Last time, in Holothread 9, Spectrum said:

>Ina has run into something that impacted her plans for the next while.
>(Likely visa issues)

Considering she can't even open her social media, and is communicating via "Kuromane" that would be the most logical reason; without a work visa, doing anything work related would be illegal.

I wonder what happened; all of the pressers say something like 'company logistics'. Does that mean somebody dropped the ball? Was it just a scheduling problem and they didn't think she'd be there during renewal?

>I wonder what happened; all of the pressers say something like
>'company logistics'.

As a sometime military historian, I have an understanding of the word "logistics" that is giving me images I know cannot possibly be what's happening, but entertain me, nonetheless. Something to do with crates of cookies not getting where they're supposed to be in time.

--G.
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Military standard issue VTubers. What a concept.

"This is my waifu. There are many like her, but this one is mine..."

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

claymore vtuber with ridiculous booba even by vtuber standards, all crammed into a T-shirt bearing the legend FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY

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> Military standard issue VTubers. What a concept.

I bet within 5 years we see some branch of the military create their own VTuber as a recruitment tool. Sure it's a stupid idea and doomed to fail, but I bet they'll try anyway.

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

>> Military standard issue VTubers. What a concept.
>
>I bet within 5 years we see some branch of the military create their
>own VTuber as a recruitment tool.

It'll be the Space Force. You know it. I know it.

Also, you just reminded me of the time Zoner and I lived in California, and we went over to San Francisco during Fleet Week. They had the Embarcadero fitted out as a sort of long, narrow carnival, if a carnival was made entirely of thinly veiled Navy and Marine Corps recruiting activities. One such activity was a big tent full of PC clusters running Doom II deathmatches, except the game was reskinned to be present-day (so, ca. 1997) United States Marines vs. Non-Specific Enemy Combatants (Vaguely-Arab-Lookin').

It was exactly as wince-worthy as you're thinking right now, and the young Marine running the place was so proud of it. He knew all the buzzwords. "Warfighter". "Readiness". "Asymmetrical Warfare Simulation". Like, back on off'a that a little, son. You're not the strategic planning mastermind of the century, you're the NetWare admin for a fucking Doom II LAN party.

Man, that was nearly 30 years ago. That guy is probably Commandant of the Marine Corps now.

A bit down the way was another Marine giving talks about various weapons. He was a little more down-to-Earth and, after giving his audience the complete run-down on the M16A2 rifle, allowed in a confidential aside that (paraphrased from memory) "Burst fire sucks and we all want the A1 back."

--G.
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>Also, you just reminded me of the time Zoner and I lived in
>California, and we went over to San Francisco during Fleet Week. They
>had the Embarcadero fitted out as a sort of long, narrow carnival, if
>a carnival was made entirely of thinly veiled Navy and Marine Corps
>recruiting activities. One such activity was a big tent full of PC
>clusters running Doom II deathmatches, except the game was
>reskinned to be present-day (so, ca. 1997) United States Marines vs.
>Non-Specific Enemy Combatants (Vaguely-Arab-Lookin').

I still remember when America's Army was a big thing in the FPS shooter community because it was A) free to play and B) you could grab a copy at any Army recruiter by just lying that you were thinking of joining up. Decent game, but it was also the only one I remember that required you to qualify to use a sniper rifle by shooting a perfect score on a rifle range.

I remember America's Army too. Interesting idea, but not really what I was looking for in an FPS at the time, and I knew I wasn't going to enlist.

I wonder how effective it ever was? Probably not hugely so.

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I recall there actually being one for a time, actually. Or maybe she was only accused of being a plant....

You might be getting confused with the US Army esports team, who got dunked on by Twitch chat bringing up American war crimes every few milliseconds to the point where they ditched the program.

This happened around the same time as when a sleep-deprived balding British man asked a sitting member of the United States Congress if she knew how to beat Beaver Bother.

The internet can still be weird if we fight the corporations enough.

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So, I think she is/was a horse girl, and it was only a few months to a year ago...

"Please don't lewd the pig" -Calliope Mori

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

>"Please don't lewd the pig" -Calliope Mori

A few minutes later:

"Yeah, head is the best."
—Calliope Mori

--G.
they were talking about the best places to hit a zombie, but I mean...
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>You know, upon reflection, this makes perfect sense. In the modern
>era, Doctors never last more than four seasons.

"That's the only sad thing, I wanna know what happens next. Right then, Detective Whoever-I'm-About-To-Be... Tag, you're it."

Another CYOA video series, on a Secret Island Vacation with the holoEN girls

Long live Hololive!

>Long live Hololive!

"Glory to Arst0$*#9#ka."
- Ninomae Ina'nis

--G.
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>Long live Hololive!

There's actually a better version via Reddit, that has the full sequence, not cutting off at Ina's part: Hololive's Papers Please

Watch all the way to the end!
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And now there's an trailer for an actual game

Over/under on how long it takes Kaela to 100%?

2 weeks, unless the dev withholds some achievements just to keep Kaela from blowing through it.

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

Ina addresses her unfortunate situation

It's exactly as it says on the tin, Ina did a stream today from her home in the US explaining the situation without going into too much detail (likely for legal reasons). Long and short of it, she's not being kicked out of Japan, but she is barred from anything work-related (streaming, tweeting, etc) for the near future. The lawyers can't give her a date for a return to working besides "early next year" and the advice right now is just to think of this as an unscheduled vacation. The immediate fallout is that all her plans for the remainder of the year are either on-hold or canceled as of now, with no idea when she'll be able to return full-time. So she plans to do some streaming while stateside, then do the tourist thing once she returns to Japan ("visiting an onsen" was one idea based upon the time of year). Major announcements and updates will be passed on to fans through Kumomane-chan, but otherwise she's going to be radio silent until further notice.

On a side note: As these things tend to happen, Ina was the one who coined the name "Kumomane" for her new manager as she didn't want to just refer to her as "Ina's manager." Ina asked what her oshi mark was (spider) and then dubbed her "Kumomane," only to then make a totally Ina-cent (if awkward) comment about it being "unfortunate" when said manager told her that the choice of oshi mark was based on her birth date.

Gigi's Birthday - A pretty entertaining roleplay stream with a ton of guests

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We just got to see Kaela's sanity meltdown in real time: She played TCG Shop Simulator for 8 hours trying to pull a Ghost Foil card, reaching genuinely-worrying levels of broken in the last 10 minutes . . . and then right after she ended, she pulled the card during her ending screen.

Edit: per her Twitter it was "just" a full-art foil, not the mythical Ghost Foil.

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

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>We just got to see Kaela's sanity meltdown in real time: She played
>TCG Shop Simulator for 8 hours trying to pull a Ghost Foil card,
>reaching genuinely-worrying levels of broken in the last 10 minutes .
>. . and then right after she ended, she pulled the card during her
>ending screen.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Tetramon.

--G.
have I made this joke already? I feel like I might have. apologies if so.
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>have I made this joke already? I feel like I might
>have. apologies if so.

In fairness, it's a line that's ripe for laughing at.

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

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oh no, they say she's got to go
go go Gawrzilla
yeah

edit: oops, I meant to put this in the clips-and-animations thread. Oh well, stet.

--G.
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Suisei has an upcoming collab with JAXA

Cover got their hand slapped for work during their big growth period starting from a couple years ago

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Hololive members having their 3D debuts is the very definition of a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it's hella cool and opens up all kinds of new possibilities for fun and creative streams. On the other hand, it means they're now going to drown forever in the Sea of Required Idol Nonsense, and not have the time, energy, or spoons to do most of them.

--G.
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I feel like they don't even need the 3d models to start drowning- look at Kronii for example, stuck in Homework Hell. I fear we're probably going to have at least one more early graduation before they find a good balance.

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

LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-24 AT 06:54 PM (EDT)
 
Kronii's stuck in homework hell because she just came off a vacation and repeated bouts of sickness slowing down her workflow. Also Promise has had 3D, so I'm not even sure what you're pointing at there.

What I'm pointing at is Kronii's homework is *not* 3d-related, so 3d models aren't a requirement to get sucked into homework hell.

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

Upon reflection, "nonsense" is probably a bit harsh. It's an honest reflection of my frustration with the havoc that side of the operation consistently wreaks on the side I'm more personally interested in, though.

--G.
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Miko 1st live free preview

Baelz 3d live

Watame's Have a Nice Day with Hajime (fully subtitled)

Kronii did the One-Chip Challenge to celebrate hitting 1 million subscribers, and she's discovered a new favorite word in the process.

"I'm not going to relax, or even go to bed, I just need to be on the floor . . ."

"celebrate"

--G.
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Miko posted about a collab she's playing with some of the other girls.

Unfortunately, she used the wrong logo...and the devs noticed.

Fubuki announces her first sololive for February 2, 2025

This is very old news by now, but back early 2023, Yamaha created an Electone (a synthesizer organ with two manuals and a pedal keyboard) themed after Himemori Luna, who herself plays an ELC-02 model. I say "created" rather than "released" because the Electone LUNA was never offered for sale and I'm not sure they even made more than one. They did do a couple live demos with electone player 楠本 まどか, though! She opened the first with Shiny Smily Story, and the second with Our Bright Parade (which was also the first concert/demo's closer).

>They did do a couple live demos with electone player 楠本 まどか,
>though!

The end result reminds me of a joke Jonathan Scott made about his solo arrangement of Saint-Saëns's Third Symphony (popularly known as the Organ Symphony), to the effect that he'd created the transcription so that he could still give the concert even if the rest of the orchestra failed to show up. :)

--G.
full disclosure: the joke isn't in this recording. it's in one of his full-program online concerts, which featured the fourth movement as one of the selections, but I can't remember which one that was
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Enigmatic Recollection is going to have its 2nd chapter in Spring 2025 according to the Chapter 1 recap stream.

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

AZKi 6th Anniversary Live

Ooo, Geki! Teikoku Kagekidan

I love that these girls are dorks. :)

And AZKi lookin' pretty Heida-no-Akyuu-y to me in that kimono~ (I misremembered Akyuu as wearing more pink than green, but there's also the hair)

My gosh, IRyS 2.0 is pretty.

--G.
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Weird Mystery Game JP CYOA (subtitled)

LAST EDITED ON Nov-23-24 AT 00:52 AM (EST)
 
Calli Sololive in Los Angeles, 2/26/25

So Kiwawa posted the launch trailer for her collab with Vite Ramen...as a KFP "training video." Yeah.

Fauna has a serious announcement in a little under 2 hours from this post

We can spawn a separate thread if the worst comes to pass, but I'll hold off doomposting for now. It doesn't look good, however.

EN is doing a daily holiday calendar, starting off with Kiara.

Calendar site
Kiara Day 1
Cecilia Day 2

Nerissa Day 3
Calli Day 4
Kronii Day 5

Gigi Day 6
ERB Day 7

I was kinda waiting to hear the *thump* of Gigi dropping from lack of oxygen at the end there.

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