I finished listening to the Fire Emblem Engage soundtrack's good, unique songs 100 times and 19 survived the ordeal. These are the only entries qualified to reach my Music Hall of Fame.
Only two of them were 4-star quality, 'Tear Streaked' and 'Death of the Divine Dragon'. 10 were rated 3-star, 3 2-star, and 4 1-star. So overall a very average soundtrack. The same number of great songs as Xenoblade 3, but of a much lower average quality. That's about what you'd expect when you get together a bunch of no-name composers and compete directly with Yasunori Mitsuda. It's lucky that Engage had music this good, I didn't actually expect it to perform when Tales of Arise and Star Ocean the Divine Force had failed.
This allowed me to demote a lot of songs currently in the hall of fame to make room, which I'd already prepared for in advance a couple months ago by finding all the bad songs from each tier I wanted to demote in case new songs arrived. All the details can be found in my updated music hall of fame.
Next I'll try out the soundtrack to Ken Tensei. Maybe it has a few good songs I can make use of too.
Fire Emblem Engage released some wonderful new downloadable content, including three more paralogues, so I've been busily playing the game as well as listening to the music. This is a gift that keeps on giving. What a wonderful game to start the year off with. I can only hope Octopath Traveler II, coming out in just a couple weeks now, is half as good.
While listening to the music I've also been re-reading '100 Waifus' for the 35th time, editing along the way. So far I've cut or replaced a few 'evens', the most overused word in the book. I also corrected the physical description of Yoru and Asa's eye color from brown to purple. It's unbelievable that it took me 35 editions to notice and correct this mistake, but at least now it's fixed. This is why the editing process continues to be necessary, I keep noticing problems I hadn't noticed before. So long as this continues to be the case I'll never stop editing the book. If such a grave error can exist until now, I can't be sure I won't find another one on my 36th readthrough as well. Only once I can read the whole book through and see nothing to correct is my work actually done.
I'm about halfway through re-reading and re-editing the book, so the work continues. Maybe I'll be able to fix a few more things before the end.
I'm also reading a new manga 'The Cute Girl Sitting Next to Me is Trying to Make me Fall in Love with Her.' The art is kind of all over the place, but it's been a cute romance so far. Listening to music 100 times isn't tough when you have such good reading material to go with it.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media is now openly admitting that heart attacks among 25-44 year olds are up 30%, but they're blaming it on the aftereffects of catching Covid-19 years ago instead of the obvious culprit, the only new variable, the vaccines. The idea that Covid is completely harmless among young people when they actually get it, but then insidiously kills them years later by a heart attack, is far less plausible than people dying immediately or shortly after getting their Mrna vaccines which directly causes a heart attack. But until someone does a controlled study where we look at the percentage of vaccinated people who have died of heart attacks vs. the percentage of unvaccinated people who caught Covid and recovered from it, neither side can prove their case. I and all other vaccine skeptics would love for such a study to be done and the issue to be resolved, but the other side refuses to undergo this obvious trial which could quickly reveal the truth. Is it long Covid or the vaccine? We could know so easily. But we'll never know because they don't want us to know because they know what the result of the test would be. This is how you know who's lying and who is telling the truth. The people who are eager to uncover the truth are telling the truth, and the people who refuse to do the easy study which would confirm the truth if done are lying.
Humorously they previously blamed the increase in heart attacks on Global Warming, but that sort of fell through when we noticed that the temperature was lower than it was eight years ago. As though healthy young people would keel over at a 30% increased rate from a .01 degree rise in temperature anyway. The absurdly transparent lies these people come up with is an insult to our intelligence. At least if you're going to lie to my face, make it something believable so you aren't also disparaging my ability to see through your lie.
Before then they said it was all in our heads, that there was no increase in heart attacks, that we were making it all up. But they can't say that anymore now that the mainstream media is admitting this data, so the lies have had to deviate down yet another channel.
This is the same as the 30% increase in murders. First they said crime wasn't really up, and then they said Covid is the cause of increased murder, even though the entire world caught Covid and nobody else had an increase of 30% in the murder rate. It's so transparently false, and yet they get away with it. Every bad thing that happens in America they just blame on Covid and smirk, knowing no one will ever call them on it.
The lack of intelligence in the general public that these transparent lies always work on them is staggering. It proves democracy is impossible. Such an easily misled population cannot vote in their own self-interest, they are prey to any conman who comes along, so they'd be better off not voting at all. Someone smart enough to see through lies and benevolent enough to take care of them would be a much better ruler for the very people deprived of the right to vote. For thousands of years we followed that system, where a nobility chose within their own ranks who would rule and the common people were kept out of the process. The nobility roughly matched the people of merit in society, because they were either people who had achieved great military or financial success in their generation, or were descended from people who had done so in previous generations, and as we've learned from 'The Son Also Rises' by Gregory Cochran, the quality of descendants is about the same as their ancestors for at least the next 600 years. Heredity is an almost all-powerful force that determines everything about your life, so a hereditary nobility is an almost perfect meritocracy without having to do any tests or get any degrees. Actually, considering the sorts of people who are graduating from the Ivy League these days, I suspect a hereditary nobility would be more meritocratic than what we currently have to distinguish men of talent and ability.
Nobility wouldn't be so easily fooled, because they're too intelligent and can immediately see the logical fallacy these arguments are making. They also wouldn't want the common people harmed, because their wealth and power and status is dependent upon the common people who maintain them. They never would have allowed these vaccines, or this giant increase in the murder rate, or war with Russia, or any of the insane stuff going on in the world today.
El Salvador proved that the moment you want to end crime you can do so. The President of El Salvador said enough was enough and cracked down on criminal gangs and the country went from one of the most violent places on Earth to one of the most peaceful in a couple years. We could all do that. Anywhere on Earth, we could end crime, if we only wanted to. But conmen have lied about criminals being the good guys and the victims and cops being the bad guys and the oppressors, and so we can't have what El Salvador has. Democracy can't give us safe streets.
Meanwhile, birth rates continue to sink, colleges become ever more liberal and intolerant of straight white males (25% of college kids are now gay and 10% are something other than cisgender, so at least 30% in sum are totally insane, deviant human garbage. That's the next generation that's supposed to inherit the future and reproduce into the future. Good luck with that), drug use is up and life expectancy is down. Every trend I've been complaining about for decades is getting worse at an accelerating pace. It's getting to the point that many more normal people are noticing these problems and clucking about them, but nobody but me ever offers a solution. I have a solution to every problem on Earth, and it's the same as the President of El Salvador's. If you don't want something then ban it. Crack down on it. Problem solved. It's proven to work because it worked in El Salvador. I'm the only person on Earth with the guts to call for solutions after listing out the problems. Plenty of people see the problems, but no one but me will ever act on them. So alone, I continue to patiently wait, for the moment the people say 'enough is enough,' like the people of El Salvador did, and institute my solutions. There's plenty of video games to play so I can wait as long as it takes.
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