Sing, O Muse, Of Tanya The Twisty 2, episode 4

I’ve been whimsically varying the title because I’ve never liked calling it “Tanya The Evil”, but it occurs to me that Our Heroine is in fact the plaything of the gods, kept far from home by unkind fate, wandering the world with her loyal companions, facing grave peril with her wits and martial prowess.

Anyway, this week, the war is over! Until it isn’t! Thanks to people far removed from the front lines, who don’t have to see their young men dying by the thousands. When The Historian (remember the framing device from the very first episode?) asks, “where did the Empire go wrong?”, it’s going to be a picture of these guys, sitting around a conference table with blood on their hands.

Verdict: this is a turning point, but not one that anyone wanted.

Bumpkin & Harem 2, episode 4

This week, Our Country Swordsman returns home for an annual boar-bashing, bringing Our Adopted Daughter along, as well as the vice-captain and Our Almost Forgotten Short-Stack Haremette, who is promptly “mistaken” for a bride candidate. Lots of slow character time.

Verdict: no action, just letting the story breathe.

(no new fan-art, either…)

Ass-Guardian pacing

I did a quick re-read of the manga, and that appears to be the source they’re using, but it’s not a scene-for-scene copy. They’ve already rearranged a few scenes and breezed through some others, so I expect them to use up all of the manga volumes this season. Hopefully well, but it would be nice if they also fleshed things out with some of the material from the light novels. I think the manga strips out a lot of what made the novels more interesting than the usual isekai. Pity the licensee hasn’t translated book 9 yet.

🎶 Every day is now Patch Tuesday… 🎶

Microsoft is releasing security updates on an almost daily basis. On the one hand, they’re taking the threats seriously and responding quickly. On the other hand, they’ve laid off so many engineers that you really, really wonder who’s writing and testing all this new code. On the gripping hand, what does this tell us about how bad their code’s been for decades?

(I ran all my old 4K vertical wallpaper through a vision model to create new JSON prompts, then fed them to Krea 2 Turbo; not only is it producing results much faster than Qwen or Klein did, Krea can actually render things that look like guns!)

Flash, a-aaaaaaaah!

I went through the poorly-laid-out documentation for my new little flashlight (officially, the OLIGHT Oclip Pro S), extracted the full suite of clicks and holds, and sorted them consistently across modes:

Lock/Unlock: [OFF] hold 2+ seconds

White-light setting
Moonlight: [OFF] hold 1+ seconds
Brightness: [ON] hold
Turbo: double-click
Strobe: [OFF] triple-click
Beacon: [ON] triple-click

UV-light setting
Brightness: [ON] hold

RGB-light setting
Brightness: [ON] hold
Red flashing: [OFF] double-click
R/G/B: [ON] double-click
Multi-color flashing: [ON] triple-click

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