Moreso ME3, because the problem with the manga ending for AOT is that the Armin stuff and the tree scene came out like six months apart so leaving it at the Armin stuff was really bad because of how things were worded, while the problem with the MHA ending is that it fucking sucks. Izuku wins, loses OFA and ends up with no girls eight years later, like Horikoshi explicitly makes a point to show that Izuku is single even though Izuku/Ochako had been pushed as much as Naruto/Hinata was.
Words used to describe concepts that existed before them are interesting to me because the concept of believing that people of other races are inferior to your race is as old as humanity itself but apparently we didn’t have a word to describe it until 1903.
I don’t know if we should throw the words away because the concepts behind these words existed before them, but I understand the idea of “these words have been used to subvert society so I hate them”
Studying this workflow tells you exactly what these retards do every day. They're low level midwit devs who have meetings and look at stats they've acquired from spying on their players and make changes based on that instead of oh I don't know checking the damn feedback and playing the game to see how everything looks and feels by comparison to what the feedback is to make sure it's legit and not just somebody bitching which does happen.
This also leads me to another point about the issue of metrics as part of your game development workflow, it's ripe for trolling. You could potentially fuck with the devs if they're spying on you and have everybody do something similar and rather than investigate what gamers are doing with a particular action they'll just blindly read it off a chart and go "Hmm that's interesting, lots of people seem to really like using this weapon, maybe we should release new skins or nerf it".
You cannot trust these companies at all, they're dead, they don't know what fun is. It looks like their spying is less about anti-cheat and more about collecting gameplay metrics because they're cunts. Fascinating if a a massive black pill because it explains why all of these companies are so bad. Activision kind of shot themselves in the foot here because now we know exactly what the logic behind the workflow of every AAA company is and the answer is they're retarded.
I play fighting games where SBMM is mandatory simply because of how fighting games work, so I'm reading this comment kind of wondering what exactly makes them 'retarded', because reading the study, I don't necessarily have an objection with how they're doing it, because feedback is weird. There's a shitload of developers in MMOs, fighting games, FPSs, whatever that have said the following in many different ways and I get it: 'Gamers are excellent at finding what's wrong with something in-game; they suck at making solutions to said problem'.
You gotta separate the trolling from the real feedback and then isolate the issue in order to actually make a good patch/nerf/buff, but I don't think this necessarily feeds back into anything involving wokeness, that's just a byproduct of these people living in echo chambers. I think the way that patches are done is fine, because playing the game doesn't change the fact that for example the pre-patch AWP in CSGO did too much for how it was priced at the time and that showed up at all levels of play. I maybe shouldn't but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt mainly because making sure people have fun is the main objective, and at least in fighting games, it works.
CoD is one of the most played games in the world mainly because it's the 'casual' FPS compared to something like CS2 (or CSGO when it was the main one), but something I was reading in the discussion that made a lot of sense to me is that the reason that SBMM is so controversial in CoD is because a lot of the fun in CoD is the stuff you get for killstreaks, and SBMM inherently makes it harder to accomplish killstreaks.
I primarily play fighting games as my 'competitive multiplayer game', so I don't really have an opinion because in the end, you need to go enter a tournament to truly prove how good you are if that's what you wanna do so I get my enjoyment through that, but as a whole, I think CoD specifically has gone through a lot in its lifetime that has cultivated the playerbase it does. While SBMM has supposedly been in place since MW1 back in 2007, I didn't really see it be as big of a debate until a few years ago since people wanna pubstomp as a whole. I get the whole 'centralized servers suck' thing, I just wasn't around playing shooters during that time so I'd have no idea, but back to the study overall, I don't disagree with the methodology because there's not really a way to do this other than using the game they already have and turning SBMM off/relaxing it massively.
I get the complaint of 'why didn't you tell people you were doing this as a study', but people choosing not to play because of the study would mess up the results versus not playing due to a lack of SBMM, which serves to keep someone who's skill is static at around a 50% win rate ideally, but obviously if your skill is improving your winrate is going to increase.
In a fighting game, SBMM is IMO even more mandatory just because of the fact that fighting games being one on one makes it so, let alone legacy knowledge amount other things.
Overall, I think SBMM specifically in fighting games is inherently a good thing, but for FPSs, I think making killstreaks less rewarding would help even out the dopamine effect of stomping which is a lot of why the whole 'SBMM sucks' stuff even came up, but we're stuck with centralized servers for the foreseeable future.
The one thing I would tell myself if I had a time machine is to take a gap year before college and use that gap year to get a part time job and become a vtuber, because that was six years ago before Hololive even had a second generation, and the market back then was way less saturated. I might not end up becoming the biggest, but I at least have a shot + knowing how my life has gone on since then, the main things that would've changed is that I would have moved out of mom's house during lockdown and wouldn't have taken any COVID shots at all.
But back to vtubing in general, in terms of models and such, getting one of those 'general use' ones just to see how you feel about streaming before commissioning your own model goes a long way, but I'm sure you probably have already done most of that research
Basically it levels the Playing field so that 3/10 girls who weren't handed everything in life and had to grow an actual personality to get by in life can compete with vapid ethots without showing their face.
Eh, knowing a lot of different female V-Tubers alt accounts/past lives/whatever you wanna call them at this point, that's not that true tbh. There's a lot more 7-10s, and a lot of why some of them chose VTubing is for the sake of security/making sure no one stalks them, and considering many of them go to conventions still wearing face masks even though COVID's long gone and still have creeps follow them, I get it.
Speaking of Hime Hajime, I didn't know she was sydsnap until like 2 days ago, mainly because I had never come across any clips of her at all. I watch a lot of Gigguk too, so I'm shocked I never figured it out to be honest.
Matara, Kuro and Michi are former Niji,
Ironmouse and Geega were part of the original cast.
Henya is formerly Pikamee of Project VOMS
Kson is formerly Coco Kiryu of Hololive.
Haruka was a new addition, I dunno the rest of VShojo
In addition to this, where they essentially didn't acknowledge her achievements at all, and she was beginning to be stressed out because of pressures put upon her by management, Michi (formerly Mika Melatika of Nijisanji's former Indonesian branch) visited the HQ in Japan after Niji folded the Indonesian branch into the main JP branch and saw her silver Play button for hitting 100k subscribers.
Nijisanji doesn't give their talents their 100k Play buttons, they keep them as trophies in their office, and they wouldn't even let her take a picture of it, and after making a very light gesture miming taking it off the wall, they threatened to kick her out of the building if she even did so much as pretend to do that again.
While yes, the vast majority of voice actors may be left-leaning, because I can tell the difference between AI and actual recording, I just would prefer the actual voices being used. As an example, Genshin Impact's English dub would fucking suck with AI voices, and even though they don't necessarily voice every line, it's not because the VAs themselves don't want to, Hoyoverse doesn't want to pay for it, as a lot of the VAs stream, Sarah Miller Crews (the English voice of Lumine) as an example, streams and plays the game and a lot of her content is her voicing the unvoiced dialogue.
It's the 'first they came' thing.
Dictators never stop at their 'main' target, they always overstep, so IMO because the only way to actually introduce a white ethnostate is mass deportations and violence, that isn't going to stop at Jews, and whatever minority group that DoM is a part of will very much be abused like many of the people on this site will have happen because again, the only way to actually make a white ethnostate happen requires violence by definition
https://x.com/keemstar/status/1815452450620338565?s=46&t=pkYRN-wpjTtpdtd5waU7Cw
Supposedly MrBeast gave the alleged victim’s contact info to Keemstar and this is what they had to say
Archive link: https://archive.is/Lch6X
It just ended.