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March 27, 2024

Molesting Magical Girls - End

That was a really satisfying ending. Tied up all the loose ends, and kinda shows how things would continue for them, absent an overall plot. You can fill in the rest with your imagination.

I mean, there's certainly room for another season, but this one was a nice, complete package with a complete arc. More shows should be like this.

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March 26, 2024

Definitely NOT torture...

In contrast to the serious disappointment the last episode of Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari was, the last episode of Hime-sama Goumon No Jikan Desu ended on an absolutely hilarious note with a parody of the Isekai genre. It's been a long time since something made me laugh as thoroughly as that.

I have to apologize for my doubts at the beginning after reading the first story in the Manga. It may have started as basically a 4-Koma joke anime, but it grew into something really wonderful.

And it said it would be continued at the end. Then again, so did the wedding ring story.

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March 24, 2024

Big Tree Tech, for hanging things from....

Suddenly reminded why I didn't mind giving my my software career so much.

I installed the new main board for my Ender 3 printer (Big Tree Tech SKR Mini E3 v 3.0, with Microprobe), and it needed firmware installed. However being a Chinese company, the stuff they have at GitHub isn't exactly well documented. I probably flashed the firmware from various versions a dozen times. (Some versions couldn't even read the MicroSD card!).

I've got it working and printing out my phone case. It's nice that it's virtually silent now except for the fans. But it's doing some odd shit too. Like deploying the probe in the middle of the print. I had to unscrew it and move it out of the way before it yanked itself off!

In any case, if I wanted to fix the configuration, I needed to download and install Visual Studio Code, a couple of plug ins, the actual source repository for Marlin (the firmware in almost all printers), run a test compile, download the configuration for the board I'm actually using, try to compile that.... notice the word Try.

This is the shit I hate, trying to track down compiler errors, I don't even know what's significant, and there was something about two different libraries with the same name, a message to pick one, and no ability to do so before it went flying on. Then a list of other errors, and suddenly it's downloading Python, which still doesn't help.

Drilling holes in airplanes is so much simpler, even if the management suite makes you want to strangle them.

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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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