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Thanks for your empathy, God said he's got more important things to do than break up petty squabbles on the internet. He also said "What's MDL?". The psychologist said only narcissists tell others to seek help. Then she also said "What's MDL?"

There was a story on MDL of a statement posted by her friend followed by a denial from the accused man, then this, where she alludes to it. Are you gaslighting me? Besides, what would a clinical doctor advise her to do in this situation, given her (clinical?) diagnosis? I think it's inadvisable to make any statements like this one. The situation makes her harder to employ, is it possible she's now trying to mitigate the fallout? Generally we have to deal with the hardships that go with our jobs, the high paid jobs tend to come with greater hardships.
One other thing - those that go through oppressive upbringings set out to over achieve later in life, they're driven relentlessly to prove themselves. You can't have it both ways.

I know. Some sing live over pre-recorded and corrected tracks, and use it all the time in recordings definitely.
But... I'm talking about the national attitude towards it - the Japanese music industry, especially the artists, don't like it. If you watched the red and white contest few days ago, it's predominantly the live voices. Same on music TV shows. So j-pop groups that can't sing (a lot) use auto-tune or backing tracks live and pitch correction in post production. In Korea it's the opposite, I hear it almost all the time. A few months back I was raving about the fabulous voice of Park Eun-bin, taking it at face value - then on listening more carefully I was wrong. Then another, and another. You have to go back to singers like Baek Ji-young on the Secret Garden ost to hear a real voice. I'm generalising now. There are great singers whose performances are being spoilt by post production nerds that manipulate tracks with their eyes instead of using their ears - I'm quoting a guy called Fil from Wings of Pegasus on YouTube there. His channel is both great and devastating at the same time.
Edit - there's an exposé by Fil on a Korean (maybe) channel that claims that all its artists' voices are unaltered, he proves it's a lie, it's titled 'the biggest fraud in history' or something like that.

Edit2 .. whoops, the channel Fil exposes is actually Japanese!! It's called The First Take and claims not to use any corrections. So I can't account for the whole of Japan, but on TV music is rarely mimed or corrected when it claims to be live.

Isn't SpaceX going to rescue them?

May I Love You by Jae Yeon is pretty, more my taste, and Numb by Lim Yeon (although it uses well established harmonies, it's nice)

Edit, I'd like Korea to return to the natural voice, pitch-correction is distancing, makes it harder to connect. Lately I'm being drawn to Japanese music for this reason, it's real and extremely refreshing.

Oh right, sorry😆
Let's see, maybe it'll be lukewarm on both sides. Maybe Han-na will provide the glue.

She's using pathos to appeal to your emotions, instead of facts, there are no verifiable facts ("If someone,..." begins a statement so full of conditions she's wary of legal retaliation - and speaks on behalf of a group, instead of herself, to make her argument appear stronger).
Humble-brag ("I'm not as tolerant a person as I thought" she's informing you she's tolerant;
"I sincerely apologize for taking up public resources...", she's not sorry).
Inserting superfluous truth words like 'truly', 'sincerely' (why would we think she's not being truthful or sincere?).
Making vague points and omitting details not in her favour (such as "neurological issues").
Over-explaining.
Shutting down her critics ("only a doctor....").

Is this the statement of a person abused or a list of mitigating circumstances to explain her own behaviour?

All conflicts have 2 sides, I just wondered if anyone had heard the other side of it.

I see 19 paragraphs

I don't love AI subs, yet I maintain they're better than Viki's Actual Unntelligence. Any subtitle unrelated to necessary translation is graffiti. There's an art to subtitling, Viki doesn't have it, it has no taste, it makes me physically sick. Last year there was a drama that only Viki carried, so I briefly went back - and felt sickened immediately. Overt, collaborative displays of group ignorance are not acceptable, I don't watch Viki, I can't stand it - if that's ok with you, as long as I have your permission to choose what I want to watch.

Her statement's wording is manipulative.

It's manipulative.

That's a long f'kin statement. Did anyone hear his side of the story? Just cutting to the chase, the words indicate deception.

I'm talking about the graffiti. It's a terrible faux pas to add your own personal content to subtitles. They ruin every artwork they broadcast. An ai would do a better job because it wouldn't say "🙂 Yay! subtitles by a bunch of kids 🙂" at the beginning and end of everything, or add subs over inappropriate content like song lyrics - those moments are for watching the scene, taking it in, contemplation... NOT to be assaulted by words. I'd rather miss a drama than pay Viki. It doesn't respect the dramas and movies it streams.

Hope they don't. The age of cancellations has ended and he didn't commit a crime - he probably thought it would be amusing at the time he posted it. Just laugh it off. Life's too short for this shit.

Good, she's brilliant

Sorry? Leo's on the diddly tapes, that would be a bad move for Netflix, just looking at it from the world of common sense. Not that I care for Squid Game in the slightest.

You did, I'm always enthusiastic to see what you write, although it doesn't make perfect sense as the 'badass' bunny blocked me, so I can only see yours and mine. Too badass for me.

Sounds good, the only one I've seen is Snowdrop, was it from that? Edit, I think I remember, her dad was the gov official.

Cock!!

Now that Squid Game 2 is in my face, I dislike Squid Game 1 a bit more. Haven't watched 2, its existence just devalues the first one. It feels like I wasted my time.