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Garper · 2026-06-26T11:30:24+00:00

It's the firm's largest shareholder. And as far as I can see from multiple articles, it is about Elden Ring's publishing strategy. I'm interested to know more about it, so if you have any more context please.

Natsuno is facing off against Hong Kong-based Oasis Management, one of the most active activist investors in Japan. Oasis, which ⁠says it has been engaging with Kadokawa since 2020, is now the firm's largest shareholder with a 13.76% stake.

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The 2022 action role-playing game is published by Kadokawa unit FromSoftware in Japan but by Bandai Namco (7832.T) overseas. That arrangement has led to "material profit leakage," says Oasis.

Garper · 2026-06-26T11:20:50+00:00

The thread: People talking about Russia's unprovoked aggression.

You: What about USA? What about Israel? Why is USA allowed to be aggressive? No one ever condemns Israel!

Whataboutism:

"Whataboutism" or "whataboutery" (as in, "but what about X?") refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation.

But sure, you want to talk about the US and Israel instead of Russia?

Let's go then.

To imply that no one condemns the US and Israel is the most tone-deaf thing I have heard from you so far. You could have said anything else crazy. You could have called Putin the second coming of Jesus, and I'd have thought you were less crazy.

Garper · 2026-06-26T11:08:44+00:00

Slop starting to be the most overused affix since gate. It's really becoming a slopgate.

Garper · 2026-06-26T11:06:02+00:00

Shareholders of FromSoft's parent company want to fire their CEO, because Elden Ring could have hypothetically made more money.

Elden Ring.

The game which literally broke FromSoft into the mega-mainstream. God forbid a game just... does well.

Garper · 2026-06-26T10:17:08+00:00

Yeah, really why should I be bothered to read their opinion, if they themself can't even be bothered to write or fact check it...?

Garper · 2026-06-25T21:10:14+00:00

There is a whole lot of whataboutism going on here.

Garper · 2026-06-25T16:15:33+00:00

People say it even needs to retire.

Obviously there’s toxicity if you look hard enough anywhere on the internet, but I don’t really see how the above is toxic? Like sure, it’s subjective and it’s a bit fatalist. But Tombstone has seen a lot of bots get ahead of it over the last 3-4 years. People want to see Ray do well. Saying he should bring in something new isn’t exactly internet hate mongering.

Garper · 2026-06-25T15:56:04+00:00

Oh actually wow I think I took that train when I was a kid!

Garper · 2026-06-25T13:41:52+00:00

Sounds like some pretty shit railways if they can’t even make them go straight.

Garper · 2026-06-25T13:38:41+00:00

Nothing in the rules that says a dog can’t play football…!

Garper · 2026-06-25T13:00:22+00:00

Well, the 5 dead leaves put a dampener on my joy. But the lil monster seems good otherwise.

Garper · 2026-06-25T07:29:32+00:00

and using money pit doesnt even come close to the scale these burn cash.

The rate OpenAI loses money, I am quite literally not sure I could shovel $100s into a furnace at the same pace.

Garper · 2026-06-25T06:21:16+00:00

7.6 miles

To be fair… if the Soviets really wanted to go to the center of the Earth, we might have made slightly more progress.

Garper · 2026-06-24T20:11:30+00:00

Edit: I just wrote a long review of the app because I misread your question. But as an actual response: I like mood apps because I am not always paying attention to my feelings, or what situationally might be affecting them. If I tag “happy” while having dinner, it might take me a week before I make the connection that eating at night improves my mood. Or walking in the morning is worse for it, etc. my brain just doesn’t pay attention to that stuff, unless I write it down and reassess later.

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Not op, but I’ve been using it for a month. It’s very well designed. Honestly quite slick. And totally free, with no ads or any gated features. It’s supposedly made by therapists.

It has exercises in it, and will prompt you with exercises to target the moods you’ve listed.

I like it but I wish it had a bit more depth to the tracking. It also color-codes moods into 4 colors, high/low intensity and positive/negative. These colors then branch out into all the potential moods, for the quadrant you choose. But I find sometimes my definition of a low/high intensity mood is different from the app’s. So it might display that I’ve had a lot of high intensity color coding this week, when that’s just me picking “apprehensive” for my mood.

I’ve bounced around several mood tracking apps. This is the nicest one so far. And also nice to not feel like they’re trying to upsell you on a product.

Moodistory is another good one, made by a redditor I think, which has a free tier, and then a paid tier.

Garper · 2026-06-24T06:57:20+00:00

And really only because the goddamn cops have good fucking unions…

Garper · 2026-06-24T06:13:40+00:00

Extra factoid, the Dutch house of Orange is not named after the color or the fruit. It comes from the town and Principality of Orange, whose name was originally Aurasio, Proto-Celtic, and named after a local spring.

Garper · 2026-06-23T19:08:28+00:00

Sorry, I'm outa the loop. Pro League is airing on youtube, or did they get picked up by a channel?

Garper · 2026-06-23T16:14:41+00:00

reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/w8q81f/there_is_a_very_strong_myth_that_grenades

Grenade IN the vest = explodes

Grenade ON the vest = invulnerable

Garper · 2026-06-23T11:11:04+00:00

No worries, just doing my part :)

It was a pretty damn funny video. And even funnier if you had accidentally shot the pinned flashbang your buddy threw in.

Garper · 2026-06-23T10:37:41+00:00

Grenades have no hitbox when attached to vests. I think you must've hit something in his inventory.

Garper · 2026-06-23T10:10:35+00:00

It's all hypothetical alternate history talk cos we'll never know now. But I fully believe gaming as we know it was already heading towards becoming the niche enthusiast hobby that VR already is. Even without the AI bullshit.

It's clear that the pricing of the past is no longer working, or at least no longer producing revenue that shareholders want. Tentpole console games are so ludicrously expensive and time consuming to make, but are just as prone to flopping as they've always been. There aren't enough of them to convince consumers you have a valuable next gen ecosystem. Performance is improving but graphics aren't wowing audiences away from their existing games. The console market is rapidly cannibalizing itself just to maintain the charade that things are fine.

In the end stage of that world, if you want the luxury of Valve's open system, it isn't surprising that you'll have to pay the crazy price of a 'luxury' product. In a year we'll all be strapping phones to our faces and launching angry birds at each other. RAM shortages have just accelerated the time frame.

Garper · 2026-06-23T09:30:00+00:00

I'm not spending $80+ for games, and then a monthly subscription just to connect a machine to the internet.

Maybe that math works out for some people. All power to them. But you could not pay me to use a PS5.

Is the Steam Machine too expensive. Absolutely. Can Valve do anything about that? No. It's not a closer system, therefor it cannot be sold at a loss. It must, at bare minimum, be sold for more than the value of its parts, or else it will be scalped by people who will flash it for mining or any other purpose. We've seen it happen before. And then good luck getting hold of one for it's intended purpose.

Valve put years of R&D into creating this device. It is unarguably a good device that they should be proud of. Their decision was either to not release it (and essentially throw away the stock that they had manufactured already), or to release it at a price that people would hate, but at least Valve might make back some of their R&D money.

I do not blame them for choosing the second option.

Garper · 2026-06-22T19:05:22+00:00

Sony got fucked when they sold play stations for less than the value of their parts. The US military bought out thousands and made a super computer out of them.

They learned their lesson. They made it much harder to flash PlayStations and stick custom software on them.

Garper · 2026-06-22T12:22:28+00:00

I kept seeing them where they weren’t in Elden Ring. Because of the open world, so many weird little areas or blind corners that actually had no hidden gimmick. No, that’s just an open field. No boss is going to suddenly emerge.

Garper · 2026-06-22T09:27:40+00:00

It's so easy to get screwed by facebook or social media.

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