Final Fantasy X’s himbo jock with daddy issues gets a bad rap because people take the game’s iconic laugh scene out of context and say he whines too much.

The biggest issue is that Square Enix plays games with their accounting that their external studios cannot. which is why the studio behind Forspoken is being consolidated into the Square Enix itself. that way the next title they release can be measured while moving the production costs into the publisher budget where…

The problem is that livelihoods of skilled workers depend on there being a skill barrier. Lowering those barriers for amateurs, also devalues the craft and threatens workers’ livelihoods.

Told you that these corporate/tech bro shills are trying to turn creative human labor obsolete through AI. There’s a reason they’re trying to criminalize artists in general - they’re forcing an ‘easy’ and ‘ethical’ narrative that benefits only them. For instance, they call artist “privileged” because they built their…

What the techno-utopians who comment on articles like this fail to realize is that they’re considering AI art generators as a neutral tool that has somehow materialized out of thin air. Considered in isolation, it is a promising instrument - but the reality is that such technology is developed and wielded by…

I like this comment. I will use it to jump on a landmine. I’m sure someone could use an excuse to yell at a stranger on the internet today.

Maybe if anti-diversity hadn’t been forced down our throats for decades, you wouldn’t be having this so-called “problem”:

This. Lived experience is something of a double-edged sword in some instances.

A company headed by an outspoken asshole in a conservative country isn’t going to find any problems with any of her political messaging... excepting that whole “better pay” thing, of course.

You’re an ass and not really worth responding to even when your points aren’t incorrect (as much of what you cited was, indeed, in need of proofreading), but it’s always amusing when haughty grammar pedants get things wrong, so here we go:

Just a small but important correction:

Really important typos here that need to be fixed ASAP:

“She has no right to sign merchandise as Bayonetta, any more than I have the right to sign as Eva Green even though I was her parent on video game The Golden Compass. That betrayal is hers, and hers alone.”

In days of long ago, I used to work for a convention which had various voice actors as con guests. One of the disconcerting things was seeing the fans clamoring to be voice actors, too, because they saw it as glamorous or well-paying or whatever. But it was FAR different for many of the actors I talked to behind the…

I honestly can’t believe there are people supporting/celebrating them making Bridget trans. Making Bridget trans is quite possibly one of the most blatantly transphobic story developments I’ve ever seen. It essentially says that whatever gender you are raised as is your “true” gender. ‘Feminine presenting men are…

Ice Cap had nothing to do with Michael Jackson. It’s literally a Genesis remix of the song “Hard Times” by Brad Buxer’s old band, The Jetzons. The song was recorded in the early 80s but wasn’t released until 2008, when it became very obvious that it was reused for Sonic 3.

I still think ugly Sonic was nothing more than a marketing ploy. People were able to feel good about the new movie, as if Sega listened to it’s fans, and all the chatter gave them a lot of exposure. They probably only had the ugly Sonic there just for the promo clips while good Sonic was already in the movie itself,…

Guys, yuukaku is just as much as a euphemism in Japanese as kanrakugai. Both can be literally translated as “play enclosure” and “pleasure quarter.” This is a non-story. 

silly joke, but since they are changed by mold, are they lycans or lichen?

Earlier last month I attended an anime workshop that was coordinated by a Japanese lecturer. I will summarise what he mentions the criterias in order to qualify as anime: