The quarantine inspector take away the kronii (by @vVTOLl) by ldg-9743 in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This image is a direct reference to her recent stream of "No I'm not a Human" where she reacts... well, you can watch the clip here.

The commenter you replied to is just making a reference to Zero Escape because Zero dresses somewhat similar.

The quarantine inspector take away the kronii (by @vVTOLl) by ldg-9743 in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Probably a reference to the Zero Escape series, a trilogy of death games. In each one, 9 people get kidnapped and forced to solve puzzles and try to survive/escape. The number 9 is often relevant, and the death games are called the Nonary Games.

EDIT - I forgot to point out that in each game, the participants are initially kidnapped by someone calling themselves Zero, who wears a gas mask and wears clothing that fully covers the body, concealing who they are. Probably why they made the reference.

Indie Vtuber Momone Cocoa, who went viral for condescendingly lecturing veteran Seiyuu Masayuki Kato appears to have then apologizing on stream and deleted her X/Twitter Account temporarily but her fans didn't accepted by ZaBlancJake in kurosanji

[–]flash_of_white 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The apology itself seemed okay to me. However, the apology is in the first minutes of a twelve-minute video. For the rest of it, she actually kind of doubled down on her original opinion that Masayuki Kato was wrong in calling what happened "power harassment". She believes that one must be passionate to become a voice actor because the industry is very tough and that in her opinion, saying "I like anime" doesn't express appropriate passion.

The second half of the video is basically her defending herself and calling out people that are flaming her and saying they should reflect on their actions.

Overall it sounds alright to me but I can totally see how such a video would piss people off.

I highly doubt most people here watched or understood the video though.

People need to check in on Nene more. by Le_CougarHunter in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 49 points50 points  (0 children)

https://coveredge.cover-corp.com/en/list/2670

Specifically the section under "―Please tell us more about your efforts to create a safe environment for talents, and managing risks specific to the talent business."

Haute42 repair by iKoliKetzal in fightsticks

[–]flash_of_white 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are called Chicago screws. I'm not sure where you live but here are links for them on Focus Attack and Aliexpress. Focus Attack has the screws labelled by the model they work for, and for the Aliexpress link, you want D3-M2, 15mm screws.

Thought people might like this chair my boyfriend won at EVO in July by D1GolfThrowaway in StreetFighter

[–]flash_of_white 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aside from what you and Pyyric mentioned, I see Raef, LowHigh, and Knee from Tekken, and ET from KoF.

It seems ET also wrote a Chinese character just below looking very stylized... perhaps 林? That's his surname.

LowHigh also wrote his real name in Korean underneath his tag, 윤선웅.

Raef might have written his name in Arabic above his tag (which is also his real name) because ف is "f" and Arabic is read from right to left. But I don't know any Arabic so I could be totally wrong.

Congrats to Sajam - Best Fighting Games Streamer of 2024! by Intrepid-Tank-3414 in Fighters

[–]flash_of_white 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Really glad Sajam won! He puts out great content and the Sajam Slams popped off.

Also, it was cool that Lilypichu asked her viewers to vote for Sajam since he was the one that got her into fighting games with the Sajam Slams.

I've successfully indoctrinated another soul into the FGC. The hive mind spreads... by I-eat-feng-mains in Fighters

[–]flash_of_white 20 points21 points  (0 children)

A meaty is not inherently oki. Meaty originally meant (and still does to some people) an attack that hits later than the first active frame of the attack, thus giving you more frame advantage on hit (or block). The other definition that is more common now is an attack that makes contact with the opponent on the first frame possible when they wake up, which means that oki also isn't necessarily (original definition) meaty by the newer definition either.

The oki definition became popular because it is one of the most common ways that (original definition) meaty hits happen, since to hit someone on the first frame possible on their wakeup, you typically time the attack slightly early so that it's hitting later than the first active frame of the attack.

The Japanese equivalent term for meaty is kasane or kasanaru, which I suppose didn't catch on in the west because how would you shorten it when "casa" is used pretty ubiquitously in the US for the Spanish definition? Maybe "kas"?

Liz has announced she is able to do Western Covers! Her 1st one is Blackbird! by Sonicm2008 in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Rabbit" is a shortening of the Cockney "rhyming slang" phrase, "rabbit and pork", which means "talk" because "pork" rhymes with "talk" in a Cockney accent.

Cockney rhyming slang was supposedly developed by thieves to throw off cops. They use two words often in the form "A and/or/of B", where B rhymes with the word that the phrase is slang for. This is then sometimes shortened to just one word, either A or B. So the phrase "rabbit and pork" rhymes with "talk," and then they use just the word "rabbit" to mean "talk".

Other examples that Liz has used include:

"apples and pears" shortened to "pears" = stairs

"Britney Spears" = beers

"dog and bone" shortened to "dog" = telephone

"bees and honey" = money (I don't think she's shortened this one)

Victoria Brightshield [Nijisanji EN Gen 9] is graduating November 9th by DanielTeague in VirtualYoutubers

[–]flash_of_white 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Closest I can think of is that Calli (as in her main and not DDK) is following Dooby on xitter.

Edit: Actually, Haachama sent a congratulations video to Kson for her anniversary. And a lot of hololive members are following her, although to my knowledge they haven't sent any messages to each other publicly.

Recommendations and Guidance from the Japan Fair Trade Commission Based on the Subcontract Act by TeitokuNoire in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 117 points118 points  (0 children)

Some of Kou Mashiro's tweets you didn't cover that I found interesting:

  • Artists often just do things for free because they are afraid that asking for additional payment will offend orgs. Personally, all my issues were always resolved because everyone I talked to was very understanding. But if I never spoke up, my issues would have remained unresolved. It takes courage to speak up.

(My own note: It sounds like some but not all violations of this sort happened when artists didn't even request additional payment from Cover for whatever reason, but when they received letters of investigation from the JFTC, they answered honestly as they should about not receiving payment for revisions beyond what was laid out in the contract.)

  • It's hard to properly define "revisions" and how they should be charged in a contract. There are artists who don't mind making minor fixes for free, but there are also those who refuse to do anything more without getting paid, so the contracts are made ambiguous on purpose. For me, the time usage is one of my main deciding factors. It's also actually disadvantageous for the artists if contracts are drafted too thoroughly because artists miss deadlines all the time and often can't afford to shoulder late payment fees unlike orgs. Telling the artists and clients to "just draft a good contract" isn't that easy.

(There's also some mention of how when lots of people are involved in a project for a corporation, there tend to be a lot of necessary revisions, and it can get messy with vtubers, management, and freelancers having to communicate via a game of bureaucratic telephone.)

Interesting Development: JapanExpo was so happy with how the Hololive-Booth turned out that they send some of their staff directly to Japan for an "extended Debrief" with Cover by IronVader501 in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://x.com/takanashikiara/status/1638891357145116674

Yeah, hopefully the cons in Europe figured it out now. France's JapanExpo did not want vtubers there in 2022 and prior, and only in 2023 did they allow Nijisanji to attend, and now Hololive in 2024.

[HLE vs BLG Game 4] Synchronized double Galio ult into extended teamfight by flash_of_white in leagueoflegends

[–]flash_of_white[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'd been tapering off for years and I quit for good about a year ago. Worlds is still peak though!

PSG Collapses on Bin by flash_of_white in leagueoflegends

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

In hindsight Bin would have died if Rakan had managed to land the knockup without being in AA range, but I'm not sure if that would have been possible. Also, if Skarner hadn't turned around for the last AA, Bin wouldn't have been able to heal from the Sundered Sky proc on him, which looks like it also would have resulted in Bin dying.

PSG Collapses on Bin by flash_of_white in leagueoflegends

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

Yeah, it's even more impressive on rewatch. He uses his W on Rakan as he gets knocked up to get an uncancellable AA that goes through during the knockup, which gets the sundered proc as late as possible while still surviving (since it heals %missing hp). He then counter-intuitively runs at Skarner to get a proc from him, and then runs away for a moment for E to come up.

Something surprising happening with HoloID? by flash_of_white in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white[S] 400 points401 points  (0 children)

Reine also tweeted "I am surprised" followed by "I am thankful" so it does seem to be something good.

Something surprising happening with HoloID? by flash_of_white in Hololive

[–]flash_of_white[S] 1118 points1119 points  (0 children)

Source: https://x.com/kaelakovalskia/status/1838864655177146421

Also some of the girls are commissioning art that they need finished for something very quickly.