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    Poll: Should the Republican party be held responsible for Trump's campaign?

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    There's very little chance of Hillary winning. The polls may show them to be about even, but that's after all the shit Trump has said. At this point, about the only thing he could possibly do to lower his ratings is dragging a baby onto the stage during the debates and raping it in front of the cameras. Meanwhile, Hillarys ratings are built on her maintaining her image despite all the skeletons in her closet. Any little slip-up is gonna cost her.

     

    As for question #2, I don't think they should, no. Would be different if we had proportional representation, but with our system, you can't exactly tell someone "if you don't like it just found your own party".

    Youtube becoming a "Safe Space"

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    10 minutes ago, Decay said:

    The problem with this is that I'm not necessarily morally opposed to the move, this change was spurred on by what youtube's advertisers want, and advertisers have a right to select the kind of content they associate themselves with. That itself is a right I want to defend. The main issue is that Youtube doesn't give their video creators any choice in the matter. There's no way to find advertisers that want to associate with the kind of content you produce. Youtube is meant to be an open platform for this kind of thing but restrict all monetization to content that can only appeal to mainstream audiences. This both scares away niche advertisers and producers of niche content, completely defeating the point of creating an open platform. If Youtube wants to go down this road of allowing advertisers to dictate the content they wish to associate with, they really need to implement a system that allows for greater diversity in advertising and for producers of niche or opinionated content to partner with the right kind of advertisers, instead of essentially blocking off large swathes of content creators from earning any money. And they need to protect these creators of niche content from the corporate entities who try to bully them off the site.

    The whole semantics about what is/isn't censorship aside, basically exactly this.

    Youtube becoming a "Safe Space"

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    5 minutes ago, Rooke said:

    It doesn't. I think you misunderstand what censorship is. Either that or the misuse of the word by today's millennials are warping the definition in more people than I previously thought.

    Censorship is the suppression of information, not the failure to promote information, or the failure to endorse information.

    It's certainly not limited to millenials. http://ncac.org/resource/what-is-censorship

    The big point here is that depending on the size of the one refusing to distribute certain information, that equals suppression. Take the road example I gave and apply it to the Internet instead. Suppose every single company offering hosting refused to deal with anyone wanting to distribute certain (legal) information. That would effectively remove that information from the Internet - which is quite clearly suppression.

    And if you're talking about refusal to distribute vs. refusal to make ad revenue available the same way it is for other kinds of information, well, people need money live, so being unable to make money this way certainly limits the time they have available to create the stuff in question (because they need that time to do something else that does make money). Which results in... suppression of that information, relative to if that restriction was not there and also relative to those not under that restriction.

    Youtube becoming a "Safe Space"

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    24 minutes ago, Rooke said:

    But if people are going to complain about it, they should complain about what it actually is. I continually talk about how people hyperbolise incidents to make them seem more evil than it is. In no way is this 'censorship' but people will call it that because it provides a negative emotional response in the audience. They do this because campaigning that 'Youtube will no longer allow certain things to be funded' will not provide much response.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship disagrees, as do the dictionary definitions. What this doesn't do is impinge on is anyone's right to free speech.

    To illustrate the problem: Say all roads were owned by one private company. That company one day decides that you may no longer use their roads to transport VNs. Whoops. But ok, let's say they don't own all roads, just most of them - sure, you can go to the guys who own the remaining roads, but you'll be at a severe disadvantage compared to those who can use all roads. Which is to say, at some point (or rather size), the question is whether something is still like a shop or more like a road in that respect.

    And sure, not being able to make money with something doesn't mean you're not allowed to do it. But imagine for a moment "you're allowed to distribute VNs, but you're not allowed to charge money for them". See the problem? Only difference there is between speech you like and speech you don't like.

    Of course the flip-side is that the right to free speech does not only mean "you can say what you want", but also "you can refrain from saying what you don't want to say", so you can't exactly force a company to distribute any speech they don't want to.

    Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo - translation project

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    Missed that game coming out. I'll read it in Japanese, but great to see it's getting a translation. Actually, if you could use some TLC, I guess I could help with that.

    1 hour ago, havoc said:

    Well the good news is, if this translation is seen through to the end we have a translated vn in about every category from story, sex, rape, BDSM, monster girls to torture.
    Only thing missing at this point would be a vn about female domination unless you cant monster girl quest or violated hero, but those fall under monster girl in my opinion.

    There's been a translation out for Dustmania Grotesque for ages, as far as torture goes. No idea about the quality, though. As for femdom - as it happens, MG has an upcoming title focused on that. http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=187

     

    Can somebody explain to me why is this bad [tracing]

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    18 minutes ago, Nosebleed said:

    Here's as simple as I can make it.

    This is my original character, Minako-chan (do not steal):

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    I put many hours of effort into it. I even signed it to make sure people know it's mine. I completely came up with it myself using my own brain.

    However, one day I'm walking across the street and I see a magazine that's running this new battle manga whose protagonist is this girl called Konami-chan

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    It's clearly based off of my original character since the lines used for the body pose are the exact same, but the magazine never asked me for permission to use my work as a foundation.

    That makes me and Minako-chan very sad :(

    And that's why tracing is bad in a nutshell.

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    And now Konami-chan has suddenly started burning (or exploded into gore, it's a bit hard to say) and the world has three quite different images to look at instead of one. That's why tracing is good in a nutshell. Conversely, if neither of those derivative drawings existed, I would be very sad indeed because I happen to like them (well, not really). The argument kinda cuts both ways.

    Pretty much boils down to the same as the issue of copyright (and even more so patents) in general.

     

    iamnoob: I'm aware of the differences, but the basic point stands. But let's make it even simpler. Let's say I spend hours coming up with a brilliant argument in favor/against [insert political/whatever topic]. Minutes later, someone picks it up and uses it to argue in favor of something I really dislike. Now what?

    Can somebody explain to me why is this bad [tracing]

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    Just now, Nosebleed said:

    Actually, that's not a gray area either.

    There's the legal aspect and then there's the rest. I can't really speak to the former (although I recall depending on the specific country some of it is indeed legal, very much depending on how long the sample is), but as far as the rest goes... Well, I listen to a lot of music making heavy use of samples, so I'm obviously biased there, too.

    Still, I just can't see it as a big deal. A few people mentioned scientific works - but in those cases, the important part is not whether you're using someone else's work as the basis of your own, it's whether or not you indicate that fact through proper citation. Which makes me ask: Would sampling and tracing be ok as long the result is sufficiently different from the original and credit is given to the creator of the original? And bear in mind you don't need to ask permission to cite scientific works.

    Can somebody explain to me why is this bad [tracing]

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    There's something to be said about the similarities between sampling (music) and tracing. Both cases can go from "uses a tiny part" to "almost looks/sounds like the original". Where does this something like this fall on that spectrum? Dunno, I can't draw for shit, but it does look pretty different to me, basic pose being the same notwithstanding.

    But then I quite like the series, so I'm terribly biased here.

    Edit: Another thing to consider: Are the artists who's works he used losing any money because of it? Don't think they are.

    Brexit.

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    6 hours ago, Rooke said:

    BTW, in case it interests anyone, the idea that unqualified people shouldn’t discuss various things is something which is brought up as a downside to democracy itself. 37 million people voted in the Brexit elections, and while they live in that place and the decision ultimately affects them, how many of them actually know the impacts of such a decision? And no, ‘living there’ doesn’t automatically grant you magical insight everyone else doesn’t have. People like to say that because you live there, you should have a say how things are run. I find this an acceptable argument ... as long as those people know how things are run, and actually know what they're voting for. Otherwise I question why this automatic right is even a thing.

    So if millions of those people are too unknowledgeable to know the impacts, why are they qualified to dictate Government policy through their ignorance? Because they live there? What a quality and well-thought out reason. Consider Joe Doe down the road who voted based on a pack of misinformation and lies, his ignorance affected the decision the Government has made and the future of everybody in that nation. Why should this ever be acceptable? 

    If I feel like it, I'm free to become an alcoholic or gamble all of my possessions away. Changing the scale from one person's life to an entire country doesn't change anything about that since every single person only has one vote. Which is to say there's no difference between one guy throwing his life away or a large group of people deciding to throw their lives away. Any limit or condition put on the ability of the group to decide their fate themselves as they see fit equals doing the same to the ability of a single person to decide their own fate.

    But even if we disregard that, the fundamental issue with the idea is that whoever gets elected to decide who's fit to vote and who isn't would have to be voted in by a pool of voters including those meant to be sorted out afterwards. Unless they're not elected, in which case they'd qualify for the job by excelling at whatever gets you there in that particular system. Is someone who's great at scheming or violence automatically qualified to decide whether someone's fit to vote?

    Is there any good program for learning JAPANESE?

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    12 minutes ago, seventhfonist425 said:

    From my own experience, the best way to see improvement in Japanese to read VNs and the like is to gather resources (free whenever possible, like Tae Kim's grammar guide, which I highly recommend.) And once you've gone through a good chunk of the book, there's a bit of set up you can do to extract text from most visual novels to your clipboard so you can look up each and every word individually, which is honestly a pretty fun way to read a story and learn words. After the set up, you can hit up a visual novel of your choice (preferably something easy like a slice of life genre) and just go at it. You'll learn words that appear more often than others, and if you look up a word enough times, you'll remember it eventually, I always say.

    That's essentially what I did. +http://www.kanjidamage.com/ for learning kanji.

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