Aqua graduated today

Did she just retire or was there drama?

No drama on the surface. Reason for graduation being creative differences. Speculation is that she just wants to play video games and was being pushed into idol stuff she didn't want to do. It certainly seems like nobody is happy about the situation, not even her.

Ah it got to point in any dream job where the thing you liked doing just became work

@Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st Blame Hololive for going public. The new management is forcing them to become actual idols, I suspect that having singing and dancing lessons all week isn't what any of the girls really want.

You can't force all the girls to be seiso idols it won't work

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st Yeah I saw the Gura thing I can't believe Hololive is imploding

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st (((Investors))) ruin everything.

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st Holo had ZERO reason to go public. No idea who or what convinced yagoo to do it, can't be money alone since he was already making gajillions.

Is there a way to be a "homebrew" vtuber, or do you need a central infrastructure? In a publicly traded company there will always be pressure to expand the things that are successful - even up to the point they aren't successful anymore.

@quercus@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st You can be completely independent, you just need at least second world internet to stream https://youtu.be/gXGQ_ArSOYk

And real time motion capture is possible with a home PC?

@quercus@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st entirely possible either through a webcam or a vr rig most of the "cost" comes from getting a 2d/3d model made but you can make those yourself if you have enough skill or you can commission one or pick the third option which is just draw literally two frames of animation in ms paint and be done with it until you have enough for a commission

@Xeraser@varishangout.net @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st Giving it a "I would not be surprised to find out a fag/yank/Jew wanting in on the profits and holding a metaphorical gun to his head"

@quercus@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st Filian is the only vtuber i know that regularly motion tracks her entire body and shes pretty independent

There are maybe thousands of 2views that made the jump from VRchat that do full body.

@LordMordred@poa.st @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net i can't imagine much of their audience wants that the bean counters will interpret the fact that they did an idol concert and it sold well as that's all they should do in the future, completely ignoring all the time the talents put in on playing games and yapping with their community that gets people invested in wanting to see the concert scuffed drunk karaoke with your oshi will always be more fun than the most well-made, highest budget idol concert from random generic idol vtuber #23453246 that you can't tell if she's one of the hololives or genshin characters

Another reason is that a manager ia needed to keep them in line or else they eventually fall to girl on the internet follys like becoming a massive unfunny slut

Happens alot with small moe vtubers. They make one edgy or horny joke and everyone in chat laughs because its unexpected but then they try to replicate that dopamine rush with edgier and hornier joke until they just become a generic slut tuber or a troon

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net yagoo Made a horrible mistake the moment he Made hololive go public and if he's ousted for it the entire company Will quickly go down in flames

Gura can always retvrn to who she really is.

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net 3D models are pretty easy to do yourself, but they're not nearly as polished looking as 2D models

@Xeraser@varishangout.net I'm gonna start using graduation when talking about firing employees

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st They're overpriced as fuck, artists can charge that much just because people can't say no or haggle (probably because muh optics)

the entirety of Generation Z is being held together by the fact that Discord hasn't done an IPO

@Spingebill@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st nah, the discord staff would never share their stash of chid porn with anyone

@Xeraser@varishangout.net @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @skylar@misskey.yandere.love i mean, it did take me roughly a week to make my own model, so just by doing some math, i feel like some prices are rather fair, given their level of talent and experience with rigging a model that being said, you really don't need to pay a grand for vtubing if you can just make it yourself, even the free version of live2d has enough to make a decent model

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @ninja8tyu@varishangout.net >80+ hours Absolutely not lmao I love it when artoids spread false info just to make their "job" sound stressful

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @ninja8tyu@varishangout.net quite literally a skill issue i watched raimi make an entire (chibi) model from start to finish (including rigging) in like one to two hours (with plenty of zatsu in-between)

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net yeah live2d is more tedious than difficult in my experience also i forget that some models are more complex, parts are separated differently, sometimes there's a disconnect between artists and riggers on how parts are separated to make the stuff look better, etc etc though i'd rather still just do it myself to save money lol, doesn't even matter if they did it for $30

@tadano@mt.watamelon.win @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net Same reason why Monarchies are preferable to other forms of government. Hoppe-pilled chads winning, democracels seething.

@blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Kerosene@bae.st @tadano@mt.watamelon.win @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net Religiousity has nothing to do with moral behaviour. Hell consider King David for a (mythical) example.

Return to tradition

@Groomschild@poa.st @Kerosene@bae.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @tadano@mt.watamelon.win @Remi@poa.st WOAH CUTE FLAN

@Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net @quercus@poa.st @ninja8tyu@varishangout.net @Groomschild@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe mine took me a couple hours once i found a good program to do it, most of which was getting the tail and fluffy ears how i wanted them. it’s like 2 minutes to make another version with a different outfit. some day i swear i’ll learn unity so i can make my ears move based on expression tracking.

@skylar@misskey.yandere.love @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st @ninja8tyu@varishangout.net >some day i swear i’ll learn unity if my mexican friend can do it so can you

@Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @quercus@poa.st @ninja8tyu@varishangout.net @Xeraser@varishangout.net yeah it’s just low priority on the project list. gotta finish up a bathroom renovation first, nobody wants a fucked up old vinyl floor.

@quercus@poa.st @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Groomschild@poa.st @Remi@poa.st @Xeraser@varishangout.net its possible on an iphone

Iphones are usually low frame rate and only just drag a PNG across the screen. a quality setup is at least above 24 fps and have depth perception

@Groomschild@poa.st @gav@cawfee.club @blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe @Remi@poa.st @quercus@poa.st not true in the slightest