Things that make me sad: how slow Crunchyroll’s queue loads in the web page.
Things that make me sadder: when my iPad outruns my desktop at loading that.
Year: 2019
Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2020 Anime Lineup!
Sounds like there will at least some series worth checking out. I’m kind of glad to see that Iruma-kun and Fire Force will be continuing.
From the fall season, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun! has probably entertained me the most. With oresuki taking second place thanks to the humour. But mostly it’s been kind of a slow season. Iruma-kun was at least funny, and is binge worthy.
Also reminds me, really, really need to catch up on a back log of Fire Force episodes.
On the flip side, the next OAD episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime was a great unexpected treat. The dreamy story of how Butt Sumo became their national sport, was freaking hilarious. I can understand why Rimu’s response to the potion was what it was, hahahahaa.
The 10 Best Shojo Anime Couples Of The Decade That Represent True Love
Coincidentally, all of these series are worth watching. Especially if like me, you have a broad taste in anime instead of a hard genre filter.
10, 9, 7, and 1 would probably be good gauges of whether you’ll enjoy or throw up, as far as the genre goes as a concept. If you’re asleep by the end of 10, or have no care about the characters in 9 by the middle, you’ll probably want to tune out the shojo bin altogether. If you enjoyed, there’s plenty, and more than a few good laughs to be found.
I remember when I started watching 8, wondering if it would be a waste of my time or worth while. I chuckled often enough to enjoy the series quite a bit. The episode: “Momotarō made mo Meido-sama”, especially was fun. Misaki and Usui’s antics are usually amusing but that was a bit off the deepend, and very well played IMHO. The entire series kind of reminds me of Shakephere’s The Taming of the Shew, and is probably as over the top as the film adaption of that back in the ’60s. I for one enjoyed both Maid Sama and The Taming of the Shrew, but I’m strange.
5 and 4 are surprisingly good series. My Little Monster’s execution gives it broader appeal than most on the list, and is flibbin’ funny. Especially if you’ve ever known some strange people or cackled at the social interactions of your friends. 4 on the other hand is decidedly a candy series. There’s enough to Takeo’s story to keep us awake and chuckling, and enough to firmly cement it in such a list. Personally, I like that the series solved the most important issue rapidly, and moved on to what follows, rather than stretching it out across a zillion episodes. Did I mention how much I chuckled at Ore Monogatari? It’s also filled with good moments like Takeo’s date with the burning building, and him chucking his buddy up a Christmas tree.
3 is like 5 in a broader appeal. In particular it’s entertaining if Shirayuki is the kind of character you like, or you’ll be well amused by Zen’s cohorts. Or have a soft spot for the setting. The first season is a good jumping off point.
2 is a series that should probably be considered essential anime watching. In fact, I am pretty damned sure this rock would be a far better planet if we had more people like Tohru in it. Don’t think Fruits Basket is your cup of tea? Watch it. Don’t like Shojo series? Watch it anyway.
Kuronuma Sawako is a character that I particularly like, and made the notable characters section of my own anime worth remembering her. Her nature is just kind of awesome, and I freaking love how the animation shifts when she’s flustered–that tickles my inner cartoon lover, as well as my funny bone. #1 has plenty that makes it worth watching, and plenty that makes it worth smacking someone with a rubber hose, but by in large can be enjoyed for its characters and the way they comedically frail about as the plot is stretched towards the horizon. You should watch at least as far as the Ayane and Chizuru arc before writing it off, or deciding to watch the rest.
To PowerShell or not to PowerShell
For the most part, I’ve found it very hard to care about PowerShell. But as time goes on, I mostly look at it with the thought, “Wish I had more use for that”.
Things that I do that require some scripting, and that run on more than unix systems, usually resort to creating .cmd or .bat files to handle the Windows systems. There’s mostly two reasons for that: execution policies and portability.
I don’t really like scripting cmd.exe. As an interactive shell, it’s barely livable but gets the job done. The focus on interactive mode, and the nature of DOS, show through in what can be done in cmd.exe. NT’s modern extensions and so on make it a lot better than COMMAND.COM but cmd.exe is not a good scripting environment, nor a great interactive shell: it just sucks less than its predecessors.
PowerShell on the other hand took some good ideas and largely addressed much of the suck. Exposing .NET even offers the opportunity to solve problems that would call for writing a solution in something beyond bash/ksh, or finding dedicated utilities for. It is really neat the amount of shit you can do in a PowerShell script.
But in the end, the default execution policy is what really keeps me away. Open sourcing and cross platformyness stuff in Core 6.x resolved most of my negative feelings for PowerShell, but it doesn’t suit my scripting needs.
By default: client systems reject running PowerShell scripts, and so monkeying with execution policy is needed. Either to unrestrict it for the current session or my user. Which makes using it for projects less useful than using the older comspec. Because while cmd.exe is very meh, it doesn’t require any extra monkeying after I’ve git cloned my repo. Yet another thing to do when setting up a system, or document about a code base, that I don’t need.
Forgot a all about the ground beef I had planned to make with the sauce, but still had a delicious meal, and probably ate about three people‘a worth going by the brick sitting in my gut.
Willow and company were very interested in this cheesy, ravioli fueled goodness.
Hungry minions also got another round of their Christmas presents, this time the chicken and turkey with gravy packet.
It was almost a shame to make them move, almost.
Passing thought: not sure I should be sad about how much I actually use cmd.exe when I’m using a Windows machine, or just glad that %compspec% isn’t an antique version of command.com.
Probably should just be glad that most of my relationship with windows these days, is driven by D3D video games far more than anything else.
On the human side: slab of baked tuna, rice, beans, veggies, and much yummy.
Meanwhile the doggos get another round of their food topped with chunky meat and gravy, that Willow was upset about having to wait for, lol.
In the real world: I would call hacking away at stone with a sword, a waste of a sword.
In The Witcher: I’d say going Darth Vader on a golem is damned exhausting. Properly positioned up and buffed, using a mixture of sword strikes and signs took forever to fight The Sentry.
Actually, if I had known the pylons would remain interactible during the battle, I probably would have tried the lightening trick the wiki mentions.
For some reason, parsing Wikipedia’s article on CRT shadow masks, I am reminded that by the time old age kills me, more than a few pieces of technology will have changed. When I was a kid, I thought it was pretty damned cool that colour television was everywhere and most folks had VCRs.
Technology changes faster than people does. Or at least, I’d kinda like to not die that soon. It’s still my theory that my generation will make either a really interesting, or a really sad bunch at the old folks home, if we live long enough.