>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.
Your first point is a sentiment that I hear very frequently. I think the reaction that your hard-earned material wealth is rightfully yours is completely fair. However, it's worth pointing out that other people may also work hard and still live in poverty. Poverty can be systemic, in that things you're born into can limit your opportunity. Further, people are sometimes faced with unexpected situations such as health problems or pandemics that can make them unable to work. Many people have proposed plans that pay to distribute more wealth to these people by taxing corporate profits and the super wealthy. Some people will make a personal sacrifice to do this, but these people may actually have a better life experience if the majority of those around them are suffering less.
> What rights are being denied to minorities ?
Until recently, the right to get married or adopt children, among other things. I see your point though: people of all skin colors are theoretically equal in the law. If by "dividing people" by "race and gender" you mean movements for criminal justice reform or to end police brutality toward minorities, I disagree that these movements should be divisive. They become divisive when non-minorities take offense at them, which can happen due to poor messaging from particular individuals. It can happen due to a lack of clarity about the actual goals of the movement. Some more extreme leftists might simply have views that I would also disagree with. But ultimately, "the left" doesn't hate non-minorities. When a movement is focused on minorities, it is to reaffirm that they suffer discrimination which they should not under the law. These movements focus on minorities not to say that others don't struggle too, but to bring attention to societal issues that continue to affect some types of people just because of their "immutable characteristics".
> So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources?
Billionaires.
They took $50 trillion from the rest of us[1]. They are beyond capable of affording it.
> What rights are being denied to minorities?
Safety. Marriage. Financial stability. The list goes on.
> dividing people not by economic class, but by immutable characteristics like race and gender.
It isn't the left that did that. Race and gender were divided into economic classes by racists and sexists. Acting like that didn't happen only serves to perpetuate that oppression.
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.
> Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right?
From what I recall of the time when these networks were popular, that wasn't the case; there was some way to make Windows Media Player download malicious executable files when playing a video file.
>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.
You can get larger doses of vitamin D in one pill as a prescription. Like 20000 IU once every week or two instead of daily.
Also there is vitamin D2 and D3. The normal stuff you take is called D2. The D3 is made by the kidneys from converting D2. But those with certain diseases, the kidneys don't do the conversion so they provide vitamin D3 in the form called calcitriol. Its something I need to take due to my kidney failure.
Looks like I misunderstood it. Calcitriol is different from D3. Normally your body converts D3 to calcitriol but those with certain diseases will not get it converted.
Calcitriol is actually the most confusing of my medications to manage since the dosage needs to be adjusted based on monthly blood tests. Things like amount of sun exposure can swing my numbers around. And it interacts with so many blood test numbers like PTH, phosphorus and calcium levels.
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.
Not to mention that a significant portion of the value prop of the switch is its unique hardware, and the ability to seamlessly transfer an in-progress game between your TV and handheld.
I used chiaki. It works with any controller connected to your phone or even a built in touch control system that probably would suck to use, though i did need it for the home button and did have to remap controls bound to the touch pad buttons. We were even able to play borderlands on local coop that way despite only owning one dualshock 4.
They're right to be paranoid. Nintendo is one of the few game companies that's extremely aggressive about protecting their IP (particularly when it comes to emulation and ROMs). They've forced a lot of sites to stop distributing ROMs of games for their consoles and I don't doubt they'd come down with a massive life-ending hammer if they caught whiff of piracy in the Switch emulation scene.
If you say that, then I don't think you've paid attention to what they did to ROM sites in recent years. No other company has been as aggressive as they've been on this front.
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.
It looks like you've been caught-up in misinformation as well, as the WHO never said that masks were "worthless" nor that there was "no" human-to-human transmission. Those are distortions of more nuanced and qualified statements by the WHO. You can argue that these more nuanced statements were still harmful, but you're pushing misinformation by claiming the WHO said what you merely think they said.
Claim what you want, but on Jan 14 the WHO stated the following "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳."[0]
The nuance is that they were repeating Chinese propaganda.
I don't know how to define what is "misinformation" but I could surely call out a couple examples. Maybe we can figure out what makes them misinformation.
1) 5G causes COVID-19
2) COVID-19 doesn't exist, i.e. it's all a hoax
3) Aquarium cleaning solution is a cure for COVID
I don't know what makes those different from "masks are worthless" but they seem qualitatively different. Maybe for a couple of reasons.
Maybe for #1, there's no plausible mechanism of action linking 5G and covid. But the people claim there is! Using a nested series of faulty reasoning and unreproduceable evidence to back it up.
Maybe for #2, there's no observable evidence that it's a hoax, i.e. people claiming otherwise are doing so with no supporting evidence, only reasoning that they (subjectively) do not trust government or media, therefore their claim is supportable.
But I don't know. I don't think the answer is that it's unknowable (which you may or may not have been getting at).
For me misinformation as a characteristic is a big umbrella, that the discretion for it depends on the measurer. Which makes it an unreliable characteristic to censor content by.
As an example of things that can follow into the misinformation umbrella parody, humour, good/bad science, good/bad journalism, misinterpretation of intent, paranormal reports, religion.
It done for the greater good. People have done surgeries in their garage, I can't believe it's from lack of credible information, and that making a general policy from the exception is a sign of a bad design.
They certainly were spreading it on purpose. What's unknown is whether they knew it was misinformation at the time. Perhaps they thought this was a good way to manage supply shocks and keep masks flowing to medical workers. Or perhaps they truly thought masks were useless. That's hard to believe, but not impossible.
But they wouldn't have backed off as quickly without pushback from others taking the opposite position that masks were critical. And at the time, that was contrary to the officially espoused position by both CDC and WHO. Even now WHO haven't fully reversed course, they have only stopped anti-recommending face masks as hard.
Banning spreading this countervailing opinion would have been a grave mistake.
> In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.
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.