It’s OK to distrust more than one Government, but how anyone can believe the the west in this matter is beyond me.

The west has repeatedly coup’d, invaded, destroyed, killed, bombed, sanctioned everyone that dares look at them wrong. But sure, daddy west is completely right when it comes to China.

Hong Kong Democracy Movement

Democracy is when you have west funded protests trying to do a color revolution. Sure.

Do you not remember Tianamen Square?

Oh, one of the biggest propaganda lies the west ever made about China? Have you actually watched the tank man video? How about the evidence of the contrary to the so called “massacre on Tiananmen square”.

Great Fire-Wall?

Oh no, China doesn’t allow the west to propagandize to it’s citizens, while simultaneously propping it’s own national platforms, the horror!!!11!!1!

Also, let’s just ignore how the Arab League literally investigated the so called “Xinjiang genocide”, and found nothing.

But sure, Adrian Zenz is right, lmao.

“Waaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaah! I’m a little baby incapable of citing sources, I’m not gonna talk to you .ml demons.”

They do line reads in maybe a few afternoons and leave usually no?

As far as I know, yeah, most of their work is like that. Maybe that is what she wants to get at with this criticism? Can’t really know since the article was so short.

In another comment in this thread someone mentioned Supergiant does things differently where VA’s are regular staff members, not just contractors, and that’s probably a much better way honestly. That’s probably much bigger job security, specially for the smaller VA’s that might not even get enough work to be a full-time VA, while also allowing for more distinct voice acting, since you don’t have the issue of the same people over and over again on every somewhat big game, which is not necessarily a problem performance wise if they have great acting range, but would be cool to have more VA’s in general showing their talent.

concern for not getting celebrity status attached to voicing in video games

Doesn’t seem to be the case here, Samantha Béart just mentioned the disconnect between how players treat them and how the developers do, where VA’s don’t feel like they are part of the team.

I can’t speak for how it is in the US or Europe, but here in Brasil, VA’s tend to be respected a lot by viewers/players. And besides maybe 2 or 3 people here, as far as I know, they are not really anywhere to the level of pay and treatment that actors receive. In fact, at least in the video game industry, localization efforts are actually kinda of a shitshow, since these VA’s have to do the most they can with the least amount of referencing of the original possible. Most times they don’t even have access to the characters model and scene they are dubbing/acting and only has the voice of the original VA to go by, which can result in subpar or even a bad performance. And that’s not even factoring in the tight deadlines they are subject to.

… I don’t really care that a person sounds like a video game character I like, because 100% of the time I’m more attached to the character in its universe as a written character than their voice

But in the case of voiced characters, that’s usually a rather important part of said character. A bad VA performance can ruin a good written character, and a good VA performance can elevate an otherwise bad or forgettable one.

they wouldn’t, they would just continue to play while they also grift and farm engagement by being a bunch of bigots online

I fully expect discord to wield it in a liberal “both sidesism” corporate kind of way

Oh it would be even worse than that, there’s full on abhorrent stuff being hosted on Discord servers. Discord is not encrypted, so they know full well the kind of shit they host from people and they do nothing about it unless trouble comes knocking at their door. I doubt Discord would enact any of the shit they have in their guidelines without pressure to do so. I did report the nazi just in case before I even typed anything at them in chat.

In general, I think there are times it’s worth shamelessly tapping into liberal institutions to deplatform these fuckers, where possible. So long as there are institutions that at least pretend to care, might as well rather than having to carry out the whole fight ourselves when we’re not always well organized for it.

I agree 100%. I just don’t think there’s much that can be done in this case.

Also in this particular case, shit hit the fan and people online on other communities are already talking about the shitshow on that server, I posted links in the original post with updates I found online, and it doesn’t look good.

Having an emulation comm here would be super cool! I’m not usually that knowledgeable on it, but being able to see more discussions here would be great. I was following iiSU because it genuinely looks amazing.

Also, looks like there have been some developments on the whole situation. I just received a newsletter from The Memory Core talking about it and saying that Usagi just stepped down from the project, the scope on the social features are getting cut back a bit and that the new leadership is more open to making the project Open Source.

I haven’t been in the server since yesterday because of the ban, but I didn’t expect things to go this direction. Tbh Usagi didn’t seem like a bad person, more like someone that got put on the spot and didn’t know how to properly operate under that pressure. His apology was lackluster but was nothing that couldn’t be easily fixed if he genuinely put a little bit of effort into understanding why it was bad.

Scrap that shit, there’s grooming allegations on this guy, fuck him.

I’ve been in therapy for more than a year now.

That’s genuinely great camarada. I have had the luck of finding a great therapist from the get go, but I unfortunately haven’t been able to continue treatment because of money, but I hope soon I get to go back. On the other side, finding a good psychiatrist has been hell, way too many bad professionals in my region, but I was fortunate enough to find a very good one this year after searching a lot. Medication is tough because it’s yet another expense, unfortunately SUS doesn’t cover the stuff I’m taking, but even tho I’m still changing meds every now and then, I feel much better taking them, than not. Executive dysfunction is hell.

I’m not sure if they’d need someone like me with system experience for stuff like apps, websites and the like (what the website says they do or will do)

It’s worth a shot camarada, I’m sure they would love to have someone with your skills. It might be a way to at least some good enough job that doesn’t pay you scraps and treats you like absolute garbage. It’s been a while since I looked into collectives that spawned from Soberana, but outside of a few things here and there that I’ve heard, these collectives seem to be genuinely great efforts by the camaradas there.

Higher ups, at least in my region, are sick of Jones, while “lower ranking” people (let’s call them that so it’s a simpler to understand) actually like him a lot. Also, since I joined last year the party seems to gradually go towards a closed, theoretical approach to marxism instead of the “party of the masses” it started as (much like PCB). Also don’t get me started on their stance on China, it’s just another capitalist hellhole to them.

I see. I don’t want to bad mouth them since I think they do amazing work, but what you’re saying tracks with reports I’ve seen of other members online. The only thing I really dislike about them is their stance on China like you mentioned, that one is just bs.

Camarada, I feel you. I can relate to a lot of stuff you said here. Reading you say you give up feels like a punch because I can totally understand why. As much as I love Brasil, it sucks, it is a neoliberal hellscape at the end of the day. I hope you can reconsider, because even if the future seems bleak, you are amazing camarada, you’re nearly finishing your graduation while also being part of a communist party, that’s genuinely incredible.

As neurodivergent people, it’s easy for us to ruminate shit and spiral into depression, it genuinely sucks, that has been me for as long as I remember. The only thing I know for sure is that, being older than you, you eventually learn how to deal with it a little better at times, which already helps a lot.

You didn’t mention it, but if you haven’t already please try to seek therapy, it won’t change your material reality but it can genuinely help.

And since you said you’re diagnosed with high abilities, this might seems strange, but do you watch content from Tio João? While I’m not diagnosed with that, I’m autistic and ADHD and I never felt more seen then when he talks about neudivergence. It’s something that have genuinely helped me with understanding myself better.

Also you shouldn’t feel bad for the options you mentioned for jobs. You applying there or not, won’t change that place’s existence, it’s better for someone like you to work there and be able to continue with your revolutionary work than to refuse it by principle, in situations like that its better to be pragmatic, unfortunately we live in a capitalist hellhole, your well being and of those around you comes first, as bad as the job might be.

Since you mentioned your love for FLOSS and how you’re finishing your graduation in computer science, have you seen the new collective of programmers comrades from the Soberana Discord? Here’s their website just in case: Coletivo Popular de Design e Desenvolvimento, it looks really interesting.

The political party I’m a part of (UP) is currently tearing itself apart from the inside

Is the situation at UP really that bad camarada? From an outsider’s view I thought the whole Jones thing had blown over.

There goes the biggest chance Brazil had of having an influential communist movement

Shit seems bleak, but at the very least on the public debate things are not that bad for us. More and more camaradas like Jones grow and present communist to a lot of new people, I genuinely think it might not be as bad as it seems right now in that regard.

Maybe my message here won’t change much, bad mental health, specially depression is horrible, that much I know, but I genuinely hope for the best for you comrade.

I mostly agree, but the Venezuela part I’m not so sure. The US already moved their biggest aircraft carrier there and already bombed 21 times and killed at least 83 people. I hope they can’t actually invade there.

I get what you’re saying and I generally agree. That’s something I have been worrying about because I kinda of just said it automatically and I got worried it could cause distress on someone else unrelated that might struggle with such self-harm thoughts.

On the other hand, I would never, ever, direct this kind of thing towards anyone with any shred of humanity in them, and it should never have come to the point where transphobes, zionists and nazis just infected the place and the mods did jack shit for hours, there were a ton of LGBT people in that space being harassed, there were also a bunch of Pissrael supporters and even settlers in the server, while also having Jewish people being mocked and harassed by that nazi by just sending the shit he was sending there. I wish I had screenshots to show here, but the fucker was just emitting hitler particles.

To quote Sartre: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

I have been using Hayase for anime. Just found out they got a automatic DMCA strike on GitHub they are trying to appeal, so you can’t access the source code right now, but the downloads on their site (which links directly from GitHub) still work.

I prefer the term liberal sincericide, it fits perfectly when they just drop the act and say the quiet part out loud.

Yeah, that sucks. To be fair this is all very recent, so it’s best to wait a couple of days to see what happens next, there are queer people in the development team after all.

Honestly, my biggest concerns outside what I just talked here is that the project won’t be FLOSS, which is a death sentence if problems happen, and that I doubt they will be able to properly implement all the features they recently showed up in their showcase. If they can’t even do basic moderation of a discord server, how the hell are they gonna handle all the social features promised?

I’m not a fan, my country is basically christian, even tho we are technically a secular state (I hope this is the correct term, the term in portuguese is estado laico). There’s a pretty big evangelical/protestant lobby in the government and a bunch of billionaire pastors.

We even have a very widespread coloquial term for evangelicals/protestants, the word crente (something like believer in a very quick translation). Part of my family is catholic, part is evangelical (I’m pretty sure I’m the only atheist), but even tho the crentes are known for being annoying about their religion, my relatives are very chill and don’t really bring it up unsolicited (at least I don’t remember it happening), so I can’t say I have had a bad interaction with crentes outside the internet, where they are very annoying, specially because a lot of them tend to just go to comment sections to preach and spread hate towards lgbt people out of nowhere.

There’s also the very big problem of pedophile pastors here in Brasil.

I don’t have much experience with people from other religions, mostly I know a couple of muslims, but I’m not against religion in the sense that it should be prohibited, because I think everyone should be free to have and exercise their own beliefs. I’m against it in the sense that it is used as a tool to control people, and I think it will mostly wither away when people’s needs are met since religion serves as a way to socialize and feel part of a community for a lot of people. But I could be wrong on this, since socialist states like Cuba have a very big christian population.

I think the way China deals with religion is probably the way. You allow people to exercise their beliefs, to carry their religious texts and symbols, to have their temples and churches and religious places, but you don’t allow for public preaching and the state has the last say in it, maintaining it under constant supervision.

Imagine being this much of a western leftist, where you’re so racist you can’t recognize AES and just repeat the most obvious propaganda

Yeah this one encompass it pretty well

I unfortunately haven’t been able to play any of these yet, but merits of these games aside, since GOTY is mostly a popularity contest, I think Exp33 will probably win given how popular it got on its launch and even months after, with the public reception being loudly positive and bringing a lot of attention and discussion about the JRPG genre. I would love for Silksong or Hades 2 to win tho, specially Silksong, but they are both sequels, so I doubt they’ll win.

The right is heavily trying to co-opt the straw hats jolly roger as the symbol for color revolutions, buncha fuckers. Here in Brazil, an alt right piece of shit from MBL (Free Brasil Movement) called Kim Kataguiri just posted a picture with their newly funded or soon to be newly funded alt right party called Missão (Mission) where their logo is fused with the straw hats jolly roger, fucking hell.

I think it is definitely cool, but the general reaction to it is exaggerated. I see way to many comments online about how this is huge and will disrupt the gaming market, when in reality it is not aiming for any of that. It will fill 2 niches, the entry PC niche and the living room PC/box niche, since that’s what this machine seems to be aimed at. Valve themselves already said it will not be priced like a console.

I saw people mentioning that Microsoft is aiming for something like this for the next Xbox, so it could very well be Valve getting their foot out the door first to also have a product to compare to when that eventually happens, and since this new Xbox approach is gonna be Windows based, it will probably be shit lmao.

The VR headset seems to be impressive, specially since it is Linux on ARM. But I never used a VR headset, so I can’t really tell if it really is all that impressive.