This week, it’s the thought that counts, especially when you’re a pair of socially-awkward teens fumbling through their first date. Much easier to fight ogres. Or Pokemon.

(fan-artists frequently draw Fern much bustier than she is in the anime, while Nagi is pretty much spot-on)

Underground Healer, anime and novel

Since I’m only watching Frieren this season, I cast back looking for recommendations of completed series, and found a lot of positive commentary for this one. I’m watching about an episode-and-a-half a day while on the elliptical, but it’s interesting enough that I picked up the first few translated light novels.

And then I hit this bullshit in book 3:

“You clap at us, we clap back harder.”

The speaker is one of the three slum-gang boss hotties, squaring off with a bruiser from the Black Guild who’s smashing up their festival. She says this as their argument escalates into a full-scale gang battle.

This is not the first line that didn’t ring true, but it’s easily the worst.

Not only does the slang instantly date itself, it makes no fucking sense in the scene. It’s like a mafia don getting uptwinkles from his lieutenants.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apple is allowing third-party AI apps in CarPlay. The jokes just write themselves…

I’m okay with it this time…

I put in an Amazon order Thursday night that promised delivery between 7AM - 11 AM Friday. Sometime before that window opened, the “clear skies” forecast proved wrong, and 4 inches of fresh snow was dumped over the course of several hours. It didn’t stop until after noon, and the trucks didn’t come out to clear the roads until evening.

I cleared a path to the street and salted it, but I didn’t actually expect the package to show up until Saturday, which it did.

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