BurningCycles

>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band

But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in Japan, 5 are anime (Spirited Away, Demon Slayer, Your Name, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle), and the top two are Spirited Away and Demon Slayer.

In North America's top ten you will only find one animated feature, Incredibles 2, and it is at position ten.

Yes you are correct. Take something like the Super Nintendo, it typically displayed hundreds of colors on screen, however each graphical element could have a maximum of 16 colors (4 bits).

The way they solved this was by having CLUTs (color lookup tables), so for the Super Nintendo (if my memory serves me) you had 16 different CLUTs that you could assign to a graphical object, each able to contain 16 unique colors.

This is what made something like the Super Nintendo graphics look so much better than say the Amiga 500, both used bitmap graphics, but the Amiga did not have a CLUT solution, so you were stuck with 32 colors except for more advanced graphic modes which weren't really usable for games.

As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a reality and much worse than potentially being temporarily separated from your parent, I can't see what other solution is at the table ?

>I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions.

So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources ? They don't just magically appear. The vast majority of people with material resources have worked very hard to aquire them, very often by working very hard at producing material resources.

>That's to say nothing of minority rights

What rights are being denied to minorities ?

As someone who always saw myself on the left, being a proponent of universal healthcare and focused on class issues, I can no longer recognize myself on the left with them going all in on identity politics, dividing people not by economic class, but by immutable characteristics like race and gender.

Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ?

Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.

Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.

>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops.

I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden.

A couple a months ago when I spoke to my dad, he told me he had a checkup because he had been unusually tired, turned out that the only thing the testing showed was that he had d-vitamin deficiency.

What surprised me is that he was given prescription d-vitamins, since you can buy them anywhere without prescription.

For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable.

Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is the current Nintendo flagship console. Thankfully the Switch seems to be selling amazingly, which should mean Nintendo don't really care that much.

Another factor is that you will likely need a pretty beefy PC to play games in full speed, and compatible controllers.

Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.

I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title.

Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a Starcraft server re-implementation, presumably because it would allow you to play without having a legitimate cd-key.

>Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic

How do you know what is 'misinformation' ? WHO claimed that face masks were worthless, now you are forced to wear them in lots of places. WHO also claimed that there was no human to human transmission of COVID-19, etc.

The powers that be will not stop spreading misinformation when it suits them, they just want no one to be able to question it. The right to question is something we can't give up just to avoid bad actors.

>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes.

Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to see it.

I remember seeing an article where the Patreon CEO said it wasn't sustainable a year or so ago, was this after they started banning nudes ?

Also I recall that Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and others left the platform due to censorship, which I believe happened around the same time as the CEO statement.

>A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo.

Who are these ?

>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated.

I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like Disney, won't register their ships under the American flag is so that they can avoid US labor laws, I don't know if this is true but it sadly wouldn't surprise me.