Not-so-sticky keys
Every time I look at the weekly anime listings, I read the title of a particular long-running series wrong. Instead of “Ninjaboy Rantaro”, my eyes always see “Ninja Rentboy”. Wouldn’t watch it either way. 😁
(unrelated, the Solo Leveling: Ragnarok manwha translation is out, and in the second volume… A Wild Best Girl Appears! Esil has a recurring role in this series, which is enough to justify its existence. When she teams up with Our Second-Generation Hero, she’s the last of her kind, and he promises to help her rebuild her race. I don’t think he’s thought through the implications of that…)
Flatcat & Sword-Daddy 2, episode 7
Assassins, catfishing, and piracy, all wrapped in adorableness.
Verdict: yes.
Rerun’s Special Magic 2, episode 6
A really big battle scene, mostly not involving the giant monster that was summoned last week. As is required by the genre, the villain stood around and waited for Our Heroes to get their shit together and exchange information. Repeatedly.
Verdict: well, it’s better than a tournament arc, but would someone please tell this guy that Our Hero Team’s whole deal is not being a bunch of nobles. Given how long he waits for them to say everything else, there’s been plenty of time for this one sentence.
(unrelated adventure hottie is from that other hero-party-reject-is-actually-OP show, which has some nice-looking healthy gals but holy fuck is it shouty and terrible, with the shouting accompanied by “funny” art-style shifts where the louder it is, the less effort goes into the character art; it’s so bad that I didn’t think the male lead was even vaguely competent, and then I checked and he’s best known as MHA’s Deku)
Microsoft: finally!
Coming soon to Windows 11, the feature that people have wanted for the past 31 years: you can finally turn off the sticky-keys pop-up warning.
Fun with AI customer service
Called the dealership to change a car service appointment (because the web site I created it on had no record of it), and got an AI-assisted call tree. It asked me what day I wanted to reschedule to, and I asked what their hours were. The answer:
“The service department is open seven days a week. On Saturday and Sunday, from none to none. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 7:30 AM to 6 PM.”
State secrets
“Why did you give the kingdom’s secret defense plans to a tiefling?”
“Does she have a sister? I’ve got lots of secrets.”
(the biggest barrier to creating sexy nude fantasy races is the tendency of GenAI models to add tan lines; on very rare occasions, you’ll get a purple gal whose untanned skin is a lighter shade of purple, but 90% of the time, she looks like a white gal with purple body paint)
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