I probably delete 2/3 of my messages after I typed half of them out, because I either decide nobody cares, or because I could just upvote a comment which is pretty similar to what I would’ve written. Not sure if it’s the same for others, but I wouldn’t be too surprised.

I’m still not sure why. For the corporate ones, like Hololive, I’m quite sure it’s just management driving it for audience engagement, at least on most of them. Lesbians are very fetishized by male audiences, so it appeals to them, while also keeping parasocial behaviour alive, as those men can imagine a relationship with the vtuber since there’s no boyfriend in the picture. Nonetheless, there’s a couple where I’m sure they’re pretty gay, Ollie and Kiara come to mind, and OkaKoro as a relationship seems genuine enough as well.

For more indie vtubers I do not know what’s going on with the queerness. It’s either faked like how I assume it is with most corpos or there’s some sort of selection bias. Maybe the type of woman likely to become a vtuber is also the type to have grown up in male online spaces, and assimilated some of the attraction to women during their puberty? That rough idea would track with male vtubers seeming pretty hetero overall, at least to me.

I’m just taking random guesses here, might just be talking absolute bs, I’m not sure.

Not sure about Father Ted, but Minecraft and Harry Potter were made by bigots. This user is trying to “erase” their creators’ involvement, by attributing it to our lady and saviour Hatsune Miku, may she be forever blessed.

I don’t think she was involved in writing Hogwarts Legacy to be fair, just put her stamp of bigot approval on it. Although whoever was writing certainly stuck to her naming conventions.

I must admit I still don’t see the point. Whether it’s double/triple/quadruple of a million or just 3*n+1 doesn’t seem to matter much. Of course it’d be better if a “thousand” was just called a “million” then, since that’d remove the +1, but the million milliard system doesn’t seem to have any notable advantages otherwise, especially considering every “iard” step is a .5 one, which isn’t much cleaner.

1,000 -> 3x0+1 zeroes

1,000,000 -> 3x1+1 zeroes

1,000,000,000 -> 3x2+1 zeroes

vs

1,000,000 -> 1x6 zeroes

(1,000,000,000 -> 1.5x6 zeroes)

1,000,000,000,000 -> 2x6 zeroes

(1,000,000,000,000,000 -> 2.5x6 zeroes)

1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -> 3x6 zeroes

I think that’s one thing that’s actually fine about the English language though. Constantly switching between something ending with “ion” to “iard” instead of just counting up doesn’t make much sense to me personally.

Million (1A), Milliard (1B), Billion (2A), Billiard (2B) seems odd compared to Million (1), Billion (2), Trillion (3), Quadrillion (4)

I suppose the upside is that you don’t have to learn as many prefixes, but it’ll take another few years of inflation and wealth centralization (at least with currencies like the Euro, Dollar, or Pound) until Quadrillion is relevant in the financial sector and Mathematicians generally use letters. I suppose it makes other natural sciences a tiny bit easier, but there it’s usually written in scientific notation anyways.

For me it’s pretty likely to replace it, at least on my laptop. Don’t get me wrong, I love Plasma, but per-screen workspaces and native window tiling are two features I never knew how much I needed before I tried out Hyprland some months back, especially on a single screen. While I’ll definitely miss the desktop panels and extensive settings menu, I’ll give those up for the other features without much of a second thought.

In a literal translation it would be, but considering it’s not a big bang, but the big bang, it’d be “Urknall” which I’m not sure how best to literally translate to English, but it’s something along the lines of “bang of origin” or “original bang”.

That doesn’t make the tweet any less wrong though, this is just semantics.