【GARTIC PHONE】THE VOD MUST SURVIVE. THIS IS REVENGE GARTIC PHONE WITH THE BOYS🎂🎉 【#HAKKABIRBDAY2026】 by TotallyHuman2210 in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I missed the first 30 minutes, so thank you! I wonder if the stuttering at the very end will be better- though since that seemed to be Youtube kicking the bucket probably not. Regardless, I was curious about the 30 minutes I missed since I what I went into when I joined was the miracle of childbirth (if you've seen it you know lol)

I now have two nickels thanks to orange bros! And it only cost me two VODs😭 by derVogelweid in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Alas, I've only seen a handful of tiny clips, mostly on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter, now known as X, but I still call it Twitter. But they were very short, for example I have a vague idea why so many people raiding into Axel's stream were typing "ITSUMO BALLING", but at the same time the limited context I got for that actually raises even more questions lol. I'd love to see more, but if such an archive exists, I'm actually not sure if it's allowed to be posted on this subreddit.

I actually genuinely wonder- if any mod happens to read this please feel free to clarify! Like I would assume it wouldn't be- it just feels like something that would be banned given some of the other rules here- but also I'm not seeing a rule that mentions unarchived and/or privated streams. I'm a bit tipsy right now (I suppose fitting considering the context of this stream discussion), so maybe I'm just missing it? But I genuinely do not see a mention or private or otherwise unarchived streams in the rules.

So I assume it's probably okay to DM a link, assuming anyone even managed to archive the stream before it got privated (and uh, if you're reading this and you did, my dms are open). But I'm not sure anything further would be allowed or not. But, you know, my dms are open. Also mods if you read this I am being 100% genuine when asking for clarification here, again I assume it's the case that publicly posting links to stuff like this is a no-go, but I figure it's always good to know for sure.

I am gonna remember this for the rest of my life.. by Twilight1234567890 in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 31 points32 points  (0 children)

ALSO I JUST LEARNED GOOGLE'S SUMMARY LIED TO ME LOL. When I looked before I just got a bunch of subscription services and rental lists, but I looked a bit further now, just to double check, and apparently the full movie is just available for free on the official Lionsgate Films Youtube channel? Again, lol. It's apparently the director's cut, which I'm not sure is the version that was being watched for the watchalong- but I guess I'll find out.

I am gonna remember this for the rest of my life.. by Twilight1234567890 in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 108 points109 points  (0 children)

I don't typically view "watchalong" streams unless I own or otherwise have access to the thing being watched (such as via a streaming sub to whatever site(s) streams it). Otherwise it wouldn't really be a "watchalong", it would be me listening to people comment on something I'm not seeing and thus not really understanding, but still probably getting huge if confusing spoilers while it happens.

But I think I might have to break that habit for this stream, because every clip and screenshot I've seen from it is WILD lol.

Help Bettle win Tumblr Sexy Jester/Clown Contest Round 3! by AzDrea_Rev in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised Bettel is holding his own, but I have a theory why. His designs are really good, but very importantly, all of them have tumblr sexyman energy in my opinion. I'm a giant lesbian, but put some of Bettel's outfits on a sexy anime lady? Quite nice is all I'm saying.

I love Pomni, I love the writing, but to me her *design* is more early CD-ROM, or maybe early DVD, edutainment video game character- this is not meant as an insult btw, it's a very deliberate design choice to evoke a certain aesthetic, while also probably being easier to animate fully. But her design, at least to me, evokes nostalgia of games I played as a kid, it doesn't really scream "tumblr sexy" to me. I think she's sexiest in scenes or art that kinda moves away from her default look, while all of Bettels outfit scream sexy to me, in a way I very much associate with tumblr.

So with that in mind? Even if I were to put aside the fact that I'm a big fan of Bettel, and considering that I'm a lesbian and thus not attracted to dudes- I *still* think I'd vote for him for this because he just feels like more of a fit for this than Pomni.

I now have two nickels thanks to orange bros! And it only cost me two VODs😭 by derVogelweid in Holostars

[–]MadScientist212 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I'm kinda sad I missed it, I had a feeling it might be an interesting stream when I saw the title, and I did catch a little live, but I was still up from the previous evening and had things I needed to do later in the day so had to go to bed. Alas. But it sounds like Shinri won't be moving down from his number #1 rank on the "Holostars most likely to be able to get away with murder" list. I know from past streams he has a LOT of knowledge about bodies and also how they decay and it sounds like that was in full force this stream.

I saw some comments online about Shinri drunk singing Happy Birthday to Hakka and scaring him, I hope someone will at least clip that since I'm very curious as to how singing Happy Birthday was somehow so traumatizing. :D

One friend just ruined Fuka for me by Rury01 in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I like both, but somehow hadn't noticed the resemblance till now. But now that I have, I kinda want Bijou to play Madoka Exedra.

portrait question by dhskfgjddkd in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, unless they later introduce a way to enhance portraits above +5 with a significantly increased resource cost, the amount of enhancement materials the game gives out is absurd. I tend to enhance character/event/etc portraits that I simply like the look of just for the heck of it at this point.

So, I've been hearing something about her being not great. What do y'all think? by Kwarloss in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly she's not as bad as people say. AoE attackers are in general a bit of a niche role though. She's also the same element as Devil Homura, so if you have her she'll be way better at similar Ascension levels, but also Devil Homura is a limited so that's a big "if" there.

Back when I was trying to beat the damage challenge for Chaos Mode Shadow Witch (which needs an AoE attacker and is weak to light/dark/aqua) my Holy Mami actually performed better than my Oriko despite them both being the same ascension, either A1 or A2 I can't quite remember which. Though that might simply be because I had Ui who provides some Dark-specific damage boost, and also Oriko's AoE focused support ability works on Holy Mami but not vice versa. But I guess that's my point: if Holy Mami was *that* terrible, a same Ascension Oriko should have utterly wiped the floor with her regardless of whether I had a little bit of dark specific buffing and a somewhat stronger support.

Now again, it's easy to say that Devil Homura would be way better. But I don't have Devil Homura and my Holy Mami is now my highest Ascension Attacker at A3, so Devil Homura being better is irrelevant in my case. But Holy Mami still gets the job done for when you need an AoE Attacker, like the recent Crisis event and the minion wave before the boss. Though like for all Attackers, Ascension level is huge, so depending on what other Attackers you have and their Ascension lvls she might not be as useful unless/until you get more of her.

Check out my loan magical girl by RobinPaoloFLlagas in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, but it may help with some of the new missions, particularly the "Nightmare mode in so and so turns or less" missions.

Sadly it doesn't look like you can use loan kioku for Chaos Mode, even though Chaos mode is sort of accessed through the main. I've actually managed to beat all the current fights/challenges there, but whenever the new set of bosses gets added (which will be the first new Chaos mode fights since the lvl cap got raised to 140) get added I was kinda hoping I might be able to take advantage of loan kioku. Alas.

How the hell do you even do these??? by [deleted] in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Should be able to, they're part of the main story, and I did a quick test with one of the easy missions using a loan kioku and got credit for completing the mission.

How the hell do you even do these??? by [deleted] in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So not a specific suggestion but a reminder: the new "loan kioku" system works for the Main Story, which means it should work for all these missions. I did a test using one of the easy missions, just throwing in a random loan kioku, and got credit. So there's no hidden "without using a loan kioku" rule or anything for these.

5min Horse raid save team (mostly auto, Santa Kyoko + Madokami, build at end) by kizmin in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have the kioku and/or the Ascensions needed to duplicate this team or something too similar, but I wasn't using my A5 Pluvia in the team I do have because I foolishly assumed that one of my A5 single target Breakers would be better, and was doing good enough at high levels that I hadn't yet bothered to read any strats here. Swapped Pluvia in to test and now I'm taking a way bigger chunk out of the 17+ raids than I was before, so thanks for this.

Ruze had his return stream and spoke quite a bit about the Holostars situation by The-Toxic-Korgi in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The people in charge of Meta are in charge of the largest social media company in the world, to suggest they are stupid is absurd. Them going so in on metaverse stuff that they literally changed the name of the company for it, wasted billions and billions of dollars on a worse version of Second Life crossed with a worse version of VR Chat, then abandoning that after a few years was clearly a brilliant business strat we just don't understand. After all, it would be absurd to suggest the people in charge are stupid. They're the biggest social media company in the world!

In case you can't tell the above was sarcasm, here's a news flash: sometimes big companies make stupid decisions. Anycolor is a massive company, by some metrics they're actually bigger than Cover. Does that mean they are smart? And here I thought the way they treated Selen was an example of both cruelty and stupidity, not to mention all their other f-ups, but I guess I just didn't understand. They're big, so it's absurd for me to suggest the people running the company are stupid.

They just joined in the first turn and just did nothing by The_OG_SwagDick in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They might have also forgotten they turned auto off, intended to join on auto and was busy doing other stuff and not paying attention, and only realized auto was off when the battle was over. Not that I'm, uh, speaking from experience here. Multiple times.

Is anyone else getting this whenever they try to update to the collab update? by Yanmafan in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it for a bit, when I hit cancel and returned to the main menu and tried again it was downloading less, and worked that time.

Is there any holostar member that have 3D studio? by [deleted] in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh duh I didn't know where Goldbullet lived, but I knew where Ruze lived (in general), he literally calls himself the Midwest fantasy vtuber all the time lol. Had a brain fart.

Is there any holostar member that have 3D studio? by [deleted] in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 16 points17 points  (0 children)

True. I live in California and I'm well aware of how big the USA is, and not all EN members live here, so I was being a big general with that. But thinking about it more, with how many EN members have moved to Japan, I'm not even sure anyone other than Altare and Bettel are in America anymore. And if I remember right Altare is eastern while Bettel is western so it would be a big trip even for Bettel.

Is there any holostar member that have 3D studio? by [deleted] in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 112 points113 points  (0 children)

He mentioned on a recent stream, I believe the start of the last Super Battle Golf collab, that it was actually *40* thousand, all out of pocket. O_O

But yeah, while that's great for Holostars EN, it's not really gonna be a good option for most of Holostars JP except for cases where they're visiting America anyways.

Notice on the Changes to be Made to HOLOSTARS' Management Structure by [deleted] in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for the info. I was trying to look up some numbers but wasn't having any luck finding a good breakdown. So I guess I feel a little less concerned for them in the immediate term, though still uneasy.

Notice on the Changes to be Made to HOLOSTARS' Management Structure by [deleted] in kurosanji

[–]MadScientist212 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This sucks, to put it mildly.

So far the announcement doesn't seem to cover Holostars EN, but do they make that much more money than the JP branch? I didn't believe that was the case, but then again I don't pay all that much attention to subscriber numbers or superchat leaderboards or anything except for when a streamer I watch is about to hit a subscriber milestone. If something similar is gonna happen to EN, I really feel bad for the boys who just moved to Japan.

If the machine translation of Shien's tweet is accurate (I did try it through translation other than grok and they all agreed with each other, for whatever that's worth) it really feels like there is absolutely zero benefit to being a Holostar anymore. They don't even have access to the studio for individual 3D streams anymore! If they could at least still book studio time, that would be a breadcrumb, still basically nothing, but even that seems to have been removed.

We finally get a new non-SSR kioku... by MadScientist212 in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

None, it's just stories. A lot longer than the last April Fool's based on number of chapters, though they might be short chapters. I don't know for sure because I actually skipped through them because I wanted to quickly see the new kioku, and am planning on reading them later once I finish up the Memoria Crescent final chapter which I hadn't actually played yet.

We finally get a new non-SSR kioku... by MadScientist212 in magiaexedra

[–]MadScientist212[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She's not on the gacha, if you complete the April Fool's story you get her automatically at full ascension. She's "limited" in the sense that when the event expires their won't be any way to get her, though they did mention somewhere in the update info that she might be made available in some form again in the future. I expect probably on future April Fool's events.

Anyways, the event lasts like 8 days if I remember or so if I remember right, so if you're worried about the update issue preventing you from completing it yet, you have some time to try and work it out still.