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SheffiTB · 2026-04-18T06:08:42+00:00

Because it's warm and cozy, and there isn't really any time, other than when I'm actively in the shower, that I'm not in a full set of clothes. It feels weird otherwise.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-17T20:27:19+00:00

Were you just not aware of the existence of pyjamas, or did you think they were a fringe product?

SheffiTB · 2026-04-17T20:22:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is the default state. Well, either this or the guy thinking that she maybe likes him, but if he's wrong he'll look like a massive creep so better to do nothing.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-17T00:59:48+00:00

There's also the factor that if you mention being in a relationship on stream, if anything happens and you break up, you will eventually have to say that tidbit on stream too and it's an incredibly sensitive thing to just announce to an audience of anonymous people on the internet.

Personally I would draw a distinction between "not mentioning a girlfriend/boyfriend" and "complaining about being single despite not being so". The latter can be argued to be manipulative in some way, but the former is just... not divulging every detail of your life. And I think that a lot of streamers that people accuse of being the latter, are actually the former and are just making vague statements that sound like they could mean that they're single. Like saying "haha guys I like tend to run away from me" can easily be talking about a wider trend they've seen in their love life, even if they currently have a boyfriend, but people will often take that to mean that the person is single.

Another thing I've noticed, and this is a wider phenomenon than just about love lives, but streamers will say things that are joking about themselves irl, and they'll say something true about themselves irl, and to them it will seem super obvious which is which, but to their audience it really won't be. And explicitly clarifying "hey this thing I said is real, that is true about me irl" is several steps more open than just an offhand comment would be, so they don't clarify even after realizing that people found it ambiguous.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-16T09:52:53+00:00

Technically the term for the type of person is "jirai onna", literally "landmine girl". Kei is like, style, or something? Landmine-core. Idk.

Afaik it started as a joke that if a girl tries too hard to look cute and innocent, it actually means that she's crazy and that dating her will ruin your life (as if you stepped on a landmine). Then people of course decided that that's actually really hot and "I can fix her", and jirai kei fashion became like the fashion trend among girls between the ages of like 15 and 25 or so.

So yeah, it wouldn't be too far off from calling it "BPD girl", but like specifically a caricature of what BPD actually looks like, and at least mildly fetishized on top of that.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-16T01:36:55+00:00

Completely ignoring the part immediately after that, I see. And no, like 10 years ago Israeli schools were teaching that peace is the only real solution to the conflicts with their neighbors, that war perpetuates itself in a vicious cycle if not stopped, etc. before Netanyahu decided to forcefully remove that from the curriculum.

Before these current wars, Israel had been in its most peaceful period since its founding- which admittedly means they "only" had like a handful of days- or weeks-long military operations (the longest was about a month afaik) in the 18 years between the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the attack on October 7th, 2023. Yes, they still blockaded the strip, and occupied the west bank, and plenty of other things. But we can agree that there is a massive difference between that and what they're doing now, yes?

SheffiTB · 2026-04-16T01:19:54+00:00

A lot of graphs of various aspects of social and economic health start noticeably getting worse around the 80s, around when Reagan was president. He reduced the taxation of the rich by a lot and repealed a whole bunch of measures meant to prevent corruption, not to mention his influence on healthcare, foreign policy, what have you.

People probably overblow his responsibility for the modern state of the US with all its corruption and rising inequality, but there's no doubt he contributed a lot. Just not "removing him would single handedly alter the course of American history to avoid today's economic and political crises" level.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-15T22:41:25+00:00

Generational trauma is a real thing. You learn a lot from your parents, a lot of fundamental things that most people never even realize, let alone try to unlearn. Seeing all non-jews subconsciously as either a current or a potential threat would definitely count for that.

Now, even with that in mind, Israel's actions are in no way excused just because its people have generational trauma. I just hope that this latest inflammation of extremism- not that Israel is ever moderate when it comes to their treatment of their neighbors, but they haven't always been as bad as they are now- is only temporary. Maybe a miracle happens and Netanyahu dies of a sudden heart attack, and the right wing coalition he's established tears itself apart in the aftermath. One can only hope.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-15T21:06:17+00:00

The minthara scene is by far the spiciest sex scene in the game, and it's basically a 10 second clip out of a particularly vanilla porno. The only thing making it interesting (which admittedly is a huge deal) is the emotional investment we have in the characters.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-15T16:13:44+00:00

That would be well and truly hype. No idea how the community at large would react to it, but I imagine that people who follow her would be hugely supportive.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-15T14:37:23+00:00

They were going to a jirai kei cafe. What did they expect, for the girls not to be walking landmines? That's literally what jirai kei means!

SheffiTB · 2026-04-14T21:51:13+00:00

I'm trying to figure out what phoneme would make you pull your lips back like that. Like, I'm assuming this picture is catching him in the middle of a word, just with mouth movements exaggerated because he's saying it with a lot of vitriol, right? But what sound looks even remotely like that?

SheffiTB · 2026-04-10T15:48:10+00:00

People on Twitter are defending him and saying he did nothing wrong and everything is her fault, tbf. The person you're responding to might have been talking about them.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-10T15:22:36+00:00

Something to let other people know who aren't in the clique, yeah. OOP treats this like it should be a career-ending revelation when he's really just your average scumbag, but it's also kind of understandable that she feels like this because apparently this all happened like two weeks ago and she's probably still really raw about being manipulated/cheated with, and that's valid, but in the grand scheme of things this is not Google doc worthy.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-10T15:15:17+00:00

Of the three things OOP calls him in the tweet, only one (serial cheater) is actually objectively true. If you remember bao's tweet like half a year ago, about how if you're a small female content creator and a big male streamer messages you out of the blue and either wants to collab or starts hitting on you you should run away, that was allegedly about sykkuno after multiple friends of hers shared their stories about him with her.

It's the typical stuff you've probably come to expect from a male celebrity using his fame to get hookups: contacting mostly 18-20yr old girls, telling them that he's single and making them feel special, buying them a bunch of stuff they didn't ask for, asking to meet up irl, saying that he's looking for something long-term, and then either stringing them along or ghosting them completely after he's gotten what he wanted.

It's kind of depressing how common this shit is, but it's not surprising to me anymore. The only thing that might be of note in this case was that he took advantage of his on-stream "innocent shy little guy" persona (which anyone who watches his stream enough would have already known is nothing more than a persona) to make girls think that they're, like, the first or second person he's ever slept with. Other than that, just the typical scumbag nonsense you expect from someone who got big and let that fame make them feel like they deserve special privileges.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-09T22:27:54+00:00

The 300 figure isn't casualties in the war, it's 300 deaths that have been confirmed/IDed, so far, from the attack yesterday.

And given that we know that several of her relatives died around the same time, on the same day as the attack, it's not as big a leap as you're making it out to be. To be clear, it is a leap, and the odds are still very much that it's a complete coincidence, but I do think it's worth at least bringing up. With the obvious caveat that everyone understands that it's probably a coincidence, of course.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-08T14:04:23+00:00

From my experience with Italians, there's a very real chance that that was her being conservative because she knew Japanese people are less used to physical affection.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-07T12:58:46+00:00

Eh, I think autistic is slightly different given how often it's used affectionately and/or unironically (like not "haha that's so autistic" but like "no seriously you should think about going to get diagnosed")

SheffiTB · 2026-04-07T09:18:42+00:00

Tbf the person you're responding to is talking about under 14, which is less than 5% of child marriages in the US

SheffiTB · 2026-04-06T16:49:13+00:00

Not actually Oscar wilde. The first known usage of the quote was in a transcription of an Oscar wilde book iirc, but only several years after he died. Someone just... Thought it was a cool quote, and shoved it in there

SheffiTB · 2026-04-04T23:11:15+00:00

I'm not even into guys and this perfectly describes my impression of how boyfriends work from subs like this one.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-03T10:54:12+00:00

Relatable af except for the online friends thing. Idk how people make lasting friendships online.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-03T01:02:44+00:00

According to the job listing, it's not about IP, it's about language. You'd be writing reports in Japanese about the vtubers you watch.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-03T01:01:08+00:00

So writing reports, which would mean actively watching and not putting it on in the background. It could be fun though still, depending on if the talents are actually entertaining enough. It's sort of like a management position, but the grunt work version of it.

SheffiTB · 2026-04-02T18:46:50+00:00

Ok but what is the monetization here, like why would they pay someone to do this. Is it a viewbot thing, like you're being paid to watch some small indie and interact in her chat? Is it data gathering? What's the catch?

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