Killer Maid, episode 4

Okay, so Our Emotionless Hot Maid shows up at school as a new transfer student claiming to be Our Hapless Hero’s cousin, gets assigned the seat right in front of him, and calls him by his first name with a -sama attached, and after a single reaction shot, the only other thing that happens at school is the well-worn trope of students stampeding for the lunch special, which doesn’t interest her until she finds out that it’s all about her special sauce, and then she performs multiple super-human feats to cut in line.

Verdict: when Our Manic Pixie Little Sister decided to push for maid/master matrimony, I stopped watching and went off to do laundry. I don’t plan to come back.

(how well-worn is the trope? well, this week is apparently also Ryoga’s intro in the new Ranma show, and school-cafeteria-food-fight is the origin of their rivalry…)

(oh, and while she was technically wearing less as a student than as a maid, this amounted to a few square inches of skin exposed below her neck)

Shangri-La Frontier 2, episode 3

This week, Our Heroes steal a page from That Slime Show and spend the entire episode sitting around a table telling us how good it’s going to be when they get back to actually playing the game. It’s well-drawn but drawn-out, with comic relief coming from Our Animal-Loving Animalia molesting Our Formerly-Pure White Rabbit into a catatonic state.

Verdict: basically an entire episode of exposition and plotting, filled with reaction shots of characters reacting to said exposition.

(admittedly, I am curiously attracted to Animalia, and unlike Our Awesome Chocolate Bunny, she’s at least in the ED animation, so she should be showing up more this season)

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The late Shamus Young often ranted about his hatred of “do it again stupid” game design, something I share. This game is full of it, with many of the puzzles forcing you to figure out a solution while dodging bullets, and Zelda is very squishy while most of the enemies are decidedly not. It’s notable that Breath of the Wild had only one major puzzle that had to be restarted from the beginning if you made a single mistake, and that’s in the DLC.

New Mac failure mode

Something I hadn’t seen on any Mac before: the mouse stopped hovering. In every app where there’s some kind of mouse-hover support (including Finder), it just… didn’t. Elements in apps were no longer being informed that the mouse was hovering over them. No tooltips, no scrollbars, no pop-ups, no menus, no video controls, no full file names, nothing. I had to reboot to clear it up. In fairness, I doubt that there’s anyone in “QA” any more who tests how the system behaves after being up for a full month.

(elf-hover > mouse-hover)

This Is Magia Country!

This may be the most accurate depiction of an anime heroine ever committed to 3D, courtesy of the Molesting Magical Girls xTwitter account:

NSFW

This one definitely does not belong on the shelf behind my work computer that shows up in Zoom meetings. I can explain HoiHoi-san, Totoro, Jiji, The Tick, and an assortment of Funko Pops, but not Magia Baiser riding her crop.

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