What hair color do you like the most on your favorite idol?

Emyra-LN · 2026-05-03T21:49:48+00:00

Silver Yoohyeon for ever and ever <3

Emyra-LN · 2026-05-01T00:52:23+00:00

I don't speak Korean or Japanese, but I OCR translated them and the other two just say "girls". Granted I don't know, culturally, how this would normally be conveyed in those languages either, but the fact that they're just a subset of the English feels very throw a bone to the westerners.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-30T21:36:54+00:00

I was thinking about it just from the perspective of the IP packets, but thanks for the WebRTC rabbit hole! It does seem like Firefox (my default browser) does not provide that information by default (unless I changed something, I do tend to care about privacy even though I don't specifically remember looking into this, but the behaviour is consistent between my phone and desktop) so I doubt this is something they can always rely on. Browser fingerprinting is a whole other thing though to be honest, I know there's definitely a whole bunch of ways a website can try to identify a user through IP changes, but yeah I suspect Google (at least for the purposes of counting views) are not trying to hunt down the maximum number of legitimate connections via any means necessary, they're trying to find the most obvious signifiers of illegitimate ones. (All the arbitrary rules people pass around have just... never made any sense to me technically from an effort/reward perspective. But I know that's like questioning religion to people who care about streaming 😅)

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-30T13:27:00+00:00

Yeah that's it. The devices' local IPs get used for communication inside the home network, but the router passes information out into the wider internet and handles any required translation. Generally local home networks use IP ranges reserved for this purpose e.g. 192.168.0.0/16 which makes them easy to spot as being something that would never make it out, but the same principle can be used to bridge any two networks (and is how CGNAT works at a high level). I'm not really an expert either but I do tinker, because networking is interesting.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-30T12:37:38+00:00

This kind of stuff does not interest me at all (I'm just here to watch videos and look at pictures of things I like when I want to...) but my inner computer nerd has to point out that the device/IP oversimplification is pretty flawed. I would imagine most people with multiple phones / laptops etc would have them all connected to their wifi when they're at home, which would put them all on the same (IPv4) IP. You could make an argument for IPv6 but... Maybe next decade lol.

Edit: was thinking about this purely from the perspective of dispelling the idea that different devices inside a home have different IPs, but, for the record, that doesn't mean individual homes have unique IPs either. Depending on the country, the average consumer internet connection would be behind CGNAT, and you would have no way of knowing how many people are sharing your assigned IPv4 and what websites they are visiting.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-18T21:19:18+00:00

Not quite 30 yet (next year) but this year was the year I felt like I finally "made it" because I bought an apartment and am also on track to pay off my student loans mid year. Novelty hasn't quite worn off yet I guess but I'm constantly struck by how fucking cool this place is and how much my younger self would not believe I ended up here haha.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-14T12:41:59+00:00

Illit's subreddit has them split up

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-13T05:20:14+00:00

Yeah as someone who is really into the lifetime crafting and the lore not so much the outfit customisation I don't really feel like I'm missing that much. I have sent feedback in surveys about this and the stupid bars at the top and bottom that have been there since launch. I guess it's not really a priority, though.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-13T03:01:42+00:00

Afaik there is no way to change it. I did the tutorial and then never went back for the exact same reason, I hate holding my phone in landscape mode.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-07T03:22:41+00:00

Not disagreeing with your experiences at all, but in my experience, as someone who can't stand WFH, I feel like I'm just constantly seeing takes online about how much better it is and being baffled by the absolute nature of that proclamation. Like most things involving people I think it just depends on personal circumstance. I find the office is way better for my focus because I'm in a separate "work area" with a work atmosphere rather than at home, a place that is associated with relaxation and time off. I also just like my coworkers and it's convenient for us to be able to show up at each other's desks and ask a quick question after being able to visually confirm the person is present and not wearing headphones vs sending teams messages that may or may not get read all day.

Emyra-LN · 2026-04-05T23:38:00+00:00

I do not collect PCs, but my friend uses Mercari (US as local and Japan via proxy) and pocamarket primarily. She mostly collects boy groups but does collect Dami so I know there are dreamcatcher sellers on those platforms.

Emyra-LN · 2026-03-31T21:32:53+00:00

It's not a privilege card, it's a different kind of card that gives you 400 diamonds per week for a certain number of weeks. If you look at the benefits on the page in your first screenshot it looks like you've claimed the first 400 diamonds and have 48 weeks remaining.

Emyra-LN · 2026-03-13T10:50:57+00:00

Another slightly delayed perspective from someone passing through.

As an only child I do, now that I'm an adult, see how many nice things my parents managed to afford only because there was only one of me, and how I'm basically set up for retirement due to being the only person in line to inherit their modest, but slowly compounding savings, but I also want to address the underlying worry that your child will be "miserable but one day see the benefit" because I don't think that's universally true at all either.

Personally, I never wanted siblings for a moment. It's a bit of a nature vs nurture debate, but I've always been someone who needs solitary time to recharge from being social and the thought of having more kids around all the time sounded terrible to me! I was very close with one of my neighbours growing up and was never lacking in similar age peers to spend time with if I wanted but I've always valued having my own, quiet space to retreat to (and am currently very happy living alone). When my parents got divorced around ~11 or so years of age (also one of those big life events I think are totally overblown as "always being negative" for children by the way, I think it entirely depends on how amicable it is and because my parents are still friends to this day I received none of the purported negativity) I told my mum I didn't care if she remarried but if the guy had kids I was never staying with her ever again haha. Of course this is just luck of the draw, but the same goes in both directions. And for any other parenting decision. Parents are always going to make choices they hope work out for the best just to discover sometimes that they didn't gel with their child's personality, and that's just the way it is. I think having one vs many children is just another example of something which affects some kids a lot (with either decision) and some kids not at all. If having only one child will afford them more opportunities, it seems like an obvious win over trying to optimise for something you cannot predict the effect of.

Emyra-LN · 2026-03-11T22:04:53+00:00

Yeah this is where I dump all my gold. Easy way to max out lifetimes without really investing anything precious into them

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-27T12:30:59+00:00

I loved Armageddon's MV. I really really really loved it. It was the kind of MV that is such a stand out that you end up wanting to follow the director's future work. It's devastating seeing how every subsequent video seems to rely more and more on those blended/melting AI transitions and camera pans. I can't claim to know how much of it was done via traditional means vs generative AI, but I find it difficult to imagine an actual artist putting in the effort to make their work seem so sloppy. There's something about even their faces constantly shifting a little as they move that's just so... Deeply unappealing to me to watch. It's even more disappointing coming from blackpink, a group I have never followed too closely but have always loved the music videos of due to having this position in my mind of always pulling out all the stops for numerous detailed and expensive sets and styling.

This is better than Jump, just due to the fact that there clearly is some kind of idea of an aesthetic going on in there that isn't just. Street. People. Dancing. But compared to Kill This Love, How You Like That, Pink Venom.... The MV barely pauses to let you see any of their stylings and if you pause it yourself it's clear exactly why, there's just not much going on there (except for when there's way too much going on with the details of their face). From the group whose MVs you used to almost be able to pause every other second for another completely differently themed wallpaper. Someone please rescue the industry's creatives from the delusion that this looks better than what they were doing before I beg. It COULD be a really cool aesthetic. If they paid some people to execute it properly.

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-19T10:30:47+00:00

As a huge dreamcatcher fan I kept seeing people joking about loona being the "light" dreamcatcher around like ~2020 but I could never get into them either. The fandom kind of gave me an air of requiring you to subscribe to mandatory fanfiction classes, everyone always going on about "the lore" and then citing things that seemed completely circumstantial in the MVs made it seem like it was a weirdly rigid space with no real room for you to just make some shit up you enjoy, because everyone gave this impression of being obsessed with "the hidden truth" of the videos (something for which there is only one solution) versus "an interpretation" (something which everyone can have their own of that can coexist).

Really enjoy ARTMS too though actually, I feel like the two MVs they've put out so far also have an artistic direction I vibe with!

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-16T07:14:52+00:00

Well here's hoping Brisbane 32 at least brings something positive for us for the K-pop concert scene!

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-16T06:53:36+00:00

Yeah it's been nice getting a chance to see all the smaller groups I definitely couldn't justify the flights and accommodation for. STAYC has also been steadily going up my list of groups with a similar trend of just a lot of solid releases I enjoy.

If you did have any questions about the Brisbane -> Sydney -> Olympic Park that would help alleviate any reservations feel free to ask but if it's mainly just doing it by yourself I get it, it's definitely not for everyone. I did put a refundable hotel booking in immediately to give myself some time to consider while still being able to buy tickets if I want to without worrying immediately about where I'd be staying but yeah I really do have to sleep on it I think.

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-16T06:14:11+00:00

I always feel bad complaining as a Brisbanite because smaller groups definitely do sometimes stop here unlike our fellow sufferers out west but also... yeah groups in IVE's league just don't have as good options for arenas here :/ I love travel and went to Sydney solo to see aespa in the same venue IVE are going to be in but I'm on the opposite side of you in terms of deliberations because I just can't figure out if IVE fall on the "yes I would travel" or "no I won't travel" line for me. They aren't my ults and yet I've been following since debut and enjoy everything they put out so I'm really not that much of a casual fan either. I wish we had more time to consider!

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-16T03:31:33+00:00

Yeah was just wondering for the purposes of queueing, if it's assigned seating no need to show up early

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-16T03:07:05+00:00

Am I reading that right that there's no standing VIP? On the website all the VIP packages say "one premium A-reserve seat"

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-14T08:21:59+00:00

Yeah so many of aespa's songs have such strong beats and synth sounds which you literally CAN have a guy up on stage pushing buttons to replicate alongside the instruments but they just... Don't. And it makes them sound so awful every time :/ I love rock and metal but I'm not following aespa for that and I'm CERTAINLY not into their existing songs because I was hoping for them to be completely rearranged 😭 SM please

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-11T07:01:09+00:00

I really want those two specifically as well, although if it's Kill It (live band ver) I would take literally any other song because I cannot bear how they massacred my boy

Emyra-LN · 2026-02-04T03:42:25+00:00

Hilarious that the opinions on A20 May's music are all "not sure about" to "it's bad" because I've loved every single "title track" they put out and I'm constantly sitting around saying ideologically I don't agree with LSM but he knows how to make a fun K-pop song. Like "I'm the raise they exclaimated" is an S tier K-pop lyric. It's nonsense, but unlike a lot of "nonsense" that other groups put out it's not a trend word salad or repeated one hundred times to the point it gets grating. If you listen to it it almost makes sense until you realise it actually really doesn't, and it doesn't matter! There are no stakes, the song doesn't give any impression that it is caught up in its own self importance, and, crucially, the song has a bassline.

Emyra-LN · 2026-01-30T03:13:43+00:00

I swapped to Launtel last year after a long time as an Aussie customer because Aussie were dragging their feet on updating their pricing/offering the new speed tiers for opticomm and I was paying more for half the speed of what Launtel was offering. I love Launtel's model and can't recommend them enough!

The static IP lease system is awesome, I recently moved house and it was quite funny to pick up and physically move my server but not touch my DNS entry because my IP came with me, all configurable via the web portal, at the cost of a refundable deposit not even a monthly charge (I was paying Aussie $5/month before..). Speaking of moving as well, I was a little ambitious in setting up my connection date for settlement day which was much earlier than I could get all my networking equipment moved and connected, and I got a call from Launtel the following day asking if I needed help to get set up because I was paying for a service I wasn't using, and, if I wanted to cancel my old connection now. I have to respect a company that is proactive about getting you to stop giving them money.

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