That’s mostly town law than anything. Kyoto wants all buildings to either be traditional Japanese or as plain as possible.
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Honestly this article is blowing this thing out of proportion. I have a very convincing dog bark (in that it sounds like a dog), I’ve barked at most dogs I’ve raised, and they’re totally fine. I’ve raised and trained dozens of dogs in my life that I’ve seen the first four reactions they describe in this article… Read more
The “lost sales” thing is a joke. They count from products that aren’t sold in your region (why do you think it’s popular to pirate those, hmmm) or from people who don’t have the resources for the paid version and just make up an imaginary profit number that they think they deserve.
Don’t keep repeating lies and misrepresentations spouted by corporations that work artists sometimes literally to death
Honestly, more people should pirate manga and anime. Both industries are terrible and just need to crash at this point, since none of the big players are willing to make changes they desperately need.
Piracy damages are non material. They work on the dishonest and fraudulent assertion that each infringement instance constitutes a lost sale. That has been flat out debunked far too much and yet its the excuse always used to keep extending copyright terms and creating ever more draconian rights over IP. Read more
So have sales fallen, or is the increased ”financial damage” simply conjecture based on increased traffic to pirate sites?
One of the problems I’ve always had with “piracy damages” as a concept is it’s completely theoretical and almost always based on the false assumption that the same people pirating something would be legitimately paying customers if piracy wasn’t an option, which is nearly never true.
I guess we’re just ignoring how toxic Anne could be to anyone who was publicly critical of her work.
Yeah, it was hardly angry and sounded like she had legit beef with the guy. There is this whole “Don’t speak bad of the dead thing” that people need to get over. Just because you die doesn’t mean you were not an asshole
Yeah, his phrasing was why I opened the link in the first place. I was expecting to see some giant novel length forum post about how the dude was abusive, especially given that the rest of the article mentions he’s a violent domestic abuser; but her post is literally just a reply almost at the bottom of its own page… Read more
*abuses multiple women and children* Read more
Ashcraft referring to that as “a very angry post” seems like a deeply shitty way to frame it.
The “how dare you speak bad about bad people” bullshit is a tired trope from decades past in order to prevent people from telling the truth about cruel and shitty people. Maybe leave it in the past where it belongs instead of trying to preserve the legacy of corpses who aren’t going to feel sad about it anyway. Or… Read more
Hey Brian, probably a good idea to put a big ol’ [Trigger Warning] on this article since a number of the links lead to discussions of suicide. Read more
Holy shit.
if Lowtax had been more incompetent, SA would never have made it to the point needed for the many infinitely cooler and more creative people who built amazing things out of its bones. Read more
You really can’t turn this around into ‘perhaps it is u who are petty’ - the guy gleefully harassed and targeted minorities, and much of his anguish was that his website matured (to a degree) while he didn’t. The Something Awful website bankrolled his entire lifestyle even as he grifted and complained server costs… Read more
Something Awful produced a wild amount of humor and culture for decades and had a massively outsized influence for a long time. It was a place where I learned a lot about writing, about politics and some other things. Read more
Weird seeing hate for it. Read more