taffernicus on 26/4/2025 at 08:56

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If Dishonored 3 ever gets made, I'll try this again.

I call it chaotic blink

[video=youtube_share;F2M3i12utDc]https://youtu.be/F2M3i12utDc[/video]

*edit : doesn't work on DH1 & 2 , assume Billie has the same blink as that Daud has, i have no idea with it's so OP

Azaran on 26/5/2025 at 05:07

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If Star Wars had been made by North Korea

[video=youtube;EICWYazyqu4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICWYazyqu4[/video]

demagogue on 26/5/2025 at 18:09

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One of my favorite current instances of this phenomenon is the English version of (https://www.youtube.com/@zunda-theorem-en) Zundamon's Theorem math instruction channel, which started up this last year (translating the Japanese version videos, which have been going on for a few years I think). I can't tell you how much I love these videos.

But the two key things to note is that (https://vocalsynth.fandom.com/wiki/Zundamon) Zundamon is the familiar (for which they use the term "mon"=monster, like Pokemon / Pockect Monsters) for (https://vocalsynth.fandom.com/wiki/Tohoku_Zunko) Tohoku Zunko (originally her bow IIRC, but this is her anime girl form), and Zunko herself is the anime girl form of zunda-mochi, which is the main product for the Tohoku region, which was the region impacted by the Fukushima disaster, and Zunko serves as the mascot for the Tohoku region.

Then Zundamon's sempai in these videos is (https://vocalsynth.fandom.com/wiki/Shikoku_Metan) Shikoku Metan, which is the anime girl version of the Shikoku region's methane deposits, making her the mascot for the Shikoku region.

And you can usually see the product reflected in their clothes and accessories. Zunko and Zundamon have the green and white colors of zunda-mochi (zunda is a green powder made from dried edamame peas, reflected in Zundamon's hair, that they put on mochi, sticky rice snack balls, in Tohoku), and Metan has the red and blue flames and black and white smoke of burning methane. And of course these girls will have their own personalities and backstories; a lot of them go to high school together, and there are siblings and friends, etc.

So here's a little history: After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, there was a campaign to try to bring tourists and industry back to Fukushima & the Tohoku region. So it created a mascot to lead the campaign, because by that time, all good campaigns have mascots, and of course you're gonna make the mascot after what that region is famous for. But once the Zunko campaign worked so well, all the other Prefectures started getting their own mascots. The one for Kumamoto Prefecture (kuma = bear, moto = origin) I think became the biggest, (https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/b02503/) Kumamon (bear-monster/familiar).

As we have here, Nyango Star is mascot for a town in Aomori, and Aomori is famous for apples / ringo, and you explained the rest (the link to Ringo Starr) from there. But that's for a town. Then these regional mascots started taking on another life when the regions released sound synthesis systems over software like UTAU and Voicevox, which allowed content makers to make videos using their voices and art, which had channels building around them like Zundamon's Theorem & other channels for all kinds of things.

Tocky on 24/6/2025 at 00:38

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THIS is what I mean by I wish there were more REAL men these days instead of gun clutchers.

[video=youtube_share;OBAX4Wi1iNM]https://youtu.be/OBAX4Wi1iNM[/video]

Nicker on 23/7/2025 at 04:52

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David Bowie & Ricky Gervais make gold.


[video=youtube;0YYLWKpPxbg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YYLWKpPxbg[/video]