And the best part is, he only has to pay one of them!

--G.
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And just because of the white background, many people in chat were gesturing feebly from their fainting couches in protest of the multiple heart attacks it gave them.

Now, leaving aside for the moment the fact that being Calliope Mori is literally the keystone of her entire career, which is thundering along great guns at the moment: what kind of psychopath would choose that as the pose for a graduation announcement stream's thumbnail, then title the stream "let's celebrate"?

I understand that a lot of us are scarred from the first half of this year. I am too. But jeez, guys. You gotta do something about that context blindness.

--G.
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I guess it's a sign of how out of the loop I've been of late that I saw the thumbnail and just assumed it was yet another karaoke stream.

There's a part of me that genuinely believes that Calli will be the last of the "old breed" to go. And that the only appropriate way to end her graduation stream will be with her turning off the lights as she closes the door behind her.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Like the last scene of Babylon 5, with JMS cameoing as the guy who throws the lever to shut down the station before it's demolished.

--G.
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I just want to know, when responding to the ad for "massage therapist to massage idols' feet while they sing while wearing a 3d tracking suit for a skit", was the therapist thinking "this is so weird I have to try" or "pfft, this isn't even the weirdest thing in my books for the week"?

also, do you think Cover has to pay a "Gigi Murin premium" to hire people now?
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

I'm gonna guess B, because Tokyo.

>also, do you think Cover has to pay a "Gigi Murin premium" to
>hire people now?

What is that, and how does it relate to the Biboo tax?

--G.
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Upon reflection, I'm mildly bemused by the people in chat saying "Promise forever 6", just out of my own pedantry. Like, I know what they're getting at, but Promise never had six members. It was formed long after Sana graduated.

--G.
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Somewhere in Japan, some fucking trog is feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment, and I hope he gets cancer of the cock.

--G.
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So say we all.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

And her new original song, "ROCK IN!"

--G.
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Every single one of the girls made it clear that there's zero plans to actually switch or anything, but that they might do some pick up grinding streams or something, likely because the nature of Youtube doesn't really favor guerilla streams like that. They can always export twitch streams to youtube afterwards.

After a certain other pink lady permanently injured herself Pushing Through™ an illness, I just hope she's serious about waiting as long as medically necessary before coming back. Recovery from surgery is no joke under any circumstances, but this particular type of surgery is, based on what I've read, especially sensitive to patient behavior post-op.

--G.
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In fairness, it would take elephant tranquilizers to keep Calli down for as long as she needed to stay down.

>I just hope she's serious about
>waiting as long as medically necessary before coming back.

A fan already put together a Cone of Shame pic for Raora, it'd be funny if she actually had one on return.
In all seriousness though, hoping the same thing, and hopefully her friends and Hololive coworkers remind her to stay down until she's fully healed.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

--G.
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Meow.

--G.
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So, do we go with Into the Kroniiverse or The Kroniiverse of Madness?

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

As someone who never got into the franchise when it first became big in Western otaku circles but remembers the guys (and some gals) in my class who did, learning that Calli is a long-time fan does not come as a surprise.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

She's not, though, or at least she claims she knew no more about it than I do before she started playing the game. (People in chat keep saying things like "oh, this was way gorier in the anime. And took 25 episodes." :)

She's reacting to it very differently than I am, though. She seems to be very much on board with its ridiculousness. Me... well, I rode that train for as long as I could take it. I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the storytelling coherence of Elden Ring...

--G.
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Huh, coulda sworn she'd said something about being a fan, but perhaps that's the neurons misfiring from lack of sleep. Or maybe it was someone else, because my lizard brain insists there was somebody who identified as a fan in HoloEN.

>She's reacting to it very differently than I am, though. She seems to
>be very much on board with its ridiculousness. Me... well, I rode
>that train for as long as I could take it. I never thought I'd be
>nostalgic for the storytelling coherence of Elden Ring...

Yeah, that was why I never got into the franchise when it first became popular back in the mid/late-90s, because while others were oohing and awing to the fights that took half a season to conclude, I was reading Gunnm and watching fandubs of Evangelion. But I can also remember never understanding my cousin's fascination with "professional" wrestling, so perhaps there's a pattern there...

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

I can't think of any Dragon Ball game that is as coherent a story as even the TV show, let alone the original manga, just because it can't hit everything beat for beat (And there's a certain amount of abridging for what they *do* actually replicate pretty closely).

Games based on an anime series aren't meant to be the way you actually consume the story, they're meant to be a way to relive and interact with the story you're already invested in. I expect that's the same with books. I know it is with western movies, for sure.

I thought I would never see her play a dafter game than this... and then she played Asura's Wrath.

--G.
RRRRAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH repeat 305924859×
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ANGRY DAD

(I couldn't find a small enough picture of the Simpsons reference I'm making)

But seriously, Asura's Wrath is friggin' breathtaking, and I wish it were on Steam.

weep, weep for lost owl

--G.
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...

maid herself

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

i await your booing with the usual anticipation

YEAAAAHHHH

--G.
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Well, she's gone now, but I think Aqua might have...

> Or two costumes they designed themselves?

I'm glad they're letting the girls do more work for the company than just be talents, if you get me. Ina, Callie, and Sana always had Other Things they were doing art-wise, and Callie was able to do the art for her videos a couple of times, but now they're letting them just straight up work for each other.

I seem to recall Raora having done actual vtuber design work before, so it'd make sense she'd be the one to have multiple self-made outfits already, knowing how to break it up for ease of rigging and whatnot - after a quick lookup, yeah, she designed....eight vtubers, including herself. (Her not-Raora self, that is.)

I don't think anyone else in the company has anywhere near the same level of vtuber design experience she has.

Which is particularly striking considering she's both aphantasic and color-blind.

--G.
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