I was right about the election:

I called it.  For at least the last half year I'd been predicting a Trump victory and tonight Trump won.  I even predicted he would win on election night and he did.  Unlike Andrew Anglin, who said all elections where phony and rigged and it was impossible to win, I didn't give up and voted for Trump and told everyone to vote for Trump and I won.  The people would not be denied their voice.

Trump is guaranteed to win, but he could still go on to win bigly.  We could end up with a huge lead in the Senate, enough to appoint any cabinet member or judge we want.  We could end up winning the House, which would help us pass truly transformative legislation -- like banning trannies in women's sports, or building the wall on the Mexican border.  If things go well the sky is the limit.

It makes my 15 years of advocacy on this blog for Republican priorities worthwhile.  Total vindication.  Not only was I right about everything, eventually the American people agreed I was right about everything and joined me.  Persistence is the key.

Rather than becoming a drunkard whiner like Andrew Anglin, who had given up on everything including his own health and life, I've been persistently pushing my beliefs and aspirations and what do you know, there's more of me than there is of my enemy.  I'm the mainstream now.  The people I hate and despise are the 'extremist minority.'  'The dustbin of history.'  'On the wrong side of history.'  And all the rest.

Oh and now Russia is going to defeat Ukraine with America's full permission, another cause I've been supporting for over 10 years consistently and continuously.  Everything is falling out exactly as I have foreseen.  I'm Emperor Palpatine, straight out.

This is my victory over all my detractors.  This is God's victory over Satan.  This is Trump's victory over Kamala.  This is life's victory over Skynet.  This is the greatest and most important victory of all time.  This is a fork in history.  Hail victory!  Hail victory!  Hail victory!

The Sad Tale of my renovated '100 Waifus' music playlist:

It always annoyed me that my project to assign a suitable song to every character in '100 Waifus' who attended their family photo party in Chapter 57 was incomplete.  Sure, I had assigned 1099 songs to 1099 characters, but through some human error I was only able to collect 1097 of those assigned songs into a playlist.  So I deleted the whole playlist and started over, this time making sure that each song would have a name attached to it so I couldn't possibly mistakenly not transfer the song into the playlist -- and the result was yet again 1097 songs.

I don't understand it.  At first I thought my math was off and maybe there were only 1097 names to begin with, but no, I did the math and there are 1099 names.  I of course tried to re-include all the songs I knew had names attached to them in the belief that maybe I had forgotten to transfer them -- but nope, all those songs were accounted for.  The playlist stubbornly stayed at 1097 no matter how many times I tried to error check.

At this point I'm willing to attribute the entire situation to a supernatural curse and surrender.  If I spend days building the initial playlist and end up at 1097 on the dot, and then days more building an all-new playlist and end up at 1097 on the dot, that's no longer due to human causes.

On the bright side, going through my '100 Waifus' playlist let me improve it dramatically from last time, which also helped me improve my music hall of fame as a whole as a side effect.  This time around I decided no character would be assigned a song lower than 3-star quality, no matter how suitable that song was to be their theme song.  I wanted the song to be worthwhile enough that the character wouldn't feel like they were receiving a rock for Christmas.  So if there was a song from their franchise, or having to do with their name, that was 3-star or 4-star, I would give them that song instead of a random 5-star song.  Obviously if there was a 5-star song that also had something to do with the character they would receive that song.  Otherwise they would receive a 5-star song that felt reminiscent of their character as a whole despite it being unrelated to them.

This let me increase the proportion of the playlist that was 5-star, I believe to 78% of the playlist.  It also allowed me to assign every single 5-star Fire Emblem, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross song a character so that I could weigh the list a bit towards albums that really take the cake.

Sometimes I came across songs that were iconic to a character, like Ballad of Serenity for Malcolm, that were rated 2-star.  In these cases I decided such an iconic song really deserved to be 3-star and promoted it, thus keeping the close character link.  I had a handful of 3-star songs I wanted to demote before this anyway so everyone benefitted.  I also found some 4-star songs to demote so that I could promote a few 3-star songs that I absolutely knew deserved to be 4-star and were just waiting for some room: 'Toberu mono (Feat. Kanon)', 'Keves Colony', 'progress,' and 'Beautiful Lake and the capital of the holy sword.'

So despite the supernatural curse preventing me from perfecting my '100 Waifus' playlist, I was able to leverage the effort into perfecting my music hall of fame.  As Jurassic Park would say, 'life finds a way.'

Music maintenance continues as I still need to adjust the start time, end time, and volume of all my music hall of fame due to the files being transferred to a new solid state drive.  I also still have to listen to my 21 new songs 100 times to make them officially qualify for the positions they've already been given.  >.<.  But at least the hard part is done, assigning every song the correct rating and every child name a song.  For people interested in this song appendix of '100 Waifus,' here's a link:  https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2024/06/who-received-which-song-in-100-waifus.html

I can listen to my music while reading the new volume of 'The Red Wheel' thanks to the hardcover finally arriving in the mail, so November is off to a productive start.

Tales of Graces F Remastered has Japanese audio option!:

2025 is remaster heaven.  Forget Lunar Remastered and Xenoblade X remastered, now we have Tales of Graces F remastered, with a ton of improvements from graphics to gameplay.  But the most important improvement is a Japanese voice option.  The English voice acting of this game was very good, but nothing compares to Kana Hanazawa playing Sophie.  It's what I've always wanted to hear, the true voices of my two waifus, Sophie and Cheria.

Now they just need a Xillia remaster that allows Japanese voices, so I can hear the true voices of Leia and Elize. . .

I'll happily repurchase Tales of Graces just like I'm happy to repurchase Lunar.  These game companies know how to please.  They keep delivering the exact right announcements one after the next.

Meanwhile, Demon Slayer's Hashira arc is now out in bluray, which is always nice.  I dropped Yarinaoshi Reijou because it was a bait and switch.  The loli reneged on her promise to marry the prince so the story is now worthless, just more proof of women-kind's lack of honor.  Monogatari Off & Monster season seems to have ended unceremoniously without any announcement, so the new fall anime season is down to 21 shows a week.  I guess the previous situation really was too good to last.

I'm pleased the Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani won the World Series.

Selydove really captured this time:

Two months after I said Russia had liberated Selydove they actually did with geolocation proof.  It was obvious two months ago that the momentum was pointing to this conclusion, so it was going to happen eventually, but two months is a little jumping the gun.

Multiple other villages also fell today, all northwest of Ugledar.  Russia is gulping up lots of territory in this direction, though it's all empty fields so isn't worth much in the big picture.  As far as I'm concerned this war hinges around five strategic cities -- Chasiv Yar, Kupiansk, Toretsk, Siversk and Pokrovsk.  Any gains elsewhere are just a sideshow, and sadly Russia has diverted most of its forces to these elsewhere gains.  They're actually losing ground in Toretsk.

I was excited about capturing Selydove because it meant Russia was getting closer to Pokrovsk.  I had no idea they would turn south instead of north after that, wandering off into the wilderness. . .

Toretsk is a large city with lots of mines so has innate value, but it's also a stronghold that keeps Ukraine within artillery and drone range of Gorlovka, which every day loses civilians to Ukrainian terror attacks.  Just like how Ukraine was pushed away from Donetsk, giving that city peace, we now need to push them away from Gorlovka, and the only way to do that is to take Toretsk, which is only 16km away from Gorlovka.  Honestly Toretsk is too close to Donetsk for comfort too.  Once Toretsk and Chasiv Yar are taken, Konstantinovka falls automatically due to being surrounded on three sides.  And once you control Konstantinovka there's a straight road to Pokrovsk to the southwest and Kramatorsk to the north.  It all starts with Toretsk.  Nothing starts without Toretsk.

One of the big improvements to my music hall of fame is the introduction of the audio editing software Audacity.  itunes lets you skip however much of the beginning or ending of a song you want, but it can't affect the middle portion.  Audacity lets you delete the middle portion too, any portion you want, however large or small, however many sections you desire.  With this I can go in with a scalpel and create the perfect song based on what I want to hear, not based on what the producers thought I should hear.  It's a huge improvement to songs like 'Nai Nai' or 'Progress' which had abysmal middle portions until now.  One of the reasons I was able to promote 'Ren'ai Circulation' to 5-star was my ability to delete the portion of the song that was dragging it down.  Other than that portion, it has always been one of my favorite Bakemonogatari themes.  I've already edited the most egregious songs, but moving into the future I plan on fixing up even the slightly annoying remainder.

Election season was spiced up by Biden calling all Trump supporters 'garbage.'  Of course I don't care what Biden, a genocidal rapist traitor, thinks of me.  I have an even lower opinion of Biden-Harris supporters than 'garbage.'  They're open Satanists who worship and desire evil for evil's own sake (If you think I'm exaggerating explain to me why Hillary was attending Satanic rituals with her campaign staff, who also hung up portraits of sexually abused naked little boys in their house, and why half of America, after learning of this, still voted for her).  It doesn't get any worse than that half of the country.  If I had a red button I could push and send them all directly to hell I would push it immediately.

What surprises me isn't Biden's opinion of Trump supporters, but that he'd actually say it out loud a week before the election.  His dementia must really be kicking in if he thought that was a good idea, or he actually wants Kamala to lose.  Calling fence sitters 'garbage' may be enough to motivate them to go out and vote Trump just to spite Biden, and that could be the margin of victory if the polls are accurate, which still shows the election deadlocked.  How karmic would that be?  Maybe this will also mean Republicans win the House or more Senate seats.  Every extra vote helps secure a true Republican majority with the power to actually effect change.  God knows we need total power to turn around the complete mess America is in thanks to Biden.

Xenoblade X is getting a Switch remaster with new content.  The reviews of the original game weren't that great, but then again it's a game made by the same people behind Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade 3, so how bad could it be?  Everything these guys touch turns to gold.  I'll keep buying Xeno games until at least one of them is bad.  Which means 2025 is going to be a yet busier year for gaming.

I was right about the Maidan massacre:

https://the307.substack.com/p/how-a-false-flag-massacre-led-to

This article gives definitive proof that the Maidan Massacre, used as justification for the illegal overthrow of the freely and fairly elected pro-Russian President of Ukraine in 2014, was a false flag attack perpetrated by Ukrainian far-right activists, in the hopes of producing exactly the effect that it did produce.

The evidence was so overwhelming that the coup-government put the former regime police on trial and still couldn't secure a conviction.  The eyewitnesses in the trial all attested to the attacks coming from far-right Ukrainian sources.  It's practically unheard of to fail at a show trial when you've already become a Nazi dictatorship, but somehow Ukraine managed it.

The argument that Yakunovych's reign was illegitimate because he mass murdered innocent unarmed civilian protestors, and therefore it was okay to overthrow his government and put in a new, pro-Western government, against the will of the voters, is fully exposed as a complete lie.  With that understanding it suddenly becomes clear that the regions of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk who refused to accept the coup-regime as their legitimate government were clearly in the right.  Why should they accept a Nazi overthrow of their elected government based upon a false flag massacre?  This then naturally flows to the next obvious understanding, that it was perfectly right and just to support Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk's aspirations for independence and security from the terrorist coup-regime of Kiev.  Which means Russia did nothing wrong when it helped out its neighbors and saved them from this cruel fate.

Russia tried to compromise with the Nazi, terrorist coup-regime by giving Donetsk and Luhansk autonomy while staying part of Ukraine, but Ukraine duplicitously signed that agreement whilst planning all along to betray it after gaining sufficient military force to 'crush the rebels.'  Ukraine has openly admitted that they never planned to honor the Minsk accords and it was all a ruse, so that's not in question.

Russia only invaded Ukraine when it saw that all diplomacy had been exhausted because the other side were treacherous scum, on top of being Nazi terrorists who mass murdered civilians to achieve their political goals.  Who on Earth could blame invading a country in order to liberate it from treacherous Nazi terrorists?  How evil must a country be before you are allowed to invade it and topple its government?

Ukraine is the death capital of the world, with the highest death rate and the lowest birth rate on Earth.  It has mistreated its people more than Saddam Hussein did Iraq, Gaddafi did Libya, or Milosevic did Bosnia.  No other president bragged about shelling its own kindergartners, but Ukraine's president did.  If it's okay for the USA to intervene to stop evil dictators from oppressing their own people, then surely it is okay for Russia to do the same.  Under no moral system can these two principles 'it's okay when we do it but not when they do it,' coexist.  Even if you're some sort of sovereignty fanatic who thinks it isn't okay for any foreign country to ever intervene no matter how bad of a humanitarian catastrophe is occurring, there is no reason to react so one-sidedly against Russia while doing nothing to punish the USA and its allies.  Passing sanctions solely on Russia, or sending aid solely to Russia's opponent, or keeping solely Russia out of the Olympics and World Cup, makes no sense under this formula.  If you truly believe no one should ever intervene anywhere then prove it by punishing America first, who has done it far more often than Russia.  Then I'll believe you when you condemn Russia.

Music Hall of Fame updated:

All the clerical work is done.  I've given all my songs their new, proper ratings, adjusted the points scores of all my hall of fame composers/singers, and uploaded the new information to my permapost.  The permapost then has another link within it that displays the data behind all 5500 songs chosen for my collection.  You can get as many details as you want there.

Through a steady accumulation of errors my old folder containing my hall of fame music had bloated to 5555 songs, when it should have only contained 5500.  So I replaced the old folder with a new, accurate folder of all my songs.  Unfortunately when you move files around like that you lose the itunes data on them, so now I have to go back and adjust the start time, end time, and volume of all 5500 songs again.  (I had just finished adjusting these things too, sigh.)  But as a long term investment it's worth it to have a folder with all my hall of fame music, and only my hall of fame music, on a solid state drive that itunes can load quickly.  I still have a long life ahead so I may as well put the work in now and reap more benefits overall.

Hundreds of songs flipped their ratings this time.  15 songs were flipped from 4-star to 5-star and vice versa.  47 songs(!) were flipped from 2-star to 1-star.  It was like this across the board.  The new music hall of fame is completely different from the old.  21 songs were eliminated entirely and replaced with new truly great music.  Technically I haven't listened to the new songs their required 100 times, but I'll reach that goal soon enough and I know even without listening to the songs to that extent that they've got the right stuff.

Largely the newly promoted 5-star songs were emotional vocal pieces replacing less moving and memorable instrumentals.  There's nothing like a girl's voice to strike your heart.  For example, Trigun's song 'Sound Life,' 'My Friends' from Macross 7 or 'Priere' from Tales of Phantasia.  It wasn't purely an anime-fest, though.  I also promoted 'Linger' by The Cranberries.  Even with this emphasis the 5-star tier still has 586 instrumentals as compared to 514 vocals, because there are just so many more instrumental songs made than vocal pieces, giving the instrumentals more chances to be among the best.

One important change was the addition of 'Sailing Ship (Broken Ver.)' from Heaven Burns Red.  This allowed Jun Maeda's total points score to surpass Masaharu Iwata's and get him to 7th place of all-time best composers on Earth.  Another way of looking at it is he's first place among non-video-game-soundtrack composers.  Video game soundtrack composers are so prolific no one can compete with their quantity of good music, so it's not a fair fight.

A song's rating is important because my playlist has more copies of a song if it's rated higher.  When you put the playlist on shuffle, if there are more copies of a song, it's more likely to randomly play one of those copies.  So this allows me to listen to all my hall of fame music, but in exact proportion to how much I like the music, so the better music gets more chances to be heard.  The perfect music hall of fame is this weighted version, not just a stale list.  Every rating matters.

Now that there are no 'ditties' left, I started upgrading a lot of the shorter songs from the 1-star tier to 2-star.  In the olden days I had a policy of demoting all short songs to the 1-star tier not based on merit, but purely their shortness.  But now I can correct that.  This time around all the ratings are based purely on merit.  This also gave Unicorn Overlord and Granblue Fantasy's soundtracks a more fair hearing.  A lot of their songs were rated 1-star or 2-star simply because I hadn't freed up room in the higher tiers with demotable songs.  But now that I've listened through every song carefully I had a stockpile of demotable songs from top to bottom, so new songs got a genuine chance to be promoted to their true worth.

In truth there are still a handful of 3-star and 4-star songs I was hoping to promote but couldn't find room for, because there weren't any bad songs left to demote.  Maybe once the music hall of fame is expanded they'll get a chance to go up to fill the new empty slots though.  It will all work out.

Due to the reset volumes of my songs, I'm still going to be doing 'music maintenance' for the rest of the year, but none of it affects the ratings of my songs or rankings of my composers so the outside world doesn't need to know about it.  As far as readers are concerned this decades long project is now done.

Sakura Note, Fantasy Life, Terra Wars to the rescue:

Ragnarok Odyssey wasn't actually composed by Uematsu and it wasn't any good either.  For a moment it looked my music hall of fame wouldn't be able to stay 5500 songs anymore, but with some quick sleuthing I came up with the soundtracks to some actual Uematsu composed games that I hadn't listened to before -- Sakura Note, Fantasy Life and Terra Wars.

Most of the songs from these games were garbage, like Nobuo wasn't even trying.  But by grabbing a few from this game and a few from that, I managed to patch things up and now I'll have my 21 needed replacements when all is said and done.  I already had 8 vocal tracks from various anime and video games ready to slot in, so Uematsu only had to get me 13 more from three whole games.

Replacing 21 songs is harder than I thought it would be.  The songs have to at least be better than what I'm deleting or the project would be pointless.  But the songs I'm deleting are songs I thought were good after listening to them 100 times.  Finding something laying around in the street better than that isn't so simple.  I've gotten more picky, which is why I wanted to purge 21 songs in the first place, but it also means replacing the purged is equally challenging.  13 songs from the best composer of all time doesn't sound like much of an ask, but Uematsu is a shadow of his former self.  He can't churn out hits like he could during the FF years.  Squeezing 13 more songs out of him now is a big ask.  But he still delivered, and that's all that matters.  Hats off to the #1 coming in to rescue me one more time.

Even better, it seems like the replacements for my subpar 1-star songs are going to sometimes rate higher than 1-star themselves, which means I'll also get to downgrade a lot of deservingly bad 2-star songs.  It also means I'm not just pointlessly shuffling things around, switching from one bad song to another -- I'm making a genuine upgrade.

I wish I'd been able to replace my subpar songs with the soundtrack from Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest.  But the ost never came out no matter how long I waited.  Now it's missed its chance.  Well, I wouldn't mind expanding my music hall of fame to 5555 or whatever next year when it finally does come out (technically the release date is on Christmas of this year).  The important thing now is getting my current 5500 song music hall of fame fixed.

As you can surmise I finished screening all 5500 of my old songs and moved on to the second half of the project, listening to my potential replacements 100 times to prove they're viable replacements and belong in a music hall of fame.  It might take all of November to finish the job, but it will get finished.  My book and my music hall of fame will be perfect this year.