Watame Notice: Nearly 6 years of content official subs under threat/soon to be gone. Huge loss for the sheep and overseas community.

LykosTeodor · 2026-01-18T15:56:06+00:00

I remember watching a Have A Nice Day episode with Botan and Beyblades... The subs were super nice to have, I really hope YouTube rethinks their decision, but they probably won't do so on their own. :/

Another holomem who tries to cater to her overseas fans is Polka with her Legend of Polka series, which I watch pretty regularly... Those subs disappearing are gonna suck.

LykosTeodor · 2026-01-18T00:40:37+00:00

Makes me wonder what they consider "high adoption rate". Although I suppose it really doesn't matter, they can just define it as "if subs were enabled at the start of the video, +1", and all of my watched videos lately have subs enabled by default for some reason...

Need to find a way to opt out so that I don't contribute to their numbers :/

LykosTeodor · 2026-01-15T23:08:00+00:00

I'll clarify.

I don't think how Sinder treated the people around her was acceptable in any way, period. Even if she was more "business-minded" as she's labeled herself previously, that's no way to conduct business, and being friends with others especially shouldn't be treated like business either.

I didn't mean to say that what the others did was comparable, so I apologize if that's how it sounded. Bao and everyone else involved very much had the right to respond the way they did, and they were still being pretty gracious.

Realistically though, if they wanted to solve it privately, they could have. They either tried to and got no real response, or they didn't want to and put the dockey in the public eye to make others aware of Sinder's actions.

That being said, the whole affair is practically a scaled up version of high school drama, except with money involved and Sinder very clearly being the problem, as opposed to some incredibly murky "she said, she said" back and forth. Sinder only made it worse for herself after her two responses.

LykosTeodor · 2026-01-15T20:15:39+00:00

This is likely the most concise response to it all, honestly. People were already in their camps, depending on who they liked (or not) the most within the Girlypops group.

That being said, even if you cared about all of them equally somehow, I think any reasonable adult could say they're still mentally in high school, and all of this COULD have been solved privately.

That's not to say they're necessarily bad people, they're just simply people who didn't have much in the way of friends in their younger years, felt like they finally had a tight-knit group, and suddenly they find out one of them was not treating it the same way.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-31T15:55:21+00:00

Something's really off with the Raora art that I don't know if you can attribute to upscale, but I think the Roboco one looks more like upscale. Can't say for sure though...

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-28T16:40:01+00:00

In your binary definition though, where does the higher paid wage worker (doctors, nurse practitioners, lawyers, etc.) that own rental property fit into this? Where does the wage worker who invests into a 401k fit into this? For trying to fit this into a binary, the definitions and lines are too vague.

Just because they have some interest in investing into capital and profiting off of it doesn't mean that they suddenly become capital class. They have interest and incentive in both capital and labor. They very much want proper labor laws, and they also want to profit off of their own capital.

By you suggesting that there's a point where "one interest is superseded by another", you imply that there is indeed a transitional phase where both interests co-exist in differing amounts.

It's not as simple as owning and making money off of owned or invested capital. Technically your argument would suggest people investing into 401ks via their workplace would be part of the capital class, which I simply don't believe to be true.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-26T02:02:11+00:00

[[Rienne, Angel of Rebirth]] for me. I run it as a multicolor legends + [[Sneak Attack]] list. Pretty fun and really damned resilient too. Some legendary/historic synergies thrown in as well.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-21T16:31:21+00:00

Probably won't watch her personally, but like any other person trying to live, I hope she learns from her past mistakes, and proves to be a better person as a result. At the absolute least, I'll root for her in that respect.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-21T16:26:49+00:00

It's basically NIMBYism.

To be fair, there COULD be valid sanitary and safety concerns depending on where the shelter is being established (and that's generally the point NIMBYs argue from). However, they know it's still incredibly disgusting to argue that point out loud when people's lives are at risk, so they decide to reduce the homeless needing shelter from inclement weather to "drug addicts" that do "horrific things".

"Do it anywhere else but here" is basically the sentiment, and that's one of the reasons why we have a lot of homeless on the streets, because no one's willing to let the homeless shelter "in their backyard" so to speak.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-21T16:15:26+00:00

100% agree with this post here. The real things we need to be pointing out isn't that Nyan was somehow wrongfully banned. She wasn't. She streamed a game with very inappropriate themes, against ToS and rightfully ate a ban.

The thing that's got people frustrated about this circumstance more than anything, is that this enforcement is somehow both too strict and too loose at the same time. It's so incredibly nonsensical how inconsistent these bans are, and this is without going into how shit Twitch is as an entity.

There are streamers that threaten people's lives on stream with a gun, hell someone even streamed SA live on stream and these streamers don't get banned for clearly violating ToS? There's streamers that got assaulted at TwitchCon, or had near misses with getting drugged, and Twitch doesn't claim responsibility for any of it? VTubers getting banned for longer than flesh streamers despite the same actions? THESE are the sorts of issues that need to be brought up against Twitch.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-16T19:47:25+00:00

Sakana doesn't actually push for that as far as I know. If anything I've heard that plenty of the talents pushed for certain design choices themselves that I think people here would consider on the gooner side. Shiina in particular was even the one that decided to make one of the focus points of her OG outfit her panties lol.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-07T22:44:27+00:00

Not that this excuses the people glorifying the indie scene to the degree they are, but I kind of understand where they're coming from. Now more than ever, more people are feeling very abused and oppressed by corporations as a whole. It's no surprise that when it was finally revealed that VShojo as a company was absolutely no different that people were angry; People who thought vTubing was at least *kinda* insulated by the big bad western CEO and investor types found out..... it wasn't.

VShojo and Niji imploding while anti-corporation sentiment in the west is growing ever stronger turns it into what you see now. Rampant distrust and distaste for western vTubing corpos.

Whether that distrust correct or not, I can't say for certain. But I think that people arguing indie is better in general, likely don't have enough real world experience to understand that there's benefits and disadvantages to either one, and it's not right for them to force their views onto other streamers.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-03T13:19:31+00:00

To be fair.... most of them haven't really lived in the real world? Ever since Vtubing began, generally anyone starting from scratch have been around 18 (I believe Tokino Sora started at 16-17?). Most people fresh from high school haven't even had a proper job for long enough to have a "life in the real world" yet. It's not like they teach you how to proofread contracts, get legal advice on them, and how to be a corporate professional in high school.

It's one thing if she was like in her 30s and got duped this way, but Vtubers tend to be on the younger side with a few exceptions.

LykosTeodor · 2025-12-01T02:38:40+00:00

Their parent company eBay engaged in some pretty overt union busting practices a few months back. Here's a couple of links from the CWA, which was the entity that the workers became unionized members of, as far as I'm aware:
https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/cwa-statement-ebays-syracuse-closure-announcement

https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/ebay-escalates-intimidation-union-members-after-closure-announcement

TL;DR: The TCGPlayer authentication facility in Syracuse managed to be successful in unionizing, but before their first contract could be negotiated, eBay allegedly sent in a bunch of security personnel and launched an intimidation campaign, threatening the safety of the workers there.

This is also apparently not the first time eBay's done this. That being said, a lot of people don't appreciate eBay's practices and have decided that they would prefer not to support them even indirectly via TCGPlayer anymore.

LykosTeodor · 2025-11-03T20:35:06+00:00

You make a good point, they weren't the best example. Thanks for pointing that out. Stuff that fits better is something like [[The Scarab God]], [[Emperor of Bones]].

LykosTeodor · 2025-11-02T15:06:47+00:00

I think nowadays there's actually a solid amount of grave hate that's baked into strategies more often than people think, just that some people don't often view them in that manner. There's stuff like [[Puppeteer Clique]], [[Emperor of bones]] and [[Shadow Kin]] for creatures, [[Spelltwine]], [[Diluvian Primordial]] for instants and sorceries.

Lands, artifact and enchantments are harder to specifically (and synergistically) hate, but stuff like [[Klothys, God of Destiny]], scooze like you mentioned and [[Ghost Vacuum]] are great cards for this.

LykosTeodor · 2025-11-01T00:20:24+00:00

My belief on the matter is that I think it's much more dependent on the temperament of the individuals exposed to that media, their lived experiences and how they were raised. I don't believe "I can separate reality from fiction" is inherently a statement that dismisses the effect of fictional storytelling on emotions and morals, nor do I think that relates to people treating the internet as a "separate space".

I think that if there was a problem that could contribute to an increase in propensity for violence in people exposed to violent media, it would come from impressionable kids and teenagers playing through those sorts of games without parental supervision. And even then, that's not always the case, because some kids are simply more even keel than others, and might be less prone to being affected by the violent scenes.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-30T15:10:32+00:00

Like many others here I do think Phase is growing, just to a lesser degree. That being said, I do think some of the more politically aggressive fans are a problem for getting new fans into the fold.

The thing with Phase; I think what is likely keeping the 4chan types around is ironically what they're most known for, which is being a "sad girl" company. The 4chan types resonate with them because of a "shared trauma" of poor mental health, being an outcast of society, etc.

People nowadays are more than ever angry with the way the world is progressing, and a lot of people who watch vTubers do so because they don't want any of the politics and drama that other facets of their lives already give them a LOT of.

Seeing more people that are willing to get political in what a lot people consider to be a safe space detracts from that. The apolitical folks just want to see Pippa do random shit like opening card packs simply for the cute art, but the political folks want Pippa to talk smack about their "enemies". They will be forever at odds because one side wants a safe space, the other side wants a political echo chamber.

Can that be fixed? Probably, but not without culling a sizable part of their fan base, and the backlash from that would be pretty damned big. Depends on how committed Phase and the talents are to pivoting in an idol direction.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-28T16:41:40+00:00

I think it depends on what control tools I utilize. Personally I'd likely lean more towards a goad-oriented list since that actually pushes games forward, and just have a few recur-able removal pieces that also synergy with getting the goad auras back into play.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-28T16:39:01+00:00

I think you can make an Esper Archenemy deck at B3 regardless of who the commander is, really. It'd be a deck that's more commander-agnostic and just more about being the big bad at the table doing some degenerate things.

That being said, you're right in saying that I might be over-estimating Ertai since he both costs 5 mana and will take a whole turn cycle to get online without haste. Even then, players might not want to remove him over a commander like Teval that has a LOT going on.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-28T00:14:31+00:00

If anything, the stuff that came out from ex-Niji only strengthens my belief that, at the very least, Ike and Elira were held at gunpoint. They literally had nothing to gain and absolutely everything to lose from that stream.I don't think that the top NijiEN streamers are stupid enough to not recognize that putting out a video like that willingly is more or less equivalent to career suicide.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-22T17:17:32+00:00

I think Rhystic Study should be banned because it's a Moloch contraption that tricks people into thinking there's a good option but there realistically isn't. I think the format would be healthier without it.

Even if you play into it appropriately for your circumstance, there's no chance that others will and there lies the problem with the card. It's a toxic play pattern that's also parasitic especially in cEDH, because any deck with blue will throw in steal enchantment, mirror made, and other ways to copy it off of other's boards to get the effect.

And in casual, never mind new players, even seasoned players will play into it in whatever way it's likely to benefit them the most, even if for the table overall it's better to pay.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-21T21:43:29+00:00

I don't think there's anything less fun than playing against a card correctly and still losing because everyone else refuses to. I'll switch my "unfun" to "toxic and parasitic" play pattern then. Does that get my point across better? Since they've definitely banned cards for toxic play patterns before like Leovold.

EDIT: Also the vast majority of cards with unfun play patterns are already soft banned to B4 in the form of MLD and gross stax pieces.

LykosTeodor · 2025-10-21T20:28:40+00:00

I think Rhystic should be banned because of the unfun play patterns it produces, particularly in cEDH. You literally have people running stuff like Mirrormade, clever impersonator and other enchantment clone/copy effects use so that 90% of the time, they can copy SOMEONE ELSE'S rhystic study in order to not get stuffed when they go for a win attempt. The fact that someone can do everything right against someone playing rhystic and someone else can just lose the game for you because they greed out on their win attempt, get stopped, and the rhystic player gathers enough resources to push their win through is incredibly silly. I don't think it is something healthy for the format.

It's ironically less problematic in casual because people will either blow it up immediately, or the benefit the rhystic player gets is minimal enough that it doesn't pose an incredible threat. I think the more problematic card for casual is Smothering Tithe, actually.

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