“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

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• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This Bluesky post sums it up:

  We got all the hits:

  • purchased by private equity firm
  • hid a bunch of layoffs
  • invested a bunch of money in AI
  • tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

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  • itkovian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah yes, The Greatest Hits of Capitalism.

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  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Being purchased by Private Equity is basically a death knell for whatever unfortunate company is in their sights

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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It would be hilarious to see these companies going balls deep into AI only to suffer massive losses and try to push those losses onto others

  if it weren’t so sad.

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  • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

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    • C1pher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When nVidias bet on AI collapses eventually, it will be catastrophic cascade of events, worse than the Great Depression.

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  • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so comic sans

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• nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would a font need updating?

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    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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: github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/issues/286

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, I’d imagine. Probably other reasons too, on occasion.

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• Blackout@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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