L - and I cannot stress this enough - OL

https://twitter.com/Crypto_KOF/status/1538893254254505989

SNK has chosen now - when NFTs are selling merely by the dozens, when crypto is tanking dramatically by the day, to squeeze into the space with a bunch of nonsense. Being owned by a murderer isn't enough, they had to dig deeper

I was trying to wait for lab zero to get more internal resolution on this before I went public, but now that @ClickAgain has started talking about it, I'll share with you the statement I made in the company slack when I cut ties with lab zero almost two months ago. There's a lot of specific stuff in there because this was dealing with the then-new allegations of sexual harassment Mike Z made in DMs - that's better covered here: dotesports.com/fgc/news/skull…

But I want to talk about something more than that, the idea of the "toxic genius"

So, it has finally been announced! Samurai Shodown V Perfect, a game that has gone unreleased for 15 years, is included in the upcoming Samurai Shodown collection from @SNKPofficial. In this thread I'll share with you how this game got saved after so long! First, what is SSV Perfect? It's largely a rebalance of V Special, fixing issues that caused problems in tournaments, a new title screen, and other minor tweaks. The BIG change is new story for every character, a couple new mid-game scenes, and a joke that took 15 years to tell.

I guess I should tell this story about American healthcare vs everywhere else. The crown on one of my teeth broke last year. I went to my local dentist and they said the work would start at $3k, and the best insurance would only cover half - the best insurance is like $150/month. I happened to be going to Japan the next month, and the pain wasn't excruciating, I could just not chew on that side. I booked an appointment at a nice private clinic in Osaka and went in. They did a full mouth xray, took a cast of the tooth, and asked my availability.

So, trying to somewhat-impartially figure out this postal thing. It seems as though the US wants to increase how much it costs to ship things to the US, with the idea that if goods can't be imported, they would be made here. But it only affects USPS.
freightwaves.com/news/us-to-lea… This means that companies like Amazon and other private shipping companies are not affected. Meanwhile all trump's buddies are outsourcing jobs and industry to other countries like mad. So the effect would be: USPS, our public service, gets squeezed, Amazon/DHL will control more.

Aaaah it's this!! Origins of panzer dragoon series - director futatsugi had to make a shooting game because gale racer got greenlit first

As promised, here’s my rough translation of Hiroko Yokoyama's Japanese game industry discrimination thread. If you don’t know her already, she’s an early SNK artist (Ikari, Crystalis, Guevara) who moved to Video System (Sonic Wings series). Thread incoming!!

https://twitter.com/yok_mola/status/1025304164673277952

The story she tells begins with the rise of 3D in games. At one company, they knew 3D was the future, and wanted to train two artists to work with polygons and share that with the rest of the company. All applications from women were summarily dismissed by the boss at the time.

Nobody is shoehorning diverse characters into books. Making a book absent of any diversity remains a choice you can make, just a boring one.

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People love to make this sort of statement, but where does it come from? There are no diversity enforcers, you can still read white books