And I just want to make it clear that I DO NOT hate Japan, Japanese people, or Japanese culture. I just don't think we should call Japan "based" because they made some of our favorite video games, TV shows, etc or that they haven't caught on with the modern cancers like we have.

@cee Japan has a lot of Australia (no offense to you)-tier laws and most of the people there are compliant, unquestioning sheep. And Japan is not the video games and anime wonderland that weebs make it look out to be. That shit is still frowned upon in public just like in the west.

@xianc78 women do tend to get abused more there and queer people do get cancelled completely

@cee I actually plan on writing it from a cultural right wing perspective because I see more right-wing people talk about how "based" Japan is.

@xianc78 @cee It's common for people who either have never been to some culture before or experienced it for a few days while on vacation to consider that "based".
Same with most Japanese here thinking that Europe is all about beauty, America all about coolness, and the west in general being HOMOgeneously white, because that's what all the Hollywood movies say, or that's what this one week to Venice has shown.

The only "based" thing about Japan was that it didn't get as tyrannical with its covAIDS stuff compared to all the other Asian and even western countries, but nobody ever asks why this has been the case.

@cee @xianc78 >gays get ok outted
Good

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee

> Japan, just like most other countries in the world has signed the Agenda 21/30 action plan.

Don't forget about the forced SDGs propaganda wherever you go...
Loli frog is right about SDGs; it only contributes to their very own extinction (article in Japanese):
https://technicalsuwako.moe/blog/sdgs-kiken/

I should also add to the tech illiteracy part that many younger people don't even have a PC, and never even saw one before.
They're mostly just smartphone-only users, rather than smartphone-first like how it's the case in most of the rest of the world.

> Guess what, being obsessed with video games and anime in public is still frowned upon in Japan.

It's still a niche, but it's no longer really frowned upon.
It used to be awkward to read a manga in a train without a privacy cover to hide the fact you're reading a manga, but nowadays I sometimes even spot people reading a literal Shonen Jump magazine in a crowded train.
Hell, even when I'm applying for new projects I get more and more HR staffers to tell me they love the 日常 type anime, and even name a couple the like the most by title.
In general, pretty much everything in public is kind of taboo, mostly kept within themselves or among close friends.

> People often forget that Japan was embracing LGBT themes in media long before the west.

There's even a whole genre like TSF (transsexual science fiction).
One difference between trannies in eastern and western media is, eastern media are more likely to make them likable, give them a feminine character, and all that, while trannies in western media just can't stop bragging about them being trans while having a rather masculine character.

> On a semi-related note, crypto ATMs are illegal in Japan.

Apparently, they're coming back in Tokyo and Osaka since a few days ago.
Although with KYC and other bullshit, because every time the government wants to do something cool, they have to fuck it up hard along the way.
Same with "we're going to re-open the country to tourists" YAAAAA... "but only if they fill in mountains of paperwork, are fully lethally injected, strictly follow the pre-planned tour guide whether they like it or not, install Orwellian crapps on their smartphones (if they have no smartphone, they'll just get a rental device), and come from specific countries" GODDAMN!!

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee Also, I'm planning on getting a 3D printer when I'm back home again, checking out Amazon Japan they're still fully available, although they're getting more expensive (they used to be around 30,000 yen on average, now you have to be lucky to even find a decent one for 30,000 yen).

Question by the way, what is the average size of a decent shotgun?

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee I don't know of the top of my head. They usually measure the caliber and not the length of the gun itself. I think the average length of a sawed-off is around 18 inches (the US legal limit last time I checked). A standard shotgun is probably 24 inches, maybe.

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee 18 inch is 45.72 in (human readable) centimeters.
Damn, all the 3D printers on Amazon Japan are too small then...
The largest one being 330×330×400mm, though ironically still cheaper than the smaller ones.

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Can't you just make pistols for the time being?

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee Aren't pistols the same as guns?

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee They're handguns (which are illegal in your country). But they aren't shotguns.

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee What's the difference?
Also, you know I don't give a fuck about what's legal and illegal, to me all the government made-up "laws" are illegal anyway.

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Shotguns shoot a straight walled cartridge that discharges into sub projectiles. Pistols just shoot lead bullets.

@xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee I get it! (Doesn't understand at all.)

@xianc78 @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Sailor Moon thing is just yuri, people like yuri because it's attractive, not for the sake of pushing shit, Dragon Warrior thing is I think a rumour. You could mention Birdo instead, though making these wierd monsters into trannies feels like they're kinda making fun of them

@xianc78 @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Also, you really mention MonoGame and FNA, microsoft things, instead of something truly free like Love2d

And Go (C style garbage collected native code lang by google) instead of D (C style garbage collected native code lang by Walter Bright)

@applejack @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee My dream game would require scripting for in-game events. If I were to use Love2D (which is powered by Lua) I would have a scripting language running on top another scripting language.

@xianc78 @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Wdym? Lua is the most popular scripting language for games, It would be a benefit since you can interface seamlessly

If you need separate Lua instances running in separate threads, it has that too with message passing
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.thread

@xianc78 @applejack @ArdainianRight @cee As long as you're familiar with programming syntax of something like C, Go, PHP, Python, or similar, you can learn Lua in just 30 minutes.
I know that, because I've done that.

@applejack @xianc78 @ArdainianRight @cee Go is quite a black sheep among the Goolag products, as it's mostly maintained by a community outside of Goolag, and maintained by the very same people who made Unix, Plan9, the original C language, and all the other good stuff.

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee @xianc78 Whenever I try it it just looks and feels like D to me but with a slightly less C like syntax (a bad thing) and annoyances like the unused variable thing that they still wont change or add an option for because they think they know better than you

@applejack @ArdainianRight @cee @xianc78 Never looked at the D language before.
Though I already know C, and the big goal I have is to learn ASSembly, both x86 and ARM, might learn the RISC one (if different from ARM) if some day I get my hands on a RISC-powered computer.

@ryo @ArdainianRight @cee @applejack Apparently, it has a Java/C# inspired syntax while also compiling to native code.

@xianc78 @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee Not really. The syntax is C-like, has garbage collection and mechanics for memory-safety, which can be disabled or forced per-block or for the while program, and has meta-programming mechanisms that replace macros that let it use compile-time function execution to generate code, even make utility languages like vibe-d uses for HTML templates, it reads templates from a folder and generates them into code
https://vibed.org/docs

@applejack @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee I was going to bring up Tony from Earthbound/Mother 2 and the Magypsies in Mother 3, but I don't think it counts because Itoi is clearly a Japanese commie.

@xianc78 @ryo @ArdainianRight @cee you forgot censorship. you can get fined now for insulting someone online. oh and there's a rising feminist movement

@e @ArdainianRight @cee @xianc78
> you can get fined now for insulting someone online.

The easy way around that is by using Fedi and never revealing who you are in real life.
But most people are stupid, and sign up for all sorts of disservices that require a phone number, those are the people who are the most vulnerable.

> there's a rising feminist movement

You can thank Abe for that one...

@xianc78@gameliberty.club @ryo@social.076.ne.jp @ArdainianRight@detroitriotcity.com @cee@freethinkers.lgbt

Lived there, can confirm.

@xianc78 @ryo they also have alotta cults in the rural areas of japan btw