think the compass is fundamentally impossible, "meme-tier bullshit", then you're likely trying to define the axes of the compass as something stupid like "good vs evil", and not proper labels. "Change for the sake of change vs Stability for the sake of stability", "More government power vs Less government power", "people as individuals vs people as classes".

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DefinitelyNotIGN 13 points ago +13 / -0

Superpowers are often likened to gun ownership.

My Hero Academia goes into this mindset with the villain-hero conversation in the mall, how everyone with a power goes about idly, when at any moment, one could go off the deep end, no regulations, no controls. (But they don't because they live in a high-trust society).

Marvel had the whole "mutant registry" thing, AND the semi-related Civil War whole thing, and both are clearly blatant allegories to gun registries.

So the writers of the comics are definitely aware they're spreading "good guy with a gun" messages.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 9 points ago +9 / -0

>A line referencing global warming

>Post-apoc game

"And then Earth changed on average one degree celcius every 100 years for 2 centuries, which little did we know, the super-alien-zombie-mutant-mechas needed that exact temperature change to activate."

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

Conservativism and progressivism are on a right-left axis, while authoritarianism and anarchism are on an up-down axis.

Trying to put Auth/Anarch (method) on the same axis as Cons/Progs (ideology) isn't a useful activity.

And individualism VS collectivism is yet a THIRD axis.

You can be a collectivist conservative anarchist. You can be a individualist progressive authoritarian. And every combination in-between. The overlap of a collectivist prog anarchist and an individualist prog anarchist is going to be quite high, but they will still have very noted points of disagreement, as would any extreme edge of one of the axes even if it aligned with the other two.

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