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WyndReed
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  • Ended up at outlet stores looking for a new belt, and I made my mom go into the coach outlets store. I so don’t need anymore bags, I take my mini camera bag and backpack everywhere, but I love to see the new colors and patterns. There were some coral colored bags and wallets on clearance that were gorgeous!(I ended up getting a cool fabric/canvas belt at eddie bauer)
    This is a pretty cool looking program. Supposedly it can change the image just slightly enough that AI won’t be able to copy your style. AI can still create something based on an image of yours, but on your exact style. Not so great for artists with a lot of art out there, but it is something. Completely free from the University of Chicago. Also it is continuing to be worked on.
    So we are finally (mostly) free of the hotel we’ve been at the last 3 years. I don’t know what happen with housing cause we don’t have much money. We had to stop an hour away from where we were since we had to repack the cargo trailer and put stuff in storage as well d the cats being in the car too long and not getting enough sleep last night. Tomorrow we’ll drive the other three hours and then figure out what to do when we get to our destination.
    We are sitting outside of the hotel waiting for someone from the car dealership and the fire alarms are going off inside. They probably went inside the rooms we just left to fix the fire alarms and triped them off instead lololol
    I figured out my really cold issue. Been looking at covid induced thyroiditis after some weird lab results and two weeks of throat swelling after last bought of covid. Went looking at thyroid issues after really strange blood pressure yesterday and low and behold I forgot that hypothyroidism causes low temp and feeling cold. (To make matters worse I ran out of levothyroxine a few days ago cause a local endocrinologist didn’t write for it even though he said he would and I’ve been on it for years.)
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    Oh my God.... I'm deeply sorry to hear about this, and I hope that things will solve the quickiest and best possible :midorizakikasumi_lili:
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    Thank you. The place I’m moving to on Monday is near a major city and has a ton of doctors and medical schools, so I should be able to find a doc who can deal with complex stuff pretty easily. I actually found a 1.5/2 year old levothyroxine in a pill container in a drawer last night, so I had half last night and have half for tomorrow night.(Yeah I switched from taking it separately from my other meds to taking it with my nightly loratidine, since I was routinely forgetting it one a week. Funnily forgetting actually came in handy. lol)
    Anyone else have where your brain is working, but you just can’t focus properly? I can’t seem to figure out how to pack my electronic gear for the last hour. Maybe I need to eat something.
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    It's doing to me a lot lately... Like, I get more and more easily distracted because I space out or there's something catching my attention, then something else, and over, and over so I don't advance any faster OTL
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    Yeah it's probably some of that and my blood pressure's been weird all day too.
    IO+
    IO+
    Maybe stress or excessive worry causes you to lose present monent, it's hard to stay focused when this happen, so take some snack time or tea time (i like tea!) then come back again.
    My mom is running around in a tank top and shorts with the room temp set low, meanwhile I’m in cotton/poly sweatpants, poly slipper socks, and a long sleeve shirt and am so cold that I’m not functional.(I am too cold to do the packing I need to) The thermometer on the table next to me said that it’s 65 degrees in here. She yelled at me when I objected to her turning the thermostat from 73 to 72.(It’s hotel AC so a ton of cold air is coming from outside, but the thermostat is far enough away to not register the air incursion)
    MagicalMiku
    MagicalMiku
    i'm sorry wynd..hang in there..:kizakiairi_lili:
    (as for cold, since is hotel, it can help to use the bathroom to wash your hands with hot water, keep your hands and wrists under the running hot water for at least 30 seconds, and you'll feel warm a bit more) :midorizakikasumi_lili:
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    It’s better now, I was able to increase the temp in the other rooms and turned on the dehumidifier. We’ve been living in two connected 1 bedroom rooms for the last 3 years, so I should now how to optimize it by now, but we’re leaving soon so. :/
    It’s been really comforting to watch Extraordinary Attorney Woo actually.
    I’ve been thinking about why that is and I’m pretty sure that it’s because there are things that she does that I would probably do if I hadn’t been conditioned to act like a neurotypical person my whole life and that seeing that on screen actually makes me relax some. Even my mom who says that she is probably autistic as well wants me to act like a neurotypical person.(I don’t have a formal diagnosis, but I’m pretty sure I have autism with some ADD features at this point)
    So I’m going to install Godot and Blender, but first to deactivate Vocaloid and Synth V. I have no idea what’s going to happen with windows anymore because of the problems I’ve had with different devices. :/
    I stumbled across Godot today and it looks much easier to understand than Unity. I’ve wanted to try making games for a while, but Unity reminded me of 3ds Max and I didn’t want to go near it.(I tried using 3ds Max back in 2012 and it made like no sense to me. I switched to Blender and it was amazing how well it worked with the way my brain functions.) Maybe that’s something I can do while not being able to use Vocaloid right now.
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    I hate 3Ds Max with burning passion lol, they tried teaching it to us in school, I did some work in Blender and it did come more naturally to me ( even while with it's old UI )
    pico
    pico
    I really love Godot. I understand why it isn't being favored for production applications the same way Unity is, but I think it's severely underrated.
    There’s this tuning style that’s going around, that I believe originated with vbs like Gahata Meiji and Kire vbs, and I’m having a hard time enjoying covers because of it. Don’t know how to explain it, but there are all of these covers from different people that sound like they have the same tuning and it is driving me nuts trying to find new tuners to listen to. :/
    Edit: I just realized that I made it sound like some sort of contagious disease. lol
    This is me realizing that if my laptop hadn’t broken in 2013 and/or I’d been able to purchase a desktop pc and a wacom in 2016, I wouldn’t have had to give up 3d modeling and would be able to make some wilted models by now.(I ran into tweets from a 3d modeler who I remember being in the mmd community, and being slightly ahead of me skill wise, back when I was there and now they are making models for vtubers. :/) Drawing still doesn’t make sense to my brain a lot of the time, but the 3d stuff was so much easier on my brain.
    I am thoroughly convinced that Crypton will not actually ever release the rest of the Cryptonloids on Piapro NT and that the software will be solely used for Project Sekai.(partially sarcasm) It’s kinda sad what Crypton is doing with their products, especially given how Miku and co have basically become the face of vocal synthesizers.
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    Yeah I'm not expecting V6 vbs from them 😔 it's really just a fantasy of mine that I don't put any weight behind.

    The silence on the software department reminds me of the silence period so to say in 2020, I bet there's something in store.
    Vector
    Vector
    Speaking as a software engineer by profession: developing software this complex is a massive endeavor, and the scale of Crypton and Yamaha are not even comparable. I thought it was very ambitious for them to even attempt Piapro NT. I'm impressed with what they managed to pull off, but it's very clear they bit off more than they could chew. NT is still effectively an iteration on where VOCALOID was seven years ago, and whether it's even as good is subjective, while Yamaha has taken great technological leaps beyond that. They're effectively burning a lot more resources reinventing a much smaller wheel, and underserving their customers in the process. Not only is there a lack of progress on bringing the other voice banks over, there still isn't any English support (while V6 has next level multilingual support) and hovering uncertainty about V4X on some platforms. (The Mac transition from Intel to ARM raises many concerns.)

    The excuse that they desire a less realistic and distinct style than V5 and V6 produce doesn't really fly, as users desire different styles and Yamaha could absolutely accommodate them through their existing partnership. The classic V2-V4 sound comes, at least to my ear, from an ADSR envelope that is just a touch too slow to mimic human sounds (if you listen to Bee and Puppycat, it really sticks out) and less seamless blending to the notes, which is already something you can exaggerate by changing the pitch snapping parameter. Given V6's multitude of style options, and Yamaha's more intimate knowledge of the behind the scenes workings, there isn't really a reason they couldn't have a "classic Vocaloid" mode.
    Vector
    Vector
    Japanese companies tend to not play the hype game as much as in the US, and are prone to just dumping unannounced products out (see also: Vocaloid 6), but I have a gut feeling we're due for something major now that we're moving past some of the COVID-induced productivity losses. It probably stings a little for them to see Gumi V6 leapfrog Miku so prominently. (Sorry for the double post, but I ran into a character limit and didn't want to end that abruptly :P)
    Yo, Miku preformed on stage with Aqours! It looks like they got the company behind PriPara to do the CG.
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    @pico The seiyuu were hired to voice the characters in anime/games/music as well as to like become the live action counterparts. They perform in concerts/live streams/etc as themselves, but kinda as the characters too, while sharing a fan base with the characters and having separate fan bases. (Been a fan since 2012, but actually having a hard time trying to explain the franchise. lol)
    Edit: and yes, Aqours was hired with the explicit notion that they were to become full fledged idols. I believe that when Love Live was started no one thought it would take off the way it did, so the formation of the first group, Muse, was different.
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    Mika
    Mika
    @WyndReed right?? explaining Love Live is so difficult, it's something you have to experience to really get it haha
    pico
    pico
    Interesting! Thanks. This makes more sense. I forgot that Muse was the first group. It makes more sense now that the actors afterwards would be hired with all of this in mind!
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