(CW: Vaush, pedos) Vaush officially confirmed as a pedo.
From your other comments here, you're overreacting.
Sexualized depiction of minors in anime is a HUGE issue, alongside hypersexualization of women in general too, but it's not what the whole medium of anime is. The same way there's a lot of bad stuff in the shonen genre (basically the category of anime whose target audience is teenage boys), there's plenty of stuff that don't do that, and there's also stuff that actually criticizes that practice.
Anime movies from Ghibli and other works like Perfect Blue, for example, don't rely on this this type of stuff. For anime series, Wonder Egg Priority is very pro-LGBT and criticizes Japan's issues with sexual assault, all while having a cast of only girls without sexualizing them. There's other works too like Trigun and The Promised Neverland that, as far as I remember, don't rely on this type of sexualization at all, and these are not small niche anime, they are well known works.
Only if you’re Japanese, by your own definition. Nobody else would call Spongebob anime, come on now. Why are so many here so over the top freaked out by criticism of sexualised cartoons of children?
The point of what they said is that the Japanese call every type of cartoon Anime, but everyone else in the world only calls Anime specifically the animated media that comes from Japan, or in some cases animated media that uses the same style as the Japanese, for example, Avatar: The Last Airbender sometimes being called an anime.
Also, no one is freaking out about the criticism you're giving, everyone agrees with you on this front, but you're clearly uninformed enough to lump everything together as the same thing, without giving it a gram of nuance and material thought. Japan have a pretty big problem with these practices that are still unresolved, it is clearly gonna show up on some of the stuff they produce and they SHOULD be criticized for it, but this is not the type of stuff that is gonna change tomorrow, it takes time.
Right now, my phone's front camera is busted since 1 and a 1/2 to 2 years now.
But in the past, usually issues with my PC. First was the CPU or my motherboard, I still don't know which one was the problem, but it would freeze and I needed to hard reset. Ended up changing both, so the issue went away.
Then it was my GPU, it would crash frequently on some titles and had heavy stuttering. It would downclock extremely for a brief moment all the time, but only when at 99% usage. I had to hard reset all the time too, had to RMA it twice before the issue was fixed.
And lastly it was my SSD. I still have this 1TB nvme, where again it would just freeze and require a hard reset. I knew it was the SSD because there was some indication on the logs of my system. I ended up buying another one, but I should still RMA the old one because I think it's still under warranty, just need to check it.
Gachas and lootboxes are addictive and money grubbing. You cannot do much about them. Casinos, gambling and lootboxes have existed for thousands of years, with not just capital but objects, kingdoms and even people used as bets. Now in modern world its just some currency bills as bets.
I get what you're saying, but there's a difference between me gambling 50 currency with my friends on who is gonna win X match and a full blown casino or videogame that uses every psychological tactic possible to manipulate me into spending more and more money at every turn. One is a social interaction between people, the other is an exploitative tactic to make you spend. You can a 100% allow one and ban the other.
I have a principle set in stone as a belief and basis for all things in life and beyond, Pareto's principle. I think morality, communism/altruism and all these things are also not 100% applicable, but only 80% (or 85, 90% whatever). So we will always be stuck with that 10-20% of capitalism, for example. And beyond that is diminishing returns. It is better to accept that, and work towards efficiency and optimal results.
I don't want in any shape, way or form to disrespect what you believe and since you said it's set on stone I have no intent on changing it whatsover, but I think a more materialist approach could help here.
The DPRK exists and it is full on socialist. Sure it isn't communist yet, and won't be until the rest of the world becomes socialist, but there's nothing to suggest we can't fully achieve it.
Again, I agree and I'm aware of the stuff you talk in the first paragraph. I'm from Lemmygrad, I defend China as an AES country.
Now for the second paragraph, I'm not trying to blame China for gacha, I'm just pointing it out as an issue that also exists there. That comes with their acceptance of capital, and is something they can be criticized for. My criticism is not to belittle them, but because I believe they can do better.
There was recent news of China clamping down on lootboxes and predatory monetization in gaming, which would be great and would set a precedent for the rest of the world, but last I saw they walked back on it.
I don't play Genshin, I only used it as an example, but I play League Of Legends, which is owned by Riot Games that is owned by Tencent and recently there has been the inclusion of gacha mechanics for skins that heavily relies on fomo for people to spend money on, and it's really expensive. Meanwhile Riot also just fired 530 people worldwide and killed multiple projects and iniciatives inside the company, while starving other projects too. This is a billion dollar worth company owned by Tencent, and it all deserves criticism like any other games and companies.
I agree with you, I was just giving a simple example of more simple product, I didn't mean to imply that the relations are exactly the same to the ones in a capitalist country, neither that China isn't responsible for basically all the production in the world and affordable access to said production.
Still, while most private companies can't just do whatever they want like in the rest of the world, the fact of the matter is that profit is still the primary concern for a lot of consumer products made in China, and it's something worth to keep in mind. The existence of gacha games like Genshin are a perfect example of this.
Yeah, but Chinese private companies are still that, private companies that are profit driven. There's exciting and even cheap to buy stuff coming out of China, like IEMs for example, but it's still a good ideia to keep expectations in check for the motivation of these companies.
I prefer to keep Shader Precaching on for the Media Foundation fix that Valve uses, but I left Background Processing of Vulkan Shaders off, if I'm not wrong this way it should only update when you open a game.
Alternatively you could disable it and use Proton-GE for the games that need the Media Foundation fix. Performance should be the same nowadays with it on or off.
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I'm only gonna comment on Hexbear and you're completely wrong. They do have less patience with libs comming there saying shit, but everytime that happens, there's always people actually engaging and backing up all of their claims. It's not only dunking.
Just why? Every single human being deserve to have access to housing, water, food, education, etc. We NEED those things.
Companies and corporations, want their workers healthy, housed, disease free, etc.
No they don't. They want to pay as little as possible for you to produce as much as possible, it's literally the logic of the system. Corporations don't care about their workers, customers or anyone but their owners and investors.
If they could slave people they would. And look at that, they actually do.
Just realized its a .world user, they can't see my comment lol.
Feliz aniversário camarada Oppo! 🎉
Fucking doubt it. This is just an excuse for the layoffs. All the big streamers have tons and tons of subs, a lot of users have Twitch Prime since it's so cheap and they show multiple unskippable ads all the time. Plus, they are owned by Amazon and use their server infrastructure. This is 100% bullshit.
You're the one applying morals where there is none.
Communism is not about morality and we doesn't have a moral judgment of the world. It's simply looking at the material reality of things and them formulating ideas from that, the exact opposite of idealism (religion is a form of idealism).
What that user said is an exageration, sure, but they are not far off. Your only options under capitalism are work and pray to earn enough to pay for rent, or live in the streets. There's no choice here, you have no safety nets, no certainty.
The reality is that the biggest FOSS projects are usually bankrolled by companies that need them, not because of some moral good, but because it makes more monetary sense to do it that way.
Now for the other side, projects with no money incentive involved, where people contribute because they want too, usually are slow or in need of more contributors, precisely because, under capitalism, they don't have enough free time, they need to worry about their full time job and all the other priorities in their lives before they can sit down and contribute some code.
Again, there no moral judgement here, it's simply a description of the material reality.
I never had expensive headphones, but I had gaming headsets, which are not cheap here, and they are mostly bad. Now I use IEMs because there's a lot of really cheap options that are great.
None of us claims that Russia is a communist state, nor do we praise it, this is a straight up lie. If you want to oppose our CRITICAL support of Russia's fight against NATO and the west hegemony, go ahead, but provide actual arguments instead of fabricating shit.
Now for the DPRK, it is a communist state, stop consuming propaganda uncritically. Go search what people that study the DPRK have to say. Inform yourself on the fight of the Korean people, what they have gone through and what the US did there.
I'm not engaging any further than this, you're just acussing us of shit and repeating common liberal talking points.
You don't need to like us, but at the very least learn and engage honestly if you want to oppose what we have to say. Comparing us to fascists just shows how you know jack shit of what you're talking about and how condescending you are. The only reason the world doesn't speak german right now is because of the Soviets, don't fucking compare MLs to fascists. Also, "mUh ReAl LefTisM", fuck off.
I've been using it for a few months now and I think it is great. I can't compare it to Goodreads and others because I have not used them, but it is pretty straight forward to add a book, give a rating and write a review. I like the UI a lot too.
The only problems I have with it is that the API they use is not very good for adding books in my native language and that backup is manual and I don't know if it has integration with Android's automatic backup.
Also, it would be nice to be able to write multiple reviews for the same book, it would be cool to see how much my vision and opinion of a particular title changed over time. I should probably suggest this feature on their github.
I'm not from the US but I'll answer anyway.
Like a comrade already commented, I think there's a problem with the way you're thinking of capitalism. It would be useful to know at least a few of these complaints you saw that feel like it's only venting.
Answering your question, I would like to see a planned economy where humans needs are put above profits. We can make a better world for everyone, instead of only for a extremely small part of the world that holds all the power.
That being said, lawmakers cannot enact meaningful changes under capitalism like you suggest. This is not an opinion, it is how the system works. Allende in Chile is the perfect example of this, he tried to reform the system, suffered a coup and was assassinated.
In capitalism the ruling class are the bourgeoisie, that is to say, the ultra-rich, and they as a class have interests that are the direct opposite of everyone else, the working class, the proletariat. This is a crucial part of capitalism, the system that Marx dedicated his whole life studying and describing.
Because of this, every time workers rights are secured or better living conditions are achieved through the system, like free housing for the poor or public healthcare, the ruling class lose some of their power which they will get back eventually. Besides that, it is difficult enough to even get to that point because they will do everything to stop such rights and safety nets from being approved in the first place, as the ruling class can just lobby and buy politicians. It's not a coincidence that public healthcare is not a thing in the US and that so many people are living in the streets, that medication is so expensive all over the world and that the US is so averse to unions still to this day.
Capitalism will literally cook us alive, reform is not the way forward.
The post is not talking in morally good/bad terms.
Also of course it is presented this way, memes are supposed to generate some sort of emotion, what did you expect?
If you were open to discussion you would have started it already, your use of ad hominem tells otherwise.
I know this is off topic from both the OP and even more from OOP, and this thread is not really a good place for this, but I'm watching Utena right now and I'm loving it. I'm only half way through, but it has been amazing so far, all the way from the silly to the serious moments.
I hope it ends up touching me someway too, it's been a while since a show made me really feel something, and that's one of the reasons I love this medium so much. I'm gonna be honest, I've been really questioning my gender lately and I don't know what I am right now, but it's great knowing trans people love Utena so much!
Also, I agree with your statement about queer expression on anime. I only saw a few things, but it feels very different. Though I'm still new into looking for queer representation in general.
Do you have any recommendations be it anime or not? I really do want to continue exploring this after I finish Utena.