Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4713:5C68:71D9:D2E3:994A:4883-20191006091819

Since downloading is not illegal here, they don't have much choice except to go for people on Torrent or Emule, if that is still a thing. Not much they can do if you DDL anyway.

Ideally, you would have some laws against that (though, maybe there already are some). The issue is, of course, finding evidence for this kind of tinkering. Eh, Japan has created non-standard characters and stories in fiction before, so they could definitely do it again if they only bothered. But considering the otakus will buy their lame same-old same-old forever, they have no incentive to do so. They shouldn't "pander" to the West anyway. It has never worked out so far and, after all, I buy Japanese games for being Japanese, not for trying to emulate other cultures. Well, I've never seen anything apart from IBM-compatibles in real life, so I can't even say something about C64s or Amigas in that regard.

Anything that replaces jobs for cheaper would be appreciated here in Germany. We have such a lack of children/young people/workers, it's pretty awful. If you are competent and are willing to move, it's almost a guarantee that you will find a job. When the boomers retire in the future, it will look pretty bleak. Unfortunately, Germany never bothered to address to birth issue, in any way. And immigrants are not a solution, especially when they differ heavily from society and also religion. I don't really care. But well, I do think that in general, electric cars look worse than "normal" ones. Hopefully that will change in the future. And hopefully, German carmakers will do well in that regard. Tesla has been getting a mediapush for so long, so that already existing electrical cars here don't sell nearly as well, despite being as good or better (according to some owners). Autonomous driving in another issue since we aren't too good when it comes to more complicated software. The US has way more experience in that regard.

Hm, no clue in that regard since I only do it by paper if I really need to transfer money which is basically never the case. Not a fan of online-banking and the like. All that external scanner stuff and the TANs, bla. When I moved here and opened my bank account, the clerk wanted to sell me that kinda system for 30 minutes, lol. The main issue is that I pay higher fees per month because I don't use it which is bs.

No no, which is why I wrote: "planted right on the shrinkwrap". At least the "planted" was supposed to imply something heavier than just a sticker. Like I said, it's likely a shop with a physical presence and they didn't bother to remove it because they couldn't do it themselves without damaging the goods or they just don't care in general. To be fair, PayPal can really screw you over and I've heard from a lot of people, that it was done to them. Freezing funds and the like. My CC is fine, it's just that the bank account changed, most likely. Apart from that, I never had any issues in the almost two years I've used it for now. Those are always the most interesting ones, in my opinion. If you remember that volume 2 art book from Onigiri-kun which was basically just already existing pictures taken from websites, books and other outlets...and which barely had any pictures from old games in it...this one would likely beat it.

Nah, the OP accused me of being a drive-by poster, even though I had already posted twice in that thread. Their forum is basically completely messed up anyway. If you want to see what's wrong with the internet these days, one glance would be enough. Well, I mentioned the Tokugawa forums before but apart from not getting accepted/being ignored by the admin when I created an account, activity isn't exactly through the roof either. But yeah, it's like we said, it's basically just enthusiasts forums. I guess one main issue is usually lack of moderation, so that some members can drag it down over time. I remember being part of one (German) where you would get a message from an admin/mod if you posts only consisted of like 2-3 sentences. Discussion was heavily encouraged to have depth. It was pretty nice but I left in 2010 or something because some members brought stupid 4chan content (so memes etc) into there via the channels where it was allowed to post more freely (shoutbox and a "general section" for casual talk). Well, eventually more members left and new ones didn't come often enough thanks to Facebook and the like and eventually it shut down some years ago. A shame. And yeah, that would be just another reason why I prefer IRC over Discord. At least in the channels I hang out, discussion is way more open. Though, people talk way more about hardware than the actual "topic" which would be anime in most cases.