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

I'm slowly recovering from a massive headache. Or maybe migraine? I never properly looked up what the difference is. In any case, this one felt like the toothache equivalent of a head pain. I'm used to headaches, unfortunately, but fuck this one was so bad.

@Natanox I think I'd be still using Windows if I hadn't discovered KDE.

@gamingonlinux Joke's on you, I can install Windows on a Steam Deck.

Had a look at the Borderlands 4 announcement... like a week later after it happened I guess. I'm late on news, whatever.
In any case... no.
That's my answer to BL4. No.

Oblivion 2: Cyrodiilian Boogaloo

@MuhSocialJustice
I wasn't that optimistic. I just wanted 90% nuclear energy.

You wouldn't steal an Amulet of Kings

@Mr_NutterButter @beardalaxy
>do you feel like parents are more retarded nowadays and what they were in the past
Yes.

I wasn't even an adult yet when I realized children shouldn't get access to internet connected devices, but now I see adults all around me giving tablets and smartphones to children barely able to read.

>our parents were retarded about the internet but they still told us valuable information like don't give out personal information and don't meet strangers online
Mine didn't. I think I've learned every possible life lesson from TV and entertainment media, back when it was actually decent. But your point still stands that the generations that were clueless about the internet still gave out better advice than the generations that understand or grew up with the internet.

@kaia Is this some leftover from Covid? I could see this sign making sense if this was some specialist hospital, that didn't deal with infectious diseases, and they wanted to keep their patients safe from the virus.

@mischievoustomato
Why the fuck do you put "data scientist" in your bio if you're like this! She's not even ashamed of being bad! What the fucking hell...

@beardalaxy Want to hear something even more cursed: MundaneMatt was one of the first vtubers.

Cursed idea: Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) Vtuber.

Todd Howard is not real. He can't make it just work.

Gordon Freeman is not real. He can't trigger the resonance cascade.

Wait... you're telling me it took only 33 people to make a AAA level, extremely popular and visually stunning game?
What happened to the "games are so difficult to make these days, and it takes such massive teams of devs, of course we need to increase the price"?...

I always said that was bullshit, but it is nice to see it being proven to this extent.

Karen is not real. She can't talk to your manager.

@icedquinn
Make Gamebryo Games Great Again

@BasedLunatic
Don't know, just felt like the logical thing to do.

@beardalaxy
For some of them, the disagreement lies in the permission system.

My bet for real reasons:
1) Ame and Fauna mostly wanted more freedom. They weren't great fits for the idol thing either. Even if I fully trust what they all say, that they weren't forced into singing, peer pressure is a real thing. If everyone around you has a good to great voice, and participate in shows and whatnot, you begin to feel out of place if you don't do any of it. And then if you don't have the talent, even if you want to fit in and release songs and covers, it takes you far more work to record a single thing, than someone else who breezes through the recording process because they can actually hit notes.
So Ame and Fauna were indeed not comfortable with Cover focusing on idol activities, even if it's not a mandatory requirement as they insist.
But what they both cared about most was probably freedom to stream whatever, whenever, however.
Going back to my previous example, how does: "I left because *I* wanted more freedom" sound? Imagine a pissed off fan: "the other girls are okay with the freedom they get, why do YOU want/deserve MORE freedom?!". So you avoid all that pressure on the talent by adding "management" there.

2) Mumei left because her health issue stressed her out. Nothing else really. Remember, over a year ago, when the Selen thing hit, she was praising Cover and management for giving her the space and freedom she needed to handle her things (likely school). She even said back then, that she would have outright left if she couldn't take time off for herself.
But now she's saying "disagreement with management", while at the same time saying that she's been thinking about graduating for well over a year, presumably because said "disagreements". So which is it? Was management a problem, and she had disagreements with it, or was management flexible and good with her? Seems like a contradiction.
The idol concern doesn't apply to her one bit. She had a great voice, great talent, she sang all the time, and had so many covers lined up at graduation, that she still has one that didn't get finished in time, and will get released later on. She was a good fit for the idol life.

3) This is the part that might piss someone off.
Gura simply didn't want the attention anymore. "Don't tell me everyone around is waiting". She couldn't handle the stress of being #1. If she had only a fraction of the audience, if she were more comparable to Ina in how much attention she got, she might have stuck around for longer.
Two weeks ago I was sure she'd come back as Senzawa. After the song, and some of the other things she's said recently, I'm no longer convinced she'll come back at all. Even from some of the graduation collabs, it just doesn't look like her heart was into it anymore.
The idol reason doesn't apply to her either. Great voice. Ash Again is a masterpiece. Her problem wasn't being an idol, it was the stress and anxiety behind the attention of being #1 vtuber idol.
Going back to the example, imagine: "I'm leaving because I don't want to be your oshi anymore"... unicorns have gone insane over less.

The Japan thing doesn't apply to any of them. If Cover asked them to move to JP, why didn't Kiara go back to JP? She's one of the more dedicated to the whole idol song and dance routine. She knows the language. She's lived there before. She could have easily complied with the requirement, yet she's still in Australia.
There's plenty who could have easily moved to JP if needed. They don't because it is not needed. There's no truth to this rumor.
There is some truth to the idol theory, but it can only explain 2 out of 4 EN departures.

As for them leaving in a short amount of time, considering they seem to have all have been discussing this between them for a while, they were basically bound to leave together. They were all part of each other's support network. Take Gura for example. After Ame left, and most of SNOT left, it was bound that Gura would leave, cause she didn't have enough people to anchor her to the company. Fauna left cause she knew Gura and Mumei wanted to leave. It was just a matter of who had the courage to fire the first shot.
Ame might have been the only one that made the decision independent of what everyone else was doing.