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League of Legends did this when they released new champions. New champ is overtuned for about a month, then it gets nerfed back down to baseline. Who knows how much money they got when people bought RP to get the sexy new champ and all their skins.

Because the guy wasn’t responding to that prompt. He was responding to the question:

Fuck off, how come most sports don’t have fights but hockey players are special like that?

Thanks for the news roundup. I know it probably takes more time than you want and gets fewer votes than it would on Reddit or something, but it is good to see here.

More recently, Nishii Terumi (former animation director for JJK 0 and Jojo), posted to twitter (stop trying to make X happen) about problems training talent (English article) due to studios focusing on profits rather than talent development.

Sakuga Blog has been pushing the “anime is dying because the talent is being stretched too thin and/or not being cultivated properly” angle for a long time. At first I thought it was overly alarmist, though maybe we are actually seeing it in real time and we just don’t realize it. After all, it’s not like there will be one day where suddenly every studio in Japan stops producing anime, it will of course be a gradual change.

My current playstyle is to start up the game once a month and receive 10000000 free afk medals

Warning people about kernel level access is valid. Nobody is disagreeing with that end point. Everyone is taking exception to the wild logic you used to get there as well as the fact that you didn’t read the article.

Fedi is cool in concept but there are too many douchers in admin/mod positions around here. You can interact with more people on Reddit where the admins/mods suck, or you can interact with fewer people on Fedi where the admins/mods also suck. Can’t win these days lmao.

“Jujutsu 0 probably shouldn’t have been completed in terms of production time. If we set a precedent that it can be made in that time frame, it will only make things more difficult in the future.“ (Itsuki Tsuchigami, episode director)

“The worst cycle is when the staff members all somehow manage to complete a schedule that would be impossible to meet under normal circumstances, while seeing hell, and the higher-ups who only saw the results misunderstand and neglect to improve, thinking ‘It’s not that bad, it can be done!’ I wonder if the beginning of this was when they completed a movie in four months…“ (Sota Shigetsugu, key animator)

I’m sure we’ve all met that boss at work who saw you bust your ass 150% one time then somehow expects that to be the norm every day, all day. Expectations like this are unreasonable, dehumanizing, utterly lacking in empathy, and also ignorant of the actual expertise required for the job at hand.

Seeing these opinions come to light puts me as a fan into a bad position. I really love this anime series and wish to support the art, but I disagree with the way the studio treats its animators and also the way the studio attempts to silence them when they do speak out. If you enjoy the show and praise it, then you are indirectly supporting MAPPA’s poor policies - on the other hand, if you choose to boycott the show, does it even accomplish anything?

In the event there is a lengthy production delay like Ojisan, Zom100 or Nier, at least I made the right call by not starting season 2 yet. Though… I might feel icky while watching it, despite how much I like the story itself.

The infallible Admiral Patrick perma-banned me from UnpopularOpinion for downvoting his posts. What a great guy - and by great guy, I mean twat.

Christian nationalism is a slept mindvirus

I like the sentiment, though it would be even better if Canada was facing backwards and Florida was a dangling turd instead of a dangling penis.