Maybe? It doesn’t really feels like the right reason for me but I’m not going to say no for certain. I guess I’ll just stick to “it works better as a continuous read” for now and see how it goes.

Whatever works, right?

I’m not sure why this bothers me with this chapter and not with others even though most of them are pretty much the same length and have to progress just as quickly. I’ll just wait and see for now, I guess.

I get what the author’s going for but this chapter feels more like a loose idea or a first draft rather than a complete thing. Maybe it’ll flow better when you can just continue reading instead of having to wait for the next one.

No prob! It’s a big announcement from an important member of the community after all.

I tend to just use whatever variant Lemmy auto suggestion provides since it doesn’t really matter to me but I’ll keep that in mind whenever I post new chapters. It makes sense to use English titles in an English community anyway.

Good catch. I’ve skipped the last few streams so I missed that.

As in quanta? Officially it’s still a thing and is supposedly used for setting up prices of a few commodities according to a confirmation from 2-3 years ago or so. Not that those changes were substantial in any way since most people aren’t even aware of it.

Realistically? Who the heck knows. CIG is back to their tried and true approach of not talking to the community whenever something doesn’t go well or there’s nothing to hype so your guess is as good as mine. It’s still a goal for the future as far as we know.

Yeah, it’s just kind of funny when people will interact with/consume content with a very similar premise to VTubbing without a second thought and then turn around and be utterly confused on “but why/how/what even is this?!”.

Ehh, yes an no. For some it can absolutely be what they consider as their real self but for many it’s the same thing as with any other content creator - a persona. It might be closer or further away from how they are in real life but I don’t think one should take what VTubers do as a complete truth. At the end of the day they (especially the larger ones) are entertainers and some amount of “fakeness” will almost always be present. Not many people can be entertaining enough purely through their “normal” personality to build and sustain a community around themselves.

I find it interesting how difficult the concept of VTubers can be to understand for some people (not the one in OP obviously) - it’s not like using an avatar (or a costume) to represent yourself is a new thing. Sometimes it feels like the world is going backwards in some regards…

Anyone else stuck in a rut where none of your usual series update but you don’t have the drive to start on your backlog? That was me this last week. OK, not entirely.

I did look through some of the series I wanted to read but were dropped by the scanlators for one reason or the other. The one I miss the most currently is probably Traveling Gyaru - pretty fun series about a gyaru who travels Japan on a bike, trying to make it to her friends wedding. It has comedy, interesting tips about travel and it’s just a fun read in general. Only 12 out of 27 chapters are translated…

Another fun (and stupid) one was Power Antoinette - a comedy manga set during the French Revolution. The gimmick here is that Marie Antoinette (and her children) are all about bulking up so Marie manages to escape the guillotine and fights against revolutionaries instead. The biggest disappointment here is the fact the author chickened out of making her swole all the time and made it into a temporary buff instead, it’s pretty decent otherwise.

Other than that, I’ve been filling my time with visual novels. It’s kinda funny because I pretty much stopped watching anime and focused on manga because the latter can be engaged with in shorter bursts and yet, I’d rather just spend hours reading those at the moment. It’s a weird time man…

I’m glad you managed to find her again. One more disappearance case solved.

I finally had a bit of time to browse through Mangadex this weekend. While I didn’t find any “true gems” that would stay with me, I did find a few titles that grabbed my attention. Here’s the list:

• Devious Miss Crimson - short (9 chapters) action series with simple, messy drawings and edgy writing. It’s an alright read if you’re bored.
• Frog in a bottle - oneshot about growing up. It has beautiful art, weird premise and mediocre execution. I REALLY love this artstyle, feels nostalgic.
• One-Armed Amy - another oneshot, this time about a living doll and father-daughter relationship. It’s cute and sweet, if a little predictable.
• Soldier and Whitesmith - steampunk attempt at the ship of Theseus question, with ship being people in this case. It’s not bad just… feels like there’s something missing for me.

That sounds encouraging. I’ve been meaning to give it a shot but the backlog is a fickle beast and lives by its own rules.

How’re the Kb/M controls?

Damn, end of an era… Good luck A-Chan! (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)7

It kind of makes sense considering their lore is connected to Advent. It’s an interesting choice by Cover, I wonder if it’ll be a one-off or something they’ll play into more in the future.

They’re just aiming for the older MLG headshot compilation folk.

I didn’t expect we’ll get into Frieren territory with this series but here we are. Things like this are always a nice surprise.

Ahhh, gotcha. I checked the links in OP this time and honestly the NFSU version sounds like many radio edits I heard before so I’m not sure what to tell you. Couldn’t find an official radio version to compare but I don’t really hear anything strange there.

Is it a ham-fisted way to do it? Sure. Personally I chuck it up to the fact not every label bothers with a less noticeable edit for their songs.