Isekai Mighty Maid, episode 1

Reminder: this is from the same author as God’s Shouty Appraiser, so my expectations have been set accordingly. The most important limitation is that there is not a single catgirl in this former game-world.

The primary twist to the “reincarnated in my favorite game” theme is that Our Maid-Obsessed Heroine never heard of the game, and has no idea she’s the main character. Meanwhile, a good chunk of the cast was also isekai’d, and has obsessively-detailed knowledge of every possible path through the story, and she’s not playing it right! (it’ll be a while before we meet all the reborn characters)

How is it? Well, I could do without ever hearing the idol-pop rap in the OP song again; funny how they skipped that in the preview. They establish the two main girls and then jump into a flashback to explain how Mighty Maid got her dream job, saving her original Mary Sue life for the end.

Verdict: imagine Mahoro’s arrival in Mahoromatic, but less cute and far more powerful. And make it shouty.

(Nagi’s maid magic is best)

Fair warning…

The new new new new hotness in offline GenAI image-making is Krea 2, which produces pretty damn impressive images, and unlike Klein-9B, the one I was using most recently, you don’t lose 10%+ of your images to anatomy fails. One particularly interesting feature is that image generation is almost completely uncensored, but the text processing layer attempts to replace naughty words, and this turns out to be spectacularly easy to get around, making this perhaps the first zero-day-hardcore-hack model. Just be sure to specify that all participants are clearly of legal age, because it apparently will go there, too.

So, yeah, there will be more GenAI girls soon. Currently it’s working on a batch that converts Japanese cheesecake photos into oil paintings. Some work better than others.

Thanks, Apple

I needed to download something from Apple’s app store on my work Mac. Which meant I had to create a new Apple ID. Which meant I had to give it a unique phone number for verification; you can’t skip this, and the number can’t be tied to another Apple ID. It must also have a billing address, but the credit card is optional. Once you’ve set everything up, it also wants to enable cloud sync of all your data, so it had to be a new account; I will not mix work and personal data.

I needed to have a phone number that either accepted text messages or incoming calls, and it silently refused to call my Ooma VoIP number. So I had to charge and turn on the old iPhone that I’ve already wiped twice, that still has my old California phone number on it.

Which used to be associated with my personal Apple ID, but fortunately I changed that when I moved back to America. One text message later, and I could power the phone down again.

Why, yes, this is bullshit.

A good start

I’m delighted to see that the antifa terrorists who tried to murder police officers and federal agents as a “protest” against the concept of borders have been convicted and sentenced to decades in prison.

May there be many more (convictions, not attempted murders).

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