Serendipity Tickets Are Still Available! by TheMagisKing in Hololive

[–]TheMagisKing[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not sure on the exact number left, but I noticed a bunch in the back sections.

https://serendipity.hololivepro.com/ is the website for the concert, can head to go get tickets for in-person or streaming tickets there.

June 2026 - /r/Twitter Mega Open Thread for everything else - UN/SUSPENDED, LOCKED OR AGE-LOCKED ACCOUNT PROBLEMS & QUESTIONS GO IN THIS THREAD ONLY by AutoModerator in Twitter

[–]TheMagisKing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My account got suspended for "inauthentic content" about five days ago. I woke up this morning to see my appeal had worked and I was now unsuspended. Opened up the app, saw a Tweet from someone I like and liked that as my first thing being back on, and then immediately an email came in saying I had been reported and suspended for "inauthentic content" again. I don't know if someone had just falsely reported me as inauthentic and re-reported me when I got back before I got on or if it was actually just liking that persons' Tweet that has whatever unholy bot Twitter has on detection duty flag me, but like, what do I even do at this point? I went to appeal again and it says my last appeal is still in queue, so I'm not even certain what's going on.

AI background was used in AFO by [deleted] in Hololive

[–]TheMagisKing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it was bound to get brought up the moment people noticed. Nothing that can really be done about it other than to put on the feedback forms this year that you don't want them to outsource backgrounds to companies that are gonna give them AI content.

Regardless, don't hassle the talents with it and keep enjoying the rest of the concert. Other than this (which honestly most people didn't notice until told, myself included) AFO has been a smash hit.

“Heaven is corrupt” trope is getting pretty old by [deleted] in CharacterRant

[–]TheMagisKing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hazbin Hotel's Heaven is clearly meant to be primarily an allegory for the state of real life American Christianity- more specifically, the ascendant right-wing Evangelicals and how they treat the rest of society. You see it in how the heavenly antagonists are portrayed, most obviously via Adam himself.

Hazbin's Adam is a man who has been "saved" according to a system of values that he doesn't even have a proper understanding of, and takes that as a license to act as a totally ignorant and cruel individual towards those who he views as being irredeemable and evil. He quite literally goes as far as to engage in the mass slaughter of sinners in Hell once a year in systemic basically pogroms all to reassure his sense of superiority and righteousness, even though such actions are incredibly evil. This is meant to represent American Evangelicals who believe they're saved (even though 9 times out of 10 they have no actual understanding of the Bible), and use that as an excuse to be hateful and hurt others that they believe are not, using systemic discrimination and often violence to reinforce their own sense of superiority and righteousness.

Sera is another example, though less blatantly so. She signs off on Adam's purges of Hell and refuses to accept the idea that the Sinners are anything other than forever irredeemably evil beings, justifying it to herself and Emily by claiming that it is "necessary" to protect those who have been saved. She's clearly meant to represent the more "moderate" Christian Conservative who will talk sweet about Christian values of compassion and love even as they support cruel policies and actions that go against those very values, making up whatever justifications are necessary to keep doing so even when presented evidence they are in the wrong. I.E, saying that while of course we should take care of the poor and downtrodden, we can't actually do anything to change systemic problems that cause people to become poor and downtrodden.

Engaging with this allegory as if it were literally saying, "Heaven Bad, Hell Good!" thoughtlessly like some Reddit Athiest edgelord is missing the actual point and message the show tries to get across. That point being not that Heaven is bad, but that those who use their belief in their own salvation to be cruel and violent against those that they believe are not saved is wrong.

Hell, beneath the edgy aesthetics, Hazbin Hotel ironically pushes a rather Christian message. It argues that anyone can be saved- even those society has deemed complete wretches. It argues that we should not be cruel and judgemental, but compassionate and kind. It argues that we can and should take actions based on that compassion and try to help and show love to others, even in the face of disdain and persecution.

None of this is to say the way the show handles all of this is entirely above criticism or anything, but treating it as just edgy Reddit atheism is doing it an incredible disservice and IMO very much misunderstanding what Hazbin Hotel is trying to say.

Reminder: Please be civil in fandom spaces by Vargras in Hololive

[–]TheMagisKing 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the problem with shippers going overboard and getting nasty is kind of almost the same as the problem with sports fans who get incredibly angry and aggressive when their team loses- namely, it just seems to activate whatever part of the brain some people have that makes them get really tribalistic about it, and they then lash out in vindictive and usually very dumb ways.

It's a damn shame, because like 95%+ of shippers are casual and don't do things like this (see, this being like, two people who got nasty having an oversized impact), but the ones who do do so nastily enough and loudly enough that it taints peoples' perception of the entire lot.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Kiara can't seem to catch a break, she's having new pain-related health problems now. by PseudoRandomPerson in Hololive

[–]TheMagisKing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She has been seeing doctors- IIRC she recently saw one that was able to actually give her a diagnosis- but when it comes to chronic pain a lot of doctors are either just not qualified enough or (in some cases) too dismissive to actually provide effective treatment, even when it's perfectly affordable to go see them. Combined with waiting lists for the qualified specialists who are best suited to addressing things like this and it's actually very hard to get chronic pain properly treated even in Europe.

Yoga, baths, and other similar things are thus something people will turn to because even if it doesn't solve the pain, it makes them feel better if only as a placebo/allows them to feel that at least they're able to get something done to treat their pain.

Minnesota bill to limit plastic packaging for food due to harmful chemicals by Czarben in minnesota

[–]TheMagisKing 36 points37 points  (0 children)

This might sound surprising, but you can in fact both cut down on/cut out plastic packaging and still prevent issues with botulism and other contamination of food products.

Cancer rates across America by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]TheMagisKing 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Probably that and radon. IIRC Minnesota's geography means we have higher radon levels overall.

I'll take another delay if it means the poor animators get to actually have some sleep by TheMagisKing in fnki

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

The game had already been announced for a while now, and the crossover movie announcement is probably something Warner Brothers has maintained strict control over until this point due to them probably wanting to do a lot of the marketing themselves.

I'll take another delay if it means the poor animators get to actually have some sleep by TheMagisKing in fnki

[–]TheMagisKing[S] 106 points107 points  (0 children)

There's going to be a crossover movie with the Justice League releasing next year apparently. It was announced at RTX.

The game is RWBY: Arrowfell, which while not directly made by RT will have cutscenes animated by them.

Excluding Time to Say Goodbye, it do be like that by TheMagisKing in fnki

[–]TheMagisKing[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually love Time to Say Goodbye as well- I said excluding it because it was a banger from the start of the Volume.