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Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.
This shouldn't be controversial to say, but it's blatantly obvious that it's a voice changer.
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Tales of the M1 GPU
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Let's not head down this direction of madness please. I've followed Japanese vtubers for some time and that is CERTAINLY not the case. Vtubers are just aliases for the real person. And each person picks and chooses how much they blend their real lives into that alias. There are even some vtubers that will have a camera facing on themselves while they stream as a vtuber (for example stream their body, but not their fa…
> This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so. That's not a legal requirement, it's a carrier request. > For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware. That now turns off once you take them out of the country though.
Things must have changed in recent years, as it must have absolutely started out as a mandatory legal requirement. From my understanding it dates to some of the earliest digital cameras that didn't have shutter noises built-in and has nothing to do with carriers.
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> The anime character is just what Hector started using more often for communicating about the project. It's not a different person. Wait really? So they swapped their gender with a voice changer as well? Do you have some evidence of this? Though it would certainly explain how a developer who "just joined" somehow was allowed to co-opt the project name without any push back.
> Wait really? So they swapped their gender with a voice changer as well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33292198 Please stop trolling on this topic. It's annoying to see every thread about Asahi Linux get dragged off topic like this.
How am I "trolling"? I'm asking honest questions because I want to know. What happens more often is that every Asahi Linux post gets dragged off topic praising the person's greatness in a cult like manner. That's why I mentioned "fanboyism" in some other post.
I'd prefer if we kept to technical discussion in these posts personally.
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It’s like getting a specific haircut, choosing what model of glasses to get, or getting a nose job, or a tattoo. Or even just picking what style of clothes you want to represent yourself in. I.e. it’s simply choosing your appearance, using more modern technology.
That’s generous. I find it weird and creepy, interestingly the Hololive kids are exclusively young women with childlike affects. It’s not fooling anyone to pretend like this is normal self expression.
When they were new, most people thought of nose jobs (and other cosmetic surgery) as being weird and creepy. Some people still do. What is “normal” is a function of commonality, and at least VTooning does not cost a fortune and risks neither complications nor needing further surgery for years to come.
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Also, VRChat is infinitely better than the Metaverse, does not require you to sell your soul to Facebook, does not require a branded headset (OR ANY AT ALL, YOU CAN PLAY IT 2D), runs well, HAS LEGS ON YOUR AVATAR FFS, and massive community support in and out of game. Also it didn't require billions in investment. Facebook could have literally burned $900 million on hookers and cocaine, and then thrown $100 million to…
I feel that Facebook's metaverse push is a desperate attempt to reverse the evolution of our identities from baseline, offline, unitary identity towards constructed and abstract, online, contextual, anime girls form. I don't know precisely why it's always specifically anime && girls, but everything else seems to fall face first so I guess it's survival of fittest.
It’s a side effect of where the early avatar creating tools had their development effort focused. Now it’s just a weird cultural thing.
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> Wait really? So they swapped their gender with a voice changer as well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33292198 Please stop trolling on this topic. It's annoying to see every thread about Asahi Linux get dragged off topic like this.
How am I "trolling"? I'm asking honest questions because I want to know. What happens more often is that every Asahi Linux post gets dragged off topic praising the person's greatness in a cult like manner. That's why I mentioned "fanboyism" in some other post. I'd prefer if we kept to technical discussion in these posts personally.
> I'd prefer if we kept to technical discussion in these posts personally.
That's really not what your posting history indicates. And bringing up the subject of "fanboyism" is pretty much the exact opposite; that's never going to take the conversation in a productive direction.
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The opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular yet unrecognized for what they are.
> opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular Well, yes. Who does something matters. I could totally see Facebook's metaverse failing a la Stadia or Diem.
I didn’t make myself clear enough, I was talking about people brushing off the core concept as intrinsically unfeasible. Obviously their specific version is tonedef and lacking features but the baseline concept is proven valid by those other versions.
Re: Tales of the M1 GPU
#228watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.
Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn't seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it's something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.
In case of Marcan/Lina I got the impression that he created Lina just for fun. It started as an April fools joke (Lina 'took over' Marcan's live stream), but Marcan seems to enjoy it a lot, even going so far as contributing to the Inochi2D software (used to render Lina) to improve all sorts of facial features.
I don't have the impression that in Marcan's case it was ever about anonymity, it is more about a creative expression.
Up until Lina's introduction on April 1st, I had never seen a vTuber stream, and I must say it is quite fun to watch. Though personally I wish Lina's voice is tweaked a bit, because it can be hard to understand what she is saying.
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It’s like getting a specific haircut, choosing what model of glasses to get, or getting a nose job, or a tattoo. Or even just picking what style of clothes you want to represent yourself in. I.e. it’s simply choosing your appearance, using more modern technology.
That’s generous. I find it weird and creepy, interestingly the Hololive kids are exclusively young women with childlike affects. It’s not fooling anyone to pretend like this is normal self expression.
What is "normal self expression"? And what do you think they're trying to fool you about exactly?
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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU
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How am I "trolling"? I'm asking honest questions because I want to know. What happens more often is that every Asahi Linux post gets dragged off topic praising the person's greatness in a cult like manner. That's why I mentioned "fanboyism" in some other post. I'd prefer if we kept to technical discussion in these posts personally.
> I'd prefer if we kept to technical discussion in these posts personally. That's really not what your posting history indicates. And bringing up the subject of "fanboyism" is pretty much the exact opposite; that's never going to take the conversation in a productive direction.
Going after "posting history" is already taking things in a non-productive direction. If I disliked vtubers I wouldn't watch them so much. I have a bigger issue with pitch changers as they make listening difficult. Most vtubers don't actually use them.