Sorry parents of the missing, adults are allowed to vanish + we're not looking into obvious #1 suspect + Put into the cold case files + stop calling our department + Are you hiding her??
The remaining 24 girls will qualify through nominations and qualifier polls.
Also, because Touhou girls performed so well in the tournament, and since Touhou will inevitably hit the 3-girl franchise cap that will be in place next season, I thought it fair that the Touhou girls who DO qualify (we’ll have a special Touhou selection process ahead of the regular nominations) be secured favorable seeding, because based on what we now know, they should all boast Top 8 strength.
I also did set up a possible Pyra VS 2B quarterfinal match on purpose, but I still think the seeding is fully justifiable :smug6:
Anyway, that’s the end of my Season 1 contest writeup. Use #BestVidyaGirlContest to find my earlier posts, or just use the following links:
1st Seed Samus Aran (Metroid) VS 14th Seed Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/EXTRA)
Samus: 222 votes Tamamo: 165 votes
This is what everything had been leading up to, and we ended up with the pre-tournament favorite and #1 Seed Samus Aran going up against deadly dark horse Tamamo-no-Mae. With the exception of Remilia in round 2, Samus had been absolutely DOMINATING the competition, crushing even powerhouses like Momiji and Reimu with barely any effort. Tamamo meanwhile had a far more eventful and difficult journey to the tournament final, with the fox never even breaking 60% of any of her opponents, which were all very formidable and iconic vidya girls. As such, while Tamamo hadn’t scored any true blowout win, she had nonetheless looked amazing throughout the tournament, repeatedly setting all sorts of records, including several for both individual vote totals and match vote totals. That said, going by the semifinals Samus seemed to be in a league of her own, though the Fluffy Tail Frens seemed remarkably confident ahead of the big day.
And once the final battle began, that confidence initially seemed well warranted – for the first time ever, Samus did NOT start off a match steamrolling her opponent, the early votes leaving the girls dead even, with 6 – 6, 8 – 8 and 11 – 11 scores. Samus kept trying to pull ahead, but Tamamo refused to yield until the 31-vote mark, when Samus managed to go up by 3, before reaching a 6-vote lead after 40 votes. Knowing just how crucial it was to prevent Samus’s morph ball momentum from spinning out of control, Tamamo struck back with 3 successive votes, and after 48 votes she was only 2 behind. The magic fox girl now had monster momentum of her own, and after 54 votes she’d actually taken the lead, being up 52% - 48%!
Against all odds, we actually had a competitive match on our hands, and the Tamamo supporters were as always out in force, and even had some new tricks up their sleeves – zemichi had for example generated some really nice AI art of Tamamo for the past 24 hours in preparation of the poll, and wan had done some edits of Tamamo blowing up Israel with a bazooka (hilariously, this match took place on the same day as Hamas giving the Jews a true taste of Oy Vey, Annudah Shoah!). However, the Samus that Tamamo was facing was a different beast from the one who had let Remilia fans completely take over the round 2 match thread – Samus fans were also flooding the thread with Samus content, and fully keeping pace with Team Fluffy Tail.
And the match itself was staying close – after briefly being overtaken by Tamamo, Samus fired back with great force, quickly leapfrogging the fox and opening up an 8-vote lead, her biggest of the match, before it was *Tamamo’s* turn to strike back, the Fox slicing into the bounty hunter’s vote and reducing it to 1 lone vote. The top seed was however in no mood to relinquish her lead, again stepping up her game and being up by 6 after 116 votes. Tamamo again scored 3 straight votes, followed by 3 Samus votes in a row, and it kept going back and forth, though Samus was maintaining a 3-6 vote lead.
After 150 votes Samus was still up by 6, but then Tamamo moved in for a the kill – a whole string of unanswered Tamamo votes dropped, in a flash completely erasing the Aryan’s lead. Suddenly Tamamo was on top, and again she managed to go up by 3 votes before Samus answered back After 162 votes it was dead even, 81-81, and then…it was all over. Samus again took back and extended her lead, but this time Tamamo was no longer capable of retaliating. Samus’s lead quickly spiraled out of control, the floodgates had opened and Samus voters were as unstoppable as a swarm of X Parasites in an environment devoid of Metroids – Samus was quickly up by 10 votes, then 20, 30, 40, hell she was blowing past 50 and even 60 votes, easily breaking 60% on Tamamo. After 292 votes, Samus lead 61% - 39%.
When I managed a shop working on 1960s-1980s communications and navigation equipment for use in the P-3C Orion maritime surveillance and recon aircraft, our #1 greatest weakness was that nobody knew what they were doing.
I mean, these avionics technicians, which some had been technicians for 8 years, did not know ohms law, did not know how to use an oscilloscope, did not understand the function of discrete components, and were generally unable to complete a systems checkout using the provided documentation and drawings because they could not understand the meaning of the words.
This is considered normal throughout the entire US Navy, and they do this on purpose.
The technical schools you are supposed to attend prior to doing your job are vacations, where you spend 1 hour waiting for your instructor to arrive, spend 20 minutes looking at a PowerPoint, the. A 10 minute quiz and then you go home. These are supposed to be highly difficult courses, but it's impossible to fail them.
To give some perspective on how bad the technical schooling of the Navy is: I was able to TEST OUT of the organizational level P-3C "Career" course because I somewhat knew how to read a publication, and was able to bluff my way through the lab portion, and the instructors didn't care.
It is no surprise to me that the people they put in charge of the missiles face the same struggle.
Daniel 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
Daniel 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
What you felt seeing this is what I feel whenever I see anything american, the breakroom has a tv with cable television and there's never anything remotely appealing, it's all shit like this that makes me feel dread with the trailer alone, my god AND THERE'S GOD KNOWS HOW MANY CHANNELS THAT ARE JUST THIS @kf01 Genie Trailer #1 (2023).mp4
I'd say the #1 problem in anime dubs in general is awful casting and no real talents
Being from QC, I've seen dubs and their originals all my life. I know dubs and I've seen wonderful ones and really bad ones
Ideally, the dub voice actors should have a voice that's close enough to the original. It's very possible with French - English. For example, the French VA for Eddie Murphy is very good, they need to be good to such a level that if you compare scenes, you should NOT have the feeling that you just crossed a fucking dimension
The problem with anime specifically is that anime dubbing, unless you're the 1% in the industry, you're basically a loser in your field that clearly didn't make it. The vast majority of them aren't amazingly skilled (compared to Japan who has like 10+ specific schools JUST for this) and they mostly can't replicate a lot of the anime voices, especially of the women
There's also the fact that their dub directors are absolute garbage, it's also all rushed and done on the extreme cheap
@All_bonesJones@caekislove@AmericanChampion@Hoss@coolboymew >will awkward lines ruin good scenes? sometimes isn't awkward lines ruining good scenes the #1 problem with dubs? it's not like AI-generated voices would be creating an issue that doesn't already exist
The tournament quarterfinals ended up consisting of two blowouts, followed by two close, competitive matches, one of which turned VERY ugly. As such, the first two bouts were basically just setting up the long-awaited Samus VS Reimu battle. Now, I will admit, as a Samus fan part of me did worry that the Fluffy Tail Mafia would somehow make something crazy happen that would result in Samus sleeping with the fishes, especially after what happened to Pyra. However, it would turn out that Samus was so strong that not even the combined might of Touhou and Team Fluffy Tail stood a chance against her.
Like against Remilia, Samus stormed off into a monster lead, quickly getting ahead by 10 votes. Momiji then TRIED to pull a Remilia, going on a beastly counteroffensive to erase the blonde bounty hunter’s lead, however, that was easier said than done. Even as the wolf girl was going all out to claw herself back in the match, Samus was maintaining a decent 6-7 vote lead, resisting the wolf girl’s push and then getting back her 10-vote lead after 48 votes. Momiji DID strike back by scoring 3 straight votes and eventually getting within 6 votes again, but after that Samus took over the match, kept increasing her lead and was up 57 – 43 after 100 votes.
However, Samus was only just getting started, and only intensified her domination from this point on, reaching a 25 vote lead after 115 votes. And while Momiji did from time to time attempt to fight back, she just couldn’t keep up with the Metroid MC’s unbelievable natural strength. Additionally, Samus supporters had gotten significantly better at actively cheering on their girl since the Remilia match, and were early on kinda dominating in the match thread. With all this going for her, you just CAN’T allow Samus to build up any kind of significant lead on you outside of the chaotic opening minutes of the poll, she’s so powerful that you’ll have to fight like crazy merely to keep up with her, while actually overcoming a significant deficit against Samus is hopeless – not that keeping up with Samus for a full 24 hours is much easier, but still…
Anyway, Samus kept dominating, reached a 41-vote lead at the 200 votes mark, and additional activity due to the poll getting reposted just increased Samus’s lead to 49 votes. Momiji being kept below 40% after more than 200 votes really showcases just how insanely strong Samus truly is – and this result probably DOES reflect her true strength more accurately than the final score, because from that point on Samus fans became *extremely* complacent, pretty much went AWOL and let Momiji supporters completely take over the match thread. A strong and sustained Momiji push followed, which did manage to make Samus bleed percentage points, and even cut into her vote lead, but with less than 2 hours left, Samus still led by 45 votes. Momiji only managed to further reduce her deficit a tiny bit, getting within 42 votes, before Samus effortlessly increased her lead again, finally winning by 47.
This was an absolutely DOMINANT performance by Samus, and she looked extremely impressive by any metric. Hell, the only reason she didn’t break Tamamo’s vote count record (Samus eventually “only” matching Pyra’s 172 votes) was the fact that she had killed this match so completely after just a couple of hours that Samus fans basically stopped caring, since Momiji stood no chance of making a comeback. One might try to dismiss Momiji as just a Touhou mini-boss, but she’s clearly an extremely beloved fan favorite character, and yet Samus effortlessly overwhelmed her. If Remilia had made Samus look at least *somewhat* vulnerable, this quarterfinal match served as a grim reminder of just how difficult it would be to take down the #1 Seed. The pressure was now on Reimu to put on a show and prove that she was capable of avenging her two friends, and put an end to Samus Aryan’s Touhou genocide.
Unless we take action I predict the next 10 years of DRM will smash the last 10: #1. Advancements in technology will enable more sophisticated and effective methods of DRM, making it harder for users to bypass or hack it. #2. Stricter laws & regulations will be put in place, resulting in even greater penalties & liabilities for even trying. #3. The increasing popularity of streaming (dis-)services will result in more people using those rather than trying to break the DRM.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@sickburnbro I see #1 in action quite a bit with a 25-30 age group that has no regular work, lives with parents/flophouse and picks up gig work just enough to pay for goyfeed and weed for the week.
it seems the #1 time it does anything, it's deciding that your second input device isn't transmitting for 0.1 microseconds so now it's switching back to input device 1 instead. because fuck you