RightHandOfIkaros

a waging finger

What was the wager?

Hope it keeps the original art style.

To be fair, Spain had like 20 shots on goal. The final score doesn’t reflect this information.

Def Leppard also noted that piracy usually leads to fans that pay more than people that don’t pirate at all.

For many, people can’t afford to just spend what might be a lot to them right now for something they don’t know if they will like it or not. Its a risk not worth the cost, and not every library has every new book/manga/movie/music album/video game/etc. Since most of these don’t have adequate “demos” for them to try out, they either:

A) Don’t buy it ever B) Pirate it

The ones that pirate might find out they actually like the thing, and when their fortunes turn around they end up being the biggest spenders that shareholders dream about. Is every pirate that way? No of course not. Most pirates download the data just because they can with no intent of ever buying it (IE, NOT a lost sale). But a sizable number of them to on to spend more than they would have if they didn’t pirate.

I will throw myself under the bus and admit this about myself. NieR Automata. I heard positive things about it, but at the time it was a lot of money for me to risk if I didn’t like the game. When it got cracked I pirated the game and played it. Loved the game.

Loved the game so much I bought it on Steam (at full price). Then I bought it on Xbox. Three times, twice as gifts for other people. Then I bought 2 gift copies on PS5. Then I bought NieR 2010 on the Xbox store. Then I imported a Japanese copy of NieR Gestalt. Then I pre-ordered the White Snow edition of the 1.22 remake. I even spent money on the mobile gacha game NieR Reincarnation (which was actually a fun game, I will add). I even bought copies of the Drakengard games to play those. And I eagerly await another chance to buy another Yoko Taro game. I don’t even like Square Enix. I just like Yoko Taro’s games and I want more of them.

All because I pirated one copy. That’s 12+ sales from a single vector of piracy. That’s a shareholder’s wet dream. They don’t realize I am only that way because piracy allowed me to take a risk on an experience I didn’t know I would like or not. By taking away my opportunity to play the game at no cost of risk, they eliminate people like me that turn into 12+sales from a single vector of piracy.

But I suppose they wouldn’t be businessmen if they weren’t bending over thousands to pinch pennies.

Hm, interesting.

I love how they estimate every instance of piracy as a lost sale. Like oh, you can guarantee that every person pirating your content would have bought it if they couldn’t pirate it? No? Then its not a lost sale.

IDK, “this years ceremony” could just mean they did it this year and not the other years. Just curious as to whether there was any significance or not.

Is there a reason they waited seven years to do this?

Did the show ever get less weird? I remember watching a bit of S1, I dont remember if I finished it or not. And I remember liking it. Except when they would go out of their way to occasionally remind me that Rudeus is actually a 40 year old dude. I just felt so disconnected from the show every time they did that, it jept taking me out of the suspension of disbelief. Did they ever change that? Or should I try to pick the show up again?

I mean, I do have mine in VLC set to yellow, but I was talking about the subtitles that people who are trying to be legal goodboys see on the big streaming platforms.

I miss the yellow subtitle days. Easily readable. The white ones they use now are more difficult to read because the outline they use either is a shadow only, or is not dark or think enough to make a difference.

Readint the title, I thought this was going to be about lost media.

Hmm. I see. Well in so far as places where you can chat with other anime fans is concerned, the only places I really know are online forums like here on Lemmy or on Reddit or Facebook. Though, finding places where people won’t poke fun at what you like or call you a tourist depending on your tastes will be difficult (regardless of what you like, usually).

You might try checking your local library for local events of anime or manga fans or something. You could visit local hobby shops to strike up conversations with others about it. Anime conventions are a good place to go for that as well.

There isn’t really much ettiquette that would be non-stansard (such as be nice to people). But not everyone follows it anyway.

Its unclear what exactly you want from this. “Joining the community” is very vague and kind of not possible. There isn’t just one anime community. There are many groups, and while they may all share anime in common that doesn’t mean they all get along with each other. Some language groups don’t like others (and sometimes it’s justified, sometimes its not the language groups fault because the translators did a bad job or changed words from the original creator’s work usually without them explicitly knowing, etc). Its kinda like saying you want to join the Lemmy community. What exactly do you mean by that, or better, what are you looking for? Some instances dont get along, some communities on the same instance dont get along, some people in the same community dont get along and form their own on the same or different instance.

So what is it you want? You say to “discover anime and get more into the trends, etc.” Well the first part is simple enough, but what does the second part mean? You want to know what the current trends are? Past trends? You just want a sampler suggestion of different kinds of anime that showcase different trends? This is unclear.

I am happy to make suggestions (though my suggestions skew older and more cultured than modern offerings tend to have, but I do like some modern stuff), but without clarity on what you want I wouldn’t want to offer something you don’t need or care about.

Kevin Hart as Kakashi

Its called Connecting is Hard.

Its about people with big feelings getting their feelings hurt, so they build walls that protect them, but that makes making friends difficult. There also robots and monsters.

Okay well now she isn’t watching anything.

She is definitely watching End of Evangelion.

Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!

This list looks like:

1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn’t watch Evangeline

2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a “classic” anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn’t include this, even if the song isn’t musically that good)

17-20: Ghibli

“No, this is Patrick.”

Lol

Yeah but now its called a 5060 Ti.

Died from sepsis apparently caused by meningitis. Crazy.

This kinda reminds me of Blow Up!

Wait… Is that an Evangelion reference??

I sometimes think they do it on purpose.

Okay look, we finally released this thing overseas, aren’t you guys happy and want to buy it?

Looks inside: $180 USD figurine of Shinji Ikari, in his normal school clothes

I am literally never gonna overpay for that

See look, the people overseas don’t buy our stuff, so let’s just stop caring about them.

It has to be intentional at this point. Imagine if the Japanese people didn’t automatically side with big businesses because of their society and heard the prices we had to pay for the stuff they get at like, a quarter of the price.

You should watch James Cameron’s favorite B movie: GUNHED. In its original release, characters in the movie spoke their own language.

You can’t just ask someone why they’re Mexican.

As someone of Mexican descent, yes you can. We are usually pretty happy to tell you our family heritage.

They deleted her. Poof. Gone. I mean, they said her name like, once. But she might as well have been completely deleted considering she mever actually apeared in all of Trigun Stampede.

Unforgivable what they did to Millie Thompson.

In the End of Evangelion movie, Misato kisses Shinji and says “We’ll do the rest when you get back.” I don’t know if I would count this as grooming though, because Misato was literally dying this was likely intended purely as motivation to appeal to a dumb 16 year old boy’s brain. I mean, the next shot is Misato laying on the ground dying in a pool of her own blood. Up to that point Shinji was refusing to pilot Unit 01, and Misato was begging him to pilot it (again lol) in that scene, and unfortunately even a dangling carrot of sex wasn’t enough to motivate him to save humanity.

Some say there is another part in epidose 23 where Misato also attempts to have sex with him, but I don’t remember it well. Describing the relationship between Shinji and Misato is a difficult one, because Misato fills many roles throughout the show. So too it is hard to really say if Misato is actually a groomer or not, because of the context of what happens in the show/End of Evangelion film. She doesn’t have the exact same role in the Rebuild movies. The meme is probably because everyone remembers her kissing Shinji in End of Evaangelion, but they probably all forgot she literally died in the same scene.