Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@BasedLunatic
Don't think so. But these two on the other hand...

@beardalaxy I'm kinda indifferent, neutral. It's pretty clear to me that the gremlin energy doesn't appeal to me. Gura works in collabs, but by herself... meh. skippa skippa.

As for Mumei... my favorite voice of Hololive.

I've been thinking about this phrase today. Either you know what this is about, or you don't. If you don't know, you're better off not reading any further. It's vtuber shit. You have been warned.

I want to start with an analogy of sorts.

Let's imagine you work for Starbucks, and you're fairly content with the job. Not a great job, but not terrible either, and you make good money. (I know, it's hard to imagine, but just stick with me).
Now let's imagine Starbucks institutes an uniform policy, that you absolutely hate like nothing else in the world. So you do the reasonable thing, and decide to quit.

If someone were to ask you what happened, you'd probably answer "I left because I didn't like the uniforms", or "I left because I didn't like the new policy".
But you could also phrase it as "I left because of a disagreement with management". Still basically true, but it has a different ring to it, doesn't it?

In the first example it feels more like you're fully assuming the blame and responsibility for the departure. In the second though... it feels a bit different. It brings a different nebulous person, "management", into the mix, potentially to share the blame. Suddenly, it feels like management did something wrong to spark a disagreement, doesn't it? It's not solely on you for having an unreasonable hate of uniforms. Management did a bad thing, and you're calling it out for it.

Now going back to the "if you know, you know" bit. I did a double check. Ame didn't use the phrase. She didn't give any reason for her departure in fact.
Fauna, Mumei and Gura used "disagreement with management", either with exact words or similar enough, while Mumei also added "health reasons".
Mumei probably had the strongest reason that was publicly known and that fans would have understood and sympathized with. Her health situation was well known. She wouldn't have needed to add anything else to her reasoning, she could have blamed it on the cough, and kept everything else private. But she added "disagreement with management".

The more I think about it, the more I think this was a phrase that management coached them to say, as a way to take some of the fans' negative attention, and the anxiety that could produce, away from the talents, and onto the company that can better handle it.

Remember what happened with Selen and Niji? When Niji tried putting the blame on Selen, it created a controversy so big, normies ended up talking about it, and some fans ended up convinced Niji is keeping other talents hostage.
Lessons learned:
1) don't blame the employee
2) fans are gonna blame the company anyway. Don't fight it, create the image that you are receptive of criticism from employees.

You can't convince me that Cover couldn't have forced talents through NDAs to stay silent about their reasons for departure, and not mention "disagreement with management". Cover allowed it and likely encouraged leaving talents to say the phrase precisely so that fans get implanted with the idea that employees are indeed allowed to say such things and criticize the company.

Whether this is true or not that Cover listens to criticism, I don't know and it's not the point I'm making. My point is just that "disagreement with management" is a PR statement that is unlikely to reflect much of what the talents actually felt. And even the little bit in which it is accurate, it is designed to control, to redirect, the disappointment and anger of the fans away from tangible people, and more to a faceless entity.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. You're a fool for having read this much.

You know that phenomenon where you're in your home, doing some house work, and you decide to go to a different room to search for something, only for you to forget what you were searching for when you get there?

Yeah, I've been starting to get this with browser tabs. I'm reading something, or thinking about something, and open a new tab to research. But somehow, as soon as I open the tab, I forget what I wanted to do.

Honestly, I feel like I have a lot to say about the situation, but I'd probably end up pissing someone if I typed out everything that is going through my mind about it. It doesn't feel like the right time for it, but until the right time comes around, I'll probably forget the rant.

I feel like I'm the only person who's unphased by the shark leaving.

The owl on the other hand...

My Little Pony
My Big Pony
^probably Vaush or something

@beardalaxy
>switch to Linux
>switches to Azure Linux

@ivesen I've used bluetooth mouse + audio and sometimes even + gamepad, without experiencing what you're describing. So maybe there's something wrong with your particular hardware config, or you have way too much radio pollution where you're at.

As for why bluetooth isn't being replaced: backwards compatibility. Also, bluetooth was designed to be low power usage. That is basically the biggest limiting factor.

@ivesen Don't know this game, but in general, I'm quite confident that there's a lot of undisclosed sponsorships or other deals, by which vtubers advertise games.

@icedquinn
Saw a clip of Neuro being surprised about the news. Some days later, apparently the AI was contemplating graduating. Crazy stuff.

@cR0w
This is outrageous! I look NOTHING like any of those nya~!

@mischievoustomato
I'm concerned that these keep happening, but not in the way you think. My concern is, how many fucking game journalists are/were there, that they keep needing to fire them in multiple rounds? How vastly overbloated were the outlets, to where they couldn't cut once and be done?

@verita84
I'm the same, but with Linux and Windows.

@LukeAlmighty I think the lore behind that part is that it's technically not a laser per se. It's supposedly not photons. It's main energy output is not heat energy, but kinetic energy. And I assume he manages to melt things because when the kinetic energy hits, and has nowhere to go, it starts converting into heat energy in the object it hits (kinda like how you can supposedly cook meat by repeatedly slapping it).
>but then why don't the glasses heat up, because the beam does hit them
Not sure tbh. But I generally got the impression that the glasses reflect the beam back at the source, his eyes. Which... well, if they can generate something that weird, they can probably take it back in too. I also heard that the eyes technically don't generate the beams, but rather they act as a portal to some weird ass dimension where this energy just exists everywhere. So the energy just escapes through his eyes.

But again, most of the things I know about X-Men come from the animated shows, especially the original 90s run. So my knowledge is as accurate as those shows were.

But is it quite fascinating to see the lengths various writers went to to explain some of these physically impossible powers.

@LukeAlmighty
>create translucent glass capable of letting all of the external light through
That's the neat part. It doesn't. It actually blocks most colors. I think it somehow only lets the red part of the spectrum through. Or at least that's how it has been portrayed in adaptations. Maybe it works differently in the source material.

@j Either psychopaths or autists. I doubt that you'll find many billionaires that don't fit one of these. Mark Zuckerberg is likely both.

@ChristiJunior
I don't blame her. Her party literally back-stabbed her. And while I like literally no one in these elections, the truth is, she proved herself back in November, when she came in second, ahead of all pro-EU candidates.
The logical move in my view would have been, for all pro-EU parties to stand behind her, and show support for her, if this pro-EU/NATO stance was so critically important, like they claim it is. Like why the hell are you looking for new candidates, and dragging Antonescu from the mothballs, if you already have Lasconi, who you know could get people's votes? This is not a matter of polls saying she had support, she literally got the votes once already.

I'm not in the mood to talk more on this, but the way I see it, literally everyone in this race, their minds have been broken by paranoia.
AUR was basically build on paranoia, and Simion is there by default. USR have their own brand of paranoia, and their new favorite leech Nicușor is suddenly inventing conspiracy theories that someone is buying bots to follow his TikTok, and somehow that damages his reach (and Ponta is making the same accusation). Antonescu and crowd are full in the "Călin/Simion/AUR are gonna pull us out of EU/NATO" paranoia, or the even more pathetic "they're with the Russians".

So there is no option where something improves with this election. The best chance we've got might literally be if the elections get cancelled again, and that forces US to intervene in Europe in some way. Otherwise, it doesn't matter, because they were all driven to insanity, and they'll all do something stupid if they get into office.

@ChristiJunior
Haven't payed attention to polls. I think Simion is leading, and Nicușor is second. I don't think Antonescu has a chance to get in the 2nd round.
And between Simion and Nicușor, it's hard to say what will happen. On one hand, I don't think Antonescu or Lasconi voters would all go to Nicușor, but I don't see them going for Simion either. But for anyone who genuinely believes the fear-mongering, they'll vote for Nicușor, and will give him a good shot at beating Simion in the second term.

@ChristiJunior
It is Fascist, but in a more sneaky way, because it is trying to dissolve existing national identities, and replace them with the European identity. This has been a thing for a looong time. "EU citizenship" or "citizen of EU" have been phrases used by media and various organizations for many years.

I wouldn't be surprised if the influx of immigrants is because they were pissed that people wouldn't renounce their national identities and adopt "EU citizenship", so they're trying to speed it up by breaking nations. They're pissed that the average person still sees themselves as Romanian, French, German, etc., first and foremost. So they think they can break people to the point where Romanian has no meaning to them, and people only say "yeah, I'm European".

And I think it worked for Brits to some extent, to where a good portion of the country think anyone and anything is British. They probably didn't leave EU fast enough.