Let's assume that the 25 episodes of the 2nd season are about as good as the remaining 60 episodes of all the other seasons. That doesn't sound like too much to ask from seasons 1, 3, 4, the oav's and the movie.
If that's true, though, it means that the series is twice as good as any show that's about on par with the 2nd season of Hayate. Shirobako, Tengen Toppa, Toradora, Kobato and the like don't seem to be particularly better, ep for ep, than Hayate season 2, so why on Earth is Hayate ranked 89th and these shows ranked in the 40's?
It seems in my great anger at the other seasons underperforming compared to season 2, I just punished the whole series with a lopsidedly bad rating. But that's unfair to how good season 2 was, which on its own would be competitive with the likes of Katanagatari, much less when you add in all the rest. Just like how I was lashing out at Akame ga Kill! for not reaching its full potential, I was foolishly not appreciating Hayate for what it had achieved. The fact is, the anime covers the first 150 chapters of the manga or so pretty thoroughly, with great art, animation, voice acting and music, of the 11th best manga ever, in addition to having a good fifty or so other chapters adapted across the rest of the timeline.
That's not bad! It's a better adaption of Hayate than The World God Only Knows ever received, so why isn't it ranked higher than Kaminomi?
Well, now it is. Hayate is back to 31st place. I think I used to rank it in the 20's, so it's still being punished a little, but the ridiculous position of 89th, behind unfinished, merely 12 ep shows, is null and void. Sanity has been restored to my ranking system.
Meanwhile, the Houston Astros won the World Series for the first time. The first time for any Texas baseball team to take home the crown. It was a long time coming. I watched games 6 and 7 in the hopes of seeing history made and I was finally rewarded. Game 7 was a lot closer than it looked. After Yu Darvish left the Astros couldn't do anything on offense, and meanwhile, the Dodgers kept getting hit after hit on the Astros pitchers. If not for miraculous double plays and fine defensive fielding, all those runners left on base every inning could have scored, and it would have been 10-5 Dodgers. The seventh game just broke our way every time things looked iffy.
I was more relieved by the time the 9th inning came around than elated. When you're sitting on a lead the whole time there's nowhere to go but down.
Meanwhile, 73% of Republicans when polled say they feel the PC-climate is restraining them from being able to say important and necessary things to public policy formulation. At the same time, 51% of Democrats when polled say they have the moral right to punch anyone they view as a Nazi (which is everyone they disagree with.) So there you have it. Virtually all Republicans feel oppressed by a thought police and virtually all Democrats are volunteer storm trooper gestapo thought police. And yet we do nothing to defend ourselves or take back our country from our acknowledged oppressors, who glorify openly in their own tyrannical intolerance of their fellow countrymen. Republicans are so pathetic. They all agree with me, but I'm the only person in the whole damn country brave enough to say or do anything about it. Republicans aren't worth saving. Cowards who know what's happening is wrong but do nothing about it deserve everything they get.
If Republicans refuse to defend themselves politically and just cede all public policy to the Democrats in the hopes of not being punched like the cucks they are, what is plan C for the rest of us? (Plan A is to 'work harder' and try to succeed despite the system being slanted against you, Plan B is to form a separate country where the system works for you instead of against you.)
Plan C is to wait for technological deliverance. We don't have to fight against feminism if we can just substitute waifus for women. We don't have to fight against discrimination in college and the workplace if all jobs are taken over by robots and we all receive a citizen's dividend that covers all our material needs. We don't have to fight against anything if we can have fun in virtual reality or ride a starship to a new planetary system. We don't have to worry about crime or terrorism if we never have to leave our doors because robots deliver everything to our doorstop and our houses are 3d printed for virtually free anywhere we want to plop them down with fully off-grid renewable energy, water capture, high speed satellite internet, etc.
Every single issue that Republicans could solve with good policy decisions can also be solved via technology. Do you want kids? Synthetic biology could take some base skin cells, turn it into a fertilized egg, and then use Crispr 2.0 to change every single gene into the best known genome known to man. No women need apply. Or we could just program an AI to act and feel and believe exactly what we want and create the ideal progeny and companions without even bothering with messy biology.
Technology is still making rapid progress on all fronts. Even supposing these inventions don't come within a reasonable time limit for our own lives, there's still plenty of time before the Blackacolypse is slated to destroy the world. It just has to be invented before 2100 for our children or grandchildren to get the necessary benefits.
Since it's demeaning to go along with an unjust system and actually support its own power to abuse us (which is why Atlas should always shrug), plan A is unacceptable. Since everyone's a worthless coward, plan B is unworkable. But Plan C still offers hope. So long as MIT, Stanford and the rest keep doing their thing, the world is not necessarily headed in the wrong direction. Just keep patiently entertained in the meantime and we'll have the last laugh.
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