/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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>>16823839

>>13793169
>us

>>12843482
Man shut the fuck up the only kind of arc that would provide would be a suffering one.

>>9894438
I'm sorry, could you be a bit more specific?

>>5831495
Because uparupa is the Japanese pronunciation of wooper looper, which was essentially a made-up term that sounded English (wasei eigo if you want the specifics) in an effort to get axolotls sold in pet shops during the '80s. Axolotl pronounced directly in Japanese sounds like "stupid old person" so a bunch of pet store owners got together and rebranded axolotls by calling them a cute name instead. It's also the source of Wooper's name in Pokemon.

Nene STRONG

>>3481176
Not quite. The reason why they use the head tilt in Kabuki is to signal to the audience that their facial expression is about to change, usually during an emotional or especially poignant scene. Because these audiences would be very large, people in the back would generally struggle to see what's happening on stage, which is why these exaggerated movements were formed and presented as a style, often in sequences before settling on a pose. It's also why their faces are generally painted and overexaggerated, both out of style and functional necessity. Kabuki is more akin to essentially a live action comic book where actors play out "panels" (called 見栄 or みえ) and freeze before moving onto the next sequence. Likewise, there's a stealthy pun in that these gestures are done three times (三重) as well. In case you're also curious about the "YOOOOOOOOOOOO" in kabuki, that's just a type of 掛け声 (かけごえ) which is just an enthusiastic yell, usually done to highlight the start or an active "LET'S GO!", much like how a director would say "ACTION!" This is the part where an actor makes their dramatic appearance on stage.

>>2397440
I've never seen anyone here dissing on CEO so I guess it's her

>>2334161
she's literally impossible to hate

>>2322828
take it easy

Orange STRONG

>>2290365
Not him, but people really overcomplicate this and I'm not sure why nobody can concisely explain it. There are some nuances to it, but it's best summarized as follows.

は is actually fairly limited in its use. All it does is simply mark the topic of the sentence and acts as a relay of sorts for continuing specific aspects of discussion. You can stick entire sentences before は for instance, since its only function is to give focus on a specific thing. This is why people get tripped up on it being a stand-in for a subject particle, since to western Indo-European languages, they are coterminous. However, that specific job of marking a subject is explicitly for が and が alone. Not only that, but if the subject is incredibly obvious or doesn't need reiteration, you simply don't need to repeat は and can also omit the topic (note, NOT the subject) from speech or writing. By that virtue, は highlights things that are more subtle or might need additional nuance while setting the table for discussion, but it cannot introduce new topics either. Whatever it is bound to, it has to be a known aspect of some kind and if not readily known, has to be prefaced on its own. A popular example why Japanese language learners get caught up on this is because 私は is frequently used as a stand-in for referring to yourself. The thing is, a lot of teachers fail to note that the reason why that tends to be a couplet is because, well, you're already obviously existing, right? 私は doesn't introduce anything new because you are already implicitly the topic AND subject of the sentence if you were to bring it up - it's our native language grammar rules tricking us into thinking we constantly need to bring up a marker for ourselves like we do in saying "I, he, she, etc." in practically every sentence. However, if you are talking about an aspect of yourself that may not be known, you'll frequently hear 私のことは - because you are introducing something about yourself that is known to you and may or may not be implicitly known by someone else; the important part is that if you are sharing NEW information that someone else clearly wouldn't know, that's where が would come in.

が is very much the champ at what he does. He's the lad that senses things, he's always the subject, he's always asking questions, he's never going to two-time you. He can be nestled in a は statement or left on his lonesome or even omitted entirely if it's obvious what's happening. He always makes it abundantly clear that he is the subject, and while the subject can be dropped if it's obvious, he can't be mistaken for anything else (even if we're talking formal conjunctions like ですが, since that still carries an implicit subject, or even in casual speech where you might hear 誰が instead of 誰か .) He can introduce new information, sensations, events, everything and anything. The problem is, he can come off as brusque and simple, and often without nuance if you overuse him. He can't carry too much since he is simply a marker for the subject. That's why the topic is there to help soften things up and introduce more information, because if there's one thing the Japanese language hates, it's repetition of particles outside of lists.

I hope that clears it up for you.

>>2234356
本日 is practically only used in super formal situations (which might be fitting here, but you would never preface something serious with 本日 as a headline) and it's generally accompanied with some sort of noun. You'll usually hear it in train stations, restaurants, etc. But the biggest giveaway is that formal Japanese never uses commas, instead preferring spaces if there needs to be a pause or something for dramatic effect.

>>2143860
To put it in to perspective, elementary school students in Japan usually only learn about ~10 kanji a week, but they have the benefit of simply attaching what they heard into reading and writing (and obviously, more time dedicated to learning it), so it's a little less complicated. As an adult, you can definitely do more work. 20 is a good pace, but don't let yourself get burned out. I did 20 cards a day on Anki and I realized where brute memorization is only going to take you so far.
>>2143989
Breaking down radicals and making your own story from the kanji to help remember them make up the bulk of RTK. It's a very good primer to get you started and is extremely helpful, but it won't really do anything for you beyond that. I highly recommend using something like Kanji Koohii in lieu of it since it provides a very robust dictionary and it's more or less partnered with RTK in a digital format and comes with SRS, etc, it's a better package deal. The most useful thing to know when learning kanji is that they are made of fixed parts (radicals) put together, and oftentimes, they'll have commonalities with other concepts. For instance, 月 being the 偏 (left radical) will always presuppose some sort of bodily organ like intestine in 腸 or chest in 胸 or arm in 腕, and so forth. Other times, it has a strong phonetic component to it like it would in Chinese. Other times, you'll have practically useless radicals like ⿕ whose only purpose is either being a flute by itself or combining with 金 to make... a lock kanji 鑰 which is already unused in favor of 鍵. The reason why Japanese is so complex is because it's essentially a whole 1000+ years of character acquisition from Chinese combined with homemade characters and some usages fall out of use while others stick around. Linguistically, however, Japanese is honestly not that hard to speak and listen to, because of how many shared sounds, meanings, etc. there are that tie a lot of concepts together into a catch-all, like 付く for example. Kanji, however, can (and will) often differentiate the same basal meaning that's spoken and understood into many different writings so as to give greater context to something that is being said that might not have clear context to someone that's reading or to give a more nuanced image. It's a close approximation of purple prose in English, if you want to use it as a comparison point.

Example: 見る. Simply puts, it means "to see / look / etc." However, you might run across 視る (to stare) or 観る (to take in / focus on something more thoroughly with your eyes - it's more active than 見る) or 診る (to medically examine) or 看る (to look after, take care of). Yet, all of those are pronounced and used in the exact same way. [みる]

The most important thing in learning any language is to first and foremost, have fun with it. If you aren't having fun, you're doing something wrong and you're not applying what you're learning in a way that's most conductive to you.

>>1573722
https://voca.ro/1gqXV9AQRK4q

https://hemyth.streamlink.to/soundtrack

Huh, these mods are actually super involved.

>Gura
100 HP / 250 HUN / 100 SAN
>Apex Predator: She gets hungry faster, but moves faster on ground and water as a result. Fish-related foods give 20% more hunger. Friends with Merms, can build Merm houses, pigs will attack her on sight.
>Hydrodynamic: Can swim with her floatie, moves 20% faster on water than land. Being wet restores sanity, but also makes her food soggy.
>Unique craftable weapon, Trident: Splash damage, spell damage is increased 2x, can hit target multiple times, 2x damage when in water, both ranged and melee, doesn't damage followers. Drawbacks are that it is hard to aim, slow, and durability is fairly low. Only strong as a spear on land and other characters can't use it.
>Has a built-in jinx mechanic - she has a chance of activating hostile mobs and provoking them when she gets near them, save for shadows and bosses.

>Mori
125 HP / 125 HUN / 200 SAN
>Reaper's Apprentice: Can't die, but when she takes damage that puts her below 10% of her health, she enters a sleeping state and reduces her max health each time she falls asleep. Can be permanent if it the health reductions get too low and has to have someone save her in that case. Recovers health and sanity during the process.
>Unique craftable weapon, Reaper's Scythe: Reaping souls increase the crit rate, can reach a max of 70% crit upon reaping 60 souls, but starts at 0%. Base damage is high, deals 300% extra damage on crit, each kill restores 5% of Mori's max health. Killing ghosts give 10 souls and bosses 30, but regular mobs only give 1. Expensive to make. Other characters can use it, but deals same penalties as a dark sword in that case.
>Unique craftable item, Underworld wine: Restores sanity, but lose hunger, sanity (restores more than it consumes) and makes user fall asleep.
>Unique craftable item, Wine Guzzler hat: Restores sanity and hunger over time, also acts as umbrella, can be repaired like any other hat.
>Soul Strike: A single-target blink strike that deals 100% crit, requires 5% of current souls to do, can be targeted on the ground.
>Also emits a negative sanity aura and makes pigs, bunnymen hostile. Can stand next to a graveyard to recover sanity.
>TAKAMORI buff: Mori loses sanity when around Kiara, but Kiara gives off a positive sanity aura for everyone else.

>>1439381
>tfw my oshi moved to an entirely separate timeslot and now exclusively streams during my work hours

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