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"In Japan, the creators keep rights to their creations no matter who the copyright holder is so there is no reason to distrust the corps" *looks inside* *sees animators salaries who are on convenience store level pay while the work itself makes millions of profit* Uhm, sure

@Winfield_24 Evergreen post:

@jonnybraham @dailybritainonx I cant believe your vote is worth the same as mine...

@dailybritainonx So the plan is Work hard, we’ll take your wealth, and redistribute it to the lazy benefit cheats and illegal immigrants This is communism, pure and simple You can sugar coat it anyway you want, but that’s what it is To reiterate Work hard, enjoy zero reward

🚨 NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski unveils sweeping plans to tackle Britain’s “affordability crisis” today. His proposals include: - A 10:1 pay cap, limiting how much top earners can make compared to the lowest-paid workers - Free school meals for all pupils - Universal energy bill support - Stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs Zack Polanski says: “The affordability crisis is something affecting nearly everyone… any change in circumstance can push people over the edge into requiring a foodbank.” “This crisis is totally avoidable and down to choices made by this Labour Government and previous Tory Governments.” “The Greens have a plan… taking on corporate power and vested interests to give ordinary people a way out of this crisis.”

@_Moti_x @DobbyClub06 Get the balls while youre down there will ya

@DobbyClub06 Because, dipshit, you tax the millionaires and they take their jobs elsewhere. That 30k a year lad now has to find something new in a now impossible market You lot genuinely don’t get it do you. Jobs they create ARE their tax

The Green Party: “let’s tax billionaires” Lads who make 30k a year:

@terushow Companies like blizzard are very much the same, if it doesnt make them money they arent interested, the difference is western players “pirate” and make their own servers of their games because a multi billion dollar company with such anti player philosophy doesnt deserve their £

@JordonLewin きっと恐らくそうです＞欧米基準 もちろん、コナミみたいな会社も存在するのですが、あそこは経営陣かゲーム会社であることを半ば捨てた会社なので…

あなたはいつかきっとかわいそうな可哀想な小さなインディーズ開発者にも言うでしょう。「俺たちが代わりにローカライズしてやったぜ、この言語圏では一銭も損してないからいいだろ？」と。

@terushow I think you would be very unfortunately surprised how little autonomy the actual developing studios have in these decisions, but maybe im just going off of how it works in the west

@JordonLewin いえ、彼らもその決定を下している一員ではあると思います。今回の件で言えば、横尾太郎氏に何らかの権限が多少なりともなかったと考えるのは不自然です。

@terushow I wish that were the case here in the west but specifically in America, many states have written law called "at will employment" that means the employer can fire an employee for ANY reason with zero repercussions! Its awful and very much abused

@JordonLewin ご存じなら大丈夫です。わたしも実際のところはよく知りません。ですが、業績がいいのに大量解雇、みたいなことは起こりにくいと思います。

@terushow Maybe its unclear but (atleast in regards to me) I am not hating on the individual employees who went into the creation of a game/product. Because I know they arent the ones making decisions to pull access to those products

@JordonLewin 言葉が足りませんでした。メーカーでありそれはつまりクリエイターの集団であるいう視点がないのが理解できないということです。

@terushow Ive heard stories but I wont pretend to understand truly

@JordonLewin あとは、企業と労働者の雇用関係の違いもあるかもしれません。日本での正規労働者の解雇は、非常に困難なのをご存じですか？

@terushow Maybe this didnt translate well because you just admitted that the game company is both the manufacturer and the publisher but dont understand why westerners are combining them into one entity, because thats exactly as you just described?

@JordonLewin 繰り返し言うように、日本でゲーム会社はパブリッシャーであり同時にメーカーなのです。専業パブリッシャーはおそらく存在しないか、マイナーな存在です。 あなた方が、パブリッシャーとメーカーを区別せず企業と一括りなのも理解できませんが。

@terushow But why, it should not be, we have no such difficulties in the west, is that purely a cultural divide?

@JordonLewin いえ、今回の件は日本のIPですから、まずは日本の事情を理解してください。説明したとおり、日本において企業とクリエイターを分離するのは難しいのです。 そこはご理解いただけましたか？

@terushow I think (purely my opinion) that a decision made purely to increase profits, even if its stupid/incompetent, that negatively impacts the company/individuals is atleast somewhat evil in nature. But thats very philosophical and not something i think most would agree on

@JordonLewin なお、コナミは邪悪かもしれませんが、同時に無能としかいいようがありません。小島監督と決別するなんて、ゲームメーカーであることをやめたようにしか思えませんが、実は事実やめようとしていたりします。

@terushow Again there needs to be nuance, there is no definitive line it has to be a case by case basis. Maybe its my ignorance but from what I've seen of Japanese people engaging in these arguments is they want that definition and dont like the answer that it is more complex than that

@JordonLewin 日本のゲーム企業と日本人の関係の話をしているのですが？　わたしもゼニマックスは嫌いです。 しかし、日本の多くのゲームメーカーは、パブリッシャーでもありますが、依然としてメーカーであり、また、経営者がクリエイターであることも多いのです。 どこに線を引けるのでしょうか？　年収？

@terushow I'll agree with not conflating stupidity with malice but you would need to be blind not to consider some of the decisions of these big companies as evil, look at companies like Blizzard who saw record breaking profits in recent years but chose to fire 100s of employees thats evil

@JordonLewin また、あなたも含め、海外の方は企業を悪だと考えているようですが、私から言わせれば企業は無能なだけです。無能に悪意を見出すべきではありません。

@terushow Thats dangerous though because the rights of an individual are vastly different to a big company like Square Enix and if people cant see that then there isnt much helping them

@JordonLewin そのニュアンスが信用できないと言っているんです。彼らは、スクエニを擁護する人たちを「企業の奴隷」「企業の信奉者」と断じますが、それは間違いです。おそらく大抵の日本人は、企業と個人を区別せず同じ権利者として扱っているだけです。

@terushow Maybe so, but I can say the same to you, you may understand what im saying but ive literally seen today someone say they would tolerate slavery if it was legal just because its the law! Nuance is so important in these conversations.

@JordonLewin 「誰もインディーゲームの海賊版を推奨しているわけではなく」ですから、目を背けないでください。推奨してはいないかもしれませんが、許容している人があなたの隣にいるんです。

@terushow I see your point but I think given the current situation it is irrelevant because no one is advocating to pirate indie games, theyre (to quote my OP) arguing to hold the big publishers accountable as this is a somewhat common issue.

@JordonLewin わかったかもしれません。元のツイートで「この言語圏では一銭も損してないから」と言っているように、わたしは「no longer」を対象にしていません。元々の話題がそうだから誤解は当然です。 彼らのロジックは「損をしていない」であり、それはそのように見えるだけのものを含んていると考えています。

@terushow Okay I understand, its hard to tell but I would say quite different because I fundamentally think it is not immoral to pirate a product that the creator/publisher is no longer providing. Maybe im wrong but it seems you disagree with me on that.

@JordonLewin 言葉を変えてみます。私とあなたの海賊版を許せない気持ちに、どれほどの違いがあるとお考えですか？

@terushow I think there has been a translation error as I didnt say anything along the lines of "that far"

@JordonLewin あそこまでとは? 私がどこまで許していないとお思いなのですか？

@terushow The funny thing is I actually agree with you that piracy is theft, the difference is I'm not hopelessly insufferable about it.

@JordonLewin ですから、それを同一視する人が隣にいることから目をそらすのをやめてください。あなたがそうだと言ってるんじゃありません。あなたたちの周りにいるんです。