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[Titanosaurus]

Isnt one of those italian brainrot memes about bombing palestinians

I looked that one up because it looks cool and I did see something about that. But I think it lost that meaning in the memes.

 

[Helkar]

Regardless, it doesn't exactly match with timeline unless MariMari was specifically the only one picked up in the June 2024 audition (or they hosted an audition only for clout/trolling which is a pretty dumb way to waste staff time).

I suppose we'll find out, because even doing a public audition for a single person is already kinda retarded,

 

[Italian Raccoon]

Isnt one of those italian brainrot memes about bombing palestinians

Yes, yes it is. And that's why it's funny. This one specifically influenced some Croats to make their own Croatian AI brainrot memes and they're all racist in true balkan fashion.

 

[Salado]

Cover premier!

 

[dumdum did nothing wrong]

Some retard asked Clio if she was a Pippa nepohire. She doesn't actually know. She did reveal she was in Sakana's basement for ~two years.

Fishman slid into her DMs within twenty-four hours of her announcing her teaching gig wasn't renewed.

First of all that's fucking rude of the chatter but GAWD DAMN THAT'S A LONG ASS TIME IN THE BASEMENT WTF FISHMAN. Glad Fishman recognize true hag spirit and got Clio.

 

[Abomination]

Some retard asked Clio if she was a Pippa nepohire. She doesn't actually know. She did reveal she was in Sakana's basement for ~two years.

Fishman slid into her DMs within twenty-four hours of her announcing her teaching gig wasn't renewed.

I'd be surprised if Lumi didn't have a big push behind her joining. They've been pretty good friends for quite a while now, and Clio even credits Lumi for her vtuber success when Lumi raided her when she only had a handful of viewers.

Lumi's yapping about the Invaders now. Missed the first 15-ish minutes, and no rewind on Twitch, so I don't know if she said anything worth mentioning.

Actually, she just now said Sleepy is Pippa's first nepo hire, and that Lumi and Dizzy has a few nepo hires. She says she's referred a lot of girls to Fishman, obviously more than actually got hired on. This is, and putting in a good word for, is what she seems to consider as "nepo".

Look. There's A LOT we can say about Rie.
But she's a great singer/musician.

I just recently got into her String Theocracy cover, and it's very nice. She's got quite a few songs I like and listen to on regular rotation.

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[Salado]

Cover premier!

She did great.

 

[Krompus]

Ok I realized what I don't like about Clio's new look. The hair looks too "clean". I really prefer her more messy hair.

 

[Sven]

I'd be surprised if Lumi didn't have a big push behind her joining. They've been pretty good friends for quite a while now, and Clio even credits Lumi for her vtuber success when Lumi raided her when she only had a handful of viewers.

Lumi's yapping about the Invaders now. Missed the first 15-ish minutes, and no rewind on Twitch, so I don't know if she said anything worth mentioning.

Actually, she just now said Sleepy is Pippa's first nepo hire, and that Lumi and Dizzy has a few nepo hires. She says she's referred a lot of girls to Fishman, obviously more than actually got hired on. This is, and putting in a good word for, is what she seems to consider as "nepo".

As much funny as claiming them the Pippa gen, Clio was always the least connected of the 3 to the rabbit. A couple of raids and I think 2 collabs maximum (I know the recent one but I want to say their was something else the 2 were in together but my memory is being shit.) Clio is much more connected as you said to Lumi as well as Pon and others then Pippa herself.

Pippa has said similar in that she will refer girls and sell them to the Fish as potentials but Sleepy is the first obvious one and the only one we have seen her shill to actual get in, it's hard to say the Fish only hires friends of their current talents when Pippa has been pulling for Sleepy since damn near her own debut and she only got in now.

 

[Little Stone]

Wemi wants to collab with Clio, which sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I feel their dynamic could end up being a bit like that one collab between Bae and Vesper...

 

[Phantasm]

Is this a smart way to collab beg? Lumi's already seen it now all that's left is for Nerissa

 

[Helkar]

Cover premier!

Really solid cover IMO.

 

[ZerroDefex]

Spoiler: mostly off topic

Excuse the autism.
I'm talking averages though. Ya you likely had the reloader, the dies, tumbler, tumbler material, powder, primers, space to do it all and even factoring in your time it's still cool for the applications you've listed. For the average person these are not fun upfront costs, also it's harder to find scrap lead if you're going real deep on it, then you need molds too (likely a way to powder coat for guns like glocks if doing 9mm). Lots of things to factor in that for the average person, now or during covid, felt/feel like it wasn't worth it (when Sleepy would've gotten into it was during covid pricing, hell she went for a 5.56 ak so she could steal tactically acquire her dads ammo). Powder and primers were also dumb expensive during covid and are still up post covid just like complete cartridges.
For some, sure it's worth it. But also the policing your own brass for something like 9mm to save a couple cents is, on average for most people, not fun/worth it. You need a good well ventilated space to reload too (if you tumble or caste). As well, the average shooter doesn't even shoot 1,000 rounds a year so it's hard to justify the small (relative) savings against the upfront or continues costs against the like 20cpr for a case of 9mm today vs the what 13ish-cpr of 2019 and earlier on blackfriday sales. The deer hunter in the mid west might only shoot 5-10 rounds during deer season, so why would they either except out of tradition? The time to go through the whole process is fun, educational, and even cathartic for some as it's a hobby, however the average gun owner just wants to shoot trash/stay mildly proficient in their carry piece or kill their meat for the season.
And ya .410 is rarer, your magnum rounds are going to also be more boutique and it makes sense if you got the gear for it. I'd actually like to hear the raw numbers on what you save doing 9mm. I've read reports from other reloaders and for them it was like 6cpr vs store bought as they bought their bullets and only reused brass like 3 times (this was a long while ago when I read this); Can you get it down to 14cpr or better? I also dunno how you value your time both on the range to collect brass, what volume you actually shoot, and how long it takes to reload all your ammo start to finish. For instance, some pro shooters goes through over 50k rounds of 9mm a year and more than a few stopped reloading due to the time alone as the component costs weren't low enough when factoring time in and I suspect you don't need to be shooting 50k a year to hit that time margin, though admittedly that's the most subjective part. It's going to be somewhere between 1k and 50k but exactly where is any one persons preference.
For most it's hard to find and quantify the value proposition these days (outside of the things I previously mentioned like PRS, C&R type ammo, other boutique shit where it often clearly is worth it).

I see that you took the time to fortify your position with a wall of text but I ain't reading all that.

Also, not to just put Sleepy aside, she is currently my fave of the 3. Her model's awesome, her voice is great and she's going to be the defacto gamer of Phase. Hopefully her condition doesn't impact her compared to before as I can see her getting big in Phase.

I agreed that Sleepy had the biggest glow-up of all.

Why the fuck has she had to resort to flying to Korea to have polyps removed, is the US system so fucked you can't even get basic cancer prevention procedures done?

Beats me as I don't know anyone who has ever left the USA to have procedures done, it's usually people coming here because their socialized medicine has had them on a waiting list for years or refuses to cover it as it's considered "cosmetic" or some nonsense. Only thing I can think of is if another country had procedure that is considered "experimental" here and nobody does it yet but even then she'd still be paying cash for it. I bet there's more going on and this is the "official story".

Imagine rolling up to the range with a fucking 1911 decked out with waifu grips, you'd give some boomer a stroke.

Boomers have long ago already gotten used to seeing Gucci GLOCKs and pimped out ARs. We even have tacticool lever-action rifles these days.

Ok I realized what I don't like about Clio's new look. The hair looks too "clean". I really prefer her more messy hair.

Well she did say that she had to look more professional to explain ditching the jeans.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

I think it might be safe to say it's not cosmetic surgery.

EDIT: Why the fuck has she had to resort to flying to Korea to have polyps removed, is the US system so fucked you can't even get basic cancer prevention procedures done?

Odds are it's probably both. If you can get the appointments, anything face surgery related is cheaper in Korea because they just do it by Volume. There's a couple of other types of "medical tourism" depending on what's going on. Weirdly, it's important to point out that for basically anything involving the Heart, Brain or Spine, it's Medical Tourism into the USA that normally happens. Korea is this interesting exception because of the Pug-like nature of Korean faces they just have the most developed industry. Depending on what she needs, it's entirely possible she'd have had to travel several hundred miles anyway and stay a week at a major US City.

If she has family there, that's probably the primary reasoning, as it covers a couple of things in one trip. A quick look at LAX to Seoul flights and, yeah, if she has somewhere to stay in South Korea, it's potentially net cheaper if she had to travel for the surgery inside the States. Having a place to stay is going to be the biggest expense, and you can definitely get top quality treatment in South Korea.

 

[MythicalSloth]

 

[RestlessRain]

Now I wonder how many invaders Sakana has in the pipeline and what, if any, his plan is to keep sIf Steady growth going and not ACCELERATE.

If Sakana has anyone else in mind, that he's come to an agreement with, they've only just agreed to join Phase Connect and are still in the provisional "get to know everyone" part of being in the basement. Otherwise, yesterday would have been the perfect time to debut them because there's no reason it couldn't have been four people debuting instead.

 

[NTRAntagonist]

It's been very economical for me, hell even for 9mm since it's still over 3x what it cost back in 2019. It doesn't even have to be rare cartridges, I originally took it up because 44 magnum was becoming increasingly expensive back then and despite making a resurgence .410 shotshells are still stupidly expensive. Brass can be recycled several times also many cartridges share the same primers and powders even so I have a lot of recipes to work with.

it's also just cool

 

[Tamokii]

I have bad news

 

[RestlessRain]

Regardless, it doesn't exactly match with timeline unless MariMari was specifically the only one picked up in the June 2024 audition (or they hosted an audition only for clout/trolling which is a pretty dumb way to waste staff time). As others before me have said, the auditions are most likely for upcoming Invaders rather than our newest trio.

If Phase Connect ran an audition to try to find new talents and didn't find anyone that worked, I don't think they're obligated to hire someone on. There's a lot of different factors that go into hiring someone as an Invader - compatibility with other talents, fitting the Phase Connect brand, being able to come to an agreement when a contract is presented, among other things. If you can't get all of that to work, it's better not to hire someone on than hire someone on and cause a whole bunch of problems and drama for yourself that you didn't need to.

 

[NTRAntagonist]

Clio is live on YT with debut 2.0.
Apparently trying to dualstream straight up didn't work this time.

It's been 6 hrs and the stream has 31k views christ