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Did... did he actually refer to them as his daughters? What the hell.
The series' original designer and director Tomonobu Itagaki said his "daughter" Kasumi "has been a main character of the Dead or Alive series, and please understand, she is like a Venus to me."[50] When asked if he was comfortable with sexualizing a 17-year-old character, Itagaki answered, "In Japan, that's okay. Maybe it's 20 in America."[51] He also said, "I was 27 when I created Kasumi. I'm older now, but 17-year-old girls are still gorgeous."
Itagaki has described himself as personally "a fan of Kasumi" as his favorite DOA character.[26][55][56] He also said he felt "responsible for her" and was "very close to her".[52] When hackers found a way to remove her clothing in DOA2, Itagaki felt this "was an attack on her".[51]Tecmo's lawyers sued software company West Side, the authors of the hack, for violating Kasumi's dignity, and won the case
[itagaki abruptly gets up and walks over to the back of the room. He unsheathes a shining, three-foot katana blade from a display case and point sit directly at us.]
Itagaki: You like this?
XBN: Um, very nice. Was it true you conceived this game with former XBox guru Seamus Blackley, and that you two originally called it "Hentai Ballet"?
Itagaki: [Laughs, slapping his knee.] No, no, no, no!
XBN: So the main selling point of this game is sex?
Itagaki: No, no. The key word for DOAX is paradise.
XBN: But it's been rated an 18-and-over game in Japan. It's adult entertainment.
Itagaki: Let me tell you what entertainment is: Violence. Sex. Friendship. Death. Surprise. Betrayal. Dancing.
XBN: Is all of that in this game?
Itagaki: No! Not all of these things.
XBN: How do you classify the entertainment value of this game?
Itagaki: Several things here: First is beauty. Second is sex. Sexual content is there, right? And there's humor.
XBN: A lot of men will buy this game because of the attractive chicks. What is the most risque element you've included in Beach Volleyball?
Itagaki: You'd be surprised, but this is not really a sex game. The girls are beautiful, but I think of them like daughters. They're my babies!
XBN: So there's no nudity at all?
Itagaki: Never! I ask you now, what kind of father would want to show his daughters naked?
XBN: I don't know. Do you happen to know any?
Itagaki: Here, look. I'm going to show you the latest trailer. No one else has seen this yet.
[itagaki dims the lights and plays a new trailer for the game. It's similar to the previous trailers, set to the new familiar theme song, "How Crazy Are You"? Scenes are shows of Hitomi and Kasumi rollerblading in bikinis, playing together in the shallows of the beach.]
Itagaki: Does that look sexy to you?
XBN: Well...
Itagaki: But even if we show nipples, that doesn't necessarily mean sexy. The real entertainment value of this game is in the beauty of the environments, the characters... it's paradise!
He also got all butthurt because after he left the studio the DOA team changed her to look like a adult and not "SET THE BREAST SIZE SLIDER TO 100."
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/yemen-step-famine-151204210940979.html
The United Nations food agency has warned that food supplies in Yemen are deteriorating quickly and the country is at risk of slipping into famine.
Ten out of Yemen's 22 governorates were now classified as facing food insecurity at "emergency" levels, which is one step below famine, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
"Clearly, Yemen is one of the hardest place in the world today to work - massive security concerns, escalation in the fighting, and the violence across the country," Matthew Hollingworth, WFP's deputy regional director, said in the capital, Sanaa.
"We are doing well, we are improving our reach and getting to more people every month, but clearly with half of the country now just one step away from famine, we need the international community to really come behind us and support us, particularly over the next few months," he added.
According to the UN's 2016 Humanitarian Needs Overview in November, 14.4 million people of the country's 23 million are food insecure, struggling to get enough food to live a healthy life.
That includes 7.6 million people in desperate need of food assistance.
"It's a country that cannot take any further shock," Abeer Etefa, the WFP's spokesperson for the Middle East region, told Al Jazeera.
"It's a very serious situation. We are doing our best so that we don't see a deterioration of the situation that's already extremely compromised."
Additionally it's causing issues in Somalia, which is unequipped to deal with the influx of both Somali refugees returning from Yemen, and Yemeni's fleeing their country.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34645877
Perhaps the most striking thing about this particular refugee crisis is that many of those fleeing Yemen originally went there to get away from problems in their homeland.
Before it descended into violence, Yemen was a host country to 250,000 Somalis. They had originally fled the civil war in Somalia in the 1990s and had crossed the sea in search of safety and work.
Now a substantial number of them are retracing their steps back to Somalia because it is more attractive than staying in an even worse war-torn country.
The irony is not lost on Nicoletta Giordano, Chief of Mission for the IOM in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
"We have a paradoxical situation," she says. "These are refugees who would have originally been smuggled into Yemen. But now we have 26,000 Somalis who are returning home."
This presents huge logistical problems for the Somali government, which is not used to dealing with a refugee influx - in fact, rather the reverse.
A recent UN report pinpointed the biggest problems in trying to reintegrate the returning Somalis: "Widespread conflict and political strife [in Somalia] have crippled essential infrastructure and more than three-quarters of the population lack access to healthcare, proper sanitation and safe drinking water."
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The actual reason they're not releasing that Dead or Alive game is because the series creator got really upset over nude mods for the one they released earlier in the year. I think there was even a statement from Koei before it came out that they wouldn't release any more DOA games in the west if modders didn't behave "morally" towards his "daughters."
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Pump baby, pump.
OPEC abandoned all pretense this week of acting as a cartel. It’s now every member for itself.
At a chaotic meeting Friday in Vienna that was expected to last four hours but expanded to nearly seven, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries tossed aside the idea of limiting production to control prices. Instead, it went all in for the one-year-old Saudi Arabia-led policy of pumping, pumping, pumping until rivals -- external, such as Russia and U.S. shale drillers, as well as internal -- are squeezed out of market share.
“Lots of people said that OPEC was dead; OPEC itself just confirmed it,” Jamie Webster, a Washington-based oil analyst for IHS Inc., said in Vienna.
OPEC has set a production target almost without interruption since 1982, though member countries often ignored it and pumped well above it. The ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, in place since 2011 and now abandoned as too rigid, is no exception. OPEC output has outstripped it for 18 consecutive months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Now the organization says it will keep pumping as much as it does now -- about 31.5 million barrels a day -- effectively endorsing limitless output.
The oversupply has sent the price of Brent, a global oil benchmark, to a six-year low, triggering the worst slump in the energy sector since the 2008 world financial crisis. It’s cut the profits of major oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP Plc in half while crude-rich countries such as Mexico and Russia have watched their currencies plunge and their coffers shrink.
On Friday, there was no talk of even setting a production target that member countries could then disregard.
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CM discovered that politicians lie. How cute.
All this can be said about US or any other big country, involved in big politics. You know for sure that US is going to protect people rights with Guantanamo prison and CIA torture programm.
And i still laugh everytime when somebdoy tries to point at Syrian barrel bombs as it is some sort of EVIL WMD. "Opposition" is using same shit and never getting same treatment. Why Israel was not bombed for using barrel bombs in 1948?
"it's okay for Assad to carry out a large scale terror bombardment against the citizens of his country because Israeli terrorists set off some bombs in the 40s!"
That's not really helping your argument.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566329-us-preparing-airbase-in-northeast-syria-reports
The US is preparing an airbase in northeastern Syria as a conduit of supplies for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition fighting ISIS, according to a pro-Damascus newspaper and a local Kurdish outlet.
Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported Friday morning that US experts were “close to finishing the preparation of an agricultural airport” in a region of eastern Hasakeh controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
“American technicians have worked for more than one and a half months to expand and prepare the airport with a runway specialized for warplanes. Its length reaches 2500 meters and its width 250 meters,” the report claimed.
The pro-Syrian regime newspaper said that the airbase was located southeast of the town of Rimelan, which is one of the YPG’s main strongholds and “largest arms and ammunition depots.”
According to the report, the airfield was used by Hasakeh’s Directorate of Agriculture for crop dusting and has been out of service since 2010.
“This airport will help enable Washington to add an additional safe place to land its forces, commando units for example, and bring in military support to its allies who are working to finalize control over southern Hasakeh countryside.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jets-carry-out-strikes-north-of-damascus-reports/
Israeli jets carried out several raids north of Damascus overnight Thursday-Friday, Channel 2 reported, citing foreign reports. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The airstrikes were said to have targeted a four-truck Syrian army convoy, loaded with ballistic missiles. The Israeli planes struck the vehicles after they left an army base, the reports said.
The Israeli Air Force also reportedly hit a gas supply, sparking massive explosions.
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Italy just got it's first F-35.
Actual communists have their first stealth fighter now.
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Have any German papers run a headline similar to "Goering's Ghost Menaces Luftwaffe Readiness" yet?
I always chalked the Tornado up as overrated. Its shitty payload only really getting a pass due to western technoliges, and sometimes even that couldnt make up for it
Hell it was probably better as a fighter in British service than a bomber in German service
Not really. I'd say the Tornado ADV was a real dog of a fighter. It's a ground attack airframe that got shoehorned into being a interceptor because the British thought the air superiority F-111 was actually going to happen.
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CM. Idle question. So are you really digging the fact that the Turks shot down a Russian fighter plane? Or are you just trying to get some cheap shots in on our Russkie friends?
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The Soviet UnionTurkey has a right to defend it's airspace and sovereignty against uncheckedWesternRussian imperialism." Erogdan is as much a dickhead as Putin and they both deserve each other. Additionally this has allowed the US to basically drop the "we like your airfield so we're not going to press the issue" over Turkey bombing Kurdish groups, and start proving actual meaningful aid to non-Iraqi Kurdish groups.But mainly I just find the constant revisionism and lying from the Russia boosters to be incredibly annoying. Apparently we've gotta give equal time to antivaxer quality claims about how the Syrian government isn't dropping oil drums full of explosives into residential areas, that rebels in Ukraine are whittling new-production T-72s out of stumps, that Montenegro (a country with no tanks, two frigates and four jet trainers) possibly joining NATO is part of a vast conspiracy to encircle Russia. Any claim by the Russian government or media is sacrosanct, anything that brings the purity and innocence of Russia (or allies such as Assad) into question is a lie fabricated by the west. It's a unsettling reversion to cold war stupidity, and basically makes it impossible to have honest conversation when people are constantly pushing false claims and conspiracy theories.
And of course this provides fertile ground for other idiots who go and do stuff like the Polish conservative party opening a new investigation into Kaczynski flying into a hill. (and I'm sure that if the roles were reversed we'd be hearing about how Poland murdered a Russian politician, because Russian pilots could never fly into a hill. Or that ISIS oil going to Turkey is "absurd western propaganda and defamation of a Russian ally")
But anyways. US special forces are now operating in Rojava.
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The Falcon collection is on sale for $5 over the next 35 hours or so on GOG, because they've already started their holiday sale.
https://www.gog.com/game/falcon_collection
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The LAPD has been using a armored skid loader during the response to today's shooting/attack.
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Yes, I'm sure the Russians would purposely choose a channel they could not receive.
I'm saying that while they had set up guidelines for what frequencies would be used, it's looking like either the airplane wasn't equipped with the radios needed for them or the crew had turned off their radios/were ignoring them.
Unless you're implying that they deliberately provoked the Turks in which case lol.
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Urst canceled Read Poetry, reason: bullied by cave lacrosse team.
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Will they run out of bombs again like in Libya?
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Are you trying to say that the Russians could not receive the channel they themselves agreed on?
That's what it's looking like.
CM, you are just a clown, if you think that shooting down of a plane happened because some "radios" were not right.
Between "not responding on a radio channel that we use" and "kill them" there are many steps, that are used in case of airspace violation like "establishing visual contact" and esorting planes out of your space.
Insult me all you want but you haven't actually responded to my questions.
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Peep the KA-50/52 at about 1 minute in.
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Heard rumors of Turkey trying to close down the Bosporus to trap the Black Sea Fleet.
Well there are currently Russian flagged cargo ships transiting past Istanbul and near Gallipoli.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:29/centery:41/zoom:10
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Yes, it is because this was political decision to shoot down some Russian plane. Plane was shot down in Syrian airspace. Also, tell me about procedure of how normal country should act during airspace incidents like violation. If Greece was acting like Turkey, Turkish airforces would not exist anymore.
And tell me more about equipment of VKS group Su-24s in Syria and what kind of agreements of air safety were made.
So you're saying that it's either okay to not equip combat aircraft with the radios needed to transmit/receive on internationally agreed upon frequencies (frequencies already used to prevent things like this from happening between US-Russian forces, and had been already set up by the Russians and Turks) when operating in a area with a potentially belligerent state, or that the pilots were some real idiots who had turned off their radios and/or were ignoring the warnings?
Show to me they had the capability to receive the warnings (which have been verified by third parties as being sent) and if so, then explain why they didn't act on them.
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Bele, this was 1. already posted and 2. it is simply irrelevant.
Russia not equipping it's aircraft with VHF/UHF radios, and then claiming that they never received any warnings after one gets shot down while violating another country's airspace, despite already having protocols for using Guard frequencies to prevent things like this from happening, is "irrelevant"?
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So will Assad be cutting off his energy partnerships with ISIS?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2c6b5ca-9427-11e4-82c7-00144feabdc0.html
In Isis-controlled Syria, electricity still functions a few hours a day — courtesy of Mr Assad’s regime. Mahmoud, an engineer, and his colleagues still file into the same power plants where they worked for years before Isis took over. But while the militant group’s oil and gas authority now oversees them, the Damascus government still pays their wages. Thousands of civil servants have similar arrangements in Isis-controlled Syria and Iraq, where locals risk long and dangerous drives to pick up their pay in Baghdad.
Isis seized control of three dams and at least two gas plants in Syria used to run state electricity. Rather than risk blowing out swaths of the power grid, Damascus appears to have struck a deal.
“Isis guards their factories and lets state employees come to work,” Mahmoud says. “It gets to take all the gas produced for cooking and petrol and sell it. The regime gets the gas needed to power the electrical system, and also sends some electricity to Isis areas.”
Not only does the Assad government pay the gas plant staff, but workers say it sends in spare parts from abroad and dispatches its own specialists to the area for repairs. “I’m against Isis with all my heart,” Mahmoud says. “But I can’t help but admire their cleverness.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/92f4e036-6b69-11e5-aca9-d87542bf8673.html
Workers say that in agreements between Isis and the regime, the Syrian state and private gas companies pay and feed their employees and supply equipment to the facilities. The two sides divide the electricity produced from the methane heavy “dry gas”, while Isis gets the fuel products made from the plants’ liquid gas.
For example, employees at Tuweinan say its gas is sent to the Isis-held Aleppo thermal power plant. When facilities are working — there are frequent outages due to the instability in the area — the Tuweinan deal nets the regime 50mw of electricity each day. Isis takes 70mw.
Tuweinan is partly run by the Syrian company Hesco, whose owner, George Haswani, is under EU sanctions on suspicion of dealing with the regime and Isis. Several workers said Hesco sends Isis 15m Syrian lira (about $50,000) every month to protect its equipment, which is worth several million dollars.
Michel Haswani, the owners’ son and a manager at Hesco, denies this. He said that claims the company pays Isis or communicates with it in any way are “not true and imprecise”. But he says that Isis was “partly” running the plant.
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So according to a Dutch blogger who did some physics analysis of the crash based on the video and positioning of the wreckage of the Su-24 that the Turks shot down, both Russia and Turkey are lying to some degree in regards to how things went down. I can't read Dutch, so I'm hoping Brozehilet can do a read through of the original blog post and see if he thinks it sounds legit. No idea how accurate this is...
http://kuleuvenblogt.be/2015/11/27/russische-straaljager-neergeschoten-door-turkije-wat-vertelt-de-wetenschap-ons/ Is the original blog post that several news articles that I bounced through to find.
Vice already translated it.
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Without knowing the frequencies I can't comment, but chances are they wouldn't have been able to receive those frequencies without the same VHF/UHF equipment.
Additionally the US and Russia have already agreed to use guard frequencies for initial contact before moving to other frequencies. I have a feeling that the "special frequencies" that Turkey and Russia agreed on followed similar practices.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Dangerous_Military_Activities_Agreement
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2013/07/russian-us-procedures-for-prevention-of.html
The US and Russia have also agreed to follow special procedures when the armed forces of one country enters, either unintentionally or as a result of force majeure, into the national territory of the other country.
The following frequencies will be used to establish radio communications.
Between US and Russian aircraft, or between an aircraft and air traffic control or monitoring facility of the two armed forces, on 243.0 MHz (International Distress and Emergency frequency) or 121.5 MHz (International Aeronautical Emergency frequency), or on HF band frequency 4125.0 kHz AM (alternate 6215.5 kHz AM), both agreed International Distress and Safety Calling/Reply frequencies for contact beyond line of sight. After the phrase "Radio Contact" is exchanged, use frequencies 278.0 MHz, 130.0 MHz, or 4125 kHz, respectively, for sustained radio communications.
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“I confirm the authenticity of their recording, I heard these exact same warnings over and over again and the part I recorded on my phone was actually towards the end when I felt the matter was getting serious,” the Lebanese aviator told Al Arabiya News on the condition of anonymity.
The version of the recording obtained by Al Arabiya News from this pilot clearly proves that Turkish authorities were issuing repeated warnings to the Russian aircraft that they “were approaching Turkish air space”.
“Unknown air traffic position onto Humeymim 020, redirect to 26 miles. This is Turkish Air Force speaking - en guard. You are approaching Turkish airspace. Change your heading south immediately.,” the Turkish officer was repeatedly saying.
There was however no response from the Russian side, which Al Arabiya’s source says has been the case for weeks.
The MEA pilot explained that from what he gathers, Tuesday's incident was not the first as he had heard similar warnings over his radio transmission for the past month.
“I heard similar warnings two or three times a week, on every flight I took for the past month. What was different this time is that the Turkish officer was shouting and seemed tense, while the warnings were much calmer in previous times… this is why I knew something was going to happen,” he added.
Hilarious Military Fiction Appreciation Zone
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Funny thing is, I remember reading a bunch of technothrillers as a teenager but don't actually remember anything other than snippets of plot. There was one with a stealth fighter on the cover about a Shuttle carrying nuclear bombs that got stolen by Libyans. And one about a Soviet scientist defecting in Algeria (?) because the Soviet government didn't believe that space aliens were going to invade and refused to build bomb-pumped lasers.
Though a while back I read a couple mystery novels about a Finnish secret investigator for the Tsar who is sent to Siberia but Stalin brings him back because he's incorruptible (what a mouthful), the first one is a pretty generic one about finding the remains of the Romanovs, whereas the second is a very inaccurate story about the creator of the T-34 being murdered. Koshkin makes no appearance at all.