“ They really aren’t. A currency is only worth anything if normal people are willing to trade them en masse. For the majority/normal people to trade them en Maße there needs to be an universally agreed upon use for them. A use that taxes give, since no matter who you are, you must pay your taxes in the state issued currency.
Crypto and other alt currency tokens are worthless by definition”
https://reddit.com/r/technology/s/TTK0bCHDDN
Don’t necessarily agree with it, but I get why someone would have that take.
Other than the 1488 crowd wanting to be able to say ‘no blacks allowed’ in certain businesses, I’m genuinely curious what else is in there that should make it get repealed?
I personally would like it not repealed mainly because I would be personally affected by said policy obviously, but I’m curious in the reasons outside of just that, if y’all have reasons other than that, as AFAIK, the CRA violates freedom of assembly in the view of people who have that opinion.
First, I'll just say that unlike last year, there were no COVID restrictions and basically no one wore masks unless it was a part of their cosplay.
Momocon started on Thursday, and holy fuck, sometimes I tend to lose track of how popular certain games/shows are, but the first thing I see once I get out of the parking garage and go towards registration is a sea of Genshin Impact cosplayers, whether they be Venti, Beidou, Zhongli, the Raiden Shogun, Tartaglia/Childe, Shenhe, Lisa, Ningguang, I basically saw Genshin cosplayers the most throughout the whole weekend. What made that even more interesting is for a lot of the male characters, I saw more girls cosplaying them than guys. Venti, Tartaglia/Childe, Diluc, Kaeya, Xiao, for all of them, I saw more girls cosplaying them than guys, and for Zhongli, the split was about 50/50. I even saw people dressed up as Primogems which was pretty funny. (Primogems are the premium currency used to summon for weapons and characters in Genshin Impact, for those who are unaware.
Outside of Genshin, League of Legends was the post cosplayed game that I saw, but about like 40% of those cosplayers were either Jinx, Vi or Caitlin, I'm assuming because Arcane came out semi-recently and was a lot of normies/non-gamers' first exposure to anything from League of Legends and was honestly pretty good at least in my opinion. Most of the others were varying Ahri skins, the other members of K/DA, or a few Qiyanas that I saw, but I did see some of the guys like Ezreal, etc, although not nearly as much as the girls.
Anime wise, the singular most popular character that I saw cosplayed was Yor from SPY X Family, and specifically her spy outfit. I think I saw exactly one person cosplaying with the red sweater the entire weekend, but everyone else used her spy outfit. Didn't matter if they were hot, fat, whatever, I saw that spy outfit everywhere. Her and Rumi/Mirko were everywhere.
The last thing I'll say about the cosplaying stuff is that the one thing I did regret not doing all weekend is cosplaying. Some of the stuff I saw is honestly pretty damn easy to do/get, even if you don't wanna try too hard. Power and Makima from Chainsaw Man are extremely easy to do because they wear white button-down shirts, black pants and ties, and all you need to get that's specific to them are the wigs, plus horns in the case of Power. Or you could even just buy an Akatsuki cloak if you're a Naruto fan, or if you like My Hero Academia, either the UA uniform or the PE uniform for UA and not even bother being a character as you can say you're just a support student.
The exhibit hall was amazing, with an arcade full of dance/rhythm games, fighting game cabinets, stuff like Pac-Man, and more, hundreds of vendors selling figures, shirts, hats, "suspect merchandise", cosplay weapons, advertising their games, you name it, you could find basically everything there if you so wanted to. I bought a bunch of shirts, Chrom/Lucina's Falchion from one of the cosplay weapon sellers, a Kamen Rider driver, and some more stuff. It was also a FGC tournament, I entered Smash where I underperformed but I'm not too upset at how it went because I learned how to play some specific matchups that I've been needing to learn for a while.
I didn't do that many panels, but for the panels I did do, or tried to before I saw the massive lines, they were great. A bunch of Vtubers were there doing panels, which I honestly don't know how the con does the OPSEC needed to prevent fans from finding out who those Vtubers are IRL, but Ironmouse, Zentreya, a few Hololive Vtubers I forgot the name of and 3 of the Holostars, male vtuber idols were all at the convention and from what I heard, the people loved it. I missed the one thing I planned on doing, because the karaoke line was like 300 people deep and they had to call it after 250 most of the days, but I'm fine with that because I went to 2 parties this weekend which were both fun as hell.
They were both featured on Momocon's website, but ran by outside places. The one from Friday was in a kinda rough part of Atlanta, but it was fun, I got the VIP tickets to skip the massive line, and there was a sushi bar, gaming truck, a DJ who did fusions with rap and anime openings, and a lot of girls in stuff I'm like "holy fuck I didn't know they made clothes that small that weren't cosplay" for both days. The one on Saturday, like damn, some things you just don't believe until you see them, like skirts that don't even go below the ass, it's kinda wild.
Sunday was uneventful, as I just watched Smash top 8 then left as it took 5 hours due to one set taking like 40 minutes to finish because of the characters chosen by those players, but I had a very fun time this past weekend, and I want to go to more conventions if only so I can start cosplaying myself.
No one likes the desexed/covered up versions of characters. I’ve seen more girls cosplaying as genderbent versions of guys than I have of girls cosplaying as the “non-sexualized” versions of characters like Starfire, Raven, etc.
Sex does in fact sell.
Asking this because it’s known that the reason everything’s been offshored is for profit, so I’m curious as to how much people here are willing to pay extra for a product if it gets made in the US again. 10% extra? 20%? 30%? How much of a markup for American labor is too much?
Pushshift is the tool that allows for reveddit and unddit to work, along with dozens of different moderation tools, and today it's been kicked from its access to Reddit’s Data API as explained here.
Should the taxpayers have any involvement in funding sports stadiums, or no? Been reading so many articles and Reddit threads about the whole thing with the A’s, and there’s multiple things, but three things stick out to me especially.
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John Fisher never truly planned on keeping the team in Oakland to begin with, and used Oakland to negotiate with Vegas in order to get the public funding for the stadium that he needs.
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Oakland, or at least the area around the Oakland Alameda Colisseum is a shithole that needed renovating, and sports teams don’t actually bring in the economic benefits they advertise (mainly because the cost of the tax breaks and other tax benefits to build the stadiums is generally more than the tourist dollars needed to break even)
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Sports fandom is a lot more localized than I thought, at least in the US. LA doesn’t care about the Chargers, Vegas doesn’t care about the Raiders, but care about the Golden Knights because it’s a team original to Vegas that is a men’s team (the Aces are the Vegas WNBA team, but of course, WNBA).
Just stuff I’ve been thinking about all day today.
I didn't wanna get involved because god damn that was a massive thread, but it does get me thinking: does fictional media have any influence in the things that people do?
I say yes, if only because the left has been programmed through the Long March through both fictional and nonfictional media, hundreds of shows, etc, and the impact of fictional media on people should be quite obvious, considering we boycott shows for being woke and whatnot, but I guess what I’m trying to ask is how much of an influence is it, and is it worth regulating, why or why not?
I know people on both aspects of that whole loli debate, I know people who like lolis that have had to report people to the cops for pedo shit, and I know a loli lover who admitted to “guiding” someone through their transition, so I can’t say that I really have my own opinion on it tbh, I just think that the issue is gonna come up at some point because if society ever does come back to normal, we’re gonna have to deal with “the people who were trying to enduce my child into transitioning watch these weird Japanese cartoons and the weird Japanese cartoons have depictions of young kids in sexual situations”.
/u/Steampunk_Moustache actually brought up something that I honestly never thought about, and well, maybe they can explain it better here than in that chaotic mess of a thread. What exactly makes art so different? Like it was mentioned several times that anime characters look nothing like actual people (which very much depends on the anime and is not a universal thing), but imo, a human is still a human, so does that matter that much? Like I can go on Twitter or Insta and go searching for a few hundred cosplay girls that either naturally have anime girl bodies or got work done for it, but is it just the literal art styles you’re talking about? I’m gonna stop rambling and let this thread be the thread, as I wanna see this discussion.
I still watch sports unlike many people here (who all have good reasons to, tbh, I just can't get myself to quit), so I was watching this video about this seasons NBA MVP race, and at the end, it shows a clip of a shitty former player by the name of Kendrick Perkins (who’s only known for being a bench player on the 2008 Celtics team) trying to insinuate that the only reason that Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki (probably misspelled) and Nikola Jokic won their MVPs and that Jokic is only in the conversation for MVP this year because they’re white, which actually lead to Jokic’s MVP stock falling as of late.
I went to Reddit and went looking for threads about it just because and the downvoted comments are the ones where they're defending the anti-white racism, the people who are calling this out are the ones being upvoted. This makes me somewhat hopeful because the Reddit users who are fans of a sport which is majority played by tall black people are willing to call this shit out, which is a wonder for Reddit as we all know. I, like Smith1850 am just a black person who doesn't believe in all the woke shit, and this makes me hopeful that maybe we can actually resolve modern society peacefully and without going into a race war, if people on an openly leftist site with secret rules about trans people can openly complain about black people being racist against white people. Maybe.
Been watching several videos on it, and one complaint I’ve seen in general is Congress has too many fucking lawyers in office and the fact that there’s way too many lawyers means no one in Congress has had a “normal” job before politics. Another one is the whole complaining about corporate lobbying, but idk how you ban corporate lobbying without banning individual lobbying.
On the whole too many lawyers thing, several states in Australia have outright banned property developers and real estate agents from running for office, and there’s talk of making it federal, so I’m curious if that’s even constitutional in the US, just because having so many lawyers in Congress has turned out to be a problem.
Every time I listen to Louis Rossmann, I realize we live in a world where not only do people not own most of the stuff that they use, they're HAPPY that they don't own most of the stuff that they use. Louis' latest video is about someone who got their car stolen in their driveway, with their kid still in the car, and when the cops called Volkswagen to see if they could locate the car, they said no because the person who got their car stolen had been a few days late on that subscription for the month, which while I get if the person herself had been late on the payments had asked that would be understandable, but it's the fucking cops trying to get the woman's car back with her kid in it.
Louis linked the article in the description of the video and apparently the thieves dropped the kid off somewhere and then just took the car, but regardless, I don't think if the police call a car manufacturer, they should make the person who owns the car pay up first, there should be an emergency exception, but they're probably trained (poorly, considering most customer service reps that aren't in banks/credit card institutions are shit), to strictly follow their script no matter what, which is pretty bad itself, but goodness is the world messed up.