Love it. If i ever get enough wealth to setup a family office I would want it to be as crazy/fun as this. Kudos for having the ability to toggle from crazy to normal views also.
Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I get that. I feel like the trademark and copyright system is set up that way where lawyers are incentivized to defend IP. Some consider it a must, to protect those IPs. At any rate, I would love to see something like a decentralized Disney or Nintendo spring up in the world. Like a decentralized universe of open source characters that people could interact with and riff on. Something like what happens with mem…
But isn’t it the strict control of brand and image that make those characters so enjoyed. If you let anyone do anything they can change/misrepresent the brand in an irreversible way... just like Pepe...
I don't think so. Pepe is still quite hilarious for meme material. I can ignore bad actors with an open IP and still enjoy the good stuff.
And meanwhile, I think stuff like fan art, fan fiction, spin offs, etc could maybe create an even more vibrant ecosystem than a Disney or Nintendo ever could.
I mean, look at the ancient Greek and Roman mythology. That was an open source ecosystem of stories and legends that different people contributed to and built on over long periods of time. It could easily happen today.
Open Source Disney, Open Source Marvel, Open Source Nintendo
I think the time is right for such a thing to happen.
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#93First click reminded me of Summer Wars[1] (Japanese: サマーウォーズ) immediately! The music video[2] nicely retains the opening effect. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars [2]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuj-uTvdYc
Thanks for the link, this looks awesome. I’m trying to catch up with the best anime in the period 2002-2018, and this just made the list.
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#94Not sure about anyone of you but in my case the experience is terrible. Initial load 3.7 secs, then additional assets were downloaded +7secs. And this all just to show the button "Enter" which was unresponsive. After waiting for a couple more seconds background appeared. At this point I've spent 10 seconds on a site. FYI I'm on 16'mbp so there is more than enough processing power. Maybe it is because of 11MB the webs…
Experience was pretty bad and i had to reload several times for the assets to even load. I'm willing to give it a pass considering it's not exactly meant to be a high traffic website that a lot of people are meant to use every day though I could understand someone instantly closing off of it.
It's whimsical and interesting which is certainly the message they were going for considering the intent of the website itself and resulted in more discussion about its mission than it would normally earn on social media, I think. Talking about the good ol' days of Japan's economic dominance and how it was perceived as a creative powerhouse on a bland corporate website would probably fail to deliver its message.
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#95Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…
> We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. Unfortunately this is standard marketing pablum for Japanese companies, with "future" ( mirai ) and "dream" ( yume ) both being particularly common tropes. Alan Booth talks about this back in 1995 in Looking for the Lost : > I passed through the pavilion's Dream Tunnel into the World of Dream and from there…
It might be a trope but coming from Nintendo it means a lot more. Can't say how many wonderful memories I've had exploring the worlds that Nintendo has dreamed up.
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#96Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…
"Besides being a beautiful website". I think my beauty standards are terribly outdated since the last thing I would say about that website is that it is beautiful. Let me list my concerns: 1. It plays sound in the background 2. It is horrible cluttered, the only missing thing are those '90 animated torches and blinking text (but those moving blocks are even more annoying, what is an achievement in itself) 3. It is to…
If you open the menu you can switch to the boring straightline view.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
But isn’t it the strict control of brand and image that make those characters so enjoyed. If you let anyone do anything they can change/misrepresent the brand in an irreversible way... just like Pepe...
I don't think so. Pepe is still quite hilarious for meme material. I can ignore bad actors with an open IP and still enjoy the good stuff. And meanwhile, I think stuff like fan art, fan fiction, spin offs, etc could maybe create an even more vibrant ecosystem than a Disney or Nintendo ever could. I mean, look at the ancient Greek and Roman mythology. That was an open source ecosystem of stories and legends that diffe…
The interesting thing there is that Disney made their money by reselling public domain content:
- The Little Mermaid
- The Jungle Book
- Tarzan
- Cinderella
- A Christmas Carol
- Fantasia
- Pinocchio
- Alice in Wonderland
- Beauty and the Beast
- Aladin
- Heracles
All folk tails or public domain stories. Even Tangled and Frozen have taken heavily from other stories. And I'm certain there's more I've forgotten.
Likewise Marvel has borrowed a lot from Norse mythology with Thor's story arcs.
I've never really followed comic book fandom that closely so I can't comment on what pre-Disney Marvel were like to their fans. But with regards to Disney, it always left a bad taste in my mouth just how aggressively Disney were to protect their IP from harmless fans when Disney themselves owe their millions to ripping off other peoples stories.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think so. Pepe is still quite hilarious for meme material. I can ignore bad actors with an open IP and still enjoy the good stuff. And meanwhile, I think stuff like fan art, fan fiction, spin offs, etc could maybe create an even more vibrant ecosystem than a Disney or Nintendo ever could. I mean, look at the ancient Greek and Roman mythology. That was an open source ecosystem of stories and legends that diffe…
The interesting thing there is that Disney made their money by reselling public domain content: - The Little Mermaid - The Jungle Book - Tarzan - Cinderella - A Christmas Carol - Fantasia - Pinocchio - Alice in Wonderland - Beauty and the Beast - Aladin - Heracles etc All folk tails or public domain stories. Even Tangled and Frozen have taken heavily from other stories. And I'm certain there's more I've forgotten. Li…
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
It must be something Mac specific. It runs very smoothly on Chrome + Windows with a dated computer.
Yes, interesting all the comments suggest it is Mac specific and not browser specific. Tested again on Firefox Mac, same thing. Very strange.
Perhaps this has highlighted a problem in the Metal render backend? Firefox generally sticks to the OpenGL standard (using ANGLE as a workaround where only DirectX is available on Windows) whereas Apple has their own APIs.
For example, Firefox seems to make use of the more proprietary Core Animation API got certain tender tasks, which no other OS needs special code for. If the Core Animation API or the code calling it has a bottleneck, you'll only see this problem on macOS.
It could also be a consequence of the way Apple optimises their laptops. On my phone and laptop, the websites hammers one single core (about 87% CPU usage on my laptop here). Apple has optimised their CPU power curves (on Intel, at least) to turbo high and turbo quickly, making actions like loading a website and opening an app nice and snappy. The design of the laptops doesn't allow these high turbo speeds for more than a few seconds, so CPU performance drops after a few seconds. For most use cases that's fine, but I can see a website like this running into that problem. Same thing is happening on Chrome, which is snappier for me but also more CPU intensive.
Edit: actually, after trying Firefox on my hackintosh (7700k, gtx1080), it's more likely to be hardware related. I have no trouble whatsoever with the website on any browser on my desktop, even the outdated copy of Safari works fine.
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#100Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…
It's so rare to hear about Japanese startups - either becoming successful within Japan or outside. Are other mature East Asian countries going through a similar phase?