*Saturday* Night Fights

Saturday Night Fights

Sun 8/23/26 8:01pm

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Magilumiere 2, episode 8

Our Shoulder-Chippy Loner grows up and learns to trust other people to be just as capable at their jobs as he is. Also, Our Cuddly Legal-Loli Miko has him so whipped that it doesn’t matter if he takes a job and moves to Tokyo. He’ll be back.

Verdict: thankfully, they’d used up their quota of extended flashbacks, and actually managed to beat the monster and finish the story arc.

(eh, close enough for winging it with just a prompt)

Isekai Ass-Guardian, episode 8

Bondage harpies, maid cosplay, deus ex goddess, and another teenage haremette who’s already thick as thieves with the other ones. Oh, yeah, and a battle so big that they even animated some of it. Not everyone is happy with Our Rump Protector’s decision to delay moving to the next district immediately, though; it seems Our Mighty Blonde Twintail is… impatient.

Verdict: Elitia’s going to be impatient for a really long time, since her goal is in district five, and the manga isn’t even halfway through seven yet. They’re doing things that suggest prepping for a future season, but I don’t see fan reactions that would support it getting green-lit.

(not as cuddly as Our Best Lizard Gal, but she’ll have to do)

Remembering `code="R"`

Back in the stone age, MasterCook had licensed recipes, automatic nutritional info based on a licensed database, flexible output options, recipe scaling, import from a variety of sources, and the ability to treat other recipes as ingredients and automatically print them alongside the main recipe.

No recipe manager app has added a significant new feature in at least 25 years. Most of them are less capable than MasterCook 6, with the possible exception of improved recipe-parsing from web pages, enabled by the common practice of cooking sites embedding JSON-LD on the page.

Pretty much everyone who claims to import Mastercook’s MX2 not-quite-XML export format simply ignores a bunch of the formatting, including the recipe links, which are simply ingredient records that have a code="R" attribute and a name that matches the name of another recipe in the same archive.

For reference, code “T” meant a text item like “or” or “(optional)”, code “S” was a section header for dividing ingredients by purpose, and the sometimes-omitted “I” was for normal ingredients.

A few Fantasy Sword Gals

I created a bunch of LLM-enhanced backgrounds, swords, and outfits, and mixed them together. Sadly, the LLM got a bit too creative, and I need to delete all references to mushrooms, jellyfish, moss, coral, lichen, feathers, birds, seaweed, thorns, and leaves. From all three sets.