August 13, 2024
Shinmai Ossan Boukensha - Ep. 06
Aw crap, the show just took the left turn at Albuquerque and ended up in Tournament town. We've got a dragonball-like gem quest overlaid on top of it too. Which means our dark elf maiden is going to be basically spectating the whole time.
This is going to suck. Might be time to drop.
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August 10, 2024
Now on Substack
There's been a bit of a Kerfuffle this week about the Dragon Awards. They managed to get all the way through the announcement of the nominations before suddenly deciding, on the basis of a complaint or two, to denominate a work from their best cover category because the creator uses AI tools in her creation. I happen to know the artist in question, and I know a lot of folks on both sides of the AI art debate, so I held forth at length about "When is it time to change the rules?"
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August 09, 2024
It lives!
Before I got my first smart phone, I was looking at maybe getting a drone, but they all seemed to require your phone to run. I never did get a drone, but I did pick up a cheap, $40 Naxa Android tablet.
It promptly died. Recently I popped it apart and discovered it had suffered from fatal battery bloat syndrome, like all super cheap Li-Po batteries are wont to do. In fact, I was also in the market for a replacement battery for my current (2nd) smartphone (A $30 Wal-Mart TracPhone, which does what I need it to do, which is virtually nothing). That had a nice, separate battery pack that was easy to pop out and replace. My first smartphone was NOT designed for replacing the battery. The pack in that one swelled up to the point that the screen popped out of the case. Still works, oddly enough.
So while I was shopping for a battery for my phone, I needed to fill my order up to the free shipping point. So I cracked open the old tablet, read off the numbers, and found a $10 battery with the same specs. It eventually got here, and I eventually got around to breaking out the soldering station, and I soldered the new pack in. And what do you know, it booted! It's sucking up a charge right now.
And I'm faced with a small dilemma. Should I just log in with my one and only Google account, or should I take the opportunity to create a new one on a device I doubt Google remembers I ever used....
(I still needed something else to fill out the order, so I grabbed a $10 endoscope camera. Apparently if one is stupid enough to follow the QR code in the manual, it gives you Chinese scam software and will sucker you into giving up your credit card # for "ID Verification". There's other software that will make it work with a phone, but it's not good with Android 11. Guess what my phone runs. Yeah, that was part of the reason for reviving the tablet. I wonder if it will work with phone #1?)
(I still needed something else to fill out the order, so I grabbed a $10 endoscope camera. Apparently if one is stupid enough to follow the QR code in the manual, it gives you Chinese scam software and will sucker you into giving up your credit card # for "ID Verification". There's other software that will make it work with a phone, but it's not good with Android 11. Guess what my phone runs. Yeah, that was part of the reason for reviving the tablet. I wonder if it will work with phone #1?)
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August 04, 2024
So this one time at Band Camp....
Bye Bye Earth - Ep. 04.
I kind of suspected, since the elite swordsmen were called "Solists" (Almost Soloists), and songs were magic (for things like construction, but probably other things). But seeing the army organized like a marching band, and attack waves organized into acts... yeah, I haven't seen something this musical since Symphogear or takt op.Destiny. Not sure how well that fits.
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August 03, 2024
Random pics
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July 30, 2024
Isekai Skikkaku - Ep. 04
Spoilers
So, Sensei DOES have a power. Fortunately he's not really cognizant of it, and he is so solipsistic that he doesn't care to abuse it. He basically has world-editing powers, whether it's talking Annette out of nominally permanent mind control with a simple statement, or defeating another otherworldly hero by writing his life story as one of his "Novels" and then declaring that it is not his masterpiece. We get to the alternate English title, No Longer Allowed in Another World, and that's what he titles the story of the current antagonist, which teleports him back where he came from.
I guess the cat-girl is stuck with the name Tama now. I do like a much more wild, rough and tumble cat girl more than the mewing kitten type. She kind of got the short end of the stick this episode.
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July 28, 2024
Bye Bye Earth - Ep. 03
Well, that just became a lot less straightforward. The Rabbit transformed into a rabbit boy, he's enigmatic, and I'm not entirely sure if he's malevolent or just cryptic.
Speaking of Cryptic, Belle's former master meets with the creator of his sword to get it repaired, and to exchange crypticness with each other about how Belle is the "Girl of Reason". What this means will be explained later, I guess, but she definitely has some kind of destiny set out for her that she is unaware of. Who will be trying to steer it and who will be trying to thwart it is not yet clear.
What is clear is that this is not just your run of the mill fantasy adventure.
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July 26, 2024
Finally released
Or is that Escaped? (Or did I put it on DA?)
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July 20, 2024
Huh!
Somehow I totally missed that there was a 25 episode, second season of Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu that JUST wrapped up in the spring season. I recall liking the first one in 2021. I only realized this because LiveChart had a notification that season 3 had been added to the database.
Also of interest were announcements for another season of Kaiju #8, Go Go Loser Ranger, and Jobless Reincarnation.
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Substack post: The Importance of Research
Read it here. It's also an excuse to post my second favorite Sam and Max reference.
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