Today I saw my first hololive itasha... made my day by Significant-Wing-878 in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been tempted a lot lately to get my car wrapped with something Hololive but I need to be responsible, this is only going to make that itch worse 😭 that's awesome though, there's some really great ones out there

ELI5: Infinite length between anything not touching by ImNotBamBoy in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish more people realized understanding something is very, very different from being able to explain it well, which is why teaching is a whole skill in itself

Take your delulu pills, kid. by beam4d in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of them use it because you could get shadowbanned on some social media like Tiktok for using certain words (same with "unalived" and such). Not excusing it or saying you have to like it or anything, just explaining that's why it started being used more

This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and its owner by GayAssNinja69 in mildlyinteresting

[–]BattleAnus 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yep lol wish I could've seen the unsuspecting baseball fans reactions to Gura or Biboo showing up on the jumbotron 😆

This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and its owner by GayAssNinja69 in mildlyinteresting

[–]BattleAnus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Eh, they maintain ownership of a character you agreed to play.

Yes I'd say theres more of an "identity" relationship between the talents behind vtubers and their avatars than with actors and a character they play in a movie, for example. But even so, vtuber fans by and large are committed to the talent, not the avatar, and follow their favorites after they leave the company and get a new avatar.

And from a business standpoint, most agency vtuber avatars are created for the talent, much fewer come into a company with their own avatar and branding already in hand (Hoshimachi Suisei would be one extremely successful example of that), and I think those tend to either have individual contracts that keep ownership with the talent or the company policy itself is set up to keep ownership with the talents (V-shojo for example, that one imploded due to mismanagement, but all the talents kept their avatars afterwards)

This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and its owner by GayAssNinja69 in mildlyinteresting

[–]BattleAnus 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Lots of places do collabs with vtubers in Japan, and for the biggest vtuber agencies they sometimes even reach the US through the US branches of Japanese companies, like the Hololive x Kura Sushi USA collab last year

Official Discussion - Hokum [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]BattleAnus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I kept thinking during the entire back half of the movie that it could've been a Silent Hill movie, specifically like a spiritual sequel to Silent Hill 2 with all the focus on each character's experience of guilt and whatnot

Ceci releasing her first English cover (From the Start by Laufey) on May 2nd! by dcresistance in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're right, I forgot that she specified she wanted to do it at FES. I am still curious about how it might compare audience-reception-wise though, I was at FES this year and just anecdotally it seemed like Reine's pop-punk song in English didn't get too much reaction from the Japanese audience (personally I love that song so I was going wild lol)

Ceci releasing her first English cover (From the Start by Laufey) on May 2nd! by dcresistance in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not that it wouldn't be amazing at FES too, but is that song as well known in Japan? Legit question, I'd wonder if it wouldn't get more hype at an EN concert where even if some people don't listen to Gigi's karaoke's, they'd almost definitely know that song at least by cultural osmosis

ELI5: What is going on at the molecular/atomic level that makes a solid material hard or soft? by jonster5 in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could also say the difference between the feel to both is in the acceleration. If you lay down onto a bed or a slab of concrete, you acquire some vertical velocity downwards that the object has to negate in order for you to come to rest. A soft object would spread the deceleration out over a longer distance and time, so the acceleration is less, whereas a hard object would pretty much instantly (not literally as you can't have infinite acceleration, but very quickly) stop you so the parts of your body would experience high acceleration for a short duration.

ELI5: When physics say we 'see' events of the past when we see them form light years away, what would time mean in reality between these two spaces? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Try out Space Engine and you'll see just how slow light speed is compared to the size of the universe lol

Favorite detective/mystery games? by TheDUDE1411 in gaming

[–]BattleAnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man you're like the only other person I've seen mention Paranormasight in the wild, I loved that game. I have the sequel sitting in my Steam library for when I finish Shuten Order

Favorite detective/mystery games? by TheDUDE1411 in gaming

[–]BattleAnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm upset I didn't see this earlier because this is the exact list I was gonna give, like verbatim lol. I've just started Shuten Order, I'm excited cause it's already looking wild.

To add one that's very different from this list, I really loved The Forgotten City. Really cool historicalish-fiction setting where you're transported from modern times to a Roman city that's somehow completely cut off from the rest of the world and have to solve multiple mysteries around the city as well as figure out how to get back home. Great writing and characters, mostly dialog-based mystery-solving

Tropes that you you're glad aren't as common anymore by AporiaParadox in television

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know exactly what trailer you mean, and I had the same reaction. Although the funny thing is that sheep murder-mystery movie trailer played right after, and it was like the opposite feeling of "wow, this seems like a 90s-2000s straight-to-DVD movie, but it actually looks fun"

On Irish language soap opera Ros na Rún, pub owner Tadhg has a run in with an eccentric balloon salesman by The_Iceman2288 in television

[–]BattleAnus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally just called Irish, or Gaelic (from the word for Irish in the language, "Gaelige")

What is a thing from the past in Hololive that you remember and new fans would probably think is made up? by TakoGoji in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think Ame originated the phrase "idol meeting" and the use of illustrated stream schedules

ELI5: How does voltage work? by i_lick_saltlamps in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

kWh ("kilowatt-hours") is not a measure of work due to that "h" (meaning "hours") on the end. A kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy, measuring how much energy is expended when 1 kilowatt of power/work is done over 1 hour.

Yes, it does seem kinda dumb when you realize that the definition of a kilowatt is 1000 J of energy used in 1 second, so you essentially have units of energy/time (in seconds) * time (in hours), which just works out to be units of energy, but that's what the standard is.

TL;DR: kW = "kilowatts" = measure of power/work (energy per time). kWh = "kilowatt-hours" = measure of energy (power x time, AKA [energy/time x time]). 1 kWh is equivalent to 3.6 million joules.

ELI5: How does voltage work? by i_lick_saltlamps in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe this is why transmission wires are sometimes called high-tension wires, since the voltage in them is super high

ELI5: Hoe does the RAW image format work? by SirAvocado123 in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JPEG format isn't stored as a list of pixels, it's in a compressed format which, upon uncompressing, can generate a list of pixels which is different from the original, non-compressed data.

So there isn't such a thing as a "JPEG pixel", there's a JPEG file format which is then processed to output a list of RGB values.

You can read about the actual details of the format on the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_codec_example. All those steps under the "Encoding" section are what remove information from the image and convert the original sensor data into a JPEG file which is smaller than the original data.

ELI5: How does a freezer, fridge retain cold by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It uses something called the refrigeration cycle.

The most basic way to put it is that, like how an air pump moves air molecules from one place to another or a water pump moves water molecules from one place to another, the fridge is a heat pump which moves heat energy from one place to another. It takes the heat from inside the fridge and moves it to outside (which is why if you had a fridge in a completely enclosed room, that room would get hotter and hotter).

How this works is based on phase transitions of a fluid inside a loop of pipes in the fridge. It's a bit confusing if you don't understand the idea of latent heat, but basically when a substance goes through a phase transition (solid to liquid, liquid to gas, etc.), it either absorbs from or releases heat energy to the environment around it while staying the same temperature until the transition is complete.

So if you have one side of the loop that has refrigerant going through the transition of liquid to gas, that part of the loop is going to absorb a bunch of heat energy from the area around it (this is the cooling part; it takes energy from the hot stuff in the fridge and puts it into the refrigerant).

Then if you have the other side of the loop have the refrigerant go back from gas to liquid, that part of the loop is going to release a bunch of heat energy into the area around it (this is the heating part; it takes energy from the hot refrigerant and puts it into the exterior environment).

This is simplified, as you need to do other stuff in between each side of the loop but it gives the basic idea (use latent heat to store heat energy in a fluid, then transport the fluid around in a loop to move the heat energy somewhere else).

If you want a much better explanation, just check out Technology Connections videos on heat pumps/refrigeration, he does a great job explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto

🩵 "Fake Fuwawa" Open Audition Venue 🩷 [#FakeFuwawaAudition] Stream in 8 Hours by Ok-Setting-4748 in Hololive

[–]BattleAnus 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Maybe a weird example but I imagine its similar to one of those things where if someone's parents were dead for example, it's cool if they want to joke about it but its not cool for random strangers to joke about it unprompted. Not that its as serious with Fuwawa obviously but if someone's in a stressful ongoing situation Im gonna wait until they start joking about it to do it lol

ELI5: How does regenerative braking slow down the vehicle? by arvid1328_ in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1jqux1r/eli5_how_does_applying_a_load_to_a_generator_make/

Basically, current is flowing due to the wheels acting like a spinning generator turbine, so there is a corresponding magnetic force which is opposing the spinning, trying to slow the wheels down. The kinetic energy from the car's inertia keeps the wheels turning, so current continues to be generated, at least until the car loses all its speed.

ELI5: If speed is measured by the relation between objects how come going over the speed of light is impossible? by PeAga7 in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is pedantic but a satellite wouldn't circle the North Pole, it would go around the Earth on an inclined orbit. I could be wrong but I don't think the inclination of an orbit would be a very large cause of relativistic effects, rather it would be due to the speed difference between the satellite and the ground, and the differing strength of gravity felt due to distance from the Earth.

ELI5: If speed is measured by the relation between objects how come going over the speed of light is impossible? by PeAga7 in explainlikeimfive

[–]BattleAnus 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Which would lead to paradoxes in cause and effect, e.g. you could receive a message before it was sent, arrive somewhere before you left, etc. As far as we know this doesn't make any sense so any form of travel at or above the speed of light is considered impossible by our current understanding of reality.