The more the series focuses on magical experiments and the less it focuses on relationships the less I care about the series. The magical experiments are now like 80% of the show so I've totally lost interest. If I cared about magic experiments I'd watch Dr. Stone and just see the real deal, science experiments, instead.
The first episode of Kimi to Idol Precure was certainly pretty, as befitting a show about idols, but it failed to stand out in any way. It's hard to make the 22nd season of a series compelling. However, there's still plenty of time left to impress me. For a series that will be airing for 50 eps or so, any number of good scenes could appear at any moment. We'll just have to wait and see.
I haven't finished Tales of Graces F Remastered or even started Fantasian and already two more games are arriving at my door -- Phantom Brave 2 and Dynasty Warriors Origins -- on February 5th. I wish video games wouldn't all choose to release at the same time. >.<.
In Heaven Burns Red I achieved my first skill evolution, Sumomo's Electro-Triangulation Slash. It only really shines next to a defender class character, which is hard to do, though. I'll create a strong squad built around maximizing Sumomo's abilities someday, but not today.
I defeated the Shirokuma route in Hatsuyuki Sakura and moved on to the Nozomu route.
Various missiles have killed various civilians in Ukraine and Russia, but there's a world of difference in intentionality between missiles and bullets to the back of the head. In one case it's not clear if the missiles hit the civilians intentionally or not, in the other case it's very clear what happened. This is why mass executions and rapes reveal a degree of genocidal malice that missile and artillery strikes do not. We can judge a country's intentions by how they act on the ground at point blank range, and by that measure it's clear that when Ukraine's missiles hit civilian targets it's intentional, and when Russia's missiles hit civilian targets it's an accident. When a missile hits a civilian target and both sides claim the other side did it, you can tell that it must have been a Ukrainian strike because that's in keeping with their genocidal behavior. So now that some more civilians have been killed in Sudzha by a missile strike, it makes far more sense for this to be yet another intentional war crime by Ukraine than for Russia to have targeted and massacred their own Russian civilians in the Kursk region. It also makes more sense than Russia's missile going astray and accidentally killing the Russian civilians, though there's always a possibility of that. That possibility becomes less probable when Russia denies that's what happens and insists it was a Ukrainian attack, though. So all probabilities added up, we just witnessed today yet another genocidal war crime by Ukraine.
When nations and individuals fail to condemn Ukraine for their previous criminal acts, they become emboldened and do further, more atrocious acts, wondering how far their impunity goes. They will continue to push the envelope until the west calls them out on their behavior and takes punitive action against it. This is human nature. It's even animal nature. When the USA failed to condemn Ukraine for the mass torture-rape-murder of Russians in the Kursk region, Ukraine got a green light to do it more, and so now they have. Now instead of dozens dead there's multiple dozens dead. Tomorrow it could be hundreds. So long as there's no pushback nothing will change. This is why it's important for everyone to voice their objection to evil behavior as vociferously and quickly as possible. There are real ramifications to silence. Silence is violence.
For the same reason I'm more distressed about the toddlers sniped in the head by Israeli snipers, according to 40 different western aid worker doctor eye-witness accounts, than I am about the 40,000 dead Gazans via bombing. The bombs might have been collateral damage, but the headshots most certainly weren't. There was intentional murder behind those well-aimed shots. And there's no way that many independent doctors were all conspiring to lie about it together. Nor is there any way that could be the act of a 'rogue' Israeli. How could 40 different doctors all discover headshot toddlers in their hospitals due to the act of a single bad actor? Again, when it reaches that level of prevalence, it's clear that the issue goes all the way to the top of the chain of command. In Israel as well, I acted quickly to condemn their genocidal malice when it became clear it was intentional -- i.e., when they started sniping children. And because not enough other people in powerful places joined in on the condemnation, the genocide was allowed to continue. Silence was the fuel for the Gazan holocaust. Protests were the solution, my protest among them. Now the Gazan genocide is over because the protestors won. So isn't it about time for all those anti-genocide concerned citizens to change their focus to the still-ongoing genocide and protest Ukraine next? Where is Tucker Carlson and why hasn't he reported on this mass rape-murder of Russian women? Does he think this is okay? If not, why is he silent? Silence is consent. Unless he says 'not in my name,' then it is in his name. The same for every other journalist and politician. If they don't denounce this they're a part of it and want more of it. There's no other interpretation.
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