Gyokuyoutama

On 12/22/2023 at 4:38 PM, A 1970 Corvette said:

I've been trying to find japanese stuff to watch on youtube related to games or whatever I like to help get some immersion for language and I feel like there are multiple forces at work trying to prevent me from finding things organically.

 

Like first there's just the language differences and how searches don't like crossing a language barrier, then there's just the innate quirks of searches sucking (gyoku has shared his research into this many a time), and then on top of that there's automatic translations that ship in to completely replace titles of videos, but only if the system is confident in the translation or something, so for a channel half of the video titles can be translated and half might not be.

 

I've just been sticking to love live related stuff since they are well organized due to being produced by a professional multimedia team, but you can really feel an invisible wall at times. Probably doesn't help that I'm trying to avoid vtubers, though if I find any playing games I am interested in watching like Noita or whatever then maybe it'd be fine. As long as they're not filthy EN ones.

 

Probably the real answer is to go to an actual native jp site, which I guess is a bit obvious.

If you just want cheap animation/audio plays, I found that youtube actually does a good job recommending them when you are watching one provided that you watch from a clean browser.  Here are some examples.

I didn't go past the first twenty seconds or so on these videos so I make no guarantees about the contents, but each of these channels seem to have plenty of videos to go through.

At the rate that tired dog is going, in a couple more years this will be an actual anime:

At that time Ookami will sweep anime waifu of the year.  She's got too much "she's just like me fr fr" energy without the fujoshi tendencies that usually go along with that character archetype.

EDIT: I guess it's officially "oogami" with the rendaku on the second character, even though I don't know how that is decided for names.  I'm guessing that this was done here so that her name isn't just literally "Wolf", now it's more like "Wolfe" or something. Kanji is 大上.  I think this episode is the first one to give her a first name (Reiko, but so far we don't have a Kanji spelling.)

EDIT 2: I'm beginning to suspect that tukareta_inu MIGHT be using animal character designs for reasons beyond just that being common for cartoon characters.

This guy hits a lot of points we've discussed here several times, up to the superiority of Windows XP:

As my own personal addendum, I will note that while we might be screwed when it comes to social media or mainstream programs like Steam, you still can make a website that's as personalized as you want and lots of indie programs.  For websites, this site was created less than two years ago, and there are plenty more like it.  For programs, this SSD monitoring program comes with your choice of waifu skins in the official release, because fuck it why not.

What this means is that we only have to bow to lack of customization if we allow ourselves to.

Bullying Pippa is the only reason Ken makes music anymore.

Good catch, this is going into the internal evidence file for sure.

Speaking of, this classic popped into my head today and it only seems to exist online on bitchute now:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/5yE82s6cGGpP/

I might have it on an old hard drive though.

There's a connection between these:

Sometimes I see kids getting fascinated by lost media, and all the more power to them because it's cool stuff.  However, I keep seeing them comment that one reason they like it is because it's so strange to them that a beloved piece of media can be lost.  This is the part I don't really get, since today's environment makes things very easy to be lost.

For example, shows often get screwed up due to licensing issues.  I don't think that there's been an official western release of Tenchi Muyo OVA since fucking Pioneer and Geneon were still around.  (It gets confusing since there are plenty of "Tenchi OVA Classic" sets going around, but those start from OVA 3.) But take the spinoff, Tenchi Universe (aka Tenchi on TV.)  Funimation had the rights and was actively distributing it.  But then Funimation got acquired by Sony and merged with Crunchyroll.  Crunchyroll produces very few disc versions, and the Tenchi Universe discs are now effectively out of print.  But more bewildering, they do not plan to stream the show.  They definitely have the rights to it, since if Sony didn't have the rights Funimation couldn't be streaming it now, and Sony owns both so they have the rights too.  Crunchyroll even has a page set up where there would be videos for Tenchi Universe if they decided to stream them, but they aren't.  They have the files, they have the rights, but it's still too much of a hassle to stream, so no show for you.

Now obviously there are plenty of disc versions of the show out there, and in the worst case scenario we could get Japanese discs and do fansubs from those, not to mention the many RAW torrents that exist.  I'm not claiming that Tenchi Universe is lost media by any means.  What I am saying is that it will soon be much more difficult to watch it, and that there is no good reason for this to happen.  If the same thing had been done to a less popular show, then it could easily end up with the show being in the "endangered" zone.

With video games things are of course worse.  Darkspore is lost media and I don't see any likely way to get it back.  About as much progress has been made by the Darkspore resurrection people, but from what I can see it looks like despite years of hard work all they've really let you do is get back into the character creator.  The devs of the project themselves admit that they do not have all the data from the original servers.  It's unclear to me whether they have some of the data and plan to fill in the remaining details themselves, or if they are planning on making all the levels and such from scratch, but in either case some of the data will need to be remade, making the original Darkspore lost media.  And at this point there are many, many, games that followed in the same pattern, many of them less popular and thus less well documented and with fewer people trying to save.  Unlike video media where you can do a screen capture or something to save it (and then distribute the files), a server based game is usually gone forever when the servers shut down, and this happens all the time.

I think that the main reason that kids miss this is that they often focus on lost music for whatever reason (ex. the famous "ride/like/blind the wind.")  Music is about the easiest thing in the world to save; even if a company somehow managed to completely lock down your recording capabilities, you could still do ghetto solutions like pumping it through a speaker system and recording it onto a cassette tape.  You can also store huge amounts of music on a terabyte drive, so it's easy to convince yourself that no music can be lost forever.

What I find most interesting is that while it's like 2/3 foot fetish and general degeneracy content, then other 1/3 is articles about how to stop watching porn.

Really playing both sides there.

It's been over a decade since Jontron was on Game Grumps.

Is it Hydro-City or does it rhyme with velocity?

Foreign SPUFfers, please help:

How much of a "native" phrase do you consider "What the Fuck"?  I mean, if you were speaking casually in your own language, would that register as an English phrase if you didn't think about it?

I ask because I've repeatedly heard streamers from Spain and Germany say "what the fuck", almost without an accent, in the middle of a conversation in their native languages with hardly any other English words being spoken.

On 4/17/2019 at 10:29 AM, Gyokuyoutama said:

https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1118498594682822656

 

I stumbled across this when searching for something else and thought "the hell? Did they release a Minecraft movie and I just completely missed all trace of it?"

But apparently it got delayed to 2025.

Well Eilene confirmed for not dead.

But there's way too much here for me to have a clear idea of what the hell she's talking about.  The only thing I can say for sure is that she is talking about the guy she said screwed her over in the last video, and I think the main focus is the way that he is manipulating the internet to make it look like all of her fans hate her?

On 4/13/2020 at 11:06 PM, Gyokuyoutama said:

 

 

The thing that amazes me most about Caramella is that now matter how many times they redesign their characters they always look like generic deviant art submissions from 10 years ago.

Yep, I'd believe that these designs are from 2014:

As the kids say, this is a mood:

On his way to get his salad for the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U

Youtube forbids embedding of this video.  They don't want you to know!

Yeah, Nijisanji had some major drama.

Eilene also came back out of the woodwork and literally threatened to commit suicide:

RPG Maker XP is free on Steam until February 19th.

The free TF2 stuff is for MX though, which is on sale for 85% (still 12 bucks, lol.)  I've heard the best bang for your buck (when stuff isn't free) is VX Ace, and that's at $7 now.

DLC is on sale too.  No DLC for XP (at least not for sale now; I'm sure that there used to be stuff that you might find if you plumb the depths of the internet).  But if you want to get all the DLC for VX Ace it's only around $1,500 at the moment.

It's interesting that the more blatantly obvious it is that the internet is full of crappy searches and bot created content, the more the phrasing has went from "dead internet theory" to "dead internet conspiracy theory."

Crunchyroll is now also eating up Funimation's video streaming service.  Unlike RightStuf Anime I don't really care about this in and of itself, since I never much cared for Funimation in the first place and didn't use their service.

However, this does once again show the temporary nature of streaming.  Funimation has been pimping out "Digital Copies" for a while.  You could get these individually, or you could get them by codes when buying blurays/DVDs.  The pitch was that you could watch anywhere, anytime.  Except not now, because Crunchyroll isn't going to honor the digital copies that people have through Funimation.  Pay the (higher) Crunchyroll subscription forever if you want to watch the stuff you bought, sucker.

There's only two ways that you really "own" any piece of entertainment:

1. As a DRM free file on your own hard drive.
2. As a piece of physical media which doesn't have to check in to an online server to continue use.

Anything else is going to eventually be taken away from you when the company running things stops caring or gets bought out.

Turns out that if it doesn't know what to do with anime it just defaults to Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z or Naruto.

There's lots of times it acts "correctly" though.

Ex: Pirate + Anime = One Piece

Space Pirate + Anime = Captain Harlock

Angel + Anime = Neon Genesis Evangeleon (Adam and Eve + Anime also works)

Lord of the Rings + Anime = Sword Art Online

Time Paradox + Anime = Steins;Gate

Favorite one outside of anime combinations: Fanfic + Brony = Cupcakes

EDIT: Well, I may not have gotten any closer to the Pippa bounty, or gotten any Vtubers for that matter, but I did make some important discoveries:

EDIT 2: I used a quote tag instead of a spoiler tag on accident and I'm too dumb to figure out how to use the forum edit function to change that.

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Kitsune Rin is a real vocaloid thing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In infinite craft "sailor" plus "moon" doesn't get you "sailor moon."

But "anime" plus "David Bowie" does.

What did the AI mean by this?

It may have taken 30 videos of this meme to get there, but I finally found the Ran and Chen variation:

On 1/1/2024 at 5:39 PM, Moby said:

 

- Robin Hood

 

This is the only Disney Movie I own.  Because it's Don Bluth's first animation credit, see, and I have stuff from throughout his career.  Definitely not for any other reason.

I guess on that topic if you want to watch actual Don Bluth movies, the ones that hold up the best are Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time and Anastasia.  An American Tail and All Dogs Go to Heaven are enjoyable but definitely a step down.  Titan AE would be top tier if all the dialogue wasn't generic Joss Whedonisms.

But the real thing I wanted to talk about was this scene from Fargo:

Most of the "Minnesotan accents" in this movie are somewhat based in reality, but taken to an absurd level.  Kind of like saying "I've got a real Southern accent" and then sounding like Foghorn Leghorn.  But the guy this cop talks to is 100% legit.  There were many people in my grandfather's generation who talked and acted exactly like that, and you still run into people like that in rural areas.

To get things out of the way, yeah, they are wearing way too much for what is obviously a mild winter day.  But you can't control the weather when shooting a movie.  This was done by a second unit in a warm spell, and the rest of the movie was supposed to be very cold, so they made do.

What makes this great? First of all the accent is dead on.  Kinda singsong-y but not absurdly so.  The "th" sound reliably changed into "d."  Perhaps the only natural "ja" in the whole movie.  And listen to how he says "Moose."

In terms of phrasing we have the "so I says", "so he says" way of quickly talking about a previous conversation.  About half of my Grandpa's anecdotes went that way.  There's an improper use of verb conjugation vs. the subject (ex. "so I says" instead of "so I say",  "that don't sound..." instead of "that doesn't sound...", "he don't use" instead of "he doesn't use") I don't know the exact rule for how this works, since it's not like rural Minnesotans don't conjugate things incorrectly every time, but those specific examples are common.

Lack of profanity even though Steve Buscemi's character obviously swore.  Profanity is pretty common now in Minnesota, but in that generation people did avoid it.  Note too the way that he treats the situation.  It's not like he's offended or is bewildered by the thought of profanity.  If anything he's kind of acting like it's funny that anyone would talk like that.

"So I called it in" long pause "end of story."  One thing that this hints at is the long pauses common to Minnesotan conversation.  In "How to Talk Minnesotan" Howard Mohr suggests that most Minnesotan phone conversations consist of as much silence as speech, and even today I would believe it.  Now for such an incidental conversation in the movie they couldn't stretch this scene into five minutes, but I do like this hint at the end.

"He says... the last guy who thought he's a jerk is dead now... what do you think about that? I says, well that don't sound like too good of deal for him then."  The end of this phrase is perhaps the most Minnesotan response ever.  To begin with it's understated and mildly passive aggressive.  It's a negation rather than affirming something directly.  A true Minnesotan will never say "that sounds good" when he can instead say "that doesn't sound too bad."  He talks about it in terms of "deals."  This too is a common Minnesota phrasing, with phrases like "no big deal", "not too bad of a deal", "heck of a deal" all being common.

The sudden shift from talking about police business to the weather with no hesitation might seem like a movie contrivance, but no that's also accurate.  This is known as the "Minnesotan Non-Sequitur" and it happens when a conversation suddenly changes topic (often to something about the weather, food or cars.)  Having a non-sequitur right before the end of the conversation is common when the people involved are not related or close friends.  (If they were, the conversation would have had 15 minutes of small talk before it could end.)  Note too how they don't say goodbye.  They just make an observation and mutually decide to walk away from each other.  This too, is accurate.