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[Sithis]

"So because of that my collision detection is off"
Fuckin dead

 

[Kaiser Rotbart]

ACTIVATE EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS SHE IS FREE AGAIN

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Finally a life sign...
...and it's for some ad campaign? I think?

With no further explanation or anything, so might just have been a prior contractual obligation. Might even not have been written by herself. Alas.

 

[jankhater]

I can soft-confirm the contest bit, as well. The Japanese fellow who I screencapped way back when Pekora's incident happened told me the deal after she came back (we've become good friends since we started talking back then) and explained everything. She wanted to hold a giveaway for the fans, I think it was game consoles (and games too), but due to 'reasons' management told her no, but she didn't give more details about why specifically. Some people here have posited stuff about gambling liabilities with Japanese law and all that, I can't say for sure, but I was told it was a contest/giveaway she wanted to host.

Thank you for clarifying. I know you mentioned him before, but I didn't know he confirmed the contest thing.

Not like anybody asked but some insight on artists going chuuba.

Could easily apply this with a much broader brush, not just artists.

Before anyone asks, Pochi is indeed a woman.

I agree, I really want to see it. It was such a weird out of left field collab, does Chaosium even have a JP branch?

Kadokawa licenses it from Chaosium and it's actually one of the biggest TRPGs in Japan. It's a good fit since Japanese players are really big on single session one-shots rather than on-going campaigns.

 

[reinigen]

"So because of that my collision detection is off"
Fuckin dead

 

[darkestraven]

Someone mentioned the wrestler Great O-Khan using and naming a move after Subaru, but apparently, the company that sponsored 2nd Fes, Bushiroad:



Owns New Japan Pro Wrestling. So our previous conversation of real-life HoloFightz might not be as far-fetched as originally envisioned.

 

[kuuu]

Nyet.

 

[Not A Vampire]

I was just looking through random hololive clips on yt and suddenly got this ad

For context, airasia is a low budget Malaysian airline under Tune Group, a leisure and entertainment company (at least according to wiki idk man) I had to do a double take and checked it out to see if it was really under a fucking airline and it was, so maybe starting to see more big companies creating vtubers? the vid was uploaded last week apparently

 

[ChuubaVital]

In case you didn't know it, Japan at 18:09 PM got hit by M7.2 Earthquake. I hope holomember and holostars are fine because there's indicate about tsunami.

https://twitter.com/UN_NERV/status/1373200929655123976?s=20

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Have any VTubers suffered any damages from these earthquakes before? The only one I can recall is Fumino Tamaki getting her hand flattened by a microwave, but is she the only one?

 

[packson]

Someone mentioned the wrestler Great O-Khan using and naming a move after Subaru, but apparently, the company that sponsored 2nd Fes, Bushiroad:

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Owns New Japan Pro Wrestling. So our previous conversation of real-life HoloFightz might not be as far-fetched as originally envisioned.

You’re saying that the dream of Okada and Jay White beating the shit out of each other as Miko and Pekora in the G1 Finals is pretty much alive huh?

 

[Green Oil]

Have any VTubers suffered any damages from these earthquakes before? The only one I can recall is Fumino Tamaki getting her hand flattened by a microwave, but is she the only one?

I think she's the only one. How she so unlucky? I always hear bad things happen to her.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

Someone mentioned the wrestler Great O-Khan using and naming a move after Subaru, but apparently, the company that sponsored 2nd Fes, Bushiroad:

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Owns New Japan Pro Wrestling. So our previous conversation of real-life HoloFightz might not be as far-fetched as originally envisioned.

You’re saying that the dream of Okada and Jay White beating the shit out of each other as Miko and Pekora in the G1 Finals is pretty much alive huh?

Everything is EVIL HAACHAMA

 

[Cubanodun]

Frend communicating with another frend

 

[ZMOT]

"So because of that my collision detection is off"
Fuckin dead

don't forget she has a thing for butts, like she mentioned she couldn't stop staring at coco's.

damn, now I really want coco translate a certain sir mix-a-lot song for marine on stream.
the intro in cocos voice alone would probably kill me, and knowing what a sexy boomer the captain is I'm sure she can appreciate it. I know she wants to get away from it, but her saying "me so horny" will probably trend #1 on twitter, it would be crazy just imagine the butthurt when the inevitable blacked memes crop up

I really wish there were translation clips from their TRPG games, especially the Call of Cthulu one with Watame, Roboco and Towa. I'll probably just end up watching it with the shitty auto-translation CC's though. Like I think the only clip out there is from them screwing around a bit before they actually start.

same. also

>sheep being into ttrpg
>lovecraft at that (bit normie by now, but still)

I never heard anything about that. But in that video I posted earlier, Haato mentions the children they did have. Now, I actually kind of like kids. Sure, hyperactivity can be draining, but I liked some of the times I've had teaching my kid-cousins how to play Mortal Kombat because I did at their age. These kids. . . they sounded like complete fucking dipshits. Plus, she mentions how they were having dinner, and didn't tell/invite her. These were just shitty people. I'm from a notoriously rude group of people in the U.S. and this shit is fucking alien. We treat our guests better than we treat our families most of the time.

she also mentioned stuff not getting cleaned, she didn't go into it but there's a difference between "nah, I'm gonna do the dishes tomorrow" and filthy (which doesn't necessarily mean anything since you can be kind but still a slob, if you know what I mean), plus who'd wanna eat with those kids? it's a bit more telling that they didn't even have any food for her it seems, no family completely eats everything (unless you don't cook enough, but most people do, especially with kids who are always hungry), and adding a portion so you can heat up later is no big deal either.

the other thing is applying a "normal" scale to a short visit at best, compared to an extended stay. almost everyone can get it's act together for a bit for appearances alone (as she said stuff was clean at first, which sounds to me like the "oh god we gonna have relatives over, quick make it look good!"), but weeks/months? no one can keep it up for that long, definitely not shitty people falling back into their old behavior.

for the record, wasn't trying to defend those people, there's a lot of fucked up shit most people never see on a surface level, and there are two sides to every story, so who knows really. least she's back in japan now.

 

[darkestraven]

It's been a while but people often mention Kiara's efforts to learn Japanese, which are impressive in their own right. But I thought of something I mentioned before about Coco saying she spoke Shitty Japanese when she applied for Hololive and it kind of got me curious. And considering she still has everything on NND up, which predates her old YouTube by 2 years, it was pretty easy to figure out where she started. I would honestly go as far as to say she was at Ina's level or even worse. So massive respects to her for making it this far.

Also, probably the closest to her real voice you're going to hear since a year later she started using the type of voice we know today. Wouldn't mind if she pulled out this voice for her ASMR streams.

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[Cubaris]

Wasn't Sun Tzu chinese? How are they so fucking bad at this.

Communism. not even once.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

don't forget she has a thing for butts, like she mentioned she couldn't stop staring at coco's.

damn, now I really want coco translate a certain sir mix-a-lot song for marine on stream.
the intro in cocos voice alone would probably kill me, and knowing what a sexy boomer the captain is I'm sure she can appreciate it. I know she wants to get away from it, but her saying "me so horny" will probably trend #1 on twitter, it would be crazy just imagine the butthurt when the inevitable blacked memes crop up



same. also

>sheep being into ttrpg
>lovecraft at that (bit normie by now, but still)

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she also mentioned stuff not getting cleaned, she didn't go into it but there's a difference between "nah, I'm gonna do the dishes tomorrow" and filthy (which doesn't necessarily mean anything since you can be kind but still a slob, if you know what I mean), plus who'd wanna eat with those kids? it's a bit more telling that they didn't even have any food for her it seems, no family completely eats everything (unless you don't cook enough, but most people do, especially with kids who are always hungry), and adding a portion so you can heat up later is no big deal either.

the other thing is applying a "normal" scale to a short visit at best, compared to an extended stay. almost everyone can get it's act together for a bit for appearances alone (as she said stuff was clean at first, which sounds to me like the "oh god we gonna have relatives over, quick make it look good!"), but weeks/months? no one can keep it up for that long, definitely not shitty people falling back into their old behavior.

for the record, wasn't trying to defend those people, there's a lot of fucked up shit most people never see on a surface level, and there are two sides to every story, so who knows really. least she's back in japan now.

CoC (Call of Chthulhu RPG) is insanely popular in Japan. It's one of (if not the) most popular foreign tabletop RPG, and Japan is its primary market by a mile and a half- sales in Japan outweigh all other regions combined, including the US. Very popular among JK and JD, probably for its emphasis on highly committed and social role-playing over other systems, but the usual jokes also apply here.

 

[augment]

Do we have flat eartherism and ancient aliens talk?

 

[Fcret]

I agree, I really want to see it. It was such a weird out of left field collab, does Chaosium even have a JP branch?

In the same way that D&D is *the* definitive TRPG of the US and The Dark Eye is *the* definitive TRPG of Germany, Call of Cthulhu is *the* definitive TRPG of Japan. When you say the word 'TRPG' to a Japanese person, it's what everyone imagines.

Japan didn't have much of a native TRPG culture (outside of a few niche games like Sword World) until replays of Call of Cthulhu sessions started blowing up on niconico and youtube in the early 2000s, at which point it became one of those weird otaku mainstays almost overnight. Some people think it's because Japanese people have a predilection for urban fantasy and horror. Me, personally, I think it's because WotC is incapable of publishing books that don't make Japanese bookstore owners shit themselves in fear over lost shelf space.

 

[augment]

Wasn't Slayers enormously inspired by D&D sessions the author used to have with his pals.

 

[Fcret]

Wasn't Slayers enormously inspired by D&D sessions the author used to have with his pals.

Yes. Actually a lot of Japanese media was. Allegedly a lot of the foundations of the Nasuverse spun out of a series of World of Darkness games Kinoko Nasu played during the 90s.

And therein is kind of a clue as to why TRPGs were so niche - the dice. Until the advent of online shipping, getting a hold of a set of polyhedral dice to play most of the games was nearly impossible in Japan (for reference, even in the 90s I could walk into most major bookstores in the US and get a set). You could find standard six-sided dice to play games like WoD or Sword World, but playing something like CoC or D&D was out of the question. Then in the 2000s, possibly encouraged in part by resurgence of interest in TRPGs in the west (with the 3rd edition of D&D and the OGL) and in part by an increasing awareness of the hobby in otaku subculture, more people started taking to it.

Fun fact: Similar to how we have tourists in the west who exclusively consume TRPG content through shows like Critical Role or The Adventure Zone, there's long been a 'Replay' culture in Japan wherein most people with awareness of the hobby consume it via transcribed game sessions with illustrations.