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

Might have to wait for the founding of Cover EU :P

A (slightly long) highlight:

Anime Herald: You’ve had a chance to receive some feedback from the fans. What have you learned that might change how COVER Corp. operates going forward?

Max Kim: We hear from fans all the time, over the years. If there’s one thing we’d want to enhance, it would be for users in the West to have better access to our merch and content. That’s one of the reasons I’m here. We have our own merchandising, as well as merchandise that we create via licensing. Watching the stream is one thing, but also being able to buy their goods.

In Japan we call it “Oshikatsu.” Supporting the talents that you love, not just by watching online, but participating in various activities. It’s very difficult to do that in the West. The shipping fees are high. It takes time. It’s difficult for fans to get their hands on the official goods.

That’s why some of the collaborations here in America were successful. We could provide the licensed merch for the fans, so they could wear it to the anime conventions and show their support. We want to make it happen more frequently so it’s easier for them to get their hands on it.

Anime Herald: That sounds a bit like Japanese idols. You support your favorites by buying the merch, or the chekis.

Max Kim: Yes.

Anime Herald: I can imagine why that would be a tricky culture to recreate in the US.

Max Kim: At the same time, here in the US, sports fans buy their merch. You watch them on TV. It’s not just about watching. I don’t think it’s as foreign as idol culture. It’s just physically difficult right now.

Anime Herald: In America, with rock bands, you buy the tee shirt, you buy the album, you go to the concert.

Max Kim: Yes.

I hope you’re all ready for Breaking Dimensions the breakfast cereal

I didn’t really want to dump this in as its own link and I know some people only browse here every few days, so you might also like Polygon: I went to a Hololive concert and now I’m convinced VTubers can do anything

I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I’d argue that that’s missing a core part of what kbin is/was – and by extension what Mbin is – which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for “retweet”) make sense to integrate imo.

Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it’s a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.

Mbin has a specific and different meaning for the term “post” as used in the OP, so it’s one place where translating from lemmy or other “generic internet forum” jargon doesn’t work. It’s for microblog posts associated with a magazine that are independent of threads in that magazine.

E.g.: https://fedia.io/m/firefox/microblog has “posts” in Mbin terminology – though if I had to guess I think most Mbin users will use the qualified “microblog post” or similar if they actually mean to reference the Mbin meaning of the term.

The most interesting Q+A pair for me personally:

hololive DEV_IS was introduced in 2023 as a new branch that focuses on music. What do you see as the driving force of hololive DEV_IS and ReGloss? How would you describe them to new viewers?

hololive DEV_IS is not a group focused solely on music, but rather a group that aims to explore new frontiers. We hope fans will support their journey as they take on these new challenges. Previously, hololive’s music efforts have centered around solo artists like Hoshimachi Suisei and Mori Calliope. With ReGLOSS, we plan to expand into a new dimension by focusing on music as a unit.

Here’s the “sentence” created with 33,138 cup noodles image (from Botan’s Xitter)

For Chapter 1 of “ENigmatic Recollection,” an original realm was crafted within a sandbox game medium. The world takes place in Minecraft. You can watch as this new tale unfolds, shaped by the choices and actions of them, the 19 hololive English members! The details of the overarching “story” will evolve according to their decisions.

The members of hololive English will be role-playing as characters from the world of the same name, and they don’t really know what their characters’ backstories are. Let’s find out together as they play more.

So… it’s minecraft RP with supporting animations etc?

What’s up with the android beef? I hadn’t heard about that one 😅

(it did not go well https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/hololive-vtubers-doxxed-after-disastrous-mobile-app-launch-2873664/ )

Now, being part of hololive with my Rosarians [The Bloodflame Kingdom] by my side, gaming feels like a much more enjoyable experience. I still don’t consider myself “a gamer,” but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Interesting how her streams are basically [always one out of] singing, games, or superchat readings, but she still doesn’t take the label.

Fair point, but I guess I would hope that the person being paid to write the copy would check it, since getting that right seems like it’s part of their job description ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or 53.6 degrees Fahrenheit if you believe whoever wrote the page for Nissan lmao. I guess they just typed it into a converter with no context, and the converter spat out an answer amounting to “if your thermometer says it’s 12 degrees C, that would be 53.6 degrees F”… but without that context.

Frothing at the mouth, what a way to go lol

TIL lemmy and mbin treat ~text~ differently

Something to look forward to!!

I flip between Nerissa and Ame depending on a couple of 50-50 questions

Myth

• Calli is actually Ame (Xitter)
• Ina is herself (Xitter)
• Kiara is actually Raora (Xitter)

Promise

• Bae probably cheated to get herself (Xitter)
• IRyS is actually Fauna (Xitter)

Advent

• Bijou is actually Shiori (Xitter)
• Nerissa is actually Bijou (Xitter)
• Shiori is actually Fauna (Xitter)

Justice

• Cecilia is actually Bae (Xitter)
• Elizabeth is herself (Xitter)
• Gigi is actually Calli (Xitter)
• Raora is actually Mumei (Xitter)

I think that’s all of EN that posted about it

Thanks for so politely and cordially sharing that information

edit: I would be even more appreciative if it were true: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rocket-league-ending-mac-and-linux-support-because-they-represent-less-than-0-3-of-active-players

Quoting their statement:

Regarding our decision to end support for macOS and Linux:

Rocket League is an evolving game, and part of that evolution is keeping our game client up to date with modern features. As part of that evolution, we’ll be updating our Windows version from 32-bit to 64-bit later this year, as well as updating to DirectX 11 from DirectX 9.

There are multiple reasons for this change, but the primary one is that there are new types of content and features we’d like to develop, but cannot support on DirectX 9. This means when we fully release DX11 on Windows, we’ll no longer support DX9 as it will be incompatible with future content.

Unfortunately, our macOS and Linux native clients depend on our DX9 implementation for their OpenGL renderer to function. When we stop supporting DX9, those clients stop working. To keep these versions functional, we would need to invest significant additional time and resources in a replacement rendering pipeline such as Metal on macOS or Vulkan/OpenGL4 on Linux. We’d also need to invest perpetual support to ensure new content and releases work as intended on those replacement pipelines.

The number of active players on macOS and Linux combined represents less than 0.3% of our active player base. Given that, we cannot justify the additional and ongoing investment in developing native clients for those platforms, especially when viable workarounds exist like Bootcamp or Wine to keep those users playing.

Fair enough! I barely use its social side since most of the games I’ve played on there are singleplayer titles - honestly didn’t even know that wasn’t there yet!