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Get ready for beeg smile.
She may not have streamed much compared to the others, but she was good at it.

Speaking of Taiwan, any thoughts on Pelosi's big trip today? It's kind of funny (in a dark way) to me personally. I started lurking here at the time of Coco's graduation. I finally started posting during the chaos surrounding Rushia's termination ( still kicking myself for now doing a "Terminator" joke at the time because of Cover's phrasing) which occurred on the same day as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then I stopped posting for a few months, but I got the time/urge to post again during Sana's graduation, which happened just when it looks like war could break out between the US and China. Must be something about this time of year.

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SY12 said:
do you think the western bros will call to boycott anycolor and all its members because of china like how sjws boycotted russia in almost everything?
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Do I think that? No, at least not for most of them. Western vtuber fans want to keep an apolitical oasis (which is why I'm one of them). I just wondered if people were thinking about this, since the tensions over China and Taiwan have an obvious impact on our hobby.
 
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2DUM4U said:
Get ready for beeg smile.
She may not have streamed much compared to the others, but she was good at it.

Speaking of Taiwan, any thoughts on Pelosi's big trip today? It's kind of funny (in a dark way) to me personally. I started lurking here at the time of Coco's graduation. I finally started posting during the chaos surrounding Rushia's termination ( still kicking myself for now doing a "Terminator" joke at the time because of Cover's phrasing) which occurred on the same day as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then I stopped posting for a few months, but I got the time/urge to post again during Sana's graduation, which happened just when it looks like war could break out between the US and China. Must be something about this time of year.
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we all know cover's stance regarding china by now. if war breaks out between freedom country and bugmen, and anycolor decided to do the opposite by sticking to their bugmen investors, do you think the western bros will call to boycott anycolor and all its members because of china like how sjws boycotted russia in almost everything?
 
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SY12 said:
we all know cover's stance regarding china by now.
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Their stance is "we'll take your money" like every other companies stance on China.

They were more or less forced to close the branch, but Cover are quite happy to ship merch there and still provide Chinese translations of all their sites and press releases. HoloEarth, which so far looks like every gacha game ever made, is absolutely going to target one of the biggest markets for spending on mobile/gacha shit.
 
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SY12 said:
we all know cover's stance regarding china by now. if war breaks out between freedom country and bugmen, and anycolor decided to do the opposite by sticking to their bugmen investors, do you think the western bros will call to boycott anycolor and all its members because of china like how sjws boycotted russia in almost everything?
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I highly doubt that China will invade Taiwan due to two factors, One China is largely dependent on the West to their economy due to them being rich, have China invaded Taiwan Most western countries may find elsewhere to produce their products I.e. Africa, SEA, or LATAM/South America. Second Taiwan main export is high quality microproccesors and of their main importers is China, If they invade they will be cut off on the microprocessors that China won't be able to produce long range missiles, RADAR, or any other military equiplment that has a computer in them.
 
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Hey look, more drama in the EN sphere. Must be a day that ends in Y.


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USS IOWA said:
I highly doubt that China will invade Taiwan due to two factors, One China is largely dependent on the West to their economy due to them being rich, have China invaded Taiwan Most western countries may find elsewhere to produce their products I.e. Africa, SEA, or LATAM/South America. Second Taiwan main export is high quality microproccesors and of their main importers is China, If they invade they will be cut off on the microprocessors that China won't be able to produce long range missiles, RADAR, or any other military equiplment that has a computer in them.
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Relocating manufactory is not easy as "just produce things in Africa", even less if you're at war with the people holding the know how. Another reason why even the rest of the world doesn't want war and can't just abandon China.
But it's USA's call now, so who knows what the schizo hawks governing that state really want.
 
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agility_ said:
They don't use numbers anymore, you have to come up with fake latin words or somesuch. Here I'll do it:

Exhulthius
Vitalion
Exdeenty
Swaggoliam
Supramaximus
Accentholis
Diametrax
Bob
Illuminnuminnum
Descshithia
Augurius
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Fidensied
DiesNauX
Trifidee
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Prodigiosum
Putridumfoemina
Natis
Phallu$reX (all fujoshi-bait wave)
Captionem
 
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Lyra94 said:
Their stance is "we'll take your money" like every other companies stance on China.

They were more or less forced to close the branch, but Cover are quite happy to ship merch there and still provide Chinese translations of all their sites and press releases. HoloEarth, which so far looks like every gacha game ever made, is absolutely going to target one of the biggest markets for spending on mobile/gacha shit.
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They weren't forced to do shit keeping the Chinese market would have been as easy as immediately firing Coco and Hachama and then apologizing to the chinese overlords

Sure they would have lost the US but that doesn't change the fact they willingly chose to drop the CN market over 2 Talents
And i will applaud them every day for that decision
 
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Least Concern said:
Guys, I was looking at that wonders.ai Twitter feed and I started to get some… non-native-English vibes from it. And then

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I wonder if… Well, let's check out their web site… Oh, it has a language changer…

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And it sure looks like traditional Chinese if you change it. Well, let's check out the Contact page and

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…They even used "ROC." :story:


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Fishman continues to assert dominance. :story:

Lovable chuuni donkey doing a collab in stretchy dog game.
 
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masterstocking said:
Tell me you don't know what ESD is without telling me me you don't know what ESD is. You use compressed air to prevent damage to delicate equipment like CPU/GPU fan blades and other fragile components. Don't use air compressors or vacuums, they produce ESD at the nozzle and can fry sensitive electronics, not to mention pushing air at too high of a PSI can and will damage computer components (esp. if you use a large tank compressor, like found in a garage). Sure, you can use a soft brush (I use an old toothbrush for fan blades)...now how do you remove all that dust that's still sitting in the case? You carefully use compressed air to blow it out. The blower you suggested specifically says it's not ESD safe, and to not use it internally:

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Unless you smoke, the dust will not have a death grip on your components. Gentle and easy is the way to go, hence the need for canned air. But hey, this is only my advice. You do you.

Source: 14 years of working in IT.
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Also work in IT and it's perfectly fine, probably wouldn't touch it directly to the components but a brush would be better for that anyways and used to be suggested by A+ cert stuff (regardless of what a joke the cert and CompTIA is). As a final aside you quoted an amazon user Q&A not the product.

Anyways enough IT sperging, watch Anya play Half-Life 2:
 
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Least Concern said:
Guys, I was looking at that wonders.ai Twitter feed and I started to get some… non-native-English vibes from it. And then

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I wonder if… Well, let's check out their web site… Oh, it has a language changer…

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And it sure looks like traditional Chinese if you change it. Well, let's check out the Contact page and

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:stress:

…They even used "ROC." :story:


(Yes I did insert them all as thumbnails. XenForo is doing its thing where the thumbnails are really big too.)
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The Taiwan address usually contains the "Taiwan (R.O.C)", No need to freak out and panic.

For example, the Taiwan President Office address (https://english.president.gov.tw/Default.aspx):
Office of the President No. 122, Sec. 1, Chongqing S. Rd., Zhongzheng District Taipei City 100006, Taiwan (ROC)
 
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Ikari Tenri said:
Actually I was rather relieved that it's a Taiwanese company instead of selling out to the mainland like Nijisanji today does.
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'Selling out' does so much heavy-lifting in this statement that it's hard to tell if you're serious.

Both Cover and AnyColor wanted the China money, and both companies would still have it had Coco not said 'Taiwan' on stream. They did their best to weather the storm but ultimately pulled out of the market entirely. This does not mean a market there no longer exists as Chinese-speaking territories are still the most active places for Google traffic for Hololive, but we'll ignore that.

Anyway, AnyColor have not been faced with the same predicament yet so it's pretty unreasonable to assume they'll pull out to show some kind of solidarity with their competitors. Their information is super easy to find now that the company has gone public, so allow me to crunch some numbers relative to market trends of Aug. 2, 2022. so that the info is here.

AnyColor's stakeholders overview:

• Riku Tazumi (AnyColor CEO) - 43%
• LC Fund (China) - 10%
• HODE HK (Hong Kong) - 7%
• Skyland Ventures (Japan) - 7%
• Sony Music Entertainment - 5%
• Ken Honda (Freakout Holdings) - 5%
• Adways - 3.5%
• Shinya Tsurui (AnyColor CFO) - 3%

The rest went to other AnyColor staff and the general public.

So, China is responsible for about 10% of the company's ownership. If you want to be a stickler and say that HODE HK is a subsidiary of BiliBili and is therefore also Chinese then fine, 17%. Given that people seem to take no issue with HK, Taiwan, Singapore etc I'm not going to, though, so the company is 90% owned by non-Chinese people and businesses.

How much are we talking? Well, shares went live at about ¥1,450 each for a total market cap of ¥44.6B ($345m-ish). As of this post, those shares sit at about ¥6,060 each with a market cap of ¥184.2B ($1.4B). So, the company is worth $1.4B on the open market right now, and Mainland China has their hands on about $140m of it. Riku Tazumi alone holds about $602m worth of shares, and non-Chinese businesses and investors hold about $1.26B of its total. Even if I have overlooked something here, I think anyone who knows how words work can categorically say that this hardly qualifies as 'selling out'.

As annoying as the Luxiem ass-tonguing can often be from EN management, it is tunnel vision to assume that it is representative of how the company is functioning from the top down. My post yesterday showed that Niji have no issues whatsoever raking in money from what is an overwhelmingly Japanese audience.

Hopefully this goes some way to being informative for people. I generally find a lot of the vampiric aversion to the mere mention of China here to be hilarious, but it's another thing entirely when unsupported statements are taken as a universal fact without any inquisition.

If people more in the know of Japanese business acquisitions want to elucidate me on how this actually is selling out then I am more than open to being corrected on the record.

EDIT: Replaced instances of 'Japanese' with 'Non-Chinese' where appropriate.
 
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