You’re comparing apples to oranges.

That’s a good point

Okay.

Yes

“dog farmers”, holy shit :(

8 years are 2 election cycles. Much can happen in that time.

What’s your proposed solution?

I heard shot wounds to the stomach are a painful death.

Why is it necessary to enact such a law in a foreign country? Germany isn’t even on the same continent.

Writing is way more than creating outlines or checking the plot for problems. It’s more than even writing a first draft. In fact, it starts with the first round of edits, when characters awake and find their voices etc.

People who think writing with AI is just pushing buttons underestimate the complexity of the process, and using AI for things you’d usually use other writers’ feedback or betas or developmental editors for is just an evolution of tools, the same way we don’t scratch on stone tablets anymore today.

Nope. It’s a bit kitschy, but it does its job. Nitro though, nah.

Kbin kept logging me out. At some point, it got so annoying, I deleted my bookmark.

Congratulations, Poland. Finally getting away from the “problematic democracy” label.

Many European language versions of anime and games are being localized not by translating the original Japanese, but the English.

Lots of translators also seem to use Google or DeepL, which makes the issue even worse.

The English language version often don’t even translate, they write their own version, calling it “creative liberty”. This leads to a completely different version than what was intended, with others, such as the German or Spanish version, being even further from the original.

That’s why claims of people of having “learnt Japanese from anime” are dubious in the best of cases.

Source: Am Japanese, working in game translation in Tokyo. I’m also trilingual, which makes it even worse to watch this. Ignorance is bliss.

Capitalism really is trading goods for currency, and allowing lending and investment. What’s going on though, with unchecked companies and laughable fines, ruins the whole thing. In its current state, capitalism will be our undoing, but with proper laws, regulations and oversight, it could work.

The problem is, corps have grown too powerful already and can blackmail governments. It’s like other models that could work in theory, but never benefit the people in the end. Communism tends to lead to tyranny, for example.

People are just really shit at designing and running big societies.

It’s not regulated properly, that’s the problem