Zack the zen duck😈💍

@SerenayaCarrin She's also played that quite a lot off-stream

To everyone wondering why ironmouse is at all relevant to FFXIV: Remember that fanfests and media tours are as much about marketing, as they are about showing off new shit. Her audience is massive and she seems like a genuinely good person so that's all SE likely cares about. Jury's out on why certain other CCs have been invited in the past, but this one isn't really a surprise all things considered.

@AleudeF @daily_dayo the guy didn't even do the bare minimum. Just tried to farm drama in bad faith. And complains when he's called out

@daily_dayo u think everyone know anything about fkin vtubers life?

Makes fun of a disabled woman Claimed he was fired because her fans “harassed his employer” Turns out he was laid off over a year ago. The saddest attempt at clout I’ve seen in years

@PlusEVAnalytics it isn't even restated differently. It's still "two things with negative outcome inside and one with positive outcome inside".

This question must be filtering for "people who are aware of the Monty hall problem but don't understand it"?

@Overlord_Manga @Kimikittiekat Idk if you're pretending to not understand things to nitpick small mistakes. They clearly meant "a friend" and "off stream".

@Kimikittiekat Awesome! more of us players! Kinda hard to play a MMO offline thought... I was curious so I did a google search. Most prominent puts her playing ARR a year ago. So good to know google hasnt updated correctly.

We're excited to announce that popular VTuber @ironmouse will be joining us as a special guest panelist at Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim! 😈 sqex.to/wf6Td

@bajiru_EN we have eyes everywhere 👀

@mat97siv ... are you from the IRS

Paying thousands of dollars traveling to see anime girls and losing tons of money 👎 Becoming an anime girl so that you can deduct all the money you spend on seeing anime girls from your taxes 👍

@RazorSharpFang @SpaceKoala There's no good data that demonstrates the right of the laffer curve exists at any tax rate that is close to reality. You may argue that at some point that would happen but to even levy that % of taxes you would be in a totalitarian government which could enforce productivity

@SpaceKoala Out of curiosity, is there a rigorous way to determine where on the Laffer curve a particular economy resides in regard to a particular taxation mechanism? (E.g.: GST, VAT, etc.)

The iron law of the Laffer curve is that whoever brings it up never thinks they're on the left side of the curve.

@SpaceKoala The laffer curve is also something the dude entirely made up on the spot. It's not based on any real data. It handwaves all practicalities

@hasibiroindustl @star_alien04 That seems like your problem though. In the end you are responsible for your own feelings

@star_alien04 過去のゲーム体験を否定されたように感じてるかもしれないんですがそれを俺に言っても無意味ですよ、俺が海外ゲーマーに根付く慣習のせいで海外ゲーマーが信用できなくなった話をしているだけなので

これ反論になってるつもり？ 日本の側が売らないと判断してるんだから、そこに売ってくれ言われても売りません、で話終わりですわよ？

@tanuzou1027 That's true of art in general. For someone it can be, a book, a movie, a song. For someone else it can be anime.

前にロシア人が「日本のアニメはどれだけの人を救っているのか、日本人は知らない」ってポストをしていて、その中でロシア人やアメリカ人、他の国々の人もその意見を「その通りだ」って肯定していたんだけど… そんなに救いになるものなの？確かに日本のアニメは面白いものが多いけど、そんなにたくさんの人の心を救うものだったとは考えたことも無かった。

@zmijewskijr @totoriscreens @11975MHz 5 is not defensible. 4 is defensible if you assume only classical states of matter. If you take the standard model into account there are quite a lot more than 5.

@mat97siv @totoriscreens @11975MHz The argument is that the student knew about 5. The student should be allowed to argue for five and since they obviously could then they should get full credit.

One thing I quickly learned as a child in public schooling is that teachers are not pleasantly surprised when you know something beyond what they do. They really, really don't like that one bit. Especially when you follow that up with "neener, neener."

@CompGeometer @aelen_altria That ceases to be valid and should be relinquished when the rights holder just sits on it and no longer does anything with it. At best it leads to the disappearence of the product, at worst it's rent-seeking

@aelen_altria I am not sure what there is to explain about copyright being necessary to have also works produced in the future, that would seem self-explanatory.

Living in Japan for 6 years, I also think the root of discussion is the controversy between "rules" and "one's own moral sense". In Japan, it's said "rules are rules", period. It doesn't need to be explained. In the West, you need to explain why the rule was made into a rule.

@aelen_altria The "rules are rules" mindset tends to on productive activities. Processes based on clear rules become very efficient and streamlined and when everyone follows them, when things work well they work really well. But in my limited experience crisis management becomes really hard

@OliverJia1014 Now, if you do have the disposable income and the pricing is reasonable you're either choosing to not support a product you like (and the possibility that the studio does more) or getting something you don't care about supporting (In that case why are you playing it?)

@OliverJia1014 I have the income to buy the games I like and those are the ones I want to support. Though if they don't do regional prices I'm all for people pirating games in countries where it's a significant % of the median income.

This is a really bad argument. There’s a difference between emulating a rare 30-year-old Famicom game that’s no longer available and choosing to pirate modern, easily available stuff just because you perceive it as expensive. It’s no longer about preservation.

@OliverJia1014 The pirating = stealing argument is also quite dishonest. Someone who can't afford to buy a game and pirates it is not affecting anyone. The company wouldn't have gotten the money anyway and nobody is prevented from enjoying the product. The moral argument is flimsy

@totoriscreens @zmijewskijr @11975MHz yeah. And by the way, I say it from the perspective of someone who might 100% have given that answer. Though I really think docking points on the open part is a bit too much. Maybe just dock for the multiple choice

@mat97siv @zmijewskijr @11975MHz I mean that's the kicker, if you restrict yourself to classical states of matter then 4 is correct, if you don't then there's a lot more than 5. There's no universe where 5 is the correct answer to this question.

@BrandonBVarnell Among all possible nerdy interests, anime is the one that is pretty much 50/50

This meme is based off flawed data and anyone who's been to anime cons would know this. Many of these statistics come from surveys with a very small sample size (450 women or less) and aren't in any way involved in the anime/manga fandom. Many big anime conventions in the US like Anime Expo have a 40-50% female attendance record. 44% of Crunchyroll's subscribers are women. If you ask the women who attend those cons, they would say they don't have a problem with it. While there are plenty of issues when it comes to dating, this isn't one of them, and I am sick and tired of engagement bait like this.

@zmijewskijr @totoriscreens @11975MHz c is incorrect however you look at it. It's either the first 4 or a lot more than 5

@totoriscreens @11975MHz Unless you’re right. The teacher should be flexible and allow for the right answer the student put. With an explanation being necessary for other students to argue why c should be correct for them.

@11975MHz Idk how to feel about this because it's clearly either the 4 that we know occur naturally or it's a whole lot more than that plus all the ones that exist according to the standard model but have not been reproduced in a lab condition.