MHLoppy
Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).
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Well now I kinda am proper-back, but looking back on the under-a-rock period and it’s still almost just
MentalMoeMentalEdge and me - idk, it’s a bit disheartening that if the two of us (and I guess hal_5700X in third place) all got hit by a bus the posting activity would die with us, even in a community of >1000 people. Somehow we seem to be doing worse than the 1% rule, which is already not a very high bar. Maybe it’s hard to compete with the presumably-numerous Discord communities :(
RIP squishies, we barely knew ye
Roses are red
Gura is blue
One time she said “A”
So now I must too
Art of Fauna appears on the screen,
My kami-oshi, in black and green.
So my braincells go uuuuuuuuuuuuu,
Then my fingers do too -
Just ordinary sapling routine.
Frustrating how hostile markdown is to poem formatting 🫠
edit: I spent half of the time writing that figuring out the last line, and I think I now prefer:
Another comment left for my queen
Since it makes more sense / links better with lines 3+4.
Without ever directly watching the talents themselves, someone could watch / read / play / listen to well-made fan content as a full time job and still be pressed for time. It’s genuinely nuts!
😬 not proper-back yet (just a brief lull), but thanks haha
6·2 months agoFat F for AmeSame
I literally have not gotten around to watching her debut yet, so you could say I’m a bit behind even though I’ve watched plenty of her streams over the years.
The fact that it’s not a “real” graduation (while also not going to staff) seems to imply she might come back for special events or something? As much of a bummer as this is, that’s what has me most curious:
Any future activities that involve Watson Amelia will be announced through official social media and other channels.
At least we still have https://watsonamelia.com/
edit: it looks like someone is making good use of https://ameliawatson.com/ as well (it used to just redirect to her channel)
Well, it looks like I have to go back into the mines for a while* so probably won’t (or perhaps more accurately shouldn’t) be posting for a bit, and the popular 0 up / 1 down submission seems like a good place to mention it 🙃
Here’s the stuff in my queue if you wanted some easy submissions while I’m in the mines:
- YT: HoloMyth and iron (animation) (I LOVE THIS and was trying to wait out the YouTube thumbnails to post it)
- YT: Gura say something crazy to marine…!? (animation)
- YT: Bettel getting flak for lack of an intro (clip)
- YT: Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame anime intro (animation)
- YT: CC learns Japanese (animation)
- YT: HoloEN’s “All My Fellas!” + JUSTICE! (short / animation) (this is really cool, and there’s a standalone version for each of the four EN gens)
- YT: Ina reacts to Endermen stealing her house (animation)
- YT: They’re cuddling (animation)
- YT: I love how Gura never changed… (clip)
- YT: Cecilia & Gigi (animation)
- Fanart: Uncovered evidence (by ShiroO)
- Fanart: Fluffy and Fuzzy (by kukie-nyan)
- Interview: An interview with a director and lead engineer about sandbox game development
- Needs to be processed into something shareable (get screenshot / clip etc): Gigi and Cecelia played a horror game and Gigi freaked the fuck out the entire time
- Needs to be processed into a screenshot: Raora / Gigi pineapple scuffle on Xitter
* I did try to hang in there as long as I could since it seems like when I stop posting there’s not much going on ): but sometimes the mines need some extra attention
Might have to wait for the founding of Cover EU :P
A (slightly long) highlight:
Anime Herald: You’ve had a chance to receive some feedback from the fans. What have you learned that might change how COVER Corp. operates going forward?
Max Kim: We hear from fans all the time, over the years. If there’s one thing we’d want to enhance, it would be for users in the West to have better access to our merch and content. That’s one of the reasons I’m here. We have our own merchandising, as well as merchandise that we create via licensing. Watching the stream is one thing, but also being able to buy their goods.
In Japan we call it “Oshikatsu.” Supporting the talents that you love, not just by watching online, but participating in various activities. It’s very difficult to do that in the West. The shipping fees are high. It takes time. It’s difficult for fans to get their hands on the official goods.
That’s why some of the collaborations here in America were successful. We could provide the licensed merch for the fans, so they could wear it to the anime conventions and show their support. We want to make it happen more frequently so it’s easier for them to get their hands on it.
Anime Herald: That sounds a bit like Japanese idols. You support your favorites by buying the merch, or the chekis.
Max Kim: Yes.
Anime Herald: I can imagine why that would be a tricky culture to recreate in the US.
Max Kim: At the same time, here in the US, sports fans buy their merch. You watch them on TV. It’s not just about watching. I don’t think it’s as foreign as idol culture. It’s just physically difficult right now.
Anime Herald: In America, with rock bands, you buy the tee shirt, you buy the album, you go to the concert.
Max Kim: Yes.
I hope you’re all ready for Breaking Dimensions the breakfast cereal
I didn’t really want to dump this in as its own link and I know some people only browse here every few days, so you might also like Polygon: I went to a Hololive concert and now I’m convinced VTubers can do anything
The most interesting Q+A pair for me personally:
hololive DEV_IS was introduced in 2023 as a new branch that focuses on music. What do you see as the driving force of hololive DEV_IS and ReGloss? How would you describe them to new viewers?
hololive DEV_IS is not a group focused solely on music, but rather a group that aims to explore new frontiers. We hope fans will support their journey as they take on these new challenges. Previously, hololive’s music efforts have centered around solo artists like Hoshimachi Suisei and Mori Calliope. With ReGLOSS, we plan to expand into a new dimension by focusing on music as a unit.
For Chapter 1 of “ENigmatic Recollection,” an original realm was crafted within a sandbox game medium. The world takes place in Minecraft. You can watch as this new tale unfolds, shaped by the choices and actions of them, the 19 hololive English members! The details of the overarching “story” will evolve according to their decisions.
The members of hololive English will be role-playing as characters from the world of the same name, and they don’t really know what their characters’ backstories are. Let’s find out together as they play more.
So… it’s minecraft RP with supporting animations etc?
Now, being part of hololive with my Rosarians [The Bloodflame Kingdom] by my side, gaming feels like a much more enjoyable experience. I still don’t consider myself “a gamer,” but I enjoy it nonetheless.
Interesting how her streams are basically [always one out of] singing, games, or superchat readings, but she still doesn’t take the label.
Frothing at the mouth, what a way to go lol
TIL lemmy and mbin treat
~text~differently
I flip between Nerissa and Ame depending on a couple of 50-50 questions
Myth
Promise
Advent
- Bijou is actually Shiori (Xitter)
- Nerissa is actually Bijou (Xitter)
- Shiori is actually Fauna (Xitter)
Justice
- Cecilia is actually Bae (Xitter)
- Elizabeth is herself (Xitter)
- Gigi is actually Calli (Xitter)
- Raora is actually Mumei (Xitter)
I think that’s all of EN that posted about it
I didn’t realize the count of active users was that low, though whether I should really consider that a positive or a negative overall is a bit unclear haha.
I guess my biggest gripe is that I was sold the premise of “be the change you want to see” in terms of getting a community more active. I’m something like a thousand posts later and it’s not clear whether all that effort made much of a difference. Looking at the front page (default sorting) from a year ago and engagement is only up modestly. It’s good that it’s up rather than down I suppose, but I kinda thought there’d be more peeps pitching in by now, even if it was just a handful of hardcore talent-specific fans posting exclusively about that respective talent.
Onlookers probably see my activity here and think I’m some kind of hardcore fan completely immersed in holo, but I identify as a hardcore casual fan, and don’t usually follow things that closely unless it’s for a specific reason like when I’ve been finding stuff to post. If the community was already moderately active before I got here, I’d probably only post a little - I just stepped up because I wanted an active community to participate in without resorting to reddit/xitter/discord for it. (plus I already have a history in fanart communities, so starting out just sharing recent fanart that I liked was easy enough)
It feels hard to discuss it without coming across as pretty whingy, but if all the effort seems to barely move the needle, it does make me wonder if it’s worth it. And while it really is nice that you (and I’m sure some others!) appreciate it perhaps more than I do, doing it does suck up a not-trivial amount of time and effort from other things I want to do - things where I actually know that at the end I can get the result I want (which as above is unclear here). It’s hard to find the time to do things like make an entire poorly-optimized shitpost-website anymore :(
I do kinda worry that if some unknown threshold of post diversity isn’t reached then people won’t find the “sub” useful (that’s why ages back I diversified away from just posting mostly fanart), but since I’m not satisfied with the status quo right now either, I guess I might just scale back for a while and see how it goes.
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