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>>Well, shit. I hope she gets better soon. (She certainly seems to be
>>getting a lot of support from the rest of the crew, which is neither
>>here nor there medically, but nice to see.)
>
>In which Mio explains, with extensive visual aids, what was wrong with her.

Jesus Christ! I really hope she’s not pushing herself to be back. She SOUNDS fine - better than half of the girls do before noon, really - but I still worry about these workaholics. From the sound of things, half of them don’t even take the breaks and vacations that Cover *wants* them to. And then there’s friggin Calli...

YouTube comment:
Mio (casually) : So my pancreas just exploded...
Subaru : MIOSHA !?!

As another YouTube comment observed, exploding pancreas is at least less bad than exploding appendix, which is what some people were afraid it was.

The green one is at it again.

"For Justiceee!!!" "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

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

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>The green one is
>at it again.
>
>"For Justiceee!!!" "You keep using that word, I do not think it
>means what you think it means."

I think she means it in the same way that, for example, Anakin Skywalker brought balance to the Force.

--G.
which he did, numerically speaking
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For the record, I think he *did* do that, just in a rather more roundabout fashion. Anakin returned when he came to Luke's rescue against the Emperor, and his death caused the events which led to the Emperor's final defeat.

The Jedi, as they were known before, are now gone. All that's left are people who are only partially trained, and not all that concerned about the possibility of corruption.

The Jedi Order feared and hated the dark side, and it made them easier to turn - they thought that by succumbing once it meant they were irredeemable, because that's basically what the Order told them. Yoda said it best, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. By fearing the Dark Side so much, it led to the suffering of countless people.

Rey has been left with the most ancient jedi texts, and had no fear of the Dark side, just those who abused it. We don't know what happened to everyone else, but, Ezra's dabbled in the dark and learned about the concept of there being a point between and separate from Light and Dark, and Ashoka was *thoroughly* disenchanted with the Order. (And a certain babbu has a Mandalorian mercenary as a role model)

Basically, the only way to bring balance to the force was to more or less clear the playing field and start over, and that all started with Anakin. He was Sarah Connor in the whole scenario.

You try to make a little joke about how by the time Vader was finished there were two of each, and... :)

--G.
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Sorry, sorry! It's one of those topics that gets me going~ :3

>I think she means it in the same way that, for example, Anakin
>Skywalker brought balance to the Force.

Well that was basically her plan at the beginning of her Skyrim run: "I'm going to get rid of all the thieves in Skyrim by stealing everything myself so there's nothing for anybody else to steal!"

In a strange turn of events, the International Police ends up hiring Advent to run down and capture their completely off-the-chain "super cops"
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Harsh balance.

:)

------
Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

What Is Oozora Subaru?

--G.
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Well, at least "Idol" is on top now. I can't find any previous results, at least not quickly, but I'd expect it usually goes Duck > Comedian > Idol.

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

Context: For the second time in two months, our favorite avatar of chaos slept through her alarm and apologized for it by groveling to us and bemoaning being a girlfailure.

Cecilia is a Good Guy, question mark . . .

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

So as part of the collab between Hololive and the LA Dodgers, our favorite Goob got to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch.

The team then went on to score 4 unanswered runs and beat the Brewers.

Given how superstitious baseball fans are, there'll probably be a lot of folks wearing Gura merchant at the next Dodgers game,

"I don't know who the shark girl is, but she's our good luck charm."

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>Given how superstitious baseball fans are, there'll probably be a lot
>of folks wearing Gura merchant at the next Dodgers game,
>
>"I don't know who the shark girl is, but she's our good luck charm."

We can but hope. :)

--G.
also, I only just now realized that COVER must have picked the participants in this collab at least partly because they have the correct colors.
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Korone is an artistic genius.

I think I just convinced Shiori to do a cannibalism stream. I will take credit and/or blame as required if it materializes.

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

>I think I just convinced Shiori to do a cannibalism stream.

... uh?

--G.
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A few days ago, there was a big Crab Game collab from all across HoloEN, and at one point Gigi said "if I was ever in that situation, I think I'd just start eating people", which got Shiori to reply "Cannibalism? Let's go!".

Fast forward to today, Shiori is doing a chatting Twitter Space, and I used my "you've been a member to the channel for X months" chat to ask "would we ever see a collab from Shiori and Gigi, the Cannibalism Pals?" Upon reading my chat, Shiori said she'd been thinking about doing a stream about cannibalism, and since Gigi and Fauna were talking about it during that collab, she might drag them in too.

So yeah, maybe credit or maybe blame, depending on how cursed this ends up being if it does happen.

I imagine the other girls will be making the distinction of whether Shiori and Gigi "invite them to X restaurant" vs. "have them for dinner" from now on.
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Clearly they'll play The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.

>Clearly they'll play The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.

Well, FuwaMoco playing it would be too on-the-nose. (Though I'm pretty sure that's outside the range of what Cover is willing to get perms on).

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

>>Clearly they'll play The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.
>
>Well, FuwaMoco playing it would be too on-the-nose. (Though I'm pretty
>sure that's outside the range of what Cover is willing to get perms
>on).

Yeah, that will almost certainly never happen. (Similarly, I would love to see what Gigi makes of Disco Elysium, but... :)

--G.
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>Clearly they'll play The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.

According to IRyS, that's not one of the games they have perms for. And given her reaction to reading the description, I don't think COVER will be looking to add it to the list anytime soon.

>>Clearly they'll play The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.
>
>According to IRyS, that's not one of the games they have perms for.
>And given her reaction to reading the description, I don't think COVER
>will be looking to add it to the list anytime soon.

If I listen carefully and the wind is right, I fancy I can already hear Shiori's manager calling his therapist.

--G.
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>If I listen carefully and the wind is right, I fancy I can already
>hear Shiori's manager calling his therapist.

Henma: "Wait, you're only talking about cannibalism, not actually eating someone on stream?" *dumps out the strychnine cocktail and replaces it with a double whiskey*

I wonder if Gigi knows how to cook? It'd be a terrible waste to subject the Long Pig to Shiori's cooking skills.
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

I didn't do a lot of sleeping last night for Medical Reasons, but I did find the time to have a mildly epic dream in which the members of Hololive English were transported to a setting that was having some kind of revolution against tyranny, à la Persona 5 Tactica. They rewrote "Connect the World" into a revolutionary anthem, all I can remember of now is that the first line changed to "We're ready to smash the state." :)

--G.
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Every dang time I see that song mentioned, my brain replaces it with "Tell Your World", probably because the latter is about connecting the world through the power of music.

EDIT: Having listened to the EN version of Our Bright Parade a few times now, I keep expecting the beginning to go "Parade, parade parade; It's time to take a stand", as if it were a protest song.

When I was just a little thing, I used to love parades,
With banners, bands, and red balloons, and maybe lemonade;
When I came home one May Day, my neighbor's father said:
"Them marchers is all Commies! Kid, tell me, are you a Red?"

How NOT to discover Munich, featuring Cecilia Immergreen.

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

>How
>NOT to discover Munich, featuring Cecilia Immergreen.

That's probably the most excited anyone's ever been to arrive in Munich since April 30, 1945.

--G.
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Hey now, be fair. They could be coming from somewhere like Gelsenkirchen...

---
"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.

Roughly the same manner of arrival too, in manner if not in scale.

Tangentially related, I want to see fanart of Cecilia as a Eversor Assassin from Warhammer 40k- Eversors fall into the trope of "Killing everyone who might possibly have seen me is like being stealthy, right?", which seems to be her style.

I might even try drawing her myself, but my art skills are mediocre at best
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>Roughly the same manner of arrival too, in manner if not in scale.
>
>Tangentially related, I want to see fanart of Cecilia as a Eversor
>Assassin from Warhammer 40k- Eversors fall into the trope of "Killing
>everyone who might possibly have seen me is like being
>stealthy, right?", which seems to be her style.

"Well, that was LIKE arresting him."
—Atomic Robo

--G.
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I have gotten so much use out of that line, over the years, in City of Heroes.

Iroha Nendo

Nene's going on hiatus

Personal statement

When you consider how hostile Japanese fans get to hearing their particular oshi is in engaged in a romantic relationship, imagine how livid they must be that Subaru was impregnated and gave birth live on stream*!

*Context: This happened on the Ark: Survival Evolved Hololive server and involved Subaru's character getting "impregnated" by and giving "birth" to the baby version of the game's equivalent of a xenomorph.

Quote of the day, and very possibly the month:

"I'm wet. I'm sopping wet. I need help."
—Nerissa Ravencroft, during her guest appearance on Mumei's birthday countdown stream

(context: Mumei was drawing her guests, and Nerissa asked her to draw the "Rissa has wet-cat energy" meme.)

--G.
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ERB's nose is looking like the lift from the Overlook Hotel right now.

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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

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I know, I know, you don't like the Laugh. She's not really playing a woman who Laughs Like That, she's playing a dorky idiot who thinks she's a woman who Laughs Like That. And I liked her cover of a Snow Patrol album track.

>ERB's nose is looking like the lift from the Overlook Hotel right now.

You can't say something like that without the trailing heyooooo, it's simply not done.

>I know, I know, you don't like the Laugh.

It seems to be evolving into a Wicked Witch of the West cackle, so that's a thing.

Anyway, I just find that one small-yet-inescapable part of her schtick a bit grating. Overall I'm on board. It's hard to stand out in a gang of musical comedians, but she absolutely does. :)

--G.
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Minato Aqua is graduating

Dammit. : (

ENigmatic Recollection Trailer

Kaela's birthday stream is underway, and I... well, I have no idea what they're doing, actually. Only that there are an awful lot of them involved, and they're doing it in Minecraft. :)

--G.
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>Kaela's birthday stream is underway, and I... well, I have no idea what
>they're doing, actually. Only that there are an awful lot of them
>involved, and they're doing it in Minecraft. :)

From what I saw when Kaela did a walkthrough before the actual game time, it’s a cross between Squid Game/Crab Game and a Snakes and Ladders board, where teams try to ascend the board to reach the end, and when they land on particular squares, a minigame is triggered (by Kaela) that they compete in, and depending on win/loss, they move further forward, stay in place, or move backwards. And, of course, Kaela went and built and programmed all this herself. (or maybe just paid for it out of pocket, as far as I know.)

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Hiodoshi Ao of Hololive DEV_IS has a...unique issue with some of her fan-artists.

>Hiodoshi Ao of Hololive DEV_IS has
>a...unique issue with
>some of her fan-artists.

"I had it done as a teenager!"

You what now?

--G.
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>"I had it done as a teenager!"
>
>You what now?

Not just had it done as a teenager, worked her ass off in part-time jobs to afford the procedure. Other vtubers have told horror stories about being teenage women working in these sorts of jobs, Ao holds it up as a matter of pride that she put herself through that misery just to be baby smooth from the neck down.

What especially amuses me about this clip is when the algorithm popped it up in my feed, the title made me assume it was a typical "I'm cool with fan-art, but..." video. Possibly even a Marine-style "I love NSFW fan-art, but not..." video stating her dislike of certain fetish works. Alerting the fan-artists that it's polished marble down there was definitely not on my bingo card.

>"I had it done as a teenager!"
>
>You what now?

I'm guessing it's nothing depraved but rather she got sick of the rigamarole of shaving by (or before) the time she could start working some kind of job, and decided to get the problem fixed for good.

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

Quite aside from the topic, Ao-kun sounds positively Subaruesque in her outrage.

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