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

Did Vee just say "fus-ni-ggah"?.... A slur word dragon shout was not on my bingo card today... So how's your day going?

https://youtu.be/PV7FkKbweoQ?si=R3QzJkzGGchexXw0&t=77

I present to you, the Romanian equivalent of an ahegao shirt. I actually saw a guy wearing one of these the other day. I think I would have cringed less if it actually were an anime shirt.

I decided against posting this earlier, cause I thought it was kind cringe. But I changed my mind, cause I'm a bit pissed off by EU right now, so I'm gonna rant probably.

These are the results from the first round of presidential election do-over.

The guy in the first place is the "sovereign" "far-right" candidate, that took up the mantle of the banned candidate Călin Georgescu. AUR is a newish party, with a reputation of being loud and obnoxious. Not particularly bright either. George Simion is quite a fitting leader for them.

2nd and 3rd places are the pro-EU candidates.
Nicușor Dan ran as independent, although he was given support by the USR party (who basically back stabbed their own representative and party leader, Elena Lasconi, which came in 5th). He also used to be head of USR party, but they broke up at some point, don't really know.
The party itself is considered the "progressive" one, though they're kinda viewed as anti-establishment here, and they're not as well entrenched with the Bruxelles crowed as...

Crin Antonescu is the representative for the alliance of the old guard, the establishment, the main political parties with which EU is used to deal with here: PSD, PNL, and UDMR. UDMR is a minority party, of magyars (Hungarian minority), so it's not that big, but PSD (left-wing) and PNL (center-right... supposedly) are the big guns. They're the Tories and Labour of Romanian politics. And they've been eliminated from going in the second round.

However the second round goes, it really isn't what EU would have hoped for.
But for now, my bet is that they're gonna get the worst outcome for them. You see, I skipped talking about the 4th placed guy, Victor Ponta. The guy is a joke these days, but he ran on a similar platform to the #1 guy, George Simion. Which means... in round 2, most of his voters are expected to go to Simion. If you add the votes together, that's up to 5 million votes, or 53% of the total votes...

Not only has the pro-EU side been trounced, but the "sovereign" vote has actually increased since the cancelled 2024 election, when this camp had "only" 3.4 million votes.

Back in December, the pro-EU side still had a reasonable shot at banding together, uniting their forces and winning the 2nd round fair and square. Now they are severely fucked.

They can try to cancel these elections again... there's been a bit of mass media prodding to see how people would react to it. But there's nothing they can reasonably do that won't backfire immensely.

Right now, they may very well try to outright tamper with ballots and steal the election in the 2nd round. It has happened before, and even USR has been a part before of covering up some shitty business at local election level. But with this result, and with an even more disproportionate support of Simion in our diaspora (where they voted 60% in favor of him), it would be a figurative bloodbath if anyone even smells fraud.

This will be two interesting weeks for us.

Hassan Piker makes me want that Israel nukes and conquers the entire Middle East. I know it won't happen, but every second I hear him talk, it makes me want it more and more.

Monday...

What are the chances we get Minecraft 2 before GTA 6?

I'm not the biggest fan of New Vegas, but this is actually a fascinating mod build for the game. If I ever do a new run of it, I might actually consider it. It looks nice and, ironically, fresh.

Demaking Fallout New Vegas with Mods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdrabCciQM

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.

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

You wouldn't steal an Amulet of Kings

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.

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.