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[wierd]

From the description, it sounds more like how this guy needs a new car part but cant find one...

[scriver]

My uh, Noon PM guy called back and argued with some more people about whether or not it was really Noon or not.

: \

For whatever reason, that reminds me of the one tech support story my ex had from work... A customer had called in to try and figure out what was going on with their TV decoder, since it was showing an error code "LOS".

Of course, nobody in the department remembered what LOS was supposed to mean, and the documentation is as poorly managed as one would expect, so nobody in IT knew what to do about this. More and more people get dragged into the ticket to try and help figure out what the heck is going on.

They were starting to get really confused, and were planning to just schedule sending someone out for a physical inspection when the customer mentioned that the error code had now changed, and was displaying code "BES" instead.

...[sound of brain gears crunching]


The decoder was upside down.

Los means let's go

bailando bailando

[TD1]

Los Angeles

[Kagus]

Pffft... So, Spotify just handed me the 2019 "Here's a fraction of the data we collected on you" report, showing me my listening habits through the year and what my seasonal songs were.

Year start was pretty much expected, just listening to various things I'd filtered down to after a very Iron & Wine Christmas, nothing too out of the ordinary... Then spring rolls around and there's one song in particular that's miles ahead of all the others.

"Huh," I thought, "I sure did listen to that track a lot. I wonder wha-... oh."

Yeah. That was the song I binged on repeat after getting heartbroken. Whoops.

And then summer rolled around, which was when I started trying to make a habit of going to the gym, so most-played track was... BFG Division.


I dunno, I thought it was kinda funny...

[Tack]

“Your year in songs”

Dang, tells a surprising story.

[Yoink]

This is the second time I've heard Iron and Wine mentioned in like, as many days. Wtf is going on?!
Kagus, was it you who mentioned it the last time? I think it may have been elsewhere, though.   

[scriver]

 Where can I find these things?

Edit: eh it was right there

[Iduno]

So, is this where we act surprised the head of Gainax turned out to be a pervert/shitsack?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Putting together several headlines, it looks like forced touching and naked pictures of a child who was going to be a voice actress for the company.

[Reelya]

I guess they're regretting promoting that guy. He only got that job recently, in October of this year.

Not that it makes it much better but

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-12-04/gainax-representative-director-tomohiro-maki-arrested-for-alleged-indecent-acts/.153997

The woman, then in her late teens, had allegedly been sexually harassed a total of four times between February 6 and 23

She was in her late teens in February of this year, but the article implies she's not any more. This could mean she was 19 at the time, which is a child under Japanese law. But it's a stretch to say "child" in English because it implies that he's assaulted a 14 year old or something. She was living at the company dorm, and the other articles say late-teens so I think 19 years old (as in already finished high school) is the most likely age given the wording. So ... he touched a 19 year old girl's leg in a creepy way and took "casting couch" type topless photos of her. That seems to be what's happened, at least until more articles come out.

[Yoink]

Fuckin' weebs.
...Wait, it's a Japanese studio. You can't technically call them weebs, then, can you? Oh well they still suck.   



In other news I slept in well past my alarm and had a series of bizarre dreams. Also a moment of panic when I thought I was supposed to go to something starting at one, before realising that's tomorrow. D'oh.   

[TamerVirus]

So, is this where we act surprised the head of Gainax turned out to be a pervert/shitsack?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Putting together several headlines, it looks like forced touching and naked pictures of a child who was going to be a voice actress for the company.

It all comes tumbling
                              down
                                       tumbling
                                                    down
                                                            tumbling
                                                                         doooowwwwnnnnnn

[Frumple]

I've slept, not quite uninterrupted (was awake for maybe a combined 2 hours in there), but close to it, from about 10:30 pm last night until roughly now, around 4:20 pm the next day. Something approaching sixteen hours not-quite-straight? Still kinda' feel like taking a nap, too

[Iduno]

I've slept, not quite uninterrupted (was awake for maybe a combined 2 hours in there), but close to it, from about 10:30 pm last night until roughly now, around 4:20 pm the next day. Something approaching sixteen hours not-quite-straight? Still kinda' feel like taking a nap, too

I do that once every few years, when I have a fever. You wake up a bit tired, maybe a bit thirsty, then you're just better.

[Reelya]

So, is this where we act surprised the head of Gainax turned out to be a pervert/shitsack?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Putting together several headlines, it looks like forced touching and naked pictures of a child who was going to be a voice actress for the company.

It all comes tumbling
                              down
                                       tumbling
                                                    down
                                                            tumbling
                                                                         doooowwwwnnnnnn

Hmm yeah, but the context was seriously distorted.

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The guy only got the top job literally a month ago (October 2019), so "head of Gainax" is kinda misleading. The guy doesn't come up with any sort of production credits for any shows (myanimelist and IMDB: nothing at all). So he's some sort of sleazy corporate suit who's ended up with the job, not someone with a production or animator background. I'm pretty sure that he's not actually an "otaku" type at all, he's some mainstream Japanese business type who's ended up with the job. Japanese mainstream businessmen types are notoriously sexist, and it's a very different culture to the introverted otaku types. He's doesn't seem to have an industry insider background or he's have at least one producer credit on a show or something.

So they'll get rid of him and it'll be no loss since he has literally nothing to do with the creative side of the business.

Also, rather than a child it was a 19 year old as far as the articles state/imply , and rather than sexual assault, he touched her leg. Touching a 19 on the leg is kinda different to claiming that someone sexually assaulted a child. That interpretation is not supported by any of the actual existent articles.

[Frumple]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The guy only got the top job literally a month ago (October 2019), so "head of Gainax" is kinda misleading. The guy doesn't come up with any sort of production credits for any shows (myanimelist and IMDB: nothing at all). So he's some sort of sleazy corporate suit who's ended up with the job, not someone with a production or animator background. "Otaku" types tend to be introverts, while mainstream Japanese businessmen are known to be incredibly sexist. Since this guy has literally zero production credits on any show, I'm guessing he's come across from a corporate background and not an animator/otaku background. That in itself makes the point: this has happened, it's not a common thing, and it *just happens* to be someone who's never actually worked in the production side of things.

So they'll get rid of him and it'll be no loss since he has literally nothing to do with the creative side of the business.

Also, rather than a child it was a 19 year old as far as the articles state/imply , and rather than sexual assault, he touched her leg. Touching a 19 on the leg is kinda different to claiming that someone sexually assaulted a child. That interpretation is not supported by any of the actual existent articles.

You. Do realize touching someone's leg can, actually, be sexual assault, right? Can we not minimize that sort of shit just because it isn't trump tier crotch grabbing? "Rather" ain't the right damn word, ree.