Wonderful +50:

I added 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 Might Morphin' Power Rangers, Ariel from the Little Mermaid, Aladdin from Aladdin, Jen from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Chino and Hanabi from Naruto, Lanz 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, Lucius from Aiyoku no Eustia, 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 50 magnificent and fitting theme songs -- Sentou Scene 1, Dark Crystal, Mysterious Shop, Desert Flower, Ku Country of the Red Evening Sun, Buried in the Snow, Luke And Leia, 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, unavoidable destiny, companions that surpassed their tribe, AKB Sanjou, Niji no Ressha, In Pursuit, Dear Friends, Roses and Wine, Pioneer, Cry of Pain!, Theme of Black Knight, Snake Remains Chamber, Hajimari wa kimi no sora, 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.

Skullfeather Final Form Down:

Heaven Burns Red 3.0 introduced a new anachrony, a new last boss of the game, stronger than anything that had come before -- and I took it down on my first try.  It's all thanks to the $220 I spent over the weekend getting all the new recruits.  That included dandy Misato, who I used to subjugate the new last boss.  She immediately jumped into the deep end of the pool, and I mean the really deep end of the pool.

My new and improved fire squad, featuring Squad 31-A minus Tama (and plus Misato), proved their worth.  As a reward, I was given a new eternal daphne, which I promptly handed over to dandy Misato.  Now she'll be a little more prepared for Skullfeather final form when I start farming it for nordstrom crystals.

I also got jacket Ichigo, one of the last SS Memoria in the game I don't own.  I don't exactly want to own every single SS Memoria they release at any cost, it just sort of ended up that way during my hunt for dandy Misato.  But it would certainly be awesome if I could achieve such a feat (I doubt I ever will.)  I'm so close though.  Only 5 SS Memoria between me and completion, out of 148.  That's 97%.

Jacket Ichigo, like most of the new recruits I acquired, isn't strong enough to be used in any serious manner.  But schoolgirl Hisame did reach the level of my ice squad and immediately started performing well.  It appears that all versions of Hisame are awesome, all because of her Munechika base exclusive move that can be introjected and used by every version of Hisame.  If I could get base Hisame up to max limit break, that would improve the skill level of Munechika as well as give +10% stats to pajamas Hisame, maid Hisame, and schoolgirl Hisame who are all featured in frontline squads now.  Another goal I need to prioritize. . .

Skullfeather Final Form wasn't weak by any means.  It's just that diva Ruka's ability to regenerate everyone's sp, heal everyone, buff everyone and deal damage is too strong.  It's like she's four seraphs instead of one.  Diva Ruka and admiral Aoi are broken.  (In a good way, though, without them I couldn't beat any of these anachronies.)  Even though I can beat the last boss of the game, I couldn't get max score on the most recent score challenge, which proves the game thinks I could theoretically be even stronger.  I own 97% of all the SS Memorias in the game and there's still someone stronger than me out there? >.<.

Meanwhile, The Teen Web Novelist is a Girl Magnet's manga adaption came to an end.  It was a bittersweet, open-ended conclusion, clearly just giving up on the series midway.  Unfortunately the original web novel isn't being translated into English so this is as far as I can go with the series.  At least I can honor it one more time by elevating Michiru, the main heroine of the tale, to my wonderful hall of fame.  She can have Shoujo-tachi yo as her theme song.  It's so fitting it's like the song was built for her.

Operation Perseus Cleared:

I spent another full day playing Heaven Burns Red in order to clear the Nanami event that was being held at the same time as the Chie event.  That event netted me some fine loot as well -- it got base Erika to max level 4 limit break, and an eternal daphne which I used on spica Yuina.  Then I got another eternal daphne for reaching player rank 120, so I used that on maid Hisame.

The paid quartz recruitment campaign this time let me choose who I wanted to get, out of 10 options (so I don't automatically get my favorite choice, but all ten choices are at least among my priorities.)  The deal was too good to ignore, so I paid $150 and starting rolling.  I focused on recruiting the remaining SS Memorias I didn't own yet, and netted 7 of them -- dango Yayoi, raccoon Kanata, ryoukan Satomi, wolf Chie, dandy Misato, hot springs Minori, and shrine maiden Risa.

There are only 6 SS Memoria I don't own in the game, now.  Street clothes Yingxia, jacket Ichigo, ninja Monaka, kimono Akari, magician Isuzu and sheep Yotsuha.  I have a plan to acquire sheep Yotsuha soon, so really it's just 5 SS Memorias in the entire game I haven't bought or acquired by lucky free rolls.  5 missing compared to 143 acquired.  That makes me about the most dedicated player of HBR in the entire world.

I also got some useful limit breaks -- spica Yuina reached level 3 limit break, kimono Muua level 1, and swimsuit Adelheid reached level 3.

I got all the useful loot in the score challenge by using my critical penetration squad, scoring over 1.3 million.  I was supposed to fight it with my light squad, but they could only get to 1.2 million.

All new SS Memoria are welcome, but the one I really wanted was dandy Misato.  Her abilities seem ideal for my fire squad.  I noticed that Tama was barely being used in my fire squad, so I moved her over to my secondary fire squad and put dandy Misato in her place.  Diva Ruka can heal the party fine on her own, and Misato's debuffs are more powerful than Tama's buffs.  In addition Misato can give +5 sp to the whole party with her exclusive ability, whereas Tama can only give +3 sp with hers, and to make matters worse Tama's +3 sp doesn't aid diva Ruka, while Misato's +5 sp does.  Misato can also gain resonance abilities from her supporter while Tama can't.

The only problem is magical girl Tama has been buffed to the max -- max memento, eternal daphne, limit break level 4.  Dandy Misato has no buffs.  No daphne, no memento boost, no limit breaks.  So probably right now Tama is still the better choice.  But looking forward into the future the math favors Misato.

Heaven Burns Red 3.0:

I added 26 characters to my wonderful hall of fame, most of whom I had cruelly subtracted in the past.  I'm feeling in an expansionist mood and don't feel the need to be so strict in terms of who gets in, so these characters are getting a second chance:  Petra and Ingrid from Fire Emblem, Giyu, Tengen and Daki/Gyutaro from Demon Slayer, Hiromi from Minami Kamakura Kōkō Joshi Jitensha-Bu, Zack and Kelly from Saved by the Bell, Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nasa and Tsukasa from Tonikaku Kawaii, Mei, Himari and Hazuki from Dal Segno, Yang and Setzer from Final Fantasy, Anne from Tearmoon Empire,  Reptile from Mortal Kombat, Marie from DanMachi, Michiru from KoiChoco, Celia from Rave Master, Mizuki from Guyver, Misaki from Ren'ai 0 Km, Kohaku from Onii-chan Dakeshimete, Chie from Heaven Burns Red and Shin from Prism Rondo.

Shin wasn't in my wonderful playlist before, but I wanted to honor Prism Rondo because it's an amazing anime, and Shin is the best character in the show.

This let me add 25 songs to my wonderful playlist, many of whom also had appeared in the past in my wonderful playlist but were bumped out.  Now they're back where they belong -- ebullient future (English), Trial of the Genealogy, People of the Marketplace, City Theme - Sylvan, Sunday, Akeboshi, Asa ga Kuru, Shine in the Cruel Night, painful battle, battle of hope, Autumn Howl, Debate Soldier, Evening, Avenger, GIFT(ShortVer), Two Silhouettes(ShortVer), Fei Long Theme, The Spy, National anthem of MACROSS, Treasure, Underground Sewer, In a Prison of Peace and Regret, [The Sky, the Clouds, and You], [Solaris, Celestial Paradise] and One Who Bares Fangs at God, .

The reason I added Chie to my wonderful hall of fame is because today's Heaven Burns Red new event was all about Chie.  I didn't like her in the past because she seemed unreasonable -- she would constantly get angry and start yelling out of nowhere, and was obsessed with her frilly fashion.  But during this event I discovered the reason behind her 'irrationality.'  She was literally raised by wolves and had to learn how to be human much later than everyone else.  Her fixation on fashion is a fixation on clothing, i.e., her new human way of life.  It keeps her rooted.  And her lack of social skills is because she literally doesn't have them.  Not only was she adopted late, but she was then mistreated by the government as some sort of research experiment after that, with only one human being treating her well in her entire life, whom she was separated from while still a preteen.  That's all she had to work with.  The fact that she's as civilized as she is, is a testament to her incredible soul.  And the one person who treated her well?  She dived into a prison compound to free her and fought as a rear guard to let her escape.  Whenever Chie is given a chance to be good, she becomes a legendary hero.  Just as she is now, today, fighting the Cancer from outer space for the sake of the humanity that mistreated her.  She's so heroic she forgives them for the sake of her adoptive mother, and her new comrades who fight by her side and accept her.

Chie also showed a new wild side to her fighting.  When she goes on all fours and reverts to beast mode, she goes beast mode.  She's a terror on the battlefield who rips Cancer to shreds.  Like they're not even there, she's so much faster than them.  The plot actually established that she's faster than Hisame, the swordsman who can hit a Cancer with 31 strikes in a single attack.  I've always respected Chie's strength, she's in my tank squad and my dark squad, with max level limit break.  But wow.  I didn't know she was that strong when she goes berserk.

So basically there's a lot of reasons to invite Chie to my fictional character hall of fame.  There's also a lot of reasons to love Heaven Burns Red, which keeps churning out amazing story after amazing story.

The new HBR update had a mountain of loot to work through, as well as a ton of gameplay updates.  There's a lot of interface and quality of life improvements, some gameplay balance (overly weak abilities and classes were buffed), a new Anachrony boss I'll have to see if I can beat next time I get an anachrony pass, a new Operation Perseus event as well as the new Chie event and new score challenge.  The game straight out gave me 10 Protean Shards and 3 Eternal Daphnes, something I would have to work months to get on my own.  It also gave me 10 Rainbow Shards which don't currently have a use yet, because no rainbow rarity Memorias have appeared yet.  But those are obviously super valuable too.  I had so much to do in HBR I've been up for something like 48 hours, just playing nonstop.  There were new floors to the clock tower, which allowed me to get two more skill evolutions.  I got a bunch of additional seraphs to level 5 reversion, which gives them an extra skill slot.  I got the new kimono Muua SS Memoria, I got admiral Aoi to level 3 limit break, I got base Erika to level 3.5, swimsuit Adelheid to level 2.5, and waitress Kozue to level 3.  These are all genuinely useful SS Memorias so this is great progress.  And all for free.  They're just handing me loot hand over fist.

There's a new feature in the game, that allows you to pair your active squad with a 'support squad.'  The support squad gives whichever seraph it's matched with 1/10 of its own native stats.  So the stronger you made your random, not-in-your-top-squad characters, the better off your top squad is now.  Since I spent madly collecting almost every SS Memoria in the game, this new support function especially helps me.  Suddenly my whole collection has a purpose and is helping me win fights.  Like I planned it all along.

Swimsuit Adelheid, waitress Kozue and hot springs Isuzu are the seraphs I gave my free eternal daphnes to.  I also leveled them so they'll be useful in high-end content.  In a great new feature, you can fight enemies with whatever squad you want, and the enemies will drop 'up to experience' items as a reward.  Then you can give your lower-level characters the items.  This lets you farm the strongest enemies in the game with your strongest party while still benefitting your weakest characters.  It's a huge step up from before, where the only people who could get experience were the max level characters who no longer could benefit from it.

I have nothing but praise for this game, the best game ever made.  I've spent thousands of dollars on it and it was all money well spent.  Wow.  So fun!  And this is my second year playing it.  We're celebrating the 500 day anniversary of the release and it's still this fun.

'In Another World with 100 Waifus' read for the 52nd time:

I was devilishly tempted to edit this book once more.  Maybe I could change some more names, or switch who gave birth to which child, or switch a 'the' to an 'a,' etc.  But I resisted every impulse and reminded myself that the book was good enough as is.  Editing for editing's sake would be an eternal loop and the book would never be finished.  The book is good enough as is.  It's practically perfect.  So I read the entire book and didn't change a single thing.

If not for the Iran war suddenly popping up, I would have read the book more swiftly, but this past week has been extremely distracting.  When I actually read the story, I was able to concentrate and read it fluidly, even the sections that are just long lists of names.  It felt like the story flowed better than ever before.  This might have been the reread I enjoyed most of all.  In the past I would struggle over long sentences, get lost in them, and have to reread them over and over before they really entered my head.  This time they all made sense the first time.  Perhaps because I'd already read the book 51 previous times, but I think it's because the cumulative effect of all my previous edits and proofreads finally bore fruit.

Even though this was my 52nd readthrough, the book remains as intoxicatingly sexy as ever.  This is the most erotic literature in history, as well as the best book ever written.

Every section of the story has its own important role.  I can't say any part is better than any other, because they're all best at what they're doing, what they're discussing, what they're highlighting.  I loved the early chapters because everyone was getting to know each other.  I loved the middle chapters because Christopher struggled bravely to accomplish a series of very difficult goals.  I loved the later chapters because the story widened its scope into the realm of politics and philosophy.  I loved the final chapters because they fulfilled the promise of a romantic moment with every single waifu, and gave a little window into what the future of Eden would look like, of how great Christopher's children were and how they'd carry on his legacy.  I loved the whole book and everything in it.

For people interested in reading the book now that it's finally finished, years after it was supposed to be finally finished, here are the convenient links:

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-1.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-2.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-3.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/03/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-4.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-7.html

I thought I was done with the 50th reading, but it turned out Kudryavka had a middle name.  Then I thought I was done with the 51st reading, but it turned out Sophie had a last name.  Now I'm done with the 52nd reading, and everyone's names are right.  Cute is in Her heavens, and all is right with the world.

Any book that can be enjoyed 52 times is worth reading at least once.  The whole world should take advantage of this opportunity~

Meanwhile, I added two more characters to my wonderful hall of fame.  Itsuki from Haruhi Suzumiya (the boy other than Kyon), and Noriko from Maria-sama ga Miteru.  They were both children in '100 Waifus' previously, before I yanked them out due to having repeat names.  But that doesn't actually reflect poorly on their character, so there's no reason why they can't at least be in my wonderful gallery.  I gave Noriko 'Genzai' and Itsuki 'Dance of the Unified Water,' two beautiful 4-star songs that fit them perfectly.  The truth is a great many of my 4-star songs are 5-star quality, and in fact used to be rated 5-star in the past.  I have all the great songs I need no matter how many new additions to the fictional character hall of fame there might be.

Release that Witch begins:

An epic Chinese animation has begun adapting an epic Chinese web novel series, Release that Witch.  I had no clue this was happening until the first episode landed.  Having read the web comic adaption and included it in my manga hall of fame -- despite not actually being a manga -- I can guarantee everyone we're in for a treat.  Like 'Who Made me a Princess?,' only the very best of non-Japanese works get my attention, so if it has my attention, it's guaranteed to be great.

This was so far off my radar I didn't even imagine it could happen, it wasn't even on my anime wishlist.  A bolt from the blue.  What a great time to be alive.

Hopefully Release that Witch airs for a long time because the source work it's based off of is very, very long.  If it covers enough of the good material in the source work, it will definitely reach my top anime rankings.  The first episode was already amazing.

Meanwhile, I finally maxed out all the skill levels of all my seraphs in Heaven Burns Red.  What a long time it took, I wondered if this would ever happen.  Sort of anticlimactic since I've already defeated Skullfeather and don't need higher skill levels, but whatever.  I'm just happy I accomplished something so difficult.

I also got tuxedo Karen's first limit break using the delimiter.  That first limit break is the most important one, because of the extra sp it grants you per turn, and tuxedo Karen was the only SS Memoria I had deployed in any squad that still lacked that first limit break.  The light squad is becoming more and more competitive with my other squads due to upgrades like these.

Tucker Carlson had a good monologue about the Iran war that lasted for nearly 2 hours.  He's right on the details but misses the larger picture.  The larger picture is that Iran is evil and it's a good thing to destroy it.  The larger picture is that America's credibility was on the line, and that credibility helps us prevent wars in the future.  If we say we'll do something, we have to do it.  By creating that reputation we can cow all the potential dictators of the world into two important deeds that lead to world peace -- don't slaughter your own people, and don't attack your neighbors.  These are the basic rules America's reputation upholds all across the world.  Iran was defying both of those rules, and so it had to be punished.  Now thousands of dictators all over the world, now and in the future, are rethinking whether they want to cause trouble and draw America's ire next.

The moment Trump demanded Iran disarm or we would disarm them, America was committed.  Iran refused to disarm, and so the only possible course of action, at that point, is for us to disarm them.  It's a shame Iran didn't listen and obey when we asked nicely, but the worst possible thing we could have done is threaten force and then back down.  After that the whole world would have spit in our face for the rest of time.  Once your reputation is lost it's a dozen times harder to get it back, than if you had just protected it in the first place.

Should Trump have started making demands of Iran in the first place?  No.  Iran wasn't our problem, we should have ignored them and let Israel fight it out if they wanted.  But Trump made it our problem, and after that we had no choice but to fight and win.

It's the exact same reason I told Putin to invade Ukraine.  He gave an ultimatum and the west rejected his ultimatum, so he had to put up or shut up.  Thankfully he put up and preserved Russia's reputation.  Unfortunately he ruined Russia's reputation by not committing enough forces to get the job done -- but maybe someday he'll salvage Russia's reputation by ultimately achieving victory.  If he had simply backed down Russia would have been ignored for the rest of time -- none of its interests would have ever been consulted again.

The lessons that apply to individuals apply to nations.  Cowards are treated with contempt.  Never say you'll do something and then don't do it.  Especially never say you'll use force and then slink away when the other side stands up to you.  That's the absolute worst, most contemptible act a man can do.  As with men, so with nations.  America must fight because we said we would fight.  And we must win so that next time we say we'll fight, we don't have to fight.  There are much worse wars than war with non-nuclear Iran.  The ability to deter those worse, future wars, for the small price of a war with Iran, is priceless.

My greatest fear is that Trump will sacrifice America's reputation by taking the easy way out for himself and cut his losses.  So far we haven't had many casualties, so if he runs away he can avoid the bad press of all that 'unnecessary loss of life.'  But that's a siren song, the quick and easy path, that doesn't take into account future ramifications.  It doesn't matter how many Americans die in this war.  In fact, the more deaths we take, the more we prove our resolve, which actually enhances our bargaining position in the future.  "When we say something we mean it, look how many Americans died to beat Iran, we'll fight that hard to beat you too."  Unless we lost so many men that it actually crippled our productive capacity, losses are meaningless.  And in America today we have massive underemployment of fit men, tens of millions of people basically playing video games all day for lack of something better to do.  We have no shortage of men who could replace the losses we take today.

What matters is our honor.  Honor is worth dying for.  Honor is doing what you say you'll do.  It's extremely simple.  Everything in life is extremely simple.  Everyone can understand this.  We said we would disarm Iran permanently, so that they could no longer threaten anyone ever again.  So that's what we should do.  That's the bare minimum of what we should do.  Ideally we should install a new Iranian government that treats its people like human beings instead of punching bags.  But at the very least, we must do what we said we would do.  The whole world is watching, looking for weakness, seeing if they can get away with their own atrocities.  We must show them there are still consequences to bad behavior.  This could buy us another 50 years of peace.  And it's especially important after we ran away from Afghanistan and Yemen and Vietnam.  A lot of people are wondering if they can defy America and get away with it, like those other countries have.  We must provide a decisive answer to those questions.  We must wipe away the stain of our past defeats and replace it with a clear and decisive victory.  We must re-earn the reputation we earned in World War II and Desert Storm, or there will be much worse wars, with much greater casualties, suddenly breaking out everywhere like a blizzard.  We'll all wish we had fought harder against Iran when we had the chance, when we could have nipped this all in the bud.

The war has already begun.  At this point there's no point talking about whether we should've fought it or not.  There's only one thing left to do, and that's dedicate all our energy towards victory.

Prince of Tennis ending in six chapters:

Did Prince of Tennis ever really need a sequel?  No.  Has the past ten years of extra content been fun?  Yes.  But all good things must come to an end, including the endless Prince of Tennis.  I predicted the end of Prince of Tennis would be one of 2026's milestones, and here we are.  Another prediction that's come true.

Prince of Tennis started in 1999, around the same time as One Piece.  It's one of the longest manga of all time, with 88 volumes so far.  We've seen every tennis match imaginable, including horseback tennis.  This is a good time to stop.

America doesn't get to enjoy the end of the Prince of Tennis manga, because it isn't being translated.  But the anime has reliably adapted the manga so far, so we'll eventually get to see the ending in anime form, so having the ending in manga form gets us one step closer to that goal.  Perhaps in 2027.

The monthly refresh in Heaven Burns Red didn't yield me much in benefits.  I got wedding dress Mari to level 2 limit break and maxed out thundercat Byakko's memento.  Well, it could've been worse.

Iran is a nation of 92 million people, the USA can't be expected to defeat it in a single day, but we've already made sizable progress by taking out their 'supreme leader.'  I honestly don't know what will happen.  We know Trump likes to fold and run away because he already did that with Yemen.  But we also know Iran likes to fold and run away because it already did that last year.  When both sides are cowards who like to give up immediately, who wins?  Nobody knows.  I hope Trump perseveres until the Iranian regime is overthrown, but I have a sinking feeling we'll soon be back to 'ceasefires' and 'negotiations.'  God I'm so tired of negotiations.  In Iran, in Ukraine, everywhere.  Things should be settled with unconditional surrender.  If you can't get that through conventional means then just nuke your opponent into submission.  No quarter for the enemy.  Complete victory.  Why are we afraid of a bunch of barbarians without nukes when we have nukes?  Tell them to obey or die.  By the way I support Russia nuking Ukraine into submission too.  I support all wars being fought seriously across the board.  I'm against fake wars.

It's because everyone's too afraid to use nukes that pissant countries like Ukraine and Iran defy superpowers with nukes in the first place.  If everyone understood upfront that defying a nuclear power meant getting nuked, there would be no wars at all.  People would just take their marching orders quietly and obediently from the beginning.  Imagine if, on October 7th, Hamas had raided across the border into Israel, and that very day, all of Iran evaporated into nuclear flame.  Do you really think Hamas would have attacked?  Would the last four years of war in the Middle East have ever happened?  Acting seriously has serious benefits.

This entire century has been dominated by pointless wars because nuclear powers didn't use nukes.  Al Qaeda wouldn't have dared to attack us on 9/11 if they knew the entire Muslim world would disappear in response.  There goes the entire war on terror, the endless wasted trillions that has put America into so much debt.  We could have spent it all on free health care, or solved our social security insolvency problem, or given all children a free house upon reaching age 18, with that money.

Russia has lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of men in a war it could have ended on day 1 with the threat of nukes.  It's now five years into the war and no closer to achieving its original objectives than when it started.  NATO still intends to deploy armed forces into Ukraine after the war is over.  Ukraine still intends to build up a huge army and retake its 'lost territories' at some later date.  Ukraine still has entire divisions of troops with Nazi banners and Nazi tattoos running around.  The Russian language and the Russian Orthodox church is still banned.  The people of Donbass still aren't safe from shelling -- the people of Belgorod aren't safe from shelling.  All because Putin is too much of a pussy to use the one effective weapon Russia has in its arsenal.

Israel and America need to man up and use their nukes too.  Enough is enough.  Oppose a nuclear power and die.  That should be the new 'international law.'  Why are we taking casualties for no reason, when we could win this war instantly, with the flick of a wrist?  Why should a single American die for the sake of sparing Iranian lives?  Give them a clear ultimatum, surrender or perish in nuclear flame.  Then if they refuse to surrender their deaths are on their own insane heads.

I can sort of understand why we didn't use nuclear weapons in Korea or Vietnam, because there was fear of the USSR reprising with nukes.  But that situation no longer exists.  Iran isn't under anybody's nuclear umbrella, and neither is Ukraine.  In fact, we can make a deal with Russia, openly and publicly -- you can nuke Ukraine without reprisal, and in exchange we get to nuke Iran without reprisal.  That will make everything clearly safe for all.  That would also bring instant peace to the world, as both the nations without nukes would surrender instantly.  We could have eternal peace all across the world with this one neat trick.