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  • FoMT AND a new Quadimension vocal, plus Medium5 becoming available on ANiCUTE, making them more accessible to Western users - ngl, today’s looking brighter and brighter as it goes along. Two more hours of work (which has been mercifully mid-paced), some lunch, and then half an hour of mandatory labor on behalf of my mother (if you can call the process of breaking down over 40 empty cartons of Dr. Pepper, which I really should have done months ago when it was still manageable, “mandatory labor”), then hopefully I’ll have the next several hours to pamper myself~ after last week, I deserve it!
    I'm beginning to fear the Appends I bought were a scam. It's been two weeks and they haven't even been sent out to the Buyee warehouse yet. There's a listing for both Act2 and the Appends up for $70... but I bought Act2 so that I could use the Appends, and they're already at the warehouse, and if the Appends ARE legit, then I'd just have two of each...
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    I bought something from Mercari once that never ended up shipping. Once an entire month passed, Buyee just cancelled the order and refunded me immediately. So if they never end up shipping, you won't have to worry, but I understand the hesitation on if the seller is just really slow or not orz (especially when there's another listing up for cheap that probably... will not be up by the time it hits a month for you)
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    Well... trying to buy Haiyi through Taobao directly won't work. You HAVE to verify your identity as a citizen of China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, and if you want to verify your identity as a member of another country, the instructions are... shaky at best.

    So! Again: what services would be able to sell you download-only Taobao products?
    So, well, if I were to HYPOTHETICALLY want to order Haiyi Gen2 when I get home from work, since SuperBuy won’t distribute digital-only products, how might I go about that? Hypothetically speaking of course.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    @Kazumi Thank you! Question: when I tried adding her to my cart, I got a notice saying I couldn’t add her to my cart because I’m prohibited from purchasing until I verify my account (which I can’t do as a non-citizen of CHN/HK/TW). This happened with both her upgrade and her full-price vocal. Is there any advice on how to deal with that?
    Kazumi
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    @peaches2217 So, apparently Dreamtonics is going to be selling DL versions of the Quadimension vocals! So no need for taobao! :D
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I know! I caught the notification a while back! My only issue is that I want their boxes, too, and I doubt Dreamtonics will be providing them once they're available... what's your take?
    There's a commercial that's been airing lately that features a jingle set to the tune of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General, and it's brought up an old wound of mine.

    I took a week-long summer acting class in the seventh grade (fun fact, I used to be really involved in theatre, especially musical theatre), and it was pirate-themed, so my age group put on a thirty-minute condensed performance of The Pirates of Penzance. I SPECIFICALLY requested either the role of the guy who sings that song, or a speaking role.

    I got neither. I got a singing role. A singing role that was RIGHT where my chest voice meets my head voice.

    My voice is fairly deep, and I can absolutely kill tenor/alto; I have pretty good control of my head voice, so I can sing a fairly convincing soprano if it's within a certain range. (I could also nail Poor Wand’ring One for that very reason.) But NO, I get a line in a song that's too high for my chest voice but too low for my head voice! On the night of our performance, my voice cracked. There was laughter. That and a later occurrence are the reason I don't sing anymore.

    So every time that commercial comes on, I happily sing along with the original lyrics, and then I get sad. I really wanted to sing that song.
    Leon
    Leon
    ...I hadn't realized this line in Hamilton was a reference to something!

    In any case, I'm sorry D:
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Yup yup! And eh, it’s alright. The fact that it still bothers me ten years later is kinda pathetic, I’ll confess, but coming from a family who are borderline local celebrities for their singing voices, being the only one who can’t sing within the ranges she’s expected to kinda stings, even now. I’ve been called The Anomaly more than once. :clara_ani_lili:
    VVN, help me out! Favorite sentimental vocalsynth songs that isn't Hajimete no Oto because I've already looked into it and am considering it but still need more options! Go! Go! Go!
    Scarlet Illusion
    Scarlet Illusion
    Ahhh… maybe 7/8? Though I don’t know if there’s a Mandarin variation of it… orz
    andantina
    andantina
    ahh i'm sorry i was so sure you meant Japanese only :ring_ani_lili: I don't know much about Chinese vocaloid, sorry about that!
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    It's okay! If there's a song I particularly like in Japanese that I wanna cover with Haiyi, I just go to Bili and see if someone's made a Chinese version of it. So Japanese suggestions are more than welcome!
    Nnnnnnnnnnn... I ordered the Appends over a week ago and they haven’t even shipped out yet. I’ve got two more packages in the warehouse waiting to ship to me, and I’d like to wait until the Appends get there so I can consolidate them and not pay an astronomically high shipping fee...
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    Mood... I have no many things in the Buyee warehouse rn 😅
    Going back through and listening through my covers... I've never been good at Vocaloid. My most recent Vocaloid cover still sounds... well, not bad, but certainly not good. Everything I make is underwhelming. If I make anything worth liking, it's in SynthV, nevermind the ~65% quality rate there.

    I guess everyone has their niche, and maybe I should be happy that I've found mine, but... Vocaloid means so much to me. It's something I've dreamed of being a part of since I was in the seventh grade. Two years of active use isn't a lot of time, I guess, so maybe I'll get better in the future, but at the same time...
    Leon
    Leon
    Ah I totally get it! But I'm with Kazumi all the way. I love the stuff you put out!! And you can only improve from here :D
    uncreepy
    uncreepy
    It's weird that you feel like you aren't good at Vocaloid, last night I was looking through your covers thread and went to bed thinking that I quite like how you tune. (I should spend more time writing comments on your thread instead of quietly lurking... sorry. I just didn't wanna seem like "I like this, wow!" over and over.) I honestly feel like tuning in each vocal synth software is a bit different and sometimes it's really hard to get the results in your head to come out in Vocaloid for some reason (I feel like every time I use Vocaloid, personally, I feel really disappointed and sad, but Synth V turns out so much better/easier). But I feel like I can tell what tuning style you have no matter what synth or character you are using.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Honestly, I didn’t think I HAD a style, other than “somehow bland and overdone at the same time”. I appreciate everyone’s kind words! I’m going to keep working hard, so one day I’ll be fully proud of what I put out!
    I’m a little bummed that Eleanor Gen2 is still so far out... Ah well. I’ll have Genbu and Saki to hold me over at least, so I look forward to that! And it’s only like, what, another two or three months? I think she’s worth that wait.

    Also! Today/tomorrow - time zones, y’know - is mine and Patuk’s three-month anniversary! So I’m a happy peach.
    Nothing like an impromptu severe thunderstorm with an added tornado warning to bring out the absolute worst in customers. The registers rebooted TWICE, and since they’re probably older than I am, it took them 15 minutes to reboot both times; one man started cussing me out when I explained it would be an additional 15 minutes, because I’d already made him wait 10 minutes before that, he’s never shopping here again, etc. while two women insisted on staring straight at me the whole time, asking every two minutes when I would be ready to assist them and demanding to know where I thought I was going when I tried to escape them by reshelving returns. Once the registers finally finished rebooting, they threw their items and a $100 bill at me and chastized me for being so damn slow.

    Six hours to go! ٩( ᐛ )و
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    “By the way, due to the national coin shortage, we’re asking customers to pay with card or exact change where possible.”

    “Ah, no thank you, that’s okay. Can I get $50 cash back? And can $10 of that be in $1 bills and $5 in quarters?”
    This video leaves me feeling so conflicted: it's beautiful, but the models they chose look WAY too young to be singing this song...



    Truth be told, while I think it's one of the most well-made MMDs I've ever seen, this is the one I prefer, if only because they don't look Uncomfortably Young.



    Literally every time this song crosses my mind, I HAVE to listen to it multiple times in a row and take in as many videos of it as I can - this is by far my favorite Vocaloid song.
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    those kinds of MMDs look so good!! i'm amazed by how good the lighting looks on the models, they look like actual dolls wha-

    and yes gimme × gimme SLAPPPS i currently have a wip cover of it!!! hehehe
    Hear me out: I feel like a lot of people getting upset or chastising the fact that the new Korean vocal will be on V5 aren't looking at it from the perspective of the Korean fandom, who will ultimately be the vocal's target demographic.

    Yes, it would be AWESOME to get him on SynthV! But remember, the vocal synth community is much smaller in Korea than it is in Japan or China or the West. SynthV hasn't really gained much interest there. Vocaloid's the only program that really took off there, outside of general interest in Utau. If they hope to have users, it's wisest to stick with what people know for now, yes?

    "But V5's not as accessible as V3/4 was!" That's true. But being a Vocaloid will ensure more people hear of him, and if they like what they hear, it might generate a greater demand for high-quality Korean vocals on more accessible programs in the near future. That's the end-goal, right?

    In short, we need to take a step back and remember that we're not the ones the new vocal is intended for. He'll be largely for a Korean audience. And putting him on Vocaloid, regardless of your personal feelings (trust me, I'd love to have him on SynthV too), is ultimately the smart thing to do. I think it's a respectable move and will be supporting him and his development!
    I haven’t seen Penguins of Madagascar (the TV show, not the movie) since I was in middle school, but lately, every time a customer comes in just before closing, especially if I’m in the middle of something, my mind will IMMEDIATELY start playing “Go away, go away! (Go ‘way, go ‘way~) I said don’t stay! (I said don’t stay~)”.

    ...I should watch it again. The production budget was shoestring, sure, but it was hilarious. Unsurprisingly, my OTP from it was a rarepair, because I can never ship popular things for whatever reason. It is OBVIOUS King Julian has a crush on Skipper, there’s no reason it should be such a rarepair!
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    Oh my goshhhh. I used to LOVE that show but it just disappeared from broadcasting one day? It was so dang funny, though, and I loved it to bits. My memories of it are a bit vague, but for some reason I most remember the scene where King Julian adopted an egg and called it “JayJay” then proceeded to sing a whole song about it. :clara_ani_lili:
    (By the way, I don’t know if you‘d be interested, but there is a Penguins of Madagascar movie and I remember it being very funny although I haven’t seen it in ~5 years. The Christmas special? Movie? Was really funny, too.)
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    That was one of my favorites!!! “From this lemur egg, my lemur prince shall rise, his little lemur legs growing to king size! He’ll be regally, he’ll be legally mine~”

    I also loved the one where Skipper fell in love with a falcon, and then one where Kowalski tries getting the lemurs to shut up by blasting penguin mating calls at them... and only succeeds at making Rico flirt with him. But yeah, it just... stopped airing one day. No series finale, no announcement, just pulled from broadcast.

    I’ve seen the Christmas special, but I’ve yet to see the movie! I really need to watch it sometime!
    I keep forgetting that I owned Miku Chinese for like, two days... I even posted a cover with her. How could I forget that?
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    And it's one of my few older covers that I think still holds up! HOW DO I KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT IT, DARBY WHAT THE FUCK



    (...in the off-chance anyone's curious, BITE and Nyaa~ are the others I think still hold up. Even if I keep wanting to forget I ever made BITE's video.)
    A concept: you can love the Vsingers AND Medium5 simultaneously without pitching them against each other! I get that people are excited about the Medium5 girls (hello, Haiyi stan speaking), but in my occasional stalking of Twitter, I've still seen quite a few people talk about how terrible the Vsingers are and how superior Medium5 is and, like... can we not love them all? Even if Medium5 are, arguably, higher-quality vocals, we don't need to put down the Vsingers.

    Basically put, Vocaloid walked so SynthV could fly, and even if there's a quality difference, can we not just appreciate them all?
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    Honestly they're at the same level quality-wise, hell I'd bet especially the more recent ones are recorded under very similar conditions, VOCALOID just murders Chinese vocals. I love all the vocals honestly.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    To tell you the truth, I've used Miku Chinese (she was an impulse-purchase about a year ago - I wasn't crazy about her, and I didn't know enough Chinese to justify keeping her, so she went to a friend), and honestly, I didn't notice any major issues in-editor, aside from, well, the issues already associated with Miku Chinese. :clara_ani_lili: Even with my limited knowledge of the language, I just had the Chinese Phonetic page pulled up on the Wiki, and I thought everything was fine; I could figure it out as a relative newcomer to Vocaloid using what's near-universally considered the worst Chinese Vocaloid on the market, so while it's a lot more difficult than SynthV, and while the results aren't always as polished, I would hardly say Vocaloid messes with Chinese vocals much. I'd honestly love to try with a more HQ Chinese vocal! I'm torn between Yanhe, Ling, and Mo, but that's a decision I'm still mulling over, odajfh;lkajdsc;lasdj...

    Still, I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from: the fact that SynthV is a lot easier to use with Chinese than Vocaloid is what makes people think the Vsingers are bad, and that's the mentality I don't understand, personally.
    My head has been freed from the chains of long hair! I intended to get it cut a few months ago, then COVID hit the States, so it's just been getting longer and longer, and it's so thick that it takes half a day to dry after a shower, and it sheds and gets EVERYWHERE, and my shampoo bar has been shrinking so much faster since there's so much more to wash and it takes so much product just to get my hair clean.

    BUT! Not anymore! Smartstyle finally started accepting walk-ins with proper precautions, so I got eight inches of that malevolent bastard known as my hair chopped off! Ah, sweet freedom~
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    Ikr? I live in a pretty red part of the state. Just got back from Walmart a few minutes ago and like 30 to 40% of people in there refused to wear a mask even though they can legally kick the out for ignoring covid rules. A walmart that's near a nursing home where at least 20 people died from the virus.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Yeah, it's infuriating. More people here refuse masks than wear them. We don't enforce masks at our store, because we rarely have high foot traffic so social distancing is extremely easy to practice, even during peak hours; still, if someone asks if mask are required, I'll say that, while they're not, they're heavily encouraged. I've had one person, when I said that, say "Oh. Well that was a waste of time." and walk back out, never to be seen again.

    Then there was the guy who got mad at me for trying to "contaminate" his phone by touching it so I could better see the coupon code he was wanting me to use, while he himself wasn't wearing a mask, undid the rope keeping customers an extra few inches back so he could lean his whole body against the counter, and kept leaning around the Plexiglas and speaking in such a manner that my glasses got his spit on them, but that was... in its own category.
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    With any luck, I'm getting my hair cut for the first time since February this Saturday, but the UK government has mandated that hair stylists should wear PPE, and my hairdresser has asked me to wear a mask when I come in. Can't wait to fix my highlights, because now I look like I intentionally dyed my hair ombre. ^^;
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