This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.

Monday, August 14

Anime

The Full Pippa

Don't thank me.

One of the problems with staying Pippinated is that her streams disappear more frequently than any other vtuber I follow.  Fortunately there are crazy people out there archiving everything, and here it is: The Full Pippa.

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Saturday, August 05

Anime

Bau Bau Nippon


Yagoo's Home for Lost Girls strikes gold once again.

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Tuesday, July 25

Anime

Wanted, Alive Preferably

Putting this here because YouTube is dumb.


HoloAdvent.  Five new Hololive members, four channels, because the twins share a channel.

more...

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Monday, July 24

Anime

Containment Breach In Sector HL-EN-3




Hololive EN Gen 3 reveal in two days.

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Friday, November 04

Geek

Daily News Stuff 4 November 2022

Banana Edition

Top Story

  • The fifth shoe of the launch season has dropped with AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX.  (Tom's Hadware)

    The XTX has 96 compute units, up from 80 on the 6950 XT, but each compute unit has twice as many shaders as before, so the raw compute power has increase by 2.4x.

    But not everything has increased by the same amount, and AMD estimates real-world performance will improve by 50% to 70%.  This is similar to what we saw when Nvidia did the same trick moving from the 2080 to 3080.

    Performance per watt is also up by 50%, so power requirements have only increased very slightly - 355W vs. 450W for the RTX 4090.

    The RX 7900 XTX with 24GB of RAM is priced at $999, and the RX 7900 XT with 20GB RAM is $899.  Might as well just go for the faster card with that little price difference.


Tech News

  • Why are AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs and motherboards so expensive?  (Tom's Hardware)

    Because they cost a lot of money.  And because AMD wants to make a profit, where it looks like Intel is eating a loss on some of their desktop parts.


  • Let a thousand arbitration demands bloom: I fought the PayPal and I won.  (Singal Minded)

    The trick - same as with Patreon - is that PayPal's user agreement forces you to accept arbitration and not take them to court, but PayPal agrees to cover all costs of arbitration.

    So just do exactly what they tell you to do, and demand that arbitration.


  • The Asus ProArt PA32DC is a professional 4K OLED monitor.  (Tom's Hardware)

    That covers 111% of the DCI-P3 colour space.

    I have a new laptop with an OLED screen, but it's still sitting in a box.  I need to do something about that.


  • They remade Bee and Puppycat.

    It's worse.


Disclaimer: Bah.

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Saturday, September 24

Anime

That Time A Slime Was Reincarnated

Possibly the best anime of last year, now that I'm catching up, at least in terms of art and animation, music (starting and ending themes and incidental music), directing, and voice acting, is Mushoku Tensei.

The story, on the other hand, is a mess.

As for the main character, well, see the title of this post.  It's still worth watching if you can get past that while he grows out of it.  Slowly.

A second season has been announced for next year.  Which is a bit confusing because the first season was split in half, so there is both a part 2 and a season 2.


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Saturday, August 27

Anime

Pixy Is Currently Watching...

The Saga of Tanya the Evil.

It's been on my list for ages, and so far it looks like a damn good choice to break my anime dry spell.

Watching on Crunchyroll because AnimeLab got taken over by Funimation and we all know what happened to Funimation.

AnimeLab was much better than Crunchyroll.

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Monday, March 07

Anime

Someone Get Tenchi On The Phone, Like, Right Now


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Sunday, March 06

Anime

Frequently Asked Vtuber Question


You keep mentioning and linking this Hololive and related stuff. I'm out of the loop. What is that, and what's the background on it?
Some background from my personal perspective might help. I spend long hours alone at home at my desk, sometimes late at night, and I find that having something playing on the second monitor can help prevent me from getting even more distracted and wasting time on Twitter or wherever.

For a few years I was a dedicated listener to a long list of podcasts, including networks like This Week in Tech and The Incomparable. But as we moved into 2020 a lot of the stuff I was listening to on ostensibly tech or geek culture topics was becoming unpleasantly political, and by "unpleasantly political" I mean batshit crazy communism. The same stuff that had wrecked Twitter by 2018.

But around that time, this surfaced in my recommendations on YouTube, the only time Google has gotten anything right since about 2013.



It's only a 20 second clip but it was enough to make me sayWhat the heck?and take a closer look. And then I found there's no escaping the rabbit hole.

This is Hololive:



Yes, there's a lot of them. (That's seven videos edited together by a fan, which explains why some of the transitions aren't perfect.)

Basically Hololive is a 24/7 international all-girl improv comedy channel. Unwoke, unpolitically correct, irreverent and chaotic. They even have their own Bugs Bunny character - you see her for a couple of seconds in that video, her name is Usada Pekora and she has 1.8 million YouTube subscribers.

They sing, they dance - they have live concerts using full motion tracking and 3D models, they draw - at least two are successful commercial artists, they play an awful lot of Minecraft, and they don't take any shit from anyone.



Hololive's own background is also interesting. Parent company Cover Corp was working on a new AR device, that replaced expensive motion tracking with a regular iPhone and clever software, but they weren't having a lot of success breaking into the market.

Then in 2017 two Japanese girls fresh out of high school approached them and said what they needed was their own virtual spokeswoman. One of them is now Tokino Sora with 900,000 subscribers, and the other is referred to as A-chan, and is a senior manager overseeing activity across the entire company.



The pivot was spectacularly successful, and Hololive is basically a money factory. Their smallest channel - and they have dozens - has close to 300,000 subscribers, and the largest is approaching 4 million.

I think a lot of people are sick of hypocritical woke crap and are looking for entertainers who will simply tell it like it is. The 2D characters they use and the stage names (and a very strict corporate policy protecting their privacy) give them enough distance that they don't need to maintain a pretense in their opinions.

They don't get explicitly political but in this benighted age that itself is a profound political statement.

And beyond the official content - and there's so much of that that it's impossible to watch it all - there's an absolute avalanche of fan content, from cute video clips:



To entire virtual worlds:



So forget Hollywood, forget Netflix, forget podcasts, I really don't care anymore. I'll be over here in the corner juggling hedgehogs.

Also, Hololive is the main reason I bothered to get back on Twitter. They post their stream announcements there.

This is Gawr Gura of Hololive EN, the most successful virtual YouTube of all time:



Okay, yeah, she's a bit of a ditz on some things. But she can maintain both sides of a conversation for four hours at a time, every day, without ever repeating herself, and for the most part while doing three other things at the same time, and that's a rare talent.

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Saturday, February 05

Anime

Speaking Of Earth-Shattering Kabooms

Doesn't include Pekora, and Non isn't listed in this opening collab, but Phase Connect (home of best rabbit Pipkin Pippa) and Prism Project (home of best rabbit Non Anon) is teaming up with Tsunderia (which I haven't watched) to build a cross-company Minecraft server.



The three members from Prism are the ones I watch the most and also the least chaotic.  And then from Phase Connect there's Pippa.  Not sure if Iku, Meno, and Pina combined can balance her out.

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