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Word of caution, do NOT read the original manga. It’s kind of infamous for the incredibly controversial direction the story goes in the second half, which the anime thankfully omits.

Conservatives have been labeling anything and everything they don’t like as “porn”. A queer romance novel is “porn”. Two male characters kissing on television is “porn”. Drag queen story time is “porn”. The picture book Heather Has Two Mommies is “porn”. And the thing they’re really most afraid of, educational resources for LGBTQ youth are “porn”.

So by declaring porn illegal, they now have a pretext to go after everything they call “porn”. Their goal isn’t to remove all porn from the internet, it’s to make it harder for people who need those educational resources to access them. It’s not about porn, it’s about “porn”.

They may not know how their own voice sounds, but they are definitely aware that Deaf people are often perceived as sounding odd. Some Deaf people put a lot of practice into learning how to speak, sometimes even with the help of a vocal coach. Others may choose not to even try because of it.

I hate that Discord has taken over most communities and put them in a place unindexed by search engines. I hate it so much.

But this is where users all go in Current Year, and I don’t blame game developers for following the crowd. Especially for smaller multiplayer games, if you want to sustain an active community you’ve gotta have that #matchmaking channel for players to organize.

Also, tbh, Steam Forums ain’t great either. At least they’re searchable, but that’s all that can be said about them. In my experience they’ve often devolved into the most toxic hellholes due to Valve’s lack of moderation. Also not ideal for anything multiplatform, that only covers Steam users.

The other alternative is reddit, but, well, I’m here because I refuse to ever go back to reddit, so, y’know.

I’m here making a point, and you’re willfully ignoring that point to pretend I agree with you.

Did you miss the part where I’m pointing out the fact that it won’t happen? I’m not agreeing with you, I’m making a point.

They should have. But they won’t.

I’m against the death penalty because I don’t believe it should be necessary in a just world, nor should the state ever be trusted with that kind of power.

However, I see the guillotine as symbolizing the last resort in an unjust world. The worst monsters in society commit their injustices in broad daylight, and nothing will be done about it. We know that justice will never be served through the courts. So what then?

I don’t like framing things in terms of doing a bad thing = being a bad person.

But they are undoubtedly doing a bad thing, street racing endangers bystanders and can get people seriously hurt or even killed.

Humans lived past 38 long before modern technology.

It’s 少年. How you want to transliterate that into our alphabet is open to interpretation.

Glad to hear he’s doing well. I had worried maybe the worst might’ve happened.

The majority of users lurk, and those that comment aren’t all commenting on the same post. It’s not at all plausible for 10% of the MAU to be commenting on one thread. Consider that no other thread sees anywhere close to those numbers, this is unheard of.

That’s fine, the exact number isn’t really important. I kind of went for an intentional highball to pitch this as a closer compromise to how long copyright currently lasts.

I’m all in favor of shortening copyright length, but it shouldn’t be tied to a creator’s lifespan. It’s too variable, and it doesn’t make sense for anything that more than one person worked on.

I think a reasonable compromise would be 20 years default, after which point you could apply for a 5 year extension twice. Extensions will only be granted if the work is still being made accessible, either new physical copies are being printed or digital distribution is available.

But I would also include a clause that if a work is no longer accessible, such as being pulled from streaming services, an online game being shut down, software not updated to be compatible with modern platforms, etc, copyright is considered to be in a weaker state where end users are permitted to pirate it for noncommercial purposes.

There’s an argument to be made that ICANN shouldn’t have made .zip a valid TLD due to potential confusion. But that’s ICANN’s problem, and it’s a bit too late to undo that mistake now. You don’t need to worry that there’s something wrong with a Fediverse instance using it. As long as you can tell the difference between a community and a zip file, nothing bad is going to happen.

Takopi’s Original Sin.

Super Famicom/SNES - 1990
Dreamcast - 1998
Xbox - 2001

While Nintendo did briefly change their layout for the N64 and Gamecube, they went back to SNES for the DS (2004) and Wii Classic Controller (2006), and they’ve kept it ever since. So that has been their standard for 21 years now.

I don’t look down at my controller to read the button labels. Swapping them physically makes no sense to me, more moving parts to complicate manufacturing for a feature that I’m never going to look down at.

I use a black 8BitDo Pro 2, dark enough that the button labels that technically exist aren’t readable. Looks nicer that way, don’t need 'em.

I grew up a Nintendo kid, that’s what’s ingrained in my head, and it is a bit of a nuisance sometimes that everything on PC expects Xbox layout. But I just have it remapped in software, problem solved, no reason why I would need to physically move the buttons in hardware.