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[twohitgames]

War Thunder recibe Dance of Dragons y añade cazas chinos

Gaijin Entertainment anuncia que War Thunder recibirá la actualización Dance of Dragons a lo largo de septiembre. Traerá dos cazas icónicos de fabricación China, el J-10 y el JF-17. También comenzarán las pruebas de la beta cerrada de la flota costera Francesa. War Thunder también va a recibir docenas de otros vehículos militares navales, terrestres y aéreos, como el tanque Paquistaní Al-Khalid-I…

[heronetworkgg]

Gaijin Entertainment se disculpa por usar una imagen inapropiada en un anuncio de War Thunder

Gaijin Entertainment, desarrolladora del popular juego bélico War Thunder, se ha disculpado públicamente por utilizar una imagen de mal gusto en la promoción de su próxima actualización ‘Seek & Destroy’. La imagen en cuestión mostraba varios aviones disparando misiles con explosiones de fondo, pero algunos jugadores notaron que una de las estelas de humo correspondía […]

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[pandastrueno]

damn warthunder getting hit with ddos attacks again. thats fucking lame as hell

[osean-kitty]

Gaijin is developing a Waterworld/Sea of Thives clone...

Imma keep an eye on this from a distance.

[cowboymenace]

MJF's year as Champion

MJF has been champion for one year after beating an extremely protected Jon Moxley. He spent the first half being a heel, avoiding conflict and manipulating opponents. Some has been good if not great, his feud with Danielson is one of the best and his match with Ricky Starks is an underrated gem that I don't see many talk about mostly because of both men's trajectory. There has been some bad, the four pillars feud exposed 1/2 of the men as not ready for the main event spot, I won't say who but if you go back to watch the promo battles you can see who I mean.

Enter Adam Cole. Cole was out for an extended period of time and whenever talent is out for that amount they typically return as a face, especially if they're entertaining. After doing his time in the Jericho Pit, he would go after the World Title. MJF and Him would have a match where it came to a draw, and MJF would deny overtime to decide a winner. However, a randomized tag team tournament forced them to work together. This is typically something the WWE would do, a scenario where two guys feuding must work together "CAN THEY GET ALONG" where they do gel but end up turning on each other. Cole and MJF would become friends, with constant teasing that they one would double cross the other. The twist: neither man has.

This would create the biggest buzz in the company. MJF would be seen as one of those guys who would never turn face, but he proved us wrong. It felt like a challenge for Max, trying to prove that he can be as compelling and fun as a face as he was a heel. In the world of wrestling, heels seem to have more creativity, and it may seem hard, but I'd argue it's easier to get people to dislike you. It's hard to get people to like you. MJF achieved that and made moves like a double clothesline and a front drop kick more over than any other move in the company.

Both men would open and close AEW's and modern wrestling's Biggest Event Ever. So how do you follow that? Well by erroneously making MJF the center of the universe, and unfortunately over stuffing the title picture. MJF and Cole won the ROH Tag Belts, which have been turned into trinkets something they'd hang on their Christmas tree. Neither man have worked an ROH Honorclub episode, Cole has the excuse of being super injured at least. You'd think that this would be a good time for a heel team to beat an handicapped team for some quick heat right? Wrong, there's been two instances where MJF has fended off heel teams, once by himself. Alone, MJF began to feud with the hottest heel stable in the company Bullet Club Gold. Jay White would challenge and taunt MJF for months, however he wouldn't get the champ's sole attention. Wardlow would return much to my chagrin to do sloppy powerbombs (the man is a walking tabula rasa) and challenge MJF. Samoa Joe wants a rematch since MJF and Cole heroically cheated to beat him. Also there's a masked man in MJF's devil costume beating up people who are near MJF either as friend and foe.

Oh yes one more thing, MJF has to deal with Roderick Strong and the kingdom. Seems like there's a lot on his plate, seems like he would be distracted and therefore would be more likely to lose? Nope. MJF got """hurt""" during his tag match against the Gunns to build tension for the main event title match but won anyways. He would sell his leg as hurt but then do moves that would worsen his condition because there was a Seth Rollins particles leak in his locker room I guess.

Jay White is a former two time IWGP World Champion. He's beaten every top guy in New Japan. In his first year there he proved himself as a top gaijin heel. Plebians who have no tastes would say he was boring, his matches too long, and he needed interference to win. They're wrong and their money stacks shorter than mini me. Jay White would prove the haters wrong by making a seamless transition into a western heel and as I said before became a part of the hottest heel act. He then went on to lose to a hurt, distracted MJF.

A man of that caliber was just a stepping stone for a rematch against another high caliber talent but I fear that match may be another stepping stone because there's a Wardlow waiting in the wings and a devil to be unmasked. MJF's story feels unfocused and frustrating. I know he's the most over guy in the company, but he's held the belt for well over a year and just doesn't seem to lose even when it wouldn't hurt him to. I imagine Cole destroying his foot and ankle threw a wrench into the plan, but the response to that should not be to sacrifice high quality talent to the wrestling gods to keep things afloat.

I have enjoyed MJF's run with the belt and am pleased he resigned. However don't turn him into an untouchable champion, the fun should be the possibility of him losing. If he wins too much then there's less and less stakes.

[shinsengumi-archives]

Shimabara (part 1)

I looked for Kyoto's red light district several times. First on a map. Shimabara is not marked on modern maps. And for a while I seriously thought that there was nothing left of it, just like Tokyo's Yoshiwara. Then I found out that Shimabara is a real place. And it's not that far from our house. Well, it's about half an hour by bike.

The next stage was several attempts to find Shimabara by car. After riding back and forth a couple of times on highways that are supposed to pass near Shimabara and from which we saw no sign of this Shimabara, my husband said he was bored with this entertainment.

Eventually I got on my bike and decided: Even if die, I'll find it. I made it to the bus stop at the back of the Nishi-Hongan-ji temple, which is called "Shimabara-guchi" (Shimabara's Gate, sort of). Having parked my bike to make sure that I wouldn't miss it on foot, I went for a spin around the surrounding streets. I found a Shimabara Hospital, Shimabara Police Station, and even the Shimabara post office (pictured below). Everything said it was around here somewhere. But where?!!

I passed a small flower store on the corner of a narrow, crooked street a few times. The owners were busy outside setting up their merchandise, and clearly noticed the gaijin girl walking around. I was about to give up and ask them where the hell Shimabara was, but the crooked, narrow street leading away from the store suddenly winked at me from lurking around the corner...

That's it! That's it!!! This is the main gate of Shimabara, Shimabara Daimon (or Omon). The eastern, front gate, one of only two that were, and the only one that survived. The entire perimeter of the block was surrounded by a wall, a couple pieces of which remain on either side of the gate. The gate itself is a copy of the gate of Shimabara Castle (located on the territory of current Nagasaki prefecture), which was captured during the suppression of the uprising of Japanese Christians by Tokugawa Iemitsu's troops in 1638. Actually, according to the most common version, the "Shimabara" neighborhood, which moved to this location in 1641, got its name from the castle. Apparently, there was a funny saying: "The brave visitors of the entertainment quarters were invited to bravely take the beauties by storm. And there is no fortress that will not be conquered".

Remains of a stone water basin. Rinse your hands. 

And outside the gate. It's nothing special. Just a regular residential urban neighborhood. Modern houses and cars. A tangle of wires overhead. And only the gray tiles underfoot mark the former Shimabara hanamachi.

You see that? The asphalt changes to tile in the place where there was once a wall enclosing the neighborhood.

The first thing we found in the former entertainment quarters was a hotel with an onsen called Makoto no yu (Makoto bathhouse). Shinsengumi fans, enjoy. Hopefully, customer autopsies are not on the menu.

A stone's throw from the bathhouse is the former Wachigaiya 輪違屋 tea house. It was founded in 1688. It's now closed to the general public, although periodically events are held there with the last incumbent tayu of Shimabara. And Wachigaiya has served as the setting for several feature films of Shimabara life. Including a romance about the Shinsengumi, who were frequent visitors to the entertainment district.

The door was ajar, see? I stuck my nose in there and blew loudly. But no one came out. Judging by the complete absence of any clear signs describing a brief history of the institution, the house is private. And according to the presence of all the proper stickers above the door (gas, electricity, television, etc.) - the house is residential and random outsiders are not allowed to look inside. However, there is nothing particularly valuable in this institution. It's a standard tea house of an entertainment district: on the first floor they walk in and get drinks, on the second floor there are "rooms" where you can be alone with the girl of your choice.

A little farther down the street from Wachigaiya was a tiny cemetery wedged between the houses. These tombstones (darker in the center) were placed during the Edo period. Perhaps one of Shimabara's brothel dwellers was also buried here. I haven't found any confirmation of this theory (nor any refutation, for that matter), but I like to think so. Where have the residents of the neighborhood been buried for the last four hundred years?

Adjacent to the cemetery is an equally tiny Buddhist temple called Hokke-ji 法華寺. It has very interesting tiles on the edge of the roof, I haven't seen such a thing until now. The temple is said to belong to the Nichiren Buddhist sect. But it has nothing to do with Shimabara proper as a licensed entertainment district: the temple was built on this site eight hundred years before Shimabara so it has its own agenda.

It's an old house. From the architecture, it looks like it used to be some kind of food establishment. But now it looks like just a residential building.

And this is the corner of the biggest and most famous structure in Shimabara: an ageya called Sumiya. Ageya 揚屋 is a type of establishment. It's not a tea house, a restaurant, or a brothel. It's a kind of closed elite club where only certain members of the public are allowed in and only on recommendation. It's where they gather to discuss important business or to talk about elegant things, where beautiful and educated women are invited to enhance the conversation with their brilliance. Sumiya 角屋 is the name of this ageya.

The front, guest entrance to Sumiya. It's closed to regular visitors. Tourists can enter through the back entrance, which leads to the kitchen and "office".

The street along which Sumiya stretched. It's about the width of one car.

I reached the other side of Shimabara.

There was once a second, western, gate in the wall around the block, smaller, not preserved. Only a black granite plaque reminds us that it was here.

Shimabara Sumiyoshi jinja Shrine. One of the many Sumiyoshi temples under the Osaka Sumiyoshi-taisha. The temple is quite tiny, but it is well-maintained and appears to be open to visitors.

On the curb surrounding the tree on the temple's territory, someone had placed either toys or some kind of memorial sign. It was completely unclear why, and there was no one to ask.

Everything is like in big temples, only smaller.

The temple is surrounded by a low granite fence. Each pillar is a donation from someone whose name is carved on the stone.

After going around all the surrounding gardens, which turned out to be fewer than I thought, I went back to Sumiya. I had to see the inside, right? It's a unique structure, by the way, there aren't many of them left. An ageya was a combination of a strict and spacious samurai dwelling and a richly decorated merchant's house combined with an office.

Interior courtyard. View of the front entrance from inside. The entrance itself is behind a curtain with Sumiya's coat of arms on it. Behind me is the door to the kitchen and other utility rooms, which take up almost a third of the entire area. And to the left is the passageway to the guest rooms.

Stone carving at the entrance, a place for travelers to wash. Also with the coat of arms of the institution.

The kitchen area. The kitchen itself, where cooking is done, is on the left. At the center is the entrance to the working and business area. This is where they dealt with vendors and conducted other business that kept the place alive.

Above the entrance there is a "pocket" where they insert plaques with the names of the ladies who are entertaining the guests today. Tayu and geisha. Shimabara had its own geiko and maiko who delighted guests with singing and dancing.

There's a palanquin parked out front. Doesn't look so worn, so probably no one's ever ridden in it.

The entrance to the kitchen and a bench for visitors. The beautiful carvings represent again the Sumiya coat of arms.

Cooking stove. From the size of this place, it could feed an army.

The dishwashing area. There was a well from the old times, and the water supply system was installed in the 20th century.

"Ceiling" in the kitchen and "pipe". There were no chimneys in the literal sense in the local houses. Smoke rose freely from the stove and spread throughout the available space. Therefore, in machiya houses, kitchens were very separate from living spaces.

[continued]

[someguyiguess]

tonights song rec is Duty Steel My Heart by Gaijin Entertainment

[primarining]

i am convinced they are monitoring my war thunder activity. i think gaijin entertainment is sending the sex bots after me

[enarei]

I think aside from cultural assimilation and migration, which probably always are much bigger factors, at some point it was most likely true to say the majority of people study foreign languages so they can consume media in that language, even if they don't necessarily interact with people from where it is produced, and I mean foreign in the sense of like, genuinely foreign, not studying German as a Dutch because you can cross the border in half an hour, that doesn't count. Today what counts as "foreign" is much harder to pinpoint due to globalization, knowledge of English is universally framed as a necessary skill for high-income employment – another consequence is that virtually everything that is judged to be commercially successful gets translated to English fairly quickly, so anglophones don't need to learn a language if they enjoy the art of another culture.

I think it's self evident most people aren't studying Spanish or Portuguese because they really like the literature or cinema of Latin America (or their euro counterparts), and it ought to be framed more as a practical skill due to how interconnected the world is, even if it has the additional benefit of allowing them to experience culture in those languages, it's less something that is initially approached purely to fulfill that intellectual curiosity or for the sake of entertainment, than only being engaged with after already having contact with other speakers, be at work, or with online relationships.

There *is* a kinda frail line between approaching a culture because of its art vs contact with people of that culture, one usually leads to the other, being engaged with an author's works usually implies becoming engaged with the author as well, so I don't think there's any point to making a hierarchy off of this, but I do think it's kinda interesting to think in terms of how people approach Japanese. Because while yeah, there are a fuckton of weeabos, particularly anglophones, that really do wanna move to Japan and interact with Japanese people locally, in my experience there's also this really large group that just wants to be able to read doujins without needing a scanlator to pick it up, and don't actually care much about Japan outside of that topic, which seems to contribute to this phenomenon of many Japanese students not giving a damn about practicing pronunciation. You could say the gaijin that are completely obsessed with the yuri/yaoi doujin scene have a lot in common with people that learn Latin solely to have to have a better grasp of erudite philosophy.

[papirouge]

Whenever I see people talking about how some countries are in decline due to low natality, and then search their politics on issues like abortion I actually hope that these countries do stop existing and that ones that do value life end up being created. Also reading about Japan's past w this was gut churning

Yeah since I do understand japanese I sometimes browse their forum/SNS and it's insane the amount of women saying a child is just too expensive to have one. Japan's population is declining and aging like crazy and the dim newer generation has to bear the weight of this aging population. Many people complain their country is ruled by oldheads who are out of touch with reality. IDK if you followed up the fiasco of the Tokyo Olympics and how the Olympics bureau screwed up the initial (and quite promising) ceremony plan for a much more austere and boring ceremony (sure C0vîd changed their plans, but what was the point to straight up cancel the entertainers presence when they could simply reduce the scale/budget of their performence?).

Shit happening in Japan is very distopic and wicked and the only ppl hyping this country are racialist rightoids raving about muh crimeless ethnostate wet dream and weebs who think Japan is like anime and want to live there as rootless plants living their Yamato Japan dream à la PewDiePie who's finally settled there....only to hang out with White gaijin 💀 lmao But beside these idiots, hardly anyone wants to live through such a demographic nightmare.

I've always said Japanese entertainment culture being so rich was a cope of an IRL lifestyle that was bleak and unfulfilling. And now this whole anime/manga culture has made its way here bc the Western world is undergoing the same societal collapse that Japan did a few decades before (social isolation, gaming, parasocial relationships becoming the norm over social ones, etc.).

People with fulfilling life don't watch anime/do gaming for hours once they get home or dress up as fictional characters half their age.. (especially when 99% of these shows are stupid and intellectually regressive). This self indulgence is why many adults today behave like children and become degenerates. I got so much shit for saying that, but an anime fan over 25 years old has something wrong with them. Casual watching is ok but being obsessive with that culture is mental deficiency in action.

And yes, Japan History esp during WWII is sketchy but they have this sort of revisionism where they act like nothing much happened. It's highkey creepy to see the amount of japanese words coming straight from German (アルバイト, ワッペン etc. ) when you know the context of how this happened... 🥴 and let's not talk about the weird SS uniform memorabilia in Visual Kei They've become the submissive USA lackey post war though so I guess they made a deal to not get much trouble for that👀. I had a Chinese friend of mine who despised Japan and I think that's also the case of Koreans. Those countries mutually hate each other since centuries now anyway. Not surprised to see Westerners aligning themselves with Japan when Japan has the same history of colonialism and cultural & racial supremacism. Imperialists countries have this weird fellowship around the evilness they did lol

Even when browsing on japanese SNS I'm shocked by the casual racism of Japanese netizens especially against continental Asians. They had a field day during c0vîd dragging the Chinese, and whenever a public figure gets in trouble they happen to get suspicious about some supposed foreign ancestry ("this person always looked kinda foreign..."). Japanese netizens HATE Kiko Mizuhara because she doesn't have japanese blood (she's half Korean half USAmerican) yet immigrated in Japan with her (Korean) mom while still a baby and has become one of the most successful supermodel in Japan and oversea, but it doesn't stop them from calling her a foreigner and telling how she can't properly pull off the kimono cause she's not a pure japanese breed this kuso Zainichi imposter ùwú. I even saw one send shots at Kana Oya because she's half Japanese half Brazilian and call her a "poor Brazilian" (poor as in "no money" since Brazil is indeed a poor country but how does any of that relates to Kana personally..?). They have this weird obsession to use someone foreignness/mixedness as a diss. Interestingly, I hardly see them having the same energy against half White entertainers¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (as long as they're not half Chinese or Korean ofc lol)

[twohitgames]

Crossout recibe robots bípedos en su nueva actualización

Gaijin Entertainment ha anunciado la llegada de robots de combate gigantes al juego de acción en línea posapocalíptico Crossout. Las piernas robot verticales, un nuevo tipo de chasis, se añadirán al diseñador de vehículos blindados, lo que permitirá a los jugadores dar rienda suelta a sus fantasías mecánicas en el campo de batalla. Esto sucederá en septiembre con el lanzamiento de la próxima gran…

[icarusavery]

to the person who went "#what happened this time" in the tags, somebody on the forums put up a post like "hey, who'd like to see the Eurofighter Typhoon DA7 added to War Thunder?" and then a month later somebody posted DA7 manual complete with all its flight data and weapons information and all that in an effort to help Gaijin Entertainment make a more accurate version in-game.

[theclubhero-blog]

PS5 Pro é uma atualização mais suave do que o PS4 Pro, diz um desenvolvedor

Por Vinicius Torres Oliveira

Gergo Horvath, programador gráfico da Gaijin Entertainment, afirmou em entrevista que, na sua opinião, o PS5 Pro apresenta-se como uma atualização menos acentuada face à PS4 Pro, ou seja, introduz melhorias menores em comparação com o modelo base da consola Sony .

“Eu diria que a diferença entre o PS5 Pro e o PS5 é menos substancial se você comparar com o que havia entre o PS4 Pro e o PS4”, explicou Horvath. “No PS5 Pro quase não há mudanças no que diz respeito ao desempenho da CPU e, embora a GPU tenha recebido um bom impulso, no final as diferenças são muito menos significativas.”

“Você deve se lembrar que o PS4 Pro tinha mais que o dobro da potência nominal da GPU do PS4 em termos de TFLOPS. Dito isso, na época o objetivo era alcançar jogos em 4K, enquanto desta vez parece que o foco principal ambos oferecem significativamente melhor traçado de raio. Em ambos os casos, o objetivo foi alcançado.”Jogo eletrónico

Com o lançamento do PS5 Pro, a Gaijin Entertainment também começou a trabalhar no suporte ao novo console, por meio de uma atualização para seu jogo de tiro gratuito Enlisted, lançado para PC, PS5 e Xbox Series X|S em 2021.

“Para a versão PS5 Pro do Enlisted passamos de uma resolução fixa para uma resolução dinâmica, usando tecnologias de upscaling para as versões básica e Pro do console Sony, para garantir uma taxa de quadros estável em todas as situações graças ao escalonador automático”, Horvath disse.

“Isso tornou possível 4K a 120 fps para usuários do PS5 Pro . O novo console nos permitiu aumentar a resolução e isso levou a um melhor nível de detalhe, maior clareza de imagem. texturas de resolução e um sistema de iluminação melhorado.”

“Enquanto no PS5 básico usamos nosso sistema de anti-aliasing temporal, no PS5 Pro usamos PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, que naturalmente faz um trabalho melhor. Por exemplo, a versão PS5 Pro do War Thunder permitirá que você jogue em 4K e 120 fps desde o primeiro dia e mais melhorias virão com o tempo.”

[hacialikara]

CS2 zirveyi kaybetti! Türkiye’de haftanın en çok satan oyunları açıklandı

Dünyanın en büyük dijital oyun mağazası Steam, her hafta olduğu gibi geçen hafta için de en çok satan yapımları açıkladı. Ülkemize özel açıklanan bu listenin zirvesi şaşırttı. Öyle ki lider değişti. İşte Steam çok satanlar! Steam Türkiye en çok satanlar (29 Ekim – 5 Kasım 2024) Steam tarafından paylaşılan listeye baktığımızda Gaijin Entertainment tarafından geliştirilen popüler savaş oyunu War…

[sylvaineglen]

Honestly, at this point I feel bad for Gaijin Entertainment; they just wanted to make a fun little game about fighting in tanks, but they have somehow attracted a fan base that both have access to actual defense department documentation and are so obsessed with complete accuracy in their tank simulations that they are willing to leak those documents onto War Thunder's public forums just to make a point or win an argument. And this has happened like four or five times, that we know about at least. I'm honestly kind of surprised that War Thunder hasn't gotten shut down for being a national security risk yet, but I think that's the only way this is going to end, because this keeps happening.

This is soooooooo fuckin funny that it keeps happening

[someguyiguess]

tonights song rec is Waltz of the Tornado by Gaijin Entertainment