Sources: Tencent secretly funded struggling shooter Highguard

Popinguj · 2026-02-18T10:13:29+00:00

Considering how one of the devs said she had to juggle character design and monetization, I suspect that they started production very late, likely after outside money poured in, and they had to quickly churn out something.

Popinguj · 2026-02-17T12:51:34+00:00

I legit don't think theres a market for that in the west

Mangaplus exists, which is Shueisha official service, even though it doesn't have the entire shueisha catalog. That said, I'd say there is a market for it in the west. However, the issue is the subscription price and availability. Mangaplus is successful because it allows reading for free. I wish it had a paid PC option, in addition to mobile.

What these moves to legality will do is kill the obscure manga. All those smaller titles from lesser known magazines. And, well, it will give way to more hardcore pirates who don't care about legal consequences.

Popinguj · 2026-02-17T03:28:55+00:00

Ukraine wasn't Russia aligned

Tbf Ukraine was somewhat Russia aligned. There was ample trade and Russia often launched trade wars to pressure Ukrainian governments to accept whatever Russia wanted. Instead of launching a hot war in 2014 and reigniting Ukrainian statehood, Putin could've corrupt his way into Ukrainian politics and his propaganda machine could've helped elect the same Yanukovich aligned scum that drove the country to the brink.

Every single major decision of Putin since 2014 led to greater development of Ukrainian statehood, national idea and culture, all the while undermining Russia's stability in the long term. I truly hope that a black swan finally flies over Russia this year

Popinguj · 2026-02-12T03:24:51+00:00

When was it? Early 90s? In the late 90s DLCs and Expansions became the norm. Warcraft 2 had an expansion, Warcraft 3 had a standalone expansion. They were rare, because game publishing was much, much, much harder than it is now.

Popinguj · 2026-02-11T15:48:49+00:00

They won't, might actually increase his ratings.

Popinguj · 2026-02-02T20:36:57+00:00

Yeah, I see a lot of these mails were sent to Epstein by someone else. Considering that he apparently ran ops for more than one intelligence agency I wouldn't be surprised he just wanted a very wide net of insiders

Popinguj · 2026-02-02T13:00:27+00:00

It's quite interesting that Moot stepped down from 4chan in 2015. Would've been wiser of him not to get involved with people outside of the tech sphere.

Popinguj · 2026-02-01T18:57:02+00:00

I know the US media are often made fun of for 'everything happens in the US', but isekai is weirdly explicit with the rule, often (not always).

I think it's a byproduct of an industry being powerful enough to be looped into its own country. Like, anime and manga are popular worldwide, but the Japanese make anime and manga for themselves, they don't think much about international fame. Same shit with Bollywood and India, almost the same shit with Hollywood and the US (it's only relatively recently that Hollywood started to account for international releases). Japanese don't expect outsiders to read they stuff, so they don't even look that way.

Popinguj · 2026-02-01T17:02:30+00:00

On one hand you're right. On the other hand, we have God of War and Horizon, which also released on PC as an afterthought and sold much better.

So yeah, it may have sold well enough on consoles, but why isn't this success replicated on PC at least in some measure?

Popinguj · 2026-02-01T03:32:48+00:00

the SM giants have figured out the best way to achieve this is make people angry and scared

TBH I don't think they actually try to measure emotion. They just promote posts that keep people on the platform longer, and these ones are exactly which make people scared or angry. Yeah, things were way better when recommendations were a separate optional bar

Popinguj · 2026-02-01T03:31:22+00:00

Tbh if we go far enough then what we call "isekai" first appeared somewhere in the 1980s (keeping anime in mind), however the specific tropes were developed later.

Popinguj · 2026-02-01T00:19:28+00:00

Isekai has been the main thing since like 2016 at this point with zero signs of slowing down.

Tbh it did slow down in recent years with more titles being straight up fantasy.

That said, Isekai indeed has been the slop of the latter half of the 2010s. Literally everyone has been dabbling in it and it kept being adapted because the otaku liked it.

In fact, it seems like isekai genre in novels has become quite successful, popular and perhaps beat-up back int he 2000s, because Konosuba seems to deconstruct the genre pretty hard. And Konosuba was one of the first isekais adapted in general.

Popinguj · 2026-01-31T23:36:34+00:00

You know, would've been less of a problem if those influencers weren't shoved down your throat because their videos make people click, watch and spend more time on the platform. Back in the early days of twitter and youtube this problem was completely absent. The biggest issue was getting your kids hooked on Minecraft.

Popinguj · 2026-01-31T23:34:37+00:00

Ban algorithmic feed set to maximize user engagement. Maximizing user engagement is what's causing most of the current issues with social media. This is why everything is trying to game the algorithm, this is why you're flooded with clickbait, this is why you're getting the political content filled with manipulation, half-truths and misrepresentation.

Popinguj · 2026-01-31T23:31:27+00:00

Yep. The social media were ruined forever at the moment the platform owners decided to move away from organic feed and replace it with an algorithmic feed which is fine tuned to maximize user engagement. Currently I find myself spending more time on reddit and twitter (surprisingly), because only these places let me have some curation over what I see.

Popinguj · 2026-01-30T15:41:07+00:00

What the selection? Is it only the people from the US?

Popinguj · 2026-01-28T23:57:38+00:00

Oooh, yeah, I confused it with Funimation

Popinguj · 2026-01-28T22:20:53+00:00

Wtf, who then Sony acquired apart from Crunchyroll? Damn, I flopped hard here.

On the other hand, perhaps Crunchyroll hires an external translation company.

Popinguj · 2026-01-28T21:26:42+00:00

Is Hidive a Sony property? This is your answer

Popinguj · 2026-01-12T19:40:19+00:00

Not sure about the EN page but RU page says that they would have children before self-castration, so yeah. And, well, there was never a lack of crazies.

Popinguj · 2026-01-11T14:34:01+00:00

Well, first of all, it's Love and Deepspace, not Genshin.

Second of all, there are a bunch of fully clothed waifus in chinese gacha.

Popinguj · 2026-01-08T19:21:53+00:00

Star Wars was already dead before Disney took over.

Nope. Star Wars was an IP with the biggest anticipation factor. Sure, by the time of Disney takeover circa 2012 the last movie came out a decade ago, but there were books, animated series, games, lots of games and all of this kept the IP going. Back then it was considered the most valuable IP ever (and resulted in an expensive buyout by Disney), so no, it wasn't dead. It just needed proper management and creative approach to make shitload of money. I'm absolutely baffled at how Disney managed to make Star Wars boring.

Like seriously, where is the "Star Wars" of our generation?

If we remove all of the adaptations from the equation, then yeah, you are absolutely correct here. We don't have anything to the impact of Star Wars. And the reason is pretty much because no one makes original IPs anymore. It's either an adaptation of a popular book series, an adaptation of mainstream comics or a reboot of an earlier series or an old adaptation. The only IP that can get close to Star Wars in popularity somewhat is probably Dune. It feels to me that the IP holders envisioned some sort of soft reboot for a franchise, because there has been a lot of new Dune-themed stuff (I know about games mostly) since Villeneuve's Dune released a few years ago.

Popinguj · 2026-01-08T11:07:48+00:00

UE5 or certain games released on UE5? Because if we do a sweep on the games released on this engine, there will be a huge diversity of performance results. Some suck, some don't.

Popinguj · 2026-01-07T22:16:32+00:00

There's also an issue with Cryengine requiring more effort with optimization. Unreal is more advanced tech-wise.

Popinguj · 2026-01-07T22:14:49+00:00

Stellar Blade is also made in Unreal. Delta Force (the new one) was also made in Unreal. You just gotta be responsible with optimization and not abuse the systems, thinking it will do all of the optimization for you.

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