#dd august 10

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Lucy and Mina coming home exhausted but forced to stay awake to entertain the local Assistant Vicar over dinner like

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Bram Stoker adding a little bit of... spice... to his foreshadowing here, like

I enjoy the way the Whitby section builds up the hints of where the Count is hiding.

We know he doesn't have his boxes now because of the whole mess with the shipwreck. So he needs somewhere else to sleep.

We know the grave that the bench is on is the grave of a suicide, making it technically unhallowed ground.

And today's entry shows us that there's something about the grave that is so sinister that even an obedient dog will not approach it.

And something was so frightening that it killed Mr. Swales

And Lucy is sitting right on top of that grave...

[cecilysass]

Mulder's Top 10 Out of Hand Jokes

(ranked from "mildly spicy" to "okay how was that on 90s prime time")

10. MULDER: Before anyone passes judgement, let me remind you that we're in the Arctic. (Ice, season 1) Rationale: Mild. Genitalia jokes in a professional capacity (and with more people than just your partner) a little iffy. But Mulder was trying to break the tension. 9. MULDER: Hey Scully, is this demonstration of boyish agility turning you on at all? (Schizogeny, season 5)Rationale: Fascinating choice to say to a co-worker, but ultimately low level flirty.

8. SCULLY: Mulder, did you see their eyes? If I were that stoned--MULDER: Ooh, if you were that stoned, what? (Deep Throat, season 1) Rationale: Vague but discernible innuendo, considerably aided by DD's delivery. 7. MULDER: Birds do it, bees do it, even educated MDs do it. (Small Potatoes, season 4) Rationale: In context seemingly a flippant comment about the case, but attractive partner being educated MD makes this more eyebrow-raising.

6. LANGLY: Obviously, you haven't read our August edition of The Lone Gunmen. MULDER: I'm sorry, boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity Skin. (Blood, season 2) Rationale: Direct pornography use joke (that is completely reality-based and everyone knows it.) 5. MULDER: You want to make that honeymoon video now? (Arcadia, season 6) Rationale: Actual joke fairly mild, but undercover married context gives it an added zing.

4. MULDER: I don't know about you, Scully, but I am feeling the great need to blast the crap out of something. (First Person Shooter, season 7) Rationale: On the surface, about firing weapons in a video game. In the episode? After Mulder has been lusting over Jade Afterglow? Sexual overtone at best, an absolutely filthy double meaning at worst.

3. SCULLY: Snake-handling – we didn't learn that in catechism class. MULDER: That's funny, I knew a couple of Catholic schoolgirls who were expert at it. (Signs and Wonders, season 7) Rationale: Wait … what did he say? To his Catholic partner?

2. KRYCEK: You must be losing it, Mulder. I can beat you with one hand. MULDER: Isn't that how you like to beat yourself? (The Red and the Black, season 5) Rationale: Arguably Mulder’s finest junior high boy one liner. Taking it to an art form.

1. SCULLY : I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey. MULDER : Yes, and also, I've always been intrigued by women named B.J.. (Aubrey, season 3) Rationale: It’s not even connected to anything! It’s just randomly out of hand! It makes you wonder if they named the character this only to set up the joke. And there is really no way to spin this other than the most obvious meaning.

Very special bonus out-of-hand Scully: MULDER: I was merely extending her a professional courtesy. SCULLY: Oh, is that what you were extending? (Fire, season 1)Rationale: One of the best tbh. You should have done it more, Scully.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Rsync corrump linkdump

I'm coming to DEFCON! On Aug 9, I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

As per the uje, I've arrived upon a Saturday with a backlog of links that I have not managed to squeeze into the week's newsletters/blogs, so it's time for another linkdump, 22nd in an erratic series. Here's the previous 21:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

Let's start with some seasonal material, and by "seasonal," I of course mean Hallowe'en. Yes, August is the official start of Spooky Season, and yes, I am a monster for insisting on this, but being a monster is the point of Spooky Season (which is what differentiates Spooky Season pushers like me from the creeps who insist that you need to start prepping for Xmas in late September – they're monsters, too, but Yule Monsters are bad) (with the exception of Krampus).

I was a monster kid and now I'm a monster adult. It all started when I was bitten by a radioactive Haunted Mansion at the age of six:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/22/how-a-haunted-mansion-addict-fell-in-love-with-the-greatest-ride-on-earth/

I am a sucker for all things monstrous, and so I was intrigued when I got a book of "creepy-cute" stickers in the mail from a publicist at Simon & Schuster:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creepy-Cute-Sticker-Book/Gaynor-Carradice/Creepy-Cute-Gift-Series/9781507222515

"Creepy-Cute" turns out to be an official designation, embraced by the illustrator GaynorCarradice, who has created several books on these lines, featuring her chibi/monster crossover creations, which do exactly what it says on the tin, by which I mean, there's some genuinely creepy stuff in the mix, along with the cute.

It's when the cute pastels rub up against the gore, skulls, eyeballs and other visceral viscera that these illustrations really kick off some heat – I've rounded up a few of my favorites here:

https://craphound.com/images/creepycute.jpg

One of the surefire signs that Spooky Season is upon us is that the (sometimes NSFW) Tumblr account Halloweenlandmotherfucker emerges from dormancy with a stream of images of vintage Hallowe'en cards (these were a thing!), photos of people in costume and other delightful visual novelties:

https://www.tumblr.com/halloweenlandmotherfucker

Monster culture isn't just for Hallowe'en, of course. The ancient and noble tradition of compiling and publishing bestiaries is alive and well, thanks to RPGs. In the beginning, there was the D&D Boxed Set, with its Monsters and Treasure booklet:

https://www.americanroads.us/DandD/ODnD_Monsters_and_Treasure.pdf

Then came the Monster Manual, the first hardcover D&D book, succeeded by the Fiend Folio, which featured Charlie Stross creations like the githzerai and slaad, Indeed, there was a whole, iconic library of hardcovers that fit perfectly in an oversized backpack that I dragged everywhere so that I could obsessively read and re-read them.

Eventually, these gave way to new hardcovers with new rules as well as new corporate owners (Wizards of the Coast, then Hasbro), culminating in the release of the Open Gaming License, an "open content" license that was a) grossly defective; b) largely irrelevant; and c) hugely controversial in 2023, when Hasbro terminated it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#whats-a-copyright-exception

The Open Gaming License purported to license out game elements that weren't copyrightable (rules, tables, etc), as well as material that you could likely use under copyright exceptions like fair use:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators

And worst of all, it was revocable, so games publishers who tooled up to publish supplements and sourcebooks based on the OGL could have the rug yanked out from under them at any time (that time turned out to be early 2023).

Hasbro's OGL rug-pull had three salutary effects:

I. It gave gamers a crash-course in what was – and wasn't – copyrightable in an RPG design;

It encouraged game developers to look beyond D&D's OGL rules and into truly open (and often superior) alternatives; and

It inflicted so much reputational harm on Hasbro that, 20 months later, they announced that they would release a new set of D&D rules under the Creative Commons Attribution Only 4.0 license:

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/news/dungeons-and-dragons-2024-srd-wont-be-another-ogl-fiasco

Now, CC BY 4.0 is a real-ass license. Notably, it corrects a defect in the earlier versions of the CC licenses that gave rise to a class of predatory copyleft trolls like the odious Pixsy:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/

If Hasbro follows through on their promise, the new CC materials will kick off with the 2025 release of the next edition of the Monster Manual:

https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/new-2024-dnd-monster-manual/

It's wild to think that tabletop RPGs are now a cutting-edge way to learn about digital policy, but on the other hand, D&D arrived in my home around the same time as my Apple ][+, which was also around the time I first heard the name Ronald Reagan (rest in piss).

The legacies of the 80s – RPGs, digital technology and Reaganomics – cast a long shadow. Last month, many of us discovered the hard way that Reaganomics – specifically, the embrace of monopolies as "efficient" – has produced a world of unimaginable brittleness. Millions of people around the world found themselves cut off from ATM cash, flights, hospital care, and many other essentials thanks to the Crowdstrike Blue Screen of Death outage. While many of the explainers have focused on how Crowdstrike fatfingered a software update that crashed all those computers, there's been a lot less commentary about how it is that one company had it in its power to do so much harm.

Writing last week for EFF's Deeplinks blog, my colleague Rory Mir tackled that (far more important) issue:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture

Market concentration – monopoly – is the common thread wound around so many of our daily horribles. Think of the tech billionaires who threw in their lot with Trump last month. How did they get to be billionaires? Monopoly power. Remember back in 2017, that notorious photo of the tech industry meeting at the top of Trump Tower, with Peter Thiel at Trump's left hand?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/donald-trump-meets-with-tech-leaders/

People were appalled that this group of corporate leaders, who between them controlled virtually all the technology in our lives, would debase themselves by paying fealty to this buffoonish would-be dictator.

But far more consequential was the fact that you could fit everyone who controlled all of our technology around a single table. Once everyone important to an industry can fit around a single table, it's only a matter of time until they find a table to sit around, and that's when it all starts to go wrong. As the Communist firebrand Adam Smith once wrote, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Enshittification starts with market concentration. This is a subject I'm going to be going very deep on next Saturday, when I give my Defcon keynote, "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification":

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

When I give that talk – and afterwards at my book signing – I will be wearing an N95 mask, just as I did last year. Why am I wearing a mask? Two reasons: first, Long Covid is a horror. One of the best writers I know – a living legend – recently told me that their book-writing days are likely done because of Long Covid brain fog.

A new Lancet article gets deep into the science of Long Covid:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014067362401136X

The principle author of the Lancet article is Oxford health professor Trish Greenhalgh, who gave an excellent lay summary in her newsletter:

https://independentsage.substack.com/p/long-covid-a-dystopian-game-of-pinball

In particular, Greenhalgh describes why some people don't get Long Covid, and some people do – and, most important, explains why the fact that you didn't get Long Covid last time doesn't mean you won't get it next time:

https://independentsage.substack.com/p/long-covid-a-dystopian-game-of-pinball

So I don't want to get covid, and so I'm gonna wear a mask. Because masks fucking work. A new study reveals just how well they work:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0/fulltext

The study shows that wearing any mask, even without knowing how to fit it well, offers substantial protection against both contracting and transmitting covid. Even better: wearing an N95 (even without paying attention to correct fit) offers "near perfect" protection against covid:

https://today.umd.edu/n95-masks-nearly-perfect-at-blocking-covid-umd-study-shows

I didn't get covid at Defcon last year, and I didn't get it at HOPE, and I didn't get it on our family vacation in July – all events where friends got sick. The difference? I wore a mask. Which works.

OK, I need to go work on my Defcon speech some more, so I'm gonna sign off, but I will leave you with just one more link, the wonderful new public domain image search tool, Public Work, which crawls and indexes the Met, the NYPL, and other sources:

https://public.work/

I rely on public domain, CC and other freely usable clip art to make the collages that accompany this newsletter/blog's stories. While I have very little talent in the visual arts, I'm getting steadily better. I mean, look at this amazing image I womped up for last week's story on Bitcoin bros' election campaign finance fraud:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53893519593/in/album-72177720316719208

You can see a collection of my recent collages in my Flickr gallery for them:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/albums/72177720316719208?sd

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/03/smorgasbord/#creepy-cute

Image: Anne Lindblom (cropped) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kajsawarg/3600415175

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[aster-blogging-dracula]

Reading BlueCatWriter's Dracula along with Dracula Daily

Ok so I've been meaning to read all of @bluecatwriter 's wonderful Dracula hc fics in order for a long time but I never have time to get with it so I decided to read it along with Dracula Daily this year.

If anyone else wants to do the same, here are the dates (or aproximante dates*) for each fic. (idk if someone has done this already but oh well) (BlueCat if you read this feel free to correct me if i got any date wrong)

*(Since there's 2 pre-canon fics and 2 days of may before dd, i'm setting those fics on those dates. Dates of undated fics are also adjusted to not overlap with date of other fics)

*(The order during the varna stay is a bit wacky since the book gets pretty vague for 2 weeks there but I tried to adjust it as well as possible.)

1-A picnic in may. May 1st 2-Home before you know it. May 2nd 3-I too can love. May 16th 4-Three letters. May 19th 5-The prisioner. May 28th 6-Tonight is mine. June 29th 7-Stay awake. August 14th 8-In sickness and in health. August 24th 9-Full of vague fear. August 24th 10-A golden afternoon. August 31st 11-A doctor’s confidence. September 2nd 12-I come to my friend when he call. September 2nd 13-Blood she must have. September 7th 14-After the transfusion. September 7th or 8th 15-Sleeping beauty. September 10th 16-The wolf in the window. September 17th 17-Sympathy. September 18th 18-Things will be different. September 19th 19-My only son. September 19th 20-Come, my husband. September 29th 21-These others. September 29th 22-Lucy’s second death. September 29th 23-How good and thoughtful. September 29th 24-Brandy, bath, and beadtime. September 30th or October 1st (preferably the former since the dd entry is slightly shorter that day) 25-A pale orphan. October 2nd 26-You will not call in vain. Between September 30th and October 11th?? 27-Renfield’s death. October 3rd 28-Safe for one more moment. October 3rd 29-A week in varna. Between October 15th and October 27th? 30-Waiting. Between October 17th and October 27th? 31-Hungry. Between October 17th and October 27th? 32-Judge moneybag. Between October 15th and October 27th? 33-How i miss my phonograph. October 24th 34-Mem. get recipe for mina. Between October 15th and October 27th? 35-Farewell, sweet friends. October 30th 36-Starlight on the sereth. October 31st 37-Step into the light. Between October 15th? and November 6th (if reading in one sitting wait until november 6th)

38- Love multiplying. November 7th onward

Omg guys it's may already I'm so exited for this. This year I know I will be up do date with everything even tho I'm busy with my End of Degree Project because the dracula fixation i caught last year is a part of my life now I have been planning this so long guys.

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

I would love to tell Mina that some of the women of the future would even propose to her

Some of the "New Women" writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too!

I would love to be able to tell Mina that some of the women of the future would even propose to one another.

[rainbowsky]

Hi RBS,

I have a fun ask today, since DD has been splashing about coffee on all platforms.

Do we know if they enjoy coffee? Since, we already know they enjoy their green tea.

Hi Choko! ☺️

Yes, GG especially is a big coffee lover, and they've both been seen with and talked about coffee quite a bit over the years.

Fake, Fan fiction, CPN.

I won't make this a comprehensive account of all the times they've been seen with or talked about coffee, I just don't have time for that, but here are a few examples that come to mind:

Turtles have always loved the moment in the BTS where GG was seen listing off all the things he felt like eating and drinking. Starbucks was one of them (as was Japanese food, which was where they ended up going for the Dragon Boat Festival Dinner Date, that same day). GG and DD were seen on set multiple times with Starbucks coffee (and often tea as well).

When he was with XNINE GG spent a day (30 October 2016) as a barista for a cat cafe, which is adorable and a must-see.

GG posted doodles he did on a Starbucks cup (above).

GG has been photographed many times at the airport with a coffee in his hand (back when airport photos were still allowed).

He single-handedly turned a coffee shop in Shanghai into a tourist attraction by including a shot of him drinking a coffee there (starts at 1:30 in the clip below) in a Xiao Zhan Studio vlog 10 August 2020 (he ordered a flat white). 😅

During the fanmeet for the brand that shall remain nameless, DD talked about how he enjoys drinking coffee when he goes camping.

DDU did an entire episode on coffee that features some hilarious DD moments.

Of course, DD was seen with a cup of coffee during the boat ride for GQ MOTY.

There are probably many other iconic moments I'm forgetting. If you can think of more, let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the post.

GG with an iced coffee in 2019.

[alpinelogy]

Hi for those who missed it, I have recently got some of my graphics printed and I have been considering opening preorders for a proper run, so this is a small informal interest check if that would be something worth doing.

All graphics that would be available would be available in size 5 x 7 inches (~12.7 x 17.78 cm, slightly smaller than an A5) on a relatively thick paper at €5 for 1, €10 for 3, €15 for 5, as well as selection of some graphics at 8.3 x 11.62 inches (~21 x 29.5 cm, about the size of an A4) €7 for 1, €15 for 3, €25 for 5 on more of a poster paper.

Shipping would be about €3, shipped in B4 envelopes reinforced with either cardboard or chipboard

(* all of these prices are only rough estimates, however aside from higher quantities on larger prints they are unlikely to change

It would be done all through preorder style and handled and processed by me, since this is a quick and informal interest check, if there is an okay turnout I would probably open preorders on Monday July 22nd and close them on Wednesday July 31st to get it out in the first half of August

Also please add which graphics you would be interested in, especially for the larger prints since I would need to upscale those :DD. I will probably not list all for this run but I will try to aim to list as many as I can

(* for fellow paper nerds, smaller graphics would be at 300 gsm with matte finish and larger would be either at 150 or 200 gsm possibly with glossy finish

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Mr. Swales, July 24: Don't you worry, young miss, there's nothing spooky here in Whitby these days.

Dracula, August 10: There is now.

[rebloggingrexan]

#There was a post (I think from last year?) talking about how Dracula is about the inherent good of humanity #and how none of the characters would’ve survived if they weren’t compassionate and loyal to each other #just as much as they’re smart and brave #And… yeah.

#Nothing to add to that. #Just beautiful.

Despite being a foreigner and his apparent madness, the people of Whitby buried the captain as a hero. Although he had no connection to the locals but crashing to their shore, they treated him like one of their own. It's reminiscent of how the people of Transylvania cared about Jonathan despite the fact that he wasn't one of them and offered him their wild roses, garlic flowers, mountain ash, crucifix...

I was thinking about this too when I listened to the entry a few days ago... it's such a lovely echo of the townsfolk of Transylvania doing what they could to help Jonathan. Dracula really is all about reaching across divides of culture, space, and understanding to see the humanity in other people. This is such a touching scene!

[esper-lit]

About the iceberg I'm gonna ask:

850 pity

Official NSFW commissions

Fruity Five

Leather Daddy JQ

Alternate Lian variant

And 2024/03/25.

(sorry in advance)

Hi! Thank you for asking - here's every entry in a bit more detail :Dd

850 pity

This entry refers to the first ever event banner this game had: Ollie.

During the duration of the event, if you pulled in the gacha and got a legendary Esper, there was a 10% chance that it would be Ollie. After making 350 pulls, this chance would get increased by another 10% every 50 pulls (400 would be 20%, 450 would be 30%, 500 would be 40% and so on)

This means that you would only be guaranteed an Ollie at your 850th pull. This has, understandably, made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Luckily, the system has been changed since then into something a bit more sensible.

Official NSFW commissions

Essentially, late 2023/early 2024, Lilith has been preparing to officially launch Dislyte in China. This was a pretty big deal, and so a lot of promoting and effort went into it.

This preparation period included a bunch of artists being commissioned to make art for the game to help promote it. A lot of being rather... risque

(viewer discretion is advised)

Jin Qiu was also a pretty popular character in the region, so he was featured in quite a number of them.

(there's a lot more btw, I just picked these for demonstrative purposes lol)

Fruity Five

Fruity Five was a nickname given to Ch. 5 of the in-game chat. It was known for being the go-to hangout for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies.

However, as the number of players dwindled, so did many of the channels. Ch. 1 is the only consistently active, with Ch. 2 getting bursts of life here and there or during resets.

Leather Daddy JQ

Jin Qiu has had his appearance based off of kink gear and leather daddies - as can be seen in his concept art:

Alternate Lian variant

Essentially, August 2023, an announcement was made on the game's official Discord server, discussing the possibility of including alternate versions of espers as playable characters - the first one being Lian:

(the original post has been deleted it seems, as I cannot find it anymore. I made do with taking a screenshot of a video talking abt it lol)

From what I remember, the general reception to the idea was mostly negative - most players viewed it as a cheap, lazy way to charge players for new characters without putting in the effort of actually developing them.

Due to this reaction, the idea has been dropped and not brought up since.

2024/03/25

(copying most of this from a comment I made under the post cus I'm lazy lol)

On the game's subreddit, user SoLongAndGoodnight_ has become lovingly known as "that one user desperately trying to get Li Ling". They documented their pulls on the subreddit, the journey becoming a sort of inside joke within the community.

People suggested just using wish stones to get him, but a consensus of 'it's the principle of the thing' quickly took root.

After nearly two years of getting unlucky, on the 25th of March, 2024, SoLongAndGoodnight_ had finally pulled a Li Ling from the gacha - marking the end of an era and one long-ass journey. The post announcing it is now one of the most upvoted posts in the subreddit.

it's just one of those "you had to be there" moments lol

Annnnnnnnnd I believe that's everything covered. Thank you for the ask! I loved putting this together and I hope you found this at least a tiny bit interesting :)

[thevampirediariesdiary]

alright THIS is how it's gonna go:

Round 1.1 (May 28-June 11th)

A. 1 v 2

B. 3 v 4

C. 5 v 6

D. 7 v 8

E. 9 v 10

F. 11 v 12

G. 13 v 14

H. 15 v 16

I. 17 v 18

J. 19 v 20

K. 21 v 22

L. 23 v 24

M. 25 v 26

N. 27 v 28

O. 29 v 30

P. 31 v 32

Round 1.2 (June 11th-25th)

WINNERS BRACKET

Q. Winner of A vs Winner of B

R. Winner of C vs Winner of D

S. Winner of E vs Winner of F

T. Winner of G vs Winner of H

U. Winner of I vs Winner of J

V. Winner of K vs Winner of L

W. Winner of M vs Winner of N

X. Winner of O vs Winner of P

LOSERS BRACKET

Y. Loser of A vs Loser of B

Z. Loser of C vs Loser of D

AA. Loser of E vs Loser of F

BB. Loser of G vs Loser of H

CC. Loser of I vs Loser of J

DD. Loser of K vs Loser of L

EE. Loser of M vs Loser of N

FF. Loser of O vs Loser of P

Round 1.3 (June 25th-July 2nd)

LOSERS BRACKET

KK. Winner of Y vs Loser of U

LL. Winner of Z vs Loser of V

MM. Winner of AA vs Loser of W

NN. Winner of BB vs Loser of X

OO. Winner of CC vs Loser of Q

PP. Winner of DD vs Loser of R

QQ. Winner of EE vs Loser of S

RR. Winner of FF vs Loser of T

Round 1.4 (July 2nd-9th)

LOSERS BRACKET

SS. Winner of KK vs Winner of LL

TT. Winner of MM vs Winner of NN

UU. Winner of OO vs Winner of PP

VV. Winner of QQ vs Winner of RR

WINNERS BRACKET

GG. Winner of Q vs Winner of R

HH. Winner of S vs Winner of T

II. Winner of U versus Winner of V

JJ. Winner of W vs Winner of X

Round 1.5 (July 9th-16th)

LOSERS BRACKET

WW. Winner of SS vs Loser of GG

XX. Winner of TT vs Loser of HH

YY. Winner of UU vs Loser of II

ZZ. Winner of VV vs Loser of JJ

Round 1.6 (July 16th-23rd)

LOSERS BRACKET

AAA. Winner of WW vs Winner of XX

BBB. Winner of YY vs Winner of ZZ

WINNERS BRACKET

CCC. Winner of GG vs Winner of HH

DDD. Winner of II vs Winner of JJ

Round 1.7 (July 23rd-30th)

LOSERS BRACKET

EEE. Winner of AAA vs Loser of CCC

FFF. Winner of BBB vs Loser of DDD

Round 1.8 (July 30th-August 6th)

LOSERS BRACKET

GGG. Winner of EEE vs Winner of FFF

WINNERS BRACKET

HHH. WINNER of CCC vs Winner of DDD

Round 1.9 (August 6th-13th)

III. Winner of GGG vs Loser of HHH

Championship: (August 13th-20th)

Winner of HHH vs Winner of III

[cringywhitedragon]

Saw a YouTube comment on an Electric Angel cover that made me think (This is still a heavy WiP but I decided to post it early)

If you know, Meiko and Kaito are indeed companion voice banks but I find it a bit strange on why there’s a pretty big sized gap between their initial V1 releases.

In comparison, it’s pretty interesting since it lines up pretty close to when Microsoft trashed Longhorn and shifted development to the train wreak we would know as Windows Vista (Post Reset which was 2004 - 2006. (Vista was finished in 2006 and shipped to manufacturing in November but officially released to the public in January of 2007 (Almost right on February) to the displeasure of most everybody because of how infamously slow it ran on dated hardware)

(Though the real question is can Longhorn run Vocaloid)

For comparison in a timeline structure (Note: The yyyy/mm/dd format will be for known archived Post reset Vista beta builds that are online. This info comes from the BetaWiki.)

August ?? 2004: Microsoft resets longhorn’s development on what would soon become vista

2004-08-03 One of the first archived builds of Post-Reset Longhorn is compiled (Omega-13 builds)

2004-08-08

2004-08-09

2004-08-18

2004-08-26

2004-09-02

2004-09-27 (There’s a cow on this one)

November 05 2004: Meiko’s V1 voicebank releases

December 2004 - Prior to April 2005

Longhorn Developer previews release. (The wiki lists three that have unknown dates currently but fall within this timeframe)

April 1st, 2005: Vista Beta 5048 is compiled

2005-04-04

2005-04-12 Last build to have the Luna Theme

2005-04-17 / 2005-04-20: Builds 5059 and 5060 are compiled / Aero theme is introduced

2005-04-21: build 5061 is compiled

2005-05-11: build 5063 is compiled

2005-06-05 / 2005-06-04: builds 5071 and 5081

2005-06-21 /25: build 5086

2005-06-16/2005-07-20 -Final of the Beta 1 builds, IE 7 and RRS feed support are showed off here, Vista name gets finalized.

Start of the Beta 2 cycle

2005-07-02/2005-08-30 - Start of beta 2 up to the September Community Technology Preview build. More stuff was added. Games were highlighted as well.

2005-08-22/2005-10-04 - October 2005 CTP build, Aero gets showcased on a news channel, Oberon updates their games.

Nov 03 2005: MEIKO turns 1

2005-10-26/2005-12-14 December 2005 CTP build, Some more stuff is tweaked

2006

Two years have almost passed now since the folks in Redmond started reworking this would be dumpster fire of an OS. Across the pond in Sapporo, another company was getting ready to release their second vocal synth.

What has Microsoft added to the table for the new year? MEDIA PLAYER

August 29, 2006: Earliest mention of Microsoft Anna (She counts too right?)

[rebloggingrexan]

Re: That New Woman post about how Jonathan is unusually supportive of his fiancée’s independence for the time, I return to hissing and spitting at the adaptions that make him a stuffy stand-in for Male Oppression that…Count Dracula can free her from. Hm.

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[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

as i did last year, this year i've been recording basically everything i did during the year so i didn't forget. anyways, here is my true 2023 experience, it is divided by categories (travels, books, music, movies, etc) and i will bold my favourites of each category. also, if you want more details especially with travelling and music, here's the twitter thread i've been using to record everything down <3

also!! just in case, dates are in dd/mm format !

TRAVELS:

02/01. calp (alacant, spain) 05/04. mojácar (almería, spain) 17-18/04. glasgow (scotland) 18/04. balloch and loch lomond (west dunbartonshire, scotland) 20/06. albacete (spain) 18-19/08. barcelona (spain) 19-23/08. milano (italy) 20/08. lake como (lombardia, italy) 22/08. verona (italy) 08-10/09. valència (spain) 15/10. bari (italy) 15-28/10. metaponto (matera, italy) 22/10. taranto (italy) 13-16/12. vera (almería, spain) 15/12. mojácar (almería, spain) 16-17/12. valència / la pobla de vallbona (valència, spain)

CONCERTS:

14/01. amaia (la riviera) 17/04. paramore (OVO hydro, glasgow) 15/05. cariño (el matadero) 16/06. valeria castro (noches del botánico) 23/09. amaia (wizink center) 12/10. ginebras (wizink center)

MOVIES:

17/01. knives out 22/01. glass onion 19/02. ¡ay, carmela! 25/03. volver 26/03. jojo rabbit 26/04. super mario bros. the movie - IN THE CINEMA 30/04. knives out (rewatch) 27/05. glass onion (rewatch) 10/06. matilda (2022) 21/06. spiderman: across the spiderverse - IN THE CINEMA 28/07. barbie - IN THE CINEMA 01/09. indiana jones and the dial of destiny 22/09. the little mermaid (2023) 24/09. bottoms 11/10. barbie (rewatch) 18/11. mean girls 02/12. marie antoinette (2006) 09/10. the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes - IN THE CINEMA

VIDEOGAMES:

03/02. simmiland (PC) 03/02. stacklands (PC) 10/02. fire emblem engage (switch) 03/03. crusader kings iii (PC) 09/03. rpg maker xp (PC) 04/05. dice kingdoms (PC) 25/06. harvestella (switch) 27/06. indoorlands (PC) 08/07. humankind (PC) 28/07. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom (switch) 28/07. lakeburg legacies (PC) 28/08. the yawhg (PC) 08/09. frostpunk (PC) 31/10. lakeside (PC) 24/11. hades (PC) 23/12. cities skylines ii (PC)

TV SHOWS:

18/02. el ministerio del tiempo s1 06/03. druck s5 (rewatch) 08/03. druck s6 (rewatch) 13/03. el ministerio del tiempo s2 20/03. shadow and bone s2 16/05. abbott elementary s2 23/06. el ministerio del tiempo s3 21/07. derry girls s1 (rewatch) 12/11. bany compartit

TOP SONGS BY MONTH:

january: 5. la maza - priscila félix 4. la canción más hermosa del mundo - manuel carrasco 3. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 2. odio que te quiero - paula koops, noan 1. joker (REPUTA) - zahara, carolina durante february: 5. liar - paramore 4. you first - paramore 3. running out of time - paramore 2. big man, little dignity - paramore 1. figure 8 - paramore march: 5. si quieres - cariño 4. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 3. música ligera - ana mena 2. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (album version) 1. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (single version) april: 5. california friends - the regrettes 4. galgo - belén aguilera 3. costura - valeria castro 2. un clásico - ana mena 1. no me querías tanto - natalia lacunza may: 5. oh boi - shego 4. c'est comme ça - paramore 3. évidemment - la zarra 2. this is why - paramore 1. zenzenzense - RADWIMPS june: 5. yo quisiera - alice wonder 4. you first - paramore 3. antagonista - belén aguilera 2. father and son - yusuf / cat stevens 1. tonta - nathy peluso july: 5. guerrera - valeria castro 4. la vida moderna - veintiuno, love of lesbian 3. vampire - olivia rodrigo 2. i have a dream - amanda seyfried 1. fiebre - bad gyal august: 5. galgo - belén aguilera 4. nunca llega 05 - natalia lacunza 3. roméo&juliette - olympe chabert 2. discoteka - lola índigo, maría becerra 1. es albacete - rozalén september: 5. narciso - pipiolas 4. get him back! - olivia rodrigo 3. love is embarrassing - olivia rodrigo 2. vampire - olivia rodrigo 1. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo october: 5. vampire - olivia rodrigo 4. hot to go! - chapell roan 3. más colao que el colacao - la la love you 2. vii. cassandra (fillas de cassandra) - fillas de cassandra 1. ateo - c. tangana, nathy peluso november: 5. novix - maría josé llergo 4. si quieres - cariño 3. maledetta primavera - loretta goggi 2. salvaje - nathy peluso 1. all too well (10 minutes version) - taylor swift december: 5. san peter - pipiolas 4. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo 3. deja vu - olivia rodrigo 2. drivers license - olivia rodrigo 1. can't catch me now - olivia rodrigo

THEATRE PLAYS & MUSICAL SHOWS:

05/03. la saga (teatro lara) 07/04. tick tick... boom! (teatro la estación caixabank príncipe pío) 08/10. school of rock (teatro ibercaja delicias) 18/11. mean girls (grupo de teatro amorevo) 29/12. phantom of the opera (teatro albéniz)

BOOKS:

29/01. assembly - natasha brown (2021) 08/04. tartesso y los fenicios de occidente - sebastián celestino pérez & carolina lópez - ruiz (2020) 12/04. daddy - emma cline (2021) 23/04. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini (2007) 29/05. los renglones torcidos de dios - torcuato luca de tena (1979) 03/06. the bands of mourning - brandon sanderson (2017) 24/06. kokoro - natsume soseki (1914) 10/07. miss benson's beetle - rachel joyce (2020) 08/08. the no-show - beth o'leary (2023) 18/08. tales of the alhambra - washington irving (1832) 22/09. the attack - yasmina khadra (2005) 25/09. the lightning thief - rick riordan (2005) RE-READ 30/09. the sea of monsters - rick riordan (2006) RE-READ 02/10. the titan's curse - rick riordan (2007) RE-READ 04/10. the battle of the labrynth - rick riordan (2008) RE-READ 07/10. the last olympian - rick riordan (2009) RE-READ 23/11. the kamogawa food detectives - hishashi kashiwai (2023) 21/12. a christmas carol - charles dickens (1843)