From her 2-month old 2.0 stream (I'm still playing catchup on a bunch of stuff, sue me)
> > > In September 2020, hololive production launched its first English gen, hololive Myth. Four year later, the members came together to celebrate their anniversary once more. Takanashi Kiara — alongside Mori Calliope, Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina’nis, and Amelia Watson — set the foundations for the VTuber industry to come. > > > > Anime Trending had the exclusive opportunity to interview Kiara about hololive English Myth and her love of performing. > >
Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk
> > > I saw Nerissa at a local KFP store yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be annoying and bother her and ask her to do "ara-aras" or anything. > She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” > I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “Ope? Ope? Ope?” and unbuttoning her shirt in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my meal order, and I heard her starting to sniffle like a wet cat as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen hamburgers in her hands without paying. > The orange-haired girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Entschuldigen Sie, Ma'am, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. > When she took one of the hamburgers and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to remove the top bun from each individually “to prevent any culinary infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each burger and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by complaining about "how you cant get any Culvers here" really loudly. > >
During a period of 2+ years, Cover:
- Made contractors do extra work (e.g., extra revisions), without sufficient justification (as per contract terms), without providing additional payment for that extra work.
- Had late payments, including some payments late by over 300 days (!!).
In response to the guidance received from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cover:
- Will cease their heinous criminal activity and follow the rules now.
- Has resolved late payments, with interest.
- Will attempt to rectify processes / training / etc that lead to the situation happening.
- Will check if there are any other oopsies.
- Will tell everyone they fucked up and what they've done about it.
- Will report back to the Commission.
This is from a couple weeks ago but I felt it was notable.
Second-hand commentary trickling in from artists / riggers etc on Elon Musk's blog seem to suggest that the problems didn't really seem malicious in nature, but the scale of it is still pretty nuts.
During a period of 2+ years, Cover:
- Made contractors do extra work (e.g., extra revisions), without sufficient justification (as per contract terms), without providing additional payment for that extra work.
- Had late payments, including some payments late by over 300 days (!!).
In response to the guidance received from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cover:
- Will cease their heinous criminal activity and follow the rules now.
- Has resolved late payments, with interest.
- Will attempt to rectify processes / training / etc that lead to the situation happening.
- Will check if there are any other oopsies.
- Will tell everyone they fucked up and what they've done about it.
- Will report back to the Commission.
COVER Corporation is a next-generation entertainment enterprise that shares content that is uniquely Japanese with the rest of the world—principally through hololive production.
> > > We have recently received a number of reports that our talents are being impersonated (including the spreading of false statements and misinformation) and experiencing intrusive behavior such as malicious language and behavior (including through billing functions on all platforms) on talents’ streams as well as being subject to potential abusive behavior and harassment such as slander, defamation, threats, and persistent stalking primarily on social media. > >
Usada Casino is now open! Several minigames have been added.
One step closer to YAGOO destroying the world economy via physical holo-themed degenerate casinos 😎
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.
Turbo back at it again, but now it's official
Setlist from comments:
> > > 0:00 UnAlive : Calli > 5:13 PSYCHO : Bae > 8:45 Born to be "BAU"DOL : Fuwamoco > 12:49 Souten ni Moyu : Kronii > 16:39 Pineapple : Kiara > 20:20 Moment of my life : Irys > 26:00 A New Start : Mumei > 30:04 VIOLET : Ina > 34:53 Let Me Stay Here : Fauna > 39:24 Rebellion : Advent > 43:37 ChikuTaku : Ame > 47:37 Say My Name : Nerissa > 51:15 ABOVE BELOW : Justice > >
Hand over the dough or your 40GB of secret data is toast.
Useful context from @callouscomic:
> > > Misleading headline. > > > > From a different site: > > > > > > > > with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. > > > > > > > > https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/ > >
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.
With major collaborations and sold-out concert halls slowly starting to crop up here in the U.S., hololive has been one of the spearheads of this rise in popularity.
> > > In the past couple of years, VTubing has continued to grow as an inventive and influential form of entertainment. With major collaborations and sold-out concert halls slowly starting to crop up here in the U.S., hololive has been one of the spearheads of this rise in popularity. At Anime NYC, Anime News Network spoke to Motoaki Tanigo (YAGOO), CEO of COVER Corporation, the company behind the hololive production VTuber agency, and Max Sung Yoon Kim, the head of COVER USA Sales. They were accompanied by Moeko Tamano, the head of International Business Development, and Daniar Kisaragi, the international PR team community manager, who both provided translations for the interview. Tanigo and Max Kim offered insight into how they hope to expand their presence in the United States. > >
(interview's a month old)
(Based on context, I think the pack's value was comparatively low, causing the reaction, which has been oversold slightly in the animation for comedic effect)
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
> > > MusicDrop is back with two new firsts: our first coverage centered around a song cover, and our first interview with a hololive talent. In this piece, we had the honor to catch up with Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame as she recently released her song cover of "Blackbird", a popular track from The Beatles. > > > > We recently caught up with her to discuss her personal attachment to the song, as well as future expectations on her future covers, especially as we also learn that her covers will now be also available on major streaming services. > >
FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn't realize that was something people were using this for!
That's one of the program's common usages, yeah. Among other things (like integer scaling for pixel-based games), it can be used to:
- render a game at a lower "internal" resolution and then apply one of several upscaling options to make up the difference, improving performance and hence "free FPS", and/or
- generate intermediate frames between "real" frames, which I guess you could describe as "free FPS" (but the quality of the intermediate frames will be so-so - there's lots of tests and stuff of frame generation more broadly if you're interested!)
edit: added frame generation
I've come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn't really better than not using it, it's just a tradeoff.
If you're not sensitive to input latency then that's likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it's not.
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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?
VTuber Mori Calliope discusses her second major album "PHANTOMIME," her “Suicide Squad ISEKAI" ending theme and her new dreams.
> > > This August, hololive English VTuber Mori Calliope released her second full-length major album, PHANTOMIME. Featuring songwriting from a diverse line-up of artists and producers, the album sees Mori's sound continue to evolve, pairing her distinctive vocals with hip-hop, rock, and even genres such as city pop. It also features her first true anime theme song, Go-Getters, which was used as the ending theme of the anime series “Suicide Squad ISEKAI.” Just after the album hit stores, Mori also joined the rest of the hololive English roster for the branch's second concert, Breaking Dimensions, which was held at Kings Theatre in Los Angeles on August 24th and 25th. > > > > Right around that time, JaME had the chance to do a written interview with the reaper about PHANTOMIME, the concert and where she'd like to go from here. > >
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?
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Yeah but AMD's performance claims are a coinflip of "approximately true" or "complete bullshit", so until the third-party reviews are done there are no useful performance numbers available X_X
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.
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 :(
So far I thought the change would be two 3D tiles on the 16 and 12 core products, given the last gen struggle.
Apparently that's happening too, it's just news (still unconfirmed, afaik?) from a month ago: https://www.techpowerup.com/327057/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-to-feature-3d-v-cache-on-both-ccd-chiplets
The XT I guess I can understand, but I'm kinda surprised they bothered with the T.
Are there really that many 5600-class chips that meet the 5600T spec but not the 5600X spec? It would've thought that market (consumer) confusion over naming isn't worth introducing SKUs that aren't sufficiently different enough to existing products.
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