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 No.134285[Reply]

DEFCON 3 : US-based doujin site, pururin.to, was seized by the Feds. This is a fairly significant event. The obscenity laws surrounding drawings have largely been unenforced at the Federal level.

The banner itself claims that this was done on the grounds of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1466A and 1467; per the banner itself, "It is unlawful to produce, distribute, receive, or possess an obscene visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Individuals who do so can face significant criminal and civil penalties, including imprisonment, fines, and forfeiture of property."

But... The banner also shows the seal of the Intellectual Property Rights Center, which is suggestive of this being brought by foreign rights holders claiming copyright infringement, but then pururin being seized and prosecuted under obscenity law. Sites being seized for obscenity are typically done by the FBI, whose seal is conspicuously missing in this case.
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 No.134893

>>134868
I just bumped this shab

 No.135129

>>134308
>there aren't a whole lot of sites that are on clearnet involved with CP that aren't hijacking some sort of free hosting platform
what do you mean by hijacking a free hosting platform?

 No.135132

>>135129
Any website that allows email/phone number-free file uploads I'm guessing. The scum are like locusts and will eventually find such places and hammer it with illegal content until the provider yanks the site or the admin does it himself. Anonfiles was the most recent victim that I'm aware of, but it hits everything eventually.

 No.135133

>>135132
>Anonfiles
must have confused it with AnonTalk wwwwwwwww

 No.135141

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by who?




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 No.132183[Reply][Last50 Posts]

It's funny how Oshi no Ko seems to have forgotten that Ruby existed, which is kind of good. But, I feel like Kana isn't getting enough focus. I think it's obvious to everyone that she's the best character.
When Kana isn't on screen the other characters should say "Hey, where's Kana?"
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 No.134997

love thinking about how much hate Akasaka is getting right now

 No.135135

>>134997
haven't read it yet, but maybe if Akasaka sucks at writing endings he should have let his artist decide on how to end it instead
she's made some great manga

 No.135136

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Isn't it nice when you're browsing kissu and then you see Kana on the front page?

 No.135137

>>135135
only mengo had the ovaries to write a proper dark supernatural idol incest story three years before aka
https://mangadex.org/chapter/3b157cea-3fd4-4d47-8b6e-250beccecd6f
>>135136
it's sad because it reminds me that kana DIED in the eyes of the public during the scandal arc

 No.135140

>>135137
women are crazy




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 No.134905[Reply]

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 No.134912

>>134908
Die, vampire.

 No.134913

>>134912
Joke's on you, I don't leave the house. You'll have to cross an ocean and brave sunlight to reach me.

 No.134930

I don't know much about the subject but it seems that the microbes in different people's gut reacts differently to different food. So it's not a matter of people who eat sh*t having sh*t brains.

Having said that, they probably do but not for that reason. Correlation does not mean causation. Lower socio-economic background 'people' eat bad food but they also treat themselves terribly in general so there is a lot that could contribute to it.

 No.135120

good things are good and bad things are bad

 No.135131

sage posts are sage and age posts are age




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 No.115654[Reply]

Has the internet been a net benefit for society? Going by the access it gives us to all information, it could seem so on a technical level. However, with so much information out there it's impossible for a normal human to sort through, and as such many rely on small feeds to get their information that motivates them most emotionally. This stewing of outrage culture seems like it's lead to perpetuating and even stoking more violence and hatred.

On the other hand, the vast sea of information has also given opportunity for those in research to collaborate and build off each others work at lightning speed, and even help to raise new generations on material that teaches them well. Not to mention the entirety of github. In my own personal experience I feel as though I've learned to connect better with others through my use of the internet.
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 No.135033

>>135028
And then Google and Meta follow the lead of piracy sites and move all their servers to eastern Europe while the west builds its own great firewall. Sounds like fun.

 No.135113

I still hate the EU for ruining nearly every website with their dumb cookies popups.
Russia never did anything like that to the internet.

 No.135114

>>135113
Websites ruin themselves with their dumb cookies

 No.135116

>>135114
Anon is right, it made the web worse.
Now they secretly track us anyways while pretending not to, but we also have to deal with annoying popups.

>>135113
The worst part is 90% of them aren't even compliant and still break the law they're pretending to follow. You are required to make an incredibly easy to click reject all without having to open any extra menus or click anything extra and the agree button should not use dark patterns to make you think it's the reject button. Regardless, pretty much all websites force you to go through an annoying process so you're more likely to just press click agree to not get incredibly frustrated by a slow declining process. This is knowingly not following the EU regulations on how the banner is required to be and they may as well just not do it at all.

 No.135121

>>135116
I'm not terribly bothered by it, I have never ever found a worthwhile website behind a dark pattern banner. So if I see one at this point I just don't use the website.




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 No.135034[Reply]

Since switching from IT to Dev Manager, I’ve realized the insane amount of bureaucratic processes we have to follow (this is just related to dev performance, I have hundreds of other processes I have to follow daily).

- Monthly self-eval: Devs must submit a detailed monthly self-evaluation
- Manager evaluation: Dev’s manager evaluates them monthly too.
- Weekly team evaluation: Dev's direct manager evaluates the "team" as a single unit every week.
- Quarterly upper management review: The direct manager’s manager steps in every quarter to assess the team as well.
- Each dev's “buddy” (more senior dev they're partnered with) performs a monthly evaluation of their performance too
- TL assesses sprint quality after each sprint.
- TL's manager reviews sprint quality too (non-technical manager)

Now, management expects me to sift through all this data weekly toghether with Jira to identify any "underperformers". They don’t see the redundancy—they just want more.
When I pointed out that the sheer volume of surveys and performance checks is beyond redundant, my manager brushed it off, accusing me of trying to "work less."
In his eyes, productivity means creating more processes. Only colleagues who add extra layers of bureaucracy get rewarded, never those who streamline.
Am I being a baby?
Feeling disillusioned... Is this really what management is supposed to be?
Because if so, I’m tempted to just go wild creating even more pointless processes—like they seem to want—and drown everyone in surveys and meaningless reports.
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 No.135105

>>135099
i really really wish that was the case
i stopped being one a year and half ago
while not a dev i work in IT support and this whole review corpo talk reminded me of my own reviews (i'm the one being reviewed though)

 No.135106

360 noscope reviews

 No.135111

>>135105
OP here.
You reminded me I also get reviewed:
- Every quarter: by the client, my manager, my peers, PMO, people from other areas (finance, IT, account managers, etc) and also by the devs that report to me.
(Also every week I'm audited by PMO for process compliance)

What a wonderful world!!!!

 No.135112

>>135111
That sounds like some strait up East German or Elan School petty control.

The few times I was ever given a self review I always would put just the maximum score for everything, because it was time wasting and they were going to knock me down a peg and tell me what they want me to do anyways.

 No.135117

>>135034
>The few times I was ever given a self review I always would put just the maximum score for everything, because it was time wasting and they were going to knock me down a peg and tell me what they want me to do anyways.
That's what I always do because I know for a fact that salary reviews are directly linked to these scores. I also know for sure that my manager never gives me full marks, no matter what because "nobody is perfect"




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 No.67182[Reply][Last50 Posts]

/qa/! It's time to show off your MS paint skills! Try drawing a character and seeing if others can guess at who it is. Starting off with an iconic one so that the first picture isn't impossible...
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 No.135086

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nii nii

 No.135087

>>135086
sextoko, the most infamous tardsexer of all animanga

 No.135088

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Puniru fanart
I probably should have checked to see if the blue part was on top

 No.135097

>>135088
Eroi slime...

 No.135101

slimy sager




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 No.127237[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you read any interesting articles lately? Anything news worthy you think kissu would want to know about?
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 No.132103

>>132090
Odd to see such scruples but I respect that.

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 No.132662

Amazing... This is Ottawa

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 No.133286[Reply]

I'm reading through Uta 2 and 3 again with someone else in the VN thread planning to read it soon, so I think Utawarerumono deserves its own thread again! I did manage to take two previous Utawarerumono /qa/ threads to bump limit back when Season 3 of the anime was airing back in 2022 so let's go for a third!
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 No.135060

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>>135059
In the pic I posted there the girls on the side are obviously meant to be Touka and Karura, but it's strange. They look so young, so when is this going to take place? Is it maybe going to skip around in the timeline to show different moments? It's weird to see them drawn in such a different style, but the huge image gallery of 3 360p images mentions that there was an OP video so I guess that would align. I hope the OP video is uploaded soon!

>Additionally, it was announced that development has resumed on the project "Jasmine," which had been previously announced as canceled in 2015.

I wonder if this means a true VN sequel that moves the story forward. The producer up there said this Path to White game is the culmination of Utawarerumono, so that's a weird thing to say if they're already working on something else. But, I guess it could be the culmination of the current Utawarerumono story.

 No.135061

>>135060
Although.. hmm... maybe it's not Touka, but a relative of hers? Obviously they can retcon minor stuff from 20 years ago, but I don't think the two were aware of each other in the first Utawarerumono.

 No.135062

>>135060
Jasmine is not related to Utawarerumono, it was a new Aquaplus IP that was cancelled.

 No.135063

>>135062
Oh, nice. That's great news, too.

 No.135064

OP trailer from someone recording it in the audience! It's unlikely this won't be directly uploaded soon, but for those like me that couldn't wait.
Peculiar that it's showing the "creation" of Mutsumi at 2:06 with the brain in the jar and it's tying it to Monochrome Mobius stuff.
I want to wait to see a higher quality online video before I comment on anything else, although with presumably few (if any) people here having played Monochrome Mobius I won't say much. I was never able to finish it because my computer started having issues with it for some reason, so I need to go back and play it soon. I heard they nerfed the difficulty, though, which is a bummer. I liked that it was quite frustratingly difficult at times.




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 No.115426[Reply]

Is pleasure real or is it merely imaginary? We've often heard of material pleasures, bodily pleasures, etc., but as far as we are capable of knowing, it might not necessarily be anything but a mental phenomenon.
What if pleasure is just a meme? What if enjoyment does not exist? What if it's all mere poetic fancy, constituting nothing but decoration in art, pure artifice born from the inside of creative organ?
But if people do strongly enough believe in it and bring out works of art that represent this ideal very much in accordance to what they believe it is meant to be, then can it be said to come into being, or does it remain trapped on a canvas or on a piece of paper? If Man attributes the qualities of beauty, grace, harmony, balance to real objects that were created by nature, do those qualities indeed objectively typify them, or are they only assignations describing a subjective judgement, a mere product of circumstantial associations?

The World might not be objectively beautiful, but it is not objectively ugly.
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 No.135000

It's real to me, and I can see it in my cat too when she comes for pets and scratches. Whether you think it's real or not doesn't really matter all that much. We're still driven by it.

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 No.135003

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 No.135005

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>>135003
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I appreciate cat posters SO MUCH




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 No.134781[Reply]

Is it better for a ruler to be feared or loved?
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 No.134801

>>134799
I might be mixing up facts with him and Gramsci.

 No.134806

>>134794
>>134795
when searching for stuff about machiavelli what really strikes me is how differently he can be received by people, and all the discussion about whether he's coldly helping autocrats or is secretly a subversive republican, both interpretations having inspired various folks
looking at texts beyond the prince it seems to me that he does value the common good in and of itself, and that if a leader is to be cruel it should be for the sake of getting shit done, and that furthermore the populace is more virtuous than a prince and a republic preferable to a princedom
consider this section in "The Multitude Is Wiser and More Constant Than a Prince" from the discourses on livy
>I say, thus, that all men particularly, and especially princes, can be accused of that defect of which the writers accuse the multitude; for everyone who is not regulated by laws would make the same errors as the unshackled multitude. This can easily be known, because there are and have been very many princes, and the good and wise among them have been few.
>I conclude, thus, against the common opinion that says the peoples, when they are princes, are varying, mutable, and ungrateful, as I affirm that these sins are not otherwise in them than in particular princes. Someone accusing peoples and princes together might be able to say the truth, but in excepting princes, he would be deceived; for a people that commands and is well ordered will be stable, prudent, and grateful no otherwise than a prince, or better than a prince, even one esteemed wise. On the other side, a prince unshackled from the laws will be more ungrateful, varying, and imprudent than a people.
and in book one of the art of war he also has his two characters cosimo and fabrizio agree over this:
>Cosimo. What are these things you would introduce in imitation of the ancients?
>Fabrizio. To honor and reward virtù; not to scorn poverty; to value good order and discipline in their armies; to oblige citizens to love one another, to decline faction, and to prefer the good of the public to any private interest; and other such principles which would be compatible enough with these times. ThPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.134899

Feared as long as the fear is based on rational and orderly principles. Once you start being feared as a "mad emperor" it's pointless because nobody will want to risk your whims targeting them for no reason.

 No.134900

Machiavelli: The Scumbag

 No.134949

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I think it's probably easier to be feared, with the basic evil things you could do to establish that fear. I guess it depends on how far you'd go to become feared, as you'd also create a bunch of enemies that could dispose of you. I don't think it could reach the same heights as a leader that's beloved. The latter almost never happens, though, so it's almost inconsequential.
Well, I guess it depends on the scale of things. Becoming a beloved leader of an army unit or firefighting group seems fairly common, as does leading, uhh.. small companies or something?

Well, can't say it's something I've thought much about.




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 No.113881[Reply]

Finally started my "buyfag" life; albeit not anywhere near the level I've dreamt of, with only second hand stuff so far.
What anime goods have you bought /qa/?
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 No.134928

>>134924
holy cute

 No.134932

i buy scale figures and have a manga collection, along with occaisionally getting plushies and keychains too. i like collecting anime stuff bc i have no other interests

 No.134935

>>134924
cuuuuuuuuuute

 No.134947

post stealing sager




 No.134814[Reply]

Today at 6PM (later if requested)
https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri

The 2010 zombie anime H.O.T.D.
Potentially followup on Friday with different shows and not by me?
Anyways. Rewatch or watch for the first time a classic
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 No.134836

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most of these are just of Saeko

 No.134837

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last one
thanks for hosting

 No.134838

>>134829
i like twintails a lot but saeko is also very good

 No.134839

there was another silly ecchi anime that released similar time

 No.134847

>>134839
I remember watching Ben-To when it aired and finding it really enjoyable. I liked how seriously they took it.




 No.134809[Reply]

Does anyone have a link to the "Happy Halloween" mmd that was posted all the time and the model was in a really skimpy witch outfit, like she was wearing basically just straps and a skirt? I think the model was a miku one but can't remember. The video used to always be the first result on youtube for "Happy Halloween MMD" but i'm guessing it finally got taken down because i can't find it anymore.
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 No.134811

>>134810
No the background was the outside of a haunted house exactly like this one but the colors were a lot less muted.

 No.134815

I remember there being a Kancolle version with two girls... But I can't find it.

 No.134816

Aha! I found it!

 No.134818

>>134816
You found it! Nice, I was looking through my playlists to see if I had it anywhere and I didn't put it into anything specific, just my like list which was too long to search through.

 No.134824

>>134816
Yes that’s the one! Thank you, I’ll need to download it too, so I always have it.




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 No.123829[Reply][Last50 Posts]

This is a thread for discussing and planning streams that people can host using kissu's own anonymity-supporting cytube fork at https://theatre.kissu.moe/! People can and should make threads for the big day so they can post images and stuff and be more in control, but a thread to talk about stuff was suggested and I think it's a good idea.
Current stream plans:
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase on November 29th and December 6th for Kissu's 6th birthday!
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 No.134500

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We skipped last year, but we will once again have a Tsukuyomi Moon Phase stream on the Friday 29th of November and then the Friday after that!
neko mimi modo nyaa~
Invite some people to kissu and of course to the stream to celebrate six years!

 No.134504

>>134500
did we really skip last year? I could have sworn there's memory of a moon phase stream some time this past year...

 No.134802

>>134504
I think so?

Also, a Halloween stream is planned tomorrow I'm pretty sure! *cough*
And I'm doing Army of Darkness on Friday at my standard stream time which is 6PM EST/11PM UTC!

 No.134803

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Hmmm... I'd like to stream Tatami before the new year, but it looks like we're quite booked. Army of Darkness this Friday, the pink films on Sundays, and two Fridays for Moon Phase.

Doing anything in November would mean almost 5 weeks of full Fri-Sat-Sun streaming, so I'm thinking of leaving a space after Moon Phase and going with Friday 20th and Sunday 22nd in December, assuming there'll be a break from Sunday movies.
How does that sound?

>>134504
We skipped it, we definitely did, yeah.

 No.134804

Alternatively, it could be a single session for its 11 episodes. Cutting out the OP/ED leaves it at under four hours.




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 No.134783[Reply]

ZAWA ZAWA
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 No.134787

見つかるといいな
Can't contextualize but "To be found would be nice".

 No.134789

>>134785
The desert region is just one of the biomes. It seems to be semi-open world and the best description that I've seen is that it's basically like a giant open guiding lands where each region is like its own guiding land. Or something like that.

BTW demo for PC is out tomorrow. I'm never been more excited to play a demo.

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>>134791
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>>134792
ah yeah whoops




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