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  • pico
    Today is the last day of niconico's current update designation, (Re). Tomorrow, a new era begins!!
    pico
    pico
    The names aren't being used to define strict software designations anymore, but are trying to define the "mission statement" or next big social push for the website, as it were. This time, they've flipped the letters to represent the eR in "singer, producer, dancer" and by association creator, animator, etc
    pico
    I might make a forum signature. I haven't done that since I was, like, literally 10 years old on the old pokefarm forums (lying about my age of course, sorry admins from back then :( lol. they rightfully gave me trouble about the fakeage on my account) but I feel like it would be a lot of fun. I'm gonna have to dig through the deviantart archives to pin down the style of those old signature designs
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    ah yes. oh, you know, I was born in 1922. I'm just a very spry 100 year old, you know? thank you, please let me back into the pokemon (this is NOT a condonement of this behavior btw I know there are pretty young people on these forums I am simply reminiscing on my own tomfoolery)
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    I used to have those old school signatures on a SpongeBob forum when I was around 13! Nowadays, they would fit right in with the 'Old Web' aesthetic.
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    memeshikutememeshikutememeshikutememeshikutememeshikute
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    pico
    PEOPLE ARE HATING ON HIS DESIGN ON TWITTER... WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
    pico
    I’ve never entered an art competition before, but I might try my hand at the Coestation contest just for fun. I found out that their character MK II is based on a vtuber that makes IRL motorcycling/super cub travel videos, and cute illustrations of the character and 3D models are superimposed over the footage. I’ve been experimenting with photography on my phone so maybe it’d be possible to make something kinda similar?!
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    I've been having a bad day but somehow, the CUL anni collab popped up in my recommended videos! It really made me smile... everyone seriously did such a good job. I'm so glad I got to participate, I learned a lot from the experience, and I feel like next time something like that happens I'll be able to contribute something of greater quality... but yeah. It was so much fun.
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    I brought my school's radio club back from the dead as a freshman. Now I'm a sophomore and all of the new members are freshmen and I got to run everyone's first antenna building event and it made me so happy :mikoto_lili: Everyone had so much fun and learned a lot. Times have been real tough recently so I'm really really grateful to have this.
    pico
    I just listened to a full cover with Chifuyu for the first time and oh man her voice is so cute!! TOKYO6 nailed it, it sounds good and convincingly soft! It's like the voice type isn't "fighting with the engine" for lack of a better term.
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    I was really surprised when I found out Kairiki Bear wrote Miku's 25th anniversary song. I love Kairiki Bear, but I think his music is good when he digs so deep into bad emotions and the human condition, so hearing Miku sing to his music with such an obliquely uplifting message feels wrong. (even though it is transparent about life being hard). I might really like it after more listens, but for now I'm going to bed.
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    Telesto Teles and Anheru are still some of my favorite things ever. I don't mind at all that Kairiki Bear makes a lot of "similar music" because something is almost always interesting every time (with only a few exceptions)
    pico
    1st PLACE has expanded their NFT pursuits outside of the ARIA characters and into their stake on Kagerou Project, specifically on Sidu (しづ）’s art.
    It is really clear to me that this is a financial pursuit on 1st PLACE's end and not an expression of love for the community or artwork. It is also unclear to me how much money, if any, Shidu is making off of the actual exchange of the NFT, because Shidu isn't the distributor and only 1st PLACE's corporate account is present in the Discord server. She was probably commissioned, and then 1st PLACE is reselling the NFT itself.

    Since I was a kid I've tried to grasp every side of the internet and its many communities by lurking and learning about them. And I have to say, I have not seen a single NFT-related community where the people involved were not primarily composed of "NFT people"-- people present because of the NFT itself, not any surrounding element. That's what people mean when they say "NFT grift". There is no substance, there is no excitement. The goal is to make money.

    This sentiment is a different in Japanese communities surrounding the intent, but in Japanese communities, there is also far less knowledge about what NFTs actually are.
    pico
    I just found out today that Keina Suda (Balloon) did a whole collaboration EP with Frederic in 2021. WTF. That's crazy.
    pico
    Someone please please tell me not to buy the Snow Miku 2022 figma
    Ibis
    Ibis
    Don't buy the figure. You're just going to buy it and look at it, and that's it. The whole point of buying a figure is to look at it, but at that point, just buy a cheaper poster, draw a picture yourself, or better yet, just look at PICTURES of the figure. It's basically the same if all you're going to do is look at it, right? Come one, you have better things to spend your money on.

    (hopefully that was convincing enough)
    pico
    pico
    LOL, that was pretty good. But, on the flip side, I draw the time, and it's not quite the same as a physical object :kaito_move: You have effectively put me off for the time being, though. I will at least mull it over until I go back to school. Appreciated
    pico
    My uncle studied in Japan for a good long while. For most of my life, all that meant is that my grandparents had a lot of traditional Japanese artwork in their house, knew about old daytime TV shows, and were early Nintendo DS adopters. But somewhat recently, over family dinner, my uncle looked me dead in the eyes and asked if I had watched the new Evangelion movie and if I liked it. Well, I did, so that conversation went somewhat smoothly... but it took 100% of my effort not to burst out laughing. It really caught me off guard.

    Now I'm trying to get him to understand my passion for Vocaloid music. My dad likes inabakumori and tsumiki, but my uncle is stubborn and probably only remembers the early songs from nicodou before the music scene had taken form.

    I'm thinking, maybe working backwards by showing him ZUTOMAYO, Yorushika, and Kenshi Yonezu first could work.
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    Vector
    Vector
    WagakkiBand covers of Senbonzakura and Roki, then play the originals. MitchieM to show off how realistic the vocals can sound. Hachi is always good, especially since he's kind of well known as a singer now.
    pico
    pico
    @mobius017 It is hard to imagine, isn't it! I was about to say he might not be quite old enough to be a grandparent, but then I realized that he is the oldest of my parents, aunts, and uncles... so that is a 100% true evaluation. Scary :arsloid_ani_lili: One time I was at a bookstore looking for the latest volume of yotsubato! with a friend and a much older gentleman asked us if we had heard of Speed Racer, and told us it was really good. Speed Racer and Voltron are the anime my dad knows about too, so there definitely are old anime fans among us, but it was never marketed as anime to them as kids, so alas.

    @MillyAqualine To him, I think Haruhi Suzumiya might have special value as a kind of... evaluation/parody/self-acknowledgement of otaku culture, which might differentiate his appreciation from mine, which was of course the hare hare yukai memes and surrounding culture.

    @Vector I didn't realize the bassist made Yoshiwara Lament! Cool. MitchieM is probably a no-go because of the poppy song composition. I think we're on the same page as far as working backwards though, that's what I mean by Kenshi Yonezu -> Hachi :) and so on with the composers.
    pico
    The Zundamon and Zunko hoodies are so cute... I'm absurdly tempted to get the Zundamon style, even if I'm not the biggest fan of the neon green text stripes. Just... agggh, the ears! Cute!
    pico
    I wonder if synths of the Project Sekai characters will ever become reality.
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    pico
    I've never ever had problems with Project Sekai fans (but I also think I inhabit different spaces online than a lot of people here). It's sad to hear there are pockets that aren't good.

    And yes, it would be weird plot-wise, but I can't help but get a little giddy over the thought of being able to create new songs for the characters that already have compelling stories interwoven with vocal synthesis. I think there's potential for a "full circle" sentiment there that preserves the integrity of the original narrative.

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    I don't really think there's that huge of an overlap between the Project Sekai fandom and vocal synth users
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    I'm not sure this is 100% true. Lots of Vocaloid producers post their Project Sekai scores on Twitter and get a lot of engagement from fans. A lot of small-time producers have talked about playing the game, too. The people that are primarily fans of "project sekai" might not also be music producers, but I think sentiment around the game from people that make music is generally positive from what I've seen-- probably because it portrays the experience of "being a vocaloid producer/user/member of the community" in such a varied and positive way
    Rylitah
    Rylitah
    Ah, I was mainly talking about people who don't produce music (and also primarily the Western community, which trends younger). Project Sekai has a very large fan community - while many came for the virtual singers, a lot also are just here for the original characters, too. I don't really see those who are fans of just the latter entering the vocal synth community as a whole even if one of them were to become a synth, just from the patterns and behaviors I've observed from the sidelines. They could be casual listeners, of course, but many of them aren't involved or interested in the technical side of things at all.
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    That's fair. I do think Project Sekai is turning people into 'vocaloid fans', or at least legitimizing vocaloid music in the minds of some people that wouldn't be otherwise interested, though. Maybe expanding Project Sekai into the synthesis world is a way to introduce more non-synth fans to synthesis... and make them synth fans. :) It's def a pipe dream, but who knows.
    pico
    Current projects
    - Zutomayo dance video but with the faces of Yakuza/Ryu ga Gotoku 7 characters edited on top of it. Hard to explain but very funny in practice (kinda otoMAD/YTPMV style)
    - Impact Zundamon Nuigurumi (namigroove) bass cover/MV parody

    I'm holding myself to completing these, so I'm posting this somewhere that way it feels like a promise
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