General Discussion for Virtual Youtubers / Vtubers / Chuubas - it's okay to be a simp for 2D, just don't thirstpost.

[Scuttle]

Azur Lane is already dying. They replaced Atago's VA and it killed the game in japan. They've been desperately pumping out japanese units to try and regain lost ground there but it doesnt seem to be working.
Now CCP are putting heavy regulations on gaming, labling them "electronic drugs" and investors are running from chinese games.
Any game that doesnt have a healthy audience outside china able to support it is on executioners row just waiting to see how far the CCP goes with the regulations, of course this isnt just limited to gacha games, every game company that invested heavily in china is fucked.

I don't think China will go far with their regulations. When you're a Communist country you need to have a symbiotic relationship with these money-makers so that the economy doesn't fall out of its ass, and gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

Hearing her quietly sob to herself like that is heart breaking. Selen wasn't wrong, this game hurts you.

I haven't watched the vid and don't know what she's said, but it's less about the game and moreso about it being her first tournament setting. Not only that, she's team captain, which means she's the one who reached out to the other two to make the team.

She recruited Yuuki Chihiro, a serial winner at APEX and usually one of the competition's heavyweights, so if she feels she's letting someone like that down its unfortunately going to bubble over. Fubuki and Roboco had the same issue where they felt they were holding Kurumi Noah back in the last tournament and Fubuki hasn't been in a competition since.

I think it'll be fine though. Chii-chan had a similar issue in a previous tournament where Kanae/Kuzuha schizo fans were berating her by saying the boys 'carry' her. It got so bad she had to make a PSA asking people to knock it off even if the comments are in jest. Her team (comprised of herself, Ratna, and Ibrahim) went on to win the tournament. So if anyone is going to understand how Uto feels it'll be Chii-chan.

 

[ZMOT]

They should also give A-chan an actual channel

didn't a-chan say she doesn't want one and is happy what she's doing right now when asked?

It starts a little slow, though saying that I am a sucker for songs that do a good job building up, but as soon as I heard that part I was hooked, and can't help being a fag and singing along.

the refrain is a fucking earworm.

 

[Captain Ahab 089]

Definitely starting to get interested in Kronii.

 

[ZMOT]

I don't think China will go far with their regulations. When you're a Communist country you need to have a symbiotic relationship with these money-makers so that the economy doesn't fall out of its ass, and gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

it's china, they don't care. just read up how they basically nuked their movie industry a while back.

 

[Godzilla1984]

it's china, they don't care. just read up how they basically nuked their movie industry a while back.

For the history-illiterate in the audience:
There is only The Party.

 

[Just a Basic Plebian]

didn't a-chan say she doesn't want one and is happy what she's doing right now when asked?

AfaIk, she did say the Hololive channel is her channel, and she's happy with the part time streams she does for it.

 

[Grass4Cats]

It's a good song, maybe even great. Certainly addictive. But more importantly than that is it's unique, and stands out from all the generic J-Pop. That means Marine is 2/2 with unique standout songs, and I couldn't be happier about that.

I know from karaokes, she can really belt out some powerful vocals too - hopefully her next original will showcase that.


Wow... those are all excellent, top-tier riggers! This is good news indeed (as long as Kronii is not rigged by Umiushi). And thanks for doing the legwork on that.

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This is going to be obsolete by tomorrow, but I was keeping an eye out for better images of the new girls. They were added to the official site, but without full-body images yet. There was an image of all five on the Hololive subreddit's Press Release post, but it was super low-res. On the press release on the official Cover site, I snagged a larger version that was obscured behind some obfuscation. Not sure if there's anything better out there yet.

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Thanks for the HR pic. I just realized and see that Sana has thigh gap, wears a leotard underneath that transparent skirt there.

Anyone criticized her design, you guys are faggots.

 

[kuuu]

Yo, fellow kiwis, Imma let you finish but Marine’s “Unison” is the best thing that came out of hololive in at least a year.

Hopefully it will let other girls loose with genres they release their covers and originals.
Rushia’s metal cover pls. Imagine.

 

[Scuttle]

it's china, they don't care. just read up how they basically nuked their movie industry a while back.

In that case, get ready for your social media pages to become even .ore homogenised under the Genshin Impact banner because that's sure as shit the only game making it out alive. MAYBE Mahjong Soul too.

 

[Rezza]

I don't think China will go far with their regulations. When you're a Communist country you need to have a symbiotic relationship with these money-makers so that the economy doesn't fall out of its ass, and gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

Dude, they cockblocked Ant Group from one of the biggest IPO in history. And Ant is part of Alibab, an entity that people used to to thought as "too big to fail". Xi and the party right now works to undermine these juggernaut of the companies because they if left unchecked, these companies might bite them in the ass.

That's why they're trying to crackdown on these big companies, and then force them to breakup their resources and capital so that smaller but much more controllable companies could grow up. That way they think they still could control the companies but still reaping the benefit of an open market

And China realized a bit too late that software can do nothing if they don't have any hardware. That's why they also need money to invest on IT hardware companies/factories to catch up, just like the US did earlier this year

 

[Blatant hypocrite]

I don't think China will go far with their regulations. When you're a Communist country you need to have a symbiotic relationship with these money-makers so that the economy doesn't fall out of its ass, and gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

Or so you would think. History would show that communist countries do, in fact, let the economy go to shit quite often.

Xi Jinping is definitely heading in that direction, recently everything I hear from China is either crackdown on something or pissing off their neighbours. Winnie the Pooh doesn't believe in his predecessors' values of freeing up the economy or making friends with other countries.

To make this vtuber related, I'm going to link this guy again.

 

[Airihead]

People thought that SanaXCeres was gonna be the new Takamori
Turns out its Sana and Kronii with a masochistic twist and a Side Ceres doing a tsundere/yandere combo for Sana



Edit: Ceres Yandere

 

[Captain Ahab 089]

Turns out its Sana and Kronii with a masochistic twist with Side Ceres doing a tsundere/yandere combo

I wonder how long these early gimmicks will last. They're pushing this one like they did Takamori so it'll probably last, but maybe not. Ina actually pretended to be an M in early streams, weird as that seems now.

 

[ZMOT]

In that case, get ready for your social media pages to become even .ore homogenised under the Genshin Impact banner because that's sure as shit the only game making it out alive. MAYBE Mahjong Soul too.

genshin's a gatcha, which means it already gets a pass with the whole "90 minutes per day" rule (there's not enough content to play more anyway). it's all in all very tame and animu fantasy which shouldn't anger a party official too much. those p2w grinders tho...

Dude, they cockblocked Ant Group from one of the biggest IPO in history. And Ant is part of Alibab, an entity that people used to to thought as "too big to fail". Xi and the party right now works to undermine these juggernaut of the companies because they if left unchecked, these companies might bite them in the ass.

That's why they're trying to crackdown on these big companies, and then force them to breakup their resources and capital so that smaller but much more controllable companies could grow up. That way they think they still could control the companies but still reaping the benefit of an open market

And China realized a bit too late that software can do nothing if they don't have any hardware. That's why they also need money to invest on IT hardware companies/factories to catch up, just like the US did earlier this year

the problem isn't the size, it's the power and independence. the bigger they become the harder they're to control. it's the same that happened to the movie industry a while back - nuking might have been an exaggeration, but depending who you ask the whole fan bingbing drama was less about her and more about setting an example, as in "if they can get her, we're all fucked", to get everybody fall back in line.

lot of people assume china is like a certain hook-nosed tribe all about the money, when as @Godzilla1984 said at the top you got the party. it's fine to make a lot of money which means you also take it from those filthy gweilo, but don't think you can do what you want.

 

[Tatsunoko]

What is it with chuubas and Apex tournaments that ends with them crying?

Some people who have responded seem to think that it's an Apex problem. But even the Mario Kart 8 Tournament that was held around New Year had a ton of members crying because they felt they didn't perform well enough. And we're talking about a game that is predominantly decided by luck of the draw. Not entirely saying skill isn't a factor, Aqua came in first quite a lot while she was arguably the best player. But at the same time, she still ended up losing.

The larger team tournaments and just more casual tournaments (Summer Games, Sports Festival) were a lot more lighthearted.

 

[Cubanodun]

Definitely starting to get interested in Kronii.
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Time is a harsh mistress isnt

 

[Captain Ahab 089]

So we have Kronii punching in her sleep and Amelia kicking in her sleep.

 

[Airihead]

Time is a harsh mistress isnt

Emphasis on Mistress

 

[Tor Lugosi]

I'm surprised she hasn't reached 500k already.

 

[kadmckool]

Still no Holo Council girls pull an IRyS of “self dox” before debuting to save us degenerate of finding out who they are. I wonder if any of them whose old audience is big enough for them to speed run 500K or 1M migrating sub on YouTub within 24 hrs after their first debuting video.