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- Comment on One is more cuter than other 1 week ago:
- Comment on What anime pleasantly surprised you the most? 1 week ago:
Apocalypse Hotel from last season.
A bit of a depressing start but pivots hard into ‘thinking’ comedy and philosophy.
- Comment on I wonder if it's working or not 1 week ago:
Discover has an alliance with JCB, the #1 credit card of Japan.
Discover (mostly) works on JCB, and JCB (mostly) works on Discover terminals in USA.
This means that Discover is a ‘guest’ on Japan’s credit card network. It’s JCB that will have the main say of what is or isn’t allowed in Japanese payments.
- Comment on I wonder if it's working or not 1 week ago:
Could you explain?
I’ve heard of years of examples of Visa/Mastercard going after the Japanese Doujin market. Never have I heard of anything from Capitol One.
- Comment on I wonder if it's working or not 1 week ago:
Steam suggests that ‘Payment Processors cited Mastercard Rules’.
Itch.io suggests that Visa specifically sent them a note, but more importantly that Stripe forbids sexual content.
We need to be smarter about this. We cannot just let random Twitter and Reddit outrage memes control us.
Fortunately, Visa and MasterCard have been assholes to a large number of international folks so I’m kinda okay with this? But the controversy this past month on these sexy games is poorly researched in general IMO.
We are seeing big tech (Reddit and Twitter) flex their muscles and see how easy they can attack other companies.
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 1 week ago:
Itch.io is currently saying the problem is Stripe, and maybe Visa.
Historically (ex: otakuusamagazine.com/visa-and-mastercard-refuse-t…), I’d say Mastercard and Visa are both to blame. But the jury is still out on wtf is going on here.
I’m not sure who pressured Steam. But Itch.io (aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collect…) is claiming Stripe and Visa are pressuring them.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
Discover seems to be the best bet to me so far.
Discover is on the JCB, UnionPay, Troy and RuPay. (japan, China, turkey, and India respectively). Probably many more.
Similarly, a JCB card should work wherever Discover is. It’s a billateral alliance.
Oh, and all Discover cards work on Diners Club International because those two networks completely merged.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 2 weeks ago:
Discover has an alliance with JCB. So that’s just Discover in the USA.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 2 weeks ago:
Ummmm.
ACH is how you get your paycheck, and it’s being updated to FedNow.
Zelle is an independent network as well.
And of course, there is Discover and AmEx.
There is also cash, check, money order. They still work today, just people largely forgot how to use them.
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 4 weeks ago:
If there are that many mistakes here, then it’s likely malicious compliance. Someone was ordered to edit, so they edited in the most obvious manner possible.
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 4 weeks ago:
They already did.
There’s that ‘Raw Edit’ video that is missing over a minute of footage because they forgot to edit out the timestamps.
- Comment on We Live In Public 5 weeks ago:
I spent $5 dollars buying a hotdog from the Street Vendor last night during the fireworks. Was this written down somewhere or otherwise can this be traced back to me?
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
My uncle lives up in Omak
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omak,_Washington
This is a small town. We don’t call them villages, we call them towns for some reason.
- Comment on "The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest" New Visual 3 months ago:
We have this anime at home already.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 3 months ago:
Mexico was importing these car parts. Because we Tariffed Mexico and Canada, the Mexico and Canadian factories are closing down.
Which is now closing down factories in the heartland of America.
Lose lose for everyone.
- Comment on OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom • Overlord: Sei Oukoku-hen - Movie Discussion 3 months ago:
Overlord is late stage storytelling. The author is calling in hooks and writing the actual ending… Which is always a difficult task.
Most stories / shows get dramatically less interesting as hooks and plot points diminish. But it’s how you reach an ending. It’s rare for endings to feel satisfying in any media especially if it’s taken years or decades+ to build up.
- Comment on OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom • Overlord: Sei Oukoku-hen - Movie Discussion 3 months ago:
‘oh damn that’s fucked up’
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- Comment on Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion 3 months ago:
Green Squadron (stealth / intelligence experts at finding monsters) failing to recognize a monster?
Remember that Suzukiri / Yellow Jr. Rank1 instantly recognized Fighter D in Ep. 1.
Occam’s Razor is that Green Squadron recognized that Fighter D is actually reasonable at stealth / subterfuge and decided that Green Squadron was the best place for him.
- Comment on OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom • Overlord: Sei Oukoku-hen - Movie Discussion 3 months ago:
I saw it in theaters. It feels… mean. I know we’re well into the “evil” arc of Overlord so its well into “evil Overlord conquers the world” kinda thing.
There is still a lot of good Overlord humor and laughs though. So the occasional “comic relief” to the rather heavy tragedies that Ains is now inflicting upon this country.
- Comment on American Audiences Flock to "Hatsune Miku" Film: Colorful Stage! The Movie Grosses US$2.77 Million at U.S. Opening Box Office 3 months ago:
Hatsune Miku is closer to a musical instrument in that many different musicians use her voice in many different kinds of songs.
Saying you are a fan of Miku (on a musical level) is roughly like saying you’re a fan of Trumpets.
I personally am into songs like Karakuri Pierrot. youtu.be/DDjcqu9uvUE
- Comment on Tariff-related layoffs hit five US auto plants that supply factories in Canada and Mexico 4 months ago:
Leopards meet faces.
- Comment on Evergrowing collection 4 months ago:
I’m sorry Gundam: Witch of Mercury.
- Comment on What is your best supernatural anime? 4 months ago:
When They Cry
- Comment on Did people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines? 5 months ago:
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 5 months ago:
Yeah, the non-existent Deep State. These fuckers are firing important people looking for ghosts and goblins.
- Comment on "I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 5 months ago:
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 5 months ago:
They became the Government and are using their power to mass fire everyone to get rid of the Deep State.
Why do you think MAGA is so willing and ready to fire huge swaths of the US Government?
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 5 months ago:
Odd Taxi
I don’t consider this weird at all. The “weirdest” thing about this is just the artstyle. Otherwise its basically a Film Noir / Detective like story except the Taxi Driver is the detective-protagonist who saw the crime (and has a perfect memory of his customer’s faces). So as you go around the cast of characters and see where they want to go + their small talk with the Taxi Driver, you end up figuring out the mystery with the protagonist.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 5 months ago:
Your list sounds like you’d like “Undead Unluck”, a buddy cop comedy of two superpowered characters: an unkillable Super-zombie with the unluckiest character (who spreads her unluck to everyone close to her).
“Undead” is trying to finally find a way to die. And hanging around “Unluck” is finally managing to hurt him.
“Unluck” is just trying to live, despite her superpower.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 5 months ago:
but I don’t think they are very weird.
Excuse me? I’mma suplex you like this deer because of that statement.
