#unless it's China

[roran01]

Anyways have some concept art of ancients in the new style

Personally I like how Rome come out

[generallemarc]

Y'know

if the original Code Geass came out today, a certain group of people would be absolutely losing their minds talking about how it was a "white savior" story. Said people would probably react to the question of "how is it a white savior story when 100% of the people involved in the production are Japanese?" by just calling the people saying it racist, before going right back to demanding everyone accept the latest Assassin's Creed game as being perfectly historically accurate and not at all an attempt to force Western expectations onto historical time periods where they simply don't work.

[spectrumspace]

[Steve Harvey voice] KILL.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

anyone else get the ick from modern historians discrediting Gutenberg as the inventor of the printing press, but haven’t the historical moxie to express why

[wonho-ssi]

People who deny a problem with WayV completely catering to the KRN GP/having no Chinese bsides on 'Frequency' are playing willfully ignorant and obtuse. There's no issue in enjoying the music and, in fact, it's a good thing, but the problem arises when there's no acknowledgement as to why they're moving into a 'global group' branding rather than NCT China.

The reason is simply that SM are xenophobic and cannot manage them, and have sabotaged them - knowingly or not - at every turn. 1. Having 127 take their debut song (Regular) so they look like they've debuted with a remix instead of the original. 2. Putting them on a 2 year hiatus for someone who ended up leaving regardless. 3. Refusing to promote them a sufficient amount in either china or Korea during their first few years until they changed sub management. 4. No world tour after 5 years, and their first tour ended after a small amount of shows.

There are others, such as changing up schedules last minute so Winwin can't join or just the general SM plight of overwork and horrid care of artists. But, specifically, they had butchered the chinese market and instead of trying to restore it by taking them to varieties or activities (like they're doing with Wish), they're completely alienating the original audience.

I'm happy they're getting wins and more acknowledgment - duh! They debuted as a Chinese group and, while there's room for growth - it's clearly xenophobia to have only a version of a title track in cn and blame WayV for their 'unpopularity' when we know what the underlying reason for why they think this. The same amount of care from the beginning would have gotten them to this level faster. Yes, there's the relationship between SKorea and China that's shaky, but SM have more than enough money to navigate and make WayV work in both domestic and international markets.

[beardedmrbean]

TOKYO -- A Japanese spacecraft touched down on the moon early Saturday, making Japan the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. But officials said they still needed to analyze the pinpoint accuracy of the landing.

Hitoshi Kuninaka, head of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said they believe that rovers were launched and data were being transmitted back to Earth. But there could an issue with the power supply.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). Japan follows the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India in reaching the moon.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

Japan’s spacecraft arrived on the surface of the moon early Saturday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the landing was a success, because the Japanese space agency said it was still “checking its status.”

More details about the spacecraft, which is carrying no astronauts, would be given at a news conference, officials said. If the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.

SLIM came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time Saturday (1520 GMT Friday).

As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that SLIM was on the lunar surface. But there was no mention of whether the landing was successful.

Mission control kept repeating that it was “checking its status" and that more information would be given at a news conference. It wasn't immediately clear when the news conference would start.

SLIM, nicknamed "the Moon Sniper," started its descent at midnight Saturday, and within 15 minutes it was down to about 10 kilometers (six miles) above the lunar surface, according to the space agency, which is known as JAXA.

At an altitude of five kilometers (three miles), the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters (165 feet) above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make a parallel movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said.

About a half-hour after its presumed landing, JAXA said that it was still checking the status of the lander.

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight spacecraft about the size of a passenger vehicle. It was using “pinpoint landing” technology that promises far greater control than any previous moon landing.

While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, SLIM was aiming at a target of just 100 meters (330 feet).

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA.

The mission's main goal is to test new landing technology that would allow moon missions to land “where we want to, rather than where it is easy to land,” JAXA has said. If the landing was a success, the spacecraft will seek clues about the origin of the moon, including analyzing minerals with a special camera.

The SLIM, equipped with a pad to cushion impact, was aiming to land near the Shioli crater, near a region covered in volcanic rock.

The closely watched mission came only 10 days after a moon mission by a U.S. private company failed when the spacecraft developed a fuel leak hours after the launch.

SLIM was launched on a Mitsubishi Heavy H2A rocket in September. It initially orbited Earth and entered lunar orbit on Dec. 25.

Japan hopes a success will help regain confidence for its space technology after a number of failures. A spacecraft designed by a Japanese company crashed during a lunar landing attempt in April, and a new flagship rocket failed its debut launch in March.

JAXA has a track record with difficult landings. Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched in 2014, touched down twice on the 900-meter-long (3,000-foot-long) asteroid Ryugu, collecting samples that were returned to Earth.

Experts say a success of SLIM's pinpoint landing, especially on the moon, would raise Japan's profile in the global space technology race.

Takeshi Tsuchiya, aeronautics professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, said it was important to confirm the accuracy of landing on a targeted area for the future of moon explorations.

“It is necessary to show the world that Japan has the appropriate technology in order to be able to properly assert Japan's position in lunar development,” he said. The moon is important from the perspective of explorations of resources, and it can also be used as a base to go to other planets, like Mars, he said.

SLIM is carrying two small autonomous probes — lunar excursion vehicles LEV-1 and LEV-2, which will be released just before landing.

LEV-1, equipped with an antenna and a camera, is tasked with recording SLIM's landing. LEV-2, is a ball-shaped rover equipped with two cameras, developed by JAXA together with Sony, toymaker Tomy and Doshisha University.

JAXA will broadcast a livestream of the landing, while space fans will gather to watch the historic moment on a big screen at the agency's Sagamihara campus southwest of Tokyo.

[yannig]

Ah yes, magical paternity test, of course.

[skate-the-onion]

Oh my FUCKING GOD you guys I was today years old when I realized that this is not a smiling beluga whale

[goldammerchen]

hima never finished these ;w; (march 22 & 24, 2015) (hetascanlations mirrors 1+2)

[xinyuehui]

Okay, one last post about Netflix's 3 Body Problem. I literally moved on (as in, I didn't bother finishing it), but today I saw a post on *** and some Chinese American saying the Ye Zhetai scene is the representation we need blah blah blah China could never. What triggered me the most about this is that the closest thing this person is to being Chinese is probably being born with the bloodline, probably never interacted with Chinese media. We are supposed to be in this together, and what are you talking about right now? There's a handful of Chinese diaspora out here who literally never bothered interacting with our culture (which is fine, nobody's business to tell them what to do), and then whenever America does any "representation," they are suddenly online! Sure, it would be nice if Western media started to be more diverse for us out here, but you literally can't rely on some white man to do it. You have to curate this experience for yourself if it's something you truly care about. There's no good excuse to not seek out things for yourself. The majority of the cdrama/cnovel fandom here on Tumblr (or Twitter) do not speak Chinese, but there are English subtitles on many official and fan-based platforms. Some non-Chinese danmei reader could probably tell you about censorship in China back to front better. Anyways, that's another can of worms.

Back to Ye Zhetai, I've already talked about it briefly here. It's not that deep, the scene exists to get people talking. It's all perfunctory, the banners are written in a Microsoft YaHei font (Microsoft invented this font in 2004), they do not care about the history behind it, it's to evoke a reaction in the West. Let's show this traumatic thing that happened in China, then segway all the world saving plot-line to England, is that clear now if that hasn't occurred to you yet??

There's a list of the media that stemmed from the Cultural Revolution on Wikipedia with one easy Google search. Did you really look? Did you watch and read everything on that list?? Is there really no Chinese representation apart from Netflix??? If it's not allowed in China, how could he ever write the book and publish it in China?? Did you even know about the speculation that Ye Zhetai is based on the real physicist Ye Qisun??

[iniziare]

Consider Yelan's facial expression to be my own in reaction to opinions shared on both X and Tumblr, and I guess I'm in the minority of the 'loud ones', but I'm pretty excited for Natlan since that trailer, actually. The previous teasers left me a little 'eh', but this definitely got my hopes back up, and I'm back in the right spirits for it (and ready to catch some Pokémon.)

Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't touch on the salt that I've seen scattered across the dash, so here I go. Listen, I read people's objections and I see what you're all aiming at, but in that light want to note that it's often incredibly easy to point fingers (arguably too much so) at others while being, quite honestly, hopefully rather aware that many of our own countries, cultures, and its populations across the board (and no, I'm not excluding anyone here) would likely be just as easily guilty as MHY is with these things. And no, I'm not blindly defending them, but I also won't point fingers at only one without pointing them everywhere else as well, including those you might think would 'never do such things', because I'm absolutely certain that they would. /continues on in the tags.

[poison-raika]

日本の自衛隊、ドロン取得　Japan's Self-Defense Forces acquire Dron

ドロンを導入するのは良いが、電子戦対策も又重要です。中国はロシアを陰で支援してるのは周知の事実。 従って電子戦の技術とノーハウを取得し、日��磨いてる。 対して欧米は全く追い付いていない。スイッチブレードやらビーバットやら、改造して電子戦対策を施さないとウクライナの戦場では全く役に立たないのも又事実。 つまり、ドロンの取得だけに目が行きがちが、電子戦の研究開発が同じく、或いはそれ以上に重要である事を忘れては成らない！絶対に・・・・

It is good to introduce drones, but electronic warfare measures are also important. It is a well-known fact that China is supporting Russia behind the scenes. Therefore, I have acquired electronic warfare skills and know-how, and I am refining them every day. The West, on the other hand, has not caught up at all. It is also true that Switchblades and bee bats are completely useless on the battlefield of Ukraine unless they are modified and equipped with electronic warfare measures. In other words, while we tend to focus only on the acquisition of Dron, we must not forget that the research and development of electronic warfare is just as important, if not more important! Absolutely…

Добре впроваджувати дрони, але заходи радіоелектронної боротьби також важливі. Загальновідомий факт, що Китай підтримує Росію за лаштунками. Тому я здобув навички та ноу-хау у сфері радіоелектронної боротьби, і щодня вдосконалюю їх. Захід же анітрохи не наздогнав. Також правдою є те, що Switchblades та бджолині кажани абсолютно марні на полі бою в Україні, якщо вони не модифіковані та не оснащені засобами радіоелектронної боротьби. Іншими словами, хоча ми схильні зосереджуватися лише на придбанні Dron, ми не повинні забувати, що дослідження та розробка радіоелектронної боротьби є не менш важливими, якщо не важливішими! Абсолютно…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYMnv8hhQc&t=1399s

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[ebiljointed]

Hmm. I have acquired a .obj file of a doll head that I was thinking about printing, but it is unclear to me what to do next or how much inconvenience or cost this would incur. All I have is a .obj file. I know less than nothing about 3d printing or modeling. I downloaded "Meshlab" to try and open and view it since google said this was a free program that could open .obj files but it gives an error so I don't even know how to open the thing : p

[kithj]

kit have you seen love lies bleeding i want to know what you think!!!! that ending!!!!

NOO i haven't seen it yet!!!! it's on my list..... i only just finally watched bones and all this past month so you can see i am very far behind. maybe i'll try and watch it today

[epitaphredux]

the rise of chinese BL content in the west has made people a) FAR too comfortable wearing traditional chinese clothing in the name of cosplay and/or insert character here """inspired""" outfits that are just vaguely robelike clothes with a sash and b) forget just how homophobic the people are and downright WEIRD some of the content actually is in china

[chai-en-kaadhale]

sharing the word aiyo may just be a coincidence between india and china but me personally i think they should kiss