“They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-game-font-services-aggressive-price-hike-could-be-result-of-parent-companys-alleged-ai-failu/
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lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 170 pts · 269d
This Bluesky post sums it up:
itkovian@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 269d
Ah yes, The Greatest Hits of Capitalism.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 269d
Being purchased by Private Equity is basically a death knell for whatever unfortunate company is in their sights
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 268d
They were purchased by Monotype, a global font monopoly, and the whole “buy all competition, send prices into the stratosphere, then sue whoever can’t pay the extortion or change their fonts” is Monotype’s entire M.O. Every country on the planet should be breaking them into a hundred pieces and locking up their executives for the rest of their lives.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 80 pts · 269d
Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 269d
They always do. Get bailed out by the government using taxpayers money. If it was truly capitalism they would be left to rot by the side of the road.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 269d
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
vega208@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 268d
Vote for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders!
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C1pher@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 269d
When nVidias bet on AI collapses eventually, it will be catastrophic cascade of events, worse than the Great Depression.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 269d
It'll be as cathartic as it'll be catastrophic. I'm personally looking forward to the devastation this folly will bring, if only to see PC parts makers come back to the consumer market with hat in hand.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 269d
Except there won’t be much of a consumer market to come back to, due to the aforementioned economic devastation.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 269d
And they want us all in the cloud so they can control and see it all. Can’t do that if you can keep your data on the pc in your basement.
finitebanjo@piefed.world · 5 pts · 269d
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 269d
so comic sans
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 269d
It's sad that there's not many Japanese font provider, sure there are free font, but outside a few one, it's not really well supported with updates and bug fixes.
Event Google's Japanese Noto font requires contant update and bug fixing.
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 269d
Why would a font need updating?
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 269d
A big font with thousands of characters might occasionally have error on them, that's why someone have to maintain them and checking for all visibility test. This even true for any CJK languages.
Example of error on Google Japanese Noto font: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/issues/286
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 269d
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, for a start.
Probably other reasons too, on occasion. For non-Latin languages with thousands of characters, I’d imagine certain unusual combinations occasionally get discovered that need rendering tweaks? Things like that.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 268d
::: spoiler ☭ ::: spoiler time to work on it yourself!💪 頑張れ！🔗♪ :::
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 268d
Blackout@fedia.io · 4 pts · 269d
There are other Japanese ran and designed font foundries. The US ones have had crazy pricing for a while so I've been using maniackers for decades now.