March 17, 2024

Ring thing episode 10.

Man, they are running out the clock on picking up the final wife.

They've been telegraphing for a couple of episodes now that the Dwarves, or their successors in the Earth kingdom are missing. And when our party finally arrives on site at a city that could certainly never be supported by its treacherous access, it is indeed empty. Even worse, it seems the demon lord has gathered enough negativity from the rings he sent out that he's already resurrected and is at full power while our feckless hero is still down by a wife.

Then, to my surprise, just as the evil troops are going to crush our heroes like a tidal wave, Gramps opens the portal back to our world and sends everyone else through.

It occurs to me that this might be where our technologically inclined Dwarves might be hanging out. But that can wait while everyone tries out Krystals' bras, which don't fit any of the other girls.

Priorities, don't you know.

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March 10, 2024

Worlds fastest camera drone

If only Wonderduck could have been alive to see this:


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March 03, 2024

Spring Season

So going through next season on Anime Charts, I've got too many possibilities. So I'd like to hear your thoughts. Links to the show pages that include the promotional videos and show descriptions.

Mushoku Tensei Ⅱ: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Cour
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12251

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 3

KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11233

Kaijuu 8-gou
KAIJU No.8
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11352

Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life
Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12375

Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11578

Re:Monster
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12334

Sentai Daishikkaku
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11714

URUSEI YATSURA (2022) 2nd Season
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11333

Tonari no Youkai-san
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11169

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February 23, 2024

Those Desks

Since I keep mentioning those desks. Finally dug the pictures out of the camera. These are actually LESS messy now than at this point, when I was still getting things organized. You can see why the before picture was not conducive to productivity, although I actually DID get a fair amount of writing done that way. Note the white printer stand that got placed BEHIND Desk 2 to stack the printers. (And I moved one of those drawer units.)

This is the before. It's amazing I got anything done like this.


The desks are actually cleaner and a bit more organized since these pictures were taken. The bins under Desk 2 are full of audio and data cables, and printing supplies are in the one under Desk 3. The dining room table is ALMOST clean. Still some printing remnants there to sort through.




Hidden behind Desk 3 is the damaged desktop, which I can press into service if I want, possibly on those end tables my Dad built (With the speakers on them). The "Bridge" has been rendered into its component parts on the woodpile in the shop, as was the (not shown) DVD shelf that used to be where 1 and 2 are. Also not shown is the stack of 3 old Macs and 2 old PCs. Still deciding what to do with those. The coffee table is pushed closer to the bookcases, and is still cluttered for now, but getting better. There's an amazing amount of open floorspace now, which will get even better once I do something with the old computers.

And one of the best features is that now no lights are directly reflecting off of the screen.

WAY Before:

Originally, My AV setup spanned that whole bay window. Note the CRT TV and PlayStation. Grandma's old armchair and sofa with the decaying rayon fabric are long gone now. You can also see the DVD shelf I mentioned, except back then it was all VHS! Barely visible was a companion that filled the space under the bridge. Those date all the way back to my apartment in Vancouver. (The end tables, coffee table, and the sofa and armchair were given to me when I moved to my first apartment in Herndon VA).


I also built this stand when I first bought a large format Epson printer to go with my first digital camera: The Amazing 1.8 Megapixel Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 (which saved on floppies). The large format UMax scanner on the top eventually seized up, and the replacement had a noisy power supply that resulted in banding across the image. The LaserWriter 12/640 PS would probably still work but it's got a chunk of paper wedged somewhere in the infeed where you can't get it out without some major surgery. The Mac had a second hard drive, a 27 gig IBM that died hard and took all my email from before 2010 and lots of other good stuff with it. The original 4 gig still works. Or I assume so, I haven't powered it up in a year, and that was to try and save everything left to a 32 Gig USB stick (although that doesn't work for anything with a resource fork). There's also a Magneto-Optical drive and a CD-Rom burner. I wonder what ancient treasures I can find on those.

The desk is one I built an even longer time ago. It was one of two wings for a corner desk unit I never finished that would have gone in the den of my old house in Vancouver (WA). It was going to have an edge made of Ash around the sides, that's why it's rabbeted.

The Mac, a PowerPC 8600/300, had RCA video inputs, that's what the VCR was for. I could watch TV while reading Usenet. And yes, that's a modem next to it. It used to have Apple's 850AV monitor, which was a whopping 21", but FLAT, with built in color correction and stereo speakers. It was actually worth repairing once when the power supply went. Once.


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February 20, 2024

Most Wholesome Torture Ever

Hime-sama Goumon no Jikan desu Episode 7

Goumon means torture, right? That's my vocabulary lesson this season. But they very advisedly have it in scare quotes in the title. Really, with all the food and other treats, it should be Temptation instead.

This time the Beast Master brought some kitties. But they're insidious! The princess is kneeling on the floor with a cat on her lap, and her legs fall asleep, but she dare not move, it might wake up the cat!

But the rest of the episode is an outing, to go to the Demon Lord's Daughter's pre-school Field Day. How utterly wholesome!

And the Demon Lord's wife isn't so hard on the eyes either.




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February 18, 2024

Max can haz box!

You can even see a little of the new desks in these. But the best part is, the TV tray with the school desk top on it that I had been using as my desk has been turned into a desk return, and I put a box on it, which Max begs to be picked up and put in. He can watch what I'm doing and get pets and scritches easily.


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February 16, 2024

Shotcut Audio

It is possible to edit an audio track in Shotcut. The place where it gets tricky is getting it back out again. It is not in the export submenu. If you dig, there's a Audio properties panel that has a menu button on the bottom of it that will let you save the audio clip. But if you accidentally close the panel, it can be hard to get back.

Maybe it would be simpler just to reinstall Audacity.

(The Use Case: Using MediaHuman's YouTube to MP3 downloader on a music video, and trimming off the intro, and useless stuff off the end like three year old concert announcements.)

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February 11, 2024

Yuusha, Yamemasu

I've actually been really good this season at keeping up with everything I are watching, so on the weekend, I get some progress on the back catalog. In this case I finished off Yuusha, Yamemasu or, "I'm quitting heroing". What started off as the hero, shunned by the humanity he saved, going over to the demon army to offer his services took a very different turn as it finally came out that he was a living bioweapon 3000 years old, with an indelible program to protect humanity, but then a feeling of purposelessness when he brought peace. He knew from observing Echidna when he defeated her invasion, and from working for her in disguise, that the Demon Queen was actually a good ruler and could make peace between the demon and human worlds. So his power core ("Philosopher's stone") would be in good hands and used to uplift the demon world once he forced her and her generals to kill him. Otherwise he might find himself compelled to nearly destroy the world just to imperil it again so he could follow his program to save it.

So yikes, he's got a suicide plan, but he can't just do it himself. Of course, he's made such good friends of them all, they can't really do it until he really forces their hands. And just when they have him laid out after a two episode battle, they come up with a disgustingly facile solution to his order, and everything is good again.

Then I discovered I only had the first half of the OVA, but I found the other half, which just has the main cast go to a haunted onsen resort.

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February 09, 2024

MMG 5

So the fifth installment of Molesting Magical Girls has dropped, and it's mostly background on the blondes on each side. But not before they unleash some of Frieren's "Potion that dissolves only clothing" on Tres Magia, which has the excellent side effect of leaving them glued to the wall. But then they do NOTHING to them! How can you win for the side of Evil that way?

As the girls get cleaned up from their latest humiliation, they flash back on when Buttercup, I mean, Sulfur joined the group. Magenta and Azure were already a duo when the new transfer student comes in, and Magenta becomes her annoyingly persistent New Best Friend(TM) whether she wants it or not (and she doesn't). After school, while on patrol, the two detect evil, and go flying to the rescue, only to discover Sulfur is one of those newfangled Self-Rescuing Damsels, and is beating in the skull of the monster with a broken cinder block. (Why don't we see any of these gimp goons any more?) Magenta makes her pitch and Sulfur isn't really interested, but apparently revealing her secret identity clinches the deal.

It's a lot harder to do the backstory of a character who never talks. So that's short, and it then picks up in the present day where Magenta is playing with kids far younger than her in the playground. Like the base predator she is, Magenta then tries to break the ice with the kid all the other kids say only plays alone with her dolls. Pulling out a little keychain doll, she eventually engages NeroAlice in some roleplaying (Which again, is pretty hard to do with a mute character). Well, when you have the power of the Evil Dollhouse, Roleplaying takes on a new dimension. Magenta leaves, Alice fires up the dollhouse, and Magenta, detecting evil, returns to the playground. She's confident that she can avoid being trapped by just not going into the dollhouse, but the appearance of a giant shredded teddy bear with scythe-like claws (clearly on loan from Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka) behind her puts that plan out of commission.

She awakens alone in a crib transformed into a baby, and Alice comes in as her mom. The illusion is complete and compelling and it takes Magenta quite a while to remember herself. And yet, when she breaks free, she somehow convinces herself (now back in her teenaged form) to continue playing the baby for NeroAlice. That's the WTF filling in what has already been a pretty big WTF pie. Alice feeds her from a bottle until she needs to pee, and changes her diaper. Infantilism is NOT one of my fetishes, but it seems that there's a checklist requirement in any ecchi production that a girl must be made to pee at an unwanted time. When the session ends, and Alice disappears through the gateway, Magenta is left in the playground, sans-pantalones, JUST as Azure and Sulfur show up.

So not a top episode, but a partially necessary one. The first half anyway.

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February 01, 2024

In a Koma

'Tis Time for Torture, Princess may be as dumb as any 4-Koma joke strip, but it IS turning out to be funny.

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