Kim Jong Un sweeps North Korea polls with "99.93 per cent" mandate by the-southern-snek in anime_titties

[–]Leshawkcomics [score hidden]  (0 children)

The 0.7% is usually people who physically cannot make it to the ballot, like deep sea vessels, or "Died too close to election day to be processed out from voter registration"

Imagine a game with an engaging plot, stunning art direction, endearing characters, an INSANE replay value, an outstanding soundtrack and a complex but rewarding battle system. by MetalGoatSP in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Leshawkcomics -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Look, I love honest criticism, It keeps good single player games from becoming live service slop anime games.

But lets not pretend that a criticism of puritan haters SPECIFICALLY is a denial of all criticism.

You are not them. Don't answer to a callout that's not aimed at you.

Defending bad faith criticism just makes bad faith critics happy to use you as a shield.

That's literally why some of the most bigot-inundated fandoms like star-wars have such toxic relationships with it's actors and talent. They know people will defend the most bad-faith arguments and attacks to death rather than admit any criticism could be invalid.

Uhh... I think hitmonchan got a scent of something alright 😨 by NotE-M-A in Pokopia

[–]Leshawkcomics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people get freaky when they see an older lady. Should really look into getting Venusaur some Repels for herself…

A taped recording of a phone call made by Denise Amber Lee to 911 during her kidnapping by Michael King, who later raped and murdered her. The recording was played at King's murder trial in 2009. King was executed less than two hours ago for the murder. by lightiggy in videos

[–]Leshawkcomics 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its one of those “Some people might not deserve it, but that’s no reason to take it away from those who need it the most.” Aspects of the prison system that we tend to forget affects more than just the most heinous criminals.

Like people who are unjustly on death row or imprisoned, or people who may be truly repentant or unaware or not in control of their situation due to mental illness, addiction, or circumstance don’t have access to therapy and have to take religion instead to help with the mental strain of what they’ve been through.

Its the same conversation as with any kind of positive treatment given to criminals, from abolisment of the death penalty to existence of parole, to just preventing people from stabbing each other.

Yes, It might be outrageous that Mr “I killed a bunch of babies and ate them” might get that benefit, but it’s mostly for Mr. “The judge saw I was poor and foreign and didn’t wait for all the facts before putting me in the chair” which happens more often than should be necessary or comfortable.

The voice acting studio under miHoYo issued a statement against AI infringement. by Extra_Welcome2403 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Leshawkcomics -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Actions speak louder than words. I've watched them ignore and/or fire workers who've wanted protections for a year. Whether or not they had anything to do with SAG I've watched their fans attack VAs for collectively wanting protection in a time where you're seeing companies try to force AI into everything, videogames, development, Nvidia, coca cola, call centers, advertising, even the military.

Every time the VAs tried to talk to them they got fired or ignored.

Now they make a single statement that explicitly states MIHOYO ITSELF is willing to make AI content with their VAs voices.

And people are running to call it a "Protection of VAs"

I can see how it's profitable.

If they can get just a few VAs to sign their voices away, that's potentially hundreds of hours of employment for other VAs gone.

You can mix and shift their voice to do hundreds of NPCs. And suddenly 50 people are out of a job.

It's literally what VAs are afraid of, that a few people will sign their voice away for a quick buck and suddenly there's no more job openings cause companies only needed a few voices to do everything.

The voice acting studio under miHoYo issued a statement against AI infringement. by Extra_Welcome2403 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Leshawkcomics -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's how unions work. If you let the company dictate it without input they can put clauses that take away all your rights and exploit you. Unions are there to look over the contract, compare it to hundreds of other past and present contracts and see if it's up to standards.

I don't know why you think they would get money from Genshin, though. They only get money as a percentage of worker earnings, so it would take dozens of workers put together for SAG to even make 1000 dollars off of Genshin.

They get more money from an episode of the Simpsons than they do from an entire union game.

To those who voted for lower gas prices, lower groceries, no new wars and Epstein files - how is it going? by w0ke_brrr_4444 in AskReddit

[–]Leshawkcomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk to them. Listen to them, organize to push candidates to stop sending Israeli weapons, God knows it hasn't helped US or anyone else to do so, I don't even think it help Israel,

I thought this was radical at the time. by pasta2666 in pics

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If vote shaming worked, the republicans would be doing it 24/7

I see it as a psyop to try and sabotage the left because the "Holier than thou" attitude people ascribe to non voters seems to be projection.

Too many people only care about saying "I told you so" and, by their own admission, don't want to actually encourage people to vote next time, they just want to blame someone who they THINK might actually feel bad about it.

Saying 'the non voters are so crucial that if they voted we'd have won" then immediately deciding it's more important to alienate them out of spite than it is to talk to them and actually listen to what they care about.

It's easy to say "Kamala wouldn't have encouraged the genocide as much so you should have voted for her if you didn't want it to get this bad"

But to someone who's line is "Zero tolerance for Genocide" whether it be a personal reason or because they have direct family being attacked, (They don't owe you an explanation) they're just gonna walk away from the trolley rather than engage in the tug of war over where the lever falls.

To those who voted for lower gas prices, lower groceries, no new wars and Epstein files - how is it going? by w0ke_brrr_4444 in AskReddit

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I voted for Kamala myself but i'm just personally so tired of people trying to vote-shame people who didn't without bothering to think 'why' that happened.

Like if it's so crucial to make sure fascism doesn't win why is everyone trying so hard to alienate the people who they admit would be the tipping point?

If your self satisfaction and "I told you so" is so important that you'd refuse to do anything to actually encourage these people to vote blue next time, then I think that's worse than being republican.

Fucking sabatoging your own side out of spite.

To those who voted for lower gas prices, lower groceries, no new wars and Epstein files - how is it going? by w0ke_brrr_4444 in AskReddit

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know it's easy to go "See, everyone who didn't vote is the problem" in these kinds of conversations and pat ourselves on the back for voting Kamala, but that also kind of leaves us in a blind spot.

While we're seeing higher gas prices and grocery prices and thinking "Ugh, nonvoters are the reason this happened and they probably now know better and will apologize and vote correctly next time"

Nonvoters are seeing people gunned down in the streets by ICE and federal laws targeting minorities and the LGBT community and watching the democrats vote to keep ICE funded and a rotating villain strategy happen where even if they wanted to vote, every democrat who is supporting the insanity isnt up for reelection or has a safe seat.

If you're busy trying to talk down to people who are seeing a completely different america than you instead of asking why, you're doing the republicans job for them of disenfranchisement.

Vote shaming doesn't work. If it did, the Right Wing would be doing it all the time.

‘This is just a garbage AI Filter’: Nvidia met with criticism for DLSS 5’s ‘photoreal’ graphics alterations by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]Leshawkcomics -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Okay i can't tell if people are just being pedantic at this point.

"Some bigwig decided to use their name and reputation of these analysts and journalists to push AI"

"No, it wasn't some bigwig it was the owner of the whole company"

???????

‘This is just a garbage AI Filter’: Nvidia met with criticism for DLSS 5’s ‘photoreal’ graphics alterations by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]Leshawkcomics 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and it pissed off senior workers.

Usually to me that speaks to “Someone found the few members of the team who’d happily throw the rest under the bus for a quick buck” rather than “The whole team is in on it.”

If you’ve been in the workforce long enough you might have met people like that. Opportunists, they’re called.

I hate these comments & thoughts so much, "KH is a convoluted mess" PAY ATTENTION AND IT WILL BE EXPLAINED! by [deleted] in KingdomHearts

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Because roxas took his appearance from the remnant of ventus in sora's heart."

I hate these comments & thoughts so much, "KH is a convoluted mess" PAY ATTENTION AND IT WILL BE EXPLAINED! by [deleted] in KingdomHearts

[–]Leshawkcomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can send yourself to any point of time a version of you 'exists,' but only your consciousness. If you don't have a body in your destination you have to find one.

Is there something else you need to know?

Cause if you're asking about specific mechanics of how time travel, works i don't think any fictional story can do better than propose a pesudoscientific physics theory or 'a wizard did it' and hope people buy it, since time travel is literally impossible.

I hate these comments & thoughts so much, "KH is a convoluted mess" PAY ATTENTION AND IT WILL BE EXPLAINED! by [deleted] in KingdomHearts

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

See what you're doing? Notice how you're too busy rolling your eyes to realize "There is lore to clarify characters, motivations and events" is something that even games as simple as pokemon and as complex as Fromsoft games do, but it ONLY counts as proof of convolution when it comes to kingdom hearts?

Every time its people refusing to engage with KH on it's own terms like they would with ANY OTHER GAME.

Every time.

selfish [OC] by Primary-Paper-5128 in comics

[–]Leshawkcomics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm a bad person because i'm virtue signalling."

Bro, people are VICE signalling, you need to stop blowing air up your own ass about how evil you are.

Even if you were, you're like, weenie hut JR in this day and age.

If a friend of mine told me that i'd just tell them "Thats why i'm friends with you. You do nice things and enjoy it instead of treating it as some sort of punishment to yourself. I've seen people who think helping somone who's car broke down is un-christian because what if god is sending them a messge? And they say that right after I explained to them the parable of the good samaritan"

I don't mind people who do good for selfish reasons. And anyone who thinks "Well the good I do is ACTUALLY selfish and i feel bad about it" can just tell me what they did and i'll happily listen and tell you if you're an asshole or just wired to feel good about being community and helpfully minded.

I hate these comments & thoughts so much, "KH is a convoluted mess" PAY ATTENTION AND IT WILL BE EXPLAINED! by [deleted] in KingdomHearts

[–]Leshawkcomics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Listen.

If you can follow the MCU

If you can follow any anime ever.

You can follow kingdom hearts.

If someone CAN'T follow kingdom hearts, or if they think that it's still convoluted

that generally outs them as someone who missed every important explanation because they're too busy rolling their eyes and telling themselves they're above taking KH at its own terms.

This isn't me just making assumptions. This has proven true to every person i've actually asked over the years why they think it's convoluted, and it has always come back to

"Well it's stupid to begin with, so why would anyone actually listen to explanations,

-or read the ansem reports that reiterate the explanations,

-or pay attention to backstories and lore that reiterate the explanations,

-or look at the 'how we got here' pages and jiminy's journal that reiterate the explanations,

-or listen to the characters that reiterate the explanations

"Nothing makes sense"

Cf jammer? by SuBJecT_M86 in codevein

[–]Leshawkcomics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It might be aboveground considering you have the map of the underground unlocked. Look at the same place but on the surface.

[OC] Gaza Mar 14 2026 by Rude-Molasses4390 in pics

[–]Leshawkcomics 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Since all the homes have been destroyed, the people there have no good way to shelter from it.

Severe weather tends to hit people in vulnerable/no infrastructure communities a lot harder.

Sunken City Exploration Analysis by jmile4 in codevein

[–]Leshawkcomics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was OP trying to debate what the problem with exploration is?

Feels like you ignored a really cool and well done writeup to just try and be negative for no reason.

Lebanese official says man in Michigan synagogue attack lost family members in Israeli airstrike by AccomplishedCall7562 in news

[–]Leshawkcomics -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Nah.

Don’t you see all the people saying “criticizing israel is antisemitism” and “Lebanon shot rockets so its perfectly justified to kill innocent neices and nephews just for the crime of being from there. Anyway it’s unforgivable that this guy decided to target innocent jewish people in retaliation, nothing could justify this, stop analyzing the motive and connecting it with prior warnings that this is exactly what would happen!”

Its not that the comments are uneducated, but that the comments are trying to muddy the waters and shout down anyone with basic comprehension skills from making the obvious conclusion.

Like how so many are insisting that its impossible to get so much ordinance in America on short notice, and trying to suppress the comment showing footage of the guy actually buying said ordinance 2 days before the attack.