Masquerade:

The next time a Democrat accuses a Republican of 'endangering a child's life' by not affirming their new gender identity (because if you don't go along with their big lie they'll feel bad and if they feel bad they'll kill themselves), I wish the Republican would respond, "no you're endangering children's lives by encouraging this insanity on impressionable kids who could still be saved, who can still lead a normal life like all our ancestors before us, before this pernicious ideological poison was introduced in their midst.  Once a child is 'transgender' they're already lost, whether they commit suicide or not is meaningless because their mind is long gone already, but there are still millions of children who might or might not become transgender based on what we say here, today."

Like always, Republicans always have the moral high ground, but like always they always cede the moral high ground, by never countering Democratic talking points.  If they would ever just stand up for the people who actually matter, the ones who aren't terminally insane, the light of clarity would shine down on this issue and put paid to it once and for all.  Instead we get mumbo jumbo about 'biology' and 'religious principles' and blah blah.  But if Democrats are right and lives can be saved by lying, but can't be saved by 'religious principles,' then obviously Democrats are right and we should all live by lies.  All these stupid abstractions are meaningless in the face of a human life.  Republicans come off as either disingenuous (they can't possibly care about these random abstractions, can they?), or utterly clueless (do they seriously not understand that lives are at stake?).  You don't win an argument by asserting you're either dishonest or stupid.  You must win on their terms, using their battleground.  It's easily demonstrable that transgenders have a higher suicide rate than cisgenders, whether they're affirmed by their community or not, so the actual way to save people's lives is to eliminate the very concept of transgender and never allow anyone to become it, not to spread the ideology by talking about it and championing it and rewarding it and praising it constantly in the hopes that transgenders won't feel bad.  No matter what they'll feel bad, because they're insane.  Only an insane person would think they're a different sex than their DNA programs them to be and appears in the mirror every day.  The only moment any of these people can ever feel better is if they get a grip and realize what they're thinking is total nonsense.  Only by turning back to the light of reason and sanity will any of them be saved.

It's also easily demonstrable that whatever marginal number of transgenders you can save by pushing the transgender agenda of total acceptance nonstop from kindergarten onwards and creating a 'welcoming community' or 'safe space' or whatever is easily outnumbered by the thousand-fold increase in the number of transgenders, all of whom have worse mental health profiles than cisgenders, you created via this exact same produced climate.  All across the country, millions of children are turning away from their biological sex and insanely proclaiming they're something they are not.  Meanwhile, you might, if I'm being generous, reduce transgender suicide rates by 50% by having everyone bow down and worship their courageous truth.  So you took an issue that simply did not exist, maybe two hundred kids in the entire country believing this nonsense, with a 50% suicide rate, and due to your wonderful intervention to make them feel better about themselves, reduced their suicide rate to 25%, thus saving 50 lives.  Except in the meantime you created 2 million additional people, out of the blue, all of whom also now have a 25% suicide rate thanks to you, thus killing 500,000 additional children.  The net effect of this intervention is 499,950 extra dead kids.  (Though actually, all 2 million transgenders are dead whether they commit suicide or not, because they're all clearly brain dead and spiritually dead, whether they still walk around or not, but we don't even need that truth to win our case!)

This isn't rocket science.  It's obvious.  And it should be the first thing every Republican says every time transgender rights are brought up in any debate or forum or press interview.  It's infuriating that we are losing on such a simple, clear-cut issue that no one in their right mind could believe.  Why do transgender rates continue to balloon by 800% and proliferate through all our schools, even in red states, when we're so clearly right and can win this debate so easily?

This isn't calculus.  It's arithmetic!

Meanwhile, I edited the spelling of 'Hakuoro' to 'Hakuowlo,' 'Eruru' to 'Eruruu,' and 'Aruru' to 'Aruruu' to better match official Utawarerumono sources in '100 Waifus.'

Also, I added 'Masquerade,' the ending theme to Shadow House Season 2, by ClariS, to my music hall of fame.  I gave it a 4-star rating.  Some girl rock songs were demoted as a result, with 'Island' by Sarah Brightman ultimately getting kicked out to make room.  Masquerade would be 5-star except for the dumb French accordion creepy clown music in the background.  The melody sung by the duet, the vocal part, is perfect.  But those instruments really drag it down.

I've finished listening to all my new Xenoblade 3 music 100 times, but it will take until tomorrow to properly listen to Masquerade 100 times.  Nevertheless, I'm confident that the rating won't change no matter how many more times I listen to the song, so I may as well update things now.

Star Ocean the Divine Force releases today.  I wish I could play it on the PS5 but I guess it will still be fun on the PS4.  I won't make the same mistake as with Tales of Arise.

As for my 'rewatch all remaining ranked anime' project, I'm up to date with Ken Tensei, Eminence in Shadow, Hero Academy, Bleach, and Spy x Family.  All that's left is Love Live!, Prince of Tennis, Danmachi, Hataraku Maou-sama, Shadows House and Utawarerumono, and all of those are season 2's or season 4's or whatever, so they aren't even necessary to prove the shows deserve to be ranked.  Nevertheless I'm rewatching them anyway as an utmost show of sincerity.  At this rate I'll have completed my rewatch of everything that came out this year before the next year begins.