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I saw Nerissa at a local KFP store yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be annoying and bother her and ask her to do "ara-aras" or anything.
She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “Ope? Ope? Ope?” and unbuttoning her shirt in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my meal order, and I heard her starting to sniffle like a wet cat as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen hamburgers in her hands without paying.
The orange-haired girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Entschuldigen Sie, Ma'am, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the hamburgers and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to remove the top bun from each individually “to prevent any culinary infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each burger and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by complaining about "how you cant get any Culvers here" really loudly.

 

During a period of 2+ years, Cover:

  • Made contractors do extra work (e.g., extra revisions), without sufficient justification (as per contract terms), without providing additional payment for that extra work.
  • Had late payments, including some payments late by over 300 days (!!).

In response to the guidance received from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cover:

  • Will cease their heinous criminal activity and follow the rules now.
  • Has resolved late payments, with interest.
  • Will attempt to rectify processes / training / etc that lead to the situation happening.
  • Will check if there are any other oopsies.
  • Will tell everyone they fucked up and what they've done about it.
  • Will report back to the Commission.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is from a couple weeks ago but I felt it was notable.

Second-hand commentary trickling in from artists / riggers etc on Elon Musk's blog seem to suggest that the problems didn't really seem malicious in nature, but the scale of it is still pretty nuts.

 

During a period of 2+ years, Cover:

  • Made contractors do extra work (e.g., extra revisions), without sufficient justification (as per contract terms), without providing additional payment for that extra work.
  • Had late payments, including some payments late by over 300 days (!!).

In response to the guidance received from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Cover:

  • Will cease their heinous criminal activity and follow the rules now.
  • Has resolved late payments, with interest.
  • Will attempt to rectify processes / training / etc that lead to the situation happening.
  • Will check if there are any other oopsies.
  • Will tell everyone they fucked up and what they've done about it.
  • Will report back to the Commission.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I really like art in this style - shame about the visible JPEG compression :'(

 

Pixiv source (same image as submitted)

 

We have recently received a number of reports that our talents are being impersonated (including the spreading of false statements and misinformation) and experiencing intrusive behavior such as malicious language and behavior (including through billing functions on all platforms) on talents’ streams as well as being subject to potential abusive behavior and harassment such as slander, defamation, threats, and persistent stalking primarily on social media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Usada Casino is now open! Several minigames have been added.

One step closer to YAGOO destroying the world economy via physical holo-themed degenerate casinos 😎

BAE

[Unratted the rat]

To be honest when I originally saw her skill names the first time, it did seem strange the degree they played into the rat theme. But now removing it all also feels a bit weird now that I got used to it lol, idk.

Reverse Stamp

Effect has been changed.

RIP in piss


edit: the shop has new A-chan / office art too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

(Act I of Season 2 is currently out, Act II comes out on Nov 16, then Act III on Nov 23)

 

Ft. Ririka

 

Pixiv source (has same res, uncompressed image)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's perfectly reasonable to be jealous of Ina's superior squishy hair.

 

Turbo back at it again, but now it's official

Setlist from comments:

0:00 UnAlive : Calli
5:13 PSYCHO : Bae
8:45 Born to be "BAU"DOL : Fuwamoco
12:49 Souten ni Moyu : Kronii
16:39 Pineapple : Kiara
20:20 Moment of my life : Irys
26:00 A New Start : Mumei
30:04 VIOLET : Ina
34:53 Let Me Stay Here : Fauna
39:24 Rebellion : Advent
43:37 ChikuTaku : Ame
47:37 Say My Name : Nerissa
51:15 ABOVE BELOW : Justice

 

Referencing this video: YouTube

 

Useful context from @callouscomic:

Misleading headline.

From a different site:

with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are there roughly 89 active hololive affiliated talents? How does COVER organize so many distinct individuals across many different subgroups?

TANIGO: So we have around 65 talent managers who literally and figuratively speak their language. We have Japanese speakers, we have English speakers, and we also have Indonesian speakers. That being said, I still do not think that our support for our English talents is enough, so I hope to see more improvement in that area. Now that we have the United States covered with Max Kim as our Overseas Brand Partnership Director, we hope that we can offer more support to our English talents, and we're looking into ways that we can best utilize this resource.

So about a 2:3 ratio of managers to talents right now, which is interesting.

Interview's kinda short - only has a handful of questions, but at least the responses aren't just one-liners.

 

In the past couple of years, VTubing has continued to grow as an inventive and influential form of entertainment. With major collaborations and sold-out concert halls slowly starting to crop up here in the U.S., hololive has been one of the spearheads of this rise in popularity. At Anime NYC, Anime News Network spoke to Motoaki Tanigo (YAGOO), CEO of COVER Corporation, the company behind the hololive production VTuber agency, and Max Sung Yoon Kim, the head of COVER USA Sales. They were accompanied by Moeko Tamano, the head of International Business Development, and Daniar Kisaragi, the international PR team community manager, who both provided translations for the interview. Tanigo and Max Kim offered insight into how they hope to expand their presence in the United States.

(interview's a month old)

 

(Based on context, I think the pack's value was comparatively low, causing the reaction, which has been oversold slightly in the animation for comedic effect)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The VA really nailed Gura here. The gruff "I'm fucking Gawr Gura bitch" is indistinguishable from the real thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's a pretty short interview, so instead of a quote here's a link (which I assume is riddled with tracking) to the cover on all of its various platforms:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/elizabethrosebloodflame/blackbird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

FSR 3.1 (specifically 3.1, not 3.0) added an optional decoupling of the frame generation and the upscaling, but yeah that would still need first party support from the game developer. I should edit my comment to explicitly mention the frame gen possibility, didn't realize that was something people were using this for!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's one of the program's common usages, yeah. Among other things (like integer scaling for pixel-based games), it can be used to:

  • render a game at a lower "internal" resolution and then apply one of several upscaling options to make up the difference, improving performance and hence "free FPS", and/or
  • generate intermediate frames between "real" frames, which I guess you could describe as "free FPS" (but the quality of the intermediate frames will be so-so - there's lots of tests and stuff of frame generation more broadly if you're interested!)

edit: added frame generation

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I've come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn't really better than not using it, it's just a tradeoff.

If you're not sensitive to input latency then that's likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it's not.

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