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Sometimes you can fill a vacuum and still suck. Other times you suck all the air out of a room, killing everyone inside.
…I Work For A Supervillain
Book 6 in the Pennyverse came out Monday night, and I stayed up reading it. Even though there’s very little overlap with the next book, reading them out of order was interesting. And fun. In many ways it holds up a funhouse mirror to Penny’s story arc, with Our Heroine provoking a completely different reaction from the Community and other powered kids.
It also reflects the slightly older high-school protagonists, with more adult content. And by that I mean Bad Things Happening To Good People, not sex (although there is an increase in the amount of kissing, in both books). Fleshes out some of the supporting characters a bit as well, particularly Marcia.
Penny herself is restricted to a brief cameo, which felt like it took some effort to accomplish, with so much of it taking place at her school. The main series needed some transition scenes to wean the audience off of Penny’s PoV, and perhaps I noticed them more because I’ve already read the next book that doesn’t have them, and doesn’t have a Penny-shaped hole in the story.
Diary of a Slime
(last week) Swimsuit episode. More Soka, please.
The Spider Diaries
Swimsuit episode. More Oka, please.
(spider is unrelated)
Demon Lord Dairy
Dance Dance Dungeon Idols. More oppai, please.
(swimsuits are unrelated)
Slime To The 300th Power
Ballroom Blitz, Dragon Wedding Edition. More Beelzebub, please.
Revenge Live!
The IndiansZombies win the pennant! Because they’re zombies.
More Junko, please.
School Live! Live!
Licensed. More Megu-nee, please.
(zombie is unrelated)
Iosevka Termanal, Revisited
Their license was updated a while back to reserve the name “Iosevka”, as part of an issue that came up building the nerd font version (which doesn’t quite work anyway due to some metrics changes (whether you use their version or patch it yourself), and which in any case is only useful for Starship, which abuses color and icons to fill your terminal windows with gratuitous noise).
Anyway, I updated my custom build, finding out along the way that they’ve significantly simplified the process of building custom versions that don’t match their preferred widths and weights. In keeping with the license change, it’s now named IO Terminal.
To Hell With That!
As I feared, Hades is much too fun to play when you’re busy. I’m not playing it on the Switch. No, definitely not.
Also, I’m delighted to say that the soundtrack that seemed too intrusive in the trailers fades into the background while playing. If I were playing. Which I’m definitely not.
(Young Beelzebub is unrelated)
Tomorrow Never Comes
Amazon has a prominent ad for a movie titled The Tomorrow War, coming soon to Prime, with a teaser available now. Clicking the link took me to a page that has no trailer, just a little box saying “this video is currently unavailable to watch in your location”. Did they hire an ex-Apple QA team?
Might be for the best, because I found the trailer on Youtube, and it looked really terrible and derivative. But then, unlike the people who create SF TV and movies, I’m actually familiar with the genre.
Might want to rethink that one…
The latest trending hashtag for phony hate crimes is “#StopAsianHate”. Which sounds an awful lot like they’re complaining about racism by Asians…
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