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I mean, it's pretty simple to a lot of people, especially in communities that tend to lean toward anime and manga. It's just another trope. Like action - how many action novels with protagonists who have to kill other people deal with all the mental ramifications from that? The PTSD? Most of the...

I wasn't talking about the "professional critics" who were praising the game. I meant the ones shitting all over it. They kept things related to the story and characters for the most part rather than get outraged over any identity politics bullshit. That was my point for when I brought critics...

Not here to debate anything, just to point out some things: 1. People were already promising to boycott the game 2 years ago when the trailer came out showing a lesbian kiss because it was pushing a "gay agenda." Now, did any of those epic gamers actually boycott the game? Historically...

Fair enough. I think at this point then, it really just comes down to whether we want to think individual directors actually are idealists believe in the message(s) that they might be putting into their movies, or if they're just doing it for money and acting like they care. It's not like we can...

This is a feature, not a bug. Of course, every single economic system there is, in the real world, is full of just as many "features." I don't think a single economic system exists that, when put into practice, wouldn't result in this exact same thing happening albeit with different paint...

You know, I agree. It really sucks when a minority is discriminated against and shut down at every opportunity. It also really sucks that our current economic model has allowed such monopolies to form to the point where, if you're not available through Google or allowed on platforms like...

Remember folks: private businesses banning / "censoring" things you like to protect / boost their image is free market capitalism working as intended. It'd be awfully communist of people to want businesses to treat everybody with true fairness and to not discriminate. :blobtaco:

I don't know how the people with full-time jobs and education and all that do it either, but it's not too hard to do when you don't have a life. also time to post this again: https://wordcounter.net/blog/2017/12/04/103207_the-daily-word-counts-of-19-famous-writers.html Web serial authors and...

I don't think somebody should stick only to paid interaction. I've seen plenty of successful author patreons where they say stuff like "you can ask me questions on discord if you pay this much" or "I'll voice chat with you and answer questions for 30 minutes once a month if you pledge to this...

From a business perspective, they absolutely should maintain interaction with readers on all platforms that they're posting on. Readers like to see that interaction. It's pretty much strictly a beneficial thing to actively participate in your own comment sections. From a personal perspective, I...

I should also probably mention that in regards to my above post, it's only okay to do if the translations are legal with author consent. If they don't have legal permission to be translating the works, then they shouldn't be paywalling it at all.

rofl dude is a discredited conspiracy theorist who climate deniers look up to and the Crothers guy he partners up with for the relativity video is a man who got expelled from a legitimate university and only has a degree from the degree mill that his friend founded Not sure that makes him the...

Is it okay to do? Pretty much, yeah. They're not breaking any rules, laws, or anything. Now, is it ethical to do? That depends on what they're promising their free readers (and also your personal opinion). If they're not promising a consistent release schedule of free chapters, and instead using...

"In its release weekend, The Last of Us Part II sold over 4 million copies worldwide, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive, beating Marvel's Spider-Man's 3.3 million and God of War's 3.1 million in the same period." Yeah, about that being the first blow against them.... The...

sir it's time to let those children out of your basement

ur posts are my kink, daddy ?

:blob_unsure: not sure that's how it works but alright You're not wrong, but there actually is potential for it to happen this time. However, Patreon didn't lose the lawsuit yet. It only failed to obtain a preliminary injunction. It most likely is going to lose the lawsuit, though. And from my...

That was discussed in some of the follow-up posts. But basically, it's entirely up to the author. If you don't mind giving people a warning ahead of time to let them know that something will happen, that's great. If you don't want to do that, then I won't hold it against you since I don't do it...