Be Strong:

I discovered Innocent Vision was a remix of Ephemeral Dream.  My music hall of fame does not allow for remixes, so it was cut.  But I wanted to maintain my 5,500 song baseline, so I added the original opening of Kenichi, 'Be Strong.'  The full version isn't actually that good, but the cut-for-tv version is really catchy, so I went with that version.  Be Strong is a Kenichi theme song, so it requires a Kenichi character to be attached to it.  As such, I added Renka to my fictional character hall of fame and gave her the song.  Renka Ma is Kensei Ma's daughter, a hottie from China who wears sexy China dresses and does Chinese kung fu.  She also has a crush on Kenichi, and I always approve of girls who love boys.

Meanwhile, I added Yuuka from AKB0048 to my fictional character hall of fame.  She's the blonde, twintailed childhood friend of Nagisa, who actually shows more commitment and strength of will than the main heroine, Nagisa, when it comes to joining AKB0048.  She's also a girl who feels romance for a boy, which makes her infinitely more attractive than a girl focused on her career.  She gets the AKB0048 song 'In a stormy night.'

All the other main characters of Xenoblade 3 are already in my hall of fame, so I figured it was time to include Taion too.  He gets Li Garte Prison Camp as his theme song.  Xenoblade 3 is one of the best games ever made, so it can never receive enough honors.

Anya's teacher in Spy x Family who keeps stressing 'elegance,' is named Henry Henderson.  He's a man of great gravitas combined with obvious considerateness for his students.  It's a great, memorable combination.  He also is elevated to the wonderful hall of fame, with the apropos theme song of teach me, mont blanc.

Maon the whistler is the second prettiest and most interesting girl in Tamayura.  I had a great Tamayura song sitting around, 'Hajimari no Umi,' so Maon can become its poster girl.

Kin of the Stars is an excellent song, so I gave it a host in Lafiel's outoto, Duhiel.  Duhiel actually leads a successful armada in battle later in the series, beyond what the anime shows.  He's a good kid, as expected of Lafiel's brother.

Mara Jade is Luke's true lover.  Luke is not gay like Mark Hamill says.  He isn't a stupid hermit on a deserted island or dead like the fake Disney sequel movies say.  He's happily married to Mara Jade and a great hero and head of the Jedi Academy, like the Timothy Zahn books say.  Given how romantic the song is, and how close Mara is to Luke, she gets the theme song Luke and Leia.

Through some lucky free rolls, I got base Minori's level 2.5 limit break.  Go Squad 31-E, prove 31-A isn't actually better than you!  Sextuplets for the win!

Congratulations to Queens college for making the Dance for the first time (and the last time) in their history.  Queens college won't exist next year so this was certainly a good time to make their mark on history.

Trump has ruled out nuking Iran, which means we have no means to open the Strait of Hormuz, which means 30% of the world's fertilizer won't be available for spring planting season, which means at least 15% of the world's food supply, three months from now, will not exist.  Explain to me how the starving Africans and Indians are going to eat three months from now.  No one has given any explanation for how this magic trick will occur.  It's like we're heading off a cliff and no one cares but me.

It's very frustrating that we developed this code of never negotiating with terrorists, especially when they try to blackmail us with hostage crises.  Then Iran takes the whole world's energy and food supply hostage and we immediately back down and try to please them.  We rule out hurting them in any way and beg for a negotiated ending.  It's so pathetic.  How can anyone win a war with rules of engagement like this?  Obviously we can't.  Trump has doomed us to yet another losing war.

What makes this all the more ironic is Russia is one of the leading producers of oil and fertilizer, so this chokehold on the strait of Hormuz does nothing but enrich and empower Russia.  Inadvertently, Trump has aided Russia in the Ukraine war in the best way imaginable.  So maybe I should just relax and enjoy the show, seeing as how I care more about winning the Ukraine war than the Iran war.

Spring 2026 Anime Preview:

It's a shame to see the winter anime season go.  Inori just hit a quadruple salchow in the most epic moment in fictional figure skating.  There were dozens of good series this season.  But the spring season is no slouch either:

Continuing Series:

One Piece

Pretty Cure

Boku no Hero Acadamia (single ova)

Girls und Panzer (ova's)

Release that Witch

Returning Series:

Slime Tensei

Honzuki no Gekokujou

Higeki no Genkyou

Re:Zero

Isekai Nonbiri Nouka

Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

New Good Series:

Mao

Possibly Good Series:

Too many to list

So a guaranteed spread of 12 worthwhile series with an unknown number of reinforcements.  That's not bad at all.  The summer and fall seasons are only going to get better, with the upcoming ending of Bleach.  2026 is going to be a solid year in anime.

Once I glean the first impressions from all the potential series I'll include the successes in my 'to watch' list.

Meanwhile, I added Yukitaka, the bassist, songwriter, and protagonist of Limelight Lemonade Jam, to my fictional character hall of fame.  Go figure a rock star gets all the girls.  He gets the theme song 'someday of my life.'  I also added Ritsu from Assassination Classroom.  She's the cute AI killbot that tries and fails to defeat sensei, then just starts having fun with her friends in class from there.  She was given the perfect theme song, 'theme of the girls.'

Speaking of Classrooms, Lily and Erna from Spy Classroom have also been inducted into my fictional character hall of fame.  Lily got 'hajimari wa kimi no sora,' (Ririko was given Susume Tomorrow instead because it fit her better), and Erna got Tiny Stars.

Lemina from Lunar 2 is almost exactly like Mia from Lunar 1, and Mia is already in my hall of fame, so Lemina should be too.  She gets Holding On [Lemina's Theme].  Zero is a badass rival of Rock's in Mega Man, and Rock is already in, so Zero should be in too.  He gets Sparkman Stage.

Wonder Woman and Batman are already in, so I may as well include Superman now too.  Clark gets Superman Theme Song as his theme song, for obvious reasons.

Yotsuha Sheep:

I've finally gotten my hands on sheep Yotsuha, narrowing the number of SS Memorias in the game I don't own down to 5 or so.  But this SS Memoria was particularly important to get, because it was the last character who didn't yet have an SS Memoria beyond her base form.

Now all my seraphs have their base SS Memoria, and some other SS Memoria.  Since base Memorias' exclusive skills can be introjected, basically all your characters become twice as strong once they have both their base and an alternate form.  Now all the seraphs in my army can dual-wield exclusive skills.  At least theoretically.  I haven't actually gotten enough nordstrom crystals to actually introject everyone.  But at least it's possible to do so if I need to do so.  There's also the fact that a base SS Memoria gives +10% stats to other Memorias of the same character, so you can get essentially to level 5 limit break with non-base Memorias, but only to level 4 max if you stick with your base form.

For this reason, I've refrained from giving any eternal daphnes to any seraph's base forms.  A base form can't dual-wield exclusive abilities, so it would be a waste to rely on any of them.  The final form of all my squads mustn't include any base memorias.  Getting sheep Yotsuha is the same as unlocking Yotsuha as a character I can use in the future, it was that important.  The same for getting kimono Muua, the second to last character to get a form other than her base form.  Muua's strong, too, so getting an alternate memoria for her was important.

Meanwhile, in a recent Gallup poll, 56% of Americans think the Covid vaccine caused mass death.  I've finally been vindicated on my opinion from the start.  Reality always catches up to me, but it's always too late for it to matter.  No one remembers my predictions by the time they're proven correct.  Which is why no one ever learns to listen to my next prediction.  It's a very frustrating process.

I added a new wonderful fictional character to my hall of fame, Cameron Phillips, the Terminator played by Summer Glau in the Sarah Connor Chronicles tv show.  Summer Glau is a beautiful warrior in this series just like she's a beautiful warrior in Firefly.  She was given the aptly named 'doomsday' as her theme song.  There are still hundreds of 4-star songs I'd like to promote to my wonderful playlist, though.  It feels like all of my 4-star songs are so good they're worthy of 5-star status.  A lot of them actually were 5-star in the past.  All I can do is keep chipping away at the problem. . .

Israel has a right to exist:

The purpose of a Jewish homeland is that for the first time in thousands of years, Jews would no longer be threatened by hostile majorities, because they would be the majority, in control of their own state.  No more pogroms, no more Holocausts, no more anything.  Everywhere Jews went in the past they were persecuted.  It turned out the only way for Jews to be safe was to be in control of their own destiny.

Everybody has a right to be safe.  As the declaration of independence stated, everyone on Earth has the God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Jews deserve these rights too, and they weren't getting them from all past governmental models.  Only an explicitly Jewish state, with the rights of Jews enshrined into the constitution, run by Jews, would ever protect Jews.  The moral necessity of a Jewish state was made clear after World War II.

Perhaps a better spot could have been found for a new Jewish state, populated and run by Jews, than Palestine.  Maybe it could have been put in South America or the U.S.S.R. or Canada or something.  But it's too late to quibble about that now.  Israel has been around for 75 years, people have put down their roots there.  Israel has been 'grandfather claused' in, because there are literally grandchildren in Israel who have never known life outside of Israel.  Israel now has as much a right to exist within its current borders as all other nations on Earth.

Once you claim that a nation that is 75 years old still doesn't have 'birthright' citizenship, and can be transplanted somewhere else, the validity of all nations become suspect.  If a country isn't legitimate because the people weren't the original inhabitants of the land, then America has no right to exist.  The same for every nation, really.  The Han did not originally inhabit the current territory of China, they expanded into it.  The Bantu people did not originally control the territories of Africa they now dwell in.  The Turks are not the original inhabitants of Turkey.  And so on.  If you can't eventually say a country has existed long enough to put down roots, and people who were born and raised in a place deserve to continue living under the same arrangements as they're used to, you have created a system of perpetual war, upheaval and chaos.  This benefits no one.

Furthermore, the options for a new state of Israel weren't very good.  It had to be carved out of some European colony or other, because no other sovereign state was about to give up its territory just to please some vagabond Jews.  Once you've narrowed it down that far, Palestine, which was a colony of the United Kingdom, and the historical and religious homeland of the Jews, made by far the most sense.  Did this displace millions of Palestinians?  Sure, but what is that compared to the Holocaust?  Jews suffered far worse to earn their state than Palestinians suffered by losing some territory.  The 'Palestinians' don't even exist, they're just more Sunni Arabs in a region full of Sunni Arabs.  They could live just as well in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. as in the territory of now-Israel.  They speak the same language, practice the same religion, have the same ethnicity, as almost the entire Middle East.  They had no particular need to live in Palestine per se.  They were not a persecuted minority.

There was no historical concept of a 'Palestinian.'  It's not like it was their sacred homeland or something.  They went from being subjects of the Roman Empire, to subjects of the Ottoman Empire, to subjects of the British Empire.  They never existed as a people or state, they were just random people in a much larger entity.  It was only happenstance that they lived in this particular corner of their empire instead of some other corner.

Palestinians have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  But they have no particular right to a country of their own.  It has not yet been established that they need a state of their own to enjoy these rights.  The historical record doesn't show this.  They lived just fine as a portion of other empires for thousands of years, so they can continue to live at the same level of well-being as a portion of some other state.  I've suggested again and again that Palestinians be paid a handsome sum, enough to support them for life, to move to any other neighboring Arab country.  We could also pay an enormous sum to the receiving countries to make sure it's profitable for them to take the Palestinians in.  Any amount of spending would be cheaper than the incessant wars we have to fight over the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Israel should be a pure Jewish country that includes the current territory of Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.  Only then can it be secure, and people will stop using the fake cause of the Palestinians to try to deny Israel its right to exist.  The real goal is genocide of the Jews, the 'poor oppressed Palestinians' are just a means to an end.  Otherwise, if these foreign states actually cared about the Palestinians, they could much more easily adopt my 'pay them money to leave' plan than the current 'destroy Israel and drive the Jews into the sea' plan.

This is the only resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict that ensures the original purpose of the founding of the Jewish state.  Dissolving Israel and Palestine into a single country with equal democratic voting rights would make the entire purpose of the Jewish state meaningless.  Jews would no longer be in firm control of their own country, such that their own state government could no longer oppress them.  They'd be right back where they started, a hated minority inside their own homeland, which could be pogrommed or genocided at any moment.  The Jews moved to Israel expressly to eliminate that eventuality.  Likewise, ethnic cleansing the Jews back to America, Europe, Russia or wherever would again prevent the entire purpose of Israel -- a safe refuge for Jews to no longer be under anyone else's power, to no longer have to fear hostility from anyone.

Most of the Arab world has accepted Israel's right to exist, and has little sympathy for the Palestinian cause.  Through a series of wars that started immediately upon Israel's founding until 1973, the Arab world found out crossing Israel was a bad idea and eventually gave up on it.  There is only one country left in the middle East that categorically rejects Israel's right to exist -- that's Iran.  Iran is the last country left in the world that is preventing peace in the Middle East.  If we could just eliminate the regime in charge of Iran and put in its place a pro-Israel government, this 100-year war for Israel's existence could finally come to an end.

Israel has a moral right to exist.  They have a legal right to exist, enshrined into the United Nations.  They also have a practical right to exist -- as a nuclear power anyone who threatens their existence will be vaporized.  They also have an economic right to exist -- they are at the forefront of various technological breakthroughs that are of benefit to the entire world economy.  However, Iran thinks it can unilaterally overthrow all of this.  Iran has never recognized the state of Israel, and is now proclaiming that the war will only end once Israel has ceased to exist.

You can be charitable and claim Iran does not mean that it wants to kill all ten million Israelis, it just wants to abolish the state of Israel.  This would mean all Jews leaving Israel for some other territory, or living side-by-side with the Palestinians as co-citizens.  But I've already discussed that all of these options are unacceptable for Israel, or from the perspective of any disinterested moral bystander, who thinks Jews have suffered enough, they don't need to suffer more by being a minority, surrounded by Palestinian neighbors who hate them and want to kill them, and will be voting in a government out to get Jews in the next parliamentary election.  That's insane.

Israel finally got a military strong enough to protect itself.  It's not going to disband and let evil people run riot over them just because Iran thinks they should.

So there are two possible formulae for peace -- the Israeli formula is that Iran is regime-changed, after which the new Iranian government stops funding and arming terrorists who continuously attack Israel, all while building up a belligerent arsenal of missiles and possible nuclear weapons to threaten Israel with.  The Iranian formula is three possible, completely unacceptable futures for Jews -- they're all killed, they're all ethnically cleansed from their homeland and left to wander as a hated minority in the world again, or they all stay in 'Palestine' but once more become a hated and powerless minority with no military to protect themselves.

Obviously the peace formula we, as moral bystanders, should take is Israel's formula.  There are plenty of bad countries doing bad things to people where we should sympathize with one side over the other, but there's no need to go to war ourselves, because it isn't in our vital interests to do so.  One example is Afghanistan.  I sympathize with the women of Afghanistan, but I'm not going to go die for them.  The same should have been the case for Israel.  If Israel wanted to pick a fight with Iran, that should have been Israel's business, not ours.  I'm not Israel's rent-a-cop.  It's one thing to say America should look after its own interests -- it's another to say Iran is the good guy, Israel is the bad guy, and Israel should be wiped off the map.  One position is eminently reasonable, the other is not.

Unfortunately it's too late for America to pick a neutral, isolationist position.  The war has already begun and America's reputation as a winner is at stake.  If we allow lowly Iran to bully us, with a military 1/100th our size, we'll be the laughing stock of the world.  It will have disastrous downstream consequences.

So now we've reached the core of the problem.  We're committed to war with Iran.  The war cannot end until either Iran is regime-changed or Israel ceases to exist.  The world economy is going to collapse if we don't do something to defeat Iran soon.  At least 20% of the world's fertilizer is dependent on the strait of Hormuz.  If the world's food supply is reduced by 20% hundreds of millions or billions of people will definitely starve to death.  Surrender is unacceptable because Israel has the right to exist.  There is no quick solution to the war short of nuclear weapons.  The threat of nukes should be enough, but if Iran is suicidal enough to accept being nuked so that it can continue to harass Israel in perpetuum, with the goal to eventually totally destroy it, then that's on Iran's head.  I would start with tactical nukes on Iranian military positions to demonstrate our resolve, then proceed to a declaration that all Iranians must evacuate their cities, and if that wasn't enough I would nuke Iran to cinders, killing however many of them it took for them to admit defeat and unconditional surrender.  A people that refuses to learn and refuses to live in peace with their neighbors, who has denied others the right to exist and endorsed genocide, has no further right to live itself.  Violators of human rights have no human rights.  It's a contract based world -- a give and take world.  Don't expect us to respect your right to exist when you don't respect ours.

Apophis, Skullfeather First Form, Skullfeather Final Form fully pwned:

Defeating an anachrony is the main thing, it gives the main rewards (like eternal daphnes).  But there are sub-challenges with sub-rewards, that are more difficult than the main task.  The biggest challenge is defeating the anachronies without the use of dream tears, which buff your stats temporarily for that anachrony fight.  There are other challenges though, like using particular characters.  Every anachrony has three challenges in all, and I've now defeated all of these challenges as well as all of the anachronies.

I'm the undisputed master of the game.  I've beaten everything they've thrown at me.  It only cost thousands of dollars to do so!  I sure showed them!

Honestly, the 3.0 game changes made these fights easier.  The two additional uses of exclusive skills across the board were really helpful.  The fact that Megumi's master skill, Psychic Charge, went from giving +2 sp to +6 sp is crazy helpful.  I was already happy with its +2 sp version.  The fact that you can use overdrive whenever you want, not just when it's exactly at 100% full, is really convenient.  By this I mean if you activated overdrive in the past, and your bar was at say 150% full, you'd just lose that 50%.  But now your overdrive bar goes from 150% to 50%, so you're well on your way to your next overdrive.  That is a huge benefit.

I'm proud I defeated Skullfeather before these 3.0 changes occurred.  I beat the real, old-school, god-difficulty tier Skullfeather.  New players of the game can't even understand what I managed to do.  That old Skullfeather was much tougher than this new, 3.0, Skullfeather Final Form.

I also acquired fireworks Miya limit break level 3 and belly dancer Vritika level 1 due to some lucky free rolls.  Fireworks Miya is so niche she's basically useless, so it's annoying I keep getting her.  Belly dancer Vritika has the potential to be strong, but currently she's weaker than my base version of Vritika, which is limit break level 4, so I can't use her either.  I don't actually need to get stronger though, I just beat all the bonus difficulty challenges of the toughest bosses in the game.  >.<.

Thanks to beating all those anachronies, some of my characters have reached title badge level 8.  They get a new skill slot if they can reach level 10, but that still seems to be a distant prospect.  Even my weakest characters are at a respectable title badge level 6 now, because I had them hide in the back ranks and get credit for defeating all these anachronies while the frontline squads did all the work.

Some Boring Housekeeping:

Things were getting really confusing between my '100 Waifus' character list, my supplementary 'wonderful' character list, and my 'wonderful' playlist which was meant to combine the two, so I made things simple by putting all the characters from '100 Waifus' into the 'wonderful' character hall of fame.  Whether they deserve it or not is less important than simplicity and consistency.

In '100 Waifus,' eight children were banished from Eden before Christopher gave any of the remainder a special theme song.  But for simplicity's sake all those characters have also been assigned songs now, as far as the 'wonderful' playlist is concerned.

In '100 Waifus' Wakaba and Akane are one person, so for simplicity's sake I count them as one person in my wonderful fictional character hall of fame, and assign them one song they have to share.

Everything must be simple!  No matter the cost!  It saves me a lot of headaches moving forward.  1,527 wonderful characters, 1,527 wonderful songs.

The main reason I wanted to expand my wonderful fictional character list by making the standards more lenient is so that my wonderful playlist could grow.  The truth is many of my 4-star songs, hundreds of them, were previously rated 5-star.  None of them got worse over time, they were just shouldered out by new and better songs that kept coming along over the years.  But my desire to listen to them hasn't diminished at all, because they're still amazing songs.  If I could legitimate listening to these demoted 4-star songs by giving them characters they were associated with, I could create the ideal listening environment by having all the best 4-star songs (which are really 5-star), and all the 5-star songs, together in one place.

I'm still not satisfied.  There are probably dozens of additional songs from the 4-star tier that deserve to be 'pseudo-5-star,' and added to my wonderful playlist.  But I'm out of qualifying wonderful characters so for now I'll have to bear with it.  I still have lots of new video games which are full of new, potentially great characters I haven't played yet sitting on my bookshelf.  If I could ever get around to them, they might be able to supply the names I need.  But at least the best of the 4-star songs are already covered.  In the past couple weeks I've carefully been listening to my 4-star songs, noting which ones were vital, brainstorming what worthwhile fictional character would best match those songs, and then adding that character to my wonderful fictional character hall of fame.  It's been working like a charm, and hundreds of the best 4-star songs have been safely anchored as a result.

Battle with Seymour has the potential to be a 5-star song if only all the annoying loud drum sections were edited out, so I reduced the song in size to 4 minutes and 28 seconds using my Audacity editing tool, then assigned it a wonderful character.

Impressively, only 75 4-star songs in my wonderful playlist have no association with the character's franchise.  I've done a pretty good job of matching song to character.  Even when there is no official association, the song is still hand-picked to reflect the atmosphere/personality of the character it represents.  They still match quite well, those 75 free floating songs.

For instance, Raphael's theme song is 'Underground Sewer,' because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live -- in an underground sewer.  It might not be the same franchise, but can you get any tighter a connection than that?

In Heaven Burns Red I was given some free recruitment tickets and was lucky enough to get diva Ruka up to limit break 2.5.  I also got celestial Seika up to 2.5, but that isn't much use.  I'm only 3 Protean shards away from getting diva Ruka to limit break 3, which will be a big boost to my strongest party's power level.  Diva Ruka's limit break 3 ability is -2 Sp consumption, so she'll be able to buff people with her Luna spell for really cheap.  It's a super strong buff, too.  At least by the end of the month I'll have those shards.

Wonderful +63:

I added Lymle from Star Ocean 3, Maka from Soul Eater, Elincia from Fire Emblem, Kanao from Kimetsu no Yaiba, Pan from Dragon Ball, Salad from Naruto, August from Fairy Tail, Kazui from Bleach, Stella from Koujo Denka no Kateikyoushi, Lucius, Colette and Eris from Aiyoku no Eustia, Nodoka from Saki, Akira and Akari from Hikaru no Go, Sakuno from Prince of Tennis, Lili from Prism Rondo, Tsukasa from Medalist, Primrose from Hunger Games, Neo from The Matrix, Leeloo from The Fifth Element, Sharon and Isamu from Macross Plus, Wanda, Remy, Scott, Jean and Anna-Marie from Marvel Comics, Kurumi from Life with a Flirty Step-sister, Ashe from FF12, Kefka from FF6, Lulu from FF10, Biggs/Wedge/Jessie from FF7, Faris from FF5, Gilbert from FF4, Kuja from FF9, Tommy and Kimberly from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Ariel from the Little Mermaid, Aladdin from Aladdin, Jen from [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon], Chino and Hanabi from Naruto, Lanz and Shania from Xenoblade 3, Damian from Spy x Family, Minatsu from Slow Step, Chieri and Nagisa from AKB0048, Nina and Umerus from Unicorn Overlord, Min from Wheel of Time, Shin from Kenja no Mago, Kaoru/Michiru from Precure Splash Star, Orlha/Tia from Chrono Cross, Ririko from Limelight Lemonade Jam, Link and Zelda from The Legend of Zelda, Rock and Roll from Mega Man, Treant from Xanth, Anna from Release that Witch, and Aya from Tenjou Tenge to my wonderful fictional character hall of fame.

They received 63 magnificent and fitting theme songs -- Brilliant Future, resonance, Life at Garreg Mach Monastery, Shirogane, Shop, Sasuke's Theme, Battle with Seymour, jellyfish, Theme 4, Theme of Black Knight, The Lands of Other Countries, The Gates Of Istanbul, Sentou Scene 1, Dark Crystal, Mysterious Shop, Desert Flower, Ku Country of the Red Evening Sun, Buried in the Snow, Dream with You, Pulse, Ikenai Border Line, Information High, [After, in the dark ~ Torch song], Paradox, [A Secret, Sleeping in the Deep Sea], normal battle 1, Toberu mono (Feat. Kanon), Ichiban no Takaramono (Yui Ver.), Kodamas, Ashe's Theme, Kefka, Lulu's Theme, Underneath the Rotting Pizza, [My Home, Sweet Home], Epilogue 1-2-3, Wicked Melody, chase, Wren, The Phon Coast, The Big Whale, tread ye the path of bravery (yoshimitsu's theme), Confrontment, Kara No Kokoro, Keves Colony, Confronting Alpha, unavoidable destiny, companions that surpassed their tribe, AKB Sanjou, Niji no Ressha, In Pursuit, Dear Friends, Roses and Wine, Pioneer, Cry of Pain!, Snake Remains Chamber, Susume Tomorrow, Gerudo Valley, Hyrule Castle, Quickman Stage, Topman Stage, The Evil Mist's Rebirth, Artes not yet known, and Bomb a Head! V respectively.

Many of these characters have been in my wonderful hall of fame before, but were kicked out for the sake of quality control.  But now I'm feeling more generous and think these characters are perfectly well qualified.  They're within the margin of error.  There's no reason to be so mean that girls like Min don't make it.

Speaking of little girls, it's tragic that around 200 of them were killed in a school in Iran by a United States missile strike.  But if you look into it, Iran is more to blame than we are.  For some reason they took what used to be part of their military naval base and transitioned it into a school, using the exact same building as before.  We struck it thinking it was still part of their naval base, apparently because we weren't double checking our target list (perhaps because AI was telling us what to target).  At that point, though, it's almost like Iran was setting a trap for us and using little girls as human sacrifices, live bait.  It's inexcusable to use human shields like that, and is codified as against the laws of war.  That's the real war crime here.

America has nothing against the little girls of Iran.  In fact we're fighting this war for them.  We are trying to save little Iranian girls from the soul-crushing patriarchal theocracy that awaits them when they grow up and are stuck in eternal garbage bags.  It's obvious who hates girls here, who wants them killed, and who is willing to use their deaths for propaganda purposes.

Another war crime is Iran's closing of the strait of Hormuz.  Oil and natural gas are essential to life -- they produce fertilizer and transport food to markets.  When you strain that supply worldwide, there is bound to be famine in the future.  We're not talking a minor change in supply here, this is at least 1/4 of the entire world's oil supply.  More directly, the blockade is causing a food shortage in the Gulf states, because they require the constant import of food through that very strait of Hormuz due to living in barren deserts.  This is exactly what I was complaining about in the Gaza Strip -- a total blockade that blocks out all essential ingredients to life isn't legitimate warfare, it's genocide targeting civilians -- and the weakest of civilians at that, yet again little girls.  Nothing changes now that Muslims are doing the genocide instead of suffering the genocide.  I condemn genocidal war crimes in all cases.  This time it's the Muslims doing it, the Iranians doing it, not Israel, and so I condemn Iran.  Of course, Israel has meanwhile resumed its blockade of the Gaza Strip, so I condemn their attempted genocide too.  I condemn all blockades!  What the hell is wrong with these people?  Starvation is not a means of warfare, not since the 12th century or whatever.  Fight soldiers, not children!

I said previously that interdicting shipping is an act of war and has been recognized as such for millennia.  Well, Iran is interdicting the shipping of the entire world.  The entire world should now rightfully declare war on Iran.  It's totally unacceptable when America or Europe seizes ships on the high seas, and it's totally unacceptable when Iran sinks or threatens to sink ships in the strait of Hormuz.  Everyone needs to stop attacking civilians and merchants across the board.  These people are providing the world essential life-saving ingredients.  Interdicting merchants is mass murder.  Just because you can't directly see the causal link between the lost shipping and the people dying for lack of energy/food/shelter/clothing/medicine/water doesn't make the link go away.  There are people depending on these goods.  That's why we cross the sea to give it to them in the first place.  That's why they're willing to pay money for these goods in the first place.  There's no such thing as an innocent or harmless trade disruption.  Even if a submarine sank a tanker carrying nothing but luxury diamonds to a gathering of rich people on a private island, that's still mass murder -- because now there's fewer marriages which leads to fewer children in the future.  The only ship you're allowed to interdict in war is a ship carrying weapons.  That's the only legitimate target for interdiction.  Everything else is a war crime and unforgivable.

I shouldn't have to be explaining this to people.  This was all well known for centuries, until it was suddenly forgotten by Israel vis-a-vis the Gaza Strip.  And now the whole world is doing it, everywhere, all at once.  This is a complete disaster and billions will suffer for it.  Everyone needs to cut it out now.

Closing the strait of Hormuz is a weapon of mass destruction targeting civilians.  Nuclear weapons in response is not an escalation, in fact more people will die from the closed strait remaining closed than nuking Iran would kill.  At this point nukes would be de-escalatory.