Banter/Off-topic Thread & Community Stoning Platform

[shipmate_F]

So how long will it take to fix canada now that supreme leader Trudeau has resigned. My bet is no less than two decades.

You cut a hydra head and two takes its place.
But honestly what changing the Prime Minister really do?

 

[SpringKusa]

My archiving project is up to date for the start of this week. (Open in private window to not show your gmail account.)

Experimenting with formatting a bit, with highlights for different things. Graduations in red, auditions/cons/etc in green. Simple stuff for easier reading. Comments for links to posts that cover multiple topics at once that are too detailed to turn into a pithy one-sentence link.

May I suggest looking into some other tools for the Archiving project? At least with both of them, you dont need to open the link in a new private window I believe.
In Uni some profs used some sort of collaborative digital whiteboard. Maybe its useful maybe not, have a look and try it out and decide if you want to stick to Google or nah. For now it looks good but that spreadsheet will likely get confusing as the thread gets longer.

• Conceptboard.com
  • Its free and you can have anonymous visitors
  • it embeds stuff
• Wakelet.com
  • Bit different from the above its not really a whiteboard but more a link manager
  • Comes with a really neat browser extention that makes saving stuff easy, dont even need to open a new tab
  • Also embeds with previews of websites or yt thumbnails for better overview of the stuff you save
  • gif that shows how it works I found lol
    
    https://landing-page-90e61a50-027b-4938-b0da-a7d792344275.wakelet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/New-extension-sped-up.mp4

 

[Pencilfreak]

*boring long arguments*

User was banned for this post.

Thank you for your service.
And I hope to fucking God and Jesus Christ that Proctor doesn't give you any shit for this.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

I think there are a few prostitutes that somehow have more dignity than the average internet janny

A whore gets paid, and may experience love for the craft

 

[famous artist pipkun]

Let me take this opportunity to address this directly, because it's a recurrent theme I've seen developing recently.

TVA is considered a kiwifarms-adjacent doxing forum. This is our public perception. Why would a vtuber want to contact me or by extension any of us? What would motivate them to do so? They would need to, at minimum, have A) completely perfect opsec*, B) agree with what we do, C) be willing to endure backlash from anyone who disagreed with B).

* Or just not care about it.

Who in the industry is like that? I personally can't think of anybody. It is critical to grasp that every single contact I've ever gotten in the industry has been despite me owning this forum, not because of it. Every single one of them, without exception, would like me more if I deleted TVA.

I tried to give people a chance to change that perception, and that ended when the vtuber who was willing to trust us and openly interact with us got harassed and had RL pictures demanded from them, then lied about for years afterwards purely as a way to get a rise out of me personally.

The truth is that the only vtubers who were ever interested in openly interacting with TVA under the terms TVA publicly set after that incident were A) severely mentally ill*, B) terminally stupid teenagers, C) a sociopathic alcoholic who likes to ask her 500$-a-month supporters to carve her name into their arms in VC.

* Much more so than even the norm for this industry.

That was it. It took me a very long time to grasp this fact, and I am completely to blame for not doing so sooner. I was an optimist, and I was wrong.

We are not the kind of people vtubers want to interact with. We dig into their backstories, we expose their PL information, we post their faces. I know many users would absolutely go so far as to post full dox material if I let them, which is one of the only lines in the sand that I've drawn. This stance has caused me intense personal stress and misery in the past two years. My determination to not censor this place has strained my relationships with people I deeply care about. But even though I object to some of the things that are posted here, sometimes very strenuously, I will not let them be taken down or removed.

No vtuber likes this. None of them appreciate your attentions. They would all, to a woman, prefer it if this place didn't exist. Even large amounts of posts about them can indirectly cause them misery and career issues by being known as 'that vtuber the doxers like'. The ones who believe as I do are like me, in that they believe in the spirit of free speech while still objectively, tangibly suffering from the consequences of their belief in reality, because bad faith actors will incessantly use their own standards to attack them without fear of retaliation.

So to sum things up; no, me leaking the DMs of a user is not going to tangibly impact my relationship with anyone in this industry.

Running TVA does not tangibly benefit my mental health, my finances, or my social life in any capacity. It will not make me a successful career, and it will not win me friends or allies in this space. But I will run it because I fervently believe that it should exist, that it is better than the alternatives, and that history will one day prove that tiny, insignificant acts of defiance to the mainstream censorship edifice made a difference in the fight against it.

That's all I have to say on the topic, thank you for listening.

are we back to "tva is a kiwi offshoot"? did the "we started as a kf offshoot but I want it to be more with no phonebooking" dream die?

i see alex joined the forum, does that mean he started watching vtubers or is he here to pick retarded fights with retards?

 

[UberSoldat]

i see alex joined the forum, does that mean he started watching vtubers or is he here to pick retarded fights with retards?

Late to the party, my guy. Alex came, started beefing with everyone, and was quickly yeeted out by the mods. He is no longer in the Discord either, not sure if by his own volition or as part of the yeeting.

 

[famous artist pipkun]

Late to the party, my guy. Alex came, started beefing with everyone, and was quickly yeeted out by the mods. He is no longer in the Discord either, not sure if by his own volition or as part of the yeeting.

shame

 

[NeneLOVE]

shame

Lord Pipkun you slack in your duties, under your watch a filthy vermin managed to infiltrate our defenses and you were nowhere to be seen to circularly debate and annoy the threat!

 

[famous artist pipkun]

Lord Pipkun you slack in your duties, under your watch a filthy vermin managed to infiltrate our defenses and you were nowhere to be seen to circularly debate and annoy the threat!

aye, i missed my chance but none sent a courier to fetch me either.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

aye, i missed my chance but none sent a courier to fetch me either.

Sorry, next time we will send man with a weed whacker after you

 

[RestlessRain]

 

[The Proctor]

My mother finally got a proper doctor today. It was nice to see her coming home with a smile on her face that somebody took her seriously for a change. Doctor was even from the same town she grew up in as a child.

It's funny, three people I know including her have all had successful doctor's appointments in the last 24 hours, all women.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

My mother finally got a proper doctor today. It was nice to see her coming home with a smile on her face that somebody took her seriously for a change. Doctor was even from the same town she grew up in as a child.

It's funny, three people I know including her have all had successful doctor's appointments in the last 24 hours, all women.

you your mother who's the third?

 

[Helkar]

In arcane s2, Ambessa mentions 3 values of Noxus as might, vision and guile. These 3 values represent (or are represented by) Swain's council Trifarix who are Darius, Swain and an unnamed person called the Faceless. So unless they plan to change everything about Noxus' lore, Swain is already in power.

Bringing this over to the banter thread to not pollute the general.
So, the thing is, timeline already doesn't add up, no? In Arcane S2, Singed's clearly-very-first contact with the Noxians is completed through Ambessa, meaning, he is nowhere near doing the warcrimes he's famous for.
And in the 2025 cinematic, Darius is very clearly young and relatively-inexperienced, hard to believe that he's already in a triumvirate ruling over Noxus.

 

[Bronze]

Bringing this over to the banter thread to not pollute the general.
So, the thing is, timeline already doesn't add up, no? In Arcane S2, Singed's clearly-very-first contact with the Noxians is completed through Ambessa, meaning, he is nowhere near doing the warcrimes he's famous for.
And in the 2025 cinematic, Darius is very clearly young and relatively-inexperienced, hard to believe that he's already in a triumvirate ruling over Noxus.

Timeline's definitely out of window so it is possible. I just assumed that Swain's principles being mentioned and his raven being shown means that he already has access to Raum's power, and at that point we are either really close to his takeover or after it. We'll have to wait for more info to see if Darius' fight is "current event" or just a thing of his past. I don't exactly know his lore. Only certain thing is Leblanc mentioned Piltover being a lesson, so it's after Arcane.

To be honest, it doesn't make much sense to skip over it since it's a really big event that's worth watching. They might change way more for it to fit the new timeline, which might be risky.
E: I guess Ambessa's book might have info about it if it ever mentions her current affairs

 

[Helkar]

and his raven being shown means that he already has access to Raum's power

One theory i read in the comments was that Raum is currently under LeBlanc's control, so she is the one who snacthed Jayce's gemstone with the raven.
Which actually makes more sense than it being Swain, since Swain is never even mentioned in Arcane, whereas LeBlanc, while not named, is an active participant in the events(as "the Sorceress").
So perhaps the principles came first, and Swain adapting a ruling triumvirate after them later.
I've barely played League in my life btw, i just like diving into lore .

 

[Bronze]

One theory i read in the comments was that Raum is currently under LeBlanc's control, so she is the one who snacthed Jayce's gemstone with the raven.
Which actually makes more sense than it being Swain, since Swain is never even mentioned in Arcane, whereas LeBlanc, while not named, is an active participant in the events(as "the Sorceress").
So perhaps the principles came first, and Swain adapting a ruling triumvirate after them later.
I've barely played League in my life btw, i just like diving into lore .

Swain is never shown at all in fact, including the new trailer(unless I've missed it). I'll assume they deliberately do not mention him, so anything is possible.

Game's lore is infinitely more entertaining than the game. I play it because it's one of the few things me and my friends can do together.

 

[Helkar]

To be honest, it doesn't make much sense to skip over it since it's a really big event that's worth watching.

What i'm genuinely concerned for is them making Mel the key player and Swain&Darius just tag-alongs, given the trajectory of her character in Arcane S2(i really liked her in S1, too, fuck).

Swain is never shown at all in fact, including the new trailer(unless I've missed it).

Nope, no mention of him there.
I always saw Swain as sorta-kinda Stalin of Runeterra, if you're trying to create a cinematic universe, a character this impactful has to be handled with great care.

 

[Abomination]

God damn it my fellow Phasefags. We already lost our L thread in just one week. We couldn't even manage to keep it open.

Truly an L moment there.

 

[agility_]

So hey guys, did you hear about what Clara said about drumpf on twitter?