He’s being a pretentious asshole, replace “electrons” with “electrical power” and it becomes coherent.

There were another 3 balloons, one of which invaded multiple countries in latin america, and another of which invaded Canada. This aggression can not be tolerated!

Wood-chipper

(Disclaimer: I do not have children and never will unless something goes horribly wrong)

A lot of it is just being physically present at home. The general consensus I’ve seen from parents is that until the youngest is over 10, they need supervision, so at least one parent is going to have to be there at all times. This obviously gets exacerbated if eg the parents split up or have work schedules that don’t line up. Some people can get around this with daycare or family help, but a lot of people don’t have enough money or eg retired parents who can do childcare.

There’s also kids doing their own hobby stuff. If Timmy wants to play soccer, well, that means that the parents have to take him and are now losing their own Thursday nights and Saturday mornings. From what I’ve seen, a lot of kids will have 2-3 such activities. The parents I’m friends with generally are only free like one night a week until the kids hit their mid-teens and become more autonomous.

All of this is likely made worse by horrendous infrastructure design in the US that necessitates having a car everywhere but major cities.

That’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to you, buckaroo.

Feed to piranhas.

So long, Dersh (cw: suicide)

He’s only doing it so he can go hang out with Epstein some more.

Gooners in control, trust the plan

He doesn’t specify which animals he wants to protect

Games Workshop is like 40% of the UK economy, sadly they will never ban the plastic army men.

No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit

Buddy what do you think the point of conservatism is?

Y’know I thought the labour that went into the 1000 foot statue of antifa grim reaper looming over the city would be a waste, but seeing it now I can admit I was wrong.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the infamously difficult city builder themed after the eastern bloc countries.

There are a few maps on the steam workshop where you can build in a Cuban map instead of eastern europe, though you’d probably have to grab several dozen other mods to add more Cuba-specific assets.

Gunfire is neat, I especially like the owl who plays a TCG at the same time as shooting people. Some of the difficulty stuff is wonky, and once you discover some of the wombo combos runs tend to get samey, but still good fun.

Continuing to grind away at Warframe, but steadily running out of things to grind for. Currently, I need to get 2 specific rare parts from relics from Scare-o Kiteer so I can build two of the same gun and then combine them (magnus/akmagnus), but that’s super mind-numbing so I’m mixing it up with other stuff. The real problem now is that, of 82 items I have yet to master, a full 50 are vaulted primes, and the other 32 are real sicko shit so it’s starting to be slow going. The 6 Kuva weapons I’m still missing are probably some of the easier things, with the more annoying ones being stuff like Sigma & Octantis (log in for another 150 days) or the Braton Vandal/Lato Vandal (obscene droprates in an extremely boring mode).

Other than that, getting back up to date with Vampire Survivors. Just about wrapped up the Castlevania adventure and then I can start more seriously checking off stuff from Saga and then Ante Chamber.

Also won my monthly 40k game in Tabletop Sim. Thank you Shining Spear Exarch for making like 6 consecutive 4++s.

I keep a document of every time my mom says an anime title slightly-to-very wrong, and one of the ones she gets wrong the most often is Asobi Asobase. So you writing “Asobe” instead of “Asobi” just reminded me of that.

I feel like the first season was stronger than the second one in some ways, like the plot in the second season is more complicated than it really needs to be when it’s a parody show. But aside from that, Momo and Shamiko’s relationship is pretty cute, and it is a pretty entertaining work overall.

I think this is kind of natural in any long-running work centered on genre parody. You can only make the same jokes so many times before you have to either end the series or start taking the world and plot more seriously. Same thing happened/is happening to One Punch Man.

Riiiiiight I remember hearing that they deal with establishing an MMO society. Can’t wait for social commentary from the same show that has people (well, Gamers anyway) randomly turn to banditry in what is essentially a post-scarcity society due to boredom.

Actually, now that I think about it, that makes even less sense. Banditry needs to have a high payoff to be worthwhile, but what exactly are you going to spend your stolen goods on when people aren’t even aware you can cook food? From what’s been shown so far, nobody’s playing the new expansion content.

Manga

Started Kingdom, currently around chapter 400. It’s alright, kinda weird how the manga starts using the characters’ japanese names after the first arc when apparently the anime uses the chinese names. Obviously extremely ahistorical but whatever, it’s fun shonen slop. Also big props to the mangaka for having lots of women fighting or being generals, and only one of them (so far) is being weirdly sexualized (Karin).

I’m probably going to read Rooster Fighter because it’s such a stupid premise.

Anime

Asobe Asobase is an absurdist comedy disguised as cute girls doing cute things slop that lands because of how over the top they go with the animation and voicework. As with most anime, it has a weirdo pervert character for no reason. 7/10.

Paranoia Agent is a surreal, episodic thriller about a number of different characters and their run-ins with the mysterious Lil’ Slugger (aka Shonen Bat), a boy who is going around assaulting people with a baseball bat. It is also about how cutesy anime mascots are copium and that you should consider maybe facing the real world instead of shirking your responsibilities by watching anime. Episode 8 is a noteworthy standout, I cried. 8/10.

The Demon Girl Next Door is a parody of the magical girl genre where the generally useless main character awakens to her hereditary demonic powers and has to be tutored by a semi-retired magical girl who is definitely gay. Generally pretty funny, but as with most of these things, there are weirdly creepy bits. Like, canonically the main character is very uncomfortable in her “battle armour” which is of course skimpy and revealing, and this is just supposed to be funny. 6/10, both seasons.

Started Panty and Stocking, which is essentially just the joke “what if we made an adult cartoon with the art style of the powerpuff girls”. It’s interesting imo how despite it being extremely openly horny and characters constantly referring to sex and/or having sex just out of frame, that it’s actually giving me less creepy vibes than many other shows I’ve watched. Maybe it’s just a matter of expectations, but I think there’s definitely something to be said about P&S being portrayed as sexually-active adults who are choosing to do the things they do and the way they dress, as compared to eg The Demon Girl Next Door where the “jokes” centered on sexualization are at the MC’s expense.

Also started Log Horizon because I may have accidentally deleted Panty and Stocking and had to download it again. As is typical of the genre of “oh no I’m inside a video game I used to play”, the game is poorly thought out. I think it’s the fourth episode where the big “amazing 4000IQ play” that the protagonists use is to… use an ability again as soon as it’s off cooldown. Rather atypical of the genre, if someone “dies” in the game, they actually just stay in the game and resurrect at the last great temple they visited. Ninja girl whose name I forget is a boring trope and horny party member must be stopped.