magnetic tapes or something

I was thinking the very same.

What irks me, is that i never noticed this before

depends on whos asking.

"Furthermore, our law enforcement has more and even bigger guns"

yes, but guns kill people. if you manage to shoot someone in the head, say from a window/balcony in a hotel, they are dead. regardless of bigness of gun.

The people with bigger guns ought to protect the children or something.

I really dont understand americans, they are so proud of their weapons yet can't control them so theres a school-shooting every month or so. But when there is a grown-up (politician/capitalist) they suddenly dont have their guns anymore?

It seems shooting kids is easier then shooting the evil people. Not that I would ever do either...

just saying, dead people cannot maintain a broken system.

That happened to me with a word 2011 version. I sent my work file for corrections to my companion, we sat together and worked together through the errors. Several hours later, we saved, and immediatly closed the window. BAM! corrupted file. That was not a good day. We all love microsoft right?

doesnt vinyl poison you?

There are extremely funny edits of Harry Potter by a german Youtuber (Coldmirror) from many years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrhObGqK5SU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq2OGLUel0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGrSEp9oTFY

Even an Audiopodcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T6o5O_X7c

She absolutelly loves harry Potter so she even madr her own content with the original material as base, since the copyright rules wouldnt allow for what she did originally anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDvBqWb1UAGeXy9QXbG0qhmX1BeMQShb0

All three of them, Please

Maybe I am growing insane, maybe I am not, for sure I am not the best person to explain this (/communicate my thoughts).

"That's the simple explanation"

This does not cut it for me, I want to know what these processes truely entail.

If you "own your home with no mortgage" Inflation does NOT do anything, since the worth and the money numbers are not the same. If you own a Housing complex in Brazil or Venezuela or whatever and suddenly the inflation jumps up 3'000% per month. Your assets arent suddenly the equivalent of an egg from Walmart. After the Shake-up has calmed down, you will ve able to raise the rent back up to a similar level as before and as such extract a similar worth from those poor Venezuelans.

The money number may be entirely different, maybe even in another currency, but the worth should stay the same.

Hmm I wonder if that even makes a difference, uploading content to other swiss people or uploading content to someone from, say italy.

Be carefull, the ISP may be well-meaning to torrenting, however that doesnt change that technically, uploading unlicensed content is not legal in switzerland.

As well as breaking other laws (by downloading/spreading extremist content for example) can get you in trouble still.

*Apparently it seems that in switzerland Games for example are in a different legal category from a Movie and such and are technically also illegal to upload. Though I dont really think rhant a private person just suddenly gets into major trouble because of this.

Well inflation generally is just people with money and people with power agreeing to lie to each other, so the whole thing can continue working for them.

imagine this: you own a company, your company made raw profit of 300'000 last year. This year it made 3% more raw profit. where did that come from? Growth! or inflation? both? (the real answer is your company made 30% more, because you've fired all the good, expensive workers and in three years the whole thing goes bust)

It gets created when money travels hands, but someone says: I give you 100'000$ value(chicken eggs par example), you give me 100'000$ chash/numbers, but in reality most people only ever receive 99'800 (chicken eggs) -> a devaluation.

The money supply only ever grows because banks can just loan more money than thry have, but then it all gets paid back and suddenly there is more money in the system.

Combining the two (devaluation in transaction and Oversupply) equals a general trend of having more and more money (cash/numbers) while having proportionally less worth. (even though there may have been true growth, the amount of moneys ahs grown stronger/faster.)

The opposite would be you're paying 1'000'000 and receiving a higher worth, in the end the system loses money proportional to the worth. Deflation happens.

In my mind Inflation is good when it makes products cheaper because people hate having to pay "more" for the "same". and when it sucks the money out of the pockets of people sitting on it. (*it can also help normal people in debt, because dept usually only grows slightly, while the people increase their income and money)

However most people with money also invest it in ways where they arent just sitting on it. and most normal people dont actually have a job whit money pegged to inflation, so they just get arsed with minimum pay from the early 1990's.

"Japan's economy has been fucked for decades by low growth because of deflation." I disagree, it has been a very differemt system compared to the US, but it also has a significalty different culture for example. Japanes people are quite wealthy, they have healthcare, they can eat sushi daily, they grow older than americans, are less fat than them. The japanese, in the biggest city in the world, have nowwhere near the homeless problems that plague the US. They jsut havent focused on "growth at any cost".

an example for the systematic difference: The media cannot(is not allowed to) critisize the government in Japan. The US media isn't doing much else except critisizing. Another Ex. may be the horrendous social problems they have, but they are mainly grounded in their fucked up culture, not their economy.

About your question why japanese like german things, I guess its because of multiple reasons:

1. somewhat similar politics and histories from across the globe. starting from the second world war the germans won against their enemies the french and then lost to the world, the japanese won against the coreans and theb lost against the world. then the rebuilding efforts in both countries were insane, dragging them both to the top-spots on the world gdp-wise and whatevs.

2. somewhat similar cultures that highlight personal effort, dedication (to craft, the workplace, the family and community etc.), and such.

3. they just love the germans. a user? said this on a forum "Finally, Japanese just love Germany. They (we) have learned many things like constitutions, medicals and chemicals from Germany. They also love German products like BMW automobiles, artificial hearts, etc. and believe Germans are hard-working, honest and industrious. (Personally, I also rely on German middle-wares)."

I personally believe that the influence of english is significantly higher than the influence of most other languages/culture throughout most of the globe, just because of well... "american imperialism." but it is difficult for that to be visible from the inside. --> my theory being they love english more than german but for example picking a name you can "just pick a german word" for a name and since no-one actually speaks or understands it, it doesnt hurt the story. If you've read my other text-wall you know how thats untrue.

But it seems very strange for me too. In Corea there is a saying "a foreigner with black hair" when they are surprised when they see a "non-blond"-european/american. When the chinese get their heads out of their asses(1) about their 5'000 years of culture then they fall into fascination with europe as well...

I havent consumed much media from other asian spheres and am unable to think about this much more today, so I will leave the world a just slightly more (knowledgable) place than before. thank you for attending my Ted-talk.

(1) I just want to mention, that I am very much fascinated and in love with, traditional, pre-communist-revolution chinese culture, Cambodian Culture from its golden age 1960-1975, as well as some of Japanese and corean culture. it is just such an active corner of the world for all that little that I hear of it every year.

I lean quite far left generally but those "communists" have had quite the bad influence on the good of the people, but its as they say, you cant be unhappy if you've starved/been killed to death.

I tend to not take myself too seriously.

Well the manga is just not for me and after a long way of thinking about it on and off, I finally got rid of my thoughts and I'm glad you could take it lightly.

I dont know about the Anime, but I hope the voice actors gave the dialogue at least some life.

The following is an unprompted rant/review by me about said Manga. (I am a native german speaker and find those "apt german names" very jarring, and will thus try to replicate said feeling for you for a short while.)

I intensely disliked it. The Artwork is good, somewhat bland but still high quality. The english translation is solid.

The Story starts in bland medievaleasque "high" fantasy(demons, elves, whatnot) after the big bad has been defeated. The pre-story is about the main character Freezing (Frieren) who is an elf and as such has quite the long lifespan and has to watch her good friends pass away one after the other (drama much).

The story we are following (atleast to where I have read) is where Far (Fern, probably he yearns for the unknown, the far-away and needs to drag the poor, unwilling elf lady with him, but because of japanes media, her feelings actually wont ever be like her initial setup should have made her, so she can fully support the now male lead and be happy going away from where she wanted to remain.) somehow ends up in a party with Freezing.

Then they meet up with one of her old companions Iron (Eisen) one of the most blandest dwarfs I have ever heard of in my entire life. (dwarfs are short, have a beard, like eating and like booze. Thats as far as the manga goes. He is one of the most relatable characters. dwarfes could however also be [in better media]: Spiteful, vengeful, stupid, dirty, blunt, loud, horrible, shy, awkward, fascinating, mentors, heroes, helpful, nice, pretty, non-bearded, women, woman-like despite being a "true" male dwarf, ...)

Then Far discovers why Freezing has taken them to where in this manga-world they are. because (drama much) thats the grave-site of one of her old companions, and its a beautifully drawn panel and in other media I would have loved it.

My issues with the story are mainly the blandness and another thing. Bland meaning it lacks any part of imagination on the authors part. they just have read some fantasy and decided: "you know what the world needs? more of this!" and made scrambled story after. There are tons of manga that are set in "medievalesque high-fantasy" but some of them actually do it interestingly. not this one.

And now to the big problem: the characters are fucked up stiff. Yes they are bland and unimaginative. but they could be relatable if all those (drama much) moments were actually used instead of thrown in your face and twenty seconds later Far needs to try to learn magic or some crap and is grinning over his ears and laughing and the mood is all chirpy (because mangas have light backgrounds with minimal detail, to save on costs and to enhance the drawers wrist-lifespan, which just makes everything appear somewhat anti-negative.)

A good writer would be able to overcome these medium-related challenges and still have an emotional build-up instead one just receives a bit of "whip-lash" and is forced into the next story beat.

The next story beat however must wait until the japanese are done talking and exchanging niceties. In their very forced manner. you know what I am talking about. male protagonist has a big grin, slight blush, hand behind their head, and something slighty embarrasing leaving their mouth just enough for you to experience slight "Fremdscham" ("Shame from others" maybe cringe or such in english, the reason why Germans arent funny, they only know such humour).

You know, I was busy reading a manga and evaluating if it was good, now I am just left reading boring dialogue between freezing-sama and Far-kun or whatever they called eachother.

I wouldnt have a problem with Freezing being stiff, stillfrozen etc in conversation. maybe something interesting like stutters, badly chosen words or taking a slightly too long time for answering, but always answering very smartly.

but then the human-mal-japanes-self-insert "Far" starts talking like her. THEN THE FUCKING DWARF TALKS THAT WAY. just endless: "yes it appears so", "we have had a very enjoyable day so far".

If I want some strange people talking to each other like strangers i can go to my autistic friends. at least they sometimes have something interesting going on.

anyway im tired writing now. This manga starts horribly and I cant see how anyone can like it enough to power through that shit until it probably gets better again, somehow?

tl;dr: The World, Setting and characters are unimaginative, bland even, just a bad(/BlAnD) mix of things you'd probably enjoy more coming closer from the source. And they talk in a very japanese way, in a very stiff way and everyone talks the same way. Imagine donald trump or Will Smith or another recognizable voice reading the text for one character and the the text for another. does anything change? Do you actually hear someone else or just a schizo Trump?

Some Manga/stories I have enjoyed signifitcantly more because they have at least a sliver of imagination and talent (italics for similar to what ive read of the manga ive decried here):

• Made in Abyss
• Dungeon Meshi
• Somali to Mori no Kami-sama
• SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
• The Breaker
• The Wrong way to use healing Magic
• Kaiju no.8
• The Breaker
• Her Summon
• Hito Hitori Futari
• Grand Blue
• Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita
• The Dragon, the hero, and the courier
• Isakei Walking

Non Manga:

• The Lord Of The Rings

Low Fantasy:

• True Education
• Lord of Money

I hope someone finds this and finds something on the shortlist they enjoy too.

As I said, its not that way for me, because my hard-drive is right there, I plug it in, move to the right folder, which is where I want it, where I know it.

Those "oh so easy" applications are bloatware, need sign-ins, money, need crappy mobile/console interfaces, and very often still dont have what I want to watch (language, captions, resolution or even "nah, we dont have the rights to this series (anymore), because we rented them to someone else, even though we have initially created tge whole thing")

imagine I want to make a meme or gif out of star wars, VLC or Windows Movie Editor or whatnot is just better than trying to film Neftlix.

I will state again: for me "pirating" and locally storing content is the significantly easier option.

It seems my situation is different, sometimes I want to watch some movie. I know which. I spin up my external Harddrive and BAM! I AM watching MY movie. If I dont have a Movie or whatelse downloaded and it needs to be now not later, then its always very frantic, because, well streaming services are a bit crap.

Look guy, Poncho, This really isn't a problem. The internet is supposed to help you solve problems, normally one would not like these types of questions (as they could be solved by reading the manual - the problem begins when you get the same question everyday) but currently this niche here is absolutely more fun than just banning someone for this question. And thinking of the future, anyone with the sense of looking it up before asking the question has the possibility of reaching this genuinly helpful thread.

As far as this here is concerned it has been enjoyable as well as informative in several ways.

The credits couldnt theoretically magically appear?

I mean they wouldn't be infringing on copyright or whatevs since they are just a list of names. and additionally most people on these lists would corroborrate the existance of most other people there (which doesnt make it perfect, but better)