Redemption isn’t done in six weeks and spending $60k.  This asshole is trying to buy his way into redemption, which is almost as bad as his original transgression.

As an outsider, I’m inclined to agree. But imo, that judgment is best reserved for those who were abused and affected by his actions.

All any of these asshats are doing is image repair. They are not sorry for their actions. They just want to get their clicks back.

Anyone who falls for any sort of “apology” when they get caught doing some abhorrent shit is a fool. 

I watched deepfake porn of you, now, how can I help you get over it?

If someone had the money and time to do it, it should be done. That was a bullshit ticked and law enforcement and courts get away with this shit all the time. 

I’m glad he did it pro bono, because $7500 to go into court and say “you can’t break a law that doesn’t exist” seems a bit steep.

Slava Ukraini

I never believe a cop narrative, so I can’t speak to whether this dude pulled a gun or not. But he WAS driving around with a gun on his hip, and cops are very well known to kill people who are completely unarmed.

This is one of the core problems of the whole thing. People often talk about how in most countries, traffic cops don’t have guns. But unfortunately, in the United States, they kind of have to assume everyone they stop has a gun, because they COULD have a gun. So of course they have guns. It’s just classic escalation.

Imagine streaming on twitch because there’s less harassment.

When someone who has power over you at your workplace propositions you for sex, they have enormous ability to punish you for saying no or continue harassment afterwards.

It is orders of magnitude more dangerous and damaging than internet commentators - and those aren’t harmless, either.

“We’re literally only using Discord for one thing: to talk to people.”

short-sighted, and reeks of people that refuse to adapt to the times

Agreed. Nuance is lost. “I am right. They are wrong.” Repeated over and over.

Notice the “othering” going on in the article and the reactions too. They say they make “pop culture YouTube videos”, that they’re “tech guys”. Y’know ignoring that their videos are largely focused on VFX and 3D animation. Cause the people that insist AI is satan love to pretend that all ”actual artists” must be as…

The article is just drenched in outrage. This is on par with the kind of burn-it-all-down writing you find in response to a tweet about how maybe a 25% tip for take-out is a bit much.

To prove a real point they should have hired their own artist to draw reference art, and not take it from an existing anime.

There’s a couple things here that I think hurt Dehya (and a lot of the Sumeru characters as a whole; really only Alhaitham and Nahida are considered all that “good” by the masses):

It’s pretty sad, I can admit I pulled the moment she came out, and am still trying to figure out just how I’m supposed to use her in any team. She basically only has one single usable team which is sad. The darker skinned characters have some of the best designs and themes, but they just keep dropping the ball, and it…

The worst part is that “unplayable” is only a slight exaggeration here. Knocking enemies out of her own attack radius, cancels her ultimate if you press jump, horrible damage numbers... It’s all very yikes. Apparently this banner is selling pretty well, so I hope things slow down so Hoyo gets the message that this…