Waiting for 2020 to end

If you think 2020 was a terrible year, you are right. However, 2021 is expected to be far worse. Web censorship is already taking over the rule of copyright law, and will force many copyright holders to take legal actions against a lot of copyright violations. This will actually starve minor copyright holders because they lack the finances to take legal actions against alleged copyright infringers. The current pandemic has laid the foundations for a dystopian autocracy in our lifetime. One that seeks to establish a "marketplace of nations" to economically besiege the Anglosphere and anybody who are friends with them, as well as censor the web, whether it's because of copyright violations or community guidelines violations. At the end of the day, do not be too positive about 2021, and do not let your guard down when it comes to 2021 being less positive than 2020.

Winter Solstice

Ever wondered what is worse than getting coal for Christmas? Getting bupkis (slang term for nothing at all) for Christmas! At least coal can keep you warm when fed into a fireplace. Also, coal is an important resource in steel manufacturing and a vital non-renewable source of energy.

Because of pestilence, perhaps we should give Christmas a miss. For all we know, Christmas is not part of Christianity, and the evidence can actually be found in a fair amount of sources, one of which is the Catholic Encyclopedia.

In fact, there are big questions over the actual Hebrew Calendar year. Some claim there have been many errors regarding the actual Hebrew year. While the Gregorian Calendar is an Anno Domini Calendar, the Hebrew Calendar, however, is an Anno Mundi Calendar. Anno Mundi in Latin means "year of the world," and it's no surprise that an Anno Mundi Calendar could be the most accurate man-made calendar. For all we know, the number of years until Yeshua's triumphant return could potentially be single digits away...

If you want to forgo Christmas this year due to the pestilence, please observe the Winter Solstice instead without any merriment whatsoever. After all, we should go back to observing the Spring Equinox as the start of the new year as well...

Piracy Ban

Recently, Nintendo had been cracking down on several intellectual property infringements, both alleged and actual. Nintendo verified with their customers that copyright piracy is forbidden, and any unlicensed usage of their intellectual properties, which includes Nintendo music uploaded on YouTube, fan games, Mario Kart hacks and Super Smash Bros Ultimate character skin mods, do not meet the requirements of fair use. The resulting internet backlash was so severe that some people called for a boycott of Nintendo on social media.

However, all of this may have something to do with Japan's copyright regulations getting stricter, possibly leading to a gradual phasing out fair use and fair dealing. This had been happening since 2009 and is nothing new.

If you are living in Japan, this is a fair warning about the shambolic state of Japan Inc amid the recent scandals. Do something more honorable by buying from ethical companies and turning away from unethical ones.

Nintendo characters and games © Nintendo.

Liberty's Withdrawal

If you want to know why major copyright holders in Japan are taking extremely drastic actions against various kinds of copyright infringement, including digital piracy, it's because the Japanese government has always been making copyright law in Japan stricter and stricter, despite massive opposition from the general public. Basically, the Japanese government no longer wants the likes of common law, fair use or fair dealing in their territory. The same can be said with Germany, who now leads Europe and wants to enforce new regulations that some countries will not be able to meet. In other words, the loss of freedom of expression in these two countries, which last happened in the 1930s, is happening again.

All of this which had been happening are part of the formation of a "marketplace of nations" that aims to besiege the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish nation-states. Whoever said that the prophecies of Isaiah 23 and Ezekiel 27 are false have been proven wrong. The "marketplace of nations" that is besieging the Anglosphere and democratic countries has been around for several years already. However, this "marketplace of nations" will eventually get obliterated when World War 3 comes around...

Heart of a Digital Pirate

Despite everything the Bible taught us about our deceitful heart, and everything the legal copyright authorities taught us about not dabbling into piracy, many internet users have unintentionally or intentionally committed or supported this computer felony because of our desperately wicked deceitful heart. No wonder the legal copyright authorities have a lot of animosity towards internet users. It's not only a bug in the legal system's code, it's a bug in our moral code.

Multi-role Bodysuit

When Nintendo and Sega co-published Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, we had female characters wearing proper gymnastics and swimming attires. One thing unusual about the female gymnastics attire is that it is also the swimming attire as well. This logic contradicts the fact that gymnastics leotards are not suitable for swimming.

If you want to know why the ice skater is not wearing a skirt, this was because when I went on a cruise ship, I saw an ice skating performance, in which a female ice skater took off her skirt. However, this seems acceptable because that's what ice skating leotards with detachable skirts are made for.

This comic is just made for the idea of what a female bodysuit specially designed for gymnastics, swimming and ice skating would look like.

Calamity Ganon Defeated

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has been out for a while, and the ending ended with Calamity Ganon actually losing to his mortal enemies. So much for corrupting the time traveller Terrako with Malice, Calamity Ganon. That evil plan is doomed to backfire on you, especially when Zelda's power awakening was what activated Terrako in the first place. That mini-guardian will do anything for his maker, including going into self-destruct mode just to render Calamity Ganon vulnerable.

Calamity Ganon dislikes anybody who brings light into his territory, and Zelda was the one who did exactly that when her powers are awakened. Calamity Ganon tries to kill Zelda with a Warlock Punch, a move used by Ganondorf in the Super Smash Bros games, but he utterly fails hard, and if he could say anything, he would have said the same quote as Ganon when he was defeated at the end of Link: The Faces of Evil for the Philips CD-i.

We had no idea that Calamity Ganon being defeated before the events of Breath of The Wild was going to happen. In other words, the Zelda timeline may need some rewriting right now...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity © Nintendo.