sir, this is a cutespace.

Even in a country where a culture of overwork permeates a wide range of businesses, the anime industry is notorious for the grueling hours that workers put in. Animators in their early 20s earn less than 2 million yen ($12,948) a year, according to industry data, compared with over 3 million yen for a person of a similar age living in Tokyo. That’s less than half of what US entry-level animators earn, websites like Glassdoor show. Creative workers also complain of late and uncertain payments.

Some, though, sense change is afoot. A working group for the United Nations Human Rights Council last year called out Japan’s anime industry for its poor treatment of workers, along with cases of sexual violence and harassment in the country’s entertainment business. In a May report, the group referred to “excessively long working hours” and low pay, as well as a disregard for creative workers’ intellectual property rights.

Talk about frustrating to infuriating. They need to unionize like hell, and if the government is genuinely looking at addressing this, this would be a good time to do so. A government aiming to save face may be more amenable to unionization efforts than at other times.

Honestly pleasantly surprised to see encouraging worker activism towards the end of the article as well.

Feel this as I semi-void post about some of the shows I’ve watched in [email protected]. Trying to let people know there’s someone else around here watching Japanese and Korean shows.

I understand the sentiment, but your conclusion only reinforces Match Group’s position. It overstates some real phenomena and makes people feel resigned to use their miserable services.

Public spaces have been increasingly reduced but there are still community centers, libraries, parks, walking paths, and so on to simply be in.

Those same spaces also tend to hold events for people to go out to that don’t cost anything to attend. At the same time, there are also some private venues that allow others to make use of their space for events and meetings without charging anything, and buying things being a courtesy but not obligatory.

With those offline events, you then have opportunities to meet people besides some bad apps. However even online you have plenty of opportunities to make connections with others outside of matchmaking apps that may lead to more. Neither way is as straightforward, but given the state of dating apps, it’s better than acting like they aren’t real options.

A part of the problem is that there are multiple similar general topic instances/sites to choose from. If there were more dissimilar, specific topic instances/sites it might help reduce the choice paralysis a little.

It might even better help highlight the perks of federation, as it would be easier to be like, “See, even though you’re on cuteanimals.posts, you can still check out and comment on stuff besides cute animals if you want.”

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It’s arguably layers of this cover behavior, and mostly as you say because it’s fun. The first layer, closer reading and fan theorizing, is covering why they’re into children’s media or some other media that isn’t seen as fitting them.

The second layer is entwined with the first, the fan theorizing is itself covering what some are too insecure to say or do outright, which is make fan fiction. Some may look down on making fan fiction in similar ways as they feel looked down on for what they’re enjoying, making it somewhat ironic.

In short, don’t let your fan theories remain theories, make fan fiction and your own independent, inspired work!

You may find more discussion over in [email protected], for what it’s worth.

I don’t know the exact neuroscience behind it, but suspect this relates to the fallibility of memory, and whatever goes in in the brain during learning and reasoning.

So you know of multiple bands and songs, you attempt to relate a specific band and song, but because of some murky memories and rough recall, you briefly relate the wrong pieces of information, recognize the mistake, and correct for it. How that process works precisely may vary across people and their methods of recall and knowing.

In a way I suspect that the false-positive you mention may be a sort of synaptic shortcut to the correct information through whatever systems are at play in the brain for this reasoning. For some it may be that this process of rapid error correction is sometimes faster than immediate, accurate recall, or may be more of an unconscious aspect of accurate recall.

I’m of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don’t feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I’m out of it being around here.

On one hand I don’t mind that, as I’m frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It’s not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it’s produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it’s a vibe I resonate with.

On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you’re trying to cultivate. It’s too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there’s not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people’s interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

DAE is short for Does anyone else.

So people don’t care as much when you leave your small indie label and join a major. In fact quite the opposite. Good on you for winning against the system.

That’s integrating with the system, not winning against it. Which may be taken how one will.

The game the article is about is FlyKnight.

Certainly striking!

You might find the game Gnosia interesting then. It’s a visual novel with a hidden traitor mechanic mixed with a time loop, which is partly there to narratively explain how and why the hidden traitor changes each time.

Sort of, it’s because a lot of microblogging software doesn’t have the same post format with title/post body. The current workaround for microblog to Lemmy and similar is to format it like this:

first line title

second or more lines post body

@[email protected]

#hashtags if desired

Saw some chatter coming up again encouraging people to make their own websites which is fun. Somewhere in the process also found someone mentioning the Ooh Directory, which is such a great url.

Shared another of my finds the other day to [email protected] of the Yameii - Synesthesia music video. It’s definitely a niche within a niche, but if you like vocaloids, bright gaudy colors and surreal 3D animation, you might like it.

That’s always a relief, but also awkward feeling. “But…Up-to-date thing you’re supposed to work with the rest, wtf are you doing breaking things??”

My “favorite” is when drivers do this. Go from visuals fine to, “What do you mean you want your game to render?”

@[email protected]

It’s a bit of both in my opinion. You only market/suggest Lemmy (as forum/link aggregator software) to those with the tech knowledge to build with it, but to everyone else you mention a community site to join and don’t bother mentioning what it’s built with, as they won’t care anyway.

Would you edit the OP to rephrase your last line? No pics/no sexual stuff would be better, as it currently reads as having some prejudice against homosexuality, but the no pics part suggests you mean no sexual stuff more broadly.

Thanks in advance