Yes, pretty much. Vtubers stream like other streamers but show their models instead of their own faces, and lots of them do karaoke streams or even original songs, which leads into the concerts. Graduation is retirement either from the company that owns their model or from streaming entirely. In the former case, they may pop back up later with a different model either streaming independently or with a different agency.

For an example of Miku’s licensing, probably the most famous Miku song is “World is Mine” which was written by a composer named ryo and performed by his band Supercell. I’m not sure exactly what deal was struck between their label, Sony Music, and Crypton Future Media, the makers of the Vocaloid software Miku is the mascot and most popular voice of to make the concerts. Anyone is allowed to use the Miku character for noncommercial purposes with attribution, her image is CC BY-NC.

Hatsune Miku is a digital musical instrument, a piece of software which allows people to generate singing in a robotic Japanese voice by manually tuning each note. This is different from “AI” voice song generation because it actually requires work and skill and predates it by at least a decade. The blue haired character is the mascot of this piece of software, and the company behind it uses that mascot in various tie-in products like video games. There is no specific real human behind the Miku character.

Vtubers are like twitch streamers, but they’re behind a fancy mask called a “model” which is animated by face and/or body tracking. Each one corresponds to a specific real human. The big/popular ones are part of agencies, generally out of Japan with corresponding Japanese-style workplace abuse. There are also people who do vtubing on their own, and generally have much less detailed and less animated models, all the way down to just bouncing a png of a face when they talk.

Yes, live performances by both are just on a screen, but with the other things I’m told people like about live events, like a big soundsystem and a crowd of fellow fans.

One of the ones with funnels to really get the space autism powers going

I don’t think he’s really online enough to know the problems with Destiny despite being a youtuber

Let a man yap

Might also refer to not having an Intel Management Engine backdoor

Gotta make some room for the switch 2 oled to improve on for another hundred bucks or so

1970 was over 50 years ago.

I don’t think I’ve used a pen of any kind in years. What little hand writing I do is either with a 0.3mm mechanical pencil or a stylus into Xournal++.

Star Trek Lower Decks, The Orville, Deep Space 9 and also all the other Star Trek shows except Discovery and Picard.

As someone not Into Fountain Pens, it does kinda check out that there would be some significant overlap between the writing-like-a-victorian-aristocrat community and holding reactionary views.

In my opinion it can’t. The core thing you want to do, prevent the user from running whatever software they desire on their own computer, is fundamentally malicious behavior even if the user is yourself

“I wish the Democrats would realize history didn’t start on Oct 7”

Monkey’s paw curls (btw do we have a monkey paw curling emote? I couldn’t find it)

History started on Jan 20, 2025

I know of exactly one actual case of that, and the police promptly arrived and shot the “good guy with a gun” dead on the spot.

I simply place my desktop tower backwards so all the ports are on the front

Game streaming is just DRM

Just FYI this Damien Walter guy is a bit of a dipshit lib

Prediction markets are the dumbest shit

If it behaves as malware it’s malware in my book. Same reason I consider things like kernel level anti-cheat to be malware.

How about we call this one the New General Megathread and the other one the General News Megathread for maximum confusion

Looks like malware to me