It feels like it's only a matter of time:

After two additional posts of mine were censored by Blogger, the walls are clearly closing in on this website.  Their 'community guidelines' are so broad that virtually every post I've ever made is against their rules.  If they wanted they could cite one of their standards, like no 'misleading claims,' to censor every single time I said the Covid-19 vaccine was bad, Ukraine was bad, Biden was bad, etc.  Any reasoning I make that is based off of facts not recognized by the government or the elites (though eminently backed by research and observational data plus obvious inferences thereof) is a 'conspiracy theory' and liable for zapping.

Another standard, no 'hate speech,' means any post that criticized any group or even individual is slated for censoring.  It doesn't matter if the criticism is evidence-based or important towards improving our culture and law code, no one can be criticized for anything because that's 'hate' and 'hate' is a priori bad.

Basically the only thing I'm allowed to write on this blog is pointless nothings, like what I had for dinner today, or praise of the ruling powers and the ruling consensus narrative.  Anything that steps out of that narrow tunnel is against Blogger's 'community guidelines.'

I wouldn't be surprised if I tried to log in tomorrow and this blog had completely disappeared, and all my work with it.  Or there could be a constant 'drip, drip' of censorship where first a third, then a half, then two-thirds of my posts are vanished one by one.  It's up to them what happens to me, I have no rights, the words I spent decades writing aren't my property, they're all Blogger's property to do with as they whim.

I encourage people to read whatever posts interest them while they can because there's no telling if they'll be here tomorrow.  As for me, I intend to keep writing whatever I want and they can do whatever they want in response.  I'm a fatalist, I never needed this website specifically to write on.  If I can't write here I'll write offline.  It isn't me who suffers from being censored, it's the people who wanted to read me.  As a person who lives off of investment income, I don't need the approval of anybody else on Earth to live a comfortable and rewarding life.  I'm beyond anyone's ability to touch.  It's just a shame that I can't help other people by giving them entertainment, inspiration or illumination anymore.  This was all a public service to the world.  My attempt to give back to a world which has, all in all, been very good to me.  To the world that gave me 500 beloved franchises which make every day fun.  It isn't me they're punishing, it's you.

On the bright side, before Blogger suddenly decided to pounce on me after 15 years, I managed to garner a million pageviews, so I did manage to entertain somebody out there already.  I've already done the world a great favor by providing all the truths nobody else dared to say.  Silencing me now is kind of pointless -- if Blogger hasn't noticed, Republicans are already in charge of the House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court.  The horse is out of the barn.

For instance, I was writing about South Africa's sins 15 years ago, and I assume if I say anything more about them my post will be censored for 'hate speech.'  But it doesn't matter if you can silence me, because Trump just posted a video of South Africa's sins from the White House.  The whole world knows now.  Blogger can't censor him.

This crackdown would have made a lot more sense a year ago, before the election.  At this point it just feels like the petulant tantrums of a little kid.  Picking on the weak (a random blogger with no power) because they can't pick on the strong (Donald Trump).

Meanwhile, I got two more SS Memorias from lucky rolls (not money!), both Memoria I already owned -- Ichiko and magicat Tenne.  Magicat Tenne is kinda pointless, I don't even like Tenne, but Ichiko is great news.  With this I'm halfway to her level 3 limit break, which would make her one of my 6 strongest characters and a perfect inclusion into my 'power party', the vanguard that clears all the toughest challenges in the game.  I was thinking of using Erika as my 6th best character in my power squad, but this changes the equation.  Now it looks like it will be Tama-Yuki-Karen-Tsukasa-Sumomo-Ichiko.

I also got through the common route of Cafe Stella and finished the Nozomi specific route.  The game really is great, the more I play it the more I love all the characters.  It's such a simple story, basically everyone just works at a cafe together, but still so loving.  I'm almost envious of their ability to write compelling material about such a dull topic.  Who knew food preparation could be this fun?

I didn't jump the gun when I added Cafe Stella's characters to my wonderful hall of fame.  They definitely earned their place.  I have an intuition for this sort of thing, if something is great I can tell by the beginning, not the end.

Speaking of the hall of fame, it really does look finished.  I went over the remaining entries and couldn't find any further weak spots or flaws.  Like how Tama-Yuki-Karen-Tsukasa-Sumomo-Ichiko is my unbeatable lineup in Heaven Burns Red, this is my strongest lineup for a fictional character hall of fame.  These 1400 stand above all others.  And the 360 franchises mentioned, that I drew these 1400 characters from, also stand above all others.  They're the world's finest.

With my book finished, my music hall of fame finished, my top anime rankings finished, and my wonderful fictional characters hall of fame finished, I wouldn't have much left to write about anyway, even if Blogger didn't shut me down.  It feels good to finish things.  ^_^.

Cleanup on aisle 4:

Okay, the changes to my wonderful list weren't quite done yet.  After careful consideration, I decided Lulu, Shin, Claus and Mastermind were subpar and replaced them with three more characters from Heaven Burns Red -- Risa, Minori and Inori -- as well as one new character from Dead Rock -- Frey.

I'm not sure if Frey will actually survive for much longer in Dead Rock, but she's already a beautiful, spirited, righteous flame warrior anyone can get behind.  If she falls here fighting for what she believes in that's okay.

I would like to give the new Heaven characters songs from Heaven Burns Red, but then I would have some unattached 5-star songs again, which would break the whole point of this project.  Sometimes things are a little messy.  All three new Heaven characters have shown strength and compassion in equal measure during their own tales.  Minori's hair is too short, Risa is too pampering, and Inori is too quiet, but compared to the faults of the people they're replacing on this list they're still a huge upgrade.

Okay, I found a way to give my three Heaven girls Heaven theme songs -- all it took was moving around a bunch of other people's theme songs so that three 4-star songs (which aren't necessary includes) could be deleted from the list.  Of course, I had to drop Aya from Tenjou Tenge completely because the only song that suits her is Bomb a Head, so I replaced her with Ruriko from Catch me at the Ballpark, a better anime than Tenjou Tenge anyway.  In fact Catch me at the Ballpark could well end up being a great anime, not just a 'silver 60' like it now is.

This also required I adjust my music hall of fame because Autumn Howl and Zetaku na Kanjou had to be promoted to 3-star to fit within the requirements of a wonderful class song.  I demoted two classical songs to make room.  As you can see, I'll do anything for Heaven's sake.

Cafe Stella is great:

It didn't take long for Cafe Stella and its girls to impress me.  Sasuga Yuzusoft, everything they touch turns to gold.  At this point they're on level with key.  Okay, maybe they aren't as emotional as key, but the sheer attractiveness of their characters is on level with key.  And I don't only mean the looks of the girls, I mean how friendly and down to Earth and easy to talk to they are.  It feels like you're among old friends.

The power of people working towards a shared goal is truly something.  Suddenly you have an activity that puts you in the same place and requires you communicate with lots of cute girls.  And then on top of that if you help achieve the goal they'll feel grateful and admire you.  What could be a better spark for romance than that?

Since Cafe Stella is great due to its wonderful girls, I also promoted three of its girls to my wonderful hall of fame -- Natsume, Kanna and Nozomi.  They replace three Tears to Tiara characters.

I also decided today that Uma Musume Cinderella Gray is a great anime, not just good, and promoted Belno (the assistant horse girl) to my wonderful list.  She also replaced a Tears to Tiara character.  That let me narrow down my wonderful Tears characters to the same traditional one I've always liked most -- Astarte (voiced by Rie Kugimiya and super beautiful.)  The Tears bloat was only due to my lack of alternatives, but now that I've experienced Cafe Stella I have no need of bloat.

I also added Rex from Xenoblade 2, figuring if Homura could get in he should qualify too.  I took Laura from Wind out to make room.  Plus I added Umerus from Unicorn Overlord (I told you there were more qualified characters from this game), taking out Youko from 12 Kingdoms to make room.  I never warmed to Youko despite her being the protagonist of the series.

Kazumi from Gokukoku no Brynhildr has been in '100 Waifus' before, so now is a good chance to bring her back, dropping Elsie from Dead Enders to make room.  Negima's childhood friend, Anya, deserves mention.  She's cute and loving and a powerful magician besides.  She takes the place of Faris from FF5.  August, the prince in Kenja no Mago, is a surprisingly good natured, handsome, talented and brave guy.  Usually people think princes are spoiled and mistreat those around them, but August is the exact opposite.  He replaces Neun from The Twin Spires.  Momoka from Girls Band Cry is a mature, talented and pretty girl who is good at looking after others.  She replaces Yue Fang Jong from The Emperor's Son.

Will is the protagonist of Metaphor Refantazio, an incredible rpg.  His determination to fix the realm by winning the election to become King and soft spot for Gallica who he spends all his time alone with are touching.  Shin is the protagonist of Kenja no Mago, best friend of August and husband of Sicily.  It's kind of silly to include Sicily and August but not Shin.  These two replaced Gust and Gale from Wind.

This is also a good chance to invite Frieza and Cell to my fictional character hall of fame.  They're villains, not heroes, but they're memorable villains and that's what matters.  I took out Sacripant and Isolde from The Greatest Vision to make room.  Jenny Elf is a hero who bravely endangers herself to save others, but ends up getting the best of both worlds and having a perfect life herself in the end.  She's someone you can't help but cheer for.  She replaced Phyllis from Dead Enders.

With this, I think I've scoured the wonderful character hall of fame clean of all undeserving entries.  Of course there can always be newer, brighter characters who forcibly bounce out established members, but that will be due to the strength of the new persona, not the weakness of the old.

Humorously by promoting Cinderella Gray to part of the Uma Musume canon, it moved the franchise from the 'complete' list to the 'incomplete' list, because the anime isn't going to cover even a remote portion of the ongoing manga.  Another anime doomed to incompletion.

By using Seika in my ice squad I was able to beat the Ice-vulnerable Orb Boss III.  Seika seems to always be the answer, even though I don't want to use her because of her awful personality. >.<.  The other level III Orb Bosses weren't a challenge since I could wield fire against them.    I now have enough SS Memorias that I can make a squad of every element type -- Fire, Ice, Thunder, Light and Dark.  Getting Kanade from Angel Beats made a Light squad possible, and the blaster Yuina completed my Thunder squad.  Now no matter what a boss is vulnerable to I'll have a proper group of girls ready to pick on that vulnerability.  To top it off I used the delimiter to limit break fire Megumi to level 1.  Now my whole plot party is locked and loaded.

Tenshi Souzou Reboot finished:

For the low price of $100, I was able to acquire both new Angel Beats SS Memoria -- Yuri and Kanade.  Plus a new SS blaster version of Yuina and the base SS form of Adelheid.  Plus limit breaks for base Hisame, Ichiko, bathing suit Sumomo and an eternal daphne for bathing suit Sumomo.  (In fact, I got another bathing suit Sumomo SS Memoria, which means I'm halfway to her max level 4 limit break as well!)  The rolls were all in my favor, giving me limit breaks to the precise people I desired.  I guess it would have been better if maid Hisame had gotten the limit break instead of base Hisame but nevertheless, I was just thinking how I wished Hisame had a limit break and boom, there I go.  I was also planning on limit breaking Ichiko after Sumomo and boom, it happened at random.

That's basically $11 per SS Memoria, and top class SS's at that.  I'd pay that any day.

I tried out my newfound power in the hell mode clocktower and beat the first three monster encounters, a huge improvement over all previous attempts -- but I still lost to the first boss, shadow Yuki.  Then I tried my newfound power on the Oubliette of Tears, attempting to go all the way down to floor 35 before fighting the boss -- that gambit also failed, but by the tiniest of margins.  If I had preserved 2 energy somewhere on that run it would have been enough to defeat the boss.  *Sigh*.  I think it's scientifically possible to start on floor 46, go down to floor 35, then go all the way back up to floor 50, but I need a little more strength to pull it off.  For now stopping at floor 37 is the wisest course.

Then I tried my newfound power on the level III ice Orb Boss and lost after a long and hard fight.  Again it feels like if I were just a little stronger I could pull it off.  But again my newfound power wasn't so powerful after all.  This is why I have to keep powering up by getting more and more limit breaks -- the game is telling me all my efforts so far, valiant as they were, still weren't enough.

There's still plenty of time to grind before Chapter 5 comes out, so I'll get there.

Meanwhile, I beat the Orie and Fumika routes, completing Tenshi Souzou Reboot.  The girls were certainly pretty, but the routes were pretty uninspired.  No big deal, they were just bonus side characters not even featured on the cover of the game.  The worst Tenshi Souzou routes were still better than Hatsuyuki Sakura.  I can now proudly proclaim I've actually played the hall of fame entry that I'm encouraging everyone else to play.  Come to Tenshi for Noa, stay for everybody else.

This doesn't stop me from playing visual novels, though.  I already bought Cafe Stella, which is another visual novel set in the same place as Tenshi Souzou.  The girls of Tenshi Souzou actually dined at Cafe Stella, so basically I can still continue to play the same amazing game.  If Cafe Stella lives up to my expectations, I can add it to the Tenshi Souzou entry of my visual novel hall of fame, killing two birds with one stone.

Maybe Stella will have some new wonderful characters and I can replace some more weak entries while I'm at it.

SS Fire Megumi:

Due to a lucky roll, I bagged the SS Memoria of my dreams, Megumi in shrine maiden outfit with fire elemental powers.  Not only is she beautiful, in this outfit she's strong.  I instantly used her in my 'plot party' and beat the highest difficulty of the score challenge, bagging a platinum trophy for my efforts.  If even my plot party can do that I'm basically unstoppable.  This Megumi is so much better than the light-element Megumi I got previously.

The version 2.0 Heaven Burns Red seems to have buffed all my characters' skills, correspondingly making the game's challenges much less challenging.  I never got such a high score in a score challenge before.  Does that mean I can finally challenge the clock tower on hell mode?  I doubt it, but I suppose I should give it another try.  There's also three new Orb Boss III's I need to take down, and some new, stronger Anachronies, so I suppose the game still offers new challenges to overcome.

The new Angel Beats! crossover event gave me the new protean shards I needed to limit break magical girl Tama to level 4, which is max.  It also allowed me to do my final two skill evolutions, for characters I barely ever use.  So take the usefulness of that with a grain of salt.

I got bathing suit Sumomo's SS Memoria, which I already had, so that contributed ten shards towards her level 3 limit break, so I know who I'm limit breaking next.  (It's wasteful to have 1/2 of a powerful limit break rotting away in the bank, so I have to follow the game's random lead.)

The Angel Beats event was great, as expected of anything written by Jun Maeda.  The old Angel Beats music was super nostalgic.  If I were Miyuki I wouldn't be so forgiving though.  For four classmates to conspire together to terrify you to the point that you accidentally kill yourself trying to escape a 'ghost' that they concocted -- that's murder, plain and simple.  The penalty for murder should be death.  I would have preferred all four of those kids dying for their sin than watching them all get away with it and live happily ever after.  No thank you.  What they did was unforgivable.  But I do understand that Miyuki is a nice girl and nice girls tend to have different viewpoints than mean men like me.

It's very cute that they allowed me to recruit Miyuki as a Seraphim in my army, but she only has an S-Memoria version so she'll never be playable.  Oh well, she is cute.

So long as I keep logging in over the days of this crossover event I'll also get an SS-Memoria Yurippe, which is far more important and cool.  I'd like to recruit Kanade too but not so much that I'll blow money on her like I did for Charlotta and Hisame.  I'll just make what rolls I can and hope for the best.

On that note, despite Hisame having zero limit breaks, she's freakishly strong, finishing off high-rated enemies in single blows.  The 2.0 version of her Mikazuki skill is insane.  It makes my purchase of the materials necessary to get maid Hisame seem like a prescient investment.  With her skills displaying this much potential at zero limit breaks, I should really try to get her to max limit level, but I just have too many other priorities right now.  Besides, she seems fine at limit level 0. . .

Meanwhile, I decided to add Homura/Hikari/Pneuma (the same person with three different aspects, like the Holy Trinity or something) and Elena/Millenia (the same person with two aspects, like Janus or something) to my wonderful characters -- taking out Jania and Marcus from Illyria, who never really deserved mention to begin with.  Obviously characters with multiple names and multiple personalities aren't a good fit for '100 Waifus,' being too confusing, but the more flexible wonderful hall of fame is just the place for girls like these.

Nasa and Maho > Kefka and Kuja:

I was basically recruiting anyone I could think of to fill up my wonderful list, but now that things have calmed down I can do some cleanup.  At the time I inducted them I said Kefka and Kuja were pretty weak entries, and now I've found better people who can carry on their theme songs in their stead.

Nasa from Tonikaku Kawaii gets Kefka because his life is also pretty crazy.  And Maho from Class no Daikirai gets Wicked Melody because her seductions are basically the definition of 'wicked.'

There are still plenty of other characters I'd like to replace, like Raphael from TMNT and Saten from Railgun.  But there isn't a giant orchard of good replacements waiting in line to relieve them.  Okay, how about Colene and Nona from the Mode series?  They aren't perfect people, but they aren't turtles or sexual harassers, which should make them an improvement.  Colene gets promised pain because she's into self-injury.  Nona gets level 5 judglight because her magic is quite high level.

By adding the Mode series (by the same Piers Anthony I was complaining about, but not 90 years old when he wrote it), I can subtract TMNT and stay at a silver 60, so all equilibriums are maintained.

I've spent all day updating Heaven Burns Red in the most obnoxious patching experience in my life.  First I had to reinstall the launcher, then the game from scratch, then the launcher again, then the game was down for maintenance.  Then I was able to log in but the game crashed.  When I started the app again it demanded I download another huge file, so I'm back to updating again.  And for some strange reason the only way to close the app now is to go to task manager and forcibly end task.  The close button just freezes the app and never actually closes it.  That wasn't true before today but from here on I guess that's how it will be.  Nothing but bugs.  It looks like a really fun event if I were only ever allowed to participate in it.  But as it is my whole day is wasted.

At least the down time let me write new '100 Waifus' content, which should really be my priority in life anyway.  I'd never say a day that improved my magnum opus was wasted.  I'll just say it could have been better. . .

As expected the peace talks in Istanbul came to nothing.  Russia should stop negotiating with the west and just get the job done by conquering all of Ukraine once and for all.  Ukraine is an inveterate enemy of Russia now and can never be trusted with independence after what they did with it the first time.  Stop negotiating, stop trying to please the West, and just do what you have to do.  What are they going to do, pass more sanctions on you?  Most of the global economy isn't located in the west, Russia has plenty of customers for their products elsewhere.  Just ignore the sanctions and get on with life.  If they try to invade or bomb Russia or send armies to Ukraine's defense start nuking.  It's really that simple.  There's no reason why Russia has to discuss anything with anyone.  It's one of the most powerful nations on Earth and it should just take what it wants, like the USA does all the time.  Everyone with a moral conscience knows Russia is in the right.  Everyone with eyes to see has seen the Nazi atrocities of the Ukrainians now, and knows what Russia is fighting against.  Everyone has watched the west participate in the genocide of Gaza while Russia objected to it.  Everyone knows who the good guys and who the bad guys are today.  This is the most holy war imaginable.  Go and fight it.  Stop dithering and prevaricating.  Fight and win.

I did it:

After reading over my hypothetical expansion to '100 Waifus,' which would fill in a gaping plot hole that otherwise goes unexplained (how Honoka would view Nagisa's crush on another man now that she'd been made to believe Nagisa had been a man all along), I decided it was scintillating enough to merit inclusion in the best book ever written.  The most sensible place for it to happen is during Christopher's outer space date with Honoka, so I put it there, at the beginning of Chapter 44.

I finished rewatching Precure Max Heart, so I took the lessons learned about Honoka while they were still fresh in my memory to write up why the Christopher (Posing as Nagisa)-Honoka pair is true love.  I think the references to the key scenes in the story were sufficient proof.  I know I had a permanent smile on my face writing them down, they meant so much to me.

One of my goals in '100 Waifus' is to explain individually why Christopher loves each girl and why each girl individually loves him, and I think this additional section helps achieve that goal.  Another goal is to give enough time to shine for every single waifu so the reader can get to like them as much as I do.  Again I think this section helps do that.  Before now Honoka barely got any lines, through no fault of her own.  It was my lack of up-to-date memory of the events of her series as well as a lack of imagination that had held her back all this time, not her personality which is magnetic, or her feelings which are as strong as Kagome's for Inuyasha for anyone who really looks at them.

Luckily this edit was made before I started my 50th reread, so I can still clear the book for the 50th time and be done, like I'd already planned to do.  It turns out rewatching all of Precure was worth it, if only so that I could expand the divine writ that is '100 Waifus' a few words further.

I also finished rewatching Yes Precure 5 GoGo, but that show didn't inspire me to write anything more.  I feel like the Coco-Nozomi romance was handled well enough by the original series so I don't need to expand much upon it -- much like how I did very little with Asuna in '100 Waifus' because the Kirito-Asuna romance was well covered by the source work and didn't need any help.

There are some good episodes of GoGo, mostly the ones focused on Urara furthering her career and refusing to compromise her principles for the sake of that career by letting Eternal have its way.  But there are more good eps and especially movies of Max Heart.  Between the two Max Heart was much easier to rewatch.

Meanwhile, I'm tired of Democrats doing blatant felonies and not being charged for it.  Whether it's Congressmen who assaulted ICE officers on video tape, or Comey who openly tweets with a tongue-in-cheek euphemism for the assassination of Trump, these people should be arrested and charged.  If they're innocent of the crimes they're obviously guilty of, the juries can always let them free.  But they should at least be arrested and put on trial for these crimes.  Republicans are in control of the Justice Department, so why don't they use it for the sake of justice?  What better opportunity than now?  Give Democrats a taste of their own medicine.  When will Trump be avenged for the harassment he received for the past 8 years?  Why are Republicans such pantywaists that they tolerate all this abuse and never dish it back out when they have the chance?