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BAE

[Unratted the rat]

To be honest when I originally saw her skill names the first time, it did seem strange the degree they played into the rat theme. But now removing it all also feels a bit weird now that I got used to it lol, idk.

Reverse Stamp

Effect has been changed.

RIP in piss

edit: the shop has new A-chan / office art too.

Yeah it’s perfectly reasonable to be jealous of Ina’s superior squishy hair.

Yes: https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

Correct me if I’m wrong, but are there roughly 89 active hololive affiliated talents? How does COVER organize so many distinct individuals across many different subgroups?

TANIGO: So we have around 65 talent managers who literally and figuratively speak their language. We have Japanese speakers, we have English speakers, and we also have Indonesian speakers. That being said, I still do not think that our support for our English talents is enough, so I hope to see more improvement in that area. Now that we have the United States covered with Max Kim as our Overseas Brand Partnership Director, we hope that we can offer more support to our English talents, and we’re looking into ways that we can best utilize this resource.

So about a 2:3 ratio of managers to talents right now, which is interesting.

Interview’s kinda short - only has a handful of questions, but at least the responses aren’t just one-liners.

The VA really nailed Gura here. The gruff “I’m fucking Gawr Gura bitch” is indistinguishable from the real thing.

It’s a pretty short interview, so instead of a quote here’s a link (which I assume is riddled with tracking) to the cover on all of its various platforms:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/elizabethrosebloodflame/blackbird

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Mori Calliope: I wrote all these answers with a pen, lol. You guys are the reason I made it this far. Only up from here, yeah? Let’s do it! Let’s show everyone how far refusing to give up can really take you.

Now I’m curious if we’re talking a physical pen or a digital pen. Surely she didn’t hand-write “lol”, right?

Yeah it is pretty loud in the first half. In the second half (with the same track) the BGM seems quieter and maybe about the right volume if they still wanted it to be relatively loud for BGM - possibly just a mistake on not applying the same reduced volume to the first half 😅

Still not totally clear on what differentiates DEV_IS from the “normal” JP branch (even a year(?) on), but hey, more holomems I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: thank you top comment (and a reply):

since there are 2 gens from this branch already, we can call em DEV_ARE

Don’t you mean DEVS_ARE?

I’m glad Ina’s gonna keep us in her heat :P

I didn’t realize the count of active users was that low, though whether I should really consider that a positive or a negative overall is a bit unclear haha.

I guess my biggest gripe is that I was sold the premise of “be the change you want to see” in terms of getting a community more active. I’m something like a thousand posts later and it’s not clear whether all that effort made much of a difference. Looking at the front page (default sorting) from a year ago and engagement is only up modestly. It’s good that it’s up rather than down I suppose, but I kinda thought there’d be more peeps pitching in by now, even if it was just a handful of hardcore talent-specific fans posting exclusively about that respective talent.

Onlookers probably see my activity here and think I’m some kind of hardcore fan completely immersed in holo, but I identify as a hardcore casual fan, and don’t usually follow things that closely unless it’s for a specific reason like when I’ve been finding stuff to post. If the community was already moderately active before I got here, I’d probably only post a little - I just stepped up because I wanted an active community to participate in without resorting to reddit/xitter/discord for it. (plus I already have a history in fanart communities, so starting out just sharing recent fanart that I liked was easy enough)

It feels hard to discuss it without coming across as pretty whingy, but if all the effort seems to barely move the needle, it does make me wonder if it’s worth it. And while it really is nice that you (and I’m sure some others!) appreciate it perhaps more than I do, doing it does suck up a not-trivial amount of time and effort from other things I want to do - things where I actually know that at the end I can get the result I want (which as above is unclear here). It’s hard to find the time to do things like make an entire poorly-optimized shitpost-website anymore :(

I do kinda worry that if some unknown threshold of post diversity isn’t reached then people won’t find the “sub” useful (that’s why ages back I diversified away from just posting mostly fanart), but since I’m not satisfied with the status quo right now either, I guess I might just scale back for a while and see how it goes.

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Well now I kinda am proper-back, but looking back on the under-a-rock period and it’s still almost just MentalMoe MentalEdge and me - idk, it’s a bit disheartening that if the two of us (and I guess hal_5700X in third place) all got hit by a bus the posting activity would die with us, even in a community of >1000 people. Somehow we seem to be doing worse than the 1% rule, which is already not a very high bar. Maybe it’s hard to compete with the presumably-numerous Discord communities :(

RIP squishies, we barely knew ye

Roses are red
Gura is blue
One time she said “A”
So now I must too

Other than you (if you have notifications turned on) there’s gotta be close to 0 people who’ll ever see this, but here’s a link to the comic: https://falseknees.com/comics/247.html

Art of Fauna appears on the screen,
My kami-oshi, in black and green.
 So my braincells go uuuuuuuuuuuuu,
 Then my fingers do too -
Just ordinary sapling routine.

Frustrating how hostile markdown is to poem formatting 🫠

edit: I spent half of the time writing that figuring out the last line, and I think I now prefer:

Another comment left for my queen

Since it makes more sense / links better with lines 3+4.

Without ever directly watching the talents themselves, someone could watch / read / play / listen to well-made fan content as a full time job and still be pressed for time. It’s genuinely nuts!

😬 not proper-back yet (just a brief lull), but thanks haha

Fat F for AmeSame

I literally have not gotten around to watching her debut yet, so you could say I’m a bit behind even though I’ve watched plenty of her streams over the years.

The fact that it’s not a “real” graduation (while also not going to staff) seems to imply she might come back for special events or something? As much of a bummer as this is, that’s what has me most curious:

Any future activities that involve Watson Amelia will be announced through official social media and other channels.

At least we still have https://watsonamelia.com/

edit: it looks like someone is making good use of https://ameliawatson.com/ as well (it used to just redirect to her channel)

Well, it looks like I have to go back into the mines for a while* so probably won’t (or perhaps more accurately shouldn’t) be posting for a bit, and the popular 0 up / 1 down submission seems like a good place to mention it 🙃

Here’s the stuff in my queue if you wanted some easy submissions while I’m in the mines:

• YT: HoloMyth and iron (animation) (I LOVE THIS and was trying to wait out the YouTube thumbnails to post it)
• YT: Gura say something crazy to marine…!? (animation)
• YT: Bettel getting flak for lack of an intro (clip)
• YT: Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame anime intro (animation)
• YT: CC learns Japanese (animation)
• YT: HoloEN’s “All My Fellas!” + JUSTICE! (short / animation) (this is really cool, and there’s a standalone version for each of the four EN gens)
• YT: Ina reacts to Endermen stealing her house (animation)
• YT: They’re cuddling (animation)
• YT: I love how Gura never changed… (clip)
• YT: Cecilia & Gigi (animation)
• Fanart: Uncovered evidence (by ShiroO)
• Fanart: Fluffy and Fuzzy (by kukie-nyan)
• Interview: An interview with a director and lead engineer about sandbox game development
• Needs to be processed into something shareable (get screenshot / clip etc): Gigi and Cecelia played a horror game and Gigi freaked the fuck out the entire time
• Needs to be processed into a screenshot: Raora / Gigi pineapple scuffle on Xitter

* I did try to hang in there as long as I could since it seems like when I stop posting there’s not much going on ): but sometimes the mines need some extra attention