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Both Citizen Sleeper games are fantastic. The story pacing is great. Be warned that you can softlock yourself really easily in 2 at the very beginning if you go straight to the big mission.

Once you get the flow though, it's pretty easy to maintain the good path. One slip up can snowball you to a fail state though

They're also using their own RISC architecture which is neat, it's supported by the Linux kernel and the computers I see listed for sale using it are all running distros based on Fedora 21 or just straight Fedora 28

Now I'm actually curious what the real story is, there's something happening here, but it's pretty clearly just being used as propaganda in this article.

The cop saying "you should have known you'd get in trouble for publishing this" should make it pretty obvious that whatever they were publishing specifically is likely very different from the standard "Boy Love" genre.

I'm kinda leaning towards the content in question containing explicit stories about young boys, but without the police reports or source material we can't know

Edit: Here's clip from that first article she links

It is worth noting that in the past, those who dared to try out such "sensitive" TV series were small-time actors who were neither famous nor famous, but now the gay dramas have gathered famous actors and big productions. Industry researchers believe that the entry of leading companies and leading artists indicates that gay culture is moving from subculture to the public eye, and these signals are milestone events in the history of the development of domestic gay culture.

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"Male-male CP (pairing)" and "male sex economy" are new themes in the entertainment market. Now "selling homosexuality" has become a common phenomenon in the industry. The so-called "selling homosexuality" means selling "rotten culture", and "rotten culture" refers to a subculture that is fantasized by the audience and is between men, with ambiguous or love stories as the main content.

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In recent years, the academic community has paid attention to and studied the impact of danmei culture on the gender cognition, marriage and love views of young people. For example, the article "Analysis of the Current Status and Influencing Factors of Sexual Identity of Some Adolescents in Hunan Province" surveyed the sexual identity of 1,260 adolescents in the province and found that 2.9% of boys considered themselves homosexual, 4.9% considered themselves bisexual, and 12.4% were uncertain about their sexual identity; for girls, the proportions were 2.4%, 12.4%, and 14.3%, respectively. 37.5% of people knew about "danmei" or "fan fiction", of which 32.3% said they "liked" it, and 11.9% said they admired the same-sex love described in literary works.

I think what's happening here is that the "Rotten Culture" is being conflated with homosexuality in general. I'm not sure exactly what the subgenre is, but it seems like it's more about pornographic material than anything. If homosexuality was so condemned, I don't think you'd have a massive industry rush to invest tons of money into gay focused media. You definitely wouldn't have almost 25% of young people respond that there either gay, bi, or unsure if there was serious consequences to saying that.

I think they just mean the supply chain is entirely domestic.

How is there a harsh crackdown while also massive department store sized place to buy merch and books? Why didn't they mention the 12 books that were censored? They did mention that publishing rules on that Taiwanese platform were more lax, is this crackdown on LGBT or on the fact that they were publishing though the ROC? Or was the content of what they were publishing though that house maybe not exclusively LGBT and possibly something else?

The whole thing smells a little fishy with the "this genre is being heavily censored, but is also still widely available, but the ones being censored are definitely being censored for the genre" line.

They were partially correct in that your service provider knew what you watched and would use that information to influence what other shows were made.

Now it might as well be a sentient person watching you since there are thousands of data points captured constantly that build algorithmic content mills based on how you interact with the people in the TV.

Ugh that's a nightmare. Everyone in my family is in generics and pays cash so it's a "manageable" $300-$400/month for us to stay alive. Some of the non-generic scrips are insane.

Try going to the pharmacy and asking to pay cash. Don't tell them you have insurance. The cash price is sometimes insanely cheaper, like $150-$200 cheaper in this case.

I can usually get an Albuterol inhaler for about $50 cash.

Also don't be afraid to shop around and ask a few places what their cash prices are on things.

Indeed it is, it's also home to some distinct dialects.

I'm from Appalachia, "gutter" and "cutter" are pronounced "guhtur" and "cuhtur" where the g and c sounds are both kinda lazy. Still probably more accurate than the "Kuhtaar" variant that most people I know say.

I thought it was "Cutter", I guess there isn't much of a phonetic difference.

Yeah, but the people who pull this stuff off are literally just following a list of SOPs and reporting their status up the chain of command waiting for more orders.

The American war machine is paint by numbers, no one has a full picture of what's going on and everyone's 10 links away from actual decision making. Which means it's toast in a hot war where those SOPs become trash overnight and now no one actually knows how to properly communicate.