the game’s own anti-tampering features will remain active

…what does that mean exactly? Is there an online component to this game or something?

It’s also worth noting that in the case of games in Japanese, it’s not so easy for developers to find alternatives. While games using English can rely on system UI fonts, cheap commercial fonts or open-source options, the sheer number of characters used in Japanese means high-quality fonts are extremely difficult and expensive to make, so few affordable alternatives are available.

There’s already a decent selection of high quality, freely available Japanese fonts here: https://fonts.google.com/?lang=ja_Jpan

Dumbing of Age uses PNGs with transparent backgrounds for most strips.

I can’t think of anyone who publishes comics as SVG, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone out there does it…

There’s a lot of indie stuff on there, yeah. We’ve got a (slow) community over at [email protected] if you want to see some of the things people on the Fediverse recommend from Bandcamp or share your own finds.

Bandcamp sells music DRM-free.

Wow, I didn’t realize. How time flies. 😲️

Thank you!

The fifth instance denied my application with, “read the coc and reapply”

Don’t know what instance that is specifically, but if their application process is anything like reddthat’s lemmy application process, there’s probably a bit in there about something specific you’re supposed to include in the application so they can weed out bots.

CrossCode is probably on the fence of what you’re looking for.

Personally, I like just plain seltzer water. (i.e. just carbonated water with nothing added.) Mixing it with a bit of plain (unsweetened) cranberry juice is good too if you want something more flavorful.

Chilled barley tea is another good hot weather drink. It was a summertime staple when I was in Japan.

This won’t fix parents just buying a device to palm off to their kids, because if setting up parental controls is beyond them, setting up an account for them properly likely will be too.

Sure, but this limits companies liability if they make a good faith effort to comply; idiot parents being idiots and not setting up a kid’s account are no longer their problem, legally speaking, if they follow this law and respect age signals.

It’s already happening. California passed a law to require OS vendors and online services to support this functionality last month.

How is device-based age verification different?

You put your device in child safety mode, and it tells sites “I’m a kid, treat me like a kid” – otherwise the site can assume you’re an adult with full rights. Done. No intrusive ID requirements. No face scanning. No third-party payment shakedowns. Parents, in theory, can still stop their five year olds from accidentally accessing PornHub or other content that would disturb them by just clicking a button when they set up an account on the device.

It’s, frankly, the sane way to do this if we’re going to have age restrictions.

It looks like the connector is U.2 so I’d look for motherboards that indicate support for that explicitly. From a quick search, it looks like SuperMicro makes some. This is getting out of my area of expertise though; I just know the crazy drives exist…

Assume an unlimited budget for now, I just want to know what’s out there.

I mean, if you’re willing to pay the price of a car per SSD they go up to at least 122TB density per drive… (e.g. Solidigm SBFPF2BV0P12001 D5-P5336 – $16K~$20K depending on supplier from a quick search)

I don’t actually recommend that for personal use, but since you were curious about what’s out there, there’s some absolutely crazy shit in enterprise server gear if you have deep enough pockets.

a lot of what might’ve been archaically formal and polite ways to say ‘you’ have become ironically rude and/or condescending.

You can do something similar in English through sarcastic statements with inappropriately polite forms of address. e.g. saying “Well, excuse me, sire!” to someone with a sassy tone of voice should be interpreted as “I’m offended” or “I can’t believe you just did that, you asshole” or similar depending on context.

If that doesn’t work when you try again later, then try searching in the community@example.com format specifically, and also try searching for the URL of a specific post – that might get it to federate the post and then you should be to access the magazine from that if it succeeds.

If that still doesn’t work, message the admin of your instance and ask them for help.

Good luck.

Try searching for the community explicitly – e.g. community@example.com – that should make the server aware that it exists. You may also need to subscribe to keep it from going stale, IIRC.

It’s been a while since my time on kbin, so apologies if I’m remembering something incorrectly or if mbin has diverged since then.

Don’t put them in until they are ripe. Once they are the right level of ripeness for you, you can extend them being in that state for several days by putting them in the fridge.

I fits, therefore I shits.

Best wishes for a solution – for both of your sakes!