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submitted 14 hours ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

I saw Nerissa at a local KFP store yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be annoying and bother her and ask her to do "ara-aras" or anything.
She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “Ope? Ope? Ope?” and unbuttoning her shirt in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my meal order, and I heard her starting to sniffle like a wet cat as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen hamburgers in her hands without paying.
The orange-haired girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Entschuldigen Sie, Ma'am, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the hamburgers and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to remove the top bun from each individually “to prevent any culinary infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each burger and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by complaining about "how you cant get any Culvers here" really loudly.

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submitted 15 hours ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

During a period of 2+ years, Cover:

  • Made contractors do extra work (e.g., extra revisions), without sufficient justification (as per contract terms), without providing additional payment for that extra work.
  • Had late payments, including some payments late by over 300 days (!!).

In response to the guidance received from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cover:

  • Will cease their heinous criminal activity and follow the rules now.
  • Has resolved late payments, with interest.
  • Will attempt to rectify processes / training / etc that lead to the situation happening.
  • Will check if there are any other oopsies.
  • Will tell everyone they fucked up and what they've done about it.
  • Will report back to the Commission.
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submitted 17 hours ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

We have recently received a number of reports that our talents are being impersonated (including the spreading of false statements and misinformation) and experiencing intrusive behavior such as malicious language and behavior (including through billing functions on all platforms) on talents’ streams as well as being subject to potential abusive behavior and harassment such as slander, defamation, threats, and persistent stalking primarily on social media.

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submitted 1 day ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

Ft. Ririka

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submitted 3 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

Turbo back at it again, but now it's official

Setlist from comments:

0:00 UnAlive : Calli
5:13 PSYCHO : Bae
8:45 Born to be "BAU"DOL : Fuwamoco
12:49 Souten ni Moyu : Kronii
16:39 Pineapple : Kiara
20:20 Moment of my life : Irys
26:00 A New Start : Mumei
30:04 VIOLET : Ina
34:53 Let Me Stay Here : Fauna
39:24 Rebellion : Advent
43:37 ChikuTaku : Ame
47:37 Say My Name : Nerissa
51:15 ABOVE BELOW : Justice

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submitted 3 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

Referencing this video: YouTube

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Useful context from @callouscomic:

Misleading headline.

From a different site:

with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/

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submitted 5 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

In the past couple of years, VTubing has continued to grow as an inventive and influential form of entertainment. With major collaborations and sold-out concert halls slowly starting to crop up here in the U.S., hololive has been one of the spearheads of this rise in popularity. At Anime NYC, Anime News Network spoke to Motoaki Tanigo (YAGOO), CEO of COVER Corporation, the company behind the hololive production VTuber agency, and Max Sung Yoon Kim, the head of COVER USA Sales. They were accompanied by Moeko Tamano, the head of International Business Development, and Daniar Kisaragi, the international PR team community manager, who both provided translations for the interview. Tanigo and Max Kim offered insight into how they hope to expand their presence in the United States.

(interview's a month old)

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submitted 5 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

(Based on context, I think the pack's value was comparatively low, causing the reaction, which has been oversold slightly in the animation for comedic effect)

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

The VA really nailed Gura here. The gruff "I'm fucking Gawr Gura bitch" is indistinguishable from the real thing.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

It's a pretty short interview, so instead of a quote here's a link (which I assume is riddled with tracking) to the cover on all of its various platforms:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/elizabethrosebloodflame/blackbird

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submitted 6 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

MusicDrop is back with two new firsts: our first coverage centered around a song cover, and our first interview with a hololive talent. In this piece, we had the honor to catch up with Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame as she recently released her song cover of "Blackbird", a popular track from The Beatles.

We recently caught up with her to discuss her personal attachment to the song, as well as future expectations on her future covers, especially as we also learn that her covers will now be also available on major streaming services.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn't realize that was something people were using this for!

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 58 points 1 week ago

I've come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn't really better than not using it, it's just a tradeoff.

If you're not sensitive to input latency then that's likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it's not.

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submitted 1 week ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

This August, hololive English VTuber Mori Calliope released her second full-length major album, PHANTOMIME. Featuring songwriting from a diverse line-up of artists and producers, the album sees Mori's sound continue to evolve, pairing her distinctive vocals with hip-hop, rock, and even genres such as city pop. It also features her first true anime theme song, Go-Getters, which was used as the ending theme of the anime series “Suicide Squad ISEKAI.” Just after the album hit stores, Mori also joined the rest of the hololive English roster for the branch's second concert, Breaking Dimensions, which was held at Kings Theatre in Los Angeles on August 24th and 25th.

Right around that time, JaME had the chance to do a written interview with the reaper about PHANTOMIME, the concert and where she'd like to go from here.

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submitted 1 week ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hololive@lemmy.world

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh (to spicy chips), it disgusted me.
I craved the strength and certainty of Rock.
I aspired to the purity of the Blessed 🗿.
Your kind cling to your boomer jokes, as though they will not become cringe and fail you.
But I am already saved.
For the Brainrot is immortal...

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 52 points 3 months ago

The agency had learned about a semitrailer coming across the Mexican border, and agents tracked the drugs to the farmers market, said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. The drugs were found inside the truck, he said.

“This was contained in a cover load of celery,”

So unfortunately not inside the celery itself, which would of course be significantly more fun :(

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 33 points 4 months ago

Region code 0 ("Worldwide") discs work in all regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 62 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure it qualifies as "reverse review bombing" if the recent review +/- percentage matches the all-time percentage. There's just more reviews because of the shutdown, the ratio of positive vs negative hasn't meaningfully changed (97% positive overall, 97% positive recently).

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 39 points 11 months ago

Actual summary:

  • The article's focus is: lump sum payment vs regular payment.
  • Program had three groups: $20/month for 2 years, $500 lump sum, $20/month for 12 years.
  • Lump sum allowed people to invest (e.g., to start a business) in a way that monthly payments didn't.
  • Monthly recipients often pooled funds in rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) to provide a lump-sum-like investment ability.
  • Monthly recipients were "generally happier and reported better mental health" than lump sum recipients. Articles quotes speculation of cause to be stress related to investment vs the stability from having monthly payment.
  • "The researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol".

While you're free to circlejerk about how the article shows how great UBI is, that's not really what it talks about.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were careful with how they phrased it, leaving the possibility of a refresh without a performance uplift still on the table (as speculated by media). It looks like the OLED model's core performance will be only marginally better due to faster RAM, but that the APU itself is the same thing with a process node shrink (which improves efficiency a little).


See also: PCGamer article about an OLED version. They didn't say "no", and (just like with the previously linked article), media again speculated about a refresh happening.

It looks like they were consistent with what they were talking about with how it wasn't simple to just drop in a new screen and leave everything else as-is, and used that opportunity to upgrade basically everything a little bit while they were tinkering with the screen upgrade.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, though just nitro basic. Discord doesn't show ads and claims to not sell my data. While I can afford to do so, I'd much rather pay a few bucks a month to keep it that way.

The number of people in this thread aggressively against a free-to-use service having any kind of way to pay employees and server bills makes me fucking depressed, and helps to explain why most free services I enjoy never seem to stay afloat with just an optional payment-based membership thing.

Edit: To people suggesting less corporate-based (whether FOSS or not) alternatives, that's totally cool! Just remember that the people behind these projects need some way to pay the bills the same way the corporate ones do, so I encourage you to contribute to them, whether that's through e.g., code improvements (which doesn't pay bills but is still helpful!) or plain old donations.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UPDATE: the shutdown has been (for now) retracted.

The admin (jerry) has switched from kbin to a fork called mbin that has apparently been able to integrate changes faster than the base kbin project. Jerry seems satisfied with the number of issues fixed in the fork (for now), so has retracted the shutdown announcement (for now).

FEDIA.IO update!!!

After I made the announcement about shutting down fedia.io, someone pointed out that Melroy, a very active developer on kbin, forked kbin to mbin. I just migrated to mbin and so far it seems to have resolved all the problems I've seen. It's likely too early to tell, but I think that Melroy is VERY responsive and helpful, so I am retracting my shutdown announcement. And that makes me very happy.

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/111235153655966812


Followup: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/350673 tl;dr retraction has become more concrete. No need for the "for now" qualifier anymore.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The advertised “regular device upgrades” will never happen for anyone as part of Pixel Pass, even customers who battled Google’s servers to order a Pixel 6 the moment they became available (it’s me; I’m one of those people) because there’s still more than a month to go before the very first customers in would cross the two-year mark and be eligible to upgrade.

So a core part of the premise of Pixel Pass (device upgrades) is being lost, even to existing Pixel Pass users.

Original marketing from 2021:

Pixel Pass brings together the latest Pixel phone with Google’s best mobile services, device protection and regular device upgrades — all in one easy subscription. (emphasis added)

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