Louis Rossmann just posted a video on how YouTube’s war against ads is backfiring and I wanted to just ask the question because YT burned money for the vast majority of its existence, but I’m just wondering why is video hosting so expensive in the first place, is it because you need mods to make sure people don’t post CP, legal purposes, videos take too much data, what exactly?

Came to mind because Mortal Kombat 1 is one of the greediest fighting games I’ve ever seen, with the recent announcement of a $12 Halloween fatality plus all characters + DLC adding up to $118, so I’m assuming it’s because Warner Bros/Netherrealm Studios just wants more bonus money, so I’m genuinely curious how that whole thought process came to be, and if there’s any way for society as a whole to counteract that, or is it simply built into capitalism and we’re stuck with this forever.

Edit: I didn’t buy MK1, just know people who did because I go to tournaments

Don’t choose a woman that didn’t choose you, that’s like rule 2 in TRP. I hate what she’s doing, but I don’t know how he wouldn’t have seen it before marrying her.

Yesterday, after work, I went to the store to take just the flu shot, told the person injecting me to give me an extra bandage, which was branded with the logo of the store, put that bandage on in the bathroom, and went home.

Mom asked me where I went, I told her I took the shots, showed her the bandages, she asked if I had my card, I said I did but she never asked for it, and then I went on with my day.

I’m still waiting to see if the shoe drops and she asks to see my card within the next few days, but if that happens, I’ve taken all of you guys’ advice into account, but so far I’m good.

I did it this way mainly because my appointment time, but Mom wasn’t mad or anything that I went without her, last night was just a bit hectic, but hopefully it’s over for now. I’m still looking for places to move, as I definitely don’t wanna deal with this again, but damn, I didn’t know that lower income housing had waiting lists.

Not sure if I can actually avoid it, and considering I don’t have the money to move out just yet, I’m not sure if I can even really avoid taking it, so I’m trying to see if I have any options outside of just confronting mom there, as I already have told her this when she told me she wants me to get one in addition to the annual flu shot, but I’m trying to see if the confrontation fails and I end up having to take it, it’s possible to even flush the spike proteins and whatnot out, as a last resort.

If not, then fuck, but if so, I’ll try that, I just saw that MSM says it’s not possible but I wanna make sure that’s actually the case before I do something, so if you guys have had to do that before, let me know. Not having a higher paying job right now sucks ass.

Approved by Akira Toriyama, revealed at New York Comic Con was Dragon Ball Daima, a new series that centers around the aftermath of Goku and all of the main characters on Universe 7’s Earth being turned into kids/de-aged by a demonic force.

God I wish someone would rein in Toriyama’s bad ideas like they did when the manga was still running.

Edit: Link to the trailer: https://youtu.be/CYcrmsdZuyw?si=VwyoWFNcN4BFiKj8

All that most people want right now are for the two manga-exclusive arcs to be animated.

Reading the comments of the people who want it suppressed and didn’t get mass downvoted, I ran into something common:

They want it banned because they believe that the society that they want is completely incompatible with that content existing, or that banning said content is completely consistent with 1A because the US existed for almost 200 years without such content (porn in general, lolisho really only got over here because of anime becoming a sensation) being mass distributed throughout the country.

Going back to lolisho specifically, there’s no way to get around the fact that sexual lolisho art depicts children in sexual situations, and I personally don’t believe that anime looking like it does matters, because that’s still a human out there, so the reaction to it is gonna be what it is regardless. The discussion tends to be a lot more…focused and less calling people authoritarians and pedos when we actually address the elephant in the room, so I might as well do it in the main post instead of a comment.

I’m just a college student that’s not that well informed on why this is being used as a canary in the coalmine, but I’ll let y’all have at it.

Needed to make this a main post for the sake of visibility, but in general, I think reset the clock did a lot more damage than help, because of the fact that people believe that the only reason you could ever be against a certain thing, is because you’re engaging in it yourself, when we know for a fact that isn’t the case.

To be specific, it is very much possible to be against loli/shota porn and not be an IRL predator. People like Ableist forget that, while I’m not against it existing per se, I understand why certain places would ban it altogether, and I would actually like for Ableist or anyone else to actually post the specific places where “governments ban loli/shota porn and waste police resources” where people have actually been arrested for the sole possession of that fictional content, because as much as you say that, I’ve never seen it. Unless that’s like a European thing, I’ve generally never heard of that before.

I just don’t get why some people don’t understand why the average person thinks that someone who jerks off to loli/shota porn isn’t right in the head.

Don’t have the money to buy gold in the first place, and still essentially with my parents still for college, so what can I do to prepare for what’s probably coming?

Major League Baseball umpires. Don’t really need to explain any more than that. CB Bucknor, Laz Diaz and Angel Hernandez are people that non baseball fans should even know, and yet they do.

“ 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?