Skeleton Knight 2, episode 6
After all the buildup, they kind of cheaped out on the big reveal. And no, I don’t mean the gals taking a dip in the hot spring, although that could have been a longer scene. This diverges from the light-novel version of the story in a rather significant way, unless they spend more time next week dealing with what happens when Our Boney Hero gets not-really-his-body back. Careful viewing will reveal one secret that he of course forgot a long time ago, but the expert’s opinion on what happened to him doesn’t provide enough emphasis on a major plot point.
Arc’s relaxed attitude toward extreme gore, guts, and killing is quite out-of-character for a typical Japanese guy, no matter how much gaming he did, and it turns out the reason for it is that he hasn’t really been feeling much as a skeleton. Restored to life, everything hit him all at once. His tourist attitude was suddenly confronted by the reality of everything he’d seen and done.
Verdict: I’ll forgive all flaws for Our Titty Elf giving in to her long-suppressed attraction, while Our Slightly Gay Ninja Catgirl eggs her on and then can’t believe she’s actually going to do it.
Stale alert…
I’m on call this week, and one of the services I support threw an alert for a file-pull cron job that hasn’t succeeded in 20,675 days. So, January 1, 1970 strikes again!
Engadget, For Dummies
Either there is no longer any volume of tech news or product releases, or the writers and editors at Engadget have all been replaced with AI slop. I can find no other explanation for recent stories like:
- Here’s how to pair your Roku remote
- How waterproof are AirTags? Here’s what to know
- How to use Claude’s voice mode
- Here’s how to format a USB drive on Windows
- How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to)
- The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn’t realize existed
- Are USB flash drives becoming obsolete?
- PSA: Apple has released security updates for Mac
Honestly, all that’s missing are exclamation points and emoji.
Tell me you’re crazy without telling me you’re crazy
I got a giggle out of the Person Of Transitude who fled the evils of Imperial Trumpyland for a refugee camp in Enlightened Europistan, discovered that she was surrounded by violent bigoted third-world savages, and fled back to San Francisco, only to complain that it’s too expensive there.
Yes, dear, because it’s San Francisco, which hasn’t been affordable since before you were a little boy. Maybe do a little research before your next move, preferably not relying on GenAI?
The perfect waifu does not exi…
(all of these are sized for my Lexar Pexar photo frame, and I’ve been
getting some really nice results mashing up the JSON prompts generated
from my archives and then passing individual fields through targeted
LLM prompts; I can’t use really fast models, though, since they tend
to skip over large chunks of the instructions and just go wild on
their own (z-image-engineer-v6 is basically hardwired to generate
complete prompts, and sucks for anything else).
gemma-4-e4b-it-heretic is working out nicely, and taking only a few
seconds to separately flesh out the background and the subject’s
appearance without generating tons of irrelevant details that end up
contradicting other fields)
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