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thatonetwig · 6 months ago

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Remember when I had the thought of the Purple Guy DLC turning their voices into Vocaloids/Vocal Synths? Well...

"And that's why I think they should be called Sucrose Squigglies!", Void said as he leaned back in his chair.

"Hmm...I'm not sure that specifies what you mean. I would call them gelatin-"

"Hey guys! What's up?", Hood said as he entered the room with an open laptop, interrupting Psychic.

Both of him and Void shrugged their shoulders and mumbled something.

"Well, you guys wanna look at how well our Synths are doin' on the Vocaloid Database? We've been getting pretty popular!", Hood said.

Psychic raised an eyebrow when he heard this.

"Is that so? May I see?", Psychic asked as he walked over to Hood.

"As expected.", Void said, walking over to him as well.

On the screen, there was a page that showed Hood's synth with a description matching it. When he scrolled down, it showed that he was featured in a few albums and had nearly two thousand songs made with him, with the monthly song count chart at the very bottom of the page rising with each passing month.

"Hmm...interesting. May I see my page?", Psychic asked.

Hood obliged and clicked on a link in his description that lead to the page for Psychic's synth. Inside it, there was a similar sight, with Psychic being featured in a few albums and around the same song count as Hood.

"I'm surprised this community likes us this much, especially only after a few months. Should we update our voicebanks?", Psychic asked.

"Isn't it too early for that?", Hood asked.

"Well, it's only fair we update them to give them more, right?", Psychic replied.

"Yeah yeah, come on! Let me see my page already!", Void shouted at them.

Hood clicked on another link leading to the page for Void's synth, and the album count, along with the song count, were almost identical to Psychic and Hood's synths.

"Aw man!", Void exclaimed.

"What's wrong?", Hood asked.

"I wanted my song count to be higher!", he said.

"You know, if it makes you feel any better, m-most of my songs are just covers anyways...", Hood said awkwardly.

"Hm...so they like to use us together in songs.", Psychic said as he scrolled through the original song tag on Void's page, noting that the majority of the originals used all three of them together.

"May explain why our song counts are so similar.", Hood said.

"Anyway, while we're here, we might as well listen to a couple of them, right?", Hood asked while walking over to the table and taking a seat.

"Eh, sure. But I get to pick the song! It's my Vocaloid!", Void said while taking the laptop from Hood.

As Void scrolled through the Original Song tag on his Vocaloid, he kept scrolling and scrolling, seemingly to no end.

"Uhh, do you just- maybe wanna pick the most popular one or-"

"Forget it! I'll just pick the most popular one!", Void said, cutting off Hood while going back to page one.

...

"Of course...", he muttered, realizing that the most popular one on his page was using all three of them at once.

"What's wrong? Scared that we'll sound better than you?", Psychic asked.

"S-shut up! I'm probably the one who's the most well-tuned!", Void exclaimed while clicking on the link.

The song started with a steady beat before gradually speeding up and progressing into a synth with a guitar in the background after listening to the music for a few moments, Hood sung first.

"Dousuruka? Taikutsu de tamaranai n da.", he sang.

("Oh, it's one of those songs."), Hood thought, remembering that none of them recorded Japanese samples for their voicebanks.

As the song continued, Hood bopped his head to the beat and the lyrics, despite not knowing what any of them were saying. Meanwhile, Psychic was quietly tapping his fingers on the table while listening, and Void, while trying to hide it, was tapping his foot under the table.

Once the song was over, Hood asked the two their thoughts on the song.

"So? What did we think? If you ask me, I'd say it was pretty sick!", Hood said happily.

"It wasn't bad, but I'll admit, I admire the voice manipulation to make us sing in a different language; it almost sounds like we have proper Japanese voicebanks.", Psychic said.

"I couldn't understand what we were saying! You guys also sang a lot more than me!", Void complained.

"Our pronunciation was way better than yours anyways.", Psychic said.

"Hey!"

"Why don't we take a look at the comments? Let's let them be the judge of that.", Hood suggested as he opened the comment section.

As expected, most of the comments were in Japanese. Still, Hood opened the top thread to see what was up.

[ああー!!! この歌は大好きです! ヴォイドの発音は上手ですよ!]

["えーっ? 彼はしていない。サイキックの発音が一番良かったwww]

["フッドは最高の発音だった、アホ]

Thankfully, there was a translator available, so Hood was able to translate it into English.

[Aaaa!!! I love this song! Void had the best pronunciation!]

[Huh? He didn't. Psychic had the best pronunciation lol]

[Hood's pronunciation was the best, dumbass]

"How amusing. Needlessly arguing over something so small.", Psychic said.

"Hehe, yeah. I don't get how people can waste their time like this.", Void said.

("I could say something similar about you two, but I'm not going to."), Hood thought.

"Anyway, let's see what other songs I have!", Void said as he closed the tab and went back to the Database.

Void didn't bother scrolling this time and instead clicked the second to most popular song on the page; right below the one they just listened to. Right before Void clicked the link to watch it, however, Hood saw the tags and became concerned.

"Uhh...Void? Are you sure you wanna-"

"Yeah, I'm sure I wanna listen to it! It only has me in it!", Void said as he clicked it.

Knowing that there was no stopping him now, Hood sighed in defeat and awaited for Void's reaction.

Slowly but surely, Void's face throughout the MV shifted from a smug grin to a surprised and disgusted look. Hood felt the same as Void as he watched, and Psychic was simply watching in silence as it continued on.

Once it was finally over, Void immediately closed the tab.

...

"...well that was...something.", Psychic commented.

("I'm so sorry."), Hood whispered to Void.

Void only nodded his head in stunned silence as he got up out of the chair.

"Uhh...so, let's see what other songs people made with us! Haha...", Hood muttered, very uncomfortable, but still trying to lighten the mood.

Hood clicked the back button to go back to Psychic's page, but the second he scrolled down and hovered the mouse over one particular song using all three of them again, a knife stabbed the screen before he could properly react.

Hood looked back and saw that Psychic had taken the knife off of a mount on the wall and threw it into the laptop using his telekinesis. Psychic was standing there with a slightly panicked expression as he processed what had just happened.

"Erm...I uh...", Psychic muttered as he tried to hide how uncomfortable he was and regain his composure.

"I-I apologize, Hood.", he said awkwardly.

"I-It's cool...I-I can just get another laptop.", Hood replied. His expression screamed that he fully understood why Psychic did that in the first place.

"So uhh...w-we're never looking into the songs people make with us again, r-right?", Void asked, having witnessed all of this.

"For once, I agree with you.", Psychic said.

"I think that's for the best.", Hood said, nodding.

...

"Miku was right when she said we weren't ready.", Void said.

"She was-"

#fnf void #fnf hood #fnf psychic #purple guy dlc #in case if you dont know what the Vocaloid Database is:#its basically this Wikipedia-esque site for literally anything related to vocal synths #and as almost everyone knows #there are lots of...questionable songs made #they later demanded Yamaha retire their voicebanks or else they would sue /hj #fnf #friday night funkin #vocaloid #also I'm sorry if my Japanese is a bit off to any natives or linguists

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infiniteglitterfall · 9 months ago

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Someone on Reddit made the mistake of saying, "Teach me how this conflict came about" where I could see it.

Let me teach you too.

The common perception is that Jews came out of nowhere, stole Palestinian homes and kicked Palestinians out of them, and then bombed them for 75 years, until they finally rebelled in the form of Hamas invading Israel and massacring 22 towns in one day.

The historical reality is that Jews have lived there continuously for at least 3500 years.

There are areas, like Meggido iirc, with archeological evidence of continuous habitation for 7,000 years, but Jewish culture as we recognize it today didn't develop until probably halfway through that.

Ethnic Jews are the indigenous people of this area.

Indigeneity means a group was originally there, before any colonization happened, and that it has retained a cultural connection to the land. History plus culture.

That's what Jews have: even when the diaspora became larger than the number of Jews in Israel, the yearning to return to that homeland was a daily part of Jewish prayer and ritual.

The Jewish community in Israel was crushed pretty violently by the Roman Empire in 135 CE, but it was still substantial, sometimes even the majority population there, for almost a thousand years.

The 600s CE brought the advent of Islam and the Arab Empire, expanding out from Saudi Arabia into Israel and beyond. It was largely a region where Jews were second-class citizens. But it was still WAY better than the way Christian Europe treated Jews.

From the 700s-900s, the area saw repeated civil wars, plagues, and earthquakes.

Then the Crusades came, with waves of Christians making "pilgrimages to the Holy Land" and trying to conquer it from Muslims and Jews, who they slaughtered and enslaved.

Israel became pretty well depopulated after all that. It was a very rough time to live there. (And for the curious, I'm calling it Israel because that's what it had been for centuries, until the Romans erased the name and the country.)

By the 1800s, the TOTAL population of what's now Israel and Palestine had varied from 150,000 - 275,000 for centuries. It was very rural, very sparsely populated, on top of being mostly desert.

In the 1880s, Jews started buying land and moving back to their indigenous homeland. As tends to happen, immigration brought new projects and opportunities, which led to more immigration - not only from Jews, but from the Arab world as well.

Unfortunately, there was an antisemitic minority spearheaded by Amin al-Husseini. Who was very well-connected, rich, and from a politically powerful family.

Al-Husseini had enthusiastically participated in the Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman Empire. Then the Empire fell in World War One, and the League of Nations had to figure out what to do with its land.

Mostly, if an area was essentially operating as a country (e.g. Turkey), the League of Nations let it be one. In areas that weren't ready for self-rule, it appointed France or Britain to help them get there.

In recognition of the increased Jewish population in their traditional, indigenous homeland, it declared that that homeland would again become Israel.

As in, the region was casually called Palestine because that was the lay term for "the Holy Land." It had not been a country since Israel was stamped out; only a region of a series of different empires. And the Mandate For Palestine said it was establishing "a national home of the Jewish people" there, in recognition of "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."

Britain was appointed to help the Arab and Jewish communities there develop systems of self-government, and then to work together to govern the region overall.

At least, that was the plan.

Al-Husseini, who was deeply antisemitic, did not like this plan.

And, extra-unfortunately, the British response to al-Husseini inciting violent anti-Jewish riots was to put him in a leadership role over Arab Palestine.

They thought it would calm him down and perhaps satisfy him.

They were very wrong.

He went on to become a huge Hitler fanboy, and then a Nazi war criminal. He co-created the Muslim Brotherhood - which Hamas is part of - with fellow fascist fanboy Hassan al-Banna.

He got Nazi Party funding for armed Muslim Brotherhood militias to attack Jews and the Brits in the late 30s, convincing Britain to agree to limit Jewish immigration at the time when it was most desperately needed.

He started using the militias again in 1947, when the United Nations voted to divide the mandated land into a Jewish homeland and a Palestinian one.

Al-Husseini wouldn't stand for a two-state solution. He was determined to tolerate no more than the subdued, small Jewish minority of second-class citizens that he remembered from his childhood.

As armed militias increasingly ran riot, the Arab middle and upper classes increasingly left. About 100,000 left the country before May 1948, when Britain was to pull out, leaving Israel and Palestine to declare their independence.

The surrounding nations didn't want war. They largely accepted the two-state solution.

But al-Husseini lobbied HARD. And by mobilizing the Muslim Brotherhood to provide "destabilizing mass demonstrations and a murderous campaign of intimidation," he got the Arab League nations to agree to invade, en masse, as soon as Britain left.

About 600,000 Arabs fled to those countries during the ensuing war.

Jews couldn't seek refuge there; in fact, most of those countries either exiled their Jews directly, confiscating their property first, or else made Jewish life unlivable and exploited them for underpaid or slave labor for years first.

By the time the smoke cleared and a peace treaty was signed, most of the Arab Palestinian community had fled; there was no Arab Palestinian leadership; many of the refugees' homes and businesses had left had been destroyed in the war; and Israel had been flooded with nearly a million refugees from the Arab League countries and the Holocaust - even more people than had fled the war.

That was the Nakba. The one that gets portrayed as "750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled!" in the hope that you'll assume they were expelled en masse, their beautiful intact homes all stolen.

Egypt had taken what's now the Gaza Strip in that war, and Jordan took what's now the West Bank - expelling or killing all the Jews in it first.

(Ironically, Jordan was originally supposed to be part of Israel. Britain, inexplicably, cut off what would have been 75% of its land to create Jordan.

Even more inexplicably, nobody ever talks about it. I've never seen anyone complain that Jordan was stolen from Palestinians. Possibly because Jordan is also the only country that gave Palestinian refugees full citizenship, and it's about half Palestinian now.

Israel is nearly 25% Arab Palestinians with full citizenship and equal rights, so it's not all that different -- but the fundamental difference of living in a country where the majority is Jewish, not Muslim, probably runs pretty deep.)

Anyway: that's why Palestine is Gaza and the West Bank, rather than being some contiguous chunk of land. Or being the land set aside by the U.N. in 1947.

Because Arab countries took that land in 1948, and treated them as essentially separate for 20 years.

Israel got them back, along with the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, in the next war: 1967, when Egypt committed an act of war by taking control of the waterways and barring Israel from them. It gave the Sinai back to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace accords between Egypt and Israel.

Israel tried to give back the Gaza Strip at the same time. Egypt refused.

Palestine finally declared independence in 1988.

But Hamas formed at about the same time. Probably in response, in fact. Hamas is fundamentally opposed to peace negotiations with Israel.

Again: Hamas is part of a group founded by Nazis.

Hamas has its own charter. It explains that Jews are "the enemy," because they control the drug trade, have been behind every major war, control the media, control the United Nations, etc. Basic Nazi rhetoric.

It has gotten adept at masking that rhetoric for the West. But to friendlier audiences, its leaders have consistently said things like, "People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off [their heads]. It costs just five shekels."

(Palestinians were outraged by this speech. Palestinians, by and large, absolutely loathe Hamas.

It's just that it's not the same to say that to locals, as it is to say it where major global powers who oppose this crap can hear you.)

Hamas has stated from the beginning that its mission is to violently destroy Israel and take over the land.

It has received $100M in military funding annually, from Iran, for several years. Because Iran has been building a network of fascist, antisemitic groups across the Middle East, in a blatant attempt to control more and more of it: Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Houthis in Yemen.

Iran has been run by a very far-right, deeply antisemitic dictatorship for decades now, which pretty openly wants to take down both Israel and the U.S.

Last year, Iran increased Hamas's funding to $350M.

The "proof of concept" invasion of Israel that Hamas pulled off on October 7th more than justifies a much bigger investment.

Hamas has publicly stated its intention to attack "again and again and again," until Israel has been violently destroyed.

That is how this conflict came about.

A Nazi group seized power in Gaza in 2007 by violently kicking the Palestinian government out, and began running it as a dictatorship, using it to build money and power in preparations for exactly this.

And people find it shockingly easy to believe its own hype about being "the Palestinian resistance."

As well as its propaganda that Israel is not actually targeting Hamas: it's just using a literal Nazi invasion and massacre as an excuse to randomly commit genocide of the fraction of Palestine it physically left 20 years ago.

Despite the fact that Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting HAMAS throughout the war.

#free palestine #free gaza from hamas #free everyone from hamas it's awful #we want to live movement #free gazans group #center the people directly affected #Ironically it's almost exclusively zionists who know about and support the actual activists in Palestine #because Zionism is a real Jewish term for self-determination not something you can redefine to demonize us #and the pro-hamas movement is inherently both antisemitic and anti-Palestinian #wall of words #jumblr #jewish history #palestinian history

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