Forgotten Friday #110 - 蕃茄音ジュー / Tomatone Juu

 I don't know how I misread ジュー as ジョー. I mean, looking at them side by side I get it. I am just scatterbrained. 

Forgotten Friday #109 - 蕃茄音ジュー / Tomatone Juu

I have been a mess! Mostly because I just want to play Stardew Valley. I play on Android because I bought it using Google surveys rewards. I am able to mod it, and I'm in love. My favorite part of Harvest Moon DS was probably mining. I just really, really love beating up evil chickens and gaining precious stones. 

Mining in Stardew Valley was just painful, though. It was insanely easy to die and there was a time limit. I modded it to have no time limit and so that I never lose energy or health points. Now, I can mine for as long as I want and I love it! I made like 200,000 money units in one day. It breaks the game from a balancing perspective, but I want to have fun doing what I want, dang it. 

(If you want to mod it on Android, you'll need to install the apk from GitHub. Smapi for Android was taken off the play store. The file system of iPhones makes modding it basically impossible without jailbreaking.)

Who is Juu Tomatone?

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Wiki Wednesday #99 - 否音コト / Koto Inane

I didn't write anything for this section while working from my phone.

Wiki Wednesday #99 -  否音コト / Koto Inane

Before I sat down at my computer to start writing the second halves of these articles, I wanted to get one specific thing out of the way. 

Usa-utau is a really weird collective. The UTAUs do not have their own distribution pages… but they have piapro pages? Is that even legal?

There are like twenty of them. And I can't spam one collective for half a year, because then people would get really bored. (I mean, I could. It's my blog. But I would hate that as a kid, and this blog is for baby Mae and always has been… even if she can't read it due to time travel not being a thing.) I think that people would get really bored for my future plan for spamming just Japanese banks for a while… but, I just feel a lot more comfortable being fun and snarky if the voice provider will never see it. 

I have tea to spill that I really want to decompress, but I also know that like… no. I was actually upset with RuPaul's Drag Race for having a song that instructed people to clap back. In this climate, it's better for me to curl up in a ball. If I clapped back the way I want to at this moment, I'd get arrested and spend some time in jail. I mean, throwing rocks into windows because of a racist lawn sign is clapping back… right??? 

That is mostly a joke and I will not throw rocks through windows. If it happens, it wasn't me. Humor! I'm using humor!

Who is Inane Koto?

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Forgotten Friday #109 - Re：Re：のリリウム / Lilium

I can't stop eating. I don't want to, but I can't stop. I told myself, no more food until you finish five more articles! And I said, okay. fine.

Forgotten Friday #109 - Re：Re：のリリウム / Lilium

This is not the best name for an UTAU for a silly reason. Lilium was one of the old UTAU standards, like Uninstall and Melt. I actually have no idea what Lilium sounds like. I mean, I probably heard UTAUs sing the song years ago… a lot. But whereas I remember what Melt or Daughter of Evil sounds like, Lilium escapes me.

Okay so, writing this explanation on this article feels silly, because I will have to publish this one out of order because it is from a family.

But, one of my big issues that led me to be disorganized was that I would skip around just based on how I was feeling. Oh, this one has five VCV banks? Later. Oh, this one looks cute? Okay, this one. To fight that, I compiled a list of forty-six UTAUs. The banks are on my computer as we speak. I excluded the ones that were locked behind axfc being a jerk, so I had no excuse to put them off.

Other than cases like this article where I'll need to skip past it while processing samples to not spam a family, I'm going to go down the list both while writing the articles and processing them.

I always end up breaking my plans because they tend to be kind of… kind of not great. But this plan sounds very good to me. It's less ambitious and I won't get to a point where I'm confused because I don't even know who I have covered.

Who is Lilium?

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Wiki Wednesday #98 - 頭音千鶴 / Kashirane Chiduru

Another completely out of order, 50% cellphone article. I do apologize for everything being so out of order, but doing it this way does feel so much better and makes me happier.

Wiki Wednesday #98 - 頭音千鶴 / Kashirane Chiduru

In the previous articles, I was writing on my bed. The internet went wonky, so now I'm writing outside. How silly is that! Writing an article about UTAU outdoors! Well, it would be silly if my computer was with me. But this is just writing the biographical data. As said before, I may miss things considering I have no access to the banks as it stands. Also, this article will go up after other articles that were writing outside after this one because this bank comes from the same family as the article I previously wrote for. So, I guess we ask who this UTAU is now!

Who is Kashirane Chiduru?

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Forgotten Friday #108 - レター・リボン / Letter Ribbon

 Yay! This is a CVVC bank. I made CVVC to test out the CVVC capabilities of banks. Now I can use them. That's cool!

Forgotten Friday #108 - レター・リボン / Letter Ribbon

I have about seventeen thousand words until I've gone through the spreadsheet and can start processing for this batch of articles! Now, because of needing to break up all of the families, these won't be in order. So this might end up as the third article processed (it ended up being the fifth) and I'm like, only seventeen k left! But I'm at ten thousand right now. 

I wish that there weren't so many UTAUs in families just right after the other! But this was the beginning of the Visual Archive and of course people were adding their backlogs of UTAUs to it.

Anyway!

Who is Letter Ribbon?

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 So, I'm messing with the order these were written in just because I want my life to be slightly easier and not start with an UTAU that has ten banks, and I also want to order everything so that I can get through as many families as possible without spamming the family over and over. All of the next twenty or so articles were written on my phone until the "how is the bank?" section. 

Wiki Wednesday #97 - 印音シルシ / Shirushine Shirushi

Okay so, I always try to justify downloading more things. I'm a binge shopper with no money. Well, I'm a binge binger and I probably should do something about that, but therapy does nothing for me unless the therapist understands the interactions between autism, bipolar, psychosis, and PTSD. They also have to laugh at my "I'm just a few manic episodes removed from schizophrenia!" joke. (Jokes are allowed to simplify things to be punchier. It's more like twenty removed at this point.)

I'm not finding that in a red state. Maybe not even in a blue state. I've been dealing with this my whole life and can healthily redirect. Hence binge downloading UTAUs specifically for this purpose. And my family keeps really bad foods out of the house and I have three things of vegan ice cream in the freezer that I haven't touched. Is eating 2,020 calories in one day really binging? Dang it. Add disordered eating to the things the therapist would need to understand.

Anyway, if I start at entry 3,000, I can use the visual archive for wiki Wednesday also. Yay! And I would definitely need to, right? The utao group has like twenty members and I need something to break them up, right?! Well, no. I have a ton more UTAUs to burn through before them on the list. So no downloading more banks at this moment. It makes me feel a little sad, but that's life.

See?? I'm being healthy and setting limits! Though I legitimately only can now because I'm writing half of the article on my phone. Even if it takes more time, I'm enjoying the company of frogs and don't feel pressured to think of words sitting alone at my desk.

Who is Shirushi Shirushine?

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Forgotten Friday #107 - 椎音アンナ / Shiine Anna

 People ask if I'm okay. It's a weird question for me. But, like, I'm healthy and in no danger so, sure, yeah. I'm okay. 

Forgotten Friday #107 - 椎音アンナ / Shiine Anna

Chiquita don't have good art compared to her male counterpart. Which is really unfortunate, because that's all she has besides her voice. Not even the Visual Archive has anything besides name, gender, and release date.

Now, I'm not in a place where I can say if art is good or bad, because it's subjective. But the male counterpart, Haruka, has generic but very well done art. And Anna has art where you can literally tell how much love and effort went into it. But, like, there were fundamental misunderstandings in how things work. I've been there, you've been there. I don't know if Haruka got the art as a gift or if it was traced…

And Anna has decent art! It's her image on the Visual Archive! So why is the more advanced art on the Archive and not the website?!

Keep drawing. If your art looks like the image on the website, mine did too when I was younger. Growth and all that stuff!

Who is Anna Shiine?

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Wiki Wednesday #96 - セリンネ紗子 / Serinne Saeko

shh... club 96.

Wiki Wednesday #96 - セリンネ紗子 / Serinne Saeko

editor's note: sometimes i become southern. this is unfortunately one of those times. i apologize.

Now, let me tell you. Downloading this UTAU was a trip. None of them are ZIP archives. They're just folders in file uploaders. The CV, "Saeko-20190416T120714Z-001" (yours will have a different name) is an absolute mess with USTs and fourteen OTOs and... an application? okay yeah, my paranoia got to me when I saw an application called "scream" and I kind of got a bit of an anxious feeling that I can't explain fully. So, I'm pretending that one bank doesn't exist because I had a psychosis moment. But, here's another crazy thing. The Wiki, which is new and fancy, wasn't up to date, but the Wikia was! It's not even a Wikia anymore - it's a fandom.

So, I did kick the CV out, but because I checked the Wikia, there's a new VCV I wouldn't have found if I didn't go and search all over the place.

Who is Saeko Serinne?

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Forgotten Friday #106 - 五十鈴ニータ / Isuzu Niita

 Happy New Year!

Forgotten Friday #106 - 五十鈴ニータ / Isuzu Niita

This UTAU belongs to a group called 愛琉家-airuga-.

According to Wiktionary, "aooga" is supposed to be the sound of an hold fashioned car horn. I always heard it as "arooga". So when I saw the website name "airuga" my dyslexia went to town. I read it several different ways before realizing it's the reading of the kanji that was right before it. Not a car horn, and not air-uga. (Air chisel?)

The name airuga is more or less "the precious gem house". The last kanji can be home or family. 

Anyway!

Who is Niita Isuzu?

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