I don’t know who writes it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it a masterpiece (though to be fair, I am reading translations,) but it is a fun premise. I started reading it because it’s one of the few sources of official Hatsune Miku lore (though ultimately everything is canon,) but the stories focus more on the human characters, with the vocaloids mostly just being there to support. Still, the stories can be compelling.

At this point, half the reason I’m still reading is for the human characters, and the other half is to find details on the premise, such as how it works with thermodynamics, whether the cafe world has an economy, how biological the vocaloids are (do they need to eat?), and how long it’s going to be before anyone finds out that their bestie/sibling/trainer/etc has their own virtual world too (they don’t do a great job of keeping it secret, but they also don’t do a great job of investigating.)

Context made me think it was going to be a pelican trying to eat a baby. But no, that was a fun watch.

I’ve been reading stories from the Hatsune Miku rhythm game app, that almost straddles the line between urban fantasy and unexplained sci-fi. The premise is that instances of the vocaloids live in personalized virtual worlds for different (small) groups of humans. The humans can teleport to these worlds by playing a special song on their phone, or the vocaloids can project themselves as holograms from the humans’ phones. It’s almost sci-fi because it mostly works within constraints of technology. For example, you get booted out of the virtual world if your phone runs out of battery, and if your phone gets shorted out, it can prevent the vocaloids from projecting themselves until the phone is repaired (though if the phone still works otherwise, they can voice chat.) Also the special song can be transferred to different machines and still works. But then what makes it more fantasy is that the song and worlds are created from the humans’ feelings (and if they lose the song, a new copy will appear for them,) and it works without internet connection (if one member of a group is stranded and another isn’t, they could have a vocaloid relay a message.) And then just recently I read a chapter where some characters were able to access their virtual world through their dreams, without needing the song file in the first place. For me, that’s what completely tipped the scale into urban fantasy.

No albums, but…
E.G.G.M.A.N.
LEGO Eggman Rap
Uh… E.G.G.M.A.N. (Doc. Robeatnix Mix)

Guy needs more songs.

I’ll go along with this.

NOOOOOoooo…!

Well, if you have a bad comment that’s going to get heavily downvoted, it’s funny to see that not even you upvoted yourself. Like “yeah, even I think my opinion here stinks.”

Am I going insane or did you remove your self-upvote?

If anyone makes this community, let me know please.

Reaching that second field of hogs under the conversation felt kind of ominous.

I’ve seen this one before, but the alt text had me in a (silent) laughing fit anyways.

I agree with you, but I’m obligated to downvote.

What’s this about Mojang?

we wanted to give you the opportunity to address.

*Adds landlord to resume 🏘️📈👑😁

hits rock bottom 🪨📉😭
*adds geologist to resume 🧑‍🔬🔬🪨😁

*Has meltdown 😡🤯💥
Adds nuclear physicist to resume ⚛️🧑‍🔬🏭😎

Wanted to make it a bit more obscure for my friends, and also cropped it.

Well to be fair, that wasn’t until 6 hours after my comment and 9 hours after yours, so neither of us could have known for sure.

It’s not fair to assume a member of a population is guilty until they condemn/renounce the problematic members of their population. I remember there being a problem after 9/11 where some people expected individual Muslims to publicly condemn Al Qaeda or else be assumed complicit. If it wasn’t alright there, it’s not alright here.

to irk the “grammer” police on reddit

Hmm…

*Squints*

You done messed up.

to irk the “grammer” police on Reddit

FTFY

Complimenting a username is nice, but you don’t have to throw in a disclaimer about political alignment. I don’t think any of your hexbear friends, if they’re reasonable, would call you a lib because you complimented the username of a guy whose instance is populated by libs.