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Cake day: January 13th, 2024

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  • That is far the only blunder we should account for. I still remember that:

    • they basically ruined NBA games for people that like that stuff (I don’t play, but making something like that and be the NBA slot machine instead is straight up terrible)
    • they sent lawyers to people’s homes to bully and hand over seize and desist letters
    • they went several times after modders that basically made a WAY better job than 2k slop (several of those times for GTA modders)
    • and the list goes on

    Frankly I don’t really play anything where 2k, Activision, ubisoft and ea touches (and I am sure my list is not complete. Also, anything denuvo can go take a hike). They all deserve to go under. I just wonder sometimes people getting excited to work on projects on these places to be squashed by the realities of “number go up” from these soul suckers.








  • Haven’t watched anything anime related for ages… Never watched initial d. But its possible the nationalist thing is accurate (also: what’s the deal of portrayals on the regular of Germans in their shows?). Regarding the whole over the top “violence” and other stuff, there is for sure a difference in cultures here. I find funny for instance on anime we have the mega villains and all that, but in contrast, if you leave a bike unattended in the middle of Tokyo there is a big chance you still see it next day. Of course there is the whole yakuza thing and scamming tourists, but I would argue criminality is just very different. As for why people lean into sometimes what we consider extreme content, maybe is just an exposure thing? When people are exposed to different realities they tend to be either more or less inclined to see depictions of it or complete opposites.


  • This is an interesting take. I’ve been to Japan as a tourist once, and I can tell it was probably one of my best trips I’ve ever made (the sheer amount of novelty and getting around the people was really cool), and I can attest the people were very nice to me. But I can also tell, if I was part of the work force, the sentiment would be different. I did never see signs against Chinese people anywhere BTW.

    As for the “China bad” part. Check how people brigade on shitter to “cancel people out” (very definition of cancel culture) and you quickly see that some people LOVE the mob mentality. This is also what is going on people going after stuff such as dji for no reason (but I will say straight up, I am not sure if I would trust network equipment easily. Same for me actually applies to cisco as well)