It probably helps if you already are in Japan like Brian.

Except that with an original painting, you have a unique physical object, different from any copy, and there are ways to authenticate that a particular painting was in fact the original painted by Da Vinci or whoever. The original Mona Lisa is physically unique and distinct from every copy. You can reproduce the image…

“So new plan. We’re going to take all your meth money and spend it on GIFs! It’s the new, trendy way to launder money! These NFT things are hot, completely legal, and they’re worth whatever we say they are! The dancing baby from Ally McBeal? $5 million! Homer Simpson walking backwards into a hedge? $10 million! That…

Please shut up with this pearl-clutching nonsense. Minors are a small part of Twitch’s demographic, if you ever bothered to fact check this talking point. Additionally, making lewd or sexual content is as much selling your body as any job ever is. Get over your hangups, lewd Twitch streamers are still operating within…

so for those keeping track. Sony now controls a VAST majority of English language streaming (something like 90% in some seasons), and a slightly smaller percentage of physical releases (until they try to get their claws on Sentai)

Here’s a short list of companies that Sony owns in the anime space:
A-1 Pictures
Aniplex
Funi…

we are short staffed and have even more people leaving to a degree that covering the news surrounding all aspects of this is taking every resource. i am having convos with folks as we go but at the moment the plan is to continue covering relevant news with the appropriate context and tone, should it be newsworthy.…

what about kotaku?

The point is in the how they got hugely successful. They’re fundamentally linked.

He helped create hugely successful games. He got rich. It’s not rocket science.

He was able to retire at 42 on the backs of those below him. As another commenter pointed out, he likely justified the millions he made at Blizzard because of his amazing leadership. These same leaders that simultaneously and mysteriously have “the privileges of not noticing what is happening” in their company.

Metzen handpicked Afrasiabi as his replacement. I guess his self-insert Thrall picking such an awful person like Garrosh as his successor now makes a lot more sense.

The only particularly good thing about these post-accountability apologies is how damning they are for Blizzard's case.

Yep, just because I can download something free does not mean I would have ever bought it. However, piracy has led to me buying a ton of stuff I never would have discovered without it.

Because in conservative societies, crimes against companies are taken more seriously than crimes against people.

Irrespective of the context of the whole thing, I do think “I know that I’m a good person” is a statement that genuinely good people don’t often make. I feel like usually genuinely good people are always trying to be better people. 

Here’s a great and easily approachable video that really explains the statistics of the debacle:

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