Sick during my last week of uni and the council election looks dire, whoever is praying for my downfall please stop cuz it's working

European fans feeling Miku Expo fomo (their gig is in 6 months)

Some new books I picked up while out shopping today. I wasn't much of a reader as a kid so I'm still finding what I like, but lifestyle non-fiction and memoirs seem to be what I'm gravitating to at the moment.

After being brought up by the PEAK devs, I really hope "Just because it's multiplayer doesn't mean it's a live service" becomes a more adopted mindset. Personally I see those games kinda like board games, you don't need new content cuz it's fun enough to just keep replaying.

Confession time: I only recently learned that 'Timbre' is pronounced "t ae m b ah" ("t ae m b er" for Americans) because back in high school my music teacher called it "t ao m b r ax"

It's always "Thank you for telling me everything you know about VOCALOID" and not "Are you autistic"

Enough time has passed that I feel confident saying I have yet to be impressed with any of Dreamtonics SV2-era Alphabets, primarily due to how SV2 affects their timbre. Something about them feels so much thinner and noisier.

When I was a kid I didn't understand what the title "The Devil Wears Prada" meant so I just interpreted it as "The Devil wears out someone, whose name is Prada".

Character limit stopping me from making some bangers

Listening through some of my old covers and this one is always a delight to come back to because the mixing is rough, this was two years before I did any kind of vocal training and the tuning and timing is nonexistent but sweaty did she have a concept

The most annoying person you know was unfortunately right about the lack of online functionality in Tomodachi Life being the secret sauce that made the game's release more social and involved than it would have been otherwise.

Between Living the Dream and New Horizons there's this really interesting trend to observe of players who, when given the opportunity to landscape what is effectively a walkable community will still incorporate the aesthetic of a car-based infrastructure.

Autism creature

Had to go to a cafe to do schoolwork in order to pull myself away from Tomodachi Life that's how much of a hold it's had

I'm not getting the comparison of Living the Dream having a New Horizons problem (More customisation at the cost of inferior sim gameplay), because while there's some absent returning features, the life sim aspect has more variety and the creation tools are extremely optional.

I feel like the primary cause of "elitism discourse" in fandom spaces is people taking so much pride in what they don't yet know that they present that lack of knowledge as a universal experience in order to provoke others for no reason.

The idea of people on Twitter having seamless internet slap fights about things as delicate as cultural divides with Grok as the intermediary sounds terrifying.

You can barely see it on cam but I'm back to the monthly ourple

Keeping my mouth zipped so hard cuz I have a propensity to spill all the beans but I have a project that's almost done that I am so so SO excited to show you all.

Artists! What's some go-to 3D posing software you use for making references? I've been looking for something handy for when I comm, something that lets you change heights and proportions easily too ~

Between uni and singing, I've been feeling this burst of ambition recently that I really wanna ride out when I finish this last round of assignments and go on my summer break. I was thinking of picking Welsh back up again and maybe taking some workshops on music or acting.

Went to my college's library first thing in the morning on a half term with very little sleep cuz you bet your sweet bippy I'm securing this degree

tomodatchi life cant come sooner i want my scrunklies to be free they loved talking about j-pop albums and playing together... harmony also started saying "heehee" when saying hi to people so uh thats canon now. ollie and jyoze falling in love wasnt intentional

Rough vocal progress report, my tutor now wants more showtunes

Only found this out when booting SEKAI a little bit ago but I think the Brazilian government banned gacha for minors, even free pulls.

Nintendo's extremely British localisation of their games is extremely charming y'all are just mean

On this day, 10 years ago, 'Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X' released in Japan on PlayStation Vita. To this day, it is still the latest (and presumably last) entry in the mainline Project DIVA series.

Interesting development with Ringfit is I eventually halted my Adventure playthrough in favour of just playing a Custom routine for 30 minutes. The Adventure mode's great for getting into the game but the pacing does make you eventually check out.

Forgive me if this comes off as insensitive, but whenever we run into the conversation of "How should I engage with someone's work after finding out they're terrible?" the two solutions more often than not are either "You don't ez" or "You can, you just don't have to tell anyone"

Sometimes you wanna play it but you don't wanna "80GB on my hard drive" play it

I need to know why Mini Eggs specifically got hit hard by inflation

One good thing that's come from everyone on Twitter having bad faith half-convos about game accessibility and preservation is I've now been radicalised into potentially using GOG as my main driver on PC over Steam

Full disclosure that my smooth brain has hardly kept up with Vocagathering but based on the related discourse it's apparent to me that some people in this space love to self-sabotage by perceiving themselves on the lower rung of a hierarchy that really isn't that important.

Ough (Day 15)

Real talk, because social media is deliberately designed to ragebait you, you NEED to assume, by default, that if stantwt is criticising a celebrity with a minority status, it's 1000% a sting operation because they're a minority.

Often in this community when a creator is found to have generated assets outside of their vocals using AI, the worst they receive is a slap on the wrist while continuing to have their work recognised, and there's nuance to this kind of situation, but it still feels spineless.

Last preview I'm showing of this cover I promise I'm just REALLY desperate to show how much my voice has been improving and recording in the right conditions is really hard 🙇

Digital artists, share your first digital art and year vs. now 🏞️ Oh boy! Started on a trial version of Paint Tool SAI, a computer mouse and a dream. A few good years later, and here we are 💫🐰 First one is from 2017 and second is a photo study from 2023!

When Joey drafts an English cover for a Kuriyama song extremely out of their range, take a shot. song - filament fever, kuriyama yuri translyrics, vocals - me~

Don't kill me but I genuinely think Vocalochanger is the worst feature Vocaloid has ever come up with

Dunno if this flew under anyone's radar or if there's already a precedent for it but I found it super interesting how Miku V6 isn't going to be compatible with VocaloChanger

Life at a point just boils down to Shaving to avoid The Pimples but also Not Shaving to also avoid The Pimples

Fun tidbit: This caption I added was a last minute addition but was from a section of the script I cut due to being too tangential. I've been wondering recently if too much of our perception of success in the vsynth industry is measured with Crypton's activity as the baseline.

The vibe I'm getting with Miku V6's English is, in line with Crypton's bank design, it's going to be a great alternative option with V3e and V4e still having utility. I can see it being a great go-to while still having producers who want to use the other two.

Next to Every Gacha Game Ever Made, Overwatch follows the same rule where fans aren't allowed to be mad about its cast being poorly understood/mischaracterised because live service storytelling is almost always never fun to catch up on or immerse yourself in.

In the spirit of cozy games built around menial tasks neurodivergent people can't get enough of I'm shocked there hasn't been one about doing MMO HUD layouts

In other news I finally got a new electric razor so my facial hair isn't gonna look fuckinnnngggg dogshitttt anymore

I think what definitely felt really good about this new video is it allowed me to discuss the scene in a way where I could, in a way, introduce myself as a presence beyond being just the informational voiceover, and that feels really refreshing ~