I'm perfectly fine if he wants to fuck with China. If anything we haven't done ENOUGH fucking with China in the past twenty years. "The rest of the world" doesn't really matter in this case either. It barely impacts the US and the EU would be impacted purely because the Euros are retarded.

Explains why they're suddenly getting pelted with "monopoly" accusations and lawsuits from the media, the UK and competitors

I always knew when the consolefags willingly paid to use their own internet they had already paid for on a game they had already bought just to play online that they'd eventually try doing something similar with PCs, it was just a matter of what angle they'd eventually try scamming everyone with. GPUs work just as well for them as online play I suppose.

It's literally just prostitution which is already illegal, so yes they should be jailed and people should stop pretending it's different if you take a video of it. If you want to draw or animated it fine, because that doesn't involve an actual person, but anything involving a direct person is prostitution.

They won't do that. They found Google was a monopoly in a court of law and just recently ruled they're not going to do anything about it except make them share some search analytics with some of their competitors when they were supposed to be forcing them to sell off Chrome entirely. They're a legally sanctioned monopoly now.

Doesn't really matter. Just temporary by their own admission until they can get a little clarification on how it's going to work. Not to mention every day they keep it suspended they're going to be slowly choked by the pressure of all their many companies that rely on US exports for a big chunk of their bottom line. It'll last a month at most I'd imagine. Much of Europe is apparently doing the same.

I can explain this far better actually. "It's fucking reddit".

Yeah I saw that post too. The fact they were crying about muh tariffs and shit without understanding that foreign crap getting more expensive is literally the entire point of the tariffs and that it was totally unintentional and something unintended by Trump was pretty funny.

With live ammo I hope. You've literally got the mexican president calling to overthrow the US government and telling her citizens in the US to riot. It's an invasion in every sense of the word and the faggots need to nut up and deal with it instead of trying to go "through the courts" even five minutes.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that he still thinks Canada is soooooo much better than AmeriKKKa and that orange man bad, he just did some mental gymnastics to allow himself to move back anyway?

Worked great for Saints Row lmao

Nijisanji managed to shoot themselves not just in the foot, but in the head several times. It was a great display of incompetence on their part and a much better example of a company run chasing shareholders than this one. I imagine Cover's problem is that some of the girls probably had cooled off and became more lukewarm on the company, some had legitimate health reasons to leave, and their management pushed a rather minor internal change that made those girls decide they wanted to bow out while the ones who had more reason to stay shrugged it off.

So I actually looked into this properly since these graduations have been popping up in several places I frequent lately and it annoyed me how little people understood investments.

First of all, Towa, another talent of the company, explained that the reason they keep using "disagreements with management" as a reason is that it's just a catch all term. They can use it if they don't feel like sharing the personal reasons they're splitting with the company, if they have actual disagreements, or just as a way to sponge up any gossip. It doesn't actually mean anything and it doesn't mean the company suddenly and spontaneously flipped the "be evil" switch on the wall by accident.

Second, a lot of people blame them "going public" but ignore why they did. It was seed investors, which means they just gave the company some money early on for some large chunk of it but not necessarily a majority. That means that most likely the investors had a term that said that after a set period they'd want a way to make their money back, which would either be the company buying them out or it going public so they could sell the shares they owned on the open marker. The boss of the company regularly tells them no in the public shareholder meetings anyway in "office speak", so it's pretty clear he or his "faction" still holds majority and he didn't use the opportunity to sell his own.

Overall it seems more like internet sensationalism to me.

As an American I like Japans culture. They're responsible, respectful and mindful of their role and effects on society as a whole. I want them to feel comfortable being Japan and continuing to be Japan without outside pressure. That being said, they were off their rockers around the war. In addition to what Akira said, they were entirely unreasonable and had to be deal with by force or they'd just keep blundering along without considering peace at all. These days they're much more chill and America can get along with them without threat of force, they're even one of our few allies that pays for their own shit and tries to align with us so we really should have begun loosening our restrictions on them a LONG time ago, especially their military restrictions. Right now they're like an American colony and they're going to pay for it if we don't hurry up. I know Trump was talking about it last time he was president, I hope he does something soon.

I hope they just start jumping any foreign looking guy with a camera out and streaming anywhere in Japan. Wouldn't even have to keep it up long, just long enough the baboon clowns doing stupid shit get scared and run to some other country they think they can milk for easy money and views while bitching they're not being catered to enough. I want to visit soon and I worry they'll make me look bad just being so dogshit even if I act normal.

Goes to Japan and knows so little Japanese he can say maybe five words while running like a bitch from a guy built like a flagpole. Hilarious. I hope the Japanese start beating streamers on sight at this point. The "expat" faggots are all a cancer anyway.

Sure. In the short term it will raise prices and hurt American consumers. In the long term? lol

Basically your worst fear here is that the companies we're trying to force back will play hardball, but Trump isn't someone you can mess with easily since he's a big time business man and understands the game, so I'm not worried. It might hurt your wallet at first but not only will your wages go up as jobs come back to us, but prices will be forced down as competition rises.

Not really. They were originally supposed to be more of a "character" than the person behind them, though obviously there were a few times when companies were dumb enough to think that was the ONLY thing that mattered like with Kizuna or the Game Club Project. It's mostly just western bandwagoners that don't get it that I've seen that use that "streamer with an avatar" card before, especially those VAs you mentioned. I specifically remember Amalee for instance making fun of Vtubers and the people who watched them right before they blew up in the west, then she magically changed her opinion on them and said she was always a fan. Even then she still just does it ironically though.

Seems like a failure in gatekeeping.

Can't help but feel all of this is kind of missing the entire concept of what a Vtuber actually is in the first place... Especially the dooby thing.

Oh god. I fucking hate streamers so much, they're everything wrong with "content creation" (I hate that term) these days. She's doing one of those "subathon" things where streamers just beg for subs to keep the stream going, even sleeping on stream for money. She does one literally every year.

I remember people used to put actual effort into their stuff, make actual entertaining videos and ideas, not sleep on stream and play react content VODs instead.

Apex Legends. It's not really supposed to be Aerith but a costume for one of their characters you can buy. I don't know why, but I think the juxtaposition of Aerith and this one (Horizon) is what somehow woke people up to how insanely ugly she is.

Never though I'd say this, but America should could learn a thing or two from Uganda.

I fucking hate those people. They go squat in someone else's country, generally are completely obnoxious while they do it, and complain about the place they're supposed to be a GUEST in. Not only that, but their complaints are almost always political complaints, never just a simple cultural thing, but stuff they want forced through with "voting" as they act high and mighty like they know how to run the country better than it's actual citizens. All the while they go to parades like this to try to give the appearance it's a popular stance but if you look at the crowd it's just a bunch of liberal white jobless squatters, whatever actual Japanese friends they've managed to dupe into supporting it with them, and "Japanese" born outside of the country (second generation immigrants) and we all know how THEY are. All the fuckers know each other too, they're a cancer. Generally just shill vlogs on youtube about a maid cafe they went to while bitching about women's rights in Japan or some shit. Never learn Japanese either, the dumb fucks.

Look up "Night media"

Their friends will get a bailout behind the scenes, and if anyone points it out loudly enough they'll get dogpiled by the globohomo media until they shut up. Anyone who isn't willing to play ball with them won't get shit. They'll allow this to be bad enough and have the news amplify it to the point people are shaken and don't trust banks nearly as much anymore, but then they'll graciously push their fedcoins even harder so they have an even tighter grip on your money and start to push for removing banks and other forms of currency to reduce your options and herd you into their bullshit GovCoin. The whole fuckin' thing's planned.