Ludicrous speed
Trainsplaining, episode 11.5
Usually the filler clip episode comes around the halfway mark, but putting it right before the end and trying to cram in all the highlights resulted in something spectacularly incoherent.
Tsuntail: The Game
Er, I mean Kaiju No.8. Although I’m hoping for a playable tsuntail.
Big Kaiju Fight, episode 10
Usually by this point, most shows have blown the animation budget and things are getting iffy, but Our Slashy Vice-Captain gets to cut loose without turning into a panned still with speed lines, and the rest of Our Gang gets to participate as well, although the observers in the control room just get to shout “oh yes!”, “oh no!”, etc at each turn in the battle. When things get out of hand, Our Transmonster Hero rushes to the scene to out himself and save the day, but gets interrupted by the sudden return of Our Hot Captain, who whips out the big one.
Then it gets more out of hand, and he ends up transforming anyway, saving everyone when all the little monsters combine to form one giant boom. And getting caught at it. Oopsie.
Verdict: it was inevitable, and of course it had to be his childhood friend who took him into custody, but pointing a pistol at the guy who just punched out a nuke is basically a courtesy. Trope-y, but not unsalvageable.
Level 2 Cheat Boy, episode 11
Well, that little detail just turned the entire demon-human conflict into a deep pile of horseshit. If the fundamental problem is that many demons can’t suppress their “malicium”, and the new demon king and his generals are able to hide out at a human hot springs by wearing “malicium-suppressing amulets”, they just need to, y’know, make some more. They could even ask Our Infinite Craftsman to take up the task.
Anyway, both sides end up at the same hot springs resort, so Wacky Hijinks Ensue. And, stop me if you’ve heard this before, Our Idiot Former Hero shows up and accidentally activates a dangerous magic item. I know, I was shocked, too.
Verdict: Hila finally strapped down her witch for some experimental sexplay, so things are looking up. As soon as she figures out what this “consent” thing is about. And it ends next week.
(consent, how does that work?)
Wise Wolf Waifu Gone Wild, episode 12
This week, Our Merchant Couple takes their time hurrying to the rescue of Our Smuggly Shepherd; they have to work out the relationship dynamics first. Since they’re going straight into the next season, they pretty much wrap this up and don’t worry about damngling bait for a sequel.
Fingerprinting
I have never gotten reliable results out of a Windows fingerprint reader. I have never gotten unreliable results from Apple fingerprint readers. Once upon a time, I would have assumed that Apple simply used better hardware and wrote better software, but that hasn’t been a safe bet for years.
I’m left wondering if my experience on Windows is based on how well fingerprint readers actually work, and Apple’s just pretending it’s secure while accepting iffy scans.
(why use it in the first place? because while I have a Very Secure Passphrase on my 1password vault, I don’t want to type it every ten minutes when I’m the only one in the house and the doors are locked, and I don’t need to keep track of Yet Another Authenticator)
AI at the drive-thru
The perky young white girl who took my order and tried to upsell me three times was obviously not human, but got the order right. The adult human who took my money did not understand why I handed him $26.78 when the bill was $16.78, and it was like a revelation from the gods when I explained.
Today I Learned…
…that VMware Vcenter has no idea what to do when every attempt to move VMs onto a specific hypervisor fails. It’s the perfect destination because it has no VMs on it, so it’s always at the top of the list, and gets tried again and again and again. Infinite retries with no backoff.
(the fundamental problem seems to be that if you have two iSCSI interfaces which could be used to migrate a VM but one of them is down, live vmotion will always fail; if you shut down the VM, it will work, but it apparently insists on the redundant path for running VMs)
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