Samurai Spirits:

I don't remember ever actually playing Samurai Showdown (Samurai Spirits in Japan), so my admiration of Nakoruru was very shallow.  It was based just on her looks and the vague knowledge I picked up on her via the internet.  She's in my wonderful hall of fame, though, so I endeavored to find out more about her by watching the Samurai Spirits movie and oav's.  It turns out the movie is trash, and best forgotten.  Nakoruru barely gets any characterization at all in the movie.  But the three oav's are almost entirely about her and they're all amazing.  Not only did my initial impression of Nakoruru get fully justified, but I also learned to love her kid sister Rimururu.  Of course, I knew about Rimururu before, and liked her based on her looks, but the oav's also show her personality which is splendid.  Since Nakoruru and Rimururu are sisters and share a lot in common, I decided to combine them into a single wonderful character hall of fame entry:  Nakoruru/Rimururu.

Harumi Ikoma gives life to Nakoruru with her beautiful voice, and the ova art shows off her incredible character design in full fashion.  Her initial fighting game character design is one of, if not the best, of all time, and the anime faithfully renders it in a more fleshed out way than the low graphics capable games of the time ever could.  Harumi portrays Nakoruru in both the oav's and the games, this is Nakoruru's true voice.  I wish more anime were done in this art style, bare breasts included.  I feel like the 90's and 2000's got things right and 'innovative' new versions of anime girls have all been inferior.  For instance, the original Da Capo art is superior to Da Capo Retuned, which changed it out for no reason.  And of course I can't forgive the censorship present in the Ranma 1/2 remake that was absent from the original.

Besides her looks and voice, I love how Nakoruru cares for others, especially her sister.  I love how thoughtful and conflicted she is, to the point of having a split personality that is constantly chiding her for being too pacifistic and hesitant.  She has a deep and tumultuous inner life, but she bears that burden herself and doesn't let it affect others.  I love how strong she is when she gets serious, which is rare because she's always trying to deescalate when violence does occur around her.  I love her courage and her grace and her kindness and her beauty and her friendliness and her joyfulness and everything about her.  I even love her pets and how she fights alongside them, which is of course referenced in my choice of theme song for her -- Attack Team.

Rimururu also shines in the oav's.  Her admiration for her sister, her similar beauty (though none can match Nakoruru), her similar great voice (though none can match Nakoruru), her ice elemental 'pet' which is a unique take on Nakoruru's abilities, her courage and loyalty and, how shall I say it, her impudence are all so charming.  The fact that she stews over how nobody is coming home to eat her stew even though it's so good, and then gives in to temptation after thinking about how good it is for too long and eats it all herself -- that's the perfect combination of girl and child.  The girl part is a great cook who's looking after others, the child part can't resist eating the marshmallow set before her, looking out only for herself.

It turns out that even the weakest of my wonderful entries is well deserving of her place, more deserving than I ever imagined.  That says a lot about the rest of my 1809 entries, who got in on a more legitimate basis.

Playing Tales of Xillia clued me in to two problems in my '100 Waifus' book that needed editing.  The first is that Rowen is spelled Rowen, not Rowan.  The second is that Teepo is a girl, not a boy.  Teepo thinks of herself as a girl, and Elize thinks of her as a girl, but I had Teepo listed as Elize's son.  This is an unacceptably large plot hole, so I gave up on having Teepo as a child entirely and replaced Teepo with Gilbert from Unicorn Overlord.  I know for a fact Gilbert is a boy (a prince no less, the most boyish of boys).  This forced me to edit a few other sentences in the book that all had to do with Teepo, making the book slightly shorter than before.  Playing the game again, it's clear that Teepo doesn't really have a separate personality from Elize and therefore shouldn't be treated as a person anyway.  It was always a mistake, even ignoring the misgendering.  In my wonderful hall of fame, Teepo is now listed as just a part of Elize's character, like how Nakoruru/Rimururu are matched.  Hubert inherits Teepo's theme song, "A Merchant Town Full of Life."

Overall, I find Elize and Leia as charming as I remembered them being, and don't regret naming them as two of my 100 waifus.  Elize makes clear early in the game that she dreams of becoming a bride, so her affection meter is maxed out like I imagined.  Leia makes clear all the time how she feels for Jude.  And they're both such beautiful, great girls.  They're the reason to play Tales of Xillia.  And they're the reason Tales of Xillia is around 1/3 the worth of the entire Tales franchise.  (Cheria and Sophie from Tales of Graces are also worth 1/3 of the franchise, also mai waifus.  And Rose from Tales of Zestiria, plus all the other games, make up the remaining 1/3, also mai waifu.)  The only surprise to me, playing through the game this time, is how solid a character Milla is.  I don't really like Milla because she's a doroboneko who steals Jude's heart away from Leia where it belongs.  But if you look past that, she's a genuinely good girl.  Of course, Milla was already in my wonderful hall of fame, I understood she was a good girl from the beginning, but she's a lot better than I remembered.

Karigurashi Ren'ai completed:

I made it through Hiyori and Kyou's routes for a full clear of Karigurashi Ren'ai.  Ayaka ended up being the only girl I really liked in the game, but at least the remainder weren't annoying.  After giving up on Ren'ai 0 Km, it's nice to actually finish a visual novel for a change.  There isn't much other than sex in these Ren'ai games once you get past the common route, it's kinda sad.  The common route is the best part of the game, and the individual routes are more like chores. >.<.  And I've already completed the common route of Futamata Ren'ai, so all that's left is the chores.

Another problem with the Ren'ai series is their reliance on running gags.  Every conversation is the same, it feels like the visual novels could be 1/10 as short and still have the same amount of content.  It's very different from '100 Waifus,' where every conversation is the most passionate and loving moment in their lives.  I miss meaningful dialogue like that.  The initial joke is funny, so hearing it a hundred times isn't that bad, but still. . .

Limelight Lemonade Jam was so much better than these games, and Little Busters! is so much better than Limelight.  I feel like my past self was so spoiled compared to what I get to play now.  But all that will change once Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave comes out.  Then my past self will envy me.

Tales of Xillia Remastered is basically useful for one thing, the Japanese audio option.  I also like that you can turn off random encounters and get extra experience from boss fights to stay strong enough to keep winning and move the plot along.  It really speeds up the game, and there's no point beating the same enemies with the same moves over and over again.  But I already played Tales of Xillia three times in my youth, so this is a plot I'm very used to.  I love the game, but I loved it so much I've already played it into the ground, so this fourth time only feels a little nostalgic and nice.  I suspect playing Final Fantasy Tactics Remastered would feel the same.  That's another game I've already played way too many times, and now they want me to play it again?  >.<.  But I would like to play it again, just to see what's new.  Oh well, I still have plenty of time to do everything I want, with Xillia coming first.

One thing that makes Ren'ai fun is turning off its bgm and using my wonderful playlist instead.  This beefed up 1810 strong song collection is absolutely mesmerizing.  It has every 5-star song and every 4-star song I want to listen to, and there are so many it never gets old.  By the time I hear a song again I'm already feeling lonely for it, so every time it starts I get excited.  The hard work preparing the list before is paying off now.

No matter how much we impoverish Iran, it will still have enough money for missiles and nukes.  Look at how poor North Korea is.  Iran's weapons only cost them $8 billion a year.  Out of a country of 92 million, that's only $87 per Iranian.  Everyone can afford $87.  There's no country on Earth where people couldn't pony up that kind of money.  Threatening to impoverish Iran unless they surrender their weapons doesn't work.  Countries would rather be impoverished and feared in the world than rich and enslaved.  Supposing we somehow did manage to completely eliminate Iran's economy, China would happily donate the $8 billion out of 'humanitarianism' and we'd be right back where we are today.  None of America's wars ever work.  The only wars we won in the last century were WWI and WWII, and all those victories did is ruin western civilization.  Nothing good ever comes from American warmongering.  I wish we would just stop already.  Trump should admit our military can't achieve anything and go home.  Then we could slash our military budget by a trillion dollars a year and use that money to pay down our national debt.  Or at least stop bleeding our deficit ever higher.  We could start using our money to take care of ourselves instead of Israel.  This war has always been so pointless.  Iran was never a threat to anybody, they haven't waged an aggressive war in centuries.  We could walk away at any time and there would be peace again.  Why not just walk away?  There's already a ceasefire.  Here's our chance.  Instead of resuming bombing on Tuesday we could scrap our military and never war again.

Here's a new touchstone to work off for all future wars:  If you aren't instantly going to use nukes, don't go to war at all.  This would keep us out of all trouble on Earth.  The moment Trump announced he wasn't going to nuke Iran the war was already lost.  We should have walked away right then.  Everything after that is just a waste of time and money that can never achieve anything and will never achieve anything.  What did we achieve against Yemen?  Against Afghanistan?  That's right, nothing.  Why don't we ever learn?

Futamata Ren'ai Delivers:

As expected of a 'ren'ai' game, Futamata is also excellent.  I don't really get the protagonist's problems.  He achieved the school romance of his dreams, befriending the girl sitting in the desk next to him.  But then his father and her mother divorced and remarried each other, making them step-siblings.  This somehow psychologically destroyed both of them and they stopped going out, even though it shouldn't have made any difference.  Their parents are their parents, their romance is their own.  How does anything their parents do interfere with what they do with their own lives?

In any case, that meant Nao wanted to get a new girlfriend in order to shove away any prospect of renewing his relationship with Miyako.  But he accidentally, in his earnest efforts, managed to get two at once.  Thus the title, 'two-timing romance.'  But really you could call it triple-timing, since Miyako still likes him and they still live together.  Anyway, there's a great deal of humor involved with him trying to juggle two girls at once without having them discover each other.  The problem is magnified once the two girls he's dating become friends and the three of them go to parties together, all while still not knowing.

One of the girls he's dating is a blonde bombshell with big breasts, Kirame.  She's the typical girl who's clumsy and bashful and excited about all the 'firsts' she's going through.  The other girl he's dating, Yua, is this cynical composed girl who treats dating like a game.  I like Kirame, as I figure all boys would, but Yua does have some justification for her standoffishness.  Her father died and her mother remarried and had a new daughter, making her feel like an accident or an obstacle to her mother's 'dream family life.'  She hated how her mother completely fell out of love with her father and in love with someone else, making all talk of 'love' seem cheap and phony.  To be fair, Yua is being irrational here.  Her mother didn't kill her father, he died of illness.  Her mother still had a long life ahead and it doesn't make sense to dwell in the past forever.  But those are Yua's feelings, whether they came about fairly or not.

I'll promote all three girls in the love quadrangle to my wonderful hall of fame.  Kirame can get Dimension Breach.  Yua can get Orphan Of Flame. (Fitting because she's a genuine orphan).  And Miyako can get Jellyfish Sea.  This completes the assignation of names to all 4-star and above Chrono Cross music, another soundtrack it would be a shame to miss out a single song on.

Owning every SS Memoria in the game was a short-lived dream.  Two new SS Memoria came out today and I failed to get either of them despite using all the paid quartz attempts to get them I could.  I guess it wasn't meant to be.  After spending so much money to achieve the goal once, it would be unaffordable to keep throwing money at the goal again and again.  I'll have to be satisfied with at least reaching that high-water mark once.  I did get a bunch of limit breaks and another eternal daphne, which is nice, but not what I wanted.  Most of the limit breaks were for memorias that don't matter and I don't use.  Dandy Misato got her first limit break, which is nice, but I still don't have a spot for her in any of my many fire squads.  That's how competitive the fire squad slots are.

I think I'll save this eternal daphne for a potential future recruit, perhaps admiral Nanami.  I've daphne'd all the characters I need to at the moment.

I got some nice new necklaces courtesy of the Astrarium, and two new master skills -- Yayoi's and Isuzu's.  Yayoi and Isuzu are strong, and thanks to these new skills they'll be even stronger.

Everyone's skill levels are at max except for kimono Akari.  I don't have to run dungeons anymore now that I'm this close to finished.

My ice squad aced the newest score challenge with a score of over 1.5 million.  Thanks to their efforts I'll be able to get shrine maiden Risa to limit break 3 in a few days.

Rito Route Cleared:

I finally finished the second route of Ren'ai Karigurashi.  Rito is an unexceptional girl with no memorable traits.  Black hair, medium-sized breasts, a nice girl who tackles life's problems responsibly.  Inoffensive is the best descriptor.

Next up is Hiyori's route, which should be more fun, given that she's a twintailed blonde.

I bought Tales of Xillia Remastered, which is important because I've never actually heard mai waifus' Japanese audio voices -- Leia and Elize.  This is inexcusable considering how much I venerated them in '100 Waifus.'  To think I've heard thousands of other anime girls' voices before theirs, when they're the ones I wanted to hear most.

In Heaven Burns Red I'm hard at work dungeon crawling in order to up the skill levels of my newly recruited memorias.  I have seven memorias left with below-max skill levels.  Out of hundreds that isn't bad but I'm always aiming for full clears.  A new event could occur in a couple days, but I suspect it will be something milder than that, given that Part 2 Act II just came out.  They try to trickle out content, not blast everything they have at once.  Maybe a new score challenge or Astrarium or something.

The entire spring season has debuted, and I only ever liked Nigetsuri and Witch Hat Atelier out of the debuting series.  I don't think I've ever had such a miss to hit ratio as this one.  Which is funny because last season I had the highest hit to miss ratio ever.  In any case, here's the finalized spring weekly episode watch guide:

1.  Honzuki no Gekokujou S4

2.  Release that Witch

3.  Mao

4.  Witch Hat Atelier

5.  One Piece

6.  Isekai Nonbiri Nouka S2

7.  Star Detective Precure

8.  Re:Zero S4

9.  Tensei Slime S4

10.  Tsue to Tsurugi S2

11.  Otonari no Tenshi S2

12.  Nigetsuri

13.  Lastame S2

Thirteen shows isn't bad.  I've returned to watching One Piece because One Pace has dropped the ball.  They haven't finished the Wano arc or the Egghead arc and the Elbaph arc has already started.  They had six months to catch up with the Egghead arc and achieved diddly squat.  I'd rather watch One Piece than nothing so One Piece it is.

$130 More:

In my fever to get imp Yayoi, I did 100 rolls.  In my desire to get wedding dress Charlotta and Seira, I did 110 rolls.  If you get to 150 rolls on a character, you can choose the SS Memoria you're aiming for and get it automatically for free.  I had already acquired the SS Memoria, but I could give them limit breaks if I got to 150, which in both cases was already most of the way complete.  So I decided at this point it was more efficient to go on rolling until I'd cashed in on the benefits of my previous rolls.  As a result of this further $130 investment, I got wedding dress Seira to limit break level 1, imp Yayoi to limit break level 2, an eternal daphne for wedding dress Seira and another one for shrine maiden Risa, who have recently proven their worth in tough battles, magicat Tenne to limit break 3, rococo Sumomo to 2.5, thunder Yuina to 2.5, shrine maiden Risa to 2.5, sheep Yotsuha to 2, and 5 protean shards, which gets me halfway to a limit break of my choice.

The two eternal daphnes are definitely the best aspect of this deal.  Now I have 31 SS Memoria with eternal daphnes.  These are the seraphs I can really rely on to take on the toughest opponents.  Bringing Seira and Risa into the fold gives me a lot of flexibility for future squad formation.  (Buffers and healers are useful pretty much anywhere).

But this doesn't do justice to what my $130 purchased.  Half of what I purchased is paid quartz that I haven't used yet.  This vast reservoir of paid quartz will get me many new SS Memoria in the future, so hopefully I can keep my 'all SS Memoria in the game collected' status for as long as possible.  (Wouldn't it be great if it were all the way to the end of the game?  What a dream that would be. . .)

I made a new fire squad to try and make idol Erika useful, and she was pretty effective.  The problem is the new squad was still weaker than my previous fire squads, which makes the whole effort sorta pointless.  But it did provide proof of principle that the potential I saw in idol Erika wasn't wrong.  It feels like only goddess Yingxia was a straight-out mistake.

Miya completed her training and got her new master skill, which awards +2 sp to the whole party every time she uses her exclusive skills.  Her exclusive skills cost either 14, 12, or 7 sp, based on various factors -- and the master skill generates a 12 sp benefit overall, so either Miya refunds the entire cost of her ability now, or even gives the party a profit for firing her arrows.  That's crazy good for a character who was already one of my strongest.  I used the extra skill slot Miya got for reaching title badge 10 to slot in her master skill without having to take out any of my previous skills, which makes her all the more overpowered.

I also unlocked Isuzu's master skill, which is cool, but I can't buy it for lack of shards.  If I did have shards I would get Yayoi's master skill bubble destroyer, since she's suddenly my most important character now, so it wouldn't help Isuzu anyway.

Love Live! Nijigasaki movie 2 came out and it was decent.  I don't like Nijigasaki that much, or the idols in this movie in particular, but Love Live! is such a solid franchise that even its weakest portions are worthy.  I've already watched the movie twice.

Witch Hat Atelier is a great anime:

After watching the first two episodes of Witch Hat Atelier, I'm convinced this will go on to become a great anime.  I gave it the ranking of #180.  To make room I combined Demons Crest with SAO, since it's the same damn story -- kids playing a VRMMO get stuck in it and now it's like real life -- written by the same author.  At that point it may as well be the same franchise.

Now all my ranked anime have properly actually aired, which is how it should be.  Mao and Witch Hat Atelier have been spectacular and are sure to make the spring season enjoyable.  None of the other debuting series this spring have impressed me.  Nigetsuri is the only other watchable one.  The rest of the good series this spring are all continuations.

I made Coco, the heroine, a wonderful character and gave her the theme song of Star-Stealing Girl.  It's extremely fitting since the first thing she did was 'steal' the knowledge of how to create magic.

The art and animation of Witch Hat Atelier is top notch.  The way she moves is so natural, and I love how many small movements there are per frame.  You can tell the makers of this work wanted it to sparkle, like Kimetsu no Yaiba sparkles.

Spring season series are still debuting, but I don't have much hope for any of the remainder.  I'll go on trying and seeing though.

If I keep up the good work, I'll complete Miya's master skill training tomorrow.  I'm also making good progress on Isuzu's master skill training, but I don't have any spare shards for her even when it unlocks.  Similar to Gig Mode, I've now acquired all the available loot in the Clock Tower.  I did Hell Mode up to the point there was no further point, which is the same as completely clearing Hell Mode.

Israel is still bombing Lebanon and the strait of Hormuz is still closed, so it looks like the ceasefire has already failed.  It never made sense for there to be a ceasefire in the first place, as the two sides can't possibly come to an accommodation they hate each other so much.  Either Iran or Israel must cease to exist, because the Islamic Republic of Iran is too fanatical to accept any other result.  Israel needs to nuke Iran into submission.  This has always been the obvious solution from the beginning.  None of these talks will ever get anywhere until Iran fears Israel.  And nothing America or Israel is currently doing scares Iran in the least.  Therefore no talks can possibly succeed.

Gig Mode Victory:

Gig Mode is too difficult for me on hard mode.  I don't understand how any human, honestly, could play on hard mode or higher.  But the game is more forgiving than that.  It only requires you to be able to clear normal difficulty to get all the rewards available.  I reaped the final 19 lifestones from gig mode and used them all on the latest event boss, getting plenty of tokens to buy all the event loot available.  Even on normal difficulty it's possible to reap all the rewards in the game, so that's good enough for me.

Due to my efforts in gig mode, I reached player rank 130, which gave me my latest eternal daphne.  I used it on imp Yayoi, who's way stronger than I initially thought.  I was just collecting her as a collector's item, the last SS Memoria to top off my collection of 154 SS Memoria.  But it turns out she's possibly the strongest Memoria in the game.  Her Mega Destroyer technique only costs 8 sp and has no use limit.  Her Friend-Calling Dance ability gives everyone, permanently, 40% up to exposed enemy damage and +1 sp regeneration per turn.  I put her in my critical penetration squad, so that 'exposed' status will always be active, because everything counts as exposed to critical penetration attacks.  She gives a permanent free +100% buff to everyone's sp attacks that cost 8 and under.  So I put her in a new fire squad where 5/6 of the characters' exclusive abilities cost 8 or less -- swimsuit Adelheid, hot springs Isuzu, wedding dress Ichiko, wedding dress Seira, and imp Yayoi herself.

With six henchmen, which requires a couple turns to set up, her Mega Destroyer technique does 500% extra damage, on top of the +100% dp damage it already does, and the +100% skill attack for being an 8 or under sp attack.  Oh, and it gets two stacks of multihit, each of which do 3 additional hits that are 25% normal strength.  So if my math works correctly that's another +150% damage.  Oh, and don't forget the +40% damage due to the enemy being 'exposed,' because it's a critical penetration attack.  And don't forget the +50% damage innate to an attack being a crit, and the -50 to the enemy's defense due to the attack being an automatic crit.  It's absolutely overwhelming.

Imp Yayoi's potential isn't done yet.  At level 3 limit break she extends a broken enemy's down status by an additional turn.  (basically giving the party an extra turn).  At level 4 limit break she gives the party a free bar of overdrive.  I only have imp Yayoi at level 1 limit break.  If I gave her a healthy helping of protean shards she could become a true monster.

She's the best buffer and the best damage dealer in the game.  It's totally absurd.  Who needs an admiral when you can have an imp?

I currently have a backlog of 11 characters stuck at 2.5 or 3.5 limit breaks, so my first priority for protean shards has to go to them.  Tomorrow I'll get the protean shards I need to elevate one of those .5's to a round number, probably admiral Aoi.  I keep praising how strong she is so I should at least give her the opportunity to shine at her brightest.  But someday I'll get imp Yayoi to full strength, and she'll be a terror when that happens.

Sadly dandy Misato, who I thought was going to be an important ally going forward, has been totally sidelined as a result of all these new acquisitions.  I can't find a spot for her in any of my three fire squads.  The main problem is she's limit break 0 and all her competitors are limit break level 4.  Not much can be done about a gap as wide as that.  I've given out 29 eternal daphnes now, and Misato didn't turn out to use her's well.  The two gravest wastes of daphnes are idol Erika and goddess Yingxia, though.  Idol Erika couldn't be helped, I had no idea that she would soon be superannuated by the strictly superior admiral Erika.  In the same manner, Goddess Yingxia is hopelessly inferior to rider Nanami.  They both buff lightning attacks and skill attacks in general, but Nanami buffs people more in both cases, by a wide margin, while also doing damage to the enemy.  Yingxia should dig herself a hole and bury herself in it, she's so embarrassingly weak.

I have enough shards to acquire another master skill, but I want to purchase Miya's and the requirements to unlock her master skill are crazy.  I have to use her exclusive skill 221 times in battle.  It's an expensive skill too, requiring at least 12 sp.  I'd have to battle a very long time for that to happen.  If I put her in dungeon runs I could at least get credit for 5 'uses' per use, by multiplying the battles by 5 per battle in the dungeon.  But my dungeon party currently consists of a bunch of new recruits trying to learn their new skills.  I suppose I could shove Miya in regardless and say she takes priority, but the skills people are trying to learn are things like Mega Destroyer, which are also pretty darn important. . .

Surprisingly, Trump and Iran have declared a ceasefire, where negotiations will resume.  I don't see why Iran would negotiate since they're completely in the winning position.  Trump already ruled out using nukes against Iran, which is the only serious threat we pose to them.  Meanwhile they pose a serious threat to the world economy and have already shown their willingness to act on that threat by closing the strait of Hormuz.  When one side has leverage and the other doesn't, why would you agree to a ceasefire and disarm your most effective weapon?  With the strait of Hormuz open Iran has no leverage again.  It's stupid to negotiate from a position of weakness, so logically these negotiations shouldn't be occurring.  But I've never understood Iran's reasoning, they seem to be totally insane.  They want to enrich uranium to nuclear bomb levels but not make nuclear bombs.  They want to close the strait then open it again as a gesture of 'goodwill' during negotiations.  They were okay with a ceasefire after the 12-day war with Israel when they were winning after Israel's duplicitous sneak attack.  Then they got hit again by a second duplicitous sneak attack less than a year later, and learn nothing, signing up for another ceasefire.  Iran is so contemptible.  They're so strong, but their brains are so mushy they lose all the same.

This doesn't mean I don't have an equal share of contempt for America.  We spent trillions of dollars on this military, putting our nation $40 trillion into debt, so that we could be militarily defeated by a nation that only spent $8 billion on their military.  That's fraud on the most massive scale in human history.  If a product doesn't do what it advertises it can do, it's defective and the consumer should be able to return it to the producer for a refund.  I want a refund on our $40 trillion debt.  None of our weapons do anything.  We can't defeat anybody with them.  Low cost missiles and drones drove our entire navy, air force, and army away from Iran's shores.  We couldn't get near them with anything.  We ran out of missile defense and drone defense well before they ran out of missiles and drones.  What were we thinking, stockpiling all these hyper-expensive anti-missile missiles, when there's such an obvious solution, which is just to shoot more missiles at lower expense than you can shoot them down?  Did that never occur to anyone when they were buying these toys?

Once again I find myself incapable of supporting Iran or Iran's enemies.  Both sides always seem insane, stupid and evil.