Tales of Arise Announced:

Tales of Berseria is the best game on PS4, so when Tales of Arise was announced for PS4 as the 'next chapter in the Tales franchise,' this was pretty big news.  Bigger than if FF 16 had been announced.

The fact that it's coming out for PS4, and not PS5, means it should be releasing sooner rather than later, but there's no firm release date.

Meanwhile, the second to last chapter of Nanoha Vivid has been translated.  Only one more to go before the entire Nanoha manga is available in English.

I tried out Masashi Kishimoto's newest work, Hachimaru 8, but it was terrible.  It's hard to believe this is the same guy who wrote Naruto, which is practically the perfect story.  He should've just continued writing Naruto if he's going to waste his time with junk like this.  Maybe then Bolt wouldn't be such a disaster.

Likewise, I tried out Dragon Quest Dai no Daiboken.  The anime felt like an inferior version of the original Dragon Ball, which means there's really no point to its existence.  People would be better off just watching Dragon Ball again.

I dropped Kakashi's Theme from my music hall of fame.  It sounded too much like a different theme song so it created too much cognitive dissonance when the notes varied from my expectations.

That puts me down to 5401 songs.  One more to drop to reach a round number!

The women's world cup has begun, but the matches aren't competitive in the first round.  Most of the world doesn't have any support for women athletes so they're complete amateurs undeserving of the world's attention.  Things will improve once we reach the quarterfinals.

Trump has done a great job using the threat of tariffs to persuade Mexico to stop the flood of central american fake asylum seekers.  That's the type of brilliant, ingenuitive, proactive use of presidential authority that doesn't rely on the feckless congress to achieve results I'm looking for.  Today again he's proven to be the best president in living memory.

I'm rereading 'In Another World With 100 Waifus' for the 9th time and proofreading minor issues as I go along.  There were still some errors worth correcting even though I thought I had caught them all.  A good thing this book is worth reading 9 times or I'd never have fixed them.  Even though this is the ninth time in four months, I still find the book more enjoyable than anything else I could be doing.  That shows how far above all other works of art it stands.