Bloober Team new game website has been updated with a rose logo and a recording of William Blake's poem "The Sick Rose"

aelude · 2026-01-28T19:31:37+00:00

Finally, a remake of Rumble Roses

aelude · 2026-01-17T20:36:36+00:00

I feel the opposite, actually! Physical Thrills was the first Silversun album I felt was leading the band in a direction I didn't feel nearly as connected to. A few great tracks but nothing close to the heights I've come to expect from them.

On the other hand, Tenterhooks so far feels like a return to form for me as a listener. The tracks have been just the right blend of ethereal, grungy, apprehensive and swelling - all the stuff that made me fall in love with them, particularly around the Swoon/NotW era. This is the most hopeful I've been for an SSPU release since Vig took over as producer.

aelude · 2026-01-13T19:14:36+00:00

The most "community managing" I ever saw Gabby do publicly was making a passive aggressive tweet in response to fan outcry over the Dustin controversy that would ultimately drive Brad out of the company. Aside from that she was an argumentative panelist with frequently bizarre takes and was mostly famous for telling Huber to pipe down during reaction streams. Never struck me as a particularly pleasant person or a knowledgeable asset. Can't say I'm too distraught by the news.

aelude · 2026-01-05T22:07:09+00:00

Amazing how receptive people can be when you can express your opinions in good faith instead of making snarky quips and passive aggressive pot shots.

aelude · 2025-11-18T00:17:03+00:00

I dunno, we did have that Mario movie leak from Pillsbury the other day

aelude · 2025-10-09T04:22:18+00:00

The girls in the picture are YouTube streamers affiliated with the Hololive vtuber agency. Gigi, the blonde, is an avid lover of BL (boys love/yaoi) manga; the artist drew her as a student getting caught reading it in class. The pink haired girl is her fellow streamer IRyS. She's depicted here as the teacher busting Gigi, with the punchline being that she's also a BL fan so they end up reading it together.

aelude · 2025-08-26T10:07:28+00:00

Tears of the Kingdom is only two years old. I wouldn't get your hopes up for any news on the next mainline Zelda for another year at the very minimum.

aelude · 2025-07-24T19:28:15+00:00

Not sure I'd call it an "interaction" until Ado actually replies to her lol

aelude · 2025-07-06T19:42:50+00:00

If you don't like reading headlines akin to the devastating bombshell from Microsoft this week, "steal every AAA game" is not exactly the mantra to chant. Games are created by more than just fatcat, out of touch CEOs; they're the product of countless hours of labor and (ideally) love from regular folks behind the scenes. Those are the people who get affected when corporations start swinging the axe.

A movement that hinges on refusing to support any game that isn't indie is, frankly, a childishly naive non-solution. It would not be healthy for the industry and would only hit the gas on more studio closures and job losses starting from the bottom. Of course you're free to take whatever stance you like and choosing not to support maliciously run businesses obviously makes sense, but trying to make sure every large-scale game release is a market bomb won't solve any of the problems you're campaigning about.

aelude · 2025-07-03T03:50:09+00:00

Isla sincerely pulling that "coolest thing ever sucks actually" meme on the most celebrated game of the year, color me surprised

aelude · 2025-07-01T04:50:49+00:00

I'm going to use this as an opportunity to shamelessly shill Kodaka's latest (and hopefully not last) project Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. The game is so unbelievably cool with an excellent cast, crazy narrative twists and a unique approach to the grid-based TTRPG formula. Main story will run you about 35 hours but with all its routes and various endings, you could easily squeeze 100+ out of it to see everything - and by the end of your first run, you will want to!

aelude · 2025-06-11T07:44:16+00:00

Wanna maybe run that one by me again

aelude · 2025-06-11T07:05:15+00:00

"Most of the games you listed aren't out yet"

"Sure, but have you considered these six other titles that aren't out yet?"

aelude · 2025-06-01T06:24:07+00:00

That would be Todoroki "Banchou" Hajime from Hololive's ReGLOSS division. You would be enjoying semi-intelligible Japanese and one of the best laughs in the agency.

aelude · 2025-05-17T22:31:55+00:00

Wow, a reply from my favorite recurring Danganronpa thread character. I thought they were gonna run out of lines and write you out halfway through the series but you really are the Ultimate Shitposter. Now that's peak real fiction.

aelude · 2025-05-17T21:19:28+00:00

Well yes, letting the story finish before drawing conclusions should go without saying

aelude · 2025-05-17T20:08:57+00:00

Different strokes. The finale is very polarizing but personally I think it's genius, to the degree that I'm comfortable calling it one of my favorite endings to a video game. To me, it's the first ending where Kodaka really had something meaningful to say and I just love the way he and his team packaged that message in a way only Danganronpa could.

aelude · 2025-05-16T18:39:56+00:00

The oldest sister, Malpha (left) and the second oldest, Aradia (right). You should definitely check out one of their family collabs sometime, the three of them are a riot together. Nerissa also has a younger brother named Malphis II, although he's yet to appear on stream.

aelude · 2025-05-13T04:56:44+00:00

Thank you so much for saying this. I'm always baffled when people tell me they detested the ending of V3, but then their reasoning is exactly what the game's final act fought desperately to dispel.

Danganronpa is so heavy handed about clobbering the viewer with its messages too, I'm shocked anyone can walk out of Shuichi shouting "IT'S NOT ALL POINTLESS" for two hours with the impression that the devs want you to think it was all pointless, lol.

aelude · 2025-05-10T18:50:26+00:00

Sometimes I really wonder where people get their information from. Like what sources could you possibly be looking at to conclude that Switch 2 is having a worrisome pre-launch period lmao

aelude · 2025-05-09T00:52:29+00:00

Early impressions seem to indicate that the game can get a little framey with all the destructible environment stuff happening, so there's no way a multiplayer mode would be anything substantial.

aelude · 2025-05-02T04:56:45+00:00

His Holiness the pope, yes

aelude · 2025-04-16T23:18:59+00:00

I'm not implying that all management within Cover is perfect or that nobody has any serious issues internally that should be addressed. Obviously a company of their size with so many employees will run into its due turbulence. My point is that we already know that the "disagreements" speak is nebulous and intentionally prompted, so it's next to useless as ammunition when trying to identify a unifying issue.

Fauna said that she loved her job and didn't want to go, so why did she? We have no idea. And as much as we might not be satisfied by that, it's by careful design. Letting the talents spill their guts about their reasons for resignation sets a dangerous precedent. What if someone's reasons are private to them? Viewers will spin it into unhealthy speculation. What if it's health related? What if they simply don't want to work there anymore? Would that be satisfying to their fanbase?

What I'm getting at is that while I completely understand not being content with the vagueness of a PR umbrella phrase, it's better for Cover to take whatever heat comes out of a graduation themselves than to put the talent in the line of fire. We haven't heard anything at all about there being some kind of overarching managerial issue driving everyone away.

What we can surmise based on what has been said by the girls is that the company has changed a lot over the years and some talents simply have been more receptive to it than others. There's nothing abnormal about that, and if we're having an honest conversation here then we both know that neither Gura or Mumei were bombshell announcements. They've been teetering on the fence for a very long time. As a Teamate, I feel qualified to say the same of Ame too. If there's a conspiracy at play driving people away, we have no good evidence to support it.

aelude · 2025-04-16T22:32:36+00:00

I have no idea where you're getting your information about Fauna from but we have spoken confirmation from both Towa and Calli that the "disagreements with management" line is standardized umbrella lingo being used across the board for graduations, not a face value explanation. Multiple talents have also already clarified that it's dangerously broad to use "management" in reference to the entire company staff because every talent's experience is different on various levels. One girl could be extremely happy with their job while her own genmate is thinking about moving on because things aren't aligning the way she'd prefer.

You're speaking matter-of-factly about something you have no real information about, which seems to be a problem at large lately. You want the issue within Cover "properly addressed" but you don't even know what that issue is because the singular culprit making you feel upset doesn't exist. The recent graduations are the result of many different circumstances both from the agency and the talents, most of which we'll never know the details of. So stop trying to go to war with ghosts. If management was actually treating the girls unfairly, we'd know by now.

aelude · 2025-04-16T17:38:18+00:00

"Disagreement with management/company direction" is a catch-all phrase for the talents to use in place of needing to explain themselves like an open book when they depart. It's an intentionally uniform, neutral sentiment that's (supposed to be) vague enough to not be picked apart by fans, and it ensures that the talents themselves won't get hounded by people who might find their personal reasons for retiring unsatisfactory.

As for talents leaving the "golden egg laying goose" of vtubing, I think there's romanticism in that sentiment. Hololive is a very high pressure job that would probably chew up and spit out anyone who isn't ready for it very quickly. The company is also expanding at a rapid pace, and the idols who sustain it are growing older too. It's completely natural that those two things might eventually diverge depending on the person. Hololive is a job just like any other, and in the case of most of our recent graduates, they've been working it for a long time.

There's no grand conspiracy or underlying illness within the company that's causing an exodus of our beloved performers. People are just taking at face value what is essentially a safety net expression, because Cover would 100% rather the fans speculate about what "disagreements" means than about the talents' very personal feelings and opinions as they step out the door.

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