Also, the Apothecary Diaries came to American Netflix. I'm only kinda mad because I've been trying to get Merla to watch it with me. I finally got her to say yes this past Saturday and then my mp4s wouldn't work at all on my BluRay player. They work just fine on my bedroom TV but whatever TV and BluRay player we have in my living room hates the files. I spent hours trouble-shooting and then needing to remove an audio codec--might be the wrong word/term, I don't fucking know --from each and every file I have of the dub with Handbrake just so it'll play. Got them all sorted out and trouble-shooted and everything so she could watch it with me this upcoming weekend. Just needed to load them on a USB stick and pop it in my BluRay player. So I did all of that shit over last weekend and then American Netflix added it April 1st. Fuck you. I took that personally.

With the anime I watch all being downloaded I throw them on a Plex server. If you have an older computer lying around you don't use that was made in the last 5-6 years it's super quick and easy to install Plex Media Server on it and install Plex clients on your TV/streambox/phone/tablet/fridge to watch them. If you use a decent enough processor it will handle all the A/V recoding for you.

I'm really looking forward to the next season of Frieren despite having read the manga up through volume 12. The pacing on this whole thing is nigh perfect.

Oh, lawd, there's a bottom bar.

You can get rid of it pretty easily.

My benevolent corporate overlords (which I say without spite, I do quite like my company) foisted OneDrive on us on our last compulsory laptop upgrade. I get it, it backs everything up so if I have a massive computer disaster (theft, force majeure, damage, etc.) I can get a new one and recover practically everything. Rah rah, go team, blah blah blah.

Cool idea, except our host facility IT filters EVERYTHING and would not allow synchronization until we got approval from their comparatively tyrannical corporate overlords to open the network to our traffic. Which took months of leaving machines logged in to veeerrrrry slooooooowlyyyyy upload everything during off-hours and hope nothing major came up during regular work time.

Well, that's a relief!

Have you tried Bing? I can't see it being any better considering how hard Microsoft is going on AI.

Some people swear by Bing, but it's too clunky for me. I use DuckDuckGo just to reduce the size of my Google data scrape.

Look up AI writing and performing country music.

It's a laugh riot.

It's as nonfunctional as they can make it. Sure, you MAY find what you're looking for, but you will likely have to screencap it to save it for reference.

John "He-Man" Erwin and Michelle "Dawn" Trachtenberg bit it, too.

Jimmy Carter rounded out the year. About time, too...I'd had him in a lot of pools in the past, but the old bastard just wouldn't kick the bucket.

I'm pulling a bunch of shows right now and will have to pare them down to some degree very soon. I'm continuing with DanMachi S5 part 2 despite not having watched part 1 yet. I've read the novels, and I know that I won't be able to tolerate watching this particular storyline week-to-week. But I will watch it, as it settles one of the primary plotlines from the very beginning.

Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi has been better than expected...what I expected was a mindless titty show (which admittedly is why I started watching it), but what I got was a rather nicely developing mini-harem show where no one is really unlikeable. Except the middle sister who's a cunt.

Arifureta is another show I'm continuing, as this season has actually improved on previous seasons. More fighting, more powers, more jiggling.

Grisaia Phantom Trigger is one I just started pulling as it's the latest in the Fruit of Grisaia series that was really well animated and had an intriguing storyline. But this is apparently only tangentially related to the previous seasons, so we'll see.

Hazure Skill Fruit master (snrk) is a fantasy show about a guy who gets new powers every time he eats a particular fruit in a world where you can only get one and die if you eat a second. It's another OP protag show, but I like those.

Dragon Ball Daima would be better if it was faster-paced, but seeing that it's only supposed to run a few more episodes in a lead-up to Super returning to anime production, I'll finish it. It's kind of nice to have little Goku running around with his nyoi-bo again, and seeing SSJ3 Chibi Vegeta was a hoot.

Apothecary Diaries is back for season 2. If you know, you know, but if you don't, watch the whole first season now, dammit, now, but suffice it to say, "Feudal Chinese Columbo chick".

I've got Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf ready to watch, as it looks like it'll be cute.

Beheneko is about a super-powered kitten/monster who lives in the cleavage of a big-titted elf chick while killing monsters. 'Nuff said.

NEET Kunoichi is another smarmy show I picked up but haven't started. The manga wasn't great, but I'm hoping it looks better in motion. We'll see.

Ao no Hako is the latest high school romance show that I'm inflicting upon myself. But it looks good and doesn't appear to be cloying or trite like a lot of them tend to be. People seem to hold it in rather high esteem, but I haven't watched past the first three episodes where they were just cranking up. Will know more soon.

Ubel Blatt is new, haven't watched yet, but looks cool.

Girumasu (Guild Receptionist show)...new, haven't watched yet.

Salaryman Isekai was a fun manga...a Japanese middle-manager is summoned by the demon lord of Another World™ to work for him in his new demon army...who knew a militant organization of monsters and horrors of legend would stand or fall on the strength of its internal administration?

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms was a one-note manga that I thought might be cute animated. We'll see.

CR is doing a 2 month free trial right now. I'd try out out, but I haven't put the slightest dent of in my torrented backlog on Plex yet.

Dandadan is insane...first three episodes were fun.

Well, the Big N has proceeded to sue them into oblivion, so you likely won't hear much about them ever again.

BTW, since I haven't said it lately: fuck Nintendo.

Not this nasty Trumpmerican...the tree says in its box until after Thanksgiving (aka best holiday) is over.

Listened to this while my plane was taking off yesterday:

Watched Transformers One. I didn't find it atrocious, but it's about ten years too late for me to care about the property as a film franchise anymore.