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Comment Re:Are there really no PD Asian fonts? (Score 1) 58

There are some PD or freeware Asian fonts, more for Chinese than for Japanese, but not many of them are great or useful for every purpose. Free design fonts are rare, but that's also the case for Latin-based languages too. A good design font is usually going to cost money. If you're making a company logo that's a different set of requirements than publishing a newsletter or magazine, versus a website, versus an app or game.

Famously there is Japan's IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency) Font series. The most popular one is very institutional looking, like what you might find on information or warning sign. If you ever want to make your own version of a bathhouse notice, check out IPA Mincho, which is available as a standard package in most Linux distros. (e.g. apt-get install fonts-ipafont-mincho)

Comment Re:Let AI do it! (Score 1) 58

A Japanese game developer has started making recruits draw in front of them because they had so many people sending in fake AI slop and a few slipped through.

the funny thing, I could see AI being a game changer for Manga. A lot of Manga is simple brute force work adding shading and the like that could be better done in software. Though I don't think you need AI for that, good software could do it.

But a lot of it's still done the old fashioned way, which is a shame because several of my favorite manga ended because the author was so overworked they almost killed themselves...

Then again the publishers could just not take all the money for themselves, that works too. Japan needs more worker protections, but they just elected Trump in a dress so that ain't happening.

Comment Sorry I wasn't clear (Score 1) 137

as it stands Waymo won't even be held responsible for that. Those sorts of penalties are waived for self driving cars in the cities they operate.

They have to be because they commit traffic infractions so often that the cops would be pulling them over and ticketing them constantly.

Rules for thee but not for me.

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