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BEHOLD, THE TOWER OF GLORIOUS HYDRATION

- Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a pirate anime streaming site - After a $4M investment in 2009, they went legal and abandoned the fansubbers who built them, no credit, no compensation - Crunchyroll betrayed fansubbed - Fansubs gave you karaoke OP/ED lyrics, translator notes, colored dialogue per character, and honorifics, none of which Crunchyroll has ever consistently offered - Crunchyroll shut down its Games division in 2024, quietly killing it with little notice to users who had invested time in it - Crunchyroll manga service was shut down in 2016, then relaunched recently, but folded into the subscription fee with a limited catalog - Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in 2021 - Crunchyroll has raised subscription prices multiple times since the Sony acquisition, while delivering less - Crunchyroll acquired Funimation in 2022 and shut it down in April 2024, eliminating the last major competitor - Crunchyroll actively fights anime piracy - Disabled comments section on all anime under episodes and news posts in July 2024 - Crunchyroll streams censored TV broadcast versions of anime, but piracy is an uncensored anime scene - Crunchyroll denied switching to OOONA when asked by Anime News Network, refusing to confirm whether they'd used Aegisub, despite multiple staff leaks confirming the change - Crunchyroll subtitles typesetting was gutted/downgraded - Crunchyroll used AI translation a German subtitle (ChatGPT said: Wenn ich die Welt von hier an weiter genießen kann) - Crunchyroll raised subscription tiers again by $2 in February 2026 - Crunchyroll stayed silent, made no public disclosure, as data was breached on March 12, 2026

BREAKING NEWS: Kadokawa says its policies are “not influenced by the actions of individual shareholders” as overseas activist investor becomes largest shareholder with 13.76% stake The largest shareholder has said its goal is "protecting shareholder value" and "important proposal activities" to change Kadokawa internally. This is the third time in a month Oasis Management a Hedge Fund in Hong Kong has aggressively invested in Kadokawa. Its a hostile takeover at this point

It’s only been 8 hours since I posted this thread about Gianna Daronche aka @nemupyoi and already several members of the Umamusume community have come forward to me personally about their experiences with her. Thanks to nemupyoi, the uma community has fewer artists and TLers.

Good morning @AlboMP & @AngusTaylorMP I am willing to sell you the following dashboard at a fair market value instead of you paying Accenture $20M to deliver a much worse version in 6 months' time. ⛽️ checkpetrol.com.au

The idea that first world countries had less than two weeks of fuel reserves is just baffling to me. The modern world is built on eggshells and spit.

“House prices across picturesque coastal and regional Australia could be trashed under an insurance crisis, the prudential regulator has warned. A stress test of Australia's insurers has sounded the alarm on homes exposed to natural catastrophes, with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority declaring banks are likely to stay away from houses that can no longer secure insurance. 40,000 households could lose insurance cover each year over the coming 25 years under a disaster pathway. It would likely leave nearly 1 in 4 Australian homes, or nearly 2.4 million households, with unaffordable insurance pricing, according to APRA. These homes will struggle to attract insurance, with APRA warning this would then result in a decline in banks lending on them and, as a result, a fall in prices. Banks typically require a homebuyer to secure insurance on a property when lending on it.” •••••••••••••••••• It’s bad enough the government has made housing expensive for Australians, but the cost of insurance is also a nightmare that needs to be resolved. The only way to solve this problem is to bring back a government insurance office that will eliminate the cost of reinsurance paid offshore. This will help lower the cost of insurance by up to 50%. People First Party is the only party that has restoring a National Government Insurance Office as a policy. If you would like to help us promote this policy please sign up today at vist.ly/4vwcq

If Japan's anime bigwigs want anime to keep selling, they must not listen. We all know the real motive for such statements. The war on Japanese culture has waged long enough for there to be no doubt.

In Chinese we have an idiom 画蛇添足 (adding legs to a painting of a snake) which refers to when someone adds unnecessary embellishments to a piece of work that deviate from the original intent, thus ruining it in the process.

Valve has its problems, but Steam has almost entirely been the sole incentive for studios to make good games. If it weren’t for Steam, chances are there also wouldn’t be a massive indie boom either. They have the most consistent and trusted review/rating system of any platform by far There’s a reason no other platform has an actual trustworthy rating/review system. They benefit from fooling you. It makes it easier for them to sell dog shit Steam has single-handedly been keeping the gaming industry from going to absolute shit. Without them, you’ll be getting fed slop after slop after slop, unfortunately, and there wouldn’t really be much of a way to fight it. Steam is a central space for gamers to let other gamers know the truth about trash titles, without the corrupt journalists or whatever other bullshit and they want it gone

“The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Jill Sheppard, a senior lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations, let the mask slip on the latest ANU Democracy Sausage Episode when she argued that donations and lobbying from big business on immigration are a “good thing” because they sway politicians to keep immigration high against the wishes of Australian voters, who overwhelmingly want lower immigration. Essentially, what Sheppard has said is: “Screw what voters actually want. They don’t matter. Politicians should represent the lobbying interests of Big Business”. Sheppard has confirmed that the ANU is an open-borders migration cult that will say anything to keep the numbers flowing.” •••••••••••••••••••••• Another example of how the “elites” don’t respect the will of the people, this time in regard to immigration. Big business has formed an unholy alliance with universities and superannuation funds that avoids scrutiny by shareholders and the public. This is happening because none of these institutions hold democratic elections. My previous post touched on how the major parties use the taxpayer to fund them instead of being accountable to its members. Superannuation funds have grown so large they now control corporations, who along with governments, fund universities. Because superannuation boards don’t hold elections, people have no say in who runs superannuation funds or the companies they control. The same goes for University boards that are also selected, instead of elected by students. Because higher immigration means more customers and more profit, big business and universities support high immigration, despite the public being against it. Until such time as public funding for political parties is cancelled and compulsory superannuation is abolished, taxpayer money will continue to be weaponised against the people.

Australia is sitting on 23 days of diesel while the other side of the world is at war. Over 90% of our fuel is imported, with only 2 refineries left. We have been non compliant with the 90 day IEA reserve obligation since 2012. Japan and South Korea hold 200+ days. Australia hold only 23. Australia is one of the most resource rich nations. We export the majority of our uranium, coal and gas, import the refined version back and then wonder why a conflict +12,000km away affects people in australia. This is a policy crisis.

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

Incredible. The public pressure on the EU over its Digital Censorship Act has led EU censors to move to closed-doors meetings and auto-delete messages in coordinating their censorship ops.

“More Australian companies are employing workers in the Philippines rather than at home, as Manila becomes a hotbed of cheaper talent for jobs ranging from cybersecurity experts to executive assistants. The tech industry in particular is turning to Manila, as the Albanese government's ambitious jobs goal for the sector falters. The once-booming Australian tech sector lost more than 30,000 positions in the 2025 financial year, with job numbers falling to 949,172, according to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources.” •••••••••••••••••• Last year in estimates I asked Treasury how much in withholding taxes is withheld from salaries paid to India and Phillipines. It was zero. Furthermore the ATO doesn’t even track offshore payments to these countries. It just boggles the mind how incompetent our Government is. They allow jobs, taxes and superannuation to go offshore while running a high immigration rate. If Australia wants to repay the trillion dollars in debt the government has racked up, we need to stop profits going offshore. Help us do it by signing up at vist.ly/4rbar

just to remind you all discord in the UK already does this and within 2 months of the system being in place, the company in charge of the system was hacked and thousands of ID's were leaked. They lie about deleting the photos you send.

New Housing Estate at Alkimos, 43km north of the Perth CBD. Surely there Is enough space in Australia to build suburban houses on more land than this. If high density is what they want, then apartments would be better suited as surface area can be replaced by green space for more trees and parklands. We shifted from cage eggs to free range because keeping chickens confined in a small space all together with little natural light was considered (rightly) inhumane. A rat would struggle to fit between these houses. Yet Governments keep intoducing more building regulations in the name of being environmentally and socially friendly when clearly they aren’t.

I wrote Task Unmanager: keeps killing processes Russian Roulette style, until your machine crashes

World's most unaffordable housing markets 1. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 2. 🇦🇺 Sydney 3. 🇺🇸 San Jose 4. 🇨🇦 Vancouver 5. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 6. 🇦🇺 Adelaide 7. 🇺🇸 Honolulu 8. 🇺🇸 San Francisco 9. 🇦🇺 Melbourne 10. 🇺🇸 San Diego 11. 🇦🇺 Brisbane 12. 🇬🇧 London 13. 🇨🇦 Toronto 14. 🇦🇺 Perth 15. 🇺🇸 Miami (Demographia)

For those who try to say “its such a small matter stop complaining!” If its such a small matter, why change it? There is no “Japanese cultural nuance requiring localizer creativity” to write “Merry Christmas” as “Merry Christmas”.

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