That is a faulty generalization. There’s no way to prove whether the people who read those manga for free would otherwise pay for them were they not available for free.

That’s not always the truth. It could also be that many of the Manga issues on the site had no official translations available, or were unavailable outside of Japan. There are times where piracy is the only option. Take a recent example with Neon Genesis, which was unavailable in the US for MANY years, outside of…

Not entirely true, since there are a shit ton of places where manga and certain anime (I’m looking at you, Crunchyroll who doesn’t stream Fire Force in my country) is not easily available.

Yeah, and there was no 3 billion dollars in losses.  that’s 3 billion dollars in sales that were never going to happen anyways.  People that pirate don’t want to pay regardless.  They’d rather go without, or find another source.  If the publishers want their money, they need to digitize the comics themselves and put…

Okay. Sure...
Fine him a (measly) $6k independently.

Then ban him from the SAG, and file a police report. Full stop.

Okay, that doesn’t seem to have worked. Second attempt:

‘You’re a fool.’ Okay, cool it Gandalf. And you’re the one who started this by trying to insult me, so, you know, in the words of this moronic incel I know: “it must be really easy to argue when you decide insane things about the people you argue with ahead of time. Self righteousness doesn’t even begin to describe…

Thanks for proving my point. Now shush.

I mean, yeah. That’s pretty much what I’m saying. You can work for whoever you want, claim whatever you want. It’s your actions in your personal life that have meaning, and what you say as your opinion when ‘anonymous’ online.

I don’t think anyone on the face of the earth cares what you do. So, please, feel free.

My original post heavily talks about ‘immersion’ and why only poorly thought out ‘historical accuracy’ is a pathetic argument only made by incels. To which you reply against it. How else to explain anyone who tries to justify their blatant reasons for faking history? AKA a bigot.

You’re free to argue why someone who wants immersion cannot accept women or POC but they can accept GIANTS in the same game.

In the face of such a withering rejoinder, how can I do aught but collapse into a puddle of my own ineptitude, left with nothing but the tears of my failure to have earned the respect of Mrs-LangdonAlger.

Are you trying to make an argument that every man in medieval times was a knight? Because that is totally wrong. Knights were also not that common compared to the majority of the populace which were peasant farmers.

And an all woman faction too, please.

For fuck’s sake. Historians are an authority on history you mendacious bloody troll. It’s a shame Kotaku didn’t really ban your misogynist ass and spare us all this comedy of errors.

My dude, you need to work on your understanding of subtext, implicit argument, and word choice—because if you didn’t intend to convey the needlessly hyperbolic false equivalence pretty much everyone else is calling you out for, then that’s a matter of poor communication on your end, not poor comprehension on everyone…

I’ve checked your profile. You’ve got a history of incel-level misogyny on clear display regularly. You want to pretend you’re not a horrible bigot and I should read your words as if I lack that context. No one is going to humor you. You don’t deserve it.

The reason you’re being called out on this is the implicit false equivalence of attempting to say “adding giant fucking mecha to a ‘themed’ game would be the same thing as adding women/people from other racial/ethnic groups.”

It’s also massively hyperbolic.

You can say that you’re commenting on “degree of deviation,”…

Short response: Good.

Longer response: For anyone and everyone quailing about “muh immersion,” you may want to familiarize yourself with historical texts and surveys of that time period that do not come directly from white “identity” groups or similar alt-right and alt-right adjacent sources. I understand that academia…