IP law in JP is absolutely atrocious, Japanalysis did a video a bit ago about it. Like, WIKIPEDIA can't even use official images or merch for their pages, so they just use shitty pics similar to the thing, like this pic of a dude cosplaying Squirtle:
Youtubers/streamers can get sued for revealing the whole plot of a game I guess, so don't play too much of an RPG or Visual Novel game... Actually, Atlus, a Japanese companu owned by SEGA, put a gameplay limit on Persona 5 when it first came out and told streamers that they couldn't stream past a certain date! Scarlet Nexus did similar "no streaming" shit but like, on the whole game and I think it flopped lol.
For some weird reason, Doujinshi (self published manga) is allowed and flourishes, despite it literally being just fan manga/comic/fiction of some other media. And like, WILD fan depictions too (All those yaoi doujin of Naruto, Ace Attorney, Hetalia, etc.). I love doujin but it's fucking hypocritical imo to get mad at people for posting official content on a damn wiki site but let them sell manga of characters fucking 😅 i should research the reason honestly.
Idk if it really does affect how these companies respond but it fucking sucks to keep killing fan projects, ESPECIALLY if they make no money. I get why anything that makes money shouldn't have a copyrighted IP or material in it but companies will be assholes.
The problem is this is the internet, not your friend group. We don't know rando strangers on the internet, so I can't trust that they're not racist. Furthermore it's just an overdone and boring joke.
I'm black and yes I do make stereotypical jokes with my friends, but that's because I know them. And some jokes just never hit anyway.
I get offended on the behalf of others because I want them to understand they're not wrong for feeling upset or hurt by the crazy shit they see online, because I see crazy shit online and wonder if people think it's right and or normal.
Literally someone else in the thread just talked about people teasing and bullying them with this joke, so clearly it's not funny for everybody.
Uhh, my emojis WERE referring to relationSHIP names, matchablossom (sk8 infinity) and ShadowVanilla (Cookie Run Kingdom)
I know what a character x character ship is and means. And I know shipping is older than Tumblr. I think we're just having a communication disconnect 😅
I just was saying the emojis after the 🛳️ confused me, I don't often see people put their feelings towards a ship into emojis
Huh. I'm in a lot of fandom and I've never seen it done this way, with the emojis specifically. Like I've seen people do emojis of the two characters alone (i.e. 🍵🌸, 🫐🍦, etc.), but I've never seen the actual ship emoji plus all the other stuff about nosebleeds...
Eh, it really depends on the game. Obviously no game should be dependent on the internet to be playayble, but I do actually like playing against (or with) other people. Mario Kart with NPCs gets boring after a while, and unfortunately bringing friends over to my house to play games wasn't really an option, so online it was. Splatoon is another one that has always been a delight, and while I love story mode obviously the AI can't fight like a human.
Can we genuinely bring this idea to the mods? Because I'm fucking sick of this guy. I don't just want to block him because that's the equivalent of sticking my head in the sand to not see his fuckery.
I would've thought you made an innocent mistake and posted a comic with the watermark already cropped out, but no. You're just an asshole and you relish in it.
I've genuinely been thinking about starting nsfw fandom (anime/games) communities centered around more female or queer orientated audiences but I don't know if I'll want to deal with moderation and having to keep it active...
Edit: I also wish we had more silly mini comms of things. I have a family member who finds a new cat sub like every week, but we don't really have that here.
Well, we have seen that when right wing disagrees, they go to the extreme and fucking shoot each other a la Charlie Kirk and that guy who tried to shoot Trump, so...
I genuinely thought my internet shat itself and wouldn't load the post, and then I thought you uploaded it in shitty quality as a joke, but no. Thank you comments for saving me an extra minute of waiting.
Going from my GOS Pixel to my Galaxy Tablet is like getting whiplash. I disabled and deleted a lot of useless shit with adb, but every now and then it'll update and show me dumb shit. I got literally jumpscared by seeing Gemini in my app list a few weeks ago.
Well, according to the Join loops website, Loops federates with Mastodon and Pixelfed only, so you do need to make an account either on Loops or one of those other media sites. Do note that your Masto or Pixelfed instance would need to federate with Loops instances. I wish I could verify but I don't think my Pixelfed instance federates with Loops.video
As for which instance to pick, you can see a list at fedi.db and filter by Loops under the "All Software" drop down menu. Do you want the main popular instance? Do you want to focus on a topic? Do you want to stick with your country? There's not many instances as of now, so maybe stick with the original Loops.video, since you can always migrate later.
Edit: Instance migration isn't available yet, but it's planned on the roadmap for Q3 2026.
Unfortunately that's just not how people work. I hate Tiktok and never used it, but I still want Loops to do well so people can have a far healthier and privacy-considerate service. There are many inventions huamns have made that do harm instead of good, but we have to learn how to minimize what we can as we depend on them. Forcing people to "not have Tiktok-like services" is not a solution.
I never said people didn't care, but I definitely didn't see a lot about the previous victims compared to Good and Pretti, in fact I never heard about González and Garcia.
It's just a concerning and upsetting trend I've seen.
IP law in JP is absolutely atrocious, Japanalysis did a video a bit ago about it. Like, WIKIPEDIA can't even use official images or merch for their pages, so they just use shitty pics similar to the thing, like this pic of a dude cosplaying Squirtle:
Youtubers/streamers can get sued for revealing the whole plot of a game I guess, so don't play too much of an RPG or Visual Novel game... Actually, Atlus, a Japanese companu owned by SEGA, put a gameplay limit on Persona 5 when it first came out and told streamers that they couldn't stream past a certain date! Scarlet Nexus did similar "no streaming" shit but like, on the whole game and I think it flopped lol.
For some weird reason, Doujinshi (self published manga) is allowed and flourishes, despite it literally being just fan manga/comic/fiction of some other media. And like, WILD fan depictions too (All those yaoi doujin of Naruto, Ace Attorney, Hetalia, etc.). I love doujin but it's fucking hypocritical imo to get mad at people for posting official content on a damn wiki site but let them sell manga of characters fucking 😅 i should research the reason honestly.
Idk if it really does affect how these companies respond but it fucking sucks to keep killing fan projects, ESPECIALLY if they make no money. I get why anything that makes money shouldn't have a copyrighted IP or material in it but companies will be assholes.