#3MIL

[lukeslywalkers]

Not to be a dick but during the video I looked at their subscriber count cause my immediate thought was “I didn’t know they had those kinda numbers” and they Do Not in fact have those kinda numbers

[synthaphone]

its legs are non-functional and it can only locomote by vibrating. however, it does have a pivot at the base of the body and its arms can swivel, so that it can do a little dance when you put 100 NP in and it dispenses your prize

[synthshenanigans]

The Soul Eclectic has finally hit one mil on Spotify!!!!!

[verysmallcyborg]

i have very normal achievement goals. very sane and normal pvp enjoyer and fisher methinks. with a crumb of hunt trains

[narzissenkreuz-ordo]

divergent universe is literally The Best simulated universe expansion and you can't change my mind

[amethyst-halo]

the most interesting fun fact abt myself that i keep forgetting and then remembering randomly is that my cousin married a youtuber with [checks notes] almost 2 million subscribers

[queen-scribbles]

New armor for Aithan? New armor for Aithan.

[princessnijireiki]

money is such a funny thing, bc it's always simultaneously way less and way more than you would think, too.

like there's the easy joke of $5, $20, $100 is HUGE when you're a kid or young adult, but I also fairly recently was in a position where I had like $1K in the bank (in a sweet spot between a TON of major bills hitting) and it was like oh wow so $1K is a lot until it VERY SUDDENLY ISN'T bc it only STAYS a lot if your needs are already met. if your needs surpass your means, or frankly, you've been scraping by below or within your means but really shouldn't have been, that shit evaporates in an instant. car, teeth, emergency vet bills, food. poof!

or I saw a hypothetical, would you rather know every language on earth fluently, or get $3 million dollars? and I had to crunch the numbers, because if you work every year from 18 to 78 (as in well past retirement age/at the end of a lot of people's projected lifespan), you'd have to make $50K per year AFTER taxes, every year for 60 years, to earn an ACCUMULATED $3 million. at $30K/year, you'd have to work 100 years.

and then, the flipside of that is, unless you die at exactly those ages, peacefully and in perfect health, how many people still struggle to make ends meet at $30-50K even when they ARE young and healthy? what's that look like in a hurricane, or after a car wreck, a disability, having a pet, having a KID, a marriage, a divorce, a funeral? how many people make $30-50K and when that check engine light comes on, or their child needs braces, or grandma needs a home health aide, or they get injured or sick and need to take FMLA, they realize that one thing now has them financially fucked? how many people making $30-50K per year do you know who have 6 months' worth of expenses set aside in an emergency savings account?

meanwhile, for $3,000,000, that money as a lump you don't have to touch or live paycheck to paycheck on also means you can accumulate interest, invest money, and so on. the access to lifetimes of funds to provide ease to this one life is a huge privilege most of us will never, ever know, and then you find out some stupid as fuck movie or commercial campaign cost tens or hundreds of millions. those rich people who got squished in the idiot submarine... lifetimes of wealth between them and their imploding stupid boat.

and so you look at all that, and you look at what medical debt looks like, or recovery from a fire or something, and once you see enough of that, the lottery fantasy answers get a lot more boring. like, I'd still have to finish this degree, get and keep a job to carry insurance and max out my retirement— maybe a flexible enough job that you grind for a few years to replace your house's down payment in the lump sum, then pull mortgage, utilities, insurance, etc. out of that interest, and the job income is pure health insurance, 401K, and takeout/walking around money. you pay your debts, help take care of a handful of loved ones, retire them early or pay off a house (over time, so the interest can still accrue on a bigger amount of money than the new sum from X minus $house). splurge on a vacation every so often. set up a college fund for a few kids, or neices, or nephews, or cousins.

and then it's like... go fishing. eat well! learn to sleep without fear of poverty, I don't know. know that if the money can grow, it can help a LOT of people feel safe, and that succumbing to the emotional urge to take care of everybody before that egg can grow bigger is what keeps people in multigenerational poverty, and that it's gonna mean things don't get to be easy for you mentally, emotionally, or even in terms of labor unless you're cashing out your chips right now to take care of yourself (which is also valid!). pick a charity every year to make their day.

and it's bonkers that $3mil feels like such a real number compared to some of these lotteries or very wealthy people/their property in the world, that even though it's cartoonishly out of reach, among the stars, it feels like, "is it even that much?" and like... yes, it very much is lmao, even though if you're under 50 it's not guaranteed "never have to work again" money. but that also means it's not "buy a castle & become a beekeeper slash professional poet as my only sources of income" big dreams & fantasies money, either.

[vocaloidfactoftheday]

Chinese Vocaloids find much more success on bilibili, a Chinese video sharing site, than on Nico Nico Douga, a popular site for Japanese Vocaloid users.

Luo Tianyi, who is extremely popular in China, only has songs on Nico Nico Douga that have reached 101,000 views, despite being such a notable Vocaloid. In contrast, her most popular song on bilbili has over 13 million views, and many other Tianyi songs have view counts in the millions.

(source: Vocaloid Wiki, Nico Nico Douga)

[pm-00]

gracias por la foto, patróncito<3 any spare little cube house building you might have??? 😔

[quemirabobo]

SAY WHAT???????????????

[larnax]

do you have any idea how disappointing it was to visit stormhail before picking up temenos and see this and be like "oh hey octopath 2 is actually gonna reckon with the Implications of having an all-powerful psuedocatholic church the entire continent follows which has a standing army" and in general see that the church was being painted with any degree of moral complexity as opposed to ot1 looking you dead in the eyes and having the clerics story be violently suppressing the only alternative religious leader bc he is an evildemon satanist, only to pick up temenos, and it turns out that the "complexity" is that the evildemon satanist brown woman has infiltrated the church and corrupted it and also the entire thing with the beastlings backstory and also temenos' path action is literally interrogation but uhhhhhh its actually Fine, when he does it, because he just uses his empath powers and so it totally doesn't hurt them at all and also all of his deductions can be trusted completely

[synthshenanigans]

How are you going to include songs from the before in the instrumental polls? As far as I know there aren’t official instrumentals for his older albums. Or has someone made isolated versions of those?

Yeaaa CJ stated in the QnA about how all the instrumentals on the Covered in Discontent & the before. albums are just gone cos there was no reason to keep em at the time.

Like I said in the first poll, there was just some songs that don't have an isolated track to listen to, so you'd just have to listen to the song itself & focus on the instruments rather than the lyrics.

Not the greatest thing I know, but! Those songs have really good music & it didn't feel fair to not have em in it, just cos CJ never woulda known how many people would've wanted those down the line. [since like, 50-80% of his fans came from after the before was already finished]

All this is rlly just to say; bros original stuff are really good & deserve more love lol.

[alfea]

one more dreamie crossed off the list :)