Red Cat Ramen, episode 5

I really enjoy spending time with these characters.

Cosplay Haremettes, episode 5

Cursed “to only look good in skimpy outfits”, Our Manic Pixie Cosplay Girl wows the crowd in her just-barely-on-time debut. After, she bonds with The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pantsu, but is saddened to learn that her favorite erotic cosplayer has retired to protect her reputation at work. So we have Our Hot Teacher’s naughty little secret adequately foreshadowed.

Basking in the afterglow, Ririsa and Potato-kun manage to delude themselves that their synchronized hormone overloads are simply a reflection of their comfortably collaborative partnership, not, y’know, like-like.

Verdict: the photo shoot and the changing-room girl-talk both felt realistic; in addition to hanging around with glamour models, I’ve run one group shoot and participated in another, and while the primary lesson I learned was “avoid group shoots”, I definitely recognize the personality types in both groups. We haven’t seen a catty bitch or dead-eyed pro yet, but now Ririsa wants to do Comiket…

(in case you were wondering about Teacher, this isn’t her, but is thematically appropriate)

No Fur Life, episode 4

I don’t even know what genre we’re in any more. This is either going to be really good, or devolve into complete nonsense. But we’ve got a really cute girl with a giant sword in the middle of it, and it’s not stuffed with shoutyfolk, so I’m good.

(I’d happily trade away Belle’s bunny-companion for this one)

Dungeon People MIA

Olympics. Probably the Truck-Kun Relay Race.

Chibis and Cheer are still on for this weekend.

Slime note

Dropped in to see how things were going for Rimuru, and found him in a planning meeting for the festival, sigh. Then it delivered a lengthy infodump about The Cheat-Skill Hero And His Party. The only amusing thing about this was the meta: he’s voiced by The Universal Boy Hero.

“👏Good answer, good answer👏”

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…and get rejected even faster! I noticed quite a few “no AI resumes” notes on job postings when I was looking, and based on my own experience with LLM gobbledygook, I was surprised anyone was trying despite LinkedIn’s attempt to push the idea, but sure enough:

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Bluray, Vended!

Last week, the Bluray for Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon came out. I got mine!

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