Good to know.

Manga

Still reading my usual pack of ongoing manga, though some are on hiatus (RIP in peace Bocchi). Chainsaw Man is great chapter after chapter. Bocchi the Rock: Kikuri’s Drinking Diary got picked up by fan translators again so there are a few more chapters, woo. One-Punch Man sure is setting up another arc. Kagurabachi sure did just finish up its introduction arc, which had some pretty cool fights. Nothing much has happened in Rooster Fighter. One Piece continues to be fine in the elbaph arc. **Kingdom is MUCH less enjoyable to read when you’re waiting for the releases instead of binging, with the current archer duel going on for waaaaaaaaay too long to be interesting.

Started The Greatest Estate Developer and it sure is an isekai, but this time it’s about how great traditional Korean technology is! It’s alright, clearly doesn’t take itself seriously which is probably for the best.

Anime

Golden Kamuy’s final season has been fantastic so far, and really feels like it’s approaching the inevitable final conclusion. The movie that makes up the first bit of the season was probably a banger in theaters.

Oshi no Ko’s third season has been okay, but a part of the plot is an adult that reincarnated and is now a teenager for the second time being forced to pick which teenager he’d rather date, which is thoroughly gross. Also some weird stuff about how cancel culture is bad. More importantly we gotta throw the papparazzi into the oubliette.

Frieren’s second season has been a letdown, with more focus on frankly boring episodic adventures. I’m basically just continuing to watch it in the hopes it somehow returns to the tone of the first three episodes again (it won’t).

Onto season two of Kaiji, and the games they’re gambling on are just getting silly now. Let’s have a 10-episode arc about a dice-rolling game, where surprise surprise the guy who always wins is cheating. Currently they’re going up against a rigged paremovedo machine, which presumably they’ll counter-rig somehow. The pacing is horrendous but at 1.5x speed it’s a lot better

E: lol the slur filter got me, I’m leaving it.

I really disliked the combat I saw in the demo (wow I failed every dialogue option with the skeleton and they just repeat, failed those too and then failed the death saves) and it kinda turned me off it. How much of that is there?

Finished Ace Combat 7, fuck tunnels. Holy shit the politics are horrendous, actual real-world planes are used and fetishized as well. Apparently the USian manufacturers insisted that no bad guys fly F-35s while Sukhoi said “we don’t care do whatever”. Got a challenge medal for beating Mihaly in under 5 minutes without special missiles because I WAS TOLD THIS WAS GOING TO BE A BOMBING MISSION SO I BROUGHT A BOMBER. RIP in piss feudal nobility, you can now be a knight of six feet under the ground.

Warframe, got the Hespar and Sigma & Octantis, meaning I now only have the two Vandals from ESO to obtain and then I can finally stop. Now naturally those will take me months to farm, so I’m not done yet.

We must compress all AI tech company CEOs into homogeneous slurry.

It’s an entirely unrelated thing. Comedy sketch about Asuka.

While it’s nice that we get to see it, it wasn’t actually that good lol.

Pretty sure Cruz loses to , no way he gets the cult followers Trump did. Even other republican senators hate him.

Ah but if he had been drafted he might have been killed, which would have been even better.

May Ezra Klein be exposed to an Abundance of polonium.

I don’t even work in a “coding” job but a few of us have to occasionally do some minor things (like automatically generating mean-time-to-failure from maintenance reports etc). The one person who uses slop generators somehow has lower output than the other two of us. My boss is annoyed by him but apparently the higher ups LOVE that he’s using AI because I guess it justifies them having bought clippy pro edition or whatever.

This is how we close the publishing gap with China, thank you for your service

Yeah dude we could totally have won Iraq and Afghanistan if we checks notes just killed even more people even more indiscriminately.

Voyeurism.

This is actually just americans doing american things. You can call them traitorous if you want, whatever, but Trump et al aren’t vassals of Russia or Israel.

The support for Israel in all things it does is hardly unique to MAGA. Biden, back before he had dementia, once said that if Israel did not exist then America would have to invent an Israel to further US interests in the region.

As for Russia, if the US was really their vassal then one would expect to see things like the US sanctions currently on Russia being dropped (and likely placed onto Ukraine instead).

IIRC there’s also a lot of mormons which are their own flavor of death cult.

You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin’ lord the grain. Your fucking children, you’ve had 15 children. You’ve never taken a bath. You’ve literally never. washed. your. penis. You’ve never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You’ve had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke’s army.

Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can’t read. You don’t know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don’t know shit. You literally probably don’t even know what the direction ‘left’ is. I’m sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I’ve been to the Renaissance Fair. I’ve eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call ‘bitch beaters’, which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.

Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get passed that. You gotta be unemotional. You can’t sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You’re in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he’s in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.

You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and…

End. This. Nightmare.