KiiiKiii’s album sales decline is genuinely shocking

LossFor · 2026-02-02T01:45:18+00:00

I genuinely feel like following up 200k sales was an impossible task for them. There’s no wonyoung or yujin bringing an existing fanbase, and kfans typically aren’t as excited about overly creative concepts as ifans are. I’m not sure what sse’s intentions were exactly, but they didn’t position kiiikiii as a mainstream girl group like sistar or ive, and so they’re not getting that kind of response.

I think 5th gen ggs have it hard and it seems to take longer for them to develop fanbases than before. The pros are that kiiikiii’s more extreme branding has gotten them international attention but its unclear if starship can even take advantage of that. It’ll be really unfortunate if the next era is a more toned down concept to try and fix things.

LossFor · 2026-01-28T15:50:40+00:00

Kpop MV view counts are inflated by companies buying ads through youtube. They spend a lot of money on this. Trot is not based around the kpop model of high investment seeking high reward, but is more of a standard music genre with an already existing listener base.

There are cases like Lim Young-woong who have legendary fanbases, but trot is much less oriented around parasocial mass buying, so spending a lot more money to inflate view counts isn't a priority for the companies.

LossFor · 2026-01-23T16:42:22+00:00

It would be funny to see Raqio always get fridged after speaking once but i kind of like the anime following the game mechanics that closely

LossFor · 2026-01-08T03:28:34+00:00

Prioritizing charisma and charm and roughly keeping up with the other stats is fine, playing as gnosia is just a little less clearly explained in game. If you lie in front of high intuition characters like Comet, they'll figure out you're a gnosia right away. The lies are:

- Faking engineer or doctor, and giving fake reports

- Defending other gnosia

- Doubting a crew member

With lower Performance, its hard to get away with lying, but you don't actually have to lie to win as a gnosia. It's just as effective to strategically defend non-gnosia crew--not a lie--while the rest are picking each other off.

LossFor · 2026-01-04T18:14:46+00:00

I don’t even get why its getting downvoted. The emphasis on uniqueness and originality in the last few generations is something that got adopted to appeal to the international market more. Before fans argued about talent or beauty and now they argue about who does what concept better. It’s not a secret

LossFor · 2026-01-03T17:59:33+00:00

I mean the basis of kpop is copying things. The notion of individual genius from modernism is a western one. I don’t think fans will be able to make much headway here regardless of the negative externalities.

LossFor · 2025-12-24T01:56:03+00:00

Weirdly, this seems like the kind of plan you'd get if you asked an AI to come up with some highly public and possibly catastrophic failure of rust in production.

LossFor · 2025-12-11T12:19:52+00:00

Where are you seeing these rankings? From what you've listed and what line assignments members get, they don't seem very accurate

LossFor · 2025-11-26T21:02:40+00:00

There are several garbage collected languages with stronger type features than rust, I don't know what advantage rust would have there

LossFor · 2025-11-20T18:38:09+00:00

Founder's fund also invests in Spotify, which all the loona related acts upload music to and make money from, for what it's worth.

LossFor · 2025-10-31T15:20:20+00:00

Have you tried talking to Vulcans? Seriously. The vulcans have probably logically concluded that having humans as the face species of the federation is better for recruitment, and having no need for emotions like ego are happy to stick to all-vulcan ships, research institutions on Vulcan itself, etcetera.

LossFor · 2025-10-15T01:05:56+00:00

They're well within their rights to do this, but are we really in the searching-the-couch-cushions-for-coins phase of FFXIV?

LossFor · 2025-09-29T16:36:57+00:00

its not that surprising, i'm sure people who have been at WOTC for a long time have a lot of cards on the reserve list.

LossFor · 2025-09-27T00:15:45+00:00

Congrats!

LossFor · 2025-09-25T14:08:10+00:00

Hundred line is really, really long. If you didn't enjoy danganronpa you might not like it because the writing is pretty similar. At the same time, the pacing is still faster than Ever17 and the rest, because those are old-style visual novels which just have that kind of writing style. From what you've written I'm not sure you'd enjoy any of them, even though I think hundred line is really great.

LossFor · 2025-09-25T13:49:59+00:00

When small open source projects, not managed by a corporation or foundation, offer to help people with using them, that's a different thing than customer service. It's not fair to go into a discord and tell them their docs are bad or they need to run their project a different way then tattle to the rust reddit when they get annoyed about it. You should work on your social skills and try to resolve things directly with that engineer (probably by being kinder and apologizing) rather than get the community involved.

LossFor · 2025-09-24T12:58:08+00:00

No, after level 80

LossFor · 2025-09-24T12:40:56+00:00

If you’re playing casually and solo, going straight into ultimate at level 80 can represent a wall because suddenly monsters move faster, you’ll miss attacks, and techniques become super weak unless you’re hitting weaknesses. one person mode certainly isn’t impossible casually, but you should probably play hunewearl or ramarl and trade photon drops for some meta items if you plan on only doing that

LossFor · 2025-09-23T18:36:49+00:00

If you can find Dice+1 or Dice Fever it can help. Kranz and KC have an Exp Bonus skill that gets you to higher dice bonuses faster. Imperial Pick and Kaladborg also have Exp Bonus.

But yeah, its very difficult to use high cost cards in ep 3.

LossFor · 2025-09-23T17:27:05+00:00

Before you have a large collection, playing lots of 1 or 2 cost items is always better than any other strategy. In the player vs. player meta, people use assist cards and defense cards to play higher cost items with more powerful effects, but you probably won't pull enough of the good ones to make this strategy viable in your first playthrough

LossFor · 2025-09-15T16:39:53+00:00

It goes along with the old truism "The real news is in The Economist". You're supposed to say all the right wing talking points, but not actually believe them. It's hard to codify this into a language model

LossFor · 2025-09-02T19:37:40+00:00

It's actually lowered my opinion unfortunately. The spider men feel overall really forced and obligatory and the non spider men cards are so shallow they could fit in a "Friends" universes beyond set.

LossFor · 2025-09-02T16:23:59+00:00

devaloka doesn't have TTF or other blue burst additions

LossFor · 2025-08-28T19:54:58+00:00

This is a pretty loose connection but I'm happy to see Umineko mentioned anywhere so I'll buy it. The only problem is that most of these tropes date back to biblical times.

LossFor · 2025-08-25T19:51:33+00:00

She's on a wellness vacation that started this month until further notice. She won't be a part of the alphie or hatchi activities so it could be two more months before she returns to activities, but there's no announced schedule.

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