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Ramblings of a Filipino Nerd
@RamblingsNerd
Official account for Ramblings of a Filipino Nerd on Substack. Mostly professional, always in progress. Interactions are not endorsement.
Sep 25, 2025 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
>"Been watching anime for 13 years"

I've seen people who were exposed to certain anime genres and works in the span of MONTHS who have infinitely more respect and care for both the art and fans than you.

Nice try, tourist. Image If anything, this whole spiel reminds me of Moon Channel's half-baked "I love Japan and want it to improve" at the end of his 2+ hour conspiratorial agitprop about how Japan is using anime to brainwash audiences and whitewash warcrimes.

You're no different.
Sep 18, 2025 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
Was given an anonymous tip that the localizer in question is likely being propped up by a clique of localizers and wannabe-influencers based in Japan via the 8-4 company.

While best taken with a grain of salt, there could be something here. Image
Image I say "grain of salt" due to how lowkey they are, so not much is public.

Though apparently, this clique includes former game journos like James Mielke and has been slyly spinning a familiar narrative with Japanese devs & publishers none the wiser.
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Aug 28, 2025 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
To say that the same people who once upon a time would have decried demonization and bigotry over tragedies like school shootings are HAPPILY jumping on the bandwagon now because of American/Western culture war brownie points and the "expediency" of trans people is disappointing. Image
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Image All because LGBT is now "open season" in political and culture war mudslinging and the perp being trans.

I don't care if you have a rainbow flag or think that LGBT's sinful. If you think it's "justice" to play THAT game, take a LONG look in the mirror.

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Jul 26, 2025 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
The EU gave platforms 12 months to comply with "strict" age verification guidelines, which are currently being tested in Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain.

Seems like they're capitalizing on the UK's internet censorship hijinks as a good excuse. Image
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Image There's almost a perverse "competition" between government-backed overreach and internet censorship "for the children" (in the UK and EU) or financial censorship "to protect women/kids" (pushed by payment processors and Karens).

I take none of the above.
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Jul 22, 2025 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Looks like Japanese social media is also keeping close tabs on the Collective Shout mess.

And if you're reading this, yes. That's pretty much accurate. Image
Image Also worth stressing: VICE saw it fit to remove Ana Valens' piece, yet still considers THESE worth keeping up for posterity.

Which were almost certainly used to justify such censorship, for Japan and elsewhere. Image
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Jun 20, 2025 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Recently got these shared from Bluesky. Looks like there's a push to smear/cancel mecha reporter Ollie Barder (@Cacophanus), which includes mainstream media industry members. All because he refuses to play by their echo-chamber.

Seems like the old GameJournoPro is still active. Image
Image @Cacophanus I can confirm that the thread exists, with replies coming from people including editors from Anime Herald and ANN.

They haven't learned from 2014, other than moving to a social media platform that is little more than a politicized echo-chamber. Image
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Jan 31, 2025 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Except that Cringelord Otaku was wrong about THAT too. He's just capitalizing on doomer and culture war outrage for his own gain.

Enough with the "Japan has fallen" nonsense masquerading as "telling it like it is". It's no better than the "West has fallen" BS, too. Image
Image Even in more recent cases where credit card companies and payment processors have clamped down on Japanese sites, there are contingencies increasingly in place to mitigate the damage while giving alternatives a chance to shine.

Jan 29, 2025 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Of particular emphasis:
>Japanese banks are preventing adult/NSFW games from being profitable for devs via Steam.
>Given the rising number of Japanese games on Steam, this would hinder any further growth.
>Japanese agencies related to finance and gaming have a close eye on it. Image
Image The tendency is to simply blame domestic banks.

Given the likes of NCOSE pressuring Valve to remove NSFW titles from Steam, and the role foreign busybodies have played in giving financial bodies an excuse, "muh Japanese conservatism" isn't cutting it.

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Dec 15, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
TLDR in English: VISA has suspended services to a matchmaking site for Japanese otaku. And NO reasons are given, nor is there any indication of criminal/illegal activity of any kind.

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Image This is alas the latest in a long string of credit card/payment processor censorship hijinks in Japan.

Which is also at least partly due to moral Puritanism across the Pacific.
Dec 12, 2024 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Just in on Substack: While a conflagration of financial hijinks and the resurgence of a familiar puritanism poses fresh challenges, history may not repeat itself.

These are interesting times.

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Image At a glance, these might seem disparate threads that have little significance.

Dig a little deeper, and you'll find tales of unaccountable busybodies and would-be censors itching to get their pound of flesh at the expense of everyone else. All, purportedly, for their own good. Image
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Dec 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
You're right. You're not on anyone's side, gaming or otherwise.

Welcome back, 1990s-2000s moral panic. Image Also, so much for trying to backpedal, given how it's clear the likes of people like Melanie are fooling no one but those already deep in the kool-aid.

Dec 9, 2024 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
You and the likes of Melonie claim to want saving gaming and "civilization" from degeneracy when it's all about wanting to be the scolds in power.

You lot insist...no, DEMAND compliance, obedience for "our own good" OR ELSE. Image
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Image I also wouldn't be surprised you'd have been the same sort who would have gone after Samus in the late '80s and 90s for showing too much skin or being "objectified".

....Come to think of it, almost EXACTLY the same as a certain Anita.
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Dec 8, 2024 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
This could have been said 20 years ago. Or 40.

"How INDECENT!"

"Won't SOMEONE THINK of the children?!"

You are no different from these guys. It also never ceases to amaze how this betrays these sorts of people's obliviousness to gaming.

EVEN in the 1990s, gaming was already in the future he feared. Image
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Dec 3, 2024 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
For those who want a TLDR, a free expression rally was held at Japan's House of Councilors (the "Lower House" of the Diet), with multiple in-house meetings.

It notably stressed how credit card companies/payment processors are using double-standards, AND aimed at non-Americans. Image Key here is a presentation from Prof. Jack Lerner (UC Irvine School of Law), highlighting not only the history of content and payment processing in America. But also how a MUCH MORE broad interpretation of American rules are being enforced OUTSIDE the US.

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Dec 3, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
As it turns out the credit card/payment processor censorship issue goes much further, being traced to both a California district court ruling and "blocking lists" sent by the Singapore-based HQ of an unnamed card company.

The censorship IS real, and not through "usual channels." Image
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Image In addition to how VISA and other card companies/payment processors have downplayed, if not muddled blame, there's also how this has been 20 years in the making.

And unsurprisingly goes back to "War on Porn"-induced censorship in America going global.

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Nov 30, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This seems to have gone under the radar, but here it is, straight from the horse's mouth: Seetan Kitney, President and Representative Director, Visa Worldwide Japan.

TLDR: Visa is justifying censorship in the name of protecting their brand, with vague "global and local policies" Image It's already starting to go viral in Japanese Twitter, and is going about as well as you'd expect.

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Nov 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Most Anti-SJWs/woke activists would not have fought for those games if people didn't promote them TO BEGIN WITH as alternatives. And there's a lot out there ignored amidst the outrage.

A perpetual siege mentality and "perfect is the enemy of good" are NOT the key to winning. Image Not every game will succeed. Some of them may be made by those who don't share the same politics. Some might even be considered "woke" or be subordinate to "the enemy."

Yet isn't this the ideal? Getting the games and industry we want?

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Nov 28, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
You mean the same Tsutomu Miyazaki whose reign of terror in 1989 sparked moral panic against otaku in Japan for a while, despite how a dysfunctional upbringing rather than anime/manga was to blame?

kinsellaresearch.com/new/Japanese%2… x.com/CatastropiClar…Image Debates, and psychoanalyses made after the fact revealed a portrait of someone who was mentally disturbed to begin with and a victim of familial neglect. Just as video games weren't to blame for Columbine a decade late.

Still, it took years before the damage was undone. Image
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Nov 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The damage this vid has done can't be understated. Either that or this Extra Credits "classic".
Nov 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
>"The most controversial video I've ever done."

In-between trying to appropriate Tolkien (while insinuating how problematic his approach to evil is), pulling the "media literacy" card on Freiren, and branding those who disagree "bad faith."

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Nov 8, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Red Pill Movement, Manosphere, "Incel Movement", whatever they're called, they ironically project the same toxic and self-destructive mindsets they loathe so much.

If anything, they're the radfems and "woke" crowd's biggest fans with how much they've internalized their BS. Image
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Image Whether it's purely for the grift or out of some genuine belief, like the pickup artists and MGTOWs of yesteryear, they offer no real solution or working alternative. Just a vicious cycle that benefits only themselves.