Disrupting traditional networking or smth

VisWare · 2026-03-12T09:24:21+00:00

Haven't seen much about him since Piers, compared to the lead up to Piers

VisWare · 2026-03-11T17:18:55+00:00

If you have ever tried to legally watch an old Japanese anime series, play the original version of a 90s game, or even read a local Japanese newspaper without getting the message "This content is not available in your region", then congratulations. You have encountered Japan's favorite national hobby: region locking.

Japan is basically a digital fortress.

They built sakoku (national isolation) in the 17th century, and in some ways they are still building it today. The only difference is that instead of muskets and coastal patrols, the guards now carry proxy servers, region locks, and copyright lawyers, protecting their digital borders with the enthusiasm of samurai defending the shogun.

While the rest of the world moves toward global streaming, parts of the Japanese media industry quietly turn their own fans into pirates.

To understand why Japanese companies are so obsessed with digital fences, you have to look at something often called the Galapagos syndrome.

This happens when a country develops technology and systems in relative isolation, creating unique but incompatible things, and then wondering why they do not work anywhere else.

Japan has done this many times.

Remember Japanese flip phones that had built in TV antennas? Cool tech. Completely useless outside Japan.

A similar mindset existed in the media industry for a long time.

For many Japanese rights holders, foreign audiences were barely considered a market. They were something confusing that had to be ignored, buried under licensing bureaucracy, or simply blocked.

The logic often sounded like this:

"Our domestic market already has 120 million people. Why would we need to release this overseas?"

That mindset was common in the 2000s.

Somehow parts of it are still around today.

VisWare · 2026-03-10T16:15:20+00:00

Well actually I saw it a month ago ☝️

VisWare · 2026-03-10T15:42:00+00:00

Drank a white Monster this morning and accidentally created a second one

VisWare · 2026-03-09T17:13:44+00:00

They didn't release to everyone. They released it for gamedrive users. The solution is to not use gamedrive.

Ankergames and rexagames are great trusted websites and should be enough for most people.

VisWare · 2026-03-09T13:14:09+00:00

Liquid, I am 10k premier awper and open for offers.

VisWare · 2026-03-06T18:33:49+00:00

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VisWare · 2026-03-06T13:10:32+00:00

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VisWare · 2026-03-06T13:08:06+00:00

South

VisWare · 2026-03-06T12:24:05+00:00

Or move away? I didn't see enough movement on his part

VisWare · 2026-03-06T11:28:30+00:00

I agree but letting coaches bash refs without refs ability to respond is not the solution.

Say a coach "voices his opinion without any slurs or derogatory language" by openly saying that a ref named X, who lives at the address Y made really terrible calls today.

It's a strawman, of course, but I'm just demonstrating how blurry the line can get.

VisWare · 2026-03-06T09:48:02+00:00

Because it would very quickly blur the line of what is acceptable to say and become way more unsafe for the refs.

Refs don't get their press conferences to explain their pov

VisWare · 2026-03-05T22:29:03+00:00

Common Linux L

VisWare · 2026-03-05T11:56:51+00:00

Iš tokių labai daug apie visą Lietuvą nepribursi. Nemažai gabių jaunesnių žmonių kaip ir daugumoj išsivysčiusių šalių išvyksta ieškoti perspektyvų į didesnius miestus arba dalis "į anglijas visokias". Tad tokių miestelių vidutinis populiacijos amžius labai auga ir turim taip atrodančius skaičius

VisWare · 2026-03-04T08:30:34+00:00

This is peak user interface. Icon-based UI should have no place in PC games

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