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Oof, K media is reporting that Olivia Rodrigo's people directly contacted Yuehua and told them to take down Yena's MV, which was made private earlier today with no explanation

Going back tomorrow as well because Aespa and Bibi

Went to Waterbomb yesterday, Eunbi did not disappoint >_>

Also kinda crazy that Jo Yuri got cast in Squid Game 2

KainWind posted...

I should say it's on Hanteo because I'm not entirely sure what that is or what it counts.

Hanteo has certain affiliated retailers that report sales to them (granted it's a lot of retailers around the world and basically all the most popular ones). They are the only one who track and publish sales on a day to day basis so whenever you see people talking about first day or first week sales it's always quoting numbers from them.

The other chart you'll see people quote for physical sales is Circle (formerly Gaon) who releases numbers monthly and technically don't report sales but shipments

1M+ in a day (and the new record) is certainly crazy but I think HYBE/Source Music just have a crazy efficient distributor, I wouldn't expect Unforgiven to touch Born Pink on total sales when all is said and done. BP moved 1.01M day one off of a reported 2M+ stock preorders whereas LE SSERAFIM moved 1.02M day one off of a reported ~1.4M stock preorders

KaZooo posted...

Sakura got pretty much none of that first verse

Based on the camerawork it looks like she only sang the "now now now" line but you can see that she sings the line right after Kazuha's first part and after Chaewon before the chorus kicks in if you look closely, so its more than it seems at first but yeah still very little, what else is new. If thats indicative of the full song though (plus the fact that we've already seen the entirety of the b-side they will be promoting and she barely sings in that one as well) it'll be interesting to see the sales of their next album (and the longevity of the sales for this one) because her Chinese fans arent shy about talking with their wallets and they bought like 25% of the total copies of antifragile that were sold.

Anyway, liking what I've heard so far of the title track so far, expected the guitar to stand out more what with it being by Nile Rodgers and all but maybe he purposefully made it more subtle or theres another part we havent heard where it goes off. Apparently a couple of the b-sides are the standouts from this album though according to a bunch of critics who had a listening party already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbiQCPHPMg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJAt3SfnA3w

Revealed nearly a full minute of the song on Knowing Bros today too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5X3QUk41s

First confirmed members for Queendom Puzzle are:

Chaeyeon (ex-IZ*ONE)
Yeeun (ex-CLC)
Haein (Laboum)
Jooe (ex-Momoland)
Kei (ex-Lovelyz)
Shiroma Miru (ex-NMB48)
Hwiseo and Riina (H1-KEY)

They confirmed at least 1 Weekly member is going as well but didn't say which one(s).

Chaeyeon going for her 5th survival show, clearly her company is not impressed with her solo results but I don't see this helping in the long run. Surprisingly Miru makes a return to Korea, her post 48 solo career hasn't been all that fruitful. Hitomi and Nako have been confirmed not participating

because its only a few shitty companies who havent been able to keep games a reasonable size and do shit like force you to download 100 GB of 4k textures regardless of if you can even run the game in 4k

Proto_Spark posted...

jesus wtf are they doing that it needs that much space? When Ubisoft basically remade Ancient Greece in AC Odyssey it was only like 100 GB.

I hope this doesn't become the standard. I want my Xbox Series S to be useable until the mechanics stop working, not because game developers decided that games need to be 600 GB.

Apparantly ~100 GB of that is just 4k textures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKSyuwhVMvY

It's still crazy that a legend like Nile Rodgers is not only featuring on Unforgiven but the fact that it wasn't even originally planned to have him feature or contribute and it was he himself that asked HYBE/BangPD to jump on the track after hearing the demo and liking it so much

Huh, Hitomi and Nako are being rumored to join this Queendom Puzzle thing and Mnet didn't concretely deny it in their response, I guess it IS about time that rumors start flowing about who might be participating in that

Turns out theres actually 13 tracks on Unforgiven. They did 5 member re-recordings of The World is my Oyster, Fearless, and Blue Flame and also included The Hydra, Antifragile, and Impurities on the album. And even with only 7 new tracks they'll have more actual songs released than IVE already (despite 1 less actual release and debuting over 6 months later) and will have released more songs in their first year than nearly every other popular girl group going back to the 2nd generation days so I aint really mad about it.

They always do just the instrumental samples first then an actual standard highlight medley with vocals later

Unforgiven Samplers (I hate that HYBE doesnt have 1 video with all of them):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6XHm97Bw-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZG9tZMXl4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT84TuqM2pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVZeC0Tta0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DoPungXfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV7F7u1Empg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8g5ZclGE74

YamaChan posted...

New full length Aespa album on 5/8

Only a mini

https://twitter.com/aespa_official/status/1647616100803432455

wanderingshade posted...

Pat and Woolie are actual friends, Pat and Matt were friends through Woolie IIRC.

yeah, Pat and Woolie went to school (cgep) together, they've known each other the longest between any of them. Woolie was actually Matt's first choice to be the 2nd "Best Friend" in TBFP but he didn't want to do it at the time and suggested Pat instead

Speaking of all these audition shows, Mnet just recently got caught rehiring the Produce and Idol School PD's who went to jail over the rigging scandals lol. Now, its fairly obvious that they were just the fall men for the CJ executives who were the ones actually behind the rigging but it certainly isnt a good look publicly

yeah, shes an actress now

We've seen plenty of examples of groups from some small shitbox company get some unexpected/viral hit then disappear nearly as fast because those kinds of companies have no idea how to actually capitalize on it and turn it into long term success.

I wish the best for them but not holding my breath that any significant amount of people will really care about them after a comeback or two.

PumpkinCoach posted...

chaewon and yujin.

The names have never actually leaked, anything you see online is pure speculation. There are like 5 different names people swear up and down were definitely the rigged members. The only thing we know for sure is that Starship was involved in the rigging of like every season.

If were talking from a quality/worth standpoint, Fromsoft for sure

huh, the broken logo in this teaser is different from the Antifragile version.

This one breaks into 6 pieces while the Antifragile version breaks into 5 pieces

Im sure people will be reading far too much into that detail for the next month

Woolim's only had 2 girl groups in their history, Lovelyz and Rocket Punch, so you could search those two up on Youtube and click into a few of their MV's and see if you recognize any of them. I dont/didn't follow either group enough to even hazard a guess at what it might have been

huh, apparently Aespa has a song on the upcoming Tetris movie OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tao0iLIPvkw

PS5 is at ~32M but it seems that Microsoft doesn't publish sales numbers for the Series X/S so it's hard to say, all you'll find online are estimations with nothing to really back them up.

Its basically more of the same so if you liked the first despite the story being subpar youll like this one as well. The characters still dont interact during the main stories but they added 4 "Crossed Paths" stories where 2 characters team up as side content

Damn_Underscore posted...

Is all that money going to him?

His stake in Mint Mobile is like 25% so nah

Unsurprising coming from the team that thought this was appropriate

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/1/AAL5lQAAEQd1.jpg

Dunno if this has been brought up already or if any of you have noticed but diagonal slide triggers aren't real, they can just be input as one of the cardinal directions they are between. Also, sets of inverted double input slide triggers (ex. <- -> and -><-) can both be hit with the exact same input as the game doesn't care which stick does which motion

wackyteen posted...

TC was implying he was pulling a cool million a month from subs alone with their phrasing of $5 a month from the sub/to Kai

Also, just like his last subathon, a bunch of his gifters are using VPNs to get subs at a steep discount due to Twitch's local pricing. A popular one is to VPN to Turkey and get subs for less than 1 USD

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/saudi-arabia-increases-stake-in-nintendo-to-708

They first bought in at 5.01% in 2022 and have now increased their stake in the company twice since then

They also own minority stakes in Capcom, Nexon, Activision-Blizzard, EA, and Take-Two as well as 96% of SNK and are looking to outright acquire a major publisher

TheHoldSteady posted...

I read somewhere that he's the very last NFL player from his year of draft picks.

Yeah, he was drafted in 2000 and not only did he outlast all the other 2000 picks, he also outlasted everyone drafted in 2001, 2002, and 2003. And from what I can see there's only 2 from the 2004 class left

FIFA24 will never exist, EA lost the FIFA license, 23 is the last "FIFA" game

well-excuse-me posted...

How did people know the exact content? Did the tab read "POKIMANE MAYA DEEPFAKE"?

Someone literally hit up the person who makes the fakes/runs the site and asked them to identify which pictures they were from a screenshot of the stream

Smashingpmkns posted...

Just looked it up and this dude does global marketing for NVIDIA lmao

Used to, he quit to start a company with 2 other streamers to organize/plan/facilitate/put on big events for other streamers, which makes the whole thing way worse since it could easily drive a bunch of streamers away from wanting to work/associate with them now

Empire State Building lit up in Green and White to celebrate the Eagles win lol

https://twitter.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/1619837289701711872?s=20&t=jwzDt1p_q9lVzb3rnmmSLA

https://twitter.com/SquanchGames/status/1618049809256185856

SystemEgo gifted me THE BINDING OF ISAAC: REBIRTH

Thanks man

Post 2

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

discodancer77 posted...

@ruddager (spelling? It didnt come up automatically) has gifted me Bug Fables! Aka Paper Mario Insect Edition. Thanks! Big fan of the Mario RPG games.

You got it right lol, no problem, enjoy it.

Took basically 2.5 topics to finally find someone i could actually send a gift to lol, these topics are moving quick

I'll make this my first wishlist post in this thread too

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

As always, anything is appreciated

yeah i knew about the 10% thing ive just never run into the problem this consistently before

Thread is almost over so ill drop my last post

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

despite definitly swapping gifts with americans in the past its failed everytime this time so ill be hunting for any canadians that post, hopefully you all have your countries set on your steam profiles

@Juhanor I just accepted your friend invite, was busy with Christmas stuff so I missed it earlier

May as well multitask with this post and make it my second wishlist post as well

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

I'll also be actively watching the topic from here on out to hopefully finally be able to gift someone something

First post this thread

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

hopefully I can finally find someone to gift this thread without running into the regional price difference problem

blistr has gifted me The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Thanks my man, always heard good shit about this game

Well, im now 3/3 on "regional price differences" while trying to gift but ill keep checking in and trying until i find one that works lol

Ill drop my last wishlist post for the thread too

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

Have a great Christmas everyone

orcus_snake posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198034310023/#sort=order

I think this is how it is done.

First post.

Think you gotta play with some settings to make it public, nothings showing on your list for me

bruh this regional pricing shit for sending gifts is dumb af

If there are any other Canadians in here point it out when you drop your lists so I can actually gift to someone

2nd wishlist post

https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561199084955240#sort=name

Gonna browse through the thread later tonight to find someone who hasn't been gifted anything yet