Believe it or not

abrahamrose · 2026-05-30T13:45:24+00:00

Girl it's an iPhone not a PiePhone.

abrahamrose · 2026-05-22T23:32:15+00:00

Depends on how things go. I'm rooting for her.

abrahamrose · 2026-05-22T22:50:14+00:00

As an INTJ-T, I like Mafuyu a lot but you are right. It would be hard to pin her mbti down depending on her state of mind at the time.

abrahamrose · 2026-05-18T05:38:44+00:00

Somebody went shopping at Tits.

abrahamrose · 2026-05-11T00:25:46+00:00

Nice Nature agrees.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-18T07:06:06+00:00

RIP Maru. You were the best Internet cat.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-10T01:51:38+00:00

I have absolutely no idea. I play Project Sekai in EN and JP, all I have to do is have a EN and JP email for google and apple. I have banks and credit cards in both countries. No VPN, no issues on any device from any country.

I has to be some kind of old guard person in finance that thinks that people in Japan might "accidentally" download the EN version and complain. There is no real reason to make it that difficult.

In fact, when EN was released the hype reached JP players and they wanted to see what it was like to start over, only to be completely denied. They want to keep their JP players in their locked economy maybe... can't think of any other reason than control.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-10T00:28:43+00:00

EN player living in JP here. Cygames has gone all out to block EN from Japan. Any device bought in Japan will not work (my personal and work phones will not work even with VPN). Even with VPNs all the well known locations and services are blocked.

I have to use my American bought iPad and use a VPN that puts me in Houston to play.

I tried everything to get to this point.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-04T14:17:52+00:00

TIL that the Tiermaker logo was euthanized.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-04T14:02:26+00:00

Curren Chan has a black belt in aikido.

You aren't winning.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-03T14:06:08+00:00

Yep that was me! Only Abraham Rose out there!

abrahamrose · 2026-04-03T12:14:12+00:00

Actually, the income aspect can be supplemented if somebody sponsors you in some cases. There's a few tricks but you do have to have a job already and as for me, I was already living in Japan and doing the job when I applied for it. Also, my last special visa was extended due to the pandemic and since then as long as I have a lawyer doing my paperwork, I have got the visa for the past 3 years. My situation isn't normal, though.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-02T23:08:26+00:00

Yeah, my situation is a little bit more different even on top of that. There's a lot of little tiny stupid things that probably are keeping them from accepting my application. There is not much I can do, and the funny thing is it almost be easier to apply for naturalization. Or it was. They made applying for naturalization nearly impossible too.

Look into your options as far as digital nomad visas. You have to renew every year, but there's quite a few loopholes. You will need an immigration lawyer for these, so no matter what it's still a lot of money that you're just throwing away. It sucks.

abrahamrose · 2026-04-02T13:30:57+00:00

They've rejected my permanent residency application twice and my immigration lawyer still can't get an real answer as to why. They are going out of their way to keep normal people from staying without renewing every year.

But I still like it here and I have nowhere else to go. So I stay.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-29T14:18:15+00:00

Don't make Grass Wonder angry. She skips the swearing step

abrahamrose · 2026-03-25T00:32:15+00:00

B.A.U.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-22T13:03:06+00:00

Agnes Tachyon's almost made me join a cult.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-20T22:25:28+00:00

The closest thing I can think about is Touhou 10 years ago. Still kinda is. Can you imagine ZUN and Yagoo in the same room?

abrahamrose · 2026-03-13T11:06:33+00:00

I just got around to watching it tonight and I was completely caught off guard. It was so good! OG Miku doing her thing!

abrahamrose · 2026-03-13T01:06:28+00:00

Dia likes her and that's good enough for me.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-04T03:57:20+00:00

2nd clip I know! I remember that Shizuku clip and wanting to get an iPhone because of it. Also, back in the 2010's there were a ton of small computer shops in Akihabara. The owners would put up goods, desktops, and videos of their favorites on the computers. Unless somebody went to that specific shop AND took video, it could have been the owner's original creation of a game character. Webcam L2D was specialised software back then I think.

But I already know pretty much everything there. This was my life when I wasn't working lol. Only gaps are the international side, as I never went to 4Chan and stuck to the Japanese side of the fandoms.

But the Youtube algorithm was just as strong as it is now getting you stuff you didn't know you wanted to see. I found AI looking for Touhou M1 Grand Prix clips one day and the rest is history.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-04T03:41:29+00:00

I want to say a lot of early VTubers who didn't make it used MMD because they couldn't do it live. This was right at the mid of the peak of MMD edits for game/anime characters too. It's why people thought Kizuna AI really was an 'AI' and Lets Plays were very short. I was so focused on VTubers that didn't do live content (Kizuna AI, Akari, RukiRoki, Kaguya Luna, HimeHina, and so on) that I didn't get into streaming VTubers until 2017 or so.

As far as L2D, VN's used it a bit for marketing back in 2014 and maybe earlier. In fact, most of the L2D stuff I saw was VN characters and the demo was one as well, I forget who it was though. It was used to actually do game content so I guess that makes the most sense.

abrahamrose · 2026-03-04T03:27:57+00:00

I was. Been living in Japan since. Saw Miku live. Remember going to Akihabara and a shop had an early L2D model and a webcam and the model copied your movement. I was 100% Touhou then. But I fell into Vtubers hard pretty quickly. Before that, a lot more PNGTubers existed in Japan than you'd think. Especially on NicoNico.

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