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  1. sketchesofpayne

    [IMG] (三輪士郎) - - - (ajimita) I ordered up a couple custom, cheap canvas prints of two of my...

    (三輪士郎) - - - (ajimita) I ordered up a couple custom, cheap canvas prints of two of my all-time favorite Miku artworks to decorate my walls. They came out surprisingly good for the size of the image files I had to work with. I've been building up my collection of Vocaloid artbooks, but it's a bit...
  2. sketchesofpayne

    Whenever horror leans too hard on a ludicrous depiction of mental illness as the crux of its...

    Whenever horror leans too hard on a ludicrous depiction of mental illness as the crux of its story it can easily go off the rails.
  3. sketchesofpayne

    Funnily enough, way back when I first got a tablet I soon after started getting really into...

    Funnily enough, way back when I first got a tablet I soon after started getting really into doing ink brush and watercolor stuff. There's something about the kinesthetic sensations of traditional media that I started to miss after doing digital art.
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    Makes me think people were confusing it for something else. I also regard anyone who...

    Makes me think people were confusing it for something else. I also regard anyone who unironically self-identifies as a "weeb" as highly suspect. Of course, an anonymous social app among fresh college kids is just a recipe for attracting the worst of the clique-ish troglodytes around.
  5. sketchesofpayne

    Unpopular Opinions

    "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. So far, on the internet... not yet." "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." "These people sit at their keyboards all day long just waiting for the thrill...
  6. sketchesofpayne

    Being An Anime Fan in the Early 2000s and The Lead-up to Vocaloid

    (I'm sorry my story is a real, "Back in my day we appreciated the anime we got, 'cause we had to work for it! You young whipper-snappers don't realize how good you have it with yer simul-cast streaming malarkey!" But I think it is always interesting to appreciate the history of how we got to...
  7. sketchesofpayne

    Subscription models are of the devil! If the service provider ever goes out of business, or...

    Subscription models are of the devil! If the service provider ever goes out of business, or shuts down the servers, you're left with nothing. I like to own the things I buy. I don't like to pay for permission to use it temporarily and get changed money even when I don't use it. And a huge...
  8. sketchesofpayne

    HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE!

    Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage Sega’s Top Performing F2P (From Article at Siliconera) Sega Sammy released its Fiscal Year Ended March 2022 Results Presentation on May 13, 2022. Among the details were figures going over income from its free-to-play titles. It turns out Hatsune Miku was the queen...
  9. sketchesofpayne

    Facts without context can be deceptive.

    Facts without context can be deceptive.
  10. sketchesofpayne

    [MEDIA] [3DMV] "Miku" by Anamanaguchi There's just something so adorable about the animation...

    [3DMV] "Miku" by Anamanaguchi There's just something so adorable about the animation for this music video!
  11. sketchesofpayne

    Hatsune Miku & Piapro Characters General News & Happenings

    twitter Due to positive response the Acaric x Hatsune Miku collaboration has continued. She is on the cover of their new journal.
  12. sketchesofpayne

    Characterizing Hatsune Miku - (Who is she, really?)

    (This started as a response to another discussion thread by @REDD that I kept expanding until it needed its own write-up.) [via pixiv のくはし] I think part of the difficulty in characterizing Miku is due to her being more of a meta-character instead of a character in the traditional sense. From...
  13. sketchesofpayne

    Otomachi Una Has Her Own Train for Going on Three Years! (Plus other Una Promos and Merch)

    SPACE DIVE !! 2022 -GUMI & UNA Virtual Reality LIVE- [vocaDB] [DMM] [Internet Co] The first "Space Dive" was a virtual concert streaming event to celebrate GUMI's 10th anniversary. It had a 25 song setlist that included three featuring Otomachi Una. A new streaming event has been announced...
  14. sketchesofpayne

    [IMG] I was contemplating the songs "Tell Your World," "Greenlights Serenade," "Hand In Hand,"...

    I was contemplating the songs "Tell Your World," "Greenlights Serenade," "Hand In Hand," "ODDS & ENDS," "Because You're Here," and "39." Then I started messing around in Photoshop, tinkering with a few different ideas and ended up spending the entire evening putting this thing together. Mostly...
  15. sketchesofpayne

    From what I see the numbers are roughly inverted from their userbase. The fewer users a...

    From what I see the numbers are roughly inverted from their userbase. The fewer users a platform has, the more revenue they need to offer to artists to get those artists to take the time and effort to submit music to their platform. YouTube has tons of users, so there's no need for them to...
  16. sketchesofpayne

    People who say things like that are insecure. They try to shame others for not being their idea...

    People who say things like that are insecure. They try to shame others for not being their idea of what an "adult" is in order to make themselves feel like more of an "adult." I was writing a reply here, but it got so long I made a post about it instead.
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    Is Vocaloid For Kids?

    "Is Vocaloid for kids?" A post expressed concern about other people who had made snide remarks about things such as Vocaloid seeming to be for children, and not something adults should be involved with. I wrote a reply that turned into something I felt should be its own post. People who say...
  18. sketchesofpayne

    That art makes me want to watch Lucky Star, play Persona 3 on my Playstation 2, rent a DVD for...

    That art makes me want to watch Lucky Star, play Persona 3 on my Playstation 2, rent a DVD for the weekend, buy some manga at the bookstore, browse the web on my first smart phone with its slide-out keyboard, watch some Miku Youtube videos in 360p on a 21" CRT monitor, torrent some anime...
  19. sketchesofpayne

    Vocaloid Merchandise News

    New noodle-topper figure announced! (BBTS)
  20. sketchesofpayne

    Figure Preferences: Posable or Non-Posable

    I currently own mostly non-posable figures aside from three Nendoroids (MM 2018 Miku, Halloween Miku, and "if" version Miku). It's inevitable that I'll buy more Nendoroid figures in the future. And lately I've been sorely tempted to get a full set of the Snow Miku Figma figures. My current...