If you're at Evo this year and you have the means, if you have any JP players in your pool, offer snacks/water bottles or even dinner if you can. $25 USD is currently 4k JPY (about $40 worth of purchasing power in Japan). Traveling in the US _hurts_ rn.
This article speculates the reason for the swift cancellation of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze (...) release in Japan might no be due to protests as publishers ignored those before, but because they found Regnery platforms authors with ties to the Unification Church
She joined a cult called Access Cociousness, everyone should be wary of her business. Is not a well known group but they engage in the same abuse and gaslighting as other of these "coaching" and "awakening" cults.
I have no idea how many SEAsian or African players go to Evo and how many of those are well off enough to do the trip without seeing red or how many are sponsored, but American prices are prohibitely expensive for almost anyone non American.
Masami Obari has historically drawn & designed mecha in a way that accentuates their anthropomorphic traits, especially regarding faces and hands. I now believe that all of that was leading to Bravern's humanlike lips looking like he's about to feast upon Isami's nipples
@Mootmonthly
alright hear me out Peony is divorced because he never mentions his wife and she's far back in the card (as if things were already going under when it was taken), so Penny is Peony's daughter too and we didn't see her because Penny lives with his ex wife
This is why people hate major events take place in the US (this and Visa requirimets/dealing with airport and inmigration staff specially the browner you look)
@DiMonoH2O
@Wunkolo
@clipstudiopaint
SAI/SAI 2 are one time purchase and is developed by literally one guy so I'm hopeful he will be more receptive to feedback than a company and also wanna avoid this or fiasco
@blue_john23
Unification Church is the cult Shinzo Abe belonged to and after Abe's assassination it was brought to light how involved they were in Japanese politics and how they abused members. Anything asociated with them is getting the axe, like this book.
@blue_john23
Unification Church is the cult Shinzo Abe belonged to and after Abe's assassination it was brought to light how involved they were in Japanese politics and how they abused members. Anything asociated with them is getting the axe, like this book.
@arvalis
this stuff sucks, I wish the developers were transparent about WHO they are feeding to the AI, the other day I saw Masahiro Ito sad a lot of AI art looks like hisbolder artworks punching himself down, what if they look like that because his artwork was fed to the AI?
@IGN
People should read the article
“The fact is, Mr. Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a Pirates of the Caribbean film? Correct?”
“That is true,” replied Depp.
Respect
@MangaMoguraRE
literally soul vs souless. Now the art looks like 90% of AI pictures. They would rather do this over higher quality scans? I wanna see the original art.
@NVR_NDS
Let's not ignore the reality that Japan has awful salaries, labor protections and work schedules on top of the tanking Yen. This observation isn't about that is bad to extend kindness to Japanese players, but that players from significantly poorer regions frequent Evo for years-
@SeaDragonGamer
@PoorlyAgedStuff
Artist made this cartoon and a KS that failed. People started to make up terrible stories about how the bear was shot after the photo the art is based on was taken or that she unpaid employees and stole KS money, when there was no studio and KS money is automatically returned.
@KingBobbyG
@zephyrmetalwing
@Dorriiaan
turns out Hellena lied about the salary (several journalist verified and saw proof from people close to the deal) and has gone silent and yeah it was a shit show
@CodexNi
@Youmacon
you are gonna pee your pants when you learn the Kyoto Manga Museum has a section praising scanlation for popularizing manga outside Japan
@OTW_News
one of your candidates Tiffany is basically calling LGBT content "pedophilia" and trying to make the site more appealing to monetization right in your faces
@blue_john23
Regnery is the publisher that launched the original release of the book. They have a list of authors who work for them in their website and people have investigated and found some are members of the cult, which may mean also Regnery has ties with the cult.
@EmberWickArt
@arvalis
Hidetaka Miyazaki: "Don't rely on the gross factor to portray an undead dragon. Can't you instead try to convey the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin?" <-- Imagine if we all could be this good with words lol
@in_seclusion
fandoms needs to stop treating high production values anthology projects as a zine because by definition zines are low budget/diy projects and they are riding in the term to make these work look more "humble" and so these things happen
@McKenzieDewese
@zachsilberberg
we live in fast fashion nightmare times, not caring for your clothes benefits brands. Wash them as little as possible (clean smears asap in the sink, put under the sun to kill odors). Separate whites and color. Don't fall for the softener meme. Avoid dryers. That's how I get by.
@Deatsu
@NXOnNetflix
at this point I will take any sign Capcom still cares for the franchise beyond just porting the game to every device under the sun
@PlayTemtem
Have you lost your minds? No ban appeal? You also have to account for the fact that most normies don't know what a exploit is and may go their whole life thinking the glitch is how the game is intended to behave. You should have sent a warnings instead depending on the case.
@SappySappster
loli literally means this aesthetic... Is a Japabese slang for petite women. Trigger calls Rebecca a loli, Raita calls Shuten Douji a loli etc.
@LillyTellez
Esta es una caricatura del Peruano Carlos Tovar Samanez. En Peru se construyo un muro con alambre de puas para mantener a los pobres alejados de las colonias de ricos. Igual es asi como se ven las afueras de muchas ciudades Mexicanas. Pero que vas a saber vieja estupida.
@NVR_NDS
and yet the conversation surrounding them is not this, they would be told "why are you here if you a poor" or "they must be lying, if they are at Evo, they are for sure rich" (when people save years or make huge sacrifices). Literally "modern minority" and "thing: Japan" meme.
@AliceJaneGray
Adopt one that suits you. I hate people with your mentality. The proper thing you should have said from the start is "can you match me with one?". Shelters aren't a shopping catalogue.
"This is why people buy instead of adopt" yeah that's exactly the problem.
@Rhyperior111
@Akilvers
the pokedex entry says Banette can be born from abandoned toys so it has always been true it can skip the Shuppet phase, just never shown in-game
@KrisWolfheart
people can point out how zines were mad at old movies back in the day but the disinterest and burnout is nowhere near as bad as recently
To add context to this warning: Fandom police types who run zines are known to stalk social media of participants and weaponize personal information that was given for payment and shipment.
A friendly reminder to not ever give them your money or draw for their project, since the mods are kv antis (and declined all cool artists, who even follow kv artists), donating to a questionable charity and pretend to be 1 person for April fools instead of addressing the issue
@arvalis
sorry meant to say "a lot of his older art looks like AI art"
And is not just him but I have noticed vibes of multiple popular video game concept artist from AI art I have seen so I don't think they are only feeding it public domain classical art.
@RevistaMigala
@Yonaka_Tsuki
el hospital es para cualquier persona que crea que lo necesite, la forma en que has estado usando la palabra enfermo en esta discusion suena casi estigmatizante
@LuxuryTweeting
iirc the creator did it during a programmer jam night, and idk how it became what it is today but the creator said "what the fuck are you doing people, this tech can only store links" more or less
@graymattercc
@AniNewsAndFacts
You are conflating writer with author. They are both authors. In most writer-illustrator duos is extremely rare for the illustrator to never contribute to the narrative or characterizations and same goes for the writers, lots of times the writer describes how characters should be
@Chronokeeper
@shiftingzero
She was on NDA and was staying silent despite how many questions she got, until PlatinumGames just went and lied about what happened so is not hard to figure why now
Sadly NDAs often been used so client can lie all they wanna while people subjected to it can't do shit but watch
@MiamiMoleMan
@thiccmatisse
family brought to a pawn shop(?) a very old scrapbook from a relative that was a photographer who docummented SEAsia. The book contains 38 photos of the Nankin massacre, an event for which not much evidence remains.
@controlleraunt
She didn't create YoI (Sayo Yamamoto, a short even existed before the series) and that tweet was never proven to be real. It was part of a 2ch smear campaing both because writting YoI and hosting a radio show with her trans friend.
bleh twitter mobile doesn't untag people
how do you read someone saying "I don't want to be hit by people old enough to be my father" and make it about anime boys and somehow shove a complain about fujoshi
@daze3x
@zerowondering
Is not inherently bad, but it's clear that for the sixth time in a row for some reason they didn't design the game around it. People voiced this worry before release.
Saw a streamer skipping a lot of trainers and still at the league they were 5-7 levels above Marnie
Ken Akamatsu is aware that the overwhelming majority of Japanese illustrators, photographers, cosplayers, etc. oppose AI and many are having trouble with their pictures being stolen for AI datasets. Traitor.
@teoswurId
From my therapists: The fact that these thoughts scare you make them absurd thoughts. They aren't part of you nor part of your personality. And opening about it is a good thing. Shaming and accussing people of their ideas actually being their real self is counterproductive.
@ArloStuff
Pretty sure Nintendo picked that studio because they would be more willing to cooperate and take orders. Honestly cooperating with Ghibli and in particular Miyazaki who doesn't like video games sounds hellish.
@stilltribematic
the only conversation about Yasuke online was about MAPPA's shitty working conditions and how they paid 34USD/per cut to animators so no wonder they just suddenly swept it under the rug after it released
this happened in spain, an abuser was hitting his wife and he also hit a child (not his own) in the process, and the guy in the white shirt turned out to be a professional boxer that beat the shit out of him LMAO
@EdgarNunezM
@DannyStarduzt
No se en que mundo vives pero en este es bastante normal vivir con tus papas, especialmente en Latinoamerica y Asia.
Gente de la generacion de mis papas que ya pasaron 60 o se quedaron a vivir con sus papas o se llevaron a sus papas a su casa lol.
@arvalis
Why did artist, specially fandom artist got so allergic to the idea of people pointing influences or how a character looks like another
This is praise in a lot of circles
They fired an artist because of a 2019 tweet supporting abortion lol
Korean companies fire anyone they suspect of being feminist, specially if it goes public and there's public pressure to do so
This been happening since 2018 at least
@ssnufkins
story time: the localization took a lot of liberties and put a lot of stuff like this to make the character types have more distinct personalities. The staff liked what NoA did so much they took the game and re-translated it, re-released it in Japan as DnM e+
@felixcisempra
@IvoryyIce
Except cons already pay to particular guests artists to attend that know will pull a lot of people. Floor artists don't pull as much people as you think and many go hoping to cash on windows shoppers. Individually having to pay each to attend would basically kill artists alley.
@PlayTemtem
Some devs or anti-cheat tools have marked finishing an area too fast or trading a lot at speeds possible whitin the game as cheating. I have known of cheat detection that banned or blocked login of players over anti-virus and other software. There's a lot to unpack.
@J0joInTheStars
@GBOmega2
@SappySappster
Don't care, it has always been used to talk about aesthetics. Lolita fashion and culture also came to be in the 70s and borrowed the word from the book, most people haven't read the book at the time and it was victim of telephone game. You also gonna cancel Lolita fashion?