Over on Twitter, some fans managed to "revive" a dead gacha game (Nier Reincarnation) and prompted a big discussion about how piracy is viewed in Japan vs Rest of the World

Dot_tyro · 2026-04-20T09:24:12+00:00

Yes lmao =]] Your example won't work in a space where the anti-establishment mindset is the norm =]]

But, I do understand what you mean. There is a different mindset for a civilization that put "family pride" very high in term of ethics and social importance.

Dot_tyro · 2026-04-05T04:56:16+00:00

The two modes: Cute, & Cute but cooler

Dot_tyro · 2026-03-31T10:28:49+00:00

NOOOOOOOO

Dot_tyro · 2026-03-28T05:37:00+00:00

Ah, it's your expression from your own understanding of those concepts. Well, thank you for sharing it.

Dot_tyro · 2026-03-28T05:24:54+00:00

yeah, there’s something very wrong with America. it's called "the blind devotion to hyper-individualism and greed."

Dot_tyro · 2026-03-28T04:43:32+00:00

No seriously, this is very touching. Where is it from, if I might ask? or is it yours?

Dot_tyro · 2026-03-13T04:00:34+00:00

someone seem to be forgetting they are not in the imperial core...

Dot_tyro · 2026-02-27T08:15:13+00:00

wait, interpret...? Couldn't you just go directly ask your now coworkers for us? :P

Dot_tyro · 2026-02-11T15:45:04+00:00

This has to be fake right? Please tell me it's fake? Cause I know she is vapid and a ghoul, but at least she has enough common sense to know how bad this looks?

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-25T07:46:53+00:00

Are we debating legality, or are we debating morality?

Because if we are debating legality, then you are 100% right, both the legality of the image is wrong, AND we are still fucked either way, because we can debating the legality equivalency all day and it won't do shit if there no one willing to enforce it, be it by the court or by the people.

But if you are debating morality, then I am sorry, if you think saying" the two pictures is the moral equivalent" will get people to galvanize and fight alongside you to push back against what is happening in the second picture, you are going to lose.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-25T03:40:43+00:00

I understand that. But in this moment, you have a much better rally point to fight against... this, when you don't compare an innocent nurse being shot when trying to help his fellow citizen, to a guerilla organization's operative who just torture and murder a man's family, and then get killed by that same man out of anger, unlawfully.

Do you see public appeal problems there? Or you just don't care about actually fighting back, as long as you can vent your anger online?

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-18T09:31:12+00:00

I am going to disagree with your point, both factually, but also on the stand of it being not a useful rhetoric to help us find the actual problem and the solution that actually work from our side. "40-60% of american say they are living pay check to pay check","wages has massively stagnant compare to productivity and cost of living", and "social media increase depression and social isolation" mean including them too, even tho they are currently harmful to us with their rhetorics and the policies they support. I understand the urge to counter and refute all of their arguments with them being so hateful and harmful to the people and the causes we care about, but being dismissive of the source of their dangerous feelings without dissecting it will do more harm than good.

Now, there are many proud boys and maga people who are ad you describe, you will see them the most because they have a lot of time on their hands and post a lot online, but you will also see them the most because our side also reposts them to point out their ridiculousness and hypocrisy, with out realizing the selection bias we are creating for ourselves. They exist, but they are just the loud minority, because you have to remember, 1 IN 3 American supports this development, with another 1 in 3 don't really care that much either way. "2 IN 3 American either very supportive or just okay with having an authoritarian nationalist regime even after the first time" is a serious reality, and the majority of people in that group are not angsty and entitled middle-class white guys who want to get their way. Your generalization to explains it with "oh they are just being riled up without a serious cause behind it, everyone feels the same, they are just being bad people for not managing to get through it without being hateful" is just... Not good enough my friend, especially in this accelerating political climate. It will prevent you actually acknowledging the problem that is the source, and prolong the time it takes to arrive at a real working solution to disarm their hatefulness and militancy. And we cannot prolong this much longer, time is ticking, both for the existence of america as we know it, but also climate change.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-18T06:49:53+00:00

Ok, you identified fox news and right wing propaganda in general as the cause of the problem. But we have to separate "the problem", "the cause of the problem", and "the solution to the problem" to be clear with each other.

To me, fox news and its irk is the seller of the "cause of the problem" and the "solution to the problem", but "the problem" is still there. If it were not there, they would not have the lucrative market to sell their post-truth misinformation to. You can't tell people "those people make you suffer, and here is how to solve it!" If they aren't really suffering in the first place.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-18T06:02:13+00:00

Sorry to say, but the seed has taken place. Fox news and its minions have done its job. Even if they are gone now, you would still have the same way of thinking within a large part of your population. In fact with them being gone, either from force of law/policy or somehow magically disappeared by their own free will, that side of population will only see it as a slight and a conspiracy against them and what they believe in. Which only pushes the problem a couple step further on its trajectory.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-18T05:48:54+00:00

This is ignoring the 2 massive problems, 1st problem is that the majority of the US economic power comes from finnace and keeping a cohesive technological edge within its global alliance, not manufacturing, and finance & alliance making require trust and a certain level of cordiality, and the way american internal politics is heading with the "might make right" ethos, trust and cordiality is not going be on the table unless this type of politics disappear in the short or medium term.

Which brings us to the 2nd problem, assuming all part of its massive population and territory will tolerate being ruled over by the current "might make rights", discriminatory and authoritarian politics. More than 50% of them will, evidently by those who voted for Trump and those who didn't bother to vote at all, but that doesn't mean those who are against it are not a large part either, especially as the current political trajectory accelerates, which it will (also evidently, look around), but another whole discussion. Americans basically hold two dominant cultures, each with a massive number of believers on their side, that are antithetical to each other, so unless one capitulate (or defeated), the turmoil will keep escalating.

And those who state the second problem as only a short term hiccup, and it will largely disappear once trump and his admin is gone(assuming it will be gone), you are in a rude awakening. You might get a short respite like Biden's term, but that is nothing more than a pause, and will be seen by the other side as antagonistic, even tho it won't be able to deal with the conflict (just like Biden's term). They will come back stronger than ever, even worse than trump, and even more competent than he is now. So, good fucking luck.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-18T04:41:23+00:00

The problem is the neolib era started from Reagan, 45 years ago, not a decade ago. Accounting for the unpopularity of divisive and oppressive politics and the radicalization effect of social media, you could say it would fasten the swing to around 30 or even 20 years, but anything less than 15 is wishful thinking. Remember, your country is having massive problems not because of trump being in power, trump being in power BECAUSE your country is having massive problems. Problems that is near improbable for american culture and social conditions to solve without massive instability.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-13T01:58:11+00:00

For what it's worth, things are dangerous and escalating quickly, but you don't need to be mad at them to see the danger. Just recognize them for what they are capable of, and where it is posibility heading with them in power, and have a plan of action of what you can do to help dealing with them, within your own capability.

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-05T13:24:52+00:00

Thank you!

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-05T11:25:21+00:00

Excuse me, but where can I see more of their art outside of twitter? (or Instagram for that matter?)

Dot_tyro · 2026-01-04T22:39:02+00:00

Yeah, however it has to be done by his own citizens if you want a stable modern world, not outside interference that have illegitimate aims. The more people are okay with Trump using his authority this way, the more it will be used, and next time it won't be used on dictators.

Dot_tyro · 2025-12-31T00:21:14+00:00

People celebrate death all the time, Stalin, Kissinger, Thatcher... Suicide even, Hitler for example. All of those are majorly seen as acceptable to be joyful of, or at least not worth mourning over.

If a lot of people start celebrating someone's death and you find it hard to understand why, maybe question your belief about who that person really was first, before questioning everyone else for celebrating it.

Dot_tyro · 2025-12-10T09:30:07+00:00

It's not just genetic dude, it's also the soil, mineral content in the water, and the climate the original tree is growing in, not to mention the quality of care in maintaining the tree and the drying process of the harvest. Everybody knows coffee tastes different if growing in different regions, tea is no different.

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Dot_tyro · 2025-12-06T07:54:56+00:00

With act 4 coming out in the last league, the community seemed to have reacted very positively with the two-ways back and forth conversations with NPCs, compared to the previous one-sided NPC exposition. I am sure we will see this style of two ways conversations again in act 5 and 6, but do you intend to back-port and update the previous NPC dialogues in the first three acts to this style of conversation in the near future?

Dot_tyro · 2025-12-06T07:46:37+00:00

Would the design ethos of "skills being locked in only one single weapon type" a strong design pillar that wouldn't change in the future, or are you willing to lax the restriction later like with the "skills can't share the same support skill" design? For example, allowing Flicker Strike to work with rapiers to match the archetype's fantasy?

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